14 Mar 1963
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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1963
Page
1
In the Valley of the Sun a spring sign appears in hats as 50 Scottsdale Chamber Opera Theater auxiliary members showcased zanier designs at Trader Vic's luncheon. Prizes rewarded prettiest and funniest headpieces, with both store bought and homemade creations on display.
The State Department rejected Russia’s claim that U S Navy ships fired on a Soviet trawler 70 miles east of Norfolk. Spokesman Lincoln White said the incident occurred within a U S Navy area and no surface vessel was within 12 miles. only destroyers conducted gunnery with seven mile range.
Mostly fair today and tonight with increasing high cloudiness and wind tomorrow. Slightly warmer with a high near 78 today and a low around 50 tomorrow morning. Tomorrow's high near 75 and low around 42. Sunrise 6 40 a.m. Sunset 6 35 p.m.
In Chicago the five major on-train unions and the nation's railroads failed to resolve their long running dispute over feather-bedding. The talks Wednesday lasted 80 minutes before an impasse was reached.
Manuel Silvas, 43, former Coolidge bartender, was executed in the Arizona State Prison gas chamber for the February 11, 1959 murder of his wife Beatriz Mankel of Casa Grande. He died at 5:08 a.m. after a 5 a.m. execution. A stay request was denied by Judge Hamley after appeals to multiple courts.
Pedro Leon of Cuba attempted an Atlantic crossing in a barrel from Las Palmas with two bottles of water two loaves of bread and two pounds of corn meal. He survived two yards sailed and overturned twice. Bystanders rescued him and police escorted him to a first aid station before transfer to a psychiatric hospital.
Parents of 16 month old Uwe Sempf filed a test case in Hamburg to decide multi million claims from Thalidomide. Judge Oswald Guetschow warned of a years long battle to determine drug responsibility for up to 3000 similar cases. Attorney Wolfgang Diersche called Thalidomide a children’s Hiroshima and likened damages to unborn children.
The House pushed its tax equalization bill through three committees and debated it on the floor. The compromise aims to launch a state wide property reappraisal program with a special session to set percentages later and a new director of appraisals to study practices. Rep. John Haugh expressed confidence the measure would gain sufficient support.
Western observers report a Sino Soviet exchange of letters with Mao inviting Khrushchev to visit to settle differences. Both sides seek talks on ideological and political issues, but China opposes Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence policy promoting nonmilitary victory.
A crowd of about 1,000 Russians and Arab students threw snowballs and ink bottles at the Iraqi embassy in Moscow in protest of executions in Iraq. The disorder grew from a peaceful protest into violence with windows shattered and ink stained walls as police kept demonstrators at bay.
Washington police lose power to hold suspects for questioning without a judge after the DC commissioners refused a House request to delay. They warn the ban will hamper crime solving while Congress missed a substitute bill.
Arnold Sawislak reports the American Newspaper Publishers Association defends sustained competition in news and advertising amid scrutiny of media ownership. Stanford Smith argues there is vigorous competition with other media and notes economic forces shape postwar newspaper structure. Professor Jesse Markham adds many dailies vanished due to finances, not mergers, while new papers arise in suburbs.
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