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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1967
Page
5
UPI reports light congressional mail on draft reform with most letters favoring continued student deferments. Support grows for drafting those 26 years old first while 19-year-olds would not be prioritized, with farmers and parents among main voices.
In a bridge deal North players open with spades and a carding ruse unfolds as Payne discards a losing spade to win the trick. The tale suggests editors are crafty and reputed, but not trustworthy, as the hand shows quick deception and clever play.
Mrs. Kennedy, 88, gave birth to a 4 ounce boy by caesarian section at Georgetown University Hospital after an Easter trip to Vermont. The infant, six weeks premature, is in a special nursery and unnamed. Senator Robert F. Kennedy visited and quipped the child “takes after Ethel's side.”
Scottsdale librarian Brad Simon buys more than 2,000 volumes at deep discounts from library exhibit sales, mainly non fiction titles in art architecture and technical subjects. He plans new shelves and storage as the city builds a larger library, noting fiction is avoided and used volumes after six months sell for about 25 percent.
Pope Paul VI abandons papal throne to worship as believers fill St. Peter's Basilica for Easter Eve rites marking Holy Week. The pope attends not as priest but as participant in the ceremony led by Cardinal Marella, with fire lighting, paschal candle, and candles lit by congregants.
In Penzance the first wave of the Torrey Canyon oil slick floods 260 square miles toward Land's End. A citizen flotilla fights the spill with hoses as police guard pubs and seaports. a great lake of oil forms 200 yards offshore while Coast Guard broadcasts warn of the invasion.
In Dunsmuir California three men died when a landslide buried Southern Pacific tracks in the Sacramento River canyon. Crews search the mud for missing workers Andrew Journey of Dunsmuir John Cage 46 of Klamath Falls and William Nickell 52 of Mt Shasta a contract bulldozer operator. Four coworkers escaped with minor injuries after the slide covered 325 feet of track and 40 feet deep as they warmed themselves around a fire.
Phoenix state board voids old award to Art Frazier and orders fresh bids. New contract requires $125000 advance by Nov 3, $2 million accident insurance, advertising by the winner, and rides licensed to meet city electrical fire and mechanical codes. Bids opening set for next month.
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