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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1964
Page
2
The United Nations marks its twentieth year amid mixed results yet shows continued value in keeping peace and aiding health, education, agriculture, and relief. Economist Ruml warned that faith would waver, but the UN remains a crucial alternative to annihilation and a beacon of hope for a troubled world.
Arcadia wins state golf in Tucson and Coronado takes Tempe gymnastics honors. Coronado’s Dick Williams, polio survivor, earns the meet’s all around title with 79.1 points, a standout achievement. Scottsdale celebrates its champion teams and hero.
A collage of quotes on praise and flattery from Plutarch Pope Wendell Phillips Shakespeare Cicero Herman Melville and Paul Zimmerman notes that praise reveals merit and fuel for prayer. The passages contrast greedy praise with faint praise and self reference, highlighting social and moral effects of praise.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak critique a Maryland 6th District GOP primary where Brent Bozell leads a conservative challenge to Charles Mathias. They argue the drive to purge moderates risks splitting the party and weakening Republican prospects in upcoming elections. The piece contrasts Bozell's zeal with Mathias's pragmatic record and notes liberal demographics in the district.
Roscoe Drummond argues the United States must persist with U 2 overflights to verify Soviet missile withdrawals. He warns against trusting Soviet promises and urges continued photographic inspection as a key self defense measure despite Castro and Khrushchev threats.
A polemical collage notes how a Soviet spy would parse a Defense funding volume to glean missile capabilities and Minute Man II plans. It also highlights Dallas public life, political clashes, and figures like Stanley Marcus and Adlai Stevenson, revealing controversial episodes and book blurbs.
John Lewis, SNCC chairman, says a ban on civil rights demonstrations will be ignored and asserts that true rights will be achieved when all people share them. In Washington, Rep. Derounian blasts Secretary McNamara over use of outdated equipment in Vietnam.
The series argues poverty in the Southern Appalachians mirrors earlier calls for action and documents decades of exploitation. It notes Kephart's 1912 plea, coal removal by bulldozers, six foot borers, and ongoing mud draining into the Mississippi Delta harming rivers and fish.
The piece details dire conditions in Southern Appalachia from 1950 to 1960, noting farm abandonment, vanished livestock, and widespread relief aid. It blames coal politics and John L. Lewis’s union for poverty, mass migration, outmigration of graduates, and a bleak regional outlook with five million in need.
Harold Stassen, now 57, pursues another run for president or vice president. Once a magnetic Minnesota governor, his later decades centered on repeated campaigns including mayoral bids, with limited success and a core aim of becoming secretary of state blocked by Dewey and Eisenhower era appointments.
A retrospective on Harold Stassen drift from reformer to perennial candidate. The piece links his 1956 convention stunt to Nixon's rise and Eisenhower era politics, noting simmering feuds, outsize ambition, and the public’s growing pity for a once promising figure.
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