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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1963
Page
2
A satirical account recounts a supposed ESP-heavy night listening to Dr. J B Rhine from Duke University. The piece riffs on precognition telepathy and psychokinesis with fanciful thoughts about Nixon Kennedy Goldwater and odd foretold events, all exposed as humor about psychic phenomena.
Charles McDowell known for Scottsdale Progress humor writes a new book What Did You Have in Mind to be published by Morrow on May 15. The Richmond Va based columnist covers topics from Smithsonian whales to crises in presidential making and casualty simulations in Britain. He won the 1960 Headliner Award and previously wrote One Thing After Another. McDowell is a Washington and Lee graduate and Columbia journalism alumnus. He lives in Richmond with his wife and three children.
Washington reports that Congress backed bills to allow judicious corporal punishment for unruly students and, if needed, to suspend or expel offenders. The measures aim to end a disciplInary crisis in the city’s integrated public schools, where teachers complain that compulsory attendance limits suspensions and a Board rule bans corporal punishment.
Secretary of State Rusk has 60 days to act on a Supreme Court decision that denied Marco Perez Jimenez’s appeal from extradition. The former Venezuelan dictator faces charges of murder, embezzlement and fraud and is jailed in Miami after bail denial.
Ronald Stokes was killed by police after shouting stop during a riot in front of a Black Muslim temple on April 27, 1962. Roosevelt Walker testified that a second officer then fired after Stokes called for restraint as he watched others get wounded.
The Rev. Aubrey L. Moore argues slums and poor residents will persist and urges repeal of Phoenix housing code. He claims the code allows taking private property without due process and calls on voters to defeat repeal in the May 21 special election. Mayor and Chamber supporters push to keep the code for growth.
Justice Brennan proposes applying the British Trade Union Act to a 10 year case involving southern railway workers objecting to political portions of union dues. He sends the case back to Mecklenburg County NC court while urging voluntary settlement.
Burdette E. Peterson of Scottsdale is listed as a 1938 Armour Institute of Technology graduate. He will attend the 95th annual reunion and All-Alumni Dinner May 17 in Hermann Hall on the NT campus. Peterson earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
Gov. Paul Fannin said he has not chosen a date for a special legislative session to consider capital outlay bills. He plans a decision this week after talks with lawmakers. He dropped an immediate budget director plan to avoid delaying capital outlay action for universities while pressing for school tax equalization and higher university standards. He also aims to raise cigarette taxes to fund school aid.
UPI reports on a House vote to allow District teachers to paddle students prompts a satirical imagined dialogue from Soviet observers. The piece parodies interpretations of US action and shifts in power between Congress and the executive branch.
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