Editorial praises Coronado High and Scottsdale schools graduates
A guest editorial by Mrs Pearl Kaufax, Papago Plaza Merchants Assoc, extols Coronado High School and Scottsdale’s new facilities. She asserts beauty and durability of the campus, highlights tax benefits, and urges support for students and teachers while wishing the 1963 graduates good health and success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scottsdale
Arcadia
Coronado
Pearl Kaufax
Papago Plaza Merchants Assoc
Horse sense and safe distance in Arizona traffic
Editor notes recommend keeping one car length per 10 mph, warning that stopping distance grows with speed. At 30 mph maintain three car lengths, at 55 mph about a football field. Following too closely leads to accidents. give ample space to avoid rear-enders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Water Pollution Fears Drive Congress to Act on Detergents
Congress hears from constituents worried about tap water safety amid rising detergent pollution. Sen. Gaylord Nelson urges standards after 1965, citing West German reforms, Wisconsin's foam outbreaks, and studies linking detergents to underground water contamination and health risks.
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Gaylord Nelson
D.-Wis
West Germany
Rhine
Wisconsin State Board of Health
Mississippi River
Wisconsin
Baraboo
West German Institute For Water, Soil and Air Hygiene
Taft Sanitary Engineering Center
Cincinnati
Suffolk County
New York
Birmingham’s Bull Connor Exposed As Symbol Of Segregation
Ralph McGill reflects on Birmingham Alabama and Bull Connor as a stark emblem of racial prejudice. Bombings and rioting followed Connor’s denunciations of merchants seeking desegregation, highlighting the city’s leadership and enduring white supremacist power.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Little Rock
Oxford
Miss
Mississippi
Ross Barnett
Arkansas
Orval Faubus
Bull Connor
Police
South
Connor
Committee of Merchants
Birmingham Standoff Signals Moral Meridian in Civil Rights
In a critique of Alabama figures and local pressures around desegregation, the piece argues that Governor and Birmingham officials defend segregation and oppose federal orders, while Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pursues nonviolent change. It asserts the era’s moral stakes and that racist resistance cannot halt law or civilization progress.
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Connor
Alabama
Birmingham
Kennedy
United States
White House
Martin Luther King
Dr. King
South
Afro-American mocked for stirring racial tension in Washington
Washington coverage traces how Afro-American editor Chuck Stone and editorials sparked controversy and advertiser pull in the capital. Adam Clayton Powell and Rep. Diggs attend a dinner that boosted Negro support, while supporters like Pepsi-Cola and Esso kept faith with the paper.
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Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
John Duncan
D.C
Board ‘of Commissioners
Mason- Dixon Line
Supreme Court
Chuck Stone
Stone
Jiggs” Donohue
America
Carl Shipley
D. C
GOP
Pepsi-Cola
Esso
Studebaker
Seagrams
Schenley
Citizen protests pool fee change at Scottsdale pool
Editor notes a reader letter criticizing a policy shift at the Scottsdale Community Swimming Pool. The writer urges reconsideration of new fees and urges public discussion of the impact on local families and swimmers.
Family pool passes dropped and fees rise in Scottsdale
A Scottsdale reader argues that family passes for the community pool were eliminated and individual admission charges increased this year. He suggests the pool should serve residents and cover heating costs by higher admissions and asks the paper to investigate possible policy reversal.
Haiti Leader Denounces Flight Rumors As Fable Like
Port au Prince reports Haiti President Francois Duvalier dismisses claims a plane is ready to take him and his family from the country calling such reports wishful and fable like.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Kennedy Faces Political Pressure as 1964 Election Looms
In Washington a Kennedy presidency faces party politics strain as Democrats push for sustained partisan action into the 1964 campaign. Republican defiance grows over Cuba and growth, while Kennedy seeks support from Congress with a large deficit paired to tax cuts. He remains favored for re election but wary of a Democratic controlled January 1985 Congress.
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Nathan M. Pusey
Harvard
Washington
John F. Kennedy
Joseph Clark
Pusey
Sen. Clark
Cardinal Cushing
Cushing
Kennedy
Senate
National Committee
Eisenhower
Cuba
Congress
GOP Increase Likely in Next Congress Amid Shifts
The piece argues Republicans face a reduced House majority and possible gains for a conservative bloc in the next Congress. It cites Democratic setbacks since World War II, redistricting effects in California, and internal Kennedy aides shaping party politics under O'Donnell and O'Brien.
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Committee For
Congress
White House
Sen
Clair Engle
California
Kennedy
Kenneth O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Brien
O'Donnell
O'Brien
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Arizona Highway Department
Mau
Marquis Childs
Laos
Rockefeller
Childs
Nelson
Sewate
Ralph McGill
John Temple Graves
McGill
Drew Pearson
Newt Minow
Warren Magnuson
D-Wash
Federal Communications Commission
Bill Benton
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Unesco
Minow
Cain
Benton
Magnuson
Bill
Pearson
Scottsdale Community
Olympus
Interlandi
Alan Barrelt
Indianola Ave
Doris Fleeson
Fleeson
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