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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1964
Page
7
Public school teachers in Utah stage a two day strike demanding more state education funding. East St. Louis seniors join mass picketing while civil rights actions affect attendance nationwide. Utah districts opened as 37 of 40 reported schools operating.
The ruling grants U S citizenship back to about 50 000 former naturalized citizens or their children who stayed abroad beyond limits, calling the law a second class citizenship. Angelika Schneider whose case led to the decision now has reinstated citizenship and all four sons also gain U S status.
London dispatch says the British press denounced teen gangs whose holiday weekend brawls disrupted Brighton and Margate. The Daily Herald urged stiffer fines and jail terms to end the hooliganism on England’s southern coasts.
A Korean War defector, Scott Leonard Rush, may receive 4706 in back pay from the Army if he can prove his signature on an application is genuine. True Magazine cites Navy Capt. Walter J. Ellis on Rush, who spent three years as a POW in North Korea and China. Rush, his Chinese wife Helen, and daughter Betty Jean now live in Akron after previously in Tucson. He details capture in 1950 and life in Red China, including work as a textile factory machinist and his struggle with exit permissions.
Spencer Churchill testifies that his father Win ston S. Churchill hanged him from a bedroom wall and wrists. Win ston Churchill is found guilty of aggravated assault and sentenced to six months in jail. wife Mary Churchill is acquitted. The 9 year old boy says he does not want to live with his parents if he is to be hanged again. Margaret Churchill, 7, testifies she was hung by the wrists on two occasions.
Baltimore voters face a high turnout in the Democratic primary with President Johnson’s prestige challenged by Alabama Governor George C. Wallace. Sen. Daniel B. Brewster opposes Wallace as a Johnson stand-in while polls run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. EDT amid warm weather.
Advertises FASTEETH alkaline powder to keep dentures secure and odor-free. Claims it helps false teeth feel firmer and reduces embarrassing slips. Available at drug counters nationwide.
Washington columnist Dick West notes suburban growth sporns a satire on place names. He mocks cute and pretentious titles like Sleepy Hollow Highland Greens Layhill South Parkland West and Colony East while praising bolder traditional names.
Senator Clifford Case backs tightening Senate rules in a draft Bobby Baker report while cautioning it cannot replace a full investigation. The draft calls for public disclosure of financial interests, ban on associations with government contractors, and testimony before Senate committees. Case supports the proposals but says they do not substitute for a complete inquiry. Senator Howard Cannon questions the scope of the associations ban and seeks clarification.
A federal hearing began in Jackson on suits challenging Mississippi’s segregated public schools. Witness Kirby Walker urged that racially mixed classrooms endanger children and claimed tests show whites generally more apt to learn than Negroes. Plaintiffs seek injunctions for Jackson Biloxi and Leake County to require desegregation plans by July 15.
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