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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1964
Page
2
State Superintendent W W Dick claimed Lettsdale schools lost over a million dollars in federal impact aid. After years of debate the district planned a survey, but citizens fear qualification may be unclear and blame delays for public mistrust. The board faces pressure to act promptly and fairly.
The plan to install sirens for civil defense tests on Saturdays aims to warn Valley residents of a nuclear attack and six hour fallout. Critics note budget cuts and question effectiveness without basements stockpiles and training. the piece argues peace is the best safeguard.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak report that Johnson's economy drive may give visiting heads of state second rate treatment, with pilots and jets limited and propeller planes likely to Andrews Air Force Base. The piece also notes California politics, Pat Brown and Alan Cranston, Salinger odds, and O Neill's rail bill opposition amid base closures and Watertown Arsenal phasing.
Washington reports Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama faces vulnerability over heavy reliance on federal funds. The piece notes Alabama’s political stance, opposition to the civil rights bill, and the state’s large federal role in budgets and military installations. It also covers Wallace’s campaigning in the North and his response to a Birmingham bombing.
Roscoe Drummond argues post Stalin liberalization failed to curb Soviet anti Semitism. cites propaganda in Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and Pravda. He says the regime uses Jews as scapegoats to hide a large covert private enterprise network sustaining the economy. He links Khrushchev to Stalinist anti Semitism and notes the Crimea cases backdrop.
Ralph McGill argues the ideal farm image masks harsher realities of overproduction and farm hardship. He notes a long trend of too many farmers and highlights a computer driven system by International Minerals & Chemical Corp that uses regional weather and soil data to predict moisture and soil temperature weeks ahead to guide planting.
The article notes the long partnership of science and farming since 1940, powered by capital and land, with the Southeast hardest hit by farm retreat. Department figures show 1.5 million commercial farmers dominate output, while by 1968-69 fewer than that will produce all farm goods, and a new class residential farms may emerge as others quit farming.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover tells the House Appropriations Committee that the Soviet Union spends about one and a half billion dollars yearly on foreign intelligence and that penetration of the U S government remains a top priority with increasing numbers of Soviet bloc officials in the United States in various roles including embassies the United Nations and commercial groups.
FBI chief Hoover cites about 150 known or suspected Communist front groups under investigation. He disputes party membership claims by Gus Hall and warns Soviet bloc recruitment uses threats and blackmail. Rostvorov recalled secret police blackmail tactics. Hoover notes no American Communist registration.
In Champaign Illinois police answered a fraternity house complaint about tar and feathering during a student incident but found the prank involved syrup and feathers tied to a member’s engagement ritual. In San Mateo California a robber frightened a service station attendant by waving a nail studded two by four while taking 75 dollars in receipts.
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