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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1964
Page
7
The Vatican said Pope Paul VI will donate his jeweled coronation crown, valued around 12000 dollars, to the poor. The beehive tiara, weighing about three pounds, features a cross of diamonds atop a lapis globe and may be sold or valued cash donated.
Twelve teenagers from Temple City High School admitted to carrying out 29 burglaries totaling about 5300 dollars in cash and merchandise. Deputies recovered roughly 2500 dollars in loot and noted the group called themselves The Rogues inspired by a television show that glamorizes criminals.
Motorola's Semiconductor Products Division received the Award of Merit from the National Safety Council for 1,623,427 man-hours without a disabling injury. Howard Pyle praised the division's fine safety performance as rare for a firm of Motorola's size, with about 6,500 employees.
U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and Prime Minister Tran Van Huong visited flood regions in South Vietnam to oversee relief efforts. Death toll nears 5,000 with 4,870 reported in three hardest hit provinces. Quang Nam bears the heaviest losses with about 2,500 dead, followed by Quang Tin and Quang Ngai with 1,370 and 1,000 dead respectively.
An Air Force plane resumed a vigil over American civilian pilot Lowell Thompson after he ditched his Cessna 182 about 150 miles from Ascension Island. Thompson, from Spokane, Washington, was aboard a Recife to Ascension flight when mechanical trouble forced a splash. Three Air Force planes located him two hours after the crash and he signaled to search pilots.
NASA briefed reporters that four Nevada ground tests show atomic space reactors are practical for rockets. Scientists say the United States could launch nuclear rockets within ten years at an added cost of about 1 billion dollars, with routine manned moon flights possible before 1975.
Washington column notes a breach of congressional comity as Senator Clifford Case reveals details about the House third Office Building project. The piece laments secrecy, questions costs rising from 2 million in 1955 to 95 million, and jokes about lawmakers debating each other’s construction plans.
Irish immigrant Gerald Smee, brother of Scottsdale Daily Progress staffer Clem Smee, arrived in Arizona after a London to Belfast to England to Phoenix journey. He cited a horse named Arizona paying 2 to 1 on a punt as a catalyst, then secured a job at Paradise Ford in Mesa while awaiting naturalization timelines of 3 to 5 years. He plans to tour the state with hopes his family can join him eventually.
United Auto Workers strikes halt Ford production with 33 500 layoffs by tonight across 16 plants in cities including St Louis Kansas City Rawsonville Highland Park and Dearborn plus layoffs from 26 000 already idled. AWPPW pulp and paper strike idles 33 mills coast to coast as federal mediators seek to avert wider walkouts.
National Mediation Board plans talks today with railroad union and management negotiators as six unions representing 160 000 workers prepare for a possible strike on November 20 or soon after to back their demand for higher pay. They reject a presidential emergency board recommendation for 27 cent hourly raises over three years. If they walk out, shopcraft and non operating workers could paralyze the system and trigger broader walkouts across the industry.
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