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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1961
Page
2
Nina Khrushchev told a group of peace marchers in Moscow that the Soviet Union is not building bomb shelters or conducting air raid tests because it is not preparing for war. The discussion covered disarmament, nuclear tests, and the Soviet stance on peace.
The IRS unveils a two page 1040 form named Easter to ease taxes for about 16.5 million filers. Mortimer Caplin presents the change at a news conference, with 7.5 million former 1040W-a users shifting to the new form. The long form previously used by about 41 million taxpayers listed dividends interest pensions rents depreciation and credits.
Dr. Callice Porinoff of Arizona State University English Department in Scottsdale has been elected to two international bodies. She joins the American Translators Association in New York and Centro Studi e Scambi Internazionali in Rome for advancing cultural exchanges and translation work in foreign languages. Her selections praise translations of Maria Sierra’s plays Cradle Song and Kingdom of God.
Scottsdale Sertoma club met at a Safari Hotel breakfast to view The Right to Do Business, provided by First National Bank. Emil Salmi chaired the session, with seven new members inducted at Helsing's Restaurant last night and travel slides shown by Elmer Huston. Frankie Starr of KWBY provided music.
Gen Edwin A Walker says he is considering filing a statement with a Senate Armed Services subcommittee over his removal from command in Germany and Hatch Act allegations. He requested to testify as Pentagon cites biased material aimed at influencing soldiers’ votes in his unit.
The Chinese ambassador to the United States, Dr. George K C Yeh, said the UN is a vacuum and cannot carry out its charter. He warned admission of Red China would paralyze the body further and spoke at a Rotary Club event before addresses in Tucson. He noted faith waning in the UN as a defender of freedom behind the Iron Curtain.
A government witness testified that former U S diplomat Irvin C Scarbeck told him he passed confidential data to Polish agents to aid his Polish mistress escape to West Germany He also said Scarbeck received 1600 German marks from Polish intelligence last April Knauf quoted Scarbeck saying he decided to submit a secret document to win their confidence.
U N diplomats in New York seek U S Russia accord to fill the vacancy left by Hammarskjold. A tentative plan proposes an interim secretary general with two nominees and a team of aides to govern major UN work, amid talks involving Thant of Burma and a presidential discussion on Berlin.
Television ventriloquist Paul Winchell and actress Nina Russell were married in the Dauphin County courthouse in Harrisburg. Winchell, 38, said he met his wife on his television show. It was the second marriage for each.
President Kennedy signed eight bills to dispose of all legislation this year. He reached a record of 685 bills signed and eight vetoed. The measures include 40 percent public laws and 284 private relief bills.
Western military leaders protested to Soviet commandant Col Solovyev over dangerous and irresponsible police fire into West Berlin. Maj Gen Rohan Delacombe led the protest after two East Germans attempting escape were killed. a West Berlin policeman was shot the next day as refugees tried to swim the Spree. Western forces warned of potential border show of strength as tensions rise in the Berlin sector.
United States officials deny backing for the Burmese ambassador or a plan to choose a successor to U Thant as UN secretary general. Ireland’s Frederick Boland and other figures say no agreement has been reached after weeks of private talks.
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