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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1961
Page
2
President Kennedy expressed serious concern that Allied Berlin strategy differences have grown. France vetoed a proposed expert meeting, as de Gaulle warned against premature Western talks with the Soviet Union.
Kugler fatally shot Yarnall and wounded his wife Joyce Kugler after a violent confrontation in their home. The couple’s acquaintance Petersen and Berg aided the Kugler daughter and Yarnall’s daughter to safety as deputies arrived. A signed unfinished letter from Kugler revealed planned violence and his intent to kill unless someone stopped him.
Papago Plaza Shopping Center at Scottsdale and McDowell Roads celebrates its second anniversary with a week of events. The center hosts a giant free birthday cake on Thursday evening, a Hawaiian show on Saturday, Campfire Girls display, and a drawing for a free two-person weekend at Superstition Resort.
The U S carrier Randolph collided with the Liberian tanker Atlantin Viscountess about 325 miles east of Charleston, causing a fire but no sinking danger. No serious injuries were reported as a destroyer on the carrier’s starboard side refueled.
Former President Eisenhower told a Newark news conference he did not brief President Kennedy about plans to sell surplus jet fighters to Yugoslavia. He noted the sale arose in 1958 and was approved by the State Department in 1961, with the decision made after he left office. State Dept spokesman Lincoln White defended the sale as consistent with U.S. policy toward Yugoslavia.
The editor of a new Arizona monthly will address responsibilities of a free press at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Phoenix College club room. Dr Edward Schwartz editor of Arizona Frontiers and a Phoenix College English professor will speak under sponsor ship of the Greater Phoenix Council for Civic Unity. The public may attend free. Dr Schwartz has a doctorate in American literature from Syracuse University.
The report records temperatures and precipitation for a 24 hour period ending at 4am. Data include measurable rainfall and temperature ranges observed across the region with notes on anomalies and notable shifts in readings.
In Dallas doctors seek to fatten House Speaker Sam Rayburn for a two million volt anticancer X ray therapy. A Baylor hospital bulletin said he remains seriously ill but alert and resting with no pain. He has completed the first phase of chemotherapy using 5 fluorouracil and FUDR.
The Organization of American States is expected to vote next week to convene a conference of 21 foreign ministers to consider collective action against Cuba. The council already has majority support, with Cuba the lone dissenting vote, while Peru pushes for the meeting amid charges of a communist beachhead in Latin America.
A downtown Richmond blackout lasting 35 minutes disrupted hospital and hotel service after a faulty transformer failed. St Elizabeths St Lukes and Grace hospitals lost main power but emergency generators supplied essential lighting and equipment. three people were trapped in an elevator.
The board of adjustment will meet tomorrow at city hall at 8 PM to discuss sign ordinance issues affecting Union Tile Co at 7001 E Camelback Rd and Rickey's Drive-In at 1847 Scottsdale Rd.
A 12 man federal jury was to hear testimony in the case of Leon Bearden of Coolidge Arizona accused of hijacking a jet to Havana to sell to Fidel Castro. Bearden's son Cody 16 pleaded guilty to aiding his father. Bearden pleaded innocent to the six count indictment.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla The federal space agency postponed the maiden flight of Americas first super rocket Saturn to allow vehicle improvements The 460 ton rocket now faces a launch date likely a week or more later The flight would send it 90 miles into space and 225 miles over the Atlantic Ocean to test lift performance and guidance systems.
Mrs. Emery C. Johnson, a Tucson Republican National Committee member, denounced the Kennedy Administration’s foreign policy as indecisive and uncertain. She said the United States failed to aid Cuban fighters due to lack of plans and noted Kennedy once called Fidel Castro the Cuban Bolivar during a Central Republican Women’s meeting in Phoenix.
A Tucson Arizona teenager and two others were arrested in Keokuk Iowa after allegedly stealing a car in Tucson and driving 1500 miles to Iowa. Police seek two 16 year old boys and a 15 year old girl connected to a second car theft in Montrose Iowa. Sonny Hatje was arrested at Fort Madison and Mary Lee Allen, 15, was detained in Hancock Illinois. Authorities plan to question the girl about a local clothing store theft.
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