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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1966
Page
8
A Postmaster General order may reinstate door to door mail delivery in select Scottsdale subdivisions if cost does not exceed motorized curbside delivery. Local postmasters will recommend eligible areas based on budget impact, reversing earlier push for curbside speed and economy.
Pentagon experts see growing Communist prisoner totals as an indicator of waning Red morale. They caution against long term conclusions but warn continued high captures could mark a significant trend. October set records with 748 prisoners in one week and 1,444 in two weeks.
El Paso Natural Gas Co. announces multi million dollar rate reductions for Arizona California New Mexico Southern Nevada and West Texas to start in early 1967 pending Federal Power Commission approval. The cuts accompany a Southern California gas supply project expected to lift deliveries by over 22 percent. The company forecasts a 10 percent rise in 1966 earnings per share. Also announces an experimental underground nuclear test in the San Juan Basin New Mexico with Atomic Energy Commission approval to study fracturing gas formations with nuclear devices.
The Scottsdale board of education approved four half days in the 1966 67 school year for in service training. Elementary students will be released two hours early on Oct 25 Nov 22 Feb 3 and Apr 4 to allow faculty to review programs and learn updated teaching methods. Feb 3 aligns with the Parada del Sol Rodeo sponsored by the Scottsdale Junior Chamber of Commerce.
A prolonged ledge standoff ends when firefighter Moffitt persuades a woman to return to safety after more than an hour of gripping peril. Police and rescue crews coordinated a careful descent as the subject was escorted to secure care.
Nine Communist nations wrap up summit with a plan to increase sea shipments of war aid to Hanoi to bypass land and air bottlenecks. Sources say Romania and Poland will depart. others follow. No final communique on a common line against Peking. Rome, limited alternatives hinder sweeping policy.
In Phoenix the Superior Court jury delib erated about seven hours on Jesse Charles Patterson 24 in a first degree murder trial. They met Thursday and were locked up for the night after not reaching a verdict by midnight.
A terrorist explosion damaged a storage shed near Eingedi on the Israel Jordan frontier. Israeli officials blame Syrian infiltrators and say sabotage patterns match earlier raids. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol warns Israel could go to war if attacked, though pledges restraint.
A wild skunk kept as a pet by a Clifton family died of rabies after biting five people. Dr. George Spendlove said the five must receive anti rabies treatment. The skunk was one of four animals captured in Greenlee County this May and kept as pets. All four had or were exposed to rabies while in the wild. No wild animal makes a trustworthy pet, officials say.
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