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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1962
Page
6
In Phoenix Gov. Paul Fannin and Democratic challenger Sam Goddard clashed at a Phoenix Press Club Forum. Goddard argued high taxes hurt property owners while Fannin pressed for his record and tax plan disclosures before the November election.
Navy families abandon Key West during the Cuban crisis at the request of husbands. Mrs Boon boards a plane with a four year old and a one month old en route to Roanoke Virginia. She cites fear yet would stay for the children. Another wife leaves fearing for her husband aboard a blockade ship.
At the University of Mississippi crowd jeered James H Meredith as he left the Student Union building escorted by a U S marshal. They blocked doors and shouted insults but no violence occurred during the incident and Meredith later ate dinner without incident.
Pope John XXIII, in a four minute French language address broadcast by Vatican Radio, urged world leaders to negotiate at all levels and times to spare the world the horrors of war. He called on rulers to heed the cry of mankind and save peace amid Cuba and Sino Indian tensions. He urged negotiations as a rule of wisdom and prudence to gain heavenly and earthly blessings.
A $46 million privately owned nuclear reactor near Parris Island was dedicated with governors Terry Sanford of North Carolina Albertis Harrison of Virginia and Ernest F Hollings of South Carolina in attendance. Operated by four regional power companies with aid from the Atomic Energy Commission the facility will be used mainly for research.
Newborns reported to St. Joseph’s Hospital Scottsdale include a boy born Oct. 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Fage of 7312 Neale Drive and a girl born Oct. 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rathbun of 6821 East Windsor.
Maricopa County issues a marriage license to James M. Mracek 22 and Anna C. Forez 20 both residents of Scottsdale. Damages from last month floods in the Maricospa Stanfield areas estimated at 2.1 million dollars.
California Supreme Court ruled 5 to 2 to uphold a $65,200 verdict for actress Bette Davis in a personal injury case from a 1947 fall in a rented Los Angeles County house. Davis said a mistaken closet door opened to basement stairs causing back injury and a broken finger.
Robert Thompson a 190 pound man was charged after beating Burton Waymond principal of College Hill School in Cleveland Tennessee an argument over a report card left the principal hospitalized with cuts and bruises.
Rep. Chet Holifield urged President Kennedy to push Congress for action on a civil defense program. He blamed the slow progress on inadequate public understanding of nuclear war hazards and stressed the need for renewed efforts.
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