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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1964
Page
3
The piece recounts a childhood tale of a military messenger whose horse loses a nail and traces a chain of small failures to a lost battle. It argues history often hinges on chance events rather than grand designs, citing a Hep. Frank Thompson Jr. newsletter as a modern example.
GOP nominee Barry Goldwater accuses Democrats of ignoring the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union in a letter to Grand Rabbi Levi Horowitz. He pledges a full discussion of the tragedy and condemns adminstration foot-dragging on religious and cultural genocide. Thompson recounts a long chain of historical Senate votes and urges voting.
An investor asks about selling low yielding Treasury 22s from 1967 72 and if rates will rise. The answer notes bonds repay par at maturity and market value around 90 cents on the dollar. selling may be wiser for income. A second question on Aro Corp stock held in a minors trust explains the custodian may sell and reinvest for the child, but ownership remains with the child and dividends accrue to them.
Former Supreme Court Justice Harold Hitz Burton, who served 13 years, died at 76. A Jamaica Plain native, he retired at the 1958 59 term due to Parkinsons disease and was succeeded by Potter Stewart. Doctors cited Parkinsons plus kidney and heart complications. Chief Justice Earl Warren praised his long service and lasting contributions to American jurisprudence.
The Arizona Republic and a Phoenix Gazette poll of 3,283 voters show President Johnson at 46 percent and Goldwater 45 in Arizona with 9 percent undecided. Governor race winner Sam Goddard leads Richard Kleindienst 46 to 43 with 11 percent undecided. Fannin leads Roy Elson 50 to 42 with 8 percent undecided. Congressional races show Steiger ahead in District 3 and Rhodes atop District 1, Udall leading District 2, with various undecideds. The poll cites past accuracy in 1960 and memory of Kennedy Nixon results.
The 1964 Nobel Prize in physics goes to MIT's Charles Townes and Soviet physicists Nikolai Basov and Aleksander Prokhorov for quantum electrodynamics work enabling Masers and Lasers. Townes, 49, MIT provost, receives half the $52,500 prize. Basov and Prokhorov share the other half.
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