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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1961
Page
6
Hugh Harelson, news editor of The Progress Platform for Greater Scottsdale, receives the Arizona Outstanding Newsman's Award in 1959. The platform motto envisions a clean, beautiful city so residents can enjoy luxurious transport leaving the valley.
Rep Wright Patman launches a definitive study on tax exempt foundations and their economic influence. He cites a rise from an estimated 10 000 15 000 to over 45 000 foundations, with more than 12 billion in assets among 13 000 listed holdings.
An informal guide outlines a sabotaging playbook for success by avoiding extra assignments and help, speaking in polysyllables, arriving late, gossiping during coffee breaks, and proclaiming one’s work beneath dignity. It emphasizes learning from failures at work to resist temptations and avoid initiative.
Washington voices alarm over Kennedy era policy on Berlin and Khrushchev. The writer argues negoti ation carries a risk of appeasement, urging iron resolve and readiness to fight if needed to defend Western rights and access to Berlin.
A state department view outlines how a free city of Berlin would operate. It would not be truly free as Rias radio would be shut, garrisons replaced by a four power guard, and asylum for escape routes forbidden. Communists could run for mayor, unions could strike, and West German industry would stay private but bow to East German influence.
On August 22 1961 a Scottsdale Frontier Town Shopping Center owner asks the public service to cut gas lighting after vandalism. He describes rocks from 1 to 144 pounds damaging glass mantels chimneys and contents and notes juvenile department inaction but hopes publication helps curb destruction by local youths.
ADN reports 102 barbers among volunteers in Schwerin district aiding the harvest. Miami police seek rapid recovery of a stolen 29 foot cabin cruiser owned by Police Chief Walter Headley. In Des Moines, Robert L. Baughman, 34, summoned for driving on the wrong side, complains of the tone of voice as Judge Brooks imposes a $5 fine.
Atlanta reports the 15 cent booklet from the U.S. government promotes Stay In School as a blueprint for communities. It links higher earnings to education, cites Hoover and Kennedy statistics, and notes dropout rates of about 35 percent nationwide and up to 40 percent in large cities, urging long schooling for better futures.
The report details Fidel Castro hiring Louis and Rowe to promote Cuba to African Americans, promising equality but unpaid contracts remain. It notes Fair Play for Cuba Committee financing, activists like Joanne Grant and Richard Gibson invoking the Fifth Amendment, and NAACP leaders critiquing Castro’s regime.
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