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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1963
Page
1
City officials face delays as a one foot strip of land halts progress on acquiring rights of way for the 22nd Street overpass. Rescue teams search a mine chamber for Louis Bava while divers plan a deeper probe. meanwhile Utah miners are accounted for after a potash explosion.
Washington Senator George Smathers doubts the Kennedy tax cut bill will be acted on this year. The report also notes American students who visited Cuba despite a State Department ban and a stand-in protest at Idlewild Airport over passport issues. Kennedy offers committee access to Khrushchev correspondence on the test ban.
The World reports Cuba’s Castro regime alerts its militia and shifts heavy artillery toward the northern coast amid unverified rumors of a new invasion attempt. Diplomatic notes focus on De Gaulle’s stance on South Vietnam and U S involvement to prevent Communist advances. Ambassadors discuss Buddhist monk asylum and rising tensions. Khrushchev and Tito claim ideological reconciliation as Chinese influence grows in Brazil through elites.
Sandy Koufax earns his 20th win as the Los Angeles Dodgers crush San Francisco 11 to 1, tightening their grip atop the NL standings. Red Patterson shortens his hair as the team rides momentum into the road ahead. Arizona State and Arizona notes appear on page 29, with ASU football fans relieved as a final-exam incident clears all involved and UA coach Jim LaRue eyeing a potential breakout season for the Wildcats.
In Saigon area a guerrilla ground attack downed a U S Army helicopter, killing two aviators and wounding four while 17 other American choppers were hit. Five more helicopters suffered mechanical failures. The downed craft belonged to the 33rd Company at Bien Hoa during an operation near the Cambodian border.
Senate and House Republican leaders condemned President Kennedy for blaming GOP members for the sharp foreign aid cuts. They noted 66 Democrats also voted to trim the program from 4.1 to 3.5 billion and argued Kennedy’s criticism misstates bipartisan votes and the House margin of 258 to 177 against the program.
Catalina High School 17 year old Carol Hartley remained in fair condition at Tucson Medical Center after slipping 30 feet at Lower Bear Creek Canyon. A rescue party, called at 6 50 am, suffered $3,000 damage to a truck and trailer in the operation. Two youths who aided Hartley fell into a rocky pool but were treated and released.
Air Force Maj. Bob Rushworth planned X15 research flight was canceled due to mechanical troubles. The test to drag a 30 inch balloon 60 miles above Earth to measure space density will be rescheduled, officials said.
Rates list annual and weekly charges for home delivery in Tucson and surroundings. The notice specifies $23.40 annual subscription, 45 cents per week for outside Tucson, and mall delivery options.
Havana Radio reports the Second Congress of Latin American Youths has been organized in Cuba and will meet soon in Santiago Chile. The preliminary meeting occurred at Banes in Oriente under the guidance of communist youth from a Nicaragua sugar mill.
Dr Arthur R Woodrow testified he and his wife passed near the Crazy Horse Tavern as Michael Lopez Canez and Alberto Gamez argued in Spanish and English before shots were fired. Witness Bernard Borenstein said Gomez eyed a man as if he had something on his mind. Earl Goslin described a powder flash from a revolver four or five times and heard Gomez say Let’s go outside and fight it out before the fatal shooting of Canez, 24, by Gamez, 51. The trial before Judge Richard Roylston began this week.
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