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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1968
Page
2
City pools announce registration for the second session of the wet swimming program. Registration runs noon to five at each pool office on Thursday Friday and Saturday. American Red Cross certified courses available in beginning intermediate and swimmer stages plus junior and senior lifesaving courses under supervisor Robert Lewis.
Paris AP UP I reports President Charles de Gaulle outlines a strategy for next week to name a successor following a Gaullist victory. Premier Georges Pompidou is expected to resign with his cabinet, paving the way for Jacques Chaban-Delmas to become premier and de Gaulle to name Pompidou as vice president and eventual successor.
Phoenix agency to close its railroad stations at Litchfield Park and Chandler. A hearing is planned at Litchfield Park on July [date] and another the following day in Chandler.
Danny Lee Eckard known as the Desert Rat was recaptured in north Phoenix after a failed escape from a State Prison work farm near Florence last June. A recent kidnapping and rape conviction followed his two week desert pursuit prior to surrender.
Cardinal Enrique Pla y Denier, 91, primate of Spain and ally of Franco, died Friday night in Toledo. The longtime church leader supported the Franco regime during his tenure.
The Mari copan Health Department ordered five swimming pools closed last month for failing health standards.
Miami AP report recalls Billy Hines who saved Robbie Elsenberger from a biting husky, undergone 270 stitches over two years. Doctors say scars largely erased and Billy can now smile again though he will require periodic hospital visits until age 18.
Edward C. Jacobs, a Tucson business leader, seeks the Democratic nomination for state senator in District 7A which runs from the West Side to the western Pima County line. A third generation Tucso nian born on South Main Avenue, he previously ran in 1966 but lost by 119 votes to Joseph A. Castillo. Jacobs holds multiple local posts and heads several associations while living on Paseo Redondo with his wife Caroline Brown and their children.
A Greyhound bus traveling from Chicago to Miami overturned on a wet highway near Macon Georgia injuring 26 passengers. Authorities reported no fatalities and began an investigation into the cause of the crash.
Governor Williams lauded Tucson Mexico pavilion objectives at the opening ceremony. Mexican officials and local leaders attended the $105 000 event with ribbon cutting by Williams and Consul Pereyra. Marquez Flores noted Diaz Ordaz’s support and urged more border city pavilions.
Dr Currin V Shields head of government department at the University of Arizona will announce Monday in Phoenix his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor. He has 15 years in Democratic politics and eight years as department head. A rally at the Ramada Inn in Tucson follows Tuesday morning. Public invited.
In Phoenix Arizona backers of Sen Eugene McCarthy launched a leaflet drive to influence the state's 34 Democratic National Convention delegates. About 60000 leaflets would be distributed at shopping centers and churches while 2000 would go to selected individuals. They claim the Arizona delegation was not democratically chosen and call for open discussion and deliberation at the state party convention.
The Court of Appeals quashed an unlawful assembly charge against Mark Shenfield, one of six charged after a December 4 1967 anti-draft demonstration. The dismissal follows the complaint failing to state an offense.
Police guard a Sydney suburb cottage as Wallace Mellish, 23, an ex convict with mental illness, barricades and threatens to kill his bride Beryl Muddle and her 11 week old son Leslie after staging a shotgun wedding. A psychiatrist advised restraint to avoid endangering the baby. Mellish promised to surrender but did not. Police cut food supplies to the infant and plan no tear gas due to risk to the child and wife.
Demonstrators linked to the Poor People’s Campaign staged a watermelon picnic near the Capitol in Washington. Twenty three protesters including twelve children were arrested after crossing a police line and beginning to eat melon, charged with littering and unlawful assembly.
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