Setback to Good Government in Arizona Referendum Drive
The Arizona Good Government Club circulates petitions to put three last-session reorganization laws to a 1952 ballot referendum led by State Treasurer E. T. Williams Jr. and supported by Ann Frohmiller. If 15,000 to 20,000 signatures are gathered, the laws will await voter approval in November 1952 instead of taking effect on July 1. The piece defends the referendum’s value while arguing the laws expand executive power and delay reform.
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The
Arizona Good Government Club
E. T. Williams, Jr
Ann Frohmiller
Arizona
Modern Voting Methods In Phoenix Faces Election Equipment Crisis
The Phoenix city faces loss of 85 percent of election gear after a municipal warehouse fire. With fall elections approaching, the city may borrow or rent voting booths ballot boxes and tables from the county or voting machines. The county and city dispute over a mechanized system could push decisive action. Phoenix must move beyond archaic methods.
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Phoenix
One More Attraction at Mesa to See Cubs and Giants
Arizona sports writers tout a Cubs spring training appearance in Mesa alongside the Giants in Phoenix and the Indians in Tucson. They highlight Chicago New York and Cleveland as major population centers feeding publicity, promising a strong tourist draw for the sunlit season.
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Mesa
Chicago Cubs
Phil Wrigley
Valley of the Sun
Cubs
Chicago
Giants
New York
Phoenix
Arizona
Arizona Sunshine
Cleveland
Tucson
Free chest X ray drive ends in 15 days in Phoenix
City mobile X ray units urge residents to take a free tuberculosis screening before April 21. Nearly half of the 263 000 eligible have not yet used the service, and early detection can quickly cure TB. The campaign promotes no cost visits to assess health.
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Phoenix
Maricopa County
Naval Station
San Diego
Calif
Navy
White House
We Need The Building For Sky Harbor Airport
City to spend 129000 tax funds for a new Sky Harbor Airport administration building. Bond funds and rising costs left the project short, threatening 509252 in federal aid. Despite extra revenue bonds, airport revenues don’t justify sales. The city must cover part of the bill to replace an inadequate, unattractive structure.
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Sky Harbor Airport
Phoenix
Taft defines foreign policy as preserving liberty of the people
Senator Robert A. Taft argues in a Columbia Club speech that the principal aim of U S foreign policy is to maintain liberty, criticizing past Democratic administrations for restricting rights and contrasting Roosevelt and Taft on Stalin and Hitler, while condemning Truman era containment and ally promises to Stalin.
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Congress
Robert A. Taft
Columbia Club
United States
Hitler
Russia
Taft
Roosevelt
Stalin
Truman
Editorial Call to Taft in Foreign Affairs Voices
A reprinted editorial urges the American people to heed intelligence and experience in foreign policy. It emphasizes the voice of American freedom and supports Senator Taft as a guiding figure in contemporary international affairs.
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Senator Taft
North Dakota Voters Back Western Europe Defense Support
Senator Young reports a North Dakota sample showing 2,000 voters favor defending Western Europe by five to one and also backing limits on American troop numbers by a similar margin. The poll suggests a shift on universal military training, from strong opposition two years ago to current support, though broader state sampling is needed.
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Senator Young
North Dakota
Western
Europe
Public Opinion Letters Policy Note Stresses Letter Details
The guideline states letters to the editor must be single sided, include writer’s name and street address with signature, and anonymous publication is allowed on request. Letters longer than 300 words are only for unusual interest.
Times Have Changed To The Editor Of The Gazette
A reader questions social norms and cites Arizona Revised Statutes from 1901 1902 listing penalties for public dances and houses of ill fame He urges the Gazette to publish later statutes 1902 to 1950 to avoid inadvertent crime when visiting Phoenix and warns ignorance is no excuse
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Arizona
Phoenix
League of Women Voters Opposes Trade Act Amendments
Washington league officials urge immediate public action as hearings unfold on the Trade Agreements Act and its crippling amendments. They warn the bill could pass before public realization and call on business and labor groups to write Senators Hayden and McFarland to oppose the changes. The local league promotes citizen awareness and nonpartisan study.
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League of Women Voters of the
United States
Senate Finance Committee
House
Senate
Friends of the
Reciprocal Trade Program
League of Women Voters
League
Chamber of Commerce
Carl Hayden
Ernest W. McFarland
Western Formality Clash Over Dress Codes in Hotels
A Western man scorns formal dress in Boston hotels while noting other cities require coats in dining areas. The writer recalls harsher Western street enforcement, joking that the critic should keep his Western shirt on or its equivalent.
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Mike O’sullivan
Boston
New York
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Birds Versus Neighbor Cats Dilemma Raises Feeding Question
A letter asks how to protect local birds from neighborhood cats that raid the bird bath. The writer questions whether feeding the cats is a solution, urging humane action to safeguard wildlife.
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the Gazette
Redistricting az political shifts hint at GOP edge in 1952
Preliminary checks on Maricopa County redistricting for the 1952 legislative elections show four of six new members likely Republican, one Democratic, with one uncertain. New districts will come from areas where governor vote exceeded the reapportionment baseline, totaling 37 house seats for the county. The plan carves six new districts from existing ones, with three GOP incumbents in districts 11, 13, 16, and others in 14 15 17, 18 25 26 27, and 29 30 31 in play, while 10 Frohmiller districts remain untouched. Road commission gesture notes Walter Holland’s possible appointment by Gov. Pyle, and Arizona’s McFarland Hayden leverage in Senate leadership. Congress rumors center on Jack Cummard and Lee Ackerman eyeing District 1 race. Barkley waives speaking fee in Phoenix.
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Maricopa County
House
Maricopa
al Lindsey
W. W. Franklin
W. C. Estes
Ronald Webster, Jr
Laura McRae
Robert Wallace
Gordon Hunt
Derek van Dyke
Lee Ackerman
Robert L. Myers
Philco Radio Concern
Rancho Sacatal
Cochise County
H. Earl Rogge
Congress Post
Jack Cummard
Mesa
Cummard
Arizona
House of Representatives
Congress
Rep
Congress Panel Failing to Complete Witness Hearings
The House Un-American Activities Committee under John S. Wood failed to finish Larry Parks’s executive session testimony. Parks answered questions and named names, but a roll call interrupted the session and he was not recalled. The delay leaves his statements incomplete and raises public questions about accountability.
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House Committee On UN
John S. Wood
Larry Parks
Parks
House of Representatives
Russia
Un-American Activities Committee Criticized For Slowed Probe
By George E. Sokolsky critiques the House Committee on Un-American Activities for blocking testimony and succumbing to executive pressure. He argues the panel is lazy and biased, reliant on past figures like Dies and Nixon, and should be independent from the Department of Justice to avoid suppressing truths about Alger Hiss and McCarthy era charges.
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Parks
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Martin Dies
Robert Stripling
J. B. Matthews
J. Parnell Thomas
Richard Nixon
Department of Justice
Alger Hiss
Congress
Executive
Peyton Ford
Ford
Tydings Committee
McCarthy
Edward Morgan
Joe McCarthy
Chester N J Adopts Kumrovec Yugoslavia
Chester New Jersey adopts Kumrovec Yugoslavia in a citizen led gesture to foster goodwill between nations. 300 Chester school children join a symbolic exchange with Tito birthplace Kumrovec as locals emphasize pro American sentiment amid Yugoslav politics.
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Washington
United States
Balkans
Chester
N. J
Kumrovec
Marshal Tito
Kumrovee
Tito
Gaston Coblentz
Telegrade
New York Herald Tribune
Yugoslavia
Cheseter
Reading pleasures and lifelong love of books
A thoughtful meditation on choosing reading material and the enduring value of books. The author cites H P Walpole and urges readers to select favorites as they choose friends, noting libraries and bookstores as vital civic treasures and the joy of browsing second hand volumes.
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Hugh Walpole
H. L. Mencken
Edward Thomas
Eudora Welty
Rumer Godden
Norman Douglas
Richard Vaughan
Will Cuppy
Critic’s quip nearly ends actor Gudo Nazo’s Broadway debut
A New York drama critic cracked a sharp remark during Gudo Nazo’s first Broadway appearance. The line, stating “Gudo Nazo was Nazo udo,” drew wide laughter and risked harming the young actor’s early career though most audiences found it in poor taste.
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New York
Gudo Nazo
Nazo Udo
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