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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1951
Page
2
Tucson reports Gov. Howard Pyle warned that Arizona may bear the full burden of its 15.7 million welfare program if federal aid is cut. He cited threats by the Federal Security Agency and an Indian welfare lawsuit.
An 18 year old bride from Spokane travels 1000 miles to Fort Huachuca to surprise her sergeant husband. He is away on furlough so she returns by bus, runs out of funds, collapses with appendicitis at Davis Monthan AFB hospital, and undergoes surgery. Red Cross and police monitor for Sergeant William Shriver who is expected to arrive in Spokane soon.
The Allies want the cease-fire line near the current fighting front, mostly in North Korea, while negotiations endure in a charged room after 21 meetings. Reds and Allies clash outside the talks over a claimed truce truck attack near Kaesong and Pyongyang, with Joy’s rejection cited and Peiping radio relaying Nam’s reply demanding guarantees.
Tucson sergeant Charles E. Jones of the Third Infantry Division medical company received the Bronze Star with V for heroism in Korea. He repeatedly exposed himself to intense enemy fire to aid wounded soldiers and only sought cover after treating all the wounded and supervising evacuation of the gravest cases by litter jeep.
Prescott August 11 AP The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a school budget based on 92.50 state aid, rejecting 93.83 per child proposed by Arizona Tax Research Association and Santa Fe Railroad tax department representatives. County Superintendent Edmund Lewis argued the higher figure could deplete funds and force warrants at 6 percent. Lewis urged legislative change to speed aid timing, a proposal discussed at Flagstaff meetings August 6 to 8. Mohave, Apache, Navajo and Coconino counties already shifted to the higher aid.
More than 50 persons including 26 marines were hospitalized at Morganza New Roads Baton Rouge Marksville and Camp Polk Louisiana after a collision and a derailed engine toppled onto a cab. One marine died later and a Paris Texas passenger died of a heart attack. Seven crewmen on the troop train were killed and five marines were seriously injured. Corporal Chester Louis Lipa 21 of Detroit Michigan is missing.
Bisbee Aug 11 AP guest speaker at the Knights of Columbus breakfast will be Dr Francis A Roy head of the college of liberal arts at the University of Arizona The event takes place tomorrow in Bisbee Arizona with Roy addressing attendees from the university field.
Graham County supervisors adopt a 1 271 646 budget for 1951 52 with general requirements at 473 764 and special district needs at 798 036. A direct tax levy of 568 240.06 will be combined with other income to meet the budget, with the annual tax rate to be set Friday. Expenditures previous year were 1 165 622 versus a budgeted 1 219 308. Gloria Escobedo, daughter of Julio and Mrs Escobedo, to enter Hotel Dieu nursing school in El Paso Wednesday. The Rev. Paul Larocque of St Rose of Lima Church on two week vacation. Rev. Patrick Pergis to serve in his absence. Steve Owens and Lois Harrison led 4 H group to Mount Lemmon camp.
Postponed meeting notice for the Coolidge Methodist Church Couples Club set for tomorrow has been moved to Sunday evening August 26. The meeting place and program will be announced later. Also notes on 4-H club trips from Coolidge area to Camp Lawton Mount Lemmon and visitors O H Nash and wife from Miami Florida staying with local hosts in Coolidge.
State highway commission awarded contracts totaling 1 759 874 and rejected two bids 1 319 118 for being over estimates. Rejected bids came from Arizona Sand and Rock Co for 2.88 miles of Camp Verde Black Canyon Highway and H L Royden for 4 miles west of Holbrook.
Maricopa County Supervisors approved an 8 225 054 budget for 1951 52 despite D P Kimball urging a 706 000 cut in the postwar planning fund. The plan would trim courthouse expansion and road projects while keeping the tax rate at 78 cents per 100 dollars assessed value, subject to final El Paso Natural Gas assessments.
The City of Tucson reports July receipts of 267 786 08 and expenditures of 154 074 82 in the first month of the current fiscal year. The city council adopted an operating budget of 2 533 346 25 and plans to set the tax rate next Monday.
In Florence on August 11 Sheriff Lynn Earley concluded reports of a mysterious parachute flare over the city were erroneous. A desert search with deputies and a private pilot covered about 88 miles south and east of town, reinforcing the skyrocket explanation. Citizens in two groups reported the light, one noting a rising and falling glow, the other a red flare from a parachute signaling distress.
Rev George M Dyke named new principal of Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson. Dyke, former state Class A pole vault champion from Tucson High School in 1937, was announced by Bishop Daniel J Gercke of the Tucson diocese yesterday.
Douglas Aug 11 Negotiations between the Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers and Phelps Dodge were to resume this afternoon with a federal mediator present. The union plans another meeting with the company Sunday and Monday. The union previously sought a 32 cent hourly raise: 20 cents across the board, 8 cents for pensions and 4 cents for sick benefits and vacations. Management reportedly offered 11 1/2 cents total.
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