Warren Urges Expansion of California Water Project
Governor Earl Warren and Reclamation Commissioner Michael Strauss urged enlarging the Central Valley Project to supply maximum state water use. At a Bakersfield ceremony inaugurating the $400 million irrigation effort, they pressed immediate expansion to meet current and future demands and noted federal support as needed.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Earl Warren
Central Valley
Michael Strauss
Strauss
California
Fire District Hearings Set Across Five Vol Districts
County supervisors will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. Monday on proposed levies and expenditures for five volunteer fire districts Wilson 24000 South Phoenix 34841 Peoria 1120 Buckeye Rural 18629 and Gila Bend 2210. The hearing follows Judge Struckmeyer Jr. order after a void election and disbanding of Wilson District.
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Wilson
South Phoenix
Peoria
Buckeye Rural
Gila Bend
Superior Court
Fred Co. Struckmeyer Jr
Wilson Volunteer Fire Company
Arizona Farm Prices Lower
Arizona farm prices for the month ending July 15 fell under the Federal Crop and Livestock Reporting Service index. The August 1909 to July 1914 period shows the index at 336, down 10 points from the prior month, driven by declines in cottonseed hay flaxseed and wool while barley alfalfa seed and potatoes rose.
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Arizona
Federal Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Arizona Today
Pilot to Battle Polio in Phoenix Hospital
Pan American Airways pilot Jack Hall, stricken with polio in Tahiti May 12, after a flight to Honolulu, will be brought from Melbourne to Memorial Hospital Phoenix to continue treatment. He spent nearly three months in an iron lung and will be joined by his wife and accompanied by their children Kathleen and Karen Ann. The couple will be met at Sky Harbor Friday. Hall’s home is in San Carlos, California.
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Melbourne
Australia
Pan-American Airways
Phoenix
Memorial Hospital
Jack Hall
Tahiti
Honolulu
Sky Harbor
Kathleen
Karen Ann
W. R. Landrum
W. Elm
Hall
San Carlos
Calif
Brinegar To Aid Script Writers In Hollywood
Dave Brinegar 44 E Northern will go to Hollywood as technical adviser to the writers of The Thirsty Land, a movie about Arizona water scarcity. Brinegar acts as public relations counsel for the Central Arizona Project Association, and goes with his wife and daughter. Production by Gloria Films, led by I V Goldsmith and Tony Landis, is slated to begin in September.
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Dave Brinegar
E. Northern
Hollywood
Hee
Children’s Work Parley Planned in Arizona
The state board of children’s work for the National Council of the Churches of Christ Arizona council will meet Monday at First Presbyterian Church Fourth Avenue and Monroe to plan the regional conference set for October 15 and 16. The program theme is Learning with Children to Live as Christians in One World.
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State Board of Children’s Work
National Council of the Churches of Christ, Arizona Council
First Presbyterian Church
Fourth Avenue
Monroe
Road Runners Plan September Board Election
The Road Runners of Arizona will meet Friday at Toy's Shangri-la to nominate members of the board of directors for the coming year. Election will be held at the first meeting in September.
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Arizona
Toy’s
Zoning Board Leniency Sparks Quorum Crisis and Resignations
Campbell chairman of the Phoenix city adjustment board and Hagel resign amid quorum troubles and disputes over variances. Campbell cites four of five member attendance and says leniency weakens zoning. two alternates could have prevented the problem. Next meeting to fill vacancies Tuesday. Hagel says other business pressures forced his departure. he lives at 308 West Coolidge.
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Yve E. Campbell
City Adjustment Board
Roger Hagel
Campbell
W. Lynwood
Phoenix
Hagel
W. Coolidge
Slashing at bar leads to manhunt in Phoenix heat
Deputies seek a man after Earl Cook, 50, was slashed four times in a bar at 1102 S Seventh Ave following a supposed friendly political argument. Cook, treated at Memorial Hospital, was released with non serious wounds. Also reported: a home invasion on S Third Ave left shells scattered and bare tracks.
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Sheriff's Deputies
Earl Cook
S. Third Ave
S. Seventh Ave
Cook
Memorial Hospital
Senate Group Okays Labor Contract Bill
Washington August 11 The Senate labor committee approved unanimously a bill to legalize thousands of questioned union labor contracts stemming from a Taft Hartley rule. Sponsored by Taft and Humphrey the measure would validate contracts signed with NLRB facilities and allow union shop agreements without a worker referendum unless 30 percent sign a petition.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
House
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Humphrey
Minn
Supreme Court
AFL and
CIO
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Valley music teachers plan Oregon trip for convention
Dixie Yost of 842 W Solano will lead Valley teachers to the Music Teachers National Association Western Division Convention in Portland Oregon from Wednesday through Saturday. Yost will chair the final general session where Dr Raymond Burrows of Columbia University will discuss Piano Ensemble for a Rich Music Experience.
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Dixie Yost
W. Solano
Music Teachers National Association
Portland
Ore
Yost
Western Division
Raymond Burrows
Columbia University
Valley
Hazel Harvey Quaid
Arizona State College
Tempe
Father Denies Child Neglect in Trial Date Set
Manuel Leyvas, 29, father of five undernourished children, pleaded not guilty to child neglect before Justice Al J. Flood. Trial set for Aug. 23. Leyvas released on $300 bond. Rita, 28, wife, convicted of the same charge, fined $100, serving 30 days after nonpayment. She admitted frequenting bars and neglect while her husband was out of state seeking work.
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Manuel Leyvas
al J. Flood
Leyvas
Rita
Flood
Officer Arrests Long-Sought Man
Frank Castle, 19, of 1706 E Monroe, finally arrested after police sought him since last Feb 1 on three counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors. He was nabbed as he left an E Van Buren bar by Juvenile Officer Earl Moore after three girls implicated him in a string of teenagers marihuana parties.
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Frank Castle
E. Monroe
E. van Buren
Earl Moore
Castle
Teen Corral Plans Grab Bag Session at Cathedral
The Tuesday Teen Corral at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral 100 W Roosevelt offers a grab bag of cake cookies and candy. Open to local teens Tuesdays and Thursdays 7 to 10 30 p m with dancing movies games and scavenger hunts. Rev William B Van Wyck leads assisted by Miss Nancy Brotemar kle with parent chaperons.
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Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
W. Roosevelt
William B. van Wyck
Nancy Brotemarkle
Corral
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CVP
San Joaquin Valley
Warren and
Bureau
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Brinegar
Tucson
S. Bradley
Buck Stockton
Bradley
Bradley Yard
Bert Easley
First St
Phoenix Advertising Club
Westward Ho
Roy Baker Crawford
March Field
Office of Price Stabilization
R. T. Jones
OPS
M. E. Lane
Bert Cold
Albert R. Williams
W. Thomas
Ninth Ave
McDowell
Williams
Rodney Pitts
Rosa Wessels
E. Harrison
Margaret Piggee
S. 11Th St
Sandra Faye Rideau
Faye Allen
Sandra
Ernest Hoehn
N. 29Th St
United Spanish War Veterans
Papago Veterans Hospital
Howard Pyle
Williams Air Force Base
Manila
Valley Music Teachers
Oregon
Diamond
BATES
Tomorr
Mandalay
Salisbury
Diamond’s Domestics
Crompton
Second Street
Teen Corral
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