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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1951
Page
6
The notice cites the establishment year 1880 and identifies Phoenix Newspapers Inc as publisher with Eugene C. Pulliam as president and Simon Casady as publisher, based at 120 East Van Buren in Phoenix Arizona.
Life magazine coverage on the Arizona drought is seen as sensational but not false. Arizonans insist water demand remains for domestic use and Colorado River supply, while growth in tourism, manufacturing, and mining continues. Even if Colorado water isn’t gained, the state’s economy should expand with or without irrigation, though farming may pause until CAP construction.
Governor Pyle refuses to commute Charles E. Lane Jr.’s death sentence for a Florence gas chamber murder. The Arizona State Board of Pardons and Paroles had urged life imprisonment, noting moonlight witness doubt and ballistic report discrepancies. The editorial urges honoring the board’s caution and recognizing commuting would reflect unusual case factors.
A married business executive leads a routine existence, spending the day dictating and continuing into the night, reflecting a life of constant production and quiet repetition.
The piece probes a 12 fold surge in tax collections from about five billion to sixty billion and examines corruption probes in New York Boston Washington St Louis San Francisco and other cities. It questions management recruitment pay and political influence while urging sober policy review and agency reform amid Hoover Commission recommendations for merit based appointments.
Editorials reprinted from leading newspapers urge taxpayers to demand fair revenue collection and reveal laxity in the government. The piece argues the public will not tolerate waste and will press for accountability when the misuse of funds is clearly explained and illustrated.
In early morning, 2,000 balloons released near the Iron Curtain border carried 2,000,000 leaflets to urge Czechoslovaks toward freedom. The message pledges that tyranny cannot hide truth or bind the human spirit, and asserts a persistent push for liberty across the years.
Letters must be written on one side of the paper. Include writer name and street address with signature, but anonymous publication is allowed upon request. Only letters of unusual interest may exceed 300 words.
A Phoenix reader complains to The Gazette about nightly dog barking turning quiet neighborhoods into bedlam. Despite police pleas, the writer urges nightly fines on dog owners to stop the disturbance and restore peace.
The article argues communism and Nazism function as secular faiths appealing to youth, challenging democracy. It warns Western occupation authorities fail to address German spiritual longings, criticizes Christian democracy, and warns that a state replacing God risks totalitarianism and a drift toward communism in disguise.
Drew Pearson reports from Europe on East Berlin and Western broadcasts where peace imagery dominates Soviet messaging, while U.S. officials warn of war. In Washington, McKellar and McCarran challenge State Department funding and the Voice of America, arguing over currency, spending, and the “war of ideas.” The Berlin scene shows youth absorbed by American radio versus Kremlin propaganda and forecasts a future shaped by these rival narratives.
The navy announced a submarine powered by atomic energy, signaling progress by the Atomic Energy Commission in applying the atom beyond weapons. Yet AEC chief Gordon E. Dean cautioned that industrial use remains distant due to technical hurdles lack of immediate need and greater defense demand.
The sermon warns that the mouth harbors residue after eating and that sugars and soft foods accelerate decay. Bacteria and acids erode enamel leading to dentist visits and drilling. Avoiding soft drinks pies and candy reduces dental aches and improves health.
Julian De Vries notes refined foods have little nutrition and blunt meat benefits. He urges daily tooth brushing after meals and on waking and sleeping to preserve health. He explains fluoride's debated role, cites 1949 toothbrush production, and warns against unregulated fluoride in water.
The article argues the League failed not from U S absence but its lack of enforceable power, while nations formed regional alliances. It notes the Hitler Stalin alliance helped destroy the League, and asserts the United Nations is stronger yet regional pacts will persist amid East West sharp cleavages.
James Marlowe explains how plutonium production in reactors creates vast heat. Four major companies will study reactors at AEC plants after FBI checks to see if private industry can both supply plutonium to the government and generate power for industry, with congressional approval likely needed.
By George E. Sokolsky outlines competing regional groupings. Cominform unites 800 million across Europe and Asia under ideological, economic and military ties. North Atlantic alliance grows with US, Canada, UK and Western Europe, with Spain Turkey Greece potential. Arab League lags, Pacific union urged after Soviet entry into China, backed by MacArthur Chiang Kai-shek and Quirino, but opposed by the State Department.
The speaker laments milled bread losing nourishment to profit driven processing and highlights the germ as the true source of nutrition. Wars cost billions while millions seek bread that nourishes body and soul, arguing humanity is not made for killing and that war has no justification.
News flashes from a circus reveal a tra artist wed to the India-rubber man, now ruling him with a twist. The lion tamer quarrels with his lady friend over kisses and a brush-off, while the bearded lady is implicated. An assistant manager jokes about tonics for dandruff, saying his head is now full of confetti.
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