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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1949
Page
2
The Committee for Economic Development estimates national security will cost at least 20 billion dollars yearly for years ahead. It urges civilian leadership, restraint in loyalty probes, and warns that a massive military program can burden the economy and threaten individual freedoms.
Oil stove explosion at Gilbert Villa home caused burns to his eye and hand after he opened the door to inspect smoke. He and neighbor Mrs. George Scott were treated at Good Samaritan Hospital for burns and gas fumes respectively.
The Junior Chamber announces a Christmas stocking drive with 3,000 stockings to fill and a Gazette sales effort. Jaycee volunteers will gather for a chuck wag on the press line, with lunch at 11 a.m. near The Phoenix Gazette loading platform. Roger Sartorius leads the lunch, with December 23 volunteer shift at Barq's Bottling Company and a dinner for Clifford Cooper at Hotel Westward Ho.
More than one million civil servants nationwide walked off work for 24 hours demanding higher wages. Authorities deployed heavy guards around all public buildings to ensure order as the strike began in Rome and spread across the country.
A Rangoon blaze today destroyed 800 dwellings and left about 3,000 people homeless. Three persons are missing and six were injured as flames burned for an hour.
A distressed mother and her four children, ages 3 to 6, live in a barren shack with broken windows and cold floors after the father’s death. The mother is undernourished and unable to work. a total of $12 to $18 could supply warmth, clothing, and food through a welfare-supported plan, with a worker shopping for essentials.
London AP reports Lloyds Register of Shipping shows British shipyards under construction total 2,095,217 tons as of Sept 30, while all other countries except Russia total 2,512,522 tons. The figures indicate Britain approaching world output in shipbuilding scale.
In Tucson on December 15 AP reports a canvas bag with 1335 dollars vanished while two Armored Motor Service workers loaded bags from the Southern Arizona Bank and Trust Company. An ordinary car replaced the armored vehicle due to repairs, and a top bag for a service station disappeared as one worker stepped into the car. Both men retraced the route but found no trace of cash or bag.
Stanford notes plate sales require multiple clerks and heavy bookkeeping with titles model and weight checks, state reports, and county assessor work. January to February and June peak sales strain staff. after 30 January sales continue.
In Lewistown Mont on December 15 AP reports several ducks crash landed on Main Street with wings iced over. Residents thawed and sheltered them briefly before releasing the birds, which were last observed headed south.
Maine announces 1950 automobile license plates will be aluminum with reflective coating. The material will pick up headlights of approaching cars more than 1,200 feet away, aiding night visibility.
A Central Methodist church building at 701 N Central Ave Phoenix is offered for sale or lease with an opening around April 15. The aging 30 year old structure sits at Central and Palm Lane and is part of Phoenix’s early religious history mentioning earlier sites on Monroe Street and cornerstone traditions.
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio says after a 13 week tour covering 75 counties that voters rank the public debt and government spending as their greatest concern. He asserts no slide toward socialism among constituents and warns against overpromising welfare state policies.
In Las Vegas Nevada weddings outnumber divorces five to one with about 1500 weddings per month versus 300 divorces. The article notes the city as a Gretna Green for unhappy wives and frames the trend as a local social peculiarity.
At Sky Harbor Airport ceremonies inaugurate two new runways the 6 000 foot east west strip and a 5 700 foot diagonal strip built at a combined cost of about 857 000 The opening coincides with Bonanza Airlines starting an interstate feeder service between Reno Nevada and Phoenix and the arrival of four Bonanza DC 3s carrying 84 Nevada and Arizona city representatives The event is part of a 6 million airport development program begun in 1947 with plans for a new administration building ticket offices and improved access from 24th Street through a road north of Henshaw Road attended by city and county officials business leaders and airline reps
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