Former Hong Kong AP correspondent returns to Phoenix home
Wayne Richardson veteran AP newspaperman and sole reporter aboard the blockade running Flying Arrow arrives in Phoenix from San Francisco. He and wife Margaret greet relatives and a dachshund named Fritzy. Richardson plans a two month leave before his next assignment and recalls Hong Kong days covering Chinese civil war and unrest.
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Wayne Richardson
Associated Press
Flying Arrow
Phoenix
Orient
San Francisco
Margaret
Emma Thurman
West Adams Street
Richardson
Hong Kong
Avondale
Penny
Fritzy
China
Moscow
Mao Tze-tung
Chou En-li
Koomintang
Tsingtao
Shanghai
Phoenix AP
News Service
Black Swan
Tax Plan Proposes Mixed Cuts and New Revenues
Snyder outlines a broad tax plan cutting excises on furs goods and transport while keeping some wartime levies. He offsets losses with proposed 10 percent television tax and higher estate, corporate, and oil taxes. Net gain projected at about 1.01 billion for government revenue.
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Snyder
Snyder Asks As Is On Metal Mine Tax
Secretary Snyder urged Congress to keep the current depletion exemption for metal mining, diverging from Western calls to boost allowances. Hearings will probe depletion rates with industry reps from Arizona and the American Mining Congress, as Defense and exploration incentives loom.
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Snyder
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
John Snyder
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Truman
Charles Willis
Arizona Small Mine Operators Association
National Mineral Advisory Council
Julian Conover
American Mining Congress
Tax plan figures and committee actions noted
The text discusses estimated tax figures, varying with business activity, and notes that the Ways and Means Committee must begin tax legislation. It mentions Representative Roy W. Woodruff proposing an immediate bill to slash excise taxes, potentially delaying other program parts, and that Democrats rejected the move on a party-line vote.
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Ways and Means Committee
Snyders
Roy W. Woodruff
Michigan
Woodsruff
Mrs Susan Enlow Funeral Tomorrow
Mrs Susan Maude Remer Enlow 76 of 1607 East Osborn Road died at home yesterday after arriving from Florida two years ago. Survived by a daughter Mrs George T Brightwell and three other daughters and a brother all residing out of state. Funeral services at 1 pm tomorrow in Memory Chapel of A L Moore and Sons Mortuary, with Rev Fredrick Barnhill officiating. Burial in Cobden Illinois.
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Susan Maude Remer Enlow
East Osborn Road
Enlow
Orange County
N. Y
George T. Brightwell
Florida
A. L. Moore and Sons
Fredrick Barnhill
First Congregational Church
Cobden, Il
Encanto Club Hosts 76 At Covered-Dish Shuffleboard Dinner
Seventy six members of the Encanto Shuffleboard Club gathered last night at the University Park recreation room for a covered-dish dinner Canasta and other card games were played. The club meets the first and third Thursdays each month.
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Encanto Shuffleboard Club
University Park
Inventory tax may get spot in session call
Governor Dan E. Garvey plans to may include the elimination of Arizona's inventory tax on manufacturers raw materials in the special session call to the legislature He will decide after meetings with legislative leaders Monday and Tuesday with the session set to convene February 20 Garvey favored two added items uniform traffic safety code and a plan to move the State Real Estate Board from the Land Department to a separate agency Appropriations would target only a few departments including the State Hospital for the Insane Public Welfare and the Arizona Employer Retirement Act He ruled out licensing private clubs to sell liquor for the session and noted he was considering reclassification of grazing lands and a Securities Act to strengthen Blue Sky Laws
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Herb Nelson
Arizona
Dan E. Garvey
Garvey
State Real Estate Board
Land Department
Arizona State Hospital For Insane
State Department of Public Welfare
Madison Students Choose Burton Miller School Leader
Burton Miller an eighth grade student at Madison School was elected president of the student body for the second semester. He previously served as vice president and won against three candidates. Jim Dorsey was named vice president and Bonnie Witt was elected secretary.
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Burton Miller
East Palmaire Avenue
Madison School
Miller
Jim Dorsey
East Georgia Avenue
Bonnie Witt
East Hayward Avenue
34 000 Forced To Abandon Homes As Rivers Go Higher
The Associated Press reports major flooding across six states forcing more than 34,000 homeless and thousands evacuated. Red Cross figures cite 22,288 evacuated in Arkansas, about 10,000 in Kentucky, with evacuations also in West Virginia Tennessee and Ohio. The Ohio River nears a crest near 60.5 feet while other rivers surge in Indiana and Kentucky. National guardsmen assist, schools closed, and floodwaters inundate urban districts, including Nashville business areas. Weather improves briefly but cold returns as flood dangers persist.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Arkansas
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Indiana
Red Cross
Cincinnati
Weather Bureau
Cumberland
Barbourville
Nashville
Tenn
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Businss
Housing officials report gains in veterans and public housing
Washington officials heard progress on two low rent programs for veterans in government owned temporary housing like Altona Park and for adding permanent public housing in Maricopa County. The county aims to earmark more units after the 1950 census and to allow 500 new units in one year with a $150000 planning loan. Representative Brooks Hays introduced a bill to permit orderly disposition of temp housing to fit new construction and population shifts, with tenant protections and options to transfer or sell units to veterans first.
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Altona Park
Maricopa County
Washington
Brooks Hays
Arkansas
Phoenix
Watkins
Fred W. Norton
Maricopa County Authority
Norton
Phoenix Housing Authority
Mesa
Hays
United Press
Congress
Mild Temperatures Forecast Across Phoenix Weekend
The United States Weather Bureau extended forecast predicts mild temperatures in Arizona through the weekend and into Wednesday with little precipitation. Phoenix is expected to be mostly clear tonight, then partly cloudy with sunny conditions tomorrow. highs near 70 today and rising tomorrow. Yesterday Phoenix reached 65 with a 44 degree low, Airport Station logged 67 and 40. No bitter cold is anticipated through next Wednesday.
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Arizona
United States Weather Bureau
Phoenix
Phoenix Weather Bureau
Airport Station
Mercy Killer Lane Ends Sanity Test in Slaying Trial
Bridgeport Connecticut February 3 AP both sides wrapped up testimony in the mercy killing case of Carol Ann Paight a 21 year old who shot her father. State psychiatrist Dr Joseph M Lesko testified she was sane at the time of the crime and during his five examinations. The trial recessed until Tuesday for final arguments before the jury.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Carol Ann Paight
Joseph M. Lesko
Lorin W. Willis
Carol
Dr. Lesko
Cumberland Gap Discovery by Gabriel Arthur in 1674
Gabriel Arthur is recorded as the explorer who first found Cumberland Gap in the year 1674 marking an early entry into the Trans Appalachian passage. This historical note places Arthur in the chain of early American exploration opening a route through the mountains.
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Cumberland Gap
Gabriel Arthur
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