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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1950
Page
6
The Phoenix Gazette reports on progressive developments in Arizona with emphasis on new people and measures shaping the state's direction. Details remain uncertain in the fragmented OCR but indicate civic and cultural progress through local initiatives and governance.
Arizona readers weigh the push to cut wartime excise taxes on transportation and communication. Secretary Sawyer cites tolls and travel levies as harming sales and urges broader relief, including possible elimination of dividend taxes. Proposals seek lower long distance telephone, telegraph, travel, and freight taxes, with corporate reforms to fund further individual relief.
Congress rushes to tackle water shortages spreading from New York reservoirs to the West. Senators O Mahoney of Wyoming and Downey of California push for a 50 million dollar research appropriation for seawater conversion and rainmaking. Cloud seeding tests gain support from the Salt River Valley Water Users Association aiding Arizona efforts.
The piece notes mules once dominated Salt River Valley operations and western ranch work but declined after tractors, gas engines, and modern machinery spread. It cites 1940 figures of four million U S mules shrinking to 214 million by 1948, with mules disappearing across Central and Southern Arizona and other flat lands.
In Los Angeles a group of thieves steals a box they believe to be a cash register. The box turns out to contain 27 dynamite caps, prompting police investigation and warnings about handling dangerous munitions.
In Vienna war era, two American operators open self service laundries to help housewives and profit. Steam laundry owners push to revoke licenses or block expansion while Viennese women embrace the new system, hoping for victory and a medal for the pioneering 27 machines.
A Soviet propaganda Bulletin mailed to schools sparks debate over censorship. The piece is dismissed as crude but useful to show propaganda from behind the iron curtain. New York City officials call it an excellent weapon to combat communism. The editorial urges using it as a text to reveal Red doctrines and the falsity of communism to youths.
Britain launches a marketing trial sending hundreds of cases of British beer to the United States to sample in select cities. Experts will gauge American reactions to determine demand and potential large orders if the test succeeds.
A commentary criticizes U S policy toward China and Chiang Kai shek, arguing Yalta compromised Open Door principles, opened Soviet influence, and undermined democratic legitimacy. It links propaganda, Stettinius, Stilwell, and the Institute for Pacific Relations to a broader shift against the Nationalists, and questions future US actions toward Formosa and Marshall Aid. Moon mapping radar tests in Belmar NJ are noted along with a US vs. English desk terminology remark.
In Greenlee County a complaint against Clifton's Elks Lodge for three slot machines on New Year's Eve oddly involves Sheriff Joe Tea and 400 members, with County Attorney Porter Murry and Judge James Boyce Scott as club members and potential rivals for the judiciary. Rumors of prosecutions, grand juries, and a possible rivals' slate unfold amid local political maneuvering.
The piece traces women’s struggle toward equality from 1900, noting new roles in typing and telephony and the rise of women in business and professions. It highlights independence gained as women paid their own way, leading to broader social and political gains, including suffrage through constitutional amendment.
By 1950 women hold high office and elected posts in federal and state governments, with Frances Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt exemplifying leadership. The era marks economic and moral shifts: free marriage, divorce normalization, birth control openness, illegitimacy laws relaxing, and women advancing in marketing, work, and household roles, reshaping Western morality.
Senate notes show Taft telling fellow Republicans he does not expect a November majority and that the social state issue will not be settled until 1952. Tobey Bricker and Lodge debate aims and the party’s campaign strategy as Morse and Hickenlooper resist committee service.
A narrator extols birds for constant cheerfulness and independence, noting they endure harsh winters with food and care from humans. They wander across oceans and continents, returning for sustenance, and endure cruelty from people, yet remain grateful and singing.
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