Truman projects die in 81st Congress in Kansas City speech
Washington Oct 3 The Democratic 81st Congress is ten months old with much of President Truman s program dead or dying in this session Civil rights Taft Hartley repeal aid to education compulsory health insurance oleo tax repeal international trade organization standby economic controls tax increases. The president admitted dropping a 4 billion tax hike as party leaders balked and sought a civil rights face saver perhaps to outlaw poll taxes or enact federal anti lynching laws while adjournment plans circulate.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
Truman
Kansas City
International Trade Organization
Congress
Traffic Deaths in Arizona 1949 Below 1948 by 43
Traffic deaths in Arizona for the first nine months of 1949 total 179, down 43 from the same period in 1948. Jack Acton of the Phoenix Advertising Club Safety Committee notes continued safety for year end could improve the statewide record.
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Arizona
Jack Acton
Phoenix Advertising Club
Acton
Arizona Highway Department
South Phoenix Fire District To Get Truck
A new South Phoenix Fire Company District will receive a fire truck with high and low pressure systems. Applicants can apply for a fire chit as staffing and the station near South Central Avenue and Roeser Road will be hired after residents pay property taxes. The district cooperates with the National Board of Fire Underwriters seeking insurance rate reductions.
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South Phoenix Fire Company District
South Central Avenue
Roeser Road
L. P. Comer
Fire Company
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Federal Hospital Payments Arrive for Two Arizona Hospitals
The federal government sent 64362.86 toward Maricopa County Hospital construction and equipment, received by Jane Rider of the State Health Department. Total federal funds for the hospital reach 165916. An additional 50000 grant approved for Gila County General Hospital in Globe brings its federal aid to 200000.
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Maricopa County Hospital
Jane Rider
Division of
State Health Department
Gila County General Hospital
Globe
Globe Hospital
Arizona 10th in Polio Rates in 1948
Arizona ranked 10th in the nation for polio case rates in 1948, per a National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis release to the State Health Department. The state reported 170 cases, a rate of 25.5 per 100,000, improving from 1947 when 36 cases placed Arizona 26th.
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Arizona
State Health Department
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis, Inc
Eye Trouble Advice and Product Offer
Eye concerns persist and prompt consultation with an eye doctor is advised. The message touts widespread praise and urges immediate action with a claim of daily use benefits and an included eye cup for use today.
October adjournment possible if Truman keeps party pressure
In the 39 weeks of the session Congress has passed major bills including arms aid foreign recovery appropriation military pay increase reciprocal trade renewal government reorganization act and six presidential rear items.
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Truman
Congress
Congress faces 1950 start with shelved bills still stalled
With 91 days until the second session opens on January 3 1950 and holidays breaking the schedule Congress is unlikely to dispose of much shelved legislation. Principal appropriations are resolved though three major bills remain in conference and a minimum wage bill is also in conference weighing wage hikes.
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Congress
House
Senate
Pets Bring Ward to Hereford Church Service
Forty horses plus dogs cats guinea pigs rabbits goldfish a goose cock grass snake canary calf and tortoise attended a yearly pet service at Holy Trinity in Hereford led by Very Rev Hedley Burrows dean of Hereford honoring St Francis of Assisi. The vicar Rev Leonard Snell called the service a marvelous success and said it would remind people of their duties toward animals.
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Hereford
England
Hedley Burrows
Francis of Assissi
Holy Trinity
Leonard Snell
Ex-Phoenician's Funeral Planned
Funeral services for William Allen, 57, a former Phoenix dent and government employee who died last Monday in Amberg Germany will be held today in Santa Ana California. A native of Brinkley Arkansas Allen served as a member of the Displaced Persons Commission in Germany.
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William Allen
Phoenix Dent
Amberg
Germany
Santa Ana
Calif
Brinkley, Ark
Allen
Displaced Persons Commission
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