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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1949
Page
6
Editor’s note outlines how to register, what elections you can vote in, and how party affiliation works in Arizona. It covers precincts, re-registering after moving, party designation deadlines, cross filing, and how Phoenix nonpartisan primaries lead to a mayor and six councilmembers every two years in odd-numbered years.
Industrial Commissioner J. J. O Neill disputed press claims that he supported a Workmen’s Compensation Law change proposing a monthly award cap. Testifying at an Arizona Legislative Interim Committee hearing, he admitted lacking clear support for the recommendation while acknowledging the report’s language.
By Bill Turnbow details how the Legislative Interim Committee seeks full-time service from H S McCluskey, chief legal adviser to the Arizona Industrial Commission, while lawmakers block a related county attorney bill. The piece also notes gambling chatter in Pinal County, a looming special session, and staffing shifts in gubernatorial succession with Wilson acting governor if Garvey travels.
Washington dispatch details longtime Oklahoma senator Elmer Thomas accused of using influence to affect cotton and egg prices while speculating in commodities. The piece recounts prior investigations, ties to Duke Cullum, and recent moves as Agriculture Committee chair including egg price program criticism and an inquiry with Cullum pressuring poultry officials.
A FBI briefing notes seven million criminals in the U S and urges moral discipline rooted in the Ten Commandments. It cautions that most crime is glamorized in media and calls for community efforts in youth guidance, recreation, and cooperative policing to prevent crime rather than just punish it.
The article notes shifts from in-person classrooms to distance learning. Dentists in Maricopa County will study via a University of Illinois telephone extension course with lectures heard through loudspeakers from Chicago. Arizona plans a similar radio based education project enabling college credit by mail.
The narrative recalls September 16 1810 as Mexico's independence day led by Miguel Hidalgo El Gritero. It notes Hidalgo’s uprising drew about 100000 followers toward the capital, the war lasting 11 years, and cites 1940 census figures and Phoenix’s 15000 Spanish American residents amid celebrations.
A tersely worded note laments Uncle Sam killing hoppers in Pima County and gnats in California. It claims Phoenix survived a heavy rain without storm sewers and hints at further efforts to tackle pests and weather flaws.
The Douglas community nears fifty years with growing public improvements especially in schools. Officials are urged to honor pioneer citizens by naming schools and parks after them, Carlson School cited as a suggestion, while the boards of education and city council are asked to act or seek public suggestions. The piece also notes Richard Strauss as a pivotal orchestral innovator whose music builds on Wagner.
The piece reviews a composer famed for symphonic poems and opera and notes flaws in taste despite virtuosity. It shifts to a satirical editorial on Eskimos mocking Hollywood ethics, Betty Grable, Roy Rogers, and Indian figures, ending with a wry social observation on movie spectatorship and evolving attitudes.
The item lists quiz prompts and trivia answers: 476 A. D. is given as the end of the western empire, Philadelphia printed the first successful U S daily newspaper, the first U S telegraph line run between Washington and Baltimore, Adolf Hitler became German chancellor in 1933, and Paul Dresser wrote On the Banks of the Wabash.
A presidential three man labor board is accused of sidestepping Taft-Hartley and Congress, elevating state fiat over lawful process. The piece warns of industry wide bargaining, eroding worker and management interests, and a drift toward fascistic governance in wage and conditions control.
By George E. Sokolsky argues that the NRA lacks Congressional approval and warns the Fair Deal’s pension plan risks higher prices, bankruptcies, and reduced federal revenue. He asserts a three-member board would set terms, threaten competition, and push Fabian socialism, claiming government overreach undermines law and capital.
A meditation on initiative and perseverance urges readers to cultivate will power like Columbus. Examples include Westinghouse, Pasteur, Ford, Edison, the Wrights, and Woolworth, whose early failures gave way to success. The note also defines surf-bird and Theresopolis, a Rio de Janeiro health retreat, with basic facts.
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