Tucson Water Drive Expands System On Bond Plan
Tucson advances its water program as $1,250,000 bond issue approved Aug 23, 1949 funds expansion. By now the city has spent or committed about $746,000 plus $47,000 for private systems, with $500,000 remaining to complete distribution and new wells to serve a growing 1949- era population.
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Citizens Water Committee
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Pueblo Gardens
Alvernon
Schools To Help Furnish Seamen
San Francisco aug 24 to meet the need for more merchant seamen the city school system will expand its maritime training program supt Herbert C Clish announced at the request of Harry Lundeberg secretary treasurer of the Sailors Union of the Pacific plans call for re establishment of lifeboat training on the waterfront and dispatching men to a marine cooks and bakers course in a high school additional instructors will be hired to make available all maritime courses current instruction covers navigation regulation rigging and rope splicing
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Sailors Union of the Pacific
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Reds Denounce West Aims As Physicist Returns Home
London reports claim Prof Lajos Janossy, once with Britain's atomic research, denounced Western aims. Tass quotes the physicist saying Western results in cosmic ray work would aid war prep, while in Hungary they aid peaceful construction. Janossy previously worked with British war science and was photographed with Klaus Fuchs before Fuchs’s imprisonment.
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Russia
Rail Shutdown Grips Canada as Strike Paralyzes Transport
Ottawa reports a three day old rail strike threatening to throttle the economy. The government gains authority to mobilize aircraft for emergency use and ration passenger traffic if needed as 124,000 non operative workers strike for higher pay and a 40 hour week. With shortages in mail telegraph and power, parliament is recalled to discuss actions while industries face early closures and food shortages widen.
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Coal miners laid off nationwide amid car shortages
Gogama Hornepayne Foleyet Nakina and Armstrong report 3000 Nova Scotia miners laid off due to coal car shortages. Similar notices come from other regions as the cabinet plans special sessions until Parliament opens. If the strike ends before opening, government may shelve planned legislation to deter future stoppages.
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Nova Scotia
Hayden Says Brannan Farm Plan Faces Ax
Sen. Carl Hayden of Arizona, chair of the Senate Rules Committee, states the Brannan farm plan is controversial and likely to be defeated. Hayden comments on political strategy amid farm policy debates in Phoenix.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Carl Hayden
D-Ariz
Senate Rules Committee
Farm plan unlikely to pass this Congress says Brannan
Hayden opened his reelection bid by opposing the plan noting farmers are used to market payments. The comment frames his stance as a contrast to government policy and signals campaign positioning.
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Hayden
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