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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1950
Page
2
Democratic candidates for the house grow irked by questionnaires from groups probing issue stances. One frontrunner was the fair employment practice ordinance sponsors asking views on school segregation and related issues. Some lawmakers dump them, some reply, some return completed forms.
London reports the forthcoming Big Three foreign ministers conference will address West Germany's role in NATO plans and Formosa status. Talks begin in the United States with assistant meetings in New York or Washington ahead of the Sept. 12 meeting in New York.
Tuesday events include a Peter Howell school PTA meeting on traffic concerns at the school and the Arizona Zoological Society meeting in room 207 at the University of Arizona. Wednesday features a Young Democratic club noon session in American Legion hall with gubernatorial survey results and a Tucson Rotary luncheon with Andrew Case of the Arizona State Highway Department presenting safety education.
The Tucson social security office announced that 1950 amendments will substantially raise monthly payments in a four county area. Starting with September checks, average primary benefits rise from about $26 to $46 for retired workers and widows with two children go from $55 to about $110. Beneficiaries total 3,578 across Pima Pinal Cochise and Santa Cruz counties with September payments increasing from $70,756 to $129,456. Payments arrive in the first week of October. The act also loosens eligibility and allows more outside income without losing eligibility.
Charles W. Simon, representative candidate for District 10 supervisor, will address listeners at 5 30 p m today on KTUC station.
Petitions for and against a liquor license transfer to 5052 E Speedway are filed with the Pima county board of supervisors. The Sept 5 hearing will consider the transfer by Rey Hickey from El Recreo in Ajo to Speedway. A prior Indian School and Mission location was protested.
Tombstone reports military funeral services for Valentine Flint 59 World War I veteran who died at his Tombstone home. He served with distinction wounded in the war and received a Pershing citation. Survived by wife Mary daughter Margaret Mary Greece sister Gertrude Hoffman and two stepdaughters Marion Swope and Lillian McKay. Pallbearers named and Hubbard mortuary of Bisbee handling arrangements.
The O Tucson Cowboy baseball club 1937 fund surplus of 1700 will be donated to charity. Atty. E. T. Cusick announced allocations of 1000 to Community Chest and 200 each to Red Cross Sportsmen's fund Crippled Children’s clinic and 100 to Cerebral Palsy foundation. Cusick H. S. Corbett and Al Ford supervised.
Governor Dan E Garvey will attend the Polish American Social Club annual picnic at Forty-Niners Ranch Tanque Verde road Sunday. It marks his second visit. events run from 8 a m and continue into the evening with dancing swimming and contests. Oscar Koepp chairs the committee and C F Thomailo leads the club as president.
The article asserts that Egyptian civilization used steam power long before the birth of Christ, suggesting early technological innovation in antiquity and challenging common views on steam usage timelines.
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