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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1956
Page
8
The new Arizona law requiring a premarital blood test and a 48 hour waiting period before marriage license issuance has taken effect. It allows physician certified or lab analysis, with a no fee option at the state lab in Tucson, and permits court exemptions for hardship or religious beliefs. The measure aims to curb syphilis and reduce hastily performed marriages.
Pima County led Arizona with 84 percent turnout in the November 6 general election, ahead of Maricopa at 80.95 and Pinal at 73. County activists and candidates helped raise issues and interest, underscoring the value of broad voter participation in a representative system.
The late Tucson author Harold Bell Wright is pictured at Port Libertad Sonora in 1936 with a large peje-gallo rooster fish. Wright helped grow Tucson’s eastward expansion and wrote The Mine With the Iron Door and That Printer of Udell’s among other works.
The piece argues fixed incomes lose value as living costs and taxes rise. It notes teachers must continue learning and highlights physics and geoscience teachers preparing for 1957 geophysical year. Salaries for California PhDs range from 4512 to 9384 dollars, before taxes, with taxes further reducing pay.
Roscoe Drummond questions whether the GOP should press to build a lasting Southern party. He weighs risks to national unity and Civil Rights policy, cites African American voting shifts, and asks if a Southern Republican wing would differ from its Democratic counterpart amid a shift seen in 1964.
Victor Riesel profiles Bob Kennedy leading the Senate Government Operations probe into cross state line activity affecting the economy. The effort targets Teamsters influence, labor racketeering cases, and federal enforcement alongside Justice officials in a broad inquiry.
The piece notes international demonstrations against Communist actions in Hungary, highlighting anti Communist protests in Paris Austria Denmark Switzerland Rome the United States and other cities. It emphasizes a universal response and the enduring flame of liberty across the globe.
Hal Boyle offers a humorous guide to personal change. He suggests soliciting blunt lists of faults from a close friend enemy mother wife bartender and boss to craft targeted resolutions. The piece advises weighing common faults across lists and using the boss list to time a raise, with a final joke about a private detective if a wife praises you too highly.
The International Monetary Fund approved a 1.3 billion dollar loan to Britain to ease economic pressure from wartime costs and Middle East oil disruptions. Washington debates further aid as Nixon and Hagerty signal support, but Treasury Secretary Humphrey warns that current institutions may cover much of the needed assistance.
The reading links Psalm 2 and Matthew 2 16 to the difficulty of accepting Jesus. It argues that removing honesty integrity spontaneity mercy loyalty and love would banish Christ as He appears in Bethlehem a refugee and a worker. It ends with a prayer for daily Christlike will and a note from the Turen Council of Churches.
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