Ford Foundation Grants Hit Six Tucson Hospitals
Six Tucson hospitals shared 324 900 from the Ford Foundation with several officials calling it a Christmas present The total state grants across 31 hospitals reached 1 100 900 The foundation warned grants not for operating expenses and would issue instructions later Readiness to use funds varied at each hospital with plans ranging from wing expansion to improved X ray and laboratory facilities
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Tucson
Ford Foundation
St. Mary’s Hospital
Tucson Medical Center
Southern Pacific Hospital
Comstock Children’s Hospital
Arizona State Elks Hospital
St. Luke’s
Desert
Elizabeth Joseph
St. Mary’s
Elizabeth
Notorious German Turncoat Otto John Returns to West
Otto John the former West German security chief who defected to East Germany 16 months ago surrendered to West German police and was flown to Bonn. He is being questioned by the West German supreme court prosecutor after crossing into West Berlin and is held under tight security as details of his location remain undisclosed.
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Bonn
Germany
Otto John
East Germany
West Berlin
West Germany
West German
Supreme Court
Konrad Adenauer
John
Hitler
Russia
East Berlin
Washington
Allen Dulles
United States
Central Intelligence Agency
Secret Service
Office For Protection of the Constitution
OPC
Bonn Republic
Ford Foundation to donate record 500 million nationwide
The Ford Foundation plans a 500 million grant to 615 colleges and 3,500 private hospitals and 20 medical schools over 18 months. NYU leads with 5 million. funds aim to raise faculty salaries and improve medical and educational services nationwide. Leaders say funds boost education, medicine, and tax relief by easing public funding pressure.
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New York
Ford Foundation
Marion B. Folsom
Leonard A. Scheele
Henry T. Heald
New York University
Ford Motor Empire
Ruml
Ceive
United States
Ray E. Brown
The
American Hospital Assn
Elmer Hess
American Medical Assn
Pups Cups Frozen Weather Warns Of More Cold
Weather report notes frost in low lying areas with crust and frozen water. Pups must wait for sun to thaw before morning drink. Weatherman predicts more of the same. tonight and tomorrow expect lows 35 to 40 at the airport and highs near 70s with variable clouds.
Workman Killed by Power Line
A 28 year old construction worker Ted Daniels was electrocuted when a steel boom used to lay iron pipe touched a live power line at East 22nd street. Daniels died instantly while supporting the boom at the rear of the truck. The incident also involved R H Benson and Ray Hanley who were uninjured. Daniels had worked for F J Gallagher Trenching Co two weeks and leaves a wife and four children. Reilly Funeral Home to receive the body.
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East 22Nd Street
Ted Daniels
Romero Ave
F. J. Gallagher Trenching Co
R. H. Benson
Riverview Ave
Ray Hanley
Oracle
Daniels
22Nd Street
Reilly Funeral Home
Tucson
Fiee T
Arizona Senate rejects House sales tax bill 20 to 7
The Arizona State Senate voted 20 to 7 against accepting the House version of a sales tax repeal for federal government purchases and named a conference committee to reconcile differences. The bill, after six hours of debate, included three controversial amendments adding a flat two percent tax, removing taxes on foods and medicines, and limiting exemptions to federal sales for firms manufacturing within the state.
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State Senate
Phoenix
Senate
House
Harry Ackerman
Pima
Sidney Kartus
D-Maricopa
Kartus
D-Pima
Arizona
Sperry Rand Corp
Gindale Ae
California raps Brownell over politics in water suit
California Attorney General Edmund G Brown accuses U S Attorney General Herbert Brownell of playing politics by silence in the Colorado River upper basin appeal. The Supreme Court ruled to add New Mexico and Utah only for lower basin interests, a decision Arizona hails as a victory in reallocating river waters among states.
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San Francisco
Edmund G. Brown
California
U. S
Herbert Brownell
Arizona
Colorado
Supreme Court
Wyoming
New Mexico
Utah
United States
Browne
Brownell
U.S
O Ae
Hells Canyon
Idaho
CAP AF Pilots Search for Missing Student Pilot
Civil Air Patrol and military pilots scoured the Tucson Phoenix corridor for 19 year old John De Castro of Phoenix who vanished after departing Sky Harbor bound for Tucson on his first cross country solo flight in a red Aeronca. He had 30 flight hours and an exercise said to be an excellent training showing.
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Civil Air Patrol
Tucson
Phoenix
John de Castro
Sky Harbor
de Castro
Aeronca
Gilpin
CAP Office
Kurt Steinbach
March Afb
Luke Afb
Williams Afb
Air National Guard
Willcox
Don Amos
D. L. Blanton
India and Russia urge US China talks at higher level
New Delhi India and the Soviet Union urged high level peace talks between the United States and Communist China in a mutual declaration by Prime Minister Nehru and Premier Bulganin. They praised four months of Geneva ambassadorial talks and called for wider understanding through meetings at higher levels.
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New Delhi
India
Russia
United States
China
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nikolai Bulganin
Geneva
Red China
Rita Hayworth Finalizes Mail Order Divorce from Haymes
Actress Rita Hayworth won a mail order divorce from Dick Haymes in Paris with only their lawyers present. The decree, granted by Dist. Judge Grant L. Bowen, cites extreme mental cruelty. Hayworth and Haymes wed September 24, 1953. Haymes performs in Las Vegas while Hayworth travels with children.
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Reno
Rita Hayworth
Dick Haymes
Rita
Paris
France
Haymes
Las Vegas
Nev
Grant L. Bowen
Edward C. Judson
Orson Wells
Aly Khan
Evening Community Events and University Programs
Tonight and tomorrow feature films and music across Tucson venues. The Peoples of Other Lands screens at Liberal Arts Auditorium University of Arizona, with the Sun City Campus at 8:30 p m showing Scenic Ceylon by Dr. A R Mead. The Varsity basketball Arizona hosts Hamline at Bear Down gym.
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Tucson
Chi Omega Sorority
Mountain Ave
Sunnyside School of Trustees
Sunnyside School
Liberal Arts
University of Arizona
The
Crucible
Herring Hall
Amphitheater School Board of Trustees
Prince Road
Scenic
Ceylon
A. R. Mead
Arizona
Hamline
Bear Down
Dixon Yates sues government
A brief note reports Dixon-Yates suing the U.S. government amid ongoing fiscal and political drama. The item previews broader implications for public works and energy policy, with no immediate court outcome provided.
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Dixon-Yates
Firewerks
Liberace
Merry
Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
Marilyn
Ariz
Crossw
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W. C. Finn
Elks Institution
Bagley
Herman O. Rasche
Comstock Children's Hospital
Aileen Taylor
West
East
Potsdam
Hesse
Bavaria
Leipzig
Walter Ulbricht
FORD
Preston Yeager
Tucson Woman’s Club
Pima County
Jim Hart
Citizen
Russ
YMCA
Bridge and Canastaer Club
W. Congress
Campbell Avenue
Vine Street
Seneca Street
Campbell
Waverly Street
Lee Street
Arizona Inn
Adams
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