State Welfare Costs Rising
Arizona faces a proposed biennial welfare budget of 14.5 million dollars for 1947-49, a rise of over 5.4 million from the prior biennium. Commissioner Harry W. Hill notes welfare cases may grow about one third, with total welfare spending near 22 million including federal funds.
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Bob Brooks
Arizona
State Board of Social Security and Welfare
Harry W. Hill
Ann Frohmiller
Valley National Bank Statistical Department
Hill
Osborn
Flagstaff
Tempe
University of Arizona At
Tucson
Three UA Players Reach Golf Semifinals in Arizona Tourney
Charley Lamb Don Byrd and Dick Hopwood advanced to the semifinals of the Arizona state amateur golf tournament at El Rio Golf and Country Club alongside Norman Norred of Globe. Lamb defeated C D Miller 4 and 2 while Norred beat Jim Vease 3 and 2, with Byrd and Hopwood winning their morning matches.
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University of Arizona
Charley Lamb
Don Byrd
Dick Hopwood
Norman Norred
Globe
el Rio Golf and Country Club
Lamb
Norred
Byrd
Hopwood
Yuma
Norved
Jim Vease
Tucson
Ernest Lehmann
Harrison
N. Y
Hopwood Cown
Billy Bell, Jr
U. of A
Randolph Golf Club
Gell
Nopwood
Miller
Bob Goldwater
Kim Bannister
Miler
Steen
Estes Park
Colo
Arizona
Michigan State To Get Munn From Syracuse
Syracuse announces head coach Clarence Sigures Nae will resign effective Jan 1 and move to Michigan State to lead the football program. He expects to start work soon and will bring his staff. assistants may choose individually. Bachman had resigned at MSU last week.
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Syracuse
Clarence Sigures Nae
Syracuse University
Michigan State
William P. Tolley
New York City
Munn
Charley Bachman
Arizona Labor Urged To Unite
CIO leaders in Arizona appeal for unity among labor groups including AFL and railroad brotherhoods to confront a perceived national push against the labor movement. They cite right to work efforts and contractor opposition as symptoms and warn that core gains are in danger amid inflation.
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Phoenix
Arizona
CIO
American Federation of Labor
Railroad Brotherhoods
International Association of Machinists
Unons
Philip Murray
Westward Ho
Goetz
Bilbo Denies Taking Graft in War Contracts Probe
Former Congressman Ross Collins of Mississippi testified to contradict key claims in the Bilbo war contracts investigation. He and ex-secretary Lara Harrison described hotel room notes while denying any Bilbo agreement to release a statement for Doxey. Bilbo professed he did not receive the 25 000 cash contribution and witnesses debated the full disposition of those funds.
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Washington
Ross Collins
Mississippi
Bilbo
Collins
Senate War Investigating Committee
Robert Gandy
Sen
D-Miss
Gandy
Senate
Wall Doxey
Ferguson
R-Mich
Cecil Travis
Lara Harrison
Congress
Forrest Jackson
Jackson
Miss
Senate War Investigating
Doxey
Committee
China Red Agent Attacks Chiang on Sian Incident Anniversary
Chou En Lai, once the communists’ chief negotiator at Nanking, issued a scathing personal attack on Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek on the tenth anniversary of the Sian incident. He urged release of Chang Hsueh Liang and criticized the United States, signaling a harsher anti American stance and suggesting he will not return to Nanking as envoy if peace talks resume.
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Nanking
Chou En-Lai
Chiang Kai- Shek
New Chinai Agency
Chou
United States
Chungking
Wreck near Salt Lake City injures 17 passengers and crew
Two Western Pacific trains collided head on about 15 miles west of Salt Lake City injuring at least 17 people. The eastbound passenger train carried home delegates from Texas and Louisiana. No deaths were reported.
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Salt Lake City
Western Pacific Railroad
Here
St. Mark's Hospital
Great Salt Lake
Texas
Louisiana
American Farm Bureau
San Francisco
Tooele
Utah
Union Pacific
Western Pacific
West Texas State College Closed After Veteran-Led Strike
President A J Hill announced West Texas State College will close until further notice after a student strike began Friday led by veterans. About 400 students participated as housing concerns and management issues were cited. The board of regents met to decide the action and posted the order on campus bulletin boards.
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Canyon
Tex
A. J. Hill
West Texas State College
Virgil Henson
Henson
Board of Regents
Hill
Manchuria Stripped by Reds a Blow to China
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Edwin W. Pauley argues that Soviet long range aims in Manchuria undermine China's stability by stripping its industry. The report suggests Moscow backs Communist options as a path to weakened central authority and expansion for world communism.
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Manchuria
China
J. M. Roberts, JR
Edwin W. Pauley
Russia
Moscow
Red Army
United States
Chiang Kai-Shek
Pauley
Truman
Roosevelt
Churchill
Cairo
Chiang
Japan
School Year May Be Lengthened In State
Arizona’s state board of education urged lengthening the school year to 180 full days. It recommended local districts adopt the change citing national trends and that more days deliver more for taxpayers. Present minimum is 160 days with high schools around 172 and elementary 168 days.
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Phoenix
Arizona
State Board of Education
Tabriz Freed After Soviet Rule Ends
Thousands fill Tabriz streets as government troops approach, while shots flare around prisons and army barracks. Ousted Democratic party members flee, shops reopen, and crowds cheer the approaching army after a year under Azerbaijan Soviet rule. Militants loot some Democratic party shops as volunteer police patrol the streets.
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Tabriz
Iran
Azerbaijan
Democratic Party
Salamollah Javid
Haji Mirza Shabastari
Mianeh
Toll Of Train Wreck 20 Dead
Mansfield Ohio dispatch reports the death toll rising to 20 after a Pennsylvania Railroad collision near Coulter. Edwin Gene Krautblatt, 19, of Chicago, dies in Crestline hospital. four soldiers in critical condition in Mansfield, 18 more in Ft Hayes Columbus. Twenty soldiers total injured, plus 50 overall. The Golden Triangle passenger train struck two eastbound freights, killing and injuring many en route to Camp Stoneman. Engineer Louis Petoskey, 55, Toledo, denied ignoring signals. Fireman Keith, 31, Toledo, spoke of clear signals until the crash.
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Mansfield
Pennsylvania
Coulter
Here
Edwin Gene Krautblatt
Chicago
Crestline
Mansfield Hospital
Army Hospital
Ft. Hayes
Columbus
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ft. Dix
N. J
Army
Camp Stoneman
Pittsburgh
Calif
Cornelius T. Morris
Golden Triangle
Robert E. Keith
Toledo
Keith
Petoskey
Bus And Trolley Men Win Boosts
Oklahoma City reports a one day streetcar and bus strike ended after negotiators reached a settlement with the Oklahoma Railway Co. The 500 workers accepted a 15 cent hourly wage hike five cents retroactive to July 1 and another five cents pending fare increase approval.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
The
Oklahoma Railway Co
AFL Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway
UNRRA Council Elects Rooks to Succeed LaGuardia
The 48 nation UNRRA council dispersed after a three month deadline for relief work. They accepted the resignation of Director General Fiorella H. LaGuardia and elected Maj. Gen. Lowell W. Rooks as his successor in a four day meeting.
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Washington
UNRRA
Fiorella H. LaGuardia
Lowell W. Rooks
UN approves world arms cut plan amid troop census clash
United Nations General Assembly votes 36 to 6 to approve a basic plan for worldwide arms reduction and to refer questions on troop data to the Security Council. The body rejects an immediate global troop census, with Russia opposing.
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New York
General Assembly of the
United Nations
Security Council
Assembly
James F. Byrnes
V. M. Molotov
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Molotov
Britain
Russia
Trusteeship Council
League of Nations
Great Britain
France
Belgium
New Zealand
Australia
Byrnes
World Assembly
United States
Germany
Japan
Japanese Islands
Korea
Austria
Trieste
Father of three offers eye to blinded veteran
In Los Angeles on a Saturday Mickey Miltenberger a 36 year old carpenter’s helper from Montebello offered to donate his second eye to Corporal Chester R. Perkins a blinded veteran who had asked for two bright eyes for Christmas. Doctors noted Perkins already has one eye removed and the other damaged making a transplant unlikely to restore sight.
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Los Angeles
W.B
Santa Claus
Mickey Miltenberger
Carpenters
Montebello
Corp
Chester R. Perkins
Phoenixville
Miltenberger
Perkins
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Will
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Struck College
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Associated Press
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New York Times
Christopher Sykes
London Daily Mail
Tehran
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