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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1957
Page
5
The M. M. Sundt Construction Co. seeks extending the Speedway lighting and widening project to February 18, 1958, from the December 21 deadline due to unusually wet weather. City officials will discuss the extension at Monday’s meeting, with rain delaying work by 47 days in the wettest fall on record.
City Council meets to approve traffic ordinance changes including 25 mph on Cherry avenue 6th to Speedway 35 mph on Speedway Swan road to city limits and parking bans on Broadway Campbell Avenue Rosemont Boulevard and others. Eight hearings on improvement districts zoning proposed. downtown property owners protest assessments for opening and widening project. (Addresses and extraneous names omitted)
United Community Campaign plans to provide activities to 12 000 Southside youngsters next year. Agencies offer recreation and character-building programs to deprived youths, aiming to reach a $700 goal. Only 863 601 raised so far equals 43.4 percent of target.
The cotton labor peak program at $23 485 is counted as a separate agency in the UCC goal and will share pro rata with 21 affiliated DOUGLAS- R health youth and welfare agencies. Of the total, 12 801 funds bracero employment in Cochise earmarked for YMCA. 7 684 extends Boy Scout troops. 3 000 supports YWCA youth staff in the southside Valley. Anonymous donors provide a matching fund program during cleanup, matching every two contributed.
Moscow Radio announced mass production of the A22 radiosonde capable of reaching 19 miles for stratosphere studies. The device is said to be vastly superior to earlier models due to simplified apparatus and transmits observations back to Earth.
In New York the Motormen's Benevolent Association faces internal rift as its leaders clash over strategy in a six day subway strike. MBA officials accuse a spy and seek government intervention while Mayor Wagner and lawyer Waldman dispute terms of settlement and an upcoming bargaining election.
CHICAGO a The time is real when a dollar bill no longer disqualifies a man from doing business with an automatic vending machine. William P Potter has created a gadget to change a dollar bill into change for coins and future merchandise. The device accepts creased and torn bills and returns two quarters three dimes and four nickels. It rejects counterfeit notes and foreign currency and can be reconfigured to handle larger denominations. Potter predicts it will expand consumer automation and plans production next year.
U. S. customs officer Flack Milner will replace Mark Hickcox as deputy collector of Customs at the Port of Douglas. Hickcox retires after the first of the year. Milner has served at Nogales headquarters for the past 17 years.
A fire confined to one car of a special mail train near Columbus New Mexico destroyed sealed Los Angeles bound mail from El Paso to Los Angeles. No mail for Douglas or other Arizona post offices was damaged. The incident occurred shortly before noon Thursday on the westbound run.
The First Lady will visit orphanages as part of a long standing custom. She will be accompanied by Governor Alvaro Obregon JF on the tour.
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