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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1950
Page
10
An opinion piece warns Tucson faces a shrinking police force amid escalating daylight robberies including a $31,000 Bank of Douglas heist on Pennington Street. It urges restoring authorized strength of 79 officers, increasing patrols and adopting foot patrols to deter crime.
President Truman endorsed the Hoover Commission’s call for reorganizing federal agencies to improve efficiency. Six key reforms include modernizing personnel, reorganizing Veterans Administration, uniting federal hospital facilities, merging civil functions of U S engineers with reclamation, and depoliticizing the post office. Estimated yearly savings reach five billion if fully enacted. Bipartisan support already shown. about half the reforms approved saving two billion annually. Acting on the remainder is argued as essential for wartime readiness and moral governance.
In a 1950 King Features column, the author argues the U S must mobilize manpower and production, dismiss Dean Acheson and other foreign policy architects, seek trusted leadership, and abandon money driven alliances. The piece cites Charles E Wilson and pleads for a Disraeli like pivot to reassert global authority.
Scientists at Rutgers university reveal a cheap method dipping seed potatoes in 0.01 percent sodium molybdate solution to increase vines by 71 percent and potato yield by 87 percent. The finding, though beneficial, favors a few growers and could raise government costs and taxpayer burdens as more produce floods the market.
A critical column accuses the Friends of Democracy led by Leon M. Birkhead and Isidore Lipschutz of smear tactics and political intimidation. It ties them to anti intervention groups, leakage through legal harassment, and a network including John Roy Carlson, Rex Stout, Dorothy Thompson, and others, alleging covert influence over US foreign policy debates.
Chicago figure Jerry Nedwick recalls an old vaudeville routine once used by Harry Vokes and Hap Ward in 1902. The piece riffs on geographic quips from Pennsylvania to Manhattan, then cites Voltaire with a quip about a deceased associate.
Robert C Ruark argues for women in leadership and combat roles but worries about readiness and merit. He suggests drafting women and envisions mixed armed forces while admitting skepticism about female governance and competence. The piece ends with the author planning to join the WACs.
Washington dispatch notes James Taylor a.k.a. Foulproof, 65, has long urged sports editors to assault him. He even brought a claymore to tempt Dan Parker of the New York Mirror to strike him, but Parker declined. Taylor insists editors should act, claiming it would not hurt.
A 1950 King Features column recalls William “Foulproof” Taylor from Manchester who drifted into sports department pranks and invented protective gear. He demonstrated helmet physics at Fordham, claimed scalp stimulation, and once sought Gov Dewey to slug him for a photo, highlighting a quirky era of publicity stunts.
The piece recounts George Peabody born 1795 in Danvers Massachusetts who amassed wealth in London then gave large sums to build Peabody Institutes and fund education in the United States and Britain. It notes 1866 gifts to Yale Harvard and London charities and ends with Victorian tributes at Westminster Abbey and Portland Maine.
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