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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1955
Page
8
A newspaper note urges holiday safety as Christmas and New Year traffic risks rise. Police, guardsmen, and law officers will intensify patrols to curb drunk driving. Hosts are urged to ensure guests do not drive home impaired. Children and families deserve a safe festive season.
A year after hopeful 1955 expectations, polio vaccination faced early uptake issues yet showed improvements. U S Surgeon General Scheele says vaccination raises chances of avoiding paralytic polio by about 75 percent as the National Foundation urges a broad educational push to inoculate 28 million children by next June.
The photo shows the Schrader building built in 1901 at Congress and Scott, later sold to Carlos Jacome and his sons. Jacome & Manzo ran a West Congress shop next to the Legal Tender, before Jacome’s later move to a new location. The second floor of the Schrader building served as a hall.
A New York column mocks corporate demands in a playful letter to Santa. It lists wishes for tax cuts, balanced budgets, stronger defenses, guaranteed profits and dividends, tariff tweaks, and farm price rises, all while urging careful costs for workers. The piece lampoons business lobbying in 1955.
A 1955 Citizen column discusses wage determinants under supply and demand, wages as a major production cost, and the debate over needs versus productivity. It contrasts Marxist Leninist wage ideas with capitalist and socialist perspectives, questioning how needs drive distribution and whether any system can satisfy all wants.
Letters from Tucson readers protest the City Planning and Zoning Commission decision on December 13 to rezone areas along Cherry Avenue from R-1 to R-3. They accuse irregular voting, including misattributed lots and added votes from fraternities, and warn of unfair hearings and future neighbor disputes. The writers urge protection of homeowners and fair application of zoning laws.
Hal Boyle reflects on money through a childhood incident in Kansas City. A pocketbook with $65 sparks a spree of spending then a moral lesson when the owner is found and the belt teaches responsibility. The tale ends with the lesson to earn money honestly.
Senator George H.cite notes the Government Printing Office cut funds returned to the Treasury for the third year in a row while the workforce was reduced by 800. He argues the office can operate efficiently with a will to do it despite high output.
Roscoe Drummond notes Hugh Gaitskell's election as Labour leader strengthens bi partisan foreign policy, aligns Britain with the free world, and shifts power away from Aneurin Bevan. Gaitskell, 49, represents a modern, centrist path, offering candor on nationalization and a forward looking stance for Britain. Morrison leans pro Gaitskell. Bevan defeated.
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