Rita Beck Night at Rialto Honors War Bond Sales
Rita Beck is set for a Rialto theatre party in her honor as a top war bond seller. County figures praise her dramatic rise from slow start to leading sales, with coworkers planning a public thank you and Rita vowing ongoing effort in bonds through Christmas season and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charless Darnell
Rita
Fred Dragonette
George Aurelius
Rialto Theatre
Rita Beck
Gen. Beck
Steinfeld
Harold Steinfeld
Rialto
Pima County
War Finance
Dragonette
Harry Coppinger
Coppinger
America
Gen
Retail Merchants’ Association
Third Army
Bad Plumbing Peril Highlighted By Educational Film
An educational film sponsored by the National Plumbers Union and the city health department screened at Tucson High School Auditorium. It portrayed a mock apartment owner sued for unsafe plumbing and linked sanitation to outbreaks of typhus and infantile paralysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Plumbers Union
Sanitation and Health Department
Tucson
University of Iowa
American Plumbers’ Union
Maj
Lawrence G. Soderhom
U. S. Medical Corps
Davis-Monthan Airfield
Local Marines Wounded and Missing in Action from Arizona
Four Arizona men were wounded in action with one listed missing. Richard B. Taylor, aviation ordnance man 2c, is missing. Manuel M Ramirez and Norberto N Mesa are wounded for the second time. Also wounded are Robert N. Ybarra and Ray H. Witherell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Arizona
Richard B. Taylor
Ethel Midkiff
Tucson
Frank Taylor
Globe
Manuel M. Ramirez
Elena M. Cordova
Superior
Norberto N. Mesa
Cole appoints L. E. Young as Chief Deputy
Louis E. Young was named on a list of appointments by County Treasurer A. B. Cole to the Pima county board of supervisors to replace Wallace S. Bransford as chief deputy county treasurer beginning Jan. 1. The appointment awaits supervisors’ approval. Bransford will remain as deputy treasurer after retirement with a pay cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis E. Young
A. B. Cole
Pima County Board of Supervisors
Wallace S. Bransford
Bransford
Cole
L. E. Smart
Alfonso E. Laos
W. A. Lester, Jr
Helen Cole
Young
Ceiling Price On Cattle Hit By Arizonans
Central Arizona Cattle Feeders' association directors protest New York meat dealers blaming ranchers for low profits. They urge federal officials not to impose price ceilings on live cattle while noting OPA sets meat prices and retailer profits.
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Phoenkex
New York
Central Arizona Cattle Feeders’ Association
Harvey Platt
Platt
Office of Price Administration
Pedestrian Hurt In Car Collision Near Marana
Concepcion S. Quiroz, 38, of 1900 South 11th avenue, was seriously injured when struck by a car driven by Owen A. Mangum of Douglas as she crossed the road one mile east of Marana. She suffered fractures in both legs and was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital.
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Concepcion S. Quiroz
South 11Th Avenue
Marana
Owen A. Mangum
Douglas
Ariz
Coy Beasley
Corp
Luis Aguirre
Kelly Field
Tex
Beasley
St. Mary's Hospital
Cella
South 10Th Avenue
West 2St Street
Roy Robinson
Alameda and
Church Streets
Aguirre
Robinson
OPA Cancellation Called Swindle by Rep Andre
Rep. August H. Andre sen accuses the Office of Price Administration of using rationing cuts for politics and says millions of housewives were swindled by unused stamps cancellations. He warns of continued government deception to push economic controls despite public anger. Eleanor Fowler of CIO backs restored canned foods as relief from reckless policy.
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Washington
August H. Andresen
R.-Minn
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Andresen
Roosevelt
CPA
Congress of Women's Auxiliaries
CIO
Eleanor Fowler
State Seeks Bids for Legislative Printing
Phoenix December 29 bids asked for by Director Mulford Winsor of the state legislative bureau covering printing of house and senate bills and related supplies. Bids to be opened at noon January 17 as the legislature convenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Mulford Winsor
State Legislative Bureau
House
Senate
Black market cattle protests prompt officials to act
A protest against price fixing on live cattle was telegraphed by the association directors to the war food administrator and Arizona members of Congress. The message denounces illicit dealers and calls for action to curb the black market in livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association
Arizona
Congress
Wanted Bookkeeper Clerk For Phoenix Meat Office
Job ad from Star-Citizen Box 87 seeks a permanent bookkeeper to handle records inventories and costs at a national food distributor in Phoenix. Prefer male 30 to 45 veteran of present war with confidential replies and appropriate salary and future prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix Meat Buying Office
National Food Distributor
Citizen
Births at St. Mary's Hospital Tucson Readers
Birth notices record several newborns at St. Marys Hospital Tucson with parents listed by rank and home addresses. Times and dates span December 23 to December 28 as a girl and boy births are noted for multiple couples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's Hospital
David K. Rea
1St St
Tucson
Pender T. Wright
8Th St
Robert Mehring
E. Monte Vista
Francis D. Arentz
Euclid Ave
Northern Arizona Braces for Snow and Cold Rain
Snow began in Prescott after rain while Phoenix area residents faced a biting wind. The weather bureau urged shippers to safeguard shipments against below freezing temperatures on eastern routes. Nogales and Tucson reported mild conditions with a forecast of light showers and snow above 6,000 feet across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Prescott
U. S. Weather Bureau
Nogales
Tucson
State Post Offered Wounded Soldier Now In English Hospital
First Lt. Fred C. Struckmeyer of Phoenix, wounded in England on October 25, is appointed by Attorney General-elect John L. Sullivan as assistant to Arizona’s chief law officer. Sullivan said the post is temporary and may be held if the Army career ends, ensuring a civilian job if service ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
Arizona
Fred C. Struckmeyer
England
John L. Sullivan
Sullivan
Pima County Sets Sixth War Loan Bond Drive Records
Pima county reports 6th war loan drive results with 5 761 294 total bonds sold. Corporations buy 3 541 690 and individuals 3 219 604 toward a 5 000 000 quota. Rita Beck leads Arizona with 61 138 50 in sales. A showing of Combat America in Technicolor by Maj Clark Gable accompanied county and state war finance committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pima County
Fred Dragonette
War Finance Committee
Arizona
Rita Beck
Steinfeld
Kenneth Kelton
State War Finance Committee
Combat America
351St
England
Eighth Air Force
Maj. Gable
Europe
Ameri
Kelton aids loan of film to organizations through January
Kelton announces available copies of a film for loan to organizations. Arrangements are to be made via War Bond headquarters in Phoenix or Pima County War Finance Chairman William IV, or the Kelton Audioment company at 33 South Fifth. The movie will be shown exclusively through January and not in local theaters.
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Button
Kelton
Ing
War Bond Youn
Phoenix
Dragonette
Pima County
War Nance
William IV Community
Kelton Audioment Company
South Fifth Nne
Desert Covers Most of Algeria's Vast Land
All but 222,296 square miles of Algeria's 85 350 square miles lie in desert. The vast arid regions contrast with greener zones where settlements and agriculture persist along the coast and oasis belts.
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Algeria
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the Rialto
Plumbers’ Union
Result of Iowa Studies
Manet
George A. Krohn
Hannah Krohn
East Fairmount
Quantico
Marines
Arizonians
John P. Young
East Fifth Street
Blechhammer
Germany
Army
Col
A. C. Young
Sra
Thornes
6Th St
Tucson Blvd
Oxydol
Schilling's Coffee
Libby
Lge
U. 8
Idaho Otatoes
Struckmeyer
Ulan
Dill
Doc
Borden
Jill
Borden's
Borden’s
Durden
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