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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1955
Page
8
The piece argues the United States must revive its spiritual and democratic zeal both domestically and internationally. It criticizes foreign aid as insufficient, notes Russia’s influence, and calls for renewed personal commitment to freedom, enterprise, and initiative as a response to Cold War pressures.
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum closes its first independent year with record attendances in Tucson Mountain Park. A Christmas weekend total exceeded 3,700 visitors and a single day high of 2,016 on Christmas, with New Year weekend expected to top these figures. The museum, begun in 1955, operates unsubsidized and relies on memberships and modest admissions.
Desert Museum botanists describe the boogums as 60 foot tall straight columns with looping contortions in arid lands. These ocotillo relatives shed leaves after rains and remain twigged to deter browsing, with colorful blooms at the tips.
The Citizen looks back on 1955 as one of its better years, noting political scrapes and self-imposed reforms, a growing view that democracy tolerates dissent, and a hopeful forecast for 1956. It praises family nurture, warns of future uncertainties, and emphasizes perseverance through change.
HAL BOYLE surveys 1955 highlighting broad prosperity from high incomes to booming loan offices and consumer delights. He notes pop culture shifts, Nobel bids, philanthropy by Ford Foundation, and a string of political and social quirks, from TV quizzes to Churchill retirement and floods to sports losses.
Readers weigh in on county trash policy annexation traffic police response and editorial cartoons. Contributors praise Tucson police for a December incident and urge civic action while others debate city and county governance and note supportive commentary on Christian cartoons.
Irving R. Gilman of the Institute for Motivational Research in Croton-on-Hudson New York argues shopping fulfills emotional needs such as freedom of action social status trust encouragement and family relations. He notes shopping is highly emotional and women shoppers may feel this more intensely.
From Washington the piece argues that 1945 to 1955 saw communism expand through satellites and civil wars, while the West built alliances and aid to counter the Reds. It notes dangers of renewed force and hints at a future ocean of threats and softer tactics aided by military and economic leverage.
George Sokolsky surveys the 1955 year and the coming 1956 election offering optimism about peace and prosperity. He contrasts post Roosevelt era personalities with Khrushchev and Stalin, notes dangers of radioactive strontium, and muses on a future with less war and more political belief in leaders.
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