No New Labor Bill Seen Soon
Washington report on February 14 notes the Taft Hartley act likely staying in force past spring as Senate hearings continue through February 23. The approach divides time between Democrats and Republicans with a possible March floor debate and a Senate-House conference to craft a final bill.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Labor Committee
Thomas
Senate
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Truman
House
Senate-House Conference Committee
Arizona House approves county zoning bill sends to Senate
The Arizona house voted 41 to 16 to approve the county zoning measure and send it to the senate for action. Absences reduced roll call to one missing member. 12 members explained their votes.
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Phoenix
Arizona House of Representatives
Senate
House
James Ewing
Tucson
Marvin Burton
Frank Robles
Oliver Heflin
Charles Abels
Cliff Armstrong
G. N. Baker
A. H. Bisjack
Yavapai
George E. Crosby
Apache
James Elliott
Douglas
Kel Fox
Sedona
Robert Hart
Sidney Kartus
Wing F. Ong
Henry Rush
Prescott
West Timmerman
Rep
Webster
Day's Activities In Congress
Senate meets at noon for routine business. Labor committee resumes hearings on administration labor policy. Foreign relations committee holds hearing on a new ECA bill. Appropriations committee considers extra blizzard relief funds. House considers bills to continue war assets administration and the Freedom Train. Armed services subcommittee starts hearings on a guided missile testing station. Banking committee weighs rent control extension.
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Senate
Labor Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
Appropriations Committee
HOUSE
War Assets Administration
Armed Services Subcommittee
Banking
Weather across plains and Rockies brings heavy snows
Snow storms expand disaster area in six North Dakota counties as relief work stalls in Nebraska. Alvarado Texas suffers damage in the tens of thousands while California temperatures plunge and trains stranded in Wyoming are rescued. Arizona skies clear with Flagstaff reporting 15 degrees below zero and more snow in December through February totals.
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Great Plains
North Dakota
West
Nebraska
Edna
Kansas
Alvarado
Tex
California
Rawlins
Hanna
Wyo
Cheyenne
Associated Press
Arizona
Flagstaff
Red Cross
Lewis A. Pick
Weather Turns Toward Sunshine After Rain Delays
The city saw scattered showers and chill winds at the Sunday airport dedication and the Tucson country club Invitational golf final round. Rain totals reached .05 inch from Friday through Monday morning with the heaviest amounts Saturday and early Monday. The weatherman forecast intermittent sunshine and subfreezing temperatures overnight, promising clearer skies Tuesday.
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Weather Bureau
Tucson
State Cotton Growers Name Parley Delegates
Arizona cotton growers select 15 delegates to attend the National Cotton Council's 11th annual meeting in Los Angeles March 7 to 9. Delegates include C. B. Hooper Sahuarita Elwood H. Smith Casa Grande J. D. Lee Thatcher H. B. Atha Litchfield Park W. E. Waldr on Safford James S. Francis Peoria and Phoen ix leaders Kemper Marley chairing the Arizona unit.
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Phoenix
Arizona
National Cotton Council
Los Angeles
Kemper Marley
Council
C. B. Hooper
Sahuarita
Elwood H. Smith
Casa Grande
J. D. Lee
Thatcher
H. B. Atha
Litchfield Park
W. E. Waldron
Safford
James S. Francis
Peoria
Tom Rollow
Charles Laughlin
W. T. Kendall
W. A. West
J. S. Doherty
J. R. Fleming
T. Ed Peterson
Robert W. Dickey
Israel Renews Claim To City In Jerusalem Assembly
In Jerusalem on the nine month anniversary of statehood Israel forms its first modern parliament with 120 members to draft a permanent constitution and establish a government. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion reiterates Jerusalem remains a Jewish city amid UN plans to internationalize the holy site.
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Jerusalem
Israel
United Nations Assembly
Palestine Conciliation Committee
David Ben-Gurion
Arab Legion
Bethlehem Hills
United Nations
Conciliation Commission
Chaim Weizmann
Provisional Council
Dr. Weizmann
Tucson City Primary Sees Low Voter Turnout in Narrow Field
In a Tucson primary only one council race features opposition. Incumbent Charles A. Brady faces W. Edward Morgan in Ward 1 while Mayor E. T. Houston and incumbents in Wards 2 and 4 are set for renomination. Committeemen races show Democratic strength. Republicans plan a slate. Polls open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. at six ward sites.
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Tucson
Democratic Party
E. T. Houston
Charles A. Brady
W. Edward Morgan
Young Democrat Movement
You Democrats
Brady
Morgan
J. O. Niemann
William J. Pistor
Arizona Becomes 48th State On Lincoln Birthday 1912
On February 14, 1912, President Taft signed Arizona's statehood proclamation at the White House. The day featured a brief inaugural, a 48 gun salute, a downtown parade, and celebrations across Tucson and Tombstone. Arizona's growth since 1912 highlights cattle mining agriculture irrigation and rising population and tax value.
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Joe Collier
Phoenix
Arizona
William Howard Taft
White House
Frank Hitchcock
Tucson
Territorial
Adams Hotel
Tombstone
Harry A. Drachman
Prescott
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Mark Smith
Ralph Cameron
United States
Congress
Taft
Monte Carlo to Offer Dice Next Fall
Louis Ceresol director of the Monte Carlo casino and his assistant Crou pier Albert Jauffret said the casino will add dice to its gaming bill next fall. They are studying the game at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas using a tape recorder to catch dealer lingo. The remark comes after two wars and hints at international expansion.
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Las Vegas
Louis Ceresol
Monte Carlo
Ceresol
Albert Jauffret
Flamingo Hotel
Decatur
Sale of State Land Sparks Legal Battle North of Oracle
State Land Commissioner O C Williams labeled allegations by the Arizona Education association public lands committee as unfounded while confirming a sale of 18 045 acres north of Oracle in Pinal County would proceed Tuesday in Florence The attorney general’s office found no legal violation and Williams invited injunctions Civil suits or clarifications through court actions await any dissatisfied party The education committee claimed law breaches and asked withdrawal of the Randolph school site now claimed not to be included by chief deputy Ran Bone and Gov Dan E Garvey comment.
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O. C. Williams
Arizona Education Association
Public Lands Committee
Oracle
Pinal County
Williams
Florence
Attorney General's Office
Attorney General
Land Department
Education Committee
San Pedro River
Ruth Adams
Ran Bone
Dan E. Garvey
Bone
Randolph School
Children’s Colony Board
Dingell Attacks AMA Health Plan as a Cheap Imitation
Rep. Dingell denounces the AMA substitute for Truman health insurance as a plan to placate the sick and calls it a cheap imitation of the real thing. He notes the proposal expands voluntary care but creates a federal department of health headed by a physician and state medical authorities. Republicans pledge a fight while Taft urges support for state financed voluntary programs.
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American Medical Association
Truman
Dingell
D-Mich
AMA
Organized Medicine
Chicago
Congress
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Hill
Ala
Department of Health
Treasury
Federal Department
Pope denounces Mindszenty trial as artificial
In Rome on Monday Pope Pius XII warned an extraordinary cardinalate gathering that Hungary’s Joseph Mindszenty was forced to confess and called his trial artificial and captious. Mindszenty, sentenced to life for treason by a Budapest peoples court, faced six co-defendants. The Pontiff warned of the aim to unsettle the Catholic church in Hungary.
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Rome
Pius’ XII
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Cardinal Mindtszenty
Mindszenty
Peoples Court
Budapest
TVA Also Gets First Approval
Washington February 14 The house appropriations committee advanced a broad 1949 deficency bill funding the housing expeditor and the war assets administration. It approved a TVA New Johnsonville steam plant start and two hydroelectric units, while deferring liquidation dates and overruling GOP limits pending further action.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
New Life
Office of Housing Expediter
War Assets Administration
Congress
Tennessee Valley Authority
Reclamation Bureau
House
Senate
Johnsonville
Tenn
TVA
Truman
Tennessee Valley
Cattle Group Backs State Land Reclassification Bill
The Arizona Cattle Growers Association endorsed Senate Bill 39 to reclassify grazing lands with higher rentals. At the 45th annual convention in Nogales, officers were re-elected led by President Carlos Ronstadt. Globe chosen for the 1950 convention. the issue drew the final day’s attention.
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Nogales
Ariz
Arizona Cattle Growers Association
Senate
O. C. Williams
Carlos Ronstadt
Tucson
John Babbitt
Flagstaff
Ralph Cowan
McNeal
Bob Perkins
Phoenix
Globe
James L. Finley
Dragoon
State Land Leasing Committee
Association
Mars Invasion Radio Fire Kills Fifteen Ecuador
Police traced the Quito radio station disaster to a weekend dramatization of a Martian invasion based on War of the Worlds. The fire at Radio Quito and offices of El Comercio and Ultimas Noticias left 15 dead and many injured. Leonardo Paez and Nicolas Mantilla died. others injured as troops restored order.
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Ecuador
Quito
U.P
Radio
H. G. Wells
Orson Welles
America
Cotocollao
Leonardo Paez
Nicolas Mantilla
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Seventh Streets
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Sam Hughes
North Wilson Avenue
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13Th
14Th Streets
Christens
Celeste Holm
American Airlines
By Bob Brooks
S. S. Boggs
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Monte Mansfield
Mexico
South America
Max Klinger
Chamber of Commerce
CAA
Joan Hugg
Congress Street
Appropriations Group
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