Arizona House Approves 3.8 Million University Plan
The Arizona House approved a 3.842 million expansion and improvement program for the state university and colleges. The package includes a 200 thousand dollar science building at Flagstaff, 300 thousand for Tempe college, 500 thousand for dormitories, and 225 thousand for science buildings at Tempe, with several bond issues and gift-accepting provisions. The session also debated education funding, including per capita costs and proposed tax increases to cover rising educational costs.
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Phoenix
Arizona House of Representatives
House
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Arizona State College
Flagstaff
University of Arizona
Tempe
Board of Regents
University
Flagstaff School
Maricopa
Pima
Sudden Death Probe After Mexican Medicine In Tucson
Mrs. Rita Quirhillis died suddenly Tuesday morning at 1012 South Fifth Avenue after taking a dose of Mexican medicine obtained through Mrs. Anna H. Hernandez. Coroner C. W. Gardner ordered an autopsy to determine the cause as firefighters and a Tucson physician tried to revive her. The body was taken to Reilly undertaking company pending instructions from relatives.
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Rita Quirhillis
Anna H. Hernandez
South Fifth Avenue
Old Mexico
C. W. Gardner
Gardner
Hernandez
Cost Of Living To Hit New Peak In June
A labor department source predicts the cost of living will reach a new high by late June. Food prices are rising with hog prices at Chicago hitting a record, while wholesale prices lift retail costs. The report notes Jan 15 food prices 30 percent above a year earlier, with several key commodities climbing.
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Washington
A.P I
Labor Department
Agriculture Department
Chicago
OPA
Newark
Houston
Arizona Senate In bitter clash over interim legislative council
The Arizona Senate battled over creating an interim legislative council. Debates centered on council composition with three senators and four representatives, its chairing structure, and a budget amendment from 25000 to 12500. Debates narrowed to governance and funding as amendments failed.
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Phoenix
Arizona Senate
Legislative Council
Sen
AL Favour
Yavapai
Senate
House
Marvin I. Smith
Maricopa
Dan Angius
Cochise
William F. Kimball
Pima
Smith
Kimbal
Favour
H. H. d’Autremont
Swimball
Lloyd Henning
Angius
John Babbitt
Coconino
Appropriations Committee
Auto Wreck Delays Hunt For Lost Dutchman Mine
Mrs Laura Branstetter Middaugh a 59 year old Joplin grandmother and her husband William 67 were forced off the Apache trail near the Superstition mountains while en route to search for the Lost Dutchman mine. She suffered injuries but after four days in hospital planned to return to the mountains and rejected the notion of a curse.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Laura Branstetter Middaugh
Joplin
Dutchman
William
Middaugh
Mesa Pioneer Will Be 101 On Wednesday
Mesa, Arizona resident Mrs. Sarah Moody Spain born February 26, 1846 in Massac County Illinois. She crossed the western plains in a covered wagon in 1876 and will observe her 101st birthday anniversary on Wednesday. Her husband died in 1922.
Teachers Still Out On Strike In Buffalo
Buffalo teachers strike enters day two with over 2,000 ممن seeking higher pay. Mayor Dowd says raises require more state aid and local tax powers. state committee to present salary plan to the New York Legislature. Most city schools closed, attendance far below enrollment.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Thomas FE. Dewey
Bernard J. Dowd
Dowe
Dewey
Special Education Committee
New York
Albany
United States
Senate committee submits unfair employment practices act
The senate municipalities committee submitted to the 18th Arizona legislature a bill defining unfair employment practices. It makes it unlawful to discriminate on race color creed or national origin against employees trainees apprentices or job applicants in hiring tenure compensation or conditions of employment.
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Phoenix
Senate Municipalities Committee
Arizona
Korea Looms As Problem for Moscow Talks
Washington reports Korea rises as a major hurdle in U S Soviet handling ahead of the Moscow foreign ministers conference. Lt Gen John R Hodge says talks on unification are deadlocked and a provisional government remains stalled. A separate dispute over Dean Acheson notes prompts calls for top leaders to meet and reduce military spending.
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Washington
Korea
Marshall
Moscow
John R. Hodge
Russia
Hodge
Truman
U. S
Dean Acheson
State Department
Sen. Langer
R-Nd
Senate
Joe Stalin
Langer
United States
Children On Way To School Killed
Five children were killed when a truck and car collided ten miles east of Toledo Ohio on Tuesday. Names include Jerry Anderson eight Sandra Willey six Daniel Dunn one Charles Olcott sixteen and James Neihausmeyer twelve. Claire Dunn the car driver was seriously injured while the students were en route to a private school.
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Toledo
Russia Backs U S Plans for Pacific Trusteeship
Washington February 25 The United States says Russia finds it entirely fair for the U S to assume trusteeship of the former Japanese mandated islands in the Pacific. Secretary of State Marshall noted Moscow’s acceptance of U S proposals and cited American sacrifices in the Pacific war.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Pacific
Geroge C. Marshall
Marshall
J. John Foster Dulles
GOP
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Dean Acheson
Romania
U. S
India
Indian Congress
John Hodges
Korea
Caroline
Bevin accuses Truman of blocking Palestine peace talks
London on February 25 Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin charged that President Truman wrecked chances for a peaceful Palestine settlement by urging immediate admission of 100 000 Jews to the Holy Land during the U S congressional election campaign last fall He said crucial negotiations with Jews and Arabs last October were undermined after a late Paris peace conference phone call about a new 100 000 Jewish quota.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Truman
Palestine
Holy Land
U. S
House of Commons
Bevin
United Nations
Paris
United States
Laundry Project Of Atkins Is Approved
Civilian Production Administration approves a $10,000 laundry plant in Tucson to be built by Edward A. Atkins.
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Atkins
Phoenix
Civilian Production Administration
Tucson
Edward A. Atkins
Major Changes In British Life Forced By Crisis
DEWITT MACKENZIE analyzes Britain's 1947 economic crisis. 1,000,000 workers return to Midlands factories ending a two-week coal blackout while 4,000,000 remain idle. Government calls for sacrifices to prioritize production, imports control, and exports as Britain fights to restore its national life.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Britain
Midlands
England
Capitol Corridor Hearings Patch Redistricting Vote Split
The Arizona House, in a night session, passed the congressional redistricting bill and sent it to the governor for signature with Rep. Robert Forbes the sole Pima County dissenter. Maricopa representatives split 17 against, five for, one excused. The session covered power authority amendments and zoning bills with continued hearings and a dispute over a confidential letter between Dougherty and Snell at the center of the power grid plan discussion.
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Bob Brooks
Phoenix
Capitol Corridor
Robert Forbes
Pima County
House
Maricopa County
Power Authority
FE. L. Jameson
Arizona power authority shifts policy on grid and lines
The Arizona Power Authority signaled four policy shifts amid talk of amending the act. Chairman Dougherty said parallel lines will not be built, costs for Boulder dam generators drop from 24 million to 12 million, the Davis dam to Phoenix transmission line will not be built, and California opponents are now described as cooperative.
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Arizona Power Authority
House of Representatives
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
M. J. Dougherty
Authority
Kenneth Aldrich
Boulder Dam
Davis Dam
Bureau
Aldrich
California
Adrich
Little America Left Behind on Ross Sea Homeward Run
On the Burton Island February 24 the crew reports Little America shrinking from view as the ship pushes north through skim ice toward home. The rose tinted dawn bathes the last tents and stars and stripes fade from the camp as it drops behind the expedition.
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Burton Island
Little America
Bay of Whales
Ross Sea
Great Ee Barrier
Senate subcommittee advances rent changes and decontrol plan
A five member Senate banking subcommittee tentatively backed extending federal rent control to December 31 while proposing to end OPA jurisdiction. The plan calls for a 10 percent rent increase, decontrol of new construction and newly rented rooms, decontrol of hotel rooms, and state run controls, with Buck leading the panel and Bricker Sparkman dissenting on removal of OPA control.
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Washington
U.P
Senate Banking
OPA
U. S
United Press
C. Douglass Buck
R-Del
Harry P. Cain
R-Wash
John W. Bricker
R-O
Glen H. Taylor
D-Ida
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Taylor
Sparkman
Taft Bricker Near Agreement on Ohio Delegates
Sen. Robert Taft said he expects a quick understanding with Sen. John Bricker on Ohio’s delegation to the 1948 Republican national convention. He insisted he is not a presidential candidate but hinted he might not rule it out, and noted the timing of the agreement remains unsettled.
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Taft
Bricker
Cleveland
U.P
Robert A. Taft
R-O
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Cleveland Welfare Federation
Truman tightens reciprocal trade program for American safeguards
President Truman issued an executive order modifying the reciprocal trade program to ensure American interests are protected. The move includes escape clauses in trade pacts and empowers the tariff commission to study industry complaints about proposed tariff cuts, with a call for bipartisan support on foreign economic policy.
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Washiington
Truman
Tariff Commission
Authority Opposes Phoenix Tucson Electric Line Plan
The Arizona power authority, in letters signed by director Kenneth B. Aldrich, attacked the bureau of reclamation plan for a second Phoenix Tucson transmission line. A Salt River Valley attorney charged at a Monday hearing that the authority seeks to amend its act, while Dougherty of the authority discussed dropping Tucson condemnation suits and building a standby plant, conflicting with later statements denying plans for parallel lines.
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Bob Brooks
Phoenix
Arizona Power Authority
Kenneth B. Aldrich
Arizona
Bureau of Reclamation
Phoenix-Tucson
Greig Scott
Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association
Aldrich
Tucson
M. J. Dougherty
Harvey McFale
U.S. Reclamation Bureau
Dougherty
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