Chamber Cites Tax Increase In Annexation
The Tucson Chamber of Commerce released a survey showing tax increases for land near Tucson if annexed, with averages of 3.16 dollars per 100 on land and 7.99 on developed property. Benefits include police fire protection water electricity and garbage savings. A model home would incur 50.56 dollars in taxes, while total annual saving would be 30.56 dollars. net cost to join would be 20 dollars annually. The move aims to boost population, attract business, and secure federal census figures. A steering committee led by Walter Lovejoy will oversee the effort, with Karl Barfield backing the plan and planning an upcoming banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Edgar Goyette
Tucson
Board of Directors
Goyette
Walter Lovejoy
Arizona Trust Company
A. P. Martin
M. H. Mansfield
Walter Clapp
H. C. Torren
Karl Barfield
Chamber of Commerce
Barfield
Arizona water development funds outlined by Ickes
Secretary Ickes proposes a 1.3 million dollar package for Arizona to develop 33 000 acres with small water conservation projects. Holbrook Chevalon St Johns Silver Creek and Colorado tributaries would irrigate 23 000 acres with total costs around 1 000 000. Congress urged to provide 24.1 million dollars across 14 western states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Arizona
Interior Ickes
Holbrook
Chevalon
St. Johns
Indian Hill
Silver Creek
Colorado River
Carl Hayden
Ickes
Congress
Police Fellow Leaking Radiator Pleads Guilty to Reckless Driving
Charles W. Sylvester, 44, of 1801 East Seventh Street, pleaded guilty in police court to reckless driving and was fined 30 dollars after his car left a water trail guiding officers to him. Police were summoned to East Broadway for a crash into a parked vehicle, but only one car was found, then followed water marks about 10 blocks to East Sixth Street and Highland Avenue where Sylvester sat in his car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Sylvester
East Seventh Street
East Broadway
Park Avenue
East Sixth Street
Highland Avenue
Sylvester
Java Seeks More Ships for United States Trade Boost
Increased purchases of American goods drive Java to secure additional vessels for the Java United States run. The move signals expanding freight flows and greater shipping capacity as trade relations strengthen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Java
Conventions Sought By 4 Cities End After Picket March
Abraham Teitlebaum of the Chicago Restaurant Association announced a settlement of a prolonged strike at the Edgewater Beach hotel after a five and a half year march by pickets. The dispute began in April 1934 with six union electricians seeking a $28 monthly wage increase and prompted a sympathy strike by the Waiters Alliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgewater Beach
Abraham Teitlebaum
Chicago Restaurant Association
Waiters Alliance
Roosevelt Clarifies US Citizenship For Foreign Army Enlistment
President Roosevelt said Americans who enlist in foreign armies lose citizenship only if they take an oath to a foreign power. He cited a 1939 legal opinion by Acting Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and noted US law bans foreign enlistment services on US soil. He distinguished voluntary inquiries from active solicitations and said Finland is not a belligerent at present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
U. S
Robert H. Jackson
Finland
Initiation Set For Many Alpha Rho Tau Pledges at U of A
Alpha Rho Tau honorary art fraternity at the University of Arizona will hold its annual initiation and banquet for 22 pledges on February 2 at the Pioneer hotel. The banquet starts at 7 30 p m. A list of initiates includes Louis Morris Tucson Betty Brown Chicago Alice Knowles Tucson Joyce Barker Chicago Suzanne Schock Tulsa Martha Thomas Phoenix Ruth Price Tombstone Mary Albertson Tucson Virginia Cronk Tucson Elva Warner Tucson Louis Middleton Tucson Robert Garfunkell New York City William Boom Prescott Robert Nelson Owatonna Minn Ross Robinson Grants Pass Ore Jack Dalton Tucson Barbara Mundo San Diego Josephine Cameron Bisbee Nancy Haskell Toledo Ohio Winnie Krentz Douglas Katherine Pierce Tucson Vivian Haley Bisbee An art exhibition by members will run February 5 16 in the university art office featuring the best work of each member.
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Alpha Rho Tau
University of Arizona
Pioneer Hotel
Louis Morris
Tucson
Betty Brown
Chicago
Alice Knowles
Joyce Barker
Suzanne Schock
Tulsa
Okla
Martha Thomas
Phoenix
Ruth Price
Tombstone
Mary Albertson
Virginia Cronk
Elva Warner
Louis Middleton
Robert Garfunkell
New York City
William Boom
Prescott
Robert Nelson
Owatonna
Minn
Ross Robinson
Grants Pass
Ore
Jack Dalton
Barbara Mundo
San Diego
Josephine Cameron
Bisbee
Nancy Haskell
Toledo
Winnie Krentz
Douglas
Katherine Pierce
Vivian Haley
Pine paper Texas newspaper source in Lufkin
A copy of the Lufkin Daily News the first paper made from Texas slash pine arrived in Tucson via W H McConico a former Lufkin resident now in the Old Pueblo The Texas newspaper says big mills are being built to supply the paper and the industry could become important for the Southwest Newspapers typically source paper from northwest mills and Canada
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lufkin
Texas
Tucson
W. H. McConico
Old Pueblo
Southwest
Northwest
Canada
Cities bid for 1940 party conventions signals
Chicago Philadelphia St Louis and San Francisco notify Democratic and Republican committees they will bid for national conventions. St Louis asks time to bid for Republicans Feb 16. San Francisco to be present before Democrats Feb 5. Talks tie convention site to Roosevelts third term debate and labor policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Harold Oliver Washington
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
San Francisco
Republican Committee
Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Cleveland
John L. Lewis
Columbus
Ohio
Ickes
Lewis
Perkins
Labor
Chamber of Commerce Improves Tucson Headquarters Facelift
The Tucson Chamber of Commerce approved a plan to re decorate and relabel its headquarters. A new gold letter sign will read Tucson Chamber of Commerce, with the word Tucson added to all windows to prevent confusion with Honolulu or other cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson
Chamber of Commerce Committee
C. Edgar Goyette
Chamber of Commerce
Honolulu
Death of hermit woman with large fortune in Kings County
Mary Bundles, real name Katherine Powers, a nearly 70 year old hermit, died of starvation at Kings County Hospital after weighs just 50 pounds. Police found bank books, uncashed checks and securities totaling 45 000 to 60 000 in her bundles. Children called her Mary Bundles as she fed stray animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mary Bundles
Kings County Hospital
Katherine Powers
Chamber Plans Three Day Goodwill Trip to Hermosillo
The Tucson Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a three day goodwill tour to Hermosillo and Guaymas Mexico with plans drafted by John Reilly and C Edgar Goyette. The trip aims to serve winter visitors at reduced rates and strengthen ties between Sonora and Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson Chamber of Commerce
Hermosillo
Guaymas
Mexico
John Reilly
C. Edgar Goyette
Alex Jacome
Monte Mansfield
Karl Barfield
Reilly
Sonora
Gulf Seaport
Chamber
Arizona
Famous Botanist Visits Old Pueblo
Dr Charles J Chamberlain emeritus professor at the University of Chicago visits Tucson as guest of Dr and Mrs J G Brown. He tours the University of Arizona plant path department and will head to California to work on a new cycad book. Cycads grow in Mexico South Africa New Zealand Australia and the South Sea Islands. Two cycads are planted near the rear entrance of the agricultural building. Chamberlain, ex faculty 1893 1929, is a former Botanical Society of America president and honorary European society member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Chamberlain
University of Chicago
J. G. Brown
Brown
University of Arizona
California
Mexico
South Africa
New Zealand
Australia
South Sea Islands
Botanical Society of America
Chamberlain
Havana’s Centuries Before New York’s First Houses
The note marks Havana as a city already mature by a full century before the earliest houses arose on the site that would later become New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
New York
Traffic lights freeze in Kansas City amid deep freeze
Eight-below zero weather froze two downtown traffic lights yesterday at busy intersections during the morning commute. One direction moved with flow while the other remained stalled, disrupting typical traffic patterns as workers headed to offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Defense Road Plan Offered by Texans for National Highway
A House roads committee heard Texans urge Congress to finance at least 350 million for road projects and to build a national defense highway along the Mexican border from Texas to San Diego. Representative Thomason proposed the five year, paved federal aid route terminating at Brownsville and passing El Paso Fort Bliss and extending westward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Roads Committee
Congress
Texas
San Diego
Calif
Julian Montgomery
Thomason
D-Tex
House
Pretoria Forestry Building Uses 83 Wood Types
A new forestry building in Pretoria South Africa showcases eighty three different kinds of wood. The design highlights variety in timber and wood craft within a national forestry program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
South Africa
Hospital head accused of advances toward women workers
Five former San Antonio state hospital nurses testified at a state board hearing that Dr. W. J. Johnson, 56, made improper advances. Johnson denied the charges as false and slanderous, claiming a conspiracy to oust him. Witnesses described kissing, fondling, and inappropriate remarks during employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
W. J. Johnson
San Antonio State Hospital
Johnson
Board of Control
San Antonio Ministers’ Association
Ruby Benton
Brunet
Carl Wright Johnson
Not Quite Neighborly in Mt Savage Hunting Case
Game Warden Theodore Theorig brought Arthur Mailey before Magistrate Aloysius Monahan on a charge of out of season rabbit hunting. Mailey, who was fined $30, lives in the same house as the warden and magistrate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Savage, Md
Theodore Theorig
Arthur Mailey
Aloysius V. Monahan
Mailey
Threatened fuel shortage delays Rome central heating start
A threatened fuel shortage led to a ten day postponement of turning on central heating in Rome this winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
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