Private Utilities Best Customers of Reclamation Power
Washington June 2 The bureau of reclamation reported that privately owned utilities were its best customers for electricity for the last fiscal year ending June 30 1946 Private utilities paid 42 cents of every dollar from hydroelectric power while municipalities and other public bodies paid 20 percent and federal agencies 18 percent Revenue totaled 20 448 936 with operating costs 5 348 930 Hoover Dam led production selling 5 000 000 000 kilowatt hours for 8 203 614 Grand Coulee 3 500 000 000 kWh for 3 631 011 and Shasta 1 500 000 000 kWh for 3 753 223. Other projects and plant outputs listed with amounts. Straus cited transmission limits limiting rural cooperatives and municipal delivery despite high priority rights.
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Bureau of Reclamation
Bureau
Michael W. Straus
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New Frisco-Chicago Speed Record Set by DC-6 Flight
United Airlines reports a six hours and sixteen minutes San Francisco to Chicago nonstop flight setting a new speed record. The DC-6 carried fifty two passengers on the inaugural service.
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Chicago
San Francisco
United Airlines
Weather Outlook for Tucson and Nearby Areas
Tucson and vicinity expect mostly high clouds tonight and tomorrow with a cooler day on the morrow. The table lists numerous cities with varied conditions, including clear skies in Tucson and Flagstaff and cloudy to rainy conditions in Chicago Buffalo and Dallas, alongside high and low temperatures and 24 hour precip totals.
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Buffalo
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Clear
Sheridan
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Ssee
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Samay Iee
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Cidy
Foster Calls Extra Session Wasteful
Rep. Leo Foster of Cochise County denounced Gov. Sidney P. Osborns special legislative session as a waste of taxpayers money. He said the session primarily serves the social security administration staff and argued against removing all budget restrictions though he would back limited adjustments to the 10 percent cap governing cities and counties if included.
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Douglas
Ariz
Leo F. Foster
Cochise County
Sidney P. Osborn
Social Security Administration
Foster
Wife Hurt In Leap From Car After Family Quarrel
Mrs. Frank Estrada of 135 West Simpson street leaped from a car driven by her husband who was going fast. She suffered a knot on the head a skinned back and cuts to the right knee and hand. Taken to county hospital she must rest several days. Police questioned later. Incident occurred in front of 340 East 12th street around 10 a.m. Saturday.
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Frank Estrada
Simpson Street
East 12Th Street
Woman novice at golf scores hole in one
Martha Dietz of Olympia Washington, a novice, scored a hole in one from three strokes on a par three Sunday in Kansas City. The ace came on her first round in public play during an outing reported by United Press.
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Kansas City
U.P
Martha Dietz
Olympia
Wash
YMCA Promotes Boy Summer Activities in Tucson
The YMCA unveiled a two six week summer program directed by Everett W. Palmer for boys aged 9 to 16 featuring planned activities, swimming, crafts, archery, riflery, and weekly movies. The first period runs June 9 to July 19 with sport and craft blocks, the second July 21 to August 30 emphasizes swimming gym sports boxing wrestling and baseball. Locally scheduled trips include baseball games and a city exploration outing with two overnight hikes planned. Costs are 6 dollars for grade school and 7.50 for junior high boys. YMCA staff assisting Palmer include Chick Hawkins John Vasey Leo Quesada and Jerry Vandermark.
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YMCA
Palmer
Chick Hawkins
John Vasey
Leo Quesada
Jerry Vandermark
June Heat Wave Sets London Record at Kew
London sweltered as temperatures reached 89 degrees, the highest June reading in 80 years at the Kew weather observatory. The all time record at Kew stands at 94 degrees set in August 1911.
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London
Britain
Kew Weather Observatory
Kew Observatory
Two Workers Die In Cyanide Co Blasts
New Castle Pennsylvania June 2 Two explosions hit the American Cyaninid Corp explosives plant killing two workers and injuring nine others. Plant with about 300 employees suffered blasts within four minutes of each other as officials said they would investigate before commenting further.
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New Castle
U.P
American Cyaninid Corp
Storyteller Finds His Talent Wasted
A Pima County man told his wife an intruder knocked him unconscious and he disposed of the body in a vacant lot. He admitted the tale was a fabrication to hide a domestic accident and his shame.
Arizona Patrolman Faces Slow Desert Drive in Hoax Killing Alibi
Tarson Baily reports a claimed killing of an intruder by a husband who boasts to his wife. An Arizona highway patrolman rushed to the scene and spent an hour in the desert before the man confessed the tale was a spur of the moment facesaving story.
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Arizona
Singapore and Malaya Cut Air Mail Rates to America
Singapore and Malaya have reduced air mail rates to the United States, lowering the cost for correspondence between the regions and America and potentially boosting cross border communication.
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Singapore
Malaya
America
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