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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1961
Page
14
The San Pedro water land deal becomes a public spectacle as the mayor and council act as judge jury prosecutor and witnesses. A special attorney questions the mayor from the bench while the city clerk administers the oath creating a self examining process in the kangaroo trial staged in City Hall.
A 1961 vaccination drive warns one third of American youngsters and two thirds of young fathers lack full protection. Two Tucson clinics offer $1 shots or free vaccines this Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. at Davis School and Drachman School, organized by Pima County Medical Society Public Health Dept Visiting Nurse Assn AFL-CIO and the National Foundation.
Early April brought the first turkey buzzards into the Tucson region from wintering grounds in Mexico. Flocks circled and moved north, with some birds dropping to settle locally. They are pairing off and each seen in the sky has a mate brooding two eggs in rocky cliff crevices, notes Lewis Wayne Walker of the Sonora Desert Museum.
George Sokolsky argues that offering aid to Cuba as indemnity to free hostages is immoral and dangerous. He critiques U S policy toward Castro, ties CIA actions to responsibility, and warns that yielding to blackmail may invite further pressures from Soviet Russia and allied regimes.
A 1941 reflection on American contradictions between morality and materialism. The piece cites U S policies, Soviet housing, abortion, landlord ethics, and farm subsidies, arguing Americans struggle to balance rights and wrongs amid Cold War pressures and partisan debates.
The piece argues that hatred toward any group reflects broader hostility within individuals, linking parnoid traits and emotional distress to group prejudice. It compares education of hatred to inoculation against disease and notes that upbringing shapes attitudes more than formal teaching. It also contrasts manners across cultures with population density.
Fred Rhodes, re-elected state AFL-CIO president, says Arizona labor should have 70,000 members but stands at 46,000 due to weak legislation, limited industrialization, migratory workers, and low pension supplements. He notes complacency without active membership and calls for a state labor act to allow worker elections. Rhodes, Tucsonan and veteran carpenter, balances union duties with extensive travel and household duties at 5115 E. Lee St.
The Milwaukee Journal notes Hungary has expanded 250 miles of border fences since 1957, replacing wooden posts with concrete girders and seven foot barbed wire. Towers rise on steel scaffolding, connected by telephones, with intensified wire entanglements to keep its own people in.
An Arizona editorial argues a hard line from the President backed by top military leaders would shock the world and revive liberty, urging a diplomatic offer to Khrushchev tied to Soviet adherence to historic pacts and policies. The piece questions whether the new frontier era can endure such daring moves.
A devotional passage reflects on fellowship with God through Jesus Christ and recalls martyrdom traditions of the Apostles Matthew Thomas and Peter. It prays for the Spirit to be sent to spread the gospel and asks to be instruments of redemption. Courtesy Tucson Council of Churches.
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