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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1947
Page
6
Sixty Chicago matrons debate if a woman's handbag is a necessity or luxury depending on price and display. The column notes personal anecdotes, jokes about pockets, and fashion quirks while mixing in light trivia and celebrity mentions.
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson urged a 1.5 million dollar supplemental appropriation to cover indemnities for Mexicans whose cattle were slaughtered under foot and mouth disease control. Congress had already allocated 9 million for the current year, with 65 million proposed to extend into the next fiscal year.
Phoenix report shows the average working woman now spends $820 more yearly in Arizona than a decade ago. The 1937 budget was $1,033.34 with rising costs in housing food clothing and other essentials plus new charges such as federal and state taxes social security and insurance.
In Long Beach California AFL bus drivers refused a two cent hourly wage hike offered at a federal conciliation. The proposal required a five day written notice before any future strike and the drivers called the demand an ultimatum while vowing to continue the six day old strike.
Lt General J Lawton Collins told a Miami audience that Russia outnumbers the U S Army twenty to one and fields over 10 000 aircraft. He warned U S forces in Europe are too small to withstand a major conflict and could be overrun. He cited Russia having 200 divisions now and satellites adding 100 more, urging a review of U S defense posture.
Phoenix funeral services are set for Charles W. Hooper 82 veteran editor who died Tuesday He worked in Wisconsin and South Dakota before moving to Arizona in 1928 where he edited the Gilbert Enterprise and the Coolidge Examiner.
The Senate has passed a bill extending by one year the deadline for states to obligate postwar highway funds. Congress had appropriated $500 million annually for three years starting 1947, with funds reverting if states fail to spend their full allotments by June 30. States must match the federal funds on a dollar for dollar basis.
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