CofC Committee Approves City Water Bond Program
The Chamber of Commerce tax study committee voted unanimously to back a $10 million water revenue bond plan, with a seven part program total around $14.6 million. The panel urged surpluses be used to prepay bonds and the measure awaits City Council consideration for an Aug. 5 bond election.
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Dope Smuggling Ring Convicted by Federal Jury
A federal jury convicted Jose Montoya Parra and Romero 33 and four others of smuggling crude opium into the United States. The case, arising near Tucson, stemmed from a May operation at the Mexico Way Service Station seven miles south of the city. Officers recovered a large quantity of opium under a multicolored box, valued at up to 50 000 dollars in illicit form. The men faced a minimum five year sentence. government testimony highlighted the seizure as the largest in 11 years.
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Romero
Mexico Way
Tucson
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Bill Dunn
Tucson Police
Leonard Hymer
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Paul Rees Jr
Maurice Stern
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Industrial site eyed near Tucson would employ 200
A proposed heavy industrial plant near Vall north of Benson Highway could hire about 200 workers. The County Planning and Zoning Commission discussed a consent district for signatures tied to the rezoning request. Land includes a SW osacre parcel. A company, reportedly nation kamen manufacturing, is interested in locating here though no binding commitments were made. Chairman election failed and several rezoning items were not acted on.
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Benson Highway
Sam R. Kaufman
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Kaufman
Nation Kamen King Manufacoring
Alton Netherlin
Prior Pray
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Tes
Iowa St
Sheridan
Pat
Swan Ra
2Nd St
Pantano Road
Zoning requests deferment cover multiple sites citywide
A motion deferred action on several zoning petitions. Requests include adjusting a five acre Craycroft area parcel from residential to business zoning near East 2nd Street and Swan Road, converting suburban homestead to trailer home zoning at Black Ridge Street and Columbus Road, reclassifying land at Campbell and Ft Lowell Road from Residence 2 to business, and Roy Drachman seeking business zoning to permit a $2 million shopping center on North Campbell Avenue at Glenn Street.
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Craycroft Road
Glenn Street
Swan Road
Blackridge St
Columbus Rd
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Ft. Lowell Rd
Roy Drachman
Campbell Ave
Glenn St
Let’s Ride the New Jet Liner in Reader’s Digest
With jets coming this fall a new era in air travel arrives. The July issue answers why jet engines and swept back wings and what it’s like to fly in the machine. Reader’s Digest offers 85 timely articles and features.
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