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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1956
Page
4
Worried wife writes that her husband’s smoking cough worsens despite medical advice to quit. She seeks guidance as she endures sleepless mornings and a strained home life, while acknowledging her love and hope for change. Molly Mayfield notes counseling and reader input may help the situation.
A reader column argues overtime earnings by wives should be shared in partnerships with husbands. Molly agrees that homemakers, often working longer hours, deserve fair compensation and consideration of how extra income is spent. The exchange highlights equity in household finance within 1940s family life.
A romantic letter from Mrs Mayriall celebrates engagement and a forthcoming Bermuda honeymoon. She imagines a country home with carrots nasturtiums a wooly puppy and three children as she expresses overwhelming happiness and devotion alongside a contrasting note of despair in daily letters from sorrowful readers.
Texas Highway Patrol stopped drivers for safe driving and cited them as the 18th of many families who would be stopped this summer and awarded something free.
A Phillips Petroleum Co. service station training mobile unit is now in use at K. C. Higgins station at Broadway and Campbell Avenue in Tucson. The air conditioned trailer includes projectors, slides, time stripe, a record player, chalkboard, and actual service station equipment. District salesman J. D. Mitchell administers the Tucson unit.
In San Francisco Thurgood Marshall outlines a strategy to fight segregation through federal legislative and executive action. He criticizes Southern politicians for defiance of civil rights rulings and links NAACP growth to a campaign of intimidation in the Deep South.
A 48 year old Santa Cruz man, patient since 1947 at the state mental hospital, died after a rattlesnake bite while attempting to escape. His body was found slumped against a tree in a wooded area near the hospital. Coroner Virgil Payton noted a severely swollen ankle as the bite occurred about ten days earlier.
The Arizona Supreme Court was asked to intervene in a dispute over school crossing signs near St. Johns Roman Catholic parish school in Tucson. The high court considered a writ petition by Attorney General Robert Morrison to halt Superior Court proceedings, amid differing views on the necessity of signs at the crossing and which body should provide the remedy. Tucson attorneys Frank Murphy and Anthony Terry argued against the AG, and a ruling was anticipated before the July summer recess.
A Boston & Maine commuter in Hudson paid a SL.17 fare to Boston with three three cent postage stamps. The unnamed rider had $1.10 in hand and refused the conductor's offer to cover the seven cent balance. Keeley from Worcester accepted the stamps and returned two cents change.
An obituary notes the death of infant Albert O. Bans, son of former Tucson residents Orlin Swanson and wife, from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The notice mentions Mrs Swanson as the former Arlene Swanson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Orlin Swanson, and lists Davis Monthan as the location.
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