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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
9
City finances facing shortfalls as the street department seeks additional funds from surplus postwar reserves. Phil J. Martin Jr. reports the street budget aims to rise to about 72,935 with only a 1,000 increase for paved street maintenance. Flood control needs 6,340 and postwar control work 11,355, with the end reserve enough to replace paving.
Washington June 30 The fifth war loan drive shows bond sales reaching 4 591 000 dollars about 29 percent of the goal. War finance chief Ed R Gamble calls the progress slightly ahead of the fourth drive but not enough to ease the financing task. The drive ends on June 8.
At Erie Proving Grounds Indiana developed 120 mm anti aircraft cannon. The 30 ton mobile unit fires 12 shells a minute and uses an automatic rammer for a 50 pound shell. Built in Grand Rapids, it costs over 100000 dollars per unit and employs a 19 man crew.
Beloit farmer Grant A Ritter defied Wisconsin GOP pressure to vote for General Douglas MacArthur at the 1056 to 1,053 nomination roll call. Ritter stood firm amid threats and cajolery, asserting his constituents’ instruction and announcing he would not give a long MacArthur speech.
Funeral services were held in Phoenix for B C Taylor 76 a former Navy man who served on the U S S Nipsic. He later worked in Arizona mines and took part in the Samoan Islands incident of 1880 when U S ships protested Germany over the treatment of natives and trade in Apia harbor.
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