New Building For School For Blind In State Budget
Arizona lawmakers consider a general appropriation bill with a $225000 allocation for the state school for the deaf and the blind’s new classroom and administration building. The budget also boosts operating funds for the University of Arizona and state colleges, expands welfare and highway budgets, and adds a $250000 item for legislative costs.
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Phoenix
Arizona State School For the Deaf and the Blind
Appropriations Com
House
Senate
William F. Kimball
Pima
Appropriations Committee
Dozen At D M Help Veteran
A war veteran at the veterans hospital received immediate blood aid from 12 members of the 43rd communications squad at Davis Monthan Air Force Base who contributed 15 pints for transfusions. Donors listed include Ralph Ford and Clay Howard among others assisting Morton Novak before his operation.
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Veterans Hospital
43Rd
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Morton A. Novak
D-M
Corp
Ralph Ford
Clay Howard
Robert H. Wagner
Eugene B. Prella
Ted Byrd
Frederick Prchal
Julian Butler
Clyde Curtis
Oliver Husser
John B. Lunde
Harry B. Huff
George Russell
Bids Sought for Dam Projects Equipment
Denver dispatch reports the bureau of reclamation will issue bid calls for major equipment for the Gila and Davis dam projects. Items include flap gate valves motors substations steel transmission towers control boards and transformers. Bid inquiries to the chief engineer bureau of reclamation Denver.
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Denver
Mar
Bureau of Reclamation
Gila
Davis Dam
County Asks Special Levy To Support Emergency Budget
County officials urged the tax commission to grant emergency funds for the 1948-49 year after stating the 1947-48 budget ran short. Assessor Leo J. Finch warned limited staff would block new tax rolls, while undersheriff M. T. Guiney warned public safety would suffer if deputies and jail staff were cut.
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Leo J. Finch
Finch
M. T. Guiney
Sheriff's Department
Guiney
Superior Court Clerk
Pima Tax Council
Commission
J. W. Hardie
Hardie
L. T. Jackson
Felix Sachs
Tucson
Tucson Merchants Association
Sachs
Tax Commission
Bids Sought for Apache Junction to Goldfield Highway Resurfacing
The Arizona state highway commission calls for bids to resurface six miles of the Apache Junction to Goldfield highway. Bids must be opened March 29 and the project finished by June 30.
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Phoenix
Arizona State Highway Commission
Apache Junction
Goldfield
Housing plan outlines SAC rental program for returned servicemen
The SAC proposes government free housing for veterans with land leased from the government. Rent set around 40 dollars monthly plus 10 dollars for utilities, includes a station house with two bedrooms and essential services. A 300 dollar deposit covers repairs. deposit may stay as a loan if not renting, and plan excludes land taxes and middlemen.
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Department of Air Force
SAC
Association Fund
Willie Watts Rites At Phillips Chapel
Services for Willie Watts who died March 11 are set for 2 30 p m Thursday at Phillips chapel with burial in Evergreen cemetery soldiers plot Watts 60 lived at 147 W Fourth St came to Arizona 29 years ago resided in Tucson three years Survivors include wife Lilly and daughter Roberta Bailey both of Tucson
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Willie Watts
Phillips Chapel
Evergreen Cemetery
Mr. Watts
Fourth St
Arizona
Tucson
Lilly
Roberta Bailey
State Hospital Budget Cut in Arizona Legislature
Phoenix March 16 The state hospital for the insane faces a 70270 reduction in the two year appropriation. Personal services fall from 615000 to 537160 per year while capital work at the Florence branch nears completion. An added item of 150000 for curative treatments is included in the new budget.
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Phoenix
Mar
State Hospital For the Insane
Board of Control
House of Representatives
John A. Larson
Florence
Sunnyside Plans Dancing Program for Teens
A Sunnyside meeting at Sunnyside school organized a teenage club and approved a continuing dancing program begun last Saturday. Classes run 7 30 to 10 p m each Saturday under Mr and Mrs Rudy Messinger and Albert Rose to provide recreation for teens and parents. Officers elected were Jack Griffith president Dick Dottenrod vice president and Pegg Welshenbaugh secretary treasurer.
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Sunnyside
County Recreation Department
Rudy Messinger
Albert Rose
Sunnyside School
Jack Griffith
Dick Dottenrod
Pegg, Welshenbaugh
Oklahoma Tax Fight Seeks Liquor Vote In 1950
Oklahoma legislators debated a 15 percent tax on bootleg whisky as part of a push to repeal prohibition. Tulsa representative Richard Oliver proposed the levy, while a house committee moved to kill his resolution seeking a special repeal election. The Senate backed the committee report on two other repeal requests, as dry groups vow to stay vigilant. Volunteers review 212,232 petition names for a November 1950 repeal ballot requiring 109,000 signatures.
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Oklahoma City
Mar
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Richard Oliver
House
Senate
Oliver
David C. Shapard
United Dry Association of Oklahoma
Secretary of State
Tax on bootleg liquor proposed similar to Mississippi law
Burson Baily Citteen Wednesday Evening. The proposed tax on bootleg liquor mirrors Mississippi’s in force law. Oliver notes Mississippi prohibits liquor yet collects substantial revenue from the tax. The bill would tax any commodity sold or distributed illegally. a similar measure failed in Oklahoma two years ago.
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Burson
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University of Arizona
State College
Tempe
Ann Frohmiller
State Office
Welfare Department
Highway Patrol
Council For the Highway Patrol and
Fish and Game Commission
el Conquistador Hotel
T Is Johnson
Ingham & Ingham
Harold G. Saul and
Edwin R. Joos
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Thomas Lawther and
Marie Gunst Lawther
East Tenth Street
Congress Hotel
Life Insurance Company
Soston
Massachusetts
mMex
Amal
Hearette
Acousticon Millard Co
East Pennington
Arthur Murray
West Congress
Sunny
Beauty Shop
East Speedway
Ueteam
Perssianas
Verrounen
Gar Preor
Wey
Westinghouse
U. S. Pat
Hearn Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc
4Th Ave
Dial
Jewel Lady Elgin
Lord Elgin
Elgin
Congress St
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