When Will Disaster High Command Be Established Here
Three weeks after a tanker carrying missile fuel overturned at Casa Grande Highway and Oracle Road the community faced a near disaster and found its defense planning lacking. Officials rushed papers but no single authority or organized high command exists to lead in a future emergency. The piece calls for a single chief of police and a ready high command to assume control when needed.
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Casa Grande Highway
Oracle Road
Civil Defense Agency
Civil Defense
Supreme Cleaners
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Farmers Reject Kennedy Plan in Free Enterprise Vote
The wheat farming community rebuffed the Kennedy administration and Orville Freeman proposing strict crop controls. The 30 year history of federal farm regulation is blamed for higher taxes and food prices, and farmers call for a return to a freer market and free enterprise on farms.
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Kennedy
Orville Freeman
Voters Reject Kennedy Wheat Control Plan
Roscoe Drummond reports U S Wheat farmers rejected the administration program to impose high price supports with rigid acreage controls. Farmers voted no despite threats of price cuts and income loss, approving instead a Farm Bureau proposal to cut supports to about 1.35 per bushel and pursue voluntary cropland retirement.
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Washington
Kennedy
Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Kentucky
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Maine
American Farm Bureau Federation
Congress
Farm Bureau
Reflections on Change and the Turbine Car Era
John Chamberlain argues that technological breakthroughs like turbine cars could reshape the American economy and oil industry. He questions if federal regulators would hinder innovation as they did with early television and railroads, noting the FCC and ICC limited progress.
Motivation drives European student success, not genius
Sydney Harris argues that European students appear more advanced due to motivation fueled by social and economic stakes, not inherent talent. He asserts American schooling feels like a bore, wastes resources, and repeats earlier learning, suggesting education could be compressed and military service delays adulthood. Caovelant 1943.
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Europe
Flowing Wells Schools eyed for constructive critique
A letter argues Flowing Wells School leadership, notably Superintendent Mr. Smith, deserves support while urging concrete charges and facts from critics. It questions resignations of Mr. Swofford and Mr. Lupino and emphasizes constructive input over broad complaints.
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Mr. Smith
First Grand Jury Meets in New Judicial District May 1891
At the Pinal County Courthouse the first grand jury of the new second judicial district convened in May 1891. Tucson figures include Gen. Thomas F. Wilson U S attorney and Robert H. Paul U S marshal with Calvert Wilson as assistant U S attorney. Judge Joseph H. Kibbey of Florence sits as No. 4. Courtesy Arizona Pioneers Historical Society.
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Pinal County
Second Judicial District
U.S. Court
VC Grand Jury
Thomas F. Wilson
U.S
Robert H. Paul
Calvert Wilson
Joseph H. Kibbey
Florence
Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society
What Kind Of Threat In Cuba
Senator Barry Goldwater asserts the Soviet presence in Cuba poses a serious threat to Western Hemisphere security. The Preparedness Subcommittee report describes Cuba as an advanced Soviet base for subversive activities and a base for intelligence, with potential to target the Panama Canal and disrupt U S air and sea lanes while shaping Americas image.
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Cuba
Western Hemisphere
Washington
Senate
Preparedness
Sen
John Stennis
D-Miss
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
Joseph F. Carroll
Defense Intelligence Agency
Alva R. Fitch
U.S. Army
Vernon L. Lawrance
Naval Intelligence
Robert A. Breitweiser
U.S. Air Force
Subcommittee
Latin America
United States
Caribbean
Youth Call and Divine Guidance in Daily Devotion
A devotional message discusses God’s call to youth heard in daily life. It emphasizes supportive human voices from family church and mentors guiding youths toward readiness to listen to the divine direction. Prayer asks God to possess will and enable hearing his word. Courtesy Tucson Council of Churches.
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Church
Jesus
Tucson
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