Speedy Justice For Killer Credit To Attorney
Four months after UA student Rickel Hanson was murdered Karl Narten faces execution after being found guilty of first degree murder by a jury. Superior Court Judge Herbert Krucker will set the date for the death sentence and likely Friday May 31. The Tucson community reacts to the case as a test of punitive justice and public safety.
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River drives flood plain debate over Rillito zoning
County planning officials warn of river driven flood risk along 6.5 square miles of Rillito corridor and propose a compromise. A stormy hearing last week delayed a decision until June 25 while property rights advocates urge disclosure and protection for future buyers.
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First Airmail Flight Stamp Celebrates Tucson Event
The 1915 Tucson airmail flight featured Katherine Stinson at the fairgrounds for a Pima County Fair air show. Route 688001 marked the era’s 82nd U S airmail run with a cachet stamp on penny postcards.
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Katherine Stinson
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Fairgrounds
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S. Campbell Ave
Wirtz and the Untapped Job Market of 1943
The column praises Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz as a pragmatic reformer who questions the automatic embrace of automation. It highlights voluntary unemployment among four million Americans, including domestic service workers, low-wage holdouts, retirees, and disabled workers, urging honest policy to create real wage jobs.
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Arthur Goldberg
Wirtz
Senate
Adm. Anderson
Good News in a Turbulent Decade
A column highlights multiple bright developments from 1963 including U S and Common Market tariff talks, NATO expansion in Europe, Cuban exile unity, court reversals on sit-in convictions, Viet Nam gains against guerrillas, record non stop flight to Moscow, Atoms for Peace pact, wheat supports defeat. Maj Gordon Cooper's 22 orbit space flight is noted.
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Gordo” Cooper
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Houston
Dear Mary Come Home Art Buchwald Innocent Abroad Letter
Paris letter from Wisconsin mother warns daughter Paris is unsafe for a young woman. Clippings report a manslaughter case, teenage violence at a high school, a fatal Four Corners crash, and random town concerns. Mailed plea urges return home and cautions about Paris isolation.
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Paris
South Side
Pemberton
Letters To The Editor Debate On Youth Jobs And School Power
Readers contest newsboys’ sales bans and push for youth employment. A second letter argues student government must gain real oversight, student funding control, and shared governance with faculty. A third praises a Flowing Wells math program and student teachers, and others critique Kennedy era federal troop use and potential impeachment.
Kennedy and Goldwater eye Deep Dixie appeal in 1960 swing
The piece weighs Kennedy's Southern tour and reception in Tennessee Alabama and Nashville with 180000 cheering crowds. It weighs Goldwater’s strategy to raid the Solid South for electoral votes and suggests a sequence of Deep Dixie appearances to energize Republican hopes. It notes Democratic resistance and pundit Mary McGrory’s view on federal employment ties. The piece contemplates Georgia 1960 and the prospects for a Goldwater victory.
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New York
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Georgia
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Peace through unity amid personal battles and walls
Daily devotion reflects on peace in Ephesians 2 14, noting wartime in families neighborhoods and within oneself. Prayer asks God to heal bitterness and crumble walls of hostility toward others oneself and God through Jesus Christ. Courtesy Tucson Council of Churches.
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