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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1946
Page
4
Chicago markets show declines in hogs cattle and sheep with lower receipts but signs of higher prices as embargoes ease. Hog top reaches 24 per hundredweight amid adjusted weekly totals of 45 700 hogs 46 000 cattle and 41 700 sheep. Denver adds 12 500 sheep to the tally.
John C. Morris a motor truck dealer at 1125 South Sixth Avenue was charged with selling a 1941 GMC one and a half ton truck for 469.70 over the CPA ceiling. The truck went to R M Gradillas at 347 West 22nd Street for 1700 though the ceiling was 1230.30. A second count accuses a false certificate of transfer. The complaint was filed by Leland Glazier, chief of rent and durable goods enforcement in the district OPA.
The agriculture department will finish a 23 million dollar program this fiscal year to build and improve roads in national forests to aid timber hauling for veterans housing. John R. Steelman approved the federal public works plan across agencies. Arizona's share includes 42000 for new forest roads.
WEYMOUTH Mass Oct 24 Samuel Schofield purchased Army surplus commodities and opened a carton to discover 64 bars of soap originally made for Union troops in the Civil War.
Nanking reports that Chinese Communists appealed to the United Nations in New York to halt one sided American aid to Chiang Kai Shek. They urged a special UN committee to probe alleged American infringement of Chinese territorial integrity and security and build up bases along the coast.
Two Showlow, Arizona firms, E. B. Reidhead and H. R. Chiarson, agreed in Phoenix federal court to comply with the OPA record keeping rules on lumber sales. The judgments stem from prior complaints alleging failure to maintain records and issue invoices for sales.
Raul Mills Bernal, a Marine in aviation training, is visiting his father, Benjamin Bernal, at 1141 South Eleventh Avenue before departing from San Diego to join a Marine air unit overseas. Bernal enlisted in June and is stationed in California.
The U S Office of Education approved Tucson High School plans for four new classrooms and a shop building with spaces for auto maintenance, electricity, sheet metal, and radios. The combined shop area covers about 8 000 square feet with necessary facilities. Work awaits federal Works Agency ground designation before starting.
County comptroller Fred O. Goodell corrected a misprint showing the per capita cost of roads and bridges for 1945 46 as 12.75. the correct figure is 2.75. The 1944 45 cost was 1.66, and under the 10 percent budget limit the county cannot spend all possible funds this year without permission to exceed.
Reynolds Metals plans peak operation of the Phoenix plant by next April with 1,500 to 2,000 employees. The firm, already at work on a furniture making division, contemplates an additional expansion to handle growth.
Surplus government property goes on sale November 1 to veterans and others per E. B. Murphy of the War Assets Administration. Highlights include 7 million rounds of .22 shells at 4.25 per thousand with a 40 000 minimum and 1 000 000 maximum per buyer. Sale runs November 1–25 in Barstow California, plus 56 types of sterilizers. A separate sight sale in San Bernardino October 30–November 5 offers machine shop items and power plant hardware for certified veterans.
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