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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1946
Page
10
AP Market News notes varied demand across regions with Chicago and Kansas City showing slower trade and price swings. Hogs remained mostly steady to lower with heavier weights 180 to 300 pounds bringing 23.50 to 25.50, while cows and calves showed weakness and occasional higher bids for select lots.
New York Oct. 30. Steels led a late rally with gains of more than 3 points for several leaders as trading accelerated and the ticker ran behind floor activity. Total full session volume reached about 2 000 000 shares. Forced liquidations and cotton futures suspensions weighed earlier, but rumors of cotton exchange resuming tomorrow and strong earnings reports boosted stocks. Leaders included U S Steel Bethlehem Republic Youngstown Sheet Anaconda Westinghouse Baltimore & Ohio Great Northern preferred Southern Pacific American Water Works and American Can. laggards included Goodrich International Harvester Air Reduction American Telephone Douglas Aircraft U S Rubber and Packard.
Grain futures traded nervously amid offerings and a box car shortage. Oats firmed into the close with a steady tone, corn lifted late, and wheat finishing higher as buyers resumed. Prices shown for January futures across corn oats and barley reflect small gains and mixed moves.
New York open market shows Canadian dollar at 4.95 in U S cents, Great Britain at 4.03 dollars per pound, France at 0.84 franc per U S cent, Sweden 27.85 kronor per dollar, Switzerland 23.40 francs, Argentina 24.59 pesos, Brazil 5.50 reais, and Mexico 20.62 pesos, with minor unchanged or fractional changes noted.
Cmdr. Walter J. Macy of the USNR recruiting office outlined three advantages of the V-6 re enlistment program at the Optimist club luncheon. Longevity pay exemption from selective service and retention of discharge rate on reenlistment were cited. Coast guard personnel may also reenlist at the same rates upon discharge.
Two more enlistments were recorded in the organized naval reserve O-1 program and one in the inactive V-6 reserves. Enlistees include Peter Vasquez Marmolejo, buglemaster, 192 South Stone Avenue. William Charles Payne, mailman 1C, 819 West Simmons Street. and James Oakley Williams, seaman 1C, 1061 East North Street.
Public records list reckless driving cases with mixed outcomes including finding of innocence and notarized judgments. Divorces, tax exemptions, and changes of names are noted along with multiple marriage licenses and births at St Marys Hospital and Tucson addresses.
The police report lists multiple thefts including a suitcase and items valued at 71 dollars from E J Schoenig on East Drachman Street a 125 dollar saw and sander from 2826 East Eighth Street where M I Pote Construction was working a 24 dollar shotgun from a car owned by Joseph R Prenter of Los Angeles a 200 dollar saxophone from H W Sharrod of the University of Arizona band 21 dollars in change from Tucson Auto Repair cash drawer and a recovered 350 dollar prize dog belonging to Mrs B B Davidson of 2009 East Fifth Street with reward paid.
The City of Tucson invites sealed bids for sanitary sewers paving and drainage work including trenching back filling and grading. Bids per Resolution No. 2047 and Intention No. 2047 to be opened after examination of plans at City Engineer office. Deposit of ten dollars for plans refundable on return. Bonds to be issued to cover costs.
Legal notice from Tucson outlines bidding requirements for a sewer and paving project with payments funded from a special tax, bond terms, and a lowest-bidder rule. It lists wage scales approved by the Industrial Commission of Arizona and details bid security, contract conditions, and bidders' eligibility under state law.
A dense ledger lists job titles and wage rates for ironworkers and related trades. It includes classifications for caisson workers, muckers, cement finishers, roofers, pipefitters, painters, masons, and equipment operators with specific pay scales, plus vessel and truck drivers and various helper roles. The document reflects union-based wage structures and job scope details for site crews.
Historical notices show wage scales for carrier and water truck drivers and welders, plus a probate hearing for Emma Adelaide Haight Chapin and a call for bids on city right of way easements in Tucson Arizona. Public notices date from October 1946 with bid opening set for November 18.
The City of Tucson announces a public sale of land parcels in section 21, township 13 south, range 13 east, Pima County Arizona, under terms of a 1943 lease with the United States. Notices list parcels totaling 68 acres and a 12 foot wide strip, with bids due December 4, 1946, at the City Hall.
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