Central Arizona Highway debate in Arizona Republic critique
A reader letter accuses the Arizona Republic of bias in favor of the Central Arizona Highway and derides coverage of a Good Roads Association meeting in Prescott. The piece argues politics shape the road plan with Democrats and Republicans aligned in Globe Miami Phoenix and Mesa to secure highway benefits at high cost to taxpayers.
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Arizona Republic
Prescott
the Republic
Association
Showlow-Concho-Springerville
Showlow-Springerville
Navajo
Apache Counties
Concho-Springerville
Apache County
Showlow
Springerville
Globe and Miami
Phoenix
Mesa
Prescott Editor Dismisses Winslow Rodeo
The Prescott Courier editor criticizes Winslow’s Meteor City Roundup claiming it cannot compete with Prescott’s Frontier Days. He argues Winslow attracts locals but will fail to draw outsiders and disputes associations with the AAA. Winslow officials counter that top cowboys will attend, boosting national recognition.
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Bill Stuart
Prescott
Bill
Stuart
Winslow
Meteor City
Rodeo Association of America
Winslow Organization
New Arizona Anti Nepotism Law Takes Effect
The Tenth Legislature's measures become law in Arizona today with the anti nepotism act. It bars appointments of relatives to state or county payrolls by executive, legislative, ministerial, or judicial officers. The act is not retroactive, but blocks future kinship appointments. Maricopa County officials initially sought broader scope but limited to future hires only.
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Arizona
Maricopa County
Board of Supervisors
Cigarette Makers Alter Ads Except Boloney Claim
A skim through a trade notice notes manufacturers removing bite and cough claims from tobacco advertising leaving only the boloney reference as an odd aside in the copy.
Move for a 13 month calendar gains support
The Phoenix Gazette reports steady progress toward a new 13 month calendar with 28 days per month and a 13th added day as an international peace holiday. George Eastman backs the effort, and a League of Nations committee has studied it for six years ahead of a Geneva conference in October.
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Association
George Eastman
Eastman Kodak Company
League of Nations
Geneva
League Committee
Desperate Woman Sends Mosquitoes to Havana Official
A letter to Havana sanitation secretary Dr Rodriguez Bara, signed by “A desperate woman who cannot sleep,” was delivered with hundreds of dead mosquitoes. The woman says they are about one third of those she has killed in her house.
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Havana
Rodriguez -Barahoma
Sainitation
Government considers five day week shift and Saturday half holiday
Federal workers face a 44 hour week for postal staff and a year round Saturday half holiday for others after July 1. President Hoover and Budget Director Roop bar further paid half holidays, pushing compensatory time instead. complaints about field enforcement rise as vacancies and substitutes strain staffing.
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Ashington
Little
Congress
Hoover
Roop
National Federation of Federal
Washington
LaFollette
District of Columbia
Interior Department
Panama -Ganat
Federation of Federal
Budget Bureau
Air Currents From Volcano Force Near-Disaster Flight
Air expedition over Aniakchak crater in Alaska reports cold air siphoning the plane toward the crater. Pilot Harry Blunt and Father Bernard Hubbard avoided a plunge with a sharp dive and landed safely at Kujulik Bay after witnessing eagles, a brown bear, and sulfur fumes at 6000 feet.
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Alaska
Aniakchak
Alaska Peninsula
Harry Blunt
al Monson
Bernard J. Hubbard
Priest
Chignik Bay
Craigs
Father Hubbard
Blunt
Kujulik Bay
General Business Conditions Stable Throughout State
The Arizona Business Review reports no change in state wide business conditions as summer begins. Seasonal effects appear in southern locales while highway and construction work support many communities. Harvests and the cantaloupe shipping season signal another active agricultural period.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona Business Review
The
Industrial Congress
Half of American Women Found Unhappy in Marriage
An AMA meeting report by Dr. Robert L Dickinson analyzes 1000 cultured American women from urban, well-educated backgrounds. It finds happiness is about equal to unhappiness, with early life experiences and taboos shaping marital outcomes. 770 remaining typical wives showed roughly 50 50 happiness results.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Philadelphia
American Medical Association
Robert L Dickinson
New York City
Dickinson
Sister Reunion After 57 Years Reaches Europe Links
Paris report describes Mrs Elizabeth Streiber 71 visiting Cleveland mother and meeting sister Frau Anna Fraubel 67 of Essen Germany. Each lost a son in the war.
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Paris
Elizabeth Streiber
Cleveland
Anna ‘Fraubel
Essen
Germany
Beloved French President Doumergue Begins Prolonged Rest
Paris June 15 A stock gentleman with white hair and moustache steps down as president of the French republic after seven years. Gaston Doumergue plans long rest with his bride at Tournefeuille near Toulouse, preferring quiet walks reading and listening to the radio. He faces no immediate reelection pressure and leaves a country burdened by financial strain and world slump.
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Paris
M. Gaston Doumergue
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