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...ocotillos and greasewood. Thin asphalt ribbons stretch across the sand, linking black and white dots of clustered homes, blue bands of irrigation canals and rectangles of bright green new farms. From California's southern coastal ranges inland 375 miles to the central Arizona cities of Phoenix and Tucson, the searing desert, long a shunned part of the U.S.'s land surface, is filling up. Today, thousands of pioneers are moving in, claiming a brand-new empire in which to build new homes, farms, businesses and a whole new way of life...
...Tucson, Ariz...
...uranium-rich West another major strike was confirmed last week. Its name: Blue Rock Mine, in Arizona's Rincon Mountains, some 40 miles east of Tucson. The finders: Dentist Garth Thornburg, 35, and his brother Vance, 33, onetime farmer. Pioneers of the Grand Junction uranium rush, the Thornburg brothers collected promising claims on the Colorado plateau in 1950, built them into their Uranium Enterprises. Inc. On their 116 claims in the Blue Rock area, they believe they have at least 25,000 tons of commercial ore, hope to prove out 150,000 tons...
...Tucson, Ariz...
...Jersey the state education department's Division against Discrimination has done such a persuasive job that there are only three school districts left with any segregation. In such border-zone cities as Cincinnati and Evansville, Ind., the transition is going smoothly, and in Tucson, Ariz, it has been complete. "The Tucson school board," says Ashmore, "went the whole way from the beginning; a call for white volunteers to teach in the mixed schools produced twice the necessary number, and a Negro principal was accepted without protest by a mixed teaching staff . . . The records show that only about 15 pupils...