Big Storm Impacts Roads And Power In Region
State and county highway crews worked to restore travel after a weekend storm. Highway 89 A through Oak Creek Canyon was blocked by slides but reopened by midnight. Snow Bowl and Valley areas reported stranded vehicles. plows cleared routes as lines were down and homes flooded. Temperature drops threaten further outages and runoff as power crews struggle to restore service citywide.
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Red Detention Camps Planned In State
Washington announces steps toward large scale detention camps for dangerous subversives with possible roundup of thousands of enemies. Attorney General McGrath outlines a major prison plan at Florence and surveys of unused sites like Tule Lake and Gila where Japanese Americans were interned during World War II.
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Western European Storms Fatal To 63
Western European storms leave 63 dead and many missing across coastal regions. Winds sweep western Europe for a fourth day, wrecking ships off Reer Borkum and causing extensive flooding and property loss in Britain and Germany.
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Two Juvenile Burglars Held Over Station Theft
A 14 and a 16 year old were in custody for a burglary at the Signal Station Thursday night in Deity and county. Fingerprints from a window matched the youths, a watch found on one was worn high on his arm, and they allegedly entered the Fag staff Steam Laundry taking blouses and a box of cookies, hiding items across the street near the Bennett Fuel and Feed company office.
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Fagstaff Steam
Ehen Bennett
Fuel and Feed Company
Traffic Deaths Climb to All-Time High in 1961
CASA GRANDE AP reports traffic deaths reached an all-time high of 41 percent on the last day of 1961. The latest victim is Judith Ann, a 24 year old from Grand Mesa. The year ends with rising fatalities and concerns over road safety.
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Weather Slows Traffic Deaths During New Year Week
An Associated Press tally shows 28 000 lives lost in nationwide New Year period through Friday 8 pm local time including 181 highway and street fatalities 37 in fires and 60 in other accidents Snow and ice kept traffic volumes down and may have reduced the 350 person predictor, with the New Year weekend traffic total at 304 as officials cited hazardous road conditions.
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Plane Search Delayed for Missing Air Force Transport
Storms halted the search for a missing Air Force transport with 7 aboard including 19 cadets from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Williams Air Force Base launched planes but weather grounded them. another takeoff planned as crews chased reports of a potentially sighted plane near Sowaay Palie and Lake Neve.
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Hamilton
Explosions Hit Seoul Near Kimpo Airfield Area
An air raid siren sounded in Seoul as heavy explosions rocked the city area shortly after midnight. Flashes and antiaircraft fire were observed for about 20 minutes near Kimpo airfield northwest of Seoul and Taehon park to the southwest, with officials offering no immediate explanation.
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To the New Year Trip Around the Sun Greeting
A reflective verse urging a hopeful voyage into the new year. It evokes time and currency as It laments scarce fortune while urging a joyful, singular journey around the sun.
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World welcomes 1952 as prayers and parties begin
As the new year dawns, nations observe watch night prayers and festive events. In New York, theaters and clubs raise prices while public celebrations surge. The leap year adds presidential election year significance and a spectrum of resolutions. Citizens brace for a year of Cold War tensions and hopeful change.
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Red Troops Hold Allied Position in Western Korea
In Korea, Red forces clung to an Allied hill post on the western front amid fierce combat. The battle for the hill near Himes raged in brutal cold with temperatures around 20 degrees below zero as a fourth day of fighting continued.
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Seoul
Truman weighs strong actions over Hungary crisis
President Truman said he is considering very strongly taking measures with the United Nations over Hungary arrests. Rep. Mansfield urged United Nations involvement and a full fact hearing to condemn the alleged actions.
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Curtains For Poison Pen Victim Sparks Local Malpractice Row
In Birmingham AP reports Till Pegg confesses to a poisoning scare after an unsigned postcard warns of an annual curtain washing date. BN, a 44 year old bachelor, says he refuses to wash curtains annually and notes plans to replace them when worn. The bizarre note and reply appear tied to a long running dispute over window coverings.
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Holbrook Man Killed in Korean War Action
Holbrook Pfc Anthony D Serna, brother of Jake Daltan, Holbrook, has been killed in action in Korea. Defense Department announced he was previously reported missing.
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Korea
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New Record For 24 Hour Precipitation Set Here Sunday
Weather shows a rare 24 hour rainfall record at Flagstaff amid a December total of 5.43 inches. observers report record runoff into Lake Mary and rising levels in Magee and adjacent lakes, with 1.22 billion gallons added by Monday noon and the city preparing for continued flooding as snow runoff intensifies in the watershed.
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Sevenson
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Newman Canyon
U N Envoys Charge Reds Bad Faith in Talks
U N envoys accuse the Reds of planning war while negotiating a truce and demand accounting for missing prisoners. Subcommittees end the year deadlocked on armistice policies and a military air capability. Admiral Turner Joy cites shadows over negotiations. Libby notes data gaps on prisoners not listed on Red rosters.
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United Nations Today
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Libby
May Control Rents Here in New Defense Areas
May Control Rents Here reports that Whigstaff and four other areas were certified by the Defense Production Administration as critical for new or expanded rent centers. The move allows the Office of Rent Stabilization to set controls, though details on when or if controls will be adopted remain undisclosed. Rent controls ended in 1945 and prices reportedly rose 20 to 50 percent since then. Last week Plapetuf? was declared a vital area for national defense.
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Defense Producton Administration
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Washington
Office of Rent Stabilization
First Baby of Year Born As Flag Merchants Sponsor Gifts
In Flagstaff the SUN reports a yearly baby contest ending after midnight with the first local birth since 1952. Flag merchants prize the winner’s parents must reside within ten miles and be certified by a local physician. Prizes include a vaporizer, jewelry, a baby chair, shoes, a nursery lamp, a diaper package, and more from Moore’s Drug, Brown’s Credit Jewelers, and others.
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Child Drowns After Fall Into Pinal Creek
GLOBE AP reports eight year old Vicki Machula fell into flood waters at Ice House canyon in Vinid canyon county. She was carried nearly a mile to Millow Street bridge where responders attempted respiration but she died. Vicki was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Hormen Machula. The usually dry creek flowed full this morning from melted snow in Final mountains toward Roosevelt lake.
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Car Crash Unlucky For Coffee Smugglers
A roadside collision in Kettenis Belgium drew police who found four flattened tires spewing coffee beans. The driver was arrested on charges of smuggling toffee across the German border in his vehicle.
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Belgium
Fincackal Markets To Be Closed For New Year Holiday
New York AP reports financial and commodity markets worldwide will close for the New Year holiday tomorrow. Several commodity exchanges plan early closures, with traders awaiting updated schedules and potential impact on prices and settlements.
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