23 Jan 1952
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Newspaper
Arizona Daily Sun
Location
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1952
Page
1
The Arizona Daily Sun is published each weekday evening in Flagstaff, Coconino County, by the Coconino Sun Company. W. J. McGiffin serves as president.
Douglas Zarsen chronicles a flawed government effort to boost morale by urging letter writing to Korea soldiers. A Department of Agriculture official shepherds the plan, facing bureaucratic hurdles, miscommunication between Defense, Navy, and Marine Corps, and security concerns. One chaplain reply reveals subversive fears, ending with the plan stuck in Pentagon bureaucratic knots.
The Arkona Daily Saw notes that any erroneous reflections on a person, firm, or corporation will be corrected if brought to management. It lists subscription details and postage information, indicating mail options and postal registration.
Prank Conthaker of Phoenix attended the Grand Canyon Community church annual meeting after a supper in the community building. De. Loothaker preached the morning service, with officers elected including Vic Sonut off alewards and De. Leo Selim as editor. McCain, Dillan, Donhei, and Wedeley named officers. Travel plans include a return to Washington via California. The article notes deer trapping by the Game and Fish Commission and a planting trip to Tucson.
AP reports Phoenix action by US district court ends Latin American pupil segregation in Tolleson public schools. Judge Dave W. Ling issued a restraining order in a suit led by Parmit Gonzales Faustizo Curtes and 300 others claiming the policy harmed students. Officials argued segregation aided access to transportation and view.
The article recounts social visits and movements in the area with arrivals from Williams and Chicago by train, hotel stays in Weatherford, several family weekend visits, staff changes at a laundry, and temporary guests from Brick and New York City. It mentions Mr Cunningham driving to Maryes Vello Reatech and Kadayan Sorrachalan visiting the park.
At Naples 400 ton motorship during launching capsized in the bay. About 100 laborers and crew swarmed the water as the ship settled upright then rolled, many rescued by nearby workers and sailors. Fear remains for several trapped inside as Sant Ellegrino yard workers watch in distress.
Egyptian feminists demonstrated against the British near the Barclays bank. Police scattered about four score women using clubs. Demonstrators were driven into trucks and marched away from the bank entrance amid shouts of Long live liberty.
A hook fell from a well yesterday and fatally struck Robert A. Santhutt, 34, a well filler, at a drill site in Casa Grande. Investigators described the accident as a plain mishap likely caused by gravity and equipment failure.
In February 1933 a historic cold wave swept the northern Rocky Mountain region, setting the country’s all time low at Yellowstone National Park where the thermometer plunged to 60 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Willi Smekock, 27, accused of issuing bogus checks in this area, waived preliminary bearing Thes day. A bond of $505 was set for his appearance in a superior court. Shelby-McGinley, justice of the peace, set the action. Jickwek was previously convicted on a bigamy charge and recently returned from New Mexico where he had been serving another bogus check sentence.
Traffic deaths in Arizona rose to 23 this year with multiple fatal crashes near Somerton Bonerton and Marinette. The report cites a child killed when a car hit a tree, a Glendary man crushed by a truck, and several injured including women and children.
Readers report visits among neighbors including Mr and Mrs Wallis Vidor at Alvan and Fra Schuster in Forest Service matters. The annual basketball tournament at Gallup drew many locals such as Mrs Hanvey Smithson, Bryson, Marlyn Hester, Whiting family, Ina, Barbara Harvey, and more. A social supper followed at the state seminary, with music by a three piece ensemble, and plans for a ham shoot fundraiser on Legion grounds to aid the building fund for the new American Legion hall. Volunteers continue laying bricks and gathering supplies for ongoing construction work.
Representatives of the state income tax division will be in Phoenix from February 14 to 19 to assist in preparing 1951 state income tax returns. The service will be offered in the supervising room of the courthouse, officials announced.
A 10 month jail term was given to Thames A West 26 of Ajo for negligent driving in a fatal two vehicle crash near Tucson on December 20. West was the driver of the car involved, which led to the death of Gilbert E Menter.
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