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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1951
Page
4
A 31 year old man and a 17 year old boy were arrested by Sheriff’s Deputy William Deutsch as they tried to sell a 60 foot cog chain and a 20 foot chain strip plus other parts. The Tanner Construction Company plant at Lateral 16 Salt River owned the equipment. Loss was about 1500 dollars and both suspects face grand theft charges.
Leona Coates an 18 year old Mesa resident and former Mesa High School marcher joins her two brothers as she gains feature status after her photo appears on the May Ladies Home Journal cover. She plans a teaching career at Arizona State College and has a busy week including a luncheon, radio and TV appearances. Leona’s grandmother Edna Coates voices pride while noting the publicity should be handled with care.
Sherilynn Sorenson a six year old girl seriously burned when her dress caught fire from a cigarette lighter April 15 is reported on the road to recovery. Doctors say she has responded to ACTH and plasma and will remain hospitalized about six months with skin grafting needed for about 60 percent third degree burns. The child daughter of Mrs Helen Sorenson of Sunnyslope was at a Baptist Church service when a youth flicked a lighter and flames erupted. A teen boy tore a curtain and wrapped the child to smother the blaze.
The Arizona Supreme Court denied a motion for rehearing on the Public Employes Retirement Act. The court previously upheld the act's validity last March and denied rehearing after a conference led by Chief Justice Levi S. Udall with the other justices.
The Maricopa County Planning and Zoning Commission named Cc. T. Smith of 18 West Medlock Drive as temporary building inspector. Emma Cantwell of 1815 East Clarendon Avenue was appointed deputy building inspector. The move aims to launch the planning and zoning program under the commission’s recommendation.
The Arizona Corporation Commission denied Arizona Express Company and Pacific Motor Trucking Company permission to raise intrastate freight rates by 10 percent. Chairman Wilson T. Wright said the request lacking proven need after hearings. The firms cited higher operating costs as justification.
Maricopa County officials received an opinion from the county attorney's office stating the county hospital must provide emergency medical care to indigent aliens. Nonemergency admission may be denied unless the alien has resided in the county for the past 12 months.
Lettuce prices held steady in Phoenix area shipments with 100 car daily output by grower-shippers. Crates of four dozen mostly sold for 5 dollars with some at 5.50 and occasional 6. The five crates averaged about 4.50. Valley shipments totaled 97 carloads yesterday.
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