AFL to Close State Meeting With Election
The Arizona Federation of Labor began its 40th annual convention in Flagstaff with officer elections and debate on next year’s convention city. Delegates consolidated six districts into three, created a $250 high school labor essay prize, and urged a state plumbing code after citing two carbon monoxide deaths of Girl Scout leaders in a Phoenix-area home outside city limits. Rep. L. S. Adams Jr. attacked the Arizona House majority as influenced by big interests, naming Phelps Dodge Corp. as among them.
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Arizona Federation of Labor
Mohave
Coconino
Navajo
Apache
Phoenix
Rep
L. S. Adams Jr
Arizona
House of Representatives
Legislative Interim Committee
Adams
Phelps Dodge Corp
BB Gun Dispatches Coiled Rattlesnake
Florencio Mendez an advertising agency owner at Fort Huachuca used a BB gun to eliminate a four foot rattlesnake with four rattles behind him while painting an outside mural. He fired 20 pellets to kill the snake.
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Nogales
Florencio Mendez
Fort Huachuca
Mendez
Giles Back In Town City Prepares Suit
Giles I Ray Giles a suspended city real estate agent returned to Phoenix from Hawaii to face a new lawsuit. The City of Phoenix will seek a constructive trust claiming a 42 foot strip near Black Canyon Highway was held for the city. The suit asks return of the land or $8 000 to reflect the citys interest. The action alleges a conspiracy with Homer H Pringey to apply $8 000 of the $70 000 paid for the right of way to the strip. Pringey previously claimed Giles duped him into selling the strip for 2 000. Giles says he paid 10 000. Giles was serving a suspension hearing before the Civil Service Board.
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City of
Phoenix
Jack D. H. Hays
Giles
Black Canyon Highway
Homer H. Pringey
Pringey
Honolulu
Ray W. Wilson
Wilson
Civil Service Board
Hawaii
Russians Make Sunday Day Of Relaxation
Sunday is a day of rest across the Soviet Union with offices and most factories closed from Saturday afternoon to Monday morning. Stores stay open and families stroll, shop, and visit museums, theaters, parks, and sports events. Many Muscovites travel to the countryside for picnics while villagers come to the city to mingle.
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Soviet Union
Mother
Dynamo Stadium
Kimball Firm Drugs Seized in Federal Action
The federal government ordered seizure and condemnation of drugs held at Maricopa County Hospital after shipment via Kimball Wholesale Drug Company. Libel alleges adulteration misbranding lack of habit forming warning absence of ingredient names and missing manufacturer details. Action stems from a county investigation into hospital drug supplies.
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Maricopa County
Kimball Wholesale Drug Company
Packer
Charles B. McAlister
Kimball Firm
Man-Set Fires Ravish Timber in Forest Case
At Flagstaff on August 25 AP reports that man caused fires in Coconino National Forest have burned 1,533 acres of timber since January 1. Bruce W. Elmore of the Keep Arizona Green Association cites Forest Service figures to show man caused fires account for over 90 percent of this year's forest damage in the region.
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Coconino National Forest
Bruce W. Elmore
Keep Arizona Green Association
Elmore
Forest Service
Arizona
Softball Exhibition To Aid Boys Ranch
Arizona Boys Ranch will receive proceeds from a softball exhibition sponsored by the Miami Rotary Club and district organizations. The event features the Queens and the Gems, Phoenix girls softball teams, playing September 2 at O'Brien Park in Claypool, with participation by local clubs.
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Gazette
MIAMI
Arizona Boys Ranch
Miami Rotary Club
Queens and the Gems
Phoenix
O’brien Park
Claypool
Agent In Nogales To Plan Union Rally
Gra ham Dolan advance representative for the International Mine Mill and Smelters Union arrives in Nogales to finalize plans for the annual conclave opening Sept. 10 with 500 delegates expected. The Southwest’s first union convention. union threatens national strike if wage demands unmet. Truman reportedly studying the issue. union covers 80,000 metal industry workers.
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Nogales
Graham Dolan
International Mine, Mill and Smelters Union
Dolan
Truman
Pyle Reviews ANG Troops At Old Fort
At Fort Huachuca Arizona Governor Day program featured the 158th Regimental Combat Team and guard artillery battalion parading before Gov. Howard Pyle and officials. The event closed six days of the encampment with field tactics demonstrations and weekend passes available.
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Sonora
Mexico
Guard Artillery
Howard Pyle
Rancho Grande
Nogales
Army
Phoenix Man Hurt Critically In Explosion
Charles Gerin, 56, of Phoenix, Ariz., is in critical condition at a Boulder hospital after a dynamite explosion at a damsite in South Boulder Creek canyon. Lightning is blamed for setting off the dynamite. his left leg was amputated and he suffered a crushed chest possible skull fracture a broken wrist and cuts.
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Colo
Charles Gerin
19Th St
Phoenix
Ariz
Boulder Creek Canyon
Gerin
Boulder blast kills blasting crew in canyon collapse
In Boulder Colorado an explosion caused by lightning ignited 1000 pounds of dynamite, killing nine blasting crew members and injuring nine others as they connected detonating fire on a 500 foot canyon wall. Bulldozers moved rock and dirt today to recover additional victims.
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Boulder
Colo
Graham County Fair premium lists and Oct event plans
Premium lists for the Graham County Fair are being printed and should mail within 10 days. The fair runs October 5 to 7 with horse races on Oct 5 6 and stock car races on Oct 6 and Oct 7. Tax rates update for Thatcher and Pima districts show rises and no town levy this year.
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Thatcher
Pima
Trial probes carbon monoxide deaths at Redmond home
A seven man jury heard testimony on May 28 CO poisoning from a cooling unit at the Redmond residence. Dr. Maurice Rosenthal cited body organs while Clifford Sawyer blamed inadequate ventilation and faulty installation for circulating fumes. Gardener Claude Hales reported finding a girl unconscious and unmoved cars in the driveway.
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al J. Flood
Flood
J. E. Redmond
Miss Fewster
Maurice Rosenthal
Claude H. Hales
Redmond
Hales
Smith
Redmond Co
Hale
Weather Bureau cancels plan to close 67 stations
Washington August 25. The U S Weather Bureau cancelled plans to close 67 weather stations nationwide after the Senate voted against cutting funds for the bureau payroll. The reversal follows timely congressional action preserving staffing and operations.
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Washington
U.S. Weather Bureau Today
Senate
Bureau
Face Over Fireplace Stirs Memories Of Farmer Pilot
HAL BOYLE recounts how a Pennsylvania farmer built a log cabin and placed a fallen fighter pilot uncle’s photo over the fireplace. Capt. Frank Camp vanished on a Tunisia mission. missing in action, his family keeps faith as they visit the old farm and remember him.
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Roaring Spring
Frank Camp
Africa
Pennsylvania
Frank
Mediterranean
Frances
Helen
George Palmer
Nina
Zona
Palmers
George
Arizonans enjoy cool spell with sunny skies ahead
The U S Weather Bureau reports cooler mornings across Arizona with high temperatures near 105 in Phoenix and 109 in Gila Bend. Forecasters expect increasing afternoon clouds tomorrow but mostly clear, with a 77 degree low tomorrow morning. Flagstaff dipped to 37 as scattered thundershowers are possible in eastern and north central regions.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Sky Harbor Station
Flagstaff
Gila Bend
Race Commission Meets With Gov Pyle In Informal Talk
Arizona Racing Commission members met yesterday with Governor Howard Pyle at his office. Afterward Frank C. Brophy and secretary Paul Sexson described the talk as informal and said no business was transacted.
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Arizona Racing Commission
Howard Pyle
Frank C. Brophy
Commission
Paul Sexson
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