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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1949
Page
2
From a Denver paper page one story, families No. 60 61 face hunger and poverty. Family 60, two parents and four children from 1 to 11, need groceries and clothing as father is asthmatic and unemployed. A $13 gift via Miss Krug will help. Family 61, a 19 year old girl and her 17 year old sister, with ill father and deserter mother, ask for $5 for a proper Christmas dinner.
The Quantico Marines, defending All-Navy champions, practiced on Terminal Island in Long Beach today as they ready for Saturday's title game against Camp Pendleton Marines at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
W. D. Simmons a former Phoenix fire chief died after a stroke at age 75 in Los Angeles. He joined the Arizona city’s volunteer fire department in 1898 and led the department from 1920 to 1932. He helped combat the 1910 Adams Hotel fire. His body will be sent to Phoenix for burial at Greenwood Memorial Park in a plot for firefighters.
Arizona's traffic fatality toll for 1949 reached 264 today with the death of a deaf mute, Lee Temple Henson, 51, in a hit and run accident two miles west of Casa Grande. Highway Patrolman Bud Kratzberg said Henson, who was from Lubbock, Texas, and Homany, Oklahoma, was believed to have been walking east at the time of the accident.
In the Boston Public Garden a 50 foot miniature suspension bridge spans the center, a tiny replica of New York's Brooklyn Bridge. The display highlights engineering charm and public curiosity during December.
Two young women fled after an accident at Seventh Street and Indian School Road around 1:30 a.m. They left their car and rode away in another vehicle driven by a man. John D. McCaleb, 24, of 372 North 14th Place, Tempe, a student at Arizona State College, was treated at St. Monica's Hospital. The bedroll and women's clothing were found in the car and the vehicle was seized pending owner claim.
Patrolmen Green and Milligan pursued a car stolen earlier in Tucson after it was spotted at Richfield Station east of Casa. Long led a three-block chase. Green fired three shots that struck no target. Jewelry from Los Angeles burglaries was found in a cigar box with other stolen items. Gillis identified Long in Casa Grande, and Long confessed to at least four car thefts in the Los Angeles area.
Chicago traffic report shows visitors account for only nine of 204 pedestrian deaths in the first nine months of 1949. Capt. Michael Ahern notes outsiders are more careful crossing streets, suggesting unfamiliar traffic habits lead to heightened caution.
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