Paradise Inn Sold to Corporation Expansion Planned
Paradise Inn on East Camelback Road was sold for about 1 million dollars to Resort Hotels Inc. as of January 1. The 15 acre property will be expanded to accommodate 250 guests from 150, with staff of 80 largely unchanged. R. T. Evans will serve in an advisory role and pursue architecture. The buyer chain includes 24 hotels across multiple states.
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Paradise Inn
East Camelback Road
R. T. Evans
Resort Hotels, Inc
Evans
C. H. Alberding
Chicago
Arcadia
D. L. Connett
Tulsa
Okla
Alsonett Resort Hostels
Paradise Camp
Wrangler
Paradise Valley
Jessie B. Evans
Alberding
Universal Oil Products Company
Indiana
Louisiana
Michigan
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Tennessee
Florida
Georgia
Ice Cream Errand Ends In Accident
Five year old Chester Freegard ran to buy ice cream from a wagon at 3327 East Palm Avenue. He reached the wagon but on returning to the street collided with a car driven by Amelia Mitchell of Sunnyslope. He suffered a triple leg fracture and was admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital. The Arizona Highway Patrol identified the driver as Amelia Mitchell.
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East Palm Avenue
Chester Freegard
Chester
Good Samaritan Hospital
Arizona Highway Patrol
Amelia Mitchell
East Ruth Street
Sunnyslope
Grasshopper Tops All-America Insect Team Dishonor
FRANK CAREY reports from Birmingham that grasshoppers lead the 1949 all-America insect team of destructive pests named by Dr F C Bishopp. The list covers ten top pests causing major crop damage and notes honorable mentions including the Japanese beetle and red scale.
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Frank Carey
Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
Grasshopper
F. C. Bishopp
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology
Notre Dame
Philadelphia Eagles
Bishopp
Wyoming
Montana
Dixie
Cotton Belt
Hospital Debt Cut In Half In Phoenicia
Superintendent Emmett Mc Loughlin announced that the federal government will reduce by 50 percent the 160000 debt of St. Monica's Hospital. The hospital built in 1943 cost 556000 and was bought for 200000 in 1947 by Phoenician buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett McLoughlin
St. Monica’s Hospital
Federal Worlds Agency
Phoenicians
McLoughlin
Two Women In Critical Condition After Triple Vehicle Crash
Two women, Mrs. Ella Edens and Mrs. Bessie Mollin, remained in critical condition after late yesterday’s traffic incidents that left four others injured. Edens, 62, unconscious since a three vehicle crash at 15th Avenue and Jefferson Street, is at St. Monica's Hospital along with Paul W. Goss and Oscar Helmhout who also faced injuries. Mollin, 72, a Russian native, sustained skull fractures in a two car collision at Central Avenue and McDowell Road, with her son-in-law Louis Pearlman and Beaty Pearlman among the injured treated at the same hospital. Additional injuries occurred to Mary Helmhout, and to Jim Abel and William J. Renshaw in separate crashes. Police continue investigations into all incidents.
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Ella Edens
Cottonwood
Bessie Mollin
Los Angeles
St. Monica's Hospital
Edens
W. F. Edens
15Th Avenue
Jefferson Street
North 16Th Place
Beaty Pearlman
Pearlman
Traffic Concluded From Page One Holiday Bus Travel
Greyhound and other carriers operated extra advance reservation buses from Phoenix terminals for Los Angeles and El Paso. Saturday saw 76 Greyhounds pass through the Phoenix terminal, with American Buslines adding an extra eastbound section. Sun Valley Continental Trailways expected most travel within 400 miles. State traffic engineer Glen Smoot urged safe travel to prevent holiday deaths.
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Greyhound
Los Angeles
el Paso
G. N. Beck
Phoenix Terminal
Greyhounds
W. D. Willey
American Buslines
G. H. Rambo
Sun Valley Buslines
Continental Trailways
Phoenix
Glen Smoot
Health Director Picked By Yuma County
Dr. W. C. Cain was appointed director of the Yuma County Health Unit as the County Board of Supervisors reversed plans to close the unit. Cain will devote only part of his time to the duties, while the county operates its own public health office.
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Yuma
W. C. Cain
Yuma County
County Board of Supervisors
State Health Department
Cain
Family for Christmas Fund Aids Needy Families
The Gazette Community Council notes the Christmas fund helps two families in need. Family No 87, a 75 year old man and his wife with only 37 a month need warm meals and clothing. five dollars for land repayment to Miss Krug would let a welfare worker buy groceries. Family No 88, a disabled Negro woman with arthritis lacks kin and needs a warm nightgown and blanket. three dollars could secure the gown. The fund has drawn strong responses as donors provide welfare workers with funds to distribute as needed.
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The
Gazette
Community Council
Actor and Carole Lombard Wedding Ends Four Time Union
The article notes that a famed actor and Carole Lombard wed in 1939 after a courtship that captivated the world. They eloped to Kingman Arizona and were dubbed Hollywood's perfect couple. Lombard died in a 1942 air crash during a War Bond tour, leaving the star widowed again and he later joined the Air Force. He had repeatedly stated he would never marry again.
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Gable
Carole Lombard
Kingman, Ariz
Hollywood
Carole
Gable’s Six Marriages and Wealth From Two Million
The article tracks Clark Gable’s marriages from his first union with Josephine Dillon in 1930 through subsequent wives Rita Langham and two English noblewomen. It notes Dillon’s divorce in 1930, Langham’s divorce, Langham’s rise as a social fixture and care society member, and Fairbanks’ death leaving her two million dollars, plus the later divorces from English nobles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carole
Gable
Josephine Dillon Gable
Texas
Rita Langham
Douglas Fairbanks
UC scientist exports wasps to battle fruit fly threat
Riverside California December 21 AP If the Oriental fruit fly invades the United States the University of California hopes to be ready. Prof Harry S Smith a specialist in biological control has been sent to Hawaii to mass produce several species of wasps that prey on the fly. Breeding stock for the wasps has been gathered in China and Formosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
Calif
United States
Theniversity of California
Harry S. Smith
Hawaii
China
Formosa
Ice storm chills Midwest as forecasts warn of dangerous roads
Forecasters in Chicago warn the rapidly changing cold front could freeze a vast band of ice across much of the nation. Snow falls in Wisconsin and Michigan while Utah Wyoming Idaho and New Mexico report snow as a cold wave sweeps eastward. Rain moves ahead of the cold front forming a gray curtain from the Gulf to New England and Chicago endures a heavy downpour with thunder.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Michigan
Utah
Wyoming
Idaho
New Mexico
Gulf States
New England
Mississippi Valley
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East
Washington Street
Paul E. Rice
West Fillmore Street
Rice
St. Francis School
Jim Abel
West Thomas Road
13Th Avenue
Thomas Road
Abel
William J. Renshaw
West Roma Avenue
England
St. Luke’s Sanatorium
St. Luke’s
Macy’s
New York
Santa Claus
Dorris Heyman
Santa
YMCA
Y’s Men Club
Seventh Ave
Edgemont
Roosevelt
Seventh St
Dlad Imnenes
Ave
West van Buren
Adopt
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Rembrandt
Berk-Lock
E. van Buren
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