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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1949
Page
2
Sgt. Charles Lamb reports his wife Velma Jo Lamb missing since Saturday. He last saw her near Mesa about 1 p.m. The 19 year old auburn haired woman left home at 7 a.m. to shop in Mesa with a round trip ticket to Mesa.
The year saw Ach e son urging frankness with Russia and a widening cold war debate. Berlin blockade ended in May, Atlantic pact completed, and arms aid to Europe voted by Congress. The State Department issued a white paper on Nationalists in China. Murray led CIO and steel workers to key victories and purges. Ford and Fordism faced union strikes and a pension pact. Bush, Merton, and Pinza highlighted science culture and the arts during postwar shifts.
A mother in Phoenix slums struggles with a jailed husband and no prospects for Christmas as she scrubs ragged clothes for her children and hopes for $18 for gifts. A crippled man in a desert hut, with no relatives, could receive food and clothing via a $6 check and welfare aid.
Federal Tucson and Pima County officers seek two escaped prisoners after highway patrolman Vincent Ruth stopped to investigate a desert accident. One prisoner fled after Ruth left the vehicle. the other remained. The missing inmate is Daniel Romo-Guevas, 23, who escaped from Mt Lemmon Federal Prison Camp Monday night.
Detectives observed Barnhart ask an employee for a $20 bill from the cash register as protection money. The suspect received the bill and placed it in his right pocket while officers with drawn guns moved in and arrested him before he exited the booth. Leed's official notes no one attempted to sell protection or issued threats.
One of four boy quadruplets born to Madame Andree Sorel at Sailly Saillisel near Lille died last night. The other three remain in an incubator in satisfactory health, each weighing about two pounds.
In Prescott's 1875 Arizona Miner a Christmas letter from Pastor D B Wright thanks friends for gifts from church members and others, including a silver lamp and children's hats. A New Year's brief notes Orrick Jackson delivering a rhymed address with proceeds aiding his own needs, priced at 50 cents.
Arizona's 1949 traffic deaths rose to 271 with the deaths of 89 year old Mrs MInerva McKenzie of Bagdad and 34 year old Lt Ray Curtis Palmer of Mather Field California. McKenzie died after a car left the Prescott highway nine miles north of Bagdad and overturned. Palmer died when his car struck ice on the Cedar Canyon Bridge near Show Low and overturned twice. Six others were injured in Phoenix in separate crashes. Patrol reports detail the incidents and list surviving relatives and locations involved.
The commemorative three cent Stamp will be issued on January 3 to honor the 75th anniversary. The American Bankers Association will first offer the stamp at the Saratoga Springs New York post office, per W. J. Jamieson, Phoenix postmaster.
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