Traffic safety boards posted to curb Phoenix tolls
The Phoenix Advertising Club with Foster and Kleiser posts six illuminated traffic safety boards to cut the toll in Phoenix. Sign locations include East Washington Street Grand Avenue and Walnut Street Jefferson Street and Eighth Avenue Washington and Second streets Central Avenue and Salt River bridge Buckeye Road and 30th Drive and Van Buren and 37th streets.
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Phoenix Advertising Club
Grand Avenue
Walnut Street
Jefferson Street
Eighth Avenue
Washington and
Second Streets
Central Avenue
Salt River Bridge
Buckeye Road
30Th Drive
van Buren
37Th Streets
Ex-Wife Eats Yule Meal In Jail
ATHENS Ga Dec 26 UP Plump Mrs John E Drewry who shot her educationally prominent ex husband and his shapely former secretary ate turkey and opened bright Christmas packages in a dingy jail yesterday Both the victims were reported improved but Miriam Thurmond 28 was only a shade better than her previous serious condition Drewry 47 head of the University of Georgia School of Journalism seemed past the danger point He walked about the hospital well on the road to recovery from three pistol wounds Miss Thurmond was shot twice Sheriff Tom Huff said Mrs Kathleen Merry Drewry 45 was being held on open charges.
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Athens
John E. Drewry
Miriam Thurmond
Drewry
University of Georgia School of Journalism
Miss Thurmond
Clarke County
Tom Huff
Kathleen Merry) Drewry
Desert grapefruit outflow tops 72 percent in week
Grapefruit Administrative Committee reports that over 72 percent of the desert fruit shipped during the week of December 17 went out of state. The price held at 2.16 per packed box in Phoenix as shipments totaled 34,994 boxes, up from 32,254. Processing rose to 19.52 percent of fruit, vs 17.61 percent, with in state export and miscellaneous handlings making up the rest.
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Phoenix
Population of United States tops 150 million record
The Census Bureau estimates the U S population including armed forces overseas at 150 183 000 on Nov 1, a rise of 14 1 percent from 131 669 275 counted in the April 1 1940 census, marking a new national total.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Legislator Pat Magill Dies By Own Hand In Colorado
Steamboat Springs, Colo. authorities reported that a note left by State Representative Pat Magill indicated that poor health caused his suicide. Magill, 38, was found by his wife in his sporting goods store, with a rifle and note nearby, after illness since last April. he had presided over the Colorado House during the 1949 session.
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Steamboat Springs
Colo
Pat Magill
Magill
Helen
House
Austrian student joins blood transfusion bid to save dying girl
Philadelphia December 26 A 29 year old Austrian immigrant and University of Pennsylvania chemical engineering student John Anzengruber volunteered for a rare medical experiment on Christmas Eve. He donated type BRH negative blood and connected tubes to the 8 year old patient Mary Bailey in Southe Hahnemann Hospital but the effort failed. The child died from a virus infection that attacked her liver and poisoned her blood. Anzengruber remained at her bedside for three hours before he and the girl grew too weak.
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Philadelphia
John Anzengruber
University of Pennsylvania
Mary Bailey
Charles Bailey
Anzengruber
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Madison
U.S
America
Fidelity and Surety
Valualencee
Arizona
North Central Security
Immigrant
Girl
Southe Hahnemann Hospital
U. S
International Refugee Organization
New Orleans
General Sturgis
Venezuela
Chile
COLES
French Provincial & Maple Furniture
MEI Lin China
Price Oriental
Jackson
California Manor
Tiffin
Crystal
C.O.D
North Central Avenue
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