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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1950
Page
12
The Mari copa County Board of Supervisors authorized an extra 63000 to equip each of three districts with its own highway gear. Plans call for nine heavy duty dump trucks, one crawler tractor, and a half yard power shovel, with bids opened February 16.
Showman Billy Rose's butler James McDonald 35 was held in protective custody as a material witness after the $100,000 jewel and fur robbery at Rose's New York home. McDonald said three men looted the house while Rose and Eleanor Holm were away. valuables worth about $250,000 were insured.
YUMA Feb 3 The mother of three was killed when her car collided with a pickup at a lonely Yuma Valley intersection. The 34th Arizona traffic fatality this year. Alta Spurlock of Yuma Valley died near her home. her children, ages 3 and younger, were uninjured. L A Godwin of Yuma, driver of the pickup, was slightly injured. The body was found pinned under wreckage. the children were taken to Yuma General Hospital for examination.
Two Glenn Oil Company officials, E. W. Duhame and G. E. Dunbar, resigned and turned over the stock selling permit, company seal, and books to the Arizona Corporation Commission. They accused unnamed persons of harassing the firm and declined to appear for a continuance as the commission probed the company’s finances after a 1948 study showed assets of only $17 in cash.
James Carter names Eugene P. Lombardi of Louisville Kentucky as the new music director at Phoenix Union High School replacing Dr Albert R Etzweiler who after 27 years resigns to teach privately and perform with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Shrine Band. Lombardi is a WWII veteran and former concertmaster at the RAF Orchestra with advanced training at Westminster College and Columbia Teachers College.
Parents of 11 year old Isaac School pupil accuse a teacher of paddling leaving eight to ten bruises on Charles Bosway. County Attorney Warren L. McCarthy says no crime proven. advise to discuss with superintendent J B Sutton or Isaac School Board. Principal Anna McCune calls the teacher gentle and says the school does not use paddles though hands may be used.
The Nationalist Control Yuan urged the government to invalidate passports of officials who sought refuge in British Hong Kong and Portuguese Macao, signaling a crackdown on defectors.
Funeral services for James Walter Jackson aged 73, Phoenix resident since 1898, will be held at 2 p m Saturday at South Phoenix Mortuary led by Rev Morton T Kelsey. Survivors include nine children in Phoenix, California, Texas, Washington and Arizona, with interment at Double Butte Cemetery Tempe. Cumberland Gap note historical fact follows.
Maj. Gen. Merwin H. Silverthorn of the United States Marine Corps Reserve will arrive to inspect facilities for a potential Marine engineer reserve unit in the area. If approved, payroll would total about $71,000 yearly. He will be met at Sky Harbor Airport by local reserve officers and later feted at a luncheon.
Washington February 3 UP The Army says most draftees under the peacetime draft will leave after 12 months The December muster out total exceeded 9 300 leaving about 13 800 of 30 800 inducted or volunteered for 21 months service Army Secretary Gordon Gray had announced the policy last October The 12 month term began December 1 and most will be eligible by month end to reduce manpower to 630 000 amid budget cuts
Phoenix 16 year old Alice McKinney of North Phoenix High School is among 40 national science contest winners for soil chemistry work on treating alkaline Valley soils. She will visit Washington DC meet top scientists, tour Smithsonian, and may earn a scholarship. her cadmium test work rounds out her prize project.
Hong Kong reports that Isbrandtsen Line will stop sailing blockade runs to Shanghai while freighters will still call at other Chinese ports. Four ships were planned to visit Tientsin or Tsingtao in two months. The Flying Arrow was damaged by Nationalist gunboats on a recent attempt. Hans Isbrandtsen in New York stated no change in the line's position.
Phoenix banks posted higher clearings last month than a year earlier. Debits reached 221,537,938, vs 218,464,731 in January 1949, while time and demand deposits on January 31 stood at 193,831,531 compared with 185,923,247 a year prior, per Earle F. Barrows.
Washington February 3 AP eighteen United States military hospitals will be closed or reclassified in five years to save an estimated twenty five million dollars annually. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson said patient care will not be affected and some closures may be used for Veterans Administration patients with officials to discuss shifts with VA and Budget Bureau. VA says no talks have occurred about transferring VA patients. The move forms part of a broader study of the armed forces medical system with more changes expected at smaller installations.
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