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Phoenix Gazette

Location

Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Date

Feb 13, 1950

Page

6

Los Alamos Inspectors Die In Secret Plane Crash

Investigators seek cause after a light plane crash Saturday night near Albuquerque killed three aboard, including two safety inspectors Warren Fleshman and Robert Purcell and pilot Hugh Williams. The aircraft, under Atomic Energy Commission contract, was returning from the East Coast to Los Alamos with classified information.

Albuquerque N. M Warren G. Fleshman Hitchcock Okla Robert F. Purcell Loveland Colo Hugh H. Williams, Jr Williams West Mesa The Atomic Energy Commission Cargo Flying Service Atomic City of Los Alamos Elmo Morgan Los Alamos Aec

Korean Assembly Postpones THANKS Mission to Washington

The Korean National Assembly decided to day to postpone indefinitely sending a committee to Washington to carry thanks for American aid. AP reports the delay affects plans for a formal thanks message and diplomatic courtesy.

Korean National Assembly Washington

Mormons Plan South Phoenix Church Site Purchase

Delbert L. Stapley reports a five acre site at Seventh and Southern avenues has been bought near Phoenix for a Mormon church at about 100000 dollars. Construction will not begin until funds are on hand, likely in the fall. The church, the first south of the Salt River, will be led by Bishop Walter P. Haggard with Thurle H. Stapley chairing a four-subcommittee fund drive.

Delbert L. Stapley Phoenix Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Salt River Walter P. Haggard

First Mission Program Set at Union Congregational Church

The Union Congregational Church on West Maricopa Street opens a preaching mission led by Rev. Aylesworth B. Bell with Rev. Fredrick Barnhill opening the series. Meetings run nightly except Saturdays through Feb 26, set up by the Federal Council of Churches of America. Cottage prayer meetings have prepared members in recent Wednesdays.

Union Congregational Church West Maricopa Street Aylesworth B. Bell Fredrick Barnhill First Congregational Church Committee On Evangelism and Federal Council of Churches of America

Veterans Opposed To Hoover Proposal

Phoenix veterans groups protest the Hoover Commission's plan to split the Veterans Administration into five agencies. They warn duplication of 19 million VA files, bed competition, and risk to the existing insurance program, arguing the single VA unit should remain intact for efficiency.

Hoover Phoenix Junior Chambers of Commerce Hoover Commission Veterans Administration Harold Willoughby Lake Greenway American Legion Howard Horn Maricopa Veterans of Foreign Wars Robert W. Cooper Stanley Pitchford Military Order of the Purple Heart Veterans United States Veterans Organization U. S

Government issues 32 major topics in new abstract

The Statistical Abstract of the United States has been issued by the Government Printing Office. It covers 32 major subjects across 1,122 pages including labor force payrolls mining construction housing prices transportation irrigation health manufactures and forests. Obtainable through the Superintendent of Documents or Commerce Field Office.

Statistical Abstract United States Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents Washington, D. C Department of Commerce E. C. Corbell

Night Bible School Enrollments Open

Additional enrollments for the second semester of the night school at 6:30 p m each Tuesday in the Arizona Bible Institute 3025 West McDowell Road will be accepted in the next two weeks Rev Carl R Benson night school director says evening meetings are interdenominational and attractive to Sunday school workers More than 30 persons have enrolled so far Instructors are the Rev Pillman Habegger Rev Carl R Benson Rev A H Woods and Rev E C Eyman.

Arizona Bible Institute West McDowell Road Carl R. Benson Pillman Habegger

Sinking of Finnish freighter Karhula off Dutch coast

The 2214 ton Karhula foundered near Den Helder after deck cargo shifted causing a list. Ten seamen and a stowaway drowned. Seventeen crewmen including Captain Hugo David Groenstrand and two stowaways were saved by Dutch lifeboats as the ship, carrying wood pulp from Finland to France, leaked and capsized after a five hour struggle. Groenstrand ordered abandon ship one minute before sinking.

Finland France Groenstrand

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