Escaped Leper Believed To Be Across Border
Federal prisoner with leprosy escaped en route to Carville from Arizona and is believed to have fled to Mexico. Miguel Herrera Verdasco, 25, vanished between San Antonio and Harwood after boarding a Southern Pacific train bound for New Orleans. Home listed as Pajacuaran, Michoacán, Mexico. He previously escaped to Mexico and later returned to the United States.
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San Antonio
Texas
Mexico
Carville
Arizona
Miguel Herrera Verdasco
Southern Pacific
New Orleans
Herrera Verdasco
Harwood
L. H. Howard
Tucson
Pima County
Ariz
Mount Lemmon
Pajacuaran
Michoccan
Howard
Chi CoEee
Linder Resigns From Yuma Chamber Post
William B. Linder resigns as secretary of the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce after 2 1/2 years in the $6,000 yearly post to focus on his flower business.
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Yuma
William B. Linder
Yuma County
Dynamiting to Open Colorado River Cut at Needles Topock
The 12 mile man made channel between Needles California and Topock will be sent by a sand plug detonation today. The 17 foot deep 200 foot wide channel aims to restore a defined route for the Needles Topock swamp and ease flood pressure. The Colorado River was diverted by the Reclamation Bureau using a hydraulic suction dredge begun in February.
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Needies
Calif
Topock
Needles-Topock
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Needles
Reclamation Bureau
Tempe Voters to Decide Two School Bond Issues
Tempe taxpayers vote July 24 on two school bond issues. One for 11,100 to buy a 2 acre site west of Roosevelt between Ninth and 10th streets for a new school building, the other 231,000 to construct the building for primary grade pupils. Sixth through eighth grade will attend Tenth Street School with younger pupils split between the other two. If approved, construction would start and be finished by September 1952.
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Gazette’s
Tempe Bureau
TEMPE
Sch
Roosevelt
Ninth
10Th Streets
Tyler Street
Tenth Street
Missing Tucson Twins Back Home
Tucson, June 25 AP says 14 year old twins Bernard and Ard Acton returned home after a week missing. They vanished June 15 and their mother thought they went to Gary Indiana. The teens told officers they stayed in Tucson sleeping behind stores and were tired when found by county officers Friday night.
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Tucson
Ard
Bernard Acton
Gary
Ind
Consuls Bien Zweig and Antonio Certosi Attend Conference
Bien Zweig and Antonio Certosi two American consuls stationed in Nogales Sonora are in Mexico City to attend a Latin American consular conference.
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Nogales
Bien Zweig
Antonio Certosi
Gales, Son
Mexico City
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William S. Engle
Second Ave
Phoenix
Michelangelo
Rivera Siquieros
Jean Charlot
Charlot
University of Hawaii
USC
J. P. Ward
Arizona Department of Public Health
U. S
Wayey
Martin J. Adler Ben Owen John Hovis
West Coast Life Rept
Ance Company Security
Fhoenix
Jefeerson
Crosley
TER Wees Furniture CO
E. van Buren
Yuma Cofc
Marie Beynon Ray
American Gem Society
I JO le
Parent-Teacher Association
Payne Training School
Maricopa County Council of
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H. C. Hanger
Council
L. Alton Riggs
William Bloys Post
American Legion
Legion Hall
Dilworth Baird
John Durden
Joe Selleh
Temperatary Club
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Apache Blvd
Prescott
Alfred Moody
District Veterans Hospital
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Guadalupe Mission
Estes Park
Colo
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
W. F. Grieve
Helen Anderson
Murray
Insurance Agency
Whitney
W. L. Murphy
2Nd Avenue
P.M
Monroe
Kodak
SALE
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