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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1949
Page
15
In Maricopa County Superior Court the Grunow Memorial Clinic and trustee William C Gruow face a staff lawsuit led by Dr C B Warrenburg seeking an injunction to halt the alleged diversion of $65,000 to Northwestern University. Judge Charles C Bernstein presided as staff physicians testified about their annual income.
The Candy Bomber airplane sponsored by New Prague Minnesota will drop 8000 candy bars over Displaced Persons camps at Ludwigsburg Weinsburg Geislengen and Bad Aibling next Monday. The effort arrives from various American cities and is disclosed today in Frankfurt Germany.
A Dayton Ohio couple travels to Hastings Michigan to verify if blond blue eyed six year old William O Neill is their son Tommy Ronald Thompson kidnapped five years earlier on October 7 1944. Michigan authorities aid the Thompsons amid lingering doubts and searches tied to a nursemaid disappearance linked to the case.
Mrs Thompson and her husband Anna believe Tommy is their son after noting physical similarities such as blue eyes blond hair webbed toes and a pinched ear. The Michigan Children’s Institute already made him a ward years ago and records show he was born to an unmarried Toledo woman, then raised by a Mexican family. Tommy cannot recall his past.
The Boys' Clubs of Phoenix received two cash gifts totaling 1212.69 to support operating expenses. Radio Station KOY gave 762.69 as net profits from its Fourth of July show at the State Fair grounds, and the Phoenix Junior Chamber of Commerce donated 450 from celebration refreshments. Alfred Knight, club president, accepted the checks at a Junior Chamber meeting.
The Municipal Civil Service Board upheld a five day suspension of city bus driver Robert W Adams of 1118 East Monroe Street from Sept 28 to Oct 2. Adams did not contest the action and had been accused of conduct unbecoming an employee and violating rules against unnecessary conversation while supervisors are in motion.
In a desert chase east of Tucson two Mt Lemmon fugitives Victoriano Gormz Carrillo and Salvador Bernardo Macias were tracked by bloodhounds and recaptured after traveling over 25 miles. Two other men, Carlos Ortiz Solaza and Angel Martinez Ortiz, Mexican nationals believed illegal, were captured and handed to immigration authorities.
United States ambassador Edward S. Crocker will arrive in Phoenix by train at 8 a m Friday for a six day tour of reclamation projects in the Southwest. He will inspect Salt River Project and confer with Salt River Valley Water Users Association officials before driving to Yuma for inspections of the Yuma Gila and All American projects.
William Neil Smith a 28 year old anthropologist from Tucson previously missing since September 17 during a Gulf of Mexico expedition was found safe on Tiburon Island Ray Assmar a Tucson pilot located him and said he had left a letter for Tucson officials but it was not delivered University of Arizona officials and his mother had urged Mexican officials to check on his safety while he studied the SerrI Indians
The Arizona Highway Department invites bids on a new steel arch bridge on the Winslow Clear Creek route five miles southeast of Winslow. The contract covers removal and salvage of the present structure. Bids open October 26 with a completion deadline of May 31.
Wesley Bolin announces reception of Volume 68 of Arizona Reports compiling recent Supreme Court decisions. Copies will go to state institutions and departments with about 100 set for sale after free distribution. A separate note mentions there are over 7,000 ant species.
NOGALES, Oct. 13 AP The Bracero Recruiting Office in Hermosillo was closed today according to the United States Immigration Service. In the past two weeks 4105 Mexican farm laborers entered at this port for employment in Arizona and were mainly sent to the Arizona Cooperative Cotton Growers Association and Agricultural Commodities Incorporated. Immigr ation officials disclosed they were admitted under labor agreements with Mexico. Entrance limits ranged from three to six months. The Mexican laborers were brought into the U S under bond.
The House Post Office Committee recommended adding about 129 million dollars to the annual mail bill, roughly half of the Postmaster General's request. Postal operations run about half a billion dollars in the red. The panel approved only part of the increase for newspapers and magazines, and raised the penny postcard rate from 1 to 2 cents along with parcel post charges.
County Attorney Warren L. McCarthy said he has directed investigator Dan Wisner to locate the transcript of the Arizona Corporation Commission hearing on Arizona Road-A-Scope. Commission chairman William T. Brooks previously said no transcript had been examined by the county attorney.
The State Corporation Commission opened hearings on Railway Express Agency’s petition to raise intrastate rates by 10 percent based on 60 percent of first class traffic. Chairman Brooks said a decision would follow when Wright and Simms return to Phoenix from Washington and vacation. The change would impact milk, cream, and bakery product shipments, including a 100 pound bakery goods shipment from Phoenix to Flagstaff rising to 2.28 dollars from 1.58.
Members of the Association of School Administrative Assistants will hold a dinner meeting at Hotel Westward Ho tonight beginning at 7 o clock. The principal speaker will be J E Zimmerman administrative assistant to the president of Arizona State College at Tempe. He will discuss public reactions.
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