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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1949
Page
8
Sigmund Engel known as Sam, a 73 year old accused in a string of confidence games, was freed from jail on a total of 37600 bonds after three months of legal effort by attorney J Edward Jones. The final bond lowered the federal count from 10000 to 100 while state charges totaling 37500 were posted.
State Entomologist J L E Lauderdale reported Arizona spent about 8000 dollars as its share of over 16000 dollars total for grasshopper control in Graham Santa Cruz Cochise and Pima counties. The federal government covered aircraft and equipment while state funds funded labor and bait. The program achieved about 85 percent kill after treatments. Governor Garvey declared the emergency last July to release funds.
Perrin Air Force Base officials released the names of the two airmen killed in the Wednesday crash of a training plane. They were Lt. Eugene B. Nowak, 24, of Milwaukee, and Cadet Frederick G. Gray, 23, of Altoona, Pa.
The windstorm that swept Wisconsin last Monday has killed eight, including a Minneapolis man in a highway crash near Balsam Lake. Fishermen from Chicago, Harry Hallis and Arthur Becker, are tentatively identified among the deaths, with drownings, an electrocution, a wind-blown door injury, and a heart attack cited among the storm toll. Ethiopian growers reportedly hold about 10,000 tons of coffee to push prices higher.
A prison barber shop attack at Folsom Prison left Willard Barton 49 dead and Frederick Chick Galloway critically wounded. More than 100 inmates were questioned as investigators seek motive, but officials report a wall of silence with three known troublemakers placed in solitary confinement.
The Arizona Supreme Court, now a five member body, gains complete quarters on the capitol’s second floor after renovation. Justices Evo De Concini and M. T. Phelps will occupy new refrigerated, carpeted offices with wall to wall book cases and mahogany desks. The $20,000 remodeling funded by the Legislature last January repurposed rooms once used by the egg inspector and the State Inheritance and Estate Tax Department.
The dream four lane coast to coast highway would include Florida through California with Arizona route proposed from Lordsburg New Mexico through Willcox Benson Tucson Picacho junction Coolidge Chandler Mesa Phoenix Glendale Wickenburg Ehrenburg to Los Angeles. Arizona officials say the project remains speculative despite discussions at a San Antonio meeting.
In Denver on October 13 a delegate of the American Dietetic Association advised wearing suspenders as the best and easiest way to cut a big waistline. The dietician argued belts cause men to extend their stomachs to keep pants up.
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