Tempe Sets Bond Election for High School Expansion
Tempe Union High School bond election set for Saturday October 1 announced by E A Row principal. If approved bonds up to 51000 would buy Eighth Street property adjacent to the high school for expansion. District No 3 would buy Tyler Street acreage for a new primary building. no bond needed for that project. Election runs 10 a m to 6 p m at the high school. voters must own real property in the district.
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Tempe
Tempe Union High School
School Board of Trustees
E. A. Row
Eighth Street
Tyler Street
Mesa Seizes BB Guns After Window Damage Spree
Mesa police, led by Chief Marion Trowbridge, ordered confiscation of all BB rifles after $1,100 in damage to six shop windows. Youths sought as officers report damage at Lyle Trimble's home and at Wrights West End Market Urban's Wheel Alignment Tony's Car Market Farmers' Building Materials and Randall Brothers.
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Mesa
Marion Trowbridge
Trowbridge
Lyle Trimble
West Main Street
Wright
West End
Urban
Tony's Car Market
Farmers’ Building Materials
Randall Brothers
Faculty Meet Closes Today
Nearly 200 educators from colleges nationwide attended the annual faculty planning conference at Arizona State College Tempe. Dr. Grady Gammage welcomed participants and discussed the $4,000,000 campus building program as tours of the Tempe campus showcased ongoing projects.
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Phoenix Gazette
Tempe
Arizona State College
Grady Gammage
Gammage
Harold Batchelor
George Yates
Alfred Thomas, Jr
Joel Benedict
Rufus Kay Wyllys
Author To Direct Course In Writing
TEMPE Sept 9 A special course in professional writing will be taught at 1 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the Fall semester at Arizona State College. Instructor John Myers author of Silverlock and other novels is in Arizona on a writing assignment for E P Dut ton and Company. Students may enroll Tuesday through Friday next week, limited to undergraduates. The course offers three hours semester credit.
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Phoenix Gazette
Tempe
Arizona State College
John Myers
Myers
Arizona
E. P. Dutton and Company
New York City
Tucson Flier Hurt In Crash Near School
Robert C. Sutherland 25, a war veteran, was seriously injured when his private plane crashed just after takeoff from Gilpin Airport. The aircraft struck a lot beside Flowing Wells School after engine failure. He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital with a possible skull fracture and facial injuries. Sutherland, married with one child, had flown in from Detroit after the war and returned to his home base at the municipal airport via Gila Bend trip.
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Tucson
Robert C. Sutherland
Gilpin
Flowing Wells School
Sheriff's Deputies
Sutherland
St. Mary’s Hospital
Gila Bend
Detroit
Safe Burglary Nears Solution in Tucson
Police recovered the missing safe five miles west of Nogales Highway with about half of the original $4,000 cash inside. An eyewitness described a man wheeling the safe from the Pacific Finance Company office Tuesday night, placing it in a car, then returning to the building. Between $4,005 and $7,000 in checks were reported missing from Pacific Finance Company and Pacific Finance Loans.
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Pacific Finance Company
Tucson
A Solutions
Nogales
Pacific Finance Loans
New Tucson Hotel Opens Tomorrow
The $900,000 Westerner Hotel at Stone Avenue and Broadway in Tucson will open tomorrow. It is a four story building with 64 guest rooms each opening on a balcony. Meyer Cohen, operator of hotels in Florida and elsewhere, owns the property and Mrs. Gertrude Briggs will manage.
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Tucson
Westerner
Stone Avenue
Broadway
Meyer Cohen
Florida
Gertrude Briggs
Magistrate Quits To Open Store
TEMPE September 9 The City Council will soon appoint a successor to George V McCormack who resigned as city magistrate after serving a number of years W M Eskridge is acting magistrate McCormack will open a retail store in Scottsdale.
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Tempe
George V. McCormack
W. M. Eskridge
McCormack
Scottsdale
Hot Rod Blow Up Burns Patrolmen
In Tucson on September 9 AP reported Capt. Richard Whitlow and Patrolman Raymond Ledon of the Highway Patrol as they questioned a hot-rod driver. Two water hoses burst, venting steam and causing minor burns to the officers who were treated at Pima County Hospital.
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Tucson
Richard Whitlow
Raymond Ledon
Highway Patrol
Pima County
Three men questioned in drowning of Cecilia Pence
In Yuma an inquest into the death of 45 year old Cecilia Pence was opened after she drowned in the Colorado River. Joe Rowe Richard Hancock and Thomas Mathewson were questioned. Pence had been swimming fully clothed when swept by a whirlpool and her body was found downstream against a log. The inquest was postponed indefinitely by Coroner R H Lutes. Pence's husband Marvin Pence lived in Phoenix while she resided in a shack near the hobo jungles east of Yuma.
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Yuma
Cecilia Pence
Colorado River
Joe C. Rowe
Richard Hancock
Thomas W. Mathewson
Rowe
State Pioneer Woman Dies at 77 in Phoenix
Madeline Alfreda Marquardt, 77, Arizona pioneer and Phoenix music teacher, died after a brief illness at 1828 West Madison Street. A resident 20 years, she taught in Bisbee and with the Phoenix Elementary School system. Born in Berlin, she came to the U.S. in 1898, lived in New York briefly, and is survived by daughter Helen and husband Fred. Funeral arrangements are pending at Grimshaw Mortuary.
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Phoenix
West
Madison Street
Marquardt
Bisbee
Piano Teachers’ Organization
Moose Lodge
Order of the Eastern Star
Woman’s Democratic Club
Berlin
Germany
States
New York
Fred
Helen
Grimshaw Mortuary
New Mail Service Extended for Flagstaff
Flagstaff postal delivery will be expanded to serve nearly all residents. The Post Office Department authorized about 10 000 dollars more yearly for Flagstaff. All routes will be extended and an additional mounted carrier will join the two foot carriers. The existing rural route will be extended.
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Flagstaff
Post Office Department
Church Meeting Set for Arizona Convention in Tucson
About 100 delegates are expected to attend the annual Christian Churches of Arizona convention in Tucson from October 10 to 12. State president Walter Hofmann made the announcement.
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Tucson
The
Christian Churches of Arizona
Walter Hofmann
Grand Canyon College Plans Inaugural Rite
Prescott AP report notes Grand Canyon College Baptist liberal arts school will open Tuesday September 9 with a 1 PM parade led by Governor Dan E Garvey, marching to City Park. High school bands and church floats expected. KTAR official Howard Pyle to MC the 2:30 PM program with state and college leaders attending. Enrollment listed at 150 with students from five states. federal recognition as non profit higher learning.
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Prescott
Grand Canyon College
Dan E. Garvey
Howard Pyle
KTAR
Garvey
M. L. Brooks
Willis J. Ray
Casa Grande Attorney Walter B Love Jr Dies
Walter B Love Jr 44 city attorney and justice of the peace for Casa Grande died in Santa Ana California from a ruptured appendix while on vacation He came to Casa Grande in 1938 after graduating from the University of Arizona law college He served as city attorney and justice of the peace and was active in the Arizona Municipal League Judiciary Committee He was a member of the Casa Grande Lions He is survived by wife Ruth three children Mango John and Bruce mother Mrs Walter B Love Sr and brother Dr Newton Love
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Walter B. Love, Jr
Santa Ana
Calif
Love
University of Arizona Law College
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Arizona Municipal League
Casa Grande Lions Club
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Mango
John
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Walter B. Love
Los Angeles
Newton Love
Funeral Planned for Jesus Soto Brother of Sonora Governor
Hermosillo Mexico Sept 9 AP Funeral arrangements were under way for Jesus Soto 49 brother of Ignacio Soto recently sworn in as governor of Sonora He died Wednesday in Los Angeles where he had lived for 20 years He worked in brokerage and tourist bureau businesses.
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Son
Mex
Jesus Soto
Ignacio Soto
Sonora
Soto
Los Angeles
Hearing Delayed On Slot Machines in Tucson
A petition by Pima County Sheriff Jerome P Martin seeking permission to destroy 16 slot machines was reset for late October after Superior Court Judge Lee Garrett noted a 60 day notice requirement was overlooked. Martin had refused to return seized machines to three Tucson clubs and sought destruction under a 1947 Arizona law.
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Tucson
Pima County
Jerome P. Martin
Superior Court
Lee Garrett
Garrett
Martin
Arizona
Air Officer Faces Murder Charge in El Paso Bar Shooting
Captain Joseph Phillips of Alton Newfoundland Labrador is charged with shooting Vernon Hopper, 28, who tended bar at an El Paso establishment Tuesday night. Phillips, 35, insists his wife still loves him and plans to contest the murder charge with his attorneys seeking release on a writ.
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EL Paso
Tex
Joseph Phillips
Alton
Phillips
Biggs Air Force
Justice of the Peace Court
Vernon Hopper
Hopper
Leo Jaffe
Stanley Caufield
Growth Of Tucson Is Slowing Down
Tucson water department records show a slowdown in city growth. August installations totaled 52 versus 90 in August 1948, with construction value for the month at about one third of last year’s.
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Tucson
Banker's Rites To Be Today
Prescott obituary notes funeral services for M B Hazeltine pioneer banker who died Wednesday at 4 p m at Congregational Church interment Mountain View Cemetery He was born October 9 1865 in Foster Ohio arrived in Prescott in 1890 from Seligman via Bullock Road launched career at Bank of Arizona and became president in 1928 serving 59 years
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M. B. Hazeltine
Charles Franklin Parker
Congregational Church
Mountain View Cemetery
Hazeltine
Foster
Warren County
Ohio
Seligman
Bullock Road
W. E. Hazeltine
Bank of Arizona
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