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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1961
Page
3
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, with a severely bandaged left hand, returned home from two days in hospital after a Christmas Eve pigeon hunt explosion fractured his left hand bones. Doctors said the injury should not be permanent.
Phoenix city council approves final plan for Papa go Park a 1100 acre site four times Encanto Park. Projects include an 18 hole golf course clubhouse lakes picnic areas and a parkway drive with recreation fields. City Park Director L Cedric Austin estimates cost 750000 with annual profit around 50000.
Hollywood report says comedian Jimmy Durante and wife Margie Little plan to adopt a baby girl delivered at their home. Final adoption may take six months. Durante jokes about fatherhood and the baby’s blondish red hair and brown eyes.
In Houston Texas Tassie Ann Shilling aged six got a broken record player from Santa as a child she learned to mix it and this year she asks Santa in a postscript to fix her record player before leaving it under the tree for his attention.
The Senate Appropriations Committee opened a series of budget hearings in Phoenix with chairman Sen. Robert W. Prochnow presiding. The Land Department Post Auditor and Insurance Department were heard, with plans to split sessions for minor boards and commissions and continue until the legislature convenes. The House Appropriations Committee was set to begin similar hearings next week.
John C. Cox purchases controlling stock of KWBY broadcasting from Mor rie and Elnora Mindel, with Scottsdale Broadcasting Company seeking FCC approval in January. Cox plans no programming changes and will continue Western music from the Safari Hotel station in the West's Most Western Town.
Two Ajo High School students Christine Melendrez aged 14 and Sally Denny aged 19 were critically injured when the car they rode in plunged about 150 feet into a canyon on Child's Mountain Road. Denny the driver suffered fractures of the neck pelvis and elbow while Melendrez sustained serious brain injuries and head cuts. An airman and two other passengers had lesser injuries. The Melendrez girl was to be moved to a Phoenix hospital when stable. Names on board included Allen Giles 19 Patricia Denny 15 and an unidentified Luke Air Force Base airman.
Reporters say top executives from American Airlines and Eastern Air Lines indicate a possible merger, though no formal proposal exists. The Times notes hints of discussions among high level personnel and stockholders, with denial from the airlines. A merger could create the largest domestic carrier with about $820 million in assets.
UPI reports the Army Corps of Engineers will hold a flood control hearing in Willcox on January 31. Residents will testify to aid planning of flood control projects to protect the town from possible disastrous floods.
A cold snap from polar air brings record lows from Florida to New England. Snow blankets regions above and beyond, with Iowa reporting shoveling deaths and Maryville rescuers freeing a stranded group from a pumping station amid fuel and food shortages.
In Fontana California a family suffered severe burns in a house fire. Annabelle Starry, 30, sustained third of her body burns and both Elmer Starry, 30, and daughter Donna, 6, were critically burned. Two firefighters were slightly burned. Neighbors helped rescue the children as the home burned, with several family members later to be cared for by an aunt.
Adolf Eichmann in Ramile Prison rejected a priest's offer of a special Christmas service. He spent the day pacing in his death row cell and ate the jail's traditional turkey dinner for Christian prisoners while hearing Christmas carols from other inmates. He also looked over Christmas cards from relatives, with the reason for rejection not known.
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