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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1973
Page
8
The piece surveys the rise of self service pumps led by Mobil and the Mobi station at East Broadway and Columbus Blvd. Joyce Devoy runs a nine pump site, teaching customers how to pump gas and offering guidance. Women voice concerns about spraying and locating fill points while devoy provides free maps and tips.
A guest writer recalls Tucson social life from the 1940s. Parties at homes of the Mannings Johnsons Drachmans and others featured elaborate setups with flowers linen china and crystal. Travel bon voyage posters by Al Rome and a secret Howard Hughes plant party linger as vivid memories of a gracious formal era.
A Chicago report outlines playground space needs using a 9 by 12 foot example and Britannica standards of one acre per 1000 people, noting urban areas fall short. Hollywood reports Columbia Pictures will film Get the Police about two football players menaced by a crime syndicate during championship playoffs.
London reports that Wales leads Britain in bread butter bacon ham and sugar intake and in potatoes eggs vegetables and other foods. The treasury study based on 7500 housewives data for 1970 1971 notes Scots eat more cake biscuits porridge and haggis while Wales shows high meat and poultry use and overall diet nourishment above health guidelines.
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