County School Taxes Set. Fire District Petition Sparks Red Tape
Pima County supervisors set school tax rates with minor changes and tangled in rules over a volunteer fire district near the Veterans hospital and rodeo grounds. Legal advice said only an affidavit from three taxpayers was needed to verify names, and election timing could range from 60 to 90 days. A formal order is expected by tomorrow to call a likely November 12 election. The area is bounded by Nogales tracks, 12th Avenue, Irvington Road, and old E P S W tracks.
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Pima
Dodd
Colin Dodd
Nogales
12Th Avenue
Irvington Road
Tradex sheriff Higgins Resigns to Rejoin Echols
John L. Higgins veteran peace officer and five year undersheriff announces he is re signing with Sheriff Ed F. Echols. Higgins started as a deputy in Oct 1941 and became undersheriff Jan 1 1943 before a 1944 stint at Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp. war plant.
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John L. Higgins
Ed F. Echols
Higgins
Sheriff's Office
Echols
Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp
Police Probe Drugstores in Hemme Poison Case
Deputy Sheriff Hugh Knox searched Tucson drugstores under county orders to see if Mildred Hemme bought large quantities of tincture of metaphen or mercurial compounds before she died in St. Marys Hospital. The metaphen bottle in her home held insufficient poison, no evidence points to self harm, and the Hemmes return to Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Hugh Knox
Tucson
Mildred Hemme
St. Mary's Hospital
Knox
Hemme
East North Street
Celaya Services Set For Santa Cruz Church
Augustin A. Celaya aged 53 of 316 East 25th Street died Saturday evening in a local hospital. His body will lie in state at the Tucson mortuary tonight with a rosary at 8:30 p.m. and a requiem mass at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at Santa Cruz church. Burial follows at Holy Hope cemetery at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Services are conducted by Sociedad Porfirio Diaz. He is survived by his widow two sons Manuel and Augustin Jr. three daughters Rosa Francisca and Maria a brother Manuel Celaya and two sisters Delfina Bejarmo Tucson and Francisca Valencia Sonora Mex.
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Augustin A. Celaya
East 25Th Street
Tucson
Santa Cruz Church
Holy Hope Cemetery
Sociedad Porfirio Diaz
Southern Pacific
Tucson Advertisers Club and Cactus Chapter Meet
Cactus Chapter Dav and Gov Sid ney P Osborn will attend the 25th anniversary observance from 6 30 to 9 30 p m tomorrow at the veterans hospital. Dana Roehrig Rialto and State theatres manager will speak on Advertising in the Postwar Future at the luncheon at Santa Rita hotel.
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Cactus Chapter
DAV
Veterans’ Hospital
Sidney P. Osborn
Dana Roehrig
Rialto and
State Theatres
Tucson Advertising Club
Santa Rita Hotel
Local recruits sign up in Navy and Marines
Fifteen youths enlist in the Navy and Marines from the local recruiting offices. Seven Marines are new to the corps with two veterans, Norbert Noriega Mesa and Manuel Estevan Otero, both from Tucson. Eight Navy veterans join the V-6 inactive reserves, including Hugh Brooks Horne Jr and Ricardio Jose Laguna among others, with multiple Tucson and Bisbee addresses.
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Corps
Norbert Noriega Mesa
West Twenty-fourth Street
Manuel Estevan Otero
North Church Street
Tucson
Roland Dean Blevines
West Forty-first Street
Gilbert Valdez Orduna
Ontario Street
Ramon Islas Ramirez
Ysidoro Calvillo Aragon
North Anita Street
Richard Arriola Bracamonte
Forty-first Street
Hugh Brooks Horne, Jr
P. O. Box
Ricardio Jose Laguna
Seaman
Fry
Ariz
Billy Rex Johnston
Ft. Huachuca
Charles Francis Palmer
Bisbee
Thomas William McGuire
William Oliver Rhinehart
Charles Plank
East Miles Street
George Taft Jacob
East Fourth Street
Power Plant Manager Loomis Dies in Benson
Funeral services and burial for Alfred Paul Loomis 68 will be held in Tempe Arizona after he died at the home of his daughter Mrs John Hargrave in Benson. Loomis was manager of the power plant at Arizona Falls for the Salt River Valley Water Users association. He is survived by his widow a daughter sister and a grandson.
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Alfred Paul Loomis
John Hargrave
Benson
Tempe
Ariz
Services Held Here For Otis Landrum Veteran
Funeral services for Otis Landrum were conducted at 3 p m at the Arizona mortuary with Chaplain Lamb officiating. Burial followed in Evergreen cemetery soldiers plot. Landrum, a World War I disabled veteran, had resided at the local hospital since 1930 and is survived by brother Len who arrived Saturday.
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Arizona Mortuary
Otis Landrum
Lamb
Veterans’ Hospital
Evergreen Cemetery
Landrum
Len
Five Negro GIs Held In Theft Near Nogales
Three soldiers from Davis Monthan Field are held for highway robbery after a $300 Nogales robbery that left Murphy Harris wounded. Eyewitnesses Moreland Nee and James A. Boyd identified Sgt. Ernest Bonaparte, Pvt. Charles C. Gills, and Pvt. Charles E. Albright. Harris was assaulted when a car with six men stopped near a side street. $217 including a $100 bill was found in the vehicle. Santa Cruz county officials will prosecute.
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Davis- Monthan Field
Santa Cruz County
Nogales
Murphy Harris
Ernest Bonaparte
Charles C. Gills
Charles E. Albright
Pfc Moreland Nee
James A. Boyd. Harris
Harris
Sgt
Bonaparte
Arizona
Smith Services To Be Held In Seneca Kas
Sadie Smith 80 a Tucson resident for four years died in a local hospital. She lived with daughter Alta Smith 809 East Fourth Street. The body will lie in state at Bring's funeral home 2 to 9 p m tomorrow and be shipped Wednesday to Seneca Kas for services and burial. She was born in Costa county Ia and is survived by son Ross M Smith Horton Kas.
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Sadie Smith
Tucson
Alta Smith
East Fourth Street
Bring’s Funeral
Seneca
Kas
Mrs. Smith
Costa County
Ross M. Smith
Horton
Requiem Mass for James Conway 53
A requiem mass was said at 9 am at St. John's church for James Conway 53 who died in a local hospital Thursday Burial followed in Holy Hope cemetery Conway lived here since 1937 and was a World War I veteran He is survived by sister Mrs Anna K Banker of Chicago who attended the service.
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St. John’s Church
James Conway
Holy Hope Cemetery
Mr. Conway
Anna K. Banker
Chicago
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Celaya
MODE
Epes Randolph Lodge
F & AM
Masonic Temple
Navy
Marines
Loomis
Gabardine
Catalina Chemical CO
Smith
Seneca, Kas
New Today
Jackie
Congress
al Becker
Garbardine
Calege Shop
N. Park
Harrold
Valuca
Jacome’s
Kate Greenaway
McGregor
Bayon Gabardine
ETON
Longie
Melton
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