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Newspaper

Tucson Daily Citizen

Location

Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Date

Aug 25, 1949

Page

2

Amphitheater School Plans For 1949 50 Announced

Supt Paul Guitteau and Principal Helen Keeling announced the start of the 1949 50 school year for Amphitheaters three elementary schools. Registration dates are Aug 31 and Sept 1 with specific hours and locations. Bus routes and boundary determinations were outlined along with school hours and opening date Sept 6.

Supt Paul Guitteau Helen B. Keeling Guitteau E. Prince Rd Helen Keeling Wetmore Road Keeling Wetmore Thurber Road Oracle Road Oracle Roger Road Roger Stone Avenue Stone Limberlost Road Limberlost Fourth Avenue Fourth Pinal County Line East Prince Road

Miss Edmonds Wins 500 Prize and DC Visit

Mary Ellen Edmonds 18 of 4130 E Fourth St Tucson high school senior wins 500 cash with all expenses paid trip to Washington DC and a meeting with President Truman for her essay on Employ the Physically Handicapped. She will enter the University of Arizona as a premedical student this fall.

Mary Ellen Edmonds E. Fourth St University of Arizona Tucson High School Washington, D.C Truman Ann Conrad Mary Ellen THS Arizona Missouri Rowland Edmonds

Mrs. Tina Hart Dies on West Coast

Mrs Tina Hart died August 19 in Los Angeles. She had lived in Tucson 23 years. Surviving family includes three sons Earl Wolsey Robert and Dave Brown, a daughter Mrs Fay Johnson, fourteen grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren.

Los Angeles Tina Hart Tucson Earl Wolsey Robert Dave Brown Fay Johnson

Cock'n Bull Ginger Beer Ad Credits British rivalry

An Arizona advertisement promotes Cock'n Bull Ginger Beer as a superior non alcoholic soft drink. It urges consumers to enjoy the spicy tang with a Moscow Mule using Smirnoff Vodka and Cock'n Bull Ginger Beer and notes its strong serving appeal.

England Arizona Moscow Doc Braddock

House Approves Mortgage Insurance to Aid Home Building

The House reversed a civil rights amendment and approved a housing bill creating about 3.75 billion dollars in mortgage insurance to back private lenders in construction of homes for middle income buyers. It also adopted a substitute removing race references and direct veteran loans, while Senate colleagues signaled a similar measure.

Washington House Spence D-Ky Banking Committee Rep. Marcantonio AMN Labor-Ny Rules Committee Banking Raymond M. Foley Congress Truman Senate Banking Committee

New Man In Town Jarred By Sentence

Rodney Paul Mingo of Minneapolis pleaded guilty to reckless driving involving liquor. He was fined 100 dollars and jailed 15 days after his arraignment before Justice C. W. Gardner. The highway patrol said his car hit a parked vehicle on South Sixth avenue while speeding and under liquor influence.

Rodney Paul Mingo Minneapolis Justice of the Peace C. W. Gardner Highway Patrol Mingo South Sixth Avenue Tucson

Wastepaper Blaze Causes $110 Loss

A fire started by scrap paper near a stove damaged a shed at 509 S Meyer St. The fire department used about 3,000 gallons of water and two engines and a ladder truck to prevent spread to the adjacent home and neighboring houses.

S. Meyer St

Tucson Residents Contend Encyc Britannica Sunshine Claim

Tucson officials dispute a 1948 Encyclopaedia Britannica yearbook listing Denver as the sunniest city and omitting Tucson. Tucson Sunshine Climate Club head Russell Soden asserts Tucson averages 3800 sunshine hours yearly, while Denver ranges 2800 to 3000. Weather bureau officials say they will relay the complaint to the chief. Soden awaits word ahead of a forthcoming yearbook.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Tucson Weather Bureau Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Encyclopaedia Denver Russell Soden Tucson Sunshine Climate Club U. S. Weather Bureau Soden

Sunnyside School Registration Opens For Grades One To Nine

Sunnyside school on Nogales highway opens enrollment next Thursday and Friday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. for grades one through nine except first graders registered in spring. Principal Hulda S. Schuch says buses will transport students and health officers will be available for consultations.

Sunnyside Nogales Highway Hulda S. Schuch Rosalind Mulcahey Lucia Allyn

Enrollment Notice for Western District Schools

Students must register on one of two days before school opens at 8 30 a m. All pupils will be transported home by bus after registration is completed. The section's western district will be responsible for the return of students once enrollment is finished.

Sunnyside Consolidated Dwellings Benson Highway

Two Arizonans Reenlist in Navy From Local Office

Machinist Mate 3C Charles Rudolph Tellez 22 and Aviation Ordnanceman 2C Teddy Loren z Jones 25 have reenlisted at the local recruiting station and are ordered to San Diego for assignment. Tellez is the son of Mrs. Emila Pina Tellez of 36 S. Grande Ave. Jones is from Patagonia Arizona.

Navy San Diego Charles Rudolph Tellez Emila Pina Tellez S. Grande Ave Teddy Lorenz Jones Patagonia

Mrs Carmen Flores Rites To Be Friday

Requiem mass for Mrs. Carmen Flores who died Wednesday afternoon at 1524 W Niagara St is set for 9 am Friday at St Margaret s church. Burial will be at 4 pm in Holy Hope cemetery. Rosary will be recited at 8 pm Thursday at the Tucson mortuary. She was 68 and had lived in Tucson 32 years. Survivors include husband Francisco two sons Frank and Antonio of Tucson and two daughters Mrs Maria Cuestas of Tucson and Mrs Carmen Antonio in the Philippine Islands.

Carmen Flores W. Niagara St St. Margaret’s Church Holy Hope Cemetery Tucson Mortuary Flores Tucson Francisco Frank Antonio Maria Cuestas Carmen Antonio Philippine Islands

Theft of plastic piggy bank from Mrs Pacheco home

A small plastic piggy bank containing 35 dollars mostly in quarters was taken from Mrs Richard Pacheco's residence at 543 S Sixth Ave on Wednesday night. She notified police about the theft.

Richard Pacheco S. Sixth Ave

Picket line dispute ends. three firms not struck

Aug. 3 report notes that three firms, Baffert Leon, Southwest ern wholesale, and Turson companies, declined to cross the picket line. Burk, acting as employer's counselor for these firms, participated in the contract negotiations.

Turson Daily Citizen Plaves Baffert-Leon Southwestern Wholesale Burk

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