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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
6
Reporter Sally Dixon tours Brunate Italy near Lake Como. She describes the funicolare ride up the steep hillside to a hill town of 2000 with narrow streets, courtyards, villas, gardens, and a single Grand Hotel Milano. Dogs, flowers, and Italian life fill the scene as bells of daily townsfolk echo from the hillside.
Arizona's national guard conducted combat maneuvers at Fort Huachuca emphasizing individual soldiers and small unit tactics. The regimental combat team, after a week and a half of training, practiced advance guard formations with live firing and defensive actions, with units up to company size to participate this year.
El Conquistador Saddle Club announces its fifth annual fall horse show for November 20 with a committee to be appointed in September. A special obstacle race offers a $50 purse and a trophy, which must be won three times to retain permanently. Entry lists are due by October 15.
J Chris Wertz, longtime Bank of Bisbee manager, will arrive in Tucson September 1 to head the trust department for both Tucson and Bisbee banks. He will assist Tucson manager M E Zetterholm and replace John Emery, who moves to Phoenix. Gherken transfers from Douglas to Bisbee as Wertz’s successor.
At the Harlow Brooks medical conference in Ganado Arizona Dr Henry M Benning described chloromycetin as a new chemically created organism seven to 36 times as effective as penicillin in treating indolent fever scrub typhus Rocky Mountain spotted fever typhoid and other resistant diseases It has been on the market less than three months and may be produced commercially soon He noted rapid absorption and no known adverse after effects Dr L D Beck of Phoenix praised dramamine for motion sickness saying it is powerful non toxic and avoids the drawbacks of previous drugs
The Tucson Chamber of Commerce industrial committee plans a graphic study comparing local tax costs for new industries with those in nearby cities. The effort aims to show needed tax structure changes and attract business, with a Phoenix report cited as evidence. A tentative industrial exhibit including an airplane and automobile show is also proposed.
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