Tornado Kills Two Near San Xavier
A tornado near San Xavier damaged five structures including the Norris home and the Mamake house. No deaths were reported. residents and Mission sisters were spared as rescue crews and city officials assessed the scene. Meteorologist Jack Mazur traced the funnel’s formation and dissipation starting about 11 16 a.m. from four miles southwest of Tucson International Airport.
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Mission
Mission School
Jack Mazur
U.S. Weather Bureau
Tucson International
Mazur
U.S
Tucson
San Xavier Mission
Fire, Parks and Recreation
Mark Keane
Juan Mamake
Mamake
Johnny Orosco
Twister Destroys Home as Residents Haunted by Loss
Eyewitnesses recount a deadly tornado striking a mud adobe home near a mission. Norris wife lay unconscious beneath debris while neighbors tried to revive her. Visitor Nicholas Pucci from Orlando witnessed the storm forming near a hill and tearing through the area, damaging the school and nuns residence as roofs and walls collapsed. A saint statue survived amid the ruins.
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Norris
Citizen
Nicholas Pucci
Orlando
Fla
2 Hill
Pucci
Indiana
Important Date Marks Prince Family Births in August
In Omaha on August 2, Hollie Prince gave birth to Gene Everett Prince, the fourth of six children born on that date. The family notes two twin girls now 11 and a boy aged 7 also share August 2 as a birthday. The Tucson Daily Citizen lists publisher details and Tucson delivery rates.
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Omaha
Hollie Prince
Democratic National Convention Final Session Schedule
UPI reports the final convention session in Tucson starts at :30 p.m. Tucson time with invocation by Archbishop Iakovos followed by pledge of allegiance, national anthem, Kennedy tribute film, Humphrey acceptance speech, Roosevelt and Rayburn tributes, Johnson remarks, and Benediction by Rev. John Barclay, adjournment sine die.
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UPI
Fishermen Retrieve Boxes of Grenades Off Spanish Coast
Crewmen on a southern Spanish fishing boat pulled up three boxes containing 90 hand grenades from their nets off Ayamonte. Police seized the grenades, believed to have been underwater since the Spanish Civil War about 25 years ago.
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Spain
UPI
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