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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1949
Page
2
John F. Caarls, city county traffic engineer, began implementing revised school zone markings. Diamond shaped signs on orange backgrounds replace rectangles, with black lettering. yellow no passing lines added and pedestrian crossings marked. Speed limit at crossings outside school zones to be raised. emphasis on cautious driving and children as warning signs.
Dr. Emil W. Haury of Tucson, a leading anthropologist, will depart Tuesday for Bogota to search for Chibcha ruins including pottery and bones. He directs the Arizona state museum and University of Arizona anthropology department and will be joined by his wife and two sons. He holds fellowships from Viking Press and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fund.
Registration for city elementary schools runs Friday from 9 am to noon and 1 to 3 pm, announced by Assistant Superintendent C A Carson. Anticipated enrollment is about 13 000. Tucson junior high principals met to set hours for registrat ion. Junior high students register on an alphabetical basis Thursday and Friday.
An art slide show titled Understanding the Child Through His Art will be shown at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Tucson High School cafeteria by Mrs. Phyllis Logan. The exhibit runs 6 to 9 p.m. and features works from 150 Tucson children created in summer art sessions, with top pieces to be circulated nationally in winter.
London dispatches say seven Cominform states including four bordering Yugoslavia met in Sofia and took “necessary decisions” while Moscow trims no details. Belgrade cables claim 100 to 400 Romanian tanks moved toward the Hungarian border facing Yugoslavia as Iron Curtain military chiefs discuss steps against Marshal Tito. The meeting reportedly focused on economic ties and trade patterns under the Mutual Aid Council, with Bulgaria Albania Hungary Romania Poland Czechoslovakia and Russia in attendance. The Hotel Bulgaria in Sofia was sealed to foreigners and top officers were observed entering.
Enthusiasts from Arizona prepare for a state wide AMA sanctioned event at the Northside model airport on North Campbell avenue and India street. The Cholla Chop pers club sponsors entries accepted at the field or Townsend's hobby shop. Events include precision acrobatics senior junior open classes and FAST racing with a half mile qualifier and a five mile main. Planes must be self built replicas with a one ounce fuel limit and end with a 60 foot tether. Stunt and FAST results judged by AMA officials with five prizes per stunt division and five awards for the main race. COL Peter P. Salgado, son of Peter P. Salgado, returned from Austria and serves as senior army instructor in Michigan.
Sudbury August 29 Dr. Irvin Abell 72 a noted Louisville Ky surgeon and former president of the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons died here after a long career in medicine and leadership in national organizations.
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