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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1947
Page
2
The city received a rare copy of The First Tucson city directory printed 1908 by F. E. A. Kimball sold for 2 dollars. Presented Monday by Mrs. George Bopp, daughter of former City Marshal Dallas Ford, who guided early local law enforcement.
The funeral for Raymond B. Pernell 37 of Bisbee will be held Tuesday after his body was found at the Bisbee Rifle and Pistol Club range near Warren. Sheriff I V Pruitt said Pernell died from an accidental pistol wound to the heart during shells removal. He left work Thursday, and his wife Mrs Mae Pernell reported him missing Friday. Pernell leaves a 12 year old daughter, his father Bert Pernell, and brothers Earn and Carrol Pernell.
Wayne Irwin Walbridge 24 faces Dyer Act charges in a preliminary hearing at 9 a m Wednesday before U S Commissioner Thomas H McKay. The FBI says he transported a stolen car from New York City to Benson and he is held in Pima county jail on $1000 bond.
A Morgan McDermott American Legion delegation reports severe poverty on a Navajo hogan near Window Rock. They describe TB, meager food, snow water, and no sanitation, urging aid as funds and policy lag.
The Red Cross center at 186 North Park Avenue will operate Monday evenings from 7 to 9 to collect blood for hospital transfusions. Volunteers are sought. transportation help available by calling 7686.
In Bucharest dairy traders who watered milk to boost profits while prices were controlled were caught and forced to walk the streets wearing placards declaring I am selling milk with water.
Elmer Franks, 41, reports his wife, two daughters, and son in law vanished with a three car caravan from Phoenix to Carthage Illinois. Sheriff Jerry Martin seeks the missing family, stranded in Tucson on funds exhausted, living on office pallets after abandoning plans to find work and regroup.
Two men injured in a two car crash at South Fourth avenue and East 28th street remain in fair condition at county hospital. Antonio Valenzuela 32 and his passenger Ignacio Romero 64 are held for observation. Valenzuela cited for reckless driving after witnesses said he traveled on the wrong side of the street with no lights. The other driver was Mrs R C McTavish of 1507 Blacklidge drive.
P Angue, 21, a New Zealand railway worker, is credited with creating a mechanical brain that can perform intricate mathematical calculations in 16 hours, tasks that previously took four months by human effort.
The Tucson region remains cold with forecasts of a Tuesday low near 36 degrees if clouds persist. The thermometer could drop further if skies clear, while weekend readings stayed around 36 degrees. The mean temperature was two degrees below normal Saturday and six below Sunday as the month trends downward.
Mrs Hyman Bialsky of Roxbury welcomed triplet sons weighing six pounds nine ounces total. Doctors believe they are the tiniest triplets on record in New England.
Mrs Annie Neal Cheyney, 86, longtime Tucson resident since 1930s, died Sunday night at 252 North Main Street. Survived by four daughters in San Francisco Tokyo Tucson and Huachuca, a sister in Los Angeles, seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Funeral at Grace Episcopal Church Wednesday at 3 30 p.m. Rev Jerry Wallace and Rev C E Huntington officiating. Burial in Evergreen cemetery Masonic plot. Reilly funeral home in charge.
The Oberammergau Passion Play is staged once every ten years to fulfill a vow made by the village inhabitants in 1633.
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