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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1947
Page
24
Walter Winchell announces the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer fund will complete a $1,000,000 allocation by December 10, marking the first anniversary of Runyon's death. Disbursements include $50,000 for Texas research, $25,000 to Detroit, $100,000 for New England hospitals, and $100,000 for Florida research with more planned for 1948.
In Baltimore on December 8 the Anti-Saloon League of America denounced using GI educational benefits to train bartenders. George W. Crabbe said veterans could be educated in liquor trades and claimed a local Baltimore school teaches this. He vowed firm opposition to universal military training while alcohol sales continue on military reservations.
Eight million pounds of food collected on the Friendship train was en route to France aboard the U S lines freighter American Leader from New York. Arrival at Le Havre is slated about a week before Christmas after a pier ceremony where Ludovic Chancel, French consul general in New York, thanked the American people and transport agencies for supplying and carrying the food at no charge. The ceremony was recorded for Voice of America broadcasts.
Methodist bishops ministers and laymen from across the country gather at Buck Hill Falls Pennsylvania for a six day conference to map a home and foreign missions program for 1948 to 1952 Bishop Arthur J Moore of Atlanta presides with 27 bishops 20 ministers and 60 laymen and women attending Bishop G Bromley Oxnam of New York leads foreign missions division while Bishop A Frank Smith of Houston directs home missions division.
A 25 year old mother Mrs. Dennis Kuhn acts as unofficial housing expeditor in Ann Arbor. With University of Michigan students around 20 000 the six room house fills as applicants flood in. She uses local paper and radio to mobilize residents to offer rooms and register them. She then directs the most needy to available spaces.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler dies at 85 from prochial pneumonia. Funeral services planned at Columbia's St Pauls chapel, with burial in Cedar Lawn cemetery, Paterson NJ. Butler, former Columbia president 1901 to 1945, Nobel Peace Prize co winner in 1931, lifelong educator and peacemaker.
The Florida forest service notes experiments in Louisiana on low cost cattle feed using wood molasses from culled hardwoods blended with cottonseed cake. About 25 cords of wood can produce a tank car load and scrub oak, once a weed, is valued as fuel.
Los Angeles reported J R Witchcock aged 74 former general manager of the Santa Fe railway coast lines died Sunday He was born in Woolwich England
The claim shows how two consonants W and H can be used to spell state names on a puzzle premise. It suggests Iowa and Ohio are represented in this constrained-letter method, illustrating a wordplay concept rather than a factual list of states spelled entirely with those letters.
The executor of the estate of Gilbert Duncan deceased notifies creditors with claims to present vouchers within ten months after first publication. The Valley National Bank of Phoenix and others are named as executors and trustees with deadlines published in December 1947 in Tucson Arizona.
The State of Arizona to Fernando Valenzuela and Jane Doe Valenzuela and others names appear in a 1947 lawsuit filed in Pima County. The case demands appearance within twenty days to defend and lists Elmen W Courtland as the plaintiffs attorney. A hearing on ancillary probate of Dorothy H Rosenstiel is noted in the Superior Court of Arizona, Pima County.
Identified copy of the last will and testament of Dorothy H. Rosenstiel deceased is to be admitted to probate in the Tucson Arizona court. The hearing is set for December 15 1947 at 9 50 in the forenoon in the court room of the court house in Tucson Pima County. All interested parties must appear and show cause.
A legal notice dated November 29 1947 from Belled Hall Clerk M V Montgomery Deputy Clerk lists dates December 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 1947 and requests that the court rule on why the petition should not be granted. The fragment references a seal and official clerk action.
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