Libraries Limited Begins Holiday Book Distribution
Libraries Limited started its holiday book drive delivering about 500 books to Boys Ranch Good Shepherd School for Girls and Girls Ranch in the Phoenix area. The state nonprofit has spent $2,500 on new books and has distributed 10,000 to 20,000 used books to private and parochial schools statewide.
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Richard DuFresne
Libraries Limited
Louise Reed
Phoenix
Santa
Boys Ranch
Good Shepherd School For Girls
Girls Ranch
Arizona
St. Ambrose School
Holy Cross House
Tucson
Tucson Symposium Addresses Drug Addiction And Policy
The symposium in Tucson titled Youth and the Drug Scene drew about 300 professionals. Elliott of the American Social Health Association warned Tucson is ill prepared for heroin’s cheap supply. Dr. Alan Matzger contrasted Tucson and San Francisco costs, while discussing physician patient confidentiality. Aware ness House backslogged 280 cases and speakers urged new facilities. Melevitt of Denver likened the problem to an iceberg and urged discretionary enforcement and focus on treatment.
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Tucson
Robert
Elliott
American Social Health Association
San Francisco
Alan D Matzger
Young
Awareness House
Matzger
Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic
James D. Melevitt
Denver
Arizona
Masked Men Enter Elderly Woman's East Side Apt
Helen Bates an 85 year old Tucson resident at 1035 E Mabel St was confronted by three masked men who pried open a window let themselves in and robbed her of five dollars in change two rings a portable TV and a stereo. Police report the trio ransacked the bedroom and fled the Christopher Square Inn area late last night.
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Tucson
Near East Side
Helen Bates
Christopher Square Inn
E. Mabel St
Tucson Firms Win Road Contracts totalling 1 Million
The Arizona Highway Commission awarded two road construction contracts to Tucson firms last week. Martin Construction Co. won a $512,895 contract to build a bridge across the Verde River at Bridgeport. The Ashton Co. received a $488,873 contract for four short roadway sections and a 17 span bridge on highways 95 and 72 near Packer.
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Phoenix
UPI
Tucson
Arizona Highway Commission
Martin Construction Co
Verde River
Bridgeport
Ashton Co
Arizona
Packer
Patrolman Receives Life Saving Award in Arizona
Tucson Highway Patrolman M L Richardson was honored for saving 22 month old Andy Johnson's life on July 1. The off duty officer performed mouth to mouth resuscitation after neighbors sought help. ceremony held in Phoenix with James J Hegarty presenting the award. Richardson, 44, Iowa native, has served with the Tucson patrol since 1954 and resides with his wife and daughter at 6530 N Camino de la Scarina.
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Arizona
M. L. Richardson
Tucson
Richardson
James J. Hegarty
State Public Safety Department
Phoenix
G. A. Johnson
Johnson
Andy
Iowa
Patrol
N. Camino de la Scarina
Nogales Chamber elects new officers
Nogales Chamber of Commerce has elected Richard Bosse as president. Bosse is a vice president at a musical instrument plant. Robert Barbee was named vice president and William Kohee treasurer.
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Nogales
Nogales Chamber of Commerce
Richard Bosse
Bosse
Robert Barbee
William Kohee
Police Arrest Lad With Heroin
Four policemen acting on a tip arrested a teen aged Illinois boy in his downtown hotel room on suspicion of marijuana and heroin possession last night. Joseph John Hrusa, 19, of Oak Forest, Illinois, was arrested about 9 p.m. Officers said they found about a gram of heroin and two marijuana cigarettes in his room. He said he had been in Tucson about two weeks.
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Joseph John Hrusa
Oak Forest
Ill
Tucson
Extension Service Plans UA Instructors Visits
The University of Arizona merges its correspondence and extension services into a program sending instructors across Arizona several times per semester to meet with off campus students. When instructors are absent, students study by correspondence. The service offers 70 to 90 courses each semester and serves 4 000 to 5 000 people annually per director Ly man Darcy.
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The
University of Arizona
Arizona
UA Extension Service
Lyman Darcy
Luncheon for BPCA Scheduled in Tucson
The fourth annual Tucson luncheon of the BPCA will be at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Ramada Inn. BI PAC president Robert L. Humphrey will address attendees. BPCA board members include Duane B. Anderson, Richard M. Bilby, A. W. Gibson, and Richard Houseworth, with recruitment of new members planned.
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Tucson
Businessmen’s Political Committee of Arizona
BPCA
Ramada Inn
BPAC
Robert L. Humphrey
Business-Industry Political Action Committee
BIPAC
Freedom Monument Remembered at Arizona Memorial Ceremony
The Arizona battleship Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbor 28 years ago, is hailed as a monument of freedom at ceremonies in Arizona. Col. William J. Sims, commander of the Yuma Marine base, calls it a voice for freedom as about 300 attended a memorial with the ship's bell tolling seven times for seven Arizonans who died aboard. Wreaths were laid at Pearl Harbor as veterans groups honored the memory. 1,100 sailors remain entombed.
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Ariiona
Pearl Harbor
William J. Sims
University of Arizona
America
Sims
U.S. Marine Corps Air Station
Yuma
Student Union
Hawaii
Arizona
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Fleet Reserve Association
Avia
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Perry Heating and Cooling
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