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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1949
Page
2
City finances show underspending in five months of the 1949-50 year with expenditures at 723 434 below budget by 86 906 and receipts at 858 849 above estimates. Police and fire spending are under budget while city farm profits and liquor licenses exceed projections helping close the year with a 222 900 reserve.
Requiem high mass for Herbert H. Pete Hudson who died Wednesday at his home 1723 E Linden St is set for 9 a m tomorrow at SS Peter Paul s church with burial in Holy Hope cemetery The family rosary will be recited at 8 o clock tonight at Reilly s chapel Active pallbearers are John Badger James Crowder Ted Riggs Richard Jacome Loyal A Hogg and Gerald Swanick
Samuel Houston Harris 64 died at home on 21 S Melrose Ave. Funeral at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Arizona mortuary with Epes Randolph lodge No. 32 F and AM officiating. Burial in Evergreen cemetery Masonic plot. Fire department pallbearers led by James Redman. Survivors include wife Virgie Lee and son Clarence E., a Tucson firefighter. A brother three sisters and a daughter also survive.
The city planning and zoning commission voted unanimously to ask the mayor and city council to secure 80 to 110 foot rights of way for East Broadway widening from the east city limits to Campbell avenue and beyond. Proposal includes a 110 foot width to Park avenue and 80 feet to the subway, to straighten the street. Additional action requests property acquisition at North Campbell and Grant road for East North Street transition. Other items include rezoning requests on Congress street area and South Fourth avenue.
Pima county health and welfare department reports 26 contagious cases in November led by nine scarlet fever and six whooping cough. Nine immunizations include 49 smallpox shots, 97 diphtheria jabs, 61 anti tetanus. The department conducted 849 X ray exams, admitted 25 tuberculosis patients, added 81 to nursing rolls, and logged 36 dogbite cases.
Frankie Ortiz two years old was knocked down in his yard by a borrowed car driven by Ramon Ruiz. He was returned home with a broken left leg in a heavy cast. Ruiz was jailed on drunk charges after the incident reported by the boy’s grandmother Rosalia Ortiz at 370 South Main Street.
George L. Hill 27 of Tucson faced indecent exposure charges after alleged molesting near Elizabeth Barton school. He pleaded innocent at arraignment before Justice Clark H. Johnson, with trial set for December 28 and bond set at 300 dollars. Hill resides at 3508 East Pima Avenue.
A four member subcommittee of the Chamber of Commerce invites potential female models for Tucson's Salad Bowl float. Designer Ernie Cabot seeks a "Jennifer Jones like" Spainish coquette type with beauty brains and a vixenish edge. Despite searching campuses downtown and homes the right candidate remains elusive.
UA sorority rules remained in force with minor changes as the Pan Hellenic council approved adjusted social limits. The plan allows one additional serenade per week and a biweekly dinner, with a 8 15 p m curfew on school nights, affecting 638 women across 10 sororities.
University of Arizona students awaited the Lone Ranger on their unique projection TV, the only one of its type in Tucson. The 18 by 24 inch screen, built by the electrical engineering department, produced fuzzy images as engineers planned new antennas to improve reception when the Phoenix station began broadcasting.
A record hot November in Tucson boosted water use by nearly nine percent from a year earlier. Merrill Biggs of the water department reports 274,980,160 gallons pumped in November with charges totaling 49,011 dollars, up 2,286 from October.
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