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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1949
Page
5
A jailer surprised 40 Kern County inmates as they prepared to saw from a cell block through a window grill. Sheriff John E. Loustalot said Art Cross sounded an alarm, sending reserves to reclaim control. The origin of the saws remains unknown.
NOGALES Dec 12 The state corporation commission opened a hearing on Santa Cruz county boards request to exceed its budget by 33500 The board asked 25000 for indigent sick care funds exhausted in five months Also 6500 for prisoners meals and 2000 for a car for the assessor office
Betty Lou Marbury a 10 year old from Brownsville Tenn writes to thank readers of the Memphis Commercial Appeal for prayers and support after doctors warned she might lose her right hand to a malignant finger lesion. More than 6000 letters and packages arrived as faith communities nationwide prayed for her recovery and urged churchgoers to keep the faith.
The department of agriculture reported favorable growing conditions for truck crops in November in Phoenix and Yuma. By December 1 broccoli cauliflower carrots and cabbage were moving to market, while lettuce shipments declined due to prices below marketing costs.
Clifford F. Berryman, longtime Washington cartoonist for 53 years and creator of the Teddy bear, died at 80 after a heart ailment. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at Washington Heights Presbyterian Church.
More than 25 4-H club leaders from six Arizona counties gather in Scottsdale for a three day clinic on tractor maintenance and repair. Leaders from Cochise Greenlee Maricopa Pinal Yavapai and Yuma attend to train young farm leaders.
Kenneth L. McKee of Tucson, director for the University of Arizona extension service, says delegates will enter regional and national contests in tractor care and operation. Arizona winners earn an all expense trip to Chicago for the next national 4H club congress.
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