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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1961
Page
7
A Coolidge school bus carrying seven students at its second to last stop was hit by a Southern Pacific passenger train near La Palma ten miles south of Coolidge. Driver Ted Andrews and a 13 year old sixth grader Ignacia Garcia died. the bus had 49 passengers normally.
A state legislative committee of the Chamber of Commerce recommends the chamber back a doubling of the tobacco luxury tax. The panel also endorses priorities including funding for a Tucson medical school, air pollution study, and programs for mentally ill and handicapped children near Tucson. It backs school book funding by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to offset revenue loss from tax repeal. The group supports easier state land access for parks and school sites and calls for statewide periodic traffic vehicle safety inspections.
The search for the missing California plane believed to be en route to Tucson continued into the eighth day. Four planes sweep a dogleg pattern from Tucson to Gila Bend and Blythe, with occupants named Ross Weber William Powless and George James O'Brien Jr. still unaccounted for after a Dec 2 disappearance.
The City Planning and Zoning Commission faced a chaotic hearing over David Collen’s request to rezone a North Side tract from mobile home to heavy apartment zoning. Tensions rose as Collen described potential messes from trailer placements, while neighbor Laura Brennan sparked tension with remarks about a buffer strip, prompting the chair to remark on her earlier point.
County officials from most Arizona counties formed the Arizona Association of County Officials at the Elks Club. Temporary chair Walden Burr of Pima pledged an omnibus pay raise drive as the first priority, with Burr to head the new group’s executive committee. Other officers include Harry Ackerman of Pima and Alvin Krupp of Graham.
A landowner fears residential zoning could devalue her property though the site is currently industrially zoned. Community concerns focus on potential loss of land value and the clash with industrial designation.
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