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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1969
Page
1
The Senate approved funding for a supersonic transport despite critics calling it a gift to jetsetters at the expense of urban mass transit. The vote was 58-22 to back the SST program while maintaining highway trust fund revisions and rejecting an $80 million cut.
A $2.75 million wrongful death lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court names Waylon Jennings as a co-defendant. The suit by the estate of Walter Conway Jr. accuses Jennings and James Gray, a Tempe nightclub owner and band member, of employing a driver whose camper truck struck a bridge near Downs, Illinois, killing Conway who was a passenger.
Robert D. Wooddell won a 3864 default judgment against former state senator Sol Ahee for misappropriating a premium from Tooley Sons and Tooley Frozen Foods. Ahee, 41, also faces upcoming grand theft and forgery charges over a 24000 premium linked to Donald Brost and the Old Heidelberg loan.
A Superior Court jury of eight women and four men is seated to hear a $250000 damage suit against Tucson General Hospital and two osteopathic doctors Dr John Hirschman and Dr Thomas J Kesson. Peter Sciortino and his wife Helen claim injuries from a July 13 1968 auto crash led to an infected hip after an injection and surgery. Judge Norman S Fenton presides and the case is expected to go to the jury tomorrow. Sciortino also testified before a federal grand jury probing Mafia activity in southern Arizona.
Capt. John F. Donahue commander at Ft. Ord pleaded innocent to narcotics charges and was released on $625 bail. He was arrested in Monterey with two women, Ann Lawrence and Rhonda Hammack, accused of conspiracy to sell marijuana and sale of dangerous drugs.
Mrs. Barden Riggle of Prescott was named by Gov. Jack Williams to fill the vacancy on the State Board of Regents. She replaces Mrs. Norman Rockfellow of Prescott who resigned due to ill health. Riggle will serve until January 6 1975.
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