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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1946
Page
2
Tucson postal officials report the holiday rush subsiding after the largest mailing spree ever seen in the city. First class cancellations hit 225 247 on Wednesday, 1200 fewer than Tuesday, with parcel post totals of 765 sacks that day. December receipts show a 14.9 percent rise over 1945, while incoming mail soars 22 percent.
The 200 inch telescope from California Institute of Technology is nearly complete and slated for first testing next summer. It will double the distance viewable in space, cover eight times more area, and reflect four times as much light, bringing the Moon closer astronomically. The project, funded by the Rockefeller foundation, involves work in Pasadena and at Mt Palomar.
Dr. L. H. Howard, Tucson health chief, muses on applying city ordinance No. 374 to downtown churches and public buildings. The 1911 rule requires cuspidors with disinfectant at intervals or proper cleaning every three days, with a $20 maximum fine and 10 days in jail.
Tucson area faces about 100 loads of indiscriminate daily garbage. City incinerator runs at 170 percent capacity. Council backs a joint city county trash disposal plan while opposing county zoning bill and using the city farm as a dump.
A Dakota airliner taking off in a heavy snowstorm struck a building near Northolt airport in London on Thursday. The impact gouged roofs off four houses and left the plane resting on a fifth. All four aboard escaped serious injury as fire sparked in the damaged homes but was put out quickly.
The war surplus sale at the former Goodyear aircraft plant in Litchfield Park will close December 20, with most inventory sold. About 3,500 buyers have visited since December 2, including Arizona World War II veterans who bought roughly $100,000 worth of hand drills and work benches.
The veteran carrier Ranger, oldest American flat-top, will be sold for conversion or scrap. Commissioned in 1934 the 14 500 ton ship served at Casablanca Atlantic U boats Africa and the Norwegian coast before ending combat duty in 1943 as a training ship.
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