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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1947
Page
7
George Gallup reports that almost three quarters of Americans find it harder to balance budgets than last year with only three of every hundred easier. Farmers are lightest hit while wage value and cost of living continue to pressure spending and politics ahead of next November.
Tokyo boasts about one hundred public baths serving thousands of visitors each day, reflecting a long standing cultural habit. The facilities attract many Japanese men and women who use the baths for cleansing, relaxation, and socializing.
The civil aeronautics board finished a five day hearing into fires on two DC-6 four engine airliners. Donald W. Douglas Jr. testified that fires likely stemmed from overflow gasoline entering a heater intake. Fatal Bryce Canyon crash noted with a later Gallup, New Mexico landing without injuries.
Macon Georgia dispatch reports Dr. W. B. Burke 83 a retired Methodist minister who spent 56 years as a missionary in China. He died here on Friday and was the subject of the book My Father in China by his son James Burke.
A midget death ray using electrons is shown by Dr. Ralph T. Overman at an Auburn conference on radioactive atoms in agriculture. The beam, 10 feet into space, travels from a tiny glass bottle and uses phosphorus from Oak Ridge. The device releases nearly two million electron volts per electron.
Three children playing with matches while parents were away died in a blaze that destroyed a two story frame house in Fort Smith Arkansas. Charred remains were identified as Louise Banning nine Irvin Osborn two and Mary Jane Milan nine of their families. A fourth child Hilda Banning ten escaped from a second story window and was listed in serious condition but improving.
Hervey Smith, ex YMCA secretary, who recently returned from the Hawaiian Islands, told Kiwanis members at the Pioneer hotel luncheon that he favors statehood for Hawaii. He arrived in Tucson last week after spending several days abroad.
A Saturday evening in December 1947 featured a visit by Sarsen Batly to the islands where many former Tucsonians are in business. After a brief talk a quartet from the University of Arizona performed Christmas songs with Hartley Snyder on piano.
Corn sugar called glucose is not sweet and is applied to the backs of postage stamps.
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