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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1948
Page
4
Drought hits the Papago Reservation south of Tucson with Supt. Burton Ladd reporting the herd reduced to about 10,000 head. Cattle now average 400 to 500 pounds as winter rains are urgently expected to avert further losses. Revenue for 1948 stood at $663,000 from 8,242 cattle sold this year.
The Arizona land surveying and mapping conference will meet at 10 a.m. December 28 in Phoenix. John C. Park of the University of Arizona announces the event as conference secretary. A postwar mapping study by J W Anthony will be presented with future plans discussed. L O Fiscel is president. F N Holmquist is director. O C Williams is mapping division chairman.
Two aliens are jailed in Pima County under $500 bond for illegal entry. Alonzo Leon-Vautis ta, 23, Mexican, and Antonio Bustamante-Mansanares, 26, both appeared before U S Commissioner Thomas H McKay. Leonard was ordered deported earlier this month and Bustamante-Mansanares said he entered the United States on November 25 one mile east of Sasabe while Leon entered eight miles east of San Luis on December 16.
The 20 30 club plans a private landing near KTUC radio station for Santa in a helicopter at 2 p.m. Thursday. Last year a CAB investigation followed a similar landing on Congress street, leading to a 30 day pilot license suspension. Arizona children’s home youths will greet Santa and collect toys and candy.
Aziel Guy Crouch 62 civic leader and Owl Drug Co owner died at home Sunday in Douglas. Born Sheldon Missouri October 25 1886 he moved to Douglas 1913 and bought the Owl Drug Co in 1918 later owning a drugstore in Superior. He served as a Republican and held multiple local offices. Burial at Calvary Cemetery.
The Salt River wooden Blue Point bridge near Stewart Mountain Dam east of Phoenix sold at auction for 30 to I. F. Collier. The span, long the Phoeniz Payson link, will be removed and banks restored after its replacement by a steel bridge.
In Yuma, a civil suit seeks $19,000 plus costs from J. D. Anderson and Herbert Bechtel and wife Annie Bechtel for a July robbery at George M. Bagby’s home. Anderson pleaded guilty in a criminal case. Bechtel was found innocent. civil case filed before criminal hearings.
Flames tore through the Westminster hotel at 2040 Chestnut Street in downtown Philadelphia killing two guests on the third floor. Ninety five escaped while others were burned or treated for injuries as a fireman battled the blaze for about 35 minutes. Charles Mabe and Madeleine Drost died. Thomas Matthes, Charles Wee, and Michael Kozak were treated for burns.
Phoenix dispatch reports a first degree murder charge against Clifford O. Cash, 21, for the stabbing death of James Raven, 19, during an argument over 25 cents at a cottonpickers camp near Buckeye. Raven was from Fort Worth. The incident occurred Saturday and Cash was charged Monday.
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