Edmonton Mayor Visits Tucson for Winter Getaway
Edmonton mayor Sidney Parsons visits the Lewis home in Tucson as a winter retreat. He praises Canadian climate and outlines Edmonton growth, municipal ownership of utilities, and planning efforts, noting rapid population growth and extensive future spending.
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Sidney Parsons
Edmonton
Alberta
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Dick Olson
Arizona
Canada
City Magistrate Grants Christmas Release for Local Inmates
City Magistrate Paul J. Cella frees all ordinary city jail and city farm inmates at 4 p m tomorrow so they may celebrate with families. He also says offenders with short sentences will be released and urges prisoners to go home for Christmas. In other news, 186 prisoners enjoyed turkey dinners at the county jail on Thanksgiving and about 175 inmates will receive ham dinners on Christmas Day. A small fire damaged part of a trailer at Mountain View Court on Oracle Road, likely caused by a stove, with residents A H Collins and minor property loss noted.
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U S Movie Showing Halt Requested Over Moscow Exhibit
U S movie makers led by President Eric Johnston seek State Department action to stop unauthorized showings of Mr Smith Goes to Washington in Moscow. Johnston says the film was not offered for exhibition in Russia and may violate copyright. He asks diplomats to determine how the Soviet Union obtained the picture and to press for an immediate cessation.
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Navy Seeks Authority to Build New Super Carrier
Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lynde D. McCormick told the Senate Appropriations Committee in secret session that the Navy will seek authorization next month to construct a super aircraft carrier larger than existing giants but smaller than the cancelled United States. He testified publicly yesterday. In closed testimony Navy Secretary Francis P. Matthews urged keeping control of strategic trust territories in the Far East amid tensions, with Okinawa Truk Saipan Tinian and Marianas slated for transfer to the Interior Department next summer.
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Blood donors set record at Davis Monthan base
At Davis Monthan Air Base 304 donors appeared for the Red Cross mobile unit during blood for Korea day. A record 274 pints were collected, surpassing the previous one day record of 262 pints by university students.
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Southern Arizona
Weather poet Abe Leever embodies optimistic view of history
Charles Palmer known as Abe Leever wrote Tucson weather poems and front-page verse. A former Dover Ohio schools superintendent and U S war department consultant, he blends weather records with a long view of human progress and American kindness.
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Phoenix merchants report a strong Christmas season
Phoenix merchants said this Christmas season was among the best on record with more customers entering stores after Thanksgiving than in 1948. Shopkeepers attributed higher sales to fears of shortages and freezes on many commodities.
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U.P
Child In Fair Condition After Drinking Lye
A 14 month old Glendale child was treated at St. Monica's hospital after drinking a mixture of lye and water. He was admitted yesterday, the parents saying he found the lye in the front yard and drank it after another child mixed it with water.
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Liquor Store Bandits Strike Bottle House in Phoenix
Two young men in overcoats robbed the Bottle House liquor store in Phoenix at gunpoint, escaping with 80 dollars. Owner James J. Barton said one suspect was white and the other Negro, with the gun pointed at him during the cash register heist. He recalled a similar robbery occurred last year after Christmas.
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McManus Appointed Federal Defense Power Administrator
Clifford B. McManus, Atlanta industrialist, named federal defense power administrator. He will assume around January 3 to coordinate power sources for expanding defense production nationwide.
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Selene Walters Custody Fight Court Plea
In Los Angeles on December 23 the judge urged Selene Walters and her husband Alfred Huenergardt to put aside hatred for their 2 year old daughter Scarlett. The mother seeks to move the child to New York while the father opposes the relocation. Judge Philip H. Richards took the case under submission after the appeal for harmony.
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Selene Walters
Alfred Huenergardt
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Philip H. Richards
Truman upbeat on crisis as holiday tempo quickens
President Truman thumbs up the nation’s ability to meet the crisis saying time is what they fight for. He attends a Kansas City lunch for the White House party and newsmen before returning to Grandview to install Masonic lodge officers. He rejects a claim Americans are “a bit confused” and stresses unity.
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Fragmentary quotes reflect public confusion in 1950
An OCR snippet from December 23 1950 quotes a speaker saying Americans understand the situation and that the country has been advised. The remark suggests that the confusers are confused, not the country or the people, amid ongoing discourse.
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Doris Duke and Cobina Wright to Visit Elizabeth Arden
Phoenix report says heiress Doris Duke and socialite Cobina Wright Sr. will fly in to stay for Christmas with cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden at her Paradise Valley ranch tonight.
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