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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1963
Page
3
Denver’s City Park Zoo held its 25th annual Christmas party for 34 young monkeys. The event featured a decorated tree, plenty of gifts and food, and Santa Claus in red. A few guests drank rum and some toys caused playful spills and mix ups over ownership.
Paul Eugene Brown 19 of Center Missouri skidded off U S 4 near Missouri Pacific tracks and found help. He returned to the scene to learn a freight train had passed, demolishing his car. He was uninjured.
Edward Montano, four, of 144 West District Street, is the youngest winner in the Tucson Retail Trade Bureau letters to Santa contest. Other winners were Lynn Ann McCall, six, of Linden Street, and Joy Ettawageshik, seven, of Los Altos Avenue. Each received a five dollar gift certificate and a case of soft drinks. Jack Bingham, chair of the bureau’s promotional committee, noted thousands of letters were received over three weeks. Eligible letters were posted at the bureau’s downtown post office near Congress Street and Stone Avenue.
City sanitation supt Price announces no garbage pickups on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day. Residents scheduled for Wednesday and Saturday pickups will have only one collection that week, with extra crews Thursday to Saturday to compensate.
Dr Er nest E De Turk 76 who died yesterday at Tucson Medical Center will have services at 2 p m tomorrow at Arizona Mortuary chapel with burial at Grantwood Memorial Park The Rev C Richard DuFresne will officiate He lived at 2 Potter Place and had retired in 1949 after heading the soils division at the University of Illinois He authored numerous technical publications He was born in Martinsville Indiana and held degrees from Purdue University Penn State and Illinois Survivors include his widow Ruth F two sons Dr William E of Durham NC and John E of Ann Arbor Michigan a sister Mrs Edith Loehr Martinsville a brother Louis E of Martinsville and seven grandchildren
Services were set for Robert C. Wilson former San Manuel copper mines superintendent who died last Thursday in Glendale California. He had been in Peru for a year as smelter supervisor and recently returned to the United States to work in California. Born in Tacoma Washington he also worked in Tacoma Salt Lake City El Paso and for White Pine Copper Co. He was a member of BPOE and AIMME. Surviving are his widow Jean two Tucson daughters Judith Russell and Diane Wilson a Tucson son Michael his mother Mrs Edith Wilson and sister Mrs Janice Owens. Burial was to be in Evergreen Cemetery.
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