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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1949
Page
3
Amphi High officials announced plans to add a new school facility and monitor the budget for future construction. Principal Nicholas Paynovich staffed the box office at last night's Amphi theater Douglas basketball game, quietly handling tickets himself with a Christmas smile and bright green necktie.
Los Angeles reports show Christmas partying led to over 200 motorists jailed on drunken driving charges in the area. Highway patrol notes calls about accidents and traffic difficulties were 500 percent above normal, with 106 people booked in the city, including several women.
In the last full business week before Christmas Tucson banks logged debits totaling 14 837 745, down 1 600 000 from 1948 record clearances. The Tucson Clearinghouse noted a 1949 week sum of 14 837 745 versus 16 480 484 in 1948 and 2 714 841 in 1940.
Chicago report says Police Captain Frank Gill, unused to smoking or drinking, planned to help a sick fellow officer by giving him cigars and whisky. He spotted a known prowler outside, but by the time he returned the goods and the man had vanished.
Betty McCord an 18 year old Dallas bride sold a pint of her blood for 30 to buy a wedding anniversary watch for her husband Don a Southwestern medical college student. The couple learned of the blood sale later and used part of the funds for gifts for each other. Betty plans to repay the watch cost after Christmas as Parkland hospital staff promised help.
State Auditor Ann Frohmiller reports Arizona ran a $2.64 million deficit in the 1948-49 fiscal year with expenditures at $54.68 million, led by education welfare and correction and highway projects. Revenue fell about $0.8 million due to a suspended property tax.
A new electric socket with a bottle-stopper base easily covers almost any bottle oil lamp or vase and turns it into a table lamp. It includes a connection wire and an outlet plug for immediate use.
David Sterling a 20 year old duck hunter was rescued after drifting all night on a makeshift raft in the Bay of Fundy near Boot Island. Volunteers police and Royal Canadian Air Force crews conducted a search with flashlights and planes throughout the night and into dawn.
Fred L. Whipple, Harvard astronomy chair and American Astronomical Society vice president, stays in Tucson after the society meeting to speak on probing the upper atmosphere via meteors and rockets. His lecture is at 8 15 p m January 5 in UA room 111, part of the university chamber series.
The article notes atmospheric research by Dr. Edwin F. Carpenter of Steward Observatory and Dr. Whipple, highlighting ten years of work linking multiple astronomical observations into a unified atmospheric picture.
Rev. Silas L. Sears aged 94 wed Mrs. Addie Jetter aged 59 in Sandusky Ohio. A great granddaughter of the groom from a prior marriage attended the reception as a guest.
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