New Members Guests At Chamber of Commerce Lunch
Thirty nine new members joined as guests at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon on South Stone avenue. The meeting reviewed late 1948 recruitment of seventy members with chairmen outlining current projects.
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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1948
Page
10
Thirty nine new members joined as guests at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon on South Stone avenue. The meeting reviewed late 1948 recruitment of seventy members with chairmen outlining current projects.
Prescott reports that the Arizona Baptist convention plans to select a dean for the new Grand Canyon college next week after interviews in Phoenix. A $100,000 fundraising drive via 65 Arizona churches aims to support a September opening with temporary Prescott high school quarters and later a 40 acre Granite Dells campus costing over $1 million.
Cruz Rosales-Sanchez, 27, from Jalisco Mexico, was ordered held in county jail on $500 bond after being arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Thomas H. McKay on illegal entry charges. The complaint states he crossed the border about 200 miles east of San Luis last October and worked in a railroad section gang until his arrest by a border patrolman. He had been granted voluntary desire last August after crossing the line.
The Tucson Red Cross blood bank will be open Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for emergency donations as the supply is nearly depleted after Christmas. Bernard Swift announced urgent need for type O blood for 4 year old Thelma Granillo of 20S East Fairground Drive, a leukemia patient.
James I. Miller resigns as managing director of the Tucson Little Theater and the board resumes management with Robert Claborne as play director. Claborne, a Tucson native with UA training, has long been associated with TLT and brings extensive stage study from Pasadena and USO experience to sustain community theater through the winter season.
Tucson city police announce sponsorship of the 308th military police company in the organized reserve attached to the Sixth Army. The unit will be activated January 1 and will be used in national emergencies or war. Local command is pending army approval.
Dr Charles Stephens Jr outlined aims of the newly created Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation at a health section meeting. The health section voted to recommend that its parent organization give full support to the foundation.
A camera valued at $30 was stolen from the unlocked car of Robert Turner at 317 South Sixth Avenue near his home Monday night. He left the vehicle about an hour earlier and found the camera missing upon return.
Travel information brief from Homer Lininger Travel Service at 40 E Broadway. Includes contact phone 1166 and note no charge for service. Highlights may reference transportation, hotels, and tours offered by the agency.
Charles Young Post 38 of the American Legion hosted about 100 children at the post clubhouse on Friday with Santa Claus. Candy nuts and fruit were given. Rev. D C Coleman of the AME church spoke on Christmas significance. The party was led by Frances Lewis and Thomas H Williams. Post and auxiliary members distributed gifts to patients at the veterans and county hospitals on Christmas morning.
The Arizona Wildlife Federation plans its annual meeting for January 22 at the University of Arizona agricultural building. It seeks a successor to Charles T. Vorhies as secretary treasurer, noting his other duties and stating the group depends on a new leader.
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