Winter Storm Sweeps Eastern U S with Fatalities
A major winter storm hammered the eastern United States over the weekend, delivering gale winds and heavy snow from the Ohio Valley to New York and New England. Deaths climbed to at least 36, many from heart attacks while shoveling snow or car accidents on icy roads, with property damage running into thousands.
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Associated Press
Southland
Ohio Valley
New York State
New England
Buses to Rodeo Ground Start Thursday in La Fiesta Plan
Tucson Rapid Transit announces special buses from downtown to the rodeo grounds for La Fiesta de los Vaqueros four days. Regular downtown service suspended during the parade. specials run 10 minute intervals 10 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Friday to Sunday with 2 cent fare. Schedule changes on seven routes, rerouting downtown loop. Ridership up five percent in December.
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Rodeo Grounds
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Congress St
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Speedway
Wilmot Rd
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Broadway
1St Ave
Campbell-Binghampton
73 Year Old Tucson Woman in Critical After Collision
A 73-year-old Tucson woman, Elizabeth Clark of 427 W. Dakota St., remained in critical condition at Pima County Hospital after a two car crash on Nogales Highway just south of city limits. Driver Thomas W. Steele, 32, and his wife Alice, 28, were treated for minor injuries.
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Nogales
Pima County
Elizabeth
Clark
Dakota St
Frank Hutcheson
Thomas W. Steele
S49
Mossman Dr
Alice
House Bill Aims Land Sale for Med School Fight
The Arizona House Public Institutions Committee approved HB 87 to sell 259 acres near Phoenix State Hospital. The sale, bid with Mormon Church as sole buyer, aims to back a potential medical school site, opposed by a Phoenix faction led by Rep. I. O. Grimes. Pima County members back the church to keep Tucson out the plan.
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House
Public Institutions Committee
Tucson
Arizona
State Hospital
Mormon Church
I. 0. Grimes
Tempe
Grimes
Arizona State University
Pima County
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Soe
Pima’ County
Khrushchev Quietly Welcomed in Calcutta on India Visit
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Calcutta amid a modest crowd compared with 1955. The motorcade avoided crowded shopping areas as he stayed with West Bengal Governor Padmaja Naidu and prepared to depart for Rangoon on a four nation tour including Indonesia and Afghanistan.
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India
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Communist Party
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Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
New Delhi
Padmaja Naidu
West Bengal
Rangoon
Burma
Indonesia
Afghanistan
Arizona Tops For Moving Company Migration 1959 Standings
Aero Mayflower Transit Company releases year end migration report showing Arizona edged Florida for national honors in attracting new households in 1959. California ranked third as interstate family movements grew nationwide with Arizona recording 25.6 percent more inbound moves than 1958.
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Arizona
Florida
California
Aero Mayflower Transit Company
U. S
Tempe Meet To Host Arizona AV Education Conference
Two Tucson public school officials Wendell Eckholm director of audio-visual materials and David Smith science supervisor will preside at an Arizona Association of Audio-Visual Education spring conference at Arizona State University's Memorial Union Tempe The program includes See Feel and Hear What I Mean in the Science of Flight and Our Future in Instructional Tools with Dr Joel Benedict Also Maurice Mitchell of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc will give a dinner address on Instrumentation in Tomorrow's Education Thirty five exhibits from Arizona and California firms will be on display
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Arizona Asso. of
Memorial Union of Arizona State University
Tempe
ASU Audio-Visual Center
Maurice Mitchell
Wilmette
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc
Arizona l
California
Teenagers Admit Theft Of Three Autos In Arizona Release
Det Herman King of the Tucson Police says three youths ages 15 and 16 admitted stealing three cars two in Tucson and one in Bowie. They were caught while siphoning fuel after running out of gas. all vehicles recovered and the youths sent to juvenile authorities.
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Bowie
Lordsburg
N.M
Herman King
Tucson Police Department
King
YMCA
Maize Resigns News Director Post at KCUB KGUN
Jim Maize news director at KCUB radio and KGUN television resigns effective March 1 to become assistant public relations director for Kennecott Copper Co. Raw Mines Division. He will move with his wife and two children from Tucson to Kearney after five years leading KCUB, formerly KVOA.
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Jim Maize
Kcub Radio
Kgun Television
Maize
Raw
Kennecott Copper Co
Tucson
Kearney
KCUB
KVOA
House Rules Coalition Controls Final Session
The six member conservative bloc in the Rules Committee and the panel of 12 lawmakers mean liberal Democrats face a blocking minority. The civil rights bill fights may hinge on 6–6 ties, with votes required to clear the floor under limited amendments. Speaker Sam Rayburn aimed for a moderate path despite liberal pressure.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
House
Senate
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Rules Committee of 12
86Th Congress
Sam Rayburn
Dtex
Pistol Triggers Identity Mix Up in Tucson Incident
Gene Walker of 303 W Flores St reports a man followed him from a service station on Oracle Road and later pulled a pistol as Walker approached home. The pursuer claimed mistaken identity after seeing the .01 caliber pistol and drove away. Walker says he has never seen the man before.
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Tucson
Gene Walker
W. Flores St
Oracle Road
Walker
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