Wagoner Dies In Hospital
Merle Dean Wagoner a 23 year old World War II veteran died Tuesday morning at the veterans hospital of a virus infection from jaundice illness not linked to earlier injuries from a crash in downtown Tucson April 2. He was treated after suffering brain concussion skull fracture and severe head and neck lacerations. He had pleaded guilty in superior court to joy riding in a borrowed plane and was placed on two years probation. He was born in Matfield Green Kansas and had lived in Tucson about a year and a half with his parents and a brother, with a sister en route from Hastings Nebraska.
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Hastings, Neb
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Ban on Communists Is Favored by ADA Leader
Leon Henderson of Ameri cans for Democratic Action argued that the Mundt Nixon anti Communist bill would give Communists a ready issue to unite liberals and mount political martyrdom. Opponents plan a big Senate protest after the House approved the bill outlining registration of party members and forbidding activities supporting a foreign dictated regime. The Mundt Nixon measure, drafted by Representatives Mundt and Nixon, passed the House overwhelmingly.
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Death Truck Driver Cites Fatigue In Fatal Phoenix Crash
A truck driver said 48 hours of driving with only two hours sleep caused him to “blacked out” before his truck struck and killed 8 year old Louise Laura Scott in Phoenix. Her mother T. J. Scott and sister Virginia, 12, were injured. The driver H. G. Stevenson, 22, of Scottsdale, faced the Arizona traffic fatality tally as the year reached 125.
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Clothing prices jump up to forty percent in Northern Ireland
Prices for clothing have risen as much as 40 percent in Northern Ireland, catching both merchants and customers by surprise amid recent retail shifts and inflation pressures.
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Red Cross Flood Aid Rapidly Mobilized in Northwest
Tucson American Red Cross reports over 30 calls in two days seeking flood relief for the Northwest area. Executive secretary W C Wilkinson says national headquarters has allocated 1 million dollars for disaster victims with more for rehabilitation to follow. Messages for relatives should go through the local chapter and donations earmarked for flood aid are welcome to avoid confusion with local drives.
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Watch Expert To Tell Secrets Of His Craft
Co. W. Embree, a California watch maker and jeweler, will be the featured speaker at the Tucson Watchmakers' guild public meeting. The talk will be in the Pima county courthouse justice courtroom at 8 p.m. Thursday, arranged by Kenneth Fields and the guild board. Embree will discuss the Watch master machine, an electronically controlled device that diagnoses watch troubles and guides the repair to the source of the fault.
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Miss Arizona Contest Set For First Week Of August
The 1948 Miss Arizona contest will select the state's entrant for Miss America in Atlantic City. It will be held at Paradise Inn in Phoenix during the first week of August, sponsored by the Phoenix Junior Chamber of Commerce. Wanda Jo Law of Tempe, last year’s Miss Arizona, placed fifth nationally and earned a $1,000 scholarship.
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Mountain statue of Crazy Horse begins near Thunderhead
Custer South Dakota June 2 one year and 81,000 after conception the Crazy Horse memorial work starts on Thunderhead mountain with Governor Mickelson to detonate the first blast Korczak Ziolkowski a Boston born descendant of Polish nobility will devote 30 years to the project Sioux leaders from the Dakotas Nebraska Wyoming and Montana attend along with five Battle of Little Big Horn survivors the statue will be roughly 500 feet high and 400 feet wide showing the chief on a pony a Sioux village will form to support costs with 81,000 in equipment and a log cabin studio at the base.
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Thunderhead Mountain
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Pope Pius XII Calls for Social Reforms to Aid Poor
In Rome on June 2 Pope Pius XII urged just and necessary social reforms to address problems from world conflict and its aftermath. He stressed housing bread and work for the poor and warned Catholics to stay watchful against enemy forces re gaining ground. The Pontiff spoke in Italian for 25 minutes as fighter planes roared above the Vatican celebrating Luigi Einaudi's new command of the armed forces.
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