Battleship anchor returns home to California
An anchor from the battleship was found in a Pearl Harbor warehouse after being ashore for maintenance when the Arizona was sunk. The ship’s bell and silver service are already in the Arizona.
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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1972
Page
1
An anchor from the battleship was found in a Pearl Harbor warehouse after being ashore for maintenance when the Arizona was sunk. The ship’s bell and silver service are already in the Arizona.
A second national industrial union endorses the United Farm Workers crusade against farm labor law and calls for support of boycotts and strikes. In Yuma melon fields, picketing eased as harvest proceeds with 200 to 300 student volunteers aiding growers report high piece rates amid a hot harvest. Chavez, weakened by a 24 day fast, remains in Memorial Hospital Phoenix for treatment.
A UFW spokesman says funds will cap the Yuma melon strike’s spread. Guillermo Encinas notes $44,001 in AFL-CIO support will last about a month, and UFW plans to stay in Arizona for at least two years with organizers from California.
The city of Tucson and Pima County settled with David Christopherson a 27 year old Tucson man who claimed false arrest during the University of Arizona riots and beating at the Pima County Jail. Christopherson will receive 3300 dollars. The suit filed May 26 1971 alleged he was pulled from his car near Euclid Avenue and Speedway Boulevard by police on January 22 1971 charged with unlawful assembly and beaten by five sheriff's deputies at the jail.
Richard Alleman says the U S attorney's office considers an injunction to stop three Gray brothers from grazing cattle in Organ Pipe National Monument. Superintendent Matt Ryan says the Grays continue grazing despite the 1968 lease termination and earlier offer to buy 157 acres and grazing rights for 300 000.
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