Campfire Control Urged As Forest Officials Warn of Risk
Local Forest Ranger John H Hunts and two assistants logged a busy Sunday with over 500 cars at Catalina recreation areas. Seventeen campfires were counted and rangers say at least five could have spread if not quenched. officials urge building fires to mineral soil, carrying water, extinguishing with water, and burying ashes, noting unattended fires are a federal crime.
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John H. Hunts
Catalina Mountains
Forest Service
Hunts
Illegal Entrants Get Stiff Terms
Five Mexican aliens faced federal court sentences in Judge Howard C. Speakman’s court. Jose Diaz Contreras received the maximum two years and a $250 fine for illegal re-entry after a lengthy criminal history. Francisco Frasquillo-Samaniego drew 18 months for entering with a false baptismal certificate bought in Agua Prieta. Daniel Aldaz-Luna got one year and $250 fine after two prior departures and deportations. Two others, Epitacio Encinas and Santiago Acuna, had no prior similar offenses and received four months each. Dorothy Jean Beiswinger pleaded guilty to forging and cashing a $45.10 Treasury check and will be reassembled for sentence next Monday at 10 a.m.
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Jose Diaz-Contreras
United States
Contreras
Speakman
Francisco Frasquillo-Samaniego
Agua Prieta
Mex
Daniel Aldaz-Luna
Epitacio Encinas
Santiago Acuna
Dorothy Jean Beiswinger
US. Treasury
Prowler Turns Out To Be 40-Pound Armadillo
In Phoenix on a June morning deputies answering a call from Verne Beery found a prowler under grass at 2445 West Washington Street. The animal was a 40 pound armadillo and was placed in a box for safe keeping.
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Phoenix
Sheriff’s
Verne Beery
West
Washington Street
W. T. la Fever
Gordon Edgar
Hodges Opens Own Realty Co in Tucson
At 8 30 am Monday Mike Hodges unlocked the door at 43 East Broadway and read Michael Hodges Realty Co. after 22 years in Tucson real estate with Arizona Trust Co Hodges starts his own business and will also represent State Mutual Building and Loan Association of Los Angeles in Tucson He comes from a long line of local leaders including his grandfather Francis M Hodges who helped move the state capital and who ran the Cosmopolitan Hotel Hodges has served in the state industrial commission postwar and led the Tucson Junior Chamber of Commerce
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Mike Hodges
East Broadway
Michael Hodges
Hodges
Yuma
Edward D. Hodges
Tucson
Francis M. Hodges
Prescott
Cosmopolitan
Territory
State Industrial Commission
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Murray's Hearing Set For June 17
The preliminary hearing for Henry Carl Murray, charged with unlawfully attempting to pass a state welfare board member, is scheduled for June 17. Murray, active in Scouting and chairman of the Pima county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, resides at 2708 Via Rotunda.
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Henry Carl Murray
State Welfare Board
Pima County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Rotunda
Treasury check case bound over to county jail
A Treasury check case was continued until June 17 by U. S. Commissioner Thomas H. McKay. The defendant appeared on a complaint by local Treasury agents. Bond set at 1000 dollars and the defendant bound over to Pima county jail in lieu of bond.
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Treasury
U. S
Thomas H. McKay
U. S. Treasury
Pima County
Farmers of the United States rost less than two thirds as much labor per unit
Farmers in the United States now use less than two thirds the labor per unit of product compared with 1920. The shift reflects increased efficiency and mechanization across agricultural sectors, affecting production costs and labor demand nationwide.
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United States
Light Plane Crashes Killing Two Near Phoenix
A light plane crashed on an emergency landing field near Phoenix Sunday night killing both occupants. The pilot was Steve Hanas 35 and passenger W F Browning 47 of Phoenix. Hanas attempted a vertical bank to avoid an automobile on the runway, the craft spun and crashed.
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Phoenix
Here
Steve Hanas
W. F. Browning
Hanas
Engineering Work In West Less This Year
San Francisco report of May engineering construction awards in 11 Western states totaling 110,921,487 dollars, down from 159,148,393 dollars in May 1946. Year to date total 568,483,880 dollars, compared with 620,495,200 dollars a year earlier.
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San Francisco
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