Five Quartets Compete For Barbershop Title in Oklahoma City
In Oklahoma City on June 12 the top five barbershop quartets were chosen from 15 finalists for the tenth annual Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Singing in America convention. Pittsburgh’s Smoky City members, Westinghouse, Chicago’s Midstate Four, Terre Haute’s Four Shades of Harmony, and Oakland County’s Clef Dwellers will vie for the championship as 4,500 fans watched. The winner will be announced during a Mutual network broadcast.
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Oklahoma City
America
Society For the Preservation and
Smoky City
Pittsburghers
Westinghouse
Midstate
Chicago
Four Shades of Harmony
Terre Haute
Ind
Clef
Oakland County
Mich
Fom
Mutual
KCNA
Tucson
Mishaps Cut Into Utility Services
A string of utility failures hit the city Friday and Saturday causing gas and water outages. About 100 East Side Water customers lost service when a pump failed, with repairs completed by 9:50 p.m. A second pump breakdown occurred Saturday morning, expected to be fixed by noon. The East Side Water Co serves around 1,500 families in the northeast. A two inch gas line was broken by a ditching machine, affecting 40 customers with service restored Saturday morning.
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East Side Water Company
L. A. Romine, Tucson’ Realtor
Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Power Company Service Department
City Briefs Saturday and Sunday Events in Tucson
Veterans of Foreign Wars post 549 hosts a dance at 124 East Broadway Saturday night. Sunday speakers include Rev. Glenn Rowles from Los Angeles at First Congregational Church and Richard Harding Walters on "A New Cycle of Human Power" at 2545 East Seventh Street. The Railway Conductors meet and junior orchestra rehearsal occur Sunday afternoon.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Tucson
East Broadway
Glenn Rowles
Los Angeles
First Congregational Church
San Navier Division No. 313
Order of Railway Conductors
Temple of Music and Art
Richard Harding Walters
East Seventh Street
Walters
20 30 Club To Note Birthday In Tucson
The postwar celebration marks the 20 30 club's first anniversary since reactivation on May 9 1947. Civic efforts under retiring president Paul Rocheford included fundraisers for Pima cancer drive sending underprivileged boys to YMCA camp and sponsoring events for local youth and hospitals. John R Stille becomes president with Pete Charonhas Lew Lardie and George Wheeland named officers.
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Tucson
Arizona Inn
Paul Rocheford
Bob Hope
Jack Carson
Pima
Civic Drama Guild
New York
Rocheford
John R. Stille
Pete Charonhas
Lew Lardie
George Wheeland
Death notices mark the passing of Margaret Sullivan
Miss Helen Sullivan received word of the death of her mother Mrs. Margaret Sullivan in Waterbury Connecticut. Miss Sullivan resides at 947 North Sixth Avenue.
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Helen Sullivan
Margaret Sullivan
Waterbury, Conn
Miss Sullivan
North Sixth Avenue
Mountain View Presbyterian Church Organizes Elders and Deacons
The formal organizing meeting for Mountain View Presbyterian Church was conducted by a Presbytery of Southern Arizona committee. Elders elected: Charles Wallace Bayne, Harold L. Burk, Frank S. Minarik, Warren D. Schreurs. Deacons named: Hal Burns, L. C. Chapman, Charles H. Spencer, S. Y. Steele. Rev. Paul David Sholin to serve as minister, a Princeton graduate who arrived in Tucson from a prior posting.
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New Mountain View
New Jersey Parish Integrates Seaman Recruit Charter Members
A meeting at a New Jersey church welcomed 66 Seaman recruit charter members. The speaker was Neils Christian C. Donald Close, residing with his wife and son at 4150 East 7 Fourth Street, while Mortensen acted as moderator.
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New Jersey Parish
East
Fourth Street
Neils Christian C. Donald Close
Mortensen
Seaman Recruit
Three Tucson Boys Enlist in Navy
Three Tucsonans join the navy with the names Robert August McNeese Jr aged 17 of 136 North Second Avenue and Robert Frederick McIntire aged 17 of 645 East Ninth Street among the recruits. The third recruit is listed as seaman recruit in the Navy rolls.
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Homer Lininger Travel Service
Southwest Agency, Inc
E. Broadway
Specialists Is
I Southwest 247
N. Stone
Lotor
Igniton
Auto-Electric and
Auto Electric Company
M. A
Broadway
Grady Loan & Investment Service
E. 6Th St
Fairmount Avenue
Maple Boulevard
Wallis
Cleaning Service
East Ninth St
Patterson
Optometrists
W. A. Schell
L. M. Patterson
ACE House & Window
Edward Moore & Sons
N. 4Th Ave
Phillipine Islands
THE
Penn CO
Truscon Steel
Arizona Sash, Door & Glass CO
Oenix
9Th Ave
St. Mary's Road
Wedgewood
Eibu-Gase
U.S. Pat
E. 7Th St
Willcox
A. O. Smith
Mission Water
Vita-Ray
Panel-Ray
Dearborne
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Mountain View Farms Church
Esert Gardens
Desert Gardens
the Complete Garden and Floral Center
East Speedway
Rancho Santa Cruz
Tucson Road
Nogales, Arizona
la Noria No
Garson Daily Citizen
W. A. Smith
Smitty
University
Park Hotel
New - Clean Sanitary
Sixth Ave
Vrea HC Zere
W. Congress
Benjamin Moore
House Paints
Mulcahy Lumber CO
Rymoun
Plymouth
Airfoam
Antun cc
Chrysler Corporation
Detroit
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