Potomac Floods Subside in WV Towns Evacuations Planned
Flash floods in the Potomac river valley subsided in parts of West Virginia but Petersburg Moorefield and Romney still faced evacuations. Police reported unconfirmed missing persons estimates, while Red Cross disaster units were to arrive. Water levels fell in Petersburg and Moorefield as Romney’s southern branch rose further.
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Petersburg
W. Va
Potomac River
West Virginia
Romney
Cumberland
Moorefield
Potomac
Gore
Red Cross
Petersburgh
H. R. Shields
Shields
New Generator Adds Power For Tucson Customers' Use
Tucson Gas Electric Light Power Co. announces a 4.3 million expansion adding 24 000 kilowatts to serve Greater Tucson. The DeMoss Petrie road plant test lighting began with a 150 000 pound per hour boiler. If successful, first turbine will run Monday. The company foresees reduced power failures with a second unit by October.
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Saunders
J. R. Snider
Cortaro
Parker Dam
DeMoss-Petrie Road
Tucson
Linder
Telephone Hearing Among The Longest In Arizona
The Arizona corporation commission rate hearing for Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co is one of the longest on record. Cross examination has spanned six days with over 1,600 pages of testimony transcribed. Direct testimony from May 9-12 totals 442 pages and about 57,940 words, bringing the grand total to nearly 280,000 words and figures.
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Phoenix
Arizona Corporation Commission
Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co
Killer Hunted In Los Angeles
Police pressed the greatest man hunt since the Black Dahlia for the sex fiend who strangled and mutilated Mrs Louise Springer in Los Angeles. Detectives retraced her last hours, searched the parking lot, and checked the neighborhood where her body was found. The 97 pound, 35 year old hair stylist’s body was found under a tarpaulin in a green convertible. A new acid phosphatases test at USC may reveal if rape occurred. One suspect, a sleeping ex sailor, was questioned and released. Police car footage suggested the killer may have been nearby moments before.
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Los Angeles
Louise Springer
Homicide
University of Southern California
Westside
Wealthy executive shoots close friend over jealousy over ex wife
Chicago June 18 Wealthy executive Carl A. Moore 50 shot close friend former Army Captain Robert E. McCall 41 in self defense after McCall brandished a butcher knife and threatened Moore over Moore's ex wife Florence. Moore president of Aluminum Container Corp. and GM of Lavan Smelting Co. McCall once married Florence Morse Perry daughter of industrialist R H Morse.
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Chicago
Carl A. Moore
Moore
Army
Robert E. McCall
McCall
Saipan
Aluminum Container Corp
Lavan Smelting Co
Barbara Morse Perry
Col. R. H. Morse
Florence
New York
Garvey Heads to Governors Conference in Colorado Springs
Phoenix June 18 Gov Dan E Garvey flies in an Arizona national guard plane to Colorado Springs for the national governors conference. In the party are Mrs Garvey their son Dan Jr Jack Hirsh the governor s aide and S A Spear executive director of the Arizona Tax association.
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Phoenix
Dan E. Garvey
Arizona National Guard
Colorado Springs
National Governors
Rain Rejuvenates Tucson Area After Thunderstorms
Weather officials report scattered showers across Tucson and eastern Arizona after a short heat wave. Mt Lemmon received 2.33 inches, strong storms hit the Catalina foothills, and city rainfall was lighter. June records show rain has occurred in most years since 1867, with several dry Junes rare.
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Kathryn Steffan
Old Pueblo
Tucson
Mercury
Arizona
Santa Catalina Mountains
Mt. Lemmon
Catalina
Campbell
City
Weather Bureau
Archishop Beran leaves Prague palace first time since raid
In Prague Archibishop Josef Beran departed his palace Saturday for the first time since police entered it last Wednesday. In Amarillo Texas a second victim of a tourist cabin explosion and fire was identified as Vance C. Bowling of Springfield Colorado. Emmet Davis died from burns caused by gas in the cabin. Lawrence McCorcale is in fair condition. Four Iowa men perished when their twin engine plane crashed near Truman Minnesota. Arizona moves toward welfare payments for reservation Indians with federal and state cost sharing under a Santa Fe agreement.
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Czechoslovakia
U.P
Josef Beran
Amarillo
Tex
Vance C. Bowling
Springfield
Colo
Emmet Charles Davis
Lawrence McCorcale
Truman
Minn
Iowa
Here
Martin County
Ollie Batterman
Walter Schlemme
Phoenix
Arizona
Harry W. Hill
Pima
Papago
Colorado River
Santa Fe
N. M
Federal Security Agency
Office of Indian Affairs
Young Mother Held In Killing Near Albany
Donna H. Robinson, 27, a schoolteacher's wife and mother of two, is held without charge after shooting Richard N. Bard, 27, who confronted her sister Ruth Hathaway in a hospital area. Bard died five hours later. Robinson claims Bard grabbed Hathaway and choked her as they walked toward Child's Hospital in Albany.
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Albany
N. Y
Julian B. Elway
Donna H. Robinson
Richard N. Bard
Ilion
Child’s Hospital
Ruth Hathaway
Robinson
Morrisville
New York
Lawrence
Phoenix Club Shut Down For Gambling
Philadelphia style note reported: The Ringside Athletic club in Phoenix was closed by Police Chief Earl O Clair after officers found a poker game in progress on the Madison Square Garden balcony. The chief ordered cancellation of a planned automobile raffle.
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Phoenix
Ringside Athletic Club of
Earl O’clair
Madison Square Garden
O’clair
Austria Treaty Is Big Four Obstacle at Paris Talks
Western power ministers pressed to resolve Russia's terms for Austrian independence while debating a code of fair play to ease trade and transport in Germany. Yugoslav and Slovene leaders met in Vienna amid border claims, as Belgrade criticized Russia against Yugoslav goals.
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Paris
Russia
Germany
Austria
Slovene Liberation Front
Yugoslavia
Vienna
Legation
Belgrade
Kremlin
River Crossing Delayed as San Pedro Rises Near Benson
Flooding from Friday rain closed the San Pedro bridge east of Benson delaying Daily Citizen delivery in Safford by hours. A dry crossing was deemed impossible, so Joe Holzhauser will ferry bundles to the west bank with Norman Harrington wading the river.
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San Pedro
Benson
Daily Citizen
Safford
Joe Holzhauser
Tombstone
Norman Harrington
Harrington
Baseball Results From The Day In The League Play
Cleveland beat New York 3 to 6 in a seven inning game with Paige Gromek and Hegan Raschi and Berra starring. Boston defeated Detroit while the rain postponed several National League games including Brooklyn Chicago and New York Pittsburgh. Philadelphia traveled to St Louis for a night game as the league schedules continued.
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Cleveland
New York
Paige
Gromek
Papish
Hegan
Tresh
Raschi
Berra
Revenue Clash Over Tucson Dial Phones Rates
Arizona Corporation Commission hearing on Tucson dial telephones centers on whether conversion will yield an added net income to support Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. rate requests. Assistants Jacobson and Ralston present theoretical figures based on El Paso County data, arguing a roughly 140000 dollar variance with Mountain States numbers while regaining a five percent rate base versus the company's six percent target.
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Phoenix
Arizona Corporation Commission
Edward Jacobson
Joseph Ralston
Tucson
Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co
Corporation Commission
Mountain States Company
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Oe
Ralston
el Paso County
Tex
el Paso
Jacobson
J. H. Shepherd
Shepherd
Washon
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Tucson Gas, Electric & Power Co
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