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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1955
Page
2
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Two Marana residents were acquitted by a justice court jury while George Johnson was convicted after taking the stand. The three men were held in county jail since Saturday night in $100 bonds. Sheriff’s substation officers broke up a game under a shade tree outside a tavern in the farming community.
Mrs. W A Quick Jr files in Superior Court a $32,500 damages suit against wrestler Dr Ben Sherman and promoters Ben Sherman Rod Fenton and owners of Tucson Sports Center. She alleges May 26 he left the ring and violently assaulted her biting and bending her left middle finger causing permanent injury. The filing seeks $7,500 compensatory and $25,000 punitive damages.
Curtis P. Donnell, filing editor at the Associated Press Phoenix bureau since 1945, is transferred to Seattle. He will begin on July 5 and has edited Arizona state and national news. He also serves a second term as secretary treasurer of the Phoenix Press Box Assn.
Washington withheld comment on unconfirmed reports that three American military attaches were expelled from the embassy in Moscow for alleged espionage. Names given included Lt. Col. John S. Benson, Capt. Walter Mule, and Capt. William R. Stroud. all were reportedly back in the United States as officials avoided public statements ahead of the Big Four talks in Switzerland.
In Hereford England a judge granted an absolute discharge to Geoffrey Hughes and Marjorie Hughes after they pleaded guilty to family mistreatment. The judge likened their situation to Oedipus Rex and warned them to remember they are siblings while detailing their troubled family history and current marriages.
Investigators trace the drug responsible for Morris Edwards’s death to one of two contacts after questioning a witness last night. Undersheriff Burr says Ralph Marmion’s report narrows possible narcotics suppliers to two. Edwards died from cocaine, though Marmion suspects wine and heroin. officials plan to present findings to the county attorney Monday.
Platinum blonde Charleen Fox 30 was jailed for 10 days and fined 100 dollars after pleading guilty to drunk driving. Police say she rammed a telephone pole on Grant Road while driving a 3947 sedan, knocked down a mailbox, and refused hospital care. A minor bruise was reported on one of her two children in the car.
Court-appointed defense attorneys for Edith Grace Borrow filed a motion for a stay of execution of her commitment to the state hospital. They seek to prevent treatment during appeal to the State Supreme Court if rehearing is denied. The order followed four psychiatrists testifying she is mentally ill and dangerous after a sanity hearing requested by two local lawyers who accused her of threatening their lives.
The Arizona Highway Department reported an apparent low bid of 219,396 from W. J. Henson for 10 miles of State Route 69 Black Canyon Highway. Six bids were submitted and a contract decision was pending at the Highway Commission meeting. The project covers material selection, aggregate base, and a bituminous surface.
A $100,000 damage suit filed in Superior Court alleges Joseph Kuykendall caused Ardath S. Kuykendall’s death by negligence and a wrongful act. The suit, brought by executor Lawrence V. Robertson, seeks $50,000 compensatory and $50,000 punitive damages, tied to events near Omaha on June 18, 1953.
Air man Louis F. Smith was stabbed with a long-pronged carving fork in front of 72 West McCormick Street at 1 55 a m. He was described as in satisfactory condition at base hospital. Mae Queen Gunn turned herself in at the city jail minutes later and was charged with aggravated assault. The weapon showed two bloodstained fork prongs and a bent neck. Gunn claimed self defense and said she stabbed Smith after a struggle in which he knocked down a door and dragged her up an alley. Magistrate set bond at 500 dollars and remanded Gunn to Pima County.
The Tucson Boys Band under Charles J. Hall will travel to Canada next week to perform at the Calgary Stampede. They will receive a new bus for the trip, depart Saturday, perform along the way, and join a July 10 parade contest. The Stampede parade opens July 11, with the group returning to Tucson on July 22.
Max Ingalls of Uranium Enterprises of America announced steps to develop lithium and rare earth deposits 50 miles northwest of Phoenix. The firm signed an option to buy 154 lode and 15 placer claims for about 10 million, with tests to start Tuesday and a 750 thousand pilot mill planned. If successful, follow on mills and a chemical separation mill would raise total operations to about 75 million.
Stanley M. Secrist sells 40 acres near Davis Monthan Air Force Base to Southern Pacific Pipelines Co Inc for 120000. The land at East Aio Way and South Algernon Way will back a El Paso to Los Angeles pipeline via Tucson with storage plants at Tucson and Yuma. A spur to Davis Monthan to supply jet fuel is discussed. project cost is about 30 million and spans roughly 1000 miles from Lordsburg New Mexico to El Paso Texas. Construction on the Lordsburg to Tucson segment starts soon.
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