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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1957
Page
8
The report lists yesterday’s high 108 degrees and low 0, with year ago highs around 10 and lows around 6. It notes a 1955 high record for the date and a 1945 low record. Normal and mean temps are included, plus humidity about 23 percent and sunset near 7 minutes past 5:50 a.m. Tucson time.
Two historic Protestant groups will merge in Cleveland Ohio to form The United Church of Christ uniting Congregational Christian Churches and Evangelical and Reformed Church. The new body has about 8200 local churches and 2.1 million members making it the seventh largest U S Protestant denomination.
U.S. District Judge James A. Walsh will sentence William C. Lucas of Fresno California on a Dyer Act violation after a one day trial. Lucas was found guilty of transporting a stolen car from Los Angeles to Globe Arizona. Lucas was represented by court appointed attorney John Collins. The government was represented by U.S. Deputy Atty. Mary Ann Reimann.
Construction started today at the downtown YMCA to install a new ramp for wheelchair access. Cement is donated by San Xavier Rock and Sand Co with company workers donating labor.
Weather experts blame a vast misplaced trough in the high atmosphere for the spring tornadoes and floods across Texas Oklahoma and the Southwest. The trough helped channel deadly weather with 624 tornadic storms reported in five months and Texas tallying 125 tornadoes through May.
The Young Republican national convention weighs a conservative platform touching foreign aid school construction and labor. John M. Ashbrook favored for 1957 59 chair. Lee Dramis a rival. Nixon blasts Democrats and party pessimism as delegates pick a Miss Young Republican later.
Two motorists were convicted of drunk driving yesterday in City Court and one appeal was filed in Superior Court. The attorney for M. Set. La verne L. Gudenschwager filed the appeal after the airman was ordered to pay a $100 fine and serve 10 days by City Magistrate Clague Van Slyke. Also fined $100 and sentenced to 10 days in jail was Fred Hague Jr., 27, of Naco. Gudenschwager, 29, of 432 N. Dodge Blvd., was arrested Mar. 17 following a three car collision that injured Mrs. Jeremay Butler, 20, and her 3-months-old daughter, Stephanie.
Columbia South Carolina The State Agriculture Commission received a request for information concerning a misheard reference to an Angus. Commissioner Bill Harrelson stated the inquiry was noted with laconic seriousness as officials sort the wording and implications of the phrase.
Fort Huachuca added 70500 to a contract with the Applied Research Laboratory of the University of Arizona bringing ARL’s total with the U.S. Army Electronic Proving Ground to 264874. The university has surpassed 400000 in contracts since the proving ground began operations with 273000 signed since May 1.
Debits for the week ending June 19 show a threefold rise over a decade. M. K. Stevenson of the Tucson Clearing House Assn. released figures: $43,259,339 for the latest week vs $12,577,279 in 1937 to 1947. total week debits $39,895,006 with 12 banks reporting.
Egypt moves toward parliamentary democracy with elections set for July 3 to choose 350 National Assembly members. The National Union will approve candidates, while 7,500 would be barred and women vote for the first time. The process aims to widen Nasser’s room amid a reshaped political system.
Carl S. Scott 2133 Irene Vista faces Superior Court on negligent homicide and three counts of passing bogus checks after two justice court appearances. Bond set at 500 for homicide, 1000 for bogus checks. The Jan 27 crash at Ajo Way and Palo Verde Ave killed Donna Stone and left six injured.
Howard Hughes announces purchase of 15 Vickers Viscount four engine aircraft for 12 million dollars and outlines plans to build Sud Aviation Caravelle jets at Culver City plant. Viscounts to be used on TWA routes with Hughes as major stockholder.
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