Alligators Reach Desert on Arizona Trip
Fifty four alligators halted at a Tucson filling station this morning on their trek from Arkansas and Texas to Arizona alligator farms near Tempe. Captors Bill Kimbrell Pancho Molina and G J Boudreaux accompany the convoy. The largest gator weighs about 1000 pounds and is aged around 450 years.
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Curbs Fail To Halt Building
Washington reports that over 1.37 billion dollars of non home building was approved since construction controls began in March. In 11 weeks 31 457 approvals and 14 971 rejections were logged, with a May 29 cutback shift due to material shortages.
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Phoenix Levy Approved For Wells And Recreation
Phoenix state tax commission authorizes emergency expenditures totaling 35000 dollars. Of this sum 20500 dollars will re establish two deep wells to bolster the water supply and 14500 dollars will fund park and recreation system improvements.
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Paul Mallon to Receive Third Honorary Degree
Washington columnist Paul Mallon of the Daily Citizen and 300 other newspapers is to receive the honorary Doctor of Letters from the College of the Holy Cross Worcester on June 26, marking a second such honor in this commencement period. He earlier received the same degree from Marquette University and will be honored by the University of Notre Dame on June 30. Mallon’s column is distributed by King Features Syndicate.
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Reclamation Funds Passed
Washington June 25 The House adopted a conference committee bill appropriating 247,167,036 for the interior department and sent it to the Senate for final action. It sets allocations including Gila Arizona 2,000,000 Davis Dam Arizona Nevada 7,500,000 Boulder Canyon project 423,605 All American canal 5,000,000 and Colorado river front work 100,000 plus general investigations 5,000,000.
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Phoenix Child Burns To Death In Her Bed
In Phoenix on June 25 Vera Lee Stewart a 3 year old Negro girl died in a bed fire that destroyed a frame dwelling. Her father Jim Stewart saved three other children One May Weldon and Margaret. He suffered shoulder burns. Stewart said a child frightened by an insect lit a match that dropped onto the bedspread causing the blaze.
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Army to Fire New V-2 Rocket to Study Outer Space
The Army plans a Thursday launch from White Sands New Mexico to send a 14 ton V-2 rocket 100 miles high. The weapon will carry scientific gear including a spectograph and cosmic ray instruments to broadcast data for ground analysis.
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The Air Composition and Oxygen Use
The air is composed of about 78 percent nitrogen and 20 percent oxygen, yet only the oxygen portion is useful to humans.
Browder Leaves London for New York in Custody
Earl Browder former head of the U S Communist Party departed London for New York by air after two days in British custody. An airline spokesman said Browder, returning from Moscow, was escorted by security officers and handed to the plane’s commander Capt C T Robertson.
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Clark John Maben 69 Dies in Phoenix
Clark John Maben 69 a former Tucson resident died in Phoenix yesterday funeral services set for 2 p.m. tomorrow with music directed by Mrs. L A Lohse at Evergreen Cemetery burial in Tucson remains to be handled by a Arizona mortuary. Survived by daughter Mrs C G Whitehead and sons Claude J Jess of Tucson and Malcolm of Ventura California.
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