Touring U S On Bike For 5000 Dollar Wager
Sunburned and broke 23 year old Bob McCathy rode into Tucson from Portland pursuing a $5,000 bet from three Portland businessmen to complete a full U S tour by bicycle. He aims to reach Tampa and New York City before returning to Portland while seeking local work to fund the trip.
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Bob McCathy
Tucson
Portland
Ore
Tampa
Fla
New York City
United States
McCathy
San
el Centro
Dallas
San Diego
Los Angeles
Culver City
Angeles
Prairie Schooner To Sell Bonds Monday
A pioneer prairie schooner used by the U S government to promote the 1949 savings bond campaign will tour Tucson all day Monday. Fred Dragonette Pima county chairman for the campaign and Tucson Rainbow Girls will ride along to assist with bond sales wherever the wagon stops. The wagon is part of a collection owned by Cedar City Utah Mayor Gronway R Parry who loaned his wagons for the national tour.
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U. S
Tucson
Fred Dragonette
Pima County
Rucker Held In Car Thefts
Melvin Rucker of Tucson was arraigned on two counts of aiding and abetting the Dyer Act violation. The FBI charges allege thefts on November 9 and November 11, 1948 transferring cars from Tucson and Nogales to Nogales, Sonora. Rucker requested a preliminary hearing set for 11 am Tuesday and is held on $2,000 bond.
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FBI
Melvin Rucker
Tucson
U. S
Thomas H. McKay
Nogales
Sonora
Ariz
Rucker
Bechtel Set To Stand Trial In September
Herbert Bechtel, 32, of Coolidge, faces trial on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a 16 year old girl and furnishing her. The trial is scheduled for Sept. 6 before Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Francis J. Donofrio. Bechtel was previously acquitted last fall of burglary connected with the theft of about $20 000 from George Bagby a Yuma junk dealer.
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Phoenix
Herbert Bechtel
Coolidge Farmer
Bechtel
Maricopa County
Francis J. Donofrio
Yuma
George Bagby
Fights Ban On Indian Liquor Sales Draw Fire
Winslow trader Roman Hubbell denounced a senate measure to lift the liquor sale ban for Indians not on reservations. He warned it would harm Indian economy, tempt bootlegging, and move Indians toward town liquor use. Hubbell cites tribal elders who oppose the change.
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Winslow
Mrs Trappman Buried Sunday in Bisbee
Mrs. Alita Lucille Cameron Trappman died at a Bisbee home on Wednesday. Services begin at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hualbard mortuary chapel with burial in Evergreen cemetery. Born in Manitoba Canada she lived in Arizona three years and was active in Tombstone Rebekah lodge and Roy Four post auxiliary American Legion.
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Bisbee
Alita Lucille Cameron Trappman
Bisbee Friends
Hubbard Mortuary Chapel
Evergreen Cemetery
Four Arizonans to Attend New Mexico Industry Conference
Dr. E J Brown dean of UA College of Business will join William B Chamberlain John T Kimball and Herbert A Leggett in a delegation to Albuquerque for a New Mexico conference on industrial development. Leggett will speak July 1 on Financing Industrial Development at the New Mexico State University Research Bureau event.
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Phoenix
E. J. Brown
College of Business and Public Administration
University of Arizona
William B. Chamberlain
Greater Arizona, Inc
John T. Kimball
Central Arizona Light & Power Co
Herbert A. Leggett
Valley National Bank
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Leggett
New Mexico State University
Research Bureau
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Homer Lininger Travel Service
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North Country Club
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Joseph Schuster
Dorothy Warenskjold
Maurice Abravanel
Standard Symphony Orchestra
Prometheus
Ernani
Finlandia
Faust
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Verdi
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Saint-Saens
Espana
Sibelius
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KVOA
N - Deneed
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Tony Salaz
Arizona Maintenance Co
Arizona
Polar Bar
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Wood Manufacturing CO
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Pte the
Gene Ahern
NBC Symphony
Arthur Fiedler
United States Steel Corporation
Camp Lawton
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Assembly of God
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Eternal Light
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Univ. Meth
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Pleasure Time
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Fine Arts Quartet
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Sunrise Salute
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Buenas Nuevas
Chas. Collingwood
Elmo Roper
Grace Episcopal Ch'ch
Mr. Fixit
J. Powers-Spor
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Nick Carter
Musical Potpourri Potpourri News
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Harriet
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Frank Go
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Conella Parsons
Jimmy Fidler
Bill Cunningham
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Dick Todd
Tobe Reed
Walter Winchell
H. A. Patten
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Ernie Lee
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Fred Allen
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Burke Nash
Urch In the
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