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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1954
Page
9
Health officials report 33 new measles cases in Pima County this week after school closures. Other illnesses listed include two chickenpox, three valley fever, two German measles, one impetigo, two hepatitis, nine mumps, one pneumonia, one rheumatic fever, one scarlet fever, and two gonorrhea.
Forecast calls for considerable cloudiness and scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms in Tucson and nearby areas. Temperature details include yesterday 83, year ago 105 high record 1953 and yesterday low 81 with humidity readings around 48 percent yesterday and 72 percent today. Sunrise 5 20 a m sunset 7 35 p m.
City and superior court notes include petty theft, drunkenness and loitering cases with trial dates in July and August. Disturbing the peace, assault and fraud charges listed with various outcomes, dismissals, or suspended sentences. Also births at Davis Monthan, St Marys and Tucson Medical Center. several deaths and obituaries with funeral arrangements and memorial details.
The Interior Department legal staff advised that congressional approval would be needed for Salt River Project to use 25 acres of Papago Park for a new office building. The opinion notes the land was granted for park, recreation, or public convenience, and 25 acres are not shown as for park use.
Rachel Maynard secretary of the college of business and public administration at the University of Arizona was elected second vice president of the National Association of Education Secretaries. She will attend the association’s national convention and week long institute at the University of Oregon Eugene July 23 to August 1. Maynard helped author a publication on Filing Systems for Schools and serves on the Arizona Educational Secretaries executive board.
In North Las Vegas, Mayor Earl Webb and Councillors Henry Duphily Warren Stanley and E L Gilmore were acquitted by a district court jury after their second trial on bribery charges. They admitted receiving 600 from contractors but said it was Christmas presents. The key witness Rulon Beatty drowned in a Lake Mead boating accident between trials.
The Aircraft Industries Association says aircraft manufacturing now employs 23,000 workers compared with 786,000 in the auto sector, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. WWII saw aircraft as the largest user of manufacturing labor, but in 1946 it fell to 16th.
The column outlines daily guidance for each zodiac sign with morning and evening tips. It covers decisions, applying spiritual insight, financial moves, social plans, and personal growth, urging practical steps, inspections, and cooperation with others.
The forecast notes a child born today will show genius and quick adaptability with unusual experiences. It urges teaching that success requires finishing what is started and highlights inventiveness and manual dexterity. Carrots Righter offers 16 page July forecasts for 25 cents with return mail.
The Tucson Red Cross chapter collected 418 pints at Ft. Huachuca, averaging 50 pints per hour on the bloodmobile yesterday. It was the fort’s first donor day since reactivation with Maj. Erle Harmer Jr. as project officer and Capt. David B. Wilbur in charge medically. Twelve nurses and volunteers from Tucson aided by Army nurses and 20 Bisbee volunteers helped at the drive led by Dorothy Plumb and William Jessup.
Yuma County Chamber of Commerce directors declined a proposal to have the chamber solicit and collect for an advertising card plan to fund a new city bus service. The idea arose after a June 16 meeting with a Glendale California operator who outlined the plan to subsidize a local bus line. The chamber cited policy against soliciting for private enterprise competing with chamber members.
Monday at 12 10 P M traffic club meets at YMCA. 12 15 P M South Tucson Lions club meets at La Jolla. 12 15 P M Tucson Press club meets at El Conquistador. 8 P M Sweet Adelines meet at 3706 E Fifth St open to women in barber shop harmony.
A noisy classified fragment lists a lost red leather wallet with valuable papers and money near the courthouse plus a black 17 inch suitcase with a broken lock between the Arinome Hotel and Phoenix Tucson. It advertises a vague reward and a Tucson branch office hiring three men with high cash income prospects and future expansion across New Mexico and Arizona.
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