Arizona Highways Boosts State Tourist Trade, Fortune Says
Fortune magazine credits Arizona Highways for driving a 300 percent rise in state tourism over eight years. The publication reaches 180,000 subscribers, largely nonresidents, costs $461,000 to publish in 1947, and is funded mainly by out of state readers and a $100,000 state allotment. Carlson, the publisher, aims to add 100,000 more subscribers and broaden national distribution.
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Arizona
State Highway Department
Fortune Magazine
Fortune
Arizona Highways
Ray Carlson
Carlson
Country Journal
Town Pump Cooler Sparks Fire Alarm Scare
In downtown Tucson at 11 45 a m Wednesday the Town Pump air cooler at 22 North Stone Avenue overheated its motor and sent smoke into the refreshment stand. The fire department arrived and a firefighter shut off power to the motor, stopping smoke and sparks.
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North
Stone Avenue
Tucson
End of 31 Year British Rule in Palestine
Haifa June 30 British troops left Palestine ending 31 years of occupation. Gen Gordon MacMillan the last commander boarded a ship after the Union Jack was lowered. UN observers Col. Joseph Hoffman to supervise Haifa port during the UN truce. Jewish police took guard posts as marines departed. Refugees and tensions lingered as Arab leaders protested ahead of June 30 events.
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Robert Hewett
Haifa
Israel
Palestine
Holy Land
Gordon H. A. MacMillan
Britain
Joseph Hoffman
Baltimore
United Nations
Mt. Carmel
MacMillan
C. M. Marriott
Cair
Jamil Mardam Bey
Mardam Bey
Col. Hoffman
Cyprus
Greek guerrillas sever supply line near Ioannina
Government troops clash with guerrillas who cut the main supply road from Ioannina to Preveza, isolating three army divisions. Two rebel brigades struck the Preveza route amid fighting in Sarando poros valley and the Grammos mountains, with American road workers fleeing the area.
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Athens
Ioannina
Greece
Preveza Road
Joannina
Preveza
Sarandoporos
Smolikas
Markos Vafiades
Arizona Realtors to Meet in Prescott This July
Seventy two Tucson residents have booked to attend the Arizona Association of Realtors quarterly board meeting in Prescott on July 23 and 24.
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The
Arizona Association of Realtors
Prescott
Two Phoenix Fires Leave 32 Homeless and Damage Estimated
Two fires in southeast Phoenix Tuesday night left 32 people homeless and caused about $45,000 in damage. Twenty five residents lost their homes when a $40,000 seven unit apartment building burned. In the second blaze Mrs. Ruben Cortez age 38 mother of five suffered burns as her five room frame house was destroyed while her husband and children were away.
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Phoenix
Ruben Cortez
Garvey Declines Full Highway Patrol Aide Plan
Acting Gov. Dan E. Garvey said he will not ask the state highway patrol to provide him with an aide full time. He will drive his own car and only on long trips request a patrolman to spell him at the wheel. Jack Hirsch, the patrolman who served Osborn, has been serving Garvey as chauffeur on such trips.
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Phoenix
Dan E. Garvey
State Highway Patrol
Sidney P. Osborn
Garvey
Jack Hirsch
Osborn
Bribery Case Moves in Gila County
Phoenix attorney Herman Lewkowitz asked the Gila county superior court to exonerate him on bribery charges. He and Gila county attorney Frank Tippett face arraignment July 8 over grand jury indictments alleging bribery related to a case for a client. Santa Cruz Judge Gordon Farley was named to hear the proceedings.
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Phoenix
U.P
Herman Lewkowitz
Gila County
Indictments Challenged Over Insufficient Drafting
Lewkowitz argues two indictments, one dismissed by Judge Croaff for insufficiency, and the amended second indictment also allegedly poorly drawn. The claims suggest the current charges rest on flawed legal drafting and question the existence of the first indictment.
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Grand
Maricopa County
Thomas Croaff
Lewkowitz
Reinstatement Deadline Set for Lapsed National Service Life Policies
The deadline for reinstating lapsed NSLI policies is July 31. All requests must be mailed by midnight on that date.
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National Service
Pakistan Uses Radio to Link East and West Regions
Pakistan expands radio and wireless telegraph networks to unify eastern and western areas and speed news dissemination across the country.
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Pakistan
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State Highway Magazine
Ted
Walgreen’'S
Jones Drug Payless Drug Stores
Drug and Health
Food Stores
St. Joseph Ocea
ST. Joseph
Box
TTL Equipment CO
Cairo
Folke Bernadotte
Arab League Committee
Highway Patrol
Ieee
4Th Ave
Sears
Thurso
Ralston
Tray
Welch
Libby
Glenn H. Laglan
General Contractor
E. 16Th St
Cuticurarte
Wesk
Chicago
W. Congress St
Daniel
Bulova
Gruen
Douglas
Ace
Jewel
Elgin
Lord Elgin
Jewels
Hamilton
Jewel Hamilton
Eric Model
Sheridan
Jewel Benrus
Jewelers
Congress Street
J.C. Higgins
E-Z
Gray Enams
Neback
6Th Ave
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