Churches To Seek Special Donations Sunday For Europe
Tucson churches plan special services next Sunday as part of a nationwide drive to aid World War II victims. The Catholic diocese aims for 20000 dollars with funds split to support Bishops Fund agencies and War Relief Services while Protestant bodies route gifts through cooperative denominational agencies. A national radio program One Great Hour will air March 26 to promote relief efforts.
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Tucson
Leland H. Koening
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Bishops’ Fund
Don Hughes
St. Ambrose
Thomas J. Lambert
Diocese of
Arizona
KTUC
KOPO
KCNA
Cardinal Spellman
New York
War Relief Services
NCWC
Bishops’ Emergency Relief Committee
Koening
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Koewing
103 Year Old Arizona Resident Mrs Lastra Passes
Funeral plans were under way for 103 year old Mrs Trin idad Lastra a Sonora native who had lived in Arizona for a century. She died Sunday at her daughter’s home in Phoenix after years of illness. Survived by six daughters two sons 25 grandchildren 55 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
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Phoenix
Trinidad Lastra
Sonora
Arizona
Manuela Othon
Lastra
Yuma
Juan Lastra
Painter Of Geronimo Dies In California
Eldridge A. Burbank a renowned painter of American Indians died at 90 from injuries after a January cable car accident in California This cousin of botanist Luther Burbank began painting in 1897 with Geronimo and created portraits of 128 tribes His works are housed in the Smithsonian in Washington and the Newberry Library in Chicago He was born in Illinois and educated in Chicago.
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San Francisco
Eldridge A. Burbank
Burbank
Luther Burbank
Geronimo
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Newberry
Chicago
Sunnyslope Area Nears Incorporation as Osborn City
Maricopa county supervisors order a special election on the Sunnyslope Valley Heights and North Central Heights incorporation proposal after petitions from 249 qualified residents and a field census showing 1 982 eligible signers. Attorney Seen B Rayburn plans to challenge the petitions to delay the vote.
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Phoenix
Mar
Sunnyslope
Osborn
Maricopa
Seen B. Rayburn
Aes
Iion
Valley Heights
North Central Heights
Mythology of the Navajo Tribe Examined in Arizona Talk
Mrs. Margaret Erwin Schevill discussed Navajo mythology before the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society at the state museum. She described the knot like structure of ritual using medicine men, creation myths as a tribal property, sand paintings as myth illustrations, and the four colors as symbols. She noted fading traditional practice among youth and shared Navajo coyote tales as both good and evil myths.
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Margaret Erwin Schevill
Tucson
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society
State Museum
Governor Opens County Fair and Livestock Show Week
Governor Dan E. Garvey will formally open Tucson's county fair and Pima Livestock Show at 10 a m Wednesday with a parade, colors by the Arizona National Guard, and a ribbon cutting at the rodeo grounds. The University of Arizona band and Davis Monthan air force band will perform, as officials anticipate five days of record entries, exhibitions, and free entertainment.
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Tucson
Pima County
Dan E. Garvey
Arizona National Guard
Drachman
Miracle Mile
University of Arizona
Davis-Monthan Air Force Band
Fair schedule opens with morning judging Wednesday
Norman B. Cobb. fair secretary, said judging of prospective quarter running fillies and colts brood mares and cow horse fillies and colts will begin at 9 a m Wednesday. Final speed trials of racing quarter horses set for p m. The fair features commercial exhibits a carnival four professional entertainment shows daily free of charge 4 H exhibits and continuous judging of all entries. Cattle auction Friday will be on display in pens.
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Norman B. Cobb
Explosion damages UVA veterans trailer park injuring two
A blast at a University of Virginia veterans housing trailer park Sunday wrecked several units and started a fire. Two injured were a student Robert K. Parrott and his wife burned in the blaze that destroyed their trailer. The laundry and 15 other trailers plus six cars were damaged.
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Charlottesville
University of Virginia Veterans
Robert K. Parrott
Dinosaurs Die Off Earlier Than Thought and Valves Fail
Colgate W. Darden Jr. states a university president that a blast was caused by an automatic safety valve failure. A tank arched 450 feet through the air clipping a power pole and crashing into a one story house. Dinosaurs died out more than 60,000,000 years ago per most estimates.
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Colgate W. Darden Jr
University
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