Ancient ritual helps recover body in Pittsburgh river tragedy
In the Allegheny River hundreds watched as an old ritual with bread and a lit candle guided divers to bodies from a speedboat crash. Mary Margaret O Malley 26 was found after Mary Ann Brose 24 and Thomas Sweeney 25 were recovered. Robert Jonnett 26 remains missing. James Culumbo 24 and an uncle Peter Fitzpatrick aided the effort.
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Miss Brose
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Homewood
Miss O'Malley
Peter Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
Utah flood crisis expands as evacuees rise in Utah
Floods spread across Weber and Ogden river basins forcing more than 40 families from Weber canyon and around 1,500 from Salt Lake City while Provo canyon residents flee rising Provo river. A drowning victim, 17-year-old Robert Spaun of Ogden, is reported.
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Hobble Creek
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Jordan River
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Medical Center Sends Two To Parley In San Francisco
Two Tucson medical center officials will attend the 22nd annual convention of the Association of Western Hospitals in San Francisco May 12 to 15. William S. Weeks director and Beulah V. Swanson executive dietitian will join about 3,000 hospital administrators and department heads from nine western states Hawaii Alaska and British Columbia. They will participate in four general assemblies and 21 section meetings to study current hospital administration problems and seek better ways to meet public needs.
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San Francisco
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Experienced Clerical Workers Needed in Tucson Area
August Wieden, manager of the local U.S. employment service, says there is a shortage of experienced clerical workers in Tucson. The office cannot fill current demand for stenographers and filing clerks while there are openings for experienced tool planners, tool designers, tool die workers, and receiver testers at 110 S. Sixth Ave.
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U. S. Employment Service
S. Sixth Ave
Book Notes and Travel Parodies Entertain Readers
Book Notes reviews John Tebbel’s Touched with Fire a youth filled historical novel about La Salle and Philippe Brisson with Madeleine as romantic pivot. It lauds entertainment value though calls it not great literature. How to Travel Incognito by Ludwig Bemelmans is praised for summer flair and a witty guide to free travel and living high on life with the Count de St Cucuface as centerpiece.
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Ludwig Bemelmans
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McCarthy Benton clash over tape recordings on TV
Washington coverage notes a feud between McCarthy and Benton over whether tape recording accurately takes testimony. Benton, facing a $2,000,000 libel suit, refuses to answer until the recorder is removed. A CBS TV segment features a veteran court reporter and a technician altering a sentence to dispute the issue.
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Benton
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John Edwards Former Winter Visitor Dies in Arkansas
John Clyde Edwards aged 60, once a Tucson winter visitor, died in Little Rock Arkansas on April 25. His son Dete Edwards of Newark Arkansas returned from Newark to attend the funeral. He also leaves a son and a daughter in Newark.
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Ark
Dete Edwards
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Newark
Fifth Major Phoenix Robbery Stuns Police
Phoenix authorities report a fifth unsolved holdup by the rubber mask bandit. A gunman in a blue checked sport coat forcefully entered the northside Safeway at Seventh Avenue and Thomas Road, taking about $3,000 in cash and checks after binding manager Liebhard. The case ties to months of similar, unresolved robberies across the city.
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Safeway
Shane
Urvilie Liephard
Saisant
Seventh Avenue
Thomas Road
Liebhard
Flame Restaurant
Kilgore Man Transferred to Borger by Jones & Laughlin
Dick Stearns of Kilgore was moved last week by Jones & Laughlin from East Texas to Borger in the Texas Panhandle. The man he replaces in Borger is also named Dick Stearns.
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Tex
Dick Stearns
Jones & Laughlin
East Texas
Borger, Tex
Texas Panhandle
Borger
Valley Bank Executive Named Phoenix Chamber President
Carl Bimson of Valley National Bank became the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce president on Saturday, succeeding James A. Smith in a leadership transition.
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W.P
Carl Bimson
Valley National Bank
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
James A. Smith
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