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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1968
Page
4
A racially mixed nightclub in Fort Worth caught fire when a man threw gasoline and lit it, killing eight people. Police describe the venue as a funeral themed site with coffins and macabre decor, noting no racial motive but seeking two young men in a black Chevrolet.
Surgeons in Houston performed the eleventh heart transplant on James B. Cobb 48 from Alexandria La. The donor was 15 year old William Joseph Brannon Conroe Texas who died in a cycle accident. Rizor as the eighth recipient at Stanford California died six percent hours after his transplanted heart stopped briefly due to oxygen shortage in his blood. Cobb’s donor Brannon died after a cycle accident in Conroe Texas. Rizor was a Salinas carpenter and Cobb a La salesman with two young children.
The Army Air Force Wage Board grants raises averaging 14 cents an hour for 1,812 civilian blue collar workers at Davis Monthan Air Force Base and Fort Huachuca. The increases apply to 1,142 at D-M and 670 at Ft Huachuca, effective from the pay period starting on or after May 8. News cited Senators Carl Hayden and Morris K Udall as announcing the action.
An American Army helicopter crashed and burned in a field three miles north of Winchester England. All three occupants were killed. Identification will not be released until relatives are notified.
A rosary for Manuel Elias 78 who died in Billito Saturday will be recited at 8 tonight at Tucson Mortuary North Chapel. Elias a retired real estate broker born in Tombstone came to Tucson at age one survived by his widow Trini dad daughters Bertha Brady Dora Gonzalez sons Robert M Rudolph sister Lupe Barnes and 12 grandchildren Mass will be said tomorrow at St Ambrose Church Burial will be in Holy Hope Cemetery.
Burial for Martha Abegg Jesperson 79 who died Friday in Phoenix will be at 5 p.m. tomorrow at the LDS Cemetery in Tucson. Survived by five daughters including Mrs Eugene K Mangum and Mrs Irene Johnson of Phoenix and Lt Col Max O Jesperson in Vietnam, plus five brothers, two sisters, 19 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Arrangements by Mortensen Kings Mortuary Phoenix.
Alfred McGinnis Republican candidate for Congress in District 2 will be guest speaker at noon tomorrow for the Pima County Republican Club at the Santa Rita Hotel.
Rachel Voyles and her son Anthony Atwood bicycled to the home of her former husband and shot him after he refused money. Voyles testified she hated him and he disinherited her sons. The case concerns Atwood’s murder and Voyles life trial with multiple witnesses detailing threats, money disputes, and alleged planning.
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