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...Nogales, Ariz...
...contract lay a long struggle on the part of Mrs. Ford's friends to get her recognized as author of a story she dashed off some time between 1910 and 1914, then all but forgot. In 1949 Mrs. Ford's cousin, Mrs. Frank S. Chmiel of Tucson, Ariz., began pestering publishers with the claim that "Cousin Frankie" was The Little Engine's creator. A firm that had always credited the story to an ex-teacher named Mabel Bragg looked back in its records to find that Miss Bragg had never claimed to be doing anything more than...
Gratitude. In Tucson, Ariz., provided with shelter, warm food, and a new coat by the Salvation Army, Charles Demitus, 35, got a new start in life by robbing the Army's local headquarters and cashing $53 in forged Salvation Army checks...
...Million in Publicity. This week, with the ponderous secrecy of an elephant sneaking across a skating rink, the great invasion began. Sixty state troopers were assembled at the town of Williams, Ariz, (ostensibly to attend a police school). They were joined by 30 deputy sheriffs, twelve liquor inspectors, five police matrons, six welfare workers, three judges, the attorney general and three assistants, and squads of reporters and cameramen. They set out in two motorized caravans. One string of cars swung into Nevada and Utah to approach from the north; the other cut across the Arizona strip to hit Short Creek...
Herpetologist William H. Woodin III of Tucson, Ariz, is devoted to one of the oddest of odd scientific occupations. Last week he was scurrying round the desert taking the temperatures of Gila monsters...