Word: maricopa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to Beautycoon Elizabeth Arden's Arizona Maine Chance health-and-beauty farm last week were brusquely shooed away by grim-faced guards who sprang from behind cactus clumps. A total of 21 armed men-six Secret Service agents, six members of the Arizona highway patrol and nine Maricopa County sheriffs deputies-guarded the place around the clock, seven men to each eight-hour shift...
Leasing 4,500 acres of farm land in Arizona's Maricopa County, Harris trekked his work crews, tractors, and cotton gin 125 dusty miles to the farm and planted it to cotton. This fall, when he harvests his crop, he will have to pay a penalty of 18½? per Ib. for growing cotton without an allotment. But even if the penalty amounts to $800,000 as it may, Farmer Harris will feel no pain. A fair-to-middling crop will likely yield him $1,200,000, plus his soil bank payments, or a profit of $600,000. Harris...
Last week Maricopa County police put together bits of evidence indicating that Willie had recently been acting scared. He would not go out nights. He checked and rechecked the locks on his house. He even put the house up for sale. There was only the certainty that Willie left his pickup outside his house when he went to bed, an omission that led him to his sorry state on the morrow, lying mangled on his back minus a leg and a hand, staring emptily upwards at an orange tree full of fruit turning gold...
...Today it ranks seventh among causes of U.S. deaths, second among infectious diseases. - From Arizona, long a Mecca of the tubercular, comes similar evidence. The State Superintendent of Public Health, Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, reported last month that among non-Indians in Maricopa County (around Phoenix) are 11,820 suspected cases; 2,610 of them are active, and of these, only 220 are victims who went west for "the cure." Arizona has the worst TB death rate in the U.S., more than three times the national average...
...state of high excitement, two 17-year-old boys walked into the courthouse of Maricopa County, Arizona. Having served time at the state's "rehabilitation" school at Fort Grant, both had some hair-raising tales to tell. The man they asked to see was Charles C. Bernstein, who presided in the juvenile division of superior court. If anyone would listen to them, the "kids' judge" would...