July 29.
Refugees poured into Courtenay today with a forest fire only four miles behind them. Fire fighters went out to cut a firebreak between ihe town and head off the fire. A lull in tthe wind slowed the, tres advance during the night.
Four hundred residents of Bevan remained ready to evacuate as the fire bore down on the town. Cour-ten ay and Cumberland are also in the path of the fire—United Press.
Phoenix, Arizona, July 23, Damage estimated at more than $75,000 was counted today in the wake of high winds and hail that ripped through a half mile area of (East Phoenix last night.
The tornado-like wind smashed: a concrete packing company warehouse and feed mill, it tore up trees, blew several automobiles into a ditch and disrupted electric power connections between Phoenix and Eastern Arizona.
Rushing in from the desert and spreading Southwestward across the Salt River valley the storm spread its strongest fury in an area several blocks wide, None have been reported injured.—United Press.
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