1936: Tucsonans find out that their new Stone Avenue underpass turns into a lake during heavy rains. (It’s still that way.) The city council names it Lake Elmira after Elmira Doakes, a Safford school student who was the first to swim in it.
Also in 1936: It is announced that a new patrol boat in the San Francisco harbor was being christened "Jeff D. Milton" in honor of Arizona's veteran law enforcement officer.
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