HISTORY
Where Every Child Is Known
Politics and prejudice
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visits a Japanese internment camp in Maricopa's backyard April 23, 1943. The controversial camp housed Japanese-Americans forced by politics, prejudice and paranoia to live in barracks built by the U.S. government on the Gila River Indian Reservation. It is widely regarded as a dark point in American history. The Gila River camps, built on the reservation despite loud objection from the tribe, had a capacity of 10,000 people but housed more than 13,000 prisoners of war. There was no
barbed wire or guard tower, just a single sentry on duty. The desert heat and lack of surrounding resources were enough security.
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More than a dozen nurses gathered around the bed offering loud and fervent words of encouragement around midnight Jan. 1. Maricopa resident Elaine Garza gave birth to the first baby of 2009 in Arizona. "With all of the encouragement, it made the delivery really easy," Garza said. The child, an 8-pound, 12-ounce baby boy named Conner Jordan, was Jerry and Elaine Garza’s fourth child.
Dairy Queen owner Vimal Patel said an employee put new oil into a deep fryer as part of a regular routine Jan. 4. A fire started after the employee turned the fryer on and stepped away. Maricopa firefighters evacuated the building and doused the fire once. There were no injuries.
Maricopa High School suffered two mercury spills. Maricopa police reported a student brought a traditional thermometer to a science lab Jan. 24 and accidentally shattered it, spilling a toxic amount of mercury. Four days later, just after the school reopened, a second thermometer broke. Student Joe Lambert said he was in the room during the incident. “The lab assistant was in the lab prep room cleaning up the area when a thermometer fell,” he recalled.
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