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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1950
Page
10
Career Conference Week at Phoenix College opens to help students plan post graduation work. Activities run through Friday include faculty discussions, career interest booklets, a special assembly with Dr. Charles S. Kendall, and freshman essays on vocational plans.
An outbound United Airliner struck a flock of about 200 gulls during landing in Portland causing nose and windshield damage. The plane diverted to Los Angeles unable to continue to its schedule. Flight 678 was replaced from Seattle and departed two hours late. No passengers were hurt, but over 50 dead birds filled the runway as controllers blamed coastal storms for driving flocks onto the field and noted past similar incidents.
Mrs. John L. Liedy announced the hiring of David Van Tyne of Chicago as executive secretary for the Social Service Center Phoenix. He brings about 15 years in social work from Chicago’s Department of Welfare and will start April 1 after arrival with Mrs. Van Tyne. Board members elected include Mrs. L. Wayne Adams Jr. Dr Theron Chastain J Edward Jacobson and Robert H Wallace. Liedy was named president with officers Dr Donald E. Tope and Dean J. W. F. Carman as vice presidents Roy Wayland as treasurer Laurens Henderson as secretary and executive committee members Mrs. Leslie Kober Mrs. Norman Hurley Mrs. John M. Williams Edward L. Burrall and R. H. Renaud.
City records in City Hall basement under the Police Department are slated for destruction unless deemed historically valuable. Police Chief Earl O Clair seeks an assembly room, while Assistant City Attorney Laurence H Whitlow orders an inventory for Mulford Winsor of the State Department of Library and Archives to determine which records may be taken by the state and which may be destroyed.
Dr. William L. Schurz will continue as director of area studies and become president of the American Institute for Foreign Trade. He has acted as president since Lt. Gen. Barton K. Yount’s death last July and brings 30 years of Latin American government and business experience to the post. The school, founded in 1946 near Thunderbirds Field north of Glendale, has trained over 200 graduates serving abroad.
Dick Taylor of Seattle won the third annual clam eating championship by wolfing 277 steamed little neck clams in 10 minutes at Seattle.
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