Garvey Names 2 to Arizona Commissions
Gov Garvey appoints B F Hill to the Arizona Industrial Commission and John Scott to the Arizona Highway Commission. Hill will serve six years and Scott five. Scott is a Show Low businessman and regent nominee. Hill has been industrial commission chief clerk for 23 years and is described as nonpolitical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Hill
West Culver Street
Dan E. Garvey
Arizona Industrial Commission
Ray Gilbert
Hill
John Scott
Show Low
Scott
Arizona Highway Commission
Dewey Farr
St. Johns
Arizona Senate
Industrial Commission
Commission
B. B. Moeur
Sidney P. Osborn
Board of Regents
University of Arizona and
State Colleges
Highway Commission
County Moves To Lift Road Program Blockages
Maricopa County Board authorizes actions to clear encroachments blocking federal aid roads. County engineer says over 90 percent cleared. remaining delays affect bid calls and may cost millions. Also covers water franchise hearing denial, insurance revaluation plans, Osborn School District bond votes, nursing training at County Hospital, plat approval near Bellview, and multiple liquor license actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors
James E. DeSouza
DeSouza
W. C. Lefebvre
State Highway Department
Julius Irion
A. Anton Frederickson
D. W. Bumsted
Pearley Lewis
Frederickson
Indian School Road
Campbell Avenue
16Th Street
32Nd Street
Arizona Canal
Lewis
City Water Department
Osborn School District
Phoenix Technical School
del Monte Annex
Bellview
29Th Street
Nearing Deadline for 1950 License Plates and Exemptions
About 250 people queued at the main Automobile License Bureau in Maricopa County to obtain 1950 plates while around 40 veterans and widows filed exemption applications. Deadline remains 5 p.m. tomorrow to avoid a 3.50 penalty. Veterans and widows have until April 3 to file personal property and real estate exemptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Madison Street
W. E. Stanford
Maricopa
Automobile License Bureau
Maricopa County
Stanford
Power Line Break Hits Northern Arizona System
Power interruptions hit the Northern Arizona Light and Power Company system after 10 am. Flagstaff manager Robert Nairn said the Cedars line break disrupted power to Prescott Flagstaff Winslow and other communities. Restored by using Southwest Lumber Mills Saginaw and Manistee Lumber plants and the Arizona Power Company auxiliary unit was placed in operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flagstaff
Northern Arizona Light and Power Company
Robert Nairn
Prescott
Winslow
Northern
Arizona
Cedars
Phoenix
Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc
Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company
Nairn
Central Arizona Light and Power Company
Arizona Power Company
Car Plunges Into Canyon Killing 15 Year Old Boy
Arizona's 1950 traffic toll rose to 32 with the death of 15 year old Jack Thompson of Fort Apache Reservation after a car he rode in plunged 95 feet into a canyon 25 miles south of Show Low on Friday night. Driver Rupert Thompson 22 of Miami was critically injured. a passenger died from a skull fracture. G N Harrod 48 of Tucson perished in a parked car burned near Picacho Junction. Investigators believe he dozed with a lit cigarette. Police reported other injuries and a series of accidents involving multiple drivers in Tucson and Phoenix suburbs, with names and addresses of those involved listed.
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Arizona
Tucson
Jack Thompson
Fort Apache Reservation
Show Low
Rupert Thompson
Miami
Arizona Highway Patrol
G. N. Harrod
Picacho Junction
Harrod
Harry Harrod
Florence
Edwin Potter
East Monte Vista Road
St. Monica's Hospital
16Th
Cypress Streets
Adam A. Hood
East Villetta Street
Seventh Street
McDowell Road
Tipton Freasier
Mable Dubois
West
van Buren Street
Good Samaritan Hospital
19Th Avenue
Jefferson Street
Harry L. Dubois
Bill Robinett
West Bellview Street
Ruth Franklin
West Sonora Street
Tonto
Montezuma
C. E. Franklin
Alex
South Eighth Street
Bonanza Seeks Feeder Line Backing From Tucson to Nogales
Bonanza Airlines executive M. E. Coles urged Phoenix Advertising Club members to back a feeder line linking Phoenix Tucson Nogales Douglas Bisbee and Safford. He said CAB approval could enable service within 21 days, noting Phoenix Reno began 26 days after certification. He criticized Arizona Airways Monarch merger as a purchase plan. The luncheon occurred at Hotel Westward Ho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Tucson
Nogales
Douglas-Bisbee
Safford
Phoenix Advertising Club
M. E. Coles
Bonanza Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Phoenix-Reno
Arizona
Arizona Airways
Monarch Airways
Denver
CAB
Monarch
Coles
Monarch-Arizona Airways
Westward Ho
Retired Pastor's Rites Arranged
Henry Clay Ledyard a 69 year old retired Universalist minister died at his home on West Coronado Road. Funeral services are set for 11 30 a m at Memory Chapel A L Moore and Sons Mortuary with cremation to follow at Greenwood Memorial Park. A Mason and veteran of the Spanish American War he came to Phoenix 14 2 years ago from Fort Wayne Indiana. Surviving are his wife Minna a daughter Cornelia Ledyard and a Fort Wayne sister. Refrigerating machinery was invented in 1880.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay
Ledyard
Universalist
West
Coronado Road
A. L. Moore and Sons
Greenwood Memorial Park
Fort Wayne
Ind
New England States
Minna
Cornelia Ledyard
Phoenix
Fire Victim's Condition Still Held Critical
Alfred Johnston forty of 1425 East Virginia Avenue ignited gasoline containers in his pocket while en route to police headquarters. He was treated at St. Monica's Hospital and later transferred to Veterans Hospital at Papago Park in critical condition. Johnston refused to discuss the incident. his mother said he threatened self harm if taken to Sawtelle Veterans Hospital. Near 13th Street and Coronado Road at 5:30 a.m. patrolmen stopped him for questioning before he started a fire in the patrol car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Johnston
East Virginia Avenue
Veterans Hospital
Papago Park
St. Monica's Hospital
Marion Johnston
Sawtelle Veterans Hospital
Los Angeles
Johnston
13Th Street
Coronado Road
Phoenix Men Appointed to A I A Committees
Phoenix men Dixon Fagerberg Jr and Alex W Crane named to committees of the American Institute of CPAs announced from New York. Fagerberg to Advisory Committee of individual practitioners Crane to Membership Committee. Electricity emerges as a rival to the tractor in aiding farm work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixon Fagerberg, Jr
Cambridge Avenue
Alex W. Crane
Amelia Street
American Institute of Accountants
New York
National Professional Society of Certified Public Accountants
Fagerberg
Crane
Walker Plans Resignation as Arizona Highway Patrol Chief
A. G. Walker announced he will resign as superintendent of the Arizona Highway Patrol due to ill health. His resignation will take effect after exams for a successor and Governor Garvey selects a replacement. He has suffered heart trouble and high blood pressure, and his physician orders a prolonged rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Walker
Arizona Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol Merit System Council
Walker
Dan E. Garvey
Highway Patrol
W. V. Burr
Tucson
Ed Braatelien
Phoenix
South 20Th Street
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West Madison Street
G.A. Gilbert
East Hess Street
L. L. Owens
West Palm Lane
Raymond Bovee
South 18Th Street
Donald Wright
Garvey
J. J. O’neill
Fred Edwards
Gilbert
Senate
Lowman
R. C. Stanford
W. Culver
HFC
Arisone
Monroe St
First St
Enid Jones
North
10Th Avenue
Broadway
Sherman R. Dent
Garfield Street
East
Thomas Road
Manuel Martin Nunez
el Tamborino
Seventh Avenue
Copper State Cafe
Washington Street
Herschell Dean McDaniel
Mac’s Copper Spoke
Horseshoe Dam
W. T. Heinle
Glenrosa Avenue
Bill’s Package Store
M. A. Bissell
Grace E. Brady
Schinke
Richfield Service
Aquila
Sentinel
Julia Reed
Velma Elizabeth Donkelaar
Wittman
George and
Velma’s
Lin. Ft
LAVA
P.O
Plug Hancock Lumber
East Washington
1St Ave
Cave Creek Rd
Sunnyslope
Bonanza
Moscow
Smirnoff
Cvodka
Ste. Pierre Smirnoff Fis. Inc
Hartford, Conn
Raed Re
East Adams
Hotel Adams
American Gem Society
Its Pri
Scottsdale
Townley
ON the Hudson
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Benefit Hadassah
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