Tucson Art Festival Opens With Easter Ceremonies
The Tucson Festival of Arts began in Tucson on March 26 and will run through April 8. Easter ceremonies highlighted the opening, with an East Pennington Street art display and scheduled lectures, a band and chorus performance by Amphitheater High School, and festival banners and pennants. The event, conceived by Madame Elenore Altman, later saw Elliott Arnold as provisional president and Dr. Melvin T. Slove among the founders. The climax comes April 8 with a dance drama by Oliver La Farge and Petita Evans, featuring original music by Robert Parris at the University of Arizona stadium.
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Tucson
Elenore Altman
University of Arizona
Elliott Arnold
Festival Association
Melvin T. Slove
Oliver la Farge
Santa Fe
N.M
Petita Evans
Robert Parris
University of Arizona Stadium
Pud Adair Earns Calf Roping Title in 1951 Rodeo
Pud Adair of Wickenburg won the 1951 season calf roping title after a second-place finish in the finale gave him 146% points across eight winter-season rodeos. Jim Read, also of Wickenburg, placed second with 89 points. Jack Percifield of Slash-Bar-K Ranch won the calf roping final in 16 seconds. More than 2,000 spectators attended at Rancho de Los Caballeros.
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Wickenburg
Pud Adair
Adair
Jim Read
Jack Percifield
Rancho de Los Caballeros
Girl Scout Council At Mesa To Elect And Install Tonight
Mesa residents will attend a 7 pm dinner meeting at Rebekah Hall to elect and install Mesa Girl Scout Council officers. Barbara Hochrein will screen a film on camp life, with leaders and co leaders as guests. a joint VFW installation is planned for April 12.
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Girl Scout Council
Mesa
Music Camp To Be Topic Of Educator
TEMPE March 26 Miles Dress kell associate professor of music at Arizona State College will talk about the Arizona All-State High School Music Camp at the luncheon meeting of the Tempe Ratary Club tomorrow noon in American Legion Hall. Dresskell originator of the camp for high school students. Scholarships to the camp are awarded by various civic organizations. Kenneth Wells music instructor at Tempe High School will present a musical program by some of his students.
Sheriffs Vie in Douglas Rodeo Mayhem of roping contest set
BISBEE March 26 A body of Arizona sheriffs will compete in a special roping event at the Douglas Rodeo on April 7 and 8 Sheriff I V Pruitt of Cochise County said 13 Arizona sheriffs and one New Mexico sheriff were entered Sheriff R C Richards of Lordsburg was the New Mexico entrant.
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Arizona
Douglas Rodeo
I. V. Pruitt
Cochise County
Pruitt
New Mexico
R. C. Richards
Lordsburg
Deputies Seek To Fix Identity Of Dead Man
Yuma County deputies in Gila Bend seek to positively identify a body found near a car exhaust in the Arizona desert about 113 miles west of Phoenix. The deceased is believed to be Einar T Nelson of San Diego who had been missing for two months.
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Yuma County
San Diego
Thearl Tibbets
Einar T. Nelson
Tibbets
Nelson
Arizona Desert
Phoenix
Yuma
P. L. Porter
Maricopa County
Sammie B. Nelson
North Dakota
Arthur Nelson
Clyde
N. D
Carol
Former Wisconsin Man Dies In Mesa
Allie Peter Benstein aged 55 of Chandler died yesterday at Southside District Hospital in Mesa He was formerly in the hardware business at Menomonee Falls Wisconsin Born in Saint Joseph Missouri He is survived by his wife Juanita at Chandler and a brother Edward of Menomonee Falls Burial will be in Menomonee Falls
Tribes Press Urgent Central Arizona Project Aid
Huaipai and Supai leaders urged the House Interior Committee to fast track the Central Project. They met committee members in Grand Canyon area and denied fears the Bridge Canyon Dam would flood key reservation areas. Attorney Royal Marks said overall damage from flooding was not expected. leaders stressed need for relief through construction of the Central Arizona Project.
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Grand Canyon
House Interior Committee
Willie Walker
Bridge Canyon
Royal Marks
Navajos Press for Faster Rehab Funds and Local Needs
Navajo tribal leaders protested limitations in initial Navajo Hopi rehabilitation funding. They urged quicker fund use within three years, citing critical water, education, and medical care shortfalls. Congressmen Murdock Morris D Ewart McMullin Poulson attended the briefing in Window Rock as leaders urged training for Navajo Hopi doctors and expanded facilities.
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Indian Affairs Subcommittee
Sam Ahkeah
The
Navajo Council
Ahkeah
John R. Murdock
Ariz
Tobey Morris
Okla
Wesley A. D’ewart
Mont
Chester B. McMullin
Fla
Norris Poulson
Calif
Grand Canyon Easter Sunrise Service Sets Attendance Record
The 17th annual Grand Canyon Easter sunrise service drew 4,505 attendees at the Shrine of the Ages on the South Rim, a 50 percent increase over prior records. Gov. Howard Pyle narrated, Rev. T. M. Pyle offered invocation, and the event featured KTAR Phoenix and NBC network broadcasts with music by the Shrine of Ages Choir.
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Grand Canyon National Park
Shrine of Ages
H. C. Bryant
Park Service
Howard Pyle
T. M. Pyle
Buckeye
Rol Laughner
KTAR
Phoenix
National Broadcasting Company
Armed Forces Radio
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Kenneth J. Porray
Grand Canyon Community Church
Mr. Pyle
Cora Mae Estep Rites Conducted
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Cora Mae Estep 56 a Mesa winter visitor for five years who died at Southside District Hospital Friday night. Burial will be at Creston Iowa. She was born there. Her husband Charles died in Mesa in 1948. Survived by son Walter of Mesa and a mother four sisters and one brother in Iowa.
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Cora Mae Estep
Southside District Hospital
Creston
Iowa
Estep
Charles
Walter
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