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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1951
Page
8
HAL BOYLE profiles Harry Strevel the nation’s oldest active tree climber. He notes diseases in trees, elm blight spreading since 1930, and the risks of tree surgery while praising the craft and its practitioners.
State Land Commissioner W. W. Lane seeks further legal advice on the 1948 Santa Rita Development lease at Ryan Airfield near Tucson after Attorney General Fred O. Wilson ruled it unenforceable. Wilson said the company may deserve a preferential right to a new lease for good faith performance, but only the land commissioner can grant authority. Lane will determine if unenforceable equates to invalid and if it affects eligibility for a renewed lease.
About 100 librarians are expected to attend the two day convention of the Arizona Library Association at the University of Arizona. Founders Jane Hudgins and Beth Rogers will be present. A panel on moral and financial aspects of comic books will be held, with Tucson authors and out of state guests including Edmon Low and Charlotte Gaylord.
Emily Hatch, 53, American educator, leaves Paris on a year of teaching and travel under UNESCO. She will serve as educational advisor to Delhi as her husband Dr. Spencer Hatch works in Ceylon. Their daughters Nancy and Janie accompany, planning vacations between postings. Hatch recalls 30 years of globe trotting from Cooperstown, sleeping on tables in Mexico and surviving a kidnapping scare, finding in all places that motherhood and family concerns unite people. In India she will visit 305 villages and organize classes in home economics and child welfare to teach reading to 125,000 illiterates.
Walter A. Feinthel aged 64 of 214 North 17th Avenue died Wednesday in Humanity Memorial Hospital. The Cincinnati native, a retired meatcutter, will be sent to Cincinnati for funeral services and burial. Survivors include his wife Edna L and daughter Mrs. Gilbert Moos of Cumberland Maryland, plus one grandchild.
Warren C. Rennels 74 of East Ocotillo Road died yesterday in a local hospital. The body will be sent to Charleston Illinois for funeral services and burial. He was a native of Charleston and a retired farmer and rancher who came to Phoenix in December from California. He is survived by his wife Allie May a daughter Florence R. Martin and one grandson all of Phoenix.
Co. G. Fields, about 65, of 2008 East Thomas Road, died after a heart attack yesterday at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. He and friend W. L. McGeorge of Buffalo, New York, were watching an exhibition game between the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs when he collapsed. A physician pronounced him dead before an ambulance arrived.
A report finds that power in overcoming infections is substantially greater than expected when using a mixture of penicillin with bacitracin, suggesting improved efficacy over single agents.
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a hospital reorganization placing control under Medical Director Dr Norman A Ross and Superintendent Elmer G King. The plan adds interlocking operations, discharges authority, and new staff roles to improve efficiency. Several employees were dismissed for insubordination and will be notified by King.
Funeral services for Roy H. Wallen age 50 and a member of The Arizona Republic staff were held today at the Arizona Funeral Home Chapel on Third Avenue. Reverend Fred W. DeBerry of Central Heights Baptist Church officiated with burial at Memory Lawn Memorial Park.
The report weighs good and bad news from Korea Berlin and Moscow. Bad: China rejects peace talks on Korea, Peiping vows to drive UN forces from the peninsula, and a Berlin sighting bus incident raises World War III fears. Weather worsens UN mobility in Korea. Good:Paris deputy ministers show possible path to a four power conference, Chinese forces unable to halt UN advances, and Charles Wilson notes progress in national defense readiness.
Retired Vice Admiral William Chambers aged 66 died yesterday in the Naval Hospital at San Diego. He had commanded the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland, at his retirement five years ago.
Diplomatic circles in The Hague anticipated the United States ambassador to The Netherlands Selden Chapin would be replaced soon. They also suggested the U S government was considering appointing Mrs Perle Mesta, minister to Luxembourg, to the post.
Mrs Mary Louise Christie 58 of Scottsdale died Wednesday in St Josephs Hospital Born in Chicago Til she had been a Scottsdale resident five years Survived by sister Mrs Doris Russell Curtis of Scottsdale Funeral services arranged at A L Moore and Sons Mortuary
State Treasurer E. T. Williams Jr. elected president of the new nonprofit Arizona Good Government Club to oppose state government reorganization bills. Rep. Lee Ackerman denounces the plan, arguing it removes voter choice and raises appointive power above political checks. Ackerman cites Griffenhagen Associates’ recommendations for a Personnel Department and civil service as ignored safeguards.
Princess Alexandra, 14, daughter of the Duchess of Kent and niece of King George VI, had a successful operation today in London for removal of adenoids.
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