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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1951
Page
2
Santa Cruz High School seniors depart Eloy for a goodwill tour to Nogales Hermosillo and Guaymas in four days of excursions. They will meet the Sonora governor at Hermosillo's mansion, tour a shrimp factory, and attend a shrimp dinner.
Wah-Ki Pueblo on a 10 acre site just north of Coolidge limits and south of Casa Grande National Monument nears completion. Walter Smith builder states 25 homes are finishing, private one family ranch style units built since February 1950 with potential for another subdivision and a corner set aside for a shopping center.
Globe Lodge will install new officers at 7 30 p m on Wednesday in the Globe Masonic Temple with Frank DePouli set to become master counselor, succeeding Robert Kennedy. The Globe Ward Primary Association meeting of officers and teachers is at 7 30 p m Monday in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints facility, and a cerebral palsy clinic runs 9 a m to 5 p m tomorrow at the Federal Housing Project Recreational Building in Claypool for interested parents.
The National Press Club stages Texas Chili Night with Gebhardt and Wolf supplying cans. Reporter Harman W. Nichols tracks down a Home Cook recipe from Mrs. Tom Connally, including beef, chili powder, garlic, flour, suet, onion, salt, and hot water. The piece notes bean vs no bean debate and highlights Gib Sandifer as committee foreman with a Texas motto.
A Chat, an amah in Hong Kong, earns about 20 USD a month while working 16 hours daily seven days a week. She saves half her salary, enjoys some free time, and lives among a cooperative network of amahs who cover for each other. Her view of communism and Red soldiers reflects a pragmatic balance of need and duty. Born near Canton, she walked to Hong Kong after family illness, rising from learner amah to head servant for an American family. Her life blends frugality, shared labor, and a sense of security amid regional upheaval.
Senate Crime Committee members Tobey and Wiley urge extending the panel to January 15 while Chairman Kefauver opposes. The Senate voted contempt citations against 12 witnesses linked to interstate crime including Frank Costello Joe Adonis Frank Erickson and Greasy Thumb Guzik. Other cited figures face fines or a year in prison for each contempt charge.
The Pioneers gathered beside the Gazette and Republic Building for a two hour mingling before a motor escorted parade to Phoenix Union High School. Gov. Pyle, Mayor Udall and Lin Orme led the procession as the day featured speeches, a band concert, a barbecue, and an evening pioneers dance.
Doyle D. Polson 29 died from burns after a truck fire near Tiger while attempting to rescue a Phoenix woman. Funeral by Rev. Alton Wimbish Monday at Chandler Church of Christ, burial in Mesa Cemetery. Survived by wife Naomi, two sons Doyle Jr and Larry, brother Roy Polson, half brother Hershell Baxter, and grandparents H. D. Eastridge.
Funeral services were held in Los Angeles for William H. Code 87 pioneer Mesa resident construction engineer and property owner who died Wednesday He founded the Los Angeles firm Clinton Hall and Code and helped build Mesa s Consolidated Canal Surviving is his wife Martha of Los Angeles
Marvin Dewey Sells, 51, a furniture salesman, died Tuesday at his home 2137 West Fillmore Street after a short illness. Born in West Virginia, he moved to Phoenix in 1945 from Wheeling. He was a member of the Eagles Lodge and Capitol Methodist Church. Survived by wife Virginia, a son Marvin Donald, and six sisters. Funeral services pending at Grimshaw Mortuary.
Defense efforts to prove Fred Baroody did not deliberately kill Grace Baroody will be renewed in Maricopa County Superior Court on Monday. Fred J. Hyder stated in opening that Grace Baroody was killed accidentally as her husband tried to shield her from Floyd.
An extensive flood surge hit eastern Mississippi with the Tombigbee River forecast to crest at 40 feet in Columbus, many areas already under water. Selma Alabama sees 47 feet, Northport reports a Warrior River crest at 66 feet with 200 homeless. Rome Georgia and Ulster County New York also flood. Evacuations multiply as Mississippi and Mississippi River levees breach. Plane schedules at La Guardia and Idlewild disrupted amid heavy rains. A shooting trial in progress details Baroody case with witnesses and possible death penalty fate undecided.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations United Rubber Workers won a union shop contract with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. The deal covers 25,000 URW workers across 10 plants in Akron Jackson Mich St Marys Ohio Topeka Kansas Lincoln Neb Los Angeles Gadston Ala Winsor Vt New Bedford Mass and Muncie Ind. Goodyear Aircraft in Litchfield is unaffected.
A Salt River Power District worker, Fred L. Campbell, about 40, fell roughly 25 feet from a utility pole at 11 Mile Corner northeast of Casa Grande while repairing a damaged line. Unconscious and in critical condition at Casa Grande Hospital, X rays to be taken. spokesman notes he was not burned and did not touch the live line.
In Tucson on March 31 AP reports Antonio Sotelo received an eight year suspended sentence and eight years probation after being convicted of manslaughter in the fatal Sept 24 shooting of 28 year old Renaud Ochoa. Sotelo said Ochoa came to his home to molest his wife.
A whimsical baseball tale features a little red ant hitting a long drive, then an elephant at third base tripping him. Umpire scolds the elephant for unsportsmanlike behavior as the crowd boos. The narrator notes the Yankees will be gone after Monday at Municipal Stadium.
Chairman Tom Murray predicted today that the House Post Office Committee will vote to double the rate for penny postcards.
Sydney reports that canned Australian rabbit is priced at 98 cents per pound in New York. The note cites import markets and price trends for meat products.
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