National Book Week Opens With Schedule Of Programs
The 31st National Book Week runs through Saturday with book displays and teacher teas in Phoenix elementary schools. Miss Gertrude James notes poster art by Elizabeth Wolcott and a KOY radio program at 3:45 pm. Events include guests, open houses, book fairs, and author appearances at several schools and the Phoenix Public Library, plus Billie Burke signing at Hobson's Book Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Gertrude R. James
Elizabeth Tyler Wolcott
Kenilworth School
KOY
Adams School
Margaret Phelps
Arizona
Jackson
Franklin
Stevenson School
Whittier School
Mary Bethune School
Capitol
Edison School
Emerson School
Emerson Library Club
Grant School
Monroe School
Lincoln School
Dunbar
Booker T. Washington
Phoenix Public Library
Toby
Hobson's Book Store
West Monroe Street
Billie Burke
Ex-Y Men Open Insurance Business
R C Babcock former Phoenix YMCA senior program director and PE director and M A Morey longtime YMCA director form an insurance partnership. They will write life accident health hospitalization and medical expense coverage for Business Men’s Assurance Company of America headquartered in Kansas City Missouri.
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R. C. Babcock
Phoenix Young Men's Christian Association
M. A. Morey
YMCA
Business Men's Assurance Company of America
Kansas City
Reclamation Report Ready for Distribution
A comprehensive Bureau of Reclamation volume covering 72 projects in Arizona, Southern California, and Southern Nevada is ready. E A Moritz announced copies cost $4 from the Government Printing Office in Washington. The book includes history, illustrations, and statistical data. Farms irrigated by reclamation facilities in 1948 yielded $160 million, about 30 percent of total reclamation income.
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Boulder City
Bureau of Reclamation
Arizona
E. A. Moritz
Bureau
Moritz
Government Printing Office
Washington
D. C
California
Nevada
Harmon Park Work Starts This Week
J R Porter Construction Company announced concrete pouring for the Harmon Park main building foundation will begin midweek. The city awarded the project, at about $165000, includes a community building with gym and recreation hall and a swimming pool with bathhouse at Fifth Avenue and Yavapai Street.
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Harmon Park
J. R. Porter Construction Company
the Park
Fifth Avenue
Yavapai Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
United Service Organizations
Casa Grande Ruins
Williams Air Force Base
Naval Air
Litchfield Park
USO
R. R. Fauntleroy
Chandler Uso
Pfc
Wilbur Yates
Kankakee
Ill
Eva Felix
Chandler
Robert Brown
Woodward
Okla
E. B. Pease
Fox Theater
Pete Perez
West Grant Street
West Phoenix
al J. Flood
Bordens
Borden
The
Borden Co
Madison Ave
New York
Bordene
Frigidaire
Anette
First Street
Adams
Sewan
Home Supply
Com
St St
Pany
Necaten
Arizona Steel Blogs., Inc
19Th Ave
Frankfort Distillers Corp
N.Y.C
Santa
Wards
Montgomery Ward
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