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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1949
Page
22
Chrysanthemums bring fall color in Phoenix despite heat and aridity. The piece outlines types like china, pompon, anemone, daisy, spider, and spoon mums, plus care tips from planting cuttings in February to staking, mulching, feeding, and shade considerations for robust blooms. It notes indoor and hanging growth ideas and mentions safe propagation methods and disease caution.
Hollywood star Gene Autry insures his horse Champion for 25000 dollars, with a 100 dollar monthly feed fund and another 100 dollar monthly care stipend. Champion II, age four, is expected to perform for years before retirement, and the ceremony occurred at a Highland Avenue insurance office amidst photographers.
Veterans Administrator Carl R. Gray Jr. said VA will begin NSLI dividend payments to 16 million veterans early next January at a rate of one million checks per week. He denied the $2.8 billion payout is a bonus or Treasury grab, noting a surplus arises from unexpectedly low non military deaths among NSLI policyholders, especially younger ages, and that the law requires returning this money as dividends.
Grand Master McKay of the Order of DeMolay will address the first postwar Arizona convention at the Masonic Temple. United States Senator Carl Hayden will speak at the 6 p.m. banquet in the Shrine Auditorium Fiesta Room, followed by a grand ball. Opening ceremonies featured Newell Stewart and Albert R. Beukman. Delegates from 12 Arizona towns registered. 150 boys from outside Phoenix and 150 from Phoenix plus 50 candidates attend. Second degree conferring at South Mountain Park with a barbecue by the Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciots. Jerry Stewart is master councilor. Tomorrow includes officer elections and athletic events at University Park and Encanto Golf Course, with a grand ball at Shrine Auditorium. Convention closes Sunday noon after a Mothers' Circle breakfast and First Baptist Church services.
Tap dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson, 71, deteriorated at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He is treated for a heart ailment and has been in an oxygen tent since last week. Physicians said his condition today is not as good as it has been.
Governor Aaron V. Brown issued a call for 2,800 men, marking Tennessee as the Volunteer State as 30,000 volunteers quickly stepped forward.
Born November 25, 1914 in Martinez California Joe DiMaggio grew from a crab fisherman’s son and sandlot idol to one of baseball’s greatest batters and center fielders. He played eight World Series for the New York Yankees and became among the sport’s highest paid players. He began selling newspapers as a boy and followed his brother Vince’s path to baseball through a fence knothole before joining the Seals and then the Yankees in 1936.
Mrs Alexandra Theodore of Newcastle Pennsylvania calls home to wish a happy holiday while Mrs Michael Theodore and Mrs Alex Trakes pack a turkey dinner from Phoenix. The meal, with giblet gravy, travels by plane at 9:30 a.m. and is to arrive tonight.
Chicago November 25 Medical sources say Dr Morris Fishbein will resign as editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association after 37 years. He will become consultant medical editor for Doubleday and Company and join Blakiston Philadelphia. His departure follows trustees orders to quit controversial topics and end interviews. He will stay in Chicago and plans a December 6 statement.
The sidereal map for this date signals excellent auspices for bold ventures with energy and tact. Quick decisions may hinge on unique openings and hidden factors, while those born today are set for brilliant achievement and versatile careers.
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