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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1949
Page
18
Joe Emenchaca found his cabin missing, leaving a neat lumber pile when he returned from work. Two $20 bills hidden in the cabin were gone, signaling a daylight burglary carried out at his residence in San Jose on October 3.
Members of the Order of Eastern Star and Masonic Lodge held a Rendezvous Park picnic in Mesa with Rainbow Girls as guests. The Navy Mother's Club to meet at 8 p.m. at 155 North Pasadena Street. Chamber members to vote on priorities including national advertising, new industries, highways 60 70 80, and Mesa Airport promotion.
The district approved selling the old Eighth Street School to Tempe Union High School for 50050 to fund a future expansion. The property was once used by Arizona State College as a teacher training unit and later served as a primary school. Also approved were purchasing East Tyler Street site for a new primary school and disposing Rohrig School property.
A group of 25 Miami businessmen will explore newly found cliff dwellings in the Superstition Mountain area. The horseback trip starts Thursday after departing Wednesday night, with planned stops at Reyes Ranch on Fish Creek and the Kennedy ranch in Haunted Canyon.
A Tucson football fan died after collapsing during the Arizona Utah game. The victim was Dr. L. M. Munger of Nogales, who collapsed in the first quarter as Arizona scored on a pass from Dan Russell to Tom Woodburn.
Grand Canyon National Park saw tourists spend an estimated six million dollars in northern Arizona for the year ending September 30. Acting superintendent Lemuel A. Garrison attributed the drop to bad weather in January to March and the poor condition of the Williams approach road, with 605,331 visitors, down 12,879 from the prior year.
TEMPE Oct 3 The Foreign Language Department at Arizona State College announces three new faculty members. John Todd holds a Stanford master and teaches German and Latin, Anna S Wall a Moscow educated Russian instructor for elementary classes, and R Hagberg a University of Wisconsin graduate teaching elementary Spanish. Todd succeeds Otis Hatch now directing Lincoln High School in San Juan Costa Rica.
Two gunshot incidents left two men hospitalized at South Side District Hospital in Mesa. Clifford Strickling, 15, of Gilbert, was hit in the left knee by neighbor Fred Yucunia, 16, during target practice. Verlin Maston, 20, of Higley, was wounded in the left hip when a rifle discharged near Chandler Heights while riding with Jack Holland, 22. Deputies Newton Harmon and Fay Mofford ruled both shootings accidental.
A 13-year-old boy and two companions were stopped by Mesa police after driving his uncle's car down East Main Street with the keys in the ignition. The youth steered a mile before officers intervened, then rode a squad car back to his home. The car stayed at the station until the uncle claimed it.
Antero N Lutap a 23 year old sophomore pre medical student from Bata Ilocos Norte Philippines arrived at Arizona State College Tempe last week. He chose ASC after reading about the Arizona desert and via letters from his brother Proceso Lutap employed in Glendale. Lutap aims for BS in biological sciences and plans to pursue medicine at UC or Stanford before returning to serve the Philippines.
Dr Grady Gammage announced a $35000 Rockefeller Foundation grant to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. The funds support bringing about 15 German educators to the United States for a year of observation and study at U S schools. Germans will be selected by U S Zone officials in Germany from participants in a workshop at Esslingen. Tilden, former director of teacher training in Württemberg Baden, rejoined ASC as professor of social studies.
At a Tempe organizational meeting of Battery A and B of the 498th Armored Battalion in the American Legion Hall, 18 men were sworn into the Organized Reserve Corps. Col L H Caruthers, Lt Col H E Broderson, and Lt Col C L Curtis spoke on the ORC and ROTC, detailing unit history and advantages.
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