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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1949
Page
11
Lloyd Cl an reports that the Reclamation Service will gather facts about the project. Officials plan surveys and data collection to inform decisions on water rights and environmental impact. Community leaders express interest and concern over timelines and regulatory steps.
About eighty members of the Arizona State Reclamation Association will attend its annual convention at Hotel Adams with favorable progress reports on the Central Arizona Project. Wayne Akin will present the report, with other officials like M. J. Dougherty and W. E. Larson providing year progress updates.
Mrs. Cassie Simmons, 74, died Wednesday in Good Samaritan Hospital. Born Sept. 9, 1875 in Owensboro, she had lived in Phoenix 20 years with her daughter Mrs. Charles Learned at 3515 East McKinley Street. Survived by son F. L. Simmons, Fort Worth, Tom, two sisters, and a brother, plus two grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. Saturday at A. L. Moore and Sons Memory Chapel. Dr. Charles S. Kendall to officiate. Interment Greenwood Memorial Park.
NOGALES Oct 14 AP The Bracero Recruiting Office in Hermosillo has been officially closed, the U S Immigration Service reports. In the past two weeks 4105 Mexican farm laborers cleared this port for Arizona jobs. Most were sent to the Arizona Co operative Cotton Growers Association and Agricultural Commodities Incorporated. They were admitted under recent labor agreements with Mexico and entered under bonds with entry limits of three to six months.
The Mari copa County American Red Cross chapter appointed Mrs. Arthur B. Kin solving II as vice chairman after a board of directors meeting led by John B. Mills. Dr. J. N. Harber joined the board. Weekly speech classes for officials and volunteer chairmen begin next Monday with Thomas E. Burns directing a 10 week free clinic. Graduates will join the speakers bureau.
Frank M. Taylor of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Washington transfers to the Phoenix office. Evan V. Jones notes Taylor’s cotton and truck crop expertise important to Arizona. Taylor, previously in Rapidan Virginia, has served 20 years in seven states. Robert H. Moats shifts from the Phoenix BAE office to the Fruit and Vegetable Division in Washington.
Plans for electing delegates to the Arizona Education Association delegate assembly on November 18 19 were laid by the Phoenix Elementary Classroom Teachers Association at Monroe School. An election committee includes John Mammen Adams School Miss Ethel McLellan Jackson School and Morrison Warren Dunbar School. Twenty two delegates will represent about 400 elementary teachers in Phoenix. Mrs Nell Wilcoxen president of the Arizona Classroom Teachers reported on Boston and Plymouth NH conventions and Mrs Hester L Combs Phoenix unit president added details. Goals stressed include teacher welfare and improvement community relations and a professional library alongside retirement law revision. Other officers are Don Menefee vice president Miss Louise Withers secretary and George Shill treasurer.
Donald G. Godman Arizona representative of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service will depart Phoenix for Dallas to receive a new assignment. John Pfau of Los Angeles will arrive to assume current negotiations, with no permanent Arizona conciliator yet named. Godman has handled about 80 labor disputes here, two of which ended in work stoppages, and currently negotiations involve Phoenix transfer and storage firms with Local 104 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Phelps Dodge with the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
Washington report notes the Public Housing Administration invites Arizona members of Congress to attend next Tuesday’s final action on Phoenix slum clearance and low rent housing project. PHA commissioner John Taylor Egan says the meeting is largely ceremonial after initial project approval. Phoenix seeks 1,150 units with a preliminary $265,000 loan for surveys and plans. Emmett McLoughlin, Phoenix Housing Authority chair, is among invited officials. The law permits financing of 810,000 low rent units nationally over six years.
The city plans an appeal of a $300 fine against Arizona Creamery for misbranded milk. A jury found the company guilty after a day-long hearing October 5 before City Magistrate C W Pensinger. The complaint, by four city health inspectors, alleged milk labeled Grade A pasteurized did not meet state standards. Creamery operator S L Medigovich was named. The superior court date was not set.
PRESCOTT Oct 14 AP Fire yesterday wrecked the school at Chino Valley 18 miles north of here but 107 pupils and four teachers escaped without injury. Principal Friesen said the blaze started in the basement kitchen as younger children left and older students moved books to safety. A new gymnasium nearby was saved by neighboring farmers, while firefighters controlled the main building by 1 15 p m. Damage estimates not yet available. Classes planned in the new building.
William Neil Smith a 28 year old anthropologist from Tucson who vanished Sept 17 during a Gulf of Mexico field trip to Tiburon Island has been found safe Pilot Ray Assmar located him in Tiburon Island Mexico Smith had given a letter to a trucker to mail to Tucson officials but it was never delivered University of Arizona officials and his mother had requested Mexican authorities check on his welfare after he failed to return on Sept 17.
The Arizona Tax Commission ruled that all rentals on properties and equipment in the state fall under a 2 percent sales tax on gross receipts. The order, issued unanimously, applies to businesses storage facilities equipment and rentals on land. Property and equipment owners must obtain Arizona business licenses or face prosecution. The decision, based on an Attorney General opinion, expands beyond apartments and covers store buildings parking lots warehouses and more, affecting about 3 000 business houses. Driggs said revenues would rise significantly, though exact figures were not available.
Mary Aepli a Tempe resident for 36 years died after a short illness at Mesa South Side District Hospital. She was born in Granville Wisconsin in 1857 and moved to Arizona in 1907. Survived by three sons D C Aepli Paul Milton two daughters a sister list seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren Funeral services set for Saturday at 10 am at Carr Mortuary Tempe with Rev Hugh Lormor officiating Interment in Double Butte Cemetery.
The Maricopa County Dental Assistants Association installed officers at its regular dinner in the Crystal Room of Hotel Adams. New officers are Mildred Clow president Futh Wilhelm vice president Joy Phillips secretary and Virginia Davies treasurer. Lorraine Madden and Joy Phillips will represent the association at the national convention in San Francisco October 17 to 20.
In Maricopa County Superior Court the Grunow Memorial Clinic and trustee William C Gruow face a staff suit led by Dr. C B Warrenburg. They seek to stop Grunow from diverting $65,000 to Northwestern University. Judge Charles C Bernstein presided as staff physicians testified on their annual income.
Arizona tourist traffic rose in September as the Arizona State Department of Agriculture and Horticulture reported. Automobiles entering the state through eight border stations totaled 116,774, up 10,600 from September 1948, with commercial trucks also increasing from 8,000 to 9,454.
Secretary of State Wesley Bolin became acting governor of Arizona at 9 20 a m yesterday as Governor Dan E Garvey left the state to visit Governor Thomas Mabry at an exposition in Las Cruces New Mexico.
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