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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1949
Page
13
Gazette News Bureau Mesa Oct 14 The first carload of lemons of the season left Leppla Henry Produce Company sheds. Lemons grown in Mesa area shipped to eastern markets. With lemon scarcity back east, owner James A Henry expects a good price for the consignment.
Duncan, Oct. 14. The Greenlee County Fair opened today and runs through Oct. 16. County Agent John Sears notes exhibit judging today. Admission is free. Sports chairman Bill Chapman describes five horse races daily, a football game between Duncan High School and Clifton High School tonight, and rodeos on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Chester merchant A C Welge says Calvert whiskey offers a better buy citing taste lightness and mildness Calvert Reserve Blended Whiskey is 86 8 proof with 65 percent grain neutral spirits Calvert Distillers Corp New York City endorses the product.
Special to The Phoenix Gazette Tempe Oct. 14 Felix E. Mc Kernan director of the Arizona State Sun Devil band announced scholarships for 69 outstanding music students have been awarded for the 1949 50 academic year These students form a nucleus of the 100 piece ASC band represent 11 states and 15 Arizona communities The scholarships are financed by the Phoenix Junior Chamber of Commerce the Sun Angel Foundation alumni association and regular college music scholarship funds Named are Michael Bagnoli Jeanne Bagnoli Donald Bauer Ferline Carson Charles Beharka Lyle Behrends Harold Blirtcher James Hendricks Anton Johnson George Rayes Charles Watts and many others from Globe Phoenix Yuma Mesa Nashville Tenn Ken neth Bush and others from Indiana Minnesota Illinois Washington and California Also Eugene Chause Sammy Nachenberg Lawrence Petz Richard Steehler Donald Tiverof sky Kenneth Pfulb Highland Ind Gilbert Rachlin Tucson Al Ralph Coolidge Phyllis Rugger Mary Schultz James Simmons and Jerry Smith Colton Calif Also Sally Lou Creswell Whit ing Ind Mr and Mrs Pat Curry Mike LeBeau Tempe Robert Dunkel Flint Mich David Frost Douglas Raul Gabaldon Safford Barbara Jean Heavin Pioche Nev Ralph Lingerfelt Elizabethton Tenn
Tempe Old Settlers meet tomorrow at Tempe Beach for an annual picnic and reunion to recall early Tempe days. Officers current are Harry Meyer president Roy Painter vice president Alta Fogal secretary-treasurer Mrs John Ellingson registrar and Mrs James Painter historian. Dedication of the Church of God parsonage with Rev C E Randall speaking follows a basket lunch and open house.
Families will picnic at 4:30 p m Sunday at the ranch home of Mr and Mrs Ben Morrow with a dish to share and dessert provided. Congregational High School Pilgrim Fellowship plans a state rally at Prescott with Cecil Prior Jr and Miss Carolyn Hand attending from Tempe. The Wes Weds group meets Monday at 6 p m at the Methodist Church for a potluck and films. Tempe Rainbow Girls hold a 9 30 a m food sale to buy a baby incubator for Mesa Southside Hospital. Floyd H Miller, ASU freshman, injured at a pep rally on Tempe Butte, is slowly recovering at Good Samaritan Hospital Phoenix. son of Postmaster Floyd Miller.
Mesa residents watched a department demonstration at the drill tower showing hose deployment and ladder raises during National Fire Prevention Week. Fire Chief E W McCarty urged warning children about false alarms after a near collision during a call and recalled the 1947 Mesa tragedy where two firefighters died in a false alarm incident.
Jim Passey and Hugh Johnson, cochairmen of the 2030 Club World's Championship Junior Rodeo, announce the event move from a weekend in October to November 19 and 20 at the Apache Junction rodeo grounds.
A part time janitor in Portland misinterpreted an order and hacked ivy vines covering two sides of the three story Portland Public Library at ground level. The vines had covered the building since its 1913 construction.
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