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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1949
Page
3
Crossword clues and mixed entries from a Phoenix Gazette page hint at a sprawling Saturday puzzle. The grid items cover foot coverings city pol musical instrument and more with several garbled or partially printed hints. The page ends with a sale pitch about want ads and the Gazette’s forward push.
Saint Michael's Mission honors Rev. Berard Haile 75 for pioneering Navajo linguistics. He wrote the first Navajo grammar in 1926 and leads an ethnological dictionary project while teaching priests and guiding tribal language work. Collaboration with St. Michael's Press and staff aids his monumental efforts amid a life devoted to Navajo literacy.
Yuma endurance fliers Bob Woodhouse and Woody Jonge ward celebrated after landing The City of Yuma following 1,124 hours aloft. A mile-long parade with floats bands guardsmen and engineers honored the two businessmen with speeches by Charles Gilpin and Paul Dawson. Dawson presented a box of hair clippings as proof of each extra day beyond the prior record.
Funeral services for Thomas J. Spears Sr 79 year old retired railroad man who died yesterday at his home will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at Memory Chapel of A L Moore and Sons Mortuary Rev Powell Green will officiate Burial will be in Memory Lawn Memorial Park Spears an Arizona resident since 1920 retired in 1937 as locomotive engineer for Southern Pacific Railroad previously worked for Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railroad A native of Atlanta Ga he was a member of Odd Fellows and Red Men lodges of that city In Phoenix he lived at 50 West Villetta Street Survivors are his wife Ethel ana J dr and Ames S and two granddaughters all of Phoenix
The Texas cotton crop annually yields such vast value that it nears the combined value of the reductions in gold, silver, zinc, lead, and copper mines across the United States.
Henry Field, 77, founder and president of the Henry Field Seed and Nursery Company, died of cancer in Shenandoah Iowa. A pioneer in radio broadcasting, Field started the company in 1899, building it into the country’s largest retail mail order seed and nursery business.
Cadet Lieutenant John E. Hurst Jr. a Phoenix native and son of J. E. Hurst addresses discipline and platoon function as head of his unit in the United States Military Academy at West Point. He previously attended Phoenix Union High School and the University of Utah and worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Sequoia National Park contains 8722 giant redwood trees over 10 feet in diameter.
In Camden New Jersey on October 17 a 21-year-old man named Rocco Gamble faced joy and sorrow within hours. His wife gave birth to their first son while news arrived that their oldest child Charlotte May 3 had been struck by a truck and died soon after. The Gambles also have a 1-year-old daughter named Roseann.
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