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Phoenix Gazette

Location

Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Date

Sep 08, 1951

Page

2

Big Generator In Service Planned For 1954 Expansion

FLAGSTAFF Sept 8 A nine million dollar generator will be in service by May 1954 Central Arizona Light and Power Co directors were told in a meeting here yesterday The generator will help meet a projected 277000 kilowatts demand and nearly half of an eighty mile high power line from Prescott to Flagstaff is completed The line part of Nalapco expansion aims to serve the Flagstaff Holbrook Winslow area Total cost estimated at one million dollars Calapco board members attended the meeting from outside the Phoenix area

Flagstaff Central Arizona Light and Power Co Northern Arizona Light and Power Co Henry Sargent Sargent Prescott Nalapco Flagstaff-Holbrook-Winslow Calapco Board of Phoenix

Coolidge Rainbow Girls Install New Officers Tomorrow

Dorothy Fulton will be installed worthy adviser of the Coolidge Assembly of the Order of Rainbow for Girls in the Masonic Hall at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Installing officers include Betty Taylor and Mrs Kruse Davis with a long list of officers and committee members named.

Coolidge Rainbow Girls Coolidge Dorothy Fulton H. J. Fulton Coolidge Assembly of the Order of Rainbow Masonic Hall Melvin Gammage Betty Taylor The Globe Assembly Kruse Davis A. T. Ray C. R. Boswell H. G. Richardson Beverly Zook Sharon Cleveland Charity Joyce McFarland Hope Ina Reed Carolyn Monk Kay Zook Dorothy Wood Janell Macrum Pat Wrenn June Moore Betsy Manarick Outer Observer Betty Foreman Confidential Observer Lenore Slater Edith Wang Earlene Hicks Nature Darleen Cole Tene Kent Fidelity Onita Clark Nancy Gammage Shirley Fry Nancy Winters Annabelle Davis Reba Jo Higginbotham Misses Wang Reed Janice Rhinehart Misses Manarick Slater Davis Macrum Higginbotham

Postmaster Gets New Job In Benson

William D. Spangler, 34, Benson postmaster for 10 years, is appointed postal inspector for the area from Benson to Denver, effective Sept. 17. An acting postmaster will run Benson until a new examination is held. Spangler will train in Wyoming and Utah, and he served 27 months in the Army during World War II. He led the Vicente Manzo American Legion post and is a Rotary member. He was the youngest postmaster in the United States when appointed in 1941 at age 24.

Benson William D. Spangler Here Denver Spangler Wyoming Utah United States Leonard D. Redfield Vicente Manzo American Legion Rotary New York City

Tucson School Official Out After Audit Findings

Ralph King, business manager of the Tucson School System for 15 years, was permanently relieved of duties after a special auditor's report found a deficit of 32,256.74. The Tucson Board of School Trustees dismissed him citing accepted responsibility and negligence. State Examiner Dan T. Benchoff plans an early audit of all Pima County offices including the Tucson School District No. 1.

Tucson Ralph King Pima County

Ajo Backs Plea for Regular Airline Service

Ajo residents support a plan for scheduled air service as Western Airlines seeks permission to inaugurate a Yuma to Phoenix route with Ajo as the sole stop. The chamber of commerce leads renewed efforts after word of the application.

AJO Arizona Chamber of Commerce Western Airlines Yuma Phoenix

Southern Pacific to discuss moving Arizona cotton crop

General and division freight officials of the Southern Pacific Co. will meet in Tucson on Thursday to discuss plans for moving the largest cotton crop in Arizona history, signaling major logistics preparations for the harvest.

Tucson Southern Pacific Co Arizona

Pine Island Navy Vessel Highlights War and Polar Mission

Pine Island commissioned April 26 1945 embarked on a round world voyage visiting Hong Kong Singapore Colombo Ceylon Aden Egypt Naples Algiers and reached Norfolk. Early operations included Okinawa Yokohama Shanghai and Tsingtao sea drome duties. In December 1946 the ship joined Operation High Jump the Antarctic expedition under Rear Admiral Byrd. It later returned to Far East duties and was decommissioned in May 1950 before being recommissioned in October 1950 amid the Korean crisis.

Pine Island Hong Kong Singapore Colombo Ceylon Aden Egypt Naples Italy Algiers Straits of Gibraltar Praia Terceira Azores Norfolk Okinawa Yokohama Shanghai Tsingtao South Pole Richard E. Byrd Far Eastern

Salome Holds Hall Festival in Arizona Desert

Salome, Sept. 8. The highway town welcomed visitors for the sixth annual Dick Wick Hall celebration. The fete began with a barbecue at 6 p.m. and continues with a jamboree as merchants prize offerings are awarded.

Salome Arizona Desert Dick Wick Hall Arizona

Telephone service to improve in Navajo Apache area

Northern Arizona residents heard that Navajo Apache Telephone system will get improved service but costs may rise for users. Arizona Corporation Commission official William T. Brooks said new funds and staff would boost the utility. Residents in St Johns and Springerville urged 24 hour service though pay may be a concern. Local firms and motion picture interests reported the current poor service hampers business and filming in Apache County.

Springerville Arizona William T. Brooks Arizona Corporation Commission St. Johns Holbrook Julius W. Becker Becker Mercantile Company Carl W. Beck White Mountiin 20Th Century Fox Motion Picture Company R. E. Francey Apache County State Livestock and Sanitary Board Vernon Lloyd C. Henning Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company Navajo Apache White Mountains

Squaw Dance Ends Amid Bluff Camp Riot Near Blanding

At Bluff Utah 300 Native Americans from Arizona Utah and New Mexico held a three day pow wow that ended peacefully after two Indians were accused of selling wine and refused arrest sparking a clash with police. Gunfire was reported and reinforcements arrived as armed peace officers controlled the scene.

Blanding Utah Bluff Here Arizona New Mexico Brown Harvey

Korea air attacks press third Red tank group

Friday night Allied planes hit a third group of Communist tanks in three days while infantry outposts in west and central Korea held after forcing their way from four Red traps on Thursday and Friday. Analysts offered two main theories, either Reds aimed to reoccupy no-man's land north of Seoul or were probing for a new major offensive.

Korea Seoul No-Man’s Land

Reds Hint Willingness To Shift Truce Talks

Tokyo dispatch reports Communist radio hints the North Koreans may move cease fire talks from Kaesong as proposed by Gen Ridgway. No acceptance announced. talks suspended since Aug 23. Peiping and Pyongyang stations urge caution and tie any progress to acceptance of armistice lines favored by Malik.

Tokyo Kaesong Matthew B. Ridgway Red Radio Pyongyang Peiping Radio Russia Jacob) Malik 38Th Parallel U.N

Dope Charge Filed In Flagstaff Case

Ti to Ortiz, 47, faces illegal possession of marijuana charges after police found a substance they called marijuana in a wood pile at his Flagstaff home following a Saturday night arrest.

Flagstaff Titio Ortiz Ortiz

State seeks delay in Pima bribe trial

A motion to vacate the September 18 trial date for Jerome P. Martin former Pima County sheriff charged with taking a bribe and conspiring to violate gambling laws has been filed in superior court. The state says two chief witnesses have sold their Tucson property and fled the state. Judge J Mercer Johnson will hear the continuance request at 9 30 a.m. Monday. Martin’s attorney Richard B Evans said he would resist any delay. Fort Benning Ga the Infantryman's West Point covers about 227000 acres and could serve a city of 150000.

Tucson Jerome P. Martin Pima County Martin J. Mercer Johnson Richard B. Evans Fort Benning West Point

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