Old Haunts to Shipyard Graveyard A San Francisco Visit
The narrator recalls vacationing with relatives then tours Bethlehem's San Francisco shipyard once famed for World War II production. Once 18 000 workers strong, today about 1 000 remain, with bayside ruins, empty shipways, and unused facilities as calls for new ships loom amid a wary international climate. Ships like the Olympia and Oregon loom in memory alongside modern wartime losses and the yard's quiet, reflective present.
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Lena
Reader’s Digest
Old Salt Mine
Joe
San Francisco Bay
U. S. Navy
U. S. S. Tucson
Bethlehem
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
California
Bay
NOBLE
Union Iron Works
Olympia
Admiral Dewey
Manila Bay
Oregon
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Pearl Harbor
Essex
Raleigh
Norway
South Pacific
Pacific Shore
Cootiettes Lead Arizona Visit At Las Piejas Club
Mrs. Fred Price of Flagstaff Grand Grayback of Arizona arrives to preside at Las Piejas Cootiettes Club No. 67 in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Foxhole. She attended ceremonies at the new Veterans Administration Hospital yesterday and is state leader of the veterans wives group. Mrs. Oscar Runyon of Phoenix Club No. 248 will preside tonight.
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Fred Price
Flagstaff
Grand Grayback
Arizona
Las Piejas
Phoenix VA Hospital Dedication at 200 beds
About 7,000 people toured the new Phoenix Veterans Administration Hospital during open house and dedication ceremonies. Carl R. Gray Jr. led the dedication of the $4 million facility at Seventh Street and Indian School, praising the effort to speed recovery for sick veterans. Attendees included 2,500 in the dedication crowd and speakers VA officials and Gov. Howard Pyle.
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Phoenix Veterans Administration Hospital
Carl R. Gray Jr
National Administrator of Veterans Affairs
Seventh Street
Indian School
Joel T. Boone
Howard Pyle
C. H. Francis
San Francisco
William T. Hardaway
Seymour Fisher
Two Jet Aces Rated In Korean War Sky
U S Fifth Air Force reports Capt Richard Becker of Fort Monroe Virginia and 1st Lt Ralph Gibson of Mount Carmel Illinois have earned jet ace status by achieving five aerial kills apiece. Both pilots credited with fifth victory Sunday in large battle over northwest Korea while flying Sabre jets joining James Jabara as history’s first jet ace.
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U.S
Kansas City
Kurtz Named Head of Arizona State Fair Dairy Division
Warren H. Kurtz of Glendale will head the dairy cattle division at the 1951 Arizona State Fair. A Glendale dairyman for over 25 years, he has led the Arizona Holstein Friesian Association for two years and served as dairy division superintendent for 11 years.
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Warren H. Kurtz
Glendale
Kurtz
Arizona Holstein- Friesian Association
Governors Of Oil States Meet In Fort Worth
The Interstate Oil Compact Commission opens a two day meeting in Fort Worth with five state governors attending. Texas Governor Shivers Oklahoma’s Johnston Murray Kansas’ Edward Arn New Mexico’s Edwin Mechem arrived yesterday Arkansas Governor Sidney McMath expected today. The group discusses unit operations spacing and a Federal Power Commission opinion.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Shivers
Johnston Murray
Oklahoma
Edward F. Arn
Kansas
Edwin L. Mechem
New Mexico
Sidney S. McMath
Arkansas
Federal Power Commission
Red Feather Starts Drive For Workers
Phoenix businessmen and volunteers launch the 1952 Red Feather Fund drive aiming for 5,000 volunteers to lead a citywide fund raising effort starting in the third week of October. Volunteers receive lapel buttons and October November blotters with the pledge I ll Finish the Job I ll Not Put It Off I ll Help Put It Over. Division leaders list contact numbers for registering and coordinating volunteers.
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Phoenix
Red Feather Fund
World membership of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
Paris reports that the global number of girls and women in the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts stands at about 2,500,000. The figure reflects a broad reach across member countries and ongoing growth in program participation.
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Girl Guides
Girl Scouts
Paris
Flood Delays at 19th Ave Impassable Road Warned
Floodwaters across 19th Ave near Broad Street forced Phoenix drivers to reroute to Buckeye Road and Central Avenue delaying a jalopy race crowd. The county highway department failed to post signs, causing a two foot water depth and a traffic jam as seepage from gravel pits drained onto the road.
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Phoenix
19Th Ave
South Phoenix
Buckeye Road
Central Avenue
County Highway Department
Broadway
Gift Ships Reach Italy at La Spezia
Two former American light destroyers given to Italy arrived at La Spezia from the United States under the arms and aid program. They have been renamed Artigliere and Aviere.
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LA Spezia
Italy
United States
Artigliere
Aviere
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MERV
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Si Casady
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Eid
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Booker T. Washington
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Ewart
Rosentmelgs
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