Home Fashion Festival Week Opens In Phoenix Stores
Sixteen Phoenix furniture stores launch Home Fashion Festival Week with free displays only no sales. Shoppers vote on best window displays with ballots at each store. judging starts 6 p.m. today and runs all week for cash prizes of 100, 50, and 25. Jim Sale of Barrows chairs the event with color, fabrics, and design experts on hand.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Angelus Furniture Company
Barrows Furniture Company
Carrier’s
Coles Home Furnishings
Dorris-Heyman Furniture Company
Electric Center
Globe Furniture Company
Mehagian’s Home Furnishings
Jim Sale
Barrows
Motor test Plant Built Near Phoenix
A new building with over 9 000 feet of floor space has been erected for motor truck testing on a 4 000 acre Salt River Mountains site 23 miles south of Phoenix. Internation al Harvester Co plans dual use for industrial power equipment and motor vehicle checking under John H. Smothers and J A Wesson. The site, leased from the state, offers favorable weather and varied terrain, with roads, dams, and water tanks aiding soil control and test operations.
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John E. Smothers
International Harvester Company
Salt River Mountains
J. A. Wesson
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
International Harvester Company of
Chicago
Phoenix
John T. Kimball
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Committee
John H. Smothers
W. C. Schumacher
Motor Truck
State Music Board Plans Arizona Educators Convention
The Arizona Music Educators Association Executive Board discussed the annual convention set for November 3 to 5 at Phoenix Union High School. President Ralph Hess announced Dr. William E. Knuth of San Francisco State College will be guest speaker, with choral and instrumental clinics and reading demonstrations planned. Hess to attend the California-Western Division meeting as Arizona's delegate and urged focus on elementary teacher issues.
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Arizona Music Educators Association
Phoenix Union High School
Ralph Hess
Association
William E. Knuth
San Francisco State College
California-Western Division of Music Educators National Conferences
Hess
Arizona
San Francisco
U Students Set Record at University of Arizona
Tucson AP reports registration at the University of Arizona opened at 5,713, an all-time record for the institution as classes began.
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Tucson
University of Arizona
Funeral services for Max A. Pooler in Tucson
Max A. Pooler, 69, retired president of the Tucson Gas Electric Light and Power Company, died in a San Diego hospital last week. Funeral services will be held this afternoon in Tucson with Rev. Jerry Wallace of Grace Episcopal Church officiating. Pooler moved to Tucson in 1926 as vice president and general manager and retired as president in 1946.
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Tucson
Max A. Pooler
Tucson Gas, Electric Light and Power Company
San Diego
Jerry Wallace
Grace Episcopal Church
Pooler
Goodwin Rites Conducted for Maurice A Goodwin
Funeral services for Maurice A. Goodwin 50 superintendent of the Motor Vehicle Division Arizona State Highway Department were held at 10 am at Palms Chapel Grimshaw Mortuary. Honorary pallbearers included Governor Dan E Garvey state highway commissioner C A Cahloun and many state and local officials. Interment followed at St Francis Cemetery with the Lake Greenway Post American Legion in charge of graveside rites.
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Maurice A. Goodwin
Arizona State Highway Department
Palms Chapel
Grimshaw Mortuary
Dan E. Garvey
C. A. Calhoun
W. C. Lefebvre
Raymond Langham
Harry Wimberly
House of Representatives
John E. Hunt
J. S. North
Associated Construction Truckers
N. E. Thompson
Arizona Motor Transport Association
E. E. Eagles
Highway Department
James O. Lecky
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors
A. G. Walker
Arizona Highway Patrol
C. A. Hudson
Denver Henson
A. W. Mee-Grath
Neil Osborn, Jr
I. G. Beall
J. P. Haskins
Tony M. Coury
St. Francis Cemetery
Lake Greenway
American Legion
Garvey Proclaims Chest-USO Month in Arizona
Governor Dan E. Garvey proclaims October as Community Chest-USO Month in Arizona and forms a Chest Policy Committee to boost a Red Feather drive supporting welfare recreation and health agencies. The Phoenix campaign targets 365 497 with 7680 earmarked for USC, while Read Mullan heads Catholic Social Service among 24 Phoenix Red Feather agencies.
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Dan E. Garvey
Community Chest
Arizona
USC
Phoenix
W. W. Knorpp
L. B. Jefferies
Chest
Walter Bimson
Valley National Bank
Frank Brophy
Bank of Douglas
H. L. Dunham
Hugh Gruwell
First National Bank of Arizona
Barry Goldwater
Henry Sargent
Central Arizona Light and Power Company
John Kimball
Calapco
Lawson V. Smith
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Frank Snell
Charles Stauffer
Catholic Social Service
Phoenix Red Feather
Read Mullan
Willard A. Kinney
Trappist Monastery
Utah
Foreigners Begin Red China Exodus Aboard General Gordon
The first large scale exodus of foreigners from Communist China is under way aboard the General Gordon, an American President Lines ship carrying 1,219 evacuees from Shanghai to Hong Kong. The vessel has not encountered any naval units or aircraft enforcing the Nationalist blockade. Both Nationalists and Communists have granted the General Gordon safe conduct.
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S. S
W. H. Gordon
China
President Lines
Shanghai
Hong Kong
General Gordon
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Cameo
LY Wonderful
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Bendix Economats
Diamond's Home Shop
Wiisel Wim Cat
State Music Board
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