Tree Planting Marks Death Of Burbank
Santa Rosa California marks the centennial birth of Luther Burbank with a citywide sapling giveaway and a no ceremony plant effort. Mrs Burbank will plant a flowering plum with nurseryman Joe Badger assisting as cedar trees dot the route between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol. The famed breeder died April 11 1926 at 77 buried beside his dog Bonita and his work includes 700 new creations from 100000 experiments and 800 varieties offered or introduced by him.
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Santa Rosa
Calif
Luther Burbank
Burbank
Lancaster
Mass
Bonita
Bonita’'s
Lebanon
Palestine
W. L. Howard
University of California
Model Plane Flight Is Nearly Half Hour
Donald Sutton of Phoenix set what was believed to be a new national record for sustained flight of a rubber stick model airplane with a 29 minute 33.5 second free flight in the state contest. Kason Hayward of Tucson won class A gas free flight with 7 23.0, Harry Buick of Phoenix won class B with 12 46.8, James Berry of Tucson won class C with 6 24.2, and Dale Silkengren of Prescott won class D with 10 minutes flat.
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Phoenix
Mar
Donald Sutton
Kason Hayward
Tucson
Harry Buick
James Berry
Dale H. Silkengren
Prescott
Lead Ore Production in Arizona Sets State Record in 1948
A Bureau of Mines survey shows Arizona produced 29 000 short tons of recoverable lead in 1948, a state record. About 84 percent came from Phelps Dodge Copper Queen at Bisbee, Mammoth-St. Anthony at Tiger, Eagle-Picher San Xavier, Iron King at Humboldt, and Trench-Flux near Patagonia, 2 000 tons above 1947.
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Arizona
Bureau of Mines
Phelps Dodge
Copper Queen
Bisbee
Mammoth-St. Anthony
Tiger
San Xavier
Eagle-Picher
Iron King
Humbolt
Patagonia
College Units In Red Cross Drive Kickoff
The college units division of the Red Cross local drive for 85 000 gathered Monday noon for a kickoff at the First Methodist church. Campus groups aim 1 500 locally. About 40 representatives from fraternities sororities dormitories Townsmen Phrateres and others attended.
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College
Red Cross
First Methodist Church
Russell W. Stambaugh
William C. Wilkinson
Brad Tolson
Tolson
Red Cross Blood Center
Clothing Stolen From City Woman’s Yard
Mrs. Anna Rodig of 201 N Sawtelle avenue reported a burglary of clothes from her backyard clothes line on Saturday. She valued the stolen items at 54 dollars.
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Anna Rodig
N. Sawtelle Ave
Bracelet Sale Costs Him 30 Days Or 30 Bucks
Roosevelt Johnson, a Negro with a local hotel address and recently on probation for grand larceny, pleaded guilty to petty larceny before Magistrate Paul J. Cella. He was sentenced to $30 or 30 days. Police say he sold a bracelet to William March near Benson, took back the bracelet, kept the $1, and fled with both the money and bracelet.
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Roosevelt Johnson
Johnson
Paul J. Cella
William March
Getzwiler Ranch
Benson
March
Western wear dampened by campus rain at Arizona
Rain dampens Go Western Or Else week on the University of Arizona campus as few cowboy outfits appear. Florida steers used in the February Fiesta de los Vaqueros bulldogging will star in Sunday's university rodeo at Kinsley ranch with Gene Payne chief announcer and Bud Ashcraft coordinating activities.
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University of Arizona
Florida
Tucson
Uni
Kinsley’ Ranch
Gene Payne
Clarence
Bud) Ashcraft
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Pius XII
Franciscan Order of
Friars Minor
Clementine Hall
Vatican
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Fuller
ER TV Tao
Fuller Paints
4Th Ave
S. Stone
A Ieementeemneentiiatinaeenl
Doors Nor
Dial
of M. Harlow
Frigidaire
Bier
Cecil Gaver
Electric Service CO
E. Congress
F.H.A
Blind CO
1St Ave
San
Rock End Sand CO
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