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PAGE 36 TUCSON DAILY CITIZEN -Citizen FAREWELL TO AIR FORCE BANDSMAN M.Sgt. John Lowry, who as sergeant major led military bands along Washington's Pennsylvania avenue for inaugural parades of three presidents, was given an official farewell from the Air Force Band here last night. Col. George S. Howard, con- (right) presented Lowry with a repeating shotgun.

Lowry asked for a transfer to Arizona prior to retirement, and is at Williams Air Force Base, Air Force Band Salutes Former Member Here By S. C. WARMAN The U.S. Air Force Band saluted and bid farewell to one of its charter John a concert at the University of Arizona auditorium last night. Lowry, now in Chandler, at Williams Air Force Base pending his retirement to a home in Arizona, is famed as a sergeant major of both Army and Air Force bands.

In nearly 30 years of duty as a military bandsman, Lowry led bands along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., for the inaugurations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 and 1940, for President Harry S. Truman and for President Eisenhower. Air Force Col. George S.

Howard, conductor, said when Lowry left the band for Arizona earlier this year there was no opportunity for a proper farewell. Last night he called Lowry from the audience, presented him with a repeating shotgun as the gift of the band, and played four marches in Lowry's honor. Tears were in Lowry's eyes as the music ended. Later he told Howard offstage, "There's a lot I should have said up there, but I was too choked up to talk." St. Louis-born, Lowry grew up in Dallas.

He played in the U.S. Army Band under a half-dozen well known conductors. He was transferred to the Air Corps band when it was organized early in World War If. He served under Col. Alf Heiberg, the first conductor, and under Howard since 1943.

Lowry has two years until retirement. Presented by Kappa Kappa Psi, national honorary band fraternity, and the College of Fine Arts, the Air Force Band played to an au- dience.of approximately 1,900. The playing was nearly flawless, the selections provoked much encores plentiful and the show lasted slightly more than two Dr. Frank Simon, member of the College of Fine Arts school of music faculty, was guest conductor by invitation of Howard for his march, "Here Comes the Band." "The Singing Sergeants," the 16-member Air Force Chorus directed by Capt. Robert L.

Landers, presented a versatile program. Mint On Overtime DENVER UPI New and increased state sales taxes, vending machines, parking meters and just plain inflation are forcing the U.S. Mint here to work overtime. So far this year the "factory" has shipped out more than a billion coins pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and nearly double the volume of a year OSTin ElfTEMDS TV I lit' VSfJt V-i Golrfm rYimium Rated Frame Grid Tube has MORE AMPLIFICATION -this new RP amplifying tube in the new Custom-Matic TUner has more amplifying power than RF tubes previously used in TV. LESS NOISE less noise means less snow, spots or interference in the picture.

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A recent act of Congress has made it possible for her to become reunited with members of her family. She is the adopted daughter of S. Sgt. and Mrs. Arthur Quinn, 4553 E.

Malvern and also the sister of Mrs. Quinn. Girl Who Danced For King To Make Tucson Her Home A girl who once danced before a king is on her way here to make her permanent home with her foster parents, a Davis-Monthan airman and his wife. The girt, 16-year-old Gisele Marcia Bouganim of Casablanca, is expected to arrive by air tomorrow. Her foster parents, S.

Sgt. Arthur Quinn and his wife, Georgia Zohar Quinn, 4553 E. Malvern are impatiently awaiting her coming. They haven't seen Gisele since last May when Quinn, stationed at Sidt Sllmane AFB, Morocco, at time, was transferred to the 803rd Combat Defense Squadron at Davis-Monthan. Gisele, a'younger sister of Mrs.

Quinn, was adopted by the couple two years ago in Morocco. Mrs. Quinn is a native of that country. Her arrival will bring the surviving members of the Bouganim family to the United States. Both parents are dead.

Mrs. Quinn's two young brothers, Joseph, 14, and Raymond, 12, also were adopted by the Quinn family, but now live with an older brother in Omaha. Two other teen-age brothers live In New York. Gisele is being brought to this country under the terms of a bill recently passed by Congress The bill, especially written to. cover Gisele's case, allows children over 14 who are adopted by U.

S. citizens to gain permanent admission to the country. A talented ballet dancer, Gisele's experience in performing before king came In 1956. That year she took part in ballet danced in honor of King Hussein of Jordan, visiting in Casablanca at the time. "Gisele has been dancing since she was 5 years old," Mrs.

Quinn said. "She has studied both at the Municipal Conservatory at Casablanca and at private studios. She also instructed a class in ballet when her professor went on The girl has been offered the opportunity to enroll at a Tucson dance Mrs. Quinn laid. "We expect she'H want to continue her dancing career here," Mrs.

Quinn added. American ways will not seem strange to Gisele. She served as cheerleader for football teams at the Air Force base in Casablanca. She is also familiar 'n roll dancing. "But only as a hobby," Mrs.

Quinn added hastily. "She has been very impatient waiting to bring her to the U.S.," Mrs. Quinn said. "She is so the opportunity finally has come through." Mrs. Quinn, whose middle name, Zohar, means glory and light, met her husband on his first tour of duty in Morocco early in the 1950s.

This was at Nouasseur AFB. Soon after their marriage he was transferred to Castle AFB, and she accompanied him. In 1955 her mother died. Quinn went back to Morocco and Mrs. Quinn joined him after being naturalized as an American citizen in March, 1956.

She speaks English, French, Spanish and Arabic, and can read German. The Qulnns have two children of their own, Richard, 3, who was born in the U.S., and Elizabeth, 18 months, who was born in Morocco. The Quinns said they expect to enroll Gisele in a local junior high school as a sophomore. "We feel she can pass exams entitling her to do 10th grade work," Mrs. Quinn said.

In one subject, at least, Gisele excels. She speaks not one, but three languages French and Arabic. Riots, Looting Break Out In Ecuador GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador UP) Rioting and looting broke out here last night when rowdies got fresh with pretty girl students taking part in a school parade. Several persons were injured, shops were broken into and a police patrol car was overturned before Army troops brought the violence under control in Ecuador's largest city. Witnesses said some youths began making lewd remarks and manhandling the parading girls.

A Navy shore patrol unit came to the defense of the girls and a free- for-all started. City police moved in, but were unable to quell the disturbance until the troops arrived. The outbreak of violence was described as one indication of general dissatisfaction here with the government's alleged preference to the inhabitants of the capital city of Quito. Guayaquil has an acute unemployment problem and the government has been blamed for not doing anything to solve it. Hoodlums and unemployed take advantage of every opportunity here to turn public meetings and parades into riots so they can rob and loot.

The girls who staged the parade were from the National College of Guayaquil. It is equivalent to a U.S. high school. The parade was held as sort of a dress rehearsal for the part the school planned to take in a Rotary Club benefit tomorrow in the National Stadium. School authorities were criticized for permitting the girls to parade without taking necessary security measures.

None of the girls was seriously harmed Guayaquil was the scene of rioting four months left many dead and injured. It was touched off when a student protest demonstration got out of Want Ad Takers Gus Sun, Vaudeville Booking Agent, 90, Dies Gus Sun, 90, colorful vaudeville booking agent who helped many of the top entertainers along the path to stardom, died yesterday of pneumonia at his home, Springfield, Ohio. Sun, whose real name was Gustave Ferdinand Klotz, is well known here. His American Minstrels made many appearances at the old Tucson Opera House during the early years of the 20th century. More recently, he was a regular winter visitor.

Born in Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1868, Sun entered show business as a juggler. After a period with the P. T. Barnum circus, he became general agent and co-owner of the Sun Brothers circus.

Later he ran a side show, owned Gus Sun's Minstrels and even took his wife and daughter on the road performing "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In 1904 he went to Springfield and opened a theater in a storeroom. Patrons were offered one- reel movies with vaudeville acts. The theaters were soon under his control and he branched out Into the'booking field. All-time greats Sun nursed along in his circuit included Bob Hope, Jolson, Ted Lewis, W. C.

Fields, Will Rogers, Marie Dressier, Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Paul Whiteman and many others. Hope, who Sun designated as the "best of them all," first went to work for Sun for $40 a week. Twenty-five years later Sun arranged for Hope to entertain for three days at the Michigan state 327,000. An-avid enthusiast for Tucson winter weather. Sun once said it was the only climate'that would cure his ailment with which he was chronically afflicted.

Sun's type of entertainment was described as "the harem- scarem, trapeze- swinging dime vaudeville that made Gus a fortune and kept many current top-liners eating." His son, Gus Sun is now operating the booking agency. Funeral services wiil be held in Springfield. III Doily o.nv 5 p.m. Sat 2 Son a PI 3 m. Ph.

MA. 2-5855 I Alumnae Bulletin NEW YORK UPI A Joint study of the Engineering and Scientific Manpower Commissions of 88,000 female college graduates shows only 586 have jobs as chemists and 703 as mathematicians or statisticians. Photo GUS SUN Nike-Zeus Contract Awarded Army has awarded a $138,402,095 contract for continued research and development on the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. The contract, which went to Western Electric brought the total invested in the missile and associated equipment to more than $332 million. But the Defense Departmenl said it still had not decided whether to authorize the Army to put the missile into production The booster rocket for the Nike- Zeus has been successfully tested at Huntsville.

in tied-down condition. A recent attempt it flight test in New Mexico resulted in a blow-up. Considerate Chief COLUMBUS, Ohio attending a state veterans' convention her.e had reason for leaving with a good taste in their mouths. The state commander is a pharmacist, and he handed out samples of mouthwash. An investigator for the Federal Aviation Agency today Mid tad found no evidence of malfunctioning in the engine of Hello Courier which crashed.

surned here Wednesday, Injuring persons. Harold Ownby, of the Phoenix FFA office, said he had completed his Inveitigation of the wreckage itself, but Mvould -return to Tucson next week to finish'up "a few more details." findings will be iub- mitted to the Civil Board; The CAB will not the findings for at least weeks, he Yesterday Ownby prbbed through the wreckage of the plane at Freeway Airport and questioned several persons who witnessed tht crash. George E. Mallinckrodt, ,40, Ot St. Louis, pilot of the $38,000 Courier, reportedly attempted to take off in a 35 m.p.h.

crosswlnd with less than 400 feet of runway. The plane apparently stalled in the rapid climb and plunged into a vacant building. Both Mallinckrodt and a passenger, Mrs. Sally Borden, 24, of Mexico City, are reported in satisfactory condition at St. Hospital today.

Mrs. Borden, who suffered extensive body burns, had been pinned in the wreckage and had to be pulled out. Mallinckrodt was thrown free. Mrs. Lacarra Succumbs At Home Mrs.

Elvia Odam Lacarra, 71, a Tucson resident since 1899, died yesterday at her home, 2525 N. Dodge Blvd. Born in Bienville, La. she came to Tucson as a young girl. She attended schools here and later became a practical nurse.

Mrs. Lacarra also had a lifelong interest in music and composed many songs, two of which were recently accepted for recording. She was a member of Grace Episcopal Church, the Eastern Star, the Pioneer Historical Society and the Tucson Garden Club. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Moyer 'of Tucson and Mrs.

Alice Stone of Belmont, two nephews, Mark and Hilburn Ruff of Tucson; and two grandchildren, Carol Lynne Clark of Tucson and Charles G. Stone of Belmonl. Funeral services were scheduled at 2:30 Monday Grace Episcopal Church, Rev. Jerry Wallace officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

Friends may calf at Brlngi Funeral Home today through Sunday. Maria Callas, Silent, Alone, Flys Again MILAN, Italy Maria Callas left Milan today on a London-bound plane for a recording engagement with Britain's commercial television network. She traveled alone and refused to answer reporters' questions about a suit for legal separation filed by her husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini. The breakup of the marriage followed a Mediterranean yacht cruise during which Callas was a guest of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. The TV network had threatened to sue the temperamental opera star for breach of contract when she canceled an appearance on a London TV show.

She said she couldn't sing because her favorite conductor, Nicola Rescigno of New York, was under treatment in a London hospital for swollen hands. A TV spokesman said yesterday, however, that if Miss Callas got to London by the weekend, no legal action would be taken. Taste Restored To Distilled Water water distilled from the sea sometimes loses the alkalinity that gives it taste, sensitive instruments are being used to monitor the water supply on the island of Aruba off South America. When the alkalinity level drops too low, according to Leeds Northrup which made the instruments, they automatically signal a valve to let soda into the system. Sam Says: You All Know Ifs TIME to SOW Winter Lawns (if you've dried Bermuda down) Tucson Fertilizer Co.

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