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Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 7

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Arizona Republici
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Phoenix, Arizona
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7
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REPUBLIC 7 Wednesday. July 21. 1948. rfie Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona. mm Officers Named Pitching Horseshoes Collecting Of Names' Proves Fascinating solves all your cleaning problems get one now at this LOW SALE PRICE KENMORE POWERFUL SUCTION By Commission Re-election of Kenneth B.

Mc-Micken. Litchfield Park, to his third term as chairman of the stale commission of agriculture and horticulture was announced yesterday. Miss Harriett Jean Oliver also was re-elected secretary of the commission. The commission also voted unanimously to reappoint J. L.

E. Lauderdale as state entomologist. The board devoted considerable discussion to a request by the 18th legislature that it submit some plan for later legislative consideration whereby the state department of agriculture and horticulture would be made self-supporting. No definite plan was adopled. Among suggestions was a proposal fA a special tax on agricultural lands to finance the department's operations.

Also discussed" were proposals for nursery and apiary inspection fees. Hack Saw Blades Mailed To Prisoner GEORGETOWN. July 20 (AP) N. D. Muse, in jail here on a burglary charge, placed an order with a mail order house sometime ago.

The package arrived at the jail yesterday. It contained underwear and hacksaw blades, which Sheriff Red Allen confiscated. caught his eye was Gisella Wer-berzerck Piffl. "This I can't believe." he to himself. "Even in Hollywood such a name is impossible." But Joe was wrong.

It so happens that there really is a Gisella Werberzerck Piffl in Los Angeles. Before the war, she was a character actress of considerable repute in Austria, and at that time her name was simply Gisella WerbeYzerck. Subsequently she married a restaurateur named Herr Piffl, and when Mr. Hitler took over, she and her spouse fled to Hollywood. Here, because of her heavy accent this talented actress has had to content herself with playing bit parts, mostly maids, which don't even rate screen credit.

Joe Smith, of course, knew none of this, lie stared at the name for a long time, rolling its rich, succulent syllables on his tongue. Then, suddenly and with resolution, he picked up the phone and dialed the ft S) Eft he said in a this uh Gis- hello; lous voice, ella, Piffl?" "Yah," a pleasar.t voice an- (Si (5J Reduced to VE are DISTRIBUTORS for WYANDOTTE PRODUCTS Disinfectant By BILLY ROSE Somewhere on the isle of Manhattan lives a man by the name of Szymon Szwarc. On the same island live Hyacinth Muckle. Weda Yap, Igna Wank, John T. de Blois VVack, A.

Renietella Wapples, Hatzala Vaad and a gent named Frank Ix. If you think I'm kidding, open the New York City telephone directory and check up on me. And while you're at it, look sharp and you may spot one of these awesome monickers yourself. If you do, extract a drop of blood from your thumb, dip your pen in it and letter the name out on a piece of thin tissue. You will then be a full-fledged member of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Cognomen Collectors.

NAME COLLECTING, I hasten to add, has always been the nobtest of hobbies. Some benighted souls collect paintings, stamps, match boxes and pieces of string, but the prince of collectors is he who stalks and snares the unbelievable examples of human handles. Viz. the name-fancier. I admit that the venerable art of name collecting is a vanish-ing art, but don't let that disturb you.

The practitioners of it, the keepers of the faith, are a loyal and enthusiastic group. When one of them returns from a field trip, which generally consists of trekking through phone books and cotillion rosters, he will spend weeks exhibiting his specimens to brother connoisseurs and basking in the warmth of their oohs and aahs. An expert I know has been dining out for the past six months simply because somewhere in the fastnesses of the African veldt, he had bagged one of the rarest specimens of all time, Theander-blast Mishgedeigle Sump, Esq. LIKE ALL ARTS, name collecting has its tall tales and legends which are told wherever the fraternity gathers. My favorite has to do with one of the most indefatigable of the directory browsers, a magazine writer with the unlikely name of Joe Smith.

Several months ago, a Hollywood studio brought Joe out to work on a scenario based on one of his own stories. He was given an office, a desk, a phone and you guessed it a telephone directory of Greater Los Angeles. For two days, Joe worked determinedly at his typewriter, conscious of his responsibilities and of the big salary he was receiving. But try as he would, his eye kept straying to the plump, promising volume 'on the window sill. On the third day he took the phone off the hook, lowered the window shade, sank into an easy chair, placed the book on his eager knees and opened it.

AND THE FIRST name which swered. "Gisella Werberzerck Piffl?" "Yah, das iss she." Joe didn't know what to say next. "Gisella," he ad libbed, "this is an old friend of yours, Theanderblast Mish i 1 Sump. I used to go to the University of Wisconsin with you, remember?" "Nein," said the voice. neffer in Vischkonzin the schdate, ledding alone Vishkon-zin the schkool." "I'm terribly sorry," said the writer.

"I must have the wrong Gisella Werberzerck Piffl." And now if you don't mind, scholars, I'll bring this column to a close. Yesterday I was riffling through the phone book and I happened to notice that Babette Umschedd and Zebede Umprenz are listed next to each other. Excuse me, won't you? I've got to make a phone call Marhinr Dish Soap Soap for la-M and dlshm and many others. 75 OF ALL CLEANING JOBS ARE ABOVE THE FLOOR only 4.89 Down on Sears Easy Terms complete with attachments powerful Vi H.P. air cooled motor modern streamlined design Yes, 4 Days Only! Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday you can buy the cleaner that cleans anything and everything, even into those hard-to-get place's.

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