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E2 The Arizona Republic Sunday, July 7, 1991 Some tales of old go begging for ears to hear them JAMES E. COOK Republic Columnist decided to take our haul in to the assay office. My husband said the more they treated it, the smaller it got, and finally amounted to $1.60. "Well, that didn't pay the grocery bill, ended our mining days and we moved camp to Phoenix. It took a number of months to pay Herman Nelson off." That marriage lasted 17 years.

Ena has been married 35 years to Irwin McGuire. For 15 years, the McGuires ran a grocery business in the old Morristown Store building, where the Nelsons had been in business before. And for a dozen years, the McGuires were caretakers at Castle Hot Springs. Until four years ago, they had a contract to deliver mail there. I was not yet born when Ena LaMar rode an oil truck to the dance, but I drove other rocky roads to other country dances, and I can still hear the music.

Like Sam Krichinsky, I hope someone remembers the stories. In the 1990 movie Avalon, Russian immigrant Sam Krichinsky worries that his scattering descendants will forget his stories of where the family came from. I identify with that. It's one reason I write this column, and the reason so many readers contribute to it. Many fine Arizona stories have not yet been published.

Most are stories of how people lived, yarns of stronger fiber and finer texture than the standard lost-mine-and-gunfighter lore. The stories are getting away, dying with us as we serve our time in Arizona and pass on to a cooler place. What surprises me is how many readers want us to remember life in small, relatively unimportant places. Leupp on the Navajo Reservation. Christmas, a vanished mining town whose former residents are determined that it will be remembered.

It also was a shearing and shipping point for sheep. In a column March 31, I mentioned Herman and Jennie Nelson, who used to run the store at Morristown. McGuire said she and her first husband, Robert Lilly, double-dated with the Nelsons' daughter Kay and her future husband, Max Smiley. None of them had a car, but Smiley had a truck in which he carried fuel oil from Santa Fe tanks at Morristown to the Castle Hot Springs Hotel, which used the fuel to run its electric generator. Short-lived mining career "We would, all four, crowd into the truck, take a load of oil over the winding, mountainous road to the hotel, then attend the employees dances on Saturday nights," McGuire wrote.

"When I eloped in 1933, I soon Cactus, a "lunger" camp for those with tuberculosis, a community swallowed by expanding Phoenix. And Morristown. Boy, am I learning a lot about Morristown. A letter from Morristown One of the best letters I have received lately came from Ena L. McGuire of that modest community.

She helped with the recent column about the former saloon that became a schoolhouse. Her grandfather, father and uncles worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. Ena was brought to Arizona in 1916 and lived at Adamana and Sunshine on the Santa Fe mainline. In 1923, when Ena was in the fourth grade, her father, C.H. LaMar, became section foreman at Hot Springs Junction, whose post office was called Morristown.

It was the railhead for the Vulture Mine, and for the Castle Hot Springs resort learned there was a depression, which I had only heard about to this point. My father had always received a steady paycheck from the Santa Fe. "My new husband, who only worked seasonally at Castle Hot Springs, and his brother-in-law were confident we could do well in the mining business. "Four of us spent our honeymoon at a mine near Morristown, where an acquaintance allowed us to make our fortune. We were in great need of a grubstake, which Herman Nelson furnished." Nelson let them put $17 on the cuff, she said.

"With great confidence, we made our 'camp in July. We sustained all the discomforts of summer and ran our ore through the sluice box and whatever you do. "After four days of hard labor, we Local cinemas serve family fare I Is I est; zZzit 1 uisV- -3K 4 A -A (A-v 'L- )N 1 I LOCAL, from page El that we will provide good supervision," Tanber said. General Cinema offers a Summer Kids Show program at three of its theaters. "We have a nice lineup of films that will particularly appeal to young people," said manager Craig Nichols.

Films shown include Follow That Bird, Problem Child, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Jetsons: The Movie, The Boy Who Could Fly, The Witches and Babar: The Movie. AMC Theatres is offering what it calls a Summer Matinee Series at five of its movie houses. Brian Scheid, AMC district manager, said movies include All Dogs Go to Heaven, Jetsons: The Movie, King Ralph, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Back to the Future II. "Parents can drop their kids off or come to the movie with them," Scheid said. "We're glad to have parents there, but we have good supervision and try to keep a close eye on everyone.

We do advise parents to know when the show ends and be a little early to pick their children up." Reading program included He said AMC also is promoting a summer reading program for young people. "It's called 'Read for the Scheid said. "The program asks kids to read at least three books during the summer. The Gene Trindl Three Men and a Little Lady, starring Tom Selleck (left), Steve Guttenberg, Robin Weisman and Ted Danson, will add comedy to Valley theaters' summer movie specials. A'-', 'iJ'fS rJfj 1 program lasts through Labor Day, and entry forms can be obtained at any AMC theater.

"Children read three books, write the titles on the entry form and sign it, have a parent sign it, then put the form into a specially marked box in any of our unit inifmriniiiiiinnrnnr-ii theaters. We'll have monthly drawings for prizes to be given away at each location. We haven't settled on a date yet, but after Labor Day, we'll have a party for everyone who completed the program. We'll have pop, popcorn, prizes and a free movie." Ralph Nelson Christopher Lloyd (left) and Michael J. Fox bring Back to the Future, Part HI back for the summer.

Hot flash! Menopause may cause global warming DAVE BARRY Knight Ridder News Service will be increasing amounts of chemicals in the atmosphere caused by millions of baby boom men using epoxy-based hair spray to hold their few remaining hairs in place over their expanding bald spots, which have already reached the same combined total acreage as Wyoming. So we are forced to conclude that the Earth is at peril. You should write to your elected representatives and demand that congressional hearings be held by the Senate Special Subcommittee on Hormone Concerns, chaired by Sen. Edward Kennedy. If enough of us are willing to "get involved," this issue could wind up costing millions of tax dollars, including a large federal grant for Leon.

And while we're talking about aging, I'd like to address the topic of: How to pay compliments as the general population gets older. Our role model is Ray, who works in my office. Recently, a very attractive writer named Marjorie, who's 50 but looks like she's in her 30s, came Chances are that you, like so many of us in the '90s, are growing older. If so, you'll want to pay close attention to an alarming issue that has been raised by alert reader Jeri Lawrenz, who lives in Lodi, Wis. (Its actual civic slogan: "Home of Susie the Jeri sent in a brief item from The Wisconsin State Journal that states: "Baby boomers, menopause approaches.

There are more than 35 million women over age 50 in this country, and that number is expected to top 50 million by 2010, when more women will be experiencing menopause than at any time in history." Most of us, upon reading this item, would probably have made some remark such as "Huh," then moved on to something that seemed more newsworthy, such as the lengthy feature on Madonna that all U.S. newspapers are required by law to print every day. But Jeri Lawrenz is not "most of us." She into the office after a long absence. Ray, in a sincere effort to let her know how good she looked, asked: "Marjorie! Have you had plastic surgery?" Flattery got him silence Marjorie was so flattered that she was unable to speak for several minutes. And no wonder.

In analyzing Ray's thought ful compliment, we can see that it is nearly perfect, the only possible flaw being the part that comes after "Marjorie!" Ray would have been wiser to substitute another ending. For example; "Marjorie! The capital of Kansas is Topeka!" Or: "Marjorie! Certain squids attain a length of 230 feet!" And aging men like to be flattered, too. A good example: "Bob! You did a nice job of spacing your 17 strands of hair across the top of your head!" Yes, sensitivity will be the key as wfc all continue to grow older at an increasingly high rate of speed. Sensitivity, awareness and understanding. And powerful air conditioning.

took the time to discuss this item with her husband, Leon, who had an alarming thought. As Jeri explains it: "Leon's concern is: Somewhere between now and 2010, when all these women (including myself) begin having 'hot what effect this will have on global warming, melting the polar ice cap, the greenhouse effect, He doesn't think they should print these little 'news' items without further explanation or facts. Perhaps you can research this article and put my husband's mind at ease." It just so happens that the main reason I got into newspapers, aside from the fact that the dress code permits even encourages mayonnaise stains, is that I like to do in-depth research. Investigative journalism Sparing no expense, I began my investigation by contacting Doris, the office manager where I work, who knows everything. Doris immediately confirmed that menopause could cause global warming.

She said that she, personally, became so warm that she could have converted either polar ice cap to steam. This seemed fairly conclusive, but with a story of this magnitude, top journalists such as myself and Bob Woodward like to have two reliable sources. So I called my wife and explained Leon's theory to her. She then explained it to a man who is fixing up our bedroom closets, and he said, quote, "My wife is going through it now, and believe me it's not pretty." So we seem to have overwhelming evidence pointing to the conclusion that hot flashes emitted by millions of "baby boom" women entering menopause will indeed cause the polar ice caps to melt by the year 2010. This must be true, because you're reading it in a newspaper.

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