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Coffee Break Good Morning! By DON DEDERA SCOTTSDALE This flashy new city give us 28 acres below the canal, and of shops and dudes means many things we paid $5,000 to many people, but to Mrs. Helen G. where the Valley Ho now stands, and Smith, it's just plain home. later sold it for a song." Has been for 58 years. Mrs.

Smith yesterday celebrated her 90th birthday quietly with friends in the house her husband built on homestead land. Her place in a grove of trees is only a couple of blocks from Hotel Valley Ho, and from the teeming marts along Scottsdale Road. Progress is crashing like surf on the borders of her land. For all Mrs. Smith cares, it can keep.

She followed her fiance from the East Dedcra Under her husband's supervision the homestead became a diversified farm. There were peaches, pears, citrus, palms, and olives. Vegetables were grown and sold, and as profits accumulated, a dairy was built and stocked. Their house at 224 W. Indian School was built so that every room could be ventilated from four directions.

"It may seem strange," said Mrs. Smith, "but music was as much of our lives as anything else. My husband was a virtuoso on the violin, and I had studied piano in Germany. "I'VE TAUGHT piano to a farmer Coast to Arizona in 1902. He was seeking who had thumbs so big he'd hit two keys at once, and I've counted-tomatoes for Indians who just wanted to see me count." Mrs.

Smith's husband was cured, and grew in strength and activity that even- a cure for tuberculosis. Their wedding was supposed to await his recovery. "I decided that as his wife I could better serve his health," said Mrs. Smith. They were married in Mrs.

Underhill's boarding house, a big adobe house In "l935, which stood on the northwest corner of Main and Scottsdale. NEARLY EVERY resident of Scottsdale and from farms around came to the wedding, and afterward they played croquet in the lawn. Land was for the taking, in those vacationing on the Pacific Coast, Smith ventured too far off shore, and drowned. Mrs. Smith did not marry again.

There have been lonely times the last 25 years, she said, but she has been busy reducing her holdings to her pres- years. The filed claim to 14 ent 2 acres, and caring for herself. REPUBLIC MAIL REPUBLIC BULLDOG A "if 'w'wyy lhan stalm, U.S..Warned between Indian School Road and the Arizona Canal, and filled out a 40- acre homstead with land on the north side of the canal. "Subsequently we bought enough to on downtown. A tiny and nimble woman, she cooks all her meals and keeps house without help.

All her friends say she will live to be 100, with or without what's going Voice Of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN LETTER Dear Folks: If Well, by now it's time to write the you've missed me around the pool these overnight for, the evening papers (to be past few days or nights, don't worry perfectly honest, it's time to eat a big about a thing. I'm not in jail (I'm asso- steak, but that's nonsense thinking), so elating with some people who are, but they get more sleep), and I feel fine, but I think I owe a little explanation to everybody out in syndicate land so I'm going to give one. I am in Los Angeles. A few days ago my editors decided that something is Kilgalleo wrong somewhere if I am just leading a normal life with the husband and kiddies when there is a perfectly splendid murder trial taking place only 3,000 miles from my very doorstep. before you can say "jet" I am in Los Angeles covering the case of a Miss Carole Tregoff and Dr.

Bernard Finch, so he just wrote: who are accused of murdering Dr. Finch's wife. I get back to the baby blue keyboard and move the fingers around a little more. And before you know it, it's 1 a.m. and I haven't a single thing left to do but the column.

THAT LITTLE ol' Broadway column, and I've just used up my last Broadway item and the plain truth is I don't fcnow what's happening on La Cienega, let alone Broadway; all I know is what's happening in superior court. And I could use a nice long sleep of three hours or so. Once many years ago Pegler made journalistic history when he woke up on New Year's Day with an epic'hangover. He had to do his column, and he didn't feel like doing his column, New Berlin Maneuver By Nikita WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev is mounting a new pressure campaign aimed at forcing President Eisenhower and other Western leaders to abandon their protection of West Berlin.

His maneuver is being watched with con cern in official quarters. It could break down the one solid agreement on a major issue which was reached by Mr. Eisenhower and Khrushchev at their meeting last September at Camp David, Md. This accord provided that Khrushchev would drop his threats to deal with the Berlin problem by independent action. In return, Mr.

Eisenhower would specify that he realized negotiations for a Berlin settlement could not be dragged on Indefinitely. This cleared the way for agree ment on a summit meeting at Paris beginning May 16. Berlin will be one of the main issues discussed. But it is npw becoming clear that Khrushchev does not intend that the Discussions will be free of Soviet pressures. IN A SPEECH in Budapest last December, in a rambling New Year's Eve talk with diplomats at the Kremlin, and most importantly in his speech to the supreme soviet last Thursday, Khrushchev has hammered the theme that he wants a settlement on Berlin and the signing of a German peace treaty.

He has implied he does not intend to wait long beyond May's summit meeting to get these results. January (Section 2) COURT OPENS, usually, at 9:30 a.ni. and adjourns a little after 4:30 p.m. It is the best courthouse I have ever worked in, with a press room that is not only commodious, but clean, has gauzy pink curtains and big comfy couches. There are many telephones, of course, just as you see in the movies, and every time I pick one up I get the voice of an out-of-town editor crooning, "Honey, what time can we look for the new lead?" But it's no work at all, really.

After court I take a $75.80 taxi ride tg my hotel and I have nothing to do but curl up with a nice comfortable electric typewriter and write a story for the morning papers, and when that's finished I "I must not mix whisky, champagne, and gin" over and over again, maybe 40 times; until he had filled all the space in his column. I think I.will give him a ring and ask for any suggestions applicable to murder trials. Eddie Fisher's embarrassing appearance on the Jack Paar show made viewers from coast to coast wonder "why would he do it?" It's not possible that he needs the money so soon after his triumph at the Waldorf-Astoria. Robert Six, exiting from Ethel Merman's life, is finding solace with Dorothy Towne, once married to Jack Webb. John Steinbeck's friends say he's being ruthless about his newest book- spent months writing it in England, then All this seems to Indicate that Khrushchev's tactic of back- slipping cordiality and avoidance of threats, which he practiced so assiduously last fall, Is now giving way to tougher bargaining.

In the State Department, this shift was foreseen. As the time for bargaining neared, Khrushchev has been expected to use a combination threats and promises, to hold out offers of peace and disarmament, and to brandish PAGE Barrage of snowflakes has left plenty of raw material for construction of snowmen at the northern Arizona town of Page. Here, Jerry Jumper and Robin Duffy put finishing touches on their winter creation. Desert around Page has had snow ever since Dec. 30 and temperatures have dipped below freezing every night since Dec.

by Jean Duffy) Harvard Study Sent To Senate By ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON. (AP)Harvard University's Center for International Affairs cautioned last night. that the Soviet challenge will demand heavy free world sacrifices for years to come. It advised against being lulled by Soviet Premier Nikita S.

Khrushchev's exhibition of sensitivity to popular pressures" at home and called his regime "a formidable challenger than Stalinist Russia." As far as the foreseeable future is concerned, the report prepared for the senate foreign relations committee contended, it would be risky to base U.S. policy on the assumption that Soviet totalitarir anism is in process of erosion. Senator Fulbright (D-Ark), the committee chairman, commended authors of the study for their emphasis on the point that "democracy will not survive merely by reacting to the threats of tyranny." Fulbright said the study, together with others, will be the subject of hearings on which the committee will make its own recommendations for changes in policy. The Harvard group said American policy "must have wider perspectives than those stimulated by the continuous clash with the U.S.S.R." It urged, among other things, that this country seek Russian agreement to a greater exchange of intellectual rather than' athletes, musicians, and dancers in an effort to "encourage evolution within the Soviet system and the communist bloc." Attention Focuses On Carole Actor Mark Stevens Jo Testify Tomorrow In Finch Murder Trial some news of the trial to Station WOR in New York. get out my stopwatch, and broadcast tore up most of the 500 pages he'd fin- nf rt-U n.

Pianist Bobby Timmons, who wrote If you have never seen me trying to Cannonball Adderley's current jazz hit, figure out what's happening on the dial "Tttis Here," has penned a followup, of a stopwatch while juggling a pile of also in the old time Negro church vein, notes and ad libbing, you've missed one which he'll record on a debut album for of the best comedy sketches of the year. Riverside. Arizona Politics THE ANTI-SEMITIC incidents in Arizona are definitely not part of any possible national pattern. In fact, they are not part of any pattern state, county, or municipal. Authorities have made a careful and thorough investigation of the incidents here.

The original stories from West Germany gave some youths ideas and they merely acted on them, authorities say. There was no overall Heenan no overall organization. The neo-Nazi party, if there is such an organization in the United States, never has existed in Arizona. THE STATE is remarkably free from hate organizations. The Communists, who are credited in some quarters with starting the diversions in Germany and By ART HEENAN Lack of a mass union movement, their favorite medium for Communist propaganda and loaded meetings, plus the fact that the AFL-CIO leaders here are very anti-Communist.

No organized minority groups susceptible to racial propaganda. An unsettled population, meaning people moving in from out of state and people in the state shifting to other areas. THE PROFESSIONAL educators in the state are becoming smugly confident over obtaiiyng state matching funds for the national defense education act. The educators are claiming they have "the big boys" on their side. They say the "big boys" are the utility and mine interests and claim these groups will pressure the legislature into acceptance, They seem to be a little over optimistic.

THE LEGISLATIVE, disagreement his nuclear rocket power. TOP WESTERN diplomats in Moscow, including U.S. Ambassador Lewellyn Thompson, got a personal insight into his thinking in the course New Year's Eve reception at the Kremlin. Thompson sent a long report on Khrushchev's conversa- which continued for several hours. At times Khrushchev was truculent, even threatening.

At other times he seemed to emphasize belief in East-West settlements and relaxed tensions. He expressed suspicion of Western intentions with respect to West Berlin and emphasized that he intended to have a settlement and would not be put off for very long. He said he thought the Western powers were planning to stall and avoid serious negotiations on Berlin at the Paris meeting. He is reported to have said also that various concessions offered by the West, such as reductions in troop strength in West Berlin, provided no basis for agreement. The Kremlin reception was well supplied with wines and liquors, and the word among diplomats here is that Khrushchev drank freely.

Hence his comments have not been full weight in Washington. What stands put Is that his remarks are beginning to follow a consistent line. LOS ANGELES (AP) A handsome Hollywood actor has volunteered to tell what he knows of the gay social life of Barbara Jean Finch, and. its abrupt and violent end. Actor Mark a member of the' same swank tennis club as Mrs.

Finch and her husband, Dr. R. Bernard Finch. After tennis, dinner and drinks Mrs. Finch returned to her West Covina' home last July 18 and died with a bullet in her back.

The state charges that Dr. Finch, 42, and his mistress, Carole Tregoff, 23, lay in wait to murder the- physician's estranged wife when- she came home. STEVENS, scheduled to take the stand as the case resumes tomorrow, has given a newsman an indication 4f what he may testify: a few days before she died, he said, Mrs. Finch told him that she believed her hueband planned to kill her. Before-the trial was recessed Wednesday because of a juror's illness, the attorney who.repre- sented Mrs.

Finch in a divorce action testified that she told him the doctor had twice beaten her with a pistol. Attorney Joseph T. Forno said an investigator was assigned by his office to act as Mrs. Finch's bodyguard. Forno said said she was out with this investigator the night she died.

When she returned home, how- ever, she was alone. She was found shot to death on a neighbor's, lawn. Both Finch and Miss Tregoff are charged with murder and conspiracy. So far the testimony has centered on Finch. BUT STARTING tomorrow the attention may focus for the first time on the tall, attractive redhead who was once the receptionist.

A man under sentence in Minneapolis on bad-check" charges has. been brought here to testify about what the state calls its second major part of the case against the pair, the part it calls "the plot." John Patrick Cody told authorities that Miss Tregoff tried to hire him to kill Mrs. Finch. He claims she and the doctor paid him almost $1,400 to murder the doctor's wife. He says he took the money and spent it, gambling and drinking- in Las Vegas'without ever intending to kill her.

The prosecution, in its opening statement, said that first ft would prove that Mrs. Finch was murdered. Then, said Deputy District Attorney Fred N. Whichello, it would prove that the couple developed the conspiracy to slay the 36-year-old socialite. THE DAY after his wife's death Finch was arrested at the Las Vegas, apartment of Miss Tregoff.

She was arrested after testifying at his preliminary hearing. PUB Three Minutes with the Great State GOP Maps Plans For Ike-Nixon Dinners THE STATE Republican Party is making elaborate plans for the nationwide Eisenhower-Nixon dinners Jan. 27. Arizona will be the only state in the nation to have a dinner in each county. The $100-a-plate dinners represent the major fund-raising effort of the party, both across the nation and in Arizona.

FOLLOWING the participa- CLOSED TV circuits on the tion reports, Goldwater will talk Eisenhower-Nixon speeches will United States, had no part of Wlth Wa Church, attorney general, may go deeper than indicated. So far the controversy has been over allowing other departments extra That doesn't mean that individuals of money to reimburse the attorney gen- eral's department for legal services. Put some legislators are said to be the actions in Arizona because the Communist Party, as such, is dead as a dodo. Communist persuasion, particularly those from the New York City area, are not present or coming in here. But in an curious about the activities of a private organization sense the Communists detective assigned to the Church office, have been ineffective because of the They would like to know more about following reasons brought out by in- where the private eye goes and what he dues.

Commentator Warned To Water Board WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Eisenhower yesterday appointed Radio and TV Commentator John Charles Daly a mem' ber of the water pollution control advisory board in the Public Health Service. Daly, an engineer before he tered the broadcasting field, was named for a term ending June 3, 1962. As a member of the board, Daly will receive J5Q for each meeting he attends. EPJCTETUS If you tend to Pick up new pursuits with enthusiasm, then later drop them In boredom, this abridgment from i (60438) Is for you. consider yourself at one time a wrestler; then a gladiator; then a philosopher; then a with your whole soul, you are never anything, Like the'ape, you imitate all that you see, always one thing after, another pleases you, but that which- becomes familiar displeases you; For you have nev? er undertaken anything after 'consideration, nor after having explored the whole matter and put it to a strict examination; but you have undertaken it at hazard go only to the Phoenix and Tucson dinners in Arizona as facilities are not available elsewhere, Senator Goldwater will speak in Phqenix, Governor.

Fannin in Representative Rhodes is scheduled for Yuma to complete the GOP big three in the state, Special telephone lines will be installed at each dinner location. Dinner chairmen will report to Phoenix, which in turn will'sum- marize the entire state attendance. for .10 minutes on the national phase of the GOP campaign. Fannin will follow on th'e program for Arizona. These speeches will be of the statewide telephone hookup and amplifying system.

county will be for all funds raised and each county will be returned one- third for its own party budget. Coordinator for all the state dinners is Stephen C. Shadegg, campaign manager for Goldwater in 1958. "Our policy ought to be to stimulate real exchange as contrasted to formal exchange," the study said. IT SAID, the leadership that excessive contact with the West might undermine the ideological commitment of its adhereets." Thus," it continued, "the Soviet Union now emphasizes exchanges of dancing groups, sports teams, orchestras and so forth, are not likely to result in an exchange of ideas and viewpoints nor cause political risks.

"The United States should strive to develop extensive contacts with intellectuals in the Communist orbit and eventually with politicians in the upper' and medium levels in the hope of gradually affecting their ideological commitment." As for the future of Russia, the study said Khrushchev has been "much more successful than Stalin in infusing the Russian society with the will to prevail over the Western world and in associating the Russian people with the goals of his party." It said that during the next decade Soviet policy is "likely to remain totalitarian, led by a doctrinaire Communist and dedicated to a radical change in the international order." The report held out the prospect that the Communist bloc "is likely to face continued internal difficulties and the Soviet leaders will find it increasingly hard to assert their unquestioned leadership." It said such erosion is only a long-range prospect. It said there are indications of Red Chinese impatience with the current Soviet policy of wooing other nations by patience and collaboration in an effort to spur revolutions under which local Communists could assume power." Gunman Gets $500 From Liquor Store A robber wearing a red sweater, but no shirt, took more than $500 from a clerk at Reddy's Liquor Store, 1602 E. Jeff erf on, police reported last night. The clerk, Jerry Bills, 24, of 2230 E. Jefferson, said the robber was armed with an automatic pistol.

Tragedy Strikes On Wedding Day 'if PAWTUCKET, R.i; brideT tucket to the honeymoon apartment John and, torbe. gay and excited in her wedding gown, Carol Ann had rented two weeks ago. with a cold desire. Man, consider first what the matter is, then your own nature, what it is able to bear. You must be one man, either good or bad.

4 their pest man were killed by gas, A Ijmpusine, fts motor'running, outside the door of- Carol Ann Santos's home in East Providence. The wedding mass was scheduled for 8 a.m. in St. Francis Xavier Church. Jn Providence, meanwhile, James McElroy was disturbed because had not heard -from his foggy" inside, McElroy said later.

Campbell, and his best man, John A. Holt, 19, companions, Robert Mills McKay, were, unconscious. Their condition is critical, McElroy broke the windows to air. He brotherrin-law John Campbell, 19, the bridegroom, yelled to a passer-by to call police. since Friday night's wedding rehearsal, He felt something was wrong and drove to Word was quickly flashed to the home of tht bride.

She went into immediate seclusion,.