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PAGE 2 EaltrH cltM mtttw DAILY CITIZEN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1965 BIGGEST IN HISTORY Arizona's National Yule Tree En Route To Capital By JAY HALL Citizen Staff Writer Arizona's Christmas gift to 190 million Americans is wrapped and tied, and being delivered. It is the 1965 national Christmas tree, a stunning beauty of blue spruce which will tower 80 feet above the ground on the White House lawn in Washington. It will be the biggest national Christmas tree in history. The previous record was in 1960 when a Douglas fir from Oregon stood 73 feet above ground.

The Oregon tree was actually 78 feet long and Arizona's is 85, but five feet of the base of the tree must go underground for support. THE NATION WILL see Arizona's blue spruce lit up with at least 1,000 lights in a White House lawn ceremony on Dec. 17. Its felling in the White Mountains on the Apache Indian Reservation was a colorful affair with much suspense and an Apache ritual dance by costumed Indians to hold the attention of about 150 spectators. Visitors had to wind their way over rough, dusty roads 26 miles from Whiteriver into the mountains to find the tree's secret place.

The tree stood beside primitive Moon and Sun Road, with Moon Creek, partly tonned over with ice, trickling behind it The location was about 8 miles due south of Hawley Lake. Apache Rudolph Kane beat out a tom-tom rhythm on a small drum while five young Apache bucks and five pretty Indian maidens danced away "the evil spirits" in blessing the tree. Bells tinkled from their costumes. The males were bare-waisted with i of spruce attached to their arms or torsos. AT NOON, T-bone steak was cooked by Apaches and served with frijoles.

Into heavy metal sots over an open fire, the steaks were dropped into boiling cooking oil. The felling of the tree began about 10 a.m. and was a tribute Lo modern methods. The towering beauty never touched the ground. A crane and two loader machines did the trick.

A crane cable was tied to the upper part of the tree and a loader cable lower down. When John Miller of Pinetop sawed through with his chainsaw, the cables simply lifted the tree up and out and held it suspended in the air until, hours later, it was swung onto a long, flatbed truck. THE SUSPENSE LAY all day in whether the top of the tree, burdened with glistening brown cones, would crack off from the horizontally slung tree. The suspended tree was sprayed thoroughly with a preservative to keep it looking new fresh until its arrival in Washington where it i get other such treatments. Then this Christmas gift' had to be wrapped.

First, ropes were thrown into play, encircling the tree repeatedly to bind up drooping limbs more closely to the trunk. Then it was totally wrapped in burlap to help keep it intact for its trip. The tree-handlers waited until today to truck it to McNary to board an Apache Railroad flatcar to Holbrook; from there it was to be transferred to the Santa Fe to Chicago; then to Washington aboard the Baltimore Ohio. The trip is expected to take five days. THE JOB of cutting the tree was a thorough one.

Last week, a ponderosa pine of similar proportions was cut in a test run. After the main tree was cut yesterday, a second large spruce was cut for spare parts. The spare limbs also are being sent to Washington. If the gift tree has broken branches, the spares will be fitted into their places with steel sleeves. Before cutting, the national tree stood 106 feet above ground.

The cut was made 4 feet above ground. The stump had a circumference of 7 feet and a diameter of 26.7 Inches. After cutting, 17 feet of the base was lopped off for easier handling. This excess was later sliced up like bologna, into 3- inch-wide "wheels." They will be distributed as souvenirs. The gift tree has been waiting for this event since 1961, Apache Tribal Chief Lester Oliver said, when a request was made to President John F.

Kennedy to permit Arizona to donate it a the national Christmas tree. Kennedy accepted the request but Arizona had to get in line behind other states, already dated up through 1964. Motorist Is Arrested After Chase, Crash William E. Thoreson III, who last January won dismissal of charges of illegally setting off explosives near radio station KTUC in June 1964, faced traffic charges today after what police said was a wild chase ending in a collision. Thoreson, 28, of 4810 Calle Escuela, was cited for reckless Candy Firm Will Open Store Here Russell Stover Candies Inc.

has announced plans to open its first retail store in Tucson, to be located in the El Con Shopping Center. The nationally known candy firm currently has about 160 branded outlets, and also distributes through 4,490 agency accounts such as department and drugstores. Stover supplies on a quantity order basis to business firms and organizations. Russell Stover factories are located in Kansas City, Lincoln, and Denver, Colo. Mrs.

Marie Jensen, district manager for Tucson, will supervise opening of the new store some time next Mrs. Mary Denman has been named acting store manager. Davis Will Fight For Woods For Vice Mayor Mayor Lew Davis apparently has decided to fight the new Democratic majority on (he City Council on the appointment of a vice mayor. Hearing Set In Fatal Shooting A Nov. 23 Justice Court preliminary hearing has been set for David Leroy Cook, 27, charged with second degree murder in a South Side trailer court shooting Saturday night.

The victim was Herschel Lee Hendrix, 38, a resident of the trailer court at 4832 S. 6th Ave. Police say Hendrix died of .38 caliber revolver bullets in the chest and head. Justice of the Peace Clark H. Johnson set no bond at the arraignment yesterday, althou7h bond is allowed in such charges.

Cook requested court-appointed counsel. Johnson ordered the request transferred to Superior Court for approval. David Prin, who offered Cook a space in his trailer uoon his Tucson arrival, told, police that Cook and Hendrix argued over Cook visiting Prin's aunt, a friend of Hendrix. Davis, in St. Louis for the All-American City Awards jury presentation, told Citizen reporter Charles Turbyville there: "I'm going to have something to say about the appointment of the vice mayor and I won't go along with anyone but my own man." His choice is Republican G.

Freeman Woods, the incumbant in the job. The new council, with four Democrats and two Republicans will take office Dec. 6. Its first action will be selection of a vice mayor. Traditionally the council majority has dictated the post and the Democratic members have indicated they back Councilman Kirk Storch, one of their number.

But Davis has long contended the mayor has the right 'to make the nomination and the council can only approve or reject it-not nominate its own man. The City Chater is not clear this point and it has never ome to a full-scale legal test. This could bring it on. Woods is the only councilman RODIG'S -TUCSON OPTICAL SERVICE MA. 3-1071 7(U VALLEY NATIONAL ILD9.

PARK N' SHOP FUKE Valley Bank Credit Card driving and possessing no driver's license. He was arrested yesterday at Warren Ave. and Mabel where police said his car collided with another. Patrolman N. P.

Philabaum said Thoreson had to be subdued and handcuffed after he started to fight. Philabaum said Thoreson's car outran his motorcycle in a chase that started at Campbell and Linden when Philabaum stopped Thoreson on a charge of improper passing. The officer said fhoreson locked his car and drove off, speeding through congested areas and narrowly miss- ng two school children at one ntersection. Thoreson's yardman when the explosions occurred, Richard W. White, 26, a former University of Arizona honor student, was convicted of maliciously discharging explosives near a dwelling with intent to endanger a person and given two years' probation last May 27.

The charges against Thoreson were dismissed when White refused to testify against him. The blasts, in vacant lots, did no damage or injury. White denied intending any harm and claimed the blasts were pranks. You've never heard anything fo before "A WorU New Sound" TUCSON DAILY CITIZEN Published Dally Except Sunday by the Citizen Publlshini Co. 208 North Ava.

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