Casa Grande Dispatch from Casa Grande, Arizona • Page 1

The Foremost Newspaper at Final County Vol. 33 $3.00 Per Year CASA GRANDE, ARIZONA, MAY 5,1944 THEATR Pima Fiesta Draws Huge Attendance 2000 Swarm Sacaton School Area To See Exhibits And Games The annual Pima Fiesta, held on the campus of the Pima Central School in Sacaton, Friday, provided an interesting, educational and exciting series of events for the 2000 persons attending. The program began at 9 A. with One gathering of the Indians Indian service employees from all the communities. under the Sacaton jurisdiction, which includes the Gila River Indian Reservation with Sacaton as the central agency, Salt River Reservation near Scottsdale, Fort McDowell and Maricopa' Indian Reservations.

The various communities of the Gila River Reservation including, Maricopa, Gila Crossing, Casa Blanca, Santan, Sacaton, Sacaton Flats and Blackwater were represented in large numbers and the others "were well represented. From 9:30 A. M. until noon exhibits of work being done throughout the Reservation in way of education and advancement were on display and gave opportunity for the various Indian groups to compare their work. Displayed were school exhibits which included class art and shop work, from all'of the day schools.

The Woman's Clubs exhibits displayed the handy work of the. club women, which include many lovely quilts, pillow covers, cushions, mattresses, toys and canned fruits and vegetables. The community clubs are under the leadership of Miss Oleta Merry, who was also chairman of the Fiesta. Miss Merry and aids' in the instruction of 22 clubs each month. Health Exhibit The Health exhibit, under the direction of Miss Dorothy Morse, Field Nurse, gave a concentrated insight into the work she is trying to accomplish in health education throughout the area.

With small school children dressed as nurses and doctors, handing out literature, and the display of first aid cabinets and suggested precautions and treatments, the exhibit conveyed much. A fine display of-Arizona rocks was shown by Miss Louise Lawton, educational director, of Denver, Colo. She-gathers the rocks as a hobby. The fine collection of miniature baskets of the late Miss Mary Martini, was also on display. A splendid exhibit from the department of Agriculture gave even those who have lived in the area for many years, an excellent idea of the accomplishments of that The display consisted of the varieties of cotton which are commonly used today and which were developed here, with a number of varieties of nuts and beans, which have been developed at Sacaton.

A display, of the experiments now being carried on, with the various types of plants for the use of making rubber, was most interesting. At noon, while the Pima Indian Band furnished an hour of excellent band music, more than 1500 persons were served a meal of pork and "beans, carrot and raisin salad, buns, peaches and iced tea. The beans were prepared in huge outdoor pots over camp fires. They were cooked for twenty-four hours and. watched over by Rudolph Johnson.

Credit must be en to Mrs. Luciana Allison and her staff of cooks at the school for the preparation of the dinner. Saoaton Team Wins When the appetite of the crowd had been were called to enjoy an exciting game of Softball played between the school teams of the Salt River Day School and the Pima Central School, for 'district championship. The Sacaton team won, 10 to 9, in an extra Inning contest Marvin Skousen. Coach and Agricultural teacher at the Sacaton school, was in charge.

A-Bow and Arrow contest, under the sponsorship of Frank Johnson, followed immediately, with Luke James being winner with 13 points. Other contestants were George Webb, 10 points; Lewis Hill, 5 points; Santiago Jose Pablo and Henry -Saloye, and others. The most interesting, and decidedly the most amusing events of the- day were Gie greased pig contests. Two contests were held with school children up to the fifth grade taking part The girl's contest was won by Marcella Johnson of Casa Blanca district, the boy's contest was won by Kelvin Jones, also of (Continued On Page S) Casa Grandean In Shadow Of Pyramids Tuesday Morning Fire Does $20,000 Damage; Firemen Do Fine Work In Confining It; Bqnebrake Store Stock Badly; 'Damaged By Water; Chief Confectionery Is A Total Loss; Clements Building Loss About $800 Fire which was discovered about 4:40 o'clock Tuesday morning, destroyed the Chief Theatre and the Chief Confectionery, and did damage estimated at; to the Clements building, adjoining the theatre. The Long Theatres, owner of the theatre building and equipment, is estimated to have suffered a loss, of approximately $20,000, covered by insurance.

Loss of stock in the Chief Confectionery was estimated by Tom Kehias, the operator, at approximately $600, not covered by insurance. The other equipment -in the Confectionery was owned by the Long Theatres. The fire was reported by H. G- Giles, Night Watchman; who turned in an alarm, and the fire department responded quicklyJ By the time thejfiremen, aided by city officers, were at the scene, the entire front of the tfieatre, and the Most Meat Off Ration Point List OP A Springs Great Surprise; Choicest Beef Yet Rationed Technical Sergeant Norval (Mickey) McNatt, son of Mr. and Kirs.

Garr McNatt of this city, poses before the pyramids and the Sphinx, at Cairo, Egypt, with a group of. sergeants from his outfit, a photo charting-mapping- squadron, Air Corps, United States Army. As is to be expected, "Mickey" Is astride a hone. is second from the right Earl Ensminger, of is astride the first''mount at extreme left of the picture, and Bill Mahoney is on the camel at right. The other three sergeants were not named in Sergeant McNatfs letter, which accompanied the picture, 'Sergeant McNatt is now stationed in India.

The Sphinx at Giza represents Harmachis, the morning son. Auxiliary Of Local V.FJ.W. Sets Record Has Largest Charter State Membership; Colors Dedicated In the Casa Grande high school auditorium on the evening of Americanization Day, jApril 27, Casa Grande Auxiliary, VjF.W. Post No. 1677, was mustered in by Mrs.

Ethel F. McNeil, Department President, of Phoenix, with 'Mrs. Mae Dudding of Tucson, Department Secretary, assisting. Forty-three charter members were mustered in at the public meeting, giving Casa Grande- the largest V.F.W. Auxiliary charter membership in the state.

Temporary officers, elected to serve for the ensuing term. Include: Mrs. Lois Hammer, President; Dprothy Wittenburjr, Treasurer; Mrs. Elsie Redden, Secretary; Mrs. Lillian Peart, Senor Vice President; Mrs.

Esda Riley, of Coolldge, Junior Vice President; Mrs. Eva Downing, Chaplain; Mrs. Ann Cato, Conductress, Mrs. Rosalie Tralove, Guard; Trustees for three, two and one year respectively. Miss Margaret Cruz, Mrs.

Elsie Smith, and Mrs. Willie Bowser. Color bearers: Miss Anna Loebel, Mrs. Rose Sullivan, Miss Charity Brewer, Coolidge, Mrs. Marguerite Marquisee; Flag Bearer, Mrs.

Adeline Brokaw; Banner bearer, Mrs. Liberty Ryan, Historian, Mrs. E. T. Hooper, Patriotic Instructor, Mrs.

Marie Gulnn; Musician, Mrs. Flossie Letzring. These officers were installed by State President McNeil, who commended Mrs. Hammer for-her organization work, as she presented the gavel. The members were then presented with the lovely pre-war membership pins, which, because of shortage of metal, are only given to charter members of new auxiliaries.

Plastic Victory mode pins are given to regular members. It is planned to hold meetings on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month. Mothers, daughters, sisters of veterans who have seen foreign service or who are now in service abroad are eligible to join the organization. At the same meeting, the lovely new colors of V.F.W. Post No.

1677 were dedicated and the officers for the ensuing year installed by De- ipartment Commander Allen, Phoenix. The High School Band furnished music. LT. COL. GRAT HERE Lt Gray was a visitor at the Lynn Morrill home here on Wednesday, arriving by plane.

Wins Wings LIEUT. CLEATUS C. MARTIN Cle'atus Martin Is Commissioned In U.S. Air Corps As Pilot Cleatus a Martin, 21, of Casa Grande, has been awarded the silver wings of a pilot at the advanced two, engine pilot school of the AAF Command, La Junta Army Air Field, Colorado. He was graduated as a second lieutenant after completing the final phase of flight training as an aviation cadet and is qualified now for specialized combat training.

He attended Coolldge High School and was an airplane mechailc be- for entering the service. Lieutenant Martin is the ion of Mr. and Mrs. Homer 'H. Martin of Enfield, N.

H. La Junta Army Air FJeldJ-func- tloning under the Western Training Command, is Ibca ed in southeastern Colorado, four miles from the city of La Junta. Student flyers who have completed instruction here in two tjries of two engine planes, the AT- L7, or Cesana "Bobcat," and the a slightly modified Mitchell er. Lieutenant Martin has a er, Maurice M. Martin, resld the La Palma district Lieu Martin is a native son of Ari TRAINERS COLLIDE Two training planes from Williams Field, collided Monday evening, near the Shields Ranch Toltec.

Pilots of both ships parachuted to earth as the planes fell, one suffering a fractured left and the other escaping with pnlnor scratches. basic VT-24, ng in enant Eona. Casa Grande Organizations Join In Local Observance Of Of Music Week, May 7 To 14 Various Group Of Musical Events Listed; Mothersingers' Annual Spring Concert To Be Held Tuesday; Rolin Pease Will Sing All meat except steaks and roasts I of beef became ration-free at midnight Wednesday, hut that doesn't mean all the points that formerly went into hamburger and pork and lamb can be diverted to bigger and juicier sirloins'. There will be ony half as many red points as before. The Office of Price Administration figures the average consumer can.

have more of the items still be rationed and beef "roast, butter, margarine, cheese and evaporated milk. A person who has used most of his red points for steak and butter will be cut in those items. If he has been eating a 10-point steak and a three-point quarter-pound of butter every two weeks heretofore, he has had 17 of his biweekly allotment of 30 red points left for other Junior High School students who have done outstanding work -during the year. They are Rudy Fi- (OonUnued on 4) The. Matinee Musicale dub, Mothersingers, High School and Junior High Bands, the High School Girl's Glee Club, Church loirs, and Casa Grande School Music Department "combine to offer citizenry of Casa Grande varied music programs, during National Mupic 7 to 14.J The annual spring concert of the Tuesday evening, May 9, at 8:30 P.

will officially open Music Week. Miss Mary Katherine Snure, Soprano, from Tucson, will appear as guest artist on this program, to'be giv-'- en in the High School Mrs. Vera Massey, Casa Grande, will give a piano solo. Rolin Peace, head of the voice department at University of Arizona, will, sing "Pilgrim's Song," and "Charity" as part the program. The Mothersingers program follows: John J.

Boyer, Director, Mrs. Horace Chesley, Accompanist. America the Beautiful, Ward. Jesu So Sweet, K. S.

Bach. Father Mbst Merciful, is Franck, all sung by Mothersingers. Piano Solo, Second Valse, Godard, by Mrs. -Vera Massey. Music When Soft Voices-Die, by Clokey.

When I Have Sung My Songs, by Soprano 1 Solo, Song from Faust, Gounod, So Long, by Arthur Olaf Anderson, sung by Mary Katherine Snure, Martina Powell, Accompanist. A Little Song of Life, Malotte. Gossips, 17th Century Air, Dancing on Green "Cbuntry Gardens," Old Morris Dance! Personnel: Sopranos: Mrs. Earl Sell, Mrs: Carey Bussell, Mrs. K.

K. Henness, and Miss Morse; Second Sopranos: Mrs. Paul Austrum, Mrs. John Nutt, Mrs. Van Buh'ce "and Mrs.

Claude Wells. Mrs. a R. Kevins, Mrs. Roy Williams and Mrs.

N. Bess Prathen School Participation The Casa Grande High School Band, Casa Grande Junior High School Band, Casa Grande Junior High School Band, and the High School Girl's Glee Club will give a joint program on Thursday evening, May 11. at 8:15 P. in the High School auditorium. This program will feature popular selections, along with Martial Music and Concert Waltzes.

Soloists to be featured on this program will include both the High School and Proclamation WHEREAS, it has a custom to set aside week in each year to be i nown as Music Week, 1 daring'which time all organizations shall through their programs in bringing before the I eople of the state the inspiring stimulus of music; and WHEREAS, by National concurrence, the week eginning May 7, and ending Ma; 14, 1944, baa been set aside aid designated as NATIONAL! MUSIC WEEK; and WHEREAS, Mrs. K.IK. Henness has been appoint id to act' as Chairman to arrange special musical programs doling this week, HOLMES GALLOWAY', Mayor of I Casa Grande, do heieby proclaim, designate and (et aside the week beginning ly 7, and ending May as a to be devoted to the especial consideration of music and its-various benefits, and to Ihe great inspiration to be had tl lerefrom, and to admonish eveiy citizen of Casa Grande give particular thought to the building into his everyday life ome cultural benefit and beauty to be obtained from llste ling to wholesome and cultur il music, and to foster local musical talent among our younf: people. To this end each citizen of Casa Grande is duly urged to carry enjoyment and pleas' ire thus obtained into his homo and Into Ihfs work as a perms nent memento of MUSIC WEEK. Holmes Salloway Mayor, Casu Grande Attest: E.

D. Pedersoi Clerk, confectionery, were a seethingimass pf flames. Flames Spread When first discovered, the flames were-making: rapid headway; at a point near the stairs in the 'front portion of the While water was being poured on the flames there, fire broke out hi the rear of the theatre, and; near the roof. For a time it appeared that the firemen would be unable to in any way control the and that fire spread to adjoining buildings on both sides." The stock of the Bonebrake second-hand store, which occupies the- Clements building, to the east of the theatre, was badly damaged by water and smoke. The loss there is estimated at, somewhere around $800.

The firemen, police and volunteers made a fight, and some hours later, bad confined the items, including the meats taken i flames to theatre and to the offjratiohing Wednesday night. I jj ining Clements building. With the red-point allowance slashed to 15 every two weeks beginning next Sunday, he will have only two points every two weeks for evaporated milk'and margarine unless he guts steak and butter consumption. Other Buildings Endangered The building to of the theatre, owned by the Steinfeld interests, of Tucson, and occupied on the ground floor by the W. C.

Clements Insurance agency offices. The' of avail- and on the second floor by the of- able red points will be accomplish-. of Dr. Kilcrease, appeared for ed by validating 30 per person ev- a time to be certain to burn as ery weeks instead of 30 every, smoke pouredUfrom crevices about two'weeks as in the past. The three stamps becoming valid Sunday, May for 10 points each must last until Sunday, June 4.

Hamburger was the items removed from rationing, but the administrator 'explained that if a housewife picks out a round steak and asks the butcher to hamburger it, that will cost roundsteak ration points. products released froiin the point program include all sausage and variety -meats, the ready-to- eat meats such as ham, canned meat; and-canned fish. 'I Rev. Mr. Vanderhoof Quits As Pastor Here; Will Move To Duncan Rev.

Mr. V. A. Vanderhoof resigned as paslor of the First Baptist of Casa Grande, Sunday morning, to accept a call to the First 'Baptist Church of Duncan. The Duncan 'church was organized I by! the Vanderhbofs some years ago.

The Duncan congregation has a -parsonage and a new stone' church, all free from debt The I Reverend Mr. Vanderhoof to: take up his-; new work; aboulj the middle of the month. Vanderhoofs left Tuesday for Tucson, to take part in the prc- gramj at the Arizona Baptist Con- ventipn, which will be in session in the (First Baptist Church there, where Dr. R. S.

Beal has been the pastor for over 26 years. The convention will close on Saturday and the Vanderhoofs will return to Casa for a few days before leaving for Duncan. The Rev. Mr: L. H.

Shuttles- wortlj will occupy the pulpit of the Firstj Baptist Church here on Sunday morning and evening. CHURCH WOMEN MEET The women of the First Baptist Church met this week at the home of A. K. Corbett, and her mother. Mrs.

W. Duke, a business meeting and program, after which games were played and the front and roof of "that structure. However, a firewall betwgen the building and the theatre building aided, in control 'of the blaze at that Jack Clements pointed out that only the excellent work of the volunteers and the fact "that there was no breeze blowing at the time of the fire, prevented a more disastrous Henry Bowers, manager of the theatre, arrived at the scene shortly after the fire was discovered, and in another portion -of" the paper, publicly announces his thanks to the firemen. Mr. Bowers said that he salvaged a lens from one of the Sound and moving picture; machines, which has a value of $250.

Machines in the projection booth were valued at approximately 000. Mr. Bowers said, while the building was valued at $6060 or more. Other equipment, including; chairs, carpets, and 100 Navajb rugs used as decorations on the theatre walls, and equipment in the confectionery, brought the total loss to an estimated $20,000. While no actual proof of the cause of the fire has been secured; it is believed that a refrigerator motor, which went bad.

probably" caused a short 'in the electric wiring-. The fire is the. first one here in a long- dainty refreshments those! present served to time, and the most disastrous the S. P. depot burned in since June 1937.

Casa Grande suffered another disastrous fire in 1912 when business section burned. I. WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET The regular meeting of thel Casa Grande Woman's Club will be held next Tuesday, May 9, in the lijbrary of the Woman's Club building. A general outline; of the work of the club will be discussed and special music will be given by members of the Matinee Music Club in observance of National Music Week. SUMMER SERVICES Services at.

the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church will be held at 9 A. M. during the summer months. Sunday School will be held at 10:00 M- The pastor hopes the: new- hours of service will prove 'more convenient for.