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Hood Morning! nrer- A TTV BJJJ I VS Arizona's Brand Of Living Includes Lots Of Rare Extras Wednesday, May 1 1, 1955 Page 21 THE STATE'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER By DON DEDERA "It's a sad thought," a friend said the other day. "But it seems to me Split 20 Ways Tenana River Ice Pool Pays Of At $104,500 NENANA, Alaska (UP) The $104,500 Tanana River ice pool was split 20 ways yesterday, 49 years after Gunny Sack Jack and his side kicks started the Arctic game of guessing the exact time the ice would go out. The ice break-up, traditionally the beginning of spring in the Far North, came at exactly p.m. Monday. 4jl3 drove 40 miles one night to pick up a stranger, made him a dinner, insisted that he sleep at their house, and the next day stuffed a big breakfast into him.

Something will be wrong here if that Frontier Airlines hostess gets too busy to kick off her shoes, rub her aching feet, and beg the sympathy of her three men passengers aloft between Gallup and Winslow. Who can imagine the Hassayampa Hotel in Pcescott changing a long-standing policy? When all the rooms are gone and the motels are filled from Yarnell to Clarkdale, the hotel allows Fourth of July celebrators to bed down in the lobby. Will it happen? That Judson Murphy will feel the pressure of progress at Payson, and not show a stranger around the three emerald valleys of his Wailing Cow Ranch and when the stranger likes it, invite him to stay overnight Someday, will Safford have a different sort of Western Union manager, unlike the manager who trusted a down-on-his-lucker for the price of a wire home, and then, without being asked, advanced a couple of bucks for breakfast until the money arrived? Will the folks in the Palace Bar in Pres-cott, seeing you have visitors from the East who want to see an oldtime saloon, some day forget to haul out the photographs and relics guess and raked in his winnings. THEY HAD NO tripod and stop clock, the system which is now to determine the exact moment the ice starts to break up. Gunny Sack Jack and his comrades planted three stakes, one on the south bank, one on the north bank, and one in the center, of the river ice.

They lined up the stakes and when the center one moved they took the time. Monday's breakup came at what the "experts" figured was about a normal time. The earliest the ice ever has gone out was April 20, 1940, and the latest. May 16, 1945. that the places are getting scarcer in Arizona where a storekeeper might take in a stranger, press a big cup of coffee on him, and then refuse payment." The friend had just heard the story of how cold it got one night driving the Kingman Cutoff down Big Sandy Wash.

There wasn't any icay to close the windows, and the most the car's heater could tlo was roast a right ankle. It was so cold you got to envying the warm furry bodies of 50 jackrabbits that had bolted with nerve-shattering capers in front of the headlights. Naturally, when you got to Wicfcieup, you asked for a cup of coffee. The storekeeper (what was his name?) had his teenage daughter fetch a pot of mud from the kitchen stove in back, aJid pour more than a pint into a cup the size of a seidel. And when you'd had a second cup you reached for your silver, and the storekeeper said, "Woxddn't think of it." lie warmed a spot on your shoulder with a slap.

He wished you luck. You, his only cash customer in two hours, drove away warmer and no poorer. "Is that kind of hospitality going to die out?" asked the friend. It's a good question. This state isn't going to be nearly so nice if it loses people like John McPhee, now editing the Bisbee Review, and his wife, who There were 20 tickets carrying that time, but many were owned by syndicates of more than one person.

SOURDOUGHS and Cheecha-kos, who swarmed in here for the annual event, deny that a fire which roared through this riverboat town a few hours earlier had anything to do with the thaw. The fire leveled five buildings and damaged several others in the business district. The Tanana River thaw has fascinated Alaskans since 1906 when Gunny Sack Jack, Jones the Woodcutter, Jim Duke, Adolph Nelson, Oliver Lee, and Joe and Louie Johnson threw their pokes into a pot and took a guess on when the ice would go out. -Lee made the closest The lighthouse at Cape Henry, now preserved as a historic monument, was the first built under the U.S. lighthous service act of 1789.

Phoenicians Honored neth D. Wells, president, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, presents foundation's George Washington Honor Medal to Phoenicians Marion Vion and her teacher, Miss Doris DeLap. Awards were presented at Valley Forge when the Phoenix Union High School representatives made three-day, all-expense-paid trips to freedom shrines at Valley Forge, Philadelphia, and Washington. NOW IN PROGRESS! of the frontier, as they do now? Let's hope not. And let's hope that there will always be people like Fred at Kohl's Ranch whose idea of letting you dig for worms in his apple orchard is grabbing a shovel and turning the earth himself.

I Pepsi Cola Head New Mate OUR FIRST STORE-WIDE CLEARANCE IN FOUR YEARS! You Are Invited to Attend this Celebration Joan Crawford Elopes To Las Vegas Voice Of Broadway Smuggled Salk Vaccine Hinted On Latin America Black Mart Bee," at Columbia studios. TIDZN MONDAY night at a restaurant the decision was made to fly to Las yegas in Steele's private plane. The ceremony was performed at 2:10 a.m. in the hotel penthouse suite. Judge John Mendoza performed the rites before a group of close friends and business associates.

One of them thoughtfully supplied a platinum wedding ring with six diamonds in it. Ben Goffstein, Las Vegas hotelman, was in Europe recently with Steele. "I felt something was imminent so I bought this wedding ring for my friend just in case," Goffstein said. By DOROTHY KTLG ALLEN 1743 East McDowell AL 3-5462 Sir Hartley Shawcross, the famed British attorney, is coming to the LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) Joan Crawford, the movies' most durable star, yesterday took a business tycoon for her fourth husband.

Her elopement surprised almost everyone but the participants. The 47-year-old actress, whose 30 years in films have made her the unofficial queen of Hollywood, eloped with 54-year-old Alfred N. Steele, president of the Pepsi-Cola Co. She is his third wife. "He's the greatest man who ever lived," Miss Crawford said sleepily as a reporter's phone call awakened her in the Flamingo Hotel's bridal suite.

ASKED WHETHER a photographer could come up and make a picture, she replied: "Heavens no! I have nothing but a sheet wrapped around me and you know me, I don't pose in the morning with an evening gown unless the script calls for it." She said the gown was the only clothing she brought with her on the impromptu flight from Hollywood. Speaking of her husband, she said: "You know, he has to be good to get me up in an airplane." Her trip here was the first time she had flown. Was the wedding a surprise? "It was a surprise to everyone but me and Al." JOAN CONFIDED that Steele held her in his arms as the plane went up to 11,000 feet to get over the San Gabriel Mounatins. 'The moon shone on the wings of the plane. I may never travel any other way now." The decision to elope came quickly.

"We were just sitting around feeling so happy and talking about how happy we were." made crash helmets. Some of them cost as much as $150. Oleg Cassini must have a positive affinity for the name "Kelly." His latest crush is a luscious creature named Claire Kelly. Tenderest song title of the spring: "The Blues From Kiss Me Deadly." Put this down among your never-to-be-forgotten sights: Burl Ives, with whiskers flying, roaring down Broadway on his canary yellow Italian motorcycle. The restaurant known as the Admiral, a hangout for Giants ballplayers, is honoring the team with cocktails named after the Durocher's "Leo's Lip" and "Day Dream." Roll out the barrel of gumdrops, boys.

Groundwork has been laid for the construction of an authentic replica of ye oldetime ice cream parlor complete with tile floor and wire-back chairs on W. 58th St. just off Fifth Avenue. Irene Evans, a pretty executive with an oil company, is the girl most welcomed at El Morocco. She just got back from Cuba, bringing with her a copy of a Spanish record John Perona has been aching to hear a song that might be translated roughly as "What Rubirosa Has That I Haven't Got." Nobody noticed Liberace's gold lame dinner jacket the minute Dagmar walked into his supper room wearing a strapless evening dress with the lowest neckline anyone in Las Vegas has seen since the town fathers founded it.

United States to confer with Joseph S. Robinson, who once represented the Krupps of Germany. Purpose of the powwow: to figure out the next step in an attempt to retrieve Joanne Connelley Sweeney Patino's $96,000 diamond. The society beauty's most recent husband, Tin Millionaire Patino, has the gem legally tied up in England. Latin American sources whisper that large quantities of Salk vaccine were smuggled out of the U.S.

in packing cases marked "auto parts" and is being sold down there at fabulous black market prices. The vaccine was shipped, they say, as soon as it was known to be safe long before the public announcement. Rose La Rose, the burlesque queen, has reconciled with her ex-husband, Franco Ruocco, after all that battling. He's asked her to remarry him. Ilona Massey's autobiography, "I Live to Love," will be serialized as a three-parter in a ladies' magazine next fall.

Joe DiMaggio's first wife, Dorothy Arnold, gave up on show business and is now peddling bunglows in California. Jane Powell tells chums she treated herself to $23,000 worth of dresses everything from pink satin to powder blue chambray for her one week stand in Las Vegas. Kay Spreckles's daily wires from Clark Gable (he's on location ire Mexico) are signed: New fad with the hot rod set is custom- Your Money's Worth trim in i.i i in! i in i ii iiii.i s'Jk An intimate note Vs-Ji beautifully fl A expressed in -Sr if nylon by i i if Truly the nightgown for JAJl lM 1 dream-time enchant- if ment of wondrous, I 1 I carefree nylon tricot jff( ii frothed with nylon lace ImfmWk XYT and a iJWVk 'l dream to wash fir i land of course it I Jf 1 I never needs iron- PS i It it she said. "Suddenly, Al said, Lets fly to Vegas and get I said: 'AH right. Let's go.

it was as simple as that." The nawlyweds returned to Corporations Are Chalking Up Earnings Surpassing Even '54 Hollywood yesterday. JOAN WILL spend a few days in Hollywood finishing up her picture, and her husband By SYLVIA PORTER will return today to New York City. She probably will ioin DuPont, largest chemi- I 1 ca Producer in the world TmmtmuumS -t in tViA first him there about Friday. They leave for Europe shortly after for a six-week honeymoon. She already has rented a villa on the Isle of Capri.

a schoolgirl "I feel like again." She disclosed that she had indicated to her four adopted children Sunday that she might soon come home with a new papa. "They were all very happy inq. Choose pink. for a more shapely YOU blue or white, yOTF owui ii. i.

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To you as a stockholder: The significance to you is obvious. Corporations will pay a record total of dollars to stockholders this year almost certainly well over $10 billion. To you as a housewife: Even though corporations will be raising wages and salaries, most of them should be able to absorb the extra expense without raising prices. And your bargain-hunting attitude plus industry's intense competition for your patronage will put heavy pressure on prices. Again, an industrialist reporting peak profits in May will have a hard time proving he must raise prices in July to survive.

three months highest for an initial quarter in the company's 153-year history. U.S. Steel, biggest steel producer: first-quarter earnings at a new record. General Motors, automobile giant: 1953 sales and net income to date at an all-time peak. U.S.

Rubber, top rubber maker: highest first-quarter profits. Reynolds Metals, alumnium: record three-month earnings. Textron, textile maker: earnings in first two months larger than in all of 1954. This is the "annual meeting" season the days when our land's great corporations call their stockholders into session to report how their sales and earnings have been going. On my desk now is a 10-inch high pile of first-quarter reports of which the above are typical.

What the reports say is of the deepest personal meaning to every wage-earner and housewife, salaried worker, and stockholder in America. For so far this year, corporations all over our nation are chalking up earnings dwarfing 1954, even surpassing all past profit peaks. After-tax profits of the corporations are smashing 1953's levels, climbing toward the peaks of 1950 before Korea when taxes were lower. The giants are leading the profit boom. Nogales Seeks Lost 13,000 NOGALES (AP)J-The Nogales city council is considering what to do about recovering part of a $13,000 shortage in water department funds the bonding companies say they can't pay.

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