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ALL EDITIONS .1 zt'Q Mr. and Mrs. John Stiteler, left, and Mr. and Mrs. W.

G. Kroger celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Phoenix Symphony Guild and the Symphony Dr. and Mrs. Howard Aidem, left, with Mrs. Morton Scult at the "Diamond Ball." j.i I ii Mit nV 1.

i it 1 r-1 I A Mr mmmmm 14 Iff M4 i rjlf in ii mirr I I if in i Happenings by JOY COOL1DCE RwiMfc lwm by Mm WIMrd Joseph Arace, left, Mrs. Josef Kaspar, co-chairman of the Symphony Guild "Diamond Ball," Edgar Higgins and Mrs. Earl Lawlus, chairman. Symphony gala marks 30-year anniversary Soft breezes kissed the skirts of the women and cooled the fore Baton, Silver Baton and Benefactor honor awards for those making large financial contributions. Gold Baton certificates were given to Mr.

and Mrs. Howard V. C. Davis, Mrs. Rosemary Long music, youth and the future of both in the Valley.

FULLER WAS the guest of Elaine Stauber, guild member, who was escorted by her fiance Prof. Gordon Krutz, a professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. Talk of a September wedding made her eyes sparkle like diamonds. Don and Edie Kunz were telling friends at the ball about Mrs. Kunz sister, Julian Wells, who has a role in "Assault On Paradise," the film that was premiered last Thursday at the UA Movies 5 in and T-shirts.

One person even went the psuedo cowboy route with a brown suit and bad guy black hat, which he kept on all through the movie and during dinner. Fortunately most of the audience knew the evening called for the red carpet treatment. In a way, both "Assault On Paradise" and the Phoenix Symphony ball were firsts. Even though the "Diamond Ball" was a 30th anniversary celebration, (in symphony years, 30 years are young years) it holds first place in the hearts of those who appreciate serious music in Arizona. The premiere began with a champagne cocktail party on the mall before the theater.

Following the screening, guests attended a dinner party in Los Olivos Restaurant. It was a party that really moved with margaritas, Mexican food and dancing. Unexpected entertainment was provided by actors Koslo and Kennedy who took over the microphone to sing a few songs. The invitations to the premiere called for informal dress. Instead of interpreting this to mean no black tie but still semielegant, some guests opted to wear jeans women The AbizoSH Republic I ii rum (Section A) Page 20 Monday, May 2, 1977 heads of tuxedo-attired men on the north patio of the Biltmore Hotel Saturday evening during the cocktail hour that preceeded the annual Symphony Guild Ball.

It was themed the "Diamond Ball" in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Phoenix Symphony Guild and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and the ballroom sparkled like a jewelers showcase. Crystal prisms and white flowers were centerpieces for tables covered with rhinestone-studded tablecloths. Tiny twinkling lights hung on white branched trees throughout the room and on several gazebos in the Grand Ballroom, Aztec Room and hotel lobby. Even hostesses who directed guests to table places glittered in tiaras that reflected soft candle light. THE DINNER was underwritten by Diamond's Department stores and quite naturally the VIP's orchestra played "Diamonds are A Girl's Best Friend" several times.

Mi-d-way through the evening the VIP's traded places with the Desert City Six who provided dance music in the Aztec Room. Their jazz rendition of a Girl's Best Friend was a Mrs. Earl J. Lawlus was chairman' of the ball and Mrs Josef Kaspar co-chairman. As is customary at this annual event, the chairman announced the Gold Edmiston, Mrs.

Harry Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Allen C. Mayer, Mrs. Kenneth M.

Piper, Mr and Mrs. James Stacy and Mr and Mrs. Franz G. Talley. There were 19 Silver Baton awards and 19 benefactors.

Mrs. Joseph E. Arace, guild president, paid tribute to the past presidents of the Symphony Guild and of the Symphony Association who were among the guests. Captain and Mrs. Ron Evans, were introduced by Mrs.

Arace to the audience. Evans, a former astronaut, will soon become a resident of Scottsdale. An unexpected award during the evening was that of a special musical scholarship to Max Fuller a senior at Chandler High School. A cello student, he will attend the Young Artist's Instrumental Program at Tanglewood Institute in the Berkshires of Massachussetts, sponsored by Boston University. The scholarship was unique not only because it was a first, but because part of it was contributed by Diamond's in lieu of table favors.

Their $500 check was Scottsdale. Edie is fashion director of all Diamond's stores. "Assault" was filmed in and around Phoenix in late 1976 and part of the fun of the movie is identifying the location sites. Miss Wells, who is from California, breaks up a serious chase scene with comic lines she ad-libbed while the cameras were turning. Richard E.

Kennedy, Phoenix actor, played the part of a Texas cowboy driving a car which got involved with nolice pars and motorcycles trying to corner the villain with all the split-timing and near-misses of a Keystone cops thriller. THE FILM stars Stuart Whitman, Paul Koslo, Jim Mitchum, Oliver Reed and Deborah Raffin. Executive producer was Patrick Ferrell. Bond Denson Ferrell and John Hawn were associate producers matched by the Symphony Guild The gift was in harmony with what the evening was all about 3 wJKf 1 MiirTiiiiiiiiirmitiraMfMtfWmir 3 RwxjMc photos by Kovin ScofieW Mrs. Vernon Denson of Austin, Tex.

enjoys a joke with Craig Aristei of Beverly Hills, Calif. Aristei is with the music department of Warner Brothers. Susan Schlarbaum and Paul Koslo, who plays the role of Victor in "Assault On Paradise," took pictures of guests at the premiere Mrs. Bond Ferrell, left, Mrs. Jack Ferrell and actor Stuart Whitman at the premiere of "Assault On Paradise." Lake Havasu, environs boast rich history Maggie Wilsons ALBUM LAKE HAVASU CITY As the 14,000 inhabitants of this resort playground on the Colorado River are perfectly willing to tell you: Largemouth bass "as big as the front seat of a car and weighing up to" 52 pounds" are caught here Boat races, sailing regattas, fishing derbies, golf and tennis tourneys are spawned here in the shadow of the transplanted London Bridge And the bridge itself with two million visitors per year is second only to the Grand Canyon as an Arizona tourist attraction.

BUT WITH ALL those gee-whiz numbers going for it well, gee whiz, the town is only 14 years old. And so, of course, folks looked askance when Roger Johnson said he was going to form a historical society. They laughed outright when he said elite "pioneer" memberships would be offered those who arrived here before 1966. But nothing daunted, Johnson has recruited 56 members for the Lake Havasu City Historical Society, including a handful of "genuine" pioneers who are tape recording their recollections of what the town was like in 1963 when the first street was being paved and a mortician was establishing the first business. THUS ASSURED that the town's founding history will be preserved for future generations, Johnson has begun researching the Havasu City environs of 1863.

"Heydays of the ghost towns of the Cerbat he said, gesturing to the east. "Arid of the paddlewheel steamboats that plyed the Colorado from Yuma to Nevada," he said, gesturing to the' "And right over there," he said, gesturing upstream, "is where a steamboat port called Aubrey Landing was located. Bill Hussey, a professional diver here, found the site (now covered by lake waters) just the other day." THE RIVER CHANNEL was broad and shallow at Aubrey City, he said, but steamboats could navigate in a couple feet of water. "All the riverboat pilot had to know was that the water ahead was deep enough. So Chemehuevi Indians were hired to walk ahead of the boats and call out the depths, according to where the water-line was on their bodies.

"The last survivor of the riverboat pilots is a fellow named Al Preston of Parker Dam who said he was using Chemehuevi guides until the dam was built in the 1920s and river navigation was blocked. "Al tells me. the Indians used some graphic (but vernacular) anatomical terms in yelling the water depths. He recalls the time an uninitiated schoolteacher insisted on standing by the rail and listening to the calls then then But oh boy, that next call. The schoolteacher gasped, blushed, flustered to her cabin and didn't come out again the whole trip," Johnson said.

And of the Chemehuevis themselves? "THEY ARE SMALL in numbers now, but like the other riverine tribes, the Yumas and Mohaves, they roamed these parts for centuries before the white man arrived. "Matter of fact, the Mohaves' sacred ground extended to Davis Dam upriver. They were incredible runners, capable of 120 miles per day, and they frequently ran to the Southern California coast for trading and visiting. "Upon their return to the sacred place, they went through purification rites to get what is now Hollywood and Beverly Hills out of their systems. "AND NOT TOO far away are the ghost towns of Chloride and Oatman not so ghostly these days, what with restaurants and shops sprinkled among the old buildings, a la Jerome.

Chloride, first prospected in 1863, still retains its old Tennessee Mining Company shaft," he said. Okay, so is Roger Johnson himself a native who The place was named for Francois Xavier Aubrey, a Canadian who was a pioneer trapper throughout the West (and locally along the Bill Williams River) until he was killed in a barroom brawl in Santa Fe, N.M., in 1854. "Aubrey was famed for the "fastest horseback ride' from Santa Fe to Independence, but folks around here didn't like him much because he only used one horse, which, after the eight-day ride, is said to have dropped dead," Johnson said. AUBREY LANDING (incorporated as Aubrey City in 1863) was the Colorado River port that used to carry passengers and supplies in and ore out for several nearby mines, including the McCrackin, Planet and Signal. In addition, it served as supply center for Ft.

Mohave and Prescott. "The ore bearing gold, silver or copper needed for the war effort (the Civil War, that is) usually was loaded aboard the steamboats, sent down river past Yuma, then down the, Gulf of California, around Baja and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco where some of the ore was smelted and the rest trans-shipped to England for processing," Johnson said. England? Sure, he said, that's what the nearby ghost town, Swansea, was all about. "It was named by homesick Welsh and Cornish miners who came here from Swansea, Wales. Eventually a huge smelter was erected at our Swansea, but before that, a lot of ore was shipped to the overseas Swansea's smelter," he said.

Republic photo Roger Johnson: Raconteur of the riverside knows the real estate between Parker and Hoover dams like the back of his hand? he's not a native; not by the dam sites, anyway. He's a former bureau chief for United Press in San Francisco and western manager for the public relations firm of Carl Byoir Associates in Los Angeles. He didn't come to Lake Havasu City until 1971 five years too late to qualify for a pioneer membership in the history society he founded..