IT'S FIESTA TIME ON THE BORDER

MAY is gay month in Arizona and nowhere is it gayer than down on the Mexicano border. In keeping with the spirit of the season and the locale, Douglas and Nogales have announced festivals for May that will be unique and attractive.

The good citizens of Nogales have announced a typical Mexican fiesta for the week of May 2-7. The official title will be "La Fiesta Mexicana de Nogales." Part of the show will take place in Nogales, Arizona, but on the Fifth of May, Mexico's Independence day, Nogales, Sonora, will enter into the fun. The two cities are working hand in hand on the fiesta program.

A Mexican fiesta is quite the gayest of frolics. The music and the dancing and attendant merriment begins early and lasts late. Gay Mexican dress fash-ion and everything in connection with the festival is colorful.

HERE is a charm to Arizona border cities which distinguish them from cities of the interior. When you are in Douglas or Nogales you have but to cross a street and you then are in the republic of Mexico.

A visit to these Arizona cities affords a novel, interesting experience. And when, for example, they decide to celebrate May in the tempo and rhythm of the Mexican fiesta, the celebration is really worth the trip. "Viva la fiesta!"

Douglas, Arizona, just across the line from Agua Prieta, Sonora, puts on the annual rodeo and fiesta May 12, 13, 14. Douglas is a beautiful city to visit in mid-May. The flowers are in bloom, and flowers in Douglas bloom in profusion.

The festivities will begin officially on Friday evening, May 12, with a great cowboy ball and oldtime melodrama in the true western spirit with an outdoor Fiesta in the Tenth street park. The rodeo proper will be officially launched at noon on Saturday with a great milelong street parade made up of dozens of oldtime horseand ox-drawn vehicles, beautiful riding horses from all sections of the southwest, and an entire division of unusual floats, worth coming many miles to see.