FROM HORSELESS CARRIAGES TO MOONSHOTS

THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN THOUSANDS ATTEND MAIN LINE FETE 127 ON 2 AIRLINERS FEARED DEAD: 1 SPOTTER IN CANYON THE TUCSON CITIZEN VILLA MASSACRES 18 AMERICANS IN U. S. From Horseless Carriages to Moonshots COURTLAND ARIZONAN THE NEW STATE OF ARIZONA 1ST U.S. ASTRONAUT SAFE AFTER FLIGHT INTO SPACE DEDICATION IS SUCCESS THE STAR SHIPS $700,000.00 WORTH CANTALOUPES JOURNAL MINER INDIAN WAR VETS ARRIVE FOR CONCLAVE JAPAN DREAMS INO MORE U S. BORDER PATROL AVIATORS DISAPPEAR ROGERS, POST, DEAD IN CRASH TUCSON DESIGNATED TERMINAL OF MILITARY AIRWAYS SYSTEM Graham County Guardian

ON FEBRUARY 14, 1912, the Tucson Citizen carried the following headline: “Taft Signs Proclamation Ad-mitting Arizona as the 48th State.” In his congratulatory message to the people of Arizona, President William Howard Taft had this to say: “... I hope soon to see Arizona's valleys teeming with people and the great resources of the new state's mountains and valleys developed rapidly and offering homes to thousands who will be attracted thither by the climate and opportunities for suc-cess and other characteristics of the new state that make it such a good place to live. I wish her people well with all my heart.” Had President Taft lived (he died in 1930) he would have seen his prophetic statements come true for on this, the commemoration of its fiftieth birthday; Arizona the “baby state” has reached that maturity.

George Wylis Paul Hunt, governor-elect to the sirw state, walked from downowa Phoenix to taks over his duries in the Capitol Building on the 14th. Haut had come to Arizona some as years earlier to a small mining camp called Globe, where he worked as a water in a restaurant while attrading school. As a tribute to his leadership and to the pride Arizonans bad taken in the man. from Missouri, who had worked so hard to save the people of his stats, he was re-elected in 1990 to his sevench and final tam ss Governor. Like thousands of others who have followed him, Hunt came to Arizona because he saw the potentisks in the West, and the possibilities for ins settlement. The faith of President Taft and Govemar. Hunt has been borns out by the wellisestion of Arizon's natural secureas which have been turned to further man's needs. This development is graphically shown in the newspaper headffacs of these pase 50 years.

Each county has uskon justifiable pride in its economic contributions, such as mining, agriculture and cattle ranching, the increasing foderal and state programs for major dam sites, power plants and highway develop-ments. The news stories of Arizons about the sgricultural activity in cotton and cantaloupes have been reported with auch enthuslarza, and the announcaments of con-struction of such daans as Hoover, San Carlos, Davis and Glen Canyon. Holbrook's Nghe plant, the Coolidgs power station, and developments at Cam Grande were front page nowe stories. Likewise, the Ajo smalting plant and production at San Mamel and Miami were among the Important events reported on during this half century.

Each community holds rodeos, fertas, county and state fairs, and sach special celebustions as the "Cinco de Mayo" (the Mesiem. Independence Day festivities on May 5th of each year). This reflects the intarest in rebud-bing the heritage that has come from the blending of many nationalities of peoples. In 1912, newspapers sent forth a "Welcome to Visitors" to stred a fair being held in the southern part of the Stats. In 1961, the Arizona Pio-nects Histocked Society and the University of Arizons, during their Annai Arizona Historical Convention, com manented "The 250th Anniversary of the Deaths of Father Eussblo Francisco Kino," the "Spanish Padre on Horseback" who paved the way for colonisation of this land. Such activities pay tribute to the Spanish and Mexi-em inftumaces found in the Southwest in such cultural traits so architectura, language and foods. As early as 1921, one of the last meetings of the "Order of Veteran of Indion Wars" was held in Prescott, and Arizona "Lions" reared at Safford in that same year. For a zam-ber of decades organisations have found President Taft's "climate and opportunities" to be superb, and in mar recent yeus, Arizona has became known as the "conven-tion sirta."

BUCKEYE REVIEW HUNT IS ELECTED BY BIG MAJORITY PRESIDENT SIGNS BOULDER CANYON BILL MYSTERY CLOUDS MRS. M'PHERSON'S RETURN Donglas Daily In ternationau LUSITANIA IS TORPEDOED AND SUNK Arizona Syluer Belt Williams News Smallest ittle Horse Taken From Supai *40000 ARIZONA FANS SU SÔIONS WIN TITHI RUDOLPH VAI ENTINO CLAPIED BY DEATH 'FIRE SWEEPS SW MILL! Graham County Guardian ARIZONA LIONS 1019 IN SAFFORD CONVENTION CITY GETS $4.500.000 POWER SURSTATION URE WE MEET YOU AT THE BRIDGE Arizona Blade Critume 2.45 INCHES RAININOURS

National political events have had an inspect on the thinking of Arisonmus. Arizona graettes carried the elec-tions of of eight presidents and five re-elenium, as well a the deaths of Warren of Warren G. Harding and Franklin Delano Roosevelt while in office. Senator Carl Hayden was highly praised in a special Arizona newspaper edition, published in Washington, D. C. in 1932, an having "made good" he is the senior member in the United States Screte today. The stories of three wars are found in these headlines; and during the list, the Korean war, umuch con cera wes slvown because Congress had not declared it a "war." Yet, this was "old hat" to Arizonans, for neither hed Congress ever considered the conflicts with the In-dlans, prior to 1912, as "wen." Bornier campaigns, ton, were highlighted as, current events, for revolutionaries were the case of much anxiety from Arizona to Texas. It was in this period that Pracho Villa crossed the border and attacked Americans in the Southwest.

Arizonans read with sadness the accounts of the dirigible Akros crashing off the coast of New Jersey; of her sister ship the Macon near San Francisco, Califonia; and of the Shenandoah and Hindenburg. The U. S. & Arisoan, christened in 1915, was sank at Pearl Harbor in 1941, the torpedoing of the Lusitania in 1915, tha sinking of a United Stustes sabmarins in 1939, and the Texas City disaster of 1947, Hikewise made tragic head-lines.

On the other hand, Arizona events produced national Interest. Aimee Semple MicPherson, salf-styled evangelis, was found in Dougies; sive told of having been kidnapped and of being carried off to Mezico, an event of the year 1926. The Santa Fé Railroad reached Phoenix in that same yese, John Dillinger was apprehended in Tucson in 1934; a westbound mail train was robbed in Dougles in 1961; Tocton lost its airmail service in 1934, and mange wars flared anew with the interest of uranium prospecting in 1955. Arizonans were saddened at the loss of

native sons: Frank Lake Jr., World War I seriai ace; Jeff Milion, the last of the great peace officers; and Ernie Pyle, World War II news correspondent. Phonicians watched with interest the 1924 world series baseball games on the new fangled scoreboard at the Adame Hotel; citizens followed closely such events as the title fight between Jack Dempsey and Gane Tunney in 1926 and Joe Louis winning the heavyweight boxing croma in the spring of 1937.

With unvarnished humor, newspaper men brought their readers such headlines as "Dara Fins Den News," an item concerning the Charleston Dana project in 1934; and in 1938, the story of a "Sea Berpent reported in Lake Mead." One edition of the Tombstone Epitaph thoughtfully provided a front page laid out as a checkerboard for the use of its readers. The story, however, which probably rates as the funniest of these 50 years, is that of the Pins Indians who captured the kisjor Rowes amateur group in an incident which required the services of the Arizona National Guard to effect a rescue. The entourage, coming from Californis in autos, was required to make a detour through the desert country. Pima Indians, decked out in war costumes, were determined that the sensteur group would perform for them, before they continued on to Casa Grande for their show. The result was a frightening experience for the performers, nsany of whom had not been wat before.

Today, many journals no longer cacry headlines as a matter of policy; the "EXTRAS" are a thing of the past; and one frequently raises the chance of the newsboys delivering their Sunday papers from house to house. The newspaper headlines of yesteryears provide, there fore, the colorful and graphic story of Arizona's rise, to the last of the original forty-eight states, to its position as the Nation's fastest growing stese. It is truly the story of development-from the days of horseless carriages to this age of astronauts and moonshots.

INVASION IS LAUNCHED