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FIFTH YEAR, NO. I
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1962
Number Five Begins
This week begins the fifth year of continu
ous publication of The Arizona Tribune . As
publishers and editors of the only newspaper
owned and operated by Negroes in the en
tire state, we wish to thank each advertiser
and reader who made the past four years
possible .
We have held firm to our beliefs that local
information and photographs are the foun
dation of our paper . We have maintained
the same spirit of covering stories in the
Valley of the Sun first as we started to do
in 1958 .
Everyone is news, everybody can make
news and every picture can be interesting .
We hope to have a greater fifth year and give
more news and photographs •
The aims and standards of The Arizona
Tribune will remain unchanged . We will
produce nothing less than the best for the
best people in the wbrld —our readers and
advertisers .
LIGHTEN-LANDRUM NUPTIAL VOWS
REPEATED SUNDAY AT LOCAL CHURCH
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Meet a newlywed couple, Mr. and Mrs, Donald Landrum. They
were married, Sunday, July 22 at the House of Prayer, 1402 S. 11 Ave.
The bride, the former Miss Rosie Lighten is die daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Joseph Lightem, 2733 E, Roeser Rd.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Landrum, 3330 E.
B roadway.
They are at home at 3050 E. Broadway. (Photo—Bobby Heard)
2 CONVICTED IN
RESNICK TRIAL
ASK NEW HEARING
Motions for new trials for
convicted killers R. E.Jackson,
20, and Jessie Tellis, 19, have
been filed in superior court by
their respective attorneys, J.
Frank Gibson and Allen Bickart.
Jackson and Tellis and two
other men earlier this week were
convicted of first-degree murder
in the strangulation death of Sam
L, Resnick. They are scheduled
to receive life sentences Aug. 8.
Bickart attempted to justify
a new trial on grounds that early
in the trial the court received
Pictorial Weekly
information that one juror had a
preconceived and unqualified op
inion as to the guilt of the de
fendants.
ANGRY MAN
SHOOTS NEIGHBOR
Frank Green, a restaurant
worker, 1936 W, Cocopah is being
held in the fatal shooting of his
neighbor, Herbert Bass, 1610 W.
Papago.
Bass was shot last Friday. He
struck Green’s wife, Lorena,two
weeks ago starting a feud.
Green ordered Bass to leave
his yard and when Bass reached
in his pocket Green fired. Green
is the father of six children.
PHOENIX 40, ARIZONA
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JO|NS ARIZONA
TRIBUNE STAFF
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Paul' clineunbroomer
has been named advertising rep
resentative for the Arizona Trib
une, A native of Evanston, Ill
inois, Mr. Clinkunbroomer
moved to the city two months
ago.
He attended Northwestern Uni
versity and the University of
Chicago.
He was an associate art dir
ector at American Airlines and
he headed sale promotions for a
Chicago advertising firm.
A veteran of four years in the
U. S, Air Force, he was recently
discharged.
He and his wife, Sandra, a for
mer American Airlines steward
ess reside at 4107 E, Palm Lane.
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Gordon C. (Reddy) Fritch, 1715
No. 20 Street, has announced his
candidacy as representative,
District 10, in the Democratic
primary.
Reddy a familiar Phoenix bus
inessman has been operating
Reddy’s Corner at 1602 E. Jef
ferson for the past 28 years.
He is immediate past president
of the Phoenix Urban League,
having received the Poston Award
from this organization for out
standing work inhuman relations.
He served on the board of di
rectors of the Phoenix Council
for Civic Unity.
He is a past president of the
Top o’ the Morning Toastmast
ers. He is a board member of
the Arizona Retail Licensed Bev
erage Dealers of Maricopa Coun
ty and Arizona.
Mr. Fritch has always main
tained equal job hiring policies
in his business.
He is a member of the North
Congregational Church.
STORKING 'ROUND
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Walker,
61 IB W, Watkins Road are the
proud parents of a baby girl
born on July 2 at Good Samar
itan Hospital.
Col. Vance H, Marchbanks, Jr.,
chief flight surgeon in charge of
the 831st Tactical Hospital,
George Air Force Base in Cal
ifornia visited the city lastweek.
He was the guest 4 of Atty. and
Mrs. H, B, Daniels, 2801 North
Fifth Ave. Col. Marchbanks and
Attorney Daniels were boyhood
friends at Ft. Huachuca where
their fathers were stationed.
An Air Force veteran of 20
years, he was one of the med
ical monitors assisting in the
NASA Project Mercury, a mem
ber of the Dept, of Defense med
ical support operations during
the historical launching of Col,
John Glenn into orbit Feb. 20,
1962.
Col. Marchbanks was stationed
at Kano, Nigeria at one of the
18 tracking stations which mon
itored the Friendship Seven cap
sule. He checked the telemetry
control system as Glenn passed
over Kano.
He is one of the eleven ori
ginal medical officers assigned
to the project from its inception.
The colonel is in a rare class
because of his rating as a chief
flight surgeon because he has
completed 1,500 flying hours plus
15 years of flying status. In addi
tion he has completed extensive
training and research in aviation
medicine.
A recipient of numerous ci
tations and decorations including
three Korean War combat mis
sions, Marchbanks was “born
Into the service” at Ft. Wash
ikie, Wyoming, where his father,
a calvary captain, was stationed.
He obtained a bachelor of sci
ence degree from the University
of Arizona in 1931 and his MJD,
degree from Howard University
in 1937. He completed his intern
ship and residency in internal
medicine at Freedman ’s Hospital
DR. ROBERT WEAVER RECEIVES
SPINGARN MEDAL AT NATIONAL MEET
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i s the 47th Spingam medal winner of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People. This annual award, given for
"merit and achievement among American Negroes,” was bestowed
by Earl B. Schwulst board chairman of the Bowery Savings Bank
of New York City.
Dr. Weaver, administrator of the Federal Housing and Home
Finance Agency, was cited for his “pioneer role in the develop
ment and advocacy of the democratic doctrine of 'open occupancy’
in housing.” (Rioto-NAACP)
JACKIE ROBINSON, the first
Negro accepted to play in major
league competition won a niche
in die baseball’s Hall of Fame.
He was voted and accepted Mon
day and he joins ranks of the
immortals and living baseball
greats including Babe Ruth, Joe
DiMaggie and Ty Cobb.
Jackie played ball with the
Brooklyn Dodgers, retiring in
1957.
Presently he is a vice president
of Chock Full O’Nuts Corpora
t ion. He devotes much of his time
to youth and civic work and is
active in YMCA, NAACP and the
American Committee on Africa.
COL. MARCHBANKS
VISITS PHOENIX
in Washington, D, C. Later he
served on the medical staff of
Veterans Administration Hospi
tal at Tuskegee, Alabama before
entering the Air Force In 1941.
During World War Two he was
a major serving as group sur
geon of the 332nd Fighter Group
in Italy where he earned the
Bronze Star.
He has compiled more than
1,900 flying hours in prop and
jet aircraft while gathering med
ical data which has been pub
lished in research and military
publications.
His study on bomber crew
comfort and fatigue showing die
effect or adrenal hormone con
tent in blood and tissue as an
index to physical fatigue earned
him an Air Force Commendation
Medal.
He has also received a medal
for developing an oxygen mask
tester which has been adopted by
the air force.
Last year, Col. Marchbanks,
became the second man to receive
the William A. Warfield Award
for his outstanding contributions
in the study of physiological as
pects of flight on the body.
ROBINSON NAMED
TO HALL OF FAME
He and his wife, Rachel live
in Stamford, Connecticut. He
stated in a recent nationwide
television interview that he owed
his success to three people, his
mother who did laundry work and
moved her family from Georgia
to California; his wife who en
couraged him always and Branch
Rickey, the Dodger manager who
gave him the opportunity to play
in the majors.
Robinson was one of the great
est second basemen of all times.
He finished consistently in the
top five for batting honors and
he set a new National League
fielding mark of seven errors in
832 chances, for a .992 average.