Nogales International

State Highway Commissioners And Other Public Officials Among Thousands At Annual Yuma Rodeo

Members of the Arizona Highway Commission were special guests of the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce during the annual rodeo last weekend in the Colorado river metropolis, Arizona's third largest city.

The commission members are Marcel N. Forman, Yuma, chairman; Dewey Farr, St. Johns, vice-chairman; Louis Escalada, Nogales; Brice Covington, Kingman; and H. Earl Rogge, Clifton.

Other guests of the Yuma committee included Secretary of State Dan Garvey, Craig Pottinger, publisher of the Nogales International and U. S. Collector of Customs for Arizona; and H. O. Pace, Casa Grande, Escalada's predecessor as highway commissioner.

The commissioners, collector of customs, Pace, and Garvey, who represented Governor Sidney P. Osborn, were royally entertained during their stay in the sunshine capital.

Included on the reception committee were Mayor Ingalls of Yuma, President F. C. Braden of the Yuma Chamber of Commerce and its live-wire secretary, John H. Fairweather.

Commission Chairman Forman, very likeable gent, assisted the committee in seeing that nothing was overlooked to make the stay of the out of town guests one long to be remembered.

The program of entertainment opened with a cocktail party Friday afternoon at a beautiful Yuma home, followed by a banquet in the evening, then a trip across the river to Winterhaven where the Nogalians were delighted to run across genial Harold Brown, former sheriff of Santa Cruz County, now a deputy sheriff of Imperial County, Calif.

Take Part In Parade

On Saturday morning the visiting officials and Pace took part in the mammoth rodeo parade, riding in old-time stage coaches, one the property of the swank Last Frontier Hotel of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mr. Forman led the parade, followed by Roy Wayland, executive of the Valley National Bank and Hotel Westward Ho, Phoenix, who rode his famous palomino, one of Arizona's most famous horses. Thousands viewed the procession.

After the parade there was another dinner party, then the guests were taken to the rodeo where they occupied box seats and witnessed a corking, good show.

Following the rodeo there was another cocktail party, then a dinner in Mexicali, Mexico, across the border from Calexico, 70 miles from Yuma.

The guests were housed in the beautiful San Carlos Hotel and there was never a dull moment about that place with its music, cowboys, and rodeo performers, by the hundreds.

Each of the guests left Sunday convinced that for courtesy and hospitality Yuma is unsurpassed.