Vol. 13, No. 1 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JANUARY, 1959 8 Pages Webb Builders Push Work To Help In Americas Space-Age Progress
Webb construction men worked last month on the threshhold of some his toric accomplishments of the Space Age. At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Del E. Webb Con struction Co. crews are building 525 Capehart homes, the Air Force in mid- December successfullyfired a 10,000- mph Thor missile, the free world's first operational long-range ballistic missile. Near Colorado Springs, where Del Webb's program of building another 1,200 Capehart homes is spreading rapidly through two picturesque val leys, the government announced that its space-age city known as the U.S. Air Force Academy is rapidly taking AIR VIEW shows Del Webb's multi-million dollar U. 5. Air Force housing shape in the shadows of Colorado's program being carried on in picturesque Douglass and Pine Valleys Rampart Range. near Colorado Springs, Colo. In foreground is Douglass Valley; Pine And at Canoga Park, Calif., where Valley just beyond. On mesa between is Community Center, with the base exchange in larger building. Smaller buildings are dormitories other Webb crews have completed tor supporting personnel, an airmen's hall and gymnasium. construction of nuclear field labora tory facilities for Atomics Interna Webb Housing Project Is Integral Part Of America's tional, officials of that firm announced the Thor missile launched at Vanden berg had been powered by one of its Training City For Men Who Will Seek To Conquer Space Rocketdyne engines. Such engines A space-age city, where the United Press. Another $20 million, roughly, now have provided the thrust in States will turn out pioneers to con was turned over by congress for de launching of more than 100 U.S. mis quer worlds in the air, is shaping up signs, land buying, and other costs. siles, and the National Aeronautics at the edge of the towering Rockies More than 5,500 workmen at one and Space Administration has selected near Colorado Springs, Colo., as Del time were on the job. This number Rocketdyne as the source for design Webb's builders push construction of fell to about 2,500 as the biggest build and development of a rocket engine 1,200 modern homes for air force men ings were completed. Main projects in the l^-million-pound thrust class and their families. still under way are the family hous to advance U.S. exploration of space. The concrete and glass of the U.S. ing units, the cadets' physical educa The multi-million-dollar Del Webb Air Force Academy complement the tion complex, the cadets' social center program of building Capehart homes rugged, spectacular mountains, sweep and hospital. Bids are to be opened for California personnel launching the ing upward in glistening spires. next month for a chapel with 17 alu gigantic missiles at Vandenberg, and This harmony in faith and future minum spires soaring 150 feet high. for the families of the space-age pi is taking more than two years of ac With their housing construction oneers now training in Colorado, was tual building, with completion sched program ahead of schedule, Webb rocketing along ahead of schedule uled by early fall. Give or take a few men already are beginning to deliver early this month. million, it has cost Americans about thefirst o f the completed homes to (Continued on Page 2) $117 million, reports the Associated the Air Force. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER January, 1959 Webb Bowlers Capture First-Half Trophy Webb Crews Fill Roles In Space-Age Progress (Continued from Page 1) Jack Ford, chief of operations for Webb's housing division, reported thatfirst o f the completed homes were being delivered this month at both Vandenberg AFB and the Air Force Academy. Work at Vandenberg will be com pleted by late spring, well ahead of the required completion schedule, and the 1,200 Air Force Academy homes should be completed by late summer, said Ford, which also is much sooner than required in the government's contract. One handicap it was necessary to overcome is that the new Vandenberg housing project is rather remote from any large labor pool, available hous ing facilities are virtually non-existent because of the mushrooming growth of the area, and some construction workers commute daily from Santa Barbara, 50 miles distant. Yet, at Vandenberg, where work is being pushed by Project Supt. Jack McPhee and Kim Bannister, manager of job operations, the Webb group has established a reputation of being the best-organized contractor on the HOTTEST QUINT in the Construc base, Ford reported. He said the tion League at Phoenix Thunder homes, designed by Architect Hugh bird Alleys is this Webb crew, Gibbs of Los Angeles and typical of from left, John Meeker, holding California style dwellings, also are the trophy emblematic of the rated exceptional values for their price championship for the first half of range. Del Webb's pin-topplers from the the season; John Morton, Dave Vandenberg homes are two, three Phoenix office rocketed into the first- Kauffman, Bill Warriner and Owen and four-bedroom, completely-modern half championship of the Construc Childress. residences. The Webb contract with tion "A" League at Thunderbird al opponent. That settled the first-half the Air Force also calls for complete leys in spectacular late-December tri race. site improvements, such as water, gas umphs on successive nights over their The Webb crew then put on a con and electrical distribution systems, two toughest rivals, Speed Roll Con vincing demonstration of its power. streets and walks. struction Co. and Phoenix Typewriter The second game went to the champs, Co. At the Air Force Academy, where 927-790, and the third by a 915-805 Project Supt. Fred McDowell and Op Leading the first-half chase by a margin, for a four-point sweep. Ac erations Man Dave Sanders are in single point, the Webb crew tangled tual wood for the Webb crew was charge, the modernistic style homes with second-place Speed Roll in a post 2,704 to 2V423 for Phoenix Type designed by the Chicago firm of Skid- poned match the night of Dec. 29. writer. Less handicaps, Webb won more, Owings and Merrill, Inc., blend They dropped thefirst game and the 2,686 to 2,336. with the architectural style of the new race was deadlocked. But then the Bill Warriner racked up high ser "West Point of the Air". Webb quintet turned on the power, ies of 568 with 189-204-175 against They range in size from 1,100 to won the next two games and total a 158 average, while Dave Kauffman, 1,500 square feet. All utilities, streets, pins for a 3-1 victory. with the team's low average of 153, walks, electrical distribution and Next night, in the first-half finalsrolle d 162-172-226 for a fine 560 street lighting systems, landscaping against third-place Phoenix Type series. John Morton followed with and other site improvements also are writer, the Webb team needed only 169-201-187 for a 557 series, John part of the Webb contract, with much two points to cinch the title. They Meeker chalked up 185-183-157 for of the work being performed by the won theirfirst game by 57 pins while 525, and Owen Childress toppled the largest subcontractor on the project, Speed Roll, bowling on an adjoining maple for 157-167-170 and a 494 R-P-R Construction Co., under direc alley, was dropping itsfirst t o another total. tion of Harry Rubenstein. January, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three
'lite. Qalde+t 1/ea>U Beckon: frank Murray, Veteran Estimator, Retires After 40 Years In Building Construction Cheerful, sincere, pleasant Frank A. Murray laid down his pencils and scales the other day, carefully donned his suit coat, and walked briskly out of Del Webb's Phoenix offices and into retirement. He left a void in the operations de partment staff which will be a chal lenge to fill. At 67, already a couple of years past the normal retirement date, steady-going Frank Murray decided the time had come to begin a well- earned and well-deserved rest. Be sides, he had 10 full years to his credit in the Del Webb pension and profit- sharing funds, which would provide a very substantial "nest egg" for the Golden Years. Mr. Murray spent some 14 of his more than 40 years in construction as a member of the Del E. Webb Con struction Co. "team", and during that time his pencils and his scales moved Frank Murray . . . on the job. restlessly across hundreds of sets of jobs during high school summers. A Most of his early construction work construction plans to helpfigure som e native of Richmond, Va., he attended was in the Chicago area, and at Evan- of hisfirm's biggest projects. Cornell University and the University ston, 111., where he resided. He was Mr. Murray began his building ca of Illinois, and had afling at military married in Chicago in June, 1937, and reer as a water boy on construction life during World War I. brought his wife west early in 1941, settling in Phoenix. 1 I Peculiarly enough, when he joined Del Webb's operations department, he was sent back to Chicago as chief of operations of Webb's Chicago district office, which then was supervising a coast-to-coast program of building Kraft Foods Co. warehouses. A specialist in reinforced concrete construction, Mr. Murry was returned to the Phoenix operations department when the Kraft Foods program was completed, and then occasionally joined Los Angeles personnel in figur ing projects at their office. During his construction career, Frank had served as a timekeeper, ex- peditor, labor foreman, superinten dent, estimator and operations chief. His long-time hobbies have been golf and reading detective stories. And while he still wants to keep active, Frank now has decided to forego further links activity and con A BEAUTIFUL WATCH, the gift ot Pres. Del f. Webb, was presented to centrate on reading detective stories, Frank Murray on his retirement by Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton, right. helping around the house, and travel Phoenix office manager, under whose supervision Frank has worked ing on sight-seeing and vacation since he joined Webb personnel. Mr. Ashton was in charge of the Chi jaunts with his wife, Anne. cago office when Mr. Murray was operations chief there. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER January, 1959
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F^^n ? .4 Ji ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY for Del Webb's Phoenix employees was Webb's HiwayHouse Hotels. Group held last month at the HiwayHouse Motor Hotel, where construe- cious motor hotel patio. tion personnel joined the folks from the executive offices of Del • DEL LWEBB BONUS CHECKS, amounting to four weeks salary for permanent construction personnel, were dis tributed at Phoenix and Los Angeles parties. Above, Carl Ingram receives Yule bonus from Bill Warriner, LOS ANGELES area employees pos assistant business manager at Phoenix. Los Angeles headauarters. Photo wa Page Five H in spa- S//M/LAR SENTIMENTS were expressed at Phoenix \ 5S*—ps- party in HiwayHouse banquet room by L. C. Jacob- son, executive vice-president and general manager. He predicted 1959 would be another year ot top construction achievements. A DELICIOUS BUFFET LUNCHEON climaxed the cture in front ot Webb's Christmas parties, and there were "seconds" for rt a Webb photographer. a,L 6 46663 SUN CITY LIB: JRS M MTfi 03/21/01 12 Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER January, 1959 Looking Forward To The Future: OggablsL 'flop!JacoJbAD/L ... Tkxt month, distill ... a venerable old gentleman, with and soon was deaf, apparently the a twinkle in his eye, a song in his result of sandpaper dust which dam heart, and a burning desire to keep aged his eardrums while he worked on living just for the love of life as a kid in a Wisconsin furniture fac itself. tory. Through the years of what would That's "Pop" Jacobson. be almost a normal lifetime, he has mm Arthur Christopher "Pop" Jacob- "conversed" by proffering a note pad son, Sr., that is. and patiently waiting while his lis Come February 17, he'll be 75 years tener wrote notes of reply to the ques young! And about all this spry wi tions he asked. dower asks of life is that they let him And when his son, Ronnie, was keep on reporting to his desk in the stricken as a youth with arthritis, and Operations Department at Del Webb's for 25 years lay flat on his back in Phoenix headquarters, and that oc bed, "Pop" cheerfully joined "Mom" casionally he have an opportunity to Jacobson in showering him with all escort a couple of the office secretaries the care and attention that love of a to lunch. son could ouster. And now, on the threshhold of 75, When both were gone — tireless, when most men have relegated them selfless "Mom" the victim of a sudden selves to an easy chair, "Pop" still is heart attack; Ronnie the unfortunate looking for new tasks to perform and victim of a tragic accidental fall from busying himself keeping up with the a wheel chair into which he finally galaxy of activities of the Del E. Webb had moved after amputation of his Construction Co. 'Pop' Jacobson useless legs, "Pop" may have felt Has fun . . . still traveling You can't say "Pop" Jacobson alone for a time. But the spirit to live hasn't LIVED . . . wanderers in a hobo jungle. through adversity and look on the Reared as a product of the depres But kindly, philosophical "Pop" brighter side of life which he acquired sion years of the 1890s, "Pop" Jacob- Jacobson never soured on life. He as a boy soon found "Pop" directing son had hisfirst jo b at 12, knew hun was, after all, seeing the great country his attention-to his other grown chil ger and poverty, and knew what it was in which he lived. dren, to his younger grandchildren, to associate with "tough" kids. Before And "Pop" was to pull himself up and to the great grandchildren. he ever was out of his teens he by his own bootstraps. He learned a Born in Marshfield, Wis., in 1884, knew what it was to "beat" his way trade as a carpenter when the work "Pop" wasfive whe n his mother died, from town to town seeking work, to day was 10 hours and the weekly pay and he went to live with a married sis sleep in aflop-house wher e a bed for check was $16.80. He married at 25, ter. Times were hard, but it still was the night was only a quarter, to share and thereafter never even looked for difficult for a boy of six or seven to a lard can of mulligan stew with other another girl because he knew none (Continued on Next Page) could be as sweet as the late "Mom" Jacobson. They were married 45 years before "Mom" passed on in 1954, and together they had reared a family which still is the pride and joy of "Pop" Jacobson. One of his sons is L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general I VSSti manager of Del Webb's far-flung con struction operations. Another is Arthur C, Jr., trailer park operator and quite a businessman at San Man uel in Southeastern Arizona. A daugh ter, Mrs. E. B. Brooks, resides with her family in Tucson. The eldest son, Ronnie, passed away several years ago. Life may have been exciting, but for "Pop" Jacobson life hasn't been any bed of roses. YANKEE FAN. Ever faithful booster For more than 60 years he has POPULAR? Some idea of the popu of Del Webb's world-champion lived, uncomplaining, in a world of larity of "Pop" with the office New York Yankees, "Pop" woos silence. secretaries is indicated by this Lady Luck with a rabbit's foot on He began losing his hearing at 13 photo made at the company em behalf of the Bombers. ployees' Christmas party. "Ill ^ January, 1959 THE WEBB SPJNNER Page Seven Martha Little is mighty happy to be back at her secretarial work in the Los Angeles Keglers Hold Los Angeles office after being laid low by a "strep" throat infection, flu, Third Spot; Issue Challenge and miscellaneous other complaints. Los Angeles keglers of the Del E. She necessarily missed the fun, good Webb Construction Co. are speeding along in third place among 12 teams There were the usual holiday cas food and refreshments at the L.A. of in the Building Trades League. ualties . .. fice party, so we're wishing her con Bob Fournier of the housing divi tinued good health in '59 . . . "We'll challenge any Webb team," sion had his car stolen at night from George Grantham was a guard on reported Dale Griffith, spokesman for its parking place in front of a friend's his high school basketball team, so the fellows from the shores of the Pa home — same place another of his when Santa left a basketball for his cific. They apparently were "feeling cars was stolen during the holidays a young sons, Dad escorted them Christ their oats", having just polished off year previous . . . mas morning to the court on nearby the team representing Contractor schoolgrounds for a demonstration of Robert E. McKee's Los Angeles office how the cage sport should be played. and yard in a four-point sweep which George was doing fine, until he moved them fromfifth t o third place Now that the holidays are behind switched from guard to forward and after 16 weeks of competition. us and we're beginning to get a firm "went in fast under the basket" to Current regulars on the team, and grip on the New Year, the Webb demonstrate a lay-in shot. He still their averages, are: Cecil Drinkward, Spinner extends congratulations to the doesn't know whether he netted the 134, and Bob Scheer, 126, both esti fine folks in our organization, who ball. A pebble under one foot sent mators; Ralph Boatman, Hughes job will be observing birthday anniver George sprawling, and he wound up accountant, 131; and Dale Griffith, saries in February. They include: with a painful sprained ankle.... assistant business manager, 151. Al ternates are Ed Smith, George Shaw, John Fahey, Los Angeles Feb. 1 Bob Becker, Webb official at the Bill Focht, Ed Davies and Bob John Jerry Odor, Phoenix Feb. 2 Phoenix office, welcomed to Arizona Tony Kohl, Phoenix Feb. 4 son. for theirfirst winter visit Mr. and Mrs. George Grantham, Phoenix ....Feb. 8 Ralph Wanless, whose 154 was the Carl Badenhausen of New York. He's Morris DeConinck, L.A Feb. 12 team's highest individual average, Frank Langell, Phoenix Feb. 13 chairman of the board of Ballentine has suffered bursitis in his right arm Paul Marks, Phoenix Feb. 16 Brewing Co. and, with the customary and his doctor has called a halt to his A. C. Jacobson, Sr., Phoenix ..Feb. 17 Becker brand of welcome, soon was bowling — and right after he pur Raymond C. Durham, L.A Feb. 18 "completely sold" on the Valley of chased new bowling shoes, a new ball Robert H. Johnson, L.A Feb. 26 the Sun .. . and bag. On Threshhold Of 75th Birthday, 'Pop' Jacobson Looks Forward To Many More Eventful Years (Continued from Preceding Page) during a 12-14 hour work day. In that, so I just went ahead and did it. understand the poverty that gripped 1906, at 22, he got a job with a county But I swallowed and spit up enough his own family and friends. Even as contractor, building barns and addi adobe dirt to have built me a fair- a skinny kid of 10, after the family tions to houses, and by the time he sized adobe house." doctor had prescribed cod liver oil was 25 he was contracting on his own He went on to contract and build a because he wasn't getting enough to build houses, schools, churches. number of Tucson buildings, chiefly nourishing food, there was no more One of those churches rose in Herring- schools and churches, as well as a money for such luxuries once the first ton, Kans., where only a few years couple of hundred homes. And he ex bottle was gone. previously he had been happy to find tended his construction activities to Be you boy or man, jobs were scarce a hot meal in a hobo jungle. tother communities in the southern in those days — and anything that A Kansas construction slump in and eastern part of the state. meant a weekly pay envelope got 1912-13 sent "Pop" and his family When "Pop" sufferedfinancial re "Pop's" immediate attention. As a kid westward,first t o Phoenix and then verses in the late '30s, son L. C, who he worked in a hotel for board and on to Tucson in the summer of 1914. got his start as a carpenter's helper room, later worked for 40 cents per Things were slow in Arizona then, but for his dad, came to Phoenix and 10-hour day in a furniture factory, at Tucson "Pop" found encourage talked Del Webb into a job as a time stepped up to 75 cents per day as a ment and help from an old friend, the keeper. When Webb's firm later won carpenter's helper working with his late Henry 0. Jaastad, with whom he a multi-million dollar construction dad, and at 17 was piling lumber in had worked in the Wisconsin furni contract at Fort Huachuca in South a mill drying yard on a job where by ture factory. ern Arizona, they sent word to "Pop" shrewdly contracting tbe work in Thefirst constructio n "Pop" con in Tucson and he "joined up" in the stead of accepting a salary he man tracted to perform in Tucson was re spring of 1940. aged to accumulate $100 in savings modeling of a string of adobe dwell "The rest," he says today, "is his- during one summer. ings on Stone Ave. to convert them to tory. At 21 he was working in a sawmill, stores, cutting show windows in the But, nearing that 75th birthday, wandered from there to the Kansas 12-inch adobe walls and installing he's still looking forward to living a wheatfields, thought nothing of walk glass. "Other contractors had said it lot more eventful years. And he'll al ing several miles to work and then couldn't be done, that the walls would ways be on the lookout for "the nicer operating a huge threshing machine collapse," he recalls. "I didn't know side of life." January, 1959 Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER Arizona Confab For Yankee Executives IN PHOENIX on a brief MASTER vacation and business visit this month, Gen. Mgr. George Weiss of the New York Yan kees, left, chats with Yankee Co-Owner Del Webb, tenter, and MonuAcSupt Robert A. Becker, treasurer of the (Editor's Note: This column concerning the Bombers, in front ot activities of the folks at Master Products Webb's construction Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles, a headquarters. The as subsidiary of the Del E. Webb Construction tute Weiss generally Co., is planned as a regular feature of The Webb Spinner.) Is credited with the By Laura Keller world champions' or ganizational success, A gay holiday season at Master and he and the Yankee Products started with a buffet lunch owners, Dan Topping eon which was carefully planned and and Webb, are looking successfully presented by Margaret forward to the 1959 season being one ol Puerto, head of the Index Department, the team's greatest and a 10-? ear employee. Tables were years. attractively decorated and arranged around a beautiful Christmas tree. The happy event was complete from steaming hot platters of delicious fried chicken to jolly old Saint Nick, who arrived amid a clatter of bells and the noise of tiny wheels of the tow motor. John Duran, a shipping department Volume 13 January, 1959 employee eight years, had the pleas Published by the ure of driving the merry old gent, who DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. in reality was James Giallo from the 302 South 23rd Ave. A lot of folks were taking another, Phoenix, Arizona Leather Department. admiring, and longer look this month 5101 San Fernando Road West On Santa's back was a sack full of Los Angeles, California at that pretty daughter of Howard in the interests of the personnel of its gifts and with a merry "Ho, Ho !" the and Caroline Boice (he's chief of op various projects and branch offices presents were distributed. Many pic erations at the Phoenix office). For EDITORIAL COMMITTEE tures of the group were taken by Carson Boice, a sophomore, had been Del E Webb L. C Jacobson Clarence Kremser, head of the Leather Miller rated by her classmates one of the R. A. Becker W. J Department. In parting, Mr. Hal J. Amy Jo Hafford five prettiest girls at West Phoenix Webb shook hands with all employees, EDITOR wishing each a very personal Merry High School. Jerry McLain Christmas. REPORTERS Amidst all the gaiety came a note H. G. Winston, Phoenix A C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix of sadness for all, the news of a stroke John Morton, Phoenix suffered by the wife of Harry Lawra- Dale Griffith, Los Angeles son, who has been with Master Prod sentation of the Homecoming Queen ucts eight years as head of the Screw and her attendants. And the Sophs Machine Department. Our wishes go selected petite Carson as one of the out to her for a speedy recovery. four attendants to Queen Carol Mc- Wishes for swift recovery also Crary . . . are extended to Beverly Suzza of Ac Well, our own Bill Warriner did it counting, who underwent a serious again — he succeeded in getting to major operation. Los Angeles at just the right time to grope through a "zero" daytime fog Griffith, assistant business manager saturated with acrid smog that caused at Los Angeles. Dale reports the vet automobile accidents, grounded air eran construction man is in good liners and found street traffic moving health and still bitten by the wander blindly and at a snail's pace. That was lust . . . Hank Naegeli, former Webb Dec. 9, and it was something like the accountant, was a visitor in Phoenix fifth time that Warriner, traveling from Marysville, Calif., during the periodically from Phoenix on Webb holidays . . . Hugh Mooney, former CARSON BOICE business, checked into L.A. on days job office manager, sent holiday greet One offive prettiest . . . of record smog conditions . .. ings from Ravenswood, W.Va., where The highlight of West High's home P. I. Reed, a former Webb superin he's helping build an addition to a coming game each December is pre tendent, recently paid a call on Dale Kaiser aluminum plant. Vol. 13, No. 2 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FEBRUARY, 1959 8 Pages Hiwaylnn, Newest In HiwayHouse Chain, Opens At Phoenix The newest link in the motor hotel chain of Del Webb's HiwayHouses, the trim and sparkling Hiwaylnn at Phoenix, was completed and opened in mid-February, and quickly filled with guests since Arizona's capital city is in the midst of probably its greatest winter tourist season. Featuring a newly-designed coffee shop, attractive lobby and lounge, swimming pool and children's play ground, as well as newly-designed rooms, the 60-unit Hiwaylnn is the prototype of the smaller HiwayHouse motor hostelries which the Del E. Webb Motor Hotel Co. will erect (Continued on Page 3) Webb Group To Develop \VA Acres Of Valuable RANCHERS NOW. Chicago business executive Henry Crown, left, and Phoenix contractor Del E. Webb teamed this month to purchase a multi- Phoenix Business Land million dollar Arizona ranch. Formation of a partnership to de velop a multi-million dollar office building and exclusive shops center Del Webb And Chicago's Henry Crown Team on 12% acres of valuable North Cen tral Avenue property in Phoenix has been announced by L. C. Jacobson, In $5 Million Purchase Of Arizona Ranch executive vice-president of the Del E. Phoenix newspapers announced the It was considered one of the largest Webb Construction Co. $5 million cash purchase of a 3,000- cash realty transactions in Arizona Partners in the development will acre Arizona ranch this month by Con history. be Harry and Newton Rosenzweig, tractor Del E. Webb and Chicago busi It caused something of a boom in Phoenix jewelers, and the Del E. ness executive Henry Crown, who Deer Valley land, and saw other acre Webb construction firm. owns the Empire State Building in age placed on the market within 48 Property involved is the Rosen New York, and the news caused quite hours and advertised as "adjoining zweig holdings in the 3800-4000 block a stir. Del Webb's ranch." on North Central Avenue presently They acquired the huge Arrowhead It was thefirst multi-million invest occupied by the Mirador Ballroom Ranches, Inc., in Deer Valley six miles ment in Arizona land of Mr. Crown, (formerly Sciot's Auditorium), the north of Glendale, Ariz., with its ex a close personal friend of Mr. Webb, Builders Equipment Co. and Super- pansive acreages producing oranges, who interested him in joining in the lite Builders Supply Co. The acreage grapefruit, lemons, grapes, nectarines, major ranch purchase. Crown is presi has been in the Rosenzweig family peaches and cotton. And they promptly dent and principal owner of Material 45 years. announced they intend to continue op Service Corporation of Chicago, and With land use studies and master eration of the Arrowhead properties has huge investments throughout the planning now under way, Mr. Jacob- as one of the Southwest's most suc U.S. (Continued on Page 2) cessful ranches. (Continued on Page 2) Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER February, 1959 Signing For New Careers As Farmers Webb Group To Develop Phoenix Business Center (Continued from Page 1) son said a development along the lines of New York's Rockefeller Center is planned, with four height-limit office buildings surrounding a garden patio featuring a restaurant, exclusive shops and stores. It will be known as Rosenzweig Cen ter, with each building to be individ ually named, and it will be erected and operated by the North Central De velopment Co. A consideration well in excess of $1 million in land value was involved in negotiating the partnership agree ment, according to Jacobson. Joseph T. Melczer, Jr., represented the Rosenzweigs and Ronald Klein the Del Webb group. The 12Vo acres fronts 737 feet on the west side of Central at Indianola and is regarded as thefinest unde veloped area of substantial size along what has been referred to as the "Mir acle Mile" now growing between Thomas and Indian School roads. Until land use studies are com pleted, Mr. Jacobson reported, no time schedule for construction will be set. The "center" likely will be erected in four phases to satisfy continuing de CANDIDATES FOR WRITER'S CRAMP. Stacks and stacks of legal documents required signatures at Contractor Del Webb's Phoenix headquarters thismand s for office space on North Cen month as Chicago and Phoenix attorneys wound up negotiations leading tral resulting from tremendous growth to the multi-million dollar cash purchase by Henry Crown, Chicago finanof the city. cier, Del Webb and his associates of the 3,000-acre Arrowhead Ranches, Jeweler Harry Rosenzweig recalls Inc., in Arizona's Deer Valley. Associates of Webb pictured signing are,tha t his father, the late Isaac Rosen from left: L. C. Jacobson, Webb's partner and executive vice-presidentzweig , obtained the North Central ot the building firm; J. R. Ashton, Phoenix, vice-president, and R. H. property in 1915 in an even trade for Johnson, tos Angeles, vice-president. Attorney Alan K. Stewart of the 160 acres of farm land near Liberty Webb legal staff supervises the signing. which he had homesteaded after com Del Webb And Associates Add Ranching To Varied Endeavors ing to the valley in 1897. Estimated (Continued from Page 1) Sr., of Fresno, Calif., and Carl Jarson value of the farm land at time of the swap was $7,000, Harry Rosenzweig It also was the first invest of Detroit, Mich., were the sellers. said. ment in agriculture of Mr. The Arrowhead property is located Webb and his associates, who one mile north of Bell Road and three The Rosenzweig family, then resid besides their nationwide build miles west of the Black Canyon free ing at 504 North Central Avenue, ing activities also own and op way through Deer Valley. The Webb- almost opposite the present First Na erate motor hotels, shopping Crown combine actually purchased tional Bank building, would have centers, restaurants, apart from Arrowhead Ranches 3,004 acres moved "out in the country" to its ments, a firm manufacturing plus a 4% acre industrial location on new North Central holdings had his father been able to build a home there, office equipment, major league a Santa Fe railroad spur in Glendale Harry said. But the gas company baseball, and oil and mining where thefirm's packin g and cold stor wouldn't extend its lines that far north. ventures. age plant is located. First building erected on the North Asfinal paper s were signed at Webb The ranch is considered one of the Central property was the Mirador headquarters in Phoenix, the ranch most highly improved, best main purchase was announced by L. C. Ballroom, built about 1930, and, in tained and equipped in the Southwest, Jacobson, an associate of Mr. Webb terestingly enough, constructed by Del and its packing and cold storage plant, in the transaction. Jacobson said the Webb's contracting company. Still in ranch will continue to be farmed un together with a box factory, is one of use, the ballroom was the scene for der direction of Peter Nalbandian of the newest and best equipped of its years of dances, boxing shows, meet Phoenix, who with Anthony Bianco, kind in the Salt River Valley. ings of large groups, and home shows. ^ February, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Phoenix' Newest Inn Welcomes Travelers Record Travel Business Greets Hiwaylnn Opening (Continued from Page 1) across the southern part of the nation and along the West Coast. Larger installations are planned in major cities. The Hiwaylnn, so named to avoid confusion with the larger, resort-type HiwayHouse Hotel operated by the Webb organization on the east side of Phoenix, is located on Grand Ave. at ^iarsiMf^ Spruce St., beside U.S. Highways 60- 70-89, main routes between Phoenix- Los Angeles and Phoenix and North ern Arizona communities and the Grand Canyon. THE WELCOME SIGN GOES UP at Del Webb's Hiwaylnn, Arizona's newest motor hotel which opened at Phoenix in mid-February as another fink in the HiwayHouse chain. Webb Housing Men Attend National Convention Two representatives of the Del Webb finally the actual sales program for housing division, Owen Childress and salesmen. Robert Fournier, found much of in "At various other meetings, such as terest and much to learn as they at the 'Workshop on FHA Financing,' tended last month's fast-paced and we had a preview of a new financing streamlined 15th annual convention system which will be known as the and exposition in Chicago of the Na Central Mortgage Bank and which will Tom Rittenhouse Olan Willis tional Association of Home Builders be advantageous to home builders," of the U.S. said Childress, of the Webb housing Its design is Colonial, identical They found sessions of the four-day sales andfinance department . with the parent HiwayHouse at 32nd parley concentrating on research, mer and Van Buren Sts. in Phoenix. "We also were shown how to in chandising and better business man Among its newer room features are crease profits through better manage agement, and studied hundreds of new built-in luggage racks, a full-length ment at a meeting covering all facets products, materials and equipment de mirror on each bathroom door, wall of home building from the beginning signed to help produce better homes paper designed exclusively for the purchase of land through its improve for the buying public. HiwayHouse motor hotels, recorded ment, cost estimates, construction of music and radio piped to each room, houses, and,finally, way s to attract individual air conditioning and tele buyers. vision in each room. "Exhibits included new ideas in Construction was handled by the construction, built-in kitchens, cost- Webb Company's Phoenix office, un saving installation of plumbing, and der direction of Howard E. Boice, hundreds of other housing features." chief of operations, with Tom Ritten Quite a delegation attended from house as operations man on the job Phoenix, and another group of build and Olan Willis as project superin ers from Tucson. tendent. Del Webb's second HiwayHouse in Albuquerque, N.M., now is being con They Got Their Wish structed, with Bob Fleming as project superintendent. It will be styled after The Don Wilsons — he's an Opera Owen Childress Robert Fournier the new Hiwaylnn and, including fur tions Department man at Phoenix — nishings and land, each will represent Chief interest of the Webb delegates got just what they were wishing for, an investment of more than $1 million. was in "The Million Dollar Circle," another boy ! Derrick Wilson weighed the presentation of a complete selling in at eight pounds, eight ounces when At the age of 20 we don't care what cycle from analyzing one's market to he arrived Feb. 19 at Good Samaritan the world thinks of us; at 30 we worry determining the type of house most in Hospital. He'll join Don, Mother Joan what it is thinking of us; at 40 we dis demand, designing a model, promot and Brother Donald, now 20 months, cover that it wasn't thinking of us ing the product, advertising it, and soon as he's able to go home. at all. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER February, 1959 At "Gape GatM/etal 0/ 1U» %W"; Air Force tap Homes Mushroom For Men Who Will Fire Newest Missiles With compl delivered to i multi-million dol construction pr on by Del Webl into the "home both Vandenb California and Academy near Colo. The Webb pro; calls for 1,200 Colorado base Vandenberg AF at the Air Forct the largest awan lion installatio Air Force ofiic new Academy Vandenberg their families month. Work AIR VIEWS on this page show the Capehart housing projects being erected for has been slowed officers and airmen and their families by Del Webb crews at Vandenberg Air and gale-force Force Base near Santa Barbara, Calif., now known as the "Cape Canaveral of the some damage West" because it will be the launching site for some of America's newest missiles. Capehart hous View above shows the attractive pattern created by construction of homes for by private inves officers' families on gently curving streets. Below, the big section of homes for families of enlisted men is beginning to take shape. officers and theii the mortgages b mal military Homes are with forced air dish Washers, washers and erators. Some rooms, but mt bedrooms. Co have basements Webb constru ities, curbs, drainage sy Academy pr finished and two-thirds comp is project super emy, and Jack Jack Ford, ch Webb's housii both jobs. Against the 1,200 Capeha berg base will Webb projects February, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five Housing Project For 'West Point Of The Air' Is Scene Of Teeming Activity Pouring basement and foundation walls , Dwelling in foreground is rooted and ready for ex terior siding . . . Completed single-family unit has wood paneling on exterior. Each house contains combination living and Erecting exterior walls on main floor of a single- dining room, basement, two baths, modern kitchen family unit. . . with electric dishwasher and garbage disposal. mm "Ml limr Two families of Air Force Academy officers will oc cupy this duplex. One entry to each unit is on ground floor; bedrooms on second floor front. Split-level Completing interior partitions on main floor . duplex units each have three or four bedrooms. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER February, 1959 Union Bank Project Moves Upward jbon't Shod *7U(U Picture.. . / (Sheet The Photographer) (Editor's Note: Probably the young lady never lived who would admit that any photo of herself by any camera ever actually did her justice - but that's life, and every photographer under stands. The following "tribute" to Ye Editor was penned by one of the sweet young things at the Phoenix office who recently "got in the way" of the Webb Spinner's camera.) SHUTTER-BOY Let's do a feature on the "Editor-man" The "100 per cent vested" in our Pension Plan Can you see the difference in the way he walks — Such independence! And the way he talks — Ten years or negatives he has stashed away Of innocent Webb folk at work and at play(?) Then, cautiously and slyly he sneaks his way in Looks you in the eye andflashes a grin — For lucky you! You've made the news For he's blown up the picture he's planning to use! Your blood runs cold; knees get weak Your mind won't function and You can't speak. Then You threaten, you beg, you plead, you scream Surely you'll awaken — this must be a dream. McLain's not a man a gal can trust, Just sweat it out — you know you must. OUT OF THE GROUND came con He's the cat — we're the mice struction work this month on the WHAT WE NEED IS A DOG! $5 million Union Bank which Webb crews are erecting in Beverly Hills, Calif. The block-long business cen Whether or not those March winds ter, half a square block in depth, blow, heartiest congratulations are ex will be dominated by an eight- tended by The Webb Spinner to these story office tower which will be Webb folks who will celebrate birth tallest structure in Beverly Hills. day anniversaries during that month: View above looks down on site along busy Wilshire Boulevard, Roland J. Beaulieu, across Beverly Drive intersection. Fullerton Mar. 1 Steel workers are shown at work Tom Hetherington, in photo at right, and, below, a Phoenix Mar. 2 scene of construction below street level. Neil Drinkward is Webb's Kelly Crosson, project superintendent and Appy Lompoc, Calif Mar. 4 Guizot is operations man. G. A. Murray, El Segundo, Calif Mar. 10 Mary R. Bader, Colo. Springs Mar. 12 C. T. Powers, Vandenberg AFB Mar. 17 Deaths Bring Sadness News of two deaths brought sad ness to Phoenix Webb Company folks recently. Paul F. Stern, 67, La Crosse, Wis., father of Mabel Seitz of the accounting department, passed away unexpectedly of a heart attack Jan. 23 while visit ing in Phoenix with his daughter and son-in-law, Roland Seitz. Word came from Federalsburg, Maryland, that Almira Poole, former Webb accounting department em ployee, died unexpectedly Feb. 7 of multiple sclerosis. February, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven ter, Associated General Contractors. "That guy Webb was a tremendous Roger Hafford's banking career, inter pitcher, and his heart was always in rupted by war service, includes 19 baseball... it's no wonder his Yankees years with Valley, where he now is are champions of the world" . . . senior loan officer taking care of con The George Shaws — he's ware tractors' and others' needs for money houseman at Webb's Los Angeles of in the continually expanding Arizona fice — have a new "addition" to their For the third consecutive year the economy . . . family, and they're mighty proud of folks at Del Webb's Phoenix construc February 17 proved quite an event tion headquarters went "over the top" ful 75th birthday anniversary for A. C. in the annual United Fund campaign, (Pop) Jacobson, Sr., of the Opera and the accompanying photo shows tions Department. There was a deli our own H. G. (Speedy) Winston — cious cake cut at the morning coffee who did such afine jo b in collecting break, and a bevy of secretaries hosted the funds — receiving the third-year Pop at lunch that day at the new award shingle from Kenneth W. Hiwaylnn . . . Michael of General Electric Co., Up in Vallejo, Calif., the approach newly-elected United Fund president. ing baseball season can't get going too swiftly to suit Jimmy Connick, re tired shipfitter and one of Vallejo's finest baseball players of years gone by. One of Connick's closest friends of his playing days was "... a real smart, kinda thin pitcher" named Del Webb. So Jimmy sent a congratulatory note to Webb following the Yankees' tri umph in the 1958 World Series . . . and the next thing he knew the mail man was dumping an air mail, special delivery package from New York in his lap. It contained a baseball auto graphed by every member of the world champions, a picture of the team, and a picture of his old friend auto graphed : "To Jimmy : A great short stop and a great fellow. Best wishes, Del Webb." Connick hotfooted it A Happy New American Boy down to the office of the Vallejo Times- the cute little tyke. He's John Edward Herald and Sports Editor Dave Shaw, a four-year-old Korean orphan, Beronio printed his picture with the pictured here with his new sister, Sheri Speedy Winston Accepts Award souvenirs. Then the photos were Marlene Shaw, six, who also is an framed and the ball got a place of The photo was made at the third adopted child. George flew to Port honor on his mantle-piece. "It seems Award Dinner and Annual Meeting land, Ore., recently to obtain little like only yesterday we were playing of UF on Jan. 28. Webb folks achieved Johnny with the help of Harry Holt, together in the old Alameda Winter 100 per cent participation, with an av an Oregonian who has brought 1,200 League and the Standard Oil League erage gift of $14.10, which was $2.10 Korean youngsters to the U.S. for in Richmond," Connick declared. above the 1958 average. Employees adoption. Johnny already is "pick at Navarre's, the Uptown Plaza dining ing up" some of the American lan establishment owned by Webb execu guage, learning just as would any tives, werefirst-year award winners four-year-old. And with the love and with an average gift of $12 . . . affection of the Shaws, he should grow Gene Flint of the Phoenix office up to be a fine young man . . . operations department is piloting a Donna Netz is secretary to Attorney beautiful new white Pontiac sedan . . . A. K. Stewart at Webb's Phoenix of And Robert Fournier of the housing fice, and when the new 1959 plates division, with help of police, recov arrived for the family car, what did ered that car stolen from him and she have for a prefix but AKS ... Then now is negotiating with the insurance there are a couple of cars parked each company for repair of considerable day at the Phoenix headquarters damage done by the theives . . . which carry tags with the prefix AJH, W. R. Hafford, vice-president of but neither belongs to Secretary Amy Valley National Bank at Phoenix and Jo Hafford ... a brother of Amy Jo Hafford, secre tary to Del Webb and L. C. Jacobson, received the 1959 Distinguished Serv No matter how fast a clock runs, it ice Award plaque of the Arizona chap Jimmy Connick and Prised Baseball always winds up in the same place. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER February, 1959 Sports Writers Honor 'Big Chiefs' MASTER Hollis Jewell of the Hollis Jewell Co. has been welcomed into the Mas ter Products Manufacturing family. He is the new engineering representa tive of the Aircraft Division in South ern California. Congratulations are in order for Beverly Suzza, and to her doctor, for she has recovered in record time fol lowing a major operation, and is hap pily back at her desk in the accounting department. A cordial greeting is extended to Mrs. Emma Zarookian, who recently arrived from Tehran, Iran, via the Polar route on the Scandanavian Air System for a nine months visit with AT PHOENIX DINNER. The trio pictured above may or may not have any her son, Vic Zarookian, industrial de Indian blood, but they now have Indian rugs, the gifts of sports-writersigne r in the engineering division. members of the Phoenix Press Box Association. Mgr. Casey Stengel, left, Business is calling Hal J. Webb to of the New York Yankees; Phil Harris, center, of television and radio fame, and Del E. Webb, Phoenix contractor and one of the owners of New York, and he plans a Chicago the Yankees, were among honor guests and speakers at the writers' stopover to view the International Au annual Sports Award Dinner this month. About 900 guests attended. tomotive Industrial Show on the Navy Pier. Jack Sweeny, national sales repre sentative for Master Products, sched uled a Phoenix stopover to visit Del Volume 13 February, 1959 No. 2 Webb operations there en route to the Chicago automotive industrial show Published by the DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. where he has an exhibit on display. 302 South 23rd Ave. Laura Keller of accounting is tak Phoenix, Arizona ing flying pretty seriously as a co If genial Mgr. Jim Thomason at 5101 San Fernando Road West Navarre's restaurant, the fashionable Los Angeles, California pilot for husband, Jack, on week-end Phoenix dining establishment owned in the interests of the personnel of its junkets when weather permits. Re various projects and branch offices by Webb executives, appeared to be cently, after flying over Salton Sea "popping his buttons" this month, per EDITORIAL COMMITTEE in the Southern California desert, they Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson haps he had sufficient reason. On Feb. R. A. Becker W. J. Miller headed northeast over the mountains 7 the New York Herald Tribune pub Amy Jo Hafford toward Giant Rock, where many fliers lished Writer Clementine Paddleford's EDITOR claim to have sightedflying saucers. column as "A Dinner-by-Dinner Tour Jerry McLain They didn't spot any saucers, but they of Arizona Restaurants," and she led REPORTERS did sight a wrecked plane. The cockpit off with paragraph after paragraph of H. G. Winston, Phoenix was burned, but paint and number on A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix glowing comment about her visit to John Morton, Phoenix the plane were clearly visible, and they Navarre's. She wrote, in part: "x x x Dale Griffith, Los Angeles snapped several pictures while circling Navarre's is typical of high fashion, CIRCULATION MANAGER the wreck. Back at Compton Airport so very, very French yet very, very Gladys Gage [TCJ . where Maj. Jack Keller, a member of American in that roast beef and beef Member the Civil Air Patrol, hangars his plane, International Council of steak are the big deal. We arrived Industrial Editors he reported the wrecked craft to his without reservation, a minute before superior officer, Lt. Colonel Meadors. 7, tofind th e place booked until 9:30. a dinner worth waiting for. Sirloin It was determined that it was a Cessna You could occupy spare time drink steak for two appeared as a miniature 170 which hadn't yet been reported ing in the pleasant lounge fronting a model for a world's fair building. The located. It was with heartfelt relief bar backed by growing vines fenced meat was a good four inches thick, that they subsequently learned the off from the dining area by white centered on broiling board and young man who had crashed had been grill work. We could go and come dressed to make every taste bud quiver able to make his way down the moun back, or just go. We waited, and it was tains to the nearest town. 1 Vol 14, No. 3 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MARCH, 1959 8 Pages Webb Crews Deliver Ground Radar Plant To Hughes Aircraft A giant among industrial giants in the city of Fullerton on the fringe of the mushrooming Los Angeles area is the new multi-million dollar ground systems radar manufacturing and as sembly plant which Del E. Webb Construction Co. recently completed for Hughes Aircraft Company. Out of its engineering, research and manufacturing departments will come more electronics miracles by en gineers and scientists who in recent years produced the deadly air-to-air FOR A GREAT JOB of construction safety in the building of the multi- Falcon guided missile and the complex million dollar ground radar systems manufacturing plant tor Hughes "seek-find-kill" electronicfire control Aircraft Company at Fullerton, Calif., a Certificate of Merit has beesysten m for U.S. fighter planes. presented to Del E. Webb Construction Co. by Employers Mutuals of And through the months of con Wausau, Wis. Pictured in front of new Fullerton plant, Pres. Del E. struction of the expansive new plant, Webb, second from left, receives award from Carl Parham, accident Project Supt. M. D. Stevens and his prevention manager for Employers Mutuals. Standing by are M. D. Webb crews achieved a perfect safety Stevens, left, Webb project superintendent; C. G. Shoemaker, plant record, without a lost-time accident, liaison engineer for Hughes Aircraft, and R. G. Kenson, right, Webb to win a coveted safety award from safety director. Employers Mutuals of Wausau, Wis. Yet less than six months after Outstanding Safety Record In Constructingconstructio n had been started, sec tions of the big plant were sufficiently Hughes Ground Radar Plant Brings Award complete that the first of hundreds Construction of the ground systems It was the second such award with of office workers were at their desks radar plant for Hughes Aircraft Com in nine months to Webb crews for in the new installation. And the pany without a lost-time accident has outstanding achievements in con Hughes firm now is expected to con brought to Del E. Webb Construction struction safety. Completion last year centrate a majority of its 3,500 Ful- Co. a "Certificate of Merit" from Em of the nine-story Pacific Northwest lerton-area employees in the ground systems radar headquarters, where ployers Mutuals Insurance Co. of Pipeline Corporation headquarters Wausau, Wis. (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 8) FLANKED by spacious surfaced parking area, expansive new Hughes plant at Fullerton encompasses 57 acres. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER March, 1959 TWO-STORY ENGINEERING FACILITY at Hughes' Fullerton plant has offices for engineers and scientists, a li brary and seven large laboratories. MODERN CAFETERIA which can serve 450 employees simultaneously is ENGINEERING BUILDING rose on located in this end of plant. gently-sloping site. ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLY PLANT at the ground systems radar installation connects with enainsBrl.. facility. j March, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Safety Record In Building Exceptional Achievement In Building Safety Radar Plant Brings Award (Continued from Page 1) building in Salt Lake City, Utah, without a lost-time accident brought in ffUft mp the coveted "Green Ribbon" safety award from Employers Mutuals. •£ M. D. Stevens, Webb project su i perintendent; John J. Fahey, manager lull of project operations, and other mem OF MERIT bers of their staff on the Hughes job PRESENTED TODAlb at Fullerton joined Pres. Del E. Webb and Vice-Pres. R. H. Johnson in re DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION COMPANY ceiving the award from Carl Parham, «3&*fitxcefi&ena/ o&c/uev&ment in J&ccident &hewn4£on accident prevention manager for Em in fne '6'oniiutc/icn o/'Grnunr/ ,9yi6>ml QjivMon IP&mifit < ployers Mutual. &tugAe& .jrfiieuiji"(Zoni/iamif af Sfu//«lion, ?lalifi>mia This, too, was another achievement SipA/'. MontAi in SSuMeMnp WMvut a Sotf-Sitne .9*tfu-*y in the Webb program of requiring r€om/tU/f Sporttss Writer Wants Webb's Advice On Ball Park Location Sports Writer Jack Laing of the Buffalo, N. Y. Courier-Express be lieves his city could use the advice of Contractor Del Webb in the matter of just where to build a new home port for the Buffalo Bisons baseball club. Writing in his column, "First in Sports," he says: "It seems that an invitation could be extended to a man like Del Webb, co-owner of the New York Yankees. Now, Del not only is a baseball man but a construc tion genius, as well. In fact, he's one of the best in the business x x x x . Webb is the type of man who would consider it an honor to come here ON HAND tor the safety award at the Fullerton facility was this group, and offer his sage counsel free. from left: (front row) R. G. Kenson, Webb safety director; Roland Beau "Present day stadiums run into lieu, Webb project engineer; Pres. Del Webb; John J. Fahey, Webb millions, and advice from a baseball manager of project operations; C. G. Shoemaker, plant liaison engineer man like Webb, with his valuable for Hughes; (back row) Morris DeConinck, Webb field engineer; M. D. construction background, might save Stevens, Webb project superintendent; R. H. Johnson, Webb vice-presi the city thousands and thousands of dent; Frank Kelleher, assistant project superintendent, and Robert N. dollars x x x x ." Marcum, plant engineer ot ground systems group for Hughes Aircraft. -(Photos by Baird York.) Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER March, 1959 ALREADY WINNING ACCOLADES from its guests, the new Del Webb's Hiwaylnn at Phoenix looked this month more than ever like the prototype for 60-room to 100- room motor hotels the Del E. Webb Motor Hotel Co. now is planning between the Midwest, the Far West and the Pacific Northwest. Up to mid-March it had achieved a 100 per cent occupancy record its first month of operation, assisted, of course, by Phoenix' booming winter tourist influx. Air view above shows the 60-room installa tion, built by Del E. Webb Construction Co. and located on the west side of Phoenix adjacent to U.S. Highway 60-70-89. View below looks across inn's shimmering swimming pool. BBIBSI .- • .#Mft\ r m ~' Tal %• r tilth.. '("ft'fffflmff l Roomy 3 March, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five Webb's Hiwaylnn At Phoenix Scores Hit With Travelers in at Phoenix, an eye-catcher with its slate blue and sparkling white color scheme, is newest link in HiwayHouse chain. •i W—HUB JK-- '-•- KXes -"r*- • Night Clerk Tom Burnes at the desk. Attractively-paneled, comfortably-furnished lounge offers restful retreat. s chairs upholstered in red leather. Coffee shop's paneled wall is decorated with HiwayHouse motor hotel symbols. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER March, 1959 baseball at Paradise Valley Country fiscal 1958 and remained among the Club in Phoenix early this month top 10 military prime contractors, with an old friend, Commissioner of the Department of Defense has an Baseball Ford C. Frick, who was en nounced. Total net contract awards joying a winter visit in the Valley of to Hughes Aircraft duringfiscal 1958 the Sun and looking over the Giants, climbed to $472.6 million, an in Red Sox, Cubs and Indians at their crease of approximately $82 million Operations Chief Jack Ford of the Arizona spring camps. Few days over the previous year . . . Webb housing division at Phoenix Webb men busy with the big received a phone call from his wife Capehart housing project at Van shortly before noon March 16. denberg Air Force Base in California "Jack," she asked, "will you be home had another front seat recently for for lunch?" He would, replied Jack. a new chapter in man's conquest of "That'sfine," sai d Grace Ford, "I'm outer space. The Air Forcefired a going to have a baby this afternoon!" satellite-carrying Thor missile from And she was absolutely right. Tracy Vandenberg at 1:49 p.m. Saturday, Lynn Ford, weighing in at six February 28, and subsequently an pounds, 13 ounces, arrived at 4:08 p.m. that day at St. Joseph's Hospi nounced that Discoverer 1 was the first satellite ever to be placed in a tal. She is their third daughter . . . polar orbit. . . There's a new arrival, too, in the family of John Morton, of the Phoe The Flamingo-HiwayHouse motor nix offices accounting department. hotel built by Webb crews adjacent He and wife, Ruth, are driving a to Los Angeles International Airport sporty new white and salmon pink was featured recently in a four-page Galaxie Ford sedan . . . photo and news presentation in Hotel Robert H. Johnson, vice-president Management, one of the top publica and Los Angeles manager, and Mrs. tions of the hotel and motor hotel Johnson recently flew to Florida so industry . . . Bob could attend the 40th convention W. J. (Jim) Miller, treasurer of of the Associated General Contrac the Webb constructionfirm, ha s been tors of America at Miami Beach. Dr. named treasurer of the Construction Wernher von Braun, missile expert, Information Committee of the Ari was one of the featured speakers. An zona Building Contractors Associa official for several years of the AGC tion. The committee, headed by Wil BASEBALL PALAVER Southern California Chapter, Bob Del Webb, right, chats with Ford Frick liam E. Naumann of M. M. Sundt chairmans the 17-man building com Construction Co. at Tucson, deals mittee which is a representative cross- later Webb was off to Florida to with labor problems . . . section of association members en look over the 1959 edition of his gaging in both public and private World Champion New York Yankees. work in all price ranges . . . Mr. Frick rose to the office of com Those gal bowlers from the Webb missioner in 1951 after a long career construction and HiwayHouse divi in baseball as a sports writer, radio sionsfinally hit their stride in their commentator and, from 1934 to Spring is here (at least in Phoe league at Wagon Wheel lanes in 1950, as president of the National nix), and along with the wish that Phoenix and early this month moved League.. . you'll be able to overcome that feel out front; still were deadlocked for Ethel Smith, wife of Ed Smith of ing of "spring fever," The Webb top spot when we went to press. But the Los Angeles office estimating de Spinner extends congratulations to the Webb men, after their thrilling partment, has been ailing again, these fine Webb folks who will be win of thefirst-half championshi p in we're sorry to report, and in and observing birthday anniversaries dur the Construction League at Thunder out of the hospital several times . . . ing April: bird Lanes, seem to be faltering in And the Jerry McLains almost were the second half. And they'd better ready to open up a hospital at their Marjorie Sweeney, sharpen their kegling eyes, for 'tis house this month. Pamela,five, picked Phoenix April 5 said the Webb pin topplers in San up afirst-class cas e of measles at Dolores Hixon, Phoenix April 8 Diego and Los Angeles are laying kindergarten. She wasn't any more J. C. Hopkins, Phoenix April 9 for 'em . . . than back on her feet when Susan, When they opened the new Del seven got 'em, then Jeri Lynn, three, M. T. Rigg, Webb Hiwaylnn at Phoenix last andfinally Jimmy Paul, two. Mother Colorado Springs April 10 month, among the motor hotel's first Rosanne is almost ready to open her Charles Conner, Phoenix ....April 11 guests were members of the touring own prescription pharmacy . . . Don Gray, Los Angeles April 12 Ballet Russe. They weren't long gone Hughes Aircraft Company, for Wick Blanton, Phoenix April 15 when the bewhiskered Mountain Men which Del E. Webb Construction Co. from Williams, Ariz, checked in to has completed millions in new con Don Wilson, Phoenix April 15 be on hand for the Phoenix rodeo. struction in recent years, retained Donna K. Smith, Quite a contrast. . . its No. 1 ranking as the leading pro Los Angeles April 19 Pres. Del Webb lunched and talked ducer of military electronics during J. P. Hayden, Phoenix April 21 March, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Relatives Of Two Webb Folks Taken By Death At Phoenix • * • • Death claimed relatives and an associate of Webb folks recently. Ernest P. Sauer, retired police offi It was the afternoon of Monday, cer and the father of Pearl Richard March 2, when Attorney Alan Stew PHOENIX, ARIZONA son, PBX operator and receptionist art of the Webb legal department at the Phoenix office, passed away walked into his office at Phoenix early this month after an illness of headquarters and found on his desk ALL-AMERICA CITY several months. a memo that a long-distance phone "Ernie," as he was familiarly call from San Francisco was await known to thousands of school chil ing him. He picked up the phone dren, directed traffic 12 years at one and gave the San Francisco opera of the city's busiest intersections, tor's number. There was a brief pause minir Seventh and Van Buren Streets. He and she answered. was the only police officer to receive Then, just as Alan was about to the American Legion Officer of the identify himself and ask that the Year Award because of his work with NATIONAL RECOGNITION now is caller be contacted, there was a shrill children, being honored in 1937. He being enjoyed by Arizona's capi joined the Phoenix force in 1922 and shriek on the other end of the line, tal city of Phoenix. A national retired after 22 years service, then an excited "Oh, oh, oh, oh-h-h!" jury looked at 200 American cities Then silence. during 1958 and decided that the for about 10 years after retirement Fifteen seconds later the operator people of Phoenix, through^ their served as attendance officer of Phoe was back, her voice shaking and full city government, did a fine job of nix School District No. 1. He was 68. of apology. "What's going on up keeping up with continued growth William C. Rittenhouse, 80, father there?" demanded Stewart. and continually rising demands for of Tom Rittenhouse of the Phoenix "There's been an earthquake," said municipal services. So Phoenix, office operations department, passed the terrified feminine voice. "I'll have along with only 10 other U. S. away March 8. An Arizonan since to get you another operator . . . this cities, was tabbed "All America" 1907, he at one time operated men's is the first time I've ever been in by the National Municipal League clothing stores in Kingman, Pres- and Look magazine. an earthquake!" cott, Phoenix and Williams. He be still standing. But you know that On came another operator, efficient, served as mayor, town clerk and building under construction across town councilman at Williams and cool, calm, much more collected. She the street — well, I can't even see it at one time was a Coconino County connected Alan with his party — his for the cloud of dust coming up out brother, calling from his San Fran of the building excavation!" supervisor. He was a state represen cisco downtown office. Newspapers subsequently reported tative two years. And Alan's brother was a bit it had been a long, rolling quake Hyman Rubenstein, 63, Phoenix shaken up. "There's been an — ", which alternately swelled and dimin builder and head of the Hyman Ru he began. "Yeah, I know," inter ished for more than a minute. The benstein Construction Company, the jected Alan, "an earthquake! Is University of California seismo- largest subcontractor on the Cape everythink all right?" A pause, and graphic office registered a magnitude hart housing project being handled then his brother replied, "Well, I of 5.5 on the Richter scale, and re by Webb crews at the U. S. Air Force don't know yet. Hold the line a mo ported the quake centered 65 miles Academy in Colorado, died March 6. ment and I'll look out the window." northwest of Berkeley. A son, Harry, who was associated (He was 10 stories up). Back he And it was Alan'sfirst experienc e with his father in the construction came to report: "Well, there's lots of of being "in on" an earthquake via business, is directing thefirm's resi excitement but everything seems to long distance telephone . . . dential building activities. ApMl Will Be ^Conce*. Cotdvd Month': So... Here's How To Avoid A Cancer Checkup... And Perhaps Risk Your Life COSTS TOO TOO EMBARRASSING! MUCH! 6/o» ^^^^^eof^^^^cHre^s^ing for trouble Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER March, 1959 Radar Plant Built By Webb Crews Goes Into Operation MASTER (Continued from Page 1) most of the work will be on military PiocLicJd. contracts, according to C. Harper The president of the National As Brubaker, vice-president in charge. sociation of Purchasing Agents Basically designed for engineering visited Phoenix last month, so and research, the plant has a huge journed at Del Webb's HiwayHouse, administration office section, a block- (Editor's Note: This column concerns acti and with his wife was shown around long two-story section for the basic vities of the folks at Master Products Manu facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid the grounds by Paul G. Marks, pur uses, and a spacious single-room lab iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) chasing agent for Del E. Webb Con oratory and assembly area. An ultra Confirmation has been received of struction Co. and Del E. Webb Motor modern cafeteria can serve 450 em award this spring to Master Products Hotel Co. The president, Gordon ployees simultaneously. of a government contract for produc Burt Affleck of Salt Lake City, was The plant, described as a small tion of its three-hole Master paper making his official 1959 visit to ad- "city within a city," has a 200,000 punch. gallon underground water reservoir, Clarence Kremser and wife, Louise, its own emergency power system, its recently enjoyed a week-end motor own fire house with private ambu trip to the ghost town of Calico, lo lance,fire truc k and crew. Surfaced cated between Yermo and Barstow in parking space is available for more Southern California. than 2,000 automobiles. ft was a happy birthday for James The plant's communications cen Giallo recently when his daughter and ter, big as the average home and her family motored from Bakersfield housing a fantastic maze of telephone to spend the day with him and his equipment, has 600 incoming lines wife, Vivian. and 1,600 internal lines hooked into Better days ahead are predicted for the largest switchboard in the Fuller- Harry Lawrason's wife, who recently ton area. Also located on Hughes' suffered a stroke. She now is able to 100-acre site are radar test sites and be up and about in a wheel chair. a Munson military truck course to They are looking forward to a sum test radar equipment designed and mer vacation jaunt in their house assembled at the plant. PURCHASING MEN RELAX trailer, and will be heading for wher Paul Ma rks, right, directs HiwayHouse Tour The Hughes firm now has more ever the fish are biting. than 600,000 square feet "under dress the Arizona buyers' group. He Master Products had some repre roof" in Fullerton. Military security sentatives in Tucson, Ariz., for four was introduced at the dinner meeting regulations prevent publication of by Mr. Marks, national director of days recently. The Theodore Zahns details as to what goes on inside the the Arizona association . . . visited there with son-in-law and buildings, other than it is "primarily daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew engineering and research on ad Baker. vanced radar devices and data pro You say lightning doesn't strike cessing systems." twice in the same place? Well, may As superintendent of construction, be it wasn't lightning, but it seemed Volume 13 March, 1959 Mr. Stevens had F. C. Kelleher as as to Petros Bagdasarian of Master Pro sistant superintendent, Roland Beau Published by the ducts to have the same kind of jolt. DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. lieu as job engineer and Morris De Enroute home, Petros was stopped 302 South 23rd Ave. Coninck asfield engineer . Ralph Boat for a signal when another car Phoenix, Arizona man was job accountant and Baird 5101 San Fernando Road West smashed into the rear of his auto. If Los Angeles, California York was timekeeper. that wasn't bad enough, a couple of in the interests of the personnel of its The project was under direction of weeks later it happened again, same various projects and branch offices R. H. Johnson, vice-president, and way, same results. Now Petros is won EDITORIAL COMMITTEE E. T. Davies, chief of operations of the dering how to get home without stop Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson R. A. Becker W. J. Miller Los Angeles office, with John J. Fahey ping. Amy Jo Hafford as manager of operations. EDITOR Subcontractors included: No matter what happens, there is Jerry McLain Adco Electric Co., Alcorn Fence Company, always someone who knew it would. Alta Roofing Co. of Los Angeles, Inc., M. Ar REPORTERS ganbright & Sons, California Insulation Contrac H. G. Winston, Phoenix tors. California Viking Sprinkler Co., George F. Diplomacy is letting someone else s. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix Casey Co., The Cookson Company, A. Corradini have your way. John Morton, Phoenix & Sons, H. H. Enbody & Sons, W. P. Fuller & Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Co., F. B. Gardner Co., Inc., Hiller Floor Co., San Diego, Santa Ana Elevator Co., Soule Steel Klaas Brothers, Inc., Lohman Bros., Los Angeles CIRCULATION MANAGER Co.; Millwork Co.; L. O. Hoeft ,r« HOW IT WILL LOOK on completion is shown in this drawing of new First Bank, Restaurant Started National Bank of Arizona office by Architect H. H. Green of Phoenix. In New Business Center (Continued from Page One) air-conditioned. Plans call for a high-dome lobby ceiling and 10 teller windows along a curved counter. There will be two drive-in teller windows, with provision for a third. Access to the drive-in area and the parking area will be from both Seventh Avenue and Camelback. The recently-completed Chris Gil- gian Camelback SVillage Apartments (named for Mr. Harri's mother) now are being leased. Offering a new con cept in apartment living, the units are grouped according to accommodation size. All efficiency apartments are in one building; the one bedroom apart ments in another, and so on. The larg est have three bedrooms and two RIGHT OVER THERE is where construction will begin, said Project Supt. baths. Jim Graves, behind transit, as group gathered for groundbreaking exer cises for first units of Camelback Village Square. Pictured, from left: Fred Kuentz, project manager; E. N. Holgate, executive vice-president, First National Bank of Arizona; George Kunze, former bank executive; Some of the folks in the top echelon, E. A. Hamilton, properties manager, First National; Superintendent including "The Chief" himself, will be Graves; A. B. Parsons, First National vice-president and head ot business observing birthday anniversaries dur development department; W. J. Miller, treasurer, Del E. Webb Con ing May, and to each The Webb Spin struction Co.; Chris Harri, former owner of land on which business devel ner extends warmest congratulations. opment will rise; K. H. Evans, manager ot new banking facility; George They are: C. Yates, business development department ot bank, and H. H. Green, P. J. Belmain, San Diego May 5 architect. today. I really appreciate your kind L. 0. Hoeft, Phoenix May 15 Japanese Reader Sends Thanks ness in sending me this interesting Del E. Webb, Phoenix May 17 Since a team of Japanese building paper every month. It is a pleasure to Stan Bateman, Los Angeles ...May 17 contractors visited Del Webb offices H. E. Boice, Phoenix May 20 in Phoenix three years ago this month, be able to see how the American con M. F. Chambers, Los Angeles .May 25 one of our most faithful correspon struction companies are coping with J. R. Ashton, Phoenix May 27 dents has been Sutejiro Fujisaka, the ever-increasing construction prob B. G. Armstrong, L.A May 27 managing director of Zenitaka-Gumi lems. Our engineers take great interest William Shaw, L.A May 28 Co., Ltd. general contractors in Osaka. in looking through the pages of The D. J. Kelley, Sr., L.A May 28 He recently wrote to Mr. Webb: "I Webb Spinner each month. I thank Enola Owens, Los Angeles May 29 received a copy of your Webb Spinner you very much." April, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three opener and, in effect, eliminating their northside next month. It'll be their Opening Day crowd, was reported to first real home, though they did buy have cost the club 100,000 irretriev onefive year s ago at Fairfield, Calif., able dollars). while Fred was busy on the Travis Anyway, came Sunday and suffici AFB project, chiefly because it was ently dry weather for the long-overdue impossible to rent housing at that time Contractor Del Webb got back to opener. In pre-game ceremonies Yan in that area. And for Freddie, five, the East coast for the major league kee co-owners Dan Topping and Mr. it'll be a REAL home. Moving with his openers. But after being exposed to Webb received from Maj. Gen. J. F. parents from project to project, Fred sunny Arizona and Southern Califor R. Seitz, chief of staff for the U.S. die has been told, "We're moving nia, it was fortunate for him that he First Army, a handsome plaque for again!" eight times in hisfive young took along his topcoat. the Yankees' generosities to all serv years. . . Mr. Webb was on hand with Joe icemen. And then the Bombers edged Cronin, new president of the American the Red Sox in a 3-to-2 thriller on Bob League, when Vice-Pres. Richard Turley's two-hit pitching and Norm Nixon tossed out thefirst ball at the Sieburn's 360-foot homer in the right Washington-Baltimore opener in the field bleachers in the eighth inning. nation's capital. Back in New York But everything frigid except snow next day for his world champions' chilled the 22,599 hardy fans who Yankee Stadium opener against the bundled up against the 42-degree tem Red Sox, Mr. Webb was greeted by perature. The lights came on at 3:07 rain and cold. p.m., making it, reported one writer, Following day, more of the same. "thefirst night opener in the Stadi Even the fact the Phoenix contractor um." And then, as the crowd clomped brought to the stadium Earl Warren, toward the exits on frosted feet after chief justice of the U.S. Supreme thefinal out , snow began to fall. Such Court and a long-time friend, didn't was springtime in New York the after help. As the rains came down, some noon of April 12 . . . one jokingly asked the chief justice: Olive Sheer, wife of Bob Sheer, Los Angeles office estimator and a native of England, wrote Bob early this month from England that she missed the California sunshine as the weather in England was quite reliable — either very cold, very windy or very wet, and at times a combination of all. At 7 a.m. Feb. 19 Olive and Bob re GLADYS GAGE WITH HANDBAG New Type Of Shell Game ceived a telegram informing them Olive's father was critically ill at his Gladys Gage of the Phoenix office home in England and not expected to accounting department, who's a handy live. In the matter of a few hours all gal to have around when it comes to rules, regulations, tax clearance, visa creating things, recently returned and plane reservations had been ar from a week-end junket with her hus ranged or complied with, and Olive band and friends to Rocky Point, on was on a TWA flight to New York. the Gulf of Lower California, and Arriving there at 11 o'clock that night, brought a quantity of colorful sea she quickly transferred to Pan Amer shells. Next thing we knew she came ican and arrived at the London airport to work with an attractive handbag of approximately 24 hours after leaving her own creation, covered with those Los Angeles. She then traveled by sea shells . . . train to Bish Mill, a small village in Cecil Drinkward, operations man at Devon in southwest England where the Los Angeles office, and wife have she found her father alive but still in welcomed a new addition to their critical condition. He has recovered growing family. Susan Barbara ar sufficiently to return to his home, but rived April 3 at the Huntington Mem little hope is held that his health will orial Hospital in Pasadena and she CHIEF JUSTICE WITH DEL WEBB improve, according to reports. Olive weighed 7% pounds. She joined two No Ruling From The Bench is remaining in England with her par young brothers in the Drinkward "Why don't you make a ruling that ents for the present, since it is feared household . . . we play this game?" With an upward her father's condition may worsen at The high esteem in which he's held glance, Justice Warren replied, "Oh, any time . . . by fellow employees was evident on you must get a much higher ruling Fred Kuentz, a project operations April 15 when Wick Blanton of the for that!" manager at the Phoenix office, with housing department observed another (Rain was costly for the owners, too. wife, Charlotte, and son, Freddie, will birthday — and the gals surprised him The two week-day postponements, be moving into a new Webb-built at coffee break time with a delicious forcing the Yankees into a Sunday home in North Vista on the city's birthday cake . . . THE WEBB SPINNER April, 1959 1 r • m J M IE37J ''i».~ . Plant adjacent to Del E. Webb Construction Co. in Los Angeles has been twice expanded by Del Webb crews. Light, clean, airy manufacturing department is ideally suited to production ot electronic devices tor aircraft Sales department is set up for rapid and Company emphasis on new products requires orderly processing ot letters, teletype and a large engineering staff; presently 96 of the telephone inquiries. firm's 392 employees. April, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Produces High-Quality Avionic Missile-Aircraft Gear ng is the watchword be- The engineering model shop at Electronic Specialty Co. works devices play critical roles exclusively upon developmental prototypes for engineering on. evaluation. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER April, 1959 Looking To Future, Electronic Specialty Co. Views Electronics Needs Of Homes Of Tomorrow (Continued from Page One) known as Shavex. This small device, year ending March 31, 1959, exceeded which electronically converts ordinary $4,100,000. household alternating current to direct The last quarter of 1958 proved current to improve operation of all particularly significant, for Electronic electric shavers, eventually became an Specialty was selected to design and extremely sucessful and popular prod build the antenna subsystem for the uct. World-wide distribution of Shavex triple-sonic F-108 interceptor by was achieved under Burgess' expert North American Aviation Co., merchandising guidance. Weapon System Manager. In 1952 the company expanded its The F-108 will be thefirst o f a new electronic manufacturing by creating generation of manned weapon sys- the Avionics Division to meet a de terms. No military airplane in the mand for precision electronic timers world today even approaches its per and sequencing controls for commer Pres. William H. Burgess ot Elec formance, according to Raymond H. cial and military aircraft and missiles. tronic Specialty Co. (wearing dark Rice, North American vice-president Such was the excellence of Electronic coat) believes: "You can't recruit and Los Angeles general manager. Specialty Company's products that a good man by just offering him a "The F-108 travels 2,000 m.p.h. soon such companies as Douglas Air good job. You have to offer him a and can intercept an enemy 1,000 craft, Convair, Boeing, North Ameri future. And it has to be the kind of miles from its base," he declares. "It can, Martin, Republic, Lockheed, Gen future in which his rewards are will be the first airplane in which an eral Electric and IBM were submitting going to be at least largely deter integrated antenna system will be used problems in development of new air mined by his own efforts." Thus, assets of Shavex and the instru for all communications components. borne electronic equipment. Such ment divisions were converted to cash That a small company could win an product acceptance and recognition is by sale of both divisions, the former exhaustive evaluation over five com attributed to Burgess' insistence on to Dynamics Corp. of America and peting companies which included some getting an efficient and energetic staff. the latter to Federal Telephone and of the nation's top electronics firms "We found," says the soft-spoken Radio Corp. is striking proof that small business president, "that a special breed of in Capital acquired was applied to ac plays a vital role in our defense ef dividual exists to whom growth of celerated expansion of Avionic prod fort," Mr. Rice said in commenting on this kind of company appeals more ucts — resulting in such consistently- the new work for Electronics Spe than the security of a big firm. They steady growth of Electronic Specialty cialty. have the spirit of adventure we are Co. that the Webb construction firm "The development and manufacture looking for, and welcome the oppor has of necessity twice expanded the of this important system for the Air tunity to participate in rapid growth original plant, outward and upward. Force's long-range interceptor could of our company." Since that time Electronic Specialty total several million dollars over the Just such men created a device has designed and developed innum next few years." known as the Sensitometer which erable proprietary "packages" of air Recognition of the need for a sys proved a boon to Air Force pilots borne electronic equipment for use in tems approach to develop a completely flying sleek, swept-wing F-86s in Ko aircraft and missiles of the most ad matched airborne system from the rea. After a signal to "scramble," pi vanced types. Many of these products transmitter out to the antenna and lots would sometimes have to waste have become standard equipment on from the antenna back to the receiver precious minutes before getting air missiles of Navy, Air Force and com led to the new Electronic Specialty borne, due to equipment malfunction mercial aircraft. contract. And its significance cannot as a result of low voltage. be underestimated since success of a Electronic Specialty engineers To expand its capability for com weapons system such as the F-108 tackled the problem and soon de plete systems, Electronic Specialty possesses is so greatly dependent on veloped the Sensitometer, which seeks Co. has recently acquired the Elec ability of the aircraft itself to commu out the low voltage and corrects the trical Engineering & Manufacturing nicate and to react rapidly to ground problem immediately. With Sensito- Corp. of Los Angeles, which now op communications during national meters installed, jetfighters becam e erates as the EEMCO Division of emergency operations. airborne 50 seconds from the time the E. S. For 17 years EEMCO has been A review of the earlier days of pilotflipped th e starter switch. a recognized manufacturer of high Electronic Specialty Co. is a review of In 1955 Electronic Specialty pur quality motors and actuators for mis the foresight, the abilities and the ac chased Electromec, Inc., a California siles, aircraft and space vehicles. tivities of William H. Burgess, presi corporation which had developed pro EEMCO Division operates under the dent, and the outstanding team he has prietary Avionic products, as well as general managership of Frank Gind- assembled. Burgess took over reins of thefirst "large screen" oscilloscope. roz, formerly president of EEMCO, the company in 1949 when its net After combining the widespread op and widely known for his competence worth was less than $9,000. Today its erations of seven buildings under one in this field. net worth exceeds $1,500,000. roof, Burgess decided Avionics had Inside the brick-fronted Electronic Principal production when Burgess the greatest potential for immediate Specialty structure which houses the assumed ownership was a product and long-range growth and profit. (Continued on Next Page) April, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven News In Pictures From Del Webb's HiwayHouse Motor Hotels HI, PODNER! Doc (Milburn Stone) and Kitty (Amanda Blake) of TV's top-rated "Gunsmoke" cast were welcomed to Del Webb's Hiway House by Mgr. John Lann, right, when they came to Phoenix to par ticipate in Rodeo Week. PHOENIX RODEO also attracted the colorful Bill Williams Mountain Men from the little Northern Ari zona community of Williams. And when they rode into Phoenix, trail-weary and saddle sore from six days and five nights on the trail, they quit their bedrolls for the comforts of TV and radio- equipped rooms at Del Webb's Hiwaylnn. Electronic Specialty Looks To Future In Designing Electronics Needs For Homes Of Tomorrow (Continued from Preceding Page) sistant to the president. He now directs Co. and Lear, Inc. Other divisions are assembly area, model shop, research the sales effort, and sales have climbed headed by William R. Martin, former laboratories and executive offices, 45 per cent or more annually. Too, head of the Radiating Systems Di Burgess has a staff of more than 250 he has taken over a large part of the vision at Lockheed, and Van Huck- employees. In 1955, to enable em task of recruiting manpower. When abee, for 17 years chief engineer of ployees to own a part of the company, Electronic Specialty found it more Advance Electric and Relay Co. a public offering was made of Elec profitable to combine its subminiature Electronic Specialty Co., says its tronic Specialty Co. stock, which also high performance components into forward-looking president, isn't de provided funds to expand. There now more sophisticated aircraft and mis pending only upon aircraft and mis are over 1,200 public stockholders, in siles systems, Ciscel joined the com siles for future growth. The company cluding employees, who have watched pany from RCA where he had been believes that safety, timing and sens their shares increasefive-fold in value manager of weapons systems. He has ing equipment will be mass produced during the past four years. concentrated on direction and coordi for the advanced homes of tomorrow. Working hand in hand with Burgess nation of engineering, planning and And the men of Electronic Specialty are two other members of his executive production. know that as technology moves for staff — C. Raymond Harmon and Director of engineering is W. H. ward, the electronic products that Benjamin H. Ciscel. Harmon joined Doty, formerly chief engineer of the make possible speed, reliability and the firm in 1955 as a director and as Electronics Division of Bulova Watch safety must keep pace. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER April, 1959 portant relationship to eventual efforts to put a man in space as well as to military communications, meteor MASTER ology and reconnaissance of the earth with television and photographic cam eras. Current experiments, it is fore Pnaducti Del Webb crews building Capehart cast, may lead to 10,000-pound satel homes for airmen at Vandenberg Air lites hurled aloft by Atlas intercontin Force Base in California had virtually ental missiles . . . a ringside seat again this month for a Bill Warriner, assistant business (Editor's Note: This column concerns activi couple of new chapters in the nation's manager at the Phoenix office, prob ties of the folks at Master Products Manu Space Age story — the blast-off of a ably thought he was going into orbit facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) Thor-Able missile and thefiring o f an before he reached Denver, Colo., the Master Products folks are wishing intermediate-range Thor projectile. night of April 8 en route to the Del lots of luck to Beverly Suzza's hus At 1:19 p.m. on April 13 the na band, Manuel. He just placedfirst i n tion's second Discoverer satellite the sweepstakes competition in his roared off the Vandenberg launching bowling league, and the Suzzas are pad and southward into polar orbit. planning a trip to San Jose, where Seven hours later the air force an Manuel will bowl in the state tourna nounced in Washington that studies ment next month . . . of tracking data indicated the 1,600- Eddie Newfield, who for 25 years pound satellite was traveling 17,433 has covered the Northern California miles per hour in an orbit that car territory for Master Products as sales ried it out as far as 243 miles and in representative, has been instrumental as close as 156 miles of the earth, in obtaining other well-qualified rep circling the globe every 91 minutes. resentatives for the Automotive Trade At 12:46 p.m. on April 16 a British in many states . . . Royal Air Force crew training at Van Melva Simao of the sales depart denberg to handle the Thor missiles ment has deserted apartment-living from English bases sent one of the 65- Record Snowfall Causes NATO Council for a home of her own, and expects to foot Thors rocketing upward amid a Colorado Springs Visitor Digs Out spend many a happy hour gardening large burst of yellow flame. The mis this spring with her husband ... sile, traveling at a speed of 10,000 Webb housing construction project at miles per hour, gracefully arched the Air Force Academy at Colorado received twice as much snow as nor southwest over the Pacific Ocean. Springs. The weather had been warm mal this year . . . Work on air force The Discoverer satellites hurled in Phoenix, and it had been mild in housing at Vandenberg AFB in Cali aloft from Vandenberg are designed Denver — until shortly before Bill fornia has also been interrupted this to achieve stableflight in orbiting the headed in that direction. He's gained winter by adverse weather, including earth rather than tumbling about like quite a reputation for arriving in rain and winds up to 75 mph which other satellites. And they have an im- another state and city when the locale's raked the project in mid-February ... weather is at its worst, and his plane Anyone who might have an idea set down in Denver in a snowstorm. It the Webb bowlers from the Los An was the last plane in or out of Denver geles office would be a pushover in the for a day or so. contemplated tri-city competition be Bill couldn't get to Colorado tween Phoenix, San Diego and Los Volume 13 APRIL, 1959 No. 4 Springs that night, so he bedded down Angeles offices will have another think Published by the at Del Webb's Continental Denver coming! They probably won't win the DEI E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. hostelry. Next morning a three-hour championship of the Building Trades 302 South 23rd Ave. Phoenix, Arizona automobile trip put him in Colorado League in which they compete, but 5101 San Fernando Road West Springs where he found (1) the city they unlimbered their big guns last Los Angeles, California in the interests of the personnel of its had just received its heaviest snow in month against a team sponsored by various projects and branch offices modern history, a matter of 23.3 Stolte, Inc., and rolled the season's EDITORIAL COMMITTEE inches that closed schools and many high team series and the two highest Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson business houses that day, and (2) individual games among any of the R. A. Becker W. J. Miller there was no getting to the Webb con Amy Jo Hafford 12 league teams in 26 weeks of compe struction office at the Air Force Acad tition. Their high series was 3,046; EDITOR emy that day. Jerry McLain their high games 1,047 and 1,100. In It wasn't thefirst tim e this year that action were Ralph Boatman, Ralph REPORTERS H. G. Winston, Phoenix these Webb workers couldn't report Wanless, Cecil Drinkward, Bob Sheer A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix because of snow. Same thing had hap and Dale Griffith. Sheer, a newcomer John Morton, Phoenix pened March 20. And, as an indica to the team this year, led the evening's Dale Griffith, Los Angeles tion of the hardship under which con activity with 586 scratch and a 712 CIRCULATION MANAGER struction has proceeded in the Denver- handicap series. The Webb quintet L. O. Hoeff IIC I El Member Colorado Springs area this winter, finished the evening in second place International Council of weather bureau data shows the Denver in league standings with a 63Vi-40Vi Industrial Editors and Arizona Industrial Editors area, up to the middle of April, had won-lost record . . . Vol 14, No. 5 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MAY, 1959 8 Pages Webb Crew Constructing New San Francisco Motor Hotel Missile Development Lab To Be Built, Operated By Webb Erection of a new missile development center at Tucson, An $8 million, 400-room, garden-type luxury motor Ariz., was started this month by Del E. Webb Construction hotel will be built in downtown San Francisco beginning Co. as the newest project in a current multi-million dollar in late summer by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. and it building program for Hughes Aircraft Company of Tucson then will be operated by Del E. Webb Motor Hotel Co. as and Los Angeles. a unit in Del Webb's HiwayHouse chain. The two new laboratories to rise in That announcement was made in the current project are but a stone's Fr h M r Webbai dJ M throw from the huge Hughes Aircraft Airmen Occupying Webb-Built *™ ?™ j \ guided missile plant which Webb 1 r '-- Long of Oakland at a press conference crews completed in 1951, and from Homes As Dedication Nears which drew reporters and photogra which has come the Air Force's deadly phers from all San Francisco news Falcon air-to-air guided missiles. For U.S. Air Force Academy papers, as well as radio and television representatives. Occupancy of the newest engineer (Picture on Page 6) When the $137 million U. S. Air It was front page news in all the ing laboratories is scheduled before Force Academy at Colorado Springs, metropolitan dailies. Christmas, said John W. Black, Tuc Colo., is dedicated June 3, the Del E. Principal owners will be Mr. Webb son plant manager for Hughes, and Webb Construction Co. will have its and his construction company associ an initial working force of about 375 multi-million dollar Capehart housing ates, and Mr. Long, who operates a employees probably will be expanded project for Air Force Academy men chain of drug stores in California and by 1962 to more than 500. and their families more than three- Hawaii, and owns the four-acre down R. H. Johnson, Webb vice-president fourths completed, although work town site at Eighth and Market Streets, a block from San Francisco's busy and Los Angeles manager, was on started only a year ago. hand for May 1 groundbreaking cere Civic Center. The 1,200 homes, ranging in size monies at Tucson, since his staff will Construction of the hotel will re from two to four bedrooms and mod supervise construction, as it does other move from the San Francisco scene ern in every detail, now have spread Webb building and expansion activi a bit of the city's colorful history — out through picturesque Pine and ties for Hughes on the west coast. R. G. the renowned Crystal Palace Market, Fleming is project superintendent at Douglas Valleys on the Air Force a continental marketplace with a coun Tucson. Academy site. try fair atmosphere. One of the two new laboratories First of the homes were completed Not only must the L-shaped, block- (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Six) (Continued on Page Three) MODERNISTIC MISSILE DEVELOPMENT LAB which Del Webb crew is building at Tucson, Ariz., for Howard Hugh is shown in above architect's view by John C. Lindsay ot Santa Monica, Calif. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER May, 1959 G*4f4ttU Palace 9i ^boomed: New Hotel To Rise On Site Of Historic San Francisco Marketplace Colorful Shops Gain International Fame A colorful, historic part of San Francisco, a huge "food circus" that is internationally known, will be rele gated to the history tomes when the Bay City's famed Crystal Palace Mar ket is razed within a few months to make way for the modern luxury motor hotel to be erected on its down town site by the Del E. Webb Con struction Co. A maze of concessions comprise the mammoth market at Eighth and Mar ket Streets and, while it probably is one of the busiest supermarkets in Northern California, it still offers a carnival-like atmosphere. "International" probably is the word for Crystal Palace Market, for through the years its food and drink from throughout the U.S. and as many as two score foreign countries have tempted the connoisseur. "IT'S A BEAUT," says J. M. Long ot Oakland, Calif., (left), as he delivers The story of the Crystal Palace to Contractor Del Webb the plans for swank new San Francisco motor Market is the story of San Francisco. hotel they will jointly own after it is erected by Del E. Webb Construc The shed-like Mechanics Institute Pa tion Co. vilion rose there in 1874 and was the They built what is today the Crystal toys, stationery, tobacco and liquors. home of the annual Mechanics' and Palace Market. In 1925 the market There are meat,fish an d poultry shops, Manufacturers' Fair until 1881, when passed into the hands of owners of vegetable stands, fruit stands, delica the institute moved to what now is The Emporium, and 19 years later it tessens, bakeries, candy shops, lunch Union Square. was purchased by J. M. Long of Oak counters, a sporting goods store, gro Baseball next became the magic al land, under whose guidance it since ceries, pizza, and steam beer. You can lure. The California Baseball League, has been operated. get your shoes soled during your cradle of many a big league player at Although its official address is 1175 lunch hour, have your blood pressure the end of the 19th century, was born Market Street, the market actually is recorded, or a new house key made. there, and the four acres echoed to bounded by and has entrances from Horse radish and peanut butter are the scream of baseball fans and the five streets — Mission, Market, manufactured right on the spot. explosive crack of bat against ball. Eighth, Jessie and Stevenson. It has Natives of almost every corner of But shortly after the turn of the more than 71,000 square feet of sales the world could find in the market century, insults hurled at umpires space and 55,000 square feet of park their favorite delicacies. The trans changed to hisses directed at mus ing space. Some 300 persons are em planted Norwegian, for example, who tachioed villains of old-time melo ployed in and about its 74 conces might crave Fiskeboller; the German drama. Central Park gave way to the sions. Officials are not sure how many longing for Senf Gurken, or the Lon World Theater in a city thirsting for persons have visited the giant market doner demanding Boothe's House of music and drama. Top-hatted and fur- annually, but say "it must have been Lords gin, all could be accommodated. caped San Franciscans came to see the in the millions." The big, barn-like market hasnt muscular hero save his chaste sweet In its four acres the Crystal Palace changed much in 36 years, old-timers heart in the nick of time. has for years condensed the world and there say. The earthquake and fire of 1906 much of the 20th Century into a bevy The steam beer is as tangy as it was destroyed the theater, and for the of busy counters, stalls, stands, dis in the horse-and-buggy days. Genoa next 16 years Eighth and Market was plays, racks and dispensers. But it left salami still sells as well as it did in the home of circuses, including many untouched the warm courtesy of the the '20s. So do lichee nuts from the of the "world's greatest shows." Then less hectic times, and it made just Orient, blue cheese from Denmark, two brothers with far-seeing faith in about everybody feel right at home. kipper from Norway, smoked oysters San Francisco, Oliver and Arthur Just about every food product one from Japan, chutney from India and Rosseau, bought the property, consid can name could be purchased, plus the hundreds of other zestful delica ered then "way out in the country." household accessories and appliances, cies featured at the Crystal Palace. May, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three San Francisco Hostelry News Photogs Announcement To Occupy Four-Acre Site Shoot The Works (Continued from Page One) Of New Hotel long market be razed, but a five-story On Hotel Story adjoining building also must come Gets Big Play down to clear the spacious site, largest piece of downtown San Francisco real Crystal palace J;,e fof MQM estate owned by an individual. Sail 3rranrisra.ffl)ronirlr|?TTTI Mortgage financing through Pru dential Insurance Company and in | B.6.i,..^, 3 Biffciiil^anlfranttsro ^ OUftinriafr. [iljJJ terim financing through San Fran cisco banks has been arranged, Mr. Webb told San Francisco newsmen. But both he and Mr. Long emphasized the several score Crystal Palace ten ants have several months lo vacate, and clearing of the property cannot begin until late summer. The hotel is expected to be opened for business in the summer of 1960. And the swank motor hotel will be a showplace even in the beautiful Bay City. It will have large public dining areas, including banquet, meeting and sample rooms, barber and beauty shops, offices and exclusive retail shops. Public areas will have glass mosaic, wood paneling and other dec orative treatment, with lavish use of terrazzo in coffee shops, the entry sidewalk, lobby desk, etc. Rooms, cor ridors, lobby and restaurant will be carpeted, and each room, including all guest rooms, will have individ ually-controlled year-around air con ditioning. Hotel property fronts on Market, STORY OF NEW HOTEL was big Eighth and Mission Streets, and the news prominently featured on hostelry will have ingress and egress front pages of Bay City's metro on each street. On-site parking will be politan dailies, as indicated in re available for 350 automobiles, and the productions above. hotel will be set back from each street sunken terrace will center one of these to provide not only parking spaces but twin patios, which will extend through two-way traffic on the property itself a covered terrace below the center entirely surrounding the structure. wing. Construction will be of reinforced Architectural plans were prepared concrete, with the hotel rising five by Martin Stern, Jr., A.I.A., of Bev stories at its Market Street frontage, erly Hills, who has supervised plan which overlooks the Civic Center, and ning of other Webb-owned hostelries. four stories elsewhere on the site. Mr. Long, a native of Covelo, Calif., Foundations are being designed so got his start clerking in his father's that future expansion could increase general store while attending high hotel facilities from 500 to 600 rooms, school. Today his self-service Long's extending upward thefive-story sec Drug Stores operate in California tion to 10 or 12 stories. cities from the Bay Area to the Mexi Wings extending from the Market can border, and as far distant as Hono WHEN THE PHOTOGRAPHERS from Street frontage to Mission Street will lulu. He owns office furniture stores, San Francisco newspapers took over at press conference at which be shaped like a large "W," partly en operated by James Hill and Co., Inc., new motor hotel was announced closing two garden courts, which com in San Francisco, Oakland and Palo they had a field day shooting pic bined will be more than a half acre Alto. He also is a director and on the tures of Del Webb and J. M. Long in size and will open onto Eighth executive committee of Safeway in picturesque Crystal Palace Street. A large swimming pool in a Stores. Market. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER May, 1959 AIR VIEW of downtown San Francisco. Arrow indicates location of new downtown Del Webb motor hotel at Eighth and Market Streets, adjacent to Civic Center. At upper right is one end of Golden Gate Bridge. HOTEL GUESTS will have this view of San Francisco's bustling Civic Center. Picture was made from atop four-story building on hotel site which must be razed before new construction begins. May, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five ire Famed Crystal Palace Will Give Way To New Del Webb Hote CT MARTIN STERN'S CONCEPTION of 400-room, $8,000,000 garden-type motor hotel which Del E. Webb Construction erect and Del E. Webb Motor Hotel Co. will operate on site of San Francisco's historic Crystal Palace Market. CRYSTAL PALACE MART, one of the nation's big gest and certainly most colorful food centers, is shown in two views (at left) from corner of Market and Eighth Streets (above), and across its auto parking lot from corner of Eighth and Mission Streets (below). Two in terior views (at right) show parts of the huge continental type mart, which houses more than 70 separate shops, most ly family-run busi nesses, employing some 300 persons and offering just about everything from a shoeshine or a postage stamp to pickled eels. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER May, 1959 Air Views Show Progress On Air Force Academy Housing 1 ^ V(BB|| Wffi iWB*>'**:^^ - -~£vy THE SNOWS HAD MELTED and winter had all but lost its grip on the site of Del Webb's Air Force Academy housing projects in Colorado this month. Photos above show extent of the multi-million dollar construction program to erect 1,200 modern homes for Air Force Academy families in picturesque Douglas Valley (at left) and Pine Valley (above, right). Huge Air Academy Housing ^ t^^"lLone SinticUu^ A milar Program In Final Stages , » muM-mimon doiiar cape- June seems t0 be a pretty popular ,r ,. ,( p n ) hart housing construction program is month for birthdays, and to all these (Continued from Page One) being handled by Webb crews at Van- fine Webb Company folks who will be earlier this year and several hundred denberg Air Force Base in California. observing 1958 anniversaries that already are occupied. The Academy homes range in size month, the Webb Spinner extends The pretentious Air Force Acad- from 1,100 to 1,500 square feet and congratulations: emy, already a tourist attraction and include 920 duplex and 280 single Donna Netz, Phoenix June 2 expected to be the mecca for thousands units, of which 972 are one-story and Bill Heavlin, of Colorado visitors this summer, will 228 two-story structures. Homes in- Vandenberg AFB June 4 be dedicated June 3. This will be a clude carports, concrete terraces, cer- John Meeker, Phoenix June 5 feature of June Week, when the first amic bathroom tile, storm sash, com- Hugh Kaufman, San Diego ...June 8 class in Academy history will be grad- bination storm and screened doors, George Shaw, Los Angeles ...June 10 uated. and electric dishwashers. The Webb A. K. Stewart, Phoenix June 12 Of the $136,900,000 which Con- contract includes such major features Richard Thompson, L.A June 14 gress has authorized'for the Air Force as interior utilities, streets, curbs, Eugene Parks, Culver City June 15 Academy, $132,100,000 has been gutters, surfacing, drive approaches, Charlotte Hanft, Culver City.June 15 placed under contract, according to parking areas, driveways, walks, area Apollo Guizot, Los Angeles ...June 18 Academy Construction Agency offi- grading, surface drainage, water and "eaT^ Richardson, Phoenix ...June 19 ob Fo urni er P h cials. This includes $117,300,000 for gas distribution systems, sanitary sew- ? A 1 r ' A °enix June 20 "pure construction", with the remain- ers, electrical distribution and street J?e Aubin Los Angeles . June 21 a^diS-ainritr^1150" f.^ ^-ms, storm sewers and BSSS^SSTjSS :, T. 'I " g . , drainage systems, fertilizing and grass C. Drinkward, Los Angeles .June 26 I he Del Webb project to provide planting. Dave Kauffman, Phoenix June 30 May, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Scenes Picture Start Of New Hughes Plant GROUNDBREAKING for new mis sile development center being built by Webb crew at Tucson, Ariz., tor Hughes Aircraft Com pany brought out dignitaries pic tured at right, including Robert H. Johnson (left, center), Webb vice- president and Los Angeles man ager, and John W. Black (right, center) Hughes plant manager at Tucson. R. G. (Bob) Fleming, Webb project superintendent, (extreme right) delivers groundbreaking im plements as though trying to re cruit some high-priced help. SITE CLEARING didn't even wait for ceremonies launching the project. Heavy equipment from Edward Earl's San Xavier Rock and Sand Co. is pic tured (above) rolling over the desert landscape while carpenters in foreground set up trailer field office and begin erecting a tool shed. AT RIGHT — Desert winds whipped up heavy dust clouds, but site clearing continued uninterrupted. IN MODERN trailer-type field office, Vice-President Bob Johnson confers (below, left) on site-clearing plans with Superintendent Fleming, and (below, right) Bill Warriner, assistant business manager from Del Webb's Phoenix office, chats with Horst DeBoer, project office manager. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER May, 1959 Webb Crew Building Missile Development Lab For Hughes MASTER (Continued from Page One) Pnaducti will be used to develop new models The "big ones" don't get away when of missiles and support equipment. Jim Stamatis, project superintendent Currently Hughes is producing the MoMMAc/Ufit on Webb's Clairemont housing at San GAB-3 Falcons, and the new missiles Diego, goes fishing. Jim and friends (Editor's Note: This column concerns activi may be the GAR-9, destined for future ties of the folks at Master Products Manu were fishing for yellowtail off the supersonic F108 planes. facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid Southern California coast recently iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) Larger of the two buildings will when Jim hauled in a 117-pound sea The Del Kromers recently took to contain offices as well as laboratories the hills when they found the home bass on a 20-pound test line after an for the Hughes scientists. The exterior they had purchased still was occupied exciting 45-minute battle. And he has will be modernistic in appearance. and they couldn't get in. Del packed up the family and towed their house the accompanying photo as proof. Jim trailer up to the east fork of San Ga caught a 300-pound shark last year briel Canyon, having confided to all whilefishing fo r marlin, and has long how good thefishing was there, and been after a derby-winning yellowtail. how he hoped he was going to be The biggest yellowtail he could boat pulling them in again. But on their during last year's derby was a 23- return Del admitted he was really pounder . . . happy he had packed a can opener. Speaking offishing, Chuck Conner He got pretty hungry waiting for the of the Phoenix office operations de fish to bite, and Star Kist tasted partment, got a head start on this sum mighty good even out of the can. mer's vacationers when he hied him Mary Lou Pavloff, forelady on the self down to Dade City, Fla., with his punch assembly line, is genuinely family recently for a visit with her missed by fellow employees these busy parents. He went after the bass at Lake days while she's serving the state on Okeechobee, and angled for tarpon jury duty. This is a heavy work season and other deep sea members of the for her department. finny tribe off Boca Grande Island, John Duran and wife, Teresa, spent reportingfine succes s . . . a couple of recent week-ends with her Del Webb, an avid golfer for more parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Pacias, in than 30 years, registered hisfirst hole - San Bernardino. Having helped them in-one about six months ago on the move into their new home, John says Desert Inn course at Las Vegas. Then, just the other day, he dropped another there's nothing like mixing business with pleasure. Jim Stamatis with proof . ace into the cup on the 140-yard sixth hole at Lakeside Country Club in Los There was double trouble at the Angeles, with a deft swing of a seven home of Gaspard Sossoyan when his iron. Digging divots with him were twin daughters came down with the his brother, Hal, and a close friend, measles. Then, once they recovered, Ross (The Cat) Sparks, who, inci his wife, Roxie, developed afine case. Volume 13 MAY, 19S? No. 5 dentally, witnessed Webb's Las Vegas Fellow workers are wondering if it'll Published by the hole-in-one. "I certainly can 'skin the be Frenchy's turn next. DEI E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. Cat' with those aces," the contractor Theodore Zahn and wife, Edna, re 302 South 23rd Ave. cently celebrated their 35th wedding Phoenix, Arizona declared. President Webb also made 5101 San Fernando Road West news in Roanoke, Va., recently as fea anniversary. Friends and neighbors Los Angeles, California arrived with a beautifully-decorated in the interests of the personnel of its tured speaker at the annual banquet of various projects and branch offices the 32nd annual spring congress of cake, and after the party the Zahns departed on another honeymoon trip, EDITORIAL COMMITTEE the Gill Memorial Eye, Ear and Throat Del E. Webb L. C Jacobson Hospital. He was introduced by a motoring to Phoenix and Tucson. R.A.Becker W.J.Miller long-time friend, Dr. Bayard T. Hor Want to know Zahn's secret for suc Amy Jo Hafford ton of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. cessful marriage: Never let a dis EDITOR His talk on "The Building of Cham agreement go from one day to the Jerry McLain pionship Teams", won him a tremen next! REPORTERS dous ovation . . . H. G. Winston, Phoenix highway while he was driving to work. A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix Jack McPhee, project superintend Jack was able to walk away from the John Morton, Phoenix ent on Webb's housing construction at crash. The trucker was cited . . . Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Vandenberg Air Force Base in Cali That big smile sported these days CIRCULATION MANAGER ^—-^ fornia, miraculously escaped serious by Judy Dye, secretary to Bill War L. O. Hoeft JP -Sli Member injury or death in a terrific smashup riner at the Phoenix office, is because International Council of recently when a truck unexpectedly she's infanticipating. The little one is Industrial Editors and Arizona Industrial Editors turned in front of his car on a busy expected in October. Vol. 14, No. 6 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JUNE, 1959 8 Pages Webb Co. Acquires 20,000-Acre Arizona Ranch Property Is In Path Of Growth Pattern For City Of Phoenix Purchase of the 20,000-acre Bos well ranches lying northwest and west of mushrooming Phoenix by the Del E. Webb Development Co., a wholly- owned subsidiary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co., has been announced by Executive Vice-Pres. L. C. Jacob- son. It probably was the largest finan cial exchange of agricultural property in Arizona history. Various per-acre prices paid to the J. G. Boswell Company for the 20,000 acres represented a total pur chase price of more than $20 million, according to J. R. Ashton, construc tion firm vice-president and another of Contractor Del Webb's associates in the transaction. The big ranching spread — actu TOPPED OUT. Multi-million dollar Union Bank Center being erected in ally two large farms known as the Beverly Hills, Calif., by Del Webb crews reached maximum height of Marinette and Santa Fe and a smaller eight stories late last month and was "topped out" with completion of (Continued on Page Seven) steel framework and pouring of final concrete in superstructure. Workmen 'Top Out' Excellent Safety Record In Construction Union Bank Center Webb workmen pushing toward On Atomic International Job Wins Award late-fall completion of the multi-mil Construction of office and labora Over the life of the job, almost a lion dollar Union Bank Center in tory facilities for Atomics Interna year, Project Supt. Dole Kelley's Beverly Hills, Calif., paused in their tional without a lost-time accident has crews worked without a lost-time in work the other day to gather around brought the Del E. Webb Construc jury despite hazardous and sometimes aflagpole atop the building and hoist tion Co. its third safety award within trying conditions. an American flag and the Union a year. Benjamin Kendall, Los Angeles Bank's own banner. A "Certificate of Merit" from Em manager of Employers Mutuals, pre That marked the "topping out" of ployers Mutuals Insurance Co. of sented the "Certificate of Merit" the eight-story steel and concrete Wausau, Wis., has been presented to plaque to Mr. Webb and Superinten structure, completion of the steel su Webb officials in Los Angeles for the dent Kelley at Webb west coast head perstructure and the final concrete fine safety record achieved on the quarters in Los Angeles. pour atop the building. Atomics International project in the It was another substantial boost in Among some 50 invited guests, Santa Susana mountains of Southern the Webb program of insisting upon (Continued on Page Three) California. (Continued on Page Two) Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER June, 1959 Webb Job Wins Award Building Safety Achievement Recognized For Accident Prevention (Continued from Page One) strict adherence to safety rules and practices on every project while still striving for top craftsmanship, speed and economy in building. A year ago Project Supt. Fred Mc Dowell's crew won the coveted "Green Ribbon" safety award of Employers Mutuals for erection in Salt Lake City, Utah, of a nine-story office build ing for Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. without a lost-time accident. Earlier this year Project Supt. M. D. Stevens' crew earned the "Certifi cate of Merit" from Employers Mu tuals for construction of the multi- million dollar ground radar systems manufacturing plant for Hughes Air craft Company at Fullerton, Calif., with an outstanding safety record un- marred by lost-time injuries. o EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT in construction safety has brought Del There's no doubt now that summer Webb workers another "Certificate of Merit" award. Benjamin Kendall, has arrived, and with it comes quite a Los Angeles manager of Employers Mutuals, second from right, pre sented plaque to Del E. Webb, company president, second from left; gathering of the Webb clan to cele Dole Kelley, project superintendent, left, and R. G. Kenson, Webb safety brate birthdays in July. The Webb director, right. Spinner extends anniversary congrat ulations to each of the following: D. L. Duval ,Culver City July 3 M. F. Webb, Los Angeles July 7 tt L. P. Orgovan, Culver City July 7 P Martha Little, Los Angeles ....July 9 C. L. Edwards, Phoenix July 10 Kim Bannister, Phoenix July 11 Cecil Kintzi, Culver City July 12 C. J. Daniel, San Diego July 13 OF MERIT Judy Dye, Phoenix July 17 PRESENTED TO Lloyd Pardee, Los Angeles .-..July 18 DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. R. T. White, Phoenix July 20 &in ixre/t/j'onn/ ,fJc/i<(itc»ic,i/ in Occident9'teventicn in R. A. Becker, Phoenix July 21 r1ronitu K*e *7&o4c Seat SclUf Buckle those seat belts — around yourself, that is ! That's the advice of Webb officials to company employees making use of company cars which now are uni versally equipped with the safety belts. And with the admonition about use of the belts, company officials cited the following report from Cor nell University, where thousands of accident cases have been studied. If everybody buckled on a seat belt whenever he got into an auto- bile, traffic accident injuries could be reduced by as much as 60 per cent and fatalities could be cut by a fourth or more. In one group of 1,000 accidents, it was found that 72 per cent of the persons injured suffered head in juries. Seat belts would have pre FLAG RAISING. Eight stories up, vented many of these injuries by American flag and Union Bank keeping persons from being thrown banner were hoisted by this group against steering wheels, windshields, (above) atop structure after final and instrument panels or keeping pour. From left: Morris DeConick, them from being ejected from their Bill Shaw, E. T. Davies, Pete Ren cars. teria, Jim Meyer, Fritz Danielson, According to the study, persons Appy Guizot and David Lapidus. hurled out of cars during accidents AT RIGHT - Then Union Bank offi cials served coffee and cake, and face five times greater risk of being even the workmen were invited to killed than those who aren't. join visiting dignitaries at the fes tive board. ••• Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER June, 1959 ft\> Del Webb's Newest HiwayHo# ALONG BUSY U.S. HIGHWAY 66, w/J per year, another Del Webb's Hiwayl tion is the second of the Del Webb fl, ico and center of that state's scenic at at 3200 Central Avenue S.E. in Albuq will be operated by Del E. Webb Mod ^r* r -m n "ITffT HT1 IT &* LOBBY, with tastefully-appointed furnishings, offers ROOMS are carpeted, TV-equipped, have r* , visitors a restful atmosphere. shower, built-in luggage racks, and are ju"\•:.;, June, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five tor travel totals millions of vehicles te traveling public. This new installa- Ibuquerque, largest city in New Mex- otor hotel pictured on these pages is / Del E. Webb Construction Co. and COFFEE SHOP, spacious and colorful, has booths and captain's chairs upholstered in red leather. ic at the twist of a dial, tiled bath with NIGHT VIEW shows brightly-lighted inner court, with ' eauty. swimming pool in foreground. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER June, 1959 Where 20,000-Acres Changed Owners DOCUMENTS making official the sale of the 20,000-acre Boswell Ranches near Phoenix to Del E. Webb and Associates were signed (at right) in Los Angeles. Pictured are J. G. Boswell II, (seated left) president of J. G. Boswell Com pany, and Mr. Webb, president of Del E. Webb Construction Co. Standing in background are Reg Robinson, Boswell firm secretary, and J. R. Ashton, Webb vice-presi dent. LOCATION of Boswell Ranches as related to City of Phoenix is shown in map below. Also pictured in upper right half of map (adjacent to and above Bell Road) is the Ar rowhead Ranch, another recent multi-million dollar Webb land ac quisition, and construction firm land holdings in Deer Valley north of Phoenix. June, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Webb Co. Acquires Huge Management Looks Again Into Future NeW PhOeniX Are3 LdndS What to do and where to go were questions confronting Webb execu tive and administrative personnel at spring management conference (Continued from Page One) in Phoenix last month, along with a review of accomplishments during winter months. They found their construction business and motor hotel identified as the Heading ranch — operations in healthy shape, and termed outlook bright for continued will continue to be farmed by the growth and expansion. Photos below were made during two-day parley. Boswell Company on a long-term leaseback, Mr. Ashton said. Develop ment plans of the Webb firm now are being drafted, but are not expected to affect present farming operations because the newly-acquired lands are of such magnitude, he added. J. G. Boswell II, president of the J. G. Boswell Company which has headquarters in Los Angeles, after signing final papers with Contractor Webb, emphasized his firm plans no cutback in farming operation. The Boswell Company also has been ac tively engaged in Arizona since 1927 in the cotton ginning, oil milling and commercial cattle feeding business. The Boswell purchase catapults Webb and associates into the fore front of the Arizona real estate pic ture, for they recently teamed with IN DISCUSSION pictured above, from left, clockwise, are R. A. Becker, Chicago financier Henry Crown in R. G. Kenson, H. G. Winston, E. T. Davies, J. W. Ford, Del E. Webb, L. C. the $5 million purchase of the 3,000- Jacobson and T. E. Breen. acre Arrowhead Ranches in Deer Valley northwest of Phoenix. The big agricultural venture is being operated for the Webb group by its former owners. The newest farm land acquisition was termed by Mr. Webb and Mr. Jacobson "further evidence of our faith in the future of Phoenix and the rapidly-growing Valley of the Sun." They also pointed out that, inso far as continued operation of the Bos well property is concerned, the ranch is unique in the matter of water sup ply. It not only has wells for crop water but is part of the Maricopa County Municipal Water Conserva tion District No. 1, known also as the Beardsley Water District, which has the Lake Pleasant Dam from which to draw further water supplies. The sprawling Boswell properties ANOTHER VIEW of management parley shows, from left, clockwise, Mr. lie directly in the path of the Phoenix Breen, W. J. Miller, H. E. Boice, J. R. Ashton, D. E. Griffith, T. F. Hether- northwesterly and westerly growth ington, W. A. Warriner, R. H. Johnson, Mr. Becker and Mr. Kenson. pattern. One ranch is only ten minutes Mountains near Luke Air Force Base. The North Santa Fe Ranch lies driving time from the Phoenix city Petroglyphs and old Indian ruins can north of the Litchfield road intersec limits. Actually the Boswell farms be found in some parts of the ranches. tion with U.S. 60-70-89 and for sev were larger in area than the entire The Marinette ranch lies west of eral miles parallels both sides of the city of Phoenix before its most recent Peoria and extends north-south seven Phoenix-Los Angeles highway and the land annexations. miles. It is bisected almost in its Santa Fe right-of-way. The South The new Webb properties extend, center — in the Marinette area — by Santa Fe Ranch, also served by a from a point north of Peoria, in a the busy Phoenix-Los Angeles high Santa Fe spur, lies at the western southwesterly direction through the way (U.S. 60-70-80) and by the Santa edge of the Salt River Valley north Marinette area to the White Tank Fe Railroad. west of Luke Air Force Base. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER June, 1959 Yankees. The heavy-hitting Yankees won 6-2, but nothing was at stake in the pennant race. Campy's share from M&STER the game was estimated at about $55,000, and the former Dodger catcher, incapacitated more than a puukfjctl year ago by a paralyzing automobile Kids were in the news again this accident, indicated a portion of the MtznuA&upt month, and it wasn't just because money would go to charitable pro vacation time was here again. (Editor's Note: This column concerns activi. grams of his own choosing . . . tics of the folks at Master Products Mann. Marjorie Sweeney's 15-year-old facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid son, Dean, wrote from the Boy Scout Those Los Angeles office bowlers, iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) summer camp, Geronimo, to report due to compete against Phoenix and Were they biting? They certainly that the food was good. "Fact is," he San Diego office teams for the com were for James Giallo and friends. added, "good as it is at home!" And pany championship late this month, With son Jim and two other compan while Dean wouldn't think of writing wound up their season in second ions, Giallo went deep seafishing off home for money, Mom took the hint place in their league. And Bob the coast of Hermosa Beach. They when he signed his letter, "Your ton, Scheer, in his first season on the hauled in 34 barracuda ! Dean." alleys, annexed the award for the Motoring is a pleasurable hobby, Out at the Jerry McLains every most improved bowling average. He and Beverly and Manual Suzza seem one was seeing spots before their eyes rolled 104 hisfirst night , soon had to be making the most of it. They've this month. The quartet of McLain a 121 average, boosted it by season's recently traveled to Las Vegas, Nev., youngsters had been through a winter end to 140. Dale Griffith, bowling and San Jose in Northern California. siege of measles and then five-year-old also in the Rotary League, captured Could it be they are testing their new Pamela finished the school year with the award there for the most im car? a case of chicken pox. She soon was proved average, boosting his 152 to With Jeep loaded down with camp back at play and it looked like Mother 162 .. . ing equipment and provisioned with food for several days of travel, Jack Rosanne could relax. (Remember Operations Chief Jack Ford, sitting and Laura Keller recently joined 150 when she was a secretary? I Then in his Phoenix office, took a look at others for the Jeep Cruise of the four-year-old Jeri Lynn and two-year- the May 19 reports from the Webb Sidewinders of Indio. They enjoyed old Jimmy Paul became chicken pox housing projects at Vandenberg Air rolling over the type of terrain where casualties on the same day . . . Force Base in California and the Air only four-wheel-drive vehicles would It was a night to remember when Force Academy housing project in dare to venture. the New York Yankees and the Los Colorado — and thought he was see Burning the midnight oil is what Angeles Dodgers tangled last month ing double! Although the Colorado he's been doing, reports Clarence in an exhibition honoring injured job calls for 1,200 homes and the Kremser these recent mornings he's Roy Campanella before 93.103 fans California project only 525, on the looked a bit sleepv. He and his wife, in the huge Los Angeles Coliseum. day the two May 19 reports arrived. Louise, have been collaborating with each project had completed identi the director in writing the story for cally the same number — 425 . . . a coming production of the Los An geles 8mm Movie Club. Preparing the script for shooting the movie is their current project. o Volume 13 June, 19S9 No. 6 Here Comes Bill-and Trouble! Published by the DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. Our own Bill Warriner, assistant 302 South 23rd Ave. business manager at the Phoenix of Phoenix, Arizona 5101 San Fernando Road West fice, who has a habit of showing up Los Angeles, California at the locale of Webb projects around in the interests of the personnel of its various projects and branch offices the country at about the time an EDITORIAL COMMITTEE earthquake, heat wave, cold wave or Del E. Webb L. C Jacobson deluge of rain occurs, added to his R. A. Becker Amy Jo Hafford W. J. Miller unusual "record" on a recent visit to EDITOR Colorado Springs, Colo., where the Jerry McLain company has 1,200 Air Force Aca REPORTERS demy homes under construction. H. G. Winston, Phoenix A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix Weather was fine when Bill stepped Del Webb, Roy Campanella, and John Morton, Phoenix off the plane, but that afternoon there Pres. Warren Giles of National League Dale Griffith, Los Angeles was three inches of rain ! It was the greatest crowd in the his Laura Keller, Master Products <> tory of Organized Ball. And one man who had considerable to do with ar What this country needs is more ranging the game was Del E. Webb. people raising beans and fewer people co-owner with Dan Topping of the spilling them. • t p. Vol. 14, No. 7 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JULY, 1959 8 Pages Labor Unrest Halts New Sahara Hotel Construction Webb Construction In Arizona, Nevada Includes Nevada's Tallest Building A $3% million new construction and remodeling program, including Multi-million dollar Del Webb con erection of the tallest building in Nevada, is a new project of the Del E. Webb struction projects were at a standstill Construction Co. on Hotel Sahara property in Las Vegas, ft features con this month in two states, Arizona and struction of a 14-story hi-rise addition to the fabulous "Strip" hotel, as well Nevada, because of labor unrest. as extensive remodeling, refurbishing and enlarging of all Sahara public areas. A strike-lockout of operating engi The skyscraper addition, which will neers which began June 3 in Phoenix tower over other of the glittering and quickly spread over the state had "Strip" hotels, will incorporate 204 idled work on a missile development new rooms and deluxe suites, specif center being erected by Webb crews at ically designed to double as luxurious Tucson for Hughes Aircraft Company. accommodations or hospitality rooms In Phoenix the company's housing for convention use. This will bring construction program soon suffered, Sahara accommodations to more than and completion was held up on a 600 rooms. branch office building for First Na Other features of the new construc tional Bank of Arizona because sur tion will be a coffee shop seating 300 facing of the parking area could not persons and an adjoining Old English be started. dining room on the ground level, a Plants of the Arizona Aggregate 700-person capacity convention hall, Association, ready-mix dealers, also bar and lounge, large private banquet were shut down as a result of a dis hall and general offices on the second agreement. floor and — capping the new structure and overlooking the pool and highway Under their contract expiring June — an exotic, Polynesian-styled Sky 1, operating engineers had a pay range Terrace room for dining and dancing. of $2.6iy to $3.43 an hour. Con 2 Also included in the overall plan is tractors offered them a range, by the construction of new facilities on three end of three years, of $3.19y to $4.06. 2 floors adjoining the existing main The union demanded a range, in two building at the Sahara. This will in years, of $3.31 to $4.35. clude refurbishing and enlarging the Up to early July, even the efforts of casino. Arizona Gov. Paul Fannin to assist Scheduled also for face lifting are: in getting negotiators to reach an the lobby, to be extended into the area agreement had proved fruitless. Be now housing shops; the Congo room sides the operating engineers, strikes theater restaurant, kitchen, and the were instituted June 16 by members of Casbar theater, where innovations will Sheet Metal Local 359, who handle bring an entirely new concept to GRAPES, the luscious Cardinal va installation of air conditioning equip lounge entertainment and presenta riety, came by the lug as a gift to tion. ment, and on July 8 by Tucson union Webb employees last month from plasterers. the huge harvest at the big Arrow A new shops area will be created head Ranch near Phoenix, which between the pool and the 14-story Carpenters went on strike in Nevada recently was purchased by Con towers. Modernizing touches are in mid-June and construction work tractor Del Webb and Chicago busi planned in other existing wings of the generally came to a halt. Shut down at ness executive Henry Crown. In hotel. Las Vegas was the Webb project of photo above Secretary Donna Netz Project superintendent for Webb is building a 14-story addition to Hotel displays a cluster ot the fancy M. D. Stevens, who recently com- Cardinals. For a picture story of Sahara. the Arrowhead grape harvest, see (Continued on Page 7) PagesPi 2 and 3. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER July, 1959 Stuff Dreams Are Made Of - AII Million Harvest Of Grapes A million-dollar grape harvest — a dream cherished by Pete Nalbandian since he was a youngster picking grapes in the summer heat of California's San Joaquin Valley around Fresno — looked like it might come true this month. And if it did, much of the stuff this dream was made of would come from the huge Arrowhead Ranches northwest of Phoenix which a few months ago were purchased by Contractor Del Webb and Chicago Financier Henry Crown and then leased back to Nalbandian to operate. For out of the Arrowhead vineyards by the truckload, through the busy packing plant of Arrowhead Ranches and then out of Arizona in a long string of refrigerated rail cars and trucks rolled the greatest harvest of Cardinal and Thompson Seedless grapes the ranch had ever seen. From some 900 acres, chiefly at Arrowhead, Nalbandian and a working force ranging from 800 to 1,000 which he directed, hoped to harvest and market during late June and early July the crop that would gross a million dollars. The anticipated harvest: 170,000 lugs of Cardinals; 130,000 lugs of Thompson Seedless. And the shipments were consigned not only to all parts of the U.S., but to Canada, the United Kingdom, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Singa pore, all through the East Indies, Venezuela and Central America. Not even the FIELD WORKERS harvest the grape culls were going to waste. This year they were being trucked to a winery clusters during the morning hours Nalbandian has built a few miles from the ranch. while bunches still are cool. FIELD PACKING is a feature of harvest at Arrowhead Ranch. Mobile rig designed and built by Pete Nalbandian, ranch manager, is pictured above, left. The trailer-packing shed carries 14 men who sort, cull and pack lugs of grapes as rig is towed through vineyard by truck which also takes aboard the packed lugs. Field worker is shown (above, right) delivering box of grapes to mobile rig. Where such rigs are not available, grapes are rushed by truck several miles to packing shed. BOX FACTORY at Arrowhead pack ing plant turns out boxes for field harvest and lugs for shipment ot grapes and other farm products. TOP QUALITY of the luscious Car dinal table grapes grown this year on Arrowhead Ranch is shown by •< Pete Nalbandian to J. R- Ashton, center, vice-president of Dei E. Webb Construction Co. At left is Zeke Arakelian, field super visor for Nalbandian. July, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three •SMS, flJSH br HAND SORTING. Busy packing lines at the Arrowhead packing and shipping headquarters are shown in two views above. Skilled workers hand-sort every bunch, eliminating culls before placing bunches in lugs which travel on conveyor lines to lidding machine. PACKED LUGS travel along con TEMPORARY STORAGE in cooling READY TO SHIP, crated Cardinals veyor past an inspector and room reduces temperature of are moved from cooling plant di through lidding machine in right grapes to insure shipping without rectly into railroad refrigerator foreground. spoilage. cars. ZONA REPUBtlC ££££ MCE FOR RUSS *rs Strike In 9 Counties Big Three J^ Threaten ll QUANTITY, QUALITY AND PRICE ARROWHEAD'S HARVEST of tine concern these men. Luther Hall, Cardinals is news! Ralph Camping, packing house foreman, left, Arizona Republic staff photog checks grapes in and out of pack rapher, snaps grape picture feat -.1' M*J&. *9ftx^>- ing plant. Lee Hanks, right. Arrow uring comely Sally Ann Barrie, a head's veteran manager of opera worker at Glendale packing shed. tions, keeps tab on shipments and Photo as it appeared on front page changing market prices. ot Republic is shown at right. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER July, 1959 GETTING LINED UP tor start ot the intercity Webb bowling matches in San Diego fast month. Dale Griffith, center, of the Los Angeles office team, conducts drawing tor starting lanes. HOSTS TO VISITORS, the San Diego pin topplers got things going with Capt. Jim Stamatis lead ing off. Besides the bowling, the San Diego crew had two days of entertainment planned. LOS ANGELES brought its own feminine cheer TENSE WOWj ing section, pictured above with some of the BOWLING STYLE, by Dave Kauff concluded, f Los Angeles bowlers. man of the Phoenix team. determine tl rnix ream. July, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five 7VM 'Saudi*? 7it(e 70W ^cf Scut *Diey& THE BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIP ot the Del E. Webb Construction Co. and the shiny big trophy emble matic ot that honor rest today in a Webb field office in the Claire- mont housing project at San Diego, Calif. For the Clairemont construc tion crew headed by Project Supt. Jim Stamatis bowled over all op DELICIOUS LUNCHEON was enjoyed by all hands position in recent intercity matches at the fashionable Bahia Hotel on the edge ot at San Diego, racking up a score of Mission Bay. 3,003 to turn back the Los Angeles Webbcos with their 2,902 and the Phoenix quintet with 2,854. Yet the competition actually was closer than the scores might indicate. When the last game got underway only 12 pins separated all three teams. Scenes on these pages show THERE WAS FUN at the Bahia with this old-time automobile. n r THEY WERE AFTER yellowtail, but Ed Benson and Jim Stamatis weren't having much luck when photo was made. Art Green, right, watches. SINGLES CHAMP was George Shaw, the matches left. He also teamed with Ralph DEEP SEA FISHING took Phoenix and San Diego I figured to Boatman, right, to win doubles. feffows off California coast into Mexican waters, Both are from Los Angeles. where Owen Childress hooked a barracuda. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER July, 1959 Webb Folks Strut In Centennial Roles Folks on the Del Webb housing project at the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs got into the spirit of the occasion and helped turn back the clock recently in joining other members of the Eagles Lodge in cel ebrating Colorado's "Rush To The Rockies" Centennial. And though the men may look a bit strange to their friends in the derbies, a finer bunch of dudes and their ladies you never Project Supt. Fred McDowell and Miltord Rigg, project office man saw. wife, Ollie May. ager, and wife, Ellen. Felicitations which are just as warm as the Phoenix summer weather (and nobody's complaining in our cool of fices) are extended by The Webb Spinner to these folks who will be observing birthdays in August: Fred McDowell, Colo. Springs Aug. 4 Tom Gilbreath, Colo. Springs Aug. 5 Dorothy Knight, Phoenix Aug. 7 Frank C. Kelleher, L.A Aug. 11 Dave Parker, Phoenix Aug. 12 Owen Childress, Phoenix Aug. 15 Horst DeBoer, Tucson Aug. 17 Lineup ot dudes above includes, Baird York, L.A Aug. 24 from left, Fred McDowell, Miltord Charming ladies are, from left: Jack Ford, Phoenix Aug. 26 Rigg, Tom Galbraith, and (in front) Ellen Rigg, Mary Bader, Ollie Mae R. C. Boatman, L.A Aug. 28 Joe Galbraith and LeRoy Bader. McDowell and Gertrude Galbraith. Dale Griffith 524 and Ed Smith 514. when their San Diego hosts took them Led by John Morton's 612, Phoenix on a sight-seeing tour and paused at mustered a 2,854 total with John the Webb housing projectfield offices . Meeker getting 594, Owen Childress There, on a specially-designed shelf and Bill Warriner rolling 573 and erected on the wall the day before the Dave Kauffman 502. matches, the San Diego fellows in George Shaw, who bowled under stalled their handsome team cham It was embarrassing, to say the Los Angeles colors though he wasn't pionship trophy. Accompanying photo least. But it was obvious, once the a member of the official team, captured taken by Don Wanless, son of Ralph results were tallied, that none of that the singles trophy with afine 636 , and Wanless of Los Angeles, shows the armload of trophies the Phoenix of teamed with Ralph Boatman of Los chagrin registered by Bob Sheer and fice bowlers lugged over to the inter Angeles to capture the doubles. John Owen Childress while Captain Sta city Webb bowling matches in San Morton of Phoenix had high series matis enjoys their discomfort. Diego last month was going back to on actual wood, with a 561 bolstered Phoenix. But that wasn't the last sur by a 224 game. San Diego hosts prise for either Phoenix or Los An awarded him a novel coffee travel kit. geles bowling crews, in San Diego as But when they handed out the guests of the Webb pin topplers on the trophies, the only ones which left San San Diego housing project. Diego were the three carried to Los San Diego had put together Pete Angeles by Shaw and Boatman — Melanese's 613, Raymond Durham's unless you could tab as a trophy the 609, Melvin Neilson's 603, a 592 by three-inch cup the San Diego fellows Art Green and 586 by Capt. Jim Sta presented to Capt. John Meeker of matis to total 3,003 in the handicap Phoenix for his team'sfine spiri t while competition. Los Angeles had 2,902 losing, or something like that. with Ralph Boatman scoring 632, Yet the real surprise for the Los Ralph Wanless 619, Bob Sheer.J613, Angeles and Phoenix visitors came What Has Happened To Justice? What Has Hanannitit TM In. July, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Nevada's New Hotel Sahara As Visualized By Architect TOWERING OVER LAS VEGAS will be the new 14-story hi-rise addition to Hotel Sahara now being erected by Del E. Webb Construction Co. Architect's version of remodeled and expanded "Strip" hotel is by Martin Stern, Jr., Beverly Hills. DRIVING OF PILES is an important feature ot site work (pictured above) for the new 14-story addition to Hotel Sahara in Las Vegas. But the pile-driving operation ground to a haft (at right) when beauteous Joan Adams strolled into the pit for the benefit ot Sahara's photographers. Tallest Building In Nevada Being Erected At Sahara cessful operations among the multi- million dollar "Strip" hotels, opened (Continued from Page One) Frank Kelleher is assistant superin tendent, Roland Beaulieu is project in 1952 with 200 rooms and the follow pleted the Hughes ground radar sys engineer and Jim Benson is project ing year had Webb builders double tems plant at Fullerton, Calif., and office manager. prior to that the Texaco Building on that capacity. Executive director of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Sahara, one of the most suc the hotel is Milton Prell. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER July, 1959 MASTER Piaducti With the Phoenix temperature well above the 100-degree mark even in McuudActUpi the shade and the Los Angeles weather (Editor's Note: This column concerns activi also on the warmish side, this seems ties of the folks at Master Products Manu an opportune time to tell the story facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) of the interesting background of one Welcome, welcome to Pete, Jr. of the Webb estimators at the Los He arrived at 3:54 p.m. on June 24, Angeles office. weighed in at a handsome eight Bob Sheer isn't by any means a pounds, and is the newest member of newcomer, for he's been estimating the Petros Bagdasarian family ... going on two years, but Bob isn't James Giallo and family flew to given to boasting, and probably only New York City on a vacation jaunt, his closest friends know that in his and more especially to visit his native England he cut quite a fancy mother, who's 79, and his father, figure as an ice speed skater. who's 80 years old. And before he de Learning to skate in 1946 at the parted James confided that he's going age of 16, Bob by 1950 had set a new to do some plain and fancy sightsee British record for the mile in races ing, and get hisfirst close-u p look — preliminary to the championship, in imagine this — at the Statue of Lib BOB SHEER which hefinished secon d and saw his . . . once a speed king on ice erty, Empire State Building, etc., etc. speed mark eclipsed by the winner. Steve Rega, a 17-year employee at That same year he was a member of suit he was scheduled to enter the Maste1952 r Products, is wearing a big the championship relay team. Olympic tryouts in Norway. But in smile and looking pretty proud these Following year at Bury Fen, Cam April of that year, during skating days. His son, Louie Rega of Chicago, bridge, Bob won the amateur cham club championships, he was involved with wife and two children are visit pionship of the British Empire, bet in an accident which severely injured ing Steve here. And it has been 23 tering the British record for IV2 miles a leg muscle and severed the nerve, years since father and son were to by 17 seconds, covering the distance in ending his skating career. gether . . . four minutes, 38.8 seconds. As a re- As if being a skating champion A fond farewell to Mrs. Emma wasn't enough, Bob also won medals Zarookian, who has returned to her for cycling and swimming. And, since home in Iran, flying again via the joining the Webb estimating staff, Polar route. Her son, Vic, a member Sheer engaged in his first bowling of the engineering division, is plan game, became a member of the Los ning to return her visit next year when Angeles Webb office team, and in his he goes globe trotting to Europe to do first season on the alleys won the Volume 13 July, 1959 No. 7 some architectural research ... award for the most improved bowl Published by the ing average. . . DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. Ed Davies, chief of operations, and Since we've been giving hot treat 302 South 23rd Ave. Ed Smith and Cecil Drinkward came Phoenix, Arizona ment to a cool subject, might as well 5101 San Fernando Road West to Phoenix recently to handle some relate a summer incident concerning Los Angeles, California estimating work. It was Drinkward's in the interests of the personnel of its several other of our Los Angeles folks. various projects and branch offices first visit to the Arizona capital city, yet he didn't even want to get outside EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson the air-cooled offices for a good look R. A. Becker W. J.Miller at the scenery. Fact is, the Webb Spin Amy Jo Hafford ner photographer was fortunate to EDITOR catch the trio in the shade of one of Jerry McLain of the buildings in the warehouse yard, PHOTOGRAPHER checking the thermometer. And it was Dave Parker only 111 in the shade. Still, they didn't REPORTERS have to wipe any smog out of their H. G. Winston, Phoenix A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix eyes . . . John Morton, Phoenix Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Virtue has its reward. You can Laura Keller, Master Products generally find parking space near a CIRCULATION MANAGER church. L. O. Hoeft Member I I = § c nternational Council of It takes a raft of money to keep Industrial Editors ED SMITH, CECIL DRINKWARD, ED DAVIES and Arizona Industrial Editors No Smog . . . Just Hot Figures! a family afloal these days. Vol. 13, No. 8 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, AUGUST, 1959 8 Pages New Hughes Research Building Being Completed Site of Structure Is Malibu Hillside Overlooking Pacific More millions in construction were under way this month by Del E. Webb Construction Co. crews for Hughes Aircraft Company of Culver City, Calif., which is engaged in nu clear electronics, design and manu facture of ground systems radar, air- to-air missiles and armament radar fire control systems for all-weather supersonic interceptor planes. The newest Webb project for In dustrialist Howard Hughes' far-flung operations involves several millions of dollars in work in making ready for Hughes research technicians a beautiful Y-shaped, glass-walled (Continued on Page Two) o Webb Homes Are Completed For Air Force Missile Men Because a home is something more than just a place where you hang your hat, 525 families at California's NEW MEXICO DEVELOPMENT. New 14-story office building proposed new "Cape Canaveral of the West" for Albuquerque, N. M., by Del E. Webb and Associates is portrayed by are living comfortably today in fine Albuquerque architectural firm ot Flatow, Moore, Bryan and Fairburn. new residences built by Webb crews in a multi-million dollar Capehart housing project completed early this Albuquerque Leaders Honor Builder Webb summer. Albuquerque gave a red-carpet wel motor hotels in Albuquerque, are Construction was completed ahead come to Contractor Del E. Webb when planning a 14-story concrete and steel of schedule by Project Supt. J. N. he visited the New Mexico city last office building in the 200 block on (Jack) McPhee and his crew, and month to inspect the site of a San Mateo NE. Leasing of space to they left behind what have been hailed $4,500,000 office building develop tenants is being directed by Roy P. as some of thefinest home s provided ment proposed for construction by his Drachman, Tucson, real estate rep for the military anywhere. firm. City and state officials and lead resentative for the Webb firm, who Vandenberg's Capehart homes are ing businessmen attended a luncheon also attended the Albuquerque two, three and four bedroom resi honoring him at Four Hills Country luncheon. dences comparing more than favor Club. ably in size, appearance, convenience Webb and associates, who already Contractor Webb was greeted by (Continued on Page Five) own and operate two HiwayHouse (Continued on Page Seven) Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER August, 1959 Where Hughes Scientists Will Work With Ocean-Front View RESEARCH LABORATORY tor Hughes Aircraft scientists, set high on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean and U. S. Highway 101 at Malibu, Calif., is being pushed to completion by Webb construction crews. JOBSITE SCENES. Photo at upper left shows meeting at building entrance between (left to right) R. H. John son, Webb vice-president; E. T. Davies, his chief ot operations, and Don Gray, superintendent on research building project. In picture at upper right a first-hand look at a bulldozer doing site work is taken by (from left) Ernest Lee, Los Angeles architect; Dr. Andrew Haeft, vice-president and director of research labs which will occupy new building; Mr. Johnson ot Webb firm; F. G. Granger, Hughes plant engineer at Malibu, and W. L. Daniel, head of facilities engineering for Hughes. Hughes Research Building Work Progresses seeing the project and Don Gray is Webb project superintendent. (Continued from Page One) the 92,000-square foot structure, and Other Webb crews recently com building perched on a hill overlook a water storage tank erected. pleted erection of a multi-million dol ing the Pacific Ocean at Malibu, Calif. Bulldozers have been enlarging a lar ground system radar plant for parking lot on the hillside for 450 The make-ready involves site work, Hughes at Fullerton, Calif.; now are cars and building an access road for landscaping, installation of electrical engaged in an auspicious building trucks to reach a loading dock. facilities, acoustical ceilings and con program for the Hughes interests in Work is expected to be completed struction of moveable partitions for by thefirst o f the year, according to the Culver City area, and have under laboratories and offices in the science R. H. Johnson, Los Angeles, Webb construction modernistic engineering building. A patio-dining area will be vice-president. E. T. Davies, chief of laboratories at Tucson, Ariz., to cost created, air conditioning installed in operations at Los Angeles, is over more than $2 million. August, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three old-timers around the Webb estimat ing department, and he's shown en joying his favorite avocation — watching the New York Yankees in action. Beside him is his daughter, Mrs. Martha Brooks of Tucson, Ariz., and the picture was made during a Cheerful Judy Dye, secretary to week-end vacation visit to Comisky the assistant business manager at the Park in Chicago. Pop was pretty Phoenix office, was a member of the elated when the Yankees got away to Webb feminine bowling crew com an 8-to-4 win on Friday night, but peting last season in the Free his jubilation turned to disappoint Wheelers League at Wagon Wheel ment as the White Sox won the Satur Lanes. And while they didn't win any day game and a Sunday double- championships, the five — Judy, header. Now back in Phoenix, Pop is Dolores Hixon, Marjorie Sweeney, polishing up his rabbit's foot to back Donna Netz and Mary Dalton — did the Yankees in the stretch drive. collect a trophy apiece, such as the It's another boy for the Tom one Judy displays in accompanying Breens. Tom, who is housing division photo. They rolled the season's high director at Phoenix, is mighty proud of 16-month-old Timothy Michael, hisfirstborn, and on July 20 he and wife Jacolyn welcomed Daniel Thomas Breen, weighing in at six pounds, eight ounces on arrival at St. Joseph's Hospital. 'Twas another big day for the Irish. Marjorie Sweeney, secretary to the business manager at the Phoenix office, got the scare of her life when she went home the other day and heard this story: Two of her sons, Michael, 8, and Jerry, 5, were at play when Jerry momentarily disappeared. Michael searched briefly and then summoned the housekeeper to an nounce that he couldn't find Jerry; that he thought he had heard him crying "but he sounded like he was far away." An immediate search JUDY DYE AND TROPHY She Has New Career Planned failed to locate the youngster. Then Michael walked into a storage area, team game of 750, without handicap. glanced about, and lifted the lid of a Judy now is planning to retire, at foot locker which another Sweeney least temporarily, from the bowling son, Dean, 15, had just brought home lanes and along about Sept. 1 will from scout camp. Inside was Jerry, leave her construction company job scared speechless, tears welling in in anticipation of motherhood. his eyes, and near suffocation. He The fellow in the perky baseball had opened the foot locker, mischiev cap in the accompanying picture is ously climbed in, and when the lid A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, one of the dropped the hasp fell into place and he was trapped. Rescued in the nick of time, he recovered quickly. Kathy Leonard, Phoenix office sec retary and former airline stewardess, GOING UP! A crane with a 200- is married to an airline pilot, and foot boom — so long and heavy it you might know she'd be "flying lifted the front ot its supporting high" on vacation. She had a week truck when extended — hoisted off duty last month, and she and her 40 tons of air conditioning equip ment 160 feet in the air and set hubby flew to New York for a brief it atop the new Union Bank Cen visit, down to Miami, Fla., back to ter being erected in Beverly Hills, New York, by jet airliner in five Calif., by Webb construction hours from New York to San Fran crews. These photos by Jerry cisco, then to Los Angeles, and finally Harris, Webb /ob office manager, back to Phoenix. And she was away show how it was done. Fifteen POP JACOBSON AND DAUGHTER from her home only seven days. . . lifts _ were needed for all the Only The Scores Were Disappointing equipment, and one piece weighed ten tons. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER August, 1959 Webb-Built Homes For Men Who Fire Newest U. S. Missiles ON A BROAD PLATEAU not far from the Pacific Ocean, about mid way between Los Angeles and San Francisco, workmen for Del E. Webb Construction Co. have com pleted a multi-million dollar Cape hart project of new and modern homes for officers and men at Vandenberg Air Force Base, the so-called "Cape Canaveral of the West" from which mighty missiles now are probing space to usher in the day when man will be shoot ing for the moon. The U. S. Air Force photo above shows attrac tive pattern in air view ot new VandenbergPRINCIPAL ROLEShousing. in construction of Webb housing at the Vanden berg base were handled by group pictured at right, including, from left: Lillian Orgovan, project ac countant; Capt. G. S. Ostrowski, contracting officer for the Air Force; J. N. (Jack) McPhee, Webb project superintendent; First Lt. C. D. Wright, project engineer for Air Force; Ben Masters, project supervisor for Architect Hugh Gibbs; Chuck Powers, Webb proj ect engineer, and Don Duval, Webb paymaster. August, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five Webb Homes Are Typical Residential Scenes At Vandenberg Missile Base For Air Force Missile (Continued from Page One) and excellence with civilian homes costing $15,000 to $20,000. And they are complete, even to landscaping, fenced back yards, surfaced drive ways, paved sidewalks and streets. -Ji > The homes have parquet hardwood floors. Kitchens are completely equip ped with ranges, dishwashers and re " **"••- «~zy&z- frigerators. Ceramic tile is used lavishly in baths, including tile floors, vanity tops and four-foot-high wain scot on walls. Residences are varied in exterior design, built on curved streets and on land with enough of a slope to give a terraced effect in many areas. They were designed by Hugh Gibbs, Long Beach, Calif., architect. Capehart houses are financed by private investment funds, and officers and enlisted men and their families pay off the mortgages by giving up their normal military rental allow ances. On the job with Superintendent McPhee were Kim Bannister, Phoe nix, as operations man; Chuck Powers, engineer; Cecil Kintzi, office manager; Lillian Orgovan, account ant, and Don Duval, paymaster. The project was directed by Jack Ford, Phoenix, chief of operations, and Tom Breen, manager of the Webb housing division. Vandenberg AFB, a onetime ar tillery training base located 168 miles northwest of Los Angeles, today is a 67,000 acre training and operations base for the Atlas, the Jupiter and the Thor, instruments of defense and destruction. Some 12,000 military personnel and as many as 8,000 civilians are expected eventually to be necessary to staff the installation and conduct experiments. Visits Phoenix Office Buzz Messenger of the Del Webb office staff on the Clairemont housing project at San Diego dropped in at the Phoenix office July 7, en route back to his job after a vacation jaunt with his family to visit Iowa relatives. It was his first Phoenix visit, and he did admit the weather seemed a bit warm as he drove from his cool room at Del Webb's HiwayHouse to the construction offices. Just 108 degrees, thass all! Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER August, 1959 ciates, tucked wife Emily into his Thunderbird in mid-July and headed westward for a vacation visit to Paci fic Coast spots and a week of helping Manager Bill Rigney try to keep the San Francisco Giants on top of the National League heap. The Rigneys and Thomasons are close friends, and Jim and Emily suffered right along with other San Francisco fans as the first two games they saw in Seals' Stadium went to the hotly-pursuing Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-2 and 1-0, enabling the Dodgers to pull up with in half a game of a tie. Of course, if the Giants should win the National League flag and the Yankees were to repeat for the American League crown, Jim would be in quite a sweat as to just which team to root for in the World Series. . . . Gladys Gage of the Phoenix office accounting department and hubby are proud owners of a shiny new Ford station wagon, completely equipped with air conditioning . . . Business t/e&fiurmufetke Mgr. Jim Miller is gaining quite a AT PRESS CLUB PARTY, Mary Rit bit of leisure-time experience coach tenhouse, second from right, is ing a girls Softball team on which given a "charm bracelet" decked daughter Suzie holds downfirst base. with beer cans and empty bottles. Jim had the painful experience one Tom Rittenhouse, who has super It was large enough to chain hus evening recently of having to auto vised some pretty big projects for band Tom, second from left, to the matically forfeit a game to the op Del E. Webb Construction Co. as a family hearth. At left is Esther posing team because his scrappers job engineer and operations man, Clark, Phoenix Gazette writer who emceed program honoring Mary, were on the short end of a 12-2 score stood happily the other evening in and at right is Frederic S. Mar- at the end of an early inning. Both the reflected glorv of his diminutive quardt. Press Club president. teams then continued the game on wife's achievements. She's Mary Hes Club director and is a former club sian Rittenhouse, and the occasion a practice basis, and Jim's team treasurer. wound up with a 16-15 edge . . . was her retirement — to housewifely In an editorial page salute to Mary, Speedy Winston of the accounting de duties — after almost 12 years of the Republic said, in part: "News partment is another Webb man pretty service as chief librarian for The paper librarians get little credit, in Arizona Republic and Phoenix Ga public at least, for the backstopping seriously interested in youth activi zette, the Southwest's two largest job they do. But no metropolitan ties. He has a young son, Billy, do daily newspapers. newspaper could run efficiently with ing some cracker jack pitching for one out them, and we at The Republic Mary, a native of Belle Plaine, of the boys' baseball teams. and The Gazette know how much we Minn., received a bachelor of arts Letter came to the Phoenix office owe Mary Rittenhouse and her as degree in education at the College of the other day from one of those rabid sociates. We wish her well as she St. Teresa, Winona, Minn. She taught Los Angeles baseball fans, who signed drops her scissors for a broom, and American history, English and Latin himself "New York Hater" after ad we hope she can find her pots and in a high school at Wheaton, Minn., pans as easily as she could find a vising: "Go ahead and fire Weiss! two years, then became a librarian newspaper clipping." What's stopping you? And while for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. For Mary, the future still looked you're at it, you can fire Stengel, She transferred to a similar job at pretty busy. She had not only Tom too!" And the letter, promptly de the Republic and Gazette in Phoenix and the new home to look after, but livered, was addressed simply: "Del in 1947, and subsequently met and their mischievous dachshund, Koko, Webb, Millionaire, Phoenix, Ariz." married Engineer Rittenhouse. which friends say "owns Mary and As Mary stepped down from her Tom." Koko, in Mary's absence, has role of chief librarian to devote full A sporty young man bet the town s been including in her diet such items prettiest girl a hundred dollars that time to looking after Tom and a new as shoes, books and Liberace records, she wouldn't marry him. She called Phoenix home they have built in the and even chewed up a corner of one his bet, and then he spent it for her. Camelback Mountain area, she was of the French doors in the new home. honored not only by the newspapers but at a special party given by mem Host Jim Thomason of Navarre's, The fellow who is always waiting bers of the Phoenix Press Club. She the fashionable Phoenix dining estab for something to turn up, might start was serving a third term as a Press lishment owned by Webb and asso on his own shirt sleeves. * August, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven 7teca 'THexic* ^ecuC&teArizona And Nevada Labor 3W* Suttd&i TVeU Strife Settled; Work Resumes Arizona and Nevada construction began to hum again during the last Anyone who has an idea that Pete week in July as labor strife in both Nalbandian, head man out at the big states was settled. Webb - owned Arrowhead Ranch Arizona's eight-week strike-lockout, northwest of Phoenix, could sit back estimated to have cost workers at least on his laurels and take things easy $10 million in lost wages, ended July after harvesting the huge grape crop 25 when members of Operating En pictured in last month's Webb Spin gineers Local 428 (AFL-CIO) voted ner, has another think coming. Be 697 to 120 to accept a new three-year fore Pete's pickers were out of the contract, and the state's sand, gravel, Arrowhead vineyards, other crews be cement and asphalt plants approved a gan harvesting 80 acres of potatoes similar pact, 295 to 15. and 160 acres of watermelons. By Engineers returned to work with mid-September they'll be tackling 275 pay scales ranging from $2.81 to acres of lemons, and by mid-Novem $3.68i/oa n hour, compared to $2.61% ber the harvest gets underway on 255 to $3.43 under their former agree ment which expired May 31. Wage acres of naval oranges. scales in 1960 go to a range of $3.02 Del Webb had good reason to recall to $3.96 and in 1961 to a range of his baseball-playing days when he $3,241/2 to $4.25V2. c read a story recently from the Napa, CHOOSING SIDES? New Mexico In the aggregate industry the en !. Calif., Register about an old friend, Gov. John Burroughs, left, Con gineers received a new pay range of Judge Louis D. Vasconi of the St. tractor Del E. Webb and U. S. Sen. $2.36 to $3.32 compared to an old Helena Justice Court, dean of Napa Clinton P. Anderson appear to be using the old baseball "choosing range of $2.19V to $3.09. Teamsters' Valley judges, who has occupied the 2 up sides" method of deciding who new range is $2.29 to $3.08% com b bench since 1922. The jurist had would speak first at a luncheon pared to the former $2.17 to $2.62. commented, of his youthful baseball- honoring Contractor Webb when Laborers resumed work at a range of playing days: "Del Webb used to he visited Albuquerque last month $2.24 to $3.05, compared to their old pitch for us. He was a carpenter. You to inspect site of a multi-million $2.06 to $2.45. - know he's one of the co-owners of dollar office building his firm Carpenters who went on strike in the Yankees now." In a letter of con plans to construct. Nevada in mid-June settled their dif gratulations to Judge Vasconi, Mr. ferences and were back on the job Webb wrote: " x x x I will never Del Webb Inspects Site the last week in July, enabling Webb forget when we were playing ball in crews to resume work on a multi- St. Helena. I believe Ernie Nevers Of Albuquerque Project million dollar 14-story addition to was pitching for Petaluma, and we (Continued from Page One) Hotel Sahara in Las Vegas. won, 2 to 0, on my home run in the U. S. Sen. Clinton Anderson, a long Around 29,000 workers were en sixth inning with a man on base. The time friend, and Gov. John Burroughs gaged in Arizona construction on ball went over the fence and into a of New Mexico, who declared: "We're June 3 when the statewide strike- school yard. Of course, all pitchers happy to have you in the state." Mr. lockout of 2.500 operating engineers like to talk about their hitting, but Webb said hisfirm ha s been interested began. An estimated 17,400 workers, that is one I'll never forget." . . . in Albuquerque prior to World War II, terming it "one of the great cities about 60 per cent of the industry Keith Alden, on military leave of the West." total, became unemployed. Close to from the Webb estimating and opera Senator Anderson told of 30 years 5,000 workers were estimated to have tions department at the Los Angeles of friendship with Mr. Webb, declar qualified for unemployment benefits office, reported last month to Fort ing: "He's afine individual , and we're (many out of work could not qualify), Hood, Tex., for training after com lucky to have him in this state. He'll but this meant a weekly check aver pleting his basic at Fort Ord in do a lot of things for our city." aging only $33 compared to earnings , Northern California. And, imagine When luncheon guests visited the of $121 per week for the average Keith's surprise, when he reported site of the new multi-million dollar Arizona construction worker, accord at Ord, to find himself billeted in project, a helium-filled balloon flying ing to Bruce Parkinson, director of one of the modern three-story con at 200 feet graphically illustrated the Employment Security Commis crete dormitory buildings built there height of the proposed office build sion's unemployment compensation by Webb in 1952-53. ing, which a spokesman said will be division. o the tallest such structure in Aubuquer- Arizona's labor unrest delayed steel The fellow who is always slapping que. A pretentious motor motel is a erection for a missile development you on the back does so to help you part of future planning for the site, center being erected by Webb crews swallow all he tells you. and the new office building may be at Tucson for Hughes Aircraft Com linked by walkway with a modern pany, held up completion at Phoenix When the world laughs at you, new East Central branch of First Na of a branch office building for First laugh back; it's just as funny as you tional Bank to rise on adjacent prop National Bank of Arizona, and put a are. erty. crimp in Webb housing work. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER August, 1959 MASTER Wedding Bells Ring At Las Vegas PnodUudi (Editor's Note: This column concerns activi ties of the folks at Master Products Manu facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) Vacations are the big interest cur rently among Master Products folks. Mary and Del Kromer sent their son, Cyril, happily on his way to the U. S. Naval Training Center in San Diego after he had accompanied them on a camping and fishing vacation junket to Sequoia National Park and into the Calico Mountains . . . Roxie and Gaspard Sossayan, vaca tioning in Las Vegas, happened upon Vic Zarookian quite by accident. Heard Frenchy was $25 wealthier . . . Tom and Terry Salcido collected some of the green stuff while vaca ~M tioning at Lake Tahoe and in Reno, THE NEWLYWEDS. Paul G. Marks Nev of Phoenix, veteran purchasing Antonio Ulloa, her husband and agent for Del E. Webb Construc three sons enjoyed a delightful vaca Warmest congratulations to those tion Co. and now handling buying tion while camping in Yosemite. . . . Webb folks who will be celebrating for Del E. Webb Motor Hotel Co., Don and Marian Eisenhauer and another birthday anniversary about and Mrs. Mary Beall, also of Phoe two daughters vacationed in Oregon, the time the weather begins to cool nix, were married July 23 at the and among relatives they visited were in September: Little Church of the West in Las Vegas, Nev. After a brief honey the Prestons at Albany. Portland's Fred Kuentz, Phoenix Sept. 14 moon in the Nevada entertain beautiful Centennial was quite an Joe Galbraith, Colo. Springs, Sept. 14 ment capital, they returned to event, but souvenir hunting lured Jim Stamatis, San Diego Sept. 27 Phoenix to make their home. them on to Vancouver, where Marion Patricia Behren, L. A Sept. 29 added a plate to her collection. As for fishing, though, Don says next caught a three-pound Bonita at Re- time they're going to use different dondo Beach. . . . bait. His fishing results were a dis The Theodore Zahns, who seem to appointment. . . . be in Tucson, Ariz., almost as much Volume 13 August, 1959 No. 8 Old Mexico called to the Puertos. as they do here, wended their way Published by the Margaret, her husband and their two there again, this time to vacation. DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. daughters motored to San Felipe to But they got caught, crossing the 302 South 23rd Ave. visit her great grandparents. Return desert, in a sand storm which sand Phoenix, Arizona 5101 San Fernando Road West ing, they visited the famed San Diego blasted the exterior of their Volks Los Angeles, California Zoo and took a boat trip about the wagen. . . . in the interests of the personnel of its various projects and branch offices harbor. Now they plan two weeks Clarence Kremser had a hot time of camping at Yosemite. . . . EDITORIAL COMMITTEE for awhile during a trip to Santa Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson Lake Arrowhead was the pictures Cruz with Mrs. Kremser for a vaca R. A. Becker W.J. Miller que setting chosen by the vacationing tion visit with his mother. They came Amy Jo Hafford Karusch and Sonia Oganesian, for upon a fire near the highway which EDITOR Jerry McLain his hobby is scenic photography. . . . was getting out of control in a hurry. Albert Holling and family motored PHOTOGRAPHER Clarence went into action with an Dave Parker into Northern California to visit rela extinguisher he carries in his car for REPORTERS tives at Gilroy and San Jose, then emergencies. Now he and Smoky the H. G. Winston, Phoenix headed for Allan Rock Park, which Bear are the best of friends. . . . A. C. (Pop} Jacobson, Phoenix John Morton, Phoenix Albert claims is the ideal spot for Otsie Coring is hardly enjoying a Dale Griffith, Los Angeles relaxing. . . . vacation he is spending in a hospital Laura Keller, Master Products Katherine Kasareff was among the undergoing an operation for ulcers. ^STfev CIRCULATION MANAGER "stay at homes" this summer, but Many heartfelt get-well wishes go out «*E2sk L. O. Hoeft r1 BUIIMI p Member says she enjoyed herself doing some to him from his many friends at \\^ls§V / International Council of gardening and going fishing. She Master Products. . . . ^d^L^y Industrial Editors ^-JS£^ and Arizona Industrial Editors Vol. 13, No. 9 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SEPTEMBER, 1959 8 Pages Arizona Retirement Community Is Webb Project Crashing Glass Homes, Shops, Golf Course Included In And Brick... Town Near Phoenix * * <• (Additional Stories, Page 2) National attention is expected to be focused this fall on an Arizona MUFFLED THUDS of a wrecker's retirement community which Del E. steel ball sounded the knell this Webb Construction Co. now is build month for San Francisco's famed ing for the nation's senior citizens. Crystal Palace Market, and photo Based on 4Va years of research and at right shows 2,500-pound bat planned as a model for the entire U.S., tering ram demolishing walls of the new community already is taking five-story building. On the down town site at Eighth and Market shape beside U. S. Highway 60-70-89 streets an $8 million Del Webb's three miles west of Peoria and a half TowneHouse motor hotel will be mile west of Marinette, Ariz. This is erected by Webb construction approximately 20 minutes driving crews. time from the Phoenix city limits. •0- * * The multi-million dollar project is the first phase in development by Webb of 20,000 acres recently ac sfttd /¥ Police ^ced V* IRucUuf quired from Boswell Farms northwest and west of Phoenix, it was an nounced by L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager. Site preparation has been underway almost two months, and footings of thefirst homes were being poured in mid-September. A name for the new town is yet to' be selected. Overall planning already calls for more than 1,600 homes. The first segment now under construction includes 555 homes which with site and other improvements, including land, will represent an investment of more than $6,500,000. Thefirst nin e holes of an 18-hole golf course have been constructed and seeded, and will be ready for play in December. Land for the second nine holes has been set aside and they will be built next year. The links will be open for public play, with residents of the retirement community enjoying reduced fees. THE OLD GIVES WAY FOR THE NEW. Devoid of its long-familiar booths All other recreational features, also of palatable delicacies and homewares, the Crystal Palace Market lay in the throes ot demolition after workmen moved in to demolish the to be completed in December, will be building for progress. (Continued on Page 6) Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER September, 1959 Retirement Town Planning In Brief Having researched and analyzed retirement communities from Florida to California, and having established that Arizona trails only those two states in percentage increase of resi dents in the retirement category, Webb officials who now are pushing construction of a model retirement city propose to: 1. Build a complete community for BESIDE LAGOON which meanders around golf course, John Meeker, senior citizens who, though retired or operations manager for Webb retirement community project, discusses semi-retired, still are comparatively tree planting with Art Diener, greens superintendent of golf links. young and seeking a place to live in a community which will provide the Overcoming Problem Of Inactivity Is Goal Of Builders facilities necessary to enjoy their "privileged" years. Exclusively for Emphasizing that their Arizona re "Such independence," says Mr. such senior citizens, the new com tirement community planning is for Breen, "means the privilege of doing munity will offer a "way of life" as the active retiree rather than the in what they want, when they want, and suring privacy that goes with inde firm who might be dependent upon with whomever they want. Many re pendence, while eliminating the prob others, Webb builders say their re tirees enjoy the company of younger lem of mixing conflicting living pat search has established "that the big people and children, yet in our sur terns. gest single problem facing retirees veys we frequently heard the com 2. Build top-quality masonry homes today is inactivity." ment: T have reared my own children priced at $8,000 to $11,500, includ Making recreation and hobby fa and don't care to rear someone else's.' "In the average community there ing, the builders are convinced, the cilities readily available in their new only $9,000 home in America border community, with an advisory board certainly is no way of controlling the ing the grassy fairways of a regulation of town leaders to administer them age bracket of our neighbors or the golf course. Houses will vary from and an activities director to assist, number of their children. This we can two-bedroom and one bath with 900 will meet the problem of inactivity, control, thus avoiding the problem of square feet of liveable area to three the developers believe. mixing conflicting living patterns and, bedrooms with two baths and 1,200 The shopping center will include in many cases, forcing social contacts square feet of living area. space for retail outlets for products that actually constitute for our senior made within the community, which citizens an invasion of privacy. 3. Build — and have in operation takes such activities out of the hobby "The approach to design of our for thefirst resident s — commercial, class and makes them constructive. community is governed by privacy medical, and recreational facilities. Because community recreational for the home owners, economy in from a championship full-scale golf facilities now being built will be pro housing prices, and activity oppor course to a large community center vided by the developers and operated tunities for residents. We believe with kitchen facilities, stage, dressing by a non-profit corporation, eventual senior citizens in our community will areas and equipment for club meet residents of the new community will retain their independence and indi ings, general gatherings and social be relieved of the tax burden normally viduality through interest and activity functions; from a fully-enclosed, required to build and maintain such of their own choosing. Olympic-size swimming pool with facilities. "To promote common interest and bathhouse and dressing facilities, "As a result of our nationwide re insure their privacy, this community pool-side table areas and covered search," says Tom Breen, director of will be restricted to the people for patios, to an activity center incorpor the Webb housing division, "we con whom it was exclusively designed — ating completely-equipped woodwork sider the warm, dry climate of Ari the active retirees. It will be composed ing shop, ceramic shop, sewing room zona most ideally suited for our mainly of single-family residences de and lapidary shop; from a park and purpose. We have selected a site ap signed to meet the particular needs recreational center to include picnic proximately 20 minutes driving time and desires of a particular society. from the Phoenix city limits — close areas and archery, shuffleboard, horse The election to come and go at will enough to be convenient, yet far shoe and croquet courts, to an agri is in no way impaired, but the prob enough to be a separate and distinct cultural center for growing of prize lem of mixing conflicting living pat community." flowers, vegetables and small crops, terns of youngsters is eliminated. And, The "way of life" promised senior as well as breeding of prize livestock. citizens emphasizes independence for with all this, the retirees need not men and women who have reached an suffer a loss of identity or a loss of When it comes to the seven wonders entirely new social strata after their independence in moving from a large of the world, there are some politi places in normal community life have home, bigger than they need, to a cians in Washington who think they been taken over by others on their smaller home designed specifically for are all of them. retirement. their individual renuirements." ^ September, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Government: Employer Of Seven Million Americans (Editor's Note: Because Col. Henry Crown of Colonel Crown became chairman of Chicago, a nationally-known business execu tive, industrialist and investor, now is asso the board of Material Service Corpor ciated with Contractor Del E. Webb in owner ation in 1941, after 20 years as presi ship of multi-million dollar Arizona farming interests, the Webb Spinner reprints on this dent of that building materials com page a Chicago Tribune Forum article by Mr. pany. A native of Chicago, he has Crown which it is believed will interest our widely diversified business interests, readers.) By Henry Crown include real estate (chairman of New If you went around the nation ask York's huge Empire State Building ing your fellow Americans whom Corporation, vice-president of the far- they worked for, what answer would flung Hilton Hotels chain, director of you hear the oftenest? The telephone the Waldorf Astoria, etc.); transpor company, perhaps? Or the automobile tation (director of the Hertz corpora and steel industry? No, neither of tion), and such commodities as coal these. At least one working man or (chairman, Freeman Coal Mining woman out of every seven, you would Corporation), and sugar (director, Ji find, would answer, "The govern West Indies Sugar Corporation). In ment." civic affairs Colonel Crown is a direc According to the bureau of labor tor of Evanston Hospital, a trustee statistics, more than seven million of Illinois Institute of Technology, Americans now work for some kind DePaul University, and Syracuse Uni of government agency, either federal, versity, a member of the Mayor's state or local. The number has been Chicago Building Commission, and rising fast — for example, by more Henry Crown a director of the Chicago Boys' Clubs. than a million in thefirst si x years of this decade. private industry only to discover that We must make ability the prime "The government" is our biggest two of his co-workers, not doing half requisite for advancement in the civil ; single employer by far, and it is con- the job, had a higher civilian rating. service, rather than mere seniority. i stantly adding to its payroll. Only after months of frustration was We can no longer afford to operate As a nation we now have such a I able to secure a raise for him, and under a 50 year old pay and promo tremendous investment in this govern even then his pay was less than half tion system which was devised at a ment payroll that we may soon find of the private offer. time when the government had only ourselves rising or falling with its ef- Another assistant (military) was, a fraction of the civilian and military ; ficiency. If these seven million gov- I found, completely inadequate. Of personnel that it has today. ernment employees do a good and w course, I could not fire him, and We need far more ability in today's enthusiastic day's work for us, they finally had to recommend him for giant government than we can ever ,j may help us to the most brilliant of promotion and reassign him in order get from an organization where the futures. If they succumb to red tape to obtain a man able to perform his safest way to rise to the top — as and lassitude, they may turn out to duties. every civil servant and military officer be our national pallbearers. Much more than in industry the knows — is to say nothing new and Like most business men who have able employe in civil service "carries" do nothing new. undertaken any kind of government the unable one. In industry too much job, I have mixed emotions about our Today's system stifles initiative. It inefficiency often coupled with dis i. civil service. As procurement chief, severely penalizes the man with honesty eventually results in bank Great Lakes division, corps of en enough gumption to rock the boat — ruptcy of the business. In government gineers in World War II, I learned and we need lots of boat-rockers to it only adds to higher taxes. one thing beyond doubt. Any outsider keep our government wide awake and up on its toes. who thinks that government service The greatest trouble with our pres attracts just second-raters is totally ent civil service regulations is wrong. I met countless career govern that many of the best people who get Real Booster For Boys ment employes, both civilian and mili- into government jobs are soon dis Genial Jim Thomason, who man w tary, who were every bit as good as couraged. It is a characteristic of ages the fine Navarre's restaurant li the very best men in private industry. capable and ambitious young men owned by Webb executives, has been j: On the other hand I was constantly that they keep pushing forward. As named to the board of directors of ;,; appalled by the red tape that kept the Boys' Clubs of Phoenix. Jim has ,(; wrapping itself, it seemed to me, they push forward they always step on some toes. But in the civil services been active in youth work several Ljj around the legs of most ambitious years. He also has been busy since it is fatal to step on anyone's toes — j and conscientious government em the start of the fall football season especially the toes of the man just ployes who wanted to get things done arranging for his restaurant guests to ahead of you in the line of seniority. efficiently. get to Arizona State University grid „l TVThile serving in the military, I We need some method of inducing games at Tempe and back to his res J »V had an exceptionally efficient more of these ambitious young people taurant on buses he provides. The (j civilian assistant who had just turned into the public service and giving first-game crowd from Navarre's re , down a $25,000 a year position with them the opportunities they deserve. quired five buses. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER September, 1959 A Steel In Place For Hughes Missile Development Center The expansive steel superstructure is in place and work now is underway on the masonry walls for the modernistic multi-million dollar missile development center which Del E. Webb Construction Co. is building at Tucson, Ariz., for Hughes Aircraft Company of Tucson and Los Angeles. Designed by John C. Lindsay, AIA and Associates of Santa Monica, Calif., the new engineering labs are shown in architect's view at right as they will appear when completed. They are rising within a stone's throw of the massive Hughes Aircraft guided missile plant which Webb crews completed in 1951, and from which came the Air Force's deadly Falcon air-to-air guided missiles. Within the walls of the new plant will be developed the nation's newer models of missiles and support equipment. Project Supt. Robert Fleming is directing construc tion for Webb,_ and the work is being supervised by the Los Angeles office opera tions staff, which has other millions in new building underway for Hughes on the wesf coast. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER September, 1959 Summer Bowling Yields Trophies Webb Builders Launch Retirement Community (Continued from Page 1) exclusively for use of residents of the new community and their guests, and will be operated on a non-profit basis. The commercial center, fronting on the main highway, will be modern in every respect and will place shops and medical facilities within walking dis tance of all homes. A Del Webb's HiwayHouse motor hotel is included in overall planning to accommodate travelers who come to inspect the retirement homes and to visit the community's residents. The new town will rise on farm land adjacent on the west to Young- town, Arizona's pioneer retirement community. In their extensive re search the Webb officials contacted Youngtown residents, and received written reports from a surprisingly- large cross-section on their prefer ences and ideas in retirement home CHAMPIONSHIPS didn't come to the teams with which fhey competed, and community features. but fhese two Webb bowlers from the Phoenix office accounting^ de partment annexed individual trophies in summer pin-toppling activityYour best safety device is about at 300 Bowl. Dolores Hixon rolled high individual series ot 515 in the nine inches above your shoulders. Guys and Dolls League, and John Morton racked up a 237 game for top Keep it working. individual honors in the Architects League. Rotarians Salute Griffith Rotoservice, interesting publication edited by John M. Simpson, Jr., for the Glendale, Calif., Rotary Club, recently paid this tribute to Dale E. Griffith, assistant business manager at Webb's Los Angeles office: "It was just four years ago that another new member was introduced to our club and just the other week that 'veteran' members presented his four years of perfect attendance bar, so we all know that he has been right in there all the time. We'd know it anyway, though, because "Builder" Dale Grif fith has been right in the middle of real Rotary fellowship and real active in whatever part of the club service and fellowship he has participated in during those four years ..." Welcome To Our Ranks Newcomers to the Webb ranks at the U. S. Air Force Academy housing project near Colorado Springs, Colo., this month included both a boy and girl. Ernie and Dee Griffith welcomed their second child, Delira Elaine Grif fith, who weighed in at seven pounds, RELIVING EARLIER DAYS. Del Webb - in a baseball uniform? Yep, but 12% ounces when she arrived Sept. not to help his Yankees. He joined fellow ballplayers of yesteryear at 11. Earlier the Joe Gilbreaths wel Modesto, Calif., for a couple of genuine innings during Old Timers comed a bouncing boy, Mark Allen, baseball program there last month. Dressing room photo above shows who tipped the beam at seven pounds, Howard Bartlett, left, manager of one ot Modesto's earlier teams, giving two ounces. the word again to Pitcher Webb and Dave Arata, right, his old time batterymate. In rear is Urbane Pickering. September, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven * # # THIS IMPRESSIVE branch bank, one of 57 offices with which First Na tional Bank of Arizona now is serv ing Arizonans, has been completed by Webb crews at the Camelback Village Square shopping center at Seventh Avenue and Camelback Road in Phoenix. Designed by Architect H. H. Green to harmonize with other buildings in the eight- acre shopping center now being developed, the new banking of fice features a wide-roof overhang with Moorish-inspired concrete sun screens along the west win dow wall. Two drive-in windows serve automobile patrons. High- domed customer lobby, pictured at left, has nine teller windows and its huge glass front looks to ward busy Camelback Road. Pro ject Superintendent was Jim Graves, with Fred Kuentz serving as project operations manager for Webb. # •> •> Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER September, 1959 The 'Paycheck Gal' Is Honored MA5TER Pnoducfo \ Editor 's Note: This column concerns activi ties of the folks at Master Products Mann* factiiring Company of Los Angeles, a subsid- iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) Kenneth and Lorilyn Dixon bid all their Master Products friends a fond farewell last month and departed from San Francisco aboard the Gen eral E. D. Patrick for Yokohama, Japan. Ken became a member of the Master Products engineering staff while still attending UCLA College of Engineering, from which he was graduated in three years. Now, as 2nd Lt. Kenneth Dixon of the U. S. THE GAL who distributed the paychecks at the Phoenix office, Mrs. Army, he'll be stationed at an am Judy Dye, secretary to the assistant business manager, has retired (at munition depot in Yokohama in be least temporarily) in anticipation of motherhood. Judy was honored at ginning a three-year hitch. Ken con a champagne luncheon at Navarre's this month by fellow workers from fided to friends that he had put in Webb construction and Del Webb's HiwayHouse executive offices, and for duty on the Pacific Coast, and she's pictured (second from left) as she was toasted by, from left. Pop still is wondering if the Army made Jacobson, Amy Jo Hafford, Gerry Hampton and Margie Sweeney. a 5,000-mile error. Bon Voyage to CPf^ttrfttrt f/d- Many people think they are pain- Ken and Lorilyn Dixon ! Pickin' and a-singin' . . . That's how T , . . r . , fully overworked just because it takes It s that time ot year again, and Dee Ford spent her vacation with her since those ol' birthday anniversaries them a11 day to do a three-hour job. family in their old home town of come around regularly every year Silver City, N.M. Dee sang and played (whether we want to admit it or not), her guitar, and found it a relaxing The Editor joins the list of those who as well as a lucrative way of resting will be "observing" during October. WW CI for a few weeks .. . Jennie and Juan Ramirez and son, Heartiest congratulations from The 7/U^T E1Ls Webb Spinner to these folks: \^8a Michael, joined her mother, Toni W. A. Warriner, Phoenix Oct. 9 Saenz, and his brother, Ramon Lu- Bill Reed, Phoenix Oct. 10 tero, for a train trip to Baltimore, Tom Rittenhouse, Phoenix Oct. 12 Volume 13 September, 195» No. 9 Md., and found the nation's capitol Kathy Leonard, Phoenix Oct. 15 Published by the in Washington, D.C. a great point of Gladys Gage, Phoenix Oct. 16 DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. interest. But, back home, they decided D. C. Bickmore, Los Angeles ..Oct. 16 302 South 23rd Ave. California isn't so bad after all, as r . . TT c • ^ T A I r\ T r\ Phoenix, Arizona they found it hot, sticky and wet in Ldwinft. bmith, LOS AngeieS ..Oct. 19 5101 San Fernando Road West Los the East. .. Charles Connor, Tulsa, Okla. ..Oct. 22 Angeles, California Camp Roberts, near Paso Robles, Ri , ci T A i r\ 1 00 'n *^e interests of the personnel of its Calif., was the setting for Robert obert Sheer, Los Angeles Oct. 23 variousproiect s and branch offices Zamarripa's vacation. Duty called, so Mabel Seitz, Phoenix Oct. 27 ™™,... ,.«....,„„ r. 1 n m r\ n„ EDITORIAl COMMITTEE Bob spent two weeks on maneuvers Robert Brown, Phoenix Oct. 29 De) E. Webb L c. Jacobson with the Army Reserve. Know what Jerry McLain, Phoenix Oct. 29 R.A.Becker w. J. Miller he says? It's the same old life —the Carl Ingram, Phoenix Oct. 31 Amv J°Haffor d army hasn't changed a bit . . . John L. Kies, San Jose Oct. 31 EDITOR John Duran of the shipping depart Jerry McLain ment and his Missus went to San Ber Death Takes 'Zack' Zachry T^PTT nardino to vacation with her folks, Death last month took Arthur L. REPORTERS Mr. and Mrs. Pasillos. And if John (Zach) Zachry, 67, of Phoenix, for H. G. Winston, Phoenix looked a bit wan on his return, there many years a carpenter and carpenter A' ^^X^ was a reason. Who wouldn't find it a foreman On Webb field projects. He Dale Griffith, Los Angeles little strenuous to be drafted for base had been in failing health since his Uura Keller' Ma5,er Products retirement two years ago. Surviving /tpSjx CIRCULATION MANAGER ball games with thirteen nieces and are his wife, Mary; a son, William, of ffijiS^i L.?• H°eff !» C I i nephews . . . npnhew« anTIran d ,sister thre*i se anstepdaughtersd 1i4 igrandchildren , lr1t0 ibrother ., s IwlllJilltrqa\"yBjy^^anV l/d internationaArffiiS^EdHwMembel Councir l of . Vol. 13, No. 10 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, OCTOBER, 1959 8 Pages Huge Military Housing Program Webb Shopping Center Expansion Competed By Del Webb Crews Launches Four New Developments The final chapter was being written this month in a Shopping center construction was on the upswing this $35,000,000 military housing construction program com month for Del E. Webb Construction Co., which already pleted in less than 16 months by operates large centers in Tucson and Del E. Webb Construction Co. Two New Water Companies Phoenix. It represented for Webb builders Add To Business Ventures A $2y2 million Campbell Plaza their part in creation of two of Now we're in the business of sell Shopping Center was under construc America's newest defense bulwarks — ing water! tion by Webb crews in Tucson, where the "Cape Canaveral of the West" at Along with construction, operation the firm already owns and operates Vandenberg Air Force Base in Cali of motor hotels, shopping centers, Swanway Plaza and Pueblo Plaza fornia, and the glistening new U. S. restaurants, a plant manufacturing centers. Air Force Academy, the "West Point loose-leaf filing equipment and lea Camelback Village Square is rising of the Air," near Colorado Springs, ther goods, as well as a variety of at Phoenix west of Seventh Avenue Colo. And in each project the work other businesses, Del E. Webb and and north of Camelback Road to was completed ahead of schedule. Associates now are in the water bus form the nucleus for a multi-million With the 1,200 homes they built iness. dollar Camelback Village business de- at Air Force Academy and the almost Arizona Corporation Commission development which eventually will 600 at Vandenberg AFB, the Webb has approved Del Webb's Arrowhead cover 40 acres there. crews at each site created what Water Co. to serve a large area north A third center, as yet unnamed amounted to a small city except for west of Phoenix centered by the big and slightly smaller in size, already the customary business area. Arrowhead Ranch, and Webb's Sun is under construction to serve resi They built streets, curbs, gutters, burst Water Co. to serve the new dents of the new retirement commun handled surfacing, put in drive ap- retirement community being devel ity which Webb crews are building (Continued on Page 2) oped near Marinette. (Continued on Page 6) SET MAJESTICALLY atop a pine-clad mesa at the foot of the towering Rockies, the multi-million dollar U. S. Air Force Academy in Colorado looks down on Douglass Valley homes built by Webb crews for Academy personnel. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER October, 1959 Interior Work Begins On Hughes Missile Development Center MASONRY WALLS mushroom about the steel superstructure as work is pushed by Del Webb crews on a modernistic multi-million dollar missileAi r Force Academy Housing development center for Hughes Aircraft Company at Tucson. Finished Ahead Of Schedule iZS^asifr (Continued from Pagel) proaches, parking areas, driveways, walks, did area grading, surface drainage, water and gas distribution systems, sanitary sewers, electrical distribution and street lighting sys tems, storm sewers and drainage systems. They poured concrete patios at the homes and landscaped the yards, giving grass and shrubs a healthy start with 30 days of care be fore turning the job over to tenants. New homes at both Vandenberg and Air Force Academy are modern in every detail, comparing favorably in appearance and convenience with $18,000 to $25,000 homes in major cities. The two, three and four bed room residences have hardwood floors, concrete terraces, ceramic bathroom tile, storm sash, combina A MAZE of ducts for heating and air conditioning go up in one section tion storm and screened doors, elec of the new plant where next year scientists will begin work to develop tric dishwasher, stove and refrigera newer models of missiles and support equipment. tor. The Air Force Academy homes also have large basements. Architects on the Academy project were Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Inc., of Chicago. Largest subcontrac tor on the Colorado project was R.P.R. Construction Co. of Phoenix, headed by Harry Rubenstein. Both projects were directed by Jack Ford, chief of operations, and Tom Breen, manager of the Webb housing division. Fred McDowell was project super intendent, Dave Sanders project en gineer and M. T. Rigg office manager on the Academy housing. Jack McPhee was superintendent, Kim Ban nister operations man, Chuck Powers, engineer, and Cecil Kintzi the office manager at Vandenberg. ATTRACTIVE STONE FACING is being created (above) on a partition wall The Capehart homes are financed which at main entry to missile development center will extend from outdoors to the interior. by private investment funds. October, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Air Force Academy Homes Are Set In Picturesque Area A PLEASANT STREET of terraced homes in the Douglass Valley seg ment of U. S. Air Force Academy homes built by Webb crews in Colorado is pictured at right. Ranging in size from 1,100 to 1,500 square feet, they have car ports, concrete terraces, ceramic bathroom tile, storm sash, combi nation storm and screened doors, and are equipped with stoves, re frigerators and electric dish washers. Airmen and officers ap ply their full quarters allowances toward paying off 25-year mort gages at four per cent. The FHA •-v^H^'SrfS?' insured the mortgages, but financ ing was by a private organization, the Ohio State Teachers Retirement Fund. AIR. FORCE ACADEMY men get an allowance of about $1,200 apiece with which to purchase furniture from the government warehouse when they first move into a new home. A sergeant furnished living room and bed room pictured above on this allowance. The kitchen pictured is typical ot fully-equipped kitchens awaiting ten ants of the new Air Force Academy homes. SUPERVISION of construction and direction of the multi-million dollar project rested on the shoulders of the folks pictured above. Webb crew, at left, includes, from left: Ernie Griffith and Joe Gilbreath, timekeepers; Mil- ford Rigg, project office manager, Mary Bader, receptionist-secretary; Clyde Williams, assistant superintendent; Fred McDowell, project superintendent, and Dave Sanders, project engineer. AT RIGHT — John W. (Tex) Payne and Harry Rubenstein ot R.P.R. Construction Co., Phoenix, the largest subcontractor on the project. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER October, 1959 AT AMERICA'S NEW SPACE AGE CITY, the beautiful U. S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, Del W| 1,200 modern homes for families of the men who will mold carefully-chosen young "«e'| cers for the Air Age. In two broad valleys pictured in air view above, Douglass Valley m ** beyond, Webb crews created their part of the Space Age City. Positioned on the mesa be" demy Community Center, complete with commissary, delicatessen, cafeteria, gas station, « base exchange, library, hobby shop, barber shop, watch repair shop, clubrooms and youtn' *, October, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five fft»«T '..saV rfntenictte Space ;4ae (tyttf *£!$£»±L '($&?-• FOR LONG YEARS ONLY A DREAM of American airmen, this is the spank y ing new U. S. Air Force Academy, fashioned ot glass, marble and alumi £ - -% num and set like a freshly-polished diamond against the green-velvet •ss background of the Colorado Rockies' Rampart Range. From left, in view above across the broad parade ground, are the Academic and Library Buildings, actually two large structures joined, and part of the Cadet Quarters. The superbly equipped Academic Building has classrooms, offices, lecture halls, theaters, conference rooms and laboratories. The impressive Library is one of the largest and most beautiful military libraries in the world. Cadet Quarters are designed to accommodate the entire cadet wing of 2,500 men once the school reaches full strength. Each cadet room, shared by two men, has a picture window with a view hard to duplicate — toward the stately Rockies or out across the Academy site to the Black Forest and beyond to the rolling tlatlands ot Eastern Colorado. The main Academy complex stands atop a broad mesa, in sight ot picturesque Cathedral Rock, where Cherokee and Arapho Indians once went on the warpath against a crude tort built to protect «*&?. t»« early settlers. • iSSft- — ML V" AIR VIEWS above provide a bird's eye view of the Air Force Academy homes. Pine Valley, left, has 650 homes, an elementary and a high school. Douglass Valley, right, has 550 homes, chiefly for officers, and a fine elementary school. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER October, 1959 Campbell Plaza Designed As Tucson's Newest And Largest Shopping Center ALREADY RANKED among leading business firms in Tucson with two shopping centers in operation, the Del E. Webb Construction Co. this month had a third under construc tion, the new Campbell Plaza Center, as depicted (below) by Friedman and Jobush, Tucson architects - engineers. When com pleted it will be Tucson's largest shops center, and one of its fea tures will be a 15-foot-wide air- conditioned sidewalk running its entire length. Pictured at right are Fred Kuentz, Webb project oper ations manager; Chuck Powers, operations man, and Jim Cooper, project superintendent. Behind them, on the site for start of con struction, was more than 200 tons of structural steel for the spacious center. tional Bank of Arizona branch and Shopping Center Projects Are Underway On Four Sites a Helsing's restaurant already were (Continued from Page 1) who handles leasing and participates in operation at the Seventh Avenue northwest of Phoenix near Marinette. with Webb principles in ownership and Camelback site. Behind the shops Webb representatives also will of the centers, said the new Campbell center, fronting on Eleventh Avenue, handle the leasing and will participate Plaza will be larger than any other two more large units of Camelback in ownership and operation of a shop shopping center in Tucson at the Village Apartments are being erected ping center to be erected by Allied present time. by Webb crews. Construction Co. on a 700,000 square Thefirst phase of construction calls Principal tenants for the shops are foot site at Bell Road and Black for 132,000 square feet of shops, with a Lucky Stores market, T.G. & Y. Canyon Highway to serve Village tenants to include an A. J. Bayless variety store, and a Ryan-Evans drug. Plaza and Deer Valley residents. market, S. S. Kresge store, Ryan- Other occupants will be a barber Two other huge shopping centers Evans drug, Gallenkamp Shoes, Mode shop, beauty parlor and a laundro to be built and partly owned by Webb O'Day store, Oliver Drachman laun mat. . Parking for 500 automobiles still are on the planning boards, with dry, Traders Furniture and Western will be provided at the present time. leasing activity underway. They are Auto stores, Cox Bakery, Town Shop Tenants for the retirement com Chris-Town in Phoenix and the and Hirsch Shoes. Formal opening of munity shopping center have not been Grossmont Center at San Diego. the center is planned for early March. named, but already assured are a Presently the Webb firm owns and Parking space will be available for food market, laundromat, barber operates the large Uptown Plaza cen 850 automobiles. shop, shoe shop and service station. ter at Central Avenue and Camelback Masonry walls were rising this Negotiations now are underway for Road in Phoenix. month on the Camelback Village a drug store and variety store, and Roy Drachman, Tucson realtor Square development, and a First Na space is being built for medical offices. October, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Construction Underway On Camelback Village Shopping Development ANOTHER WEBB-OWNED and oper ated shopping center was under construction this month (photo at right) in connection with the multi- million dollar Camelback Village homes and apartments develop ment in the area of Seventh Ave nue and Camelback Road in North west Phoenix. Camelback Village Square, pictured below by Archi tect H. H. Green, will include a Lucky Stores market, T. G. & Y. variety store, Ryan-Evans Drugs, and a barber shop, beauty parlor and laundromat. Parking for 500 automobiles will be provided. De sign of the center will permit ad dition of other stores in the future. * * 4 t=Zt£3J-z3 nighttime storm had buried their Snow 'Visits' Academy Job; automobiles in snow. (Exactly two Glad We Missed This One weeks earlier Photographer Jerry McLain had paid the Academy hous November birthday anniversaries It was just about World Series ing project a picture-taking visit). are just ahead for another fine group time and "Indian Summer" hadn't Before residents were able to dig of Webb employees, among them even set in. Out of the Rocky Moun out and return to normal activities, some of the company's real "old tains swirled a fat, wet snowstorm, the storm had been tabbed one of the timers." They include: and the Webb folks handling "mop most damaging in Rocky Mountain W. J. Miller, Phoenix Nov. 2 ping up" work on the Air Force history. Ernie Griffith, Flagstaff Nov. 3 Academy housing project at Colorado Gerry Hampton, Phoenix ....Nov. 6 Springs found themselves bogged The most disappointed people in L. C. Jacobson, Phoenix Nov. 6 down in the white stuff. H. G. Winston, Phoenix Nov. 11 the world are those who get what is Falling like a destructive arm, the coming to them. Cecil Drinkward, L.A Nov. 13 lead-heavy snow closed schools, C. H. Messenger, San Diego..Nov. 19 blocked highways, knocked out power John J. Miller, Phoenix Nov. 19 and dumped more than 30 inches of The man whofiddles around rarely Jack McPhee, Fullerton Nov. 27 snow on Colorado Springs and the gets to lead the orchestra. Ronald P. Klein, Phoenix ....Nov. 28 nearby Academy area. Things are about equal. The thin The weather man is usually the best Webb personnel, including Proj man has more to laugh about, but the paid writer of fiction. ect Supt. Fred McDowell who had been ready with Mrs. McDowell to fat man has more to laugh with. Some young fellows would make a depart for Phoenix and a late-sum bigger success of things if they had a lit mer vacation, awoke tofind they were To give your car a lasting finish, tle more horsepower and less exhaust. without heat and lights and that the just try to beat a train to a crossing. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER October, 1959 Webb J u n ior Ya n kees Win Little League MA5TER Title At San Diego Ptoductl The world championship reign of his New York Yankees was inter Volume 13 October, 1959 No. 10 rupted by the Chicago White Sox and (Editor's Note: This column concerns actiri. Cleveland Indians this year, but Del Published by the ties of the folks at Master Products Mann* DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. facturine; Company of Los Angeles, a subsid iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) Webb had another winner — his 302 South 23rd Ave. Junior Yankees at Clairemont, the Phoenix, Arizona Happy to be back home again, San Diego area community where 5101 San Fernando Road West Cyril (Smokey) Kromer is visiting Los Angeles, California his parents, Mary and Del, before Webb builders have erected thou in the interests of the personnel of its sands of homes in the past few years various projects and branch offices going to Long Beach, where he is and still are busy with housing con EDITORIAL COMMITTEE stationed as a machinist on the radar struction. Del E. Webb L. C Jacobson picket ship, U.S.S. Higgbe. R.A. Becker W. J. Miller Otsie Coring reports his grandson, The Junior Yankees swept almost Amy Jo Hafford everything in their path in the Hill- Jesse Ashmore, now is stationed at EDITOR the Amarillo, Tex., Air Force Base toppers League, winning 16 games Jerry McLain in a row and 18 of the 20 they (where in 1951-52 Del Webb crews PHOTOGRAPHER erected $30,000,000 in air force played. Unbeaten infirst half play, Dave Parker they rallied from two second-half set housing) after having completed his REPORTERS preliminary training at Lackland, backs to win the deciding clash for H. G. Winston, Phoenix the second-half title by an 18 to 2 A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix Tex. score, ironically a duplication of their John Morton, Phoenix Rumor has it Murl Armstrong Dale Griffith, Los Angeles went to the high Sierras to do some season's record. Laura Keller, Master Products Five young Yankees were named fishing but didn't go near the water. CIRCULATION MANAGER Was he just too tired? to the All Star team: Vance Christian L. O. Hoeft sen and Ronnie Finley, pitchers; Member Don and Marian Eisenhauer have Edward Wilder, third base; Ricky International Council of been entertaining his brother, Ray, Industrial Editors Dixon, catcher; and Billy Banks, first and Arizona Industrial Editors and wife, Betty, from Wymore, Neb., base. Christiansen, 12, hit 13 home showing them points of interest runs, pitched two no-hitters and had excellent cooperation. Five 11-year- around Los Angeles. a .480 batting average. Edward olds who were in the regular lineup Scenic Bass Lake called Beverly Wilder, 12, hit nine home runs and will form the nucleus for next year's and Manuel Suzza where they were had a .350 batting average. team. joined by her brother, Dick, and his Manager Dan Danfield reported he wife, Janice. Bev says they went fish worked with "a wonderful bunch of ing and did catch some fish, but boys, both as gentlemen and as ball A wife with horse sense never be threw them back so that when they players." Parents, he added, provided comes a nag. go to Bass Lake again thosefish will be grown up. The big laugh everyone heard at Master Products was on Laura Keller ... or, perhaps, it was a big sigh of relief that good friend Harry Lawra- son was getting along so well. Seems when Laura called the hospital to talk to Harry, who was undergoing sur gery, she was in reality getting infor mation on another patient who wasn t faring too well. Laura practically had Harry at death's doorstep, until all of a sudden Harry was ready to leave the hospital. Welcome home, Harry; glad you enjoyed the baseball pen nant playoff on the television your co-workers thoughtfully provided while you were hospitalized. Virginia Herron and husband, Don, CHAMPION JUNIOR YANKEES of San Diego and their adult leaders are tried out their new camper en route pictured above. From left, they are: (back row), Link Lincavage, coach; to a vacation on their ranch near Ronnie Finley, 12, Robert Marquardt, 12; Eddie Wilder, 12; Billy Banks, Boise, Idaho. They sent word back to 12; Vance Christiansen, 12; Bob Esslinger, coach; (middle row) C. J. Daniels, Del Webb representative; Ricky Dixon, II; Gary Butterfield,Maste r Products friends that having II; Mickey Gammon, 12; Roy Prince, 11; Frank Peterson, 9; (front row), all the conveniences of home right Doug McKesson, 10; Tom Danfield, 11; Frank Lincavage, bat boy; Mike along with you certainly made for Nolan, 10; Steve Adams, 11, and Dan Danfield, manager. Not pictured, pleasant travel! Kevin Coyne, 9, who had moved to San Francisco. Vol. 13, No. 11 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, NOVEMBER, 1959 8 Pages Webb Co. Building Huge Rocket Engine Test Stand National Attention Is Focused On Webb Towering Structure Retirement Community Rising In Arizona Will Test Engines To (Pictures, Pages 4 15) Advertisements seeking a name for National attention was focused this the community appeared in the Nov. Push Manned Missile month on Del Webb's retirement 23 Life magazine, the Nov. 28 Sat The nation's greatest rocket test community now mushrooming near urday Evening Post, and on Nov. 22 stand — designed to test the mighty Phoenix and the advantages of a re in Sunday magazine supplements of engines of future U.S. space-conquer tirement home in Arizona's famed 27 of the nation's largest newspapers. ing missiles — is being built by Del Valley of the Sun for America's Combined circulation was 20,339,908, E. Webb Construction Co. at Edwards senior citizens. with readership estimates being two Air Force Base in the Southern Cali The story was placed before 50 mil to three persons per copy. fornia desert. lion to 60 million readers in news Participation in the community The $5 million Webb project will paper and magazine advertizing name contest is limited to persons 50 create a tremendous structure of con placed by Del E. Webb Development years of age or older. The winner will crete and steel, high as an 11-story Co. in announcing a national contest receive a top-quality, two-bedroom building, strong enough to contain to name the retirement community home located on a choice fairway lot the earthshaking power of a rocket being built 12 miles from Phoenix as at the edge of the community golf engine of 1,500,000-pound thrust thefirst phas e in a multi-million dol course, the second best suggestion a which scientists believe could put 16 lar development of 20,000 acres of tons into earth orbit or soft-land two fully-improved fairway lot, and the farm land. tons on the surface of the moon. third winner a two weeks vacation And the model community, rising The Los Angeles office of the Webb from farm land where cotton grew a visit at Del Webb's HiwayHouse ho firm was low among 14 contractors few months ago, is due by its January tel in Phoenix. Ruben H. Donnelly who bid the project, and construction 1 opening to become a showplace in Co. of Los Angeles will judge all already is underway, with the com- the Southwest. entries. (Continued on Page 2) Coliseum Tut Up, Take Down, Put Up' Project At End Until Next Spring While the world-champion Dodgers events when the Dodgers were idle or mound, and even the infield dirt. concentrated on winter-time pursuits traveling. It was the 36th time, since original and Owner Walter O'Malley contin Despite the handsome rental accru erection, these auxiliaries had been ued negotiations by which he long ing to the Coliseum from Dodger erected, dismantled, reerected, again ago had hoped to get his new Los baseball, O'Malley was required to dismantled, reerected, etc., etc., at a Angeles baseball park under con remove the diamond paraphernalia, cost of thousands of dollars. struction, Del Webb crews last month either in part or in toto, every time Removal of these diamond trap wound up another season of keeping some other type event was slated. It pings was deemed necessary to clear the huge Los Angeles Memorial Coli was no small job, and it cost a pretty the big arena for such events as early- seum in shape for baseball play. penny. season pro football games, Fourth of Having handled the rush job of When the Dodgers headed Chicago- July fireworks extravaganzas staged converting the Coliseum for baseball ward early last month to settle the annually by the American Legion, in the spring of 1958, Webb men un World Series with the White Sox, and the Coliseum Relays — though dertook the steady task of behind- crews of Webb workmen moved onto the baseball screens, backstop, etc., the-scenes dismantling and rebuild the Coliseumfloor. The y removed, for did not hamper the fans' enjoyment ing of playing field facilities neces storage until next season, the big back of baseball. sary to keep the stadium in operation stop, the towering left field screen, Taking down and reerecting base- but still make it available for other foul poles, centerfield fence, pitcher's (Continued on Page 3) Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER November, 1959 Tall As An 11-Story Building, This Project Will Test Rocket Engines J," -2^.^2=2^' ••/ r==«r*^e^ A MIGHTY STRUCTURE ot concrete Webb Men Continue and steel with a maze of electrical and mechanical installations, this Space-Age Work is architect-engineers' version of how Webb-built rocket engine In Southern California test stand will look when com million pound rocket engine, expected pleted at Edwards Air Force Base (Continued from Page 1) to be ready for testing in 1962. Larg in Southern California. pleted test stand to be delivered ines t10 existin g rocket engines, the Atlas tions man, at the Los Angeles office. months. and Titan, are rated around 330,000 Construction work is directed by Construction involves 200,000 to 370,000 pounds of thrust. Neil Drinkward, project superinten yards of excavation to anchor the Though it may someday find mili dent, assisted by Douglas B. Honston, test stand in the rock and earth, the tary utility, present purpose of the assistant superintendent, Lloyd Par pouring of 30,000 yards of concrete, new rocket engine for which the dee, operations man, and Milford tremendous mechanical installations Webb firm is building the big test Rigg, office manager. in air conditioning, heating and elec stand is space research. Scientists This isn't thefirst work of Webb trical facilities, the building of con need such an engine to be able to crews in America's space research trol and warning systems, concrete think in terms of manned flight in and development. block observation stations, instru interplanetary space. Nuclear field laboratory facilities mentation tunnels and huge tanks for Site of the construction is about were built last year for Atomics In storage of nitrogen, oxygen and other 110 miles north and east of Los An ternational, a division of North Amer fuels. geles in a sparsely-settled desert and ican Aviation, at Canoga in the Santa A million-gallon water storage tank mountainous area which as Edwards Susana Mountains near Los Angeles. will be constructed, along with a Air Force Base is one of the nation's There the Redstone rocket engine has pump-house with a bank of six pumps major testing grounds for air force been in production status for several which can empty the tank infive min weapons. years, and there Rocketdyne is build utes in cooling the great flame shield The test stand project is directed ing the gigantic engine which now has over the rocket engine. Off the shield by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, been assigned the history-making this deluge of water will pour into a Los Angeles district, and the archi role of powering man'sfirst flights in concrete basin to be reclaimed for tect-engineering firm of Aerojet-Gen ballistic missiles. further use. eral Corporation, Covina, Calif. Rocketdyne, a North American Overseeing the project for Webb is Heredity is something every man Aviation division, holds the "major Edward T. Davies, chief of opera believes in until his children begin components" contract for the multi- tions, and Cecil Drinkward, opera- to act like fools. November, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Dismantling And Rebuilding Even The Dirt Goes Into Storage Project For Dodgers Kept Webb Men Busy At Coliseum (Continued from Page 1) *- \ ball auxiliaries wasn't just a routine task. Sometimes the workmen, after a night baseball game, reported for work close to midnight. They had to have everything cleared prior to 8 o'clock next morning. Sometimes they started at daylight and had to re- erect the equipment and have things in readiness by early afternoon. Now all the screens, backstop, fences, poles, ticket booths, and even EARTH from the pitcher's mound and the baseball infield on which the the dirt from the pitcher's mound world-champion Los Angeles Dodgers cavort in gigantic Memorial Coli and the baseball infield is stored in seum is stored until next season in the Webb warehouse yard at the the warehouse yard of the Webb Los Los Angeles construction headquarters. Joe Aubin of accounting de Angeles office, awaiting return to the partment looks on while Warehouseman George Shaw secures covering. Coliseum for start of the 1960 base ball season. STORED EQUIPMENT of the Dodgers, being checked by Warehouseman Shaw, includes equipment for big backstop, towering left field screen, foul poles, field fence, and even the ticket booths with which Webb men for two seasons have converted the Coliseum for baseball. Cradle Topics Are Big News Babies have been prominent in news among Webb folks lately. Horst Along with Christmas and New DeBoer, office manager on the Hughes Year's Eve, December also brings project at Tucson, and his Missus an birthday anniversaries to a number nounced the arrival of twin daugh of Webb Company folks, and The ters, Lori and Lindy, in Phoenix on Webb Spinner extends salutations Oct. 14. Both were so tiny they had and best wishes to these folks who to spend several weeks after birth in will be "observing" this month: hospital incubators, but now they're Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Dec. 3 WILL IT HURT? Secretary Jean doingfine. Two weeks after birth one Moore looks a bit skeptical about Robert Ditzler, Phoenix Dec. 10 weighed four pounds and the other the matter of whether a "shot" Larry McMillon, Phoenix Dec. 13 will hurt, as Webb folks at the four pounds, five ounces. Mr. and Phoenix office lined up recently Mrs. H. G. (Speedy) Winston of Mary Mercier, Phoenix Dec. 14 for polio booster shots when Dr. Phoenix announced arrival of their H. J. Webb, Los Angeles Dec. 14 second daughter, Barbara Ann, Oct. J. Alan Ginn, Jr., visited the em E. W. Flint, Phoenix Dec. 16 ployees' lounge tor mass inocula 13. She weighed in at nine pounds, tions. In background, awaiting a three ounces, and is the fourth young Ralph Wanless, Los Angeles....Dec. 17 turn, are Mrs. John Morton and ster for the Winstons. He's Webb Mary Somerfeld, L.A Dec. 22 Pearl Richardson. At right, collectchief accountant. Sandra Johnson, L.A. Dec. 26 ing the $l-per-shot fee, is Secre tary Ruth Hopper. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER November, 1959 National Advertising Invites Senior Citizens To Name New TOWCRim transplant*! avenue whi entrance I from busy 89. AIR VIEW of new Del Webb retirement community now being developed near Phoenix SPACIOUS shows shopping center, community facilities and model homes under construction be ready fe in foreground, and golf course around which residences will be built on curved streets. and will lit In upper right background is Youngtown, another Arizona retirement community. and their § SHOPPING CENTER will have Safeway market, T.G. & Y. variety store, drug store, One Hour Valef laundromat and cleaning shop, other small shops, and space tor medical facilities. NEW GOLF PRO for the retirement co pionship golf course. Fielding Abbott, i plans with John Meeker, left, protect ger, and Jack McPhee, right, project s COMMUNITY FACILITIES include a crafts and hobby build background is golf club and pro shop. ing, swimming pool with cabanas, and a community was teaching professional at Paradisi building overlooking the golf course. Club course near Scottsdale, Ariz. November, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five __.-. ,. Saturday Evening - 15P The World of the UNEDUCATED Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER November, 1959 Two More Ten-Year Employees Join Ranks Of Those Who Wear Webb Service Pins THE ANNUAL PIN PARTY dinner in Phoenix this year honored two 10-year employees, Fred Kuentz of Phoenix and Morris DeConinck of Los Angeles, who joined a fast- growing group of Webb construc tion folks who wear the coveted service pins. In photo above, Pres. Del Webb presents 10-year pin to Mr. DeConinck. Executive Vice- %apfet •*a#r> Pres. L. C. Jacobson stands by at left. Mr. Kuentz, who had just re ceived his 10-year pin, is second from left. Photo at right shows part ot group of service pin . wearers and wives and husbands who attended dinner at Del - Webb's HiwayHouse on Nov. 24. ' y \fy $ Kuentz joined Webb folks during *i, » construction of the Pabco linoleum factory in Metuchen, N. J., worked '.' as a job engineer on some of the •Lv ffiraB m. fry company's biggest projects of re^*-r?. ,• ttv-JB wj | cent years, and now is manager of project operations for the San Francisco TownHouse hotel and a number of large shopping centers under construction or in the plan Wy'- m 1 ^F BV* ft wF^BJkSKKrt; ning stage. DeConinck, a field WMFT l I JmW engineer working out of Webb's Hoi t -, WM Los Angeles office, had his first assignment on the Kansas City, Mo., Veterans Hospital project, subsequently worked on the Ama- rillo, Tex., and Fort Ord, Calif., JH military projects, the Beverly HilEL 't^L - Malibu,UnionnowHugheston Hotel,is Bank projectonCalif. theinUnion Beverly Hughesat OilFullerton, HillsprojectCenter, and theat November, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Safety Record Accident Free Construction Is Their Goal On Webb Jobs Is Commended A remarkably fine record of safety on Webb construction projects dur ing 1958-59 was reported by R. G. Kenson, company safety director, at a luncheon for superintendents and other operations personnel at Del Webb's HiwayHouse in Phoenix on Nov. 24. "The success of our safety pro gram has been strictly yours," said Mr. Kenson. "The fine record was made on the jobs, and not in the of fice of the safety director." W. A. Warriner, assistant business manager at the Phoenix office, cited statistics to establish his declaration that "Safety is a job cost just as much as any of your materials, and Webb PART OF GROUP of field and operations department men who attended management is gratified at continued Webb safety conference in Phoenix on Nov. 24 posed for photographer improvement of our safety record." in patio of HiwayHouse motor hotel following luncheon meeting. The/ Ralph Cash of Cash, Sullivan and won praise for safety accomplishments in construction this year. Cross, insurance firm representing Webb, expressed appreciation for co nursing consultant of Employer's Del E. Webb and L. C. Jacobson, ex operation being received from men Mutual, who flew from San Fran ecutive vice-president. in the field. cisco to attend the safety gathering. They saw a U.S. Steel safety film, A talk on the importance of know She also demonstrated safety "Knowing's Not Enough!" which ing how to stem the flow of blood in methods. teaches that safety is no accident — case of a serious accident on the job Field men and operations depart it results from carefully planned was made by Mrs. Marian Smith, ment men were welcomed by Pres. programs. ON HER KNEES on the floor to demonstrate most efficient and speediest methods of stopping A WELCOME to the assembled group came from Pres. Del E. Webb, flow of blood in event of serious pictured addressing luncheon meeting, who with Executive Vice-Pres. accidents, Mrs. Marian Smith of L. C. Jacobson stressed the extreme importance ot job safety. At San Francisco, nursing consultant speakers' table, from right to left': R. H. Johnson and J. R. Ashton, Webb for Employer's Mutual, had an at vice-presidents; Mr. Jacobson, Mr. Webb, Ralph Cash of Cash, Sullivan tentive audience, and a big man & Cross, Webb insurance carrier; Mrs. Smith of Employer's Mutual, and victim."in W. A. Warriner as her "injury Mr. Warriner. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER November, 1959 MASTER Pnxxbucti Volume 13 November, 1959 No. 11 Published by the (Editor's Note: This column concerns activi. DEI E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. ties of the folks at Master Products Manu* 302 South 23rd Ave. facturinp Company of Los Angeles, a subsid Phoenix, Arizona iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) 5101 San Fernando Road West Los Angeles, California A hearty welcome to Harry Lawra- in the interests of the personnel of its son, who is now back on the job! various projects and branch offices Everyone at Master Products agrees EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson that its wonderful to see Harry's R. A. Becker W.J.Miller smiling face at the plant again. Amy Jo Hafford EDITOR Murl Armstrong's annual trek to Jerry McLain Utah paid off, as he returned with PHOTOGRAPHER his quota of deer. Dave Parker Among the deer hunters this sea REPORTERS son were Laura and Jack Keller, who H. G. Winston, Phoenix \. C (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix vacationed at that time. Theirs was MAKES SOCIAL DEBUT. Pretty John Morton, Phoenix a combination hunting trip and fam Susan C. Johnson is pictured on the Dale Griffith, Los Angeles ily gathering, and they were joined arm ot a proud father, Robert H. Laura Keller, Master Products in the mountains by friends and rela Johnson, Webb vice-president and CIRCULATION MANAGER Los Angeles manager, as she was L. O. Hoeft tives. Happy to report that everyone Member bagged a deer, including Laura. among 24 lovely debutantes pre International Council of sented by Las Damas Pan Ameri- Industrial Editors The Los Angeles 8 MM Club pro canas at the first deb ball ot the and Arizona Industrial Editors duction, "Once Upon A Time", re Los Angeles season in the Inter cently was presented in competition national Ballroom of the Beverly Navarre's Gets New Manager with movies of four other clubs. Hilton Hotel. Representing inter Jack Egan, a Phoenician 20 years Clarence Kremser, club president, had national family backgrounds, not and since 1951 associated with the high hopes that some of his sleepless only from the U. S. but Britain, restaurant business, has been named nights of movie work would really Italy, Greece, Canada and Chile, manager of Navarre's restaurant in pay off. the girls made their bows to so Uptown Plaza shopping center. Jim ciety wearing traditional bouffant Strange way to celebrate a wed Thomason, part owner and former white gowns and lace mantillas ding! John Duran and wife, Teresa, manager, recently was named execu caught with high combs and pale tive assistant to T. F. Hetherington, went to a wedding and, even before pink carnations. Each deb curtsied refreshments were served, John was in an archway made of shaded manager of Del E. Webb Motor Hotel stricken ill and wound up in a hos pink carnations, glamellias and Co., which operates HiwayHouse mo pital for an appendectomy. Get well spider chrysanthemums, de tor hotels. Webb executives, with wishes are extended by all his friends scended a staircase to the ball Thomason, own and operate Na at Master Products. room floor, was claimed by her varre's. father, and then all danced the father-daughter waltz. Escorts What's This? Prize-Fightingclaimed the girls forAt the A next Shopping Center? dance. [l A \i tr. . *Jj FT lV • ^ M (• (x jfaAi ; fL-I. 1'.: DM **^v 'jff It^r—-nr*fViiuiii V FISTIC PRINCIPLES in Phoenix' most important boxing match in years, a nationally-televised clash between Zora Folley, Chandler, Ariz., third-ranked heavyweight contender, and Alonzo Johnson of Braddock, Pa., got in some of their training licks in outdoor workouts at Uptown Plaza, Webb-built and Webb-owned shopping center. Two views show outdoor training quarters and (above, right), Folley swinging a hefty right at a spar ring partner. Decision in the 10-round TV encounter went to Folley. Vol. 13, No. 12 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, DECEMBER, 1959 8 Pages Webb Employees To View Complete Recreational And Commercial New Community Dec. 27 Phoenix-area employees of Del E. Facilities Readied For Senior Citizens Webb Construction Co., Del E. Webb A model retirement community designed to provide the ultimate in gra Development Co. and the Webb motor cious and relaxed living for America's senior citizens will be opened January hotels, with adult members of their 1 by Del E. Webb Development Co. adjacent to the Phoenix-Los Angeles high families, will get a pre-opening look way 12 miles northwest of Phoenix. at the new Marinette retirement com It will be a childless village, unless youngsters are there to visit, for top- quality homes priced below housing munity on Sunday, December 27. will populate them, that the commu in most subdivisions will be offered They will be guests of the Webb nity will need as a starter. only to persons 50 years of age or Development Co. for a preview tour older. And recreational and shopping Turning from the busy U.S. High of the shopping center, recreational facilities which many builders can way 60-70-89 into the garden-like and hobby buildings, model homes only promise until their communities community setting, visitors will see and other facilities, and then will en are established have already been built an attractive shopping center with a joy brunch between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. in this new Del Webb town, and will market and variety of shops, a Del Some competitive events are planned be ready and awaiting thefirst resi Webb's HiwayHouse motor hotel, a on the community's new golf course. dents. long row of modern apartments, the As yet the town is unnamed. But picturesque recreational building, Residents of Youngtown, a retire come January 1 the winners in a na hobby and crafts shop, spacious swim ment community adjacent to the new tionwide contest to name the commu ming pool with water heated for win Marinette development, also will get nity will be announced, and the model ter-time use, cabanas and surfaced a preview look the afternoon of De Arizona village will have a name. patio areas, five tastefully-furnished cember 31, day before the public There'll be little else, except for and decorated model homes, and the opening. more new homes and the retirees who (Continued on Page 3) i FOR ACTIVE RETIREMENT liriMAiiii i ^Rr£ -..-.,.- ;££" Da E. VABE, Dt«UWM«T CO. ?! ^| ^£ • ~~* ' ~ • "'•*:•'. ••--^Jtpr • BEYOND THIS HIGHWAY BILLBOARD lies a new way of life for active retirees in Arizona's Valley of the Sun. Cot ton and alfalfa flourished there only a few months ago. Then construction crews moved in, and when the new Del Webb community opens January 1 it will be a small but complete model village exclusively for America's senior citizens. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER December, 1959 Webb-Owned Shopping Centers Feature New Touches Of Modernity STEEL FRAMEWORK IS UP for the broad concourse at the new Campbell Plaza Shopping Center which Webb crews are building in Tucson, Arizona. The feature of this walk, on which all stores and shops will front, is that it will be completely enclosed and air con ditioned for year-around shopping or window-shopping comfort. This will be Arizona's first shopping center with such an air-conditioned concourse, but Roy Drachman, Tuc son realtor and developer who with Webb Company will own and operate the center, believes this feature will, in time, become a must for such new Arizona business developments. A STRANGE and rather startling sight in a shopping center parking area, this air force IM-99 Bomarc supersonic air defense missile was displayed to Phoenicians recently at Uptown Plaza, the Webb owned and operated shopping center. Weighing 25 tons, standing 47 feet high and with a wing span of more than 18 feet, this big missile is capable of carrying a nuclear war head. Its mission is to destroy enemy aircraft before they could reach U.S. borders by hundreds ot miles. During the Uptown Plaza display, the Air Force also had in teresting and informative exhibits, as well as a taped dialogue ex plaining how the Bomarc is fired, its range and striking power. December, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Moving Upward, Sahara's Webb Builders To Open New Retirement Community Jan. 1 (Continued from Page 1) Passes completedfirst nine holes of a grassy 18-hole regulation golf course. The builders aren't just providing bare buildings. The hobby and crafts shop is outfitted. The recreational building is furnished and ready for use. A garden plot is being provided, and planted, for those with "green thumbs." Space will be offered retirees interested in truck gardening, and even the raising of prize cattle on a modest basis will be encouraged. Thousands of interested and curious already have come to look — stepping around busy construction workers and dodging trucks and heavy equipment — and to enthuse at what they saw. Some prevailed upon the builders to accept cash deposits for what they considered choice lots, but the Webb men pursued their plan to build only their models for the January 1 to 3 grand opening and to have recrea tional and commercial facilities ready for thefirst buyers . Millions of dollars are being in vested in land and improvements be fore the first actual residential sale is made. And in their price structure of $8,- 500 to $11,300 for top quality homes, the community developers believe they will be offering the only $9,750 home SOON TO TOWER over other of the glittering resort hotels on the Las in America located on a choice fair- Vegas "Strip" as Nevada's tallest building, new 14-story Sahara Hotel way lot beside a regulation golf skyscraper being built by Webb crews was at the eight-story height course when this photo was taken late in November. CHECKING CONSTRUCTION DETAILS are Project Supt. JOBSITE PARLEY involves, from left: Roland Beaulieu, M. D. Stevens, left, and his chief assistant, Frank project engineer. Superintendent Stevens, and Jim Kelleher. Benson, project office manager. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER December, 1959 I) 3 'l Checking progress on retirement community construction, (photo at < left), are the two Webb men chiefly responsible for the project, Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton, left, and Tom Breen, second from left, housing division director. With them are Jarl Nerdrum, vice-presi dent, Bank of America, Los An geles, who was getting his first look at the project, and W. J. Miller, Webb business manager. Master plan of the new Arizona re tirement community. View ^ is approximately the same as in air photo above it at top of page. December, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five For Retirees Goal At New > in December when the ese pages were made of lent community taking Arizona. And the site !, for construction crews rom being ready for the grand opening. Bird's ,S. Highway 60-70-89 in el Webb's HiwayHouse tments, the twin-street its center landscaping, :ommunity recreational I homes, the grassy f air- ie and, in the distance, igtown at top of picture. iwn on golf course with ;oon, with model homes ies in background. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER December, 1959 .*' Modern Center For Missile Development ^"wasar . NEARING COMPLETION at Tucson, Arizona, this month was the modernistic multi-million dollar missile develop ment center which Webb workmen are building for Hughes Aircraft Company. Project construction is being di rected by Webb's Los Angeles office operations men. AN OLD TIMER among Webb field workers was back at carpentry tasks on the Hughes Tucson job after an absence of more than five years. He's A. C. Jacobson, Jr., CONFERENCE ON JOB DETAIL at missile development center involves, (right, above), pictured chatting from left: Ed Smith, Webb operations man, Los Angeles; Ed Turner and with Bill Warriner, assistant busi John Donatelli, Hughes Aircraft; R. H. Johnson, Webb vice president, Losness manager from the Phoenix Angeles; R. G. Fleming, Webb project superintendent; Ed Spaulding, office and a long-time friend. Hughes Aircraft; E. T. Davies, chief of operations for Webb, Los Angeles; Jacobson has been operating a Dee Stiles and Mike Stanfield, Stiles and Allen Co. trailer park at the Webb-built com- munity of San Manuel, Arizona. Use Of Portable Water Fountains - Proves Popular And Economical ~'"y*f _—— THIRSTY? On housing and other Webb construction 4 projects in the San Diego area, cool and sanitary drinking water is being brought to the workmen — 9 | and not in field cans with paper drinking cups. Photo -• . •. at right shows electric cooler pressure water fountain installed in a small portable building designed by U i Project Supt. Jim Stamatis. Roy Cook is enjoying a refreshing drink while L. M. Riveria awaits his turn. Since it is on runners, the shed can be towed like a sled from one part of the project to another, making it handy for use on housing projects spreading over large areas. Similar pressure water fountains have been used in the past on multi-story buildings con structed by Webb crews, being moved upward floor 1 by floor as the building rises. Superintendent Stamatis found that use of the electric fountain on housing projectsby about 8cut0 per his cent.cost of supplying water to workmen December, 1959 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven What Can Happen When A 110-Foot Truck Crane Boom Becomes Unmanageable ITS TASK COMPLETED, a motor truck crane with a 110-foot boom, belonging to a Phoenix transfer firm, came to grief while being moved from the Camelback Village Square shopping center site where it had been hoisting air conditioning equipment to the rooftop. As the truck rolled over uneven ground, its towering boom began to swing, then toppled the entire rig. What happened is pictured below. y^ m%' m « •"•"m mm>- • 1 BIB '• VmmmW'^i^Mm Yf?' M '$$?%$• '. '..-,- ,+*•*£ ^SI^XM8fc'll' * '**&•• ! DRIVER AND OILER on overturned CEILING of one completed apart PAINTER PHIL WILSON was work crane escaped injury. And had the ment unit gave way as though it ing just like this when the hook angle of boom's fall been a bit had been hit by a bomb. Arrow and iron ball at end of boom cable farther to right, it would have in photo above indicates this por came crashing through ceiling of missed apartment building. tion of the building where boom that apartment. Yet he was penetrated. uninjured. It's easy to understand the queer ^Tyioaraphsf {-// -^f J-ailu antics of the present generation if Is the difference between Success Had nervous breakdown '36 you will recall that high-chairs were easy to fall out of thirty years ago. and Failure the ability to get up one Defeated for Speaker '38 * * # more time than you've been knocked Defeated for Elector '40 down? Defeated for Congress '43 The other day a firm advertised for Well, when someone begins sobbing a nightwatchman, and that night the Elected to Congress '46 on your shoulder about his difficulties, safe was robbed. It certainly pays to try to comfort the sufferer by showing Defeated for Congress '48 advertise. him this . . . Defeated for Senate '55 * # * BIOGRAPHY OF A FAILURE Defeated for Vice President '56 Asked the interested friend, "Why Failed in business 31 Defeated for Senate '58 did you leave the girl's house so early?" Defeated for Legislature '32 Elected President '60 Answered the distressed young man, Again failed in business '33 What better recipe for licking de "While we were sitting on the sofa, Elected to Legislature 34 featism? It is the chronology of the she turned out the light. Guess I can Sweetheart dies '35 life of Abraham Lincoln. take a hint!" Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER December, 1959 Reason's (Imtmgs^^^0**7<^e S044 Extending Season's Greetings is an American tradition, and approach of another Christmas is for me a pleasant reminder of the privilege each Yuletide hrings of sending sincere holiday wishes to our far-flung construction personnel, to our clients and subcon tractors, to the men and women who serve the traveling public at Volume 13 December, 1959 No. 12 our motor hotels and those who operate our diversified businesses, Published by the as well as to a legion of friends who are readers of The Webb Spinner. DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. The year 1959 has been most successful. Size and scope of our 302 South 23rd Ave. operations have broadened tremendously. In highly competitive fields Phoenix, Arizona 5101 San Fernando Road West of business, we can review with pride our achievements this year. Los Angeles, California Yet we must be ever looking to the future, and perhaps the time in the interests of the personnel of its to be careful is when everything is wonderful. And that's true, whether various projects and branch offices EDITORIAL COMMITTEE it's your work or your personal life. Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson Your business may be so prosperous you don't need to cut out R. A. Becker W. J. Miller the fat, don't have to strive for super efficiency, don't have to worry Amy Jo Hafford much about your competition. That's the very time the competition EDITOR Jerry McLain can cut its costs, trim its wastes, increase its skills. Then, at the PHOTOGRAPHER slightest downturn, your competitor is equipped to produce a better Dave Parker product, build a better building, or offer better service at lower cost, REPORTERS so he can sell at lower prices. Then it may be too late to catch up. H. G. Winston, Phoenix A. C (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix We must guard against complacency. The working habits of John Morton, Phoenix every one of us — our willingness to use self-restraint, to do our best Dale Griffith, Los Angeles on the job to avoid unnecessary buying or waste — will play a de Laura Keller, Master Products cisive part in our efforts to achieve even greater successes. CIRCULATION MANAGER L. O. Hoeft Every executive of our company joins me in expressing again Member our deep appreciation for the industry, the cooperation and the International Council of Industrial Editors loyalty of our employees, not only this past year but throughout the and Arizona Industrial Editors history of our operations. We look with confidence to the future, because we are more than ever convinced that our policy of building for investment will mean we'll have "something going for us" if and when the chips are down. Today our company's potential is greater than ever before. We Looking forward to a new year (and firmly believe our leadership is sound. The principles of fair dealing 366 days in this one because it's Leap and quality work, selling a quality product, offering quality service, Year), The Webb Spinner extends have governed every step of our progress, and must govern it in sincere congratulations to these Webb the future. folks who will be observing birthday Looking forward to a new year of promise and opportunity, anniversaries during the first month I extend to all hearty wishes for a Merry Christmas, and the best of of 1960 : everything for 1960. Tom Breen, Phoenix Jan. 3 Jackie Spandau, Phoenix Jan. 3 Ed Davies, Los Angeles Jan. 5 Tom Mulkern, Phoenix Jan. 6 Freda Williams, Los Angeles. Jan. 8 Amy Jo Hafford, Phoenix Jan. 9 J. N. Graves, Phoenix Jan. 9 M. D. Stevens, Las Vegas Jan. 11 Jim Benson, Las Vegas Jan. 12 R. G. Fleming, Tucson Jan. 14 Raymond C. Newton, San Diego Jan. 14 John Morton, Phoenix Jan. 18 Gerald Harris, L.A. Jan. 23 R. G. Kenson, L.A Jan. 26 Fritz Danielson, L.A Jan. 28 * « « THE ROGUE ROOM is a swank new dining rendezvous opened recently "I wish I had enough money to buy at Navarre's, fine restaurant owned by Webb executives and Jima battleship. " Thomason in the Uptown Plaza Shopping Center at Phoenix. Photo "Why'd you want a battleship?" above shows Jim and wife, Emily, entertaining Jeff Chandler of film"I don't ; I want the money." and television fame, a personal friend, in the Rogue Room. "•an Rising Phoenix: 'Miracle' in Arizona Harry B. Warner, I ice-President—Markelii B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co., Cleveland, Ohl "The many areas of management responsibility requii much more than knowing your job. You must be able I think and talk on your feet. You must be able to mal decisions and see them through with tact and consider, tion. The Dale Carnegie Course is a worthwhile inves ment for any man who wants to get ahead because fosters the growth of these qualities." Mr. Warner is graduate of the Dale Carnegie Course. B. R. Gould, General Manager Union Railroad C Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Henry Blackstone, President Servo Corporation of America, Long Island, N.Y. "Any companv can benefit from making the Dale Carne; "The ability to communicate effectively with others and Course available to its employees. Our men gained se win their co-operation is an asset we look for in men mov confidence and the ability to express themselves mo ing to the top. It builds teamwork between our engineers effectively. They developed an understanding that ci and production technicians. The Dale Carnegie Course across departmental lines. The overall result is advanl helps us build this kind of teamwork." Mr. Blackstone is geous to both the individual and the company. » a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Course. Gould >g u gimfnotc of the Dnlc Gtirr.pgic Course. Why executives expect more than job experience in men aiming for promotion Do you know the qualities that give advantage to the man moving ahead ? The seasoned executive knows firsthand how respon sibilities grow as you step up to bigger jobs. Most often these responsibilities take you into situations and areas of human relationships where job experience alone cannot guide you. That is why your employer and most other thinking executives look for personal growth traits in addition to job knowledge when you are considered for advance ment. Among the characteristics they seek are: . . . confident attitudes . . . decision-making ability . . . speaking skills . . . motivating abilities . . . human relations insight These qualities, or any combination of them, generate self-confidence. They strengthen your judgment and your ability to work with and through others. The man who develops them along with his work experience readies himself to move toward the position, prestige and rewards he wants. Many business leaders, like those you see here, are Dale Carnegie graduates. From personal experience they recommend Dale Carnegie training to promising em ployees and associates. As more men and women dis cover every year, it develops innate abilities that make them more valuable to their companies and themselves. The Dale Carnegie Course has demonstrated its worth L. C. Jacobson, Executive I ice-President to companies by helping them build a backlog of pro- Del E. Webb Construction Co., General Manager of motable men—to individuals by equipping them to meet all Del Webb operations, Phoenix, Arizona new responsibilities. It is available today in 1077 cities. "Our business ranges from constructing huge industrial facilities and housing communities to development and Write for convincing proof, without obligation. investment interests. We also design, finance, build and operate commercial and residential properties. Wherever HDALE CARNEGIE we send our men, we rely on them to get things done and adapt to new situations, people with different outlooks. Dale Carnegie training develops the qualities of leadership & ASSOCIATES, me. demanded in our varied operations." Mr. Jacobson is a Suite 155N, 15 West 46th Street/New York 36, N.Y. graduate of the Dale Carnegie Course. DALE CARNEGI M»OTI K.lll OX BINIMSS na's capital has bulged from 103,000 to 357,000, with another 70,000 in "greater: Phoenix," 200,000 more in surrounding Maricopa County. Until World War II, for instance,!': Scottsdale, 11 miles from downtown Phoenix, consisted of a gas station, a Chinese grocery store, and a pool hall. Today, it is Arizona's fifth largest city'" (population: an estimated 15,000) andr the center of a rich colony where the bars are semi-authentic Old West atidr the drinks are Martinis, extra dry. With" the surging demand for factory and home - sites, fanners are getting $20,000 an';' acre for land that once went for $20, and pastel-painted ranch houses are crowd-' ing out the alfalfa and the lettuce. Cool Water: Paradoxically, thepop ulation boom has helped solve the state's - water problem. An acre of homes uses-' only one-third of the water that an acre'" of irrigated farmland needs, and during - the past six years, Arizona's total wa-a tered land has shrunk from 1.3 million -; acres to an even 1 million acres. Farmers, ;' who sell their cultivated land to build- ' Four hundred and tiventy years ago, Francisco Vdsqucz de Coronado ers, however, often use their fattened * bank accounts to start new deep-well 'K and his armored conquistadors clanked all over the spectacular scenery irrigation in places like the Harquahala": of Arizona seeking the mythical, gold-paved Seven Cities of Cibola. Valley, west of Phoenix. That helped The Spaniards never found treasure, but latter-day prospectors did. raise crop income (to $271 million a* The new gold seekers, using computers and checkbooks instead of picks, year today vs. $265 million three years -' a are making strikes more fabulous than Coronado's pipe dreams. ago), with cotton still king at $145 mil- - a Associate Editor John A. Conway and John P. Nugent of NEWSWEEK'S lion. (Copper mining is still important, but its value declined from $485 million " Los Angeles bureau focus the SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS on ever-growing in 1956 to $315 million last year.) Arizona and its fabulous pace-setting capital city. Phoenix. War and the strategic dispersal of in- '<• dustry helped bring business into theffe North of Flagstaff this week, workmen income has zoomed from $889 million to desert. "The detonator of growth for* were back at work on the $421 million $2.2 billion—a 146 per cent growth vs. Arizona," says Sen. Barry Goldwater. »l| Glen Canyon Dam, which eventually will 83 per cent for the U.S. as a whole. scion of a Phoenix department-store fam- -j add 900,000 kilowatts of new electricity Agriculture, mining, and tourism helped ily, "was World War II." But the thing » to the state's power grid. To the south, spark the boom, but the state is proudest that brought the valley explosive peace- a New York real-estate man William of its industrial growth. Arizona turned time growth for Phoenix-and all Arizona !• Zeckendorf (whose grandfather was an out about $500 million worth of manu —is a simple priceless asset: Fabulous il Arizona trader) had bought the aban factured goods in 1959 vs. only $86 weather. During the past 30 years, for i' doned copper-mining town of Clarkdale million in 1946. instance, the city's airport has been and was talking of putting up a $15 mil Heart and hub of the activity is Phoe closed in by bad weather for only four,. lion mill to recover iron and other met nix, the sprawling city which is the capi and one-half hours. Year round, the hu-Jt* als from a 30 million-ton slag pile. Below tal of Arizona's business as well as its midity stays in the blissful 30s, and in k Tucson, Bing Crosby and a well-heeled politics. Right now, Conrad Hilton has answer to the blistering desert summers, -:i group of Hollywood celebrities were scouts looking for a spot in Phoenix to the Phoenicians have air-conditioned ev- A staking out miles of silk-stocking ranches. plant a new 100-room hotel. On Central erything but the streets. (At most, only to Navajos in the state's northeast corner Avenue, the capital's main street, a $50 200 homes in the city are without it.) K were getting rich on the Four Corners million "uptown" center is changing the A Place to Visit: The weather, or oil strikes. The quest for more oil and skyline with a twenty-story, $6 million course, is made to order for tourists. gas had brought in companies like Shell office building that will be the tallest This year, 3.5 million visitors will pass .- and Humble—along with Zsa Zsa Gabor between Los Angeles and Dallas. Gen through Arizona, leave behind $275 mil- ; who leased 30,000 acres in Mojave eral Electric's new Phoenix plant has lion. Some will rough it in tents around County for exploration. Around Fort just made the company's largest ship the fantastically-colored gorges of Grand . Huachuca, southeast of Tucson, where ment of computers—$4 million worth—to Canyon, but 2 million will come to Phoe- , horse soldiers once rode out after California, something that must have nix's valley to pay anywhere from $8 for Hi Geronimo, the Pentagon has set up an given the West Coast electronic giants a motel bed to $65 'for a night at the Ii electronics proving ground and four com a point to ponder. Camelback Inn. panies are bidding furiously for contracts l>o|iulati<>ii llursl: The postwar mi To house the tourist influx, the Salt that may eventually run to $150 million. gration that has pushed Arizona's popu River Vallev, which already boasts hall • ft is all part of a miracle in the desert lation from 714,000 in 1949 to 1.3 million the state's ' 100,000 hotel,' motel, and which has made electronics plants next- has centered on Phoenix and the moun dude-ranch rooms, is building still more door neighbors to starkly beautiful me tain-rimmed Salt River Valley around accommodations. At Apache Junction, 30 • sas. In the past ten years, Arizona's the city. During the same years, Arizo miluu trom Phoenix and hard by "lf > SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS Superstition Mountains, ground was bro sity, says manager Allen M. Creighton. his state's "advantageous labor pool." ken last week for a $2 million hotel, (Phoenix is fighting back. Its Arizona One of the advantages appears to be the complete with landing strip. State University, once a normal school, scarcity of unions—Arizona also has a Every state has its tourists, of course, will soon award Ph.D.'s in engineering.) so-called "right to work" law—and the cur but Arizona enjoys a plethora of a special While Tucson hopes to share in the rent crop of newcomers should do little kind—the upper-bracket businessmen. high-salaried harvest in electronics, it to change things. Half the new citizens They've helped transform Arizona from also makes no bones about its abundance are professionals and skilled workers, a covv-copper-and-cotton economy. "The of cheap labor. It is beating the drums who don't take to unions as readily as millionaires liked it and went native," for more clothing firms to join the four others.* "The cards aren't all stacked on explains Herbert A. Leggett, vice presi teen already there making everything labor's side here," says Phoenix's Mayor dent of Phoenix's Valley National Bank, from sun togs for the station-wagon set to Jack Williams. But, he adds, "we hope whose 60 branches blanket the state. sacks for squaws. "We have 10,000 work that management doesn't ride a good Philip K. Wrigley, for instance, vacations ers right now available for jobs," says horse to death." in an enormous hilltop hacienda in Phoe Mayor Don Hummel. Other cities will Whether they carry union cards or not, nix—and next door is the Arizona Bilt- gladly welcome industries even with the newcomers will continue to jam into more Hotel, which he also owns. George scenic flaws. Flagstaff, surrounded by Arizona. Valley National Bank vice presi Borg of Borg-Wamer checked into Phoe stands of ponderosa pine, dreams of pa dent Leggettfigures tha t 10 million cars nix's Jokake Inn for four days in 1944 and per plants. And last week, Southwest pass through the state every year (and stayed four months. He never bought the Forest Industries, which already has a along Phoenix's Central Avenue, which research plant he came for, but ended lumber mill in Flagstaff, announced plans averages 32,000 cars a day, the gag runs up building the Casa Blanca resort. for a $40 million paper mill in Snowflake, A Place to Stay: The millionaires 140 miles away near the Mesa Redondo. *The state, of course, does have its labor brought more than resorts. Motorola, for To man all this, Arizonans keep on troubles. The rambunctious Mine, Mill, and instance, moved into Phoenix because its Smelters Union, for instance, keeps the copper hoping the tenderfeet will keep flocking mines in continuous uproar. Kennecott called late chairman, Paul Galvin, liked the in to stock what Gov. Paul Fannin calls back its workers last week, but other mines, at place. Today, the Chicago-based com Bisbee and Ajo still were strikebound. pany's three plants in the Phoenix- Scottsdale area employ 3,000 with a total payroll of $18 million a year. Although Arizona's climate attracts 5,000 new residents each month, they wouldn't stay long without jobs. But the jobs are there, 2,000 new ones a month. Phoenix, for instance, has added 270 new industries in the past ten years, 50 in the last twelve months. Once they arrive, the newcomers bur geon like the crops they displace. AiResearch had 170 workers in its 70,000-square-foot Phoenix aircraft com ponent plant in 1950; now it has 650,000 square feet of plant and a payroll of 3,700, biggest in the city. GE picked Phoenix for a computer plant after check ing more than 180 cities (because "it was the best possible location in the U.S.", says chairman Ralph Cordiner), and it was ready to tear down a wall for Wide-open spaces: Room for giants such as Reynolds Metals expansion by tbe time the new factory opened last February. Cowboys and Ph.D.'s: Phoenix prides itself on catches like GE, Reynolds Metals, Kaiser, and Sperry Rand, but other cities have been beating the bushes, too. In Tucson, where more than one resident dismisses Phoenix as "a cow- town that thinks it's a city," Howard Hughes' missile plant is the biggest em ployer in the state (5,000 workers). And with the 10,000-student University of Arizona to exploit, Tucson has made a strong bid for more electronics plants. (fts current roster includes Westinghouse Air Brake's Melpar, Inc., Collins Radio, Babb Co., and RCA.) A year ago, Tucson - set up a research foundation (backed by $100,000 in contributions) and sere naded 12,000 electronics firms with come-hither letters. The lures seem to be working. Half of RCA's 90 Tucson em ployes are taking a&gsses•.-&&• the univer- Winter in Arizona: Poolside fashion shows for vacationists SPOTLIGHT OS BUSINESS that "all 10 million meet here"). Many of them will park in the state for good. The state, in fact, is a land of strangers. Gov ernor Fannin himself is Kentucky-bom. Leggett was a New York stock broker. Barry Goldwater sums up the booster spirit of Phoenix and all Arizona. "Before I die," the senator says, "Phoenix will be one of the five or six biggest cities in the U.S. There is no stopping this state." lore .. Climate w ftftftft Yuma Arizona's wealth is as old as the planet and as new as tomorrow. Fn g the Grand Canyon in the north to the Mexican border, the state abounds! ancient wonders—the Painted Desert, Monument Valley, the Petrified Fore1 To this, modern engineering has added its own sights—the 726-foot heiji of Hoover Dam, the 300 miles of military electronic proving grounds. Sun and scenery bring millions to Arizona simply to look. Others coir stay, to man the miles of spanking-new plants erected every year. PopulsJ has been growing by 75,000 a year. Many come seeking new healtj the desert air. Many more come for opportunity. Arizona wage a111 average $4,467 a year, compared with $4,344 for the U.S. as a M Gfen Cooyon Ddm md Canyon T[~ • Miami Superior *Roy Morenci Cao/iage Dam Coolidge • Hayden • Casa Grande ^ Mammoth * Eloy * Son Manuel Silverbell Douglas Vol. 14, No. 1 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JANUARY, 1960 8 Pages Thousands Throng Sun City; National Attention Won By Retirement Community They named it Sun City, Arizona, spread the word that its magic offering was a "new way of life" for senior citizens, and the new retirement com munity launched near Phoenix by Del E. Webb Development Co. became a success almost overnight. Built virtually "from the ground up" in three months, Sun City rose from what formerly was a cotton patch on the Boswell farms a half-mile west of Marinette, 12 miles northwest of Phoenix on U.S. Highway 60-70-89. It was "born" on thefirst da y of the new year; in three days welcomed more than 100,000 visitors whose en thusiasm exploded into sale in 72 hours of 237 homes, representing more than $2,250,000 in housing. Sales were expected to exceed the 400 mark be WHAT WAS THIS new "active way of life" they were offering America's fore Sun City was a month old, for in senior citizens at Del Webb's Sun City? They came by the thousands fo itsfirst fe w weeks of life the commu see, and in the first three days the new Arizona retirement community near Phoenix was open to public inspection, visitors exceeded the nity was winning national recognition. 100,000 mark. One writer said crowds which came to view model homes What they saw not only prompted and Sun City recreational and shopping facilities resembled a midwayman y of the visitors to buy, but scene at state fair time. brought from all a deluge of praise and compliments. For already com plete and ready for use before Sun City developers offered a home for sale were afine shopping center and com plete recreational facilities, including thefirst nin e holes of a full-scale 18- hole championship golf course. Flanking the sweeping curve at one side of the golf course were other rec reational facilities — a beautiful com munity center, completely-equipped crafts building, an agricultural center, Olympic-size swimming pool, outdoor archery range, lawn bowling, shuffle- board, horseshoe and croquet courts, as well as a huge golf putting green. And the homes didn't frighten even the most timid of the retired when it came to price. Top-quality masonry homes were priced at $8,500 to ENTERTAINMENT for visitors, and an opportunity tor them to see how $11,300, including what Webb build Sun City's future residents could enjoy life outdoors, was presented oner s believe is the only $9,750 home in a sunny afternoon in the open-air Greek Theatre which is a part of the America bordering a regulation golf spacious patio of the Community Center. It looks out across broad green course. vistas ot the Sun City golf course. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER January, 1960 It Was A Damp But Happy Christmas For Webb Employees YULE PARTY for Phoenix area personnel of Del E. Webb Construction Co., Del E. Webb Development Co. and Del E. Webb Motor Hotel Co. was held at HiwayHouse, and a pre-Christmas rain even forced the group inside for the annual Christmas party picture usually taken in bright sunshine outdoors. REVIEW of J 959 achievements and forecast for I960 in construction, housing developments and motor hotel operations was given by L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president. Then came presentation of a substantial Christmas bonus to each employee. HANDSOME BUFFET luncheon (tasty, too) was served all hands by Ralph Rapauno's HiwayHouse culinary artists. January, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Yule Bonuses And Bright 1960 Forecasts Feature Parties BONUS CHECK is presented to YULE BONUS brought a big smile Morris DeConinck by Mr. Webb. from Secretary Enola Owens. Webb Executive Is Featured Really Roughing It National advertising placed by Dale Speaking of "camping out" . . . Mil- FANCY TIE and sox with Del Webb ford Rigg and wife, Ellen, transferring insignia, made by his wife, Carnegie & Associates, Inc., of New Nadine, were sported proudly by from the U.S. Air Force Academy York in the Jan. 4 issue of Time and Baird York. project in Colorado to the Edwards Newsweek magazines featured L. C. Air Force rocket test stand project in Well, That Takes The Cake [Jacobson, executive vice-president and Southern California, found less than general manager of all Del Webb oper commodious accommodations on ar When Jerry Odor of the Phoenix ations, in a two-page layout with three rival. Reported Office Manager Rigg: office operations department walked "Furniturefinally arrive d but we were into the employees lounge on Dec. 20 )ther top U.S. business executives. really camping in the house before it with a pretty (and tasty) cake for Theme of the advertisement was "Why got there. Bought a bed and stole bed fellow workers, it wasn't his birthday! executives expect more than job ex- ding from the dog and cat. Used cans It was Jerry's way of announcing the >erience in men aiming for promo- from dog and cat food as cups and arrival that morning of a fine eight ion." Mr. Jacobson is a graduate of ash trays with a packing case as a cof pound, six-ounce son, Kenneth Joseph he Dale Carnegie course. fee table." Odor. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER January, 196C They Came By The Thousands To See A UNIQUE new Arizona retirement en with interested visitors when this i public "open house" week-end pro! homes now are rising is pictured rn Modern shopping center includes Safe Fntram way supermarket, variety store, drug Visitors strollspacious landscaped taste." store, barber and beauty shop, laundro grounds while a stern-visaged 'Tiki' Sun Cil mat and smaller shops. stands guard. January, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five n The Sun For America's Senior Citizens LINE OF CARS bringing visitors on a Sunday afternoon extended beyond Sun City for two miles along U. S. Highway 60-70-89 (see arrow), the main Phoenix-Los Angeles route. IfiL.-..iJLJP Ytllfato* '',iU I V«L_. 9 ..Nl' f'jli^'._l8!**"'•- "." a Hi-=S 1 EC - *' ' ^'~ ~ !*-J"a — .^ j^.. r3 ironged Rental apartments for those awaiting a initial completion of homes will be followed Olympic size pool has hydro-therapy i which by similar Sun City co-operative apart equipment in one section, sunning ter ments. race and bathhouse. One of five models of Sun City homes, Attractively-landscaped community cen center, ranging in price from $8,500 to ter patio offers opportunity to laze in ted for $11,300, being offered to senior citi bright daytime sun, dance under stars zens 50 or older. at night. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER January, 1960 News In Photos From Sun City ARIZONA'S GOVERNOR, Paul IN WOODWORKING SHOP, Governor Fannin dons an apron and shows Fannin (center) is escorted on Sun a working knowledge of some of its equipment. Looking on, from left, City inspection tour by Webb ex are Mr. Jacobson, Mayor Byron Peck of Glendale, Mayor Don Wagoner ecutives, Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson, of Peoria, Mayor Sam Mardian of Phoenix, and Tom Austin, Sun City left, and Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton. activities director. PHOENIX RADIO REPORTERS are pictured (above left) at Sun City interviewing Mayor Mardian, Mr. Jacobson, Tom Breen, Webb housing division director who heads up Sun City development, and Governor Fannin. ABOVE, RIGHT — TV Cameraman Ralph Painter from KOOL-TV, Phoenix, photographs Mr. Jacobson chatting with Jim Boswell II at Sun City official opening program. Retirement community mushroomed on former Boswell ranch lands. iHF.SPi :;_J_ft^" •r "EiS/5-J VC-^A GRAND OPENING of new Safeway supermarket in Sun City shopping center brought crowds of shoppers. It serves not only Sun City but residents of communities for miles around. January, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Travel Writers And Prize Winners Visit; Sun City Entry In National Races JOURNALISTS from over the nation, visiting Arizona on the I960 "Quickie Vacation" spon sored by Trans World Airlines, en joyed a patio cocktail party (above, left) at Sun City under bright sun shine Jan. 9, then lunched, then toured the community. Later they were to sing the praises of Sun City in stories in some of the nation's major newspapers. ABOVE — Pres. Del Webb chats with a couple of visiting travel writers. PHOTOGRAPHERS accompanying the travel writers had a field day at Sun City photographing colorfully-garbed Mexican musicians. One (above, right) flattens out for an angle shot of attractive singer with orchestra. WINNERS of the first-prize $10,000 two-bedroom home in national contest to name the re tirement community, Mr. and Mrs. BEFORE SUN CITY was a month old, Florida folks were hearing of the E. A. Britton of Eugene, Ore., are new Arizona community. Mel Larson of Phoenix, at wheel, saw to that shown about Sun City, their future as he roared into the national stock car races at Daytona Beach in this home, by Tom Breen, Webb hous Del Webb's Sun City entry. Crew members are, from left: Gene Sherbo, ing division director. mechanic; Lyle Stelter, crew chief, and "Braz" Braswell, engine chief. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER January, 196C Webb Folks Entertained At Sun City MASTER PzochtoU McuudA&Upi It was midst a gay Yuletide at mosphere that Christmas dinner was served at Master Products. Margaret Puerto, with her usual finesse at plan ning, provided a delicious dinner fea turing baked ham and fried chicken. Lovely background music was fur A PRE-OPENING LOOK at Sun City was given Webb employees from nished through efforts of James Giallo. Phoenix construction and motor hotel headquarters on Dec. 27, with Festive table decorations and a housing department folks as hosts. They lunched in community building Christmas tree bedecked in all its holi (above), toured model homes, shopping center and community recrea day finery, with snowflakes seeming to tional facilities, then gathered on golf course and driving range (below)float above it, were added touches to for links contests. Mrs. Helen Ashton is pictured (below, left) competingth e gala event. in driving contest for distance, and Jim Miller (below, right) lofts an iron shot in accuracy test. Jovial Jack Sweeny, sales manager, was master of ceremonies. Dee Ford played and sang several Western num bers before departing for Gallup, \ - N.M., where she had an engagement VI to play the violin. She also played her guitar as accompanist while Mollie Go -e^e&arW- ^•i&t mez, Merrie Gammill, Vic Zarookian and Eddy Tehan sang Christmas carols. 1 j£ JSJ -••»2J . Daddy 0' Del Kromer gave his ver sion of a beatnik's "It was the Night before Christmas" for the enjoyment of all. And it wasn't lightning, nor Superman, but Clarence Kremser who Winners Named In Sun City Golf kept his camera busy during the party. Competition For Webb Employees A highlight of the program came when Mr. Hal Webb announced that Winners in the Webb employee golf employees are to receive additional competition at the Sun City reception coverage on their hospital insurance for employees, their families and plan. friends last month, were reported by 14 January, 1960 No. 1 Club Professional Fielding Abbott as Otsie Coring got back to Master Products just in time to enjoy the Published by the follows: DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. Driving contest, men, for distance: Christmas party with friends, but be 302 South 23rd Ave. John Meeker, 269 yards; Gene Sauer, came a "two-time loser", having to go Phoenix, Arizona back to the hospital again for another 5101 San Fernando Road West 260 yards; Bob Garland, 256 yards; Los Angeles, California for accuracy, Art Deiner, 3% feet off operation. Welcome back! n the interests of the personnel of its various projects and branch offices center; ladies, for distance, Mary Lou EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Sauer, 177 yards; Lois Sauer, 167 Del E. Webb L. C Jacobson yards; Mrs. Jim Miller, 157 yards; for R. A, Becker W. J Miller Why Bowlers Keep Bowling Amy Jo Hafford accuracy, Mrs. Jack McPhee, 3^2 feet EDITOR off center. George Shaw, warehouseman at the Jerry .McLain Closest to pin (hole-in-one contest) Los Angeles office, virtually set the PHOTOGRAPHER 140-yard hole, men: John Morton, 7% Dave Parker lanes on fire while bowling with the REPORTERS feet from pin; Blackie Hoeft, 13V2 Del Webb team in the Building Trades H. G. Winston, Phoenix feet from pin; 50-yard hole, ladies: League in Glendale, Calif., last month. <\. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix Lois Sauer, 15 feet from pin; Mary John Morton, Phoenix George, who did his first bowling last Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Lou Sauer, 19 feet from pin. season, rolled a pair of 205 games and Laura Keller, Master Products Golf tourney (Calloway system) looked like he was headed for a certain CIRCULATION MANAGER jgggfe men: John Meeker, low gross of 42; 600 series and possible 205 triplicate L. O. Hoeft liCIEl Member Joe Ashton, low net of 39; ladies, when he missed in the ninth frame of International Council of Mary Lou Sauer, low gross of 50; Mrs. the third game. But he wound up with Industrial Editors and Arizona Industrial Editors Jack McPhee, low net of 41. 174 and a 584 series. Vol. 14, No. 2 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FEBRUARY, 1960 8 Pages Sahara Addition Topped Out' At Webb Builders Push Construction 14-Story Height They have finished pushing sky Of Huge Rocket Engine Test Stand ward the superstructure and "topped out" the 14-story hi-rise addition to Construction men and rocket the swank Hotel Sahara at Las Vegas, experts are readying three giant test Nev., and interior work now will be sites at Edwards Air Force Base in pushed to endeavor to make possible Southern California for one of the summertime use of the IS1/*; million biggest engine testing jobs in Ameri in new construction and remodeling ca's rocket history — keeping the being done by Webb crews. NASA single-chamber 1.5 million- Incorporating 204 new rooms and pound thrust space engine on the deluxe suites, specifically designed to ground for static power tests. double as luxurious accommodations Working on granite cliffs overlook or hospitality rooms for convention ing the Mohave desert, the crews are use, the 14-story structure will in constructing facilities totaling $12 crease Sahara accommodations to million, all designed for the F-l en more than 600 rooms, all built by gine now under development by Roc Webb workmen. ketdyne, a division of North American Other features of the new construc Aviation, Inc. tion are a coffee shop seating 300 per Into the largest of the three struc sons and an adjoining Old English tures, Test Stand 1-B, the Del E. Webb dining room on the ground level, a Construction Co. is pouring 12,000 (Continued on Page 3) yards of concrete for footings — enough concrete to pave one mile of MARK OF THE TOP. Joyous Joan Adams gets up to concrete facts eight-lane freeway — under supervi atop the 14-story addition to -•• sion of the U. S. Army Corps of En Hotel Sahara in Las Vegas, Nev., gineers. The foundation structure was where "topping" ceremonies re designed by Aetron, a division of cently marked completion of ce Aerojet General Corp. ment pouring on the topmost floor Rising to a height of 230 feet from ot Nevada's tallest building. 1-B's base will be a heavily reinforced girder framework, designed to hold Arizona's Growing Sun City Opens Second the engine in place while test engineers check its performance. Exhaust flames Unit Of 675 Homes For Senior Citizensfro m the engine will be directed down Fifty-nine days after it first was and the construction schedule had ward and outward as they hit a 260- opened to public inspection, Sun City, been stepped up by almost six months ton steel flame deflector. the Webb retirement village near so that these would be completed and Water flowing into the deflector at Phoenix which claims the title of "Ari ready for occupancy by mid-summer. 60,000 gallons a minute will protect zona's Fastest Growing City," opened Construction crews will move into the it from the melting heat of the exhaust its second unit of 675 homes late this second unit late in May, according to stream. Below the stand, a small lake month. Tom Breen, head of the Webb housing will be constructed to conserve the wa The first two-day week-end they department. ter for subsequent runs. were offered, 43 future residents pur Meanwhile, Sun City and what it The F-l's turbopump will deliver chased Sun City homes in the second was offering the nation's senior citi fuel and oxidizer from stainless steel increment, which will be built around zens was getting national attention. spheres overhead at the rate of ap the second nine holes of the 18-hole Bob Considine of New York, na proximately three tons per second dur all grass golf course. tionally - syndicated writer, devoted ing mainstage operation of the mam Almost all of the 575 homes in the one of his entire columns to the Webb moth space engine. first increment already had been sold. (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 4) Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER February, 1960 Sun City's Second Retired Phoenix Civil Employees Throng Sun City Unit Of Homes Being Offered (Continued from Page 1) community and it appeared in news papers throughout the nation. Polly Noyes, travel editor of the San Fran cisco Chronicle, highlighted a column about her visit to the Valley of the Sun with a description of Sun City, and it got recognition also from Joan Winchell of the Los Angeles Times. William W. Yates devoted his entire column, "From A Travel-Log," in the Jan. 31 issue of the Chicago Sunday Tribune to the story of the creation of Sun City. Marietta Sonnenberg wrote in the Rochester, Minn., Post- Bulletin of her Sun City visit. Colum nists for the Mason City, la., Globe- WHEN SUN CITY was selected as the February meeting site for members Gazette and Nebraska City, Neb., of the Phoenix chapter, National Association of Retired Civil Employees, chapter officers suggested preparations to welcome an attendance of News-Press visited and wrote about 100. Instead, almost 300 members and friends showed up for a tour ot the community. Arizona and Califor the new retirement community, a musical entertainment program and nia newspapers have given Sun City serving of refreshments. Patio outside Sun City community building is considerable prominence. shown (above) thronged with old-timers. Jack McDonald, assistant city editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, wrote a Speed Merchant Advertises Sun City In Florida lengthly article in the Jan. 26 issue on Sun City, illustrated by a photo of the community swimming pool, and Richard Torkelson, news editor of the Santa Rosa, Calif., Press Democrat, described the retirement city at length in an illustrated article Jan. 14. Editor James W. Corrigan of South west Builder and Contractor devotes three pages of his Feb. 26 issue to a story and photos of the rapidly-grow ing retirement city. THE COLORS of Arizona's Sun City were carried into the national stock car races at Daytona Beach, Fla., this month by Mel Larson of Phoenix, PIT FUN. Cotton Owens, left, who and while he didn't wind up among the winners, Florida certainly heard drove a 1960 Pontiac to victory in about Sun City. Mel distributed a number ot popular Sun City sombreros, a 25-mile televised national stock including one, as shown in photo above, to Ingemar Johannsen, world car championship event at Daytona heavyweight boxing champion. Larson, also of Swedish descent, re Beach was so pleased with his Sun ported the champ showed up at the races to drive one of the compact City sombrero that he and Steve cars, but the company which has his life insured ruled against the idea. Petrask, pit crewman, fashioned The Arizonan reported his souped-up Pontiac attained speeds ot 145 this comical face on the back of miles per hour and greater on the steeply-banked Daytona Beach track his car for the cameraman. before developing fuel trouble. February, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Nevada's Tallest Building Reaches 14-Story Height HIGH HI-JINKS. Up 14 floors, Ross Micciche, labor foreman, decked out in traditional top hat and tails, joins Joan Adams in a "trowel toast" during topping-out cere monies on the Hotel Sahara's 14- story addition at Las Vegas, Nev. NEW HOTEL SAHARA will look like this (below) on completion. SLATED to be placed in use this summer, this is how the new 14- story skyscraper addition to Hotel Sahara looked in mid-February (above). Towering over all the glit tering hotels on the "Strip" at Las Vegas, the structure is a project of Del E. Webb Construction Co., which built the original Hotel Sa hara. Sahara Adding 204 New Rooms (Continued from Page 1) 700-person capacity convention hall, bar and lounge, large private banquet hall and general offices on the second floor and — capping the new structure and overlooking the pool and sur rounding area — an exotic, Polyne sian-styled Sky Terrace room for din ing and dancing. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER February, 1960 Mountain Of Concrete Goes fnfo Test Stand Footings A SMALL MOUNTAIN of concrete and steel, including enough cement to pave a mile of eight-lane superhigh way, is being poured into the footings alone for a gigantic rocket engine test stand which Webb workmen are erecting at Edwards Air Force Base in the Southern California desert. Engineers' Problem: What It Takes In A Test Stand To Hold Down Biggest Rocket Engine (Continued from Page 1) the past 12 years, engineers are using so far. Part of a 300,000-acre testing do the same basic design approach. But All testing operations for the three main for aircraft and missiles, the they've expanded their slide rules to stands will be controlled from a spa Leuhman Ridge site where the Webb figure what it takes to hold down a cious recording center imbedded in a project is underway is studded with million and a half pounds of rocket granite mountain between the struc test stands used in development of thrust, almost five times that tested tures. Air Force missiles and rocket engine 111., father of Howard E. Boice, chief systems. Death Takes Parent Of Two of operations at the Phoenix office, Rocketdyne personnel are supervis Webb Employees At Phoenix ing most of the design and construc passed away Feb. 11 after a brief ill tion of the new complex and will Two Phoenix office employees lost ness. Services were held in La Grange. operate the stands for the National a parent taken by death this month. For many years owner and operator Aeronautics and Space Administra The passing Feb. 6 of Mrs. Hallie of a cardboard carton company, Mr. tion. Tests of complete engines will Pipes, 63, mother of Secretary Donna Boice contracted pneumonia the day be made following preliminary runs Netz, saddened her many friends. Mrs. after he retired and never recovered of component units at Rocketdyne's Pipes, visiting her daughter from her because of his advanced age. He and Propulsion Field Laboratory north home in Adrian, Mo., was stricken by west of Los Angeles. a heart attack. Services were held in Mrs. Boice, who survives, celebrated Relying heavily upon test stand Adrian. their 50th wedding anniversary in construction experience gained over Harry W. Boice, 77, of La Grange, 1958. February, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five THIS UNDERGROUND CONTROL CENTER will be used by Rocketdyne engineers to test a 1.5 million-pound thrust rocket engine tor which Del Webb workmen now are building a huge concrete and steel test stand. HIGH CRANE assists Kaiser steel workers erecting PATCH PANEL which acts as instrumentation distri mammoth sections of one of three huge stands for bution center tor rocket engine tests is examined by testing of giant rocket engine at Edwards Air Force Rocketdyne Engineers Darrell Lannigan, left, and Base in Southern California. John Pilcic. — (All Photos by Rocketdyne.) Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER February, 196( Plans Being Finalized For Shopping Centers At Phoenix, San Diego Considerable progress was being achieved this month in wrapping up the planning for multi-million dollar shopping centers which Del E. Webb Construction Co. will build in Phoenix and San Diego. Montgomery Ward and Co., J. C. Penney's and Korricks announced signing of leases for spacious stores in the Chris-Town center to rise at 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road in northwest Phoenix. First step in development of the big Grossmont Center adjacent to U. S. Highway 80 at San Diego was taken with start of construction of a new thoroughfare which will connect the projected shopping city with Jackson Boulevard and Highway 80. Once completed, it will eliminate Havenhill Road, which now bisects the shopping center site to Grossmont Hospital. The new route then will be come thefirst complete d phase of the perimeter thoroughfare which ulti mately will serve Grossmont Center from all adjacent traffic routes. Roy Drachman, leasing agent for TWOTWO BROTHERS, Charles Korrick, left, and Abe Korrick, who are among Webb, said leases already have been Phoenix' pioneer merchants, sign lease for new 90,000-square foot department store in huge Chris-Town Shopping Center to be built in signed with Marston's, one of the northwest section ot Arizona's capital city by Del E. Webb Construction leading San Diego firms, for a store Co. Looking on are Joseph T. Melczer, attorney for the Korricks, and of 150,000 square feet, and with Ronald P. Klein of Webb legal department. The new store will be the Montgomery Ward for a store of more first outside the downtown business district for the Korricks. than 120.000 square feet. Negotiations also have been completed, Drachman said, with S. H. Kress for a junior Del Webb Sees 1960 As 'Great Year For Real Estate Business' department store of 45,000 square feet and with F. W. Woolworth for one of Prediction that 1960 "will be a very their activities, declaring: "Tourism its typical operations. good year" and also "a great year for is now one of the largest businesses The Chris-Town Center at Phoenix the real estate business" was made by in the world — so we got into the will have more than 600,000 square Pres. Del E. Webb when he addressed motel business, where people can drive feet in its initial phase and will fea the 38th inaugural meeting of the directly to their room and park their ture an air-conditionad mall,first suc h Beverly Hills Realty Board last month cars. We also engage in manufactur in the California city. in a regional center in Arizona. ing, mining, real estate, operation of The Penney store will have over one Mr. Webb told of working as a car shopping centers, restaurants and golf and one-half acres of floor area. penter for $6 a day in Phoenix 35 courses — and baseball," he added years ago, traced the growth of his with a smile. construction firm, then said: "You probably want to know what "But times have changed, and car the Yankees will do in 1960," he de penters now get $25 to $30 a day in clared. "I can tell you this much — The March winds may sometimes stead of $6. This has brought inflation, be on the brisk side, but our congratu and labor costs will go up and there we won't finish last." lations are the warmest to these Webb will be more inflation unless we hold Mr. Webb also was a speaker at folks who will be celebrating birthday the line. I think our only hope is to the recent fourth annual Rocky Moun anniversaries during that month: try to hold the line against such infla tain Conference attended by 50 top Roland Beaulieu, Las Vegas ...Mar. 1 tion. We cannot predict beyond a year executives from nine Western states T. F. Hetherington, Phoenix....Mar. 2 in advance now, because we'll soon at the San Marcos Hotel in Chandler. Kelly Crosson, Phoenix Mar. 4 have a shorter work week." Each man discussed problems relating Jean Hugh, Phoenix Mar. 6 He spoke of the nationwide move on to his particularfield whic h were of C. T. Powers, Phoenix Mar. 17 the part of corporations to diversify interest to the group as a whole. February, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Architect Pictures New Stores For Chris-Town Center NEW KORRICKS STORE in Webb's Chris-Town Shopping Center, as pictured by Architect Welton Becket and As sociates, will anchor the east wing ot the shopping city, fronting on Bethany Home Road and Fifteenth Avenue. The two-story structure will have a centrally-located escalator under a skylight with a fountain and live palms as decorations. Second level of the store will be devoted to house and home wares, including furnishings, gifts, television and such items. An outdoor shop for garden equipment, lawn furniture and toys is included in the plans. HUGE STORE for Montgomery Ward and Co. is at west end ot plaza, fronting on Bethany Home and Nineteenth Avenue. It will be two stories, 252 by 308 feet in size, with architectural treatment by the Becket firm that will be outstanding. Nineteenth Avenue frontage is at right center in photo, and one-story portion at rear of Wards will house its garden shop and automotive service facilities. age ci TVeddUtf 3e£U Kit? ^on TOM frntputy Se&iet&Ue* At Los Angeles, a bridal shower for petite Sandra (Sandy) Johnson, secretary at the Los Angeles office to Dale Griffith, assistant business manager, was held by her feminine co-workers on Jan. 20, prior to her Valentine Day wedding to William (Bill) Shaw, former Webb employee now with Consolidated Rock Products Co. Since it is difficult for the feminine employees at the Los Angeles office to get together during evenings because of travel distances between their homes, they gathered as luncheon guests of Webb Secretary Enola Owens at Annan- dale Golf Club near Pasadena. On return to the office the honoree found the confer ence room gaily decorated with a beautifulfloral arrange AT PHOENIX. Pretty Jean Moore, ment of ginger blossoms and anther- secretary to Operations Chief How ium from Hawaii, and an array of ard E. Boice at the Webb office in household and personal gifts await Phoenix, and Robert E. Hugh were ing her. married Jan. 22 in the Covenant Due to being a victim of the flu, Presbyterian Church in Phoenix Martha Little, operations department and honeymooned in Palm Springs, secretary, was unable to attend. Office Calif. Jean met her husband-to-be while vacationing in Phoenix from Volume 14 February, 1960 No. 2 switchboard operations were taken over during the luncheon by Ralph her Amarillo, Tex., home, decided Published by the after returning to Texas that she DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. Boatman, Hughes job accountant and preferred living in Phoenix, came 302 South 23rd Ave. a handy man to have around, and Phoenix, Arizona Project Office Mgr. Jerry Harris snap back to join Webb personnel, then 5101 San Fernando Road West accepted Bob Hugh's proposal. Her Los Angeles, California ped the picture above, which shows, wedding gown was of taffeta and in the interests of the personnel of its from left: Mary Somerfeld, Charlotte chantilly lace, with a scalloped various projects and branch offices EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Hanft, Kaye Smith, Freda Williams, neckline and long sleeves accent Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson Patricia Behrens, Sandra Johnson, ing a fitted bodice. The skirt had R. A. Becker W. J. Miller Melba Parker and Enola Owens. floating back panels. Her three- Amy Jo Hafford tiered veil was caught by a half-hat EDITOR Jerry McLain A genius is a man seen driving his of lace and tulle, trimmed with PHOTOGRAPHER pearls. She carried a cascading own car when his son and daughter Dave Parker are home from college. bouquet of stephanotis centered REPORTERS with a white orchid. H. G. Winston, Phoenix A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix An Australian was trying to impress The reason a dollar won't do as John Morton, Phoenix a visiting Texan with the wonders of much as it once did is because people Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Australia, but was having little suc won't do as much for a dollar as they Laura Keller, Master Products CIRCULATION MANAGER cess. Just then a kangaroo went hop once did. L. O. Hoeft IgfiSrB), ping by. Drawled the Texan "Ahll Member I * Y.Lf I International Council of grant you one thing, that's for sure. Let opportunity do all the knocking. *""irniCW Industrial Editors Your grasshoppers are bigger'n ours. ' and Arizona Industrial Editors Vol. 14, No. 3 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MARCH, 1960 8 Pages Sun City Ready Webb Co. Bids For $50 Million To Welcome First Redevelopment In San Francisco Of New Citizens A proposal to build the $50 million winning builder will not be announced to $70 million Golden Gateway Proj for several months during which each First permanent residents will be ect that will change the face of down proposal will be carefully studied by gin early in April moving into grow town San Francisco has been sub the Redevelopment Agency. ing Sun City, the model retirement mitted to the Bay City's Redevelop What each bidder proposed were his community being built by Webb crews ment Agency by Del E. Webb Con own ideas and those of his architect. near Phoenix for the nation's senior struction Co. and Kern County Land The Webb plan, which could define citizens. Company. the course of redevelopment through With more than 700 homes already They seek in their joint venture to out the nation, includes a 30-story of sold, the original forecast of a popu build apartment houses, garages and fice building, towering structures con lation of 1,000 persons for Sun City an office building on about 20 acres of taining 2,200 apartments, a gallery in itsfirst year of life now is certain downtown San Francisco, part of the and sculpture garden, library, chapel, to be more than doubled. 44-acre Gateway that will rise where theatre, recreational center, indoor and Thefirst segment of 575 dwellings, an antiquated San Francisco produce outdoor play facilities. most of which flank the winding all- market area now stands. L. C. Jacobson, Webb executive vice- grass Sun City golf course, were sold Nine of the nation's biggest devel president, submitted the Webb-Kern (Continued on Page 2) opers are seeking the project, but the (Continued on Page 6) BOLD AND IMAGINATIVE, a plan of Del E. Webb Con struction Co. and Kern County Land Co. to rebuild a part of downtown San Francisco is graphically por trayed in photo above. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER March, 1960 CMOUA Sun Gity. Qntuud.: Senior Citizens' Homes Mushroom In Valley Of Sun ALONG CURVED STREETS, flanking the winding grassy fairways of the Sun City golf course, homes for America's senior citizens, shown in air view above, are rising in the new Del Webb community 12 miles northwest ot Phoenix. The first 575 will be completed in July, and by then the second phase ot another 675 homes will be underway. Sun City's I960 population is expected to exceed 2,000. bowling, shuffleboard and croquet, and Sun City Ready For First Permanent Residents other creative activities until Sun City (Continued from Page 1) ments completed and ready for public residents themselves take these over. out early this month, and sales now inspection, but more than $3 million Sun City was due to get its own post- are well underway on the second seg invested in complete recreational fa office early in April. The shopping cen ment of 675 homes. Co-op apartment cilities, a shopping center and motor ter now includes, besides the spacious sales also have been brisk, and several hotel, Sun City has enjoyed a fabulous Safeway supermarket, a T. G. and Y. score of these also are under construc growth, attracting home buyers from variety store, drug store, barber shop, laundromat, drapery shop and Union tion. all parts of the nation. The first 575 homes will be com Oil service station. A Berridge nursery Tom Breen, head of the Webb hous pleted in July, and work begins in May soon will open for business. by Project Supt. Jack McPhee and his ing department which is building the The Del Webb's HiwayHouse Motor Del E. Webb Construction crew on the community, said activities programs Hotel at Sun City has enjoyed capacity second segment, which will feature the will be set up as rapidly as new resi business, with not only travelers but second nine holes of the 18-hole golf dents occupy homes. Tom Austin, ac many residents of the nearby Young- layout. tivities director, will be in charge of town retirement community patroniz Opened to the public Jan. 1 with such clubs as lapidary, ceramic, sew ing its attractive coffee shop and din only five model homes and 14 apart ing, swimming, woodworking, lawn ing room. « March, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Fun In The Sun At Sun City—A Preview Of What's To Come , Ml, FOR THOUSANDS continuing to trek to Sun City to view its modern homes and apartments, its all-grass golf course and other fine recreational facilities, its variety of shops, attractive dining and hotel facilities, there also has been Sunday afternoon glimpses of what's to come in the way of relaxed living. Pictured above, square dancers create a whirl of color on the spacious recreational center patio, while in background (top of picture) goiters putt on ninth green during sunny afternoon of golf. i • Gymnastics, part ot an aquatic car nival at big community pool. Plenty of interest in exhibit of vin tage autos from earlier days. Exhibit by Valley ot the Sun artists drew many to community center. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER March, 196C A WEBB PROPOSAL to beautify some 40 acres of downtown San Francisco, known as the Golden Gate* ings on this page and photo of model above. Ultra-modern view apartments, parking, shopping and ret a blighted section of produce markets in an area bounded by Embarcadero, Broadway, Battery and Sac famed Ferry Building is at upper right. March, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five \€6- DEVELOPMENT PLAN of Webb and Kern County Land carries the pledge that construction of the Golden Gateway will be carried out swiftly. In three years it would be completely built and its residents enjoying an en vironment certain to be famous throughout the world. mm «.'•' '"* „p»l>— **^~ I Iraw- p/ace ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL PUBLIC AREAS in the projected Golden Gateway p^seo's residential area is shown in sketch above. This view is taken from the en trance to the theater, looking south across central plaza. Page Six March, 1960 Principals In Webb-Kern Bid Webb Is One Of Nine Big Developers Are Weil-Known Californians Seeking Huge San Francisco Project Kern County Land Company, asso tural activities in California, has been ciate of the Del Webb firm in bidding (Continued From Page One) the huge Golden Gateway project in County proposal. He declared officials headquartered in San Francisco since San Francisco, has through its land of competing firms considered the its incorporation in 1890. development activities played an im prestige of being one of nine of the To assure the Golden Gateway portant role in economic growth of foremost U.S. developers who quali would be a natural development of San California's San Joaquin Valley. fied to bid the project justified the Francisco and "not an artificial graft In recent years Kern County Land cost, which for most ran up to as much to the city", Mr. Jacobson said Kern- has engaged in a program of diversi as $100,000 apiece in architectural Webb offered to build at their own fication, entering the fields of elec fees, brochures, project models and expense recreational and cultural fa tronics, mineral exploration, and most other expense. cilities for use of residents of the pro recently, auto parts manufacturing. Architect Welton Becket and As posed project. The company and its people have sociates of Los Angeles prepared the These would include tennis courts, always had close ties and deep roots architectural concept in the Webb- playing fields, a recreational hall, a in San Francisco. George G. Mont Kern County Land proposal. Kern swimming pool, a little theatre, a com gomery, its board chairman, is a na County Land Company, known prin munity center and a chapel. In addi tive of California, a long-time San cipally for its soil, cattle and agricul- tion, they pledged a portion of the Francisco resident and an active par gross revenues from the project to ticipant in civic life there. Dwight M. maintain and operate such facilities. Cochran, and other members of the Big Combines Seek At the focal point of the Kern-Webb company management, also are lead Golden Gateway Job development would be a broad land ers in San Francisco community life. scaped mall, to be dedicated as a pub Kern-Webb retained Welton Becket These are the nine big combines bid lic park, constructed on the roof of a and Associates as project architects ding for the Golden Gateway Redevel 1,300-car public parking garage. Ris and engineers. Largest architectural opment Project in San Francisco: ing above the garage and mall would firm in the west and one of the nation's Del E. Webb Construction Co. and be a 30-story stone and bronze office building. A landscaped entrance plaza foremost, the Becket firm has won 38 Kern County Land Co., with Welton Becket and Associates, architects, and would provide access to the mall by awards for excellence of design and Lawrence Lackey, associate. escalators, elevators and stairways. currently is working under contract Tishman Cahill Renewal Associates, Pedestrian bridges would connect the with the San Francisco Public Utilities composed of Tishman Realty & Con mall to the residential section and to Commission in master planning the struction Co., Inc., Cahill Construction office buildings nearby. modernization of the San Francisco Co., Inc., Renewal and Development Such a design, reported Architect International Airport for expanding Corp. (James Scheuer) with John Carl Becket, conceives a balanced, spacious jet service. Warnecke, Gardner A. Dailey, Victor residential community in which peo Lawrence Lackey was retained by Gruen, architects, and Lawrence Hal- ple will enjoy the flavor, variety and Becket as a consultant in urban rede prin and Livingston & Blayney. urbane atmosphere typical of San velopment. He prepared for the San Sidney Leiken Enterprises and Theo. Francisco. An array of distinguished Francisco City Planning Commission G. Meyer & Sons with Jan Lubicz- buildings containing the 2,200 apart in 1956 the initial economic feasibility Nyczm, John Collier and Philip Lang- ments are located atop spacious ele vated plazas with parking and service study for redevelopment of the Golden ley, architects. Lewis E. Kitchen Realty Co., with facilities for each apartment under Gateway area. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, archi neath. Webb-built projects designed by the tects. High-rise apartments would com Becket firm include the luxurious Bev Perini Land & Development Co. and mand sweeping views of the bay and erly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, associates with Wurster, Bernardi & city, Becket said. These would be com Calif., and the towering Texaco build Emmons and DeMars & Reay, archi plemented by town house and garden ing on Wilshire Boulevard in Los An tects. apartments around quiet, intimate geles. Eichler Homes, Inc., and Dinwid- courts and squares linked together by The Webb firm also has strong Cali die Construction Co. with Anshen & landscaped plazas and pedestrian fornia ties. President Webb is a native Allen, architects. walks bridging the streets. Shops and of Fresno and worked for years in the Utah Construction & Mining Co. and stores would be centrally located. Kern-Webb also guaranteed swift Bay Area before establishing his con Henry C. Beck Co. with Angus Mc- Sweeney, Donald Beach Kirby and completion if it is awarded the project. struction firm in Phoenix. Currently Loubet & Glynn, architects. Final plans and specifications for the Webb workmen are building an $8 Barrett Construction, Diversified first major unit, either apartments or million Del Webb's TowneHouse hotel Builders, Louis Lesser and Braemar public parking garage, would be sub in downtown San Francisco, as well Associates with Daniel, Mann, John mitted for approval within 90 days as large housing developments at San son & Mendenhall and Corlett & Spack- and construction could begin imme Jose and San Diego, where the firm mann, architects. diately upon approval of plans, with also owns and operates a Del Webb's Webb & Knapp (William Zecken- completion of the project estimated in HiwayHouse motor hotel. dorf) with I. M. Pei, architect. three years. March, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Mystery Solved! lie's back Package Found In Del Webb on the jot> because... Construction Crew 'Tops' Towering Hotel Addition Office Foyer Proves Valuable W>'l T.IIM Buildmg In the lobby entrance to their offices someone like you on Market Street in San Francisco, gave him a helping hand Webb employees on the TowneHouse hotel project recently found a mys after his discharge as terious package. It carried no address ^1 a mental patient. on the outside, and appeared to have I§B Help thousands like been discarded there. . •Jvm/b. him find friends, • jr. • But why it should have been dis a)0 5,a ,ome carded was just as much a mystery, for ft- .jHk ' * ' the package contained what appeared to be valuable papers, credit cards and SUPP0RT Y0UR income tax data. George Grantham, vSm I office manager, mailed the package to the address shown on one of the credit H MENTAL HEALTH cards. | Wm ASSOCIATION Back came a letter of thanks from 111™ '"°"'* Mrs. Ethel Fairbank of Stockton, FRONT PAGE of the March issue of Calif., who reported the package had The Saharan, monthly publication been stolen from her parked car at ot Hotel Sahara in Las Vegas, Nev., Eighth and Mission Streets, a block is devoted to pictures and stories from where it was found. New Headquarters ot a Webb construction project — Mrs. Fairbank sent a $2 check to the 14-story Sahara addition which Activities of Del E. Webb Develop cover postage and, she suggested, for will be completed in mid-year. The ment Co. now are being administered use during "a coffee break". structure, tallest building in the by Director Tom Breen and his staff state ot Nevada, will add 200 from new headquarters in the Central rooms to the present 400 Sahara Towers Building at 2727 North Cen accommodations. Griffith Becomes Director tral Avenue in Phoenix. The move was Frightening, And Costly, Call Long active in affairs of the Rotary made last month when its expanding One of those frightening telephone Club of Glendale, Calif., Dale Griffith, staff outgrew available quarters at the calls came the other day to Mrs. Ruth assistant business manager at Webb's Webb construction headquarters in Hopper, secretary to Bill Warriner, as Los Angeles office, has been named to Phoenix. New telephone number for sistant business manager at the Phoe- the group's board of directors. the Development Co. is ALpine 4-5271. i nix office. Her home was on fire, Ruth's neighbor reported, and thefire depart- l ment had been summoned. Ruth sped home to find that an attic heater had gone on the blink and created quite a j, fire under the roof. Firemen had to chop holes in the roof and ceiling of one room, and smoke and water dam age spread through much of the house. Loss was estimated at $3,000, but for- | tunately for the Hoppers, it was cov ered by insurance. They had to sleep outside for a time, but at last reports Ruth indicated the home was taking on a new appearance. Sun City Pictured In Color The 1959 annual report of Arizona Public Service, now being mailed to stockholders and business leaders ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY products being manufactured by Master Prod I throughout the nation, contains in a ucts Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles, a division ot Del E. Webb two-page spread of color photographs Construction Co., are pictured above. This is part of a recent Bellows shipment, and these are missile and electronics components. Master an air view in brilliant color of the Products maintains a tool room where the finest available tool makers new Del Webb retirement community, — men who have been with the organization many years — make not I Sun City, now rising 12 miles north- only complicated jigs and dies used in the plant, but also have created ; west of Phoenix. The two-page feature such complex machines as an automatic bellows forming machine used is titled, "Arizona is Growing UP!" in the plant. Such machines also have been manufactured by Master Products and sold to industry. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER March, 1960 Webb Executive Honored For Boys Clubs Work Surprise/ "Ponttf f? I OPENING-DAY CROWD jammed the 850-car parking lot and thronged the IB stores in the new $3 million jj Campbell Plaza shopping center at Tucson. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER April, 1960 Camelback Village Square Is Newest Of Webb Centers In Phoenix THE CORNER ot Seventh Avenue and Camelback Road in Northwest Phoenix, in a growing area where Webb crews have been building homes and apartments, has taken on a new and modern business-like appearance with completion by Del E. Webb Construction Co. of this community shopping center, Chris' Camelback Village Square. MAJOR TENANTS in the center in clude a T. G. & Y. Variety Store, a Lucky Stores market and Ryan- Evans Drugs. This view, from be side market, looks toward south wing of center, in which a beauty shop, barber shop and shoe repair shop aiso are located. (S%© NORTHERNMOST WING of this cen ter contains a coin-operated laun dry open around the clock, and the spacious variety store. Access to center is from both Came/back Road and Seventh Avenue, with parking provided for 500 automo biles and considerable land still available to Webb officials for fu ture expansion. Besides the busi nesses pictured, a branch ot the First National Bank ot Arizona and a Helsing's restaurant also are lo cated on the center property. <3^kg) April, I960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Verdant Landscaping Beautifies Tucson Shopping Center LARGER SHOPPING CENTERS may be built in Arizona and the Southwest, Shopping Centers Open but the creators of Campbell Plaza in Tucson don't believe there will be any more attractively landscaped, as indicated by views above. Center In Tucson And Phoenix is dotted with 54 Canary Island palms, reportedly the largest collection of such palms in the Southwest, as well as 55 Washingtonia Robusfa (Continued From Page 1) palms, sour orange trees, maple leaf mulberry trees, eucalyptus trees, The 16-acre Campbell Plaza is lo Japanese privet hedge, Arizona cacti, pampas grass and myrtle, colored gravel and rock. cated in Tucson on North Campbell Avenue, extending a full block be tween Glenn and Blacklidge Drives. Designed by Richard McClanahan of the Tucson architecturalfirm o f Fried man and Jobusch, it was financed by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Springfield, Mass. Construction was directed by Fred Kuentz, Webb project operations man ager; Chuck Pow ers, operations man from the Phoenix office, and Jim Cooper, superintendent. All 18 stores oc cupying Campbell Plaza are air-con ditioned and slid ing glass doors and metal rollup grilles allow each Jim Cooper store to present a WHEN 'TIME CAPSULE' buried as part of opening ceremonies this month completely open front to the concourse at Campbell Plaza Shopping Center is opened a quarter-century hence, during business hours. this trio hopes to be present. So they put their Webb business cards into the box. They are, from left. Chuck Powers, operations man on the proj At opening ceremonies, Tucson s ect; H. G. Winston, Webb chief accountant who attended ceremonies, Mayor Don Hummel placed in a small and Fred Kuentz, operations coordinator on center. underground vault, marked by a tab let on the site, his predictions for the The University of Arizona in Tuc will be building a huge international city's future in the next 25 years. The son will have 28,000 students, the vast airport to receive fast jets from over "time capsule" is to be retrieved April majority of automobiles using city the world, Tucson will be one of the 7,1985. streets will be in the small car class, nation's major electronic centers and Among the mayor's predictions for Tucson will be spotted with helicopter- will have a world-wide reputation as 1985: type service and should have built or a convention center. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER April, I960 Largest Tucson Shopping Center, Built And Ovt ' ' " r h * * M$y 1 W ,IM . .IF: *• y?i s\Wt j \jj^^ OPENING CEREMONIES ot new shopping center were highlighted by burying on site of a "time capsule" containing Tucson Mayor Don Hummel's predictions of what is in store for his city in next 25 years. Pictured, above, left, are Architect Bernard Friedman, Roy Drachman, Mayor Hum mel and Fred Kuentz, Webb Company operations man. Press recorded event (above, right) as Mayor Hummel buried capsule. \ April, I960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five ^ebb Firm, Features Air-Conditioned Concourse A. J. BAYLESS MARKET spreads over How bitter can a photographer become just 25,000 square feet and has ten because another guy shows up with a camera? mercury, automatic, conveyor-type Jerry McLain, Webb company picture taker and checkout stands. public relations director, was snapped while pouting at the opening of the Campbell Plaza shopping center in Tucson recently, all because some other photographer was on hand. Profes sional jealousy caused that sour-pussed look on Jerry's face. twalk at •oot-wide ill length enclosed HOW WEATHER-CONDITIONED SIDEWALK enables Campbell Plaza stores jlass and to open wide onto main concourse, creating the effect tor shoppers of id cooled being in one big store, is shown in photos above of Hirsh's Shoes and efrigera- Kurt Appliances. )NG FRONT of Campbell Plaza, Tucson's largest shopping center, is pictured above. It represents an invest- in $3 million, has 18 stores, and covers 16 acres, with more space available for expansion. Owners are Del ction Co. and Roy P. Drachman, Tucson realtor. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER April, 196C Gets Post Office As First Residents Occupy Homes IT'S OFFICIAL. Phoenix Postmaster William J. Mason (left, in photo at left), delivers to T. G. Austin, ac tivities coordinator and postmaster at Sun City, the key to symbolize opening of new postal facility for retirement community. Beside Austin stands James Chemi, presi dent of Arizona Society of Topical Philatelists. ABOVE - Mrs. Mary W. CEREMONIES surrounding opening Garretson, mail clerk, cancels first- of Sun City's post office saw the day covers in Sun City postotfice. group of ladies pictured at right participate in canceling first-day covers. Phoenix philatelists, they are Mildred Berenschot, Jeannette Mills, Dorathy Fowler, and Anne Thornton. BELOW, RIGHT - Crowd around the new postal facility. BE LOW — Presentation by Jim Chemi to Tom Breen, manager of Del E. Webb Development Co., of a per manent display for Sun City, a framed first-day cover and an nouncement ot opening of the new post office. 5 April, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Wf ^^tOfficeJn^^ gun L^ty STATES POSTACE TR I Z O N A The Webb Spinner Established I960 % Del E. Webb Construction Co. P. O. Box 4066 phoenix, Arizona THREE THOUSAND PERSONS residing in all parts of the U.S., including President Eisenhower, received one of these first-day covers from Del Webb's Sun City in sunny Arizona. It contained a greeting card telling briefly the story ot a model retirement community which has grown "from meadowland to metropolis in just 92 days.'' Sun City Post Office Mails Special First-Day Covers (Continued From Page 1) society; Dick Smith, representing Phoenix Mayor Sam Mardian, Jr., and Del E. Webb Development Co., Top executives, including President Robert Ditzler, master of ceremonies, which is building the community. Del Webb himself, are among Webb and Austin. It was a philatelic holiday for sou folks who will be observing birthday Postal officials participating in ad anniversaries during May, and to each venir cover hunters, with several hun dition to Mason included Joseph John dred on hand to witness opening cere The Webb Spinner extends warmest son, assistant Phoenix postmaster; congratulations. They are: monies for the postal facility. Phoenix Mrs. Esabel G. Monreal, Youngtown Postmaster William J. Mason, repre postmaster; Ralph H. Trueblood, L. 0. Hoeft, Phoenix May 15 senting Postmaster General Arthur Glendale postmaster; Clayton F. Del E. Webb, Phoenix May 17 Summerfield, delivered the key to the Glaser, El Mirage postmaster, and Mrs. post office to T. G. Austin, Sun City Wilcie C. Stone, Peoria postmaster. Stan Bateman, Phoenix May 17 activities coordinator and acting post Arizona topical society officers and H. E. Boice, Phoenix May 20 master, and canceling of the special guests participating in the ceremonies Marsha Ann Meiners, L.A May 24 cacheted cover began. and handling of philatelic mail in An estimated 3,000first-day covers cluded Mrs. Dorothy Fowler, Mrs. M. F. Chambers, Los Angeles..May 25 were serviced, with Arizona's Gover Emma O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. R. Ashton, Phoenix May 27 nor Fannin being sent thefirst piec e Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Ditzler, Mrs. Mil of mail to receive the Sun City post dred Berenschot, Vera Campbell, and B. G. Armstrong, L.A May 27 mark. A special cachet also went to Mr. and Mrs. Chemi. D. J. Kelley, Sr., L.A May 28 President Eisenhower. The ceremonies were concluded at Enola Owens, Los Angeles May 29 the community house where postmas Webb Helps Plan Links Meet Jeff B. Cash, Phoenix May 30 ters from neighboring communities and other honored guests were hon Contractor Del Webb is a member ored at luncheon. Speakers included of a committee headed by Hotelman Linda, Calif. Others on the commit T. E. Breen, housing director for the Ed Crowley which is planning the sec tee include Johnny Grant, Bob Hope, Webb Company; Postmaster Mason, ond world entertainment golf cham John Gallaudet, Phil Harris, Forrest James Chemi, president of the topical pionship May 21 and 22 at Yorba Tucker and Dick Whittinghill. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER April, 196C Webb Crews To Build Homes For Missile Men (Continued From Page 1) ment, Project Supt. J. N. (Jack) Mc Phee and his crew left behind what were hailed as some of thefinest home s provided for the military anywhere. They compared more than favor ably in size, appearance, convenience and excellence with civilian homes costing $15,000 to $20,000, and Jack Ford, chief of operations for the Webb housing division, said the new seg ment of 400 homes will be comparable in design and facilities. Vandenberg, a onetime artillery training base located 168 miles north west of Los Angeles, today is a 67,000- WHEN MORTGAGE BANKERS ot the nation held one of four major re acre training and launching base for gional conferences in Phoenix this month, a busload ot delegates headed the Atlas, the Jupiter and the Thor, by A. E. Milliken, assistant vice-president of the Valley National Bank in instruments of defense and destruc Phoenix, toured Del Webb's Sun City retirement community. They're tion. More than 20,000 military per pictured (above) arriving at the community building and (below) look sonnel and civilians are expected even ing over Sun City homes with Salesman Jack Hayden (in foreground, tually to staff the installation and con wearing jacket) as an enthusiastic guide. duct experiments. In mid-April the Vandenberg launching crews sent Discoverer XI rocketing into polar orbit as part of scientific research on how to get an object back from orbit — a study vital to Project Mercury, the man-in- space plan. The 19-foot-long, 1,700- pound satellite carried a 300-pound package of instruments and was boosted off the earth by a Douglas Thor intermediate range missile. Volume 14 April, 1960 No. 4 Published by the DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. 302 South 23rd Ave. Phoenix, Arizona 5101 San Fernando Road West Los Angeles, California in the interests of the personnel of its various projects and branch offices EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson R. A. Becker W. J. Miller Amy Jo Hafford EDITOR Jerry McLain PHOTOGRAPHER Dave Parker REPORTERS H. G. Winston, Phoenix A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix John Morton, Phoenix Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Laura Keller, Master Products 4^ CIRCULATION MANAGER ON A PLEASANT Sunday afternoon, a festival ot old-time songs brought L. O. Hoeft Member these folks to the patio of the Sun City community and recreational cen International Council of ter. Barbershop singing featured the Copper Belles, members of the Industrial Editors Sweet Adelines, Inc., and the Hum-Ding-Airs, a popular Phoenix male and Arizona Industrial Editors quartet. And everyone joined in community singing. Vol. 14, No. 5 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MAY, 1960 8 Pages Webb Company Launches 6,000-Acre Development Bakersfield Project Joint Venture With Kern Land Company A 6,000-acre residential, commer cial and industrial development was launched in Bakersfield, Calif., this month by Kern County Land Com pany of San Francisco and Bakers field and the Del E. Webb Construc tion Co. Officers of bothfirms me t in Bakers field May 17 with Kern's board of directors to complete documents creating a new development entity known as Stockdale Development Cor poration, which is owned jointly by Webb and Kern. JUST BEFORE LUNCHEON in Bakersfield, Calif., at which announcement KCL Pres. Dwight M. Cochran, a was made of association of Del E. Webb Construction Co. with Kern County Land Company for development of 6,000 acre project there, director of the new corporation, an group pictured above chatted during informal get-together. From left: nounced that Kern properties to be J. R. Ashton, Webb vice-president; Dwight M. Cochran, president of developed comprise roughly a square, Kern County Land; Del E. Webb, president of Webb Company; George some three miles on each side, extend G. Montgomery, chairman of the board, Kern County Land; L. C. Jacob- ing southwest from Bakersfield from son, Webb executive vice-president; John L. Kies, Webb project mana the Kern River to the Gosford feed ger for Bakersfield development, and Carter H. Breusing, vice-president, yard. The beautiful Stockdale Coun Kern County Land. try Club and golf course are located in the north central part of the prop Nation's Mightiest Rocket Engine Test erty. The Webb firm, besides participat ing as a share owner, will act as a Structure Is Rising Ahead Of Schedule contractor to Stockdale, Mr. Cochran A Webb project involving construc And the $5 million structure will explained. Lands will be sold to the tion of the nation's greatest rocket be strong enough to contain the development corporation on a long- test stand — designed to test mighty earth-shaking power of a rocket en term contract, and Kern County Land engines of future U. S. space-conquer gine of 1,500,000-pound thrust. Steel participates as a share owner and in ing missiles — was ahead of schedule superstructures supporting the rocket the planning, he added. this month and due for completion engines and other equipment will be Contractor Del Webb, president of this fall. bolted to heavy steel bearing plates the construction company, was named The huge concrete and steel struc at the top of the concrete test stand. president of Stockdale Development ture already wasfirmly anchored into A close look at construction prog Corporation, which will have princi a mountainside at Edwards Air Force ress was taken May 11 at the project pal offices in Bakersfield. Other Stock- Base in the Southern California des site by officials of the Webb firm, of dale officers from among Webb execu ert, and was beginning to rear up Aetron Division of Aerojet-General tives include: L. C. Jacobson, execu ward toward its ultimate height of Corp., which designed the test stand, tive vice-president and director; J. R. 221 feet, the equivalent of a 22-story and the U. S. Army Corps of Engi- (Continued on Page 7) building. (Continued on Page 2) Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER May, 1960 Progress Checked On Rocket Stand .... Jf>C' -*.-•- ^'^ft;V "sjfc -MS*"'" '^•P 7 •£$&?*" y- ^Jir ^-.... ON ARRIVAL at Edwards Air Force Base, where Webb crews are building America's greatest rocket engine test stand. Contractor Del Webb (inFOOTING was a bit precarious on center, with hands on hips), and his Los Angeles vice-president, R. H. the steep hillside into which the Johnson, wearing dark glasses, chat with Army Engineers and officials test stand is imbedded. Bill Leen of Aetron Division of Aerojet-General Corp. Test stand in background of Army Engineers leads the way has the appearance of a huge dam. for this inspecting group. Work Ahead Of Schedule On Test Stand Project Birthdays appear to be a pretty (Continued from Page 1) popular feature with Webb folks dur neers, Los Angeles district, which ing the month of June, and to each oversees the project. of the following who observe 1960 The bearing plates are anchored anniversaries that month, the Webb into a 12,000-cubic yard concrete Spinner extends congratulations: mass by long, high tensile steel cables Donna Netz, Phoenix June 2 that will be post-tensioned to mini Lois Stanley, Phoenix June 4 mize deflection during static rocket Bill Heavlin, Phoenix June 4 tests. John Meeker, Phoenix June 5 The concrete structure will have a Hugh Kaufman, Phoenix June 8 total height of about 125 feet. Steel George Shaw, Los Angeles ...June 10 reinforcing going into the concrete A. K. Stewart, Phoenix June 12 are the biggest commonly rolled bars, 1 Mary Arp, Phoenix June 12 each 2 /4 inches in diameter. Initial Richard Thompson, L.A June 14 firing opening at deck level will be Charlotte Hanft, L.A June 15 6 by 29 feet. Strain gages will be Apollo Guizot, Los Angeles ...June 18 located throughout critical stress PHOTO-REPORTING TEAM from Pearl Richardson, Phoenix ...June 19 points of the concrete structure to Employers Mutuals of Wausau, Bob Fournier, Phoenix June 20 record the effect of dynamic thrust Wis., the insurance carrier for R. C. Floyd, Jr., San Diego ...June 20 loads. Webb firm, came from East to Joe Aubin, Los Angeles June 21 Maintenance shops, equipment make pictures of Contractor Webb, his project superintendent, Neil Cecil Drinkward, L.A June 26 rooms, storage areas and instrumen Dave Kauffman, Phoenix June 30 tation terminal rooms will be located Drinkward, and Safety Engineer Jack Mealey conferring before the directly behind the stand in a two- rising test stand structure. story heavy concrete support build work and deflector supports for thetunnel s and huge tanks for storage of ing. ultimate-capacity installation. nitrogen, oxygen and other fuels. Although the test stand is being The project also calls for tremen A million-gallon water storage tank built to only half of ultimate capacity, dous mechanical installations in air will serve a pump house equipped with it will be capable of simultaneously conditioning, heating and electrical a bank of six pumps which can empty testing two engines of 1,500,000- facilities, the building of control and the tank in five minutes to cool the pound thrust each. Included in the warning systems, concrete block ob great flame shield over the rocket en construction program is foundation servation stations, instrumentation gine. May, I960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three TOP OFFICIALS concerned with construction of test stand include those pictured above, from left: George P. Davis, project engineer for Army Engineers; William J. Leen, chief of the construction division. Army Engi neers, Los Angeles; Webb Project Supt. Neil Drinkward, Webb Vice-Pres. R. H. Johnson of Los Angeles office, Contractor Del E. Webb, and B. F. Rose, Jr., Covina, Calif., manager ot the Aetron architect-engineering divi sion of Aerojet-General Corp. CONSTRUCTION DETAILS are checked by, from left, CUTTING AND BLASTING through rocky hilltop, Webb Cecil Drinkward, Webb operations man from the Los men excavate for an instrumentation tunnel which Angeles office; Vice-President Bob Johnson, and Bill will connect the test stand and a control building Dougherty, chief inspector for the Army Engineers. some distance away. When completed the tunnel will Behind them, atop a hill, is part of steel superstrucbe underground. At right, inspecting work, are Don ture for a million-gallon water tank which will serve Gray, left, assistant superintendent, and Operations the test stand. Man Cecil Drinkward. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER May, 196( Where Powerful Engines Of Future Space-Conquerh THIS HUGE ROCKET ENGINE TEST STAND which Webb workmen are building at Edwards Air Force Base in the Southern California desert will rise to the height ot a 22-story building once the mighty steel superstructures supporting the rocket engines and other equipmentP are bolted to heavy steel bearing plates at the top of the concrete ^>'.^-<^Lr-- structure. Because it is being anchored in a mountainside, the test stand project requires about 200,000 yards of excavation, much of it blasted from rock. About 25,000 yards of concrete and 1,500 tons of reinforc ing steel is going into the structure. Scaffolding alone calls for 100,000 1 ' 1 board feet, or enough lumber to build ten houses. May, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five lill Be Tested ROCKET HARNESS. Artist's conception shows what the 1,500,000-pound rocket engine test stand will look like on completion. Once the steel superstructure is placed atop the towering concrete stand it will be as tall as a 22-story building. I—..-*. HOW MASSIVE STRUCTURE is wedged info rocky mountain top at the Edwards base is shown in photo above. W£'* Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER May, 196C Announcement Of Huge Bakersfield Development Made At Luncheon And Reception ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND GROWTH of Webb con struction firm were briefly outlined by Pres. Del E. Webb for Kern County Land Company directors and officials at luncheon at which KCL executives an nounced association with Webb in Bakersfield de velopment. DEVELOPMENT PLANS were infor mally discussed at luncheon by L. C. Jacobson, second from right, Webb executive vice - president, and Pres. Dwight M. Cochran of KCL. On Mr. Jacobson's right is John B. Fermor-Hesketh of Lon don, England. ANNOUNCEMENT of Bakersfield project came on Mr. Webb's birth day, and Kern County Land Com pany officials surprised him with this huge birthday cake fphoto below), decorated in a baseball theme because of his ownership with Dan Topping of the New York Yankees. Helping him display cake is George G. Montgomery, right, KCL board chairman. RECEPTION at Stockdale Country Club for several hundred Bakers field civic, political, business and industrial leaders, in connection with project announcement, found Webb and KCL officials welcoming guests. Above, Mr. Webb meets Municipal Judge John Jelletich of Bakersfield. Beyond Mr. Webb, in reception line, are Mr. Jacobson, Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Cochran. I May, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven PRESS CONFERENCE at Stockdale Country Club found writers firing questions about Bakersfield development at these Webb-KCL officials, from left: John Kies, project manager for Webb at Stockdale; J. R. Ashton, Webb vice-president; L. C. Jacobson, Webb executive vice-president; Dwight M. Cochran, KCL president; George G. Montgomery, KCL board chairman; Pres. Del Webb, and Herbert L. Reid, KCL executive vice-president. then declared: "The Webb organiza Bakersfield Told Of 6,000-Acre Webb Project tion is very pleased to be associated (Continued from Page 1) the West and in other parts of the with the Kern County Land Company, country. and to have the opportunity to direct Ashton, vice-president and director; "This is a big undertaking," the such a large-scale development. The W. J. Miller, treasurer; R. P. Klein, KCL president pointed out, "and will possibilities of the Stockdale commu secretary, and John L. Kies, assistant require substantial investments in nity are almost unlimited, and the secretary and project manager. streets, sewers, utilities and the like development should be of great value Mr. Cochran and Herbert L. Reid, before any lands are sold or any to Bakersfield and the County of executive vice-president of Kern buildings erected. The Stockdale de Kern." County Land, are directors of Stock- velopment will be a community effort. He pointed out that Stockdale proj dale Corporation. Local builders, local contractors, local ect analysis, which includes land, engineering and economic studies and Webb executives were introduced real estate people, local building sup market analysis, is under way and to Kern County Land's directors and ply houses, and localfinancial insti details of construction and schedules other officials at a luncheon at the tutions will benefit from their partici will be announced later. Stockdale ranch headquarters, where pation in the development and the both George G. Montgomery, chair sale of the property, and the construc Kern County Land Company, which man of the KCL board, and President tion of homes and buildings. had its beginning in the Bakersfield Cochran lauded the Webb builders. "A part of the success of the proj area in the 1870s, is a leading oil- ect," he emphasized, "will depend on royalty, cattle and agricultural firm "Our association with the Del E. the ability of ourselves and the com which, among its holdings, has the Webb Construction Co.," said Mr. munity to attract new industries to huge VVV cattle ranch in Northern Cochran, "is the result of a long effort the Bakersfield area and, in particu Arizona. During 1959 the company to find a well-qualified, experienced, lar, to the lands which we will provide sold 43.300 head of cattle, the equiva well-staffed,financially-sound associ for industrial plants. lent of 27,000,000 pounds of finished ate with the same keen interest and "It is our intention that a develop beef. It has recently diversified into enthusiasm that we have in the future ment will be created that will be a the manufacturing of automobile of the Stockdale development. source of pride for the community parts, and has an interest in an elec "The Webb organization meets all and for our company." tronic firm. The company also is ac of these criteria, as evidenced by their Mr. Webb briefly reviewed the his tive in oil ventures in eight states. many successful activities throughout tory of the Webb construction firm, Canada and Australia. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER May, 1960 A Stranger? He Became His Best Friend: Brad Luckingham, College Football Star Crippled In Accident, Gets Helping Hand Brad Luckingham, at 24, had quite an athletic program carded for him self, especially on the football grid iron. A big, strapping former end on the Arizona State College Lumberjack football team, he was looking forward to rejoining the club this fall after starring last year at Palo Verde JC in Blythe, Calif., and winning small college All-American honors. Then, the night of March 26, he was putting gasoline in his stalled car on U. S. Highway 66 across from the Flagstaff college campus when he was struck by a car. A Kansas doctor, checking into a nearby motel at the time of the accident, gavefirst ai d that probably saved his life, but they had to amputate Brad's badly- mangled right leg at the hip. Many a young man, so tragically FRIED CHICKEN and good fellowship has worked wonders for Brad Luck ingham, left, on visits to the Tom Breen home. deprived in a twinkling of a promis ing athletic career, might sour on the vice-president, and told the story. world and all it had to offer. But not Jacobson dispatched Breen in the Brad Luckingham. He has the kind of Webb Company plane to Flagstaff. intestinal fortitude that looks beyond "Tom didn't pull any punches," misfortune to find a brighter side of Luckingham says today. "He told me what life offers even a cripple. And there were some things I wouldn't be Brad knows what he's going to do! able to do. I thought atfirst that he Volume 14 May, 1960 He's going to learn to walk again was one of these guys who will tell Published by the — yes, with an artificial leg! you that his uncle lost a leg and then DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. Then he's going back to college, later won a jitterbug contest, but I 302 South 23rd Ave. Phoenix, Arizona and for a different and more definite really sat up and took notice when 5101 San Fernando Road West purpose than before. Education comes he pulled up a trouser leg and said Los Angeles, California to me, 'I'm in the same boat, you in the interests of the personnel of its first now. He wants to obtain a de various projects and branch offices gree in business education, and then know!' " EDITORIAL COMMITTEE a degree in hospital administration. And from Breen young Lucking Del E. Webb I. C. Jacobson ham hasn't had just conversation. R. A. Becker W. J. Miller "It's a wide openfield," say s Brad. Amy Jo Hafford "They need a lot of people and, after Transferred for convalescence to the EDITOR all, who's better qualified than me to Phoenix Veterans Hospital, Brad, Jerry McLain PHOTOGRAPHER work with amputees, for instance, who has no relatives closer than Mas sachusetts, is a regular visitor on Dave Parker who might need the same kind of en REPORTERS couragement I've been getting!" week-ends at the Breen home, and H. G. Winston, Phoenix there has met and visited with others A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix And, speaking of that encourage John Morton, Phoenix from the Webb organization. He'll ment, Brad turns with a big grin to Dale Griffith, Los Angeles have Tom Breen as a personal adviser Laura Keller, Master Products Tom Breen, chief of the Webb housing when it comes to beingfitted wit h an CIRCULATION MANAGER division, a close friend now although artificial leg. L. O. Hoeft he didn't even know Tom before he Member Modesty would prompt Tom Breen International Council of was crippled by the auto accident. to shrug off any thought of credit for ,.^ Industrial Editors and Arizona Industrial Editors Tom heard of Brad Luckingham Brad Luckingham's remarkable re through Brad's coach, Max Spilsbury, covery from what could have been Perhaps one reason the dollar will who served with Breen in the Marines a disabling injury, and for the young not do as much for you as it used to in the South Pacific where Breen man's bright outlook on his future. is the fact that you do not want to do (though some of his acquaintances But Brad is thefirst t o say of Tom as much for the dollar as you used to. may not realize it) lost a leg in battle. Breen: When Tom heard that Luckingham "He's the greatest!" Think before you brag about your could stand some cheering, he went And you know it comes from the ancestors — would they brag about to L. C. Jacobson, Webb executive heart. you? Vol. 14, No. 6 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JUNE, 1960 8 Pages Work Begins On $20,000,000 Shopping City San Diego Is Site Of Newest Webb Business Center Ground-breaking ceremonies at tended by San Diego and visiting of ficials launched work last month on the $20,000,000 Grossmont Shopping City being built in San Diego, Calif., by Del E. Webb Construction Co. Comprising 50 stores and providing parking for 5,000 cars, the huge busi ness development will rise on a 110- I acre site bounded by U. S. Highway ' 80, Jackson Drive and Fletcher Park way at the edge of the community of La Mesa, in East San Diego. It will be owned and operated by the Webb firm and Roy Drachman, Tucson realtor and leasing agent for the construction company. Contractor Del Webb participated LET'S GO! Hamilton Marston, left, president of the big Marston Co. store in ground-breaking ceremonies and at in San Diego, calls for start of construction work on huge Grossmont a subsequent luncheon for approxi Shopping City in which Marston firm will be a major tenant. At controls mately 100 San Diego, La Mesa and of bulldozer is Contractor Del E. Webb, flanked by Mayor Earl Logan of la Mesa, holding hat, and Charles Shattuck, Montgomery Ward official. ; visiting business and civic leaders de clared: "Now that ground has been broken, we will be able to show you the costs, workmanship and speed you should have." Planned, designed and engineered by Welton Becket and Associates, Los Angeles architects and engineers, the center will feature a 150,000-square- foot Marston Co. store and a 121,000- , square-foot Montgomery Ward and | Co. store. \ On hand for ground-breaking cere- ! monies were Hamilton Marston, pres- , ident of Marston Co. and a pioneer San Diego merchant; Charles Shat- , tuck, metropolitan operating manager for Wards, and Elliott Cushman, San , Diego newspaper publisher whose CONSTRUCTION of Grossmont Center will be expedited, Contractor family owns the land on which the Webb, at right, holding microphone, tells invited guests at ground- center will rise breaking ceremonies. Beside Webb stands Roy Drachman, Tucson real tor and part owner of the shopping city, who said first stores will open (Continued on Page 2) in fall of 1961. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER June, 1960 Architectural Version Of Completed Grossmont Shopping City ARCHITECT WELTON BECKET'S SKETCH shows newest Webb shopping city, now under construction in the San Diego area, as it will look on completion. Construction Begins On Grossmont Center (Continued From Page 1) Also attending were Mayor Earl Lo gan of La Mesa; Jacob Dekema, dis trict engineer for the state division of highways; Dudley Lapham, La Mesa city manager; Lane Cole, city engi neer; Assemblyman Sheridan Heg- land of La Mesa, and Ralph Duesbury, La Mesa Chamber of Commerce pres ident. Realtor Drachman officiated at ground-breaking ceremonies and was toastmaster at the luncheon. Grossmont Center will contain more than 604,000 square feet of shopping space and is being developed for even tual expansion to about 800,000 square feet. A mall-type center, its main entrance will open onto a land scaped plaza featuring pavilion shops selling top quality merchandise. AIR VIEW shows V-shaped Grossmont Shopping City site, with Fletcher Ward's, at one end of the mall, is Parkway at left, Jackson Drive on lower side, and U.S. Highway 80 part of a nationwide expansion pro touching edge ot site in upper right center. gram of Montgomery Ward & Co. to ter, and predicted its expected More than a million yards of earth cost $500,000,000 over the next five $25,000,000 in gross sales will pro are being moved in site work, for the years. duce $250,000 annually in sales taxes site varies more than 110 feet from the Marston's, at the other end of the for La Mesa. He said shoppers are highest elevation to the lowest. More mall, is thefirm's first branch outside expected from as far away as El Cen than 1,200 tons of steel and 25,000 its large downtown San Diego oper tre yards of concrete will go into the ation. It will have shoppers' entrances Construction is being directed by buildings. on all four sides and will be a com H. E. Boice, Webb chief of operations The store planning division of Arch plete department store featuring a new at Phoenix; F. P. Kuentz, operations itect Becket's firm has designed more version of Marston's renowned tea liaison man; W. N. Kennicott, opera than six million square feet of stores room and gourmet shop. tions chief on the job; Ray Floyd, in 18 states and Canada, and has Realtor Drachman said about 2,000 project engineer, and Charles Holley, planned more than 20 major shopping persons will be employed in the cen- project office manager. centers through the nation. June, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Two Of Webb Company's Old Timers Relax After Joining Retired Ranks TWO MEN who left their mark on many a Webb proj ect before their retirement last month were R. G. (Bob) Fleming, left, and I. O. (Blackie) Hoeft, above. The Golden Years beckoned last hundred to thousands of workmen, nix residence, already has completely month to Bob Fleming and Blackie Blackie was handling the warehousing repainted a ranch home he owns west Hoeft. of mountains of construction materi of the city, and will get in some travel And though they never took a back als in the field or, the past several ing and fishing (his favorite sport) seat, even in recent years, to younger years, supervising the warehouse and with his wife, Peggy, and their young men beside whom they worked, both assisting in purchasing at the Phoenix daughter, Marsha. willingly and cheerfully accepted re headquarters. Fleming got into construction as a tirement and a galaxy of new activities In retirement he plans to handle young man after clerking in a hotel they long had planned. some home improvements at his Phoe- and an unsuccessful try at ranching in Montana, where he gave up to Each took with him into retirement grasshoppers and hailstones. His early substantial amounts from Webb profit- construction years saw him direct 440 sharing and pension plans. miles of road paving in Minnesota, Hoeft, who started with Webb al and for Webb the big, good-natured most 20 years ago, retired as ware superintendent directed a variety of houseman at the Phoenix headquar projects — military bases, housing, ters. Fleming, a project superintendent warehouses, industrial and electronics from his start with Webb in January, plants, store buildings, hotels and 1942, wound up his work with com even erection of three Boys' Clubs in pletion of the Howard Hughes elec Phoenix. tronic plant at Tucson. Bob figures that during his career They were together on some jobs, he "moved a million yards of dirt and such as at Fort Huachuca in Southern poured a million yards of concrete." Arizona, Blythe and Mojave air bases THE FELLOWS for whom Blackie Hoeft brewed many a pot of cof He and his wife, Maggie, plan to in California during the World War II fee before he retired honored him take things easy and look after some years when Blackie managed feeding at a luncheon at Navarre's restau of their property investments. They're operations for Webb workmen, and rant and presented to him a fancy waiting to occupy one of the beautiful again a decade later when Fleming power mower. They are, clockwise cooperative apartments in the Webb was directing construction of the town from left, Jim Miller, business retirement community of Sun City, of San Manuel and Blackie again was manager; Speedy Winston, chief near Phoenix. A daughter, Benita, re heading up the chow operations. accountant; Jerry McLain, public sides with them, and two other daught relations director; Bill Warriner, When he wasn't directing the feed ers, Mary Jane and Kathleen, are assistant business manager; Paul ing of crews ranging from a few married to air force colonels. Marks, purchasing agent, and Mr. Hoeft. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER June, 1960 ^ SW&f*^ *7#&4 @afitunect Sy Scut 'Diey* *7e€Utu % r" N s £J™ WEUtb into 01W receiV THE STORY WAS THE SAME as fast year. Webb bowling teams from Phoenix, Los An geles and San Diego tangled over the Memorial Day week-end in San Diego. And San Diego won, acquiring a second leg on the shiny big trophy emblematic ot the com pany bowling championship. Los Angeles was second. Phoenix third. And this year, with two women's teams competing for the first time, San Diego's team ot Winnona Green, Ruth Benson, Hazel Stamatis, Gladys Noah and Dee Mortenson bested the Phoenix lassies to put a second cup on the trophy shelf. But the big group of Webb folks and their hosts, pictured above in front of Clairemont Bowl in San Diego, had a memorable three days ot fun while bowling, fishing and sightseeing over the Me morial Day week-end. DEEP-SEA HI fishing boat, of the big eve The catch incR tail. ARIZONA Wll tained by M ; at a sumptvo\ their San Di* ^_ Angeles ; home after I cause of vo. project sched June, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five WeUTfUtcte* . E.WEBB >NST.C0. E YOU SACK/ TROPHIES WERE AWARDED at a dinner party at Del Webb's HiwayHouse Hotel. John Meeker, left. Phoenix team captain, presented team trophy to Capt. Jim Stamatis of San Diego. Other San Diego team members, from left, behind Stamatis, are: Art Green, Mel Nielsen, Ray Durham and i Webb bowlers when they went Francis Adams. tf alleys, and they were warmly it in the San Diego area. -•nuTrrmTTfrrm THE GANG looked over the HiwayHouse patio-swimming pool area. They were guests during the week-end at beautiful Tierra Palmitla Apartments owned by the Webb Company in the Mission Bay area. BIG FISH were caught, including these yellowtail by ... Dave Parker John /Meeker Tony Kohl Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER June, 1960 Sales And Office Personnel For Webb's Sun City Development Pictured SALE AND DELIVERY OF HOMES to new residents of mushrooming Sun City and supervision of the new retire ment community near Phoenix requires the combined efforts of the Webb group pictured above. They include salesmen, office personnel, and those in charge ot activities, but not the Webb folks who are directing actual construction. Pictured, from left: (front row) Gay C. Lowe, Les Kellogg, M. J. O'Connell, Everett L. Karr, Joe N. Hall, Robert E. Ditzler and Walter F. Johnson; (center row; Patricia Pawlak, Ida Anne Sandler, Mary W. Garret- son, Grace Summ, Joan Gaichen, Mary Jane Green, Rachel Eckenrod and Irene Anerney, and (back row) Jack Miller, Jack Hayden, Owen Childress and Tom Austin. Relatives Of Two Webb Jeff Cash Cashes In Two Magazine Stories Jeff Cash, young warehouseman at Folks Taken By Death the Phoenix office, seems to be acquir Feature Webb's Sun City Death last month took relatives of ing a lifetime supply of automatic pen Topnotch stories on Sun City, the two Webb folks. cils as he takes to instruction in the growing Del Webb retirement com Mrs. Henrietta Forthcamp Webb, Dale Carnegie public speaking and munity near Phoenix, appeared last 85, mother of Pres. Del E. Webb, human relations course like a duck month in two widely-circulated publi passed away May 27 at her Los takes to water. In three nights of cations. Angeles home. Born in Fresno, she classes Jeff won three Dale Carnegie had been a life-long California resi award pencils given for unusual "Youfit atfifty i n Sun City" is the dent, and followed her son's career achievement. title of a two-page story and photo closely from his rise as a carpenter to presentation in "Seventy Six," month one of the nation's leading contractors. ly magazine published by the Union She also is survived by two other Cradle Topics Oil Company of California. sons, Halmer J. and Marvin F. Webb, The stork has been flying in the "Sun City" is the title of a two-page both of Los Angeles. Private funeral Los Angeles office area recently, and presentation in "Firmfax", published services and interment were held May congratulations are in order for the by Henningson, Durham and Richard 31 in Glendale, Calif. Joe Aubins and Jim McGoldrichs. Joe son, engineers, architects, planners John R. Newell, 61, brother of Kara and Rosemary Aubin welcomed a six and consultants of Omaha, Colorado (Casey I Newell, retired Webb Com pound, 13-ounce baby sister, Jan Springs and Phoenix. pany accounting department employ Marie, for their daughter, Cheryl, at ee, passed away May 6 in a Phoenix Glendale Memorial Hospital on April in St. Luke's Hospital, Pasadena, hospital. A native of Brownwood. 2. Now Rosemary, a native Iowan, when thefirst so n of Jim and Terryll Tex., Mr. Newell, a farmer, had been and Joe, a native Arizonan, have two Ann McGoldrich weighed in at eight an Arizona resident since 1918. Serv little native Californians. A new ices and interment were held in bowler for the Los Angeles office team, pounds, ten ounces, and was named Phoenix. vintage 1980 or so, arrived April 28 Christopher John. June, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Se San Diego Teams Win Webb Office Manager Weds Secretary Webb Bowling Titles Bowling was in the news at Webb Company offices last month. v Los Angeles, San Diego and Phoe y nix teams competed in their annual Memorial week-end tourney at San Diego, with the hosts capturing the i 'i I second leg on the championship \ , i trophy, Los Angelesfinishing secon d and Phoenix third. A San Diego wo men's team defeated Phoenix in the first such feminine competition, with Los Angeles unable tofield a women's team this year. Carl Ingram, who this month tem porarily left the Sun City field crew for two months of national guard air training at Lackland AFB in Florida, won the men's singles trophy in the San Diego tourney, and George Shaw and Dale Griffith of the Los Angeles crew won the doubles trophies. Gladys Noah of San Diego won the singles and teamed with Donna Netz of Phoenix to capture women's dou bles. Winnona Greene of San Diego was second high in singles and Art Greene of San Diego second high in men's singles. Irene Olah of Phoe nix received the good sportsmanship award after completing thefirst games she ever bowled, and Dave Parker of NEWLYWEDS. Hugh Kaufman, office manager on the Sun City project, Phoenix won the low individual game and Marilyn Althea Moeller, a former Webb secretary, are pictured award. after their June 4 wedding at Faith Lutheran chapel in Phoenix. They'll Before departing for the San Diego honeymoon in Northern California, then live in Santa Maria while events, the Phoenix women's team, Hugh serves as Webb office manager on the Vandenberg AFB Capehart housing project. He formerly was in the Webb field office at San Diego; bowling under HiwayHouse colors, met his bride-to-be at the Phoenix Webb office after being transferred polished off the Phoenix men's con to Arizona. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Moeller of struction team in a special handicap Detroit and he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Kaufman of San match, 2,378 to 2,321. Diego. The Los Angeles office men's team recently completed a more-or-less suc Boice's Daughter Honored Golf At Sun City Popular cessful winter season, tying for fourth Carson Boice, a junior at West Sun City's golf course has been teem place in the 16-team Building Trades Phoenix High and the daughter of Mr. ing with activity this spring, and at League in 34 weeks of competition at and Mrs. Howard Boice (he's chief of least one letter received by Fielding the 36-lane Grand Central Bowl in operations at the Phoenix office), was Abbott, the golf professional in charge, Glendale, Calif. They won 78% and elected secretary of state at Girls State indicates that play there is going to lost 57% points, had a high team this month at the University of Ari continue to prove popular. Members series of 2,965 and high single game zona in Tucson. She was one of five of the Arizona Public Service Golf As of 1,027. Final season averages were: Phoenix girls honored with high state sociation, after a tour of the course Dale Griffith, 167; Bob Sheer, 164; offices. on March 19, wrote to Abbott that "we Ralph Boatman, 156; Cecil Drink have never received such outstanding ward, 151; George Shaw, 147, and Congress Bowler of the Year award inservic e as we received from your Jim McGoldrich, 148. her division by averaging 31 more group. All of us are looking forward Webb folks also are developing pins per game than for her previous to returning in the future." When some promising young bowlers. year. John Toll of Phoenix canned his tee Kathy Ford, 12-year-old daughter Jimmy Stamatis, 12, son of Mr. shot on the 135-yard third hole June of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ford of Phoenix and Mrs. Jim Stamatis (he's project 11 it was the third ace registered on (he's housing operations chief) set a superintendent on Clairemore hous the Sun City course. fast pace in the Bantam League at ing) rolled a 203 high game in his Melrose Bowl, toppling the pins for a school league and racked up a record 147 high-game trophy and then win 206 high game in the Bantam League Antiques today are just furniture ning the American Junior Bowling at Clairemont Bowl in San Diego. that is paid for. Page Eighi THE WEBB SPINNER June, 1960 Medallion Of Merit Presented To Del Webb Volume 14 June, 1960 No. 6 Published by the DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. 302 South 23rd Ave. Phoenix, Arizona 5101 San Fernando Road West Los Angeles, California in the interests of the personnel of its various projects and branch offices EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson R. A. Becker W.J. Miller Amy Jo Hafford EDITOR Jerry McLain PHOTOGRAPHER Dave Parker REPORTERS H. G. Winston, Phoenix A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix John Morton, Phoenix Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Laura Keller, Master Products CIRCULATION MANAGER Jeff Cash Member International Council of Industrial Editors and Arizona Industrial Editors BUILDER IS HONORED. Contractor Del E. Webb receives from Pres. Rich MA5TER ard A. Harvill (left, above) of the University of Arizona at Tucson a Me dallion of Merit as an Arizonan who over a considerable period of years has been closely associated with economic and industrial growth of Ari zona. In background is C. Zaner Lesher, university registrar and director of admissions, emeritus, who had read Mr. Webb's citation. Medallion presentation at Tucson last month was a feature of the University's cele bration during 1960 of the 75th anniversary of its founding. Medallion is pictured below. (Editor's Note: This column concerns activi ties of the folks at Master Products Manu facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) One real happy fellow in the ship ping department at Master Products is Robert Zamarripa who recently served his last official day of active duty in Uncle Sam's Army. Bob saw 18 months of service in Germany dur ing a two-year tour of duty in the regular army, and then served two additional years as an active reserve, the service he has just completed. Bob enjoyed the Army stint but is glad his service days are at an end. He came to Master Products in 1955. Recently Don Eisenhauer, Master Products purchasing agent, and fam ily motored to Don's birthplace in Wymore, Neb. Following U.S. High way 66, the Eisenhauers passed the 3,400 mile round trip. Their young "Boothill" cemetery in Dodge City. through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, daughters, Debbie and Wendy, en Don reported the trip highly success Oklahoma and Kansas during 32 joyed the trip and the side visits to ful, with no mechanical trouble or flat hours of continuous driving, with President Eisenhower's boyhood home tires. Matter of fact, the Eisenhauers wife, Merrion, relieving Don during in Abilene, Kan., and the famous already are planning a 1961 junket. Vol. 14, No. 7 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JULY, 1960 8 Pages This Is Nevada's Tallest Building Las Vegas Hostelry Now State's Largest Erection for Hotel Sahara at Las Vegas of a 14-story hi-rise addition which today is Nevada's tallest build ing — as part of $3V2 million in new construction and remodeling — has been completed by Del E. Webb Con struction Co. crews. Towering over other of the swank "Strip" hotels, the Sahara's skyscraper addition incorporates 204 new rooms and deluxe suites specifically designed to double as luxurious accommoda tions or hospitality rooms for conven tion use. The new rooms are stylishly fur nished and equipped with four-chan nel radio, television sets, a new type of "maid call" service, and the most modern telephone equipment. The Sahara opened in 1952 with 200 rooms and the following year (Continued on Page 2) National FHA Chief Looks Over Sun City (Photos on Page 6) The national commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, Jul ian H. Zimmerman of Washington, D.C., saw atfirst han d this month the type of retirement community for America's senior citizens which has won national recognition for Del E. Webb Construction Co. He toured Del Webb's mushroom ing Sun City, near Phoenix, with Lem Nelson, FHA chief underwriter in Ari zona; Walter Corley, assistant state director, and John Sutton of the FHA staff; J. R. Ashton, Webb vice-presi dent; Tom Breen, head of Webb's SOARING 14 stories above the fabulous "Strip" in the bustling Southern housing division; Owen Childress and Nevada gambling capital of Las Vegas, this is the hi-rise addition of 204 Kelly Crosson of the housing depart rooms just completed by Del E. Webb Construction Co. workmen for ment. Hotel Sahara. It is the tallest building in Nevada. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER July, 1960 Ground-Breaking Ceremony Marks Start Of Phoenix Chris-Town Shopping City Construction of the $15 million Chris-Town Shopping "City" in Northwest Phoenix got an official starting "assist" with ground-breaking ceremonies on June 22. A luncheon for principals involved followed at Moun tain Shadows resort hotel. Site preparation has been underway for some time, involving moving of approximately 150,000 cubic yards of dirt in excavating for basements and bringing in earth fill to raise the building site several feet above Beth any Home Road on the north and Nineteenth Avenue on the west. The regional center is being built by Webb workmen and will be owned and operated by the builders and Roy DIG IN, FELLOW SI Project Supt. Stan Bateman, kneeling at left, seems tPo. Drachman, Tucson realtor and be telling the guest shovelers to move more dirt as ground was broken Webb leasing agent. It will rise on in Phoenix for the new $15 million Chris-Town Shopping City. Partici pating shovelers, from left, were J. R. Ashton, Webb vice-president; 10Abe0 acres leased from Chris Harri, Korrick, pioneer Phoenix merchant whose big Korricks department pioneer Phoenix area farmer who store will be one of Chris-Town's key units; Chris Harri, 82-year-oldtille d the land more than half a cen farmer who owns the land on which the center will rise, and E. E. Petertury, and as a tribute to him the son, Oakland, Calif., regional manager tor Montgomery Ward, another center is named Chris-Town. key Chris-Town tenant. Construction is being directed by H. E. Boice, Webb chief of operations at Phoenix; F. P. Kuentz, operations GROUND-BREAK ING attracted a liaison man; Stan Bateman, project large group of superintendent; Chuck Powers, opera spectators inter tions chief on the job, and Horst De- ested in the de Boer, project office manager. velopment. At Architect Welton Becket and Asso left, TV Camera ciates, Los Angeles, master planned man Ralph Paint the entire development in coordination er of KOOL-TV with Webb personnel and Friedman sets camera & Jobusch, Tucson architects. sights on digni taries for a film closeup. Sahara's High-Rise Tower Is Completed (Continued from Page 1) RADIO was there, too. Jack Wil again called upon Webb builders to liams, right, pro double that capacity. The new hi-rise gram director of addition was designed by Architect Station KOY and Martin Stem of Beverly Hills, Calif. former Phoenix Project superintendent for Webb mayor, inter was M. D. Stevens, whose recent jobs views Farmer included the Texaco Building on Wil Chris Harri at the shire Boulevard in Los Angeles and ground breaking, the Hughes ground radar systems getting interest plant at Fullerton, Calif. Frank Kelle ing facts of how he farmed the her was assistant superintendent, Ro land more than land Beaulieu project engineer and half a century. Jim Benson project office manager. At left, Vice- The construction was supervised by President Ashton the Los Angeles office of the Webb rests on shove/ Company. handle. July, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three •^^•B W-A*u••\-%> ^Chris-Town Will **-t«^ -5*583^ L00/6 L/& T#/$ SCALE MODEL of new $15 million Del Webb shopping "city" known as Chris-Town, to rise in Phoenix, was built from plans of Architect Welton Becket & Associates. FEATURES ot Chris-Town were pointed out by Roy Drachman, center, leasing agent for Del E. Webb Construction Co., on scale model he displayed at Mountain Shadows lucheon following ground-breaking ceremonies. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER July, I960 & Where Nevada Visitors Will Enjoy New High In Ref Busy Hotel Sahai Webb workmen h have twice expam front among the j month. It now bt rooms and suites, tower which offer, famed "Strip" am in Nevada. Situate County Conventii hara, thus stands greater numbers h ing to the gamblin MAIN ENTRANCE to The Sahara Tower is attractively landscaped. A 'quean July, I960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five unce lore- this iuxe fthe ding "fork \ So- even lock- STYLISHLY MODERN, the new 14-story Sahara Tower has added to Hotel Sahara facilities 204 tastefully-furnished rooms and suites, offers from its rooftop a minute-by-minute time In and temperature report, and provides from upper floors a spectacular nighttime view of the glittering Las Vegas "Strip". Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER July, 1960 FHA Chief Visits Sun City SEEING IS BELIEVING. Shirt-sleeved Julian H. Zimmerman ot Washington, D.C., second from right, national com missioner of the Federal Housing Ad ministration, toured Del Webb's mushrooming Sun City retirement community near Phoenix on July 19, expressed genuine enthusiasm tor what he saw, but declared he wasn't surprised "because I've heard so much about Sun City and the Webb organization." Pictured with him on tour, from left, are J. R. Ashton, Webb vice-president; Lemuel V. Nel son, chief underwriter for the FHA in Arizona, and Tom Breen, head of the Webb housing division. Federal Housing Administration and Webb Company officials touring Sun City. July, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven SURPRISING THE SURPRISERS. The lady bowlers of Del E. Webb Construction Co. and Del E. Webb Development Co. held a surprise dinner party at Navarre's for fellow-worker Jerry McLain (in appreciation of arrangements he helped make for their San Diego bowling junket), and then got a surprise themselves when Robert Stack, Emmy-winning TV star of "The Untouchables" joined the party. Pictured, from left, are: Mary Mercier, Irene Olah, Donna Netz, Bob Stack, Rosanne McLain, Dolores Hixon (obscured) Marjorie Sweeney, Arlene Gilbert and Mabel Seitz. And where was McLain, the guest of honor? He was taking the picture. •g*g MARRIED on the 36th wedding an niversary of her parents was Joan Marie Becker, daughter ot Robert A. Becker, Webb Company secre tary, and Mrs. Becker. In a beauti ful ceremony at St. Francis Xavier Church in Phoenix, she wed Phillip Ray Nicholson, a law student at University of Southern California whom she met while teaching school in California. Photo above shows, from left, the Beckers, the newlyweds, and his parents, the Lloyd R. Nicholsons of Glendale, Calif. Wedding was followed by a huge reception and champagne party at Phoenix Country Club. S® Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER July, 1960 MJAill As warm and friendly as the sum mer sun are felicitations and congratu lations from The Webb Spinner to July, 1960 No. 7 PnaduoU thesefine Webb folks who will be ob Published by the serving birthday anniversaries during DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. August: 302 South 23rd Ave. Phoenix, Arizona Fred McDowell, 5101 San Fernando Road West Los Angeles, California (Editor's Note: This column concerns activi San Francisco Aug. 4 in the interests of the personnel of its ties of the folks at Master Products Manu Phil Morrison, Phoenix Aug. 4 various projects and branch offices facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid EDITORIAL COMMITTEE iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) Tom Gilbreath, Sun City Aug. 5 Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson Tom Austin, Sun City Aug. 8 R.A. Becker W.J.Miller Appointment of Rubly Engineering Amy Jo Hafford Irene Olah, Phoenix Aug. 10 EDITOR Company of 2140 Westwood Boule Frank Kelleher, L.A Aug. 11 Jerry McLain vard, Los Angeles, as sales representa PHOTOGRAPHER Dave Parker, Phoenix Aug. 12 tive for Master Products Manufactur Dave Parker Owen Childress, Phoenix Aug. 15 REPORTERS ing Company to the aviation and mis Horst DeBoer, Phoenix Aug. 17 H. G. Winston, Phoenix siles industry in California and Ari H. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix C. 0. Turrentine, San Diego....Aug. 21 zona has been announced by Master John Morton, Phoenix Baird York, L.A Aug. 24 Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Products officials. Laura Keller, Master Products Joan Taylor, Phoenix Aug. 24 President of the Rubly firm is Wil CIRCULATION MANAGER Jack Ford, Phoenix Aug. 26 Jeff Cash liam A. Rubly, and other members of R. C. Boatman, L.A Aug. 28 Member his management team are James T. International Council of John E. Wilson, Phoenix Aug. 30 Industrial Editors Mowles and Mary Maloney. As a top and Arizona Industrial Editors flight sales engineering organization, bert Shaughnessy, Replacement Parts Rubly also represents several other trades have been virtually the back Warehouse, Omaha, for Nebraska, manufacturers specializing in fluid- bone of Master Products sales, the Iowa, North and South Dakota and flow components. flexibility and efficiency of its equip Minnesota; Ray Simpson, Brighton, Master Products, mainly because of ment has resulted in branching out Mass., for Maine, Connecticut, New its know-how in convoluted metal into otherfields. Recent application of Hampshire, Vermont and Massachu structures — bellows — has been a Master Products equipment occurred setts; W. A. Strouse, Sanduskey, 0., supplier to the aviation industry for in real estate multiple listings, the food for Ohio; Bill Terry of F. W. Terry years. The Rubly organization is con supply industry, electronics and radio Co., Chicago, for Illinois, Indiana, sidered especially wellfitted i n this industry, hospitals and similar institu South Wisconsin; Paul Coriden, Chi field because of experience in working tions. The firm also has attained lead cago, for Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, out procurement problems with the ership in the leather sales-case field. Missouri, Northern Indiana, Wiscon industry engineers who have the re Because Master Products has devel sin, Kansas, Omaha and Lincoln, sponsibility for developing better per oped a reputation for high quality, forming units in this fast moving field. offiicials of the firm follow a policy of Neb.; Not only nationwide but also for selecting only competent representa C. L. Scheffler, Dallas, for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, eign distribution of Master products tives, and report excellent results from is reported this month, with shipments representatives in each of their sales Memphis, Tenn., and Jackson, Miss.; being made outside the U.S. to Can territories. These representatives, in Richard Vaughn, Seattle, for Wash ada, Mexico, Hawaii and many Euro cluding the new Rubly Engineering ington and Oregon; The Brown Broth pean countries. Attendance by Master appointment, and their assigned terri ers of Toronto, with offices in Ottawa, Products officials at National Auto tories are : Winnipeg and Vancouver, handling and National Stationer shows as well Frank D. Barringer, Atlanta, Ga., all Canadian territory; Reprecentaci- as Pacific Coast area shows has devel handling the territory of Alabama, ones Rihan, Mexico City, for Mexico; oped closer contacts with manufactur Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Ken Honolulu Paper Co., Honolulu, for ers and distributors, since such shows tucky, North and South Carolina, Ten Hawaii, and J. D. Marshall Interna serve as meeting places for distribu nessee, Virginia and West Virginia; tional, Chicago, 111., for international tors and representatives. Harry E. Ault, Bloomfield Hills, sales. Master Products equipment has Mich., representative in Michigan; made a steady climb to leadership in Arkay Salo and Jack Guttman, New Sound The Red Alert! itsfield through superior design and York City, handling Delaware, New Webb bowlers better begin looking careful workmanship while manufac Jersey, New York, Eastern Maryland to their laurels if they bump into Dale turing from raw materials to finished and Eastern Pennsylvania; Lyle J. Griffith, assistant business manager at products a complete system of visible Harrington, Portland, handling Ore the Los Angeles office, in a pin-top filing equipment such asfiling cata gon and Washington; Sidney McClin- pling match. The Glendale, Calif., logs, tariff pages, price sheets, techni tock of McClintock Sales, Dallas, for News-Press, in a bowling report July cal loose-leaf material and other Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Ar 12 from Glendale's Grand Central equipment for quickfinger-tip refer kansas; Lanes, stated : "Dale Griffith sent his ence. E. D. Newfield, Oakland, for north thunderbolt spheroid hurtling to a 267 Although automotive and stationer ern California and Reno, Nev.; Her- game x x x ." Vol. 14, No. 8 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, AUGUST, 1960 8 Pages Budweiser $5 Million West Coast Brewery Phoenix To Get New Expansion Is Webb Construction Project Multi-Million Dollar Homes Development A new Phoenix residential area of custom homes of an ultimate value of $21 million or more is to be created by Del E. Webb Construction Co. in Moon Valley, just over the mountains to the north of the Sunnyslope area of Phoenix. Acquisition in a $3 million realty transaction of the new residential area, comprising 400 acres of undeveloped land surrounding the beautiful new Moon Valley Golf Course, was an nounced this month by Tom Breen, director of the Webb housing division. Departing from a long-established practice of developing its own land holdings, the Webb Company will in vite other Phoenix builders of custom homes to join in the Moon Valley de velopment, Breen said, and also will offer fully-improved lots through cer tain selected local brokers to individu als wishing to plan and build their own homes. EXCAVATION for basement area of new five-story stockhouserw beinig But all must be in keeping with rigid erected by Webb crews in Van Nuys, Calif., for Anheuser-Busch brewery architectural requirements by which is pictured in this bird's eyeview. Webb officials hope to create in Moon Valley a residential area comparable to A newfive-story stockhous e to cost standard depth swimming pool 20x40 the Paradise Valley district surround approximately $5 million is under con feet in size — and each container is ing the picturesque Paradise Valley struction in Van Nuys, Calif., by Del larger in size than those of a railroad Country Club golf course. E. Webb Construction Co. for An tank car. "Not since the fabulous development heuser-Busch brewing company as the Webb crews, besides erecting the of Paradise Valley Country Club have first phase in expansion designed to structural steel and reinforced concrete we encountered a Phoenix site which enable Budweiser to keep pace with stockhouse will modify the existing offers the exclusive picturesque setting the country's fastest growing market brew house, fermenting cellar, stock- for afine gol f club and beautiful neigh for the brewing industry. house and power plant. The new stock- borhood such as we plan in Moon The structure will contain 96 tanks house, to be fully insulated throughout, Valley," said Mr. Breen. Engineering with a capacity of 1,000 barrels of beer will have an area of 114,00 square feet, necessary in subdividing the 400 acres each, and the expansion will increase all of which will be maintained at pre is underway, he added. the brewing capacity by 60 per cent cisely controlled temperatures and hu Some of Arizona's best-known to an annual production capacity of midity. golfers, including Bob Goldwater, Gray IVi million barrels of Budweiser and Construction is being directed by Madison, Herb Askins and Jim Beatty, Michelob beer. the Webb Company's Los Angeles were among developers of the Moon Each of the 96 tanks will hold ap headquarters, with M. D. Stevens as Valley links, on which land planning proximately 140 tons of liquid — more project superintendent, B. G. Arm- and golf course construction was han- liquid than would be required to fill a (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page 6) Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER August, 1960 Onto. lite, (joldett fye&U.: Two Webb Company Executive Staff Members Join Retired Ranks Two of the best-known and most build and equip service stations from profit-sharing funds and counseled with sincere workers at Del E. Webb Con Canada to Mexico. employees on their interests. struction Co. joined the ranks of the Webb was building Union Oil sta Long an "Ambassador of Good Will" retired last month. tions and offices in Arizona in the '30s for the Webb Company, Mr. Becker They were Robert A. Becker, com when hefirst met Kenson and became found time outside his duties to work pany secretary who had been a Webb impressed with his construction abil with the Boy Scouts, who honored him employee almost 17 years, and R. G. ities. Mr. Kensonfirst worked for the with their Silver Beaver award some Kenson, administrative assistant to the Webb firm as chief engineer on Navy years ago; to serve in a post he still president, who worked for Webb as projects early in World War II, then holds as a director of the First National early as 1942 but has just completed rejoined Webb in 1951 as administra Bank of Arizona; to assist the Sun An more than nine years on the job since tive assistant to company executives. gel Foundation in providing Arizona he returned to the ranks in 1951. Mr. Kenson also supervised the Mr. Becker, ordered by doctors to Webb job safety program and, attest ing to his interest in and enthusiasm for construction safety, a number of Webb projects in recent years have won outstanding awards for accident- free building. Because of his former association with Union Oil, Mr. Ken son probably was proudest of the Webb Company construction of the massive Union Oil Center in downtown Los Angeles. He resides with his wife, Beth, in a picturesque home on the edge of Pasa dena. They have three sons, Bruce, Phil and Bob, and the pride and joy of both senior Kensons are their grand children. Mr. Becker got his start in business as a bank employee in the Southern Arizona mining city of Bisbee, then came to Phoenix as a young man in search of greater opportunity in his chosen career. After years of financial experience which presaged for him a bright banking future — possibly even Robert A. Becker a bank presidency — he left a bank executive's desk in 1943 to enter the State University scholarships; serve R. G. Kenson construction business with Webb. with the St. Joseph's Hospital Execu To friends, Mr. Becker often de tive Committee; work with the United curtail his activities early in 1958 after clared that — regardless of his pros Fund, and supervise charitable and suffering a heart attack, had since con pects as a top banking executive — other contributions from a foundation tinued his Webb duties on a part-time he never regretted making the change established by Mr. Webb and L. C. basis. Mr. Kenson's failing health ne to a career in construction. Jacobson, Webb executive vice-presi cessitated his retirement. When Mr. Webb joined Dan Topping dent. With each of them as they headed in the 1945 purchase of the New York Bob Becker's philosophy probably into retirement went substantial Yankees, Mr. Becker was named Yan was best expressed when, after receiv amounts from Webb profit-sharing and kee treasurer, and he will continue in ing a Del Webb 15-year service pin, he pension plans. his post even in retirement, Mr. Webb declared: "I hope I have made a great Rob (for Robin) Kenson, a native of announced. Becker was a member with many friends, because if I haven't my Ohio and son of a Toledo building Tom Yawkey and Larry MacPhail of time has been wasted." And he has a contractor, has been a Californian since the major league committee which laid legion of friends among Webb folks. he wasfive. His family moved West the groundwork for pension and profit Mr. Becker resides with his wife, for his father's health, and his dad sharing plans that are the pride of big Madelyn, and a son, John, on pleasant lived to a ripe old age. Kenson studied league baseball today. Glenn Drive in Northeast Phoenix. His engineering at the University of South He also directed the setting up of only daughter, Joan Marie, was mar ern California and then engaged in the employee pension and profit-sharing ried in a beautiful church ceremony contracting business for himself on a plans established 12 years ago by Webb July 2, the 36th wedding anniversary modest scale before joining Union Oil executives, and until his retirement of her parents. Co. as a service station engineer to supervised the investment of employee August, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Golden Wedding Fete Is Sun City Feature When Mr. and Mrs. George L. Williamson of Prescott, Ariz., re cently celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary, he had a surprise for her. He brought her down to the fast-growing Del Webb retirement community of Sun City, near Phoenix, and carried her across the threshold ot a brand spanking new Sun City home (at right). But there were a couple of other surprises, for George as well as Mrs. Williamson. Tom Breen, chief of the Webb housing division, presented to the couple (at left) a handsome plaque bear ing a gold key to their home and other mementoes. Then they were summoned to the Sun City commu nity center for a surprise party. (photo below) given by 125 new neighbors and friends. jdnCity NEW NATIONAL RECOGNITION came to Del Webb's Sun City, mod BifiTClty' NATIONAL ern retirement community near Phoenix, as the mushrooming "as just celebrated RECOGNITION town celebrated its six-month ts 6-MONTH BIRTHDAY FOR ITS birthday with sale ot its 1,232nd home, as shown in newspaper ad NeW WAY-OF-LIFE vertisements to left and right. For Special Certification Award exceptionally high standards of made to this Community residence design and community for Acrive Retirement by planning, Sun City received a spe 0ongres s on cial certification award in conform ance with standards established by representatives ot 48 million COME SEE THE WINNING HOMES American families who constitute FIVE FtOOB Mi.85 • HFTffN tmilOlS *..,-,.,* 8 7BO the Congress on Better Living, r Witt UVIHL sponsored by McCall's magazine. B* n Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER August, I960 'p WITH WEBB AT WHEEL, this carload ot old-time players is ready to head for Del Webb Field and the big game. WARMING UP, Pitcher Webb puts steam on A SOLID BLOW looked like a sure base hit, but Webl PARADE of ancient vintage automobiles brought the the kind of steam he had on his pitches and the '"Mthn, old-timers into the ballpark. at first. August, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five 'to Del Webb Day At Modesto His windup was a bit stiff, but the tall, lanky, bespectacled pitcherfired the ball toward the plate as though he really meant business. The batter ducked, and the ball passed behind his shoulders. "Send that guy Webb back to the Yankees," yelled a chuckling fan in the stands. ... It was "Del Webb Day" in Modesto, Calif., on August 6, and old- timers who were teammates and foes when Webb was a youthful semi-pro ballplayer from Modesto 45 years ago again donned uniforms and cleated shoes and played a three-inning game to honor him. Muscles unexercised for years were called on, and though liniment and throat lozenges may have been in demand next day, there was a lot of gab- tbing about earlier playing days and a lot of laughs DINNER HONORING WEBB, following game, filled fas the old-timers frolicked on Del Webb Field, banquet room of new Sportsmen Ot Stanislaus club [named in honor of the Yankee owner. Once again house. Jerry Pepelis, general manager of Modesto Sin Modesto uniform, Webb pitched 1% innings, Reds ball team, planned the day's program. struck out one man, was a bit wild in pitching to others, but after a few erasures and score book revisions, was credited with a "no-hit" perform ance before Mgr. Howard Bartlett, who piloted the 1915 team on which Webb played, moved Del to first base. But Stockton's old-timers won, 5-3. REMINISCENCES of early ballplaying experiences bring smiles at dinner to Del Webb, left, and Johnny ON THE MOUND, Webb peers toward Weissmuller, former movie Tarzan, who accom the plate for signal, then comes in for panied Webb to Modesto from Hollywood to of a confab with his catcher. ficiate as master of ceremonies. Yankee co-owner made the principal talk, below. BROTHER COMBINATION, Pitcher Del Webb and Left-Fielder Marvin Webb, also a former Modesto player. AT RIGHT - Oakland Mayor Cliff Rishell, long-time friend of Contractor Webb, came to snap action pictures ot Yankee owner. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER August, 1960 This Is Site Of Phoenix' Newest Plush Residential Area AIR VIEW shows site of new community of custom homes expected to cost $2 J million or more which Webb housing division will create in Moon Valley north of Phoenix. In foreground is I 8-hole Moon Valley Golf Course, around which Webb now is preparing to develop 400 acres of residential land. Over the mountains, looking southward, are Sunnyslope and Phoenix. North Seventh Street is sliced through the mountains at left. Custom Home Project Webb Firm Is Expanding To Cost Many Millions If the weather still is warm in Sep Brewery On West Coast (Continued From Page 1) tember, it won't be any warmer than (Continued From Page 1) the Webb Spinner's congratulations to died by Arizona Development and strong as engineer and E. B. York as those Webb folks who will be observ Mortgage Co. of Phoenix. office manager. Completion is sched ing birthday anniversaries that month: uled in the spring of 1961. Webb acquired the property from William Kennicott, Phoenix, Sept. 2 Holmes and Narver, Inc., Los An Moon Valley Golf Properties, Inc., a Fred Kuentz, Phoenix Sept. 14 geles architect-engineering firm, de group of Phoenix and out-of-state busi Joe Gilbreath, San Francisco, Sept. 14 signed the new addition after creating, nessmen responsible for the golf Opal Booth, Phoenix Sept. 17 in cooperation with the Anheuser- course. Others among the stockholder- Mike Cline, San Diego Sept. 19 Busch engineering department, the ori sellers were Leonard Goldman, John Alice Bones, Phoenix Sept. 20 ginal Budweiser $25 million brewery Jacobs, John Butts, Ollie Burnett, all Lillian McGirr, Phoenix Sept. 25 completed in 1954. of Phoenix; Winston Wheeler and Ur Jim Stamatis, Kurt O. Schwabe represents Anheu ban Denker of Wichita, Kans., Les Vandenberg AFB Sept. 27 ser-Busch on the project. Holmes and Colman of Detroit and Don Harring Ruth Hopper, Phoenix Sept. 28 Narver representatives are Donald T. ton of Amarillo, Tex. Stan Halver, Phoenix Sept. 28 Robbins, project engineer, and Colin Edward L. Varney, Phoenix archi Patricia Behrens, L.A Sept. 29 D. Shanks, resident engineer. tect who designed Paradise Valley Country Club's outstanding clubhouse Webb for first residents of the newAll homes must be in keeping with and the new structure being erected by community. rigid architectural requirements now Phoenix Country Club members, now Thefirst pla t is to be recorded in being established. is designing a clubhouse for the Moon September and a formal opening of "Because Moon Valley is ideally Valley course which is to be built next model homes by participating builders situated with a natural buffer of sur year. Though Moon Valley will be is planned for early November. Webb rounding mountains," said Breen, "we operated as a private course, Breen crews will build many of the homes, feel we can create around itsfine gol f said a limited number of country club but all will be of custom design and course the residential showplace of memberships have been reserved by not tract residences, Breen declared. Phoenix." August, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven BUM Won't Ikink Qo* 2»uue*: New Device To Automatically Apply Automobile Brakes Being Marketed By Master Products Race Driver Sam Hanks Approves Brak-O-Matic Automatic braking for automobiles — a hookup between brake and ac celerator pedal systems — now is pos sible with a device bearing the trade name, Brak-O-Matic, being manufac tured and distributed by Master Products Manufacturing Company, a Webb subsidiary, in Los Angeles. Brak-O-Matic Co. is owned by Del E. Webb, H. W. Romberg and Robert E. Sinclair, the latter two of Los An geles. Mr. Sinclair is a former Webb employee. Now being marketed on the west coast, Brak-O-Matic is a device which is well out of the experimentation and development stage. Itfits an y car, re gardless of whether the vehicle is equipped with conventional or power brakes. Once the driver lets up on the AUTOMATIC BRAKE PRINCIPALS. Robert E. Sinclair, left, and H. W. Rom accelerator, Brak-O-Matic applies the berg of Brak-O-Matic Co. pictured with compact automatic brake kit brakes instantly and automatically. and Sinclair's test car in front of Webb's Los Angeles headquarters ot Thus there is no time lag in shifting Master Products Manufacturing Company. the foot from accelerator to brake pedal and, say the manufacturers, no Angeles Times, recently spent more least positive setting, it gives retarda skidding of wheels and no loss of car than two hours driving a car equipped tion to automatic transmission cars control as sometimes occurs with sud with the device, then wrote: that is mindful of slowing on compres den application of the brakes at high "My old buddy, Sam Hanks, first sion with a stick shift car. speed. called my attention to this unit, after "It has a dash control to regulate Sam Hanks, an Indianapolis 500- he ran some spike board tire blowout severity of braking, plus a 'neutral Mile Speedway champion, reported tests with it at Riverside Raceway. zone' in between the accelerate and after testing the device: "It's the great Hanks deliberately blew two tires on brake sides of the cycle. I liked this est convenience in driving since the a new Mercury station wagon to see feature myself, because with only a automatic transmission. But what really how this automatic braking device couple of minutes practice I was able convinced me was to blow out tires at would act with brakes applied during to 'feather' the throttle so that I was 70 miles an hour on a car equipped tire failure, and he says the thing gliding instead of either accelerating with Brak-O-Matic. I had complete passed with flying colors at blowout or coasting. control of the car at all times . . . speeds up to 70 m.p.h. Braking, as you "I don't believe this or any other Brak-O-Matic held the car on the cen know, is one thing you're not supposed automatic brake I've tested is ideal ter line without any correction from to do in event of tire failure. equipment for each and every driver. me. No swerving, or violent pulling "Secret of this automatic is the rela But for someone who finds driving a that always accompanies blowouts." tively slow, natural rate of deceleration perfectly natural and simple operation Bill Dredge, auto editor of the Los which Brak-O-Matic employs. At the it looks like a desirable accessory." L' Sam Hanks drives car with Brak-O- Front tire blows as wheel rolls over Both left tires were blown out, yet i Mafic over spike plate at 70 miles sharp spikes. Hanks reported car came to safe j per hour. stop without swerve. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER August, I960 Ot Penfawi 7VeU A PHOENIX TEENAGER got one ot the big thrills of his young lite last month when he saw his first major league baseball game — saw three ot 'em, in fact; watching from a seat in gigantic Yankee Stadium as New York's Bronx Bombers won all three, then accompanying his dad and Yankee Owner Del Webb to the dugout for a chat with famed Manager Casey Stengel. He's Jay Kee Jacobson, 17, second from left, pictured with his father, L. C. Jacobson, left, executive vice-president and general manager of Del E. Webb Construction Co., and Stengel and Mr. Webb, who with Dan Topping of New York owns the Yanks. At his B 14 August, 1960 No. 8 first major league game. Jay Kee saw a typical Yankee finish — the Published by the New Yorkers exploding for five hits and three runs after two were out DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. in the ninth to shock the Detroit Tigers, 7-6. Next day, back at Yankee 302 South 23rd Ave. Phoenix, Arizona Stadium, with more than 50,000 other fans for a doubleheader, he saw 5101 San Fernando Road West a Mickey Mantle home run and two more Yankee wins over Detroit, Los Angeles, California in the interests ot the personnel of its 7-6 and 6-2, to make it 23 victories in 28 games. And when he shook various projects and branch offices hands with Casey Stengel, he got yet another thrill. Grizzled ol' Case EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson remembered meeting him as a lad of seven at the airport in Glendale, J. R. Ashton W. J Miller Calif., ten years previously. (Photo by Charles Hoff, New York Times.) Amv Jo Hafford EDITOR Jerry McLain final game. Happy? You bet, but he'd PHOTOGRAPHER Bob Sheer Really Topples 'Em Dave Parker have been happier if he could have REPORTERS Bob Sheer of the Los Angeles officeachieve d that while league bowling, as H. G. Winston, Phoenix the 266 game would have been high . C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix estimating staff, a regular member of John Morton, Phoenix the Los Angeles Webb bowling team single handicap score, and his 657 Dale Griffith, Los Angeles in the Building Industry League, while would have been high series in the Laura Keller, Master Products CIRCULATION MANAGER bowling early this month as a pacer league. His high handicap single game Jeff Cash on another league team (though not was 266 plus 22 for 288, and the high Member handicap series 657 plus 66 for 723. International Council of sanctioned as he was only pacing), fired Industrial Editors a 657 scratch series, including a 266 Wow! and Arizona Industrial Editors Vol. 14, No. 9 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SEPTEMBER, 1960 8 Pages Webb Begins $45 Million Custom Homes Project Almaden Program Is Joint Venture With Henry Crown More than $1 million in custom homes already are under construction at Almaden Country Club, San Jose, Calif., where officials of Del E. Webb Construction Co. have announced a $45 million development. Jointly interested with the Webb firm in the ambitious venture is Henry Crown, Chicago industrialist, hotel in vestor and owner of New York's tower ing Empire State Building. The project involves construction of luxury homes in the $30,000-and-up class around the beautiful 18-hole, all- grass Almaden Country Club golf ALMADEN COMMUNITY being developed by Webb builders near San course, owned and operated by the Jose, Calif., is pictured in architect's version above. Custom-designed Webb-Crown interests. Nearly 50 homes costing $30,000 and up are already rising around the picturesque (Continued on Page 3) Almaden Country Club and golf course. Construction Underway On Newest Housing For Missile-Firing Vandenberg AFB Crews A $7 million community of new homes for airmen and missilemen is 400 UNIT TITLE VIII under construction by Del Webb crews ARMED SERVICES HOUSING PROJECT at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Cal VANIDEI1 HERO A F B ifornia, heralded as the "Cape Canav DESIGN 6. CONSTRUCTION eral of the West", where last year they SUPERVISED BY completed 525 homes. The new community will rise across U S AIR FORCE the highway from the Vandenberg CIVIL ENGINEERS KWII5CT EMSIISES main gate, and as Col. James H. S. C0NTHAC10R 8ENED1CT MMLtBSJSSOCUrlE OtLWEBB C0NSTHUCT1OK CO l0S MOELESCM.lt Rasmussen, base commander, turned PHOENIX AUK- the first shovel of earth in ground breaking ceremonies, he declared: FIRST DIRT is moved in ground "When completed, this third incre breaking ceremonies by Col. ment of homes will provide greatly J. H. S. Rasmussen, base com needed housing for many of our fam mander, in multi-million dollar ilies now located far from the base. armed services housing project Our objective is to locate as many of Webb workmen are building at Vandenberg AFB in California. (Continued on Page 6) Standing by is Jim Stamatis, Webb project superintendent. Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER September, 1960 Concrete Flows Like Beer As Webb Crew Pushes Work On Budweiser Brewery LIKE BEER AT A FAT MAN'S PICNIC, concrete was poured in almost a steady stream Aug. 18 on the Webb project of building a new multi-million dollar stockhouse for Anheuser-Busch brewing company at Van Nuys, Calif. A crew of 11 laborers and five cement finishers directed by Project Supt. M. D. Stevens poured 497 cubic yards ot concrete in 7'/i hours. A steady procession of transit-mix trucks brought concrete continuously to two pre determined points from which a 35-ton crane with a 150-foot boom picked it up at one point or the other con tinuously, maintaining a pouring rate of about 66 cubic yards per hour throughout the day. mmm iM jllifffll *<--**"—• JnfliMII *— *U_.. ^,rft?ft liiipsi ^r. ONE WEEK AFTER POUR, photo above shows erection NETWORK of reinforcing steel, 60 tons in all, is shown ot structural steel and basement wall forms. Perim ready for pour. Basement slab area was 51 by 107 eter walls called for 393 cubic yards of concrete and feet and, with perimeter walls, required 890 cubic were poured in five hours through use of concrete yards of concrete. buggies. September, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three Millions In Homes Second GUL Qo* Almaden Rising At Almaden (Continued From Page 1) homes already are under construction and a dozen have been completed and opened to the public by San Jose area and Northern California builders who purchased lots from the Webb firm, which is developing 1,200 acres. The Almaden development is in a picturesque locale six miles south of San Jose. John L. Kies, Webb project man ager, said San Jose area builders already active in the Almaden project include Culligan Development Co., Ira Kir- korian Construction Co., Wandemere Construction Co., H. R. Angellotti, John R. Richards, Manuel J. Souza and W. M. Wilson. Lots are being of fered to individuals for private custom SWIM AND RACQUET CLUB, as visualized for Almaden by architect. Is development and to California build pictured above. To be built this fall, it will include a large, eight-lane ers, with the Webb firm planning no L-shaped swimming pool with one-meter and three-meter diving actual homes construction there at the boards, a children's wading pool, and regulation size tennis courts. present time, Kies announced. Almaden already has a golf and country club. Almaden boasts an attractive, spa party at Almaden Country Club last George Bruno, Almaden Club pro, was cious clubhouse with dining room, month for business and professional host for the golf tourney, which at cocktail lounge, snack shop and pro leaders from San Jose, San Francisco tracted a field of 70. A two-day public shop, and plans have been announced and Oakland. Attending from the Phoe opening of Almaden homes followed. for the Almaden Swim and Racquet nix headquarters were Pres. Del E. The Almaden project isn't the first Club on which construction will begin Webb, who was principal speaker at joint venture for Builder Webb and this fall. Swimming and tennis facili the dinner, and J. R. Ashton, vice- Industrialist Crown, long-time friends. ties are to be ready for use early in president in charge of housing opera Early last year they purchased the $5 1961, Kies reported. tions. million Arrowhead Ranch near Phoe In connection with launching of the Kies served as toastmaster and nix, and it is being operated in highly- homes development, Webb officials Dutch Hammon, San Jose city man successful production of grapes, citrus hosted a golf tournament and dinner ager, extended the city's welcome. and other agricultural products. PARTICIPANTS in Almaden invitational golf tournament, a feature of the opening ot the Almaden Country Club project, included two groups pictured above. LEFT — Checking their final scores, and seemingly not in complete agreement, were George Bruno, Almaden Club professional whose 73 tied the best any other pro could do that day; J. R. Ashton, Webb vice-president, and Jack Kies, Webb project manager at Almaden who is claiming a "3" on the hole under discussion. RIGHT — This foursome included, from left, Builder Tom Culligan of San Jose, Frankie Albert, former football star with the Stanford Indians and San Francisco 49ers; Contractor Del E. Webb, and Fred Deauville, top Palo Alto amateur. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER September, 196C @cuttena Povfocuft Seaufy o£ rfluuulett Almost encircled by trees, the No. 4 Practice putting greens flank Almaden green ... clubhouse... September, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five •-^TT"'''~- . w •-•« ( . "*• < • ^ m^H^Kt.~ * i TSKJL* S* ! # * 'x$#>*¥ ' >s '«B£'^&kii I CLUB LIVING at its best is ottered residents in the beautiful new multi-million dollar Del Webb's Almaden f project of custom-built homes now taking shape in the rolling foothills close by San Jose, Calif. View above •1 valley where, at the doorsteps of these homes, winds the tree-studded, all-grass championship Almaden golf racquet club soon will become a reality. Webb-developed homesites begin at $8,500; individually-built custom Men homes under construction; typical of completed residences built and marketed at Almaden by San Jose area •e at right and below. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER September, 1960 Signaling Start of Air Force Housing tflf '^ •ify;yLy.-J& J 3. M;•:• • ip"•<*>. * >rf yj n .•I "[00 UNIT TITLE VIII ^$r*J *^l SERVICES HOUSING PROJECT WAMDEIVBERO /> F H I ^^E ^^ GN 6. CONSTRUCTION • E* SUPERVISED BY ^M MK^ •|| Sffetf AIR FORCE •Pfj -«^» *1 ENGINEERS mm f - BRCMirecT / p $• \ ^ | WHki \ „„, BENEDICT MCKLERtMSSOCHrtE £ I JjM , J • I LOS ANGELES CALIF r. XjlM , • ^^^^tfi'jS3&a&r. - . .'-• ':•• - 'r ;'. .. -. %2& GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONIES for the Webb housing project now underway at Vandenberg AFB in Califor nia attracted the group pictured above, from left: R. E. Kelley; Sr. of Kelley Engineering Co., which holds the inspection contract; Bill Burchill, project supervisor; Capt. H. L. Dickerson, base procurement; Kim Bannister, Webb manager of project operations; Col. J. H. S. Rasmussen, base commander; Jim Stamatis, Webb project superintendent, and Capt. G. S. Ostrowski, base procurement. Webb Crews Constructing New Homes For Missile Men Sint^cUu^ (Continued From Page 1) room, 208 three-bedroom and 42 four- r .... , ,. , bedroom homes. Company grade of- Already a hint of fall is in the air, F our mditaiy personnel on the base as ^ ^ Qccupy 65 th/ee bedroom and our list of employee birthdays P°SS1 e' and 16 four-bedroom dwellings. Field grows. The Webb Spinner extends fe- There'll be no shortage of tenants grade offjcers wi|, get 25 homes of licitations this month to a fine group as the homes are completed, despite three bedrooms and nine with four of Webb folks who will be observing the fact 1,405 Capehart homes already bedrooms 0ne home will be a four. anniversaries during October. They in- are being occupied at Vandenberg. A bedroom commander's quarters. elude: onetime artillery training base located Webb bui,ders a|sQ wi], be respon. Gai, 0ttinger; Phoenix Oct. 5 168 miles northwest of Los Angeles, sjb,e fof a[, street improvements and Thelma J. Floyd, San Diego Oct. 8 Vandenberg today is a 67,000-acre insta„ations of utnities, including W. A. Warriner, Phoenix Oct. 9 training and launching base for the At- sewef water and electricit Bi|1 Reed phoenix Qct 10 '"• ^Zn J m'SS ' T T™ Vandenberg homes completed last W. G. Heath, Sun City Oct. 10 than 20,000 mihtary personnel and ci- compared m0re than favorably in Tom Rittenhouse, Phoenix Oct. 12 viians are expected eventuay to staff • • „ . „„ r^i„j r> nu • r\ * tc. , . ,v ' size, appearance, convenience and ex- Gladys Gage, Phoenix Oct. 16 the installation. cellence with civilian homes costing D. C. Bickmore, Los Angeles....Oct. 16 Project superintendent for Webb is $15,000 to $20,000. Jack Ford, chief Charlie Holley, San Diego Oct. 17 Jim Stamatis, who formerly directed of operations for the Webb housing Edwin H. Smith, Los Angeles Oct. 19 construction of Webb housing in division, said the new segment of 400 Raymond R. Conner, Clairemont Estates at San Diego. Op- Vandenberg homes will be comparable San Diego Oct. 22 erations man is Kim Bannister from in design anfj facilities. Robert Sheer, Los Angeles Oct. 23 the Phoenix housing headquarters. Steven K Faif Phoenix 0ct. 25 C. H. (Buzz) Messinger is project en- A zo\& js sometimes affirmative and Mabel Seitz, Phoenix Oct. 27 gineer and Hugh Kaufman is office sometimes negative — sometimes the Jerry McLain, Phoenix Oct. 29 manager. The Webb crew has until eyes have it, and sometimes the nose. Carl Ingram Phoenix Oct 31 next July 1 to deliver the Vandenberg John L j^ San Jose Qct 31 homes, but hopes to turn over the com- Everything in the modern home is pleted project by spring. controlled by a switch except the chil- The fly that buzzes the loudest usu- Planned for airmen are 34 two-bed- dren. ally gets swatted first. September, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Boys' Clubs Mortgage Goes Up In Smoke Hditd *}«, Wot IZace The Los Angeles office men's bowl ing team wound up its summer league schedule in the Building Trades League at Grand Central Bowl in Glendale in third place, only 1 Vi games out of first in a tightfinish determined on the final night of pin toppling. By losing one game to Beverly Build ing Material Co. that night, the Webb group finished IVi games behind L.A. Water Softener and one game behind Keogh Bros., both of whom won four points the final night. In sweepstakes, Webb men were sec ond by 27 pins. Bob Sheer won singles with 593 actual and a handicap total of 656, then teamed with George Shaw to win the doubles, Shaw coming up with 505 actual and 579 handicap to tal. Season-ending averages were: Dale Griffith, 177; Sheer and Cecil Drink ward, each 161; Ralph Boatman, 159, and Shaw, 157. Griffith had high game of 267 and high series of 615 during the season. Dodie Hixon of the Phoenix Webb SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL LIFT from Central Arizona District Council of construction women's team won sec Carpenters in the form ot a $4,546.90 check to pay off final debts ond-place trophies in summer-league against buildings of the three Phoenix Boys' Clubs made possible the mixed foursome bowling in the Tele mortgage-burning ceremony pictured above. From left are L. C. Jacob- phone League and Strikes and Spares. son, executive vice-president and general manager of Webb construc Owen Childress of the Phoenix men's tion who in 1957-58 spearheaded the funds appeal to get three clubs team won a $25 top prize in summer built; I. G. (Pete) Homes, Phoenix contractor for whom one of the clubs sweepstakes for high series. Phoenix is named; Dell Trailor, another Phoenix builder who is president of the construction and housing divisions are board of Phoenix Boys' Clubs, and Bob Barrett, secretary-treasurer of fielding two women's and two men's carpenters' union. Boys are, from left, Bobby Wilkinson, David Avenetti teams in winter league competition. and Chris DeSoto, club members watching the mortgage burn. Union carpenters donated $7,000 in 1958-59, bringing their total contribu tions to Boys' Clubs to $11,546. c^^g) BIGGEST BUILDING PERMIT ever is sued in La Mesa, Calif., was ob tained last month by Del E. Webb Construction Co. for erection of first ten of some 50 stores in Webb's huge Grossmont Shopping "City" in the San Diego area. It was a $7,520,375 permit costing $10,661 in filing fees. Fact is, the single permit exceeded the total value of all La Mesa permits issued during the first seven months of I960. Fred Kuentz, left, hands Webb check to Reno N. Wheat- craft, right, La Mesa building and safety director, as William N. Ken- nicott, Webb project operations man, receives permit. @^k£) Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER September, 1960 MASTER (Editor's Note: This column concerns activi ties of the folks at Master Products Manu facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid iary of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.) Marvelle Haggberg of the Master Products office staff vacationed in Northern California and the Bay re gion, seeing the sights in San Francisco and looking in on relatives in Oakland, then directing their safari to Pollacks Pines and Lake Tahoe. After depleting Tahoe slot machines of two jackpots and visioning a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow in Reno, they detoured that way and picked up two more slot machine jackpots. In search of cooler weather, they headed west and south, finding Sacramento hot and then ar rived home tofind Los Angeles in the middle of an "unusual" heat wave. "You can't win," says Marvelle. SOMETHING OF A DILEMMA confronts Mgr. Jim Thomason as he strives to choose between modern styles as modeled by Mary Welch and styles Mollie Gomez, sales department, of "good old days" portrayed in one of seven original French advertis followed a carefully-planned shortcut ing and theater posters decorating the new Rouge Room at Navarre's, over the Angels Crest highway en the fashionable Phoenix restaurant owned by Thomason and Webb of route to Las Vegas, only to find it was ficials. Rouge Room posters were created, signed and dated by some not open, resulting in a delay which of most famous poster artists and were reproduced by a very old litho cost all of three hours of slot-machine graphic process in which each was drawn on stone and then transferred playing time. But she found her money to paper. disappearing like magic soon after ar rival, both in a fascinating game called stud poker, and in the slots, so turned her attention to the big shows. She saw "La Parisienne" at the Stardust and spotted Preston Foster and Billy Eckstine among the celebs. Found Las Vegas folks friendly, she said, even while they were parting her from her Volume 14 September, I960 No. 9 money. Published by the DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. Esther Godinez of plant operations 302 South 23rd Ave. and family traveled to Ensenada, Mex Phoenix, Arizona 5101 San Fernando Road West ico, to enjoy fishing, hunting and swim Los Angeles, California ming: found the weather perfect and n the interests of the personnel of its various projects and branch offices the fishing excellent, so one and all had Del E. Webb EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Jacobson a fine vacation. J. R. Ashton WL.. CJ Miller Amy Jo Hafford And what about vacations among EDITOR Master Products men? They reported Jerry McLain PHOTOGRAPHER (1) yard work, (2) watching baseball PRIDE of Ed Smith of the Los An Dave Parker games and (3) sleeping. Well, the lat geles office estimating staff and REPORTERS his wife, Ethel, is their daughter, H. G. Winston, Phoenix ter two could qualify as vacationing! Beverly Dawn, (pictured), whose A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix John Morton, Phoenix betrothal they have just an Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Man is that irrational creature who nounced. She will wed Olin James Laura Keller, Master Products CIRCULATION MANAGER ijgggl] is always looking for a home atmos Diamond of South Pasadena next Jeff Cash Dec. 17. They met while attend phere in a hotel, and hotel service at Member ing Glendale College. Miss Smith International Council of home! Industrial Editors also is a graduate of Hollywood and Arizona Industrial Editors Professional College. Vol. 14, No. 10 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, OCT.-NOV., 1960 8 Pages Nation's Greatest Rocket Test Structure Built By Webb Crews A massive concrete and steel struc ture to test America's newest and larg est rocket engines has been virtually completed by Del E. Webb Corpora tion at Edwards Air Force Base in a remote area of the Southern California desert. Known as Test Stand IB, the tower ing facility anchored in a hillside studded with rocket stands is as tall as a 22-story building and has the largest capacity of any stand in existence by a considerable margin. It was designed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to test large 1,500,000-lb. thrust rocket engines being developed and built for NASA by Rocketdyne, a division of North American Aviation, Inc. The task of the Webb-built structure will be to keep the single-chamber 1 Vi - million-lb. thrust engine from going into orbit during static tests which must precede its use to power future rockets, conceivably to carry men into space. Rocketdyne designed and will operate the test stand. Into the project went 22,800 yards of concrete, almost enough to pave two miles of eight-lane freeway, and steel reinforcing bars 21/4 inches in diameter, the biggest commonly rolled bars. Man hours of work totaled some 170,00. Not only the test stand was built WATER COOLED. When tests begin next year of the nation's biggest by Webb crews directed by Project rocket engine in the Webb-built static test stand pictured above, some Supt. Neil Drinkward but also a two- 75,000 gallons of water per minute will rush through this pipe system story heavy concrete support building, to cool a huge steel plate deflecting the hot blast of rocket engine bridges from the top of the support flames. (Additional pictures, Pages 4, 5 and 6.) building to the stand and from the road Mixed Emotions New Civil Engineer above to the top of the support build ing, a tunnel connecting the stand to Steve Fair of the Del E. Webb De Jim McGoldrick of the Los Angeles an underground control house on the velopment Co. housing division, while Webb estimating staff has recently opposite side of the mountain, and working for Yankee Co-owner Del completed his tests and was qualified roads and utilities. Webb, hardly could have been expected by the California State Board for his The project also called for tremen to root for the Yanks in the recent civil engineering license. Congrats are dous mechanical installations in air World Series. He's a brother-in-law of in order! conditioning, heating and electrical fa- Joe L. Brown, general manager of the When you stop to think, don't forget Pittsburgh Pirates. to start again. (Continued on Page 3) Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER Oct.-Nov., 1960 National Attention Focused On Webb's Rocket Test Stand Project 1ft^ft'ftftftftft-v;:' ; 'ftftft^ THE STORY of construction by the Webb Corporation of the nation's greatest rocket engine test stand was presented to the nation recently in the advertisement pictured above, placed in five top magazines by Employers Mutual of Wausau, insurance carrier on the project for the Webb firm. Oct.-Nov., 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three VISITORS from Phoenix headquarters of the Webb firm chat on test Rocket Test Stand Rises stand project site with some of the men responsible for its construction, from left: Don Gray, assistant project superintendent; M. T. Rigg, office In Remote Mountain Area manager; Lloyd Pardee, Webb engineer; W. A. (Bill) Warriner, assist ant business manager from Phoenix office; George P. Davis, project (Continued from Page 1) engineer tor the Army Engineers; Neil Drinkward, Webb project super cilities, the building of control and intendent, and David Parker of Webb public relations department. warning systems, concrete block obser Unavailable for picture was Morris DeConinck, Webb field engineer. vation stations, instrumentation tun In background is steel superstructure of test stand. nels, a pump house, and huge tanks for storage of water, nitrogen, oxygen and other fuels. The Los Angeles division of the Army Engineers, of which William J. Leen is construction chief, was design ing and construction agency for the test stand. The foundation structure was designed by Aetron, a division of Aerojet General Corp. George P. Davis represented the Army Engineers as project engineer, assisted by L. A. Daugherty. Webb construction was directed by R. H. Johnson, vice-president, and Ed ward T. Davies, chief of operations, Los Angeles headquarters, with Cecil Drinkward of the Los Angeles opera tions department serving as liaison man. Edwards Air Force Base is a 300,000- acre testing domain for aircraft and TEST STAND WAS BUILT in rugged terrain of the Leuhman Ridge on a missiles in California's Mojave desert. 300,000-acre Southern California testing domain for missiles and air The X-15 rocket planeflies fro m this craft. In foreground are tanks for rocket engine fuel, and arrow indi cates location of one concrete blockhouse from which tests will be base. observed. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER Oct.-Nov., 196C tgxf*J,g . 4 WEDGED INTO A MOUNTAINSIDE at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California, this mighty rocket engine test stand was built by Del E._ Webb Corporation to test powerful engines of the largest and newest of U. S. space-conquering vehicles. With its steel superstructure bolted to heavy steel bearing plates atop the concrete, the test stand towers to the height of a 22- story building. Fully complete, it will look much like the artist's conception in upper right corner. Once the new NASA single-chamber 1,500,000-lb. thrust rocket engine Is bolted into the steel framework and comes to life in an earth-shaking roar, exhaust flames will be directed downward, then outward as they hit a 260-ton steel flame deflector yet to be installed (indi cated in sketch). Water rushing over this deflector at 75,000 gallons per minute will protect It from melting heat of the exhaust stream, and the water then will flow through canal in fore ground to a man-made lake In the mountain test stand site. Jj Qct.-Nov., 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Five Structure To Test Biggest Engine In U. S. Rocket History >t, test stand faces into canyon, opposite side ot d with a concrete blanket to catch and help con- £ sts. Note size of man (arrow No. 1) on big concrete I el storage tanks and other supporting facilities I land, as well as a concrete observation building 'i ivy concrete support building (arrow No. 3) is j 1st stand, separated by a gap of 20 feet to mini- Image from vibrational forces. It contains main- menf rooms, office space, storage areas and in- II rooms. »«. Workmen are dwarfed by big TEST STAND LAKE. Below test stand, Webb workmen ley are constructing to be placed atop created a reservoir to recapture some ot the flood as containers for rocket engine fuel of wafer from each rocket engine test tor recycling. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER Oct.-Nov., 196C Facilities Backing Up Rocket Test Stand ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION and two of the big storage CONCRETE BLOCKHOUSE on hill opposite test stand tanks which serve rocket test stand installation. is designed for safe observation of roaring rocket engines during actual testing. MILLION GALLON water storage tank was erected SIX GIANT PUMPS can empty the million-gallon tank by Webb crews on knoll above the test stand's pump in five minutes in cooling the great flame shield house. below the rocket engine. Oct.-Nov., 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven New Recreational Area Rough Treatment For A Club Owner The 1960 World Series, one of the most exciting in history, has been Being Developed Close written into the record books, and baseball talk today has turned to "next year." But we still cannot resist presenting the striking coinci To Growing Sun City dence portrayed in the two action pictures below, taken five years apart. Incidentally, it was the THIRD time Yankee Co-owner Del Webb A 5,800-acre recreational area cen had either been "beaned" or almost struck by a foul ball during a tered around Lake Pleasant, directly World Series, which is pretty rough treatment for a club owner! And, north and within a short driving dis ironically, in each of the cases pictured the Yankees went on to lose tance of the new Del Webb retirement the seventh and deciding game after coming from behind to tie up the community of Sun City, is going to be Series in the sixth game. developed and improved by Maricopa County to offerfishing, boating , camp ing and a variety of outdoor recreation. It will provide a spectacular new recreational area for retirement city residents. Lake Pleasant Park is situated in an area with many evidences of historic campsites, Indian fortification, aban doned mines, and other relics of early Arizona. Central attraction now is a 1,975-foot long dam which rises to a height of 250 feet. A $53,000 appropriation has been set up by Maricopa supervisors for preliminary development, according to Kenneth J. Smithee, county parks di rector. Sam L. Huddleston, nationally- known park planner and consulting architect from Denver, mapped plans for recreational development. Included in the area are two lakes, one three miles long and two miles It was in the No. 4 game between Yanks and Dodgers at wide, another a mile long and one- Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. A foul fly from the bat of Yankee fourth mile wide. Proposed regulations Don Larsen, dropping into Del Webb's box, struck Webb a would limit the smaller lake to canoe 1955 glancing blow on the head. Roy Campanella, Dodger catcher, ing, sailboating, rowing and other types leaned over the rail a moment too late to try for the catch. of non-powered water craft. Work al ready has been started on a sandy beach which will be 4,000 feet long and serve 6,000 to 10,000 persons. The upper lake would be open to all safe water craft except house boats, with water skiing and high speed activities restricted to its center area. Cradle Chatter Two new fathers began putting new zip into their work for the Del Webb Corporation this month. Joe Gilbreath, office manager on the San Francisco TowneHouse project, and Mrs. Gil- breath welcomed an eight-pound, two- ounce son on November 8, and George LeCuyer, public relations man on the Sun City retirement community de velopment, and Mrs. LeCuyer are proudly displaying George, Jr., who weighed in at aboutfive pounds when he arrived in Phoenix early the morn ing of November 11. This time it was the sixth game, and this time a foul tip off the bat of Yankee Roger Maris. And Pittsburgh Catcher Hal The dollar may not go as far as it Smith, racing to the third base fence with glove outstretched, used to, but what it lacks in distance, 1960 toppled into Webb's box as the grimacing Yankee owner it more than makes up in speed. ducked to one side. Smith didn't catch the ball, but Webb escaped being conked. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER Oct.-Nov., 1960 CMI^SIISIJ] (Edtor's Note: This column concerns activi ties of the folks at Master Products Manu facturing Company of Los Angeles, a subsid iary of the Del E. Webb Corporation.) Laura Keller, Master Products office manager, returned recently from a deer hunting trip in Utah. This has devel oped into an annual junket the past four years, with the Kellers and friends heading for the hills to restock the larder with venison. Laura is the proud owner of a Finnish-make hunting gun called a 243 Sako with a nine-power telescope sight, while Husband Jack uses a standard 30-0-6. This trip took them to picturesque Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park, Cedar City and Evanstown, with the full snow treatment in each place and plenty of wild game. As usual, one day A CAREER MAN in the U. S. Air Force, Capt. Barry T. Bays of Tyndall AFB before the deer season opened the party in Florida, and Mrs. Pearl Richardson, Webb Corporation receptionist spotted whole herds of deer, along with and PBX operator at the Phoenix office 18 years, were married Octo several moose and elk. Several precar ber 15 in Las Vegas, Nev. They met when Captain Bays was conducting ious situations, like getting snowed in instrumentation jet training flights to Luke Field near Phoenix. He re cently passed his 3,000th hour in the air during 15 years of military flying and was made a command pilot. The Webb bachelor ranks also recently lost a staunch member when Dave Sanders, a project engineer more than nine years, was married to Gloria F. Ashor of Scottsdale, Ariz. ^A^fiJ^AJ Some minds are like concrete — all W M^mrVt^w mixed up and permanently set. Richard Wartes, Phoenix Dec. 1 Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Dec. 3 Barbara Joan Rodgers, WW FF Phoenix Dec. 5 ?**• CI Robert Ditzler, Sun City Dec. 10 Billy Joe Freeman, Phoenix ...Dec. 11 Larry McMillon, Sun City Dec. 13 DavidS. Lawrence, Sun City....Dec. 14 volume u Oei.-Nov., i960 No. 10 H. J. Webb, Los Angeles Dec. 14 Published by the Paul EdeH, Sun City Dec. 15 DEL E. WEBB CORPORATION George LeCuyer, Sun City Dec. 16 302 South 23rd Ave. °,,, , x , T-. — Phoenix, Arizona Laura Keller On Successful Deer Hunt Ralph WanleSS, LOS Angeles ....Dec. 17 5101 San Fernando Road West Mary Somerfeld, L. A Dec. 22 in the k?j£Tthet~\ of its and being unable to climb fairly-steep Sandra Shaw, Los Angeles Dec. 26 various projects and branch offices EDIT0, Al inclines with the jeep and car caravan, Dean Carrier, Phoenix Dec. 30 De| E Webb " COMMITTER ^^ enlivened the trip and at times J. R. Ashton W.J.Miller #t . ..,.1 AmV Jo Hafford threatened to be a serious problem. Quartet Sets Pin Mark EDITOR Windstorms brought heavy snow. Feminine bowlers rolling in the Hits .Jl^i™. Two and one-half weeks in the „ . , _, . b _ , . PHOTOGRAPHER "high" country brought Laura back to & Mrs. League at Clairemont Bowl in Dave parker Los Angeles tired but in good health, San Diego under Del Webb colors re- REPORTERS with a mountain tan. Only one night cently were in second place, had the A.cffi2bJSlni« was spent under roof, the rest in open Season's high-team series Of 1871, and John Morton, Phoenix camps. Laura, a Yankee fan, heard the T • *-. ^- IJ IJ L-I_. Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Jennie Fortier had racked Up high in- Laura Keller, Master Products World Series by radio at an elevation dividual series that week with 522. .apS^. CIRCULATION MANAGER of 7,000 feet and reported excellent re Other members of the quartet are Shir- J|Sferf\ Member"" hi ! M ception. ley Hayward, Millie Durham and Mil- VWBUT/J international Council of drei di Kingsburyvi u,..~., N^pOfaS.^g^^an/ d ArizonIndustriaa Industrial Editorl sEditor s Vol. 14, No. 12 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, DECEMBER, 1960 8 Pages Sun City Enlarges Golf Course; Adds To Shopping Center Sun City, the fast-growing Del Webb retirement community northwest of Phoenix, got a new medical center this month, a branch bank, and a pic turesque second nine holes for its all- grass 18-hole golf course. And as new Sun City homes contin ued to mushroom and spread farther and farther out onto broad acres that a year ago was farming land, the second segment of the community's modern shopping center was under way, and expansion of the town's HiwayHouse motor hotel was started. Not yet a year old — its first birth day due January 1 — Sun City already (Continued on Page 6) OVERLOOKING the busy freeways ' and downtown Los Angeles, this impressive 165 - toot - high Home Reason's. #reetingg Office Building is the focal point of Union Oil Center, which has Christmas .. . and a New Year .. . a time to pause, to give thanks, to reflect and to been accorded a 1960 Merit Award plan.. . for architectural excellence. As 1960 draws toward a close, with another Christmas at hand and a New Year on the horizon, it becomes again my privilege and pleasure to extend greetings of the season Union Oil Center to our personnel, our associates in far-flung enterprises, our suppliers and subcontractors, and to our many friends who are readers of The Webb Spinner. Wins Merit Award Because it is heartening for me and other executives of the Del E. Webb Corporation Union Oil Center, the multi-million to work with people who have a real sense of responsibility and concern over their firm's dollar Los Angeles business complex welfare and future, it is with deep gratification and humility that I express my appreciation built by the Del E. Webb Corporation, for the loyalty, cooperation and industry of all our employees during 1960 as well as has won recognition in the Triennial throughout the years of our diversified operations. Honor Awards of the Southern Cali fornia Chapter of the American Insti In this year just closing, while the size and scope of our operations have broadened tute of Architects. tremendously, we feel that today we are on the threshold of our greatest growth. We can review with pride our achievements of the past, but we must now be looking to the future. Twenty of the most distinguished We know there's a bigger job for all of us in the year ahead. works of architecture by A.LA. mem bers were recognized for excellence in We must remember, as we welcome 1961, that our growth will be measured as in design and plan. the past by the quality of our work, the cooperation with our valued business associates, and Union Oil Center, accorded an the efficient manner in which we serve those who have a stake in the future of our company. Award of Merit, was designed by the architectural firm of Pereira and Luck- To Webb folks and our legion of friends everywhere, and their families, we extend man, Los Angeles. this sincere wish — may your Christmas be bright and filled with the spirit of true friend Robert H. Johnson, Webb vice-presi ship and good will. And may this spirit find a place in our daily lives throughout the dent and Los Angeles office manager, coming year. (Continued on Page 3) VelS. 2tW Page Two THE WEBB SPINNER December, 1960 Brewery Expansion Is Pictured Traveler Who Was Pleased With HiwayHouses Pens Enthusiasm For Sun City A A former Phoenician, Maj. E. S. Garey, wrote a little ditty almost a year ^jffll fHmi WtLWAfld • • •K) ^fUl HH \ ago as a tribute to Del Webb's Hiway House motor hotels after he and Mrs. Garey had enjoyed some pleasant stop *$ 1/ f Wu •»1&W«« overs at the hostelries. "x x x We are never disappointed when staying at a HiwayHouse," he declared. Recently, dining at the Sun City Hi wayHouse, he picked up a copy of Del Webb's Traveler, monthly motor hotel publication, and there was his poetic : tribute to the Webb hotels. -y '"^^SMC^ And that inspired Major Garey, now a resident of Webb's Sun City, to write: BCER BARREL STOCKHOUSE. A new five-story stockhouse costing approxi "x x x I was one of the early buyers at mately $5 million which Del E. Webb Corporation is constructing in Van Sun City, having made my reservation Nuys, Calif., for Anheuser-Busch brewing company is shown in views for a home about Jan. 20. I have since above and below. Structure will contain 96 tanks, such as are pictured sold the idea to several of my friends. above in building and on truck in front of building. Each has a capacity We are greatly enthused. So I have ot 1,000 barrels of beer, or more liquid than would be required to till again expressed myself in rhyme. Since a standard depth swimming pool 20 x 40 feet in size, and each container Del Webb is doing so many things of is larger in size than that of a railroad tank car. Photo below is a view which I approve, let me wish him and from above looking down on the roof of the new stockhouse. his helpers a long, useful life." Major Garey's new ditty: I've traveled 'round the world for years Paris, London and Algiers. I've seen a million places, every kind I've looked at places in Portland, Maine I've seen them while crossing U.S.A. by train I've been looking for the place to settle down And now my quest has ended, I've found a bit of heaven, A place with clear and smogless sky With mighty mountains all around, and peaceful plains between Peopled with such as I, looking for the good life, Sun City, Arizona. The Framers of the Declaration of Independence gave us the right to pur sue happiness, but not at the rate of 75 m.p.h. on a crowded highway on a Experience is something you acquire According to the latest news ac Sunday afternoon. when the opportunity for using it is counts, it would seem that in interna gone. tional affairs the United States always plays a loan hand. Weeds in the garden of thought soon The popular after-dinner speaker is make a man look seedy. one who has learned the art of saying The dearest mouth is the one that is nothing briefly. never opened at another's expense. Thomas Edison was a smart man. He invented the phonograph so people A lot of people who never took mu Take a tip from the acrobat he would stay up late at night to use his sic lessons can fiddle around. turns flops into a success. electric lights. December, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Three 7<^ KteM-'Suitt OtfUe gomfrlex gited ?cvr /txefatectcwU S^endo* A STATELY business edifice of aluminum, glass, ceramic veneer, granite Union Oil Center Hailed and terrazzo is Union Oil Center in Los Angeles, pictured above. When your car rolls down the ramp in foreground, under a pedestrian and For Design Excellence parking bridge, you're bound for the large central plaza or garden (Continued from Page 1) court. Four-story Maryland Street Building is on the left; four-story under whose direction Union Oil Cen Fifth Street Building is on the right. In background rises the 13-story ter was constructed, received the Merit Home Office Building. Below the court is a subterranean parking garage Award for the Webb Corporation. He to handle 1,500 automobiles. BELOW — Award of Merit presented the and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stewart, rep Webb firm for its part inIC creationE IN DESIGof UnionN OilAN Center.D EXECUTIO N resenting Union Oil, were guests of to architect: '---'•:. •—-; Architect William Pereira at awards PEREIRA AND LUCKMAN ceremonies in the Ambassador Hotel, contractor: DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Los Angeles. for: The event, held once every three UNION OIL CENTfR, years since 1920, is unique in that UNION OIL COMPANY Of CALIFORNIA while the awards are based on design and execution of the structures, honors are shared with the owners for their recognition of the importance of creat ing a good environment through the buildings they erect, and with the con tractors who share in executing the de sign. o u t he r n c a I i} o r n i a chap t e Purpose of the awards, according to A.I.A. officials, is to create public 1960 111 I II11 IIIII IIIlll awareness of need for better design. Page Four THE WEBB SPINNER December, 1960 Two Huge Webb Shopping Centers Begin Taking ShJ AT PHOENIX. Air view above shows the $15 million Chris-Town Shopping "City" taking shape on a spaciou 100-acre site at 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road in Northwest Phoenix. The grouping ot 50 or monf, stores will front on Bethany Home Road, which bisects lower part ot picture. Besides restaurant, bank an< . other businesses scattered at strategic shopping points on the site, main center will be more than twt blocks in length, with Montgomery Ward store at one end, Korricks flanking the other, ft will have an attrac : tively-landscaped, air-conditioned inner shoppers' mall. WARD'S STORE. This view from interior of main floor of Montgomery YOU'RE LOOKING DOW Ward store at Chris-Town in Phoenix looks toward what will be the rising fabric of steel for " broad inner mall. It will provide shoppers an enclosed promenade, heat of steel will go info the : ed in winter, cooled in summer. length. S Page Five AT SAN DIEGO. Bracketed by busy highways, rising on an imposing 110-acre site adjacent to LaMesa, a San 'Diego suburb, the new $20 million Grossmont Shopping "City" is shown in air view above. In foreground is the nearby Grossmont Hospital. Among more than 50 stores, Grossmont will have a spacious Ward's establishment and the first branch of the big Marston's merchandise firm outside ot downtown San Diego. Grossmont will con tain more than 625,000 square feet of shopping space when if opens for business next fall, and is being devel oped for eventual expansion to 800,000 square feet. Like Chris-Town at Phoenix, it was planned, designed and engineered by Welton Becket and Associates, Los Angeles. , r-.-.s-Town, between the CHRIS-TOWN already has attracted considerable attention in the South vJunity. About 1,250 tons western construction picture. Photographer above was snapped while Jmore than two blocks in making a jobsite picture tor a Salt River Project advertisement on Ari zona's booming construction industry. Page Six THE WEBB SPINNER December, 1960 4-1 I LL -1-••! k. gfj YOU'D NEVER DREAM the velvety, rolling golf fairway pictured above, or the tree-dotted 18th green shown below, were part of a cotton patch a year ago. Today they're part of the 18-hole, all-grass Sun City, Arizona, golf course, one of the Southwest's most beautiful. View above is of the picturesque 180-yard No. 12, where golfers must make an accurate shot across one arm of a man-made lagoon to a semi-island surrounded by water on front and left sides and sand-trapped on right. View below shows Fielding Abbott, left, Sun City pro, chatting with Golfers Toney LaSalle of Sun City, Bill Frazier and Ray Knaack of Phoenix, with part ot 18th green in background. Sun City Golf Course Expanded To 18 Holes (Continued from Page 1) has approximately 3,000 residents and is growing at a rate of 25 families a week. The addition to the commercial area will house a First National Bank of Arizona branch, now occupying tem porary quarters at the Medical Center building; a floor covering store, hard ware store, furniture store and Arizona Public Service offices. Located directly west of the present shopping facility, the addition will feature a mall with offices for business and professional people. The new First National office, 63rd in the bank's statewide chain, is de signed to serve not only Sun City resi dents but those of nearby communities of El Mirage, Peoria, Mobiletown, Youngtown and Luke Air Force Base. George Swanson is manager. Del Webb's HiwayHouse is being ex- (Continued on Page 7) December, 1960 THE WEBB SPINNER Page Seven Sun City Gets Modern New Medical And Dental Center .... ' '•',.••• :.•••• THERE'S A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE NOW. Medical facilities, important to Shopping Facility every new and growing community, already have come to Webb's Sun City, with completion of the modern $75,000 clinic pictured above. A Being Enlarged physician and a dentist have occupied offices there and plans call for a (Continued from Page 6) clinic of specialists from Phoenix and Glendale to make periodic visits panded with addition of another 36 and maintain office hours on a part-time basis. Webb developers fur guest units and a spacious swimming nished the clinic with all basic medical equipment, and space has been pool. It then will have 48 hotel units provided for treatment rooms, receptionist rooms, a general laboratory. and 15 apartments, as well as complete X-ray and testing rooms, and waiting rooms. coffee shop and dining room facilities. Sun City residents also recently got house-to-house mail delivery. The second nine holes on the Sun City course, opened for play Dec. 3, is studded with stately palms and a variety of other trees and planting and presents such a lush green appearance that golf ers find it difficult to believe it was a cottonfield les s than a year ago. Like thefirst nine , the newest nine holes winds among the attractive Sun City homes and boasts possibly the longest hole in the Valley of the Sun in its 596-yard No. 18. Another chal lenging hole is No. 14, 247 yards, par three, with an unusually - large green well-defended by several lurking sand- traps. The beautiful 180-yard No. 12 has a semi-island green with sand on the side opposite the water. Milt Coggins, well-known Phoenix golf professional, recently elected a director of the Southwest section of the Professional Golfers Association, de signed the Sun City course, which has par figures of 71 for men and 74 for COMMERCIAL CENTER GROWS. A new addition to bring total floor space ladies. Gray Madison, prominent in the Sun City shopping center to 55,000 square feet is pictured under Phoenix amateur golfer, supervised construction in photo above. First segment of commercial center is in tree planting on the new nine. Grading background. New buildings will house a bank, furniture store, carpet and construction was done by Henry ing firm, hardware store and Arizona Public Service offices, as well as Shelton. providing offices tor business and professional people. Tenants will take occupancy early in 1961. Page Eight THE WEBB SPINNER December, 1960 These Bowlers Represent Los Angeles Office 1 s T 1960 _/Vs another Yule dawns we extend to friends every where best wishes for a joyous Holiday. PIN-TOPPLING representatives of the Los Angeles office of the Del E. Webb Corporation, competing in the tough Building Trades 18-tearn bowling league at Grand Central Welcoming a new year, come Jan alleys in Glendale, Calif., right nowuary , means another group of fine are about in the middle of league Webb folks will be observing birthday standings. But they indicated they must be reckoned with in the anniversaries in the first month of future when they polished off the 1961, and to each of these The Webb league leaders for three of four Spinner extends congratulations: Volu 14 December, 1960 No. 12 points the other night. The Webb Published by the keglers are, from left, standing: Tom Breen, Phoenix Jan. 3 DEL E. WEBB CORPORATION George Shaw, Cecil Drinkward and Ed Davis, Los Angeles Jan. 5 302 South 23rd Ave. Ralph Boatman; in foreground, Bob Phoenix, Arizona Tom Mulkern, Phoenix Jan. 6 5101 San Fernando Road West Shear and Capt. Dale Griffith. Ac James R. Comer, San Diego ...Jan. 7 Los Angeles, California tive in the Glendale Rotary Club, Henrietta Poulson, Phoenix ...Jan. 8 in the interests of the personnel of its Dale also bowls with its No. 1 various projects and branch offices Freda Williams, Los Angeles ..Jan. 8 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE team and virtually monopolizes its Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson individual records. He recently Amy Jo Hafford, Phoenix Jan. 9 J. R. Ashton W. J. Miller Amy Jo Hafford rolled a 234 game and 610 scratch J. N. Graves, Phoenix Jan. 9 EDITOR series, the first 600-or-over seriesM . D. Stevens, Los Angeles ...Jan. 11 Jerry McLain bowled in the Rotary league this PHOTOGRAPHER Jim Benson, Phoenix Jan. 12 year. His handicap series of 676 Dave Parker H. S. Wells REPORTERS alsoIf yo leadsu woul dthe lik league.e to leav e footprints Knob Noster, Mo Jan. 14 H. G. Winston, Phoenix in the sands of time, you had better A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix John Morton, Phoenix Jan. 18 John Morton, Phoenix wear work shoes. Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Gerald Harris, Los Angeles ...Jan. 23 Laura Keller, Master Products CIRCULATION MANAGER , Ruth Kettering, Phoenix Jan. 24 J.!ff