MARCH 1959 FORTY CENTS In this issue: NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY In Nature's VOL. XXXV NO. 3 MARCH 1959 RAYMOND CARLSON, Editor GEORGE M. A VEY, Art Editor JAMES E. STEVENS, Business Manager Wonderland LEGEND Willis Peterson is our honored guest this month with a feature we think you'll find interesting and unique. Armed PAUL FANNIN 2 with a truck load of cameras and photographic equipment, ARIZONA CHOOSES REPUBLICAN BUSI­ he conducts us into the very heart of Nature's vVonder­ NESS MAN AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE. land and points out many things of beauty and of unusual BrLL W1LL1Ai\IS MOUNTAIN iVlEN 6 appeal to Nature lovers. His subjects vary from birds and UNIQUE CIVIC GROUP OF WILLIAMS butterflies, lichen and mushrooms, to deer and ring-tailed TAKE ANNUAL RIDE TO PHOENIX RODEO. cats. Pete's nature studies herein in the past have been some NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY 8 of the most popular features we have ever had. Notable V ERSAT!LE PHOTOGRAPHER-NATURALIST contributions to these pages have been his studies of bea­ EXPLORES WONDERLAND OF NATURE. ver, quail, owls and antelope. Now he comes up with a panoramic study of all of Nature's tableau in sparkling FoRT Bowrn 28 color. HISTORIC OUTPOST OF OLD WEST PROPOSED NATIONAL MONUMENT. He makes his living as a news photographer for the ARlZOKA REl'UJlLIC of Phoenix, the state's largest news­ PAUL FANNIN paper. His vacations from the turmoil of a busy news Governor of Arizona room are spent in patient and watchful waiting in some Nature blind far out in the hills, desert and mountains. ARIZONA HIGHWAY COMMISSION vVe know of no l10bby so satisfying. If you are interested Wm. P. Copple, Chairman . • Yuma in follmving in his footsteps, what he says of Nature L. F. Quinn, Vice-Chairman . Miami Photography will be very enlightening and educational. Frank L. Christensen, Member Flagstaff This month we have a feature on old Fort BO\vie, Milton L. Reay, Member . Safford down in Cochise County. In its days of glory, troops at John J. Bugg, Member . Florence Fort Bowie subdued the Apaches and made tra,·cl safe for \Vm. E. Willey, State H wy. Engineer Phoenix pioneers on America's southern route to the Pacific Coast. Justin Herman, Secretary . Phoenix A bill has been introduced in Congress to make Fort Bowie a National Monument, a bill worthy of the serious consideration of our lawmakers. This glorious outpost of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS is published monthly by the Arizona Highway the \Vest should not be forgotten. Department a few miles north of the confluence of the Gila and Our new governor, Paul Fannin, is now in office and Salt in Arizona. Address: AR IZONA HIGHWAYS, Phoenix, Arizona. $,.50 per year in U.S. and possessions; $4.50 elsewhere; 40 cents has been since the first of the year. W c think you would e~~h. Second Class Postage paid at Phoenix and at additional like to mcct ·him personally and so we have a few pages mailing offices under Act of March 3, 1879. Copyrighted, 1959, devoted to him to which ,ve arc pleased to refer you as by the Arizona Highway Depar~ment. a thoughtful and friendly introduction. And, in conclusion, it is a pleasure to have you meet ~ 115 the Bill vVilliarns Mountain i\1cn of vVilliams, Arizona, Allow five weeks for change of address. one of the most unusual civic groups we know of. Each Be sure to send in the old as well as the new address. spring when \Villiams, at the foot of Bill vVilliams Moun­ tain, is shivering in the clutch of winter, a group of citi­ zens of the community, start their annual trek to take part COLOR CLASSICS FROM ARIZONA HIGHWAYS in the Phoenix J. C. vVorld Championship Rodeo Parade. Tms IssuE It's a long and hard ride but the Bill vVilliams Mountain 35111111. slides in 2" mounts, , to 15 slides, 404, each; 16 to 49 slides, 35¢ each; 50 or 'l/lore, 3 for $1.oo. Catalogue of pre·viom slides issued !'den make it each year regardless of the weather and they available on request. Address: A.RIZONA HIGHWAYS, Phoenix, Ariz. always have a lot of fun. If you join the cro,vd at the WL-15 California Sister Butterfly, cov. 1; WL-16 Striped Skunk, Rodeo Parade in Phoenix this year ( March 1 2 to be exact) cov. 2; WL- 17 Sonoran Raccoon, cov. 3; WL-18 Badger, cov. 4; you'll see the Mountain Men ride by and you'll agree WL-19 Abert Squirrel, p. 13; WL-20 Ringtail Cat, p. 14; WL-2 1 with thousands of others they arc show stoppers ... R.C. American Bison, p. 15; WL-22 Mule Deer, p. 15; WL-23 Prong·­ horn, p. 15 ; \VL-24 Texas Horned Lizard, p. 16; WL-25 Spiny FRONT COVER Swift, p. 16; WL-26 Gila-Monster Lizard, p. 16; WL-27 Leopard c ~uFORNIA S1sTER BvTTERFLY-H eteroc/,;,-oa cnliforuicn-This but­ Lizard, p. 16; WL-28 Gray Fox, p. 17; WL-29 Sweetheart Moth, terfly is found throughout the Somhwest and is noticeable by its p. 18; WL-,o Daritis Moth, p. 18 ; WL-3 1 Hoary Bat, p. 18 ; \VL-32 erratic fl ight. It is often found resting on logs and stones. In t his Porcupine, ·p. 18; WL-33 Red Spotted Purple, p. 19; WL-34 Tiger position it slowly opens and closes its wings as if to sun them. Swallowtail Butterfly, p. 19; WL-35 Coati, p. 19; WL-36 Desert OPPOSITE PAGE Tortoise, p. 19; WL-37 Tree Fungus, p. 20; WL-38 Fly Mushroom, p. 21; WL-39 R ussula Mushroom, p. 21; WL-40 Lichens, p. 21; STRIPED SKt.,;NK - Mepl.1itis 'l!lep/.Jitis - The skunk is probably the best known of all woodland animals. Its den can either be a WL-41 Lichens, p. 2 1; WD-134 Golden Daisy, p. 22; WD-135 burrow in the soft soil or in the rocky ledges of the canyons . Water Hyacinth, p. 22; WD-136 Sandverbena, p. 22; WL-42 For food it \,·ill choose small rodents, bird's eggs, grubs and insects Oregon Grape, p. 23; WL-43 Merriam Turkey, p. 24; B-58 Arizona and also the leftm·ers from a camper's table. In moderate climatic Cardinal, p. 24; B-59 W estern Bluebird, p. 24. regions of the Southwest he does not hibernate. ONA BY CHARLES FARRINGTON, JR. "Paul Fannin may not be a politician, but he sure that those decisions and actions are the right ones." knows how to make folks like him!" Such a desire on Fannin's part no doubt harks back That's how a cotton farmer in Pinal County described to the days of his boyhood when, each morning before Arizona's new governor after watching him in action going to school, he hauled milk to the creamery from his during last fall's intensely fought election campaign And family's five-acre dairy ranch - located at what is now the sentiment was obviously shared by thousands of others considered downtown Phoenix, just a few blocks from in the Grand Canyon State because, in winning his first the Westward Ho Hotel. Later, expanding his youthful bid for public office, Fannin not only triumphed over business enterprise with the purchase of an old truck, he formidable political precedent by becoming the fourth spent his summers hauling cantaloupes to the packing Republican governor in Arizona's forty-seven years of sheds on a contract basis. statehood, but also stemmed a tide that was running Following his graduation from Phoenix Union High strongly against his party in other states. School, Paul Fannin attended the University of Arizona Born fifty-two years ago in Ashland, Kentucky, Paul for two years, and then transferred to Stanford Uni­ Fannin is unable to claim the rare distinction of being an versity, where, as an economics major, he was graduated Arizona "native." His parents moved to Phoenix when he in 1930 with a degree in business administration. was only ten months old, however, and his life since then The first Fannin business was a vehicle and harness has been richly flavored with the rugged individualism shop located at the present site of the Adams Hotel and dogged determination to succeed that is so char­ Parking Garage in Phoenix. The "vehicle" part of the acteristic of this frontier state. business, of course, referred to wagons and buggies. The Thomas Fannin, the governor's father, typified the operation was later moved to the west side of to-wn, and thousands of Americans who, in ever-increasing numbers, was subsequently expanded to include farm equipment, have moved their families to Arizona in search of a hardware, and general merchandise. Paul was a working healthier, happier, more bountiful way of life. But the member of the family business during his summer vaca­ hardships which were encountered by the pioneering tions and, upon completing his education, he felt the Fannins of Kentucky no longer beset the new Arizona impact of severe economic crisis as a result of the depres­ citizen. Because such men of vision and faith dared to s1011. meet the challenges of an undeveloped territory, Ari­ With his customary determination and perseverance, zonans now enjoy the blessings of unparalleled oppor­ however, Paul worked along with his brother, Ernest, to tunity and prosperity. surmount the threat of total disaster. By prevailing upon Today, Governor Fannin's most absorbing vocational their customers to keep the equipment they had so ld and avocational interest is the building of Arizona.