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G A Z I N E
MAY,
1947«< ^25 CENTS
 
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THE DESERT MAGAZINE
 
DESERT CALENDAR
May
1—Pioneer
centennial celebration,honoring living Utah pioneers, Taber-nacle, Salt Lake City, Utah.May
1—Green
corn dance, annual fiesta,San Felipe Pueblo,
New
Mexico.May
1-4—Junior
Navajo
and
Hopi
art
show, sponsored
by
Museum
of
Northern Arizona,
Flagstaff,
Arizona.May
1-15—Annual
exhibition, studentsU.
S.
Indian school, Museum
of New
Mexico, Santa
Fe, New
Mexico.May 2-3—Regional high school musicfestival, Price, Utah.May 3—Pioneer
May day,
TwentyninePalms, California.May 3—Green corn dance, ceremonialraces,Cochiti
and
Taos pueblos,
New
Mexico.May 3-4—Sierra club, Desert Peaks
sec-
tion, climb
of New
York butte, Inyorange, opposite Lone Pine, California.May 3-4—Ramona pageant, Ramonabowl, Hemet, California.May 3-4—Sierra club hike
up
Blackmountain,
San
Jacinto mountains.May 3-4—Sierra club visit
to
Trona
and
Searles lake
as
guests
of
Searles LakeGem
and
Mineral society. Campsite
at
Valley Wells.May 3-25—Annual Desert
and
MountainWildflower show, sponsored
by
JulianWoman's club, Julian, California.May 4—Verde Valley pioneer picnic.Camp Verde, Arizona.May 4—Opening
of
exhibition
of New
Mexico color prints, traveling exhibi-tion
of
Museum
of New
Mexico,
at
Las Vegas,
New
Mexico.May 4-11—Music week, Santa
Fe, New
Mexico.May 5-7—Cinco
de
Mayo celebration—Nogales, Arizona
and
Nogales,
So-
nora, Mexico.May 5-31—"Message
of the
Ages,"pageant
of
Church
of
Jesus Christ
of
Latter-day Saints, Tabernacle, SaltLake City, Utah.May 7-10—Boulder City
May
festival,Boulder City, Nevada.May 12-13—Fiesta
de la
Pesca, Guay-
mas,
Sonora, Mexico.May 15-18—Helldorado, rodeos,
pa-
rades,pageants,
Las
Vegas, Nevada.May 16—Parade
and
pageant,
"The
Desert Blossomed
as the
Rose,"
Og-
den municipal stadium, Ogden, Utah.May 16-31—Exhibition, work
of
JamesHumatewa, Indian artist,
and
Yuca-tan photographs
of
Laura Gilpin,
Mu-
seum
of New
Mexico, Santa
Fe, New
Mexico.May 17-18—Sierra club, Desert Peakssection, climb
of
Telescope peak,Panamint mountains.May 18—State pistol meet, Phoenix,Arizona.May 24—Arizona trout season opens.May 28-June
1—Western
Zone trap-shooting carnival, Salt Lake CityUtah.May 30-June
1—Thirtieth
annual Beau-mont, Cherry Valley Cherry festival,street dance, barbecue, parade, Beau-mont, California.May 30-June 5—Albuquerque Marketweek, Albuquerque,
New
Mexico.May 30-Sept. 20—Exposition, state fairgrounds, Salt Lake City, Utah.May—Utah state drama festival, SaltLake City, Ogden, Provo.
Volume
10
MAY,
1947
Number
7
COVERCALENDARPHOTOGRAPHYPERSONALITYDESERT QUIZHUMORNATUREHISTORYINDIAN LORELOST TREASURECONTESTEXPLORATIONPOETRYFIELD TRIPWILDFLOWERSMININGLETTERSNEWSLAPIDARYHOBBYCOMMENTBOOKS
YUCCA. Photograph
by
Josef Muench, Santa
Bar-
bara, California.May events
on the
desert
3
Prize winners
in
March contest
4
Star-dust HunterBy JOHN HILTON
5
A test
of
your desert knowledge
8
Hard Rock Shorty
of
Death Valley
8
'Little
Old Man of the
Sands'By RICHARD
L.
CASSELL
9
Mormon Crossing
at
Hole-in-the-RockBy CHARLES KELLY
10
Flint Singer Returns
to the
UnderworldBy RICHARD
VAN
VALKENBURGH
... 15
Lost Cities
of the
DesertBy ARTHUR WOODWARD
18
Prize cover picture contest
20
Day
in
Grapevine CanyonBy RANDALL HENDERSON
21
Afterglow,
and
other poems
24
Operation RockhoundBy HAROLD
O.
WEIGHT
25
Forecast
for May 28
Current news briefs
30
Comment from Desert readers
31
Here
and
There
on the
Desert
33
Amateur
Gem
Cutter,
by
LELANDE QUICK
. . 38
Gems
and
Minerals, edited
by
Arthur
L.
Eaton
. 39
Just Between
You and Me, by the
Editor
... 46
Current reviews
of
Southwest books
47
The Desert Magazine is published monthly by the Desert Press, Inc., 636 State Street,El Centro, California. Entered as second class matter October 11, 1937, at the post office atEl Centro, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S.Patent Office, and contents copyrighted 1947 by the Desert Press, Inc. Permission to reproducecontents must be secured from the editor in writing.RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor. BESS STACY, Business Manager.HAROLD and LUCILE WEIGHT, Associate Editors.Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs submitted cannot be returned or acknowledgedunless full return postage is enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes no responsibility for damageor loss of manuscripts or photographs although due care will be exercised. Subscribers shouldsend notice of change of address by the first of the month preceding issue. If address is un-certain by that date, notify circulation department to hold copies.
SUBSCRIPTION RATESOne Year
. . .
$3.00
Two
years
. . .
$5.00Canadian subscriptions
25c
extra, foreign
50c
extra.
Subscriptions to Army personnel outside U.S.A. must be mailed in conformity withP.O.D. Order No. 19687.
Address correspondence
to
Desert Magazine,
636
State Street,
El
Centro, California.
MAY,
1947
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