The Arizona copper camp., 1919-03-15
SHIP ''PINA[" WILL TELL WORLD
OF THIS COUNTY'S HONOR RECORD
N FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE
Honor Oversubscrpon for State Won by Pinal County,
and County Chairman Gates Instructs Shipping Board
to Name the Boat "Pinal''
"Ship ahoy!"
What ship is that?"
''Steamer Pinal, U. S. Al"

Steamer Pinal, u. S. A. I"
Some such conversation will in all
probability take place somewhere on
the seven seas, either by voice or
wireless in the not-distant future as
the result of action taken this week.
when L. S. Gates, county chairman for
Pinal county in the Liberty Loan cam
paign wired instructions to name one
of the honor ships PINAL, for this
county, the banner county of Arizona
in the Fourth Liberty loan drive.
Word that Pinal county had again
outstripped all the other counties of
the state, and won first honors for
oversubscription in the Fourth Liberty
loan drive, was received this week in
letter to State Chairman H. ]. Nc
3 Clung from c. A. Farnsworth, mana
ger of the General Publicity Commit
tee for the Twelfth Federal Reserve
district In his letter advising the
state chairman of PinaPs wonderful
record, Mr. Farnsworth said:
"In reference to the ship and tank
naming contest of the Fourth Liberty
loan campaign, we have just been ad-
vised that the counties which won the
honor of naming tanks may now use
ships instead-the reason for the sub
stitution of ships for tanks being that
the Importance of the tanks no longer
exists now that the war is over.
"The oversubscription honor county
in your state, according to the official
. figures prepared by the Federal Re-
serve bank, is PinaI County.
"Will you please get in touch with
the county chairman and urge him the
necessity of selecting name for the
ship and sponsor. with the least
possible delay, so that the information
may be forwarded to Washington and
assignment of hull made.
please advise the chairman that
the name of the ship must not be that
of an individual and that care should
be taken to avoid the selection of any
name already assigned to ship.
"The Shipping Board will endeavor
to assign hulls on ways as near as
possible to the honor counties"
Promptly upon receipt of the news
that Pinal county was entitled to have
a ship named in it's honor County
Chairman L. S. Gates wired San Fran
cisco Name Ship Pinal", and as soon.
sas the hull assigned by the shipping
board is ready for launching, the YES
sci will be christened in honor of the
banner oversubscription county of the
southwest, the county that has never
fallen down on a Liberty Loan or
other war campaign, grand old Pinal
county. That the launching will be
an occasion for a big celebration by
the people of Pinal county goes with
out saying, and in all probability il
sthe ship is one of those now being
built on the Pacific coast there will
be a large attendance of people from
Pinal county.
The signal honor of being the only
county in Arizona for which a ship
will be named is only one of the
high honors won by the people OF
Pinal county during Liberty loan
drives, and again advertises to the en-
tire world the splendid spirit of pa
triotism in which the people OF. P1nal
county backed up the efficient Liberty
loan committee and went over the
top time after time to back up our
boys and end the war.