Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-05
LOCAL RESIDENTS
HAVE ENJOYABLE
FOURTH OF JULY
Majority OF Valleyites
Seek Mountain And Sea-
shore Over Holiday.

Imperial Valley celebrated Fourth
of July as the national birthday
should be celebrated and according
to all reports this morning practical
ly everybody had wonderful time.
There were plenty of things of in
terest to do and plenty of places to
90 and thousands of those making
this section of the country their
horAe took advantage of the oppor-
tunity.
Over in Holtville a full days pro-
gram was run off in a satisfactory
manner. Up in Jacumba one of the
largest holiday crowds that ever ap-
peared in the mountain resort was
present. Other mountain resorts
played host to hundreds from the
valley and even San Diego got a big
play, scores of local people visiting
the beaches and going fishing.
The celebration at Jacumba was
one of the biggest things of its
kind ever staged at that resort, b.
l.. Vaughn, principal owner, stated
yesterday afternoon. A program ar
ranged to include the night before
and all day yesterday was run off
smoothly and without hitch.
The Palacio band from Mexicali
played throughout the day in the
park; the drum and bugle corps re-
presenting Ell Centre and Imperial
staged a contest that was won by
the latter; hundreds took advantage
of the swimming pool, watched the
boxing contests and attended the
dances.
At Holtville the w. G. T. U. OF
the valley was in charge of the
celebration. The program, starting
at 10 a. m. lasted until late in the
evening. There the Swiss band
played two concerts, speeches were
made, athletic events run off and
huge dance staged in the even
ing.
Three pair Of pants was the mar
gin of defeat that so ingloriously
perched on the banners of the III
Centre Bugle and Drum Corps, when
the local organization competed
against the Imperial corps in one OF
the feature events of the big cele
bration at Jacumba.
Get Prize Also
First prize was 800 but the con
test was so close that Vaughn, who
had put up the original prize, an,
nounced to those assembled he would
give a second prize, also 500 to the
Ell Centre organization.
The local outfit lost because their
uniforms were not uniform. The
difference in the total number or
points scored by the judge, First
Lieut.. Charles. E. Stafford OF the
U. S. Quartermaster corps, station
ed at Rockwell Field, being based
on the fact that three of the FL
Centre corps had striped white
trousers instead of plain white.
Lieut.. Stafford judged the con-
test we'll and while his decision was
not met with approval in some quar-
ters it was emminently fair in the
opinion of the contestants, partlcu-
larlv the local organization.
The Imperial corps presented a
fine appearance dressed in white
duck with red sashes and red neck
ties and hated with pith helmets.
The Ell Centre corps had their usual
summer uniforms of white trlmmed
in black and their American Le-
gion caps.
The contest was held at noon and
took about As minutes to run off. "A
huge crowd from every section OF
the valley watched the maneuvers
of the two organizations.
The Palacio band from Mexican
which played in the park throughout
the day, was well received. They
were brought to the mountain resort
from the border city by Pickwlck
stages, Jack Keep, district manager
of the. bus company making ar
rangements for the transportation
. At Hipass, Live Oak Springs
Spring Valley and other mountain
resorts, many residents of Ell Centro
and other points in the valley spent
the day, according to reports. quite
a number of local citizens are
making the holiday for the rest OF
the week, the most of them having
gone to the coast cities.
Those who stayed in the valley had
their usual places to go, including
a feature program at the Imperial
theatre.