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Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11
TAKES CONSOLIDATED JOB

PAPILLION, Neb., UP)-George
Sieh's in the big money now. George
resigned recently as city clerk, reg
lister of deeds, road supervisor and
overseer Of the poor here to accept
a position as janitor OF the consol-
dated school.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11

Assemblyman- -elect Frank Beal
will likely introduce bill before the
next legislature to reduce the num-
her Of justices of the peace to five,
one for each of the supervisoriai
district. and to increase their re-
rDonsibility and pay accordingly
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for this Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December IL. 1910

Engineer c. K. Clarke and super
intendent William Best returned
from an inspection trip down the
Alamo channel yesterday and re-
port the canal in such condition
that material increase in water de-
liyeries cannot be made.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
December IL, 1915

The quarter page announcement
on the third page Of this paper by
John E. Davis, druggist, tells o.
some of the better services that its
new store at Sixth and Main cN-
poets TO specialize on.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11

The students and faculty OF the
Central Union High School enter
tanned parents and patrons at the
school building last Saturday even
ing. The meeting was primarily
for the purpose Of enabling parents
to become better acquainted with
the school, its work and its in
creasing needs.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11

r. L. Harrell, the music dealer,
yesterday delivered to immigration
Inspector Frank Stanley. at CaleX-
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11

leo. handsome mahogany KIM
ball piano.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11
Calexico Fights
Are Called Off

The fighters were there, ready
to 90, so were the ticket sellers.
ready to take in the shekels, but
there was nobody to buy tickets or
watch the boxers. so the fights at
Calexico, scheduled for last night,
were called off.
Judy Zuniga. flashy Mexican. was
to have headed the card with Fred
dy Imperial as his opponent.
Plans for future bouts at the
border city are in an indefinite
stage.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11

One farmer in Imperial County Is
growing 300 acres Of sesbania for
seed
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11

State men recently planted 10000
three or lingering" trout III
Deep Greek. San Bernardino
County
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-11

the bag and Nurse Jane said may
be you were going after carrots.
Yes" said Uncle Wiggily, blink
ing one eye. maybe And now,
Baby Bunty pass your plate and /
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

good ranch and was one of the
most thrifty farmers in the CON-
munity. He was good looking and
very Obiging. He was we'll liked
but no one believed that he could
ever muster the courage to propose
marriage 10 any woman. He often
slipped over to the widows farm.
to see Mike. of course. He gave
his farm advice to Mike. Some
times he exchanged work with
Mike and on these occasions there
was an extra white cloth on the
table and the biscuits had an extra
f1akiness. Tom liked the biscuits.
Tom ate the biscuits but he could
not think Of word to say when
the conversation was directed to
him.
On the night before Christmas
both Bob and Jim called and Wild
ow Millie proceeded to entertain
both In the parOr. She managed
conversation and kept it going In
the general direction while the Wis
itOrs fidgeted and squirmed, each
hoping that the other would soon
leave. Millie was sure that Tom
was in the kitchen. She could hear
the muffled conversation of two
slow-speaking men. Millie extended
an invitation to both her visitors
to come over the next day and
have Christmas dinner with her.
This was the signal for both to
leave.
After their departure Millie went
to the kitchen, but Tom had gone
and Mike had retired. But hanging
on the kitchen wall just over the
stove was a pair of ladies' silk
stockings. She looked at them in
amazement. They were not hers
and how could they have gotten
there? Going closer she observed
piece Of note paper prOtruding
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from one of them. She pulled it
out hastily and excitedIy read:
"Widow Millie: have hung
these stockings up here for you.
want you to fill them and wear
them tomorrow. | have hung up a
pair for myself at home. will
fill them and wear them over here
tomorrow noon. The preacher and
his wife will be with me. ! fixed up
everything else at the courthouse
this afternoon. ! can farm better
if ! do not have to cook. You can
cook better if you do not have to
farm. This is an honest offer. from
Tom"
1t would be hard to describe the
thoughts that raced through Mil
lies mind. AT first she was fndig-
nant She resented it as an imperti-
nence. HE had his nerve" she
said almost aloud a dozen times,
but she smiled when she thought
that nerve was the very thing that
Tom was supposed not to have.
She liked Tom, and if he had come
out boldly and proposed in the usu-
al way she did not know what she
would have done. She took up the
note again, but she could only see
the last ine-"this is an honest
offer, from Tom" 1t smote her
with its straightforwardness and
simplicity. "He is honest" she said
to herself. She resolved first ono
thing, then another, but always
came back to that last line-the
honest offer. The last line won.
When Tom, the preacher and his
wife arrived, Widow MiIlie had
the stockings filed and dinner was
we'll under way. The minister's
wife finished it. Bob and Jim we're
in time for the ceremony, and of
course they stayed for their Christ
mas dinner.
(0 1880 Western Newspaper Union.)
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re- xsx& - * - ~ ~
. Widow Mile
Filled the
Stocking
By Vim. L. CASTOR

M +: !: IS: !: ~ !; !: {: :: &: !:
W. ever heard his last
name-managed to grow good
crops and maintain the appear
ance of thrift.
Five years before her husband,
Wilson Macy, had died and she had
been left alone to carry on the
work of the ranch. Mrs. Macy was
an attractive young woman whose
age would have been guessed some
where In the early thirties. She
was plump, goOd-natured and gen.
orally liked in the community.
Somehow she came to be called
Widow Millie by the neighbors, who
used the name as much to express
their kindly feelings as to distin-
guish her from other people.
Bob Ramsay and Jim Walden
were both eligible widOwers and
each owned quarter section of
good land adjoining Widow Miles
land. one on the north and one on
the east. Each seemed a trifle more
than anxious to have everything go
right on the widows ranch and
neither was backward In the prof.
fer Of advice or offers to help. To
do this properly required a call
and neither was averSe to calling
on the widow.
Tom MouIton was a bachelor-a
timid, baShful bachelor who could
blush better than he could talk, in
the presence of ladies. He owned
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

to develop into a national welfare
program the suggestions he made
year ago. Twelve hundred eX
perts have been working on the
problems he set forth at that time
and it was for this conference TO
coordinate their solutions.
When the big gathering had been
called to order by Secretary VIII
bur, its chairman, Mr.. Hoover de-
livered his address in which he
asked for safeguards and services
to childhood beyond the reach of
the individual parent and which
can be provided only by the COM
munity, the state or the nation. "If
we could have but one generation
of properly born, trained, educated
and healthy children" he said, "a
thousand other problems of govern
ment would vanish" His solution
for the questions concerning child
hood which he said should stir a
nation was much learning and
much action"
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CanI
,1I&~~~~~~~~~~<~S~
to Fly?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
by William II. Nelson
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Vertical Banks

A IRPLANES and automobiles, as
\ machines of transportation
have many traits in common, the
student pilot soon realizes. But
they also differ widely. The stu.
dent who drives a motor car picks
up certain phases of flying quickly
Other phases, however, because
they are peculiar to flying, are con-
fusing and difficult to grasp.
l encountered one of flying's par
adoXes in my lesson on vertical
banks"
"In vertical bank the controls
cross" my instructor explained
"The rudder, being in a horizontal
instead of vertical position.
serves as the elevator and the ele-
vator becomes the rudder. Remem-
Der that"
He took the controls at 5000 feet
and told me to follow through while
he showed me the vertical bank
maneuver. 1t was not different
from any other bank except that
he held the stick over longer and,
when the planes wings were almost
vertical, brought the stick to neu-
tral and well back. To level out
he moved the stick in the opposite
direction and held it there until the
plane righted itself.
Bank over until that wire (mean-
ing a diagonal brace between the
wings) is parallel to horizon" he
instructed. "Then neutraliZe the
stick and pull it back to hold the
ship in the turn. If the nose climbs,
push the bottom rudder pedal. Re-
member you will be on your side.
If the nose drops, push top rud-
der"
/ banked over sharply and as
the brace wire became parallel
with horizon, neutralized the stick
and pulled it back toward me. That
movement frightened" the circle,
the elevator, being in a vertical po-
sition, acting as a rudder. To in
crease the diameter of our circular
course / allowed the stick to go
slightly forward. AS it did so my
instructor shouted through the
speaking tube:
Hold the stick firmly. If you in
crease the size of the turn we will
lose altitude. Now try bringing the
nose up and down with the rudder
pedals"
At first the crossed controls con-
fused me. Seeing the earth on one
side and the sky on the other also
bothered But after a half-hOur of
practice / had apparently mastered
the maneuver sufficiently and my
instructor signaled for me to return
to the airport.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05
Taking a Ride

COLO flying began in earnest
- after the last lesson, and next
was sent out without a preliminary
"check flight" by my instructor
That marked the beginning of an
other stage in my flying course and
my graduation from the ranks of
the dual" students. |, however,
did get further instruction.
"What are we going to do to-
day?' | asked as my instructor
came in from the field where he had
been with another student. "We?'
he asked, rather surprised. You
are going to fly. am staying here.
There's your plane. It's all ready
for you. I'm going to watch from
the window here. Now show me
some nice, three-pOint landings"
My heart was pounding slightly
as | climbed in alone, looked about
to see that all was clear and opened
the throttle. / had experienced
many thrills since starting the
course, but none that gave me more
satisfaction than that of my first
"all alone" lesson.
The take-off was without Incl
dent, and as / leveled out at 1000
feet for the trip around the pat
tern, ! reveled in the thought that
| could make these turns as
pleased without fear of being sig
nailed for them if | chose to stretch
the course here and there.
The first landing was good, and
Immediately roared away again.
Around and around | flew. Each
time | had no trouble with any of
the routine maneuvers. After a
half-dozen turns about the pattern
and as many good landings | decid-
ed to fly away from the course for
a little ride over the open country.
That decision and the ride that
followed put more desire to fly into
my blood than anything l had done.
To be free to make ones decisions
and to have enough confidence in
Dnes ability to have no fear of trou
BILE, kindled a desire to "fill 'er up
with gas and roar away" to some
distant place that was difficult to
control.
At 20 miles an hour Cne can cover
considerable territory in ten min
utes, and from 1000 feet one can
see SO much farther away that
felt as though / had seen half of
the state by the time I returned to
the field.
Being away from the pattern"
gave opportunity to "hunt" for the
airport, as visiting pilot, a
stranger to that locality, would have
to do. | found ii easily.
Co. 1880 Western Newspaper Union.)
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05
Ages 40 to Al

Weights given include ordinary
indoor clothing.
If you are overweight cut out
pies, pastries and cake-also candy
for 4 weeks-then weigh yourself
again-Go light on potatoes-rice,
butter, cream and sugar-eat lean
meat-chicken, fish, salad-green
vegetables and fruit.
Take One-half teaspoon of Krusch-
en- Salts in glass of hot water ev-
cry morning before breakfast-This
is the easy, safe and sensible way
to take off fat-an S5 cent bottle of
Kruschen Salts lasts 4 weeks-Get
it at any drug store in the world
You'll be gloriously alive-vigorous
and vivacious in weeks.-Adv.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05
Bank Cash Paradox

The paradox of a run on a bank
is well expressed by the case of the
man who inquired of his bank
whether it had cash available for
paying the amount of his deposit,
saying: "If you can pay me, l don't
want my money if you can't, do"
All depOsitors want to be sure their
money "is there" Yet it never is
there all at one fine
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05
Annual Illness Cost

The amount of money spent an
nually for medical care in the
United States is estimated at $1,000
100000. This includes fees for ply
sicians, dentists, nurses and at
tendants and cost Of hospital treat
ment and drugs.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

4 NGLAND is hearing some un-
H pleasant statements concerning
her rule of India from the native del
egates to the roundtable conference
in London. And those delegates,
representing the princes, the Hin
dus, the Moslems, the Brahmins
and the untOuchables, are united in
the demand that India be granted
at least dominion status with fed
eral rule.
Among the distinguished Indians
who voiced their country's wishes
last week were the maharajah of
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

FOLLOWING the collapse of the
L investment banking house of
Caldwell & Co. of Nashville, Tenn,
more than fifty banks have closed
or suspended payment. Most of
them are in Tennessee, but some
are in Arkansas, Kentucky and Mis-
souri,. The affairs of Rogers Cald-
well, head of the investment con-
cern and formerly regarded as a
financial wizard. has been in par
lous state since September, when
a state bank examination of sub
sidiary of his company. the Bank
of Tennessee, caused the authori-
ties to require a deposit of $780,
600 in securities to cover liabili-
ties. Incidentally. the attorney
general of Tennessee now an
nOunces these securities are miss
ing.
Thursday morning the Central
Bank and Trust company, largest
financial institution in Asheville, n.
c., failed to open for business. A
notice was posted stating the bank
was closed by order of the board of
directors 'for the conservation of
its assets" The banks latest state
ment OF condition showed deposits
of more than $1S,000,000.
William Virgil Bell, president of
the First National bank of Horse
Cave, KY, which closed early in
the week, committed suicide by
hanging.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05
What A Woman
a. YEARS Old
Should Weigh
Are You Getting Fat9

These are authentic figures-look
over the table below-if your weight
and height match them-cOngratu
late yourself figure is a
shapely one-free from fat-weigh
yourself today.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

merry Christmas" is what this
daintily attired powder-puff lady
is going to say to legiOns of maid
ems and matrOns on the morning of
December twenty-five, Nineteen
Hundred and Thirty. The hem of
the skirt of this bewitching china
doll is arranged in pockets, each
of which contains a gay-cOlored
powder puff.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

In matter of "what to give for
Christmas" fancy this year turns
decidedly in the direction of things
made of wrought iron. The pic
ture shows a most ornamental iron
flower pot rack designed to hang in
the window. Growing vines and
plants thus silhouetted against the
window pane cast an indescribable
beauty over the entire room.
Charming for a family" gift for
every member of the household will
enjoy it.
* X =;
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

TRUSTEES and faculty of the
l. University of Chicago have
sanctioned a radical experiment in
education. The traditionally re-
Quired f0ur-year course will be
abandoned and system substituted
whereby a student may be gradu
ated whenever able to pass exam
ination requirements. The under
graduate school and the graduate
college, as such, will be abolished.
The institution hereafter will con-
sist of the professional schools and
five divisions in arts-the humani-
ties, the biological sciences, the So
cial sciences, the physical sciences
and the college.
President Robert Maynard Hutch
ins says of the reorganization:
1T means that we shall be able
to coordinate our teaching and to
coordinate our scholarship. The
student who hitherto has been pre-
vented by departmental limitations
from working in fields related to his
special interest will get such an
opportunity from the divisional pro-
gram. Coordination achieved by
divisional program means a saw
ing to the university in that dupli-
cation of courses will be elm
mated.
"Our research program will be
aided because the divisional organ
iZation puts in one group all the
faculty members who have a COM
mon interest and relation in their
work.
"Those students who wish to OBJ
tain only a general education may
get it as fast as they are able, and
if that is all they want, they may
depart from the university with
honor. BY enabling a student to
acquire a general education as
quickly as his ability permits, a
considerable saving in time should
result for those who wish to go into
professions such as law or medi-
cine"
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

a BOUT a score of men, women
\ and children were killed and
hundred others injured by a tor
nado that struck the little church
colony of Bethany, few miles
from Oklahoma City, Okla. More
than two hundred buildings were
destroyed by the twister. The
storm first struck a country school
house, where four pupils were
killed.
(0, 1880, Western Newspaper Union)
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05
CMUGGLING of liquor and alien.

g MUGGLING of liquor and aliens
- by airplanes from Canada by
two powerful combines has been
exposed with the indictment of
fourteen men by a federal grand
jury at Detroit. Although the op-
erations of the flying rum runners
were confined for the most part to
the Detroit area, plane loads of
whisky and fancy liquors occa-
sionally were flown across the bor-
der direct to fields in the vicinity
of the larger cities in Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. 1t is charged that
aliens sometimes were carried as
extra cargo on the liquor trips, and
that special trips were occasional
ly made for aliens.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

MYTH a stirring and optimis-
w tic speech President Hoover
opened Wednesday night the White
House conference on child health
and protection which undertakes
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05
CTENIo VINCENT. editor of the

g TENIO VINCENT, editor of the
~ Haiti Journal, a lawyer and
former diplomat, was elected Pres
ident of Haiti by the national as
sembly to succeed Eugene Roy.
Vincent is one of the most strenu-
Gus opponents of American occu-
patton and his victory was rather
a surprise. He is the first regular
ly elected President of the repub-
lie since American Intervention in
1916. Following the recommends
ton of The Hoover commission
that went to Haiti in February,
that the Office of American COM
missioner general be terminated,
Brig. Gen. John II. Russell has left
the island, and the new American
minister, Dana G. Munro, has ar
rived in Port Au Pr. -. the cap
ital.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

p ESULTS of the prohibition ref
IN erendum held by the Ameri-
can Bar association show that
1870 Of the members voting are
in favor of repeal of the Eight
eenth amendment, while 6,340 are
against repeal. Judge Orrie L.
Phillips, chairman of a subcommit-
tee that handled the matter, says
that whether the association, in
view of the referendum result, will
take steps toward repeal of the
Eighteenth amendment probably
will not be known until the next
annual meeting in Atlantic City
Dext September. He also said it
was possible that no definite action
would be taken then.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

This trio of lamp shade, table
scarf and cushion, of heavy nat
ural-colOred linen, embroidered in
gay wool yarn, emphasizes the
vogue for ensemble furnishings in
the home. AS a Christmas-gift sug-
gestion it scores 10 per cent per-
feet. The materials are easily
available at any fancywOrk depart
ment.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

Bikaner, noted fighting prince; Sir
Tel Bahandur Sapru, leader of the
Nationalists; Mr.. Jayakar, a bril-,
liant young lawyer; DR.. B. S.
MoOnje, a Hindu leader; Muham-
med Ali, prominent Moslem, and the
beautiful Begun Shah Nawaz.
The attitude of the Tories of Eng
land was set forth by Lord Peel, for
mer secretary of state for India, who
surprisingly asserted that no prom
Use of dominion status. now or in
the near future, had been given by
Great Britain. After defending the
British rule in India he suggested
that a beginning be made by Civ
ing the provinces a certain amount
of autonomy, while maintaining
strong central government un-
changed from the present one.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

= EN-. Charles P. Summerall on
~ Thursday concluded his four
year term as chief of staff of the
army, and was succeeded by Maj.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur. In his
farewell statement General Sum-
neral spoke enthusiastically of the
reOrganizations that have given
the country its best organized
army since the armistice, and gave
high praise for the officers and en-
listed mems intelligence, loyalty
and devotion to duty.
The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-05

- TRIKES and riots prevailed In
- many cities of Spain for q
week and strenuous efforts were
made by the Republicans and
Communists to convert them into
political demonstration that
would overthrow the monarchy.
But the government adopted stern
measures and succeeded in quell-
ing the disorders. The biggest of
the strikes was in Barcelona, al
ways a center of disturbance, but
after several days its abandonment
was ordered by the labor fedora
tion that started it. In Madrid
and Salamanca there were strikes
by students, who demanded a re-
public. The wiser anti-monarchists
in Spain believe they will succeed
before very long in their aims but
that the time is not yet ripe.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-13

eirlhood, before her strange mental maladv-and the other in her final years while she was pointed out to Solano County children as "the mad heress who thinks she's Empress of the World"
 Flashing back through the years, we see her as one of California's prize beauties Her delicate. pinkwhite skin and wde eyes that were to lose their sparkle some day for a manlacal glitter; her long, rich brown hair and fascinating form made her the darling of the states aristocracy. And every one knew that her father, John Wolf skill, Jr., was a millionaire.
 This radiant girlhood remains rather vague despite painstaking inquiries into it She went to Europe to a convent school, happy and admired, She re- turned and all who knew her saw at once that something had happened to her"
 Of course, no one would dare to suggest that John WolfSkill's daughter was insane But certain 1t was that she dScoursed in a peculiar manner. And as her mind wohb)ed on the bor- delIne of sanity, perhaps fighting no