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Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
Few Pennies Used
As Fuse Plugs

Pennies posing as fuse plugs are
few and far between in the city of
Ell Centro was discovered by Fire
Chief Tom Reams when he and
his dauntless firemen initiated their
campaign of fuse box inspection this
week.
Now and then a hairpin or a
blob of tinfoil is discovered mas
querading for fuse plug and do
ing very well if it were not for the
fire danger
The annual Penny Pinching"
campaign is not netting the none
tary total of last year as
Reams decided to cut off light. SER
vice when substitutes for regulation
plugs were found Residents hast
ened to purchase proper plugs be-
fore the campaign started.
Correct fuse plugs are necessary
as a safety measure and fire pre-
vention campaigns are said to be
incomplete where a fire menace ex-
lists in countless fuse boxes about
the town.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
HIGHWAY WORK
GREAT AID TO
REDUCING IDLE

WASHINGTON, Ocs. 8. U.H -
Emergency work on state and fed
eral highway projects increased en-
ployment in such work by more than
$50 per cent in seven months ac-
cording to Thomas H. Macdonald,
chief of the Bureau of Public Roads
of the Department of Agriculture.
Discussing the $80,000,00 advance
fund made available last December
by Congress, Macdonald said that
within five months the fund, to-
gether with $160,o00,000 regular fed
eral aid and state funds, had been
put to work on new projects. The
states also continued construction
and maintenance programs from
state funds.
July /, according to Macdonald,
the total active federal aid pro-
gram, including emergency and
state funds, amounted to about
SAT 500 900.
Starting with a total of 1i8.600
employed on the state and federal
highway programs in January he
said. there was a rapid increase
as weather conditions permitted. In
May the total passed 100000, for
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
DELAWARE HAS
LARGE SUM TO
Aid UNEMPLOYED

WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. 8. UP)
Delaware has $5,0000O0 available
for its emergency construction pro-
gram, with which to combat the
unemployment situation this WIN
ter, according to Governor c. Doug
lass Buck, and Delaware has only
population of 238,830.
This vast amount of money, Gov
ernor Buck said, is in addition to
the $2,500,000 the State Highway
Commission will have available for
road construction this fall, which
includes a new 18-mile highway
from Wilmington southwestward to
the Maryland line, leading to Elk
ton, Md.
And if all this money is not
enough, Governor Buck is ready to
do the exceptional-call special
meeting of the State Legislature
and ask it to approve of more plans
he has in mind for emergency work.
One of the peculiar features of
DelaWare's construction program
is the elimination of machinery
whenever possible. Any machine
that displaces -four men, for an in
stance, will be discarded and four
men taken on, if it is possible,
however. to ignore the machine.
For charity and immediate re-
lief, money will be gathered by con-
tributions from every state employe
and from almost all payrolls of
large manufacturing and business
firms. These people have all pledg-
ed to contribute one per cent of
their salaries during the winter
months for the relief funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
CENTRAL RELIEF
BOARD Will. BE
STARTED HERE

Organization of a central relief
committee to handle the unemploy-
ment problem in Ell Centre this
winter will take place at Veterans
Memorial hall tonight when one
representative from each organiza-
ton in town will take part in the
final steps necessary to formation
of a clearing house for relief work
The general committee in session
tonight will form q master commit
tee to formulate plans and set the
system to running smoothly.
Tonight's session is the outgroWth
of a mass meeting held last week
when ali manner of suggestions
were made as to the proper way to
handle the problem. Last weeks
meeting was called by the American
Legion at the request of the city
council and was participated in BY
representatives of the towns civic,
religious. service. fraternal, veteran
and charitable organizations.
One plan which has been sug-
gested is that a central office for
all relief work be established as
headquarters. Any person or per
sons requiring charity will be re-
quired to go to that office first.
Those in charge in the office will
direct the individual or individuals
to which local organization to go
for help.
Thus an organization equipped to
handle one type of relief will not
be bothered with appeals for other
types of help and will be able to
devote a maximum amount Of time
to the field in which it functions
most effectively.
Various fields of relief work will
be assigned to groups of organiza-
tions members of which would work
together in carrying out the plans
of the central organization.
Other plans have been suggested
from time to time but many per-
sons deeply interested favor the CEN
trail clearing house idea as an ef-
fective means of doing away with
duplication of effort and possible
loss of time in providing aid for
those who need it.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
LETTUCE CROP TO BE NORMAL
STATES HARRIGAN'S REPORT

! plants, 25 honeysuckle "a carnation
plants. 6 lantana, u shasta daisies,
81 poinsetta, rs poinsettas, 3 PAM
pas grass, rose bushes, 2 banana
trees. % tacoma capensis, 40 hibis-
Gus, 25 pepper trees, 20 oleanders,
! 25 cypress trees, COTS citrus buds.
The following shipments of sack
/ ed seed were also received: 20 rye
grass, 7 spinach, 10 garden, ST car
rot, 3 rape, beet, 5 onion sets. 2
j honey dew, 2 honey ball, l clover,
/ cabbage, squash, tomato, ID
rice, 935 peas, 291 barley, 264 let
tuce, 1908 alfalfa, COL corn. Also
4 shipments of household goods.
car lettuce, car mixed potatoes
and onions, cars bananas, 8 cars
potatoes, 48 truckloads oranges, 5
| truekloads lemons, % truckloads
mixed fruit and vegetables, 10
truckloads mixed fruit.
Quarantine reflections included 1854
! sacks oats infested with Johnson
! Grass seed, d ornamentals infest-
ed with Cottony Cushion scale. 48
boxes oranges infested with Soft
Brown scale, box containing raw
cotton from Texas under the pro-
visions of @. O. No. 5, 3 boxes Or
namentals from Florida rejected un-
der the provisions of @. O. No. 10.
Outgoing shipments were 5 cars
asparagus, 7 cars pomegranates.
Weights and measures inspection
covered 234 gasoline pumps tested
and sealed, 155 computing scales
tested and sealed, 81 platform scales
tested and sealed, II counter scales
tested and sealed, 2 spring scales
tested and sealed, wagon scales
tested and sealed, % gasoline pumps
were found to be out of order, II
scales were found to be out of order,
324 ranches were visited in the in
terest of weed control, 81 aplaries.
1861 colonies of bees were inspect
ed. 20 colonies infested with Amer
ican Foulbrood were destroyed by
burning.
The following goods were passed
at the Trifolium Inspection Station
during September 1881: cotton $50
bales. cotton seed cake IL tons, cot
ton seed gin trash 46 tons, alfalfa
hay SAB tons, alfalfa meal 95 tons,
grain hay 81 tons. barley 18 tons,
milo maize 311 tons, manure 800
tons. cattle 1882 head, hogs 692
head. horses % head, mules "a head,
turkeys, 3O12 dozens, chickens 1872
dozen. compost .205 tons, cheese,
honey, butter. dried milk, miscel-
laneous, asparagus 39i2 crates.
The following were passed at the
Boulder Park Station during the
month of September 1881: gin trash
Isl tons, alfalfa hay 432i2 tons.
grain hay 5 tons, cattle Al head,
horses / head, turkeys 3 dozen,
chickens 80 dozen, olives 10is tons,
butter, meat, cream, miscellaneous,
grapefruit, 284 boxes.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08

Although there has been a con-
siderable shortage of water in the
valley this season, the acreage of
lettuce planted up to the present
time will about equal that of last
year. Due to the water shortage,
the set of the first 5000 acres plant
ed is only about so per cent nor
NAL, according to the report of
B. A. Harrigan, agricultural COM
missioner.
At the request of the board of
supervisors, representative from
this office was sent to Wyoming,
Utah, Nevada and Idaho in an ef-
fort to induce northwestern cattle
men to ship their stock to Imperial
Valley for fattening. Nevada cattle
men requested, and were granted. a
reduced freight rate on feeder cat
tie from Nevada to Imperial Val
ley, and it is hoped that reduced
freight rates for the other three
states will be forthcoming shortly.
Considerable interest was manifest
ed among the cattlemen visited, and
E. S. Gardner from Little Pine VAL
ley, Utah, president of the Cattle
Growers Association, spent several
days in the valley investigating the
feeding facilities for his own as well
as the associations stock.
The grapefruit crop is unusually
early this year. The tests are run
ming very high but the sizes are not
quite as good, nor does the crop
seem to be as heavy. Shipments
by truck to the coast have already
begun.
The following goods were inspect
ed and passed into Imperial Coun-
ty during the month Of September
1881:
1923 narcissus bulbs, 81 gladiolus,
402 ornamentals, 6 ferns, 27 jasmine
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08

July it was 1886, $50, and the August
preliminary figure was 384 ,0o0.p
Macdonald pointed out, however,
that these figures did not repre-
sent the sum total of labor stimula-
ton growing out of the emergency
work. The road dollar, he said,
spreads back through stone quar-
ries, sand and gravel plants, cement
factories, petroleum fields and re-
fineries. mines, engages rail and
water transportation facilities, and
keeps the wheels of equipment and
accessory factories turning"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
Negro Nanny
Oldest Picker

CLARKSVILLE, Miss. Oct. 8 tU.P
This Is the 100tn year that Aunt
Patience Woodward, aged negro
nanny" has picked cotton in the
south.
At the age of lot, Aunt Patience
claims she is the Oldest cotton
picker in the world. She began
when she was toddling child of
seven and recently went out round
her cabin near Tillatora to gather
basketful When she ''rest up
while, she intends to pick another
basketful, to maintain her quota of
two baskets, which she set five years
ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
Don't
Quote Me-
By UNITED PRESS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. UP
When a vice president goes a-nut-
ting he is not to be denied, even
if there are no nuts. Take, for in
stance, the matter of the IA nuts
that Vice President Curtis picked
up at Mt. Vernon in behalf Of the
American Walnut Manufacturers
association. the Boy Scouts, the AM
erican Forestry association and the
department of agriculture.
They were not nuts which had
fallen naturally off the trees. They
had been put there by some Boy
Scout doing their good turn for the
day. The vice president picked them
up while cameras ground out mo-
vies.
President Hoover, inviting Sena-
tor Robinson of Arkansas to the
congressional conference at the
White House. offered to have him
brought here by airplane If he were
pressed for time. Robinson pre-
/ ferred a train.
Bankers at the United States
Chamber of Commerce meeting last
week heard of a man who had been
on the right side of the downward
market, had cleaned up handsome
profit, and had just returned from
a pleasure trip to Europe. The man
boasted to a friend that he had
enough gold coin stored away to
provide for himself and his family
for five years, no matter what hap
pens"
Louis C. Cramton, former Repub-
lican representative from Michigan,
has new job.
Disliked and feared by the inte-
rior department for his ruthless
slashing of its budgets he now is
working for that department. They
have sent him to the Duck Valley
Indian reservation-"th most god
forsaken spot on the North Ameri-
can continent'-to look into irri-
cation possibilities.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08

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Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
Town Opposes
Changing Name
WATSONVILLE, Calf,

WATSONVILLE, Calf, Oct. g.
U.P)-Whats in a name?
Plenty, say residents OF Watson
vile. split into two battling and
yociferous factions upon a proposal
to change the name of this Pajaro
Valley city for the sake of euphony.
Pajaro, by the way, is pronounced
Pa-ha-ro.
Newcomers favor the new name
They claim the name Watson
Vile carries an implication OF
their fair city being just a hicE
town, and want something done
about it.
older residents are strong in op-
position.
Antoinette Deaton, whose grand
father was one of the city's foun-
ders. is leader of the opposition
while Mayor C. II. Baker is head
of the name me-changers.
Mrs. Deaton said: Plough up the
grass on the town plaza, close UP
the bootleggers, even-but change
the name of Watsonville? Never.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
6ss 900 MEXICANS IN TEXAS

AUSTIN, Tex. U.H - Texas now
has only about a thousand Indians
in its population, but it has twice
as many MeXicanS as any other
state and one-tenth of the nation
negro population. The Mexican pop
ulation approximates 683 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08
RUMsEY BROADCAST TONIGHT

Tonight at 9 O'Clock over stations
KGO. KOA or KTAR, El Centrans
will have the opportunity of hear
ing a radio broadcast of a play by
Leroy Rumsey, formerly of this city.
This is his fourth play to be given
over a national hook up.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-08

Farmers in Sanpete County, Utah
have been paying one cent a pound
for grasshoppers, burning them
after weighing.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-04
|R, /. BEST PRAISED
BY CITY COMMISSION
Bismarck Dads Commend Pub
lie Spirit Of Former Com
missioner Who Died

A resolution commencing the pub
I1ic spirit Of r. L. Best, former Bis
marck business men and city COM
missioner who died Wednesday morn
ing at Wastburn, was adopted at a
special meeting Tuesday afternoon by
the Bismarck city commission.
The resolution was as follows:
Robert Louis Best, q member Of
the board Of city commissioners Of
the city Of Bismarck from 1915 to
1919, has been taken by death. For
many years he was one of the most
public spirited citizens Of this COM
munity. He was especially solicitous
on behalf Of those in sorrow or dis
tress and made it q habit OF his life
to minister to them. During his term
LOT office as q city commissioner he
gave, unsparingly Of his time in the
public interest and always devoted
himself with zeal to every cause in
which he believed.
Therefore be it resolved: that the
foregoing resolution be spread upon
the minutes Of the proceedings Of this
board and that copies thereof be sent
to the widow and daughters Of the
deceased"
Funeral and interment services for
Best were to be conducted at 2 o'clock
Friday afternoon at Washburn, with
Rev. o. II. Swenson, pastor Of the
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-04
Will Dress Farmers Birds Free
Of Charge and Pay Top
Dressed Market Prices

Armour Creameries, through their
manufacturing plants, through con-
slant effort towards improving the
products manufactured and handled,
have built up an enviable reputation
in the large eastern markets. Armour's
Full Cream Cloverbloom Butter, Arm
ours Cloverbloom Cheese, Armour's
Cloverbloom chickens, Armour'S Glow
erbloom eggs are selling on the east
ern markets in preference to any 9TH
er brand. Not only that, but the con-
suming public has placed such conf
dence in the Cloverbloom brand that
it is willing to pay premium for the
same
Arnours are the largest handlers
and distributors of dressed turkeys in
the United States. but on account of
SO many different styles of dressing
turkeys it was impossible until two
years ago, to label these turkeys Glow
erbloom. Two years ago, however,
Armour Creameries throughout the
turkey producing sections evolved the
idea or system of dressing the farmers
turkeys at their plants. This is what
is called the custom dressing Of tur-
keys.
What the System Is
Armour'S system Of custom dressing
turkeys is just this: The turkey rails
4rs select their heavy and mature
birds, keep them off feed for twelve
to sixteen hours and give them plenty
of water to drink and load them care
fully into wagons, trucks or cars. Be
careful so they do not become bruised
and haul them into Armour Creamer-
les, who dress them the Armour way
which, in the first place, dresses out
a greater percentage of No. turkeys,
eliminates all nisbleeds, eliminates all
picking defects, eliminates all losses
in cooling and eliminates all discolor-
stion of crops. Armour Creameries
charged only ten cents per bird for
this service and paid the producers
the dressed price on their turkeys.
This Armour Custom-dressing system
has resulted in the building up Of a
demand for Armour's custom dressed
turkeys. These turkeys, due to the
uniformity of dressing, were packed
under the Armour Cloverbloom label.
They commanded premium on the
eastern markets and are very much
In demand.
Take New Forward Step
Armour CreamerieS are again TAX
Ing another step forward for the bene-
fit Of the producer. This year, begin
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-04
COMPLETE DETAILS
FOR CHARITY WORK
To Distribute IS Christmas
Baskets Among Poor Fam
lies in Mandan

Plans to provide Christmas baskets
for poor families in Mandan were
made at meeting Of the Mandan
Council of Social Agencies held at
the chamber OF commerce rooms
Thursday evening.
Approximately 30 representatives
of fraternal, religious, educational
and civic organizations were present
Acting for organizations they rep
resented, delegates agreed to provide
IS baskets containing food and cloth
ing, the estimated number required to
take care of poverty-stricken fam
lilies In the city. Each organization
contracted to take care Of q certain
number of families and to provide
articles most needed by them.
Plans also were made for the COL
lection of toys to be distributed to
poor children both In the city and
the county.
Boy Scout troops will make q can
vass of the city to collect playthings
of all kinds to be added to those al
ready collected by girl scouts and
other organizations. w. F. McClel-
land, superintendent of the state
training school, has offered the facil-
tiles Of the institution for the work
and boys there will mend toys In need
of repair.
Mrs. w. H. Stutsman, H. K. Jen-
sen, and r. G. Newcomer were
named as a committee to take scare
Of the distribution Of the toys
Organizations participating in thu
work are: the Masons, Rotary club
Lions club, Elks, Mandan schools
American Legion and Legion Auxil-
iary, Lutheran church, Methodist
church, Presbyterian church, Catho-
lie Daughters, Junior Catholic Daugh-
ters, White Shrine, Eastern Star
Rainbow Girls, Boy Scouts, Cir
Scouts, DeMolay, city commission
county commission, chamber of COM
merce, juvenile commission and Red
Cross.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-04

nest George, first-class badges, and
Charles Bugbee, second-class badges.
Recipients of awards were: Tender
foot badges-Maurice Young, Earl
Bechtold, Kenton Kuebker, Ralph
Reidinger, Bernie Cupper, Emil
Stolt, George Doll, Nicholas Kroy
Christianson Boehm, Andrew Froehl-
ick, Peter Hoffman, John Mccartney,
Francis Helbling, Pete Asset, Casper
Kopp. Clement Dietrich, Frank Full
ler, John Heidi, Clement Knoll, and
Robert Whiteman.
Second-class badge - Lloyd Nord-
holm. First-class badge-Jack Shin
ners. Merit badges - John Dewey,
Erwin Rybnick, William Ordway,
Ralph Ferderer, Fred Swanson, Cliff
ford Murphy, William Culbertson,
Raymond Murphy, Thomas Culbert-
son, Donald Reynolds. Peter Culbert-
son, Eugene Schultz, and Erwin
Rybnick.
Bronze Palms-William Culbertson
and Thomas Culbertson.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-04

trip as official delegates OF all All
clubs in the county. They were
chosen as the result Of outstanding
work done in club activities during
the last year as well as for improve
ment shown over work done the pre-
viouS year.
Their expenses will be paid and
provision made for meals and lodging
while in Fargo, Newcomer said.
Nine girls and three boys will make
the trip. Newcomer will 60 with them.
The following are delegates: Ru-
dolph Hermes and Agnes Schatz, He
bron; Eleanor Klusman and Helen
Zarndt, New Salem; William Corkery
and Hazel Corkery, Fl. Rice; Margaret
Gartner and Roberta Keller, Glen
Ullin; Kathleen Kelsvan and Lowella
Lotspeich, Almolrt; Gladys johnson,
Flasher; and John Popelka, Mandan.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-04
Scared Depositors
Given Free Lunch

Fergus Falls, Minn., Dec. 4-(R-
Alarmed depositors who Friday start
ed run on the First National bank
because Of the closing Of two other
local banks, not only received their
money but also coffee and doughnuts.
Following closing Of the First State
bank Wednesday, depositors began q
run on the American State bank
which, officials said, also closed be-
cause it did not have sufficient time
to acquire cash to satisfy depositorS'
demands.
Thursday the First National and
the Fergus Falls National banks kept
open until 6 O'Clock paying deposi-
tors. Friday the run continued on
both banks, with the First National
passing out doughnuts and coffee to
the line of waiting depositors.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-04
Armour Firm Takes NelU
Step in Turkey Market

ming right today, Armour Creameries
will dress the farmers turkeys abso-
lutely free of charge. The Armour
Creameries organization is at your
service, beginning today. Bring your
turkeys in just as early as you posi-
bly, can because the earlier you bring
them in the earlier you will get out of
town with your big check. First come
is first served in the Armour custom
dressing system.
Armour Creameries turkey prices
are the highest of any in the North
west. There isn't anyone that can
pay more for turkeys than Armour
Creameries because Armour Cream
cries have their own outlet, as men,
toned above, that gives them q de-
cided advantage.
You may hear Of the hundred and
one different propositions that are
being made inducing you to sell your
turkeys here and there. Generally
these propositions mean nothing in
the final analyses. The Armour
Creameries prices are open above
board. You can understand them
There Is no bait attached to them
The market today is unchanged. It
looks, though, like the early sellers
will have the advantage.
Armour Creameries of Bismarck
will pay you F. o. B. Bismarck today
the dressed turkey prices for your
turkeys whether they be custom dress
ed free by Armour Creameries o,
dressed by you on the farm as follows
Fancy No. young toms 10 lbs.
ana up .................... 23(
Fancy No. young hen Turk, 8
lbs and up ................... 23t
, Fancy Old Hen Turk ............ 18s
Fancy Old Tom Turk .......... 16t
NO. Turk .......... Market Value
Please understand that the abov.
prices are guaranteed just for the day
The prices quoted above will be goos
for today and Saturday, December
5th. Market your turkeys through
Armour Creameries. Either have youl
turkeys custom dressed free, if yoy
can possibly get them in here, OF
dress out your own turkeys and sell
them to Armour Creameries. Hau
them in yourself and save transpor.
tation. Even one hundred miles from
Bismarck it viii pay you to do YOU
own hauling.
Call or notify your neighbors o.
Armour's turkey prices Do 1t right
away. You will do them favor
Bring that can Of cream along o.
ship it to Armour Creameries.
| ARMOUR WILL DRESS YOUE
| TURKEYS ABSOLUTELY FREE.
| ARMOUR CREAMERIES,
Bismarck, N. d
ADVERTISEMENT
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-04

Washburn Methodist Episcopal
church, in charge.
Best leaves his widow, three dAugl1-
terS, three brothers and three sisters,
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-04
C0operstOwn Widow
Given $4,000 Verdict

Fargo, Dec. @-MrS. Marie
Clausen, Cooperstown widow, has been
awarded q $4,000 verdict by Cass
county district court jury in her suit
against Mrs. Rose e. Miller, Kindred,
for 5000.
Mrs. Clausen charged the Kindred
woman with converting property Of
the late Otto Clausen to her own use
after Clausen's death last March.
Specifically she charged Mrs. Miller
retained cattle, sheep and farm ma
chinery Clausen had on Mrs. Miller's
farm at the time Of his death.