Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-09
MANY FACILITIES
FOR RECREATION
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According to Leo Madden, mana
ger of the Cramer Baking company
in Ell Centro, who spoke at last
nights Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce dinner meeting, one cannot
find another desert city in either
| Arizona or California the size OF
Ell Centro which has the recrea-
tional facilities of this community
Madden pointed out that we have
one of the finest golf courses in the
country. splendid swimming pool
one theatre and another about to be
built, one park and a second re-
Gently acquired and two lighted ath-
letic fields. In speaking of the base
ball field at Wilson school, Madden
stated that the young men who
comprise the various night baseball
teams are paying for the lighting
of that field through their own ef-
forts purely because of their love
of sport and desire to have some
form of recreation in the evenings
These night baseball games keep a
great number of the young men OF
the city healthily occupied and IN
addition furnish entertainment for
hundreds OF other young people and
the older persons of the city.
The speaker, who has had years
of experience in organizing recre-
ational interests for communities
stated that large manufacturers now
realize the need of wholesome recre-
alton for their employees and they
have found that by supplying this
need they increase the working ef-
ficiency of their men and women
BY play" said Madden, II mean
a forgetfulness of the days toll in
the pleasure of the nights recrea-
ton. We should play hard when
we play, as we work hard when We
work" The speaker also commend
ed the sponsoring of the Laguna
recreational area by the Ell Centre
chamber as playground for Impe-
rial Valley, dwelling on the posi-
bilities for play in that mile-high
mountain country but two hours
| drive from Ell Centro.
Madden was introduced by War
rem Currier, sales manager of the
Imperial Valley Hardware company
in charge of last nights program
who expressed satisfaction with the
plan for dinners throughout the
summer and complimented officers
and staff of the chamber on the
activity of that organization.
Immediately following the dinner
the board of directors met in execu-
tive session and a communication
was read from l.. H. Anderson, for
est supervisor of the Cleveland Ma
tional Forest, advising that he had
recommended survey for road
extending from Mount Laguna to
Cuyamaca Lake, project spon-
sored by the Ell Centre chamber.
The directors voted to recommend
to Governor Rolph the appointment
of Judge Franklin j. Cole, former
judge of the superior bench in I'M
perial county, to one of the vacan-
cies now existing in Los Angeles and
D. B. Roberts was instructed to pre-
pare a proper resolution. Roberts
was also asked to prepare a resolu-
ton upon the death of the wife oi
1t. Governor Frank Merriam.
The directors decided to sponsor
a homecoming week in September
or October, in celebration of the re-
turn of Imperial Valley residents to
their fireSideS. In connection with
campaign against out of town
peddlers, Robert Hays, manager OF
the chamber, was instructed to have
prepared mo peddler" cards to be
furnished the housewives to be dis
played in every residence in the
city for the purpose of suppressing
the annoyance of endless visits to
the housewives of out of town ped
dlers.
Members of the directorate mani
tested a very keen interest in the
plan of Mrs. j. S. Jones, chairwom-
an of the special committee of the
chamber for planting of trees on the
Ell Centro streets and Hays was in
structed to devise means of secur-
ing sufficient palo verde trees for
necessary planting during the COM
ing season. 1t is the plan to set
out trees in all the residence streets
of Ell Centro during one certain
designated day as part of tie
George Washington by-centennial
celebration next February. Mrs
Jones is already arranging plans
and schedules for this important
event which will do much towards
Ell Centros Identification.