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Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
Welfare Workers
Surveying Valley

Margaret S. Watkins and Mrs.
Kathleen McLaren, representatives
of the state department Of social
welfare, are engaged in survey
today of welfare conditions in I'M
perial Valley, with view of rep
resenting these conditions at a
meeting of the board of supervisors
Friday, when a Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation loan to Imperial
county of approximately $4,000
will be discussed.
The women met with the super
visors yesterday to discuss the ways
in which the loan shall be used
for relief and welfare work, and to
furnish jobs for the countys un-
employed.
BY Friday, it is hoped, technical
tiles will be ironed out and the
first installment of the loan,
amounting to $4,000, will be on
its way here. The loan will be
made in weekly payments of $4,000
each.
Business of the board Of super
visors yesterday afternoon, before
adjourning until Friday, included
the usual cancellation of taxes
passing of demands and budget
transfers. The board will meet
again at 9 o'clock Friday morning
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
SLIDING BEAR

Uncle Wiggily Longears, the
jolly old rabbit gentleman, stood
on the ice of the pond with Lulu,
Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble
the duck children, and with Hiss
er, the swan, who was going to
learn to skate, as I told you last
night.
Uncle Wiggily hod lost his gold
ring as he was fastening the
skates on the swan and Jimmie
had Just said he thought he knew
where the ring was when, all of a
sudden, there was a loud booming
and cracking sound.
What was that noise?" quacked
Lulu as she started to skate to the
shore as fast as she could.
THE ice is going to break!"
cried Alice. quick, everybody! Get
to shore or you'll splash into the
freezing water"
1T does sound as if the ice were
cracking spoke Uncle Wiggily.
But there are no cracks near us
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
Editorial Page
and
Features
MARKETING VALLEY MILK

GAN DIEGO business men for many
~ years have declared that they want
ed to cultivate friendly trade relations
with their Imperial Valley back coun-
try. They have an opportunity to DEM
onstrate their good will by the remov-
al of unnecessary restrictions which up
to the present time, have barred local
milk producers from selling their out
put to San Diego customers.
Among local dairymen the opinion
generally prevails that the San Diego
ban on Imperial Valley milk is due main
ly to the unwillingneSs of San Diego
dairymen to have their territory invaded
by new competitor, rather than to
failure on the part of the valley pro-
duct to meet satisfactory standards of
quality.
While it is natural to expect that San
Diego dairymen will object to competi-
ton from Imperial Valley, yet that city
as whole will have much to gain from
the removal of the existing barriers
The trucks which carry milk to San
Diego will not always return empty.
San Diego as seaport can supply many
commodities which Imperial Valley
now receives through Los Angeles.
Today, valley residents 90 to the San
Diego coast line for their recreation
and to Los Angeles for the bulk of their
buying. San Diego business men can
divert very important part of that buy
ing to their own city if they desire to do
so-but unnecessary restrictions on the
sale of Imperial Valley milk will not
contribute to progress in that direction.
The prediction has been made many
times that the day will come when I'M
perial Valley will be the main source
of market milk for both San Diego and
Los Angeles.
At the present time Imperial Valley
hauls huge tonnage of alfalfa hay to
the coast where it is converted into
milk. AS a matter of plain economics
it would seem much more feasible to
operate the dairies in Imperial Valley
where the feed is raised, and ship the
milk to the coast cities.
San Diego has an opportunity today
to gain a very definite advantage over
its competitor city to the north by open
ing its doors to Imperial Valley milk.
BY taking the lead in this direction it
will secure benefits which Los Angeles
will find it very difficult to regain
(Calexico Chronicle).
Calexico has voted to go wet. Now
if it can prevail upon congress to do the
same we may be getting somewhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
Mayor Endorses
Use OF Airn1ail

Asked today by Manager Hays of
the Ell Centre Chamber OF Com
merce his opinion on the impor-
tance of the Southern Air Mail
service to FL Centre and other I'M
perial Valley cities, Mayor John t.
Rice stated, I'VE cannot over value
the economic Importance of air mall
to this community. Perhaps the
greatest users of this service are
those connected with our vegetable
and fruit industries, and, to them,
the air mail service means a saving
of thousands of dollars monthly.
Important as Imperial Valley Is in
an agricultural way, it is far from
the eastern markets where our prod
ucts are sold and the time saved IN
keeping local growers and shippers
in touch with those markets by
means of air mail means a substan-
tial saving to the vegetable and
fruit interests of Imperial Valley,
and, consequently to the valley as
, whole.
1T is of course this group and
the large business firms of the val
| ley. which use the air mail most"
continud Mayor Rice, "but anything
which saves money for large
group of our people or industries
should be supported by the people
/ of this community individually and
we should all make it point tc
use the air service for, if the air
mail poundage is not increased
within thirty days, we may lose 1t
and this will be a step backward
which Imperial Valley cannot af-
ford m foko
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
BEDTIME STORIES
shall never see it again"
By HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1882, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)

I shall never see it again"
Perhaps you may spoke the
swan who had a very long neck
like a garden hose. II may be
able to help you get your ring
back"
"Oh. thank you'll" said the rab-
bit, but before Hisser, the swan,
had chance to say how he would
get Uncle Wiggilys ring up out of
the ice hole, all of a sudden Lulu
gave loud quack.
Whats the matter?" asked Un-
Gle Wiggily. Are you falling in?"
mo, but see who is coming!"
quacked the duck girl and as they
all looked across the ice they saw,
shuffling toward them, and sliding
over the ice, big, black bear.
Maybe it's Mr.. Stubtail, the
father of Neddie and Beckie,' said
Alice.
mo- it isn't" spoke Uncle Wig
gily. And it isn't my good friend,
Mr.. Whitewash, the Polar Bear
gentleman. This Is a strange bear
and think he looks very hungry"
"Ohl Ohr' screamed Lulu and
Alice as they fluttered to shore.
IF 1 could find rock that
wasn't frozen fast In the ice I'd
bang this sliding bear on the
nose!" quacked Jimmie as the bad
chap came nearer and nearer.
"Oh, you had better not be rougl,
with him. said Uncle Wiggily
Perhaps if we speak kindly to him
he will go away
NO, 1 will not go away" snarled
the sliding bear. II want something
to eat and I'm going to have it.
He slid nearer and nearer to where
Uncle Wiggily, the swan and Jim.
mie stood about the hole in tht
ice. All of a sudden the swan whis.
| pered:
"Step back from the hole. I thinl
something is going to happen"
Uncle Wiggily, Jimmie and th'
swan moved away from the hole
But the bear, not seeing it, walkec
right up to it and then, all of {
sudden, plopi The bear was 81
heavy that he cracked the ic,
around the hole and into the COLI
sloshy water he fell, flounderinl
around and catching hold of TIN
edges of the ice in his big claw.
! paws.
Nov is our chance to rui
away' said Uncle Wiggily, so the,
all did this safely, leaving the bea
sliding no longer, splashing in tn
cold water. And if the egg beate
will sprinkle talcum powder on th
chocolate cake to make it loo
like a cocoanut one, I'll tell yol
next about Uncle Wiggily and tn
skating swan.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. -Whel
Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana
plays golf. buys Bibles, or goes to
bed he does it in spectacular fash
ion.
His gclfing costume is nothing
short of gorgeous, his Bible buying
is magnanimous and his going-to-
bed IS spectroscopic.
When the senator hies himself
TO the links he does his hieing in a
lavender sweater. No ordinary
lavender like an orchid or a funeral
car-but a flaming, sunburst, fuz-
zy lavender, lavender like the
sun coming up like thunder on the
road TO Mandalay. a lavender which
makes the caddies blink, frightens
the robins and causes the hcrses on
the bride paths TO shy.
Upon this gorgeous purple chest
the senator wears an embroidered
IL in glittering yellow. The 81"
may stand for Long, Louisiana"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

INTO lfAS WStGf ne t9Ll
so I think it will be safe here. Don't
be afraid, Hisser," he told the
swan. II have often heard ice
boom and crack like this and yet
it never broke up enough to let me
fall into the water
II am not afraid of falling into
the water said the swan. And I
so much want to learn to skate.
SO if you think it will be all right,
Uncle Wiggily, won't go away
1T will be all right" said the
rabbit gentleman, looking to make
sure there were no larger cracks
near where he stood. ut will be
safe for you to come back, child
ren," he called to the duck girls
and boy.
Trying the ice carefully as they
skated back upon it, Lulu Alice
and Jimmie were soon once more
near Uncle Wiggily and the swan.
The big white bird was anxious to
start learning how to skate.
But before start teaching
you," said Uncle Wiggily. Il wish 1
could find the Christmas gold ring
my wife gave us. It must have
slipped off my paw when / was
fastening on your skates, Hisser."
oh, I am so sorry" spoke the
lovely, white swan bird who was
going to stay in Uncle Wiggily's
hollow stump bungalow for the
winter, as the swan pond was fro
zen over.
Never mind, it wasn't your
fault" said Uncle Wiggily. But
Jimmie" he went on to the duck
boy, you started to say you
thought you know where my ring
was when the ice began to boom
and crack"
Yes" quacked Jimmie, Il think,
Uncle Wiggily, that your ring may
have gone down that hole in the
ice" and Jimmie pointed one wing
at a very little hole. not large
enough for any of them to have
fallen into.
Well said Uncle Wiggily, "ii
my ring is down In that ice hole |
might as well kiss it goodbye, for
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
BAD LUCK IN BUNCHES

QUINCY, Mass. U.Pl-For Po-
liceman James H. Baker, bad luck
comes in punches. First, all six of
his children had the mumps. Then
all six had scarlet fever. After
that. the family physician had to
make three calls at the Baker
home in a single day. Louis. 7, had
the Group: Audrey IL, cut his face
in a tumble down stairs: and Da-
vid. 3, required eight stitches for
a cut ON the head. suffered when
he fell off his tricycle..
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
Death Again Visits
DR.. Carter's Family

DR.. e. o. Carter received word
this morning of the death of Mrs.
Carter's only sister, Mrs. Hazel
Vencill of Nevada, Ia, who died
suddenly yesterday.
She is survived by her husband,
Burt Vencill, and by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. e H. Addison of
Nevada, to whom sympathy is ex-
tended by their many friends in
this city. The loss is double one
to the bereaved parents since on
January 81 they lost their other
daughter, Mrs. Anna A. Carter Of
this city.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
CROONs AT WEDDING

INDEPENDENCE. Mo. U,H -
Howard Green, radio crooner from
Kansas City, altered local wedding
customs somewhat when he Groom
ed Il Love You Truly preced-
ing the ceremony at his marriage
to Doris Stewart at the Washing
ton Methodist church.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
TEN YEARS AGO
February 4. 1929

The January report of imports
and exports at the port of CAL
exico shows a marked improvement
over other years. The total for i'm
ports was $622,94S, for exports
$237,896 and total collections were
$24 ,49804.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
The senator won't say.

lor Luck. The senator won't say.
His Bible buying cost the King
Fish exactly $3.50, because he
wasn't paying much attention in
the senate stationery store. He
wanted Bible for bit of preach
ing in the senate and so bought
one. He was pocketing his change
when he noticed a still larger
Bible on the she'll So he bought
that one, coo. with the comment
that two Bibles won't be any too
many"
Going TO bed is a ritual that
the senator keeps Kaleidoscope
through frequent visits to the hab-
erdaslery. Whenever any of his
pajamas-the tropical green ones,
the fried egg yellow ones, the fur
mace door red ones or the ocean
going blue ones-become faded he
replaces them. The senator still
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Eahruary q 1919

The battle of proxies in Water
Company No. IL district becomes
more intense daily and when the
election is held tomorrow there
promise to be some surprises. A
resolution is to be offered tina. no
bank director can hold place on
the board of directors.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

Ranchers and their wives are con-
cerned with the information that
the county home demonstration
work has been cut from the budget
by the state board of control. The
plan which has achieved such sue
cess is threatened with extinction.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

Published every evening Except Sunday by the
Imperial Valley Press, Inc, 62s State street, Ell
centro California. w. c. Costello business man.
ager. Telephone 26, business office; 7oo editorial
department Full leased wire United Press Asso-
ciationa
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

At a sale at the C.-M. ranch
$23,05850 worth of stock was sold
and all was paid in cash except
between $500 and 5000. There was
a brisk demand for work stock
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

Riverside experienced its lowest
SO far this winter
when the thermometer registered
26 degrees for a time on January
Q
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

continues his old New Orleans Gus
tom of receiving early visitors an
his pajamas. Invariably the visit
ors are impressed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

The clouds have broken away
and we have got back to Imperial
Valley weather with mercury at Al
at sunrise and II in mid-afternoon.
The shortage of feed is near an emf
as the grain crop comes on.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
Looking Blackboard
What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
February 8. 1913

Trying to avoid any utterance
that might come under the classi-
fication of "hot air." the fact exists
that building operations of this
city are gaining in momentum that
is most encouraging.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

At that we think the rank and file feel
more kindly toward him than they do
toward the senators who 'railroaded"
him with extreme haste.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
GUESSING At FUTURE

CLAIMS that the Los Angeles aqueduct
~ project plans have been made on a
scale entirely too elaborate, have been
made by member of the Los Angeles
city council, who cannot accept the view
held by sponsors of the aqueduct that
the metropolitan area will have a pop
ulatlon of 100000 by 1856.
He urges curtailment of the plans,
bringing them down considerably, other
wise he fears property owners will be
Saddled with heavy burden.
AS 1856 is almost quarter of a CEN
tury away, the obiecter probably has as
good grounds for his claims as sup
porters of large aqueduct have for
theirs. None of us can foretell the fu-
ture with any degree of certainty.
However, we can learn to prepare for
the future by studying the past Had
anyone suggested quarter of a century
ago that the metropolitan area would
be as large as it is today, he would have
been dubbed a visionary. The coast is
full of old timers who can tell about the
farms and pastures in what is now a
densely populated section of Los An
geles.
That the metropolitan area is destined
to keep on growing, few will deny. How
much it will grow none can say with
any idea of hitting it exactly right.
Those sponsoring the aqueduct pro-
ject, and they seem to be in the strong
position as far as plans are concerned,
are willing to believe that future develop
ment will keep pace with that of the
past. If it does, they will be justified
in the knowledge that they planned we'll
to take care of the metropolitan areas
needs quarter of century hence.
If, on the contrary, the development
does not live up to their expectations,
the objecting councilman, if alive at that
time, will have the pleasure of saying Il
told you So.
Somehow we believe that faith in the
continued growth of Southern Califor-
MIA is something that all of us need lots
of, to put it in the phraseology of Mr..
Florian Slappey.
a
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

July or August would be swell
dates on which to be reminded of the
weather on February 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

Mr. Barry learned yesterday that mer
employees should be seen and not heard
Neither should they write.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08

Calexico has voted to go wet. Now
if it can prevail upon congress to do the
same we may be getting somewhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-08
Don't Quote Me-
. By United Press -

Whenor Luck" i.
The Washington times., 1933-03-20

Garner, age 8, 131 L0ngfellOw
st. N. w., and Dorothy Garner,
age IL, 131 LongfellOw st.
N. w."
Catherine Benedetto, Seat
Pleasant, Md.
II am 10 years old and in
the fourth grade. I love to
join clubs. My teachers name
is Miss Leona Lloyd. I like
her very much. She is nice
to me. My brother and sister
would like to join. My brother
is S years old and his birth
day is August Is. His name
is Chester. My sister is 3 years
old and her birthday is April
"a. Her name is YOIanda.
"My mother has five children
and all have Joined but these
two"
Lives on Farm
Emma Rawlings, Westwood,
Md:
81 am sending some new
members. They are Esther
Hall, Mae Hall, Norwood Baden,
Clyde Baden, jr., Victor Lees,
Nadine Watson, Katie Letcher,
Thomas Bamford and Rose
mary Bamford.
81 live on q big farm and go
to the Baden School. MY
birthday is August 22. I know
a lot of the club members. MY
schOOlmates are Dorothy Will
lett and Anna ReiSs. They
both belong to the Adventure
Club"
Jack E. Simmons, 1922 Pros
pect Ave. N. W.:
"YOu put my letter in the col
umn, but you had my name
wrong. You had it Earle in
stead Of John. Everyone calls
me Jack, and will you please
call me that, too. I will send
my picture just as soon as I
get one. 1 received my member.
ship card.
The Washington times., 1933-03-20
Bv Beatrice Burton
By Cliff Sterrett
BY Walt Disney

all the rest Of the town was
out enjoying the summer night
in couples and quartets.
And then all at once the
thought of Joyland popped in
to her mind.
Joyland was the biggest
dance palace in town. She had
danced there lots of times with
Eddie.
Girls came there alone, and
so did young men.
Many q time Sharlie had
noticed some girl standing at
the entrance alone for a few
minutes. Then the next time
she caught sight of her she
was in the arms Of one Of the
young men, dancing with him.
''I'll go there, myself"
thought Sharlie, who preferred
dancing to eating any night Of
the week. "And see what luck
I have"
On the way there she
stopped in at a little lunch
room and had a ham sandwich
and a cup of coffee at the
snow-white counter.
Next door was a drugstore.
She went into the drugstore
and bought herself a Number
418 Ruby" lipstick, which Is the
very reddest and most enduring
lipstick that Is made.
Ito Be COntinued)
The Washington times., 1933-03-20

went downtown a while ago.
They were going to the market.
they said, and afterward they
thought they might take in a
moving picture. And Mr.. Hart
ley's not in town this week."
Miss Gordon and Mr.. Hartley
were Grandmother Dunn'S
paying guests"
"You can come over and sit
It'll they get back if you want
to-" added Mrs. HinmWn. mis-
ter and I are going up to the
store to get some things for
tomorrow-but yu're welcome
to the house."
Sharlie shook her head.
Til leave my bag here on
the back porch and go to the
movies, myself, I guess she
thought aloud.
Thanks very much for ask
ing me to come in," she called
to Mrs. Hinman, who was 60
ing back into her neat little
vine-covered house.
She walked slowly down to
the corner of the little street.
There was a neighborhood pic
ture house two or three blocks
farther on.
But suddenly she knew she
didn't want to go to the movies
THAT was a fine way to
spend Saturday night, sitting
alone at a picture show, when
The Washington times., 1933-03-20

bedroom wrapped in a kimono.
"She wants to go joy-riding
with Jim Barnum and you
know how your whole family
will jump on you if anything
happens to her"
"All the Barnums are going"
cried Sharlie. Jim has q
brand-new car and"
"And you're not going any
where in it!" her mother fin.
ished the sentence for her.
you're going to your grand
mothers house and no place
else-then, if anything hap
pens to you, your father can
blame her for it, for a changed"
You treat me like a 6.year-
old child" complained Sharlie
bitterly as she walked out Of
the flat once more, kicking at
the carpets as she went.
Sharlie Steps Out
Her grandmother'S house was
a small red brick one on Mil
ton Street in a most unfaShion-
able section of the town.
1t was a neigE%2rhood Of
green lawns and 5 Ne corner
grocery stores and neat modest
little houses.
Grandmother Dunn had
brought something of DunnS-
berg with her to this new little
home in the city. A green lawn
set with a round bed Of gerani-
ums and candy-tuft gloWed in
The Washington times., 1933-03-20
"SHARLIE"

(COntinued from Magazine Page
mouth and spoke to her: "We're
all going to drive over to Shelby
vile for supper. Want to go
with us. Like to have you"
Sharlie thought for a minute.
"I'd love to CO." she was be-
ginning when she saw Maud
Hanaberry come out of the
apartment house on the other
side of the street and start
across the road.
She was all in white, and in
her hands she carried two cov-
cred dishes. Under her arm
was a bottle wrapped in news
paper.
Maud" Sharlie spoke to her.
''Maud, will you tell my mother
that I'm going over to Shelby
vile in Jim'S new car.
MdOU gave MIS-. DdIuuIu
chilly little smile before she
answered Sharlie.
Don't you think you'd better
come up with me and tell her
yourSelf?" she asked. II think
you ought to do that"
Sharlie followed her up the
stairs to the flat in angry ST.
lence.
''I made Sharlie come back
here with me-" Maud said when
Dodie cEn1e walking out Of her
The Washington times., 1933-03-20

MyIG1C OO4CS " o0AAAAAo0SAA
Grove, Md.
"I'wOuld like to have my two
little sisters join the Adventure
Club. MelrOse goes to the
Gaithersburg School but Ra-
della Lou is four years old and
doesn't go to school. Their
Nellie dog went away a long
time ago and never came back.
But we all hope she will come
back some day. We love to
read the Adventure column
every day"
Member Sick
Dorothy Heller, 1873 Long
fellow st. N. w.
81 Joined the Adventure Club
ages ago but 1 haven't written
very often because / have had
to study quite hard and have
been very sick. My sister
would like to join and 1 have
some friends who would like
to be enrolled also.
"They are Mildred Heller
age 8, 1873 LOngfellOw st. N. W.;
Diana Shapiro, age 13, ~
LOngfellOw st. N. w.; Billy