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, 1935-06-02

There are three major tourist and winter
resort states in this country. These are Cali
fornia, Florida and Texas.
California first came into the limelight
because of a remarkable gold discovery, and
has been in the public eye and well advertised
since that time.
AS a result California has had a marvellous
growth and development, but its biggest and
most profitable development and growth was
because of tourist and winter home business.
Florida next came into prominence when
Flagler, the treasurer of the Standard Oil
Company, built the East Coast Railway, and
dotted it with tourist and winter home hotels,
from st. Augustine to Miami.
Florida has been in the public eye and
well advertised since then, and had a very
wonderful growth and development.
Many whole sections of both Southern
Florida and Southern California have become
tourist and winter home communities.
The whole states of California and Flori-
da have been enriched because of their tourist
and winter home development and growth.
The annual wealth derived from their
tourist and winter home trade is frankly ad-
mitted to be larger than the total wealth from
all products of the soil and other sources of
both California and Florida.
The public eye is now being attracted by
Texas, which is the last of these three great
tourist and winter home states to start devel-
opment.
Texas, while the last to be developed, is
however by no means the least important or
less valuable of these three great winter home
states.
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In size, in natural resources, in location,
In climate, and in present and future oppor-
tunities for safe and profitable investment,
Texas is unsurpassed by any state in the whole
North American Union of States or any other
country of the whole world.
The location of Texas and many of it's re-
sources are naturally different from those of
both California and Florida, and of many 9TH
err states. These differences are to the advan-
tage of Texas, instead of its disadvantage.
1t is greatly to the advantage of Texas
that the development of the tourist and winter
home business of Southern California and
Southern Florida started first, and that the
manufacturing, commercial and investment
business of many other states or countries also
started first. sa4 80 -&-HE
This gives Southern Texas the opportun-
ity to be the latest and most up-to-date tour
list and winter nome development, and also
gives the whole state of Texas the opportunity
to profit by mistakes made by many other
states and countries which have developed
large and congested manufacturing, distrib-
uting, commercial and investment centers.
The opening of the Rio Grande Valley to
settlement, together with the building of the
new Seaport for it, which is now under con-
struction in the southernmost part of Texas,
adjoining the border of the Republic of Next
CO, and the building of the Pan American high
ways, with their connections, is now begin
ming to turn the limeIight not only on Browns
vile, Texas, and all sections of the Browns
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vile Navigation District and vicinity, but also
to all parts of Southern Texas.
Building of this important new deep wa
ter seaport in the S~outhernmost Texas Gulf
Coast region of the Rio Grande Valley, and Of
these Pan American Highways and their con-
n~ections will provide many good reasons for
gradually attracting the public eye of all Sec
tons of North America, and many from Cen
trail and South America and other countries,
to the great Empire of Texas and it's vast re-
sources and wonderful climate.
The building of this new seaport in the
Rio Grande Valley is destined to result in the
building of a great city and metropolitan dis
trict including Brownsville, East Brownsville,
Queen Isabel, Del Mar, Los Fresnos, Port Isa-
bel, and other sections of Cameron and add
joining counties in the Rio Crande Valley and
vicinity in this favored portion of the winter
home belt of Southern Texas, just as the build
ing of the deep water seaport serving San
Pedro, Long Beach, Los Angeles and other
communities resulted in building a great city
and metropolitan district which included Los
Angeles County and vicinity of Southern
California.
The Empire of Texas, while one of the 4S
states of the United States of America, is not
only by far the largest and most productive of
these states, but is larger than the German
Empire, the Republic of France or the King
dom of Italy and is capable of supporting a
larger population than either Germany,
France or Italy now has.
, 1935-06-02

For special opportunities and investments offered in this
great Empire of Texas and for further inform alton,
please see any of my associates, assistants, representa-
tives or agents at any place, or write me, 1902 Jefferson
Street, Brownsville, Texas.
Yours Truly,
]. vi. PUTNAM
Texas Investments
, 1935-06-02

TINE new seaport now under construction in the Rio
l. Grande Valley, in the southernmost section of Tex
as, will help to make the great Empire of Texas the scene
of the next great development, and that at a very early
date. Early investors will reap rich rewards by great in
creases in value which this new seaport will create.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-22
to be anything else.

to be anything else.
 As he got into his car Ross cought sight of small boy standing be- fore the window, his gaze fastened on the place where the lamb had been. He seemed so disappointed, f was too bad there wasn't another lamb for him, Ross thought as he drove. away. But probably something else would catch his fancy and he would forget all about the lamb. Chil- dren were like that. Ross wondered though if Polly would have forgotten SO easily. He scarcely thought so. The poor little thing would have been nightly disappointed. He was glad he had remembered before it was too late.
 But try as he would he couldn't get the picture of the little fellow out of his mind Halfway home he turned his car around and went back to the shop. The boy had left so Ross asked the proprietor if he could tell him where the boy lived He lived just around the corner. He often came into the shop Tonight he had come to buy the little lamb for his small sister, and was so disappointed wneL he found it gone. The proprietor hac tried to interest him in something else. but he hadn't been successful in doing it. Ross interrupted to knoe in just which house the boy lived. Then in order to have some satis- factory excuse to offer at home, lie bought a baby doll for Polly
 When sometime later he came into the living room where Anne was busy trimming the Christmas tree, she wanted to know where on earth he had been. He shook his head and put his finger to his lips as warning not to waken Polly. He placed the pack age under the tree and with happy smile he began helping with the work of trimming.
 I 4lC AANAb AiO4AA41S IN n1o O W en . ened by Polly's happy cry that she knew there was Santa Claus" be- cause he had brought her a sheep and baby doll just as she had asked him to. Ross sprang out of bed and into the living room Where could the sheep" have come from? For there was Polly with lamb under one arm and the doll under the oth- CT.
 "Where?' Ross asked, pointing to the lamb Anne whispered that she had bought it.
 There is Santa Claus, isn't there, Daddy?" Polly's voice implied she was giving information rather than asking it.
 Ross heartily agreed with her: There certainly is a Santa Claus beyond doubt"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-22

AS Ross Hutton finished telling his httle daug ter the story of Christ mas, of the shepherds and the Christ dllild, and had as Sactfully as possible explained about Santa Claus, Polly beaved a sigh. Well, I think there's aSanty Claus and hope he brings me a sheep like the ones in the story.
 Tie day before Christmas, Ross saw a white woolly lamb in the win dow Of toy shop. He was glad he had walked to his office. Otherwise he might not have seen the lamb. He would stop on his way home and get iS. But one of the men in the office Offered to drive him home, SO the lamb was forgotten until he heard Polly as she was being put to bed tell her mother she hoped Santa wouldn't forget about the sheep. Ross looked at his watch and de- eided the shop would probably still De open. Anne called to him to ask where he was going. and he answer ed, Back in a few minutes"
 When he parked his car before the shop, the thought that the lamb might not be there struck him for the first time. He felt much relieved, therefore, when he saw the lamb in the window.
 As he tucked the package under his arm and turned to leave the shop little boy came in Ross heard him ask the proprietor if he still had the lamb that was in the window that morning. He was told the gentle
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-22
Bow and Arrow Back

REAGAN, Okla.-Indians with lit tie money to buy meat or purchase ammunition have turned to the bow and arrow to bring down squirrels for use in succulent 'spatshofa" stew.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-22
SWEDISH NIGHT AIR
 MAIL TAKES RECESS

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 21.-The Swe- dish Aerotransport company an- nounces that in the season just end- ed only three of the scheduled l09 night flying trips had to be cancelled by weather. Starting next May the flying of night mail will be carried on throughout the year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-22
SANTA CLAUS

} There is a Santa Claus. His real name is Spirit of Char ity. He is the symbol of ben
 evolence, compassion and al- truism. He is the ideal of that small legion of really human humans who pave happiness with kindness, sympathy and charity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-22

man just leaving had bought it. "Oh," :" the disappointment showed in his face. Wasn't there something else he would like? But there didn't seem
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-22

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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
Thieves Are Persistent

The bold BURGLARS that have
been entering pool halls in this
nel3hborhood in the past two
Weeks made another successful
rail some time late Thursday night
when they enterd tn Pasteime Pool
Hall by Knowing tn window strips
and breaking a small piece of glass
III the back door large enough tc
accommodate their hand then turn
ing the lock and entering.
This morning when Mr.. Shepard
came on duty he found it in this
condition and after checking up
founl that htey had taken about
thirty dollars, So far nothing else
has been missed.
Th other theft was when BURG
ulars entered the Coulee Billiards
adm mad off with several slot
machines and one punch board, but
being very considerate this time
they only took cash that was in the
cash register then probably as an
afterthought they left all the nick
les and pennies, were they thinking
OF the sales tax when they left the
pennies? We wonder?
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
NATION WILL
VOTE WHEAT
PROGRAM
All Washington Wheat to Partici-
pate in Referendum May .-25--
Long Time Program Proposed

Washington wheat growers will
cast their votes in a national ref
erendum, May rs, ON whether they
wish to contine wheat adjustment
program for 1886 and future years,
announces F. E. Balmer, State dir
ector of eXtetnion. Am majority of
the $4,000 wheat prodcers in the
state are expected to eXpess their
sentiments on the basic principles
of the program and the need for
it's continuance.
The new program as tentatively
proposed will follow the fund
amental featres of the first pro-
gram with additional emphsis upon
possibilities of shifting land in
drought and erosion areas to grass
and soil-binding crops.
Strictly voluntary, the new con-
tract is proposed for the four
years, 1886 to 1889 inclusive, but
but may be terminated by produc-
ers at the end of one year through
national referendum if rs per
cent of producers in any region
petition for it. The contract may
be terminated by the Secretary of
agriculture if revised plan salts
factory to- a majority of the con-
tract signers is developed.
The base acreage period will be
the years 1880 to 1882 inclusive
and the base PREDICTION period 1928
to 1882 inclusive as under the first
program. Each producers allot-
ment will remain 81 percent of his
base production. Greatet flexibility
in fixing base acreage Of individ-
ual growers will be provided to
permit adjustments in line with
sonud farming practices.
The reqired adjustment in any
one year will not exceed Is percent
of the base The present program
provides that as much as 20 per-
ednt adjustment may be asked but
the greatest percentage asked for
was Is per cnt in 1884.
The proposed new program con-
templates greater responsibility for
the local county wheat production
control associations.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
U. S. Would Buy
100000 Acres
Big Bend Erosion Grazing Pro ,ect
Fights Erosion-Allows For
Irrigation

Harley ID. Jacquot,, county agnet
for Grant Cuonty, and in charge of
the Big Bend soil erosion grazing
project in the county, said at
Ephrata Monday:
has undertaken to buy land in
estern Grant and western Adams
counties, in a solid block consisting
of 100000 acres.
THE area is known as the Big
Bend erosion control grazing perfect
whihc will be used experimentally
to determine the feasibility of ac-
curing land that is no longer able
to support a farm family under nor
NAL conditions and of bringing it
into ultimate use.
Families in this area are much
interested in the program and will
ing to cooperate to help better
their own farming conditions.
"The last few weeks wind storms
have caused considerable soil eros
ion within the project area, which
indicates that the soil has definite
ly reached a low state of resistance
against wind erosion as a result of
the continuous summer fallow sys-
tenn of the last 80 or 40 years.
cat places where land has bolwn
badly there has been as much as
three inches of soil drifted away,
leaving only hard subsoil and
spring wheat plants with roots ex-
posed on the sruface.
The farmers who are cooperat-
ing with the government will be
given opportunity for resettlement
In a better farming area, through
the assistance of the rural reahb-
ll1tation corporation
Many of the farmers will have
sufficient equity, from the sale of
their land to the government. to
reloceta elsewhere.
With the development of Tire
land for grazing, 1t is possible that
tine government will employ MANY
OF the farmers for the next few
1T is entirely voluntary on the
part OF the owner as to whether or
not he shall participate in the gov
ernment's program. After he has
has signified his Willingness to sell
ms land to the government. land
appraisers are directed to make
fleld examination to determine the
valu of the land
That procedure assures every
owner that each tract of land will
receive valuation that is consisted
throughout the AGRA.
The purchase program will not
affect the development of the Col
umb1a basin irrigation project
Suitable arrangements are being
made with the farmers living in
the project area to provide for
their needs if an irrigation dis
district is set up and the develop
ment of an irrigation project is as
sured.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
LOCAL GIRL WINS
TIPPING CONTEST
Lois Moore of Coulee City Takes
F'irst in tipping for Speed, Sc :
cond for Accuracy

Lois MoOre,,, a senior IN the
Couiee City high snchool, proved
herself speeu artist OF no mean
ability when she VINO nrst in the
Grant County 1yping contest which
was one of thefeatures of the all
county school day held at Ephrata
last saturday. ABOUT 40 students
hlom high schools of the county
competed. h4sie Schrag, of Soap
Lake, won second honors. In the
accuracy division OF the tipping
contest, the two girls reversed
their standings, Miss Craigg being
first and Miss Moore second.
In the spelling contest, awards
went to- Fern Daniels, Ephrata,
first; Mildred Daniels, Neppel, sec
ond in the eighth grade division;
Eunice Buckley, Breezy Plain, first,
and Yvonne Watkins, Ephrata,, sec
Iond,, seventh grade; Mary Lou Gill
Coulee, first, Laura Nelson, Hart
lime, second, sixth grade; Char
lotte Crikshank, first; Veryl Kid
well, Mae, second, fifth grade.
Defamation honors in the grade
school division went to Kathryn
ArVan, Soap Lake, first, Clark Nc
Minimy, Neppel, second in the hum
orous division; James Powell, Soap
Lake, first, Mary Ellen Hawley,,
Mae, second, dramatic division.
In the high school section, Lii
liam Hull, Neppel, was first in the
humorous livision, with Vera Pen
son, Hartline. second. In the dra-
matte division for high school,
Evelyn Wernick, Maritime, was
first, and Dick Gels, Neppel, Sec
ond
Thirteen entered the declama-
ton contests.
Miss Hilda Mesick of Coulee
City conducted the tipping contests,
Mrs. Gladys Castleman and Miss
Vesta Bush the spelling matches,
and Miss Eloise Nelson, Ephrata.
THE defamation contests Jhdges
COR the latter were Mr. Hinch, and
Mrs. MacRae, both of the English
department at Ellensburg normal
school, and Mr.. Trainor of the ed
ucation department.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
SPEED EMERGENCY LOANS TIC
FARMERS

Emergency loans to farmesr
who have no other means of finan-
cling the production of cash or
feed crops thi sseason are being
with all possible speed out of
the $60,000,000 fund appropriated
for this purpose, declares J. L.
'Thayer, acting manager of the
northwest regional disbursing of
flee at Spokane. But needless delay
can be avoided if applicants make
sure that all forms are properly fill
led out when the application is left
with their local loan COMMITTEE, he
points out.
The machinery for getting this
money lntoethe hands of the farm
ers bfeore planting time is in Nigh
gear but occasionally we have to
send applicati tons back because of
faulty handing" Mr.. Thayer says.
I'VE want to avoid all such lost
motion if possible. So we are urg-
ing applicants to check and double
check their applications. The vol
untary help being given in the
field and the splendid spirit of
cooperation manifested is most
gratifying, 1t helps tremendously
nj the performance of this big
emergency task"
To be eligible for an emergency
loan, farmers must show inability
to obtain supplies or crdeit else
where. The maximum loan is $500
to an individual borrower, secured
by AZ first lien on the crop being fin
anced or the live stock to be fed.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
EYE
COULEE CITY

During the past two weeks many
strangers have visited ,Coulee City,
Since the fact has become almost
certain that the high dam at Grand
Coulee will be authorized soon,
men with capiail and a desire to
enter business in wide-awake
place, have been cycling Coulee
City with a great deal Of favor,
and it: is possible that as soon as
the announcement is made many
pieces of real estate will change
hands.
The first of the week, u party
from Everett was here lobknig o.
er the ground with a view of open.
ing laundry. Another party lis
considering building a larga apart
ment house. Still another Is con
templating building a large hotel
and another one was looking oye1
the city with view of building ;
theatre.
All of these proposed business
places for the city depends upo,
The building of the high dam.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
Old Pioneer Pibnic Will
Feature Sportsmen's Show

Spokane's big sportsmn show,
May 13 to 10, which annually re-
builds the forests and recalls int he
animals and birds to help make real
istic it's setting i salso going back
to the early days of the Inland En-
pire for it's opening ATTRACTING.
Monday afternoon and evening,
May 13, the first day of the sohw,
has been dedicated las Pioneer, or
Old Timrs Day, A number of con-
tests have been .plannd for the en-
joyment of the old settlers and spec
tators at the show, including an old
time contest, which is open to pion-
Ger contestants of fifty years old
and over. There will also be a mouth
oregan contest for men IS or over
and for women SO years old or over
There will be hogcalling contest
Ind an event to find the oldest con-
tinuous resident of Spokane County
The events, however, which are
sure to bring the most fun and en-
tertainment, will be the last three
divisions of the features for Old
Timers Night. One of these is a
liSSlHS COuleSl Luz men 90 ana
over and women of SO or more; a
square dance contest for couples
the men SIS and over, and the WON
so. The music will be furnished by
The show management. The last
event, which drew crowds and
much praise during the 1884 show
is an Old Fiddlers' Contest for men
lover 0 and women over so.
Substantial cash and merchan-
|dise prizes are to be awarded for
Jail Of these events and full infor-
|mation and details and entry
blanks for each of them may be OBJ.
tanned by communicating with the
|ySportsmen's Show management
in care Of the Spokane Chamber of
Commerce. r5gts
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
End Golfer Dam
To Be Sing|er

Grand Coulee, May 1-Nearly
Two hundred timber pilings which
will eventually be used on the east
shore cofferdam were laying a.
long the west shore of the Column
b1a river yesterday.
Although the construction Of
this second bulwark will not star
until late July Or Angst the com
pany is gathering material neces
sary for the work SO that N>Ien the
order to proceed is given all will
De In readiness to go ahead.
Engineers of the company poin
out that the east shora cofferdan
VIII probably be completed in tw,
months working time. 1t took on
ny ~ days to finish the more com
pllcated west shore Golfer, NOR,
than 5000 feet long.
Whereas the Grant county struc
ture was of cellular formation. tn,
east shore bulwark will be only ;
single wall of sheet piling support
ed In back with a timber wall anf
long steel supporting bars, the ares
between the stel wall and IL
board wall will be filed in witt
earth.
1t Will no wbe only al matter oil
Two weeks or so until the east
shore excavation work will have
TO be stopped because of the RISING
river. The stream will flow into
the pit and flood the roadways
In another IA days or so if the
present. rate of river rise is CON
tinued.
only about one and half mil
ions yards Of earth remain to b,
moved on the east side if the yard
age amounts only to the origina
estimate. Guy f. Atkinson and hi
trucks are doing the remova
work.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
State Will Maintain
Dry. Falls Road

According to information receiy-
ed tins week from the state hig -
way department at Olympia, tlo
state will complete the Soap Lal e
.oad, put it in good condition and
maintain it for at least another
year. This decision by the de-
partment was made at the earnest
solicitation of various commercial
bodies, and town councils of the
county. county commissioners and
members of the Columbia Basin as
ISOLATION.
That there will be an unpreced-
ented travel over this road this
summer and for soma time to
come, is realized by the highway
department and the need for put
ting it in shape is very apparent
A very large percentage of the
traffic from tn ewest comes lover
the North Central highway as far
as Soap Lake, and this cutoff is
the connecting link to the Grand
Coulee dam. In addition to this
tourists by the thousands, from
both east south and west will
visit this SETON this year. Most of
them will want to visit the the
Dry Falls Park and the chain of
lakes below and the only road thye
can travel is theCoulee City-Soap
Lake cutoff.