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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
LOOKING BACKWARD
What The Press Files Tell of Imperial Valley
for This Date in Past Years

visor for Imperial Valley was adopt
ed by the directors of the farm
bureau at their meeting here today.
B. r. Bundage spent the day
with his family who are comfort
ably located at Jacumba.
E. CT. Blair left yesterday for a
trip to San Diego and Los Angeles
expecting to be gone a month. This
is Mr.. Blair's first trip out of the
valley in two years and he says he
is going to take advantage of a
much needed rest.
Mrs. Bird Hobby and son have
returned from a trip to visit rela-
tiVes in Texas.
TEN YEARS AGO
July 10, 1926
Reasonable repairs" will be made
on the Mountain Springs grade by
the California highway commits
sion, according TO a letter received
today by George F. Bowles, chair
man of the chamber of commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
THE LAW SHOULD COMPEL
FREQUENT TESTS OF
MOTOR CARS

Traffic fatalities will not be material
ly reduced until motorists are required
to have their ears periodically tested for
efficiency in handling, operation, and
braking. Not until the motor car can
stop quickly when necessary, function
properly when on the road, maintain
given speed of traffic and otherwise
meet the conditions of modern day motor
operation. can we expect the mounting
curve of accidents to start on the de-
cline.
That this belief is we'll founded is in
dicated by the recent experience in Chi
cago when motor cars were indescrimi-
nantly tested and 80 per cent were found
defective 1t can be assumed that the
same percentage will prevail here. While
there are no available figures indicating
what percentage of cars involved in acci-
dents are defective, it is safe to assume
that the vast majority were not in good
mechanical Condition.
California. because of her high posi-
ton in accident statistics. should take
the lead among states in compelling
Cd motor cars to comply with strict
operative standards and CD drivers to
meet periodic driving tests.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
Woman Changes
Mind, Will Not
Marry Conuict

PHOENIX, Ariz., July 10. U.R)-
Thelma Martin, exercising Wo-
mans right to change her mind, to-
day disclosed she had abandoned
her plea for permission to wed
Roland Cochrane, 28-year old con-
vict awaiting death in the states
lethal chamber.
The pretty waitress SAID sne
changed her mind after reports had
been circulated that her plea to wed
Cochrane had been framed to AID
his appeal from the death sentence
Miss Martin said, however, that in
the event he should go free, she
would marry him Immediately
Cochrane was convicted of shooting
his victim during a holdup which
netted him a few dollers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
THIRTY YEARS AGO
July 10, 1906

Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Gearh left this
morning for six weeks stay at
Elsinore Hot Springs.
The officers Of the reclamation
service, fearing that the continued
flow of the river in its present
course means the undermining of
Laguna Dam, being constructed at
an enormous expense, have rendered
the use of teams and supplies to
the c. D. company for use in this
work.
The little daughter Of DR.. and
Mrs. j. C. Blauckinton, had the
misfortune to fall and break both
bones in her left arm just above
the wrist. She is improving.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
July 10, 1916
A resolution asking that Paul L.
Dougherty be appointed farm ad-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10

Sugar companies of the coast
area are making plans to establish
trial plots of sugar beets in Imper-
ial Valley, about two acres in size,
using resistant seed and beginning
the latter part of September and
continuing until October, according
to Manager Hays of the Ell Centre
chamber of commerce.
Hays has been in correspondence
with a number of coast sugar COM
panies in an effort to have them
extend their operations to include
Imperial Valley. A number of
growers have indicated their will
ingnesS to make paintings Of COM
mercial size this fall, but the com
panies desire to conduct one year
of experimentation to determine
the purity of Imperial Valley sugar
beetS, production and the sugar
content.
It is the desire of the sugar
factories, Hays said, to lengthen
their manufacturing season. The
usual factory runs with coast sugar
beets commence in early August and
end in late November. Beets plant
ed in Imperial Valley in the early
fall would be harvested in May and
June.
The Los Alamitos Sugar company,
one of the institutions which has
been in correspondence with the Ell
Centro chamber of commerce, said
that in order to justify the opera
ton of their factory in the spring
months, they must be supplied with
at least 1400 tons of beets daily for
not less than 60 days. This would
require planting of about 5000 acres
of sugar beets.
Other concerns have stated that
If the acreage here ever reached
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
Phoenix Minister
Claimed by Death

PHOENIX, July 10. WIP) The
Rev. DR.. Clifton M. Rock. 60, mem
ber of the executive committee of
the Southern Baptist convention,
senior member of the Phoenix Min
isterial association, died suddenly
yesterday from a heart attack while
preparing his next sermon.
DR.. Rock came here 18 years ago,
founding the First Southern Baptist
church and continued its pastor un-
til his death.
He is survived by four daughters
and three sons. Mrs. Rock died
here two years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10

NEW YORK, July l0.-Thoughts
while strolling: No matter how
long a country jake lives in New
York he never gets over that up
from the country feeling. Richard
Waldo is beginning to suggest that
benign cartoon character, Foxy
Grandpa. Thickest head Of hair:
Jay Flippen's.
I somehow expect people from
Australia to hop. What Greenwich
Village needs is a Gilbert White.
Who knows the plural of metropo-
LISP Portland Hoffa's hello sounds
like a chorus girl arriving late at
a party. BroadWay's least publ
cized but deftest wisecracker: the
late Grant Clarke.
For the Look the Same as They
Did Is Years Ago Club: James
Montgomery Flagg. Reversal note:
Burton Rascoe has his sons suits
cut down for his own wear. The
late afternoon damoZels wrenching
out dry little come-on smiles. NeV-
er see Dudley Field Malone beam
ing around anymore.
Slickest of the devil-may-care
mustaches: Ben Ali Haggin's. Those
silver haired lone ladies who daWdle
over a cigaret and cup Of tea at
Schrafft's. Each one an o. Henry
story. For a renaissance: Those
batter cake window jugglers in
Childs. Add hereto here grins:
Steve Hannagan's.
Man in the moon face: George
Rector's. In my calloW days, how
I would be following Madeline Car
roll, of the movies around Crack
publicity getter among the young
authors: William Saroyan. Lee OIL
wells name sounds like swallowing
marble. And Lilly Pons like a
peg-legged man on a board walk.
&c.
They were recalling at Hert
Swope's those hilarious episode:
based on hunger in the old Mcintyre
and Heath skits. My choice was il
THE Ham Tree" and went some
thing like this:
Heath: boy, you is getting al
falfus."
Mcintyre: "Wha- wha- Wha
am dat?"
Heath: Your face turns greer
and den you get lock jaw
Mcintyre: Amt dey some cur
| for dat?"
Heath: "Only one thing in d.
world I know of"
Mcintyre: What am dat?"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
Everyday Philosophy
ON MAKING AND KEEPING FRIENDS
BY ED HOLDEN
HAROLD E. DOTY
Pastor, First Baptist Church

ON MAKING AND KEEPING FRIENDS
About this matter OF friendship that folks
ability trends said of
could
They letter postal
tragedy
the that friends that she
e 10
has richly the
friends for they much for what
the
i sparkle briliance
a keep friends have
a gather
o
make them they that relation last
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
ROCKEFELLER'S RULES
FOR LONGEVITY

When John D. Rockefeller recently
celebrated his 9th birthday anniversary,
he handed down some rules for longevi-
ty which are worth noting. These were:
Never lose interest in life, business and
the outside world; eat sparingly and at
regular hours; take exercise; get plenty
of sleep; do not become annoyed; attend
your doctor regularly; and don't overdo
things.
Mr. Rockefeller has accomplished
much and lived long. To most of us
he is hardly more than a strange, myth
ical character in novel, personifying
huge success and an indominable will
to live. What has been his meditations
in his seclusion, he does not reveal, but
we all wonder whether in living length
~, he has been enabled to weigh values
and find how to live fully.
His rules pertain primarily to physi-
cal wellbeing Only the admonitions to
never lose interest in life, business, and
the outside world, do not become an
noyed", don't overdo things, approach
the philosophical. These three, and the
fact that throughout the lengthening
years has his friendliness and human
ness steadily increased indicate that Mr..
Rockefeller has found considerably more
of Importance than he reveals.
1t is to be hoped that this very inter
esting man sometime will give US sum-
mary of his philosophy, and his full set
of rules for full life as well as a long
one.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10

Heath: You has to inhale the
steam of baked duck"
90
That dinky Park avenue row Of
old brick houses between 53rd and
54th street is to become a de luxe
shopping center, rivaling in minia-
ture the cosmopolitan Radio City
display. The sponsor is the rich
socialite Robert Goelet-What a
name for a novel hero!-who will
erect a one story arcade. The ar
cade is rare in New York. The eff
fort to include a movie house was
scotched by the collective indigna-
ton of Park avenue. The one and
two story structures now being built
in choice spots around town are a
sort of stop gap until owners believe
times are worthy of more impress
sive towers. Most of the squat prairie
town structures have paid so far.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10

By way of showing that little things
can be of greatest Importance, note the
recent headline, Hail Falls In Ell Cen
tro During Rain
A single letter added to the first word
could turn the subject from a purely
local one into a matter of international
interest and Importance. The sentence
would read: Halle Falls In Ell Centro
During Rain"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10

1t would appear the better part of
pursuasion if politically biased editors
would stop condemning everything the
other party does and command few
things. This would at least have the ap-
pearance of giving credit where credit is
due. He who shouts wolf" too often,
conYinces no one.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
One-Minute Test Answers

l. Scandinavian rovers of the sea
during the middle ages.
2. Possession, by a woman, of
more than one husband or mate
at the same time. Polandry is
practiced in Tibet.
3. BY the process of eXtradition.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
Today's Horoscope

Men whose birthday is today
should succeed in the practice of
law They have faithfulness, ten
acity, fidelity and sound judgment.
Women born on this day are imag
inative, tender, forgiving and help
full.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
Hints on Etiquette

Dinner napkins should be partly
folded when placed in the lap but
luncheon napkins should be fully
opened.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

/. Who were the Vikings?
at the same time. Polyandry is
3. BY what process is an accused
person surrendered to the justice
Of another government?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
Words of Wisdom

Truth is generally the best vindi-
cation against slander-Abraham
Lincoln.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
checks
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first day
Liquid, Tablets HEADACHE,
Salye, Nose Drops 30 minutes
CLEMENTS DRUG STORE
RE-REFINED MOTOR OIL
MEETS THE DEMANDS OF
NEW MOTORS AND MOTORS
NOT NEW

NOT NEW
-Clings to metal longest, the
toughest film strength, pene-
trates quickly to vital parts of
motor. Hundreds OF motorists
are buying Re-Refined Oil on
account of its supreme quality,
plus the economy. Re-Refined
here, all the advantages local
manufacture extends to you.
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Your c0ntainer per gal
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Your container per gal
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Delivered to AVH&
Your container per gal
3 & A OIL co.
Imperial Ave. al Commercial
Back of U. S. Border Patrol
Phone 1886
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10
Famous Sayings

He who commits injustice is ever made more
wretched than he who suffers it-Plato.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-10

Heath: You has to inhale the
steam of baked duck"
Evening star., 1936-05-31

"A special arrangement with prominent
manufacturer makes this value possible!
The covers are made of hand-blocked linen
cretonne. Choice of two patterns-for
one sofa (76 or "a in. size) two chairs
(club, wing or button back and the
five separate cushions. Flounces are box
pleated on front and sides.
Kanns-Third Floor.
Evening star., 1936-05-31

Tomorrow is the last day we win meas
ure, make and hang these Tontine shades
for the above price-any size up to 36
accepted for less than three shades and
measurements to be takerf by our repre-
sentative. Tontine shades are washable
and available in popular colors.
xann,s-Thard ysses. m
Evening star., 1936-05-31

square yards specially purchased special selling
perfect Tile patterns tan and red Coo through
back.
Kauns-Third Floor.
Evening star., 1936-05-31
IrresuIor. Of the $l1.s5 and $lz.s5 Grade.
9rl2 and 8rIO.ft. Sizes.

Plaid rugs among Easiest seasonbu takes
special purchase such fine
price It will take expert to find the irregularities they're igh
And will that will for will
pucker the floor 9x2 and 8x0 it. sizes in reversible pds
rust blue brown and Most of them
smaller sizes.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
PLAYGROUND PLAN
DRAWN BY GROUP
Glover Park Association
Now Seeking Model
Recreation Center.

Plans for additions to the play
ground at the Benjamin-Stoddert
School, project long sponsored by
the Glover Park Citizens Association,
have been drawn and are now in the
hands of the District repair shop, ac-
cording to Henry E. Juenemann,
chairman of the associations Play
ground Committee.
The committee, which was success
full last year in getting a supervisor
for the playground during the Sum,
mer, has been active this past Winter
with a campaign to have the school
grounds made into a model recre-
ational center for Washington. Efforts
were made to have field house, ten
mis- courts and modern playground
equipment installed there as step in
the program to have adequate play
areas provided in Glover Park before
the section is all built up.
The playground plans. while not in
cluding all the features requested by
the association, are a step in the right
direction, according to Juenemann.
They call for the construction of an
outdoor class room, a garden and two
tennis courts. Ground on the east side
of the school has been cleared and
leveled, and construction work will
start as soon as funds are made avail
able.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

In 1921 those IS grams were worth
about $4,000,000l
A possible reason for the 1921
radium BOOM might have been that
the working of the carnotite products
In Colorado had hit its peak then.
Moreover, there was widespread
market for the metal, for up to that
time there had been very little of it
refined In the entire world. The boom
stopped within three or four years,
because it was found that carnotite
could never really rank seriously in
competition with pitchblende as a
source of radium.
Recently the bureau experts tested
what is believed to be the largest COM
mercial radium preparation ever made
This was a half gram of radium sui
Evening star., 1936-03-29

phate, manufactured late in 1885. The
bureau received it early last January
and kept 1t two weeks, making the
usual laboratory tests. including the
most important one with the gamma
ray electroscope. This enormous piece
of radium Is now being used by the
United States Navy for radiographing
heavy steel castings, many Of them 18
inches thick. Radiographing means
taking pictures, using radium rays for
the purpose, for determination of
structursI defects, actual or potential.
(Copyrieht 1o36p
Evening star., 1936-03-29
JUSTICE IS SPEEDED
BY FEWER COMFORTS
Verdicts Arrived at More Speed
lily When Judge Removes
+ Soft Cushioned Chairs.

OKLAHOMA CITY (R).-Peace Jus
tice Evert Crismore removed soft cush-
ioned chairs from his jury room, re-
placed them with hard ones and cut
an hour off tae average time required
for verdict.
Experimenting further, he took out
all the chairs. The verdict time
dropped to a minimum of 10 minutes,
maximum of 80. Then he nailed the
Evening star., 1936-03-29
jury room window shut. Juries now
need only s to 25 minutes.
600 Miles an Hour Predicted.

Bullet-like cars. speeding 600 miles
an hour, are predicted by group Of
engineers in Germany. Reports from
Berlin say tests Of models have led
the men to declare that some day
some of the country's mountain
gorges will be traversed by huge elec-
trified metal rings through which the
cars will flash. The great speed, de-
clare the engineers, will be possible
because the cars will be suspended in
air and will be pulled forward by
powerful electric magnets supplied
with current from power houses.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

trunks of trees, which in some remote
geological age soaked up the original
water containing the radium-inaybe
millions of years ago. These tree
trunks petrified, that Is, turned into
rock, thereby permanently incloSing
their radlum content.
Many beautiful rock samples of
these ancient tree trunks are to be
found in DR.. Curtiss' offlce. The Bu-
reau of Standards Is particularly proud
of owning several such, brownisi red
in shade, which strikingly show the
grain of the original wood in a BEAU
tiful, petrified form.
Dr. Curtiss, for purposes OF COM
parison, showed samples Of carnotite
and pitchblende. The latter is a
lovely jet black, which no doubt ac-
counts for its name.
Lift them both," he urged, "and
I'll show you something interesting" !"
We did so and the small piece Of
pitchblende, about the size of the
palm of the hand, weighed 24h
ounces, or a pound and a half. The
same size piece OF carnotlte Welghed
only half a pound. This, Dr. Cur
tiss went on to explain, illustrates the
main reason why carnotite isn't being
worked very extensively for its radium
content, while pitchblende is.
Expressed more specifically, the
amount Of radium present in both in
stances is proportional to the amount
of uranium compounds In the natural
ore, DR.. Curtiss says. Carnotite may
have only 10 to IS per cent uranium
compounds, whereas pitchblende ores
may have as high as 80 to 80 per cent
uranium.
Phrased in another way: Rich car
notite will yield from IS to rs milli-
grams per ton of natural ore, but
pitchblende will yield from $50 to 200
milligramS per ton.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

makes his reading by peering at the
specimen through an enormous pro-
jector." AS the name suggests, 1t
projects an enlarged image on grad
uated screen and in such fashion
that the length and diameter can be
read Immediately. For always the
apparatus is kept in perfect focus.
Never do the Federal specialists
have to purchase special glass walls
or other containers in which to keep
their test radium and for this rea-
son: They keep most of it in the
container in which it arrives and in
every instance the container has
proved satisfactory in ability to resist
the powerful gamma radiationS. Most
of the original containers, by the way,
are not made of glass, as seems to
be the general notion. Instead, they're
of platinum, chiefly because it's a
fairly hard metal, is permanent and
non-corroSive, and isn't affected either
by radium rays or by acids. Another
reason why radium is often kept in
platinum or silver containers is that
these metals can be sterilized by heat
and introduced near, or into, the hu-
man body without the slightest i'll
effects.
THE major source of the world S
supply of commercial radium is
pitchblende in the Belgian Congo. A
fairly large deposit of pitchblende was
found several years ago just above
the Arctic Circle, along Great Bear
Lake in Northern Canada. This is
being worked on large scale as time
goes on.
In addition, small amount of
radium today is derived from the min
eral carnotite, of which there are ex-
tensive deposits in Colorado and other
parts of the United States. Although
the carnotite contains only small
per cent of uranium and a CORE
spondingly small quantity of radium
the separation of the latter is fairly
profitable industry, operating on a
small scale.
Carnotite is usually light, green
ish yellow, but occasionally appears
in browniSh forms. Just what is car
notite? 1t is mostly the fossilizec
Evening star., 1936-03-29

Wire Haired Terriers Popular.
Wire-haired fox terriers have sup
planted the short-haired variety In
popularity in England this season.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

HERE'S wee anecdote that proves
that a trained schnozZola may
prove of tremendous value in mans
never-failing search for radium ores:
1t seems that along Great Bear Lake
in Northern Canada, where large de-
positS of pitchblende are now being
worked extensively, quite a number OF
Evening star., 1936-03-29

T Asst year the bureau technicians
- tested about u grams of radium,
or over half the total import from Bel
GUM; and about 16 grams during
1884. The largest amount they ever
tested in a single year was about IS
grams-in 1921. At that time radium
sold on the commercial market for
$4,000 gram, while today the price
is only $4,000. Which means that
Evening star., 1936-03-29

native Indians are employed along
with other workmen. One day not
long ago q certain redskin walked up
to his boss foreman and announced
he was certain there was another large
pitchblende deposit on the shore Of the
lake about q mile and half from the
main quarry then being worked.
What makes you so sure?" asked
the boss.
Because" said the Indian, at
smells the same over there as it does
here"
Naturally the boss didn't take this
very seriously. However, couple OF
days later he casually walked over the
ice to the place described by the red
skin, scraped of a layer of snow. and,
to his surprise and delight, found that
the nose test was correct Sure enough,
there was an additional deposit OF
pitchblende.
In Washington the Federal special
lists now have on hand about one gram
Of radium. The largest amount ever
in the bureau laboratories at any one
time was seven grams. back in 1881
when the scientists we're called upon
to test number of therapeutic prep
arations containing the precious metal,
for the New York State Hospital fol
Malignant Diseases at Buffalo. Tht
research lasted three weeks and wa!
for the determination of gamma ray
strength only.
It takes an average Of 10 days to
examine a sample Of test radium
large or small, in the Federal labora'
tories. At least six days are required
to determine whether all the members
of the radium family are present in
their normal strength.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
Radiunn

Continued From First Page.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-25
Seek Free DELEGATION

A letter has gone out to every
Marion County delegate to the Re-
publican state convention urging
that he go to the June convention
unpledged, il was learned today.
The letter was signed by Harry o.
Chamberlin, former Circuit Court
judge; Howard S. Young and Ems
ley w. Johnson, attorneys; Harry
Hendrickson and Rox Young, it was
reported.
Mr.. Chamberlin was affiliated
with the reorganization group
which had sought to upset the al
legged Coffin control of the county
organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-25
GUARD AGAINST
TRAFFIC TIEUP
State to Issue Special De.
tour Bulletin for
Memorial Day.

Due to the unusual influx of traffic
expected on the state highway system
Memorial Day weekend, and the
large number of detours in effect at
the present time, an extra" edition
of the state highway detour bulletin
is to be released this week, James D.
Adams, State Highway Commission
chairman, announced today.
Since there arc a great many de-
tours marked on highways in the
vicinity of indianapolis, where
most of the traffic is expected to
center, because of the 500-mile au-