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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02
CCC MENU LISTED

The question of what do they
eat? is answered this week for
the CCC of Oregon and Washing
ton with tabulation of food items
prepared by regional engineer JAS
for the U. S. forest service.
Food consumed by the CCC in
the two states during a typical 80
day period according to Frankland
includes $3.50 pounds of bacon
1S7,500 pounds of pork; 23,437
pounds of beans; 468.75O pounds
of beef; $3.50 pounds of butter;
11,720 pounds of cheese; 93,750
pounds of chicken; 100000 eggs;
562,5O0 pounds of flour; 10000
pounds of lard; 51,724 cans of e.
vaporated milk; 46,S75 gallons of
fresh milk; 93,75O pou nds of on
ions; 468,750 pounds of potatoes
28,12 pounds of rice; 2,737 cans
of syrup; 234,375 pounds of sugar
11.718 cans of apples; 4,210 lbs.
of baking powder; 11S,420 cans OF
string beans; 1925 cans of CHINA
mon; 2,812 cans Of cocoa; 93,750
pounds of coffee; $500 cans of
corn; 1875 bottles of flavoring
extract; ,625 cans of jam, 10000
pounds of lard substitute; 1,21S
pounds OF macaroni; 1858 cans of
peaches; IS, 900 cans of peas; 7,50E
cans of pepper; 937 gallons of pic
kles; 10000 cans of pineapple;
2,0S3 cans of prunes; 56,250 pack
ages of rolled oats; 3,437 pounds
Of salt; 2,344 pounds of tea; 49,
900 cans of tomatoes and 937 gal
Ions of vinegar
FARMLAND points out that APP
proximately $4,000 CCC boys now
are fed and clothed under the War
Department administration. one
month food supply requires 81 car
loads according to the forest engin
eer.
Director Robert Fechner, nation
al head Of the CCC recently outlin-
ed the procedure followed by the
War Department in making sure
that each of the 2,426 CCC camps
in the country is supplied daily
with wholesome meat; dairy pro-
ducts of suitable quality. fresh
fruits and vegetable In season, and
other items which go into the CCC
mans daily menu.
1t is pointed out that the month
ly consumption af beef, eggs, sug-
ar and other food items for camps
in Oregon and Washington conform
closely to the nationol figures,
showing that the average enrollee
eats approximately 1S lbs. of beef;
Z 1-2 lbs. of pork, IL lbs of
chicken and bacon per MONTH 9
and 1-3 lbs of sugar per month and
an everage of an egg a day.
CCC enrollees normally put on
several pounds of weight during
their stay in camp, according to
FARMLAND, this fact being attri
buted to regular and wholesome
meals and vigorous out of door ex-
erciae,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02

plant on west side. Start building
Grand Coulee reservoir dams. Spid
er fighting starts. Golfers articles
raises rumpus.
October-MWAK- tests state tax
levy, loses first case. Congressman
Sam Hill and party of eastern con-
gressmen visit. Lay 1900 feet of
ground for west power house. Start
leaning bedrock. School rooms over
crowded in Grand Coulee. Pour
concrete for supports of mixing
plant. Grouting starts. Construc-
ton to date has taken 100000
man hours. Jackhammer men drill
in eVarms, plan bridge repairs.
Grand Coulee votes to Incorporate.
First Concrete
November Screening plant in
operation. Council meets. work is
concentrated in block 40 behind
cofferdam, $4,000 is estimate
needed to run Grand Coulee. Start
work on trestles. Mixing plants re-
ceive tuning up. Concrete forms be-
ing built. Excavation on east side
reaches peak. Gravel, sand, being
stored for concrete. First snow
falls, man found bound, gagged in
root cellar.
acknowledgement pours first
yard of concrete, many dignitaries
present. Payroll reaches all time
peak of 1857. Bureau erects 33
more one-room houses River is ex-
tremely low. Cofferdam around
pier is being built. Mix 5000 yards
of concrete in one week following
start of operations. Accidents in 2
years work, Is. Christmas day is
holiday for workers. Trestles ex-
tended. Pour in block 40. Grand
Coulee schools get $4,000 for ad
dition. Pouring operations steadily
increase. Outlook for 1886 bril-
liant.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02
MUSEUM PROMISED
FLOR DRY FALLS PARK

Partly as a result of petitions
sent ia the State Park Board by
the Coulee City Chamber of Com
mefce, and a desire of the board
to make Dry Falls State Park one
OF the real interesting and scenic
points in the State OF Washington
museum will be established at
Dry Falls, near the Vista House
in the near future
In a letter addressed to H. P.
Backus, secretary of the local
Chamber of Commerce, Ernest N.
Hutchinson, Secretary of State,
says: This museum is included
in the project under which the
WPA is beginning things at Dry
Fails. 1t was discussed again in
the last meeting of the State Park
Board and we are all i'll favor of
making it as broad in it's scope as
we possibly can and as perfect in
it's details. | will send you a sketch
of the proposed structure" -
With the addition of the mus
cum to the state parks many seen
ic and rugged attractions, the tour
lists, both within and without the
state, will be attracted more than
ever to this region. Specimens of
ALL the different articles and for
nations found in the state park
area will be displayed in this mus
cum, as we'll as other interesting
things found in other sections of
the state.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02
AS FARMS GO,
SO 50 Go NATION

Inc economic well being of the
united States, or any other nation.
depends directly upon the welfare
OF Agriculture, and industrial
wages and payrolls are wholly de-
pendent on farm income.
This was the substance of an
ADDRESS delivered recently at Chic
ago by Gen. R E. Woods, president
OF Sears, Roebuck and Co.
General Wood declared that his
mall order business, made primaT-
lily to farmers, varied in direct
proportion to the national farm in
come. Sears and Roebuck, he said
felt the drop in business as early
as 1923.
General Wood pointed to the des
perate condition of American far
mers in 1898, and how the demone
tlzation of gold started them on
the comeback trail. Two months
after we went off the gold stand
ard, he said, cotton went from 6.35
to 8.95 cents per pound; and wheat
from As to rs cents, corn from "a
to 46 cents and wool from II to
"a cents.
He praised the work of the A.A.
a., although admitting that mis-
takes had been made (which are
boand to occur in a new instru-
ment operating on such large
scale" The A. A A., he pointed out
had served greatanduseful pur-
pose, particularly In bringing CO.
operation to Agriculture.
But the A. A. A. cannot remain
static; it must be changed as CON
ditions change. Agriculture, as well
as industry, cannot permanently
aim for any economy of scarcity,
although Agriculture, like indust-
~, should protect itself from the
ruinously low prices caused by an
overwhelming surplus. If manu-
factu7er has big inventor and no
oreds, he shuts down his plant l
see no crime in the farmer doing
the same thing"
However it would be ruinous
for farmers to "shut down., and
General Wood advocated long
time program of regulation, seek
ing price stability and running the
farm plant "to full capacity at
moderate prices, provided the far
mer can earn living by so doing.
do not believe in the theory of
overproduction. 81 believe that in
the future we will solve the prob
lem of under consumption. andthat
farm, factory and mine will run to
capacity.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02
RURAL VOTERS
MUST REGISTER

All voters in Grant county, liv-
Ing outside of Incorporated towns,
must register after Januav 2,1936,
1t they want to vote in the presi-
Dental election this fall, county
auditor Stanley warned recently.
Under the new law which be-
comes effective in all rural dis
tr1cts of the state on January q,
every citizen who wants to vote
must register before he can qualify
to cast a ballot in school, primary,
general or other elections. This re-
gistation will be permanent, how
ever, and 1t will not be necessary
to register again unless the voter
fails to exercise his right of fran-,
chise. Unles the voter registers Is
days or more before the election
date, he will be ineligible to vote.
Miss Staley calls special atten-
ton to the school elections which
will be held the first Saturday in
March, and also to the fact that rllr
al voters, unless registered under
the new law, cannot legally sign
initiative petitions which may be
circulated after January 8.
More than 100000 of the states
$4,000 voters live outside incor-
porated cities. This new perman-
ent registration law went into eff
feet In the cities two years ago.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02
DEER ARE DISEASED

Aware that deer herds of cen
trail and northeastern Washington
have bee, diseased to noticeable
extent, the state game depart
ment haa decided to investigate in
an effort ito ascertain the cause.
The game department plans an
extensive study of the disease
that wea ems Ithe afflicted deer,
making them easy prey to preda-
tors If Int other sickness. / Post
mortems ill be made of diseased
deer sho for the purpose by state
game pr, ectoTs,..
Disease has been prevalent a
mong $50 2 central and northeast
ern Was ngton deer for at least
the past ten years..
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02
DEMOCRATS Will BANQUET
Al GRAND COULEE SOON

A county wide democratic ban
quet, with guests anticipated from
al larts of Grant county, will lie
held in Grand Coulce on January
s, i'm celebration of Jefferson Day
The time and place of the gather
ing has not yet been decided upon,
Funds from the banquet will go to
the Democratic party to help in
the campaign for 1886, and to
counterfeit the republican cam
paign now getting under full steam
Coulee City is expected to send a
large delegation for the event.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02
GRANT COUNTY TO
HAVE RURAL PROJECT

Ephrata, Dec. 27.-A meeting has
been called for the afternoon of
January at the court house in
Ephraata for all in the county in
teiested in rural recreation pro
jects. According to Geo. Delaney
county agent, $4,000 may be alloc,
ated to GYant county if a suitable
program can be worked out. 1t is
Understood that park and pay
ground Improvement, etc, will
con Cn!er this project. However
details VIII be discussed Jan. 4,
when Levi Williams of Yakima
will be here to assist in organiza-
ton OF plans for the activity.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02
RUDE QUESTION

First Doctor-why so sad?
Second Doctor have lost a
patient with typhoid.
First DoctoT-And what were
you treating him for?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
CALIPATRIA
Mrs. c. A. Sperry

Mrs. Emma Shirley took her hus-
band to San Diego hospital Sun
day for a consultation in regard to
his leg which was broken about
year ago in a tractor accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
CITATIONS FOR
DRIVERS SEEN

SACRAMENTO, Oct. &C Jour t
citations for automobile drivers who
endanger the lives of school children
in California, by disregarding pro-
visions of the vehicle code, have
been ordered by Chief E. Raymond
Cato of the California Highway
Patrol, who has directed the state
traffic officers to strive for school
year without single fatality to
any school child. Cooperation of all
traffice enforcement officer S
throughout the state is asked, in
special orders on the subject just
issued from Sacramento
I'VE make safety in school busses
and to children in pedestrian lanes
the major objective of the Califor-
mia Highway Patrol" declared the
head of the state traffic organiza-
ton. I'VE are to strive for a school
term without a death among school
children on the highways"
orders issued last year will be
repeated, and we demand that the
patrolman shall arrest and prosecute
every motorist passing school bus
in violation of the law"
Most busses are painted a medium
chrome yellow and all have the
word School Bus" painted con-
Spicuously on both front and rear
for the information of the motorist
Parents of children, too, are ap-
pealed to in the order which is to
be publicized in every school and
before meetings of teachers and par
ents, especially with regard to eau
tioning children about crossing
streets and highways, on bicycles
and roller skates or afoot.
Motorists must stop before pass
ing any school bus which has stop
ped to taking on Or leaving off any
pupils.
Those who drive their vehicles in
excess of IS miles per hour when
passing schools when children are
entering or leaving or when children
are using the Fairgrounds, are to
be dealt with Sterniy.
Section 533 Of the vehicle law
regarding overtaking and passing
a school bus, is quoted in Chief
Cato's orders, and reads as follows
THE driver of any vehicle up
on highway ouside Of business
or residence districts upon
meeting or oyertaking any
school bus which has stopped
on the highway for the purpose
of receiving or discharging any
school children shall bring such
vehicle to a stop Immediately
before passing said school bus
but may then proceed past such
school bus at speed not greater
than is reasonable or proper
but in no event greater than
ten miles per hour and with
due caution for the safety of
pedestrians"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
Special Campaign
Opened by Grocers

Leading FL Centre retail grocers
are this week opening a special mer-
chandising campaign in conjunction
with Lever Brothers company. man
ufacturers Of Lux products. Rinse,
and Lifebuoy soap. L. II. Kahn.
special representative, has just COM
pleted arrangements for this event
in FL Centre.
Four extraordinary specials are
listed as attractions. including:
Whittier Wash. Hollywood. Hot Sum
mer and Fine Fabrics. "Of course. 3"
Kahn stated, most women know
that Whittier Wash means Rinse
the granulated soap that soaks
clothes winter; HOLLYWOOD, Lux
toilet soap that protects the COM
pleXion of lovely screen stars; Hot
Summer pertains to sticky. perspiry
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

Sones and Fire Chief Tom Reams
were augmented by the services
of Sterling Livingston, University
of Southern California student who
recently returned after a lecture
tour through the middlewest.
Club and school programs and
radio broadcasts in which all
three speakers take part comprise
the schedule for the week.
Livingston pointed out the dam
gers of fire as follows:
when fire occurs there is more
than the direct loss to take into
consideration. Frequently indirect
losses are of greater Importance.
Serious fires in community tend
to increase or hold up insurance
rates. When a business or a
home is destroyed the taxes that
would have been paid must be
made up by others. Every build
ing burned down ceases to be
tax producer. The effect of this
is to add financial burden on all
remaining property.
Fires Of buslness properties Of
ten cause unemployment and cl-
ties with bad fire loss records have
difficulty in attracting new indus
tries and holding old ones. Such
losses cannot be covered by in
surance and in fact, practically
every fire that occurs results in
some loss to the owner or occu-
pant which can never be recovered.
1t is estimated that over 40 per
cent of the industries that burn
never rebuild. Others function with
credit impaired or with the vol
ume of business curtailed. 1t is
obvious that the cost of fire goes
into every budget. If for no other
reason, the profit motive alone
should be enough to persuade ev-
cry citizen to give Whole-hearted
support to every organized means
of reducing fire losses.
1.-THE ten causes having the
largest amount of annual loss are:
Exposure ......-................... $26, 6,O28, ,496
Matches smoking, etc. -. 23,O82,76
Chimneys, flues, cupolas
and stacks - overheated
or defective ........................ 6,792, ,737
Petroleum and its prod
ucts ...........,..................... 13,o5O,s74
Stoves, furnaces, boilers
and their pipes ...-............ 12,911,237
Sparks on roofs ................ 12,l65,230
Spontaneous ignition -. l,369,25
Incendiarism .................... 10,710,485
Electricity-hot irons (in
Guiding electric devices) 9,l4O,627
Unknown causes (prob-
ably largely preventable 117,605, ,130
| Thirty per cent has been added for
unrepocted and uninsured losses.
The fire loss in 1885 amounted
to S195 Tor every man, woman and
child. In 469 cities of more than
10000 population in the United
States, the record was somewhat
better, with az average loss of
S1.33 per person. These figures
only represent the value of prop
erty destroyed and do not include
| large sums spent in maintaining
fire departments or the cost OF
fire insurance.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
ELM NOTES
Mrs. M. l.. Boore, Correspondent

Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Canton re-
turned I.iyly from San Diego
where they were the guests several
days of Mrs. Camion's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. F. Sears.
Richard Moore returned from
brief business trip to San Diego.
Mrs. Julia Klingensmith, teacher
at Elm attended the teachers meet
ing at Silsbee Monday afternoon.
90
F. o. Rosenbaum visited few
days With his wife and family but
returned to Los Angeles Sunday
where he has been several months
at the Veterans hospital receiving
medical attention.
George Cannon visited with his
mother at Beaumont recently.
90
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Boone and
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Armstrong and
daughter Patsy, all of Ell Centro were
visiting at the M L. Boone home
Sunday.
Mrs. Richard Moore had as her
house guest several days her mother
Mrs. McConel and and sister OF
Yuma.
Mrs. Matte Boone has returned
from Los Angeles, after several
months spent with her son Lewis
and daughter Leah johnson, both
former residents of the valley.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Sexton were Mrs. Sections
sister and daughter, Mrs. Williams
and Ella Williams of Ell Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
ED MASON TO
CONFER UPON
STRIKE PLANS

Ed Mason, director of the Ell Cen
tro chamber Of commerce, was ap-
pointed Wednesday noon TO confer
with Imperial county officers in
formulating plans for avoidins
strike difficulties this winter sim
liar to those in the Salinas area
this summer and fall.
The appointment was made at
chamber of commerce directors
meeting. Members Of Mason's COM
mittee will be announced later.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

MIS-. Emma Shirley lOOh iler uuS-
band to San Diego hospital Sun
day for a consultation in regard to
his leg which was broken about
a year ago in a tractor accident.
90
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Sperry went
TO San Diego Friday to bring Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Sperry back to the
valley for the winter months. They
are again located in one of Miss
Mabel Robinson's cottages on Lake
avenue.
Mrs. H. j. Ingram, Mrs, E. L.
Hiteman, Mrs. A. B. Roberts, Mrs.
Herbert Reedy and Mrs. c. A. Sperry
attended the meeting of the Imper-
ial County Federation of Women's
clubs at Holtville Friday The meet
ing was held at the American Le-
gion hall and the Hostess club SER
we'd luncheon. The new year books
served as place cards.
Mrs. H. j. Ingram and Mrs. Harri-
son Martin attended a stork shower
for Mrs. Nettie Maloney at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
B. H. Martin, in Westmorland last
week. The honoree received many
beautiful and useful gifts.
90
Those attending the initial meet
ing of the DeAnza chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton in Brawley Saturday were Mrs.
H. j. Ingram, Mrs. Charles Nc
Cullough, Mrs. Arthur Williams and
Mrs. c. r. Thompson Mrs. Ingram
discussed an editorial on the Con
stitution" by Florence Hogue Becker,
national president general of the
OAR. Mrs. Thompson read a
paper on correct use and ethics of
the flag.
The Calipatria Womens club
sponsored a bridge party at the
city hall Saturday, the first of
series of entertainment to be given
by the club this year First prize
for contract was won by Mrs. Pail
adine of inland and low by Mrs. M
NJ Robinson of INLAND. Mrs. Her.
bert Reedy won first in auction and
Mrs. Albert Pond low. Light re-
freshments were served by the host
eSSes for the afternoon.
90
Mrs. Reed Wilkinson and Mrs.
Roy Kuns accompanied Msr. w. C..
Wilkinson to Glendale where she
underwent a minor operation Sum
day Mrs Wilkinson is GONZALES
cling rapidly and expects to return
home in few lays.
90,
This being national fire preven-
ton week, the local firemen have
made thorough survey O. the city
to locate the fire hazards and they
are meeting Tuesday night to lay
plans to eliminate these hazards and
to outline the years work, accord
ing the Al Hayes, president Of the
Calipatria Volunteer Firemen's as
sociation.
The Woman's club will hold it,
first regular session at the home
of Mrs. Russell Reedy at the state
game refuge. Potluck will be served
at l o'clock and the business meet
ing will begin promptly at 2. Each
member has been asked to bring
a guest. An outline of the years
work will be presented and voted
upon by the members. Anyone inter-
ested in club work is invited to come
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
Former Salesman
Faces Check Chars ge

II. L. Knott. former insurance
salesman Of FL Centre. viii be
brought back from Roseberg. Ore.
10 face a check charge. The check
was for s1150 and was written April
9, 1894
Deputy Sheriffs Prank o. Nc
Caslin and +. E. Cox left for San
Quentin with a prisoner Wednes-
day morning and will proceed to,
Oregon after Knott.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
SCHOOL WOOD
SUPPLY GOES
UP IN SMOKE

1t certainly could not have been
a school pupil who set fire to the
wood pile at the Fort Yuma Indian
school recently with the resulting
destruction Of the schools wood
supply for the whole winter.
Anyway, between Is and 20 cords
of wood went up in smoke on a
hot night, doing no one any good.
The theory is that some uniden-
titled individual tossed a cigarette
into the wood The finger of sus-
piston, however, still points at a
boy or girl Of school age. School
will continue, because the flames
did not reach the school house.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
Political Rally to
Be Held at Calipat

Calipatria will be the scene of
rally for all political parties October
%. The event will begin with a
basket dinner at $50 o'clock at the
Calipatria city hall The meeting
will be followed by a program de-
voted to political speakers from all
parties.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Sperry went
TO San Diego Friday to bring Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Sperry back to the
valley for the winter months. They
are again located in one of Miss
Mabel Robinson's cottages on Lake
avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

days when a bath with Lifebuoy
Health Soap leaves you feeling cool
and refreshed. and Fine Fabrics
means LrXing to protect the color
and life of summer clothes and
underthings.
"All of these women will prob
ably take advantage of of the special
prices offered in our full-page an
nouncement in this issue Of The
Post Press Lever concluded.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
FIRE PREVENTION CAMPAIGN EXTENDED
Grabs Wrong Bottle,
Then Dies in Agony

NEW ORLEANS, Ct'. o. UP
For years. friends said, 63-year-
old Henry Bonhagen. of the city
grading crew kept his favorite
brand of sherry in wagon box
under him. Occasionally he would
take a nip. Yesterday he reached
under the seat and picked up-not
the Sherry-but a bottle of diSin-
fectant he had found. He died in
agony.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
LIVINGSTON TO
AID IN EFFORTS

Ell Centros observance of natural fire prevention week
this year expanded to include intensive speaking pro-
before many organizations and elaborate educa
tional campaign for all schools in the system
The oratorical efforts of Fire Commissioner Harry
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
TWINS BORN 4 DAYS APART

LONDON. UP)-Mrs Ellen Abra-
ham of London, is the proud moth
er Of twin daughters-born at an
interval of four days-in different
nursing homes. Both children are
healthy and the mother is doing
well