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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18

Only one fifth of Imperial coun-
tvs 1874 miles of road are includ
ed in the state primary and sec
ondary highway systems with the
remaining four fifths included in
the county system.
A total of 1912 miles of road
are in the county system and
1925 in the state system.
Measured by conveyances for
travel, Imperial county is highly
motorized but the roadways over
which the 20,052 automobiles and
1.035 trucks must travel make a
sorry showing, Hoober said.
State highways are divided into
high. intermediate and low type
surface in the following percen-
tages: rural-51 per cent high,
II per cent intermediate, and 38
per cent low. Urban: "a per cent
high, AZ per cent intermediate and
li.8 per cent low.
County roads are divided as fol-
lows: High-5 1-1OoO OF l per cent,
is per cent intermediate, and 98
per cent low.
Imperial county has one Car
for every family and 1000 as many
or every family.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Damages Sought
By Auto Victim

Damages totaling $500 are sought
by p. H. Kim from James William
Doyle, D. C. Ramsey and the Valley
Truck company because. of injuries
he alleged he suffered in an auto
mobile accident one mile south OF
Winterhayen March 3.
Doyle was driving truck for
Ramsey and the Valley Truck COM
pany, Kim alleged, when the ma
chine collided with the back of
his pickup. He listed his injuries
as conclusion of the brain, fractured
skull, cuts on the head and damages
to his eyes. AS a result he has
headaches, dizzy spells, his eyes
will not focus properly and he
cannot work, the complaint set
forth.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Sulphur Plant i'm
CalexicO Planned

CALEXICO, March ia sui
phur reduction plant will be in
stalled in Calexico soon if present
plans of the Agricultural Service
corporation, Ltd, are carried out
Sulphur from deposits in the
Black Butte region prepared for
crop busting would be marketed
for agricultural purposes. 1t is
proposed to build a plant near
the railroad tracks in Calexico's
west side where a stem process
would be utilized in preparing the
product. This process is said to
eliminate unpleasant odors and
gases.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Allan Hoover Weds
Former Valleyite

LOS ANGELES, March 10. U.P)-
Allan Hoover, youngest son of Her.
bert Hoover, and his socialite bride,
the former Margaret Coberly, former
Imperial Valleyite, were honey
incoming today after a marriage
ceremony here last night attended
by the former President and Mrs.
Hoover.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
WOMAN SHOOTS
FRENCH DIPLOMAT

PARIS, March l8. W,P - Count
Charles Pineton De Chambrun, one
of Frances greatest diplomats and
a descendant Of the revolutionary
hero Lafayette, was shot in the
stomach last night by woman who
fired at him as ne stepped aboard
train at the Care Du Nord.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
II added little fruit and nolo got exclusive model
ONE DEAD IN
AUTO CRASH

SAN DIEGO. Cal, March Is. UP)
One was dead and four other
members of a family of eight were
in hospitals today with injuries
sustained when their automobil@
was struck by a street car last
night
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18

Register Found-Two youths IN
Calipatria told Deputy Sheriff Ike
Holmes they found a 15-key cash
register hidden under canvas east
of Calipatria.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
POPE DENOUNCES
ATHEISTIC REDS

VATICAN CITY, March 10. UR)-
Pope Plus in an encyclical today
denounced "atheistic communism"
and warned that it exposed all
nations TO grave dangers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Famed Swallows
Due Back on Friday

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO,
Cal, March Is. U,R)--The famous
swallows of Mission San Juan
Capistrano are due back tOmor-
row OH the regular schedule they
have maintained for probably
160 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Taxi Cab Strikers
Start Cleanup"

CHICAGO, March 18. U.P)--Three
hundred striking taXicab drivers
marched from a mass meeting late
today and began a concerted bat
tie to clean non-striking cabs from
the streets.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
Survey Made on Highway
Conditions Thruo,tt County

CThi articles prepared
bureau give Imperial Valley
picture conditions Information gathered from
period made
farm bureau article scheduled
appear March 25)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-18
HOW MUCH

Need cash? How much? When?
Stop in and tell us. We have Cash,
with no waste Of time, for you.
Don't lose some buying opportu-
nifty. Don't go without some i'm
portant need. Don't lose your
credit by letting bills become over
due. We have cash to loan you.
How much DO you need?
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
CREDITORS TO GET
FINAL PAYMENT

An order approving the final re-
port of the receiver for the White
Bluffs Horticultural Exchange has
been approved by the Benton coun-
ty superior court, and final pay
ment ordered made to the creditors
This is the second payment made
on general claims against the COM
pany since bankruptcy proceedings
began in March, 1886 1t represents
q total payment of 48 per cent OF
the general claims, as finally al
lowed by the court. Preferred
claims, totaling approximately $1,000
were paid in full.
The total of the claims filed
against the company was $15,62O.84.
Certain of these claims were disal-
lowed by the court and after the
preferred claims had been paid, left
g total of general claims in the
amount of $8,O4O.93 of which nearly
one-haIf was paid. Charles L. Pow
ell was liquidating receiver.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
PatrOl11lan
Gives Talk On
.Hiway Safety
Interviews Held With
Sen. SchWellenbach and
Congressman Hill.

knowledge of the driving laws
and the proper observance of sig
mails and signs is a necessary step
in the campaign to cut down on
the number of traffic accidents,
State Patrolman l.. NJ. Kennedy
told a large crowd which attended
the highway safety meeting at the
White Bluffs community hall We'd
nesday evening.
Patrolman Kennedy outlined the
information contained in the OPP
orators manual, on which an ex-
animation is given before a driver
may secure his next operators Ii
cense and demonstrated the reac-
tometer and other items used in
the examination.
Following the talk, sides were
chosen by Mrs. Beth Beyers and
Mrs. Jess Brown, and spelldoWm
conducted by Patrolman Kennedy
on the $50 questions in the manual.
At the end of the contest, four
contestants, Mrs. Brown, Francis
Moody, Betty Austin and Kirk
Burns, were still undefeated and the
SIS prize offered be the Commercial
club was divided among them.
Moving pictures taken ait Coulee
Dam during President Roosevelt's
recent visit, and showing several
Y views of the President. SCENES near
the dam and the activities of the
state highway patrol, were shown
by Edmund Anderson.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
Federal Aid
For Project
Considered
Four Tie For First Place
In Spelldown On High
way Laws.

Seeking information on possible
channels through which aid might
be secured for improvements to the
properties of the Priest Rapids ir-
rigation district, members of the
board of directors held a series of
talks this week with Congressman
Knute Hill and Senator Louis B.
SchWellenbach
To Congressman Hill, who met
with the board at White Bluffs
Wednesday evening, the officials ex-
planned the problems confronting
the district and, at a meeting in
Walla Walla on Thursday with Hill
and Senator Schwellenbach dis
cussed possible means by which
financial aid could be secured. :
The PWA and the RFC, both of
which have heretofore loaned mon
ey for such purposes, have now
been curtaled, the congressman
stated, and at the present time it
would be impossible to secure a
straight loan or grant of any am
cunt.
AS the first step in any program
of improvements to the district,
they stated it appeared most fea-
sible to deepen the power canal at
Priest Rapids and also rebuild the
wing dam at the head of the canal
and the spillWay a mile or so be-
low, in order that power might be
produced the year around, thus in
creasing the revenue from that
source by large margin.
1t is possible, they said, that
such a project might be under
taken by the district itself through
a WPA project.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
Hunting Season
Opens Sunday

Shotguns will boom out early
Sunday morning to mark the be-
ginning Of the 1897 pheasant hunt
ing season, with all indications
pointing to one of the best seasons
in a number of years.
Although reports earlier in the
fall had indicated a scarcity of
birds here, reports during the past
few weeks have been very optimis-
tic and hunters are looking for
ward to limit bags.
Local hunters will face plenty of
competition in their search for
birds, according to Game Protector
@. E. Bennett who states that on
the opening day of the 1886 season
he checked hunters from 10 differ
ent counties in this valley, and that
even more are expected this year.
Opening on the oath, the phea-
SAINT season will continue through
the following dates: October Is, 81,
80, 81; November 3, and 7.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
DIGGING REVEALS
BONE SPECIMENS

Intensive work along the Colum-
bia river near White Bluffs this sum-
mer yielded about 500 bone speci-
mems, according to recent geo.
logical bulletin of the Central
Washington College of Education
at Ellensburg.
Most of these, says the bulletin,
are extremely fragmentary but
many make generic or family de-
termination possible. In the main,
the camels and horses predomin-
ate, but rabbit bones and deer ant
lers are conspicuous
No hint of bison or true elephants
on the one hand, or Hipparion and
rhinos on the other, has been
noted A large carnivorous ulna may
belong to the bear or a large cat,
says the bulletin.
( Considerable oak wood has been
found in the Ringold sediments
near the locality of that name. and
recent trip into the Delight sand
hills produced bone fragments rep
resenting large and small horses,
large camels, true elephants and a
probable bison. While the strata
seems to represent the Ringold, the
fauna has a more recent aspect. 1t
seems possible, the bulletin states.
that the post Columbia sediments
may trend progressively younger as
one follows them eastward.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
WARRANT CALL Is
ISSUED BY COUNTY

Included in a warrant call issued
by County Treasurer Ben Knox last
week are the following:
Priest Rapids Irrigation District
--1e34 maintenance, all warrants
to and including No. 804; 1885
maintenance, all warrants to and
including No. 1864; 1886 mainten-
ance, all warrants to and including
No. 14O5; 1887 maintenance, all
warrants to and including No. 1883.
School District No. 7-all war
rants to and including No 1861.
School District No. 29-All war
rants.
School District No. 34-All war
rants.
The call was effective October 16,
on which date interest ceased.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
COUNTIES TO BUILD
r. B. SANITARIUM

Designed to more adequately meet
the demands for treatment OF tu-
berculosis patients in south central
Washington, a 100-bed sanitarium
will be constructed in the near fu-
tllre by Benton, Yakima, Kittitas
and Klickitat counties.
The structure will be built on a
centrally located site, probably near
Yakima and will cost approximate
ly e$l75 900 szes
Appointment of an architect for
the project will, be discussed at a
meeting of representatives. from each
of the counties in Yakima Monday,
October 25.
Each board Of county commits
sioners has appointed one Of its
members to the committee for the
sanitarium, Frank Clark represent
ing Benton; Frank Boiselle, Yaki-
ma; Alfred Matson, Klickitat, and
Morris Sorrenson, Kittitas.
OF the total cost of the hospital,
approximately $4,000 will be paid
by the counties, $4,000, as matched
funds, by the state, and the bal
ance through a WPA grant. ~
OF the total to be supplied by the
counties, Benton will furnish $4,000.
The plan would extend OYER a per-
iod of ten year, covering half the
total the first year, and the re-
mainder the second.
The apportionment by counties
of the $4,000 is: Yakima, $35 1000;
Kittitas, $4,000; Klickitat, $4,000,
and Benton, $4,000.
There are now 35 county tuber
culosis cases in Yakima, IS in Kit
titas, eight in Benton and seven in
K1ickitat. Cost of each case ranges
from $40 to $40 monthly, all of
which is paid by the county to an
institution specializing in the care
of patients thus afflicted.
The plans for the sanitarium call
for space for 100 beds, more than
enough to care for the present
needs. Construction of a smaller
unit, however, has been declared
economically unsound
1t is hoped that construction of
the building will be begun this win
ter.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
4O-LB. CHINOOK
LANDED HERE

A 4o-pound chinook salmon, the
first to be caught on a hook and
line in the Columbia river in this
vicinity for a good many years, was
landed Tuesday by Cecil Borden.
With Wright Wiehl and Ralph
McCotter, Borden, was trolling in
the river near the ferry landing
when the big fish was hooked. 1t
required an hour to bring the fish
Into the boat: Three other salmon
had been hooked by the party ear
lier in the day, but the hooks were
not large enough to hold them.
Whitehsh catches this week were
reported to be increasing, with
many anglers catching their limits
easily.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21

Precipitation amounted to OF Of
an inch on the 18th and OF Of an
inch on the 18th.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
GRANGE DANCE
SET FOR NOV. ~

The White Bluffs Grange this
week announced that their dance
and floor show will be given on Mo-
vember 81 instead of November g.,
as was announced last week. The
change was made necessary when
it was discovered that, through an
error by the Spokesman, the earlier
date would conflict with the card
party scheduled by the Woman's'
club
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
SWEET POTATOES
WEIGH II POUNDS

Eleven pounds of sweet potatoes,
all grown in one hill, are on display
this week in the window of the
Spokesman office. Grown by Ed
mund Anderson, the potatoes are of
the Nancy Hall variety, and include
five spuds weighing from one to
two pounds, while nearly all of the
Is potatoes in the hill are of mar
ketable size.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
CARD PARTIES START NOV. 6

"A series of card parties will be
given by the White Bluffs Woman's
club beginning NoYemer 6, the sec
ond party of the series to be given
on the 18th and the third in the
goth. Both pinochle. and auction
bridge will be in play, with prizes
for each evening and grand prizes
for the series.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
Sc SCHOOL CHILDREN
HAVE VACATION

School children of the Priest
Rapids valley enjoyed vacation
Monday and Tuesday while their
teachers went to school at the an
nual regional WEA conference and
teachers institute at Yakima.
The institute was attended by
1900 teachers from Yakima, Ben
ton, Kittitas and Klickitat coun-
ties, with many prominent educa-
tors addressing the group on educa.
tional topics.
Mrs. A. E. Plant has moved to
the house on the r. S. Reierson
tract, formerly occupied by the Joe
Boehmer family, who last week
moved back to their own home.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
POWER PLANT SHUTS DOWN

With a steady drop in the Col
umbia river reducing the produc-
ton of power at Priest Rapids to
non-profitable point, the Priest
Rapids irrigation districts power
plant was shut down for the winter
on Monday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
BABY BORN TO G. WHEELERs

Mr.. and Mrs. George Wheeler Of
Washington, DC, are the proud
parents of an eight and half
pound son, born October is. The
child, second son of the Wheelers,
is TO be named Thomas Abbott.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
HOPE CHEST DANCE DEC. a

December 4 will be the date of
the annual Hope Chest dance, it
was announced this week by the
American Legion Auxiliary, spon-
sors of the event.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-21
The Weather

Maximum and minimum temper
atures recorded by observer Moffitt
at the Hanford weather station:
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Tides Spectacular
At Mont St. Michel

MONT ST. MICHEL, March 13.-
One Of the fastest and strongest tides
in the world ebbs and flows off Mont
st. Michel, in Brittany, among the
chief natural curiosities and ancient
monuments Of France. Awe-inspiring,
with deep moaning sound heard for
miles, the unbelievable force and
speed of the sea rushes back over the
miles it has receded at ebb-tide, and
transforms within few moments
about 100 square miles Of ocean bed
from desert of sand into a mighty
ocean.
The highest tides of the year occur
before the Spring and Autumn equi-
nox. when the Mont is entirely sur
rounded by water, but throughout the
year, at the new and especially the
full moon, Natures dramatic spec
tacle takes place.
The granite islet of Mont st. Michel
rises $50 feet high, surrounded with
medieval walls and towers, above
which rise the quaint houses of the
one-street village, with the spires Of
the ancient and beautiful Gothic
abbey and castle piercing the clear
blue sky.
There is the no less potent one of
Evening star., 1937-03-14

4 TLANT1C CITY, March 13.-
~ Famous for its mild climate,
~ its advantageous location and
n its Boardwalk, Atlantic City
is one Of the greatest round
health and pleasure resorts of all
times. Zero weather is practically un-
known here.
Physicians throughout the United
States and Canada recognize the re-
markable tonic effects OF Atlantic
Citys bracing salt sea air and
throughout the entire year there is
a constant stream Of persons who
come to the resort on the advice of
doctors.
Another factor we'll worth consider
ing in this odorous, noisy machine
age is the complete absence of factory
smoke, gas fumes, carbon monoxide
gases and traffic noises along the
Boardwalk. In fact, visit to Atlantic
City has been likened to a cruise on
an ocean liner with the wooden way
the ships promenade deck and the
hotel and pier solariums, open and
A'ASAocSa, WIG QUIZ dCSh0 NIlSIt
dreds recline in comfortable steamer
chairs, snugly wrapped in rugs and
all facing the sea with an unob-
structed view of the far distant
horizon
There are 1900 hotel establish
ments and Boardwalk operators have
set a new standard of hotel service
in providing extra diversions to please
every type OF guest. Libraries, SWIM
ming pools, game room, squash courts,
chlldren's play rooms, concerts, dra-
matte presentations, dancing and
cabaret entertainment are all on the
list, Winter or Summer.
sports facilities are numerous and
excellent golf is played throughout
the year. There is horseback riding
on the very edge Of the foam-crested
surf during the off f-swimming season,
or deep in the fragrant Jersey pine
forests, Spirited steeds. mild-man-
nered dobbins and saddle ponies or
pony carts are all available.
Bicycle riding along the Boardwalk
is diversion that has special appeal
to guests and residents alike. There
could be no safer lane than the walk,
with its absence Of traffic and the
sport has gained rapid popularity.
Merchandise from all corners of the
globe is displayed in the shops that
stretch along the Boardwalk for miles.
A shopping excursion, with rclling
chair transportation, Is especially
appealing to the women.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Sun Valley Natives
ADOPT Guide Role

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, March ia
new interest in lie has appeared for
the sturdy young townsmen of the
SaWtooth Mountain country, locale OF
Sun Valley, the new Winter sports
center of south central Idaho. They've
become mountain guides. Sons of gold
prospectors and pioneers in this rugged
country, these youths have grown up
in the mountains. Like Alpine guides
they know every foot Of the territory.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Compass Needed.

HELLIOPOLIS, Egypt, March l3.--
Although there are many miles Of
fine roads in Egypt, some vacationing
motorists prefer the thrill Of adven-
ture in motoring over the open desert.
One can drive for miles from one
oasis to another over the hard and
fine gravel stretches. Since there are
few. If any, marked roads, compass
is big help. Should one get stuck
for few minutes in soft sand en-
route, shovel and wire netting are
used.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Shopping Is Eased.

BERLIN, March l3-The depart
ment stores Of Berlin have recently
organized service for tourists to make
shopping easy and a pleasure to all
such buyers that annually throng the
stores and are unable to speak the
German language. Signs are posted
in conspicuous places which bear the
enlarged photograph of the inter-
prefers and the language they speak.
Accompanying the portrait of each
interpreter is his countrys flag and
other useful direction for shopping.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Japan Is Odd
Mixture of
Old and New
Deep-Rooted Custom
Exists by Side of
Modernity.

TOKIO, March 13.-The pastoral
beauty Of the japanese coun-
trySide, the unspoiled and an
a cient mystical traditions of the
people, the delicacy of their olden art,
form a background of intriguing con-
traSt to the lives Of race SO mod
ern that they have adopted and i'm
proved upon some of the very latest,
and sometimes most amusing, devel-
opments of Western life.
Toxic not only has great tea houses,
run in the most modern manner, but
has gone our popular restaurants one
better, by installing in some of them
b-auty parlors for the mattresses, who
are picNed for their looks quite as
much as for efficiency.
Thousands Of pilgrims go afoot to
Mount Fuji and the innumerable
shrines which dot the 1900 miles of
islands forming the empire. Yet this
land of Wayfarers is criss- crossed by
some of the most modern, efficient
and well-appointed railroads of the
world, and up-to-the-m minute bus lines
feed these and furnish transporta-
ton between the smaller towns.
A fascinating and certainly modern
subject is the taxi dancer and the
taxi dance hall; both have recently
been given much notice in film and
story. Here again Japan seems to
have gone its Western patterns one
better. The girls seem to be, on the
average, better looking. and the whole
matter to have dignity and grace,
without loss of gaiety, which we of
the West seldom find in such estab-
lshmentS. Toxic has eight of these
halls, employing about 1000 good
looking and graceful girls. Yokohama
has six, with 400 girls, while Kioto,
Osaka and Kobe have 16, with a
total Of close to 1000 girls. Here one
may dance to the latest jazz or swing
music, with dainty and diminutive
beauties who know all the steps.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Sales Extended.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, March l3.-
In line with the policy of the Bermuda
government authorities to do every
thing possible to meet the desires Of
the more than 10000 American visi-
tors who flock to Bermuda annually,
permission has been granted several
of the largest hotels to sell liquor until
/ am
Evening star., 1937-03-14

the gastronomic specialties of the re-
gion, among which is the Omelettes
Poulard, world famous, made in a
long-handled iron frying pan over an
open fire; lamb raised on the salt
marshes and known as Pre- Sale, and
Holsters and fish.
Evening star., 1937-03-14

March 13.-The pastoral
beauty Of the japanese coun-
tryside, the unspoiled and an
cient mystical traditions of the