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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
Other Editors Say
THE COWBOY is LOSING
kansas Cit,Y TimeSl

How the mighty have fallen! What Is left
for those gnarled, saddle-caloused boW-legged
remnants of the VESTS cattle range days who
refused to accept wire fences and paved roads
and who still are riding, looking for coWhand
Jobs in land which has gone agricultural?
There still are many of them scattered toward
the southwest and northwest, because there
still are some ranchmen who are as stubborn
as the cowhands about abandoning traditions
But when enough of the former cattle ranges
have become dude ranches" to justify the
employment of a secretary who talks for publi-
cation it means the dawn of a new era. Buck
and "Squinty" and Little Joe" and Shorty
stories, but the writer's get all the money and
if it is a scenario, the picture producers choose
handsome heroes from Brooklyn Philadei-
phia or Boston for the parts
The ranches have gone dude" and "Squinty
and Shorty" never would shine in such sur
roundings They may be efficient but they
have seen too many hardships to be romantic,
and that is requisite for the hand" on the
dude" ranch. Listen to the employed dude
ranch secretary
g. You must have handsome cowboys
moonlight on babbling brooks and all the other
stage props that go TO incubate the germ OF
tender romance"
Think of trying to fit the legitimate but
aging cowboys of the great southwest, for in
stance, into that picture! Can you picture
"Squinty' in a grove of quivering cottonwoods
beside a babbling brook whispering sweet moth
ingS to some fashion model on two week
vacation, fnd CATCHING the required deglee OF
romance2s
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
Editorials and Comment
FRIDAY, APRIL q 1897
e on Sol SAYS
X CRANK WATANABE
OTHER PASTURES NOT GREEN
BY ed HOLDEN

SO many news gossips in high col
umns referring at Broadway & Holly
wood, it make me feeling very | doanno.
l thinking them stuffs are talking over
S0f of our hair What do Raft Skugins
of Oklahome caring about the Chumley
Van Harolds 700 hooing at Florida?
Why not some column for Raaf like
this way: "Mirandy Smith & Willie
Jones shall unhitching too badly
because old man Jones was on verge of
dropping $50 hogs on Willie q. G. then
Mirandy would be able purchase them
new wall paper she having eyes glued
on for three years"
Also maybe writing for city gent like
this way: Red Flannelgan have recent
bought three sets of fresh pants :. Red
have got new taxi cab and standing
place =. used be on 6Sth st. E, but now
he standing on 42nd & Thoid Avenya
Good stuff Red we knowing you
could did it 1t are mumbled that Red
& one blonde chocolate dipper are vi
brating". If why so not | ask it?
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
RECLAMATION PROJECTS
AND POWER DEVELOPMENT

AT time when the question of power
development on the All American canal
is of primary interest to Imperial Val
ley, the recent remarks of B. E. Hayden
superintendent of the klamath federal
reclamation project reading paper
prepared by George o. Sanford, general
supervisor of operation and mainten-
ance of the u S. bureau of reclamation,
should prove enlightening.
Excerpts from the paper are quoted
here:
"The project water users have a di-
rect and double interest in power rates.
In many instances they are the consumer
of the energy, and therefore have to pay
the charges. They are also benefited by
the net revenues earned. because these
reduce the construction costs which
must be assessed against the land -"
"On the Salt River project, in Arizona,
a plant of 10000 kva was installed at
Roosevelt Dam with reclamation funds.
The capacity of this plant has been near
ly doubled, and seven other plants have
been constructed by the Salt River Val
ley Water Users Association, which now
has total generating capacity of 49,
210 kva. These plants, operated by the
association, furnish power for irrigation
pumping and commercial sale to cities,
farms and mines The Salt River pro-
ject has reached a high state of electri-
cal development with 1865 miles of
transmission lines. Every farm on the
project is offered service For the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1886, gross power
sales amounted to S2,588,677."
The report also refers to "the Siphon
Drop plant on the Yuma project in
Arizona, which develops about 1000
kilowatts under a 10-foot head and fur
nishes power for pumping at cost of
only O.8 cent per kilowatt hour, as COM
pared with 2.8 per kilowatt hour for
merly paid for purchased power"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Disarmament Treaties Won't End Naval Races

least roaming the same field with
out trouble.
But the bright promise of those
years was never fulfilled. You could
find a good many reasons for it,
but the chief one probably was
that we mistook a symptom for a
cause. We thought that arma-
ments were the trouble, when they
merely reflected deeper under
lying troubles. We left those troub-
les unsolved, and so the plague of
ornaments is upon us once more.
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Now we are back at 1916 again.
We are laying down two battle
ships, with the prospect of build
ing dozen more in the near future.
A new naval race is on. And the
lesson ought to be clear; if we want'
to get out of the race, it won't be
enough to seek a new naval treaty.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES
COME TO TOWN

The Pittsburgh Pirates, strong major
league baseball team, will inaugurate
Ell Centros new municipal baseball
park this weekend with game against
an all-star team of local talent. The
game will be more than a mere sport
ing event; it will be straw in the wind
to determine, partially, if Ell Centre
shall become the training ground for
"A big league team next year
One training season spent here by
such team as Pittsburgh would more
than repay the entire cost of construct
ing the Ell Centro park. The city's name
would be on most of the nations sports
pages every day in the week. advertis-
ing this as a community with an ideal
climate enterprising spirit and unusual
recreational features. 1t would be pub
licity Ell Centre could not buy.
Those who have not yet seen the new
ball park cannot realize to what lengths
city officials have gone to make it at
tractive. 1t ranks with the best ball
parks i'm the country as far as the play
ing field is concerned, and will be as
good as the best when plans are carried
through to provide a covered grand
stand. dressing room facilities for play
ers and other conveniences.
Ii is we'll worth Ell Centro's while
to support any move to improve any such
worthwhile project as the new ball park.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

mend failed A new bridge is being
readied. Old London is becoming
slowly new.
The Fifth avenue buses have
Abandoned the pistol dime clutch
collectors on the new double deck
buses. There still is conductor
who stands at the fare box to see
all drop dimes, but has little else
to do. And many believe these bus
es will soon be one man operated.
For years the avenue bus conduc-
tors have been known for their
Irish brogue and blarney. All seem
just few days over from Killar-
ney, potential FiSke O'HaraS with
the ladies. And they add much to
the zing of bus riding.
Among the astonishing theatri-
cal phenomenon was the long run
of Murder in the Old Red Barn, -
a ten, twent and thirt, meller which
played for more than a year in
an Abandoned church on a serene
block of the fashionable East Side.
1t was followed by another as pro-
missing, Naughty Nauht." The au-
dience sits at plain pinge tables,
drinks beer, Kisses the deep-dyed
william, cheers the tremulous hero
inc and joins in sining Rosie o.
Grady" chansons at intermission.
The plays are presented as written
so years ago. Harry Bannister is
the impresario. The audiences are
chiefly residents of the ornate apart
ment zone and, strangely enough,
many of the younger generation.
The critics call the premiere their
night out and many of them go on
the loose.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
NOTICE OF EXECUTORS SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
In the Matter of the Estate of
EDWARD E. FOSTER,
Deceased.
Under and by virtue of the pro-
visions of Section 754 and Sections
780 and 1872 of the Probate Code of
State of California, and by virtue
of my appointment as Executor un-
der the will of the above named
decedent
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that on Wednesday, the 14th day
of April, 1897, at the hour of 10
o'clock AM, the undersigned Exc
cutter will at private sale, sell all the
right, title and interest of said
decedent and of the estate of dece-
dent above named, in and to the
following described real property,
to-wit:
South Half (S1s) of Tract No.
159, in Township 16 South,
Range 13 E., S.BM., containing
81 acres of land according to
the U. S. Government re-survey.
Bids or offers must be in writing
and may be left at No. 442 Main
Street, in the City of Ell Centre,
Imperial County, California, or de-
livered to said Executor at the above
designated address, or may be filed
in the office of the County Clerk
of the County of Imperial, Califor-
MIA, i.l the Court House in the City
of Ell Centro. California, at any
time after the first publication of
this Notice.
Said sale will take place at No.
442 Main Street, in the City of Ell
Centric, California, the office of
said Executor.
DATED: March 25, 1887.
w. j. MEAGER,
Executor of the Estate of Edward
E. Foster, deceased.
FRANK BIRKHAUSER,
"a Attorney for Executor,
m28-ai1 incl 90 1er"af"N
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NOTICE INVITING BIDS FOR
REINFORCING ELEVATED
WATER TANK AT Ell
CENTRIC WATER

Notice is hereby given that seal
ed bids will be received by the
City Clerk of the City of Ell Centro
at his office in the City Hall in
said City up to and until 730 pm.
of the 21st day of April, 1887, for
reinforcing one 250,000 gallon ele-
vated water tank at the city water
works of said City of Ell Centre,
located at the Southwest corner
Of Eighth and Vine Streets.
Said reinforcement shall be such
as will meet all the requirements
for earthquake resistance applicable
to said tank and tower specified in
Recommendations of the Board of
Fire Underwriters of the Pacific for
Earthquake Resistant Design for
Buildings. Structures and Tank
Towers" published under date ot
1885.
Bidders will submit with their
bids drawings and explanatory mat
ter in sufficient detail as to clearly
indicate the methods and materials
by which they propose to meet theil
requirements of the specifications
above referred to-
The plans and details of the sue
cessful bidder will be required to
meet the approval OF the Board OF
Fire Underwriters of the Pacific,
the City Engineer and the City
Council as conforming to the re-
quirementS herein specified.
The City Engineer will furnish
such information as he may have
but will not guarantee such in
formation as being correct. Bidders
are requested to examine the tank.
take their own measurements, de-
termine the stresses involved and
provide the proper reinforcement.
In accordance with the provisions
of Chapter 397, Statutes of 1881,
the City Council has ascertained
the general rate of prevailing wages
applicable to the said work to be
as follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02

IMPERIAL
PROBATE
In the Matter of the Estate of
MARY GAREWAL and
RAMINDEE S. GAREWAL,,
Minors.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that S. S. Garewal, the duly ap-
pointed, qualified and acting Guar
dian of the Estates of Mary Garewal
and Raminder S. Gsrewal, minors,
has filed in the above entitled court
petition praying that he be
authorized to borrow money and
execute promissory note and trust
deed, or mortgage to secure the
same.
That following is a brief descrip-
ton of the particular property be-
longing to the estate of decedent to
which said petition applies:
That East Half of the South
west Quarter (Eh of SWh)
and the West Half of the
Southeast Quarter (Wh of
SEQ excepting therefrom that
portion lying South of the
Pampas Ditch as now construct
ed across said premises; also
that portion of the Southeast
Quarter of the Northwest Quar-
ter (SEH of NWH) and Lot
T Three 90, lying South of the
Peach Canal as now construct
ed across said premises, all be-
ing in Section Fifteen Q5),
Township Fifteen 15) South,
Range Sixteen 16) East, S.B.M.,
as per map of the resurvey ap-
proved November a, 1908, and
filed February 90, 1909, in the
United States Land Office at
Los Angeles. California.
Reference to said petition is here
by made for further particulars.
AND NOTICE is HEREBY FUR
THEIR GIVEN that the hearing of
said petition has been fixed by the
clerk of said court for Friday, the
End day of April, 1887, at two
o'clock PM. of said day, at the
courtroom Department Two of said
court at the Court House in the
City of Ell Centro, County of I'm
perial, State of California, and all
persons interested are notified then
and there to appear and show cause
If any they have, why an order
should not be made as prayed in
Said Petition.
DATED: March %, 1887.
w. ]. McCLELLAND,
Clerk.
.no,fr BY G.. o. KENYON,
M.23A.2 Deputy Clerk
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Any classification omitted
here not less than m 0.60
Time is based upon eight hours
for each calendar day excepting
Sundays and legal holidays.
Overtime shall be paid at one and
one-half times the above rates
Said bids will be opened and con-
sidered by the City Council of the
City of Ell Centre at its regular
meeting to be held on said 2lSt day
of April, 1897 at 7:30 PM. of said
day at said City Hall, or at such
subsequent time to which said meet
ing may be regularly adjourned, and
contract will be awarded to the
lowest responsible bidder, provided
said City Council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids. The
bidder whose proposal is accepted
shall be required to enter into
contract. with the City of FL Centre
within thirty days from and after
the time of the acceptance of his
bid and to furnish the City with a
bond or bonds as provided by law.
Each bid shall be accompanied
by certified check equal to ten
per cent of the total amount OF
such bid, payable to the City ON
Ell Centro, or by bond for like
amount with sureties acceptable to
said City Council, as a guarantee
that if such bid be accepted the
maker thereof will enter into the
proposed contract with said City
and give the bond or bonds requir-
ed by such contract, provided that
such check or bond will be return
ed to each unsuccessful bidder upon
the rejection of his bid and to the
successful bidder upon his execu-
ton of said contract and delivery
of said bonds.
Dated this 25th day of March,
1887.
G. c. MOUSSEAU,
City Clerk of the City, of FL Centro.
m26-a2.
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
TEN YEARS AGO

Despite heavy wind which hurl-
ed clouds of dust about the Alamerio
track yesterday, large crowd was
on hand for the second day of the
rodeo.
Jimmy Huff Of San Diego sur
prised local fans last night not only
by staying eight rounds with Sam
Langrod at the Brawley legion ar
ena, but by giving the dusky bat
tier plenty of trouble over the full
distance.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
TWENTY YEARS AGO
April 2, 1917

One hundred and twenty five
excursionists, accompanied by ex
cursion managers from the Los An
geles Times and the Southern Pa
cific arrivevd in Ell Centre from the
coast. A formal address of well
come was delivered by Mayor Egg
erer upon their arrival. The visi-
tors are being whipped about the
valley in motor cars will will ban
quet at the Barbara Worth hotel
tonight
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
By Williams

famous Gonfarone's was flicked by
the passing of the man who con-
Quoted it. He was Anacieta Ser
molino, who suggested a two-bang
mustache and rings in the ears,
and for years his table dhote at
88th and MsDougal Alley was one
of the city's famous eating spots.
Caruso loved it and often came
there. Also o. Henry, Arnold DAILY,
Tito Ruffo and Margaret Anglin.
Sermolino closed with prohibition.
He couldn't serve his type of meal
without wine, he said, and refused
to break the law.
I recall a first visit to Gonfar-
ones with William Johnson, of the
World New to the town, it had
for me all the literary flavor I had
read about. I saw Breton Braley,
then a young poet, wearing the
first hOrn-rimmed glasses | ever
saw. Henrik Van Loon, then little
known and slender, was at another
table. Dresser came there too in
the flush of his sister Carrie" fame
but was not about that evening.
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1t was in the Gonfarone days,
too, that I first saw the candles
sputter in the tea room known as
Grace Godwins Garret on a COR
ner of Washington Square, over
Guido Bruno's bookshop. This
seemed the zenith lin long-locked,
unwashed Bohemianism. 1t was
there one evening I decided to shake
a newspaper job and become a free
lance. And thus I learned to cut
my own hair. slip cardboard in
soleless shoes and Starve for Art.
To this day my sympathies are
with the milk bottle thief.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Tmperial Val
lev for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
April 2, 1912

Mrs. T. j. Thompson, mother of
Mrs Snow of Orange avenue, is
here to make her daughter visit
c. E. Coggins has made arrange
ments for he erection of a gar
age in Imperial opposite Coggins
machine shop.
j. v. Taggart and son have sold
their HoltVille pool hall to M. S.
Parker
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02

When the Senate passed the
1922 900. 900 naval supply bill the
other day. the hands of the clock
spun backward for something like
81 years. This new naval bill puts
us right where we were in 1915,
and that has happened since is
simply water over the dam.
In 1916 Europe was at war, and
informed Americans were beginning
to be able to remain at peace for
ever. President Wilson had told a
middle western audience that we
needed "lncomparably the most
adequate navy in the world" ana
Congress set to work to supply 1t.
So. as we drifted through 1916,
the greatest naval building bill in
American history was put through
Congress. 1t called for the construc-
ton of no fewer than l6 capital
ships. Battle cruisers outranging
md outgunning anything afloaF
were ordered. Whole flotillas Of
auxiliary craft, including destroyers
and sumarines by the dozen, were
contracted for.
A little later We got into the war.
Some of the work was delayed,
and some of it was rushed through
ahead of schedule. And when the
war ended and we swung into the
192Os. Americans suddenly found
themselves on the verge of becom-
ing the greatest naval power in the
world.
The world as it existed in the
early '20S had taken all the war it
could stomach. A new naval race
was on, with England striving to
remain ahead of this new American
might, and Japan hurrying fever
ishly to catch up. Since no one
could forget what the last naval
race had led to, the Washington
disarmament conference was well
coined on all sides.
Under the Washington treaty,
America agreed to throw away 19
completed warships, and to scrap
13 more that we're under construct
ion. The giant battle cruisers Lex
ington and Saratoga were convert
ed into aircraft carriers; the great
battleship Washington was toWed
out beyond the Virginia capes and
bombed. In all her wars put to-
gether, American never sank such
mighty ships as she sank because
of that treaty.
Some of us supposed that the
millennium was just around the
corner. Naval races were a thing
of the past and disarmament by
land would soon follow disarma-
ment by sea. If the lion and the
lamb were not actually about to
lie down together, they were al
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
GRAB BAG
One Minute Test

/. Must an amendment to the
U. S. constitution, when ratified
by 36 states, be signed by the
president?
2. When is the next congressional
election?
3. What is a "recidivist"?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
Hints on Etiquette

The generally accepted tip for
walters at restaurants and road
houses is 10 per cent of the bill.
When special service has been per-
formed, it is customary to tip high
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
TOday'S Horoscope

Many persons born today are
highly immaginative in their think
ing. No matter how plain their
lives may be, they see grandeur
in their surroundings.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02

No longer can writer's refer tc
Savile Row as world style center
Once London's street of excellent
tailoring-a grouping New York
has never had-it is now to be de-
molished. and already most gar
ment designers have moved. Water
loo Bridge has also reached the
end of the span. It began to sag
in the middle and all efforts to
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
Thought for the Day

Fear the day when We shall return to God. then
shall every soul be rewarded according to its de-
sert, and none shall have injustice done to them.
The Koran.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
WEAK and MISERABLE

Mrs. Minnie Williams
of 1888 Walnut ST.. Phoe-
nix, Ariz., said: "Some
years ago any noise
would completely upset
me. Heat flashes also
added to my misery. I
had lost weight, too. I
used DR.. Pierce's Favor
lite Prescription as a
tonic and I reeained NV
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02

appetite and later my weight and / felt
just as well as could BE-"
Buy nowl New size, tablets 50 cts, liquid
81 co. Large size, tablets or liquid si.3s.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
Words Of WiS1Om

The literary Of an age is the
mirror of its prevalent tendencies.
Watson
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02

Farmers of Kerns County have
drilled seventy-six new wells this
winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02

NEW YORK, April 2.-Thoughts
Overheard-"She may look like
front row Follies to you but she's
second row Minsky TO me-" Two
notable red heads, Herbert SWope
and Jos. P. Kennedy. And pals
Dissilusionment Ernest Heming-
way, the bull-fighting, lion-killing
man is a pushover for chocolate
eclairs.
Rhyme: A writer with go is
Charles Coe. 1887 cheer for the
-the-horizon boys: Grow old
and be sneered at Similar radio
voices: Gabriel Heater and Edwin
C. Hill. One word description of
Nazimova: Ageless. Glowing Teds:
Cook. Healy and woodward.
Put a Sou'wester and oilskin hat
on Walter Huston and you have the
figure in emulsion ad And Arthur
McKeogh with a two-for- nickle
mustache could pass for Clinton
Webb Then there's William Fraw-
ley, who is almost a ringer for
Postmaster General Farley. What
became of Toy Wons?
Arthur Hopkins would make dam
dy model for one of those country
grocers on a Norman Rockwell
magazine cover. Abe Lyman met a
pie-man te-dum-d-dee What most
of us would give to look like Whit
ney Warren at so. Longings: To
play the harmonica like Larry Ad-
ler. Or a Morton DWney for a quar-
tette.
Those girl bar flies who call Kath-
arine Cornell Kit and Noel Coward
Noey-and knowing neither. And
the lads who think they have ar
rived when they get a choice table
at mo. 2l" New star of the maga-
zines: Margaret Case Hartman.
Wonder how Washington and Lin
coin would make the grade with
out irium?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
One-Ninute Test Answer,

One Minute Test Answers
I. No. 1t becomes effective auto
matically.
g. November, 1893. 8f
3. All incorf1gible criminal.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02
NOTICE OF HEARIN

NOTICE OF HEARING
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02

Memory of Italian food at the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-02

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
In tho Matter of the Estate of