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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
WHO SAYS TOURIST
TRAVEL MEANS NOTHING?

Now and then we hear some disgrunt-
led individual who doesn't believe in ad
vertising, anyway-and his business is
usually as big as a gnat's eyebrow-com-
plain against attempts to attract tour
ist travel to Imperial Valley
Whats the use of it ?" he asks. "They
just whiz through-don't stop. They're
a bigger problem on the highways than
they are an asset in the stores"
Well. that's one mans idea.
Phoenix has another idea. 1t is that
tourist travel does pay-and that it pays
big. In Phoenix, the thought was the
father of reality.
An executive of the United Press WIS.,
tied Ell Centre last week. He had just
been to Phoenix. Trained observer that
he is, he noticed especially thing which,
he said, nobody could help noticing. He
translated il into terms of his own ex-
perience.
Stopping at hotel, the United Press
man took his car to the hotels garage.
They didn't have room to accommodate
it. There were too many patrons. Every
hotel, and almost every storage garage
in Phoenix told the same story. Why
the boom? Well, the city is enjoying one
of the best tourist seasons in many years.
1t is reaping thousands of dollars for
its local stores and other establishments.
Tourists are paying Phoenix plenty IN
good. hard cash.
Phoenix has nothing that Imperial
Valley does not have, except, perhaps,
size. Phoenix is larger because it has
made the most of its opportunities. 9th
erwise, Imperial Valley actually has
more to offer the tourist, or even the
winter resident The trouble is that the
things we have to offer are not de-
veloped
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23

SECTION III: Any qualified yot-
er may vote at said election in favor
of said proposition by stamping a
cross (x) on his ballot in the vot-
ing square after the printed word
YES following the proposition to
be voted upon; and any qualified
voter may vote at said election
against said proposition by stamp
ing cross (x) after the printed
word mo" following the PROPOSE
tion to be voted upon.
SECTION Nv: The City Clerk il
hereby authorized and directed to
prepare and cause to be printed
upon the proper kind of paper used
at general municipal elections in
said city a sufficient number of
ballots for the use of the voters al
said election. The number of bal
lots so prepared shall be not less
than ten C0) for every eight (8)
or fraction of eight 80 electors
registered in said city.
SECTION v: For the purpose of
holding said election the following
voting precincts are hereby created
and provided for; voting precints
numbers l, 2, 3, and 4, established
for State and County elections. as
regular election precincts, shall he
and the same are hereby consolidat-
ed into one precinct to be demon.
mated Voting Precinct A. The poll
ing place for said Precinct A shall
be, and is hereby established at the
Veterans Memorial Hall at 18th and
State Streets in the said City OF
Ell Centro. The following named
persons, residents and registered
electors of said City of Ell Centre
and of said consolidated voting
precinct A are hereby appointed
election officers, to-wit: inspector.
Judge and two clerks, to have charge
OF said election, and to conduct the
same in their respective precincts,
namely,
AS Inspector, j. 3. Hockett
AS Judge, Mrs. Alice Farmer
AS Clerks, Ruth E. Conn and
Mrs. Leona A. Beynon.
Voting precincts S, 6, 7, 8, 8. TO-
II and IL established for State and
County elections as regular election
precincts, shall be, and the same
are hereby consolidated into one
precinct to be denominated Voting
Precinct B. The polling place for
said Precinct B shall be, and is
hereby established at the CITY Hall
located on the West side of Sixth
Street between Main Street anal
State Street in said City, the en-
trance thereto being No. 142, in the
said City OF FL Centre. The fol-
lowing named persons. residents and
registered electors of said CITY OF
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23

to borrow money at interest.
So a public mass meeting was
held and a resolution was adopted
stating that East Lampeter already
has plenty of schools, that the
townspeople didn't care to go into
debt to build a new one, and that
Uncle Sam would be doing every
body concerned favor if he would
keep his money and forget all
about the school building he had
planned.
For several years now the fed
eral government has been pouring
out funds to states and cities; and
this is the second time, in all these
years, that any group has declined
to take what was offered. The 9TH
er case involved set of Memo
minee Indians in Minnesota, who
turned down a government offer to
build new road across their res
ervation. AS spokesman for Secre-
tary Ickes remarks, Nobody else
has ever said anything but 'Gim-
NEE, gimmee.'
We have got so far from the old
fashioned virtues these days that
the people of East Lampeter look
positively quaint. What? These peo-
pie actually refuse to go into deb? +?
They are willing to get along with
what they have, instead of replac-
ing it with something new? They
don't feel they need the federal gov
ernments help in educating their
children? What ails them, anyway?
They are sadly behind the times,
obviously. Getting into debt is fash
ionable, almost inescapable, these
days. So is the practice of discard
ing old possessions, still good for
years of service, and replacing them
with new one. And so, too, is the
habit of demanding that Uncle
Sam help you do what you used to
do for yourself.
X n X
That We yield to these things
without a struggle, and at the same
time demand that the federal gov
ernment balance it's budget, dis
mantle its growing bureaucracy,
and cease asking for extended pow
ers, merely proves that we don't
bother to be logical
We could learn something from
the Amishmen and the Mennonites
of East Lampeter-and from the
Menominee Indians.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

brary; and the acquisition of all
rights of way and property neces-
sary for the construction and COM
pletion of said building.
AND WHEREAS the estimated
cost of the proposed public i'm
provement is the sum of Thirty
Five Thousand ($35,0OO.OO Dollars
AND WHEREAS it Is further pro-
posed by said City to pay a part Of
the said cost of said municipal i'm
provement by money to be obtain
ed from the United States from
relief funds administered through
the Federal Emergency Adminis-
tration of Public Works; and where
as an application is about to be
made to the United States for such
relief funds on behalf of said public
improvement; and whereas the
amount OF the principal of the
bonded indebtedness to be incurred
for said municipal improvement is
the sum of Thirty-Five Thousand
($35, 100000 Dollars; and whereas
the interest on said Indebtedness
shall not exceed the rate of six
per cent (69o) per annum, payable
semi-annually; and whereas said
amount will be too great to be paid
out of the ordinary annual income
and revenue of the municipality.
SECTION II: NOW, THERE
FORE, by virtue of the power vest
ed in them by law and by the Act
of the Legislature approved Febru
ary rs, 1901, the City Council do
further ordain. that an election be,
and the same is hereby ordered and
called, to be held in the said City
of Ell Centro on Tuesday the Goth
day of April, 1887, for the purpose
of submitting to the qualified voters
of said city the said proposition Of
mourning a bonded debt for the
purposes set-forth in said Resolu-
tion No. 538, and hereinbefore re-
cited. In all particulars not recited
in this ordinance, such election
shall be held as provided by law
for holding municipal elections in
such municipality. The polls of
said election shall be opened at
six o'clock AM. of said day of
said election. and shall be kept
open until seven o'clock PM. of
said day, when the polls shall be
closed; provided, however, that if
at the hour Of closing there are any
other voters in the polling place, or
in line at the door, who are quail
flied to vote, and have not been
able to do so since appearing, the
polls shall be kept open sufficient
time to enable them to vote. The
ballots to be used at said election
shall be printed and in form as
provided by law; and in addition to
any other instructions provided by
law, shall have printed on the top
of the face of the ballot the fol-
lowing directions, Mark an x on
the ballot ONLY WITH RUBBER
STAMP never with pen or pencil.
No. ---
ITO vote on any question or pro-
position, stamp a cross (x) in the
voting square after the word YES,
or after the word mo-. All marks
except the cross (x) are forbidden.
All distinguishing marks or erasures
are forbidden and make the ballot
void.
''If you wrongly stamp, tear or
deface this ballot. return 1t to the
inspector of election and obtain
another.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
HELP FOR THE
HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

Two bills are pending, one in the state
assembly and another in the federal
congress, which deserve the attention
and support of anyone interested in the
future of the country.
Assembly Bill 1876 would provide
yearly tests of sight and hearing in the
public schools of California, through
scientific means. L. S. Senate Bill 1854
provides for the education of physically
handicapped children.
No other demonstration of the virtues
of the state assembly bill is necessary
after quoting figures available in I'M
perial Valley. Schools in Brawley, Ell
Centre, Holtville and Calexico purchased
an audiometer last year. Before the
close of school, Gil children in grades
from third to eighth were tested; 544
were tested the second time, and 129
were found to have hearing loss of 10
per cent or more in one or both ears.
Parents were notified and urged to con-
suit an ear specialist or their family
physician This year, 1880 were tested
and only 56 were found with defective
hearing The decrease proves the worth
of the tests.
The federal bill goes into related
field by proposing to give $4,000 annu-
ally to each state for development OF ed
ucational facilities for handicapped chill
dren,, with an additional 100000 to be
divided on basis of need.
There is no more worthy cause than
that of helping the children who-with
little help-may become among our most
useful citizens Residents of this county
can help by urging their representatives
in both state legislature and national
congress to support the measures.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
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Liquid-Tablets and
Salve-NOse He908Cno9
Drops Price, 2Sc
eadaches
Price. 2sc

check payable to the Treasurer of
the City of Ell Centre for the full
amount of said bid; and no sealed
bid shall be considered, unless said
cash or check is enclosed Herewith;
and the successful bidder shall de-
post at least ten per cent of the
amount of his bid with the CITY
Clerk before the franchise shall be
struck off to him. The successful
bidder shall deposit with said Cl
Clerk, within twenty four hours u
the acceptance of his bid, the re-
naming ninety per cent thereof.
and in case he shall fail to do so.
then said deposit shall be forfeited,
and the award of said franchise
shall be void. ss
FURTHER NOTICE is given that
the successful bidder and his as,
signs must, during the life of said
franchise, pay to the City of Ell
Centro two per cent of the gross
annual receipts of the person, partn-
ership or corporation to whom the
franchise is awarded, arising from
its use, operation or possession. No
percentage shall be paid for the
first five years succeeding the date
of the franchise, but thereafter such
percentage shall be payable annu-
ally.
FURTHER NOTICE is given that
the use and operation of said fran
chise shall in good faith be COM
menced within not more than four
months from the granting thereN
unless for good cause shown. II
City Council shall by resolution ex-
tend the time therefor, not exceed
ing three months. ta
FURTHER NOTICE is given that
the successful bidder shall file
bond running to the City OF I'll
Centro with at least two good and
sufficient sureties to be approved
by the City Council in a penal sum
in the amount of $2,5OO.0O condi-
toned that such bidder shall well
and truly observe, fulfill and per-
form each and every term and con-
dition of such franchise; and that
in case of any breach of condition
of such bond the whole amount OF
the penal sum therein named shall
be taken and deemed to be liquidat-
ed damages, and shall be recoverable
from the principal and sureties upon
said bond. 7 --t4
BY order of the City Council.
Dated this l7th day of March.
1887. 49,
G. G. MOUSSEAU,
City Clerk.
ml9-30 incl.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23

Madeleine Carroll draws the fem
minine lead opposite Ronald Col
man in Selznick's Prisoner of
zenda,' after % actresses tested for
the part. She was loaned by Walter
Wanger.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

PROPOSITION: Shall
the City of Ell Centre
incur a bonded debt
in the sum of Thirty
Five Thousand (S35.-
100000 Dollars for the
purpose of the acquisi-
ton, construction and
completion by said city
of a certain municipal
Improvement, namely,
a building for munic-
ipal uses, to-wit, the
housing, maintenance
and operation of a
municipal free public
library; and the acqui-
sition of all rights
of way and property
necessary for the con-
struction and compile
ton of said building.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
TEN YEARS AGO
March %, 1927

DR.. w. H. Walker gave an in
teresting talk before a number of
Ell Centro businessmen and ranch
ers from this district at Masonic
hall last night. DR.. Walker, who
was formerly president of the ma
tional farm bureau and who has
occupied several important posi-
tions in the affairs of the gov
ernment, was in Washington, D. C.
during the recent session of Con-
gress and his address last night
was on the Boulder Dam bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
CALIFORNIA BOY
WINS FARM AWARD

SAN FRANCISCO, March %. WP)
Aldo Tognetti, of San Luis Obs
po, one of the 1000 All boys and
girls Future Farmers OF America
having exhibits at the 10th annual
interstate junior livestock show.
was awarded third place for the
best carload of 25 fat hogs today.
Livestock was entered from Cali
fornia, Oregon, Nevada, Utah and
Idaho.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23

Edward Arnold and Jack Oakie
almost broke up the days session
in Westwoods Emerson Junior High
School, when Toast of New York.
went on location just outside the
playground. Youngsters were for
hidden to leave the schoolyard, but
their racket made shooting impos-
sible until Arnold and Oakie were
boosted over an eight-foot wire
fence for a round of handshaking
and textbook autographing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
DE ANA HOTEL
SALE DELAYED

Foreclosure sale of the De Anza
hotel in Calexico was postponed
to April 10 in compliance with a
petition filed in superior court,
Before the foreclosure date all ad-
vancements for taxes and assess
ments plus interest from November
16, 1895. to July 1. 1887. must be
paid loan company.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

Ell Centro. and of said consolidat !
Votlng precinct B are hereby ap-'
pointed election officers In their
respective precincts, as follows, to.
wit:
As Inspector, June De Vore
AS Judge, Mrs. Louise Ffnney
AS Clerks. Berenice Modem and
Eudora Swanson.
Voting precincts numbers 13. IA
Is and 16 established for State and
County elections as regular election
precincts shall be, and the Same
are hereby consolidated into one
precinct to be denominatei Voting
Precinct G. The polling place for
SAID Precinct G shall be, and the
same is established at Goodrich
Silvertown Stores, 4th and Olive
streets In the said City of El
Centro. The following named per-
sons residents and registered elec.
tors of said City of Ell Centro, and
of said consolidated voting Precinct
g are hereby appointed election Of
ficers in their respective precincts
as follows: f,tia's
AS Inspector, Isaac Mayfield
AS Judge, Margretta Thacker -.
AS Clerks, Lillian Ehmke a
Mrs. Marie Scheniman. -
The compensation Of said election
officers shall be Five ($5.OO) Dollars
each for all services as such election
officers, and which amount the said
City Council deems to be Just.
The said several persons have
been found, and they are hereby
declared to be qualified for such
respective positions as REQUIRED by
law, and they are hereby appointed
as such officers to conduct such
election, and to constitute the elec-
ton boards for said election.
Said election officers hereinbefore
referred to, shall conduct, and they
are hereby directed to conduct, said
election as by law and this 0rdin-
ance provided, and to canvass the
votes given and cast at said election
and to make and deliver returns
thereof to the City Clerk of satd !.
City; and 1t Is further ordered that
said City Council of said City sh(
meet at the usual meeting pld q
OF said Council, to- wit, the city
Hall of said city, on the first Mon
day after said election at 7:30 O'Clock
PM of said day and proceed I'd
canvass the election returns and de.
clare the result thereof. Yse1
SECTION VI: That this ordin-
ance and the publication thereof
snail constitute notice of said elec.
ton. - N
SECTION VII: The CITY Clerk
shall certify to the, passage ana
adoption of this ordinance by
vote of two-thirds (2/3) of all the
members of said City Council OF
said city at an adjourned regular
meeting of said Council, and shall
cause said ordinance to be published
IN the Imperial Valley Press,
newspaper of general circulation,
printed and published In said City
OF Ell Centre in each of seven con-
secutive issues OF said newspaper
prior to the said Goth day OF April.
1881 and thereupon, and there
AFTER this ordinance shall take ef-
feet and be in force.
fassed, Adopted and Approved
this 18th day of March. 1887.
5. HERBERT w. FAWCETT,
Acting-Mayor Of the Gil
OF Ell Centre.
ATTEST:
@. g. MoUSSEAU, City Clerk
OF the City Of Ell Centre
''IAl) ml9-2a-incl
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
TWENTY YEARS AGO
March %, 1917

C. w. McCabe, manager of the
Dodge Brothers Motor Agency was
here from San Diego today.
Advertisement appearing in the
Personal Mention" column-"Mil-
lions for an All American Canal,
but not one cent for an old canal
in Mexico.
H. T. Corey, we'll known irriga-
ton engineer, arrived from Phoe-
nix, and after a short stay in the
valley. left for San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
March 90, 1912

The following children had per-
feet grades in the spelling review
held in the second grade of the
grammar school: Horace Mitchell,
Iris Mckinney, Russell Noland,
Jessie May Cox, Herbert Apple
still, Aileen Latnrop. Mamie Mack,
Hattie Keydal, Wilbert Konold,
and Horace Hays.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

/. Who is chancellor of the Brit
ish exchequer?
g. Who is minority leader of the
United States house of representa-
tives?
3. What is the Greek word for
God?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
Words of Wisdom

Do not speak OF your happiness
TO one less fortunate than your
self-Plutarch.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
on Sol SAYS
CRANK WATANABE
FOUR NEWS
BY ED HOLDEN

rum NEWS
Postage stamps expressing General
Sherman face upon are selling like wild
cakes in South States. This seem curio
but not is. Do not the South say they
shall give Sherman a good licking some
day?
| wondering what working gents are
thinking when they look see photos of
bosses perspiring on sand for $50 day
at Florida? They willing furnish plen-
ty sweat off brow for So. Cannot get
ting, so, sit strokes occur.
Baseballing season shall happen soon
lv Thousand of Base Balls player have
transfer all energy from strange JOINTS
to their own. Putting slumps on MD
night bats are decreasing slumps on
daytime batting.
In Hollywood it taking camera lei
lows. electricians, director, and ~ as
sistant of same. also stage dressers,
make up experts by the dozen full, scene
shifters. and "A eXtemporaneous per-
sons-to making one girl on the picture
looking beautiful. No wonder you are
wondering they looking so WONDERFUL
In fack all girl is.
TlnnE ,,ou DJpnSP
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
Strolls Thru Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, March %. WR-
BigheartedIy. Ted Peckham, %
year-old "Gigilo King" who values
his arm at $1,000 per escort, donat-
ed an evening to Helen Burgess and
staked her to supper and pink lem
onade.
The downy-chinned Freshwater
College boy from Ohio's Western
Reserve University compromised
on Burgess after Mae West showed
no interest in his invitation.
Clad in the sophomore class idea
of sophisticated attire-lofty top
per, blue evening clothes and a
cape-Peckham paraded Miss Bur-
CESS to the premier of Lost Hori-
zon," and afterwards to supper
club.
The actress didn't quarrel over
the check.
Peckham brought his schoolboy
complexion here from New York,
where he originated the escort
service idea, to help do. a movie
plot called Gentlemen For Hire"
He has spent most of his time
since then in the Paramount pub
lieity department seeing that his
name gets in the papers.
Probably his sortie with Burgess
is charged off to publicity.
Franchot Tone made trouble for
jewelers. here when he designed a
bauble for Joan Crawford which
seems likely to start a fad. Gadget
is a thin, platinum bracelet with
two ruby-studded hearts dangling
on a chain. Jewellers have been be-
seiged with orders for replicas they
can do nothing about.
Sawdust Trail lures Hoot Gibson,
who used to match sixshooters and
glycerine tears with William S.
Hart in the Westerns.
Gibson leaves shortly for Macon,
Ca, and 33 weeks with Wallace
Brothers circus.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23

90
The City Council of the City Of
Ell Centre do ordain as follows:
SECTION I: WHEREAS the City
Council of the City of Ell Centro
at an adjourned regular meeting
of said City Council held on the
9Th day of March, 1887, by vote OF
two-thirds of all its members, duly
passed and adopted a resolution
determining and finding that the
public interest and public neces-
sity of said City of El Centre, and
the inhabitants thereof, demand the
acquisition, construction and COM
pletion by said City of certain
municipal improvement, to-wit, a
building for municipal uses, to-wit,
the housing, maintenance and op-
Grafton of a municipal free public
library; and the acquisition of all
rights of way and property neces-
sary for the construction and com
pletion of said building, and further
determining that said municipal i'm
provement, and the acquisition OF
said rights of way and property
therefor, are, and each of them Is
necessary and convenient to carry
out the objects, purposes and pow
ers of said municipality; and the
cost thereof Is, and will be too great
to be paid out of the ordinary an
nual income and revenue OF said
City; and that said construction
work and acquisition of rights OF
way and property necessary there
for, will require an expenditure
greater than the amount allowed
for such improvement by the an
nual tax levy; and that the estimat-
ed cost of said public improvement
and acquisition Of said rights OF
way and property, and each and all
of them is the sum and amount OF
Thirty-Five Thousand ($35,000.00
Dollars.
AND WHEREAS, it is proposes
by said City Council to incur an
indebtedness for the purposes set
forth in said resolution, and for
the following objects and purposes,
to-wit: The acquisition, construction
and completion of a certain munic-
ipal improvement, namely, build
ing for municipal uses, to-wit, the
housing, maintenance and opera
tion of municipal free public IL
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
Today's Horoscope

Most persons whose birthday is
today are strongly affectionate.
They usually enjoy long and happy
married lives.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
DefinitiOn-a-Day

'Palpable" and tangible mean
easily perciptible; capable of being
felt or touched.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-23
One-Minute Test Answers

l. Neville Chamberlain.
2.Bertrand H. Shell, New York.
3. Theos.