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Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

the formation and organization OF
public cemetery within the said
County of Imperial and in support
of said petition allege and set forth
the following facts, to-wit:
l. This petition is made under
and pursuant to the provisions of
that certain act entitled AN Act
to provide for the organization and
government of public cemeteries.
Approved June l, 1921, Statutes of
1921, page 1903, in effect July 81,
1921, as amended.
II. That this petition is signed
by not less than so citizens, to-wit,
by 60 residents and landowners,
whose names are hereinafter sub
scribed and signed to this petition,
all of which said landowners live
within the boundaries of the pro-
posed cemetery district to be Or
ganized pursuant to the provisions
of the above mentioned statute of
the State of California; that the
names of your petitioners here
matter subscribed and signed to
this petition appeared as landoWn-
ers and owners of land upon the
last completed assessment roll of
the County of Imperial; that said
land owned by said petitioners is
located and situated within the
boundaries of the proposed cemetery
district that each and every one
of petitioners whose names are
affixed hereto reside within the
boundaries of said proposed ceme-
terry district.
III. That the exterior boundaries
of said proposed. cemetery district
are delineated and described as
follows:
East along the north boundary
of Mt. Signal precinct and Perry
Precinct, to the East line of Heber
Precinct; thence north to the South
boundary of Meloland Precinct
thence East along the north line
of Verde precinct to the West line
of Ogilby precinct; thence north
along the West line of Ogilby pre-
cinct, to the north line of Sunset
precinct; thence west along the
north line of Sunset precinct, to
the East line of keystone precinct;
thence South along the East boun-
Diary of keystone Precinct, to the
north line of Mesquite precinct
thence west along the North line OF
Mesquite and New River precinct:
to the County line; thence South
to the North line of Mt. Signal
Precinct, the point of beginning.
w. That attached hereto and
made a part of this petition is a
map and plat showing the terri
torial extent of said proposed ceme-
terry district and delineating and
describing the exterior boundaries
thereof.
v. That the legal description OF
the land owned by each of the
petitioners whose signatures are
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
ANIMAL LIFE on THE
ISLAND IN THE SKY SA =

To hunters and others familiar with
present-day mature, it is not strange
that scientists have found nothing unique
about the animals they have discovered
atop SILVA Temple, so-calleds island in
the sky of the Grand Canyon. Once
again the practical mind has outguessed
the academic mind-and the animal king
dom has proved to man that he is not as
superior, after all as he likes to think.
From the outset, it was hard for one
who knows that country to imagine how
the scientists could hope to discover
strange animals on a plateau, however
isolated it might be from the surround
ing country, to which they themselves
could climb in one day. 1t seems reason
able. to the lay mind at least, that ami
mails can climb where men can climb
and sometimes where men cannot go
without artificial aids.
The scientists have proved to their
own satisfaction that there have been
deer on the SILVA Temple plateau within
the last six months-and that there are
no deer there now. There have been coyo-
tes there recently, and there are none
now. There are rabbits and chipmunks
there now-and they are just ordinary
rabbits and chipmunks.
To mankind, climbing SILVA Temple
was an achievement To the animals, it
is an ordinary, everyday jaunt.
Man still may learn a lot from his
inferior" inhabitants of this earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22

but we also like the aross-the-
track-sound to her name. zaSu
Pitts, does all right, too.
I've always though if I had a
son I would name him Jack, Bill
or Mike. If a girl Jane, Susie or
Alice. My reactions to names and
a study of them is not strange. l
spent a boyhood trying to hide
from the gang that my real name
was Oscar Odd-and failed. Names
in youth can make their owners
very unhappy. The Harolds and
Percivals go through life with an
undeSerVed handicap.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF FILING PETITION
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF
A PUBLIC CEMETERY
DISTRICT
DISTRICT

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that on Monday, September goth,
1887, a petition was filed with the
Board of Supervisors of the County
of Imperial under that certain act
entitled "An act to provide for the
organization and government OF
public cemetery districts" approved
June /, 1921, Statutes of 1921, page
l1O3, as amended, asking that the
Board of Supervisors of the County
of Imperial set time and place
for hearing on said petition, a copy
of the original of said petition with
out the names attached to said
original petition, is attached to this
notice and made a part hereof.
Reference to the original petition
is hereby made for further parti-
culars.
NOW, THEREFORE, this is to
notify each and every person in
terested and residing in and own
ing property within said proposed
district or residing in any part Of
the territory which is described in
said petition, that a hearing will
he held on said petition ON Monday
the 18th day of October, 1887, at
the hour of two o'clock P. M. at
the meeting place of the Board of
Supervisors of the County of I'M
perial in the Court House in the
City of FL Centre at which time
and place any of said persons may
appear before the Board of Super
Visors and show cause, if any they
have, why the said petition should
not be granted or may request
changes to be made in the proposed
boundaries of said district; said
Beard of Supervisors will also hear
any and all persons who may ap-
pear on behalf of said petition for
the purpose of requesting the for
nation and organization of said
proposed cemetery district.
DATED September 81, 1887.
ISAAC SCHLATTER,
Chairman of the Board of
! (SEAL) Supervisors
ATTEST:
w. j. McCLELLAND, County
Clerk of the County of Imperial
and ex-officio Clerk OF the
Board of Supervisors.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
A SPEAKER WHO
KNOWS HIS SUBJECT

Every resident of Imperial Valley who
is in the least interested in the most
burning political and economic subject
of the day, the U. S. constitution and
the supreme court, should hear James
Mussatti, author and secretary of the
California Taxpayers Association, when
he speaks on 1.-The Constitution of the
United States" at Wilson school audi
torium here Sept %.
1t is a subject about which none of
us, in these stirring times, can know too
much.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
GOLD STAR
MOTHERS DAY

A world once again looking into the
abyss Of war might learn valuable les
son on Sept. 26, Gold Star Mothers Day,
by considering the heartbreak and trag-
edy which has been the lot of those moth
ers in whose honor the day is set aside.
The women of the younger generation
those who had no children to offer on
the altar of the last World war, but
whose children are now threatened
might learn their lesson from these suf-
fering Gold Star Mothers. That lesson,
a tragic one, would do much to offset
worldwide threats of war today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
Bruce Cation Sdys:>>
Tax Truths as Brake on Public Spending

Indeed, the little fellow seems to
like it. One of his favorite diver
sions is to compare his lot with
that of hs opposite number in
Great Britain, where taxes are as
visible as cigaret billboards. He
looks over the figures and discov-
ers that the Briton has to start
paying an income to $500 a year
which takes in practically every
body The American doesn't start
until his income reaches $1,000; if
he is married, he can earn as much
as $2500 before he has to lay any,
thing on the line.
So, looking at the figures, the
American pities the poor Briton
as one who is taxed within an inch
of hs life, and thanks his God that
in this country it is the rich man
who pays the taxes.
Which is precisely where the
American fools himself.
John T. Flynn pointed out the
other day that an ordinary Ameri-
can with an income of $4,000 year
will pay some $28 in income taxes,
after he has made the proper de-
ductions. An American with an in
come half that size may pay no
income tax at all-but if he buys
one package of cigarets day he
pays tax of $21.90 year, and if
he has a couple of daily glasses of
beer in addition, his tax will run
to $45.
The $28 income tax may cause
the citizen to kick like a steer. The
almost equally heavy tax he pays
for the privilege of smoking cigarets
causes no kick at all, because he
doesn't realize that he is paying it.
1t is invisible, and therefore pian-
less.
If these hidden cigaret and beer
taxes were the only ones, it would
not be so bad. But they are just
a small part of the picture. For the
plain fact is that 70 per cent of the
taxes collected in this country are
Of the invisible variety. There are
gasoline taxes, cosmetics taxes,
taxes of innumerable kinds on re-
tail sales, doubly hidden taxes de-
irving from the tariff-until. ac-
cording TO the Twentieth Century
Funds recent study, a New York
wage Garner who makes $1,000 a
year has to pay $123 of it in taxes.
Try to collect that $123 from the
wage Garner as a direct tax and
he will howl to high heaven. Col
lect it indirectly and he never sees
it-and, consequently, never utters
peep.
We need day-by- day education
program about these taxes of our.
The ordinary citizen is paying for
today's spending program, and pay
ing right through the nose. If he
once realized the fact, he would
begin to apply pressure that would
cut the spending program down to
reasonable size.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
Letters to the Editor
EDITOR POST PRESS:


Is it not about time this county called
moratorium on killing doves? These small birds
do not destroy crops and are harmless. Every
year there are scores of hunters from all over
southern California here to kill these
small birds and animals and call it sport There
many law breakers, as the records will show.
Recently one of these individuals was seen with
a half of a sack of fluttering birds with broken
legs and crippled wings They call this sport!
Where is the humane society? Are they muzzled
that they dare not protest against these out
RACES?
Local residents who say it is great sport to
kill these small birds have not got corporals
guard for following.
A very great majority of the people are hu-
name and would not kill small birds and animals
unless compelled to. The small amount OF
blood money spent in the county is no excuse
for permitting this annual invasion of hunters.
No other county in the state would stand for it.
So, let this county put moratorium on dove
shooting for indefinite period.
w. S. HOLCOMB.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL, }

George F. Whitcher, being first
duly sworn deposes and says that
he is a citizen of the United States
and over the age of 81 years; that
affiant Is a resident and voter and
landowner of the County of I'M
perial, State of California, and re-
sides within the boundaries of the
proposed cemetery district as set
forth and described in the attach
ed and foregoing petition; that he
circulated said petition and pro-
cured the signatures affixed and
signed thereto; that each of the
petitioners whose names appear
upon the within and foregoing petit
tion affixed and signed their names
to said petition in the presence of
the affiant and stated to the affiant
at the time they thus each signed
said petition that it was their true
and genuine signature; that affiant
personally circulated said petition
and procured the signature of each
petitioner to be signed and affixed
thereto and that each of said petit
tioners signed said petition in the
presence of the affiant.
GEORGE F. WHITCHER.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this Goth day of September, 1897.
(SEALD.
HAZEL f. LIVINGSTON,
Notary Public in and for said
County and State.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22

Working ON the theory that what
you don't see doesn't hurt you, our
American legislators have succeed
ed, since the war, in building up
one of the most amazing systems
of invisible taxes ever erected on
the planet.
The result is that the tax col
lector manages to gouge the day
lights out of the little fellow with
out ever drawing a word of protest.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
IN THE MATTER OF THE OR
GANIZATION OF A PUBLIC
CEMETERY DISTRICT.
PETITION

TO THE HONORABLE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL, STATE
OF CALIFORNIA
The undersigned petitioners re-
spectfully present the following petit
ton to the Board of Supervisors OF
the County Imperial requesting
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
TEN YEARS AGO
September 22, 1927

A flood of last minute Dempsey
money descended on the betting
mart tonight and one commission
house alone placed $250,0O0, Odds
on Dempsey have entirely disap-
peared.
Four vagrants were picked up by
the city police last night in patrol
ling the railroad yards in the east
ern section of the city. Three of
the men were found sleeping in
empty freight cars while a fourth
was found lying on a nearby bank.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
NEW SUPER
STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

BALTIMORE, Sept. % WP)-The
Baltimore e. Ohio railroad is build
ing a super steam powered locomo-
tive which will haul IA loaded pull
man cars at speed of 100 miles
an hour without vibration, it was
announced today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
Machinery Installed
In Ell CentrO Plant

Karl Kaiser, New York engineer,
came to Ell Centre Wednesday to
supervise installation of machinery
at the new plant of the California
Central Fibre corp, w. H. Ramsey,
vice-president, announced. Installa-
ton will require from 60 to rs
days at the Third street plant,
Ramsey declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22

llOQ WCIt DNii-
aid Richberg,
Frank C.Walk-
er. ReXford q.
Tugw Il and
Felix Frank
furt er OF
these Rich
berg rose to
and fell from
the hig h e S t
peak of power.
Ric h b e G,
now practicing
law in Wash
ingtOn. c a m z
first as NRA's
general coun-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

l. Who is director of the U. S.
federal bureau of investigation?
2. With what music festival is
the German city of Bayreuth asso-
ciated?
3. What is finnan haddie?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
TOdaY'S Horoscope

Many persons whose birthday oc-
ours today obsessed with constant
fear. Excessive caution sometimes
causts them to ruin rich opport-
unity.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
Words of Wisdom

I particularly hate the bungline
of politics which leads to the mis-
cry and ruin of millions of people
Goethe.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
Hints on Etiquette

A teaspoon is used to stir tea or
coffee, but never to convey the
beverage to the mouth.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
News Behind the News
Richberg of the Brain Trust -. Uem
Highest, Fell FdrtheSt Ld6ors
Lore Lost =.

WASHINGTON-Ther was a queer period
of New Deal history in 1934-35 when Roosevelt
was giving his best super-coossal exhibition oi
travelling right" and left at the same time
Outstanding presidential advisers in that pc
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
LOOKING
BACKWARD
90
What The Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
September 20, 1907

Mrs. H. II. Peterson returned to
Imperial from her vacation spent
on the coast.
j. B. Baker, county recorder, re-
turned to San Diego where he has
a force of three men transcribing
the records of Imperial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
TWENTY YEARS AGO

September 22, 1917
Imperial Valley is being treated
to real fall weather today follow
ing a cloudburst on the desert near
Coyote Wells.
James A. Cook proprietor of the
Palace theatre, returned today
from Los Angeles and San Diego.
While On the coast he was serious
ly i'll with typhoid fever and has
just recovered sufficiently to return
to work.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22

A visit TO the Briggs home was
one Of the high adventures of for
native days. The cartoonist was
at the crest of his popularity and
I went there with Briggss long
time friend of Chicago days, II. T.
Webster. 1t was New Years day
and a great log fire was acrackle,
with several sheep dogs snoozing
On the big stone hearth. There
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22

A New Yorker does not have to
90 far from his city TO find small
town hospitality Just the other
day in George M. Cohan's 45-min-
utes-from- Broadway berg, New Ro-
chelle, / had topping Park aven-
ue lunch for so cents-clean, palat-
able and eXcellently served. And
before I left a pleasant gentleman
stopped by the table to say: II hope
you found things all right. We are
little upset today with some car
penter work" | often wonder in
passing through New Rochelle why
that city has never reared some
enduring monument to Claire
Briggs, the cartooniSt. He lived
there for many years and it was
there he built his famous home
Blue Anchor, out of old ship
timbers. On the New Rochelle goli
course he found many inspirations
for his when a Feller Needs a
Friend"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22

WHEREFORE, your petitioners
pray that the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Imperial, State of
California, pass and adopt a resolu-
ton fixing the time for a hearing
on this petition, said hearing to be
not less than two nor more than
five weeks from the date of pre-
sentation of this petition to the
Board of Supervisors. That said
Board of Supervisors cause notice
to be given of the time and place
of said hearing by publication in
some newspaper of general circula-
ton, published and printed in the
County of Imperial; that said no.
tice of time and place of hearing
on this petition be published for
not less than two weeks prior to
the date of the hearing before the
Board of Supervisors, all as pro-
vided in Section I of that certain
act entitled "An Act to provide for
the organization and government of
public cemeteries" approved June
|, 1921, Statutes of 1921, page 1103,
in effect July 81, 1921, as amended.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

was butler in uniform and maids
in white caps and aprons with
French accents. James Montague,
the poet, and Will B. Johnstone
were there. Also Ding, the cartoon
ist, and many more of the art
world. Briggs, genial and smiling,
habited in a tweedy golf outfit, his
jaws clamping a half dollar brand
of cigar, stood out in my mind as
The most successful man I had
ever seen allied to my calling.
Doodling: l have a friend who
has found the perfect word to pen
Gil on a telephone pad during a
long conversation. 1t is minimum.
And has so many quick strokes up
and down that one can fill a pad
page in a jiffy. Everyone has a
favorite doodling word. Mine is
Sandusky, second choice is Orlando.
AS an ardent student of nomen-
clature I have always believed tai
ent will make any name. Oliver
Onion, for instance, has big fol-
lowing in England as a serious
writer. The Hollywood producers
slant on names | think is wrong.
Dorothy Lamour, to my mind,
sounds phoney and | believe is a
handicap. SO is Anita Louise. And
Simone Simon, I imagine, found
her name her biggest stumbling
block. Most of us like Patsy Kelly,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
Thoughts for the Day

And now abideth faith hope, charity. these three;
but the greatest of these is charity Corinthians
1913.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
One Minute Test Answers

/. j. Edgar Hoover
2. The Wagnerian festival.
3. Haddock cured with smoke.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

affixed to this petition and which
said land is assessed to said owner
and petitioners upon the last COM
plete'd assessment roll of the Coun-
tv OF imperial is as follows:
Dissertation of Land
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22

The hill or comeback rubber
ball craze which SO swept New York
early this summer shows how
games also move in cycles and how
an old idea may be successfully re-
juvenated. About the time of the
Spanish-American war every young
ster in the land had a comeback
ball to bounce around. The modern
version gave it paddle and a free
lollipop.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22

NEW YORK, Sept. 22-They> are
called subway fishermen, but
field is not confined to the subway
gratings. Indeed, some of the choice
fishing areas are in the neighbor
hood of large department stores.
There are several hundred of these
strange anglers in the middle sec
ton of the metropolis.
Subway fishing in the begin
ming was a diversion of the small
boys-mostly tenement children
who came over from the East Side
with strings attached to iron bolts
upon which were dabs of chewing
gum to lower through gratings for
dropped coins of passerby,
1t became too profitable for
child's play and now it has been
taken over almost entirely by older
men. They have naturally perfect
ed the art and use a better grade
of tools. Their strings are attach
ed to real magnets and they scan
the under ground through a tel
scope.
And So on stomachs they stretch
out and peer through the sidewalks
gratings for many hours a day.
They cannot work at night, but are
up early for the days catch. They
not only pick up dropped coins, but
rings and jeweiry, and make fair
living.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-22

BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
f VALLEY q.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
HeintzIenlan Is to Be NOrIitemen
 Speaker Tuesday
Ladies Night Will Con- clude Activities of Or
 ganization for Season

Speaker at the Ladies Night dinner meeting of the Norlitemen, next Tuesday evening will be B. F. Heintzleman, Re on nal Forester, who has named as his topic for the leading occasion, outdoor Re- creation"
 Marking the close of Norlitemen meetings until next Fall, the meet : ing will be attended by scores of men and women in keeping with the traditional Ladies Night" GUS tom
 A varied program is planned for the evening when Mrs. Lola Mae Alexander will be presented in vocal selections, and the Norlite- men quartet will sing various con- positions.
 Kenneth Ferguson, who in addi- tion to teaching abilities is well known as a cartooniSt, is scheduled to draw caricatureS of several fa- nous people as a special feature of the evening.
 Mrs. Vena L. Crone will prepare the dinner for which reservations must be made by Monday night by calling 373
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
OPEN FOR PRACTICE

There will be no regular shoot of the Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club tomorrow but the Mendenhall range will be open for practice shooting by any one who cares to try for a few bullseyes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
Walter Whites
 to Move South
Mrs. White Leaves for Port land on Princess Louise
 Next Wednesday

To join her sons in Portland where she and MT. White are to make their future home, Mrs. Wal ter White is leaving aboard the Princess Louis Wednesday, ending eight years of residence in Juneau.
 MT. White will follow south shortly after, meeting Mrs. White in Portland where their sons, Thomas and Ennis, have been at tending school for the past two years.
 Mrs. White has long been prom inent in club and social circles of Juneau, serving in various offices of the Eastern Star and now being in charge of the Rainbow Girls. Her position in the Order of Rain bow Girls is to be taken over by Mrs. May Godfrey.
 Several parties are being planned in honor of Mrs. White before her departure "Wednesday. among which will be the luncheon at the Juneau Coffee Shoppe on Monday.
 MT. White is associated with the Butler, Mauro Drug Company.