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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
SAN DIEGANS
IN VALLEY TO
BUY COTTON

A group of San Diegans are IN
Imperial Valley perfecting arrange
rents for shipment OF cotton thru
san Diego to ports in all parts OF
the world
Their principal interest was a
1000 bale shipment of Mexican
cotton sod to Bremen consignees.
Arrangements for other and larger
shipments are expected to be ar
ranged.
The visiting group includes Joe
Brennan. port director, Dayton
Ault. San Diego city attorney and
former Calexico attorney. and Ray
mond A Wheeler. warehouse and
shipping executive.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
New Schedules on
Bus Lines Put Thru

Charles Clinton. who was en-
ployed in Los Angeles by the Pacific
Greyhound bus lines. was trans
fcrred to tho FL Centre Office
Thursday to take over the night
duties at the station under the
new program which will keep the
I'll Centro station open "a hours a
day.
New schedules. which bring more
buses through Ell Centre, was given
as the reason for the change Of
program.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
WILD DOGS
KILL PIONEER

DEANDALE, Tex. Dec. "a. (UP)
The neighbors of c. G. Brown
today hunted the two survivors of
A pack of savage dogs that set upon
and slew the elderly pioneer on
Clay county road yesterday
There were four beasts in the
pack and Brown. who was II, dis
posed of two of them with his
pocket knife before they bore him
down.
He lived to reach a hospital in
Wichita Falls. but the dogs had
devoured most of the flesh from
his legs and thighs and he dided
chanting hymns to stifle his screams
Of pain as the doctors were pre-
pairing him for a hopeless blood
TRANSMISSION.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
Hearing on Change
In Boundaries Set

Hearings on petitions for
changes of boundaries will be held
at the Board of Supervisors meet
ing at 2 pm. Monday, Jan. 3, at
the Court House.
The petitions call for change OF
boundaries so the school district
will follow property tract lines.
The changes will be between Rose
and Meloland school districts, Ala
mo and Holtvilie districts. and
viii cover the Alamitos and Holt
Vile districts.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
PANTS BURNED
BY HOT FOOT

SPRINGFIELD. Mo. Dee. "a
tUPo-Ben Hinkle, a truck driver.
was recovering today from burns
resulting from a deluxe applica-
ton OF the old hot foot" trick
When Hinkle cozed some friends"
used tire patching cement to in
sure steady heat The cement
ignited and when Hinkle awoke
his pants were ablaze.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
Bus Line Official
On Inspection Tour

II. S. TOkev. general superint"n-
dent Of the Pacific coast ope ations
of the Greyhound bus lines. Is max
ing a tour OF inspection in the
valley.
Tokey will return 10 los Angeles
Friday night
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
DEAN FIELD
TAKES UP BOY
SCOUT WORK
BRAWLEY NOTES

Dean Field has resigned from the
Imperial Irrigation District power
division. to become associated IN
executive Boy Scout work. His
place has been filled by Falice
Galpin. Steven Harris. district pow
er division manager, announced
Mr.. and Mrs. ice Moore have
as their house guests. Mrs. N. +.
Plumm OF Lompoc Mrs. MooreS
mother and Mrs. C. r. Grant OF
Oakland. a sister OF Mrs Moore.
Mrs j. F. Warner and Mrs. J..
Ralph Anderson were visitors in
Ell Centre recently.
With Mrs. J. C. Archias hostess.
members of the Eastern Star social
club met Tuesday afternoon fer
their annual Christmas party.
Prizes for bridge we're won by Mrs.
Louis Head and Mrs. Thomas Stav-
ems. During the afternoon gifts
/ were exchanged Next meeting
will be hold at the homo OF Mr.
H p. Wilke.
Meeting at tho Planters hotel
Wednesday, noon the Brawlcy Ro-
tarians enjoyed a Christmas party
81 Carey and Con" Anderson were
co-chairmen of the day.
S'Amuser club members enjoyed
their annual Christmas party at
tic home of Mrs william Wvnns
Exchange or gifts and contract
were the diversions for the ave-
ming. Prizes were awarded TO Mrs.
Don O'Blences and Mrs Gertrude
Terry. Attcndin2 were M"%iamHs
.Gchn W Collins. Cecil Bradford,
Leo O'Brien. Don OBleneSS. George
Lucas, Frank Burris. T. r. Peterson
F.. l.. Terry, +. E. Culver, Gus
Montgomery and j. l.. Warren.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
County Briefs

Marriage License IssGed-Richard
York Watson. jr.. 80. and Margaret
Elizabeth Ligon, 26, Ell Centre resi-
dents obtained a marriage license
Thursday. according to records at
the office of County Clerk Wallace
j. McClelland
Moving from here to there or
back again. Piano and household
goods Buy Xmas tuberculosis
seals and enjoy a real Xmas, Pio-
neer Truck and Transfer Co
Phone |. D23
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
DELINQUENTS GET
MOST ATTENTION

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 24. up
} P. McAvoy, author who recent
y completed a Father Meets Son
series Of stories, today advised par
entS to have their children arrest
20 if they wish expert advice. Nc
hvoy explained that little is done
to keep normal children on the
straight path but that delinnuents
are given AL the attention."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

You Haven't Read All the News
Until You've read the Ads
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
THE SUPREME COURT ISSUE

1t can perhaps be taken for grant
ed that the changes in the Federal
courts suggested by President Roose-
welt would not have been asked for
if the Supreme Court had not de-
clared unconstitutional various laws
passed by Congress for the regula-
tion of industry and agriculture by
the Federal government.
The people are the court of final
resort. If they want the Federal
government to take on the authority
which these laws provided. they have
the power to carry that desire into
effect. Many will feel that the best
way to do it, if this is the feeling of
the people. would be to pass a con-
stitutional amendment giving the
Federal government these additional
powers.
The objection raised to that course
is that it takes too long to get con-
amendments ratified. In
1888. the amendment repeating pro-
h;bition was ratified within ten
months after Congress passed it. 1t
is not as difficult to amend the con-
stitution as some people think.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
THE NEW AUTOMOBILES

AS the spring weather comes on,
the people throng to the automobile
warehouses and shows. A man may
have no idea of buying a car when
he begins to look at them, but the
marvellous beauty and convenience
OF these machines may convince him
that he can't go any longer without
a new one.
When you compare the automobile
of today with those turned out at
the beginning of this century, the
change seems a miracle. Those who
recall riding in the wheeling and
splitting old machines of 1900 will
remember many sorrows of the road,
how the old bus would go back on
them at the most critical moments
and leave them to walk miles to the
nearest repair shop. They recall
how it labored up the hills as if its
strength might give out any minute
The speed. power, f1exibility, and
instant responsiveness of the mod
ern car passes all belief. The auto
mobile makers of 25 years ago
scarcely dreamed that such a prod
uct could be created. The mind of
man has so refined that intricate
of mechanical parts
that it obeys the slightest touch of
its master. The endurance of these
cars is another miracle. They ride
over rough roads, necessarily jolted
md yanked by these ruts and stones,
yet somehow they keep purring
llong like little clocks on a secure
helf.
The mind of man has produced the
most marvellous instrument for over
oming space, but the mind of the
river remains about as it was. If
e is careful and prudent. that su-
erb machine will carry him an in
redible distance. But if he is in
onsiderate and reckless, he may
I'm into a tree on his first day out
f the shop. Then what becomes
{ mans mechanical triumph?
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
CHILD LABOR

The American people do not want
to put children to work in mills and
factories at such an early age as to
injure their development and edu-
cation. But the amendment to the
United States constitution, giving
Congress control over such labor
has a hard time in getting ratified.
The Texas Senate has just beaten it
10 to 10.
The amendment gives Congress
power to limit, regulate, and pro-
hibit" the labor of persons under is
years old. Some people fear laws
might be passed to stop daughter
from washing the dishes, or pre-
vent Junior from working in the
garden.
Probably these fears are exagge-
rated. 1t has to be assumed that
future lawmakers will have some
Judgment. While many children are
injured by putting them to work
too early, many others are better off
while working than they would be
loafiing on the streets. Perhaps if
Congress would offer an amendment
a little less sweeping. it would slip
past the legislatures with less diff
ficulty.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME

The above question is answered
by two policewomen of Pittsburgh
Pa, who find that such runaways
are largely due to difficulties with
parents, also to the desire of many
girls to live their own lives and en-
gage in some form of work.
To many girls. the life of home and
school is a kind of cage against
which they beat their wings in vain.
After they have broken their wings
in contact with the hard realities of
life, they may wish they were back
in that safe cage, in which they
usually had all the freedom they
could make good use of. Perhaps
some of them get sour on home life,
because the boy friends don't tend
UP as they had hoped.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
WHAT THE MINISTER'S TELL US

II you attend church in Milford
or elsewhere, you have probably
heard the minister say something
about repentance, which is one of
the essential exercises of the Chris
tion season of Lent.
Such advice will be received with
hearty approval by many earnest
folks, who have only trifiing little
sins against their white record, and
who will PROSTATE themselves still
further in fgurative dust and ashes.
Meanwhile the hard selfish and
dishonest folks. of whom the world
is so full, will say they need no re-
pentance. and they are doing very
well as it is. In many cases these
folks do not realize that they need
any repentance. They got into
their harmful ways as the result of
slow and small beginnings dating
back to early youth. Their unlovely
lives seem perfectly justifiable to
them.
Frequently this type of people have
some virtues which they think cover
all faults. James Russell Lowell !
said:
"They atone for sins they are in
clined to,
By damning those they have no
mind to-"
The man who is crooked and dis
honest often feels he washes out all
that wrongdoing by being generous
20 people in need.
The world is a place of fierce COM
petition. which is in part necessary
is an incentive to energy. In this
struggle the idea is. Every one for
himself and the devil take the hind
nost' People forget to be kind and
hink only of themselves. The
world will never get any true hap |
'iness until it learns sympathy and
onesty. 1t won't learn those things
ntil it feels deep repentance for the I
rrors of the past. So the minister
5 right, however the old Adam in
S may say no. s
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
"EvERYONE FOR HIMSELF

In former days the progress of
cities was held back, because the
business people hustled only for their
own personal success. They would
not combine to obtain results they all
needed. This unfortunate tendency
has mostly disappeared, and busi-
ness people in any live city unite in
progressive and helpful measures.
Unfortunately, there are too many
people who in their own personal
lives still go on the everyone for
himself" principle. They won't give
time or money to any community
cause. They won't help out the town
by buying their supplies at home.
This attitude is an impediment to
progress.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12

I'm FORMER DAYS it was sup
posed to be a cardinal virtue in a
public man to prevent waste of the
public funds" writes Frank Kent
To-day he is treated as something
reprehensible =. That such state
of affairs can exist without public
concern is the best evidence Of the
degree to which the popular mind
has been anesthetized by . soggy
sentimentality. :"
Emergency spending, taxes and
the national debt have marched in
exorably to new high records. The
magnitude of this spending has given
the average citizen an entirely false
idea of economic values. Where,
generation ago, we regarded a mil
lion dollars as a lot of money, we
now read about billions with little
or no thought. Where once the
country was stirred by the rise of
the Federal debt to the billion mark,
We today view a Federal debt of
thirty-fve billions with equanimity.
Where a single Congress that a gen.
Grafton ago appropriated as much as
a billion dollars for years Federal
spending was once denounced for ex-
travagance, we now take a ten-billion |
dollar congress for granted.
Whether this is due to "soggy
sentimentality" or something else,
it is obvious that the public mind has
become anesthetized-it fails to see
itT place in the debt and tax picture.
1t is almost incredible that we should
permit the central government to
spend two dollars for every dollar
taken in-but we do. with the ap-
parent idea that someone besides
ourselves will pay. 1t is equally in
credible that the prediction prom
ises of economy" of thousand Of
ficeholders should be openly and
even proudly violated-but they are.
When will the American people
come out of the ether. and realize
that they are the ones who must
pay the tax and debt load? The gov
ernment has no way to pay its bills
except by taking hard-earned money
away from all the people through
taxation.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
ORGANIZATIONS PROMOTE
PROGRESS

The progress of a town depends
very much on whether people like
to live there. If they enjoy them
selves in city, if they have a good
time there, if their spare hours are
pleasantly occupied, they make
friends, they form close ties, and it
takes a big inducement to persuade
them to move away.
Social organizations thus play a
large factor. The card club, the
mems club, the dancing class. and
similar types of society build UP the
home town. People hate to live in
a place where there is nothing do
ing after its dark under the table,.
l. they have a chance to enjoy the
pastimes they like, the skies look
bluer, the stars shine brighter, and
the world looks more rosy. These
conditions people can create for
themselves anywhere. If they find
life dull, it is because they are too
dull themselves to wake up.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
UNSAFE WALKERS WARNED

The police of Indianapolis, Indiana
are warning pedestrians not to dc
unsafe things on the street. They
distributed 10000 warning cards in
four days, to such people who crossed
the streets at improper places. They
realize that many more must have
done SO without being seen.
While fast driving of cars may be
considered the main cause of acci-
dent when people are hit, yet pedes-
trians contribute largely by their
heedlessness. The Indianapolis po-
lice complain of the habit of cross
ing streets in the middle of a block,
where pedestrians have no right of
way. That may be very unsafe
place to cross, because the drivers
are not looking for them there.
In some places the middle of the
block may sometimes be the safest
place for crossing because at the
street intersections some car is Of
ten coming around the corner at too
fast a rate.
Automobiles run fast now, and it
is hard for many folks to realize
the dangers of traffic. Peoples |
minds are concentrated on their own
personal problems or their CONVEX
sation with friends. and they heed
lessly step out into the street as if
they owned the whole thoroughfare.
Their most dangerous habit is
probably that of stepping out into a
street from behind some
parked car. Motorists come down
100 fast past those lines of cars.
When somebody bobs out from the
line, he is likely to get hit.
The people of Milford should real
re how many people are being run
over in city and town streets, and
low the whole blame can not usually
,e put on the driver. The pedestrian
hould look both ways, he should
ross in places where approaching
motorists can see him. If he will do
hese things, his chances of living
o good old age will be largely in
reased.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
LENT SAYS SLOX nnXN

The distinctive thought of the
church season of Lent, is that men
and women should cease their hur-
ried striving after the material aims
of life, and put their thoughts on
higher subjects. The word lent
in the French language means
SLOW. Thus Lent may be said to
DC a time when people should slow
down and think.
Slowing down is not popular. If
you ask the automobile drivers to
do so, they laugh and step on the
gas little harder. AS a consequence
more people are laid up in the hos
pitsl. If you ask the pleasure seek
ers to slow down. they also jeer and
stay up later nights and drink more
cocktails. The headache and unfit
ness for work the next day is the
practical result
In this mechanical age. we depend
on speed TO turn out the elaborate
equipment of life. Machines run fas-
ter, and they reduce the cost of pro-
duction. That may he very well.
but there is danger that they speed
ur the workers so fast that they
wear out before their time.
This is also a going age, when
people dislike to sit down and think.
They would live longer if they spent
more evenings at home in reading
and quiet pleasures. If they are SO
restless that they have to keep going
until they just can't go any longer.
they pay price of nervous exhaus-
ton.
Lent is supposed to bring spiritual |
benefits. 1t leads millions of peo-
pie to give attention to the nobler
aims of life. In so doing, they be-
come disgusted with their former
low standards. Even apart from
such ideals. those who observe Lent
gain physically and mental
advantages from quieter and more
effective life.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
Milford, Friday, March 12, 1887

ADVOCATES OF cooperative SELL
ing and purchasing customarily
point to the small North European
countries as examples of the success
of the movement.
The record in these countries is
good. Cooperatives have been de-
veloped in many fields. But it should
be emphasized that they have gone
ahead because of ability-not through
governmental subsidies.
In Sweden, for example, where
cooperative business has been de-
yeloped in a wide scale, the organ
izations are subject to taxation, and
are regarded as are all other busi-
nesses. They aren't pets of govern
ment.
The better American cooperatives
also stand on their own feet-they
do not ask subsidies. tax-favoritism
or other benefits. But a certain
school of cooperative promoters
would have them subsidized by the
government in order to give coopera-
tive ventures unfair advantages over
competing business. This puts the
cooperative movement in bad light,
indicating that it cannot succeed on
merit.
The American people are in favor
of cooperatives, such as the agri-
cultural groups, which pay their own
way, take their own chances. and
fight their own competitive battles.
1t is unthinkable, however, that they
would favor a policy that would feed
cooperatives or any other kind OF
business at the public trough.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12
SEED CATALOG THOUGHTs

The traditional indoor sport of
February evenings in many homes
in Milford consists in study of the
seed catalog. The gardner is thrilled
by the wonderful pictures of glori-
fled dahlias and roses and tomatoes
and cabbages which he thinks he is
going to raise. In many cases he
does raise them, and lives longer in
consequence. Perhaps his enthu-
siasm will flag when spring fever
comes on. Even If he gets his seeds
well planted, he may be too tired to
weed and water them next July. Any
way, he has turned his thought to-
ward the most ancient and whole
some activity of men.
The old tradition had it that when
God created Adam. He gave him the
job of cultivating a garden. There
was every chance of happiness there
until the serpent entered. Today
you can find happiness in a garden,
but some more or less serpena like
desires try to entice us out of It.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12

SOME PEOPLE SHOUT very loud
for more pay, and then whisper
when it comes to advocating the in
terests of the home town, the sue
cess or failure of which largely de-
termines what their pay shall be.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12

THE BALL PLAYER who tries to
get balls that seem out of his reach
will get more than one who stands
still in his tracks. Same in busi-
ness. Nuff sed.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12

THE PEOPLE WHO blame some
body else for their failures and mis-
takes. don't seem to suggest any way
by which their results are going to
bt improved.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-12

"ALL THINGS COME to him who
waits. they say. The length of the.
waiting time can be greatly reduced
by advertising.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-06-02

near Teller. In l92l-'23 he was connected with the w. J. Rowe Transfer Co.,, as office manager beginning his long association with the mercantile life of Nome, of which he became so important a factor. In 1924 Mir. Stangroom became associated with the Nome Mines Corporation and in 1925 joined the staff of the Miners and Merchants Bank as cashier, re- taining that position up to the time of his death.
 During these l2 years of inti- mate association with the blls- ness and social life of his ccm- munity, Jack Stangroom won and held the respect and esteem of the entire city. A man of simple tastes and habits, quiet and self contained, he possessed to high degree the qualities of compan- ionship and friendliness. together with a broad tolerance for the views of others, and an unswerv- ing belief in personal integrity and fair dealing. It will be a difficult thing to replace Jack Stangroom in the life and in the hearts of our community.
 MT. Stangroom leaves an inn mediate family consisting of his wife, who has resided in Nome since 1921. their only son, Stuart, and grand daughter, Eileen, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Stuart Stangroom.
 The bereaved family has the deep sympathy of the entire com in their hour of sorrow.
 Funeral services were held to- day at ? P. M. at the Federated church, Rev. Vincent Widney, off, ficiating.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-06-02
DEATH OF J. s. STANGROOM

It Is with extreme regret that we chronicle the passing of J. s. Stangroom, cashier of Nome'S Miners and Merchants Bank for many years. Death visited our esteemed fellow townsman while he was engaged in the sport he loved so we'll, hunting and fish ing with group of friends.
 His party travelled late Satur- day by dog team, to Jim keenan's Hastings camp, where after a short rest and breakfast they scattered to the hunting grounds. It was here in the midst of dis coursing on a subject clcse to his heart, big game hunting, that Jacks spirit quietly and peace fully slipped away.
 J. s. Stangroom was born in 1869 at San Francisco, California, and spent the days of his early youth and young manhood in the Pacific Coast States. It is inter- esting to note that J. s. Stan groom was taken to Alaska as a young boy by his father, a mining eng g.neer, who spent some time inspecting mining properties in Southeastern Alaska.
 MT. Stangroom returned to AL aska in 1918, spending several seasons mining on American river
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-06-02
Tuesday

Pilot-manager Mirow of the MAS, early today took off for Bluff with load of supplies for the Topkok Chief Mining Co. and on returning stopped at Solomon to pick up young Ruth Curran, daughter of Pete Curran, bring ing her to Nome for hospitaliza- ton.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-06-02

Pilot Walter Hall arrived today in Juneau and is assembling the new Wien 2 place multiple duty Stinson Reliant plane which is to
 be flown from Juneau via Fair banks to Nome, where it will be operated in the service of the
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-06-02

Pilot MiroW took off for Fair banks, flying the lately overhaul ed Lockheed plane at PM to- day, with the US. mail and Jas. Platt of the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a passenger.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-06-02
Wednesday

Pilot Sig Wien of the W.A.A., took off early today for Keenan's Taylor creek camp with Jesse Fleahardy as a passenger,
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-06-02

Nome Agent Basset of the Pa c.fic Alaska Airways stated that the regular Wednesday Fairbanks Nome flight was cancelled today