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Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
Liindberghs Land
AT India Airport

KARACHI. India, Feb. 10. U.P)
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh, on a flying holiday trip
from England, arrived at Gwadur,
in India, at 7 pm. today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
FL Centro Groups
In Stand Against
Court Legislation
Resolutions Passed by 2O-3O Club, Bar
Association Here; Protest Boost
In Number of Justices

Two Imperial Valley mems organizations the county
bar association and the Ell Cenro 2O3O club Friday
ed resolutions protesting President Franklin D. Roosevet
proposal to reform the judiciary system by legislation
The resolutions pointed out the uncertain benefits
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
Men, Women, Trapped by Billiards, to
'Mush" Out on SnOwshoes After
Since Christmas Wait

GRAND CANYON Ariz, Feb 10 (UP)-Thirty men
and two women marooned by deep at Bright Angel
lodge since Chrsmas will mush" on snowshoes per-
haps late today rescue reported here
The snowbound party, members of construction crew.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
100 Sitdowners
Defend Factory
In 2-Hour Siege
Fire Hoses Spray Acid on Sheriff's Men
In Illinois; Attempt to Evict
Strikers Unsuccessful

WAUKEGAN, ILL.,, Feb 10. (UP)-Strenuous peace
efforts made today after 120 police and sherffs
deputies had batted unsuccessfully for two hours
efforto dsodge 100 stdown strikers the Fansteel
Metallurgcal corporation plant near here
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19

Air Waves---
Graham McNamee, look to youi
laurels! The radio broadcasting
team of Bill Tondro and Fred
Kenyon, making its debut at
Thursdays Rotary meeting. de-
ceived nearly all the Eotarians
who thought they were listening
to program from a small Ohio
town. Actually, the dialogue was
broadcast by means of micro
phone set up nearby. Swell stunt
King Lettuce
Mike MCGEE is popped up to the
nth degree over the highly ex-
elusive Lettuce Ball set for Satur-
day night Mike says 1T will be
the most elaborate ever staged
Makes you envy those lucky ones
who have invitations.
Out of The Past
The Ten Years Ago in the
News Files" Editor brought ou,
out an interesting item Ten years
ago today Pop Keller breezed
around the golf course (the old
Inks in snappy 80. Doc zinn
hung up an 88 and Jack Strobel
was low with "a. Don Rex turned
in a II, Pinky Loud took high
honor5 with 112 and Penny Rich
mond carded a "a.
Tony's Night
Tony, the famous spaghetti and
ravioli dispenser, this last name
somehow escapes us) celebrated his
55th birthday Thursday night. Ed
die Schiller was second honor
guest. Ever know that Tony was
a captain in the Italian army dur
ing the war?
Hero Worship
Every conversation among the
males of Imperial Valley turns
without fail to the rosy time when
the Pittsburgh Pirates will play in
Ell Centro. Man and boy live for
the day when the famous base
ball team will be here in the flesh.
Talk about golf widows!
Hopping French
"Firemen save my child" won't
mean much Saturday night be-
cause the Ell Centre depai tment
will play host at their annual
dance. The only residents who
won't like the dance are the men
who have to remain Oh duty al
the fire hall while their cohorts
trip the light fantastic. The OLD
meanies refused to tell what they
planned to serve at their famous
midnight feed. Just for that, 1t
would serve them right if there
was big fire about II pm
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19

Butter: Los Angeles 35tse;
Butterfat. Imperial Valley fob.
ranch, Grade A 42Isc: manufac-
turing milk 37isc; route gather
ed cream 33lzc.
L. A. Hav: u. s. No. ! extra
leafy S31-32; u. 5. No. S2S.50-
$3.50; U. S. No. leafy S2s.50-
$29.5O; u. s. No. 2 $26.O0-26.5
Minneapolis flax $2.16-2.22.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
BANK DEBTS

BUILDING PERMITS
To Date This Year
S30,965
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07

Knowing that anything pertain
ing to electric power and light is OF
unusual interest to people of Ben
ton County, the 3 Spokesman viii
publish, next week, an article by d.
F. McC,r1ach, comparing private
utility rates in Portland with those
of Seattle. Mr.. McCurrach is q
champion Of privately owned util-
tiles. The Spokesman does not
publish this article as a reflection
of QUIZ own ideas, but simply to be
of benefit to people of the district
who will be called upon, some time
in the future, to settle their power
problems in a practical and intel
ligent way. If the article arouses
rebuttal arguments, we shall feel
that publishing it was worth while.
All information available is not too
much.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07
AND WELL REMEMBER
THAT CLOUDY DECEMBER

Above head contains the gist of
the United States Department. Of
Agriculture's weather bureau OBJ
seryations for December by Gabriel
Jaddal, Wahluke observer. Here is
his report:
Maximum temperature, 81, on the
21st; Minimum temperature, IL, on
the. End; Total precipitation, 81
inch and the total snowfall was one
half inch There was one clear day
(imagineD, four partly cloudy, and
twenty-six cloudy days.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07
Joint Schools (
Organize Work
Instructors of Hanford School Join
Local Faculty. Curriculum
Larger. New Classes.

Hanford High School students,
deprived Of their own school by a
fire, began attending the White
Bluffs High School, Wednesday,
when about twenty OF them en-
rolled, or registered. About ten
more are expected to register soon.
Disposition Of the curriculum and
the faculty has been arranged to
accommodate the new pupils New
classes will be opened in Biology,
General Mathematics, Physics, and
for the Girls Glee Club.
Mr.. Harris will have charge Of
the Hanford Schools and will also
conduct some of the high school
courses in mathematics. He will
also do some of the coaching.
Miss Margaret E. Moseley will
have charge Of the Girls Glee Club
and will teach classes in English.
MT. Moe will teach classes in BIZ
ology, Ciyics, World Hito1y, and
PHYSICS.
It will be several days before the
necessary books are here and all
school affairs are running smoothly,
but the preliminary adjustments
have been made and time will weld
the school into an efficient working
unit once more.
Physical aspects Of the readjust-
1nent to accommodate the newly
registered Hanford students are
detailed in the school paper, "The
Blackboard" in this issue.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07
p. R. Irrigation
Directors Meet
B. Saavini To Head Directors For
Coming Year. w. y. Kincaid
To BE Board Secretary.

The organization meeting of the
Board of Directors OF the Priest
Rapids Irrigation District was held,
early in the week. B. Salvini was
elected President and, w. j. Kincaid
was elected Secretary w. II. Keal
and VIM. S.:Webber are the other
members of the Board.
Water charge for the coming ir-
rigation year was set at IS per acre,
ntle same rate that prevailed last
wear. The assessment for bonds
and interest was placed at 6Oc per
acre for water-right land and 9Oc
per acre for nom water right land.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07

Heightened by the cold weather,
an epidemic of nl-health has hit
the valley, sufficiently embracing to
cause the postponement of parties,
meetings, etc.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07

There was a half Inch of snow
on the 3lst, or OF inch of precipit-
alton. There was .O5 inch precipit-
alton on the 4th.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07
Rhodes Scholar >
Tells Of England
A Breath of Old England AS Given
From the PEN of Donald
Wheeler, at Oxford

Mrs. F. Nd. Wheeler, responding
TO a request from the Spokesman
Office, has kindly allowed us to pub
liSh the following excerpts from a
letter from her son, Donald Wheel
er, a Rhodes scholar now studying
at Oxford University, Oxford,
England. The letter gives one AN
impression of English scenes, life,
and architecture that is un1nistak-
ably British and characteristic. BE
fore starting the Letter, let us a9ssssss-
lyze for you a common, but fallen
into American disuse, expression,
"weald." This is an old Anglo-Sax
on word, once synonymous with
''wold." Wold has two meaning
a wood on forest, and alill or tree
less plain. AS we understand it,
weald takes the latter meaning, that
of open country. You will pardon
us for venturing this explanation,
but the writer had never heard the
word used in the United States and
we thought likely you would appre-
ciate the explanation.
"My room has a fireplace which
sends all the noxious fumes and
smoke up the chimney (orlly CRATE
Of it's kind. In addition to the fire
place, this room has floor Of heWn
oak planlS which falls away grace
fully from its summit near the
writing desk. There is a high
Gothic window and a window
bench, the kind people sit on. The
ceiling Is just ceiling Last year ]
had a fine huted one and 1t is al
most out CT sight. Ypll see this Is
in the tower OF Pembroke College
Or. Samuel Johnson's. Room .s-..
'.The furniture is rough and tough
and useful and quite good looking
and, in short, / have the best room
in college. The learned DR.. john
SON used to live here and you can
see picture of tine room in the IL
Illustrated "Boswell's Life of DR..
johnson" I advise against looking
at this picture, because 1T looks
more like Swift's Chicago plant
than my room. The supreme asset
of this room lis the little twisted
stair leading up to the Tower to
get here-a stair of rough oak, WORN
down by the feet Of ten generations
of scouts-but the real point is,
the drunks can't negotiate the
curves and they leave me alone.
Oscar and have just come back
from Tonbridge. The weald of Kent
looked dismal under bitter fog
and the meadows have turned a
colorless brown. Arragon and o.
car and I went walking up the
Midway, across the sheep runs,
and among the bleak oaks.
ION sunny day, the hills are
fine, even in winter, but in the fog
they are depressing and turn one
to reflection LON the reasons why
it is good wool country; and how
warm it is in the hop kilns; and
how long it has been since the
weald was denuded of trees. Kent
was one of the centers Of the iron
industry and the woods went for
charcoal for the snlelters and for
ship tiInbers.
There is thrill in riding my
bicycle through the Cornmarket.
1t is impossible ito cross the High
during certain hours. Tt carries
more bike traffic than any other
street in the world. The Minister
of Transport counted the bikes dur
ing one brisk hour and got just ov-
Ell fourteen thousand" A
Heightened by the cold weather,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07
Ancient Scientists
Not So Backward
How Our FOreRathers Anticipated
Modern Science.-By Rev.
John C.. Pate

expression: 1--WE are living in the
most advanced age of the worlds
history" And we are apt to pity
our ancestors, as some of us are
inclined, to do, for having, as we
sometimes put it, "been born too
soon"
But let us beware that we have
not miSread our histories. The
simple fact is that the ancients
knew almost everything we know
but their knowledge was not SO
generally diffused.
Twenty centuries before the birth
of James Watt, Hero, of Alexand-
ria, amused his friends by demon
strating to them how he could
make balls dance i'm a jet of steam.
Among others Of his ingenious in
wenAions was am apparatus, con-
sisting of q small sphere, which was
moved ON pivots by the action Of
fsteam, generated in a heated boiler.
He also invented double force
pump, used as a fire engine. And
he anticipated the modern turbine
wheel by a machine which he called
"Neophile."
| Although electricity dates from
little more than half a century ago,
the Greeks had a word for 1t, more
than two Thousand years ago. For
the term electricity" itself is de-
rived from the Greek word for am
her, ("electicon'D and the reason is
that, about 600 b. c., Thales dis
covered that amber, when rubbed,
attracted light, dry bodies. AS early
as tllestweHth century, THE scientific
priests of Etruria drew lightning
from the clouds by means of iron
rods.
So, too, with gas. Though it Is
only a little ovre a century ago
since Murdoch a Scotsman, gave us
coal gas lighting, natural gas, con-
veyed in bamboo tubes I'M place Of
leaden pipes, was used by the Chi
nese people; centuries ago.
The Chinese, too, seem to have
known something about the modern
gramophone, for one of the Mongol-
ian writer's tells of boxes which re-
produced the sound of voices of
men long since dead.
Vaccination is one of the medic
al discoveries Of the past two CEN
turies upon which we pride our
selves. But the oriental physicians
Of India are known to have prac-
ticed vaccination a thousand years
ago.
And, while chloroform was one Of
the blessings which the last century
gave us, through Sir James Si1np-
son, there were anaestIetics in use
In the days of Homer. The Chinese
too in order to deaden pain, used a
preparation of hemp, which they
called "Una Yo."
Some time ago. many newspapers
reported the discovery of a process
Wy WVILC1l SlCsSoo ScVli NC oPAA1 11lOO
fabrics, for dresses, floor coverings,
etc. But the ancients knew all a.
bout spinning glass into garments,
dyeing it in every shade of the rain
bow, and etching lit with marvellous
skill. Indeed, those wonderful glass
makers of those far-off times prac-
ticed methods of making glass mall
leable Of which we are quite ignor-
ant today.
The best steel we can turn out Is
no better than that of which the
famous knives and swords of Dam
ascus were made, centuries ago;
and all the mechanical powers
screw, lever, wedge, wheel and axle,
inclined planes were in every day
use among the ancients.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07
Interesting Items ..
From Exchanges
MabtOn, Ps0sser, Grandview, Ken.
newick. Paso0 and RichIand
Contribute News Items
More Money for Spslds

More Money for Spuds nj
A nunexpected advance in the
potato market came. Tuesday of
this week, and sent valley buyers
into the field, offering $35 ton and
sacks, for No Ones and $25 for No.
sSEIrswos. Some. stocks were obtained,
but many growers r,eefused to- sell at
those, prices raal6Wlew Herald.
x u
SOHon Married
Congressman Hill NTarries-Ac-
cording to press dispatches, Com
gresham Knute Hill has staged a
surprise for his Prosser friends by
getting married. The following ap
peared in tale Sunday Spokesman
Review. ~
"IHle marriage of Representative
Knute Hill, of Prosser, fourth Wa
shington District representative, and
Miss Virginia Falkenberg, assistant
postmaster of College Place, took
place, Christmas Eve, at Pendleton,
Oregon, the bride announced to-
night. Justice NorSooaule Berkeley
performed the ceremony in the
presence of the brides mother, Mrs.
20. F. Falkenbrg, and Ebert Cas-
teel, Unaatilla County Clerk. HILL
left, that night, for Washington, ID.
20, and Mrs. FILL will join him early
i'm january. The bride is q gradu-
ate Of Walll Walla College, College
Place. Her father IS a highway SUI
pervisor id Mcltnosnah county, Or
Aegoca. -E1osser Record
Fatal Christnas Accident |,
Mrs. Marie EIa1iberg, SO, was ia
tally injured, Christmas Eve, when sn
shef}sW y aScar on the high
way between town and the bridge.
She suffered a fractured skull and
died, a few hours later, in the Pas
co Hospital Kennewick Courier
Reporter. sN
/
Pasco Bridge to Get Redecked
Bids for the redecking and paint
ing of the Pasco- Kernewick bridge
have been asked by L. w. Mrrrow,
state director of highways, and will
be opened in Olympia, January IL.
-PaSco Herald. -
Meteorite or Gas Explosion?
Mabton grew all ''1aet up" about
two dark spots in the SNOW, ten
miles out, off the Bickleton road. "A
smoke appeared to rise over them
in the daytime and q blue-Violet
flame alovered over them at might,
claimed the Mabton druggist. JEFF
Clogston, saw THE smoke. John
Mourning and Harry Snayth drove
out to it, but the spots were high
UP ON a hill and they learned little.
They said there appeared to be
dust and debris scattered about and
1.-THE holes appeared to be about four
feet apart. Dick bennington said
he heard a blast Theories ad-
vanced were that gas pocket had
blown out or that a meteorite had
fallen there. as
X X X NJ ~
Prosser Pastor Sues His Church
s. j. Cler1nont, olsted pastor of
the Prosser Baptist church, filed
suit, Tuesday, against the church,
for $3.50, together with $3.50 for att
torney's fees, claiming that the
same is due him for services and
materials used in repainting the
church and in digging a basement
room, 30x35 feet, with walls and
flooring. The cross complaint, filed
by his attorneys, states that he filed
a lien, for the above amount a.
gainst the church, November 18th
of this wear and asks that he he
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07

per acre for NON water-right land.
stalled as pastor here; had been
given the privilege of using part OF
the church building as a. place OF
residence; and that he had never
been legally dismissed. Officers OF
the church recently took Cieaznlont
to court in am custer action, the
restraining order having been made
permanent, pending final action
Pusser Record Bulletin. NA
Richland Pioneer Passes
Phillip John Schireanan, II, passed
away in his home, Monday morn
ing, December %, following a siege
Of very poor health during the past
six months. The deceased is one
Of Richla1ld's pioneers, having been
a. resident here for the past thirty
one years. Benton County Aduo-
cate.
: M
\ Pascn Money Well Hanaled y
General improvement in the fin
ancial condition and efficiency OF
the city is in the report given by
e. P. Mckinney, Of the state audit
or's department, covering the per-
iod between April 1, 1895 and Sep
TENDER 80, 1896 This audit is con-
Quoted every six months. -Pasco
Herald.
Wallowa Rapids Win Decision
Chained by the engineering gem
ius Of man, with mighty concrete
and steel dams and bridges, the
once proud Columbia river roared
ia final protest last week against a
complete Harvesting of her power.
Today she is still queen of the west,
uncomquered by the stermest efforts
of the little towboat, Mary Gail, to
navigate the swift Unatilla Rapids
with a load of $4,000 gallons of gas
ofine. Resting serenely on the
smoother waters Of the river at
Wallula, is a floating dock, built to
pump gasoline from the barges to
the storage tanks still unused. The
dock will probably remain idle UNI
til 1897 at least, authorities stated,
Saturday, because the ship locks ait
Bonneville dam will be closed on
January 18th and will not be reop-
ened until the dam is completed,
sometime in the next two years. !"
Final efforts were made, Thursday,
to crash Through the three miles of
rough water and sharp bends above
Unlatilla, but, after repeated efforts,
the Mary Gail and her barge were
taken back to Plymouth and the
gasoline was transferred to trucks.
Despite the failure to reach
Wallula, the experiment proved that
the channel to Umatilla is aIavigable
lat all times and, if the river had
not been so low, the Mary Gail UNI
doubleday would have reached Wal
lula. AS soon as passage is permit
ted when the Bonneville locks are a.
gain opened, river commerce may
reach the level it enjoyed in the
early dayS.-PaSco Herald.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07
The Weather

Maximum and minimum temper
atures recorded by observer Moffitt
at the Hanford weather station:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-01-07

A nunexpected advance in the
potato market came, Tuesday of
this week. and sent valley buyers
into the field, offering $35 a ton and
sacks, for NO. Ones and $25 for No.
ssIwps.~ Some. stocks were obtained,
but snsaalys growers refused to- sell at
those prices II, aalhNlew Herald.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-23
GOLF TOURNEY
DRAWS STARS

OLD POINT MORT
BEACH, Va, July 2t.-Golf has
taken the sport spotlight here fol-
lowing completion of plans for the
forthcoming Middle Atlantic P. G..
A. golf championships at the
Chamberlin Country Club July 81
and August i.
One hundred Of the brightest
stars are scheduled to tee off in
the two-day tourney, scheduled for
u holes.
The professional contingent will
include Wee Bobby Cruickshank,
Virginia open champion; Whiffy
Cox, of Washington; Chandler
Harper, of Portsmouth, Va, win.
ner of the P. G. A. Sweepstakes in
May; Bob Barrett, of Washington,
former holder of the Middle Allan
tic P. G. A. crown; Cliff Spencer,
washington pro.
The returning Ryder Cup play
ers may arrive in time to join this
contingent.
In the finals for the Chamber
lin Country Club championships
this week, John H. Jeanette
emerged the victor by 4 and 3
over Charles Salzberger.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-23
Hon1ing Pigeons
Confused By
Radio Waves

The radio is blamed for max
liz homing pigeons fly around in
circles.
This discovery was made by
the Navy Department as the re-
suit Of experiments at the Lake
hurst IN. - naval air station.
The department announced that
while the tests were not suffi-
GENTLY thorough to warrant con-
illusions, nevertheless the influ-
ence of radio activities made the
pigeons somewhat Tightly
Groups of five birds were re-
leased from the radio telephone
station at Ocean Gate, N. j.. at
times when the station was trans
Knitting. The birds, confused by
The radio waves, flew in an erratic
and confused manner. close to the
station, requiring from AZ to So
minutes to get their bearings and
return to their home loft 10 miles
distant.
other groups, released when the
aransnnitter was shut down, cir
sled the station in the customary
manner and made the trip to
The home loft within 10 to Il
minutes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-23
MANY LUZ f )
AT BENEDICT

To any one who knows the JOY
Of starting in the cool Of the
morning, just when the rosy dawn
is tinting the smooth, gentle
water, who knows the pleasure OF
anchoring far off shore, casting
his line into the depths, waiting
patiently for the warning tug, the
sudden grasp, the mad rush, Of
game, fighting fish, Benedict is
the ideal spot for a few days
vacation.
You will like Benedict from the
moment you top the green ILL
and glimpse the broad, blue waters
of the Patuxent stretching far
away towards the bay. You will
like it when you pass the pretty
church standing at the entrance
to the street to welcome you and
wish you God speed. You will like
it when you make your way down
the tree-lined road, past the tiny
business section, past Dudley'S
general store, Parker's grocery,
Harding's emporium, past the
wooded grove with its neat clean
cabins, past the well-stocked tav-
ern of Captain Shorter, who has
q welcoming smile and pleasant
word for all corners; past the
restaurant Of Chapelier on the
river bank facing her attractive
home, to the cozy hotel Of Me-
sicks', with its cool porches, sandy
beach, and it's memories of official
WaShingtonianS who in the years
gone by made this their retreat
from the affairs of state.
You will like Benedict better
when you secure one of the sub
stantial boats moored along the
shore for your use, chug away to
some quiet spot to rest, and fish
and dream, and to return happy
and contented after a pleasant
holiday.
The fishing at Benedict has
never been better. Drive down
some Sunday and after you return
home you will be able to give old
Izaak Walton himself pointers on
the gentle art of sharing the
elusive denizens of the deep.