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Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
SECRECY I'LL ADVISED
ON PUBLIC PROJECTS

Any newspaper reporter who has ever
attempted to find out any details of
construction, operation or proposed
management of the Resettlement Ad-
ministration's migratory workers camp
at Brawley knows that it is next to
impossible = at least from official
sources. The men in San Francisco and
perhaps in Washington. who are bossinc
expenditure of public money on this
public project, have efficiently and
completely muzzled local supervisors.
The penalty for giving out information,
one infers, is discharge.
II you ask simple question, the an
swer to which should be on tongues
end of the local official addressed. YOU
are informed politely but firmly that
such information can come from only
one source. That is the publicity office
at San Francisco.
The American form of government is
based on the theory that the public has
sense enough to run its own business
One wonders sometimes if that is what
the Resettlement Administration is
afraid of. Perhaps they realize that the
public cannot act logically or for that
matter, at all, if it does not know what
is going on in what the Administration
sometimes jokingly refers to as public"
projects.
The present arrangement has one good
point (from the Resettlement Admins
tration's viewpoint). With all publicity
coming from the San Francisco office, it
is certain that no one will know of any
thing detrimental to the Resettlement
Administration.
Whether the Resettlement Administra-
ton, or any other administration, should
be allowed to make a Little Tin God of
itself by strict absentee control of all
information about its doings is quite
another matter-but it is one of public
policy, also.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
yEI;lIj 2EyYNISId

erS' service connections theretoO;
said bonds to be sold and delivered
to the United States of America for
not less than the par value thereof
and accrued interest thereon to the
date of delivery.
That said offer shall be accepted
and become a binding contract on
the day following the approval
thereof by the qualified electors of
Imperial Irrigation District voting
at special election to be called and
held for that purpose land for the
purpose of authorizing the issuance
of said revenue bonds) in the man
ner provided by law and when an
acceptance thereof is duly executed
by the District upon the approval
thereof by the California Districts
Securities Commission. Particular
notice is hereby given that the
Board of Directors intends to call
and hold said election as soon a
practicable. '
That a brief summary of the con-
tents of said offer is as follows: Said
offer provides for the construction
by said District of an electrification
project hereinbefore referred to, in
accordance with plans and specifi-
cations to be prepared by the Dis
trict. Payment for said work shall
be made through funds advanced by
the Government through the pur-
| chase of the revenue bonds to be is
sued by the District, containing the
! provisions and subject to the condi-
tions hereinbefore referred to and
through a proposed grant from the
Government. Said offer provides
that said grant shall be in the
amount of 45oo of the cost of said
project upon completion, as de-
termined by the Federal Emer-
gency Administrator of Public
Works., but that the Government
shall not be required to increase
said grant to an amount in excess
OF $l,242000. The District is requir-
ed to comply with all applicable
laws and to furnish proper records
of account and to cause said revenue
bonds to be issued in compliance
with the terms and conditions of
said offer as herein briefly sum-
married.. A copy of said offer
now spread upon the minutes or
the Board of Directors of Imperial
Irrigation District and copy there
Of in on file in the office of the Sec
retary of said District and open to
the inspection of all interested per-
sons during business hours. Refer
ence is hereby made to said Pub
lie Works Administration Offer
March 27, 1880 SO filed and en-
tered for further particulars there
of and the same is hereby incor-
porated herein and hereby made a
part hereof.
Dated: Ell Centre. Imperial Coun-
ty, California, this 18th day of
May, 1897.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS OF IMPERIAL
IRRIGATION DISTRICT.
w. w. GOODSOH
EpgrptgTU --r.-..
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17

assessments or water tolls); said
bonds to be sold and delivered to
the United States of America by
and through the Rural Electrifica-
tion Administration for not less
than the par value thereof and
accrued interest thereon to date
of delivery.
That said contract shall become
effective on the date following the
approval thereof by the qualified
electors of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict voting at special election
to be called and held for that pur-
pose (and for the purpose of au-
thorizing the issuance of said rev.
enue bonds in the manner provided
by law and when duly executed by
the parties thereto upon the ap-
proval thereof by the California
Districts Securities Commission.
Particular notice is hereby given
that the Board of Directors intends
to call and hold said election as
soon as practicable.
That a brief summary of the con-
tents of said contract is as follows:
Said contract provides for the con-
struction. by said District by force
account of a rural Identification
project hereinbefore referred to, in
accordance with plans and specifi-
cations to be prepared by the Dis
trict and approved by the Rural
Electrification Administration. Pay
ment for said work shall be made
through funds advanced by the
Rural Identification Administra-
tion through the purchase of the
revenue bonds to be issued by the
District, containing the terms and
subject to the conditions here
! inbefore referred to. The District
is required to comply with all APP
plicable laws and to furnish proper
records of account and to cause
said revenue bonds to De issued In
compliance with the terms ano
conditions of said contract as here
in briefly summarized. A copy Oh
said contract is now spread upon
the minutes of the Board of Di-
rectors of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict and a copy thereof is on file
in the office of the Secretary OF
said District and open to the in
spection of all interested persons
during business hours. Reference is
hereby made to said Rural Electri-
! fication Administration Contract
! March 5, 1870 so filed and entered
for further particulars thereof and
the same is hereby Incorporated
herein and hereby made a part
hereof.
Dated: Ell Centro, Imperial County
California, this 18th day of May
| 1897.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS20 OF IMPERI-
AL IRRIGATION DISTRICT
w. w. GOODSON.i
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
MAY II, 1912


Grant WinsloW left for Los An
geles where he will remain for sew
eral days.
1t is understood that G.. S. Helms
will be appointed public admins
traitor in place of E. f. Forester
recently resigned.
Twenty Years Ago
May II, 1917
Secretary Don c. Bitter of the
Chamber of Commerce today dis
covered a clever graft" which small
boys have been attempting in con-
nection with the fly killing cam
paign.
The boys, or at least one boy
killed a pint of flies, and after
submitting them to the chamber OF
commerce office for payment, sup
posedly dumped them in the large
receptacle for that purpose. Instead
he quietly slipped out and gave
them to another urchin. The sec
ond boy then brought the pint Of
flies in for payment. Dumping OF
flies will be accomplished before
payment hereafter, according tC
Bitter.
Ten Years Ago
May II, 1927
Two boys are reported to have
run away from home near Mount
Signal. The boys are Robert Ken
ney and Jess Micchell, both fifteen
The temperature scared to los
today and valley residents began
to dig out their electric fans fol-
another summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
New York Day by Day
By Williams

he carried were because all his life
he has hoped to unsheath his sword
and rescue a lady in distress.
BagatelleS: Charlie Chaplin can
not talk business to any man behind
a desk His youth was filled with
rebuffs over a desk top. Paterson
Dial, who is writing such dandy
fiction, is Mrs. Rupert Hughes in
private life. T.. Ben Ames Williams
works feverishly for three months
and rests one. . Lanny Ross was
christened Lancelot Patrick Ross.
A brightie barging up to the news
stand in the Algonquin for a stamp.
When the attendant inquired what
kind, he said: "One with a picture
of Ina Claire on it. I'm tired OF
those generals"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
the electors of Imperial Irrigation
District that the United States of
America hereinafter called tn e
"Government'), acting through the
Federal Emergency Administrator
of Public Works hereinafter called
the "AdministratorO, has proposed
contract to the Imperial Irrigation
District in accordance with an Of
fer to said District, the nature Of
which in substance is as follows:
The United States of America, act
ing through the Federal Emergency
Administrator of Public Works, pro-
poses to aid the Imperial Irrigation
District in financing the following
project, to-Wit: The construction OF
a hydro electric generating plant
(now designated by the Bureau OF
the Interior as All-American Canal
Power Plant No. A., additions and
improvements to an existing diesel
electric generating plant at BraW-
ley, and an electric transmission
and distribution system, including
necessary equipment and the ac-
QUESTION of necessary land and
rights-of- way therefor, by making
a grant to Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict in the amount of forty-five
(45) per cent of the cost of said
project upon completion, as deter
mined by the Federal Emergency
Administrator of Public Works, but
not to exceed in any event the sum
of $1,242,000, and by purchasing
from the District $1,5l8,000 principal
amount of bonds of the District at
par and accrued interest.
That the consideration therefor is
the issuance by Imperial Irrigation
District of revenue bonds in the ag-
gregate principal amount of $l,5l8,-
900 to be dated as of the first day OF
the month next succeeding the date
on which the question of the lSSu-
ance of said bonds shall be sub
mitted to the electors of said Dis
trict; to bear interest at the rate OF
AZ per annum, payable semi-an-
nually; to mature serially in annual
installmentS commencing January
l, l941, and ending January l, 1867
in not less than $4,000 nor more
than $4,000 for each installment
and to be payable exclusively (ex-
cept as to a certain amount of in
terest during construction) out of
the special fund to be designated
Sixth Issue United States Contract
Fund derived from the revenues of
the electric system of the District
now or hereafter acquired and con-
structed, but excluding therefrom
the portion of the electric system fl
nanced by the Rural Identification
Administration dncluding consum-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
By O. O. Mcintyre

when Texas wrote in to the editor:
Tell that fellow who illustrates
that column to sign his name bigger
He's good" The artist had been
rafting around for years, getting
where, when the editor, nudged
by the Guinan boost, began to not
ice him. He was given more i'm
portant features to illustrate and
finally became an editorial page
cartoonist with a quick jump to
the important money division.
X
When I read something like this
as l did the other day in a national
weekly magazine, I think Of the
advice of Jesse Rainford Sprague:
THE door, a huge, ancient one,
swung slowly open, revealing in the
dimly lit hallway a shadowy fig
ure of a girl, a wan, tired, care
burdened figure. etc" 1t was Spra
que who said the first duty of every
writer was to watch his adjectives
and use them sparingly. Sprague, a
great short story writer, regarded by
editors as the skimpieSt of all with
adiectiveS. He sticks to noun and
verb, subject and predicate and it
is remarkable what forward-run-
ming stories he spins.
X
A psychologist declares that New
York has several hundred roman
ticists who appear to the public as
prosaic. And that is true the world
over. c.. K. Chesterton in England
admitted that the Inverness cape
which he wore, and the sword cane
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
NOTICE OF PROPOSED "RURAL
lELECTRIFICATION ADMIN
ISTRATION CONTRACT
March < 1927

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
the electors OF Imperial irrigation
District that the Rural Electrifica-
ton Administration. acting under
and for and on behalf of the Unit
ed States Of America, has proposed
a contract to the Imperial Irriga-
ton District the nature of which,
in substance, is as follows:
The Rural Identification Admin
istration, under and pursuant to
the Rural Electrification Admins
tration Act of 1896, by and on
behalf of the United States of
America proposes to lend to the
Imperial Irrigation District an
amount not to exceed 100000, for
the purpose of enabling the Dis
trict to construct a rural electrifi-
cation project Gas more fully de-
scribed in said contracD, consisting
of approximately 600 miles OF
electric transmission and diStribu-
ton lines in rural areas within
Imperial Irrigation District, Impe-
rial County, State of California
including lines on private property
to serve individual customers, to
be constructed substantially within
the general plan of location of lines
and other elements of the project
Gas more fully described in said
contract) for the purpose OF fur
nishing electric energy to approxi-
mately 1900 customers, together with
sub stations, secondarieS, trans
formers, meters and all other ap-
purtananceS necessary for the eff
cient operation Of the project de-
scribed in said contract. the pro-
ceeds of said loan to be applied
to the cost of said project (as
defined i'm said contracD, including
certain interest on the revenue bonds
hereinafter referred to during such
construction.
That the consideration therefor
is the issuance by Imperial Irriga-
ton District of revenue bonds not
to exceed in aggregate principal
amount 100000, to be dated as of
May l, 1887, or such later date as
may be satisfactory to the parties;
to bear interest at the rate OF
2.7796 per annum, payable semi
annually; to mature serially in semi
annual irrtsgments commencing
January /, 194l, and ending July l
1856, in not less than $4,000 nor
more than $4,000 per each semi
annual installment. and to be pay
able exclusively out Of the special
fund to be designated Fifth Special
Issue United States Contract Fund.
derived from the revenues of said
rural electrification project to be
constructed from the proceed.H OF
raid horlda land In no eRent HON
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
NOW THAT THE ELECTION
HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED

Now that the California District Sc
curities Commission has authorized an
election to approve PWA and REA con-
tracts whereby the people of Imperial
Valley will finance construction of their
power system on the All American canal,
there is only one thing to do:
Approve the contracts.
Failure to do so would lose, perhaps
forever, the valleys chance to inherit
its birthright, the thing which will pay
for the canal and pay for itself at the
same time.
Extraneous matters should be, for the
moment, cast aside The important
thing now is to approve the contracts.
After that, if we must, We can resume
our battles.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17

NEW YORK, May l7-Diary: A
patter of rain as day broke. So
early up and notes from Joe Cook,
| Zoe Beckley, and Dorothy Hall. And
a hamper of fruit Dick Berlin sent
from Florida. Then setting out to
drop in on Faith Baldwin in Con-
necticut but such a doWn-pour we
turned back
In the afternoon Gene CraWley, a
prudent and foreseeing fellow, sat
awhile. And came a bewitching lady
from an advertising agency to fob
me up with fair speech about a
radio broadcast engagement. But
l had the good reasoning to say
nay and stick to my last.
To a tasty dinner with Will and
Jessie Hays at L'Aperitif and heard
first hand of their meeting the
Pope and Mussolini in Italy. And
the way home put in at TranS-Lux
aid Duck as an Alpine climber that
and Uttered so uproariously at Dom
many seemed annoyed. So home,
feeling fogram and such, to bed.
Achmed Abdullah is the only
writer of sWash-bucklers | know
who suggests his fictional romances.
He is military looking and, with
monocle clapped in eye and hat
rakishly just so, seems eager and
ready for adventure. And he has
been in the midst of many excite
ments both in Central Europe and
the Orient. He was born in Paris,
educated in England and is married
/ to the popular literary agent, Jean
Wilk. Most romantic fictioneers are
shy, bald and squint-eyed, who
would look at home on book
keepers stool.
They still talk along the Rialto
about the ShoWmansnip Of James
Barton that night this winter when
Maud O'Dell, the amorous Sister
Bessie of Tobacco Road, expired
between curtains after the first act.
Her role was a prominent one and
yet Barton, by an amazing touch
of ad libbing, held the performance
together. So much SO the audience
did not know death had stalked
back stage. Some of Miss O'Dells
lines were read from the wings. Her
understudy, who had been present
for the three years in which Miss
ODell never missed a performance
was given an evening off on the
fatal night, shortly after the cur
tain rose, and could not be found
Civilization note: A hundred years
ago if one missed the stage coach
for Philadelphia there would be
another along in three days. But
today if we miss one panel of 6
revolving door, We are upset the
rest of the day.
There is a now established car
toonist who will permit no jeer'
for Texas Guinan in his presence
The cartoonist was doing thumb.
nail cuts for a newspaper column
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
QUILT 135 YEARS OLD

QUINCY, Mass. W.R)-A l35-year-
old patchwork quilt, believed the
oldest in the country, is owned by
Mrs. Charles Churchill. 1t was
made by Mrs. Caroline Munroe,
mother of a Civil War general.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Traffic Hazard Grows at a Killing Pace

the auto into our traditional system
OF democratic indiVidualism. We
have assumed that it is every mans
right" to drive a car if he can get
one. We have hardly begun to
tackle the job of ruling dangerous
drivers and dangerous cars off the
road. The woods-or rather the
roads-are full of men and autos
who simply have no business on
the highway; for the most part we
let them keep rolling until they hit
something.
Allied with this is the problem of
liquor. We ought to be able to see
by now that alcohol and gasoline
make mixture as dangerous and
unstable as nitroglycerin. Yet we
keep on making the mixture. day
after day and night after night,
and then we can't understand whI
it blows up on U.S.
Then there is the matter of speed.
We insist on having cars that will
go much faster than nine out of
ten people can drive them safely.
We shuttle those cars out into
ClOWNlCu lOdOo, ltl tVeGyUOQy push
the accelerator down according to
his own sweet willard then wond-
er why there are crack-ups.
And there are the cars them
selves. They have strong bodies
and fine brakes = hit this new
streamline vogue has produced cars
with wOefully big blind spots. In
stead of giving The driver a wider
field of vision they give him a
small one Inevitably, the price is
a certain number of accidents
\ X X
To top it all, we have hardly
any more officers patrolling our
roads than We had in the day when
there was not half the amount of
! traffic. The situation calls for far
more upervision-hard- boiled, ex-
pert professionalism we have ever
dreamed of giving it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
"SOUTHPAW" STUDENTS
HELPED

MOUNT CARMEL, III. W.R)-7Left-
handed desks have been ordered
for l3 "southpaw" students at the
Mount Carmel high school who
have been befuddled by the STAN
dard desks. ".'
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
The Grab Bag
One Minute Test

/. What Is The capital Of Puerto
Rico?
2. At what age is a man eligible
TO become president of the U. So
3. On what waterway is Phila-
delphia?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
Editorials and Comment
MONDAY MAY II, 1897
aOh Sol
* FRANK WATANABE
W. by ED HOLDEN
NEW DIGS
by ED HOLDEN


News CommentorS are uttering very
cutlery words at Senates, Congress &
stuff. This are shafe! What do them
Commentors knowing what Congress
are doing? Half of don't knowing them
selfe-so please be reasonal.
Also if a Congress gent corn interior
belt are select for a seashore problem of
ships-and he making awful mistakes
it not fair to critterize him. What do he
knowing about salt water?
And Suppose politics do making lots
promise before electing and forgetting
same after? What are wrong on that
no man alive was ever ably to keeping
so many What you thinking Congress
are-stupOrhuman?
Please not getting so horror because
Convent multiply the taxes. He don't
feel it like you do-he don't paying any.
Gee rooselums but News Cohlmentors
make me feeling in huff!
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
News Behind the News
What About Relief Expenditures
A Continuing Year Round Issue =.
Mayors Getting Up In Arms :.

WASHINGTON. - Despite the furore over
economy odds favor passage of relief appro-
priaton of 81 l500000,000 asked by the admin
istration rather than greatly reduced sum such
as is demanded by many memoirs of Congress.
A cut is possible but not probable. Unofficial
poll-takers estimate that a hundred or more
members of the House willing to vote for
relief appropriation of S2,000000,000 or 81
500000,0O0. Leaders of the Maverick-Voorhis
group, which seeks program based on the lat
ter sum, claim they nave nearly l4O votes lined
up
Such bloc isn't large enough to put over
its own program. But its size indicates that
sufficient strength will be available to block
a reduction to sl,200000,000 or billion dollars.
The best guess is that the extremists on each
side will cancel each other off
In any event, relief will continue to be
major all-year-round issue
The U. S. Conference of Mayors which has
proved itself capable of effective pressure here
is up in arms against proposals which would
fail to keep the bargain Roosevelt made with
municipalities to take care of the employable
relief clients through a federal work program
This group insists there already 100000
empoyabes on direct local relief who are elgi-
BILE for WPA, although Harry Hopkins says
350,OOO. The group doesn't believe that even
the billion and a half dollars asked by the
President will last after next February unless
current policy and the present program are
radically curtailed.
In this connection it be said that the
Presidents request for that sum was accompa-
MED by the assurance that the federal work
relief policy would not be changed. This Great
ed widespread suspicion here shared by persons
ordinarily we'll informed that Roosevelt had
in the back of his mind the possible necessity
of a deficiency appropriation for relief by next
March or April which would lift the cost well
above sl,500000,000.
There are about 2O5O.OO0 persons on WPA
rolls now Hopkins says Sl,50OO0O, considering
funds otherwise available and deduct,ng sums
for other activities would keep a monthly aver
age of 1720000 on the rolls during the next
fiscal year It's an ''rreductible minimum" ac-
cording 10 Hopkins and his hopes OF getting
by on it while adhering to present policy IS
based on continued pickup in private employ
ment cut to Sl00O0O0,o00 he says, would pro-
vide for an average of fewer than 100000 WPA
workers.
But the federal budget needs balancing ana
everybody admits it. The relief fight in large
part is actually over the question whether led
eral taxes shall be raised to MAINTAIN present
relief standards or whether the nation shaii
operate with a locally administered dole PAID
with federal assistance. Those who favor dras-
tic relief cuts do so for various reasons, I'M
portant among which the desire 10 aVola
higher taxes and belief that relief STANDARDS
should be lowered in certain areas
Whether a return TO the dole would acIu-
ally prove less expensive to the federal govern
ment is a controversial question.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-17
Hints on Etiquette

Wedding invitations are issued in
the name of the brides parents, or,
if she is an orphan, in the name Of
her nearest male relative.