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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
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BY ED HOLDEN
4 BRASS MONKEY

When man or lady person bora
money, they Suppose pay back same be-
fore other money are bora. But it seem
not are the style with nations
France have just request big loan for
National Defensly Fund. They willing
bora from allwhere whichever are will
ing to lending. But headquarters for
them loan going be in one U. S. bank.
Oh how international Something wrong
in those picture. Too much retouching.
| wondering who France expecting
to bora most of those dollar from? |
going closing my eye and pretend to
to looking No use | can seeing Uncle
Samuel even with eye shut.
Front page say: 1886 Income Tax
Doubled," OH How do they finding
that news so soon? Have they got grape
vines under water?
Thank you, please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
Rose-Mesquite
Department To
Hold Meeting

Rose-Mesquite home department
will meet Thursday at 10 am. with
Mrs. Frank Maynard. The cake fill
ings and frostings will be demon
strated by the project leaders dur
ing the morning session. After a
pot luck luncheon at neon the
group will meet at 2 pm. in the l..
" Hardware Co. store in Ell Centro
to see dining room furniture dis
plays.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
.EGAL ADVERTISEMENT LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

PROPOSITION: Shall
the City of FL Centro
incur a bonded debt
in the sum of Thirty
Five Thousand $685.
100000 Dollars for the
purpose of the acquisi-
ton, construction and
completion by said city
of a certain municipal
Improvement, namely,
a building for munic-
ipal uses, to-wit, the
housing, maintenance
and operation of a
municipal free public
library; and the acqui-
sition of all rights
of way and property
necessary for the con-
struction and compile
ton of said building.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

Ell Centre, and of said consolidate )
voting precinct B are hereby ap-
pointed election officers in their
respective precincts, as follows. to.
wit
AS Inspector, June De Wore
AS Judge, Mrs. Louise Finney
AS Clerks, Berenice Modem ana
Eudora Swanson.
Voting precincts numbers 13, ii.
Is and 16 established for State and
County elections as regular election
precincts shall be. and the same
are hereby consolidated into one
precinct to be denominated Voting
Precinct C. The polling place for
said Precinct c shall be, and the
same is established at Goodrich
SilvertoWn Stores, 4th and Olive
Streets in the said City of FL
Centre. The following named per-
sons, residents and registered elec-
tors of said City of FL Centro, and
of said consolidated voting Precinct
c are hereby appointed election Of
ficers in their respective precincts
as follows:
AS Inspector, Isaac Mayfield
AS Judge, Margretta Thacker a.
AS Clerks, Lillian Ehmke IN
Mrs. Marie Scheniman.
The compensation of said election
officers shall be Five ($50O) Dollars
each for all services as such election
officers, and which amount the said
City Council deems to be just
The said several persons have
been found, and they are hereby
declared to be qualified for such
respective positions as required by
law, and they are hereby appointed
as such officers to conduct such
election, and to constitute the cleo
tion boards for said election.
Said election officers hereinbefore
referred to, shall conduct, and they
are hereby directed to conduct. said
election as by law and this ordin-
ance provided, and to canvass the
votes given and cast at said election
and to make and deliver returns
thereof to the City Clerk OF saf1a
City; and it is further ordered that
said City Council of said City 81
meet at the usual meeting pl4-47
of said Council, to-wit, the City
Hall of said city, on the first Mon
day after said election at 7:30 o'clock
PM. of said day and proceed to
canvass the election returns and de-
clare the result thereof.
SECTION VI: That this ordin-
ance and the publication thereof
shall constitute notice of said cleo
tion.
SECTION VII: The City Clerk
shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this ordinance by a
vote of two-thirds (2/3 of all the
members of said, City Council of
said city at an adjourned regular
meeting of said Council. and shall
cause said ordinance to be published
in the Imperial Valley Press, a
newspaper of general circulation.
printed and published in said City
of Ell Centre in each of seven con.
secutive issues OF said newspaper
prior to the said Goth day OF April,
1897, and thereupon, and there
after this ordinance shall take ef-
feet and be in force.
faSSeu, Adopted ana Approved
this 18th day of March, 1887.
HERBERT w. FAWCETT44N
Acting Mayor of the CV&
of FL Centre.
ATTEST:
C. G. MOUSSEAU, City Clerk
of the City OF FL Centre.
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
HELP
KIDNEYS PASS
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OF tiny tubes or filters which help to purify tao
blood and keep you healthy. Most people pass
about pints day or about 3pounds Of waste.
frequent or scanty. passages with smartng
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wrong with your kidneys or bladder
An excess of acids posons in your blood.
when due to functional kidney disorders, NAV
be the cause of nagging backache, Rheumatic
pains, lumbago, leg pains, loss Of pep and en-
under the eyes, headaches and dizziness.
Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40
years; They give happy relief and will help the
Is miles Of kidney tubes flush out poisonous
waste frcm your blood. Get Doans Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
March "a. 1912

w. F. Holts private car, Fran
osca", is set out on the truck beside
Holt Park, having brought to Ell
Centro a party of well known Red
lands people. The party is COM
posed of Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.. Holt,
daughter, Miss Cloe; Mr.. and Mrs.
c. A. Barker, and Rev. and Mrs.
w. D. Craig. Mr. Barker is one of
the stock holders in Mr.. Holt's
valley holdings.
w. c. Jones left Calexico for
Los Angeles, where he plans to re-
main a few days on business. Bales
G. Walker is over from Yuma.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24

The City Council of the City OF
Ell Centro do ordain as follows:
SECTION I: WHEREAS the City
Council of the City of Ell Centro
at an adjourned regular meeting
of said City Council held on the
9Th day of March, 1887, by vote OF
two-thirds Of all its members, duly
passed and adopted a resolution
determining and finding that the
public interest and public neces-
sity Of said City of FL Centro, and
the inhabitants thereof, demand the
acquisition, construction and COM
pletion by said City of a certain
municipal improvement, to-Wit, a
building for municipal uses, to-wit,
the housing, maintenance and op-
Grafton of municipal free public
library and the acquisition of all
rights of way and property neces-
sary for the construction and COM
pletion of said building, and further
determining that said municipal i'm
provement, and the acquisition Of
said rights of way and property
therefor, are, and each of them is
necessary and convenient to carry
out the objects, purposes and pow
ers of said municipality; and the
cost thereof Is, and will be too great
to be paid out of the ordinary an
nual income and revenue of said
City: and that said construction
work and acquisition of rights OF
way and property necessary there
for, will require an expenditure
greater than the amount allowed
for such improvement by the an
nual tax levy; and that the estimat-
ed cost of said public improvement
and acquisition of said rights OF
way and property, and each and all
of them is the sum and amount OF
Thirty Five Thousand ($35, 100000
Dollars.
AND WHEREAS, it is proposes
by said City Council to incur an
indebtedness for the purposes sci
forth in said resolution, and for
the following objects and purposes,
to-wit: The acquisition, construction
and completion of certain munic'
ipal improvement, namely, build
ing for municipal uses, to-wit, the
housing, maintenance and opera
tion of a municipal free public IL
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
BAG
One-Minute Test

/. What year was Theodore
Roosevelt president of the United
States?
2. What is "gutta- -percha"?
3. What is the highest mountain
peak on the North American con-
tinent?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24

blew a door shut as she summed in
the garden clad only in shirt and
shorts. She climbed a trellis and
jimmied a window with a garden
rake.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24

And if a majority of the audience
proves to be asleep the producer
can tiptoe quietly out and toss
the thing in the nearest ashcan
Joel McCrea bowed out OF
Samuel Goldwyn's Hurricane" on
the strength of an optimistic Irish
nose.
He was to have played "Terangi,
Kanaka hero of the piece, and il
preyed on his mind until he long
distanced Goldwyn and begged off
because the Lord never made a
South Sea islander with a pug
nose"
McCrea will go into Dead End"
instead.
The boys around Clark and Addi-
son streets can go back to their
pinochle games. because Chicago's
ball playing Cubs aren't going to
turn movie actors after all.
Pete Smith was all set to make
short with the Wrigley hopefuls,
but time element called him out at
5 days and Charley Grimm would
third. Picture would take at least
allow him only four mornings
and four afternoons.
Seems Grimm would rather make
the first division than a movie.
Quick but somewhat muddled
thinking by Helen Broderick saved
her San Fernando Valley home
from flames after the comedienne
tossed a cigaret into bowl of mat
ches When matches puffed a flare
she brilliantly threw the bowl on a
bed, setting covers and curtains "a
fire, but finally smothered out the
blaze with a blanket.
90
Gangling Gary Cooper may delay
in Miami, Florida, to Undergo a
surgical operation, he wired his
studio here. III ON vacation, Cooper
said he was under observation, and
won't know until the end of this
week whether an operation will be
necessary. He didn't say what the
trouble is.
90
Buster West and Melissa Mason,
hillbilly comedy hooters, signed for
Jesse Lasky's Radio City Revels. -
They're currently in Broadway S
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
TOday'S Horoscope

Exctability is characteristic of
many persons born today. They
should constantly guard against
over-exertion.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24

Ronald Young, stage and screen
actor, is in from New York to play
Topper" in the Hal Roach version
of the late Thorne Smiths screw
ball novel. Roach angled unsuccess-
fully for Charles Loughton. Oddly,
Young was a friend of the writer,
and the book was dedicated to him.
Paul Wing, Toby's dad, went shop
ping for half pint of paint on a
locomotive. Wing is Paramount To-
cation business manager, and the
engine was in use before cameras
at suburban Tarzana. Engineer
shuttled him Is miles into Van
Nuys and the nearest hardware
store.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
ORDINANCE NO. 399

AN ORDINANCE CALLING AN
ELECTION TO BE HELD IN THE
CITY OF Ell CENTRIC ON TUES
DAY THE 10Th DAY OF APRIL,
1897, AND SUBMITTING TO THE
QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SAID
CITY THE FOLLOWING PRO-
POSITION, TO-WIT: THE PRO-
POSITION OF INCURRING A
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS BY
SAID CITY OF Ell CENTRIC IN
THE SUM OF S35,0OO.OO FOR
THE PURPOSE OF THE AC-
QUESTION, CONSTRUCTION,
AND COMPLETION OF A GER
TAIN MUNICIPAL IMPROVE
MENT, NAMELY, A BUILDING
FOR MUNICIPAL USES, To-
WIT, THE HOUSING, MAINTE-
NANCE AND OPERATION OF
A MUNICIPAL FREE PUBLIC
LIBRARY; AND THE ACQUISI-
TION OF ALL RIGHTS OF WAY
AND PROPERTY NECESSARY
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND
COMPLETION OF SAID BUILD
ING.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24

Buster West and Melissa Mason,
hillbilly comedy hooters, signed for
Jesse Lasky's Radio City Revels. y
They're currently in Broadway's S
white Horse Inn," and will move
to Hollywood when the show closes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
Words of Wisdom

Strike from mankind the princi-
pie of faith and men would have no
more history than a flock of sheep.
-BulWer.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
DefinitiOn-a-Day

An ''euphemism" is a rhetorical
figure in which an inoffensive word
Or expression is substituted for an
unpleasant one.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24

RoSalind Russell had to break
into her town house when wind
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
One Minute Test Answers

l. September, 1901, to March,
1909.
2. A substance similar to rubber.
3. Mt. Mckinley, in Alaska, rises
n On ann feet
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-24

And if a majority of the audience
proves to be asleep the producer
can tiptoe quietly out and toss
the thing in the nearest ashcan.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
GAMES SOUGHT

Friendship A. c. football team
is looking for games in the u.s.
pound division. Call Emerson 0595
between 6 and Z p. m.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
O'NeiII Soys:
CONTINUED from list Sports Page

Continued from LIST Sports Page)
stands, you know twas honest and
sincere.
A bad pass to Mcfarland when
that capable young football player
wac attempting to punt, brought
defeat to Navy. Sweeney, another
Irishman, tackled the Middle as
he tried to run the ball past the
goal line.
It was the Notre Dame off-tackle
play that brought the Irish into
the game in the last period. Jack
Mccarthy, praise to the name,
dashed between tackle and end
with a horde of b1ockers clearing
the path, shot into the open and
ran 80 yards. That touchdown
tied the score.
George Washington's sally into
the upper brackets was repulSed
by the Crimson Tide of Alabama.
The Colonials put up bitter re
sistance, but there was just toe
much team against them. Joe
Kilgrow, of the 'Bama team;
Charley Hold and Harold Shoe
maker, a dashing end, were fine
football players.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
ID. C.. Golfers Again
Capture Md. Title
No Match
In Final
BOWS, 1871 TO Az
BY CHICK KENNY

Washington reigns supreme in
the Maryland State Golf Associa'
ton team match play again.
Last year and the year before 1t
was Chevy Chase that topped the
field. Today it is powerful Con.
gresSional Club.
Congressional won the title yes.
terday on the neutral course at In
dain Spring, defeating Hillendale
Club of Baltimore, 1871 to Az.
The championship final, al
though played in a driving wind,
attracted not only a fine gallery
for the event, but brought out the
best competitive match golf Of the
year.
After the second match Of the
program, Hillendale never had a
chance. Congressional dropped
but one match. The team of Wal
ter McCallum and Frank Good
win went down to defeat, u to az,
to Johnny Farrell and Jesse Dowl-
ing, jr. Pro Roland Mackenzie
and M. Parker Nolan broke even
the three points with Pro Charlie
Betschler and E. G. Barnes Of
Hillendale.
Clean sweeps were registered by
the WaShingtoniarlS when the
Georgetown University pair, Billy
Dettweiler and Billy Shea, BANKED
Robert Jones and Charley Mac
Kenzie; Roger Peacock and Gene
Pittman goose-egged Gene Bruning
and Charley Shaw, and Jack Nc
Carron and Bill Henzel white
washed Paul Hampshire and John
link.
Complete results follow:
CONGRESSIONAL, 1871; HILLEN.
DALE, Az
Roland Mackenzie and NJ. P. Nolan,
Congressional. scored III points to u
for Charlie Betschler and e. G. Barnes,
Hillendale; Billy Shea and Billy Dett-
weller, Congressional, scored points to
zie. Hillendale; Roger Peacock and Gene
Pittman, Congressional. scored points
to for Gene Bruning and Charles Shaw.
Hillendale: W. r. McCallum and Frank
Goodwin, Congressional, scored n point
to "a for Johnny Farrell and Jesse
Wowling, Hillendale: Claude Rippy and
DR.. H. L. Smith, Congressional. scored
Eemmler. Hillendale: Jack McCarron and
Bill Henzel, Congressional. scored
points to o for Paul Hampshire and John
link. Hillendale.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
HEAP BIG
I-N-J-U-N-S-!
A Series in Which Buck O'Neill
ScalpS Our Washington Redskins
For Candid Facts

for the Redskins. He played
here against George Washing
ton, and wants you to know that
the Tide will roll over all OPP
position and into the Rose
Bowl.
Like a lot of the -labama
football players, Young took
physical education, and Of
course, may carry on and
coach some college team of
these days.
Bill worked himself into con-
dition for the football season.
He labored at one of the open
hearth furnaces, down in the
steel country in Alabama, and
says it is the toughest work in
the world. He lost 20 pounds
in three days, but he still
weighs $50 pounds.
He isn't much Of a golfer,
but can turn in an IS, count
ing conceded puts and not
counting windies. Loves the
movies and awaits the return
or Norma Shearer to the
screen.
TOMORROW: LES OLSON
The Washington times., 1937-10-25

game OF fo0tDall.
Let me explain.
At the end of the first quarter
the Hoyas had the ball at their
39-yard line.
FIVE FIRST DOWNS
At the start of the second period,
Georgetown reeled off five first
downs in a row and the ball was
at PENIS 312-yard line. When it
was fourth down, Georgetown had
lost one yard, and the ball was
at PENIS 412-yard line.
The Hoyas went into conference.
They agreed the play of plays was
a wide end-sweep, with Joe Mel
lendick, Hoya speedster, carrying
the ball to his right hand and hit
ting for the corner of the field
when PENIS goal line met the
north sideline of Franklin Field.
The play got under way.
Behind nice interference, sharp
blocking and hard-driying inter.
fererS, Joe hit for the spot desig-
mated. When he was about a
yard short of the Penn goal line,
he appeared to slip, but he took
a final lunge, toward the Penn
goal line. He was right at the
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
Youth of AnGcOStid Beat
Path to Community Club
Instruction
Under Lund,
Colangelo
HOURS, 7 TO 10

Found, at last. The perfect
'mouSetrap"!
Not that the members of the
Anacostia Community Boys Club,
sponsored by the Community Cen
ter Department, are little rats"
in the making, for that is far, far
from the truth. But all the world
that is Anacostia and its environS
is seemingly beating a path to
the doors of the AnacoStla Junior
Senior High School, the home of
the club.
The club, which meets Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
under the supervision of Roland
E. Lund and j. N. Colangelo, mem
berS of the high schools physical
education department by day, is
literally turning them away, at
least during certain hours.
GLIB HOURS, 7 TO 10
Club hours are from z until 10
p. m. The boys have to be ad-
mitted in shifts according tc age
groups, with the boys in the TIA
year classification entering at Z
o'clock, followed by the 1917 year
group at 8 O'Clock and finally
those over 10 at o'clock.
Having the only gymnasium In
Anacostia, with the exception Of a
small church gym, and boasting
only the best and most modern
equipment, the club is experience
ing no difficulty in weaving the
boys away from the corners or
pool rooms. Club activities include
such varied things as indoor touch
football, baSket-shooting games,
rope-climbing, tumbling, basketball
games, tap dancing, singing,
model aircraft work, arts and hob
bies and dramatic.
BASKETBALL SOON
Lund invites basketball and vol
ley ball teams to join his Com
munity Boys Leagues which will
be open shortly. Two leagues are
planned for each sport, one for the
15-17-year-old players, the other
for the 18-year and over group.
It is not altogether improbable
that the high school which is not
represented as yet in the inter-high
basketball series may find the club
an incubator for its court stars OF
years to come. Anyhow. Colangelo
who will coach the quint will keep
his eye peeled during club periods.
Everything an athlete could ask
for can be found in the gym which
has ideal lighting alSo-twenty-four
thousand watts with no big black
beams to offset it turn the trick.
The gym is air-conditioned.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
BeIgions Win
Nose Out American
Arn1yTeGn1

Lights blazed late last evening
as 1000 horse show enthusiasts
piled into the EaSt-West Highway
at the Meadowbrook Club after
watching the windup Of a four-day
competition packed with thrills
from beginning to end.
Belgium's horses and riders won
the international military team
jumping championship from the
Americans by w points 12
faults in the four days for the Bel
gians, 81 for the Americans. AT
the start Of yesterdays jumps the
Americans were one point ahead.
It was like a World Series in the
baseball world, with the teams tied
in game and score and the bases
full in the last inning as the two
teams sent their horses over the
barriers in a sporty fight for equeS-
trian honorS. The Americans lost
when Masquerader, rid d e n by
Lieut.. Scott Stanford, wet a hoot
in taking a water hazard.
DAKOTA CHAMPION
Dakota, pride Of the American
team, with his long stride and
switching tail, emerged the cham
pion military jumper Of the show;
Ibrahim, the big gray champion
from Belgium, was a close seconc'
Notwithstanding a cash under one
eve, an injury incurred while ne
was being vanned Saturday.
Victory for the Belgian team
gives it the first grip on The Times.
Herald trophy for international
competition, permanent possession
of which calls for three victories
by the same country.
Maryland won the interstate
jumping championship handily IN
competition with teams represent.
ing the District Of Columbia and
misunderstanding in that order
WINS BLUE RIBBON
Miss Louise Chase Myers, on
Tandem, won the blue ribbon in
the working hunter class in a per
Torrance filled with thrills FOL
the spectators.
Rocksie, ridden by popular Mar
garet Cotter, won the civilian
Jumper event easily against the
best of the nonmilitary jumpers
Mrs. John Hay Whitney'S horse:
missed sweeping the field in thu
$500 hunter stake by single rib
bon. They were edged out by
team Of bays from Fort Myer.
Charles Carrico's Hun gel
Marcher was crowned ind1vidua
State champion, while the indi
vidual hunter championship wen
to Mrs. Whitney'S The Bear. An
other Whitney entry, Grey Knight
was designed reserve champion.