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Evening star., 1938-11-22

Oxford Honors Benes
OXFORD, England P.-A. w.
Wood, president of the oxford
Union, announces that Dr. Eduard
Benes, former President of Czecho-
slovakia, has been elected an hon.
orary member of the society.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

It may have been T. D. Mccall,
or one of the Edgar boys, who pick
ed up a phone one day just as WIN
ter was setting in. He got through
with his connection to a fellow IN
BraWley who had sold him very
rotten barrel of apples at very
high price There is nothing more
trying on the temper than getting
your mouth all fixed for a big,
juicy apple-after you've lived on
beans for a year and a half-and
biting into a. Well-finding out that
the apple is inhabited
So the words used by Mccall
or one of the Edgar boys, which
ever it Was-Were not words we can
repeat here. They were flaming,
soaring words that could be born
only in the early days of Imperial
Valley. They were the words that
gave mule skinners their reputation.
Unfortunately, winter chose just
that moment to set in. Not grad
ually, as it does today. All at once,
like fat man hitting the water in
a swimming pool Everything froze.
The barbed wire telephone line
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

dancing spiral OF wind came cold
blasts from the upper air. Then
the professors mistake became ap.
parent. His Whirlwind was too big.
1t reached too high. The air it suck
ed down was flecked with icy no.
dulles.
Over the whole valley spread a
thick frost, turning 10 snow, then
to ice. The mullet were frozen solid
in Salton Sea, and above it oeli-
cans wings were halted in flight
as the bird remained suspended
there frozen.
Imperial Valley was faced with
destruction
Then the very effectiveness Of
the professors cooler proved its
undoing-and the valleys salvation.
The suction arrangement that held
the reversed Whirlwind to one place
froze completely. The madly whirl-
ing dust-devil tore itself loose, bor-
ed upward into the sky and disap-
peared, spouting last thin blast
of snow earthWard as it tore into
the stratosphere.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Ed held pumpkin
growing title

Although he never could prove
up on the title. Whispering Ed For
rester laid claim to the worlds
championship in pumpkin growing
Modestly, as was his wont. he at
tributed his outstanding success to
the valleys soil When any dispute
arose, Whispering Ed always citea
the case of the largest pumpkin, and
usually his adversary was silent
thereafter.
1t was planted in the shade at
the west of the Forester ranch
house, that pumpkin vine, one early
Spring day. Overnight it sprang
from the ground, blossomed and
put forth its tiny fruit. from the
beginning one pumpkin on the vine
was cock of the walk The second
day it was the size of wash tub,
and the third day a strong wind
blew it over on the other, smaller
pumpkins on the same vine, and
it crushed them. After that it got
all the nourishment.
1t was no end of trouble the fourth
day. 1t spread over the chicken
yard and engulfed the hog pasture.
Whispering Ed was worried. He
hitched up his team and drove 10
town to borrow a saWmill so he
could cut the stem.
1t was late when he neared home
again. Against the evening sky
loomed a great, golden object 1t
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

to her friend in BraWley.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

fortunate experiment by visiting
eastern scientist whose name has
vanished in the corridors of time
Because the air cooling attempt
ended SO tragically, home refrigera-
ton did not again raise its head
in this fertile valley until a few
years ago.
The tragedy lay in success; but
it was uncontrolled success.
The prof, reasoned in his scienti-
fic way that it should be simple to
bring cooling breezes to the valley,
since it was we'll known to science
that the higher strataS of air are
always cold. Further, to took ad-
vantage of the fact that the desert
country was at that time beset by
hundreds of small Whirling dust
devils, of thin spiraling Whirlwinds.
For man of the professors ac
complishments, it was an easy mat
ter to reverse the upward spiral
of one of the largest of these Whirl
winds, at the same time fixing the
bottom end firmly in one place by
a suction arrangement.
Down the inside of the Whirlin3
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN IN THOSE DAYS

and they see the few stray birds
that stop there now. and they real
ige what raVages man has made
Everybody used to take along re-
inforced umbrellas when they went
hunting, because it was worth c
mans life to point his shotgun
skyWard and pull the trigger unless
he had some substantial covering
to protect his head from the ducks
as the" fell.
Mobley Meadows, who was to be-
come the county's first sheriff, had
a bird dog in those days he valued
highly. Because the dog could not
carry an umbrella, Meadows never
hunted with shotgun. He used a
revolver exclusively. One day, hunt
ing with dog and revolver, he drew
a close bead on a particularly large
duck He never missed, and the dog
knew it. But so dense was the flock
of ducks that arose at the sound
of the shot that the one Meadows
had slain did not fall.
The dog was never one to allow
his master to be cheated Leaping
into the air, he scrambled a foot
hold on the quivering mass of fly
ing ducks, SO thick you could not
see the sky between them. From
duck to duck he leaped until he
had the fowl Meadows had shot.
Then both he and his master real
lied that the ducks were moving
SO rapidly the dog couldn't get
down.
They found him three hours later
in field near INLAND, where he
had dropped when the ducks had
began to thin out. The dead bird
WAS still in his iaws
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Cross goat
with COW

Then there is The story they tell
of the valleys original one-man
humane society. He didn't approve
of the bull fights in Mexicali. On
his ranch near Calexico he crossed
a goat with COW The offspring
looked like a very fierce bull, with
twisting horns and ferocious ex-
preston. The fellow entered the
animal in a bull fight that year
across the line. There was gay
crowd present. The fight began.
The matador waved his red flag.
The animal charged. But his charge
was not orthodox He kept his head
up. He looked where he was going.
He grabbed-and in one gulp swal-
lowed the red flag. He began on
the matador's bright clothing. un-
til that worthy fled in confusion.
Then the goat-bull strolled over to
the railing and calmly began eating
the fence
The crowd fled There was no
more bull fights that year.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Superhulnan
ingenuity

It was only by the exercise of
aurcrhrman ingenuity that the first
cake of ice arrived in Imperial VAL
Icy superhuman ingenuity COM
h'ned with the marvellous fertility
of The valleys lands. Anything
would grow in the valley in those
days. The real estate dealers said
so-and lot of people thought
they should know.
Nobody thought of shipping ice
into the valley in the winter time,
because nobody needed ice in win
ter. So it was July when a parched
syndicate of pioneer bachelors de-
cided a bit of cracked ice was the
thing TO take the steam off the
mintless mint juleps. Action was
the thing in those days. They hired
q special train and a blackboard to
meet it at the main line. They sent
along an agent to purchase a ton
of ice. Then they sat back to wait
The agent bought the ice. They
put it on the train in Los Angeles.
Clear the tracks," the telegraph
wires flashed out along the line
and the tracks we're cleared. The
express train roared valleyward.
The thermometer reached 50 In
Los Angeles. Mile upon mile south
ward-and the reading climbed
every mile. Eighty-four. eighty-five.
ninety, one hundred. a hundred and
five. Little driblets of water ran
down the sides of the ice, then the
dribbleS became streams, and the
streams rivers. The agent was fran
tic. He even sat on the ice to keep
II cool, 1t wasn't the ice that got
cool. 1t was melting under him.
There was little more than a half
a ton left when they put it on the
blackboard, and the driver cracked
bullWhip over the backs of his
blooded horses Mercilessly the sun
beat down.
1t was l22 in the shade now
Water sprang from the ice so fast
there was no dust behind the speed
ing blackboard, ct was the first
sprinkling wagon in the valleys
historyD
Smaller and smaller the cake of
ice became. 1t ratified in the buck
board like a pea in cocoanut shell.
laundering down to Blue Lake
the lathered team came. The driver
leaped out, With one hand he tossed
out the cake of ice to the waiting
bachelors.
1t was the size of the present
day ice cube!
Boys, we gotta do something" !"
one shouted wildly.
Here" yelled another, give me
that thing"
BY now it was the size of a mar
BILE.
With his bare hands the man
= cooped out a hole in the ground
quickly he snapped the sized
cake of ice into the hole. and fran
tieally covered 1t up. He poured a
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Summer heat
dried uD ink

With the coming ol civilization,
even the climate in Imperial Valley
has become softer. the first comers
tell. 1t wasn't SO shortly after the
turn of the century. Summer in
those days dried up the ink so the
pioneers couldn't even write home
about it, and winter was just as
bad. 1t froze the ink. That's one
reason few written accounts of the
startling events of these times have
been handed down.
The winter we're particularly
hard on the telephone system, which
was a crude affair far removed
from the present elite network. Be-
tween Imperial and Brawley phone
conversations were carried on over
the barbed wire fence lines. There
was no insulation on the wires. so
the penetrating cold of Imperial
Valleys winters of the early Nine
teen Hundreds had no protective
blankets to penetrate
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

froze up along with everything else,
and the words backed up on the
line until there wasn't room for any
more.
For three months the freeze last
ed. Then, one day, the sun rose
bright and warm. The thaW bega3.
About that time a woman in I'M
perial picked up the telephone 20
invite a friend in BraWley down
for a visit. At the same moment,
the thaw hit the telephone line.
The words of three months before,
frozen fast all that time, turned
loose in red hot torrent. Like mol
ten lava their meaning poured
into the ears of the woman in BraW..
ley.
Since that day she hasn't spoken
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

was the pumpkin Whispering Eds
home was nowhere to be seen.
Where it had been, the pumpkin
was.
Whispering Ed had to work fast.
His family was inside that pump
kin With the speed of thought he
hitched up an oil drill he had on
his place to a passing desert whirl-
wind. He headed it for the pump
kin. There was a grinding, tearing,
rending sound, and the pumpkin
split asunder
Inside was the Forester family,
eating pumpkin pie.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Flock of ducks
darkened sky

You'll scarcely find an old-timer
in Imperial Valley these days who
isn't heartily in favor of conserva-
ton of wild life. They remember
the flocks of ducks that used to
darken the sky and get tangled up
with the clouds above Salton Sea
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

bucket of water on the spot, then
stood back anXiously.
The ground began to heave. 1t
groaned, it cracked. A swelling
white surface appeared there. Big
ger it grew, and bigger.
Men" said the blackboard driver
fervently, anything will grow in
thiS soil -
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

day for ruinin her climate
Canada may have her Paul Bun
yam, between the horns of whose
oxen it was two days journey.
Europe may have its Baron Nun
chassen, who builded his castles Of
mountains and buttoned his shoes
with diamonds. But Imperial VAL
ley has its Whispering Ed Forces
ter.
OF whispering Ed himself they
tell the story that he stood at
telephone in inland one time and
talked to a friend in Calexico, low
ering his voice because what he had
to say was confidential. The friend
didn't find out until a week later
that the telephone line was out of
service that day.
Whispering Ed has joined the
Imperial Valley immortalS now III
n land where any story you tell
turns true, but the memory of his
memories lives after him. Had Whis-
pering Ed left a diary, its ages
might nave made tenderfoot's
hair stand up so straight-as Whis-
pering Ed himself would have put
it-that you couldn't pat him on
the head without getting stickers
in your hand.
There was no such diary, friends
agree. but memory is not so short
that many of Whispering Eds best
stories have not survived him. OF
them, few are reduced here to the
type that cannot achieve the full
force given the words by the tall,
powerful frame and piercing eyes
of this Imperial Valley pioneer.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
WhirlWind first
desert cooler

The desert coolers that today
cling to the sides of large and small
Imperial Valley homes had their
early day counterpart in an un-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
If Whispering Ed Had
Diary These Stories
Might Be Found There

Il recollect one time out at Blue Lake said Whisper
ing Ed Forester day. when it 125 in the shadow
OF the greaseWoods, and the wind blew hard it lifted
the heat clean the mountains before anybody knew
what goin San Diego was goin' to sue US next
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10

with Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Freeman.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hudson of Point
Farm. Va, spent Wednesday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hudson.
Miss Phyllis Doughty is spending
two weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. E. c.
May in Wilmington, Del.
Mr.. John Collins spent the week
end in Washington, D. c., with the
Monogram Club of the New Church
High School.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allan Collins and
daughter, Janice of New Church, Va,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
Myrtle Collins.
Mr.. and Mrs. August ]. Bartling
have moved to Oaklyn, N. j., where
Mr.. Bartling has accepted a position.
Mr.. Graydon ]. Tull spent Monday
night with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kelley
in Wilmington, Del.
Those visiting in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. George E. Mumford Sunday
were Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Petit and
daughter, Marie, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
M. Watson and children, Winfield
Beatrice and Robert, Mrs. Walter F
Cherrix of Philadelphia, Pa, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis S. Cherrix and son, Ver-
non, Mr.. and Mrs. Groten Hill and
daughters, Flora and Jane of POGO.
moke City, Nd, Mrs. William H. Pet.
tit Bowen of Snow Hill, Md, and Mrs
Thomas F. Wimbrow and children.
Mrs. Orleander C. Mason is a pa.
tient in the Memorial Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. C. Chapman recent
ly visited Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Col
Inns at Berlin, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Gray and chill
dren, of Chincoteague, Va, spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Porter.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Merritt spen
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Parker
Cherrix at Stockton, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Davis of Girdle-
tree, Nd, and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Beebe of Chincoteague, Va, spent
Sunday with Mr. William Stewart.
Mr.. William Pruitt of Pennsville,
N. j., spent part of this week with
Mrs. Pruitt here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Mills have re-
turned after two weeks motor trip
to Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Jones and
daughter, Norma and Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Brimer and children, Erma and
Harold, of Girdletree, Md, visited
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie
S. Jones, Sunday.
Mrs. Jane Sharpley has returned
home after a three weeks visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Ishameal Davis at Pun
goteague, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Wharton of At
lantic City, N. j., spent the weekend
with relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Porter have
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10
DENTAL D0N'TS
NOW AUTHORIZED
BY DR.. LEONARD
Those Interested In Keeping
Their Mouths Healthy
Should Take Heed

For the benefit of those who are
interested in keeping their mouths
healthy, series of dental don'ts was
outlined recently by DR.. Richard G.
Leonard, Chief of the Division of Oral
Hygiene of the Maryland State De-
partment of Health. Some of them
relate to practices that are obviously
risky, if you only stop to think about
it-but most of US are not likely to
until the damage is done; others come
under other headings. The don'ts
were offset by advice to do certain
things that make for mouth health.
To begin with the don'ts: eff a
button pops off and you have to sew
it on in a hurry, (this applies to
scouts, young, or old, masculine or
feminine) or, if you have any other
sewing to do, don't bite your thread.
Cut it. The habitual practice of bit
ing threads will result eventually in
nicking the biting edge of the teeth.
1t will not only give them saw
tooth appearance, but will weaken the
edge and may open the way for de-
cay.
Don't bite hard-shelled nuts to
crack them. Even though tooth enam
Ell is the hardest of the human It's
sues it will not stand too great force.
You may crack the enamel instead of
the nut shell.
Don't place your dependence for
the health of the mouth on any COM
mercially advertised dental cure-all.
Dentrifices are intended only to help
cleanse the teeth. They are not
remdies for mouth diseases; neither
will they prevnt such diseases, and
Don't expect a toothbrush to last
forever, or for more than a few
months. Bristles that have become
soft from being used too long cannot
cleanse the teeth properly.
"Don't-and this is another impor-
tant one. Because the first or baby
teeth come out, don't believe that
these teeth should be neglected. Baby
teeth have function to perform. If
they are properly cared for they can
not function properly, and worse still,
neglect is likely to result in pain,
systematic disease and crowding of
the succeeding teeth.
"Now, as to the things that should
be done. There are three in parti-
cular: Eat proper food. Have thor
ough examination and the necessary
attention by the family dentist at least
twice year. Keep the mouth clean.
Tooth strength comes from the food
eaten while the teeth are being form
ed. Regular attention by the family
dentist will prevent nearly all dental
troubles. Proper cleanliness Of the
mouth through thorough brushing of
the teeth at least twice daily will
help to prevent tooth decay"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10
Accomac News

Mr.. Ben T. Gunter, Sr., and daugh-
ter, Miss Ellen Fisher Gunter and
Miss May E. Edmonds spent several
days this week in Richmond and at
tended the Commencement Exercises
at the University of Richmond.
Miss Rebecca Fox is spending a
week with relatives at Franktown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Ingersoll of
New York City spent the weekend
with Mrs. Ingersoll's sister, Mrs. S.
J. Ross and attended the graduation
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10

The town extends it's deepest SYM
pathy to Mr.. Arthur White and fam
lily in the loss of their wife and moth
er on Tuesday, June Z.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Merritt have
moved in the house recently occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Bartling.
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Dryden and
daughter, Elva were dinner guests
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hick-
man near Stockton, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10

moved in Mr.. Herman Marshalfs
house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Davis and
daughter, Dorothy of Salisbury, Nd,
spent Sunday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John w. Davis and Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Marshall
have returned to their home in Allan
tic City, N. j., after a weeks visit
with relatives here. They were ac-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10

companied home by their daughter,
Kathryn and son, Herbert who have
been attending high school at New
Church, Va, the past semester.
Mr.. Benjamin Sturgis of Whining
ton, Del, spent the weekend here.
He was accompanied home by his
wife, Mrs. Sturgis, Mrs. Lula Lynch
and Mrs. Clara Sturgis who have been
spending the past week at Mrs.
Lynch's home here.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10

exercises of Mrs. Ross daughter, Miss
Jane Ross from the Accomac High
School.
Mr.. Hobart G. Binsted, student at
the University of Richmond, has ar
rived home to spend the summer with
his parents, the Rev. and Mrs. j. II.
Binsted.
Mrs. John w. Edmonds, Jr., and
sons, Franklin and Jack are spending
some time in Richmond with Mrs.
Edmonds' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
T. Spicer.
Mrs. S. James burlington spent sew
eral days this week in Baltimore,
Md, and Alexandria, Va. While
away, Mrs. burlington attended the
graduation exercises of her son, Mr..
S. Bayly burlington from the Epis-
copal High School at Alexandria.
Mr.. Dick Disharoon of Cape Char
les spent the weekend with Mr. Cleve
Nelson.
Mr.. Aaron S: Byrd, Jr., of Norfolk
spent the weekend with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron S. Byrd.
Mrs. Andrew Kelpin of Newport
News spent this week with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. ]. Davis.
Miss Marian Jean Vessels of Po-
comoke City, Md, is spending some
time with relatives in Accomac.
Mr.. H. 7. Coard spent Sunday in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Elic Kelley of New Church
spent last week with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Alma J. Fox.
Miss Charlotte White of Baltimore,
Md, spent last week in the home of
her uncle, Mr.. Joseph L. White and
Mrs. White.
Mr.. S. Bayly burlington is spend
ing a few weeks with his mother, Mrs.
S. James burlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl J. Jones and son,
Carl, Jr., of Nassawadox spent the
weekend with Mrs. Jones' parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John I. Burford.
After having been confined to his
home by illness, the Rev. Thomas S.
Forbes is able to be out.
Mr.. John p. F. Daugherty of Mon
terey, New Mexico, is spending a
month with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. T. Daugherty.
Miss Charlotte White has returned
to her home in Baltimore, Nd, after
spending a week in the home of her
uncle, Mr.. Joseph L. White and Mrs.
White.
The Rev. and Mrs. w. X. Haddock
and son, Kenneth and Mrs. ]. H. Hen
drick are spending this week in Rich
mond.
Mr.. William T. Bond, Jr., of Mon
terey, New Mexico is spending a
month with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William T. Bond near Accomac.
Mrs. Carrie Mapp Oliver of Ocean
City, Md, is spending a few days at
her home here.
Miss Ann Mason is spending this
week in Susan, Va, with the Rev. and
Mrs. F. w. England.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Tracey Cor
diner of Washington, D. c., spent
several days this week with Mrs. Cor
diners parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
T. Bond.
Mrs. J. L. DeCormis and daughter,
Miss Betty Belle DeCormis spent sew
eral days this week in Durham, N. c.
Mrs. w. M. Gose is visiting rela-
tives in Abingdon, Va.
Mrs. Thomas B. Scarburgh and
daughter, Mrs. Alfred J. Mason and
Miss Mary Rose Fisher are attending
the graduation exercises at V. NJ. l.,
Lexington, Va, at which time Mr.. S.
Walston Scarburgh will receive his
degree in Civil Engineering.
Mrs. Edgar D. Fletcher is visiting
relatives in Salisbury, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10
Greenbackviue

Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. May, oe Will
mington, Del, spent last weekend