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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-28

There are gadgets galore. There is an illuminated turn indicator operated from small lever below the steering wheel; there is a series of colored lights to warn the driver of his speed of operation, controlled by the speedometer; there is greater use of plastics. some makers trying them on radiator grilles and mold ing as well as on steering wheels and instrument panel buttons.
 Glasses still Lower
 With the tendency always toward lowered chasses the manufacturers nave had to deal again with the problem Of eliminating the hump between clutch and differential. To do this some makers have tilted the power plant at an angle that re- qures a double iointed" assembly jn the transmission of power to the rear wheels. At the same time the complicated clutch assembly has been simplified, with about a third IS many parts. M
 Coil springs are coming in for 5reater adaptation. Concealed door hinges are favored by many more producers.
 The bigger and better" motif 'eems to have been the objective throughout.
 There will be some really new models in the seasons introduce tions. Three or four producers are bringing out what they call econ )my sizes" to bid for business in inc lower price field. Ford has completed a new de luxe model that will compete in a price class slight
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-28

Basketball Coach Elmer H. Rip ley, recently signed by George town University, played profess sional basketball for twenty years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-28

Empire classifieds pay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-28
GIRL SCOUT TROOP }
 HAS HALLOWEEN FETE

This afternoon in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, members of the Sunset Patrol are entertaining Troop 3 of the Girls Scouts, with a surprise
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-28
LOCAL DATA
RADIO REPORTS

l.. TO-DAY Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip tenn tenn. velocity 2d hr.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-28
Halloween party.

Halloween party
 In charge Of the affair is Astrid Varness, captain of the patrol and Adrienne Glass Mrs B. R. Glass. captain of the troop, and Mrs, II. B. Humphrey. lieutenant, are super Vising.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-28
WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 AM TO-DAY

tairporD cloudy. cloudy Vic toria, 49 cloudy 48 Bull IIarbor cloudy 5O Triple Island cloudy Island cloudy AT Rupert cloudy 4o Ketcikan cloudy O Craig cloudy 45; Wrangen cloudy 45 Petersburg cloudy 33 Ska clear 40 Cape Spencer clear & Hoo Radiovile partly cloudy 40; Skagway 2 Hnes clear St Elias cloudy Az Hncnbrook cloudy 2 Cordova raining 3S Chitina Mccarthy Anchorage d 29; Fairbanks 22 Hot Springs Panama, Ruby Nuao cloudy g. Kal- tag 30 McCrah cloudy 28 Platinum clear Bethel oggy l5 Golovn raining, 34 Solomon 33 Council 3l Nome, msig
 Imeai Oct .n7
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-28

Forecast uf winds along the Coast Alaska

strong easterly winds along Ommaney; fresh northeast chinbrook.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-28

Fishery products were canned in 402 establishments in the United States and Alaska last year and were valued at $141, ,710,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Material Costs Lower
Than Normal Figures,
State Group Asserts

Substantial increases in home building in California
be expected, retail umbermen told tbs week
at the conference of the state group at Fresno
The new dea' in FILA loans be held responsible
for the increased interest according to Pat Glasgow and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
NEV-CAL MOVES
POLES TO AID
CITY PROGRAM

Cooperating with Ell Centro's
beautification program Nevada
California Electric crews this week
completed moving four blocks of
poles from the middle of peoples
back yards into the famous No
Mans Land along Ross avenue,
southern limits of the city.
When the area now occupied by
the pretentious homes along San
dalwood avenue was laid out 20
years ago the Irrigation District
was given a 20 foot right-of-Way
for canal.
The canal was never built, how
ever, and property owners began
using the 20 foot strip of land ly-
ing between their back yards and
Ross avenue. Power poles erected
to serve the homes were thus in
the middle of the owners back
yards.
When the city unofficially aban-
doned it's claim to the 20 foot strip
a few weeks ago, the power COM
pany moved its poles out to the
edge of Ross avenue in a position
agreed upon by city and Nev-Cal
engineers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

YOU haven't read ALL the News
Until You've Read ALL the Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
F. H. A. Payments
Lower Than Rent
Bank Head Shows

I'm a large number OF instances
the owners of the 5000 new homes
financed with FILA. loans from our
institution now enjoy lower monthly
payments than their former rent"
o. G.. Horne, manager of the Ell
Centre branch of tn Security First
National Bank, said Saturday.
Consider, for example, the case
of a family with an income of Sl25
per month. On the FILA. plan
such an income will readily meet
loan payments of $3l month, suf-
ficient to carry an attractive, mod
ern, livable new home appraised at
$4,000. A down payment OF only
S4OO secures such home. The
ability to raise this $400 in cash
usually results in an immediate
saving in the outlay for shelter, and
considering the quality of the new
home, represents also sharp up
trend in living standards"
Most people are still unaware of
the opportunities the Housing Act
affords the bank executive stated,
not realizing that attractive new
homes, modern in every respect,
can be obtained at a monthly out
lay of S25, $27, $29, $3l and pay
ments of comparable size per month.
Requirements for obtaining one OF
these loans are the ability to raise
down payments in cash running
from $500 to $400, plus good credit
stan1ing with merchants.
LOANS PASS
S25,000,00 MARK
Title II FILA. loans made by the
Security First National Bank have
passed the $25.000,000 mark with
more than 5000 new homes being
built TO FILA. standards, accord
ing to o. c. Horne, manager OF
the Ell Centro branch. Most sig
nificant fact regarding this huge
volume is its effect upon the total
loan portfolio of the bank, which
remains unchanged at Sl50'OO0,0O0.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
BUILDING PERMIT TOTALS EXCEED 1887
MARCH FiGUR E
BOOSTS WORK
TO So & 5 5

For the first time this year, El
Centre building permit totals ex-
ceeded last years figures when
City Engineer Philip w. Knights
computed figures at the end of
March.
Building activity in March, this
year, more than doubled that of
the same month last year, the
figures showed. The months total
in 1897 was $30,728. In 1888 the
March total was $63,750.
Construction activity during Mar
boosted this years total to $79,655
at the end of the month, as COM
pared to $66,438 at the same time
last year.
Plans for new construction on
which building permits have not
yet been issued, Knights said, guar
antee that the citys building ac-
tivity will continue we'll into the
summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

RECOMMENDATION is a new word but
it is an old fact. Those of us who
live in town and who work at a
steady job for the where with all
to keep up the payments on the car,
the radio. the range the refrigerator
and the What-nots, have been pretty
thoroughly regimented for quite a
while. We rise in the morning, not
because we have finished sleeping
but because the alarm has ham,
mered us back into consciousness
and told us that we must. We
swallow our coffee and toast with
one eye on the clock, then grab our
hats and run. We go through a
more or less routine set of motions
until the clock has licked around
to a certain place, then we go to
lunch, not because we are hungry
but because it is time to go to
lunch And when the hands have
reached another place we go home
and prepare to do the same thing
again tomorrow.
We go through this same routine
day after day, week after week,
year after year, About the only
thing in life which is worse than
having a steady job, is not having
steady job. That's lot worse.
In these little discussions which
l hold over the back fence each
week with my neighbors, l have
not had very much to say about
the planting of Towering annuals.
/ know that those who live a rou-
tine life are jealous of their hours
of leisure time, in which they may
do more or less as they please, and
that very few of them will give
the regular, unremitting care which
is necessary to maintain a flower
garden in this climate. OF course,
there are few gardening enthu-
siasts who will give that constant
care, but even they will find that
growing flowers as a hobby is en-
tirely different from collecting
stamps or old coins, or derby hats.
or whatever it is you are interested
in. You can ride almost any other
hobby until you become tired of It,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
FILA Continues
To Boost Valley
Building Activity

LlberallZed amendments to the
National Housing Act, which slim
ulated building in the valley dur
ing the past two weeks, continued
to assert itself bankers, material
men and contractors announced
Saturday.
Construction work on the w. j.
Deaver home, designed and con-
tracted by Deaver, who is connect
ed with the Gavin Lumber COM
pany, is progressing satisfactorily
The home is being built on
Seventh and Vine streets. 1t will
be a five room lame house with
redwood sidingS, according to
Gavin who is furnishing materials
Addition work on the Lee Nuffer
home is near completion and the
small frame house in the rear OF
the Skinner residence should be
completed before the end of nexi
week. Gavin is furnishing ma
terials for both houses.
DR.. r. c. Clemon's residence il
beginning to take shape on San
bed room frame Stucco. Wall boar1
will be used in the interior. Glenn
ons home was designed by Sandy
Sanford
The Tony Fiore home on Len
Rey avenue. according to Aubrey
Moody builder, is moving along on
schedule.
Nd,,rl Kallooo ooptracto, Fro,,
Encinitas, is building a home for
himself on Len Rey avenue be-
tween Seventh and Eighth streets.
Kellogg's home will be three
bedroom home and will be finish
in stucco.
The Builders Supply company is
furnishing material for the home,
which will occupy 1900 square feet
of space.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Beautification Plans
Tentatively Completed

prize money will be distributed to
winners in the campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Over the Back Fence
FRED AMES

drop it for a few weeks and then
take it up again where you left of.
But If you drop your flower garden
for a few weeks, when you come
back to it you will find that it is
not there any more. If you are
going to have a flower garden you
must make it a part of your daily
routine.
SO that being the case, most OF
us will decide to content ourselves
with a lawn, few trees, and a
few Towering shrubs or vines for
color. These require less care than
the ANIMALS. but they effectively
create the home like atmosphere
which we are seeking.
There are quite a number of flow
ering perennials which satisfy our
craving for beauty, without being
too exacting as to care. Among
these are the Cannas. A bed of
Cannas in a corner against fence,
or any place in the background,
will be a thing of beauty all sum-
mer long. You may have them in
red, pink, orange, CANARY yellow,
or in a variety of stripes or spots.
Another colorful pernnial which
seems to do well with a minimum
of care is the Saliva. The Saliva
Azurea Grandiflora produces long
spikes of sky-blue flowers in the
spring. Saliva Farinacea has light
blue flowers. Saliva Grahami bears
bright red flowers in the late sum
mer and early fall. Saliva Involu-
crata has red blossoms throughout
the spring and summer. 1t does
better in partial shade. Saliva Leu
cantha bears spikes of purple and
white bloom in late summer and
i'm the fall. 1t likes the sun. Saliva
Mexicana has dark blue flowers
and blooms in January.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

You Haven't Read All the News
Until Yop've Read the Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

Chamber of Commerce-Post-
Press Identification committee
members this week completed ten
tative plans for the judging of Ell
Centro homes entered in the city
drive.
Plans for the pudging of the
homes in the city remand tenta-
I've botause committee members
anticipate a change of date in the
termination of the campaign.
The campaign was originally
scheduled to end on May |, but
committee leaders last week pro-
posed to end the drive on April 16,
the date which will commemorate
the 30th anniversary of the incor-
poration of Ell Centro.
Contestants have been asked to
write or call the Chamber of Com
merce to approve or disapproye
the suggested move of the commit
tee.
One hundred thirty dollars in
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

CnarleS SOneS, VINO represented Jnc
Sones Lumber company at the
meeting.
The principal subject aired at
the meeting of the state lumber
leaders, however, dealt with the
problem created by the erroneous
publicity regarding the price of
building materials in the state.
Records have been published
which indicated huge increases in
building costs, whereas, actual fig
ures reveal that building material
costs are lower than yearly average
costs.
Reports which have been circu-
lated, showing the prices higher
than average, have been compared
with the 1881 to 1884 figures.
That period is not a fair COM
parison, the lumbermen pointed
out, for building material at that
time was at record low.
A normal period of 1924-l929
discloses that today's material
prices are actually 3 per cent lower
than the five year average.
This decision, lumbermen en-
phasized, was not guess work
job. Leaders from southern and
northern California checked the
situation thoroughly and offered
their experience as basis for the
final result
Prices of building homes in the
state, however, run almost on an
even rating with those built in
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

1924-29, despite lower material
costs. The reason for this, accord
ing to the lumber group findings
is that home builders of today
demand every modern convenience
Naturally the price of a home
will be higher when more elabor-
ate work is done on the house.
Heating and cooling facilities, in
Sulation and many other necessary
luxuries are included in building
today which we're not thought OF
in 1924-29.
An example of high costs in home
building, though material costs are
actually lower, is in the wiring of
a present day home.
In past years it cost only $50
to wire a home because the job
was a simple one. 1t took only one
drop cord for each room OF the
house and the job was completed.
Now, however, there are a mil
lion and one outlets to account for,
indirect lighting, stoves, refriger-
ators and even air cooling connec-
tions to account for. SO the cost
of wiring a present day home will
run up to $500.
FILA. offers low payment
building program, Sones and Glas-
gov pointed out, and valley resi-
dents have shown foresight in TAX
ing advantage of the opportunity
While other localities in the state
have shown interest, Imperial VAL
ley is heading the list in actual
accomplishments.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
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California, as successor to the
Sunday issues of The Morning
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
PLANES DESTROYED

One hundred thirty
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
State Lumber Workers Predict Increase i'm Building
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS IN
F.H.A. PROGRAM

@. Why has the amended Ma
tional Housing Act created such
widespread interest and why has It
been the subject of SO much dis
cussion?
A. The liberal terms of the for
mer Act have been further liber-
allied by reducing costs to the
borrower In addition, a new type
of loan for single family homes
is created. II is now provided
that families building homes ap-
praised at $4,000 or less can bor-
row as much as 80 per cent of the
appraised value Of house and lot,
ropayable i'm small monthly pay
ments over 25 years.
@. What does this mean in terms
of benefits to the borrower?
A. Lower down payment and
lower monthly installments. Many
people previously denied the priv
iIege of home Ownership may now
have new homes.
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Work Progresses
On Graeser Home

HOLTVILLE, April 2 = Work
on the DR.. Graeser home in Holt
vile is progressing satisfactorily,
according to Lee Smulling, carpen-
ter and contractor.
The home is to be a five room
house and was designed by Grae-
SER The house will be stucco on
the outside plaster in the interior.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

MIAMI, Fla, April 2. (UP)-The
main hangar and ID planes were
destroyed at the municipal airport
early today by fire. The loss was
estimated at $500,000.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-08-05
N. CAROLINA SENATOR WANTS
 CORRIDOR THROUGH CANADA

U. S. Senator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina is quoted by the Seward Gateway as saying while in Seward on July 26. that he wants to see the International Highway made a military and commercial road, the entire length an American highway.
 This he would have accomplished by the ceding of a Canadian corri- dor to the United States. Such a cor ridor he said, could be handled as part payment of the war debt owing the United States by Great Britain.
 Senator Reynolds Is ranking member of the senate committees on Military affairs and Territorial and Insular Affairs. He boarded the re- venue cutter Hamilton at Oakland for Unalaska where he will transfer to the cutter Northland for Point Barrow. He will visit Nome and hopes to get to Fairbanks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-08-05
STUDENTS
 IN UNIVERSITY TOUR PARTY

The Alaska southbound was in port here nearly five hours yester day loading fish shipments and canned salmon. On it's northbound trip last week the vessel carried 215 tourists of whom 42 roundtrippers were University of Washington sum- mer school students. Director of the
 our was Dr. Viola E. Garfield, wife of Charles D. Garfield, for many years in the customs service in AL
 ska and later for ten years head of the Alaska department of the Seat tie Chamber of Commerce. He now publishes a fur journal and is inter- ested in a silver fox ranch near Ia coma MT. Garfield accompanied his wife on the tour.
 The objective of the summer school students was to study the life and background of the Indians as an extension class in anthropology from the university in its study of Indian tribes of the Northwest Pa cific areas. Teachers from all parts of the United States were included in the tour and as students they re- ceive credits for the research completed in the Alaska trip which is the fifth of it's kind.
 Members of the tour stated at Wrangell that the trip had been delightful in every respect. They had side trip from Juneau to Men denhall glacier and over the White Pass Railroad at Skagway to Lake Bennett.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-08-05
WISCONSIN TOURISTS ARE DELIGHTED WITH ALASKA TOUR

Dr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Ganser of Madison, Wisconsin were passengers aboard the Alaska southbound We'd nesday. They were enroute home from a two-month's tour of Alaska which they declare surpasses in in terest and enjoyment any trip they have ever made. And that means extensive travels in Europe, Egypt, Palestine and round the world cruises.
 Their Alaska trip Is recorded in movie pictures they have taken, vol luminous diaries, maps, folders and newspaper clippings. They were at the airport in Fairbanks and saw Howard Hughes land and take off again but as they left soon after for a trip up the Yukon they did not hear for a week whether Hughes reached New York as their boat was not radio equipped.
 The friendliness and hospitality of the Alaskans seem to have im- pressed Dr. and Mrs. Ganser quite as much as the magnificent scenery and the marvellous panorama of the vast land that is Alaska, constant ly varying but always a delight 10 see and experience.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-08-05
A Small Fortune In Ambergris
 Found By Juneau Men

medicines, ambergris brings all the way from s20 to $100 an ounce.
 The piece found by the Norland fishermen weighs seven pounds two ounces, and if worth $50 an ounce, represents considerable money.
 Fishing off Cape Sucking, near Yakutat, the floating ambergris was seen by Carl Swanson, working on the deck, setting gear. According to fishermen's rules, such booty is share" money.
 Aboard the Norland, owned by l. Goldstein, is Carl Swanson, Tom Sandvik, Ole Welle, Olav Hemness, Pete Hansen and Martin Tenneson, all Juneau men.
 A small chunk of the believed ann bergris will be sent to the Unlver- sity of Washington for analysis.
 When the Norland unloaded at the fish mart yesterday, 21,00O pounds of halibut worth approxi- mately $1400 to the fishermen, were sold result of several sleepless nights and days of work while wrapped in a watersoaked edition of the Empire, lying in the pilot house, was seven-pound piece of ambergris-it Is hoped-that will be worth several thousand dollars nssss thaB she tsB teas aa fish
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-08-05
Federated Garden Club Members
 On s. E. Alaska Tour

According to official report re- ceived here early in the week, large delegation of members of the Federated Garden Clubs were due to arrive here on the Yukon yes terday, and plans had been made by the Civic Club, with the Chamber of Commerce entertainment com mittee cooperating, to receive them and show them Wrangell gardens.
 However, the Yukon arrived in the night and it is hoped that the southbound visit will be more fa- vorable The cruise which follows the convention held in Seattle, is under the leadership of Mrs. Walter Britten of Seattle and the travellers are interested in seeing gardens in ports along the route, including Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Chilkoot Barracks, and Sit ka. During the trip, MT. John A. Grant of the University of Wash ington staff is featuring on native flora.
 The following had made reserva- tiens for the trip:
 Mss M- M Gsald os Seattle and
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-08-05

Life closed Wednesday morning for Leonard NJ Churchill, who as a young man of 28 came to Wran- gell in April of 1882. to take a brief look at this new country of which so little information was available in the states He stayed on for 51 years.
 Born at St Johnsiu. New York. Mir Churchill went west to Mime sota as a boy of thirteen. then later struck out for the Pacific coast. He journeyed to Alaska in the old side wheeler Ancon. He worked on the steamers plying our from Wrangell and in the 9O's, with the late Wil= liam Taylor. owned and operated the steamer Baranof. They engaged in hauling lumber from the old sawmill at Shakan and had a mail contract for the west coast of Prince of Wales island going down as far as Hunters Bay just north of Point Chacon. where one of the early day canneries was located. and did gen eral transportation work.
 Navigation was almost entirely by the trial and error method. the waters not being eharted and few if any maps available.
 MT. Churchill was a member of the first city council organized af- ter the incorporation of Wrangell. He served for many years in var ious city offices. He was a charter member of the Redmen's lodge and beginning six months after it's in stitution served 26 years as see- retary. resigning from those duties less than a year ago.
 For the past 20 years his services