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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-28
HUGH MAHALA TO
BE BURIED TODAY

Hugh Mahala, 27-year-old citi-
zen of the Creston community,
died yesterday and last rites will
be held this morning at II o.
clock. Services will be held at
the home and interment will fol-
low in the Williams-Mahala GEM
etery. Squire GRAPHICAL. is expec-
ted to be in charge of the fune-
raj service.
Mahala is survived by his ia
ther and mother.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-28
Miss Williams
And J. ID. Haire
Married Last Sat

Miss Faye Williams and John
Dennis Haire, both of West JEFF
ferson, were married last Satur-
day night at Independence, Va.
by Rev. Mr.. Mayberry, a Meth
odist minister.
The bride is the attractive
daughter of Mrs. Amelia Will
liams and Mr.. Hare is the son
of Mr.. Jim Hare, of West JEFF
ferson. Both of them are grad
yates of the West Jefferson high
school.
Mr.. Hare recently accepted {
position with the BarnWell Bros.
at Burlington, and after the first
of the year they will be at home
there.
The marriage came as a sur
prise to their many friends here
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-28
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. M. c. York and
daughters, Jean and Opal, and
Mr.. Carson York, of Winston-Sa-
lem, and Mr.. and Mrs. Elihu Mil
Ter of Patterson, spent the week
end with their aunt, Mrs. Lizzie
Campbell.
Mrs. Effie Wagner, and son,
Albert, of Morganton, spent
Christmas with her son, Mr.. Otto
Wagner, who lives near here.
Rev. and Mrs. w. ]. Huneycutt
visited here during the Christ
mas holidays.
A son, James Columbus, weigh
ing T1-2 pounds, was born to Mr.
and Mrs Dennis Todd Dancy, at
Glendale Springs, on December
18th. ----.--~
Mr., Ted JONES of Ration, New
Mexico, spef1t several days here
last week visiting Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Barr. Mr.. JONES was for
merly connected with the Ideal
Laundry and has a large num-
Der of friends here. He left about
three years ago and went to New
Mexico where he is engaged in
the dry cleaning business. "There
is no place like Ashe," he COM
mented in discussing life in New
Mexico.
Mrs. Mary Sue White, director
of Save the Children's Fedora
ton in this section, is spending
the Christmas holidays in Angus
ia, Ca, visiting her husband who
is in the Veterans hospital there
She expects to return Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. V. Stuart, OF
North Wilkesboro, were dinner
guests Christmas day of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. B. Doggett.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilkins
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Reeves and Mr.
John Donnelly were the week
end guests OF MIR. ana MRS. Jill
GambillN j
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Lewis, Mr.
and Mrs. Gene Lewis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carson Lewis, of High Point
were visitors in the county dur
ing the holidays.
Misses Kathleen and Pricills
Campbell, of Bristol, were the
guests Christmas day of Mrs
Bracket -Grayson.
Mrs. Rex Morton spent Christ.
mas with her parents at States
vile.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-28
Violent Death
In u. s. Visits
At Least 239

The season of peace on earth,
good will to men brought violent
daath to at least 239 persons in
peaceful America and mounting
toll of fatalities by traffic, fires,
train crashes, suicides and
drownings.
Death on the open highway
and in city streets again reaped
the greatest harvest, with 176
victims in the 8-hour holiday
period through Christmas Eve.
Twenty-one died in fires, nine
in train accidents, six each by
suicide and drowning.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-28
Fleetwood Teams
Defeat Lansing

The fleetwood high school won
"a double header from Lansing
last Friday night, with the boys
winning 81 to 10 and the girls 10
to IS.
The next set of scheduled
games will be played on jan
uary S, as follows: Healing
Springs at Virginia-Carolina, w.
Jefferson at Lansing, Fleetwood
at Jefferson and Nathan's Creek
at RivervieW.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-28
HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL
IN STATE is NOW IS

CHARLOTTE, Dec. 26.-Thir-
ty-five persons died violently in
North Carolina in the Christmas
holiday season.
Causes were: Traffic, 13; fire,
eight; train, one; exposure, one;
falling tree, one; homicide by
firearms, seven; suicides, three,
and suffocation, one.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-28
CLUB MEETS TONIGHT

The Jeffersons Rotary Club
will meet at the West Jefferson
hotel tonight. Bryan Oliver is
chairman of the program COM
rittee.
The Christmas party last
Thursday night was highly en-
joyed by Rotarians and Rotary
AIMS,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-28
Lansing Route !

Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt Greer
announces the birth of daugh-
ter, Dec. 26.
Mrs. Webb Goss, has been very
sick for few days.
Mr.. J. Y. Lowder, of Abe
marie, who is taking treatment
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-22
TAX ADVANCE;
WARRANT CALL

Reeelp, q $3.50. 900 advance IN
March tax collections from County
Treasurer paul Newman made !,
possible for the city ~ Tacoma 70
issue a warrant call which viii
bring tho eitys financial position
10 within four months Of . essh
basis. Finance Commissioner Fsw-
ceti announced Tuesday
Not all 81 the county tax al,
vance goes into warrant calls. since
all such moneys must he dis.
trlhuted proportlonately among all
funds deriving from tax sources
However. the city Wednesday u
calling more than $3.50 600 In out.
standing warrants taking up part
Of those issued Nov 10
General fund warrants 10 be re.
tired viii be those numbered from
a.3ts 10 1871. inclusive. amount.
ine in all 10 s?ep sd ~
1. |. u. Guaranty fund warrant.
also called are numbered from 20
10 a. inclusive, amounting Ia
So, SOS 50
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-22

say, has done some good things.
But they declare the good things
have not been on the side OF re-
covery. For instance, social Sc
curity Is a good thing But social
security laws, while aiding the
worker for while. do not pre-
vent hard times They help a
man for limited time when he
loses his job. but they do not cro-
ate a new job for him. Therefore.
while approving what has been
done In the way OF social Justice,
the critics say that these measures
OF social justice have not been
supplemented with measures Of
practical economic recovery.
The facts about private invest
ment have suddenly burst upon
the consciousness Of the people
with n good deal OF shock. For
instance. money has piled up in
the banks during the past six
years of depression so rapidly
that now there is as much money
in the banks as there was In 1929
at the peak OF the great boom.
RUT while money has piled UP
In the banks II has not gone
into investment The evidence Of
this IL found in the figures about
bank loans. While bank deposits
now are as great as they were In
1929. bank loans are 20 million
dollars less While bank deposits
have increased by IS million dol
lars since 1888. bank loans have
actually decreased by a billion
The banks have not loaned the
money For long time the Ad-
ninistrstion blamed the banks.
They said II WA the bankers try
Ing 10 sabotage the administra-
ton banks on capital strike.
But that arguments II no longer
tensble. Because all bankers are
not snfi-new dealers Mr. Jesse
Jones bank IN Houston, for in
stance. has not made sny more
loans than any other bank
fact. not az many. This IL not the
banks fault. The loans are not
ssails bic.
Mr. Hopkins In his speech laid
stress upon the fact that three
avenues Of investment Deckon 10
US the utilities. the railroads and
construction. lie admitted that
the key to recovery lay IN find
ing out why people you'd not IN
vest in these things and how they
csn be induced 10 10 70.
Moreover. 1910 looms ahead BY
the time the political conventions
meet next year the United States
will hay. completely exhausted
It's legal deb, limit # IS billions
II private investment does not re-
yivs by then. the pfesident VIII
face the necessity of another ire
msndous debt deficit.
But congress u ready 70 refuse
10 increase the debt limit The
party cannot afford 70 10 before
the country next year with an
other deficit and the promise ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-22


A. n Ningard. ~, has returned
from San Francisco where he at.
tended = ,wo.day conference On
new developments In fsfrsaeratina
and air conditioning equipment
The meeting WAS held by southern
distributors ~ the York lee Ma.
ehlnery corporation. for which
Vineyard Sales q Service 10 81.
elusive local distributor NJ air ron.
ditionins and refriferatlns squlp.
ment.
In Ram Francisco Wlngsrd saw
the ipse developments In cooling
equipment. These included . ne~
line OF 'psckaGcd' air conditlonsrs
suitable for air conditioning rrac.
tioaily any size commercial ssiab-
iishmcnis. ana residential heating
and year round air conditioning
units
The conference was attended by
approximately 30 air conditioning
and refrigeration distributors from
the Pacific Coast states. The
meeting was under the direction 81
the York regional commercial
supervisors l.. y. Bupp NJ seattle
and c. Sewers Of Loa Angeles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-22

BY JOHN +. FLYNN

half an eye in his head can
move about Washington these
days without perceiving that a
change has come over the spirit
Of the administration on the whole
subject Of business. Some OBJ
servers there call IL the drift TO
the right Secretary Harry Hop
kins objects to that. He says II
is bad manners to greet gesture
OF compromise with that sort Of
characterization. Perhaps it is.
The important thing, however, is
to understand the phenomenon
here for what II actually Is.
We have heard the presidents
promise of mo more taxes the
Hopkins "appeasement" speech
the lifting OF the plague on both
your houses" in the effort TO have
the CLIO and the AFL smoke the
peace pipe. and a current capital
rumor that the present monopoly
investigation will be quietly de-
modified.
THE reasons for this new and
even sudden shift Of the sd-
minlstration To a policy Of aiding
business are fairly obvious.
First Of all. for the first time,
the administration has become
acutely aware Of the facts:
/ That recovery IL utterly inn
possible unless private investment
revives and,
2 That private investment has
almost wholly collapsed.
The administration, IL. critics
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-22
WILL REVISE MURALS
IAN FRANCISCO 10

sAN FRANCISCO -@ Frsn .
Bergman. so'ycsr-old Austrian.
born painter who did the murals
of the faces Of Christ, Moses and
Isaiah In the Temple Of Religion
at the Golden Gate International
exposition. has been obliged 10
change his conceptions Of these
Biblical characters Complaint was
made that the face II his Christ
was too harsh and OF Moses too
darn lie has agreed 10 soften
the face OF Christ and tighten
that OF hi. Moses.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-22

still another for the following
year. II needs recovery as a
political necessity now and needs
II desperately, Therefore the ad.
minlstrstlon has turned 10 bust
ness as its one great hope.
Nexti Potrntiaiities ~ th~ right
turn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-22

With 1910 looming ahead. the adj
ministration needs national recovery
not only for Its social benefits. but ~
IA political necessity. Al this newest
crossroad of the New Deal, current
signs indicate "A turn Ia the right
with "appeasement" OF business ~
the goal In this. first Of Two keenh
analAticaI articles on The situation.
John T. Flynn, noted rronnmtsi-
author. reviews the condition which.
In hts opinion. has mp To now caused
recovery 10 hog down.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Arts and Crafts
Instructors
Announced

Competent instructors, recruited
from the membership, will guide
the members of the Ten Thousand
clubs Arts and Crafts section in
their activities during the coming
year.
These instructors are: Mrs. I.
N. Hitchcock, instructor in cork
work; Mrs. N. A. Contos, wood
and copper, Mrs. w. A. Swerdfe-
ger, leather; Mrs. Ray Forshey,
needleWork; Mrs. Merle Wilson,
sewing; Mrs. Grady Neeley, style
craft; Mrs. Charles Correll, block
printing.
Each instructor will have SAM
pies of her craft on display at
the first meeting of the fall sea-
son Wednesday, at 10 a. m. in the
club house.
Those who plan to attend the
meeting and luncheon must make
before noon Tuesday
with Mrs. Hitchcock, telephone
794-W. Section board members
will be luncheon hostesses.
The business meeting will start
promptly at 10:30, Mrs. Earl Farris,
chairman, announced Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

New an prospective members of
the Business and Professional Wo-
mems club of E. Centro will be
welcomed at the tea to be given on
Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock in
the Barbara Worth hotel
Far Places" is the theme for
the delightful program which Mrs.
Carmen Gibson has arranged for
the entertainment of members and
their guests. Some eight members
who have journeyed during the
summer to such far places as Alaska,
Cuba, Mexico, etc, will recount
briefly, in the form of a radio sklt,
their experiences.
Musical numbers will be present.
ed by zona North and by the club
trio composed of Lucy Adair, Ruth
Bennett and Lola Taylor.
Reservations for the party should
be made with Gladys Bush Martin
in Ell Centro and with inertia
Thompson in Imperial.
This tea is an annual affair but
this year it also celebrates a COM
pletion of 100 years of progress for
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Shower Honors
Mrs. BeIch

Among recent events is the pink
and blue shower given for Mrs.
Marshall Belch with Mrs. T. P.
Farmer, Mrs. r. Morris, Mrs. Small
ing, Mrs. Jewel and Mrs. H. Moon
as hostesses, entertaining at the
Farmer home.
Those present were: Mesdames
r. Smalling, G.. Smalling, d. Far
rer, G.. Winberley, Cliff Burton,
Curt Oswalt, Louise Ray, Gordon
Scriven, Clarence Baker, G.. Baker,
Bradford Ruth Smalling, Joe Carr,
Henry Moon, Howard Sanders, Elzy
Offil, j. B. Hill, H. r. Larsen, G.,
E. Belch, j. M. Armstrong, Bob
Hartsock, A j. Watson, Dave Hart,
Carl Rogers, Leo Vaughn.
Iona M. Steen, w. R. Jewel, Ell
mer Provence, Tommy Moon, G.. G..
Norris, T. P. Farmer, George w.
TibbetS, S. P. Greenwood, Claudia
stephen, Doris jenkins, Polly Han
cock, Anna Bulish, Edward Valusek
Ralph Pesqueira, Charlie Owens
Thomas Oliver, Odell Farmer, the
Misses Ruby Norris, Kathryn Oil
yer, Margaret Bulish, Dorothy Dra-
per, Theresa Belch, Dorothy Green
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Vacations Theme
Of Program for
Chap+er CIV

From Canada in the north 10
Mexico in the south, from San
Francisco in the west and New
York City in the east, journeyed
members of Chapter CIV, P.E.O.,
this past summer, the individual
members reporting a variety OF
interesting experiences at their
meeting Saturday.
This first meeting of the fall
took place Saturday noon at the
C. E. Sones home, 665 Wensley
avenue, with Mrs. Sones and Miss
Georgiana Sones as hostesses,
prior to the business session and
the program.
Members present included Mes
danes A. j. Boles, R. C. Clemons,
R. A. Dinsmore, Jr, M. j. DoWd
Norman E. Dupont, Scott Poulds,
j. D. FosS, Guy L. Hatch, John
Hearne, J. l.. House, D. B. Ro-
berts, j. D. johnson, E. w. Schil-
Ter, Louis w. Slee, G. E. Sones,
Donald l.. Young, Miss Sones.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
W.E.Hancock, Jr.,
Suffers Broken
Arm in Fall

Delay in the shape of fractured
arm suffered by w. E. Hancock,
jr., has kept Mr.. and Mrs. Hancock
in Vancouver, BIC, instead of sail
ing with the rest of their party on
the Empress of Japan for Shanghai,
China.
This information was received re-
Gently by Mr.. and Mrs. Hancock,
sr., from their daughter law, the
former Lillian Wilkinson of Holt
vile. The accident occurred the
afternoon of the day on which they
we're to have sailed, the whole party
being on a picnic at Capalano Cam
yon near Vancouver, spending the
time in this manner while the ship
was being repainted and probably,
mounted with guns. In climbing
up the canyon Mr.. Hancock fell and
suffered a badly fractured arm.
Fortunately a physician was in the
party and gave first aid after which
Mr.. Hancock was taken at once
to a Vancouver hospital where he
will have to remain for some days.
The Hancocks now plan to sail
for China the end of this month
on the Empress of Canada and from
Shanghai will go to the interior
of China where they will be asso-
ciated with the China Inland Mis-
sion, both having been planning
this work since 1881. They were
married in February 1898.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
To Conduct School
Of Instruction
For Baptis+s

State officers will address the
meeting of the Imperial Valley
Women's Missionary society of the
Baptist church to be held in Holt
vile Tuesday at 10 am. in the Holt
vile church.
At this time the visitors will con-
duct a school of instruction in re-
gard to the work of their several
departments and officers of the
association and local presidents have
received a special request to at
tend. At noon the group will have
a pot luck luncheon in the civic
center
Speakers will be: Mrs. Mary Ba-
ker. Mrs. c. G. Turney, Mrs. S. L.
Halsey. Mrs. Y. G. Carter, Mrs
Joseph Anderson all from the Los
Angeles headquarters
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Charming Home Wedding
Unites Popular Couple

ing picture in her wedding gowr
of white satin, a modish version
of the fashioned busrIe style
complete with long fitted waist ano
drapery. Her veil was finger tip in
length and she carried a shower
bouquet of gardenias and lilies OF
the valley.
Neva and Treva Baum, twin sis
ters of the bride, were her only
attendants and wore blue marqui-
sette over taffeta hoop skirts, old
fashioned nosegays completing the
effect.
Fred and Raymond Veliquette,
brothers of the bridegroom, served
as his attendants.
Reception Held
Immediately after the ceremony
a reception took place, Mrs. Alder
son and Mrs. Baum assisting the
young couple in receiving. The
brides table was beautifully dec
Grated and at one end was the
brides cake and at the other, the
bridegroom's both handsomely or
namented.
6 After the reception the young
couple left on their wedding trip
and will make their home in Ell
Centro uCon their return.
The bride selected handsome
gray suit with black accessories
for her going away ensemble.
Out of town guests at the wedding
were: the brides grandfather, J. B.
Finn of Kansas City, Kans., Miss
Barbara Ruth Henson of La Mesa;
Mrs. Nettie Myers of Ocean Beach,
grandmother of the bridegroom and
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Meyers OF
Encinitas.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Campus Notes
From Central
Hiqh Schoo!
Assembly Speaker

Burdette Kinne, Imperial Valley
Post-Press Sports Editor spoke at
the Ell Centro high school assembly
Friday morning. Kinne spoke on
THE Life of a Sports Writer"
Following Kinne's speech short
pep rally in preparation for the Ell
Centre, Coachella game was held
]. c. Reception
Ell Centro junior colleges fresh
men reception was big success
this year with more than one
hundred and fifty Junior college
students attending.
The reception, an informal dance,
is given every year in order that
freshmen might become better ac-
quainted with the upper class
men.
Herb Schmidt, student body pres
ident, announced that it was his
hope that this would be the first
of a series of successful Junior col
leg events.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Paula Mathis Married to
Joe Zumstein Sunday

the brides attendant and she was
gowned in blue taffeta, carrying
Talisman roses.
Hans Sulzer of M9nrovia served
the bridegroom as best man.
Immediately after the ceremony
a wedding dinner took place at the
Zumstein ranch where some 60 rela-
tives and friends gathered to greet
the newlyweds. Lovely roses dec
GRATED the house and tables and
one of the highlights of the gath
ering was the cutting of the hand
some brides cake by Mrs. Zumstein.
Mr. and Mrs. zumstein are en-
Toying a three weeks trip on the
coast and upon their return will
make their home at the zumstein
ranch, the bridegroom being well
known rancher in the Holtville
district.
Mrs. zumstein attended Holtville
high school.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Chairmen Vote Return to
Old Style Meetings .

go Nov. 1915. The next regional
conference was announced for San
Bernardino on Oct. 81, and the Al
club leaders conference for Oct
21-11 at Camp Seeley, San Bernar-
dino mountains.
Election of officers was postpon-
ed until the November meeting.
Those present were: Mesdames
r.. F. Ballou, L. M. Crumrine,
Acacia: Mesdames Rex Ogier, Guy
E.. Tuttle, Alamo-Verde: Mrs. Fred
Noble, Calipatria; Mesdames I. H.
Shaw, Charles Ferguson, Eastside-
Sunset; Mesdames Ralph Buffers,
T. B. Shank, William Strieby, Mag
nolia- Mulberry; Mesdames E. E.
Anderson, Norman Pearse, McCabe-
Eucalyptus; Mesdames Fred Pol
lard. Jim Nelson, D. E. Green, Mt.
Signal: Mrs. Harriet ChriStianson
Rose-Mesquite; Mesdames c. E.
Cooke, l.. w. Ballard, F. Van Liere,
Spruce e-Westmorland.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Return From
Motor Trip

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Goree, Jr.,
returned Sunday night from mo-
tor trip to the east coast, Mrs.
Gorees mother, Mrs. l.. T, Tum-
linson of San Antonio, Texas, &C
companying them on their return.
After purchasing new car in
Detroit, Mich, the Gorees motor
ed as far east as New York City
where they visited the fair, bring
ing home enthusiastic reports OF
the exposition. Among the other
cities which they visited were
Washington, D. c., Baltimore, Md,
New Orleans, La, and of course,
Navasota, Texas, where they Wis
tied Mr.. Goree's parents, DR.. and
Mrs. L. J. Goree, Sr, We
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

st. Joseph's Catholic church,
Holtville. was the scene of a charm
ing wedding solemnized at 11:3O
o'clock Sunday morning when Miss
Paula Mathis, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Mathis of Ell Centro,
became the bride of Joe zumstein,
son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Zumstein
of Holtville.
Father Philip Watts conducted
the impressive service in the pres
ence of a large group of friends
and relatives.
Beth Melbourne of Holtville acted
as organist playing the wedding
march to which the bridal process
sion entered the church. The pref
ty bride wore a white satin frock
topped with lace jacket and her
long veil, arranged in cap fashion
formed a becoming headdress. Her
bouquet was of gardenias and lilies
of the valley.
Miss Ella Hofer of Holtville was
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
News Hens About
Valley Residents

Weekend guests at the James
Gardenhire home included Mr..
Gardenhire's parents, Col. and Mrs.
William c. Gardenhire of River
side; Gen and Mrs. James Fechet
of Laguna and Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Fattee of Riverside, all of whom
came to the valley for the dove
shooting. Gen. Fechet is retired
chief of the army air corps.
Mrs. w L. Wright returned to
the valley this weekend after a
summer spent on the coast, Mr..
Wright also spending three months
in San Diego, returning shortly be-
fore Mrs. Wright, who has recuper-
ated from a recent illness which
caused her to spend some time IN
Paradise Valley sanitarium, Nation
nj City.