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Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27
Electrical Men
Organize Chapter

Organization of chapter of the
International Association OF Elec-
trical Inspectors in Imperial Valley
was announced Friday.
A. j. Boles, Ell Centro electrical
inspector, and w. H. Axemaker,
Brawley inspector, will attend an
association meeting at San Diego
Feb. l to aid in organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

never had a chance" The COVER
nor didn't agree.
But II hours earlier. he had
commuted to life Imprisonment the
sentences of their companions,
Philip Chaleff, 27, and Isidore zim-
norman, q, strictly on the facts
OF the case. He said there was
reasonable doubt of the degree of
their guilt.
Dominick Guariglia, 10, publiciz-
ed 10 years ago by a settlement
mouse as a typical child of the
Sums, Arthur Friedman, %, and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27
Heber Residents
Spend Day in
Fl Centre
HEBER NOTES

Mrs r. King of CaleXico spent
Wednesday with Mrs. Ionta Hor-
ton at the Knapp ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Terrence
spent Tuesday evening with Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Winter in Ell Cen
tro.
Franklin Porter of Imperial was
an overnight guest of Bob and
Walter Willett Saturday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jordon were
Friday evening dinner guests or
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Cook at Whit
ing's Crossing.
Mrs. Ernest Marsett of San
Diego is spending few days with
Mrs. Hank Waltrip.
Mrs. Ben AVeritt of Ell Centre
spent Wednesday with Mrs. H. v.
Porter.
Mrs. Frank Modem of Ell Centro
visited MIS- Adolpn Fallavena
Tuesday.
Little Jimmie Beck suffered
head injury last week when
cooler fell ON him.
MIS-. Reta Roe of Blythe spent a
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Lesley
and family, returning to her home
last Friday when Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Cragg and Lena took her home
and spent the weekend there. Mr.,
Cragg is the former Dovey Lesley.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Davis spent
Monday with Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Davis in FL Centro.
Mrs. Laura Barnes spent Wednes-
day with Mrs. Geo. Whitcher in Ell
Centro.
Dorothy Lee Southerland enjoyed
her 9th birthday Sunday when her
aunt, Mrs. Lille Faust, invited the
following guests to fried turkey
dinner: Mrs. Mary Thompson,
Juanita Lee. Billie Roe and baby
Ruth GaSlby.
Clifford Moore left last week for
Lamesa, Texas, to be with his par
ents on their golden wedding an
niverSary, Jan. % All of their
children were present.
f. Stone returned from Arizona
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. V. Payne has as
Sunday dinner guests Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Sherlock and Walt
Keeler.
Mrs. Prentice Porter of Imperial
spent Tuesday in Heber with her
sister, Mrs. Roy Bowen.
Mrs. Loretta Waltrip spent sew
eral days in BraWley last week.
Mrs. Gladys Frandsen and Mrs.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27
Smith Appointed
Police Judge

HOLTVILLE, Jan. 81. -Holtville
city council Thursday night ap-
pointed E. ]. Smith to serve as
police court judge during the i'll
ness of Judge Mayfield, who suf-
fered a stroke last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

lier decision that was withdrawn
to correct possible procedural def
ciencies. Ford lost a supreme court
fight to prevent the board from
Withdrawing its first decision. The
new order is substantially like the
first.
The company has 30 days in
which to file exceptions to the pro-
posed decision and request oral ar
gument before the three NLRB
members.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27
SIX KILLED IN AIR
CRASH NEAR COLOGNE

COLOGNE, Jan. 27. CUP) Two
passengers and four members of
the crew were killed today when a
Paris-Berlin plane of the Air France
line crashed into a smokestack at
the town OF KnappSack. The crash
occurred in a heavy fog.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

Joseph OLoughlin, "a, died one af-
ter the other in Sing Sing prisons
electric chair.
They killed Detective Michael
Foley during a nolo-up in New
York City in 1887.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27
DIVORCE GRANTED

Alberta Lucille Poston obtained a
final divorce from Bradley Lynch
Poston Thursday on the grounds
of Wilful desertion and extreme
cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27
Children Of S|ums 90 TO Death for
Murder Of Policeman During noIdup;
Two Companions Win Communication

. OSSlNlNG, N. Y. JAM 27. (UP)-Three young toughs
from New Yorks lower east side executed last night
They killed policeman
Thirty thousand persons had petitoned Gov Herbert
H. Lehman to be mercful because they had grown up in
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

The boards proposed order, sub
mitted to the company for argu-
ment charged that the Ford service
department had prevented employees
from joining the CIO United Auto
mobile Workers union.
within the respondents vast
River Rouge plant at Dearborn, the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27
NLRB Orders Ford to Put
~ Back in Factory With
Paw; BIockIiSts Union

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (UP)-The National Labor
Relations board proposed today that the Ford Motor Co.
be required to enstate 20 discharged union members with
back pay its Dearborn, Mch plant and to refrain from
recognizing the Ford Brotherhood of America, inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27
; Wives Too Muny
For One Man Sov
Son Jose Jurors

SAN JOSE, Jan. 81 (UP)-Nne women and three men
decided today that Boyd Burke should not have three
wives two They jury convicted him of bgamy
Burke, %, the marrying milkman", found guilty
of illegally marrying Lillian Olivera while admittedly
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

freedom of self-organization guar
anteed by the act has been replaced
by a rule of terror and repression "
the proposed decision said.
The boards action today will be
the basis for a new final order
in the Ford case to replace an ear
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

CHICKEN THIEVES
Dick Bradshaw of 1916 State
street, Ell Centre, reported to po-
lice that someone had stolen a
flock Of his chickens.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

Mrs. r. King of CaleXico spent
Wednesday with Mrs. Ionta Hor-
ton at the Knapp ranch.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

Gilbert Estes and Dallas Tanning
enjoyed a trip to Laguna Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

Franklin Porter of Imperial was
an overnight guest of Bob and
Walter Willett Saturday evening
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Torrence
spent Tuesday evening with Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Winter in Ell Cen
tro
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
in and for the County Of Imperial
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

Mrs. Ernest Marsett of San
Diego is spending a few days with
Mrs Hank Waltrip.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jordon were
Friday evening dinner guests or
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Cook at Whit
ingS Crossing
Evening star., 1939-04-27

after the service, but invited him to
stay with him for a week, giving
him q substantial sum of money
when he returned to Vienna.
An unquenchable gayety of heart
was his always. His pranks in child
hood were numerous, one of which
earned him a flogging at the COM
mand Of the Empress and another,
the cutting Of the pigtail of the boy
IN front of him, caused him to lose
the security which St. Stephan's
gave him. His love of fun is i'm
mortalized in his TOY Symphony"
the famous "Farewell' SymDhony,
where, to Prince Esterhazy's aston
ishment, one by one the musicians
left their place. at certain point
while playing 1t, as protest against
his refusal of a vacation, and later
In the Surprise" symphony, where
with great cunning Haydn lured his
London listeners to a drowsy state
to awaken them with a sudden
chord of extraordinary loudness. He
enjoyed a good Joke and whenever
he heard one made haste to write 1t
down in his diary.
Buoyed by Religion.
Perhaps his mothers wish that he
should become priest explains his
great piety all through his life. AL
though he preferred to face the un-
friendliness of Vienna, after leaving
st. Stephan's, rather than return
home and be urged again to take
religious orders. he never began
composing without first a prayer,
stopping when inspiration slackened
to say his rosary and take up his
work with renewed courage. All his
works are inscribed with some holy
dedication and when he was COM
posing The Creation" he wrote
Il felt myself so penetrated with
religious feeling that before I sat
down to the pianoforte I prayed to
God with earnestness that He would
enable me to praise Him worthily."
In spite of this deep religious
feeling, he was not averse to worldly
pleasures and enjoyed the good
things of the table, occasional fir
tations with the most beautiful
woman in the world" as he named
each of those he admired, the simple
fun of the crowd of musicians at
Prince Esterhazy's estate and later
the adulation which London ac-
corded him. But he was never
known to say an unkind word of
any one or to retaliate when some
one did him a wrong.
Remembered Humble Origin.
His life's story progressed simply
and sanely from the greatest pow
erty in his early youth to a more
opulent middle age and an honored
and prosperous finale When the
tide of his fortunes changed,
through the kindness of Prince Es-
Evening star., 1939-04-27

ing his will, he remembered his
birthplace still more pointedly by
leaving funds to provide for two of
the poorest orphans of the town.
At the heighth of his fame and
popularity. a London critic wrote
Of him, HE is indeed good heart
ed. candid, honest man, esteemed
and beloved by ALL" His last musical
effort was made five days before
his death. when he asked that he
be carried to the piano and there
played three times and with great
emotion, the Austrian national an
them which he had composed.
Evening star., 1939-04-27

terhazy, he associated daily with
mobiles and aristocrats and knew
royal favor but he never forgot his
humble origin.
On his return home after the SEN
sational London successes. every one
hastened to do him further honor.
In the grounds Of the castle close to
the little thatched cottage where he
was born, a monument had been
erected to him and he was invited
to be present at the dedication.
After the ceremonies were over, he
left the aristocratic gathering and
going to his old home, knelt and
kissed the threshold and when max
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Huydn q Serene Artist
Composer Remembered Humble Origin
Amid Fame and Plenty

(This is one Of q series OF artt-
cles by The Stars music editor
on composers ,Dhose ,Dorks are
recorded in the Music Apprectd-
tton Campaign. The Haydn re-
cordings Uere released this week.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Remembered Humble Origin.

His life's story progressed simply
and sanely from the greatest pow
erty in his early youth to a more
opulent middle age and an honored
and prosperous finale. When the
tide Of his fortunes changed,
through the kindness of Prince Es-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21

We still have the old style crank tele-
phones, an old switchboard and it is sta
ted that the lines need to be modernized.
From the survey made by the Utilities
Commission representative, our operator
and manager needs more assistance. Senti-
ment seems to be unanimously in praise
of the work of Mrs. Wyrick, but it is felt
that with around one hundred and fifty
phones to service, the responsibility of CIV
ing twenty-four hours service is too hea-
Wy for her. She is as courteous, conscien-
tious, and loyal to her duties as any one
could possibly expect. She has been in
charge of the system here since it's begin
ming and no complaint whatever is being
lodged against her personally.
But we need and MUST HAVE a tele-
phone system that is adequate to meet the
demands that exist today, even if we do
not get improvements that are sufficient
to take care of still further growth in the
future, which is also inevitable.
We commend the State Utilities Com
mission for its interest in improving the
telephone service system here and also the
Jeffersons Rotary club for it's action in
helping to bring this about
Wy for her. She is as courteous, conscien-
1t is further urged that we stay behind
this situation until the officials of the Gen.
trail Electric and Telephone Company,
which is a western firm, agree to modern
ize the system.
No public service company or public in
stitution deserves the right to exist if it
fails to recognize progress and keep
abreast if not ahead of that progress.
With over twice as many customers as
it had in the beginning, it seems to us that
the revenue should have increased to the
point where the company could we'll af-
ford to improve and give adequate service
without working hardship on those in
charge.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21
Rotary Club To
Hold Christmas
Party Tonight
Varied Program is Planned.
Eller Attacks Changes of
Highway Numbers.

Gaiety, humor, special broad
casting, Christmas carolling, a
visit from Santa Claus and deli
cious food will be featured at the
annual Christmas party of the
Jeffersons Rotary club that will
be held tonight in the basement
of the West jefferson Methodist
church, according to program
chairman, Lester Segraves.
The basement will be beauti-
fully decorated and the banquet
will be prepared and served by
the ladies of the church.
The program last Thursday
night was also a combination of
humor and seriousness.
DR.. L. L. Long, who has more
children than any other mem
Der of the club, presented Dean
Mcmillan, the clubs newest ia
Their, with a group of baby paci-
fiers. Another joke was pulled on
DR.. Hunter and Glenn GRAPHICAL.
Program Chairman Joe Neal
presented President Ed Anderson
who was to make a few timely
remarks on the Ashe County hos
pital, but in view of perhaps a
more timely subject, he yielded
to Wade Eller for a few com
ments and general observations
on the possible effect of recent
changes in highway numbers.
Mr.. Eller bitterly attacked the
changing of number 16 from JEFF
ferson, Warrensville and the Ten
nessee line to jefferson, Crump-
Ter, Grassy Creek and Virginia
line.
Il don't know who is response
BILE for this, but we don't like it
and we are going to let the high
way officials know about our OBJ
jections too, he declared.
He intimated that various Off
CT Is living in neighboring coun-
ties might have had some selfish
reason in the changes.
The roads committee Of the
club, composed of J. B. Hash, w.
B. Austin, Dean Mcmillan, Ira T.
Johnston, were instructed to
make study of the changes and
to this committee were added
Wade Eller and Gwyn Price.
The club voted to invite the
Mountain City Rotary club to
meet here on the 18th.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21
Plans Sought
For Financing
Farm Program

Washington, Dec. 18-Nine top
flight govt. officers and ag-
ricultural Officials discussed ways
and means of financing the 1910
farm program at a secret meet
ing today in the office of Secre-
tary of the Treasury Henry Nor
genthau IT.. -..-..a. r.r..
Although Morgenthau and Sec
rotary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace declined to comment, it
was learned authoritatively that
an effort was made to delineate
a program which would make the
farm program self-sufficient and
self-financing to the highest pos
sible degree.
Topmost in the minds of the
conferees was the question Of
easing the strain on the budget
for the next fiscal year, which
is expected to bulge with heavy
national defense expenditures.
Foremost expedient debated, it
was said, was a plan by Wallace
to 'streamline" farm financing
by issuing certificates to farmers
who would collect benefits di-
rectly from the persons to whom
they sell their products. Some
Agriculture Department econo-
mists believe that this simple
procedure would obliviate the ne
cessity for parity payments. Con-
gress voted $225,OO0,OOO for such
subsidies during the current fis-
cal year, designating them for
producers of cotton, corn, wheat,
rice and tobacco.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21
MODERNIZATION BADLY NEEDED

There is absolutely no doubt about the
validity of statements made by local pa
irons this week to a representative of the
State Utilities Commission that the pre-
sent telephone system here is more or less
obsolete and inadequate.
When. the system was installed in 1927
it was equal to the requirements for tele-
phone service existing at that time, but
during the past twelve years the communi-
ty has grown rapidly and the number of
telephone subscribers has increased from
sixty to around one hundred and fifty.
Due partially to changes in ownership
and financial reverses during the depres-
sion, our telephone system has not been
modernized expanded and improved in
keeping with the progress and growth of
the town and community served by this
indispensable public utility.
In other words, the community has out
grown the physical equipment of this ne
cessary and highly beneficial institution.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21

l thank you for it. Were it not
for this fine cooperation on your
part, I doubt that our farmers
could ever become fully acquain-
ted with the facts, rulings and
news which they need to know
so as to keep pace with the fast
moving events of present day
farm life.
We have worked together for
another IL months in a con-
structive effort and not only do
I thank you on behalf of all of
us here at the college but I pre-
sumo to speak also for the rural
people who are your readers.
At the same time, I wish to ex-
tend your best wishes for a hap
py holiday season and all good
luck for 1910.
Yours very truly,
F. H. JETER, Editor.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21
Violators Liquor
Laws Get Prison
Terms In Court
Court Practically Clears the
Criminal Docket During
Week Special Term.

North Wilkesboro, Dec. 10. -
With the sentencing of a num-
Der of convicted liquor law vio-
lators to prison terms, federal
court in Wilkesboro practically
cleared the criminal docket dur
ing the first week of the special
term.
Court convened again today to
try the remainder o fthe crimi-
nal cases and to dispose of seve-
raj actions pending on the civil
docket. Judge Hayes is presid-
ing.
Following are the cases in
which prison terms were meted
out during the last three days of
the first. week of the special
term:
Jesse Anderson, six months in
Petersburg, Va, prison.
Melvin Fleming, 81 months in
Lewisburg, Pa, prison.
Percy johnson, 18 months in
Atlanta, Ca, prison.
John Frank JONES, year and 2
day in Atlanta.
Margaret Foster, year in feder-
al reformatory at Anderson, w.
Va.
Toy Davis, year and a day in
Chillicothe, Ohio, reformatory.
Otis Anderson, probation re-
voked, year and a day in Chilli
cothe.
E. V. Williams, fine of $3.50 and
six months in Petersburg, Va.
Mona Williams, year in Alder
son, w. Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21
Vuts
AND
Kernels;
BY
TROY /.
JONES

A lie turned wrong SCOT out
ards has sometimes an element OF
truth.
The marks that school children
get now have to 60 down as fl
cures and letters. Used to they
got them on the back, where
some would help now.
An alibi is nothing less than
"a lie-by a husband who comes
in late.
Used to, people left home be-
fore daylight and got back after
dark. Now they leave after dark
and get back just before day
light.
Roosevelt promised two cars
for every garage, Hoover two
chickens for every pot. The only
thing that has happened is the
chickens have come home to
roost.
A bachelor is a person who
warns his feet against each 9TH
er. An old maid is person
whose feet cannot be warmed!
A half licked stamp will not
stick long. Neither will a half
licked school boy.
like to talk to people better
than any of the dumb animals!
y
Racing of course is really my
hobby.
But not a rat derby in a hotel
lobby.
My jokes today will not click,
Nature has played me an awful
trick.
Last night I was terribly dis
turbed,
The rats should be killed or sor-
ter curbed!
Berlin conference may have
bearing on the course Of war.
Yes, a ''ball bearing.
There was man by the name of
McDuffy,
He fed his gal a lot of stuffy.
He fed her so much it made her
daffy.
She said his stuff was worse than
molasses taffy.
y
Once again for the EIGHTH
time l wish all my readers (if
more than one) very MERRY
Christmas and a HAPPY New
Year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21
w. JEFFERSON MAKES
XMAS PREPARATIONS

Continued from Page One)
latives have returned to the
county to spend the holidays with
their families.
Members of the American Lee
gion and Auxiliary, under the
direction of Commander Jack
Rhodes and Mrs. P. C. Wright,
are distributing toys, food and
clothing to needy families, whose
names were secured from the
welfare department. The Wo-
mans Club is also giving useful
gifts to crippled children.
Gale Mcmillan, chairman of
the crippled children's commit
tee of the Rotary Club, has sent
out special Christmas greetings
from the club to all those who at
tended the clubs crippled child
rem and eye clinics.
Tomorrow. night a big dance
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21
LETTERS TO EDITOR
THANKS AND CHRISTMAS

GREETINGS

Dear Mr.. Editor,
AS l look back over the past
year in the agriculture of this
State, several notable develop
ments in better farming can be
seen. Our farmers have made ex-
cellent progress in dairying;
there are more beef cattle; swine
growing has received new impe-
tus; poultry production is in
creasing and there is a decided
improvement in the growth of
food, feed and soil improving
crops.
We grew the largest tobacco
crop ever produced, and this with
the European war and unsettled
conditions generally, helped to
hold down prices.
Cotton produced beautifully in
the piedmont and less well in
the coastal plain, yet our farm
Aers showed definitely that they
will bring back cotton as an i'm
portant crop in the State.
We had our greatest enrolment
in the All clubs, with something
like $4,000 rural youth now MAX
ing the best better and furnish
ing leadership in our rural COM
munities.
The women went into the bust
ness of improving their homes
and gave serious study to all
questions of food, clothing, ba-
lanced diets and home manage
ment.
Take it all in all, 1899 has been
a year of accomplishment on
North Carolina farms.
And to you and your paper
must 60 a measure of credit for
all this. You have carried infor-
native articles telling the latest
news in Extension and research.
You have interpreted for our
reading public the best informa-
ton available here at the center
of the States educational facili-
ties in agriculture. You have al
so told the story of successful
men and women in your local
communities.
Certainly this has helped and
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-12-21
PATRONS SAY PHONE y
SYSTEM INADEQUATE
Continued from Page One)

The headquarters office for the
North Carolina group of systems
is in Elkin. Charlottesville is the
home office for the system in
three states and the general Of
flee of the company is located in
Iowa.
When the system was in
stalled in 1927, theer were ap-
proximately go phones used here
then. During the past twelve
years, that number has more
than doubled until today the
company has around 100 phones
in the local system.
In addition to serving the JEFF
Persons, two rural lines are in
operation, one to the Black Bear
Inn and the other down as far as
the home of Ed Jenkins.
The Jeffersons system has only
one outlet line and that extends
to North Wilkesboro, ever which
all long distance calls are placed
or received.
Mrs. Wyrick has been operator
and manager of the local system
since it's establishment in 1927.
She is patient and puts forth ev-
cry effort to serve her patrons in
courteous and efficient man
ner.