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Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02


The foregoing schedule of per
diem wages is based on working
day of eight CD hours. The hourly
rate prescribed hereinabove is the
per diem rate divided by the afore-
mentioned number of hours con-
stituting a working day. Rates for
legal holidays and overtime shall
be one and one-half Q12) times
the above rates.
1t shall be mandatory upon the
contractor to whom the contract
is awarded, and upon any subcon-
tractor under him to pay not less
than the said specified rates to all
laborers, workmen and mechanics
employed by them in the execution
of the contract.
Notice is also hereby given that
all bidders may submit with their
bids, a sworn statement of their
financial responsibility, technical
ability and experience. Such sworn
statement may be required to be
furnished before award is made to
any particular bidder.
Each bid shall be made out on
form 10 be obtained at the office
of the Board of Directors of the
District at El Centro, California;
shall be accompanied by a certified
or cashiers check, or a bid bond,
for not less than five 80 per cent
of the amount of the bid made pay
able to the order of the Treasurer
of Imperial Irrigation District, El
Centro, California; shall be sealed
and filed with the Board of Direc-
tors Of Imperial Irrigation District,
El Centro, California, on or before
March %, 1889, at 10 o'clock am.
and will be opened and publicly
read aloud at or about 10 o'clock
am. Of that day in the office Of
the Board.
The aforementioned check or
bond shall be given as a guarantee
that the bidder will enter into the
contract if awarded to him and
will be declared forfeited if the
successful bidder refuses 10 enter
into said contract after being re-
quested SO to do by the Board of
Directors of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict.
The Board of Directors of the
District reserves the right to reject
any or all bids or waive any infor-
mality in bid.
No bidder may withdraw his bid
for a period of sixty 600 days after
the date set for the opening there
of.
Dated: February 81, 1899.
Board of Directors
Imperial Irrigation District
BY w. w. GOODSON,
Secretary
(F23. M2, 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Olson Appoints
Lumber Auditor

SACRAMENTO, March 2 CUP)-
Gov. Culbert l.. Olson today desig-
mated Robert o. Folkoff, certified
public accountant, to direct an audit
Of the books of the Red River Lum-
ber company to determine whether
the company is able to restore a
wage cut made last July at its
Westwood plant.
Members of CIO and AF'L unions,
whose jurisdictional dispute at
Westwood resulted in closing of the
lumber mill, agreed to settlement
proposal drawn up at a conference
of their representatives with the
governor, but the company refused
to make the wage adjustment called
for in the proposal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Mexicans Form
New Organization

CALEXICO, March 2.-In the in
terest of better understanding Of
the duties of citizenship for Mexi-
can people who have adopted this
country as their own, a Latin-Am-
erican club was organized Friday
evening at the Padre Pro club.
The following officers were
elected: Arturo Barnes, president;
Eleazor Mendoza, vice-president;
Chris Celaya, secretary; Ray VAL
enzuela, yice-Secretary; Octavio de
los Cobos, treasurer; Felipe Vega,
vice-treasurer; directors, Felix Du-
arte, Oscar Mendoza, Adolfo Ytur-
ralde, Fito Yturralde and AL Con-
ZaleS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

all made up of umbrellas.
PARIS, Mach 2. - Eetlaire
adolf Hitler to you) may be YER
bally lambaSted by those fifty mil
lion Frenchmen who cant be
wrong" but Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain of Great Britain Is
the man most discussed these days
on the broad boulevards OF Paris
And it's not entirely his pro-
French policies, nor his dropping
moustache. nor his buck teeth. It's
his parapluie-or umbrella. in PLAIN
English.
Somehow that umbrella has hlt
the Frenchmen's risibillties.
In the old days, Premier LLOYD
George. viii his mop of hair, did
not astonish them. Former Presl-
dent Alexander Millerand could
out-do him when it came to hlr-
suite adornment. When the pres
ent Lord Baldwin was Premier, his
pipe did not excite the French.
Their own former Premier Edou-
ard Herriot puffed at a bigger one.
But France, so eager for all new
ideas. never had Premier who car
ried an umbrella glued to his good
right arm no matter how brightly
the sun Shone.
And there was Shamberlan -
that's the nearest they could tWlst
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

members of the rapidly vanishing
landowning class of Mexican aris-
tocracy and with remaining buSi-
ness leaders in the southern repub-
lie left Al G. Smith, eXpatriate El
Centran. with the conviction that
Mexico is heading rapidly toward
economic ruin. he said Wednesday.
Smith, who founded and retains
an interest in an outdoor advertis-
ing agency in Imperial Valley, was
here with his wife for a brief visit
before proceeding on to San Diego.
Mrs. Smith is the daughter Of
prominent Spanish family in Mexi-
co.
Haves and Have-Nots
Business in Mexico is entirely
dominated by powerful labor unions,
Smith said which in turn are sup
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

safe deposit box Where ne laa
kept them as family heirlooms for
many years and sent them to the
library. Members of the family
this week received a letter of ac-
ceptance from library officials and
a note explaining that they are now
on display there.
One of the letters was written
in 1880 and the other in 1888. One
was written by James Mitchell 10
William Sargent, great grandfather
of l.. p. Sargent. Mitchell describ-
ed a trip made from his home i'll
the east to the western section OF
the United States.
The other letter was written by
Sargent's grandfather, a Methodist
minister, to his wife while he was
away from home on a circuit as
signed him by the church. Both
letters were in an excellent state OF
preservation.
Members of the Sargent family
plan to search Sargent's papers for
other valuable historic heirloomS
and preserve them for posterity.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

ported by the Communistically in
clined Cardenas government. Theme
of both labor and government,
he added. is summarized in the
phrase so well known in the United
States:
Those who have must give to
those who have not"
All social and economic life is
based on the theory that those
who have land or money must pay
and pay and pay-and then pay
again, declared Smith. He cited
and birth laws as an ex-
ample.
Second Class Babies
A marriage is either first or Sec
ond class in Mexico, the visitor said.
''If you look like you've got mon
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Legislator Names
Naval Appointment

WASHINGTON, March 2. tUP)
Rep. John NJ Coffee, D., Wash,
today named John NJ. Smith, por-
tage, Wash, as his third principal
candidate for appointment to the
U. S. naval academy. John Lob
dell, hmericus Vespucius H. Bacon,
ir.. and Benjamin Fleetwood, all of
Tacoma, were named alternates.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

their tongues to pronounciing his
name-who carried that ratn-shed-
der no matter whether he was on
a crack French train or in special
airplane for Munich or going to
lunch in a sWank hotel.
Wherefore their bright newspaper
lads sleuthed into this matter and
discovered" that Shamberlan
bought this umbrellas from a GER
tain merchant in st. Jamess street,
in the ultra swell club district OF
London. It's the same shop where
the Duke of Windsor in his palmy
days used to buy his hunting crops.
The Shamberlan umbrella, the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
FomerEI Centran Finds Labor Union
Domination of Mexican Industry Leading
Toward Ruin; Relates Emp mpIoyment Views
Bv f. A. FITZHUGH =

Yesterdays Land of Manana is today's Land of Labor
where laborers have ceased exist and business
under government decree, until it goes broke.
Four months in Mexico in intimate association with
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02
Valley Pioneers
Heirloom Letters
Given to Library

Letters written than 100 years ago by ancestors
of the late L. P Sargent Imperial Valley pioneer recently
accepted by the Huntington library at Pasadena as
a gift of the Sargent family.
Shortly before his DEATH Sargent took the letters from
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

SELL farm produce through
POst-Press Want Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

INTEND TO WED
DR.. F. G. West, 48, and Margaret
Kehl, 81, residents of Yuma, filed
a notice of their intention to wed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-02

Work to be
done at rate
prescribed for
craft perfor-
ming opera
ton to which
welding is in
ci6aOt.a1
Evening star., 1939-10-20

dresses, one in the morning and
the other in the afternoon and
twice will break up into eight dis
cussion groups-from 1l:15 am. TO
l2:45 pm. and from ! pm. to 2:3O
pm.
Each discussion group will have a
speaker or series of speakers. Topics
for the first session include guild
ance, physically handicapped chill
dren and their needs, parent educa-
ton as responsibility of the ele-
mentary school, leisure time activi-
ties and the elementary school pro-
gram, current economic problems,
the pupils report card, gifted and
backward children, home and COM
munity hygiene and the elementary
school.
Topics for afternoon discussion
will be home membership and the
elementary school program, the
rural school as potent factor in
Evening star., 1939-10-20
Arthur james Collier,
Retired GeoIoaist, Dies

Arthur James Collier, 70, retired
geologist of the Geological Survey,
Department of Interior, died last
Friday in Coronado, Calf, accord
ing to word received here.
Mr.. Collier was connected with
the survey from 1895 until retired in
1885. During his many years OF
service he had made detailed studies
and reports on coal and ore deposits
in Oregon, Washington State, Idaho
and North Dakota and had devoted
several years to study Of geology
and structure of rock formations in
many districts of Montana.
Earlier in his career, his field work
for the survey had included studies
OF gold, tin and coal deposits in
Alaska, on which papers were pub
lished prior to 1908.
During the years 1910 to 1914 he
served as professor of geology at the
University Of Oregon.
Evening star., 1939-10-20

Its community, community response
bilities and preparations for assum-
ing them. the place of occupational
education in the elementary school
program, the social understanding
of teachers, community resources in
the school program, safety educa-
ton in the elementary school and
problems.
The conference will open at 10
am. with a general session pre-
sided over by DR.. Garnet c. Wilkin-
son, first assistant superintendent
in charge of colored schools. DR..
Francis M. Carver professor of edu-
cation at the University of Penn
sylvania. will lecture on how the
elementary school may best perform
its mission. Supt. Frank w. Ballou
will offer greetings.
At the general session at 2:45
pm. DR.. Gertrude P. Driscoll, asso-
ciate in guidance at Columbia Uni
Evening star., 1939-10-20
Frank B. 0chsenreiter
Funeral Tomorrow

Funeral services for Frank B.
Ochsenreiter, 5l-year- admins
trative assistant in the Department
of Agriculture, who died at Mount
Alto Hospital Wednesday after a 10
day illness, will be held at the resi-
dence, 317 Upshur street NV, to-
morrow at 2 pm. Burial will be in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
Prior to his association with the
Agriculture Department about two
years ago, Mr.. Ochsenreiter had
been connected with the Munsey
Trust Co., the Navy Intelligence
Division during the World War; and
the Royal Typewriter Co.
He was born in Washington on
September 27, 1888, and was a grad
uate of the Georgetown University
Law School.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Evening star., 1939-10-20
Meeting Set Tomorrow
By Ruinbow Veterans

The District Chapter Of the Rain
bow Division Veterans will hold a
dime. meeting at the Capitol Park
Hotel at 7:30 pm. tomorrow, with
President James E. Witherite Of
ficiating.
Frank M. Stockton, chairman of
the rainbow dance" will report
on plans for the annual event, which
is to be held November 4 at the
Indian Spring Country Club. Elmer
F. Neagle, national president, will
head the list of honor guests at
the banquet.
Evening star., 1939-10-20
Guitor Teacher to Speok

Sophocles Papas, local guitar
teacher, will speak on the history
and developments of the instrument
at meeting Of the Segovia Society
at 3 pm. Sunday at the organiza-
tlons headquarters, 1000 N street
NV. Sonora de Castillo Najera,
wife OF the Mexican Ambassador
70 this country, Is honorary president
OF the society.
Evening star., 1939-10-20

versity Teachers College, will speak
on how to administer guidance in
the elementary school. DR.. Francis
M. Wood, director Of colored schools
IN Baltimore. will preside.
Speakers and presiding officers in
the forum discussions will include
q number Of teachers and officers
from the Districts colored school
divisions, teachers from Howard
University, as we'll as those from
Maryland, Virginia and Pennsyl-
vania.
Evening star., 1939-10-20

Gloria Richter Ochsenreiter; one
son, Frank B., jr.; a daughter, Gloria
E. Ochsenreiter, and his mother,
Mrs. william F. Ochsenreiter, all OF
Washington, and one brother, Eu-
gene c. Ochsenreiter of Asheville,
N. G.
Evening star., 1939-10-20
Elementary School
Problems 10 Come
Before Conference
AII-Doy Regional Session
Slated Tomorrow at
Miner Teachers College

Problems of elementary schools
will be threshed out tomorrow in an
all-day regional conference spon-
sored by the Miner Teachers Col
lege.
The teachers will hear two ad-
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and Mrs. Ralph Glotfelty, Harold
Glotfelty, Marshall Broadwater, Mil
bred Frickey and Rosie Broadwater.
A family dinner party was held on
Christmas Day at the National hotel.
A three-course turkey dinner was
served at three o'clock. Those pres
ent, including extra guests, were Mrs.
C. A Bender, G. j. Gnagey, Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Gnagey and four children,
Mr. and Mrs. C. o. Bender and five
sons, Dr.. and Mrs. T. o. Broadwater,
Misses Ethel and Viola Broadwater,
Christina Winterberg, Emma Caulk;
William Winterberg, Leonard Custer,
and Hess Winterberg.
Two Watch Night" services have
been scheduled for New Years Eve
by local churches. Rev. S. D. Sigler,
Lutheran pastor. announces that such
a service will be held at his church on
Sunday night beginning at 1880
o'clock. Anyone may attend. The
other service will be at the Methodist
church starting at $3.50 p. m. Sunday.
Special programs are to be given by
other Methodist churches on the
Grantsville charge and the service
will be concluded with special devo-
tions, "In the Year to Come" by the
local Epworth League society. The
lighting of candles will feature.
Brief Mention
Miss Margaret Renstrom entertain
ed the Teachers Bridge club at its
Christmas party Thursday night at the
home of Mrs. H. F. Broadwater, who
was a guest. Gifts were exchanged.
Fire in the fireplace proved to be
truly fire in the house at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Simpson, east of
here, on Christmas Day. Mrs. Kenneth
Moore, GAINESVILLE, O.; Miss Ethel
Simpson, Grantsville and Misses Zeola,
Clara and Leanna Layman and Edwin
Robson, Long Stretch, had called on
the Simpsons that evening and during
their stay hot bricks from the fireplace
ignited the flooring. The fire was eX-
tinguished with little trouble.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Epestein left on
Friday afternoon to spend the holiday
season in Florida. They were accom-
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panied from Hopewell, Va, by Mrs.
Epstein's brother-in-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Wenrich.
Miss Mary Helen Gnagey left here
Wednesday morning for a holiday
visit with Miss Rachel Cary, Salisbury.
Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Faith, of
Ridgeley, are spending the holidays
with her parents, Dr.. and Mrs. N. R.
Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bevans and
daughter, Miss Mary Bevans and Rich
ard CLANCY, Washington, We're guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Beachy over
Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Kahl, Dover,
Del, are spending this week with Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Patton. Other guests
of the Pattons on Christmas were Mr..
and Mrs. Maynard Hasenbuhler, Cum
berland, and Mr.. and Mrs Jos. Knepp,
Of Finzel
Mrs. Kenneth Moore, GAINESVILLE, o.,
and George Simpson, Richard, W Va,
were guests of their mother, Mrs, Mary
Simpson, over Christmas, at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. H c. Edwards.
J. R. Gnagey, Jr., Baltimore, is here
for the holidays with his parents at
the National Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. U. Edwards and
their grandson, Cecil Edwards, were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
J. Ashby, Oakland. Christmas Day.
Mrs. Clarence Miller and son Chris
tan were guests of Mrs. c. C. Beachy
Christmas Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Stanton, Brook
lyn, n. Y, and Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
H. Stanton, Aurora, West Va, are
spending the holidays with their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. U. Stanton.
They with Miss Pearl Harshberger,
Dr. R. L. Alkire and Mr.
and Mrs. Markle Stanton, of Little
Crossings, were Christmas Day din
ner guests of the Stantons.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Boucher, Rich
mend, Va, spent Christmas with hi.
mother, Mrs. Melissa Boucher
Mary Helen Gnagey, Luther Huff
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GLADES

Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Tressler and
family spent Saturday shopping in
Meyersdale
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Miller, Misses
Edith and Catherine Metzler and Is
aac Metzler, of Harrisonburg, Va;
Mr. and Mrs. John King, Bellsville,
Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Stephen, Bal
timore, and Elwood Metzler spent the
Christmas holidays with their parents,
Rev. and Mrs I. K. Metzler
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Frost and chill
dren are visiting relatives here for a
few weeks
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Klotz and
son, Grantsville, and Josephine Glot-
felty, Cumberland, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. William Glotfelty.
Miss Iva Bethel, Cumberland, spent
Christmas with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Bethel.
Orville Glotfelty and children were
in Oakland Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Beachy, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Beachy and Mr.. and Mrs.
Leroy Emory were dinner guests of
Mrs. S. C. Beachy on Christmas Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Younkin and
daughter spent Monday at the Will
liam Bowser home.
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William Houck, Betty Tarbeil, Mary
Schaefer, Cecil Edwards, Kenneth
WiIburn are at their respective homes
for the Christmas and New Years
holidays from State Teachers Col
lege, Frostburg.
I'D. Maurer, New Philadelphia, Pa,
visited Mrs. Maurer at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. A. c. Stanton.
Miss Mary Thomas, instructor in
the Grafton (W. Va high school, Is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
l. Thomas, during the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank j. Getty spen-
Christmas with Mrs. Getty's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Powers, Buffalo,
Ny.
Mrs. Kenneth Moore, who visited
here over Christmas, and her sister,
Miss Ethel Simpson, this place, were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Layman and family on Christmas Day.
Emmons Younkin, Pittsburgh, Wis
tied his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. F.
Younkin
Mrs. Walter Price, Breezewood, Pa,
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PAID LOCAL NOTICES

FOR SALE-Brown horse. 4 Years
old; weight 1900 pounds; broken:
sound. Edward Fitzwater, Swanton
advertisement 44-4t*
FOR RENT-Cottag at Mountain
Lake Park, partly furnished if desired,
Inquire at The Republican office. Adv,
FOR RENT-Two rooms, partly
furnished Apply 81 Center Street.
Observation-Disclosures 43-3t.*
WANTED TO TRADE-Baled bav
for mine pony, 40 inches or less. LEROY
Campbell, Deer Park Adv. 43-3t.#
FARM FOR SALE-Fifty acres. 7
miles from Terra Alta, w. Va. Write
Mrs Edward Lewis, Oakland.-Adver-
tisement Att.
ROOFING AND SPOUTING-Or
der now and save money. We have now
used Berloy Galvanized sheets for 29
years and know of none better. Let US
figure your job put on complete by ex-
perienced men. Mutual Phone 28-G-31.
J. S. WENGERD, Salisbury, Paid
vertisement eff.
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EVANSVILLE
Christmas Services

An impressive pageant, THE Com
ing of Christ in Living Pictures, was
presented Thursday night at Saint
Johns Reformed church's new Sunday
school room by the young people Of
the Sunday school assisted by the
choir. Mrs. B. F. Epstein directed and
Mrs. B. H. Bender was in charge of
the choir Soloists were little Fran
ces Miller, Mrs. H. j, Bender and Mrs.
T. D. Maurer Tableaux presented
the prophecy and fulfllment of the
coming Of the Messiah. At the con-
clusion of the pageant, "Santa" dis
tributed candy.
The Lutheran Sunday school pre-
scented program of Christmas reci-
tations, exercises and songs Sunday
night with Harold Miller, super
intendent, in charge. A group of
intermediates gave the scripture pro-
phecy. A feature of the service was
a harmonica solo, "Silent Night, by
Frank Conkling. More than thirty
children took part.
"The Holy Scenes of Christmas"
presented by Miss Ethel Simpson,
Cecil Edwards, Milton Railey, Lee
and Juniata Carder, Ruth and Louise
Weimer and Catherine Stark, fea-
tured the Methodist church Christ
mas program Sunday night along
with songs by the church choir, reci-
tations and exercises by church school
children and a playlet, "a Changed
Christmas"
Midnight Mass was celebrated by
the Rev. Father Hilary Liehr Christ
mas Eve at st. Stephens Catholic
church. Special selections by the
choir were given. The service closed
with the Benediction of the Most
Blessed Sacrament and the singing of
80 Come All Ye Faithful" by the en-
tire congregation.
The cantata, "The Song of DID,
was presented by the choir at the
Lutheran church Christmas night