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Smyrna times., 1941-10-16
General Organization News

On october 2, the class officers
of the high school 9th grade to
12) were assembled to elect nom
inees for the offices of the General
Organization. Those selected were:
for president, Rodney Schuman,
Mildred Slaughter, and Bob Lower
for vice-president, Jean Truax,
Jack Mood, George Wright; for
secretary, Florence Passwaters,
Russell Moore, and Patricia Carter.
The following day the high school
held an election for the various Of
ficers. The results were: president,
Bob Lower; vice-president, Jack
Mood; secretary, Patricia Carter.
Carlene Jones, AZ
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16
A Dairy Pioneer

n Dairy PTOneer
In time, an expansion of the
Walker Gordon idea led to estab-
ushment of a farm at Plainsboro
on a relatively small scale. Mr.. JEFF
tiers, Just out of Cornell, came there
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16
Seniors Have Wienie Roast

On Tuesday evening, October 6,
the senior class and their guests
went on a wienie roast at Milling
ton Millpond. Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn
King. Miss Blanche Lee, and Mr..
Robert Burrage chaperoned the
group.
We had plenty of hot dogs, coca
colas, and marshmallows, so no one
should comment about not having
enough to eat. When everyone
had finished eating, some sang,
some yelled, and others disappeared
for a short time, but all returned.
Bob Lower, class presient, called
a meeting in order to get a general
idea of what the class wanted for
their colors and their motto. Be
cause the whole class wasn't there
nothing could be decided definitely.
Three groups of colors were put
up for vote-cherry and white,
wine and white, pink and green.
From the group that was present
Tuesday night only two favored
pink and green as this years col
ors. The majority favored the wine
and white.
Make the best better" "It
shall be done," 1--WE always get
what we go after" were the only
mottos suggested. Of these, awe
always get what we go after" got
the majority of the votes. The
final voting on our class colors and
motto will take place in the near
future.
At eleven p. m. we packed up
and started for home. I'm sure
that I'm correct in saying that we
all had a swell time!
Helen Jane Stevenson, AZ
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16
Glee Club

If size means anything j. B. M.
will have its best Girls Glee Club
this year. With an enthusiastic
chorus of 72 girls, thirty more than
last year, Miss Meinhardt, musical
director, is starting the group off
with a rollicking negro spiritual,
Cant Stay Away, Lord, "by Noble
Cain. The two practices, thus far,
each on Friday and week apart,
have shown what good work the
chorus can do. "The Prayer" from
Hansel and Gretel, a very harmon
ious piece for three part work, was
also started. Says Miss Meinhardt,
With the splendid cooperation
shown to date by the boys and
girls of ]. B. M, am certain that
the results will be something which
we can enjoy and of which we can
be very proud"
A Boys Glee Club has also been
organized and as soon as both Choir
uses learn more music, they will
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16
Monitor System

This year a new monitor system
has ben organized in which we
have only juniors and seniors par
ticipating. The reason for this is
because in the preceding years the
lower grade monitors were not
successful in making the higher
grades obey the traffic laws.
The monitors wear scarlet and
white armbands with S. H. S. on
them. These distinguish the mon
itors from the student body.
Also under the supervision of
Manfred Ennis, the Captain, and
Lillian Craft, the Co-Captain, an
entirely new monitor system has
been arranged for assembly pro-
grams. During such a time, six
new monitors are put on duty to
make the system more successful.
This year certain grades come to
assembly on certain bells SO that
there will not be a rush of all
grades coming in at one time. Each
grade and each teacher is assigned
to certain rows which they are to
keep the entire year.
Friday a few minutes was devot-
ed to the trying out the new sys-
tenn. The purpose of this was to
iron out the questionsof when each
grade was to enter, to leave, and
where they were to sit when an ac-
tual assembly would be given. With
everyone cooperating, 1 am sure
this new system will be very sue
cessful.
Elizabeth Stats, AZ
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16
Varsity Hockey Team

Under the leadership of Miss Fay
Wilson, the girls Physical Ed. in
structor, varsity Hockey Team
has been started.
About twenty-five girls have
come out for hockey, but no defin-
lite teams have been organized as
yet.
Thus far only two games have
been scheduled. Both will be play
ed away: Smyrna VS.. Middletown,
october Goth; Smyrna VS.. Dover
November 26th.
Helen Pleasanton, AZ
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16

Artillerymen stationed on the
sand dunes at Fort Miles are hav-
ing two-week rest from big-gun
firing while a new detachment of
soldiers of the 21st Coast Artillery,
New Jersey federalized National
Guard, is getting settled. The new
men, approximately $50, replace
Battery C of the 261st Coast Artil-
lery, which has returned to Fort
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16

A 10 weeks session in extension
courses was opened at st. Johns
Methodist Church, Seaford, Mon
day, October 6, and will continue
for 10 Mondays. The sessions are
sponsored by the Westminster
Theological Seminary. DR.. C. E.
Fortunes, president of the Semin-
ary, will teach the course, "The
Doctrine of Man." and DR.. Link, a
professor at the Seminary, will
teach "Public Worship" The ses-
sions will be from $50 a. m. to
12.15 p. m. and from 1.15 p. m. to
p. m, every Monday.
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16

back and severely beaten in the
final major clash of the war.
Even though the Marines won
many honors on both land and sea
during this period in our country's
history, the defense of New Or
leans under Old Hickory was prob
ably their proudest achievement.
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16

Shirley Blechman
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16

PLAINSBORO, N. J.-Henry W.
.Jeffers, Sr., will talk to you without
end about his buccaneering collat-
eral ancestor. If you bring up the
subject of Indians, he will dwell at
length about the Indian blood in
his veins. He would prefer these
subjects of genial conversation. But,
if the occasion requires discussion
of dairying methods, he will give
an authoritative and entertaining
discourse on that subject, with par
ticular emphasis to his famous ro-
tolactor at the Walk e r. G d n
Farms here.
The Walker-Gordon project, cen
tering these days around the roto-
lactor, or milking merry-go-round,
is to have an immense celebration
ON October 7th, with such speakers
as Surgeon General Thomas M.
Parran; Dr. Russell M. Wilder,
Chairman of the Committee on
Food and Nutrition of the National
Research Council, and Theodore G..
Montague, President of The Borden
Company, joining Mr.. Jeffers in
celebration of the fiftieth anniver
sary of the founding of the Walk
er-Gordon program of scientific pro-
duction of modified milk.
Back in 1891, DR.. Thomas Nor
gan Rotch, head of Harvard's de-
partment of pediatrics; George H..
Walker, Boston business man, and
Gustavus Gordon, cattle breeder,
philosopher and lay preacher, es-
tablished at Charles River Village,
Mass, a small dairy farm to pro-
duce modified milk for infants, bas-
ed on doctors prescriptions. Thus
they hoped to contribute to child
health. They made marked sue
cess.
The Charles River project still
maintains and recently acquired the
New York Worlds Fair rotolactor
with which the Borden exhibit por-
trayed the scientific mechanical
methods devised by Mr.. Jeffers at
Plainsboro.
A Dairy Pioneer
In time, an expansion of the
Walker-Gordon idea led to estab-
ishment of farm at Plainsboro
on relatively small scale. Mr.. JEFF
sers, Just out of Cornell, came there
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16
Dogs Help Marines

A family of rare Turkish sheep
dogs helps United States Marines
guard the Naval Radio Station at
Annapolis, Maryland.
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16

DUPONT. A Fort Miles spokesman
reported Wednesday there will be
no firing of the six-inch guns until
the week of October 10.
Smyrna times., 1941-10-16

sing together. This year we are
attempting to work UP more inter-
est in assemblies for singing, and
combined choruses may be the So
luton.
Shirley Blechman
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
Fishermen Jailed
For Operating Net
Near SaIton Sea

A session in the WeStmorland
justice court and the levying of
$10O fines against one Los Angeles
and two Calipatria men Monday
ended the operation of a profitable
fishing industry at the mouth of
New River, according to State
Game Warden Leo Rossier.
Rossier and County Game War
den M. c. Makey, arrested the three
men, E. S. Jones of Los Angeles
and Robert KlosS and Henry Mel
ton of Calipatria, Sunday while
they were operating a 400-foot gill
net.
The days catch, 200 pounds of
assorted fish, was turned over to
the county Jail Monday, RoSSier
said, for use on the prison menu.
The three men. RosSier said,
transported the fish to market in
Los Angeles by truck, 1000 pounds
at time, and sold them to dealers
at eight cents per pound.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
CaIexico Awards
Prizes in Parade:
Starts New Plans
Border City Already
Mapping Program for
3rd Annual Cavalcade

CALEXICO, Feb. 24.-Cal-
exicans TODAY cleaned up de-
tails after the 1941 presenta-
tion of the Cavalcade of I'm
perial Valley this weekend
and began making plans for the
1912 show.
First prize for the floats in Sat-
urday's parade went to the Chinese
association, second to the Filipino
association, and third to the Amer
ican Legion post Of CaleXico. Hon.
orable mention was given the Braw-
ley Chamber of Commerce, the Mex
icali Chamber of Commerce, and
the Calexico Women's club.
The CaleXico fire department won
the prize for the most ancient mo-
tor vehicle and the Butterfield stage
driven by Fred l.. Eady won first
in the horse drawn division. Most
authentic historical entry prize went
TO Ben DiDici as De ANA and his
troop of De ANA soldiers. Prize
for the most comical entry went to
! Billy Jean Grey of DescanSo. In
the costume division B. Noriega
of Brawley won first for the men
and Mrs. Helen Henig of Calexico
first for the women. Merle Temple
ton of San Diego won first prize
in the horsemen division and Lett
cia Gabilondo of Mexicali first in
the horseWomen division.
Special prizes went to Louise and
Peggy HaYekorst of Ell Centre and
Adolf Binder of Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
Japan.American
Convention Held

CALEXICO, Feb. 24-The Ell Cen
tro chapter of the japanese Amcri-
can Citizens league was host here
during the weekend to 70 league
delegates from southern California
and 20 Imperial county residents.
G.. c.. Bennett, president of the
Associated Farmers, urged the
league members to demonstrate
their AmericaniSm in every way
and defend the country where they
were born. Other speakers included
Supervisor Hugh T. Osborne, DR..
N. Nakaji, of San Pedro. district
league president; Leslie Dove of
Calexico, John w. Donohue of Ell
Centro, x. Matsumoto of Los An
geles, national league vice-president.
and others. Earl Roberts sang and
the Cavalcade entertainers provided
musical entertainment.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24

Judges suggestion. Inc IeCInlCdl
changes were in accordance with
certain requests made by dissent
ing bondholders' attorneys for am
endments and additions.
Attorneys indicated it would re-
quire no more than "a hours in
which to make the alterations. The
vast refunding plan which places
the district back on a solvent basis
for the first time in years will go
into effect Immediately after the
judge approves he revisions.
Judge Jenney approved the debt
settlement plan, which cuts inter-
est rates 25 per cent and cancels
back interest as we'll as advancing
maturity dates of securities, with
the comment that it is lin the
best inerests of all investors.
In SO doing, he overruled objec-
tionS Of q small group of dissenting
bondholders, representing less than
six per cent OF the whole. Ninety
two per cent of the bondholderS
have agreed to the program by
depositing their bonds voluntarily.
When Judge Jenney signs the
technical changes he will end a
stormy chapter in district financial
history that broke into the open
III the early 1905. At that time
district income slumped to a point
where regular payments of bonded
Indebtedness, as we'll as interest
could not be made. Out of this
situation grew the 1882 plan, which
was, in effect a four-year, partial
| moratorium. Out of the 1882 plan
grew the present modification.
Salient points Of the modification
are these:
l. Cancellation of $4,000 in in
terest due holders of the $14,250,O0C
bonds.
?. A 25 per cent reduction in in
terest rates
3. Release of more than S400,
900 for immediate drainage work
4 A ceiling on the amount the
district may be forced to levy for
bond and warrant interest and re-
tirement.
s. Delinquent payments on prin-
cipal deferred
Chief protection for the landowner
in the district from the plan is the
limit for which the district may be
forced to levy. Under the modifica-
ton, the absolute tops which the
district may levy for bond and
warrant interest and retirement is
1898, $50. Under the former setup
the district was required to an
nually levy $1,355,016 and without
the modification, under the present
law and bond arrangement, there
is no limit to the amount the dis
trict must pyramid in case of delin-
quencieS.
Actually, the modification requires
that the district raise even less than
the $833,750 figure each year. TC
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
Tanks Burst: Flood of Oil Leaves
100 Homeless, Injuries 3 Children

The Caminol company was sup
porting Is fanatics. or 100 per-
sons, in local hotels. Three children
were taken to a hospital for trr1t-
ment of oil burns Their cond ION
was not considered serious.
There was no fire in connection
with the flood of oil
Coulson said the company was
planning to buy 20 homes surround
ing the plant in the southern edge
of Hanford to establish a safety
zone"
The crude oil stored in the tanks
was brought from the Kettleman
Hills field by pipeline for refining
or cracking" in the plant here.
Coulson said the tank which
burst apparently was defective.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
Norma TaImadue
Asks Name Chance

LOS ANGELES, Feb. "a CUP)-
Former screen actress Norma Tai
madge Jessel today asked the courts
to remove the Jessel from her legal
name.
Miss Talmadgc is the former
wife of comedian George Jessel.
The suit was filed in superior
court and asked that Miss Tai
madge's maiden name be restored.
She said she always has conducted
her business affairs under the name
of Norma Talmadge and no longer
desires to retain the last name.
JeSSel is married to Lois Andrews,
l7-year-old showgirl whom he wed
last year.
Miss Talmadge and Jessel married
in 1884 and were divorced five years
later. .ss
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
Ruling Ends Long
SquabbIing Over
lid Bonded Debt
Difficulties First
Publicly Recognized
By 1882 Default

Action regarding Imperial
Irrigation districts refund
ing program, taken in fed
eral court in Los Angeles
Monday, brought to a new eli
max a long series of financing diff
ficulties that broke into the open
in 1882 when the district defaulted
on its obligations to bondholders.
At that time district directors
we're confronted with two alterna-
ives: authorizing a prohibitive as
sessment of So per 800 valuation,
or default.
In order to meet interest and
principal payments that year, the
district would have had to raise
SO 3,500,000. During the past year
income had dropped from $3,000000
a year the pre-'32 budget to 81
100000 Depressed farm markets
and drop in revenue from the Mex
lean system from 100000 to $85, 900
we're the reasons.
Between the years 1914 and 1922
voters of the district authorized fou1
bond issues which totaled $16,000,000
This money was used to purchase
the canal system from the Colorado
river to Imperial Valley, operated
by the Southern Pacific company;
for river diversion, river control;
levee system and drainage work
purchase of the water companies
that at one time operated the canal
! Continued on Page 6 Column d
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24

HANFORD, Cal. Feb. "a up
A flood of oil from a huge storage
tank which burst left 100 persons
homeless today and caused damage
in excess of 100000. Three children
were injured
The Caminol Oil Co, Ltd, of
Los Angeles, had crew of 100 men
with scoops and tractors cleaning
up the area today.
A 100000 gallon storage tank
burst Saturday, squirting and spray
ing oil for more than 200 yards.
The flow of oil undermined a sec
ond storage tank, which collapsed
and released another 10000 gal
Ions of oil, according to Thomas
CoulSon, manager of the company.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24

duultSSlIlB ii CllttilllS SlOuP VI oiN'
party comrades in the Munich Beer
hall where the Nationalist Socialist
movement was started 81 years ago
today. He said that from April or
our enemy can expect ojncr things,
and added his supreme naval COM
mand had only two hours ago re-
vealed the sinking OF another 215 ZOO
tons of British shipping.
Wherever British boats appear
our submarines will be ready for
Them he shouted.
Mussolini Sunday denounced the
United States in a 44-minute pre-
pared address in which he admitted
Italian reverses. He said Italy was
indivisble from Germany and
would fight on to the end.
THE illusion is that the United
States is still a democracy when
instead it is a political and financial
ollgarchy dominated by Jewry and
personal form of dictatorship,
MuSSolini said.
THE lie is that the Axis powers
after England want to attack Amer
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
y AMBl|Ne
EpORTER

Stolen Goods
Here's a strange dog story. 1t
came through the mails from Eu-
gene Schreiner of El Centro.
During the last week of Jan
uary, a salesman for several ma
tional magazines stopped at an 81
Centre tourist court while making
subscriptions campaign. When he
left for parts unknown my dog dis
appeared" Schreiner wrote.
Friends gave Schreiner enough
information to make him suspect
the salesman and after checking
vainly with Arizona authorities al
the Yuma gateway to determine il
such man had left California
Schreiner wrote to one of the mag
azines the salesman served anc
appealed to them. There was nc
answer and the fOrlorn dog owner
had about given up hope.
Imagine my surprise when this
week the express man called at my
door and told me he had my dog
in his truck, shipped from Santa
Maria, Cal"
The thief must have thought
sending the dog back was enough
He shipped the dog collect!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24

meet union representatives would
result in a strike authorized by a
weekend union vote. He said the
time of such action would be de-
cided by union members at a meet
ing within two or three days"
Settlement of one strike was an
nounced and members of the United
Automobile Workers (CIO) union
at the Milwaukee, Wis, Allis-
Chalmers Manufacturing company
plant met for possible consideration
of proposal by the office of pro-
duction management to settle the
largest strike in defense industries.
The settlement was at the Marion,
Ind, plant of the Farnsworth Radio
and Television Corp. plant which
holds contracts for army radios.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
Olson Urges Route
To San Felipe for
4-States Highway

MEXICALI, Feb. 24.-Gov.
Culbert l.. Olson in an ad-
dress here this weekend urg-
ed continuation of the -Four
States Highway from MeXi-
cali to San Felipe as an important
defense measure for the western
hemisphere.
Mexico and The United States
must work together W protect thiS
section of the western hemisphere, u
Olson said. This ROAD, started as
a pleasure artery, undoubtedly will
become of tremendous importance
as a defense highway
Convention delegates elected IIar-
land E. Wells of WEjtefish, Moat.,
association president for the sixth
consecutive year.
Charles Nice of BraWley was
elected secretary to replace Robert
Hays of Ell Centre, VINO asked t. be
relieved of the duties after sewing
since the association vas organized
five years ago. Other officers elect
ed were Col Ed Fletcher OF San
Diego and Juneau Sfinn of Boise,
Idaho, first presidents, and
Judge E. T Cook of Westmorland,
assistant to the precident. A long
list of directors also we're se'eCted
Sixty-two of the 1877 convention
delegates went to Sail Felipe on a
fishing trip, traversing the rou.e of
the proposed Four States highway
extension
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24

mlttee issued a final statement"
calling upon the Bethlehem Steel
Corp. to arbitrate a dispute with
its Lackawanna plant employees or
face a strike which labor leaders
warned might spread to all its
plants and result in walkouts by
10000 workers.
Van A, Bit.ner, SWOC regional
director accused the corporation of:
/. Endangering the national de-
fense program by antilabor action.
2. Locking out hundreds of en-
ployes because of their union ac-
tivities"
3. Refusing to arbitrate the dis
pute.
Bittner said that continued re-
fusal of company executives to
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
MAN DIES IN LEAP
FROM HOTEL WINDOW

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. "a CUP)-A
man tentatively identified as Walter
B. CaWard, 40, Los Angeles fell or
leaped TO his death today from an
eighth floor window of a Hollywood
boulevard hotel.
His body struck the sidewalk of
the crowded thoroughfare narrowly
missing several pedestrians.
Clerks said CaWard registered a
few minutes earlier as A. l.. Carter
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24

-rain fell in Imperial Valley Monday
morning while heavier rains were
reported in other southern Califor-
MIA areas and still another storm
moved inland from the Pacific
ocean.
Rain in the valley failed to slow
lettuce shipments to any extent and
approximately 80 cars were expected
TO roll to eastern markets Monday.
The market was up 10 cents 10 81
for 5s, according TO the Federal
State market news service.
The mercury was sinking again
in the middleweSt as a new cold
wave pushed across the prairies from
Montana accompanied by snow fur
rieS.
Snow fell in the northern states
and rain was reported in most of
the southwest, particularly in the
Arizona section where cloudinesS
prevailed from the Grand Canyon to
the Mexican border.
The wet weather assured Arizona S
drouth-plagued farmers that this
year at least they would not en-
counter the water shortage that has
distressed them during the past
three seasons.
For the first time in three and
one half years, water storage in the
five dams of the Salt River project
passed the 100000 acre foot mark
Monday morning. Capacity of the
reservoirs is slightly under 100000
acre feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24
British Capture
SomaIiIand Town

NAIROBA, Kenya Colony, Feb. "a
CUP)-A British column driving up
the coast of italian Somaliland to-
ward Mogadiscio. captured the town
of Gelib, South African command
communique reported today.
Gelib was said to have been taken
at midday Saturday, but the COM
munique reporting the full details
of the capture of Gelib or Margher-
ita, TO the south, was not immed-
lately available.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-24

iIIlO utltllSc ldDOl COllullIOlS, PeBler
recited numerous incidents of rack
eteering in labor unions.
He told the group it should in
quire into all phases of the labor
situation, including jurisdictional
disputes, since they may interrupt
defense production indefinitely, al
though the striking union may be
absolutely wrong"
Pegler made no specific recon-
mendations for legislation, but sug-
gested that the committee take
testimony on union racketeering
from FBI officials, Assistant At
torney General Thurman w Ar
mold, Sen Harold H. Burton, r.. o.,
and District Attorney Thomas F..
Dewey of New York.