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The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
DAM STORES 155, $50 ACRE FEET
New Basis For Issuing
Surplus Food Stamps Told
Purchases Will be Aided by New Pan-Actual Family
Income to be Considered as Free Stamps Will
Total One-haf of Orange Stamps Purchased

Starting January first, public
assisted participants in the food
stamp plan in Pinal county will
purchase orange colored food
order stamps, and receive half
again as many free blue surplus
food stamps, in accordance with a
new basis of issuance now in sue
cessful operation throughout the
balance of the state.' This an
nouncement was made by G. E.
Tarleton, Area Director of the Sur
plus Marketing Administration, U.
5. Department of Agriculture.
"As a result of consumer studies
made prior to the extentien of the
food stamp plan to the remaining
counties in Arizona" said Tarle-
ton, 'it was apparent that normal
food purchases varied considerably
depending on family size and
income. 1t has been found that
this new basis of issuing food
stamps in accordance with the
actual income of relief categories
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Two N.Y.A. Projects
Scheduled For City

According to word from Jane
Rider, state administrator of the
National Youth administration
plans are underway for two train
ing units to be established at and
near Coolidge in the near future.
Approval has been granted for
construction of girls residence
project at 11-mile corner, halfway
between Coolidge and Casa Gran
de. The residence project will
provide training at a convalescant
hospital there under the combined
auspices of the administration and
the Farm Security administration
The girls enrolled there also will
be given first-hand training in pre-
pairing school lunches and will
study nutrition.
According to Principal r. w
Taylor plans are in the making for
a similar project at Coolidge
Union high school, but no definite
information is available as yet
but plans will probably be com
pleted in two or three weeks.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
H. 6. Richardson
New Superior Court
Judge Of County

1t really is Judge" Richardson
now. Appointed early Thursday
morning to fill the vacancy on the
superior court bench of Pinal
county caused by the resignation
of senator-elect E. w. Mcfarland,
H. G. Richardson, Florence at
torney who has been known as
Judge to his friends and ac-
quaintances for many years, took
the oath of office before Judge A.
c. Lockwood yesterday following
his appointment by Governor r. T
Jones.
Judge Richardson becomes the
sixth Pinal county lawyer to fill
that post since statehood came to
Arizona in 1912.
The office was sought by several
Plnal county lawyers with Cover
nor Jones reluctant to choose be
tween the three outstanding appli
cants, Judge Richardson, County
Attorney w. c. Truman and Tom
Fulbright, Florence lawyer. Al
first the governor offered to give
each of the three an equal chance
at the post through selection by
lot but when opposition develop
ed to that plan the governor de-
cided to choose Judge Richardson
with whom he had been personally
friendly since they first met in
the goldfields of Nevada in 1908.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Coolidge Rotarians
Hear Charles Cohen
On aith Freedom

Reading the inspiring words OF
Rabbi Morris S. Larzaron, widely
known humanitarian and traveller,
Charley Cohen brought an intens-
ley interested membership of Coo
lidge Rotary club a discourse on
Freedom to Worship" and the
inter-faith difficulties between
Protestant. Catholic and Jew,
Thursday noon.
The speaker likened his mess
age to Kipling's famous "Reces-
sional" and cautioned his listeners
that he spoke in the same vein in
which this famous pomen was
written.
Guests of the club for the day
were past district governor Lloyd
Henning, senator from Navajo
county and his son, Robert, Dave
Jones, custodfaH Wupatki Ma
tional Monument, north of Flag
staff and Norman H. Lassen of
Montana.
Belated Christ as gifts to
several members not attending
last week meeting were distribut-
ed and special birthday gifts were
presented Wes Kirby and Charles
Cohen.
Secretary Nate Murray read a
special Arizona edition" of the
club paper, Rotary club of Muske-
gon, Michigan, in which members
of that club especially thanked
Rotary clubs of Arizona for aid
given one of it's members in find
ing a home in which recuperate
from serious illness. Listed
among these they wished to thank
in Arizona were Nate Murray, Sc
cetary Coolidge Rotary club and
Paul Loucks. secretary, Coolidge
Chamber of Commerce. The
Muskegon member, George Nor
rell. will leave his Michigan home
on January 18th to spend several
months in Arizona.
Surprise feature of the noon
luncheon program of the Rotary
club on December 26, was a
Christmas party. Santa Claus, i'm.
personated by J. ]. Jones, present
ed each of the members with a
gift. A number of Christmas
carols was sung by the group lead
by Dick Keith and Mrs. Edna
Pearl Steward.
Cancelling the usual educational
program, Coolidge Rotarians re-
turned to boyhood days last
Thursday, and, following the
luncheon, indulged in an old
fashioned Christmas party. Follow.
! ing the singing of carols, Santa
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Rains Cause Car
Wrecks Near Citv

Slippery roads caused by the
recent rains have been charged
with responsibility for several
wrecks this week.
One wreck occurred ten miles
south of Chandler Tuesday night
when B. Young of Phoenix skidd-
ed into car driven by H. A..
Odom of Coolidge None of the
passengers was hurt, but the
Odom car was damaged.
Another wreck causing injuries
to Mrs. Lee Welch, Phoenix and
L. S. Allen, Lincoln, Nebraska, oc-
Cured On highway 81, approx
mately seven miles north On the
Phoenix highway about 1915 pm.
Monday, when an All American
bus drove into a parked car be-
longing to Allen.
During the rain a car driven by
Lee Welch, overturned in bar
rOwpit due to faulty brakes. See
ing the wreck Allen stopped his
car On the pavement to offer as
sistance. Shortly afterwards while
Mrs. Welch and Allen were wait
ing the return of Welch, who had
come to Coolidge for a wrecker,
an All American bus, containing
twenty-seven passengers, drove in
to the parked car.
A fractured left shouldered and
by Mrs. Welch and four of Aliens
ribs and color bone were broken.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Safecrackers Loot
Arizona Edison
Company Safe

Safecrackers who visited three
Coolidge business houses Christ
mas night got but slightly more
than $40 for their work but
caused the loss of lot of sleep to
local police officers.
A heavy steel safe was removed
from the office OF Arizona Edison
Company and hauled to the banks
OF the ella river east of the rail
road tracks where it was found
Thursday morning nearby a stolen
car identified as belonging to
Louis Edwards of 11-mile corner.
Officials of the company believe
that not more than 50 was in the
safe at the time.
Thieves also looted the Richfield
Oil plant of So in change and
broke into the plant office of
Standard Oil Company from which
it is believed they were frightened
by Night Watchman Kye McMul-
Ian making his regular rounds.
Mcmillan found a broken ma
chine shop window at the Edison
company about two o'clock Friday
morning notifying sheriff deputies
John Haywood and Clyde Penix.
The thieves covered their trail
sufficiently well to elude all at
temps at detection after the Edi
son safe was found.
AS a result of the disappoint
ment the safecrackers must have
felt at obtaining but a few dollars
Constable E. E. Stringer opines
IF Coolidge business men don't
leave more money in their safes
the cracksmen will 'jine the
union and call a sit down strike
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Funeral Services For
Mrs. Fred Kennedy
To Be This Morning

Funeral services for Mrs. M.
Blanche Kennedy, 60, who died
Monday morning at 2 o'clock in
Casa Grande hospital, will be held
at 1O:30 this morning from Cole
and Maud chapel, Coolidge Ser
vices will be in charge of Rev. DR..
George Logic of Phoenix. Burial
will be in Greenwood Memorial
Park, Phoenix.
Mrs. Kennedy, was the widow
of the late Fred Kennedy, who
died in Casa Grande two years
ago. She was born April 8, 1880
in Presque Isle, Maine. Recent to
her death Mrs. Kennedy resided
on the family ranch, 10 miles west
OF Coolidge and had been a resi-
dent of this district for 20 years.
She was a member of the Eastern
Star at Casa Grande.
Surviving are three sons, Clare
K, Fred E., and Robert Kennedy,
all of Coolidge; and four sisters,
Mrs. M. M. Levy of Los Angeles,
Oura Waddington, Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Helen Sanborn, Newport.
Maine, and Mrs. John Boland.
Augusta, Maine; two brothers,
Freeman T. Tuttle, Augusta.
Maine. and Robert Tuttle, Farm
ington, Maine.
Pallbearers at the funeral were
Tad Lynch, Albert Hardaway, M.
L. Talla, L. A. Keith, Harold
Moag and Lynn Johnson.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03

and the food buying power based
on the number of persons per
family is an improvement over the
former methods of issuing mini
mum and maximum amounts of
stamps based solely on the type of
public assistance being received"
He pointed out that "the main
purpose of the food stamp plan is
to move additional surplus foods,
through established distribution
channels, to understanding low
income families. Accordingly, it
is required that participants in the
plan buy orange colored food
stamps in an amount Approximate
ing their former food purchases.
They then use these orange
stamps in grocery or other retail
food stores to maintain their previ-
GUS food purchases. In this way,
the surplus foods they obtain with
their free blue surplus food stamps
are in addition to, and not in place
OF, their former food purchases.
That means broader market for
our farmers who are then moving
these additional surplus foods in
to consumption where they are
most needed"
Tarleton added that the present
basis of issuing food order stamps
in Pinal county permits some SUBJ
stitional food buying. because
certain families have not neces-
sarily purchased orange stamps
equivalent to the amount of food
they bought prior to the plans
operation here.
THE new new basis of issuance"
he said, sis designed to correct
this situation by fitting the orange
stamp requirements to family
sizes and incomes"
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
{. 6. Valley Farms
Get S13,27b.b2 In
'38 A.A.A. Payment

Numbered among the largest
payments made from Arizona's ST.
603,796 share of federal funds for
participation in the soil conserva-
ton and domestic allotment pro.
grams under the A.A.A. for 1888
were Casa Grande Valley Farms,
Inc, local resettlement project
which received $13,276.62 and
Paul Brophy of Casa Grande
whose check totaled s6,O27.73, ac.
cording to figures released this
week by the department of agri
culture.
Largest single Arizona payment
of $24,04S.S7 went to A. c. King
of Buckeye.
The figures were transmitted tc
the senate and house agriculture
committees by Secretary Wickard
and showed payments under the
agricultural conservation, range
conservation and naval stores con
servation programs. ArizOnans did
not participate in the latter.
Listing 16,509 names throughout
the nation and payments in excess
OF $1,000 only, Wickard's report
stated that the number of payees
constituted 3 of one per cent oi
thee 5,24S,796 beneficiaries under
the entire 1888 conservation pro
gram. That year was the last il
which payments of more thar
$4,000 were made to any indivi
dual for his participation.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Coolidge Trio Place
In Florence Rodeo

Vic Dossey, youthful Coolidge
rodeo performer won first honors
in Florence junior rodeo Sunday
in bareback riding, topping his
animal with the sureness of
veteran.
When it came to extracting milk
from wild COWS a Coolidge father
and son combination, Barney Bar
nard and his son, Travis took all
corners and all prizes for the show.
Outstanding performer of the
show was frankie Pyeatt of Flor
ence who won the annual trophy
offered to the best all around
junior performer in the eighth an
nual junior cow show to be held
in Florence.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03

Claus appeared to the tune of
Jingle Bells" and with the aid of
Martin Talla and Wesley Kirby,
distributed appropriate gifts.
When his pack was empty, Santa
put on an old-time jig for the en-
joyment of the club members.
Nate Murray, Paul Loucks, Bob
Taylor and Charley Cohen were
unable to be present because of
illness or vacation.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Coolidge Host City
1941 DeMolay Meet

Coolidge was selected as host
city for the 1941 convention of
Arizona state association of the
order of De Molay at the 18th an
nual convention ending in Globe
Saturday.
Delegates attended from Globe.
Tucson, Stafford, Winslow, Clifton
and Coolidge.
Several members of the Coo
l1dge order of De Molay were
named to office, Raymond Dun
away, junior deacon; Chester Nor
rison, marshal; and John Sellers.
preceptor.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Schools End Mid
Year Vacations

Mid-year vacations for students
of Coolidge schools will end Mon
day morning with all classes in
both grand and high units taking
up.
Announcement of the renewed
date was made this week by Wes-
ley Kirby of the grade schools
and R. w. Taylor of the high
school.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03

With water rushing into San
Carlos Lake at the rate of more
than 500 acre feet per hour yester-
day the total storage of available
water behind Coolidge Dam at Z
o'clock yesterday morning was
1850 acre feet, an increase of
75.243 acre feet during the previ-
Gus week or more than 10000 feet
per day average.
1t is believed that the total of
stored water for irrigation will
pass the 100000 mark within the
next few weeks and that spring
rains and runoffs will swell this
total to more than 100000 acre
feet of water for use during the
coming season.
Greatest gain of the week was
made during the 24-hour period
ending wednesday morning when
23.SS5 acre feet were added to
the reservoir while an additional
1858 acre feet flowed into the
lake between Z am. Wednesday
and I am. Thursday morning.
The total of more than $4,000
available acre feet of stored water
behind the Sam is more than
double the top figure of $4,000
acre feet which was reached last
spring and it is believed the total
winter runoff may equal the 1887
total of 26S,210 acre feet which
was reached on April 10th of that
year.
Coolidge Dam has a capacity of
10000 acre feet of available
water. All time peak of available
water behind the dam was reach
ed in the spring of 1882 when
4444.00O acre feet were stored.
Heaviest rainfall of the winter
occurred Monday night and early
Tuesday morning when Coolidge
area official rain guage at Casa
Grande Ruins registered nine
tenths of an inch while 1.25 inches
of rain fell Sunday night and Mon
day.
Old timers who have spent a
quarter of a century or more In
the valley believe all signs point
TO a repetition of the extremely
wet wihters of 1914-15 and 1856
when the Gila river was frequent
ly at flood stage during the
months of December and January
Coolidge Dam held but 1885
acre feet of stored water on De
cember 18th when initial Decem
ber rains started the rising tide
which jumped this total to 59,S6(
acre feet on December 26th and or
to $4,000 Monday morning tc
which was added $4,000 acre fee
Monday and Monday night bring
ing the total Tuesday morning tt
$500.
Stored water behind the ma
sonry walls of Coolidge Dam fal
exceed the amount impounded al
this time last year and on the
same date of 1888. On December
30. 1888 the total available water
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Tom Wells, Deputy
County Assessor
Dies In Florence

Pinal county lost another
pioneer who came to Arizona in
the 90's in the passing in Florence
Sunday to Tom G. Wells, SO,
deputy in the office of Pinal coun-
ty assessor Lynn Farley.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03

Wells, long identified with bust
ness interests of the county was
the first assessor of the county
and also served as a deputy
sheriff. He has served as deputy
assessor during the past seven
years. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. S.
c. Gill of Glendale, California.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-01-03
Huge RunOff Assures Ample
Water Supply For Season
Spring Floods May Swell Available Water Supply
In Coolidge Dam to 100000 Acre Feet And Set
Second High Mark Since Dam was Finished

Available water in Coolidge
dam stood at 155,85O acre feet
at 7 o'clock this morning, a
"a hour gain of 20,747 acre
feet.
Evening star., 1941-02-27
Chinese Ambassador
Entertains at Dinner.


A small dinner party last night
was given by the Chinese Ambassa-
dor, DR.. Hu Shih. Guests of honor
were Gen. William Crozier and Mrs.
Stanley Hornbeck, both Of whose
birthday anniversaries occur about
this time.
DR.. and Mrs. Edward Warner were
other dinner hosts, their ranking
guests being Senator and Mrs. War
rem r. Austin.
Mrs. Archibald MacLeiSh, wife Of
the librarian of Congress, was
hostess at tea yesterday in her
Georgetown home. The guests were
members Of the Executive Commit
tee and heads of shops for the
Picadilly Arcade, which will be held
April 8 to for the benefit Of the
Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
Mrs. Arthur Fowler was another
of last evenings dinner hostesses,
her party honoring Mrs. Robert Cut
Ter of Boston. Fourteen guests gath
cred at Mrs. FoWler's home on Ls
Roy place for the party.
Luncheon Is Given
BY Mrs. John DOugherty.
Mrs. John Allan Dougherty gave
luncheon yesterday in her apart
ment to honor Mrs. Edward Logan
OF Boston. Mrs. Dougherty's other
guests included Mrs Frederick Nit
chell Gould, whose house guest Mrs.
Logan is; Mrs. Alexander V. DYE,
Mrs. Charles B. Drake, Miss Eliza
beth Howry. Mrs. Bruce Smith, Mrs.
Carlton Holdrege, Mrs. Fred A. Brit
ten, Mrs. Irene Caldwell, Mrs. Bruce
Kramer and Mrs. Lewis Sanders.
Among future parties is the lunch
con which Mr.. and Mrs. George
Maurice Morris will give for Arch
duke Felix of Hapsburg, who arrives
tomorrow to lecture at the morning
meeting of Town Hall at the Shore
ham. The archduke will be the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Morris dur
ing his stay here, and Mr.. and Mrs,
Morris will be hosts at dinner for
him tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1941-02-27
Miss Sarah Sack
Becomes Bride

The former United States
Minister to Costa Rica and Mrs.
Leo r. Sack announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Miss
Sarah Rosa Sack, to Mr.. Joseph
Lester Jones of Salem, N. j., at
Jefferson City, Mo, Saturday,
February 8. Mr.. and Mrs. Jones
are students at the University
of Missouri at Columbia.
Mrs. Jones accompanied her
parents to Costa Rica and while
there studied at the Convent de
Sion. Following her return to
the United States she studied at
the Scoville School in New York
City and the Pelham Memorial
School in Westchester County,
N. Y. She is a junior at the Uni
versity of Missouri.
Mr.. Jones, an assistant in the
department of biochemistry at
the University of Missouri, has
his bachelor of arts and his mas
ter's degrees from that institu-
ton. He is a candidate for his
Phi. D. degree in physiological
chemistry. He Is the son of the
Rev. and Mrs. S. Jones of Salem.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones will be at
home in Columbia, Mo.
Evening star., 1941-02-27

similar frocks of slate blue and
carried sheafs of spring flowers.
Mr.. Ralf Disney was best man for
his brother and the ushers included
MIR. Frank Perm of Rudsville, N. c.;
Mr.. Stewart de Gaethne of Arllng-
ton, Va; Mr.. John Wilson of Wash
ington and Mr.. Bill Bowling OF
Pryor, Okla.
Mrs. Smith, mother of the bride,
received the guests at the club with
Mrs. Disney, the former wearing
beige chiffon with a flower hat ana
Mrs. Disney in long black dress
with white chiffon velvet Jacket and
a black velvet hat with a veil.
Mr.. Disney and his bride will mo-
tor through Virginia and North
Carolina. Mrs. Disney's travelling
costume was a coy blue gabardine
suit with hat to match and a fur
trimmed coat with brown acces-
sories. Mr.. and Mrs. Disney VIII
make their home at 1927 Massa-
chusetts avenue on their return from
their wedding trip. Mrs. Disney
was a student at Greenbrier College
in Lewisburg, w. Va, before coming
to National Park College at Forest
Glen, Md. Mr.. Disney attended
Staunton Military Academy and was
graduated from the University OF
North Carolina.
Evening star., 1941-02-27
.BrOwntoTalk
On Saturday

The John Mason Brown lecture
to be delivered Saturday afternoon
under the auspices of the Washing
ton Committee of the Frontier
Nursing Service brings to mind the
fact that this organization depends
entirely upon private subscriptions
and money raised by benefits to
carry on the work which has been
described as society's most rugged
charity. The lecture is scheduled
for 4 o'clock at the Mayf1ower
Hotel.
The organization, which operates
in the mountains of Leslie County
in Southeastern Kentucky, covers
TOO square miles of territory and ex-
tends its help to $4,000 people. 1t
was founded by Mrs. Mary Breck-
inridge, who, after an initial survey
in 1925, selected as her headQuar-
tiers the most inaccessible and the
most remote spot in the mountain
territory. The work is designed to
care for maternity cases, to give
nursing service to the sick and to
extend general medical aid and in
struction in home hygiene to a
people who otherwise would receive
no medical attention.
Mrs. Breckinridge's organization
is divided into three sections, the
nurses who do the actual work of
looking after the people in the dis
trict, the executive staff with head
quarters at the home Of Mrs. Breck-
inridge in Wendover and the hos
pital nurses under the direction of
the medical supervisor, DR.. John
Kooser, who run the 18-bed hospital
in the county seat of Hyden.
There is also a group of volun-
teer workers called couriers, drawn
from the various cities where her
outside committees operate, who
spend from six weeks to two months
during the year at the Frontier
Nursing Service looking after the
horses, riding between the centers,
carrying patients to the hospital
and helping to facilitate the work
of the service in many other ways
There are no railroads and no
highways that permit the use of
motor cars, which means that all
this work must be carried on by
horseback.
Evening star., 1941-02-27
DIR. NJ. S. Reichley
Of G. u. to Marry
Miss Louise Hamel

Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Hamel OF
Worcester, Mass, announce the en-
gagement Of their daughter, Miss
Louise Hamel, to DR.. Marlin S. Rich
ley of Washington.
Miss Hamel is a graduate of the
Teachers College at Framingham,
Mass, and is residing in Hartford
DR.. Reichley is a graduate of the
Georgetown School of Foreign Serv-
ice, where he is a member of the
faculty. He received his M. S. and
Phi. D. degrees in the Georgetown
Graduate School and also is a men,
Der of the Delft Phi Epsilon Fra
ternity.
A lieutenant in the United States
Reserve Corps, he has been called
to active service and assigned as an
assistant professor of military sci
ence and tactics.
No date has been set for the we'd
ding.