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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-27
ONLY CHICKEN TO BLAME.

Lindstrom-It might have been all
right had it been the goose that laid
the golden egg, but it was only a
stray chicken that caused Harold
Moeschter's car to stop recently. Har-
old lifted up the car hood hoping to
detect the source of engine trouble,
only to have a hen fly out with such
rapidity, that it barely missed taking
his nose with it. Further investigation
showed that the feathered sabatour,
which left behind two freshly laid
eggs in the motor, loosened the igni-
ton wires, which, consequently brought
the car to a halt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-27
This WEEK IN
NATL Defense
Continued From Page One)
Subcontracting.

SuDc0ntract1ng.
The Maritime Commission announced
that because it started IA months ago
to farm out" contracts to small man
ufacturers, it is now receiving machin-
cry and equipment for the emergency
ship construction program from $50
concerns in 80 states. The Treasury
Department issued a booklet on pro-
cedures called Doing Business with
the Procurement Division" Copies are
available without charge from the
Treasury Procurement Division, WASH
ington, D. c.
Newsb0ys to Sell Defense Stamps.
The Treasury Department announced
plans have been completed with news
paper circulation managers for 5OO,-
600 newspaper carrier boys to sell De-
Tense Savings Stamps direct to Amer
lean homes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-27
BROoMsTICKs MAKE CHECKERS.

f Sank Rapids-Broomsticks and ma
tional defense may sound like a strange
combination but not to members of
the local American Junior Red Cross.
Old broomsticks sawed into discs,
sandpapered and painted red and
black, make fine checker sets for any
army camp.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-27
Discovery of Okapi

As far back as 1888 the Okapi was
described to Henry Stanley by the
African Pygmies as the O-api. It
was first captured by Sir H. H. John
ston in 1900 and was named Okapia
johnstoni in his honor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-27
RECREATION
news
by Anthony Brimsek
Recreation Director.
Wood Craft.

Wood Craft.
The craft shop located at the Lin
coin school is ready to go into full
swing. The recreation board has pur-
chased number of new tools for all
types Of wood craft. Adults may take
part in craft activities and are urged
to contact the Recreation Department
so that schedule can be drawn up.
Bead Craft.
Bead craft conducted each Thurs
day evening from to 8 at the old
high school is advancing rapidly. A
number of bracelets have been made
under the supervision of Howard
Shiek, WPA recreation leader Instruc-
ton in necklace making will be given
tonight.
Game Room.
Ping-pong tables have arrived and
soon the game room will be fully
equipped to accommodate those who
take part in its activities. Due to lack
of space at the Community Center,
the game room will probably be divided
between the old high school and the
Center in order to take care of more
participants.
Archery.
Archery is gradually becoming pop
ular with the fair sex. Several mem
bers of the st. GATHERINGS club are
constructing bows from lemon wood
slaves. George Volt, WPA recreation
leader, is in charge of this group. Mem
bers constructing bows are: Mayme
Chernivitz Sophie Popish, Gabrielle
Slogan, Mary Slabodnik, Margie Maker,
Katherine Buccowich, Kay Peshel, Rose
Machnik, Leone Slogan, and Louise
Tisovich.
Social Dancing.
Social dancing is paying dividends
as recreation project. A large num-
Der of boys and girls turn out regu-
larly Tuesday and Friday evenings at
the Lincoln school for instruction in
ball room dancing, Virginia reel and
schottische.
To prove the value of this activity
few members of the dance instruc-
ton group have recently attended their
first public dance.
Gymnasium.
Memorial gymnasium will be avail
able each Tuesday evening for the
use of business and professional men,
Equipment for their use will include
basketball, volleyban and badminton
The gym will be reserved each We'd
nesday evening for CYO activities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-27

or write to the Treasurer of the
United States, Washington, D. G. Also
Stamps now are on sale at retail
stores.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-27

The Ely Miner Is the only paper In.
terested in Ely and its people.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-27

Buffalo's News Stand sells The Ely
Miner each week.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Slate 4-H Fair
April 18Th, 18th
All keniIworfh

The date of the Pinal County
All fair has been set for April
IS, 10, 1941 according to Dan w.
Clarke, assistant county agricul-
tural agent. This will be the 8th
annual county4-H club fair and it
will be again be held at the Kenil-
worth school, near Coolidge, where
it has been held for the past three
years. Previously, the fair was
held in Florence.
Already over three-hundred and
fifty club members are working
hard to complete their projects so
they will be ready to exhibit at the
fair. Projects are carried on in
the following divisions: Baking,
clothing, meal preparation, music,
livestock, poultry, flower, garden,
aircraft, leathercraft, and hobbies.
Club work is carried on in the fol-
lowing Pinal county communities:
Casa Grande, Coolidge, Florence,
Sacaton, Walker Butte, Toltec, Pi-
cacho, Red Rock, Kelvin, Hayden
Aravaipa Canyon, La
Palma, Randolph, and Oracle.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Cotton Growers
Program Slated
Here Tuesday

A program devoted to cotton is
planned for the March meeting of
the Coolidge Farm Bureau, it was
announced today by A. l.. Bartlett,
president Of the local farm group,
The meeting will be held on Tues
day evening, March 18th, at 1880
o'clock, in the Coolidge Communi-
ty church.
Several speakers from the agri-
cultural extension service and U.
S. Department of Agriculture will
be present, including DR.. R. L.
Matlock, agronomist; Carl Harris
and G. ]. King of the Bureau of
Plant Industry, representative of
the Cotton Grading office, and a
representative of the Office Of
Plant Quarantine and Control.
Among the subjects to be discus
sed are the market outlook for
SKIP cotton; comparative grades
of Arizona and New Mexico and
Texas SKIP cotton; plant diseases
and insects; new information on
irrigation, and other subjects.
Moving pictures Of insect control
will also be shown.
A large attendance is expected
and all farmers are invited.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
To Issue Auto
Drivers Permits
Here Next Week

A. V. Wade, License Examiner,
OF the Drivers License Depart
ment of the State Motor Vehicle
Division, will be in Coolidge at the
]. P. office Tuesday and Wednes-
day, March II and u, for the pur-
pose of taking applications and
giving examinations for operators
and chauffeurs' licenses.
Residents of Pinal comfy, desir-
GUS of obtaining operators or
chauffeurs' licenses, may see Mr..
Wade on the above dates at the
office of Chas. d. Elledge, Justice
of Peace, from 500 AM, to 500
PM. The examiner will be equip
ped to give complete examinations
and, to those applicants who pass
the tests, will issue receipts that
may be used as temporary licenses
pending receipt of their regular
licenses from Phoenix.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Announce AAA
Cotton Stamp
Regulations
&.xxtSfa. Is AS1A

Regulations governing the
1941 supplementary cotton
program have now been re-
ceived in the Triple-A office
according to J. r. Storey,
chairman OF the county committee
To be eligible for a cotton stamp
payment, a cotton producer must
reduce the acreage of cotton plant.
ed in 1941 below the acreage plant
ed in 1910. The payment will
amount to 10 cents per pound
times the yield established on the
acreage reduced under the pro-
gram. The maximum payment to
farm will be $50 for any land
lord with two or more tenants and
$25 for all other cotton producers.
A producer will be eligible for not
in excess of $50 for participation
on two or more farms.
Payments will be made by issu-
ing cotton stamps which can be
used to purchase cotton goods
in the United States. Cotton stamp
payments will be in addition to
any other payments for which a
farmer may be eligible.
Each person who participates in
the cotton stamp program must
file a statement of intention to
participate prior to June Is, 1941.
The required forms will be avail
able at the time farm plans are
signed. Any producer who did not
plant cotton in 1889 or 1910 must
plant at least three acres or three
per cent OF his farms 1941 acre
age allotment, whichever is the
smaller, to be eligible for a cotton
acreage allotment in 1912, even
though he participates in the sup
Elementary cotton program.
This program has been set up
as a means of dealing with the
cotton surplus and will reduce the
production of cotton in 1941 by
one million bales, Storey esti-
mates, and will divert acreage to
food and feed crops which is no
longer needed for the production
of cotton in view of current do
mestic consumption requirements
and the critical export situation.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
500 Families On
Rural Mail Route
From Coolidge

Coolidge is attracting inhabit-
ants not alone to itself, but
environs, as evidenced by the in
crease of over 400 families on the
rural mail route since R. E. Co.'S
grove began travelling it ~ years
ago.
The route was started out of
Florence in 1925 and moved here
by recommendation of Post Office
Inspector David Presley in 1929
where it was established as a tri-
weekly service covering 80 miles
and serving 40 families. Mr.. Cos
grove, who is still on the job, was
Coolidge's first rural mail carrier
and from this small beginning to
1880 when the route was extended
and made a daily service, he now
covers 60 miles and delivers mail
daily to approximately 500 families.
Mr.. Cosgrove's record as a rural
mail carrier dates back to 1920 at
his home in Cross Timbers, Mis-
souri,, where roads were rough and
he encountered many hardships.
There have been times during his
twelve years service here that
the rural inhabitants have had to
fight their way to mail boxes
through sand storms, driving rains
and even wind that blew with
sleet-laden breath across the
desert. Through all this Mr.. Co.'S
grove, often accompanied by Mrs.
Cosgrove whose help shortened the
miles, delivered the rural mail.
Numberless times his car has
been stuck in caliche ruts, or
stalled hub-deep in floods, but "the
mail must go through"-and it did.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Two Inches of Rain
During Week Bring
Smiles To All Faces

Almost two inches of rain fell
in Coolidge during the week
Farmers are happy, cattlemen
are happier and even merch-
ants, whose business was tenn
porarily slowed up because OF
Weather. are Aappy-knowing
the result Of this reflected
optimism will accure to their
benefit later. The official wea-
ther guage at Casa Grande
Ruins registered 1.SS inchs
rainfall.
With Coolidge Dam nearing
it's record high water mark
faces We see no longer show
the strain of uncertainty that
marked them through the sum-
mer.
REVEALING conditions will soon
place Arizona in a position to
rival CalHornia,s claim to being
a green spot" Already local
residents are making trips into
the desert to view displays OF
wild flowers covering the noun
tain sides.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
30 Coolidge Men
Join Red Cross
First Aid Class

lirty members have enrolled in
de first aid Red Cross class for
men organized last week for local
employees of San Carlos Irriga-
ton and Drainage District. The
class is instructed by Gordon Cor
bin, engineer, Pima Indian Agency,
Sacaton, who has been doing this
work for several years. Mr.. Corbin
comes to Coolidge twice weekly to
address meetings held in the Of
flee of the San Carlos Irrigation
and Drainage District.
The course is reported to be
interesting as well as Of vital in
structive value and there have
been a number of applicants who
could not be accepted because
the class is already overcrowded.
Mr. Gordon usually instructs
classes of twelve, feeling a smaller
number to be for the best interests
of students. An exception was
made here, however, because his
time was too limited to allow for
additional classes.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Musicians OF
High School In
Concert Recital

Coolidge High school orchestra
and Girls Glee club will hold its
second annual informal concert of
the year Sunday afternoon at 2:30
in the high school gymnasium.
Guests will be seated at card
tables and refreshments will be
served by the Home Economics de.
partment, under the direction Of
Mrs. Viola Loucks during inter
mission.
The concert is open to the public
and the music department cordial
ly invites you to attend.
The program will include the
following classical and semi-classi-
cal numbers:
Selections by the orchestra -
Festival Overture" by l.. Flegi
er and arranged by H. w. Glenn.
"Ane Verum Corpus" by w. A.
Mozart.
plantation Echoes" compiled
by E. De Tamster.
THE Sleeping Beauty" by P.
Tschaikowsky.
Vocal duet by Virginia Urton and
Kellus Overturf.
Songs by the Girls Glee club
Dear Land of Home" by Jean
Sibelius from the poem Elm
landia."
tom Thumbs Drum" by Les
lie Sarony.
Lullaby" by Johannes Brahms.
"Minuet" from "Bernice" by G.
F. Handel.
"a Night in Tripoli" by ]. j.
Richards taken from the National
High School contest list. r.
"The Merry Widow" by Franz
Febar and arranged by Rosario
Bourbon.
"Freischutz" by c. M. Weber.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Hold Red Cross
Leaders Meet In
Tucson Monday

A meeting of Red Cross Insti-
tute Workers was held in the
Pioneer Hotel, Tucson, Monday by
Red Cross officials from the entire
southern part of the state.
DR.. Rudolph, Pima County chair
man, conducted the meeting at
which problems of each local
chapter were DISCUSSED.
Mrs. c. A. Clements, Pinal Coun-
ty vice chairman, attended with
Mrs. Stanley Mathews, county
chairman, Florence, Mrs. Mary
Michea, home service chairman,
Florence, Mrs. Louis Fiscel, roll
call chairman, Florence and Mrs
Norman Freeman. home and farm
accident prevention chairman
Florence.
Speakers who addressed the
afternoon and dinner meeting were
Nyles Christensen. assistant direct
or of first aid, San Francisco and
Marjorie Williams, executive
secretary of Los Angeles chapter.
Mrs. Williams theme was on
Red Cross having new demands
for home service and the import
ance of this part of the work be-
ing kept in close contact with the
boys who serve.
Each official received renewed
impetus and worth while ideas for
the carrying forward of Red Cross
work in her district.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Plan Celebration
For Dam Full Of
Water On April S

Tentative plans for a huge
one-day celebration on a county
wide scale of which all Arizona
will be invited were discussed
at meeting of Coolidge cham
Der of commere leaders Tuesday
night.
The celebration will be held
on Saturday, April 5th and will
be known as water Apprecia-
ton" day in recognition of the
huge supply of available water
for irrigation of Casa Grande
valley lands which now are i'm
pounded behind the wall OF
Coolidge Dam.
Details of the day activities
have been placed in the hands
of Virgil Chandler, Coolidge
attorney, chairman of the enter
tainment committee of the
chamber of commerce.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Former PinaI
Senator Dies
In California

Death removed one of Pinal
county's most widely known legis-
lators Sunday when Charles E
McMillin died in a United States
Veterans hospital in Sawtelle,
California. He had been ill more
than a year and before entering
the California hospital, last year
he was in business in Glendale,
Arizona.
A former state senator from
Pinal county McMillin also repre-
sented Ray district in the lower
house of the state legislature
where he served one term as
speaker. He was state senator 2
terms, 1925, and state repre-
sentative l term 1885.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
New Yorker Is
Enraged-Gets A
Cooling In Jail

Coolidge said goodbye to an
irate New Yorker Saturday -
Montague B. Course, Princeton
graduate of Brooklyn and collector
of Indian curious.
The trouble started when Mr.
Course ordered dinner at a we'll
known Coolidge restaurant and de-
cided, after eating it, that the
charge was too much and he would
therefore pay nothing" Ace Gard
ner, local officer, happened to be
in the restaurant and when reason
failed to convince the angry New
Yorker that one doesn't dine
sumptuously in Coolidge at the
restaurateur's expense and
threaten him with an ancient In
dian tomahawk into the bargain
Mr.. Course was escorted to Jail
Judge Charles D. Elledge gave
the fuming gentleman a 80 day
suspended sentence, during which
time he was sent to Florence while
his record was looked up.
The Florence prisoners didn't
like Montague, however, and held
a kangaroo court over him. When
Coolidge officers went to get him
Saturday the found Montague's
fellow prisoners had put him in
solitary confinement!
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07

water for all lands within the pro-
ject An original apportionment of
1852 acre feet was made by the
commissioner of Indian affairs and
approved by the secretary OF in
terror on February 10th. No fur
ther apportionment is to be made
during the present year according
to the announcement
Following is the complete, Off
cial announcement as issued by
Mr.. Moody under date of March
1st:
1.-THE first apportionment of stor-
ed and pumped water for lands Of
the San Carlos Project for the
calendar year 1941 was made by
the Commissioner of Indian affairs
and approved by the Secretary Of
Interior on Feb. 10, 1941, to the
amount of 1.62 acre feet per acre
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Ship 20b Cars
Of Vegetables
From EIoy Area

More than 200 car loads
Of vegetables were shipped
from the Eloy district during
the season which began in
mid-December and ended
last week according to officials of
Eloy vegetable growing concerns.
Included in the winter ship
ments which totaled, 206 carlots
were 1874 cars of carrots, cars
of broccoli and 10 cars of lettuce.
In addition an undetermined num-
ber of cars of vegetables were
packed and shipped from Phoenix
although grown near Eloy.
Packing the 1941 asparagus crop
form about $50 acres is scheduled
to get under way early next week
with the crop estimated at about
$4,000 crates.
Packing vege'l'. -as contri-
buted largely to the prosperity of
Eloy since more than 400 people
have been empoyed during the
season.
Major operator in the Eloy dis
trict is ]. c. Rhinehart who is
cultivating 4S1 acres of vegetables
and plans to increase this acreage
to 1855 acres next season. Rhine
hart also owns an additional 81
least to D'Arrigo Brothers for
whom Henry H. hein is manager.
John Jacobs packed and shipped
16O acres of broccoli.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07

of water measured at the source
of supply and subject to transpor-
tation and evaporation losses.
Additional water has come in
to the San Carlos Reservoir since
the first of the year so that new
apportionment can be made. At
midnight Feb. 2Sth there was ap-
proximately 405,750 acre feet in
storage in San Carlos Reservoir
and 3,475 acre feet in Picacho
Reservoir. 1t is estimated that 50,-
900 acre feet of water will be
pumped from project wells. There
is, therefore, a total of 1925 acre
feet of stored and pumped water
available for apportionment for
the calendar year 1941. 1t is esti-
mated that Federal and State
Agencies, Municipalities and
Schools will use approximately A.
225 acre feet of water, and there
will remain 455,00O acre feet for
distribution to the 100000 acres
Of irrigable lands of the San Carlos
Project, measured at the source Of
supply and subject to transporta-
ton and evaporation losses, or in
an amount of of 4.55 acre feet per
acre. The losses above mentioned
generally amount to about one
third of such water and it is esti-
mated that the amount actually
available at project farms will be
three (3) acre feet per acre Of
stored and pumped water.
"The amount of water hereby
apportioned Is unusually large and
is in excess of what may be ex-
pected to be available for the
average year. 1t is to be expected
that the natural flow during the
early part of the present year will
be considerable and much larger
than mas been available during any
year since the San Carlos Reser-
voir has been in use, so that the
entire supply for project lands
during the calendar year 1941, un-
der this apportionment will be suf-
ficient for irrigation needs for the
entire year and that it will not be
necessary or advisable to make
another apportionment during the
calendar year 1941. Additional
waters which come into San Carlos
Reservoir may thus be held for
use in 1912. Experience of the
past years shows that it Is necs-
sary at all times to make the best
use of the available water supply
and avoid waste.
"This apportionment shall ap-
ply to all lands under constructed
bitches ready for irrigation, and
the stored and pumped water
shall be delivered in the same pro-
portion per acre to each acre culti-
waited so far as the physical con-
ditions permit, and shall be subject
to the basic charges and per acre
limitations provided in the order
authorizing the assessment of
operation and maintenance charges
against the lands of the project.
The delivery of pumped water as
herein apportioned will necessari-
ly be limited each day to the abili-
ty of the project to supply power
for the operation Of the pumping
plants, also to the ability of the
lands to make proper use of the
water from the wells which can
be operated"
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07

900 bushels. The 1910 marketing
quota was 1,023,0O0,0 900.
No marketing quota has pre-
viously been proclaimed for wheat.
Cotton, rice. and tobacco farmers,
however. have voted in a total of
II marketing quota referendums
under the Agricultural Adjustment
Act of 1898. One quota was pro-
claimed for rice in 1888 but was
voted down. Twelve quota refer
endums have been held for various
types of tobacco since 1898, and all
but three have been approved. In
the 1910 tobacco referendums
three-year quotas were approved.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-07
Apportion 4.55 acre Feet Of Water
For Casa Grande Valley Lands

Appor onment of stored and pumped water for farm
of Casa Grande valley for the beginning
will amount 455 feet per at Coolidge dam
according to announcement made this week by c. D.
Moody project engineer.
This apportionment, according to Moody is unusually
large of huge winter runoffs which ample