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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-20
TROOP AFTER NEW MEMBERS
Girl Scouts Organize With P Attending Initial
 Meeting
WOLCOTT Correspondent: Alma P. COaO
 Tel. 3-28OS

March 20. - On Wednesday eve ming twenty-two girls and IliilG adults met at the South school to organize girl Scout troops. Miss Lydia Young and Miss Flahive ex- plained the Scout work and the way to organize. A troop committee volunteered and an organization was formed with two patrols. Helen Grosch was named leader of one patrol, Joan Phaneuf, scribe, and Betty Peterson, treasurer. Ilene Moynihan was named leader, Jac- outline Dumschatt, scribe, and Jac- outline Grew, treasurer of the other patrol. Miss Young will be the leader of both groups. They will meet each Wednesday at 7:45 p. m. at the South school. Girls should be at home by 10 D. m. If any other girl is interested she should come to the next meeting and start out with the group. The next meet ing will be devoted to planning.
 Rev. Alfred M. Bells christened the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Fred erick Dietz of Fairview avenue at the parsonage Saturday. Mrs. Mar garet w. Holmes was the godmother and William O. Birs, godfather of the baby named Mary Elizabeth DietZ.
 MT. and Mrs. Stanley Stephens have returned to their home on Mad River road after spending the winter in Waterbury.
 Agricultural chairman for Wo1cott, Henry Norton, presided at the vic- tory garden meeting held at the town hall Wednesday night. Robert F. Stevens. associate county agent and Austin Purvis, assistant to the state food coordinator, spoke and told of the need to plant more war gardens than last year, to raise enough for canning as we'll as table vegetables. Two reels of movies were shown, one of the Cuban Five Cs, which was similar to the All groups here and one of New Hamp- shire's farm scenes.
 The committee work ing with MT. Norton for the duration are Carl A. Peterson, west district; Thomas Seery, north; Albert Homewood, east; Alfred German, Woodtick, and Edgar Upson, south.
 At the March meeting of the Wolcott Volunteer Fire Department held at the firehouse on Central avenue 1t was announced that the state war council has loaned the department 8 500 gallon trailer, bumper and equipment.
 Miss Julia Rozdilski of the Wolcott road has returned from few days spent in New York City.
 Thomas Moynihan of Waterbury Is visiting his grandparents, MT. and Mrs. John Wester of the Wood- tick road.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Norton of Beach road had as Sunday guests. Mrs. Norton's parents, MT. and Mrs. August Anderson and her brother, Joseph Anderson, and Mrs. Anderson of Forestville.
 The Republican electors of Vol colt will meet in caucus at 8 D. m. Tuesday in the town hall to select a town committee and to elect dele gates to the Republican State Con- vention to be held in Hartford, April 18th and 14th. Also to conduct any other business as may properly come before the caucus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-20
LOCAL GRANGE TO
 MEET TUESDAY
MIDDLEBURY Correspondent: Nancy Riley
 Telephone 4-641O

MT. and Mrs. D. Forman of South street are entertaining their daugh- ter. Miss Kay Forman, student at the Gardner School in New York City.
 A meeting of Middlebury Grange will be held in the town hall to- morrow evening at 8:l5. Following the business session, third and fourth degrees will ben conferred on new candidates. A Harvest Sup per will be served at 6:30.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-20

Rev. Alfred M. Bells christened the daughter of MT and Mrs. Fred erick Dietz of Fairview avenue at the parsonage Saturday. Mrs. Mar garet w. Holmes was the godmother and William O. Birs, godfather of the baby named Mary Elizabeth DietZ.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
HIGH TIME TO START
CLOS Angeles Times)

(l4OS Angeles llulSSD
The revelation before the House Pub
lie Lands Committee that the Navy De-
partment has turned down a request
from Secretary Ickes as Petroleum Adj
minstrator for War, that oil production
from the Elk Hills field be increased i'm
mediately to $4,000 barrels day. seems
to indicate an obstructive attitude diff
cult to understand in view OF the Call
fornia oil famine.
No one here wants the Elk Hills Naval
Oil Reserve to produce gasoline for civil
ians to go JOY riding with But Califor-
mans do have right to demand that Elk
Hills be put to its intended purpose
to produce fuel for the Navy in time of
war. The wells in the Elk Hills region
are now producing about $4,000 barrels
a day Competent oil engineers have
said that an additional $4,000 barrels
a day will not damage the long-run pro-
duction of the field.
The failure to produce these $4,000
barrels means that much Subtracted from
essential civilian transportation and the
use of essential war industries. 1t also
means continued natural gas shortage;
since the production of $4,000 barrels OF
oil would mean the production also of
more than 35,00O,000 cubic feet of gas,
with pipe lines available to take it. Gas
pressures in the Elk Hills field are high
er than the average for California fields
and the figure given is for the average.
Elk Hills was being saved, and quite
properly, for war. There now is war.
If the Navy now wants to save it for some
war that we may be in 100 years from
now, it may be remined that the Navy
in 2044 may not be using oil for fuel,
and probably won't want or need it then.
1t is needed now.
Congress should brush aside all contro-
versies over what has happened in the
past, and provide for immediate Elk Hills
oil development, to prevent desperate
situation. California civilian economy
can't at present function without oil, and
if our civilian economy can't function
our war effort will break down. We
must stop JOY riding. and non-essential
use of gasoline; but that is another phase
of the problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
KEEP THIS BILL
AT TOP OF FILE

"a Lying about somewhere III the tiles Oh
congress is a postwar measure that
~sshould be kept close to the top and not
s~be permitted to be lost in the shuttle of
-measures which will abound when Con-
sgreSs tackles the reconstruction prob
~slem.
= This bill sets out that the government
shall be forbidden to spend more in
given year than is raised in that year by
taxes. AS worded now the measure calls
4 for a three-fifths vote on any changes
sonce it is enacted.
The bill makes no provisions for debt
paving. and its sponsors no doubt have
that business we'll in mind in the very
mature of the requirements. For how
can the nation make headway in paying
off the war debt (Which may reach the
sum of 400 billions) unless some drastic
~eheck is provided on current spending.
- Control of levies is the key to postwar
spending. The idea is to put spending
at the lowest possible point and then
:. levy to meet that outlay-and no more;
- Manifestly it is a big double task. II
congress has been besieged by groups
for appropriations for this and that IN
the past-and it has-postwar demands
on this line will make previous calls
look like a pennyante game. The avail
sanche. indeed, has started. So-called eX-
perts. flirting with the needs for postwar
Expansion, just can't get any otner no
ton into their heads than that the Fed
ssral spigot must be opened flrst ana
skept running. They are not capable Of
sfealizing that there might be. an end to
that source or that the states could and
are eager to take over the postwar pro-
arram Among this class, for instance,
X Mayor LaGuardia of New York. He
Concludes that no adequate program can
even be started without liberal Federal
spending.
=. Well, it has been pretty easy the last
decade to run to Washington and get a
smillion or billion or so. That time Is
spast-or should be. But it must be re
srnembered that there still is the Harry
Hopkins way of spending. And he still
is in power. Henry Wallace Is still therc
s;.nd countless others who no doubt will
.be opposed TO any measure that will seal
zap the spigot. m
= They have had their turn. Their pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
MR. GROUNDHOG
AND WEATHER

Libelers of the oldest known weather
forecaster are up and at it again. But Mr..
Groundhog, as ever totally ignores these
thrusts and goes ahead with his business
of predicting. If the poor, benlghted
residents of this mundane sphere tail to
heed his warnings, it is just too bad Tor
them.
And so-did he see his shadow We'd
nesday?
~ He alone knows. You see before-sun-
up-risers are too sleepy to know whether
he did or not and after-sun-up-rlserS
opinions don't count simply because the
whole thing hinges on the very second Old
Sol tips the horizon.
To only few true believers does Mr..
Groundhog reveal his conclusions.
From the one and only true-bellever
resident in Ell Centro we say--walt and
see how the weather runs the next SIX
weeks
But. aha, For those less fortunate
people on the coast, oh, say around Los
Angeles. beware! You didn't give the
prognosticating little scamp an even deal,
--avhat with all the rain out there.
-e-s Confidentially, however, direct word
: comes from Grounding headquarters at
: Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania in a flash
; from Gobbler's Knob there, that the usual
. Special dispensation has been granted Ell
. Centro and Imperial Valley. The gloom
weather peddler has by-passed this far
: valley and moseyed along to dump his
!. wares where suckers wait, leaving a
) sunshine trail for us here.
s. See you February next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
Explorer Reveals
Jap Spy Traits

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2 tUP) -
Explorer Osa Johnson wednesday
said she had noted japanese
espionage throughout the world
long before the first World War.
She and her late husband, Martin
Johnson, were exploring in the
Solomons in 1912, she said, and
found a japanese tailor at Tulagi
who made shirts for johnson and
clothes for her.
"He was the best tailor we ever
had" she said, but we thought it
strange that a simple tailor should
have fine cameras and small
sailing boat with a powerful auXil-
iary motor.
After Pearl Harbor the little
tailor suddenly became General
Ishimoto who was killed while
leading the japanese forces on
Guadalcanal.'
Wherever they went; the South
Seas, Africa, Orient, or the United
States, they were everywhere, she
said. Three years ago she saw five
Japs on top of their automobiles
photographing the White House
and other government buildings.
The Pacific war is far from over
she said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
Rodent Specialist
Raps Groundhog

1ther animal His temperature
drops to just bit above freezing.
His heartbeat slows, and he sleeps
When the weather warns up a
bit. the grounding feels it in his
hole and comes up for a look. If the
outside world still feels too cold he
goes back for a nap. He doesn't
know whether it will be six weeks
or six months until spring.
He makes a nice pet, being about
as big as a terrier, with a head re-
sembling that of a rat. He can
whip a dog in fight and can climb
a tree if he feels like it. And he
can whistle at a shrill pitch, which
some people thing is melodious.
The superstition that spring is
still six weeks away if the ground
hog sees his shadow On Feb. 2 is
something you can't blame on the
grounding. Miss Lloyd believes
that started among slaves in the
deep south.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 2522


ESTATE OF NORBERTO N
NILMEDA, DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given by tho
undersigned, M. D. Zinn, Public
Administrator, as administrator of
the estate of NORBERTO N. NIL
MEDIA also known as Norberto N.
Nelmida, deceased, to the creditors
of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, that
within six months after the first
publication of this notice they
either file them with the necessary
vouchers in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court Of the State
of California, in and for the Coun"
ty of Imperial, or exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers to the
said M. D. Zinn, as administrator
of said estate, at the office of d.
B. Roberts, 207 Bank of America
Bldg, Ell Centro, California, the
same being the place for the tram
saction of the business of the said
estate in the County of Imperial,
State of California.
Dated at Ell Centre, California,
this "a day of January, 1914.
M d. zINN,
Administrator of the Estate OF
NORBERTO N. NtLMEDA,
also known as NORBERTO
N. MELINDA.
mo. 4D J26, F2-9-16j
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
Arizonon Blasts
Water Diversion

cultivated on our border, would
Immediately compete with industry,
agriculture and labor and build a
thickly populated foreign food, ST.
ply, airplane and naval base with
a port ON the Gulf of California y
he said.
+ Kartus, representing interests au-
thorized to develop projects to
irrigate 100000 acres and generate
100000 units of horsepower, called
on Ickes to support these projects
to guarantee Arizona'S post war
development.
The present program, he said, can
bring the state the cheapest all
gravity irrigation, mining and pow
er water on earth and make Ari-
IONA the most prosperous place in
the world
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02

CHICAGO, Feb. tUPl-One of
the most essential things to know
about grounding day is that the
grounding makes good eating and
requires no ration points, Other
wise, the grounding doesn't have
much to offer particularly when it
comes to weather forecaSting.
This being grounding day, Miss
Lorraine Lloyd, specialist on rodents
for the Chicago museum of natural
history, put the grounding in his
place - which is a hole in the
ground.
The grounding, she said, is no
forecaster. He's only a first cousin
to a rat
Miss Lloyd offered this thumbnail
ske tch of the grounding:
He and the Woodchuck are the
same animal. He is an accom-
plished hibernator, ard during the
time he spends in the ground he
comes closer to death than any
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
New Probation
Aid Appointed

Mrs. Dorothy Morgan, employed
in the Imperial county welfare de
partment for year and half, is
now deputy county probation Of
ficer, it was announced Wednesday
to Probation Officer Mildred Stand
lee
Her appointment fills the staff of
the department.
Mrs. Morgan, whose husband is in
the armed service, majored in So
cial service and minored in pSychol-
ogy at the University of California
at Los Angeles and at Redlands
university, She was employed by
the state relief administration in
San Bernardino county six years
She makes her home in El Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
DISSoLVES FREIGHTWAYS

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. up
Federal Judge Michael Roche has
signed an order dissolving Freight
ways. Inc, an association of west
ern shipping companies charged
with violating the Sherman anti
trust act. The current order made
effective a court order issued in
April, 1943 Effectiveness of the
previous order was withheld pend
ing further investigation of the
case. The companies affected were
Canadian Freightways; Console
dated Freightways, Inc; Phoenix
Blue Diamond FreightWays Salt
Greek Freightways; Salvage Trans
portation Co, Inc; Union Transfer
Co; Wilson Freightways; Pacific
EXPRESS Co
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE
FEES TOP gTnD ono

With two more days to go, COL
leetions of motor vehicle license
fees Wednesday passed last years
total in Imperial county.
At noon Wednesday collections
passed the 100000 mark, the grand
total for last year, Captain NJ. p
Hebblethwaite said.
He warned motorists that the
deadline before penalties go into
effect will come at 5 D. m. Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
CITES COURT RULINGS

Kartus asserted that the supreme
court repeatedly has overruled
similar attempts at diversion and
that its decisions nullify 1ckeS
jurisdiction over water power and
irrigation.
Asserting that the area is danger
ously vulnerable to foreign Occupa-
ton he said that if previous at
tcmpts TO develop it had succeeded
there would have been on our
border Jap and Nazi empire that
would have caused US to lose this
war"
The late General Billy Mitchell
warned in 1924, Kartus said, that
the region was well suited for con-
struction of air bases from which
the japanese might have destroyed
California and Arizona dams and
bridges within % hours
Enactment Of the contract, he
said, would shackle the states eco
nomy by fostering cheap Mexican
competition.
COMPETE WITH U. 5.
This foreign acreage, chcaply
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02

EDITORS NOTE: The foll0Uing edit
oriais are presented as interesting opn-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
In2 DIE IN OIIAKE

LONDON, Feb. 2. tUPD-The Ber-
lin radio quoting a DNB dispatch
from Ankara said Wednesday that
103 persons were killed and 90
others were injured in Tuesdays
earthquake at Gerede. Turkey.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 tUP) =
Sidney Kartus, Arizona water trus-
tee, Wednesday denounced as de-
structive to Arizonas economy
proposed agreement between the
state and the interior department
to divert Colorado river irrigation
and power projects to the MeXican
Delta area of the Gulf of CALI
fornia. q
He said in brief to be filed with
Interior Secretary Harold l.. Ickes
that the proposal - the so-called
Santa Fe-Colorado river compact.
would violate supreme court edicts
and siphon off water essential to
the development of The Arizona'S
agriculture and industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02

Were it not for continuing attacks
against the production capacity of Ger
man aircraft factories. the difficulties
which must be overcome by Allied air
ers would be intellectually greater.-Air
Forces Gen. II. H. Arnold.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
Editorials and Comment

jecting around has added billions to the
national debt.
We should not follow their schemes
any further.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

NOTICE BY TAX COLLECTOR OF COUNTY OF IMPERIAL
Has o ENTERED aE E IT2 G1y wR5Eh T En-
cENTRo UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF WHICH AGREEMENT
sAR s2 GER aTRAFrR 1E F pFsoRBED WITCH
BEEN DECIDED TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR DELiN'
that the a Board ard g am Of Of thu the 6% oGn o
did by @ dated date As As pa re- ' to as to ndSe pEs cnr anG
into written n under @ the 0'Se od of q the s co
3 nn % d We c % EN- cno % and said Board Of Supervisors agreed
been decided to the State of California by the Tax Fax Col
delinquent and unpaid that the name OF the person to
property thereof for each in
parts thereof and the consideration to be paid
by Ell for each parcel Of said real property as here re-
approved said Agreement dated August a. @ 1872 on
by written authorizations dated October @ ~ @ 9a2
writing of the making of said Agreements to
the said delinquent State and County
Se hHs % chane s p @ Dn % said revenue and ra2aon
Code the undersigned Tax collector will MAKE execute @ % n" h Gee
said Agreements shall have been complied
property the and Taxation Code shall be
In Agreement
Description of Property
van A"n SUBJ Third Addition to ,sses,sd cs E c'"0
ss33 to 1878 incl cospr L. & MyItie Fields
TO be sold to the City of Ell
In Agreement
A. Second Addition to City OF FL Centro
Years
1892 1878 incl. City Brick Co
1943-44 incl. State Of California
70 De 0 City of Ell Centre for $1,000
of
IA Block 44-B, Townstc OF FL Cento
delinquent Assessed TO
o inclusive Maria Nebaue
1936-37 State of California
37-30 o inclusive Maria Nebaute
9l2-43a and California
To be sold Q City o E, csa,ro for s259s
Lot 80 in Block "a rSSas HSssspS% on HI csnpfo c3Ps
Years delinquent Assessed to
e32-33 to M 81 M.
to M. & Jennie Marcot JT
A. M Bennett
94l-42 to 43-44 California
o b o 0 $2352,
o
Iots9 10. and 8
Years Assessed to
/ o
TO 43-44in California
% be o City FL Centre for $9266.
/ DATED: IA, 1914
Collector
County Imperial,
California.
mo 37) Jl9-26;
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

multitude of little things and these might
be compared to the planting of acorns
from which mighty oaks grow.-Judge
Arthur H. Day of Cleveland.
A ieep was bracketed by lot of shell
and mortar fire. The men jumped out
and ran into a stone house. When they
went through the door, BOBBY trap went
off The house skyrocketed in burst
of arms, legs, heads, parts of the jeep
and masonry When the smoke cleared
away all | could see was black hole in
the ground.-Corp. Charles W. King in
Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02

Two years ago we were worried about
having too little too late. Today we find
people worried about surpluses Of steel,
aluminium and Army cutbacks.-WPB
Chairman Donald NJ Nelson.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02

In Agreement 7-14-43.
Evening star., 1944-12-09
Memorial Services
For Dr. w. ]. Thompson

Memorial services for the lats DR..
William J. Thompson. retired Meth
odist minister. will be conducted by
DR.. Daniel w. Justice at Trinity
Methodist Church at II am. tonnor-
row. Members of Naval Masonic
Lodge will attend.
DR.. Thompson was pastor Of the
old Fourth Street Methodist Church;
the Methodist Church, Kensington,
Md; Grace Church, Worcester,
Mass: Methodist Church, Newton
Vile. Mass. and Simpson Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1911 he was
made professor of religious psychol-
|ogy and pedagogy at Drew Theologi-
cal Seminary, where he remained
until his retirement in 1884.
Evening star., 1944-12-09
Bishop From Pacific
Will Preach Twice
Here Tomorrow

The Right Rev. Walter Hubert
Baddeley, Lord Bishop of Melanesia,
will preach twice here tomorrow.
At pm. he will speak at Wash
ington Cathedral and at pm. at
the Church of the Epiphany.
Canon Theodore o. Wedel warden
OF the College of Preachers, will
preach at IL am. at the Cathedral.
Bishop Baddeley took up his work
IN the Solomon Islands in the early
part Of 1888. His diocese comprises
the whole of the Solomons, and also
the islands of New Britain, New Ire
land and the Admiralty Islands.
He is in the United States through
invitation of Presiding Bishop Henry
st. George Tucker for conferences
about missionary work in the South
Pacific, and for a series of addresses
10 church groups in various parts
OF the country. While here he will
speak to the students of the Ma
tional Cathedral School for Girls
and to the clericus of the Diocese of
washington at the College of
Preachers.
On Monday approximately 600
boys and girls from the Cathedral
schools will sing carols in the Cathe-
dral at pm.
Evening star., 1944-12-09
Musical Program
AT Gruce Lutheran

A musical program win be pre-
sented at pm. tomorrow at the
Grace Lutheran Church. Harold
Fink, organ recitalist and specialist
in Bach music, will play group OF
numbers. Robert Nicholson, BARI
tone OF New York and Washington,
will sing. There will be no sermon.
The public is invited.
The church council elected as of
ficers Karl Hartig, president; Lau-
renee Stutz, vice president; Lee
Schooner, secretary; Frederick VIM
kelman. treasurer; Marvin Bum
garner. financial secretary: Earl
Haislip, Karl Keller, Walter Eek
hard, M. H. Trytten, Harold Eggers,
Richard Meyer and John Bittner.