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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23
CabaIIeros Map
Annual Jaunf
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within 100 yards of the wells with
out realizing they existed.
In studying an old map of the
area, Marvin Gardner, DR.. Karl
Kortheuer, Dan Bump, and Carl
Spears discovered the wells and
went TO investigate.
They drank the water and no.
body died." LON Thompson said,
so We'll all drink it and give it to
our horses on the trip"
The practice of placing markers
along the DeAnza trail will be fol-
lowed this year. Three are expected
to be placed this year.
The nine Imperial Valley resi-
dents making the ride this year will
include Thompson and Russell
Smith of El Centre, Gardner, Kort-
heuer, Bump, Spears, Charles LAX
ins, Jimmie Mullino, and Les Dove
all of Calexico.
There were 300 applications made
in Riverside county by persons
wanting to make the ride but the
organization bylaws limits the
number from that county to 40 every
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23
Mother of -Four
Must Forsake
Pleasure Urge

CAMPTON, Cal, March %. (UP)
Mrs. Ruby Bishop, who can't stay
away from the roller coasters, Fri
day was on 1870 days probation on
convicted of child neglect
Judge H. Leonard Kaufman order
ed Mrs. Bishop to return to her
former farm home near Albuquerque
New Mexico, and stay away from
roller coasters.
I'm just a farm girl at heart,
but I couldn't stay away from the
roller-c coasters" Mrs. Bishop ex-
planned when confronted with a
probation report that her house had
no hot water since Christmas, that
it had not been cleaned for several
months, and there was no food for
her four children, Lucille, l8, Ruby,
IL, Kenneth, 4, and Betty, 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23

X. X. Sharpe Co.
ScheniInan Paper o..
Robert SchwOb
valley Drug
Valley Auto Supply
Woinack- Mitchell
Clarence Walker
Zinn & linn
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23
FL Centre Marine
Wounded at Two

Private First Glass Jack Small of
Fl Centre will celebrate his twenty
first birthday anniversary Satur-
day in a hospital in the Marianas
where he is recovering from wounds
suffered at Two Jima.
He wrote his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. f. S. Small of 52S Holt, FL
Centre, that he is suffering from
ss-ocls ard am injured ear but was
not II critical condition.
Leaving the states 18 months ago.
Pfc. Small was in action nineteen
days before he was wounded. He is
serving with the Fourth Marines.
While attending high school in El
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23
YAECKEL ATTENDS MEETING
ON VETERAN LOAN PLAN

A. c. Yaeckel, manager of the
FL Centre branch of the Bank of
America, recently returned to El
Centric after attending a branch
managers meeting called to deter
mine procedure in handling the
veteran-loan pan, small business
loans, and aircraft financing.
Bank officials said the policy OF
the bank is to lend every resource
to assisting veterans in obtaining
the full benefits of the GI bill
Yaeckel said.
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coupons in the Ell Centre ration
board, so don't worry about that.
We're simply quivering to know
the rest of the story but the clerk
was so astonished that further
questioning was physically and men
tally impossible.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23
Gne m Glance 10 &

Rich poor-you cannot afford to ignore the
rich return your country offers for the loan of your
money the wisdom of this, the shrewdest invest
ment you make!
Buy Bonds now when your country needs your
dollars to help win the war.
And once your money is safe and sound in War
Bonds don't be tempted to cash them in. Wait for
the goldenharvesty you're entitled towait till they're
fully matured
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23
DEATH SUMMONS SISTER
OF =. CENTRIC RESIDENT

Mrs. Frances Lacy, SO, sister OF
Miss Miriam E. Douglas of Ell Cen
tro, died in Los Angeles Friday after
a long illness.
Funeral arrangements were not
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23
Taft Would Free
U. 5. Bought Meat
From Price Stop
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ject up when the senate banking
committee resumes work next week
on legislation to extend through 1916
the price control act which expires
on June 80.
ARE IN HAZE
The committee is already looking
into OPA price policies as regards
meat, but after Thursdays testi-
mony most members were in what
Sen. Abe Murdock, D.1 Utah. de-
scribed as haze and cloud.
The OPA and the packers painted
entirely different pictures of the
situation, especially with figures pre-
sented to show the earnings of the
packing industry.
Meat packers and slaughters told
the senators that OPA price policies
were keeping beef off the nation S
dinner tables while more cattle were
roaming the range than ever before.
The packers said they could not
afford to handle beef and pay CELL
ing prices.
SUBSIDY NO HELP
Even the announcement by Price
Administrator Chester Bowles that
the government was increasing the
subsidy to cattle slaughterers up to
so cents a hundred pounds brought
no appreciative response from the
packers.
Bowles said the subsidy ought to
put the packers in a reasonably
good position" but Arthur L. Winn
of the National Independent Meat
Packers Association replied that "as
long as we would pay the ceiling
price we would get the 50-cent sub
sidy-and continue to lose money"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23
PENICILLIN CURES BULL

HARDWICK, Mass. March 23
CUP)-A blue -blooded bull, Caum-
sett Spitfire, recovered from pneu-
monia here only after being admin
istered 100000 units of penicillin
allocated to him by special govern
ment dispensation.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23
complete Friday.

complete Friday.
Another sister, Mrs. Esther Roth,
former El Centran, now lives In
Yuma. A niece, Mrs. Marie Pruitt
lives in Ell Centre. Miss Douglas
left Friday for the coast city. MI
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-23

II doesn't faIe any spade work to cultivate this
kind of Victory Garden!
All it takes is common sense -
If YOU plant a War Bond that costs you $3.50
YOU get yield of $4,000. The wisest fnancers will
tell you there's no better investment in the world.
An Investment free from, every kind of risk-euery
future disaster! An investment that offers you, In
the uncertain years to come, tangible security guar
anteed by the United States Government.
The messenger., 1945-07-01
;?: l3aolt4a& GEazM~

School. At the close of school last month "B's" in baseball were awarded to Frank LaPenna, Man ager Sherman Carpenter, Milton Krantz, Jack Lagan, Alan Tull, Amos Bedding, Clifford Stark, George Ventres, Hilton Roth, w. Clark, Fred Pro and Donald Reid, members of the 1945 team.
 A daughter has been born to MT. and Mrs. Thomas B. McDermott, Jr. of Fl Brown Street.
 Pam Donegan, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Danegan of Cold Spring Drive and Anne Carter Peck, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Dexter B. Peck of Duncaster Road are spending the summer at Camp Onaway, Bridgewater, New Hamp- shire.
 A new waiting station replacing the one damaged by boys in the neighborhood was placed at the bus terminal at Blue Hills Avenue.
 The Garden Club has started the work of developing a native wild flower garden in a portion of Filley Park. The project, one of several planned for the beautifica- tion of the Park, is being super vised by William c. Greene of Tunxis Avenue.
 Twin girls were born to MT. and Mrs. George J. Hart of 56 Win tonbury Avenue on Friday, June 29.
 Lewis Knapp of Pelham, New York was a June guest of MT. and Mrs. William B. Barnes, Bloom field Avenue.
 The estate of John F. Dwyer amounted to $43,139 according to an inventory filed in Hartford County Probate Court last month.
 Miss Dorothy Capen of 231 Simsbury Road and her cousin, Miss Carol Longley, of Day Street, Granby, recently visited relatives in Stamford.
 William M. Ramsey, I'll of Gin cinnati, Ohio is spending the sum- mer with MT. and Mrs. Henry Lyman of Simsbury Road.
 MT. and Mrs. John Hughes of "A Charter Avenue are the par ents of son.
 Corporal and Mrs. James Judge, Jr. of Cottage Grove Road, have named their daughter, born May 22 at St.. Francis Hospital, Cheryl Darlene. Corporal Judge is in the Pacific area. Mrs. Judge is the former Margaret A. Porteus, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Ray mond Porteus of Cottage Grove Road.
 MT. Alfred Madsen of Eliz- abeth Avenue recently returned home from the hospital where he underwent an operation.
 MT. and Mrs. Harold Hayes and daughter, Jane are vacationing at Lage
 Adolph Rasmussen of Colonia. NJ. has been a guest at the home of his sister, Mrs. Fred Sharpe of Tunxis Avenue. Carl Rasmussen, another brother, has just returned from E,n o1 and xuhoro bo hoe hoo,,
The messenger., 1945-07-01


 mencement xercises of Colby Junior College. Their daughter, Miss Eleanor J. Holcomb, was a member of the graduating class.
 Mrs. H erb ert s. Messenger poured at the tea at which the engagement of her cousin, Doris Louise B e ter of Hartford to rporal Richard E. Deff of Larchmont, N. Y. was announced.
 Miss Mae Manion has been en- gagged as nurse at the Y.M.CA. Camp at Woodstock, Connecticut for the first three weeks of Aug gust when the camp will be open for girls.
 Elinor Breining, Dorothy liar ney, Rachel Juno and Pearl Levin son are vacationing at Virginia Beach, Virginia.
 The illness of Mrs. Agnes M. Gullmartin made it impossible Tor the family to celebrate her 75th birthday Sunday, June 17 at Westbrook as had been planned.
 MT. and Mrs. Arthur Gagnon be- came the parents of a son born July 1.
 Mrs. Beatrice Needham Shut tleworth has gone to Overton Texas to await the arrival of her husband, Corporal Othar Shuttle worth, who will spend thirty day leave at his home there on his way rom Europe to the South Pacific.
 MT. and Mrs. Alfred Anderson of 27 Woodland Avenue are the parents of son born Saturday, July 7.
 MT. and Mrs. Oscar Tyler and family are spending the summer at Chalker Beach.
 Members of the second grade group of Center School Mothers Club are st ging a town-wide search for the use of piano to aid the music teachers in the in- struction of the grades pupils.
 The 25th wedding anniversary of representative and Mrs. H. J. Watkins was celebrated Tuesday, June 12, by a surprise party ar ranged by members of the family.
 "Tops" Bedding has enrolled at Amherst instead of Williams as previously reported.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert Hall of Haviland Road are vacationing in Maine.
 Mrs. Lloyd w. Moulton of Brown Street and Mrs. F. Basil Austin of Wintonbury venue were the Bloomfield chairmen for the Hartford County YWCA auc- tion held in Glastonbury Friday, July 20.
 After being closed for nearly three weeks for a general clean ing and redecoration, the Prosser Public Library was reopened Sat- urday under new schedule. Here after the rooms will be open from 2 to 5 in the afternoon and from ' to 9 in the evening.
 A daughter was born Saturday, July ', to Sergeant and Mrs. E. Murray of 53 Hubbard Street.
The messenger., 1945-07-01


 Hampton, Connecticut.
 A son was born on June 22 to MT. and Mrs. Nicholas D. Masselli. Handy Donegan is spending the summer at Camp Wonponset, Ban tam Lake, Conn.
 While on a recent vacation, Miss Harriett Colt of Bloomfield Av- enue spent a week with her aunt, Mrs. Anne Minor at Waterford, Connecticut and week in New York City.
 MT. and Mrs. James Jamison and MT. and Mrs. Harvey Smith of Westfield, N.J. were recent over night guests of MT. and Mrs. Jackson s. Steiner of 5O2 Bloom field Avenue. They were on their way to Belgrade Lake, Maine where they have since been joined by the Steiner's and the latter's daughter, Jill.
 Mrs. Laura North, her daugh- ter, Mrs. Ruth Chamberlain, and Miss Ruth Porther of 500 Bloom field Avenue. are spending the summer at their Cottage at Pine hurst Lake, Conn.
 Mrs. Timothy Goodrich and children have returned home from an extended visit at the home of Mrs. Goodrich's mother in Mil waukee, Wisconsin.
 Billy T t u e is spending the month of July at Camp Wood stock.
 Ellen and Barbara Williams of M w uke e have joined their mother at the home of their grandmother, Mrs. John A. Will cox of Park Avenue.
 Jill Steiner, who graduated from Oxford School last month, will enroll at Wheaton College in the fall.
 Dolores Pinney, Kathleen Le- hane and Loretta Lagan have re- turned from a two weeks vacation stay at Virginia Beach, Virginia.
 Almeda, Barbara and Ca b bel Duke are visiting at the farm of their aunt, Miss Edna Woodford, at Chester, Vermont.
 Mrs. w. T. Williamson and chil- dren of Bloomfield Avenue are visiting with relatives at Apex, NC.
 MT. and Mrs. William Lagan of Park Avenue celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary Saturday, June 30.
 Mrs. Andre Janet in company with her daughter spent a week at Chalker Beach.
 Police Commissioner John B. Cavalho has been in France on an extended business trip.
 MT. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Vine baugh of 1O1 Simsbury Road are the parents of a daughter born June 27 at the Hartford Hospital. Robert M r n Robinson, Is month old son of George E. and Beatrice Martinez Robinson of GA Wade Avenue, Bloomfield, died at Hartford Hospital Monday night, June IS. He was born in Hartford. Burial was in Ellington Cemetery,
The messenger., 1945-07-01

MrS. MdlcOIm Lane or Kenmore Road, Bloomfield, and son Nal colm, IT,, have joined Lieutenant Lane, USNR, who is stationed in Long Island after serving two years in the Pacific.
 Miss Marion L. Pinney, Bloom field Avenue, was recent guest of the Rev. and Mrs. Gibson I. Daniels, Westport.
 Miss Hargaret Ann Daniels of Westport has returned home after spending several days with friends here.
 The Hartford Kiwanis Club met in an annual outing party at the A. c. Petersen Farm on Winton- bury Ave-, Wednesday, June 20.
 Hiram Lodge of Masons ob- served St. Johns Day Sunday, June "A. Following decoration of the graves of deceased brethern in Mountain View Cemetrey, mem bers of the Lodge and the Winton- bury Chapter OES attended the II AM. Service of the Federated Church.
 Approximately 200 attended the annual strawberry shortcake fes- tival at the Church of the Sacred Heart.
 Fred M Munsur is supervising the archery program initiated by the Junior Fish and Game Club. Instruction sessions are held every Saturday afternoon in Filley Park.
 Miss Annie Blanton, daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. L. Blanton of Hubbard Street, who received her masters degree in June from Atlanta University School of Soc ial Work, was awarded the two year professional certificate for having finished her course in Feb ruary. A product of Bloomfield Grammar and Junior High Schools she finished her high school course at the Hartford High. Miss Blan- ton received her B.A. degree from Virginia Union University in 1941.
 Russell Johnson, son of MT. and Mrs. Clinton V. Johnson of Loef- fler Road was recently graduated from Taft School, Watertown. He was a member of the Alpha Club, the football, basketball and base ball team, and a member of the winter and spring dance com mittee. He plans to enter Cornell University of Mechanical Engin eering.
 Mrs. William Barnes of Bloom field Avenue is spending the sum- mer at Martha's Vineyard. MT. Barnes will join her later in the season for his vacation period.
 Charles F. Coates, senior part ner of Hadfield, Rothwell, Soule and Coates, Bloomfield Town Aud itors, has been elected president of the Hartford Chamber of Com merce.
 Jeanne Bardon, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Thomas N. Bardon, Gabb Road, graduated last month from Mt. St. Joseph Academy. She will enter college in the fall.
 Tunxis Granger held a fellow ship picnic at their club house on
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Went Away

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below better get places fast, If
they are not already there. And
the best part of it all is that Rom
ME has quite an assortment of
these Big Bangs to choose from.
You might say, one for each occa-
sion, or he can mix them up a bit
if he chooses. And if you don't
believe that the Flying Forts can
still pack big wallop, ask the
Germans or the Japs-they either
know, or are learning mighty fast.
Best of good fortune, Ronnie.
Should you ship out any time
soon, don't forget we'll be pulling
strong for you all the way across
and back. Furthermore, we know
you'll do your part and do it well.
Due to the kindness of Mrs. Ar
thur M. Boyer, No. 305 Mt. Ver-
non Street, Smyrna, Del, Dribbles
has a bit of news for publication
concerning two former residents
of this town.
Yes! You've guessed it. None
other than Pfc. Francis A. E am
BILE, and T-Sgt. William C. Bran
BILE, Mrs. Boyer's grandsons. Hap
py'' and bill" to Smyrna folks.
Well, to start off on Happy"
been engaged in action on the
Western European war front. To
use the young soldiers own y Is
1.-THE weather down here i. a
mess"
Perhaps he ran into some OF re
deep, thick mud that the BOYS
over in that area have been Ie-
marking about. According to
Happy" he has had plenty of
both snow and rain since arriving
in Luxembourg. More than likely,
Pfc. Bramble has moved out of
that sector now since our troops
are pushing forward with every
thing they have.
Continued on Page Four)
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blles did not bump into the Little
Sergeant until last weekend. At
that time he was in the best of
spirits, and judging from all ap-
pearance, this young soldier had,
weathered the storm of battle
most successfully. Although Guy
has been places, and seen things,
his experiences have not changed
him one bit.
Good luck to you Sergeant, in
your new assignments. know,
that wherever they may be you'll
come through smiling as usual.
Reports have it that Cpl. How
ard C. Lewis has been seen around
his old stamping grounds. This
means only one thing. Howard is
back in the States and apparently
going strong.
What's the matter, soldier? Did
Dribbles offend you in some man.
ner? The last change of address
came through June 9Th, 1914. At
that time you were stationed over
in Italy. Until last Saturday
night, Dribbles had every reason
to believe that you were still sta
toned there.
How about dropping the column
line and let your friends know a
bit about the Corporal? You're
now right where you wanted to be,
and it's fair guess that you can
push the throttle up another notch
or two and make up for lost time.
Yes, and I bumped right into Lit.
Ronald A. Grier last Monday. The
Young fellow looks fine. He is
home on a weeks furlough and
Dribbles hopes that he will have a
bang-up time.
Ronnie's the boy who drops the
bombs down on the crowd that we
are out to defeat. When he shouts
"bombs away" some of the gang
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European Theatre of Wal
Hello Dribbles:
Thanks very much for the
Christmas card. This was my
fourth Christmas in the Army, anc
believe the fourth card from Drib.
bles.
Any news from Smyrna is al
ways welcome and appreciated
After spending four years in the
Army one loses tract of friends
and local happenings, but through
your wonderful column in The
Smyrna Times, we are able tC
keep up with some of our worlC
travelling soldiers.
While stationed in (consored)
visited the Red Cross Club and no
ticed Fletcher Truax's name or
the Registration Book. 1t was i'm
possible to try and locate him, OF
I would have tried. Some day
though, I'm sure that I will meet
someone from home because there
are so many over here.
BY the way, Dribbles, my latest
A. P. o. is No. SS7, New York
New York.
Best of luck to all~in the New
Year.
Cpl. Carlton L. Smith
Cpl. Carlton L. Smith
A. S. N. 32071689
A. P. o. 887, C o Postmaster
New York City, New York
balance of address on application
Dribbles is certainly very GLAD
to hear from you Corporal, and ]
quite agree with you that -four
years in the Army, under war con-
ditions, must seem a long time.
Frankly. it's nearly next to inn
possible Carlton, for folks back
here in the States to gauge the
length of the war in the same
manner as hundreds of thousands
of Europeans have been forced to
do. Theirs has been horrible
nightmare, filed to the brim with
untold suffering at the hands of
the Axis Powers. The direct aim
of this group was to rule or ruin.
Yes, and they did pretty good
job in either case; as long as it
lasted.
Now that the tide of battle has
turned, and liberation has been
given to multitudes in these en-
shaved nations, it still leaves lot
to be accomplished. Next will
come the tremendous task of pro-
viding food and clothing for those
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Thank you very kindly, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. o. Steele. Lieutenant
Hyde's letter clearly outlines how
pleased he is to have your son
serving in his section. know you
must feel mighty proud to have
the Lieutenant speak so highly of
Nelson's qualifications. 1t would
be a lot of comfort, and no little
satisfaction, of other officers in the
Service followed Lieutenant Hyle's
example and wrote back to the
parents of the men serving under
them. Perhaps this would not be
possible in all cases; however, the
idea is mighty fine, and in this I
am suhe that you will agree with
me.
That part of the Lieutenant's
letter referring to mail is ever so
true. 1 have tried my level best
to impress this on our readers ever
since this column was started.
What success I have had, frankly
I do not know. I do hope that all
the folks back home will follow
through with the plan to write
Our Boys and Girls in the Service
whenever the opportunity offers.
Better too many letters than not
enough. And this goes whether
your letters are answered or not.
Many times the men of our fight
ing forces are so busily engaged
that they do not have the chance
to write home as often as they
would like. One needs only to
move up in the forward battle
areas to realize how very true this
statement is. When men are fight
ing all Gay, and BACKED out all
night, it leaves little time to write.
Many times letter writing must be
deferred until those actively en-
gagged are returned to the rest
areas. 1t is therefore quite unfair
to feel yourself neglected back
home without knowing the full
circumstances, and when in doubt,
give the fighting man the benefit
of the doubt. This goes for all the
folks here in the States-parents,
kives, sweethearts and friends.
The next time you write Nelson,
please give him Dribbles' best
wishes, Mr.. and Mrs. Steele. AS
stated previously, it would be
quite in order to have the Ser
geant drop us line if possible.
We've had Nelson's name entered
on our records since February Bird,
1914, and I feel quite sure that
number of his former friends
would like to hear from him.
BY the time this issue is pub
hshed, your letter will have been
returned to you kind folks. Now,
don't forget to keep us advised if
either Nelson or Howard have a
change of address, and the best of
luck to both the boys.