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Evening star., 1945-02-04
Public Hearings Open
On Transit Valuation
And Fares March 5
BY CAMBRIDGE CRIST.

With the $18,000,000 refinancing
program of the Capital Transit Co.
under way, after having recently
gained the authorization of the
Public Utilities and the Securities
and Exchange Commissions, the
much-sought public hearings on the
valuation of the company and re-
view of it's fares will start March S
before the PUG.
In March of last year the eco
nomic stabilization director and the
Office of Price Administration
sought to intervene in the proposed
hearings, but the PUG denied the
right of Intervention on the ground
there has been no request for any
increase in rates and none is con-
templated."
The staff of the PUG has been
working on the transit company
cases since the commission ordered
an investigation in June, 1943. Work
has been delayed, however, by
shortage of personnel and the ne
cessity of working on annual studies
of the rates and charges of the elec-
trio light and gas companies.
Pre-Hearing Conference Held.
A pre-hearing conference was
held on September II between the
company and the commission to
discuss the scope of the investiga-
ton and hearing. At that time,
company spokesmen explained that
they had been unable to complete
their studies for public hearing
because of work ON the refinancing
program. Last month the transit
company finally gained approval of
its bond issue from the PUG and
SEC.
The last determination of the
rate base of the transit company
was in 1888, when it was assessed at
$24, ,000, 900 as of December 81, 1885.
Since that time considerable pro-
perty has been added to the COM
pany and retirements of property
made. The present depreciation re-
serve is estimated around $16,500,-
600. The property account now
amounts to almost $62, ,000, 900 and
the fight will be over the question
of whether or not any of the latter
amount is in excess of the proper
valuation for rate-making purposes.
sS,0o0,O00 Is Eliminated.
Some revision of the company's
capital structure already has been
made, with the result that the COM
pany last year eliminated $4,000, 900
from its property account, using
reserve funds for the retirement.
It is now setting aside $500, 900
year for reserves in the event
further retirements are required.
The length of the hearings will
depend upon the extent of the
agreement or disagreement between
the company and the commission
over the value of various property
items.
TT may. well be an extensive
hearing" one PUC official COM
mented.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
New Cub Puck to Meet

Glen Echo Cub Pack 207 will hold
its first meeting at pm. tomor-
row at the Chapel of the Redeemer,
Fairway Hills. DR.. Willis Beasley
will present the packs charter to
the Rev. Robert Evans Browning,
vicar Of the sponsoring Institution.
Membership cards and bobcat
badges win be presented.
Evening star., 1945-02-04

until the eXpi-
ration of Mr..
Burgess term,
August 81, 1916.
Mr.. Downey, a
native of Alex
andria. is fore
man of the re-
frigerator car
construction di-
vision of the
Fruit Growers
E x p r e S S In
A ] e x a n d r a.
where he has
been employed
for 25 years. He
is married and
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Moi. Curter to Speak

Maj. Holdings Carter, author of
the novel Winds of Fear" will be
the guest speaker at meeting of
the Business and Professional Wom-
ems Club of Silver Spring at Z pm.
Tuesday at the Indian Spring Coun-
try Club.
Evening star., 1945-02-04

Councilman, be-
fore the dead
line at midnight
last night, ac-
cording to FL
lott F. Hof-
man, clerk of
the Corporation
Court.
E d W a r d w.
Downey, Al, of
100 East Del
h a y a V e n u e,
and Riley w.
Nixon, Sc, of IA
West Mount Ida
avenue, will be
the candidates
Evening star., 1945-02-04
.Downey and Nixon
Seek 10 Fill Vacancy
On Alexandra Council

Two candidates filed for election
to fill the vacancy on the Alexandria
City Council caused by the death
of Charles L. Burgess, Sixth Ward
Evening star., 1945-02-04

in the election which has been
called for March 6 by Judge William
P. Woolls of the Corporation Court.
The elected councilman will serve
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
GPS WIFE, MOTHER OF 3,
HIGH SCHOOL SALUTATORIAN

WARSAW, N. Y, June 81. CUP)-
Mrs. Juanita Robinson, 32-year-cld
mother of three children, will be
salutatorian of Wyoming Central
schools graduating class here on
June 25.
Mrs. Robinson, whose husband,
Donald, is a private somewhere in
Germany with U. S. fighting forces,
explained that she married quite
young and did not finish her high
school studies.
I'm getting ready for whatever
may come in the postwar period"
she declared Mrs. Robinson said
going back to school helps to pass
the time away until her husband
returns.
A sen, Charles, II, and a daugh-
ter, Mary, l3, attend school with
their mother, while five-year-old
Johnny talks about going to kin
dergarten next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
wRA Aid Reports
Five Japanese
Return to Valley

Only five of the more than 1900
japanese who were evacuated from
Imperial county have reported at
the El Centre office of the War
Relocation Authority, Maj. R. P.
Hartney, area director, said Thurs
day
That does not mean, however.
Hartney explained, that more have
not returned. They are not COM
PEELED to report at the office. When
released by army orders they are
free to ccme and go as they please.
The function of WRA, Hartney
said, is to aid the returned Jap
anese in the matter of property ad-
justment. He emphasized that
WRA does not bring the Japanese
back and has no control over their
movements.
Japanese who own no property
in Imperial county probably would
not report at WRA and his office
has no way in checking the num-
ber returning, Hartney declared.
Hartney returned Thursday from
Los Angeles, where he had been
in conference with Dillon Myer,
WRA national director and r. B.
Cousins, state director.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Soils Expert
Visits Valley

DR.. I. A. Briggs of the University
of Arizona soils and agronomy de-
partment, who devotes part of his
time to development of the East
side Mesa in Imperial county and
the Yuma Mesa in Arizona, sur
veyed pasture and soil experiments
in Imperial Valley Wednesday.
He was interested in permanent
pastures and grasses at the Melo-
land experiment station and at the
Hunt ranch east of Heber because
he wants to know if they could be
grown successfully in the expert
ments being carried on by the fed
eral reclamation service at drop
No. 3 on the All-American canal
east of Calexico. He is in charge
of the experiments being made
there. y
Desert land in the experiment
has been leveled and will grow
sudan grass this summer before be-
ing planted to alfalfa this fall.
Briggs said he is dealing with four
and possibly five types Of soil in
the experiment near drop 8.
Briggs is attempting to determine
if it is economically wise to farm
the east side mesa by using the
drop 3 land as an experimental
plot.
He talked over the experiments
with L. c. Goar of the Meloland
station, Farm Advisor George
Wainwright and Harold Hunt.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
ST. Meet States
Close Tuesday
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the assembly dispute in which Rus
sia and Australia played the prin-
cipal roles and the United States
and Great Britain acted as media
tors.
The controversy volved the
rights of the assembly to discuss
international matters. The Austral-
ianS wanted unlimited rights of dis
cussion. The Russians wanted dis
cuSsion limited to matters pertain
ing to peace and security.
In the meantime, Bolivia, the
land-locked South American plat
eau country, Thursday broke the in
formal rule of no territorial discus
Sions with bid for an outlet to the
sea.
AT OPEN SESSION
The proposal was made at an open
commission session considering the
sole remaining unapproved chapter
of the world charter-the chapter
on the political and security func-
tions of the general assembly. 1t
was voiced by Victor Andrade, Bo-
livian ambassador to the United
States and chairman of the confer
ence committee reporting to the
commission.
MY people" Andrade said at the
commission session, "hemmed in by
the Andes mountains, look towards
the future with faith in the world
organization, which some day will
study the problems arising from
Bolivia's id-continental situation
and will recognize the right of that
land-locked people to be linked to
the rest of the world through hav-
ing its own free access to the sea-. -
His statement was the first bid
by a United Nation for the world
organization to review and recon-
mend revision of a treaty-one of
the controversial issues of this con-
ference. Bolivia lost her land on the
Pacific coaSt-now part of Chile
in war at the end of the last CEN
tury. The treaty formally making
Bolivia a land-locked nation was
signed between Bolivia and Chile in
1904.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
County Bond Goal
Lacks S805, $50

When Seventh War loan totals
were rounded up at noon Thursday,
the quota for all types individual
bonds still lacks $8C5,980. according
to Herb Fawcett, county chairman.
This, he pointed out, means daily
sales of $89,550 if the drive is to
close successfully on June 80.
Sale of bonds to corporations has
gone beyond that quota of $735, 900
with a total noted Thursday of
$876,217.
Viggo Hansen, Ell Centre drive
director, was hopeful that large
number of volunteers for house-to-
house selling and sale-by- phone
would report in the next two days
so that that phase of the drive may
start in full swing Monday and con-
tinue through che last week of the
drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Bidder on Lien
Property in {. {.
Went Too high"

Move sale be denied murmured
member of El Centre city council
Wednesday night. Second" volun-
teered another. Done" said the city
clerk.
"Why?" came from a man in
council chamber.
Bid too high" quoth Acting May
or Robert A Hatton.
The records show a citizen had
offered S2O0 for a parcel of tax lien
property. Also the records show that
the property lacks water and sewer
connections.
Next move is with the perplexed
citizen-buyer.
Prior to this deal members of
council had disposed of thirteen
other lien sales by making eight
sales and turning down five.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Gen. Eisenhower
Greefs Mother,
Brothers at K. {.
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Ike stepped from the plane. Cheers
Of the crowd of 1000 mingled with
the roar of a 17-gu1 salute.
IKE is BOSS
When asked where the general
would stay while in Abilene, Kans.
his home town, a committeeman
said:
"Ike's the boss from now on"
Three C-54s carried 43 combat
veterans of Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska back to their homes. They
circled the field twice, dipping their
wings, as fighter planes buzzed
around them as escorts and landed
into the wind.
Eisenhower flew to Kansas CITY
from West Point. His stop here was
the last of a triumphal tour home
to Abilene, the COW town he made
world famous.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Plans Speeded
For Hipass Camp.

Arrangements for the opening of
HipaSS Health camp July were
rushed this week and a complete
operating staff employed for the
season.
The staff will be composed of Mr..
and Mrs. Earl Osborn of the Mt.
Signal district, camp directors; Mrs.
D. v. Porter, of Heber, nurse; Mrs.
Ray Barnes of Heber, cook; Mrs
Roda Sigman of El Centro, assistant
cook; Richard E. Chesley of Calex-
leo and Jerry Richardson of Holt
vile, boys cabin leaders; Betty Duff
of Heber and Mrs. D. Smith of El
Centre, girls cabin leaders: Vyayan
Porter of Heber, Georgia May Hand
of Imperial, Phyllis Hamilton of El
Centro, Grace Rubidoux of Holt
vile. Barbara Petree and Valarie
Watson of Heber, kitchen helpers;
and Mrs. George Black of Ell Centre,
! laundreSS.
American Legionnaires and auxil-
iary members will spend Sunday at
! the camp on their first work party
of the season.
r. P. OStrander, president of the
Hipass Health camp Corporation,
said Thursday that attendance quo
tas for Imperial, Brawley, and Holt
vile have not been filled. Those in
terested may contact the welfare
committee chairman of the Legion
auxiliary in the various towns in the
valley.
| Quotas set for the year are I'M
perial, 10; Ell Centro, IS; Holtville,
9: Brawley, %; Calexico. 10; Heber,
8; Calipatria, 4; Westmorland, 4.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
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May "a. Then they totaled 35,116 in
the army, marine corps and navy,
including 1902 dead.
For the vast strides achieved in
the Pacific war it was also one of
the costliest naval campaigns in the
history of the U. S. fleet. Some 85
vessels were sunk or damaged, most
of them smaller units 81 actually
were sunk according to commune
ques. Another 54 including four
large units were damaged.
GREATEST LOSS
At that time, the American cas-
u:lties already had exceeded those
suffered in the invasions of Tara
wa, Two and Saipan, previously the
most costly in the Pacific campaign.
Conquest of the island gave the
Americans an island base &c miles
long with a number of air bases and
sufficient ground area to depioy
hundreds of thousands of troops for
the invasion of Japan
llC IGbuIil VI ObllWcll, OIlc Vi
Americas most experienced Far
Eastern warriors, to field COM
mand for the big Pacific battles to
come was announced by Macarthur
in Manila in his new capacity as
commander of all army forces in the
Pacific.
Okinawa at present is under the
overall operational command of
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, but
MacArthurs new post leaves the
selection of local army commanders
to him.
SUCCEEDS BUCKNER
Stillwell will succeed 1t. Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., who
vas killed in action ON Okinawa
only Monday as he watched his fore
es carve up the Japanese remnants
N the final phase of the campaign.
With the battle of OkinaWa now
officially concluded, Stilwell can
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
f. {. City Council
Initiates New
Health Ordinance
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der the regulations until permit
from the health department has
been presented to the city clerk.
GUARDING OF FOOD
The ordinance provides that no
food shall be exposed upon anv
street or sidewalk or upon any open
vehicle, except in original, unbroken
packages, or fruit or vegetables
whose whole rind or skin must be
removed before eating.
No food shall be exposed upon
any street or sidewalk, or upon any
open vehicle except food in un-
broken original packages, or fruit
or vegetable whose whole rind or
skin must be removed before eating.
All milk, cream, cheese and but
ter, and other dairy products. all
meats and meat compounds, and
seafood, to be eaten without previous
cooking, and all pastries, pies, cakes.
cuStardS, prepared salads and salad
dressings, and all other perishable
foods which are ordinarily eaten
without cooking, and all CONNECTIONS
and candy, with the exception of
uncooked fruits and vegetables, shall
be kept within fly-proof refrigerator
or glassed-in or screened-in show
case, or shall be kept covered at all
times by suitable fly-proof cover
except when actual sale is being
made.
All fruit and vegetables must be
kept at least Is inches above the
floor level at all times, or else be
protected by a fly-proof glass case.
Vegetables, fruits or other prod
ucts when delivered to establish
ments, shall not be left upon the
sidewalk any longer than is abso-
lutely necessary to take them inside
the establishment.
All milk, cream and buttermilk,
and fruit and vegetable juices, shall
be kept in original container, and
all milk, cream, buttermilk, ice
cream, and all meats and fish, ex-
cept smoked or preserved meats and
fish, and fruit and vegetable juices,
shall be kept refrigerated at all
times at temperatures not higher
than so degrees Fahrenheit except
when actual sale is being made.
UTENSILS USED
Dishes, glassware, and eating
utensils used in the service of food
or drink in any place where food is
sold, offered for sale, or distributed,
shall be sterilized after each serv-
ing by the use of chlorine, or by
boiling, or the use of live steam. All
equipment used in the preparation
of serving food shall be maintained
at all times in a clean and sanitary
condition.
No wooden sinks, or wooden sinks
lined with metal, shall be used in
any food establishment. They must
be of at least two compartments
and made of metal with attached
metal drain boards. Refuse trays in
all restaurants and eating eStab-
lishments must be made of metal
and drain pipes from such trays
shall be of metal. They must, be
kept in clean and sanitary man
ner. Garbage cans shall be fly tight,
made of metal and emptied daily.
The ordinance covers wide range
governing cleanliness in food .handl-
ing.
Penalties are prescribed for viola
tionS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
President Views
Food ReIiefs
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and strongly favors postwar COM
pletion of the 600 mile gap which
still exists in the road between the
Northwest and Fairbanks, Alaska
2. AS to his future plans for Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme
Allied commander in Europe will re-
turn to finish his job in Germany.
The President hopes to settle at the
forthcoming Big Three meeting just
how long it will be necessary to keep
Eisenhower there.
3. Asked about rumored cabinet
changes, particularly the reported
replacement of Secretary of Interior
Harold l.. IckeS, the President said
it was news to him and no changes
were contemplated Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Youth Recreation
Unit Sets BUDGET

A budget of $5710, to carry on
activities of the Youth Recreational
association next year, will be pre-
Sented to the Community Chest.
This was decided at a meeting held
Wednesday at the Chamber OF
Commerce.
Organizations represented at the
meeting were City Council, Cham
ber of Commerce, Rotary and XII
wants clubs, Eagles, Elks, Ameri-
can Legion and Ten Thousand club.
Ernest Steinmlie, playground di-
rector, of Brawley, attended the
meeting. Ken Thornton was chair
man. Mrs. r. w. Ware is the sec
retary.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
now
SHE SHOPS
Cash and CARRY
Without Painful Backache

Many sufferers relieve nagging backache
quickly, once they discover that the real
cause of their trouble may be tired kidneys.
The kidneys are Natures chief way of tax
ing the excess acids and waste out of the
blood They help most people pass about 3
pints day
When disorder of kidney function permits
poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it
may cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains,
leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up
nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes.
headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty
passages with smarting and burning some-
times shows there is something wrong with
your kidneys or bladder.
Don't waiti Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills. used successfully by millions for over
40 years. They give happy relief and will help
the Is miles of kidney tubes flush out poison
ous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
OFFICERS SEEK YOUTH
EOR ASSAULT ATTEMPT

Peace officers searched Thurs-
day for a 17-year-old Mexican said
to have attempted to criminally as
sault a 12-year-old girl near the La
Verne store Wednesday,
A group of Mexicans tried to cap
ture the youth, officers said, but
he got away from them. The girl
was said to have been unharmed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Council Refuses
To Sell Planned
Auditorium Site

An offer of $4,000 for eleven city
owned lots at Fourth street and
Olive avenue was rejected by the
city council Wednesday night.
j. P. Morgan, who made the Of
fer, said he planned to build IL
five-room houses on the property.
Members of the council said the
city plans to erect an auditorium
there as a postwar project.
The property was acquired from
the school district and was the
site of the cid Olive street school
building which was condemned
and torn down, after the city pur-
chased the property.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Nimitz HeruIds
OkinuWu Victory

concentrate on readying the combat
tested 10th army for the next stage
of the Pacific war. A Manila dis
patch said it was a virtual certainty
that he would be one of the top
commanders for the conquest of
Japan.
He is at present somewhere in the
Pacific on a tour of battlefronts
end training areas and will take
over his new command as soon as he
can reach Okinawa, Manila said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21

The average dessert eater con-
sumed about IS pounds of ice cream
IN 1914. Per capita ice cream con-
sumption in 1888 was only five and
4 half pounds annually, according
to the Encyclopedia Britannica Year
Book,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
wMc DIRECTOR QUITS

LOS ANGELES, June 81. (UP)-
H. R. Harnish, War Manpower di-
rector for Southern California, has
announced his resignation, effect
i've July Is, to enter private busi-
ness. He has served with the VINO
since its establishment in 1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
FIRE DAMAGES CABIN

A fire from an overheated gas
stove caused $40 damage to ca
bin in the Cozy Auto Court at 100
Imperial avenue Wednesday night
at o'clock The cabin was occu-
pied by Marine Corp. r. E. Brown.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
ON-SALE LIQUOR DEALERS
SLATED TO MEET OPA AID

Tavern owners and restaurant
operators who hold on-sale beer.
wine or liquor licenses were slated
to meet Thursday night at 7:3O at
Barbara Worth hctel ball room, to
hear Ralph Mayne, office of Price
Administration price specialist, of
the San Diego office. Mrs. Mar
garet Foster, OPA chief clerk, an
nounced.
The official Lone Star flag of
the State of Texas was the former
flag of the Texas Republic
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
FUNERAL RITES ARRANGED
FOR VICTIM OF HEAT

Funeral services for Norman A
Cole, As, Imperial Valleys first
heat victim this year, will be held
at the Lemons Wiley funeral chapel
in FL Centro at 4:30 p. m. Friday.
Burial will be in Evergreen cem-
etery. Cole, a resident of Cali
patria several years, suffered heat
stroke in INLAND Tuesday and died
the next morning.
Missouri is the corncob pipe cap
ital of the world, making more than
any other state in the United States
and selling millions annually.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
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Woodbury. said. He paid a doctor
for his own physical examination,
a thing -.ever heard OF before Not
only that" Woodbury. went on in
an awed tone, but he said nothing
about it, the doctor had to tell. me. +"
TO THE RESCUE
A house burned in Ell Centre the
other night and with it all the wear
ing apparel of the parents and four
children. Boys seven, six, and five
years of age and girl 18 months
old need clothing badly.
So why not check over your chill
dren's clothes, Mothers, with an eye
to helping outfit the four children?
The Ell Centro Red Cross chapter,
120 North Fifth, will gladly accept
all contributions and see that the
children get them.
Thank you, Mothers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21

Grapefruit production In the
United States is half that of or
anges.
Evening star., 1945-11-12
D. {. Payroll Dispute
May Be Settled on
|Mason' Return =

Settlement of the dispute between
District Auditor A. r. Pilkerton and
public school officials over Mr.. Pill
kerton's plan to centralize prepara-
ton Of all District payrolls in his
Office may be effected this week
with the return of Commissioner
Guy Mason from vacation.
Mr.. Pilkerton took the proposal
which also affects the Health De-
partment, Welfare Department, the
Public Library and the Recreation
Department. to Commissioner j
Russell Young, but was advised to
try to iron out the opposition in
conference with Mr.. Mason and
heads of affected units. The de-
partments, except fer the public
schools, are under Mr.. Mason's ad-
ministrative jurisdiction.
Mr.. Young told the auditor that
If no settlement was made in the
conference he could bring the plan
before the Commissioners as a
whole.
The proposal would eliminate sep
arate payroll preparation by the
departments affected and centralize
auditing and preparation in the
auditors office, thus eliminating, ac-
cording to Mr.. Pilkerton, much
duplication which now exists. 1t
would involve adding 20 to Is addi-
tional employees to Mr.. Pilkerton' S
staff or transferring the present
payroll staff OF the departments af-
fected to the auditors Office.