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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
WAVES TO Visit
Valley Towns in
Recruiting Drive

The visit in the Valley April 18
and 10 of a WAVE recruiting officer
1t Eleanor Seighler. and her two
assistants will be planned at meet
ing of the committee on WAVE re-
cruitment at 2 p. m. Friday at the
Chamber of Commerce.
AS a result of the recent navy re-
quest to triple WAVE enlistment
the naval women will spend two
days in the Valley speaking to var
ious womens organizations and in
terviewing those interested in join
ing the service.
1t. Seighler's two assistants will
be Fharmiscists Mate &c Mary
OHara, who will outline physical
qualifications, and Yeoman sc Ar
lette BARLEY.
Mrs. John Rice, chairman of the
local recruitment committee, has
asked all women interested in join
ing the WAVES to call her or any
members of the committee.
Ell Centro members, in addition
to Mrs. Rice, are Mesdames Forrest
Kutz, Robert w. Ware, Stevens H
Harris, M. j. Dowd, T. j. McQuade,
and two men, Ken Thornton and
Bill Outlook. Mrs. William Burke,
Jr., is chairman of the HoltVllle
section, with the following commit
tee members, Mrs. William Odett,
Mrs. w. L. Huebner and Keith Saw
age.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
OF PERSONAL
INTEREST

Navy Specialist second class jim
my Nesbiltt and Mrs Nesbitt are
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Nesbitt. A dinner party was
held IN Mexicali last Wednesday
marking the younger Nesbitts' first
wedding anniversary. They expect
to be here the rest of the week.
Mr. and Mrs George Bucklin
marked their 30th wedding anniver-
sary Wednesday but were unable to
plan any celebration as Mrs. Bucklin
has been i'll with iDfluenZa. She is
now recovering and able to be out
of bed part Of the time.
Miss Marjorie Watson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Watson, and
Miss Jewell Thompson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lom Thompson. are
visiting their parents while on Eas-
ter vacation from the University OF
Southern California Miss Thomp-
son has as her house guest, Miss
Shiela Seagrayec. also Of U. S. C.
Miss NoWassa Westover, who un-
derWent an appendectomy Monday
in the FL Centre Hospital, is con-
valescing and. now able to receive
visitors.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Churches
Schools
Officers Dance
To Be Given by
Beta Siqma Phi

Another Of the popular dances for
officers of the marine and navy
bases, in addition to those from
other services will be given by Beta
Sigma PHI: sorority at $3.50 p. m.
Friday night in the Blue room of
the Barbara Worth hotel.
Special guests at this dance will
be officers of the Marine Corps
Women Reserve. Members of the
Brawley Beta Sigma Phi will also
be present and ten members of The
Yuma chapter plan to attend.
The Blue Room will be decorated
in pastel colors in a spring theme
by Elizabeth Nesbitt, Frankie Nell
Birkhauser, May Virginia Nc
Neece and Ernestine Waggoner.
Punch will be served during the
evening by a committee of Jane
N,Uton. Lucille Schoffield, Elsie
Corda and Frances Niles.
Notices of the dance have been
posted at the Ell Centre marine
base, Holtville Naval air station and
Yuma Army Air base and Miss
Frances Niles, president, has also
extended an invitation to visiting
officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Wilson Students to Present
Operetta on Friday Night
Edited By Marjorie HOvey Kind

salesman, Bob Yankee. played by
Stanley Lfye, and a Dutch music
student, Hans who is portrayed by
Richard Irish.
Eob has come TO sell the farmers
on electricity and generated power,
thus doing away with the wind
mills that are the trade mark of
Holland. His American ways in
trigue Wilhelmina but just in time
she remembers it is Hans she loves.
In tine meantime Bob is trying TO
sell her father, Mynhcer Hertogne-
bosch Tommy Beynon) on electric
ity. But he is thwarted when t.4e
family ard friecGs strike to retain
their beloved Windmills. Francie
ee Kirk is seen as the mother of
the family. while Eleanor Roberts
is her daughter Hilda Franz CRoo-
in LyGeckerD, is a rich farmers son
in love with Hilda. A farmers daug-
ter is Katrina, played by Diane
Duringer.
A chorus of farmers daughters
add to the operetta. while special
numbers have been planned for be-
TWEEN the acts PATSY Tyler will liz
troduce a group fifth and sixth
grade pupils, who will sing a num-
Der in keeping with the setting OF
| the operetta. jack Womack and
Barbara Weeks will sing the second
selection. -
Ida Ruth Robertson is the student
accompanist and Jackie Womack is
student director. An orchestra will
accompany the singers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05

One of the highlights Of the Cal
eXico social season will be held in
the De ANA Hotel of the border
city from $3.50 to midnight Saturday
night when the annual Cavalcade
Ball is given by the Cavalcade As
Sociation.
The dance, which was formerly
the climax to the several days of
the Cavalcade. is one of the few
events still held since the war and
serves to keep the spirit of that
celebration.
The popular Hellcats orchestra
will start playing at $3.50 o'clock, the
early hour being planned because
Of the midnight curfew.
A feature of the ball will be the
presentation of Mrs. Louise Reimer
Queen of the Imperial Valley round
up to be held April 1922. She
will make her appearance at 10 pm
All guests will come to the ball in
costumes most authentic historically
acts of the original Cavalcade
These groups are Mexican costume
pioneer Western. and early Valley
days. Prizes will be given to the
two men and two women having
costumes most authentic Historically
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
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through June 50. X through P2
good through Jaly 81.
Grease bonuS-ButCherS will give
3 red tokens anG 4 cents for every
pound Of Salvaged kitchen Fats re-
ceived.
SUGAR
Beck : Stamp g gcod for five
pounds though Jure. Another stamp
IS scheSGl"d. to be -al:5atCd May l.
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15-A coupons coed fer four gal
lens each through June 81. B-5,
B-6, B-7 and CO, C-6 and CT cCu-
ponS good for five gallons each.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Methodist Choir
To Hold Desert
Picnic Sunday

The annual May Day breakfast
of the Women's Society of Christian
Service OF the Methodist church
again will be given this year, ac-
cording c plans mace at the meet
inc CT the society Tuesday in the
social hall
The breakfast will h3 held on May
l. as in the past, and will be open
to the public. An excellent program
has been planned to entertain these
attending.
The sccie,y also planned to serve
dinner for the banquet on April 27
'2f the youth Of all Methodist
churches in the valley. . -
The w. S. c. s. voted to join the
Couccil Of Church Wcnen. which
was CrPeni7ed here recently, and
representatives will attend the rext
meeting on May d, when service
projects will be planned
Mrs. George Conner presided at
the business m eting, which fol-
owed luncheon served by Mrs.
George Xix and her committee OF
Mesdanes Wesley He'll. F. c, Rosen-
baum L. Muntane, Russell Haas,
Russell Davis and Cora Maxwell.
The program fer the aftai naon
was an interpretation CT the Book
Of Job, given by Mrs. George Can
non
Next meeting Of the society will
he held May at right.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05

Weeks of practice and prepara-
ton by students and teachers Of
Wilson school will be climaxed at
8:15 p. m. Friday night when they
present their annual operetta,
"Windmills of Holland"
Those who nave heard the music
pupils give excerpts from the oper-
eta at various meetings have been
enthusiastic about the songs and
presentation of the youngsters, who
are directed by Mrs. Laura McFar-
land. The Dutch costumes OF the
production are expected to add to
the charm of the setting.
The romantic interest of the show
centers around Wilhemina, daugh-
ter of rich Holland farmer. This
part is played by Virginia Pinkney.
She is torn between her love for an
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
A. n. Rehkopfs
Mark SO Years
Of Welded Life

Mr. and Mrs. A II. Rehkopf. two
of the valleys most prominent pi-
oneers, celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary on Tuesday.
An elaborate celebration had to be
cancelled because travelling condi-
tions would not allow a family re-
union. Their daughter, Mrs. r. H
Bond, and Mr.. Bond Of San Diego.
came down for the day and took
their parents to visit the mud pots
in the north end of the valley,
which Mrs. Rehkopf had never seen
before
They have three other children,
Mrs. Philip Winnek of Indianapolis,
Mrs. c. B. Gorham of Carmel and
Bayard S. Rehkopf of Jacumba.
There are nine grandchildren.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rehkopf were mar
ried in Des Moines, Iowa, April 3.
1895, and came to the valley in 1901
six months before the first water
here. From the first, both were ac-
tive in the development of the
, valley.
Arriving at Flowing Wells, near
the present mud pots, by train, the
Rehkopfs, with their two children,
Bayard and the present Mrs. Cor
ham, took stage to a point south
east of FL Centro, where they set
tied Mrs. Bond was born here
later while Mrs. Winnek was born
in Los Angeles.
The Rehkopfs made their home on
the old Deer Head Rranch for many
years when the only town in the
valley was Imperial They moved into
FL Centro in 1912, the year the Reh~
kopf building at Sixth and Main
streets was erected.
In 1917, they moved to San Diego
because of Mrs. Rehkopfs health
anG he committed between the coast
city and the valley. However, her
health is much improved now and
she has been back in Ell Centro for
several years.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Society
Clubs
Gss'ss.' ssnss. OF Interest to Women
Edited Marjorie Hovey Kinder
CALENDAR
THURSDAY

IA THURSDAY
80
Night school, 10, high school
CAP & CAPC, 10. high school
Gypsum workers, 7:30, Labor tenn
pie
Motor corps, s, Red Cross head
quarters.
B.P.O.E., 8, Els club
Building Trades. 3, Labor temple
CaTipatria Ni.ana COmmunity
Center, 8, HOobef hail, Caiipltria
Kiwanis Club, Il, Barbara Worth
hotel.
Harding P.T.A., 2, Harding school.
Painters, 1880. Labor temple.
"IVindmills of Holland Wilson
school Opcretta, 8;i5, high school.
Officers dance. $50, Blue Room,
Barbara Worth hotel.
Rural Recreation Dance, 9-12, Vet
Grams hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05


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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
CavaIcade Ball To Be Held
At De ANA Hotel Saturday

in each of the three groups. The
prizes will be awarded following the
grand march at IL p. m.
Chairman of the dance is Mrs
Oscar Keller while the ticket chair
man is Bill Jacobs. He has arrang-
ed tickec sales in all valley towns
and they win also be sold at the
door. Fern Young will be master Of
ceremonies for the affair and will
call the grand march.
Mrs. Cecil Kelso and Mrs. Fred
Gunderman are in charge of the
hostesses.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Methodist Group
Plans Annual
Bre akfas+ Event

A picnic on tie desert will be en-
joyed Sunday afternoon by members
CT the Methodist church choir, theii
families and friends.
The group will meet at the church
at l p. m. Sunday. They have been
asked to bring their own service, a
covered dish and sandwiches. Soft
drinks and ice cream will be served
by the committee under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Wesley Hell.
All those planning to attend must
call Mrs. He'll at 3727-J-2 befo. e
Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
D.U.V. Tent
To Hold Meeting

Mor-Nors If Anra Maria Ross
Tent No. 70, Daughters of Union
Veterans, will hold their regular
April meeting at 1:30 p. m. Satur-
day in the Veterans Hall.
Mrs. Faunna Cecil, president, has
asked all members to make a special
effort to attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Ken Thorn+ons
Adopt Dauahter

chonie Jean Thornton is the
name selected by Mr.. and Mrs. Ken
Thornton for the baby daughter
they adopted last week.
The baby will be five months old
soon and weighs nearly fourteen and
one-half poun-,.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Chap+er CIV
To Hold Mee+inq

Chapter CIV, p. E. O., will meet
at 1890 Saturday for luncheon, fol-
lowed by program, at the home of
MS. c. S. Conrer, 652 Hamilton
avenue, with Mrs. NJ. c. Pinnell as
cC-hOStess.
The Omaha guide., 1945-11-24
KNsE on [lI:2SS
Observation-Disclosures
To Maintain Free World
Economics and Geography Among Studies
Required to Ground Students in the
Problems at Home and Abroad.
BY BAUKHAGE
Netos Analyst and Commentator.

lean school gave our polyglot nation
the solidarity to carry on the war
successfully. But" he added, I'VE
have severe tests ahead. We must
educate for freedom, and educate for
existence in a newly ~integrated
world of which we are an integral
part. We must understand our own
problem and the problems of 9TH
ers."
l couldn't help applying this the
DRY to the stories from Germany.
A thorough understanding of democ-
racy is proof against Nazi propagan-
da. An understanding of other peo-
pies and events beyond our borders
which affect us-as the rise Of Hitler
and Mussolini affected us-would
make us deaf to German prevarica-
tons and excuses.
In order to meet the threats
against democracy from within and
from without, Mr.. Studebaker be-
lieves, with most of his colleagues.
that our present educational system
will have to be thoroughly renovat-
ed. Both the plant and the product
must be remodeled." he says.
He chose two subjects-geography
and economics-as examples Of how
the product must be altered.
The Omaha guide., 1945-11-24
OHIO CONFERENCE OF
BRANCHES URGES VETS
RIGHTS IN SERIES
OF RESOLUTIONS

Dayton, Ohio. AT a meeting of
the Ohio Conference of Branches
of the NAACP, delegates repres-
enting 20 branches with an ag-
gregate membership of $4,000,
met here October 27-28, to adopt
a series of strongly-worded reso-
buttons as blueprints for future
action in dealing with statewide
, problems.
The speedy Enactment Of a
State Fair Employment Practic-
es law was urged by the confer
ence. Each branch was urged to
be on the alert to safeguard the
interests of returning veterans
and to assist them in securing
their RIGHTS in the area of full EN-
ployment, housing and all other
benefits provided by state and
federal legislation.
Col lg a step further on the
veterans question, the conference
asked that "aI branches go on
record as insisting on complete
integration of patients, doctors
dentists, nurses, technicians and
admins 'rative person el in all
veteran facilities ard that comm
ittes be appointed BY every bran
CHI to visit such hospitals with the
! purpose Of determining their pol
icies and practices in this respect
md r9~crt same to the National
RffiaaD
The Omaha guide., 1945-11-24
MACHINIST UNION TO
KEEP Jim GROIN

KEEP JIM CHOW
New York, New York CO. In a
secret and storming session mark
ed by bitter retorts from South
ern delegates the international
Association of Machinists AFL
voted down a proposal to remove
the Jim Crow Clause from it's BY
Laws. The proposal lost out by
a roll call vote of 2173 to 1858
despite it's being recommended by
an IL to 8 vote of the Ritual COM
mittee of the LAM which is meet
ing in Convention in New York.
The Clause in the Ritual of the
Union which is the largest in the
| AFL restricts membership to
| white candidates only. Although
the same amendment to repeal
that clause has been defeated at
| previous Conventions of the I'm
ion, it was thought it would likely
! pass this year because of the new
| blood injected in the Union during
the war years. Many Negroes
actually are defacto members OF
the Union despite the Jim Grow
, Clause.
The margin of 215 votes by
| which the Amendment was de-
feated is believed to be the small
est since the fight to remove the
discriminatory clause began.
The Omaha guide., 1945-11-24

Ernest E. Johnson, former
Washington correspondent for
the Associated Negro Press, will
direct public relations for the
United Negro College Fund, Will
liam j. Trent, Jr., Executive Dir
ector for the Fund, announced.
Mr. Johnson returns to New
Work after more than two and
one half years covering the Ma
tons capital. Although having
engaged occasionally in publicity
before, he is for the first time en-
tering the field on a full-time bas-
is.
The new publicity director was
born and attended school in New
York City, and has written for
Negro newspapers for II years.
He is also a former employee for
the City of New York.
When former President Edwin
Barclay of the Republic of Lib
eria paid an official visit to this
country in 1913, Mr.. Johnson was
invited to accompany the party as
the only reporter. His pioneer
ing activities in behalf of the Ne
gro press in the field Of foreign
affairs soon won for him member
ship in the State Department
Correspondents Association, a
singular distinction.
Last February he was sent to
London by the Journal and Guide
Of Norfolk to do special foreign
correspondence for that paper.
For the past five years he has
also writtn special articles for
various national magazines on as
sorted subjects of current inter
est.
The Omaha guide., 1945-11-24
Nazi Propaganda
Remains Strong

A report made public only a week
or two ago reveals how "Naziism at
its blacklist" as the report describes
it, is being kept alive in a series of
resistance clubs" in Germany scat
tered from the North sea to the Ba-
varian mountains. Allied investiga-
tors have pieced together an appal-
ling picture of a widespread activity
based upon race hatred, and other
NaZi principles with which the Ger
man youth has been so thoroughly
indoctrinated in a manner pointed
out in these columns some time ago
and which l then said must be dealt
with eventually.
The offense is powerful, and the
weakness of our defense is illustrat-
ed in recent dispatches telling us
how Nazi propaganda is affecting the
viewpoint of the American army Of
occupation. A major is reported as
doubling the truth of the atrocity
stories in the concentration camp of
Dachau located only a few miles
from where he was stationed. Amer
lean soldiers are heard parroting the
familiar Goebbels' fabrication that
Germany was forced into the war;
that Hitler had his faults but was
really great in many respects. or if
Hitler's glory is found to be too
strong a goat he is used as a scape-
goat to Reuse German war guilt.
/ have just come from a long talk
with one Of Americas great educa-
tors, John Studebaker, United States
Commissioner of Education. 1t was
he who introduced me to the phrase.
'the new reconversion."
Our democratic system is threat
ened from within and without" he
said to me earnestly. The Amer
The Omaha guide., 1945-11-24

Another resolution was adopt
ed insisting on "the complete and
immediate cessation of segrega-
ton in the armed forces" and
urging that promotion and as.
signments be made on the basis
of merit and ability.
Anent housing and urban re-
development, a resolution was a
dopted deploring "the failure OF
the Ohio legislature to enact leg
islation enabling local communit-
les to sponsor public housing and
adequate urban redevelopment to
eliminate slums and blighted ar
cas-" and endorsing and urging
"the speedy enactment Of the
Wagner llender Bill to establish
a national housing policy will;
adequate appropriation to render
it affective"
The conference condemned the
increasing practice of local boards
of Education throughout the
state of establishing and extend
ing racial segregation in public
schools contrary to the establish
ed legislative policy of the state
1t also went on record as oppos-
ing and ~condemning "all forms Of
racial segregation or discrimin-
alton in institutions maintained
by public funds
In its concluding resolution, the
group asked each branch to petit
ton their congressman AMI sena-
tors to actively support the fol
lowing pending legislation: Full
Employment Bill, Fair Employ
The Omaha guide., 1945-11-24
wNU Service, 1916 Eye Street, NV.
Washington, ID. c.

wNU Service, 1916 Eye Street, NV,
Washington, ID. C.
This Is the first of two articles on
the subject of the NEW recOnver-
siOn."o
In the last two months the public
has learned a lot about the impor-
lance of industrial reconversion. For
many more months, business men,
with the help OF the best technical
advice they could obtain, have been
preparing to shift from wartime to
peacetime production. Government
has shared the knowledge of its ex-
perts and ~proffered its cooperation.
Labor has contributed its sugges-
tions. All three know what they
want. Together they hope to obtain
a successful synthesis.
But what many people do not real
lie is that the nation. the whole
world, for that matter, is facing an
other reconversion problem, equally
as difficult to solve. equally as i'm
portant to achieve. 1t is the recon
version of our whole educational sys-
tenn, and upon its ucces depends
the political future of democracy
and its economic future as well, as
embodied in the theory and out
working of free enterprise.
1t is no exaggeration to say that
our current educational system,
which along with our wartime in
dustrial system made Allied victory
possible. is no more adapted to meet
the new and startling problems of
the postwar world than the Japanese
defense could meet the atomic
bomb.
Enlightened educators everywhere
realize this. In a short time experts
will meet in London to work out a
program outlined in San Francisco
ny the men and women who planned
the. educational and cultural coun-
Gil of the United Nations. Here at
home and in other democratic coun-
tries, domestic educational policies
III being reshaped to meet the new
conditions.
Education for world freedom is an
important objective; education for
freedom in the land of the free is
equally important. for it is the foun-
dation stone of world democracy.
We have the task of recovering
our own antiquated machinery so
that it will be geared to produce
and maintain freedom. The United
Nations task is to build new ma
chinery which will evolve a prod
uct which must displace the Nazi-
Fascist teachings which still have
their hold on a large segment of the
population. Our own product must
be both a weapon of offense and of
defense.
We have a powerful example in
the need for this in the demonstrat-
ed strength of the Nazi theology and
the weakness of what we have so far
produced to combat it.
The Omaha guide., 1945-11-24

There won't be enough oysters this
year to supply the demand. Prob.
ably the war took too many shells.
An eye-bank is being established
the purpose of which is to make
available healthy corneal tissue to
restore sight to those who are blind
through an affection of the cornea
The system is similar to the blood
banks and no less valuable. I wish
they would establish a hair-bank.
The Omaha guide., 1945-11-24

ment Practice Commission legis-
lation, amendment of the Fair
Labor Standards Act providing
for 65-75c per hour minimum
wage, abolition of the poll tax,
the aWgner-ingell-Murray Social
Security bill, the maintenance of
postwar price controls, and the
anti-lynching bill.
The resolutions were signed by
the following members of the O.
hio Conference of Branches: Wi
liam Howard, Youngston; Artee
Fleming, Akron; ariMan Williams
Dayton; Edward Cox, Columbus;
Howard Smell, Cincinnati; N. X
Christopher, Cleveland; t. M
Berry, Chairman, Cincinnati.