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The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
To Mark We Day In
Coolidge If German
War Ending Comes

Victory in Europe can come
momentarily may even be an
as yet unannounced fact Ger
many is defeated and the world a.
waits a joint announcement by the
allied chiefs of staff.
We day will be celebrated quietly
throughout the nation and in Cool
idge churches will be open for ser
vices and prayer at IL o'clock of
the morning on which the an
nouncement is made that the war
with Germany is over. Should the
announcement come late in the
morning then services will be held
in the evening.
Many store owners have indi-
Gated they will close for the bal
ance of the day should announce
ment during the morning hours
and they will be closed for the bal
ance of the day AND the following
day should announcement of the
end of the German war come dur
ing the afternoon.
All liquor dispensers have been
asked to close for the "a hours Of
ficially proclaimed We Day.
Appropriate ceremony marking
victory will be held in both grade
and high schools.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Field-Track Meet
Starts Here This
Afternoon At Four

The first annual Coolidge Ex-
aminer Track and Field Meet will
be held this afternoon with the
first event set for l o'clock. Dashes
from 40 to 20 yards, standard field
events, and several special events
make up a three hour program in
two classes for boys and girls.
The special events include soft
ball and football throws both for
accuracy and distance, chin-ups,
and basketball shooting. First
place winners will be given medals
presented by the Coolidge Exam
iner.
Members of the grade and high
school faculty will act as judges.
A decided interest in the meet has
been evidenced by the sixth, sew
enth and eighth graders and strong
competition is expected in all e.
vents which will all be at the high
school field.
The program Will lead off with
class B boys doing the chin-up and
broad jump and continue through
out the afternoon until four o'clock
with events changing every 10
minutes.
All events are under the super
vision of Coach Glen Wilson and
his assistants together with the
Letterman's Club of the high school
student body.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Cartledge-Knight
United In Marriage
On Monday Evening

Cpl. Robert Cartledge of Cool
idge Army Air Field and Miss Mar
garet knight of Phoenix were unit
ed in marriage Monday evening at
Community Presbyterian Church by
the Rev. ]. Carl Fritz. Captain
Taminich, ATC, gave the bride a
way. Attendants were Miss Faye
Lovette of Coolidge and Robert
Bishop of Coolidge Air Base. Mrs.
Margaret Beck and Mrs. Fern Rich
ardson were soloist@and pianist re-
spectively.
The ceremony was followed by a
reception at Coolidge USO- Club
where Mrs. Josephine Borree, and
Mrs. Richardson were hostesses
Flowers were arranged by Mrs
George MUIR. Music was furnished
by Pvt. Toni Pelletier of Florence
POW Camp.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Supervisors To Get
Unsecured Property
Tax Lists MONTHLY
Old, delinquent lists now in
hands of supervisors as
new tax law becomes op-
erative in Pinal county.

Pinal county board of supervisors
is now in possession of lists of old,
delinquent unsecured property
taxes which have been turned over
by county assessor Lynn Farley
under the provisions of the new
unsecured property tax law passed
by the last session of the 18th Ari-
zona legislature.
The lists cover personal proper
ty assessments.
New lists will be filed with the
board of supervisors by the county
assessor on the last Monday of the
month in which the assessment is
made and the first lists will be
filed on the last Monday in May
Following the filing of the new
lists property owners who wish to
protest assessments will be per-
mitted to do so by the board of
supervisors at the regular monthly
meetings subsequent to the date
tiC doOCooACllIo- dl llICQ Will tnC
board.
Protests, if any, will be cOnsid-
cred by the board and the final list
will be turned over to the county
treasurer within the following five
days. The county treasurer will
be charged with collection of taxes,
since the assessor may not collect
money, under provisions of the new
law.
All assessments which are not
paid will be delinquent 80 days
after the treasurer receives the tax
roll. He then will certify all un-
paid items to the county sheriff,
who is required by law to seize and
sell such part of the property as is
necessary to cover taxes and costs.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Elite Cleaners
Sold To Carter
And Dixon Here

R. L. Carter of Coolidge and W..
L. Dixon of Toledo, Ohio, have pur-
chased Elite Cleaners and took
over management Tuesday. Carter
has been a resident of Coolidge for
several years and is owner OF the
American Cafe in Florence. Dixon
and his family came here recently
from Ohio. He has had % years
experience in the cleaning business
in Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Beauchamp,
owners and operators of Elite
Cleaners for over years, will con-
tinue to make their home in Cool
idge, although they have no plans
to go back into business. Mr..
,Beauchamp has not been well late
ly and he and Mrs. Beauchamp plan
to leave in the near future for Mu-
rietta Hot Springs, California,
where they will remain until he is
better.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Red Cross Canteen
Workers Will Be
Feted By Officers

Coolidge Army Air Field Red
Cross volunteer workers will be
honored Saturday evening. May 5,
at $50 p. m, with a buffet supper
and dance at the Officers Club,
Coolidge Air Base, in recognition
of their work in behalf of the fliers
who stop daily at the base.
In letter to Mrs. Pierce Vensel,
president of Coolidge Legion AUX
iliary and chairman of Coolidge
Red Cross canteen, Commander L..
ID. Ruch, commanding officer of
Air Ferry Squadron One, New
York, writes; "In behalf of the
pilots of this squadron, Naval Air
Station, New York, | am pleased
to extend an invitation to you and
your co-workers, to party given
in honor of the Red Cross members
who have served in the canteen
which you maintain at Coolidge.
Your canteen is considered by this
organization to be one of the best
in the United States, and the won
derful job you have done in be-
half of the pilots of this squadron
has created a spontaneous desire
to show their appreciation of your
effort"
In the invitation to the buffet
supper and dance at the Officers
Club here, Commander Ruch re-
quests Mrs. Vensel to urge all mem
bers who have assisted with the
canteen work here to attend.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Slate Famed Show
Of 80 Fighting
Men For Coolidge
"Here's Your Infantry tab
leau to be presented in
high school stadium May
81 for only Pinal county
appearance in support of
9TH war loan drive.

One of the 25 units of Here's
Your Infantry" army ground for
ces shows which will tour the Uni
ted States in support of the 7th
War Loan Drive will present a
closeup of the combat infantry
man and the tools with which he
fights in the high school stadium
in Coolidge on the evening of May
31st.
The unit coming to Coolidge will
present a show that all of Pinal
county is invited to see and visi-
tors are expected to throng the
stadium for the exhibition which
will be presented by so overseas
veterans with actual combat ex-
perience.
In a living tableau, an infantry
rifle squad will be assembled and
equipped for battle and, described
in a dramatic and Informative run
ming commentary, the squad is re-
inforced by the basic weapons on
which the rifleman can call.
Following a brief intermission
during which a military band will
play, a jungle assault team, rein
forced with machine guns, bazooka,
flame throwers and other infantry
weapons will seize and destroy a
Jap pillbox with flame throwers,
live blank firing, hand grenades
and demolition bombs.
There will also be an exhibit Of
machine guns, riflesS sniper rifles.
tommy guns, mortars, the rocket
launcher, flame thrower and other
equipment with an expert infantry
man in charge to explain their
uses.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
German War
Prisoners At Florence
Ask People To Quit

More than 900 German prisoners
of war and a company of Austrian
prisoners of war now stationed at
Florence Prisoner of War Camp
have voluntarily drafted and signed
a proclamation addressed to Ger
man soldiers, German workers,
men, women" of Germany in the
hope that the message might short
en- German resistance.
The letter together with the re-
quest that the proclamation be
broadcast to the people of Germany
was presented to Colonel Verne c..
Smell, Commanding Officer at
Prisoner of War Camp. Florence,
who submitted the request to
Headquarters, Ninth Service Com
mand, Fort Douglas, Utah.
In part the proclamation stated
ain this moment in which e.
vents are promising disaster for the
future of our homeland, we, the
German PWs in America, appeal
to you the German people to stop
this most absurd of all wars. The
continuation of this war can bring
the German people nothing but an
increase of it's sacrifices, an en-
largement of its misery Ger
man cities and villages are in
shambles. everybody in a steady
danger of life women, old men,
and children, chased and perse-
cuted by IS and Gestapo agents
millions of dead, crippled and
sick persons. That is Germany to-
day In these last weeks of the
war, which we, the German PWs
in America . we, who are coming
from the front lines of Africa,
Sicily, Crete, Italy and France, are
asking you to end For what are
you still fighting
. at is up to the German people
to show and prove that they see
their future in a free and truly
democratic republican Germany.
Germans, withdraw from these par
asites of the German people. who
have brought so much misery,
bloodshed and disaster. If you
want to count on the conqueror's S
generosity and if we Germans
should ever want to fill an honest
place among the family of nations,
then it is only possible if we Ger
mans draw a line between these
criminals and us, the real Germans.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Methodist Work
Becomes Self
Supporting Here

The Fourth Quarterly Conference
of Coolidge Methodist church voted
a budget Friday night that puts
the church on its own feet. The
conference year beginning June 1.
will be designated, "The Year or
Complete Self-support," when, aft
er II years of assistance from the
Board of Missions of the church,
the local congregation will assume
full responsibility for its own pro-
gram. The budget for the new
year will be $4,24O. OF this amount
81 900 is designated as an improve
ment fund for the completion OF
the present building. The cam
paign to raise the new budget Is
now underway, and success is an
ticipated, according to Rev. Leslie
]. Ross, pastor.
Church officials for the new year
are as follows: trustees: William
Mcconnell, Mrs. William Higgin-
botham, Robert Jenkins, Eli Ander-
son, Earl Hicks, Leonard Spruell
and Glenn Carter. Stewards: Mrs.
Eli Anderson, Mrs. E. M. Gam
mage. Mrs. A. M. Clark, William
Higgenbotham, Mrs. Inez Wilker-
son, Mrs. Christi Ann Roberts,
Mrs. Glenn Carter, c. F. Bartholo-
new, Mrs. Esther Baker, Mrs. TED
Kent, Mrs. Walter Trout ana
Freeman Higgenbotham; commun-
ion steward, Mrs. Margaret wynn;
treasurer, Mrs. Roberts.
The quarterly conference was IN
charge of Rev. Frank Williams,
district superintendent. An annu-
al comprehensive report was pre-
sented by Rev. Ross. About 5o
were present for the pot-luck sup
per which preceded the business
meeting, after which a colored
motion picture of Method1sm IN
Arizona was shown.
An outstanding comparison Oh
church attendance was shown IN
the report submitted by the pastor
who took charge in 1912. Easter
attendance at Coolidge Methodist
in 1941 was in 1912, 54; in l943'
Sc; in 1914, 1876, and in 1945, 24o:
The total combined attendance OF
all services on Easter was 575' IN
cluding Sunday school. worship
and Methodist Youth Fellowship
The largest group to assemble at
the church for any single function
came on Christmas Eve, when 2S3
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
To Erect Frozen
Food Locker Plant
In Coolidge Soon

Plans for the erection of a froz-
en- food locker plant in Coolidge
are being completed by Mr.. and
Mrs. Bruno Valazza OF Phoenix and
applications may now be made by
mail or with Mr.. and Mrs. Valazza
who will be in the office of the
Coolidge Examiner all day tomor-
row.
When completed the new locker
plant will have 400 lockers of both
drawer and door type which rent
for SIS and SIS annually and plans
have been made for facilities to
expand the plant to more than 900
lockers when necessary.
In addition 10 storing meats,
fruits and vegetables the plant will
have equipment for quick freezing
all foods to be stored.
Before the locker plant can be
erected the operators must obtain
bonafide and paid-in-advance rent
ais from actual food producers for
a minimum of 60 per cent of the
available locker space which in
this case is 240 lockers which
must be rented and certified before
the war production board will is
sue necessary priorities for the
purchase of equipment.
Any producer or food who raises
$50 to 200 pounds of food annually
would be considered a producer
whether he lived on a farm or in
town.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Coolidge Grammar
Schools Slated To
Close May 10

Coolidge north and south ele-
mentary schools will close at noon
on Thursday, May 10, according to
announcement this week by R. w.
Taylor, superintendent of Coolidge
schools.
An honor assembly will be held
in the auditorium of south school
Thursday morning to be followed
by promotion exercises in the
school patio beginning at S:15
Thursday night. Tom Fulbright of
Florence will be the speaker of the
evening.
Closing exercises for north
school pupils will be held Thurs
day morning in each room under
the supervision of the room teach
er.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Faculty Changes
Are Announced For
Coolidge Schools

Five new teachers have been en-
gagged to fill vacancies in Coolidge
elementary and high schools for
the coming year, according to an
nouncement this week by r. W..
Taylor, superintendent of Coolidge
schools.
Among those who will not re-
turn to the grade schools are Miss
Eleanor Melton and Miss Frances
Melton, who will teach in Phoenix;
Mrs. Margaret Beck and Mrs. Mar
garet Steadman Patterson, who will
accompany their husbands when
transfers to out of state military
bases become effective. High
school teachers who will not return
are Miss Ann Evelyn Kline, who
plans to take a special course at
the University of Arizona, and
Phil Farr, who expects to leave IN
the near future for military service.
Teachers who have been engaged
to fill the vacancies are Miss Jane
Ann Havens and Miss Lauranell
Carter, both of Muncie, Indiana,
Mrs. Kathleen Merrill of Eloy,
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. William
Jackson, and Mrs. Evelyn Ell1ng-
ton of Coolidge, all of whom will
teach in the elementary schools.
Louis Taylor, at present faculty
member of Montana State College,
Bozeman, Montana, will head the
English department at Coolidge
high school. A few vacancies re-
main to be filled.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Tribesmen Honor
Pfc. Ira Hayes At
Bapchule Tuesday

Pfc. Ira H. Hayes, % year old
Pima Indian marine who helped
raise the stars and stripes over
Mount Suribachi on Two Jima, was
honored Tuesday by 1000 tribes
men in a religious ceremony ar
ranged at Bapchule for his home
coming.
The young marine was received
10 days ago by President Truman
at the nations capitol. One OF
three surviving servicemen of the
six who took part in the famous
flag raising, Pfc. Hayes will start
a nationwide tour in the Seventh
War Loan campaign.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
united We Go.
ToTokyO" Says
War Bond Leader

P in a | S chairman, Y. C..
White, says that county
quota is $1,OOO,OOO of sum
needed to mass united mil
itary and naval strength
for knockout blow against
Japan.
'The end of the war in Europe
means that all available forces of
Great Britain, France and the Unit
ed States will now unite for the
knockout blow to Japan" said Y.
c. White, chairman of the Pinal
county war finance committee to-
day I'VE might take as our slogan
for the 7th War Loan Drive Unit
ed We go To Tokyo" but even
with all our massed might it will
take many months before these
forces can be poised to strike.
Massed Dollars for Massed Attack
Our job right now is to see that
enough money is raised in the 7th
War Loan drive, that opens a week
from Monday, to get the mighty
striking power of America, and our
allies in the war against Japan, to
the shores of Japan in the quickest
possible time and with an abund-
ance of everything our general
staff says is necessary to do the
job in the shortest time with the
least loss of life.
Quota $1,000
I'VE, in Pianl County" continued
White, have a bigger quota than
ever for this drive because the job
ahead demands more money than
was ever raised in any previous
drive. Pinars quota is ONE MIL
LION dollars and every one of us
will have to dig deep -. . and
quick to make and break our
quota AND THAT is JUST
WHAT WE WILL DO"
$50. people of Pinal," concluded
White, BUY all the bonds you can
raise the money for -. right NOW.
United We Go To Tokyo"
Quota Breakdown
Pinal's quota in the 7th War
Loan Drive is broken down by
towns and areas as follows: Cool
idge, $4,000; Florence, $4,000;
Casa Grande, $246, 500; Eloy, $780,
500; Ray, $4,000; Superior, $685.
500; and S24,5O0 for Oracle, Oracle
Junction and Tiger.
The quota for individual "E"
bond sales is 5000, 900 for the county
with 100000 in corporation and
other types of bond sales making
up the grand county quota of ST.
0O0, 900.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Mrs. Johnson Elected
Chairman Of Local
Red Cross Branch

Mrs. Margaret Johnson was cleo
ted chairman of Coolidge branch
of Pinal County Red Cross Chapter
at meeting of Red Cross officials
held Monday night in Coolidge Wo-
mans Club building. Mrs. Karl
Fisher was elected vice chairman,
and Earl Hicks was reelected
cretary-treasurer. Mrs. M. M.
Ware is the retiring chairman.
The meeting was attended by
Mrs. Ruth Mathews of Florence,
chairman of Pinal County Red Cross
Chapter, and Mrs. Fern Valland
ingham, Pinal County Red Cross
Chapter field secretary, and other
Red Cross officials.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
New Cafeteria Unit
To Be Constructed
For Coolidge Schools

Students of Coolidge high and
grade schools will have a complete,
new cafeteria service when school
takes up next fall according to R..
w. Taylor. superintendent of
schools who has announced the
call for bids for an addition to the
north grade school to house the
cafeteria.
The new unit will cost approx
mately $1,000 and will be paid for
by administrative savings effected
by the recent consolidation of the
grade and high school districts
which have been added to a build
ing fund budgeted last year and no
bond issue will be necessary.
The new room will be added to
the east wing of the north school
and the cafeteria will serve stu
dents of both grade schools and
the high school
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04

'oA "a 0ASCH CHlIIlI1dtlOn q.
gaInst irrigated cotton in
making government loans.
Arizona cotton producers can
now plant their cotton with some
assurance that it will not be dis
criminated against in government
loan operations, according to an
announcement made this week by
Elwood H. Smith of Casa Grande,
president of the Arizona Coopera-
tive Cotton Growers Association.
Accompanied by Clyde Neely,
colbert, first vice president, and
Keith Taylor, Phoenix, former Sc
cretary-treasurer of the producers
association. Mr.. Smith went to
Washington at the request of Ari-
zona's Senators Carl Hayden and
Ernest w. Mcfarland, to present
the case for irrigated cotton be-
fore the subcommittee. The hear
ing was called to order April 6 by
Senator John Bankhead of Ala
bama and were followed closely
by Mcfarland of Arizona, Chavez
OF New Mexico, and other senators
from the states affected.
Principal factor giving rise to
the senatorial investigation was
the conflict between producers of
irrigated cotton and the Commod-
ity Credit Corporation. The pro-
ducers claimed. that CCC penalized
irrigated cotton, defined by CCC
as all cotton grown west of the
Pecos River, as compared with
rain grown cotton in it's loan and
purchase programs.
A special witness appearing at
the request of Senator Hatch was
George w. Barr, agricultural econ
omist of the University of Arizona.
DR.. Barr presented to the sub
committee the results of scientific
investigations by both U. S. Dept.
of Agriculture and Arizona and
New Mexico research workers, all
of which indicated there is no
measurable difference between
irrigated and rain grown cotton.
While no commitment was made
nor future policy stated by the Off
cials of CCC who attended the
hearing, it is the opinion of those
present that irrigated cotton will
have the same loan and purchase
values this season as will rain
grown cotton.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Robert Goree
Dies Suddenly
In San Diego

Robert Goree, passed away Mon
day in a hospital at San Diego,
California. He is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Gorree, Sr., who
have spent their winters for sew
eral years in Coolidge.
The deceased returned several
months ago after two years in the
South Pacific as civilian repre-
sentative of an airplane motors
manufacturing company. Besides
his parents, he is survived by his
wife; a brother, Major Edwin Goree
lately returned from Is months
overseas.
Funeral services were held
Thursday.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
USO Club Plans
Spanish Supper

Plans were made at a meeting
of Coolidge USO Junior hostesses
Tuesday for Spanish supper at
the club Sunday, May 20, after the
baseball game between Coolidge
Army Air Field and Florence POW
Camp.
Pvt. Clark Smith won the door
prize of a telephone call to any
part of the United States at the
USO Clubs dance Friday night. He
called his home in Portland Ore
gon.