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Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Capital Talk
-by-
Peter Edison

but q couple of production miracles
as well.
What happened? IL isn't enough
to kiss this off as mere misfortune
of war.
Why should there be billions of
dollars worth of surpluses to dis
pose of when there are billions OF
dollars worth of shortages of critical
items. Why millions OF surplus,
over-age dry cell batteries when the
dry cell battery production program
is behind schedule? Was that bad
planning?
Why should supply ships have to
ride at anchor unloaded? If a
people is smart enough to plan in
advance for mulberry" unloading
docks and build portable railroad
bridges in England to replace those
bombed in France, why hasn't the
same people enough genius to lick
the supply problem to the Siegfried
cr Gothic Lines?
WHO is THE REAL VILLAIN?
Where civilian production chiefs
to plan too much reconverSion too
soon?
Were service chiefs wrong in cut
ting back production of such things
as small arms and cottonduck?
Was the senate committee investi-
eating the war effort a bit off base
when it criticized the army for Or
10 fr.rYn
in view of the present shortages?
Was congress wrong in refusing
! to consider a national service act a
year ago, in view of present man.
/ power difficulties?
Was the White House laggard III
demanding substitute?
Were appropriations committees
short-sighted when they refused the
war manpower commission sufficient
funds to reorganize the employment
service and enforce their certificate
of availability program to control
| Job transfers?
Have labor leaders, now claiming
so large a share in shaping nationa
policies, been as smart as they claim
to be in their opposition to Strictel
labor regulations?
You may blame everybody or any
body for this thing that has hap
pened OH the production front, bu
finding sacrificial goats to offer OF
the affairs of national wrath will no
remedy the situation. All you cal
do is recognize that it has happened
and then
Isn't it every individuals respon
sibility?
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
NUBBINS
By
BURRIS JENKINS

ParadeS. Entrances; Triumphfu
entrances these we may look for in
the near future. They're preparing
right now, even down to and up Ia
wedding parades.
OF course individually concerned
il is these parades that are all i'm
portant. Many a boy now in the
field or at sea is singing that popu-
lar old song. so old and so popular
as to have been probably long since
forgotten by most of us.
Daisy. Daisy, give me your answer
true.
I'm half crazy all for tho love Of
you:
! We can't have a handsome marriage
can't afford carriage,
/ But you'll look sweet on the scat
OF a bicycle built for two"
If anybody imagines that any new
bride or any new groom at any new
postwar wedding is going to be sat
isfied with any bicycle built for two
wedding or for that matter any
bicycle wedding at all he or she has
new think coming. 1t will have to
be the newest car dropped off the
production line just in time to pick
up the bride and groom and to take
them to the point of marriage.
Few American brides, however
eager and cxpectant, will sound
quite so desperate as Oracle Fields
when she sings, walter, Walter,
take me to the alter" The bitter
failure o. a promise to do so cannot
be as great in the case of the singer
of this foreign song. The American
girls in all probability will seek an
other and better case.
Now in the case of bigger and
greater triumphal entrances, one
must be assured in his own mind
that the splendor of these later
and grander entrances or parades
will greatly OutdO the mere modest
matrimonial ones.
Be assured that the retirement
of the people from Meinz and Cob
lenz, who are just now thinking
whether to withdraw whittier, will
be one spectacular falling back while
those entering from the other way
will present spectacle just as
great.
Perhaps the same spirit should
hover over us as did over Rudyard
Kipling's people at the close of the
Queens Jubilee when they sang:
Far called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headline sinks the
fire.
Lo. All our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nincveh and
Tyre!
Judge of the nations spare us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget! sisI
No less modest than these words
of Kipling should be our words in
the hour Of victory. We have little
to shout over, nothing to gloat about,
we shall have barely won the victory,
barely go through by the skin of
our teeth. Lloyd George truthfuliy
points out that if we escape at all.
it will be by the slenderest of
chances.
Nonetheless, we are getting ready
to shout and it is probably not long
until comes the day of that shouting.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
RED CROSS RECEIVES
LONG DELAYED REPLY

LORAIN, Ohio, Jan. 13. (UP)-
The Lorain Red Cross recently re-
ceived its first word from Poland in
five years.
A message sent through the Inter-
national Red Cross TO Mrs. T. Ia
borowski from a cousin in Poland
was a reply to a letter sent by the
Lorainite more than year ago.
The local Red Cross reported
that, despite hundreds of similar
messages to Poland, this was the
first reply since the German inva-
sion.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

Any way you look at the current
shortages of munitions they are
difficult to understand and in many
respects they don't make sense.
You may read all the handouts
ON critical items, listen to all the
speeches about them, memorize all
the statistics Of demand, supply and
consumption, rationalize all the
alibis offered by military or civilian
production experts, develop blind
staggers reading their graphs, curves
and pie charts. In the end you are
dizzier than a blonde who has just
been through the works in the tun-
mel of love, and you still don't. know
the answers.
This is where you came in. All
the columns of news dispatches you
now read from the fronts and from
Washington, all the editorials try
ing to interpret the shortages OF
ammunition, tires. trucks, guns and
even manpoWer are of the same
tenor as 1910 and Al.
The cumulative impact of the
current production crisis reports is
that this is a bigger national dis
grace than Pearl Harbor three years
ago. Trying to fix the blame for
whatever it is that has happened on
the home front may be about as
fruitless as trying to fix the blame
for what happened at Honolulu on
December 7, 1941. But isn't it about
time that everybody in the United
States, collectively, start getting
mad?
WE'RE GOOD, BUT
Bonds have been bought by the
billions. Production "E's" and "A's''
and ms" and probably Abs and
Obs have been awarded by the con-
voy load to management for the
swell Job it has done. Labor with
capital l. has alternately been
kicked OH the backSide and patted
itself on the back for the job 1t has
done. The army and navy are big
ger and better than any army OF
navy have ever been before. The
women. God love 'em, have rocked
the kiddie car with one hand while
heading up rivet with the other
we're good-there's no denying it.
Yet from the reports Of generals
from Eisenhower and Macarthur tc
Somervell, we haven't begun TO fight
and we can't until the home front
passes not only more ammunition
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Japan Assemblies
Full Man-power
To Stem Defeats

LONDON, Jan. 13. (UP)-Axis
broadcasts said Saturday that the
japanese government had ordered!
the mobilization of all available
manpower and extended military
control over the civilian population
to meet growing crisis in the
Pacific war.
With American armies rapidly
expanding their foothold in Luzon
and Superfortresses roaming at Will
over the japanese homeland, Ger
man Transocean dispatch from To-
kyo said the japanese cabinet had
approved a oroad program intensi-
fying its war effort.
ALL MAN-POWER
The program called for the inn
mediate mobilization of all avail
able manpower into the armed tore
es and war production. Further
stems toward self sufficiency in food
production were ordered.
The cabinet also was said TO have
extended military authority over
additional sections of the civilian
administration to control the pop
ulation during air raids, perhaps
because of apprehension over the
reaction of the japanese people
when the raids increase in fire.
quency and intensity.
Radio Tokyo said the further
decentralization" of school chill
dren also hac been voted by the
cabinet. More tl1an 100000 children
previously had been ordered evacu-
sted from the sTokyo-Yokohama,
Osaka Kebe, ~ Ma aoys aud northarn
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
General Fund
Shows Drop

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 13. (UP)-
The state general fund was reduced
by S8,512,248 during December, after
$6987 in miscellaneous non-revenue
receipts had been credited to the
cash excess, Harry B. Riley, state
controller, reported Saturday.
Riley said the reduction in the
fund was caused by expenditures of
$3,033,016 more than government
revenues for the month.
In addition, $5,484,631 had been
advanced for interest and redemp-
ton of veterans welfare bonds and
$1558 was expended ON premium and
accrued interest in making bond
purchases, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

When foods were more plentiful early
this fall, it was clearly indicated that
rationng be relaxed. Now that an uneX-
pacted reverse has halted our military
progress, it is wise to revert quickly to
our fair share system of disturbing avail
able supplies.-Paul S. Willis, president
Grocery Manufacturers of America.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
GOOD NOSE FOR JAPS

HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 13. (UP)
Chief Yeoman Ira D. Humphreys
caught two prisoners with his nose.
When we landed on Guam, he no
ticed a strange smell in the air
land it wasn't the smell of the
dead" He looked around and found
two Japanese sitting in foxhole
smoking. When they saw Hum
phreys, they came out with their
hands up and surrendered.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
DRAW PENALTIES

William G. Henson, II, and Her
man Morrison, so, appeared before
Ell Centre Police Judge Lee Nuffer
Saturday morning in police court
charged with being drunk. Both
pleaded guilty. Henson was placed
on good behavior for period Of
two weeks and Morrison was fined
Sl4 or seyen days in the city jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

The distances are breath-taking and,
of course, the longer the European con-
flict lasts, the greater are the obstacles
encountered with supply lines and ship
ping space.-Rep. Margaret Chase Smith
of Maine back from the Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folloWing edit
oridls are presented as interesting opin-
ions U0iced by editors elSelchere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
BIKE REPORTED STOLEN

A boys model Western Flyer BIZ
cycle, painted red with white trim,
was reported stolen from the vicin-
ity of the United Artists theater by
it's owner, Roger Barette of the Bar
bara Worth hotel
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-11-23
ORDINANCE No. 3
A. u. TYLER.
Town Clerk.
First pub. Nov. Q. 1915.
Last pub. Nov. 80. 1945.

AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR
THE LICENSE, TAXING, AND
REGISTRATION OF GIRO u 5
AND THEATRICAL AND OTHER
PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS AND
ADJUSTMENTS, AND DECLAR-
ING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE
COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
TOWN OF COOLIDGE, ARI-
IONA, as follows:
Sec. l. (a) Each person. firm,
association or corporation owning,
maintaining, presenting or con-
ducting a circus or menagerie where
an admission fee is collected shall
pay license tax of One Hundred
(S10O0O) Dollars per day. A license
fee shall be charged for each show
conducting a parade within the city,
equivalent TO the amount of license
fee which said show or circus would
have paid had a license been OBJ
tanned for such show or circus ex-
hibition within the corporate limits.
Parade license shall not be re-
quired where the show or firm pays
the provided city license.
II is further provided that all
such shows or organizations shall
pay an additional license fee of Five
(S5.00) Dollars per day for each
and every side show. Black Top, or
added attraction where separate ad-
mission fee is collected.
(b) Each person, firm, associa-
ton, or corporation owning. main
tanning. conducting. or presenting a
carnival or road show shall pay a
license tax of Fifty (S50.O0) Dol
lars per day, plus Ten (s1000p Dol
lars per day for each tent, Black
Top. side show. or any other added
attraction or concession. A license
fee shall be charged for each carni-
val or road show conducting a pa
rade within the city equivalent to
the license tax, which said carnival
or road show would have paid had
a license been obtained to give ex-
hibitions within the corporate limits
of the city.
Provided, that where travelling
organizations desire to affiliate
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-11-23
NOTICE oFsALE IN BULK

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
pursuant to the Bulk Sales Act,
that the undersigned, doing busi-
ness under the name and style of
Highway Market" located on Lots
13 and IA, Block II, Coolidge Addi-
ton, and on the Southwest corner
of Arizona Boulevard and Byrd
Avenue, in the Town of Coolidge,
County of Pinal, State of Arizona,
intends to sell, transfer and assign
all the merchandise, fixtures and
equipment, together with the good
will of said business, to Monroe
Moore and Ruby Moore.
That said sale will be completed
on the 18th day of November, 1945,
and all creditors will present their
claims to the said Monroe Moore
and Ruby Moore at the above men
toned premises, on or before the
18th day of November, 1945, at the
hour of 1913 a. m. of said day.
Dated at Coolidge, Arizona, this
26th day of October. 1945.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-11-23
c. w. LEWIS.
ORDINANCE No. &

AN ORDINANCE FOR THE PRE-
VENTION OF FIRE HAZARDS.
PROVIDING A PENALTY, WITH
AN EMERGENCY CLAUSE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE
COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
TOWN OF COOLIDGE, ARIZONA.
as follows:
Sec. /. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person at any time TO park any
vehicle in any alley in the Town of
Coolidge in such manner that said
alley shall be obstructed or the free
passage of other vehicles through
said alley shall be hindered in any
manner, or for any person TO place
any other distractions of any ma
ture in said alley so that the free
passage therein shall be hindered
or obstructed.
Sec. 2. IL shall be unlawful to
burn any trash or rubbish within
the said town between the hours Of
sunset and sunrise.
Sec. 3. II shall be unlawful to
burn any trash or rubbish at any
time unless said trash or rubbish
shall be burned in container COW
cred with wire mesh weighted to
hold fire within said container, and
said container itself to be con-
structed OF some fireproof material;
except that rubbish and trash may
be burned without using said con-
tainers If some competent adult su-
pervises said burning, and that the
fire is completely extinguished by
sunset or before leaving said fire.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be unlawful to
dump or dispose of any trash, gar
bage- or rubbish in the streets, al
lleys. vacant lots. or other public
places in said town of Coolidge.
Sec. 5. The Chief of the Volun-
teer Fire District of Coolidge shall
have the authority, and he is here
by directed and authorized to in
| spect all buildings as to fire haz-
ards. and he is hereby authorized
and empowered to cause any fire
hazards to be corrected at the ex-
pense of the owners of the build
ings.
Sec. 6. No person shall permit a
vehicle to stand whether attended
or not upon a highway or street;
(a) in front of a private driveway; !;
(b) within fifteen feet in either
direction of a fire hydrant or the
| entrance to a fire station; nor (c)
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-11-23
ORDINANCE NO. 5

AN ORDINANCE FOR THE PRE-
VENTION OF FORNICATION.
ADULTERY, AND OTHER I'M
MORAL PRACTICES, PROvID-
ING A PENALTY. WITH AN
EMERGENCY CLAUSE.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE
MON COUNCIL OF THE
TOWN OF COOLIDGE. ARIZONA.
as follows;
Sec. l. II shall be unlawful for
any person or persons to occupy
any room or premises within the
Town of Coolidge for the purposes
OF fornication or adultery.
Sec. 2. Any person occupying any
room or premises within the Town
OF Coolidge who shall permit any
person OF the opposite sex to oc-
cupy said room or premises and
there indecently expose his or her
person, or any part thereof. in such
manner as TO be reasonably cal
culated TO excite the sexual pas
sions of the other or either OF them.
shall be guilty OF a misdemeanor;
provided, however. that nothing in
this section contained shall be con-
strued TO apply to husband and wife.
Sec. 3. Any person violating any
Of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.
and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by fine not TO exceed
Three Hundred ($30000) Dollars,
nor imprisonment or confinement at
hard labor exceeding three CD
months, or by both such fine and
Imprisonment.
Sec. 4. II any provision OF this or
dinance be held invalid, its invalid
ity shall not affect other provisions
which can be given effect without
the invalid provision. and TO this
end the provisions OF this ordi-
nance are declared to be severable
Sec. 5. Whereas, the immediate
operation of the provisions of this
ordinance is necessary for the pres
ervation of the public peace, health
and safety, an EMERGENCY Is
hereby declared to exist, and this
ordinance shall be in full force and
effect from and after its final pas
sage and adoption by the Council
and approval of the Mayor, and
posting as required by law.
PASSED., AND ADOPTED by the
Common Council of the Town Of
Coolidge and approved by the
Mayor, this 1st day of November
1915.
C. w. LEWIS,
(SeaD Mayor
ATTEST:
A. D. TLYER,
Town Clerk.
First pub. Nov. 9. 1945.
Last pub. Nov. 80, 1945.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-11-23
FRED V. SLATER
NOTICE OF SALE OF CAR

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, THE Y GARAGE of
Picacho Junction, Arizona, will sell
at public auction at it's place of
business on Highway 81 at Junction
of Highway 81 at 10 a. m. Monday
the 3rd day of December, 1945, for
storage and repair charges amount
ing to s296.92 one 1884 Chevrolet
truck, Motor No. MS33354, Serial
No. 6P0-10.
This sac is made pursuant to and
in accordance with Section 2044
of the 1928 revised code of Arizona
to recover storage charges.
THE Y GARAGE
By ]. T. Reed.
First publication: Nov. 8, 1945.
Last publication: Nov. %, 1945.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-11-23
NOTICE OF SALE IN BULK

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
pursuant to the Bulk Sales Act,
that the undersigned, doing busi-
ness under the name and style OF
"Barney's Buffet" located in Eloy.
Pinal County, Arizona, intends to
sell, transfer and assign all the
merchandise, fixtures and equip.
ment, together with the good will
of said business to Charles ]. Man
gino and Louis l.. Billar.
That said sale will be completed
on Monday the 26th day of Novem-
Der, 1945, and all creditors will
present their claims to Messrs.
Fulbright and Suit, Attorneys at
Law, Court House, Florence, Ariz-
ona, on or before November 26th,
1916 at the hour of 1000 a. m. of
said day.
Dated at Florence, Arizona this
7th day of November, 1945.
B. E. SHANKS.
STATE OF ARIZONA,
COUNY OF PINAL, IS.
On this 7th day of November,
1915, before me, Dugald Stewart,
the undersigned officer, person
ally appeared B. E. Shanks, known
to me to be the person whose name
is subscribed to the within instru-
ment and that he executed the same
for the purpose therein contained.
In witness whereof l hereunto
set my hand and official seal.
DUGALD STEWART,
Notary Public.
(SEAL)
My Commission Expires
February 21, 1948.
First publisation: Nov. 9, 1945.
Last publication: Nov. %, 1945.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-11-23

within % feet Of the intersection
of curb lines, or If none, then with
in Is feet of the intersection o
property lines at an intersection
OF streets or highways.
Sec. 7. II shall be unlawful tC
drive or cause to be driven any We
hicle OF any kind whatsoever upon
or across any fire hose when the
same has been placed in use by the
fire department or 10 otherwise in
terfere with or obstruct in any man
ncr whatsoever any fireman en-
gagged in the performance of his
duties. or any fire fighting equip
ment or apparatus.
Sec. S. Any person violating any
of the provisions OF this ordinance
shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.
and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine not TO exceed
Three Hundred (S300.00) Dollars,
nor Imprisonment or confinement
AT udIu ldOOi NACttdAiS NAAVS NoB
months. or by both such fine and
Imprisonment.
Sec. 8. II any provision OF this
ordinance be held invalid, its in
validity shall not affect other pro-
visions which can be given effect
without the invalid provision, and
to this end the provisions OF this
ordinance are declared to be sever
able.
Sec. 10. Whereas. the immediate
operation OF the provisions OF this
ordinance Is necessary for the pres
ervation Of the public peace. health,
and safety. an EMERGENCY Is
hereby declared to exist. and this
ordinance shall be in full force and
effect from and after it's final pas
sage aud adoption by the Council
and approval of the Mayor, and
posting as required by law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the
Common Council OF the Town OF
Coolidge and approved by the
Mayor, this lst day OF November.
1945.
c. w. LEWIS,
(Sean Mayor
ATTEST:
A. d. TYLER.
Town Clerk.
First pub. Nov. 9. 1945.
Last pub. Nov. 30. 1945.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-11-23
No. 201e
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
PINAL.
In the Matter of the Estate of
ELIZABETH c. DEMAREST, De-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned Anthony A. Demarest,
executor of the estate of Elizabeth
c. Demarest, that all persons hav-
ing claims against the said de-
ceased are required to exhibit and
present the same to the undersigned
executor at the law offices of Chas.
H. Reed at Coolidge, Arizona, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said es-
tate, within four (4) months after
the first publication of this notice.
or the same will be forever barred.
Dated this 1st day of November.
1945.
ANTHONY A. DEMAREST.
Executor
First publication Nov. 9, 1945.
Last publication November 80, 1945.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-11-23
ORDINANCE No. 2

AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR
THE PREVENTION OF GER
TAIN OFFENSES. DEFINING
THE SAME. PROVIDING PEN
ALTIES. WITH AN EMER-
GENCY.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE COM
MON COUNCIL OF THE TOWN
OF COOLIDGE. ARIZONA. as fol-
lows:
Sec. l. Il shall be unlawful for
any person in the Town of Coo
lidge:
(a) In the presence or hearing
OF any woman or child in any public
place TO use vile. obscene. or abu-
sive language or epithets.
(bD To deal. carry on. open. or
cause to be opened, or to conduct.
either as owner. proprietor or en-
ployee. whether for hire or not, any
game of faro. monte. roulette, las
quenet. rouge ct noir. rondo. vingt-
un. or twenty-one. poker. stud
poker. draw poker. bluff. fan tan,
thaw. seven and one-half. chuck-a-
luck. blackjack. 'panginki." or any
similar game whatsoever played
with cards. dice. or any other de-
vice. and every slot machine. punch
board. or machine of like char
acter. whether the same be played
for money. checks. credits or any
other representative OF value or tC
participate in any of the above
enumerated games dealt, carried or
or opened or caused to be opened