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The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
OUR CANDIDATE

for a bouquet OF skunk blossoms is
the fellow selling poor folks in
surance without physical examina-
ton who knows very well that his
company won't pay off. One such
case came to light this week when IL
developed that the insured had
been i'll at the time the policy was
sold and now that the widow is in
dire need OF funds friends had to
take up a collection in the busi-
hess section 10 insure a decent
burial.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
Paving Of Highway
80 Is Announced

At a luncheon meeting of the
Florence Chamber of Commerce
Monday, at which officers for the
years were elected, members heard
that contracts will be called this
month for the paving Of Highway
so to Tucson. The information was
contained in a letter to the cham
Der from Eugene Eagles, secretary
of the highway commission. At the
present time engineers are survey
ing and placing stakes.
L. o. Burde was elected chamber
of commerce president for the COM
ing year and Dugald Stewart will
serve as treasurer.
Board members are Lottie G. De-
vine, H. c. Hill, ]. H. Allen, Paul
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
Revoke Suspended
Sentences In Court

Suspended sentences were re-
voked for two men in Superior
court this week. Angel B. Serna,
originally convicted on a burglary
charge last December, will serve
not less than one year and not
more than three years in the state
penitentiary. Pedro Lujan. who was
fuond guilty of failure to provide
for his minor children in July of
1943. was also sent to the prison
for a one to three year term.
The burglary charge to which
Serna pied guilty in December
grew out Of theft at Borree's
store. The store was entered at
night Clothing and small articles
were taken.
The original charge against Lu-
ian was placed by his wife through
the justice court at Superior in
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
Methodist Church
Plans New BUILDING
Complete Wing To Be Add
ed To East Side. Goal Of
$15,0 900 Is Set

The Coolidge Methodist church
has announced plans to build sew
eral additions to the present edi-
flee on Roosevelt and Fourth
streets. including a complete new
wing on the east side to be used
for classrooms.
In addition to the new building
the present structure will be re-
built, according to Rev. Olin f.
Lehman, pastor, with new windows.
furniture and new entrance and
yestibule to be added.
AS a part of the Identification
program an arcade will be con-
structed to protect the old base
ment entrance to the social hal
and will connect with the new
wing. Walks and a patio wall with
appropriate landscaping will pro-
vide outdoor chapel facilities.
while space to the north will
pV 90 q pay bAOQhde
with fireplace for outdoor meals.
1--WE are determined that, by
careful management, each part Of
the new church will be paid for
as funds are subscribed" Rev.
Lehman said. I'VE have set a goal
of $4,000 to be raised through
subscriptions"
The past five years have been
years of progress for the Methodist
church. 1t owns three lots adjoin-
ing the church property, member
ship has increased 600 per cent
since 1941, and the church today
is debt-free.
The subscription campaign will
end Wednesday, March 27, a date
which comedies with the annual
meeting of the church board.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
TWO MAJOR COOLIDGE

churches are conducting campaigns
20 raise funds for erection OF and
additions TO church buildings and
We can think OF no finer cause 10
which funds may be given and
from which no greater returns may
be expected. While the return will
not be OF material value donors will
experience an inner satisfaction
that will transcend the making OF
any other gift or donation.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
AND LIS ALSO

10 be hoped there is no individual
so selfish that he cannot see the
need 10 wholeheartedly support the
Pinal County Research committee
with his share Of money as well as
such individual effort he may be
called upon 20 exert and that
goes for businessmen OF all four
valley towns as well as the farmers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
RATIONlNG AND

the scarcity OF some foods and
merchandise may still be- a head
ache 10 we elders but the young
girls OF the country have quit
fretting. Rubber balls and jacks are
back on the market and all's well
in their sphere. And the young
'uns say It's quite a relief after
spending the war years playing
with rocks and balls that wouldn't
bounce.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08

Telling Of his experiences as
chaplain aboard the U. S. S.
Denver. Rev. &. c. Montag,
interstate Synod director for
the Presbyterian church, spoke
Wednesday noon at the meet
ING Of the c oolidae Rotary
Club. Rev. Montag was aboard
the Denver rs months, from
june 1914 10 November 1915.
He told Of the ships activities
in the Philippine campaign
where she was In action off
Lsyte in October and was still
In action at the end Of the
campaign az Mindanao. The
Denver went on TO okinawa
and Japan and returned 20 the
states from duty off Waksyama
at the eastern entrance 10 the
inland sea. Rev. montag also
spoke az Fiorenos and Casa
Grande.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
Commercial Car
Stickers On Way

Commercial car owners will re-
ceive windshield stickers through
the mails this week. according to
Lynn Early, Pinal county assessor.
These stickers are TO be used in
conjunction with 1945 license plates.
Operators are urged to place the
new stickers in use at once.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
JUST AS THE SAUCE

is equally satisfactory TO the goose
as the Eander so will Colorado
river water be equally financially
beneficial to the business man as
10 the farmer. The interests OF one
are socially and financially en-
twined. Each needs the other and
OF a certainty the business man
would have a sweet time trying to
get along in an area where the
farmer isn't prosperous.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08

by the national congress appropri-
ating money for canal and dam con-
struction to bring water to Central
Arizona. OF course our state will
throw its full power behind such a
development program. but we in Pi-
nal county must be prepared TO do
our share. and that takes money
Our San Carlos project will do its
part. and those of us having lands
in that project will pay our part OF
its program. Our electrical dis
tricts Will through their boards also
help. And owners of individual
pumping plants outside OF estab-
lished districts will do their part
Our job, as we see 1t, Is to set up
a program so that in addition to
these individual efforts. all will be
united In an overall Pinal county
program
Now to answer the third ques-
tion. What use does the commit
tee plan to put the money sub
scribed to-" | am frank to say al
this time that 1t Is impossible TO
set up a budget showing just what
expenditures vii be made and when
and to whom We believe that IL
will not be long before the services
Of a capable full-time man will be
required in watching out for Pinal
county's interests. That man must
properly present our water require
ments. furnish needed engineering
data, or at least preliminary data
and suggestions as TO possible dam
and canal construction. He must
, assist in bringing together the in
terests OF our several irrigation
enterprises into a united program,
and he must attempt to unite us in
an overall program with other
users OF water on the Gila and Salt
River watershed. He can assist in
selling individual members of Con-
gress on the productivity of our
lands and the district liability to
the nation If these lands are to fail
20 continue in profitable production
because of an inadequate water
supply He must represent us in
plans for the overall Central Ari-
zona project. and see that nothing
is proposed and accepted which
might mitigate against the inter
ests Of landowners of our county.
There has recently been organ
ICED In Arizona the Arizona Recla
nation Association. Pinal county
has a director in this association
Probably many Pinal county land
owners will take membership. Youl
committee may find ii necessary
and desirable to make substan
tial subscription to it. That is an
other use to which the funds nov
being subscribed may be put.
II may become necessary to senC
small committees either to Wash
ington or To reclamation and STATE
meetings. If it is necessary, you
committee wants to be able to hav'
| funds available.
Landowners and businessmen
know the membership of the Pima
County Research Committee.
should like to suggest that If an.
have questions relative to its pro
gram that they contact a commit
teeman from their district. He viii
be glad to discuss the committee
program and to accept helpful sug
gestions.
X. K. HENNESS,
Chairman. Pinal County Research
Committee.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08

The membership of the Pinal
County Research Committee has
asked me TO outline present actiyi-
ties OF the committee I'm soliciting
funds for their Colorado river
water program. Some of the ques-
tions asked are % What is the
Plnal County Research Committee =?
(2l Why is drive for such a large
amount OF money being made? And,
CD What use does the committee
plan to make OF the money?
AS originally constituted. the Pi-
nal County Research Committee
consisted OF three men. selected by
the chambers OF commerce OF Flor
ence. Coolidge and Casa Grande
This committee acted as what
might be termed a county immigra-
ton committee. using some $1,000
made available to IL each year in
advertising the agricultural re-
sources Of our county. $500 OF this
annual budget is appropriated by
the Pinal County Board of Super
visors, and the other $500 is con-
tributed by mining interests inter
ested In furthering the agriculture
OF our country Jon ID. Goree of Coo
lidge was one Of the original spon-
sors of this program. and is now
serving as a member Of the adver-
tising section of the Pinal County
Research Committee. which com
mittee has sole charge in the ad-
ministration OF these advertising
funds. This advertising has been
real force In the development OF
our agriculture. as anyone interest
cd may determine by checking the
correspondence OF our secretary.
A few months ago a number of
landowners and businessmen OF the
county felt that there should be
some active organization working
on matters concerning possible di-
version OF Colorado river water 20
this area. Since the Pinal County
Research Committee sss operating
a successful advertising program.
and had a certain legal status in its
work as county immigration COM
missioner. this group conceived the
idea of enlarging the membership
OF the Pinal County Research Com
mittee and carrying on. in addition
20 It's advertising functions. work
designed TO properly present the
water requirements OF land OF this
county in any program designed TO
bring Colorado river water TO Cen
tral Arizona. The suggested in
crease In membership was accepted
I by the original committee. and di-
rectors were chosen from all the
agricultural areas Of the county, as
well as from the mining districts.
Why is a drive for such a large
amount OF money being made at
this time? | can state for the com
mittee that IL feels II necessary TO
actively work on subscription
program so that when funds are
needed they will be available. The
time will come when large expendi-
lures will be necessary if we are
to be properly represented. 1t is
impossible TO secure men to do
work i'm behalf of the program il
we must tell them TO get out and
do the job and we will try to col
lect enough money TO pay their
wages. That simply won't work. A
large amount of money may be
needed, probably more than can be
secured through solicitation. We
don't have Colorado river water
yet. No legislation has been passed
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
Second Sales Tax
Check Received

The Coolidge city treasury re-
ceived its second check for sales
tax returns this week, in the
amount of S1.39727. Based on tax
collected for state sales during the
month of January, the check was
somewhat smaller than the one re
ceived last month, which was based
on the record December sales.
Last month a total of S94,26933
was returned to cities throughout
the state, compared to SS4,172.61
returned this month.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
Ii is 10 BE HOPED

there Is no one person in all OF
this great valley who cannot see
the need for the development OF a
new source OF water supply 10
augment the present scanty amount
available for the San Carlos project
and the rapidly diminishing under
ground water OF the pumping areas.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
The finaI County Research Committee

The Pina County Research Committee, organza-
ton made up of ranch and farm of the Casa
Grande Valley, is carrying program to bring addi
tona irrigation water to the valley and present the
water requirements of Pina county in any project
divert Colorado river water to this area.
The following article, stating the objectves of the
committee and clarifying its aims, has been prepared by
Kelvin K. Henness, chairman of the committee:
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
NOW THAT THE

telephone strike has been averted
and steel and General Motors
strikes are nearing the end there
leaves only the threatened railroad
strike OF major importance. Seems
as though this economic war is
tougher on the average citizen than
the war.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08
NeCdXoz4
Note Book
WITH The COMING

OF spring despite the old proyerbi
the fancy of most males turns 10
baseball . . some OF US turn 10
the sports pages and the training
camps Of the big leagues while
all over the country horsehide
spheres. hIcksry ball bats and
gloves come out Of closets as the
youngsters take TO sand lots and
one eyed cat or other variations Of
the national pastime
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08

oMr. and Mrs. Carl Brown of
Phoenix became the parents of
baby boy on Friday, February %.
Mrs. Brown is the former Betty
Hannah of Coolidge. Her mother,
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08

Mrs. P. B. Hannah, has been with
her in Phoenix since the birth Of
the baby. He weighed eight pounds
six ounces and they have named
him Jack Archer
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-03-08

McCool and, as ex-officio member,
outgoing president, Louis Fiscel.
Standing committees remain the
same.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20

who carry on the work are racketeers, Heaven forbid! What
it does mean is that the field is SO beautifully organized,
and the experts are SO highly skilled, if you will look close
l you will see a very scientific andcooperative process at
work; let a little tolerance dribble through the gate today;
let a little intolerance dribble through tomorrow. That
way everybody is pleased, nobody gains or loses too much,
and the job becomes a sinecure, to have and to hold, It'll
death do us part.
One of the chief objections to organized race relations il
the inference it creates that individual Negroes are lazy in
COMPETENT fellows who can't qualify, 80 they band together
to raise hell for their rights. Of course this is over SIM
plification, but what keeps running through my mind is the
thought that the Negro has not tried to help himself one
half as much as he believes. Perhaps the very human
tendency to search for, or wait for a panacea rather than
a slow cure is as excusable here as it is in the rest of man.
kind, but we must remember that this old world is dying
fast and everybody is scrambling for his own security.
Just how long the experts would continue in the field if
it we're purely voluntary without salary, is a matter open to
debate and conjecture. The machinery set up for the
work has now become little more than a device. Ii could
be overhauled for more useful service, it should not be a.
bandoned at this time, but some of the profit certainly
should be taken out of race relations work.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20
HI NEGRO IN LATIN AMERICA by Harold Preece
Latin America VS. Byrnes & Churchill

Our country is making no friends and millions of enem-
les down in Latin America by its 'get tough policy with
Russia.
I'm not stating any personal opinions but hard facts
which stare us in the face as Jimmie Byrnes rattles the at
ON bomb like a gangster ratling a pair of brass knuckles.
The NegrOIndian peoples of Latin America, remembering
how U. S. Marines burnt down the matched villages of peas
ants i'll Haiti and Nicaragua, feel that Churchill and Byrnes
are ganged up together to build an "Anglo-Saxon alliance
to rule nd rob that great majority Of the worlds people
which is colored.
And they don't like it.
Millions of Latin Americans are mad at what happened
to Luis Quintanilla, one of their distinguished leaders and
foes of imeprialism and racism when he criticized the
speech calling for an A~nglo-American gang-up against
Russia delivered at Jim crow Westminster College in Full
ton, Mo. Quintanila, Mexican ambassador to the Pan A
merican Union has been called back home by his govern
ment to explain a column entitled "A~ngIo-American Axis
which he wrote in the Washington Post after Churchill,
discredited and defeated in his own country, had stood on
the SAME platform with President Truman to echo Bilbo's
mouthings about Swhite supremacy"
Churchiu-Friend Of MussoIini
Luis QuintanilIa is a ,Uhite man but he is a .,vorthy sue
cessor of Mexico's tsoo great Negro Iiberators, Jose Maria
MoreIos and Vicente Ramon Guerrero. He ,Urote bEuntly
and to the point that the proposed alliance Ofs'the English.
speaking nations sOoud affect the destinies OF all the nom
English speaking Latin american r~epubics.' He recalled
that Churchill had always been an enemy of Russia and
cism, Benito MussOIini. ... ~. 49,. ......
son March g. Quintanila .,0rote, Winston Churchill
came Ot III " o HnCeTLMn terms JOT an eUentUU merging
Of the political interests Of the British Empire and the I'm.
ted States, SO as to establish a mighty AngIo-American, anti
Soviet coalition. Latin American democrats (meaning all
believers in democracy iUH firmly reject the formation Of
any ~anti-Soret bloc Of nations, ,Uhich in the last analysis,
sUOuld be nothing more than a ghasHy resurrection of the
first anti-COminternl axis (the alliance of Germany, Japan,
and Italy against Russia) defeated in World Var Ill.," .....
..'The step ADVOCATED by Mr.. Churchill is unacceptable on
moral as ,UeH as historical grounds ........
Mr.. Quintaniua ,Oas one Of the MEXICAN delegates to the
k.cf TI-sFoL N-xs--~ - LII III
of President Roosevelt, in San Francisco. He supported
the resolution sponsored by Russia and Haiti to ouIaU rae
id determination throughout the ,UorId and also Offered
the resolution to bar fascist Spain from the UNO. .......
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20
U. S. Prestige Drops

SWe feel that it was American influence on the Mexican
government which is responsible for this attempt to gag Mr.
Quintanilla,' a distinguished Cuban Journalist, now living
in the United States told me. sBut this doesn't mean that
the majority Of Latin Americans do not think he was right.
For it must be said that the prestige of Russia is going up
in Latin America and that of the United States and Great
Britain is dropping
"The very concept of an "Anglo-Saxon alliance to con-
troll the world offends us who believe that all races are
equal and that all nations should have the chance to deye-
op their own lives and their own economic set-up. The
majority Of the people Of Latin America r dark skinned
people and they will no more fight Russia than will the
dark skinned peoples of India and Indonesia and China
My friend told me that Latin Americans had moi forgot
ten the statement of Churchill, made during the World War
when he was questioned about freedom for the peoples of
Africa. That statement made by the then British prime
minister was, Il have not been called upon to preside over
the liquidation of His Majesty's Empire"
Neither, he said, had they forgotten what Secretary of
State Jimmie Byrnes had said on the floor Of Congress
when a member of the u. S. Senate from poll tax South
Carolina uttered the following:
"As to social equality, God Almighty never intended that
a white race and a black race should live OF terms Of social
equality; and that which the Creator did not intend, man
cannot make possible"
My friend guessed that the United States will wind up
fighting the rest of the world all by her lonesome if she
fights Russia which has Outlawed Jim Grow and sends any.
body to prison for trying to practice il. "AIl of u.s. he
said, "may fare better if we stop listening to Churchill and
Byrnes about Russia and start listening to the colored peo-
PIES"
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20

Centuris ago a proud, ambitious man walked along the
through the Middle East like a brown ribbon, winding over
hills and down into valleys, through desert land into fertile
GASES, on its way to that walled city of antiquity, in whose
bazaars could be found men from all the far places and of
all races.
That journey on the Damascus Road marked a crucial
date in history for all of us, for it was on that robber-men-
aced road that the light came to Saul and changed him into
the Paul who gave his life for the welfare of the world. On
that road there came upon him the light that stripped him
of self pride and hatred, to clothe him in the robes of hui
miity and love.
We, as a nation, are today ~plodding along the Road to
Damascus. AS we follow in SauPs footsteps, let us also
follow in Paul's. Let us pray, too, to see the light at all
times and TO follow where it leads-the light of the spirit of
brotherhood, the light of the spirit Of sacrifice, the light of
the spirit of devotion to what we know to be the right.
We, as individuals, must today more than ever, put away
the %trappings of self-will and personal ambition. The SUI
preme herOism will be called from us before these coming
months are past. We cannot meet the challenge of the
times if our interests are vested in ourselves alone, if we
are weighed down under the burden of old prejudices,
hatreds and desires. We, too, must see the light on the
road to Damascus and follow the command of that other
traveller along the road who said:
'Put on the armour Of God, that ye may be able stand a
flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spitual rwickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto
you the Who'll armour of God, that We may be able to with
stand in the evil day, and having done all to stand.'
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20

In the neighborly Wisconsin
town of West Bend, on Sep
TENDER 20, 1915, a young man
named Robert H. Rolls set
himself up in the business Of
manufacturing fine personal
leather goods. He was equipped
with a sound background of
experience but the start was
necessarily humble because
capital was lacking. "a small
back room on the second floor
of Peters store on Main Street
constituted the entire factory,
Office and headquarters. Rolls
made all Of the necessary
benches and other equipment
himself with the aid of his one
employee.
A native of Milwaukee, where
he was born February q,
1888, he began his formal edu-
cation in graded school in
West Bend. An industrious
and more than ordinarily am
bilious spirit characterized
him at an age when most boys
are preoccupied with just hav.
ing fun.
, Following his graduation
from high school, he Started
his business career with 9