The Coolidge examiner., 1946-04-12
CIVIC GROUP IN
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
TO GAIN STRENGTH
Issues Of Vital Importance
Face Coolidge. Leadership
Of Strong Chamber Of
Comr1erce Needed To As
sure Continued Growth
And Prosperity.

| AnO ErOSperlty.
The Coolidge Chamber OF Com
merce opened its drive to in-
crease membership this week with
a large scale program designed to
enroll every business man and
private citizen in promoting the
possibilities and advantages OF
Coolidge and the Casa Grande
valley
Tying in with the membership
drive is a slogan contest in which
cash prizes will be offered to per-
sons turning in the best ideas for
a campaign slogan
Firm in the belief that the whole
hearted support of every person,
both in business and private life,
is necessary to carry out their
program, members of the chamber
are contracting Coolidge merchants
and citizens in an effort to swell
the membership of the organiza-
tion.
The Coolidge chamber. officially
organized in 1889. has since that
time concentrated its efforts to-
ward putting Coolidge on the map.
Perhaps its most outstanding ac-
complishment along this line was
pushing the Incorporation of the
town in September, 1945.
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chamber participated in the state
road Improvement program which
will result in better roads for Coo
lidge. The Pinal County Research
Committee, set up by the Coolidge
group, has been and will in the
future be of great value to the
community
Because these things have been
accomplished thus Ear with only the
partial support of the business men
the chamber logically feels that
with 100 per cent cooperation much
greater accomplishments are pos
sible in the future.
The Coolidge chamber of COM
merce has a greater responsibility
than ever before now that the
town is incorporated. 1t Is the
chambers job to advertise the
town of Coolidge throughout the
state and the nation. and even to
foreign countries, and to draw new
families, new business and new in
vestments to the town.
Five major aims set up are:
ID To support the Pinal Re-
search Committee in its important
work
(2) Support the State Planning
Committee and its program OF
good roads, particularly through
Coolidge.
(3) Provide information to peo-
pie interested in coming to Ari-
zona for reasons of health.
(4) Provide information to in
quiries about the opportunities here
for investment, settlement and bus
mess enterprises.
(5) Work toward facilities and
accommodations for winter guests,
and visitors, a golf course, airport,
riding academies, as well as devel-
opment of private industry.
Proof that Coolidge has attract
ed the interest of outside business
firms and individuals Is shown by
the chambers records which re-
veal that the organization has ans
wered nearly 5000 inquiries for in
formation about this area from
nearly all 48 states, as well as
from Alaska, Cuba, Colombia, s. A,
Mexico. Canada and the Philip
pines.
In answering these inquiries the
chamber enthusiastically advertises
Coolidge as the business center OF
Arizona's richest agricultural val
ley and a miracle city of opportun-
ity.
The scope of the chambers serv-
ice in the future will depend on
how many busines firms and indi-
viduals give active and financial
suppo.t to its program. With this
support all will benefit. Without
, it Coolidge may be forced to take
back seat, while other more ag-
gressive communities push ahead.
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