The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-11
Coolidge Chamber
InstaILs Officers:
Plans Road Setup
Senator Charles C. Goff And
J. c. Jayne To Represent
Pinal County At State
Meeting. Ch m b er To
Seek Jobs For Veterans.

seek Jobs For Veterans,
The Coolidge Chamber of Com
merce installed its officers for 194s
at Its meeting Wednesday evening
and then dug right into the lob of
formulating county highway pro-
gram. Heading the group for the
coming year is Robert l.. Cannon
president, and DR.. G. II. Walker
vice-president. Jack Pond and Raw
mond Sroaf will continue as trea-
surer and secretary, respectively.
On the board of directors are C. |.
Skousen, William Urton, Paul w.
Loucks, DR.. r. V. Campbell. C. w.
Lewis, J. R. Snider, DR.. G. E. Max
well, c. H. Hamilton and Howard
Gosa.
Taking over the gavel from out
going president Gosa, Cannon
Immediately opened discussion of
the highway situation in Pinal
county. Suggestions were received
from Coolidge men as well as from
visiting chamber of commerce
members from Casa Grande and
Florence as to needed highway
projects and Improvements in each
community. In accordance with a
directive from the newly-organized
Arizona Statewide Highway Plan
ming Committee a delegate and an
alternate were named to attend
meetings of this body. Represent
ing Pinal county will be State Sem
ator Charles G. Goff. of Casa Gran
de, as delegate and ]. C. Jayne,
chairman of the Coolidge chambers
road committee, as alternate.
Senator Goff and Jayne will carry
Pinal county's road recommends
tions to the meeting February
and 5 of the statewide committee.
The state group, representing the
IA counties of Arizona, will in turn
map out a complete program of
road construction and Improvement
to be turned over to the state high
way commission as a guide in max
ing future appropriations.
Among the Pinal county projects
mentioned were: widening and
further improvement of the Tucson
Florence highway; widening of the
Olberg bridge; widening of High
way 81 from Casa Grande to Eloy;
completion of the road leading
from Coolidge and connecting with
the Tucson-Florence his h way;
elimination of curves in the high
way near Olberg. At present only
projects involving primary roads
are contemplated by the highway
commission.
The Coolidge chamber also start
ed the ball rolling to aid returned
war veterans in getting jobs under
the G.. l. Bill of Rights. Under the
federal training-on-the-job program
local shops and businesses doing
skilled or semi-skilled work may
hire veterans in an apprentice sta
tus with the government paying
part of the wages as subsistence
during the apprentice period.
A committee composed Of H. II.
Wrenn, Rev. Joseph Kamphuis and
Fred Stone was named to head this
project. All shop-owners and busi-
nessmen who have places for ex-
servicemen under the job-training
setup are urged to get in touch
with one of the committeeman.
The following committees were
named to serve during the coming
year:
Membership: DR.. R. v. Campbell.
chairman, Raymond Sroaf, Fred
Slater and Howard Gosa.
Finance: Ben Mirkin, chairman,
James Luthy, H. A. Unger and Ray
Snider.
Legislative: Raymond Sroaf,
chairman, A. d. Tyler, William Ur-
ton and Carl Mcfarland.
Publicity: Harold Wrenn, chair
man, Fred Hamilton, Charles Cohen
and J. j. Jones.
Municipal and Civic Improve
ment: DR.. G. E. Maxwell. chair
man, C. T. Dickson, Paul Loucks.
Earl Hicks, Allen Thum and M. M.
Cooper.
Agricultural: C. L. Skousen,
chairman, A. L. Bartlett, Jack
Garrett, William Urton and c. ].
Moody.
Aviation: DR.. G. H. Walker.
chairman, G. w. Lewis, Dalton
Cole, Warren Eyer and Ben Arnold.
Education: r. w. Taylor. chair
man, Ed Wildermuth and DR.. James
T. O'Neil.
Highway: j. C.. Jayne, chairman,
Fred Slater, G. L. Skousen, Jon
Goree, Paul Loucks, G. L. john