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Circulation covers Casa Grande Valley Like a Blanket VOLUME TWO PINAL COUNTY TO HAVE On December 16. 1930, the Ari zona State Board of Agriculture and Horticul ure promulgated an order wherein certain areas in Maricopa. Pinal and Pima counties are defined as “regulated areas,” and rules and regulations covering volunteering of cotton, planting da es. disposal of stalks, and plow ing for the control of pink boll worm laid down. A considerable part of the irri gated area of Pinal County comes within this ,‘regulated area.” and farmers are interester in having the plan of the control work outlined to them For this reason the Pinal County Farm Bureau has invited Mr. R. E. McDonald, in charge of the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration of the United States Depar ment of AgriciCture, and Dr. Oscar C. Bartlett, State Entomo logist, to speak at a mee;ing and outline plans for the eradication of thisihlaw BADLY NEEDED A bill, we have learned, has been prepared, to be presented to the leg islature. which if enacted, would be the first effective law against the distribution of narcotics in this state. That is, it would be the staie enactment to discourage traffic in narcotica So far, we have had to depend upon the operation of the Harrison act for protection. We have, it is true, and for many years we have had, a so-called anti-narcotic law which in one way is worse than no law at all, since it has served as an obstacle to any effective enactment. The penalties it provides are not at all deterrent to the fiends who reap such great profits from the sale of dope. It amounts to little more than a pro nouncement that public opinion in Arizona is against the sale of cer tain specified habit-forming drugs. As a border state, Arizona is in special need of protection against. a class of drugs for which there is such a ready sale and which may be imported with so little risk of detection. The state law is seldom or never invoked, though our peace officers generally co-operate with federal! officials in the rounding up of criminals who have been un earthed by the latter. There is an insufficient number of officers engaged in the enforce ment of the Harrison act. Their operations consist, first.*in the dis covery in one way or another, of huge narcotic rings the magnitude of whose transactions render them more or less conspicuous. Arrests are made and their wide-flung tentacles are traced into dozens of localities in, maybe, several states. It would be a hopeless task for the federal officials to busy themselves in any locality without such infor mation as they gain from attack ing the center of the narcotic rings. Our neglect of effective anti darcotic legislation shows a strange lack of appreciation of a crime far worse than murder which destroys only the body. Narcotics destroy the soul after dragging the victim through a wretched exist ance. The narcotic net “catches them young.” It is thrown about the school houses of the land. A few years ago it was discovered that pupils of schools in many parts of the coun ry had become addicts and were being served by agents who appeared on the outskirts of school grounds during intermissions. There have been, we believe, no recent complaints, but it can hard ly be supposed that the narcotic agents have ceased their actives on their own motion, and we know of no action that has been taken to compel them to do so.—Arizona Republic. p.cachoVtucsqn FARM BUREAU MEETING pink boll worm The Pinal County Farm Bureau is calling a meeting of cotton growers of PinaJ county at ihe Community church in Coolidge, next to the Woman’s Club, on next Saturday evening, January 17, at 7:00 p. m.. at which time Mr. Don ald and Dr. Bartlett will address the meeting. We trust that all cotton growers will attend. Yours very truly, K. K. HENNESS, County Agricultural Agent. N. B. Mr. Harris, of the U. S. Department of Agricul'ure, has pre pared an exhibit showing the dam age done by the pink boll worm, and will have it on exhibit in the window of the Arizona Land and In vestment Company office in Cool idge on Saturday afternoon, and growers are invited to inspect this exhibit. WINSLOW TO CELE BRAIE JULY 4TH The plan which was announced ' his week by the Winsiow Lions club to sponsor a “Days of ’49” cele bration in this city July 3,4, 5 will meet with general approval. For years people of Winslow have gone to other cities and towns for their Fourth of July celebration, leaving very few people here on that day and placing ihe city in a position of not being enough alive to stage celebration of its own. Because the “Frontier Days” rodeo and cowboy show at Prescott is so far away and because the '49 celebration at Flagstaff is not de finitely an annual affair, and be cause Hoflbrook has expressed the doubtfulness of a successful cele bration this year, the Winslow Lions have a bright prospect for a successful three days of real fes.i vities. HI!! DENTON ELECTED CHAIRMAN Robert Denton, member of the board of supervisors from Casa Grande, was elected chairman of the board when it convened Mon day after the new member, James L. Herron of Superior, took his seat on the board. Mr. Herron succeeds Joseph W. Spray, also of Superior. Carl C. Lynch is the third member of the board. C. H. Niemeyer was re-appointed clerk of the board. No action was taken on the matter of a new county en gineer, Louis Fiscel will continue in that position until a choice is made. —Blade-Tribune. o Welcomed End of Edict Against Highland Dress A Highland exhibition, illustra tive of olden times and life in the Highlands, held in Inverness, Scot land, attracted many hundreds of visitors. There was among the many “relics” of the ’45 a rare copy of a Gaelic proclamation per mitting the use of the Highland dress after it was banned. The proclamation was sent by Rev. R. L. Ritchie, Creich. Sutherland, and the Gaelic spelling is in parts phonetic. The English translation is as follows: “Listen, men! This Is bringing before all the sons of the Gael that the king and parlia ment of Britain for ever abol ished the act against the Highland dress that came down to the clans from the beginning of the world to the year 1746. This must bring great joy to every Highland heart. You are no longer bound to the un manly dress of the Lowlander. This is declaring to every man, young and old, gentles and com mons, that they may after this put on and wear the trews, the little kilt, the doublet, the small plaid, along with the tartan kilt, without? fear of the law of the land or the jealousy of enemies.” “PUBLISHED AND PRINTED AT HOME” COOLIDGE, PINAL COUNTY. FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931 INTERESTING MEETING At the meeting of the Woman’s club held Thursday, Jan. Bth. the 1 report of their treasurer showed i that the debt standing against the , club had been substantially re duced. A sea ure of the meeting was the presentation by Mrs. R. J. I Jones, president of the club, of two ■ Christmas gifts that had been made to the club. One was a framed photograph of the late Mrs. 1 P. W. Hamilton who at the time of her death, a year past, was president of the of.ub. The gift was made by Mr. P. W. Hamilton J The other gift was a painting, a; desert scene. It was painted by Mrs. Vestry, of Douglas and presented to the clhb by Mrs. J. E. Bevnn, of Bisbee, who sta ed that the picture be framed with cactus wood, and she would stand the expense of the work. Mrs. Ernest McCleery was re ceived into the club by initation I and Mrs. Mable Moxley was voted membership, her initation to come ■ up later. Hostesses Mrs. S. C. Burt. Mrs. Bessie Berquist and Mrs. W. W. | Warren served delicious refresh- i ments at the end of the program, j INEW COLORADO RIVER COMMISSIONERS NAMED Governor George W. P. Hunt an nounced the appointment last Wed nesday of Homer R. Wood of Pres cott. and Thomas Maddock of Phoe nix, as members of the Arizona Colorado river commission. They succeed John Mason Ross, Phoenix attorney, and A. H. Favour lawyer of Prescott The governor said he would an nounce a successor within a short time to Charles B. Ward, of Phoe nix, chairman of the river commis sion. Mr. Maddock is familiar with the work of the Colorado river commis sion, having served as a member for several- years during the early part of the Colorado river contro versy.. Mr. Wood brings a wealth of business experience to his new du ties, and through understanding of the Colorado river question. Picture Earth’s Core as Holding Rich Treasure A bonanza beyond belief exists from two to three thousand miles below the surface of the earth, ac cording to two geophysiets of the Carnegie institute of Washington. From all the known data these sci entists infer that this planet Is a solid ball of nickel and iron en closed in three shells of rock. Conjecture how the financial giants could cash in on that, were it accessible, if from mere pin pricks on the surface they pile up millions! But the scientists fol low with the information that a shaft more than 2,000 miles deep would have to be sunk to reach the riches. It is doubtful if all the wealth in the world would pay for excavating a small fraction of the t istance. The core, according to the scien tists’ theory, is surrounded by three shells. The first is of gran ite, about 35 miles; the second of basaltic rock, increasing in density for about 1,000 miles, and the third of heavy rock impregnated with iron, or nickel and iron, for 1,000 to 1.500 miles. LEACOEffIESM Clfi TO NAVAIOS Tucson, January 12.—(UP) —Nav- ajo Indians at St. Michael and Houck, Arizona, will receive a gift of $6,000 from the Marquette Lea gue for Catho/lic Indian Missions of New York, it was announced today by the Rev. James P. Davis, chan cellor of the Arizona diocese. Part of the funds will be usd to build a small hospital at. Houck for sick and aged Navajos. AROUND IHE STATE (WITH UNITED PRESS) Coolidge—A triple celebration will be held here in Febrauarv at dedication of the new school, Southern Pacific railroad depot and opening of the Coalidge-Picacho highway. Tombsione —The Cochise county board of supervisors and Fred Winn, supervisor of the Chiricahua forests have reached an agreement to carry on three road projects in the county with $25 500 of he funds provided by the special relief act of congress. Globe—Surpassing expectations, precipitation for the Globe-Miami district amounted to 20 inches for 1930, breaking a 10-year record of 18.78 inches. Yuma —Yuma was one of the few ci iies in the state to induct a new mayor into office at beginning of the new year. Arthur N. Kelly succeeded Mayor A. L. DeMund January 5. o- BORN—Monday, January 12, 1931. to the family of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cross, at the home of M. Whitlock, a baby boy was born. The new arrival weighed 8% lbs. Mrs. Cross is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Whitlock William Short is building a re sidence ni'i ok' back of his lot, which is west of the Seagoe build ing. Mr. and Mrs. Short recently arrived from Los Angeles. Mrs. Short is a sister of Mrs. G. W. Ware. WILL ERECT GOVERNMENT BUILDING From funds that are available the Indian Department wiLl soon cause to be erected in Coolidge a building to house their offices now occuping the first floor of the Ma sonic Temple in this city. Plans have been forwarded to Washing ton for approval. When this is secured it is expected work will soon be started. ROAD OILING ABOUT FINISHED The oiling of the Coolidge-Pica cho section of the Tucson-Phoenix Highway will be completed within a short time. Thursday the oilers awaited the final consignment of oil. LIONS MEET THURSDAY Thursday, January 15th. the Cool idge Lions gathered in heir den for their bi-monthly meeting and feed. The guests of the occasion were Paul Feehan, Coolidge’s lead ing attorney, and Mr. Powell, a salesman for General Electric. Mesdamesi Hazel Jones, Farns worth, and Lane, had charge of preparing and serving the fine dinner which was enjoyed by the Lions and their friends. H. A. Odom was elected president of the Coolidge school board at a meetings held last week. The other members of the board of directors are G. W. Ware and Mrs. W. H. Farnsworth. Carl Slater was ap pointed custodian of the new school building. Mr. and Mrs, L. A. Orr are visiting f or a few days at the home of Mr, and Mrs. lies this week. Mr. Fred Eberhart and M. J. Reed, of Coolidge went hunting last Sunday to the Calvin Mountains and came home rejoicing because they had killed a fat wild hog. Amilia Jackson and Ray mond Norris were married Tuesday afternoon, at the Catholic church at Black water. Father Donald of Sacaton performed the cere mony. After the wedding refreshments were served. DEATH OF P. P. DAGOS Last Thursday night at Casa Grande occurred the death of P. P. Daggs, the owner of the Dekol silver mine south of Casa Grande, and a p oneer of this sta e and the Casa Grande valley. The Arizona Republic has in its issue of Jan. 10, had the following to say of Mr. Daggs, whose death has brought sorrow to many sincere friends: Casa Grande, Jar. 9. —Peru Pax on Daggs, 75 years old, died in a Casa Grande hotel at 11:30 o’clock last night. Mr. Daggs had been ill about 10 days. Heart disease was given as the cause of death. Mr. Daggs was a pioneer resident of Arizona and widely known as a j sheepman and miner. Mr. Daggs was born in Missouri but came tto Arizona in 1876. He I resided in Winslow, Flagstaff and Tempe before making his home in Casa Grande. Mr. Daggs retired several years ago from active busi nes; and moved to Claremont, Cal, bu since then had been spending In's winters in Casa Grande. He was interested in the Dekol mine, 25 miles south of here. Survivors include the widow, for merly Miss Annie L. Kloff, of ■ Tempe, two sons, Paul of Upland, California, and Charles of Santa Monica. California, one daughter, ! Mrs. Mary Davis of Colton, Calif., three grandchildren. The body will be taken to Clare mont, for burial. ■ COOLIDGE PHYSICIAN IIS PRISON BERTH The appointment of Dr. H. B. Stewart of Coolidge. to be prison physician, was gginounced by Gov : ernor Hunt soon after he took of fice Monday morning. B. Han nah, pastor of the Florence Pres by erian church, was also appointed | chaplain at the prison, succeeding Rev. Walter Hofmann of the Christian church.. Dr. Stewart succeeds Dr. Love, formerly of Casa Grande, but now a resident of Tucson. In a letter t<s Rev. Mr. Hannah advising him of his appointment, ihe governor says: “Your position is a valuable one, both to the pris oners and the officers. I trust that you will prevail upon both the i prisoners and the officers to show them the right way to live and to | conduct themselves.” Jewish Festival The Feast of Lights Is Hanukka, the Jewish Feast of Dedication, i The distinctive ceremonial feature of this festival today is the kin dling of lights in the home and In ; the synagogue, one on the first eve | ning, the number being increased ! by one on each consecutive eve ning, until eight lights are lit on the last evening of the festival. Special prayers inspired by the his toric event commemorating the tri umph of monotheism over heathen ism, of the forces of light over the forces of darkness, are recited. Special scriptural portions are read :in the synagogue. In modern times, children’s festivals, in which the story and significance of the feast are recounted, have become a marked feature in the eelebra ; tiqn of the Feast of Dedication. PETRimTOREST ! TRAVEL DURING THE MONTH OE DEC. The month of December shows 'average travel in the Petrified ■; Forest National Monument for this season of the year, the total of i visitors being 2.717. 681 private . autos brought 2,305 of these and the remainder, 412, came by Har .! vey car. This is slightly under the ■ j figure for the same period last year | which were 3.188. i INFESTATION UNDER CONTROL OF PLANTERS The fate in the battle against the pink boll worm now hangs in the balance, according to the exper s of the United States department of agriculture bureau of plan quarantine and control. The safety of future Arizzona cotton fields de pends largely on what the farmers do his spring to prevent spread of the infestation, they declare. So thoroughly convincd is R. E. Mc- Donald, entomalogist in charge of pink bollworm eradication, that the late winter and early spring, pres ent the crisis as far as the Salt River valley infestation is concern ed that he has sent H. P. Prickett inspector from San Antonio, here to remain for the next 10 weeks for the express purpose of inform ing the public the exact situation in regard to theinfestation and what must be done to meet it. “One great trouble,” Prickett l 1 yesterday, “has been that many people, business men especially, as sumed that because the non-cotton zone has been abolished that the infestation was over and no further I appearance of damaging worm was likely. The exact reverse is true. , The worm is still here but in great ly diminished numbers. If we can get co-operation of farmers and business men, we believe it can be completely eradicated this spring. If allowed to go on with out pre ventive measures, the infestation wild become so bad as to practical ly ruin the cotton growing industry of Maricopa and Pinal counties. Business Men Interested “Records show that the Salt River valley cotton crop has ranged I in value from $10,000,000 to $15,- [ 000,000 in recent years. It is im perative that everyone, not only the farmer, be awakened to the j seriousness of the impending dis | aster to this crop unless hearty and immediate co operation is given to avert it. This applies just as much to business and professional men as to land owners and farmers. “Experience in Egypt where the pink boLlworm originated, Mexico proven (hat the infestation cannot be allowed to thrive and cotton ba raised at a profit on the same land. One or the other must go. Should ihe pink bollworm get the upper hand here, another non-cotton zone will not be needed. The pest will see to it that cotton is abondoned. STATE INDIAN HANDI CRAFT TO BE SHOWN Tucson, January 13. —(UP) —Arts hat had their birth when Indian:; long eons ago first trekked into Arizona will be shown next fall at an exposition in New York City, i: ! was announced here today. The handicraft of the Hopi, Papa go, Pima, Apache and Navajo tribe will be displayed at the expositior under the direction of Dr. Byron H Cummings, dean of archeology o the University of Arizona, who i: in charge of this state’s exxhibit. From his many years of explor I ing the nooks of Arizona’s moun tains and deserts, Dr. Cumming: will choose blankets and sand paint : ing from the hogans of the Nava jos and pottery, baskets and ancien ; costumes from other Indian res i ' ervations. The exposition is sponsored b; the U. S. department of the interio and i s commissioner of IndiaJ affairs. Mary—She let that fool kiss her. Marie —But worse still, site let I that kiss fool her. _ _ j Devoted to Advertising the Best Valley on Earth Between its ravages and he iron bound quarantines other states would place on Arizona cotton, it would nor be worth while planting one square foot of land to cotton.” The way out Pom such impend ing conditions is clear, Prickett said. He plans to make personal visits to farmers throughout the valley to point out he procedure necessary.' It consists in following i out the regulation promulgated by he state agriculture and horticul ture commrssion on December 16, when the non-cotton zone ruling j was lifted. Comply With Regulation These regulations call for all land planted io cotton in 1930 to be ! thoroughly plowed under by Febru ary 15.* All fields in the stated areas which were in cotton in 1930 are to be thoroughly cleaned ot s übs and parts of stubs by cut t’ner. raking in piles and burning j prior to February 1 ! Several hundred acres have been raked, burned, and plowed in the . ' Lelii, Coolidge and Glendale uis tr'cts, according to Prickett, but . large'areas remain o be trSatd in like manner and he has askd sup ; j port of all of th farmers. ! The destruction of all stub cotton ■ is (he main objective ihis month, . the federal inspector said. Stub cotton v. :h its early blooms offers i food and an egg-laying nest for the - emerging moth. Deprived of this r it die without laying eggs. Ii! stub cotton can bo killed off and cotton drill'd in at the latest possible date, there remains little to en- I course the pink bollworm tocom plete another life cycle of egg, pupa, . worm and moth. T“The infestation in the Salt ! River and Coolidge district,” Pric . kett concluded, “has been reduced to’ what might be termed traces. , Here is our greatest difficulty. Be cause vve have been so successful the first year of the fight against the infestation, farmers assume the bat Io is won On the contrary insect pests are only conquered by extermnation. Leave a ‘trace’ 1 alone and in another season you have a more destructive army han ever before, which will bring on a financial disaster tthat will be felt by every resident of the state either d rectly or indirectly.”—Arizona Republic. “Earning Spring” Owned by George Washington Curiosity may have killed a cat, but it also made George Washing ton one of the first investors in nat ural gas property. In 1775 he visited a tract near Charleston, W. Va., where a strange “burning spring”—flames of escaping gas, probably ignited by a water-seeker who came at j night with a lantern —attracted his attention. Although the father of our country could not have known it, the property he bought was in the heart of a great natural gas field. He presented his property to the nation as a national park. The first well In this field, how ever, was not discovered until the early 1800 s when two brothers, Da vid and Joseph Ruffner, drilled a 58-foot shaft for salt in the great Kanawha valley of east Virginia, and opened up a gas well. Pays to Enter Own Door How would you like to have to pay a fee for entering your own front door? The vicar of St. Bride’s, Fleet street, has to do this. Bride well place, at the back of the church where the vicarage is situ ated, was built on land belonging to the Bridewell foundation, and the old dividing wall ran along the lines of the present vicarage rail ings. The result is that there is no free right of way into the house, and the vicar has to pay a toll of guinea (about $5) a year. Bride well has had an interesting history Formerly a palace, it became in 1 turn a hospital, a “house of oc cupations,” a workhouse, and a prison. It ceased to be a prison In 1864, when Holloway jail took Its place, but there still is a cell for apprentices who may be com mitted there by the city’s cham berlain. It never is used, —London Tit-Bits. 0 <1 l<vF TRADE IN COOLIDGE. No. 20