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COOLIDGE HAS
passed the half-way post in the 6th
War Bond Drive but there are a
good many more bonds which re
main to be sold. ... an easy
task if everyone with the price of
a bond does his bit.
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OUR AMERICAN ARMY
is carrying the brunt of the present
offensive against the Seigfreid
line. . . . General Bradley and
his forces have been told to carry
the ball though the center of the
Hun line while the French forces
protect the right flank and the
English and Canadians take care
so the left.
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THIS MAN BRADLEY
is a thoroughgoing tactician. . . he
knows how to give the signals and
call the plays and he’ll get the job
done, but don’t you think we folks
at home who don’t buy bonds and
war savings stamps to the limit of
our ability are making the job a
lot more difficult for our men at
the front? We think so.
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THERE’S A LOT
of muck and mire on the European
front today and most of it is just
about where a good many Coolidge
men —weary, unshaven, and war
torn —are trying to snatch a few
minutes rest while we here at home
are surrounded by our families and
our friends and we are well-fed and
warm. Yes, the purchase of anoth
er bond is a small thing to do for
those men from Coolidge who are
doing OUR fighting for US.
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COMES NOW THE
voice of an Arizona labor union
. irked because State Audi
tor Ana Frohmiller has ruled tipp
ing with state funds must cease.
And it brings to mind the gripes
of other years when we heard a
goodly number of state employees
express their dissatisfaction with
the $5 daily travel allowance per
mitted state employees ... an
amount admittedly too small a few
years ago and, of course, far too
small today.
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WHEN COOLIDGE
chamber of commerce meets in an
nual session Monday night for the
purpose of selecting a new group
of officers to head this important
civic group during 1945, we hope
there will be a large representa
tion of local business men. The
chamber of commerce is and must
be essentially an organization of
business and professional men of
the community and if the officers
are not truly representative of the
business men the value of the
chamber of commerce is reduced
to a minimum.
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THIS IS NOT
an attempt to make a guess at the
proboble date of the end of the
war in Europe . . . rather it is
to give our readers an idea of what
those close to Washington now be
lieve . . . “All now depends
on (1) weather; (2) what Russians
do or do not do; (3) how much
punishment Germany will take be
fore cracking. . . • It is a slow
grinding offensive, a war of attri
tion. Casualties are large and many
U. S. homes will face a sad Christ
mas. It is largely a singlehanded
U. S. offensive to date, with Ameri
cans taking the burden of beating
the Germans in a slow', bitter, cost
ly fight. ... It the Germans
do not crack in the next few weeks,
this war will run over well into
1945; will develope into a longer,
costlier war than anybody expect
ed.”
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One Dead, Six Are
Injured A* Result %
Traffic Accident
One aviation cadet is dead and
six injured as the result of a traffic
accident six miles south of Coolidge
at the La Palma junction of High
way 87 when a truck in which they
were riding, driven by W. E. Petty
john, of Snow’flake, and a car driv
en by Charles Cook of Coolidge col
lided. Cook is reported to have said
that the brakes gave way on his
car, causing it to hit a stop sign and
careen into the truck.
The cadets, all of Marana Army
Air Base, were taken to the base
hospital, where Arthur Taylor died
at 5:30 Monday morning. The in
jured are Fred Gibson, Lawton
Hutcheson, Carl Du Pont, Paul
Lehrer, Anthony Swan and James
Goggen, all of whose families have
been notified.
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Annual Christmas
Concert Slated
At South School
Coolidge elementary school’s an
nual Christmas concert will be held
in the auditorium of South School
Friday, December 15, beginning at
8 p. m. The fifth and sixth grade
glee club, seventh and eighth grade
glee club and South School orches
tra will take part. There will also
be a soloist. The concert will be
under the direction of Miss Margar
et Steadman, instructor of music for
Coolidge elementary schools.
Coollfi^^^^xamtner
VOLUME FIFTEEN
Casa Grande
Rodeo May
Set Record
National champions to com
pete in the annual event
December 9th and 10th.
Casa Grande’s mid-winter rodeo,
to be held at the rodeo grounds on
’Saturday and Sunday of this week,
may set a new attendance record
advance sales indicate.
The battle of the buckaroos and
the broncs will take place at the
Casa Grande rodeo grounds, a half
mile north of the Blakeley service
station, on the Casa Grande-Phoe
nix highway. This annual mid
winter event is open to all comers
this year and the prizes have lured
some of the country’s best known
riders.
Many Coolidge and Florence
residents plan to attend and
sales have been such that 1500 ad
ditional admission tickets have
been ordered printed. These tickets
are in addition to regular number
of tickets which were printed some
time ago. Admission prices will be
$1.20 for adults, and 65 cents for
children, service men and women.
Earl Thode, Casa Grande ranch
er, who at one time held the title
of National Cowboy Champion,
will serve as arena director. Mr.
Thode is Chairman of the Casa
Grande Rodeo Association, with
Everett Woody as Secretary-
Treasurer, and Fred Blakeley, lo
cal cowman and service station op
erator, Director-Manager.
Johnny and Tommy Rhodes, the
latter 1943 champion steer roper,
will be seen in action, as will
‘Buckshot” Sorrells, who ranked
second at Madison Square Garden
show last year; Maynard Gaylor;
Bud Parker, noted Tucson ranch
er and rider; Asbury Shell; Char
lie Whitlow and Pete Grubb.
Other entrants include Harry
Knight; Carl Dossey; Roland Cur
ry; Darwin Parks; Fred Blakeley;
Everett "Woody; Sam McKinney;
H. Ramsey; Ivan Jones; Ken
Laughlin; G. I. Melvin Dunagan,
just released from the army; Paul
Brophy; Jimmy Kruse; Bill Walls;
Bob White; Nelson Conley; Joe
Conley; Herb Bailey; Sy Swyers;
Golie Patrick, Jr, Ed Plumb, Harry
Plumb and others well-known lo
cally.
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Advisory Student
Committees Named
Teen Age Activities
As the result of a meeting of the
Womans Club with jnembers of the
permanent teen age committee
Thursday afternoon, it was decided
to appoint an advisory committee
and student committee to co
operate on the teen age entertain
ment. Hereafter, students will de
cide on their own mode of enter
tainment and submit their decision
to the advisory committee for en
dorsement.
Members of the advisory commit
tee are. Phil Farr, chairman, Mrs.
Wayne Hall, Miss Lois Weiss and
Miss Ann Evelyn Kline. Members
of the student committee are Sue
Kyser, chairman, Margie Neighbors.
Willie Storie, Edna Veazey, George
O’Donnell and Velma Troutt. Mem
bers of the permanent teen age
committee are: Mrs. Charles Reed,
Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Viola Loucks, Mrs.
C. L. Skousen and Mrs. C. J. Yates.
It was decided to change the time
of teen age parties from Saturday
to Friday nights. The last Sat
urday night dance was held at Cool
idge USO Club last week. Coolidge
Legion Auxiliary will sponsor to
night’s teen age party at the Wo
mans Club. Mrs. Ancil Taylor is
general chairman of arrangements.
She will be assisted by Mrs. Gladys
Brewer and Mrs. Ila Rogers.
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Postpone Kenilworth
PTA Meet ’Til School
Christmas Program
Kenilworth Parent-Teachers As
sociation meeting, scheduled for
December 7, was postponed to coin
cide with Kenilworth School’s
Christmas party scheduled for
Tuesday night, December 19 at 7:30
p. m., according to announcement
of Mrs. D. W. Hall, president. Joint
plans for the PTA and school
Christmas program will be an
nounced later.
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• Mrs. Martin Talla and daughter,
Mrs. Louise Johnson of Casa
Grande, spent Wednesday in Phoe
nix on business.
“IN THE CENTER OF PINAL COUNTY AGRICULTURE”
CIVIC GROUP TO
HOLD ELECTION
MONDAY NIGHT
With four nominees for president
Coolidge Chamber of Commerce
will meet Monday night at a din
ner meeting to select officers for
the ensuing year.
The presidential candidates in
clude Howard Gosa, C. F. Hamil
ton, Herbert Unger and R. L. Gam
mon. Jack Pond is the sole nomi
nee for treasurer while Dr. G. E.
Maxwell, Dr. R. V. Campbell, Fred
Slater, Ray Snider and Earl Hicks
have been nominated to serve on
the board of directors.
The meeting will be held at 7:30
Monday night in the basement of
the Community church. At this
meeting President Carl McFarland,
Secretary J. J. Jones and Treasur
er Jack Pond will make their
annual reports.
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Franchise Asked
For Gas Service
In Eloy Area
Natural gas service for heating
and cooking w'ill be available to
Eloy residents sometime after Jan
uary Ist if Pinal county board of
supervisors acts favorably on an
application for franchise requested
this week by Marshall A. Moody do
ing business as the Farmer’s Gas
Company.
Mr. Moody filed a petition re
questing the franchise be granted
his company signed by 111 Eloy
residents. An earlier survey of the
need for gas service in Elqy indi
cated there would be a minimum
of 175 users. Farmers Gas Com
pany mains are now within one and
one-half miles of Eloy.
The board of supervisors referred
the application for franchise to the
county attorney for investigation
and is expected to meet and grant
the request later this month.
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R. E. Cosgrove Is
Acquitted By Jury
Os Murder Charge
A jury of 12 men in Pinal county
superior court Wednesday night ac
qiutted R. E. Cosgrove, former
Coolidge rural mail carrier of a
charge of murdering his stepson.
The jury received the case shortly
after noon Wednesday and deliber
ated more than eight hours before
reaching a verdict.
Cosgrove was charged with the
fatal shooting of his stepson, Pfc.
Earl Figglns, following an alterca
tion, over the use of the family car
while home on furlough early in
September.
The eldest stepson of the defen
dant, Private R. E. Figging, testi
fied in behalf of his stepfather.
Attorney Charles H. Reed of Cool
idge was counsel for Cosgrove.
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Wyly Parsons Is
Area Supervisor
Farm-Ranch Census
Wyly Parsons, Area Supervisor in
charge of the United .States Farm
and Ranch Census for 1946, visited
Pinal County on December 3rd,
and spent the day making plans
for the securing of census data
from farmers and ranchers of this
county.
Mr. Parsons stated that James E.
Warner, of 130 South 3rd Avenue,
Phoenix, was the local supervisor
for the Southern Arizona area.
Persons with transportation who
are able to and wish to work in
taking the census should immedi
ately get in touch with Mr. Warner.
He will, upon inquiry, furnish ap
plication blanks to those interested,
and those selected to make the cen
sus will attend a three-day school,
to be held in Pinal County, for the
purpose of acquainting themselves
with the type of information to be
secured and best methods of secur
ing it. Seven enumerators will be
employed.
Parsons, recently secretary to U.
S. Senator Ernest McFarland, is a
former deputy clerk of Pinal Coun
ty Supreme Court.
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Mrs. Ivy Receivqp
Word Friday Son
Is Lost With Ship
Mrs. Owen Ivy received word
from the War Department Friday
that her so, Eugene Q. Lassiter, had
been lost with an American ship
that was sunk recently. No details
were given, but the telegram stated
a letter followed.
The Ivys make their home on
the C. C. England Ranch near Flor
ence. Mrs. Ivy has two other sons
in service, Harold R. Lassiter, S
2/C, and Sgt. Z. 0. Lassiter.
COOLIDGE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1944
Dirk Lay Dies
On Army Duty
in Canal Zone
Lt. Colonel Dirk Lay was
long missionary to Pima
Indians and was active in
securing appropriation of
construction of Coolidge
Dam and San Carlos Pro
ject.
Death came last Friday to the
Reverend Dirk Lay, widely known
missionary to the Pima Indians
while serving as a chaplain in the
army of the United States in the
Panama Canal Zone.
Long active in the 158th Infan
try, Arizona National Guard which
he served as chaplain since 1930 Lt.
Colonel Dirk Lay was on active duty
in the canal zone at the time of his
death after leaving his regiment
when it was transferred to the
LT. COLONEL DIRK LAY
South Pacific.
Dirk Lay left the Pimas in 1934
at the direction of the Pres
byterian Board of Home Missions
and became missionary to the Sioux
Indians in South Dakota but con
tinued his association the Ari
zona National Guard. He was mo
bilized in J94Q and accompanied his
regiment to Camp Bapkeley, Texas,
and later to Panama.
Dirk Lay was one of the most
active persons in the Casa Grande
valley in securing the federal ap
propriation for construction of Cool
idge Dam. A close’frieiyi of U. S.
Senator Ralph Cameron who bad
pledged his support in sequring
governmental aid to build the dam
Dirk Lay worked closely with
Washington during the long fight
for passage of the bill and, when
all efforts had apparently failed, be
mustered the support of the Pres-*
byterian Home Mission Board and
members of the church from every
town and'hamlet'in the United
States bombarded their congress
men with telegrams urging passage
of the act on behalf of the Pima
Indians who are co-beneficiaries a
long with white land owners today.
Following passage of the bill
authorizing construction of Coolidge
Dam and its signing by President
Calvin Coolidge grateful citizens
purchased a 40-acre tract of pro
ject lands near Casa Grande and
presented it to Reverend Lay.
He Is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Elizabeth Lay, Albert Lay of Wil
mington, California, August Lay, in
the navy, Mrs. Cliff Prather of
Phoenix and Esther Lay of Phila
delphia.
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Taylor Resigns;
Urton Appointed
To Head Rationing
After more than two and one half
years of continuous service as
chairman of Coolidge War Price and
Rationing Board R. W. Taylor,
Coolidge school Superintendent has
resigned his post due to the pres
sure of school duties and W. R.
Urton has been appointed to suc
ceed him. Taylor was the only re
maining member of the original ra
tioning board which handled sugar
rationing as the regulatory program
was put into effect a few months
after the declaration of war.
While not identified with the ra
tioning and price program the new
chairman has been area defense
chairman for Coolidge since the
start of the war and has been re
sponsible for the selection of war
and ration board members.
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Laniers Buy
The Kirby Home
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lanier
have purchased the W. D. Kirby
home Pinkley Avenue and moved
in Friday. Lanier is a member of
the faculty at Coolidge Union High
School.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirby left Friday
for Phoenix, where they wil make
their home for the present.
Gifts Asked For
Men In Hospitals
This Christmas
That every service man or wo
man in hospitals throughout the
land be remembered by a grateful
country this Christmas the Ameri
can Legion is cooperating with
merchants in the collection of gifts
to be sent to hospitals.
Individuals are requested to pur
chase a gift at his favorite store
. . . have the gift wrapped and the
size of the article marked on the
outside of the wrapping. The gift
is to be left with the merchant
and will be picked up by local mem
bers of the American Legion and
forwarded to the nearest gathering
tmit ... in Phoenix or Tucson.
Make a hospitalized service man
happy thi3 Christmas . . . buy a
gift now.
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Legion Auxiliary
Wraps Packages
For Xmas Mailing
Christmas packages were wrap
ped for mailing to service men and
women at a meeting of American
Legion Auxiliary, William David
.Hood Post, No. 64, at Coolidge
Methodist Church Monday night.
These were for eleven sons and
two daughters of Auxiliary mem
bers, serving in the States. Over
seas packages for members sons
were completed in November.
During a brief business meeting,
at which Mrs. Ivy Vensel, president,
presided, report was made of the
number of hours of volunteer war
work contributed by members for
November. Including Red Cross
canteen work, U. O. S., Red Cross
surgical dressing and sewing rooms
the total hours given to war serv
ice work amounted to 434. accord
ing to Mrs, C. F. Hamilton, chair
man of the war service committee.
Plans were discussed for a New'
Years dance and the following mem
bers were appointed to serve on
the committee of arrangements:
Mrs. R. W. Taylor, Mrs. Sue Stew
ard, Mrs. Haley, Mrs. William
Short and Mrs. Vensel.
At the conclusion of the business
meeting Auxiliary members joined
with Legion members for a program
and social hour. Sgt. Glenn, Cool
idge Army Air Field, addressed the
group on "Rehabilitation" stressing
the G. I. Bill of Rights. Vera Sell
ers and her mother, Mrs. Bert Sell
ers, presented a marimba duet.
Mrs, Hamilton and Mrs. Cum
mings served on the refreshment
committee.
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Elementary Schools
Plan Volley Ball
Tournament Dec. 16
Pinal County elementary schools
will hold a volley ball tournament
at Coolidge South Elementary
School Saturday, December 16, be
ginning at 9 a. m. Each competing
school will be represented by four
teams; class A boys, class B boys,
class A girls and class B girls.
Players must weigh 106 pounds or
less to be eligible tor class B.
Schools to be represented are:
Coolidge, Florence, Eloy, Casa
Grande, McDowell and Picacho.
After the volley ball tournament
schools will begin playing basket
ball.
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Boy Scouts Plan
Program, Attendance
At Council Meet
Plans for the immediately pend
ing Coolidge Boy Scout program
were discussed when scout com
mitteemen Martin Talla and Joe
Irvine met with members of troop
26 Tuesday night. It was decided
that the boys would work on merit
badges in firemanship, electricity
and signaling for the next few
weeks.
Troop officers of Green Ban
council, troop 26, plan to attend
a council meeting at Tucson Sun
day, December 17. Patrol leaders,
assistant patrol leaders and senior
patrol leaders will be given instruc
tions to aid in conducting their own
patrol meetings. Boys who will
make the trip are: Harry Baker,
Jr., assistant scoutmaster; Oscar
Beuno, senior patrol leader; Chas.
Freeland, leader of the Eagle Pa
trol; George Dowdle, leader of
Senior Patrol; Ray Jackson, ass’t
leader of Senior Patrol; Larry Per
kins, leader of Cobra Patrol; Jerry
McNally, ass’t leader Cobra Patrol;
Joe Baker, leader Raven Patrol;
Jim Hulcy, ass’t leader Raven
Patrol; and Bill Steward, troop
scribe. They will be accompanied
by A. K. Osborn, scout master.
Veteran Returns
A k
mLM ■ A
Horace Scoffer, Jr., S 1/C, ar
rived Saturday on 30-day leave to
visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Scoffer, Sr„ after serving
approximately two years in the
South Pacific. He wears the
American Defense Bar, Asiatic
Pacific Bar, two bronze stars,
each denoting participation in
two major engagements, and the
silver star denoting participation
in five major engagements. Scof
fer, 21, was born at Blackwater
and entered*eervlee in December
of 1942, His last duty before re
ceiving leave was in the Philip
pine Islands.
Lions Fete CUHS
Bears In Annual
Banquet Wednesday
The annual football banquet given
by Coolidge Lions Club for CUHS
football team was held Wednesday
night In the high school gymnasium.
Members of the Home Economics
Club prepared the three course tur
key dinner for the 100 Lions and
. guests.
M. H. GrosspaiUer, Lion president,
welcomed the 1944 conference
champions, stressing the fine
sportsmanship displayed by the
boys through the season. He then 1
turned the program c-er to Bill
McConnell, master of ceremonies,
R. W. Taylor responded for the
school, and Coach Glenn Wilson
told something of the team’s
achievements, citing the fact that in
the last five years, Coolidge Bears
have played 43 football games, win
ning 38, losing 4 and tying 1,
Principal address was by Mike
Casteel, head coach of the Univer
sity of Arizona, who spoke on foot
ball at war. Much of the success of
the present war effort, according
to Coach Casteel, is due to the
spirit of American youth cultivated
in the field of sports, where Amer
ican youth has been taught to think
alertly and Individually. Following
his address, Coach Cafteel showed
pictures of the 1942 Arizona-Utah
football game.
Music during the evening was
provided by a clarinet duet by Na
dine McCleery and Phil Farr and
two vocal numbers by Bennie
Boone. Among guests of honor were
Malcolm Garrison, Elmo Jensen, H.
M. Martin, C. L. Skousen, M. M.
Ware and Sue Kyser. Former foot
ball lettermen in attendance were
Verne Wuertz and John Roche.
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Last Rites For
William Brandon
Held Here Monday
Last rites were held for William
Brandon, 69, at Cole and Maud
chapel on Monday. A Coolidge
resident for 7 years, he passed away
at Florence Hospital Friday after a
long illness.
Services were conducted by D. L.
Harguess, minister of the Church
of Christ. “'Shall We Gather At
The River” was sung by request
by members of the Church of Christ
at Casa Grande.
The deceased was born Septem
ber 7, 1874, in Missouri and is sur
vived by his widow, two sons and
two daughters. Ohe son is overseas
and the other children were unable
to be present because of traveling
conditions.
Interment was in Valley Memor
ial Park.
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Receives Word Os
Father’s Death
Mrs. E. L. Scott received word
this week of the death of her fath
er, J. H. Owens, 78, who passed
away at Ardmore, Oklahoma, Mon
day. She was unable to attend the
last rites.
The deceased is survived by four
daughters and one son. Interment
was in the family plot at Springer,
beside his wife.
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■BONDS
NUMBER 40
Coolidge Passes
Half-Way Hark
In Bond Drive
Eight days left to meet local
quota of $198,000 set for
6th War Loan; Schools
raise nearly $7,000.
With bond and stamp sales total
ing $129,076 Coolidge is well past
the half-way mark toward its quota
of $198,000 in the 6th War Loan
Drive.
Os the total subscribed in Cool
idge to date $3,700 in bonds and
stamps were sold at the high school
Thursday morning while Coolidge
grade school students purchased al
most $3,000 in stamps and bonds
Wednesday.
Total bank sales in Coolidge a
mount to $112,000 including a num
ber of allocations from large firms
with branch business houses in the
city while total post office sales
amount to $17,076 of which $9,760
were purchased during the past
seven days.
The government of the United
States needs a great deal of money
with which to finance this war and
despite the current optimism about
the way the war in Europe is going
it will be a long hard struggle be
fore the Japs are whipped.
Japan’s present army numbers
about 4,000,000 with 2,000,000 more
men available and fit for military
service who haven’t been called up
to date. Another 1,600,000, between
the ages of 17 and 20, are not yet
subject to the draft.
The Jap Air Force is growing.
In addition to millions of native
workers, Japan has a potential slave
force of 400,000,000 conquered peo
ple. 50% of Japan’s labor force is
made up of women. Another 25%
boys and girls under 20, the balance
men. The Jap workday is twelve
to sixteen hours with two days off
a month. The Jap cannot leave his
Job, change it, or strike. The high
est daily wage equals about three
American dollars—3o% to 75% of
which goes to taxes and compulsory
savings.
The Jap will fight to the death.
As far as the Jap in concerned, the
outer Empire—and the men who
defend It —are the expendables.
The Jap will fight the Battle from
inside the inner Empire. The Jap
believes that we shall weary of war
too easily and too early.
The invasion of France, supply
ships hand an overnight run to
make. In the coming Battle of
Japan, ships in the Pacific will have
long-reached round trips that often
take five months to make.
The better we face the realities
confronting our forces In the Pac
ific the quicker the whole bloody
business will be over and the soon
er we will welcome home our fight
ing men.
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Coolidge Riders
Will Compete In
Casa Grande Rodeo
Coolidge Is to be well represent
ed both at the and in the
stands at Casa Grande’s annual
mid-winter rodeo on Saturday and
Sunday, December 9th and 10th,
according to reports.
Some of America’s best known
riders and roperp, residents of Cool
idge, including Asbury and Joe
Shell, Earl McEuen, H. Ramsey,
Ivan Jones and Clarence Balcom
plan to take part In the competi
tion, several having entered the
roping, team tying and wild cow
milking contests. Most of these
men have won prizes at such inter
nationally famous rodeos as Chey
enne, Wyoming, the Pendleton,
Oregon, Roundup, and Madison
Square Garden.
“With any luck at all, we’ll bring
some prizes home for Coolidge,’’
said one local rider, “but we’ll need
a lot better luck than we’ve had
lately. Take Earl McEuen, for in
stance. At the Mammoth rodeo
he got his neck twisted and at
Florence Junior Parada he fell off
his horse, and the other day he
lost a private match roping contest
to a fellow he should beat nine
times out of ten, and one of
the best riders and ropers we’ve
got.”
Nevertheless, with luck or with
out Coolidge entrants are confident,
and may local rodeo enthusiasts
will be In Casa Grande for this
out standing annual show.
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Grade B Tires
Grade B tires were removed from
the ration list Tuesday, December
5, according to announcement of
Coolidge War Price and Rationing
Board this week.