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AS MID-AUGUST
arrives must folks have completed
tbeir vacations and are back home
once more preparing the young
sters for school. Making up tbe
group who prefer late summer
vacations are tbe oldtiiners who
would rather alick-tt-out during
the hot weather and come home
as nights begin to cool in early
September. ,
• • •
VACATION SPOTS
in the White Mountains had rec
ord crowds and all throughout the
pines evidence of new tourist ac
i ommodatlous under construction
may be seen Within the nex*t few
years stieu the highway widening
program between Florence Junc
tion and Miami la complete, the
number of Valley residents own
ing summer homes In tbe White
Mountains will increase man?
times
• • •
TREATMENT ACCORDED
tbe summer vacationer and the
traveler has always been pleasant
and a< cormnodattng in tbe moun
tainous ares of Arizona A marked
contrast with reports coming out
of winter tourist areas of tbe val
leys during the past few years.
• • •
SUMMER RAINS HAVE
brought some much needed wster
to the I'asa Oraade Valley Tbe
San pedro river has furnished con
siderable water and t'ooiidge lake
bas shown enough gsfci to bring
tbe total available water as of last
Monday to 5026 acre feet That's
not much, but it helps
• • •
THE CHIEF OF
t'ooiidge i pollce bad a red face
Tuesday . . . and it well should
bave been lie gave a new printer
employee of tbe Examiner a third
degree scare when he quit work
at noon and found bis truck mtss
ang Fr.»ntlc telephone cslla to
the police located the truck in a
downtown garage . IM
POUNDED . . . while the owner
was sought It teems the poUce
had received a letter from a vtgi
d*nt dtlaen suggesting that a
strange truck bad been parked
for several days alongside the
west wall or the Examiner build
ing and It waa proabahly stolen
The police also remembered seeing
tbe truck for a like number of
days ... so Chlaf Klnser had
it towed away for storage and
investigation Now the cokes are
on the chief ... but he hasn't
shown up around this newspaper
office to pay off
e e e
A HALF MILLION
dollars worth of hard-to-get Items
are being offered for sale by the
federal government at Rivers but
they sre to be sold on s priority
basis from the opening date of
the sale until after September 10
when the general public will be
given a chance to buy . . . W
there Is anything left worthwhile
BECAUSE WE BELIEVE
everyone should read » recent
statement entitled “Pacts to Pre
vent Impacts” by John Stelle, na
tional commander of the Ameri
can Legion we reprint the article:
•The right kind of pacts now
will prevent International impact*
tomorrow.
“This Is tbe Issue that confronts
the Big Four and 17 smaller vic
torious allied nations as they as
semble in Paris to write the peace
treaties for Italy. Rumania, Bul
garia. Hungary and Finland.
■ What are right pacts?
-The artisans of peace must
bear in mind that history is filled
with wart due to the deal the
Bale nations get from tbe big
ones from the bottom of pact.
That la one mistake the Paris
conference must avoid. There must
be no sowing of dragon teeth
there to grow another crop of j
war. . I
-Just and fair even
ly arrived at in equal partnership,
must be the keynote of the Paris
conference deliberations If they
are to be productive of more than
another harvest of future trag
edy,
lasting goodwill Is to be
established among nations It must
be founded on a square deal. Man
kind bas tbe right to expect Amer
ica to furnish the leadership for
tbat kind of deal in Paris. Os all
nations concerned we alone have
no axes to grind. But if our dele
gates are to champion justice
and fairness as the groundwork
for lasting peace, they must be
firm and resolute in fighting for
these principles. They cannot
give moral leadership by vacil
lation and further appeasements,
to he strong for a just peace Is
The time to be determined abd
NOW! The prayers of 3.260,000
members of The American Le
gion are backing the U. 3- dele
gates in Paris for that kind of
leadership.'*
Last Rites for
Infant Daughter
A graveside service for the in
fant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John B. Smith at Valley Memorial
Park with the Reverend J. N.
Campbell officiating was held last
week. The child passed away Au
gust 5 at Florence Hospital three
days after her birth.
oj)oltaae^®^tammer
VOLUME 17
Coolidge High
School to Open
September sth
There will be no registrations prior
to the opening of school this
year three new members
added to faculty.
t’ooiidge high school will open
Thursday. September 5, according
to announcement this week by K.
W. Taylor, superintendent of Coo
lidge scbools. A teacher s meeting
will be held at tbe high school
on Wednesday. t September 4,
Taylor said.
There will be three new addi
tions to tbe high school faculty
this year, Mrs Betty
of Indiana. Miss Hurlena Soots of
Colorado, .and Henry Wisnier of
Wisconsin. The resignation of
Mrs Edna Pearl Steward, who
was to have been a member of
Coolidge high school (acuity this
year, was announced this week
by Taylor. Mrs. Katterhenry will
take Mrs. Stewards place.
Other faculty members are:
Mrs. Mavis Addington, Miss Ruth
Miller, Malcolm Garrison. C A.!
Lanier. Elmo Jenson, Isadora
Sboore, and Glenn Wilson, prin
cipal
Louis Taylor. Democratic noun
nee for county school superlnten- j
dent, will continuue as a member
of tbe high school faculty until
January. He has as yet no oppon
ent in the general eletsi°n In
this county nomination Ib con
sidered tantamount to election
•An enrollment ol 200 is ex
pected at the high school, wbWb
is based on tbe closing figures of
last year. R. W. Taylor said. Ad
ditional courses will be added to
the curriculum by tbe inaugura
tion of an Industrial arts depart
ment.
Work la being completed on tbe
high school athletic field and sta-j
dium and rebuilding is under way
on the cement block warehouse
And bus storage garage which
was demolished during the recent
storm.
* There will be no registration
at the high school this year prior
to tbe date of opening.
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Stolen Car Stalls
In Dip on Highway
Near Here Sunday
A highway dip partially filled
with water and quick work on
the part of local officers resulted
in the recovery of a stolen car
a few hours after it disappeared
from In front of Genes Steak
House Sunday night.
The thief, who drove toward
Plcacbo. waa so eager to put dis- j
lance between himself and the j
scene of tbe theft that he struck
the dip at high speed. stall Jig the
car. Word was received soon after
ward by Ed Smith, Eioy i^pmy.
of an abandoned cay on highway
87. Highway Patrolmen B. (*
Kratzberg of Casa Grande and
Roger Gates of Coolidge were noti
tied and bad tbe car removed to
a Coolidge garage, where its own
er. Leonard McGriff, of phoenix,
reclaimed it and was on his way
borne in tbe early morning hours
Monday.
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Wage Ceiling for
Cotton Pickers Set
At $2.25 Per Cwt.
Cotton pickers in Pinal county
will receive a ceiling price of
36 per hu ltd red pounds for
clean picked cotfon during the
1946-47 harvesting season.
The rate which is tbe same as
last year was set in October, 1944,
by the agriculture wage board.
It w&9 renewed this year at the
request of state growers. Peti
tions presented to the board bore
signatures of 80 per cent of the
producers in Arizona.
Announcement of the wage scale 1
waa made by E. S. McSweeney. i
executive officer of tbe Arizona
department of the wage board, in
Phoenix, who said that be had
been informed from Washington
that ceilings still apply in tbe
harvesting of cotton.
Both grower and picker are sub
ject to penalties for violation of
the wage ceiling. Penalties which
may amount to a fine of SI,OOO
or six months in prison or both.
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Two Captains From
Williams Field Die
In Crash of Plane
Two captains from Williams
Field were killed when their AT-6
training plane crashed six miles
northwest of the field. Wednes
day. They, were D. H. La Pointe,
intelligence officer, and Luboner
P. Shyshka food supervisor at the
field. Both men had been sta
tioned at the field since August,
1946.
“IN THE CENTER OF PINAL COUNTY AGRICULTURE”
COOLIDGE. PINAL COUNTY. ARIZONA FRIDAY. AUGUST 16. 1946
Crop-Dusting Pilot
Escapes as Plane
Crashes in Flames
Hay Lange, crop dusting pilot
for the Re* Williams Crop Dust
ing Set vice of Phoenix and former
“Hump” pilot, crashed last Fri
day on the A I, Bartlett ram h
two miles southeast of t'ooiidge.
He escaped .with only a few
scratches and minor burns while
hi-- i»l:cq»* wa completely de
stroyed by fire.
l.ange hud just taken off from
t’ooiidge Park field and was at
tempting to gain altitude with his
heavily laden ship when he flew
through the telephone and power
lines along the eastern edge of a
field on the Bartlett ranch The
plane hix wheels first, knocking
them off. and skidded approxi
mately fifty feet before coming
to a stop Flames broke out when
the ship first hit the wires.
The cause of the accident, tjc
«co riling to the pilot, was tbe
"dead uir condition'' prevailing
tbat morning which prevented bis
ship from attaining its maximum
rate of climb
September 9 Set
As Opening Date
Grammar Schools
Large enrollment expected in Coo
lidge Elementary Schools This
Year Additional Schoolrooms
Provided.
Approximately l.ouo pupils will
return to Coolidge elementary
schools on Monday. September 9.
the opening date announced by
K W Taylor, superintendent of
Coolidge schools. A teachers'
meeting Is scheduled for the pre
ceding Saturday. September 7.
There will be no registration
of pupils this year prior to the
date of opening The large enroll
ment expectam y la based on last
year's closing figures, Ta.'lor said
It has been necessary to provide
extra classroom space by convert
ing the manual Gaining building
at south school and the library at
north school into classrooms. The
manual training building has pro
vided two extra classrooms and
the library glveg a third
Ten new teachers have joined
the faculties ol Coolidge elemen
tary Schools this year. They are:
.Mrs. Ann Corbin, Mins Nadine It
vine, and Miss Sadie Martin, all
of Coolidge. Mrs. lajlh Ewing of
Texas,Mrs. Stella Base of Saca
lon. Mrs. Emma Boswell of New
Mexico, Miss Alice Howard of
Morencl, Miss Mildred Jones of
Illinois. Miss Machet Rollings of
Tennessee, and William Dorsey ot
Los Angeles.
Teachers who will continue to
till tluyr places as faculty mem
ber* of Coolidge elementary
poliools are: Mrs Sybil Gag
mage, principal, Mrs. Kathleen
Merrill, principal at soilth school.
Mrs. La Verne Rowe, Mrs. Dorothy
Simms. Mrs. Margaret Patterson,*
Mrs. Dorothy Osborn, Mrs. Avis
pa til. Mrs. Esther ‘Stonehocker, j
Mrs. Evangeline* Garrison, Mtb.
Uva Gammage. Mrs. Nadine La
nier. Mrs. El ha Fulton, Mrs. Ber
tha Dorsey. Miss Jane Havens,
Miss Lena Amite. Miss Lucille
Briscoe, Miss Margaret Kochen
derfer. Miss Mary Bramhall, Miss
Frances Pike, Miss Hortense Mc-
Cray, and A. K. Osborn^
Rivers Center to Be
Surplus Sales Store
For Veterans and Public
Conversion of the War Reloca
tion Center at Rivers into a huge
surplus sales “store” was an
nounced today by the War As
sets Administration, with more
than s6oc*,ooo worth of supplies
and equipment ready to be sold
when the sale opens to certified
World War 11 veterans on Monday,
August 26.
Veterans will have a priority
| period in which to purchase more
than $250,000 of hard-to-get items
offered in the first of a series of
weekly department - store - type
sales, according to C. Dale Mc-
Intyre, Rivers jile director.
After veterans and other prior
j itv groups have had their buying
! periods, all remaining items will
!be offered to tbe general public
without priority. Mclntyre said.
Supplies and equipment offered
in the sale will be those used in
the construction and maintenance
of the Relocation Center where
18.000 West Coast Japanese were
quartered during the war. Many
scarce items such as clocks, paper,
garden hose and wire poultry
! netting are .available in small
quantities and will be offered first
to veterans with the lowest cer
tification numbers, Mclntyre said.
Singers of Songs
Shof by Han
Seeking Sleep
Old-time prospector looses shot
-1 gun blast at group on case
porch in Mammoth.
The old saying about music hav
ing i harms, etc., operated in re
| verse in Mammoth, last Sunday
| night or maybe it was the type
- j of music.
But it was music, according to
I'lidet 10-rlff Travis Wall, tbat re
sulted in two women being pep
pered with No 4 4-hut from a
dtoulde-bai reded shotgun In tiie
hinds of Millar (Red) Wallace.
77. old-time prospector.
It was reported that a number
of persons were sitting on the
snnh of the Blue Front case
around midnight, Sunday, singing
the old songs. While the singing
waa going on a couple of Mexi
can boys with guitars wandered
up and sat down with the eiiujrs,
adding their melodies.
Suddenly a shot rang out. cut- :
ting into the midnight songs. lu
doubt as to .what the souud was, :
the two women wandered out to:
where their cars were parked he j
fore them to see whether It may
have been a tire blowing out.
They walked into the discharge
i from the second barrel, with both
women. Mrs. Buck Hall and Mrs.
John M Hamer, being struck by
the indlelK.
It turned out Wallace had been
trying to sleep but the singing,
he had another name for it. kept
him awake. Ho as in the old days,
when he w as besieged by a ring of
coyote* around his camp, he let
with both barrels.
The women were treated at their
homes in the old county hospital.
PtViseiuliou is btdng held in
abeyance pending Wallace's future
actions.
Florence Council
Passes Budget;
Drops Pay Rise
Town marshal's salary increase of
S3OO a year lopped from budget
at final hearing by council.
Florence city council Monday
, night passed the city's 1946-47
budget after lopping off a S3OO
| Item which ln< reaped the city mar
shal’s salary to $1,500 a year.
The motion to drop the increase
for Charles Whitlow, the marshal,
was made by Robert Ramirez, and
seconded by (’. Nolan after Tom
Fulbrigbt, city attorney, explained
lhat the boost in salary could not
be paid under the <Ry charter.
Untjer the charter, it was ex- i
plained, council is not permitted j
to increase salaries for the city j
j marshal, town clerk or treasurer
during the period of employment.
The only increases which can be
mado are those by a new gouncjl
before tbe job appointee has been
1 named.
Dugald Stewart, town clerk, told
council that the new assessed
valuation of the city was $497.21U
which is a drop from last year's,
valuation of $521,943. It was eatl- j
muted by Stewart that the new J
tax rate w ould be approximately j
$3.3u per hundred dollars valua-
I tlon.
Council was informed that tbe j
claim against it from the Arizona
/Hlison Company amounting to
approximately $25 was for cur
rent supplied from June 20 to
July 2u. It was i'oted to pay the
bill which had been refused a
| week ago on the grounds that no
: current had been supplied for two
weeks. Stewart told council that j
no claim would be made against
the city for the time the stret
lights were not turned on in Au
, gust.
Approval of a proposed plan to
have a federal census in Florence
was also given by council. It is
believed that the city will benefit
ito the tune of several thousand
I dollars in the distribution of sales
tax receipts which is made
on a basis of population. The of
ficial population of the city is
now 1383. Beliefs that the new
poll would show 2.000 residents,
were expressed.
The city also hopes to gain
by participation in the division of
gasoline tax receipts If an initia :
live measure to be voted on at the
general election in November lfi
passed. This measure would give
1 cities oJe-third of ga:|dine tax re
-1 ceipts now received by counties.
• A census figure of 2000 would
return approximately S4OOO more
' sales tax receipts to the city each
1 year.
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• Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Davis and
family spent the week-end with
his brother arfl wife, Mr. and Mrs.
R A Davis, on a ranch near Tuc-
I son
Ralph Sewell, Former
Coolidge Resident, Dies
At San Diego, California
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at San Diego, Calif., for
Ralph L. Sewell, a resident of
Coolidge for seven years, during
which he served as win engineer
for the C. S. Indian Irrigation
| Set vice He anil his family moved
to San Diego in 1041.
The deceased, for 20 years a
resident of Arizona, died on Sat
urday. lie was employed by the
Salt Ither Valley Water Users
Association for a number of years.
He Is survived by his wife,
.Viable; two daughters, Mrs. W. H.
I Sharp and Mrs. William Frank;
one son, David, and four grand
ions. All are residents of San
I Diego.
Sewell was a long-time member
of the Masonic fraternity.
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New Power Station
And Rainfalls
Aid to Farmers
Picacho sub-station opened to al
low 24 additional pumping hours
for irrigation.
Events during the past week
have painted a rosier picture,, for
the farmers of this area.
The new substation of the Salt
River Valley Water • Users asso
ciation between here and Eioy will
enable irrigators of this area to
pump water an additional 24 hours
a week cutting the forbidden pe
riod by half.
While a heavy run of flood
water originating in *he San Pedro
river last week struck the diver
sion dam east of Florence and
w»s run a a nornp.l flow to lands
in the San Carlos Irrigation and
Drainage district.
At the same time irrigating
water was released from the Coo
lidge I him for the first time since
June 16. with the reservoir yield
ing 100 cubic feet per second.
Additional rains have added to
the underground water and with
additional current furnished lor
pumping It would seem that the
dry spell is about licked, observ
ers said.
The new sub-station, known as
the Ph-aeho station, was opened
Monday and all lines tied In Tues
day more than three years after
It was projected.
At present the sub-station is
1 In with the Casa Grande
station and it Is expected that
later it will be connected with the
Eioy station.
Heretofore the transformers at
the local station were overloaded
causing a shorter life for the
transformers.
Motorists Continue
To Park and Pay at
Forbidden Red Corners
The ‘‘red corners,’ no-parking
signs painted on the curbing at
Main Street and Central Avenue
have proved a paying proposition
for Coolidge with a $2 fine being
assessed each visitor.
Although the signs have been
in evidence for two weeks motor
ists continue to park in the areas
marked off on the curb for non
pa! king. A total of 19 have paid
fines, five of them this week, to
police Judge Minor Simms.
However, there have been no
Seconds, Simms said. The no
parking areas were set up as a
safety measure as many motor
ists parking at the corner would
back into the pedestrian crossing
endangering persons on those
lanes.
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Coolidge Makes Bid
For Air Passenger
Service at Meeting
A request for air passenger
service from Coolidge to other
parts of the world was made by
Carl Anderson, Coolidge council
man at a meeting of the Civil
Aeronautics Board in Albuquerque
on Tuesday.
The meeting was sponsored by
Greater Arizona, Inc., and 14 coun
ties were scheduled to have rep
resentatives attending the meet
ing in interest of better air serv
ice in the state.
Col. Matt Baird, chairman of
[ the avintion committee of Greater
Arizona said: “The state of Ari
zona realizes that improved air
: mail service to the smaller com
j munities is a necessity if we are
;to make Arizona economically
I sound.
While Anderson is making a
1 nlea. primarily for passenger serv
ice, he will also make a bid for
| air mail service in Coolidge and
Pinal county.
• Jerry Jones of San Bernardino,
Calif., is visiting at the ranch
home of his uncle and aunt, Mr.
j and Mrs. F. E. Jones.
School to Open
At Kenilworth
On September 9
School cafeteria will start serving
meals on Tuesday, September
10—bus routes remain the same
at present.
Kenilworth School will open on
Monday, September 9, according
to announcement this week by
William C. McConnell, principal.
School busses have been recon
ditioned and bus routes, will re
main the same as last year for
the present, McConnell said
Floors throughout the school
building have been refinlshed and
first and second grade rooms have
been redecorated.
There has been one new addl- j
j tion to the faculty, Kay Bergier
of Patagonia, who formerly taught
school at Florence. He will fn
struct eighth grade boys at Ken
ilworth this year in physical edu
cation and crafts.
Other members of the faculty
will be: first grade, Miss Juan
ita Golson; second grade and mu
sic. Mrs. Capitola Kyser; third
grade, Mrs. Pluma Morris; fourth
grade and girls’ physical educa
' tion. Mrs. Christine Roberts;
fifth and sixth grades and home
eflonomi-fs, Mrs. Viola Ixmcks;
seventh grade, Mrs. Eliender
Lynch.
Children who w r ill become six
years old before January 1, 1947,
will be accepted in the first grade
ion trial. One parent is requested
: by school authorities to accom
pany first grade children on the
opening date.
The school cafeteria will serve
■ meats beginning Tuesday, Sep
tember 10. Mrs. Edith Steve Is
cafeteria supervisor. She will be
assisted by Mrs. Glenn Staggs.
Bus driver and school custodian
will be Glenn Staggs, w ho assumed
his duties in May.
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Work Underway
On Suggestions
Os Hiway Planners
One mile in Eloy-Picacho area al
ready completed, county engin
eer says; remainder to be done
as soon as possible.
Louis O. Pi seel, county engineer,
reported today that the first step
toward following the recommenda
tions of the Pinal county high
ways planning committee is well
way with approximately
*jne mile of the improvements
recomm sided by the committee
virtually completed.
The recommendation asked the
improvement of the three miles
beginning five miles south of Pi
cacho and extending south. A
matter of washes will slow up
construction on the third mile, he
said, but the work will be com
pleted as soon ,as possible.
The remainder of the program
asked by the planning committee
a month ago. will be undertaken
as men and equipment are made
available through completion of
work already started, Fiscel said.
He plans to go’ rhfit through all
of the recommendations however,
he said, they may not be under
taken in the order named bj the
committee.
Three From Coolidge
Receive Injuries in
Traffic Accidents
Three Coolidge citizens re
ceived injuries in traffic accidents
this week.
Rosa Victor suffered back in
juries when a Phoenix-bound
Greyhound bus left the road three
miles west of Marana and plunged
into a •ditch Monday. According
to the highway patrol the bus
was forced to the side of the
road to avoid striking an approach
ing half-ton truck which, it Is al
leged, was straddling the white
center strip of the highway.
Coy Hall and a passenger In his
car, George Shupp, received mi
nor inji| ies Monday night when
Hall’s car was struck from behind
as he slowed for a dip on Highway
87 ten miles south of Coolidge.
Eli Perkins, of Phoenix, driver
of the other car, is reported by
the highway patrol to have said
he did not see Hall’s car. Per
kins and his passengers Fred Per
kins and William Fitch, also re
ceived minor injuries.
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• Mrs. Kruse Davis, Mrs. Karl
Fisher and niece, Carol Sisson, of
Kansas, who is visiting her, re
turned Wednesday from Roose
velt Dam where they were over
night guests at the home of Mrs.
Davis’ mother, Mrs. Katie Rupke.
Corinne Davis, who b%s been visit
ing her grandmother for several
weeks, accompanied the party
home.
City Tax Rate
. Os sl.Ol Sure
As Council Acts
Initial budget for Coolidge of
$46,598 adopted without dis
senting vote—city valuation set
at $1,433,355.
Coolidge t ity council unani
mously adopted Its first cifc/ budg
et Monday night totaling $46,598
of which $14,470,630 will be raised
by a direct city tax of sl.Ol per
SIOO of assessed valuation. The
city valuation i s $1,433,355. lu
terms of tlie average homeowners
tax bill the city tax rate will mean
that Coolidge residences valued
at $5,000. pre-war value, will pay
approximately $35.00 toward city
expense while homeowners whose
! property iw assessed in the neigh
borhood of SI,OOO will pay but
SIO.OO.
Ihe council attended to rou
tine matters, paying current ex
pense bills and once again hold
ing over the $3,000 demund of the
Phoenix engineering firm of Hed
man, Ferguson and Corollo lor
engineering services. This demand
was held over until next mouth
pending receipt of field notes and
(maps of the engineering
which must be delivered under
terms oi tlie contract between the
city and the engineers.
The council heard Harold Yost
of another Phoenix engineeriug
firm make application for the en
gineering work which must be
completed belore sewer bonds can
be sold and construction started.
The bid submitted by Yost was
for 7 1-4 per cent of the total cost
of the job or about\ $31,000 if con
struction costs no more than pre
liminary estimates of about $300.-
000. The hid also sets forth that
charges will not exceed the $12,500
of federal grant for planning
should the proposed sewer sys
tem not be constructed.
Members of the council beard
Harry A. Gerard. Civil Aeronau
tics Administration representative
for Arizona, discuss the problems
of small town airports and what
might be done to give Coolidge
an airport with federal financial
aid. Mr. Gerard toßl the council
the federal government would
pay for 35 per cent of the cost
of the land for an airport site and
60 per cent of construction costs
which woilld include the building
of an administrative unit but not
hangars. Maintenance would be
a problem of the city with no aid
from federal sources.
Mr. Gerard also told the coun
cil that complete details of field
procedure would not be available
for at least three weeks.
While the problems of a munici
pal airport were under discussion
Senator Ernest McFarland came
in to the council room as a visitor.
He was brought into the discus
sion and outlined the intent of
Congress in passing the bill which
provides for federal financial aid
for municipal airports.
Dr. G. B. Stewaru presided as
mayor pro-tem in the absence of
Mayor Paul B Hannah. Other
councilmen present were W. T.
McKinney, Tom Edwards and Ben
Arnold.
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Last Rites Held for
James Edward Howard,
Pioneer Valley Resident
Cast ritee were h|ld Wednes
day morning for James Edward
Howard, pioneer resident of Casa
Grande Valley. The service was
conducted by the Reterened E.
M. Ward.
Ed Howard, as the deceased
was known to his friends, was 72
years old. He was born at Hamil
ton. Texas, August 18, 1874, and
passed away at Coolidge Sunday.
August 11. He had been in poor
health for some time.
Mr. Howard came to Arizona
when he was 16 and has been
a resident of Casa Grande Valley
for 35 years and of Arizona for
50 years. He owned and operated
ward’s Trading Post on the
Phoenix-Tucson highway west of
Coolidge until about a year ago,
when he leased the property be
cause of failing health.
Mrs. J. W. Beauchamp, Jr., sang
"Just As I Am’ and “One Sweetly
Solemn Thought’’ during the serv
ice.
The deceased Is survived by a
son who is serving with the navy;
a brother, D. A. Burnett of Ol
ton, Texas; a sister, Mrs. E. H.
Turnborw of Dublin, Texas, and a
niece Mrs. H. M. Jones of Breck
enridge Texas. All the relatives
were present for the last rites, ex
cept the deceased’s son, who could
not be located in time.
.Pall bearers were: Ed Lacey,
W. T. McKinney, Asa Gardner,
Guuy Sanders W. T. Spruuell and
Ed Echols of Tucson.
Interment was in Valley Me
morial Park.
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• Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Stewart
and daughter, Patsy, of Brown
wood, Texas, returned home Tues-»
day after a visit with Mrs. Stew
art’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.
W. Moxley During their vacation
Mrs. Moxley accompanied them to
San Jose, Calif., where they spent
ten days with her son, Bill 'Sneed.
The Stewarts planned to remain
longer here when they returned
for the coast, but left immediately
for Texas upon receipt of word
of his mother’s death at Brown
wood.
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