The Winslow mail., March 06, 1925, Image 1

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VOLUME 34
SITUATION IS
STRAINED IN
CONTROVERSY
ON SANTA EE
C. W. Rhyan, chairman of the
local board of adjustment for the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers, and C. J. Wiley, local chair
man for the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen, re
turned to Los Angeles Wednesday
evening, carrying with them the
ballots of local members of the two
organizations who were called upon
to sustain the actions of the com
mittee with reference to negotia
tions which have been under way
for some time with the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe coast lines.
Negotiations were broken off a
few days ago and the whole matter
referred direct to the members in
a joint bulletin which asked for
an expression upon an attached
ballot.
The disagreement arose over the
question of whether or not the
wage settlement based on a deci
sion of the federal Railroad Labor
board rendered Dec. 2, 1924,
should carry a modification of the
* working rules which are now in
effect, the Santa Fe’s position being
that the wage increase would be
granted provided certain rules
were,modified, which, if granted by
the brotherhoods, would reduce in
some instances the present pay.
The position of the men as stated
by Rhyan and Wiley is that the
wage question should be settled
upon the basis of the labor board’s
decision and that the opening of
the schedule on the question of
modification of rules and working
conditions be made a matter of an
other conference.
The ballots will be canvassed on
the convening of the board in Los
Angeles, and further parley be
tween the company and the engine
men will be based upon the result
of the count. Considerable anxiety
is felt among the men affected on
account of the seriousness of the
situation. It is freely predicted
that the vote to sustain the com
mittee’s action will be unanimous.
CHAUTAUQUA TO
BE HELD HERE
APRIL 7 TO 11
The Ellison-White Chautauqua
will open in Winslow at the Wash
ington school auditorium for a five
day session on Tuesday, April 7,
and continue until Saturday, April
11.
The usual high-class concerts,
lectures and entertainments pro
vided by the Ellison-White circuit
are looked for this year, and a week
of enjoyment is anticipated by local;
people. Thirty guarantors from
among business and professional
circles of W T inslow have taken upon
themselves the sponsoring of the
event.
C. E. Hughes, representative of
the Chautauqua company was in
the. city recently making final ar
. rangeiients. He will return and
be here during the date of the ses
sion.
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Scouts Given Honorary
Game Body Membership
Six Eagle Scouts of the Winslow
Boy Scout troop were granted hon
orary membership in the Winslow
Game association at the meeting of
that body in the city hall Wednes
day evening. The boys honored
were Bill Ward, Richard Trimble,
Parr Lancaster, Maxwell Hathaway,
Fred Gillard and R. G. Fussel.
F. L. Harry made an eloquent
plea to the assembled members of
the game association, telling of the
work the scouts do along the lines
of game preservation, and stating
that the aims of the Scout organ
ization were along lines similar to
the sportsmen’s club. Following
his talk his resolution carried
11 v* n m All ..
unanimously. ' go around by Long Valley.
Subscription Card
GRAND CANYON COUNCIL
Boy Scouts of America
Date
For the support of the Grand Canyon Council,
Boy Scouts of America, and in consideration of
subscriptions by others I agree to pay $
for the ensuing year.
Signed ,
SIOO SSO $25 sls $lO
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The Winslow Mail
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CITY OF WINSLOW AND THE ARIZONA LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD '
Puzzled
HOORAY! HOORAY!
GOT TO FILE TAX
BLANK NEXT WEEK!
Oh, see the busy man working
out a crossword puzzle! The puz
zle isn’t the only thing in the pic
ture that’s cross. The man is
crosser. He looks it. Most men
look just that very same how as
they struggle with their income
tax figures.
Under the revenue act of 1924,
thousands of persons are required
to file returns of income although
the incomes are "not taxable. The
act provides that returns shall be
filed by every single person whose
net income for 1924 was SI,OOO or
more or whose gross income was
$5,000 or more, and by married
couples living together, whose ag
gregate net income was $2,500 or
more, or whose aggregate gross in
come was $5,000 or more. The
exemptions are SI,OOO for single
persons and $2,500 for married
persons living together, plus a S4OO
credit for each dependent. A per
son may have a gross income of
$5,000 and, by reason of the deduc
tions for business expense, bad
debts, losses, etc., a net income of
less than SI,OOO. A single person
, may have an exemption of $2,500
as the head of a family. Neverthe
less, returns are required in both
instances.
Heavy penalties are provided by
the act for failure to file; a return
and pay at least one-fourth of the
amount of tax due within the time
prescribed, on or before March 15,
1925.
FORESTSERVICE
BUILDING ROAD
IN SITGREAVES
Forest Ranger Ruster of the Bly
station, who was in Winslow this
week, reported that work is going
right along, though slowly, on the
three and a half miles of forest
road in the timber south of town.
Construction of the road was start
edin December, and it is expected
that it will be completed some time
in 1926.
The road is near Moqui draw,
and crosses Claer creek near what
is known as Carr’s crossing, on the
old Carr ranch. It is being built
by the forest service primarily for
fire prevention work, but the
grades are being made easy and
the road built wide, so thatj passage
by automobile will be convenient.
It will open a hitherto almost inac
cessible portion of the virgin for
est, all the country north of the
Mogollon rim in the vicinity of
Leonard Canyon, Victorine and
Buck Springs. In the past, to reach
those places it was necessary to
WINSLOW, NAVAJO COUNTY, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1925
j ~’
Our Conservation Policy and
the Sitgreaves Forest
Gifford Pinchot, now Governor of Pennsylvania,
one-time leader in the establishment of the policy of
this government in conserving its natural resources,
has defined conservation as “the application of com
mon sense to common problems for the common
good.” ,t
The early settlers of the United States destroyed
forests from necessity. Later generations destroyed
them from habit. This wasteful practice continued
from the time of the founding of the colonies to the
last decade of the nineteenth century, even though
European nations had many centuries before realized
the value of their forests and had put in operation
plans of conservation which maintained their forests
while giving the inhabitants the privilege of supply
ing themselves with necessary lumber, fuel and other
forest products. Germah forestry dates from the
time of Frederick the Great, and German forests are
in an excellent state of preservation, although during
all those years they have supplied the peopled needs
and been a constant source of revenue.
In the United States the division of forestry was
created in 1880 under the department of agriculture,
and in 1901 was reorganized as the forestry service,
which now has entire charge of the government for- j
ests. The service, as a whole, has been very efficient.
Som% of the people have the impression that con
servation means making NO USE of our resources—
to allow the resources to lie idle until some future
, time—to rot away and depreciate from non-use.
Navajo county is confronted, possibly for the first
time in its history, with a serious twist of the conser
vation policy of the government in regard to the pres
ervation of the forests, the effects of which may be
far-reaching, and, according to some authorities, dis
astrous. It is in regard to the Sitgreaves forest lying
north of the Mogollon rim westward from the lower
center of Apache county, across the southern portion
of Navajo county, and extendnig into Coconino.
The forest covers an area roughly thirty miles
; wide and more than a hundred long. It contains,
according to government appraisal more than three
billion feet of merchantable timber, and government
appraisals are always made from 25 to 50 per cent
below actual cruising figures, so that it is safe to say
I that the timber contains at least four billion feet, and
may contain a great deal more.
1 The recent order of sale of the Deer Springs unit
’ j of the Sitgreaves forest, which sale will be made to
I the highest bidder in May or June of this year, states
j that the timber shall be cut at the rate of not more
than 30,000,000 feet per year.
According to the prospectus of sale, published m
| full in The Mail on January 16, forestry officials
| state the intent of the department to be to permit the
! cut to proceed at the rate of 30 million feet a year over
; the entire area, which would take seventy-five years,
and at the end of that time reforestation would permit
a second cut, and at the end of another seventy-five
years a third cut, and so on, providing for a PERMA
NENT cut of timber in this forest. However, the
officials estimate the extent of timber, in the national
forest and privately owned, to be in excess of three
billion feet, and a number of men who are in a posi
tion to know state that there is in excess of FOUR
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PUBLISHER iN
LOS ANGELES
BOOSTS BIG
CELEBRATION
Plans for Winslow’s big Tri-
State Airway dedication celebration
are rapidly being formed, and en
thusiasm is growing all along tbe
line for the early completion of the
system of landing fjelds.
Aviator Bob Hausler and City
Clerk Charles L. Murphy returned
late last evening from a visit to
Gallup, where they had gone to in
spect a field. They were enter
tained at a banquet by the Kiwanis
club, where they outlined the plans
for Winslow’s celebration, and re
ceived assurance that a great crowd
from Gallup would be present and
help Winslow do the thing up
brown. Two army aviators from
Denver were in GaHup at the same
time, and stated that they, and
many other army flyers, would
bring machines from the Denver
post to Winslow on May 16 and 17.
Mr. Hausler returned the first of
the week from the coast, where he
was in touch with the chambers of
commerce, flying association offi
cials, aviators, and moving picture
concerns, taking up with them the
publicity for the new airway and
securing their promise of co-opera
tion to make the affair the biggest
that has ever been pulled off.
At Glendale, Calif., on Saturday
and Sunday, March 14 and 15, an
aviation meet and banquet will be
held, to which Mr. Hausler and
other Winslow people have been
invited, and Mr. Hausler will take
his plane, painted over the wings
and body with announcements of
Winslow’s meet.
Mr. Hausler made arrangements
with Pathe News to get the pictures
of the local celebration. Along
with that the Pathe people also will
take pictures from the air of the
Painted Desert, the buttes north of
town, the Hop! villages, the big for
ests to the south, and the canyons.
These will be distributed with the
regular issue of Pathe News and
will be shown in theatres all over
the land. One of the features of
the Pathe release will be the pilot
ing of a plane by a Navajo chief.
Mr. Hausler was promised by the
officers themselves that Capt. Low
ell Smith, of the round-the-world
flight; Capt. Reginald Balmer and
George B. Harrisop would be here
to take part in the celebration.
Harrison is a leader in flying
circles in this country, and pub
lishes and frequently writes for
aviation magazines. In a letter to
Mr. Hausler received this week he
says, in part:
“* * * Sorry did not see you
again before you left. * * * We
want to boost the doings at Wins
low in every way, so keep me in
' formed on anything that may work
1 into a story and we will get it into
the Los Angeles papers. * * * I
am sending a story to ‘Aviation’
magazine on the Winslow celebra
tion. * * * The flyers here and
the Commercial Aircraft associa
tion are enthusiastic over Arizona’s
progress and I think this will be
reflected in the east. * * * When
one traces this on the map it will
be seen that it will make an ex
tremely important route. * * *1
am writing to Dr. A. B. Lambert,
head of the Listerine company, at
St. Louis, who is interested in avia
tion, asking him to stir up a move
ment for this air mail route and
telling him of what the Arizona
cities are doing. I think this will
start something.”
The local committee plans, as
part of their publicity work, to
transport to Winslow by plane one
of the popular moving picture act
resses from the coast, who may be
worked into the Pathe news re
lease. In this they have been prom
ised the co-operation of the picture
people in Hollywood, and Mr.
Hausler, who while on the coast
took part in the making of a big
Lasky picture, states that the movie
stars are very much interested and
wish to make the trip.
Who will be brought here is left
to Winslow people to decide. The
, committee asks each person to vote
on the movie queen he would ilke
to see in Winslow. A coupon is
printed on the front page of this
issue of The Winslow Mail. Name
' on the movie queen he would like
> and bring or mail to The Mail of
, fice. The vote will be carefully
' tabulated, and an invitation ex
‘ tended to the one receiving the
greatest number of votes. Do your
1 voting early, and often, if you have
i a choice among the many popular
I and beautiful actresses being seen
on the screen today.
A committee from the Commer
i cial club will meet at The Mail of-
I fice this evening to discuss further
I details of the big celebration and
I to perfect plans on the proposition
of having each city along the line
represented by the most popular
; girl of the city, who will be brought
. to Winslow and returned to their
homes by airplane.
WORK STARTS ON
EXTENDING S. F.
SWITCHING YARD
Work started this week on the j
rebuilding and extending of the |
switch yards of the Santa Fe.
This construction constitutes the
! most important development in the 1
j history of the local railway termi
nal, with the exception of the re- j
| cently completed million-dollar ice
plant. One of the results will be :
j that sw-itching across Williamson i
avenue, which has often proved of |
considerable inconvenience to local l
residents and travelers, will be!
largely eliminated.
The new yard, which will be j
built south of the present tracks, i
will be what is known as a gravity
yard. In switching cars will be j
, started on the proper tracks, and l
I by the slope of the track will roll |
I by their own momentum to the end j
i of the switch track on which they j
j are wanted. The new tracks will j
extend from a point just west of i
the hospital through a portion of
I what is now the suburb of Cooper
| town. Property in that neighbor
; hood has been purchased by the
| railroad to make room for the new
I yard.
( | All tracks will be made of suffi- I
! cient length to handle a full train j
: of seventy caVs. The old yard will
. be made to conform with the new.j
! Reports have been current for
! some time that the main lines
! would be placed south of the Har
' | vey House, but this is denied by j
railroad officials.
, i
Along with rebuilding of the,
yard the wSrk of enlarging the ca- i
pacity of and improving the .round- j
house wall be started
reported that the item in the rail
j road budget for this year to pro
vide for double-tracking the main
line from Winslow to Gallup was
not approved, and that work will
be delayed at least another year.
FORESTSERVICE
ROADMAN BITTEN
BY A MAD SKUNK
E. A. Potter, aged about 50, em
ployed by the forestry service on
the stretch of forest road south of;
town, was brought to Winslow early
this week for Pasteur treatment.
Mr. Potter was bitten by a skunk
which later proved to be hydro
phobic. Dr. Sprankle is giving the
treatments, one each day, the eighth
to be administered today,
i Mr. Potter lives in a tent at the
J construction camp with his daugh
j ter and grandson. The daughter
! and little boy occupied the only
| bed in the tent and the man slept
ion a blanket laid on the floor.
They were awakened one night last
, 1 week by a prowling skunk, which
; dogs had chased into the tent. The
j animal was supposedly driven out
of the tent, but instead it had hid
| den behind a box mnder the bed.
i The old man, hearing it later, .
I raised up on his knees, with his |
I I arms on the edge of the bed, and j
| peered under, trying to locate it.!
The skunk jumped at Mr. Potter j
1 i and bit him severely.
The next morning fellow work-j
■ men trailed the skunk and killed it. j
: The head was sent to the Patholog- 1
1 ical Laboratory at Phoenix for!
examination. It was quickly di3- i
covered that the animal was afflict- j
■ ed with hydrophobia, and serum i
‘ for fifteen treatments was rushed j
• to this city.
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Winslow Association
Favors Game Refuge
; The Winslow Game association
■ met Wednesday evening at the city
• j hall and discussed a number of
l ' matters of concern to the order.
l | A resolution was passed favoring
[ 1 the establishment of a wild game
| refuge in the country south of
. Winslow bounded by the forest line
) and the Mogollon rim between
, Clear creek and Chevalon canyons.
' A committee was appointed to
, care for the shipment of fish of
' sered by the government hatcheries
to be placed in local streams. L. J.
» Bennett was elected chairman of
the committee, and the following
[ will work with him in caring for
„ the 40,000 fish expected: J. S.
1 Roth, W. S. Ranch, Dr. E. C. Gil
[ pin, Bob Huddleston, C. C. Moyer
and M. F. Janeway.
E. E. Comstock presided at the
meeting in the absence of President
' Bob Huddleston, and L J. Bennett
• acted as secretary.
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Chairman Aviation Committee, Good for I
Winslow Commercial Club. 5 VOtGS
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: is my favorite motion picture actress, and it is
1 my wish that she be brought to Winslow on the
- date of the Tri-State Air Route Dedication in
r this city May 16-17, 1925.
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BIG DRIVE FOR
BOV SCOUTS
FUNDS STARTS
IN MORNING
Everyone in this town is going
! to be given an opportunity tomor
i row to contribute Something toward
the fund to carry on Boy Scout
! work. Committees have been organ
ized and pretty nearly everyone in
! town is going to be a worker in the
| cause.
The first committee will be sent
i out from Boy Scout headquarters
in • The Winslow Mail building at
8 o’clock. A small prescribed area
will be covered and the committee
will then report back to headquar
ters, where lists will be checked
all through the day. As soon as
; the first committee is fairly started
j the second will be sent on its way,
and then the third, the fourth, and
I so on, until all the committees are
out.
No time will be lost. The w-ays
are greased for the committees to
I cover the. ground in the shortest
possible time, and the aim is to se
cure Winslow’s quota of the fund
| needed by Grand Canyon coun
i cil of the Boy Scouts of Attierica
long before the sun goes down to
morrow evening. The quota for
the Winslow district is SI,OO0 —not
a large sum, nor an amount that
would be missed if it were sent out
of the city entirely, which it will
not be. It will remain at home to
work and do good for all the boys
of the city, to whose use it will be
dedicated.
Last Monday evening a meeting
of the executive committee of the
l Winslow district was held in the
! store room of Homer Vaughn,
chairman. The members of the
executive council present were R.
M. Bruchman, Charles Daze, Claude
Quebedeaux, Charles Oare, Sam
| Proctor, A. R. Hipkoe, E. C.
Homer Vaughn, George Jackson
Charles P. Mason and Scout Execu
tive Charles McCormick.
Plans for the drive were dis
cussed and Chalres Oare, manager
of the United Bank and Trust com
pany, elected chalrniah of the fi
nancial committee.
The names of subcommittees
w-ere suggested, and it was first
decided to put on the drive next
Monday, with committees repre
sentative of the various lodges,
businesses, clubs and orders to so
licit funds throughout the week.
At a second meeting in the city
hall Wednesday evening the first
plans were abandoned and it was
decided to put on a more intensive
j drive and clean the matter up en
| tirely in one day, if possible, and
• opinion seemed to be unanimous
! that with a tight organization and
j close co-operation in the work,
! more than the qxiota will be se-
J cured before tomorrow night.
A campaign committee was
| named by Chairman Oare, consist
ing of himself, E. C. Gilpin and
Sam Proctor, assisted by Executive
J McCormick, to have charge of the
j scout headquarters that day. The
i headquarters committee will have
full charge of the details of the
drive, and will receive the co-opera
tion not only of the several com
mittee members, but the many citi
zens interested in boys’ work, the
fathers and mothers of Boy Scouts,
and possibly a large number of
high school girls who may take an
active part in the drive.
Full publicity will be given to
the results obtained all through
the day, and as fast as contribu
tions are turned into headquarters,
a thermometer in front of The
i Mail will be boosted up a corre
l sponding amount.
For the benefit of those whom the
committees may fail to call upon,
or have no opportunity to see, a
coupon is printed on this page.
Just fill in with pen, pencil or
brush on the dotted line the
amount you feel you can contribute
to this worthy cause.
Most everyone knows what
scouting means to the community.
Nearly every man of family has a
son who needs what the Boy Scout
training has to offer. Regarding
the good of this work, and facts
pertaining to the efforts of the
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