People, Spots in The News I * Jsljj jjp 1 i B * b ||| «Bi>>"ljfl hq' "'. ,: 'T‘.m : ~ ,s iH"' SIBERIAN SEPTUPLETS . . . Capt. Bob Ashley, veteran air lines pilot, and Mrs. Ashley are shown at their Oceanside, tong Island, home with seven fuzzy white “Samoyede Siberian sled pup pies,, a rare breed in this country. They’re nine weeks old. ';, -, *Msws£Z % ’• i*# '■-,. i-v^ : ;> - : ... Bet luckier-than-average fugitives from bomb reeked (Plymouth, England, are these folk who keep house, in a manner • of-speaking, ..with help of trailer and makeshift tent as repeated .air raids threaten their houses in town. Children seem , ito like the. outdoor life,* the British caption on picture said. ! BmK^y;«, S- ‘ :' ii WP • f& \ :% aKflsa KNOX ATrDIX ...- Scene as IfiSth'Field Artillery passed in review as 44th Division’s 17.000 men and 1,500 vehicles paraded at Fort Dix," N. J...in.honor cjf Secretary of .Navy Frank Knox, guest of veterans’ association annual meeting. 1BH ?'-If *ms** > *' ' **,?s*¥- | served late in June and a technicolor picture and floor show would high j light the local observance. IRogalee Interna «™al VOL. 17—N0.l $184,868 MAY BE SPENT ON PATAGONIA ROAD DURING YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1 Highway Commission’s 1941-42 Budget, Allots Road 82 The Sum Os $97,093; Further Amount $87,775 Subject To Congressional Action The sum of $102,193 is to be spent, by the Arizona Highway Commission on road construc tion in Santa Cruz County dur ing the 12 months beginning Charles Jones Has Narrow Escape From Death Dragged by a horse a distance of about 75 feet through brush and rock, Mounted Customs Inspector Charles Jones, son of Mrs. Ada Jones, had a narrow escape from death Tuesday noon. He suffered a broken collarbone, a broken rib, severe cuts and bruises, :and it was necessary td take two stitches on top of his head and two on his right hand. He is now in St. Joseph’s Hospital where it was said yesterday that he is recovering. Jones was riding along the river with Customs Officer Karl Peterson. While going down a steep hill his horse stumbled. Before Jones could free himself from the fallen animal, the horse reared and Jones’ chaps caught in the saddle horn and the animal ran for about 75 feet drag ging him through brush and rock. Eleven Graduate From Patagonia High School Eleven Patagonia Union High School students graduated at com mencement exercises held in Rich ardson Park Wednesday evening. The graduates, presented diplomas by H. B. Riggs, were Betty Jean Oliver, Margaret Brooks, Irene Bar nett. Mildred Edgell. Juanel Shu m?‘ke. Mose Perales, Dale Mc- Donald, Louis Dunham. Martin Rabb. Eddie Brown and Fred Tel les. Class salutatorian was Juanel Shumake and valedictorian Betty jean Oliver. Judge Gordon Farley addressed the graduates. Six students were presented awards by Prof. O. H. Oldfather follows: American Legion Auxiliary essay contest: Betty Jean Oliver, first; Jack Jones, second. Bausch and Lornb honorary sci ence award: Betty Jean Oliver. Scholastic awards student body: Frances Kane, first place; Mildred Sprung, second; Billy Gatlin, third. Memorial Day Services Here Memorial Day was observed as a holiday here yesterday. Services honoring the approxim ately 24 world war veterans buried in the Nogales cemetery were held at the cemetery under the auspices of the American Legion. Monsignor L. Duval was the main speaker. Last Rites For Mining Man Last rites were held at the No gales cemetery Thursday morning for the late Fred Smith, 80, pioneer mining man, who died a week ago last night at St. Joseph’s hospital following an illness of about one week. Death was attributed to pneu monia. Mr. Smith was a native of Phila delphia and came to Arizona about 40 years ago. For the past 15 years he was a resident of Alamos. Sonora. Annual Summer School Opens Taught by Max Keyte and Joseph Braun, summer school at the high school opened Monday for a six weeks period. The school has an attendance of 27 and the subjects of civics, Ameri can history, biology, geometry and English VII are being taught. NOGALES’ HOME NEWSPAPER .. . PUBLISHE D WHERE TWO NATIONS MEET ' ™ ' i July 1, according to the com mission's tentative budget for the fiscal year of 1941-42 an nounced this week. A public hearing' on the budget I i will be held at 10 a. m. June 16 at the highway commission office in ! Phoenix. The entire amount of $102,193 ' The entire amount of $102,193 is j i allotted the Ncgales-Patagonia-So incita road (Highway 82) except l I $5,100 on Highway 89 from Nogales | to the Pima comity line. This means j that the sum of $97,093 is allotted ! the road to Fort Huaihuca. j Os the funds allotted Highway 82 the sum of $47,593 is a carry-over j from the 1940-41 fiscal year and is to be spent between the airport and a point five miles east of Patagonia. Os the remaining $49,500 the: budget provides that $40,000 is to be , spent between Nogales and Sonoita and $9,500 between Sonoita and the Cochise county line, j Other amounts announced for this 1 county are as follows: Maintenance: Highway 82, $12,- j 662; Highway 89, $8,127; Highway 83 (Sonoita-Pima county line) sl,- 107. Total maintenance $5,238. Betterments; Highway 82, $3,500; Highway 89, $3,500. Total $7,000. In addition to the above amounts, the commission li;»s set up in its budget the sum of 1 $87,775 for Highway 82, subject to passage of a federal defense road building act by Congress. According to word from Wash ington this act is almost sure to pass. If it does it means a total of $184,868 will spent on High way 82 (Nogales-Patagcnia-So noita road) during .the 12 months beginning July 1. Third Rochlin Child Graduates At University When Miss Fannie Rochlin. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Rochlin, graduated from the Uni- 1 versity of Arizona Wednesday night she was their third child to receive a diploma,' from that institution, i Others had been Sidney and Abie ! Rochlin. j And the Rochlins will have an | other son in the university this fall ; when Fred enrolls for a four year period. Fred graduated from No ; gales High School a week ago last 1 night. The two Rochlin boys who pre ! ceded their sister Fannie at the uni versity now hold important posi tions, Sidney with the bridge divi- ! sicn of the Arizona Highway De- 1 partment in Phoenix and Abie as a ; member of the U.S. war department engineering corps in Jamaica. Sidney graduated from the uni- ! versity in 1934 and Abie 1938. Pan-American Chiefs Broadcast Home i If** w Ihtw .J? Jr .< j "'rtmlt.. mL J*# Ilf B H*:j gJßKtt Akw Visiting chiefs of the naval staffs from South and Central America are show* participating In a radii broadcast from New York to their home countries. They were guests of honor at a tunner given by Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the third naval district, U. S. N. The na’.at cue * <>rt ma mg a tour of U. S. naval establishments. NOGALES, ARIZ., SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1941 Police Chief tHH m 'Jifct-: HHI i J. A. McGimsey, who became chief of police Thursday, suc ceeding Clyde Baldwin who went to Tucson to become fire chief of the new U. S. air base. J. A. McGimsey New Chief Os Police Here j Nogales’ new chief of police— J. A. McGimsey—took office Thursday, suceeding Clyde Baldwin who left that day to become fire chief of the new air base at Tucson. Mr. McGimsey was named as chief Monday night by Mayor Louis Hud gin and the appointment was im mediately and unanimously confirm ed by the board of aldermen. The new chief was a member of the board of aldermen the past two i years and was reelected this spring. His second term as alderman was to have begun tomorrow. He resigned I upon being named police chief. | A successor to Mr. McGemsey as i Alderman is to be named Monday night. The names of Rev. O. A. Smith and Jack Lee have been men tioned for the post. Mr. Smith is a former alderman. The New Chief Chief McGimsey was born Jan uary 6, ,1888 at Booneville. Calif., founded by his grandparents and great grandparents who went there i (Turn To Page Five) Saxon Mentioned For Governor ' Harry Saxon, Cochise county cat tleman, former sheriff of Santa Cruz, is being talked up as a pos sible candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1942, the Arizona Gazette of Phoenix an nounced Tuesday. Said The Gazette: ! “Disclosure of the Saxon move- I ment came today when a party : leader said a boom in Saxon’s be half had been quietly started by some of his cowman associates, i “Whether Saxon is in a receptive mood was not revealed. ; PLAN FOR CIVILIAN DEFENSE COORDINATING AGENCY IS CONSIDERED BY GOV. OSBORN > T* : Proposed Agency -Would Be Allied Closely With The National Defense Civilian Program Headed By Mayor LaGuardia Os N. Y. By JAMES C. ANDERSON United Press Staff Correspondent PHOENIX, May 30— (U.P.) Plans for a civilian defense co ordinating agency, designed to supervise federal, state, county and private groups now working without central authority, were being considered today by Gov. Sidney P. Osborn. The new “master council,” ac cording to a spokesman for the governor would be formed along the lines of the administration-sponsor ed civilian defense bill, which was submitted to the 15th state legisla ture but died in committee. The spokesman said Osborn was seeking to set up the new coordinat ing agency without calling a special session of the legislature. In event a special session is called to con sider other matters, however, the legislators will be asked to enact laws to give the agency authority, it was said. Dozen Groups Under proposed plans, the coor dinating agency—which will not be connected with active military de fense-will be made up of repre sentatives from more than a dozen C. C. Secretary Leaving On Vacation Trip Don Smith, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and wife, are leaving the middle of next week on a vacation trip along the Mexi can border to Eagle Pass, Del Rio, Lardeo and New Orleans, thence to Atlanta, Ga., where they will visit Mr. Smith's parents, and then to Crab Orchard. Ky., where they will be guests of relatives of Mrs. Smith. They will be gone about two and one half weeks. The return trip will be via St. Louis. Scout Financial Drive Tuesday Next Thursday a small army of volunteer workers will give every re sident of Nogales and its environs an opportunity to contribute to the maintenance of the Boy Scout pro gram in Nogales during the coming year. Tire local committee, led by C. K. Rader, chairman, will conduct a one-day campaign for funds. Start ing with a breakfast Tuesday morn ing, the workers will visit every place of business in the city, report ing their success at a dinner to be held in the evening. Funds so raised will be used in servicing the troops now organized in the city, in organizing additional treops and Cub packs, and in train ing additional volunteer leaders .for the groups. .NTS A COPY | groups now functioning indepen ! dently in civilian defense activity in | Arizona. i Included among these agencies | are: 1. State Social Security Board. ; This agency, with the help of the ; federal government, administers i civilian health and and welfare (Turn To Page Five) Honored! i ■ ' ■ - V ■ ■ : • ; : ; HL S mSHB VB j i hmm HHHHfc H| hp iflflf HHM jil Sj H B ,JH B B "■ *m&f**)> 4 Maurice Du Fretay, right, 20-year old Frenchman, receives the em pire medal from air marshal L. A. Pattinson for his unique escape toj England. Du Fretay built a plane by candle-light, covering it with leaves by day. Death Claims j Mrs. Craig Watt At Home Here Following a long illness, Mrs. Olivia Watt. 78. wife of Rev. James Craig Watt, died at 8:15 p. m. Thursday at her home in Camp Little. Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Sunday at the Congregat ional church followed by burial in the Masonic cemetery. ! Mrs. Watt was born in Perth, Ontario, Canada, and resided in No gales eleven years, coming here from near Clifton where she lived from 1909 to 1930. In addition to her husband she is survived by a son, S. C. Watt, Macksville. Montana; two half brothers, Dr. Joseph Campbell, On tario. Canada; Dr. Robert Campbell of Kentucky, and two grandchildren in Los Angeles, the latter being children of the late Customs Offi cer Robert Craig Waitt who died a number of years ago. Escaladas Back From Oklahoma Louis Escalada, chairman of the Santa Cruz County Board of Super visors, wife, and son returned Wed nesday from a vacation trip to Ada, Okla., where they visited relatives of Mrs. Escalada. Upon their return here they mov ed into their beautiful new home on Escalada Drive purchased recently from Mi*, and Mrs. E. J. Dittmer, who are locating in California. Calls Warrants For Payment Mrs. Agnes Hamlin, county treas urer , on Tuesday called for payment the following registered warrants: Salary to June 30, 1940. inc. Expense to Sept. 4, 1940. to war rant No. 627, inc. Grammar school to Mar. 21. 1941, to warrant No. 5441, inc. High school to April 15. 1941, inc. Patagonia Union High School to May 15, 1941, inc. District No. 3 to May 9. 1941. inc. District No. 5 to May 9, 1941. inc. District No. 6 to April 25. 1941, inc.