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Friday the 13th;
— lt’s Here Again!
Tj 1 RID.4Y the 13th America’s ;
No. 1 jinx day—has arrived. And, I
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111 avoid spilling
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lb j their hold on
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/I I —l charms, and
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— -1.1 c ye “ peeled” .
™ jlJ 7/7 for coal-corn
/ plexioned cats,
conversations
£ KBL I j take on an air
V- -JIJ of uneasiness—
j // / “Me sleep on
.J - j the 13th floor?
mi: i. No, suh!” . . . 1
Cfin&Jr' “We can’t be '
married then —
it’s Friday!” ... 1
“Lissen, Gus, we ’
J ain’t pullin’ no j
job tonight — it’s the 13th, see!” . . . '
Why, these superstitions? Well,
it’s an old, old story.
The number 13 was blackballed ■
by the ancient Babylonians, and in
the Christian era has been associat
ed with the 13 who partook of the
tragic Last Supper. The unpopular
ity of Friday is analogous to the
nrimilive conviction that Friday was
taboo —it was spoiled by bad magi
cal conditions.
And so, despite the advance of
science and free-for-all education,
people cling to these myths. Friday
the 13th annually costs this country
a large sum of time and money. Peo
ple postpone trips; business men de
fer decisions; Wall Street putroniz
ers “forget” the stock exchange; race
track enthusiasts place small bets,
or none at all; and society folk leave
the 13th guest uninvited!
And, ironically enough, we con
tinue to laugh at voodooism!
Dedication Dance
At Sop n<fo
Successful Affair
The dedication dance at Sonoita'
Saturday night was one of the most
successful ever held by the Santa
Cruz County Fair & Rodeo Associa
tion.
Proceeds are to be used to help
pay for an entirely fiew dance floor
and kitchen equipment, recently in
stalled in the main fair grounds
building.
It is planned to hold dances at
•given dates all through the summer
months, the next one to be in con
nection with the annual 4th of July
celebration featuring a rodeo and
‘‘The Sport of Kings,” eight regular
horse races and one special race be
ing on the program.
Donations by the following helped
very materially to make last Satur
day's dance a financial success:
Home Gas & Fuel Co. Bu-Gas,
Ivan Nelson Kohler lighting system;
food supplies and cash. T. & T.
Market. Tucson Public Market, Mrs.
H. B. Thurber, Sonoita Mercantile
Company, Patagonia Meat Market,
Galke Grocery, Hugh Shumake,
Dawson Scogins, Mrs. J. R. Gard
ner, Mrc. R. C. Larimore. Showalter
Saddlery, Elmer Hoy, Cumming’s
Bar. Roscoe McCullough, Roe Mar
tin. Mrs. Jack Arbuckle, Mrs. Jack
Delaney, Curly Horse Ranch, Mrs.
Charles Davis. Mrs. Gladys Putnam,
and others.
The committee wishes to thank
one and all for their splendid co
operation.
Supervising
Installation Os
Diesel Engine
Turner Martin has arrived from
Bisbee to supervise installation of
the Citizen Utilities Company’s
new diesel engine.
He will be here about three
months.
Many Happy Returns
Mrs. Emma Budge, 89 on June 3.
Born in England. Came to United
States in 1869.
Dr. E. C. Houle. June 5.
Miss Julia (Baby Doll! Farrior.
June 6.
Dr. Charles S. Smith. June 13.
Jimma Titcomb, June 13.
Miss Blossom Chernin. June 13.
Charles E. Powell, Jr., June 13.
Johnny Peterson, June 13.
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VOL. 17—NO. 2
PROPOSED ENFORCEMENT OF
WEBB-KENYON ACT AT THIS
PORT OPPOSED BY C, OF C.
Chamber Os Commerce Lodges Protest Against Pro
posal Os Tax Commission To Halt Importations
Os Liquor From Mexico
A vigorous protest against
proposed enforcement of the
Webb-Kenyon act by the state
tax commission was lodged
Thursday by the Chamber of
Commei ce.
The Webb-Kenyon act, an act ol
Congress, gives state law precedence
over federal law in the matter of
impounding liquor from Mexico into
Arizonai, the office of State Liquor
State To Get
Big Slice Os
U.S. Road Funds
Corporation Commissioner Wil
liam (Bill) Peterson, a visitor here
last week from Phoenix, said he
learned while in Washington recent
ly that Arizona is to get a big slice
of federal defense road building
funds for which an appropriatioh is
expected to be made shortly.
The Arizona Highway Commis
sion, according to its annual ten
tative budget, published in today’s
Nogales International,, anticipates
that Arizona’s share of the $287,-
000,000 bill now before the national
lawmakers will be $1,435,382, and of
this amount $87,775 is to be spent
on the Patagonia road during the
fiscal year beginning July 1.
“You Can’t Beat
This Climate,”
Says Visitor
“You can’t beat this climate.”
Thus spoke Harry Tomlin of I.os
Anegles, former resident of Nogales,
who arrived here Thursday to spend
a couple days transacting business.
He is accompanied by his son, Ed
ward Tomlin, and wife, and their
son, Edvard, Jr., 10, Edward Tomlin,
Sr., has been in the dental depart
ment of the U. S. Navy at San Diego
for the past 12 years.
Harry Tomlin lived here for 28
years prior to moving to Los Angeles
following the death of his wife 14
years ago.
He said yesterday that his other
son, Harry Tomlin, Jr., is a Meth
odist minister in Homeny, Okla.
He declared that San Diego is
booming. ‘‘Fifty thousand new re
sidents have settled there the past
year,” he asserted.
Recreational
Program Gets
Under Way Here
The full time, supervised recrea
tional program inaugurated under
the local National Defense Council
at the suggestion of the regional
representatives of the national
council is now under way.
The City of Nogales has alloted
S2OO to the program, Santa Cruz
County an additional S3OO and it is
hoped that the necessary balance
with which to carry the program
through the summer will be raised
by public subscription.
Oil Thursday, local members of
the Defense Council made a trip to
Patagonia to make arrangements
for a start in that community.
With Coach Wally Smith in
charge it is felt that a worthwhile
and successful group of activities
will soon be under way.
oeim Days Back
For State Farmers
TUCSON, June 6 (U.P.)— Boom
days were back again today for Ari
zona famiens and ranchers on the
basis of income statistics compiled
by the University of Arizona.
The institution’s agricultural sta
tion announced income from ranch
and farm products in 1940 reached
ssß,ooo.ooo—the highest since the
1929 figure of $60,000,000.
Cattle and calves ranked as the
largest source of Income, according
for $16,000,000. Cotton brought $13,-
800.000 and truck crops $10,000,000.
Dairy products returned $3,500,000.
The other 25 per cent was ac
counted for by 20 other crops.
The 1940 figure has been exceeded
only twice before in history and was
$4,000,000 above the 1939 total.
Control Superintendent John Dun
can at Phoenix asserted Wednes
day.
Arizona law, it was stated, permits
cnly wholesalers to import liquor
into the state and than after Ari
zona taxes have been paid.
Federal law permits importation
of spirituous beveraes to four quarts
per month per individual.
It was stated in Phoenix Wednes
j day that agents of the tax commis
|sion have come to Nogales to en
! force the state law and brought
cards for distribution to tourists
crossing the international line, the
notices declaring it is “unlawful to
import spirituous liquors into Ari
zona.”
Duncan said “We are taking the
action because the practice has be
come an evil.” He added, “Under
the law only licensed wholesalers
can affix luxury tax stamps.”
A member of the tax commission,
D. C. O'Neil, stated ‘‘We ignored
the practice until the newspapers
began to advertise the fact that li
quor could be purchased below the
state line without paying the state
tax.” He added, “That was the last
straw.”
560 TO 2,000 GALLONS
PER MONTH
It was asserted at a special meet
ing of the international relations
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce Thursday that the amount
of liquor coming across the border
here from Mexico each month was
estimated at 560 to 2,000 gallons.
From 50 to 60 percent of the im
portations are by tourists and is of
the sort not obtainable in the Unit
ed States and is purchased largely
as souvenirs of Mexico, it was said
at the C. of C. meeting.
It was also brought out that if the
law is enforced there will be a drop
in the number of tourists visiting
Mexico at Arizona border ports,
liquor and curio dealers across the
line will feel ® drop in trade, and
there may be a setback, to some ex
tent, in the good relations existing
between the two countries along the
border.
Extending Sewer
System Here
Work was begun Thursday extend
ing the Nogales city sewer system
to a residential area not previously
served—along Perkins street, Char
les, Frederick, Tyler and Santa
Cruz streets, WPA officials an
nounced in Phoenix Wednesday.
The lines will be of four, six and:
eight-inch pipe and will connect
with the municipal sewage disposal
plant.
FLAG WEEK
Phoenix, June 6—(U.P.)—June 8
to 14 has been proclaimed “Flag
Week” by Gov. Sidney P. Osborn,
who urged Arizona citizens to dis
play the flag in homes and offices
throughout the week.
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NOGALES, ARIZ., SATURDAY, JUNE 7,1941
New Trench e,loiter for U. S.
One of the first 81-mm trench mortars completed in the United State:-
for the national defense program is accepted for the army at a cere
mony at the Ptiliman Standard Car company’s plant in Hammond, lad.
Left to right: Brig. Gen. A. G. Gillespie; C. A. Liddle, president of th
company, and Col. Donald Armstrong.
Five Bombers Daily For Great Britain
Made At Lockheed’s Burbank
Factory, Says Former Nogales Boy
Hudson bombers for Great
Britain are being manufactured
at the rate of five a day at the
main Burbank, Califonia plant
of the Lockheed Airplane Cor
poration, according to Casey
Marsland, who was here Sunday
from Burbank.
Marsland, former Nogalian and
cousin of Syke Marsland of Tucson,
also'an ex-Nogalian, works on the
final assembly line of the Lockheed
company.
He said that 23,000 persons are
employed at the Lockheed factory
where the Hudson bombers are
made, and 6,000 at the Lockheed’s
Vega factory, one half mile frim
the Lockheed.
At its Vega factory the Lockheed
company manufactures the new
YP3B interceptor plane for the Unit
ed States government. The world’s
fastest plane, it will make better
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Fishermen Get
Rainbow Trout
Bringing back word that they
got some fifteen inch Rainbow trout
and fishing was fair but not extra,
F. E. Westerlund, Victor J. Wager,
Jr., and Ted Chaney returned Tues
day from the country between Jer
ome and Pine where they spent a
week. .
They also report having killed
three rattlesnakes and saw three
more.
And, furthermore, they said that
Chaney was stung on a leg five
times by a scorpion which kept him
in bed one day.
Nogalians Among
Tempe Graduates
Among the 259 graduates at Ari
zona State college in Tempe Wed
nesday evening were the following
from Nogales;
Floy Elaine Gildea, Lucille Lowe,
Ina Chloe Barkley and Daniel Fim
bres.
J than 400 miles an hour.
Os the Hudson bombers made in
! Eurbank, some are taken by ships,
! and ethers flown, to England.
I
Chief Os Police
Addresses Rotary
J. A. McGimsey told of his ex
! periences the first week as chief of
police and J. A. Jackson related
amusing happenings of the time he
was assistant chief of police back
in 1915 at yesterday’s Rotary Club
meeting.
Many of the problems of 1915 still
confront the police department to
: day, the speakers disclosed.
Jackson said that in 1915 there
! were 14,000 American troops here,
! thousands of Mexican soldiers near
Nogales. Sonora, Herb Clagett was
mayor, the late Charles L. Fowler
chief of police, and the police de
partment had six paid officers.
Eld Alvarez was program chair
■ man at yesterday’s Rotary meet
j ing.
i Service Boards
To Handle
j Registration July 1
Local Selective Service boards will
; handle the registrtaion on July 1 of
all men who have become 21 since
tho first registration on October 16,
j 1940, it was announced this week.
The day has been proclaimed by
1 President Roosevelt as Selective
Service registration day.
Local boards have been asked to
give serious consideration to indi
vidual claims for deferment of men
engaged in agriculture. The defense
program ha s drawn heavily upon the
supply of farm labor and an ade
quate supply is becoming a serious
| problem, particularly along the
i Seaboard, in Ohio and Michigan.
- and parts of Ind iana, Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnesota and Arizona.
SONOITA A REMINDER OF
SARATOGA; STEPPERS WORK
OUT FOR JULY 4TH RACES
Nine Races On Program For Annual Event; Fast And
Furious Rodeo Promised; Annual Dance To Be
Put On By Patagonia Firemen
Preparing for the annual 4th !
of July rodeo and races, Sonoita
resembles Saratoga these days,
accord'ng to arrivals from the
northern end of the county.
About ten race horses are work- j
ing out each morning from 6:30 to j
10:30 on the Sonoita track, they I
said.
Fast steppers are arriving each
week, the track is being put in good i
shape, the fence surrounding the
oval rebuilt, and other improve- 1
ments are under way.
NINE RACES
There will be nine race events in
cluding two kindergarten races for
foals cf 1939. One of these two will
be for Santa Cruz County owned
celts, and one open to any colt.
Both will be one-eighth of a mile.
Other races will be as follows:
Kindergarten Purse—foals of 1939. j
One eighth of a mile—s4o.oo added >
—slo.oo entry fee.
Arizona Championship quarter
horse race. One quarter of a mile— j
open 570.00 added ■ — $20.00 entry
fee.
Sonoita Special weight -1 2 0
pounds—three-eighths of a mile—
s4o.oo added—slo.oo entry free.
Elgin Free For All—weight-120
pounds—one quarter of a mile— |
entrants in other races not eligible j
—540.00 added —$10.00 entry fee.
Governor's Handicap weight-120 J
pounds—one half mile and seventy j
yards—s4o.oo added SIO.OO entry i
fee.
Patagonia Purse weight - 120 j
pounds—one quarter of a mile— j
stock saddles Santa Cruz County'
owned—s4o.oo added —$10.00 entry !
fee.
Wirt Bowman Special—stock sad-1
dies—one quarter of a mile rope ;
horse race—must rope at this rodeo
first—s4o.oo added —$10.00 entry fee.
Pcny Express—pass the stick —two '
teams of three, one from Tucson ’
and one from Santa Cruz County or I
vicinity—three-quarters of a mile to !
a team, each horse to run cne- !
quarter of a mile—s4o.oo added— |
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$558 Raised In
Finance Drive
For Boy Scouts
Nogales business men working in :
teams raised a total of $448.45 in
cash and pledges during the one-day
drive for funds for the Boy Scents
Tuesday.
One hundred and ten dollars had
been obtained in advanced gfits,
making a total of $558.45 up to
Tuesday night, and since then ad
ditional subscriptions have come in.
Ten teams made 194 caills and 139
persons subscribed during the dawn
to dusk drive.
Os the $558.45, Rotarians put up
$121.00.
Mayor Leaving
On Tour Os
East And Canada
Mayor and Mrs. Louis Hudein and
Jean and sons Walter and
Henry are leaving Thunsday on a
month's automobile tour.
First, they will go to Flagstaff
where the mayor will attend a meet
ing of the Arizona Municipal League
and form Flagstaff they wlil go to
Oklahoma, Duluth, Minn.. Canada,
and other places.
They will visit two brothers of
Mrs. Hudgin at her old home town
of Duluth and in Ontario they will
visit Mr. Hudgin's old home at Pic
ton.
Boice Requests
Special Programs
For Budget Week
PHOENIX, une 6. Henny G.
Boice. president of The Arizona
Tax Research Association, today re
quested all the service clubs of the
state to arrange special programs at j
their weekly luncheon meetings'
during Budget Week, June 9 to 14.
It was Mr. Boice's suggestion that
Budget Week be observed by dedicat
ing these programs to the taxpayer
and that appropriate, instructional
talks be arranged for on one of the
many important questions that face
the taxpayer today.
NOGALES t
IN THE
DUDE RANCH
COUNTRY
FIVE CENTS A COPY
I SIO.OO entry fee—winner take all.
RODEO AND DANCE
Rodeo events will be fast and fur
ious throughout the day and in the
1 evening. Patagonia firemen will hold
j their annual public 4th of July ball
: in the Sonoita fair hall.
I The races and rodeo are sponsored
| by the Santa Cruz County Faid &s
j Rodeo Association.
Rotary Sending
10 Boys
To Scout Camp
Funds raised through fines at
Rotary Club meetings the past year
i will send ten Nogales boys to the
! annual Boy Scout encampment
j opening cn Mount Lemon a week
■ from tomorrow.
But the boys will work for the
sum of $7.50 each will receive from
j Rotary to pay the cost of the week’s
outing. Each will put in from 28 to
34 hours the next seven days, be
ginning today, cleaning up the cac
tus garden north cf the civic build
ing, and other premises.
| Three cf the ten boys are mem
i bers of the Rotary Club-sponsored
j trcop of scouts, Troop No. 27, and
j the other seven belong to Troop 26.
I sponsored by the Elks.
Elgin Pioneer
Dies In Tucson
s
j Harry L. Stoddard, 71, a> resident
I of Elgin for the past 31 years, died
j Saturday at the U.S. Veterans' hos
| pital in Tucson. Funeral services
were conducted at Black Oak ceme-
I tery at Canille Monday.
: A native of Vermont, Mr. Stod
» dard went to Bisbee in 1898 and
j had lived at Elgin since 1911.
Surviving are four sons, Stanley.
! Emory, Wesley and Shirley Stod
j dard, and a daughter, Mrs. Ira Mc
; Loy, all of Tucson.
| Large Planting
Os Melons In
Arizona This Year
\ PHOENIX, June 6—(U.P.)—One
| of the largest plantings of canta
loupe, honey dew and honey ball
melons in Arizona’s history neared
maturity today amd growers predict
-1 ed the peak shipping season would
be underway before the end of June.
. Total cantaloupe acreage, matur
ing under excellent growing condi
tions, was 13,335 acres compared
with 9,880 acres a year ago, accord
ing to the state fruit and vegetable
standardization service office.
Most of the acreage was divided
between Yuma and the Salt River
valley.
omolete Field
Work At Site
Os San Carlos Dam
PHOENIX. June 6—(U.F.)—Re
clamation officials today said field
work at the site cf the proposed
San Pedro dam had been completed
and that final designs for the dam
were almost finished
The San Pedro dam project was
designed to provide storage for San
Pedro river floodwaters.
Embargo Against
Arizona Mules
SACRAMENTO. Cal. June 6
(U.P.)—An embargo against import
ation cf horses and mules from
Arizona and parts of Nevada was
in effect today in an action de
signed to protect California from
dourine-ridden stock.
Importations will be allowed only
if a veterinary’s certificate issued
within 30 days showed freedom from
the disease, according to a proclam
ation issued by Gov. Oulbert Olson.
PALEN HUDGIN GETS
INSTRUCTOR’S LICENSE
P?!en Hudgin. son of Mayor Louis
Hudgin. has received his aviation
instructor's license. H° is employed
by the Hudgin Flying School in Tuc
son owned by his brother, Alfred
Hudgin.