The Desert Sun from Palm Springs, California • 13

PALM SPRINGS CALIF Friday October 4 1946 DR CALISTA SURGICAL CHIROPODIST Office Now Open MONDAY SATURDAY THE WILSON BUILDING Telephone 3791 The Desert Sun 13 Rancho Mirage Scene of Amvei Session Tonight Members of the American Veterans of World War II are scheduled to meet tonight at the American Legion hall in Rancho Mirage The session will be called to order at 8 Frank Bogert commander announced that those who have no transportation to be in front of the American Express office at 7:30 pm where other AMVETS with room in their automobiles will furnish transportation to the meeting place Committee reports will feature the meeting with an important issue housing and a permanent meeting place as the most important on the agenda Approximately 200 languages are spoken in the valleys of the Caucasus mountains SOCIAL SITUATIONS: The situation: You call at a home and the maid whose name you know answers the door Wrong way: Say without any greeting to the maid Mrs Jones at home? Right way: Say evening Mary is Mrs Jones at SAVE VITAMINS Since pulp as well as juice contains vitamin vitamin-wise to serve orange and grapefruit juices unstrained Better still eat the fruit simply halved sliced or sectioned The British aircraft industry consisted of 17 major factories employing 24000 workers in 1939 but has expanded to a point where there were more than 15000 factories employing 1731-000 workers at the end of 1944 ologist to isolate and identify any one Death Valley is 250 miles from San Bernardino via Death Valley Junction and would take the better part of a day to reach from Palm Springs If you are planning a trip to this fascinating region this winter allow two days for driving to and from there and plan on at least two days in the Valley ilself one to take in Badwater Dante's View and Furnace Creek Inn and a second day to see Castle and Ubehebe Crater at the north end of the Monument Mid-winter should be the best weather as far as temperature is concerned to make such a trip (Copyrighted 1946 by Desert Museum) Anybody Can Use Classified Ads Smart People Do! MY GOODNESS Three Villagers all males names unmentioned because of the state libel laws perform in the Village Vanities a spring feature in Palm Springs where you have Fun in the Sun (Doc Waughop Print) Deep Sea Fishing PORT ORANGE BAIT RODS REELS GALLEY SERVICE 1135 Coast Highway Newport Beach Phone Beacon 5525 Espada St Louis Jr Nobilis Dorabee Sarda-Sarda Skip-A-Lou JB Missawit Josephine Southern Comfort II Retriever Trade Wind Cyperlurus MORE ABOUT Hammada Nettie Kalbach persisting now only as ghost cities Then in the it was borax that attracted world-wide attention to this desolate wasteland It was freighted oui by the well-known 20-mule-teams of fiction and reality With less than one and one-half inches of rain per year this forbidding arid area has now become a fashionable winter resort and with the advent of fine paved roads into its borders from Nevada as well as California thousands of tourists flock to NOTARY PUBLIC and Public Stenographer 337 Palm Canyon Dr Phone 5005 OUR NEXT STOP was at Furnace Creek Inn that ultra-palatial hostelry nestled on the side of the Funeral mountains Although it had been closed for the season we ventured inside on a tour of inspection Unfortunately the swimming pool had Liquors Wines Beers Youngs Amado Liquor Store 127 Amado Rd Phone i241 1 Tr DUth Ya ley each winter In spite ot the scarcity of rainfall HEATING AND COOLING Henry A Simsarian 850 Palm Canyon Drive PHONE 7414 GENE AND PEGGY HECK'S Ml CITA CAFE eaturing The Finest in SPANISH FOOD CONTACT US NOW FOR the valley boasts nearly 600 different kinds of wildflowers many of them endemic species found nowhere else in the world There are also 26 types of mammals that live in the Death Valley region and 170 species of wild birds But it is the geological formations of the Valley itself that form the main attraction Some one has called Death Valley a vast outdoor geologic museum Much of the area has never been thoroughly explored and described There are so many different strata represented here that if they were all restored in their proper sequence they would probably be 12 miles thick! However this whole country has been subjected to so many uplifts and diastrophisms that the strata are all jumbled and mixed up today requiring a skilled ge- Open Daily Except Tuesdays 4 to 10 pm SUBDIVISION DESIGN-LAND SURVEYING in the Center of THERMAL Telephone for Reservations Thermal Main 216 IRVING MARSHALL Civil and Structural Engineer is of a of half-starved Telephone 0127 3972 Main Street Riverside California Riverside Engineering Co BACK TO SCHOOL! FOR MOTORISTS 0 0 hot that we had to move on Before we left Bad water we hiked up to the white line painted on the mountainside 280 feet above We had long ago shed to shorts the pool Ihis marks absolute sea but even so the air was searing e' to our bare skin At Stovepipe Wells we stopped for gasoline and some cool water Then on to our goal for that night: Bad-water We knew that place would be hotter still probably the hottest point in the whole Mojave desert yet we were crazy enough to want to spend the night there We got to Badwatcr late in the afternoon Somehow we had visualized the spot differently Actually Badwater is located on the eastern edge of the broad flat-bottomed drv valley beside a low range of rocky hills A shallow alkali lake persists here holding a few inches of lukewarm salt-encrusted water No vegetation is within sight However previous campers had brought in wood so we managed to scrape up enough bits of it to make a fire for our evening meal Whether the fire was just a very hot one or whether the low altitude was a major influence we agree upon but at any rate our coffee water boiled in no time at all Our dinner that night consisted of vegetable soup wieners coffee and canned peaches IT WAS NEARLY eight o'clock and still so warm that we shed I ever our shorts and walked about camp clad only in shoes We would have dispensed with them too but the surface of the ground was a bit too warm for comfort As it gradually became dark a half moon rose from the east and flooded the whole valley with a soft eerie light It was as if we had encamped on the shore of a huge lake The resemblance to a wide body of water was so apparent that had we arrived after dark we would have been positive that a real lake existed there We made up our beds: Chico on his cot since he had no sleeping bag and I on my air-mattress Since we had no wood nor the inclination for the usual nightly camp-fire we stretched out on our and chatted until nearly 11:00 It was still so hot that neither of us entertained any thoughts of sleep Hot blasts of air swept across the playa against our nude bodies our skins felt warm and dry You dared not take deep breaths for the air felt too searing in your throats I took a walk down to the edge of the little pool It was mysterious in that subdued moonlight as I stood there staring across the shimmering lake bed Not a sound disturbed the heavy oppressive stillness no cheery voicings here no rustlings of grasses or leaves in the ubiquitous breeze Once I did hear a lone bat screeching overhead and was glad when the sounds ceased The soil beneath my shoes was crisp and brittle crumbling under my weight and crunching audibly as I walked I had brought along a cup which I proceeded to fill with the salty unpotable water and carried back to where Chico was still dozing I poured the tepid liquid over his body it must have felt cold in contrast for I got the desired response About three that next morning a cooler breeze sprang up and we managed to drop off into a fitful slumber Our sleep was a short one however since the sun poured in upon us shortly after five and it was soon so just been drained for cleaning a miioH so the sprinklers on the spacious lawns and waded in the artificial stream coursing thru the grounds At least we were cooled off to some extent Next we investigated the little natural bridge nearby hut were disappointed by its small size after seeing Rainbow Bridge a few weeks previously Then on to the north end of the Monument to famous Death Valley Here at an altitude of about 3000 feet Walter Scott excowboy of Buffalow Bill fame together with his partner A Johnson built a replica of an old Moorish castle In it they have amassed countless art treasures and duplicated the interiors of an Old World castle down to the intricate wrought-iron work and tapestries A guide fee of one dollar is charged to go through the building which is still privately owned Eight miles west of Ubehebe Crater the remnants a large cinder cone that once belched forth molten cinders and red-hot lava The road curves around and ends right on the brink of the crater offering splendid view down into the maw of the cone Back to Stovepipe Wells again past the great area of sand dunes in the center of the Monument and then we left Death Valley for Lone Pine with memories a heat never before experienced by either of us DEATH VALLEY was discovered in 1849 by a band of emigrants trying to find a short-cut to the newly discovered goldfields of California They gave it the present name the local Indians called the valley (ground afire) Mining towns sprang up in the ensuing years and then vanished Fast morning flights daily to LONG BEACH LOS ANGELES westbound IMPERIAL VALLEY eastbound Direct connections to SAN FRANCISCO OAKLAND DENVER and EAST LAS VEGAS -SALT LAKE CITY Reservations: Phone: Palm Springs Airport UIESTERI1 filR LinES AMERICA'S PIONEER AIRLINE mwmimn Your Electric Servant KEY CITIES ON WESTERN SKYWAYS SAN FRANCISCO LONG BEACH CHEYENNE OAKLAND IAS VEGAS GREAT FALLS DENVER LOS ANGELES EDMONTON SAN DIEGO SALT LAKE CITY El CENTRO Each year hundreds of children are injured through their own carelessness or through the fault of the motorists involved RETRIBUTION' AS YOU'D LIKE Eager and carefree children going to or from school oftentimes do not stop and think of the many dangers that await them in the streets It is up to us the motoring public io protect these children against their own carelessness 0 THKT THE GUY WHO STOLE EROtAtC AUD Most schools have a force of student police who dv'cct the students safely across the streets Respect those boys and girls who are protecting your young America Palm Springs Plumbing Co We're Still in Business Operating out of Greyhound Offices Using our old Telephone Number Phone 6704 200 Indian Ave I REFRIGERRTION AS YOU'D LIKE IT FUNDERBURG ELECTRIC CO TEX DRISKELL SALES and SERVICE 171 Indian Phone 3403 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING REPAIRING MAINTENANCE 415 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