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PAGE THIRTEEN Redhnds-Highland District's Citrus Men Ask Jobless Tax Exemption SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939 UNIEL IS IDiCEACT I SCUTES Revision of Federal Act Is Usei As Basis of Appeal Before California Commission Cooperative citrus packing assocl ations of the Redlands-Highland district have joined in an appeal to the California employment com' mission, governing board of the California unemployment insurance act, asking exemption for taxes as sessed against them and their en ployes. While the ruling is awaited, pack ing associations are making pay ments under protest, it was stated yesterday. They hope for relnv bursement after their exemption claim has been upheld. ACTS FOR INDUSTRY Ivan G. McDaniel, Los Angeles attorney and brother of Bruce W.

McDaniel of Redlands, general mail' ager of Mutual Orange Distributors, filed the claim of exemption in the name of the Agricultural Producers Labor committee. McDaniel said his organization, In which Redlands-Highland associa tions hold memberships, represents approximately 95 per cent of all California citrus growers, 75 per cent of the vegetable growers and 60 per cent of the producers of all other agricultural commodities. The Federal social security act said McDaniel was amended dur ing the last session of Congress to fully exempt all agricultural labor, both on farms and in packing houses. His organization seeks to make the Federal amendment apply to California legislation. 'DISCRIMINATORY "We are asking simply that the California employment commission adopt a ruling which will bring the state act into line with the Fed eral act insofar as agricultural ex emption is concerned," McDaniel stated.

"As the present ruling of the em ployment commission now stands in including packing house workers, it Is definitely discriminatory. A large grower, who is able to have his own packing house on his farm, is not taxed and his workers are not under the act. However, a number of small growers, who get together in a cooperative body to operate their own packing house, are under the act and their work ers are not exempt. "Florida, Idaho and Texas, direct competitors of California farmers in various ways, have announced their intentions of conforming with the new Federal amendment exempting farm laborers." Riverside Grower Appointed to Board (By United Press) SACRAMENTO, Cai Dec. 4.

Gov. Culbcrt L. Olson tonight ap- pointed Ed E. Hill, Riverside orange grower, to the Riverside county board of supervisors, succeeding the late Thomas F. Flaherty.

Hill's term will expire in 1940. He is deputy director of the state grange and has been a resident of Riverside for many years. Olson said Hill was highly recommended for the post because he was actively identified with the grange and oth-er farm activities. 1 NATIONAL WEATHER REPORT STATE FORECAST (By Associated Press) San Francisco Bay Region: Fair and mild but with occasional cloudiness Tuesday and Wednesday; light variable wind. Northern California: Fair and mild but with occasional cloudiness north portion Tuesday and Wednesday; gentle variable wind.

Sierra Nevada: Fair Tuesday and Wednesday; no change in temperature; gentle southerly wind. Sacramento and Santa Clara Valleys: Fair and mild but with occasional cloudiness Tuesday and Wednesday; light variable wind. San Joaquin Valley: Fair and mild Tuesday and Wednesday; light variable wind. Southern California: Fair Tuesday and Wednopday; no change in temperature; light northwest wind off the coast. SAN FRANCISCO.

Dec. 4. High and low temperatures from 27 cities ''day follow: PACIFIC COAST High Low Fresno 71 37 Lns Angeles 88 57 Needles 74 43 Phoenix 8(1 41 Portland 60 40 Sacramento (57 34 Ann Diego 79 50 an Francisco 67 53 67 50 EASTERN 51 33 lliistun 45 39 Uutf'U' 33 31 Chicago 36 30 Cincinnati 38 34 Denver 68 30 lOuluth 34 20 i iiih'Pslon 73 50 Kansas City 57 32 Memphis 54 33 New Orleans 66 48 New York 46 37 Innha 56 29 Pittsburgh 35 32 Mult Lake City 56 25 Kan Antonio 76 45 Tampa 67 46 Washington 46 36 MORTON MASER AND SCAT DAVIS ORCHESTRA TRAVEL Morton Masor, former Redlands-San Bernardino youth, Is pictured above (seated at piano) with Johnny (Scat) Davis, orchestra leader and film figure. They are traveling with Davis' orchestra on an eastern theatrical tour. Higher pinnacles in the world of music have been attained by Morton Maser, graduate of Redlands high school and San Bernardino junior college.

Maser, who is nationally known for his arrangements of dance music despite the fact he is only 21 years old, is on a theatrical tour of eastern cities with Johnny (Scat) Davis, motion picture, player and orchestra leader. Maser and Davis recently concluded a series of appearances at the Black Hawk cafe, Chicago. In the realm of swing and jive Davis and his orchestra are as favorably known as in the temples of sweet music. Davis acknowledges that much of his suc cess is due to orchestral arrangements by Maser. While at Redlands high school, Contemporary Club Views Scenes From Mysterious Island The little known island of Hainan, off the coast of China, was de scribed to members of the Redlands Contemporary club yesterday by Nicol Smith, a young adventurer who is one of the few white men ever to visit it and he claims the only one ever to bring out pictures of any kind.

His talk on the subject accom panied colored slides and three films of motion pictures showing natives in their primitive surround ings and some lovely scenery. Most amusing to his listeners and watchers were his shots of native women bending over as they went about their household tasks and, apparently, about to lose their scanty skirts. The lecture closed with re pulsive views of a man whose face had been clawed by a tiger and close-ups of the inmates of a leper colony. During the president's half-hour, Mrs. Walter J.

Hartzell announced that next Monday's meeting will be the last one before the Christmas holidays, She reiterated her desire that all members of the club write their letters to President Roosevelt, Senators Downey and Johnson, and Congressman Sheppard demanding that the United States remain at peace. Mrs. B. W. Shaper, program chairman, announced that next Monday's program will be a lecture, with motion pictures, on the coun tries much in the news today Russia, Poland, Danzig and Germany, given by Dr.

Campbell of U.S.C. Mrs. Raymond Beelcr will arrange a program of Christmas music. Mrs. Lawson's Kin Bids Friends Adieu Mrs.

Clara Dunham, who has been making an extended visit with her two Redlands sisters, Mrs. Delia Lawson and Miss Bertha Mixer, 240 Nordina street, left Sunday evening for her home in Pittsfieid, 111. En route East the visitor, who was much entertained during her local stay by friends of the two Redlands women, will stop over in Kearney, to visit in the home of an aunt of the three. High School P.T.A. to Meet in Stitt Home Mrs.

R. D. Stitt will hold a meet ing of the board of directors of the Redlands high school in her home, 1402 West Fern avenue, Thursday morning, beginning at 10. Following the meeting, she will be hostess to the group of officers at luncheon in her home. where he was graduated in 1935, Maser attained local renown as a violinist.

He made appearances before the Community Music association and other organizations, continuing his musical career in junior college. Maser worked with Ken Baker and his orchestra in Los Angeles and also has handled arrangements for the dance bands of Earl Hines, Gene Krupa and other prominent directors. While working at the Twentieth Century-Fox studios he appeared in such pictures as "Alexander's Ragtime Band." He has won favorable comments In Metronome and other national music magazines. Scat Davis was featured for five years with Waring's Pennsylva-nians and is well known to screen fans. Annual Smorgasbord Of President, Wife To Have Date Motif The lowly date which flourishes bountifully on Redlands' own palm trees, anticipating no better fate than a trip to the wash, has today been raised to a position of honor in the household of Dr.

and Mrs. Elam J. Anderson on the University of Redlands campus. Using the theme "Christmas is a golden date that ripens with the years," Mrs. Anderson has' utilized bunches of the beautiful yellow dates to decorate the president's home for the smorgasbord at which she and Dr.

Anderson will entertain members of the university family this evening. One hundred and fifty faculty members, members of the administrative staff, their husbands, wives, sisters and mothers will enjoy the traditional event, one which the Anderson family holds every year, wherever it may be, at Christmastime. Divided into six groups of 25 each, the jolly company will dine at six tables, decorated respectively in Santa Ciaus, holly, bells, toyland, angels and shepherds. Later, games and contests will center around the different table decorations. Entertainment will be largely impromptu, each group being called upon to produce a speaker on some appropriate subject, musical numbers and novelties.

Assisting Mrs. Anderson with arrangements for the informal affair are members of the Faculty Wives' club, including Mrs. Floyd C. Wil cox, Mrs. V.

L. Duke, Mrs. B. E. Ebel, Mrs.

Conrad Wedberg, Mrs. Rex Vincent and Mrs. E. R. Nichols.

Carlos Webber Has Anniversary Party Mr. and Mrs. George E. Webber honored their son, Carlos, with a party Saturday evening celebrating his fourteenth birthday anniversary. Mistletoe and autumn flowers decorated the home, 914 Orange street.

Games and dancing were enjoyed, with Bonnie McPhcrson and Richard Rugh winning prizes. Present were Margaret Randolph, Virginia Owen, Betty Owen, Bonnie McPherson, Edythe Shipley, Nathalie Randolph, June Harris, Carolyn Franco, Robert Frost, Doyle Boyette, Bob Hart, Herbert Angel, Richard Rugh, Junior Randolph, E. J. Jure, George Webber the honoree and Mr. and Mrs.

Bruce Owen, who assisted the hosts. Read the Classified. ODD FELLOWS VETERANS GET LODGE HONORS Organization's Oldsters to Be Given Plaudits at Yearly 'Homecoming' Banquet Redlands lodge No. 341, I.O.O.F., will have its annual "home coming" dinner in the dining rooms of the lodge at 6:30 p.m. today.

The honored guests of this occasion will be the members of the order who have an excess of 50 years' continuous membership. Those so honored who have been members of Redlands lodge are: Jackson Hendrickson, Jose A. Rivera, Emory G. Johnson and Walter T. Lawry.

The first two mentioned were members of the first initiatory class when Red'lands lodge was instituted. SOME ARE TRANSFERS Other members to be honored, who have transferred to Redlands lodge, are Frank P. Meserve, John D. Hetblack, and Dr. John A.

Shreck. E. N. Sturtevant, veteran member of the order, will be the toastmaster at the dinner. All visiting members of the order sojourning in Redlands are included in the invitation to the dinner.

The regular lodge meeting will convene after the dinner. The initiatory degree team from Yucaipa I.O.O.F. lodge will confer the initiatory degree on a class of candidates. The election of officers for the issuing year will conclude the meeting. IS 'GRAND OLD MAN' Mr.

Meserve is the "grand old man" of various Redlands fraternities as well as a civic leader of long standing. He was one of the organizers and first exalted ruler of the Elks club, one of the organizers and original master of the Masonic lodge, charter member and first high priest of the Royal Arch Masons, and one of the organizers of the Knights of Pythias. He is a past noble grand of the Odd Fellows and past council commander of Woodmen of the World. Mr. Hendrickson holds the distinction of being tne only Redlands Odd Fellow who has been through the chairs twice in succession.

He also is e. veteran Mason, having joined that organization in Iowa in 1869. PIONEER CONSTABLE Mr. Rivera, who was Redlands' pioneer constable, holds the honor of having been a Mason for 50 years as well as having been an Odd Fellow for half a century. Dr.

Shreck, who is a retired physician, has been an elder in the Christian church for 46 years. During the World war he was a captain in the medical corps. Writers Dine With Mrs. Mertins A white Christmas tree, red candles and berries formed the decorative motif when Dr. and Mis.

Louis Mertins were dinner hosts to the directors of the California Writers' guild in their Redlands home Sunday evening. Entertained at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Shippey, Sierra Madre; Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Strack, San Marino; Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Knight, West Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moon, Pasadena; Scott O'Dell and Ann Scott, Pomona; Pauline Stiles, San Bernardino; Dr.

and Mrs. Laurence E. Nelson, Red-lands, and Mrs. Gifford Gcmmell, Needles, who spent the week-end with her brother-in-law and sister, the hosts. ETIWANDA NOTES (Special Staff Correspondence) ETIWANDA, Dec.

4. The regu lar meeting of the Ontario P.T.A. council will be held in the auditorium of the Etiwanda grammar school Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the Etiwanda Parent-Teacher association serving as the hostess group. Miss Lois LeBaron Avery will be present during the morning session for an hour of parliamentary drill.

Other speakers on the program will include Mrs. H. E. Fritz, Mrs. George Cunning and Mrs.

J. B. Curtis. Dinner will be served at the noon hour by the fourth section of the Ladies Aid society. The monthly meeting and annual election of the Ladies Aid society will be held in the church basement Thursday afternoon, at which time officers for the year will be elected and a report given by the committee entrusted with the task of drawing names for the quarterly committees to carry on the work of the society.

Mrs. William A. McKee, who has been 111 for several weeks, was taken to the San Antonio Community hospital at Upland last night and will undergo a major operation this morning. Mr. and Mrs.

George McGuire, who have been in the East for several weeks, going back to receive a new car for their son, Olin, and stopping over in Kansas for a visit at George's boyhood home at Rosalia, returned home Thursday evening, accompanied by his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Mc DEATH CLAIMS EARLY SCHOOL READ'S WIDOW Mrs. Charles R. Paine, Pioneer Crafton Resident, Will Be Buried This Afternoon Death came early yesterday for Mrs.

Charles R. Paine, 89-year-old widow of one of San Bernardino county's caily-day educators and pioneer citrus grower of the Crafton district. Mrs. Paine succumbed at 3:45 a.m. in the Redlands Community hospital.

She had been critically ill since Nov. 18, when her hip was fractured iln a fall at her home, on Walnut road at the Mill Creek zanja. FUNERAL 3:30 TODAY Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church of Red-lands, in which Mrs. Paine had been prominent for many years. The Rev.

John Logan Marquis, retired clergyman, will officiate. Burial at Hillside cemetery will be conducted privately. Fitzsimmons, in charge of the arrangements, announced yesterday that the family requested no flowers. HAS MANY, SURVIVORS Mrs. Paine was the mother of Charles T.

Paine, prominent citrus grower of Knoll road; Winifred Paine, of Walnut road; Mrs. Henry Sherry and Mrs. George Eaton, Pasadena; William Craig Paine, Los Angeles; Russell Paine, Berkeley; and Mrs. Lucy Paine Allen, Palo Alto. There are eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

A resident of Crafton for 62 years, Mrs. Paine was a native of St. Johns, Ohio. She was married at Muncie, in 1868, and two years later came to California with her husband, Prof. Charles R.

Paine. He was interested in agriculture and attempted to operate a vineyard at Riverside, but grasshoppers destroyed the plants and he was forced to return to his profession, teaching. WAS SCHOOL HEAD Becoming noted as the proprietor of Paine's academy in- San Bernardino, he was chosen principal of fSan Bernardino city schools and county superintendent of schools. Settling in the Crafton district, but still engaged in education for a time, he again found an oppor tunity to turn to agriculture. In 1877 he and Mrs.

Paines father, Dr. William Craig, planted three acres of seedlings at the present corner of Walnut road and Colton avenue. Two years later they har vested the first crop, 16 boxes, and sold it in San Francisco. Last year the grove produced 3,600 boxes. Mr.

Paine and Dr. Craig were the first here who sold their fruit In a distant market. From those early days until her death, Mrs. Paine was closely as sociated with the citrus industry. Business Failures In Nation Decline (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec.

4. Business failures in the United States during the week ending Nov. 30 totaled 200, Dun Bradstreet reported today. Thanksgiving celebration in 23 states cut into the figure. This compared with 191 in the preceding week, which also included the Thanksgiving holiday in many states.

The total for the comparable full week last year was 207. Guire, and niece, Miss Ruth Jones, of Rosalia. Mrs. R. R.

Henderson and daugh-terMrs. Norris Garman, left Saturday evening with a party en route for Detroit, where they will purchase a car. They will visit Mrs. Henderson's son, Clarence Hazzard, in Chicago and other relatives in the middle west before returning home. Mrs.

Norris Tibbcts is confined to her home with an attack of flu, Mr. and Mrs. William McClean spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Mervyn Fowlks, at Rialto. Accompanied by Mrs.

Fowlks and son, Bobbie, they motored to Cajalco reservoir in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Thompson of Upland and Mrs. Eva R. Fisher of Los Angnles were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. A.

A. Werner Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. Frank Dooley and son, Dale, Mr.

and Mrs. Kay Dooley of Pomona, Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Dooley and son, Jim, and Miss Elizabeth McCrum of Los Angeles and Miss Evelyn Murray of San Bernardino were dinner guests of Judge Donnelly and family and Mrs. Lue B.

Dooley Sunday evening. Mrs. Lyman P. Robertson and children, Sharon and Teddy, of San Marino, were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.

John Frost. Mrs. Morris Frost and son, John, of San Diego, came up Sunday and Mrs. Stanford Shaw and daughter, Diane, of Sierra Madre, came out Monday for the day at the Frost home. COLTON Rainbow Girls Make Plans for Holiday Party on Dec.

16 Among the holiday parties to be held in Colton later this month will be that of the Rainbow Girls, was the announcement of Mrs. E. T. Webb, mother-advisor to the group, yesterday. Plans for the event, which will be held Saturday evening, Dec.

16, were formulated Saturday evening during a brief business session. No setting for the party has been decided unon as vet. but it will be held at the home of some member rather than at the Masonic hall, customary meeting-place. Four members of the assembly were selected to act as ushers for the Eastern Star chapter installation. The four girls will wear formal frocks in keeping with the keynote of the evening's events.

Six additional girls were appointed to serve dinner for the Hub city Ma sons Thursday evening of this week. Following Saturday night's meeting, the group adjourned to the main hall of the temple for dancing to music played through Norman Thrall's recording device. Punch was served during the intermissions. Members had invited escorts for the dance event. Several girl friends and members of other Rainbow Girl assemblies of the district were invited as special guests and also were accompanied by escorts.

Patrons and patronesses for the evening were Mrs. Wenonah Whee-land, Dr. and Mrs. J. J.

H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.

Newell, and Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Webb.

Turkey Dinner Will Be Benefit Affair Turkey will be the menu delicacy and a variety of other foods supplementary fare for the community dinner to be sponsored Wednesday evening by Bloomington American Legion auxiliary at the Legion clubhouse. Serving will be from the hours of 5 to 7 p.m. A cordial invitation is extended the public to share the holiday feast. The auxiliary is fostering the benefit as a means of raising money with which to fill Christmas boxes for patients at San Fernando Veterans' hospital. Mrs.

Elva Powell and Mrs. Alice Beaton are joint chairmen. At 1 p.m. Wednesday at the club house will be a meeting of the ex ecutive board of the auxiliary. Woman's Club Will Sponsor Matinee Support of the community Is urged in the benefit matinee which the Colton Woman's club will sponsor Thursday afternoon at the theater on East I street.

"Disputed Passage" and "Eternally Yours" are the two features which will be shown. Both inalude a cast of well-known stars and players. The matinee will begin at 2 p.m. L. C.

Myers, theater manager, has agreed to turn over all proceeds to the club. He has cooperated in a similar fashion in other seasons of the organization. Hunters Are Hosts During Week-End Visitors in the Alvin P. Hunter home, 174 West street, Colton, over the week-end were Mr. and Mrs.

G. A. McLean, Bakersfield. Mrs. McLean and her hostess are sisters.

They arrived Saturday, bringing back to Colton Mrs. L. V. Sisson, mother of the two women, who had been a guest in the McLean home since mid-November, assisting in household duties for Mrs. McLean following her operation early in the month.

The visiting couple departed for their northern home Sunday. U.S.W.V. Groups to Elect New Officers United Spanish War Veterans camp and auxiliary of Colton will meet tonight at 7:30 at Masonic hall to elect leaders for the two organ izations in 1940. Mrs. Anna Ham is this year's aux iliary president, and Louis O.

Reed, the camp commander. Installation of the newly elected governing bodies will be in January. Initiation rituals will be con ducted for new members of each group, and the evening be concluded with the serving of refreshments. Baptist Women to Postpone Meeting Announcement wa3 made yester day that the all-day meeting of the Baptist Woman's union slated for Thursday in Colton has been post poned. It will probably be held next week.

One of the chief reasons for the postponement is the fact that a farewell party for the Rev. and Mrs. Thomas F. Dixon, mission aries, will be held at the church Thursday evening. It was decided not to hold both the day-time affair and the party on the same date.

SOCIETY Young Artists Will Be Heard Two young artists of the Colton district who have achieved widespread recognition of their talents will have a part Friday evening in a musical program to be presented by Lester Ray Benedict, Riverside music instructor. John Powell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Powell of 175 East street, Colton, is a pupil of Mr.

Benedict and will be presented in the musical. Miss Marie Brodeur, talented young pianist and composer who resides in Bloomington, will be the guest artist for the evening. Setting for the program will be the music room at the historical Mission inn, Riverside. The presentation will begin at 8:15 p.m., and all who are interested in the development of musical talent are invited. Numbers to be given are "Wings" (Deis) and "Smilin' Through" (Penn), a girls' sextet; "Traume" (Wagner) and "Slumber Song" (Gretchaninoff), Isabella Hutch-ings; "Pool of Quietness" (Cator) and "Songs My Mother Taught Me" (Dvorak), Albert Bradley.

"Thanks Be to God" (Dickson), "Lullaby" (Cyril Scott) and "Shoes" (Manning), Lucy Lois Fisher; "Minuetto Scherzando" (Stavenhag-en), "Nocturne' (Respighai) and "Waltz1' (Moszkowski), Miss Brodeur. "Green Pastures" (Sanderson), "Ombra Mai fu" (Handel) and "I Love Life" (Mana Zucca), Robert Wing Smith; "My Johann" (Strauss), "Homing" (Del Riego), "Oh, That It Were So" (Bridge), "I'll Follow My Secret Heart" (Coward), Pauline Auld. "Pilgrims' Song" (Tschaikowsky) and "Where'er You Walk" (Handel), John Powell; "Let My Song Fill Your Heart" (Charles), "My Soul" (Bond), "Spendthrift" (Charles) and "Were You There" (Burleigh), Isabella Hutchings; "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (Seitz), girls' sextet. Young Powell is a student at Colton union high school and has appeared as vocalist for a number of clubs and other organizations of the city during the past year or more. Miss Brodeur is the daughter of.

E. L. Brodeur, Bloom-, ington instructor of instrumental music and for several years president of the Community Music as sociation in that township. The young woman has likewise appear ed at many Colton functions and has played for affairs in other parts of the district. She is also well-known in Los Angeles musical circles and frequently gives recitals in the metropolitan area.

Change of Meeting Dates Is Announced By Women's Group Meeting of Section one, Women's United society, of Colton Methodist church, will take place Wednesday, Dec. 13, rather than on the regular meeting date, which would be Wednesday of this week. The change in date is made because of the proximky of the scheduled date to the annual bazaar of the society Thursday of this week. On Dec. 13, Mrs.

D. O. Wright, 149 West street, will be hostess at noon. A turkey dinner will be served, and a Christmas party marked by exchange of gifts take place to feature the afternoon. Mrs.

J. R. Ivey is section chairman. Section two will also have a change in meeting date this month, postponing their meeting from Dec. 13 to the following day, Thursday.

A turkey dinner will also be the special courtesy, members meeting at noon at the home of Mrs. A. M. Galloway, 151 East street. They will also note the Yule season with a party and gift exchange.

Mrs. F. C. Percy is chairman of this division. Club Music Section Plans Meet Today Music section patrons, meeting this afternoon at 2 p.m.

at the Colton Woman's clubhouse, will be directed in a study of religious music, which forms a most interesting part of the development of America. With the settlement of the eastern coast came also music peculiar to that era, religious groups of peoples founding new homes on this continent also bringing their own hymns and church songs. The development of sacred music down to this generation will be out lined, with stress made on the, Christmas melodies embraced. The afternoon will be in charge of Mrs. Weynard Bailey, music chairman.

Mrs. Eli Steed to Speak During Meet Developing on the general topic of enriched living, arranged for A study this season, Mrs. Eli Steed, wife of an instructor in the school, will give a talk on "Development of Character and Spiritual Qualities" at the Bloomington association meeting this afternoon at 2:30 at the school auditorium. School children will contribute a part of the program, and a business session will be in charge of Mrs. Virgil Linton.

Refreshments will be served as concluding courtesy. COLIDN LIGHT RATES CUT IT CITY COUNCIL Reduction of general lighting rates, effective Jan. 1, 1940, was the principal action taken last night by the Colton city council. At the same time the special rates for domestic refrigeration and window lighting which have existed for some time past were repealed, as they will be absorbed by the new rate. Cost of electricity for domestic purposes after the first of the year will be 4 cents per kilowatt-hour for the first 30 kilowatt-hours, 3 cents per kwh for the next 270, 2Vi cents per kwh for the next 700, 2 cents per kwh for the next 3,000 and one cent per kwh for all additional kilowatt-hours.

A minimum of $1 per month will be retained. Not more than three horse power consumption will be permitted on the general lighting rate. At the present time the general electric rate in Colton is 5 cents per kilowatt-hour for the first 50 kwh, i cents per kwh for the next 950, 4 cents per kwh for the next 500, 3 cents per kwh for the next 500 and 2 cents per kwh for all additional kilowatt-hours. FIGURES LISTED The domestic refrigeration rati which exists at the present time is 5 cents per kwh for the first 30 and 3 cents per kwh for all additional kilowatt-hours. The special window lighting rate is 3 cents per kwh.

The reduction in lighting rates was proposed to the council by Henry W. Roller, chairman of the city light committee, upon the suggestion of Ezra West, superintendent of municipal light and power. West made the proposal on the grounds that much of the loss of revenue which will result will be made up. by an increased1 use of electricity on the part of consumers. A committee of residents was present to complain to the council about the condition of an alley between Sixth and Seventh and and streets.

The group stated that the present level of the alley is much higher than that of their garages and that in several instances it is impossible to get cars in and out of the garages because of this difference. After considerable discussion, It was agreed that the besi remedy for the situation will be to reduce the-level of the alley in the mid- block district and install a drain to carry off flood" waters south to Sixth street so that private property will not be flooded. ALLEY DISCUSSED The council agreed that the city will do the necessary grading and pay half the cost of the drain equip ment if residents in the block will pay the remaining cost of the drain. Spokesmen for the group of residents asked two days in which to present the offer for consideration of the other property owners. Members of the city street com mittee were put In charge of the municipal interests in the matter and given power to act if a suitable compromise can be worked out.

A resolution was passed to close 16 feet on the south side of street for a distance of two blocks from Second street to Rancho ave nue. There are no residences on that side of the street, and the high school has asked permission to move its fence northward to the curb line of street in that district. It was pointed out that the strip between the fence and the street is now weed-grown and unsightly. Notice of the resolution will be published and posted, and residents of the neighborhood will be given an opportunity to protest at a publio hearing if they care to do so. Passage of another resolution ap pointed F.

H. Jones, city accountant, to record reports of employes' salaries and send them to the bureau of Internal revenue. This a tlon was necessary because of the new ruling that city employes must pay income taxes In the future, TOTAL LISTED' (Special Staff Correspondence) BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 4. Under the chairmanship of Mrs.

Volney Cosper, a Bloomington staff of vol-unteer workers succeeded in surpassing the membership goal set for this year's Red Cross roll call in the township, was the announcement at the close of the drive Friday. A total of $136.36 was collected from Armistice day, Nov. 11, to the end of last month. Ninety memberships were subscribed this year in comparison with only 64 for last year. Mrs.

Cosper expressed her appreciation to the women who volunteered their time and efforts toward the canvass. She also expressed appreciation to the organizations, business establishments and Individuals who helped make the drive successful. Workers who assisted the chairman were Mesdames George Stau- -ver, R. I. Mulllns, Elsie ComlnL Roscoe Nuckles, Alice Beaton, TV.

W. Smith, Grant S. Barr and Mae Cox. Bloomington American Legloa post will hold a business feanloa Thursday evening at its clubhouse on North Cedar avenue. BLOOMINGTON.