Williams News from Williams, Arizona • 1

TEMPERATURE READING AND PRECIPITATION March 9 52 39 March 10 53 37 March 11 49 33 March 12 42 Iff March 13 51 17 March 14 50 29 March 15 53 25 (By courc-esy iKe Brown) VOLUME SIXTY Williams. Arizona, Thursday, March 16, 1950 NUMBER ELEVEN I EDITORIAL CHAT (Dlaude Nichols. Buys Womack To New Homes Start Building IWay 1st Power Co. To Buy Flag, Mary Generating Plants Along The Avenue BY DAVID G. PRICE Paint brushes, soap and water and elbow grease have been and certainly are.

being used as the courts and cafes are preparing for the summer season. Reopened, last week was the Coffee Pot Cafe with a' new interior paint job. The paint brushes were flying in the lobby of the Grand- Canyon hotel. A remodeling job has been in progress there. The registration desk has been moved and the lobby looks quite flashy with its new coat of paint and re-upholstering.

A new floor is being put down in the dance hall, of the Sultana Buffet. Sprouse Reitz has painted the floor of their store. I say Sprouse Reitz, I should say Marvin Shields, he was moanin and groanin Monday morning about sore knees and a stiff arm from wielding a paint Speaking of Marvin Shields, he warns everyone in the community that it is too early to be traipsing off on the sideroads. He should know after his experience Sunday. This experience included a couple of hours' of wallowing in mud trying to get out on his own.

A seven-mile hike to a ranch house to bum a ride to a phone and the services of Bill Dye to pull him out. This happened on the road to the Moose place southeast of town and with this experience Mafvin knows whereof he speaks. Its too early to be traipsing off on side road excursions. Say, have yea-entered population guessing contest? Use the entry1 blank in this weeks paper get your guess There, is. a (Continued on Page Three) I i (From Arizona Unit, Highway At midnight, Saturday, April 11, Mr, and Mrs.

Claude Nichols became the owners of the Recreation Tavern in Boulder City, Nevada. The deal had been under way for some tiqje but was consummated Saturday and possession was given Saturday night. Details of the purchase appeared in the Boulder City News on March 10, and "are reprinted below: -i "One of the largest real estate transactions in Boulder Citys history involving a retail location, was in the process of being consummated today. The deal, if all' parties agree, would transfer the ownership of the popular Recreation Tavern, owned and operated by Gil Telford Rayner, to Mr. and.

Mrs L. Nichols of Williams, As press time last night, the cash to close the deal, which is in excess of 550,000 was placed in the Bank of Nevada in escrow by the Wyness Realty Company, the agency handling the sale. Charles Catt, attorney, is -in charge of the legal phases of the deal. "Nichols, a large property owner in Williams and also operator of the 44 unit Grand Canyon Auto Court there, decided to purchase the local tavern as a result of his intense liking for Boulder City and Lake Mead. He is a fishing enthusiast to the extent that he has a- trailer house at Temple Bar, owns a fast boat which he has.

on a trailer here. "He moved here with his family for the winter and bought the home at 607 Avenue iF. He commuted to handle his business there. He 'ex- pects to continue to live here for six month intervals, although the operation of the tavern will be in the hands of Tom Donnley, a certified public accountant in Flagstaff, who will close his business there move here shortly with his family. "Nichols also plans to seek Harry Rayners continued services.

"Nichols is no stranger to Boulder City, he having lived here with his wife during the dam building days here. They both worked for the Bill OHara Cleaning plant in 1933 and 1934. The Nichols now have two children, Claudia 7, and Nicki aged four, and both good fishermen, says the proud father. "Both Gerald Wyness and Bill OHara of the Wyness Realty company worked out the transaction, from the initial phases, which are set for today and tomorrow. Rayner and Telford have built the Tavern business during the past decade, mostly because of their personal service and insistence on clean operational methods.

They have made famous, too, because of the Jim Jeffries back-bar, and the slogan A Free Beer for anyone any day the gun does not shine in Boulder City. High School Honor Roll Announced Jimmy King, principal of high school, announced the quarter honor roll this week as fol-; lows: Freshmen, Robert Gardner; sophomores, Joanna Porter; juniors, Joanne Bunney, Frank Yarbrough, Norma Cole, Stokan, Danny Schnell, Robert Negrette; seniors, Ruth Sanford and Louis Pena. The third quarter ended March 10. BY FRANK WELLS Unseed Billions Down The Sewer The greatest menace to Free Enterprise; and to our democratic government, not Communism rior the H. Bomb, but nonproduction through unemployment.

It was just this thing that had us on the brink or ruin, hack in the days of the depression. When our national income had dropped to forty billions a year we were actual-, ly throwing fifty billions of invisible invisible because not produced, dowri the sewer. We had demonstrated back in 1929 that we could produce ninety billions a year. When We failed, to do so, due to unemployment, we threw fifty of the ninety, billions of potential wealth away: Having nonchalantly thrown away fifty billions we worried about the few billions asked by Roosevelt for priming the industrial pump. Now, today, we shudder the size of', our defense budget, some eighteen billions.

Then we take as (Continued on page six) Mrs. Jessie Sine Dies In California City Mrs. iessie Ann Sine, a former resident: of Williams, and who held property here until recently, died in a convalescent honfe in Yuba City, March 1 following a two-week illness. Born in Modoc, Ont. Canada, she had lived in Arizona the major part of her adult life, much of it being spent at Tucson, Ariz.

She- lived at Williams for a number-of years following her acceptance of the position of manager of the Postal Telegraph repeater station here In 1917. She remained in Williams with her husband and two younger daughters until "the, death of her husband; then moved 7 Mrs. Sine again lived in Williams for approximately a year in 1946-47 while her daughter, Grace Sine Poore, was employed as linotype operator in the office of the Williams News. From Williams, they moved Calif. Mrs.

Poore first, learned linotyping' in. the office of the Williams News -while living here with her parents; Mrs. Sine kad been a. member of the Order of Eastern Star, Tucson chapter, for 27 years and was for many years deaconess of an Episcopal mission. She was active in YWCA work in Tucson.

Interment was made in the family plot in Tucson. Survivors include, besides Mrs. Ppore, another Mrs. Harry W. Lusk of Douglas, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

High School Orators Place First, Second In County Contest Two Williams high school seniors captured first and second place in the. County Oratorical contest held at the science building on the campus of the Arizona State College at This county contest, held under the direction of -Ralph J- Holly, speech director for the college, was for the purpose of selecting two speakers to represent Coconino county at1- the district meet which will be held in the Ash Fork high school auditorium -at 8 p. March 16. Louis Pena, first place winner, an 18-year-old senior spoke on The Color Barrier. Ruth Sanford, second place winner, spoke Our Constitution, Worth Having, Worth Defending.

This contest is conducted every year by the Arizona Republic and the Arizona Department of the -American Legion. The winner of the district contest will go to Phoenix and there compete with, the other six district winners. The Arizona State Champion will receive $50.00 in cash and a World Book Encyclopedia valued at $125.00, second place winner will receive $25.00 and third place winner will receive $10.00. The two contestants Ruth Sanford and Louis Pena along with their coach, James Perpill and Mrs. Perrill have been invited to a dinner for the district winners that will be held on the same evening as the contest.

The district which the contestants will participate in is made up of Mohave, Coconino and Yavapai Council Meet One Of Shortest It was one of the shortest council meetings in many a month Thursday night in the city office. Mrs. Elsie. Rouche made a plea to the council for lowering of dog license fees and asked the permission of the council to pick up unclaimed dogs that are taken to the dog pound. She made this plea on behalf of the Humane Society, and guarantees, to find homes for the unclaimed dogs.

The council allowed her permission to pick up the dogs and took under consideration her proposal of lowering license fees. Bills were allowed, and accounts receivable for city services checked over. A tentative date for. the dedication and opening of the hospital was announced by J. C.

Butler as May 12, National Hospital Day. Chamber Warns Of Census Imposters Chamber of Commerce Secretary. Merle- Cowan today isshed statement urging families to. Teport to the police any persons to be Census. who to show their official credentials as enumerators of the United States Bureau of the Census.

Imposters posing as Census takers are subject to penal action for impersonating a1 Federal official, Mrs. Cowan said. During 1949 the National. Chamber of Commerce participated "in a national campaign to curb the activities of. those who pretended to be survey takers in order to gain entry into the.

homes of potential customers. The campaign was very successful but, with the start of the 17th Decennial Census, some salesmen, or bill collectors, may misuse the term census to get into a home or to- secure certain information, Mrs, Cowan said. She added that instancies of such trickery were already being reported to the National Better Business Bureau of which the Williams-Grand Canyon Chamber of Commerce is an active member. The national census, like market research' and public opinion polling, performs a useful and necessary public service, said Mrs. Cowan.

If the person at your door is an Census enumerator or genuine research, interviewer, he seeks only information that will ultimately be of benefit to the community at Census enumerators and research interviewers have nothing to sell, and do not secure sales leads for anyone. Mrs, 'Cowan urged that anyone who. introduced himself as taking a census or survey and who then plunged into a sales talk be reported to the. police for investigation. Construction of the Womack Construction Company, Phoenix, housing project on- the Claude Nichols lot just east and south of the Williams Bowling Center building, is due to start May I.

There are, 14 lots in the but due to the irregularity of the ground the project will be staggered, some being built on the front of lots, some in the middle and some in the rear. Some will face Bill. Williams avenue and some other streets: The houses are being built under Federal Housing Administration regulations financing. two' rind three bedroom units will be included in the coristruction. The deal for the purchase of the lots by the Womack company was negotiated last September, but on the condition that the deal would not become effective until the city had completed all sewer and water lines servicing the property.

This has been done and the first exchange of money on the deal took place January 1, the balance to be paid May 1. Mr. Nichols wishes to express 'his appreciation of the fine cooperation extended by the city. POST OFFICE OFFERS TO CORRECT MAILING LISTS Postmaster Herman Kielhorn announces this week that as an accommodation to business houses and others who have mailing lists of customers whom they wish to cover regularly, the local post office is offering to correct their mailing lists without charge. A good many people have changed from boxes to street addresses in the past few week thereby making many mailing-- fists' It will be an' accommodation to the post office and to the possessors of mailirig lists to have thelists con- Istantly brought up to date.

i I i I I I 1 i I i I I i i a population of 2640. That is an increase of 480. Now for the projection. In 1940 the town had, as stated above, 625 customers. Now they have 750.

That is an increase of 125. Since an increase of 125 means an increase' of 480 in population you simply add 480 to the 1940 population and you get the answer (or do you?) which is 3120. Whats- your guess? Of course, if the City Water and Light Dept, should add some more customers before the census takers get around, why that would naturally change the projected number of residents Then, too, if we may have misquoted the census figures for 1930 and 1940 (we dont have them right at hand) why that might change things. Anyway heres guess number one, though it wont count in the tally, for the News is barred in the contest. Two electric power generating plaiits at Flagstaff and McNary( will be purchased by the.

Central Arizona Light and Power Company from Lumber Mills, Inc. The $1,250,000 transaction has been under negotiation for several -The signing of the contract was' disclosed' today in a joint announcement by Henry B. Sargent, president of the utility, and C. J. Warren, president of the lumber firm.

Both plants use sawmill waste as fuel, arid were built and operated by the: Southwest Lumber Company, in conjunction with sawmills in the two northern Arizona lumbering communities. Calapcos purchase of these power plants is proof of our faith in the continued growth and prosperity of northern Arizona and its mos't important industry: lumbering, said Mr. Sargentl Head of the largest lumber producer in Arizona, Mr. Warren hailed the transaction as a step forward for all parties concerned. Our business is the manufacture and sale of lumber and wood products, he said.

We are going to confine our efforts to that business. The generation and sale of electrical power is Calapcos field. According to Sargent, purchase of Southyvests electric power generating -plants is part 6f Calapcos $43,000,000 improvement and Construction program, which is more' than two-thirds complete. In the past four years, Calapcos has spent more than $27,000,000 in new construction and improvements. Another $15,000,000 will be spent within the next two years, Sargent said.

Specially designed, the power plants are- dependent sawmill waste for fuel. Sargent pointed out (Continued on page four) Clothing Wanted For Navajos A call has been issued for new and old clothing and material to be sent to the Navajo mission on the reservation. Mrs. D. L.

Boomer has agreed to receive this material mend and box it and forward it to the mission. Her address is 609 E. Railroad. Interested parties who have no means, of transporting the goods to Mrs. 'Boomers home may call The Williams News office or leave their donations.

Transportaton to her home will be arranged. Notice To Ball Players A meeting has been called for all those interested in organizing a baseball club (hard ball) for this season to be held at the Williams Billiard Parlor Friday, 'March 17, at 7:00 p. m. All who are interested are urged to attend. New Pastor Secured For Methodist Church Rev.

Lowell Cantrell has accepted the pastorate of the Williams Methodist Community church, and is due to arrive here the first week in May with his wife and three children. The Cantrells will leave Boston pulpit here until the new minister arrives. Following that he will go to Yale Divinity School. A Youth Fellowship group was organized at the church Sunday night with 23 in attendance. 66 Newsletter of March 6) RED LIGHT: This great living thing we call U.

S. HIGHWAY 66, 875 actual miles of it, an institution bringing in $40 millions of new dollars annually besides a half million in gas tax, is in a most unusual position. In ten months from now our ONLY Commissioner, steps out of office. This is Brice Covington on the west end. Next Commissioner (as yet unconfirmed by the Senate) will reside on Highway 60, thus, this -great 40 million dollar business is dominated by powers residing far away from It.

Highway 66,. this mint which pours money in to us through eight solid months of the year, will again, as of old, be fathered and nursed by a small group of loyal northern Arizona men who have given years and thou- sands of dollars to hold each mile gained for 66. There isN. something decidedly wrong with a State Government when we must suhmlt to such a circumstance merely because we are a minority voting group, and when we most beg for funds to construct a highway which will bring in greater and greater revenue. only thing wrong with Highway 66, and we proudly hail it as the greatest trans-continental motor route in the United States, is that it does not lead to Phoenix or pass through Maricopa County! All this is a danger signal -to us and cannot pass unnoticed.

There is a day coming; and we trust it Is not far off, when our Highway Department will be under Civil Service and when a Governor cannot hand any minority group the kind of treatment we are being subjected to now. i i i i i i 1 i i I i i i i i i i i Heres flow To Win That FiveiPlus A Years Sub 1950 Farm Census Covers Rflore Than 50 Crops A few weeks ago the News announced that it would give a prize of five dollars and a years subscription to the Williams News, for the best guess on the census enumeration for 1950. That isnt a very big prize, to be sure, just something to make the guessing interesting. But then the matter of arriving at that figure is so simple that it is a very easy matter to guess the right number, if you just deduct properly. Just to be helpful in this regard the News has gathered a little material in order to show how easy it is to arrive at a total.

(Dont get us wrong. We are not guaranteeing this total to be right. Heres how simple it is. Back in 1930 the Town of Williams had 500 customers. In 1940 they had 625.

That is an increase of 125. In 1930 the town had a population of 2160. In 1940 the town had questionnaire will apply to any one farm. The same is true for inquiries on livestock, 'livestock production, poultry and poultry production, and dairy products. Under a new procedure adopted by the Bureau of the Census, the 1950 Agriculture questionnaire varies for each state or group of states.

Inquiries on crops and on classes of livestock and other farm products are limited to those crops common to tinue to fill the Methodist church April 1, and will stop in Denver, for a visit with his parents, and in Redlands, for a visit with Mrs. Cantrells family before coming on to Williams. Rev. Cantrell has held pastorates in Long Island and in San Diego. In Boston he was serving with International Church Work.

Fred Brown, student pastor from Arizona State at Flagstaff, will con- The 1950 Census of Agriculture questionaire, to which farmers of Coconino County will supply answers in April, 1950, will list more than 50 field, truck and orchard crops. However, no one farmer, will be required to answer inquiries for all of the rops listed. Usually, an individual farmer will need to report only four or five different crops. It is pointed out by Mr. Wm.

county agriculture agent, that while the Census Bureaus question-iiaire provides for reporting each kind of crop produced in this section of the country in 1949, only a small proportion of this crop section of the each state or group of states. Thus the questionnaire used in a northern state would not include inquiries about citrus fruit production, nor will a form in a Southern state have questions about Maple syrup. 4.