El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 7

FT PASO IIFi' ATTVPOST You're In The Army Now RADIO CLOCK Pajre 7 ENTERS HOSPITAL FOR REST Mis Augusta Leeper of Corpus Christi former El Pasoan la in Southwestern General Hospital for a rest HIGHWAY CONTRACT SIGNED Special to Nerald-Poit CHIHUAHUA CITY Chih Feb The Department of Communications has just signed a contract with the Chihuahua Construction Co for construction of a 1000000-peso highway between Chihuahua and Sonora Building Approved For Kids Rodeo Use of the Livestock Exposition building for the annual Herald-Post Kids Rodeo and the Police Department'! Range Hands Rodeo has been approved by the Commissioners Court The Kids' Rodeo will be held Sept 3 4 and 5 The Police Department show Is scheduled for Sept 6 and 7 PEaASA MIDNITE SHOW SAT- FEB 28th! Terrific! CgmL: Wednesday 'Feb 25 1942 Family Clings To Home It Loves At Water Plant Site Daughter Says Group Will Fight To Block Ouster "Our family was raised here This 1 the only home we have known and we intend to five it up Without fighting for our rights It was 23-year-old Elisia speaking She is the daughter of Mrs Ignaeia Alvarado widowed mother of seven children whose refusal to evacuate her home at Second and Canal streets has slowed construction of the $744000 water treatment plant Thirteen other families already have moved out of the area around Mrs Alvarado's home on orders from the City so that work on the treatment plant can start Workmen today were tearing down the adobe dwellings surrounding the Alvarado home But no workmen had ventured near the 51-year-old flower-crowded yard Appeal Scheduled In forcible detained proceedings the City sought to have Mr Alvarado and her family evicted from the bouse but she won the first round when Justice of the Peace Crawford ruled in her favor and the case was transferred on appeal to the County-Court -at-Law Hearing on the appeal is scheduled for Thursday before Judge Ward The City contends Mrs Alvarado has rented the 10-room house that it belongs to the El Paso Electric Co and that the utility is willing to sell to the City so that the prop-ery can be used as part of the site for the water treatment plant house belongs to my declared Miss Alvarado speaking hCRC ncvtvCN WEEK STARTIfJG FRIDAY! a-as- "Mind if I keep them I for her mother father bought it before he died years ago We have lived here 25 years Don't Scare Easily just trying to scare us into moving out But we scare Miss Alvarado said the family has documents to prove ownership of the house realize that the City must have this property to build the treatment plant but we are entitled to a fair price for the property and why glad to go to court she said Miss Alvarado said many of the other families evicted from the site of the treatment plant had lived in the neighborhood for a quarter century or more were fooled into leaving she said were told that they had to move because the City needed the property They just up and left without any argument But we GAGS! MAGSI SWEETIES AMD SWING! lilJJ-iijJ-H (I NOW I He to 6 Last Showing VkOlCS MEET Jkfd It's right ie that Manner! oquocdh (03TGGJJJ ''HitiiMH i KiM Huvn umncm Use Herald-Post Want Ads II i raOQ HID 30c to 6PM 23c 24c Vss? sag in1 VJ- Buy Osfense Bonds OLDSMOBILE OWNERS! Utility Doubles Reproduction Cost City Finds Reduced Figures Powerful Weapon In Cutting Phone Rates A study by City utility experts of Mountain States Telephone and Tclephaph Co reproduction costs indicates that the utility's $3000000 estimate of its El Paso investment Is double what the figure will be when the study is completed Results of the survey will be one of the City's chief weapons when a hearing on the City Council's demands for reduced El Paso telephone rates is resumed bn April 8 Although the study of what it would cost to reproduce the entire El Paso plant at price levels of last September is not finished City rate engineers now can estimate that a of the utility property within the city will be approximately $1800000 The final figure may be still lower as deductions for depreciation must be made Historical Cost Study The utility has based its claim of a 3 per cent return on its investment on the $3000000 figure' made public soon after the City opened its fight for lower rates The estimate is based on an cost study which includes investments made since the company was organized here If City rate engineers can prove that thrlr new investment estimate is correct the return on the utility's investment will Jump to nearly 8 per rent and telephone rates will fall In proportion to tho Increase of return or profit on Investment The Federal Communications Commission has held that from 4 to 5 per cent is a return on a telephone Investment the percentage fluctuating under the Influence of local con ditions The reproduction cost study conducted by Cyrus Hill City utility rate engineer is being worked out under rules outlined by the FCC according to City Attorney Andress Reports Best Revenue Since Bp United Prut SAN FRANCISCO Feb 25 New operating and profit records since 1929 were established by the Southern Pacific System in 1941 as a result of the armament boom and the diversion of competing coastal shipping to services" the 58th annual report disclosed today The report revealed that the Southern Pacific handled the greatest freight movement In its history last year and turned in its biggest freight revenues on in spite of the fact that the average revenue per net ton-mile at 0988 cent was below 1 cent for the first time sinee 1917 Railway operating revenues of the Southern Pacific Company and its consolidated subsidiaries were reported at $297786328 for 1941 an increase of 2839 per cent over the 1940 total of $231932279 and the largest since 1929 when these revenues amounted to $310969138 Net railway operating income rose from $32465859 to $57437301 the best since the 1929 total of $59-741860 while consolidated net profits increased to $34758578 from $9315611 In 1940 That was the largest income reported by the sya tern since 1929 when profits totaled $47434930 Insurance Program Is Planned For Lake Commissioners Court decided to day to work out an insurance program to protect El Pasoans who use Ascarste Lake for boat' ng They delayed aetting of a policy with regard to whether fees will be charged for use of the lake until the insurance setup Is completed County is not liable for accidents and resulting injuries to persons who use the lake" County Judge Scarborough told the Court the County should give them some kind of protection The Court approved a request of the El Paso Boat Club for use of the lake March 29 for a motor boat regatta Judge Scarborough said an insurance program will be worked out soon BUY WAR BONDS NT rnel MISSION OBrien CoiuCance jnnett TO Gene Raymond Wendy Barrie 'CROSS COUNTRY ROMANCE" LATEST NEWS ran Last Times Today See Them Together in STAGE DOOR Katharine Ginger ASelphe Hepburn Rogers Manjou with GAIL FATBICK Censlnace Cellier Andres Leeds Samnsl Binds Lnsllla Ball Opens 11 A Today lO ran ANN RUTHERFORD KT TAYLOR coi EDWARD ILLS annesmkuet Coming Saturday Fredrlc March Feet In with Martha Scott Today and Tomorrow JACK LONDON'S Aightiesl Adventure Story! Men Unafraid! Women Untamed! to Deers Open Features: 7:54 and 9:50 SOUTHWUT'S Wflff Tiff A Tiff feel naked wiuthout my glasses intend to set what's coming to us We'll have to find another place Prices are up and we can't live on The sprawling white-stucco Alvarado adobe is neat and well furnished There has been cheerful living in that house Some of the furniture is modern some is antique but it all is arranged in good taste In the yard are shade trees shrubs and half a dozen varieties of flowers The Alvarado home stands out in the shabby canal district like an oasis in the desert At one time there were 13 children in the Alvarado family Miss Alvarado said Six have died Exiles Bitter Over Suicides If United Prett RIO DE JANEIRO Feb 25 Exiled Europeans passed silently and bitterly today before the bodies of Stefan Zweig Austria's greatest contemporary writer and his wife driven to suicide by the self-appointed master of Europe's new culture Their funerals were held today and by special order of President Getulio Vargas at state expense They were found dead late Sunday by a servant and neighbors who broke down the door of their bedroom Zwieg and hia wife were clasped in each others arms Two glasses from which they had drunk poison were on a bedside table Theaters PLAZA: Kildare's Victory" starring Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore and Ann Ayars ELLAXAY: Bette Davis Monty Woolley and Ann Sheridan in Man Who Came to Dinner" Kaufman and Hart Broadway success on the screen WIGWAM: Greater Sin" in-atructive film dealing With the social disease which threatens our armed forces TEXAS GRAND: Wake Up Screaming" starring Betty Gra-ble Victor Mature and Carole Landis Murder story CRAWFORD: with Frank Morgan Ann Rutherford and Kent Taylor Story of gangsters in the nation's capital Also Man to Remember" PALACE: Ladies Meet" starring Robert Taylor Greer Carson and Joan Crawford and Herbert Marshall MISSION: Pat and Constance Bennett in to Glory" Also Gene Raymond and Wendy Barrie in Country Romance" Traffic Cases The following traffic cases were disposed of in Police Court: John Win lock of It Bliss through street: S3 Paul Ei Yarrington of St Regis Hotel through street: $9 Benjamin Patterson of Ft Bliss through street: SS Salinas of 331T East Shn Antonio street speeding 2S throuh school sons IS Tom A Nlcholls of S3S1 Madere street speeding 38 SS Jose Ortiz of 114 Walnut street speeding 80 111 Angel Martinez of San Jose no driver's license $10 Alfonso Hernandez of 480S street speeding and causing an accident: $10 Abdo Aboud of 1703 Sort Yandeli boulevard negligent collision $10 Antonio Gonzalez of Findley street defective brakes and causing an accident $10 Fred Schmidt of 100 East Yandeli boulevard speeding 37: $5 Daniel Larrlvlcre of 1117 North Stanton street speeding 40 Waide of 3410 Louisville street through street: $5 WEDNESDAY KTSM-ISM BO Melodic Momenta Muggcy Spanler Orcheatra (NBC) Upton Cloae Commentator (NBCl 00 News Singing Strlnga Sporta Highlights Lae Sweetland baritone (NBCl a 4 Fred Waring NBCt Hata Off The Dance Hour Listen to Leibert Alice Barry 0i) Kay Cyaer NBC From A to in Novelty 0:19 Newa Uncle Welter's Doghouaa (NBCl Newa (NBCl: Denny Thomaen orcheatra NBCI Newa Don Beator orcheatra (NBO: Newa I NBC) llnoPhil Ilarrfa orcheatra iNBCl Tommy Dorsey Orcheatra (NBCl Thla Moving World (NBC) kbod-mi so News Preview Young Dr Malone (CBS) Jack Armstrong Fl Paso on Parade Stars Over Manhattan Male Quartet Newa Highlights Elmer Davis CBS) imperial Leader Catholic Program 7:30 News: Health Forum Charles Splvak orchestra Silver for Soldiers News (CB9) Ruda Lakay Vaughn Monroe Orchestra (CBS) Kasterworks of Music Clyde McCoy Orcheatra Gypsy Caravan Borgtime iCBSi CHAIM rmoURAM Andy CBSi Fred Wiring's Orchestra (NBC) Easy Aess NBC) Mr Keen lYictr of Lost Persons NBC I Lsnny Ross 1CBSI1 Young Dr- Malono (CBS) News (NBCl Musgsia hpanlcr's Orrhsatrs NBC) Kay Thompson (CBSI Newa (NBC) Adventure of the Thin Man (NBC): Quiz Kldi (NBC) Meat Mr 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Listeners dub Club Matinee iNBCl Newa Spotlight on Rhythm Portia Faces Ufa (NBO Ws the Abbotu (NBCl Wayne Van Dyne Tenor (NBO Adventure Stories (NBC) Novatime Patti Chapin Sings (NBC) BUI Stern Sporta (NBC) A 1 0: 10: 10: 10: 10: 11: 11: 11: 11: IS: 13: 13: 1 1 3 3 3: 4: 4 4: 4 uoD-eoe so A World Newa (CBS) Swing Your Partner (CBS) Organ Moods (CBS) Breakfast Rendezvous (CBS) Musical Clock Newt Kenneth Spencer (CBS) Alex Karlin Orchestra Clyde Lucas Bob Windsor News Goldman Bend Invitation to tho Walts (CBS) School of the Air ICBSI Song Shop News Horace Heidt Orchestra Woman's League News Women's League Ocala Nelson Orchestra Racimoe Hawaiian News Fleets Varieties Kate Hopklne (CBS) Walter Ramson Knox Manning News (CBS) JGB Presents Spanish Serenade: News Curtain Calls Land! Trio (CBS) Judy and Jana William Winter News Analyst (CBS) Light of the World 3:30 Bouquet Scattergood Baines (CBSI Carmen Cevaliero Golden Gets Quartet (CBS' Vera Barton (CBS) The World Today (CBS) CHAIN PROGRAM Fred Warlnge Orchestra (NBO) Easy Aces (NBC) Amos n' Andy (CBSI Newe of the World (N BC) Young Dr Melon (CBS): Mr Kean tracer of lost persona iNBClt Lenny Ross tenor (CBS) Newe (NBC) Diary ICBSi Al Pearce'e Gang (NBC): Blue Horizon (NBC) Death Valley Daya (CBS) Fanny Brice Show (NBC) Aldrich Family I NBC) Duffy Tavern (CBS) Gerry Moors (NBC) Bing Crosby's Musis Hall (NBCl: Major Bowes Hour (CBSI) Town Meeting of the Air (NBCl Big Town with Edward Robinson (CBS) Gienn Miller's Orchestra iGBSlt Rudy Valles Program (NBCl Al Pearce'e Gang (NBC) The First Line (CBS) Opera Guild NBC) Beverly and Her Boy Friends (NBC) Lum and Abner (NBC) News (CBS) Fred Waring Orcheatra (NBO Dance Orcheatra (CBSi Danes Orchestra (CBS and NBC) COME AND ROAR! HERIDA TUEUIMO cTonzia Information Please Color Cartoon A Latest News 0 ni ANY SEAT lie 30c it 44c! fowling Specialty! Up 99 Marie Band Mnslsal Nevellles Latest Faramenat Nan vMjaLa SEE FOR YOURSELF THE MENACE THAT CONFRONTS US! Gasoline ia vital to a nation engaged in modern mechanized warfare So by driving carefully and economically by conserving gas in every possible be saving precious fuel for the A not to mention the money be saving for yourself I KEEP ENGINE TUNED! Let ua help you get out of your Olds all the economy that was built in We have the equipment and the trained men to tune your engine exactly right the better your engine runs the less gas it uses KEEP SPARK PLUGS CLEAN! Dirty spark plugs waata many gallons of gasoline Let us inspect your clean them Wnd regap them if necessary install a new set It may save you as much as 10 on gas KEEP TIRES PROPERLY INFLATED! Under-inflated tires make the engine work harder and use more gas Let our tire experts check yours today Proper inflation will save on save the tires tool KEEP FUEL PUMP IN GOOD WORKING ORDER! A worn-out fuel pump diaphragm can cause leakage and considerable waste of gas Have our Oldsmobile trained mechanics inspect your fuel pump regularly and clean its filtering bowl at least twice a year TIMING ADJUSTED I Incorrect timing is a common cause of wasted gasoline To make sure that you are getting maximum mileage from your Oldsmobile bring it in to us periodically for a check-up of the distributor and the entire electrical system NOW! 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