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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR Fruit Pickers ? ? ? Just in order to keep the rec ords straight and give credit wher credit is due, I am hereby put lishing the names of the Rotarian who got out and picked frui The names, as given me by Anso B. Call Jr., who was in charg of the program, are as follow; Milton E. Moody, W. B. Mathii Eric Snow, James Judd, Orv Hafen, Joe Atkin, Pres. D. C Watson and Mr. Call. . . . Noi that isn't such a bad record whe you consider that there are number of birds in the club, lik myself (with one foot in th grave). You will note, howevei that the above list of names in eludes some of the oldest men i the club. It just goes to prov that they are not old mental or physically. More power t them! . . . D. C. put up such strong story about how man; bushels he and Joe picked tha the boys socked a 50c fine oi him a couple of weeks ago. Las Friday, Joe was there and D. C asked that Joe back him up it his asserted powers. Joe declarei that they were going so stronj that they worked right througl the noon hour and that by 2 p. m. they had the packers so swampei that the grower came down inti the orchard and asked them to la; off. Somewhere in the disserta tion he mentioned the figures o "83 bushels" as the number eacl had picked. ... The Rotarian: listened, but when Joe got througl they tacked on a fine of $1 eacl to Joe and D. C, for "bragga docio". Not that they doubtec Joe in the least, you understand Oh yes, Gordon Mathis was un able to make it himself, but sen his son. . . . That's an idea maybe when Dick gets old enougl the Simpsons will be representee after all. There are a great many yards both front and back, that have-good have-good lawns and beautifully, well cared-for shrubbery in St. George but. there aren't many that have the beautiful flowers that Mr. anc Mrs. Anson B. Call Jr. have Verna gives Anson all the -credit so he must be the one. At anv rate their back yard, in particular, certainly shows a master's touch, Stockmen Wear Smiles The government estimates there are around 79 million cattle in the United States. They place an average value of around $70 per head on them. I was just figuring figur-ing that out: Ten cattle, $700; 100 cattle, $7,000; 1,000 cattle, $70,000 brother that surely looks like nice money through an Editor's Edi-tor's specs. I didn't, even in my dreams, go over the $70,000 mark, because no mere Editor has any idea what that kind of money is. No wonder the stockmen go around wreathed in smiles these days. Mike Now Captain In a note received from Capt. M. O. Hutchings by Mrs. Hutch-ings, Hutch-ings, Mike reports that he has now been advanced to the rating of Captain. Jo says the letter was brief and carried little other news, beyond telling of his (Mike's) advancement. Congratulations to both Mike and Jo. And, congratulations congrat-ulations to Dixie. I doubt if any other section the size of Dixie with an equal number of boys in the service can boast of as many boys with ratings. City Election It is about time for the political parties to start stirring up interest inter-est in the city election to be held this fall. While the city election never seems to get us asexcited as th state and national elections, elec-tions, still we should all take a vital interest in it as it is our most direct contact with the people who represent us. Unquestionably Unques-tionably the democratic form of government functions best in the small communities where the individual in-dividual knows t h e candidates, their capabilities and experiences. In the large cities most voters have little knowledge about the candidates they are asked to vote on and merely cast their vote be- uause auirie individual or group that they have confidence in recommends rec-ommends the candidate. . . . For instance, there had been a lady on the City Board of Education in Los Angeles for a number of years. Each election she came up for re-election, and because she was the only woman candidate, she always went in by a big majority. ma-jority. At the last election word got around that she was a Negress. And, while it was generally agreed that she was capable, she received re-ceived the smallest vote of any candidate. The people had been voting her in by a landslide without with-out even knowing that she was a Negress, simply because she was the only woman candidate. . . . This brings up one of the weaknesses of the democratic form of selecting our representatives. representa-tives. ... We are too apt to vote our prejudices or sympathies. Especially is this so in a small community. We are prone to vote for a candidate because he or she needs the job, rather than voting for the most capable candidate candi-date for the position. ... At any rate, it is still the best form of government on the face of the earth and every full-blooded American should take an interest inter-est in the selection of the men and women who will serve us in public office. How would you like to have 50 sections in wheat, of 100,000 acres in fruit? That is the size of a couple of operations in the valley where Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mc-Arthur Mc-Arthur now live. Their hometown home-town is Wasco, Calif. Joe explained ex-plained that the wheat land was dry farm land, but the fruit is irrigated from pumps that have a lift now of around 300 feet. He reports that the original pumping pump-ing level was around 30 to 50 feet, but over the years it has been lowered to the 300-foot level. Even with this big lift (at rates, he says, are higher than our pumping rates) the farmers there are still able to make big money. Potatoes and cotton are the two main crops in their particular section. |