Rain MakingFirm to FilePapers Soon

Program to StartIn November; PilotAnd Expert Hired

Plans for rain-making in themountains back of Palm Springstook new forward steps thisweek with announcement thatcloud-seeding operations wouldstart in November and that art-icle* of incorporation for theSanta Ana Weather corporationwould be filed in Sacramentosoon.

The corporation plans to makerain in the Santa Ana river basinbut also includes the San Jacintomountain area.

John M. Mylne of Riversideissued the statements this week.He is president of the new com-pany.

WATER COMPANIES of thethree counties and power com-panies are interested in the pro-ject.

C. S. Barnes, artificial rain-making pilot formerly with the

River rain-making projectArizona has been hired tofor the corporation and Met-

eorologist John Battle of Balboahas also been engaged.

Operations to fill the SantaAna basin and streams in theSan Jacinto mountains will co-incide with the rainy seasonfrom November through April15.

PLANS CALL FOR increasingrainfall during the normal rainyseason and not to produce un-seasonal rains which woulddamage crops in the early Fallor late Spring.

The association reported thatif was nearing its goal of $50,000to finance the first year's opera-tions.

Cities, counties and waterand power companies have con-tributed to the cost.

U.C. Art CourseScheduled Here

D Announcement was made at-st’.erkeley this week that Palm

Springs has been chosen as thelocation for a course in "Art ii\the Elementary School" to beincluded in the 1950 Fall ex-tension of University of Cali-fornia Extension.

University Extension offersadults an opportunity for fur-ther educational advancementby providing specially chosen,localized courses in many south-ern California communities.

The Palm Springs course isscheduled to open Tuesday, Sep-tember 26. at 7:00 p. m. in theTeacher's work room of FrancesStevens elementary’ school. Mrs.Florence Hord. director of art forRiverside city schools, will con-duct the fifteen consecutiveweekly meetings of the course.Registration may he made at

initial class meeting.

Village Highlights

"That radio guy is right. These blades really give acloser share!"

Three Hurt at PioneertownWhen Film Gag Backfires

A comedy sequence on theGene Autry location near Pio-neertown ended in a tripletragedy Monday afternoon whenan antique cannon backfiredand injured several members ofthe Flying-A-Productions unit.

Pat Buttram, comedian. wasmaking rain with the rustic oldcannon for a gag shot in theGenp Autry Television shortsbeing filmed here. The powdercharge was apparently tooheavy for the old firing pieceand it exploded. Shrapnel fromthe breech hit Pat Buttram,Jimmy Loomis, sound man andJohnny Bruseau, driver for GeneAutry.

Dr. Ince of the Ince Memorialhospital in Twentynine Palmswas flown to the Vucca Valleyair-strip to administer first aidand thp victims w'pre then takenby ambulance to the hospitalfor emergency operations. PatButtram was reported to be incritical condition.

Council AgainstProposition No. 1

Thp city council says vote"Yes” on proposition numberthree and vote "No” on numberone in the coming elections.

Proposition three would sim-plify the court system in thestate. Russell Rink, city man-ager. said at this week’s coun-cil meeting that the present sys-tem is “cumbersome and over-lapping."

The council acted unanimous-ly on his recommendation.

’ The California Cities Leaguesuggested that the council go onrecord as being opposed to num-ber one which w’oulri discontinuethe personal property tax. "Thiswould make some persons en-tirely tax-free increasing theburden for others," said thecouncil.

Fullenwider NowHas Another Job

R. M. C. Fullenwider, secretarymanager of the county chamberof commerce and manager ofthe Date festival at Indio, hada new job today. He w'as ap-pointed member-al large of thecounty disaster council by sup-ervisors Monday.

'Regulations on InstallmentBuying Come Back Again

"Consumer credit has tinder-gone unprecedented expansion,particularly in recent months.Under present conditions con-tinued excessive growth of con-sumer installment credit addsmaterially to inflationary pres-sures.”

This i* the Federal ReserveSystem's way of saying that Reg-ulation W is hack from the deadafter it expired in June. 1949.The regulation, to he effectivejjk'pt. 18. is essentially the sameH| form as the old law.

IN THE AUTOMOBILE Install-ment buying field it will meanthat purchasers must pay onethird down and complete thepayments in 21 months.

For appliances: at least 15 percent down and 18 months to pay.

For furniture and rugs; 10 perrent down and 18 months to paythe hill.

Home repairs and alterations,installment loans and otheritems costing more than $lOOare similarly effected.

"The regulation of consumercredit is one of the fiscal mone-tary and credit measures de-signed to restrain the inflation-ary pressures that result in high-er prices and to facilities diver-sion of critical material andmanpower to production of de-fense needs as such diversion isrequired.” said the Board of

Governors In exxplaining themove.

THE REGULATION will be administered by the 12 FederalReserve Banks and their 24 bran-ches located throughout thecountry. Inquiries should be ad-dressed to the nearest FederalReserve Bank or branch.

The Twelfth Reserve Districtwill forward registration formsto all engaged in the businessof making installment loans otsales who were registered underthe previous law. Others con-cerned can obtain forms fromthe Los Arigeles Branch office.

Villagers InjuredIn Ohio Wreck

Two long time employee* ofthe Desert Inn have been in-jured in an Ohio train wreck,according to an announcementmade this week by Jame* Geg-gie. inn manager.

They are Dan Parat an, roomservice waiter who suffered adislocated shoulder and RonnieEchjverry. head bus boy whowas injured more critically. Aphone call from Mercy hospital.Tlflin. Ohio informed Geggie ofthe accident.

The pair, seasonal employeesat the inn for many years, werebound for New York after spend-ing the winter in Detroit.

Army EngineersHear Flood PerilFacts at Session

Supervisors, meeting asCounty Flood Control directors,and army engineers met yester-day to discuss the serious floodhazard in the wash seven milesnorth of the Village at a sessionat the county courthouse.

The engineers came to thecounty at the request of theboard.

The hazard was created a fewweeks ago when a week-longfire swept the area east of Mt.San Gorgonia toward Morongo.destroying trees and other veg-etation on 11,000 acres of water-shed.

Max Bookman, county floodcontrol area, said that a heavyrain might cause a flood in theWhitewater wash that wouldwash out the railroad line, high-way, gas line, aqueduct andpower lines anid also the statefish hatchery,

Supervisors also asked theArmy engineers, the stale andthe U. S, forest service, to con-tribute toward funds to elimi-nate the hazard.

Bookman said, however, thatthey should not raise their hopestoo high on receiving this aidas army engineers have told himthat their funds for such floodcontrol purposes are low.

More Lights forDesert Hot Springs

Contract between the countyand California Electric Powercompany under which the light-ing system at Desert Hot Springswill be enlarged, was signed bysupervisors and power companyofficials this week.

Employers' Ass'nOffice Re-Opened

Palm Springs Employers' as-sociation opened their employ-ment agency at 201 North Indianavenue Monday morning for thenew season. Mrs. Frank Rwyerhas taken temporary charge ofthe office.

And Indio Only 23 Miles AwayAnd Indio only 23 miles away!Villagers crossed their fingers and knocked on wood

this week when they read that crickets —millions of ’em,according to reports—had invaded Indio over the week-end. Few had been seen here, so far.

Mack Moore, county sanitarian, said the invasion wasthe worst since 1944. It didn’t last long, however.

While housewives were advised that certain chemicalswould rout the pests, they were told there was nothinglike a broom to get them out of the house.

Moore said they didn’t do much harm but that theywere a nuisance.

That last remark was greeted as an understatementhv Indio residents.

Thousand PalmsWorrying OverIts Post Office

Thousand Palms citizens be-stirred themselves this weekwhen they heard that planswere under consideration to takethe post office building awayfrom its present location at Ra-mon road and Highway 99 andsome started campaigning tokeep the office where if is.

The office has been there formany years and is regarded asa sort of landmark and meetingplace for the community.

County TightensUp on Spending

Word has gone out fromcounty supervisors’ office thatajl departments must stay with-in their budgets.

According to hoard members,the advance in prices couldeasily wipe out the $150,000 un-appropriated reserve fund setup for the current fiscal year.

This week supervisors issuedan order to all department headsthat they f must get the board’sapproval before they pay morefor equipment or material thanwas allowed them in the bud-get.

Heretofore, when departmentheads found f.he hill higherthan the budgeted amount, they

have often completed the pur-chase and notified the hoard af-terwards.

Dunkerley TellsTravel AgenciesOf Village Plans

William Dunkerley, chamber ofcommerce manager, addressedthe American Society of TravelAgents at the Gaylord Hotel in

I Los Angeles Tuesday night.He discussed the various met-

i hods the chamber will use in its! continuing service to the travelI agent. Close coordination be-| tween the chamber and the manyagents is Dunkerley’s remedy

I for reservation and commissioni difficulties which occasionallyarise in the height of the season.

The chamber’s last formal as-i socialion with the travel agent

I group was last year when they| were guests at a cocktail partyhere.

Mrs. Simsarian FilesSuit for Divorce

Suit for divorce was on file insuperior court in Riverside inwhich Lela Simsarian asks adecree from Henry Simsarian.

The complaint was filed for theplaintiff by Attorney E. E. Ther-ieau.

Both parties are long time res-idents of the Vllage and wellknown here.

Loyalty OathTo be Required

Supervisors are expected to actnext week on an ordinancewhich would require employesof the county flood control dis-trict to take loyalty oaths. The

I board ordered the measure drawn■ while in session as directors of

| the district.Suggestion of Urban Tarwater,

flood commissioner, that theyattach a rider to the measure

censoring the system of licensesand permits, was rejected.

Tarw»ter is an opponent of allzoning regulations and the sys-tem of licenses and permits itentails.

Supervisors said they had tohave licenses and permits toregulate sewage disposal and lo-cations of businesses.

Tarwater said the license andpermit system was underminingthe American way of life.

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