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r A BIG JOB. BUT ITS DEAD EASY It would be a big job to tell one hundred people any thing: that would interest them in your Roods, but its dead easy if done the right way. This paper will tell several hundred at once at nominal cost. NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND in the week but that you do not need stationery of some sort or other. We furnish neat, clean printing at the very lowest rates. Fast presses, modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME 50. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8. 1929 NUMBER 45 NEW POTATO LAW HELPS GROWERS Crop Near Failure in Many of Spud Districts, But Market Improves. Delegate Oregon State College. Operation of the new Oregon potato grading law finds the state with a very spotted ; crop selling - at the highest prices reached in many years, says' E.k R. Jackman, extension specialist in farm crops, who has recently made obser vations in all the main growing dis tricts and in the Portland market. The law is working out to the advan tage of growers, he finds, but just now the average potato raiser needs spuds more than he does laws. The western part of the state is hardest hit by the extended drouth which has checked the growth be- fore the tubers had attained mar- ketable size. Most potato raisers are in the condition attributed to Vermont corn growers who are said to save all their crop for seed. Small potatoes from healthy vines may well be moved as single drop seed, says Mr. Jackman. - --w--!w-r v Klamath Falls and the Deschutes region are harvesting nearly normal . crops that are selling at from-$2.00 to $2.25 a hundred. The Blue Moun tain region has a short crop not ex pected to exceed 50 cars as compared ; with a normal output of about 125 cars. The new law requiring all potatoes to be sold under definite grades mark , I ed on the sacks is proving a real stimulus to the Portland market, finds Mr. Jackman. Heretofore other states ' sent in second grade stock and des troyed the market for good Oregon potatoes. Now with the grade plain l ) ly marked on the sacks, good Oregon - ' spuds are finding a ready market in . Portland, which instead of being the lowest market on the coast as form erly i3 now one of the highest. Oregon Will Use Passing - Game Against the Staters University of Oregon. Oregon's part ofi the battle "with Oregon State will be played in the air, according to the present plans of Captain John J. McEwen, head coach. The success of the Webfoots aerial attack in pre vious games has been so effective that the coaching staff will continue it in the Beaver fray. The Oregonians have three excel lent passers in John Kitzmiller, Bob Robinson and Johnny Londahl, and the receivers are so varied that there is no telling where the pass will be routed. The two outstanding passing combinations of the year have been from Kitzmiller to Robinson and from Kitzmiller to Archer. ,;i The forwards who will start against Oregon State in the homecoming clash at Eugene, November 16, are pretty definite, and if there are to be any changes, from former lineups it will be in the backfield; Archer and Erdley will start at ends, Colbert and Christensen, tackles; , Shields and Lillie, guards; and Forsta, center. The most recently developed com petition is between Hal Hatton and Ed Moeller for the No. 3 fullback position. Hatton is the high scorer of the team and has come ahead rapidly in the Washington and Ucla conference games. - . Walla Walla Girl Is Reported Still At Large Walla Walla. While no definite trace of Bernice Long," 14-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Long, 809 East Main street has ye been found, police officers were working on some information received from Pasco to the effect that a lone girl who answered to Miss Long's descrip tion had been seen boarding the train for Seattle Tuesday evening. The girl disappeared last Thursday, just after leaving home for school, and has not been heard of since. Relatives at Baker, Yakima and Se attle have been communicated with but were unable to give any aid. The . girl is said to appear much older than her real age and could pass for 18 years old,' the officers said. Mrs. Long said that one of the girl's friends had said that Bernice had told her that a traveling man had offered to take her to California to become a moving picture actress. The girl was unable to give the salesman's name, but the lost girl's parents say Ber nice had long wished to go into the movies. t Weston Potatoes i Weston Leader: Joe Wurzer finish ed digging his spud crop last week at his place on Weston mountain, and I took 406 sacks of netted gems from seven acres. Frank English has also t finished harvesting his potatoes, and is reported to have bad an exception- ally gbtfi Jrield. , . , : r I " . ' . V j J p Mrs. Murray Warner, director of tne Oregon Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Oregon, who sailed this month for Japan, where she will be a United States delegate to the Insti tute of Pacific' Relations. Mrs. Warner Is an authority on Oriental art, and has traveled extensively in the Orient. SERVICE TO CITIES ; - -PLAKNEBBY U.-OF 0. Municipal Reference. Bureau to "be Organized With Experts in Charge of Work. UNIVERSITY OJ OREGON, Eu gene, Ore. A municipal reference service to be state wide in scope is being established at the University of Oregon, announced by James H. Gilbert, Dean of College of Literature, Scicnco and Arts and Head of the Department of Economics. The new organization win have for its aim, so tar as its resources make it possible, to furnish inquiries, give advice, and furnish information on news of mu nicipal administration. . . Research in this field will be con ducted by experts in the Departments of Economics and Political Science at the University, and findings will be made available to those interested in municipal affairs. .Dr. James D. Bar nelt, hsad of the Dapartment of Po litical Science, and a specialist in the study of municipal governments, law of municipal corporations, and city administration, will be chairman of the organization. Dr. Barnett has been a member of the University fac ulty for more than twenty years; has studied and written extensively about Oregon political problems and at times has been consulted by munici palities regarding charters and other phases of organization, Expert on Board The second member of the Com mittee includes Dr. Emerson Schmidt, Professor of Economics, who received his training at the University of Wis consin in the closely related fields of public utilities and labo and industri al relations. Mr. Schmidt has given a great deal of time and attention to the study of municipal utilities, both publically and privately owned. He also studied under John R, Commons, noted authority on labor problems at Wisconsin. ! ' The other member of the Commit tee is Dr. .Tames M. Reinhardt, Pro fessor of Sociology, who has had con siderable experience in the field of community organization. His advice will be available on questions connect ed with community organization, pub lic relations, and social problems pe culiar to Oregon communities. Other Department Help This central committee will draw on other departments of the Univer sity for assistance whenever needed. Already the School of Business Ad ministration and Bureau of Public Re search, the School of Physical Edu cation School of Architecture, School of Journalism, and the Law School,; have dona considerable community and municipal work. The Law School is Juft finishing a survey of state leg islation bearing on the problem of stream pollution, and Dr. James H. Gilbert has Just completed an extend ed study of the Wealth, . Debt and Taxation to ninety-eight Oregon cities. The organization will be provided with an office and a secretary to talcs care of correspondence and keep rec ords. The cities throughout the state are urged to address inquiries to nls body at the University. Results of their studies In the form of news items will appear from time to time in the columns of Pacifio Municipal ities and in the Commonwealth Re riew, it la announced. : Building New Home The home of J, T. Lieuallen, Jr., at Adams is being torn down to be replaced by a modern residence. Ed, Mardis, Adams contractor, is in HARDWOOD SOURCES MAPPED BY U. O. RESEARCH MEN I -v -xj.- n - - ;-vT yr HOTH Memo V JSf. - .;...; Kjgi A ..rrfV -JgS'i ' j jjj? f ' ; HARDWOOD GJOW OCTJ ' Above is a map on which are sketched sources of hardwoods for use in making high grade furniture, the regions being outlined by William Fowler, associate professor of business administration, and Ronald H. Robnett, research assistant, both of the University of Oregon, who are making an Intensive survey to aid Oregon manufac turers in the making of furniture and other wood products. At the left is Mr. Fowler and at the right, Mr. Robnett McFadden Elected Mayor, Dell, Littlejohn, LeGrow Will Serve as Councilmen C. L. McFadden, who was nominat ed for the office of Mayor of Athena by petition, was elected over Homer I. Watts in Tuesday's city election, when he received 114 votes to 46 for Mr. Watts. A, total of 161 votes was cast for mayor, one ballot being cast for Chase Garfield for that office. For Councilmen, Henry Dell re ceived 135 votes, F. S. LeGrow 139 votes, and W. P. ' Littlejohn 125. These three were the regular candi dates for the office of councilmen. Of scattering votes for this office, George Bannister received 23, Charles Smith 1, and C. O. Henry 1. B. B. Richards, present city re corder .and regular candidate for re election received 142 votes. Scatter ing votes went to C. L. McFadden 1; E. C. Presbye 4, Chase Garfield 1. Fred Kershaw was re-elected city treasurer, receiving 153 votes. One vote was cast for Hiram Knight. The election board was comprised of R. L. Wilson, Mrs. M. I. Miller, Mrs. Lloyd Michener, Mrs. Penn Harris and Mrs. Bryce Baker., , Man Who Married Nine Times Is Under Arrest Seattle. That William A. Burns, former convict, has been married nine times under several aliases m Seat tle, Tacoma, Bremerton, Bellingham and Walla Walla, was revealed by po lice after bigamy charges were filed against him in justice court here. Deputy Prosecutor A. E. Bailey was to leave for San Francisco to at tempt to bring Bums back to Seattle to face at least two of the wives he left behind. Burns is fighting extra dition. Under the name of W. A. Swinley, police said, Burns was sentenced in Tacoma in 1923 when he pleaded guilty to bigamy, forgery and grand larceny. Police records revealed that he had three wives at the time. He has been charged with one mar riage in Bremerton, one in Walla Walla, one in Tacoma and two in Se attle within the last three " years. Among the names he used at the altar were W. A. Marcus, W. A. Frye and George S. Foulkes, police investiga tors said. i Need of Sulphur . Farmers of eastern Orearon are ad vised by Oregon State College against paying excessive prices for ground limestone for use on alkali soils. Evrwriments show that the basaltic soils of eastern Oregon relatively well supplied with lime, says Dr. w. L. Powers, chief in soils of the ex periment station, and that sulphur is the best known single treatment lor alkali soil. Milking Machine Installed A milking machine has recently been installed at the Taylor dairy in Athena, The herd of cows are milked in short order by the new machine, which in addition to being the modern method employed by all up-to-date dairies is the acme of sanitary re sults. Power for the machine is furnished by a gasoline engine, but this will be replaced by an electric motor. Gigantic Apple Grown Walla Walla, W. B. Marr, who has an orchard two miles east of Walla Walla, had but three apples on one tree this year, but one of the apples is so big that he has challenged all comers. The apple is 15 inches in circumference and weighs pound ga4 tali Mary L. Leeper Dead At Ripe Age of 89 Years Mrs. Mary L. Leeper, aged 89, died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Nellie Taylor, in Walla Walla. Mrs. Leeper was born May 15, 1840, in Nottingham, England, and came to America in 1847 on one of the first steamers. It was known as the New Enterprize and made the trip in 13 days. October 9, 1859, she was married to Gilbert T. Leeper, in Can ton, Illinois. They were the parents of five daughters, two of whom survive. They are Mrs. Effie Eddington Smith of Hood River and Mrs. Nellie Taylor of Walla Walla. She is also survived by one brother, Edward Daft, of Prairie City, Iowa; one sister, Mrs. Annie Porter of Centralia, Washing ton; 11 grandchildren, 18 great grand children and one great great grand child. Funeral "Services were held at Pen dleton on Wednesday at 2 p. m. from the Christian xhurch, of which Mrs. Leeper was a devoted member. Mrs. Leeper had lived with her daughters in former years when they were resi dents of Athena, and she had many friends here. A number of them at tended her funeral. Rev. and C. A. Sias assisted in the funeral obsequies, and interment took: place in the Pen dleton Mausoleum. Washington Farmers Favor Proposed Plan Walla Walla. While there is some hesitancy on the part of the grain men to unite under the grain grower's cooperative plan, when the wheat men fully understand and appreciate the plan its marketing and economic pos sibilities, they will be quick to unite under the proposed system, said J. Carl Laney of Colfax, secretary of the State Farm Bureau. At the Pullman meetng held last week directly after the meeting in Walla Walla, the farmers asked a number of questions and seemed un familiar with the workings of the proposed scheme but when the plan was fully explained they seemed will ing to join in the movement, he said. The failure of a number of previous plans has created a feeling that no thing hasty should be done. Mr. Laney pointed out that the Canadian pool or marketing system has resulted in a five-cent saving per bushel on grain handling there, and said that similar results could be ex pected in the proposed Northwest grain cooperative. More explanation and information on the proposed plan will be necessary before any further steps can be taken he said. Athena Bridge Club Mrs. W. P. Littlejohn entertained the Bridge club at her home on Jef ferson street, Friday afternoon. Four tables were" In play. Club guests were Mrs. Justin Harwood, Mrs. Fred Pink erton and Mrs. Armand DeMerritt. High club score was made by Mrs. F. S. LeGrow while Mrs. Henry Dell received the consolation. High guest score went to Mrs. Fred Pinkerton and the consolation fell to Mrs. Armond DeMerritt. ; Cinders For Street Two carloads of cinders were re ceived in Athena this week from the Northern Pacific Railroad. A large portion of the cinders were used at the Northern Pacific crossing at Col lege street in the northwest part of town, and the remainder is being utilized by the city as filling material fr low places on streets not pared p'r jmata&xaUetl ' Three Autos Collide In a Wreck and Injure Three Milton Ypuths Milton. A Sunday evening accident between Sunnyside and Freewater in jured five and brought 3 cars to grief when a new coupe owned and driven by Ivan Vancil, and carrying Charles Wheeler and Vance Hendricks of Mil ton rammed a roadster driven by Frank Diggins also of Milton and having as an occupant Miss Bernice Gould of Weston. ', At the first stop south of Sunnyside a large car slowed to make a left hand turn, and came to a stop as did also Diggins who was following, both cars- were dead still and Vancil driving his car could not turn out in time to avoid hitting the Diggins car in the rear forcing it into the larger car and demolishing all three cars.' ' ' After the accident it was found that Miss Gould received A torn ear and several scalp wounds on the left side of her head. In the rear car Wheeler was the worst injured, los ing several teeth, a badly injured left knee and several cuts and bruises on his face. Hendricks had both knees injured and several bruises. Vancil was a star football player for Mac-Hi last year and Hendricks is on the team this' season. Wheeler is the son of F. J. Wheeler of the Mil ton Eagle and Diggins is a rancher. There was a fourth car which miss ed the jam. Montague's Red and White Chain Store Ed. Montague, who recently pur chased Steve's store at corner of Main and Third is now affiliated with the Red & White system of chain grocery stores. The new chain sys tem, which is first in Athena, went in to effect on November 1. , The front of the store has been newly painted in the prevailing colors, red and white and an attractive sign which identifies all Red & White stores,' has been placed across the front of the building. Mr. Montague states that a com plete rearrangement of the interior of the store building will take place in the near future, when facilities will be added to conform with the Red & White system, which affords attractive display of goods and gives better service to patrons. , Turkeys Will Go Monday The East Oregonian reports that Umatilla county turkeys in the pool of the Idaho-Oregon Turkey Groweru' association) will be sold at Hermiston on Monday, at which time all growers having birds in the pool will ship them there. They will be graded by graders who will represent the buy ers, such grading being subject to the inspection of the checker who will represent the association. The bid, which was opened at Boise, is as fol lows: For dressed birds: Young torn turkeys, 32 cents; for young hens, 30 cents; for old toms, 27 cents; for No. 2 toms and hens, 22 cents. Want August Season Salem. At a meeting of the Marion county Game Protection association last night considerable sentiment was shown in favor of a change In the deer hunting season to get away from the forest fire period. It was be lieved the season might be opened in Augut. Governor Patterson was critizised for closing the season be cause of forest fires, several mem bers declaring that hunters are not a fire menace. A split hunting sea b wto Bp-owed. - Athena Takes Kennewick Into Camp In the Last Game of the Season Playing his last high school foot ball game, Eldon Myrick, - fullback, broke from scrimmage and reeled off a forty yard run through a broken field for a touchdown in the last few minutes of play to put Athena high school a winner over Kennewick high on the local gridiron, Friday after noon. And a few seconds later he bucked through the line for the extra point, making the score Athena 7, Kennewick 0. " ; '.. It was by far the toughest game played on the Athena grounds this year a good game, even though Ken newick had won it, for the boys from the Columbia basin town sure knew their onions and were game to the last stand, when in the gathering dusk the timer's whistle shrilled forth the end of the contest. ' The stellar climar of Myrick's splen did work of the afternoon was achiev ed through the fine playing of Cecil Pambrun at tackle and John Kirk, end. Likewise John and Cecil play ed their last high school game as both with Eldon, graduate this year. As a whole the players on the Athena team were better than any time this year. They had to be to win from Kenne wick, which came to town with two teams in its bag, and take it from us their coach was a heavy plunger on shooting in his reserve " stuff. Six footers he had in plenty and held them back until the last. Then he unleashed five at one big once, but it just wasn't in 'em to crush Athena's indomitable spirit to win that game. And it was in this big crash of fered .by the Kennewick coach in the last moments of play that Athena won. , ' The five fresh Kennewick stalwarts elected to play 'er overhead. Pass No. 1 failed of completion. A line plunge and then Pambrun intercept ed a pass without moving out of his tracks on Kennewick's 40 yard line, and fell on the ball. On the next play, Athena first down and ten to go, Pambrun who had been shifted to center to relieve Freddie Singer, snap ped the ball back to Myrick, who shot out as though to go around left end. He pulled three players out far enough, so that when he cut in he had a hole to come through. Then the line was behind him and a broken field of three players in front. He out-wiggled and out-ran these and went sprawling over the goal line after being thrown off balance when he straight-armed the Kennewick safety out of his path. r And this, with the extra point took all the starch out of Kennewick's reserves and they didn't recover dur ing the next few minutes of play. Northwest Represented . On Federal Farm Board Washington. The farm board an nounced that through an agreement with the bureau of agricultural eco nomics, W. A. Schoenfield, general representative of the bureau in the Pacific northwest with headquarters in Portland, has been transferred to the farm board and will serve as its field representative in that area. Under the new arrangement Sch- oenfeld will be a representative of the farm board but his services will be available to the bureau of agri cultural economics as much as prac ticable, particularly in connection with economics and marketing re search work. The activities of Schoenfeld and his office in Portland have been largely with the cooperative marketing as sociation. The board felt, it was said, that since it intends to work largely through cooperatives that Schoenfeld was unusually well qualified to rep resent the board in its contact with cooperative associations in the Pa cific northwest' Picture Program Four leading screen stars Ruth Chat- terton, Clive Brook, Mary Nolan and William Powell are cast in the leading roles in Paramount's delightful marital drama, "Charming Sinners," will come to the Standard tomorrow and Sunday evenings. The plot of this photoplay is thoroughly human; situations which make you feel at home. That is the secret of the ap peal of "Charming Sinners." The laughs come from the heart because they are culled from everyday exper iencethe "next door" variety. Hurt In Auto Smash Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Harris of Seat tle, George M. Roller of Walla Walla, and Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Munsell and Mrs. Sam Hunter of Mlton, were in jured when the large sedan in which they were riding, struck loose gravel on the highway near Baker and turn ed over into a ditch. The accident happened Sunday evening. Roller is the most seriously injured. VERT'S MUSEUM OFFER IN DEMAND Whitman College is Inter ested In Pendleton Man's Gift. Pendleton. Walla Walla, Eugene, Albany. Forest Grova and MMinn. ville all want the Vert memorial building and museum, offered to the city of Pendleton as a (rift hv John Vert, and since the recent supreme court decision declaring the local cnarter amendment to be invalid re quests have been tnlinc in linnn thn pioneer resident to erect his building cisewuere. Of the reauests received hv Mr. Vert the most snecific one in from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Presi dent S. B. L. Penrose of that insti tution has written Mr. Vert nledcnW an endowment equal to the cost of tne minding, interest funds from the endowment being used for mainten ance expenses. "My purpose is to erect a com. munity building and museum as a memorial to Mrs.. Vert nnd it. ufcnnM be located in Pendleton where we lived so long," says Mr. Vert in a state ment to the East Oregonian. "I am not favorable to erecting the building in any other city and trust that it will be possible to carry out the plans that Mrs. Vert and I agreed upon prior to her death." t Mr. Vert s -offer was to erect a $65,000 building to be used for com. munity purposes and as quarters for a historical museum. The building is to contain six club rooms to be used by local organizations for meeting purposes, an auditorium and a Vmne. ment dining room with a kitchen ad joining. His offer is based upon the condition that the site selected for the building be annroved bv him and that title to the property be in tho. name or tne city and that the building be used for public purposes and bo eared for. Special School Tax , Notices have been posted which call for a school meeting of District No. 29 at the school house on November 18 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of discussion of the bud get and to vote on the k'vying of a Leaves Growing In Favor As Fertilizer Steadily leaves are growing In favor as a fertilizer for flower plots and garden tracts. Especially in soil which bakes after irrigation an application of leaves provide the much needed mulching properties to keep the soil loose. In Athena the practice of puttinir leaves on garden soil instead of burn ing them in the fall, is growing, and better flowers and gardens is the result. In Portland, the Oregonian says, "al though the , city picks up about 75 truck loads of leaves a day, there is such a demand for the leaves as fertilizer for flower beds and gardens that the street cleaning bureau cannot fill its orders this year, George Ries, superintendent, said. "The leaves have been a particu larly trying problem this year, said Mr. Ries, because of the lack of mois ture, which makes them hard to han dle and also subject to every wind that blows. Even the experiment of wetting the leaves with a street flusher has not proved entirely suc cessful. Mr. Ries is considering the problem of installing long bruBhes on the city's snow plows so the leaves may be swept into large piles, and thereby reducing the number of times that they have to be handled." South Comes Back Home In Tuesday's Election Virginia returned to the democratic fold in Tuesday's gubernatorial elec tion by a majority more than twice the size of that which carried it into the republican column in the presi dential election a year ago. New York City re-elected its demo- cratic mayor, James J. Walker, on the crest of a tidal wave which swept before it three other candidates. Fiorello II. Laguardia, republican, Norman Thomas, socialist, and Rich ard E. Enright, square deal party nominee. Besides these two victories, the democrats repulsed a republican drive to capture the Kentucky State legis lature and saw their candidate in the single congressional contest the twenty-first New York (Manhattan) district force to the front in late re turns after for hours trailing the re publican, Hubert T. Delany, a negro. Almost complete returns from Chicago's municipal election indicated a decisive victory for the entire demo cratic coalition ticket consisting of ten republicans and twelve democrats for superior and circuit court judges. Weston Potato Show A number of Athena people attend, ed the annual Potato Show at Wes ton last week and report a notable increase in number of exhibits. Joint committees from the Weston Commer cial association and Weston Grange, bad cMfjfe of the h&jr. -