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County News
VOLUME XXIV.
SECOND SECTION
LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1926.
TEN PAGES TODAY
NUMBER 94
HELIUM TRAIN
; IS DEVELOPED
Three Lose Lives as Car Goes in River
KOllT WOHTH. Tex. AI').
M'lio "Helium Kxpn-Ha' will bo a
plclur'H(iii part of war machin
ery, IT plana of built urmy ami
n:ilV foi' ImlllJllllir lht liimviinl
, I. infill uhm! In HfcliU-r-tlian-alr-
i riifl UrvHop uucuriling tu present i
Jmllcutluns. .
The U-dlouH, laburutury - like
equipment now in usis discarded,
L tlio onco ruro kuh will bo rushed
from ham to butjc in lonp black
tnilna oC oinlnuuH-lookln cyllnl-rk-al.
tank cum, tlio first of which
wiih approved recently by the bur-i-iiu
of explosives and Ih due to
tirrlvc at 'the I'nlted Slatca helium
plant lure wit bin HO duyH.
Drawn up far enough behind
the Hues 'to be mife from hostile
Mtells, for they will be. charged
to hitrli-'XploBlVG pressure, a bat
tery of nino or ten mich tu
will be able to fill a dlrlflble
the size' of tlio lll-Hlurred Shenan
doah, '
One vlll carry inore than enuuh
helium to Influle a blimp of the
'IV typo banmtred at. Seolt Field,
ii ml in a Kinall fruetlon of the
time required with the ' pnse'lt
t botilev wysleni in luuullinff the
Ka . . ' ,
Atlwiiit'c; Is Knpfil.
('.real as t IiIh 8tep itppeln-H. It fe
really not- as remarkable as
mhunee shown in the production
- und liandlin of I lio gas during
and since, rhe. "World war. When
It .Is recalled that prior to 1DIS
less than the content of one "hof.
f tie" of 3 78 cubic foot capacity hu 1
been produced anywhere, the con
struction of lank cars cupublc of
transporting 2 10, out) cubic feet
each becomes- less of a feul by
comparison.
The history of h:lium develop
ment in this country is another
commercial romance, tinned wUh I
the primness of national necessity. !
From .a business enterprise oper- ;
ated by two private companies, it
Krew to a national monopoly, tlio
present'; plant .IntviiiK been built
jointly by the army and navy,
later operated by the navy alone
and now under the jurisdiction of
the bureau of mines, with every
governmental department privil
eged to rcffiisitioii helium for
itlmnlc needs.
The cost, .ouve' prohibitive, has
come ddwn from ? I ruu a cubic
foot for. tli e first druniful pro
duced to less, 1 hail $1!7 a thousand
cubic ffjiU for ;tlio Sr.Ot(MiO feet a
f himilh -ttiii:iicted rt-.'tHc" plant. . iit
this tliuo. . '
Cost May I Kiirii.sc. '
Hhould tl' tns ullouod for helium
development in the. present bud
iret before congress prove smTi-cii-nt
to double the. toipply of na
tural Ka from which heliim Is
cxtiaclcd, the cost can ba.broiiJrUt
down to $ 17 a thousand cubic
feel,' It is poinlerl out by It. A.
t.'attell, WashliiKloii, engineer in
fluii ri ii f Ih-H 1 1 tn ilevelftliliieii:.
bureau of mines, who was hcie'
recently for a conference with
Says Fiction Exaggerated
Attacks of Gold Seekers
Three people wcip killed und a sooro were Hurt vlicu ft lomlrU street ear juinpod Hie track
and went off a brid-e into Ihc Ohio river at evlllu I.slanU, near IHtlburgli. I'IkiUi shows Hie oar,
naif sulHiierf;eil, after (he accident.
plant officials.
Production on this basis would
be ut tho rate of 2.000.000 cubic
feet u month, or enough to fill
u ship of the Shenandoah's kU-i
eveiy four winks. The eust of
prodJclni? this amount, arter the
expense of laying a new pipeline
had been chargi-d off, would be
little more than that of extracting
the present output, said C V.
t.'ook. engineer in charge of pro
duction at J'ort Worth.
The volume of natural gas han
dled would be much greater, how
ever for tho helium content of
that now available Is only one per
cent, varying a few hundredths
from day to day, so that a bil
lion feet of natural gas would bo
required monthly. .
Some idea of tho. saving In
handling und transportation costs
may be gained from the fact that
oni of tho new tunk cars will
replace 1,267 of the iron ' drinis
or "bottles" now In use, making
the latter seem primitive indeed.
$1,1UK,MJU l'aid for Mill Slock
SALK.Nf, Ore. It cost Fred W.
U-adhcttcr ? 1 , 1 (i S.ni.nj to obtain
control of the Oregon I'ulp t
Paper company's properties here,
according to persons who are sup
posed to bo close in touch with
the purchaser. Jt was said that
Mr. head better paid premiums of
IL'M.KOU above the par value of
the stock- The largest blocks
of stock were p-Jrchascd from K.
S. Collins of Portland and It.
Spauldlng of Salem. The Collins
stock brought approximately $i00,
000, while Mr. Spauldlng sold Ills
stock, for- $H0iOOO, , ... . 4
Oregon Troops Will ,
- Train Within State
SAL KM, Ore. Hy the Associated.
Press) For the first tlmo Hlpr.ej
the close of tho World war all
training cumps for Oregon troops
will ha within tho state thin year.;
according to Brigadier Genera,!
(leoi.-ru A. White, adjutant general
of the ptatc, who has returned frorti
Washington. I. C, win-rc h at
tended a conference of military u
f Iculs. . --
Insti-ad or going lo Fort Barry,
San Francisco, tlio Oregon ' artill
ery will train at Fort . Slovens,
(.'amp Jackson, near Medford, will
ugain bo uwd by tho infantry
troops. A force of regular army
intuntry will also be Rent 'to Camp
Jackson and a smalt artillery force
to Fort Stevens in addition to tho
Oregon troops. It i estimated
that 3oo officers and men will
train at Camp Jackson. Itqlh
camps will be opeu the latter part
of June. . '
An Increase ' In ' tho 'national
guard units for Oregon was au
thorized at the Washington meet
ing. . ' .
old oitEoox ninn.t;u ,
TO PLAY l'Olt ItAOIO
PKNOLKTON. Ore.If Henry
Ford happens to tune in on
KOiVW Friday night, January C
at Wulla Wallu, Wash., ho will be
bble to hear ono of the oldest
flddlora in the northwest. Al Johu-
son of Athena has agreed to mak-
tho trip to Walla Walla to play
for' radio Jans.
Mr. Johnson has tho distinction
of being one of tho oldest pio-
nwm us well un one of the old
est fiddlers In tho northwest. He
Is S!i years old, and tho vlohn
on which ho will play Friday
night Is an Instrument that was
fashiorted by hand. It was -jstm!
03 yeara-ago by Mr. Johnson when
ho played for. members of his emi
grant- train,, on. tlio Old Oregon
Trull when tho westward trek was
being made.1 , '.
ritoniuinoN Bitovtiirr
I
Hos m1 Itlver to Ifavo fitsw Suhool
JIOOH U1VKH, Ore.' I'lans arn
being drawn for construction of I
So.ooo new school housov In tb'
ilno (irovo district. Tho ulldiog
will be 6oxl3C feet, with full base
inent which will contuin a play-
room and kitchen for provldlnj;
hot lunches. Six classrooms will
be made available. . Construction
will lie of concrete, nnd tho build
ing. will have all-steel sash In
the windows. The plant , will be
ready for occupancy: by ncx ;falj.
SKATTLK. Wash. (AT). l'ro-
hlbltlon brought on Juaz and the
Charleston;' John Phillip Hous-i
fumou 'band nuuiter, believes.
Souta,; who fa licr on a con
cert tour, predicted tho early de
mise or the "burlesque in music'
and termed the Charleston "mere
ly a temporary nb'oerallon."
- "There haa never been as poor
ballroom dancing ns there is In
this your." House, mid. "Many
people don't danco at all. They
urn like so many eels wriggling
in space." '
Modern composers have been
producing "harsh blobs of color
and complete luck of melody," lie
Hold. . ....
COLORADO SPK1NGS, Colo.
A1'). Historical fiction of the
wild west appears to have exag
gerated the number of sanguinary
uttacks by Indians upon immigrant
trains along the old Oregon Trail.
Nature, and not tho uborlglnes.
furnished most of the dangers on-
countered by the pioneers.
These conclusions nave boon
reached by Trof. Archer It. llul- ,
bert, director of tho commission
on western history, who has just
completed tho task of mapping six
of the most famous old trails from
tho Missouri river tu tho Pacific
coast. v
in a space of 4 ft miles along tho
Carson river on the trail broken
by the Forty-niners, 4oou dead
cattlu and ItOOO abandoned wagons
were left to record the history of
tho hardships they suffered in
the trek for gold. Miners blilL
houses of theso wagon wrecks in
the days of the Comstock Lode
discovery In Nevada, a decade lat-
Grenl rivers were not difficult
to cross when "flats or rafts
were secured, but the thousands
of little "cut-bunk" creeks not
more than 10 feet wide, worn the
dally terror of tho teamsters un 1
delayed the, caravans more th.111
did the few rivers of width.
Trappers nnd gold hunters suf
fered, from Indian attacks more
than did the great immigrant
trains in thf era of mass -migration
lo Oregon. Petween 1S42
and 1 K6U tho number of trains
that worn seriously moleKtid l. y
the Hed Men were few, tho in
vestigators found.
Information used in tho H'irvoy
and map making was obtalue
from state and county surveyors'
offices, from tho original surveys
in the general land office at
Washington and by studying the
diaries of 160 old time travelers
and pioneers. ,
In addition to tho Oregon Trail
tho mail reproduces the routes of
tho Mormon Trail fork-from Oma
ha tu Ft. Larumle; the Nebraska
City-Fort Kearney branch, the
California Trail from Yale Post
Office, Idaho to the coast; the
Salt lake branch of. the California
Tint I; tho Forty-niuers Trail on
Haft river In Northwestern I; tub;
the Salt Lakc-Plncervtllo rout'.
and the overland Stage branch of
ton main trail from Julesburg,
Colo., to Salt Lake City.
AivkieutM llriiiff Supervision.
PKNULKTON, Ore. V. Btroblo,
for many years In business here,
liad his driver's license, suspended
for six mouths In tho Justice) of
the peace court as a result of an
accident In which he ran into Mr,
and Mrs. Jack Catterall Saturday
night on Alt a street. Tho car ran
over Mrs. Catterall and ahe was
taken to tho hospital for treat
ment. Her husband was not seri
ously injured .
Klto To no CoiuleiiuietL
PENDLETON, Ore. Decision
was made last night by tho city
water commission to bring suit
against tho . Liver mora estate to
obtain tho use of laud sought ns
a sito for a new city reservoir
by condemnation proceedings. The
decision followed unsuccessful ef
forts of tho commission nnd P.
I. Tull of Portland and Itobert
klveruioro of Pendleton, reprcsun-
tutlvfl of tho estate, to Affreo on
a satisfactory price..
Tho decision to build tho rM-r-voir
was niodo by tho commission
several days ago. Construction W
expected to start within two week
so that tho concrete work can bo
completed before tho arrival of
hot weather. : , : j '
. The Uescendenla of Confucius
aro well known In Chin today. .
Home women aro such , social
butterflies they want to aeo a new
picture show every month. :
James J. Crossley
Portland, Oregon
Candidate for the Republican
nomination for United States!
Senator at the May 21st, 1926
Primaries.
Will aln-ays bo present when tho
Senato Is tn Session looking aftor
all tho Interests of al) tho people
or Oregon Just as loyally as ho did",
Uill.n Ulnln Uk...Am II U A It..-....
In Alnubn n n,l n Bn,ll..H n .... -.
Itupresents no special Interests.
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Hoattcdjmh for theWest inour'Paqfic CoaQ plant,
Americas laigeft selling high erode ceffee
La Grande Grocery. Co., Distributors.
Two Convenient Locations to Stop
and Shop
The Basket Grocery, clean and
bright,
Knocks high prices out or sight.
2-lb. roll the Best Creamery
Butter !)c
Cold Medal Mayonnaise
25c value 15c
Gold Medal Mayonnaise
."h: Value 27c
Gold Medal Mayonnaise
(JOc Value 17c
Gold Medal Mayonnaise
$1.20 Value 'Jlc
Basket Groceteria
AND MARKET
I'honc 91
Next lo Arcade Theater
SEE US
For all kinds of
Meats, Fresh Fish
in Season, and
Oysters
Enterprise & Basket
Markets
1 gallon Karo Syrup 67c
No. 2'j can Apricots...... 23c
3 bottles Heinz Catsup .....85c
1 Asparagus Tips 90c
Honey in Comb ....-l....i..J20c
Van Camp's Pork & Beans, 6..49c
3 Loaves Fresh Bread .....25c
Package Ginger Snaps
Value 10c . ; 5c
Package Lemon Snaps
Value 10c ...
Package Cheese Tid-Bits
Value 10c
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The same goods at
the same prices.
La Grande Groceteria
AND MARKET ;
Next to Black Cat '