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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1927)
General News itimttit Want Ads VOLUME XXV. LA GRANDE. OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1927. TjUMBEK"2lF M W tl u I ELGIN TEACHERS I NAMED BY BOARD E. E. Arant, of Freewat er, Will Head Schools in Coming Term J-:t.aiN. Ore. Apr. 82 At the mcctlnir of tho Klein school board held recently, Iho list of teachers for tho Elgin schools was pructl cally completed. Tho tontatlro line-up for tho grudn teachers is as follows: First grade Miss Stella May field. . Second Brnde Miss Olea Bins. Third Rrudc Mrs. Nelllo Crulk shank. , fourth grado ' Miss Mildred Hchnoro. Fifth t'rude Miss Dorothy Max well., Hiitli grado Miss Flora ..Crulk. shunk. Seventh grade Miss Louisa Bix by. Klffllth crade "Walter Darron. Thu lllsh schools teachers eni' ploycd are: K. K. Arant. super intendent: Mrs. Charles Cross und Miss Gertrude Dawes. . Miss Flora Crulkshunk is an" TCI Bln Rlrl, but has been teachlns at Merrill. Orecon, during the past year. Miss Dorothy Maxwell Is tho daughter of l'ostmaster and Mrs. O. C. Maxwell.- Sho was Braduuted from the KlBln high school In tho class of 1926. During tho past two years she has been attending iho Oregon Agricultural college and, Inter, tho stale normal at Monmouth.. Minn Louisa lllxby has been teaching at Free-water during tho' past term. Walter Durron, of Cove, han been attending school during the last year. Miss Gertrude Dawes will como to lOlgln -from Bozeman, Montana, whero Bhc has been attending tho Montana, ' Stale college K. E. Arant. the superintendent for next year, comes to Elgin from tho Ferndnlo union schools, of L'inutllla county.. This district is located near Freewntcr. Mr. Arant Is a native of Baker county. Mastodon Tusk Is Found Near Nampa i NAMl'A. Ida.. Apr. 22 Em ployes of tile Nampa highway dis trict unearthed a portion of a. huge tuslt believed lo liavo been Hint of an anelnt mastodon, whllo working In tlm-XVurren- gravol iilt near Melba, about IS miles from this city. Thej find was mauo uy l'aul Mouser of Melba, a foro inun. - Tho relic measures four Inches in diameter and in 22 inches long, and Is only a portion of tho ori ginal tusk, a clean fracture show, ins where muohlnery used in ex cavating hnd .broken tho tusk. Workmen belhivo that possibly a couiplcto skeleton lies under tho lava gravel liu( a caveln hn cov ered Hie point at which tho find wns made. This pit has been prolific in bones of ancient animals, large and small. Usually they aro dumped into trucks and form part of tho material' used to surfuco roads Other finds in this pit Include hoofs of what are believed to have been sinnll horses, not more than three feet high, tho bones indi cate, nhd huge leg bones from pre historic giants. ' Mountain of Salt Will Be Mined SALT LAKE CITV. Apr. 22 (AI') I'tnh's mountain of salt, out of which was quarried its fainoua Ball pnlnce many years ago. Is soon U be marketed. Owners of the moun tain, who say It contains more than fifteen million Ions of salt, havo applied for a permit to build a two-mile rullrond for the trans portation of the mined products. Father Escalante, Jesuit priest, who. history says, was the first ninn to set foot in tho territory that is now Utah, visited tho mountain on his journeys, nnd Oenornl Fremont in his frontier campaigning made frequent jour neys there to replenish tho suit supplies for' his troops. ARCADE OX I ? - i awning I MONDAY ! " i i r- ' ' inemriwnz epic 1 t 1 f A 7 OUT OUR WAY By Williams Oh. I MAOE rf fiH Border NNHEM I SHOULDA ,beem abed aki i landed: IW JAIL -:-r PER SMU0G'i-IM l 1 BH r jj OiVT 'GOOD NiGhT, C oRlS 1 HOW CAM MOo RlOE mTH All That TOFF iM -rmtr na- a RiP. I lOvjE "TO.n -SEW ilM vikiOA FEMIKIIME., . ' ' ' ; ' DF?AVsKl -TO A CLOSE-" ,.,. ow.,,,-. U.S. Department Studies Radio Needs ' of Farm Pair Devise Technique For Deep . Sea Natural Color Photography wiih dlMoovorcil thut uutochromrs could bo. made by thut method witliout tho mcp8sUy of hypcr- 'sensitizing1 tho plntos. ' A schema had to be devised to WASHINGTON, Apr. 23 (AI1) Nnturul color photography beneuth tho surfuco of tho sea is tho achievement of Br. W. H. I-oiiKly. ichthyologist of Goucher Collejje, and Churlea Martin of tho Natkmul Geographic society. . landing that tl6 ordinary a"lo chornic plato ivould not register tho moving life under water, off pry Tortugas, of the Florida Keys, tho scientist und tho photographer developed -1 tt special . technique. After hypcrsenslttzlng plutes, to re- VluCd" tho uxpbaui'os to onotwen tleth of a seoond, they were ublo to iruilie photographs ju shallow' waters. t y. That left' the gorgeous parade of color that lieu deeper .still a baffling problem, for after going down 15 feet or more even tho hypcrsensttized p lutes did not give satisfactory results. A ruft was tigged up to support a hcuvy charge of flusli-ltght pow der, to add Us brilliance, to tho ! sunlight, Tho; problem of syn 1 I'hi'onlzhiir thu fla.sh with tho i cuinoru shutter Vutf aolVed. iuuT it enable, tho diver with tho camera i to pull tho powder raft ulong as he I hunted for the right subjects und to set off tho explosion at the right I moment. A dry-ecll electric slor- uge buttery was used, but the set- ting of the electrical connections within il few feet of tho pound of ! magnesium powder was a huztird t ous undertaking. On one occusslon, r. Longley was baly burned and incapacitated" for six days by a premature explosion. J 1 Almost time for the spring poet " to' scolils flhadCtirf.,",M"v' I . WASHINGTON, Apr. 22. (AI) If the farmer is not getting enough variety in his uully radio pro grams, the department of agricul ture will soon find out. It has addressed a question- naii'u to uhniit 3.0UU farm owners in a scattered urea to determine whether u more diversified rudlo service is desired, nnd If so. Just what is wanted to make the duwn to dusk chores a Utile less monoto nous. Latest report compiled by the department's radio service show that nearly 100 radio stations In 3 u states ure now broadcasting gov ernment crop estimates and mar ket reports und thut between one und two million farmers benefit by these programs, which usually are transmitted In the daytime. Thai the man behind tho plow is a strung advocate of further de velopment of this service Is indi cated by the fact that one station in a recent six inoiithH' period re ceived iiHiro thuu 5000 letters of c.omntcmlutiuii ouhe market pro grams from furmers, country bankers, livestock shippers und merchants In twelve agricultural states surrounding the stutlun. County uge nts of tho depart ment report thut farmers uro buy Ing radio sets primarily to receive weather and market reports while others. In addition to tuning in for prevailing prices and other farm topics, sit up at night for enter I tain men t and educational features. Neurly ull of the land grant col leges of the country are now using the radio for disseminating their ! tnurmutlon on agriculture and nuine economics, wnue ine iou- cral market news leased telegraph wire system of about 7700 miles makes the market news nvallablo to rudlo stations from ubouL 40 field offices. . llcJectO'l suitor tries to. commit! Now that tho coal miners havff suicide; hut swallows qumlne in- j gone on . strike, would it; be lo stead of poison, proving thut it much tp uslc the gold diggers ift Is bitter to huvo loved and lost, follow suit? 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