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LA GRANDE, OREGON FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1915
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Society Takes Steps to Preserve
Historical Data of Union County
When the last story had been
told and the final reminiscence
had been recalled, members ol
the Union County Historical so
ciety and of the sons and daugh
ters of Pioneers adjourned to
their homes last night, tired from
a long day but once more thrill
ed in the recollection of the old
days.
Several steps were taken at
the meeting of the society last
nigh't at Riverside park which
will help to preserve records of
the past for posterity.
Save Papers
First, Frank Jasper, in report
ing for the advisory committee,
asked that all papers presented
before the society meetings be
preserved and prepard for filing
in the society, archives. Each
month a paper on some aspect of
Union county history is presented,
i Dr. Charles Quaintance, vice
president of- the society, endorsed
Jasper's suggestion. Such papers
could be filed- in the library or
in the historical room which the
society hopes to have in the pro.
posed library building at the col
lege and would be available to
Increased Street
Lighting Proposed
For La Grande
Survey Made at
Suggestion of
Ed Ford
Plan for three times as much
iHumination: for La Grande for
only 25 percent more power has
been submitted to the city com
mission by J. T. Hood, who re
cently made a survey of the city's
lighting system at the request of
Ed Ford, city manager.
Hood, sales engineer with the
GbribraT Electric" "company in
Portland, made recommendations
for improvement of the lightting
system by replacing the 74 lights
of 6,000 lumens each now on Ad
ams avenue, with 54 new lumi
naries of 10,000 lumens each.
In this way, Hood stated, La
Grande would receive approxi
mately three times the illumina
tion now received, glare would
be reduced and visibility improv
ed even beyond this by higher
mountings of 25 feet, instead of
the 16 feet mountings now being
used.
The cables in use at the pres
ent lime could1 be used for the
new lights, and since the existing
0.020 ampere pole transformers
are rated 600010,000 each, those
removed from the present instal
lations could be used in connec
tion with the new standards and
luminaries. In this way, only new
poles and lights would be need
ed. The cost of installation is
estimated at $10,000.
Since there are no provisions
in the city budget for such a pro
gram at the psesent time, the
commission is merely consider
ing the proposal.
Red Cross Swim
Classes Start
Next Monday
Red Cross swimming classes,
which were to have started in
August, will start next Monday
at the Pine Cone pool, according
to Harvey Carter, chairman of
water safety committee for the
Union county chapter of the Red
Cross.
Telegram was received here
last night notifying the chapter
Miss Anita Jasper will be here to
be instructor.
Classes will start daily at I p.
m. with beginners and swimmers
taking instructions until 3 p. m.
From 3 to 4:30 p. m. will be
classes in junior lifes aving, and
from 5:30 to 7 p. m. there will be
junior and senior life saving class
es. This is the tentative schedule
and may vary.
If enough interest is shown a!
Cove in the classes they will be
scheduled there later, Carter said.
Carter and Morris Richardson,
who is home on furlough, will as
sist with the classes. Registra
tion will be held at the pc-ol and
instruction will be free, the only
charge being the pool fee.
WAIVE HEARINGS
PORTLAND, July 20 (UP)
Two Seattle war workers, Lenora
M. Hodgson, 26, and Fae Lois
Burns, 19, held in Portland on a
eharge of aiding Italian prisoners
of war to escape, waived removal
hearings today before Federal
Judge James Alger Fee.
students or researchers.
Mrs. Clarence Kopp then sug
gested it would be desirable for
branch chapters in other towns
in the county to be organized or
to try to organize more member
ship in th,ese towns so that his
torical data, which is haider and
harder to get each year as the
persons who lived them pass on,
can be collected before it is too
late.
Jesse Crum' of Elgin favored
this idea also, as did Jasper.
President C. F. Hamann will ap
point committees by the time of
the next meeting to bring this
idea to fruition.
President Hamann appointed
as a library committee Dr. Quainr
tanec, Kale Hanley and Eva
Wearo.
Re-Elected
All officers were re-elected, in
cluding President Hamann, Dr.
Quaintance, vice president, and
Mrs. Charles Spencer, secretary.
The election took place after the
dinner, which had been arranged
politick style, and which was at
tended by more than 30 members
of the society.
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DOOR "TALKS" IN COURT Mrs, Erminia Roohan is shown In
Los Angeles court with knife and scarred bedroom door she
brought along as evidence in seeking divorce irom - hu6band
Josph E. Roohan, She charged her husband consistantly threat
ened her life and reoeatedly threw a butcher knife at her but ex
plained that she was never hit because she would dodge behind
the door.
Rufus I. Barker,
Fruit Farmer at
Cove, Is Dead
COVE, July 20 (Special) Fu
neral services for Rufus I. Bark
er, 70, who died of a cerebral
hemorrhage Wednesday night at
Salem, will be held Saturday
afternoon at Eugene with burial
there also, according to word re
ceived here today.
A fruit farmer, Barker had
been a resident of Cove for 35
years, having conte here from
Minnesota He was a member of
the Grange, of the Episcopal
church and other organizations
and was active in civic affairs.
He sold his ranch here a year ago
and moved to Eugene.
Besides his wife, he leaves four
sons, Ray. in Italy. Guy, Herbert
and Gordon; and five daughters,
Jessie Daniels, Bcrta Hoare, Nel
lie Stringham, Dorothy Young
and Lura Wells.
Rents Established
On Housing Units
Rents have been established at
on furnished three-bedroom
houses in La Grande's 40-unit
housing project now under con
struction at Fourteenth street
and II avenue.
Rents have not yet been estab
lish on the 10 onc-t-jdroom
houses or the 20 two-bedroom
houses, it was announced today.
Applications are still being ac
cepted at the Chamber of Com
merce office for the units, avail
able to workers in essential in
dustries. The houses will be completely
furnished, with iceboxes and
wood ranges, but may b? rented
unfurnished, if preferred.
Most of the pioneers sons and
daughters who. had been attend
ing the pioneers meeting during
the day had returned home be
fore the society meeting started.
More than 100 had been present
for the memorial for Mrs. Hattie
Proebstel Eckley, and for the af
ternoon program at which George
Cochrane presided.
Discuss Book
Also under discussion last night
was the publication, expected
soon, of the biography of Dun
ham Wright, pioneer of this area,
who lived to more than 100 years
old and who saw the develop
ment of Oregon from very early
days.
The book was written by Frank
Jasper and is now in the hands
of the publishers, the Caxton
Press, Caldwell, Ma., which has
agreed to bring out the book.
Discussion of ways to promote
sales of the book was held. .
Cochran was re-elected presi
dent of the Pioneer association,
Jasper was re-elected vice presi
dent, Anna Brooks Royes, secre
tary; Kate Hanleys treasurer; and
Edith Curry, historian.
Patrolman Resigns;
To Go Into Business
Harry A. Chambers, patrolman
with the La Grande police de
partment, has resigned his posi
tion effective July 31. Cham
bers, who has been working on
the local force since April, is
planning to go into business here
the first part of August.
Before coming to La Grande,
he was special agent for the
Kaiser company in Portland, and
had worked for 20 years in Los
Angeles county, where ho was
chief of police and deputy sher
iff. He also, in Los Angoles
county, worked in the forestry
department, and as a sound re
corder in Hollywood studies.
Joergensen Held
For Grand Jury
After Hearing
Carl R. Joergensen was bound
over today to await action of the
grand jury, following preliminary
hearing in justice court on a
charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses.
The charge, preferred by Mrs.
Edward H. Schultz, 1511 Y ave
nue, accused Joergensen of con
tracting to repair a roof "on be
half of a Spokane concern, col
lecting down payment in the
amount of $163 and failing to ac
count for it.
Mrs. Wayne Standley, 1407
Cherry street, also brought
charges.
District Atlorney Colon R.
Ebcrhard called these women und
several others who stated Joer
gensen had obtained money from
them. Joergensen Is held on
$1,500 bond.
The grand jury will meet some
time within the next few weeks.
Five Jap
Teas in
Fl
ames
GUAM, July 20 (UP) r
Admiral Willium F. Halsey's,
mnraudintr fleet was reported
prowling the Japanese const
for a new. air-sea stnKe to
day while htiRe fires still
raired throuirh five Honshu
war centers gutted during the
night by a record force ol
Sunerlortresscs.
Shuken by 11 days and nights
of intermittent naval attacks dur
ing which Halsey's Anglo-Amer
ican raiders sent 7,500 tons of
bombs and shells crashing into
a 600-mile strip of Japan's Paci
fic coast, "Tokyo warned the as
sault might be resumed at any
moment.
No More Details
The Japanese said Halsey's 150,
batthjwagons, carriers,, cruisers
and supporting warships were
still maneuvering off western
Honshu. Admiral Chester W
Nimitz gave no additional details
on the bombardment of Nojima
Cape, western arm of Tokyo
Bav. or the preliminary air strike
on the Yokosuka naval base Wed
nesday. That indicated Halsey
had imposed radio silence on his
armada, possibly covering a new
blow at the enemy coast.
More than 600 Marlanas-based
Superfortresses, the biggest B-29
fleet ever sent aloft, sowed a 310-
mile trail of fire and ruin across
centra! Honshu before dawn this
morning to carry the pre-invasion
bombardment into its 45th con
secutive day.
Use Mustangs
One hundred fighters carried
the aerial assault into the day
light hours, Tokyo reported.
Enemy broadcasts said they at
tacked the Aichi area of central
Honshu for an hour.
Part of the force, the Japanese
said, was over the Okazaki and
Toyahashio areas Southeast of
Nagoya, and other squadrons at
tacked the northern edge of
Nagoya itself.
Tokyo broadcasts said Tlaga,
west of Nagoya, and Takahagi,
13 miles southeast of Hitachi,
.ilso were hit, and they acknow
ledged that big fires burned in
the last raiders disappeared,
all the target cities hours after
Two Lost
Two Superfortresses, less than
one-half of 1 percent of the strik
ing force, were lost in the at
lak. One was shot down in
flames and the other was aban
doned later, with five of its crew
rescued.
Bomber pilots returning from
the five-way strike said their
incendiaries stoked tremendous
fires in the flimsy cities.
63 Boys Attend
Crop-Livestock
Tour at Station
Sixty-three boys from Union,
Wallowa, Baker, Malheur, Uma
tilla and Grant counties this af
ternoon learned first hand many
of the things a rancher has to do
in his daily work.
They went to the Hall ranch
where they watched dehorning,
branding, vaccination and other
cattle handling details. The Hall
ranch is the summer range nf
the experiment station at Union
and is far us Catherine creek.
The boys, attending the annual
crops and livestock tour at the
station, spent the morning learn
ing how to make rope halters
and how to tie various kinds o
livestock. This evening they will
have Softball and olher games
and after dark will see a motion
picture.
Saturday, the 4-H clubbers will
have a crop and weed identifica
tion contest and a sheep, hog and
beef and dairy cattle judging
competition. In the late after
noon, they will wind up the two
day school by going swimming at
the Cove pool.
END STOVE RATIONING
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UP)
Tne war production board and
the office of price administration
announced jointly today thai
rationing of gas cooking and ga.
heating stoves for civilian con
sumers will'end July 31.
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LOGGERS BATTLE BLAZE IN OREGON FOR EST FIRE Loggers work in a pall of smoke, try.
ing to save bridge across Wilson river, Tillamook, Orel., in week-long forest fire, worst in state
since 1929. More than 1.500 servicemen and civilians lought blase covering at least 27.000 acres in
rugged mountain country.
Latter Day Saints
Church Will Have
Ward Conference
La Grande first ward confer
ence of Latter Day Saints church
will be an event of Sunday, July
2, in the ward chapel, Walter A.
Lindsay, bishop, announced to
day. The conference will be divided
Into three parts, the first or
young people's session will com
mence at 10 a. m. A special
meeting will be held at 4 p. m.
for all members over 19 years of
age. The closing session will be
gin at 7 p. m. at which time the
general, stake and ward officers
will be presented and sermons
will be given by the stake presi
dency.
The young people s session will
feature a program which will in
clude a song by the primary chil
dren; a five-minute address by
Lawrence Veal on "My responsi
bilities as a deacon"; "What Mu
tual has meant to me this year,"
by Carol Shinsel, a Beehive girl;
Some of my experiences as a
ward teacher," by Vernile Wes
tenskow; an address by Conrad
Huntsman, a member of the stake
Sunday school board; "My appre
ciation of the church program
for its youth," by Barbara Bean,
Gleaner girl; "My appreciation
for the church and how I encour
age my family to read the scrip
tures," by Kate Metcalf, a moth
er; and an address by Wiley Neb
eker, a member of the mutual
stake board.
Aussies Push On
Rich Oil Belt
MANILA, July 20 (UP) Aus
tralian troops pressed toward the
rich oil belt around Samarinda
and the mouth of the Mahakam
river, in eastern Borneo, today
after capturing Sambodja, 28
miles northeast of Balikpapan.
Both Australian and Dutch
East Indies troops smashed two
stubborn Japanese counterattacks
in the area north of Balikpapan,
and Japan's grip on Borneo's rich
oil supply appeared vastly weak
ened. Before the war Sambodja and
the Mahakam river delta, to the
north, produced 7,000,000 barrels
of oil each year from 400 wells.
Sambodja has a small refinery
as well as a pipeline leading to
the Mahakam delta.
The Dutch begn destroying
wells in the two areas three days
prior to the Japanese invasion in
1942, but it is believed thai all
but a few have been put back
nto operation.
New Altitude Mark
BURBANK, Calif. July 20 (UP)
A new unofficial American al
titude record of 44,940 feet was
set by test pilot Joe Towle in a
two-seated Lockheed P-28 Light
ning, Lockheed Aircraft corpor
ation disclosed today. They test
ed a new-type oxygen mask worn
by. B-29 crewmen. An outside
temperature gauge developed
trouble just shorl of Towle's
45,000 foot goal. The plane was
a conventional P-38 except for
an extra sctk
f
IN NEW PART Kenneth E.
Schilling, for four years head
of the music department at
Eastern Oregon college, and
last year with the music de
partment of Whitman college
l.i Walla Walla, has been named
director of the Whitman con
servatory of music, He is the
husband of the former Pat Mc
Manus. House Completes
Bretton Woods
Bank Action
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UP)
The house today completed
legislative action on a bill auth
orizing United Slates participa
tion in the international bank
and stabilization fund contem
plated under the Bretton Woods
fiscal agreements.
Only Truman's signature on
Ihe bill remains to make this
country the first nation ready to
join the proposed $H,WJO,(IOO,000
monetary stabilization fund and
the $11,100,000,000 international
bank of reconstruction.
The U. S. would put a maxi
mum of nearly $0,0011,000,0110 into
the two funds. The senate passed
the hill late yesterday by a vote
of 61 to Ml.
As soon as the bill was re
ceived by the house today, Chair
man Brent Spence, D., Ky., of
Ihe banking committee, asked
the house to accept three minor
senate aniendmnts. The house
agreed without a dissenting vote.
Senate Approves
Lamb Subsidies
WASHINGTOM. July 20 (UP)
The senate Ut night approved
a bill designed to permit sub
sidy payments to lamb growers
by Ihe commodity credit cor
poration. The bill, sponsored by
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, D..
Wyo., now goes to the house.
The bill provide CCC can pay
the subsidies under a program
to be approvod by tho secre
tary of agriculture.
O'Mahoney pointed out CCC
has the authority io pay direct
subsidies to producers but
lacked the funds. He said RFC
had Ihe funds but not ihe au
thority. His bill permitted
transfor of tho necessary funds
Irom RFC io CCC.
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Jack R. Oliver
In Business in
City Since 1888
Now Established
In New Location
After 32 Years
After 32 years in one location,
Jack R. Oliver, insurance and
really man arid one of tho oldest
pioneers in Union county, has
sold his building situated next
door to the Evening Observer,
and is established in the L. C.
Smith building.
The Oliver building has been
purchased by W. E. Wilkins who
is remodeling it for another
business. 1
Oliver's moving brought to
light the interesting fact he has
been In the insurance business
since 1888, and he states he has
paid to the companies more than
a million dollars in premiums ol
his, clients.
43 Years
Records of the company reveal
the local agent, now B3 years old,
had served 43 years and is the
oldest man, in years of service,
with the company in Oregon and
is believed to hold that record
in the entire Pacific department,
'Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah
and Arizona).
Oliver was born in 18(12 In
Iowa to II. W. and Caroline Oli
ver, and with them crossed the
plains in an ox-drawn covered
wagon in 1864. The trip to Ore
gon took six months, and upon
I heir arrival in the Grande Ronde
valley they settled in the Sum
mervillc district, when there
were still very few white people
here.
Jack Oliver worked in the U.
S. land office in La Grande dur
ing President Cleveland's admin
istration, was deputy county clerk
six years, and county clerk four
years.
In 1892 he married Winnie
Blakeslee, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles L. Blakeslee, pioneer
settlers who came to Ihe county
in 1862. Mrs. Oliver who will be
77 years old Monday, was born
in Union.
In 1900 Oliver, a familiar figure
throughout the county, started in
the insurance business, operating
first in Union and moving to La
Grande at the lime the county
seal was moved hero.
Same Company
III 191.1 he set up his business
in the building on Sixth street,
and his departure from that site
uproots an institution that could
well be called a land mark. He
will continue with the company
for whom he has btn an agent
more than 40 years.
The Olivers have one daugh
ter, Mis. Mildred Crowley, who
resides next
door to them on
First street.
RAISE TAX EXEMPTION
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UP)
The house completed action to
day on a corporate tax bill rais
ing excess profits tax exemption
and authorizing a speed-up in
payment of more than $5,000.
000,000 in tax refunds. The bill
is designed to assist Industrial re
conversion. It does not change
any taxes on individuals.
Fog
New Peril
Develops
In Forest
PORTLAND, July 20 (UP)
A new peril developed for"
the western' Washington com-,
munity of Glenwood, where
some families already have
been evacuated and others are
prepared to leave, as forest
fire raced down the mountain'
side.
- A new fire sprung up to the
north of Glenwood, to add to the
threat from thes Wilson river fire,
to the west of the sawmill and
logging oamp center. , ;
To the south of Glenwood, the'
Gales creek sector was reported
holding fairly well after an ad
vance late yesterday. .
Refugee Camp
Refugees set up camp at Balm
Balm Grove, south of Gales
creek, while 40 other families'
prepared to pile into army trucks,'
should tho flames approach near
er to their, homes.
The fire had spurred within
500 feet of the Glenwood hamlet,
threatening, stands of old-growth'
timber and the Consolidated cqm.
pany logging a mile and a half
from this community. However,'
fighters said they had checked
this sector, at least temporarily.
I Raging On
State forestry officiols said the'
blaze was raging on the eastern
front In Washington county, be
tween the Tillamook-Washington
county line at the coast range
summit and. the foothills leading
down toward Glenwood and Gales
creek near Forest Grove. .. .
: Dense smokq hindered fire
fighting facilities as the blaze
staged a spectacular display, run
ning wild in- all directions while
feeding on heavy brush and
snags in exceedingly rough ter
rain. Preparations were being made
at Owl camp, state fire headquar
ters at the summit, to use pumps
and hose if necessary to keep the
camp wet down as numerous spot
fires began dotting the hillsides.
Need Hain
Slight rainfall early Thursday
was not enough to help the situa
tion. While a new fire camp was be
ing established on the lower Wil
son river for 200 more soldiers,
forestry officials prepared to call
out still more troops from Camp
Adair, Fort Lewis and Fort Stev
ens. It was estimated already
2,000 men are combating the Wil
son river blaze.
Sailors from the Tillamook air
base were sent to another critical
area late Thursday to backfire in
an jittcinpt to halt the westward
progress of a bad flareup just
south of Jordan creek in the
southwest corner of the fire area.
It was hoped today a system
could be arranged, forestry offi
cials said, whereby servicemen
who have been fighting the fire
since early in the week could be
relieved.
Save Camp
Willamette Valley Lumber
company logging camp was saved
from the forest fire near the sum
mit of the Coast range in Polk
oeunty thai had spread to over
6000 acres by Thursday night. '
On Ihe northern front of the
Wilson river fire, near the Clat
sop . county line, more soldiers
were sent down the Salmonberry
valley today to fight a blaze
which broke out of control.
Sweeping Changes
In Government of
Spain Expected
MADRID, July 20 (UP) A
sweeping reorganization of the
Spanish government was report
ed imminent today in an apparr
nt move by Gen. r runcisco Fran
o to break the fulange and
smooth Spain's way back into
the, good graces of the United
Nations.
Authoritative source said Fran
co might announce the shake-up
today and tnat it definitely would
be made public within the next
Ihre or four days.
These informants said only
four members of the falungist
cabinet would survive the purge
the ministers of labor, finance,
education and interior. Even
those holdovers reportedly were
to be retained only because Fran
co feared too sharp a break with
the fulange might arouse popular
resentment.