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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1933)
I The Oregon Lumber company at j Dee, which opened for the season a short time ago, is now one of the busiest spots In the valley. Sufficient orders are in hand to keep a full crew occupied for several months. With new orders arriving steadily and the price on the upgrade, Man ager Nets Nelson anticipates one of the busiest seasons the mill has en- Joyed in many years. OREGON STATE NEWS ITEMS ONNTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers Faced with a warrant Indebtedness of 3203.000 and with tax delinquen cies running about 30 per cent the Salem school board is considering a general salary reduction of 5 per cent i for all employes receiving under 31000 a year, and 10 per cent for those receiving In excess of that amount. A saving of 330,000 a year would be effected. THE MARKETS Portland Wheat — Big Bend blui-atem, bard wheat, 62c; soft white and western white, 54 He; hard winter, north ern spring and western red, 61 He. Hay— Buying prices, t. o. b. Port land; Alfalfa, Yakima, 316.OU. Butterfat— 14 if 16c. Kgga— Ranch, 16 if 16c. Cattle— Hteers, good, 35.60 ® 6.85. Ilogs— Good to choice, 83.50 if 4.36. Lambs—Good to choice, 15.35 if 5.66. > Postal, state and county officers are searching for the person who mailed a letter to Mrs. Leland Aus tin, school director of St. Helens school, and wife of a prominent merchant, demanding 32000 to pre vent kidnaping or killing of the two young daughters ot the couple. SEATTLE Wheat —- Soft white and white, 54 Ho; hard winter, red and northern spring. bluestem, 61 He. Butterfat— 17c. E ggs- Ranch, 16 if 17c. Hogs— Good to choice, 33.90 Cattle— Choice steers. 15.25 Sheep— Spring lambs, 34.75 western western 54 He; if 4.15. if 5.75. it 5.25. Spokane Cattle— Steers, good. 35.00 & 5.60. Hogs— Good to choice. 33.85 'ft 4.00. Lambs— Medium to good, 34.75 i t 6.25. e « John Svensen, Tom Johnson and Arne Johnson, well-known Astoria fishermen, have been appointed to kill seals In the Columbia river un- : der a new plan of the state fish com mission to take the place of the bounty system. The men will be paid for the time they work. i E. J. Willoughby, one of the Wll- 1 lamette valley's oldest pioneers, is dead at his home near Coburg, Lane county. He came to Oregon with his parents In 1852, when he was 4 1 years old. The remaining 80 years of his life were passed on the Wil loughby land claim. Commented upon as one of the A 10 per cent dividend, totaling most successful co-operative cafeteri about 37000, has been made to sav as In Oregon, the pu ille school ven ings depositors in the Bank of South ture ai Lafayette is now In its fifth western Oregon, at Marshfield. This month of operation. Every student brings the total of dividends on sav takes turn in bringing from home ings accounts up to 60 per cent. Fifty vegetables, fruit or meat, and these per cent has been distributed among are cooked at the schoolhouse under commercial depositors. the supervision of one of the teachers by students. Every pupil has hot Residents of The Dalles are plan lunches. ning to file claims on a 400-acre tract of Mount Hood land to be used as Three hundred men, former em a summer playground and also as a ployes of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber I further inducement for the designa company, will be put back to work tion of the Skyline route as a sec about April 10, R. R. McCartney, ondary highway by the state highway superintendent, announced. Seasonal commission. activity la the reason given for the opening. About 175 men were put to The mills of the Crown Willamette work by the Big Lakes Box company Paper company at Lebanon, it is re when it started operations Monday. ported, will go on a six-hour day be ginning next week, with four shifts The Redhead Round-up, Taft's an a day. The mills have recently been nual festival, is to be held August operating on an eight-hour day, with 13 this year. Buttons advertising the men working three and four days the event have already appeared and Inquiries are arriving from outside a week. I points, according to M. F. Robison, originator and president. A letter has come from British Columbia Indicat ing at least one entry from Canada. Sodium chlorate weed killer used by W. B. Allen of the Oak Grove section on Canada thistle patches, caused the death of 21 head of hla sheep, all ewes with lambs. The chemical was lumpy and Mr. Allen had not taken time to break up the lumps. Fifty pocket knives, part of the loot stolen from a Crabtree store. In Linn county, have been found under a tree on the Arch Lettenmeler farm, south of Scio. With the knives were several pipes and a quantity of cigar ette papers. The knives were badly rusted and of no value. » Pa « f 5 TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON Thursday, April 13, 1933 Governor Meier's veto of the sen ate bill transferring the cost of car ing for non-violent insane patients from the counties to the state will cost Washington county approxi mately 312,000 during the next two years, based on the experience of the past year. Final Judgment has been entered In the circuit court at Pendleton in the Enoch Pearson land commission case whereby the state of Oregon pays the sum of 314.296 for seven parcels of land on the Wallula Cut off highway. About 109 acres Is In volved. Linn county and political subdivi sions will receive 316.834 from the federal government In the form of tax refund on the O & C. grant lands within the county. Of this amount 310,071 will go into the general fund. James Copperfield, an 85-year-old Indian who acted as scout and guide in the Modoc war under O. C. Apple- gate, is dead at his home near Beatty, Klamath county. The Beaverton city council has voted to open Its proceedings with prayer, to be led in turn by mini sters of the various churches of the city. The greatest snow depth In five years is reported from Crater Lake. The total last Wednesday was 171 Inches and it was still snowing. The total debt of the city of Sea side was reduced during 1932 from 3615.523 to 3551.836. has been paid in interest on city debts. Proceedings have been started by the Salmon River-Grande Ronde highway Improvement district to compel the state highway commission to take over the 3100,000 bond debt of the district In accordance with a lew passed by the last legislature. The La Grande Gun club is making an effort to have the grouse season of Union county concurrent with that of Umatilla county and possibly with that of Wallowa county. The mat ter will be brought before the state game commission. Earl Fehl, county judge of Jack- son county, has not drawn his salary since taking office In January. To avoid a Judgment of 315.000 held by Roy Parr for libel, Fehl assigns his salary of 35.47 each day to his mother-in-law. Farmers of the Tule Lake district ot Klamath county report more ducks, geese and other migratory birds In that area than for many years past. Over 300 sandhill cranes have been observed and about 2000 white swans. Bayless Fanning is setting out 25 acres of hops on land near the Yam hill river. This Is the only hop field being set out in that vicinity. Mr. Fanning intends increasing the acreage next year to 50 acres. hy'tsdjsnf Ring out iweet chime« on this I United thy prsiie we are unging. W ith thee we sri«e to all that i The Springtime o f Life Thou art KEEPING UP EASTER ♦♦■I I l " H 1 1 11 ♦4 " H 4 4"4"4' 4 'II I 7il7MiaEN we *peak about plctur' esque Easter customs our thoughts naturally turn to other lands. Russia used to be the scene of the most wonderful Easter celebrations, but today the festivals of the church are frowned on, and although the churches are still filled. It is mostly the older people who attend them, and the ancient ritual Is shorn of much of Its former splendor. In Hungary, however, you will still see amazing scenes at Easter. As mid night on Saturday approaches gay throngs crowd into the churches— towns[»eople In evening dress and peas ants In the colorful national costume. As twelve strikes, the priest calls “Christ is risen,” and the choir replies “He Is risen.” There are flowers everywhere. And If, as you mingle with the gay multi tudes, some one throws water over you, you mustn't be annoyed. It’s an old Hungarian custom. Brazil sends up thousands of rockets on the morning of Easter Sunday, aqd some of the Spanish cities celebrate the festival with a procession. But in both Spain and Greece Eas ter is a time of tragedy to many chil dren. Boast lamb is the recognized Easter dish, and the chosen dinner is usually the animal that for weeks be fore has been the beloved companion and pet of the young folk of the house. This year there won’t be so many opportunities for observing the Easter customs of other lands, except for those who go cruising. But a number of old Easter customs are kept up. Maundy money is still distributed at Westminster abbey the day before Good Friday, there are quaint Easter I onday dole survivals at Biddenden, Kent, and Ellington, Hunts; and eggs figure in a number of old ceremonies in various parts of the country. Then there is the famous centuries-old g<> ns- you-please football game which is played through the town of Working- ton every Easter Tuesday. The Maundy money ceremony is par ticularly Interesting, not only for its picturesque details, but because the king usually distributes the gifts in person. They consist of purses of red and white leather, with long strings at tached, and containing money specially minted for the occasion. The number of recipients is supposed to be the 1 same as the sovereign’s age in years, and each of them receives exactly that number of pennies in four-penny, three-penny, two-penny, and penny pieces. All the money is silver.—An j swers Magazine. Several Lane county hop growers are planning to Increase their hop acreage this season. Others formerly engaged in hop growing are report ed to be planning to set out new yards. The five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Purvine. who live near Buena Vista, was shot in the groin last Monday by a brother, while the R e su r r e c tio n K e y n o te children were playing with a .22 Christendom, at Easter, will resound caliber rifle. with tlie resurrection message of the The Brooks-Scanlon Lumber com angel to Mary Magdalene. For more pany of Bend. Ore., which formerly than 1,1100 years the resurrection has operated a sawmill at Eureka, Mont., been the keynote of Christianity. has deeded more than 18,000 acres Preachers of faith in Christ as the of cutover land to the United States hope of humanity hnve from the days of the Apostles based their messages government. upon this foundation and without the A delay in the completion of resurrection have regarded preaching Bend’s federal building, now about as vain. 95 per cent finished, is faced. The contractor’s funds are tied up In a P a lm S u n d a y bank at Des Moines, Iowa. Palm Sunday (Dominica Palmarnm) In order to assist In unemployment the Sunday before Easter, is so called relief the Douglas county court will from the custom of blessing palm substitute wood for oil in the heat branches and carrying them in proces ing of the courthouse. The court will sion in commemoration of Christ’s trl- contract to pay «2.50 per cord for lmphal entry into Jerusalem. wood. An Easter study in the beautiful setting offered by the old Mission Inn which is located at Riverside, Calif., showing the Cloister music room of the Inn beneath one of the Saint Cecilia windows. EASTER § By BRACY Ä LEILA E. Easter Relic of O ld Pagan Celebration (In Detroit Free Prose.) ASTER Is largely a relie of the old pagan celebration of the be ginning of spring, and this ex plains why some of those old customs and traditions are still linked up with it—such as the use of the egg and the rabbit as symbols. But in the religious senses Easter commemorates the res urrection of Christ. The crucifixion took place at the time of the Jewish Passover, and this fixed the time, so far as the Jews were concerned. But the Jews counted time by the lunar year of 354 days, while most other nations went by the solar year. Tbus a confusion as to the ac tual date to be observed as Christ’s resurrection at once arose. That con fusion caused bitter controversies dur ing the early history of Christianity and It remains with us today. While at first Easter was observed by the Christians at the same time ns the Jewish Passover, gradually they were weaned away from that practice and another date was proclaimed. Elaborate rules were adopted known In Latin as the "computus paschalls.” by which to ascertain the date for Easter. These were based largely on the Jewish “paschal moon” but there were complications to the process and so the date does not necessarily coin cide with that of the real or astronom ical moon. As the time of the actual full moon is different for different points on the earth, it Is plain that some arbitrary rule would have to be adopted. It was the purpose of the church fathers not to have Easter ever fall on the same date as the Jewish Passover. However, in 1923, this did come to pass. Easter is the first Sunday that fol lows this ecclesiastical or pascal full moon coming in or next after the nom inal vernal equinox. March 21; if the pasc 1 full moon falls on Sunday, then Easter skips to the following Sunday. C The Stone H fis SPR/.VG day in the morning; The dew is warm and sweet, ray m itu run from the riling A young breeze, perfume-laden, Soft quiet promile filled. Swift shattered by a golden shower From quiv’ring bird throat spilled. So Easter’s gift, renewing The light that cannot cease To be, though world forgotten, brings The healing touch of peace. Though souls travail in darkness, Yet does the earth endure; The glory of the mom shall be Of night’s dim torture cure. The world’s way is e good way— Earth seems to Heaven drawn When Hope to ueary hearts is born In the hushed E nter dawn. The date of Easter is specially Impor tant because it fixes the times of the other movable feasts for the whole year. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and is the period of forty days (not in cluding Sundays) preceding Easter. Shrove Tuesday Is the last day before Lent and tbus marks the end of the gay winter season, known in Europe as the "carnival’’ or “meat-farewell’* season. The French term for Shrove Tuesday Is “Mardl Gras"—meaning lit erally “fat Tuesday.” This date is ob served by feasting and revelry—hence the “fat.”—Pathfinder Magazine. Rolled Aivay (7JND when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary C i the Mother of James, and Salome, had brought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint Him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. “And they said among themselves, ‘Who shall roll away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?’ “And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away, for it was very great. “And entering the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment, and they were affrighted. “And he said unto them: ‘Be not affrighted. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified; He is risen; He is not here; be hold the place where they laid Him. “ ‘But go your way, tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye seek Him, as He said unto you.’ “And they went out quickly and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed; neither said they anything to any man, for they were afraid.”
