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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.
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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.
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« 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”