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Thursday, June 29, 1933 TIMES, WILLAMINA. OREGON Page 2 OREGON STATE NEWS ITEMS JJNNTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings ef the Week Collected for 0 « r Readers W ith the co-operation of County ▲gent R. O. Larson, a number of Malheur county farmers are grow ing flax on an experimental scale. Trials on the A. V. Fee and R. C. McCallum farms show fine stands with promise of a good crop when in spected recently. Two new trials have been started on the farms of John Reece of Nyssa and B. G. Roberta of Big Bend. John Marple. Cutler City, caught a 16-inch blueback salmon on the fly recently. While fishing in Silets PORTLAND bay he noted two gulls ftghting over ■^’heat — Big Bend bluestem, hard the fish, one of them finally break wheat. 67c; soft white and west ing away with the fish in its beak. ern white, 68c; hard winter, The gull flew directly over Marple's northern spring and western red, boat and the fish was too heavy for it to make clearance. Marple reached 67c. Hay — Buying prices, f. o. b. Port up and caught the fish by the tail, giving the bird the air. land; Alfalfa, Yakima. >16.00. Butterfat— 22 & 23c. The recent low tides brought out Eggs— Ranch. 17 @ 18c. the clam diggers, as many as 4000 Cattle— Steers, good, >5.00 0 6.00. people having been on the North Ya Hogs — Good to choice, >4.85 @ chats beach at one time. Clams are 6.15. plentiful and laqge. Ocean fishing Lambs — Good to choice. >5.00 @ is good and lim it catches of trout in 5.50. the streams are daily reported. A Seattle number of whales have been seen ^Vbeat — Soft white and western lying close in to feed off the smelt white, 58c; hard winter, western run. red and northern spring, 66c; Buddie, the groundhog which was bluestem. 56c. raised to five weeks old by Tiger, Butterfat, 20c. the cat belonging to Mrs. William Eggs— Ranch, 18 @ 19c. Hogs— Good to choice, >4.80 @ 5.00. Newton at Powell Butte, was acci Cattle— Choice steers, >5.00 0 6.00 dentally killed by a wagon box fall gheep— Spring lambs, >5.00 0 5.75. ing on him. Buddie had grown to the age where he would play with Spokane the kittens in a very awkward way. Cattle— Steers, good, >6.00 & 6.35. The baby groundhog was adopted by Hogs— Good to choice, >4.75 @ 4.85. the cat when it was two days old. Lambs— Medium to good. >5.00 @ Canning equipment has been in 6.50. stalled at the county farm by The Dalles chapter of the Red Cross, and John C. Brickley of Sherwood died it is planned to can all surplus fruits at his home on June 8, leaving 10 and vegetables for use by the unem living brothers and sisters whose ployed next winter. A large quantity ages total »09 years. The oldest is of food was preserved in this man 92 and the youngest 67, papers filed ner last year and materially reduced unemployment budgets during the In probate court revealed. winter. The Hubbard Fruit Growers asso ciation has opened its berry house to Another 1000 tomato plants, part receive strawberries. The berries have of the hundreds of thousands bving been sold to the Starr Packing com experimented with to determine the pany of Portland and Salem. The best variety by the new cannery re strawberry crop is sh ort cently established at Brookings, Just south of Gold Beach, have been set Wayne Gulley of Creswell was kill out on the Gilmore ranch, in the ed at the Frank Bybee ranch, near Bear creek district of the Chetco Jacksonville, when a team of horses he was driving in the hay field ran river valley. away, pinning him under the wagon Wasco county pea growers have and crushing his chest. been receiving >2.50 per hundred Plans for a drive to save the radio pounds in the Portland market. Out compass stations at Klipsan Beach of this they pay 75 cents for pick and Fort Stevens are being made by ing and 35 cents for transportation the Astoria Chamber of Commerce. to Portland. This leaves the grower The stations have been ordered dis a net return of >1.40, which, they say, fails to cover cost of production. continued June 2 4. THE MARKETS The directors have approved the dates of September 14, 15, and 16, for the annual Pendleton Round-up and are now making plans for the event. Some financial matters must be Ironed out y e t The Klamath Falls Chamber of Commerce has asked all local firms and industries to employ only authen tic residents of the city and also that former employes be given pref erence. After being in the water since March 28, the body of George E. Wood, secretary of the Eugene lodge of Elks, has been found in the Wil lamette river a few miles below Eu gene. Then, Now on Fourth of July The state highway commission can not expect Lane county to pay >10,- 000 as its share on the Cheshire highway until after a new budget is made, according to an opinion giv en the county court by the county attorney. No provision was made for the payment in this year s budget The date for the annual shrine pic nic for southwestern Oregon has been changed from August 13 to Au gust 20 to accommodate members of A1 Kader temple of Portland and Hillah temple of Ashland, it was announced by Charles Q. Vau Duyn of the Marshfield Shrine club. Plans to strengthen the Columbia River Fishermen's Protective union, which led the recent strike, are be A united effort will be made by ing considered. Boatpullprs and can Southern Oregon communities on the nery workers are to be admitted to Pacific highway to secure the im the union in order to solidify all provement of the Siskiyou section labor elements connected with the out of federal funds that are to be fishing industry. made available for Oregon highways. From all section of the Lower Plans to oil the Roseburg-Dixon Umpqua region come reports of seri ville section of the North Cmpqua ous damage being done by hordes of highway are being considered by the wild pigeons. While the pigeon Is Douglas county couril^lt is also plan protected, permission can be obtain ned to straighten^ and widen this ed from the state department to kill section of the highway. them when It la shown they have be Only two candidates have filed for come a pest. school director at Roseburg to fill On and after September 1 a fee of two vacancies on the board. The two >1 a year will be charged non-resi are Horace Berg and W. F. Harris, dent patrons of the Astoria publio who are up for re-election. library. Heretofore residents of the county have been permitted to en Flood waters of the W illamette in joy the privileges of the library free, flicted >5000 damage upon farmers although It Is maintained entirely by and truck gardeners on Grand Is land, according to estimates. Several the city. acres of hay was destroyed. Klamath county has practically gone on a cash basis. Current ex The board of the First Christian pense warrants amounting to >5800 tnurch of Salem has recommended have been called in. The county road to the congregation that no patron fund Is the only one with outstand age be given to business houses that ing warrants, which amount to >2 5,- sell 3.2 beer. U00 »o* will be called in A ugust The smallest strawberry crop in A. H. /<oolsbey, a bee man of 40 years, due to the heavy rains and Haines, h « - been appointed chief harsh winter, is reported at Hood deputy bee inspector for Baker, Mal River. No carload shipments will be heur, Union and Wallowa counties made. The appointment was made under the The big Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. terms of the bee inspection law en m ill at Eugene will reopen shortly acted by the last legislature. after Julv 1 after a shut-down of two Relocation of the Pacific highway years. The mill will employ about 125 between Junction City and Goshen men. to avoid flood conditions and elim Redmond and Prineville will join inate a railroad crossing, besides with Bend in a two days’ Fourth of shortening the distance, is the ob July celebration at Bend. They will ject of a survey to bes madc by tha also take part In the queen con test state highway department. BSERVANCE of the first Fourth of July can in no way be compared with the x x g present fashion of celebrat- s J l l n f ing the day. Fireworks, recreation and a day of rest 1»x ' f o r some, now go to mark I_____the anniversary of the adop tion or the Declaration of Independ ence. A casual glance back through the pages of history, however, IS enough to convince anybody that few days have been filled with so many other events of world-sweeping char acter and importance. Long before the Depuration was adopted. July 4 was a marked day. and it has been ever since. To pick only a few of the events that have oc curred on this day: John Adams died, aged ninety, 1826. Thomas Jefferson died, aged eighty- three, 1826. James Monroe died, aged seventy- three, 1831. Calvin Coolidge born, 1872. Nathaniel Hawthorne born, 1804. Giuseppe Garibaldi born, 1826. Stephen Foster (author of “My Old KAitucky Home”) born, 1826. Surrender of Vicksburg, 1863. Cornerstone of Washington monu ment laid, 1848. Providence, R. L, founded by Roger Williams, 1636. Work on Erie canal begun. 1817. The first Fourth of July that re ceives historic mention after the adop tion of the Declaration of Independ ence was only two years later. On that day the Tory John Butler, with a party of loyalists and Indians, raid ed the beautiful Wyoming valley In Pennsylvania while moat of the men How Key Wrote Immortal Song RANCIS SCOTT KEY, a resident of Georgetown. D. C-, wrote “The Star Spangled Banner1 while he was detained on board a British ship during the bombardment of Fort Mc- /'4'zV' ' Henry. With a friend he visited the British commander shortly before the attack began to plead for the release of an influential Washington physician who had been taken prisoner. The Brit ish commander agreed to release the physician, but declined to let him or were absent on duty with the army. The women nnd children, the old per sons and the sick ones, hnd tnken refuge in the wooden fort, but under promise of protection they surrendered nnd were butchered. The mnsnncre, one of the most brutal recorded any- Nation Sscure in the Loyalty “Young America." of where, forms the basis of Campbell's “Gertrude of Wyoming.” On the Fourth of July, 1863, Vicks burg, after a siege of three months, surrendered to General Grant, and the Fourth of July the following year was celebrated by General Butler by a 12 hours' cannonading of Pettersburg. at a cost of a vast amount of money. No his pleaders leave the fleet at that time, as the bombardment was about to begin. The Americans were placed on a ship beyond danger anil, though treated courteously, were held there during the attack. Thus from the deck of the British ship the three Americans watched the bombard ment of Fort McHenry. The firing censed before dawn, and the anxious prisoners did not kuow whether the fort had surrendered or not But the morning light revealed the star-spangled banner still afloat above the fort; It had successfully withstood the bombardment. And Key, while watching anxiously, was moved to write his famous ode. It was because he was writing It at the very moment when the event it celebrated was being enacted that lives were lost and no pro|>erty de stroyed. t Going back still further Into the history of this country. It was on July 4. 1584. that two barks which hnd been sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to discover and annex the American con tinent north of Florida arrived off the coast They landed on Roanoke Is land, afterwnrd occupied by the first English settlement in the New World. On the Fourth of July. 1754. Col. George Washington surrendered an army. It was only a small army, but a fort went with ,L In this he ex perienced his first defeat in war, at the hands of the French Although only twenty-two. he had been placed In Command of a body of troops which was marching toward Fort Duquesne. Forty miles from his destination he heard of the approach of a party of French and Indians sent to Intercept him. and he fell back nnd erected a stockade which he called Fort Neces sity. A few days later Fort Necessity was attacked by 1,500 Indians and French, nnd Washington surrendered on honorable terms. This was on the morning of July 4. He marched out with his little army of 400 mpn. drums beating and flags flying, nnd he end his soldiers returned peaceably to their homes. On the same day Benjamin Franklin laid before the commissioners of the colonies at Albany a plan for a fed eral constitution, aimed to accomplish a union for defense against French en croachment It was adopted but later was rejected by some of the colonies and by the British government This was Just 22 yenrs before the adop tion of the Declaration of Independ ence. Oddly enough, the document was rejected by the colonies because It put too much power In the hands of the king, nnd It was vetoed In England because It put too much power In the assemblies of the colonies. made It so vividly realistic. •‘The rockets' red glare, bombs bursting in air," were before his eyes as he wrote, giving ample proof “that our flng was still there,” proof which “the dawn’s early light” confirmed. D e c la ra tio n W as Signed by Congressmen Present HE Declaration of independence was adopted by the continental congress on July 4, 1776. On August 2. 1776, the Declaration of Independ ence was signed by all members of congress present on that day. and thereafter by other members as they arrived at various times until early in 1777. Some who voted for the reso lution of Independence and the sup port of the declaration did uot sign it T
