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Hillsboro, Oregon, Thur,dat
Hillsboro Argus and Hillsboro Independent Consolidated in 1932
Section One
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Society, < labs and Locals,
Volume 47, No.
Two Sections. 16 Pages
Thanksgiving Day Revives Grid Feud
Draft Quota
For County
‘Set at 88
Churches
Set Union
Service
Boards Start Mailing
Thanksgiving Eve
Of Questionnaires
Program to Be Held
12 Volunteers Signed
In Methodist Church
Sixth Year
Hilhi-Viking 'Turkey Day" Football Classic
To Get Under Way on Local Field at 10 A. M
By Darrel Elite)
King Turkey” will be recognized over most of the na
tion I hursday on his one day of unchallenged sovereignty
—and such gourmet attractions as cranberry sauce and
pumpkin pie are deserving of their share of attention—
but in the hamlet of Hillsboro there will be a very special
local observance of Thanksgiving Day, the annual Spar
tan-Viking “civil war,”
to explode at 10 a. m. on the
of Thanksgiving
K. 1940. will be the theme ot un-
; inducted at 7 30
m. W< rln
M thodi I church bv the Hilla
na! ¡ sociation. Rev.
Aldi ich. Methodist pastor,
ram chairman.
ev W T Mugf'ird. Bapt.st min-
the Tnanksg.v-
J several musi-
will be rendered. A
cial number will be sung by the
h school girls’ trio and Miss
Hu
Bear will be presented in
ital.
Attrndance I rged
r I >cal ministers participat-
ing
the union service will be
Ke. I J Sullen». Rev R L Put-
Rev Allan W Phillips and
5 G Delamartcr Public re-
■ to the presiden' s proclama-
irging attendance at such un-
•rviees is. sought by the min-
R
County Officers
Attend Annual
Slate Meetings
Lottery Inaugurates
City Bicycle Code
(letting the jump on the stati
coming drawing
ar liccm
the city of Hillsboro had it
i rubers to bicyclists re gist or ing tinder the re-
iopted municipal bicycle ordinance. Twenty-five
ranging in age from nine to G2 years, were on
Hillsboro r>
led smiles at
•PiH
er» as they
flash cameras at him
shed as the
oung
ly John
?nt
mimi tec
Hdls-
until a n
ate to offset future calls under the
MâilhiK
Hillsboro,
numbers
ow> Richard
rount i<
Started
enough
Mailing of questionnaires has
been started, meanwhile, by both
At Fnrest
comm n p.
of 50 que ¡immane
At Beav-
e sent to
f 50 questionnaire
In compliance with
put
Smith.
Wallace
ling. 19. and Don Baker.
40. Hillsboro. ed "out-of-the-hat ' affair with Mr
an Mitchell holding
e hat
draw-
i ng the name •s while Chief of Po
W
W
'
Weaver
and
Officer;
Ufen < .
Ole 5
and James Groga;
looked
by revoked n number of
testified igainst him.
Wayne Hall. 32. .
tinnì’ its lisi of Washmgli n couuly
i egistran's under both boards in
the order of their eligibility for
indefinitely
miUtary training. The first 400 reg-
the end of the year.
Hill
Lvnn H dl. 8
/ictor Brugia.
Bud Bick f rd
Driving Charge
Brings Jail Terms
is to send the Information fmins tu
not more than 20 per Cent of the
drunken driving
men legistered linder that board
by January 1 1941. and will then
i wail fuilhi r inxtruetions At Fn -
< t Grove, tlus will nuan about hiank
Philip
Wa
ready been listed
Food Stamp Plan, If Approved
Would Siad in Lafe December
The F
C
lamp plan, which Ims been
proved by Washington county for extension here, will begin o| ration
from Jonathan G
regional director of the surplus marketing ad-
ministration, and Elmer Goudy. adminislrat
lie welfare commission
/\n appropriation of $8750 lias been el
county's 1941 budget and other eompliani'e has been made by the eoun
ty with requirement» of Ihe F. S C C . but seine doubt still exists a:
to whether the county public w • 1 ♦
fare commission favors unqualified
heei ptance of the plan as il is of
fered, according to County Judge
H 1). Kei kinan
Ollier counties in which the food
Gaining entrance by boring holes
slump plan will be started in De
cember include Columbia. Clatsop. through a door and unlatching Ihe
Benton, Yamhill. Linn. Tillamook. night lock, prowlers broke into
Polk and Lincoln Th” plan, .is ex Johnny's T ivern at Cornelius some-
plained by Claude Wiekard, U S time Monday night and made away
secretary of agriculture, is a means : with 40 cartons of cigarettes and
abund a nI
revolvers A small amount of
distribuì mg
m the till was untouched. De
crops through neighborhood mar-
pufy
Sheriff Dick Busch investiga-
kets to families receiving public as
sistance.
To Reduce Surplus
Based on experience in other areas
car ; tolen from Portland Bearing
mate that nearly $300.0110 of sur pl des that did not match, neither
plus foods will be consumed annu of which was issued to Ihe
ally hy the 14.325 public i isl imo vehicle was found parked on t!v
persons in the nine counties. As highway one mile south <
used similar to Ureek One door torn con>|
food stamps
res. the $300,0111) off, was lying in the diteli.
cash in rein
esimiate means an actual sales in-
creaso of this amount to food mer
chants.
conni ics
Addition of the
Miss Kathleen
will
Ihe 36 in Ihe stale which will hi guesl speikei al Ihe social meel
operai ing under tho stamp plan ini. of Ord i of Kalnbow foi girls
method of moving agricultural sur- uuxt Monday cvenin;, l!< r : uhjret
plus. The extension
reeom ¡will be "Clothes and Color Har-
! rnony."
(Continued on page 6)
Prowlers tool
Cornelius Tavern
Miss McCrae Guest
Speaker at Rainbow
Also on hand were Sid King and
Church.
anting the
traffic safety division of the sec
retary of state's office In c, mment
on the state's bicycle traffic prob
lem. Church declared tiiat there arc
in the
ninetic
four automobiles in the state and
announced that many communities
of the two-wheclcd vehicles.
Chui Weaver estimates
there .ire 260 or more bicy
the city of Hillsbor.> These bikes,
he said, mu.»' be registered and li-
depart-
ment by January 1. 1941.
with the new
Plan Considered
TI m *
this
take
deadline for registration of
residents
Washington
that they may have to
remaining rc>
I appointment i n evening
hours.
Approximately
200
thus far in compliance witli the re
cently enacted alien registration act.
according Io Postmaster L. T. Me
l’heetor» Tho deadline for signing
up is December 26. but it is hoped
that all county aliens will appear
for r< istration before December 10
which would conflict with the an
nual ruth of Christmas mail
Weather Fails to
Spoil Turkey Shoot
spite winther conditions which
mi; in
evi nt.
Giove American Legion's turkey
si not Sunday was successful, offi-
cinls reported. Highly two lui keys
were won in the competition, it was
stated.
PGE Campaign
Expense Against
PUD is Listed
An
f the features of the
>gram will be a short talk
he origin and history of
Thanksgiving Day. Pray-
been set for Wed-
evening by various com-
in the Hillsboro
Church
Selected as Neiv
Court Term Starts
Tw.nty-eight of 31 jurors drawn
for
i vice during the November
term < f court appeared Monday as
erm opened. Seven of the 28
- elected for grand jury ser-
Of the 21 remaining, five were
ed. leaving 16 for immediate
it court jury service.
Those dr; wn on the grand jury
e Julius F Peerenboom. who was
bsequcntly named jury chair-
an. Francis A. O'Meara. John Ry-
n. Vivian J Lawrence. Eleanor
ch Ida May Barrows and Wiber
Hansen Excused from serving
iring tile present term were Dav-
1. Dvardorff. George Sollcrs. J.
•bert Porter and L. Orton Grieb-
r John H Buchanan was ex-
>id for one week.
Those remaining, available for
call to jury service, are Russell S.
Ide. Ruth Mildred Pubols. Tom G.
Meacham. John C Hitchcock. Ida
B Fiske. Gus A. Ghcen. Carl B.
Riverman. John William Smith.
Patricia McCIesky. Julius VanLoo,
John
McGee. Edna G Bilyeu,
H. D Ledford. Anna Barnes. Loren
C Schulmerich and Millard Bur
nett.
Arch-Rivals Set
For “Civil War
Mrs. Harry Morgan of Hillsboro,
serving her sixth yerr as Wash
ington county seal sale chairman
This year's tuberculosis fund
campaign will be a "mail-sale.”
Story below.
Mail to Bring
Christmas Seals
To Every Door
Nimble fingers were working dil
igently this week in the new seal
sale headquarters of Mrs. Harry
Morgan, county chairman, as prep
arations went ahead for Washing
ton county's first' "mail-sale” cam
paign.
The preparatory work at present
is the tedious task of stuffing and
addressing the hundreds of enve
lopes which w.ll be mailed to every
family in the county, on Monday.
November 25. Mrs Morgan said.
A block of 100 or more seals will
be enclosed in each letter with a
circular letter urging the recipient
to aid in the annual fight against
tuberculosis. Half of the funds re
ceived in the Washington county
drive are kept here for local tuber-
culos is relief work and half is sent
to the national tuberculosis assc-
ciation for that great organization's
work.
Hearing Gives
Couniy Budget
Final Approval
« Hilhi gridiron
The war in Europe will have tc
take a "back seat" when this lo
cal bit of "blitzkneging ' gets un-
der way. for it is Washington
county's favorite feud—a tradition
al rivalry started long before any
upraised arm "heiled Hitler. '
A capacity attendance in the Started in 1916
Another ambitious militarist
Shute park pavilion Wednesday
I
Germany at
evening for the 40th annual Fire guiding belligerent
mens Ball, traditional Thanksgiv- that time. In case you've forgot-
• ng eve social event, is indicated by ten. the name was Kaiser Wilhelm
the large advance ticket sale, it But all this is of little consequence
was announced this week by Keith
Wilcox, chairman of a committee
I Names, numbers, positions of
in charge. All Hillsboro firemen
all Hillsboro and Forest Grove
are selling tickets. Wilcox said.
players, starting lineups—Page
Two or three ingredients that~o
3. Section 1.)
into the making of a successful
dance are being supplied by the
firemen, it was stated. These in What is more important, the date
gredients are: First, a good dance was 1916 and Forest Grove grid
floor, completely resanded and men gave the feud to come a solid
waxed, and second, a good dance background by walloping the tar
orchestra. Chuck Whiteheads mel out of Hillsboro. The score was
ody makers. The third ingredient ishhhh—) 73 to 0!
dancing feet, must be supplied by
Hilhi's vengeance has never been
the public, it was contended.
complete. During the 23 years that
Aiding Wilcox on the dance com followed, the most severe shellac-:
mittee are Bill Joos and Les Hew ing that has been dealt the Grove-’
itt Mayor Hugh S. Rogers last men was 21 to 0 in 1927. On th«l
week issued an informal proclama other side of the score picture, thi^
tion calling attention to the invalu lowly Vikings whipped Hillsbcni
able service which Hillsboro's vol 37
3 in 1918 and 47 to 0 in 19201
unteer fire department is render No to record
has been found ithanii
ing and urged all citizens to ex
providence*
for the 1917 game ana
press their appreciation for this
community service by attending no grid warfare was waged i n
1919.
the dance.
Firemen's Ball is
Traditional Event
Thanksgiving Eve
Recent
years have seen
Hilhi
spurred cn to victory »y
U. S. W. V. Installs i teams
the shameful memory of those
i early defeats. The last five meet-
Arthur Yeomans boro:
ings have been wins for Hllls-
In 1935, 19 to 0; 1936. 13 to
6 to 0: 1938. 13 to 7. and
New Commander 0; last 1937.
year. 25 to 12. It is also boasted
Arthur Yeomans of Forest Grove by Hillsboro that during the five-
was installed as commander of the year stretch from 1927 to 1931. the
j Scout Harrington camp of the Unit Vikings failed to earn a single
ed Spanish War Veterans at an in point. The scores were: 1927. 21 to
duction meeting Friday in the court 0: 1928. 6 to 0: 1929. 13 to 0; 1930.
house here. Past State Commander 13 to 0. and 1931, 0 to 0.
Hugh S Rogers was installing of
Taking the entire record cf 22
ficer and E. D„ Hite was master of
games into account. Hillsboro again
Washington countv's 1941 budget, ceremonies.
c:unj aigmng
calling for $408.871.30 to be raised
lays claim to superiority. The Blue
Other officers installed were and White has won 12 times to
Wa hingt
>unty PUD ciu
by taxation, was passed without
John Barron. Beaverton route 1. eight for the Vikings, the two re-
chance
and
with
a
minimum
of
werk filed a re
discussion at the public hearing senior vice-commander: E E. Hop maining games being ties. Records
clerk s office here
SOI
held Monday morning in the coun kins. Banks, junior vice command give Forest Grove the advantage in
ty courtroom Including the court. er; H. S. Rogers. Hillsboro, adju total points scored in the 22
tant and quartermaster; E. D. Hite.
November
33 persons were in attendance.
1 trustee for three-year term; Fred games. 264 to 179.
Questions were asked by several Boyd, patriotic instructor; Frank
• Fcr additional details on game,
county residents concerning the re Cate, historian; Ray L. Antrim. see sports page).
■tlon, ; pet
volving stamp fund Judge Herman chaplain; Charles E Dumas, officer
cani| aigu
D Kerkman explained that the of the day. and A. E Edwards, of
food stamp plan, being administer ficer of the guard. One new mem- Mrs. Quier Named
week
ed under the federal surplus com ber was initiated.
BUXTON—Mrs. H. May Quier,
modity corporation, has been only j
who has been acting postmistress
tentatively accepted for extension '
Link's ex|x
here since February 1, has received
to this county and that final judg Holman to Talk
compared with $63.19 for
her commission as postmistress.
ment on this matter will be made
Connell, incumbent, who
re
Howard Holman. Portland, vice-
by the public welfare commission । president
elected C( unty sheriff. B. W Barnes,
of the Oregon Tubercu
at its next meeting.
who def» ai-.\i tfte incumbent, O B.
losis association, will be the main Legionnaires Meet
( onditions Different
Kraus, for. county school superin
, speaker on the weekly chamber of
Hillsboro Legionnaires will meet
tendent. spent $45 t>B for his cam ■ —
'",s Prescnt rigid set-up. icommerce luncheon program Mon Tuesday night. Entertainment com
The annual Hillsboro chamber of t
paigning and Kraus spent $26.20.
Judge
Kerkman
said,
the
plan
is
i
day
noon.
His
topic
will
be
"Pro-
mittee for the meeting includes H.
■onnne: ce Christmas party will be
In another close race. James held tliis year on Monday evening. operating to advantage in Multno . gross in Tuberculosis Control.”,
L. MacKenzie and Robert C. Busch.
Lewis, incumbent a n d successful ■December 9. i ; was voted by mem- mah county That it would work to
candidate for the office of county ben at the venmg meeting this tlie same advantage in such an agri
cultural county as this one. how
commissioner, spent $33 55 and his week..
ever. is not certain he said. It was
opponent. Jack Hess, spent $58.07.
Pttiis call for the traditional then pointed out that the stamp
Other expense totals filed by can- ChrisUnas tree and an entertain-1
plan provision which sets a mini
distru
nent Progrim following dinner ct mum for monthly purchases of
and city offices fellow. W \ Tur
<30 p hi. Wives and sweethearts of families subscribing for the stamps
$10:
E Carp’nti v.
the Chamber members w ill be
11. J Valentine. $1.37. P
L gueefs Details are being ari ranged j should be more flexible so that it
« Editi
Since the folk winir account
may fit individual cases.
Schultz. $.35; Mike Wirak. none: by. the retail
_
trades committee i
received here, a later letter reports that the suburb described has been virtually »Ie
In
Multnomah
county,
where
E
Gaddis, none and John H.
molished hy a land mine.
The letter-writer states in the late communication thn
•rking under Percy Hillis, chair-
residents "live out of paper bags," »hr »nil her family are now Hvinir in a cellar. They had lived for :u> year« in the
Venn, none.
man
their grocery purchases are liable | house which now lies in ruin», i
Bomb besieged Britishers "frankly prefer this war to any other”
to be constant, but in Washington
county, where many residents have they've had. according to a letter received last week by Mrs. B. j},
their own gardens, grocery pur Cooley, local dog breeder, from Dorrie Langston, resident of London.'
Reflecting the good humor of Londoners in the face of unrelent
chases in general fall below the
। constant level set in Multnomah ing threats of death-dealing blitzkrieg attacks, the letter paints in
| county, he stated. Moreover, gro vivid word-strokes the conditions under which common people there
cery purchases may vary according are living. Conspicuous for their presence in words from a late-
^laughing' Englishwoman are f re-
to the time of the year, it was said.
Stevenson Speaks
quent dashes of humor.
After describing a middlc-of-the-
M H Stevenson, head of Hills
boro s public utilities commission
night air attack which set fire to
and chairman of thj municipal li
a large warehouse building next
brary board, appeared at the meet-
door to her London residence. Miss
I ing with praise for the valuable
Invention, the key to America's Langston writes: "The funnies.
service which is being rendered bv progress and ihe ever widening ' sight I ever saw was father in a
I John Brown, county historian, and frontier that guarantees a more 1 tin hat and his pajamas and our
a ques'ion concerning the countv livable world in the future, was garden hosepipe—playing it onto the
provision for Brown's salary.
in a "thousand and one ■ warehouse wall which towered 41)
Judge Kerkman explained that presented
forms" for Hillsboro chamber of I feet above him. with raging flames
the $350 set aside in the 1941 bud commerce members Monday night above that. Talk about an opti
ge' for county historian's salary is at the invention show brought here mist!”
only to be paid in case there comes by J T Anderson of Portland,
Fer their timely news interest
termination of the WPA project
and industrial co-ordinator. and first-hand descriptions of war
under which he is now working. patent
Five films, including three on the conditions in London, excerpts
His salary at the present time is marvels of modern inventive in from the well-written letter are
paid by the WPA under its his- genuity and two on the United here quoted at length:
torical surv.
section. Kerkman States navy. were
You ask if we have had our
v.
shown on the
said.
chamber of commerce screen to four hours' notice yet? No. and I
don't
think we shall get it now. I
make up the show. The “reflector"
type highway sign invented by think Hitler doesn't like the nice
Hillsboro's inventor-hobbyist. Wil reception we'd got ready for him.
liam Bergen, was among inventions or our determination to
pictured in a film produced by An I what is ours. Since dealing with
derson. Bergen acted as chairman some of the foreign refugees over
The mercury dropped to new
a _ of the evening s program.
here during air raid«. I can only
low of 25 degrees and returned to
| say I do not wonder Hitler thought
that minimum for three consecu-
it was going to be easy with us,
live nights during the past weex
too. The other day a man refugee
but warmer nights are in prospect.
: told me I could have no imagin i-
according to weather forecaster
tiop and must be made of stone.
Amei ica's Thanksgivin
om started in 1621 when the Pilgrim
Max Min.
He said "Think ot being blinded,
forefathers set aside I
days on which to thank God for Ihe
Wednesday
45
SCHOLLS League of Women or a limb or two gone, or left to
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blessings He hud bestowed on them and their adventure in the New
Thursday
46
Voters will hold a luncheon meet bleed to death in agony under a
.00
World. Pictured above is a modern representation of those first
Friday
50
ing Monday at 12:30 at the Meth i pile of wreckage.”
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Pilgrims going to worship. Words in in et .ire from the description
Saturday
59
25
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odist church. Ladies are urged to
I told him if I sat down and
Sunday
of the first American Thanksgiving by Edward Winslow, one of
50
33
.35
make their reservations by Sat thought about things like that I'd
the early colonists.
Monday
50
30
.00
urday with Mrs. Fred Groner.
(Continued on Page 7)
Annual Xmas Parly
Set for December 9
Battle of Britain is "England's
Favorite War," Londoner Writes
How Thanksgiving Custom Began
Invention Parade
Presented Here
Mercury Hits New
Minimum in Couniy
Women Voters to
Meet at Scholls