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T H E («OLD H IL L N E W S . T H U R S D A Y . JU LY 2«. 1932 OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Assembled lor Information of Our Readers. Hog raisers who are feeding wheat to their animals are getting about <0 cents a bushel for It, on the basis of present prices, IS a hundred, for pork ers, according to Frank Lowden, man ager of the W alla W alla Meat ft Cold Storage company. Contract for tha sale of 20,000 pounds of hops to the John I. Haas company by W. K. and A. H. Rivard, Moxee ranchers, has been filed In tbs Yakima county auditor's office. The sale price given In the agreement was 11H cents a pound. T H E M ARKET« Portland Wheat — III* Bond bluaatam. hard Infantile paralysis Is In complete wheat. 67cj soft white and western white, 47c; hard winter, northern check In Asotin county and south eastern Washington, Dr. J. 8. McEI- •prlng and waatern red, 46 Ho. H ay—Buying priest, t o. b. Port valn, county health officer, said in commenting upon the advice received land; Alfalfa, Yakima, 313.01). from Dr. A. K. Htuht, state health com Butlerfat— 14018c. missioner of Seattle. Kgga—Ranch, 17 O ita . Expecting that the revenue for tha Cattla— Steers, good, 94.2698.96. Toppenish school district will be con Hogs—Good to choice, 9* 76®6.OO. Lam bs-flood to choice, I4.00O4.2S. siderably loss next term than It was last, the board has given no contracts Seattle W heat — Soft white and western to teachers and has made only a few White, 4Sc; hard winter, western red final arrangements for the opening of and northern spring, 4Sc; bluestem, the 1932-1933 »«Salon. 68c. Wheat harvest has opened In the Butlerfat— ISe. Horse Heaven belt In Benton county, Eggs — Ranch, 19® 20c. with the yield botween 18 and 36 Hogs—Good to choice, IS®«. bushels an acre. Farmers term the Cattle—Choice steers, IS.60OB.7S. crop heavy. The wage scale will Sheep—Spring lambs, 14.000* 76. range between I I 50 and S3, with only Spokane local labor employed. Cattle— Steers, good, |6®«.S0. At a recent mooting of the Lake Hoge—Good to choice, 16.60. Chelan Chamber of Commerce It was Lambs- Medium to'good, I4O4.S0. decided to have all local men who de- sire work this fall In the apple har Because he used highway signs for vest to register at a central office. targets, William J. Rale must spend Each will be given a card that Identi ten days In the Deschutes county jail fies him as a local worker. In Bend. 'M ore than Itooo a month Is being taken out of the hills In Grant county In the form of gold, a recent check up revealed. Damage to Klamath county's lettuce crop has halted temporarily by sev eral days of comparatively low tem pernI urea. The first half of July closed with greater precipitation on Coos Bay than has occurred during the past 10 years, .«9 of an Inch having been recorded. A shipment of 400 pheasant chicks arrived In Astoria recently from the atate game farm tor holding pens con structed by the Clatsop County Duck Hunters’ association. Dr. Joseph Meyer of Albany, who at the age of *3 has probably been the oldest city health officer In existence, has resigned. Dr. Meyer has been city health officer since 1918. Studying municipal plants, coats of Investments, and rates maintained, committee from St. Helens has been Investigating the electric plants at Forest Grove and McMinnville. At the Harney branch experiment station there Is an abundance of water to Irrigate the station area during the dry seasons. The large pump produces 600 gallons of water per minute. A forgotten orange In the front yard of the Bell telephone office at Lafay ette resulted In successful propaga tlon of a husky orancs tree which has steadily grown to a foot In height In a year. An extra gang of about 40 grorkmen has arrived at Turner to replace with new rails the track north of the town on a long curve. This Is the first extra gang that has been In Turner for several years. W illiam Behrman Jr. shot a porcu pine In his yard at 2 A. M. one morn ing last week after barking dogs at tracted hla attention. No porcupine had been seen at liberty In the Forost Orove vicinity for nearly ten years. Albany's warrant debt stood at 310,- 386.22 on June 30, the ond of the sec ond quarter, lowest In years. The city's bond indebtedness at that time was 9216,961.(0 and the city's assets 967,614.49. The total net indebted ness was 9168,347.11. Changes In the railway mall service Schedule, which today Is delaying air mail letters from The Dalles to east ern points, are being urged by direc tors of The Dalles Chamber of Com merce In conjunction with a similar movement at Hood River. Schools In Lane county will operate Under the county high school fund law, or Wheeler law, during the school yenr 1932-33, It has been officially de cided by the county district boundary board; thia notwithstanding that the law Is being quostloned In court. Officers of tha Albany Door com pany have announced purchase of the equipment of the Reedsport Sash & Door company to be used In the course of the rebuilding of the local plant, which wns destroyed by fire recently. The machinery from the Coos Bay town will be moved to Albany at once. Guy Dellinger and Roy Lyman, mem bers of the coast guard cuttor Red wing crew, escaped death by drown ing when they swam to snfety after a car In which they wore riding plungod off Fort Stevone dock Into 24 foet of water. Good news for depositors In the de funct Rank of Cottage Grove Is com talned in the announcement that checks for n 20 per cent dividend will be placed In the malls at an early dato. This dividend will release about 913.400. Who Was Who? By Louin M. Comiloch T H E PRISO N ER O F C H IL L O N VER »Ml,(MM) visitors per year, so the guide will tell you, now tread gsyly the very dunget.n In which Lord Byron’s “ Prisoner of Cblllon” ones lan guished. guxs casually at Its seven an cient plllurs, and pass on out Into the sunny beauty of l,ake Leman at M ob - trsux, Switzerland, unaware perhaps that tbs prisoner whose prison they have Jusl quit was as real as the dun geon Itself. Francois de Bonnlvard, who lived between HIM) and I57U, was a Swiss patriot. In 1610 be was made prior of St. Victor near Geneva, and later aided the Oenevese against tbs op pressions of tlie duke of Savoy. For this be was raptured and Imprisoned by the duke for rwo years. Home time after his release llounlvard fell by chance Into the hands of robbers, wbo sold him to the duke for gold. Thia time he was cast Into the ruinous dun geon under the waters of Lake Ionian In the Castle of Cblllon, where be remained from 1630 to 1686, when he wns* liberated by the Genevese, who rewarded Ills heroism wllb a pension and honored him when be died. The Swiss government bus today re stored and houseclenned tbs Castle of Cblllon. modernising the famous old Savings deposits placed In the Spo- forireas. much to the distress of the J kano Savings bank over a period of sentlmeniiil who like their Byrun; but j years by school children are being the dungeon Itself remains damp and rapidly returned to the youthful de dark, and the very “seven plllurs of positors. School savings accounts Gothic mold'' to which Bonnlvard was ebained still stand, carved wllb the when the bank surrendered them six names of Byron, and also of Victor weeks ago totaled 3360.530. Hugo. Dumas, Dickens, Meredith and Harvesting of winter wheat near Shelley I • • • Odessa has begun. Sol Reiman, man ager of the Odessa Union Warehouse D ’A R T A C N A N company, reports taking In 600 sacks of Turkey Red wheat at Lamona, the 'ARTAGNAN. swashbuckling hero first of the season, which he states of Alexandre Dumas' “Three Mus keteers," actually lived at one time, tests «0 pounds to the bushel. For the third successive year two rounding out In southern France In martins have raised a family of young the Seventeenth century a quite un eventful and highly respectable career, birds In a nest In the closet on a with Just enough swashbuckling hammer crane on the Long-Bell dock, thrown in to attract the atlenUon of which travels up and down the dock a contemporary chronicler wltb an a distance of half a mile a day with eye for the picturesque. and thus to out the birds being disturbed. strain Immortality. Ills reel nnrae was Death claimed Newport's oldest Charles de Hiitx-Caslelmore. but he Civil war veteran recently when used his mother's name D'Artagnan, James Lewis Conner, 8«. died at hla and glorified II by the usual military career of the poor young noble and by k"«"® there. Mr. Conner lived many settling down at middle age as a fair years In the Ruby country, 36 mllos ly prosperous family man. He baa down the river from Newport, and has left In the archives of the French min several sons surviving him there. istry none too liberal documents Ossian Anderson has announced showli»< tftat be once served as cap that the Puget Sound Pulp ft Timber tain of the musketeers. Gatlen de Courtllx de Sandras Is lit m ill at Everett resumed operations last week. The mill employs approxi tie known today, but he was neverthe mately 260 men. It closed on July 1, less a popular Seventeenth century au thor. having turned out over forty affecting about 1100 workers In the srarviAoe» chronicles. touching the pri plant and various pulp wood camps. vats life of the court, which were se A 100,000 board foot spruce log cretly printed outside of France and boom was lost by the tug Foster, smuggled In. He knew D'Artagnan operated by Captain C. H. Foster, near slightly and bad a splendid Imaging the Hoh river mouth last week. The tlon. So, during one of hla three so tug was forced to abandon the boom journs hi the bastlle for scandalmnng Ing. he turned out the edifying "Mem In a strong southeast blow. The logs olrs of D'Aringnnn,*' which served as were washed ashore and the raft was basis for the luler and more familiar a total loss. novel of Pumas. The real D'Artag Pouring of concrete for the anchor blocks of the Yale bridge across the l>ewis river has been completed by the Gilpin Construction company, wffio have also completed the Cowlltx coun ty approach to the bridge except the fill at the end of the bridge. Steel and the cables for the bridge, which will be a suspension span, will be placed In August. nan, like the hero of the novel, went to I'arla to seek his fortune, became a musketeer and was entangled In cer tain political Intrigues, though the story of the queen's diamonds Is a myth. • • • D A R L IN G N E L L IE GRAY HE “darling Nellie Gray" Immor talized by Benjamin Hanby, song writer. In the Civil war ballad of that name, was an obscure negro slave girl whose pathetic story was carried out of the South and Into common knowl edge only by the sorrowing devotion of her faithful lover, himself a run away slave In search of her. Back In the lS6O's Bishop George Hanby, father of the author, turned A new road through the Kanlksu hla magnlOcent old home at Rushville, forest reserve from the Bear's Paw Ohio, over to be used as a way-station district to near a point opposite Usk on the historical underground railway. Is bolng considered by the Pend Of many runnway slaves who found Oreille county commissioners and J. refuge there, five, weakened by ex posure, died and were burled In an E. Ryan, tha forest supervisor. There obscure country cemetery In the hills Is about 910,000 federal money on near Rushville. One of them, Jo Sel hand, which, with the use of the coun by name. Just before he died of pneu ty road machinery, will be sufficient monia hud breathed out the story of for the eight miles of road. his— Uncle Sam's 60 per cent postage . . poor N e ills G ray, they have boost la worrying, among others, coun ta ken her aw ay. And I'll never eee my d a rlin g any ty treasurers and other officials. For m ore: Instance: . County Treasurer W hite of Is a a-com ln'. cornin’, cornin', aa the Yakima has an Immediate problem of angele c le ar the w ay. F a re w e ll to the old K en tucky ehore. mailing out 40,000 letters to taxpayers, on a budget made when the letter Young Benjamin Hanby. who taught rate was 2 cents. His annual post nt the village school, turned Selby's age bill an treasurer Is about 31800. story Into u song which he wrote on County Auditor Briggs' office has aver the school house blackboard for his pupils to slug. aged about 91000. The Hnnby home was recently torn The Yakima county charity depart down to make room for u more modern ment will Issue meal tickets to the structure, but Ibe grave of Jo Selby, Salvation Army there, to be given to soon lo he marked by a real monu hungry transients who are willing to ment, lies undisturbed hack In tbs work for their food. L. Ballinger, bills. county charity commissioner has an nounced. Colfax has an airport capable of being developed Into a first class land ing field for ordinary aircraft, accord ing to Marshall C. Hoppin, govern ment airport specialist, who addressed the chamber of commerce there at a special meeting. P R IC E S H ere a re that m ake first-choice tires Z 'v lk real B A R G A IN S O D James Hall. C. M. T. C. student at Fort Wright, from Hunters, has been Judged the best basic student, not only In his own platoon, the 2d. but for the entire camp. In recognition, he has been awarded the Veterans of Foreign Wars cup, given annually to the one best student. Paqe 9 T (© 1931. W aatern Nw w apaper U n io n .) “Chim e." end “ Carillon” Chimes are technically a set of sta tionary bells, three to twelve In num ber, tuned to major scale Intervals, tt there are more bells and they nre tuned to chromatic Intervals. It la a carillon. Both may he played by hand, by hand-directed mechanism or auto matically. H E best tire, regardless of price, is a Goodyear. Don’t take our word for iL T a k e the public’s. The public says Goodyears are best— by a lead of 2 to 1 over any other tire. T And here are prices that prove that the best costs no more. Every price buys Goodyear quality— a lifetime guaranteed Supertwist Cord tire— marked with the Goodyear house flag and Goodyear name. - Look them over, and ask yourself: "W h y buy any second-choice tire when F J R S T -C H O IC E costs no m ore?” - SPEEDWAY Full Oversize — 4 -4 B -z i Ford Each In pairs Per single tir« »^59 Full Oversize — 4 - f B-BX Ford Chevrolet •J 83 Each In pairs Per tingle tire 3” Full Oversize — Chevrolet 79 *3 Each In pairs Per single tire PATHFINDER S IX “ PLIES"? Full Oversize — 6-Oft-X4 Chrysler Dodge Nash 4 Y o u can count six layers of cord here, but the ir s t tw o un- dei the (read in this tiro (o r in nay so- called “ s i x - p l y ” tiro b u ilt thia way) do not run from bead to bead Soma tire -m a k e rs count these as “ plies,” but they are really “ breaker s c rip t,” to wa eall them that $>172 Each In pairs Per single tire Full Oversize — 6- Essex Nash $>■80 4 «.»»-«• * 6 1 * j Each In pairs Per single tire »4$« Full Oversize — 6-B6-BX Buiclc Dodge Nash 5 $ C 82 ^ la p o in ’O1» Sinai« tire s-s^xa *8*» Sinaia tira ’S4* Sinale tire $>150 4 Per single tire 8K B Each In pairs - 3 30 Per single tire TOUR LOCAL D I A L I * NOT ALWAYS WISE TO TRUST “ CHARMS” Some Have Been Known to Work Backwards. Little Eva Is the most superstitious person I know. She wears an ele phant’s hair ring on her Unger and carries a rabbit's foot In her bag. She observes all the known cere moules for prevention of misfortune, such as saying “bread and butter" when walking with a friend and tbe two nre separated by passing on op posite shies of a lamp post. When ever she Is unwise enough to remind the unkind fates that she has not had a cold In a long time, she finds that It confuses them a little if she knocks on wood and It cripples their efforts at revenge. Recently she presented a friend a rabbit's foot for her protection, but It pln.ved her false. Shortly there after the friend was In an automo bile accident, and hnd her scalp ripped open for quite a space. But did this disaster shake Eva's faith In efficacy of rabbit pedals? Not at all I She hnd two explanations ready In n moment. One was thnt Inasmuch ns she had not killed the rabbit herself she could not be sure that It was the left hind foot This Is the only foot thnt has ahy real magic In It. but commercial deniers nre not enre ful to ascertain the original locntlon of the amputated foot The other explanation Is thnt ev erybody hns two contrnry signs, and ’ll* « ‘I 5’ Single tire •e 25 •264» Each la Each In pairs »4*9 .'361° ’ "^ •37” BOB lupain Single dre TH BSB 1 •io » » •— | •LL»*singl* t’*‘n I wf.*I4 « L ■ la p o in •1ÇM S in g le n « 2$ se JT* •26»» Each lo Jr,*35’4 la p e in Single tire V A LU ES! perhaps In this Instance the rabbit's ' has helped to keep some of our best foot worked backwards. You Just women out of jail. Eva thinks It can’t trust magic not to reverse Itself would be a smart Idea for all police for some people. Take four-leaf cltfc men to carry a broom with which to vers. To the vast majority they bring hit obstreperous gangsters. good luck, but to tittle Eva they Down In the Island of Haiti they bring Illness, disappointment and dis have a sweet little custom that Eva aster, and she would sooner plcla poi Is thinking of adopting. They make son Ivy than the treacherous clover. an effigy of their enemies which they Then there are the terrible black torture with good effect In order to cats, the sight of which Is fraught make the torture effective they must with disaster for so many. With get a piece of their enemy to paste little Eva the omen reverses Itself. on the effigy. A hair from bis head, She Is a cat worshiper and has raised a paring from his toe nail, or even dozens of black ones. She became the dirt u;>on which he has spat Is so used to their criss-crossing before sufficient The witch doctor then her that It established a sort of im puts a curse on the Image, and all munity. Slie discovered It once when that Is necessary is to stick a pin in a bjack cat saved her life. The an the effigy In tbe exact spot where you imal ran across her path and she want the enemy to h u rt The only stooped to pet It Just before two au trouble Is that tt doesn't work so tomobiles crashed together and piled well on Americans. When the Unit up on the sldewnlk at the exact spot ed States marines went to Haiti the where she would have been passing natives made countless effigies with If she hadn't stopped to pet the cat. which to torture the Intruders, who Our office boy Is not so lucky. The guffawed loudly at the spectacle, and last time a black cat ran across his never hnd a single pain. This would path he had four flat tires before the argue that the enemy must he pos day was done. True, the tires weren't sessed of a lively belief In magic be so good anyway, but they would have fore he could be discomfited, but It is held up very well If It hadn’t been worth a trial. for the cat. He has very bad luck No matter how much common with brooms, too. Every time he Is sense people have, few of them are hit by one he gets arrested for some free from some form of superstition. thing. Once when he wns sweeping There are those who swoon If they out his father's store, he hit a friend sit down to a table thnt hns thirteen playfully with the broom. “Oh, don't round IL Others can't walk under a do that,” the friend cried, " I’ll be ar bidder without falling In a fit. but rested!“ And within 24 hours he Evn Is the only one I know who be wns riding to Jail In the Black Mnrla lieves In every form of balderdash In for speeding. Little Eva says It Is existence. Even when the rabbit a sure sign and thnt one reason she foot slips It hns no effect on her be hntes housework Is thnt brooms are lief In charms or her vivid respect such a menace. The vacuum cleaner I for voodoolsm.—Indianapolis News. Biblical Fortress of Sichern Geographically Slcheni wns one of the most Important points In Pules tine. Situated In the narrow ntottn tnln pass between Mounts Gnrlzlm and Ebal—the high road of travel between the east and west—It blocked the route from tbe Jordan valley to the const plain and pro tected ’ he coastal region from the Invasions of the nomadic hordes coming from the east. Its strategic function Is thus obvious. Slcheni of- pairs H E * « DUTY TRUCK TIRES >5« Full Oversize * • I »14 Reg. CL Ford—Model T *10*5 Singl« * 8 1 ® ^ I n p a i» In p ain Fall Oversize — 4 -7 6 -xq Ford Chevrolet Plymouth 1 M»-X® * W 8 1 la p 1 a n t Each In pairs Per single tire •S S .’IO K fered a hold spectacle: with the hor izontal lines of the walls, one super imposed upon the other; with the gigantic dimensions of Its stones, all concentrated In the elliptic city plan, the fortress loomed In the landscape. Standing at Its side, the two natural bulwark. Mounts Gnrlzlm and Ehal. reinforced the Impression of Im pregnability. Even today one who stands at the foot of these gigantic walls hns the sense of being, as the Blhllcnl peo ple walled. * In our own sight at grasshoppers. One Is Impressed by Its sheer “physical strength, and understands the fearful panic of the Israelites as they listened In Kadesh Barnen to the reports which theli spies brought back from the Lund of Canaan. The builders of tiha fortlflcntlon system were the Hlttltes. who wer4 known to have dwelt In Slchein as early ns the time of Jacob, 254*0 B. C. (Gen. 34).
