Entered at the Post Office at Athena. Oreacm, as Second-Class Mall Matter
VOLUME 49.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27. 1928
NUMBER 4
SCOUTS
SPONSOR
PARENT'S NIGHT
Program of Entertainment
Given At Standard
Theatre.
-Live and keen interest was shown
at the regular meeting of the Athena
Boy Scout Troop, at Scout Hall,
January 19. A business " , meeting,
games, signaling and "drill were en
tered into.
Twenty-two Athena boys are work
ing on scouting, of which thirteen
are registered "tenderfoot." Several
are ready for their secondclass tests.
At a recent meeting plans were
advanced for raising finances to
liquidate troop expenses, and a com
mittee comprised of Stafford Hansell,
John Kirk and the Scoutmaster was
appointed to confer on the matter and
report at the next meeting of the
scouts. The report as suggested and
approved was to put on a "parent's
night" program at the Standard
Theatre.
The Athena troop has secured the
cooperation of the Blue Mountain
Council executive, and in addition to
the proposed program, a high grade
scout motion picture and news reel,
will be features of entertainment,
The general public will be asked to
attend the entertainment, while
scouts and boys interested in scuut
ing are expected to be present.
Scouting principles, points of inter
est to parents of scouts and pros
pective scouts, and subjects of gen
eral interest pertaining to scout work
will be explained.
At the scout meeting last night,
Dr. Cowan was on the program to
give the scouts instruction in first
aid work; M. I. Miller in charge of
the games and recreational work, and
Dr. Geyer in charge of the "tender
foot" tests.
The scouts are very much interest
ed in arrangements made recently
which gives them access to the Y. M.
C. A. swimming tank at Walla Walla.
Tomorrow scouts who may be able to
go, will be taken through the Whit
man college museum, between the
hours of 4 and 5 p. m., and after
ward for a swim aj the "Y."
The next hike will be a "signal
hike," and it is expeced that several
troopers will be able to use a sema
phore code by that time.
The local troop committee and
business men have heartily boosted
and cooperated in making the troop
a success. The boys have a fine
place to meet, have recreational and
scout equipment of the very best, and
are now firmly entrenched for their
work.
Mr. Hawley, Boy Scout Executive
of the Blue Mountain Council, who
was in Athena yesterday afternoon
assisting the local scout officers in
their problems, addressed an assemb'y
of high school and eighth grade
pupils at the high school auditorium.
Home Missionary
Society to Disband
CAPT. R. B. ADAMS
ISSJ . A
Capt. Robert B. Adams, who has
been named engineer in chief of the
United States coast guard to succeed
Capt. E. Quincy B. Newman.
Fred Hoyt, Missing
Since Last Week
Is Found Frozen
Boise, Idaho. Ten miles from his
crashed Stearman airplane, the froz
en body of Fred Hoyt, Wichita, Kan.,
test pilot and sales manager of the
Stearman Aircraft company was found
30 miles northwest of Holbrook,
Idaho. Hoyt, lost over southern
Idaho in a severe snowstorm evident
ly had jumped from his ship, trust
ing to land safely with his para
chute. The Holbrook telephone operator,
who notified the Associated Press,
said it was impossible to determine
whether Hoyt was injured in the fall
as the horseman finding the body
had hurried to Holbrook without close
examination of the body.
Hoyt's body was found four hours
after Frank Commons, rancher had
discovered the demolished plane al
most buried in the snow, five miles
from the nearest ranch.
Daily search carried on by a
squadron of planes operating from
Salt "Lake and from Burley and
Boise, Idaho, failed to locate any clua
to the fate of the air man, although
the territory in which the plane and
body were found had been covered
repeatedly by the aviators.
Hoyt, who was delivering a plane
to the Varney air lines in Boise,
started from Salt Lake in company
with C. C. Price, piloting the reg
ular Salt Lake-Pasco, Washington,
mail plane. In the faster plane, Hoyt
soon outdistanced the mail flyer and
was last seen as he headed into a
storm over St. Revel, Idaho.
Tre subsequent search by plane was
suspended Thursday, in the belief
that Hoyt could no longer have sur
vived the sub-zero weather. How
ever, posses of ranchers continued to
scour the country around St. Revell
and northward toward Holbrook un
til called in following report of find
ing the body.
AIRCAN
LEGION
ERENGE
Will Be Held In Athena at
Legion Hall, Monday
February 20.
The district conference of American
Legion Posts for the 6th Oregon Dis
trict, will be held at Legion Hall,
Athena, Monday February 20.
Delegates visiting the conference
will represent American Legion posts
at Heppner, Arlington, Condon, Fos
sil, lone, Milton, Boardman, Hermis
ton, Stanfield and Umatilla Indian
Agency.
During the day conference sessions
will be held at the K. of P.-I. 0. 0.
F. lodge hall. The local Post plan to
give a banquet to all ex-service men
who attend the conference, and in
the evening at Legion Hall, a dance
will be given.
State Commander Love, Carl Moser
State Adjutant, and other promin
ent in American Legion affairs will
attend the conference.
At a recent meeting of Athena
Weston American Legion Post, the
following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
C. L. McFadden, Commander; D. A.
Bell, Vice-Commander; Max Hopper,
Finance Officer; Justin Harwood,
Adjutant. Penn Harris, Roy Russell,
Forest Zerba, Glenn Dudley and Vic
tor Hirsch, Executive Committee. A
membership campaign has been in
augurated by the local post, and a
drive for new members is now be
ing made.
At a meeting of the Home Mission
ary Society of the Methodist Episco
pal church, held Wednesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Wm. Me
Pherson, the members decided to dis
band, and to later reorganize under
another name.
Mrs. McPherson and Mrs. Singer
were hostesses for the meeting and a
snlendid oroeram was conducted by
Mrs. W. 0. Read, the subject being,
"The American Indian; His Ability
at Art from Nature, and his Part in
the World War." Mrs. H. H. Hill
gave a very interesting talk, and
there were readings by Mesdames
McLeod. McPherson and Read. The
hostesses served a sumptuous lunch,
and were assisted by Mrs. Will Kirk
and Mrs. Lila Kirk. Guests were
Mrs. M. L. Watts, Mrs. 0. H. Read
er. Mrs. Lila Kirk, Mrs. Sims Dick
enson. Mrs. E. C. Rogers and Mrs.
E. A. Bennett.
Fire Alarm
A defective flue at the Ernest
Schrimpf home at corner of Fourth
and Jefferson street, burned out
shortly before noon yesterday, and
caused the fire alarm to be sounded,
By the time the fire fighting equip
ment arrived on the scene, the fire
as etir.ffuished with a bucket of
water, with no damage other than
scorched wall paper.
Providence Rides
With 'Tex" Rankin
Through Snow Storm
Portland. At the height of the
blinding snowstorm that swept this
district Saturday, the roar of an air
plane was heard and Tex Rankin,
veteran airman, brought his plane to
earth through swirling flakes' to win
a pitched battle with Boreas a bat
tle that started over Olympia, Wash.
He left Seattle at 2 p. m.
Flying from Vader, Wash., at a
height of only 25 feet above the tree
tops on account of the limited "ceil
ing," Rankin swept along at this
altitude as he followed the Cowlitz
river to its junction with the
Columbia.
With the wheels of his plane al
most skimming the water, he hug
ged the east bank of the river,
sometimes with . his wings barely 50
feet from the trees lining the shore.
He landed here at 4:05 p. m. using
the interstate bridge as a landmark
when all other marks had been ob
literated by the storm.
"Have anyone with you?" he was
asked over the telephone.
"Just Providence," he chuckled.
"Chang" Here Tomorrow
.At Standard Theatre
Chang" a motion picture reveal
ing the hazardous life of the jungle,
has been brought back to America
by Merian C. Cooper and Earnest B.
Schoedsack, who spent 22 months
in the remote interior of Siam mak
ing the production.
Heralded by Paramount in such
extravagant superlatives as "one of
the greatest pictures of all time"
"Chang" is utterly different from
any photoplay ever made, in that al
though ferocious animals of the
jungle tigers, leopards, elephants,
great snakes and chattering mon
keys are the principal actors the
picture contains a basic plot, skil
fully embroidered with the conven
tional dramatic forms of sympathy,
struggle, menace, tragedy, pathos
and exceptional comedy, furnished by
a white gibbon named Bimbo.
"Chang" will be presented at the
Standard Theatre tomorrow night,
under the auspices of Paramount,
which organization financed Cooper
and Schoedsack in their extraordin
ary effort.,
The theme of "Chang" is most
elemental the conflict of man
against his implacable foe, the
jungle, and the hostile beasts shelter
ed by its abundant foliage.
Sunday night the Standard will
show Beatrice Fairfax's great rom
ance, "The Lovelorn," with one of
Metro-Goldwyn's steller casts featur
ing Sally O'Neil, Molly O'Day and
Larry Kent. "The Lovelorn" is
adapted from the famous Beatrice
Fairfax newspaper .articles.
ATHENA DAIRY
HERD
RAS GOOD
AVERAGE
Ringel Cow Produces 95
Pounds Butterf at for
December.
All the high producing cows are
not in western Oregon from the re
sults of tests made on the cows of
Louis Ringel of Athena, says the
East Oregonian.
Mr. ' Ringel has six cows he is
milking and one has made exceptional
record for only average feeding. Sha
gave 72 pounds of butterfat for
November and 95 pounds for Decem
ber. This cow is no star boarder and
has demonstrated the good care she
is getting. The cow is a pure bred
Guernsey. This was reported by E.
M. Houser, official tester for the
Umatilla Dairy Improvement assoc
iation last fall. It is here demon
strated that much good can come
from the tests made on the different
cows for their butterfat production.
The low ones as well as the high
ones can easily be found and
the herd to give
high producing
eliminated from
place for some
animal.
Other farm dairies of the Athena
district are coming to the front with
good stock. Consequently butterfat
production is higher in proportion to
standard breeding of the cows.
Sheldon Taylor has gradually in
creased his herd of Jerseys with
profitable results, and Floyd Pinker
ton finds Jerseys profitable on his
ranch. Others are giving more or
less attention to dairying in connec
tion with wheatraising. Harry Mc
Bride, residing on Wildhorse creek
southeast of Athena, may decide to
engage in dairying exclusively in the
near future.
Camp Fire Girls Will
Organize In Athena
Grain Shipments
Morrow county grain shipments
have been heavy during the past few
weeks, especially from the lone ware
houses. Morrow county farmers are
holding back enough grain for seed
this seascn, to be used in event of
a freeze out.
0. 0. Stephens was called to Pend
leton Tuesday owing to his mother's
aint&V ia thaf titj.
The next move of importance for
Athena, will be the organization of
Camp Fire Girls. It is said that
during the coming week definite ar
rangements will be made to effect
the organization here.
The district executive was in
Athena yesterday afternoon, complet
ing details for obtaining a charter
for the local group. Further details
and information will be published in
next wfeek's PreS.
Pendleton Man Hero
It transpires that Burton Thurber
of Pendleton, performed a heroic act
when the 0. W. R. & N. passenger
train was derailed in the Columbia
river gorge several weeks ago. Thur
ber, as the coach he was riding in
went over and landed near the
water's edge beside the locomotive,
brought him alongside of the fire
man. Thurber rescued the uncon
scious trainman, whose clothing was
caught in the wreckage of the engine.
It was Thurber who ran three miles
to telegraph the train dispatcher de
tails of the wreck.
The Last Legislature
Amended Former Law
Regulating Spraying
The 1927 session of the Oregon
legislature passed an amendment to
the horticultural , laws providing for
the licensing and bonding of those
who engage for hitfi in the business
of eradicating or controlling plant
diseases, insect pests, or noxious
weeds injurious to the plant industry
of the state. Authority is granted
the District Horticultural Commis
sioner for prescribing the spray
treatment, or materials to be used
in such work and to make such rules
and regulations regarding its applica
tion as he may deem advisable..
In the past considerable loss has
been experienced by some growers de
pending on others to do their spraying
or similar work for them. They have
hired them in good faith with the in
tention of affecting a cleanup of such
pests as scale, codling moth, or wild
morning glory. They have purchased
the expensive material necessary for
the work and have paid well fos the
work itself; to find in many cases
that in spite of all they had done the
work had been . slighted through
ignorance or negligence on the part
of the party hired for this purpose
Then at harvest time they find they
are "out" not only the money they
have put into material and labor but
also have suffered a decrease in pro
duction, have had the expense of
handling the unmarketable culls in
with the good stock, and in the case
of an orchard crop often have suf
fered permanent injury to the trees.
District Commissioner Weather
spoon will meet all parties interested
at the office of R. F. Wilber, County
Horticultural inspector, in Freewater,
Wednesday, February 1, until six p
m. Applicants for license will be
examined at this time.
A Fine Machine
One of the finest looking machines
that ever came to town has been in
stalled at the Zerba Garage this
week. Reference is made to the in
stallation of a Sioux valve refacer.
With all the tractors and farm trucks
that are being purchased in the
Athena country, in addition to the
passenger car trade, Zerba is pie-
cered to take care of valve trouble
on thort notice.
Roads In Bad Shape
Helix Viewpoint: Arthur Coeand
Ed Tucker were in Helix Wednesday
from their ranches in Van Sycle
Canyon. The roads in their section
of the rountry as well as other roads
leading into Helix are in such bad
condition that the farmers are com
pelled either to walk or ride horse
back into town to get their supplies,
in some instances the roads are so
bad they have to leave the road en
tirely and go thro'tfgh the" fields.
Bert Warren Sells
Bert Warren, who has been farm
ing in the Helix district has dispos
ed of his interests there, and with
his family, is residing at Pendleton
temporarily. On the evening of
January 17, Mr. and Mrs. Warren
were suprised by members of the
Merry-Go-Round club of Helix, who
spent the evening happily at the
Warren home..
Athena Teams Lose
Both boys and girls' Athena high
school basketball teams lott their
game3 at Stanfield, Saturday evening
The boys' game went to a close de
cision, Stanfield winning out, 18 tolO,
"The Fighting Six" went down and
out in the trenches by the over
whelming defeat of 34 to 10; their
first defeat of the season.
luba r:r.!LiPS
Mme. Luba Phililps, Russian avi
ttrix, who contemplates a transatlan
.ic flight from Roosevelt field, New
York, to France.
When Walla Walla
Was Young, Wanted
To Be in Oregon
The following is reprinted from
the Walla Walla Union of January
23,1876:
"Everybody Signs It" This is what
has been said by the committee hav
ing in charge the petition asking for
the annexation of this and Columbia
county to Oregon. The petitions
that were circulated in the city have
already received over 500 names,
that being a majority of all the votes
in Walla Walla county.
But as there are some petitions that
are said to be very extensively sign
ed that have not yet come in from
the country, and from Waitsburg, it
is thought that from two to three
hundred more names will be signed
in this county. So that there will
probably not be more than one-tenth
part of our voters who refuse to
sign.
A gentleman from Columbia county
said that all through the county the
sentiment in favor of annexation is
strong, and is daily increasing. He
says that if the vote were to be sub
mitted today, it would carry by
large majority. He says that the op
position in Dayton is rapidly dying
out, and that the people of that town
begin to see, that in order for them
to have their own terms of court, and
in fact, in order for them to be a
full-fledged county, they must be
long to the state of Oregon, other
wise they will be joined to Walla
Walla county for judicial purposes,
and will be only a kind of ornamental
appendage to Walla Walla county.
But while we are so unanimous on
the subject of annexation, the "peopb
er on the Sound are said to be
working with might and main to de
feat the annexation. They can't af
ford to let thfs county go now, they
have been so used to plucking it that
they cannot think of giving up that
favorite pastime now.
Additional High Lines
Coming to Athena
Will Improve Service
At the present' time Athena's light
and power service is furnished by
the Pacific Power & Light company
from three Bources, Walla Walla
river, Walla Walla steam plant and
from the Yakima system.
A fourth power tieun will be
utilized in the near future, which will
greaty improve local service. CO'
incident with other replacements
under way the company announces
the early construction of a 66,000
volt line to Athena, which will later
be continued on to Walla Walla.
The Athena line will also carry
25,000 voltB for use as a distributing
line. R. L. Stout, right or way
engineer informs the East Oregonian
that the Athena line will cost ap
proximately $4,000 per mile. He has
completed the Athena arrangements
and the ten surveying ana right ol
way engineers are now at Pendleton
ready to begin work on the new ex
tension.
Lambing Season
In some districts of Eastern Ore
gon, lambing operations will be und
way in a short time. It is reported
that the flocks have wintered well
and a satisfactory increase is
tfected.
ex-
Brotherinlaw Dies
Suddenly at Yakima
A. D. Smith, groceryman o:
Yakima, and brotherinlaw of 0. O,
Stephens of his city, died suddenly of
apoplexy Wednesday. Mrs. bmitn
sister of Mr. Stephens, accompanied
by her son, was on her way to
Pendleton, being called there on ac
count of the serious illness of her
.mother, when death claimed ner
husband.
Arriving at Pendleton on the even
ing train, Mr. Stephens met her there
and drove her through to Yakima
Wednesday night. The condition of
the mother at Pendleton is reported
to be critical, and relatives have
Wti-n at htrr WflkTde fur W.nrral days.
WILL DEDICATE
WILDHORSE ROAD
County Court Honor Guests
At Community Banquet
Next Wednesday.
.Tim McBride and other members of
the Commercial Association are spon
soring a community banquet for next
Wednesday evening, which is to com
memorate the completion of the
Wildhorse market road and its ex
tension up Eagle creek to the Thorn
Hollow highway connection.
The banquet will be held in the re
ception room of the Christian church,
and the guests will be served by the
ladies of that church promptly at
six p. m. Members of the County
Court will be guests of honor, B. B.
Richards will be toast master and
the occasion will serve to dedicate
the new highway.
It is desired that people of Athena
and vicinity take part in the ban
quet to the extent that it will
materialize into a community affair,
solely to recognize the successful
completion of a community enter-
Prise- . .
With this object m view, n win oo
fnr nil desiring to attend
the banquet to leave their names and
$1.25 per plate at eiuier
Grocery Athena Department .store
or KOgerS uouumnii, iw !'
Monday evening, so that tne nnsi
ian church ladies may know how
many to prepare for.
The banquet is lor Dom men u
women oi me- communis .
in charge of arrangements are
desirous of making it a success m
point of attendance. Music features
will be secured for the program, and
a real, neighborly, get-together time
is anticipated.
Robins Head North
In Immense Flocks
Roseburg. Roseburg residents were
treated to an unusual signi yesieruuy
and today when thousands of robins,
flying in great bands like geese, m
vated the Umpqua valley. Yesterday
evening they passed over the city m
great clouds apparently1 seeking
shelter in the country south of Rose
burg. This morning they were seen
again flying back north.
They stretcnea oui m u dh."6i
an,ntime miles in length, with occa
sionally a straggling band contain
ing several hundred birds breaking
off from the main body, which
seemed to follow a course aiong me
South Umpqua river. ,
It is presumed that storms m u
surrounding areas caused tne Diraa
to congregate in the vicinity of Rose
burg. The unusual movement of the
birds in such enormous numbers at
tracted a great deal of attention.
Gorge Again Threatened
With rising temperature, and in
some sections ramiau, n ytvu...
situation in Eastern Oregon has
materially changed for the better.
With this change going into effect,
traffic conditions in the oiumDia
river gorge threatened to again tie
up motor transportation, the effort
f Wee crews of workmen being
concentrated on keeping the highway
open.
Government Trapper
Displays His Catch
Government Trapper Patterson was
in Athena Wednesday evening with
the hood and running board of his
car decorated with five coyotes and
a bob cat, which he had taken in a
couple of days work in the Combs
Canyon district.
The coyotes were victims or poison
ed bait, and Mr. Peterson caught the
cat in a trap placed in a sheep shed
at the Smith sheep camp.
The trapper is of the opinion that
more coyotes fell to the lure of his
poisoned bait, cut on account m
heavy frost he was unable to find
them. The ones he brought in were
hard to locate among the frost
covered sage brush.
Fumigating Rites
Weston Leader: Fumigating rites
have been accomplished in the Lun-
dell home, which was quarantined
during the illness of Master Jerry
from smallpox. Even the family
cat, in spite of much catterwauling,
scratching and other manifestations
of disgust, was subjected to a lysol
bath in order to kill any germs which
might be lurking in his sleek coat.
Ray Dudley Pledged
University of Oregon. Ray Dudley,
of Athena, who is a freshman this
year at the University, has been
pledged to Oregon Knights, an under
class honorary society. The pledges
include a total of 23, seven of whom
Vere frvm TrfrttantJ.