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Entered at the Post Office at Athena. Oregon, as Second-Class Mall Matter -. v- : i VOLUME 49. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 30. 1928 NUMBER 13 PTnnii Diuni ii n r ii Htiu r IN COAST STATES Washington; Oregon and California In Path of Gales. California, Oregon and Washington were in the path of fierce gales and ' torrential rains Sunday r.ghtnd Monday. A heavy wind and general rainfall put a stop to Umatilla county farm ing operations. A fierce March wind tore through Oregon gathering vio lence and spreading destruction as it progressed, and reaching gale pro portions as it whipped from point to point along the coast. It left a trail of sunken ships fallen trees and un roofed buildings in its -wake. A gale described as a "nor'easter," tore into Astoria in the early morn' ing hours, wrecked a number of Columbia river fishing boats, in eluding three of the largest trollers in the offshore fleet, and spread in land to continue its destruction. The wind swept down the Col umbia gorge and at Crown Point, on the Columbia river highway, it was so strong that eastbound motorists were compelled to turn back. Crews of men -were at work at Longview, repairing damage caused bv a wind storm of unusual violence. Roofs were blown off, fences leveled to the ground, and power and light service interrupted. The wind reach ed a velocity of 50 miles an hour. Port Orford, Ore., was visited by the terrific southwest gale, and a heavy sea rose suddenly and wrecked four of the ten deep sea fishing craft. Other boats were hoisted safely onto the dock. During the night two open power boats and two skiffs were smashed to pieces in the breaking sea. - . The mountains west of Bend were covered with more than a foot of new snow, the result of a snow storm which started Sunday night and which was still in progress in the McKenzie pass and the Three Sisters country of the Cascades Monday. Four inches of snow fell in Bend Sun day night. In many places in the Touchet and Lowden districts the flood waters brought up and deposited large amounts of black 'soil which in most cases will prove an asset to the land according to several of the owners there. Several small orchards in that vicinity were practically uprooted by the swift water it is stated. In the Nine Mile area where many acres were planted to alfalfa and clover the loss has been very great according to George Lambdin, sheep owner of that district. Mr. Lambdin had an excellent stand of alfalfa, and nearly all of it is now covered with several inches of silt. Roy W. Ritner Asked By Leading Men of County to Accep Ben Craigen Dies on Mountain Road The Weston Leader reports the death of Ben Craign as follows: Ben-1 jamin F Craigen, a resident from boy hood of the Weston country, dropped dead from heart disease Saturday afternoon about four o'clock while walking along the corduroy road be vond Shiloh church on Weston Mountain. Mr. Craigen had been looking over the mountain holdings of his employ er, E. C. Burlingame of Walla Walla, and was returning to his car, ac companied by one of his sons, James Craigen, when the unexpected sum mons came. He said nothing, but fell in about a foot of snow, and was dead when his son hurried to his side. He is survived by his widow, five sons, one daughter and one sister. The latter is Mrs. Charles L. Pink erton of Weston. Funeral services were conducted at the United Brethren church Monday afternoon by Rev. W. S. Payne, and were largely attended by relatives and friends. Appropriate hymns were sung by the choir. Interment 'was made in I. 0. O. F. cemetery. James H. E. Scott Files James H. E. Scott of Milton, who has announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for representa tive of Umatilla county, was in Pend leton today transacting business at the court house. It i3 reported that S. A. Miller of Miltcn who has attend ed four sessions of the legislature as one of the representatives of Uma tilla county will not be a candidate to succeed himself. Adams Plays Two The Adams "Big Six" league team won a practice game with the Thorn Hollow team, Sunday, 10-2. Next Sunday Adams will play the Reser ' ration Indian team " on" the Adams diamond. Pendleton. Responding to the re quest of 50 Umatilla county business and profesional men and farmers who are representative of both the re publican and democratic parties, Roy W. Ritner, for 45 years a resident of this county and a tax payer of 25 years, at a meeting in Pendleton Monday night consented to become a candidate for the republican noim nation at the May primaries for the office of joint representative, Uma tilla and Morrow counties. Mr. Ritner is a former member of the house of representatives, having been elected in 1914 and re-elected in 1916. In 1918 he was elected to the state senate and was re-ehcted in 1922. In 1921 he was president of the senate. While in the legislature he was active in road legislation, being member of the roads and highways committee which at!' the 1917 ses sion drafted the present highway program. With Senator Barrett he was responsible for routing the Ore gon-Washington highway from the state line near Walla Walla through Freewater, Milton, Weston, , Athena, Adams Pendleton Pilot Rock, Hepp ner, Lexington and lone, joining the Old Oregon Trail on the Columbia river. The road was not on , tn original map submitted by the state engineer. While president of the senate Mr, Ritner killed the "1925 Fair Bill" which would have taxed the entire state $3,000,000 for the benefit of Portland. Mr. Ritner as a legislator introduced the following : bills and secured their passage: Placing of Eastern Oregon in a separate public service district; re-districting tne state in legislative districts and giv ing Eastern Oregon two additional representatives; appropriation of $10,000 for the investigation of the Umatilla Rapida project; establish ment of a rotation crop experiment station, in Umatilla county; re moval of state grain grading ' de partment from the jurisdiction of the public service commission to that of the state market agent; establish' ment of an additional wing - at the Eastern Oregon State Hospital at Pendleton; establishment of an ad ditional normal school in Eastern Oregon; appropriation of fund to aid farmers of the frozen-out district to buy seed wheat. He helped draft the state income tax bill in 1923 and in 1922, acting with State Secretary Kozer as mem bers of the state tax commission, reduced the state tax levy about $750,000. Altogether, Mr. Ritner in troduced but few bills but secured passage of over 90 per cent of those introduced. Mr. Ritner, the son of pioneer par ents, was educated in Pendleton pub lie schols and at Weston Normal. He taught school; was a cub report er and worked in the old Pendleton Savings Bank for 10 years. In 1908 he gave up banking and since that time has been a wheat raiser. He was vice-president and business man ager fo the Round-Up since its in. ception until 1918 when he resigned to go to France during the war, There'he was . division representa tive of the American Red Cross with rank of captain, being attached to the fifth division, A. E. F. which saw active service for the last eight months of the war and engaged in the St. Mihiel and Argonne campaigns Mountain Road None too Good A wonderful view of the valley is afforded right now from the top of Emigrant ' (Cabbage) hill, between Pendleton and La Grande, according to Walla Wallans who made the trip Sunday says the Union. Near the top of the hill one runs into snow. The Oregon highway department is rebuilding the road across the reser vation and thousands and thousands of dollars must be spent regrading the road over the mountains, the oil ed highways having gone to pieces as a result of the severe winter. Cars are getting through but the going is slow from a point about five miles this side of Meachani on to LaGrande, and in some places it is stated tract ors are being used to pull machines through the soft places. There are numerous high centers. The frost is going out of the ground and the heavy traffic has done the rest with the road. Looked Up To The Weston Leader says that Lance Kellough and Otis Adams looked down upon their fellowtownsmen at Wes ton Sunday, but not with disdain. They went up in an airplane at Walla Walla and commissioned the pilot, Harry Langdon, to fly with them to and over Weston, so that they could get a bird s eye view of the burg. Several times the town was encircled, and people looked up to the banker and Ford dealer in a manner never known before HAL E. HOSS Prominent Newspaper Man Candidate For Secretary of State OREGON CITY. Hal E. Hoss, of Oregon City, has formally announc ed himself as a candidate for the republican nomination as secretary of state, and will have his name on the ballot in the primary election May 18th. Mr. Hoss, who has been manager of the Oregon City Enter prise and later private secretary to Governor Patterson, resigned ' his state position a short time ago in order to devote his time to his candi dacy, and his announcement comes as a result of encouragement received in a state-wide survey he has been con ducting. Coincident with his announcement as a candidate, Mr. Hoss sent in his resignation as secretary of the state editorial association , to President Robert W. Sawyer, of Bend, but will retain his other press association con nections. He will formally file for the office within the next few days. In his statement Mr. Hoss says: "In announcing my candidacy for the republican nomination- as sec retary of state, I do so with a well founded conception of the situation. Since my resignation as private sec retary to Governor Patterson a few weeks ago I have been enabled to de vote sufficient time to a state-wide survey to convince me that there is good, opportunity for my nomination. Reports from every section of the state indicate a strong support, and while every candidate for office is prone to construe everything . to his own favor, I was willing to give up my position with Governor Patterson and go into the race, confident that I was not mis-reading the minds of the republican voters throughout the state. During my career as a newspaper editor and as an officer in news paper associations, I had opportunity to form a great many contacts with business and civic leaders, and during the past year and a quarter with a number of. people prominent in the public and official life of the state. My work with the press of Oregon has put me in a position where I am teceiving the support of a great number of newspapers,' and their en dorsement is no small part of my encouragement. "I sincerely believe that I am qualified by experience and training and the human attributes to be sec retary of state. My business ex perience has been along administra tive lines and in public life I have had the opportunity to, and did, study the work of the board of control and the office of the secretary of state at close range. I intend, if nominated and elected, to give the people of Ore gon an efficient and courteous ad ministration of their affairs, so far as they would come under my jurisdic tion. I would enter the office of sec retary of state free from political entanglements, owing no debt to any individual or group. I am a native citizen of the state of Oregon, seek ing one of its high offices because I feel that I can do the work well." AMERICAN YOUTH R Elizabeth ("Betty") Clark, 13, of Cedars, Delaware, is one of that state's girl candidates for the Ameri can Youth Award, . " Lower Division Revision Plans Adopted at U. O. Lovelace-McKay Mr. Charles Lovelace and Mrs. Mary McKay were united in marriage at Walla Walla, Wednesday, Rev. Hunter pastor of the Christian church, preforming the ceremony. The bride was accompanied by her sisterinlaw, Mrs. W. R. Harden. Mr. Lovelace is a veteran of the Phillipine and World Wars, and lately returned to Athena from Cal ifornia. Mrs. Lovelace is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Harden. The bride and groom have a large number of friends in Athena who ex tend congratulations. Athena They will re- The Wauna Campfire Girls The Wauna Campfire girls and guardian Hilda' Dickenson and as sistant guardian Myrtle Potts hiked the Sheldon Taylor home Satur day where a bountuous dinner was supplied by Mrs. Taylor. The girls cooked over a campfire and ate camp style, where a very attractive camp ground was prepared for the occasion. Races of various kinds were enjoyed after dinner. Then they hiked home and all declare a most 'enjoyable time. UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, Eu gene. Re-organization plans for the en tire lower division, which comprises the first two years of study, have been adopted by the faculty of the Univer sity of Oregon after a consideration of the plans for nearly a year. Under the new plan, all students en tering, except those who enroll in one of the professional schools, will post pone the election of their major depart ments until their junior years. They will select a group where their principal interest lies and in which they will no required to take freshman survey and sophomore option courses. The work tho first two years will be so distributed that each student must have a substan tial ;year-coarseln ' three -out of four groups into which the college of liter ature, arts and sciences is divided. The revision. is planned with a viow to facilitating the transition from gee ondary school methods to those of Uni versity study and instruction. In keep' ing with this viow courses during the freshman year will avoid any pro- nounced trend toward narrow speciali sation and will represent rather an in' troduction to a field of knowledge broader in scope than any present de partment, while at the same time serv ing as an apprenticeship in methods appropriate to any field of investiga tion. The term "junior college," has been rejected us applying to the new plans. Group System Planned Heretofore the college has been di vided into departments and students woald choose a major from these, as in English, mathematics or geology. The departments will continue but will only have actual jurisdiction over students during the last two years and in gradu' ate work. The college departments, for the purpose facilitating the new syS' tern, will be affiliated into groups, Group one will J)e language and liter ature; group two, social science; group three, mathematics and physical sci ence; group four, biological science. It is from these four that the students will select three year courses from dif ferent groups. If they register in a professional school, they will fulfill the lower division requirement in their school, and take two year courses from diffeient groups. For each of the four groups a chair man appointed by the president and a committee representative of all depart ments in the group are charged with the tack of formulating a lower division curriculum. Adviser to be Provided A technical adviser will be provided by the registrar's office, and simplifi cation of the registration and keeping of grade records is expected to be Car rie J out. The four groups will be made up of subjects as follows: Language and Lit erature; English, Germanic Languages, Greek, Latin, Romance Languages; Social Sciences; Economics, History, Political Science, Philosophy; Mathe matics and Physical Sciences; Mathe matics, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Geography, Mechanics and Astronomy. Biological Sciences; Animal Biology in cluding Physiology, Plant Biology in eluding Bacteriology, and Psychology. The new plan is expected to have t great effect on the present foreign lan guage regulations. While it will still be possible to obtain a Bachelor of 8i ehce degree without foreign language, t'vcral departments will Impose this re quirement. Entering students will b told of this, and advised to plan' their ecurses accordingly, , Will M. Peterson Is Candidate for Delegate To National Convention Will M. Peterson, well known Pendleton attorney, who has many democratic friends in Athena, has an nounced his candidacy for delegate from the second congressional dis trict to the national democratic con vention. In his statement "Pete" says he will stand pat by Oregon's choice of presidential candidate. He says further: , " 'I believe in the democracy of Woodrow Wilson: will support whole heartedly any democrat, wet or dry, Catholic or Protestant, nominated for president. My choice is Alfred E. Smith, but I admire Senator Walsh. He has rendered signal service to the American people; would make a great president. "The Democratic Party is under obligation to the American people to re-establish honesty, economy and ef ficiency in government; to inaugurate progressive principle beneficial to the masses; to wipe out official corruption and rascality; to remove the political filth of corrupt leaders accumulated at Washington during the last seven years. Let us . pray for another Woodrow Wilson. , "Print after my name on the bal lot, Honesty in Government; Smith or Walsh for president." The Last Game Played By the Old "Yellow Kid" Team Apropos of the opening of the base ball season in Athena the fol lowing account of the last game played by the old "Yellow Kid" team, champions for two years of the In land Empire, will be of interest to local fans. The game was played July 28, 1902 r The arrival of Frank Willard in town brings to memory the last game he pitched for the Yellow Kids on the Athena diamond back in 1902. The following is the account of the game as appeared in the Press at the time: "The Yellow Kids played errorless ball yesterday afternoon. The three hits Dayton got off Willard were as scattered and mangy as the average Injun cayuse. The little fellow was well nigh invincible, and the peerless support he received is beard on the tongue of the small boy, even. "Mr. Bolin, the Dayton slab artist, did good excution, the Yellow Kids connecting but four times safely with his slants. The game was a good one, well played and not until the fifth inning was home base touched. Then it was that two Yellow Kids passed over the Rubicon. It was due to G. Brown being hit by a pitched ball, Shea's safe hit and errors by Dayton's first and third basemen The single and two errors came just right to score G. Brown and Shea. "In the sixth Dayton scratched in a run on two singles. They were both long ones and the throwins were good for the lap of a base each. Brown for Dayton scored in this inning and two Daytonites died on bases when the side was retired. This was the only inning that first base was populated by a Dayton player. It took an hour and 25 minutes to play the game. Athena's column was errorless and Dayton had but two. Score by in nings: Athena 00002000021 4 Dayton 00 00 0 100 01 3 PRIMARY VOTER IS DEFINED BY CLERK No Elector Permitted to Swear Or Change Party On Election Day. R. T. Brown, county clerk, has been deluged with questions regard ing who may participate in the pri mary election May 18 and has pre pared the following statement cover ing requirements for the voters or those eligible to vote in Umatilla county. The statement follows: Every citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years or over, who shall have resided in the state six months, shall be entitled to register, provided such citizen is able to read and write the English language. All qualified electors shall vote in the election precinct in which they reside, those who have moved or changed precincts or wish to change their politics to democrat or republi can, as just these two parties can vote in the primaries, but at the general election in November, any political affiliation may vote, or if the name of the elector has been changed by marriage, must re-register. Section 4058, Oregon Laws, where in an elector may register at the polls on election day has been repealed, and no elector will be permitted to swear in, or change politics on elec tion day. Electors who reside in the mu nicipality wherein is situated the county Beat shall register in person, with the county clerk. Electors who do not reside as in above stated may register, without charge, before any official registrar, in the precinct in which the elector lives, in the county, or at the office of the county clerk, at the court house. April 17 is the last day to register for the May primary. B. B. Rich ards is the official registrar for Ath ena precincts. McCoy-Crawford In Fine Outdoor Picture Tim McCoy and Joan Crawford will be seen at the Standard tomorrow night in Mctro-Goldwyn's fine out door picture, "The Law of the Range." In this photoplay McCoy has been given a good story, a cap able director and one of the most beautiful actress on the screen, Joan Crawford. "The Law of the Range" is a clean play, with plausible thrills. Sunday night Paramount presents Clara Bow in "Hula" at the Stand ard. Clive Brook plays opposite Miss Bow, and the supporting cast con sists of a group of Famous Players. The Standard has also booked "It," with Clara Bow as the star. The S. D. Club At the meeting of the S. D. Club at the home of Mary Tompkins, plans were made for the tea to be held Saturday afternoon, March 31. Esma Hiteman became a member of the club. : Yellow and white will be the club colors. Light refreshments were served. The next meeting will be at the home of Myrtle Campbell. Three Feet at Toll Gate Forest rangers report there is only about three feet of snow at Toll Gate in the Blue Mountains. New snow has augmented the depth slightly, since the report was made. Game Here Sunday "Pike" Miller will put his ball play ers through a practice game with the Thorn Hollow Indian team, on the local grounds Sunday, weather per mitting. Renegade Dog Killed By a Game Warden WALLA WALLA. After evading persuit and capture for more than six weeks during which time considerable ' damage had been done, a wild dog working in the vicinity of the reser voir, four miles east of town, was shot by county Game Warden Frank Bigler. Bigler states that the dog was more clever than most coyotes in that he was able to keep out of sight. It is estimated that nearly $500 worth of damage to the farmers of the vicinity has been done by the dog. Numerous complaints have been received of sheep, hog and poultry killings. It had been known to kill full sized hogs, sheep and young calves. The dog is apparently a stray as none of the farmers had ever seen it previous to the time when it began to kill stock. Swimming Pool Material Two carloads of sand and gravel for the concrete work on the swim ming pool at the City Park, are be ing transported from O.-W. R. & N. railroad yards by trucks. Excavating has been practically completed and the big cavity is ready to receive the forms to be put in by the contractor. Pouring of concrete will probably commence next week. Funeral of Mrs. Power The funeral of Mrs. Lulu J. Power, formerly Miss Lulu Brace, was held at Pendleton Tuesday, and interment was made in Athena cemetery. Mrs. Power leaves her husband and si" sons to mourn her loss. Mrs. Power was the sister of Will Brace of Baker and George Brace of Thorn Hollow. In Bankruptcy Clarence L. Gagnon and wife, Neva L. Gagnon have filed petitions in bankruptcy with C. K. Cranston, referee in bankruptcy at Pendleton, and a meeting of creditors will be held in the office of the referee on April Cth. Mrs. McEIroy Summoned Mrs. Caroline McEIroy, formerly a resident of Athena, died Saturday at Portland. The remains were brought to Pendleton for interment, the funeral being held there Tues day afternoon. Tie Up Dogs Hunting dogs in Weshington must be tied up, or kept under control after April 1, for four months, it is an nounced. This is to protect the young game birds. Mrs. Switzler Dead , Mrs. Jade RwitzU-r, a pioneer wo man of Umatilla county, died Sun day evening at Portland.