Entered at the Post Office at Athena. Oregon, as Second-Class Mall Matter
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VOLUME 49.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 30. 1928
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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.