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vh Mm i&tm . INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates. One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six months $1.00 One copy . three months 75 Athena, Oregon, June 29, 1928 COMPLIMENTS THE PRESS Recently a contest was proposed in which country and community newspapers of Oregon were to com pete on merit for a cup to be award ed the best entry in the contest. The publisher of the Athena Press en tered the edition of June 15, and has received the following complimentary review from C. J. Mcintosh, of the department of Industrial Journalism, Oregon State College, and Chairman of judges of the contest: "Mr. F. B. Boyd, Editor Press, Ath ena, Or. The June 15 edition of your newspaper came to hand in plenty of time for entry into the community newspaper contest. I regret exceed ingly that postponement of the con test makes it impossible to get them into competition with other live com munity newspapers of Oregon. "Your entry is an excellent speci men of newspaper making. The front page has more good live news stories on it than are ordinarily found in a newspaper of its size. Be ing well made up and clearly printed it is not only attractive but easily read. It is seldom you find 37 "home made" stories on the front page of of six-column newspaper. And tne way they are balanced, horizontally and up-and-down, makes them look as newsy as they are. "The editorials on second page and general news and features on third are interesting, informative and at tractive. And the scores of "locals" on fourth page seem to cover the field there. "Pyramiding of the advertising helps so much, the only variation be ing a wee bit on page four. "For what you have it seems to me the specimen is very nearly ideal. Your headlines are well filled out and tell something, both advertising and bulletin the news. There is just one element missing as it seems to me but possibly the local field makes this necessary. That is, of com munity news letters from nearby districts. Such communities need newspaper aid in promoting their welfare and are generally able to contribute news of interest and in formation of value to all readers. This in turn makes rural subscrip tion more general, finally adding to the value of advertising that means more home trade. "So much interested in this phase of the work am I that I am cooperating with nearly every editor in western Oregon in finding and training competent rural reporters. Extension of the project into East ern Oregon will probably take me in to your territory in about three weeks when I hope we can have op portunity to talk the matter over." "Sincerely yours, "C. J. McINTOSII." HAZARD OF ALL-NIGHT DRIVE (Enterprise Record Chieftain) If you arc tempted to make an all night drive or join a party with such a schedule, the only safe advice is don't. It is one of the most hazard ous ventures in automobiling. Every year many serious accidents happen and numerous lives are lost from staying on the road too long. Tired nature asserts itself infallibly, the head nods, the eyes close momen tarily, and the speeding car rushes on to destruction. A young man in town bears scars which tell him the perils of the "late night driving. With a friend, while in college, he made u long night drive to see a football game. On the way home he found himself in a hospital after an accident of which he has no recollection, lie fell asleep at the wheel and knew noth ing more until he awoke, bruised and cut, with nurses and a physician standing about him. Last year a man driving from Boise to western Oregon wont otT the highway near LnGrande in the middle of the night and was killed when he ran into the ditch, A few months ago a young man travelling alone went on the grade on the Columbia highway and was found dead, his car a wreck, at the base of the steep hillside. It was learned that he had come from California without stopping for rest and was driving night and day. Safety rules limit the hours that a railroad man may remain on con tinuous duty but automobile drivers think nothing of staying on he road twice as long. Nobody is in such a hurry. Don't do it. HOW HOOVER WAS NAMED (Morning Oregonian) Mark Sullivan's latest dispatch con tains as pat an estimate o what hap pened in the republican convention as we have seen anywhere. Mr. Sullivan credits it to our own Ralph E. Williams: "In sport," said Mr. Williams, "amateurs sometimes go over to the professionals, but in this convention the professioals went over to the amateurs." Columns of interpretative articles came out of Kansas City, but nothing that hit the truth more aptly than that. It contains in a few word3 the entire story of the nomination of Mr. Hoover. In some partisian newspapers there has been studied and sly effort to attribute the Hoover nomination to eastern politicians. "Vare names the candidate," ran a heading that is typical o the tactics used. All such implications fall of their own absurdity. The people know the history and the inspiration of the Hoover movement too well for that. Hoover was carried to the republican nomination on a tide of popular favor created by the public estimate of him as a man of great achieve ments, of vast ability, and of under standing of and sympathy for Amer ican ideas and ideals. Never before in a political conven tion have the people so completely ruled as they did at Kansas City. The nearest approach to it, as Mr. Sullivan says, was the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. And between Wilson idealism and present democratic leadership there exists a great gulf. SENATOR GOODING (Morning Oregonian) Death of Senator Gooding of Idaho removes a captain of industry of the peculiarly western type. From be ing owner of one of the largest flocks of sheep in Idaho he launched out in to merchandising, banking and final ly politics. The same forceful quali ties that won success in business brought him to the front in the senate. Among Oregonians Senator Good ing's name is best known in connec tion with his bill to forbid any ex ceptions to the long-and-short-haul clause of the interstate commerce law, his purpose being to prevent the question decided in the intermount ain rate case from ever again being opened. The effects of the bill would have been so far-reaching beyond his intention that it was defeated. But Mr. Gooding looked deeper into the rate question, saw the advantage of Idaho's position in relation to the Columbia river and caused an ap plication to the interstate commerce commission for a general reduction of rates from Idaho to the Pacific coast. He was zealous in pushing reclamation projects through con gress, and was a constant worker for development of his state. Mr. Gooding was a good example of the business man in congress. There is never any deficiency of theorists, but there is always need of men with practical experience in business to subject their proposals to the test of practicability. NIFTY POLICEMEN (Oregon Journal) The police force of Lynn, Mass., is to be a different force from now on and henceforth, if an order of the mayor is respected. The order requires that Lynn's finest shave every day. It requires that they shall shine their shoes every day. It requires that uniforms be pressed at least once each week. The mayor also suggested that police "wash behind their ears" and that they keep their hair properly trim med. Somebody has been unkind enough to suggest that the stalwarts also see to it that their noses are prop erly powdered and that their lips are touched up a trifle. Somebody else says they might wear rings on their fingers and bells on their toes. But, for all that, the mayor's order stands, it is a good order, and Lynn's policemen as well as the city, will probably be the better off for it. NOTICE TO CREDITORS 7 In the County Court of the State 'of Oregon for Umatilla County. '' In the matter of the Estate of Mary Wolfe, Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons whom it may concern: That Bessie Werst has been appointed executrix of the last will and testament of Mary Wolfe, deceased, and has qualified as such. All persons having claims against said estate are required to present them, with proper vouchers, as required by law, to said executrix at the law office of Will M. Peterson, Stangier Building, Pendleton, Oregon, within six months of the date of the first publication of this notice which is the 1st day of June, 1928. BESSIE WERST, Executrix. Will M. Peterson, George R. Lewis Attorneys for Executrix. J1J29 NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of II. McArthur, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has filed her final ac count and report in the above en titled matter and that the above en titled Court has fixed Saturday, the 7th day of July, 1928, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A. M. of said day, as the time, and the County Court room in the County Court house at Pendle ton, Umatilla County, Oregon, as the place, for hearing of said final ac count and report. Objections to said final account and report should be filed en or before that date. Dated at Athena, Oregon, this Stn day of June, 1928. MANDA J. McARTHUR, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of H. McArthur, Deceased. Watts & Prestbye, Athena, Oregon, Attorneys for Executrix. J8J6 RELIABLE WATCH REPAIRING Main St. H. H. HILL Athena QUALITY CASH GROCERY TRADE AT HOME Now is canning time. We have a complete line of jars and trimmings. Fresh berries every day. 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