Entered at the Post Office at Athena. Oregon, as Second-Claee Mall Matter
VOLUME 49.
ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21. 1928
NUMBER 51
SPORTSMEN FAVOR
RIVERS COUSIN
Charles Lockwood of Rose
burg Elected President of
State Game Protectors.
Portland. Somewhat chastened in
spirit as the result of the defeat of
the "four rivers" bills sponsored by
.them in the late. election, deter
mined and harmonious,' "delegates of
the Oregon Game Protective associa
tion met in annual session and unani
mously adopted a resolution designed
to meet the objections to the four
rivers bills and at the same time ac
complish the purposes sought by
them. The resolution asks the state
legislature at its coming session to
create a commission of five persons
not public office holders to control
the industrial and recreational uses
of Oregon streams and that two of
the five members of such commission
shall be representative of the sports
men's interests.
The resolution is in line with one
adopted at a conference of sports
men, power and industrial interests
called recently by the Portland Cham
"ber of Commerce. Delegates from 13
counties of Oregon were in attend
ance. The river commission recom
mended by the resolution provides
that:
1. The commission shall regulate
the diversion and use of water taken
from streams.
2. The construction of dams or
other obstacles that interfere with
the free flow of the water.
3. Stream pollution.
4. Any other matter that affects
the general public interest.
A number of other important reso
lutions recommended to the state
legislature for its consideration were
adopted after brief discussions, and
unanimously.
The association also went on rec
ord against any attempt to put a law
cn the statute books to commercialize
hook and line fishing for salmon, ask
ed that the legislature set aside Slim
mer lake as a public shooting ground,
indorsed the project to make the
Mount Hood national forest a game
refuge and opposed any effort to re
consolidate the state game and fish
commissions.
Holiday Week At
Standard Theatre
Special programs for entertain
ment at the Standard Theatre for holi
day week, begin Christmas night with
the presentation of "Old Ironsides,"
featuring Esther Ralston, Wallace
Beery, Charles -Farrel and Johnny
Walker. A short prologue, featur
ing the reading of Oliver Wendell
Holmes' famous poem of the frigate
"Constitution," written in 1830, will
be presented before the screening of
the picture.. Mrs. Pinkerton will in
terpret the music score for the
presentation of the photoplay at the
piano. Regular admission prices pre
vail. Metro-Goldwyn's gorgeous produc
tion, "Napoleon," Pola Negri in Loves
of an Actress," and Colleen Moore in
"Happiness Ahead" on New Years
night, complete the holiday week
programs.
Tomorrow night the Standard will
take pleasure in presenting Colleen
Moore in First National's fine photo
play, "Oh, Kay!" Miss Moore is sup
ported by a star cast including Law
rence Gray, Alan Hale, Ford Ster
ling, Claude Gillingwater and Julanne
Johnson. Sunday night Bebe Daniels
comes to the Standard in Paramount's
rollicking comedy-drama, "Take Me
Home." It's a whale of a play with
oceans of fine acting and photography
perfection.
Disposed of Bean Crop
Weston Leader: Joe Payant has
disposed of the major portion of his
bean crop, about .25 tons, to the
Skaggs chain stores, and the beans
are being shipped by truck. Joe re
ports that he received fairly profit
able returns from his crop, which was
the largest some 145 acres ever
raised in this section. The variety
was Red Mexican and the quality
good.
L. L. Montague Weds
L. L. Montague, former Athena
resident, now mayor of Arlington,
and one of the promoters of the pro
posed interstate toll bridge over the
Columbia at Arlington, was united
in marriage last week to Mrs. Sophia
Douglas, widow of the late Frank
Douglas, who was a prominent busi
ness man of that city.
William Booher HI
William Booher was seriously ill
Monday forenoon when he was strick
en with a severe pain in his chest
Prompt measures taken by Dr. Sharp,
attending physician, gave Mr. Booher
relief, since which time he has been
gradually improving.
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Oregon State College
Farm Market Review
lief of property or Auto
Owner Point at Issue.
There was hot much change in the
wheat and rye markets last week, al
though Pacific Coast . markets were
lightly firmer and somewhat more
active. The volume of business con-
port movement. About one-haif of Plans Diverge Widely, Ite-
the wheat in the Portland trade ter
ritory remains on farms according to
unofficial estimates.'
Exports of wheat from the United
States, including flour, ' from July. 1
to November 24 were only 85,918,000 . John W. Kelly in Oregonian)
bushels compared to 135,194,000 last la it to be property tax .relief or
year at tne same date, or aDout ou,- Uutomobila license relief 7 Tnat is
000,000 bushels less. . Exports from what, tfc property tax relief couunu.
uanaaa, nowever, were aooui ioo,- sion. wants to know.
505,000 bushels in that period, or 60,- The committee trying to relieve the
000,000 bushels more, and for all ex- burden on taxpayers is on the road
porting countries the movement was for a headon collision with Governor
ahead about 36,000,000 bushels com- Patterson's demand for relief of old
pared to last year. automobiles, and the senate lejris-
Umted States wheat may be m bet- lntitve committee's plan for revision
ter demand during the next few f auto licenses (horizontal and not
weeks before the southern hemisphere exclusively old rattle-traps), both of
crop movement gets unaer way ex- which advocate another one cent gas
tensively. Although soft red winter fx
wheat is selling at St. Louis a little v the time the "first committee"
higher than a year ago, and there is 0f the property tax relief commis
a great scarcity of low protein wheats sion j,ai a f ew minutes' conference
this year, substitution of softer lots with the arovernor and a more ex-
oi nard red winter wneat Dy muis tended talk with the state highway
is tending to hold down the price of commission, A. R. Shumway opined
soft wheat. A good export movement that the only motion logical was one
of . hard red would tend to improve for the committee trying to help the
the situation lor other wheats. taxnavers to adiourn.
The "third committee" favors elim-
Athena. Students At inating the millage for state market
fWo-nn ?fntp Tnllpp-p road purposes, saving tnereDy aDout
UregOn Oiaie UOliege jli20o,000 a year, which is a direct
' lion nn real ent.ata. and substitutinir
uregon state Agricultural college, i.cent easoiine tax.
Corvalhs. Athena is represented by he plan was further taken up by
two students of the 3463 students the "first committee" with the sug
registered in the college. The total Ke8ti0n that the easoiine tax of a
registration is almost 5000 including cent U8e(i not oniy a8 a substitute
short course students. for the state market road millaare. but
Norman Mclntyre is a iresnman tnftt the 25 ner cent rebate which
registered in the school of commerce. COunties now receive from auto fees
This course aims to tram the student i,e sed exclusivelv for retirin coun-
for service, efficiency and business Uy road bonds, which would be furth-
leadership. Mclntyre lives at Haw- r ren,,f on nronertv. Thirtv counties
ley hall, which is one of the five units instead of applying this rebate for
i ue i.e.. i.ii. o l pona retirement, use it on tubus unu
is a member of the Hawley hall club, ievy a property tax to meet interest
an organization 01 men living mere. amj principal on their road bonds.
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:-.ut It dian't it happened to yon,
an., ira. Est te'.l mo more about the
cantos."
"Tiioic Ln't mucli to tell. I thought
every in New Kiilnnd knew about
baybcr.'y candlrs. Tlioy are mude
from II. t Icr.ves und berries of the bay
tret?, iriv Sv-:-'.
"But hew
be vit s lis: 1 J
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iT.iit r.r.ij lovely to burn,''
do you you can't get
v.vcs U'.is lime of year?"
.' in nt vn.vlmw timns dur-
ii:e r.nu.iicr p.s the berries ripen,
nake t
: berry
rirti'er: -iuin't they date
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COD UJ
HANDLES'-
ANNA L.NEWSGM
BEG a tliou:;urd pardons," said
Wade V"co(wi--a, ca l a stooped
and reacliea una-r tUe feet of
liurryin;: pedectritms to retrieve
some tf the Clirlstrr.us candles
that he had knoclcd Crom tho hands
of Doris Marcl'.all.
"It it was unr.vciu:.b!e, I'm sure,"
answered the girl, who, too, was try
ing to sal vase some of tho fragrant
waxen sticku.
"I'm afraid that most of them are
ruined," Wads went on. "It was awk
ward of rce, but rcms hio Erownell's
and we caa rerlace lliom w!lh others
fo you're party won't be Fyoiled."
"Bat we cau't replace them and
they weren't for my party," said the
girl, sorry that tKr couldn't be re
placed. "Ycu Eeo, tiipy are bayberry
candles, and 1 wake tketn."
"Make them ! Tlion the fat is In
the fire or to be f.ore exact, thf can
dles are trampled under foot. What
were you where were you taking
them? To some ceo for Christmas?" ,
"Yes, and r.o. Lr. "Cs soil them for
mc to order, you iz-?
"They were order?" then and near
ly all ruined. liut ri .o'y we can buy
some to replace tl.rr.i. Candles are
candles, aren't the: '"
"Please don't wS:-.d." plsndcd Doris.
'I'm ecrry, lat is cc.f.'.'n't he helred
and I can i.ial-u t c.
"Tlien get into v. r car hers tad I
can ran yon homi ii ro time." And
Wade, taking her r.riii, dirccied her to
his roadster at the arb.
"What direction.'' l e asked?
I live at 22) E;'st Vine almost
country and it's putt ins too to a Jot
of trouble," Doris a&'-wcred,
"TrouM' And you c."n mention
that after all the trouble I've caused
you by r.:y cnrr!."nws?"
"Flease fcrcct It Ii wan ire'.j en
accident, and might have happened to
so;.n j?ood luck s'iti abeut them? he
asUcd.
"I thousht you ci cht to remember,"
and Doris Quoted: ,f
"A bayberry candle burned to the socket
r.rlng3 lucl: to t'.io house, .
Food for the larder,
Vnd "
'Cold for the jdcliPt"
Wade finished the quotation with
a sn-.ilc. " . ;
"You have a fine memory," laughefl
Dor's, "and this la my 'acre'Mhe
gray house In the bay trees. Thanli
you so much for the troublo, ft was
very kind of you to bring me,"
"But if you think my task Is done,
you don't know Wado Woodburn
and by the way, you haven't told me
your name,''
"Doris Marshall," she told him, aa
he assisted her from the enf,
"You've got my Interest pll awised,
and now I'm going to help you dip
those candles to you won't have to
work all night to make good your
Joss,"
Tndeed, youH do no uch thing
waste the rest of the afternoon on my
candles with Christmas only three
days away,"
"Then you don't want me to help
you won't even let me have the
pleasure of helping to replace some
thing that I destroyed V
. "Of course, If yon put it that way"
"I do; so let's go in and get busy."
Doris Introduced Wade to her seral
lnvalid mother and told why he had)
come; then she led the young man
Into the spotless kitchen and provided
him with one of her own blue ging
ham aprons. She set the kettles of
bayberry tallow on the stove to heat,
and then showed Wade the Intricacies
of candle-dipping. Boon he was able
to do a pretty fair Job of making the
several dips between the first few and
the finishing plunges, which Doris did
herself.
For two or three hours they worked
together over the fragrant wax. Wade
told ber of his days in Brown unU
verslty, and Doris confided to him that
she had left Miss Baxter's School for
Girls for a practical business course
nftec her father had died, nod that
sne naa to give uy ner pexntiff ff8
a stenographer when her mother be
came partly disabled from a para
lytic stroke.
"This way I can be at home, nnd
I can make as many as fiOO a day If
I work hard," she told hlra.
"Imadne rnaklnn ?00 a dry. and
how many times Is each one dlpied,1
he asked, "thirty-five?""
The delicious New England supper
of baked beans, brown bread and
Christmas delicacies Mrs. Marshall
prepared almost alone. She pushed
her wheel chair from table to shelf
and stove with ear.e and dexterity,
Bayberry candles ehed a soft light
and a pleaslns fragrance.
"No wonder there is ready sale for
them," said Wade. "Tbey are to fra
grant"
"And they brine good luck to all
who burn them," smiled tho mother,
mi tisjf
MPS
Send Cr.o to Your Sweetheart
Burn Tomorrow Nlflht"
to
TAX RELIEF BODY
STIRS THINGS UP
He is also in the infantry corps of
the R. O. T. C
Clifford Wood is also a freshman
registered in the school of commerce
He is a member of the O. S. C
chamber of commerce, an organization
of students taking commerce, and is
in the infantry corps of the R. O
A committee from the county
judges and commissioners appeared
and declared in favor of leaving the
market road program as it is, but
said "this body will favor any re
duction millage tax on real prop
erty that the tax committee may see
fit to make providing that they will
C. Wood is also living at Hawley find new source of sunnlv to take
hall and is a member of the Hawley us place." Insofar as the judges
hall club. He was chosen as the rook Were concerned, they were in harm-
representative to tne weaver .niKnis 0ny With the tax committee substltut-
for Hawley hall, each hall having one ing a gas tax for the millage.
sophomore and one rook Beaver Governor Patterson informed the
Knight. Beaver Knights is a chapter committee that there is a demand for
of the National Order of Intercol- reduction on automobiles and "if the
legiate Knights and its purpose is to
instruct and advise new men students
in college traditions and rules.
Turkeys and Mutton
auto fees are not readjusted there
will be something worse than the
Dunne bills." C. C. Chapman replied
that the "third committee" consid
ers it more important to relieve prop-
n,!n fi. ciinMi erty than to relieve automobile own
UTmg UUl OnOOierS ers and tnat there is also a demand
Shooters from Pendleton, Walla
Walla and other nearby towns par
ticipated with Athena scattergun
artists in a turkey shoot Sunday on
the local grounds. A number of tur
keys were won by the shooters in the
different events and choice mutton
was also shot for over the traps.
Quite an audience was present. A
big bonfire contributed by Bert Ram
say, chairman of the fuel committee,
provided warmth and cheer for the
crowd. A tent with a stove was
the quarters where an appetizing
lunch was served by Herman Geis-
sel, chef.
Omer Stephens, Glenn Dudley and
Marion Hansen were the prime mov
ers in getting up the shoot and the
event was pulled off to entire satis
faction of visiting gunners.
for a reduction on property which
should be listened to.
Over the radio, declared the gover
nor, he has promised automobile re
duction and on the used cars. The
legislature intends making a reduc
tion and than apply a one-cent gas
tax to take up the slack in revenues
of the highway department. He op
posed the idea of a two-cent addi
tional tax, one for the relief of auto
mobilists and one for the relief of
taxpayers. The governor said he
feared that unless the gas tax went
to reduce auto licenses there would
be a mix-up and throw the burden
of the roads on property.
i Walla Walla Takes Both
Practice Games Here
"even to uniting lovers who are true
-If they both burn them on Christ
meg eve."
Two hours later when Wado was
!t-'..:ng, l.e ur,::eJ for a pair of can-
tl'.-.T.
I'.rrls I.. 'A ul?Ja'y wrapped a pair
f l.!:.i, co as c!;? save them to him
to yo-jr sweetheart to
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The Walla Walla Eagles and the
BOVS Find Man's Rndv Walla Walla Jokers, teams made of
In Hills Near Wallula
hnt.h nrnpf.iro o-nmm awav from Ath
ena Friday nitrht in a doubleheader
The body of George Libbett was nlaved on the local srvrn floor.
found in the hills, one mile from Wal- Coach "Pike" Miller used his full
lula by two boys, George Warner and string of players against the two
Robert Vail. The top of his head had garden city teams, trying out several
Deen blown ore witn a shotgun cnarge. different combinations in 'the lineups.
The coroner decided it was suicide, The Jokers tumbled the locals over
Libbett's hands being powder burned, in the first contest. 38-21. The
evidently from holding the muzzle of Eagles played the better game, but
the gun against his head. did not qualify so flashingly over the
Nothing is known of him or wheth- combinations which Miller sent asrain-
er the name is correct. He arrived in gt them, winning by the score of 20
Wallula recently and registered at a to 18, in a contest that was furiously
hotel as "Ueorge Libbett of Chicago." fast in spots. Arthur Taylor ref-
He borrowed a shotgun, ostensibly to ereed both games.
kill some rabbits, and it is presumed
he had intentions of suicide. I Installation of Officers
Joint installation of officers will be
norse Found In Cistern held this evening atl.O. O. F.-Kof P.
A fine, bie 1800 pound horse which hall by Dolph Lodge No. 80 A. F. &
was supposed to have strayed from A. M., and McKenzie Chapter O. E.
others owned by W. C. Garfield, who s. ine following omcers win De in-
is farmin Mrs. Temnleton's dace stalled for the Masonic lodjre: Louis
west of Athena, was found in an old Keen, W. M.; Charles Smith, S. W.;
cistern and with the as stance of sev- Charles Kirk, J. W.; Louis Berlin, .
eral men with ropes; was rescued. The p.; Roland Morrison, J. D.; Thomas
horse had been missinir for over a Kirk, is. S.j ay ramburn, J. jonn
week, and all that time was in the Hale, Marshal; Samuel Pambrun,
cister. standinsr in four feet of water, Chaplain: Reed Hill, Tyler. Of-
where it had carried a portion of the fleers for McKenzie Chapter are:
wire fence that enclosed the cistern. Mrs. Chas. Kirk, w. M.; A. K. cop-
Stranee to say the animal was not Pck, W. P.; Mrs. E. C. Rogers, A.
cut bv the wire, and aptfarently is M.; Mrs. H. I. Watts, S.; Mrs. B. B.
none the worse for its imprision- Richards, T.; Mrs. W. r. Littlejohn,
Im.nf C: Mrs. M. L. Watts. A. C.