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, t - Emtered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME 50 ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 29. 1929 NUMBER 13 1 50,000 PORKERS Oil! CALIFORNIA RANCH Largest Hog Raising Place Possesses Large Array of Equipment. v Los Angeles. Pigs may be pigs, but they don't all live rlike. There is one family of pigs in. southern Cali fornia that has a $1,750,000 home and country place, including ; a private railroad, sanitarium and : some 350 ' man-servants. ' It is a very large family more than 50,000 and it must be figured in round numbers, for the size changes every day. There is not a day in the year when a new brood i3 not born. The pig family is on what is said to be the largest hog ranch in .the world. It is operated at Fontana, 50 miles east of Los Angeles, by the Fontana Farms company. The an nual pork output exceeds 7,000,000 pounds a year on the hoof. All of it is sold on the Los Angeles market. As pigs go, this is a blue-blooded family. It is made up almost entire ly of red Durocs, tracing ancestry to the famous grand champion boar once owned by Mrs. Anita Baldwin. Dinner time is the big time in pig life. That's why this pig family has a private railroad. It is a dining car line exclusively. A trainload of fresh garbage leaves Los Angeles daily, 11 to 14 cars in the train some 340 tons of feed. ; . The swine are assembled in con crete feeding pens, strung out along both sides of switch tracks. Clam shell dredge motors push each loaded steel gondola down the spur and the clamshell scoop deposits garbage in the pens as it passes. - . Rigorous sanitary measures are in force, and the mortality rate at the huge Fontana ranch is lower than that of many efficient hog farms in t the corn belt. During early life, when pljrs make the greatest gains, the garbage ration is supplemented by prate and alfalfa. The ranch com prises 2000 acres. All hogs are' inoculated and vac cinated against cholera, first at wean ing and then at three months of age. ; A special hospital unit is maintain ed with a fully equipped laboratory under direction of a veterinarian, Dr. C. P. Guyselman. Wauna Camp Fire Girls Will Observe Anniversary The Wanna Camp Fire girls made cushions during March to be used at ;Councl Fires. The cushions are made put of various sh,ad8 of burlap and have individual symbols painted en them with oil paints. The annual Grand Council Fire which is given to commemorate the Camp Fire birthday anniversary will be held in Walla Walla on Saturday evening March 30th at the Armory pt 8 o'c)ock. The public is invited. Tbe Wauna Camp Fire girls plan to attend in a group. Rational honors and ranks will be awarded. . Betty Pager "was hostess to the Wauna girls Thursday evening at her i, home. Mrs. Ralph McEwen assisted Esther Berlin, the song leader, in ; teaching the girls songs and cheers ; to be used at the Grand Council Fire. Light refreshments were served Mar Jorle Montague was Chairman of the r- refreshment committee, - ' i , A Complete Rig '" " Glenn Dudley has assembled a new ; plow outfit to be pulled by his 60 ;. Best caterpillar tractor. The outfit . comprises an all-steel tractor plow s, hitch, two four-bottom 16-inch Oliver gang plows and a rotary harrow be f bind each plow section. The plow - hiteh was made at the JeRsen black smith shop from blueprint, although changes were made to suit condition required by Glenn's general Idea of . what his hiteh should be. He plans on plowing 60 acre per day with the new rig. Moving To Portland Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris have been packing and crating their house , hold, goods this week, with object in view of removing, to Portland to re side permanently. Up to last sum mer, Mr. Norris was engaged in the harness business in Athena. At that time, he leased his building on Main street, to Perry Hall. Mr. Hall has built np a good trade in harness, automobile top and shoe repairing eince taking ever the shop. Telephone Construction - A force of Pacific Telephone St ; Telegraph company workers have . been in Athena and vicinity for sev eral days doing construction and re placement work on the lines leading from the local exchange. Baseball Takes On Activity In Athena, Two Games Scheduled Baseball is taking on considerable activity in Athena, with two games scheduled for play on the local grounds. Athena high school team meets Adams high here at 3 o'clock this afternoon, if the grounds can be put in shape by that time; otherwise the game will be played on the Adams diamond. . Next Sunday the town team will play the Thorn Hollow baseball club on the Athena grounds. Sunday Athena defeated Adams of the Coun ty league, 9 to 5. Gross started on the mound for Athena, Baker catch ing. Adams took four scores off Gross' delivery in the four innings pitched. At the beginning of the fifth, "Pike" Miller switched to his Athena high school battery, and with Jim and Mike Wilson doing the twirl ing, and Myrick catching, Adams was allowed but one score in the remain ing five innings. ' Mike went through three innings with no scoring against him. Adams was leading 4-0 at the be ginning of the fifth, when Athena be gan to smash the pellet. From then on, Athena netted nine runs to one for Adams. "-.'.- The lineup for Athena was: Moore, If; Miller rf; J. Pinkerton 2d; Myrick cf and c; W. Pinkerton 3b; Bell ss; Baker c; Huffman lb; R. McEwen If J. Wilson, Gross and M. Wilson, p. The spring schedule for games for the Athena school team as it stands at present is, Adams at Athena, March 29; Athena at Helix, April 5; Weston at Athena, April 8; Athena at Adams, April 15; Athena at Wes ton, April 26; Helix at Athena, May 3. Slayer Shows Emotion When Mother Leaves Walla Walla, Mrs: W. R. Wilkins, mother of R. L. (Lee) Wilkins, left for her home in Grangeville, Idaho, having seen her son for what she be lieves to be the last time. Wilkins was convicted of first-degree murder, with death penalty, Friday, for shoot ing Attorney John W.JBrooks, vr :. "it is toe far and I am too old to ccme to Walla Walla again," she said. Wilkins showed the only emotion since he was arrested when his moth er left, turning away from her sob bing. . Wilkins, after the jury's verdict, wrote in his diary: "Death will be more pleasant than the past nine months. Since the jury saw fit to impose the death penalty I take pleasure in congratulating them in helping me, on my way out of this wprld. of troubles. I have been through more grief than, ever was al lotted one person,' Flag Hoist on II. S. S. California Gypsies Gyped Per Usual There's just no use trvlne to have it any other way, Athena's chief of police will not permit his home town to be a hangout for bands of gypies. That these begrimed but colorful no mads are aware of this fact is dis closed by their quick and concerted movements in gettinsr out of town on the mere appearance of the officer on the street. A small band appeared in Athena Tuesday shortly after noon, and one befraszeled., dsty damsel of he group managed q tar ry long enough to. purchase a soup bone, but that was lone enoueh for the police chief. Cougar Attacks Hunter Fred Arzner the predatory animal hunter of the Oregon State Game Commission narrowly escaped death last week when he was attacked in Southern Oregon bv a couear. It vu to his trained cougar dogs that Mr. Araior owes his life. When the animal had jumped for him the four hounds attacked the cougar. The vicious cat was killed but the doiya did not escape from the fight without a number Of bad ncratrhoa Mr Arzner spends his entire time hunt ing the animals that prey upon. deer. Picture Program William Bovd. sunnnrtoH ttv 11. n Hale, Jacqueline Logan and Robert Armstrong, will be KP4n at ftia Stan dard Theatre tomorrow night in De Mille'a latest picture, "The Cop." Sun day night the screen's greatest co medienne, Laura La Plante, is com ing in "Home James," William Beaudine's merry laurii special. Sports reel.' new rl anA Ni4nA as usual. .:7?WilI Store Grain Tanks of about lJ00-biihpl city are being sold to farmers in MJn. nesota and the Dakotas for storing meir gram and flax. When filled they will be sealed and Insured, after which attempts will be maifo til ntitala loans on the grain to the extent of 70 per cent of current market value. Warmest Day of Season r. .vtivtu vtic warmest day of the season Wednesday, when ti. w-' tuv kMwyeraiure rose 10 W. its ttte.r'l Ill L 'v-n a -- & t vL-ir fa An unusual view of the uig guns and mast of the flagship of the United States battle fleet, the California, during flag hoist exercise that is, airing the ship's . "alphabet" flags, which are used In signaling. The clock-like de vice Is a range-clock, with 10 marks on it, 1,000 yards for each number. CLARA GONZALES A y -ff- 1 tl genorita Clara Conzaies, the enly wpmar lawyer in F'cncma, la In Wafi Inaton working v.!'.!! Ister-Anwrl. can CemmisaiQivef V;;-,un, "The High School Hero" The Standard Theatre will present "The High School Hero," a photo play special, on Wednesday evening, April 10, as its annual benefit pro gram for the Athena high schqol junior class. One-half ef the net pro ceeds will t the class to be used in defraying a part of the annual junior-sepior class banquet. Athena high school talent will provide all numbers for the prelude program of the show which will include musical selections, sopgs, stunts, etc. Face Burned With Hot Oil Elmer Stockstill had his face ser iously burned Monday evening while working in the mechanical depart ment of Zerba'n Athena Garage. He was engaged in removing fibre grease a heavy duty lubricant, from a bear ing on a caterpillar tractor. In do ing so he was compelled to use a blowtorch to- melt the grease. Be coming excessively hot,- gas formed and spurted the burning - fluid into Elmer's face. Fortunately his eyes escaped injury. ; Milton Buys Building Purchase ef the. Columbia college property at Milton by the eity of Mil ton was decided by a vote of the citizens,, 202 voting in favor of the purchase and -126. against it. The measure took the form, of an amend ment" to the. city's constitution ex tending the. city's credit $20,000, to allow the purchase. ' The building will be used for a community .center, as city hall and for a fire station. A Week-end Visitor Mrs. M. W. Hansell enjoyed pleasant week-end last week when she visited her daughter Helen at Washington State college at Pull man. Mrs, Hansell waa well enter tained by the young ladies at Kappa Kappa Gamma house, and is en thusiastic in praise of the institution. Miss Helen will be at home on April 10 for the spring vacation. A Fine Picture Coming The Standard Theatre has booked a splendid picture, "The Trail of '98" for a showing- here on Saturday. April 27. The story of "The Trail of 98" is now running in aerial form in th Wall Wall Union. Walter Russell Dies y In Veteran's Hospital r . K News has been received, in Athena of the death of Walter Russell, at the Veteran's hospital in Portland, Tues day of last week, March 19, at the age of 35 years. Deceased was a son of Mrs. May Russell, of Condon, and was born in Athena 1893. He was a nephew of Mrs. Henry Miller, Mrs. W. R. Harden and W. C. Russell of this city. Walter was a veteran of the World War, having served as a private in the 1st company of the 66th artillery for nineteen months overseas. : His honorable discharge from the army indicates that he had been in the sec ond battle of the Marne and also the second battle of the Argonne. He en listed in the service July 13, 1917. He was gassed while in service, but brighta .disease.. was jhe. direct cause oi aeatn. ; He was employed as brakeman on the Union Pacific out of Portland prior to his death. He is survived by his widow, three children, his mother, one brother and one sister. Funeral services were held from the Congregational church at Condon, Thursday of last week. , Win In Declamatory Contest Stafford Hansell won first in the extemporaneous division for Athena high school in the district oratorical contest at Weston, Friday evening. Stafford took for his subject, "The Effect of the World War on Crime." In the grades, Athena succeeded in winning two first and three second places in the contest Aaron Doug las was first in the patriotic division; Fern Carstens second in humorous; Doris Jenkins second in dramatic, Billy Johns won first in his grade and Helen Barrett second in 8th grade dramatic. Patronella Walters won third place in the dramatic division. Mail Plane Down A Varney mail plane, George Buck pilot, was compelled to make a forced landing on Telephone Ridge, a few miles south of Thorn Hollow, Friday afternoon. Buck was carrying mail from Boise to Pacso, when the land ing was made, and he brought the mail down to Thorn Hollow station, Where it was forwarded bv train. Tuesday the plane waa . brought through Athena on a truck, en route to Pasco whore it will be renaired. One wing and the landing gear wan damaged to some extent. He Changed Jobs A man in s remote section of Ore gon, some time ago, promised the State Game Commission that he would forsake his habit of killing deer out of season. He was notorious in his locality for hunting out of season and boasted that he could not be caught. When he gave up illegal hunting he took up another habit that of moonshlnlng. Now he is in jail. . . Excavating at Elevator Contractor Hugunin has been di recting a force of men In excavating for the foundation of the new addi tion to be made to the Farmers Grain Elevator company plant on lower Main street. A large , amount . of building material is on the ground now, and construction work will ad vance steadily, once the excavating is completed. , "Too Many Parents" Calls For a Second Presentation' Here Athena high school's annual play, "Too Many Parents," by A. A. HoiT man and directed by Mildred Bate man, went over better than 100 per cent in tAhena, for it was necessary to give a second presentation to ac commodate - patronage. Gross re ceipts totaled ?170.00.- ; Advance sales more than filled the auditorium for the Tuesday evening performance, and the attendance Wednesday evening was even greater than an average audience at the audi torium. Every pupil in the school who took out tickets for sale, return ed cash and tickets without a single mistake, which Superintendent Meyer characterizes as being a very fine record. , "Too Many Parents" proved to be a splendid vehicle for amateur talent production, and Miss Bateman, with a well balanced cast, skillfully made the most of it. A farce comedy and no thing more; the cast was carefully se lected and in its entirety the charac ters entered into play with a marked smoothness that impressed the audi ence with the feeling that the pre sentation bordered well toward pro fessional endeavor. In the thirty-eight years the writer has reviewed the annaul plays given by Athena high school, he does not recall one that was better presented; one in which the play proved better adapted to the talent of the cast, or one that elicited more audience in terest than "Too Many Parents." Ralph McEwen in the role of "George Murdoch" was much at ease, and with graceful stage presence, most creditably depicted the exas perated son, while Edwin McEwen as "Ned Stanley," lawyer and friend, was very good as George's main foil. Carolyn Kidder took the part of "Sylvia Murdoch," George's sister, in seemingly the easiest way in the world, and Weldon Bell as "Carraway Bones" was a ' scream. John Kirk was happily cast as "General Burton" brusk and gruff, but withal a kindly old dad to his daughter "Evelyn," piayeu oy miss reiiy uuger, very much in love with George, and who generally had her way. . Thelma Schrimpf, in the role of "Mary Murdoch," mother of George and widow of the captain, imperson ated very satisfactorily the plot character of the play, and her mar riage with Bones surely scrambled up a mess for all concerned. The writer will wager his Ingersol watch that Stafford Hansell never saw a sea captain, but he surely gave a splendid impersonation of one , in his fine rendition of "Captain George Mur doch," and when "Remedias," the sec ond wife of the captain (Mildred Bateman) got her Spanish up, you could fairly feel the sting of her stiletto. ' Yes, "Too Many Parents" was good. Everybody says so. Bag Limit Changed Wild ducks of Oregon were grant ed greater protection by, the ftat legislature. The limits were cut to 15 ducks a day and 20 a week. The bill was advocated by many who be lieve that the birds were being slaughtered unnecessarily. . The Athena Bridge Club Members of the Athena Bridge club enjoyed an afternoon at bridge last Friday when Mrs. Lloyd Mich ener entertained. Three tables were in play. Guests for the affair in cluded Mrs. Dudley Rogers, Mrs. E. C. Prestbye, Mrs. Bryce Baker, Mrs. Will Kirk, Mrs.' James Cresswell and Mrs. M. I. Miller. High club score was made by Mrs. Henry Dell, Mrs. M. L. Watts receiving the consolation. Mrs. James Cresswell was presented the guest prize. Pink sweet peas were used to center the tables at the tea hour, when the hostess was as sisted by Mrs. Will Kirk in serving. Locomotive Strikes Baby The East Oretronian renorts that little Lawrence Francis Perard, age 19 months, was criticallv in lured lant night when the Portland Limited east bound, struck him when he was play ing at the Jane street crossing, three blocks west of the Union Pacific Ac pot. A cylinder head of the locomo tive Is believed to have struck the child in the face, knocking it to the ground and fracturing its skull. . Broken Knee Mrs. J. E. Jones suffered a fracture of the left leg at the knee, Saturday last when she was engaged in house- cleaning. Mrs. Jones was taken to Walla Walla after Dr. Sharp had re duced the fracture, and an X-ray ex amination revealed that one bone was fractured in two places and also a slight fracture was noted in the knee joint. The X-ray picture also re vealed that Dr. Sharp had set the fractures perfectly, and the splints were allowed to remain. ' K. P. Convention April 2 The district convention of the Knights of Pythias lodge will be held in Milton April 2, with Hercules Lodge acting as host to the visitors. Delegates a-e expected from lodges at Tendleton, Weston, Athena, Helix, Adams and Hermiston. Some of the state officers are also expected to at tend the meeting... ; Wrf. . BEGIN WORK ON I AID BILL Senate Agricultural Com- mittee Begins Task of Drafting' Plan. Washington. A start was made by the senate agriculture committee on the drafting of one of the major pieces of legislation to which the Hoover administration, has been pledged that of farm relief. The i committee assembled with a view of expediting its work so that a new farm bill, a substitute for the twice vetoed McNary-Haugen meas ure, will be ready for the seventy first congress when it convenes in special session April 15 to consider the farm question along with that of tariff revision. s The greater part of today's meet ing was taken up by an explanation of a plan by Senator Brookhart, re publican, Iowa, who said he believed it would meet with the approval of President Hoover. The Iowan's plan contemplates a huge revolving fund of more than a billion dollars with which the govern ment would purchase crops so as to relieve the domestic market of a sur plus and would provide a subsidy up to $600,000,000 to take care of any losses incurred by selling surpluses on the world markets at prices less than those paid for the crops. It would endeavor to establish the cost of production and would arbi trarily fix the prices of crops at a sum 5 per cent in excess of the cost of production. After Brookhart had explained his plan, Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman of the committee, declared that President Hoover had spoken against price-fixing, taxes or fees, and any method which would put the government, directly into the agricul tural business, ' Y .. . He asked Senator Brookhart wheth er in view of this position of the president he felt the plan had any chance of success. The Iowan con tended that the bill would be approv ed. , Marion Hansell Will Manage Bean Acreage A fairly well attended and enthusi astic meeting of those interested in promoting the bean-growing indus try in the Athena-Weston district, was held at the office of B. B. Rich ards in Athena, Friday evening. The whole situation pertaining to the enterprise was up for discussion with the result that Mr. Eickhoff and his associates were assured that suf ficient acreage will be under contract for bean production in this territory. M. W. Hansell, prominent Athena farmer, who has taken much interest in the matter of securing an alter nating crop with wheat on summer fallow land, and who is thoroughly conversant with soil properties, has consented to accept the position of manager of the Athena-Weston dis trict for the big bean packing com pany, represented by Mr. Eickhoff. This week Mr. Hansell is engaged in closing up the contracts with local land owners for bean acreage. Mr. Eickhoff has been notified by his company that he will be stationed here perhaps all summer to direct the management of the whole project. Mr. Hansell is his first appointed aide. W. C. T. U. Essay Contest Unusual interest ' has centered in the W. C. T. U. Essay contest this year and Athena is to be congratulat ed in receivine two first places in the county awards. Those winning in the local contest were Eldon Myrick, Stafford Hansell, Aaron Douglas and Teddv Miller. . The countv nrizeg of five dollars to high school students and three dollars to grade pupilB will be presented to the followine: Hicrh school senior, Marie Van Slyke, Mil ton; high school sophomore, Stafford Hansell, Athena: eiarhth erade nunil. Izella Hendricks, Pendleton; Sixth grade pupil, Rachel Koken, Pendle ton; Fourth erade nunil. Teddv Mill er, Athena. Judges were, Mrs. Ralph Mcfcwen of Athena, Mrs. VashM Kin,? of Helix, and Mrs. J. F. Slaughter of Pendleton. The essays will be enter ed in the State content. Alhena-IVtirtleton Shooters ; Athena-Pendleton shooters, over the traps ef the .Walla Walla gun club bunday made a score in the teleera- phic tournament of 71. Marion Han sell and Guy Matlock made a score of 24 each and Finis Kirkpatrick made Z.I. The trio beat Central Dono-lan and The Dalles, and lost to Klamath Falls. Marion Hansell finished sec ond in a Walla Walla handicap shoot, smashing 45 out of a possible 50 tar get wore. '
