THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, JULY 12, 1929
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Athena, Oregon, July 12, 1929
WORK FOR SAFETY
The tragic phase of automobile
fatalities is that most accidents are
unnecessary.
Yet every year thousands of people
pay with their lives for carelessness,
recklessness and incompetence of
drivers. Compulsory insurance can
never offset this irreparable loss. At
its best it can only indemnify. It be
gins at the wrong end of the problem.
What is needed is a safety conscious
ness on the part of the public and
rigid enforcement of adequate laws.
In certain communities safety les
sons have been given in schools, with
the result that accidents to children
appreciably decreased. Tests have
shown that the accident rate will drop
to a minimum when traffic laws are
enforced and offenders punished. In
many localities the traffic codes are
out-worn and inadequate, having gone
unrevised since the time when an
automobile was something of a curi
osity. Education and law enforce
ment have helped the railroads low
er accidents and helped in fighting
fire and disease. Applied to the
automobile accident problem they
would give quick and gratifying re
sults. The Manufacturer and Indus
trial News.
THE MINER
ities in a number of American ports.
Action was taken only after danger
of ; introduction of the disease out
side quarantine limits, became ap
parent. ;
The Union Pacific system's crop and
weather report for eastern Oregon as
of last Friday is decidedly encourag
ing. At Hood River, soil in excellent
condition; all fruits in fine shape; no
damage of any kind. Wasco county
received some but not enough rain;
soil too dry; same in Sherman and
Jefferson counties. Gilliam county
got some rain, which was welcome
and beneficial; Morrow county, a few
showers but needs more; soil dry.
Pendleton section had over half an
inch of rain and crop conditions are
now favorable. La Grande had over
an inch of welcome rain; good con
ditions. Wallowa county, good rain,
plenty of moisture.. Baker county
had good rain; soil in good shape;
crops very good; business improving
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21 Years Ago
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Tony Mikulski a New York police
man, while visiting relatives in War
saw, Poland, payed a countryman $75
for a ten cent glass diamond. Later he
found his pocket had been cut and
$1000 gone. Disgusted Tony decided
to return to America and while re
porting his misfortune to officers,
thieves stole his luggage. The only
thing the matter with Tony is that
he is not a member of the Chicago
police 'force.
The Wallace, Idaho, Miner in cham
Dionine the mining industry, pertin
ently making the following statement
of facts:
"When one considers the universal
use of metals in every field of effort
and that they are absolutely essen
tial for the maintenance of civiliza
tion itself, it is impossible to under
stand why the miner and the mining
industry are made the subject of
drastic legislation which discourages
and handicaps the discovery and de
velopment of new mines. The miner
actually creates new wealth and his
product is one of prime necessity for
which there is a constant and ever in
creasing demand. As a rule his oper
ations are .on land which has no value
other than the mineral it contains,
conflicts with no other Industry and
turns worthless mountains and de
sert into a source of profit to the
county and state. He builds pros
perous communities where none ex
isted before, adds to the taxable
wealth of the state and provides a
market for the products of the farm,
factories and of almost every field of
production."
The State Market Agent's bulletin
contains imformation in effect that a
very important decision from a high
court was quoted at the grain meet
ing in Spokane last week, affecting
warehouses and their bonds in a vital
manner. The court held, it was al
leged, that if a warehouse is bonded
for $5,000 or any other sum, and if
there are ten or more persons having
grain stoerd therein, who suffer loss
each in a sum equal to the face of
the bond, they con each obtain judg
ment for that sum. Under this inter
pretation, should it be sustained and
become general, the responsibility of
bondsmen and bonding houses is en
tirely changed and the furnishing of
bonds will become difficult and bur
densome. Personal sureties will be
hard to get and bonding companies
will charge high fees. More light,
however, is needed on this subject.
The Pacific Northwest, primarily a
wheat exporting district, during the
pnst few yenrs has been educated to
wait for relief from some sort of a
farm board that was to bo organized
to assist in lifting agriculture out of
the slough of depression. Now that
the board is being assembled its per
sonnel has been weighed in the scales
of public opinion und judgment, the
verdict being that orange juice will
be looked after and protected by the
appointment of a Californian on the
board; "a St. Paul dairyman will
guard the interests of the ice cream
industry; a southern tobbaccoinst has
been appointed by the president to
keep the "drag" in cigaretts; rice and
cotton is made safe by appointments
of men familiar with those products,
but nary a mention is made of a dirt
farmer being appointed on the board
to bat an inning or two for wheat.
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As a result of the continuance of
an epidemic of cerebro spinal menin
gitis in China and the Philippine
Islands, the state department has
made public an executive order which
restricts the entrance of all persons
into the United States from those
countries, except under certain con
ditions prescribed by the Secretary
of the treasury. The infection seems
to exist among steerage passengers
on vessels coming from Chinese ports
and the Philippines, and the contin
uous arrival of patients has overtax
ed the available quarantine facilities
of federal and local health author-
Among other things the some 4000
medicos in convention at Portland de
fended, was their code of ethics,
which places an iron-clad ban on ad
vertisers within their professional
ranks. Just why this particular part
of the ethical code should be empha
sized in convention, the layman is at
a loss to understand, for the reason
that medical practicioners have little
or nothing to advertise, anyway.
A scientist informs us that crows
destroy insects and for that reason
should be protected. Maybe this
scientist knows wherof he speaks, but
there are farmers and sportsmen who
would rather take a shot at a crow
than at a scientist the latter being
considered the less harmful of the
two.
An important event that is just
in the offing is the picking of the
1929 huckleberry crop. The num
ber of pickers will not necessarily
depend on the size of the berry crop,
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With the passing of the Fourth,
Pendleton promises herself to see
that the lid is clamped down on the
firecracker box, to stay clamped.
It looks as though the Prince of
Wales would give up the chase and
select the Swedish princess, Ingrid,
for his bride.
Friday, July 17, 1908
Miss Lula Tharp is at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Scott this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kilgore will
spend the summer, at the McDougal
camp, in the Blue mountains.
The Harmony club of Athena is in
vited to a reception given by the
Weston club this evening. A number
will attend.
Dr. Cole, Pendleton city physician,
advises citizens of that town to boil
their drinking water and thus avoid
typhoid efver.
Mrs. Agues Ferguson arrived in
Athena from Walla Walla Wednes
day and will spend her vacation with
Mrs. Wm. McBride.
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Rhodes and Mr.
and Mrs. Otha Reeder drove to Cold
Springs, on the mountain east of Wes
ton Sunday.
Bert Cartano has opened up a bill
iard hall and temperance drink resort
in the building he occupied while en
gaged in the 'saloon business.
The Kidders this week finished
painting and papering the Berlin
home northwest of town. Mr. and
Mrs. Berlin now have a nice country
residence.
Joseph Harper of the Preston-Par-,
ton Milling Co., is down from Waits
bnrg, superintending the removal of
the Pacific Coast Elevator building
to the mill site.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Douglas have
broken up housekeeping and will stay
on the Geo. Gross farm west of town
until after harvest, when they will
leave for Alberta.
Geo. Gross and family have moved
to the farm, vacating their town cot
tage on 4th street. Mr. Gross in com
pany with his son-in-law, Luke Read,
will run the farm for the next few
years.
Chas Gay and family came down
from Waitsburg last week and went
out to Mission, on- the Umatilla river,
where Mr. Gay will again have charge
of the wheat warehouse during the
receiving season. ,
Mrs. Bert Zerba and children left
Saturday for Portland, where they
will remain for some time with a
view of benefitting Mrs. Zerba's
health. They were accompanied by
Bert, who returned and will look
after his harvest here.
Four hundred cavalrymen, with
camp equipage, passed through Ath
ena Wednesday morning from Fort
Walla Walla, on their annual trip to
American Lake, where the annual
rifle practice and maneuvers will take
place.
Heavy showers of rain fell in Ath
ena and vicinity Wednesday morning
and as a result several machines
which were ready to begin threshing
yesterday did not start up.
Bank Statement
Charter No. 4516 Reserve District No. 12
Report of Condition of the First National Bank of Athena in the State
of Oregon, at the close of business on June 29th, 1929
RESOURCES
1. Loans and discounts $ 600,353.03
2. Overdrafts 31.50
3. United States Government securities owned .. 57,500.00
4. Other bonds, stocks, and securities owned 26,226.12
6. Banking house, $6,062.00, Furniture and fixtures, $338.00 6,400.00
8. Reserve with Federal Reserve Bank 27,103.67
9. Cash and due from banks 33,160.01
11. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S.
Treasurer 625.00
Total $ 751,399.33
, ' LIABILITIES
15. Capital stock paid in $ 50,000.00
16. Surplus' 60,000.00
17. Undivided profits net 22,584.88
20. Circulating notes outstanding 12,500.00
21. Due to banks, including certified and cashiers' checks out
standing 1,082.59
22. Demand deposits 242,375.55
23. Time deposits , , 321,956.31
26. Bills payable and rediscounts 40,900.00
Total $ 751,399.33
State of Oregon, County of Umatilla, ss.
I, F. S. LeGrow, Cashier, of the above-named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief. a- JLuiiKUW, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me ,
this 9th day of July, 1929. Correct Attest:
E. C. PRESTBYE, Notary Public. M. L. WATTS
Commission expires July 1, 1932. M. W. HANSELL,
HENRY DELL, Directors
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Reduction In Electric
Light Rates
The following reduction in Electric light rates will
be in effect on and after March 15, 1929:
Residential Rates
First 30 KWH hours used, per month..10c per KWH
Excess over 30 KWH used, per month....3c per KWH
The above rates apply when bills are paid in full within 10 days
from date of bill. Otherwise, the rate will be increased by 10 per
cent on each item.
' Commercial Rates
First 100 KWH used per month........10c per KWH
Next 300 ..............7c per KWH
Next 300 ...6c per KWH
Next 400 5c per KWH
Next 1000.... ...........4c per KWH
Excess over 2000 3c per KWH
The above rates apply when bills are paid in full within 10 days
from date of bill. Otherwise, the rate will be increased by 10 per
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