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A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY It would be a big job to tell one hundred people any thing that would Interest them in your goods, but its dead easy if done the right way. This paper will tell several hundred at once at nominal cost . - M4 : J NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND in the week but that you do not need stationery of some sort or other. We furnish neat, clean printing at the very lowest rates. Fast presses, modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME 50. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1. 1929 NUMBER 44 GRAIN FARMERS TO RECEIVE HUGE LOAN Wheat Men Can Borrow To Hold Their Crops For - t Better Prices. - . O. Dean Back Chicago. A $100,000,000 fund was placed at the disposal of the Ameri can wheat farmer to be loaned out by the federal farm board through the newly-organized farmers' national grain corporation. - -f . .7' - Climaxing its session here this week, the farm board, through its chairman, Alexander Legge, announced its plans for making immediately available this fund to aid wheat farmers who, Mr. Legge said, at present were getting too low a price for their grain. Under ' this plan, the grain farmers will be able to hold back their crop until prices were more satisfactory, in the meantime borrowing from the nation al grain corporation for funds needed to meet obligations. the board, Mr, Legge's statement said, placed no limit on the amount of money the government would loan to the wheat farmers. He said near ly $100,000,000 was available now and v if necessary the board would ask con gress to appropriate more. Mr. Legge said farmers qualified to receive the loans would be given funds at once, without having to wait for the i farm board to set up its permanent offices and get its ma chinery in motion. Security for the ; loans, Mr. Legge said, principally would be storage and warehouse re- , ceipts. . This plan is quite similar, it is " pointed out, to. the adopted re cently for the cotton producers. . The farm board, having gotten its wheat marketing plan out of the way, engaged itself for the rest of its ses sion here to the task of completing i the organization of its corporation. . Mr. Legge said the work virtually was complete, except for the selec tion of officers and similar details. Grain Growers Meet ; , . Following action taken by the Farm Board in Chicago, sharp changes in plans for organization and operation of the Norths Pacific Graingrowers' Cooperative association have been made as the result of official instruc tions from the federal farm board, and the new program was taken up for ratification by a conference .of representative growers at Walla Wal la Wednesday and yesterday. The es sential change, according to F. J. Wilmer of Rosalia, chairman of the organization committee, is toward local community control of wheat to be marketed under the federal agri cultural marketing act. This change, Mr. Wilmer has been assured, will qualify the wheatgrow ers of Washington, Oregon and Idaho for loans and other benefits made BvnilnWe bv the national agricultural act. In his report to the Walla Walla conference, Mr. Wilmer transimitted assurances from the federal farm board that plently of money will be available to help the organized grow ers of the Inland Empire through any meriod of low prices or unfavorable marketing conditions. It was expect ed, too, that the Walla Walla confer ence would ratify the program and Tint the wheat industrv of the Inland Empire in position for immediate pro tection under the provisions oi we federal agricultural marketing act. Plan of Operation Shown Details of the new program have . been worked out by Mr. wijmer ana TTnrrv Goldsworthv of Rosalia, sec retary of the organization committee, ' with the co-operation oi leaerai ana state specialists. The farm board as signed Dr. W.' J. Kuhrt of Washing ton, D. C, to assist in the organiza tion of the northwest growers, and he has been working with Mr. Wilmer ' for ten days; while the federal de , .- partment of agriculture delegated W. A. Schoenfeld of Portland, agricul tural economist, and Oregon State college contributed G. N. Gatlin, marketing specialist. , TTndpr the new nrosram. considera tion of a central pool, which would control most of the 100,000,000 Tin c Viol urViofif rmn of the Inland Em mire, haa been dropped.- Instead, the new plan will require the formation of local co operative associations throughout Washington, Oregon and Wahn In anv small locality where the growers are inclined to get to gether for co-operative maricewng. Crnvrprn will make contracts with the local co - operative organizations, ; thereby becoming members, and each local organization will be an indepd ent mnrVptmir and financing unit. 7 Formation of local pools wil be op tional with tne memnersnip. Regional Body Plaaaed Then, in turn, each local organiza- tion will qualify for membership in the regional association, which la to be formed at Walla Walla covering the three state and which probably ; will retain the name of North Pacific Graingrowers Co-operative associa- . tion. The refciO&Sj asstfciatwfa will , v'r 1 " f'V- ' '1 r V " - Din HI" Tumult irtAi ii no t , Mrs. Virginia Judy Esterly. dean of women at the University of Oregon, wno is returning to tne campus after a vear awav. Rho with v . -. n .bu .1 . I WW daughters has been in Europe during ttM t , ... . mo year. mm. iusieny am educa tional research in Norway and other countries. , not deal with individual farmers but will make contracts with the local organizations. On the next turn the regional organization will deal with the national grain corporation mak-ine- one contract anil contact for the organized growers of the three states. Loans from the farm board, which will come through the national grain corporation, will be made m the . re verse order. In other words, the na tional organization will make a lump loan to the northwest regional as sociation, which will make lump loans to the local " co-operative crouns. and the local organizations will make loans directly to farmers who have qualified by memberships and contracts. Thus local control win be the dominant feature in the pro gram for co-operative marketing of the wheat grown in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. t List of Managers Given V Representatives of the three states, in addition to Chairman Wilmer, Sec retary Goldsworthy, federal i and state advisory specialists who have been called to meet in walla waua are: Washington T. S. Hedges, Water- ville; Troy Lindley, Dayton; W. R. Hegler, St. John; H. Jurgenson, wu bur; W. J. Sutton, - Cheney; O. T. Cornwell, Walla Walla. Oregon Roy Ritner, rendleton; G. A. Harth, The Dalles; A. K. Shumway, Milton; John Withycomb, Arlington. Idaho Owen Mounce, wwiston; G. P. Mix, Moscow; F. L. Atkins, Buhl; G. N. Lamphere, Moscow. Will Vote a Tax To Complete Loop Tn pnmnlete annroximately four arA one- half miles of the loop mar Vet road ' northwest of Athena, a meeting of the legal voters of Road District No. 53 is called lor l o ciock in the afternoon. November 18, at the school house in District No. 2, for the purpose of voting an additional tnv of B mills. With the eradinsr and surfacing of the four and one-half mile unfinished gap, the roads leading north and west from Athena will be connected, and the original looo market road com nleteri1 aa was first intended. Work on this part of the market road will not be started this fall, but in the spring the county court ex pects to let the contract tor its con struction. ! A Goblin Party Wnnna Camn Fire Girls were rovallv entertained at the home of Velma and Laura Ross Friday night, at a Hallowe'en party, when -each member of the group was privileged to invite a miest. The evening was spent pleasantly in associating with witches, spooks and spooketts, gOD iin ond Mack cats. The evening was Srim full of fun and delicious refresh ments were served by Mary Tomp kins, Nylene Taylor, Myrtle amp- bell and Velma Ross. Baker Plans Fight A citizen's committee has been organized at Baker for the purpose of contesting the recent ruling oi tne state high school athletic board in barring Baker high school from fur ther participation in high school foot ball this season. The board so rui bA WaiiKP of alleeed "unsoortsman hin" on the Dart of the school, and for alleged failure to abide by board rulings with reference to eligibility oi players, ' " ; r Tax Payment The last half tax payment is due and navahle next Tuesday. Novem. ber 5 at the First National bank of Athena. After that date taxes be come delinauent and subject to j -y BOTH GOOD R00 Nt GOOD SWEECrES VSyv I WILL BE Dl 6ESTED at tkt, BANQUET -f fj ." - (F eBAMP-i COMBS, ALONG WITH- LMK V ' H WILL PROBABLY ASJC YEOLD- 4 ABOUT TH- SERPBmNS CAMPUS WOOD-SHED. ff A New French Patent, Motor Fuel Made From Scraps of Wood Refuse ' San Francisco. An army motor truck ran without gasoline in a demonstration before Presidio army officers, and in a test of strength the heavily loaded machine pulled ' sev eral other trucks, 38 tons in all. The test at the Presidio was ar ranged when a board of army officers sent to "the mill of the Pickering Lumber company at Standard, Cal., to investigate the claims that trucks and tractors there were being oper ated without gasoline, returned and reported favorably upon the inven tion. The new fuel is generated from burning scraps of wood. A sack of wood supplies enough fuel for sev eral hours. Some of the outstanding features claimed for the invention are: It can be installed on an ordinary gasoline machine at a maximum cost of $400; it saves from 65 to 75 per cent on the cost of operating the ma chine with gasoline; it is capable of developing even more - power than gasoline; it is foolproof, and will last as long as the machine on which it is installed. The inventor is Colonel Jean P. Imbert of Sabre-Union, France, late of the French army. A San Fran cisco attorney, Lloyd M. Robbins, dis covered this substitute for gasoline on a European trip and, believing in the invention's possibilities, bought the American rights and had several of the machines sent to this country. Got Worst Of It Out at Pilot Rock Members and coach of Athena high school football team firmly believe they were given the worst of it by a decision of the referee in -the game at Pilot Rock, last Friday, when they were given two points on a touch back, which they claim should have been a touchdown. They say a Pilot Rock player, with the ball behind his goal line was hit so hard that he dropped the ball, when Myrick recovered it on the fumble and placed it over the line. The game ended with the recorded score of 6 to 2 in favor of Pilot Rock. Athena nas lost its games this year by very close scores, several of which scored but 6 points for the winner. The local boys lost to Her miston by a 6-2 score in the last game, and m the first game, 6-0. Athena lost to Wa-Hi 12 to 7, and won from Touchet, 13 to 9. Athena plays Kennewick here this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This will be the last game of the season. Funeral Services The funeral services for Bert Tavlor. held at the Christian Church Friday afternoon, were conducted by Pastor Sias in the presence oi a large assemblage of friends.- A quartet, Mrs. O. H. Reeder, Mrs. David Stone, Mr. Geo. Gerking and Mr. C. M Eager, sang. Pall bearers were O. H. Reeder, Velton Read, E. C. Rogers B.. B. Richards, Omer Stephens and Laurence Pinkerton. Interment took place in Olney cemetery at Pendle ton. Looking For Cowboy , An English wife would like to know the whereabouts of her Ameri can cowboy husband, William (Bill) Park. If anyone knowing him, will correspond Information to Helen Sampson, Umatula county nurse, dol Federal Building, Pendleton, the wife in England will be given the informa tion. Clark, who was a member of Tex Austin's rodeo outfit that made an European tour, married a girl in England, and later left her there and returned to the United States, with out leaving his address. Buys Garage Building Herman Hoffman has purchased the brick garage building which he w cupief on corner of Main and Second streets, from Mra. Gholson. Mr. Hon. man has operated a garage at that location for several years. Mrs Gholson who is soon leaving for Texas, has a number of I es UIer.ce Manufactures Candied Fruits Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Goff of Newburg will arrive in Athena next week for visit with their daughter, Mrs. Ralph McEwen and family. Since re tiring from the telephone business Mr. Goff has affiliated with the SweeTarts Corporation manufactur ers of candied fruits, and roasted and salted filberts. They also handle wal nuts , and while here Mr. Oolt, win take orders for the Christmas season. These are Oregon products, the com pany being located at, Dundee, Ore gon. ': Leon Miller City Marshal At a special meeting of the city council Friday evening, Leon Miller received appointment to the office of city marshal and water superintend ent. Mr. Miller was appointed to Jin the vacancy in the office .which -was caused by the death of Mr, lay lor, who had held the office for several on 1 i ;.t years. Mr. miner nas naa consular able experience in water service, which no doubt will be of assistance to him in looking after the Athena water system. , ' ; 'Joseph and His Brethren" Moving pictures 'at Christian Church Friday November 8. btt reela, preceded by one reel of Pales tine pictures. Most expensive re ligious moving picture ever produced 35e and 15c. Tickets on sale Mon- dav at Quality Grocery and Mon tague's Grocery. Weston Woman Passes Mrs. A. T. Metz, a prominent and well known resident of Weston ,died at the family home, Friday of last week. Mrs, Met was T( year oi age and leaves her husband and one son, Clifford of Weston, ana a aaugn ter, Mm. Clara Royer of Elgin. Get Veteran Jewels Ralph Folsom and E. W. Myers, members of Damon Lodge, Knights of Pythias at Pendleton, have been awarded veteran jewels, commemorat ing 25 years of continuous member- ship ia the ..;?'";'.;.;. State Market Agent Puts the New Potato Grading Into Effect ' '. , ; Portland. State Market Agent Seymour Jones has proclaimed, the new Oregon potato law to be in effect. Certain features of the law were mandatory and certain other features were optional with the State Market Agent. The latter's proclamation particularly affected the matter of grades. The grades are not straight U. S. 1, U. S. 2, and culls. There is the 'certified seed grade and also the small seed grade in addition. The container in which the potatoes are sold must be marked plainly with the grade and also either the name of the grower or the brand or name of the shipper. The name of the state in which the potatoes are grown must j also be indicated. Even small lots down to 15 pounds " sold out of a grocery store must De laoeiea wun the grade, meaning, therefore, that all of the grocery stores will have to have either stamped sacks or else some kind of a sticker or tag to put on the sacks. The new law further requires that potatoes must be in spected in carloads and in less man carloads down to five tons. The State Market Agent has said that it is his desire to enforce the law fully, one intent of this law being to prevent the sale of a large amount of low grade potatoes coming Into Oregon from other states. It is thought that if such potatoes were branded either No. 2 or culls it would tend to discourage people from buy ing them. The law is intended lor the protection of the Oregon potato grower as well as the consumer, De ing in effect a guaranty that the pur chaser is getting an honest deal. Mrs. Frank DeFreece . Stricken With Apoplexy Died Friday Evening ' One of the saddest and most un expected deaths that has affected the Athena community, transpired Friday evening" when Mrs. Frank DeFreece, who a few hours before had been stricken with apoplexy, passed away at St. Anthony's hospital in Pendle ton. , . ! Mrs. . DeFreece had been active in looking after the affairs in the Taylor home during the bereavement of the family in the loss of the husband and father, the late B. D. Taylor. She attended the funeral and was in the cortege which followed the remains to their last resting place in Olney cemetery at Pendleton. -T At a point between Athena and Adams, Mrs. DeFreece complained of having no feeling in her right arm. and soon became unconscious. The car in which Bhe was riding, pro ceeded at once to Pendleton, taking her to the hospital and medical as sistance was summoned at once. She never responded in the least to medical effort, and passed away at nine o'clock, about six hours after being stricken. . A large concourse of friends and acquaintances ' attended the funeral services at the Methodist Episcopal church in Athena Monday afternoon, where the services were conducted by Rev. Melville T. Wire, pastor of the Methodist Church of Pendleton. Members of McKenzie Chapter, Order Eastern Star, and the mem bers of the Ladies' Missionary So ciety of the Methodist church, attend ed in a body. Floral offerings were many arid beautiful. Interment took place at Walla Walla. (Eva Ethel Haas was born in Hol- ton, Kansas, May 27, 1879, and died at Pendleton, Oregon, October 25, 1929, aged 50 years, four months and 28 days. She came to Walla Walla with her parents when a small child. In 1900 she was united in marriage to Frank J. DeFreece at Walla Wal la, and to the union four children were born, Ethel, died in infancy. She is survived by her husband; one son, Roy, of Freewater; two daughters, Mrs. Lowell Harder of Milton, and Edna of Athena ;one granddaughter, Mary Jane Harder; two sisters,. Mrs. W. J. Kirk of Athena, and Mrs. O.- E. Bowman, of Portland; one brother, P. B. Haas of Walla Walla. Mrs. DeFreece had been a resident of Athena for fourteen years. She was an active worker of the Methodist Episcopal church and of McKenzie Chapter O. E. S. Of a kindly, lovable disposition, she was endeared to a large circle of friends who keenly feel her loss and who have deep sympathy for the family In their be reavement.) ' TELEPHONE RATES COME DOWN HERE Reduction of Ten to Five Cents Between Some Exchanges. There will be a reduction of 10 to 5 cents on telephone calls between tele phone exchanges of The Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph Company in Oregon, within six miles or less of each other, according to a new rate schedule filed with the Oregon public service commission by H. R. Risley, state manager for the company. The new rate schedule, which in volves reduction between more than 60 exchanges, will become effective November 1. The filing of the new rates has the approval of the public service com mission of the State of Oregon ac cording to Mr. Risley, who declared the reduction was in line with the telephone company's announced policy in reducing charges whenever and wherever possible. With the reduction, the cost of telephoning between points affected will be five cents for the first five minutes and five cents for each subsequent five minutes. All calls will be on what is known as a sta-tion-to-station basis; that is, giving the number in the town called and the number of the telephone placing the call. Calls between Adams and Athena, Athena and Weston, Echo and Stan- field, and Hermiston and Stanfield, will be affected by the new schedule. according to J. A. Murray, manager for the company in this area. One Killed, Two Hurt In Hunting Accidents Hunting accidents were late in get ting started this year, but once start ed they came in a cluster of three over last week-end. One man, Ursel Lockey, 37, a resident of Milton and father of four children, was killed and Howard Walker, 15, also of Milton, and A. C. Houghton of Hermiston, were seriously injured. Lockey was killed while hunting pheasants in the Umapine district by the accidental discharge of his shot gun when he slipped and fell over the bank of an irrigation ditch. The Walker boy, also hunting in the Umapine district, had his left arm shattered when his automatic shotgun went off as he was getting into a car. The third victim, A. C. Houghton of Hermiston. had his left hand blown off when his gun went off by accident, while pheasant hunting in tne project district., Christmas Seals Mrs. Herbert Thompson of Pendle ton who has been active for several years in the work of the Umatilla County Public Health Association will represent her association and the Oreeron Tuberculosis Association this . . M , 1 . 1 ! year in the sale oi tne iuDercuioni Christmas Seals in this county. The sale of these health stickers, which is the only means employed by the As sociation for financing its county wide work, will begin Thanksgiving Day and end Christmas Day. Conference Football Games Two Northwest conference foot ball games will be played tomorrow afternoon when University of Oregon meet University of California ai Los Angeles, on the Lugene grid iron. Urecron Btate laces vne ing Cougars from W, S, C on Mult nomah field at Portland. Hnnw At Tollsate It is reported that two inches of now fell on the. summit of the Blue Mountains at Tollgate, Saturday icrht and Sunday. While rain was vUitine the valleys, snow fell In the higher altitudes, Leavinz Weston Mr. anH Mrs. Lvsle Webb of Wes ton. well known to Athena people- are leaving Weston to take up their tiMitica at Oirtldpk, wauffEW Secretary Hoss Is After "One-Eyed ' Automobiles Salem. Hazards of night driving will be considerably lessened during the coming winter months if Secre tary of State Hal E. Hoss is success ful in hia. plana to eliminate, the rone- eyed" automobiles, or cars with only one head light, from Oregon highways. "There is no excuse for so many cars operating with only one head light," says Mr. Hoss, "and I am de termined to see conditions improved over what they have been. I expect soon to issue general instructions to the state traffic patrol to wage re lentless war against the "one-eyed" automobiles, and will ask all sheriffs, town marshals and other peace of ficers to cooperate. "If reports indicate that it wrl be necessary to take violators into court, in addition to giving warnings, I will issue orders to that effect. Hereto fore violators have gotten off with warnings, but I believe the offense serious enough to justify a fine. A combination of wet pavement, high peed, and a car with one headlight nly. results toe often in an accident. Motorists are urged to lend their co operation in this campaign by keeping both headlights in proper working order." Beethoven Society Official Wendell Robinson of Adams, stu dent at Wi amette University, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the University Beethoven Society. The Beethoven Society is an organ ization of music students and of musicians, and purposes to further the intereat and development oi music. The members of the society unonsor and participate in many musical programs in baiem as wen as on the campus. Grave Dcsecrators Sentenced For desecrating Indian graves at Hamelis siding on the Umatilla river several weeks ago, Judge Fee sentenced Emanuel Gross, negro, and Rav Warren, white to serve one year In the penitentiary, upon their plea of guilty to the charge. Gross and Warren were members or a gang, al leged to have been led in robbing the craves bv Tom Woods an Indian who formerly lived on the reservation, and who was apprehended in rortiana. Pioneer River Captain Captain W. P. Gray, who took tho drat uteamboat uo the Snake river tn Lewiston. Idaho, died at Pasco, Saturday last. He was a brother of the late Captain J. D. H. Gray, an other pioneer steamboat captain, and was an uncle of Mrs. ueorge iiarc maa b'l PcnttlcWfl. Betts-Anderson Kohler Betts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Betts, and Miss Belle Ander son, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Anderson of this city, , were united in marriage at the home of Rev. and Mrs. M. E. Bollinger, at Clarkston, Wash., Thursday afternoon of last week, and were attended by Miss Ruth Williams and Mr. Gran ville Cannon, of this city, who ac companied them to Clarkston. The bride and groom are graduates ot Athena high school and are prominent workers in the First Baptist church of Athena. They have a host of friends who extend congratulations, and a number of them went to tha new home of the couple on the Charles Betts farm, southwest of Athena Monday night and greeted them with an old fashioned, no;sy charivari. W. C. T. U. Meeting The W. C. T. U. held its monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. O. M. Dowd, WeBton, Tuesday, p. m. at i o'clock. Ten members were present and one guest, Mrs. C. R. Wood. All those who .served as officers during the past year, were re-elected. After the business session, an entertaining program prepared by Mrs. Jesse Gordon, was given by a few of tho members. Dainty refreshments were served by Mrs. C. L. McFadden and Mrs. E. L. Hiteman. Ihe nexi meet ing will be held at the home of Mrs. Jesse Gordon on the last Tuesday in November, Apple Show Opens The annual Milton-Freewater ap ple show opened in the Apple show pavilion in the Twin Cities Tuesday night with from 700 to 800 viewing the attractive booth and individual displays of the 1929 apple harvest. There were about 25 booth displays with ttVCf 2D'0 taBividual gYtfUps, r