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THE PRESS,' ATHENA, OREGON; DECEMBER 201 1929 r..T..Y.Y..TY..T..T..l Buyi Power ng plus owner service When you consider that our Buying Power is grouped with" each of the Red & White stores in this Community, Plus that of all the other Red & White stores throughout the Nation then you can see why we are .able to offer Genuine Values and Unusual Services. Trade here regularly for a few weeks , and judge for yourself! - ' - ' You Can Do Better at a Red & White Store SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY AND MONDAY Serv-Us Coffee, 1-lb. bags , . " 40c i. 7;:;, Mince Meat, bulk 2 lbs, for 35c Golden Dates, bulk 2 lbs, for 29c Marshmallows Campfire, 3 lbs. 99c 2yo-lb. box. Chocolates . - 79c Karo Red Label, 2is 25c "Brown Sugar 3 lbs. for 20c Crisco, 3 lbs. 79c Date-Nut Layer Cake 49c " ; Mixed Nuts . .. 3 lbs, for 89c Roasted Peanuts, Fancy Fresh Roasted 2 lbs. for 39c Dipping Chocolate lb. pkg. ......... 25c ED MOM T AG U E ? PHONE 171 Continental Oil Company Always at Your Service Athena Service Station v Gas, Oils, Greasing "Automobile ,Assessories Tires " BRYCE BAKER, Prop. . ;. Athena, ; . Phone 761 i M0t Highest Quality iLo west Prices of the Century! " Because Millions : more people buy Goodyear Tires because . Goodyear builds nearly - one third of the world's tire output and thus enjoys lowest costs we can offer you v history's low est prices on the finest Goodyears ever produced. Furthermore be fore you buy we can demonstrate and p r o v e the Goodyear superior-: ity of tread and carcass which pro tects you from skid ding, punctures and blowouts and assures you more miles of troublefree service. : Come in and see this demonstration. .':;- n.,1.11 ,. mi.. . -Minimi iiiiJ PRESIDENT SIGNS : INCOME TAX BILL Reduction $160,000,000 Be comes Law With Hoover Signature. Washington. Income tax reduction of f 160,000,000 was enacted into law wVipn President Hoover sitmed the joint congressional resolution provid ing for the slash, i ne cniei executive nffived his signature in the nresence only of two of his secretaries, George Akerson, and Lawrence Kichey, using the pen with which he transacts rou tine business, Thus, the American income tax- paying public was assured a reduc tion of one per cent upon normal per sonal and corporation levies to be paid next year. The measure had been sent to the treasury department where Secretary Mellon quickly gave his approval. A treasury messenger returned the document to the White House and the President signed it immediately alter it was laid upon his desk. Enactment of the legislation, which the first to comtilete the conces sional circuit in the regular session, was finished all but for Mr. Hoovers signature when the senate gave its approval Saturday by a vote of 63 to 14. JUNIOR NEWS STAFF , : Editor...............J..Stafford Hansell Assistant Editor'..-..Myrtlo Campbell Alumni.......... .. Jack Moors Student Body........:.....Arthur Crowley Boys' Athletics............Roland Wilson Classes ......... :.Emery Rogers Entertainment.'w.-.Elizabeth Walter Personals...............-.......Georgie Green Faculty........ . a:. Walter Huffman 1st to 4th Grades...... ..Curtiss Duffield 5th to 8th Grades...;."...Mary Tompkins Subject Classes..;.... J...Herbert Reeder Advisor.......,.........,...Miss Beulah Smith Hufford Ranks High In Estimation of U. P. Football Sports Writer The following is a comment on the United Press writer's . selection of Merle Hufford on his All-American team, taken from the column written by Billy Stepp, in the Portland News of December 4th: "Merle Hufford, Milton-Freewater boy, University of Washington half back, won a place on the United Press Ail-Americans. . , "Frank Getty, noted scribe of the U. P., picked the Oregon gridiron warrior over such nationally-known figures of the grid as Booth, Masters, Uansa, Lorn, Elder, Saunders, Duffield and Cagle. "Hufford with a Washington eleven that went through the entire confer ence season without winning a game, deserves credit for breaking through, the maze of stars that shone so brightly week after week. "Last year Chuck Carroll broke on to the U. P. team as a halfback and he deserved every line of it. Carrol was the whole Husky team in every game during 1928. "This year Hufford, a mere soph omore, broke into the headlines by running for two touchdowns agairist the U. S. C. Trojans, but was called back when somebody was off-side. "Against the Stanford Cards and California Bears, Merle was a human tornado and when Pop Warner says they're good, they must be. "In Chicago when the nusxys wem down' to a lop-sided defeat, again the lad from the wind-swept sands of Milton-Freewater stood out as a one man machine. "If Hufford can sten onto'the AU- 1 Americans in his sophomore year he's sure to be a "bear" during the junior and senior outbursts up north. "And to think of it the powers that ha in Kuffene let the keeper of the keys don .a Washington uniform and leave his home state marking time. "Watch Hufford in 1930 and l3i: he's either doomed to be the world's greatest grid star or the flop of a century." High School Notes Struggle Between "Middle men and Farm Organ ization Is Indicated. i ; Editorial (Myrtle Campbell) "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Do we all really realize the true significance of this verse? The wise men must have realized it when thev came from the far East bringing gifts for the Christ Child. How many people today, when they wrap up some costly gift for a friend or relative, are thinking of the joy it will bring to them or are they thinking, "Well, she gave me a nice present last year and' so I'll give her this." Instead of this let us breathe the spirit of Tiny Tim', when he said, "God bless everyone." Christmas is the happiest season of the year, when love and happiness should be spread about. Let's hope that everyone in the Athena high school will have the true Christmas spirit this holiday season and remem ber that It is "more blessed to give than to receive." Athletics - ; . The Athena high school boys met Adams at Athena Tuesday night for the second basketball game of the season and succeeded in winning by a narrow margin. The final score was 10-11. . . The score was close' all through the game and the game was played well by both teams. Athena had back their old line-up, including Crowley, and showed up well on the defensive. "Boots" LaCourse was Adams out standing player both on defense and on offense while Myrick held the lime light for Athenaon defense. Athena's line-up was Hansell, : center; Huff man, forward; Lowell Jenkins, for ward; Myrick, guard; Rogers, guard. The substitutions were: Jack Moore for Huffman and Huffman went to center; Crowley for Jenkins; Ralph Moore for Jack Moore. , spent Faculty "Pike" Miller and family Saturday in Walla Walla. Miss Beulah Smith rand Miss Doro thy Brodie spent Saturday in Walla Walla shopping. .;. - , Classes The meeting of the Latin club was postponed from its regular date, last Tuesday, until after the holidays. .:. Grades A number of pupils from the seventh and eighth . grade have been absent from school on account of ill ness. . In a preliminary frame last Friday night the' grade boys defeated the Freshman boys 11 to 8. Carburetor Adjustments ; Save On Gasoline Bills Possibility of saving as much as 20 per cent of the average man's gasoline bill sounds like the promises, of an eauinment salesman, but such result with merely better adjustment of present carburetors Is indicated Dy experiments carried on by the en gineering experiment station at Ore gon State college. . Final results of the project are not yet released, but it has been found that adjustment of carburetors by means of a test of the exhaust gases rather than by sound or performance of the motor, gives startling results in gas savings. Out of hundreds of cars tested, the savings ranged from slight to 50 per cent The apparatus is not complicated and could be in stalled cheaply in practically any garage, says G. W. Gleeson, staff mdmliw In charge of the project. Complete findings will be published soon. Alumni Wayne Pinkertori, graduate of '28 from Athena high school and now liv ing in Milton, attended the Athena Pendleton basketball game here Fri dav mVht. Roy DeFreece, who is working in Freewater, visited 'friends and rei nt.i ven hen Snnrlnv. . Miss Margaret Lee, who teaches sphool in Charlo. Montana, ia ex Dec t- ed to spend the holidays nt the home of her parents, west of Athena. Miss Dorothy t Lee, teacher in a school near Palouse. Washington, will arrive Sunday to spend the holidays with her parents. Personals Dorothy Burke was a Walla Walla visitor Sunday. 1 Subject Classes To make, clear the Christmas SDirit. themes on the meaning of Christmas were written last Mondav bv the freshman class under the supervision of Miss" Smith. Alter tney had read their themes, an open discussion fol lowed, as to what constitutes a good Christmas' spirit and 'the true mean ing of Christmas to an individual. All tires expertly mounted free and you also get bur year round eryice. - . , , - ? i . r j ;G L Athena, Oregon Pioneer Woman Dead Mrs. E. L. Smith, aired 68. pioneer of Pendleton, died Sunday in Port land at the home of her daughter. Mrs. John H. Fitzgibbon, whom she was visitin?. Mrs. Smith had been ill for some time. Besides her husband. Mrs. Smith is survived by the follow ing children: Mrs. Thomas Vaughan, of Pendleton; Edgar W. Smith and Mrs. John II. Fitzgibbon, of Portland; Mrs. Herald White, of Eugene j' Mr, C. C. Sturgris and Ben Smith, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Hubert Smith, of San Francisco. ' Bov Scout Troon A Boy Scout Troop was organized recently at Weston, with M. J Masters as scoutmaster and Rev, Chas. M. Hill as assistant scout master. Washington, Another move was made Wednesday in the growing struggle .between the "middlemen" who hitherto have handled market ing of the farmer's products and the federal farm board, which now is en couraging the farmer to market for himself through cooperative associations. The United States Chamber of Com merce, representing the "middlemen," among other business interests, en tered the ficrht oDenlv with a reitera tion of its adherenceto the principle that "private enterprise should not be subjected to competition resulting from discriminatory treatment of co operative associations." This means, in effect, the farm board should rnt take measures to ex tend . cooperati.o marketing that would hurt existing business enter prises which hitherto have performed services for the farmer that he now is seeking to perform for himself, with government backing. The struggle is made more dra matic because it involves millions of consumers. Whether the more direct connection between producer and con sumer which would be the outgrowth of wide development of the cooper ative principle will make the cost oi living cheaper is their consideration. The "middle men" involved we tnosc commission merchants of all ' sorts who handle agriculture products as well as those operating grain eleva tors, storage facilities, and those who deal in dairy products. Representa tives of these interests signed me Btnfement issued bv the agriculture service department of the Chamber of Commerce. These interests awakened, sudden ly to the fact that the farm board was embarking on a program of real "farm" relief, a program that migm end, in time, in .putting tnem out ox business. "The marketing of agricultural pro ducts today, as recognized by. both cnnnerjitive and non-cooDeralive mar keting agencies, is a function which demands operation under minimum costs," the statement said. "Thn committee believes that in the prosecution of its task the federal farm board will give due weignt in this vital consideration. And the committee further desires to express it Vwlipf in the nrincinle that proper safeguarding of security for loans ad vanced by the federal farm board to cooperative marketing associations requires positive appraisel of the omparative economies in marketing agricultural nroducts by cooperative associations and established private agencies." ' Mother and Child Perish In Montana Snow Storm Havre, Mont. Guy Pratt, Hill county rancher, quit planning a happy Christmas for his wife, Geraldine, and their small daughter and started arranging for their funeral. Pratt went to Gilford Friday to get a Christmas tree and some supplies before the snow blocked the roads. He laid in a supply of wood and water and warned his wife not to leave the house during the storm. When he returned home a note told him that his wife had taken the baby to visit a neighbor, whose home was not far from the Pratt ranch. The father found them, dead, a quarter of a mile from their desti nation. Mrs. Pratt aDDarently had died from exhaustion as she struggled through the deep drifts with her baoy in her arms. The baby had irozen to death. School District Number 2 ' Renews His Soil ' Weston Leader: While in town from Weston mountain Saturday on a trading mission. W. A. Eves said that he had received a conclusive object Wsnn this vear as to the value of soil renewal. Twenty acres of his potato ground had been cropped to clover and twenty more nad not Under exactly the same . growing con- d it inns he found that the clover o-rniind yielded at least forty per cent more spuds than the other land. Mr. Eves gave it as his view that the mountain country would profit great ly by systematic methods ot sou re newal. School News - l n m Camamam ' .minf It tlAatfl. nn.M vlsiUfn school Tuesdav. With thn ex ception of two dental corrections to be made, the school would be 100 per cent perfect.' ' v Community News Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Zerba shopped in Walla Walla Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Stewart and Miss Marguerite Hereford were din ner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Charles Betts, Sunday. Mr.-and Mrs. Lysle Gray visited Sunday at the Laurence Pinkerton home, Mr. and Mrs, Roy Cannon and daugh ter spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cass Cannon. Mr, and Mrs. Roy Johnston, Mrs. George Johnston and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Smith and daughter Rachel, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. CunpbelU - . Schools to Com uete AH hisrh schools of the state which publish a school paper, or where stu dents supply news to iocai papers will he eliarible to compete in the Ore- iron Hieh School Press association journalism contest, which is to be held under the auspices of the School of Journalism of University of Oregon. The contest closes on January 8. and awards will be made at the banquet of the annual high school conierence, January 10 and 11. , Mrs. Gerking Dead Mrs. Etta Gerking passed ' away Thursday of last week after a few Aavn illness with nneumonia. at Wes ton. Funeral services were held Sat urday at 2 p. m. Mrs. Gerking is survived by her daughter, Mrs.- Otto Purcell with whom she has made her home for a number of vears. Mrs. P. T. Harbour of Weston is fUixf. Ghovlns thousands tho way to 3 mRM. 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