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the press, athena:1 Oregon, july 11,1930 Ml OREGON DOM 11 IT FACTOR Portland Writer Sizes Up 4 Political Situation. East Of Cascades. - ; In his political article for the week in the Morning Oregonian, John W. Kelly sizes up the figure -which the Eastern Oregon ; republican central committeemen are in a position to cut in the selection of a candidate for governor at the meeting set by state chairman Metschan for July 25th. Mr. Kelly says: : Friday, July 25, at 2 o'clock, is the " date for the republican state com mittee 1 to meet, organize and nomi knate a candidate for governor. While Phil Metschan, state chairman, has Dotcbvcu viic uftwr tic is , leaving tne place of meeting to be selected by the new committeemen. , Letters have .."been sent to the members ' of the committee asking where they would like to gather. There are half a 0 ...wv...0 end Metschan declines to show a pref erence. . :.,:'.? , When the nine , eastern Oregon members of the committee signed an agreement that they would not pledge themselves to any aspirant for governor without conferring with one another, the ' group formed a bloc which will have an, important bearing on the selection of a candi date for governor and also in the selection of a state chairman for the new committee. The chairmanship already is receiving attention from members of the committee and party leaders and there is a prospect for a contest over this position. Members of the eastern Oregon bloc are smiling complacently and are waiting developments, realizing that they art! to be an important if not the deciding factor in the selec tion of a nominee and of a state chairman. As is well known in po litical circles, there exists in the sea ond congressional district a convfo won mac eastern uregon has been ignored and forced' to nlay second fiddle to western Oregon for many years. ; in tact, some of the eastern Oregon republicans frankiy declare mat the party organization is domi nated by a few men in Portland and that eastern Oregon is not co.nnultod, It is this sentiment probably more than anything else which prompted the organization of the bloc of com mitteemen in Pendleton last Monday. Phil Metschan is the chairman of the old committee which is being re placed by the new. He is the sole contact between the old and new committees and his connection Is severed with the organization of the new committee. Whether Metschan wants to continue as chairman is not known; at least he has not given any direct intimation. Furthermore, he is regarded as a receptive candi date for governor and he is believed to have about four votes to start with if his name is submitted for the nomination. If the present situation had not developed through the death of Joseph, Metschan would 1 have sought to retain the chairmanship. The name of Floyd Cook is used in connection with the chairmanship. Captain Cook was secretary of the committee but resigned when he as sociated himself with the primary campaign of Harry I. Corbetr. Young, enthusiastic about party or ganization and ambitious to see ex service men in public offices, Cook is representative of the new blood which is being injected into the body politic. He has the good will of eastern Ore gon republicans for he has sympath ized with their views in many re spects and at this time he is trying to harmonize the eastern Oregon men and Metschan. When the bloc of sine met at Pendleton Cook was present and since then he has been busy inter viewing people in western Oregon. He does not say that he wants to be chairman, but says: "I am neither running for nor away from it." The Tom Kay campaign is proceed ing with an apparent slight deflation, but Kay and his friends are working Excl usively Sold Here Milton Bread and Pastries KILGORE'S CAFE industriously where it will do the most good. His job as state treasurer will have to go to someone, if he is nominated and elected, and that is magnificent trading material , It might line up the ex-service men or eastern Oregon, or, by a happy com bination, both. No one is better aware of his strategic postion than is Kay nimseix. , L. H. McMahan, circuit judge of Marlon county, and Sam Brown, sen ator from that county, have been in teresting themselves in behalf of Julius L. Meier as a candidate. Bruce Dennis of Klamath Falls, who started the Meier boom, attended the Pendle ton conference in the interest of the Portland merchant. Mr. Meier's own statement places him in the situation where he can either become an active candidate before the committee or support either the committee's nom inee or an independent. His chief concern is the promotion of the Joseph platform. ' Walla Walla Valley Harvest Although harvest ' operations will not be, general in the Walla Walla valley until next week, a few ma chines started to work in the fields which were ripe, Monday morning. The warm weather of last week ripened wheat rapidly. In the Athena-Adams district preparations are being made to harvest the grain when operations are expected to be in full swing about the 20th of the month. The federal employment offices have been almost swamped by applicants for work, as men have flocked there from all over the northwest. The sup ply is expected to exceed the demand as . the farmers with tractor equip ment are using smaller crews. PIEHOIIS FOR """"""- BIG ROUND-UP DAYS ,ViV '' Western Exhibition at Pen dleton Scheduled Three Days, Aug. 28, 29, 30. Scotch Have Big Picnic The first annual : eastern Oregon Scotch picnic was held at Emigrant springs, Sunday with those of Scotch descent from Pendleton, La Grande, Summerville and Kamela in attend ance. Kaces, dinner and singing oc cupied much of the day. Van Warm er of La Grande and Mr. Cooke of Pendleton were elected respective presidents of their two counties, and plans were made for another picnic next year. Miss Margaret Thompson, visiting in Pendleton from Aberdeen, Scotland, was present. CLASSIFIED i Bring in your Welding to an Expert Welder Union Gasoline Veedol Oils atteries lesta B Frick's metal weather stripping is best. ; Milk Cows Good, fresh Milk cows for sale. Henry .. Koepke, Athena, phone 32F12. Pendleton, The Round-Up, Pendle ton's big community show, is kept in the minds of people of the Eastern Oregon city all the year long but the months of July and August find them particularly busy in preparation for the Western exhibition August. 28, 29 and 30. ; " ' Just now there is a bustle of Dren- aration for everything is being put into tiptop shape for the coming show. " The grounds are be'msc made ready, the track is being worked over; Darns are awaiting the arrival of stock here August 1. Besides the barns to make the Texas steers, the buckers, etc., com fortable there must be plenty of hay for the stock; those big brutes have never heard of the eiehteen day diet and they feast on an unlimited quantity of Round-Up hay. Mail orders for Round-Up tickets are coming in to the Pendleton office and the twenty-first annual show gives promise of a record breaking attendance. The local ticket office will open August 16. , Besides the Round-Up daytime hours, the evenings are filled with en tertainment for there is offered to the visitors the famed Happy Canyon show. This is the most unique of Western ' pageants and besides its show features which depict a typical town of early frontier days there are the Happy Canyon dances with which the evenings' programs close. Music for the dances this year will be by Cole McElroy s orchestra. The nufheM hitt, ultlJ fo 0- rffidmcy ofthUNa.7 HtU.ti. Hanttttr-Thwhcr iwoiM It It ftrtppW ulth a Ufttng aVcfca ... lift pwmiU (Anatoli tn (fad) frorfw. Cook House Cook house on wide truck, for sale. ' James Duncan, Athe no, phone 30F15. For Sale A New Coleman Air-O-Gas range, slightly used. Mrs. Callie Sanders, Athena, phone 30F21. Poles R. A. Ball, Weston, R No. 2 has tamarack and red fir poles for sale at reasonable prices. J. E. Gallagher cr s Athena Garag Phone 471 a THE ATHENA MARKET i We carry the best Meat That Money Buys Kippered Sainton, an Kinds of Salt FishV Fresh Fish, Oysters, Crabs, Clams, Kraut, in Season. ; A. W. LOGSDON Main Street Athena, Oregon. Coming to Pendleton Drlellenthin Special Attention to ' Internal Medicine Does Not Operate 'Will be at 4 DORION HOTEL ''' ' on . TUESDAY, JULY 22 ', from 10 a. m., to 4 p. m. ONE DAY ONLY i' No Charge For Consultation Dr. Mellenthin's visits are greatly appreciated and patronized, especial ly by those who are suffering or ail ing from troubles of the internal or gans, in the chest or abdomen; also head ear, nose and throat. The Doc tor accepts only those who can be treated medicinally with the aid of correct diet and hygiene for which a nominal charge is made. ' Women if married please bring their husbands. , Whatever your complaint may be it will be of interest to consult the Doc tor on this trip. Below are the names of a few of his many satisfied patients: " Mrs. Harriet Anstadt, Astoria. Alfred Clemmens, Corvallis. Chas. Desch, Portland. W. G. Grubbe, Albany. . Mrs. J. G. Huntsucker, Toledo. W. E. Hankins, Mt. Hebron, Calif. Denver Kincaid, Ashland. Bert Lamps, St. Helens. L. H. Martin, Moro. F. O. Pollard, Yreka, Calif. E. F. Smith, Heppner. Mrs. Wm. Schuening, Helix. Lee Oey, North Powder, , T. L. Shown, Goldendale. Emma Turner, Mikkalo . Henry Trowbridge, John Day. J. H. Wood, Eugene. . V. P. Harris, Athena. Mrs. B. Danks, Klamath Falls. Mrs. Walter Scott, Mt. Angel. Henry Schultz, Pendleton. Mrs. O. N. Kimball, Crabtree. ' Mrs. Frank Simpson, Hood River. Lee Slucher, La Grande. Note above the exact date and place! Permanent address: 268 So. Serrano, tt Amele9, Cfclif. Fruit Washing Is Success Says Noted Pomologist 'Oregon State College. With good appearance the most vital market factor for fruit in eastern markets, the washing process developed to clean fruit of spray residue also is proving a big asset in other ways, reports Professor Henry . Hartman, pomologist of the experiment station, who has returned after a year in the Detroit and New York terminal fruit markets. Professor Hartman went east as the representative of the Medford winter pear committee to study fac tors related to better marketing and to demonstrate the process developed by the 'experiment station for ripen ing Bosc pears at uniform high tern pcratures after they are removed from storage. Use of this method was highly sue cessful in Detroit, resulting in placing some 20 carloads of pears in con sumption there where practically none had been used before, .said Professor Hartman. Next year similar cam paigns will be put on in several other eastern cities. "New York is by far the greatest fruit market in the country, yet intro duction of new methods of handling, such as this ripening method, is a slow process," explained Professor Hartman. "Retail dealers and job bers are used to handling green, hard pears, and they are loath to buy the high quality conditioned pears from the ripening rooms." The washed fruit is far more at' tractive when it reaches the market, he said. Buyers in New York pay lit tie attention to grade marketings as compared to actual appearance of the fruit. Seed Pea Crop In Weston Vicinity Is Very Promising Samples brought from the seed pea fields in the Weston vicinity indicate a most encouraging condition of the crop. According to Frank Blair, lo cal representative of the Washington Idaho Seed company, the outlook is much better than that of last year at this time reports the Leade-. The peas are looking particularly fine on the Barney Foster ranch south of Weston, where the plants are through blossoming. Indications are that the crop will be ready to har vest about July 10. ' About three weeks ago the Washington-Idaho Seed company finished planting about 200 acres on several different tracts on Weston mountain, and in that region also the legumes have been making satisfactory growth This company has two combines in commission and ready for threshing its own crop, and may also be in a position to harvest a few individual crops. Approximately 1650. acres have been planted to peas this year in the Weston country a large increase over last year. The Washington- Idaho Seed company has 900 acres of its own and 350 under contract. The California Packing company has 300 acres and the Washburne-Wilson Seed company 100 acres, planted un der contract. Fine Potatoea Til Beckner says his-crop-of-Early Rose potatoes is better this year than any he has ever raised before, at his place south of Athena. 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McCoriiiick-'Deei'iisi; NO. 7 HILLSIDE HARVESTER-THRESHERS The Old Crop Surplus Is Heavy in the Interior Presents Tight Situation The weekly market review of the Portland Grain Exchange follows: In spite of the heaw carryover of old crop wheat in the Pacific north west, most of which is held through the interior, a tight situation prevails at this time. This situation is the culmination of misleading but well in tended advice to holders during the past crop year, who now find then, seives unwilling to sell at present prices, or unable to realize their loans if they cared to sell. The current low priced ocean space offerings re flect better values for local wheat than eastern markets, yet bick'njo lor July-August are extremely lieht, "The total lack of optimistic factors would usually create active selling, but the ability of the market to re cover on breaks and the unusually low prices make caution advisable and show a heavily oversold condition at times. "The Portland futures market is be ing observed with more interest ns the new crop season approaches, the realization of . its benefits having been clearly demonstrated during the first year of service. "Export business was very small for the week with but one-half car go and a small parcel of white wheat booked to the United Kingdom. "Portland t futures for the week show net changes as follows: July up 4c, September unchanged and De cember unchanged, ' , "Trading on the exchange for the month of June totaled 2,044,000 bush els." ' File Initiative Bills Completed petitions covering two initiative measures, one creating the omce of lieutenant governor and the other authorizing creation of water power districts, were filed with Hal Hoss, secretary of state, by the state grange. The petitions for the lieu tenant governor measure contained 18,540 signatures and those for the water power measure contained 21, 372 signatures. Foley's Kidney Cure make kidneys end bladder rlghi Still Blows Up; Kills Orve The home of John Hoff, Walla Wal la, was visited by hundreds July 4th to view the wreckage left by the ex plosion of a still which killed Hoff. He was literally blown out of the basement, and stumbled out through the window and over the railing, fall ing on the ground. Grass for a con siderable distance from the spot where Hoff lay was scorched, and the porch was covered with broken glass. Every bit of skin was burned from Hoff's body. Hoff evidently was pumping up the gasoline pressure tank when it exploded. Hill Says: Too Much" The National Aeronautic! associa tion may bring its 50 airplanes to Walla Walla late in July on its an nounced tour of the northwest, but if it does it will be doing so at its own expense, according to Maurice B. Hill, chairman of the chamber of com merce aviation committee. The asso ciation announced a stop at Walla Walla. 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