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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, NOVEMBER 21, 1930 AUTO S HIV iiHnc BARN LIGHT PLANT Farmers Clever at Tinker ing Can Use "Heaps" to Lighten Labors. ; , Oregon State College. Any farm er having a flare for mechanical tink ering and access to an automobile "boneyard" can install an inexpensive and fairly effective electric lighting system in his barn. The plan, which is approved by C. W. Walker of the agricultural engineering department ' at Oregon State college, requires only that a gasoline engine be used on the farm for general purposes. A common six volt generator such as usually remains in good condition in .any "heap," is connected with the farm gasoline, engine by means of a belt and crank shaft pulley so as to turn about 1800 revolutions per min ute. It in turn is connected to A com mon auto storage battery just as it is in the car, and from the battery common electric light cord is run to the barn. ;'. ; t ' In the barn two or three old auto mobile headlights may be mounted in convenient places with their reflectors directed so as to afford the most light. A switch located near the door com pletes the installation. When the engine is being used for the ordinary farm tasks it can just as easily be operating the little genera tor, as it requires no appreciable amount of power, thus keeping the battery charged at all times just as ii is m a car. The system costs but J10 or S15 even if the material is bought from wrecking houses. Of course the sys tem does not compare with a regular connection with a 110 volt power line nor with the common 32 volt farm lighting plant, but it does beat carrv ing a lantern and rigging it up pro vides good pastime for stormv winter , -' . aays. Oregon Children Need Cod Liver Oil In Winter With the coming of winter and its meager snatches of sunshine, every Oregonian, child and adult, needs the protective vitamins of codliver oil. says Mrs. Jessamine C. Williams, pro fessor of foods and nutrition at Ore gon State college. The value of codliver oil as a source of vitamin D, the substance manu factured in the pigment of the skin when subjected to direct sunlisrht has long been recognized, Mrs. Williams points out, and every mother knows that an adequate, supply , of vitamin D is necessary to the proper bone and teeth development of the child and as a prevention against rickets. What many parents do not know however, Mrs. Williams continued, is that codliver oil is also the richest known source of vitamin A, the vit amin which protects against infec tions such as the common cold, sinus, bronchial and lungs, . and is there fore doubly important' during the win ter season when such infections are most prevalent The various substi tutes for codliver oil found on the market do not contain vitamin A. JJMUIUMMft IZ3 Pm A Producer And A Shareholder In The Swift Family" 1 "You can'tblame me il I take more than an ordinary interest in the affairs of Swift A Company. I'm interested in two ways. First- as a producer. Second as one of 45,000 shareholders. "I'm glad to belong to this big family. And U you'd ask me to sum up why, I think I'd say 1 Swift A Company is one of the most efficient organizations in America. Only an exceptionally well run con cern Could possibly thrive on an aver age margin of less than cents on . every dollar of sales. S As a producer I receive the going i market price for the best butterfat, eggs and poultry I can deliver. Swift's ' nation-wide distribution, because of 7. their 600 car routes and 400 branch ,, bouses, assures me of an ever ready market I am not subject to local gluts or shortages. ' ' 3 Swift & Company employs 38,000 peo ple who receive just wages. These employes live in the communities where they work. Many of them are ' our own neighbors. They spend their money with our merchants, build their homes here, pay taxes like you and , me. They contribute to the well being of this town. 4 As one of 45,000 shareholders, I receive a return on my investment "You can see that there are many benefits in having contact with Swift ft Company. I'U keep on taking my butterfat, eggs and poultry to the nearest produce plant ' The more I raise, the more I make. No wonder I'm glad to be in the Swift family." Swift & Company ' Kennewiclc, Wash. c 3 The First National Bank of Athena CAPITAL $50,000 - - - SURPLUS $60,000 Undivided Profits over $45,000 A Real Service to the Community Conveniently Located, Financially Sound, Able and Willing to Serve You. Maintains a Complete Trust Department ' BACKED BY MORE THAN 38 YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL BANKING EXPERIENCE. COME IN AND SEE US ABOUT " YOUE BANKING REQUIREMENTS. : - I stts stts URGING ACT! ON BIG PROJEC I High School Notes ' " y -J lilt Adoption of Umatilla Plan Demanded to Give Work to Thousands. Portland. Demand that Umatilla Rapids project be adopted by con gress at its coming session as an em ployment relief measure is taking form throughout the Pacific North west, writes Marshall Dana in the Oregon Journal. Employment 'of between 7000 and 8000 men during the construction period is predicted. Employment in industries that will furnish materials would be increased, A train' more than 100 miles long would be required to haul the cement necessary ,in . building the dam, it is said. . Enough lumber would be used in construction and to house workers to build a small city. In addition, machinery, supplies, structural materials of miscellaneous nature and transportation would be used in big way for the $45,000,000 dam. Food supplies alone would be large item of interest to producers, Proposal to create a "Committee of One Hundred" to voice the unanimous sentiment of Portland for the project is before the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Washington and Oregon granges, with direct interest in cheap power because of passage of their power bills at the last election, are already moving toward concerted support of the Umatilla Rapids bill which is to be reintroduced by Senator Mc Nary in the senate and Congressman Butler in the house at the opening of the next session. Hearings to be held before a joint session of the house and senate com mittees on reclamation and irrigation are arranged to be held in January. Governor-elect Meier will be repre sented in urging adoption of the pro- ect in -person if possible. Mayor Ba ker of Portland has stated that he will travel to the national capital in behalf of the project if the necessary arrangements can be made. Similar suggestions affect Gevernor Hartley of Washington, Governor Baldridge of Idaho and the mayors of Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane, Walla Walla, Yaki ma and Pendleton. E. B. Aldrich, chairman of the cam paign committee, and George C. Baer, secretary of the Umatilla Rapids as sociation, both of Pendleton, have been in Portland several days in be half of the project. A budget of $10, 000 is necessary to carry on the campaign, they said. H. R. Richardson, Wasco county wheat grower, member of the board of the Wheat Growers' league and a leader in the Columbia Valley asso ciation, came to Portland Saturday in behalf of the navigation feature on the Columbia. "Wheat is quoted at 41 cents a bushel at Pomeroy," he said. "At The Dalles it is about 50 cents and in Portland 63 cents.' These are tragic prices. Unless we can have cheaper transportation we are ruined as wheat growers. In Wasco county we grow 800,000 bushels of wheat and pay some $800,000 in taxes. "Wheat is our major crop; if it fails the country and the district fail. I have lived and worked on my farm 47 years. My wife and I began our life there together. "I built a home for my son when he married. We had visions of retire ment when he took hold, and he is doing his part like a man. "They talk now of the five- day week. , We must work every day and every daylight hour, and with all the drudgery we can't make expenses. We put in a dairy and some chickens, and if it hadn't been for these we would have been gone already. It isn't fair that producers should be subjected to such toil, with no prospect except failure, unless there is a readjustment of economy that will permit us to pay our costs and enjoy a profit. II we have to leave the farm, we don't know which way to turn. "Mr. Legge of the farm board says curtail production and market with in the United States. Our land must grow wheat, chiefly, and we must look to a foreign market. What we must have is not only better price, but cheaper transportation. We must have navigation. We must have it now. If we wait until later to use the Columbia, it will be too late, the producers will be gone." Renewed assurance from President Hoover to Senator McNary of admin istration support of the Umatilla Rapids project, as revealed in recent press dispatches, has spurred North west effort. Umatilla Rapids has the advantage of having been completely engineered by the government. A base of 100 feet rock would form the foundation of the dam. Reclamation can be in stalled by pumping as required. The Columbia would be canalized to the mouth of the Snake in aid of naviga tion. There would be an element of flood control and an interstate bridge would rest upon the crest of the dam. Generating estimates for power are the lowest known 1.2 mills a kilo watt hour or about $7.80 a horse power year. Helen Foster was Wednesday. in Pendleton Editorial (Betty Eager) "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." What an excellent lesson these few words could teach everyone if everyone would only Jbe willing to try and learn. When some people start out in the business world and they do not succeed in just a very short time, they stop trying and think they are beaten. If these same peo ple were starting out for pleasure, they would not stop for anything. If people would only persevere on the serious things of life as much as they do the frivolous things, how much bet ter off they would be and, how much more they would accomplish. A student was taking an examina tion one day. He looked at the first question and it seemed rather diffi cult, so he did not read on through the examination to see if he could answer some of the other questions. He stopped at the first question and did not even try to answer it. Of course this student did not get a grade for that examination. The next day, when the questions were explained, he found that he knew the answers to most of them. Then how he wished that he had stayed with it and reason ed the questions out. No one should fail in school or in business simply because he gives up too easily, so let's all try, try again if we do not succeed the first time. Alumni . Curtis Duffleld -returned home, Fri day, from Portland, where he visited with friends and relatives. Marjorie Wilson shopped in Walla Walla Friday. - Carolyn Kidder left Friday for Butte, Montana, where she will visit friends. ' EBADDnflD K Music The orchestra is having two re hearsals each week. Every instru ment is now being included in each practice. . " The orchestra assembled at Mar- iorie Douglas' home Saturday night. All were present except those who live in the country and could not get in. The Glee club made its first appear ance in public last Friday, at the school play, "The Goose Hangs High." They sang the following songs: "The Woodland Calls," by Rhys-Herbert; "On the Road to Mandalay," by Speaks. Personals Harold Kirk. Fred Singer, Solista Pickett and Raymond Murphy motor ed to Walla Walla, Sunday,. . Glenn McCullough, George Pittman and Wendell Shigley were in Pendle ton, Saturday. Dorothy Burke and Mariorie Mon tague spent Sunday in Walla Walla, Emery Rogers motored to Milton, Sunday. Marjorie Douglas, Arleen Myrick and Ralph Moore were in Pendleton, Sunday. Goldie Miller spent Wednesday hopping in Pendleton. OW have the super-powered Atwater Kent Screen-Grid Set that revolution ized radio, in an exquisite lowboy of rare woods, with the true-toned Atwater Kent Electro-Dynamic Speaker at a price actu ally lower than ordinary sets in ordinary cabinets! Come in listen see how graceful, how dignified! Picture it in your home and have it there on our Convenient Pay ment Plan! .", ' MODEL 1055 ...Style and distinction in this modern cabinet radio. Beautiful woods exquisitely grained and hand-rubbed. Harmonizes with any scheme of decoration. S CUE EN -GRID Grade News Katherine Walters has returned to school after a recent illness. Donald Mayberry is still out of school. About one-third of the room has been absent in the past week in the first and second grade because of colds. Sheldon Sheard has returned to school after a recent illness. Jean Miller has returned after be ing confined with chicken pox. Robert Mayberry and Woodrow Wil son are absent from school. Most of the students who were out of school last week are back today. The sixth grade history class are making manuals for history. These illustrate the life of the Oregon pioneers. Ralph Bruce will not be back to school before spring. Norbert Walters is out of school with chicken pox. Girls' Athletics Girls' basket ball is in full progress and the girls are turning out regular ly. There seems to be a lot of in terest and enthusiasm among the girls. A profitable year is before them, we hope. Faculty Mr. William H. Bloom, superintend ent of school at Umatilla, and Miss Cornelia Tomes of Pendleton, were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. F, Bloom. Mrs. Blatchford's mother, Mrs. Neineck of Okanogan, Washington, will be here for Thankgiving. High School Play The student body play, "The Goose Hangs High," was put on before the public last Friday night at the school auditorium. It turned out to be very successful in every way. The char acters of the play were all very good. Some of the outstanding parts were: Bernard Ingals, Eunice Ingals, Hugh Ingals, Lois Ingals, Bradley Ingals, Dagmar CarolL Mrs. Bradley. These parts were especially splendid. The members of the play cast were Ben ard Ingals, Stafford Hansell; Eunice Ingals, Arleen Myrick; Noel Derby, Glenn McCullough; Leo Day, Walter Huffman; Rhoda, Myrtle Campbell; Julia Murdock, Marjorie Montague; Mrs. Bradley, Marjorie Douglas; Ron ald Murdock, Emery Rogers; Hugh Ingals, Ronald Wilson; Lois Ingals, MiMrwl Hanaoll 7?tA11jv Incrfllll. Fred Singer; Kemberly, Arthur Crow- gaaaaiS $125 LESS TUBES I as$pe til 11 BBS .-'-a. ...JliBillll 3 nil in " j 9 c&w Rogers Goodman (A Mercantile Trust) ley; Clem, Garth Pinkerton; Dagmar Caroll, Betty Eager. The feature of the evening was a few numbers played by. the local orchestra which were appreciated. Mr. Tilley presented the audience with a saxophone solo between the first and second acts. H. A. 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