THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, NOVEMBER 21, 1930
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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
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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.
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Pm A Producer
And A Shareholder
In The Swift Family"
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"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
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High School Notes ' "
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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. '
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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.
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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,
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Fred Singer; Kemberly, Arthur Crow- gaaaaiS
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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. Frick
Carpenter and Contractor
Pendleton - - Phone 1392J
Specializes in
Metal
Weather Stripping
Real Estate
Wheat Alfalfa and
Stock Land
SHEEP FOR SALE
L. L. Montague, Arlington
Pleads Guilty to Sale
and Possession
B. B. Richards, when in
terviewed by the Press
man, pleaded guilty to the
sale of the best insurance
obtainable for the money
and possession of more
policies in reserve ready
at a moments notice for
your use and purpose. A
policy for every hazzard.
B. B. RICHARDS,
Insurance
Foley's Honey and Tar
urcs colds. preventg pneumonia
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