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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. 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. VOLUME 44 Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mall Matter ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 9, 1931 NUMBER 41 NORMAL HEAD IS CENSURED BY BOARD President Landers Charged . With Incompetency by Unanimous Action. Locals Lose To Pendleton Bucks by the Score 190 Salem. The state board of higher education voted to censure President .' J. S. Landers of the Oregon Normal school at Monmouth Monday by un- ammous action. The board also ac cepted all but one paragraph ,of the ; extensive report of its special com. mittee charged with investigation of school affairs at the Monmouth Nor mai; after charges of incompetency and inefficient administration had been made against Landers through trovernor Julius L. Meier. The board however rejected the re commendation of the committee to ac. cept -President Landers' resignation as of September 8, 1932, with leave of absence with pay being granted from the close of the spring term in June, 1932. The recommendation had first been considered in a. favorable light. The matter of resignation was , stricken in final action by the board. The board censure, as stated in the ; committee report was: , "Error in judgment in allowing a student to remain in school after pleading guilty to serious charges and failure to use due diligence in trac ing the same student's previous rec ord. "For misleading the state super intendent of public instruction by cer tifying in six cases that students had J completed the. required courses in the school when in fact, they, had finish ed the courses but were deficient by from two to 13 points of the require ments for graduation, which they were allowed to make up later." Action of the board followed an all day session held at the capital Mon day in which a seven-page agenda of business was completed and the Land er's case brought up at the conclusion of the session. rr-1 : i i: appointed last spring to probe the normal school unanimously concurred : in its report, including the acceptance of Landers' resignation. Chairman of the committee was Mrs. Walter M. Pierce of La Grande and other mem- Vara ward AlHort. Rnmll tf "MtiAfnrA and C. L. Starr of Portland. The report came up for adoption after the board had listened to an extensive presentation of rebuttal by President Landers on many of the points covered in the hearing. With Landers' fate throw before : the board, F. E. Callister of Albany began the move against accepting the resignation by suggesting that school efficiency at Monmouth would be dis turbed this year with the knowledge current that the board had accepted tha resignation of the president to be effective at the end of the spring term. On motion of Callister the report was ordered deleted insofar as it . accepted the resignation of the presi . dent. The motion carried. After a hard, bruising battle the Pendleton Buckaroos took home the long end of the score from the Athe na lads in Saturday's football game, played on the local field, score 19 to 0. The game was rather one-sided but the locals although hopelessly outweighed and inexperienced out fought their heavier opponents to the extent that the Bucks had to extend themselves to get their three touch downs and extra point. Pendleton received and was stopped on their own 45-yard line. Two downs carried the ball to the 50-yard mark er. The visitors kicked, Athena re turned to their own 30-yard line, A line plunge and a pass was good for 20 yards. The Buck line held and put the ball in the visitors possession, After an exchange of punts, the Pen dleton team took the balland with several completed passes and end runs the oval was pushed across the last marker for the first tally. The try for point failed. A series of power plays in which after about every other play an Athe na man was injured, Pendleton man aged to shove the ball over the line with much difficulty because of the fact that the Athena team, compos ed mostly of substitutes, battled toe to toe for every inch. The try for point was good. Half time, score 13 to 0. Third quarter., Athena received, af ter two downs for no gain Moore kick ed out of danger. Pendleton return- ed and after several line plunges and end runs tallied again, they failed to convert Athena received and again was forced to kick out of the danger zone. Close to the end of the third period Aaron Douglas stopped what looked like a scoring run, but in do ing so was injured. An examination proved that his left leg was broken just above the ankle. Feeling sure the game was cinched Pendleton rushed m an entire fresh team for the fourth quarter. Al though tired, Athena played the new team to a standstill and as the closing minutes of the game neared threaten ed to score.. After four downs the ball was stopped on the one-yard line as the game ended. Referee: Ter- erson, Helix; umpire, Myrick, Athe na. , The game that was to be played at Weston today and the game with Waitsburg here October 30 have been cancelled. The next game will be in Athena Saturday, October 17 against Heppner. Camera Float in Los Angeles' Big Fiesta A Pleasant Surprise A pleasant surprise came to Mr, and Mrs. Jess Smith who reside on the M. L. Watts farm north of town when a company of neighbors and friends with lunch baskets walked in cn them last Thursday evening Those making the party were Mr. and Mrs. Zerba and family, Miss Edna Zerba, Mrs. Floyd Pinkerton, Garth Pinkerton, Joyce Pinkerton, Mrs. Eoy Cannon, Valerie Cannon, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Cannon, Mrs. Potter, Lois Smith, Chester Lyman, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Elder, Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Pinkerton and Jewel Pinkerton. Four tables of Pinochle was the en tertainment for the evening, followed by a pot luck lunch. The Thimble Club The Thimble Club will meet Tues day afternoon, October 13, at the home of Mrs. Lewis Keen. The sun bonnet quilt will be drawn at the Evergreen Hall Friday night, October 23, at 8 o'clock at tH Good-Time Dancing Club dance. A member of the Thimble Club says that there are just a few more tickets on the quilt and that they can be had at the Red and White store. . . Reeve Gets Scholarship The following A. P. dispatch from Cambridge, Mass., is of especial in terest to the many friends of the Betts family, who are receiving con gratulations on Reeve's good for tune: Harvard University this week announced the award of 32 scholar ships in the Harvard Medical school. The recipients included: Reeve H. Betts, Athena, Or. . , . Eastern Star Chapter The Eastern Star Chapter met Wednesday evening. Mrs. Fred Ker shaw, Mrs. M. M. Johns and . Mrs. M. L. Watts had charge of the social hour. Light refreshments were serv tH at taw cfcsv oX tirc vwsiny. 'irst Wheels Turn At Big Ariel Plant - Kelso, Wash. The- waters of the Lewis river have gone to work for the first time since that stream first began its rush to the sea, turning the gigantic turbine in tha Northwestern Electric Company's power plant at Ariel, 13 miles above Woodland. Test ing of the equipment' has been in pro gress for several weeks and last week the turbine, which will generate 60, 000 horsepower when operating at full capacity was started and the final tests will be made with the plant in operation. Construction of the project was be gun November 1, 1929 by the Phoenix Utility company, which is associated with the Northwestern Electric, and the mammoth dam, which tower 200 feet above the valley level andhich is 1342 feet in length at its top, was completed last spring. The dam ex tends 123 feet beneath the bed of the river and is a solid concrete structure 94 feet thick at its base and 16 feet wide at the top. . Behind the dam has been impound ed a lake nearly 200 feet deep and ten and a half miles long, which has been named Lake Merwin in honor of L. T. Merwin, vice-president and general manager of the Northwestern Electric company. Guests at Roseberry Home Mr. and Mrs. Harve Roseberry had as their house guests this week, Mrs. Andrew McDonald and daughter Paul ine of Hollywood, California. Mr. McDonald who is an employe of the Metro-Goldwyn motion pictures was unable to make the trip 'as was ex pected. Mr. McDonald, Jr., called for his mother and sister going to Seattle enroute home. Dairymen At Hermiston Several dairymen in the vicinity of Athena are in Hermiston this week end, for the purpose of showing their stock at the Hermiston Stock Show. Dairymen from this neighborhood last year won prizes for their high grade cattle. ' . 7 Is in Hospital Again E. A., Dudley is in a hospital in Walla Walla, where last Friday he submitted to a second operation for glandular trouble. He is doing nice ly and expects to be home in another week. Mrs. Dudley U also in Walla Wall la attta&om vpvn him. I mi i mi u t: t , "J 7 jWVaWV' ''fit- "-l$h Pi r H M4- iff - r I rt If Pioneer Days Are J Recalled by Mrs. Hulda McKinney Tli:s Is the Camera float designed as a part of Hollywood's contribution to La Fiesta de Los Angeles, the hundred and fiftieth birthday celebration In the southern California city. - " one President Hall Raps State Board's Stand Salem. President Arnold Bennett Hall of the. University of Oregon told the state board of education Tuesday that if the present policies regulating football recruiting for the two large institutions in the state are continued, Oregon can expect no more winning football teams at the end of four years. , . "I do not say this in complaint of non-recruiting policy recently adopt ed by the board," Hall said, "but simply to explain what is going on. We may prevent recruiting, but it is general throughout the higher edu cational institutions in the United States and it seems sure to continue. We can't keep California, Stanford, and the University of Southern Cali fornia from coming into our state and getting star talent." Hall said he did not know what the answer to the existing condition was. He added that the board members might recall that the only spontaneous legislative support given higher edu cation in Oregon came when the leg islators adopted a resolution of ap proval when Oregon tied Harvard at the tournament of Roses a number of years ago. Charges, Are Dismissed in the Idaho Rum Cases Boise, Idaho, Hoyt E. Ray, United States district attorney announced this week all charges against the men involved in the Wallace-Mullan rum conspiracy" cases had been dis missed and the bonds exonerated. The action was based on the deci sion of the United States circuit court of appeals reversing the decision of the district court which found more than a score defendants, including many city and county officials, guilty. Dismissal of the cases, a formality, ended an action that brought federal penitentiary sentences to the mayors of both Mullan and Wallace, to Sher iff R. E. Weiniger of Shoshone coun ty, and equal or lesser sentences to other city and county officials and to nearly a score of private citizens, in cluding several women. The officials were charged with ac cepting regular fees from bootlegging establishments, the fees all going in to the public treasuries. In no inst ance were any of the municipal of ficials charged with taking the fees for personal gain. . " At the trial, in December, 1929, they explained the money was needed to finance city government, and the exactions were justified on the ground the hard-working miners demanded liquor, and would get it in any event, from some source. W. C. T. U. Convention The W. C. T. U. county convention will be held at the Baptist church starting at 10 o'clock hj the forenoon, Thursday, October J5. Delegates from Milton, Helix, Pendleton, Hermiston and Reith are 'expected to be present for the forenoon and afternoon ses sions. A program has been prepared and the public is invited at attend. Mrs. A. F. May of Pendleton will pre side. Goes To Lakeriew Wendel Shiglcy left Athena Wed nesday for Lakeview, Washington, where he has secured employment in the Mountain View Sanitarium. As to the nature of his duties Wendel does not know. Carl Calvert, former Athe na high school graduate has had em ployment at the sanitarium since leaving Athena. -i Blast Breaks Windows A blast at the rock quarry on the new road construction work south of Weston, sent a shower of rock that shattered about the II. S. Street farm house an eighth of a mile away, Feeding Methods Tested On O.S.C. Pullet Flock Oregon State College, One thou sand white leghorn pullets in the lay ing pens at the poultry department of Oregon State college are serving to reveal the comparative value of sev eral methods of feeding from time of hatching to full production. These pullets have already gone through the first part of the experiment, wpich was to show whether they could be raised just as well on laying rations as on the more complicated and expensive chick feeds. Results of this phase of the experiment are now being compiled. Now that 500 have been raised one way and 500 the other, these two groups have again been divided, each into four pens of 125 each. Through out the coming winter they will all receive exactly the same treatment and will be in the same environment except that each of the four pens in each group will be fed differently. The two No. 1 pens will get hand fed grain in the litter with hopper fed mash. No. 2 pens will get both hopper fed grain and hopper fed mash. The third pens will be given cube feed cr "pellets" in hoppers, while the fourth pens in each group ' will get an "all mash" ration from hoppers. ' "All four of these methods are in commercial use in Oregon and the experiment station ' is constantly in receipt of many requests with regard to their relative merits," says A. G, Lunn, head of the poultry depart, ment. "Field tests by poultrymen have also indicated that good pullets can be raised by using regular laying rations, and if this is correct it will greatly reduce the labor and feed cost. Every precaution was taken to see that the two batches of pullets are the same in heredity, even to the point of dividing each batch as it came from the incubator. Ticks Infect Grouse, Tuleraemia Danger Dr. R. R. Parker, chief of the U. S. Public Health service laboratory in Montana, expects to go on a three week's inspection trip through Utah, Idaho and Oregon. He comes to check the use of spotted fever vaccine and to collect date on occurrence of spot ted fever and other tick infections. Dr. Parker says another species of woodtick has been discovered. This tick infects grouse, like rabbits, and causes tuleraemia. Anybody who handles the grouse risks an infection that mfey cause tuleraemia, a disease that has proven fatal in instances. Pay-or-Quit Order Out Directors of the Berney school Wal la Walla have filed notice that they will claim the state and county ap portionment funds for 15 Berney school children who are attending Sharpstein school in district No. 1. Directors of district No. 1 voted as a result to charge parents of these children $35 a year tuition, this to be paid by October 15 or the children will be barred from school. Want Pendleton-John Day Road Asking that plans for the com pletion of the Pendleton John Day Highway take precedence over the proposed 'short route from Portland to the sea and that the Pendleton- John Day Highway be included in the federal aid or seven per cent system, a letter was sent by the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce Wednesday to Roy A. Klein, secretary of the high way commission. Derbin Foster who is employed at the W. S. Ferguson farm was called to Hillgard, Wash., last week by tha serious illness of his father. When he reached home he found his father in an VMCttucttMi' cvmBtfta. ,, Mosquito Problem in Oregon Is Real One ' Dr. Frederick E. Strieker has the following to say of mosquitoes: "The mosquito problem in all parts of the country is becoming of great er importance. Methods of mosquito extermination are well known, but require well organized community ef fort for success. All mosquitos must have water to breed. "In Oregon, there are many kinds of these insects. A number of them occur in such abundance as to render life uncomfortable except behind screens. They gain entrance through the tiniest of openings. 'A The common house mosquitos breed in rain barrels, cisterns, catch basins, foul puddles, pools near garbage dumps, or where city and village wastes are allowed to accumulate. One of the worst house-invading species is a voracious blood sucker. which frequently appears in enormous swarms, making like miserable for everyone. The organization to carry on mos quito control should be as simple as possible. One person should be in charge and should be given the neces sary personnel and supplied with suf ficient labor to carry out the plan ef ficiently. Law Is Circumvented by Oleomargarine Interests Olympia. Circumvention of Wash ington s oleomargarine tax law, which imposes a tax of 15 cents a pound on butter substitute, and which was en acted for, the protection of the dairy industry, is being attempted openly by the producers and distributors of "Nucoa" oleomargarine. They are seeking to get around the tax law by supplying Washington consumers through parcel post deliveries from Portland, and the movement is arous ing criticism and opposition among dairy farmers. ' The distributors of oleomargarine, having made unsuccessful fights to defeat so-called "anti-oleo" bills in the 1931 legislatures of Washington and Oregon, now are moving openly and frankly to market their product without paying the tax. They are running advertisements in numerous newspapers, directed to Washington women, in which they say: "Today you simply leave your order with your grocer who forwards it across the state line, and promptly you re ceive your regular supply at the reg ular price. Thus, you don't have to pay the 15 cents a pound tax." Best Wheat Crop Weston Leader:What is believed to be the best wheat crop ever raised in the Weston region was produced this year by J. N. York from 300 acres of the J. F. Killgore holdings which he is operating under lease, north of town. According to written proofs read by the editor of this paper, the 300 acres averaged 62 bushels to the acre f No. 1 Federation, all fall sown. Other crops of 60 bushels and a little better to. the acre have been threshed in different seasons in the Weston region, but always from a smaller acreage. Mr. York cropped nearly as good a yield this year from his own and other leased lands. Last week's most interesting so cial event was the party given in honor of Mrs. Hulda McKinney who was 90 years old Thursday. The af fair was a complete surprise to Mrs. McKinney and she graciously receiv ed the many friends who called at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Little. In addition to the good wishes and congratulations the honoree was the recipient of many gifts and the rooms were gay with blossoms pre sented by her friends. Mrs. McKinney's childhood home was at Mitchell, North Carolina, and 50 years ago last April she and her 'family journeyed west. The imme diate- party consisted of 16 and the emigrant train in which they traveled was so crowded that, until they reached Salt Lake they had only two seats. Then the men of the party de manded a car for their families which was given them for the re mainder of the trip to San Francisco, Progress was very slow the entire trip requiring 3 weeks. Provisions were purchased at stations along the way and coffee was made on huge stoves in the train. The men and boys walked part of the time to rest, so one can imagine the speed of the train. . . . , The next lap of the journey was by coastwise steamer from San Fran cisco to Astoria, then by river boat to Wallula. Then they continued to vvaua waua on a narrow gauge railroad. Walla Walla at that time was a mere village, and Dr. Blalock Mrs. McKinney's brother who . had preceded her party by three years had taken up quantities of land west of town, which he eventually gave to the Adventists and which is at present known as College Place. Dr. Blalock had selected land for his family near the town named af ter him and all members of the party who were old enough took up home steads. The land was good but wa ter was scarce and Mrs. McKinney tells of managing to run her home with one barrel of . water a week. Other hardships were in proportion but she raised her family of two girls and four boys in the face of these many difficulties. Mrs. McKinney is a charming lady, with a keen sense of humor, and is interested in modern life and events of the day. She is active and assists with the housework and often calls on her neighbors. She is fond of flowers and enjoys working among them. FARM GO-OPS ARE NOW GOING STRONG American Association Votes Approval of Hoover Plan for $500,000,000 Pool. Umatilla Forests Is Being Photographed Lafe -Wernstedt of Bellingham, of ficial photographer of the U. S. na tional forest service operating out of the Portland office, and John Blum, president of the Northwest Air Ser vice of Seattle, his pilot, are in Wal la Walla waiting for more clear weather Vfore completing a pictur ization of the Umatilla national forest. The air service planes scout fires during the fire season and make maps of the forest after the fire season has passed. The pictures made from planes make it possible for the forest maps to be brought up to date and inaccessible regions better cared for. Sheriff to Sell Land The biggest land auction in the history of Malheur county will be held October 31 in Vale, when 250 par cels of county-owned land will go under the hammer of Sheriff C. W. Glenn. The parcels vary in size, but an effort has been made to include in each one at least enough land for one ranch. Prices range from $10 to $2500 Some of the parcels are to be sold by the acre at (1.25 an acre. The lands have been taken over by the county for delinquent taxes during the past ten years and some of the tracts are improved with houses and farm buildings.- Most of them lie in the Warm springs irrigation district in the im medate vicinity of Vale. Golf Course Still Popular The Athena golf course is still popular with the people of Athena and outlying districts who require some form of exercise. Mr. Pinker ton, the proprietor has made it pos sible for anyone wishing to do so to win a turkey for his Thanksgiving dinner by playing a round of golf in a foursome. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Pinkerton and daughter Jewell, Mrs. Floyd Pinker ton and daughters left Friday for Lewiston to visit over the week-end wTtb trtmli and relanwi. - Back From Portland Darvin Phillips returned home from Portland Monday where he took his mother en route to California where she will spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Dennis and family. Mrs. Phillips has been in very poor health for the past year but stood the trip to Portland very well. Af ter a few days spent with her son John Phillips in that city she de parted for the south. Dudleys Her Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dudley former ly of Athena, now residents of Gold endale, with friends and relatives of Pendleton, spent Sunday afternoon in Athena. Charles and friends enjoyed a round of golf on the local course while Mrs. Dudley called on several matrons of the city, the Mesdamea F. B. Boyd, M. L. Watts, B. B. Rich ards, Lloyd Micheirer and O. M. Eag er mquuto Atlantic City. James C. Ston. chairman of the federal farm board XT?- 1 weanesaay tola the American Bank ers association that the financial condition of the farm co-operative is better than that of "other American financial institutions." Mr. Stone said the board has "civen financial assistance of more than $300,000,000 aside from loans for wheat and cotton stablization opera tionsto 112 co-operative associa tions. " , The bankers' association Wednes day voted approval of President Hoo ver's plan for a $500,000,000 bank ers' pool to mobilize the nation's frozen credit. ' Amid scenes of wild enthusiasm tho convention approved President Hoo ver's proclamation in its entirety, and afterwards adopted the following specific praise of essential points: "We heartily annrove the nlan of the president of the United States' under which a $500,000,000 bank pool is being created for the. purpose of meeting the discount demands of bankers , who find it advisable in sup plying tne needs ol the public to ob tain funds from collateral of a char acter, which though sound, is not eligible for rediscount directly or in directly with the federal reserve banks. "The operations of this pool, which should be available for use by all sound banks, both state and national, should immediately remove the' re striction upon credit throughout the United States that has been the cause of so much anxiety to bankers and the public and should serve to re-es- ablish confidence throughout the country." In other resolutions the association voiced its confidence in the future, On the Hoover moratorium and in ternational relations, the convention "respectfully suggested to our gov ernlent the consideration of under taking negotiations immediatelv to ward accomplishing an extension of the moratorium until such time as seems necessary to allow sufficient re covery from present conditions to warrant the belief that adjusted pay ments can be resumed and that previ ous to the maturity of the moratorium the capacity to pay of the nations concerned be reconsidered." Harry J. Haas, vice-nresident and director of the Philadelphia First Na tional bank, was elected nresident of the association. Los Angeles was chosen for the 1932 convention. The Study Club Continuing explorations in literarv New England, an interesting and in structive talk was given Friday af ternoon by Mrs. E. C. Rogers, her subject being Concord, with subdi visions dealing with Thoreau's house and Walden Pond, and the homes of Emerson and Hawthorne. Mrs. Bovd gave a short description of Whittier's country. Roll call was answered with quotations from these authors. Mrs. W. O. Read was hostess for the af ternoon, the cozy rooms beinsr en hanced with boquets of lavender Mlchelmas daisies and yellow mari golds. The meeting next week will be with Mrs. M. M. Johns, with a final New England pilgrimage. Mrs. F. B. Radtke will give Portsmouth, its bygone greatness, a descriptions of the birthplace of Thomas Bailey Aid rich, The Isle of Shoals, Celia Bax ter. The south and west of New England, with a few of its early au thors and New Haven the city of elma will be the subject considered by Mrs. Stella Keen. Roll call will be quo tations from authors in the day's pro-gram. Christian Missionary Meets The Christian church Missionary Society met Wednesday at the home of Mrs. S. C. Charlton. Fourteen ladies were present. Mrs. Wm. Mc Pherson had charge of the program. Studies of the country and peoples of the Rio Grande and Colorado- riven was the topic discussed. Sketches covering these topics were read and reviewed by Mrs. L. M. Keen, Mrs. Lloyd Michener, Mrs. C. M. Eager, Miss Mildred Stanton Mrs. J, W. Pinkerton and Mrs. D. A. Pinkerton. Mrs. Mary McKay had charge of the devotional exercises. Salad, wafers and coffee were served by Mrs, Charl ton assisted by Mrs. G. R. Gerking. Pickett Injured Solista Pickett was injured in last week's football game. Dr. W. G. Cowan in Walla Walla was consulted ana found a badly bruised back, liga ments torn in the shoulder and a se vere bump on the back of his head that gave him plenty of misery fdr erai 0070,