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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1931)
THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON OCTOBER 9, 1931 $2,500,000 FOR ROAD BUILDING Highway Commission De cides on Huge Expendi ture to Create Work. Salem The expenditure of $2,500,000 lor relief work in the state of Oregon was ' voted at a special meeting of the state highway commission at Portland, it was revealed here by a statement issued by the state highway department. The funds will be dis tributed for road work in those coun ties or sections of the state where the distress is most acute, and only heads of families or men with dependents will be employed. The state highway department, in its statement, announced the state wide program would be disbursed in relation to needs of both employment relief and improvement of highways. Men to be employed must have re sided in the state for six months and who are in dire need of work. Current funds will not be sufficient to meet the situation, it was stated, but it is the plan of the commission to borrow from the state for a short time, if such an arrangement can be made, and later sell state , highway bonds. The program as announced by the commission is in keeping with the recommendations of Governor Meier, who laid his plan before the members some time ago, it was an nounced. ' .'. Of the $2,250,000 which will be available for relief work, in so far as projects selected will respond to hand labor, the statement read. One and a quarter million dollars will be ex pended upon those sections of state highways where hand labor can be utilized to the best advantage. The $1,250,000 is the contribution from state highway funds made available under the recent amendment to the market road law. In the counties where they have their own highway equipment and de sire to construct the secondary high ways these funds will be disbursed by the county courts under the jurisdic tion and supervision of the highway commission, but where counties do not elect to do the work with their own forces or equipment the work will be done directly by the highways commission. Successful Hunting Party Members of the family hunting party who spent more than a week at Beartrap springs en the Skyline road, returned Monday, delighted with the success of their expedition-and the enjoyment derived from life in the wilds reports the Weston Leader. The men killed eight deer, and the women kept the camp fires burning, cooked, and played pinochle. The party-included the Eay O'Harras and Sylvan Kennards of Pendleton, the , Albert O'Harras, the Charles Winns, the Tim McBrides, Warner McCorkell, Ralph McBean, Isaac Patrick, Lawrence Mc Bride and, Lwayne O'Harra. Farmers Future Safe The farmer needn't worry any more about his future. A monument com pany at Wenatchee advertised it would take wheat in trade for grave stones and other monuments allowing "five cents per bushel above the mar ket price" for the wheat. BEfflU III CO! m Wyoming Governor Work ing for Movement to Come up at Conference. Five hundsed Spokane county resi dents demanded a reduction in gov ernmental expenses and consequent cuts in taxes at an open hearing in Spokane this week. . Cheyenne, A plan for a co-operative effort by Western states to obtain control of the public domain, lands within their boundaries will be placed before the Western governors' con ference at Portland this month by Governor A. M. Clark. -' "It appears that both President Hoover and Secretary of the Interior Wilbur are inclined toward an atti tude favorable to the Western states in connection with public domain lands," Governor Clark said. "We should strike while the iron is hot and all the Western states should join in the movement. It is one of the most important matters pending at present. "Not only should the states have the surface rights to public domain lands but they should be given the mineral rights also." Governor Clark said it may be years before' there again will be both a president and- a secretary of the in terior who view with favor state con trol of the public domain. For this reason he said action should be -taken by the states to acquire control dur ing the present administration. Prison Food To Be Delivered About 4554 quarts of canned food will be delivered to the Walla Walla Salvation Army this week. The can ning was did by the penitentiasy. , -;,. -,v. ' High School Notes Extra Ten Minutes . High school pupils have various ways of studying. As their methods differ, so do the results. Boys of athletic tendencies often have their minds on a coming game. 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Aaron was one of the most promising backs on the squad and was giving some of the older boys a fight to keep their pos itions. Even after he was hurt and taken off of the field he sent back to find out how his fellow players were. It's this kind of spirit that Builds up a school. phy taught Buddy Weber the art of leading the yells. Girls' League A Girls' League conference will be held in McLaughlin high school at Milton, Saturday, October the 10th, from 9 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. About eleven girls from Athena are planning to attend. Athena III Has Pep Rally Friday evening, October 2, the Athena high school had a pep rally. The students formed a serpentine and marched through the streets. They formed a circle at the corner of Third and Main. There several yells were given. Short speeches were made by Mr. Bloom, Mr. Miller, Art Crowley and Lowell Jenkins. Art Club Progresses The high . school art club which was formed several weeks ago by Miss Calef, is progressing rapidly. Separate classes for pencil sketching,. weaving, mechanical drawing, and dress designing have been formed and are held at different times during the week. The meeting schedule is as follows: weaving, Friday, 12:30-1:00; mechanical drawing, Wednesday, 12:30-1:00; pencil sketching, Tues day and Thursday, 3:30-4:30; dress designing, Thursday, 7:00-8:00 p. m. Play Rehearsals Start "Second Childhood", the play to be presented November 12th and 13th, is progressing rapidly. The play cast under the direction of Mr. Bloom has been reading their parts over and will begin memorizing them this week. The cast is as follows: Professor Relyea Ralph Moore "Auntie" Wcllsmiller (his sister).... Marjorie Douglas Sylvia Relyea (his daughter) Mildred Hansen Central rturbrk '..Lowell Jenkins Marcella Duib'k IV n Barrett Mrs. Vivvert (a nofghlrrt Velma Ross Mrs. Henderson Goldie Miller Judge Sanderson Lei and Jenkins A Pound 0 Ride Steffi . Grades Get Report Cards The pupils on the Honor Roll in the fifth and sixth grade room this month are Helen Alkire, Donald Jones and Beverley Barrett, The fifth and sixth graders are learning to paint with water colors. They are do ing excellent work for beginners. Vir ginia Eager and Gail Moore, both seventh grades, received hundreds in spelling for a month. Maureen Edg er and Jay Scott, both in the eighth grade, were on the honor roll this month in Mr. Miller's room. The pupils in the 1st and 2nd grades areworking on an Indian project for the sand table. An Indian camp is depicted by small figures cut from colored paper. Pine trees and a blue glass lake add to the scene. Among the pupils in Miss Calef's room, those having an average of 100 in spelling for the past month are: third grade, Margery Wilks and Jean ne Standage; fourth grade, Iva Mae Booher, Arminda Coppock, Winifred Wilson, Bobby Zerba. The pupils have made attractive studies of bunches of grapes from cut paper in several shades of orchid and purple. Assembly News An assembly was held last Wednes day afternoon to arouse interest in the game with Pendleton, Saturday. Several songs were sung including our state song, "Oregon My Oregon." The meeting was then turned into a yell practice in which Raymond Mur- r - . - a pound of butter takes a ride of a thousand miles to find its dinner tablet v In more than a hundred produce plants, Swift 8s Company is taking the butterfat, eggs and poultry of its 200,000 farm patrons daily, paying cash for them and sending them into national channels of distribution. Thousands of miles of leased telegraph wires keep Swift Gs Company executives informed where these products command the best prices. To the best markets are rushed the surpluses of over-supplied districts. 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