Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1931)
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. Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second -Class Meiil Matter 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 ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 16, 1931 NUMBER 42 OREGON SENATOR TO CALL FARMER McNary To Summon Farm Leaders to Washington for Conference. The Oregon Journal has received advices from its Washington cor respondent that leaders of farm or ganizations will be invited to Wash ington by Senator McNary to offer suggestions for possible legislation The senator will send out invitations within two or three weeks. He is un certain that anything may be done, but wishes to learn farm sentiment and discuss the outlook with groups and organizations. Commending the president's plan for mobilization of frozen credits, he warned that this will be disappoint ing unless it is done in a broad way, so the benefits will extend to small banks and their clients. Federal officials must be sympathet ic to small units, he believes, or much criticism will result. The senator is completing his plans for presentation of the Willamette river improvement before the river and harbor board next Monday and is starting letters to Republican sen ators looking toward committee as signments in his capacity as chair man of the committee on committee McNary discussed with Major Stuart, national forester, the plans for road funds in national forests in Oregon in the next fiscal year, upon suggestion from Governor Meier that as a measure of unemployment re lief the program is possible to be ad vanced. Stuart advised him that upon ac tion by congress one million two hun dred thirty-five thousand dollars of federal funds will be ready for con tract obligation on July first next. District Convention ; . The district Rebekah convention will be held in Freewater, Monday, October 26, at which time delegates from lodges of Umatilla county will be in attendance. An elaborate pro' gram of entertainment has been pre pared by the Freewatar hostess lodge, Integrity No. 175. Mignonette Lodge of Athena will have an important part in the program, and Mrs. Alta Michener and Mrs. Ada Montague have a duet number. Mrs. Maude Logsdon will be the outside guard during the convention. Mrs. Ethel Meldrum, president of the Rebekah Assembly of Oregon will attend the convention and deliver the principal address. Quail Return to Game Farm, Bringing Broods Homing pigeons have nothing on eight pair of California Valley quail, which were forced to fly to safety when high water hit the Eastern Ore gon Game Farm last spring and which returned to the farm last week, bringing with them a fine family of 69 birds, says the East Oregonian. After the birds flew over the top wire of their pens some months ago and escaped drowning, they nestled close to the farm in the thick cover along the Umatilla. When they stag ed their "Back to the Farm" act they brought their numerous offspring to one of the vacant pens in the rear of the holding pens. Lawrence De malgalski, manager of the farm, clos ed the door of the pen and removed the quail to a larger enclosure. The birds are still 'at the farm in the ex hibition pens but will be liberated in different parts of the county after the close of the hunting season. - The high water last spring did con siderable damage at the farm, includ ing loss of birds and property dam age, but nevertheless Mr. . Demalgal ski has had the most successful year in the history of the farm, having raised and liberated over 10,000 game birds. Arrested Brother's Killer Charged with the murder of his brother Caleb, in Pike county, Ken tucky, on November 16, 1916, Lloyd Cantrell, alias Will Williamson, Bend service station operator, was arrested at Bend Tuesday on receipt of a tele graphic copy of a grand jury indict- ment Cantrell freely admitted that he killed his brother, but asserts that it was an accident. He also admitted that he had previously killed a man by the name of Mullins in Pike coun ty, and had been sentenced to serve a life sentence. He was paroled after five years. . Won Audition Final Miss Joyce Nye, 21, a senior at the Whitman Conservatory of Music, won her way to California by a song, in the state finals of the Atwater-Kent Radio audition, at Seattle Tuesday No Profit for the I Mills Grinding Grain for China Flour mills of the Pacific North west will soon begin grinding on the second government order for flour for the Chinese government, the work starting as soon as the wheat is de livered to the mills, according to a statement made by E. H. Leonard, president of the Preston-Shaffer Mill ing company, in an interview with the Walla Walla Uuion, Tuesday. The first, orders, copies of which have just been received, call for the grinding of 300,000 bushels, he said. This is sufficient to keep all the ac tive mills in the northwest busy for seven and a half days, and it is likely work will be started within the week. Half of the fifteen , million bushels of wheat bought by the Chinese is to be ground into flour and the work will' be distributed through quite a long time. "It is not a profit making proposi tion," said Mr. Leonard. "Prices to be paid the mills for grinding will not bring us out even." , Where the Preston-Shaffer company which has agreed to grind its share of the grain, will do the -milling has not been determined. It can be ground at any or all the mills operated by the company, or may be "farmed out," but Mr. Leonard does not believe the price offered will result in much "farming out." Publishes World's Smallest Paper Coppock and Ringel Guernseys Win Again The Guernsey dairy herds of Wil liam Coppock and Louie Ringel have added another collection of prizes in the show ring. At the Umatilla Pro ject Fair, held at Hermiston, Friday and Saturday, the Coppock herd of nine topped the winnings in the Guernsey classes by taking thirteen ribbons, including one championship, five firsts and four seconds. ' The Coppock. winnings in Guernsey classes are: Cow over 3 years old, two entries, first and third; heifer 2 to 3 years old, first; heifer 1 to 2 years second; heifer under 1 year, first, sec ond and fourth, three entries; bull under 2 years, second and fourth, two entries; champion Guernsey female won first on cow over 3 years. Win nings in open dairy cattle classes, all breeds: Best display of dairy cattle, first; get of sire, (four animals sired by. one bull)i first; product of dam (two animals out of one cow), sec ond. Mr. Ringel took prizes on bull un der 2 years; heifer 1 to 2 years, and heifer under 1 year. Perfect weather added materially to the success of the fair which was at tended by large crowds both days. Gate receipts for tr.e last day were well over $500. Dairy cattle and poultry exhibits showed a remarkable increase over former years and dis plays made for 4-H club members was the big feature. High school bands from Irrigon and Pendletonfurnished inspiring music and a football game between Pendleton and Hermiston schools afforded entertainment. Worst Is Over Now Every indication points to the be ginning of better times and, in the opinion of J. Henry Helser, manager of the securties department of the American National- bank, Portland, and chairman of the state advisory banking board, the worst is overthe turn has definitely been reachedKtnd while some further slumps in the stock market are td be expected, es pecially in December, the upward swing should become most marked in January and February. Scout Ends Own Life John L. Baxter, 72, Indian war scout and resident of Camas Prairie for 54 years, killed himself in bed Tuesday by firing a - pistol bullet through his body. Baxter and his brother-in-law, Al Hull, lived togeth er near the old town of Soldier, on a homestead which Baxter filed on in 1886 after spending more than a de cade as a scout, Indian fighter, pio neer merchant and public official. Hunters Return Leonard Geissel, Norman Mclntyre, Dale Stephens, Bryce Baker and Wil ford Miller returned the fore part of the week from the John Day hunting grounds. The party had a grand camping trip and brought home two buck deer. - Produce Good for Tax Citizens of Candler county, Georgia, can pay their road taxes with corn and hay if hard pessed for cash. The county commissioners have decided to accept corn at the rate of 75 cents a bushel and hay at 1 cent a pound. With n paid circulation of about 140 subscribers, the California ' Sun, published by Miss r.arbnra Marquis of Beverly Hills, Calif, twelve-year-old daughter of Don Marquis, noted writer, has the distinction of being the small est newspaper in the world. All of the latest news, features, etc., regarding the motion picture Industry and schools are Included In the sheet The paid subscriptions pay for I lie cosf of getting it out SETS NEW RECORD JT" ft w r ' V f I i h $ I : vasassassz Portrait study of Ivaye Don, noted Lirltlsh automobile and motorbont racer, who In his "Miss England, II" set a new world's motorboat speed record over the measured course of Lake Gardu, holy. Don's new mark Is 110.2 miles per hour. The previous mark was 103.10, niixlc by Don In Ar gentina In April of Mils yp;ir. Football Race Narrows Down to Four Schools The eastern Oregon - high school football race has narrowed down to four teams, with the elimination of two strong squads last week-end. Baker defeated Pendleton Saturday, 8 to 0, crushing the Buckaroo hopes and La Grande walloped McLoughlin high of Milton-Freewater, 36 to 6, in a stunning upset. This week end La Grande plays at Enterprise. Ontario, La Grande, En terprise and Baker remain undefeat ed in this territory. Nomination as Judge Sought Loyal Graham of Forest Grove has filed with the secretary of state a preliminary copy of his petition for the non-partisan nomination for the office of justice of the state supreme court at the primary election next year. He would oppose George M. Brown, incumbent, department No. 3. Graham's filing is the first under the 1931 legislative act providing for a non-partisan judiciary in the state of Oregon. Bend Mill to Close The Shevlin-Hixon Lumber mill at Bend will be closed beginning yester day. About 1400 persons are employ ed, and the payroll is nearly f 1,500, 000. Only 'the shipping department will remain open. ' The mill has been operating about 22 per cent of the time during the past year. It is said the plant will reopen the middle of next March. Idaho Will Show Stock A carload each of sheep, fat steers and hogs will be shown by the Uni versity of Idaho college of agricul ture at the Pacific International Live stock exposition at Portland. The consignment as a whole outclasses anything entered by the university at the Portland show in recent years. Will Have Machine Shop Virgil Zerba is moving the build- night Miss Nye, whose home is in inz located east of the Athena Garaee Hood River, was No. 21, singir.g "Una to his farm north of town. He will Voce Poca Fa" from the "Barber of make suitable alterations and con Seville." ' vert the buildinj i.lo a machine shop. ' qooked Whole Wheat Is Becoming a Regular Diet, Is a Cheap Food A number of local people are ex tolling the merits of cooked whoie wheat as a wholesome and satisfying cereal diet. In the middle west whole wheat has become almost the exclu sive food of many farm families in drought and grasshopper areas of these states. - And to assist them to variety in what might otherwise become a mo notonous menu Miss Margaret Os born, food specialist of the Nebraska college of agriculture, has listed 20 ways of cooking the grain, which is coarsely cracked or unground. On farms in the devastated areas Miss Osborn said she found many eat ing the unmilled wheat as cereal. Wheat is selling for 31 cents a bush el there and is therefore an economi cal antidote against hunger as many mills will crack it for a nominal price or take pay for the service in addi tional grain. Experimenting in her own kitchen Miss Osborn found the most obvious form of preparing the whole wheat was as cereal. From her oven it emerged in a variety of edible forms as muffins, patties, as a basis for meat loaf and even simply fried. Her findings have been embodied in a pamphlet for the use of the needy who wish to stave off famine with whole wheat diet. No one need starve if he can obtain the cheap wheat, Miss Osborn believes. "From the standpoint of nutrition," she said, "Wheat is one of our cheap est sources of 'energy. It is a good source of protein and wheat bran fur ishes not only roughage but valuable mineral salts. It is also a dependable source of vitamin "B". Persons afflicted with stomach troubles, a footnote to her bulletin warns, should not enter upon the whole wheat diet without the advice of a physician. WX.T.U.Coun- IViolin Owned By Famous Engineer Buried Andrew J. Wiley, 72, who during his life time assisted in building more dams than perhaps any engineer in the west, was buried Wednesday on a bench overlooking an Idaho valley made rich by one of the dams he had a part in building. He died last Thurs day in Monrovia, Cal., while inspect ing a site for a proposed water stor age project. " Care of Insane Ruled All Oregon counties were advised to provide an item in their 1932 budgets for the care of their insane in state institutions, in compliance with the 1931 law, an informal opinion hand ed down by Attorney-General Van winkle. Vanwinkle said no formal opinion would be. issued by his office. Hitch Hiker Killed A hitch hiker, whose name is un known died at Hermiston Tuesday morning as the result of injuries re ceived when the car driven by the mo torist that had befriended him left the road and overturned Monday night near Hermiston, according to a report made to the county sheriff. Summons Answered at 92 Train, boat and wagon team brought Mrs. Hannah Armstrong to the north west where she spent 60 of her 92 years. - Mrs. Armstrong died at Wal la Walla, Tuesday. i , Barber Injured in Wreck Tom Matthews, a former barber of Walla Walla is in a Boise, Idaho, hos pital near death as the result of an automobile accident near Mountain Home Idaho. Matthews left three weeks ago, having bought a shop at Mountain Home. ty Convention In Athena Yesterday The county convention of the Wo men's - Christian Temperance Union was held in Athena yesterday and was largely attended by delegates from surrounding towns. The pro gram as formulated prior to the con vention, follows: 9:30 Executive board meeting. 10.00 Address of Welcome, Rev. C. H. Northrup, pastor Baptist church. Response, Mrs. C. H. Gemmell coun ty vice president, Helix. 10:10 Song service and devotions, county evangelistic, director, Mrs. W. H. Albee. 10:30 Temperance Flag Salute. Convention open for business, ap pointment of committees registration, courtesies, obituary, press, time and place, resolutions, nominating, pages. 10:40 Reports of Officers, presi dent, Mrs. Esther May; treasurer, Mrs. Chas. Betts; corresponding sec retary, Mrs. W. R. Wyrick; record ing secretary, Mrs. Clementine In gram. 11:00 Reports of Unions, Athena, Helix, Hermiston, Pendleton, Milton and Freewater. 11:15 Report - of Children's Farm Home. Mrs. A. V. Constant, Rieth. ll:5o Presentation Youths Roll Call, Mrs. Roy Penland, Helix. 12:00 Noon Tide Prayer, no-host dinner. 1:15 Devotions, Mrs. Higgenbot- tom, Milton, Mrs. D. E. Ndurse. 1:25 Memorial service and thanks offering. 1:30 Notes on International Rela tions, "What Oregon Pays for War," Mrs. Florance Berkeley, state direc tor. Special music, Mrs. R. B. McEwen, Athena. White Ribbon Recruit exercise. 2:00 Demonstration of Helix Light Line Union. 2:15 Prohibition Patriots, Starring the Flag Demonstration. - 2:30 Introduction of County Di rector; scientific temperance instruc tion, Mrs. F. O. Swanson, evangelism, Mrs. W. H. Albee; institutes, Mrs. C. A. Patton; legislation, Mrs. Walter Jones; Loyal Temperance Legion, Mrs. John Gallogly; medal contests, Hermiston Union. 3:30 Reports of committees, re gistration, resolution, time and place, nominating. 4:00 Speaker supplied; seating delegates; business; election, of offi cers and delegates to state conven tion Albany, temperance benediction, song: "Blest Be the Tie That Binds." Swaggart May Be Old Stradivaritis Few Farmers Seeding The amount of fall seeding of wheat has been small in Umatilla county, declares Walter Holt, county agent. Farmers are waiting for a rain be fore they begin sowing. Sullivan Offers Alibi in Homer Bidwell Case An attempt to prove that Willard Sullivan was in Idaho at the time he is accused of having murdered Homer Bidwell, prominent Union rancher, will be made by his defense attorneys, they indicated at the murder trial in La Grande. ( Bidwell was shot to death on his farm near Union. Sullivan was charg ed with the slaying. Mrs. Bidwell, the first witness for the state, told of Sullivan's alleged attempt a year ago to burn the Bid well home. Here From Montana Captain and Mrs. Prestbye are hero from Whitefish, Montana, visiting at the home of their son, E. C. Prestbye. Captain Prestbye plies a pleasure boat on a lake in Glacier National Park during the summer season, and is an old time resident of Whitefish. He and Mrs. Prestbye will visit their son for several days, and the captain will go to Portland to have an eye cataract removed. J. M. Swaggart, who resides in the La Mar' gulch neighborhood, in the owner of a remarkable old violin which is thought by musicians who have seen and played upon the in strument to be a genuine Stradi- vanus. According to information eiven the Weston Leader by Mr. Swaggart, this violin was brought into Athena (then Centerville) 48 years ago by the lead er of a traveling orchestra playing for a road show. Those who heard him at the time recall that he was a master performer. The show strand ed, and the -violinist with the im providence of his kind at the time was soon penniless. He knocked about Athena for a time, and finally took his violin to Dick Donica, a merchant of the period. To him he pawned his instrument for $7.50, saying that he valued it highly and would assuredly redeem it. He left, and nothing more was heard of him. Very likely, death claimed him before he could find the means to repossess his beloved instrument. Mr. Donica kept the violin for some weeks and then sold it, subject to re demption, to the late Nelson Swag gart, well known pioneer rancher, at the price paid for it. At the latter's passing it became the property of his son, J. M. Swaggart. The inside back of the violin bears the inscriptions: "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonen fis." "Faciebat anno 1738." INTANGIBLES TAX IS RULED AS VOID Refund of $894,000 to be Re turned to Taxpayers By State, '- Cattle and Sheep Are in Fair to Good Shape In its Oregon livestock and range report for October 1, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics says: Cattle are in fair to good condition with some thin ones in dry areas. In the western states, cattle are general ly in fair to good codnition, except in a few drought areas. Shipments have been heavy from dry sections, with a decided tendency to hold cattle where feed and finances permit. Stock cows and heifers are being held with an at tempt to hold up breeding herds and sell steers and calves. There has been little country trading in the south west and shipments have been light. The condition of Oregon sheep is considerably below the average for this month. Western fall feed for sheep is poor to fair except in the southwest, but sheep are generally in fair to good flesh except in dry sec tions. In the northern sections, there is a larger than usual proportion of feeder lambs. Poor fall feed has forc ed early shipments of lambs. The large supply of old ewes has not found an outlet or market. Sheep and lambs have done well in Texas, Ari zona and New Mexico, where there is an abundance of feed. Winter sheep ranges in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Mon tana. South Dakota, Colorado and northeastern Wyoming are poor with little stock water. Western sheepmen are facing a serious financial prob lem in securing feed to supplement short ranges. Short hay and grain crops and finances will restrict lamb feeding in most of the western states except in Texas. Death of Mrs. Tucker Mrs. Hattie Anne Tucker, wife of Sidney Tucker of Weston, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gould at Weston; Monday morn ing at the age of 41 years 11 months and 11 days. Funeral services were held at the Church of the Brethren in Weston, Tuesday afternoon. Trout Plantings Trout plantings' of fingerlings hatched at Bingham Springs hatchery are reported in the fish and game commission bulhtin of October 5th as follows: Rainbow in Camas creek, 5000; Meacham creek, 20,000; south fork Walla Walla river, 30,000; Uma tilla river 216,800. Board Aids Growers Loans amounting to $523,245 have been made in Oregon by the federal farm board up to September 9, against which advances of $326,000.19 have been made, with repayments of $20,219. The statement is made by the board at Washington, to indicate the extent of its operations under the agricultural marketing act in Oregon. Grain, fruit, wool, poultry and dairy interests have assisted through as sociations representing each industry. Gold Fish Pond Laurence Pinkerton will soon have a gold fish and lily pond on his golf course. He is making arrangements to construct the pond large enough to make a permanent home for the increase from 150 gold fish as breed ers, which he will procure from the ponds of F. Hampton, near Genessee, Idaho. Pond lilies and other acquatic plants will serve to beautify the pond in season. Horses Get Protection Horses in Mexican bull fight arenas are to be protected with pads like American football players. A new regulation makes it obligatory to pro vide pads for the horsse to protect them from being gored by the bulls. The horses are blindflolded and there fore have no defense against the bulls, save the picador's iance. Washington. The United States supreme court Monday refused to re view a case brought by the Oregon tax commissioners to set aside a de cision by the Oregon supreme court holding invalid the state intangibles tax act of 1929 as applied to indi viduals. . . By refusing to assume jurisdiction, the supreme court upheld the Oregon supreme court which declared the in tangibles act invalid. Thus, under the 1931 act of the state legislature, the money paid in for 1929 intangibles taxes must be refunded to the persons who paid it. This amounts to nearly $900,000. The state tax commission is under stood to have had the forms ready so the money can be remitted prompt ly. " The validity of the intangibles tax of 1929 was challenged in the cir cuit court of Oregon for Marion coun ty in February, 1930, by Redfield & Wood and others. They contended the 5 per cent an nual tax imposed by the act on gross incomes received by individuals was arbitrary and unreasonable because it applied only to individuals and not to corporations, and to residents and not to non-residents. The suit brought against the Ore gon tax commissioners and other state officers charged with the en forcement of the tax alleged it de prived individual residents of the equal protection of the law guaran teed by the 14th amendment to the federal constitution. The state replied that corporations were required by another act to pay a 5 per cent excise or franchise tax on annual net income from all sources including intangibles of individuals was not discriminatory or arbitrary. The Marion county circuit court sustained the law as valid and dis missed the complaint but the Oregon supreme court declared it uncon stitutional and void, holding it in con flict with the 14th amendment to the federal constitution. -t Salem. Refusal of the United supreme court to take jurisdiction in Oregon's intangibles tax suit leaves to the state tax commission no other recourse than a refund of the $894, 000 in taxes which were collected un der the 1929 act, was explained by members of the commission when ad vised of the action of the court. Harvested Potato Crop Marion Hansell's eleven acre po tato crop on his foothill rnch yield- j ed about a thousand sacks of netted gems. Nineteen men made quick work of harvesting the spud crop, cleaning it up in two days time, including put ting the tuben in pits. I Has Certificate Dalbcrth Taylor received a certifi cate showing that he has an accred ited herd of grade Jersey cattle that are free of tuberculosis. The certifi cate is given to him by the United States Department of Agriculture and permits him to ship cattle intrastate wunoui navine a tuffercuun tet. Game Commission Adopts Yearly Budget, $395,000 Based on anticipated revenue of ap proximately $390,000, the state game commission Tuesday adopted a budget for next year calling for $395,000. After deducting $127,000 as the con tribution to the state police fund for game law enforcement, the remain der was apportioned as follows: Stream and survey, $6000; hatcheries, $140,000; engineering, $14000; edu cational and publicity, $10,000; game farms, $45,000; office administration, $16,000; miscellaneous, $16,750; Mrs. Denny, $600; game supervisor $5200; bounties and rewards, $6750; com missioners' expense, $3500; river pa- " trol $5000. The receipts of the commission for the year ending October 1 this year were $383,910. In order to square ac counts it ,W!S3 necessary to borrow $17,000 from October receipts, mak ing the total expense of the year $400,910. The commission began the year with a deficit of $34,000, which was made up out of the receipts of Oc tober 1930. This year begins with a deficit of $17,000. Whitman vs. Athena As we go to press this (Thursday) afternoon, Whitman Sigma Chi and Athena high school alumni are en gaged in a colossal football contest on the local gridiron. The Athena team has in its lineup, Eldon Myrick, Lee Foster, Ralph and Edwin McEwen, Arthur Crowley, Walt Huffman, Wil- ford Miller, Orel Michener, Jack Moore, Wayne Pinkerton, Bryce Ba ker, Stafford Hansell, Cecil Pambrun and George Pambrun. Wilbur Har den referee, Lisle Gray head lines man. . Unusual Farm Operations Unusual seasonal farm operations were noted this week by J. E. Jones. On his mail delivery route north of Athena he observed Frank Sanders seeding his fall wheat crop. Later in the day Jones drove up to the moun tain farming district east of Athena, and there saw Grady Herndon's threshing, outfit harvesting a cron of grain, and according to Jones, part oi tne new woktfa a trifle green.