THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, NOVEMBER 6, 1931
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Athena, Oregon, November 6, 1931
A report shows that gifts of the
Rockefeller foundation for the year
1931 have totaled $15,000,000, while
the balance of the principal fund re
mains at $143,000,000. Universities
shared in the Rockefeller liberality,
both here and abroad. Yale received
over $1,500,000. A gift of $547,000
was made to the. University of Chi
cago. Columbia received $204,000,
while over $875,000 went to Harvard.
Other American and foreign univer
sities received liberal gifts including
those in France, Poland, England,
China, Japan and Germany. Hardly
a public welfare activity that was not
touched by Rockefeller generosity.
Some "of the gifts were Medical sci
ence $359,000, social science $642,
000, public health $2,700,000, research
programs $1,300,000, natural science
$198,000, . fellowships and grants
$1,180,000 land and buildings $3,000,-
000, and administration $872,000.
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An increasing demand for public
health nurses in schools and in rural
and industrial sections is being felt
throughout the country, according to
Miss Mary Sewall Hardncr, national
membership chairman. "This is due,
I feel to the stringency of economic
conditions which have focused the
public and professional eye on the
importance of public health nursing."
Public health nurses will face this
year "the most challenging winter in
the history of the profession," she
states.
ball prowess Saturday, was that U. of
O. defeated New York 14 to 6 and
O. S. C. lost to Washington State
College 6 to 7. Nevertheless there
will be a great homecoming day down
at Eugene soon.
Living on cocoanuts and wild pork
for three months those Cocos isle
castaways found themselves anemic
when rescued. Well, anyway they
had three squares a day, even though
they found no vitamins in their fare.
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Worthless checks were passed on
Benton county turkey growers last
year and the county agent is warning
the growers to be on their guard this
season. He advises the establishment
of a central buying agency, where all
transactions may be cleared,
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Here's the way they do it in Hun
gary. A. bank was robbed oi $iu,-
000. Thirty-six hours after, the rob
ber was apprehended and put on
trial at 10 a. m. At 6:25 the same
afternoon he was hanged, Hungary
is showing the way.
Practically all grain in Wallowa
county was stored on the farms at
harvest time and only a small per
centage of the crop has been sold
With the rise in price, Wallowa farm
ers are now hauling their wheat to
market.
Now Sullivans Gulch, once the
dumping grounds of the city, is to be
a beauty spot in Portland. A Cali
fornian named Lloyd is ready to build
a $3,000,000 hotel and the gulch is in
eluded in his landscaping scheme.
In what was perhaps his last pub
lic statement, made last summer to
the National Electric Light Associa
tion, the late Thomas A. Edison said:
"My message to you is to be cour
ageous. I have lived a long time. I
have seen history repeat itself again
and again. I have seen many de
pressions in business. Always Amer
ica has come out strong and more
prosperous. Be as brave as your
fathers were before you. Have faith
go forward."
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By comparison, as revealed in sta
tistics given by the United States
Department of Commerce, in 1900
there were 20,766 Oregon farms free
from mortgaged debt as against 19,
754 in 1930, and farms under mort
gaged indebtedness increased from
7,010 in 1900 to 23,070 in 1930. The
above barometer of farm indebted
ness indicates conclusively the grad
ual slowing up agricultural progress
in this state over a ten year period.
With a world crop of dried prunes
placed at two-thirds as large as last
season, Milton - Freewater storage
houses should not be so full of prunes
after the first of the year.
Almost double in price what wheat
was a month ago, it is a hard jolt to
those farmers who were compelled to
sell their grain when quotations were
in the 30's.
Well, anyway a whale 's a whale;
in the quick or pickled.
Reports of large groups of swans
making their appearance again at
points in the Pacific Northwest,
would indicate that these beautiful
birds are either fast multiplying as
the result of protective restrictions,
or else they are returning to their
former haunts after a long period of
habitation in other sections of the
country. Seattle and Klamath Lake
report the swan in large numbers.
That the Josephine county food
conservation project is effective is
evidenced by the fact that at one
field alone more than 50 families call
ed for tomntoes and took them away
in 100 or 200 pound lots. This ex
change and distribution of food
among needy families Is carried on
through the granges of the county.
In these hard times the necessity
and value of agricultural cooperatives
have been proven time and again.
The farmer who belongs to a cooper
alive, has, in many instances, receiv
ed a good deal better price than the
farmer who has done business inde
pendently. This is especially true in
the case of the dairy industry.
If we are to legislate against guns,
we may just as well legislate against
knives, axes, automobiles, ropes and
such household medicines as iodine.
All of these have been, and can be,
used in the commission of crime. It
is true that they have useful and in
nocent purposes. But so have guns.
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Weston keeps the mountain po
tato on the market map by boosting
it with an annual potato show. The
show merits a creditable attendance
of Athena citizens. Show dates are
today and tomorrow and interesting
programs have been arranged for
your entertainment.
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Premier Manuel Azana is said to
have the largest jaw of any man in
Spain. When he worked it the other
day while assuming the dictatorship
of his country, he said: "The Span
ish republic is not in danger, but we
are facing an illegal opposition which
must be smashed!"
The difference between University
pi Oregon and Oregon State in foot-
Gandhi is nobody's goat. He has
one of his own.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate of Mary
E. Michael, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all per
sons whom it may concern:
That Charles A. Michael has been
appointed administrator of the es
tate of Mary E. Michael, deceased,
and has qualified as such. AH per
sons having claims against the estate
are required to present them, witn
proper vouchers as required by law,
to the said administrator at the office
of Peterson and Lewis, his attorneys,
in The Inland Empire Bank Building,
Pehdleton, Oregon, within six months
of the date of the first publication of
this notice which is the 9th day of
October, 1931.
CHARLES A. MICHAEL,
Administrator.
Peterson & Lewis, Attorneys for
Administrator. 09N6
A JUDGE'S INDICTMENT
(Oregon Journal)
What is going on in American
cities?
What is not going on in American
cities?
Such thoughts flood into your mind
as you read Judge Wilkerson's state
ment from the bench about the Ca
pone trial. The judge said D'Andrea,
discovered in the courtroom at the
trial with a revolver in his belt,, was
a member of the "outlaw gang" that
intimidated government witnesses
and ordered defense witnesses to per
jure themselves.
The outlaw organization headed by
Capone, Judge Wilkerson asserted,
"exercises a control over people with
whom it comes into contact that re
sembles nothing less than insurrec
tion against the laws of the United
States."
"The court would have been blind
indeed if he had not noticed the in
timidation of witnesses under his eye.
The respondent (D'Andrea) sat be
hind the defendant, t loaded revolver
in his pocket, while Capone glared at
witnesses as they faltered in their
testimony and were unable to remem
ber things in connection with Ca
pone's business," the judge said.
It is a picture for the American
people to contemplate. D'Andrea,
with his loaded revolver, ready and
waiting, just behind Capone and in
a courtroon! Capone, on trial, with
his gunman at his back, glaring at
witnesses with the ferocity of a tiger!
Under Capone's glare and his gun-
mans stare, witnesses ialtered in
their testimony and were unable to
"remember"! And all this under the
very eye of a judge in an American
courtroom happily a judge with the
nerve and courage to describe it and
to apply the penalties of the law to
the all-powerful gang leader and his
gunman.
Judge Wilkerson said gamblers had
been summoned to Capone's "camp"
and told to testify concerning his
losses on horse race bets. The de
fense testimony, he added, was a
"shocking arrayal of perjury."
Again there arises the question,
"What is not going on in American
cities?"
And how long, oh, how long, will
the American people and their boast
ed civilization continue to tolerate
organized crime and its blood-thirsty
exponents ?
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22 Years Ago
There will be a jolly, good time for
everybody at the Athena Opera
house, Wednesday' evening November
24, when the Athena Public school, as
sisted by the Commercial Association,
school patrons and school friends will
extend to the public a Thanksgiving
entertainment.
A very pretty wedding was solemn
ized in Walla Walla early Wednes
day morning, when Miss Nettie El
liott became the wife of Mr. Casper
Woodward, Rev. S. G. Fisher of the
Central Christian church officiating.
The wedding was a quiet one, at .the
home of the bride's mother, only the
immediate friends and relatives of the
contracting parties being present.
Fred Koontz is carrying his right
hand in a sling as the result of a se
vere cut, which he received at the M.
E. church Sunday night. 'While in
the act of closing a sliding door he
thrust his right hand through the
glass with the result that a broken
fragment caused a wound which
necessitated Dr. Sharp taking four
stitches.
The big drill is again pounding
away at the artesian well, dropping
at depth of 820 feet. The casing was
put in the first of the .week, since
when no trouble has been encounter
ed with sand.
Fred Shoemaker, the Wireless Tele
phone man is in town. -
Miss Velma Wilkinson spent Sat
urday with friends in Pendleton.
S. F. Wilson, T. H. Beverley and
H. I. Watts spent Sunday in Walla
Walla.
T. J. Kirk is again able to be out,
and his friends are glad to see him
down town.
J. D. Isreal, formerly a resident of
Weston, died recently at Dayton,
Washington.
Mrs. Edna Whiteman and the two
boys will spend Thanksgiving with
relatives in Athena.
James Henderson has purchased the
Ed Taylor cottage, located just east
of the Baptist church. Consideration
$800:
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hawks left on
Sunday's train for Spokane where
they will visit relatives for a couple
of weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Anson Wood and
Dean Dudley will leave shortly for
California, where they will spend the
winter.
H. H. Alexander has returned from
CLASSIFIED
Wanted Clean, Cotton rags at the
Press office.
Eyes examined, glasses properly
fitted at Schneller's, 39 East Main,
Walla Walla,
BEN BATEMAN
Expert in
1 Body Correction
Calls answered promptly
Office at Residence in North Athenn
Telephone 595.
Dr. W. Boyd Whyte
CHIROPRACTOR
Stangier Building, Phone 706
Pendleton. Oregon. 957 J
The Athena Hotel
MRS. LAURA FROOME. Prop.
Courteous Treatment, Clean Beda
Good Meali
Tourists Made Welcome
Corner Main and Third
Athena, Oregon
Barber Shop
and
Beauty Parlor
Penn Harris, Prop.
Real Estate
Wheat Alfalfa and
Stock Land
' SHEEP FOR SALE
L. L. Montague, Arlington
Foley's Honey and Tar
urns colds, prevents pneumonia.
Dr. O. T. Harstad
DENTIST
Office Phone 632, Resident Phone 933
Freewater, Oregon
Dr. W. H. McKinney
Physician and Surgeon
Dr.. Sharp's Office
Office Hours at Athena 1 to 6 p. m.
Phone 462. Office Hours at Weston
8 a. m. to 12 noon. Phone 83. Calls
made day or night.
Dr. Dale Rothwell
Optometrist
The best in glasses at a reasonable
cost.
Over Woolworth's Phone 1286
Pendleton, Oregon -
Peterson & Lewis
Attorneys at Law
Practice in all State and Federal
Courts.
Inland Empire Bank Building
Pendleton Oregon
Watts & Prestbye
Attorneya-At-Law
Main Street, . Athena, Oregon
State and Federal Court Practice
a visit to relatives in Nebraska and
California. Mrs. Alexander, who is
still in California will arrive home
nextveek. .
Among the farmers caught in seed
ing operations when the snow and
freezeup came, is Wm. McBride with
only one third of his seeding complet
ed. A. B. McEwen and J. A. Kirk
had considerable seeding to do, also.
At a meeting of the school board
Tuesday evening, it was decided to
put a new stove in the primary room
and also install protectors around the
stoves in four of the rooms. The
beard will also investigate the cost
of wiring the school building for
electric lights.
An incipient fire in the cottage oc
cupied by Mrs. Watts, on Jefferson
street, caused considerable excitement
in that neighborhood, Monday. ; The
fire which started from an overheated
stove, did little damage and was ex
tinguished by Mrs. Watts and an
other lady.
The members of the Athena band
meet regularly for rehearsals, and
considerable progress is noted. The
band room is a good place for the
boys during the long winter evenings.
Their time is profitably spent, and by
their efforts, Athena will soon have a
splendid band.
Bruno Weber
Blacksmithing
AND
Repair Work
Prices Reasonable
Successor To
JENS JENSEN
Send us your
dshable
WOOLENS
They're Warmer and Wear
Better when Laundered Regularly
Have your Blankets Done
Now
ass
Pendleton, Oregon
Bell
Gray
Are Always
Prepared
to do
Auto Truck
Hauling
' and
Delivery
Promptly
Prices Risrht
Phone 593
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The First National Bank
of Athena
Established 1891
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $110,000.00
Does a General Banking Business
and Maintains a Complete
Trust Department
Celluloid Curtains
We are making a specialty of replacing Celluloid in
Side Curtains at resonable prices.
An Expert Mechanic
Will attend to Automobile Repairing.
G ALL AHER'S GARAGE
J. E. Gallaher, Prop. Athena Phone 471
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Choose the Meat Dish First
then the Meal Planning Is Easy
Let the Meat Decide the Vegetables
Here Is an Idea or Two:
Roast Pork and Sweet Potatoes Beef and Beets
Pork and Green Beans Ham and Spinach
Fresh Milk and Cream
From a Tested Dairy. At All Times
THE ATHENA MARKET
Continental Oil Company
Geifm Processed Motor Oil
Athena Service Station
"Service With a Smile"
Automobile Accessories Tires
BRYCE BAKER, Prop. . . Athena, . . Phone 762
Tum-a-Lum Fuel
Includes the Best there is in
COAL" -
and
. WOOD
Building Materials of every description, for new
and remodeled homes
, Tum-a-Lum Lumber Company
THE TWIN CITY CLEANERS
-Dependable Service
Lower Prices April 1st Y
Ladies Spring Coats $1 and UP Silk Dresses $1.25
and Up Wool Dresses $1 and Up
Meiv's Suits $1.25
For other prices, ask the Driver
Trade with the man who helps pay your taxes
We call for and deliver every Tuesday and Friday
T E SMITH, Proprietor, Phone 1571 Freewater Oregon
Lamps Lamps
Why Pay More?
Plain and Frosted Mazda Lamps
25 Watt 17c
- 40 Watt "W
60 Watt "l7c
" " 75 Watt !!28c rmaM
100 Watt .28c ZZZZZ
150 Watt .50c
CORRECT VOLTAGE and CORRECT LAMPS.
ALL OTHER LAMPS ACCORDINGLY
PRESTON-SHAFFER MILLING CO.
Electrical Department, Athena, Oregon. Phone 182