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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 25, 1932.
BOARDMAN
By RACHEL JOHNSON.
The sudden death cf Freeman
Fortier of North Powder came as a
shock to his friends in Boardman.
Freeman A. Fortier, 45, passed
away Wednesday morning, Feb. 17,
in the Hot Lake hospital after a
short illness. Funeral services were
held Thursday morning in the
Snodgrass & Zimmerman funeral
parlors in La Grande. Interment
was in the La Grande Catholic
cemetery. Mr. Fortier was born
February 9, 1887, at St Paul, Ore.
He was united in marriage Octo
ber 9, 1928, to Mrs. Gladys Gibbons
and was a resident of Boardman for
a number of years. In 1930 he was
transferred to Union and later to
North Powder where he and his
wife were living at the time of her
death. He had been an employee
of the Standard Oil company for
the last 15 years. Mr. Fortier had
been ill but a short time, his death
being due to heart trouble. He was
a good citizen, respected and liked
by all who knew him and he leaves
many friends in Boardman. He is
survived by Mrs. Fortier and Nor
ma, three sisters and three broth
ers. Those attending the funeral
were Mrs. Ed Pheiffer and Mrs. Joe
Boyles of Portland, Al Fortier of
Albany, and Ray and Oliver Fortier
of Portland. Boardman folks who
attended the funeral services were
Mrs. Dillabough, Mrs. Macomber,
Mrs. Rands, Mrs. Goodwin, Mr. and
Mrs. Mead, Mr. and Mrs. Cooney,
Carroll Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Barlow, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cram
er, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cramer and
Francis, Mrs. Coats, and Mrs. Cox.
Mrs. Guy Barlow and Mrs. Frank
Cramer went to Hot Lake on Tu
esday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cram
er remained in La Grande with
their daughter and will help her
move. Mrs. Fortier will make her
home at 1508 L Ave., La Grande.
A Washington day program was
given by the school Monday after
noon by the students: opening, pa
triotic songs; pledge to the flag;
American creed, Vernon Partlow;
recitation, Billy Price; recitation,
Our Historians, Pauline Strobel;
Memories of Washington, playlet
by the high school; Uncle Sam, dec
lamation, Mary Chaffee; Washing
ton drill, 1st and 2nd grades; song,
Father of the Land We Love, by
assembly; minuet dance, 5th, 6th,
7th and 8th grades; playlet, Wash
ington or Lincoln.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Berger were
dinner guests at the Dillon home
Tuesday evening.
The Parent-Teachers association
held a meeting in the auditorium
last Friday evening. The program
for the evening consisted of a com
ic sketch by the high school, talk
by Mrs. Sundsten on Lincoln, talk
by Mrs. Messenger on citizenship,
and talk by Mrs. Morgan on Wash
ington, after which a short business
meeting was held. The resignation
of Mrs. Carroll Kennedy, president,
was accepted. The meeting was
then turned over to the members
of the school board who answered
the questions which were asked
concerning the planning of the bud
get for the coming year. Sand
wiches and coffee were served in
the cafeteria. Committees for the
next P. T. A. meeting are: program,
Mrs. Earl Cramer, Mrs. H. E. Waite
and Dan Ransier; refreshment,
Mrs. Denson, Mr. and Mrs. Rain
ville and Mr. and Mrs. Bottemiller.
Vernon Root of Portland is here
this week visiting his parents.
Miss Mary Healey of The Dalles
spent the week end at home here.
Margaret Smith spent Thursday
with her brother Robert who is in
the Pendleton hospital. On Friday
Mr. Smith went up to see his son.
Mrs. J. F. Gorham motored home
Saturday after a 10-day stay at On
tario. She reports that her niece,
Wilma Anderson, is now out of
danger and is getting along as well
as can be expected. Miss Ander
son had three vertebrae in her neck
broken when she was injured in an
automobile accident last week.
The high school basketball team
defeated the Irrigon team in a close
game Saturday night in the Irrigon
gym. The score was 19-20. A num
ber of Boardman folks attended the
game and a dance which followed.
A colonial party and the Ladies
Aid silver tea will be held Wednes
day afternoon, March 2, in the
church. All ladies are invited to
attend and are requested to wear
colonial costumes.
The grange held a regular meet
ing Saturday evening.
The all-star team which has been
picked to meet the Willamette uni
versity team in a basketball game
Wednesday evning in Umatilla, In
cludes Chaney and Markham of
Irrigon, Yeager of Umatilla, Steel
hammer, Barlow and Wilson of
Boardman, Shuirman of Heppner,
Hostetier, Parrish and Van Winkle
of Arlington.
Mrs. Chas. Dillon spent the week
end in Portland.
The operetta given by the grade
school students is scheduled for 8
o'clock, Friday evening, Feb. 26, In
the school auditorium. The eve
ning's entertainment will consist of
two operettas, "Father Time's Par
ty," given by the first, second,
third and fourth grades, and "When
Betsy Ross Made the Flag," by the
fifth, Bixth, seventh and eighth
grades. Admission will be 15 and
25 cents. The proceeds will be used
to finish paying for the grade school
reference books.
Do not forget the special school
election to be held Monday after
noon, Feb. 29, at 2 o'clock to elect a
director to fill the vacancy left by
the resignation of Lee Mead.
Mr. and Mrs. L. V, Woodard of
Arlington spent Monday at the
Meyers home.
Kenneth Dcpew, noted contestant
at many performances of the Hepp
ner Rodeo, was in the city the end
of the week from his home at
Ukiah.
How One Community Put All
Men to Work in Short Time
By CALEB
The way to end unemployment is
to put men back to work. Unem
ployment is a problem which af
fects everybody in every commun
ity. It is up to all the people of
each community, therefore, to take
part in every intelligent effort to
find jobs for those who need them.
And the most intelligent effort of
this sort that I know of is what
they did at Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Any community, of any size, can
organize for unemployment relief
on the Green Bay plan. In that
town of 40,000 population, in one
month more than 1,000 men and
women were put back to work.
Some of them had not had a job in
two years. Thene were 1,745 out of
work when the united effort began.
At the end of a month 1,023 of these
had been placed in permanent jobs
and the rest all had either tempor
ary or part-time jobs, so that there
was nobody out of work in Green
Bay except those unable to work,
and the "floaters."
The Green Bay campaign started
by the Mayor issuing a proclama
tion that all the whistles in the city
would blow from 7:30 to 7:32 on the
morning of the drive's start, and
all the bells in town would ring.
The fire and police departments
used their sirens, and all autos
came to a stop and blew their horns
for two minutes. At 10:30, reports
were broadcast over the local radio
station of the drive's results.
Noon lunches, radio talks, and
preparatory newspaper stories told
the town that Green Bay would
have jobs for half of its unemployed
within three hours. A captain was
assigned to each of the 500 city
blocks, asking each resident for a
pledge of two hours work weekly
at forty cents an hour.
As soon as the block drive was
over, every employer in the town
was personally contacted by phone,
letter, or personal call of the un
employment committee's chairman.
These men were urged to keep the
same number of men they had on
th payroll in 1929, if necessary by
staggering the work, shorter hours,
and so forth. The result was that
over 700 men were called back to
their old jobs.
In spite of the fact- that mild
weather killed the usual snow-shoveling
and street-cleaning jobs, the
plan was successful. Every home,
store and shop in the town was vis
ited. A registration system and cheek
up of addresses served to distin
guish "floaters" from the resident
unemployed.
The Department of Wisconsin of
the American Legion adopted the
Green Bay plan, which is working
with great success in that state,
and in other cities throughout the
country. It is not a self-operative
plan, by any means, and calls for
JOHNSON
cooperation on the part of all the
civic elements in a town, grouped
around the Legion post as a work
ing nucleus. The working body con
sists of the Legion's unemployment
committee; local newspaper pub
lishers; the mayor; local organized
labor executives; manager of local
radio station; presidents of the ser
vice clubs; chamber of commerce
president; advertising club presi
dent; heads of industries; bank ex
ecutives, and so on.
Cards bearing the official seal of
the City of Green Bay were used to
identify workers, who were given
introductory letters.
Employment was provided for
men and women regardless of le
gion affiliation, race, color, or creed.
Unemployment was the only quali
fication. Willingness to work was
the only test
Any town can do what Green Bay
accomplished. It calls for organi
zation and effort Your Legion post
is a natural nucleus. If there is no
post in your town, one of the 30,000
branches of organizations affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor is the rallying point.
This plan calls for no discussion,
no argument about theories or poli
tics. Nobody can object to giving
work to those who are not working
now. The effort is repaid in more
than moral satisfaction. It means
that those now hoarding money will
spend for normal necessities when
the spectre of unemployment is re
moved. In communities where civic ac
tivities are small, where the popu
lation chiefly serves an outlying
agricultural district, this plan may
be widened to take in the farms.
There is room on the land for those
men who cannot find work in the
town. In these instances, heads of
agricultural organizations such as
the Grange, etc., may be added to
the working committee.
Groups of farmers may pool to
gether to pay for the services of a
laborer, who can work one day or
more on individual properties.
A letter used by the Green Bay
committee puts the case in concise
language:
"Dear Fellow Citizen:
"The Green Bay Unemployment
Relief Commission thanks you sin
cerely for assisting to overcome the
great burden of unemployment in
our city this winter, by hiring a
man to do your chores. This man
will report at once to begin this
work in your block. Please treat
him as a fellow-citizen asking not
charity, but merely the opportunity
to earn a living for his family. Find
things for him to do. You are en
titled to his help in all of the reas
onable little jobs about your prop
erty, and he will be glad to be as
signed to these tasks. If other
work comes up requiring painters,
paperhangers, carpenters, won't
you piease can me uity Hall and
this Commission will send th n-nn-
er, dependable man to do the work
a townsman out or work at the
time. Let's do as much of this work
this winter as possible. Let's cre
ate jobs and overcome the unem
ployment in our own city and bring
Green Bay back to normal. We
must all help. We must not let
unemployment spread further nor
wreck our community health and
happiness.
"Do not engage anyone except
'The Man in the Block' to do snow
shoveling or other small jobs this
winter. Do not pay any wages to
anyone who does not show you his
card from this Commission. You
agree with us that we should keep
this work for our own townsmen,
and married men first THE MAN
WHO COMES TO DO YOUR
WORK must have a card from this
Commission UPON WHICH WILL
BE THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF
GREEN BAY. Pay nobody else.
The rate is 40 cents an hour. The
agreement ia not less than two
hours a week, for the winter
months. Your man will collect
once a week on Saturday.
Again we thank you for assist
ing us to relieve distress in our city,
and won't you please continue to
cooperate with your city, by hav
ing all the work possible such as
modernizing, improving, repairing,
painting, cleaning, paperhanging,
plumbing, etc. DONE THIS WIN
TER and done by men obtained
from the CITY HALL."
See .John Gilbert, El Brendel
Madge Evans, Lois Moran and
Gwen Lee in WEST OF BROAD
WAY at the Star Sunday and Mon
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Pay Your
Bills by
CHECK!
Your creditor's signature on the back
of your Check is undeniable, legal proof
that you have paid his bill. Besides, it
gives you a record of the transaction . .
cancelled Checks accounting for every
dollar you spend. Yes, a Checking Ac
count even cultivates Thrift in that you
think twice before you make out a
Check. Not so with cash.
ENLIST IN THE WAR AGAINST
DEPRESSION
OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH THE
Fir& National Bank
HEPPNER, OREGON
The Altar Society of the Catholic
church will hold a cooked food sale
at Thomson Bros, store, Saturday,
Feb. 27. 495o
John Gilbert in WEST OF
BROADWAY, Star Theater, Sun
day and Monday.
Hot Oil Shampoo 50c next week
at Chapin Beauty Shop, phone 1112.
ALPINE
By MARGARET HOWARD
School opened Monday at the
regular time and a varied and in
teresting program was given. The
new bicentennial official song, "Fa
ther of the Land We Love," was
sung by everybody; recitation, "A
Boy's Wish," Wallace Ebsen; a drill
on Washington's life, Bernard Do
herty, Bruce Lindsay, Mildred
Clary and Bruce and Vevel Senter;
recitation, Great Men, Vevel Senter;
Maxims of Washington, Reitha
Howard; Greatness of Washington,
Rhuey Ann; minuet by Mildred and
Irl Clary; Washington as a Farm
er, Gene Senter; Who Carries on
the Name of Washington, Dorothy
Doherty; Patriotism, Doris Kling
er; Tribute to Washington written
by a young lady of Washington's
day, Margaret Howard; vocal solo,
Bruce Senter; The Bicentennial
Celebration, Alex .Lindsay; Wash
ington's Funeral, Gene Senter; A
Closing Tribute by Floyd Conrad.
Willard Hawley and Irl Clary
were visitors at the program.
Wllard Hawley was a business
visitor in Hermiston on Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday.
E. H. Ebsen was In Echo Monday
on business.
Mrs. Neil Melville was a visitor
at Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lindsay's on
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McDald of
Hermiston were at the B. P. Do
herty home on Saturday.
Henry Rauch Jr. has been sick
since Wednesday with a bad cold
or perhaps the flu. Both May and
Fay were ill on Saturday.
E. H. Ebsen was at Irl Clary's on
Friday.
Dan Lindsay and Alex were at
Neil Melville's on Sunday.
Edmond Hirl of Lena has been
at the B. P. Doherty ranch for the
last week or two.
The club work at Strawberry is
progressing rapidly. A handiwork
club and a health club have been
organized. Both clubs met on Mon
day after the Washington program
and each held a regular meeting
and demonstration.
Mrs. Pecy Jarmon visited at Mrs.
George Conrad's on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lndsay and
Annie Ree motored to Pendleton
Thursday.
Bill Doherty, Bill Ruddy, Edmond
Hirl and Pat Doherty attended the
funeral of Charles Hirl of Butter
creek at Vincent Sunday.
The class in world hsitory read
a newspaper. The Ulster County
Gazette (New York), dated Janu
ary 4, 1800, in which there were
dispatches in regard to the Euro
pean battles then being fought. In
the same issue was the account of
Washington's funeral. The Father
of His Country was evidently re
spected and revered as much then
as he is today. The congressmen
who had been elected in "fresh"
election had taken their seats and
there were various messages from
them and from President Adams.
The advertisements indicated that
bartering was common. In the "for
sale" column was "a stout, healthy,
active negro wench," a parcel of
land had sold for 29 pounds, 4 shill
ings, but one man offered a $2
reward for the return of a stolen
gun.
The paper belongs to Mrs. Bert
Bowker.
Mrs. Margaret Peddicord, Will
ard Hawley andi the Senter chil
dren were at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Michel Monday evening
where they helped celebrate Mr.
Michel's birthday.
Get your hair In shape for that
next permanent wave. Hot oil and
shampoo next week for 50c. Phone
1112, Chapin Beauty Shop.
TUM-A-LUM TICKLER
Published In the lateresto of the people of Heppner and vicinity by
THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO., Phone 912
Volume 1933
Heppner, Oregon February 85, 1932.
No. 8
SPEND FOB THE HOME IN 1932
OUR NEW SLOGAN
Charles Klinger of ton was in one day
the Banana Belt coun- last week making ar
try north of Lexing- rangements for the
delivery o f enough
Tum-A-Lum material
to build four brooder
houses. What Charles
can do with the wheat
raised on his farm
toward raising some
of the best turkeys
and chickens in the
country is worth see
ing. EARL ES KELSON
Manager.
Therer
Says the Wise Shopper
Challenge of the sentry on guard, abrupt and imperative in the
dark. "Advance and give the countersign!"
To the woman in the home, alertly watchful over her
household budget, passwords are important. Everything of
fered for sale is subject to suspicion unless it bears the counter
signthe familiar trade-mark the name of a manufacturer
or merchant whom she knows.
She studies the advertising columns. From them she
determines values, and decides what she will buy and where.
She knows that advertised goods are safe goods, backed by
the reputation of the maker and the merchant.
When she goes shopping whether for a bottle of ktchup
or for a pearl necklace she challenges each product with a
"Who goes there?" And if it has the password of advertised
excellence she makes her purchase without hesitation.
The advertisements in this paper are a safe gude to buy
ing. Read them carefully. Keep in touch with the latest
news of price, style and quality. Then buy with the assur
ance that you will get your money's worth. )
Heppner Gazette Times