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National Grange
Gives Incentive for
Pomona Reports
School Discussion,
New County 'Agent
Feature Program
By Mary Lundell
Morrow County Pomona grange
met on Saturday, January 7, at Irri
gon, with Irrigon grange as hosts
and Pomona Master Minnie Mc
Farland presiding. During the morn
ing grange reports, reports of of'
ficers and committees and other
business was disposed of.
Following the noon recess, Vida
Heliker, Pomona lecturer, present
ed an excellent program to a large
and interested audience, as follows:
Music, group number, Irrigon
band; music (band), German selec
tions, quintet; talk, Umatilla Assist
ant County Agent Pierson; 4-H Club
poultry demonstration, Grace and
Frank Bensel; vocal solo, "Cathedral
in the Pines," Francis Skoubo; talk
with slides, Mr. Pierson; stunt songs,
led by Chas. Wicklander; paper
written by Sen. Holman, read by
Clara Kincaid; skit, "And the Villain
Still Pursued Her," Irrigon grange;
discussion of new school law by
Messrs. Jones, Irrigon, Kincaid, lone,
Corwin, Boardman; talk, "Public
Power," Mrs. McFarland.
Outstanding features were the Ir
rigon band and the 4-H club demon
stration. The young folks who gave
the demonstration are state cham
pions in their department.
Interest was manifest in the talks
given by the assistant county agent
of our sister county, and particu
larly were we happy to greet our
own county agent, Mr. Conrad, and
hear his talk during the lecture hour.
Entertainment features included the
skit, stunt songs and the reading by
Sheriff Bauman.
Of much interest to all were the
impressions of the national grange
by those attending the meeting in
Portland in November. Henry
Smouse voiced the opinion of all
when he said that he found the na
tional master, Lewis J. Taber, to be
outstanding as a speaker and leader.
Granges in Morrow county and
Oregon could well profit by adopt
ing for their own suggestions of
fered by various national leaders
bringing out members by fine sur
prise features on the programs, by
the right kind of publicity and plen
ty -of it; by featuring something
sound and worth while in the edu
cational line, civic, legislative, etc.
All were impressed with the gran
deur, the beauty, the dignity and
the significance of the degrees as
presented to the several thousand
candidates and members in Port
land. New officers elected to fill va
cancies in Pomona to complete the
year are Wm. Kik, gate keeper; Mrs.
Frank Saling, Ceres; Orin Wright
as the 3-year member on executive
committee. Other members are J. O.
Kincaid and 0. L. Lundell. Mary
Lundell was appointed to take care
of the publicity.
The committee on power districts
appointed last year includes Burton
Peck, O. L. Lundell and O. E. Wright,
and will serve for 1939.
A resolution of interest to Mor
row county as well as Umatilla
asked for a $3,000 appropriation to
support the Umatilla experiment
station at Hermiston.
One resolution suggesting repeal
of the Oregon law and substituting
the "PUD" of Washington state, and
a third resolution pertaining to the
present situation existing between
KOY, Phoenix, Ariz., and Oregon's
KOAC, are pending. Also the Pet
tingill bill was again brought to our
attention.
The degree of Pomona exempli
fied by the Pomona officers was en
hanced by the beautiful animated
pictures impersonated by grange
ladies.
Heppner,
P. P. fir L. Lineman
Receives Bad Burns
While transferring a 2300-volt
wire from an old pole to a new one
in lone Saturday afternoon, Elmer
Hamrick, Pacific Power & Light
company lineman, apparently slipped
onto the wire. Ray P. Kinne, mana
ger of the local office, who was as
sisting with the transfer, was on
the ground and heard the arc roar
and looked up to see Hamrick un
conscious against one of the wires
and flames shooting out from under
his arms.
By using the hand line attached
to Hamrick's belt, Mr. Kinne was
able to pull the injured man away
from the wires and back into his
safety belt -while he called for help.
There was no one within hearing
distance so he was forced to run to
the Swanson grocery store. Fred
Crawford of Pendleton and Mr. Duf
fy of Pasco, with several lone res
idents, returned with Kinne who
went up the pole and with the aid
of a heavy rope lowered Hamrick to
the ground. By this time he had re
gained consciousness, but was in
great pain. He was rushed to the
Heppner hospital.
Hamrick is suffering from a se
vere burn under his right arm, a
lesser one under his left arm and
his arm is blistered in places. The
middle of his left hand is burned
to the bone and the four fingers are
in serious condition. He alsois suf
fering from shock. It is feared am
putation of two fingers will be nec
essary. Hamrick was taken to The Dalles
Monday afternoon where he is re
ceiving treatment for his injuries.
Latest reports were to the effect
that he was recovering nicely from
the shock.
Daniel H. Hanshew
Passes at Hillsboro
JJaniel it. Jtianshew, tor many
years a resident of Morrow county,
was laid to rest at Hillsboro last
Thursday following funeral rites at
that place. Mr. Hanshew died the
Tuesday previous. He succumbed
suddenly to heart failure without
previous warning.
A native of Virginia, Mr. Hanshew
came to Morrow county as a young
man and worked for a time on va
rious farms. Later he purchased a
farm of his own in Blackhorse where
he farmed for many years. He add
ed the John Edwards place in Sand
Hollow. In 1929 he moved with Mrs.
Hanshew to Hillsboro where the
family home had since been made.
The Sand Hollow farm has been
rented since 1929 by Ray Drake.
Mrs. Hanshew survives her husband.
Wool Auxiliary
Has Annual Election
Following luncheon at the Lucas
Place Friday afternoon, Morrow
County Wool Growers auxiliary held
annual election of officers. Mrs.
Harold Cohn was reelected presi
dent; Mrs. Frank E. Parker, vice
president; Mrs. C. W. McNamer,
secretary; Mrs. Frank Wilkinson,
treasurer, and Josephine Mahoney,
corresponding secretary. Mrs. Cohn
thanked the members for their help
and cooperation during the past year
and urged attendance at the state
convention held in Pendleton this
week.
Reports of committees were re
ceived, and plans for participation
of the local unit in the state con?
vention were described A white
elephant party followed the busi
ness meeting.
NEW COUNTY AGENT HERE
Clifford Conrad, new county ag
ent, arrived in the city Saturday,
and with Mrs. Conrad and baby
daughter has taken up residence in
the Johnson house on Court street
across from the courthouse. C. W.
Smith, assistant state county agent
leader, was in the city Saturday to
assist Mr. Conrad in taking over his
duties here. Mr. Conrad comes from
Medford where he was county 4-H
club leader before accepting the po7
sition here.
Oregon, Thursday, January
First Lady Heads
Mobilization by Air
Next Wednesday
County Sets Celebra
tion of President's
. Natal Day, Jan. 30
Next Wednesday, Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt will hold an important
meeting at the White House in
Washington. Present will be heads of
the women's council for a "mobiliza
tion by air" of all women workers
over the country in the Fight Infan
tile Paralysis campaign, the major
event of which, will be the celebra
tion in honor of President Roose
velt's birthday on January 30.
Dr. A. D. McMurdo, chairman of
the local celebration, announces that
women workers in the county will
be asked to listen in on the radio
program, slated for 4:30 p. m., E. S.
T. All local committee members will
be notified of appointments within
the next few days.
The celebration locally will again
be featured by the annual ball at
the Elks hall the evening of Monday,
January 30, says Dr. McMurdo, and
opportunity will be given everyone
in the county to contribute to the
Infantile Paralysis Foundation.
The nation-wide war against in
fantile paralysis was declared last
year by President Roosevelt when
he urged the creation of the new
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis on September 23, 1937. The
campaign to fight infantile paraly
sis was launched by Basil O'Connor,
president of the national foundation,
on June 21, 1938, when he received
the president's birthday gift from
the nation.
This year energies will be bent
to effect a permanent nation-wide
organization. As soon after the first
of the year as possible every county
will be organized into a national
foundation chapter
To promote local chapter work,
fifty per cent of all receipts, after
expenses of local campaigns are de
ducted, will be placed in trust for
use of the local chapter when organ
ized. The remaining fifty per cent
will be turned over to the national
foundation.
In announcing plans for this year's
celebration in Morrow county, Dr.
McMurdo commends the fine show
ing made last year when more than
$800 was raised, and anticipates a
fine general response again this
year.
Person Who Picked
Up $100 Sought;
Reward Offered
R. D. Allstott, Jr., is looking for
someone to whom to make a nice
present.
The someone is the person who
picked up a hundred dollars, all
in twenty dollar bills, which he
lost when in town last week end.
Mr. Allstott had just cashed an
allotment check at the Ijank, and
had gone directly to the court
house where he discovered the
money was missing. He believes
he must have dropped it some
where between the bank and the
courthouse.
Naturally, he feels like giving
a handsome reward to the person
who picked up the money. He is
advertising the fact in this issue.
No trace of the money had been
found when Mr. Allstott was in
town this morning.
SMALLPOX REPORTED
William Lueddke from the Oscar
Lundell place on lower Willow
creek was pronounced a victim of
smallpox upon examination at a lo
cal physician's office yesterday.
SOCIAL EVENING SET
Six o'clock pot-luck supper fol
lowed by pinochle will feature so
cial evening at Rhea creek grange
hall tomorrow (Friday) evening.
12, 1939
Health Conference
Set for January 16
The Morrow County Health as
sociation will sponsor a child health
conference to be held Tuesday, Jan.
16, from 9:30 to 12 a. m. in the
basement of the Christian church,
announces Miss Althea Stoneman,
county health nurse. This confer
ence will ,be for Heppner and viin
ity. Children from babies to school age
will be examined. As there seem
to be some cases of whooping cough,
please do not bring a child with a
cold or cough. Immunization to
whooping 'cough will be offered at
that time and may be had at the
physician's office now. The serum
to prevent having whooping cough
or to make the cough less severe
can be taken at any time, and is rec
ommended, as the exposure to the
light cases now prevalent is so gen
eral that quarantine will be of lit
tle value. All children coughing
should be kept away from other
children, and not be allowed to at
tend any public meeting or picture
show. In this way the small children
can be better protected.
Mothers bring a blanket or robe
to wrap the child in when undressed.
The ladies of the American Legion
auxiliary are assisting in the con
ference as part of their community
health work for the year.
PWA Work Progresses
At Lexington
The WPA project for improve
ment of the Lexington water system
is now in operation, work having
begun December 30 with Engineer B.
M. Little present, and the mayor,
T. L. Barnett, Arnold Sprauer, re
corder, and councilmen.
A. A. Durand & Son, contractors
of Walla Walla, were awarded the
bid for drilling the well and are
now busy drilling on the site select
ed by Engineer R. L. Stockman.
Jacobsen-Jensen company, Port
land, were awarded the general
contract for construction of water
works. Amount of the contract to
Durand is $2,540.90, and to Jacob.
sen-Jensen, $18,660.50.
Weather conditions are ideal for
this work and it comes at a time
in which many are idle and need
employment.
Chas. B. Cox Renamed
Postmaster; Clerk Set
Reappointment of Chas. B. Cox
as postmaster for another four-year
term was made from Washington
this week, following recommenda
tion by Congressman Walter M.
Pierce. Mr. Cox has completed his
first four years in the local office
and saw it raised to second class last
July first.
Walter "Swede" Carlson, who has
been in the infirmary service at the
local CCC camp, has been named
as assistant clerk to succeed Marcell
Jones as a result of the civil service
examination recently conducted.
Carlson was selected from among 13
applicants who took the examina
tion. He came to the local CCC camp
from Massachusetts.
Gooseberry Reports
11.85 Inches Rainfall
Moisture preipitation at Goose
berry for 1938 is reported at 11.85
inches by V. L. Carlson, government
observer, who was in the city yes
terday.
Precipitation for the last quarter.
September 1 to December 31. to
talled 2.65 inches. This is about half
the amount received for the cor
responding period in 1937, when 5.38
inches was recorded, Mr. Carlson
said.
Mrs. Henry Aiken was taken to
Portland the end of the week by her
husband and mother-in-law, Mrs.
Lillie Aiken, and on Monday under
went a major operation.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Millard
Nolan at the Corda Saling home in
this city Sunday, an 814-pound son.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Wool Growers View
New Year With
Optimism at Meet
Officers Reelected
at Pendleton; Mrs.
Cohn Given Post
Optimism toward the new year
in the wool industry was reflected
from the annual conventions of Or
egon Wool Growers and auxiliary
which completed sessions at Pen
dleton Tuesday. Wool growers re
elected Leo Hahn of Antelope, pres
ident; Robert Weir, Lakeview, vice
president, and Walter Holt, Pen
dleton, secretary.
The auxiliary held no election, but
the executive committee named
Mrs. H. A. Cohn of this city as sec
retary to succeed Mrs. E. L. Morton,
resigned.
Sessions of the auxiliary conven
tion were marked by the most in
tense interest and largest attend
ance in history, said Mrs. R. I.
Thompson, state president, on return
to her home here yesterday. Highest
praise was accorded the host city
for the fine program of entertain
ment and the excellent facilities
provided for all purposes. Sessions
were held in the new Vert Memor
ial building, one of the finest build
ings of its kind in the state.
L. R. Edminster, assistant U. S.
secretary of state, brought first-hand
information on recent reciprocal
trade agreements to inform growers
of the national tariff policy as it
affects their industry. Mr. Edmin
steis address was a major spot of
interest on the program and did not
placate all grower animosity tow
ard tho present federal tariff policy
as indicated by R. C. Rich, Burley,
Idaho, National Wool Growers as
sociation president, who said that
continued effort would be expended
to have all reciprocal trade treaties
ratified by congress. Rich said pros
pects were brighter for the industry
the coming year.
Ralph I. Thompson of this city
headed the resolutions committee
whose findings endorsed by the con
vention asked:
Opposition to "further inclusion
of taxable lands in game refuges,
and recommendation that sound
practices of grazing and game man
agement be employed on game ref
uges; and, further that livestock or
ganizations be used in formulating
program of management wherever
possible and practical." Further op
position to practice of taking large
blocks of land from tax rolls for
establishment of game refuges.
That former statute providing
million dollar appropriation for pre
datory animal and rodent control
be reinvoked.
That WPA predatory animal con
trol be retained.
That the legislature appropriate
$30,000 annually for predatory ani
mal ocntrol work.
That "friendly cooperation" be'
fostered between stockmen and
sportsmen.
That a committee of three be
named to investigate failure to cut
wild hay in Malheur county, result
ing in large fire hazard and des
truction of game bird life in that
area.
That railroads be commended for
improving livestock shipping facil
ities and service but that freight
rates on wool from Pacific North
west to Boston have not been re
duced in proportion to those exist
ing from Pacific Southwest to Bos
ton.
That the government wool loan
policy be continued, but that the
minimum loan basis should be in
creased to at least 20 cents a pound,
scoured basis.
That congress investigate trade
practices in lamb markets in view
of general complaint of unfair deal
ing.
That endorsement be given the
bill now before congress to enforce
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