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IONE NEWS
Miss Mankin Leaves
For New York Fair
By KATHERINE GRIFFITH
Miss Betty Jean Mankin departed
Friday for Pendleton where she
joined her grandmother, Mrs. Dwight
Misner. They left immediately on the
train for New York where they will
attend the world's fair. On their re
turn trip they will visit in Michigan
with relatives and Mrs. Misner will
buy a new pick-up in which they
will drive back.
Miss Dorothy Jean Couch of Eu
gene who has been a guest of her
aunt, Mrs. Elmer Griffith, for the
past month, departed on Thursday
night's train for Post Falls, Idaho,
where she will visit her grandmoth
er, Mrs. Mary Cunningham.
Guests at the E. R. Lundell home
on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Al
gott Lundell and Wallace, Mr. and
Mrs. O. E. Lindstrom, Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Lundell and Dale, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Lundell and Mr. and
Mrs. Emil Swanson. who came to
visit their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Peterson of Lindsberg, Kansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Peterson left Mon
day for their home. They had been
on an extended trip through Califor
nia and the fair and had gone as far
south at Tiajuana, Mexico.
Past Noble Grand club will meet
at the home of Mrs. C. W. Swanson
on July 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mason have
named their baby daughter Mar
garet Ann.
Mrs. Minnie Forbes is employed
at the Berl Akers home in Goose
berry.
Miss Anna Marie Johnson of
Heppner is visiting at the home of
her cousin, Miss Jane Fitzpatrick.
Mrs. H. B. Olson and two little
sons of Winnepeg were guests at
the home of her mother, Mrs. Clara
Newlin, over the week end. They
left Tuesday for Seattle.
Alan Howk who has been visiting
at the Elmer Griffith home and the
P. J. Linn home, left on Saturday
night's train for his home in Con
don. The lone library placed two hun
dred and fifty new state library
books on the shelves Monday.
Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Croisant were
visiting old friends in lone Thurs
. day. Dr. Croisant was a teacher here
many years ago. He and his wife
have both completed medical courses
and were looking for a location for
their practice.
The Women's Topic club met at the
home of Mrs. Bert Mason Friday
afternoon. Miss Emmer Maynard,
Mrs. Lana Padberg and Mrs. Elmer
Griffith were the other hostesses.
The book, "Queen Elizabeth" by An
thony, was reviewed. Mrs. Mason
resigned from the library board and
Mrs. M. E. Cotter was elected to fill
the vacancy. Guests present were:
Mrs. Albert Lindstrom, Mrs. J. H.
Bryson, Mrs. Huston Bryson and
Mrs. Martha Knight. Members in
attendance were Mrs. Omar Riet
mann, Mrs. Milton Morgan, Mrs. E.
M. Baker, Mrs. Carl Feldman, Mrs.
Earl Blake, Mrs. L. E. Dick, Mrs.
D. M. Ward, Mrs. Sara McNamer,
Mrs. C. W. Swanson, Mrs. E. R. Lun
deil, Mrs. M. E. Cotter and Mrs.
Dorr Mason. The social meeting will
be held at the home of Mrs. Elmer
Griffith in Morgan Saturday after
noon, July 22.
Mrs. Franklin Ely of Morgan has
been suffering from an infected tooth
and had to go to see a physician in
Heppner.
Dust blows have started on some
of the land struck by the hail storm
and are being worked. Harvest was
stopped several times during the
week on some ranches because of
the wind and dust.
Friends will be interested to know
; that Miss Mildred Finnel, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Finnel of
Portland, was united in marriage to
Mr. David Stanburrough Montgom
ery at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon
in Portland. The Finnels have been
guests at the E. C. Heliker home
many times. Mr. and Mrs. Norton
Lundell stopped in lone at the E.
R. Lundell home on their way home
from the wedding.
Clyde Overby, assistant supervis
or of the Umatilla National forest
from Pendleton, was making a visit
to the local district Saturday.
Heppner
HOW GRIM REAPER
FIRST SIX MONTHS'
Shortly after noon on January 1st,
1939, a car went out of control,
skidded and swung broadside into
the front of an oncoming car. When
the wreckage was cleared away one
person was dead, others were in
jured and the Grim Reaper ran an
approving thumb over the edge of
his scythe, newly sharpened after the
busy harvest of the year before
which he completed at 6 p. m., De
cember 31st.
A survey of Oregon's traffic fa
talities during the subsequent six
months reveals an imposing record
of unnecessary tragedy, Earl Snell,
secretary of state, said today, as he
issued an appeal to motorists to heed
the warning contained in the acci
dents of this period and drive in such
a manner as to prevent a continu
ance of this traffic toll.
Cars which overturned and sent
their passengers hurtling through
the air frequently contributed to the
traffic death harvest during the first
six months of 1939. In one case
car occupied by three men started
around a logging truck, found the
passage not clear, and swung back
but there was not quite enough room
and the car struck the logs and
slithered across the road into a ditch
where it overturned. One man was
tossed 52 feet and killed instantly
another was thrown 67 feet and died
shortly afterward. The third man
went hurtling through space a dis
tance of 77 feet, but escaped with
serious injuries.
' In a straight gravel road, too much
speed threw a car into a skid and
then into a roll. On the first turn,
the driver was pitched out of the
car and landed in front of it just in
time to be caught by the second roll,
The left rear wheel, stripped of its
tire, struck the victim's head, kill
ing him instantly. On another stretch
of straight road, this time a hard
surfaced hghway, an inexperienced
driver sought to pass a car, hit a
shoulder and skidded off the road
into a ditch where the car turned
over and tossed a passenger 50 feet
into a wheat field. He died of a
broken neck.
Another rolling car shot its driver
out into the air and across a ditch
where he struck a fence post,
bounced off into a telephone pole
and then landed in a field, lifeless.
Two other cars collided head-on,
two passengers were thrown 25 and
60 feet respectively and both were
killed. A car which swerved to the
left to pass a car stalled on the
highway, was forced to cut back in
to avoid hitting another car parked
on the left side of the road, side
swiped the stalled car and rolled
over twice, throwing the driver to
his death. In another accident, a car
was following two other autos and
attempted to go around. Just as the
driver pulled out to the left, the car
in front of him also pulled out to
pass, forcing the rear machine over
onto the left shoulder. Here the
brakes grabbed and threw the ma
chine into a roll. It turned over three
times, tossed the driver out on the:
second roll and caught up with him
on the third, crushing his skull.
By lurking around curves, the
Reaper found frequent use for his
scythe during this period. One car
failed to hold a curve and swerved
out onto the soft shoulder on the
outside, followed it for a while and
then tore into a fence, ripping up
the boards for a distance of 125 feet.
One of the fence boards pierced the
floor of the car and killed a passen
ger in the front seat. Another car
encountered ice on a curve and went
into a skid which took it over a
grade. The machine turned over,
threw a woman out and crushed her
as it rolled over. A man also was
tossed out and pinned down by the
car as it finally stopped. He was re
leased after, some time and recov
ered. Starting around a curve, a driver
saw a motorcycle with two riders,
roaring down the road in his di
rection. Seeing that it probably
would be unable to make the curve,
the driver turned off the surface of
the road to his right and got as far
out on the shoulder as he dared.
Even then, the motorcycle struck
the car, dashed its riders to the
pavement and killed one of them.
Gazette Times, Heppner,
TOOK TOLL IN
TRAFFIC TOLD
Still another car hit a curve too fast,
skidded and turned over, bowling
one of its passengers over a fence
and into a tree, killing him instantly.
The other passenger, a woman, was
thrown out of the car and landed
on the hard surfaced road where she
was killed. Meeting a car on a curve
proved bad for another car which
went off the shoulder, cut down a
telephone pole, smashed through a
fence and dove ten feet into an old
railroad cut. One passenger was
killed.
If you suspect the road is too nar7
row to provide sufficient clearance
in meeting a truck, it would be bet
ter to pull out of the road and wait,
advises Mr. Snell. A car didn t do
that, however, and as it started past
a truck it struck the rear view mir
ror, then glanced into the blade of
huge bulldozer loaded on the
truck. The heavy steel blade sliced
off the top of the car and killed three
passengers.
One motorcyclist was arrested for
going through a stop street and for
speeding. He was released, but po
lice retained his machine and his
keys. However, he got another key,
somehow regained his motorcycle
and shortly afterward roared past
the patrolmen who had previously
arrested him. They again gave chase,
followed him with their speedome
ter registering 87 miles an hour, and
saw him plough into the side of a
big sawdust truck. Instead of pay
ing a fine he paid with his life.
Three men went for a walk one
night, but they walked abreast and
on the right side of the highway,
which, for pedestrians, is the wrong
side. A car coming from behind
them was confused by the lights of
an oncoming car, struck the two in
side men, killing one and seriously
injuring the other. Another pedes
trian, an elderly man who didn't see
well, was in the habit of waiting on
the edge of the pavement, listening
for cars. If he heard none, he ven
tured out to the center line where
he again stopped to listen before
proceeding. The last time he did this,
a car he didn't hear proved the fal
lacy of that system.
Pedestrians suffered from the
carelessness of drivers too. One was
killed when he was hit by a truck
which was being backed around a
parked car to reach a vacant spot by
the curb. The truck driver had been
warned against this practice before
when an officer saw him thus back
ing and told him he would have an
accident some day. When one wo
man's house caught fire, she ran out
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into the street to summon aid and
was struck down by a car. Another
man started to run across a super
highway, was knocked down by one
car and run over by a second. A
small boy who was chasing a ball
across a street was hit by a car,
tossed into the air and struck again
when he came down.
A farmer who found a tree across
a country road with a car blocked
by the obstruction, saw two men in
side, apparently asleep. Unable to
awaken them, he summoned help
and discovered one of them was
dead. The motor was running and
the lights were on, and the investi
gating officer noticed the exhaust
pipe was choked with mud. Carbon
monoxide gas had ended the man's
sleep.
The year has had its freak acci
dent, too. A small boy playing with
a length of wire, looped one end
around his waist and was trailing
the rest behind him. A passing truck
caught the loose end and dragged
the boy to his death.
"These few examples, taken at
random from the 135 traffic fatalities
reported to the secretary of state's
office during the first six months of
1939, serve to remind us that trage
dy may suddenly visit commonplace
situations," Snell said. "The simple
act of turning out to pass another
car may lead to violent death if
proper care is not exercised. The
turn of the wheel to avoid an object,
if carelessly done, may throw the
car into a fatal skid or the mere act
of walking across the road to post a
letter may end in disaster.
"t is not necessarily the unusual
situation which causes accidents; it
is
more often the ordinary occur-
rence which is not met in a cautious
sensible manner that contributes to
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the traffic death toll on the high
ways and streets of the state."
Egg Menu Winners
Announced for State
Oregon State College Five Ore
gon women who submitted the best
menus for using eggs in preparing
balanced, attractive, and economi
cal meals, have been declared state
champions and their menus have
been submitted in the national com
petition for a $1000 grand prize to
be awarded at the World Poultry
congress in Cleveland late in July.
The five winners follow:
Mrs. Golden Weber, Route 2,
Troutdale, $30; Mrs. L. Lassater,
Philomath, $25; Miss Susan E. Wells,
Toledo, $20; Miss Dorothy Richards,
Oregon City, $15; Mrs. R. A. Mor
den, Portland, $10. Some of the Ore
gon women may also receive free
trips to the poultry congress in case
they are among 20 from the entire
United States who will be selected
to go to Cleveland to demonstrate
their winning menus.
The Oregon branch of this national
contest was sponsored jointly by the
Oregon World Poultry congress
committee and the Pacific Cooper
ative Poultry Producers, each of
which put up $50 in prize money.
Judges of the contest were Miss
Lucy A. Case, O. S. C. extension
specialist in nutrition, chairman;
Nancy Morris, home economics ed
itor of the Oregonian; Frances Clin
ton, home demonstration agent of
Umatilla county; and Helen Cowgill,
assistant state leader of 4-H club
work. The cash awards have been
made by Fred Cockell, state chair
man of the poultry congress com
mittee. SEEMED
C. DARBEE, Local Agent,
Heppner, Oregon
Phone 132