The Hermiston herald., June 17, 1926, Image 1

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The Herald Keeps Close to the Heart and Mind of the Umatilla Project.
I-Urmwimt Bmtlit
VITAL CHANGES ARE
IN COURSE OF BEING
REALIZED HERE. ARE
YOU ALIVE TO THEM!
VOL. XX
DAIRY CATTLE AND
LAYING HENS ARE
PAYROLL MAKERS
FOR PROJECT FARMERS
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1926
Cropt a t Irrigon
COMMISSIONER TO
Give Promise o f
TO VISIT SUNDAY Excellent fie ld s
STOP ON PROJECT
PORTLAND GROUP
B. T . P. U. OF COUNTY TO
HOLD RALLY HERE SUNDAY
Pendleton
Churchh W ill
Send Its
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I hermiston
Opportunity for
LOCAL PLANS FOR
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LAND TOUR MADA
2
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I
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WINS
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Orchestra and Delegates
LAND SETTLEMENT COMMITTEE
A lfalfa Hay Short B ut F ruits Are
TO SEE LAND
Doing W ell, C. E
Hermiston and Stanfield Country to
Be Inspected During
Glasgow Says.
JULY 11, 12, 13 ARE DATES FOR
VISIT.
Dr. Mead W ill Be Accompanied By
Photographer to Film Work
W ill Attend.
The B. Y. P. U. of Umatilla county
will hold a rally at the Hermiston
Baptist church the afternoon and
evening of Sunday, June 20.
The orchestra of the Pendleton
Baptist church and delegates from
all over the county will furnish a
very interesting program.
This is the first young people's
rally to be held in Hermiston and
everyone is requested to co-operate
in making it a success.
VISITORS TO BE SHOWN OVER W illam ette V alley
LANDS IN DISTRICT
Dinner to be Served Sunday For
|
Couple
Praise LAST ^ A O ^ E GAME TAKEN NT
Locai n o c k s; Conditions For
Work Ideal.
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9-7JSC0RE
Woodward
R etires
13
Batters By
Strikeout Route in Seesaw
60 Persons; Many Towns to
I That there are more natural ad­
“All of the crops In our section
of the country are doing exception­
van
tages
on
the
Umatilla
project
{
Accomplished.
C ontest
Be Represented.
ally well this season except alfalfa,
| for big scale production of poultry
and prospects are that farmers will
! than exist In the Willamette val-
Plans for showing land that will, do better than for a number of
The Hermiston Irrigators closed
Plans for piloting members of the , ley was the comment made here by
That Dr. Elwood Mead, commision
be available for new settlers to the years.”
land settlement committee of the Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Thompson of their schedule In the Tri-County
er of reclamation In the department
members of the land settlement com-1 The above message was given b y 'o f the interior, will Include Her-
Portland Chamber of Commerce over j Oregon, when they were here last league Sunday at Ione when they
defeated the fast aggregation by a
mlttee of the Portland Chamber of C. E. Glasgow, of Irrigon, secretary .mlaton and the Umat 11a project on
the project and adjacent raw lands! Friday on a trip of sight seeing,
Commerce when the committee vis- and a member of the board of the his itinerary on his trip over recla-
next Sunday afternoon when the
Mr. and Mrs, Thompson own andj score of 9 to 7. The victory over
its the project next Sunday, were West Extension district, while in mation projects is t ie information
members of the committee will be operate Fir Lane Poultry farm at the Ione nine gave the locals a
made at a meeting held here Satur-I Hermiston Tuesday.
that has been received at the local FIRST CAR OF EARLY POTATOES here on their two day tour of Uma-I Canby. They specialize In baby perfect record for their league play­
tilla and Morrow counties were dis-! chick production^ using trapnested ing.
day night.
! Fruit has done exceptionally well reclamation office.
Woodward w«3 in the box for the
Representatives from Boardman. tbis year around Irrigon, Mr. Glas-
The dates on which he will be on EVER SHIPPED BY ONE GROWER cussed at the weekly luncheon of and pedigreed S C. W. Leghorns, and
the Commercial club Tuesday.
have built up a big business with Shovel Pushers and retired 13 Ione
Irrigon, Pendleton and Hermiston s ° * atated.
| |
the project are July 11, 12 and 13.
batsmen by the strikeout route.
It is expected that a minimum ot customers all over the state.
participated in the discussion about
'" ,e e*Pect a good crop of apri-j He will arrive Sunday, July II, about LEFT HERMISTON WEDNESDAY
the plans. Geo. C. Baer, executive e°tR, and peaches promise to yield noon by motor from Yakima. All
60 men will be here to attend the
While here they visited about Shesely who could not play on ac­
Another chapter In the history of dinner that will be given at 7 1 10 local poultry plants to see at count of Injuries sustained last week
secretary of the Pendleton Commer- W*U.” he said. “Berries are being day Monday will be soent here, and
clal association, presided at the harvested now, both blackcaps and he will leave Tuesday afternoon in the Umatilla project as a producing o clock Sunday evening, and the first hand what is being done by in a fall, was replaced by Hiatt.
meeting.
red raspberries, and the market is rime to catch the train for Spokane section of agricultural products was club s entertainment committee was the growers here who have started Voyen was on the initial bag tn
written Wednesday when the first Instructed to make plans for the in the business during recent years, place of Hiatt, and Blakely played
The Portland committee w’lll spend taking all we have to offer. Melons at Plymouth, Wahington, at 3; 10.
the morning In the north end of are far ahead of schedule and will be
To date, as far as Is known, no carload of early potatoes ever shipp­ dinner. Delegations, In addition to They praised a number of pullet short.
The locale drew first blood by
Morrow county inspecting irrigated1 'on the market earlier than usual, ac- public meetings have been arranged ed out by one grower went to mar­ the members of the Portland group, flocks and were enthusiastic about
and raw lands in the Boardman and cordinS to the way things look now. to be held while the commissioner ket. Many early tubers have been will be here from Boardman, Irrigon, i the opportunity offered in this dis- scoring a pair In the Initial con­
Irrigon districts. In the afternoon! One of my neighbors told me the is here. He may confer with the shipped from the project in past years Umatilla, Stanfield, Echo and P en-itrict for economical production of test. and they added another In the
second. Ione In their part of the
poultry and eggs.
the tour will be continued in the other day that he has melons a l- district board on Monday There Is but the car that went Wednesday dleton, it is expected.
area adjacent to both Hermiston and ready setting on his vines.“
The itinerary that will be followed
The Thompsons have one big second got a couple and added two
a probability that he may meet with from the Rex Ellis place west of the
Ftanfield, and in the evening a din-! The better prospects for a success- members of the UmatUa Rapids as river was the first solid carload in the Hermiston-Stanfield districts machine that holds 47.000 eggs at more in the third. The score see­
is being worked out by the local land 1 one time. They take off a hatch sawed until the sixth when the loc­
ner to the visitors will be given fuI year have resulted in a better sociation during the visit. It Is also grown by one farmer.
feeling and in more optimism as to expected that he will confer with the
The tuberfe were U. S. No. 1 and settlement committee.
of about 4,000 chicks twice a week als had the lead, 8 to 6, and they
here.
I the future, according to Mr. Glas­ board of the Stanfield district.
were not headed.
were packed in lugs. 65 pounds net.
A program after dinner will in- about 4,000 chicks twice a week
On Monday the committee will see
gow.
They
were
shipped
and
will
be
sold
Box Bcore and summary:
elude
an
address
of
welcome,
an
ex­
Dr.
Mead
left
Washington
June
14
McKay dam, look at land In the
Hermiston—
AB R H PO A H
and will not return to his office un­ through the Three Rivers Growers planation of water rights and the STANDARD OIL EMPLOYES
Pilot Rock district, have lunch there!
association of Kennewick. The qual­ terms under which they may be
1
Smith, 2nd ........ 6
til late In July.
n*>d thPn go to the Milton-Freewater JOSEPH W. CRAIE DIES
ity of the spuds was pronounced paid, both in the Hermiston dis­
Blakely, as ........ 5
1
BUY
BIG
BLOCK
OF
STOCK
An
announcement
from
Washing­
district in the afternoon. Dinner j
i N HOT LAKE SANATARIUM
Voyen, 1st ........ 4
10
ton stated that he will be accompan- excellent by a number of men who In­ trict and for other districts and
will be served in Pendletbn Monday!
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0
some other brief talks.
Certificates Purchased Out of Savings Shook, cf ............ 3
| led by an official photographer on spected them.
evening, and it is expected that a
A
ton
and
a
half
of
spuds
from
the
Mlttlesdorf,
if
....
3
1
Pioneer
Farmer
Passes
A
fter
Brief
¡his
tour
and
that
many
still
and
A
delegation
of
10
local
men
will
number from Boardman, Irrigon,
Now Have Value of $28,000,000.
Todd, 3rd ........ 5
0
(motion pictures will be tak|en fit Ellis place went to La Grande Mon­ go to Pendleton for the dinner‘that
Umatilla and Hermiston will be in
Illness ; Had Lived On
Waterman,
rf
....
4
1
day.
Vienno
S.
Kelkkala,
formerly
is
to
be
given
there
Monday
night,
scenes
on
projects,
showing
the
de­
attendance.
Stock certificates of the Standard Woodward, p .... 6
0
Project 14 Years.
velopment that has byen worked as of Weston, is running the Ellis it wa8 decided Tuesday.
At the meeting here Saturday
2 13
Admission to the dinner here Sun­ Oil company ot California have been Hiatt, c ............... 6
a result of the work done In recla- place. Mr. Ellis has been on the job
evening a discussion was held for
despatched to 12,000 employes who
in
person
during
harvesting
opera­
day
evening
will
be
by
ticket,
and
Joseph
W.
Cralk,
one
of
the
old
«nation.
It
lg.
planned
to
utilize
the
the purpose of securing concrete In­
through the operation of the com­
Totals...... 41
9 11 27 11 8
formation as to the cost of land, both time pioneers of the project, died; motion pictures for publicity pur- tions. He said that the Pacific Fruit local men who desire to attend should pany’s stock investment and saving
Ione—
and
Produce
Co.
of
Pendleton
stated!
procure
their
tickets
at
H
itt’s.
The
Wednesday
morning
at
8:30
at
Hot
poses,
according
to
the
statement
improved and unimproved, for pre­
Lake sanatarium. Death was caus­ from Washington,
0
that his potatoes are In much keener dinned will be given at Hotel Her­ plan, have acquired 481,976 shares A. Cochran, ss .... 5
sentation to the Portland committee.
of company stock with a present mar­ Esselstyn, 2nd.... 4
ed
by
a
complication
of
asthma
and
demand
than California stock.
an Iston
1
A b a result of the discussion, the
ket value of about $28,000,000.
O.
Reitman,
1st
..
4
16
bronchitis
and
came
unexpectedly.
following approximate values were
P otato Patch Pays
The plan wag initiated by the W. Reitman, 3rd 3
0
Mr. draik went to the sanatarium
IONE AND HERMISTON TO
arrived at.
That early potatoes have been a BOARDMAN POTATO GROWERS
company five years ago for the pur­ Hoskins 1, c ... .... 4 0 0 6 0 0
for treatment less than a week ago.
TO
SHIP
THROUGH
3
RIVERS
Boardman district, raw land $20
paying crop this year Is the experi­
PLAY BALL HERE SUNDAY pose ot assisting employes to be­
He was past 61 years old and
, cf .. .... 4 2 0 1 0 0
to $25 an acre, Improved land $150
ence of Georg« Liebe. He had about
come stockholders and encourage Drake, If ..... .... 4 0 0 1 0 0
came to the project about 14 years
Potatoes grown in the Boardman . . . _
„
m .
to $200 per acre; Irrigon district,
three-fourths of an acre devoted to district
will be shipped this season ?0St Se8SOn Game To °Pen * 2=30; thrift. Under this plan the em­ Cason, rf ..... ..... 4 0 0 2 1 •
raw land1 at $20 to $25, and Im­ ago. His wife preceded him In death the crop. Mr. Liebe planted his seed
ployee was permitted to apply up Brown, P ....... ..... 3 0 0 0 0 0
about
two
years
ago.
They
had
no
Keogh May Pitch For
proved land, $160 to $200 per acre;
last February and got a crop much through the Three Rivers Growers
to 20 per cent of his salary to the Eubank
..... 1 0 0 0 0 •
Boardman
grower«
Hermiston district, raw land, $10 to children. Ray Goode, local farmer, earlier than usual. Several days ago association.
purchase of stock. The amount he
— — — — —4 ——
is
a
nephew.
Two
brothers
and
two
Visitors.
growers
have
requested
that
tljey
$15 per acre. Improved land at $180
he had already sold about $200 of
■•perilled was deducted from his sal
deters reside in California.
’ó ta la . ..... 37 7 4 37 18 4
to $200 per acre; Stanfield district,
tubers from the patch, and there still have membership In the association,
The body was brought to Hermis­
Earned runs, Ione 1, Hermiston 3;
P°st 8enson game of bnse bal1 ary to the purchase of stock. The
$20 to $25 per acre, and improved
remains some more to sell. His early and the tubers there will be handled1
ton this morning by Mr. Goode.
on
the
same
plan
that
is
being
fo
l-1
*
6 a,ld Hermletn furnishing amount he specified was deducted three base hits. Blakely; first on
land at $200 to $300 per acre
season sales were for prices ranging
the fireworks has been arranged by from his salary each month. For balls, off Woodard 2, off Brown 3;
Funeral arrangements have not been
The Portland committee, Mr. Baer
from 10 cents a pound to three and lowed here.
Managed J. M. Biggs for Sunday each dollar so deposited the com­ left on bases, Hermiston 9, Ione 4;
made,
pending
receipt
of
word
from
The
plan
lg
being
extended
to
the
a half cents.
explained, hag been responsible for
June
20. The game will start a half pany from its own funds added, as a first base on errors, Hermiston 3,
the
relatives
in
California.
Mr.
Boardman district thi3 year for the
Investments aggregating about ten
bonus, the sum of fifty cents. As Ione 3; two base hits. Shook, Mlt­
first tme. About 25 acres have been hour earlier than usual, at 2:30. in
million dollars being made in the Cralk owned two farms here, was DON’T CUT DOWN ON FEED
order that Ione players may start ¿unis sufficient for the purchase ot tlesdorf, Woodward, O. Reitman:
an
industrious
man
and
had
the
re­
devoted
to
the
crop
there
this
Willamette valley during the time
shares of stock were accumulated, etruck out, by Woodward, 13, by
home before dark.
FOR CALVES, MOORE SAYS spring.
it has been working. The visit of spect and confidence of his friends
The Ione team has played consist the company issued the stock from Brown 5; hit by pitcher. Brown 2.
and
neighbors.
In
earlier
years
he
the committee here Is being made
ently fflBt ball this Reason. In thfelltB treasury to the trustees fo r a c - Scorer, Pierce.
with the idea in mind of extending was a miner and prospector.
Fire Does No Damage
That It Is a mistake to try to
Tri-County league they were runner»- count of the employee. Current divi­
Score by innings:
the settlement work into this district.
Hermiston
had
its
first
fire
tn
raise heifer calveg on sklin mlk and
up and lost four games. Echo dends from this stock were applied Hermiston.... :.. 2 0 1 3 0 2 0 1 0— • .
GRADUATES
TO
SEE
OLD
The Itinerary worked out for the
substitute feeds and expect them to three months Tuesday afternoon trimmed them in an early season to stock purchase«.
Ione................... 0 2 2 0 1 1 1 0 0— 7
first day’s tour lg as follows
WORLD ON FREIGHTER TRIP develop into high producing cows about 1 o’clock when an alarm was I game, and they lost to Boardman
The plan was suspended December
7:30 A. M., meet Boardman dele­
is the belief expresed by F. W. sent in from the Christian place, once.
.
,
. . .
i ------
Hermiston defeated them 31 last owing to certain conditions
gation at Boardman.
.'$».'s*'
Moore, dairy farmer who lives north The fuse plugs had burned out re- twice, but both games were good,
arising from the consolidation of thp STRAWBERRY ROOT WEEVIL
7:30 to 11:30 A. M., Inspect the
University of Oregon, Eugene, June of Hermiston.
cently and pennies were placed back
With the closing of the season Standard Oil company and the Paci­
POISONING IS PLANNED
Boardman-Irrigon Irrigation districts. 17— Walter Malcolm, of Portland,
“My heifers get whole milk and of the fuses. A short circuit d ev el-|,he restrictions on strengthening fic Oil company. During its four
11:30 A. M., arrive at A. E. Por­ president of the student body, and all they need," Mr. Moore declared. ped in an electric iron, and the teamB have been lifted, and a report years and seven months of active
The strawberry root weevil hap
ter ranch for community luncheon.
James Johnson, of Hood River, "It’s impossible to mature pigs early short caused lame to go up the j here Is that Ione will have Keogh operation the participating employees proven to be the bane of the straw­
1:00 P. M„ leave A. E. Porter prominent debators at the University, "n,eee they are fed all they will eat
2 ^
m.eA aB
Boardm»" «"
-ound. Keogh saved about $15,750,000. To this berry. Industry in commercial grow­
ranch.
win see the world through the port­ from the time they are born until extinguished by the residents of the has twirled some fast ball during the company added more than $7,- ing areas. Soil, In some cases, be­
1:30 P. M., view Brownell ditch hole of a freighter this summer.
they go to market. A man can’t house while the fire truck was on the season, and if he works fans 750,000. Through dividends and
comes so heavily infested with the
project at Umatilla.
Malcolm and Johnson have secured! grow S°od heavy horses by starving the way to the blaze.
will be assured some snapfry baseball. the sale of rights the employees ac­ pest that fields must be plowed up
2:00 P. M., arrive Hermiston
jobs on a freighter which will leave the coltg to death, and my experience
cumulated approximately $2,300,000 and strawberry growing abandoned
2:00 P M. to 6 P. M., Inspect Her­ Portland immediately after the close has taught me that calves should
The ladles of the Columbia Neigh­
R. F. Wilbur, assistant county more, making a total of nearly $?6.- for a few years.
miston-Stanfield districts.
borhood club will hold a social on agent, who divides his time between 000,000. The market value of the
of college going to New York by way have plenty of butterfat."
Until this year there has been no
7:00 P. M., dinner at Hermiston of the Panama canal. From New
Mr. Moore is milking a herd of the evening of Friday, June 25, on the Mllton-Friewater section and the stock purchased lg now about $28,- effective poison bait on the market
under1 auspices of Hermiston Com­ York they will go to Europe, return- h,sh Producing cows and said that »he B. Hammer lawn in Columbia, | Hermiston section wag here this 000,000,
that would attract the weevil. Such
mercial club.
•ng t<j the United States before the when properly cared for, a good directly across the road from the j week. A demonstration to be held
To participate the employee had to a bait has now been perfected and
9:00 P. M., depart for Pendleton opening of college next fall.
dairy herd is one of the best in­ Howard Reid ranch. More particu- on the Joe Dyer place Saturday has have one year of service with the
placed on the market by a Seattle
where night will be spent.
Jars will be given next week.
| been planned.
“From London, which we will visit vestments a man can have.
company. Of those eligible to par- man, it first having been found very
first, we plan to visit places of in­
ticipation 86.77 per cent took parti effective under western Washington
PUREBRED PIGS SHIPPED
terest throughout England, Scotland
In the plan. The maximum payroll conditions. An Infested patch on
and Ireland, then gc to the contin­
deduction permitted was 20 per cent Joe Dyer’s ranch at Hermiston will
BY LOCAL MAN TO LAKESIDE
ent,” Malcolm declared.
of compensation. The average de-| be treated and the effectiveness of
Malcolm plans to enter Harvard
duction wag 17.54 per cent.
the material under Umatilla Project
One of the largest shipments of
conditions will be noted at a demon­
pl^S made out of Hermiston for some university law school next fall, and
time was sent by H. J. Stillings, Johnson will register In the law
stration to be held there by the
SIXTH ANNUAL CLIMB OF
breeder of Poland Chinas, Tuesday school ot the University of Michigan
MT HOOD ON JULY 3, 4, 5 A!lst County Agent Wilbur Saturday.
morning. C. P. Coleman and Son of according to plans. Malcolm was
Jung 19, at 2 P. M.
Lakeside, Oregon, were the purchas­ graduated from the University of Ore"
gon this term.
ers of the 30 h ead ..
The Hood River post American RHODES' FLOCK GIVES HIGH
Twenty-five ot the pigs were pure­
Legion, which In 1921 launched an
PRODUCTION DURING APRIL
bred Polands and were bought by CITIZENS’ MILITARY CAMP
annual Mount Hood climbing party
the Lakeside men for breeding
for the purpose of exploiting Ore­
TO GET UNDER WAY FRIDAY
gon’s natural scenic asset, plans on! Mrs. Lulu M. Rhodes flock of
stock. In addition, one crate of
making the sixth climb the most w l" le Leghorns returned her a labor
crossbred Polands and Durocs were
Tomorow 600 young men from the
successful ever held. July 3. 4 and lncome d,lrln 'he month of April of
bought for feeders. The Pigs were
5 are dates set for the mountain »1*5.22. according to the records ot
eight weeks old and had just been states of Washington and Oregon
party and in addition to celebrating cw,t and income that she kept on ths
will assemble at Vancouver Barracks.
weaned.
Washington, for the lfcrgest Infantry
the nation's birthday by leading toi Hock.
The flock Included 380 hens. The
citizens’ military training camp ever
the top of Mount Hood the largest
LIGAMENTS TORN LOOSE
feed
bill for the month was $69.26,
held In the northwest. They will
party ever on the summit of a glac-|
- IN FALL FROM LADDER don Uncle Sam’s uniform for one
lai and snow peak on the globe. th e1 and other expenses were $15.04.
— —
‘ month and go into traning under
i.gionnaires and their guests w ill1 making a total of $84.20 Egg salea
HerbBheaely, painter, sustained in-' the battte flags of the veteran
commemorate with appropriate cere- amounted to $229.52, and deducting
juries last Thursday that probably Seventh Infantry which stopped the'
monies the completion of the Cooper» lhe
the labor ,nrome an,ount"
will make It impoaelble for him to'Germans at the Marne and penetrat-
'piir lateral of the Mount Hood Loop rd to $145.22. Eggs used at horn«
highway.
| and eggs broken were not credited.
work for six weeks or two months, ed the Argnnne Forest.
when he fell about 10 feet from a
During the past week Vancouver
On former year, It has been neces- Mrs. Rhodes said the egg case, were
ladder and tore loose ligaments in Barracks has buzzed with activity
ary for recreatlonlsts to hike over »urn‘shed.
h is tight arm. The accident hap- in preparation for summer activities,
a 3 1-2 mile trail to the mile-high
"o f rourse. we all know that any
pened on a wheat ranch near Athena There are new tennis courts, a track
mountain camp. With the Coopers'o,d h,’n wl" lay during April, and
where he and Fred Shook were paint- and athletic field,, a swimming tank,!
3pur road complete and rock «urfac- production 1» always higher in April
lag a set of buildings. His left arm volley ball courts, three baseball
ed. motorists can now drive direct- ,han *« »ny other month. The O i­
was slightly Injured, and his chin diamonds, a well equipped gymnas-
ly to the camp.
urea show what can be done.”
wns skinned and bruised. He was lum and a golf course.
taken to a hospital at Walla Walla
There are to be movies every night
The Baptist Lalde, Aid will meet'
Mr. and Mr». Clark Prlndle and
where an X-ray of the injury was and a dance once a week where youth
Wednesday afternon, June 23, at the family are here from Los Angeles
taken. The Injury will make It im- and beauty will demonstrate the lat-
home of .Mr». M. B. Morton. Mr».! as guest» of relatives. They for-
poesfblc for him to play baseball any est steps to the strains of the famous
Morton and Mr». J. Skovbo will be merly lived here and have not been
more this season.
Seventh Infantry hand.
febsteases.
¡on the project for five year».
Afternoon.
S c h o o l ’s O u t