The Herald Keep* Close to the Heart and Mind of the Umatilla Project.
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m ro >o better home
’RMISTON, ONE OF
ah E BEST POULTRY
THAN OS AN HtRIGATED
FARM OS THIS PROJECT.
DISTRICTS ANYWHERE
IN THE NORTHWEST
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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1927
BIG JOINT PICNIC
JULY 4 IS PLANNED
SEYMOUR LOWMAN
LOCALS LOSE HOT •
ONE WITH INDIANS
BUREAU PARTICIPATION
Invitation Given Thursday Night is
Accepted and Plans Made
For Day’s Program.
Game C a lld Off.
APARTMENTS TO B E MADE
IN OLD HOTEL BUILDING
Hermiston is to have modern
apartments, according to C. D. Por
ter who will have the management
of the property. Hotel Corlis which
has been closed for some time will
be divided into apartments of vary
ing sizes and rented to families. The
lobby of the hotel property w ill be
converted into a reading room for
occupants of the property.
Present plans are to convert the
dining room and kitchen into a club
room center where such civic, social
and fraternal organizations as wish
may meet and maintain headquarters.
Mr. Porter stated that several of
the apartments have already been
rented. The property will be known
as the Hermiston apartments.
HERMISTON HAS FOUR AT
CITIZENS’ TRAINING CAMP
Tour high school students are re
presenting Hermiston at the citizens
military training camp at Vancouver
barracks. The school started last
week.
The local boys who are taking the
work include George and Gerald Mc
Kenzie, Sumner Robinson and GeoTge
Davis. The camp lasts a month.
Mrs. Leila Phelps returned early
this week from Vale. Oregon, where
she spent a short vacation as a guest
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Voyen. The Voyens lived in Her
miston until recently. Mrs., Phelps
stated that they are well pleased* In
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their new location.
GROUNDS ABE MUCH IN USE
CREAM POOL PLAN
BEING CONSIDERED
NORTHERN PACIFIC
OFFERS ITS LANDS
The school playgrounds are prov
ing a popular place with tennis be
ing played on the new courts which
were recently completed.
SCORE OF 5-3 MADE IN LAST
High school students are availing 1700 ACRES NFAR HERMISTON
themselves of the opportunity to
GAME OF SEASON
WILL BE SOLD
spend mornings and evenings on the
Blakely Fitches for Locals and courts, and some townspeople a»e Average Price on 35 Tracts Will
brushing up on their game.
Hurly Catches; Sunday’s
Be $10 With Easy Terms
STANFIELD ORANGE ASKS FARM
Residents of the Hermiston com
munity have been invited to join
with the Stanfield Grange in holding
a big inter-community picnid and
celebration at Stanfield on the Fourth
of July. The invitation, given by
R. G. Penney in behalf of the Grange
last Thursday night at a meeting of
the Umatilla Project Farm Bureau
was enthusiastically accepted.
The Stanfield tourist park will be
used as the place for the picnic, Mr.
Penney told the local men. It is* on
the river with an abundance of
shade, and there is sufficient room
to care for any crowd that will at
tend.
All the details of the program
have not yet been decided on, hP said,
but there w ill be a program of talks
and music of a patriotic nature in
the morning.
Hermiston was asked to furnish a
speaker on the subject of “Co-opera
tion by Farmers.” New Madden has
accepted an invitation to deliver this
speech.
Mr. Penney said that Stanfield will
also expect Hermiston to furnish a
number of entertainment numbers.
The chief speaker of the patriotic
part of the program probably will be
from Pendleton, though this point is
still undecided.
In the afternoon a program of races
and other athletic events will be held
with children participating. There
is a bare possibility that a baseball
game may be a feature of the after
noon if time can be found for it.
E. L. Jackson and S. H. Barnard
were named on the commlttee to re
present the local orgcniatlon in mak
ing definite arrangements for the af
fair.
The Farm Bureau appointed J. W.
McMullen as a special committee to
work with County Agent Holt to
ascertain results secured this year
from potato seed. Reports at the
meeting were that stands are not so
good this season as usual on an aver
age, and a study to try to ascertain
•he reason w ill be made.
A boys' and girls' picnic will be
held on the Umatilla above the, di
version dam some time in July, E. L.
Jackson, leader of club work report
ed. The date has not been set.
PLAYGROUNDS ON SCHOOL
NO. 42
Seymour Lowman, former lleuten
ant-governor of New York, recently
appointed assistant secretary of th<
treasury in charge of prohibition.
LONGVIEW SPAN
IS TURNED DOWN
Washington, D. C.—Rejection ol
specifications for the proposed Long
view bridge across the Columbia river
was announced at the war department.
The plans submitted by W. D.
Comer, Seattle financier, and Wesley
Vandercook, Longview lumberman,
were disapproved by Secretaries Davis
and the war department and Hoover
and Jardine, with the concurrence oi
Majqr General Jadwin, chief of army
engineers, who were designated to
pass upon the specifications.
Chief differences between the plans
proposed by the builders and those
recommended by the cabinet commit
tee concerned the main span. The
secretaries recommended a clearance
of 175 feet in place of the 170 feet
proposed and a width of 1000 instead
of 500 feet. The cabinet members de
clared the location selected is “feas
ible for the erection of a suitable
bridge," adding that a bridge there,
“with suitable clearances, would not
offer an unreasonable obstruction to
navigation.”
SHORT NEWS NUGGETS
OF
$84 PER
TON
FOR
The West Enders failed to keep EARLY SPUDS AT KENNEWICK
the Indians’ goat when the two teamg
met In Pendleto. Sunday, and the PROMPTS FLANS FOR SHIPMENT
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Reservation boys kept the long end
Two carloads of early potatoes
of a 5-3 score as a trophy to hang
shipped in lugs from Kennewick last
in their home wigwams.
Saturday brought $84 per ton, ac
Blakely hurled for the locals, and
cording to information in a letter
the game was a good one. The Ind
received by the local growers’ body
ians did their scoring In the fourth
from Lee Lampson of Kennewick,
and again in the seventh. The West
manager of the Three Rivers Grow
Enders did not get started until the
ers’ association.
seventh, and after that they added
The price is holding very well, and
one each inning.
prospects are for a reasonable amount
Clark, Indian star second base-
of, strength, local growers believe.
man, led hig team mates In stick
The present prices have caused lo
work with three hits out of four time51
cal growers to plan to ship some of
up. In the fourth he got on and
the earliest of the crop In lugs, and
went to second On Elks’ sacrifice.
a carload probably will be shipped
Craig drew a pass and he and Clark
the coming week. William Logan,
worked a double steal. Both scored
New Madden, Roy Sullivan, Sylvan
on Wac-Wac’s blngle over short.
Pearson and several other potato
The Indians got three more in the
growers will have tubers to Includt
seventh on singles by Norwest and
in the firat shipment.
Hudson, followed by > a double by
The price this year is stronger than
Clark and a single by Elk.
It was last year, so far. The acreage
In the seventh Blakely did a nice
on local farms In early potatoes is
double and came acroes the plate for
(aid to be about the same a3 it was
his team’s first marker when Phesely
last year, and the acreage in late
singled.
potatoes Is much heavier.
In the eighth Shipley was on by
virtue of being hit on the arm by a
pitched ball. Mittlesdorf , doubled POWER COMPANY INCREASES
to right, scoring Shipley. A single
SIZE OF LINE FROM PLANT
by Hiatt In the ninth, an error con
tributed by Norwest and Shipley's
New and heavier copper wires are
single turned In another score.
being strung by the Hermiston Light
Sunday’s game closed the local & Power company between the local
team's schedule In the Blue ?doun- plant, three miles southwest of
tain league. , A game was sched town, and the substation, according
uled with Walla Walla for next Sun- to Frank Ralph.
day, but the game was called off.
The improvement will increase
The summary:
the carrying capacity of the line for
Reservation—
the winter months when a heavier
AB R H PO A E load is required to meet the needs of
.3 1 1 2 4 1 the four towns served by the local
Hudson, c .......... .3 1 2 7 1 0 company.
Mlnthorn, 3 b ...... .4 0 1 2 0 1
“Our lines to the other towns lead
ClarK, 2b .......... .4 2 3 2 1 0 directly from the plant, and the line
Elk, lb ............... .3 0 1 6 0 0 between the plant and Hermiston,
Craig, cf ............. 3 1 0 3 0 0 which is a part of the circuit, needed
Alexander, I f ...... .3 0 0 1 0 0 heavier wire,” Mr. Ralph stated.
Wac Wac, r f ...... .3 0 1 3 0 0 “The work will be completed during
Beetles, p .......... .4 0 0 1 1 0 the summer months.”
Motante, rf ........ .1 0 0 0 0 0
LOCAL T H E A T R E MANAGER
Totals .......... .3 1 5 9 27 7 2
BUYS STANFIELD PLANT
Hermiston—
AB R II PO A E>
A deal waa closed Wednesday by
Hurly, c .......... ...4 0 0 4 1 0
Harry
Kline, manager of the Hermis
Blakely, p ........ ...4 1 2 0 5 0
Hiatt, lb ........ ...4 1 1 10 1 0 ton Playhouse, for the equipment for
Shcsely, 2b ...... ...4 0 1 4 0 0 merly used in the Stanfield theatre.
Fetter, 3 b ...... ....4 0 0 1 2 1 The material purchased will be moved
J. Todd, rf ...... ....4 0 0 1 0 1 here and Installed in the local thea
Shipley, s s ........ ...3 1 1 1 1 0 tre without delay.
Included in the purchase was a pro
Mittlesdorf, cf ....3 0 1 0 0 0
jection
machine, screen, chairs, a big
0
3
0
0
...3
0
Longhorn, if ....
— ———
— electric fan and other electrical e-
Totals ......... .3 3 3 6 24 10 2 qulpment.
“We plan to have the new equip
Score by innings:
Reservation ... ...R—-000 200 300—-5 ment In the Playhouse so it can be
Reservation ... ...H—-100 211 400— 9 used in the Saturday night show,”
Hermiston ..... ...R—-100 000 111—-3 Mr. Kline said. "The deal will mean
Hermiston ..... ...H—-100 000 212— 6 that waits between reels will be elim
Sacrifice hits, Elk; two base hits, inated and the service otherwise im
Clark 2, Blakely 2, Mittlesdorf; proved. The move is Just one of sev
stolen bases, Hudson, Mlnthorn, eral taken, or in prospect. In our ef
Clark, Elk, Craig; first on balls, off fort to give Hermiston real entertain
Blakely 4; struck out, by Beetles 7, ment in the home theatre. Patronage
by Blakely 4; runs responsible for, at the Playhouse has Increased each
by Beetles 3, by Blakely 5; lilt by week, and we want to give the kind
pitcher1, Shipley by Beetles; Umpire, of service that will make the Increase
In Interest continue.”
Dickey.
Spain has a population of 22,127,600
under the census completed March
31. The last previous census figure,
in 1920, was 21,347,335.
Brigadier General James E. Fechet
has been named by President Coolidge
to be chief of the air corps upon the
retirement of Major General Mason
M. Patrick.
United States Senator Borah cancel
ed an engagement to speak in Port
land at the convention of the Pacific
Coast Advertising clubs, on advice*7>T
his physician.
Miss Jeanna Sprague of Salt Lake
City wtys elected president of the Pa
cific Northwest Librarians' associa
tion at the annual convention held In
Astoria, Oregon.
The retail cost of food increased
slightly over 1 per cent in May, bul
decreased more than 3H per cenl
since May a year ago, the department
of labor announced.
The increase
since May, 1913, amounts to 61 per
cent.
Less than one-half of 1 per cent oi
thw year’s graduates of colleges and GROWTH ON GOLF LINKS
high schools of the country drink to
TO BE FIRED THIS WEEK
excess and fewer than 5 per cent drink
occasionally, according to a survey
Withered grass and weeds on the
Just completed ami announced by the
fairways of the Hermiston golf links
Anti-Saloon League of America.
will be burned off within the next
If Africa were proportionately as few days, according to plans that are
well served from a telephone stand being made by the local dub.
The dry growth has made It diff
point as the United States, the Dark
continent would have 135 times as icult for players to find balls, and
by firing It is expected that the con
many telephones as at present.
dition of the course will be material
ly improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto C. Pierce and
The total telephone wire mileage
family attended the wedding of Mrs.
Pierce’s niece in Portland Sunday. in the United State is about 60,000,-
They returned home Tuesday and 000 miles of which approximately
Van Wilson of Portland accompanied 53,000,000 is Bell owned and nearly
them for a visit.
■
7,000,000 Bell connected.
THE FEATHERHEADS
PRICE
Minnehaha District Elects
At the annual school election In
the Minnehaha District, No. 115,
held Monday afternoon, Chester
Flanagan was elected director. He
succeeds W. G. Rodda who nerved for
six consecutive years. Mrs. W. G.
Rodda was re-elected clerk of the
board. Neither Mr. Flanigan nor
Mrs. Rodda were opposed.
There are rumors that Rudyard
Kipling, the famous writer, will get
a telephone soon. Bernard Shaw
resisted the insiduous instument for
many years, but recently succumbed
and so far has managed to survive.
J. M. Biggs was a Pendleton visi
tor Monday.
FARM BUREAU MAKES STUDY GF
MARKETING BUTTERFAT
Signup of 800 Cows Urged by S. H-
Barnard After Premium Offer
Offered Buyer».
Is Secured.
The Northern Pacific lands west
of the river in the Westland Irriga
tion district are open for settlement.
Announcement of this fact was
made yesterday by E. P. Dodd and J
W. Messner of Hermiston who have
closed a deal with the railroad com
pany to handle the 1700 acres in
cluded in its holdings.
The decision of the Northern Pac
ific to put it8 lands on the market,
following the completion of plans by
the Western Irrigation company to
dispose of its lands to settlers makeg
it possible for definite quotations to
be made to land seekers.
The holdings of the Northern
Pacific, divided into 35 tracts, will
be sold at an average price of $10
per acre, M l. Dodd said. The range
in price is from $21 per acre for
three tracts to five dollars that will
be .charged for some pieces.
“The company wilt sell for one-
tenth of the purchase price down and
10 annual payments with interest at
3ix per cent on the deferred pay
ments," Mr. Dodd said.” That
means that the land is in reach of
practicality any Individual who wants
a place of his own. A 20 acre place
with a prioe of $10 an acre would
require the payment of only $20
down. The company has an Im
provement clause in itg contract call
ing for the making of some Improve
ments each year. This is for the
purpose of avoiding speculation and
the troubles that often follow.
"The price lias been cut to a low
figure in order to get the land set
tled with as little delay as possible.”
The company’s lands are west of
Hermiston within a few minutes
drive of town, the railroad, churches,
etc. The contour of the land is such
as to make it unnecessary to spend
much time or money preparing it for
water, according to local peoplB w l ^
have been over it.
The water supply that serves the
land comes from McKay reservoir,
only recently completed by the gov
ernment. •
Efforts to secure a farmers’ co-
opeiatlve cream pool that w ill in
clude the major part of the butterfat
production of the project are to be
launched without delay, according
to a statement by 8. H. Barnard, re
presentative of the Umatilla Project
Farm Bureau.
The decision followed discussion
of the subject at the meeting of the
farmers’ organization last Thursday
night. At that meeting Mr. Barn
ard waa named to go further Into
jhe question and to make recom
mendations. His investigation has
caused him to believe that project
daily men are ready to unite in a
pool for handling butterfat, and or
ganization work is expected to be
launched within the next few days.
Premium Offer Attracts
An offer of two premiums for
pooled cream, one premium for vol
ume, and another that may be se
cured as quality of cream is raised,
will make it possible for project
dairy men to put approximately $10,-
000 more iwto their pockets during
the course of the year than is possi
ble now, Mr. Barnard stated.
“My investigation to date leads me
to the conviction that we need to do
several things," he said.
“We want 800 cows included in
our agreement.
“We want 20 more concrete silos
constructed within the next 18
months so that succulent feed for
winter use may be available at a
reasonable cost.”
Croup hauling of cream from dif
ferent neighborhoods may be expect
ed to materialize as the movement
becomes a reality, he said. This
hauling might do double duty by be
ing used both to and from the farm.
Feed could be hauled from the ware
house to the farm and cream picked
up and hauled back to the central
plant on the return trip.
CLUB MEMBERS TO RETURN
FROM 0. A. C. TOMORROW
Six members of Hermiston boys’
and girls’ clubs will return tomorrow
from O. A. C. where they have been
attending the summer school session
for those members who do outstand
ing work.
Of 11 boys and girls from the
county who won scholarships to the
summer session, the west end of the
county had seven. Those from Her
miston Include Loren Jackson, Grace
Rodda, Dorothy Addleman, Lowell
Stockard, Oscar Mlkescll and Doro
thy Mortlmore. Mrs. Conlln, club
leader at Umatilla, and her daughter
are also attending the session.
The members were taken to the
college by W. A. Holt, county agent,
and J. A. Yeager, county school
superintendent. Mr. Holt stated
that this year's attendance at the
summer session Is the largest that
has ever gono from this county.
Lieut. C. C. Champion, United States
navy aviator, who set a new seaplane
altitude record by going up 33,455 feet
YOUTH PREACHES
TO PRESIDENT
Hermosa, S. D.—A 20-year-old boy
who shielded whatever misgivings hi
might have had beneath a calm and
friendly countenance, preached tin
first sermon of his life Sunday before
the president of the United States.
He told his tiny congregation in a
direct and simple statemant why il
should come to church, and then step
ped down from his pulpit to receivt
iron President Coolidge a smile at
beaming as the executive gave to Col
one! Charles A. Lindbergh after be
stowing upon him the Distinguished
flying cross.
The youthful preacher was Roll
Llu.n, unordained, who decided tc
come Into this far away hamlet tc
the west to earn enough money tc
help him through his last year at
Car ton college in Northfield, Minn,
little dreaming thnt in accepting his
post he would be called upon to speak
the word of God before a president.
AUTO CENSUS ANNOUNCED
27,C30,267 Automotive Vehicles In
Operation in World. —
Washington, D. C.—A world census
of automobiles made public by the
commerce department indicated thnt
on January 1, 1927, there were 27,650,-
267 automobiles, trucks and busses in
operation all over the globe. Tills was
an Increase of 3,176 633 over January
I, 1926.
The United States had In operation
SO per cent of the total, or 22,137,334
machines. The United Kingdom was
second with 1,023.610, France third
with 891,000, and Canada fourth.
DeAutremont Twins Arrive In Oregon
Portland, Or.—Ray and Roy DeAu
tremont. twins, older brothers of Hugh
DeAutremont and with him charged
with the holdup and dynamiting of a
Southern Pacific train at the summit
of the Siskiyou mountains, October
II, 1923, arrived In Portland Mondny
The fugitive brothers were arrested
Jure 8 at Steubenville, O., where they
were found working In a mill of the
Wheeling Steel corporation.
Believe Alleged Strangler
It
Taken.
Winnipeg. Man.—The Winnipeg po
SMALL GRASS FIRES CAUSE
HERMISTON TO LOSE SLEEP lice believe they have locked up here
one of I ho most atrocious criminals In
For the first time In a good many the history of the United States. The
months, Hermiston residents were man, who gave his name as Virgil
roused from sleep Tuesday night Wilson, Is believed to be the “gorillu
shortly after 11 o’clock by the fire man” or “strangler,” who has mur
dored 12 women in the United States.
siren.
A couple of grass fireg started Tho latest victims of the “strangler“
burning shortly ufter a freight train were Lola Cowan. 14, and Mrs. Emily
passed through town, and these Patterson, both of Winnipeg,
small blazes oaused the alarm. Frank
Avery Is Called Back
Bildcrback extinguished the blazes In
short order.
Howard Avery of Hermiston was
The dry condition of grass and called back to work by the Union
weeds where Irrigation 1» not prac
Pacific System last week. He is in
ticed made the fire risk greater than
usual, and within a short time after train operation work and is on a run
the alarm sounded the streets were between Portland and Pendleton. He
Jlncd with men and boys looking for j was off duty several weeks (luring
the slack period.
a fire to fight.
By Oeboras
HAYING IS PROGRAM OF
WORK ON LOCAL FARMS
Harvesting of the ibrst crop of
hay is under way in full blast on the
project. Some few farmers who cut
early are already done with the first
crop, but a majority are still busy.
The weather has been very satis
factory for haying, according to far
mers. Hot weather prevailed for sev
eral days until Tuesday night when
rain fell nearby and a cool wind low
ered the temperature. Only a sprin
kle of rain fell in Hermiston.
Little Cathryn Collins of Pendleton
was here last week as a guest of her
cousin, Ruth Dodd.
STRAWBERRIES AND ASPARAGUS
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INTRODUCED BY FARMERS IN
STANFIELD
AREA
YEAR
The efforts of the Stnnfield Grange
to bring about a modification of the
fanning system of its district, launch
ed during the spring of this year,
has already brought about a number
of changes, according to R. G. Pen
ney, one of the officers of the organ
ization, who was a Hermiston visitor
last Thursday night.
"We asked Mr Dean. Joe Dyer and
J. W. McMullen to speak to us at a
meeting this spring about their ex
periences with berries, asparagus
and other crops.” said Mr. Penney,
"and the result of thoee talks was
electric.
"It takes time to get started at
anything, but we already have made
some headway. The Grange bought
and distributed 10,000 strawberry
plants this spring, and asparagus
plants to the number of 8,000 were
bought and transplanted.”
About 10 farmers have already
started their activity In getting the
new crops, the visitor stated, and
more plan to get plants next spring.
A Little Difference of Opinion
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