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VOL. XXI
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1927
CREAM POOL PLANS
PROF. C. F. SHAW
16377303
ORGANIZATION
COMMETTE
¡CO-OPERATION IS
RIG NEED, MADDEN
SPEAKER AT STANFIELD TELLS
OF
FIVE ELECTED
OF FARM PROBLEMS
Work. to he Pushed Rapidly by
More Happiness for Farmers Goal
Group Representing Three
To Strive For, Local Man
Communities.
Declares.
Formation of an organization to
be known as the Farm Bureau Co
-operative Dairy Men’g association to
handle the butterfat produced in
thia district was launched at a meet
ing of dairy men from Hermiston,
Stanfield and Umatilla held Friday
night in the. Farm Bureau Co-opera
tive warehouse.
An organization commlttee of five
men from the three neighborhoods
wag elected to proceed with a signup
of 800 dairy cows so that the pool
Prof. C. F. Shaw of the University
can be formed and put into opera
of
California, who was appointed to
tion.
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The men elected to the committee represent the United States at the
are Sidney H. Barnard, Henry Dex First International Congress of Soil
ter of Umatilla, S. R. Cooper of Stan Science in Washington.
field, E. L. Jackson and P. P. Sulli
van. The election was unanimous
and only one nomination was chang
ed, that of A. E. McFarland of Uma
tilla who asked to be excused from
active work on account of lack of
time from his personal business to
Ottawa, Canada. — The Diamond
glVg to the task. Mr. Barnard was
elected chairman by the committee, Jubilee of the Confederation of Can
and E. L. Jackson drew the Job of ada was appropriately celebrated
throughout the Dominion from July 1
secretary.
H. J. Ott acted as chairman at the to 3. It Is sixty years since Canada
Friday night meeting, and J. H. Reid became a united self-governing coun
try. Prior to July 1, 1867, Canada was
was secretary .
Mr. Barnard in his report for the a number of sparsely settled prov
special committee that was appoint inces with scarcely any knowledge of
ed at a previous meeting to investi or communication with one-another.
At the Diamond Jubilee celebrations
gate the feasibility of forming such
a pool, recommended that for at which were held In every city, town,
least the first six months’ period the hamlet and village, speakers empha
butterfat in the pool be disposed of sized that for much longer than sixty
to the home organization, the Her years the bond of friendship between
Canada and her nearest and largest
miston creamery.
Two agreements will be necessary neighbor, the United States, has
In bringing about the functioning of grown stronger With the passage of
th e pool, C. J. Hurd, specialist in time. The remarkable development
farm marketing problems from O. A. that has taken, place in Canada since
C., told Friday night’s meeting. One 1867 was also ®’ feature of the public
agreement will be .b y individual addresses.
dairy men in which the pool will be
formed. The second contract will
COMBINE U N D OFFICES
be between the pool organization and
tfie buyer of the pool’s ljutterfat.
Roseburg Has 2,250.000 Acres Under
New Arrangement.
The chief provisions of the two
contractg were explained. by . Mr.
Roseburg. Or. -Consolidation of the
Hurd. A m inim um ,^ 800 cows must Rof eburg and Portland district United
Ve signed up before the pool can States land offices has been complet
function, he qaid. Deliv’e iy
of ed here. All government land In Ore
cream will be made by the individual gon west of the Cascade mountains Is
producer. The premiums to be re now handled through the Roseburg of
ceived by the pool members are to fice. which Is the .third largest in the
be as follows during the first six United States from the standpoint of
months. When standard cubes In revenue, being exceeded only by of
Portland are worth from 30 to 37 fices located* In oil-bearing districts
cents, Inclusive, the pool is to re- The local office now has Juirsdiction
eeive a premium of one cent per over more than 1,000,000 acres of
pound of butterfat; on cube prices homestead land and more than 1,250,-
of 38 to 43 cents, inclusive, the 000 acres of Oregon and California
premium Is to be two cents; on timber land.
prices of 44 to 55 cents, inclusive,
As the timber Is removed the tracts
the premium w ill be three cents.
will be thrown open to entry.
In addition. If sufficient volume
An increase in the office force has
Of sweet cream can be secured to been requested by H. A. Canaday, reg
permit separate churnings and Pro ister and receiver.
duce 92 score butter an added prem
ium of one cent w ill be paid.
Apple Crops to Bring Good Price.
Samples of cream taken by the
Hood River, Or.—With apple yields
creamery will be required to be kept in ail commercial sections of the na
tor 24 hours so checking tests may tion showing a heavy falling off this
be made at will.
mason, indications point td profitable
“ The contract between the pool and prices for the Pacific Northwest's ap
the buyer of the pool's butterfat will ple crop. The opening price of Grav-
be for »lx months. If desired, either insteins has already been set at >2 to
party to the contract may conclude 12.25 per box.
the contract by servin g’ notice 30
deys before the end of the six months Industrial« Survey W ork to be Begun.
period. Otherwise, the contract will
Seattle. Wash. — Preliminary work
continue to be In force for an add! on an industrial survey of the states
tlonal six months.
it Washington, Oregon. Idaho and
Expressions from a number of Montana will be started at once by
dairy men present was given to the .he United States bureau of foreign
flan, and no one was found to op '.nd domestic commerce, according to
pose it.
Shirl H. Blalock, district manager.
•«It seeing to me that every dairy
man on the project should be for the
Mail Service Reduced
pool,” said A. E. McFarland of Uma
Hermiston now has only two trains
tilla. “On the basis of present prlceg
giving mail service daily since the
We have a chance to receive a prem
ium of two cents In return for be- Union Pacific took off the two locals.
1kg organized. It doesn’t cost us a The night trains carry mail. The
cent. This Is the first time such an locals were replaced by Union Pacific
offer was ever made to me, or to any busses which are not carrying mail.
of ua, and I can see no reason why An effort to place mail service on
the organization should not go over. the same basis it was before the re
moval of the locals la being made by
local people.
Continued on page two)
CANADIANS ORSERVE
DIAMOND JUBILEE
A reiteration of Benjamin Frank
lin’s famous utterance to the origi
nal 13 colonics that they must all
hang together or they *would hang
separately was made Monday at
Stanfield before the big picnic gath
ered by New Madde i, Hermiston
speaker, when he held the close at
tention of the audience on his talk
on .“Co-operation by Farmers.”
“Some people are fond of saying
that* farnierg can't hang together in
their co-operative orgi nlzations, but
it Is becoming increasingly plain that
we must hang together to save our
selves and our children the heritage
that we received from our forefath
ers,” the speaker seld. “Without
co-operation we are facing the alter
native of a form of commercial slav
ery.”
Co-operative efforts are based on
fundamental principles that caused
the settlement and development of
this country, Mr. Madden declared.
He traced the expansion of the
United States from the eastern sea
board to the middle western states
and thence to the Pacific coast.
With the big settlement movement
practically completed, other problems
remain to be settled, and the ability
of farmers to Join forces' to attain
mutual benefits must be developed
to settle one of the biggest problems
still unsolved.
"Co-operative organization does
not mean primarily the getting of
more money,” the speaker asserted.
’«It means getting more of happiness.
Mankind was placed on earth to be
happy,'and our efforts should be
shaped to bring more happiness.
It is true that by co-operative action
we can secure more money, but the
money is of value only In terms of
the added happiness that it makes
possible for us and our families.
"I think we hould think of co
operation in these terms, and I am
convinced that our efforts to organ
ize will continue to have only a par
tial success until we turn away from
the pfire fcomlherclal aspects of the
case and think of it ns a means of
bringing to us and ours more happi
ness.”
In refutation of the old belief that
farmers can not be successful in or
ganizing he called attention to the
success that has crowned the work
of the Hermiston Farm Bureau Co
operative. Starting a few years ago
with not a cent of capital of Its own,
borrowing the money it required for
operation, the organization has
proved a blessing to feed buyers all
over this territory,
Mr. Madden
declared.
“You are all reaping the benefits
of this organization a s , you have
need of its services,” he said. "It’s
ideal is one of service and to save
you as much money as possible. It
deserves your support that It may
continue to grow.”
His remarks about the necessity
of dairymen organizing to market
their butterfat drew cheers from the
large crowd.
TWO SHOWS EACH NIGHT
STARTED AT FIAYH0USE
Beginning Friday night and con
tinuing until further notice the Her
miston Playhouse will give two shows
each night that pictures are shown,
according to a statement by Harry
Kline, manager. The time of start
ing will be 7:45 and 9:45.
"We are taking this- step In order
to accomodate our laige number of
out of town patrons,” said Mr.
Kline. "Everyone ig busy at this
time of year, and 7:45 is too early
for some of our patrons, so we will
give a second show.”
•
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Illsley are in
Bpokane visiting relatives. During
his absence the work of night mar
shall is being done by J. 8. West.
5CTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
OF M'NAUGHTS CELEBRATED
POISON GIVEN AS
GAUSE OF DEATH
Saturday, July 2. marked the 50th
anniversary of the marriage of Col.
and Mrs. J. F. McNaught, and In
honor of the event a quiet family re
CORONERS JURY FINDS J. C.
union was held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. C. S. McNaught.
DOWNING A SUICIDE
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Geary of Port
land, son-in-law and daughter of Verdict States Strychnine Was Taken
Col. and Mrs. McNaught, were here
In Jail Early in Morning
for the happy occasion. The mar
riage of the pioneer couple was sol
of July 1.
emnized in Illinois shortly after Col.
McNaught had finished his law
course at the University of Michigan.
Death by poison taken with sui
cidal intent by James C. Downing of
YOUNG BACHELOR CONDUCTS AN Hermiston in the county Jail at Pen
dleton between the hours of 1 and
ORPHANAGE BUT GAME BIRDS 3 A. M. July 1 was the verdict re
turned by the coroner’s Jury that sat
NOT CHILDREN ARE HIS WARD6 In the inquest held here Saturday af
ternoon by Coroner Ralph Folson.
It ig not often that a bachelor con
Testimony offered by Dr. J. L.
ducts an orphanage, but such a dis Sears who conducted an autopsy and
tinction belongs to Victor Bracher, made chemical analysis of the con
associated with his father in the tents of the stomach of the d-eceas-
hardware business In Pilot Rock.
id, by H. A. Pankow, town marshal!,
His wardg are not boys and girls, by the widow and her son, John
however, but game birds of various Downing, and by Joseph Ranger,
kinds. He has scoreg of them*in the county Jail prisoner, was heard by
special runs that he has construct the Jury. The sheriff also was a wit
ed at home and will take care of any ness.
orphans, that may be found in the
Unmistakable traces of strych
Hermiston country. He was a visi nine were found by the chemical
tor here last Friday evening.
analyses made of the contents of the
"I was talking with Gene Simpson, stomach and of small crystals spilled
superintendent of state game farms, on the floor of the water closet at the
several months ago,” Mr. Bracher Downing home, both Dr. Sears and
said, "and he suggested that it would Marshall Pankow testified.
be a good thing for someone to fix
Mrs. Downing testified that just
up a place where orphan gam» birds before her husband was taken to
could be raised I thought the idea Pendleton to be lodged in jail in lieu
over and elected myself to the Job of bond of >2,000, required in Jus
"In the Pilot Rock district people tice court when a hearing on a
know I’m doing this sort of thing, charge of contributing to the delin
and when nests are disturbed In quency of a minor was held, he said
haying and eggs left exposed, farm he was not guilty of the charge, did
ers bring me the eggs before they not want a bond and would not need
chill. They also bring me any' little bond because he would kill himself
orphan birds. I have Chinas, Hun rather than face the chargfe.
garians and a few Bob Whites. If
John Downing told of finding a
any Hermiston people find eggs or bottle containing strychnine in the
young birds, I’ll be glad to pay carry attic of the house on the place to
ing charges on them.”
which the family moved a few
Mr. Bracher wag a Hermiston vis months ago. A slight quantity of
itor this spring when Pilot Rock golf the strychnine was mixed with the
ers Invaded the local course.
whitewash in cleaning up the prem
ises, he said, but he testified that
the bottle was about three-fourths
full the last time he saw it.
Mrs. Downing told the jury that
she found the bottle in a garbage
bucket on the back porch shortly af
ter Mr. Downing was taken to Pen
dleton. Fearing that livestock might
possibly be poisoned by the traces of
WATER MAY BE APPLIED ON potson sti|K in thw botMe, she put it
under the porcli through a knot hole.
IA N D EAST OF TOWN
Later, she informed the town mar
shall of the presence of the bottle,
Resolution Adopted Favoring Use of and he recovered It.
The sheriff testified that Downing
Canal if Present Rights
was searched and checked Into jail
Thursday night. He had few posses
Are Safeguarded.
sions on his person and was permitt
ed to keep his wallet. The sheriff
The Hermiston Irrigation district next saw him Friday morning about
is in favor of the use of the feed 7 o’clock after the Janitor had called
canal for irrigating raw land above him and said that one of the prison
the A line, provided Its lnteretg are ers had died during the night.
properly safeguarded, according to a
Joseph Ranger, prisoner In the
resolution recently adopted by the county Jail, said Downing was placed
board of directors.
in Jail about 11 o’clock Thursday
Adoption of the resolution follow night. When informed hP must
ed a survey of the feed canal and the -come before the "kangaroo court”
body of land lying under it by G. L. Downing said he was sick and wanted
Lytel, superintendent of the Yakima to lie down. This he did on the
project, and R. K. Cunningham, bunk assigned to him.
chief clerk of the Yakima project.
At 1:46 Ranger said he saw Down
The two reclamation men made the ing who was standing by the wuter
inspection at the request of Com faucet with his wallet in one hand.
missioner Mead who informed local He was drinking water. Downing
men, when he was here at the time made four more trips to the faucet
of the formal celebration of the open and drank freely of water each time.
ing of McKay dam’s locks that he
Thinking Downing might be sick.
considered the application of water Ranger said he went to his bunk and
on the lands east of town feasible. discovered that he was apparently in
The resolution adopted by the convulsions. He
called
another
board of directors is as follows:
prisoner, and the two of them struck
"Be It resolved by the Hermiston matches and tried without success
Irrigation district that the district to give Downing water. At 3:15
is in favor of the use of the feed the witness said he went to Down
canal as a distributing canal for the ing’s bed and found him dead. The
irrigation of lands below it and above Janitor was hailed on the lawn that
the A line and In the Stanfield Irri morning shortly after 6 o'clock by
gation district upon equitable terms the prisoners and asked to notify
and conditions, provided that the feed the sheriff of that fact.
canal be put in such condition that
When asked by one of the members
It will deliver the same amount of of the coroner's July why the prison
water to our reservoir as at present, ers had not called the night jailer
even when irrigation water is being when It was discovered that Down
ing was sick, Ranger’s rep)y was
taken out.”
Approximately 2500 acre« is in that there wag no night Jailer and
cluded in the strip of land that will that usually the Jail was locked
be affected when water Is applied, about 5 o’clock In the afternoon and
and the land |g said to be of excel-)
'Continued on page four)
lent quality.
BOARD TO PERMIT
USE OF FEED CANAL
COMMANDER BYRD
Commander Richard E. Byrd, whl
was forced to land the airship ‘«Amer
lea” on the coaat of France in the
trani-Aatlantic flight to Paris.
FILIPINOS’ PARADE
LED BY AGUINALDL
Manila. P. I.—Paying homage to tbi
flag they fought against nearly 3
years ago, 12,000 Filipino veterans, le
by General Aguinalcto, their command
er. marched through Manila in i
Fourth of July parade.
The veterans, who fought agains
American soldiers for two years ii
the Philippine revolution, came fror
all parts of the islands to Join in th<
American-Spanish war veterans' cek
bra'ion.
Student cadets also participated it
the parade. The marchers later enjoy
ed a huge feast prepared by the Amct
lean community hosts at the arm;
camp kitchens.
In a vigorous address reciting Amer
ica's record of progress in the Philip
pines, Rear Admiral Sumner Klttelli
declared (hat the Filipinos now enjo;
greater liberties than do the cltizem
of the United States. "America has
collected no taxes here; has grantei
tantenonxy-«tmostMo the point of aur
felt, has spread education, has taught
sarltatipn, has protected against for
eiga aggession,” Kitteile asserted.
SHORT NEWS NUGGETS
Wallace O. Woods of Kansas hat
been appointed register of the treas
ury by President Coolidge.
Spokane citizens have raised >60,-
000 to finance the big air derby plan
ned for that city for September 14-20.
Mickey Walker knocked out Tommy
Milligan, pride of Scotland, in the
tenth round of their 20-round bout for
the middleweight championship of the
world in London.
American marines are being sent to
recapture the San Aldlno gold mines
in Nicaragua, owned by an American,
Charles Butler, following bandit selz
ure 8f the property, according to state
department Nicaraguan advices.
Industrial England heaved a vast
sight of relief recently when It was
announced that the number of unem
ployed had dropped below tho million
mark for the first time since the be
ginning of the general strike earl)
last year.
Crop reports from most of the wheat
growing sections are optimistic and it
is possible the Pacific northwest will
this year have its greatest yield. Grain
men are talking of a lOO.OOO.ODObushel
wheat crop for Oregon, Washington
and northern Idaho.
McMullen Re-elected
J. W. McMullen wa re-elected to
serve as manager for the Umatilla
Project
Growers’ association In
handling parly potato shipments at a
meeting of the directors held Satur
day night. He has been arranging
for the first carload shipment this
week. The shipment was planned to
be made *n sacks.
telegram was received from Coloael
Qndbeggh stating that be had heard
the1 rn i|sle from Minneapolis. Tha
Invocation was pronounced by Eider
D. H. Knode of Ellensburg, Washing
ton.
S. R. Cooper, master of the Stan
field Grange, welcomed the crowd
from the two communities In a brief
talk. The response was made by
Henry J. Ott of Hermiston, president
of the local farm organization.
"Thore's only a ridge lying be
tween our two communities,” said
he. "Our interests are the same. I
hope such occasions as thlg and the
friendliness that promptg It may al
ways continue.”
Jesse Richards read the Declara
tion of Independence ag the next
number on the program. The Stan
field male quartet, consisting of J.
S. Burnham, W. G. Wallace, Carl
Sturdivant and H. L. Hedrick sang
a patriotic number and responded
with an encore. John Heckman,
Stanfield's mayor, welcomed the vis
itors on behalf of the city, and Miss
Esther Frederickson pleased with a
(Continued on Page Three)
TWO FORDS STOLEN FROM
LOdAL STREETS SATURDAY
Two Ford owners were losers in
Hermiston last Saturday as a result
of the activities of car thieves. Sat
urday during the day the machine
owned by Urla Lenhart was taken
from Its parking place near the J. M.
Biggs office.
Saturday night the car owned by
Ed McMillan who works at the Black
and W hite garage was taken from
the street in front of the auditorlu’i .
His machine, stripped of about >75
worth of extras, was found the next
morning b< tween Hermiston and
Stanfield. Tho other machine has
not been recovered.
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