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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1930)
FAOE TWO Thursday, July 3, 1930 TO ALL POINTS Hi SWEDEN * ____ Published every Thursday at Hermiston. Umatilla County. Oregon, by J. M. Biggs, Editor and Manager. !* Me. and Mra. O. O. Felthouse mot ored to Pendleton Sunday. See Burk's Big Sale Ad.— Poge 5. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Oregon telephone users will be able to talk tpr the first time to M°tor to Pendleton. Go on Fishing Trip. Entered a« Second Claae Matter December, 190«, at the poetofflce at Her K u .c ll B'- taiw* and B. W. Tlllot- points within the Arctic circle oi Mr. i,nd Mrs. Dwight MeKinny miston, Umatilla County, Oregon. Monday, June 30, when transatlan motored to Pendleton Sunday after- son of Arlington made a trip to Desolation lake Thursday where they ,flc telephone service will be extend- j noon Subscription Bates cd to all points in Sweden, It wasj spent the day fishing. One Tear .... «2.00 announced yesterday by J. A. Mur Biz Months «1 00 ray, district manager for the Paclf- Leave for Baker. Mr. and Mrs. J. Weaver and two Visits From Pendleton. Erma Clark of Pendleton spent 1c Telephone and Telegraph com chUditen left Saturday ofr Baker, TAXING THE BILLBOADS pany. Oregon, where they will make their Tuesday of this week visiting Ruth Service to Sweden Is limited now home. Mr. Weaver’s office will be Cherry and Mary Brownson. The billboards along the highways of America have to three cities, Stockholm, Gothen in Huntington, Oregon. Visits at Strohni Home. become a public nuisance. They are at their best an burg and Malmo. Mrs. J. D. Waghorn spent Friday With this new “farthest north" For sale— Ford Pick-up, 1926; impertinent attempt to force advertising upon people dur tolnt established, Bell System tele- priced to sell. Kohrman Motor Co.— of last week visiting at the George ing their hours of recreation. At their worst they are phone»radlo service will connect Adv. Strohm home. area extending u from within blots upon the landscape. One of the greatest blessings with — an ------- vu i w iin il. Goes to Portland. which the motor car has brought to the people who live thc Arct,c clrcle ln Europe to nearly Motor to Kennewick. Dick Hitt left Thursday night for Mr. and Mrs. George Strohni and in towns is that it provides a swift and easy wav to eet it* „•‘xth1ut,tud*ln Amer out into the country, to see the beautiful things whfch of Western Europe, all Argentina Mrs. J. D. Waghorn motored to Ken Portland where he hopes to find em ployment for the summer. Nature has to show us. But when, instead of beauty th e ' ten clt,«e of ch ile and the city of newick, Washington, Thursday. Motor to Touehtt. John Konacz, Mildred Cummins motorist sees on every hand huge structures advertising Montev,deo ln Uruguay. The new Visitor. somebody’s soap or cigarettes, frequently blocking the SW8dl*h extenal°n win make possible Pendleton Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Watson and and Mrs. William Schabel motored to Touchet, Washington, Sunday. best and most beautiful views, half of the benefit of the son. Karl, were Pendleton visitors Fr°m Echo. Sunday. country motoring is lost. I Mrs. Sadie Thomas of Echo wag in x l ft J?,,?0* enou£b to denounce the advertisers who use Hermiston Tuesday afternoon visit Spends Week-end in La Grande. Sund®y Visiting. the billboards. They would not continue to use them, Walter Blokland spent the week Spends Mrs. O. T. Lockridge spent Sun ing friends and seeing after business doubtless, unless they found that it paid them to do so, end In La Grande visiting his wife day visiting at the Barrager home in interests. who Is employed n the arlroad office Columbia district. though it is a very serious question whether the same In that city. See Burk’s Big Sale Ad.— Poge 5. amount of money spent in newspaper advertising would s pot bring larger results. The advertiser pays for the use of billboards, but they do not pay enough or to the right - people. I" It is not enough to pay the owner of the land on which1» a a billboard is erected, a more or less nominal rent for the 2 EASY t space occupied. There are others besides the land own- ■ EASY Term* ■ ere concerned. The privilege of arresting the attention 2 Term« K of everybody who goes along the road is in the nature of ja « « , . - - „ Z as^uch francklse’ and should 15(3 recognized and taxes " Wednesday, J Illy 9 1 P M t as sll< '■ 5 - .......... ....... J 9 • • t In France that is exactly the way in which the billboard I will sell at Public Auction the Davis herd of evil is kept down to reasonable limits. The French gov Dairy Cows. Some exceptionally good ones. Terms ernment has adopted a sliding scale of taxes. It begins " one-half cash, 20 months for balance; or no cash, with $24 a year per square meter for the smaller boards, 20 months to pay, but two cows to be mortgaged up to six square meters. That figures out about $2 25 with everyone bought. a square foot, or around $400 a year for billboards of the On Wednesday, July 16,1 will sell the Jess Hopper standard “24-sheet” size. But the larger sized boards in herd. Look for next week’s advertising for particu lTa?k®.P^Aai a 2?.i^ e^ rate’, uP.t0 ,$10° a equare meter, lars. or about $10 a square foot, for the largest. s Some of the' billboards on the main roads leading out of Paris will ■ TIME— 1:00 P. M., July 9 J have to pay $16,000 a year each for the privilege. 2 PLACE—Fair Grounds, Hermiston. [ That is a fair and equitable tax. It keeps down the 2 number of billboards and those which are permitted will 5 continue toward the maintenance of the highways alone " AUCTIONEER, A. CARTER ! which they stand. New Jersey has begun in a modest way to imitate the French and levy a small tax on bill j f WWBMIIF H ■ ■ B WjlBi W P »1.I l " ? * " m w ■ ■ ■ ■■ wr boards. It is something which every state, county, town ship and municipality might well look into as a means of providing adtutional public revenue and at the same time doing something toward abating a growing nuisance. Morning papers of every July 5 formerly carried dis tressing accounts of the killing and injuring of many per sons, mostly children, through the explosion of fireworks in celebration of the Glorious Fourth on the preceding day. For days afterwards additional deaths from lock- e results powder wounds would be recorded. While casualties of this kind still occur, their number has been reduced to a small fraction of those in former years. On the Fourth of July, 1905, no less than 182 per i o d Yure klllv d ou}ri^ht and 4»994 were wounded. By °f A ille,d had fallen t0 131’ in 1915 to ported1928 t0 X1’ Whl 6 aSt year only 7 deaths were re* » Z hj.8 dlustrates the fact that sometimes safety warn- L -y a®$omPIi8.V the desired results, but the process of educating the public to a realization of even the most obvious dangers is a slow one. ? seema that when one menace to life and limb een kroughtunder control, a new ong arises to take t P , v k H ay the ou5standing menace is the automo bile, which last year took a toll of more than 30,000 kill ed and nearly a million injured in the United States. » S S e ? ‘° dCVCl0P « Be" erati° " 5 Hermiston may appear to be asleep as soon as dark comes, but last night the two local officers made seven ar- sts and s ir „ „ j sentenced before three dr o’clockndth ii Z e ’COnVii d and n /o ik i J r m°rnin2- They are to be congratulated possibly they deserve uniforms. ♦kP °Vel nOIl Nor^ lad ,announcea he is not a candidate for Hot dog.1" 31100“ 38 t-h° that W0Uld make any difference rto.k?Sîk8Uu filed vn hunier plane—Headline. That is all right, the Hunter brothers are still up in the air. aS a <! j Ci or’ an Indiana man fooled 25 women Most of us would be satiafied if we could only fool one One consolation is that m y change in economic con ditions will proably be for the better. thX ughfyht beat the 8Ugar tUrriff by Stirri" « the Foîrth?°U pIanning ° n drWng to Pumpkin Center for the And dont forget the banana deal. f. H * I ~ fc. 1 INDEPENDENCE DAY There is no better time to think of your own future independence. Noth ing can start you on the road to inde pendence better than starting a Savings Account. ONE DOLLAR OR MORE WILL OPEN AN ACCOUNT START TODAY! First National Bank O F H E R M IS T O N Read the Advertisemets W e H ave Q U sed Parts Auto CARA W Hermiston reckingHouse FOB ALL MAKES Dont be Like That E. F. PIERSON, Owner We Buy Used Cars Dieting Sanely C O N S O L ID A T E D Truck Lines Does N o t A ffe c t Disposition e / ’V'e B E E F o /U * | Eggs, 35c - Empties, 10c\ in th e / «=*, Balanced Diet Chickens, $1.80 Apples Groceries - - Empties, 2 Oc I 40c per 100 lbs\ Hermiston Meat Market My Motto: Q U A L I T Y and S E R V I C E A. W. TURNBLAD PHONE 411 - 55c per 100 lhs \ H erm iston Transfer, Agts. Phone 31 M e a d o w b r o o k Ic e Get the Best SERVICE PHONE 741 QUALITY Open Sundays Until 12:00 VITAMIN -A I BUTTER-- T NATURE’S A OWN M FOOD I Butterfat is iinique among the food fats N in that it contains, in addition to heat and BEST BUY A TIRE YOU CANNOT EQUAL FOR MILEAGE AT MORE MONEY—GOODYEAR PATHFINDER. —GENUINE SUPERTWIST COED. Pathfinder, 30x31 Hermiston Creamery Co. •' ’ * * > » * < ' Pathfinder, 33x6.00 - $12.90 Other Sizes Equally Low. ROHRM AN OUR SHOP IS MODERN OREGON (T h i. Adv. Is aponsored by Oregon Creamery Operators Aaaoeiatlon) $4.98 fathfinder, 30x4.50 - $6.35 D “THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR GOOD BUTTER AND OTHER DAIRY PRODUCTS’* OVERSIZE Pathfinder, 29x4.40 - $5.55 energy, vitamin A, which promotes growth and health, and builds resistance to pulmonary infection, and vitamin D, which prevents rickets and promotes bone iment—both indispensible to the growth ahd ilth of the body. These vitamins are not pres ent in other food fats in appreciable quantities. But terfat is the most practical, economical and palatable year-round food source of these vitamins. HERMISTON / 1 1 1 U SE D Public Auction FIREWORKS AND AUTOS ★ ★ W hyN ot , FIRST CLASS DAIRY COWS : ) ★ ★ OUR SERVICE GUARANTEED AUTHORIZED SALES AMD SERVICE HERMISTON. OREGON PHONE 571
