According to Arthur Brisbane,
1937 will be our first prosperous
year. May the patience of Jobe and^
the wisdom of Soloman be ours.
VOLUME XXV
Klrrmtainn
NUMBER 35
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY,
STATE BOARD OF
HEALTH ADVISES ON
DISEASE PREVENTION
A. H. NORTON WINS PRIZE FOR
KOPACZ-CUMMINS
A pril
STATE TREASURER
THOMAS B. KAY
GALLED TUESDAY
30, 1931
It takes a heap o’ cooperation, and
a lot o news items to make a newsy
newspaper.— Phone your Items in to
61. They are appreciated.
SUBSCRIPTION, 32.00 PER YEAR
Ford Shimmies Into Motion
' STATE WINNER OF NATIONAL
Miss Mildred Cummins and John
We
have
heard
of
a
’’leaping
Lena
”
CONTEST FORMER RESIDENT
Kopacx left last Sunday for Pasco
but never had the evidence until late:
______
Sunday afternoon an elimination Wa„ where arrangements had beer
Thursday afternoon when the Model
Miss Louise Root. 15, of Wash
contest was held on the local golf made for their wedding Wednesday
T Ford owned by Jim Scott, farmer ington high school, Portland, who
course and a prize given for the best April 29, at the home of Miss Cum
who lives one mile south of tow n,! won a brilliant victory over seven
gross score was awarded to A. H. min’s grandmother, Mrs. Mary Gal
shimmied itself into niotiowandhcad- boys in the Oregon finals of the na-
Norton, who made an 89 gross and loway. The young couple left earij
ed down the track gaining ut every tlonal oratorical contest on the con-
68 net score. Fourteen players qua Sunday afternoon in order to stop a
leap. Mr. Scott had brought a few stitution, held Friday night in the
DISEASE MAY BE CONTROLLED lified for entrance in the county Helix where Mr. Kopacz played in
STRICKEN DURING BOARD 0E (rates of asparagras to the depot for public auditorium. Is a foromer resi-
tournament at Pendleton Sunday, the baseball team.
BY GENERAL METHODS
shipment and left his car stand be- dent of Hermiston and attended pub- PENDLETON SCORES NARROW
May 10. Names and scores are as
Both young people attended school
CONTROL HEATED MEETING.
follows:
tween the tracks with the motor lie school here. She has drawn a
VICTORY OVER PIONEERS.
at
Stanfield
before
coming
to
Her
Citizens Urged to Put Best Sanitary
Player
Gross
Net mlston and Miss Cummins has been Hal E. Hoss, State Secretary, Placed running. Next time he noticed It was lucky position In the Pacific coast
headed down the track with leaps finals In Los Angeles, May 15.
Knowledge Into Practice; Life
A. H. Norton
89
Local High School Is Victor Saturday
<8 employed In the Hermiston Hotel
in Minority on Board of Control;
and bounds, driverless. He was able
Has Been Prolonged.
Jim Pearson
90
Miss Root lived in Hermiston dur-
69 dining room since Christmas. Mr
In Track Meet With Total of
Successor Causes Speculation.
to overtake it only when a Model A ing ,,art of her chlldhood and attend.
James D. Todd
90
70 Kopacz has a farm out north of the
5P/2 Points; Safe Margin.
the
tr"Jk
M
k
“
"“
le
d°
Wnied
grade
“
“ooh
Mr.
Ed
Bensel.
who.
The following article on disease George Wagner
91
71 reservoir where they plan to make
The grim reaper added another to the track. Moral: Never trust a Ford. I until this
prevention was sent from the Oregon Carl McNaught
88
year, has taught In the lo-
72 their home.
In a very interesting track and
his toll Wednesday in the passing of
State Board of Health In cooperation Frank M. Clark
92
72
field meet in Pendleton Saturday the
Mrs. Kopacz is the daughter of State Treasurer Thomas B. Kay at KEDOCTIOH IN KATES (^PROVED
with the United States public health R. A. Bronson
93
72 Mrs. Wm. Shabel and Mr. Kopacz is Ills home in Salem. Death came less
Hermiston high school captured the
service, to the state health officer Eric H. Byorkgren
99
73 the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kopacz. than eight hours after he suffered a PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION ¡‘‘Wynken’ Blynken’’ and Nod.
annual Umatilla county track and
Frederick D. Stricker, M. D., Salem, Thos. G. Tucker
100
76
~
' -
I Th« Oregon Representative speaks field meet, class B, on the Round-Up
paraletlc stroke during a board of
who has circulated it through the Fred Barker
103
ih e Public Utilities Commission of fifth in the field of six at Los Ange- grounds. Hermiston finished the meet
79 TURKEY GROWERS ASSOCIATION control meeting at the state house.
state for publication.
Oregon this week set its approval on les with representatives from Idaho, with 51% points to 33 for Helix, 32
Sam Nye
102
80
The removal of Thomas B. Kay,
The actual saving and extension of D. M. Deeter
ar order for the reduction of rates by first, southern California second for Athena, and 36% for Umatilla,
106
80 DECLARES FINAL DIVIDENDS
suddenly
from
the
field
of
public
ser
life as a result of modern preventive Joe Toole
the Hermiston Light & Power com- Utah, third, Hawaiian islands, four- Weston 8 and Umatilla 3.
106
80
Final dividends of one-third of a vice on which he had distinguished pany for Hermiston, Echo, Stanfield th, and Washington, sixth,
measures has been more pronounced Julius Gimble
107
81
Competition was close in all events
himself
for
more
than
30
years
put
cent was declared by the Eastern
among children.. Sanitary methods
and Irrigon. The commission approv-! According to The Oregonian, word with some exciting races in class A
an
end
to
a
career
of
brilliance
and
Oregon
Turkey
Growers
association
such as the filtration and purification
ed the reduction previously nnpoun-! came from G. P. Tanguarv contest and B events. Pendleton won a one
Make Trip In Airplane
at a meeting held Wednesday night usefulness, and brought to a climax d e t al Í ec htO,mPan\ aS f° llüWS: R08,- > ana^
of water supplies has remarkably di
of the Los Angeles Times, hoint margin victory, 66 to 65, over
J.
M.
Biggs,
State
Commander
of
series
of
tragic
events
which,
dur
In the office of Assistant County
minished certain kinds of diseases
detu.al lighting meter rate, tw enty-; that the coast finals will be held io McLaughlin and District Two took
the American Legion, department of Agent Best, for the three pools ship ing the last 16 months, have entirely m""r n o rT rVl(B' '.‘T U . “ W
'the h"KG Shrlno a‘“*'torlum. and th lt
among ail ages and classes of per
the county grade school meet.
Oregon, made a trip to Coalinga, ped during the season. This dividend recast the political complex of the
sons but the actual saving of life has
n,On '■ * ’ ’ ncxt 28 K Ihe contestants will be entertained
Hanby was high point man on the
Calif., Sunday, April 19. by private was made on a total of 122,124 lbs. state, lifting Julius L. Meier from'a W II /
been pronounced among children, es
H al. orveT°3 K W H "1"
durinB ‘hC,r
A ^ P
Hermiston team taking first in the
pecially among young children and airplane in order to be a guest of the of turkeys. A small running fund place of private prominance meteoric-
over
35
K.W.H.
per
month,
Hollywood
and
the
movie
lots
will
shot-put, second In broad jump, third
Coalinga Post, No. 2. This post Is the was kept in the treasury with which ally to the governorship and now to
Infants. It is for this reason that
3 cents per K.W.H.; minimum charge go on the program.
in pole vault, and third in the dis-
a
position
of
complete
dominance
in
Oldest
and
first
organized
In
the
to
start
the
coming
season.
Direc
the expectation of life at birth— that
$1.00 per meter per month
state of California, and Governors tors present at the meeting were: I governmental and administrative af
The Oregonian, which sponsors the {uss and Javelin throw. Monroe and
is the average length of time that
fairs.
Oregon division of the contest, along Lawrence Swarner placed second and
MAGPIE AND CROW CAMPAIGN
children born at a given time will and Legion department officers of John Jendrzejewski, president; Leon
The last hours of Mr. Kay’s life
Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Cooney, Irrigon; Merl Potter, Hermis
with the Oregon Bar association, the third in the half mile and one mile
live— has Increased from about 48
California received special invita ton; Theadore Beletski, Hermiston; were given to the interest of the peo BRINGS IN LIVE RETURNS
University of Oregon, and the schools, runs. Robert Cox won first in the
to about 60 years in the past twenty
tions to attend this meeting. John Charles McCall. Stanfield. Mrs. R. ple of the state and the final word
¡is sending Miss Root to Los Angeles 220 and second in the 440 yard
years. This is very encouraging be
Last week citizens of Hermiston and will send a chaperone along with event. Hermiston high Is entitled
Sullivan of Seattle, Wn.. accompa G. Penney of Stanfield was elected WaS spoken in the maJ°r struggle In
cause it shows clearly that many of
sponsored a magpie and crow cam- her.
through their winnings to compete in
the diseases from which the human nied Mr. Biggs, as representative financial secretary to serve until the progress at the Btate capitol over the
paign paying five cents for adult
shonId Mifl„ Root w,„ at
An the Eastern Oregon meet in La
from Washington.
new
board
Is
elected
and
Garnet
D.
PO
llCJ
,e8.
to
bfi
enforced
by
the
state
race has been suffering, and many
Grande Saturday.
Before returning to Oregon Mr. Best was elected corresponding sec- 1 bo^rd of control in the conduct of the birds three cents for young, and two gele8 The Oregonlan w |„ p„y her
early deaths, can be avoided if we
Biggs visited in San Jose and Ar retary.
state institutions under supervision C on fectl'n . e g g 8 d e ,,v e ” d a t H lt t 8 penccs to Washington D. C„ with a
A plan is suggested for later track
put our best sanitary knowledge into
of Henry W. Meyers. A successor will g ir ls h r u J lt t “',y of the bov' ' nnd chaperone, for the national finals meets which will he acted upon some
buckle with his father and three sis
practice. But while it is gratifying
ters. He arrived in Hermiston late
be chosen by the governor, and it Is g rls brought in the Hying evidence and wf„ likewiRe Rend her to
time later. The plan would do away
Get Frige Catch of Salmon
to know that we are on the right
Thursday night of last week.
assumer, will be In accord with the a n e s t n n a T h O" e ,*
br0Ught! «««t «p« t . from where she will take with the sectional meet, and two
track in the battle against disease it
Last Sunday Merl Potter, Virgil wishes of the executive.
Hit
r w
T,
^ " 7 "“T ' ’*’ 8h‘P With 8,X O,her
finalists ft» contestants for each event selected
is true that there is another side to
Smith and Floyd Knerr went fishing
Europe
IMPORTANT MATTERS TO BE
Balance of power has been held be little crows. The results have been a 8ummer tour
by class B high schools, who would
the picture:
a great wastage of
at Silllo and came home with the tween the governor and Mr. Kay by so evident that the funds are running
. ..
„
*
compete in county finals. These
health and life still continues due DISCUSSED AT F. B. MEETING
low
and
the
campaign
will
close
next!
”
'S
8
daughter
°f
W
prize catch of the rfeason, bringing Hal E. Hoss, secretary of state, but
would trfke place annually at differ
to the failure to apply existing know
Saturday night, according to H. E “
R°Ot Hw
23 large salmon. The biggest one
ledge.
There will be a meeting of the weighed 17% pounds. Smith hooked Mr. Hoss will be reduced to a minor Hitt. Up until that time five, two! ^ 7 ,8 d8part™ at manager at the ent points of the county.
ity member on the board. In this
Class B,-summary follows:
7
8,° re’ She Wtt8 the
There are some diseases which may Farm Bureau Friday evening, at 8:00 13, Knerr 4 and Petter 6. It ig be manner control over practically all and one cent will be paid instead o f l“^
50 yard-dash. Jenkins (A ), Krum
“,,or of ber clas’’ “nnual and she is
be controlled and eventually' eradi o’clock in the Methodist church. Im lieved that few of the larger salmon business affairs of the state will pass the former price.
---- ——
_______
fa member of the student council. She bah (P ), llodgens (W ). Clemmina
cated by general measures underta portant matters are to be brought will get up the river farther than to Governor Meier, who will become
pn,ered ln the nBt,onal orator! (H elix), Time 6.4 seconds.
ken by the community, an activity up for discussion and every member the rapids, due to low water and In fact the business manager of the RESIDENCES ATTRACTIVE WITH
100 yard dash: Krumbah (U ),
LANDSCAPE GARDENING
a" Wa8b‘ngton hlgh ln
in which the individual citizen is and Interested person is urged to be commercial fishing at that point. state.
1 930, placing scscond in the school JenklnB (A ), Potter (W ), Allon (P ),
seldom called upon to take part. present.
Of course, this is only a fish story as
Announcement of a successor to
finals.
The cooperative dairy signup is the writer did not see any material
Timo 11.1 seconds.
There are a great many other disea
Since the warm weather h a s
Mr. Kay has been withheld by Gov
1
well
under
way
and
all
producers
are
evidence.
ses, however, for which as yet no
brought
tulips,
snapdragons,
bridal
Pole Jump: Boylen (H elix), Geis-
ernor Meier until after the funeral
I Bacceleaureate Speaker Announced sel (A ), Hanby (Hermiston), Krum
gefferal measures have been devised, urged to be present and avoid soil
The evenlng of
of Sun
g
services Thursday afternoon at 2:00. wreath and shrubbery into full bloom
Poppy Sale Correction
and in the avoidance of which the citation. A proposal to form a bovine
bah (U) tied or third. Height 8 feet
Much speculation Is held for a prob a number of Hermiston residences ha8 heen 8et for baccele/ ^ eat7
individual is called upon to exert his abortion free area will be discussed
7 Inches.
V
Contrary to a statement made in able choice of the governor. Among S g ’S s l r e - i i ^ m i n ^ X r X
own initiative. Conspicuous among also. Affiliation with the Umatilla
High Jump: Boylen (H elix), Tip
those
over
whom
those
In
political
such diseases are those conditions Oil company cooperative buying com this paper last week that the Ameri circles pause are:
back of^thVperm istoi? V M
T
Pent" et° n Epl8Cop81 ChUrch d8» y‘ ple (Um atilla), Karstens (H elix),
pany will be reported on by the com can Legion Auxiliary members were
(Continued on Page 2)
Rufus C. Holman, Portland busi back of the Heimistou Hotel equals relng the 8ernion
Coy (Hermiston), Height 5 feet 1
mittee at this meeting. The Umatilla making poples for the coming poppy ness man and close associate of Mr. any .•'.ndscnpe garden In Portland [
______ -r tar
Inch.
Pendleton-Sunset Truck Overturns Project Fair will hold its annual sale, which should have stated that Meier in the gubernatorial campaign with Its pool edged by Iris, its step BREEDING QUESTION SETTLED
(Continued on last page)
meeting following. This will require
Charles K. Spaulding, Salem lum ping stones and rock banks dotted ¡BY TESTS COMPLETED
they were waxing popples made by
The big truck and trailor of the about 30 minuteg.
Junior Prom Friday Night
______
soldiers at the Veteran’s hospitals. berman and capitalist, who was re with small shrubs. A bed of bright!
Pendleton truck line overturned on
tulips nod in the breeze at the edge
The oft-argued question among
cently
appointed
to
the
state
highway
The
Junior Prom of the Hermiston
All
poppies
for
the
sale
are
made
by
the highway just above Umatilla
Bible Class Discontinued
of Hie concrete, close by a rustic' stockmen as to whether beef heifers Union high school will be held in the
veterans and sold by Auxiliary mem commission.
early Wednesday morning. Accord
bench. Window boxes arc being cul-I should be bred to calve at two or Auditorium Friday evening, music
The Men’s Bible class of the Meth bers.
(Continued on last Page)
ing to the driver Mr. Wagner, the
tivated and refilled.
j three years of age Is no longer a ques furnished by Fletcher’s orchestra
odist church will discontinue regular
gas feed stuck and he was traveling
meetings until this fall, according to
tion. The earlier age is the best ac from Pendleton. Elaborate prepara
at too high a speed to make the
O. A. Hills, teacher. A small attend
cording to actual data gathered as tions have been made for this affair
curve. Trucks were damaged consid
ance was present, Sunday and it is
the result of combined feeding and and 100 couples are expected to be
erably but freight was protected with
breeding tests run at the Eastern Ore present.
little or no loss. Trucks were back thought best to close until fall. There
will be a place for all who wish to
gon branch experiment station at
on the road the evening following
4 4» 4 <>
attend
in Mr. Swarner’a class.
Union over a period of from four to ❖
the mishap.
(six years, and which have Just been
All Items Appearing in this ♦
New School Bus Completed
j concluded.
Column are Contributed by the ♦
Hermiston W. C. T. U.
♦
In addition to the breeding angles,
The new Butter Creek school bus
♦
REGULAR
the
experiments
Included
compari
is
completed
and
is
ready
for
its
coat
♦
I.O.O.F. NEWS NOTES
sons between light and heavy winter
of paint. It is made on the same
The next meeting of the local W.
feed and between different kinds of C. T. U. will be held Friday after
order as the Columbia school bus
feed.
At the Monday night meeting of and will carry 60 children. It will be
noon, May 4th, at the home of Mrs.
Conclusions from these tests re C. A. Paul. Visitors are cordially
the local I. O. O. F. lodge the Three used at the beginning of the new
ported In Station Bulletin 271, ’•De welcome to attend the meetings at
Link club was reorganized with Hugh fail school term. Construction cost
Pankow, president, Otto Pierce, vice is estimated at about 81200.
ferred Breeding of Beef Cows.’’ which any time.
president, Wyn Hughes, secretary-
is just off the press, are to the effect
Liquor or Progress .Which?
Quartet To Give Concert
that it Is more profitable to have
treasurer. Up until a few years ago
A
machine age such as we are now
this club was very active, promoting
heifers calve at two years of age than
Next Sunday evening. May 3, at
living
in will not allow the return of
J three. Although the first calves are
the social life of the organization 8.00 o'clock at the Methodist church,
I smaller and the heifer is lighter for liquor. More and more machines are
and keeping the membership up to a concert of quartet music will be
1 the first few years, by the age of revolutionizing our civilization. At
par. A committee appointed to work presented by the Church Quartet of
four years the early calving heifer the same time the skill and resource
out the. constitution and by-laws the East Mennonite church of Dallas,
has gtven 826.15 greater returns fulness required to operate these ma
were M. L, Watson, Joe Reeves, and Oregon. Members of this quartet are
chines are increasing. A man whose
| than the one bred at three years.
Albert Kennings. This committee’s as follows: Leander Qulrlng, first
brain is numbed by liquor cannot
object is to create Interest among tenor: Alfred Quiring, second tenor;
That the effects of early breeding
supply
the necessary clear-headedness
members that will keep attendance Henry Ediger, baritone; and Sol N.
| we not changed by light or heavy
for operating complex machines. As
up during the summer months. Al EdigeT. bass. The program will be
I feeding In winter was also brought
a result we must either abandon the
ready the committee has featured In composed of sacred music, with a
out in the tests. Straw at the rate
drink evil or abandon our modern
door horseshoe games which has de few remarks will be made at the
of 1 % pounds to each pound of hay
civilization. The automobile will not
veloped two champions. George Sale close of the musical.
was found a satisfactory combination,
long survive |f prohibition is re
and Curtis Simons were victorious
| as was silage at the rate of two
pealed. When there tg danger of meet
over their opponents at the last
I
pounds
to
one
of
hay.
Feeding
the
Called by Illness
¡heifers two-thlrds of the hay they ing a drunken, careening driver at
meeting.
every turn of the road, peonle will
Mrs. Wm. Shabel was called to
would eat was found distinctly more
W. L. Blessing, a brother, sends
have to give up the automobile, the
profitable than a full ration.
word to members that he was enjoy Pasco Sunday due to the serious Ill
airplane, and many other modern
ing bis two weeks vacation trip to ness of her sister-in-law and brother,
Helfers wintered on straw and al- conveniences.
j falfa, beginning to calve as two-year
the coast and was reeling much Im who were badly burned recently
So great will be the reduction of
olds, showed a profit of |49.44 per
proved in health.
when cleaning flued exploded catch
the efficiecy of the workman under
head, while heifers fed a full ration
Urla Lenhart who went to Port ing their clothes on fire. Her brother
the regime of drink that Henry Ford.
and bred to calves as three-year-olds
Charles M. Schwab, and many other
land last week in order to have his immediately tore the clother from
showed a loss of 936.10 per head, or
Industrialists have announced that
arm examined and treated by a bone his wife but not before she was ser
a difference of more than 835 a head
an extensive wage cut would follow
specialist is still under the doctors iously burned. Little hope is held for
in favor of the early breeding and
the repeal of prohibition. With low
light feeding.
care there. He was injured some time her sister-in-law’s recovery. She la
er wagea. and part of them going for
in an accident when his shoulder'cnly 22 years old and has only been
Copies of this report are obtain liquor, our standard of living will
was torn and bis left arm brok«n.
married one year
able from county agents or from the fall. It le clear, then, that liquor must
college, upon request.
pot return.
BEST SCORE IN GOLF CONTEST
HERMISTON WINS
OVER COMPETITORS
ANNUAL CONTEST