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Without courage truth, and without be no other virtue. VOLUME XXVII 571 Ohe Hermistun Heraln NUMBER .A HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SUBSCRIPTION. $2.00 PER YEAR DECEMBER 22, 1932 1 INFLUENZA HITS COMMUNITY WITH WIDE EPIDEMIC -------=- BOARD VOTES TO CLOSE SCHOOL TUESDAY P. M. Health Officer Suggests Cancella tion of All Planned Public Gath- erings; Epidemic on Increase. The Hermiston schools were clos ed Tuesday following the action of the board that afternoon. Seventy- two students were absent in the grade school Tuesday and 28 from high school, due to influenza, ac cording to a report made by Supt. R. II. McAtee. The spread of the influenza epi demic in this community is on the increase and Dr. A. W. Christopher- son, public health officer, makes the following statement: “All plan ned public gatherings for the next week should be dispensed with. In order to take all possible precau tion against unnecessary spread of the influenza epidemic.” Christmas programs planned by the Methodist church for Friday has been cancelled. The regular Sunday school and church services will be held Sunday at the churches, ac cording to announcements made to day. Two of the churches are plan ning to substitute a “white gift Christmas” for the planned program. The idea is to bring gifts wrapped in white paper to the church for distribution to homes or to the re lief committee. These gifts will be placed under the Christmas tree, labeled as to contents. The Christ mas spirit will be spread to many homes in this way. The influenza epidemic in Uma tilla, Boardman. and Irrigon is now under control due to the closing of schools and dispensing with all pub- lie gatherings possible. The Umatilla schools have been closed for two weeks, and the Reith schoolo, near Pendleton, closed this week, accord ing to Harvey DeMoss, principal. Spread Over Oregon. PROGRAM MARKS CLOSE OF EVANGELISTIC SERVICES. As the closing feature of a four weeks evangelistic campaign, a pro gram was given Monday night at the Hermiston Union church by Miss Glenna Stevens, artist, song leader, and young peoples worker. Evan gelist Teddy Leavitt closed his ser vices for the Hermiston Union church Sunday night and assisted Miss Stevens in her program Mon day before leaving on the midnight train for his home in Eugene. Miss Stevens gave several read ings, vocal solos, and drew two pic tures. She was assisted in the pro gram by Mrs. J. M. Norton, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Clark, Elwin Knapp, and Mr. Leavitt. Miss Stevens left Monday night following the program for her home near Monmouth where she will spend the holidays with her parents. FIRE MARSHAL URGES LOCAL STORES WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY. Local merchants will close their stores on Monday follow ing Christmas day. Sufficient supplies should be purchased to last over the two-day holiday. Stores will be open late both Friday and Saturday nights. Seitz Home Burns. The home of C. Seitz in Minneha ha district was destroyed by fire Wednesday night, December 14. A defective flu is said to have been the cause of the blaze which was not discovered until it had enveloped the inside of the house. Mr. Seitz was returning from milking when he noticed the flare about the chim ney, and it had made such headway that he was unable to save a thing. The damage was not covered by in surance. Mr. Seitz is staying at the home of W. H. Starr. PRECAUTIONS AT CHRISTMAS. Salem, Oregon, Dec. 17.—As the Christmas holidays draw near. State Fire Marshall A. H. Averill reminds us of precautions which should be taken to insure the fullest enjoy ment of these festivities which so universally center about the home. Up to a few years ago, before the FireMarshal Department inaugurated extensive campaigns against care lessness, Christmas casualties result ing from unsafe decoration and cele bration practices were all too nu merous and fatal. First of all, the Christmas tree should be placed several feet away from any heating or lighting fixture and fastened securely so it cannot topple over. Lighted candles, even in this age of electricity, sometimes are used as ornaments on trees and in windows, but since this is a ha zardous practice it never should be permitted. Many children and adults have been burned to death in fires originating in this way. Strings of miniature electric bulbs are far saf er, but care should be exercised in their use, for short circuits and con tacts of the hot bulbs with flimsy ornaments are likely to start fires, as are cheap cotton extension cords. Ornaments that are either slow burning or incombustible are recom mended for trees and room decora tions instead of paper, cotton or other burnable materials. As an ad ditional protection, costumes and decorations may be partially fire proofed with the following solution: Two ounces of carbonate of soda; two ounces of amonia carbonate; two ounces of boric acid and five gallons of water. The mixture should be allowed to come to a boll and then be strained and sprayed upon the material to be protected. STUDENT BODY ENTERTAINED BY EVANGELIST & HELPER. (From “The Bulldog”) "Teddy” Leavitt, state evangelist, and Miss Glenna Stevens, artist and young people’s worker, entertained the student body for half an hour Wednesday, December 14. Mr. Leavitt gave an instructive talk, and Miss Stevens drew a pic ture of Mt. Hood, which was given to Mr. Knapp in appreciation for the help given by the music depart ment during the meetings. Debate Team Selected. (From “The Bulldog”) Tryouts for places on the debate team to represent Hermiston were held Friday, December 16. Students making the team are: Ed Bensel and Don Serell, affirmative; and Mar garet Felthouse and Mary Ward, negative. ----------— • -------- - CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank everyone tor their kindness to our wife and moth er during her illness, and those who kindly helped us in our bereavement. MR. AND MRS. GERALD WHITE W. C. GROGAN 1 L. W. RUST BULLDOG QUINTET OPENS SEASON BY SPLITTING GAMES LOCAL TEAMS SPLIT DOUBLE HEADER AT ECHO. —. — - Seconds Win 13-4 While Regulars Were Unable to Beat Echo In First Game of Season. The Hermiston high basketball squad opened its schedule Wednes day cvening on the Echo court by splitting a double-header 13-4 and 8-12. The opener, played between the Hermiston and Echo second teams, provided an abundance of thrills and showed that the Bulldog reserves have strength. The Bullpups, led by Morris Mullins and Turke Doyle, set tied down during the second half and sunk baskets in rapid succession much to the consternation of the Echoites. Good defensive games played by Clark Paul. Floyd Pierce, and Jack Reeves enabled the Bull- pups to win 13-4. In the game between the first teams which followed, the Echo quintet proved too strong for the Bulldog regulars by winning 12-8. Time after time the Hermiston team would get the ball under the basket but scoring weakness kept the ball from entering the hoop. The Echo scuad opened the scor ing with a shot from i ndcr the Bull dog goal during the first quarter. Bowman, Bulldog center, then even ed the count but the quarter ended 4-2 fer Echo. - During the second quarter the Ec ho team gained a 10-4 lead which the Bulldogs were unable to over- come. The third quarter was fairly even although the Bulklogs had pos session of the ball the majority of the time. With the score 10-6, at the opening of the fourth quarter, the Echo team took the ball on the tip- off and scored its mast: basket of the cvening. The count at the final (Continued on lest Page.) Date December 15 December 16 December 17 December 18 December 19 December 20 December 21 There was •••**********•• % LEGION AUXILIARY NEWS % ♦ Unit No. 37 ♦ • • 444**********$% A short program was enjoyed by those attending the Legion-Auxilia ry pot luck dinner last Friday night in the Odd Fellow hall. Following the dinner, Miss Myrnie Clayton and Mrs. J. M. Norton played a piano duet; and Patsy Best and Virginia Todd entertained with the “Rain deer” clog dance. Members of the Legion failed to produce their num ber'as promised but substituted by leading in a half hour of assembly singing. At the regular business meeting of the Auxiliary a committee of three was appointed to see that the Christmas boxes were packed and delivered. Members appointed on the committee are: Mrs. Harry Kel ley, child welfare chairman, Mrs. O. D. Best, and Mrs. Lyle Tilden. The next meeting of the Auxilia ry will be Wednesday, December 29. at the home of Mrs. Enos Martta. The Legion and Auxiliary wish to express their thanks to the Ore gon Hardware & Implement Co., and the Hermiston Drug Co., for the gifts of toys to be used in spreading Christmas cheer through the child- welfare department. The following article was written for the high school paper "The Bull dog” but due to lack of adequate space in the paper, it was omitted. The description is vivid and interest ing, consequently it is being print ed in the Herald. The article follows: “The following is a very brief de scription of part of Wyandotte Cave, located in the southern part of In diana, about thirty miles from Lou isville, Kentucky. This is by Rev. J. O. Sibert, who spoke on the sub ject before the Hermiston Union high school assembly just after Thanksgiving. “With only a limited space it is impossible to describe in any detail many of the rooms of the cave, so I am going to tell you a few tight places I’ve been in, and which you, too, would encounter in a trip through the Wyandotte Cave. “One of the first Is Fat Man’s Mi sery. Nearly ail the different rooms of the cave have picturesque names —names which come either from the person discovering them, or are def initely descriptive of some charac teristic of the place itself. In this last class comes Fat Man’s Misery. Many of you. even, might find squeezing through it not so easy, but it will seem ample beside some of the other places, so I pass it hur riedly. Near the end of what is called the “Long Route" of the new cave there Is what is really a test of ones avoirdupois. Here, at the entrance to Milroy's Temple, the guide weeds out. to some extent, the party. The passage of Worm Alley is one not at all easy, even impos- sible to some, and it would be ex tremely unwise to allow anyone, foi instance, who has heart trouble to attempt it. Assuming that you art possessed of a strong heart, we be- gin. The mode of travel is creep ing—back to babyhood you go. (Continued en last page) 1 ...................................... - GRASS VALLEY WOMAN OIES AT DAUGHTER’S HOME POST OFFICE WILL CLOSE MEMBERS LEAVE FOR HOME CHRISTMAS DAY AND MONDAY. The multitude of Hermiston school children are celebrating Christmas as never before. The rea son perhaps, is that two-thirds of the public school teaching staff have packed their suitcases and left tor extended visits over the holidays with mother and dad. A few of the teachers will remain in town, however. Among those are Henry Harger, Wallace Cochran. Miss Jessie Brierly, Miss Eva Bart sch, and Supt. R. H. McAtee. Among those going away are Miss Magdolene Buck, who will be at home In North Dakota: Catherine McBain. Vancouver, Wn.; Margaret Elliott, Knappa. Or.; Ingrid Boling, Portland; Esther Sibert. Colfax, Wn.; Mary Petri, Portland; Rachel Sloan, Stanfield; Minnie Holm. Minnesota; Clarence Henning, Rosa lia, Wn.; and Elwin Knapp, Hood River, Or. It has been announced by Mrs. Leila Phelps, local postmistress, that “the Postmaster General has an nounced all city, village, and rural carrier deliveries and window ser vice will be suspended on Christ mas day and the following Monday.” MOTHER OF MRS. G. WHITE SUCCUMBS AFTER ILLNESS. Consequently, the public should make every effort toward having all Christmas matter mailed and de Funeral Services Held Tuesday At livered before that day. Special de Prann’s Funeral Parlors; Inter livery parcels will be delivered and ment Heppner Masonic Cemetery. mail received on both days will be Funeral services for Mrs. L. W. distributed in the post office boxes, Rust were held Tuesday, December as usual. -------------- e = .............. 20, in the Prann Funeral Parlors at 10:00 A. M., with Rev. W. E. Jones ANNIVERSARY OF STATE OF conducting the service. The body OREGON CELEBRATED. was taken to Heppner where inter ment was made in the Masonic ceme The seventy-fifth anniversary c tery. the creation of the State of Oregon Mrs. Rust passed to her last re as well as the fiftieth annivcrsar of the City of Medford, will be fit ward Sunday night, December 17, tingly celebrated in Medford, Orc after a serious illness extending over gon, during the second week in June a period of three years. She has 1934, according to plans releasee spent the greater part of the last here today by the Medford Chamber three yeare of illness in Hermiston of Commerce, and an invitation t with her daughter, Mrs. Gerald the citizens of this area to attend White, and passed away In the Her miston hospital where she had been ne celebration was also received. receiving care for the past three Committees to prepare for the bi weeks. celebration have already been ap Louise Rust was lorn in Spring- pointed by the Medford Chamber, field, Illinois. March 11, 1884, and and will begin at once to prepare was but 4 8 years, nine months, and plans for the big event, which has six days old at the time of her death. been announced at this time in or She was married to Chas. Grogan, der to insure the priority of the Pear June, 1901, in Webb City, Montana, City in staging the official Diamond where she lived until August. Jubilee celebration for the State of She moved to Heppner, Or., in Aug Oregon. ust, 1912, from Ava, Missouri, and Medford, and Its neighbooring ci then lived in Portland, Or., for a ty, Jacksonville, are admirably sit number of years. She was married uated for the proposed jubilee, the to L. W. Rust of Grass Valley, Or., former being a modern, well-equip In March, 1928. She had spent the ped city, and the latter, one of Ore greater part of the last three years gon’s oldest and most historic com of illness at Hermiston, staying with munities. The combination of the her daughter, Mrs. Gerald White. old and the new will enable the Mrs. Rust is survived by her hus thousands oof visitors expected to band, L. W. Rust of Grass Valley, attend the event to compare the ad Or.; one daughter, Mrs. Gerald vancement of Southern Oregon over White of Hermiston, Or.; one son, a period of nearly a century. W. C. Grogan of Sequiam, Wn.,’ her In addition to the celebration it mother, Mrs. Louisa Currier of Kan self, the city of Medford Is planning sas City, Montana; two brothers and on extending invitations to a large sisters, all of Montana. number of organizations to hid their 1934 qpnventions in that city, in NUT ORCHARDS PROFITABLE the hope of making the entire year BUT COSTLY TO ESTABLISH. of 1934 a jubilee year in southern Oregon. Walnut growing is one farming ----------• =- — enterprise still showing fair profits CAST OF ELEVEN CHOSEN FOR even under present adverse condi tions, general reports indicate, hence THREE-ACT FARCE. there Is considerable interest In the (From “The Bulldog") business. "If you are contemplating suicide, It is a long road and a fairly ex come to me for instruction. Don’t pensive one, however, from raw land be a bungler. Do it with dispatch.” The seniors will tell you how in that to a 12-year old bearing walnut or uilarious farce "The Suicide Special chard. points out A. 8. Burrler, farn ist” to be presented In the early part management specialist at Oregon of February, under the direction of State college who is conducting in Miss Sibert, class adviser. Come and see Dr. Milton lead his patients to cooperation with the federal depart the very brink of death in all its ment of agriculture an economic study of walnut growing, started at horror. Practice has already begun and the request of the organized grow the play promises to be a good rep ers. resentation of the last stand of ’33. To bring an orchard to profltabl The cast is as folrows: bearing, which is ordinarily If Miss Randolph ......... Juanita Wells Marlon Bedford ......... Lottie Knauf years of age. costs a total of $341 Dr. Chas. Milton .... Glenn Hamman per acre, according to records ob inspector Nolan ........ Eugene Hanby tained from 4 1 grower’. Of this Prof. S. Mansfield ..... Charles Wells amount $151 per acre is the firs' Clara Kingston, Margaret Felthouse year’s operations, and $14.19 pe Madame Natchi ......... Mary Ward Robert Wareham ....... David Arnott acre Is the annual cost thereafter Ralph Norwell ......... Glenn Pierson granting that other crops are grown Fannie Falmouth ....... Rachel Buell I between the trees to cut down the Lila Beverly ..................Beryle Clark I cost. ...............—% All of this is not cash cost, ot Time to Poison Sparrows. course, particularly in the case ot Now is the time to poison the an orchard grown on a general Sparrow, according to Assistant farm. The average cash outlay foi County Agent Best. The formula for growing costs was found to be $75 poisoning wheat which may be put I per acre, mostly accounted for in out for the pests is available at the i trees, taxes and hired labor. A pre County Agent’s office. The birds liminary report of the study is avail carry disease and arc the most harm able free In mimeographed form. ful In this way. ------------ » e -------------- Dividend Paid by Creamery. A dividend has been paid to mem bers of the Umatilla Cooperative Creamery for the first half of 1932, to the amount of $3000. Checki were mailed to members this week In time for Christmas shopping, B. E. Sykes, manager, said. FAKE CROP RACKETS MEET HARE SLEDDING II OREGON. Fake crop rackets have become in creasingly unprofitable in Oregon in recent years as farmers have learned to seek unbiased information, usu ally available from the extension service or experiment station, be fore putting out good money for “miracle" crops, reports O. R. Hy- slcp, head of farm crops at Oregon State college. “In the old days a promoter could get into a district and unload a lot of fake material and be gone before responsible agricultural authorities heard about it,” says Hyslop. "Wi der use of farm newspapers, the ra dio, and extension and research workers have done much in Oregon to prevent these rackets getting very far.” CAVE GIVEN STUDENTS. Max. Min. ............. 23...... . ...................... 31......... 5 ...................... 27...... 9 .................... 28.........20 .................... 23 .................... 53.........27 .................... 49.........25 .16 precipitation. 1 HERMISTON TEACHING STAFF Influenza in probably the most virulent form since the plague of 1918, now is sweeping over Oregon and southwestern Washington, heal th officers in the two states said today. Schools have been closed and the sick list is estimated at several thousand. Three deaths were re ported from The Dalles within one week. Whole families have been stricken with the influenza here and some are quitr severe. It has not reached the point where quarantine is neces sary but everyone is requested to use every precaution in preventing the spread of the epidemic. DESCRIPTION OF WYANDOTTE Weather Report. Some bachelors never had a chance; some never took a chance. W die 1564 e 1.2 El 5 t************* Subtlety and Dramatic Action Mark Current Feature at Oasis Theatre ♦ ALONG THE CONCRETE ♦ ♦ • Two outstanding qualities of "At torney for the Defense,” picture showing at the Oasis Theatre Friday Saturday, and Sunday, contribute much of entertainment value that he film has—fine dramatic action and subtlety. The two strike a nice balance and the result is an attrac- Ive film for everyone. Suspense is maintained through- ut the picture and one is kept gues ting as to the outcome until the last iene. Edmund Lowe, who heads the zast as the great attorney. Is also great lover. He is true to character and gives the necessary touch of realism to the role. Other members who give especially good performan- es are Evelyn Brent and Constance Cummings. On this same bill there Is a good two-reel comedy and a Krazy Kat cartoon. $4929992***$***< Well, weil cither have beer by Christmas or have beer as usual. Judging by the vote in the Housr on the Collier beer bill, we migli suppose that It’s wet enough for, the lame ducks to take a real swim. Technocracy, the latest thing it. philosophies of government, has taken the nation by storm, but we’re still hoping that Santa Claw beats it to Hermiston. O. O. Felthouse and "Hesey” Wat son have been coming home all tired out every night this week. That is the story they tell their wives.— How do they get by with It? A11 they do Is sit In a school bus and drive It forward and then back up a few feet while the other men do the real work of putting in the sum mer’s Ice. We would say that their story is nothing but a "cullud" tale.
