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The Roosevelt recovery program is the most noble conception ever dreamed by a seasoned practical idealist.—Samuel Untermeyer. (he Hermistu Heraln Economic pressure is driving the world into co-operation in order to prevent destruction. — Newton D. Baker. ._______ VOLUME XXVn NUMBER 47 HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1933. SUBSCRIPTION, 12.00 PER YEAR -------- —I—" ANNUAL SUMMARY UF COW TESTING REPORT GIVEN __________ ____________________________ SCOUTS REPORT “BLISTERING” TIME AT CAMP ROTARY. CONSTRUCTION OF UMATILLA RAPIDS DAM FAVORED BEE CAUSE OF INJURY TO THREE STAGE PASSENGERS LOCAL DELEGATION ATTENDS COULEE DAM CELEBRATION The Hermiston Boy Scouts re Three people were injured and the turned from Milton Sunday where driver badly shaken as the west they have been attending Camp Ro bound Union Pacific stage hit a tary for the past week. They turned telephone pole at a point between in the following interesting report Echo and Stanfield about 10:00 giving an account of part of their o’clock Tuesday morning. A bee flew PRODUCTION OF HERDS MADE activities. 3ENTIMEN.T EXPRESSED AT in the window of the bus and hit RAPIDS COMMITTEE JOINED BY "We did the usual duties around the driver in the eye Just as the AVAILABLE THRU RECORDS. MASS MEETING FRIDAY. WASHINGTON MEN. camp until Wednesday afternoon, stage was rounding a curve. when Earl Watson, Bill Jackson, The, injured were Margaret H. 125 Men Will Be Employed On Im Importance of Testing Stressed In and Oron Henning accompanied a Committee Appointed to Contact Kakieser of Omaha, Nebraska, bruis mediate Construction; Umatilla Article Written By Wisconsin Washington Men at Grand Coulee group of sixteen other scouts on the ed knees; Mrs. C. A. Windle, 1027 Rapids Dam Favored. Farmer. annual Tollgate-Bingham Springs Dam Celebration. Belvue Court, Seattle, Wn.; and hike. We started at 3:00 P. M. and Katherine L. Walker, 77 Spring- Strong sentiment was expressed A Umatilla Rapids committee Butterfat is the only all-time were five miles from camp at sup Ave, Union, Missouri. The latter re cash crop produced on the farm, yet pertime. After we had eaten our here last Friday night that the pro ceived several broken ribs and pos from Hermiston attended the open with the majority of the farmers, supper we hiked five miles more posed navigation and power dam sible internal injuries. She remain ing of construction and celebration the production of butterfat is a side which brought us to Tollgate at for the mid-Columbia should be ed in the Hermiston hospital for of the Grand Coulee Dam Saturday and Sunday. The committee from issue or "one of the chores”. The about 9:45 o’clock. We stayed here built at Umatilla Rapids, if actual several days. results are to be obtained toward members of the Umatilla Dairy Herd for the night.” The stage was not damaged ex here consisted of E. P. Dodd, E. D. Improvement association recognize "We started over the mountain reducing freight rates from the in cept for a bent fender. The driver Martin, and R. H. McAtee. They were joined at Pasco by Lee Mantz the importance of butterfat as a about 7:30 to take a short cut to terior region to tidewater. This ex was Lee Taylor of Portland. of Walla Walla, and D. H. Hurley of ------ • =------- ready cash income, and these dairy Bingham Springs. At lunch time pression was made at a mass meet men are taking steps toward culling we spent half the hour “doctoring” ing called by E. P. Dodd, president JOHNSON WRITES OF EXPERIEN Pasco. They report that between 7,000 their herds so that they may in blisters, which put us into Bing of the Hermiston Commercial club. to 10,000 people attended the cele The meeting was attended by a CES ON TRIP TO WEST POINT. crease their profits. The summary ham Springs about 4:30 P. M. We bration. Governor Martin, U. S. of the D. H. I. A. records gives an stayed there that night and had number of men from Pendleton and An Interesting letter was re Senator Dill, and F. W. Walters, idea of the production of some of a good swim. About 9:30 the next a delegation from Heppner, besides the better dairy herds in this vici- morning we started off over the representatives from other sur ceived from Chester Johnson this chief of the reclamation service week telling of his experiences on made the principal address, and the n'ty. Since some of the herds have mountain to camp. The mountain rounding communities. E. P. Dodd the trip to West Point, N. Y., where whole state was represented. Great presided and at the close of the been on test longer than others and shortcut saved us a 20-mile hike. he took the entrance examinations enthusiasm prevailed. meeting a committee was authorized since fresh cows are being added to “Within three miles of camp to West Point Military academy and The state has appropriated $377,- the tested herd each month, it is when we were all tired, we discov to attend the Grand Coulee celebra was entered as a cadet July 1st. 000 for beginning work and Presi necessary to list the number of cows ered that one of the Scouts In our tion Sunday, July 16, to contact Johnson left Hermiston in May as dent Roosevelt has agreed to give as cow-months. A herd of ten cows group was missing. We immediate Washington senators and congress a traveling companion and visited the state 30% of the total cost of that has been on test four months ly sent out searching parties for men upon the subject. The commit In Washington, D. C., Chicago, Phil 560,000,000 and loan the remaining will be credited with forty cow him, only to find out later that he tee was authorized to point out the adelphia. and New York. While in 70%. Cnief Engineer Walters told months. Both total and average had gotten scared, and had run common interest of eastern Oregon Chicago he visited the Century of production is given. down a canyon to the river, which and eastern Washington In the Uma Progress exposition and expressed the crowd that the engineer in charge, F. A. Banks, was now on tilla Rapids development. The com he followed into camp. We had to The following article written by go down a mountain called “nose” mittee was also authorized to con disappointment in the agricultural the grounds and would employ 125 a Wisconsin farmer for “Hoards’ which incline is on an angle of 45 tact Walter M. Pierce upon the sub displays. The dairy displays, he men until January 1st when large said, were educational. crews would be put on construction Dairyman” stresses the importance or 50 degrees. This descent was ject. , Johnson said they passed through of testing. Every dairyman in this made in the dark. The prospect of a dam at War Maryland and Indiana about June work. community should take advantage The governor has had set aside “The total number of blisters for rendale, with minor channel im of the testing facilities offered them the three hikers was twelve and the provements on the upper river, does 10th while the wheat harvest and or road building sufficient funds to threshing were underway. Harvest by the Umatilla Herd Improvement total boils, two. not appeal to the people in this lo- there is about three months earlier construct highways to the damsite association. ind the N. P. railroad will build a "The other two scouts, Lester < ality, because they say, the chan than that in Umatilla county. connecting line with the damsite, a Boarding Houses for Star Flannigan and Frank Rodda, went nel work between Umatilla and Chester requested that the Herald on the river hike which was under Pasco is not practical. There is a tell everyone "hello". He will spend distance of about 30 miles. Boarders. The Coulee dam is to be built for The business of running a board the direction of Scoutmaster Morris considerable fall in the river be two years in the academy. , tween Pasco and Umatilla and it is power, with some flood control, but — -e------------ ing house usually is a profitable of Walla Walla.” 1 eared that it the improvement work irrigation is set ahead, and provided one. Not only does the owner of Attend Family Reunion. * * * * * * * * * $ * * is confined to deepening the chan for only in foundation work, when, the boarding house get paid for the Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shaar attended food served and for the use of t STANFIELD NEWS t nel, more harm than good may re- a family reunion of Mrs. Shaar's if ever deemed economically advis- ; ult. able, the higher dam may be built, equipment and building needed to By Sophronia Rhea family Sunday, held at Pioneer This, It was pointed out at the park at Walla Walla, Wn. Those tor more power and pumping Into carry on this sort of endeavor but Miss Reah Meyers of Echo has in .addition the owner gets paid teen visiting at the home of her meeting, because the current would present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. C. the Grand Coulee, as a reservoir for over a million acres of the Columbia aunt, Mrs. W. G. Wallace, the past be accelerated to a point that might wages for his or her time. Bains and daughter Mildred, 550 make up-stream navigation impos- Balm street, Walla Walla; Mr. and basin. Most of the boarders at a board week. Mrs. Ina Wessell and daughter I ible. It is claimed that a naviga ing house pay cash for the service The committee found that the Barbara were Stanfield callers Wed tion and power dam should be con Mrs. George Hale and daughter, they get. A few may wash dishes nesday evening. Georgie of Willows, Cal.; Mr. and state of Washington Is behind a tre or peel potatoes for their meals but Sloan Spencer has been visiting strued so as to provide slack water Mrs. Roy Bains and children, Dor- mendous plan for electrical develop they give value received in this way. at the home of his brother, Ben to the mouth of the Snake. ward and Verna: Mr. and Mrs. Ver ment. If any boarder fails to show up with Spencer in Umatilla the past week. The state officials and members non Banes. Clyde Hale. Miss Mildred Visit from Hawaii. the money or fails to produce the John Heckman accompanied Mr. of congress interviewed were favor Woods, Glen Hale and Miss Thelma work that pays for his food he soon and Mrs. J. F. Lane to their home in able to the development of the Uma Mr. and Mrs. Elmer D. Bryson of Crabb of Waitsburg. Friday. The Lanes have gets the title of “star boarder” at Parkdale, purchased some land on the Stan Valla Walla, Wn., and Miss Etta j Mr. and Mrs. Hale have been vi tilla Rapids Dam for navigation, tached to him, and this means out field project and intend to move Peffley of Honolulu, Hawaii, came siting Mrs. Hale’s parents, Mr. and and other requirements of the fu he goes. here the first of October. over the Wallula cut-off last Thurs Mrs. J. C. Bains, and their sons, ture. The committee was greatly All we dairy farmers are engaged Mrs. Lawrence Parsons and son day to visit their aunt and uncle, Clyde and Glen for the past week. encouraged with the prospects of in this boarding house business. We Charles of Vancouver, Wn., Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Squire K. Thomas, of building the Umatilla Rapids Dam. I j to the e pense of S' uring land Mrs. Ed Haney and Marvin Haney Columbia district. Miss Peffley is Weather Report. of Portland arrived at the home of to raie crops, building barns in their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. a Home Economics teacher in the Hitt's Confectionery Sold. Max. Mln. which to comfortably house our Haney, Sunday for an extended Iunior high school in Honolulu and Rate Announcement was made Monday July 13 ........................... 100 ......... 56 boarders, and then in addition we visit. is home for a few months vacation, July 14 .......................... 103.........56 of the sale of the Hitt confectionery and the family work twelve to four Miss Elaine Green finished her the remained over the week end at teen hours a day, 365 days a year, course in nurses training at St. An he farm and Miss Harriette Peffley July 15 .......................... 105......... 55 to Roy C. Hale, present post master to keep the supply of feed always thony's hospital in Pendleton this if Seattle, Wn., and Mr. Elmer D. July 16 .......................... 101......... 70 at Echo. Mr. Hale took over the week and is spending part of her July 17 .......................... 93.......... 61 | store Monday which was open to the coming up. time at home. Bryson, drove down from Walla July 18 .......................... 95.........60 public Wednesday for the first time Do we ask every cow boarder in Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Rueber and July 19 ........................... 90.........54 since February. our barns to make good on her daughter left Tuesday on a business Walla on Monday for her. board bill, and thus pay Tor the trip to Portland. feed, the home, and our time, or do There will be no 4-H Cooking we just feel that if the boarding club meeting this week because Mrs. J. F. Rueber, the leader, is away on house is filled full, somehow, some her vacation. where, and sometime, someone will Jud Rogers’ sister, of Brit- take care of the back bill of the sh Mrs. Columbia, drove in Monday eve- “star boarder?? This thing of hop- .ling, and left Tuesday morning for (Concluded on page Three) California, accompanied by Mrs. Rogers. Hermiston Hospital Notes. Mr. G. L. Dunning celebrated his | 75th Tuesday at his home Billy Nation entered the hospital with birthday all his children present. They | with a severely lacerated left thigh. were Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Dunning The muscles and tendens were sev and daughter Ruth of Pendleton; ered by a jagged eight inch cut Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Bard of Echo; 1 which reached the bone. He is doing Mrs. Loyd Bucholtz and two child ren of Salem, and Miss Marilla Dun well. ning. Leona Laird, who was operated Mrs. Vernon W’aid was called to on recently for a ruptured appendix Tacoma Saturday by the illness of , her brother-in-law. is improving. The annual Red & White store Betty Goff, who was operated on organization picnic was held Sun- I for tonsils and adenoids Wednesday, lay at Meacham lake. Those attend- has returned to her home and is do ng from Stanfield included Mr. and Mrs. M. Refvem and sons Robert, ing nicely. Walter Podolak, heavyweight Donald, and Tommy, Miss Gladys . , g Ross. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Connor and wrestler and weight lifter of Syra- son Leonard, and daughter Deloris, 2 cruse, is now up and about and is George Billups and Miss Sophronia improving. Rhea. The day was spent playing Mr. and Mrs. Oron O. Hills greet baseball. horse shoe, and in races. A party honoring Mr. and Mrs. -__ ed the stork with a nine pound baby girl Saturday night. Mother and Lloyd Russell, nee Jennie Heggman, was given at the Ed Morgan home ’ baby are fine. Monday evening. The hostesses were | Two infants have entered the hos Mrs. Ed Morgan. Mrs. C. M. McCall. Mrs. W G. Wallace, Mrs. Frank pital for treatment. -------- MSI ... .. - Sloan, and Mrs. M. Refvem. There ! were about fifty guests present. The | District No. 9 Warrant Call. diversion of the evening was bridge, Warrant call for Union High five hundred and pinochle. The hon guest was presented with a beau School District No. 9. Calling all or * 4 tiful electric floor lamp. warrants from No. 1541 to and in Mrs. F. B. Connor plans to leave cluding 1580. Present to R. A. Saturday for California where she will make her home with her eon. Brownson for payment. Miss Elaine Green Is serving as July 20. assistant nurse at the Hermiston I R A. Brownson, Clerk. hospital. The Trail of Missing Men 2r ret." Fa 2 200% aw 1 g We % w a. V an ws 7 a $. -> — ----- MUCH DONE AT SPECIAL CALL MEETING OF CLUB A record group of Hermiston Commercial club members met at the Hermiston Hotel Wednesday eve ning for a special call meeting. Presi dent E. P. Dodd presided over the thirty-eight members who partici pated. A report had been received here that an oiling and road crew with six families each had inquired about housing facilities in Hermiston for that number. A list of vacant houses was immediatly made up and a com mittee appointed to get in touch with the company immediately. The committee consisted of Raymond Walker, George Story, and J. M. Norton. The president then gave a de tailed report for “the committee which visited the Coulee Dam cele bration last week end. The question of finance to carry on the work of furthering the de tailed work of the Umatilla Rapids dam project was brought up for dis cussion. It was suggested that $100 be collected from members while the meeting was in progress. A committee composed of O. O. Felt house. Jim Pearson, and H. J. Stil lings was appointed and these men reported that $86 had been raised and collected, at the close of the meeting. E. P. Dodd was delegated by the club to continue the investi gation of damsite possibilities and to contact celebrities in the state of Washington and Oregon. PERMANENT DATE FOR PROJECT FAIR SET. 4-H CLUBBERS WILL ENTERTAIN FARM BUREAU MEET PROGRAM WILL FOLLOW SHORT BUSINESS SESSION, Cooking and Canning Club Members Will Present Skit; Delegates Will Report On Summer School. The 4-H club girls will take a prominent part in the program at he next meeting of the Umatilla Project Farm Bureau to be held at he Methodist church Friday, July 18. Members of the We-Can-Cannlng club and the Kookee club will pre- ent the entire program under the lirection of Mrs. Wm. Hinellne, club leader. The first fifteen minutes will be levoted to business which will be followed by the program. The num- bers are as follows: : lusic .................. Instrumental Duet Helen Jendrzejewski Margaret Clarke Club Songs......... Girls of the clubs Introduction of Members by Pres- Edith Clarke, Canning club. Edna Turnblad. Cooking club. Report on Club Summer School by Edna Turnblad Lois Hutchison Mary Ward Mary Rodda Dorcas Throop Skit ............................ Eight Girls “The Bachelor’s Dilemma.” usic .......................... Mary Skovbo Talks by Former Club Members Reading ...................... Ruth Pierson 'lay ....... “The Bride and Groom.” Rosella.Matott, the bride. Margaret Clarke, the groom. Nina Rae McCulley, the grocery- man. A lunch will be served in the asement immediately following the rogram. The Umatilla Project Fair will be held Friday and Saturday, Septem ber 15th and 16th, according to la test reports from the fair board at a meeting held Tuesday night in the office of Assistant County Agent Best. This date was set after the Round-Up board shifted the Round- Up dates to September 21-22-23 which has been confirmed as a per manent date. The present fair date ---------------- e - ' - was the original date set by the lo Polls For Voting. cal board. The next meet hg of the board Polling places for casting votes at will be held Friday, July 21, and all i he special election Friday. July 21, members are requested to be pres or precinct No. 33 will be at the ent. Important business is to be 1 ity library, and for precinct No. 32, discussed and settled at this meet at the Hermiston Union church. ing. ------------------ ?•************. AUXILIARY PLANS PROGRESSIVE FIDAC DINNER NEXT THURSDAY • ALONG THE CONCRETE • • ♦ A progressive Fldac dinner will o4994999**99***9 be held next Thursday evening As Will Rogers would say “The starting at the home of Mrs. James inemployed will be coming home Todd for members of the American rom the London conference soon.” Legion Auxiliary Unit. Members are Oscar Payne walking down town requested to make reservations with Mrs. Minnie Norton or Mrs. A. W. Monday morning carrying his shoes n his hand due to lack of adequate Christopherson. ■ • = shoestrings. Well, anyway, Oscar vasn’t really carrying his shoes but Boy Injures Leg. Billy Nation, son of Mr. and Mrs. ie lacked the shoestrings. B. J. Nation, fell and cut a deep A. F. Rohrman has been throwing gash in his leg between the knee •ocks at Monte Hedwall whenever and hip late Sunday afternlin while ie goes by the garage, ever since he swimming with a group of boys at purchased a new Chevrolet. If you the foot of the Butte. The gash was want an immediate rebuttal Just made when the boy fell against iccuse Hedwall of driving one of the some ragged concrete, and the im- new Fords. pact cut several ligaments. Harry The boys at MacMarr Store have Connor, one of the boys, ran to the Boynton residence where he secured received word from headquarters Harry Kelley who took the boy to hat it is safe to attend the Safe the hospital. He will remain In the way picnic at Tollgate because they hospital for several days until the tave engaged two Boy Scouts to kil’ wound heals. The other boys In the all the Indians. party were Bobby and Gene Miller, H. A. Pankow was so glad to see and Frank and Albert Stone. Garnet D. Best this morning that he Several Cars Potatoes Shipped Several cars of potatoes have been shipped from Hermiston and Stanfield during July. One car left Hermiston Tuesday making a total of four cars this month, and a total of two from Stanfield. The pota toes were purchased by a firm in Walla Walla, Wn. Local growers are getting $1.75 for the latest shipments. Bids Called. Sealed bids will be received up to noon July 28th for carrying mall to and from the depot to the post office. H. J. Stillings, Acting P.M. —Adv. District No. 14 Warrant Call. Warrant call of school district | No. 14 calling all warrants from No. 439 to and including 460. Pre sent to R. A. Brownson for payment. July 20. R A. Brownson, Clerk. । Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Propst and H. J. Stillings motored to LaGrande Sunday where they called on Con- gressman Waiter M. Pierce. made a high jump over the counter In the! Herald office, Just as Be entered the front door. We don’. know what could be causing such a light feeling unless someone has let him a thousand dollars. Oh, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, Who might 'of been pitched upon his ear. Even such a previous warning had no influence on J. M. Pace when comes to rounding up stray horse > at that deadly hour of the night- • twelve bells. This is the picture: There was a sound of horses hoofs. Two scantily-clad figures dashed out of the door to the car which uttered a low grumble as an object ion to being disturbed at such an hour. A sudden spurt of speed as the car sped after the horses and—al! was quiet and serene. A short time elapses before the observer saw a white-clad figure approaching on horseback, bathed In moonlight. Several dejected-looking mares tak ing the lead in this solemn proces- sion. There was the sound of a gate closing. A door banged, and again the silence of the night prevailed.
