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.
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VOLUME XXVn
NUMBER 47
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1933.
SUBSCRIPTION, 12.00 PER YEAR
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ANNUAL SUMMARY
UF COW TESTING
REPORT GIVEN
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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
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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
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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
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100
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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AUXILIARY PLANS PROGRESSIVE
FIDAC DINNER NEXT THURSDAY •
ALONG THE CONCRETE
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♦
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.
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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.