THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934
HIGH SCHOOL AG. STUDENTS
SET CONVENTION APRIL 26-28.
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PINE CITY NEWS
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By Oleta Neill
Delegates from nearly every high
school in Oregon where agriculture
is taught will be guests of the school
f . griculture at Oregon State col
lege for the sixth annual Future
Farmers of America convention at
Corvallis April 26-28. Plans are be-
ing made to entertain from 250 to
300 of these Smith-Hughes students
and their instructors.
The program for the three days
will consist as usual of educational
lectures, judging contests, demon
strations, business meetings and
ome athletic and other entertain
ment events. A special feature this
year will be the visit of the national
. P. A. president, Bobby Jones of
Radnor. Ohio. He will stop at the
7 egon convention enroute back
rom a trip to the Hawaiian islands
where he has visited the F.F.A.
chapters.
O.S.C. Foresters in Demand.
A strong demand for forestry
graduates has been experienced at
Oregon State college in recent
months, reports T. J. Starker, pro
fessor of forestry there. Men from
the college have recently taken po
sitions in many states other than
Oregon. The Great Lakes states
took six, Illinois two, Arkansas
three, Arizona four, California six,
Nevada, North Dakota, Washington
and Oklahoma one each. Out of 40
O.S.C. men who took the latest civil
service examination for Junior for-
ester all but two were successful.
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Myers were
visitors In Pendleton Sunday.
Mrs. Burvil Corbin of Heppner,
moved into the house on the upper
part of the Tom O'Brien place Sun
day. Mr. Corbin has been working
for Mr. O’Brien for some time.
Mrs. Knighten and Mrs. Neil
Knighten and son visited at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neill Sat-
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Helms and
daughter Henrietta were business
visitors in Pendleton Tuesday.
Lloyd Baldridge spent Sunday
night at the Roy Neill home.
Earle Wattenburger, Oscar Mc
Carty, and Frank and Dick Carlson
went fishing In the upper part of
Big Butter Creek Sunday. They re-
port fairly good luck.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Young and
children called at the home of Mrs.
Ollie Neill Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Neill and
Marion Robertson were in Hermis
ton and Echo on business Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery Cox and
children of Heppner were visitors
on Butter Creek Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
Mrs. Roy Omohundro and daugh
ter Iris and son Raymond were in
Heppner on business Friday.
Mrs. Bert Bowker of Alpine called
at the Roy Neill home Friday.
E. B. Wattenburger made a busi
ness trip to Hermiston Monday af
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ayers and
children visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Marlon Finch Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Helms were
in Hermiston and Echo Wednesday.
The Pearson shearing crew that
has been shearing at the Tom Boy
len ranch left Sunday for the
"White House” near Echo where
they will shear.
Mrs. Ollie Neill and daughters
Oleta and Lennä were business visi
tors in Hermiston Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton L. Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. E. B." Wattenburger
and children visited at the A. E.
Wattenburger home Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. Trueman Sethers and daugh
ter Phoebe of Eugene, are visiting
for a while with Mrs. Sether's par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bartholo-
mew. Phoebe has enrolled In the
first grade in the Pine City school
and intends to finish the term here.
Visitors at the Dee Neill home
Sunday were Mrs. Ollie Neill and
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cor-
rigai, and Mr. and Mrs. Burvil Cor
bin.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Moore and
daughters Audrey and Naomi visited
at the Roy Neill home Thursday af
ternoon.
Mrs. E. B. Wattenburger called
on Mrs. Peter Carlson Monday af
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Myers were
at the W. D. Neill home Thursday
morning.
Dale Bundy of Heppner visited at
the C. H. Ayers home Sunday.
A. E. Wattenburger was a busi
ness visitor in Hermiston Saturday.
Senator LaFollette now has bill in U.S. Senate
asking for 310,000,000,000 more for public works.
LET’S DEMAND OUR SHARE.
E. P. DODD
For Governor
Dams all along the Columbia, Willamette, and
Snake, ports, roads to rivers, transmission lines,
and impetus to farming and other enterprises will
give employment to thousands of men and women.
We need 350,000,000 more than now allotted and
this will give employment to 50,000 directly on
the works and 100,000 more behind the firing
lines, to provide the multitude of things needed.
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Uncle Sam gave land grants of millions of acres
to railways. Has that investment ever been ques-
tioned as to development of western wealth? J. J.
Hill built roads first and business grew. Did he
fail In vision? Oregon grew since Champoeg with
plow in grass and axe at the tree to a great pros
perity. Why not go on with the Job and harness
the rivers and provide labor, and growth, and con
tentment again by use of our own natural resour
ces. One great American statesman said, “I fear
that it our public resources fall into private hands
it will some day enslave the American people.”
The public should build these works and the pub-
11c should control their operations.
We need cheaper electricity, more widely and
more cheaply Installed, for light, heat, power,
pumping and plumbing on farms, all of which are
more than 50 per cent too costly now. We need
cheaper freight rates. We pay 25 mills per ton
mile in the northwest, while national average is
but 10 mills per ton mile and 6.4 mills per ton
mile by rail along the Mississippi and 4 mills per
ton mile by barge on mid-west rivers. It costs
as much to ship a bushel of wheat from Arlington,
Oregon, to shipside at Vancouver as from Minne
apolis to New Orleans. One Is 140 miles and the
latter 1800 miles.
Eastern Oregon’s Republican
Candidate
Seven Candidates in and at Portland.
ONLY DEFINITE PROGRAM FOR
OREGON PROSPERITY OFFERED.
Development of Columbia and its tributaries.
Tongue Point Naval Base—Bonneville with ship
locks, and wide-spread transmission lines—Navi-
gation Dam at Umatilla Rapids, to drown out six
rapids to mouth of Snake—Navigation dams and
pools in Snake to Ontario.
Lower freight rates through navigation.
Cheaper electric light and power to towns and
country.
Employment of thousands on permanent works.
Enlarged markets and better prices for 50,000
small farms.
Better primary roads to outlying areas and up
state towns.
Better treatment of small truck owners.
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Give fanner, laborer, and soldier a hand.
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Eliminate graft and high salaries from tax bur
dens.
Handle all state matters with common sense and
human interest.
Oppose concentration of political and industrial
power of state.
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ARGUMENT.
Dams must be built with Federal money. To get
Federal appropriations east of the Cascades, and
south of the Clakamas, requires more upstate po
litical power. To develop the Columbia watershed
we must change the political setup. Two senators,
one of three congressmen, governor, and seven
more who want to be. state organizations that
control politics, are all In one mass of population
and enmassed wealth.
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We must teach Portland that her greatest re
source is her great hinterland. The down hill haul
from 270.000 square miles of watershed (Seattle
has but 40.000) on water rate basis will give Ore
gon ports 40.000.000 annual tons of freight that
are now going elsewhere or lying dormant, because
of high coets of moving to market. New York was
made by the Erle Canal, and New York state has
spent 8500.000,000 on waterways since. Glascow,
Scotland, became the shipbuilding center of the
world when the little Clyde was made navigable.
All great cities were made by rivers. Portland can
command Pacific commerce and rise from provin
cialism to metropolitanism by becoming INLAND
MARATIME MINDED.
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California has been allotted 8 3 00.000,00 0 for
1934 for public works (statement by president
Banks of America) and Oregon not $20,000,000
allotted. WHY? California, by same authority.
Is rising in prosperity through employment, mar
ket for farm products and increased purchasing
power for all goods. Washington was allotted
nearly 8100.000,000. WHY? Because of broad
state policies.‘
Why is 85 per cent of our wealth in hands of 5
per cent of our people? Because of the blanket
mortgage of high freight rates, high power rates,
high utility rates, and high corporate demands.
We must squeeze out the water, and destroy pyra-
midding of stock companies and control stock
manipulations, and force rate making to an hon
est basis.
PAGE THREE
A New York investigator found
that in eight years an acre of alfal
WARNS AGAINST FRAUD CO.'S.
INCLUDED IN DAIRY PLAN.
fa gathered 2000 pounds of nitrogen
Salem. Ore., April 6 (Special) — from the air and changed It Into a
That consumers of milk in Oregon
form that crops could use. To get
cities or elsewhere need have no While the office of Insurance Com
an equal amount from commercial
fear that the proposed dairy adjust missioner A. H. Averill has Issued fertilizers
would require adding
ment program will cause anything several warnings to Oregon citizens
1600 pounds of nitrate of soda or
concerning
the
Inadvisability
of
pa
approaching a milk "famine” or
1200 pounds of sulfate of ammonia
even any shortage was emphasized tronizing unauthorized companies annually.
which
are
attempting
to
do
business
at the regional conference for the
Alfalfa growing is one of the tew
Pacific northwest held in Portland. in this state, numerous requests for ways of increasing the effective soil
assistance
in
the
case
of
disputed,
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April 9 and 10, according to repre
and the de- depth, which is limited by the depth
sentatives of Oregon State college claims are still received.
partment is forced to inform the ! in which humus is deposited by de-
who attended the meeting.
complainant that It has no jurisdic-caying roots. Stable manure can be
In the first place the plan is tion and can be of no assistance.
mixed with the soil only to the
made so flexible that any prospec
A number of these unauthorized j depth of cultivation. Plowed alfal-
tive shortage brought on bÿ the ex companies which are active in an fa sod makes an ideal seed bed for
pected increase in consumer demand attempt to procure mail order bust- corn, potatoes or any crop which
can be met by releasing more pro ness claim in their advertisements can use an abundance of fertility,
duction among contract signers. that no commission is paid agents points out Dr. Stephenson. It has
More important, it was brought out. and that because of this fact the in- also become the favorite cover crop
is the fact that none of the planned surance can be written at a lower for orchards In irrigated districts,
reduction is to be in the present premium. Upon checking the finan-
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market milk supply but rather in cial statement of one company, it is LAMBS CONTRACT PARALYSIS
the surplus that averages from 10 found that, while no commissions FROM
DOCKING INFECTIONS.
to 40 per cent in every major milk- were paid Oregon agents, of the to
shed.
tal cash income of approximately
An Increase In paralysis among
As a matter of fact, AAA officials 3370,000 only 378,000 was paid to young lambs can frequently be
say the consumption of fluid milk members, but the expenses amount traced to the practice of not tho-
in cities is expected to be actually to 3237.000 over and above pay roughly disinfecting the wound left
increased somewhat by the working ments to members, from which it in docking, according to investiga
out of the plan, as five million dol will be seen that of the total sum tions made by Dr. J. N. Shaw, as
lars will be expended outright to collected only a very small propor sistant veterinarian at Oregon State
tion is paid out in claims.
college.
provide milk for underfed children.
Organisms frequently enter the
The department can only warn
The proposed reduction from the
1932-33 sales quotas would come the public that dealing with com- spinal tract from this wound and
primarily out of the surplus milk panies which do not or cannot, due cause abscesses which In turn bring
supplies and would not exhaust that to their poor financial condition, on paralysis. Several recent post
surplus, the specialists stated. Sta comply with the Oregon laws and mortems performed on lambs re-
tistics compiled by the AAA show procure a license to transact busi- vealed these abscesses at various
that farmers producing milk for ness may lead to disappointment I points along the back almost to the
nearly all the larger cities are now when a legitimate claim is present- neck.
Growers who follow the old prac
forced to market from 10 to 40 per
tice of using turpentine on the
cent of their output as surplus for
manufacture into butter, cheese, ALFALFA IS NITROGEN AND
wound in docking do not get effec
tive disinfection, says Dr. Shaw.
evaporated milk and other products.
ROOT “FACTORY” FOR SOIL.
Sheep dip or any other standard
This brings them much lower prices
than they get for first class market
Steady growth of alfalfa acreage disinfectant will serve, while tur
milk.
in Oregon is convincing proof of the pentine does nothing more than
high
esteem in which the crop is possibly relieve the soreness.
The plan proposed would aim at
holding gross sales of dairy products held by farmers of this state. Now
at about where they have been in Dr. R. E. Stephenson, associate soil
the late winter and early spring of scientist, has compiled some inter
this year, which is materially below esting figures from various experi
the high average of 1932-33 even ment station studies showing some
though the total cow population is of the reasons why alfalfa is so
beneficial to the soil aside from its
much greater. It Is the threat of
crop yielding ability.
the great possible increase that is
When an old alfalfa field la
sought to be avoided by the control plowed under there are left in the
plan. The flood of milk now possi soil three tons of roots, dry weight,
ble from the cows on farms would per acre above plow depth. Below
undermine dairy prices, drive herd that there are 51 tons more left to
lecay. Thirty tons of stable manure
owners out of business and leave
would be required to add an equiva
consumers facing a real worry as to lent amount of nitrogen or organic
milk supplies and prices, the na- matter. This study was made in
Colorado.
tional leaders believe.
PROTECTION FOR CONSUMER
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
LOW RAILWAY FARES
EXTENDED THROUGH SEPT.
Chicago, April 6—According to
Mr. H. G. Taylor, chairman. Wes
tern Association of Railway Execu
tives, the presidents of western rail
roads in session today at the Union
League club decided to continue for
another four months period, termi-
rating September 30th of this year,
the reduced passenger fares inaugu
rated last December. Statistics pre
sented indicated the reduced fares
have met with favorable response
from the public and, while the rev-
enue returns have possibly not been
as great as hoped for, it was the
view that an extension of the ex-
périment is warranted.
The general basis of fares Is 2
cents per mile one way in coaches.
1.8 cents per mile each way for
round trip in coaches, 3 cents per
mile one way in sleeping cars, 2
cents per mile each way for round
trip in sleepers, with ten day limit,
and 2 * cents per mile each way for
round trip in sleepers with longer
limit.
The Western lines are watching
the situation closely and have ap
pointed a committee of presidents to
confer with similar committees from
the East and South looking toward
adoption of a uniform basis appli
cable throughout the country.
Seed Flax Tried in Gilliam.
CONDON—Seed flax, never before
given a thorough trial on any of the
high altitude land in Gilliam coun-
ty, is being tried out this year by
Edward Walbaum of the Igo district
and a farmer near Mayville. Each
of these men obtained a half-bushel
of seed through the county agent's
office.
"Fairness To AU Alike”
Oldest Methodist Church
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We need work. To develop these natural re
sources for our common good will require much
work. It will take work to replace the things we
have worn out. We want and are entitled to have
new and modern conveniences. To supply them
will provide work. The only actual surplus in the
country now is labor. There need be none, nor
will be any, if we proceed along lines of experience
and with courage and confidence. Science, and
invention, and genius of civilization have created
new needs and wants. They are ours except for
our failures in strategy of distribution, and in
control of corporate greed. Public development
of these natural resources and public control of
their uses will restore economic order and the
comforts of living.
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I am not against the railways. Increased traf
fic will aid them. I am not against power com
panies, but against methods. Cheaper generation
of electricity will aid them, but the price must be
controlled to consumer. I am not against Port
land, but against the lack of vision and breadth
of some of her dominating forces.
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I was born on the Snake and have lived my days
along the Snake and Columbia. I know the riv
ers, the supply of power, the freight tonnage, and
rates. I know every damsite and the cost of con
struction of every navigation dam, and with pow
er bases. I know that this great program means
the saving of more than 310,000,000 annually In
freight charges and great sums in electric costs
to the Inland people. It means much in growth
of commerce at Oregon ports, grówth of all Oregon
ports, and the prosperity of our state.
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I am a farmer. I have owned orchards, alfalfa
lands, wheat land, ranges and livestock. I know
all about mortgages, interest, taxes, falling prices,
lost values, and depleted estates. I have been pres
ident of a businessmen's club ten years, and know
their troubles. I live in a co-operative town and
know the successes of that movement. I believe
that I have had more deep experiences common to
80 per cent of the voters the last several years
than, any other candidate. I have served two
terms In the Oregon legislature, know the ways at
Washington, am now an executive officer in two
river development associations, am a University
graduate and served ten years at an editorial desk.
I am not a politician, nor ambitious politically,
but I know that the voters of the state should
support my program, and to do so must vote for
me for governor of Oregon on May 18th.
Please mail this to a friend, or write us names and
addresses and we will mail literature.
DODD FOR GOVERNOR CLUB, Hermiston, Ore.
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MEDFORD, Ore.—(Special.)—Con
structed when gold fever was at ita
height in southern Oregon, the old
est Methodist church building west
of the Rocky mountains and one of
the oldest Protestant church build
ings In the state will be one of the
historical attractions of Oregon's Dia
mond Jubilee celebration in Medford
and Jacksonville June 3 to 9.
Gold dust from Jacksonville gam
bling tables brought the structure
into existence in IMS to bring the
gospel to a new country, populated
with hardy pioneers and red-shirted
miners The years have been many
since its aging walls resounded to
singing voices and the sapient words
of circuit ridera and early parsons
who followed tn their wake Death-
leas memories of early days mm’n th
building a direct link with th p -.
near era of Oregon so e‘n--i r- ■ —
to the establishment of tr to ood : ,
1859
James Cluggage, the first man to
discover gold in Jacksonville, donat
ed three lota for the structure and
timbers were hauled from the moun
tains by ox teams. Candles and
flickering lanterns, donated by the
congregation, provided Illumination
when evening sermons were preached
by Rev. Joseph L Smith, the first
minister, while a melodeon, brought
by steamer to Crescent City and the
first to arrive In this section, lended
accompaniment to hymns, in strange
contrast to echoing war whoops of
warring Indians resenting the in-
vasion of white men
The march cf Time has brought
progr -s but the old church has re-
-T-ed unchanged, challenging the
-- ca-2 of tha years which have
-tiled Indian war whcops and which
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Candidate for County Commissione: of Umatilla county as a nominee on
the Republican ticket at the primary election to be held May 18th, was
born at Navarre. Ohio, fifty-seven years ago. When a small boy he moved
with his parents to Chicago, where he received his education. He entered
business life as a very young man and has successfully directed his own
enterprises since that time.
He came west with his father in 1900, going first to Alaska and lo
cating at Dawson City, where he and his father engaged in the mining
machinery business, then returning to Seattle, where he incorporated the
Pacific Coast Machinery Company. Later, in 1909, he built a six-story
concrete hotel building on Second a venue, known as the Hotel Nelson,
which be furnished elaborately and operated during the Alaska-Yukon
Exposition and for several years thereafter.
During his years in Seattle he was prominently identified with the
civic progress of the growing metropolis and was active in the launching
of many community institutions whic h function at the present time. Dur
ing the World War, he acquired a lare ranch of over three thousand acres
In Lincoln county. Washington, whl h had his personal supervision. In
1919 he moved with his wife and two children to Eastern Oregon, wishing
to engage in business In an area where his children, a boy and a girl, would
have the advantages of a more stalwart and less crowded life than is pos
sible in the larger cities of the coast. Both these children were educated
and graduated from the High School at Weston. Until this year Mr. Jones
owned and operated the Jones Store at Weston, It being one of the finest
and most successful mercantile enterprises in Umatilla county. .
During the fifteen years In Weston, Mr. Jones served as mayor of the
city for seven years, as councilman for two years, chairman of the Union
High School board for four years, two years as a director on the Grade
School board, and several years as president of the Commercial Club. He
also served with the County Court on the Budget committee. Weston citi
zens can and will unanimously vouch tor his high character and his enter
prise in general. He enjoys an enviable reputation for honesty and in
tegrity.
He Is a member of the Masonic order and of the Odd Fellows, and Is
active and well and favorably known In both these fraternal organizations.
Ills religious training has been liberal Protestant.
In over thirty years of active and varied business undertakings, he
has never met with a single failure, and with his wide experience, and his
Implicit faith In the future of Umatilla county, and of the place of Its citi
zens In the new economic picture, he feels that he Is competent and quali
fied to serve In a manner that would be commendable to both himself and
the county.
At all times, he assures the county as a whole a fair and equitable
deal, In so far as he Is personally concerned; and his campaign slogan.
"FAIRNESS TO ALL ALIKE.” means just THAT, and If he Is elected will
be conscientiously adhered to.
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