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whe Hermistun Heraln VOLUME XXX NUM 16 $64,900 CONTRACT LET FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, J. S. BURNHAM SELLS GROCERY AND MEAT DEPARTMENT J. S. Burnham, who has op- erated a general mercantile store here for the past six years, has completed a deal • with Walter M. Smith of Pilot • Rock for the sale of the groe- • ery and meat department. Mr. Burnham will retain the dry goods department and will move the stock into what is known as the old Kingsley building on Main street, after the first of the year, when Mr. Smith will take over the other department. OREGON, DECEMBER 12 1935 OAKLAND TURKEY H. S. ANTICIPATES SHOW IMPROVES ATHLETICCONTEST OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER HERALD ♦ HAS HOLIDAY DRESS THIS WEEK. COLOR • RECONSTRUCTION OF IRRIGATING SYSTEMS OBTAINED THRU CCC The holiday color dress which John Jendrzejewski, president of The boys of the class of '36 of the • appears on the Herald this the Eastern Oregon Turkey Grow high school removed the number ’35 • week is home print and simil- • ers' association, and member of the from the southern point of the Butte ♦ ar print will appear each week • board of directors for the Oregon Tuesday evening, and replaced it during the remainder of Decem • JAMES L. QUINN OF PORTLAND Turkey Growers" Co-operative asso ber. The work was done with with their own number. The annual • EXTENSIVE RE-VAMPING OF ciation, returned Thursday after at battle between the juniors and sen- the press which was installed LOWEST BIDDER. tending the annual turkey show held | iors will be held as usual In the ❖ last May to replace a press ♦ CANALS SEEN. long out-dated and one which at Oakland, Oregon, December 9 to | spring to see whether or not the School Building Estimated to Cost 14, greatly pleased with the im number remains. If the Juniors win would not carry such press Improvements Will Enable Districts $75,000 When Completed; Con work. provement of the show in general. their number will be painted instead. Color used during the Yule- • to Give Better Individual Service He believes "that local growers will struction Will Start Soon. tide season adds much to the • find their time well spent in attend One of the most successful parties to Water Users. The school board of the Union ing the show.” Christmas holiday spirit and of the year was held at the auditor High School District No. 9 has ac Reconstruction of the irrigating There were 500 live birds dis ium last Friday evening, December festivities, and it is believed systems of the Stanfield, Hermiston cepted the bid of James L. Quinn of played and 540 dressed birds, all of 6th, with Mel’s Merry Markers fur increases reader interest to the and Westland districts is going for Portland, for the construction of the high quality, from Canada, Wash nishing the music for dancing. Christmas shopper's edition new high school building in Hermis NEW STAIRWAY AND OTHER ward through the uses of the CCC ington. California. Idaho, Minneso Games were played from the hours which appears in this week's ton at a cost of 364,900. Only one HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENTS camp at Stanfield where 200 young issue. ta, and Rhode Island. With this of 8:00 p. m. until 9:00 p. m. and other bid was received and the men are stationed by the govern- With this and next week's keen competition an Old Tom en students enjoyed cards all evening. ment, and where barracks have been amount was only 390 higher. After The new outside stairway to the tered by L. C. Todd placed tenth in The next all-student-body party will edition the Herald wishes all its erected for living quarters. considering the bids all day and in hospital is now completed except for a class of 34 birds. patrons and subscribers a Merry be held Friday, December 27. to the late evening yesterday the a few finishing touches, and is in The 26 mile feed canal of the Christmas and a Happy New John Cornutt of Roseburg, who contract was awarded to Mr. Quinn. use. This permits the admittance of acts as official grader for the E. O, The T. P. A. will hold its regular Hermiston project and the main can- Year. al of the Stanfield project will be re- The total amount available was patients in a much more convenient T, G. A. here during pool shipments, meeting Wednesday evening, Decem vamped from end to end. The Stan 372,727 made up by a bond issue way, to the receiving room and sur won the sweepstake prize for the ber 18, at the high school. Refresh field canal will be enlarged from voted by the district of 340,000, and gery, and hospital rooms. Other im beat display in all breeds which in ments will be served as usual. WEST END WOOL GROWERS’ 120 second feet carrying capacity a free grant by the PWA of 332,727. provements are going on and the cluded competition in Bronze, Bur- English II members of the sopho AUX. WILL VISIT PENDLETON to 175 second feet, so as to provide The balance of the funds above the hospital facilities are in excellent bom Reds, Narigansetts, White Hol abundant water for all lands within contractor’s price for the building condition for the services required land, Slates and Blacks. He was more class wrote stories for this The West End Wool Growers’ Aux the Stanfield district. Laterals will month's issue of the high school will be utilized in other features con in this locality. given eleven placements between The Redmen and the Pocohontas first and fourteenth place. This was paper, “The Bulldog,” which will iliary will be entertained in Pen also be enlarged and extended to nected with the completion of school fixtures and grounds. It is estimated lodges of Umatil'a are contributing his first time to exhibit at the show. be issued Monday. The freshman dleton, Saturday, December 14, by tracts of land not heretofore sup English students will write the stor- the Umatilla County Auxiliary at a plied with suitable water connec that when fully completed the new a new stretcher to the Hermiston Winners in the Bronze division, in ies for the January issue. 1:00 o'clock luncheon at Kent's tions which will bring in new lands high school will cost nearly 375,000. General Hospital at a cost of $8.00. which local growers are most inter- Cafe. Later cards will be enjoyed at for cultivation and settlement. In and “ Klondike, ” an interesting Work will be commenced just as Umatilla is showing a most com sated, are as follows: educational motion picture, will be the home of Mrs. Fred Brown, at 215 addition to renovating the feed can soon as all contracts, which will be mendable cooperative spirit in help Old Hens—First. Joe Kupetx: Sec presented in the high school assem North Madison. al of the Hermiston project, which sent to Washington, are signed by ing build up and patronize the new At last week’s meeting In Echo means being thoroughly cleaned of the government. Dirt is expected hospital which will be of service to ond, Hamilton. Sunnyside. Wn.; bly Friday morning at 9:00 o’clock, sponsored by H.U.H.S. and the Vic the Auxiliary elected Mrs. D. N. debris, trees and all other obstruc for many miles around. Third, M. Huntington. Roseburg. to be flying by the first of the new communities 1 Old Toms—First, M. Huntington; tor Animotograph Corporation. Tick Bard and Miss Clara Cunha dele tions until the canal has Its original The sewing group of the Hermis- year. The building will be as originally ton under the leadership of Mrs. J. Second, B. B. Ranch. Vancouver, ets were on sale this week for both gate and alternate to the state con capacity of three hundred second grade and high school students and vention at Baker, January 10-11. feet, the laterals of the entire Her Clarke, has made four hospital Wn.; Third, Huntington. planned by the architect except for A. . Young Toms—First, Mitchell, the committees in charge of ticket Mrs. E. P. Dodd, Mrs. Hawley Bean miston project will be repaired. Pipe and several curtains. Increas- a few slight changes. The walls will shirts i be of reinforced concrete, and the < ed interest and enthusiasm in the Sunnyside. Wn.; Second, Joe Kupetx. selling were as follows: Grade and Miss Clara Cunha were appoint lines will be improved and turnouts Young Hens—First, Geo. Cocram, school—Mary Burnham, chairman, ed on a committee to prepare an ex repaired, and all good lands will finish will be a smooth surface in new hospital and its capable man Oakland, Ore.; Second. J. Cornutt, Lois White and Claudine Hale; High hibit of five articles made of wool have suitable deliveries. Some drain- atone gray, much the same color as agement is very marked. school—Kenneth Knerr, chairman, which is to be entered In a state age on both projects will be taken Roseburg; Third, Hamilton. First National Bank of Hermiston. Mitchell of Sunnyside won first Charlotte Ralph and Virginia Wells. wide competition at the state con care of where most needed, Also There will be seven large class rooms NINE OUT OF 96 DOZEN vention. on the best dressed bird In the some new by-passes will be built and an assembly room with 200 seats A "Letterman’s Club” for boys is EGGS BROKEN IN UPSET Bronze division and was awarded The next regular meeting of the from the “A" line to the Maxwell with large capacity available for being organized under the direction Auxiliary will be held at a wool dis canal. occasions. The gymnasium will have Mrs. F. Reiks of Irrigon, yet lives the Grand Champion prize. of Coach Hal Hatton, for boys who play the third Friday in January. a space for seating capacity of 1000, unhurt to tell the story. She started All of this work will better en- have earned letters in the past or and will have a stage and shower to Pendleton last Friday with 96 CHARGED WITH RECKLESS able the districts to give better ser- will be able to do so this year. Of- FAIR PRIZE MONEY USED baths for both boys and girls. Side- dozen eggs and near Nolin the car DRIVING IN SCHOOL ZONE vice to the individual user and will ficers acting pro-tem are as follows: walks across the, main front of the struck icy pavement and skidded off aid in the conservation of water. All Jack Reeves, president; Deverde El- TO BUY SHOW CASES building will be eight fect wide with the grade and the car upset. With lands fit .for Irrigation will be serv Cecil Brooks of Portland, now of wood, treasurer; and Alton Sisson, sidewalks leading to the building of her was Rev. W. O. Miller of Irrigon, Stanfield, was arrested and plead, treasurer. The $30 in prize money won by ed. five foot width. A library cove, on and all these eggs. She was driving guilty before Justice P. P. Sullivan's the Minnehaha district in 1932 This work and benefits will be ly for books for daily uses will be the car and was pinned down by the court Tuesday, to a charge of reck- the Umatilla Project fair has been free service to the district as provid Dr. T. C. Belt Arrives. set off the assembly room since the steering wheel and Mr. Miller was less driving through the school Dr. T. C. Belt arrived from Port listed as follows by the committee in ed under the laws providing for the public library is within half a block unable to release himself and open zone, He was fined $ 25 and court land today (Thursday) to take over charge, which is composed of A. W. establishment of the CCC camps. of the new building. An up-to-date the door on his side of the car. Re costs. the practice of the late Dr. A. W. Turnblad, F. B. Pennock, and Mrs. The Hermiston district entered in heating system, plumbing and septic lief came in a,few minutes and some The minimum sentence for such a Christopherson, who passed away in Sam Carson. to the preliminary arrangements for tank, and wiring for lights, signal CCC boys lifted the car back to its charge is one year and $400 fine. Two show cases, repairs and var- this work last April. Machinery and Portland recently following a mas- bells and radio uses will be installed. position on the highway. Mrs. Reiks told operation. Dr. Belt has had ten nish in 1933, $ 5.25 ; one show ■ case equipment owned by this district The architect stated that the lo was unhurt and only nine dozen Huff Place Leased. in 1934, 39.05 payment on show i and taken over from the government years experience. cation of the building is one with eggs were broken, and Mr. Miller case in 1935. 4.75, and refund on when the district board took charge her Mrs. Maude A. Huff leased out a comparison in the state of Ore iwas unharmed. Slight damages oc show case to th l fair board of $1.00. is being loaned to the other districts Attend Condon Conference. 20-acre ranch west of the Hermiston gon. curred to the car. Mrs. Reiks is 73 James Todd; Commander of Dist Wilson of Butte this week to H. A. On the purchase of the last show and a general cooperative spirit pre With some street vacations the years old and makes a trip to Pen- sold her rict No. (, attended an American Le case purchat Colorado. Mrs. Huff has from B. S. Kingsley, vails among the district toward the will open into the main entrance dleton every week. gion conference In Condon Baturday, the Umatil personal property cows and other Project Farm Bureau improvement of the welfare of the head of Second street facing town. The A. C. Swarner ear of Hermis- December 7, similar to the one held paid $0.75, ith $5.75 paid from the entire area. The gymnasium opens from the low ton came along about the time of •nd will go to California where some of her children live. Mr. Wil- here last week, at which Command- prise The district has arranged with er story out on the level with the the ups occupants also as- son has a wife and two children and er Geo. Koehn, Department of Ore Mr. Ashline, engineer in charge of athletic fields where are located the sisted i the car. is from the drouth stricken area of gon was present. Mrs. Todd acom- i Vork Progressing. the field work of the CCC in this tennis courts and practice grounds panied Mrs. L A McClintock, dist eastern Colorado where he was form ire now working on the territory, under the direction of R. for baseball and football and field Umatilla Accepts Bid. erly a large operator of stock and rict president from Pendleton, to new He on Community Park and J. Newell, regional director of the sports, adjoining all the school town of Umatilla will have a wheat land. Mr. Wilson and his Condon Saturday morning, where a as soon as e seed picking crews are Pacific Northwest to carry on this grounds. The big games will be play late domestic water system family will move onto the Huff meeting of the Auxiliary was held that duty they will work throughout the coming year. ed on the athletic field provided released in the afternoon. the bid for water works con- Place immediately. be transfer to the park. At such Truck loads of the boys are trans with grandstands in the new com which has just been ac a time, appro: munity park now under construc str ately 40 men will ported from the barracks camp daily and work under the direction of a be set to worl tion three blocks south of the school cepted. Eugene Ruby of Portland competent foreman. These crews are building. The building is on high will be the contractor. His Md was Bids have eived for ma- now working on laterals and other ground and under modern archi $18,270. The funds available under terials and activ ions are ex- the 55 per cent bond issue and 45 parti of the irrigating system. When tectural plans and designs of park pected to be contimi m now on was $19,000. A new the Cold Springs reservoir is filled ing, streets and sidewalks, Its beau until completion durin cceed- 150,000 gallon capa- In May, the crews will be transfer ty will be unexcelled in the state. ht hs, as by Ut on the hill south red to the teed canal. Enough men When completed the people of This is a review of the year's gen of farmers, and farming, has re Ma zie. will be provided under the aarrange- Union high school district will be of town with a pressure of 75 feet eral activities in the territory cov placed the experlmentors and exper and the nt to do all the work as outlined. proud of the effort and ability of the in town. Water from the well now ered by the subscription lists of the iments. In a nut shell now It is managers in charge and The district boards and managers school board and architect. The owned by the city will be pumped Hermiston Herald, including Echo, cows, hens, turkeys, hogs, corn and turns for the money Invested Is as consider the opportunity to use the school board is A. D. Smith, E. L. direct into the reservoir with a new Stanfield, Hermiston, Umatilla, Irri alfalfa, with a home-like sprinkling sured. CCC boys especially fortunate. This Jackson, Jess Goff. Thomas Camp pump, and mains laid to the city. gon, Boardman, Butter Creek, Al of gardens, berries and other useful work will lead to many bettermenu bell and Henry Sommerer. Mr. Tour- Work will be commenced soon. pine, Pine City, Lexington, Ione, products that contribute to easier that could not otherwise be provided telotte is the architect and Mr. means of a livelihood. Speculation HUNTERS TRAP 292 COYOTES Holdman and on the nearby North Columbia School Operetta. Quinn is a highly recommended side of the Columbia. Most of the in lands has been eliminated and AND 24 BOBCATS IN NOVEMBER with heavy increases in mainten “ Santa Claus Court” will be the figures given are accurate, some few practical methods of how to make a ance or added funds from bonds or builder from Portland, and a man of operetta given by the entire school are estimated, and some genersl con living and provide a safe roof over (Continued on page 2) During November 35 hunters, by direct taxation. During the lean of the Columbia district. It will be clusions made. Progress for 1935 hss every head by the adoption of only working all or part' time, took 292 years or depression the systems were held the evening of December 19, at been marked in all localities. There such crops and such methode of cul- coyotes and 24 bobcats. handled with such rigid economy Columbia school house. Much atten have been increases in production tn tivation which have been proven that some of the canals and laterals GENERALITIES. Harold W. Dobyns, who is on tion has been given to the training all Unes of industries here and a best for the soils, marketing and had fallen behind on repairs and de leave-without-pay while attending This Is our own red Ink print of the students and a fine program liveries of water, and conservation growth leading to permanent and climatic conditions as exist here. Oregon State Agricultural college, and we did it ourselves. We are is assured. of the supply was becoming more dif substantial set-up of farmers Is es spent November 14 and 15 in Port Hens and Turkeys. glad to show what we can do at ficult as years went by. In the saving pecially marked. Better farming, land at a joint meeting of the pre home. Just the same as sll our Regular F. B. Euxiliary Meeting. along with what pays here is sn in- Following are some figures tsken of water, and through better deliv- datory-animal and rodent and game neighbors show in this issue what The next regular Farm Bureau creased order of things and this, this fall in the annual survey made management forces of the states of erles to farmers, more economy in has been done among us in 1935. by the district: maintenance is made possible, and Oregon and Washington. This special Christmas edition Auxiliary meeting will be held in with better buying and selling has Hens have increased from 27,774 the Union church in Hermiston, Fri purchasing Increased profits and an extension to good Idle lands is of the Herald shows how wc are getting ahead. New high school day, December 20, with a Christmas power, which is shown in content- in 1934, to 30,194 In 1935. more practical. The movement is The number of turkeys have OREGON WOMEN HEAVY building, new park, new wster program and tree at which small ment, comfort and solidity. expected to result in the greater de grown from 17,202 in 1934, to 20,- gifts will be exchanged. Mrs. W. INSURANCE INVESTORS system st Umatilla, CCC barracks Better Farming Shown. velopment of all the projects. 582 in 1935. In addition is also the of 200 boys st Stanfield and plen Dyer, Mrs. E. E. Rainwater, Mm The most msrked feature of af- Improvement in quality and Increase Women are rapidly gaining con- ty of work in sight. Farm condi Orville Dawson and Mrs. Lena Lage fairs here is the adoption of a sys- of weights through greater skill of trol of the nation's wealth, and the tions have improved during 1935, will act as hostesses. tern of agriculture best adapted to growers. trend la more pronounced on the Pa and all is well. the localities, and also better meth- Increase In value of all such fowls cific Coaat than anywhere else. Weather Report. ALONG THE CONCRETE All we need now to make our Date Max. Min. ods of farming. The days of develop- is $8636. This was revealed by a recent cup full is the Umatilla dam. A December 5____ -___ __ 32 „ 30 ment dates back to the wasted ef- | study conducted by the Oregon Mu- Yellow Corn Fields. few dimes from every person who December 6 ............. 37 30 forts at fruit growing; of strenuous tusl Life Insurance Co., reporta G. C. would be benefit ted would keep December 7 ................. .... 40 27 efforts to make alfalfa plants last a | Corn has been Increased from 292 In this auto-age, can you imagine Beddow, Jr., Hermiston representa the home fires burning in that December 8 ................ 54 24 generation; of almost futile efforts aeree in 1934, to 584 acres in 19 3 5, a horse drawn vehicle pulling up to December 9 ________ ___ 43 ... 27 st commercializing soil crops, and and quality and yield has been im tive. a garage air pump and filling the "Sixty-five per cent of all estates rubber tires on the vehicle? It was December 10 —........... 50 28 stealing everything from the soil proved. To this may be added 2(1 December 11_______ ----- 41 .... 29 without putting anything back. aeres of corn used in various ways go entirely to women,” he points a remarkable eight and Mr. and Mrs Precipitation was .24. R. E. Osborn were in the vehicle. (Continued on page five.) out. 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