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Uhe Hermiston Heraln VOLUME XXX NUMBER 11 CITY CLEAN-UP ORDINANCE SOON COMMERCIAL CLUB MAY LEAD It is expected that a proclama tion declaring a two day clean-up campaign for the City of Hermiston will be issued by Mayor McKenzie next week setting the days on No vember 13th and 14th. Definite action will be taken Tuesday night by the Commercial club which will sponsor the clean-up program. Ev- ery person in the city will be asked to lend a hand in this program. Action was taken by members of the city council Wednesday night and a desire was expressed to co- operate with any movement to be undertaken. This clean-up will not only in- •elude the territory around the main business section but on the home grounds, vacant lots and streets. It was expressed that a thriving com munity such as Hermiston should be clean and orderly, with trash and litter cleared from its alley ways, to give the right impression to visitors and transients. The city council also voted to en force the dog license ordinance, re quiring all dog owners to secure a license for their dogs, commencing after the first of the year. The city radio interference ordinance will also be enforced. The council order ed an inspection of all major elec trical equipment in the city within the near future. An improvement will be made in the sidewalk terminating by the Umatilla Co-operative Creamery to reduce the height of the curb. The city council condemned the old building on Hurlburt avenue be tween Second and Third streets, s a public health hazard, since scarlet fever cases had been confined there last year. Other regular city business was transacted at the meeting Wednes day night. Councilmen present were M. L. Watson, N. R. Mueller, W. W. Felthouse, B. Haneline, F. Knerr end Mayor McKenzie, Recorder Tay lor and City Attorney Warner PREACHING MISSION Over 70 meetings, some of which are expected to attract audiences of many thousand people, are to be held during the evangelistic cam paign to be conducted in Portland Thursday to Sunday of this week by the National Preaching Mission team of 14 outstanding American and English church leaders. Every facility provided by the city of Port land to accomodate the hundreds ex pected to be in the city during the Mission, and. in a broader sense, to make the mission an emphatic suc cess. is being stretched to the ut most. Of primary interest to the gen eral public will be the four mass meetings, to be held in the public auditorium Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 o'clock, and the noonday mass meetings to be held in the Liberty theater, down town. on Thursday and Friday. Sem inars for chnrch workers and minis ters will be held in the White Tem ple (Baptist), the First Methodist church and the First Presbyterian church at 2:30 each week-day of the mission. Innumerable luncheons will be held to honor various members of the mission) team. The mission cam paign will reach a climax with the mass meeting to be held In the pub lic auditorium at 3:00 o'clock on Sunday. Separate meetings will be held for youth conferences, for church wo men, for business and professional women, for church officers, business men and ministers. The schedule of meetings is so heavy that many of them are being held simultaneously. The protestant churches of the Pacific northwest are actively en gaged in making the Portland mis sion an outstanding success. ALASKA TURKEYLESS THANKSGIVING Alaska will have a turkeyless Thanksgiving day unless the strike lifts by November 1< The last north bound ship out of Seattle didn’t carry many holiday birds. Novem ber 16 is the latest they could be shipped to arrive In time. HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, 0000009900***** • COLUMBIA • ♦ BABY BEEF CLUB • ORGANIZED • By Marijana Hammer --------- ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pearson and family and Marjorie Gray were Sun day visitors of Frank Pearson, John Patch and Ethel Couch in Granger. Frank Pearson is a son of Roy Pear son. G. Rand and Mr. and Mrs. B. Rand and family of Irrigon were Sunday visitors at the Foster home. Mr. Rand is Mrs. Foster’s brother. Mary McGonigle, Frances and Rosemary Keller of Pendleton spent the week end at their home here. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pearson and daughter Jean were Pendleton busi ness visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Tom Wilson was ill at her home this week. Members of the Church of Christ enjoyed a Hallowe'en party at the Buell home Saturday evening. Coffee and sandwiches were served. Nellie Hooker, Marijane Hammer, Arllda Foster, Lois Hutchison and Leonard Bales of Columbia attended a Hallowe’en party in Echo Satur day evening. Mrs. Stockard and daughter Opal visited in Pendleton Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Hutsell were Pendleton business visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Merral James left this week for Milton where Mr. James is employed. Henry, Leo and Whiten Lathrop of Wallowa were Sunday visitors at the Duane Lathrop home. They are "nephews of Mr. Lathrop. Hunter Smith of Pittsburg, Cal., is visiting at the home of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Stockard were Sun day dinner guests at the Corpe home. Mr. and Mrs. W. Barber and son James returned home from Portland Tuesday where James has been re ceiving medical treatment. Elmer James of Pendleton visited in Columbia district Sunday. — PERSONALS — The Wool Growers’ Auxiliary will meet at the home of Mrs. Nell Robertson on Butter Creek Friday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock with Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. H. T. Fraser, Mrs. Thos. Campbell, Mrs. F. C. McKen zie and Mrs. C. M. Jackson, acting as hostesses. Mrs. Gladys Corrigal, president of the auxiliary, will be present at the meeting. G. W. Ripley went to Portland Wednesday and remained until Fri day. Mrs. Inez Wright of Pendleton is acting as pharmacist in the Her miston Drug Company store during his absence. Baby beef clubs are being orga nized here and any boy or girl who is interested in securing a beef ani mal is asked to notify Assistant County Agent W. A. Sawyer imme diately in order that the animals may be purchased during the month of November. Nine head of calves have been picked out at present and eleven boys and girls have indicat ed that they want calves. These club members are Harry Lewis,, one; Lavester Mulkins, one; John McMullen, one; Neil Bleak- ney, one; Charles Kik, two; Loretta Mulkins, one; Marie Olsen, one; Awilda Bleakney, two; Eldon Say lor, three: Leo Rueber. three; and Gale Martin, three. Geo. T. McNealy of Plymouth, Wn„ was here Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fix are spend ing the week in Yachats, Ore., visit ing Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Shafer and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Throop, who spent several days last week in Hermiston. Mr. and Mrs. Fix returned with them Sunday. Mrs. Fix is a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Shafer and a sis ter of Mrs. Throop. Mrs. F. B. Swayze and Mrs. H. T. Fraser entertained at a one o’clock bridge luncheon and shower Wed nesday afternoon honoring Miss Grace Jackson, bride elect, at the home of Mrs. Fraser. Miss Jackson will be married November 11th. High honors were won by Mrs. A. H. Norton, consolation by Mrs. E. L. Jackson and cut prize by Mrs. Arietta White. PLAN PROGRAM FOR ARMISTICE CHURCH SPONSORS BROADCAST Methodists of Hermiston today re ceived word of a special nation-wide radio broadcast through the Colum bia chain in honor of the Board of Bishop of the denomination which will hold its autumn meeting in Scranton, Pa., beginning Tuesday, November 10, according to Rev. R. R. Finkbiner. The broadcast will take place Tuesday. November 16, at 10:48 to 11:00 a. m. Pacific Standard tim.. through the courtesy of General Mills, Inc., and will be centered in Joe Emerson's noted "Hymns of All Churches" program. Hymns for the day will have been selected by the Methodist bishop who will, at Scran ton, formally launch the new Mil lion Unit Fellowship Movement among Methodists. This movement seeks to inspire and renew personal religious devotion In the Methodist Episcopal church and to obtain a better underwriting for its world missions and benevolences. HOT WATER BROODER HOUSE HEATIHG SYSTEM IS FAVORITE Twelve years ago Charles Keller raised 600 Barred Rock hens and maintained them for a number of years. Four years ago he went into the turkey business and now has 1500 birds. He made the chicken houses into brooder houses, two of which have the underground heat ing system and the other the hot water system. Mr. Keller plans to change to the hot water system this fall, due to the fact that it is more readily regulated to conform with the change In temperature. Mr. Keller raised sufficient corn on his farm to fatten the 1500 birds and to use in the mashes to develop the spring poults. Mr. Keller is a member of the board of directors for the Eastern Oregon Turkey Growers’ association Mrs. O. L. Barlow and Mrs. J. A. Clarke represented the Parent Study club of Hermiston at a meeting L. E. Elwood and wife secured Wednesday in Pendleton sponsored i 500 poults from the I. C. Cox turkey by the Oregon State Home Exten- flock this spring In their second sion Service. year as turkey producers and now Many people were guests of the have a flock of 470 birds. They Eastern Star at a silver tea given came here two years ago last Tues Thursday afternoon of last week as day from Marino, Kansas, and like a benefit. The hall was beautifully the country so well they would not decorated with fall leaves, ferns and return to Kansas under any circum flowers and the arranging was done stances. They raised turkeys In by Mrs. Geo. Briggs. Mrs. J. A. Oklahoma but were constantly men Clarke and Mrs. Curtis Simons serv aced by rodent animals and weather ed on the committee for arrange conditions. They use a hot water system in ments. and Mrs J. Villermoure, Mrs Allan Thomson. Mrs. Curtis Sim their 18x24 brooder house and ex ons and Miss Elva Berry presided at pect to extend their building pro the tables. An entertaining program I gram In the spring to accomodate was presented consisting of a piano 1500 poults. The Ellwoods state that they solo by Mrs. Frank O’Neil, a vocal solo by Mrs. Alton Kingsbury, a cleared $1.65 per head last year de reading by Mrs. Walter Smith, two spite the fact that the birds were violin solos by Frances Chapman of set back several weeks when they ate watermelons. Umatilla. ************** • BOARDMAN • The McCutchon family moved on to the King place Friday, which they purchased some time ago. Mrs. J. Fisher returned Monday from Portland where she spent a few days visiting. Mrs. Shell is staying at the Mc Farland home in Umatilla while Mr. and Mrs. McFarland are away on business. Mrs. Eva Warner left Thursday for Salem where she will visit at the S. H. Boardman home. The kitchen in the grange build ing is being built and will be ready for use at the next regular grange meeting. Mr. and Mrs. B. Rands and daugh ters, spent the past week on the coast, visiting the Royal Rands fam ily. They returned Sunday. Mrs. Glenn Hadley returned Sun day from Monument where she visi ted the past week. wars. Frank Cramer left Tuesday for Spokane where she will visit a short time at the Earl Cramer home. Mr. and Mrs. Lapsley of Loe Án geles, Cal., are visiting at the Comp ton home. Mrs. Lapsley will be re membered as Dorothy Compton. The Thimble club met Friday at the home of Mrs. Ingles. There were 21 ladies present. Many articles were finished which will be sold at the Lgdies Aid Bazaar. Noel Klitz was home over night WEBBER-PAYNE MAY Wednesday on his way to La Grande where he Is employed in the high TAKE OVER DAIRY way shops. Mrs. Hazel Stuttie of Portland vi A deal may be transacted by No sited at the Faler home a few days vember 15th in which W. G. Web last week. ■— e » ber and Harvey Payne of Hermiston will take over the E. E. Rainwater ********* city dairy and milk route. A dairy barn and milk house is being built f UMATILLA NEWS t By ERMA BYRNES. on the Payne farm near town and • ’ --------- • will soon be completed. Mrs. E. A. McMillian and daugh Rainwater purchased the Hanby dairy herd and milk distributing ter Janet of Portland spent the week equipment several months ago. The end visiting Mr. McMillian here. Harold Edwards and his mother, dairy is known as the Hermiston Mrs. Stella Edwards, accompanied Dairy. by the Misses Florence Christianson and Edna Danford motored to Port Sponsor Bazaar, land Friday. The former attended Washington-Oregon football Members of the Methodist Ladies the game Saturday while Miss Danford Aid will sponsor a bazaar on Fri day. December 4th, in the basement motored on to Salem where she vi of the church. A program of enter sited friends. Mr. and Mrs. James Byrnes and tainment is being arranged and the Don Isom of Irrigon spent Friday in public is invited to attend. Walla Walla. -------------- PPI Mrs. Walter Gardner returned to Weather Report. her home in Portland Thursday af Date Max. Min. ter a week’s visit with her sister. October 29 ..... ................ 63 .... 21 Mrs. Harry Hull. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rodenbough October 30 ..... ................. 62 .... 23 October 31 ..... ................. 58 .... 38 and daughter Doris spent last Wed November 1 .... .... 48 .... >0 nesday in Pendleton. Ernest Tippie and Robert McKen November 2 .... ................. 47 . .. 6 November 3 .... .......... 50 16 zie left early Wednesday morning November 4 .... .................. 62 ... 39 for California. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walsh and children Verna Dale and Merlin of The Dalles spent Wednesday after noon visiting Mrs. Walsh’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Byrnes. Miss Yvonne Bousquet who is vorking In Milton visited her moth er over the week end here. W. G. Webber has been a turkey Mrs. James Byrnes and daughters producer for eight years but expects to go out of the business next year. Joan and Erma, and Mrs. Don Har- He has a flock of 850 birds this fall ryman and children visited at the and believes it is more economical Don Isom home near Irrigon Wed to keep breeding stock and hatch nesday. Alicia Bousquet accompanied poults for his own flock than to friends from Milton to Portland Fri purchase the poults. day morning where they attended Webber first raised turkeys on the Washington-Oregon football the old McDonald place across the game Saturday. Butter Creek highway where Car- Glenn W. Kimberling spent the sons now live. week end visiting Mrs. Kimberling Mr. Webber is retiring from the and daughter Pat in Eugene. He turkey business because he expects was accompanied to Portland by to go into the dairying business by the Misses Sara Rix and Marguerite November 15th. Cox. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bray spent Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Todd have from Thursday until Saturday in lived fourteen years on their ranch Portland on business. east of Hermiston and half of that Rosalind Lennox left for her home time have been in the turkey busi ness. Two years of that time they in Portland last Thursday after a have sold their turkey poults about few days visit with relatives. the time they were ready for the J. B. Springer and Ralph Davis, range because of the wet condition Jr., attended the Washington-Oregon of the soil on their farm. By doing football game in Portland Saturday. this they were able to give the land Mrs. William Shepherd was rush a rest and prevent the breeding of ed to the St. Anthony's hospital In disease. Pendleton Friday where she under The Todds have 1500 birds this went an operation Monday morning year and plan to increase another for appendicitis. Her condition is year and also to add to their brood reported critical. er house facilities. One brooder Erma Byrnes and Glenn Ostrom house now has an underground heat ing system and the other has the motored to Pendleton Saturday. At the regular Christian Endea hot water system. They like the hot water system the better because vor meeting held Sunday, plane are it is easier to regulate, and will being made for a party Friday night. Install that in their new bouse. They buy eggs and hatch them in Arnold Hendricks from Correct- their own incubators. By this meth od they do not keep the breeding ionville, la., and Forest White from stock which would range on their Calva. Iowa, spent Sunday with Mr. land and make the disease hazard and Mrs. Geo. Strohm. After leaving here they went to Portland. (Continued on last page) Observance of Armistice day, No vember 11, in Hermiston is not ex pected to be as elaborate as in some past year, but a turkey shoot, a football game, and for members of the Legion and Auxiliary, a get-to gether in the Legion hall in the evening. The business houses will be closed in observance of the day. Beginning at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and continuing until 1:30 in the after noon. a turkey shoot will be held at the Legion traps set on the Com munity park grounds. The shoot will not be confined to turkey prizes but various merchandise items will be given. A football game between Heppner high school and the Hermiston Bull dogs will take place on the athletic LEONA WILLIAMS field at 2:30 p. m. Heppner and Hermiston are enemies of long MARRIED standing and the game should be one Miss Leona Williams of Hermis- of interest. ton and Ray Faust Jr., of Ontario, In the evening, members of the Ore., were married in Walla Walla Hermiston Legion Post and Auxil by justice of the peace, Saturday, October 31st. They were accompa iary Unit plan a get-together pot nied by their parents. Miss Williams luck dinner in the hall. The P. N. G. Club of the Rebekah has been employed at the Hermiston Hotel for several months and Mr. lodge will sponsor a dance the same Faust is with the state highway de evening in the Community hall. partment oiling crew. They expect to make their home in Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Owen of Pen dleton and Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Green Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Barager were of Echo were here Thursday to at Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and tend the County Pomona Grange. Mrs. M. C. Barager. L. A. Tweedt of Kennewick, Wn., was here on business this week. NOVEMBER 5, 1936. LARGE VOTE IN TWO PRECINCTS MAHONEYILEADS OVER MC NARY With 718 registered voters cast ing their ballots in the two pre cincts here, President Roosevelt re ceived a greater majority than four years ago. Willis Mahoney ran ahead of Senator McNary by 116 votes. Congressman Pierce won over Roy Ritner by 270 votes. In the race for joint senator Rex Ellis was a heavy favorite with vot ers here as well as in the county. Wayne Erwin and Carl Engdahl won a close raace for the two house seats. $ A. C. McIntyre won the position of district attorney, and Carl Cham bers won an easy victory tor coun ty judge. William Meiners was over whelmingly re-elected as county commissioner, and Sheriff "Bob” Goad led the field in obtaining a large majority. { The vote tabulation for the 40 precincts is as follows: President: Landon, 2876; Roose velt, 5629; Thomas, 26; Lemke. 667; Aiken, 12. State—U. S. Senator: Hass, 83; Mahoney, 4510; McNary, 4149; Rudder, 31; Streiff, 62. Congressman: Pierce, 5220; Rit ner, 3438. State Treasurer: Burt, 3382; Hol man, 4646; Swetland, 146. Attorney General: Dobson, 3471; Hosmer, 366; Van Winkle, 4253. District — Joint Senator: Ellis, 5229; Hall, 3302. Representatives: Caverhill, 2997; Engdahl, 3736; Erwin, 3938; Moll, 3710. District Attorney: McIntyre, 46- 92; Peterson, 3896. County Judge: Chambers, 6667; Perry, 2261. , County Commissioner: Bean, 34- 75; Meiners, 5917. Sheriff: Goad, 7343; Graham, 1636. Assessor: Davis, 5694; Witherell, 3017. Old Age Assistance: 300, 4001; 301, 3462. Advertising Regulation: 302, 20- 54; 303, 4793. Tax Limitation: 304, 1803; 305, 4432. Military Training: 308, 2284; 309, 4790. Taxes on Tangible Property, 310, 1889; 311, 4505. State Power Bill: 312, 2815; 313, 4234. State Hydroelectric: 314, 2000; 315, 4271. State Bank: 316, 1606; 317, 52- 69. DRAMATIC CLASSES IN PENDLETON Miss Izóla Jensen, extension spec ialist in recreation and dramatics from Oregon State college, will be in Pendleton November 16, 17 and 18 to conduct a dramatic institute which will be held for three conse cutive evenings. The institute will be held in the auditorium at the Washington school starting prompt ly at 8:00 o'clock and closing at 10:00 o’clock. Leaders from the various organi zations are invited to send delegates to the institute. The institute will be followed with a one act play contest for Umatilla county. The cast and director of the winning play in Umatilla county will have an opportunity to present their play at the "Festival of Plays" held at Oregon State college In February. SERVICES AT UNION CHURCH Rev. G. E. Williams is conducting services each night In the week at the Hermiston Union church assist ed by the pastor. Rev. C. Warner. The Evangelist served as state evan gelist for several years and is now associated with the home tor aged people at Turner. Evangelistic singing is a feature of the services and slides illustra ting the sermons are shown on var ious evenings. Meetings start prom ptly at 8:00 o'clock each evening and the public Is Invited to come The Stores Will Be Closed November 11.
