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CONNOR'S REPAIR SHOP
NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS
— Next to Walker’s Service Station —
— GENERAL REPAIR
— RE-BORING
— WELDING
All first class work guaranteed
Up-to-date
equipment which has been installed new.
J. E. CONNOR
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HERMISTON
AVERAGE 10-YEAR PRICES
LISTED FOR FARM CROPS
Relative average prices received
by farmers in Oregon by counties
and districts for more than 40 ani
mal and crops products have been
compiled by means of a WPA pro
ject supervised by L. R. Breithaupt,
extension agricultural economist at
Oregon State college. The results
have just been published as a sta
tion circular of information No. 161.
Most of the data was obtained
from records gathered during the
period by the division of corps and
livestock estimates of the U. S. de
partment of agriculture, and are ac
tual reports made monthly by vol
untary farm price reporters.
Interesting information brought
out includes such items as direct
comparison of prices for fat
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feeder lambs and fat and l feeder
steers during the 10-year period,
Many other comparisons between
products and prices in • different
counties are also known.
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tuberculosis is a part of the cam
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of Christmas seals. Have you bought
your share?
“Ignorance kills; knowledge
saves." Every day Christmas seal
funds are providing knowledge that
saves human lives.
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BOARDMAN
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Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brown left
Tuesday for Woodland, Wn., where
they will visit at the home of their
daughter and family. Mr. and Mrs.
Percy Rake.
The Boardman town basketball
team played the Ione town team
here Monday evening, winning the
game 29 to 19.
Word has been received of the
birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Percy
Rake. Mrs. Rake will be remem
bered as Katherine Brown.
A party was given Thursday in
honor of Mrs. Ed. Barlow at the
home of Mrs. Ed. Ingles. About for
ty ladies were present and many
lovely gifts were received by Mrs.
Barlow, after which a dainty lunch
was served by the hostess.
W. A. Baker received the sad
news of the death of his father, who
passed away at the Baker hospital
early Thursday morning. Mr. and
Mrs. Baker and family attended the
funeral at Baker Sunday.
Mrs. Charley Barlow and Mrs. T.
E. Messenger were guests at the J.
F. Barlow home Thursday.
Mike Healy is constructing a mo
del dairy and will soon handle milk
in the most sanitary way possible.
SURGEON’S SCALPEL CHANGES
C. G. BLAYDEN
Many friends and neighbors at-
tended the funeral of C. G. Blayden
Sunday afternoon. He passed away
at his home early Friday morning.
Mr. Blayden was born in Akron,
Ohio, July 28, 1854.
He was mar
ried in 1884 to Ella H. Koskey. In
1916 he moved his family to Board
man and built the first house in
town. When the town was incor
porated he was elected the first
mayor, and had been an active mem
ber of the town council ever since.
He will be sadly missed, not only
by this community, but neighboring
towns also. He leaves to mourn his
loss, his wife, nine children, thir
teen grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren, other relatives, and a
host of friends. The sympathy of
the community goes out to the be
reaved family.
Several Boardman citizens were
in Pendleton Saturday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Macomber and
children spent Sunday in town.
Guy Barlow, Miss Brennan, Miss
Ledbetter, Mrs. Fortier and Miss
Norma Gibbons were in The Dalles
Saturday. Mrs. Fortier and Miss
Norma Gibbons purchased a new
Plymouth.
Mrs. Helen Doney and baby are
visiting at the Russell home.
The community Christmas enter
tainment will be in the school audi
torium Tuesday evening. December
22.
The missionary society met at the
home of Mrs. T. Anderson Wednes
day afternoon. The meeting was
led by Mrs. McCutchen.
A Christmas program will be held
at the community church Christmas
evening.
Louie Blayden and Mrs. Ethel An
derson returned to their homes Tues
day after being with their family.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Blayden. the
past few weeks. Mrs. Paine will re
main with her mother for some time.
Mrs. Packard is confined to her
bed with pneumonia.
Mrs. M. J. Deweese returned Wed
nesday to her home in Corvallis, af
ter visiting the past week with her
sisters, Mrs. L. V. Root and Mrs. Ed.
Barlow.
E. W. Peck is having the lunch
room at the Oasis Station remodeled.
MURDERER INTO MENTAL GIANT
Transformed from killer to genius
by a surgeon’s scalpel! Most amaz
ing drama since “Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde” startled the world, is “The
Man Who Lived Twice," shows Sun
day, Monday and Tuesday at the
Oasis theatre with Ralph Bellamy.
Marian Marsh and Isabel Jewell in
the leading roles!
Dead—or alive? Did the surgeon’s
knife wipe out Public Enemy No. 1
—or does the killer still lurk be
hind this man’s mask? A startling
drama, a leap ahead of science, as
the law demands the life of a man
already dead!
You’ll be astounded as a man
comes to grips with one of the
shocking facts in a thousand life
times! A brilliant scientist stalked
by the horrible shadow of a life long
dead!
SALES INTEREST
WHEAT LEAGUE
With foreign demand for wheat
still uncertain from year to year, di-
vision of as much wheat land as pos
sible in eastern Oregon to other feed
or cash crops was recommended by
the Eastern Oregon Wheat league at
its annual meeting held recently in
Heppner.
As to possibilities, the committee
on production recommended careful
study of the returns from feeding
wheat to livestock, both by growers
of wheat and feeders of hogs, sheep
and cattle. Experimental results as
well as practical experience of a
number of feeders have indicated
that wheat fed thus will return
more than when sold as a cash crop.
Seeding of marginal and scab land
to crested wheat grass, bulbous blue
grass or other permanent forage was
recommended, as was the use of La-
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dak alfalfa and sweet clover on
some of the lower sub-Irrigated
areas subject to washing and where
wheat tends to lodge. The growing
of canning pears where markets are
available and peas for seed in areas
distant from green pea production
was also recommended. More flax
seed production in Wallowa, Union
and Baker counties was pointed to
as a possibility.
The necessity of maintaining for
eign outlets for Pacific northwest
wheat was emphasized by speakers
at the convention, who pointed to
the reciprocal trade agreements and
more stabilized currencies as favor
able factors. America must buy
from abroad in order to sell, it was
pointed out. The export problem was
recognized also in vigorous action
against present maritime strikes
which were reported to have cost
northwest wheat producers upwards
to 10 million dollars through inabil
ity to make use of favorable foreign
markets this season. Legislation to
make arbitration of such disputes
compulsory was advocated.
Officers elected for the coming
year are Charles. Nish, Mikkalo,
president; J. D. Woodell, La Grande,
vice president; and Charles Smith,
Corvallis, secretary-treasurer. New
county executive committeemen are
Fred Eppinger, Baker; Hugh Wil
son. Wallowa; Gilbert Courtright,
Union; Jim Hill, Umatilla; A. H.
Nelson, Morrow: Lloyd Smith, Gil
liam; T. M. Rolfe, Sherman; Emil
Shanno, Wasco, and A. D. Anderson,
Jefferson. La Grande will be the
meeting place next year.
GRANGE CALLS
WEED CONFERENCE
What is said to be a serious state
wide menace to agriculture from
spread of noxious perennial weeds
will be the subject of an all-day
conference which the Oregon State
Grange is sponsoring on the state
college campus in Corvallis. Satur
day, December 19. Ray Gill, mas
ter of the grange, has issued a gen
eral invitation to farmers, members
of county courts, county agents and
grange agricultural committeemen
to attend. The extension service of
the college is cooperating in the
conference and will have a number
of specialists on hand to take part
in the program.
The grange agricultural commit
tees have had weed control as a ma
jor project for two years and it is
now believed that the situation is
such that state-wide action is neces
sary, recording to Mr. Gill.
The committee on weed control at
the recent eastern Oregon Wheat
league convention reported that the
extent of weed infestation has
reached a point where the possibi
lity of widespread control measures
is definitely beyond the reach of the
individua! farmer. In the 11 coun
ties covered by this organization, it
was reported that there are between
25,000 and 30,000 acres of iand in
fested by noxious weeds.
GRAND COULEE
DAM PROGRESSING
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1936.
It s Christmas seal time again.
Buy your share to support tor an
other year the campaign of educa
tion and prevention that is helping
to eradicate tuberculosis.
What is going on at the Grand
Coulee dam is well told in an inter-
view by the Herald from J. E.
Hallyburton, who formerly spent
several years in Hermiston and has
been at Grand Coulee since the work
was started. He went in over the
trails and rough roads with the
first rush which was like mushing
into the Klondike in 1897. Mr. Hal-
lyburton states that the work there
is progressing steadily, and that
there is no doubt among all the in
habitants of the cities round about
the dam that the structure will be
completed to the full height of the
proposed high dam.
At this time over 5000 men are
employed directly on the works. In
addition are small sub-contractors,
on various side jobs of over 300.
The government also employs in its
engineering crews 300 men. The
last census of the population in all
the towns near the dam was 20,000 |
including women and children. It is |
estimated that 10,000 men are em
ployed, including the 6000 on the
dam and about 4000 who conduct
stores, shops and truck lines and all
other business depending on the
care of the regular workers. It has
also been seen that five times the
number is at work in manufacture
of concrete, machinery and equip
ment of all kinds throughout the
northwest, and the country at large
all for the great enterprise. Train
loads of materials are unloaded
weekly.
The price of labor on the dam is
an average of $5 a day, or S30
week at 40 hours. Common labor is
$4 a day, and skilled labor more.
Jobs for good workers are continu
ous. The local county communities
are allowed a large say in who the
workers are, and the government
protects the workers in every way.
Modern hospitals are provided and
the contractors pay the state for
workman’s compensation as much as (J
$40,000 a month.
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Many men living in towns at a (
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The work of the low dam will be
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completed in 1937 and it is esti
OUR STATION.
mated that the high dam and the
irrigation system of the Columbia
Basin project will be completed and
Auto Knee Kovers
ready for settlers in eight years.
Hot Water Heaters
It is Mr. Hallyburton’s opinion
Electric Defrosters
that if the Umatilla dam is built
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similar conditions will prevail. All
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the small towns will be greatly
Winter Fronts
benefited and all vacant land here
would be settled. The policy of the
COME IN AND SEE THEM!
government is against speculation,
but aids and permits investments
and legitimate enterprises. Business
men in all lines at Grand Coulee
have been successful. The Umatilla
dam would be only about one-third
the size of the Grand Coulee low
dam but the location is so favor
able that large outside enterprises
would be fostered and developed.
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Christmas Giving Delights the
Buyer when there is such a
fine selection of gifts as may
be found at BURNHAM'S
NEW SHIPMENT
SILK BLOUSE —
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Just In - a dandy Xmas present
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
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TOWELS —
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New Shipment Satin &A .49
Back Crepe Dresses
Any one would be pleased to
get one of these.
81.00 - 54-inch Silk
NECKTIE —
Mill Shipment — Broadcloth
RAYON STRIPE
DRESS SHIRTS —
doing fast — Get Yours Now!
Urge 24-inch DOLL $1.98
Only a few left.
Makes a very nice
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100 Per Cent Wool
COATS - Big Yank
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FANCY HEAVY
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