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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Thursday, December 31, 1936 Lindbergh and Eckener at British Pilots’ Dinner OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Simple, Elegant, Practical Briet Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers h. 174 . * Lal T. —, Scene at the British Empire Air Pilots guild dinner held at the Innholders’ hall in London recently in honor of Capt. F. E. Guest, C. B. E. Showing, left to right: Capt. Guest; Dr. Eckener; A. C. Lamplugh, deputy master; and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Dr. Eckener flew from Germany to attend the dinner. Capt. Guest is a former air secretary of Great Britain. She May Wear the Crown of England AIDS TRUCK FARMERS V “$ # e J % w Alfred Pfeiffer, former salesman, whose invention of a machine to cover plants with paper coats on the approach of freezing weather is seen as a boon to winter truck farm ers. Pfeiffer, a native of Comfort, Texas, got the idea for the machine in 1932 and worked to perfect it un til last summer. WB $ to .... - peer 1 ....... wn --........ -F------------ Recent photograph of Princess Elizabeth, ten-year-old daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. With the ascent of her father to the throne on the recent abdication of King Edward VIII she is next in line. Should she eventually ascend the throne, she will wear the crown last worn by Queen Victoria. Solons Gather for Congress Opening YOUNGEST U. S. MAYOR ----- Ere. « - ‘He. e 1 Kennard E. Goldsmith, twenty- three - year - old mayor of Ports mouth, N. H., said to be the young est municipal executive in the United States. Young Goldsmith, a college graduate, was elected on Vice President John N. Garner and U. S. Senator James Hamilton the Republican ticket in the No Lewis of Illinois, whip of the senate, are seen conferring over plans vember landslide, defeating the Democratic incumbent. for the opening of the new Seventy-fifth congress. Tennis Helps Keep Movie Beauties Slender Coquille—Coos county firemen, meeting for the first time since Ban don burned on September 26, fixed the total loss in the conflagration at »1,500,000. Corvallis—A gain of 53 per cent, in total value of building permits is sued here over the 1935 figure was announced last week by the assis tant city engineer, Charles Willey. Ashland—The chamber of com merce has opened a contest for a name for the city’s “boulevard." The contest will close midnight of Decem ber 31. Five dollars are offered the winner. Tillamook—Dedication of the new Liberty playshed was held last week. Frank B. Bennett, city superinten dent; Claud Barrick, chairman of Liberty school board, and Vern Hig bee, principal, were speakers. Klamath Falls—Birds eggs, possi bly a century old, were discovered in the trunk of a large fir tree by loggers last week. The loggers, top ping the tree, noticed a fault which they traced to a cavity where the rest and its seven occupants were hidden. The Dalles—Just twenty years ago Oregon had the same sort of dry spell as this year’s, said Charles McOlli- get, Condon wheat rancher, and at that time he practically gave up all hope for his fall wheat crop. Warm rains came along, however, and by July his wheat was waist high. Bend—Two road contracts, one calling for construction of a new route for the Ochoco highway near Prineville and the other a 13-mile unit on the Central Oregon highway west of Burns, are under way. Sub surfacing on the new route of The Dalles-California highway between Bend and Redmond has been com pleted. Enterprise—A shipment of 3,000,- 000 eastern brook trout eggs arrived at the large salmon hatchery here operated by the state fish commis sion. The trout eggs came from the game commission, indicating that the local hatchery will be used for hatching game fish, even if the plant has not been bought by the game commission. Wheeler—Prospects are favorable for a county organization whereby the mutual interests of fish and game propagation may be promoted by a common unit, according to Robert Cronen of the Sunset Fish company. Rod and gun clubs in the area have been contacted and have given indi cations they are willing to attend pre liminary meetings. Eugene—More than 70 per cent, of the students enrolled in the six Oregon state institutions of higher education earn part or all the expense of their college education. The fig ures were embodied in a report re leased from the office of the chan cellor of the system. Those earning their way completely represent 28 per cent, of the total. COURTHOUSE ASSURED Hood River—Through acquisition of the former Butler bank building for $15,000, Hood River county has the nucleus of a county court build ing which will, it is estimated, fill all requirements during the life of any of the present residents of this county. . The property was valued at $10,000 some ten years ago when the building was erected at a cost of $100,000. Since Hood River became a coun ty, all official business has been transacted in an old frame building, part of which was the first school in this city. EDITORS NAME DATES Eugene——Oregon newspaper men will gather at the University of Ore gon school of journalism January 21, 22 and 23 for the annual Oregon Newspaper conference. A program which will include an unusually wide variety of problems and policies has been promised by Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism. Highlighting the session will be the presentation of the Sigma Delta Chi cup, awarded annually to the best weekly paper in the state, and of the Hal E. Hoss memorial trophy, which goes to the best weekly pub lished in towns under 1000 popula tion. Guest speakers already listed in clude Paul C. Smith, executive edi tor, San Francisco Chronicle; Char les M. Sprague, editor, the Salem Statesman; Herb Gray, Medford Mail-Tribune, who will preside at the advertising managers' session, and Lars M. Biadine, publisher, Mc Minnville Telephone-Register, who is president of the conference. (812 199 IME and Sew-Your-Own fashions march on. To- day’s trio have the simplic ity, elegance and practical ity so vital to the up-to-the- minute well-groomed woman—and so within reach of the modern, pro gressive members of The Sewing Circle Pattern 1812—Little Miss Two- To - Five can manage her own dressing with the aid of this frock that buttons down the front. 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Left to right: Betty Jane Rhodes, Mar tha O’Driscoll, Barbara Read, Nan Grey, film beauties, shown with tennis instructor, Dick Skeen, as they learn the fine points of tennis. 5 WOMEN WHO HOLD THEIR MEN NEVER LET THEM KNOW Astoria—Heavy catches of silver- side salmon in the Columbia have kept local fish canneries operating steadily for some time. A large pack of river silvers is expected after the fresh-fish market failed to absorb the unusually heavy receipts. Newberg—An expected 25 per cent, increase in Christmas business over the 1935 holiday season is the opinion of a number of local mer chants. Prospect* are, in fact, for the best holiday trade since 1929 and may even top that year’s sales. YOUR INTERESTED IN iTiiuim
