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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1937 JUNIOR PROM WILL HONOR SENIORS TRAVEL EAST on one of UNION PACIFIC'S OLD FASHIONED GARDEN THEME CLUB TO STAGE 'DORMITORY DUB” (From the Bulldog) The scene ot this one-act play is Miss Peeble’s boarding school for young ladies. Dormitory Four hap pens to be the one in which all the especially talented young women live. Unfortunately, Ann Drew has to live in Dormitory No. Four also, and because she has in no way dis tinguished herself she gets a very cool reception. After so long a time •he feels that she can no longer stand the othe girls’ coolness so she asks why she is treated the way she is. They tell her and advise her to move to another dormitory, which she does. When trying to help Bertha, the maid, who is accused of stealing jewelry, she herself is accused of the crime and at this time she acci dentally lets it slip out that she is Ann Drew Burbank, the girl who has traveled in Africa with her fa ther, talked over the radio, been in news reels, etc. She is accepted with “open arms” by the other girls and no longer is known as the “Dormi tory Dub.” The play will be given at an as sembly, by the Dramatic club. Two complete casts have been chosen and they are both working it up. The casts are as follows: "A” Group. (From the Bulldog) The junior class will honor the seniors and faculty members at the Junior Prom, Friday evening, May 7, in the Hermiston high school gym nasium. Dancing will be from 8:30 to 12:30 and the music will be fur nished by the Columbians. The old fashioned garden theme will be carried out for decorations. The dance will take place in the midst of a garden surrounded by a flower banked stone wall. The punch booth will be a trellis cov ered with climbing wisteria, and the orchestra will be backed by a picket fence with climbing flowers and wisteria. The dance is free to the juniors and seniors and their escorts, but the general public will be charged 60 and 15 cents. Invitations may be secured through a member of the junior class, to the capacity of 200 couples. Everyone must present an admittance card at the door. Committees working on arrange ments are: Program — Frances Dawson, Marie Skovbo and Raymond Knapp. Decoration—Lois White, Jim Jackson, Harold Laird, Helen Ralph, Stuart Rankin, Esther McMullen, Gerald Keller and Tom Lotspeich. Refreshments — Jane Jackson, Lawrence Hunt, Thelma Swarner and Asa Shaw. Invita- tions—-Sophie Keikkala, Irene Mc Kenzie and Nina Rae McCulley. Tickets—C. O. Marble, cashier. Gwendolyn ................. Claudine Hale Frances ...................... Annie Pierson Irene ............................ Della Madden Marguerite ................. Wanda Moore Ann ...................... Geraldine Mullins Bertha ........ Marguerite Rainwater Mammy .......................... Lena Baehne Miss Peebles .......... Eleanor Steiner "B” Group. SENIORS WILL GO TO Gwendolyn ................... Audrey Null Frances ....................... Virginia Wells BINGHAM SPRINGS Irene ...................... Mary Alice Corpe Marguerite ..................... Alva Isensee (From the Bulldog) Ann ................................ Marion Pierce At a special meeting held Mon Bertha ................................. Ruby Leo Mammy ............. Gladys Williams day, April 26, the class voted down Miss Peebles ............. Frances Follett a motion as to having a “class night.” However, the committees, which were appointed earlier, will SCHOOL CALENDAR. continue working, and the will, his (From the Bulldog) tory and prophecy will be given at April 29—Tennis matches: Boys at some later date. Hermiston; Girls at Umatilla. After much discussion by mem April 30—P. E. X. bers of the class they finally reached April 30—Grade school track meet a decision that the annual “Flunk at Echo. Day” would take place at Bingham April 30—Baseball at Umatilla. Springs, Friday, May 14. Miss Ruth May 1—Track meet at Helix. Morrison, and Coaoh and Mrs. O’Neil May 6—Tennis matches; Girls at will accompany the class to Bing Hermiston; Boys at Umatilla. ham. Committees appointed to be in May 7—Music meet here. charge of the holiday arrangements May 8—Heppner here. are as follows: Entertainment—Ber May 10-13—Junior-Senior week. nard Jendrzejewski, Floy Attebury, May 13—Umatilla here. and Darrel Seeliger; Transportation May 14—Senior flunk day. —Hugo Pankow, Harold Buell, and May 16—Baccalaureate. Rosemary Serell; Food—Helen Dun May 21—Commencement. May 21 and 24—Final examinations. ning, Bonnie Jean Follett, Irene Kennings, and Wayne Power. May 25—School out. FIRST CHOICE A 4. -■ ■ ■ • . - I 825= A NEW STANDARD OIL FOR NEW CARS PAGE FIVE 100,000 DEATHS IS TOLL OF ACCIDENTS T he H ome D ecorator Economic Cost to People of U. S., $3,450,000.000. Your Home is Your Castle Chicago.—The American public, always the loser in the game of “Safety versus Accidents,” heaped 100,000 lives on the altar of care lessness during 1935, declares the National Safety Council. In its 1936 edition of “Accident Facts,” the Council reported that an additional 9,340,000 persons suf fered non-fatal injuries in accidents of one sort or another and that to pay the economic cost of their dis regard for rules of safety, Ameri cans dug into their wallets for at least $3,450,000,000—about $27.05 for each of the nation’s 127,521,000 men, women and children. The Council's averages showed that accidents killed 274 persons every day of the year and that the estimated daily bill for lost income, doctor and hospital fees and the overhead cost of insurance alone was $9,500,000. The Council credited to automo biles the largest block of accident deaths, which it said rose to a new all-time high of 37,000 in 1935. The year’s totals also showed 105,000 persons were permanently disabled and 1,180,000 temporarily disabled in motor vehicle accidents. Fatalities in Home. Another set of totals indicated, the Council said, that members of American families, without appar ent concern for loss of life, moved blithely about their homes—turn- ' bling down stairs, falling out of win dows, drowning themselves, getting cut and burned, dying by the thou sands. The year’s report listed 31,- 500 deaths in accidents that oc curred in homes, placed at 140,000 the number of persons permanently disabled and at 4,460,000 the num ber temporarily disabled. The third largest number of per sons, 18,000, died in public accidents —drownings, burns, falls, heat pros trations, deaths by freezing railroad accidents, firearms accidents, poi sonings, etc.—that occurred outside the home but not in occupational pursuits and that did not involve motor vehicles. This type of acci dent, the Council said, was respon sible for permanently disabling in juries to 60,000 and for temporarily disabling injuries to 2,100,000. Occupational accidents, those suf fered while engaged in gainful em ployment, claimed 16,500 lives, 500 more than in 1934, the Council’s Statistics showed, and inflicted permanent disability upon 63,000. Less serious injuries were suffered by 1,340,000. Of the total number killed In accidents during 1935, 47,800 were between twenty-five and sixty-four years of age. Other age groups and the number of accidental deaths which occurred in them, were: less than five years, 6,600; five to four teen years of age, 7,600; fifteen to twenty-four years, 13,400; sixty-five years or more, 24,600. Motor vehicle accidents were the greatest cause of accidental death in each age group except the “less than five years” and “sixty-five years or more” classifications. Au tomobile accidents as a cause of death were second to “burns” in the former group and second to “falls” in the latter group. Fire, which the Council said an nually takes an average of 8,000 lives, caused $250,000,000 in property damage during 1935. Matches and the fire hazard connected with smok ing cigars, pipes and cigarettes; de fective chimneys and flues, petro leum fires, and defective stoves, furnaces and boilers, were given as the principal causes of the year’s conflagrations. Hazards of the Farm Of the total of occupational deaths, the Council said agricultural pur suits, work on the farm, caused more accidental deaths, 4,400, than any other classification of gainful employment. Trade and service in dustries were next with 4,000 fatali ties. Construction operations with 2,500 deaths was third on the list, while about 1,600 deaths were suf fered by workers in mining, quarry ing and other extractive industries. In the transportation and public utilities industries there were 2,100 accidental deaths and manufactur ing accounted for 1,900 fatal acci dents. In relation to compensation insur ance the Council said the largest slice of the total paid for industrial accidents, 28 per cent, went to acci dent victims injured in falls. How ever, falls caused but 22 per cent of all industrial accident cases. The handling of objects—tools and material—caused 29 per cent of all industrial cases, the victims of which received 17 per cent of the compensation. However, the Council said proof of the progress in industrial safety in the United States is offered «in statistics for 1935 that show the ac cident frequency rate (disabling in juries per million man-hours of ex posure) 61 per cent below the rate for 1926. These figures, it was ex plained, were taken from reports of only those companies which have been carrying on continuous pro grams of accident prevention. This select group, said the Council also has a 1935 accident severity rate (days lost per 1.000 man-hours worked) that is 43 per cent I clow 1926 Whether you live in a cottage, a mansion, a little clapboard bungalow or u modern stucco rancho, that house is your stronghold and yours to make beautiful, livable and enjoy- able. Your little domicile may not be as modern as Mrs. So-and So’s man- Mon across the way. but it can be just as attractive. There is always so methin g to be said for simplicity, you know. Just look at the clothes in the •hope these days, look at the home furnishings, dishes oots and pans linen. The whole world seems one big riot of color. We Americans never have given the outside of our houses the color attention they need, as the Bermudians or the Cubans do. Their rural sections are full of blue, pink, yellow, green and white dwellings that blend in beautifully with the brilliance of their flora and fauna. And the Dutch — they're never squeamish about color. We needn't be, either, because there are fine paints on the market which our changeable seasons won’t harm. They’ll stay as true and unfaded as the day they were placed on the wood, or the brick or the stucco. A fresh coat of paint means a new life for that home of yours. It will take years off its life, will add im measurably to Its beauty and will protect it for years to come. It isn’t WARN PENSIONERS AGAINST FRAUD Salem, Ore., April 16 (Special)— Warnings are out to those receiving pensions and other cash relief. State Insurance Commissioner Hugh H. Earle has received information that many unlicensed mail order insur ance companies, societies, benefit associations, etc., are trying to se cure a list of the names of all those receiving pensions and cash relief, with the idea of selling them worth less insurance. Commissioner Earle desires to warn these people, as well as all other citizens, not to purchase insurance through the mail or from advertisements until they are sure that the organization is licensed to transact business in this state. Even it these unauthorized orga nizations were solvent, in a case where a claim was in dispute, it would be necessary for an Oregon citizen to bring suit in the state where the organization is located. The cost of such suit, if successful, would in most cases exceed the amount of the claim. It there is any doubt in a per son’s mind as to whether a company is licensed in this state, he should write to the State Insurance Depart ment at Salem, Oregon. t ********* UMATILLA NEWS t By ERMA BYRNES. ---------- • Lewis Fromdahl and son Earl from Walla Walla spent the week end visiting friends here. Mrs. Henry Cramar and sons Ar thur and James of The Dalles spent the week end visiting friends at the Hugh Van Schoiack home. Betty Jo Franklin, three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Verne Franklin was drowned Saturday af ternoon near their home. Funeral services were Monday at Hermiston. Walter Ostrom and Dave Rose, who are working near Pendleton, • as just the coat of paint that counts however. You’ve got to think hard and seriously about your choice at color. A light color—ivory, cream, sil- ver, pearl gray, yellow, soft green— is the thing for the small house. A light color, too, is good for the heavily landscaped house. The large house, however, can stand a dark color and is particularly delightful with white doorway and shutters Don’t let your home get that weatherbeaten, stained and aged look -not when a fresh coat of good paint can rejuvenate it. spent Sunday visiting here. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Chapman and daughter Frances spent Sunday in Pendleton. George McNabb and uncle Oliver McNabb ot Grass Valley spent Sun day here. Mrs. E. A. McMillian and daugh ters of Portland spent the week end visiting McMillian here. ******##**## • PINE CITY By Mrs. Bernice Wattenburger ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch and children attended the grange picnic at Lena Sunday. The Lena Grange made its first start on their new grange hall. Miss Audrey Moore who has been in Seattle taking a beauty course re turned home Saturday for a month’s visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Moore. A pinochle card party was held Friday evening at the E. B. Watten burger home. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Clare Caldwell of Ir rigon; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith; Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Ayers; Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch: Mr. and Mrs. Hermon Young; Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison, Russel Moore, Miss Dora E. Moore, and Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wattenburger. First prizes went to Miss Dora E. Moore and Russel Moore. Consolation prizes went to Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Ayers. Johnny Harrison spent the week end with his aunt, Mrs. George Cur rin of Lena. Mrs. Joyce Smith spent the week end with her home folks in Irrigon. Lon Wattenburger spent Friday in Pasco visiting his son Earl. He Is working for the Chisholm Grain and Feed Co. of Walla Walla. American Mother MRS. CARL R. CRAY, wife of the retiring president of the Union Pacific Railroad, mother of three sons, grandmother of five and great- grandmother of one, is the American mother of 1*37. Mr«. Gray was chosen by the Golden Rule Foundation because ot her character, record as a mother, public speaking ability, health, per- sonality and human appeal. She will be charged with the responsibility of voicing the foundation’s message on the Golden Rule observance of Mothers' Day, May 9th.
