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.
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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.
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UMATILLA NEWS t
By ERMA BYRNES.
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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,
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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.
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PINE CITY
By Mrs. Bernice Wattenburger
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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.