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Thursday, June 17, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. NEWS NOTES OF THE NORTHWEST A Brief Summary of Events The Good Old Days. Golden Gate Bridge Opened to Motor Traffic F arm T opics i of Special Interest to Oregon, Washington and TURKEY PROSPECTS PUZZLE BREEDERS Idaho Communities. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Taking pen in hand to write Uncle Sam’s check for that next Installment, I look longingly HOOD RIVER, Ore.,— The Crag Too Early to Figure Cost of backward to what I’m sure was Rats have unanimously decided to co Feed for Poults. the golden age of our genera operate again with the forest service E . Y. Sm ith. N ew York S tate A gricu l In fire fighting during the coming B y tu ral tion. E xten sion D ivision .—W NU S erv ice. S It was the decade that began soon season, as In the last several years. A fair price for poults which will after the turn of the century and TROY, Ida.,— The forgotten fact enable breeders to break even and ended with 1914. that sawdust was used in the early perhaps make a little money in Kings lolled se days to "pave” Troy’s main street spite of high feed prices is the first curely on comfy was brought to light while workmen point in the turkey outlook. thrones and dicta The outlook applies to those who were digging a trench for a sewer torships in strong buy poults from New York state connection. * nations were un breeders. Cornell veterinary college EUGENE, Ore.,— Lane county fair has found that pullorum disease is dreamed of. grounds have been transformed into not important in the state’s turkey Without shaking a playground tract, with a wading flocks, and those tested have been the foundations of pool for children, tennis courts and found free of this disease. Accord the financial temple, other means of recreation. Plans call ing to authorities in some other T e d d y Roosevelt for further Improvement to make It states, pullorum infestation is se was filing the alliga one of the finest playgrounds In the rious. tor teeth of preda Irvin S. Cobb state. tory wealth. Second point in the outlook is that People laughed at PENDLETON, Ore.,— A new im commercial growers will probably the mad suggestion that there could provement In the method of pea face higher feed prices for poults ever be another great war—let Insect-control has gained high ap the first part of the growing season, alone a world war. In Umatilla county. It was which is not so serious because to With suffrage in prospect, women proval worked out by the experiment sta tal consumption is not large during were going to purify politics. the early part of the season. Taxes were a means unto an end tion at Oregon State college and Is Finally, if the expected good declared to be almost 100 per cent and not the end of our means. wheat crop develops, together with Standards of living climbed faster perfect. a good corn crop, the probabilities BEND, Ore.,— A new ordinance re than did the costs of living. are that turkey rations will be con Automobiles were things to ride stricting the activities of dogs during siderably lower from July on In at moderate speed, not engines the waterfowl nesting season, first through the growing season. Since passed as an emergency measure, is that is when turkeys eat the most to destroy human life with. Millions actually believed that, if not only to be extended a month, but feed, a reduction in price is more prohibition by law ever became ef has acquired "teeth” for the protec important at that time. fective, drunkenness would end and tion of the mirror pond’s Mallards These facts indicate a "more fav crime decrease. orable” condition for the 1937 tur and swans. Yes, I’m sure those were indeed ODESSA, Wash.,— C. O. Dobson, key grower, though not a “partic the happy days—the era when the of the Odessa meat company, ularly favorable” one. Twentieth Century limited started owner reports his market now Is sell running and W. J. Bryan stopped, ing Its that first grass-fed beef of the Portable Brooder House • • • season. The Crab creek valley has Favored by Specialist Synthetic Imitations. long been noted for Its early grass- A round - roof portable brooder E STOPPED at a wayside sta fed beef as the change from dry tion advertising pure orange feed to green makes the quality of house, lighter in weight and easier to move than the ordinary shed-roof Juice; there’s one every few rods. the meat exceptionally fine. type may well be one of the factors Next to autograph hunters, oranges BLACKFOOT, Ida.,— I d a h o ’ s in the success of the farm poultry are the commonest product of Cali Women’s Christian Temperance Un enterprise in 1937, according to Cora fornia. The drink was the right color. ion was listed as an "honor roll” E. Cooke, extension poultry special But there didn’t seem to be any chapter In the national organization’s ist, University Farm, St. Paul. orange in it. The best you could drive to raise a mlllion-dollar fund Besides being more portable, the say for it was that probably its by 1939 to promote temperance. house is easier to heat, because mother had been badly frightened Idaho’s W. C. T. U. has collected of the smaller amount of head 31590, Mrs. Lee C. Brady, state chair space. Another advantage is the by an orange. window arrangement, for on all four I made inquiry, and an expert man of the campaign, disclosed. sides there are two windows of barn- told me some roadside venders— GRAND COULEE, Wash.,— A two- sash size. The windows distribute not many, but some—were peddling story stucco office building will be an essence compounded of chemi erected on the site of the Wicks- light over the floor evenly, prevent cal flavoring and artificial extracts Spratlln law office. It was announced. ing crowding and the development because it kept better than the gen Plans, call for the removal of the of too much heat from the sun in one place. The window arrangement al uine article. present one-story structure to a lo so provides ventilation to fit all I thought America had reached cation higher on the hillside, where weather conditions. In hot weather tops in the gentle arts of substitu on the four sides may be tion and adulteration when we be It will be converted into an apart windows opened to allow for excellent cross ment house. Wicks and Spatlln will gan making pumpkin pies out of ventilation. squash and maple syrup out of corn occupy offices In the new building. A double floor, which protects the stalks and buckwheat flour out of MOSCOW, Ida.,—Betty Rooth, Kel young poultry from cold, is 12 by 14 a low grade of sawdust—anyhow, it logg. received a bachelor’s degree in feet—large enough to accommodate tastes like that—and imported Eng business and at the same time her 400 baby chicks young tur lish sole out of the lowly flounder mother, Mrs. Ida Mae Booth, received keys. The matrix, or or 250 form, for the and scallops out of skate fins. But a degree in education. This was the round roof is easily made when, in a land where a strong man first time in the history of the Uni 1-inch material together. by fitting couldn’t tote a dollar’s worth of versity of Idaho that a mother and Sloping roosts are constructed oranges on his back, there are par sides. A 500-chick brooder ties selling synthetic imitations — daughter received degrees at the along the may be used in the house. well, just let the East equal that same commencement. Mrs. Booth stove Feeding porches, 12 by 14 feet, magnificent stroke of merchandis Is teaching mathematics at Kellog may be attached to the house. For high school and has been taking ing enterprise! work at summer sessions for 15 chicks, 1-inch mesh wire should be • • • years, having registered as a fresh used; for turkeys, 1 by 2-inch mesh. Poor Little Rich Men. ET us take time off to pity the man In 1923. Discing for Lespedeza poor little rich man who owns a SOUTH REND, Wash., — Pacific Korean lespedeza may be seeded large but lonesome sea-going yacht. county Is one of the areas In which During the depression, the species oil and gas in commercial quantities safely in oats by discing or drilling grew rare—there were money lords Is most likely to be found In this the seed into the soil with the oats then who hardly had one yacht to state, according to a report by Dr. or after the oats have been seeded. rub against another—but, with bet Sheldon L. Glover to the state de The method of seeding may be sim ter days, a fresh crop lines the partment. Glover states In his re ilar to that of red clover in wheat, with oats or in thin pastures, says coasts. port that In Western Washington the No matter how rich, the owner “favorable area” Is restricted to the Indiana Farm er’s Guide. Most feels he must use his floating pal Pacific nnd Wahkiakum counties and seedings are broadcast and cover ing more than an inch in depth may ace. He may be content with a small sections of Whatcom, Skagit, prohibit germination of the lespe saucer of processed bran and two Snohomish, King Pierce, Mason, dyspepsia tablets, but no yacht crew Thurston, Lewis, Cowlitz. Grays Har deza. If the seed is to be disced yet ever could keep soul and body bor, Jefferson and Clallam counties into the ground with oats, cover as lightly as possible. together on anything less than dou ble sirloins. So he goes cruising— STONE LAYING STARTS Raising Broiler Birds and gosh, how he does dread it! SALEM, Ore.,—Granite for the For every yachtsman who really base of the new capitol building has The cross of Rhode Island Red gets joy out of being afloat, there arrived and placing It for the first hens and Barred Rock males is a usually is another to whom the floor was started last week. White popular broiler bird. It is said that great heart of the nation should go marble to be used on the upper they grow faster and are easier to out in sympathy. You almost ex stories will be available as soon as raise than most pure breeds. Broil pect to find him putting ads in the the contractors are ready, within the ers are started on a chick starting ration and can be given hard grain paper for guests who can stand the next few weeks. strain; everything provided except Construction on the dome of the after a short time or raised on an the white duck pants. new building Is under way, while the all mash feed. A special broiler ra- (tion gives well fleshed birds. The • • • four stories of the structure have loss in dressing broilers ranges be» Problems on Wheels. been completed so far as framework between 13 and 14 per cent. MERICA'S newest problem goes Is concerned. on wheels. One prophet says SEA SCOUTS HONORED Down on the Farm by 1938 there'll be a million trail LONGVIEW, Wash..— The nation ers and three million people aboard them. Roger Babson raises the ante al vice flagship award was present The estimated 1936 production of —within twenty years, half the pop ed to the Sea Scout ship Cowlitz re hay in the United States is 70,165,000 ulation living in trailers and all the cently as one of the features of the tons. • • • third annual Portland area Sea Scout roads clogged. Approximately 4,000,000 acres of So soon the trailer-face is recog regatta. The Cowlitz was recently nizable. It is worn by Mommer, given the national recognition. It Texas land were terraced or con» toured in 1936. riding along behind, while Popper i was the regional flagship las year. • • • smiles pleasantly as he drives the The regional flagship award was i Wool increases greatly in value, car in solitary peace—getting away presented to the steamship Hanger from it all. Have you noticed how of Portland. The steamship Flying the same as any farm product, many trailer widows there are al Cloud of Astoria was awarded tha when It is properly grown and pre» pared for market. ready? local council flagship honor. • • • But as yet nobody reckons with the chief issue: think of the in Any large-scale war against rats POWERS, Ore..— Valuation total creasing mortality figures when the ' should be started with poison, ga% ing 3234,630 was added to the Pow- incurable speed bug discovers that or blocking; never with traps. • • • not only may he continue to mow ersschool district and 3113,700 to the Bridge district by Coos county’s dis down victims with head-on assaults, There are two kinds of soil ero- but will garner in many who es trict boundary board when the Eden caped his frontal attack by side school territory was divided between j sion—that caused by wind and that caused by water. swipes of the hitched-on monster them. • • • that is swinging and lunging at his ASHLAND, Ore.,— An Increase of rear like a drunken elephant on a over 101 per cent was shown In non- Good pasture reduces the cost of rampage! res'dent automobile registration at feeding live stock. Agronomists at To catch 'em going and coming— Ashland Chamber of Commerce : Ohio State university say that money that should be a motor maniac's the In May over the corresponding month spent for pasture improvement dream of earthly joy. of 1933. Total for the month was should be classed as an investment IRVIN S. COBB. rather than as an expense. 2787. First automobiles shown arriving in San Francisco from Marin county across the Golden Gate bridge, fol lowing the recent gala opening of the span to motor traffic. Inset shows Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Fran cisco cutting a chain with an acetylene torch, thus officially opening the Waldo approach to traffic. Spelling Champ Wins $500 Prize DETROIT BISHOP W First prize of $500 was awarded Waneeta Buckley of Louisville, Ky., (right), recent winner of the title of “ Best Speller in the Nation. She won the thirteenth national spelling bee at Washington, sponsored by newspapers at the new National museum. Waneeta’s runner-up was diminutive Betty Grunstra of Passaic, N. J. “Plebeian,” spelled cor rectly by Waneeta, after Betty missed, decided the contest. Betty’s second prize amounted to $300. PITCHING FIND Bishop Edward M o o n e y of Rochester, N. Y., who has been ap pointed bishop of Detroit, succeed ing the late Bishop Gallagher. As bishop of Detroit, Bishop Mooney becomes Father Coughlin’s immedi ate superior. His designation to the post was widely predicted, as he is known as a diplomat of unusual skill in dealing with problems such, as those Father Coughlin’s excur sions in politics and economics cre ate in the diocese. Deuced Awkward Riding, What! L J a c k Dawson, sixteen-year-old pitching sensation of North high school, Des Moines, Iowa, who was Grand Prix motorcycle racer negotiating a difficult turn at the Crystal signed by the Fargo-Moorhead club of the Northern league—a farm of Palace road racing track in London. This cyclist is receiving expert assistance from a “contortionist” passenger. the Cleveland Indians. a Mrs. Thaden Sets New Women’s Air Speed Record A © — WNU Servtc« Mrs. Louise Thaden, winner of the Bendix and Harmon trophies last year, beside the plane in which she set a new speed record for women at the air show held at the Lambert-St. Louis airport here May 29, when she flew a 100-kilometer (62.5-mile) course at a speed of 197.» miles an hour. The former record was 175 miles an hour, held by Amalia E arhart ►
