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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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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.
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Mrs. Thaden Sets New Women’s Air Speed Record
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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
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