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F A * » J3 Wrmt&tott lirralii Z T0WNSENDITE5 SI AMENDMENT GLENN C. WADE HERE TUESDAY HERMISTON FEATURE W ESTLAND GRANGE ELECTS OFFICERS RADIO BROADCAST ♦ ------ ♦ H. P. KOPACZ STATION OWNER HEAR J. D. ROSS SPEAK O N POWER ❖ Hermiston will be featured ❖ on a special night program ov- ❖ er the Columbia Network, via station KFPM, at just one min- ❖ ute before 8:00, p. m. on No- ❖ vember 25th. This is brought ❖ about by the retail merchants ❖ in Hermiston who display Wrig- ❖ ley’s Spearmint gum in their <• stores, according to Scatter- ❖ good Baines, who heads these 4> programs. ❖ Local citizens w ill find this <> program interesting and will ❖ be able to tune in over any sta- ❖ tion on the Columbia network ❖ set-up. Henry P. Kopacz has purchased the accessories department of the Hermiston Motor company garage from the Pasco Motor company and took possession early this week. The Hermiston Motor company will re tain the agency for the Chevrolet car but Mr. Kopacz will act as their local agent. The accessories depart ment will be operated under the name of Kopacz Service. Kopacz is making arrangements and will probably carry Standard products, through Sam Moore, local agent. Kopacz is known by many in Hermiston having operated a 31 acre farm on the Stanfield ranch and for the past year has farmed the 20 acre tract owned by W. P. Lutt rell in Columbia district. R. G. Penney and E. P. Dodd mo tored to Portland last Friday in or der to be in Portland that evening to hear J. D. Ross, Bonneville’s ad ministrator, disclose his program on electricity for all within transmis sion distance, to be distributed through public or private systems, as the people wish. Mr. Penney is president of the Umatilla Electric Cooperative asso ciation, recently approved by the federal REA to distribute power to the rural districts in this territory. Mr. Dodd represented the board in another capacity. Mr. Ross was making his first ap pearance in Oregon under the aus pices of the People’s Power League, and was introduced by Dr. J. F. Hosch, chairman of the House Com mittee on Public Utilities. In a friendly, almost conversa tional talk, Administrator Ross promised the lowest rates to all within reach of the project, but ex plained that generation and trans mission was only a fraction of the cost to the ultimate consumer. Mr. Penney and Mr. Dodd gained a brief hearing with Mr. Ross who promised that he would make a visit to this REA project within a short time and would offer any advice or assistance possible In the develop ment of tee project. Engineers are now in the field laying out stakes for construction of the power lines. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ <• ♦ ♦ ❖ •> ♦ •> <• « ♦ ♦ Townaenditea to the capacity of a lull house gathered at the Union church Tuesday night to hear Glenn C. Wade, district organizer, tell ol his meeting with Dr, Townsend at the national convention and later with Governor Martin in Portland. Mr. Wade stated that the Townsend movement was now seeking for a constitutional amendment which would permit a transaction tax as .a means of bringing about economic recovery and security for the aged. Wade spoke enthusiastically over A N C IE N T RIVALS the proposed move to secure the con stitutional amendment through the TIE GAME 6-6 vote of the people, and stated that the success of the movement lies In Rivals since early school history, the future, and depends upon the the Bulldogs and the Heppner high people to send in dues to headquar football teams clashed on the Hepp ters where the work will be carried ner field Armistice day and fought to a tie game, 6 to 6. The play on. In telling of the presentation of ranged between the 20 yard line«. the petitions- to Governor Martin, Hermiston threatened to score calling for a special session, Mr. three times during the game and Wade said that that was the first made the six points In the first half time in the history of the Townsend when S. Rankin carried the ball movement that petitions had been over on a tackle smash. presented directly to any chief exe Heppner scored in the last half cutive. The committee explainted of the last quarter when Hermiston the transaction tax to Governor lost the ball on penalties of too Martin and answered other ques many time outs and the 15 yard penalty placed the ball on Hermis tions. Governor Martin did not agree to ton’s 12 yard line. Van Meter car call a special session because, he ex ried the ball over the goal line on plained, It takes 12,513 signatures a fake reverse, but the point was to kill a referendum and any tax was low. measure must be referred to the The game was hard fought and people, therefore, it would be sheer was played on a wet field. extravagance to call a special ses The Bulldog football season has sion and then have its purpose de been good considering tjie inexper feated by the people. ienced material turning out at the The membership fee for clubs has beginning of the season. The team been returned to the 25 cent mini has either tied or won all games mum and several new members were against schools of their own enroll secured at the meeting Tuesday ment and has held other teams to nightj reasonable scores. A summary of the games is as Entertainment Furnished. A program was furnished at the follows: opening of the meeting when C. A. Pasco 19 ......................... Hermiston 6 Jackman read the monthly bulletin. Waitsburg 0 .................. Hermiston 0 This was followed by a skit by Mrs. Joseph 0 ..................... Hermiston 19 Waldo Dyer, Mrs. C. R. Moore and Pendleton 6 .................. Hermiston 0 C. R. Moore, entitled “Clothesline Arlington 6 ................. Hermiston 13 Gossip,’’ which involved local char Kennewick 14 .............. Hermiston 0 acters. A vocal number was given Milton 22 ...................... Hermiston 0 by Mrs. H. G. McCulley, Mrs. W- G. Heppner 6 .................... Hermiston 6 Dyer and C. R. Moore, and a guitar number by James Goodman of Stan HERALD PUBLISHES field. Mrs. Alta Brown, president of the NEXT WEDNESDAY Heppner club, brought greetings to The Herald will reach subscribers the club from her members and ex on the regular Friday morning mail pressed her appreciation of the work next week but it will be necessary being done in this club. to publish on Wednesday due to Chicken Dinner. A chicken dinner was served pre 'flhanksglving o'n Thursday. No ceding the meeting when at least mail will be carried on routes that 200 people were served. Proceeds day. Correspondents and advertis w ill be used to promote the program ers are asked to note the early pub lication day, in order that all copy of the local club. may be sent in a day earlier than usual. STANFIELD CCC The Herald will be placed in the mail Wednesday evening. OPEN HOUSE Don Sherwood was re-elected Master of the Westland Grange at the last regular meeting Thursday. November 11th, and at the same time other officers were elected. The new officers will be Installed in a joint meeting with the Columbia, Echo and Stanfield Granges, held In the Odd Fellows hall at Hermiston, Thursday, December 2, at 8:30 p.m. This meeting will be open to the general public. Eugene Rugg, who represented the state of Oregon as one member of the livestock demonstration team, gave an account of his trip to Co lumbus, Ohio, where he attended the National Dairy show. Officers elected were G. C. Gor don, Overseer; Benjamin Prior, Steward; Harold Laird, Assistant Steward; Lauretta Mulklns, Lady Assistant Steward; Mrs. Jess Prin- dle, Chaplain; Mabel Corliss, Lec turer; Mrs. A. E. Rugg, Secretary; Virgil Wilkes, Treasurer; Phillip Power, Gatekeeper; Alma Laird, Ceres; Mrs. Guy Shaw, Pomona; Mrs. Phillip Power, Flora; and the executive committee members were E. H. Dunning, Guy Shaw and A. E. Rugg. The second November meeting of the grange has been cancelled due to the fact that it falls on Thanks giving day. PN EUM O N IA OVERTAKES M A N A. A. Fidler ot La Grande was taken to the Hermiston General hos pital Thursday of last week, on Ar mistice day, when he became ill with a cold which had developed in to pneumonia, while enroute to his home in La Grande from Portland. Mr. Fidler is greatly improved at this time and on the way to recov ery. His wife came from their home in La Grande immediately upon hearing of her husbai d’s illness and is now with him. The Fjdiers i t erate a new and second hand store in La Grande. Lieutenant Fredrick W. Hower, PURPOSE IN HEAVY commanding officer for the Stan field OCC camp, has announced an SCHEDULE open house at the camp during the Coach Frank O’Neil has a purpose afternoon on Thanksgiving day, No in scheduling a fifty percent tough vember 25th. The public is especial er basketball season than last year. ly invited at this time to visit the He wants to let the boys taste de camp and see how the OCC boys feat on occasions and toughen them live. in for tournament play, which he The camp boys will present the hopes will seem mo Re like a real •“CCC Revue” a show put on entirely challenging contest instead of Just by boys in the camp, and will give another basketball game. Coach has a strong starting line visitors a vivid idek of the type of entertainment the men indulge. up this year with very little reserve Older and doughnuts will be served strength. Five lettermen In the to visitors while they enjoy the field this year including Gerald Kel ler, S. Rankin, A. Shaw, R. Knapp sketch. and H. Buell. The boys of the camp are being The first of a series of 18 games extended the courtesy of bringing a will be played with Irrigon on No guest to dinner in the evening. vember 30th. Couples will be placed at tables re served for them and other members PARTY of the camp will be assigned to serve and see to the needs of the FIVE ELK guests. Other officers of the camp are | Five elk battled uselessly against Lieutenant Bernard F. Burdzinski. : a party of six invading hunters last Jun'lor" officer. Frank K. Seely, e d - ! week, who came from Hermistom ucatlonal adviser, and Dr. Wiliam The group returned Sunday with M. Marhut. contract surgeon. «▼* fin* e,k wk,ch . in The CCC Company 569 at Stan-'of the best quality kill bro' * ^ field recently celebrated Its second for several years, all the animal, anniversary as a camp at Stanfield, being fat and in fine t leak V. C The company moved to Stan.fleld on Smith, who head, a party of sue October 22. 1935. from Camp Horse cesslul hunters each year, says,the Heaven located In the Coeur ’d animals are the best he has ever Alene NationalJ o r ^ t I , Idaho. - n ^ O t h e U lt h e party W ^ A . BLAIN ALSPACH BURIED M O N D A Y Blaine M. Alspach, young Pilot Rock merchant who died at his home Friday, November 13, was buried Monday afternoon in the Olney cem etery at Pendleton following ser vices held at Folsom’s at 2:30. Al- ^pach was known by many in Her having been employed here for more than a year Mr. Alspach was born in Lewis ton, Idaho, November 14, 1909, and his early youth and school days were spent at Helix. He was asso ciated with Lawrence Reilly In the meat market at Pilot Rock. Besides his widow; the former Marjorie Hutton of Stanfield, he Is survived by his father, Charles Alspach, a brother, Gale Alspach, and two sis ters, Mrs. Paul Bracher of Hermis ton. and Miss Genevieve Alspach. b XG Mr. and Mrs. Earl Baker left Tuesday for their home in Golden- dale. Wn.. after spending a week visiting Mrs. Baker’s mother. Mrs. T. L. Ketley. Montgomery, of Hermiston, Roy Tracy of Oregon City, and C. S. Dann of Portland. The party hunted nt the head of the Grande Ronde river. GERALD W H IT E NAMED CARRIER Gerald White, who has been a resident of Hermiston for almost eleven years, has received the ap pointment of rural carrier on Her miston rural route No. 2, which was left vacant by the retirement of J. A. Reeves, veteran carrier. White took over his duties Monday, No vember 15th. Jasper Templeton will continue to act as substitute carrier. White has been employed by the Hermiston Light & Power company for the past nine years and before that was active in the poultry busi ness. He came to Hermiston from the Lexington country. Janies Todd is the rural carrier for route No. 1 with Ed Bensel as substitute carrier. Mrs. Mary M. Daum. ASSOCIATION SHIPS THREE CARS TURKEYS 93 PER CENT PRIME BIRDS The Eastern Oregon Turkey Grow ers’ association shipped its first turkey pool Tuesday of this week which comprised 88,994 pounds of turkeys and three car loads, con signed to Los Angeles. Of the 5798 birds shipped 93 percent were prime. Loading and delivery started Monday and continued through unr til Tuesday noon. The pool com pared favorably with previous pools and high grade of stock. Favorable weather conditions were experien ced In picking and receiving. A crew of 27 persons worked in th warehouse during receiving and loading was completed and all birds packed in the cars by noon Tuesday, • covering a period not to exceed thirteen hours from the time the pool started until it closed. More birds of higher quality were received through the pool than were anticipated earlier in the season. The entire shipment exceeded ex pectations of the association. Another shipment will follow the early pool on November 29th and. 30th. WALKER'S SERVICE STATION SOLD Walker’s Service Station was sold this week to Jack Stanger of Pen dleton, distributor of Associated Oil products, by Mrs. Mabel Walker, who has owned and operated the station for two years. Grant Walker has leased the station from Mr. Stanger. Walker took over the station Mon day, November 15th, and is now in complete charge. He has assisted at the station for the past eight years and is well known here. The station is being painted As sociated Oil colors and will handle accessories. Mrs. Mary M. Daum, 84, passed away Friday morning', November 12, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Brownson, after visiting here for five weeks from her home in Èureka, Kansas. Mrs. Daum had been a resident of Eureka since 1869, where she was married and reared her family. The body was shipped to Eureka via the Portland Rose on Saturday, and Mrs. Brown- son and Mrs^ M. M. Wells, who ac companied Mrs. Daum to Oregon, went to Kansas on the same train. Mrs. Daum is survived by three Townsend Auxiliary Organized daughters, Mrs. Brownson, Mrs. Blanche Evans of Pomona. Calif., A Townsend club auxiliary was and Mrs. P. R. Pitts of Indianapolis, ¡organized last Wednesday. Novem- Mrs. Brownson expects to return her 10, at the home of Mrs. F. E. Earnhart. The ladles worked on some time before Thanksgiving. quilts and dishtowels and enjoyed a social afternoon. Among those Ship 10 Truckloads Stock. present were Mesdames E. C. Hugh The Grandview Livestock & Poul es, Churchman, Chas. Epperson, try company shipped ten truckloads F. W. Lenz, F. R. Moore. G. E. of stock from the Hermiston terri Knapp, A. T. Kauffman, Joe Udey, tory last week. B. I. Whitney is the T.A. Sink, C.A. Binder, H. Hooker, local representative and has been Perry Arthur and F. E. Earnhart. operating in this district for sever The next meeting will be held Fri al years. Stock is reported in good day. November 26, and all persons condition and a good market price. Interested In the organization are Sanders Married. invited to attend. Walter Sanders and June R. San Heppner On Armistice. ders, both of Hermiston, were mar Legion and Auxiliary members ried Monday, November 15 th, In Bests in Alabama. Pendleton by Justice of the Peace and their families spending the day at Heppner on Armistice day In Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Best, who left Manuel Friedley. Hermiston by motor and trailer cluded Mr. and Mrs. BUI Logan and two children, Mr. and Mrs. 0. K. house October 28th, with Florida as Revival Services. their destination, are now at Mo Mudge, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Moore, Revival services have been con Mr. and Mrs. James Todd and two bile, Alabama, according to word re ceived here this week. The Bests ducted at the Methodist church for daughters, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jack- visited in Raton, New Mexico, where the past two weeks by the Pastor, son, Mrs. W. L. Hamm, Mr. and they were at an elevation of 6600 R. R. Flnkbeiner. All the services Mrs. Gerald White, Mr. and Mrs. R. feet, but went south to Mobile in have been well attended. The theme H. Plersol and family, Logan Todd, search of a warmer climate. After has been “God demands righteous all of Hermiston, and Mr. and Mrs. visiting in Alabama they will motor Ursel Hiatt of Umatilla. Some of south to Florida to spend the great men in an unrightous world." These the group remained for the banquet er part of the winter^ returning to meetings will continue until Thanks and dance In the evening and oth giving day. Hermiston in March. • ers returned home after the football game between Heppner and Her- pner. 193« PROGRAM WILL BE DISCUSSED AT AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION MEET FRIDAY Farmers located in the west lima- ted at the beginning of the year, tilla area will have an opportunity It will not be necessary this year to to select community committeemen figure out how much can be earned to represent them in the county Ag- per acre through the use of soil con- riculturai Conservation program for serving crops. Each farmer is glv- '38. The first meeting In the en two goals, the first of these is a unty is to be held at the Union total »oil depleting crop goal which church In Hermiston, Friday after-, means the crops which are hard on noon, November 19, at 1:30 p m | the soil. The other goal Is known A. R. Coppock, chairman of the A g-; a„ the soil conserving goal which rlcultural Conservation committee i will make for the farmers soil build- will be present to explain the 1938 | |ng practices, or what he may do to restore the fertility of the soil. There program. Jay T. Pierson, assistant county are some twenty-eight practices agent, attended a district meeting which can be used to build up the held at Arlington some time ago and fertility of the soil. Ail farmers Interesed in the Agri stated that the new program has been simplified so that a single to culture Conservation program are tal payment representing the amount urged to attend this afternoon ses the farmer can earn can be catcula- sion. MASONS ENJOY JO IN T MEETING A joint meeting of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges from Uma tilla, Hermiston, Stanfield and Echo was held at Refvem’s hall in Stan field last Monday night In celebra tion of the adoption of the constitu tion of the United States more than 150 years ago. George Cochran, at torney of La Grande, was the main speaker on the program and his talk was greatly appreciated by those present. Hawley Beau e t Echo acted -a*. master of ceremonies and Introduced the officers and committeemen from the various organizations, and the speaker of the evening. A presenta tion of the flag was made and the group sang the Star Spangled Ban ner, as an opening number on the program. Other program numbers consisted of a piano solo by Mrs. Don Sikes of Stanfield; selections by the Eastern Star ladies’ quartet composed of Mrs. L. Munsey, Mrs. W. L. Hamm, Mrs. J. A. Clarke of Hermiston, and Mrs. Jim Lane of Stanfield; violin solo by Dorothy Chapman of Uma tilla; selections by the Masonic male quartet composed of Roy Smith of Echo, Homer Hedrick of Stanfield, R. G. Saylor of Echo, and J. A. Clarke of Hermiston. A pot luck supper was served by members of the Eastern Star fol lowing the program. The program for the evening was arranged by com mittees appointed from the four Masonic lodges. Construction Over Project. A. W. Turnblad Is remodeling his dairy bam this week on his farm near the steel bridge on the Uma tilla river, which Is one of the many activities in the remodeling and building field. A. H. Cable has re cently completed an extensive chick en house on his farm in Columbia district. Colonel Jordan Is building a four room house on his farm In the extreme wpst portion of West- land district. W. L. Pierson has com pieted remodeling work on his farm home north of Hermiston. Wayne Coe of Portland is remodeling one of the dairy barn on the Coe • ranch at Stanfield putting in a concrete floor and lining the Inside walls, making it Into a 60x100 foot brood er ’ house to be used for turkey poults. A1 Gregory will have charge of the birds and the plant when they start operation in the spring. T H A N K S G IV IN G DAY CHURCH SERVICE The churches of Hermiston will unite in a union Thanksgiving day service which will be held in the Methodist church on Thursday, No vember 25th, beginning at 9:30 a. m. A special musical program la belisg arranged and the public la invited to attend these services on Thanksgiving morning. HIGH SCHOOL SMOKER DEC. 2ND The Hermiston high school will present a smoker Thursday, Decem ber 2, at 8:00 o'clock in the high school gym, in a card arranged be tween Heppner and Hermiston, com prising eight matches and 24 rounds. Last year Heppner won the smok er by a 5-3 point margin and Her miston is out for revenge this year. Bouts will be scheduled between fly weight to heavy weight matches and prbntises to be a rounder Beekeepers Annual Meet. The anuual meeting of the Uma tilla County Beekeepers' association will be held Monday, November 22. at 2:00 p. m. in the office of the assistant county agent's office. E Sires of Stanfield Is president, J. Skovbo. secretary, and E. D. Mosaic of Pilot Rock is vice president.
