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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON.
VOLUME XXXI NUMBER 33
DIES
CANDIDATES FILE EOR WATTENBURGER
IN AUTO MISHAP
PRIMARY ELECTION
F u n eral services for Jak e W atten -
REGISTRATION BOOK
CLOSES APRIL 20
burger, 69, w ill be held a t Echo,
S aturd ay , A pril 9, w ith P ra n n 's
F u n eral P arlo rs officiating.
Mr.
W a tte n b u rg e r was killed Monday
evenin g a t 7:00 o’clock when, in
a tte m p tin g to pass a tru ck ju st east
of H erm iston, his car stru ck the
b u ttre ss of th e bridge, and plunged
Into two feet of w ate r in th e “A ”
line canal. W hen discovered W a tte n
b u rg er was ly in g face down in the
w ater a t th e side of th e car.
T he tru ck , driven by Mr. K au f
m an of Pendleton, an d th e W a tte n
bu rg er car, w ere trav e lin g east, it
was b ro u g h t o ut by Coroner A llen
Folsom, who w as called to th e scene
of th e accident. Mr. K aufm an re
ported th a t he had noticed th e W a t
te n b u rg er car a tte m p tin g to pass
and th a t a sh o rt tim e la te r he w ent
back and discovered th e w recked
car. w hich was r ig h t side up b u t
w hich had ev idently tu rn ed over be
fore it reached th e canal. Only slig h t
bruises w ere found on th e body of
Mr. W a tte n b u rg e r and d eath was
evidently from drow ning, Coroner
Folsom stated.
Mr. W a tte n b u rg e r has been in the
sheep sh earin g business in Oregon
and W ashington for 51 years. He is
form erly of B u tter Creek and H ep
pner, and had been m ak in g his home
a t T alen t, Ore., and was in eastern
Oregon for th e sh e arin g season.
He is survived by two d au g h ters,
M rs/ G ladys H am ilto n an d Mrs.
M ary H ansen, of F o rt M cA rthur,
San Pedro, Calif., an orphaned grand
son, V ernon W a tten b u rg er, whom he
reared as a son; th re e b rothers, W.
J. W a tte n b u rg e r and A. E. W a tte n
burger, Echo, an d F. W. W a tte n
b u rg er, L akeport, Calif.
T he d a te of filin g for candidates
for precinct, county, d istric t and
sla te offices expired A pril 4. The
prim aries w ill be held May 20. All
voters who have not reg istered , or
who have moved from one precinct
to an o th er, m ust re-re g iste r by
A pril 20. T his m ay be done before
F. C. M cKenzie of H erm iston.
Very few county officers w ill be
chosen th is year and only three
places are contested for nom ination.
W. 8. C averhill of M ilton-F ree
w ate r is the only republican can d i
d a te for county com missioner. He is
well know n in county republican
politics. Among th e dem ocrats are
th re e candidates for th is office. They
a re Claude P enland, who has lived
m any years in P endleton; Mason L.
Thom pson, for 20 years in th e drug
business in P en d leto n ; and C. O.
Moll, form er m ayor of P endleton.
F o r county tre a su re r, B ettye De
H a rt, incum bent, who has held the
office for several term s, is opposed
by Dale S. E rw in, rep resen tativ e in
th e le g isla tu re for th e past two
years.
Jack Folsom, p resent recorder, and
J. A. Folsom, coroner, have no op
position in e ith e r party.
F or sen ato r from U m atilla coun
ty, Dr. J. A . Best, republican, sen
a to r for th e la st tw o term s, is op-
posed by Ja c k A llen, dem ocrat, for
m er sen ato r from th is d istric t and
form er sta te liq u o r ad m in istra to r.
F or Joint se n ato r in th e d istric t
com prising U m atilla and Morrow
counties, Rex E llis, sen ato r for the
p ast four years, in th e republican
ran k s, w ill be opposed by H aw ley J. COMMERCIAL CLUB
B ean, w ell know n farm er of Um a
tilla
Meadows. George R. Lewis, GUESTS EXPECTED
dem ocrat, form er m ayor of P endle
W alter Sm ith, presid en t of the
to n , w ill be opposed by W ilford W.
S irrin e of La G rande.
H erm iston Com m ercial club, a n
F or th e low er house, Carl Eng- nounced th is week th a t th e club
d ah l, present m em ber, of P endleton, w ill be host to Geo. E. Mason, sec
R alph C unha of Echo, and Cy Gal- re ta ry to th e F irs t F ed eral Savings
logy of P endleton, a re th e th ree re & Loan association of P endleton,
publicans contesting, and E va N el and its directors, a t th e reg u lar
son of P endleton, th e only demo m eeting of th e club Tuesday, A pril
crat. Two a re to be elected in the 12, a t 7:00 p. m.
fall election.
Any in terested person may a t
tend, w h eth er a m em ber of th e club
U N IO N CHURCH W ILL or not. Musical num bers will be
given by th e m ale q u arte t.
HAVE NEW HOME
The m em bers of the H erm iston
Union church w ill have a new
ch u rc h hom e w hen th e building pro
gram launched th is week is com
pleted w ith in th e next n in e ty days.
T he building site is on th e same
side of the stre e t w est of th e Our
Lady of A ngel church and th e build
in g w ill face n o rth .
The building now occupied has
been purchased by the U m atilla
C ooperative Cre’am ery and will be
incorporated in th e ir expansion pro
gram . The church m em bership w ill
vacate th e bu ild in g w ith in ninety
d ays from th e tim e the building is
sta rte d .
C hurch b u ild in g dim ensions will
be 32 feet by 60 feet, w ith a 10 foot
w all and a seven foot full basem ent.
T he en tra n c e w ill be on th e n o rth
e a st corner of th e church. T he b u ild
in g site was purchased from Mr. and
Mrs. H. T. F raser. It is an ideal lo
cation w ith a row of large trees in
th e n o rth p a rk in g and along the
w est and east approach. The site
eextends south from H erm iston av
enue more th a n 300 ieet.
E xcavation on th e basem ent will
s ta r t th is week. Levi Reeder will
supervise th e ca rp e n te r work.
NEW TOW NSEND
ELECTS BOARD
T he New Tow nsend club o rg an iz
ed th e first of A pril has tak en the
nam e "T h e H erm iston Tow nsend
C lub,” and elected the advisory
board a t its last m eeting F riday
n ig h t.
M embers of th e board are
W. C. M orehouse, Jesse P rindle, Mrs.
F red Lenz, Mrs. Jesse P rin d le and
Mrs. Joe Udey. T he club w ill meet
th e first and th ird F ridays of each
m onth b u t th e re g u la r m eeting on
A pril 15 has been postponed to
A pril 22 because of conflicts w ith
a m eeting scheduled at M ilton on
A prfl 16 w hen Ju d g e Sum m er of
C alifornia w ill speak on the T ow n
send plan.
Mrs. Joe Udey was nam ed publici
ty su p e rin ten d e n t and reports th a t
th e new club sta rte d tw o weeks ago
•with 56 c h a rte r members.
T he public is invited to all m eet
ings of th e club now being held in
th e Legion hall.
FEDERAL GRAND
JURORS CHOSEN
G rand ju ro rs w ere selected T ues
day on the opening day of th e reg u
la r P endleton term of federal co u rt
w ith F ederal Ju d g e A lger Fee p re
siding. The g ran d ju ry will consi
der ab o u t 30 cases d u rin g its ses
sion, in clu d in g a larg e n um ber
usually presented a t th e
Medford
term of court.
Among the ju ro rs selected w ere
several from U m atilla county, as
follow s: P erry A rth u r, H erm iston
farm er; W. R. Coppock, Adams f a r
m er; Joseph C u n h a 'J r., Echo sheep
m an; J. Cleveland Cox, H erm iston;
C harles E. D upuis, W eston m er
c h a n t; and Arnold R. M innis, P en
dleton laundrym an.
HYBRID FIELD CORN
IMPROVEMENT
“ D u rin g th e sum m er of
1937,
yield tria ls involving a larg e n u m
ber of field corn hy b rid s and open-
pollinated v arieties w ere conducted
by th e Oregon A g ricu ltu re E x p eri
m ent S tatio n in cooperation w ith
the E xtension Service,” sta te d Em il
Zivney as he quoted from a b u lletin
recently released on hybrid corn by
R. E. Fore, a ssista n t A gronom ist a t
O.S.C., at a m eeting of the Colum
bia G ran g e la st T uesday night.
Members of 4-H crops clubs have
planted a num ber of v arieties of hy
brid corn to aid in d eterm in in g
types best suited to th is area, as
well as o th er recom m ended v arie
ties. O ther ex p rim en ts are being
conducted on hybrid corn on th e
project.
A more detailed sto ry on hybrid
corn will be published n ex t week.
Weather Report.
Date
Max. Min.
Çg
April 1
S3
20
A pril 2 ...........................
63
22
April 3
69
3S
A pril 4
62
4_3
A pril 5
60
45
A pril « ................................ 61
34
P re cip itatio n was .47.
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APRIL 7, 1033
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bailey
Courtesy E ast O regonian P h o to -E n g rav in g
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bailey cele r. i crr.iBion for tlm past eighteen
brated th e ir golden w edding a n n i cars.
versary Sunday, A pril 3, at th e ir
Among the
r e s ts v. ere th e ir
home in H erm iston, w ith mem bers d au g h ter and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs.
of th e fam ily and friends. The w ed
Byron Brow:; and d au g h ters JoE l-
ding cerem ony was enacted a g a in by
len and Gcnear.e of S tanfield, and
the couple, w itnessed by the guests. their son nd fam ily, Mr. and Mrs.,
Mrs. Bailey wore a silver grey, silk
IV. G. Bailey and sons Billie and
crepe dress trim m ed w ith orchid.
Jim m ie of La G rande. Miss Tw yla
The rooms were b rig h t w ith bowls
House, a g ran d d a u g h ter, and Jack
filled w ith daffodils arran g ed a t
if; use, a grandson, both of S tanfield
tractiv ely , nd in th is se ttin g the
were also present.
bride of fifty years ago cut five
O ther guests included
Mr. and
elab o rately decorated w edding cakes
Mrs.
M
son
Myers,
Mr.
and
Mrs. A.
w hich had been presented to the
couple. Many lovely ^ ifts and con M. Sm ith, Mr. and Mrs. F. F. K nerr,
g ra tu la tio n s w ere also received on Mr. and Mrs. F. J. E stle, Mr. and
the occasion.
.Mrs. L. H erd, all of H erm iston, and
Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were m a r Mrs. Hazel Dixen of O akland, Cal.,
ried in Cottonwood, K ansas, A pril 4, a guest of .Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Bai
1888. They have made th e ir home ley of LaG raude,
Real Estate Tiansactions.
T hree real estate deals were
closed th e past week when .Mr. and
Mrs, W a lte r Sm ith of the H erm iston
T rad in g Com pany
purchased
the
p ro p erty form erly owned by J. M.
Biggs, now occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. W a lte r Pearson. They will
take possession at th e earliest pos
sible date. The M itchell property
now occupied by th e S m iths has
been purchased by Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. W hite, retired w heat farm ers
of L exington, who will take posses
sion soon. The Maude H uff 20-acre
farm w est of the B utte has been
purchased by Mr. and
Mrs. Ray
O viatt.
Mr. O viatt is employed in
th e m eat d ep a rtm en t of th e H er
miston T ra d in g Co., and plans to oc
cupy th e house on th e farm and
ren t th e land and pasture. They
will tak e possession by A pril 15th.
SMALL ATTENDANCE
AT ELECTRIC MEET
Miss Jo an P atterso n , E xtension
Specialist in Home F u rn ish in g s,
from Oregon S tate college, explain
ed and dem onstrated modern m eth
ods and fix tu res In home lig h tin g
to a sm all group of in terested per
sons last Monday evening a t a m eet
ing in th e high school building.
Miss P atte rso n w ill re tu rn April
29th for an o th e r m eeting at w hich
she will d em o n strate appliances and
give th e ir relativ e ratin g .
Miss P atterso n stated th a t there
had been less progress m ade In the
field of home lig h tin g and use of
modern fix tu res th an in o th er fields
of electrical equipm ent. She stated
th a t people not only ham per th e ir
h ealth in using in adequate lig h tin g
fixtures.
b ut sap th e ir energy
th ro u g h eye strain . In d irect lig h tin g
is recommended and does aw ay w ith
an y possibility of glare.
Miss P atterso n pointed o u t th a t
one 100 w att globe would produce
25 percent more lig h t th a n two 50
w att globes. Colors also Influence
lig h t efficiency since 80 p ercent of
th e full am ount of lig h t is obtained
th ro u g h w hite. Colors absorbe lig h t
and should be used accordingly,
Enam el finish absorbs even less
lig h t th an w hite p ain t or kalsom ine,
she stated.
JO H N C . BAINS
John C. Bains, 77, of W alla W alla,
fa th e r of Mrs. Wm. S haar of H er
m iston, passed aw ay a t his home
March 31. F u n eral services were
held S atu rd ay in W alla W alla.
He ¡s survived by his widow Mrs.
R e tta Bains and the follow ing ch ild
ren : Mrs. S tella Shaar. H erm iston;
Mrs. F an n ie Hale, W illows, Cal.;
Roy Bains, W aitsb u rg ; Mrs. Ada
Carson, P u llm an ; Sam Bains, F res
no, Cal.; Vernon Bains, W aitsb u rg ;
Mrs. M ildred K irby. W alla W alla;
tw o b ro th ers Joseph Bains. David
Bains; th ree sisters, Mrs. P earl Mus-
teen, Mrs. Lena Musteen and Mrs.
Louise Jorden, all of A rbana, Mo.
Mr. B ains was born A ugust 21,
1860, a t Joneehurg, Tenn. He was a
Golf Tournament Sunday.
Tile th ird county golf to u rn a member of the B aptist ch u rch . The
m ent played th is season will he couple had been m arried 57 years a t
held in H erm iston Sunday sta rtin g tim e of Mr. B ains’ death.
a t 9:00 a. m. on the H erm iston
Com m unity P ark golf course. Teams
p a rticip a tin g in th e play will be MAC HOKE REMAINS
P ilo t Rock. Pendleton, Echo, A th ORE. F. B. PRESIDENT
ena and H erm iston.
H erm iston won th e first play a t
Mac Hoke, P endleton, was re
Echo and Pendleton th e second a t
elected p resid en t of th e Oregon
P ilot Rock.
F arm B ureau Monday a t th e o rg an i
The A m erican Legion A uxiliary
za tio n ’s an n u a l m eeting In P o rtland.
wiU serve lunch a t noon.
O ther officers re-elected Included C.
A. Reed, Hood River, and H enry
I.O.O.F.-Rebekah Social.
H agg, Reedsville, vice presidents,
T he Odd Fellow s of th e H erm is
an d E S. S tro th ers, Dundee, secre
ton lodge sponsored a social evening
ta ry -tre a su re r.
Monday to which th e Rebekahs and
Among th e directors of the o rga
th e ir frien d s were invited to enjoy
n
ization
are G arn et B a rra tt, Hepp
a 70-pound roast pig and all th e
trim m ings. Don Sherwood acted as n e r; C arl E ngdahl, P en d leto n ; W il
to astm aster and was introduced by liam Steen, M ilton; and C. C. Y ates,
C u rtis Simons. An enjoyable and in Freew ater.
stru ctiv e talk was given by O. F.
Woodmen Meet.
Steele, grand w arden, of Pendleton.
A Ford V-8 driv en by P auline Covers were placed about th e ban
T he
new ly
organized
Omaha
Lewis and a car driv en by Eugene q u et table for sixty people.
Woodmen Life In su ran ce Society,
H anby collided a t th e intersection
P o rte r Camp No. 61 of Echo, held
of Second and H u rlb u rt avenues
Sportsmen W ill Meet.
Its reg u la r m onthly m eeting T ues
ab o u t 5 :00 o’clock S atu rd ay even ' The H u n ters & A nglers club will day, April 5th, In the I.O.O.F. hall,
ing. T he car driven by H anby Is meet Monday, April 11, a t the office Stanfield. A ttendance was good and
reported to have h it th e Lew is car of W. J. W arner. The m eeting has a report given th a t $22.00 had been
broadside, dam aging the fender and been called for 8:00 p.m.. and Im cleared on th e b en tflt dance given
p o rtan t business will be tran sacted . last week. T he society has a mem
car door. No one was injured.
bership of forty.
Cars Collide at Intersection.
"THE BUCCANEER"
BRILLIANT ROMANCE
T here i s no m id d le ro ad !
o th e r !
I t ' s one o r th e
We c r e a t e o r d e s tr o y th e o p p o r
t u n i t y f o r work th ro u g h o u r p u r c h a s in g
h a b its .
h e re ?
Which s h a l l i t be f o r u s who l i v e
We can p r o v id e WORK h e re o r we can
c r e a t e j o b s in o t h e r p l a c e s by b u y in g
c a r e l e s s l y , u n t h in k in g ly !
Through o u r
p u r c h a s e s o f th e p r o d u c ts o f th e Colum bia
Em pire - o f farm and f o r e s t , f i s h e r y and
f a c t o r y , we can expand o u r own i n d u s t r i e s ;
we can p r o v id e j o b s f o r 6 0 ,0 0 0 more
WORKERS!
By w o rk in g , th e y become BUYERS.
Th9 c o s t i s n o th in g - and
t h e r e i s no m id d le road!
A sk : IS IT PRODUCED IN
THE C O LU M B IA EMPIRE?
It was a p irate— an o u tcast and
an outlaw w ith a price (upon his
head who rendered Am erica one of
Its g rea test services d u rin g the W ar
of 1812!
The man was Jean L afitte, whose
rom ance is told in the Cecil B. De-
Mille epic, “ The B uccaneer,” w hich
opens Sunday a t the Oasis th eatre.
T he am azing career of th is man is
bro u g h t back to the screen by Fred-
ric March, M argot G raham e, Ian
K eith, and thousands of others.
March Is seen as Jean L afitte, th e
famous p ira te king, who helps Gen
eral Andrew Jackson win th e W ar
o f 1812 only to lose th e New Or
leans society g irl w ith whom he is
in love. K eith Is the tra ito ro u s sen
a to r who tries to sell his co untry
o u t to th e B ritish, u n til he Is
stopped in his track s by th e sw ash
buckling M arch.
"T h e B uccaneer” tak es Its d e
served place am ong th e g re a te st h is
torical dram as ever brought to the
stag e or screen.
BOOST HERMISTON TO
UMATILLA _______
ROAD
1
GROUP NEWLY
ORGANIZED
The Oregon T ra il P o rt Road asso
ciation, fo r th e purpose of u rg in g
th e b u ilding of a road from H erm is
ton to U m atilla, east side of th e
railro ad track s, was formed la st F ri
day n ig h t by 50 U m atilla county
men who m et a t th e P endleton
Cham ber of Commerce rooms.
C arl E ngdahl, P endleton, waa
elected p resident, and o th e r officers
are F. B. Swayze, H erm iston, vice
president, and F. C. McKenzie, H er
m iston, secretary. The m em bers of
th e executive board w ere elected to
rep resen t various com m unities, as
follows:
Roy
Raley, P en d leto n:
W illiam Sw itzler, U m atilla; H aw ley
Bean, E cho; A. C. H oughton, I r r i
gon; G arn et B a rra tt, H eppner; Geo.
Peck, L exington;
Berkeley Davis,
A thena, and Mac Hoke, P ilo t Rock.
T he firs t step to be tak en by th e
new o rg an izatio n w ill be a m eeting
of th e executive board w ith th e
sta te highw ay commission, as soon
as a d ate can be arran g ed , it was
decided a t the m eeting.
The proposed road has been s u r
veyed and the rig h t-o f-w ay p u r
chased. Members of the association
sta te th a t co nstruction of th e road
would mean elim in atio n of th a
g rad e crossing a t H erm iston,
and
use of th e W allu la cut-off grade
crossing Instead. E stim ated cost of
th e project Is $180,000, all of w hich
w ith th e exception of $35.000 to be
borne by th e sta te highw ay d e p a rt
m ent, would he born by th e federal
governm ent, say members.
Among those a tte n d in g th e m eet
ing from H erm iston w ere J. A.
Clarke, E. P. Dodd, A1 Q uiring, F. C.
McKenzie, O. O. F elthouse, H. T.
F raser, P aul B racher, F. B. Swayze,
Tom O’G rady an d A. F. R ohrm an;
from U m atilla w ere M ayor J. C.
T ucker, Wm. H. Sw itzler, H arry
Hull, L, B row nell, B u rl G urdane,
Tom S lattery, Jo h n K inney, P earl
Ja rv is and E. McKenzie.
GRADE TEACHERS
ALL RE-ELECTED
All grade school teach ers of the
H erm iston school w ere re-elected
last week but all co n tracts have not
been signed an d retu rn ed . The high
school te ach in g sta ff w ill be a n
nounced In th e near fu tu re, accord
ing to Supt. W. G. K ersbergen.
The teach ers re-elected Include;
M yrtle B u rn ett, 1st g rad e; M ary Pe
tri, 2nd g rad e;
Blanche H arm on,
3rd g rad e; M argaret K irk, 4 th
g rad e; M arie Salm i, 5 th grad e; N or
ma Jo hnston, 6th grad e; Mrs. Alma
Greaves, 7 th g rad e; and L. W. B ur
rell, 8th grade.
Mrs. Susan Gerking Passes.
Mrs. Susan G erking, m other of
Ben G erking of Pendleton, passed
aw ay W ednesday, A pril 6, a t the
home of h er d au g h te r Mrs. Roy
Beck a t E stacada. F u n eral service*
will be held F rid a y a t 2 :00 p. m. in
E stacada. Mrs. G erking m ade her
home w ith her son In H erm iston
several years ago.
TOWNSEND CLUB
NO. 1 DISSOLVES
The
follow ing resolution
was
unanim ously adopted by H erm iston
Townsend Club No. 1 a t th e ir re g u
la r m eeting Tuesday n ig h t:
"In view of th e fact th e Tow nsend
N ational Recovery Plan, In co rp o ra
ted, is a foreign n on-profit co rp o ra
tion o p eratin g u n law fu lly In th e
S tate of Oregon, and up to noon.
March 26, 1938, was not law fully
qualified to do business
In
th is
sta te ; T herefore, Be It Resolved,
th a t we dissolve H erm iston Tow n
send Club No. 1, and re tu rn our
c h a rte r
to
Tow nsend
N ational
H ead q u arters a t Chicago, and take
steps to organize u n d er th e Oregon
S tate Recovery Plan, Incorporated
u nder HR-4199 in the sta te of O re
gon, and co n tin u e to prom ote the
Townsend recovery plan as em bod
ied In HR-4199 in th e sta te of Ore
gon.”
A fter th e business session a very
Interestin g program of music was
presented by H. R. T h o rn h ill of Sa
lem. who Is holding revival se rv ic e,
a t the Colum bia school house. Two
m usical num bers were given by the
E arn h earta. The m eeting adjourned
subject to call.