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Z sure it was intend«- VOLUME XXXI NUMBER Hrrmwlntt iirralíi X? Î Î P Before taking offense ~ JU K jg > HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, Umatilla Project Fair September 22-23-24 JUNE 16k 1938. FAIR BOARD PLANS MANY ENTERTAINMENT FEATURES DURING SHOW DIAGONAL ROAD OILING WILL BE COMPLETED SOON W IR IN G CAUSES R.E.A. SYSTEM ENERGIZING DELAY TURKEY GROWERS A N N U A L MEETING OSCAR PAYNE GETS HIGHEST HONORS The highest honor awarded at the The Eastern Oregon Turkey Grow ers' association will hold its annual commencement exercises Wednesday meeting Saturday, June 18, in the night, June 8, at Albany college, community hall at the fair grounds was the Albert prize of >25 which at 2:00 p. m. Two directors will went to Oscar Payne of Brownsville, be elected and other business of the president of the student body. This award is sponsored by Joseph A. Al association transacted. The local association shipped bert of Salem. Payne was a resident of Hermis 514,025 pounds of turkeys during 1937-38 season which brought ton for a number of years and pas >112,792.23. The final shipment of tor of the Methodist church, as well breeders for the season was made as scoutmaster for the Hermiston May 9 and brought the following Boy Scout troop. He was active in prices: POT, 19 cents; POH, 20 many civic affairs. The Russell prize, also of >25, cents; COT, 17 cents: COH, 18 cents; Com OH, 16 cents. This was went to George Andrus. Albany, a tentative statement received by whose outstanding leadership in re one of the grow-ers which indicates ligious life on the campus won him that another payment will be made. the second highest honor of the Various problems faced by the year. Dr. George J. Russell of New growers will be discussed at the an York city donated the award. Marion Foley, junior, Portland, nual meeting and the president, John Jendrzejewski, has asked that and Pegeen Sylvester, Odell, were all problems be presented to the especially honored by the faculty meeting. Mrs. Julia Penney is sec- for scholarship, personality, charac ter and leadership. retary of the association. AMUSEMENT COMPANY SIGNED FOR THE UMATILLA PROJECT FAIR, SEPTEMBER 22-24 2 4 TAKE D R IVIN G INSTRUCTIONS The Umatilla Project fair is but 97 days in the future and the fair board has already made plans for a board to take precaution during bigger and better entertainment C IT Y STREETS Experienced drivers as well as program during the three-day show. the next few weeks against student drivers are doing consider The Vernon L. Spalinger Amuse O IL SURFACE possible danger of accidents able practice driving this week car ment company has been signed on a rying out the instructions given by contract to furnish five rides and while engineers are energizing The Diagonal road re-surfacing E. L. Van Blaricom, driving instruc establish a mid-way on the fair ■work will be completed next week, the lines in making tests. All tor from the Secretary of State’s of grounds. Racing will be made one according to members of the Rogers persons are warned to keep flee at Salem, last Monday night at of the big entertainment features. Construction company which has the second session of instruction in Gerald White, president of the away from the'lines and all pa been operating here for the past two fair board, states that the show on car technique. months. The Rogers Construction trons requested to t h r o w More than 24 enrolled and are re September 22-23-24 will be the big company is from Dayton, Wn., and switches in their houses to ceiving driving instruction. The gest in the way of entertainment in received the contract for the road classes open each Monday evening the history of the show. Five rides ■work from the state of Oregon, at a avoid damage to the light sys at 7:00 o’clock and continue for one furnished by the amusement com bid of more than $21,000. When tem and wiring. hour. There will be five more pany include a ferris wheel and the Diagonal road oiling is complet driving demonstrations. Last Mon merry-go-round and three smaller ed the crew will oil eight street The long wait for electrification day students learned clutch manipu rides. A donkey baseball game i$ blocks within the City of Her of the new rural power lines is ex lation. planned for Thursday and Friday- miston. pected to end the first of July. A Any person over 15 years of age nights, and a dance Saturay night. Rock for the road bed was taken statement from the officials of the may enroll. Instruction is being A football game may be scheduled from a pit south of the Wallula cut Umatilla Electric Cooperative asso given at the community park for Saturday afternoon. off highway near the junction of ciation is that the delay has been grounds. the Diagonal with that road. The The board has received numerous caused by the lack of a sufficient Reeves Visit Hermiston. road bed first received a thorough inquiries about races during the fair LAW N SOCIAL number of houses being wired. The surfacing in all weak or thin places, which indicate that the show will Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Reeves of Cul ECHO DEFEAT contract with the Pacific Power & BENEFIT PLANNED followed by a coat of coarse crushed attract good stock. Men who havq ver City, Calif., and their nephew rock, or one and a quarter inch Light company becomes effective TOPS PENDLETON racing stock state that the track is and wife, Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Reeves The Farm Bureau Auxiliary will rock. This was then treated with July 1st. very satisfactory and among the The REA required that an aver hold a lawn social and auction in of Los Angeles, visited friends in oil, covered by a key rock surface of best in this section of the country. Echo's defeat at the hands of the Hermiston Tuesday morning. Mr. one-half inch to three quarter inch age of two users to the mile be Columbia park Friday, June 17, at and Mrs. Reeves were the second Mission Indians Sunday afternoon The races will be in the hands of ready to use electricity over the en 8:00 o'clock in the evening. Ice in size. s publishers of the Hermiston Herald, at Echo shoved Pendleton back into men who are famillary with race Another coat of oil was applied tire 136 miles of the system. The cream and cake will be sold and leaving here in 1917. They pur the top spot in the Blue Mountain meets and with men who have han board explained that this does not money from the sale will be used chased the plant from C. E. Baker, Baseball League. Echo held the top dled race horses. which is being covered by two coats each of one-quarter inch rock mixed mean that each mile must have two for a scholarship and also for need deceased. Mr. Reeves now operates position for two weeks. The game The premium list will be revised with oil, which will comprise what users but an average of two users ed improvements on the club house. the Reeves Printing Co., at 9364 ended 6 to 3 for the Indians, and in for publication in the near future. per mile, or 272 houses wired and is known as the running surface. The ice cream will be made of a Culver Blvd., at Culver City, and is the other league tilt, Heppner push Anyone who has suggested changes The contractors say that the road inspected. special mix and the committee as assisted in the office by his wife. ed Ione’s luckless crew farther into in the list has been asked to get in The state inspector examined 180 sures everyone that it will be very will be in first class condition from the cellar with a 6 to 4 victory at touch with the board at the earliest Hermiston to the Wallula cut-off houses on his first visit of which 50 tasty. The general public is Invited Ione. Pendleton rested Sunday. possible date. Superintendents will 0STR0M-BYRNES were found faulty, lacking in some highway, when oiling operations are to attend. The Troubadours will do C. Webb and Showay hurled for be announced within the next few Mr. and Mrs. James Byrnes of the Indians, while S. Rankin and weeks. completed. The highway will then detail. Since that time 270 houses nate their music for the occasion, have bee'n reported wired. The of Umatilla announce the marriage of Fred Rankin were Echo’s mounds- withstand all present traffic. The fair board held a special call fice has issued 306 meter bases their daughter Erma to Mr. Glenn men. Besides Stuart and Fred Ran- Harper-Hollomon Wedding. ed meeting Wednesday evening for which indicates that the necessary Ostrom of Umatilla, Wednesday kin. Dayton Harris, Bob Woodward W IL L DISCUSS Announcement of the marriage of number of 272 will soon be reached evening at 6:80 o’clock, at the home and Marvin Rankin, all of Hermis- the purpose of considering the con Miss Warren Holiomon of Pendleton tract from the amusement company The inspector will return soon to FROZEN PACK of Rev. A. F. VanSlyke in Pendle-, top. play for the Echo team. which tpey accepted. make a final survey of houses before and Glen Harper of Hermiston was to ip . The couple will make their of interest to Hermiston friends. Members of the board are: Gerald home in Umatilla. Miss Lucy Case, extensión spe the lines are energized. Weather Report. During the period of delay the ex The ceremony took place Monday White, president; E. D. Martin, sec cialist in foods and nutritions, will Date tension lines have been built and afternoon, June 6, at Stevenson, Max. Min. retary; Lyle Tilden, Legion; Frank assist Miss Frances Clinton, county Attend Convention. Wn. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Mason of June 9 ......... ..................,..... 73 .... 45 Seeliger, Westland Grange; L. C. will probably be energized at the home demonstration agent, in a ser Hood River, Ore., accompanied the Dr. A. E. Marble left Thursday June 10 ....... ........................ 86 .... 38 Dyer, Farm Bureau; Emery Cox. ies of meetings in the county dis same time as the original system couple. Mrs. Mason is a sister of the board stated. afternoon by train for Salem where June 11 ....... ....................... 90 . 56 Columbia Grange; Joe Myers, Stan cussing and demonstrating the froz All prospective users have been of Mr. Harper. Mr. and Mrs. Har he will attend the state convention June 12 ....... ........................ 92 .... 55 field Grange; N. R. Mueller, city. en pack method of food pPeserva- June 13 ....... ....................... 82 . .. 61 urged by the board to have house per will make their home at Her tion. of chiropractors to be held in the June 14 ....... ....................... 86 . .. 57 wiring done at the earliest possible miston where Mr. Harper is em The first meeting will be held at date. More than a dozen wiremen ployed by the Hiermiston Light & Marion Hotel, June 17-18-19. Dr. June 15 ...... ....................... 88 . . 52 LEAGUE MEETING Hermiston, Tuesday, June 21, at are in the field ready to do the Power Co. Marble will conduct a discussion on 1:30 p. m.. at the home of Mrs. W. work, and users who do not have A T ARLING TO N obstetrics at the convention. At the BOYHOOD RESIDENT A. Hineline. The general public is the funds may secure a loan from Lecture on Africa. close of the final session Dr. Marble invited to attend. the association on easy terms of six 4 lecture on Africa in general will leave for Tarzana, California, W O ULD CORRESPOND Eleven Epworth League members, Miss Case will demonstrate the monthly installments at the rate of and on the Belgium Congo in parti- t0 take a courge radonic th and their pastor R. R. Finkbeinsr, correct methods to prepare fruits six percent. The prospective user cular will be given in the Baptist “Two months over 13 years ago, I motored to Arlington last Friday to vegetables and meats for storage in will be required to pay the mini church house on the evening of and will be away for three weeks. left Hermiston. Being a kid of 12, spend the evening with the Epworth locker boxes, and discuss the most mum charge of >1.00 per month June 26th by Rev. T. A. Leger, pas little did I realize what fate had in League Chapter. The program Wedding Invitations Received. recent findings concerning the froz when the electricity Is turned on, tor of the Baptist church. Some store for me— little did I care. My which followed a potluck dinner en pack. An exhibit of packing whether he has his house wired or curios brought from this interesting Invitations have been received to fancy on that April afternoon was consisted of a period devoted to boxes and other equipment will be not. country will be exhibited. The ser the approaching marriage of Miss partial to the thrills and expecta plays and games, and closed with an displayed. An opportunity will be The board also states that in vice will be under the auspices of Alice Virginia Welbes of Portland, tions of a trip across the continent effective “Institute Rally." given to ask questions. cases where the inspector requires the B.Y.P.U. and will begin at 7:30 and Mr. Robert W. Henderson of and back to my “southland. During the rally program the the wiremen to correct their work “As for the trip— it was fine. As group was seated upon mats and p. m. All the young people’s orga Moro, Ore. The ceremony will take LAST C O M M U N IO N the user is not expected to pay for for fate—she has been generously rugs about a fireplace. Green bows the correction. The association also nizations in the community and the place Saturday, June 18, at 8:30 kind. As for the future— I only hope were placed about the room, lend SERVICE OF YEAR asks that the user report his com general public is cordially invited to p.m., in the Grace Baptist church in to once more visit Hermiston. May ing atmosphere to the scene. pleted wiring to the office at once attend. be it would be better I never re Portland. Delegates from the Epworth turned as absence makes the heart League from central and eastern The last communion service for in order that the inspector may vis it his place while in the field. grow fonder and sometimes la re Oregon will go to Buttle Lake near the year 1937-38 will be conducted sponsible for painting many child Sisters, Ore., for the week of July next Sunday morning at the close of 4-H Clubbers Return Friday. like impressions in one’s mind that 16th to 23rd. the preaching service in the Metho might easily be erased upon a visit. dist church. Rev. R. R. Flnkbeiner, Members of 4-H clubs who are at Those going to Arlington were But nevertheless, I envy my friends George Sale Jr., Zeima Sale, Lola pastor of the church, will leave next tending the two weeks summer who still walk the streets of Her Casper, Johanna Casper, Rebecca Tuesday for the annual business ses school at Corvallis, will leave Cor By MRS. J. M. RICHARDS Charlotte Coe and Janet Floor of miston and enjoy the genial greet sion of Oregon Methodists, which vallis Friday morning at 4:30 and Pierson, Robert Pierson, Dorothy STANFIELD (Special) — Several Portland are spending a month with ings that only westerners can dem Pierson, Omega Sater, Joyce Sater, will convene in The Dalles, June 21 will arrive in Stanfield at 1:00 p. Stanfield people attended the re Betty Gregory on the Coe ranch. onstrate in its true fashion. to 28. The first sermon by Jason Lee m. A report of activities during the Lowell Sater and Gene Wells. cital given by the McDonald School Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kennedy and "Of course, there may be only a will be appropriately celebrated. school will be published next week. of Music in Pendleton Monday two sons of Moscow, Idaho, have very few people I would know liv The celebration will be of inter HOSPITAL SETS night. Billy Penney and Don Ref been guests at the home of his mo ing there now, but I believe I could Notice to All Townsendites. est to all citizens in the northwest; vem played violin solos in addition ther Mrs. George Wood. Miss Mar strike up several old acquaintances HOM ECOM ING DATE especially to descendants of pioneer A request has been made that all to their part in the orchestra. The garet Wood accompanied itHem on without the slightest effort. I can’t families which followed the Lees those Interested in having the Gen Misses Phyllis Sires and Ellen Ham- their return for an extended visit in explain why I have had no corres and the Whitmans into the Oregon eral Welfare Act of 1937 known as mill played clarinets in the orchestra Moscow. The annua, homecoming of form pondence with some of my old country. Visitors from Umatilla the Townsend plan enacted into Others in attendance from Stanfield Grasshoppers on the newer lands friends— I haven’t even read any er patients of the State Tuberculosis county are cordially invited to par law, raise the American flag the were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Penney, ticipate in the celebration Thursday morning of June 19th in honor of William Haggman, Mrs. Martin on the border of the Stanfield pro copies of the local paper. Well, I Hospital at Salem will be held June afternoon, June 23, at 1:30 p.m., at the third national Townsend con Refvem, Mrs. Hans Rynlng and Bob ject are causing the farmers some might lay it to laziness. At any 30, July 1 and the morning of July concern. rate, from now on, I intend to fan Pulpit Rock. vention, convening In Los Angeles Refvem. This event marked the U. S. Richardson took a truck the few sparks of friendship back 2, according to Dr. G. C. Bellinger, Among those on the program will on that day. close of the year’s instruction. load of household goods to Red to Illuminate burning flames and superintendent of the institution. be Dr. William Wallace Youngson of The Hermiston Townsend club Mrs. Jack Lawrence and daugh mond Friday where he will continue once more come close to my distant A check on the condition of each Tillamook. Rev. B. M. Blenklnsop. ill meet at the regular place June ters Betty and Lenna, and son Mel ex-patient will be made by members Astoria, Rev. Walter Shlpworth. and 17 at 8:00 p. m. A short business vin, motored to Bend last Thursday his employment as mechanic In friends— through correspondence. the CCC camp which was recently “As I look back in retrospect, I of the hospital staff. Dr. Bellinger Dean U. G. Dubach of Corvallis. meeting will be held, and members for a ten day visit with Mrs. Lawr transferred from Stanfield. Mrs wonder If lawyer Bill Warner ran of the advisory board suggest that ence’s daughter. Richardson and sons Max and Rex still eat watermelons at the same asks, however, that those wanting all Townsendites go from there to Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Mulcare, who will remain here until living quar rate of speed he used to. (This Is an examination write in advance Lioense Examiner Coming. Columbia park to take part in the have farmed the John Ford farm reminiscent of my and make reservations. Patients The state examiner of operators Ice cream social being sponsored by for the past year, moved their house ters are provided for them at Red particularly mond. childhood days In Hermiston, as I who live too far away from Salem and chauffeurs will be In Hermiston the Farm Bureau Auxiliary. hold goods to Portland last week. Leo Clark, construction foreman often stopped by the house with a to make the trip in a single day, H. R. Hartley, president of the Mr. Ford bought the livestock and in the CCC camp at Ontario, is Thursday. June 23. at the city basket of peaches in exchange for a library between the hours of 11:00 club, and delegate to the national equipment and is operating the spending a few days with his fam melon feast.) I wonder too: If the may be overnight guests of the sani convention, left Tuesday morning, ranch. ily. a. m. and 5:00 p. m., according to a old school house still has the holes tarium by stating when making res accompanied by four other dele Miss Dorothy Shafer of Pendleton Mrs. Andrew Lamont was hostess In her walls that I used to help ervations that they wish to remain recent announcement released from gates. The 89.40 given by the Board is spending part of her vacation at to the Harmony Hustlers' study and make by turning a stick centrlfu- until the next day. the Secretary of State’s office. All man Townsend club was sent direct the A. 8. Power home in the West- sewing club at her home Tuesday gally; if the town still has her grav- A prize will be given to the ex- those wishing permits or licensee to to national headquarters and wag land district. afternoon. Mrs. Chas, herrick con •1 streets and the wooden side patient who has been away from the not used as delegate's expenses. Mrs. A. Hemanharp and son of ducted the business meeting and walks; If the boys and girls stur drive cars are asked to get la touch Tht quilt was presented to Mrs. hospital for the greatest lenrth of Lamoni. Iowa, are visiting her par later lead the discussion on "Hob- h—on Hallowe'en— turn out Mc- with the examiner during these Joe Dyer at the last Townsend club ents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cleg eratlon. Many hobbles were named Kenzle’s chickens, cut the tent roper time. Last year’s record was 13 hours. meeting horn. (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page • ) years. Users of electricity REA line are on the asked by the STANFIELD PEOPLE TAKE PART IN PENDLETON MUSK RECITAL MONDAY