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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