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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1938)
CHRISTMAS UOHTINO BRINGS CHEER! BRIGHTEN YOUR HOME VOLUME XXXII ■•■»O ‘• « • In g o j® n NUMBER 17 CHRISTMAS TREE AND LIGHTS SYMBOL UNSELFISH S P IR IT HOME LIGHTING CONTEST UNDERWAY Hi'rmtüíntt HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, CHALK CLIFFS M A Y FURNISH ROAD SURFACE A new material has been discov ered and has been applied to a mile of graveled road between the But ter Creek highway, one mile west of Hermiston, and the steel bridge across the Umatilla river leading in to the Westland district. This sec tion was completed Thursday. The material was found first by Clifford Myrick, who operates the county grader in this section, and he, in company with Pete Shaver, foreman for the WPA crew, made further investigations, and the pro posal to use the material was ap proved by Willard Brown, county road construction manager. A pit was opened at the foot of the chalk cliffs and a truck grade built from the lands above to the west side of the river. Over the 18 foot surface width of the mile just completed, 700 yards of the clay was distributed. This will be scarified and mixed with the gravel. It is expected to make a filled or binder sufficient to pre vent such excessive corrugations as occur in these graveled roads and also to prevent the blowing away of the surface dirt. If successful, county road officials expect to apply the material to a number of roads in this locality, and at present one road in the Minneha ha district, one leading to the ex periment farm, and the road leading north from Hermiston to North Hill are being considered. The work is being done under the supervision of the county supervisor and foreman for the WPA. The la bor is done by WPA employes. The newly discovered material is inex haustive, and if found beneficial to the roads as expected, will add very much to reduction of costs of main tenance and betterment of the roads in this district. The spirit of Christmas joy, not unmixed "with reverence in the Joy of giving, is evidenced by the Christ mas tree lighting and window deco ration found in the west end of Umatilla county. Sharing doubles every joy and a Christmas tree can never be a selfish thing, because it is a symbol of loving-kindness. Its lovely far-shin ing lights dispell all gloom and every sparkling light radiates the season's wish — MERRY CHRIST MAS. The Hermiston Garden club is not seeking credit for what it is doing in the way of sponsoring a Christ mas home lighting contest but it does ask cooperation on the part oi city and rural citizens. Community Christmas spirit will be enhanced by the addition of the Christmas tree placed and lighted at the west end of Main street through the efforts of the club and cooperation of a special committee. Carol singing will be heard Christmas eve floating up from the base of the tree to the heavens proclaiming the spirit of Christmas. Lighting contest entry blanks may be signed and left at the Herald of fice any time before Wednesday, December 21. The contest starts at 5:00 p. m., December 24, and will close at 9:00 p. m., December 31. At some unannounced time during that period a group of impartial judges will visit each display for which a registration blank has been filed. Within the city limits of Hermis ton will be known as District No. 1, and the rural districts outside the * * * * * * * * * * * * city limits and including Minneha ha, Columbia, Westland and the ♦ GARDEN CLUB * North Hill, as District No. 2. Nei CHATS ♦ ther district will compete against the ♦ ' Hermiston Joined other cities in other. There will be two classes of lighting, outside lighting and win the state with a lighted community Christmas tree Saturday night. A dow door or porch display. Ideas for lighting and for using large tree at the west end of Main inexpensive materials may be se street is well lighted with colored cured from the committee headed bulbs and is welcomed by all in the by Mrs. Chas. Taylor, assisted by project, both young and old. The Mrs. Julius Gimble, Mrs. B. J. Na renewal of this custom In the city tion, Mrs. Howard Reid and Mrs. was urged by the Garden club, as sisting financially, and receiving Bert Quick. fine cooperation from the Commer Prizes will be given for the var cial club, light company and private ious lighting contest entries and Individuals. many of these have been received. Leave your signed entry blank at Have you put your entry for the the Herald office today. lighting display in the box at the Herald office? Many have expressed their intention to enter, but the blanks must be filled out and turn INFORMAL BANQUET ed in before they are eligible. This FOR BOARDMAN will help the committee to plan the tour that must be taken by the FUTURE FARMERS judges during the final week. Judges are being obtained from out of The Future Farmers of America town, who are familiar with other of the Boardman chapter held their lighting displays. annual banquet Thursday, Decem The membership committee states ber 8, in a most informal manner. Both parents of the boys were in that January 1st is the deadline for vited for the first time. Print dres membership dues. Membership in ses or aprons were worn by the the club consists of those who have women and no ties, vests or coats paid dues, and others may not hold were permitted to be worn by the a place on committees, vote or other wise actively participate. There are men. 44 paid-up memberships now. New Ed Speikerman, state F.F.A. presi members and visitors are welcome at dent of The Dalles, was the main all times. speaker telling of the work of the national organization and its im New donations to the prize list portance as a youth movement. for the lighting contest were re Chas. Dillon, chairman of the ceived this week. Hale's confection Boardman school board, and H. K. ery has offered a 82.00 cash prize Dean, superintendent of the U. 8. and the Oasis Theatre shows an Field Station at Hermiston, were electric iron in the Herald window. named honorary members of the organization at this meeting. These Rehearsals for the Christmas honors were bestowed and announc carol singing are going on evenings. ed by Elmer Sullivan, adviser, who If you can carry a tune and have the carries on the agricultural work in Christmas spirit, see Mrs. Walter the schools under the Smith-Hughes Smith at the Hermiston Trading Co. for rehearsal dates. act. Members of the organization are Lyle Tannehill, Dale Russell, Lewis McDonald. Bob McCutchen. Ralph Skoubo, Jack Olson, Toiva Simila, Roy Partlow. Neill Bleakney. Elbert Fisher, Harold Tyler, John Yonger, Russell DeMauro, Bob Miles, Fred Miles. Ray Stever and Albin Sund- sten. A substitute date will be given in the next isue of the Herald, for the next meeting of the club since the regular meeting date falls on a le gal holiday. A good attendance is desired to start the new year. Bring a garden catalog, notebook and pen cil and questions, as it is not too early to plan for spring gardens. ENTER THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTING CONTEST TODAY! DECEMBER 19, 1938. GREATER DEMAND BULLDOGS BOW FOR LOCAL TURKEYS BEFORE OPPONENTS The Eastern Oregon Turkey Grow ers' association and independent buyers have been unable to fill the demand for turkeys raised in this section of eastern Oregon, it was re vealed thia week. The local coopera tive association had an order for 30,000 pounds of turkeys at the close of the third turkey pool for the season when they shipped 11,723 birds to terminal markets in Los Angeles. The association was attempting to secure at least 10,000 pounds of birds for the special order. The Norbest turkeys are becoming known to the commercial trade as among the best and are more and more in demand. A turkey carrying the Norbest trade mark comes from the Pacific northwest and is shipped through the Northwest Turkey Growers’ association of which the local cooperative is a member. The birds from this section of eastern Oregon are favored on the market. Sixteen car loads of turkeys have been shipped through the local pool alone this season, and this does not include the many thousands of pounds shipped by independent buy ers. The percentage of prime birds was said to be 92 for this shipment, seven percent choice and one per cent commercial. Through the three turkey pool^ held by the cooperative association this year 25,853 birds have been shipped, with approximately 5500 birds yet to be marketed at two later pools, one December 30, and one in January. The unofficial count of birds shipped through the pool is 31,353, and more than 7000 birds have been marketed from flocks raised on the north Columbia near Patterson. This number is In addi tion to all independent growers who marketed through other commercial channels. The price received for birds in this shipment is expected to be bet ter due to the demand and large percent of prime birds. Indian Will Preach. Tne Hermiston High Bulldogs bowed three times over the week end to their more experienced opponents. In spite of the losses the Bulldogs are determintd to chalk up their first victory of the season Saturday night when Heppner comes to Her miston to fight it out. Last week Friday the Pendleton Buckaroos proved too much for the Bulldogs and won by 28 to 13. Again Saturday night the Buckaroos came to Hermiston and won by a larger margin, 34 to 9 Tuesday night the Athena Gladia tors trimmed the Bulldogs 32 to 19 at Athena, but the Bulldogs are ex pected to make a better showing when Athena plays the return game here February 8. GRANGE CLOSE-OUT SALE SOON Inventory of the Grange Coopera tive stock is being made this week in preparation for a close-out sale to be staged soon, according to R. G. Penney, manager. The Cooperative Hardware Service will continue to do business in distributing fuel and a small stock of hardware items un der the management of Guy Shaw, supervised by the Farm Bureau Co operative. The Grange Cooperative has been in business for ten years. Columbia School Program. Mrs. Laura Morris has announced that the Columbia school will hold its annual Christmas program Thurs day, December 22, at 8:00 p. m. In the school house. “Following the Star” will be presented and also a pageant by the primary department, "Christmas in Mother Goose Land.” The public is invited to attend and enjoy this program. Legion Xmas Party. The annual American Legion and auxiliary Christmas party w ill be held in the Legion hall, Thursday, December 22. It w ill be in the form of a .pot luck dinner and those at tending are asked to bring food stuffs instead of toys this year, to be used in the Christmas cheer boxes. Ray Zack, a full blood Indian from the White Swan Mission in Washington, now a student at North west Christian college at Eugene, will preach at the Union church Sunday night, December 18. He Weather Report. comes from the mission of which Date Max. Min. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Rice are super December 8 .......................... 60 .... 31 intendents. Mr. Rice is a brother of Mrs. R. G. Saylor of Butter Creek. December 9 ........................... 55 .... 39 December 10 ........................ 47 .... 25 December 11 ........................ 38 .... 14 Park on Side Street. December 12 ........................ 33 .... 9 H. A. Pankow of the local police December 13 ........................ 32 .... 6 has requested that local people em December 14 ......................... 26 .... 7 ployed in town who own cars, park, Guernsey Sold to Meyers. them on the side streets during the A registered Guernsey cow has day to make more parking space for people from the rural districts com been sold by Frank Seeliger to ing in town to shop. Cooperation on Marshall E. Meyers of Echo. This the part of townspeople w ill be animal is Frantilla Princess 565894 greatly appreciated by merchants according to the American Guernsey Cattle club, Peterborough, N. H. and visitors alike. Santa Says, “ Shop Now! TURKEY KILLING PLANT POSSIBILITY INVESTIGATED ASSOCIATION SEEKS FORMATION LOCAL PARK D IS T R IC T need of a The possibilities and turkey killing and semi-scald plant for turkey growers in this territory are being investigated this week by members of the board of directors for the Eastern Oregon Turkey Growers' association of which John Jendrzejewskl is president. Mr. Jendrzejewskl, Merrill Potter, C. A. Flanigan, Logan Todd and H. G. Rankin left Thursday morning for Portland where they will attend a meeting of the Oregon Turkey Co operative on Friday, December 16. Later they will visit turkey killing and packing plants in Vancouver, Wn., Canby and Portland, to in vestigate the system used and equip ment needed for picking, semi-scald and waxing of birds to prepare them for market. The waxing meth od is comparatively new but is su'd to be among the coming new sys tems used in preparing birds for market. The board will report their find ings and give recommendations to members of the local association at a called meeting in the near future. The decision of whether or not to Install a plant will rest with the membership. MEN OF LEGISLATURE V IS IT HERMISTON State, county and city officials were honor guests at the regular Commercial club meeting Tuesday night in the hotel dining room, with 40 members present. Primary pur pose of the meeting was to acquaint the state senators and representa tives of the immense wealth and fu ture possibilities of the area includ ed in the Umatilla irrigation pro jects and with possible legislation this coming session which may ef fect this area. Walter Smith, president of the club, presided at the meeting giving a greeting to visitors and members and an expression of appreciation for their interest and presence. He Introduced E. P. Dodd, who has been in thia territory since the early day and seen its development, ask ing him to give an account of the values to be found in this section commercially. According to Dodd’s report there are 5^00 dairy cows within a radius of 20 miles of Her miston. The importance of the poul try Industry was shown with a rec ord of approximately 65,000 com mercial flock hens and 50,000 tur keys found on these projects and the value of pasture land, hay, hogs, sheep and corn were given. There are 1800 homes in this section, with 1500 found on the electric power lines, he stated. Mr. Dodd stated that the assessed valuation of land In this area is close to six million dollars. A record of votes cast in 1936 shows there were more for this area than In any one of the nine counties, including (Continued on Page 8) 99 TOWNSEND CLUB ACTIVITIES M A N Y The Hermiston Townsend club met last Friday with a fine attend ance to allow transaction of import ant business and a short program. After the meeting the members en joyed fishing in the Townsend club fish pond which netted the club 84.05. The next meeting will be post poned from December 25 to De cember 30, due to school and church activities for the Christmas holidays. At this meeting a Dutch auction sale of a tom turkey, donated by a Boardman member, will he held. The proceeds from the sale will go to headquarters to finance a Town send representative In congress. All members are urged to be pres ent to decide on a big birthday party for January 13. The club gave a vote of thanks to Harry Connor, Vane Boynton and Walter 8mith, members of the club, for the articles donated for the fish pond. GREATER USE OF C O M M U N IT Y HALL Two plans were adopted at the annual meeting of the Hermiston Community Park association Friday, December 9. at the city library, one being to form a community park district, and the other to improve and put to all possible use, the com munity hall. A representative group of thirty members were present to alopt the new program by a unani mous vote. The meeting resulted In a general revival of interest in the park and several committees were appointed to carry out the program originally adopted by the board of directors. The board now consists of F. C. Mc Kenzie, Curtis Simons, Sam Moore, J. W. McMullen, J. H. Reid. E. D. Martin, John Jendrzejewskl, E. L. Jackson and W. J. Warner. The new community hall commit tee appointed by Chairman McKen zie is J. W. McMullen, chairman. Walter Hamm, Geo. Harkenrider, Jack Smith and Alfred Cable. This committee was instructed to adopt new rental price regulations on the dance hall, and to provide for all general uses of the building. A committee consisting of Walter Smith, Dr. F. B. Belt and E. H. Dun ning was appointed to work with the Umatilla Project Farm Bureau to secure additional funds to add to the subscription made by thia orga nization of 8150 for the purpose of adding kitchen and plumbing facil ities to the community hall. A legislative committee consist ing of W. J. Warner, E. D. Martin and E. P. Dodd, was appointed, and instructed to prepare a suitable bill to present to the legislature in Jan uary providing a legal process for forming a park district. The president of the board report ed that 400 new trees had recently been planted throughout the park area. Approximately 830,000 has been put into the park to date. A balance of 8600 is yet available from the last WPA allotment for labor on the grounds. The board is desirous of constructing another fair exhibit building and a grandstand. Some other work will be needed on the race track and additional barns may be necessary. GRADE PUPILS W ILL ENTERTAIN W IT H OPERETTA Grade pupils in first to fourth, inclusive, will entertain parents and friends Thursday, December 22, by presenting a Christmas operetta en titled “Susanna’s Christmas Auc tion.” The performance is being di rected by the Misses Myrtle Burnett, Blanche Harmon, Mary Petri and Margaret Kirk, and will appear at the high school auditorium at 8:00 P. M. The essence of the Christmas spirit is brought out besides the in terest in the story itself, by the (Continued on Page 8) CHRISTMAS CAROL CHIMES FROM OLD GERMAN MUSIC BOX One of the sweetest and most dearly loved Christmas carols "Silent Night, Holy Night” chimes from an old German music box, said to be more than 60 years old, and owned by Guy Shaw of Hermiston. The box is made to hold a small Christmas tree which revolves as the music disc turns to pick up the tones on the steel plate. The Shaw family has had It In their family for 21 years. The music box was made in Ger many and was given to Mr. Shaw's grandparents by an English sea cap tain. The tones will continue for fifty minutes after it has been wound. Mr Shaw had the box on display at the Cooperative Hardware Ser vice this week. Basketball—Heppner, Saturday, Dec. 17,7:30 p.m.
