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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1939)
THURSDAY, MARCH 2. 1229 Time for Baby Chicks! PROVIDE HEAT WITH GASCO BRIQUETS WHY GASCO BRIQUETS ARE THE IDEAL BROODER STOVE FU EI^- • • • • • UNIFORM TEMPERATURE HOLD FIRE 8 TO 10 HOURS HIGH IN RADIANT HEAT NO ASHES OR CLINKERS CONVENIENT & ECONOMICAL See Guy Shaw at WT’ Cooperative Hardware Service PHONE 72-W KITCHEN CIRCULAR CHEMICALS REMOVE MOSS AND HELP GIVES NEW PLANS FOR RURAL HOMES LAWN GROWTH The secret of convenience in a kitchen is to have it planned to eare for all the uses it must serve, and in the average farm family home these are many and varied, points out Miss Maud Wilson, home economist at Oregon State college, in a new station circular, 131, entitled “Planning the Kitchen.” The circular has been prepared especially for the use of Oregon farm families planning to remo del a kitchen or build a new one and confronted with the problems of what size the room needs to be, what arrangement is most de sirable, and what types of built- ins are needed. It is a condensa tion of a previous larger bulletin. Profusely illustrated with drawings of many types of ar rangements for kitchens of var ious shapes, as well as individual drawings of different kinds of cabinets, wood boxes, wood lifts, sink arrangements, dining ar rangements, work tables movable and otherwise, coolers, cake and bread storage spaces, and even detailed drawings of silver draw ers and knife racks. These were worked out as the result of a sur vey of the needs and desires of a large group of Willamette valley farm women. The uses of a kitchen custom arily include food preparation, cooking and dishwashing, but the majority of farm families like to have space to eat in the kitchen, even when there Is a dining room. Miss Wilson found. Whether meals are served there or not, the average household wants a “fam ily” center, where children can play or adults can rest or sit at work. The new circular is an ab stract of station bulletin 356, "The Willamette Valley Farm Kitchen,” to make the informa tion more easily usable by farm homemakers. It is free on re quest from county extension offi ces or the college. The second mild winter in suc cession in Oregon has left many lawns badly infested with moss this year, which can be largely eradi cated by the use of chemicals, ac cording to recent tests made by L. E. Harris, assistant agronomist at OSC, who has been conducting ex tensive experiments in weed control of various kinds. The most com plete kill of moss was obtained by the use of Sinox, an organic dye, which, so far as known, is yet avail able at retail in Oregon, although supplies may be obtained through a r e c eln 1 1 y established California agency. The best combination results, in cluding fertilizer value, were ob tained by use of ammonium sulfate at the rate of 2 pounds to 130 square feet either applied dry or dissolved In two or three gallons of water. The ammonium sulfate gives 60 to 75 percent kill and greatly stimu lates grass growth. A more com plete kill is possible when the moss is raked thoroughly before applying the chemical. FLYING CLUB ORGANIZED, TR AIN PILOTS AT O.S.C. OREGON STATE COLLEGE— An Oregon State Flying club, composed of 41 students taking actual flight training, has been formed here and officially recognized by the college. The students contract with the local flying for training at group rates. Only registered students and those with written permission of parents or guardians are permitted to Join the club, says Ben F. Ruffner, asso ciate professor of aeronautical en gineering, who is faculty adviser. It is believed that an active club ¡of this sort will aid in having OSC designated next year as one of the college centers for the training of civilian pilots by the federal govern ment. Fluorescent tubes, a new discov ery in illumination, have been used exclusively in the million dollar lighting program on Treasure Island. - . Terms! USED CARS THE BEST SELECTION WE'VE EVER HAD I 1936 FORD DE LUXE FORDOR SEDAN— Distinctive brown bou- cle upholstery; heater; all tire« 6 ply; a car that has been petted by original owner and is perfect throughout. A real buy. 1938 FORD DE LUXE TUDOR SEDAN— A car with 1939 appear ance and features; as silk V-8 motor, absorbers. A ride vince you. Money safety glass, centerpoise ride, 85 H. P. smooth economical on gas and oil; double acting shock in this beautiful vineyard green car will con Back guarantee. 1936 CHEVROLET COUPE PICKUP— Just the thing for the ranch er who want passenger car comfort and a hauling space for feed and supplies; low mileage and g>od tires. — OTHERS TO CHOOSE FROM — CHEAPIES— Some a* low a* $50 - Take Your Pick 1929 Ford Model A Tudor 1930 Ford Model A Roadster 1929 Chevrolet Ford or 1929 Ford Model A Coupe — SEE YOUR FORD DEALER FIRST — Rohrman Motor Co. Phone 571 PAGE THE HERMISTON riERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Hermiston, Ore. Penguin* Good Husband* j Affectionate With Mate* Midget’s Condition Due To Affliction of Gland* Of all the strange birds that in habit the earth, the emperor pen guin, which breeds on the rocky shores of the Antarctic regions, is one of the strangest. The penguin is the largest of the wingless and flightless swimming birds, the adult standing about feet high and weighing around 90 pounds. He has a small black head and a strong pointed beak. His back is black, too, and his abdomen is white. His short clumsy legs are feathered down to his webbed feet and in place of wings, he possesses a pair of flippers which enable him to swim under water for a long time. Because they stand so erect, pen guins may be mistaken for human beings when seen from a distance, writes Burt Hause in Our Dumb Animals. They behave like humans, too. When making love, the male struts proudly around the female in or<jer to show off his good points and manly bearing. Then he suddenly stretches out his neck and touches his beak to hers as though in a kiss. Penguins are also very inquisi tive. While swimming far out at sea, they will draw close to a pass ing ship and inspect it like a natur alist inspecting the bones of some prehistoric animal. Misery loves company and, like human beings, a depressed penguin seeks compan ionship. During the moulting sea son when he loses his feathers, he invariably leaves home to And those of his flock who will sympathize with him. Happily, divorce suits are un known to a penguin family. With them, love is eternal. Even after wooing, the husband is constantly kissing his wife with his beak and embracing her with his flippers at the most inopportune moments. Midgets are not dwarfs. A dwarf has the torso of a normal-sized per son. Heads are broader at the top than the jaw and there is a deep indentation at the bridge of the nose. Legs are short, especially the thighs, and the pelvic region tilts forward. They are susceptible to heart trouble, which the midget is not. Midgets are people with bodily proportions of normal childhood ex cept that their limbs are shorter in proportion to their trunks. Cheeks are fair with little or no hair and there is more than a normal de posit of fat in cheeks, hips or waist, or in all three. They are extremely youthful looking, especially the younger ones. This is due to the fact that they have a dormant pe riod between 6 and 12 which curtails their development. Midgets may appear in any fami ly since their condition is due to non-functioning glands, according to Harlowe R. Hoyt in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. When their growth first ceases, parents as a rule seek to bolster them with medicines. Sometimes they succeed to the ex tent of an inch or two, in which event they frequently ruin their child’s opportunity to make a liv ing. Four feet is the limit in height of exhibition midgets. About 22 per cent of all midgets marry. Of these, about half marry other midgets and the remainder normal people. Of all the midgets who marry, only 41 per cent have children. Midget women who have children have normal-sized babies— normal at birth and normal as ad ults. No midget woman has given birth to a child without a Caesarian operation, necessitated by the small pelvis. Old Roman Maginot Line Protected Claimed Land Imperial Rome once held back the menace of savage German tribes men with a predecessor of the Maginot line. The ancient fortified line was on what is now German soil, however, and was located con siderably to the east of the present French defenses. The Roman line, known then and since as the Limes Romanus, states a writer in the Kansas City Star, started at the village of Rheinbrohl on the Rhine, about 20 miles below Coblenz and on the opposite bank of the river. It ran 200 miles over hills and through valleys, with its other end at Eining on the Danube. Thus it protected the Roman-held territory on the interlacing head waters of the two streams. Below its two downstream ends, the broad rivers, patrolled by Roman galleys, were deemed sufficient protection for the empire’s frontiers. The Limes Romanus consisted simply of a strong timber palisade when it was first laid out. Later, at the end of the Second century A. D., the palisade was replaced by a continuous earthen wall, re inforced at intervals by stone “cas tella” or towers. In an Indian community prior to the discovery of America, and dur ing early colonial times, no individ ual owned land, but the right of each to the plot which he cultivated was respected. A man’s weapons were his own, but generally the tools, and often the food, and among the tribes of the plains even the tepee belonged to the women. Personal belongings were often buried with their owner, that their souls might accompany him to the future home. Remaining property was distribut ed in the tribe or bestowed upon heirs. McNicholls’ “The Amerindians” says that the conditions of land ten ure obtaining in America upon the arrival of the Europeans was such that the view was held by them that there was no occasion to bother about acquiring title from the na tives. “It was convenient for the colonists to conclude that the Indian right itself was but imperfectly and partially secured. It was conven ient also for the colonists to con clude that neither tribes nor individ ual Indians were clothed with the requisite authority to enable them to make perfect conveyances of their rights or claims.” Heaviest Man on Record Daniel Lambert was the heaviest man on record. Bom at Leicester in 1770, he was, during his youth, of normal build and fond of exercise, but began to put on weight with amazing rapidity in his early twen ties. In 1806, on deciding to ex hibit himself in London a special vehicle was constructed for his con veyance there. He was 5 feet 11 inches in height, and, to quote his epitaph, says London Answers mag azine, “he measured three feet one inch round the leg, nine feet four inches round the body, and weighed 52 stone, 11 lb. (14 lb. to the stone).” At his death it was found neces sary to take down the window and wall of the room in which he lay to allow of his being taken away. His coffin was 6 feet 4 inches long, 4 feet 4 inches wide, 2 feet 4 inches deep, and consisted of 112 super ficial feet of elm. It was built on two axle-trees and four wheels and was rolled down a slope to the bot tom of the grave. How Ants Store Honey Bees store their honey in cells manufactured by themselves; bul in Mexico and the southwestern United States there is an ant which stores its honey—in other ants. Many species of ants collect hon ey-dew, store it in their crops and, on returning to their nests, feed their brood or other members of the colony by disgorging the sweet liq uid. The Mexican honey ant, how ever, has gone one better in organiz ing food stores, says Pearson’s Lon don Weekly. In each nest of this species there is a class of workers, known as “ repletes,” the abdomens of which are so tremendously swol len that they are veritable honey pots. The “repletes” never leave the nest. They stay there and the honey dew is fed to them by another class of workers which go out to forage for it. During the winter, when other members of the commu nity wish to be fed, the “ replete” disgorges some of its store. It is a living barrel of stored-up food. Life of a Needle The neat and nimble needle is a very complicated piece of work which from first to last takes nine days to produce. Special steel wire from Sheffield is cut into lengths, each length making two needles. After being made perfectly straight, says London Tit-Bits Magazine, the length of steel is mechanically sharpened at both ends, then flat tened in the middle to take the double eyes, punched out either by machinery or by hand—an expert hand-puncher getting through 25,000 a day. The double needle is divid ed into two, and the eyes smoothed and polished by hand. The soft wire needle now has to be hardened, tempered and Anally polished all over ready for use. Why Fish Are Dumb Fish are plain dumb because they are low in the evolutionary scale, asserts a writer in the Los Angeles Times. Fish are the most primitive of the vertebrates, only one step be yond the Crustacea. All our data point to the conclusion that intelli gence is an evolutionary develop ment, and that the forms later in time in developing have more of it. A fish, therefore, is extremely un likely to be sm art as a newt, a newt as a frog, a frog as a lizard, a liz ard as a snake or a bird; and all the mammals are smarter, have big ger (proportionately) and better de veloped brains than the cold-blooded animals. Stephen Collins Foster Memorial There is a Stephen Foster me morial building in Pittsburgh. A chapel was erected on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh to the memory of the composer. It is known as the Stephen Collins Fos ter memorial of the University of Pittsburgh. It is located on the uni versity’s Cathedral of Learning tri angle, on Forbes street facing Schenley park. The chapel, which seats 700 persons, is built in Gothic style of Indiana limestone. The left wing of the building houses the com poser's relics. Connor’s Auto Repair AUTHORIZED UNITED MOTORS SERVICE LET US PUT YOUR CAR IN SHAPE FOR THE COMING SEASON! Com plete M o to r Tune-up INCLUDES— ♦ ADJUST TAPPETS Early Lecturers’ Fees Louis J. Alber says in the Com mentator: “ In 1831 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: ‘I am willing to come to Waltham on the date you suggest and lecture to your Lyceum for the $5 fee you offer, but I think you should also give me four quarts of oats for my horse.’ Daniel Web ster was the first lecturer to receive a fee of $100; Abraham Lincoln lec tured at Cooper Union for $200, and in 1880 Henry Ward Beecher was paid the first known fee of $1,000. After finding Livingstone in Africa, Henry M. Stanley received $100.000 and all expenses for a hundred lec tures." TEST COMPRESSION OVERHAUL DISTRIBUTOR TEST COIL CLEAN A ADJUST CONTACT POINTS TEST CONDENSER TEST FUEL PUMPS REMOVE CARBURETOR CLEAN ALL JETS, FLOAT LEVEL TEST BATTERY ADJUST TIGHTEN MANIFOLD AND CYL. HEAD BOLTS CLEAN ALL FUEL LINES TIGHTEN FAN BELT CLEAN SPARK PLUGS, AND ADJUST RETIME MOTOR AND TUNE CLEAN BATTERY NALS USING BEAR BRAND DYNA MOMETER TERMI A ll 6 C y lin d e r Cars — $2.50 A ll 8 C y lin d e r Cars — $3*50 Tappet Adjustment on all L Type Motors $1.00 Extra. ANY PARTS USED CHARGED FOR AT REGULAR PRICES. Also Associated Factory Specified Lubrication COMPLETE CHASSIS LUBRICATION Any make car or light truck .................... 75c r Stephens and Gus Francoalus spent Tuesday at Attalla assisting In clearing the tracks of a wreck ♦ By RUTH FISHER ♦ between a Union Pacific and North The Irrigon high school enter ern Pacific train. tained the Boardman students Wed « « « « « « « •a nesday afternoon, February 21, with a skit, one-act play and band * COLUMBIA * selections. • By Lois Hutchison V Mr. and Mrs. Willard Baker, Mrs. Mrs. Rachel Johnston Is conval- W. A. Baker and Mrs. Klltz motor esing at the home of her sister, Mrs. ed to La Grande Sunday to spend Dorothy Dlxson In Tigard, after spending three weeks in the Good the day visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Douns of Spicer, Samaritan hospital in Portland. She Missouri, visited at the J. McLoregh underwent an appendicitis opera tion. home this week. The harmonica band, unde., the The Grange sponsored a dance direction of Mrs. Emil Zlvney, en which was given in the hall Satur joyed a picnic at the Ralph Keener day night. home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tubbs of Castle Spring work is well underway in Rock, Wn„ and Mrs. Della Tubbs Columbia district. visited at the home of Earl Hood Lester Colpitts is employed at the over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Dixson farm . Earl Tubbs are going to make their Mrs. Tllford Stillings and son are home on the project. 111. Horace Hodges is employed at the Lester Hammer home this week. t UMATILLA NEWS t Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Douglas and Miss Myrthena Martin were visitors By MRS. GLENN OSTROM at the B. Hutchison home Sunday. Bryon, infant son of Mrs. Mildred Duane Lathrop left Tuesday for Fromdahl, is quite ill with the flu. La Grande and Wallowa county to Bob Meyers had the misfortune be gone a week or ten days. He re of breaking his arm while working ports Mrs. Lathrop as Improving. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hammer and with the engineers. Mrs. II. B. Hull was hostess to M¡88 Dorothy Ferguson were busi members of the Ladies’ Aid Mission ness visitors In Pendleton last week. Joy Emprson is employed at Ar ary meeting last Thursday. John Mustard spent Thursday In lington. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Struthers Portland on business. had as guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Moses spent last week with Ray Armstrong and Merl Galbraith. his mother who Is quite 111.. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. McCulley were Mrs.- Don Isom Is staying at the callers at the H. A. Wilson home Rex Moses home while her husband Sunday. has gone to Coulee dam. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Foster were Mr. and Mrs. A1 Darr took Mrs. Irrigon visitors Sunday at the Batle Bob Meyers to Pendleton Saturday Rand and George Rand homes. afternoon to see her husband, who Mr. and Mrs. Willis Struthers was in the hospital. went to Pendleton on business last Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chapman Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hammer moved of Pendleton were Sunday visitors to Hermiston last Sunday. They are at the Ervin Chapman home. Mr. and Mrs. George Sampson residing in the house recently oc and family of Stanfield visited at cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Neill. Edward Shaw has been working the home of his parents Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Byrnes, A1 for Mrs. Mary Harr this week. * Indian Once Had Right To Plot He Cultivated tub — BOARDMAN * • If you are in the market for tractors or farm machines it will save you money to see us whether it is a new or used machine you wish to buy. Our used machine* are thoroughly inspected and recondition ed before they are resold. • Our shops are well equipped and are operated by factory schooled men. All equipment sold by us is serviced by factory trained men. • Come in. Visit us. Get acquainted whether you wish to buy anything or not Your Local John Deere and Caterpillar Dealer BRADEN-BELL TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT (0 . CATERPILLAR — JOHN DEERE Pendleton - Phone 518 Stores in Heppner Arlington Athena Walla Walla
