PAGE SIX
THURSDAY, APRIL 20,
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
week's issue.
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V a r ie ty o f M e ta ls M a rk
M a r r ia g e A n n iv e ra a riea
Married couples who reach the
happy time when they have been
married 25 or 50 years celebrate
Your co-op. store is in a position to serve you better. Our overhead
these two anniversaries as their
is lower, and our prices are lower. Consumer co-ops are succeed
silver and their golden wedding, re
ing because they are a practical application of sound economics.
spectively, and the husband is sup
posed to give his wife a present of
the m etal named. Other m etals
are deem ed suitable for lesser anni
versaries; the longer the length of
tim e the more valuable the metal.
The first year’s anniversary is the
R egular or Quick Cooking -
lbs.
iron wedding, the fifth the copper,
the tenth the tin. As the supply of
m etals won’t go round, other sub
stances are chosen by those who
like to celebrate almost every re
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BIG VALUE!
curring m arriage date, observes a
Fresh Roasted
T
ake
a
tin
can
to
th
e
garden
with
PURE
writer in London Tit-Bits magazine.
Fresh Ground
you about one-third filled
with So we have paper for the second,
lb.
coal-oil, and flip beetles and worms leather for the third, wool for the
seventh, and silk for the twelfth,
into It as you go.
the fifteenth crystal and the twen
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tieth china, pearl and ruby for the
If you wish choice d ah lia bulbs, thirtieth and fortieth, the diamond
Lb. can
get in touch w ith Mrs. Joe Udey. is the sixtieth anniversary, and the
She has finished her p la n tin g and platinum the rarely-reached seven
Large - Per doz.
will dispose of her su rp lu s a t a trif tieth.
Queen Victoria was, on one occa
L arge Yellow or
ling cost.
Blue & W hite
© For
sion, asked to mark the seventieth
wedding anniversary of two old sub
jects by conferring on them some
T O W N S E N D F LA SH ES.
mark of royal favor. She refused,
The Townsend club m eeting was however, saying that she considered
well attended last F rid ay night. 75 years the diamond period.
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Not everyone agrees on the appro
Many im portant issues were dis
401
priate gift; m any call the first an
cussed and several com m ittees gave niversary cotton, the fifth, wooden;
reports. A report from head q u ar the fifteenth, copper. But all are
ters was read sta tin g th a t our bill agreed about silver and gold.
giving a valuable list of books, mag
is soon to be put before th e finance
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azines and pam phlets.
GARDEN CLUB
com m ittee of the Senate— also a re
Members of garden clubs in othei
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port th a t Oregon has put in 8000 L a r g e , V a lu a b le F o r e sts
CHATS
cities were guests at th e m eeting
new members into th e ir club since
In t h e N o r th e r n S e c tio n
and presidents of these clubs spoke
There is a great land m ass, 10,000
Ja n u a ry 1.
feet high or over, in the region of
A record attendance of Garden briefly on the aim s and accom plish
Miss Mumma, piano teacher, gave the South pole, whereas around the
club members and guests enjoyed a m ents of th e ir various groups. Mrs.
talk by Mrs. George M itchell of E arl Thompson, Pendleton, Mrs. A. a very pleasing piano solo. Mr. H a t North pole there is water or ice
surface at sea level. In general it
Pendleton at the m eeting last Mon C. E bert, Echo, and Mrs. W. T. field's 4-year-old son was very clev is colder at the South Polar region
Reeves,
Stanfield,
wpre
presidents
er
in
answ
ering
Townsend
questions.
day. A fter a short business meeting
than at the North Polar region, be
The next m eeting of th e club will
the speaker was introduced by Mrs. from th eir respective clubs, and Mrs.
cause of thia greater elevation, both
be held A pril 28 a t 7:30. All mem the average tem peratures and the
H. K. Dean, chairm an of the h o rti A. E. M cFarland of U m atilla, who
bers are urged to be present to extrem e tem peratures being lower.
cultural committee. Mrs. M itchell’s was unable to be present, was repre-
elect a delegate to send to the fourth The area of Antarctica or the Ant
cented by Mrs. H arry Hull.
talk was on th e subject, "Shrubbery
The reg u lar table decoration was Townsend n ational convention from arctic regions is estim ated at over
in Home B eautification.” Mrs. Mit
5,000,000 square m iles, or equal to
by
Mrs. M. P. Cassedy. P in k and Ju n e 22 to 25 to be held in In d ian a
chell is the wife of the superintend
Australia and Europe without Rus
polis,
Ind.
Com
m
ittee
presidents
en t of th e Pendleton field station. w hite flow ering alm onds and lilacs
sia.
The Britannica contrasts the
Mrs. M itchell has made a study of were used. Many other bouquets of are asked to m ake rep o rts a t th is
this phase of garden planting, as sp rin g flowers w ere placed ab o u t the m eeting. A program w ill be fu rn North and South Polar regions thus:
ished by the new ly elected com mit Within the area north of 60 degrees
well as practical work along this room.
tee of Mrs. Morehouse, Mrs. H artley latitude live more than a million
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line a t the station, and her talk was
and Mrs. P rindle. A jitn ey lunch human inhabitants and countless
very helpful to the am ateur garden
At the next m eeting th e sending
will be served by th e au x iliary lad land animals. Some of the largest
ers in the audience.
Notes taken of a delegate to the sta te federation
and m ost valuable timber forests
ies a t th e close of th e m eeting. The are north of this line, and not a few
a t the m eeting prove too voluminous of garden clubs a t F orest Grove,
public is alw ays invited.
industries connected with lumber,
for this column, but she spoke on May 15, 16 and 17, will be dis
mining and fishing flourish. In the
foundation and boundary planting, cussed.
sim ilar area in the southern hemi- |
GRADE CROSSING
continuing bloom throughout the
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sphere, there is not a single per
season, and shrubs and perennials
manent human inhabitant nor a sin
In an endeavor to catch up w ith ACCIDENTS CITED
suited to this locality, as well as the unusually early season the flow
gle human animal larger than an
insect. There are no trees and few
er show com m ittee is considering
If a person has an earn est desire plants of any kind. The sole indus
advancing the d ate of the show. This
try is whaling, carried on a few
will be decided upon and announced to com mit suicide w hile driving his months of each year. Probably
H. A. WILSON
autom obile, a tim e-tested method is less than 100 square m iles of this
later.
CASH BUYER
to drive upon a railroad track in vast area are free from a perma
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HOGS — CATTLE
fro n t of a ro arin g passenger train , nent covering of ice.
Spots to serve as focal points for according to Secretary of S tate E arl
VEAL — SHEEP
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Hermiston, Ore. the pilgrim ages announced in the Snell.
program books will be stated in next
Gibbon Roosts in Tree
Y et w hile a high proportion of
The gibbon is the m ost two-legged
fata lities resu lt from accidents in of the anthropoids. Proportionate
which locomotives strik e autom o ly, his upright gait, leg length and
biles which drive in fro n t of them, posture are more nearly like ours
approxim ately half of all grade than are those of the other apes,
(ft
crossing accidents resu lt from the although his top weight is usually
autom obile's ru n n in g into the train . about 14 pounds and there is nothing
human about the way he travels
This type of m ishap is especially when speed is the essence; he can
common a t n ig h t when visibility is swing across a 40-foot space be
WILL OPEN THEIR EYES
tween trees with a precision and
poor.
I ^ s t sum m er a tru ck driver w«as timing that only wings could im
AT THESE SPECIALS—
crushed to death and his tru ck bad prove. His usual night roost is a
ly wrecked when he drove it Into crotch in a tree, h it unlike other
apes he clasps his knees after he
the side of a train of fla t cars w hich gets his back settled against the
was stan d in g a t a crossing, afte r trunk. One of the com m onest in
dusk. The year before an o th er driv stinctive gestures of man is to bare
8 oz. Westag
er was killed when he drove past 13 ly close one hand and draw the back
autom obiles stopped
at a grade of it laterally, lightly, across his
crossing and crashed into the side of lips. This is exactly the manner
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in which the gibboa drinks; he wets
a slowly-m oving freig h t train . T his the fur on the back of his hand and
accident also occurred a t night.
uses it as a drinking sponge.
W atchfulness and caution should
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be th e rule a t grade crossings, be
Frogs Make Long Hops
cause tra in s w hich are moving fast
Any ordinary frog can hop 18
for
cannot be stopped in tim e to avoid
Maca
trouble, even though th e engineer inches, but it takes a trained jumper
to do better than 10 feet. For som e
may see the approaching automobile. reason American frogs hop farther
than those of Europe, says the
Washington Post. Usual training
methods are sim ply to make croak
lbs.
ers jump frequently, develop their
Hard Wheat
hind legs. But they are tem pera
m ental, often refuse to perform in
Large 2 ^ size
a contest. An old one, the sport
was especially popular in early
3 for 29c
Western mining cam ps. Prospectors
often wagered thousands of dollars
Graham or White
GATE-CRASHERS
BALL GAMES
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2 lb. box
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MACARONI gl£0 2 Lb* 9c
OATS
9 37c
COFFEE Corn 3
25c
Lard
15*
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We now believe in S an ta Claus,
even if he did come to us when it
was 87 in the shade. H is g ift to the
com m unity took the form of a check
for 110.00 from th e Pendleton Men's
chorus, as th e ir unsolicited donation
tow ard the expenses of th e concert
a few weeks ago. It was one of
those fine things th a t occasionally
happen and we are su re th a t the
com m unity will show th e ir appre
ciation when the chorus retu rn s to
en te rta in us next year. T his makes
a to ta l at $35.35 secured from the
concert for th e p ark k itchen fund.
4 “* 39c
$ 1 .0 9
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3 cans 21«
COCOA
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4 lbs. 39c
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EGGS Fresh Standard - Doz.
A Famous Dungeon
One of the m ost famous dungeons
in history is in the Chateau de Chil-
lon on Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
Between 1530 and 1536, says Col
lier’s Weekly, it w as the prison of
Francois Bonivard, a politician and
the hero of Byron’s poem, "The
Prisoner of Chillon,” Since that
time, countless tourists have visited
the cell and thousands have in-
I scribed their names on its walls,
among them being Byron, George
i Sand and Victor Hugo.
BUT RAILROAD C A T«-C R ASH ER S
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Lincoln at Prayer
C W ISC LC R S IN A A A ttB L * W IW
F A M * A N D « IN O W N .
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O I S B l E f t S IN T R A P S IC W I N
S IX F B B T O F • R . O U N 'P Z
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The statue called Lincoln at Pray
er is in the Washington cathedral,
Washington, D. C. It was executed
by Herbert Houck of Harrisburg,
Pa., and presented by his sister,
Mrs. William T. Hildrup, Jr., of
New York. Houck was inspired to
make the statue by hearing his
grandfather recount his experience
of com ing upon Lincoln on his knees
The figure in the statue is kneeling
on a blanket of leaves.
1939.
Girls Of That ‘Uncertain Age’
Get Life’s Answers Early
N C E a month the teen-aye girls of Bethlehem, Pa., gather in the
high-school auditorium “to find out.” The doors are locked; not
a boy is in sight.
Life grows more pleasant, living more gracious because of these
meetings; tor here the girls unburden their minds of questions they
would not ask even the most sympathetic mother— questions o f * tnor; a u
and manners.
O
The Bethlehem Girls’ Council
came into being three years ago.
group of enlightened women heard
of a plan dealing with the problems
of high-school girts and set about
putting it into effect. They succeeded
so well that the National Council of
Women now has adopted the Beth
lehem Plan and stand ready to spon
sor girls’ councils all over the
country.
The plan is simply this: to let the
girls teach themselves, rather than
be k . ured to, through their own
dramatizations of playlets of morals
and manners. There la a question-
bos into which the girls drop any
quaetiona they choose. They do not
sign their names. From these ques
tions the monthly plays are chosen.
Members of the women’s committee
prepare a rough script and turn it
over to the girls for polishing. Teen
age language and atmosphere, of
course, are employed.
Helen Welshimer, who was sent
to Bethlehem by Good Housekeep
ing to make a first-hand study of
the plan, relates her impressions in
an article called “The Questions
They Ask” in the April issue. She
reports that all of Bethlehem agrees
the plan is “the best thing that ever
struck this town.”
The playlets range in theme any
where from the problems of smok
ing, drinking and petting to how to
acquire charm, poise and personal
ity- The following are A few of the
questions already successfully an
A swered:
How should you handle a boy who
tries to get fresh?
Should you leave a boy when ho
has had too much to drink?
What do you think about going on
blind dates?
How do YOU rate at a dance ?
Is it right, when you have gono
out with a boy a few times, to let
him kits you good-night?
In addition to these dramatisa
tions, there are personal-appearatme
clinics and pre-marriage and pre
business classes, usually reserved
for senior girls. Famous women
hyaicians lecture on hygiene and
ealth; then the girls hand in un
signed, written questions — the
frankest sort of questions—which
the lecturer answers in equally
frank language.
Thanks to the Bethlehem Plan,
girls of that “uncertain age” are
going to have an easier time of it.
They will be able to meet the world
with greater assurance, knowing
that what they have been taught
will help make them better wives,
better mothers and better citizens.
The National Council of Women
is going to act as a clearing house’
for communities throughout the
country, providing them at cost with
detailed outlines of the Bethlehem
Plan. The National Council of
Women, Inc., may be reached at
International Building, Rockefeller
Cent«,. New York City.
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