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THURSDAY, MAY V , TH E H ER M IS TO N H ER ALD , HERMISTON, OREGON PAGE The Hermiston Herald Published Every Thursday at Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon. Alfred Quiring and Leander Quiring, Publishers. Entered at the post office at Hermiston as Second Class Matter, Dec. 1906, Umatilla County, Oregon. Subscription Rates One Y ear.......................................... $2.00 Six Months ............................. LOO Three M o n t h s . ... a .., ........................50 Payable in Advance__________ __ Office Telephone................................. -51 Residence Phone .......-----...... ........... 28R____ o r e fejMPjN Q ER P u b l i s h [ e r ^ / Ags y c i a t i o h NOW WHAT? Thousands of high school graduates are asking this question this month aS they leave the second step in their education. Eight years of preliminary training and four years of special instructions are behind them. Now what? Do I want to enter college? Do I want to go to work? How can I go to college? Where will I fur ther my education? Does it pay to go on to some in stitution of higher learning? These are but a few of the many questions which the high school gradu ate must answer before next fall. Play days are behind; worry, hard work and womanhood and manhood lie ahead. The decision the graduate makes now will have much to do with his future. Never in the history ©f this United States de we believe that these questions have been more difficult to answer. . We have only one suggestion to offer—make the decision yourself. In years to come this decision w ill mean much to you and if you have been the own judge of your destiny no greater personal satisfac tion can be found. • People talk of how busy a one-armed paper hanger is when he has the itch but we believe at that he would have to play second fiddle to a turkey picker. The picking room at the new Eastern Ore gon Turkey Growers plant reminds one of a whirl wind which has been turned loose in a flour mill. IRRIGON NEWS ITEMS 1»»». wool for a Boston firm spent Sun day at his home. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bartholomew By Mrs. W. C. Isom left Monday morning for Spokane where they have their sheep for the Mr and Mrs. Vern Caldwell from summer. Portland spent the week end with School will close this week at Pine Mr. and Mrs. Tom Caldwell. City with two graduating seniors Mrs. Williamson, sister of Mrs. and seven graduates of the eighth Tom Caldwell who has been visiting grade. Commencement exercises were here the past several months, accom held Wednesday evning at 8:00 with panied Mr. and Mrs. V. Caldwell to Judge Bert Johnson as speaker. Portland and continued on to her Pine City school picnics were held home at Junction City. on Thursday. The high school went Mrs. Don Kenny and two sone, to the mountains above Heppner and who have been visiting relatives in the grade school children went to Portland the past 10 days, returned the Columbia park near Hermiston. home Thursday. Joyce Puckett is visiting at the Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neill attended the funeral of Harry Tamblin in Carl Haddox home. Mr. and Mrs. Miller Scarlett fram Heppner Thursday. J. T. Ayers ■of Hermleton was a Indiana are visiting his parents. Mr. caller at his ranch on Butter Creek and Mrs A. M. Scarlett, and their • aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Sud- Monday. derth. . „ . . _ A number on the Creek are ill with Mr. and Mrs. Foster of Hermiston Our Safe Deposit Boxes provide the cold-and flu. were guests of Mr. and Mrs. George The teachers have returned to Rand Sunday. every factor of safety and conven their homes for the summer vaca ■ Mr. and Mrs. James Warner were tion. ' Mrs. Lota Kent Trent to Rain dinner gnests of their daughter and ience. No one has access to your ier, Mtss Margaret Weaver went to family, Mr. and Mrs. Batie Rand, on valuables but yourself. You can Portland and Miss Zelta Rdbblns Sl Alvhi Strader, son of Mrs. Beseie went to Halfway. get to them with the utmost priva Mr. and Mrs. John Healy were Strader, d i e d sometime Monday Heppner visitors Saturday. cy as often as you may desire. night from a heart attack while out irrigating. He was found early on Tueday morning on the ditch bank. R. V. Jones is having a well drill ed on his west place. Ray Sparks spent Sunday with his By Ruth Fisher F. B. SWAYZE. President father. He is employed at the saw Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation mill near Heppner. . „ „ . Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Bedwell ot The E. T. Messenger car and a Stanfield were guests of Mr. and car driven 'by Fred Houghton of Ir Mrs. Emery Bedwell Monday night. rigon collided at the crossroads near the race sequences. He is an ac of the lovely gowns, flowers, and Messengers on the west end of the project Saturday evening. Walter THRILLING STORY OF complished hor8eni„z and was given hair-do’s. The juniors deserve much credit Laye took Mr. Messenger and Mr special lessons in track technique by Houghton to Hermiston for medical RACING SOCIETY and commendation for the effort Smoky Saunders, noted jockey, who attention. Mr. Houghton received and work gone to to make their also acted in “King of the Turf.” two broken ribs and Mr. Messenger dance the nicest and most beautiful was badly shaken up. Both were able Adolphe Menjou, star of some of ly decorated of any yet given In the to return home. „...-i, Jim, Robert and Wayne McCutch- last season’s most notable screen gym. en visited at the John Fisher home successes, and Roger Daniel, already ANNUAL PROM being hailed as the juvenile screen Sunday. Mrs. Chas. Dillon, Clana Mae Dil find of the year, head the cast of HUGE SUCCESS NAMES OF MULLINS, lon, Ruth Fisher and Mardell Gor the new romantic film drama, "King ham motored to Pendleton Saturday MOORE ON PLAQUE (From the Bulldog) of the Turf,” which starts Wednes to spend the day shopping. The class of 1940 was host to the Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sullivan and day at the Oasis theatre. The names of Geraldine Mullin« children motored to Pendleton Sat The story concerns 'a small-time most festive dance of the year last urday. . . gambler who through a series of Friday when they honored the sen and Jesse Moore, highest in schol Commencement exercises were neia astics of the senior class of '39, have in the high school auditorium on lucky breaks becomes one of the iors with their annua! Junior Prom been engraved on the plaque in the The motif for decoration, Lime- most colorful and spectatular fig Thursday evening, May 18. Roy L. Skeen of the Eastern Oregon Normal urea of the smart racing crowd. Men house Blues, proved to be an excel assembly room. Geraldine Mullins, with a 1.23 av School was the speaker. jou, in the role of Jim Mason who lent one on which to build, a s , the Baccalaureate services were held crashes into high society by way of gymnasium received much praise erage, was given the highest rating. in the Community church Sunday. Those receiving honorable mention Eighth grade commencement ex the Sport of Kings, plays a new type and comment. Transfigured with were Eleanor Steiner and Ralph pagodas, lanterns, pale cherry blos of characterization—going from a ercises were held in the school audi torium Wednesday evening. Eleven suave man-about-town to a defeated soms, and Chinese letters and fig Marble. The plaque was presented in 1937 pupils graduated from the eighth down-and-outer, disillusioned and ures, the scene was one of a lovely grade this year. Chinese garden. Cleverly made lan by the Master Engravers, at which broken by a game of chance which Mrs. Claude Coats and daughter time the names of Margaret Clarke Echo motored to Pendleton last Fri in the end proved to be only sham. terns proved to be the dance pro Roger Daniel, the fifteen-year-old grams, which were filled rapidly! 1 and Bill Harris were placed on It, day. Nels Christensen and daughter screen "find,” who plays the juven the incentive being the sweet music followed in 1938 by those of Jim Elizabeth motored to Hermiston on ile lead in the picture, rides in all of Steele’s orchestra, to say nothing Jackson and Nina Rae McCulley. Monday. W HY? Take Any Chances W it h Y o tir DÉEDS, H W U R A ÌÌtt P O LIC IE S , ! : AND OTHER VALIABLE LÈTTERS. :: FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HERMISTON BOARDMAN NEWS • We are getting so we don’t even read the daily papers concerning the dam. All we have to do is come down town in the morning and read the faces of certain individuals. If the chin is down not very good. If a smile—good news. A blank ex pression—another postponement. UMATILLA NEWS By Mrs. Glenn Ostrom Mrs. Frank Clark left Friday for Parkdale, Idaho, to be with her mo ther on Mother’s Day. Margaret Brown accompanied her, going on to Boise to visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Brown . Betty Laudhart left Friday for Portland to visit with her grandmo ther and to receive medical atten- Many people attended the open house at the local school Friday af ternoon. . . The Ladies Aid held its 6 months “Capsule” party at the Community Hall recently with a 1:00 o clock pot luck lunch followed by a business meeting and »be exchanging of gifts and drawing of names. Mrs Elmore McKenzie left last week for Wisconsin where she will visit for a few days. Her aunt will return home with her and will visit her sister. Mrs. Jennie Blakely Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mann and son Joe spent the week end visiting her mother in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Al. Stephens left last week for Salt Lake where they are visiting and attending to business. They expect to be gone only a ajort "llsssie Dexter has returned home COMING AGAIN DR.-H. C. CURRY The old reliable optome trist of Seattle who ha* made professional visits to Hermiston for 25 years will again be at— HERMISTON HOTEL Thursday, May 25 FOR ONE DAY. — EYES EXAMINED - Glasses fitted to relieve eye strain & headache. Charges Reasonable. from Dale. Ore., where she taught school this season. Charlie DeHart of Sunnyside spent the week end visiting here. Mr. and Mrs. Del Jackson and daughter Louise spent Saturday In Pendleton. Miss Veta Moran, student at Kin- man Business College in Spokane, spent the week end visiting her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Al. Moran. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Duff and infant son of Athena spent Mother’s Day at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, H. O. Thompson. The ”500” club held its last meet ing until fall Saturday evening. Mr. 'and Mrs. John Kinney and daughter Margaret spent Saturday in Pendleton. "Glenn Ostrom. Vane Hiatt and Maurice Priddy spent Saturday af ternoon fishing on the Umatilla near Pendleton. Mrs. Ostrom accompa nied them as far as Pendleton where she visited with Betty McKenzie, who is a student nurse at St. Anthony’s hospital. Mrs. Art Bousquet is recovering rapidly after a serious fall recently when she stepped on a loose board and fell on her head In the base ment of her home, which she is hav ing remodeled. Mr. and Mrs. John Mustard and daughter Margie spent Tuesday af ternoon in Pendleton. PINE CITY NEWS By Mrs. Bernice Wattenburger Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Brewster of Spokane. Wn., spent Mother’s Day with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGreer. Mr. and Mrs. Oarl Wattenburger and son Frederick of Pasco. Wn., spent Sunday at the A. E. Watten burger home. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Wilkins return ed Friday evening from their trip to the east. A bridal shower and basket dinner was held last Sunday at the C. H. Bartholomew home in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rauch Jr. A large crowd attended and many lovely gifts were received by the honored couple. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stewart of Seattle arrived Saturday to spend two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Cox and fam ily and Miss Geneva Young were Sunday dinner guests at the E. B. Wattenburger home. Robert McGreer who Is buying — IN« You can say goodbye to costly guessing about refrigerator temperatures! New TRUE-TEMI’ Cold Control gets the degree of cold you want AND HOLDS IT regardless of changes in kitchen temperature. Ends needless food spoil age due to insufficient cold or fluctuat- ing temperatures. Simply dial the tem perature you want — for instance, 40 degrees, and it stays 40° with constant SAFE temperatures in each part of the refrigerator. See the TRUE -TEMP Cold Control in the new 1939 Westing house. Why not drop in . . . today? 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