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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1939)
-u NEWS FROM YOUR i OWN STATE CAPITOL By A. L. lfl. oi (State Capital a 0 V '’**” £ ,u g « n e ’ PENDLETON IS RE-LECTE Or«- KXXII VISIT SALEM—The state board of agri HALE'S CONFECTIONERY culture met here Saturday and re elected Mac Hoke, Pendleton, chair man and G. A. Brown, Portland, as M O N D A Y N IG H T » ukol ARS vice chairman. The board voted to hold a reor ganization meeting immediately after ENTRANCE GAINED each new governor goes into office. It was the first meeting since Gov. BY REAR W IN D O W Charles A. Sprague took office. Director J. D. Mickle, recently ap The first serious robbery in Herm pointed for another term by Gover iston for several years occurred Mon nor Sprague, reviewed the work day night when Roy Hale’s Confec done during the last year by the de tionery and Sporting Goods Store partment in formulating policies. was entered and robbed. No defi nite information has been reecived ❖ ❖ ❖ of the burglars although several Oregon Has Many New Laws— Oregon now has 367 new laws strong clues are being traced. A checkup Tuesday morning re which it did not have before June 14. On that date all the laws passed vealed that $72 in silver, one 35 by the 1939 legislature except those Remington rifle, one 32 Remington carrying emergency clauses went in rifle, both slide action, one High to effect, 90 days after adjournment. Standard automatic, one Iver John Silliest new law was one forbid son 22, one 3 2 Colts automatic, one ding the catching of female craw 380 Colts automatic, one 25 Colts fish, or male crawfish under 2 and a automatic, one 32-40 Winchester ri half inches in length. The law does fle, 25,000 .22 ammunition, a quan not explain how to determine the tity of high power ammunition and possibly other loot was obtained. sex of "crawdads.” Mr. Hale had closed his store ❖ ❖ ❖ about 1:25 a. m. and had stepped Old Capitol Is No More— across the street to eat a lunch be The old Oi>gon capitol building is fore going home. It was approxi no more. mately 2:10 when he recrossed the The last traces disappeared this street to enter his car at which time week when workmen pulled down by force of habit he peered into the the brick chimney which was a part store. No sign of activity was not of the east wall of the old building. iced at this time. At about 3:00 The chimney was left standing as o’clock B. J. Nation, local officer, a part of the heating plant, which noticed that the back door of the served to warm the building until store was open. It is estimated that only recently when the new $115,- the burglars were not in he store 000 heating plant two blocks away longer than 20 minutes to a half was put into service. hour. ♦ ♦ ♦ Entrance was gained by breaking Many File for Water Permits— the latch on a high window in the Recent filings for water permits rear of the store. Matches were used have been the heaviest in history, for light during the robbery. Mr. State Engineer Chae. Stricklin an Nation obtained a license number of nounced here. A dry spring follow a car which was seen to leave the ed by only intermittent rains caused city about this time. This number the heavy influx of applications, has been traced and has quite a his Stricklin said. Many of the appli tory. cations were denied for lack of wa Two men were released from jail ter facilities, but an estimated 10,- in Bend Sunday. They drove to Moro 000 additional acres will be under where they stole this license plate water in the Willamette valley this from a car in that city. A descrip year. tion of the car and men has been ♦ ♦ ♦ broadcast about the state but to date no definite information has been se Chicks Lost.by Fire— A thousand three-weeks .old chicks cured. The robbers in their haste missed were burned to death here when the brooder house at the state peniten a golden opportunity to add to their tiary annex four miles southeast of already heavy loot. A leather bag town burned recently. The fire pro containing checks and $50 In cur bably started in an over-heated rency was pushed to the floor and brooder stove, and caused damages overlooked. Mr. Hale had prepared estimated at $2,000. The brick walls it for deposit the next morning. A of the brooder house were left stand conservative estimate set th value of the loss at $245. No burglary in ing. surance was carried. ♦ ♦ ♦ Liquor Bill on File— A referendum petition to give the people a chance to vote on the so- called “hotel liquor” bill passed by the last legislature, is on file here. The bill provides that the liquor commission may issue or deny licens es for the sale of liquor by “clubs” and restaurants, and also maintain a closer supervision of liquor problems. The referendum was filed by "Com- monsense, Inc.” a Portland group. ♦ ♦ ♦ Capitol Open Each Sunday— The new state capitol building will be open on Sundays during the summer months for the convenience of out-of-town visitors wishing to inspect It. The announcement was made by Secretary of State Earl Snell after many organizations had pleaded for the “open house.” Visit ing hours will be from 10 a. m. un til 4 P- m. SCOUTS LEAVE FOR BINGHAM SPRINGS An enthusiastic group of 18 Boy Scouts, all in good standing, left at 7:00 a. m. Thursday for Bingham Springs for the annual encampment. Cars were furnished by Roy Penney of Stanlield. John Clarke and Earl Watson of Hermiston. The group U expected to return Sunday after noon. Hiking, swimming, fishing, ad vancement tests and other endea vors will occupy the time of the boys while in camp. The same or der as is followed in Council Camps will be used. Allen Clarke will be the bugler. This is the first time that a bugler has been available for the local troop. A buddy system of camping will be foil wed whereby two boys sleep, cook and generally work together. Proceeds from sales at the recent derby races will be uaed to finance the trip. SCHOOL OFFICERS ARE RE-ELECTED R. A. Brownson, clerk, and N. R. Mueller, director, were re-elected to office at the annual District . 14 school election held in the school building Monday afternoon. Fol lowing the election between 3:00 and 4:00 o’clock an inspection of the building was made and sugges tions made as to its repair. A com paratively light vote was cast. The annual meeting of Hermiston Union high school District No. 9 will be held Monday from 2:00 to 7:00 p. m. One director for a five year term will be elected and the trans action of business usual at such a meeting. itmLiton 4-/ziaLdL OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER HEXMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 22, 1939. Xylophone A rtis t to Appear Here HOPES BRIGHTENED BY NEW REPORT December and also appeared before the Commercial club. His concerts are enoyed wherever he goes. The public is invited to attend the pro gram. LOCAL MEN SPEAK O.S.C. DAIRYMEN TO FOR SUPER ROAD SPEAK AT FIELD DAY BEFORE COMMISSION SATURDAY. JULY 1 Enos D. Martin, F. C. McKenzie and E. P. Dodd appeared before the state highway commission at Port land Wednesday in the interest of the newly proposed road leading from Stewart’s Service Station about half mile south of Hermiston, along the railroad tracks to First street, coming out behind the local bank building. The road will continue north across the hill and take a dia gonal course to a point about a half mile east of the overhead crossing near Umatilla, on the Wallula cut off. The road would be of heavy con struction to take care of the heavy oil trucks coming out of the port of Umatilla. The proposed road would eliminate four curves and a railroad crossing in Hermiston and would be the connecting link between Pendle ton and Umatilla, a distance of 40 miles, without any sharp curves. Should the road be built it would take the heavy trucks off Main street in Hermiston. It would also prove an advantage to the numer ous oil trucks which will leave the Uma’illa oil port for various points inland. NEXT CONCERT TO BE JULY 1 The next band concert by the Her miston Union high school band, un der the direction of G. C. Humph reys, will be given in front of the high school building Saturday night, July 1. The first of a series of con certs was given two weeks ago and proved popular with townspeople. Band practice will be held Satur day night, June 24, in the high school gymnasium. STATE POLICEMAN KILLED IN GUN DUEL State Trooper Willard Tubbs, 33, was killed Wednesday in a gun duel with Lee Cooling, wanted in four states on bad check charges. Tubbs was well known In Hermis ton but was stationed between Ar lington and Umatilla. "BLUE BUCKO NUGGETS" TITLE OF BOOK WRITTEN BY HERMISTON WOMAN "Blue Bucket Nuggets” Is the title of a book juet published and written by Mrs. Catherine Cornwall DeMoss of the Columbia district. Mrs. DeMoss had written the story some four years ago but Just recent ly sold the copyright to Binfords & Mort, Portland publishers. Mrs. De Moss hag received considerable com ment in recent years for her liter ary talents and has another story in the makirfg. "Blue Bucket Nuggets" is a tale of Oregon's lost immigration. The story is based on the Blue Bucket legend which is carried over from the annals of Oregon covered-wagon days. The story of the lost immi gration, that followed the Meek Cut off, has never before been fully told. The caravan, wandering for weeks across the unmarked Oregon desert east of the Cascades, under the lea dership of Rtephen Meek. lost, beset ANNUAL TURKEY GROWERS MEETING REVEALS INCREASE COMMERCE GROUP RECOMMENDS DAM TO U. S. SENATE Roy W. Graybill will give a con cert of Sound Music at the Hermis ton Union church Sunday evening, June 25, at 8:00 p. m. Mr. Graybill gave a concert last by Indians, starving, dying of thirst and sickness, has given to history one of the most tragic as well as one of the most inspiring chronicles of the Oregon Trail. Members of the Lost Immigration were courageous and determined, but suffered the tragedies of wagon days on the prairies. The trip be gan at Fort Hall and lasted until its few pitiful survivors launched their crafts on the treacherous Columbia Mrs. DeMoss, a descendant of the immigrants of 1846. who was reared on a donation land claim in a typi cal pioneer home, believes she has discovered the true account of the Blue Bucket gold nuggets, and In search of this material has found many other exciting episodes of the Lost Immigration, from old diaries and original sources to which she had access. (Continued on page • ) Plans are nearly completed for the annual dairy and pasture day to be held this year at the Umatilla Field Station on Saturday, July 1. A group of professors from Oregon State college who will be returning from the National Dairy Science as sociation meeting at Pullman will attend and will appear on the pro gram. It was originally planned by the committee in charge of the program that a tour would be conducted to view different types of pastures as well as dairy management practices on various farms: however, since the visiting college dairymen can only spend a short time at Hermiston, it was decided to concentrate on the work being done at the experiment fitrm. An unusualy opportunity is afford ed farmers in this district to meet and talk with all of the members of the Corvallis dairy instructional staff. Those in attendance will be Professor P. M. Brandt, head of the department of Animal Husbandry, and Professors Jones, Ewalt and Wll- ster of the Dairy Department. Farmers and their families will assemble at the Field Station at 10:- 30 a. m. From, then until noon a short tour will be made of the dairy barn, pasture trials, and other fields of particular interest to dairy far mers. At noon a picnic lunch will be held on the station lawns. After lunch Professor Jones will discuss the importance of winter succulents in the dairy ration. He will be fol lowed by Professor Wilster, who will talk on the new cream grading laws. Professors Brandt and Ewalt will discuss some of the recent findings of the National Dairy Science Asso ciation. Details of the field day are being worked out by a committee compos ed of H. J. Ott, representing Colum bia Grange and the Umatilla Project Farm Bureau; Don Sherwood, repre senting Westland grange; H. K. Dean, superintendent of the Umatilla Field Station, and M. E. Knicker bocker, assistant county agent. NO U TURN SIGN GRACES STREET Hermiston Main street took on the aspect of a large city Tuesday when a No U Turn sign was installed at the intersection of Second and Main street. Traffic diffici^tles in th» past created a necessity of some such action. The law goes into effect immedi ately and violators will be punished. The sign is of black lettering on a yellow background. GOLFERST x T p LAY AT ATHENA SUNDAY Hermiston golfing contingent will invade Athena Sunday morning for a return match, Athena having played here earlier in the season and losing by a narrow margin. The Athena course is located a short dis tance out of tlje city. The tournament Is scheduled to begin at 8:30 and local golf club members are expected to get an ear ly start to be on hand for a few practice »hots before beginning tourney play. NUMBER 44 SUMMARY REPORT SHOWS G AIN IN HERMISTON AREA The annual meeting of the East ern Oregon Turkey Giowers’ associa tion was held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the recently complet ed plant in Hermiston. The purpose of the meeting wa sto elect three di rectors and attend to other businees of the association and the plant. Three directors were re-elected, including Logan Todd, C. A. Flannl- gan and C. A. Keller. J. C. Leedy, field manager for the Oregon Turkey Growers Cooperative, was present and gave a summary re port of the susvey recently made In this district. A decided increase of turkeys was noted. Last year ap proximately 39,000 birds were hand led by the local association but it was estimated that this year’s ton nage would reach a total of 60,000 birds. This number is registered with the local association at the present time with a considerable number of turkeys not registered by this group. A representative of a California barrel and box company was present to demonstrate shipping boxes now in the making. The new boxes weigh approximately seven pounds while those which were used several years ago weighed as much as 21. The lighter container will hold the same amount and will stand 100 pound weight. The annual picnic of the Eastern Oregon Turkey Growers’ association will be held the third Saturday in August at the Hermiston experiment farm. A. E. Bensel is chairman of (Continued on page 5) According to a telegram received in Hermiston earlier in the week, indications are that the proposed navigation dam at Umatilla still has a fair chance of making the grade in congress. The telegram from Senator Charles L. McNlary stated that the dam was recommended by the senate commerce committee at an estimated cost of $23,700,000. Ignoring the refusal of the house to approve the project earlier, the committee included it in the 1940 rivers and harbors authorization bill. The committee held the project would be of great benefit in speed ing development of the Pacific northwest and added that it was "perfect” from an engineering stand point. "The Umatilla dam,” the commit tee report said, "will regulate the flow of the Columbia river and will materially increase the value of the generating plant at Bonneville dam, 150 miles wejt.” The committee recommended that the Umatilla dam should be con structed for navigation only at the present time, with “foundations and such construction as engineers find necessary for the ultimate installa tion of wheels and generators for creating electric energy which will in time be needed in this favored section— the Pacific northwest.” The house defeated the project af CLUB MEMBERS ter assertions by foes of the adminis i tration’s public power program that ATTEND PICNIC the dam was designed primarily for power generation in competition Several members of the Hermiston with private enterprise. Garden Club attended the annual picnic of members of various clubs MALE OUARTET of Umatilla county held thia year at Echo. A feature of the entertain TO SING HERE ment was the showing of slides in the Echo theatre of various scenes A male quartet from the North from Vdctorla, B. C. west Christian college of Eugene Among those going from Hermis will give a concert in the Hermiston ton were Mrs. F. B. Belt. Mrs. Geo. Union church Monday evening, June Harkenrtder, Mrs. Ben O’Conner, 26. at 8:00 o’clock. The quartet is Mrs. Julius Glmble. Mrs. Walter composed of Gilbert Kissler, George Smith, Mrs. Arietta White, Mrs. Emil Whippet, Don Cox and Dean Steph Zlvney, Mrs. Alice Wagner, Mrs. ens. James Todd, Mrs. Tom O'Grady, Rev. K. E. Burke, president of the Mrs. Morrell, Mrs. Roy Hale, Mrs. college, is touring the northwest F. C. McReynolds and Mrs. Tom Fra with the quartet. There will be no ser. admission charge and the public is Invited. LIBRARY PROJECT ALMOST COMPLETED The work of lowering and leveling the grounds at the Hermiston library has almost been completed Dirt has been hauled away and the landscape levelled for irrigation. The labor has been furnished by WPA. No grass will be planted this summer but efforts will be made to clear the ground of weeds. WEATHER "REPORT The following is the weather re port for the week ending Wednesday, June 21, acording to Charles Tay lor, local weather man. A total of .25 rainfall was recorded during the week. 57 June 15 ................ ...... 79 44 ...... 75 June 16 49 June 17 ................ ...... 72 55 . 70 June 18 ................ 56 ........ 82 June 19 57 84 June 20 ............... 49 June 21 ............. 94 MRS. MARY HOUSE FARMERS ARRANGE FOR FARM TOUR Farmers and their families of Boardman and Irrigon will get to gether Saturday, June 24, for a pic nic and farm tour, which will extend over all the West Extension Project. A short program and some type of athletic games will start the day at the Boardman high school at eleven o’clock. At 12:30 everyone w ill Join In a picnic lunch, everyone bringing their own lunch and com bining It in cafeteria style. Agricultural projects which will be observed in the tour will include pasture crops, alfalfa, weeds, corn, electric fencing and farmstead ar rangement. Council To Meet Friday Night The regular meeting of the Herm iston city council was postponed this week from Wednesady till Friday night, according to Mayor F. C. Mc Kenzie. The change was made in order to allow members to attend a state highway meeting In Portland. Funeral services for the late Mrs. Fire Hydrants Redecorated. The fire hyrants about the Her Mary House, 81, who passed away last Thursday, June 15. were held miston streets resembled miniature Saturday at 10:00 a. m. from the ¡Christmas trees this week after they | had been painted by F. E. Earnhart, Folsom chapel In Pendleton. She is survived by a daughter, who was working for the city. A Mrs. L. W. Copeland of Pendleton, bright aluminum paint and a red and a son. Jack House, of Hermis color presented a pleasing sight. ton. She leaves five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Ray Shaw Breaks Arm. Ray "Foozle” Shaw, son of Mr. Pall bearer« for the funeral were J. O. McConnell, Clarence Power, and Mrs. Guy Shaw, suffered a com Doris Copeland. Kenneth Simpson. mon boyish accident last week when Mike Folsom and Don Gray. Unity he fell from a tree and broke his atudenta attended the services In a arm. Although his arm Is In a cast, he feels up to par thia week. body.
