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k NEWS FROM YOUR! OWN STATE CAPITOL « . By A« ¡o*’ e. O*e‘ a tm Lit on ■/ja.t&LdL OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER (State Cap IE XXXII POLITICS LULL IN HALE ROBBER IS SALEM— Political activity In Sa lem is at a standstill. There are (AUGHT WITH GOODS still several major appointments to be made by Gov. Charles A. Sprague, HI HIS POSSESSION but he is taking bis time studying ~.aaf$A them. Of most interest at the present time is appointment of a successor to Arthur K. McMahan as a member of the state liquor control commis sion. McMahan resigned many weeks ago but no successor has been chos en. Other appointments pending arq of the various members of county re lief committees, which since the last legigslature are known as Public Welfare committees. ❖ ♦ « HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. JU NE 29, 1939. Mrs. Sm ith N ot Coming. The proposed visit of Mrs. U. G, Smith of Tangent, state president of Garden clubs, was called off at the last minute. She had originally planned to be here Saturday, and plans had been completed for a re ception. No future plans were re ceived by Mrs. F. B. Belt, local club president. CALM LY ATTENDS SHOW IN HERMISTON HOT WEATHER IN The arm of the law didn’t have to PROSPECT HERE N u wl BER. 43 SECOND SAGE FIRE THOUGHT SET BY PASSING AUTOIST ANNUAL DAIRY ■ PASTURE DAY TO BE HELD SATURDAY FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY IN W IN D COUNTY FAIR NEW NAME CHOSEN FOR HERMISTON SHOW OREGON STATE MEN TO APPEAR ON P R O G R A M A second sage fire, exactly two weeks from the first, caused consid reach very far this week when Jack Rogers (alias Davis) virtually walk The annual Umatilla Project Fair Local residents who have been erable excitement Wednesday noon. Plans have been completed for the ed into a trap set by local officers. wiping their brows the past few The fire was started by a carelessly held in Hermiston each year will annual dairy and pasture day to ba thrown firecracker by a passing mot He was arrested Tuesday evening af days should be pleased to note that hereafter be known as the Umatilla held Saturday at the Umatilla Field ter attending a show in Hermiston. temperatures have been running orist. A license number was obtain County Fair. This was established Rogers hails from Clymer, Pa., and cooler than last year except for ed and efforts are being made to lo Monday night at a meeting of the Station. Present at the meeting will be a group of professors from Oregon is 26 years of age. county board in Pendleton. It is ex State college who will be returning Wednesday’s 101. Contrary to pop cate the offenders. Local officers had received word ular opinion, the mean temperature The flames spread rapidly from the pected that a larger show will re form the National Dairy Science as Tuesday of the license plates seen of May was four degrees warmer highway and extended west to the sult with an extensive increase in sociation meeting at Pullman. M isbranding Trick D isclosed— here the night of the robbery, The than in 1938. The mean of 1938 road leading to the experiment farm 1-H display. Original plans called for a tour of One of the “most flagrant exam license plates had been discarded was 61 while 6 4 was recorded this past the Harold Rankin home. The Members of the board who voted ples of misbranding the department and replaced by a set stolen from a year, according to Charles Taylor, entire area between these two points to rename the fair includes Mrs. Lon various farms where different types has come across in several months” Pendleton car. The car bearing the local weather man. and the A line and feed canal was Etter of Pilot Rock, Charles Smiley of pastures as well as dairy manage ment practices could be viewed and has been unearthed and disposed of latter numbers was spotted Tuesday The following is the weather re- burned. One corner of the cemetery of Fruitdale and Thomas Fraser of discussed but due to the fact that by the state department of agricul evening on Gladys Avenue by Night was damaged by the flames. Hermiston. port for the week of June 22 to¿ 28. ture. Officer Bert Nation. A meeting of the fair board has this group of men could only be Prompt action by helpful neigh 1938: Harry Franklin Gardner was ar Aid was called in from Pendleton been called for tonight (Thursday) present for a short time it was de bors and the Hermiston fire depart Max. Min. rested near Albany charged with ¡and County Sheriff R. E. Goad, State ment probably saved further damage to decide the details of the Hermis cided to concentrate on the work be June 22 ............... 88 ... . 67 ing done at the experiment farm. misbranding food flavoring. He had Sergeant “Shorty” Foster and other when the fire burned all around the ton show. June 23 . .................. 95 ... 64 Farmers will have an unusual op been selling “lemon extract which officers answered to the call. With Rankin turkey house. The sage is June 24 . .................. 96 ... . 64 portunity to meet and talk with all he said was triple strength. the aid of H. A. Pankow, Hermiston getting quite dry and flames and June 25 . ................ 95 ... . 65 HOG STEALERS of the members of the Corvallis dairy Department investigators said that day officer, the officers waited for smoke could be seen for many miles. June 26 .............. . .. 93 ... 60 instructional staff. Those in attend instead of triple strength the stuff the car owner’s return. It was ARRESTED HERE An alarm was sounded in Hermis June 27 . ............... . 93 ... 59 ance will be Professor P. M. Brandt, was not even single strength, and around midnight when he approach- ton. June 28 . .................. 97 ... 60 J head of the department of Animal was of no value whatever in flavor ed the car, and he surrendered to Collis McGraw, 19, of Chicago, Approxi tely 150 acres was cov The following is the report for Husbandry, and Professors Jones, ing foods. the officers peaceably, although car- this week: ered WedK, , y. Although no im Bernard Hewgley, 18, Fairview, and Ewalt and Wilster of the Dairy De Gardner was fined $50 and costs, rying an automatic pistol under one Leon D. Waldrlch, 3 2, from the east, mediate damage resulted the ever Max. Min partment. and 55 small bottles and three 10- arm present danger of sand blows will be were arrested in Hermiston Tuesday June 22 ......... ...... . .. 89 ... . 51 gallon jugs of the fluid were seized. He had in hig possession a part of by local officers. The trio was re Farmers and their families will greatly aggravated. The fire two June 23 ......... ........... 86 ... . 54 ♦ ♦ ♦ the rifles, ammunition and money weeks ago began near the highway ported to have stolen a hog from A. assemble at the Field Station at 10:- June 24 ......... ........... 77 ... . 52 Supreme Court Building-•Remodeled-- stolen from Roy Hale’s store June on the Beebe place and extended west E. Thompson of Riverside, near Pen 30 a. m. From then until noon a June 25 ......... ........... 82 ... . 46 The state supreme court building, 19. Rogers is being held in the short tour will be made of the dairy to the experiment station and south. dleton. June 26 ......... ........... 87 ... . 49 oldest of the capitol group, will be Pendleton jail on a larceny charge, According to the officers, the men barn, pasture trials, and other fields This covered a total of approximate June 27 ......... ........... 91 ... . 55 --------- “ T remodelled during July while the ly 1000 acres and did some damage had stolen the hog Saturday and had of particular interest to farmers. At June 28 ......... .......... 101 ... . 56 killed it and hid it in the Umatilla noon a picnic lunch will be held on court is on vacation. MYRON NATION TO to a stand of Indian rice. The work will cost $25,000. Be- A n y» river near Stanfield. After butch the station lawns. Visitors are asked WORK STARTS ON fore the new state library building AVORK A 5 ( j U A R D , ering it the next day they set off to to bring cups and table service. Cof CUSHING RETURNED look for work in the pea harvest fee will be furnished by the West- --------- was completed a few months ago, NEW EXTENSION the library was on the ground floor fields. q$ land and Columbia granges. AS LOCAL PASTOR Myron “Babe” Nation, son of Mr. of the court building. Tire trouble held them up in Her and Mrs. B. J. Nation of Hermiston, Professor Jones will iscuss the Im Work has been commenced on the ^Rev and Mrs. Stearns Cushing Jr. miston where they were caught. A On the same floor was the attor will begin work the first of the week portance of winter succulents In the new extension of the rural electric ney general’s office and the superin as a guard at the state prison in Sa portion of the pork was found In dairy ration. He will be followed line by the contractor, T. Y. McClel and daughter Charlene returned to their possession. They are being tendent of public instruction. lem. Nation had put in an applica by Professor Wilster, who will talk Hermiston Tuesday evening after lan. A crew of men is digging holes ❖ ❖ ❖ field in the Pendleton Jail. tion only a week prior before his ap oh the new cream grading laws. Pro spending the past week In Forest on the Butter Creek section, and of P ilo t Rock W om en H onored— pointment. fessors Brandt and Ewalt will dis fices have been opened in the Con Grove and Salem. The Cushings at Y. P. RUTHERFORD Two women who remained at their cuss some of the recent findings of He has been employed the "past solidated building in Hermiston. tended the meeting of the Oregon an telephone switchboards during a four years with the Union Pacific nual conference of the Methodist Funeral services were held in Ar the National Dairy Science associa flood were awarded Vail medals for Railroad as night clerk. Billy Na William Trommerhousen of the REA church. The conference was a high lington Sunday in the Methodist tion. bravery, the presentation by Gov. tion, another son of B. J. Nation, is was here Monday to check over the light In history as it brought togeth church for Y. P. Rutherford, who Details for the day have been in Charles Sprague in his offices here. working at the railroad job at the lines and H. S. Burden, of the firm er the three groups of Methodism in died Thursday at his home at Stan charge of H. J. Ott, Don Sherwood, Barr & Cunningham, engineers, also The women were Mrs. Maud Gil present. Oregon. field. Rev. Robert Berger of Board- H. K. Dean and M. E. Knickerbock spent Monday and Tuesday here. bert, chief operator, and Miss Erline The spiritual tone of the confer er. man officiated. It is expected that the entire work Gilliland, operator, who were credi ence was kept high by the fine devo Yancy Parker Rutherford was RUBY M C M IL L A N will be completed within 60 days, ted with warning the people of Pilot and the several sections of the ex tional addresses of Bishop Brown, the born May 13, 1861, in Shelby coun UMATILLA COUNTY Rock that a cloud burst was on the TO SELL OUT STOCK tension will be energized as soon as new resident officer of the area. Mr. ty, Ind. He married Alma Morris, way June 22, 1938. Cushing served again on the secre September 6. 1883. They came West the wiring of houses is completed. PIONEER EXPIRES The Vail medal is in honor of the tarial staff and on the committee on to Washington in 1891 and In 1913 Miss Ruby McMillan, who has op founder of the American Telephone Christian citizenship. Mr. Cushing moved to Arlington, where they lived erated a dress shop in Hermiston for SATURDAY BAND and Telegraph company. For the second time this year the was returned to the Hermiston pas a number of years. They later mov the past two years, will sell out all ♦ ♦ ♦ Wattenburger home has been sad ed to Boardman and from there to torate for anoither year. CONCERT ARRANGED her stock and fixtures at a sale be R adio Used In F orest W ork— Stanfield. Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford dened by death. William J. Wat The state forestry service is exper ginning Saturday, In order to clear celebrated their 55th wedding anni tenburger, 78, prominent pioneer of OASIS THEATRE HAS The second of a series of Saturday imenting with short-wave radio as out all of her merchandise. Miss Mc versary September 6. 1938, at the Echo, died of heart disease Sunday, Millan has remarked all of her mer night band concerts by the Hermis a means of fighting forest fires. AMATEUR PROGRAMS home of their daughter, Mrs. Greta five months after the death of his ton Union high school band will be Installation of 13 sets in various chandise. An ad telling of the par wife. Blain, at Bingen, Wn. presented Saturday night on the high parts of Curry county gives fighting ticulars appears in this issue. Mr. Wattenburger was in Pendle The Oasis Theatre of Hermiston He is survived by his widow, Al school lawn. The first concert was Miss McMillan has not given any forces a more mobile range, and will has inaugurated a program whereby ma of Stanfield; two daughters, Mrs. ton Saturday and successfully passed allow CCC crews to be rushed to indication as to her future plans but given several weeks ago and proved amateurs of Hermiston and adjoin Blain and Glenna Wristen, Brent the test for hfs driver’s license. Sun danger areas much faster than in will not re-enter the dress business. very popular with music lovers. ing territory will be featured every wood, Cal., a son, Frank of Stan day at 2 a. m. he awakened his The program will begin at 8:00 the past. Wednesday night. This plan was field; six grandchildren; nine great daughter, Ina, and complained of o'clock and with the warm evenings State Forester J. W. Ferguson has GOLF MEMBERS TO used several years ago and proved grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Azee difficulty In breathing and asked a large crowd is expected to he on predicted a brilliant future for the quite popular. Lemon, Seattle, and two brothers, that the doctor be called. He lived MEET FRIDAY NIGHT hand. G. C. Humphreys directs the Those new method of fire control. Interested in appearing on Chris of Pe Ell, Wn., and Verl of about half an hour after Dr. Marbut band and Is attempting to keep his ♦ ♦ ♦ the programs are asked to sign for Raymond, Wn. All were present at arrived. Members of the Hermiston golf musicians in trim for next winter. 1939 F u el T axes H i g h e r - While members of his family in advance so that details ran be ar the funeral. Secretary of State Earl Snell esti club will meet Friday night on the knew Mr. Wattenburger was subject ranged. Pallbearers were Geo. Wicklander LaHue R aises E x cellen t W heat mates an income to the state from local course for a round of golf and of Boardman. Harry Weasel of Her to a heart attack, his sudden death M. O. LaHue of Helix was in Her motor vehicle fuels taxes greater by a pot luck dinner. Play will begin miston and Roy Kunsman, Frank came as a severe shock to them and COUNCIL MEETS $600,000 than that taken in in 1938. any time after five o’clock and the miston Thursday displaying a "bou Marvel, Charles Wetherell and Hen to his many friends. Slncfc the death quet” of Federation wheat raised on FRIDAY NIGHT A survey shows that already this dinner will follow. of his wife, Lizzie. January 27, he ry Schleveen of Arlington. year taxes have been $4,386,260, If enough interest Is shown it will his ranch. Long, full sized heads in Relatives from out of town attend has constantly mourned her. He ac an increase of $252,991 over the be made a regular feature, meeting dicates that he will have a good At a regular meeting of the Herm ing the services were: Mr. and Mrs. companied his daughter. Miss Ina yield in spite of the dry weather. “take” for the same period in 1938. each Friday evening. iston city council Friday night the Clifford Walker of Klickitat. Wn.; Wattenburger, to Oakland, Calif., ♦ ♦ ♦ granting of a two-year franchise to Mr. and Mrs. Jim I/ewls of Yakima; where she teaches school, and visit Liquor Commission Show s P ro fit— the Hermiston Light & Power Co. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson of Castle Rock, ed the San Francisco fair with her. The state liquor control commis was passed for the first reading. The Wn.; Mr. and Mrs. Wittle of Seat returning to Echo June 21 with Miss sion allocated $2.188,846 to public proposed ordinance Is being publish tle; Mrs. Hulett of Lebam. Klint Ina and Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Essel- assistance during the first five ed in this week’s issue of The Herald. Rutherford of Nalpee and Claude atyn. months of this year, a report shows. Mr. Wattenburger leaves five Other business discussed Included Blane of Portland During May alone the commission daughters, Mrs. C. B. Green of Stan the clearing of titles of numerous made a net profit of $199,413. field; Mrs. H. H. Stapish of Detroit, PRIDDY- VAN SCHOIACK lots In Hermiston. This step will be Most of the Fourth of July cele brushers will also be played. A fea taken In order that title Insurance ♦ ♦ ♦ Mich.; Mrs. M. E. Esselstyn of Pen Of interest to local friends was Heavy Hop Crop P redicted— bration In this territory will be cen ture of the afternoon will be a foot may be obtained. dleton and Mrs. Harry Andrews and the marriage of Miss Lois Priddy and Miss Ina Wattenburger of Echo; two Warm weather following a long tered this year at Echo where a race between the mayors of Pendle Delbert Van Schoiack, both of Uma brothers, S. W. Wattenburger of ton and Echo. rainy spell has decreased the threat E. L. Jackson R e-elected tilla, at Walla Walla, Wn., Satur Lakeport, Cal., and A E. Watten to hop crops from mildew, county well rounded program has been pre Harold Hoshino. Pendleton, and E. L. Jackson was re-elected as a day at 2:00 o’clock. Mrs. Van Scho- Inspectors have reported. A survey pared. Activities will begin at Billy Genova. Portland, will meet in burger of Butter Creek: a sister. shows promise of one of the heaviest 10:00 o'clock and will close with a a 10-round special boxing event In director of Hermiston Union high ick is employed at O'Conner’s Cafe Mrs. Ollie Neill of Heppner; 11 hop crops In recent years, with a dance and a feature picture show in the evening.' This bout is creating >sch°o1 “ thp annual e,ertlon he,d on while Mr Van Schoiack works for the (Continued on page 5) the evening. No celebration of any quite some interest among fight Monday. A very small vote was cast Sand & <jraVel Co. at Umatilla fairly good price predicted. The couple Is residing In the type has been planned in Hermiston. fans. Several preliminary fights whch might Indicate that local clt- Mayers R eturn from V acation Trip. izens are well pleased with the pres- 1 Cronk apartments In Hermiston. Sports and races for children and have been arranged. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mayer re SHAW BAKERY --------- ------------------- adults and a jitterbug contest on A public fireworks display has ent affairs of the school organfza- turned to their respective positions Journal W riter Stops Here. TRUCK HITS POLE wheels will feature the morning been planned in the evening. A 7- tion. this week following a two weeks va program at Echo. A community pic- plece orchestra has been scheduled School Busses A wait Opening Bell commercial cation trip spent In various parts of Hyman , » editor s The Hermiston Bakery truck was nic at the school yard, sponsored by to play for a dance In the evenings of the Portland Journal, stopped at the country. They visited with rela overturned Tuesday evening a short the Orange, will be held at noon. Dr. of July 3 and 4. A double feature As far as the Hermiston school ¡the Herald office a short time Mon- tives in Lebanon and Portland, and distance this side of Boardman. John Carl Thompson of the Bonneville picture show will be shown In the busses are concerned, the opening ,]ay. He Is on an annual tour of fished In East Lake and the Des Henry Nye. driver, was not serious dam staff and several other speak Echo theatre. bell can be sounded any time now. tf,p country getting crop statistics chutes. The fishing was quite good ly injured, but suffered some bruis ers have been obtained The day’s program Is being spon Oren Felthouse. owner, has given his an(] other information for the Jour- at the lake. They encountered some Echo and the Mission Indians will sored by the Echo Boosters club. It vehicles a new coat of paint and re nal. He reported that the wheat snow In the trip over the mountains es and dislocated an ankle. The track, however, was consider clash in a baseball game In the af Is planned that quite a delegation paired them otherwise. A bright crop was better than expected and to Dunsmuir. They visited the fair ably damaged by contact with a tel ternoon. A softball tilt between from here will attend during the orange color make a glistening ef that tha alfalfa In the Heppner dis at Ban Francisco where they spent a Pendleton Coca Cola and Echo Hage- day. ephone pole. fect In the sun. trict •hort time with Mrs. ■. P. Dodd HANY LOCAL CITIZENS TO ATTEND FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION AT ECHO
