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e.’unLiton 4/exaLti. NEWS FROM YOUR 'til OWN STATE & COUNTY V UM ATILLA i RANKS SECOND ¡D®’ O*e‘ OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER VOLUME XXXII HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON,« AUGUST 10, 1939. Umatilla county stood in second place in its division in the traffic accident improvement contest among counties of the state for the first six sertem r months of 1939. secretary of state, revealed this week. Leaders in the three divisions Always welcome news for the were Yamhill, group I; Jackson in younger folk about this time of the group II, and Wasco, in group III. year is the school opening date which Umatilla county was listed In the this year has been set for the day af latter group. Standings are based PROGRAM LISTED FOR ter Labor Hqy, September 5, accord on the percentage of improvement THURSDAY, AUG. 13 ing to W. G. Kersbergen, city super made each month in number of ac intendent. The buildings have been cidents, injuries and deaths. Coun given a thorough cleaning and the ties were segregated into the three The Daily Vacation Bible School floors waxed and polished. groups on a basis of population dens which is being held during this week Students who plan to attend high ity. and next is being attended by a I school this year are asked to regis ♦ ♦ ♦ large group of children from this ter prior to school opening. Supt. community The interest has been | Kersbergen will be in his office each BUTTER CREEK FIRE kept at the high pitch set by the day of the week except Saturday parade last Saturday evening and an from 8:30 to 12:00 and will assist IS UNDER CONTROL enrollment of 130 has been reached. students in the arrangement of stud- Besides the various classes in Bi j ies. The Butter Creek forest fire, still ble instruction, there are several Several changes are slated in the being watched by a large crew of projects that the pupils are doing. teaching personnel and will be pub men— CCC employees and forest ser The public is invited to view this lished next week. vice employees— extended over ap work next Thursday, August 17, at proximately 1,050 acres before it the Methodist church at 8 o’clock. NORTH MORROW TO was controlled, according to Carl At this time the handwork will be on Ewing, Umatilla national forest display. A program will feature the HAVE FAIR SEPT. superintendent. This was more ter activities of the past weeks and ritory than at first believed and was numbers will be furnished by mem 8-9 AT BOARDMAN determined after a close check of the bers from each department. burned area. R. K. Miller, secretary of North A short play will be given by the Some commercial timber was lost, Intermediate class. The whole eve Morrow county fair board, was in perhaps 310 acres altogether , in ning will be taken up by the child Hermiston Thursday arranging for cluding about 30 acres of Umatilla ren under the supervision of Rev. R. the annual fair held in Boardman of national forest timber. The fire W. Tindall of Eugene. North Morrow products. The dates mostly was on cutover land, how this year are Friday and Saturday, In order to help take care of some ever, adjacent to the forest boundar September 8 and 9. Plans are now of the necessary expenses which have ies. underway for the various exhibits. been cared for largely by the coop The present force will remain on Elmer Sullivan is president of the hand for the remainder of the week erating churches, a free will offer board and Florence Root, treasurer. ing will be taken. The public, whe and a smaller force will remain until ther having children in the school or Directors are Mrs. A. C. Houghton, every spark is extinguished. not, is urged to see this fine demon Paul Smith and E. M. Souders. The ♦ ♦ ❖ stration of how religion can suc different superintendents of the ex cessfully work together for the bet hibit divisions have been appointed OLD PIONEERS PASS and are now busy arranging details. terment of the community. LARGE ATTENDANCE PRESENT AT DAILY B IB L E SCH O O L I I H0b6fN RE5I6NS TO ACCEPT POST AT TIIBKFY iiRilWF KA 11 ? E RS PICNIC HONOLULU SCHOOL RAY E. CRITCHFIELD HIRED AS COACH LOCAL MEN ESCAPE GAS FUMES W HILE IN B A S E M E N T Jack Hodgen. who has been ath letic coach of Hermiston Union high school the past year, has resigned to What might have been a very ser accept a position as coach at Kame- hameha boys’ school in Honolulu ious accident was narrowly averted during the coming year. In addi last Thursday when Tom Fraser and tion to his coaching duties he will Paul Bracher were pumping water from the Columbia school basement. have charge of a dormitory. He planB to leave San Francisco They were overtaken by gas fumes for the islands on August 15 and from their running truck which they will begin his duties shortly after were using to run a water pump. Mr. wards. He has received word that Fraser has not as yet returned to he must take a football squad to a work at the Oregon Hardware & Im nearby island and begin training plement Co. while Mr. Bracher is working but is decidedly under the work on August 26. Mr. Hodgen had a fairly success weather from the experience. The men had jacked up the rear ful year at Hermiston and was well of the truck in order to run one of liked in the community. Ray E. Critchfield, who has coach the pumps in use. Bracher was hold ed at Forest Grove the past year, ing the pump in position to finish will take Hodgen's position here. the job and had Just ‘urned off the Mr. Critchfield has coached at Was ignition when he was overcome by co, Sherwood and Forest Grove, and the fumes. Fraser attempted to has a commendable record. In ad come to his aid and with the help of dition to athletics he will teach several buckets of water revived Bracher. manual training. The men attempted to finish their He is a graduate of Pacific uni versity where he made quite an ath job and re-entered the basement but letic record, winning letters in sev were tinable to withstand the fumes. eral sports. Frank O’Neill, former They were taken to Hermiston by a ly coach here, and Critchfield played farmer residing near there and plac the two halfback positions when ed under a doctor’s care. Both men were suffering from the gas effects they were in college. Mr. Critchfield comes to Hermis and were unable to describe their ton well recommended by such men escape clearly. as Anson B. Cornell, athletic direc tor at Pacific, J. P. McGlasson, prin PHELPS FARM HAS AW A Y DURING WEEK cipal of Forest Grove, and from oth WEATHER RECORDS CHRISTLEY SELLS er school authorities where he has NEW OWNERSHIP HAVE UPS-DOWNS taught. HOGS IN PORTLAND PURL BOWMAN Earl Reed and Ed O'Donnell o'f At the present time he is a single Purl Bowman, prominent pioneer The Dalles have taken over the old man but indicated over the tele of Umatilla county and well known The temperatures in the Herm Phelps place recently owned by Mr. Del Christley returned Tuesday phone earlier in the week that he throughout this section of the state, from Portland where he shipped and iston area were in a somewhat jit intended to he married before com- and Mrs. Charles Clark in the south passed away at St. Anthony’s hospi sold 31 hogs. The total weight of tery stage the past week and varied tfi.jp to Hermiston. east part of Hermiston. The men tal in Pendleton Saturday, August the hogs was 6,600 pounds and the all the way from 103 to 88 maxi will make Hermiston the general 5, after an illness of three weeks. headquarters for handling livestock. type was such that he sprung the mums and 71 to 41 minimums. The LOCAL YOUTHS IN Mr. Bowman was born February market a quarter of a cent and re low 41 was hit Monday night and ( They expect to buy and sell livestock 15, 1862, at Oseola, la., and when a ceived seven cents per pound or a local residents were beginning to STANFIELD MELEE in the territory between Enterprise baby of only six weeks left St Louis, total of $462.00. The hogs were -six and The Dalles, operating from here think of unpacking winter clothing Mo., with his parents for the west. days less than six months old and the Several Hermiston boys were in as a central point. and bedding. His family had resided at Oseola be average weight was 213 pounds. Mrs. O’Donnell and four children The following is the report for the volved In a free-for-all in which ap will move here to make their home. fore starting the long trek across They were all pure bred Poland Chi proximately 50 took part following the plains in a train of 105 wagons. na and of the breed which he is past week according to Charles Ta y the dance at Stanfield Saturday handling exclusively on his farm 3 lor, local weather man. night. Welden Eberle, 18, is in jail U M A T iL LA C O U NTY 55 August 3 .......... ..........103 miles east of Hermiston. at Pendleton charged with assault JOHN THOMAS LAMBIRTH FAIR NOTES 71 August 4 .......... ..........100 with a dangerous weapon and Joseph Mr. Christley runs a large dairy John Thomas Lambirth, 73, leader 67 August 5 .......... ........ 95 Marzona, CCC enrollee of the Stan among two generations of boys in and plants a considerable acreage of If you haven’t received a premium 88 53 August 6 .......... field camp, was taken to 8t. Antho corn each year. His farm consists Pendleton, died, as he had lived, as list and are interested in making an 41 August 7 .......... .......... 88 ny’s hospital suffering from several the companion and guide of youth, of 120 acres and is classed as one of exhibit, call at the Herald office, the 44 .......... 94 August 8 .......... knife wounds. the best on this project. this week. 49 August 9 .......... ..........100 Marzona lost considerable blood, assistant county agent’s office or Mr. Lambirth had gone, as was his mostly from a cut in the arm, and write for a booklet. custom, for a Sunday afternoon out Roberts-Watson ❖ •. had one cut on the back of his neck SCHOOL TEACHERS ing, and had gone to a spot on the Only 18 days until the opening almost stretching from ear to ear, The marriage of Miss Crystal Rob Umatilla river near the OTeen Acres and other cuts elsewhere of minor date of the County Fair. Time now erts and Earl S. Watson, both of H IT PARKED AUTO dairy at Riverside. nature. Eberle was the only person to get your exhibits ready. Pick out Hermiston, came as a surprise re Two boys, Clifford Murray and arrested by officers of the sheriff’s your farm products, your chickens, cently to local friends. They were Mrs. Guy Williams, Miss Marion Byron Bender, were with him and your rattle, your turkeys, your pigs, office. the thought was to build a diving married at Dayton, Wn„ April 15 in Williams and Miss Harriet Watts, The fracas is said to have started corn, vegetables of all kinds, and the Methodist church. Mr. Watson school teachers of Iowa and Wiscon board on the bank of the river. Dur following the dance and increased your flowers and needle work. is a son of Mr. and Mrs. M, L. Wat sin who were en route home from the ing the course of construction Mr. ♦ ♦ ♦ in volume after being started by Just son and Mrs. Watson is the daugh San Francisco exposition, collided Lambirth slipped while carrying a In addition to the work of the a few. ter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Roberts. with a parked car near Boardman large rock and struck his head. He board of directors of 15 members, They are making their home in Monday morning. The three ladies never regained consciousness. nearly 75 members of committees ELECTION OF REA Pendleton for the present. He is escaped with eye and leg injuries, ♦ ♦ ♦ are doing things toward making the employed at Rieth in the railroad and other minor cuts and bruises. BOARD POSTPONED county fair a success. Besides these, County Gets Unemployment Pay— yards and she has part time employ They were treated at the Hermiston 16 Granges are planning on booths Salem, Ore., Aug. 10—Cumulative ment at the Oregon Cafe in Pendle General hospital. The meeting today (Thursday) of or other exhibits and floats for the Both cars were badly damaged. distribution of unemployment com ton. the membership of the Umatilla Elec • parade. pensation in Oregon reached $8,903,- ♦ ♦ ♦ tric Cooperative association for elec 833 as footings were totaled by the tion of a board of directors for the The 4-H club members have been commission for July, central office ensuing year was adjourned until sent 300 premium lists and this big records here revealed. September 12 because the required feature of the county fair promises The monthly total was $253,973, to be the best ever shown at the quorum was not present. a decrease of 17 per cent front June. In order to conduct the meeting Hermiston grounds. They will come Pendleton, covering Umatilla and legally at least 65 members would be from all over the county, and future Morrow counties, accounted f o r farmers at the pavilion will be num Although only a quorum of Her port and aiding both by word and required in answer to roll call. $2417, or 1 per cent of the state to erous. miston Garden club members were deed. tal. ♦ ♦ ♦ Oddfellows To Install Officers. present at Monday’s afternoon meet Mr. Forshaw told of visiting Im The Portland metropolitan area re Two thousand ribbons represent ing. a most enjoyable session was mense flower gardens In England, The Hermiston Oddfellows lodge ceived 51 per cent of the July Job held, for Mr. Forshaw from Pendle France and the Netherlands. He had will hold an installation of officers ing premiums to be awarded at the insurance money. Salem got 6 per ton's Florist shop spoke on “Flower visited fairs and flower shows in Monday evening. August 14. All county fair have arrived, and farm cent; Oregon City, 5 per cent, and Judging”; and Miss Marilla Dun these same countries and told many offices except the vice presidency ers and townsmen, and boys and Marshfield, 4 per cent. ning, a sister of Mrs. Bard. Stan interesting things In connection will be filled. Local members and girls, who make a try will take home ♦ ♦ ♦ field. gave- her Impressions of the with the commercial selling on large all visiting brothers are cordially In the prizes. Those persons who think Agricultural Men Re-appointed— they can’t win, and then go to the lovely flower gardens viewed in two scales. Some years ago Mr. Forshaw vited to attend. fair and see they had Just as good at E. A. Geary of Klamath Falls and ¡trips to the Golden Gate Fair; Mrs. had the honor of being a judge on home, will not get a ribbon. Worthley Resigns at Umatilla. | Walter Hamm read an interesting flowers at our state fair in Salem. Fred Cockell of Milwaukie were re ♦ ♦ ♦ Norman Worthley, who taught the appointed this week by Governor C. j paper written 'by Mrs. H. K. Dean, He pointed out that judges who have Don’t forget to tune up your old 7th and 8th grades and coached in ¡horticultural chairman, citing many, had wide experience will almost al Sprague to six.year terms on the tin lizzie for the derby on August 29 state board of agriculture. Geary helpful bulletins for flower garden ways cite a winning flower Imme the high school at Umatilla last and 30. year, has resigned his position. He e r s available from Superintendent of diately. yet each judge may have represents farmers, while Cockell Is Documents office, Washington, D.C., proclaimed it such for a different has accepted a teaching post at the a representative of poultrymen. Pulley Released Under Bond. McMinnville Junior High. Mr. and and Mrs. Vera Doyle, chairman of reason. ♦ ♦ ♦ Elvis Earl Pulley, 41, arrested by Mrs. Worthley have spent the past the Fall Flower Show to be held in i Points generally considered in Sprague Insist* On Stokers — state police at Hermiston last week the high school gym on Friday, judging flower arrangement in two years at Umatilla. on a charge of drunken driving and Salem. Aug 9— A proposal by Dr. September 8, named committee chair clude; sentenced by Judge Manuel Frledly W. D. McNary, superintendent of the men and outlined their committee Character 4 quality of bloom, 25 Mrs. Rodda Has Unique Flower* (of Pendleton to 30 days In the coun Mrs. W. G Rodda of the Minneha Eastern Oregon State hospital at work. Mrs. Doyle and Mrs. J. Todd points; Harmony of color. 25 points; ty jail and fined $100. was released Pendleton, that Installation of coal have given much time and effort in Arrangement to emphasize quality ha district brought a bouquet of from the county lall Monday upon double tiger lilies to the Herald of stokers at the hospital be eliminated formulating plan* for thia elaborate specimens, 25 points; and Artistry, fice this week They had Just dou posting $750 bond. He Is wanted from the hospital improvement pro fall flower display. Let us make 25 points. Mr. Forshaw recommended two ble the amount of petals ordinarily In (Jlackamas county to answer a ject. was rejected by the state board sure we are are loyal workers, "fif charge of larcsay by bailee. found In thia variety. ty-four strong" In lending our sup of control at a hearing thia weet. (Continued on page 6) HERMISTON GARDEN CLUB ENJOYS HELPFUL TALKS AT MEETING HELD MONDAY AFTERNOON NUMBER 51 SPEAKERS, BAND, PICNIC FEATURES OF DAY'S PROGRAM < The annual picnic of the Eastern Oregon Turkey Growers' association has been scheduled for Saturday, August 19, at the Hermiston exper iment station. This annual gather ing of turkey growers and their fam ilies is a popular event and many at tend from all parts of the county. No tour will be held this year which de parts somewhat from the usual cus tom. The group will assemble at the farm at 10:00 under the shade trees. H. K. Dean, farm superintendent, will be the principal speaker in the morning. He will talk on feeds, feeding and turkey production. Mr. Dean will also be in general charge of activities in the afternoon. A picnic lunch will be served at noon on the farm lawn. The Tur key Growers' association will fur nish roast turkey, coffee and ice cream. All are asked to bring a pic nic basket and just a little extra in order to care for those who are com ing from longer distances and who are on the program. All turkey growers, regardless of whether they belong to the association or not, are invited to attend the picnic. Herbert Beyers, general manager of the Northwestern Turkey Grow ers' association, world’s largest tur key cooperative, and E. M. Dickin son, poultry veterinarian at Oregon State college, will be the main speak ers in the afternoon. They will dis cuss various phases of the turkey world. A musical program is planned to add spice to the activities. It is ex pected that the high school band will participate. Group singing and an original song by the DeMoss family will also be enjoyed. EDI N I NE SLEEPING SICKNESS FOUND IN HERMISTON AREA Dr. H. F. Derflinger and Dr. M. J, Belton of the State Department of Agriculture were in the Hermiston territory last week. While here they found several cases of sleeping sick ness in horses. The disease is not ex pected to reach epidemic proportion« this late in the season. Since the disease Is already in the area control measures should be directed towards treatment of animals afflicted with the disease rather than by vaccina tion, Dr. Derflinger believes. He cautions that people should see their horses every day and if any show symptons of sleepiness or para lysis of the legs. Assistant County Agent M. E. Knickerbocker should be notified. Treatment of affected hors es with serum has proven very ef fective. TOWNSEND FLASHES. AU members are urged to be at their club Friday at 8:00 p.m., Aug ust 11, at the Legion hall, to decide on some very important burinese and hear latest reports. A report came from the Portland office that a Townsend day is to be observed at the Gresham Fair and 25 per cent of the gate receipts Is to be sent to our national office. All the Washington and Oregon senator« and representatives will be speakers, besides Col. Horton of California, who Is a Townsend representative The public Is always invited to attend all our meetings. Everyone Is also invited to take part In the big Townsend picnic at Boardman. Bring your own basket. Mr. Despain will give more of his report of our con vention Burk Makes Two-Day Jaunt Charles Burk returned Wednesday from a short, trip to Weiser, Pay ette, Nyssa, LaGrande and other eastern Oregon and Idaho cities He found Weiser In a prosperous state and Nyssa booming with sugar ac tivities The beet growing there Is proving quite profitable. He also visited for a short time with Mr. Mack, druggist at Huntington. Th« trip wae made by car.
