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? HEWS FROM YOUR OWN STAT* - COU., oi° Î.U*' «n®' WESTLAND mk ANGE TO OBSERVE 74TH GRANGE FOUNDING O t« ’ r/ a. SCHOOL DENTAL PROGRAM PLANNED Mr. and Mrs. F ran k A ndresen of Salem have leased Jack’s Cafe from Jack House and took over the busi ness the first of th is week. They will operate under the same plan as for merly follwed. The Andresens have a 10-year-old son. heard as to the m erits of the display and the grange has been given much credit. The picture was snapped by Gale Felthouse, local photograph er. HERMISTON P .T .A . TO H O LD FIRST MEETING SEPT. 29 MRS ROY ATTEBURY KILLS FIRST DEER IN THIS R EG IO N NEW TEACHERS TO BE WELCOMED M A N Y HUNTERS LEAVE FOR HILLS T he first reg u lar m eeting of the H erm iston P.T.A. association will be held in the high school gym nasium Friday, September 29, a t 8:00 p. m. T his m eeting will be in the form of a reception for the new members of the faculty. All patrons of the school are cordially invited to atten d whe ther members of th e association or not. C hairm an of the com m ittees in charge follow: program , Mrs. James Todd; decorations, Mrs. B. A. Doyle: refreshm ents, Mrs. A. H. Norton. ' The following com m ittee chairm en for the year have been named by of ficers of the PTA: program , Mrs. J. A. C larke: hospitality, Mrs. Glenn Ripley: membership, Mrs. George H arkenrider; budget and finance, Mrs. W alter Hamm, and publicity, Mrs. W. G. K ersbergen. The com m ittee heads were named Tuesday by the present officers. Those in office a t th e present tim e include: Mrs. C. M. Jackson, presi dent; Mrs. J. A. Clarke, vice presi dent; Mrs. Wm. E. Logan, secretary, and Mrs. Alma Greaves, treasurer. The com mittee chairm en and of low-up. The ever present problem: How ficers comprise th e PTA council. shall we put dental health education into the language of elem entary FORMER BUSINESS school children was solved by the Morrey-Towse D ental H ealth P uppet M AN VISITS HERE show which en tertain s th e youngs ters as it in stru cts them. Ed. E. L ittler of New York, for The two mem bers of th e Good mer hardw are m erchant in H erm is T eeth Council sta ff who present the ton, visited in H erm iston F riday puppet show, John Beck and Miss night and S aturday a t th e home of Cleo Stephens, have given th e edu his form er p artn er, Tom Fraser. Mr. cational en tertain m en t in W ashing L ittle r is now connected w ith the ton. D. C.. Pennsylvania, New York, Anaconda Copper M ining Co. of New M innesota, Illinois and many other York and acts as p urchasing agent. eastern and middle w estern states, The two men were associates in H er b u t this is th e ir first visit to the miston 25 years ago. Mr. L ittler does most of his tra v eling by airplane, having many miles to his credit. Mr. F raser took W A R M WEATHER IS him to Pendleton S aturday w here he ENJOYED LOCALLY boarded a plane. ANDRESEN LEASES JACK'S CAFE HERE HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. SEPTEMBER 21. 1939 Prize Winning Westland Grange Booth A school dental program is being planned by th e U m atilla County H ealth U nit and the dentists of U m atilla county. Dr. Floyd H. De- Camp, D irector of Oral H ealth, Ore gon S tate Board of H ealth, has en gaged the Morrey-Towse D ental H ealth P uppet show from th e Good T eeth Council for C hildren in Chi cago to supplem ent this program in d en tal health education. Dr. W. L. Morgan, dentist a t H erm iston, an nounces the puppet show w ill be given in Stanfield September 27th, a t 2'3 0 p. m. in the Stanfield high school auditorium . Admission will be free and p arents of the elem enta ry school children are cordially invi ted to attend. The great prevalence of tooth de cay am ong children w ith its subse qu ent results of impaired health if th e condition goes unchecked, has become a national problem. Oregon s S tate Board of H ealth and D ental association have been u n itin g to com bat the disease and prevent it as far as possible w ith dental health education, dental inspection and fol The past week brought some more sum m er w eather and those residents who were beginning to w orry about w in ter fuel and installing heaters were given tem porary relief. The w eather has been exceedingly warm th is year along th e coast, especially in C alifornia w here some dam age has been reported and schools were closed because of the extrem e heat. The following is the report or th e past week according to C harles Taylor, local w eather man. Max Bate Jia*. Min. __ 70 .... 52 ..... T3 53 14 ..... 83 .... 53 15 ..... 88 .... 41 16 90 .... 42 17 ...... 87 .... 45 18 ...... 89 .... 41 19 ...... 89 .... 44 20 OFFICIAL U M A T ILLA COUNTY PAPER VOLUME x x x m . W estland G range will celebrate th e 74th anniversary ot th e found in g of the G range w ith an obser vance of “ Booster N ight’ , in a m eet ing to be held a t the Odd Fellows H all Thursday, September 28 a t 8:30 p. m. The G range Lecturer, Mrs. J. D. Corliss, has arranged a varied program which the general public is cordially invited to attend. F eatured on the program will be a dem onstration ot an electric pig brooder by two 4-H club boys, H en ry Sommerer Jr., and K enneth Ben- sel. w orking under the direction of M. E. K nickerbocker, assistant coun ty Agent. There will also be several m usical numbers, and past m asters of the G range will be introduced and The above is a som ew hat belated asked to give a short history of the picture of the prize-w inning W est- G range. Mrs. G ililand of Pendleton w ill land G range booth a t the U m atilla show a short film in the in te rest of county fair held the la tte r p art of a safety cam paign which is being last month. Much com ment has been carried on by various insurance com panies. Follow ing the program an orchestra will play for several square dances. ! T eachers of the H erm iston and I Columbia schools have been invited to be present, and it is expected th a t m any of them w ill be there to meet th e G range members and th e ir friends. t e.imLûton -/-/iïa.L<i. The first deer reported in Hermis ton was killed by a lady hunter, Mrs. Roy Attebury, who was hunting with her husband in the Meacham coun try. Her deer weighed 138 pounds. A g reater portion of Oregon’s 70,- 000 h u n ters w ent on the m arch W ed nesday a t dawn. S tatistics by the sta te game commission reveal th a t 200.000 deer, an increase of approx imately 55,000 over last year, will be targets. They include 131,280 mules and 61,755 black tails. O ther in terestin g figures reveal th a t in spite of the num ber of deer only one of every six h u n ters will see a buck fall before his firing. H erm iston residents began activ i ties Tuesday in order to be on the field at th e crack of daw n W ednes day. Cars loaded heavily w ith sup plies and h u n ters bedecked in red colors were seen going th ro u g h the city as early as Sunday. Several local p arties scattered ov er many favorite p arts of h u n tin g territo ry Tuesday. One group com posed of S tu art and M arvin R ankin, Clarence Myers, Raymond K napp and Delmar McCracken headed for the Arbuckle m ountain d istric t b ut no word has been received from them. F ran k B llderback, Dr. F. B. Belt, Bill Belt, B. S. Kingsley, A. M. Smith, Cecil Madden and son will h u n t near Chicken hill In the Tony Vey sheep ranch te rrito ry . T he men left Tuesday. Jack Sm ith and Lynn Anderson are h u n tin g above La G rande a t a favorite spot. Fred Rauch and son of Lexington, W alt Issaeson of Echo and L. S. B ur rell of H erm iston are h u n tin g in the John Day region. Bill GTaybeal of Irrigon, John Voile of Boardman. Bill Voile and S tanton H adley are located on Long Creek In the John Day d istrict. Ben Conner, th e lone wolf h u n t er, left w ith his horse to h u n t In Fox valley, n o rth of John Day. ROHRMAN RETURNS FROM SCHOOL ON NEW FORD TRACTOR A. F. Rohrm an retu rn ed T hursday n ig h t from P ortland w here he a t tended a four-day session sponsored by the Ford Motor Co. in regards to a new, lightw eight Ford tracto r which has recently been p u t on th e m arket. The first ship m en t has a r rived in H erm iston and is on display a t th e Rohrm an Motor Co. A dem o n stratio n is planned in the near future. The new m achine has been design ed for use in all types of work and has all the modern conveniences. It has a built-in Ferguson hydraulic mechanism not only for raising and low ering the u n it Implements, but for actually keeping them a t a pre determ ined depth in th e ground. Mr. Rohrm an is q u ite enthused about the tra c to r and predicts a g reat fu tu re for it in th is region. IMPROVEMENTS LISTED IN NEW 1940 CITY BUDGET New Football Mentor At Local High School LONGHORNS BUILD TELEPHONE OFFICE Longhorn & Sons began construc tion th is week on a new telephone building across from the Reclam a tion office for th e housing of m ach inery for the new dial system to be inaugurated here around the first of November. T he building w ill have a cem ent floor and will be 19 x 29 feet in size. The w alls will be of ru stic w ith two linings of celotex. The building will be painted w hite w ith a green shingle roof. Sim ilar buildings, only som ew hat sm aller, are underw ay a t Echo and Stanfield. The Longhorns are also building these. RAY E. CRITCHFIELD The local high school football team ran into rough going a t Pasco last F riday n ig h t when they were subdued to the tu n e of 52-0. How ever, the boys came home a much wiser lot and are determ ined to erase the stin g by buckling down for the K ennewick game here next Friday, September 29. The strong Pasco backfield had a field day from the opening kickoff which they ran back for a touch down. H erm iston looked well on the offensive against a much heavier line and especially shone in the aer FISH TRUCK HAS ial work. ith two more weeks of practice, ACCIDENT M ONDAY the W Bulldogs should make a strong show ing ag ain st the Kenewick elev The Oyster Groto fish truck, on en. .x? . — its reg u lar ru n th ro u g h th is end of the country, met w ith m ishap Mon WCTU TO CONVENE day a few miles above Stanfield when a tire blew, causing the ma AT M ILTO N SEPT. 28 chine to swerve into th e ditch. The tru ck was loaded w ith over 2000 The 54th annual W. C. T. U. coun pounds of fish and ice. ty convention will be held at Milton N either the driv er nor his com on T hursday, September 28, a t the panion was seriously injured, al C hristian church. This date Is also though th e ir condition caused con the 100 b irthday of Frances E. W il siderable alarm before they were re lard. A full program has been a r moved from the wreckage by pas- ranged for th e day, beginning a t 10 sersby. It was necessary to remove a. m. w ith a call to order. The m orning will be taken up by most of the load of fish before the men could be released. In the m ean appointm ent of committees, reports tim e th e tru ck caught fire b u t was of county officers and an address by Mrs. W. R. W yrick. A no-host d in put out. The wreckage was removed Wed ner will be served a t noon. The h ig h lig h t o ' th e afternoon nesday and taken to P ortland. will be a program com m em orating the b irthday of Frances W illard. An TW O YOUTHS HELD election of officers and deelgates ON THEFT CHARGE will also be held. TAXPAYERS MEET W IT H C ITY COUNCIL WEDNESDAY NIGHT Five taxpayers of the seven chose* A ugust 16th met w ith members of th e city council W ednesday n ig h t to make up a budget for th e City ot H erm iston for the year 1940. A tem porary budget, sim ilar to th a t of last year, was presented by city re corder, Charles Taylor, to which an additional sum of $350 was added a fte r considerable discussion. An emergency 3100 fund was ad ded to th e city lib rary for needed im provements. It was brought out th a t kalsom ining was necessary and new cu rtain s purchased. Also the floors were In need of varnish, and other needed im provem ents were necessary. A sum of $850 was in th e budget for city streets last year. To th is an additional sum of $250 was added in the hopes of oiling several more streets next year. Streets m ention ed for oiling were Gladys evenue from the O. O. Felthouse corner east three blocks, and H u rlb u rt avenue from Pennock's G arage corner to th e highw ay, th ree blocks. In order to do th is oiling, property owners along these streets will be required to pay th eir proportionate share, sim ilar to the plan followed last year. A noth er top surfacing will be necessary for those streets oiled last year. Those m aking up the budget a t th e m eeting were C urtis Simons, elected chairm an of th e budget com m ittee, A. H. Norton, secretary, Jim Pearson, Jam es Todd and R. C. Mc- reynolds, w ith members of the city council present, N. R. Mueller, Geo. H arkenrider, W. L. Morgan, R. A. Brownson and A1 Q ulrlng. LOCAL CREAMERY INSTALLS LOCKERS The U m atilla Cooperative Cream ery is continuing its program of construction and im provem ent by in stallin g 150 new lockers. W ork was begun W ednesday and it is ex pected th a t they will be ready for patronB November 1. according to Monte Hedw all, manager. The lockers will be of 10 cubic feet size and are located in the old cream ery location where the o rig in al b u tterm ak in g m achinery stood. At present th ere are 403 lockers but more dem and necessitated the b u ild ing of 150 more. The present lockers have been crowded for the past two years. According to Mr. Hedwall, there Tenance J. Caldwell and Robert GYPSIES DEPART is enough refrigeration on hand to Pepper of Vancouver, both 16 years care for the new addition. At th e of age, were arrested last Thursday W IT H POLICE ESCORT present tim e I. N. H artsook and L. at W allula by B. J. N ation afte r a E. Elwood are w orking on th e new A group of approxim ately 75 gyp com plaint had been charged ag ain st loekeys b ut it is expected th a t more sies which had camped the g reater them by Wm. J. Logan. The two help will be obtained to rush the youths had stopped a t th e Logan p art of last week in the Columbia completion. d istric t was escorted from the pre ranch and asked for food. A fter do ing some work, Mr. Logan cooked mises under order of H. A. Pankow, < city police, Sunday. A caravan of 14 SOPHOMORES PLAN the boys a meal. D uring the course of the meal, Mr. late model autom obiles lined the FRESHMAN NIG HT Logan was called outside by a dis highw ay as they left the city. A pparently a p art of the group turbance in th e barnyard. In the The H erm iston Union high school m eantim e th e boys stole $7.00 in had been atten d in g the Round Up sophomores are busy prep arin g for cash and proceeded to leave before sessions w ith the m ajor portion the annual freshm an in itiatio n to be cam ping here. the retu rn of Mr. Logan. held F riday night, September 22, a t The boys were taken to Pendleton the local building. T his event is one where they face charges of burglary SCARLETTS LEAVE of the h ig h lig h ts of the year and in Juvenile court. looked forw ard to by incoming fresh ON EASTERN TRIP zens. men. On F riday evening. Septem ber 29, F. B. A U X IL I ARY TO Following th e in itiation, a dance Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Scarlett of Um the them e of the program will be will be held which will be open to atilla and th eir two sons, Oeorge and “ Safety on the Farm , At Home and ELECT OFFICERS all high school stu d en ts and alum ni. Bill of H erm iston, left T hursday for in the Com m unity." A rep resen ta T he next meeting of th e Farm Indianapolis, Ind., to visit relatives tive group will conduct an in te rest NEAL-McCRACKEN ing round-table discussion as p art of Bureau au x iliary on Friday, October and friends. The S carletts are orig Of in terest to th e ir many local 6. will be an election of officers. All inally from th a t section of the coun friends Is the som ew hat belated news the program . try and make an occasional trip back On F riday evening, October 6, the members are urged to be present. of the m arriage of Georgia Rae Neal th ird and final program of the series There will be no program. In charge to look up acquaintances. Miss Neal Is George 1 b employed at the R ohr to Sammy McCracken. will present “ Safety on th e H igh of refreshm ents will be Alice Ham the d au g h ter of Mrs. J. Omohundro man Motor Co. and Bill is m anager way.” It is hoped th a t the M etro mer, Mrs. Avis Keener. Mrs. Blanch of near H erm iston. Sammy is the politan Life Insurance Com pany’s ! Ryland and Mrs. A nnette Barham. of the local Chisholm G rain * Feed son of Mr. and Mrs. C harlie Mc- Store. new movie of anim ated cartoon c h a r The last m eeting of th e group was Cracken of Yuma, Arizona. acters en titled “ Once Upon A tim e” held September 15 with a fair a t The m arriage was soiemized a t may be shown. T here will also be tendance, and Mrs. H. J. Ott gave I W eiser, Idaho, some time ago. Sam- a Prof. Puzzlew it contest. ! an Interestin g account of th e ir re- i my is employed a t O’Conner's Cafe, TO MEET TUESDAY These m eetings are free and open i cent m onth’s trip to Missouri. Mrs. i Both are graduates of H erm iston to the public. Booklets and specific H. E. Hooker had charge of the pro ¡Union high school. The Herm iston Home Extension inform ation has been received from gram and Mrs. Mary H arr was In u n it will hold Its first Fall m eeting the A.A.A. association. M etropolitan charge of refreshm ents, Mrs. Dyer Expected Soon. next Tuesday, Septem ber 26, a t 2:00 Insurance Co., San Francisco head Mrs. L. C. Dyer, who has been o’clock. The new year’s program of Smiley Returns From Salem. q u arte rs D epartm ent of Commerce, C harles Smiley, who has spent the work will be planned at th is time. spending the summer in F airbanks, W ashington D. C.. S ecretary of S tate Alaska, w ith her daughter, Mrs. W. Earl Snell’s office. Mayor of P o rt past 5% years in Salem, returned to Everyone Interested is invited to H. Bloom, is expected home soon. take p a rt In th is work. Herm iston Wednesday. He will be land and various other agencies fu r T he meeting will be held in the She will arrive at Seattle on Septem nishing safety m aterial and coun- employed on the Jam es Hoskins ber 28. Hermiston Legion kail. ranch near Stanfield. telsrs. COLUMBIA SCHOOL TO SPONSOR SAFETY PROGRAMS; FIRST MEETING TO BE FRIDAY The first of a series of three safe ty program s will be presented F ri day evening. Septem ber 22, in the Columbia schoolhouse, beginning a t 8:00 o’clock. The first program will have as its central theme Safety a t School and on the playground a captain and four junior safety patrol members will be officially decorated w ith Sam Brown belts, badges and in stru ctio n — memo booklets. Two of these new Colum bia patrol members will serve as school bus Junior safety officers and two will be w atchful on playground and about the buildings. T h irty m inutes of "Movie Safety F ilm s” will be shown by Mrs. L. P. G illiland, rep resentative of The F a r m ers’ Automobile Insurance Co. of Pendleton. To encourage contagions in terest in safety in Its m any forms, the N a tional G range has Invited subordi n ate G ranges over th e nation to plan and present educational program s designed to reach all groupa of eltl- NUMBER 5 extensiön I jnit
