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WESTLAND mk ANGE
TO OBSERVE 74TH
GRANGE FOUNDING
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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