The Hermiston herald., September 28, 1939, Image 1

NEWS FROM YOUR
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COUNTY
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su. oi o. lib rary
PENDLETON M E /
Eugene,
Ore.
SCHOOL A N N O U N w l u ¡ volume xxxni.
V isitors a re cordially invited to a
special event in th e form of a meat
school which is to be held a t the
Pendleton Ju n io r high school gym­
nasium ou Monday, October 16, a t
1:30 p. m. T he easy new metthods
of rendering even the less tender
cuts of m eats tender and delicious,
will be dem onstrated in an a u th en ­
tic way by Miss Jessie Cline, an ex­
perienced dem onstrator and head of
the Home Economics D epartm ent,
U niversity of Missouri.
Miss Cline comes to Pendleton
from th e N ational Livestock and
Meat Board, who are cooperating
w ith the Oregon S tate college exten­
sion service to make th is dem onstra­
tion possible. The stage is being set
w ith two stoves, and a large num ber
of m eat dishes will be prepared, in ­
cluding beef, pork, veal, lamb and
accessories. How to render econo­
mical cuts of m eat tender and fla­
vorsome will be emphasized.
No charge will be made a t this
meeting.
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OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. SEPTEMBER 28, 1939
Ruby’s Float In Umatilla Fair Farade
PHEASANT SEASON
OFFICIALLY OPENS
SUNDAY MORNING
BULLDOGS FIRED
UP FOR KENNEWICK
CONTEST FRIDAY
U nsuspecting U m atilla county res­
idents will be aw akened early Sun­
day m orning w ith a barrage of gun­
fire when pheasant h u n te rs from all
p a rts of Oregon will officially open
the season in th is district. The H er­
miston area has proven a mecca for
upland game bird h u n te rs in past
years and w ith the best prospect in
10 years it is expected th a t the city
will be crowded this week end.
All available cam pgrounds and
housing facilities have been filled
and any local residents having avail­
able rooms to ren t d u rin g the open­
ing week are asked to get in touch
w ith Roy Hale. All lunch counters
in H erm iston will be w orking a t top
speed over the week end.
Open season fo r Chinese P heasants
will be October 1 to October 15, both
dates inclusive. The bag lim it in
this county is four male pheasants
in any one day but not more th an
eight birds in any seven consecutive
days or in possession a t one tim e and
not more th an one female pheasant
in any lim it of eight birds.
The sam e dates hold tru e for Cal­
ifornia or Valley quail. Ten birds
may be taken in any one day b ut not
more th an 20 in any seven consecu­
tive days or in possession a t any one
time. Open season tor H ungarian
partridge is also October 1-15 w ith
a bag lim it of six birds in any one
day but not more th an eig h t in any
seven consecutive days or in posses­
sion at any one time.
Duck season opens October 22 and
will last till December 5.
Newspaper reports coming from
W ashington to the effect th a t K en­
newick is coming to H erm iston F ri­
day afternoon for a “ b rea th er” has
stirred up Coach C ritchfield’s w ar­
riors to a fig h tin g pitch and they
are all set for a rousing welcome.
The past two weeks have been spent
in intensive d rillin g and the team Is
expected to make a stro n g er show­
ing th an against Pasco two weeks
ago.
A squad of 30 has been tu rn in g
out each night w ith several of the
second strin g ers pressing h ard for
sta rtin g berths. The loss of Bob
Dawson will be felt F riday although
H arry Connor is again in uniform
and is expected to fill 'the center
hole. Dawson has been called hack
to F o rt Lewis to complete papers for
his release from the army.
Coach C ritchfield was far from
discouraged W ednesday n ig h t and
indicated th a t Kennewick m ight be
in for an in te restin g afternoon. A l­
though his team is fairly light, th e y |
have show n a w illingness tow ards
team w ork. The backfield w ill be
fairly fast.
The following is the probable
sta rtin g lineup ag a in st Kennewick:
rig h t half, Ripley: left half, Bensel;
fullback, R ugg;
q u arte r, Bernie
Corpe or Dyer; left end. Bill Corpe;
left tackle, A. B uell: left guard, Bob
Pierson; center, Connor, rig h t guard,
E. Blalim; rig h t tackle, L. M ulkins;
rig h t end, Davis.
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FORMER HERMISTON HUNTERS EXPECTED COACH ANNOUNCES
RESIDENT PASSES
STARTING LINEUP
TO FLOCK HERE
F uneral services were held Tues­
day a t Spokane, W n„ for Nicholas
Codd, 73-year-old Palouse country
u tility pioneer, who died late S atu r­
day. Codd was well known in this
d istric t and was former president of
th e H erm iston L ight & Pow er Co.
here.
Codd first located in Colfax, Wn.,
in 1888 and successfully established
electric systems there and a t Pome­
roy, Dayton, and then a t Hermiston.
He is credited w ith the form ation
of the first electric lines in this
area.
He moved to Spokane in 1910 and
retired from active business in 1928.
F. B. AUXILIA R Y TO
ELECT OFFICERS
The annual election of officers of
th e F arm Bureau auxiliary will be
held at a regular m eeting a t the Co­
lum bia park clubhouse Friday. The
usual program will not be held but
discussion as to the com pletion of
th e park project will he held.
The refreshm ent com m ittee con­
sists of Mrs. Alice Hamm er, Mrs.
Avis Keener, Mrs. Blanche Ryland
an d Mrs. A nnette Barham.
W IN D USHERS IN
COOLER WEATHER
A fairly strong southw esterly
wind blew all day W ednesday and
probably will be the breaking point
of the continued warm w eather of
th e past few weeks. No rain, how­
ever, has been reported.
The follow ing is the w eather’ re­
port for the past week according to
C harles Taylor, local w eather man.
Max. Min
Date
September 21 ............ 95 - , 62
Septem ber 22 ....... ..... 92 ... . 48
September 23 ........ .... 88 ... . 46
Septem ber 24 ....... .... 81 ... . 47
. 47
September 25 ............. 81
September 26 ............ 85 ... . 38
Cooks Pay Visit Here.
On 'their way to visit a son in
N orth Powder, Dr. and Mrs. J. W.
Cook spent late T hursday afternoon
and nig h t w ith th e S tearns Cushing
family. The Cooks, who now live
n ear P ortland, are form er parishion­
ers of the local M ethodist m inister
when he was in S utherlin. Ore. Dr.
Cook is well know n am ong th e vet­
erin arian s of the state, having prac­
ticed in the valley for many years
before his recent retirem ent. They
left F riday m orning.
LOCAL MEN ATTEND
DAIRY CONFERENCE
H. R. H artley, cow tester, and M.
E. K nickerbocker, assistan t county
agent, left Sunday for C orvallis to
attend a series of m eetings of the
Dairy Herd Im provem ent association
for herd testers. Mr. H artley repre­
sented U m atilla county.
K enneth
Nielson
of W allow a
county accom panied Mr. H artley and
Mr. K nickerbocker.
Bowman To Make Trip
W. H. Bowman and d au g h ters H a­
zel and Sylvia and Mrs. E. C. Chaney
of Irrigon are leaving S aturday for
a two-day trip to Yakima. His son,
Allen, will be In charge of the shoe
shop d u rin g the absence of Mr. Bow­
man.
HOME EXTENSION
U N IT MAKES PLANS
The H erm iston Home Extension
u n it met a t th e Legion hall Tuesday
afternoon to plan the year’s work.
The project is a p art of the Oregon
S tate college extension service.
The following projects will be pre­
sented the coming year:
“ Buying
Readym ades”. "T estin g of m aterials
and alteratio n s of readym ades and
of p a tte rn s” ; “ P aren t E ducation” :
“ Behavior Problems of A dults” :
"Care of Floors and of W oodwork” ;
and “ A V egetable P late D inner.”
Cold storage clinics will be held d u r­
ing May.
The next m eeting will be an all
day affa ir on October 24, beginning
a t 10:30. Luncheon will be served
a t noon. The subjects will be "C are
of th e H air.”
LOCAL STUDENTS BEGIN ANNUAL TREK
TO INSTITUTIONS OF HI GHER LEARNING
Mrs. Mayer Completes Work
The past two weeks have been The la tte r Is en terin g on a four year
Mrs. K. M. Mayer, who has spent
the past week w orking in th e local busy ones for prospective local col- scholarship aw arded for high schol­
REA office, returned to her home in ! lege students. Many In stitu tio n s of astic work in the local high school
Lebanon today
(T h u rsd ay ). She ! higher learn in g will reg ister local last year.
E n te rin g U niversity of Oregon will
had come to help in office procedure students this year w ith Oregon S tate
in the office here where she had i leading the list. Only six members be the two S tu a rt brothers, Jim and
been employed before moving to of last year’s g rad u atin g class will Tom, Miss Edna Kay T urnblad and
Lebanon a few m onths ago. The continue th eir studies a t colleges or j possibly several others. Vera Sisson
Mayers are now engaged in the 5- i universities th is year. Several, how­ : plans to en ter Kinm an Business Col-
ever. have retu rn ed to high school 1 lege.
10-15c store business.
Pacific u niversity will reg ister
for post graduate work.
Leaving for Oregon S tate th is ¡Gerald Keller. Bill Jackson, E lbert
Boardman Endeavors Visit.
H erm iston Union C hristian E n­ week were R ichard Cox. Lois W hite, I “ Eg” Moore, Heren Ralph and Fred
deavor was attended Sunday night j S tu art Rankin. E sth er McMullin, Rankin. Miss Rosemary 8erell left
b." three carloads of Endeavors from | Nina Rae McCuIly. Harold Marble, j Sunday to resum e her studies a t the
Boardman. They rem ained for th e Thelm a Sw arner. Law rence Swar- E astern Oregon College of Education
evening service. A full house en­ ner. Law rence H unt, B ernard Jen- 1 at La Grande. T his will be her last
joyed the Indian preacher’s message. dzrejew skl and G eraldine Mullins. i year.
PLANS FOR RURAL
FIRE PROTECTION
ARE DISCUSSED
The possibilities for the form a­
tion of a farm fire d istric t were dis­
cussed at a meeting of the executive
CQpimittee of the Farm Bureau last
Tuesday. H. K. Dean and H. M.
Sqmmerer were named to investigate
the m atter in connection w ith state
laws and other rulings.
-Numerous grass fires were put
out during the past summ er w ith the
help of neighbors and townspeople.
H erm iston fire fig h tin g equipm ent
answered several calls and was In­
strum ental in saving severe proper­
ty loss in the Columbia d istric t when
a grass fire started n ear the Beletski
farm and raced east.
If such a farm fire d istric t could
be organized, under sta te law,
equipm ent of the d istric t could be
housed at strateg ic points and be
available at all times. No definite
inform ation has been received on the
m atter.
MANY UMATILLA COUNTY
FARMERS TO HAVE POWER
EVANGELIST COMING NEW 32 MILE REA
LINE COMPLETED;
JUICE AVAILABLE
TOWNSEND CLUB TO
SPONSOR FISH POND
The next m eeting of the H erm is­
ton Townsend club will be held F ri­
day, October 13, and all members
are asked to bring articles to the
value of 10c to p ut in a fish pond.
The public is invited to p artak e In
th e "fish in g ” party.
Townsend banks were d istrib u ted
a t the last meeting. Each member
will put one cent in the bank each
day and th e last m eeting of each
m onth will be bank n ig h t at w hich
tim e banks will be opened and mon­
ey sent to national head q u arters to
send out T rail Blazers.
M. C. Brooks, Townsend speaker
from V irginia, recently addressed
60.000 members of the national
grange a t th e annual picnic.
IRRIGATION WATER
TO RUN THIS WEEK
NUMBER 6
W. F. DROWN
A series of revival m eetings have
been scheduled at the local Pilgrim
Holiness church, according to the
pastor. Rev. Stanley W eber. W. F.
Drown, noted evangelist from Colo­
rado Springs, Colorado, will be the
speaker. Services will be held each
evening a t 7:45 beginning October 1.
T he public is invited to atten d .
P.T.A. MEETING TO
BE HELD AT SCHOOL
FRIDAY JEVENING
The first reg u lar m eeting of the
H erm iston P. T. A. association thic
year will be held In th e high school
gym nasium Friday evening at 8:00
o’clock. The m eeting will be In the
form of a réception Tor th e h é tv mem­
bers of th e faculty. All patrons of
the school are cordially invited to a t­
tend w hether members of the associ­
ation or not.
Com mittee chairm en and officers
have been busy arran g in g for the
event w hich has proven popular In
past years.
H erm iston law ns will have at
least one more irrig atio n , according
to E. D. M artin, m anager. The us­
ual rounds will be made F riday and
S aturday unless unforeseen difficul­
ties arise or a shortage of w ater oc­
curs.
The announcem ent comes as a re ­ LETTER W R ITIN G
lief to local residents who were be­ WEEK ANNOUNCED
ginning to see favorite lawns suffer.
This, however, will probably be the
The week of October 1 to 7 has
been selected for n atio n al le tte r­
last irrig atio n of the season.
w riting activities.
The slogan as
given by the Post Office departm ent
CONNOR O P E N S
reads, “W rite today to those aw ay.”
The week was celebrated last year
UMATILLA STORE
and met w ith a large response over
the en tire U nited States.
H arry Connor of H erm iston has
Wm. E. Logan, local postm aster,
opened a cash grocery store in Uma­
urges H erm iston residents to take
tilla and will operate there as Con­ p art in w ritin g le tte rs to friends and
nor’s Cash Store under th e same plan
relatives d u rin g next week,
as followed here. Benny E vans will
be in charge. The store is located ad ­
joining the Duncan Hotel In old Um­ STUART TO START
atilla.
TROJAN CONTEST
Evans has had considerable ex­
perience In the grocery business and
H erm iston football fans will be
has worked on several occasions In listen in g at radios and w atching the
the local store.
new spapers S aturday for news con­
cerning Jim S tu a rt's activ ities in
the U niversity of Oregon-Southern
SLOAN THOMPSON
C alifornia game to be played a t Los
Angeles. Jim Is a local boy who has
GETS LARGE DEER
made good in football at the U niver­
sity.
One of th e largest deer reported
Coach Tex Oliver’s sta rtin g line­
in H erm iston to date belonged to
up was announced this week and in­
Sloan Thomson of the B u tter Creek
cluded S tu a rt a t left tackle.
d istrict. The anim al was a four
pointer and weighed In the neigh­
borhood of 233 pounds. The buck NEW FORD TRACTOR
was In good condition.
CREATES INTEREST
Mr. Thomson bagged his buck In
the A rbuckle country and was ac­
The new lig h tw eig h t Ford tracto r
companied by Otis McCarty.
w ith a built-in Ferguson hydraulic
mechanism has created considerable
Interest am ong farm ers in th is dis­
UMATILLA GARDEN
tric t the past week. An im prom ptu
CLUB TO DANCE
dem onstration was held a sh o rt dis­
tance west of Herm iston Sunday.
A nother dem onstration will be
The U m atilla Garden club will
sponsor a dance In th e U m atilla announced In the npar future.
gymnasium S aturday night. Septem­
Irrigon People Make Trip
ber 30, according to members of the
Miss Jack ie Foster of T he Dalles
¡com m ittee who were In H erm iston
Monday arran g in g details.
The and Dolores H aberlein and Robert
Brace of Irrigon motored to W allowa
¡Troubadors will be featured.
T his Is a second of a series of Lake where they were Joined by
dances sponsored by th e U m atilla John Sw earingen, for a week end of
speed boating and oth er sports.
¡Garden club.
The new REA extension of 32
miles has been completed, according
to R. L. Woolley, m anager. Activi­
ties the past few days have been cen­
tered tow ards checking th e lines and
preparing for energy w hich will
probably be released the first of the
week.
W hen the lines have been th o r­
oughly gone over and checked, Juice
will be turned on and be ready for
use as soon as a sufficient num ber of
users have wired th eir homes accord­
ing to REA specifications. The an ­
nouncem ent comes as good news to
many farm ers who have been w a it­
ing for some tim e for the advent of
electricity to th e ir homes.
Mr. Woolley and J. H. Reid a t­
tended a public u tility m eeting of
Wasco county a t Bonneville thia
week where Dr. Paul Raver, new
Bonneville ad m in istrato r, addressed
the group on general news concern­
ing Bonneville power.
The nam e of H aw ley J. Bean was
left off from the published list of
new board of directors elected Tues­
day, Septem ber 12, a t th e an n u al
m eeting of the U m atilla E lectric Co­
operative. The complete list should
read: E. D. M artin, Fred H oughton,
J. H. Reid, H. J. Ott and H. J. Bean.
R. L. Woolley, m anager, is in
charge of the local office.
CO M M U N ITY CHORUS
ELECTS OFFICERS
A group of singers, under the d i­
rection of Ted Roy of Pendleton, or­
ganized this week as a com m unity
chorus which will welcome singers
from this area. The only req u ire­
m ent is th a t the member be able to
carry a tune. Mr. Roy states, "I
would rath e r have u n train ed voices
who are faith fu l at rehearsals th an
the finest voices in the country who
are not.”
Members believe th a t th e chorus
will be a com m unity asset of w hich
H erm iston will be proud. Officers
elected W ednesday nig h t Included:
Jack Sm ith, president; Norma P er­
cy, lib rarian , w ith the secretary Job
undecided. R ehearsals w ill be held
each Wednesday evening a t 8:15 at
th e Legion hall.
FARMERS SUPPLY
OPENS OFFICE HERE
The F arm ers Supply Co., form erly
of Stanfield, has opened an office in
Herm iston in the Wm. S h aar build­
ing form erly occupied by Ruby’s
Dress Shop. According to Horace
Sm ith, owner, he has closed his bus­
iness in Stanfield and will operate
from the Herm iston location. Assoc­
iated w ith him are Sam Nye and
H aig B urnett.
The office will be used m ainly for
display purposes w ith o th er goods
stored In a warehouse. The men will
continue th eir residence in Stanfield
un til they can find suitable living
q u arte rs here.
SECOND SAFETY
FILM FRIDAY
The second of a series of three
safety program s being sponsored by
Columbia G range will be presented
F riday evening, beginning a t 8:00
p. m. in the Columbia school build­
ing. An in te restin g round-table dis­
cussion of safety on the farm , in the
home, and com m unity, will be points
discussed.
T here will be special music and
thp show ing of a 30 m inute safety
film Admission is free and the pub­
lic is invited.
Mrs. Fraser Leaves for Visit.
Mrs. Tom F raser left W ednesday
for a visit w ith her son Hugh F ra­
ser in New York. The la tte r Is an
au d ito r with the Anaconda Copper
M ining Co. of New York.
Football - Bulldogs vs. Kennewick - Friday 2:00