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NEWS FROM YOUR OWN S T A ’E & COUNTY TOWNSEND CLUB NEWS aJQ U M A T ILLA COUNTY PAPER VOLUME XXXIII. NUMBER 35 HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, APRIL 18, 1940 By MRS. JOE UDEY (ONDON DEFEATS L O C A L GOLFERS ON HOME COURSE U h I A large crowd attended the Town send dance at the new club house in Columbia park last Friday night and all enjoyed a happy time. The Town send club sends a vote of thanks to the Farm Bureau Auxiliary for their fine cooperation. At this meeting Mrs. Frank Silva of Stanfield by mis take took someone else’s coat instead CURRIE OF CONDON of her own and would like to make SHOOTS LOW 36 the exchange. Phone 2606. A flash from Washington, D. C.— Condon golfers outplayed the local “Senator Downey of California ad divot-diggers here Sunday afternoon dressed the senators on the Town when they scored 29 points, against send plan. There were present at roll 25 points for the Hermiston Golf call 84 out of the 96 senators. Many club members. This was the first of advised that they would be glad to the invitation golf matches played hear Downey as long as three weeks on the local course this season, and on the Townsend plan, rather than gave Condon revenge for their de the three hours which he took on feat last year. April 8. A. Currie of Condon turned in the “While Mr. Downey was inter lowest score of the 36 golfers on the rupted by four or five senators, there course, getting a par 36 for the first was not a single critic openly against round and a 38 for the second, for the plan. Instead senators offered a total of 74 points. For the locals, helpful suggestions, trying in all Walt Pearson and Ralph Jones tied, ways to cut the old red tape and have each with a total of 78 for both the bill discussed. rounds. Prizes for the longest shot of the FIRST TURKEY POOL day for the visitors was won by C. H. Hollen, while W. Pearson won it OF BREEDER STOCK for the locals. E. Bensel of the local club won the prize for getting the EXCEEDS ESTIMATE ball closest to the pin on the shortest The first turkey pool of the sea hole and T. Jackson won the same son was held at the plant of the prize for the visitors. Individual scores and points for Eastern Oregon Turkey Growers in Hermiston follow: Hermiston Monday when growers J. Todd, 39, 40, ; R. Jones, 38, disposed of their breeder stock. The 40, 0; M. Matott, 41, 41, 0; E. Ben kill more than doubled the original sel, 37, 43, 1; R. Brownson, 48, 40, estimate when 1272 birds were de 1%; G. Ripley, 42, 46, 0; C. Simons, 41, 44, 2; W. Pearson, 39, 39, 2; B. livered to the plant. The total weight Hansen, 40, 42, 1; B. Beard, 40, 44, totaled 19,592 pounds, according to 2; R. Critchfield, 43, 38, 3; L. Ed dy, 45, 48, 2(4; B. Doyle, 46, 42, 3; Mrs. R. G. Penney, secretary. The next pool has been set for J. Pearson, 46, 43, 3; P. Van Patten, April 23 and 24, with another sched 43, 43, 0; C. Jackson, 43, 41, 3; B. Gurdane, 45, 47, 0; J. Chenault, 42, uled for May 5 and 6. It is expected 44, %. that the total poundage of the three Scores for Condon: G. Guild, 39, 37, 2%: A. Currie, pools will run pretty close to 75,000 36, 38, 3; G. Eaton, 39, 39, 3; E. pounds. 40, 37, 2; B. Hollen, 45, 43, Birds killed Monday will not be Morton, 1(4; Dan Thoubence, 41, 38, 3; H. shipped at the present time but will Holland, 45, 41, 1; Bill Hollen, 38, be held in storage until April 24 42, 1; W. Parish, 41, 40, 2; T. Jack- son, 45, 41, 1: E. Callart, 44, 44, 0; when a car will be loaded. N. Hoffman, 48. 48, (4 ; Carrol Hol len, 47. 43, 0; F. Hollen, 48, 45, 0; PROPER TIM E TO H, Devin, 42, 42, 3; P. Perrenoud, 48, 46, 0: J. O’Roarke, 43, 41, 3: H. PLANT Z IN N IA S Klages, 40, 44, 2(4. In keeping with the Garden Club’s decision choosing the zinnia as the official flower for the city, informa tion is released as to the best meth ods of growing the flower. It is hoped that not only members of the club but all citizens plant as many blooms as possible. The following is a condensed para graph as to instructions: This is the proper time to plant. They require rich soil, plenty of water and full sun. If the soil is enriched and cul tivated, irrigated and the seeds plant ed within 24 hours after irrigation they will be up in six or seven days. When four inches high they should be thinned to about 8 or 10 inches apart. They can be transplanted but do better if they are planted where they are to remain. Hermiston, the Zinnia City. YOUNGSTERS PLEASE W IT H 'K IN G KOKO' A splendid performance of the op eretta “King KoKo” by the Hermis ton Junior High was enjoyed by a good sized crowd Friday evening. The plot centered about King Ko- Ko, portrayed by Jack Rodgers, who issued a decree that his people must give up their modern ways and re turn to the ways of their cannibal forefathers. To start this he ordered a native marriage festival during which his daughter, La Goona, play ed by Iva Van Arsdale, rebels. In the ensuing action an American “Clipper Ship” crashes on their beach. They immediately plan to modernize the is land with Bob Connor, an air pilot, and Jack Belt, a salesman, as leaders. Many laughs were brought forth when the governess (Ethel Clarke) les-ns that they are doomed to stay on the island and gives way to her feelings toward Bruz (Bob Martin), the spoiled wealthy child, and gives him a much needed thrashing. When the chief decrees that the Americans must die when Ora (Jack Pierson), is rejected as a suitor. La Goona, and Sally Harrison, a school teacher played by Beulah Ryland, try to save their lives by helping one another in their love affairs. This fails, howev er, and they are saved only from an inevitable death by Cissie (Laurelei Saylor), who has used a refrigerator w to make some cocoanut ice cream which is much to the liking of King Ko-Ko. Finally, amid mouths full of ice cream. Ko-Ko commutes the death sentence and the entangled love af fairs end happily. DOUBLE WEDDING OF INTEREST HERE The double wedding of Miss Wan da Roberts and Leon “Gus” Estle, and Miss Loretta Mulkins and George Scarlett, came as a pleasant surprise to their many friends in the Hermis ton vicinity. The ceremony took place at Weiser, Idaho, last Wednesday in the Methodist parsonage. Mrs. Estle is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Roberts of the But ter Creek district and is a graduate of the local schools. Mr. Estle is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Estle of near Umatilla. He is employed at the Rohrman Motor Co. Mrs. Scarlett is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Mulkins of the Westland district and is a recent graduate of Hermiston high school. Mr. Scarlett is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Scarlett of near Umatilla. He is associated with his father on a farm there. PLANS ANNOUNCED FOR V A C A T IO N B IB L E S C H O O L At a joint committee meeting of representatives from the various lo cal churches, preliminary plans for the annual Daily Vacation Bible School were formulated. The group organized a general committee with Rev. Grayden Loree as chairman and Mrs. Cecil Warner as secretary. Af ter deciding to use local leadership this year, Rev. Stearns Cushing Jr. was named dean of the school and the following were elected as depart ment heads: Mrs. Warner, superin tendent of the Intermediate division; Rev. Loree, Junior; Mrs. Maxine Cushing, Primary, and Mrs. Will Hineline, Beginners. Assistants and helpers will be named later. The dates of the school are set for the two weeks of June 3 to June 14. It is a cooperative school for child ren from four years of age through the high school age. A similar project proved popular last year. ASPARAGUS SEASON GETS UNDERW AY Canning of asparagus by local canners is in full swing at the Coop erative Cannery, according to Alton Sisson, manager. The season is somewhat in advance of former years but the crop is developing in fine shape. Special arrangements can be made with him at the cannery. A full schedule for canning dates appears each week on the Coopera tive page 5. HERMISTON SENDS GROUP TO MEETING Miss Lucille Forsythe, Miss Effie Conner, Miss Violet Ann Nestell, Mrs. Georgia Henderson and Miss Mary Petri represented Hermiston at the district conference held Sun day by the Business and Professional Women of Oregon. An invitation to the “Cow-women of eastern Oregon from the Cavemen of Grants Pass” was accepted to hold the state con vention May 17, 18 and 19 at Grants Pass. TO HOLD MISSION REV. JOHN J. STANLEY C. S. I’. The pastor and parishioners of Our Lady, Queen of Angels parish are making ready for the mission which will be given in the parish church in Hermiston this year from April 21 to 28, with the Paulist preacher, the Rev. John J. Stanley, C.S.P. of New York and Portland, conducting the exercises. Father Stanley is one of the younger men of his order, the Congregation of St. Paul, now preaching missions, and has just completed a very successful year of work on the coast. He will open the mission with a sermon on “Beginnings” to be preached at the Mass on Sunday morning at 9 o’clock. On Sunday evening he will talk on “Journey’s End” and other sermon topics are as listed: “The Betrayal” ; “Not Built with Hands” ; “Where Danger Lies”; “A Giver and His Gift” ; “The Per sonality of Christ” ; “A Spectacle to the World” ; and “Conclusions”. All evening services are at 7:30 and in addition to the sermon, an interest ing feature of the evening will be a period devoted to the “Question Box”, during which time, Father Stanley will answer all the questions on re ligious and moral problems submitted by the congregation. Short sermons on practical prob lems will follow the morning Masses on week days, at 7:30 o’clock. The Rev. Alban Cullen, pastor of Our La dy, Queen of Angels extends a cor dial invitation to all, both Catholics and non-Catholics, to make the mis sion. Party Held at Methodist Church A group of young people and younger married couples were hon ored at a party at the Methodist church Tuesday evening. The motif of the party was in keeping with the current census-taking. After an en joyable time of games, contests and fun, refreshments of ice cream, cake and coffee were served. It is planned to have another party for this group in the near future. Hodge Renovates Robison Home C. L. Hodge, new manager of the Hermiston Auto Co., has recently completed rebuilding and redecorat ing his newly purchased home at the corner of Sixth and Locust streets. The contract was let to Longhorn & Sons who in turn sub-let the paint ing, plumbing, wiring and other work. The result is a bright, mod ern house. Business Meeting Planned. A special business meeting of the Hermiston Union church will be held in the Union church following the morning worship service on May 5 for the purpose of voting on a change of the name, “Hermiston Union Church” to “The First Church of Christ.” Extension Unit To Meet The Hermiston Home Extension Unit will meet Tuesday, April 23, at the home of Mrs. L. S. Burrell. Mrs. Dorothy Bishop will be present and will discuss the subject, “Vegetable Plate Dinner.” The session will com mence at 10:30 and will last until 3:30, according to Mrs. Bert Quick. Leaguer» Go To Pendleton. The members of the Epworth League of the Methodist church will journey to Pendleton Friday evening for a sub-district party. The Epworth Leagues from Milton, Heppner and Hermiston will join with the Pendle ton group. After a pot luck dinner, Columbia school board met and de the evening will be given to a recrea cided to hire the same teachers for another year. Mrs. Emil Zivney, tion program. principal of the school, and Miss Marjory ABurnham will remain but Columbia Winners Calf Club Meet» Miss Myrthena Martin has accepted A meeting of the Columbia Win a school at Boardman. ners Calf club was held last Thurs The Townsend club gave a dance day at the home of Betty Cox, daugh in the Columbia community building ter of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Cox. last Friday night . More than 100 attended and a grand time Teams for demonstration and other people was reported. A hand painted pic business was accomplished. ture was auctioned off. Alfred Lentz of Pendleton was the lucky one. Al Pomona Grange To Meet. so a quilt went to William Kik. The Umatilla County Pomona Around 825 was realized from the Grange No. 26 will meet with Cold affair and will be used toward send a delegate to the St. Louis con Springs Grange on Thursday, May 2, ing vention in June. at 10 a. m., according to a recent an Mrs. Nora Hartley of Walla Wal nouncement received from Mrs. Ber la. and Mrs. Sadie Board way of Ya kima were visitors of Mrs. Jessie tha Hanscom, secretary. Hooker last Saturday. They are sis ters of the late Henry Hooker. Felthouse Prove» Lucky Angler J. H. Reid underwent a ma W. W. Felthouse, fisherman extra jor Mrs. operation at St. Mary’s hospital ordinary, came in Saturday with the in Walla Walla last Thursday. She finest catch of the opening day. He is reported to be getting along nice landed 13 beauties in the Stanfield ly. Marian Ott received word from ditch for probably the best catch that Miss Clinton who is in the West In was reported locally. dies. She states it is lovely there with lots of flowers and sunshine. Irrigon Grange To Dance. I. J. Babbitt of Troutdale is in this The Irrigon Grange is sponsoring district this week settling up the Gill an old time dance Saturday, April 20, estate. The Gills resided here quite at 8 p. m. The ladies of the commu a number of years ago. They located at Troutdale, but both have passed nity are asked to bring sandwiches away in the last two or three years. and cake, according to Mrs. H. W. Ora Tompon lives on the Gill farm here now. Grim, member of the grange. COLUMBIA SCHOOL TEACHERS RE-ELECTED; TOWNSEND CLUB DANCES IN NEW HALL Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woodward and children visited Mrs. Woodward's sister, Mrs. Kenneth Beebe and fam ily of Stanfield, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Buell and sons Harold, Alfred and Clayton drove to Lyle, Wn., Sunday, where they met and had dinner with their daughters, Mrs. Fred Dixon and Mrs. Wilson Johnson and their husbands who drove up to Lyle from their home in Portland. The Buell family lived at Lyle before coming to Hermiston. Grandpa Buell, who is 86 years old, came home with them for a visit. They also visited the Arthur Roberts family, former residents of this dis trict, while there and found them well and doing fine. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Barager spent the week end in Yakima where they met their son and his wife from Seat tle. Mrs. Barager states they had a lovely trip and the acres and acres of pear trees in full bloom were very beautiful. Margaret French of Stage Gulch was visiting at the Mabel Weeks home Sunday. James Knox was al so a visitor there. Joe Kesler is working for Charles Keller. Mrs. Frank Sylvia of Stanfield called at the Joe Udey home Monday. Charles Weeks Jr. has been ill for a few days but is much better. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Maffei spent Tuesday of last week in Wasco visit ing their parents and friends. Keith Hutchison of Pilot Rock (Continued on page 5) UNION CHURCH CONFERENCE ISTO BE HELD NEXT WEEK The Churches of Christ of eastern Oregon will meet in the Union church in Hermiston for their annual convention next Thursday and Fri day, April 25 and 26. K. E. Hend ricks, pastor of the church at Milton, is president of the group. Arthur C. Bates, pastor of the church at Klamath Falls, will be the convention speaker and will deliver an address in every session of the convention excepting one. The meetings will open Thursday morning at 10:30 with a women’s conference and the convention pro per begins at 2:00. Two banquets will be served, the first on Thursday evening at 6:00 at which time N. .A. Davis, a banker at Walla Walla, will be the speaker. The other will be held Friday evening with Clyde Flemming, pastor of the Pendleton church, as speaker. Banquets and all sessions are open to the public. Each evening service begins at 7:30, following the banquets, Friday morning at 10:00 and afternoons at 2:00, according to Rev. C. Warner, pastor of the Union church. REGISTRATIONS SHOW LARGE GAIN Recent registrations in precincts 32 and 33 in Hermiston sends the total for the two to over 1000 voters. Since the books were opened in March, closing April 16, 222 new registrations were made. This num ber includes changes of precincts and party. The new registrations ran about three to one Republican and Democrat, respectively, with one In dependent and one Socialist. The two precincts were already among the largest in Umatilla coun ty and are now probably the largest in the state in number of voters. It is probable that before another election year the area will be divided into three or four precincts for the con venience of voters and to speed up the count. STUDENTS MAKE LA GRANDE TRIP About 75 members of the music de partment of Hermiston high school, comprising the band and girls’ glee club, journeyed to La Grande Satur day to take part in the annual music festival sponsored by the Eastern Oregon College of Education. The trip was made by bus, leaving at 7 a. m. and returning last that night. The band and glee were featured on the program Saturday afternoon folowing a series of vocal contests. The girls' sextet sang “Indian Love Call,” Eleanor Sires sang “To the Land of My Own Romance”, and the glee club rendered “Honey Chile.” The band opened with “His Honor March,” followed by “The Traveler Overture” and “Spanish Dance, I.” On Friday evening a contest for bands of this region was eld with Ba ker, Mac Hi and Union coming out on top. Hermiston did not enter the contest. INTEREST SHOWN IN C O M IN G SERIES Much interest is being reported in the coming series of contract bridge lectures and supervised play by Sam Gordon, the Kibitzer, who will be here on April 29, 30 and May 1, sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary in the Legion hall. The trouble with most players, he says, is that they try to learn and play the game the hard way. They end by knowing too many things that are not so. All they are expected to do is to tell each other what their hands contain in the simplest possi ble manner. Enumerator To Call For Blanks Mrs. Lillie A. Bensel, census count er in Hermiston, announces that she will be around soon to pick up blanks which she has left at various homes during the past week. She expects to complete her work Monday and is anxious that all papers be finished by that time. Stanfield Plays Here Tuesday The Stanfield high school baseball team comes to Hermiston Tuesday, April 23, for the first of a home and home arrangement. The Bulldogs have not been practicing regularly* due to the extremely light schedule but will be in shape by Tuesday. HERMISTON MEMBER OF UMATILLA COUNTY BASEBALL LEAGUE IN D IA N S 'P L A Y HERE SUNDAY Hermiston will be a member of the newly organized Umatilla County Baseball League which will be com posed of Helix, Pilot Rock, Umatilla Reservation Regulars ( Mission In dians), Stanfield C. C. C., Umatilla and Hermiston. The league was form ed Monday evening in Hermiston with representatives present from the towns entered. Considerable enthusiasm was dis played at the meeting, indicating that baseball is -again regaining some of its prestige. Opinions expressed were that the various teams will re ceive home town support to the full est extent. A home and home schedule was drawn up, giving each team eight games beginning with Sunday, April 21. Hermiston will meet the Umatilla Reservation Regulars on the local diamond Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. The Indians are always an interesting team to watch and re ports are that they are represented by a strong contender this year. They won a practice game with the Stan field nine Sunday afternoon. The previously arranged practice game with Helix was called off in order to get league action underway. Helix will play at Stanfield and Pilot Rock at Umatilla in the other league games Sunday. The latter tilt may be reversed as to home team in order to get some action in the other part of the county. Hermiston players who will prob ably see action Sunday include Wood ward, Beard, Rankin. Harris, Sollars, Crampton. Mittlesdorf, Hartley, Al- stott, Jones, Houghton, Melton and several others. An admission price of 25c will be charged. The complete schedule will be. pub lished next week. TROUBADORS PLAY HERE SATURDAY “Swing and Sway” is the theme of the evening for the dance in the Her miston park hall Saturday night with the Troubadors’ nine piece band furnishing the music. The series of dances are proving popular with the one held two weeks ago drawing a capacity crowd. Popular prices of 60c and 15c are being charged. ECHO HIGH TO PRESENT PLAY Members of the junior and senior classes of Echo high school will pre sent “Little Clod Hopper” Tuesday evening, April 23. The play depicts the modern version of the same title. A short demonstration giving por tions of the play will be presented Saturday evening on Main street in Hermiston. HEPPNER TENNIS TEAM W INS HERE The Heppner high school tennis team came to Hermiston Tuesday with large racquets and took the measure of the local court artists 4 matches to 2. Several contests were exceedingly close and some good ten nis was offered. Heppner won the boys doubles, one mixed doubles and both singles, while Hermiston cap tured one mixed doubles and the girls doubles. A return match will be played lat er. SPRING FLOWER SHOW SCHEDULED The second annual spring flower show, sponsored by the Hermiston Garden club, will be held in the high school gymnasium April 27, accord ing to Mrs. B. A. Doyle, flower show chairman. Plans are developing rap idly for another interesting display, with committees hard at work on the details. The Garden club invites all flow er lovers to bring displays. Special divisions have been announced in the schedules which are available at the Hermiston Drug Co., the Herald of fice snd Thompson’s Drug Store. De tailed Information will be published next week.
