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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1940)
rr NEWS FROM YOUR OWN STATE fir COUNTY 'Th a OFFICIAL U M A T ILLA COUNTY PAPER MRS I"* O** T<.,> THv tA****’ ^riT +/zi&Ld. a im HERMISTON, VOLUME X X XIII. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, J U ^ f 25, 1940. SPECIAL MEETING OF COMMERCIAL CLUB AUGUST 6 JOE S. DYER PASSES B. .a rt. George Beddow A large crowd assembled at the FRIDAY FOLLOWING Columbia club house Thursday even ing of last week to hear Mrs. Joe Udey’s report on the Townsend con EXTENDED ILLNESS vention held in St. Louis from June 30 to July 4. Mrs. Udey was a dele gate for the clubs of Umatilla county, and gave a thorough and interesting talk on the four days’ doings, as well as giving many humorous incidents of events happening there and en route. She stated it was estimated there were 21,000 delegates present at the first meeting. Hotels were not pre pared for the large crowds, she said, and food was exhausted the early part of the convention, as hotel and restaurant managers did not believe there would be such a large crowd. There were 119 delegates from Oregon. Mrs. Udey accompanied friends, Townsend state workers and representatives of the movement she knew quite intimately which made her trip very pleasant. One coach, she said, was filled with Townsend members, who marched through the trains singing and waving flags. One of the humorous stories told by Mrs. Udey was somewhat of a joke on her self. The sleeping car on which she retired for the night was switched off from the main train while she shept peacefully. On arising in the morning she saw none of her friends and upon consulting the conductor she found out) that her coach was be hind. She was put off at a small station where she waited the arrival of her own car. To add to the amuse ment and hilarity of her friends, who were wondering why she was sleep ing so late, she came walking into the coach with a man, after her nights absence from her friends. The gen tleman in question, who was also a Townsend delegate, took the train at this particular point, and unknow ingly caused amusement, and stood the jokes the rest of the trip. Dr. Townsend made the keynote speech of the convention, the first time he answered in this capacity, al though it was the fifth annual con vention of the Townsend movement. Joseph C. O. Mahoney, Burton K. Wheeler and Sheridan Downey, Unit ed States senators, and John Cuneo, Mr. Fish, Joe Hendricks and Robert Secrest, representatives, gave talks on the Townsend Recovery movement and all were loudly applauded by the large crowd. Mr. Downey, who is the author of several Townsend books, flew from Washington, and after making his speech, flew back again on the next plane to be present at a committee meeting of which he was a member. The Townsend organization, which ___a youth movement, was repre has sented by 200 delegates. One of their group addressed the convention with a most wonderful talk, Mrs. Udey stated, that brought rounds of ap plause from the floor. His name is T iffin Reed, 18, of Texas, where he is a state speaker. Wilhelmina Ver- berg, worker in girl groups of Michi gan, 14, gave an astounding talk and also received hilarious applause. John L. Lewis, president of the C. I. O., labor organization, addressed __ convention. Robert Townsend, the son of the founder of the movement and secretary-treasurer, and well known national speaker, was present at all sessions and made an appre ciative talk the first day. Mrs. Udey enjoyed a cruise on the new river boat S. S. Admiral, with hundreds of other delegates down the Mississippi the first night. She said the boat was wonderful. There was a 16-piece orchestra which played in the ball-room that covered the entire second deck. She also attended a large banquet given in Mrs. Town send’s honor in the large municipal auditorium, which she said was very colorful and interesting. Mrs. Udey is called the mother of the Townsend movement here and in this locality, having helped organize other clubs in the county. SCHEDULED^ HIKE IS POSTPONED The Camp Cookery club of Her miston was hostess to the Umatilla Camp Cookery club last Wednesday, July 17, at the home of Laureli Say lor. Sara Wurster, president of the Umatilla club, took charge of the business meeting. An over night hike planned for the Umatilla and Hermiston camp cook ery clubs has been postponed until a further date due to the infantile paralysis scare. The hike was to have been July 2* at the little beach in Umatilla. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD HERE SUNDAY One by one the old time pioneers of the project are answering the final roll call. Joe S. Dyer, well known citizen and resident of the project for more than 30 years, passed away Friday, July 19, at the home of his daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Peter son at Powell Butte. “Old Joe” had been ill since last winter when he suffered a severe attack of pneumo nia from which he never fully re covered. His body was shipped to Hermiston where funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Prann Fun eral Parlors with Miss Elizabeth Leek reading the Christian Science services. Pallbearers included F. B. Swayze, H. L. Payne, H. T. Fraser, A1 Quiring, Geo. Strohm and Joe Reeves. Mr. Dyer was born August 16, 1867, across the river from Gallipo lis, Ohio. He left home when he was 18 and for the next few years was employed with his uncle who was a sea captain. During this time Mr. Dyer made two trips around the world. He then became associated with the Newport Construction Co. and helped build the railroad through North Da kota. Following this work he be came a street car conductor at St. Paul and Minneapolis, operating the first service to be installed there. He was then transferred to Denver, Colo rado, to operate a similar service. In 1909 he left his Denver job and came to Hermiston where he located on a small ranch in the south part of the city. Before he left Denver he was married. Following the purchase of the ranch here, he was called to Seat tle to operate a street car line dur ing the exxposition then in progress there. Following his return to Hermis- ton, he began operating his small place which he devoted to diversified farming. He became known as an excellent gardener and produced some of the finest produce on the project. He worked on his place until last fall when he sold it to J. G. Taylor. Last winter Mr. Dyer and his daughter, Mrs. Peterson, made an ex tensive eastern trip at which time he visited many of his school day friends and scenes. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Peterson, two brothers, Amos of Columbus, Ohio, and Curtis of Hermiston, and one nephew, Waldo Dyer of Hermiston. Mrs. Joe Dyer passed away in September, 1938. « JUNE AND JULY BRING NO RAIN BOMBING FIELD SITE LOCATED No measurable amount of rain has fallen in Hermiston since May 4 when .03 in. was recorded. On May 14 a heavy mist was responsible for a .01 in. recording for the last drop of precipitation until this week when .06 was registered last Friday night. There was not a trace of rain since May 14, through June and until July 19. The weather records for the past week, according to Chas. Taylor, fol low: Max. Min. Date July 18 ............. ............. 92 ..... 60 July 19 ............. ............. 94 ..... 60 July 20 .......................... 88 .. 59 July 21 ............. ............. 88 ..... 59 July 22 .......................... 97 ..... 53 July 23 ............. ............. 96 ..... 61 July 24 .......................... 89 .. 65 From all appearances and press reports the army has decideu on the Morrow county site for its new bomb ing field headquarters. Maior John C. Gates, who spent considerable time in the past two years, and has cov ered three states in the quest, states that the Morrow county site is the most feasible plot of ground for the Dombing field and has sent his rec ommendation to the war department. The field will be 12 miles wide and 18 miles long. The northeast corner of the field will be approximately nine miles from Hermiston. Consid erable agitation against the location has been raised by Morrow county officials and stock men as it will mean the closing of the Boardman- Ione road and the loss of grazing lands to the sheepmen. No definite word has as yet been released as to the actual activities planned. THUNDER STORM VISITS HERE A regular old-fashioned thunder storm visited this part of the county to somewhat break the monotony of the present heat spell last Friday evening when a brilliant electrical display with its accompanying thun der entertained the populace Al though only .06 in. of rain was re corded, heavier downpours were re ported south and east of Hermiston. A large transformer was burned out at the Hermiston Light & Pow er Co. sub-station near Echo Friday night during the storm. The bolt struck within a short distance of the station, with service being out for a short time. No serious damage was reported by the REA although sev eral fuses were blown out. A strong wind was in evidence for a short time but no damage resulted. TOWNSEND CLUB NEWS The local club will meet at the Legion hall Friday, July 26. The meeting is changed from 8 p. m. to 8:30 during the busy season. Mrs. Joe Udey gave the report of the fifth Townsend National Convention at the Columbia hall last Thursday night. A request of those who misunderstood the date, wanting to hear this report, she is willing to give it at this meet ing, July 26, if there is a crowd large enough for her to feel it is justified. The public is invited as this is free. Bring your friends. This being bank night, all those wanting to help with the penny a day program, are asked to pay Mr. Morehouse of the finance committee. The dance Saturday night as a benefit for the Townsend club was well attended and the committee is planning for another dance August 3 at the Columbia park. Sale» In Auto Accident Mr. and Mrs. George Sale suffered minor injuries Saturday night while returning from Pendleton when their car left the road and struck a cul vert. Mr. Sale attempted to dim the lights when they went completely out. | The accident happened near the Echo junction. Mrs. Sale hit the wind shield with sufficient force to break it but did not receive any serious cuts while Mr. Sale somewhat bruised his chest from contact with the steering wheel. Follett» Parent» of Twin» Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Follett are the proud parents of twins, a boy and a girl, born Saturday, July 20, at St. Anthony’s hospital in Pendleton. Mrs. Follett and children are doing nice ly. Berryman, in the Washington Star. COW ELK TAGS NOW AVAILABLE Sportsmen wishing cow elk or an telope tags should make application at once at the office of the Oregon State Game Commission, in Portland. A total of 2000 cow elk tags will be issued and 1500 antelope tags. Should less than the quota be applied for by August 1, the tags will be is sued in the order in which applica tions are received. Otherwise, a drawing will be held. No formal application blanks are being issued. Those desiring the tags should send in their names and ad dresses and the kind and number of the hunting license they hold, togeth er with a check or money order for $5.00 for each tag. The elk season this year will be from November 1 to 16, inclusive! the deer season from September 20 HEALTH C LIN IC IS to October 25; the bull elk season in POSTPONED HERE Clatsop county alone, from August 24 to September 2, inclusive: and The annual clinic, under the aus the antelope season from September pices of the Umatilla County Health 29 to October 6, inclusive. unit, usually held in Hermiston at Young People Enjoy Outing about this time of the year, will be Twenty-two young people from held at a later announced date, ac cording to Mrs. Thomas Fraser, lo the Christian Endeavor society of the Church of Christ enjoyed a fine cal representative of that unit. This postponement has been made time on the J. H. DeMoss lawn last necessary due to a few cases of in Thursday evening. Following the meeting, wieners were roasted. fantile paralysis in the county. President George Harkenrider has announced a special meeting of the Hermiston Commercial club for Tues day evening, August 6, at the Odd Fellows hall. The Rebekahs are ex pected to serve the dinner. This will be the first meeting of the summer, the meetings having been suspended during the warm weather months. Among matters which will come up for discussion at the meeting will be the proposed swimming pool, the coming fair and the bombing field to be located west of Hermiston. The northwest corner of the bombing field is only nine miles from Hermis ton and an attempt will be made to swing some of the activities of the field towards Hermiston. Attempts are being made to obtain County Judge Johnsen of Heppner and Major John C. Gates of the army service as special speakers. SERVICE FACILITY SURVEY UNDERWAY A survey of service facilities of the Hermiston Light & Power com pany in the Umatilla area to show what changes are necessary to carry the growing industrial power load there are now under way by Pacific Power & Light company, according to Homer Beale, Pendleton district manager for the company. Although purchase of the Hermis ton company properties by the Paci fic company has not yet been com pleted, the survey was undertaken at losition for prompt this time is completed, action whi i, division en- Beale company at gineer the survey. Walla W The pbwer load in the Umatilla district centers around the growing gasoline tank farms there. Barged up the river, gasoline is distributed from these tank farms for much of the tributary eastern Oregon area. Standard Oil company already has a farm at Umatilla while one is being built by the Shaver Forward ing company. In addition, pumping facilities’ are being installed at the latter plant to load truck tankers for inland distribution. Brown’s survey will reveal present voltage conditions in the Umatilla area and changes needed to augment the Hermiston Light & Power com pany’s present facilities to serve this new business. CONNOR BUYS OUT ARLINGTON STORE NUM BER 49 P. P. * L COMES TO RESCUE SATURDAY WHEN POWER FAILS LIGHTNI NG STRIKES NEAR TRANSFORMER Reserve resources of Pacific Power & Light company were called into action Saturday to prevent lengthy interruption of service to customers of the Hermiston Light & Power company following Friday’s severe lightning storm which damaged the Hermiston transformer substation at the Umatilla river hydroelectric plant. The lightning, which peppered northeastern Oregon and southeast ern Washington with numerous minor electrical troubles, burned out two of the Hermiston company’s three 50-kva transformers. Despite damage to its own wide spread system in the storm area which kept service crews busy until early Saturday morning, Pacific Power * Light company rushed two 100-kva transformers from its re serve stores at Kennewick, Wn., to restore service from the Hermiston hydro plant. Installation was com pleted by Sunday." Burning out of the two transfor mers cut the Umatilla river plant off from the Hermiston system, throwing the entire system load on the connection with Pacific company, which supplies a portion of the power distributed by the Hermiston system. Despite the fact that purchase of the Hermiston system has not yet been completed by Pacific company, the emergency brought prompt ac tion to prevent disruption of service to customers. Homer Beale, Pendleton district manager for the Pacific company explained that by overloading the in terconnection equipment for a short time the Pacific company was able to carry the entire Hermiston load until the new transformers were in stalled. It would not have been pos sible, however, to have continued this overload until the damaged transfor mers were repaired or new ones ob tained elsewhere, he said. W . P.A. WORK TO COMMENCE SOON John R. Dickson, district W.P.A. superviser from Baker, was in Her miston Wednesday and stated that work on the Hermiston street and sidewalk project would resume in about two weeks. It is necessary that a minimum crew of 20 men be avail able before any work can begin. Mr. Dickson stated that Wm. Bol- lin, office engineer for W. P. A., will come soon to confer with the local swimming pool committee in regards to information on the construction of a pool here. John A. Clarke is chair man of the committee. H. L. Connor, owner of Connor’s Grocery, has purchased the remain ing merchandise and some stock fix tures from the Arlington Safeway store which has been discontinued there. The deal with Safeway Inc. was completed this week but the mat ter of leasing the site of the store has not quite been settled. Should the latter be completed this week, Mr. Connor announces that he will open SKOYBO ENJOYS there the first of next week. Although the personnel of the new INTERESTING TRIP store has not been announced, it is Herbert Skovbo arrived in New expected that someone from here will be employed. The concern fea York recently after an extended trip tures an up-to-date meat market aboard the S. S. President Hayes. He is employed on the President which will be continued. Hayes which is one of the finest steamships of the President line. He UPHAM PICKS UP recently won a promotion and is now rated as a petty officer. CARRIER PIGEON On the trip the ship touched many Claude Upham, prominent Colum interesting points, among them be bia ‘district farmer, received a visit ing Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, from a stranger this week when a Colombo, Bombay and Cape Town carrier pigeon boldly landed in his Africa. While in the east, Mr. Skov chicken flock and partook of an even bo visited the New York fair and ing meal. After some persuasion, places of historic interest in Boston Mr. Upham was able to read the and Philadelphia. markings on the legs. On one leg was an aluminum band Cushing Re-elected Camp Manager with the lettering “A V 401412 Seat Rev. Stearns Cushing has been in tle” while another band on the other formed that he has been re-elected leg read “P 4-20.” It was surmised camp manager of the annual Suttle that the pigeon was en route from Lake Institute, sponsored by the Ep Portland to Seattle but was away off worth Leagues of the Methodist churches. The organization plans course. extensive building operations this Hermiston Picnic Scheduled fall. The annual picnic for former Her- More Students Enroll A t School mistonites living in and around Port Several more Hermiston men have land will be held Sunday, July 28, at the Laurelhurst park in that city. Ac enrolled at the aviation school now in tivities will start at 1:00 o’clock with progress at Pendleton. The boys ex a picnic lunch a» 2:00. All former plain that the course is rather stiff Hermiston residents and their friends but interesting. Going from here are are cordially invited to attend. A. W. Harry Connor Jr., Eddie Peterson, Agnew, formerly of Hermiston, Johnny Dunning, Claude Wilcox, De- writes from Portland telling of the verde Elwood, Alfred and All Shipp and Jesse Moore. occasion.
