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NEWS FROM YOUR a OWN STATE & COUNTY e. ■ m V, OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER COLUMBIA NEWS By Mrs. Baxter Hutchison eim L ito n VOLUME XXXIV. HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 17, 1940. NUMBER 9 Mr. and Mrs. Miles Barager have C. JARVIS DURFEY M A N Y REGISTER HUNTERS BOMBARD D sold their farm to Wesley Townsend LOCAL COUNTRYSIDE L‘ V ° of Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. Townsend DIES IN PORTLAND FOR C ITY VOTE will take possession at once. They have five children at home with them HOSPITAL M ONDAY 1 and an older son not at home. Mr. Although a great number of Her TUESDAY MORNING and Mrs. Barager will remain here miston voters have completed their until the first of December in order The past week has seen hundreds Charles Jarvis Durfey, connected registration for the city election Nov to dispose of their turkeys. Their of nimrods from many parts of Ore with the Hermiston Hotel since 1917, ember 5, there are still many who plans are indefinite as to their fu passed away early Monday morning have failed to register. It is abso gon and Washington concentrate on ture location. in a Portland hospital followng an lutely necessary that every voter, this section of Umatilla county in WQRI$ TO REQUIRE Will Barber’s sister and husband, M A N Y PARTICIPATE Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Bumford of Sa emergency operation performed Sat who wishes to vote for city officers, quest of the elusive pheasants. The S E V E ^ l_ M O N T H S lem, came Sunday for a visit at the IN CASH AWARDS urday night. Funeral services were to register in spite of the fact that opening of the season Tuesday morn Barber home. They are enjoying the held Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 they have voted in previous elections. ing found the streets of Hermiston Dean Robertson is the 1940 win hunting season. They were accompa Accuracy tests of every electric jammed with cars as early as 3:00 nied by a niece. Miss Ruby Hutchin ner of the annual predatory bird and o'clock from the Zeller Funeral Chap It is essential that the city regis son of Schell City, Mo., Mr. Barber’s animal contest sponsored by the Her el in Portland. Interment was in the tration books be closed at the end of a. m. in preparation for the attack service meter now in use in the en tire Hermiston territory will be un at daybreak. home town when he was a boy. Rose City cemetery. October. Anyone wishing to register dertaken at once by Pacific Power * Tom Haddox of Everson, Wn., miston Rod &■ Gun club. Raymond According to reports, most hunt Mr. and Mrs. Durfey had gone to may do so at the office of Charles Light company, according to John A* is here visiting his boys at Irrigon Holloman came in a close second, ag ers obtained the limit kills with some and old friends in this district and gregating 2730 points to 27 59 for Portland, in company with Mr. and Taylor in the Reclamation building, completing their bag of four by 7.30 Clarke, local manager for the com Mrs. Walt Pearson, Saturday to see ermiston. Mr. Haddox moved fram Robertson, according to figures re at the Herald office or contact Mrs. in the morning. Others had to work pany. The work is expected to re is district 10 years ago. He states leased by Walter Hamm, club secre the Oregon-Washington football game Gertrude Sanders. quire at least four months. most of the day. he is glad to meet his old friends. He that afternoon. Mr. Durfey w as' Myron Miller, one of the compa also says that Sidney Barnard, who tary. The contest proved exceeding stricken at the hotel that afternoon Duck season opened Tuesday with is his neighbor in Washington as well ly interesting this year with 36 most of the lakes and sloughs covered ny’s meter testers, is being trans and an emergency operation p e r JIM STUART OUT as when he lived here, sends his best youngsters participating. by hunters. No great kills were re ferred here from the company’s As regards to his Hermiston friends. Cash awards were presented this formed in the evening. He failed to ported because of weather conditions toria district to undertake the check. The Home Economics club of Col year with first place receiving $15, respond to treatment, however, and OF ACTIVE PLAY Approximately 955 service meters although several limits were reported umbia Grange met with Mrs. M. E. second place $12.50, and others rang passed away early Monday morning. are now installed in this territory. in the Stanfield district. Knickerbocker at her home Friday Oregon’s chances for a winning Mr. Durfey came to Hermiston in afternoon, with 11 members present. ing from here on down. The Uma Although all of these meters are of Delicious refreshments were served. tilla Project Farm Bureau donated 1917 with his father and mother, at season suffered a severe blow last modern type, they have never been week when Jim Stuart, All American which time they acquired the Hermis George Lewis Fredrickson of Sa »15.00, Eastern Oregon Turkey KLAGES INVENTS tested for accuracy while in service, candidate from Hermiston, suffered lem, nephew of Mrs. R. B. Wilcox, Growers, $10.00, Roy Hale, $5.00; ton Hotel. Mr.Durfey Sr. passed according to records of the former came Sunday night to spend the win and the remainder was donated away in 1918 and Mrs. Durfey in ' a hip injury in a scrimmage session. LAND LEVELER Hermiston Light & Power company, ter here. He came because of the He saw very little action in the Ore dry climate and when he is more able by the Hermiston Rod Ac Gun 193 4. The only survivor in the im gon-Washington - - game last Saturday - , Considerable interest is being dis-' tl0"1 "hich company service in this mediate family is his wife, Mrs. Anne club. A total of $92.62 was will attend school here.. and reports are that the torn liga- played in the recent invention of Y tBken b> C. Durfey. Lewis Wilson, Theodore Panages presented to the 36 contestants. Pacific system. ment has failed to respond to treat- Klages & Son. An apparatus which and Glen Wilcox, who attended the Mr. Durfey was one of the most A total of 1757 old magpies were Service policies of the Pacific Pacific International Livestock Show, killed in this year’s contest. Other familiar figures on the local streets. ment. This will in all probability will be used in leveling land has been company require that every meter in returned home Wednesday of last keep him out of the Southern Calif attached to a tractor. The affair re figures include: old crows, 165; old It was his custom to make the rounds week. ornia game this week end. sembles a snow plow and can be op stalled on its lines be tested periodi Mrs. Charles Baker spent Monday hawks, 36; old ravens, 30; magpie of the business houses practically It is expected, however, that Big erated from the driver’s seat. Virgil cally for accuracy. Its rules require every day and his friendly greetings morning visiting with Mrs. Walter eggs and young, 4798; crow eggs and that every meter must register be Maffei. young, 67; hawk eggs and young, 16; will be greatly missed by all who Jim will make the trip to Los Ange Smith of Hermiston has manufac tween 99 and 100 per cent accu Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Dunham and raven eggs and young, 41; skunks,; knew him. les. It is also hoped that his condi tured the machine. Mrs. Verne Dunham were in Pendle rate, with the of 1 per cent varia The land leveler was seen in ac Going to the funeral from here tion may improve so that he will be 37; weasels, 9; young coyotes, 9; and ton Saturday. - tion allowed only on the slow side. able to get into the game. tion Wednesday afternoon and per were James Pearson, Frank Bilder- Mrs. Louise Middlestadt of Port old coyotes, 3. Responsible for th e ! formed notably. It is expected to No variation is allowed on the fast land came Sunday for a visit with greatest number of predators was back, Willard Felthouse and H. K. her daughter, Mrs. George Liebe and Loren Hughes, who turned in 1026. Dean who was already in Portland. build the machine in various sizes side. family. LOCAL BOYS ON In making his accuracy tests, Mil ranging from six to 12 feet. Its A. H. Cable completed his new However, most of his contributions ler will use a delicately adjusted in greatest asset will be to level land for CO OP BOARD chicken house last week and he now were magpie eggs and young which j strument known as a “standard,” j irrigation purposes. has room for 1000 hens. did not rate the points given for old j M A N Y OUTSIDERS Klages & Son have had the mach which is a portable meter that meas Arthur Blinston and Carl Ham magpies and crows. Kills were turned ! REGISTER HERE Two boys from Hermiston were ine patented. ures electricity with absolute accu mer have been working recently for _____ elected to offices in the recent elect Tiny Caldwell on his new dwelling. in and rated at Hale’s Confectionery.: racy. This instrument is checked and They have the forms for the cement The contest this year proved equal a total of 247 young men register- ion held at Maple Manor, cooperative ' calibrated regularly against a mas basement almost completed. to those held during the past four ed in the tw0 Hermiston precincts boarding house on the Oregon State TOWN FOOTBALL ter standard in the fully-equipped Mrs. LaVon Miller came Wednes meter service department maintained day from Portland for a visit with years. The following is a list of Wednesday. Of this number, how- campus. Officers chosen were: Don her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Udey, predators killed and the years: 1935 j ever, many came from Portland and Turnham, president; Don Olson, IS TALKED HERE by the company at its Walla Walla year of contest), 8317; 1936,1 other outside districts, mostly hunt house manager; Mac Fleming, vice and her grandmother, Mrs. Florence office. Sink. She and her husband are mov 6597; 1937, 6439; 1938, 6100 ers who were shooting pheasants in president; Wilbur Fisher, secretary- Considerable talk has been heard Miller's procedure in making his ing to Tillamook where he will be in 1939, 6532, and 1940, 6,968. This this neighborhood. Precinct 33 (west t.. .surer, Louis Hildebrand, serg- during the past week concerning a tests will be to call at every residence, business. Miss Eva Wilcox, who left last totals 40,953 predators killed in the side of First street) had the greatest eant-at-arms; Kenneth Bensel, ath- football game between Hermiston and (Continued on Page Two) , count with 195, while on the other letic manager; and Jim Jackson, song Fossil and perhaps another town. It Thursday for Portland to attend the six years of the contest. is indicated that there is sufficient Farmers and fruit growers of the side of the tracks 52 signed up. It is j leader. Livestock Show, returned on the early material available to form a fairly ADVENTIST CHURCH (Continued on Page Six) stage Monday morning. difficult to say whether a 100 per Jackson has also been chosen libra- Miss Lucile Lukens, county health strong aggregation here. cent registration was received al- rian of the college glee club, under nurse, called at the Mabel Weeks The plans have not been perfected SPONSORS MEETING though the figure is up to expecta-. the direction of Prof. Paul Petri. Jim home one day last week. RAYMOND KNAPP and further announcement will be H. M. Sommerer made a trip to ti°n. is a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Jack- made next week. What will be the outcome of Eur- . La Grande Monday. W INS CONTEST Serving on the registration board ‘ son and Kenneth Bensel is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Henderson and ope’s war and how will it affect us? in Precinct 32 were: Mrs. Grace Lo Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bensel. daughter of Moro were visiting his George Sale Joins Army This question will be discussed and In a plowing contest held on the gan, chief, Mrs. B. A. Doyle, Mrs. B, aunt, Mrs. Charles Baker, the first George Sale Jr., son of Mr. and answered from Biblical authority F ri of the week. George Scarlett ranch last Saturday, J. Nation, Mrs. R. H. Piersol and W. Mrs. George Sale of ‘Hanfield, left day evening in the Seventh Day Ad Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Mikesell and Raymond Knapp was declared win R. Longhorn. F. C. McKenzie was in ANNE SOMMERER Monday for Pendleton where he join ventist chapel at Fourth street and son Richard are here for a visit with ner over five other contestants. In charge in Precinct 33 and was aided ed the United States army. His ap Ridgeway. Every American citizen his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. the district semi-finals held Tuesday by Mrs. Paul Bracher, Mrs. Gerald WINS SCHOLARSHIP Mikesell, and his sister, Mrs. Edith pointment has not been made, and he should know the answer. Cable and family. Oscar expects to of this week in Spokane, Knapp White, Mrs. George Harkenrider and is not certain where he will be sta This subject will be the first of a The Union Pacific railroad Mon Mrs. Roy Hale. spend some time while here enjoying placed fourth. He competed with the pheasant hunting. day announced that 21 Oregon and tioned. George plans to be in radio series of illustrated lectures and gos best in Eastern Washington and work. pel meetings conducted weekly by col Mr. and Mrs. Cecil DeMary and Northern Idaho. Home Ec. Meeting Tuesday Washington college scholarship two daughters of Portland came Sat lege evangelists Ward Scriven and The local contest was supervised The Hermiston Home Economics awards had been made to 4-H club Machine Taken To Portland urday for a visit with her parents, Wallace Konzack. by A. F. Rohrman, local dealer in club will meet Tuesday, October 22, and vocational agriculture winners in Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bradshaw. The A. Popick pellet machine, used Added attractions will be the com Mrs. A. E. Metteer of Sunnyside, Ford tractors and Ferguson Imple at the Legion hall at 2 p. m. Miss counties served by the railroad. Anne the past year at the local Farm Bu Wn., mother of Mrs. John Knox, is ments. Judges of the local contest Francis Clinton will tell of her Sab Sommerer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. reau mill, was taken to Portland this munity sing at 7.45, vocal and instru here for a week’s visit at the Knox were Henry Ott, E. P. Dodd, George mental specials, and free literature batical leave in a talk on tropical Henry Sommerer, has been chosen to week where it will be reconditioned. on the subject discussed. home. Spending the day at the Tom Mel Strohm. Emil Zivney and Frank Sa topics. There will be a silver tea represent Umatilla county. O. C. Pierce, mill mechanic, made the Everyone is invited to attend. ton home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. fer. Miss Sommerer will attend Oregon trip to Portland and will probably re honoring Miss Clinton. Everyone is Ralph Moody, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Moo The contestants besides the win cordially invited to attend. State college. main until it is finished. dy, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Critchlow and MICHELS LEAVE ON children, all of Pendleton, and Mrs. ner were Hubert Carnes of Pilot B. C. Miller of Portland. All are rel Rock, Leo Rueber of Stanfield, Har AIRPLANE TRIP ry Rueber of Stanfield, Bob Bensel atives of Mr. and Mrs. Melton. Tom Haddox and sons Leo and of Umatilla and Ed Bensel of .Her □ [ zz Tommy Jr. were visiting Sunday eve miston. All these young men are A rare thrill is being experienced ning at the H. J. Ott home. by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Michel of Her members of the National Farm Youth Mr. and Mrs. John Jendrzejewski miston who left this week on a two LJ were Heppner visitors Sunday at the Foundation and this contest was a AX1- ¿A z A weeks vacation trip by airplane. Mr. . X John Skuzeski home where they spent part of the Foundation’s activity. nUÉLL tVeéE SUEE OF FINDlNö and Mrs. Michel are guests of Mrs. the day. Mr. and Mrs. 11. A. Wilson had as Michel’s daughter, Miss Margaret Saylor fir s t Local Casualty a full mail now dinner guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Howard, who is a stewardess on the J. E. Saylor received a proverbial J. B. Bradshaw, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil United Airlines. She is also making DeMary and two daughters, and Mr. "shot in the arm” Tuesday while the trip. and Mrs. Kent Garrison and daugh hunting pheasants in the Butter ter. The group will leave from Port Creek district. Apparently some Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Parker of one's gun misfired or else extreme land and will fly to New York City Hermiston were dinner guests at the carelessness caused flying shot to hit by way of Salt Lake and Chicago. At John Knox home Sunday. New York they plan to visit the Mr. Saylor about the arm and leg on Jim Gaurotte, who is employed at world’s fair and other points of in the H. J. Ott farm, had his mother the right side. Although the injury and his sister Aileen as visitors over was not serious it was extremely terest. On the return trip they will the week end of last week. painful. I fly to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Olen and Earl McDaris of Sacra Portland, over to Victoria, B. C., and mento, Calif., spent several days last Thrift Sale Is Scheduled bark to Portland. week with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hebert. A thrift shop sale will be held in The trip will be especially enjoy Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rogers were | the basement of the Church of Christ able as the stops were so planned Sunday vsitors at the Bud Hooker I Friday and Saturday, October 18 and that all the Hying will he in the day home. time.- Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Dunham and j 19. The sale will continue from 10 son Coy were Sunday visitors in Pas a. m. Friday to 3 p. m. Saturday. It co, Wn. Turkey Picking To Start Nov. 4 j is announced that no old garments Rex Boylen of Pendleton visited j will be sold at more than 50c. Fol C. A. Flanigan, plant foreman of '-is parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert the Eastern Oregon Turkey Growers, lowing the sale Saturday the remain- Boylen, oer the week end. announces that turkey picking will Mr. and Mrs. Alton Sisson have der of the articles will be moved to commence Monday, November 4, at oved into this district for the win- i the A. M. Smith residence at the east the local plant. All former pickers ter; , „ . ond of Gladys Avenue for further John Knox has been confined to his sa|e are asked to be on hand on the open home for several days because of the J ’ ___w , . __ ing day to start operations. flu. but is reported much better Grange Conference At Wild Horse Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Ragel have -loved recently to the Addleman Baptist Church Presents Drama The Oregon State Grange confer farm. ence will hold a meeting with Wild The Watson Players will present a Dale Robert and Beverly Jo Wood- Horse Grange on October 23, at their 4-act sacred drama, "Their Last —ard spent Saturday with their aunt Warning,” on Tuesday night, Octo and uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Tind Cald Grange hall. All Grangers are in ber 22, at 8:00 p. m. There are five vited to be present, since a number well. Claire Lindner was husking corn of state officers will be in atten characters in the cast and it is spok ■'¡»r Bud Hooker Tuesday. Mr. Hooker dance. Dinner will be served at 12 en drama. The admission will be has seven acres of com this year and and also at 6:00 in the evening. free but a collection will be taken. a good yield is reported. D & | TOTFtTAI! ROBERTSON WINNER OF ANNUAL CONTEST ON PREDATORY BIRDS fob S The "Forgotten Man reo« / «mg!
