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OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER
COLUMBIA NEWS
By Mrs. Baxter Hutchison
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VOLUME X X X IV .
HERM ISTON, U M ATILLA
COUNTY. OREGON, FEB. 27, 1 94 1.
NUM BER 24
The Hermiston Home Extension
'jit held a very interesting meeting
Columbia club rooms Tuesday.
T ie care of clothing was the subject
1 r discussion. Several interesting
demonstrations were given by Mrs.
ft. H. Cable and Mrs. Tom Lenhart.
The Columbia Grange gave a fare
well party for two of its Grange
members, Mr. and Mrs. Verne Dun
ham last Saturday evening. Forty MINISTERIAL GROUP
ptople were in attendance and a
FACILITIES FOR
fine time is reported. The Dunhams SPONSORS PROGRAM
were presented with an electric toast-
HOUSING AT SITE
ei.
To bring some oF the inspiration
Mrs. Belle Caldwell, grandmother
The merchants and business- <•
o? Mrs. Bob Woodward, celebrated of “the greatest movement of our
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men
of Hermiston this week are <•
day
to
undergird
the
spiritual
foun
her 84th birthday at 'the Woodward
❖ sponsoring an advertisement ♦
h: me Saturday. Those present be dation of life”, a team of speakers
•5* which appears on Page 3 bid-
sides the Woodward family were Mr. will visit Hermiston Tuesday and
and Mrs. Kenneth Beebe of Stanfield, Wednesday, March 4 and 5, under j
❖ ding welcome to Captain R. C. <•
Fred Caldwell of Irrigon, and George
❖ Williams and J. A. Terteling & •>
Caldwell of The Dalles who drove I the sponsorship of the West End |
<■ Sons and their host of co-work- •>
here especially to be with his mother j Ministerial association.
•> ers. The meaning behind this •>
on her birthday. Late in the even-
This team of outstanding religious 1
ing Mrs. Caldwell received by tele-1 workers inc,ud th Rev p
Hop-
❖ gesture is one of good will and •>
phone birthday messages from her
,
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cooperation.
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son Walter and wife in The Dalles, Pel' of the Westminster Presbyterian
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It
was
impossible
for
The
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and also from a granddaughter of [ church of Portland, the Rev. Earl
<’ Herald to contact all business •>
The Dalles, Mrs. Lynn Eastean. Mrs. ' Childers, pastor of the First Christ-
houses Wednesday in order that •>
Caldwell has been gradually gaining, ian ,.hu,.ch of Eugene: Dr. Gertrude
strength since being: with her errand-
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their names might appear in the ->
•laughter, and relatives were so Boyd Crane- Professor of psychology
<• advertisement. For this reason •>
proud that she was able to be at the j at Pacific University; and Miss Bet-
<• some do not appear in this issue ❖
table for her birthday.
! ty Britton of the Portland Y.W.C.A.
but their wish no doubt would be •>
The county is resurfacing the hop j The program for Hermiston con-
the same.
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vard road this week, with a clay sists of two mass meetings, a youth
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Hermiston welcomes all our •>
i mpositnin.
rally and no-host dinner, and visita-
Mr. and Mrs. Henry ¡sommerer ac- , • , ..
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❖ newcomers.
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companied by Mrs. William Kik and tlon to the varlous schools' The flrst
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•> & .>
mass
meeting
will
be
held
Tuesday
two ladies from Ukiah left for Cor
vallis Tuesday. The ladies wili a t evening, March 4, at 8 o’clock in the
Federal funds for the construction
tend the Home Makers conference B aptist church. Dr. Perry C. Hop
of
temporary housing facilities for
held at that place.
Front row, left to rt.: Irwin Null, Gene Miller, Lowell Tiller, Kenneth Elwood, Lester Wilcox. Back row,
per will be the inspirational speaker.
workers
on the Umatilla Ordnance
Mrs. H. J. Ott and daughter Mrs. In the afternoon at the local high
Coach Ray E. Critchfield, Dave Hamm, Ray Holloman, Stanley Callis, Bob Smith, Ralph Crampton, mgr.
A nlard Stratton were callers at the school. Miss Crane will address the
Depot are en route, it was learned
Verne Dunham home Tuesday.
this week. The houses and barracks
high school and those of the public
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Hooker and who wsh to attend.
KENNEDY PLANS
LOCAL GRADERS
MORE
STUDENTS
will be built a t the site, it was un
tbiluren were Sunday dinner guests
derstood. Word received here from
The mass meeting Wednesday STORE BUILDING
at tne Koy Rogers home.
W IN TUESDAY
ENTER
SCHOOL
Washington stated that the houses
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Glenn Barton is building a three evening will feature Dr. Earl Child-
room house on the diagonal road. It ers as the inspirational speaker. This
Coach L. S. Burrell’s Hermiston
will be built on the "government res
w £ Kennedy> Hermiston con-
The past few weeks has seen quite ervation”.
is being erected on a corner of the meeting will follow the youth rally
grade school basketball team made
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Goodrich 2U acres.
and will be held in the Methodist tractor’ 18 drawinK plans for 3 neW the first hurdle in Blue Mountain an increased enrollment at the local
Although numerous attempts have
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Dunham and
store building to be located on Main Grade tournament Tuesday night schools. Superintendent W. G. Kers- been made to find a suitable site for
Mr. and Mrs. Verne Dunham plan church.
on finishing their moving and being
Miss Betty Britton will be the street just west of the Hermiston when they defeated Two Rivers on bergen stated Wednesday that the the houses for construction person
located in their new home near Elgin youth leader and following a no-host Food store. The structure will be of the Walla Walla floor. The contest classes were “full up”. Last week nel in or near Hermiston, no definite
by Friday of this week.
10 new students entered while this
H. M. Sommerer made a business dinner will address them. It is hoped reinforced concrete, 60 x 75 feet. It proved quite a thriller with the score week up till Wednesday evening 11 step has been taken. The informa
tion from Washington has not been
that the young people in the nearby | is expected that work will be start- being tied at 17-all with a minute
tu p to Elgin Monday.
and 20 seconds to go. Gettman and more had enrolled.
definitely confirmed here.
Mrs. H. G. McCulley’s lather A. F. area will avail themselves of this ■ ed in the near future.
It was also stated that two of the
Hughes of Pocatello is visiting here. fine opportunity, The time has been
The new building will serve as the Pierson, however, sank two baskets
Little Miss Doreen Cable, daugh- for 6 o’clock.
buses
were considerably
home for Farmers Supply Co. and in the. closing seconds to put the game school
ttr of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cable had
crowded.
The
increased
enrollment LINDGREN TELLS OF
some other concern not yet named. on ice.
the misfortune to burn an arm quite I
The
team
will
return
to
Walla
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s
due
'a
f8ely
to
the
new
activities
severely last week. She is reported j
SHEEP PROBLEMS
PRE-EMPLOYMENT
Wi. Ila. Friday to play Kennewick in |
l(,lr‘’n^ 'rcl\ ‘n_. Hermiston.
to be improving nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Cutsforth j
SNOW, RAIN AND
tbs next round.
i
Farm flock owners must learn to
and children and Mr. and Mrs. Bill COURSES OFFERED
KERMISTON CAFE
Smethurst and children of Lexington '
live with intestinal parasites because
ICE DURING WEEK
DOMESTIC LAUNDRY OPENS SATURDAY
were dinner guests at the John 1 Preliminary steps are being taken
whenever irrigated pastures become
Graves home Sunday.
infested, it is impossible to entirely
in
Hermiston
toward
the
establish
TRIMS
HERMISTON
The
past
week
provided
consider-
Mrs. J. H. Reid left Monday for j
Corvallis to attend the Home Makers ing of a class of pre-employment able variety in the way of weather.
The Hermiston Cafe, adjoining the eradicate them, it was stated by H.
The Hermiston Hot Shots were hotel, will open Saturday morning A. Lindgren, Extension Animal Hus
conference.
,
courses for out-of-school youth in the Included on the menu were snow, ice,
■lied t
ixson and son Elmer were j Ilational defense training program, rain, warm sunshine and some wind. luke warm Wednesday night and lost under the sponsorship of Mrs. Iva bandman, at a meeting in the Farm
called to Port Angeles, Wn., last !
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a basketball tilt on the local floor to Wallace and son, C. J. Wallace, both Bureau hall at Columbia park Wed
week due to the illness of the elder • Courses being offered include mech- A total of .21 in. precipitation was
the
Domestic Laundry quint of Pen of Walla Walla. The cafe has been nesday night.
Dixson’s father. They have returned 1 anics, metal work, woodworking and recored by Chas. Taylor, weather
dleton. The "wash” boys had things closed for several years but has been
These so-called stomach worms
heme.
j elementary electricity.
man.
all their own way in the first quar- entirely redecorated. New booths have been known in Oregon for al
, m"’ T *
ir^i* -w dkes> A- H.
It is not known whether all cours-
The report follows:
Gable, H. J. Ott and Mr. and Mrs.
Min. ter leading 14-0 at the end of th atj and counters have been added in ad most 30 years, but only recently have
Max
Henry Sommerer were among those es will be offered here, this depend
period.
they become a problem on irrigated
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February 20 ........... 54
dition to the table service.
attending the County Farm Bureau ing largely on the number of young
Hermiston pepped up a little in the
meeting in Pendleton the first of the men who enroll. Anyone wishing
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February 21 ........... 58
Mr. Wallace stated Thursday that pastures in eastern Oregon, Lind
week.
next quarter, outplaying the visitors he planned to serve meals at moder gren revealed. Several treatm ents
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more information in regards to the
February 22 ........... 54
Bill Fehlhaber of Wallula spent program is asked to get in touch with
16 to 12. The final half was fought ate prices.
are available which, when given a t
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February
23
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Monday night at the Eugene Dun-
on
even terms with Carney leading
regular intervals, may permit farm
February 24 ........... 54
30
either W. G. Kersbergen or Mervin
bsm home.
the Laundry five with 15 points and i
Poultry To Be Diacuated
flock owners to continue in the busi
February 25 ........... 57
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Mrs. Willard Stratton of John Day Werth at the local high school. Any
Cook was high for the Hot Shots
“ Poultry” will be the subject for ness, he stated.
if here while her mother, Mrs. H. J. one wishing to enroll in either of the
Ott has been ill.
with 12.
discussion at the next meeting of the
Lindgren also reviewed the out
courses
may
also
leave
the
name
at
Grandma Ellis, who has been in,
43 Laundry Farm Bureau Auxiliary Friday, look for meat animals for the com
Hermiston 3 2
AUDITOR TO PAY
the Herald office.
i> much improved this week.
Keller 6
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6 Huey March 7. All interested are welcome ing year stating that with the in
Mrs. Wesley Parker and Mrs. John
PENDLETON
VISIT
F
7
F.
Young to attend this meeting. A W ashing crease in beef and dairy numbers and
Gettman
Knox. and daughter Susan and Mrs. I . . . . p-ppi.iinT ■ <*
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15 Carney ton's birthday program was enjoyed a probable increase in the next two
Rankin 4
Gm Knox were Walla Walla visitors J IM STEW ART IS
Saturday.
An auditor of the state tax com- i Cook 12
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5 Mumm February 21, and cherry pie and cof years in swine population, there was
Bill Whitsett is here looking after: GIVEN HONORS
mission will be in Pendleton March I Clark 6
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6 B. Young fee was served by the committee. a possibility of a surplus of both beef
his prqperty interests.
3 to 6 to aid taxpayers in preparing
Substitutions
Hermiston: Hollo- “First Aid” demonstrations given by and pork two years or more hence.
Mrs. Cecil W arner spent Saturday |
an 4, Correli. Pendleton: Wood- the upper grades of Columbia school Such a surplus of both major types
aaternoon a t the Forrest Moore home. | dinl Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. their Oregon income tax returns.
Mrs. John Knox has been ill at Tom Stewart of near Hermiston, re-
Tax reports are due March 15.
ward 2, Rosenburg 2.
was very good and instructive.
of meat animals might have a ser
h- i home but is much improved,
Iceived a distinct honor recently when
ious effect on meat prices. He pre
Mrs. Jessie Hooker who has been
dicted favorable prices for this year,
visiting at her brother’s home in Wal he was picked on Red Grange’s All
American football team. He received
| however. The meeting was arranged
la Walla, returned home Tuesday.
Mrs. Lester Colpitts and son a framed document telling of the
by Assistant County Agent M. E.
Charles spent the week end with her achievement. The document bore
K nickerbocker.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ryland. the signature of Grange, and coach
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Moore at-
unded the funeral of Bert Sherry at es of Michigan, Nebraska, Tennes
LOCAL GROUP
Stanfield Saturday afternoon. Mr. see, Texas A. & M., Stanford and
tSierry was a former resident of this Cornell University.
ATTENDS SESSION
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“Big Jim ” completes a banner year
Mrs. L. W. Dixson and Mrs. Elmer . , .. „ , ., „ .
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Hixson were visitors at the Forrest nf football at the University of Ore-
The Umatilla Project Farm Bur
Moore home Tuesday afternoon.
<°n being chosen on numerous all
eau was well represented at the an
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Knox were week coast selections.
end guests at the home of her par-
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nual meetng of the County Farm
ents n Stage Gulch.
Bureau Federation held in Pendleton
Mrs. Bud Hooker and daughter INLAND CO-OP.
Monday evening. President William
-haron, Mrs. Lee Putnam, Mrs. Ellen
Kupers presided, in addition to sev
Putnam were all visitors at the Vic
eral program numbers a lecture by
tor Stockard home Thursday, and ELECTS BOARD
also called at the B. E. Getchell
Dr. Magruder of the Political Science
home.
The Inland Cooperative of Hermis
department of Oregon State college
Mrs. Baxter Hutchison spent three ton held its annual meeting in the
was enjoyed.
flays last week at the home of Mr. Odd Fellows hall Saturday. Lunch
Those attending from Hermiston
and Mrs. E. B. Hutchison in Pendle
was served at noon by the ladies of
ton.
were Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Wilkes,
Mrs. Laura Morris was a visitor the Home Economics club of the
Henry Ott, Alfred Cable, Mr. and
■ t th? Forrest Moore home Tuesday Westland Grange, A report by Guy
Mrs. C. A. Jackson Mr. and Mrs.
afternoon.
Shaw, manager, revealed the fact
Henry Sommerer, Mr. and Mrs. M.
Mrs. Melvin Follett and children
Keith and Kathleen and Mrs. Wili that the concern had done a business
E. Knickerbocker, Del (hristley, Miss
Linder were callers of Mrs. Virgi’ ° ‘ about $25,000 during 1940.
Marian Cassidy, and Mr. anil Mrs.
b a rre n la»t Thursday afternoon.
Directors elected at the meeting in-
Emil Zivney.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Van Scoyk of dude W. A. Baker, Boardman; A.
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Aillamina. Ore., announce the arriv- R. Bensel, Minnehaha: Roy Attebury,
II - B. Fo»ter Sentenced
al of a baby boy Larry Gale, born Echo, and W. C Kik, Umatilla.
February 11. He weighed 5 pounds
Quite a good sized crowd was pres
William II. Foster, 54, of Hermis
and 7 ounces. Mrs. Van Scoyk for ent for the sessions.
ton was arrested Tuesday by officers
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merly was Jo Ellen Mopps. Mr. and
and taken to Pendleton on a charge
Mrs. Duane Lathrop of Columbia
Mr». IVhite Donate» Gift
of being drunk and disorderly. He
district are the grandparents of the
Mrs. Arleta White this week pre-
was returned to the justice court in
little fellow.
.ented the high school student body
Hermiston where he was sentenced
Mr. and Mrs. William Zacharias with a beautiful framed portrait of
to six months in jail. The sentence
and son Dale of Pendleton were din Multnomah Falls. The gift was
was suspended, however, with the
ner guests at the W. R. Struthers greatly appreciated by the student
proviso that Mr. Foster leave the dis
’ ome Sunday.
body and will be hung in the hallw ay.:
IWNL' Servir»)
trict for that time.
CHRISTIAN MISSION
COMES TO HERMISTON
WITH TWO MEETINGS
H. H. S. B u lld o g B a sk e tb a ll Team
STORES WELCOME
NEW RESIDENTS
IN HERMISTON