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" ' I NEWS FROM YOUR I e. OWN STATE & COUNTY aXmLliton. -i-f axaLei. uuuuuuinuuuunj COLUMBIA NEWS By Mrs. Baxter Hutchison OFFICIAL U M A T ILLA COUNTY PAPER VOLUME XXXIV. Another fine crowd is expected at me Farm Bureau meeting and pot luck next Saturday evening. Those attending are reminded to bring then |l||f> A I E A M U ICC wn table service. The pot luck will R U R A L I A l’llL lL J be served promptly at 7:30. Mrs. Joe Udey left for Portland - a a - - |J A f i r L|CDC Saturday to be with her daughter, JJQ M A U L iltK C Mrs. Lavonne Miller. Mrs. Daisy Mikesell of Portland is a house guest at the W. A. Mikesell COTTON, TICKING home this week. Miss Joyce Sater had as dinner r est Sunday Miss Rebecca Pierson. FURNISHED FREE Alfred Smith of Pendleton was in Following the acceptance of the this district Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dixson and program by all cooperating agencies daughters spent Sunday in Walla at a meeting held in Pendleton on W alia. Thursday, March 6, applications are Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Struthers of Better Creek were Monday visitors being filled out in the office of As sistant County Agent M. E. Knick at the Willis Struthers home. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Dixson drove erbocker this week by rural families ■U La Grande last Saturday. Mrs. eligible to receive mattresses under Dixson went on to Pocatello, Idaho, •while Mr. Dixson returned home that the Cotton-Mattress Program inaug urated by the U. S. Department of day. Miss Omega Sater was a dinner Agriculture. a est of Miss Grace Bensel Sunday. Mattress are to be made by the Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Getchell were families themselves under the super Sunday afternoon visitors at the vision of community leaders trained Bud Hooker home. Lee and Floyd Skull of LaGrande, in the procedure, and total cost will nephews of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rogers be $1.00 per mattress to pay for called at the Rogers home Sunday. needles and other incidentals. Fifty M widay they went to work on the j pounds of cotton and ten pounds of hep drier at the Dixson hop yards. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rogers and son heavy ticking used in the construc Ensley were Sunday afternoon visi tion will be furnished free of charge tors at the Bud Hooker home. by the Surplus Commodities Corpora Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robertson, who have been camped in their trai tion. Three types of families can quali ler house at the Bob Woodward place moved to a trailer camp in town Mon fy under the provisions of this pro gram: the farm family—those deriv day. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Potts, who ing their income all from agricul have recently moved to Umatilla from ture: half farm, where at least half Warrenton, Ore., have been frequent visitors at the Bob Woodward home. the income is obtained from agricul- Mrs. Potts is an aunt of Mrs. Wood tural pursuits; non-farm, no income ward. This week Mr. Potts will be derived from agriculture. Under the employed finishing Tiny Caldwell*," house just across from the Woodward regulations prepared for the pro gram, all families in the west end of heme. Mrs. Mabel Weeks and daughter Umatilla county would be eligible if Rachel and son Junior and Dorothy their net income does not exceed Nelson spent Sunday at a picnic near $500, or, in the case of the non-farm Hoquiam, the Weeks old home. They group, if their gross income does not report picking old fashioned wild exceed $500 for a family of one to buttercups. Mrs. Elmer Ryland and Mrs. Otis four members, Knickerbocker stated Buell called on Mrs. Jessie Hooker in explaining the provisions of the Wednesday. program. Mrs. L. Ferris spent Sunday at the j Forrest Moore home. Mrs. Mary Harr was a Sunday RED SOX BEGIN dinner guest at the Roy Rogers home.' Mrs. Mabel Weeks made a trip to TR A IN IN G SUNDAY Pendleton last Wednesday to see her daughter Mrs. Walter Rosenau in St. The Hermiston Red Sox, champ Anthony’s hospital. Mrs. L. W. Douglas is leaving this ions of the 1940 Umatilla county week for Pilot Rock where she will baseball league, will begin workouts visit with her daughter Mrs. Marvin Sunday afternoon at 1:00 o’clock. A Hutchinson and family. She will also preliminary meeting was held Mon visit in Freewater with a sister be day evening and indications are that fore making definite plans for the summer. The Douglas’ have rented a stronger aggregation will be field their home and Mr. Douglas is em ed this year. Several newcomers will ployed at Pilot Rock. join the club this year which will give Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Hutchison and added strength in several positions. daughter Patricia Mary were down Players interested in joining the from Pendleton in their new Stude- baker car Sunday. They were ac team this year are asked to report companied by Mrs. Hutchisons aunt, Sunday. Anyone who will be in Mrs. Margaret Asmervig of Eugene. Hermiston during the coming sum They were dinner guests at the home mer is invited to try out. 4 Mr. Hutchison’s parents. Mr and Mrs. Roy Rogers are ilding an addition to their chicken P. P. & L. COUNTY MATTRESSES FOR HERM ISTON. UM ATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. MARCH 13, 1941. “ Second F id d le ” P la y C ast NUMBER 30 CONTRACTORS' BIDS (AILED FOR NEW CITY HALL BUILDING ESTIMATED COST SET AT $7850.00 Contractors’ bids were called this week for the construction of a new city building for Hermiston to be built on the corner east of the Oasis theatre. Bids will be opened on or before the 21st day of March, and work on the new building is expected to start immediately. A previous architect’s drawing for the building was turned down by the council because the estimated cost was too high. During the past week another set of blueprints were drawn by the architect, C. B. Miller of Pen dleton, and his estimate of the cost of the building was set at $7850.00 complete. The building accepted will be 3 2 feet wide facing Main street, and 57 feet long. Included in the building are a council room 14 by 34 feet, an office for either the recorder or police de partment, two jail cells and a “bull pen”, a vault, a garage room 22 by 3 2 to house the city fire truck and Dave w: Barbara Moore, Mae McGee, Mabel Rauch, Marie Hinkle. Back row another truck owned by the city, and Lois Casper, Marion Ott, Gilbert Dyer. director, Gilè Felthouse, a fireman’s room built over the front end of the room housing the fire AME TEACHERS SENIOR PLAY TO ¡EVANGELIST TO truck. The architect’s estimate in cluded a basement under the council r n K i n u r T M E E T IN G S RC C B in A Y N IH H T , T fZ D A D F S C H O O L room for the furnace and work room, and a drying rack for the fire hoses. Rev. J. R. L. Haslam, noted evan It also included all the steel work for The senior class of Hermiston high At a recent meeting of the grade gelist, will conduct evangelistic ser the jail cells which will be made of school will present “Second Fiddle” school board all teachers were ten vices at the Hermiston Baptist solid concrete. dered new contracts except in the Friday night in the school auditor church beginning Tuesday, March 18, ium. The play was written by Gern- j A set of the plans are on file with first grade. Miss Esther Ann I an- and continuing each evening at 7:30 the city recorder, Chas. Taylor, and drey had previously handed in her say Le Pelley and promises to be an : o’clock until March 28. Rev. Has resignation taking effect at the end amusing performance. Miss Con lam is an interesting and helpful with the architect in Pendleton. stance Luehrs of the high school fac Every bid that is turned in must be of the present school term. Ben Bran speaker and the people of Hermiston accompanied by a check or bid bond don, graduate of Oregon College of ulty is the director. The play is centered around a mer are fortunate to have the opportuni in the amount of not less than 5 per Education, began his duties Monday cent of the amount of the bid, and to handle the overflow caused by the ry mixup of a prospective young ty of hearing him. Some of his topics will be: “Good influx of new families. A room was bridegroom who rehearses his mar News to the World” ; “ Have a will be forfeited in case the success riage with a young girl, not his ful contractor fails’to errOr r into* .4 fitted up for this purpose. fiancee, and finds out too late that Heart” : “Laugh That Off” : “ Peace contract with the city within ten days Teachers rehired include: Miss in Time of War” : "With the Wind following notice of award. Mary Petri, second: Miss Blanch the butler who performed the fake -------- ■■ ----- ---- or Setting Your Sails” : “The Un marriage is a notary public and the Harmon, third; Miss Gertrude Brad pardonable Sin” : “Risking Eternity ley, fourth; Miss Georgia Crowfoot, marriage is legal. The entanglement POTATO LODGES on the Opinions of Men”. fifth: Miss Eleanor Tischler, sixth: is hilarious. IN TOT'S THROAT Mrs. Alma Greaves, seventh; and L. DI5ASTFR RELIEF S. Burrell, eighth. SERVICES PLANNED U N IT STARTED Considerable anxiety was caused FOR GOOD FRIDAY TOWNSEND CLUB TO Monday when Sharon Spencer, 18- Our community is soon to be bene- months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. SPONSOR IRISH STEW I fitted by the organization of a Dis- The West End Ministerial asso Sloan Spencer, swallowed a potato, aster Relief Unit. This is being ciation at its regular monthly meet the latter lodging in the tot’s wind made possible through several sourc An Irish stew supper will follow pipe. The child was rushed to Doern- the next regular meeting of the local es. The local American Legion has ing Monday, March 10, made plans becher hospital in Portland where a for its annual noonday service for contributed, and a number of the Townsend club and will be served at thorough examination was made. Ap the Legion hall frem 6:15 to 7:..O friends of the late C. O. Marble, who Good Friday, which is April 11. This parently the obstacle had disap service, as last year’s, will begin at instead of sending floral pieces to the Friday, March 14. The supper as 12:15 and will be over by 12:50. peared before reaching the hospital. well as the meeting is open to the funeral, donated to this cause. Those making the trip besides The speaker for this year will be the The details of the arrangements public and a charge of 20 cents a Alec Jones was a dinner guest at TAXES TOTAL $29,910 plate will be made. Following the are being made under the leadership Rev. Stearns Cushing, Jr. of the lo Sharon were Mr. and Mrs. Sloan .he B. E. Getchell home Sunday Spencer, Mrs. R. E. Alstott and Rev. meeting, which will be very short, of Julius Gimble ami the Boy Scouts. cal Methodist church. »veiling. • —— — ■» • s»- C. Warner. Real and personal property taxes Other business of the day included will be an Irish program and games Mr. Beck and son are farming Wedding Anniveexaiy Enjoyed Hrs. Laura Morris’ farm this year. totaling $29,910.46 will be paid in which will be put on by the chairman discussion of the Daily Vacation Bib Mrs. Mamie Reeher of San r ran- Umatilla county by Pacific Power * of the program committee, Mrs. Cor Local friends received announce le School with the dates being set for GET-TOGETHER 'co returned to Pilot Rock Satur- Light company this week, said John ments this week of the 50th wedding June 2 to 16. Jay where she will visit her brother A. Clarke, local agent for the com- j man. She is instructing every one to GOLF PLANNED anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse K. wear their “Green”. Marvin Hutchison and family foi Out-of-town ministers who were v other week before returning to ner pany at Hermiston, yesterday. The The dance committee reports a nice Shotwell on Wednesday, March 12. Hermiston golfers are invited to rome. She had spent three weeks payment will be one of the largest re- crowd attended the dance Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Shotwell are former present were Rev. Astleford of Echo, ore at the home of her brother, Bax- ceived at the Umatilla county tax col- ( night and all enjoyed the music and residents of Hermiston and are well Rev. Harness of Irrigon and Rev. participate in the get-together Sun day at the local course. Players will ,er Hutchison. . Griffith of Pilot Rock. office. I known here. splendid floor. Mrs. Earl Getchell, who is emploj- lector’s make two rounds and turn in the The Pacific company’s tax pay at the John DeMoss farm spent cards and handicaps listed for future ments take more than 15 per cent of - unday at the B. E. Getchell home play. Action will get underway in Henry Wheeler was a dinner guest the company’s revenue from the sale - the Bud Hooker home Thursday. of electricity, or the equivalent of the morning. Anyone interested in Mr and Mrs. B. J. Bradshaw gave nearly two months’ total business either tournament play or local com dinner Sunday ih honor of her son petition is urged to turn in score each year, according to Clarke. Bill and his wife who were married cards this next week. t ecently. ., , Green fees of $10 per year are now W. R.' Coons and his wife from RED CROSS AID Walla Walla were visiting Mrs. Jes- 5 payable. Arrangements can be made . . Hooker Friday of last week. REQUESTED HERE with either C. J. Jackson or R. A. Mr and Mrs. Kent Garrison and Brownson. Cards for the 18 holes T brother Vernon Bradshaw were i played Sunday should be given to Carl Chambers, county Red Cross aner guests of Mr. and Mrs. A1 Me Bud Beard at the Hermiston Trading £ ren chairman, has issued a call for assis Mr and Mrs. Virgil Warren and tance from Hermiston for the cam Co. The first tournament scheduled Mr. and Mrs. Fred Syrovy »P«« is at Condon on March 23. This date, Sunday afternoon at the Bud Hooker paign which was launched several however, is still tentative. weeks ago. The county will furnish ; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mikesell had material for sewing and knitting .. dinner guests Sunday Mrs. aisy with volunteer labor requested. TREAT FOR LOVERS i/ikesell of Portland and Mr. and Anyone wishing to participate in Mrs. A. H. Cable and daughter Dor- SCHEDULED HERE the campaign is requested to get in Mr and Mrs. Verne Dunham were touch with Mrs. F. B. Belt, local « from Elgin over the week end. chairman, in the forenoons. This A decided treat for all those af -aev spent Saturday night at the should lie done in the immediate fu fected by the love hug and who are ■ oi-ge Liebe home, returning home wont to star gaze at night is sched ture. __ f Ward of Portland spent the uled for next Thursday evening week end at the Barager home. when Mr. Johnson, representative of BALL PLAYERS, Mr and Mrs. C. L. Upham were , the Brown Astronomy Foundation, «¡tors at the Roy Rogers home Sun- BUT NO GAMES brings his largì’ telescope to the high nay afternoon. school. The affair is mounted on a Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cable and - i.ughter Doreen and Mrs. Daisy Six lettermen greeted Coach Ray truck and will be at the high school Mikesell. aunt of Mrs. Cable were Critchfield when he issued the call at 8 oo o’clock (just a little early for T *ndleton visitors last Thursday. for diamond artists this week. Prac lovers). No charge will be made for tice sessions have been held this Radio Proyrnm Sc^rdnled the treat. Mr. Brown, who comes from Whit Miss Eva Wilcox and Miss Grace week on the park field. The pros man college, will present a lecture ensel, vice president and secretary , pects are rather promising, especial during thp day to school students and spectively of the local 4-H Lead ly in the pitching department. However, sad to say, as yet no def will discuss astronomy with towns ’s association, will occompany As- inite games have been listed. Ten people in the evening. stant County Agent M. E. Knick- The entertainment will be a part ■bocker to Walla Walla Saturday to tative contests have been lined up with Touchet, Walla Walla, Athena of the regular P.T.A. meeting sched r.pear on n the m e regular « ! weekly ■------- pro- . uled for that evening. am of the Umatilla county exten- and Helix but even these are some- n staff over K.UJ. at V-M p.m. That doubtful. i t r u i
