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— 1 ............ # NEWS FROM YOUR | OWN STATE & COUNTY -f/at tn Lit on 2 mumim OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER COLUMBIA NEWS Uy Mrs. Uob Woodiiard etald VOLUME AXXIV. HEKMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. JULY 17, 1941 U. S. Army's Panzer Division in Action A lawn party at the Baxter Hutch inson home on Sunday evening was enjoyed by twenty-five neighbors and relatives, the occasion being Mr. Hutchinson’s birthday anniversary. An out-of town guest was Miss Flor ence Pearson of Pendleton, niece of Mr. Hutchinson. p “Grandma” Ellis was honored on | her 91st birthday anniversary, Fri HELP SOUGHT TO ‘is: day, July 11th, at the home of her ?: - a. daughter, Mrs. Forrest Moore, who 0 RELIEVE SITUATION entertained a small group of ladies from the Central Church of Christ. The ladies presented Mrs. Ellis with By W. G. KERSBERGEN a lovely angel food birthday cake, and With the opening day of the local Mrs. Moore served ice cream. Earl Getchell arrived home Tues school term six weeks distant, many • %% 3 “. g day from Ft. Lewis. He is on a 10-day people are beginning to wonder what furlough. * % 188888%, % Pae**. . Batie Rand and two small sons of the situation will be. Various rumors Irrigon visited Monday at the Foster have circulated, but none are com home. Mrs. Willard Stratton (Edna Ott) pletely correct. F rom the standpoint of of John Day has been visiting at the the school board and superintendent of home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. schools the fololwing facts are set J. Ott during the past week. forth, for two reasons, first that peo Ted Hatfield and son, Jimmy, of 2", Umatilla visited Sunday at the Joe ple may know what has occurred and secondly that they may help in the Udey home. Mrs. LaVonne Miller and daugh problem of keeping the schools open I ter, Patsy of Portland arrived Mon to all. day for a two weeks’ visit with her RED SOX TO PLAY The trustees and superintendent STAMP SALES SKY MRS. H. E. HANBY, parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Udey. | have made numerous contacts, con- Ruth McCulley went to Athena ROCKET WITH NEW LOCAL PIONEER, AT PENITENTIARY Tuesday and will be employed at the I suited with various government bu Joe Cannon place through the har reaus and in every way tried to for ACTIVITIES HERE PASSES TUESDAY vest season. The Hermiston Red Sox, who have ward a settlement. The files in the Miss Emma Lenz of Salem visited superintendents’ office show that as been idle the past few weeks, will The best barometer of business in resume activities Sunday when they Mary Estis Hanby was born in relatives here last week. Ella Par- early as February 13, 1941, the dun, niece of Miss Lenz, motored to Hermiston is the local post office. tangle with the Walla Walla state Nashville, Tenn., October 12, 1880. Salem with her for a two weeks’ vis school officials asked that something According to Postmaster W. E. Lo penitentiary Mavericks within the She passed away at the Portland be done. This request was sent to it. gan, stamp sales and money orders prison walls. The contest is slated to Sanitarium on the evening of July Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rosenau of the Quartermaster General’s office in 15, having reached the age of 60 Pendleton spent several days this Washington, that office disclaimed for the first six months have jump get under way at 1:30. ed by leaps and bounds with general years, nine months and three days. week at the home of her mother, Mrs. responsibility. It is expected that the Red Sox will delivery and regular business keep be bolstered, somewhat for the oc Mabel Weeks. At the age of six years she moved Next the United States Bureau of ing his personnel on the go from Mr. and Mrs. John McNulty of casion as the Mavericks again have with her family to Springfield, Mis Vale, Oregon, accompanied by Mrs. Education was contacted both by Su early morning to late in the evening. a strong combination. Players should souri, where she attended public McNulty’s brother, George Griffith, perintendent Kerbergen and Mr. The following is a table of compar leave Hermiston not later than 11:00 schools. She came to Oregon in 1905 visited Tuesday at the John Knox Frye, representing J. A. Terteling & ison for the first six months in 1940 when she was married to Henry E. home. Sons. The bureau was sympathetic, and 1941: Stamp sales, first six o’clock in order to be on hand at the Hanby, who was working in the gold Charles Kik was a business caller but stated that it could do nothing. gate at 12:30 sharp. months, 1940, $4,459,51, while in at the Joe Udey home on Tuesday mines at Baker. Next the matter was taken up with 1941 the figure stands at $7,325.79, evening. In December, 1906, the family Norma Getchell is working at the Congressman Pierce and Senator Mc an increase of $2,766.28, or a 61 per FOUR-H YOUTHS moved to Hermiston and were em Sandy McDonald place near Pendle Nary. Both assured us that they cent gain. Money orders, first six LEAVE FOR TOUR ployed by the government reclamation ton during harvest. would do their best to help us by sup months in 1940, $31,614.74, and in service. After living on a farm south Marian and Robert Norquist of port of an appropriation in Congress. 1941, $82,174.20, an increase of $50,- Centralia, Wash., who are at the They did. Assistant County Agent M. E. of town until 1926, they operated the 559.46, a gain of 160 per cent. home of their grandparents, Mr. and Knickerbocker and a group of 4-H Hermiston Dairy until 1934. At this On June 12 house bill 4545 was Mrs. Lenz, plan to return home Sun An inspector of postal buildings | time they bought the Newport place, day after spending two weeks visit passed by the Senate and later signed has spent considerable time in Her-1 boys from this district left Wednes day for a three-day trip sponsored w'here they have resided since. ing relatives here. by the President. This bill appropri miston the past week and hopes are by the Eastern Oregon Livestock or Mrs. Hanby was outstanding as a Mrs. Louise Middlestadt of Port ated one hundred and fifty million held for some relief from the con-: ganization at Union. The tour will land is visiting at the home of her business woman and was a member dollars to be expended for constmc- gested conditions. daughter, Mrs. George Liebe. take the group to many of the out of the Hermiston Baptist church. tinv and maintenance of schools and Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Motteer . : standing ranches in eastern Oregon. She is survived by her husband, Sunnyside visited last week with his | public works in defense areas. This F.SA. TO MOVE Those accompanying Mr. Knicker- Henry E. Hanby, and one son, Eu sister, Mrs. John Knox. money is being disbursed by P.W.A. 1 bocker were Junior Brown, Jim and gene. Also surviving are four sisters Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hart and I At a recent meeting in Pendleton TO HERMISTON Wendall Hogg, Wayne Barber, Billy and six brothers in Missouri and two children of Gaston, Oregon, came the Hermiston schools were given i Gilbert, Jim and Andrew Lamont, Kansas. last Thursday for several days’ visit Work was started this week in re with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. priority in this area. Aplication was decorating the building formerly oc | Jim Quinn, Bob Attebury, Robert Funeral services will be held Fri- made for funds. The P.W.A. people Upham. cupied by the Hermiston Mercantile Grimps, Carl Bennett, David Dufur, day afternoon at 2:30 at Prann’s Mrs. A. H. Cable and Dorene drove said they would accept applications Elvin Herrick and George Corliss. 1 Funeral Parlors. Interment will be in to Lebanon Wednesday with Mrs. Al for buildings and equipment, but not and to be occupied soon by the Farm va Stone of Heppner. The Stone fam for operation. Operation means Security Administration with offices | the Echo cemetery. ily is moving to Lebanon to make teachers’ wages, bus transportation, now in Pendleton. Reports are that SOFTBALL TEAM their home. Mrs. Cable and daughter the entire staff of five persons will will visit her brother, Oscar Mikesell janitor service, etc. A grant for | be moved here as soon as the building WINS TWO TILTS GRASSHOPPERS PAY building without operation costs is and family in Albany before return is completed. ing. useless for we could not run it. There The Hermiston entrant in the Pen HERMISTON VISIT Bruce E. Stewart will be in charge Along the Diagonal: Comments on the matter rests at present. as county supervisor and territory dleton softball league annexed two the weather . . . The second cutting The problem itself is acute. Last Some indication as to what a grass of hay being put up . . . Maxine Blin- included under the local office will wins this week, thereby jumping to year the Hermiston grade schools en ston driving a new coupe. be Umatilla, Morrow and Gilliam fifth place in the league standings. hopper plague is like has been ex rolled three hundred and six students counties. The move to Hermiston was Monday night the locals defeated the perienced the past few nights on MATTRESS PROGRAM and the high school one hundred and deemed advisable to be nearer the First National team 12 to 2 and Main street. Grasshoppers of all de eighty one. According to standards of Tuesday night won over the 26th Ma scriptions and sizes, swarmed about scene of operations. TO BE POSTPONED the State of Oregon no more could be the lights Tuesday and Wednesday terial squad 14 to 2. accepted without increasing the num Bud Beard, Hermiston Trading Co. nights. DEALERS ASK COOPERATION The start of the mattress making ber of teachers, in fact last spring we Milk dealers in Hermiston are ex butcher, is proving to be the slugger Farmers «stated Wednesday that program in the west end of the coun added two teachers to comply with periencing considerable difficulty in of the squad. Tuesday night, as first they have noted very few grasshop ty, expected to get underway locally this standard. This was done because recent weeks in obtaining sufficient man up, he clouted out a long home pers about the countryside and were about July 15, has now been set for the vanguard of the present defense milk bottles. All patrons are urgent run. Evans, on the mound for the surprised to see the number on Main the first of August, or perhaps even project population was arriving. ly asked to cooperate in this matter locals, held the material team to two street. Apparently they have been at A coommunication from the Con by returning all empty bottles. later, according to information re blows. Brandon was behind the plate. tracted by the bright lights. ceived by Assistant County Agent M. structing Quartermaster of the Uma tilla Ordnance Depot, received July E. Knickerbocker. Lack of supplies of ticking is said 16, indicates a probable increase of to be the cause of postponement of seven hundred and thirty six in en the start of the program. Batting rollment. Consider adding seven hun supplies are said to be available at dred and thirty six pupils to a sys the present time. The signup in this tem previously caring for four hun Well, WELL, THOMAS, So YOU'RE THE ARMY NOW 7 area was in the neighborhood of 175 dred and eighty seven, and this with out any additional funds. The Ore P roud MY lad SHOCKS, WE NEVER HAD HOSTESSES mattresses and it was originally hop ed to complete the project during the gon school law limits the increase in TO ENTERTAIN US, MOVIES TO 60 TO, AND FOUR AND FIVE a school budget to six per cent in summer school vacation months. COURSE DINNERS, SHOCKS WHEN / WAS IN THE ARMY any year. This amount would not WE WERE LOvy To 6ET HARD TACK N BEAN5 N’WE make a start. INSPECTOR ROSS HAP TO MARCH ON FOOT (F WE WANTED Io 60 ANYWHERE The local school authorities have ARRIVES AT SITE maintained that the additional chil You FELLOES RIDE AROUND IN IRON CHAPl01¿ OR FLY dren have been brought here by ag Rollie M. Ross reported to the Um ents of the federal government. Sec- atilla Ordnance Depot this week as endly the federal governmnt pays no Principal Ammunition Inspector on taxs. Thirdly that if it paid taxes on the staff of Captain J. M. Piercy, the cost of the Umatilla Ordnance Ordnance Department, and has es Depot at the same rate as last year’s tablished his residence in Stanfield local school tax, this tax would run at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd to $175,000.00 or roughly twice what it will cost to care for the additional Russell. % Mr. Ross was formerly stationed children. By the passage of house at Delaware Ordnance Depot, Ped bill 4545, the Congress of the United ricktown. N. J., and has been with States backed and fully legalized our the Ordnance Department for a num contention. ber of years, associated with ammun Yet with school only six weeks off ition and explosives. not a single dollar has been grant ed or even promised, by any federal 4/7%6 wA TERMELON^CROP PROMISING agency in meeting their acknowledg Newcomers in the Hermiston area ed respon«ibility. The Hermiston are promised a real treat this year schools cannot pay the bill. If and as the watermelon crop at this time when the Government of the United looks very promising. In some local States through one or more of its ag ities melons weighing from 14 to 20 encies arranges to finance the edu pounds are already reported although cation of the children of its employ the bulk of acreages usually come ees, then they will receive indentic- about August 1. The earliest local ally the same advantages as children melons will be ready in just a few long resident here. days. (Continued on last page) SUPERINTENDENT TELLS OF SCHOOL TROUBLES HERE I The Oldtimer . NUMBER 48 THERMOMETER HITS 108 DEGREES ON TWO SUCCESSIVE DAYS NO DANGER FELT FOR WATER SHORTAGE It is the privilege of a country ed itor when news during the summer months is somewhat lax, to discuss the weather. The past few days, how ever, have brought something out of the ordinary in the way of extremes. Wednesday the thermometer soared to 108, the high mark for the year. Tuesday gave an indication as to what was to follow the next day when a 105 degree mark was recorded. To date there have been only one or two nights of uncomfortable de gree. In fact, for those who have been forced to sleep under the blue skies the nights have been ideal. Hermis ton apparently is not the hot spot of the northwest as numerous cities are reporting temperatures of 108 to 114. Workers at the Umatilla Ordnance Depot are feeling the hot rays of Old Sol but very few are complaining. One worker expressed his view like this, “The harder the sun shines, the harder we work.” And apparently he meant it. Several casualties, however, were reported Wednesday but with out serious effects. “Plenty of water in the Cold Springs reservoir," stated E. D. Mar tin, manager, Wednesday when ask ed as to the supply of irrigation wa ter. “We have more water than at the same date last summer, and with the continued cooperation of the land owners and ditch riders, sufficient water will be available to assure ma turity of all crops.” Locally beer parlors and soda fountains are extremely popular places these days. Cold soft drinks are available now at almost every service station, lunch rooms and Coca Cola machines are scattered here and there in the office buildings at the munitions site. The weather report for the week, according to Chas. Taylor, weather man, follows: Max. Min. July 10 ................... 94 57 60 July 11 ............................. 92 93 July 12 65 July 13 96 58 July 14 ............... 100 56 105 July 15 61 July 16 108 61 July 17 ... 108 BIBLE SCHOOL DATES ARE SET I The dates for the Union Vacation Days Bible School, which were post poned in June, have been definitely set for August 11 to 22. As a fore- runner of the school, a religious cen sus will be taken in Hermiston next Tuesday. Anyone desirous of assisting with such a census is asked to report to any of the pastors of Hermiston. Help in this project will be greatly apprec iated. COUNTY FAIR IS AROUND CORNER / Action on the forthcoming Uma tilla county fair to be held here Aug ust 28, 29 and 30 was launched this week with the entertainment commit tee holding its first meeting. Plans are underway for something outstand- mg in fair exhibitions this year to keep in step with the increased pop ulation here. 4 Several feature attractions are be ing investigated and will include drum and bugle corp drill teams, carnival and numerous other forms of entertainment. Premium lists are now being check ed by the committee in charge and will go to press soon. Further an nouncements will follow from time to time LOCAL BARBERS UP SHAVE PRICES Due to advances of prices on sup- plies, higher wages and higher living conditions in Hermiston, the local barber shops voted Monday night to raise the price of shaves from 25c to 35c. The price of hair cuts, however, will remain the same. The raise in price of shave was necessary in order to give good ac- comodations and to hold competent help in the shops.
