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COLUMBIA NEWS
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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.
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“Grandma” Ellis was honored on |
her 91st birthday anniversary, Fri HELP SOUGHT TO
‘is:
day, July 11th, at the home of her
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daughter, Mrs. Forrest Moore, who
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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
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day from Ft. Lewis. He is on a 10-day
people are beginning to wonder what
furlough.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SUPERINTENDENT
TELLS OF SCHOOL
TROUBLES HERE
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The Oldtimer
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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
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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
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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.
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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.