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NEWS FROM YOUR OWN STATE & COUNTY E i 7 Ao COLUMBIA NEWS By Mra. Bob Woodward etald atmLiiton OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER VO LIME XXXV A social gathering of the 4-H clubs at the Columbia club rooms on Mon day evening honored M. E. Knicker bocker, assistant county agent, who is leaving soon for Canyon City. It is reported from the county clerk’s office that a marriage license has been issued to Harold Buell and Margaret Smith of Hermiston and that they plan to be married Sep tember 14 at Condon by the Rev. Father Cullen. Harold is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Buell of this dis 14 COMPLETED trict. Henry Garberding and Arthur IN 24-HR. PERIOD Blinston made a business trip to Portland Sunday, returning Monday “Let’s Go,” seems to be the pass evening. Mr. and Mrs. Forest Moore, long- word these days at the site of the time residents of this district, are Umatilla Ordnance Depot where ap leaving about the first of next week. proximately 6,500 men are intent Their plans for the future are in upon constructing 1000 igloos before definite, and Mrs. Moore states that they may later return here to make the first of the year. Officers, office their home again. At present they personnel and field workers were are going to southern Oregon and wearing broad grins Tuesday with a will visit relatives of Mr. Moore. On record of 14 igloos completed within Monday Mr. and Mrs. Moore drove to Hood River, taking her mother a 24-hour period. This not only beat and sister, “Grandma” and Mary the Sunday record of 13 but sur Ellis, to the Riverview Rest Home. passed a world record held jointly by They were accompanied on the trip contractors at the Fort Wingate Ord by Mrs. Walter Morehouse. nance Depot in New Mexico where a Don Baumgardner is spending a 15-day furlough from Ft. Lewis at total of nine were completed within a 24-hour shift. the H. J. Ott home. Mr. and Mrs. Myrnie Caldwell From September 3 to September 9, made a shopping trip to Walla Walla inclusive, a seven-day period, 74 ig and Pendleton Monday. loos were completed by J. A. Tertel- Mrs. Raymond Woodward of En terprise. who is visiting at the Sher ing & Sons. This makes an average man Wells home in Hermiston, has of 10 4-7 per day. This record is one been a frequent visitor at the Bob which has not been equalled by any Woodward home the past week. crew to date and speaks well for the A guest at the McCulley home dur contracting firm at the Umatilla ing the wek-end was Mrs. McCulley’s Ordnance Depot. brother, Myrl Hughes of Boise, Ida At the present time there are 32 ho, who has just recently returned from a four-months’ stay at Wake “cats” at work at the local depot. Island in the Pacific. The visit was Other equipment includes 25 drag a very enjoyable one and interesting to the McCulley’s as Mr. Hughes lines, shovels and cranes, 400 cars brought with him a collection of beau and trucks. This equipment to date tiful shells which he gathered while has moved approximately 4 12 million on the island. He also had a speci yards of earth, an equivalent of 280 men of Ironwood, a wood which grows there that will not float as or miles of road. To date approximately dinary wood but always sinks when 310 igloos have been completed with placed in water, and a type of rock 660 more to build. which floats. He also had many in The increase in number of igloos teresting stories and vivid descrip tions of the marine and bird life per days is due partly to an increase there, and displayed a set of shark of field crews, but mostly to perfect teeth taken from a shark which he ed timing and perfect harmony among had killed. the men at work. The ultimate goal Maurice Caldwell, here on a fur of 1000 igloos serves as a connecting lough from Ft. Lewis spent the week- link which binds the workmen into end in La Grande. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hammer ac one large family. companied by Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Long, recently arrived here from KNICKERBOCKERS TO Klamath Falls, made a tour of the munitions depot Sunday. LEAVE SOON FOR Mr. and Mrs. Bellas who have lived at the Laura Morris home CANYON CITY POST through the summer are clearing the old McKeen place about two miles from town and will construct living Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Knickerbocker quarters there for the winter. and daughter will leave Hermiston Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hooker and September 17 for Canyon City in children, who have recently moved here from Boise, are living in a house Grant county where Mr. Knicker at the Bud Hooker farm. Mrs. Bud bocker is to be stationed as county Hooker and Mrs. Bob Hooker drove agent. The transfer comes as quite to Boise last week to move their an advancement for him as his work household furnishings here. Mrs. Bud Hooker also visited friends in Nampa. here has been as an assistant to Wal Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Thompson of ter Holt of Pendleton. Stanfield and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mr. Knickerbocker came to Her Lenz were Sunday afternoon visitors miston in February, 1939 and has at the George Liebe home. Miss Barbara Reid spent the La established an enviable record in both bor Day week-end at home from 4-H work and in general activities in Granger, Washington. the agricultural line. His work with The Columbia district school open the youngsters has been especially ed Monday with an enrollment of 27 well received. in the primary grades, 25 in the in No word has been received from termediate grades and 18 in the up per grades. A few more students en Oregon State college as to who will be rolled on Tuesday, and more were sent here to replace Mr. Knicker expected during the week. Teachers bocker. are Mrs. Zivney, Mrs. Wade and Mrs. Smith. A herd of 4 5 head of Jersey dairy BOWLING ALLEYS cows was sold to the Hartley Dairy this week by Dell Christley and mov OPEN THIS WEEK ed to the Hartley place on Tuesday. Late variety hops are ready for The newest business in Hermiston nicking this week at the Dixson Yard, but the continued shortage of pick is LeRoy R. Bailey’s duck pin bowl ers is interfering with the harvest, ing auditorium located in the west and the rainy weather has caused half or the Dr. W. L. Morgan build some damage. Mrs. Rebecca Miller, who lives at ing. Mr. Bailey will open the alleys | the Patton home in Portland, has for business Friday of this week and been visiting her niece. Mrs. Duff will feature six of the finest duck Knight and with friends in Umatilla pin alleys in the northwest. The past her former home. Miss Helen Jendrzejewski left last six weeks have been spent in redec- week to begin her teaching duties in rating the rooms and installing the the La Grande schools. alleys which are entirely of new lum Along the Diagonal: The Percy ber. Carman home being remodeled . . . Mr Bailey states that his type of more carpenter work at the Caldwell cottage ... a garage under construc- alleys are proving very popular in tion at the Bob Woodward place. other parts of the west. Duck pin ------- — 9 e-------- is very similar to the reg BUDGET COMMITTEE bowling ulation bowling but utilizes smaller pins and balls. He states that the APPOINTED TO AID game appeals to both young and old. RECORDS FALL IN IGLOO CONSTRUCTION AT ORDNANCE DEPOT Hermiston Minions of Law NORTH MORROW COUNTY FAIR TO BE AT BOARDMAN Premium lists for the North Mor row county fair, to be held this year at Boardman, are now being distrib Me ‘ - : p Ag — I- f ‘I £ 1 w‘14 t. bri sre. V—Ti Pictured above are the three law e forcing" officers of Hermiston whose duty it is to keep order on local stree s. Reading left to right: John W. Ballack, Chief II. A. Pankow and B. J. Nation. Cut courtesy The Journal HERMISTON POST OFFICE SETS NEW ALL TIME RECORD This seems to be the year of new all high records in Hermiston. The Hermiston post office, not to be slighted by the other business firms, reports a 170% increase in stamp sales for the past month, in July and August at total of $5,600 in stamps was passed out through the window. Acording to W. E. Logan, post- master, his personnel has written out $97,000 in money orders during the month of August, or a total of 6,021 separate orders. One day 625 money orders were written out to set a record which may not be surpassed for some time. Through most of the hours of the day there is a waiting line for genera! delivery mail at the office. Tuesday, September 9, a to tal of 98 persons were counted in two lines waiting for service at the win downs. All in all, there is no rest for the weary. FOOTBALL ROSTER LOOKS PROMISING The Hermiston Bulldog football team is fast rounding into shape and present indications are that the squad will be stronger than any team in re cent years. The backfield, especially, will be considerably more experienced and will in addition carry a lot more weight. $39,882 BID ON TRAILER PARK 4T STANFIELD PORTLAND, Sept. 9 One bid for construction of a trailer park at Stanfield to serve families of work- rs employed at the Umatilla Ord nance Depot, was opened Tuesday by the farm security administration. The $39,882 bid of V. D. Rever- man, Portland, will be recommended for acceptance, Walter A. Duffy, r. gional FS \ director, said. Approval is expected within 10 days and the project is to be completed 60 days later. The park will provide utility and sanitary facilities for 140 families living in trailers. Buildings will in clude comfort stations and facilities for showers, laundry and water heat ing. THRASHER BECOMES NEW MANAGER According to word received Thurs day morning from William Freitag, chief clerk of the Pendleton district >f the Pacific Power & Light com pany, Arthur M. Thrasher former ly of Bend, Oregon, becomes the new manager for the local office. Mr. Thrasher has been in Hermiston since the middle of June and has been with the company for more than 1 2 years. | He succeeds J. A. Clarke, who has | been transferred to Sunnyside, Wn. NEW DWELLINGS BUSINESS HOUSES ARE NOTED HERE BUILDING BOOM uted. The dates for this year’s show are Friday and Saturday, Septem GAINS MOMENTUM ber 19 and 20, with a big dance Building operations in Hermiston, scheduled Saturday night to wind up which started slowly some months ago, are now assuming high gear pro the activities. portions with no sign of a letup. The As has been the custom in former range of construction is from busi years, a 4-H club demonstration will ness structures, good homes, small be featured Friday at 2:00 p. m. apartments, tourist camps and tem Saturday afternoon the program will porary wooden buildings for the com be centered about contests and sports ing winter. Thousands of dollars are of various types. being invested, a good share of which Officers of the 1941 fair are as will contribute to permanent business follows: Russell Miller, president; and living quarters which the city Minnie McFarland, secretary: Leola has needed for some time. Tannehill, treasurer, and Bob Berg Listed below are some of the resi er. Adeline Baker and Mae Morrison, dences recently completed or now un directors. The entire community of derway: Charles Best and C. J. Jack- Boardman is cooperating in an effort son on East Gladys Avenue; Verne to make the fair a success. Daugherty on East Ridgeway, Vic Those wishing to enter exhibits are Stockard and F. E. Sater on East informed that entries must be in Highland Avenue, H. L. Buchane on place not later than 1:00 p. m. Fri West Ridgeway in the Hartley addi day, September 19. Livestock must tion. E. E. Pulley on South Fourth be in place not later than 10:00 a. street, Ben Gerking on West Locust, m. Saturday. four court apartments by W. W. Felt The fair each year draws visitors house on Hermiston Avenue, thrae from all parts of eastern Oregon. cotages on East Gladys by Claude Ballenger. PAYROLL HITS NEW Five small houses on Fifth Street and Hurlburt Avenue and about 50 HIGH AT UMATILLA housing units from one to five rooms in the Cox addition, five small houses ORDNANCE DEPOT on Newport Avenue by Mr. Hollings Payroll totals at the Umatilla Ord worth, four apartments by Joseph Sa- nance Depot took another sharp rise boe and one by Mrs. Bettie Lundgren on Fourth Street. Among the tourist this week when the crews were jump ed to approximately 6500 men and cabins are ten by Mrs. Ritchey and women. Payroll figures amount to ap two by E. E. Pulley on Fourth street, proximately $1,000,000 per month at five buildings by J. B. Wise and Ver non Summers in the Hartley addi the present weekly figures. tion. and about 20 similar buildings At the present time J. A. Terteling 1 & Sons employ upwards of 5 00 0 men scatered about the city. A new store is arising on the E. D. while the remainder are employed by I Martin place. Sterr’s Market has re the constructing quartermaster de- cently been completed and Stone Food partment and the engineering archi Stores of Spokane, Wash., are plan tect force. ning a 35 X 110 ft building on Her- miston Avenue. Mrs. Anne Durfey is CITY OFFICERS constructing an addition to the Her miston Hotel and bids are now being ARREST MANY requested for a new post office The city police personnel. Chief H. building. The necessity for more space A. Pankow, Bert Nation and John for this concern is becoming more Ballack, spent a busy month in Aug acute each day and some definite ar ust, making a grand total of 132 ar rangements must be made prior to rests which brought jail sentences. the Christmas months. Jens Skovbo has lumber on the These ranged all the way from over- night periods to much longer “meal ground for a laundry building near his present apiary business. The tickets.” A majority of the cases during Farmers Supply Co. expects to build August consisted of drunk and dis immediately on its property on Sec orderly arrests. Other misdemeanors ond street. Frank Pierson will re- which brought fines and sentences model his building on Second street included petty larceny, bad checks, for the Trading Post. M. V. Hart will broken glas, fighting and wreckless commence work soon remodeling the brick building on the Corner of Main driving. The above record would indicate and Second street, with apartments that considerable rowdyism was prev upstairs. The purchaser of the lot west of alent on the city street. This, how- and adjoining the Dr. F. B. Belt ever, is not the case with the city po lice in most instances making arrests building announces that he expects to before serious trouble occurs. As a build a three-story concrete business whole, the workmen who crowd the and apartment structure. The Mor city streets are extremely well be gan building on Main street is al most ready for occupancy of a duck haved. pin bowling alley and a laundry. Nu merous daily inquiries show that many others contemplate investments in business buildings, lodging houses and camp grounds in the near future. Typical Trailer House Scene umuroororun— MP • mn ~=rom t LAUNDRY PLANNED IN NEW BUILDING Hermiston will have a modern, up- to-date laundry after October 1, ac cording to announcement made this week by Dr. W. L. Morgan. The bus iness will be operated by Mr. and Mrs. Aivon Elkins who have leased the east half of Dr. Morgan's new structure and work is underway now installing equipment. In addition to all types of laundry, the firm will also make arrangements to handle dry cleaning. Mr. and Mrs. Elkins, now of Portland, are expect ed soon to take care of arrangements. HERMISTON COUNCIL At a regular meeting of the Her miston city council Friday night a budget commitee was appointed to meet with the council September 19 to draw up the 1942 city budget. Named on this group were Curtis Simons, R. C. McReynolds, Lee Quir- ng. J. D. Todd. J. G. Pearson. A. H. Norton and A. F. Rohrman. According to Charles Taylor, city recorder, the new budget will be slightly higher but will very likely not raise the tax levy due to the fact that there is considerable more tax able property now on the tax rolls. The budget, which is made up for a six month period, is limited to a 3 % increase for that period. NUMBER 4 HERMISTON. UM ATILLA COUN Y. OREGON, SEPTEMBER H. 1941 METHODIST CHURCH OFFERS BASEMENT CLARKES HONORED WEDNESDAY NIGHT At the meeting of the official board of the Methodist church last Sunday night, the trustees granted school authorities permission to use the basement of the church if neces- sary to relieve the emergency condi tion of lack of adequate space in lo cal schools. The official board also went on -ecord as favoring federal aid to the Hermiston schools for this emergen cy and asked that the proper author ities do all in their power to help re lieve the present crowded school con ditions. ‘1 »V 1 : , )3 Cut Courtesy Portland Oregon Jo irnal Choir members and friends of the Central Church of Christ met after rehearsal in the basement of the church Wednesday night in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Clarke and fam ily who are leaving next week for Sunnyside, Wn., to make their home. Presents were presented to the Clarke family, and also to Mr. and Mrs. For rest Moore, who are leaving on an extended vacation. Part of the eve ning was devoted to hearing the old male quartet of which Mr. Clarke was a member.
