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OREGON NEWS ANO COMMENTS. ~Tka. -k/almLiton -k^aiaLcL OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER VOLL ME XXXV VERNON WILLIAMS COMMISSIONER JOB POPULAR AS FIVE CANDIDATES FILE HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. MARCH 26, 1942. R.A.F. Raid on Paris Reverberates in U. S XU MEER 32 AGENT ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FOUR-H STUDENTS PORTLAND—J. D. Mickle, state ______ I director of agriculture and head of cImI=ELE IIPCED ng t 1 WINNERS TO ATTEND the Oregon state fair, caused consid- 1 --- dy erable concern among Oregon farm- | TO REGISTER NOW SUMMER SCHOOL ers and livestock breeders last week ___ when he announced that the state With the deadline for filing for the Two committees of 4-H local lead fair may not be held this year. All | May 15 primaries March 30, politi- ers met at the office of the assistant of the county fairs, state fair, Pen- cal lines in Umatilla county are pret county agent recently and selected dieton Roundup, Oregon Turkey ty well drawn up. The only real race the outstanding home economics and show and several others are depend for the county office is the commis agricultural club members in west ent upon the revenues received from sioner post left vacant by the recent Umatilla county. dog racing in order to stage these passing of W. H. (Bill) Switzler. The basis of awards which these annual events. According to Mr. Five men have made their intentions committees judged the work of the Mickle, if dog racing is not held this known as seeking this post, namely; club members on, consisted of years year it would be impossible to pay Burdett Ross, W. G. Rodda, Allen in club work, projects completed, co- the cost of the numerous fairs for Thompson and Henry Biamont, re operation of the club member, lead the reason that without this revenue publicans, and Paul Kaip, democrat. ership and the participation record they are not self-supporting. The of the club member in club activities Other offices coming up for elect state fair alone last year received ion all have filings but in most in such as judging teams, demonstra- approximately $30,000 from that stances no races are in prospect. The tions, and other contests, The tenta- sou ree. tive list of those chosen by these following is a list of filings; committees and the donor of the County judge, Carl W. Chambers, to be | The military authorities seem scholarship is as follows; hesitant about crowds of over 5,000 incumbent republican. Pocahontas club, Frances Chap County clerk, Mrs .E. B. Casteel, C) gathering in any one spot, yet fig man; Eastern Star, Pauline Roach; ures show that only a trifle over | incumbent republican. A view of part of the huge Renault automobile plant in the suburbs of Paris is shown at left. This plant County recorder, Jack Folsom, in was the main target of R.Á.F. bombers that blasted the Paris area, killing and wounding hundreds. Renault Project Farm Bureau, • Dorothy 5,000 people is the average daily at has been working on German contracts for over a year. Right: French Ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye (right) Hiatt: Project Farm Bureau, Bill tendance at the Portland dog races. cumbent republican. County treasurer, Bettye DeHart, expresses strong indignation over the British bombing to a reporter in Washington, after talking with Sumner i Hibbard; Inland Cooperative, Wayne Then again, point out the fair heads, Barber; Cooperative Creamery, Ag- several dog tracks which have been incumbent republican; Pauline Mos- Welles, acting secretary of state. nes Riley; Commercial Club, David operating on the eastern seaboard grove, republican. Dufur; Farm Bureau Cooperative, Umatilla port commission, Glen have just closed their annual meets I Charlotte Corneille; Echo Wool INITIAL PAYMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS and the daily crowds there averaged Storie, incumbent republican; Harry PORTLAND MEN I Growers, Virginia Picanso; Hermis- Hull, Umatilla republican. many thousands more than they do in ENJOY VACATION OF FEDERAL GRANT j ton Bank, Bob Attebury: Stanfield Registration books for coming elec- HERE ON GOOD Portland. Grange, Elaine Hogg; Columbia I tions are now open and will be closed MAKES APPEARANCE Grange, Another $500,000 of .airport pro April 15. For county and state elec WILL MISSION Dorothy Knox; Westland “It’s the real McCoy,” stated a jects have been approved for Oregon. tions in May, voters may register at Grange, Robert Grimps; Legion Aux- happy youngster on the street Wed City officials this week were in re i iliary and Hermiston Herald, Gordon A group of 26 Portland business nesday when asked why he was not Of this sum the Clatsop airport re Mayor F. C. McKenzie’s office at the ceives more than half; the allotment Oregon Hardware * Implement Co. and professional men made a two- in school. Because all the teachers ceipt of the first portion of the fed Shown. for this airport, which is near As- and .for the city election at the office hour stop in Hermiston Wednesday are attending the annual institute in eral grant for the proposed sewer Alternates chosen by the commit morning en route home following a Portland this week, all classes were and water projects in Hermiston. The tees which selected the agricultural toria, is $199,386 to be used in clear of Charles Taylor, recorder, ing, grubbing, installing culverts, Primary elections will be held in visit into Washington. The men, who dismissed Wednesday, Thursday and money is a direct grant from the i outstanding club members were as Federal Works administration to be i follows, to be selected in the order tide gates, catch basins, grading, sur May when nominations for governor were on a good will tour for the Port Friday of this week. facing, extending runways, etc. For and other state offices and for dis land Chamber of Commerce, made Regular classes will be resumed used for these civic improvements. ! listed: A total of $1 1,427 was received for the Medford airport $13,479 is al- trict and county offices will be made, stops at Pasco, Milton-Freewater, next week. Mumps have taken quite Wilbur Hunt, Zelma Sutton, Peg- lowed for paving runways. There is All new citizens who have been in Walla Walla, Hermiston, Arlington a toll among the students during the use in the sewer construction and gy Sommerer, Jack Rodgers, Virginia to be development of the airport at the state six months and in the pre and The Dalles. past few weeks but the siege now ap- $12,516 for the water improvement I Borthwick and Lewis Wilson. project. Mayor F. C. McKenzie sta Considerable activity was reported pears to be waning. Salem and the airfield for The Dalles cinct 30 days will be eligible to reg Alternates selected by the home ted Wednesday ' that ensuing gi ants | economics committee were Eleanor which is located on the Washington ister. Registration may also be made around Pasco where several govern would be made as the work advances. 1 Eckert and Juanita Brown. bank of the Columbia. These and with the county clerk at the court- ment projects are now underway. TED RIPLEY NOW Considerable interest is being They were particularly impressed as the many other airfields which CAA house in Pendleton. As stated previous] this is a ‘en- shown in regards to the bidding on tative list and may include others to how Hermiston and surrounding IN SECOND CLASS is constructing in the state are not the proposed work. The bids will be ' later. towns managed to house for the thou only for the duration but part of a ARTESIAN WELL sands of workers here last summer. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ripley this publicly opened Monday, April 6. planned program to carry on into the 4-H Summer School will be held at While in Hermiston the men visited week received a telegram from their The advertisements for the two pro- Oregon State college at Corvallis distant future. It is recognition of TESTS INDICATE various business houses with which son Ted that he will graduate March jects appear on other pages of this June 2 to 12 inclusive. H. C. Sey- the importance airplanes will play in they do business. 28 with a class of 80 who have suc- week’s edition. the life of Oregon. Incidentally, CAA SUFFICIENT FLOW moure, state club leader, recently met The trip from Walla Walla was cessfully passed their primary train- is preparing to train 75,000 civilian with the governor’s state agricultur Tests of the artesian well located made by Greyhound bus. ing examinations. A class of 210 men FEED AND SEED LOAN al advisory committee in order to get fliers, with the understanding that southwest of Hermiston have been began the course some months ago when they are competent their ser their opinion on whether or not sum but only 80 were successful. vices will be available to the federal quite satisfactory, according to May SUPERVISOR COMING mer school should be held this year. or F. C. McKenzie who has super HERMISTON BOYS Ted will now be sent to Merced, government. It was the unanimous opinion of this vised the experiment. The present Cal., for the basic training course agricultural council that summer After almost one year of delay plan is to utilize the well for the new NAMED TO OFFICE C. A. Riley, field supervisor of the school should be held as usual and which is rated as quite difficult. Metals Reserve corporation has fin- Hermiston water project. Emergency Crop and Feed Loan of this group praised the summer school ally financed a development of zinc A pump was in operation at the Hermiston lads attending school fice, will be in the Assistant coun activity very highly. UMATILLA MAN IS ty properties in the Santiam country, well for 21 hours one day this week, agent’s office from one to five p. again made the headlines this week Marion country. This is built some pumping an average of 275 gallons m. on Friday, April 3. NEW PORT MEMBER when news was ; received here that where in the vicinity of Portland. per minute during that time. A four- Any farmers who wish may obtain F. B. FEDERATION The smelter is in abeyance. However, inch suction pipe was used at a depth Jim Jackson and Kenneth Bensel had The Umatilla port commission this a loan for the purpose of purchasing HAS LARGE MEETING the enterprise has been allowed suf of 28 feet with a three-inch dis been elected to important offices of week announced that Harry A. Hull feed or seed up to $400 maximum EVE ficient funds to open up the zinc de charge. The most significent result the Maple Manor cooperative board of Umatilla had been appointed port with the emergency crop and feed I UtjUAT LYENINO posits and concentrate them. The of the experiment, according to Mr. commissioner to fill the unexpired loan office. Anyone who is interest- • concentrates will be sent to Anacon McKenzie, is the fact that due to the ing house for boys on the Oregon term of the late W. H. (Bill) Switz- ed in getting these loans will speed State campus. Jim was elected pres- Over 100 farmers and their fami da. Mont. Until there was a shake- pumping experiment the natural flow 1er. whose term would have expired up the loan by contacting Mr. Riley lies attended the Farm Bureau Fed- up in OPM and WPB took over, the of the well was increased from 40 ident and Kenneth was named the with the end of this year. when he is here and filling out the I eration dinner Tuesday evening at zinc section of OPM discouraged all gallons to 100 gallons per minute, in new manager. The port commissioner post will necessary papers. the Columbia club house. Eighteen mineral development in Oregon with dicating that there is an unlimited Apparently the training the boys be filled by election this year, The Mr. Riley will also be at the assis- a view to preventing the establishing resource of water available. received here in cooperative methods port commission is now in the pre- tant county agent’s office on April new members were enrolled in the ""‘XE °" AP‘1 state and county organization which of competition for the big mining It is hoped to use this water for are coming in quite handy in their liminary stages of the railroad spur 17. May 1, May 15 and May 29. from together with 15 previously signed corporations. work at school. the main supply for the city, using project at Umatilla. one five P m. make a total of 83 at pre ■ it. En The change in attitude applies to the present well near the Butte for Chrome. Earl K. Nixon of the Ore- rollment is expected to continue here an auxiliary. I with prospects of a largely increased gon bureau of mines has succeeded in membership. having Metals Reserve Corp, interest “Organization among farmers was itself in the deposits of chrome in | SOTO DIES FRIDAY I never more needed than at the pres- southern Oregon, eastern Oregon and | IN GAS CHAMBER _ _ U ' ent time in order that their needs may northern California. The former re ! be presented as a unit,” stated Les quirements were such that no produ- 1 John Anthony Soto, 17, who last lie Stewart, manager of the Walla cer could afford to attempt to sell1 September committed a triple mur Walla Farm Bureau cooperative who enrome to the government. It is said der three miles west of Hermiston, there are about 5,000 miners in the died in the Oregon lethal gas cham addressed the meeting on organiza BUZEN I VAS territory who are interested in ber in Salem Friday. tion work and other timely topics. chrome, and under the new arrange Roy Ritner, secretary of the county (ALKIN® TO Soto, fugitive from the Sonoma, organization, told of the organization ment and the price effective April 1 Cal., state home for feebleminded and there is a chance for them to make eldest of seven children of Mr. and plan and its benefits. A. H. Cable, money. local president, called on visiting of V Mrs. Antonio Soto, Porto Ricans of ficers of county bureaus for short On the suggestion of a mint grow Niles, Cal., died five seconds after talks. er in Columbia county Leon Hender the gas fumes reached his face. Pri son, price administrator, has set his son officials said it was the quickest Among those responding were Sam staff to making a study of the pep execution on record. Ingle, president of Milton-Freewater, permint oil situation. The Oregon Don Cameron of Pilot Rock and Cecil Soto appeared indifferent to the suggestion was that $7.50 a pound end and smoked a cigar up to the mo Yates, president of the county bu would be a fair price. Henderson’s ment he entered the death chamber. | reau. Charles Baker of Walla Walla men reported that it is too late to fix He ate heartily at dinner last Thurs- was unable to be present. Ladies of the Farm Bureau auxi the price on oil from the 1941 crop day night and breakfast Friday, and liary served the dinner. as it is already in the hands of deal slept soundly. He asked, just before ers or consumers. The staff will con entering the execution chamber, to be I sider fixing a price on this year's “remembered to my folks.” F. S. A. FIELD MAN crop. Mint is grown in a dozen dif MAKES VISIT HERE ferent sections of Oregon and is a GUN CLUB PLANS specialty crop. William O. Wright, F.S.A. field Farm tractors were given priority TRAP SHOOTING on rubber tires, but now WPB has is man, federal credit union division, was a week end visitor from Wash sued an order abolishing rubber tires Another of a series of Sunday trap ington, D. He stated that the fi and the manufacturers of tractors shoots will be held this week at the nancial condition of the Hermiston are told to make them with steel trap shooting grounds southeast of Credit union was promising, and that wheels. There is not enough rubber Hermiston on Highway ________ _ - 30. Activi-1 considerable progress has been made available, says WPB, to make a golf ties will begin at 10 00 a. m. and will since his visit several months ago. ball. Advice going out to farmers continue during the day. Officers of the local union are Wil from the national capital is that they A fine crowd was in attendance liam C. Kik, Hermiston, president; should become more cooperative and last Sunday. The events are staged Riley C. Leeper, Stanfield, vice pres ase the same machinery, moving it I as practice affairs under the spon- from place to place after the fashion worship of the Hermiston Rod * Gun ident, and Mrs. Georgia Henderson, of a threshing crew. Hermiston, treasurer. club. Disconnected
