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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1942)
OREGON NEWS ANO 2 COMMENTS. Bop. 4iQ.tmLi.ton 4iQ.tG.LcL OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER VOLUME XXXV DAD TO REGISTER NEXT MONDAY FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE HEKM/STON, UMATILLA COUM Y. ORLCOX, APRIL 23, 1942. HIGH SCHOOL BOYS AID IN CLEANUP A CAPELLA CHOIR TO SING HERE ON SCHEDULED TOUR A group of high school boys were instrumental in the cleaning up of The a capella choir of the Eastern several alleys uptown last Friday. Portland, Ore. — It’s just about Oregon College of Education of La Three trucks were in operation as Three weeks until Mr. and Mrs. Vot Grande, under the direction of Ken the boys gathered broken bottles, tin er trek to the polls, which will de- COMMITTEE NAMED cans and other rubbish from streets neth E. Schilling, will present a con ide who is to be who on both party cert at the Hermiston Union high and alleys. Tickets. These closing weeks of the TO ASSIST IN WORK school auditorium Thursday evening. Although some residents of Her campaign will see the candidates April 30. at 8:15 o’clock under the miston made no effort to cooperate turning on the heat for all it is By proclamation of the President. sponsorship of the associated stud with the mayor ’ s cleanup plan, a worth in order to capture every vote Monday, April 27, has been designat ents of the high school. possible. Governor Sprague, who ed as the day on which men who have, good majority of the citizens cleaned Fifty-six college students, 34 wom up their vacant lots. started slow, is now campaigning in attained their 45th birthday on or be en and 22 men, make up the person high gear, and so is his opponent, fore February 16, 1942, and have not nel of the choir, representing 21 dif Earl Snell. With the voting public attained their 65th birthday on April FREAK WEATHER ferent towns of eastern and central still apethetic but showing a little I 27, 1942, are required to register for I Oregon. Choir members wear bur PLAYS HAVOC IN more interest in the coming primary, Selective Service. gundy robes with gold dickies and the candidates will bring out their war i Registrars for the county were an THIS TERRITORY stoles. Director Schilling received drums and tom-toms in order to keep nounced early in the week by the his B. M. degree from Lawrence Col political interest alive. However, the Umatilla county selective service The past week has been somewhat lege. Wisconsin; his M. A. degree politically wise men still say less than board. Named in the west end were outstanding from the standpoint of from the University of Minnesota 50 per cent of the registered voters James Todd, Hermiston, and G. L. the weather. Last Thursday a ter and has completed most of the work will go to the polls election day. Dunning of Stanfield. Sheriff Bob rific wind storm hit this region, cen toward a doctorate in music at • • • Goad has been designated to regis tering its velocity apparently just Northwestern University, where he It may be just a coincidence but we ter all men in this age group who are west of Hermiston. At the J. R. did special work in a capella choir hear via the grapevine route that confined to hospitals or homes, but Harding ranch the miniature hurri under Nobel Cain. Donald Nelson, big boss of WPB, has these persons should notify the se cane picked up a 20-100 foot chicken Under the direction of Director been requested to make a personal in lective service offices and give their barn and carried it approximately 15 Schilling, the music department of vestigation of why so many indus addresses. feet, completely damaging it. At the the college presented more than 100 tries proposed and even announced Mr. Todd has announced that reg former Cora Tobin ranch a small programs at various civic and club for the northwest are shoo-flied away istration in Hermiston will be held chicken barn was sitting in the mid meetings last year, and to date this from this region. Chemical plants, Monday from 7:00 a. m. to 9:00 p. m. dle of the road following the storm. year has presented 48 programs. The aluminum plants and stainless steel in the American Legion hall. He Pictures of the razed buildings can be choir is coming to be recognized as plants have been, for one reason or will be assisted during the day by L. seen at the Herald office. one of the outstanding musical orga another, throttled. There is a sus P. Pratt and the following ladies who Monday the temperature resembled nizations of eastern Oregon. picion among some congressmen of will be on hand to aid those wishing Fourth of July readings and residents the northwest that someone in the to register: Mrs. George Harkenri- were beginning to wonder if summer war production board is responsible der, Mrs. Dan Gray, Mrs. Roy Hale, was really at hand. The week was FLAMES DAMAGE for blocking one thing after another Mrs. R. C. McReynolds and Mrs. concluded with a hail storm Wednes ALSTOTT HOME that is planned for this area, and is James Todd. day evening which left the ground Complete destruction by flames of undertaking to sabotage any industry Registration in Stanfield will be in white. It has not been ascertained the R. E. Alstott Jr. home was nar that might become paramount after the irrigation district office. Mr. whether the storm damaged peach and rowly averted by prompt work of the duration. By special messenger Dunning will appoint a committee to apricot orchards on the Columbia. neighbors and the fire department a letter inviting Nelson to look into assist him in the registration there. Monday noon when fire of undeter the matter was sent from “the hill” mined origin damaged the interior of NEGRO ARRESTED which cited stainless steel as a case TRASH BURNERS TO the house. Flames spread rapidly industry, suggesting other inquiries. ON THEFT CHARGE inside the kitchen and broke into the There is ample hydroelectric pow- BE OUTLAWED HERE attic but failed to break through the sr in Oregon and Washington from J. D. Dobbins, colored, was arrest roof. government dams at Bonneville and ed early this week on a charge of tak Helpful neighbors kept the flames Hermiston merchants and business Grand Coulee to either build new ing articles from a parked automo from spreading until the fire de aluminum plants or expand the ones men who have been in the habit in bile. He pleaded not guilty before partment arrived on the scene. The the past of disposing of excess paper, already built. Instead of increasing Justice of the Peace E. P. Dodd Wed loss was covered by insurance, ac rapacity in this area, WPB propos- cartons and other rubbish by burning nesday and was bound over to the cording to Mr. Alstott. it in outside trash burners are doom ed more aluminum production at grand jury. ed for disappointment. B. A. Doyle, TVA, but TVA has every kilowatt Dobbins was arrested by local offi under contract; and then it was an- local fire chief, this week has issued cers and state police for stealing var SHORTAGE OF SACKS a special notice forbidding this prac nounced aluminum plants would be ious items from an automobile be EXPERIENCED HERE placed in Boston, New York and Chi tice within the fire zone which is com longing to Chas. B. Keeton and Glen posed of the territory from Stone ’ s cago where private power would be C. Hansen. A queer angle to the Some concern is being felt locally available. That New York and Bos- Market to the Legion hall and from case was the fact that both the lat in regards to a shortage of sacks for the Methodist church block to Han- Ton are on the ocean front and in a ter two men were asleep in the car feed, grain and other material. In target area was ignored, despite ar by’s Auto Park. during the theft. Any violation hereafter will be order to relieve the situation the my policy on the west coast. Well, Several other articles have been Farm Bureau mill is inaugurating a punished by a $50 fine states Mr. these developments were apparently recovered and have been placed in plan whereby patrons upon purchas dropped and now WPB is asking for Doyle. Accumulation of rubbish is | the city jail building. Owners of ing a sack of feed must replace the also included in the above law. All aluminum from Canada. In response, these may claim them by identifying sack taken with another in usable Canada says it can use its hydro firemen have been instructed to check the articles at the city jail. condition. power for either aluminum or news on the matter and report violations to — • • - There has been some talk that a print, and suggests WPB make the | the chief. Thrift Shop Sale Planned similar plan will have to be adopted decision. Most newsprint in the U. Ladies of the Central Church of in grocery stores and other concerns S. comes from Canada and diversion FORMER RESIDENT Christ are planning a thrift shop using either cloth or paper bags. of power to aluminum would have an I sale at the home of Mrs. A. M. Smith PASSES AWAY effect on American newspapers. Half Friday and Saturday, May 1 and 2. a year has been lost in arranging for Her home is located one block north TIRE RATIONING News has been received locally of of the Texaco station. It has been more aluminum. of the death April 14 of Mrs. Joseph announced that there will be hund HOURS ARRANGED Four chemical companies wished ine Zweifel of Portland, a former reds of garments on sale with a few The west end Umatilla county tire to locate in the Bonneville-Grand resident of Hermiston. Mrs. Zwei at $1.00, some for 50c and many Coulee area. There was talk of their fel moved to Portland from LaGrande I others for less. The public is invit rationing board is making new plans for its activities as work begins to being placed at Pasco, Wenatchee or following the death of her husband ed to participate. speed up. It is expected that within Spokane. For a time it looked as a number of years ago. She was a though one plant would be establish daughter of the late Mrs. T. W. Bot Dr. Morgan Named Vice Pregident a few weeks requests for new tires Members of the Eastern Oregon will become quite numerous. An of ed in the Puget Sound city. Then kins. She is survived by a son, William | Dental society met at La Grande Sat fice will be maintained at the office WPB ordered one of the plants to Alabama, in TVA territory, where it Wescott, a soldier at Fort Lewis. She I urday for an annual convention. of Gene Lear, assistant county agent, was to make phosphates for cotton was well known in Hermiston among Pendleton was chosen as the meeting in Hermiston. The board meets on the 7th, 14th, place next year. Officers elected in farmers. This boost for TVA was the old timers. Funeral services were held Mon clude: Dr. H. A. Newton, Pendleton, 21st and last day of the month to frustrated because TVA has no sur- •plus power, but neither this nor any day, April 20. from the Bruno Mis president; Dr. W. L. Morgan, Her pass on applications. Assistants who of the other chemical plants was or sion funeral home in Portland. She miston, vice president: and Dr. R. B. have been selected by the board will dered to the Columbia river. As the received a mausoleum entombment at Robbins of Pendleton, secretary be on duty every afternoon from 2:00 to 5:00 o’clock to take applications. treasurer. companies interested expected the Lincoln Memorial park. government to put up the money, They naturally would go where WPB proposed. Thus far no chemical in- dustry has been launched within reach of transmission lines from Bon neville or Grand Coulee. • • • Agents of the stainless steel com pany browsed the northwest care fully. Having inspected Washington, they looked at Baker, La Grande, Pendleton and The Dalles. HERMISTON MEN TO ATTEND CLINIC YIMUKIt 36 VOLUNTEER RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT GOAL IN COUNTY W. J. Warner and W . W. Felthouse are leaving by train late Friday evening for Rochester. Minn., where they will undergo observation at Mayo Brothers Clinic. Both men have been failing in health in recent FARMERS TO AID IN weeks and thought it best to under STATEWIDE PLAN go a thorough physical checkup. ________ It is expected that they will be | A volunteer rural “fire depart- gone from three weeks to a month or. 1 ment” for every community in Uma- possibly longer. --------e e------- - I tilla county is the objective of a ! county-wide fire prevention program SUGAR RATIONING outlined at a meeting of representa tives of the county defense council, REGISTRATION FOR I the U. S. Forest Service, Indian Ser FIRMS SCHEDULED vice, the Highway Department and the Extension Service held here April 18. Participating in the planning Dy W. G. Kernbergen Stores, business houses, boarding | meeting were representatives of all houses, hospitals, other users or sell the above agencies. The movement to organize emer ers of sugar, other than individual families, will register at the high gency rural fire fighting units in this school Tuesday and Wednesday, April county is a statewide and even na 28 and 29, for their sugar rationing tionwide campaign to reduce rural booklets. The school has no discre fire hazards to a minimum this year tion or authorization in the matter and to prepare to fight such fires as whatsoever. It simply acts as a place may be caused by enemies and sabo of registration and forwards the re teurs, says Walter Holt, county agent. The O. S. C. Extension Ser sults to the county administrator. However, there is now a supply of vice has been assigned the job of or registration blanks on hand and peo ganizing the campaign with the as ple may get them, take them home, sistance of six cooperating agencies and make out their report at their including state and federal forest leisure, always providing the reports services, the grazing and Indian ser- | vices, the state fire marshal and are registered on April 28 or 29. School officials especially want to | state defense council. The plan provides for organizing emphasize the fact that this registra | in each critical rural area a volun- tion is not the family consumer reg istration. There will be such a reg I teer fire fighting unit designed to istration later. In fact, present indi protect from 50 to 100 farms, de cations are that the consumer regis pending on local conditions. For each tration will be one week after the in | district a captain and an assistant stitution registration, but positively will be appointed. These men will no consumer registration will be tak later attend at least two training en on either April 28 or 29. A com meetings, at which cooperating agen plete explanation of consumer ration cies will instruct in latest methods ing will appear in a later issue of the of fire prevention and fire fighting in rural areas. Herald. Probably next week. One of the main purposes of thor ough organization in advance is to SEWER CONTRACTOR ’ eliminate fire hazards and to con struct fire breaks around and in EXPECTED FRIDAY fields and around buildings. Crops, J. M. deBlasio of Yakima, Wash., equipment, farm homes and buildings low bidder for the construction of the are especially valuable and difficult Hermiston sewer and water improve to replace during wartime, and they ment projects, is expected here this are essential to attainment of pro week end to sign the needed papers duction so badly needed by the na- (Continued on Last Page) for the proposed construction. As far as is known here, no obstacles re main for the work to begin imme BOARDMAN MAN diately. Mayor F. C. McKenzie stated this PASSES AWAY week that the work would probably Michael Kenney Flickinger, Board be completed early in the summer. man farmer, passed away last Thursday following an extended ill BICYCLE ACCIDENT ness of almost one year. Funeral CAUSES BROKEN ARM services were held in Boardman with Rev. J. K. Walpole in charge. Burial was in the Riverview cemetery in Craig Percey, manager of the lo cal Safeway store, is carrying a Boardman. Mr. Flickinger was born near Jef broken arm in a sling this week due to a tangle with a bicycle being op ferson, Pa., being a member of a erated by James Boylen. Percey was family of four children. One broth coming out of the post office when er. Samuel, of Davenport, Iowa, sur struck by Boylen riding on the side vives. As a young man he was a school teacher but later took up tele walk. graphy. For a number of years he Steps will be taken immediately to curb riding of bicycles on city side was an operator in Philadelphia, Pa., walks before more serious accidents and later in Colorado and Oregon. He served for several years as operator occur. at Coyote and Messner, Oregon. His later life was spent in ranching near Local Group Attendo Convention Mr. and Mrs. C. Warner and Pat Boardman, excelling in alfalfa rais sy, Muriel Kingsley, Anne Lindsay ing. In 1918 he was married to Ellen 8. and Emsley Rodgers left Thursday morning for Eugene to attend the an Schisler of Astoria, III. She preced nual convention of Christian Endea- ed him in death June 15, 1941. Mr. vorers. They expect to return Mon Flickinger was a member of the Lutheran church. day. E. O. C. E. A Cappella Choir to Sing Here Next Thursday HOME NURSING CLASSES COMBINE There will be a combined meeting f the Columbia and Hermiston dis tricts Red Cross Home Nursing class ed Monday, April 27. at 7:30 at the Methodist church basement. Dis- eussion of communicable diseases, their causes, means of ‘transmission and means of control will be the topic for the evening. There will also be a movie showing diseases. Miss Bruce county health nurse, arges that all be present promptly at 30 so that the meeting can get un- derway. This meeting takes the place of the usual meeting in the Columbia park hall so there will be no regular meeting on Wednesday.
