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OREGON NEWS ANO COMMENTS. The /amisto n ■Ha.^a.LdL OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER VOLUME XXXV C VERNON WILLIAMS HERMISTON HIGH COMMENCEMENT. EXERCISES MAY 21 HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 30, 1942. DE BLASIO FIRM TO BEGIN WORK SOON ON SEWER Ready for Japs Equipment for the construction of the Hermiston sewer and water im provement projects arrived Thursday | with additional machinery and men expected the first of the week, ac cording to Mayor F. C. McKenzie. J. M. deBlasio, Yakima, Wn., con- tractor, has announced that he ex pects to rush the job through as fast as possible in order to interfere as | little as possible with irrigation and other work. Plans are now completed for the ' disposal plant which will also be con- j structed immediately. TERTELING LOW BIDDER ON WORK AT ORDNANCE A IW TY 4e, NUMliER 37 SUGAR RATIONING FOR INDIVIDUALS SET NEXT WEEK Unofficial but rather reliable ports have it that the firm of J. A. Portland, Ore.—The war horses of I Terteling & Sons of Boise, Idaho, the Democratic party are after the, constructors of the Umatilla Ord scalp of their state chairman. When nance Depot, have been granted a the secretary of state released the new contract “under five million dol list of candidates who had filed for | lars” for additional facilities at the the legislature it was found that 21 Sugar rationing registration will Commencement exercises for the local ordnance depot. Just exactly be carried on in the Hermiston com seats, over one-third of those to be graduating class of Hermiston Union what the work will consist of has not munity May 4, 5, 6 and 7. The rat ejected, had gone by default because been learned. no Democratic candidate had taken high school will be held Thursday | ioning will be done by the teachers of J. A. Terteling & Sons are now the Hermiston elementary school and the trouble to seek the nomination. It night, May 21, in the high school completing an airport job at Walla the place of registration will be the is supposed to be the job of the state auditorium, according to Superintend-“ Walla and it is understood that this Hermiston high school shop building. chairman to see that every local elec ent W. G. Kersbergen. Baccalaureate crew of laborers will be transferred The hours will be from 9:00 a. m. to tive office has a candidate. The services will be held Sunday evening, back to Hermiston for the new work. Democrats thought they had an ex May 17, with Rev. C. Warner of the 4:00 p. m. • It is expected that verification of cellent opportunity to capture the Central Church of Christ delivering Any member of the family 18 Dressed to kill is Johny Boyer, the above contract will be received years old or older may secure ration lower house this year but they can’t the’ address of the evening. I 2%2-year-old son of Capt. R. D. Boy- within a few days. Prof. John Miller of the Eastern do it with a handicap of 21 seats to cards for the entire family. How | er, stationed in Honolulu. Johnny start with. The Republicans only Oregon College of Education will be ever, no family may secure a ration put on this war paint in readiness failed to file for nine seats. So a the principal speaker for the gradua for the Japs in case of another sneak card for a member of the family not tion exercises. As has been the cus drive is now to stage a write-in cam raid. living at the family home. Such paign which the “powers that be” tom in recent years, Henry M. Som family members should register merer will present the diplomas to hope will result in a candidate for Already in full-scale cooperation where they live. People boarding and each legislative seat on both tickets the graduating seniors. Musical se- Friday evening, May 1. is the date with America’s war program, Union rooming should also register as their lections will be presented by the high ; set for the sixth Annual Physical Ed- next fall. Pacific Stages further intensified its ration cards will be needed to enable school glee club. | ucation Exhibition, generally known participation by revising its sched their landlady to secure sugar for Members of the graduating class as the P. E. X. Each year it proves ules to meet additional wartime re A bill introduced by* Senator Mc are: John V. Allen, Owen R. Anson, to be one of the outstanding events A car load of breeder hens and quirements. The new schedules, to their use. All registration will be conducted Nary authorizing RFC to finance Genevieve Alspach, Florence Ascherl, of the school year and draws a huge toms will be loaded this week at the be effective May 1, were announced on the four days mentioned and at local plant of the Eastern Oregon construction and operation of distil Chris Dee Brice, William R. Beard, crowd. The program is under the this week by bus company officials. the stipulated place. People living leries, specifically in the northwest, Johanna Casper, Carl Wilbur Ben general direction of Miss Lavina Turkey Growers, according to C. A. East bound buses will arrive in is a sort of scattergun. Essentially, nett, Dorothy Corkrum, Bernard May Lynch with Ray Critchfield in Flanigan, plant manager. Picking Hermiston at 7:00 a. m.. 3:59 p. m., nearer the Hermiston elementary has been in progress all week with a the measure proposes these distiller Louis Cullen, Don B. Cellers, Vern charge of the boys’ part of the pro- short-handed crew. Additional help and 9:44 p. m. West bound buses school than any other school will reg ister at Hermiston. People living ies to produce industrial alcohol, but E. Daugherty, Fay Lorraine Dodge, gram. is needed in the picking department, will stop in Hermiston at 9:37 a. m., nearer other schools will register at it goes beyond that. It would permit Patricia Mary Ellen Emert, Barbara The first group on the program according to Mr. Flanigan. The 3:17 p. m., and 11:22 p. m. their respective communities. the production of starch, allow the May Follett, Francis E. Foss, Myra wll be Rhythmic Exercises by the first car load will be shipped to Los The revision of schedules was The following three questions are adulteration of gasoline, assist in the Naomi Getchell, Robert B. Grimps, girls’ P. E. classes and 48 girls are Angeles. necessitated by the tremendous answered in order to clarify the sug 7 The pool will be continued May manufacture of synthetic rubber. In Thelma Winifred Holmquist, Charles listed to take part. amount of military travel, and by the ar rationing: the main, however, it would salvage Lee Roy Hale, Raymond E. Hollo- j The Blue Danube will be danced and 8. country’s fast-changing population Each person may have in his pos tons of waste material. man, Elvin E. Harig. distribution picture. by Barbara Connor, Wanda Dunning, session 2 pounds of sugar without Every pulp and paper mill in the Lorene Holling, Albert G. Isensee, Dorothy Jordan and Genevieve Al- having any stamps withdrawn from northwest is pouring into the rivers William E. Jones. Florence Louise spach. his war ration book when it is given and bays a stream of chemicals that Kowitz, Dorothy Ann Knox, Henry to him. Girls from the 3rd period P. E. the management knows can readily Elvin Loudermilk, Marion Eileen Mc You may have in your possession be onverted into industrial alcohol. Girl, Robert L. Miller, James Paul classes will give a demonstration of Initial steps toward the organiza in excess of this an amount up to 4 Several executives of these plants Naughton, Anne Peterson, William Kick Ball. tion of an ambulance corps will be Not only are more houses needed to pounds, but, for each of these 4 Karen Glenisky and Leona Davis have communicated with the senator, Roy Abner Penney. Dorothy J. Pier taken Monday night at 7:30 at the care for the influx of workers in pounds. 1 stamp, which representa 1 recommending that something be done son, Mary Frances Perry, Richard ' will tap dance. The 5th period girls’ U. S. O. building when members of Hermiston but it now looks like if it pound of sugar. will be withdrawn P. E. classes will then give a dem to turn this waste material into Marvin Palmer, Charles Frank Pier- | the Pendleton group will explain the will be necessary to build an addition from your book, so that you will be something wanted for war purposes. son, Emsley W. Rodgers,• Pauline] onstration of setting up exercises, project to those interested locally. to our city jail. Tuesday night sev on the same basis to start as your tumbling and pyramids. There are thousands of tons of fruit Evelyn Ryason, Kay Joyce Ritchie, The plan is sponsored by the Oregon en inebriates were crowded into Her neighbor. One stamp represents 1 either littering the ground or not of Phyllis Mary Sires, Donna Margaret Next on the program is a Shadow Women’s Ambulance Corps and has miston’s newest up-town building. pound of sugar, which is at present marketable size but excellent material Saylor, Olleene Mae Strecker, Elea- | Dance, and following it, is the Sports proven extremely popular in Pendle Although accommodations were not f - the nuking of alcohol. Govern- ! noia Aielgaard Skovbo and Lester Parade. ton under the direction of Capt. all first class, the boarders slept first a two weeks’ supply for an individ- «al. ment owns wheat that can be con-1 Joe Wilcox. The Firefly Dance will be given by George. rate. What must I do about the sugar verted and farmers of Oregon can Members must be 18 years of age various girls from both the combined City Recorder Charles Taylor above this amount which I have on use their surplus for alcohol. With or over. Anyone interested is cor makes a daily trek to the jail to dis girls’ P. E. classes. hand now? a rationing of gasoline in Oregon (it The finale of the program will be dially invited to attend the meeting pose of the cases. You must declare it when you reg- will become nation-wide later) the the coronation of the May Queen Monday evening. (Continued on Page Five) senator says a percentage of alcohol Donna Saylor, as Queen Donna I. mixed with gasoline will stretch the Word has been received from W. Princesses and their escorts are Pat motor fuel. This has been done, but W. Felthouse and W. J. Warner who ty Emert, John Allen; Johanna Cas never on an extensive scale and only left last Saturday for Mayo’s Clinic per, Bob Miller; Phyllis Sires, Charles ir an emergency. Provided the bill in Rochester, Minn. Mrs. Felthouse Ray Critchfield's Hermiston high Hale; Kay Joyce Ritchie, Bernard becomes law and RFC will advance received a telegram from Willard The Hermiston unit of the Ameri- school basebailers lost their final Cullen; Genevieve Alspach, Ray the finances, the next task would be Tuesday that he would undergo a The West End Umatilla County He Homon; Lorene Holling; Don Cel- can Legion Auxiliary is acting as game of the season Tuesday after to obtain neccessary equipment. The serious operation Thursday after- lers; Barbara Follett, Lester Wilcox; hostess at a Mother’s Day tea to be noon when the Pilot Rock team nosed Ministerial association has set the measure is intended to conserve su- noon. Gale Felthouse of Hermiston held on Saturday, May 9, from 2:30 out the Bulldogs in the 10th inning, period from May 26 to June 6 for the Thelma Holmquist and Bill Beard. gar, now being transformed into in and Bill Felthouse of Walla Walla p. m. untili 5 p. m., at the U. S. O. 4 to 2. The affair turned out to be annual Hermiston daily vacation Student body president, Bill Pen dustrial alcohol, by substituting pulp left late Tuesday evening for Roch- a pitcher’s duel with a few bad Bible school. Classes will be held in ney, will escort Queen Donna I and building. waste, grain and fruit. ester to be with their father. All mothers with sons now in the breaks spelling defeat for the locals. the Methodist and Baptist churches will make the coronation speech. Mrs. Warner received word from service of our country, and mothers This was the final contest of the with Rev. C. Warner as the Dean of The additional aluminum capacity Mr. Warner Wednesday stating that Queen Donna I’s little four-year-old of veterans of World War I are cor- season for the Hermiston squad. the School. bearer! brother will be the crown planned for the northwest will be he had registered for examinations dially invited. It is hoped that all Superintendents of the various de produced in eastern Washington and but as yet had undergone no check- Shirley Quiring, daughter of Mr. and eligible mothers in Hermiston and partments are: Intermediate, Rev. S. Quiring, Mrs. Al Quiring, and Sylvia not on the west side of the Cascades ups. The many friends of Mr. Felt surrounding communities will at- E. Graves; Junior, Rev. Graden as had been considered, It is ex house and Mr. Warner are anxious daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leander tend. Loree: Primary. Rev. M. B. Balling- Quiring, will be the flower girls, and plained that for various reasons the ly awaiting news. er: Beginners, not named as yet. pages for the occasion will be Helen most suitable place will be on the Stewart At Pearl Harbor Bill Laas of Hermiston will report Churches represented in the school Albin and Viola Hammer. Columbia river at Grand Coulee dam Word has been received by Mr. and in Walla Walla May 4 for induction are Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal As entertainment for the Queen’s Mrs. Tom Stewart of the Columbia into the U. S. Marines. where there will be ample power to Bill has court, the girls’ P. E. classes will district that their son Tom, is now passed all prior examinations and and Central Church of Christ. reduce clay to aluminum ingots and give a demonstration of the American stationed at Pearl Harbor, scene of selected the marines as his field of these pigs can be sent readily to the fabricating plant now in course of Hermiston merchants have been Flag, at which time an octette under the Japanese attack at the outset of war endeavor. construction near Spokane. His report states that he has vol- very helpful in cooperating with the the direction of G. C. Humphreys the war. Apparently to date he is enjoying his experience. One of the determining influences fire department following an order will sing a patriotic number. unteered for early foreign service. in deciding on Grand Coulee for new last week banishing all trash burn aluminum activities is the scarcity of ing within the fire zone. Fire Chief The 1942 mattress program for steel for towers and copper for trans B. A. Doyle stated Wednesday that Umatilla county opened this week mission lines. Despite the need of the merchants deserved much praise with a two-day leader training school aluminum for airplanes, the priori- for their efforts. at the Columbia hall in Hermiston ties must be observed, and to conserve with Miss Lucy Lane, clothing spe Only in a few instances have in- these metals as much as possible the fractions been reported and it is cialist of Oregon State college, and proposal is to place the plant where hoped that these can be remedied Mrs. Myrtle Carter in charge of con the requirements will be reduced to soon. The general remark by the struction work. Nine leaders attend the minimum. In other words, the business men was, “Well, sir, we are ed this school and will assist in the aluminum plant (or plants) will be rapidly becoming a city when we have making of 177 mattresses and 170 located right at the dam. practically to pay to have our trash hauled away. comforters in the Hermiston center. at the switchboard, instead of 50, 100 But I guess it’s the price you pay for Umatilla county has signed for or 200 miles away where the commu- | growing up.” 730 mattresses and 680 comforters to nities would like to have them. be made by 568 families. The work • * • is a completion of the mattress pro Hunt Awarded Certificate Capacity of the Grand Coulee alu-1 Brattleboro, Vt.—Having proved gram of 1941 which was delayed due minum enterprise is not announced, | himself capable of doing satisfactory to part of the cotton not arriving in S but the war program calls for such a Holstein calf club work, Wilbur Hunt the county. On hand for the work is s tremendous number of airplanes that of Hermiston, has just been warded 39.200 pounds of cotton, 7,300 yards it is expected to equal or exceed the a certificate of merit and has been of ticking and 6,750 yards of percale. production of the Aluminum Compa given junior membership in the Hol- A series of two day training schools will be conducted during May by ny of America at Vancouver, Wash., stein-Friesian Association of Amer which will be turning out 160,000.000 ica, Bratleboro, V’t. He was recom Myrtle Carter, 1 home demonstration pounds a year. This is the largest mended for these awards by the agent, in each of the six centers in the county. Umatilla county centers plant in the Pacific northwest. The State 4-H club leader. All privileges and chairmen in this area are Mrs. proposed plant at Grand Coulee dam of the association except voting have is to be in addition to the aluminum been given to him until he is 21 years H. G. McCulley, Hermiston, and Mrs. Ed Brown. Stanfield. industry soon to be in operation at of age. Spokane and which will use 185,000 kilwatts, the same amount the Bon- George Ray Rack In Jail Charlen Hoggard Pannen Aieay -.eville administration is serving Al George Ray of Hermiston is back Charles Hoggard, long time Stan ia at Vancouver. Defense plant in the county jail following a brief field resident, passed away in The corporation will finance the Grand furlough during the past week, Ap- There’s many a happy smile and cheer from these U. S. soldiers (left) as they look on Australian soil Dalles Tuesday. April 21, after an Coulee project, as it has arranged to parently he could not stay away from from their transport ship. They are now fighting under command of Cenerai MacArthur. Kight: In the lore extended illness Mr. Hoggard was do for the aluminum plant near liquor following his release from the of the sea a "pollywog” (one who hasn't crossed the equator) should be hazed by a shell-back as the ship a merchant in Stanfield for 18 years. Troutdale, which will use 97,500 kil- county jail recently and appeared on passes the imaginary line. No exception was made on this Australian convoy. Here Neptunius Kex and his He is survived by his widow and one court are In ccstumes, officiating. watts. the streets of Hermiston under the brother, William, of Athena. Burial Continued on page 5) influence of intoxicating liquor. was at The Dalles. BACCALAUREATE TO BE MAY 17 ANNUAL P, E. X. TO FEATURE NEW ENTERTAINMENT TEACHERS TO ACT AS CLERKS BUS SCHEDULE TO BE CHANGED TURKEY POOL IN PROGRESS NOW AMBULANCE CORPS PLANNED DRUNKS FILL UP LOCAL CABOOSE MEN REPORT AT MAYO CLINIC MOTHER'S DAY TEA PLANNED ROCKETS WIN IN EXTRA INNINGS VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL PLANNED BILL LAAS JOINS U. S. MARINES CHIEF PRAISES LOCAL FIRMS MATTRESS WORK GETS UNDERWAY Merrily They Sail to Continent ‘Down Under’
