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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1942
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
The Hermiston Herald
Published Every Thursday at
Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon.
Alfred Quiring and Leander Quiring, Publishers.
Entered at the post office at Hermiston as Second
Class Matter, Dec. 1906, Umatilla County, Oregon.
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PUBLISHERS 4ss QCIATION
A Jig Saw Puzzle
At present writing there is not enough lumber in
Hermiston to build a tent frame. A survey found
about 50 feet of flooring, 100 feet of 2x4’s, six
boards of shiplap, no plywood, some scrap lumber
and heavy planks. Every day a score or more of de
fense workers are hunting shelter, and more are
leaving because sagebrush, trees, and the canopy of
heaven are insufficient protection for hard working
men. Every house within 30 miles is fully occupied,
and men and families are still coming. Only a few
arrive with trailer houses.
The emergency here is the greatest yet. The work
at the Ordnance Depot must go on. The war has no
silver linings, and days and weeks and months are
necessary to prepare our home arsenal of democra
cy for the great struggle ahead. Local effort has
reached its limits without changes of priorities and
help from higher up. What to do, where to turn,
whom to appeal to to secure greater coordination in
this must program, makes a jig saw puzzle no one
seems to be able to solve in the near future. Forces
are at work and doing all they can to bring system
out of chaos, and build strong defense for our Paci
fic warfare, the end of which we know not. We are
inspired by the determination that we will reach the
goal, but the present situation requires all the sound
thinking, loyalty to purpose, and patriotic zeal we
can muster on the home front. Men who work long
hours must have comfortable places to live and take
necessary rest. Families must be cared for or taken
elsewhere, which usually results to the worker going
along. Ours may be only one of the thousands of
problems growing out of the war, but we feel certain
that there is some way to reach the heart of the
thing.
After all, crime always follows the assembling of
large numbers of men. It was so in the frontier and
boom days of the West. Then the vigilantes took
care of the followers in the wake of honest pursuits.
Now good officers do their best to control in an or
derly way, but breakouts occur. In the old mining
camps it was not unusual to have a “man for break-
fast" every morning. Our usually orderly commu
nity is shocked by the few vicious deeds, but these
should be taken as natural consequences. The gab-
fest of those who revel in reading and talking about
crime goes on making hotbeds for more crime, but
the law takes care of the rest without resort to a rope
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BOARDMAN NEWS
Mrs. Margaret Thorpe
Mr. and Mrs. Dillon had a car
wreck while taking Mr. Dillon back
to the hospital Saturday, but no one
was hurt. He returned to his home
Monday and is greatly improved.
Harold and Elmer Tyler spent the
week end at their home.
Nathan Thorpe has rented his
house to Mr. Graham who is working
at the Umatilla Ordnance depot.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Skoubo are
gone this week on a pleasure trip'
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Miller and
children have gone on a fishing trip
to Lost Lake. Mrs. Shannon and
Eldon Lilly are taking care of Mil
ler’s place while they are gone.
Elizabeth Kristensen went to Port
land Saturday for a visit.
Mrs. Selma LaLonde and two child
ren of Hollywood are here for an ex-
tended visit while Mr. LaLonde is in
Ireland working.
Mrs. E. T. Messenger fell and
broke her shoulder Wednesday.
Paul Smith was a Hermiston visi-
tor Friday.
Gladys Wilson went to The Dalles
Wednesday to visit her sister before
returning to her home in Vale.
Leo Root went to Hermiston Fri
day.
Art Allen spent Sunday with his
family.
Eldon Shannon is confined to his
home with the mumps.
Mrs. Ed Barlow and Corma mot
ored to Pendleton Tuesday afternoon.
E. W. Hood went to Hood River
Sunday for a three day business trip.
Mr. Edwards is staying at the
Skoubo place while drilling.
Oroville Carpenter has artesian
water on his farm with a very strong
pressure.
Ralph Skoubo has had word that
he is expected to be called to the ar-
my soon.
A few friends and relatives called
on Mrs. McFarland the evening of
July 22 to help her celebrate her
birthday. Ice cream and cake were
served.
Russell DeMauro spent Saturday
and Sunday at his home. He is work-
ing in the shipyards in Portland.
IRRIGON NEWS ITEMS
By Mrs. C. D. Whitney
George Caldwell, who has been
visiting his brother Fred Caldwell
and other relatives in Umatilla and
Hermiston, returned to his home at
Astoria Thursday.
Mrs. ('. D. Whitney and Mrs. .Jack
Caldwell were hostesses at a birthday
dinner Sunday honoring three gen-
erations
father son and grandson.
Clyde Caldwell, Jack Caldwell and
George Delbert Whitney, whose birth
days all came on the same day. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Whitney, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Caldwell, Clyde Caldwell
and Mrs. Harold Lentz.
The first ripe watermelon of the
season was picked Monday at the
Fredrickson patch.
Mrs. Harold Lentz and Mrs. C. D.
Whitney visited
Stella Rathke
in Umatilla Monday evening.
The Pentecostal Sunday School
class held a picnic and swimming
party at the parsonage Thursday af
ternoon.
Several people attended the carni
val in Hermiston Saturday night.
Jake Rueber suffered lacerations
of the face Saturday while cranking
a tractor at his farm and had to
have several stitches taken.
Clifford Conley and Donna Hoff-
nagle were married at Lewiston, Ida-
ho, July 27.
Mrs. Mamie Stoll, mother of Mrs.
J. F. Murray, returned to her home
at Mojave, Cal., after a two months
visit here and in Washington.
Friends here were grieved to read
of the tragic death of Ruth Ann Win-
ters in Portland July 24. She and
her mother resided here for two
years.
Mrs. W. D. Gudgel of Pendleton
spent the week end here visiting her
husband.
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DANGER OF FIRE
STRESSED AGAIN
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Salem, July 30—Two of Oregon’s I
great resources, her timberland and |
her wheatfields, both of them vitally I
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important to winning the war, today
stand in danger of destruction by j
fire, unless every citiezn of Oregon
joins wholeheartedly into the cam
paign to prevent forest fires along
roadsides, said Dean Johnson, state |
chairman of the Keep Oregon Green
cause a devastating fire in wheat do everything within his power to
campaign.
lands,
and wheat today is needed for see that he does not cause a fire.”
“We have been stressing fire pre
vention in our forests all spring, with a United Nation’s victory.”
“Those of our citizens who take
outstanding results so far,” Chair-
“State highway officials, and many the complaiscent attitude that sabo
nan Johnson pointed out, “but now county officials, are to be commended teurs will not get into out forest and
that our great acreages of wheat in for the program of cutting tall grass farm areas to start fires, had better
eastern Oregon are ripening, they of along roadways,” Johnson continued. look back to mid-June when a Jap
fer a great potential danger zone for “The boys and girls of Oregon have submarine shelled our Oregon shores.
fires. Now. more than ever, we must responded in splendid style by join Anything can happen here,” he em
ask that every citizen become a fire ing in the Green Guard, fire preven- phasized. “It is the better part of
warden.* Flipping of cigarettes from tion campaign, and it is not too much wisdom to be forewarned and fore
cars into dry roadside grass could I for us to ask every adult to likewise armed."
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Misses Viola and Rosalie Hammer
left Friday afternoon by bus for The
Dalles where they were met by Miss
Elma Mullins and Miss Lucy David
son, public health nurses of The
Dalles, who motored with them to
Salem Friday evening. In Salem they
were guests of Miss Bessie Hammer
at the Nurses Home of the state tu
berculosis hospital Friday night.
Saturday morning the four girls,
accompanied by Miss Bessie Hammer,
left for a two weeks vacation journey
through California. They plan to go
as far south as San Diego and will
spend some time at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Neill in Oceanside,
Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Neill are for-
mer residents of Hermiston.
STANFIELD NEWS
By Mrs. Rate Hedrick
Mrs. Florence Black, sister of John
Heckman, was a houseguest of Mrs.
Nathan Bard while visiting here a
week and departed last Friday for
her home in Pennsylvania. She will
stop over to see a sister, Mrs. Emma
Plaster, in South Dakota.
A family reunion was held at the
Oscar Martin home six miles north
east of Stanfield Sunday. Present
were the Bert Challis famly of Pen
dleton, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin
of Vancouver and Mr. and Mrs. Don
Childs and children of Stanfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lawrence and
daughter Betty drove up from Port- |
land for the week end here. Mr. |
Lawrence is a welder at the Oregon
shipyards.
Mrs. Fannie Moffett and Mrs.
Ralph Barber left Sunday night for 1
their homes in Colorado after a visit
with relatives here.
Dale Meyers, youngest son of Mr. |
and Mrs. Lon Meyers, left Saturday
night for San Diego after a short i
furlough with his parents. He ex- ।
pects to be called into foreign ser
vice.
Several from Stanfield attended the
funeral services at Echo Saturday
for Mrs. Edgar Lewis who had been |
ill for some time.
Mrs. Frankie Lane. Mrs. C. C
Rhea, Marie Lane. Mrs. Cecil Curl
Jr. and son Jimmy visited relatives
in Parkdale over the week end.
The Girls Recreation club with 12
present enjoyed a lawn party Friday
afternoon at the home of Betty Jean
Rueber
After a Porky quiz, cro
quet. Chinese checkers, picture puz
zles, the secretary Della Kruse, read
the minutes of the past four or five
meetings. Plans were then made for
a full program for August. Jello
and devil’s food cake and lemonade
was served by Mrs. Jack Rueber and
Miss Irene Rueber
Mr. and Mrs. George Grant and
son George spent several days last
week at Hidaway Springs during
! the hot wave.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wells and
| three sons, after a three months stay
here, motored on to Kelso. Wash..
1 where they expect to find work.
Mrs Viola Loughary and Mrs. Don
I Childs were hostesses in the church
parlors Tuesday evening honoring
Mrs Vernon Waterman (formerly
Odelpha Hoskins), Music was fur
nished by Mrs. Max Pigor. Miss Rose
Hoosier. Alice Hedrick and Bernice
I Hughes.
Leo Rueber. welder from the Ore
gon shipyards, spent Sunday with his
parents. Mr and Mrs. Jake Rueber
Mrs. Jack Reeves and Penny of Her-
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