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PAGE FOUR THURSDAY. AUGUST 6, 1942. THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON. TO THE EDITOR- Half of Population Live in 140 Cities Hermiston, Oregon The Hermiston Herald Published Every Thursday at Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon. Alfred Quiring and Leander Quiring, Publishers. August 1. 1942 • Dear citizens, Something extraordinary, some- | thing delightful to see, and something Hermiston should be very proud of : occured Friday ' evening. True, there I was no band, i no queen or mayor to bring the people out or to arouse their enthusiasm. But there was the American flag. Co. E 22nd Battalion | and the Women’s Ambulance Corp on parade. This alone should be enough to ar- rouse our people into shouts and cheers, and the men to at least take their hats off in the presence of our flag. My what a stirring sight to see— especially when its our home boys and girls, drilling, training, and learning so they can be at our service in case the Japs come. Are the citizens of Hermiston and vicinity worthy of such service? Ab solutely not if we don’t get war mind ed and get behind all our boys and girls, and organizations that are working to win this war. Come on, Hermiston, let’s show them we are proud of our active war workers. Signed. DORIS SPENCER. Entered at the post office at Hermiston as Second Class Matter, Dec. 1906, Umatilla County, Oregon. Subscription Rates $2.00 One Year.................................. Six Months .............................. 1.00 .50 Three Months .......................... Payable in Advance Office Telephone 2051 Residence Telephone .............. 2333 Member do® NEWSAAP HERS ASSOC Fighting the Home Battle. Our local arsenal of democracy is calling for men, and they are coming in group after group. Trucks are rolling in loaded with household goods but with no place to get under a roof. Now and then a trailer house arrives, but otherwise no shelter appears in the making. In Portland and Vancouver the same situation is likened to “another Hermiston”, and in Seattle the order has gone out to list up 100,000 local women to work in shipyards and airplane plants be cause there is no place to house men imported from other places. General Stilwell in China says that we are taking a “hell of a beating”, and his cryptic phrase might be applied to our home war efforts. We know that we have “not begun to fight”, but we see on every hand that it is high time that we do begin to fight, with an all out program. Buying bonds will not win the war without higher degree of organization, not only in government and on battle fronts, but right at home where the bases of war must be built and sustained. Fortune magazine lists many phases where we have failed. With Coral Sea and Midway only to our high credit, we are striking only in a few places and are yet on the defense. Our own home part is only a sample. We see that with our own eyes and know that if things are going elsewhere as here we are still taking a bad beating. There are rumors of more houses, but we need them this minute. Wc knew that we would need them months ago. It will take weeks and months to reach any sort of requirement. Our only recourse is to go tenting on the old camp grounds. Car loads of shiplap and 2x4’s and nails and tents should be shipped in, and we suggest that every citizen who has the money or credit, set up a tent frame and buy a tent, and arrange sanitary conditions for defense workers. Such help can be arranged to help the new arrivals into temporary quarters in order that the work can proceed as rapidly as possible. Those in authority should go to the higher ups with a cry of our immediate needs for temporary housing and per- manent houses. Priorities should be eliminated in this defense area, and every personal or selfish in- tf rest should be overwhelmed with patriotic devo tion. Passing the buck up or down the line, and red tape and lackadaisical authority should be sunk in the bottom of the Pacific, or we will find ourselves beneath the cold waves of defeat. COLUMBIA NEWS BINOCULARS IN NEED BY NAVY x50. No other makes or sizes are ac- ceptable, the announcement said, due to the fact that parts must be inter- The navy has received only about half the number of binoculars need ed, it was announced today by the Thirteenth Naval District with re gard to the present campaign to Rut these bi- tain changeable. The binoculars should be tagged with the name and address of the owner, then carefully wrapped and mailed to the Na cal Observatory, Washington. D. C. The donor will noculars must be one of two makes. receive a check for $1.00 and the bi- Zeiss or Bausch and Lomb, and they noculars. if still in use at the end of must be in only two sizes. 6x30 or 7 the war, will be returned. Out of Sight Out of Mind! Your fire insurance policy which must shield you from financial loss if your pro perty is destroyed, represents security and peace of mind provided it adequately cov ers the property it is intended to insure. Let us make an analysis of your individual requirements and check them against the protection you already have........................ : : FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HERMISTON F B SWAYZE, President Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation qocccccc*cccccccccccccccccc200000000004 HI WASHINGTON. — More than 47 per cent of all the people in the United States live in its 140 metro- politan districts, in the outlying parts of which the population in- crease is more marked than in the central cities, according to final re turns of the census. On April 1 there were in the metropolitan districts 62,963,773 per sons, This was a growth in ten years of 5,462,908, or 9.3 per cent, There was an increase of 2,452,728, or 6.1 per cent in the central cities, and of 2,910,180, or 16.9 per cent, for the outside cities of these dis tricts. The population within the central cities was 42,796,170 and outside, 20,169,603. The latter number, which represents residents of adjacent smaller incorporated places and un incorporated areas, comprising 32 per cent of the total number of persons living in metropolitan dis- tricts. The 133 metropolitan districts showed an increase of 4,740,887, or 8.2 per cent, during the last ten years, as compared with a total population increase of 7.2 per cent for the whole country. During the ten-year period there was a 7.2 per cent increase in the population of the metropolitan dis trict, which includes New York and northeastern New Jersey, where the number of residents rose from 10,- 901,494 in 1930 to a 1940 total of 11,690,520, with a 6.2 per cent in crease for the centrai, as against 10 per cent for the outside central cities. Between 1930 and 1940 the popu lation of the central cities for the 133 districts increased 2,007,554, or 5 per cent, and that of the outer district areas 2,733,333, or 15.5 per cent. By Mrs. Bob Woodward There will be a meeting on Wed- nesday, August 19 at 1:30 p. m. i at Columbia club house to begin work on the Red Cross Community Loan Closet Supplies. The purpose of this project is to collect home nursing supplies such as bedpans, ice caps, sheets, blankets, thermometers, wheel chairs, etc., so that when sudden sick ness comes to the homes of any mem bers of our community these supplies are available to be loaned. A closet has been constructed by A. H. Cable and H. G. McCulley and it is now up to the ladies of Hermiston and sur rounding districts to fill it with sup Typical Sailor Has Blue plies. For further information con Eyes and Is 23 Years Old cerning this project see Mrs. John NORFOLK. V.A. — Officials of the Jendrzejewski, Columbia district, or M rs. Sam Moore Hermiston. Mrs. fifth naval district reveal that the received a dona- typical American sailor has a high tion of ten dollars toward the financ school education, is unmarried and ing of the closet from the Home Eco is 23 years old. nomics club of the Columbia Grange. He prefers playing baseball to any Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Parsons were other sport and is one of the first surprised last Wednesday to receive to be found enrolling in the various a call from The Dalles from his bro specialist schools. ther. Don Parsons, who was there on He has blue eyes, brown hair and a short furlough from his ship, the is of medium build, He weighs 168 destroyer which saw active pounds, stands five feet ten in his duty in the Macassar Straits battle. stocking feet, is particular to wear On Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Glenn | Parsons and daughter Glenda accom his uniform according to regula panied by Ray Parsons and his fath- I tions, and drinks coffee by the pot. er Bert Parsons and Miss Goldie O’-1 And, when he has done his hitch, Brien drove to The Dalles to spend I usually goes back to his home town, the week end with Don, who returned applies the trade he has learned, to duty Monday morning. The party I settles down, marries and forgets returned home Sunday night. about the sea—except on occasions. Mrs. Amanda Shaver is spending He also loves a fight. Since the two weeks at the home of her son, war has broken out, the typical Lester Shaver, at Kamela. American sailor has shown more Mrs. John Jendrzejewski reports impatience to "get at them guys” that her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. than his brothers from other sec and Mrs. Jud Welter, who formerly tions, which doesn’t mean that he is made their home at La Grande, have gone to Clarkston, Wn., where he has any more loyal but has a harder been assigned to the army air corps time controlling his hot blood. They are the pride of the navy, to be trained as an instructor. Saturday dinner guests at the Les these typical American sailors, say ter Hammer home were Mr. and Mrs. officials. Ward Hale and family of Stanfield. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Harr have Canadian Foresters Find been spending a ten day vacation I here from Portland where he is en-¡ Dead Scottish Chieftain gaged in electrical work. They are SOMEWHERE IN SCOTLAND — former residents of this district. A company of the Canadian forestry Myrnie Caldell made a trip to corps, building a road into a wood, Ukiah last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry . Garberding uncovered a large box, made of combined business and pleasure on a thick stone ingeniously dovetailed at week end trip to Ellensburg where the joints. A lieutenant opened the they were guests at the E. L. Church box and found a skeleton, knees home and attended the wedding of drawn up to the chest and arms Mrs. Church’s niece. They returned folded home Monday evening. Police were notified and the Scot Gloria Hammer visited Wednesday tish equivalent to an inquest was at the Ward Hale home in Stanfield. held Anthropologists and paleonto- Beverly Jo Woodward is spending logists hurried from Edinburgh. A a vacation of several weeks at the small vase and several other sou ranch home of her aunt, Mrs. W. H. venirs were eagerly seized upon by Instone at Lena. Mr. and Mrs. Bob the scientists. Woodward and Carolyn visited at the At the inquest the scientists ‘tes- ranch Sunday and son Dale, who has been vacationing there the past month titled the man had been dead since about 1500 B C. The skeleton, re- returned home with them. Mr. and Mrs. Myrnie Caldwell ported t<> be that of a chief in the made a business trip to Pendleton war council of his day, was turned Tuesday and Mrs. Caldwell visited over to the University of Edinburgh. Mrs. Elton Grant and infant son at St. Anthony's hospital. Nightmare Job in Puerto Mrs. A. H. Cable and daughter Doreen and Mrs. W. A. Mikesell were Rico Completed by Navy in Walla Walla Monday. SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.— Miss Ethel Bruce, public health Completion of the air and naval base nurse, and Mrs. Hughes, chairman on Isla Grande, an engineers' of the Pendleton Home Loan Closet dream which often was a night- were in this district Tuesday on business concerning the establishing mare, was announced by the navy, The base was built on mangrove of the closet here. swamps, some portions of which were 28 feet under water, The tract FRENCH OPTICAL CO. now has been converted into solid land with an area of about 300 acres Walla Walla. Wash. making it "probably the most com píete and modern naval air base under the American flag.” the navy said. Designed originally to cost $9,000,- 000, the base was expanded during construction until it finally cost $30,. 000.000. à No Obligation - Phone Today Suburbs Show Bin Guins Census Figures. Office at Residence. 828 Washington St. Drive East on Alder to City Park, turn South on Division S, 1 block. We do our own grinding. Phone 2066 Dr. A. D. French Paths of Two Marines Cross for Second Time MACON, GA.—It was on De cember 17, 1933, that James C. McRae of Atlanta and Ferrell L. Dunn of Canton. Ga., enlisted in the marines here. The two men. previously stran gers, served two years together. Dunn recently walked into the same recruiting station here to sign up. He found McRae signing. JOHN DEERE Here s an entirely new type of two-way plow that will give you big capacity, easier operation, easier adjustment, and better work than ever before- the new John wheels Deere operate No. 32 on Two-Way Tractor Plow Both the land to serve as Eoueawheels. for the Plow and to keep the plow level at all times—even when opening lands It’s new in design—new in features you'll like. See it check its many fine features at our store You’ll new Deere No. 32 two-furrow Two “ ay Tractor Plow on your farm want a John this year.' ° BRADEN-BELL TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT CO. Pendleton RUGG ENTERS CADET TRAINING A former Hermiston high school athletic, , Gene Rugg, 20, has decided to turn his competitive spirit to the greatest : contest of all time—the war. He has enlisted as a United States naval aviation : cadet, information from the office of Commander Bert H. Creighton, senior member of the Naval Aviation Cadet selection board for the Thirteenth Naval district, disclosed today. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ar chie E. Rugg. The prospective naval flyer was graduated from high school with the class of '41. He earned four letters in basketball, three in foot- ball, one in tennis, and one in base- ball while he was in high school. He will join hundreds of other young men from the west to take his flight training. His first assignment will be to St. Mary’s College in Mor- aga. Cal., where he will be instructed Phone 518 I in subjects vital to aviation and where he will take part in the physical de- velopment program. From there he Í will go to naval aviation bases for his flight and ground training. Upon completion of the course which is open to all qualified high school grad uates between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, he will receive a com mission as an Ensign in the Navy or a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. 1OO FAT LADIES LOSE 14 to 20 LBS. In a clinical test just completed under the direction of Dr. C. E. Von Hoover, 100 over-weight persons lost an average of 20 pounds each in the thirty days between Jan uary 2nd and February 2nd 1942. One regis tered Nurse lost 29 pounds, and a Dietitian 30 pounds in the thirty days. All of these people used the new Ayd* vitamin candy re ducing plan, which costs only $2.25 for a thirty-day supply, or $1.25 for a trial box, and is guaranteed to be absolutely pure and t > contain no laxatives or drugs and to require no exercise. Tear this ad out or just phone THOMPSON DRUG STORE Hermiston, Oregon You Can Help Make Telephone Service Meet Demands oí War By keepin/i conversations HRIEF. Ry being sure of your number before you rail. Rs using ¡Atne Ristanre for essential messages OyLY. Ry using station-to-station service wherever possible for toll calls. Your cooperation will aid in this national emergency be- cause the demands of war have loaded our long distance linea and many of our local facilities to capacity and beyond. Materials required to increase circuits and switchboards cannot be obtained—they must go into the making of weapons and munitions. It is not now possible to build more plant. Therefore, we all are confronted with the necessity of getting the most out of what we have. In following the above suggestions, you can save yourself túne and expense and vou will help us keep the way clear for ¡Far Xfeuatet That Must Go Through. We appreciate your splendid response in helping to meet these problems which involvethe safety and security of us all.
