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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.
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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.
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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.
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Suburbs Show Bin Guins
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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.
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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
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thirty-day supply, or $1.25 for a trial box,
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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.