COLUMBIA NEWS
By Mn. Bob Woodward
The
4atmiito n
4/^a.’ta.LcL
Jesse Moore, who has been stationed
at the Walla Walla airbase since
November while training in the air
force, visited early last week with the
W. A. Mikesells while en route to
Seattle where he has been trans
ferred. He planned to visit his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Moore.
HERMISTON, UMATÍLLA COUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 11. 1943
VOLUME XXXVI
The Moores are former residents of
this district.
Sgt Keith Hutchison and Mrs.
Hutchison visited here Wednesday of
last week with his grandparents, Mr.
•
Representatives from all stores •
and Mrs. L. W. Douglas, and at the
One of the most important commer
Mac-Hi basketball team will come • and places of service of Echo. •
home of his uncle Baxter Hutchison.
to Hermiston Monday night for the • Stanfield, Hermiston and Uma- • cial club meeting in some months will
They were cn route to Pilot Rock from
first game of the annual sub-district • tilla are urgently requested to be • be held Tuesday, February 16, when
Portland.
playoff
between Milton-Freewater, • present at a meeting at the Her- • a committee will report on various
Mrs. Harold Keller has returned
Pendleton and Hermiston. The Her • miston high school Friday, Feb- • means to obtain revenue for city af
home from the Hermiston hospital
miston Bulldogs travel to Pendleton • ruary 26, at 7:30 p. m. The pur- • fairs. Several methods of raising
much improved in health.
Tuesday night and Pendleton going to • pose of the meeting will be to • money have been discussed, one of
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sowers were
Mac-Hi Wednesday night. These dates • discuss Pricing of Commodities • the most prevalent being a business
houseguests of Mr. and Mrs. Myrnie
You can buy a pair of shoes now-— are tentative but quite probable. Fur • and Services and planning for • tax.
Caldwell from Saturday until Tues
Merchants and business men of
day. Sowers, who is associated with but you must have ration stamp No. ther games, if necessary, will be • Point Rationing soon to go into •
• effect.
•
• Hermiston are urged to attend this
the Sun Transport Company, has 17 of Book No. 1 if you do so. Sale scheduled later.
Advisers from the Portland of- • meeting as a voice from them will
The Bulldogs took an easy 31-20 •
been transferred to Hermiston from of shoes resumed throughout the na
•
fice
of price administration will • have a great deal to do with future
win
over
the
Stanfield
five
on
the
lo
tion Tuesday morning after the Mon
Caldwell, Idaho.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Brown were day "freeze” that accompanied the cal court Tuesday night with Coach • be present to outline the plans • activities. The meeting will be in the
Sunday evening guests at the Cald OPA order limiting purchasers to Lee Weber using 23 men during the • for carrying out the above pro- • form of a luncheon at the U.S.O.
contest. The last half was played al • gram. More information concern- • building at 12:15, with the meal be
three pairs of shoes per year.
well home.
‘
• ing the meeting will be an- • ing served by the Igloo Inn.
W. D. Blackstone of Freewater was
Following is a list of the essential most entirely with second and third
• nounced next week but those in- •
a business visitor and dinner guest at facts the average person should know string performers.
•
terested are urged to keep the •
the Henry Garberding hime Tuesday- | in order to purchase shoes under the
• above date in mind as it is quite •
John McElroy has quit his work at rationing program announced today:
❖ necessary that they attend.
•
the U. O. D. and will be leaving next
Stamp 17 from war ration book one
• o*6* • • * **• • • • • • •
week with a group of selectees from will be needed to purchase a pair of
this area.
shoes from February 9 through June
At a recent board meeting of the
Slightly warmer weather this week
Guests at the Olyn Hodge home on 15. As with sugar and coffee, the
Umatilla Cooperative Creamery, the
took
some
of
the
pressure
off
the
fuel
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Speers stamp must be torn out of the book
organization voted to liquidate the
of Kennewick and Mr. and Mrs. at the time of purchase in the pres dealers and some talk was even heard
loan with the Spokane Bank for Co
around
town
about
spring
gardens
Charles Hodge of Hermiston.
ence of the person selling the shoes
operatives in the sum of $5,895.56.
Residential
fuel
oil
rationing
will
be
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Maffei made or making delivery. If you buy shoes and the like. However, two days still
which was made in July, 1938. This
a business trip to Pendleton Monday. by mail, the stamp can be detached showed a trace of snowfall, Sunday February 15, 16 and 17, at respective clears the creamery of all indebted-
school
houses
in
each
town.
In
Echo
with .23 inch and Monday with .14.
Mrs. R. B. Wilcox drove to Hepp and sent with the mail order.
I ness and members have occasion to
The first part of this week brought the hours of each day will be from
ner last Thursday with her sister Mrs.
Stamp 17 is transferable among
rejoice that the business is free of
2:45
to
5:00
p.
m.
and
from
6:30
to
E. R. Fredrickson and daughter Iris members of a family living in the out the sun.
debt. Also a cash payment will be
8:00
p.
m.
The
Stanfield
registration
The report follows:
who came from Salem to attend the same household and related by blood,
Max. Min. will' be in the afternoons with the made to the members in the near fu
Date
funeral of Mrs. Fredrickson’s niece, marriage, or adoption. For example,
hours to be posted later. The hours in ture, who had an equity in the cream
28
48
February 3 .............
Miss Louise Fredrickson.
fathers or mothers can use their
Hermiston will be from 1:00 to 6:00 ery in 1931.
35
.
49
February
4
Mrs. B. E. Getchell and Mrs. John stamps to provide extra shoes for
These two payouts represent the
p.
m. on each of the three days. Um
51
36
Jendrzejewski were in town Monday their children, if necessary.
bulk of earning for the year 1942,
atilla
registration
will
be
from
4:00
36
...
51
February
6
...........
evening to attend the Service Moth
If a pair of shoes is returned, the
counting the cash dividend paid in
to 8:00 p. m. each day.
35
February 7 ......... ...... ... 49
ers’ club at the U. S. O.
retailer will give the customer not
December. The cooperative reports
Fuel
oil
users
are
asked
to
bring
25
...
46
February
8
..................
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Connor were only a cash refund but a number 17
sales
of $260,000.00 for 1942, accord-
dimensions
of
each
and
every
room
28
February 9 ................... 44
Tuesday evening guests at the Maf stamp and a refund slip. In order to
i ing to Herman Plaas, manager.
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and
closet
and
bring
these
figures
to
fei home.
buy another pair of shoes the custo
The annual meeting of the coopera-
the school. Teachers will help users
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Neill and mer must give up both the stamp and
I tive creamery will be held Saturday,
fill
out
the
necessary
blanks
which
daughter Peggy who have made their the refund slip.
will be left there to be processed and February 20, in the basement of the
home in Southern California the past
If a person needs to buy shoes and
later turned to the local War Price Methodist church.
year have returned to Hermiston. has no stamp 17 in his immediate
and Ration board 85-25-3. The board
Peggy is spending this week with her family which he can use, he may ap
Ensign and Mrs. William Felthouse
will
then mail out the completed fuel
grandparents, the Lester Hammers, ply to his war price and rationing visited relatives and friends in Her
and Mr. and Mrs. Neill are visiting board for a shoe purchase certificate. miston Thursday on a short furlough ration stamps.
Everyone should register even if
his parents near Pine City.
Persons who do not possess war ra from the U. S. Navy. Ensign Felt
Carl Hammer made a business trip tion book one may apply for this book house is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. users have sufficient fuel on hand for
the remainder of the season. Also be
Darvin Webb and Walt Hinkle,
to Seattle last week.
at their war price and rationing Felthouse of this city. He has been sure to bring inventory as of Febru
both Hermiston young men, received
Mrs. Katherine Dirks and children
attending
school
at
Cornell
and
Har
board.
a 90-day jail sentence in the local jus-
of Roseburg are here to spend sever
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vard and is now being transferred to ary 1.
tire of peace court Wednesday after-
al weeks at the home of her parents,
Alameda, California.
Gene Rugg To Leave Sunday
noon as a result of a fight which oc
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rogers.
Ensign Felthouse gave a short talk
Gene Rugg, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
Mrs. Bud Hooker reports that her
before the Hermiston Rotary club at E. Rugg, received notice Thursday curred at the Townsend Pavilion hall
nephew, Forrest Putnam, is now in
its regular luncheon Thursday. His that he must leave- Sunday for Port last Saturday night. The boys plead
North Africa.
visit was very timely as his father land and from there proceed to Seat ed guilty to creating a disturbance.
Both Webb and Hinkle are soon to
A large number of soldiers and ar was head chef for the day, serving a
tle for his physical examination, in
be drafted into the armed forces.
my
personnel
from
nearby
bases
en
chicken
dinner.
IRA WARREN GEER
doctrination and further instructions
Their sentences will be suspended in
joyed a special traveling road show
preliminary to aviation cadet train
Ira Warren Geer was born Novem composed of soldier-entertainers from
case this occurs prior to the expira
ing. It is probable that he will be
ber 21, 1881, near New London, Minn Fort George Wright at the Hermis
tion of their terms.
sent to the Pre-Flight school at Del
esota, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. ton U.S.O. Monday evening. The show
Monte, Cal. Gene has been anxiously
Warren Geer. Ira W. Geer lived in personnel comes from the headquar
waiting for his notice for the past
Minnesota until he was about ten ters of the Second Air Force and is
On Page Three of this week's issue, several months.
years old. At that time he moved making an extended tour of remote
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with his parents to Oregon, near Sa army posts which will cover 16 wes the Thompson Drug Store is featur
ing a Rexall sale for the month of
S. A. Anderton Visits Here
lem.
tern states.
February. Mr. Thompson has recent
S. A. Anderson, former Hermiston
On November 15, 1905. he was uni
Established at the request of Maj.
ted in marriage with Edith Carter, Gen. Robert Olds, the seven-man show ly received a large shipment of Rex tinsmith who has worked for the past
To better and more efficiently move
six months in the Kaiser shipyards
Mr. and Mrs. Geer moved to Wheeler presented 90 minutes of song, dance all products.
the ever-increasing production of es
Included in Mr. Thompson's adver- in‘Portland, arrived here Saturday
County about 1918, and in 1928 came and variety of entertainment. Dubbed
sential war materials and supplies,
to Hermiston where they have resided the “Wing-Dingers”, the group of tisemetn is a schedule of rationing afternoon for a short visit with the Union Pacific is voluntarily re
and other important dates. He sug friends and also to attend to business
ever since.
ducing the speed of its regular pas
former professionals staged an enter
Mr. Geer has been ill for several tainment that kept a packed house in gests that readers clip the item for I matters. He returned to his work senger trains by lengthening sched
I Wednesday.
months. About two weeks ago he was stitches much of the time- Featured future reference.
ules.
taken to the hospital in Pendleton, in the show were Buddy Lake, master
Therefore, effective February 15th.
and on Friday morning, February of ceremony; Buddy Lewis, song and
Union Pacific's train for Pendleton
YOUR PRIVILEGE
5th, he passed on into the eternal.
and Spokane will leave Hermiston at
dance artist; Jim Hall and his Ham
He leaves to mourn his passing his mond electric organ: Max Artis, tap
10:13 p. m., instead of 1:33 a. m.,
,4,4320.
widow, Mrs. Edith Geer: the follow dancer, and the four “of beats”, com
connecting at Pendleton with the
ing children: Mrs. Hazel Shown. posed of Gordon Munro, drums, Wil
Portland Rose for the east. “The
Charles Geer, Robert Geer, Mrs. Vel- liam Whipple, trumpet, Norman Ed-
Rose” will leave Pendleton at 12:15
da Sisson, and Alice Geer, all of Her
a. m., instead of 3:20 a. m.. with ar
land, sax. and Hall.
miston, Mrs. Helen Wilkes, Portland.
rivals in the east approximately as
Mayor F. C. McKenzie made a short
Mrs. Ruby May, Medford, Jack Geer, talk, welcoming the boys to this com
now, namely Salt Lake City 11:30 p.
Portland, Max Geer in the navy, and munity and offered the cooperation
m.. Denver 1 00 p. m., Kansas City
James Geer, missing in action: eight and good will of Hermiston to all
7 55 a. m„ Omaha 8 40 p.m., Chica
een grandchildren; one sister, Mrs- soldiers in this area. He stated,
go 8:30 a m. Westbounl, the "Rose"
George Burkhart of Prineville.
will arrive at Pendleton at 12:45 a.
“Most of us have boys of our own in
m.. and connection to Hermiston will
the service, and we want to treat you
leave
Pendleton at 1:25 a. m. and ar
like we would like to have our boys
rive in Hermiston at 2:36 a. m.
treated wherever they may be sta
The “Pacific Limited” also for the
tioned.”
east will leave Pendleton at 3:30 p.
m., instead of 4:35 p. m., with little
The regular annual meeting of
Beef Club To Reorganize
change in arrivals at eastern termi
members of the Inland Cooperative
nals.
The 4-H Beef club, which had a
will be held Saturday, February 27,
There will be no change in present
very
successful
year
in
1942,
will
in the basement of the Methodist
schedules of transcontinental stream
again
re-organize
this
week.
This
church. Manager Guy Shaw will pre
liners “City of Portland”, “City of
sent the business of the year as well club, led by Roy Attebury of Echo,
Los Angeles” and "City of San Fran
has
now
completed
two
years
of
work
as other matters pertaining to the co-
cisco
”.
with
100
per
cent
of
the
members
operative.
J. C. Cumming, general passenger
Members are urged to keep the completing their projects. This year
agent of the Union Pacific, in dis
date in mind with more information there are now 14 steers on feed by the
cussing these changes, said "We found
members.
In
addition
to
this
three
of
concerning the meeting to be an
it impossible to get our regular pas
the members have registered heifers
nounced next week.
senger trains through on time be
and two of the members have grade
cause of the ever-increasing number
heifers.
Hospital Entertain» Senior Girl»
- e =
of extra war trains, passenger and
freight, which must have preferred
Several members of the nursing
Odd Fellow» To Meet
corps of St. Anthony's hospital of
attention.” Continuing Mr. Cumming
Pendleton were in Hermiston Thurs
said, "The only alternative was to
An important meeting of the Her
day morning to talk to the senior girls miston Odd Fellows lodge will be
lengthen the schedules. I am sure
of the high school. The purpose of held Monday evening in the local hall.
civilians who find it necessary to tra
their excursion will be to interest Several matters of importance will be
vel will willingly adjust themselves to
some of the girls in a career of nurs discusesd and it is quite necessary
these slightly longer schedules during
ing.
the duration.”
that all members be present.
OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER
SHOE RATIONING
ORDER RECEIVED
HERE BY LOCAL FIRMS
••••**********• IMPORTANT MEET
• •
NOTICE!
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• ♦ IS SCHEDULED
SUB-DISTRICT
PLAY SLATED
THREE PAIRS ARE
ALLOWED YEARLY
CREAMERY PAYS
INDEBTEDNESS
WEATHER MAN IS
MORE POPULAR
OIL RATIONING
SET NEXT WEEK
FELTHOUSE HERE
ON FURLOUGH
YOUNG MEN GET
STIFF SENTENCE
SOLDIERS' SHOW
PLEASES HERE
THOMPSON HAS
REXALL SALE
CHANGES IN U. P.
TRAIN SERVICE
EFFECTIVE FEB. 15
TOWIN’
10%
INLAND CO-OP TO
HOLD MEETING
OF YOUR INCOME IN
WAR
BONDS
NUMBER 26
COMMITTEES FOR
CITY COUNCIL ARE
NAMED BY MAYOR
ROHRMAN IS NEW
GROUP MEMRER
A. F. Rohrman, owner of the Rohr
man Motor Co. here, this week was
appointed to the city council to re
place A. M. Thrasher who declined to
accept the position due to numerous
other duties. Mr. Rohrman has ac
cepted the appointment which was
confirmed by the city council.
Committees have been named by
Mayor F. C. McKenzie as follows:
Streets and lights, W. W. Felthouse,
George Harkenrider and Jim Pear
son; Sewer, Harkenrider, Pearson
and Rohrman; City water, Harkenri-
der, Al Quiring and Felthouse: Irri
gation, Rohrman. Pearson, Quiring:
Police, Felthouse, Pearson, Quiring:
Ways and means. Quiring, Dr. W. L.
Morgan, Pearson; Audit and fire,
Pearson, Morgan, Rohrman; Cemete
ry. Morgan, Rohrman, Harkenrider;
Park and U.S.O., Harkenrider, Har
old Rankin and Thrasher.
The council has also named a
planning commission to aid in civic
management.
The members are
Thrasher, Harkenrider, Lee Quiring,
Curtis Simons,
Pearson, Harold
Thompson and Lloyd Moore.
The following department heads
have also been named: City attorney,
W. J. Warner; Chief of Police, B. J.
Nation; Health Officer. , Dr. F. B-
Belt: Fire Chief, O. C. Pierce; Lib
rary Board representative of the
council, Al Quiring. N. R. Mueller
and Mrs. Margaret Fraser were re-
appointed to the library board which
consists of two more members, Mrs.
Audra White, president, and Mrs.
Hattie Hamm, secretary-treasurer.
VICTORY BOOK
CAMPAIGN ON
Mrs. Roy Tiller, chairman of the
Victory book campaign in this area,
this week launched an active cam
paign to gather as many books as
possible for the boys in the service.
The purpose of the victory book cam
paign is to provide books—good
books, both as to physical condition
and readability—for the increasing
millions of our fighting men, soldiers,
sailors, marines, coast guardsmen,
merchant seamen, wherever they may
be.
"Any book you really want to keep
is a good one to give.” Remember,
the fighting man of today is still
your neighbor of yesterday and to-
morrow. He likes to read the same
books that every American, man or
woman, likes to read. Specifically,
current best sellers and the more re
cently published (1930 to date) popu
lar fiction and non-fiction; adventure
and western, detective and mystery
fiction; technical books published
since 1935.
A number of local organizations are
purchasing one or more new books for
the collection. Boxes have been
placed in various stores, at the Ration
Board headquarters and at the libra
ry. Cooperation in this another war
effort will be greatly appreciated.
ROBERT PIERSON
HOME ON VISIT
Second Lieutenant Robert Pierson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Pierson,
came last week end to spend several
days in Hermiston with his parents
and friends. Bob received his wings
on November 25, 1942. at Roswell,
New Mexico, and since then has been
stationed at Topeka. Kansas, where
he has been undergoing special train
ing for combat duty. Bob Follett,'
son of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Follett, al
so received his wings at Roswell.
Second Lt. Pierson has averaged
12 hours in the air for the past sev
eral months, weather permitting, and
has filled the position of co-pilot. He
expects an over-seas assignment im
mediately upon his return to Topeka,
probably going to either England or
Australia. He left for his post to
day (Thursday).
Among Hermiston youths who are
now sporting wings in the air corps
include: Bob Pierson, Ted Ripley,
Ralph Marble. Bernard Jendrzejew
ski and probably one or two others.
Sub-District Tournament - Mac. Hi vs. Hermiston. Monday Night - H: S. Gym