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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1943. HERMISTON HERALD HERMISTON. OREGON. PAGE THREE it is taken over by Ordnance troops to | service and maintain. .% “With the Ground Forces, the Ord- By Mrt Grace Shoun nance job is a matter of coordinating | when and where the ammunition, in _ Mrs. Lvle Seamen of Sandy and son . .... . . . : Tommy left for home after several proper size and quantities, is to be weeks visiting with her mither, Mrs. picked up. but with the Air Force, ' Emma Steward. much more is required. Bombs, from | The Fred Miller family of Hermis SO WE MUST TAKE CARE OF OUR the small incendiary to the hugh block ton were Irrigon visitors Monday. NON - ASSESSABLE NATION - WIDE The Beck sisters of Hermiston spent buster, are delivered by Ordnance REASONABLE RATES several days with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. PRESENT EQUIPMENT. troops to the planes, where the Air Brown, returning home with their $20,000.00 Liability 80 % Collision Force crews lift and attach them to parents Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Glen O’Brien left for the shackles in the bomb bays of the HOSPITAL AND DOCTOR BILLS PAID FOR ships. Ordnance troops have deliver the Milton-Freewater camp meeting YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS. CHECK that air cleaner regularly. returning Thursday. ed the bombs, with their fins attached Tuesday, The camp meeting at Miltin-Free Let the State Farm Mutual protect your rights and KEEP oil and grease compartments full of good for accuracy, and with nose and tail water finished Friday and all of the pay your doctor and repair bills. We also handle fuzes inserted and made reasonably members from here returned the same clean lubricant. safe for the air crew by the inclusion day except the E. R. Snyders who got Fire and Life Insurance. Ask about our new Triplit home Saturday. of an arming wire. Life Policy The Pentecostal people are having • BE CAREFUL where you drive. “A few words on the fuzes may be a baptismal at the river Sunday. Eula Amis arrived by bus from • CHECK air pressure in tires regularly and keep of interest.” said Col. A. S. Buyers. Redmond Co-op to stay with her sister Mrs. “The contact type of nose fuze, which Gollyhorn and attend the Ir- properly inflated. ART detonates on immediate contact, is Crystal SERVICE rigon school. the most popular. The firing pin, or Mrs. S. • KEEP rubber tires protected from weather when trigger, is kept in a safe position by rigon. Baker is also visiting in Ir- THOMPSON STATION not in use. several cams which are in turn held | Horace Mulkey and Archie Hill of Heppner visited the Dave Steagall by a screw propeller. The arming family Phone 2011 Hermiston Sunday. • PAINT your machines to protect from rust. wire prevents the revolving or un Mrs. Don Kenny and two children screwing of the propeller until the arrived home Saturday night after ship is on the target. Upon dropping an extended visit in Portland. Hazel Steagall is working at Bedwells families were Pendleton vis and children returned Monday from the bomb the arming wire is pulled the Mrs. Elrancho Cafe. itors Monday. a four day vacation at Hidaway out. The bomb starts on its path of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Häberlein visit and Mrs. Robert Long are leav Springs. destruction with fuze propeller whirl ed Grandma Peterson in the Hermis ing Mr. for Jordan Valley, Ore. He is a Gilbert Smith sold his cream sta hospital Sunday afternoon. Pendleton, Oregon U. S. trapper. Phone 518 ing. A few turns and the propeller ton Echo tion and cold storage plant this week Aldrich is very much drops off, the cams fall out and the Mrs. Jas. Shoun and baby daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ray F. Taylor, resi moved down from Walla Walla Sun dents of The Dalles for 35 years. Mr. firing pin is exposed. We all know proved. Miss Ilene Aldrich is a guest of day. The J. A. Shouns moved her Taylor was in the meat business there. the rest of the story. Miss Luella Minnick. She is from here. Mr. Smith will devote his interests to “To insure that the bomb is not a Portland. the Umatilla Ordnance Mrs. Joy Smith and small son is his turkeys. MBS STORED AT commanding Depot said: ‘dud’ there is the additional precau- The H. H. Whipples have word from visiting her husband's parents, the Mr. and Mrs. Claude Townsend an their son Doug who has been in New Sam Smiths. nounce the birth of a baby girl born O.D. ACTIVE ON “Little is heard of the Aviation- tion of a tail fuze. which functions Guinea since December. He is happy Dale Moore had the misfortune to August 16 at their home. This is Ordnance section of every Air Force upon impact, The result has been to be back in Australia. step on a bottle while in the river their second girl. Mrs. Green is as -L WAR FRONTS group. comparatively few duds. The J. A. Shouns have a letter from swimming, almost severing his large sisting with the work. However, the Air Force—like "The machine guns and aircraft their son. T. Corp. Andrew M- Shoun. toe. He walked home from the river Betty Jean Gardner of Portland is the artillery, infantry and every other cannon and their ammunition are also He is stationed somewhere in Eng and it had bled quite freely until it visiting her aunt Alice Maskyline. “On the target” and “Bombs away” line branch—depends on the Ordnance supplied and serviced by Ordnance land. He says the climate and crops was dressed Tuesday. Loren Hughes and Ray McRoberts were in town Sunday resting from re expressions that have become well Department for its weapons and am Field Service troops. The Ordnance are similar to that of Western Wash ington. the wheat harvest. own to almost every man, woman munition. Field Service Depot, which starts this Mrs. C. F. Sparks returned Tues Mr. and Mrs. Walter Isackson and child. But the deadly bombs that “At the ammunition igloos of this ammunition on its way to designated day from the coast. She brought her Marie Evans and Bobby Rhea were By Margaret Thorpe e blasting Axis targets get their and other Ordnance Field Service de targets, is an essential link in the sister. Cecil Stevens, back to spend visitors in Stanfield Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ransier and Mrs. art at depots of the Ordnance De- pots in the United States, the bombs teamwork that makes the victories of a month with her. Her son Alton Ali Fred Thorne is a patient in St. An- món expects to be called to the army Frank Marlow spent Wednesday in thonv’s hospital. Mrs. F. B. Stuart irtment. Army Service Forces, which and their accessories are stored, pack our Air Force possible.” soon. | Heppner on business. is a house guest of Mrs. Thorne while pply the loaded bombs, the fins, ed and shipped to the Air Forces by Charles Markham is to report to A Grange party was held Wednes- he is recovering. ose and tail fuzes. the depot’s civilian workers. When Army Signal Corps equipment in Heppner Thursday to join the armed ! day night in the hall. The evening Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dewing cele was spent playing cards and dancing. brated their daughter Beryl’s birth Discussing Ordnance service to the the ammunition reaches the air fields spection personnel is 40 per cent wom forces. The Ernest Bedwell and Emery Doris Lilly and Hazel Miller spent ir Forces, Colonel A. S. Buyers, in the various theatres of operation. en. day by taking a trip August 16th to Wednesday in Pendleton shopping. the Pasco naval base. Mr .and Mrs. Cecil Hamilton and T. Sgt. Charles Hedrick. Neva family spent Friday in The Dalles on Hedrick. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond At- business. tebury, and Betty Winn were dinner A double shower was held at the guests Sunday evening at the George home of Mrs. Willard Baker Friday Attebury home. Miss Betty Winn and afternoon honoring Mrs. Mabel Bisch Blanche Atteburv were hosts. Mrs. ke and Mrs. Angela Koivisto. A large George Attebury’s condition is im crowd attended and many lovely gifts proving. George returned Monday were received by both guests. from a trip to Wallowa. Mrs. Mabel Allen and Gene re P F. Evans left Monday for Port turned home from Weatherby Satur land to see the dog races and thence day night where they had spent the to Salem to visit his grandson Eddie week. Attebury and family before their Mr. and Mrs. Francis Harter and moving to Klamath Falls where Eddie family returned home from Beaverton is coach and principal. Sunday where they spent the summer. Mrs. Kenneth Nolt came with them HERMISTON METHODIST for an indefinite stay with them. Her CHURCH husband is in the Navy stationed at Walter A. Mac Arthur, Minieter Camp Farragut, Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harwood Chaplain James C. Reichard of the spent the week end in Tacoma. Mrs. Jenkins returned with them for a Pendleton Air Base will deliver the visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Cruzen of Wal- morning sermon at the Methodist la Walla spent Saturday at the Geo. church Sunday. Methodist Youth Fellowship will Daniels home. and meet Sunday night at 7:00. All high Mr. and Mrs. Glen Moore children and Mrs. Hazel Moore and school and intermediate youth asked son left Tuesday for Hartville, Mis- to attend. The Young Adults will souri, where they will visit relatives meet at 8:00. before going to Kansas to work. Mr. and Mrs. George Daniel went Choir practice Thursday night at to Walla Walla Tuesday on business. 7:15. Mr. and Mrs. R. Bischke have moved to the back Berger apartment. NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS Mrs. Bob McLouth and children of Athena came Friday to spend a few days visiting at the Gus McLouth Dogs have raided mv chickens sev home. , en times this year. Shooting them af Russell DeMouro of Camp Farra- ter they have entered the flock has gut. Idaho, spent the week end at not proved effective in preventing home. losses. The law gives me no protec tion from such losses nor any ade- quate means of collecting damage. In the future I am shooting all stray dogs wherever found. If you By Mrt. Rose Hedrick want your dog shot, bring him around. A family reunion was enjoyed at I’ll gladly do the job. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Magnus JOHN G. BENSEL. Hughes last Sunday with a large (Aug. 19) number attending. Mrs. Sheets, a friend from Portland, also was among the guests. and some relatives from Seattle. Guests at the H. L. Hedrick home Saturday and Sunday were Mr. and . : — Mrs. Nathan Medley from Tacoma and two granddaughters Gerry Cole and Gloria Carter. Mrs. Medley had worked steadily at the Boeing factory for two and a half years without one hour of lost time, an enviable record and was sorry they could not operate for possibly three weeks more. Sergeant Bobby Martin is on a fif teen day furlough from a training camp in North Caroline. This is his 020200020102020201020100 second furlough in 17 months enlist- ment. T. Sergeant Charles E. Hedrick is home on a fifteen day furlough from Corvallis airdrome. Jimmy Curl of Pendleton is visit ing this week at the home of Frankie Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Hewitt and children from Milton were here last week end looking for a house to rent. The new principal to serve Stan field high school is Glenn T. Norton Buses are crowded Hotel reservations are of La Grande and the other teachers are not yet chosen. However Mrs. hard co get in some places. We regret this Harmon and Mrs. Emil Zivney will condition, and we are doing uur best to again teach in the upper six grades. handle essential travelers. If your trip is In the primary department, Mrs. essential, call your bus agent, well in ad Bessie Chapin wil teach first grade, vance, advising when and where you are Mrs. Leora Heyden second grade. Mrs. going He will tell you which ere the Fern Kruse third grade. Miss Barba best deys to travel and least crowded ra Woods of Idaho Falls fourth grade, schedules. Travel light and be on time. Mrs. Olive Hendry of Kenmore. Wn., fifth grade, and J. W. Hewitt sixth grade and principal. Fred D. Miller is janitor of the high HERMISTON DRUG CO school and Martha Mollsted of the Phone 2271 grade school. L. Jouannault has been painting and varnishing in the school building, preparatory for the opening September 7th. Mrs. Fred Loughary returned Mon HAT|PFa STONE’S FOOD STORES ire not connected with this sale ia any way union PACIFIC day from a visit with her son Roy who left the camp at Farragut. Idaho, NV eleii and are in no way responsible for any fire sale merchandise 5TRCE5 for radio training school in Chicago, and her son Tommy of Portland will leave for the army August 17. IRRIGON NEWS ITEMS New Machines Are Hard to Obtain State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Braden-Bell Tractor & Equipment Co BOARDMAN NEWS FIRE SALE NOW IN PROGRESS! The Fire Stock of Groceries formerly owned by Stone’s Food Stores Is Now on Sale Some of this stock suffered a smoke and water damage STANFIELD NEWS However a big percentage is still in good usable condition MUST BE CLOSED OUT Entire Stock Immediately JAR LIDS, Mason doz ORANGES . . doz 20c SHORTENING, Fluff lb. TOILET TISSUE 2 rolls 7 The Above Are Just * Few Samples Of Our Bargains! w W/MiiiiiinHiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin^ Aid