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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Geography of the Future
The geography of the world is changing in so
many important phases that the writers of new text
books will find themselves confronted not only with
mere map making, but with problems of resources,
scientific developments, industrial relations, trade,
transportation, distances, air currents, racial tenden
cies, methods of government, new standards of liv
ing, and even with world wide economic adjust
ments. These, and more enter into the picture of the
future descriptions of the globe.
We will have to know more about the South Sea
Islands, their resources, peoples, and the opportuni
ties for commerce, routes of transportation by sea
and air. We will need to know much more about
Russia, China, Africa, and closer at home the South
American countries, and the Indies. These coun
tries have many things that we need and we will have
much they will need. With a better knowledge of
these countries, their products, methods, and stand
ards of living, through the elimination of great dis
tances through air, our opportunities for expansion
in trade will be almost unlimited. Geographic stud
ies, and also work of the weather bureau service, will
likewise be faced with unlimited demands to meet
the requirements of a new world.
In our old geographies we studied about the Japan
current and the Gulf stream. Now we must know
about air currents and courses overhead from coun
try to country. The airplane will not take the course
around the world but will go over the top, or cross the
sector or axis, rather than the global circles. Every
country is coming nearer and nearer, by short cuts
and speed. Instead of tracing railroads and high
ways and boat lines on the maps, the geographer
must find his lines in the strathosphere.
Our geographers must also locate our naval, air
and commercial bases, and we hope there will be
many in our sphere of influence. We hope, at least,
there will be enough that the coming period of peace
will not be harrassed by wars, and that our influence
will be so benign and powerful that the present day
catastrophe cannot return for us or our millions yet
unborn.
ECHO
NEWS ITEMS
By Mr». W. H. Crary
Word
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1943.
THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON
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was received in Echo Mon
day that Walter Isackson, age 31,
died at his farm home west of Pen-
dleton that morning. It is reported
that he was found dead in bed. pre
sumably from a heart attack, but no
further details were obtained. Mr.
Isackson farmed the Bottger place,
east of Echo, for several years, mov
ing to his present farm last year. He
was married in 1937 to Miss Sophro-
nia Rhea of Stanfield, who survives
him They had no children. A broth
er, Ralph Isackson. was with him on
the farm for a few years but recent
ly has been employed as a welder at
the shipyards in St. Johns.
Mrs. Floyd Mathers underwent a
major operation at a Portland hospi
tal Saturday and Mr. Mathers phoned
relatives here that she came out of
the operation all right after having
been given a blood transfusion. This
is the fourth operation Mrs. Mathers
has had during the past year. Mr-
Mathers is expected home the last of
this week. His school bus is being
driven by Muri Berry during his ab
sence.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Liesegang
have received word from their son,
Harold, that he expects a furlough
from the naval training station at
Farragut, Idaho, so that he can be
home for Thanksgiving. Mrs. Harold
Liesegang and daughter are now with
her parents at Elgin for a week or
two.
Rodney Esselstyn has received in
structions to report for induction in
to the service November 22. He ex
pects to go into the navy. Mrs. Es
selstyn and two children plan to re
main in Pendleton for the duration
and an aunt from Walla Walla will
reside with them. Mr. Esselstyn has
been employed at the Umatilla Ord
nance depot for the past year in a
clerical capacity.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wilson moved
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from the Boggs place in the eastern
part of town to the Joseph Ramos
house on Dupont Street, formerly oc
cupied by the Coopers. Mr. and Mrs.
Hull, who have been living in the
James Heliums house, have moved in
to the Boggs house.
For the first time in many years,
deer are coming down to the lowlands
in this neighborhood to feed. Robert
Hoon, who lives at the White House,
about 5 miles south of Echo, saw a
large buck grazing in a pasture along
the road Thursday morning as he was
driving to town.
There are 206 children between
ages of 4 and 20 in the Echo school
district according to the annual cen
sus recently completed. Boys are in
the majority, 121 being registered, to
85 girls. Ordinarily the count here
shows about an even number of each
sex. The largest number in any one
age group was 20 children age 4.
Fall seeding on the M. E. Meyers
and son ranch east of Echo was com
pleted this week. Mr. Myers says the
weather has not been too favorable
for the work, the rains coming rath
er late and it being so cold lately that
there is danger of the seed failing to
germinate. Most of the farmers in
the district east of town have finished
seeding of winter wheat.
Clyde R. Berry has sold his resi
dence property in the east part of
town, the former E. P. Pearson home,
to Ralph J. Graham of Pendleton. Mr.
Berry, who has resided here for two
years, will move this week end to
Ordnance where he is employed. Mr.
Graham is local signal maintainer on
the Union Pacific. He will move his
family here from Pendleton the last
of this month.
Mrs. C. H. Esselstyn accompanied
Mr. and Mrs. Sloan Thomson to Port
land Thursday and will spend several
days in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Heinbaugh of
Oelrich, South Dakota, arrived Fri
day for a short visit at the home of
Mr. Heinbaugh’s sister, Mrs. M. E.
Larive. The Heinbaughs and Mrs.
Carl Bramson of Belle Fourche, S.
Dakota, a sister of Mrs. Larive, who
been
here
weeks,
planned
visit so as to be
has
Nick Faler is spending a few days
in Boardman visiting friends and at
tending to business. He reports Mrs.
Faler who is in the hospital recover
ing from an operation is improving
rapidly.
Miss Margaret Emmerson has en
rolled in the Boardman high school
this week. She will stay with her
mother, Mrs. Harry Thorpe.
Mrs. Minnie McFarland left Sun
day to attend a regional National
REA convention at Lewiston, Idaho.
By Mr*. Grace Shoun
Mrs. Lu Gannett of Lewiston, Ida.,
left for home after spending two
weeks visiting here.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Obrien and
small son were Hermiston visitors
Monday.
Mrs. Harvey Warner and daugh
ters were Hermiston visitors Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Rucker and
Jo Ann were Pendleton visitors Satur
day.
The Pentecostal church had an all
day meeting and a dinner honoring
Glen Obrien Sunday.
Mrs. Sam Umiker was a Hermiston
visitor Saturday.
The C. W. Grims and Avery Shoun I
visited in Hermiston Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Whipple ar- I
rived home and were chiarvaried here
and he has gone back to his work at 1
the U. O. D.
Mr. and Mrs. Sinice Moore and
children spent Sunday with her people
at Condon.
• Albert Foss of Monument was a
guest of the Sinice Moores Monday,
as was also Mr. Moore’s brothers Mr.
and Mrs. E. Moore of The Dalles.
Mr. and Mrs. Ora Thompson are
spending this week in Portland. He
has a week’s vacation from the Paul
Häberlein shop.'
Mrs. E. M. Browning has been hav
ing her sister from Lewiston as a
quest for the last two weeks. She
Ive’s
Mrs.
Wednesday.
Mrs. Gladys Corrigal of Butter Schneiders were to be Walla Walla
Creek has purchased a residence in visitors Wednesday.
Portland which is just being complet-
ed. Ray Tolar moved her household
goods to Portland Tuesday.
Word has been received by Mr. and
Mrs. B. B. Middleton that their son.
Kieth, who is stationed at an army
camp at Denver, is ill with pneumo
nia. Kieth’s physician at the army
hospital reports that he is now re-
covering satisfactorily.
A regular meeting of the Echo Gar
den club was held at the home of Mrs.
Dorothy Helmick the evening of Nov
ember 17. A pot luck supper was
served.
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The children of Mr. and Mrs. Var
ner Tacy are recovering from chicken
pox.
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By Margaret Thorpe
The Home Economics club met
Tuesday night at the home of Mrs.
Francis Harter. Election of officers
for the coming year were as follows:
chairman, Mrs. Hamilton; vice chair
man, Mrs. Lilly! secretary, Margaret
Thorpe and treasurer, Mrs. Skoubo.
P.T.A. met Thursday night at the
school auditorium with a good crowd
attending. The program was put on
by the 7th and 8th grades in charge
of Laverne Partlow. Pie and coffee
was served in the cafeteria after the
business meeting.
Friday night a group of Grange
members met in the Grange hall for
the purpose of putting cupboard doors
and a sink. Work has been started
in the big hall toward putting in a
new ceiling.
Bible pictures were presented by
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thorpe, Sunday
night at the Grange hall. These will
be held every Sunday night. Due to
the remodeling in the hall the next
meeting will be held at the school
auditorium.
Visitors at the Henry Phelps home
are Mrs. Phelps’ mother. Mrs. Ellen
Hardwick and her sister-in-law. Mrs.
Glen Hardwick of Weldona, Colo.
They plan to stay three or four
months.
Harold Aebischer and Mrs. Emma
Aebischer visited at the Harry Thorpe
home this week. Mrs. Aebischer is
Mrs. Thorpe's mother and Mr. Ae
bischer is a brother.
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residential customers is now almost 20% LESS than
it was in the pre-war year of 1940.
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You never really know the value of adequate automobile
insurance until "after the accident”.
If an accident strikes, your Fanners policy* goes swiftly and
surely to work—assumes your financial loss—protects your
interests.
Safeguard your auto and your
without insurance.
possessions.
Don’t drive
In the 12 months ended September 30, the average
amount we received per kilowatt-hour for residential
electric service was only 2.03 cents, compared with
2.51 cents three years ago.
What else among the things you buy each month
can equal this low-price record?
Our taxes are up, tool
Along with other citizens and self-supporting busi-
ness enterprises, we are paying more and more in
taxes each year, which makes this drop in price
really significant.
Otr 1943 tax bill will amount to about $1,300,000.
More than half of this will go directly to the United
States Government, which needs tax revenue more
urgently today than ever before in our Nation’s
history. Our 1943 taxes will be more than ONE-
THIRD GREATER than they were in 1940, when we
thought $950,374 was quite a chunk of money!
Use electricity wisely, even though ifs cheap
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George Harkenrider
In ordinary times we would wind up this story
by suggesting you go out and buy added electrical
conveniences so you could make even greater use of
our low-cost kilowatt-hours.
But not today! Appliance manufacturers are busy
’round the clock on war orders. Copper, steel, nickel,
rubber and many other things are on the critical list.
Freight cars that used to bring you refrigerators and
ranges are loaded to the guards with vital war goods.
So take good caro of the electrical equipment you
have. Make it last by avoiding wasteful use. Even
though there’s plenty of electricity available for all
essential needs, remember that you can’t waste it
without wasting part of the useful life of your
electrical devices.
BUY WAR BONDS today for the wonderful new
electrical comforts and conveniences you’ll want to
enjoy after victory!
ROY DUNCAN, AGENT
Phone Stanfield 722
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