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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON. OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 1944. PAGE THREE ents, Mr. and Mrs. J- F. Meade, Evans lives. Death was due to cancer. 2 Christmas week, and also her hus He was nearly 70 years old and had farmed many years on the project un band. Joe Waterman. Mrs. George Elliott entertained til a year ago when his health began about eight friends at cards on New to fail. Hospital patients from Stanfield at Year’s eve at her home. “Anywhere for Hire” Mrs. Mac Leonard of Prosser spent Ordnance are John Runion, Fred Loughlin and Jack Lewis, the latter the double holiday with friends here. — LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE HAULING — Mrs. Frances Courteau, daughter of two with flu. Mrs. Meredith Ford, who has been Mr. and Mrs. George Sale, after ten Pick-up and Delivery Service for Consoli UNION STOVE OIL — UNION BURNER OILS days visit here with her parents, left employed at the hospital, is home for a week having taken ill with the flu. Monday for New York for training in dated Freightways, Inland Motor Freight, CALL 2751 FOR PORMPT DELIVERY Other victims of flu are C. Tillory, the Waves. Sunrise Trail, U. P. R. R. Co., and Railway Mrs. Ernest Greathouse, Mrs. Vern Sgt. George Sale of Oakland, Cal-, is here on a fifteen day leave and en Gabriel, Roy Taylor, and others. George Harkenrider Hermiston, Oregon Express - - Phone 2021, Hermiston The Ladies Aid met this week at joying home folks. Mrs. C. E. Fisk and son Capt. the home of Mrs. Rose Hedrick for a "Jiggs" Fisk visited Adarene Fisk missionary program. The Stanfield-Echo unit members and other relatives in Portland this machine guns on fighter and bomber An enjoyable New Year’s Eve par last week. Capt. Fisk will report to will attend the meeting at 8 p. m. at the Echo city hall on November 7, a ty was held at the home of Mr. and his division in New York. planes is now a routine Ordnance meeting in which Alfred Cunha ad Mrs- Roy Duncan where 20 persons Mayor Bruce Baker will return to chore. By Mrs. Grace Shoun Bn Mm. Rose Rnàrith partook of the festive goose and all his hospital base at Alexandria, La. dresses them on Women and the Law, and will answer questions. the trimmings. Mr. and Mrs. George Winch and Much of the driving fury behind Among the Hermiston visitors Mon Miss Berniece Hughes and Loren The Grange card party on Decem sons have moved to Pendleton and day from Irrigon were the Floyd Pro- these pioneer achievements comes Hughes returned Sunday night from Stanfield-Eeho Unit To Meet vanchos. Mrs. Suddarth, Elden Fra from such young Aviation-Ordnance a few days visit at the Curtis home ber 30 only drew a small crowd but a their new home here was purchased large party is planned 'for the near by Oscar Christiansen and he has zier and the J. A. Shouns. near The Dalles. future. Mesdames Herrick and Atte- moved his family there. The Stanfield-Echo Home Exten Johnny Sweringen, electrician 2nd officers as Major Walker, a Lehigh Miss Rose Hoosier of the Heppner Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dennis were sion unit will meet for a combined class of the Seabees, went back to his graduate and former locomotive sales school spent Christmas week here with bury served sandwiches and coffee to business visitors in Pendleton Tues meeting with the Echo Farm Bureau, station at Gulfport, Miss., after a man, who did heart-breaking evacua her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. about 24 present. short leave at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sloan and Mr. day. Mrs. Dennis took in a lot of Red Hoosier and at the Edgar Hoosier Friday evening. January 7th, at Ec the J. O. Sweringens, and her mother, tion work in the Philippines and Ja and Mrs. Glenn Jackson and little Cross garments completed. home in Pendleton. va. They, like MacArthur and his ho. announces Myrtle Carter, Home Mrs. Foster of Hermiston. Mrs. C. C. Rhea left Sunday for a Jerry enjoyed the festive goose at Mr. and Mrs. Jake Rueber enter Mr. Kines of Nebraska is leaving hard-fisted staff, are willing to try few days visit with relatives in Park- their New Year’s dinner at the Sloan tained Mr. and Mrs. Herman Cordes Demonstration Agent. Alfred Cunha, dale. Mrs. Don Childs is driving the home. from Pendleton Field on New Year's Pendleton attorney, will present the for his home after spending several out any idea that might conceivably mail route for her. Miss Eleanor Seaman has returned day. discussion on “Women and the Law,” weeks with his daughters, Mrs. Don speed up the return journey to the Mrs. Mabel Richards resumed her from a visit at Nampa, Idaho. Word was received here by F. A. featuring womens’ rights under the Kenny, Mrs. Billie Coulter and Mrs. Philippines—and Tokyo. Frank French. work at the postoffice January 1 af Mrs. Nancy Waterman and Evelyn Baker of the death of Louis Crist at D. C. Graybeal of Portland was ter a month’s absence. Waterman of Boise visited her par Yakima where his daughter, Mrs. Oregon law. calling on the Irrigon merchants and visiting his mother, Grandma Gray beal. Miss Paula and Dolores Häberlein WM. LINDNER left Monday, Paula to go back to Ma rylhurst college and Dolores goes on to her work in California. The Jack Hinkleys have moved to Umatilla. They have been living in the Markham house. Barney Endrice, a Seabee in the Navy, is stationed in North Carolina, according to his cousin, Mrs. Ruth 1:00 P. M. Umiker. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bedwell and One Mile West and One Mile South small daughter left for Ontario Tues of Hermiston on Butter Creek day. He will preach in the Pentecos Highway. tal church there. Frank Fredrickson is moving from I have sold my ranch and will sell Irrigon to his place near Stanfield. at Public Auction to highest bidder Mr. Griffin is working on the Stephen well after a few days rest. The Jack Brownings went up to 1 Matched Team Work Horses Walla Walla Sunday. They brought Set Heavy Harness Robert Waters, who has been in the Walla Walla General hospital and 8 Full Blooded Duroc Jersey Brood was operated on last Tuesday. Sows Miss Joan Tade is quitting at the 1 Full Blooded Duroc Jersey Boar, Umatilla Ordnance depot until after 7 months old she finishes high school. The W. C. Isoms have sold their 45 i New Hampshire Red Pullets, Yes. Keep your eyes on Stone’s Food Stores during 1944. You’ll see the place in Umatilla and have bought the now laying about 60% greatest food value parade in Stone’s history . . . and you’ll find greater se Zee Tissue Watkins place below Irrigon. The Camay Toilet Soap lection of all other types of foods—greater than you’ll find at any other 75 Sacks Netted Gem Potatoes Embrees have been living on this Economical stores. Compare and see! 13 Tons First Cuttng Alfalfa place. ______ ______ Cakes ....... Rolls........... ..... 12 Tons Second Cutting Alfalfa 1 Stack Straw 100 Bushels of Clean Feed Wheat 1 Mower, guaranteed (new 1941) Comfort Tissue Large Grade A’s in Carton. Duz Washing Powder 1 Hay Rake. 10-ft. Mc.-Deering The Finest 1 Hay Stacker Reg. Pkg. 1 Two-Horse Fresno Rolls ........... in the critical days, when Jap 1 Iron Wheel Wagon and Rack troops were driving across the Owen 1 16-in. Walking Plow Stanley ranges on Port Moresby, Gen 16 Points—Inland Valley Tender Garden. Two-Section Springtooth Harrow eral Douglas MacArthur told Lt. Gen. In good condition. Wesson Oil George C. Kenney, the short, peppery Oxydol Wash. Powd’r Platform Scales 1 5 Points—For Cooking commander of his Air Force, that he Good Cream Separator, 750 lbs. Reg. Pkg. wanted a 105-mm. howitzer in 48 Pint.................. All Other Dairy Equipment hours. 10 Points—Niblet Corn with Green and Red Peppers. 1 New Brower Oil Brooder, 750- In terms of previous battle exper chick size; all other Turkey & ience, he might just as well have asked Poultry Equipment. for the moon. Never before had a Snowdrift All Garden and Farm Tools P & G Laundry Soap husky American howitzer, weighing 15 Points—All Purpose Some Household Furniture more than 4,000 pounds, been trans Crystal Brand—delicious with Toast—Point Free. Bars Radio. Cook Stove, Sewing 3-Lb. Glass.... ported by plane into battle. Machine & Many Other Items Gen. Kenney, without visible change of expression, promptly informed an Air Force unit in Australia that he PETE BERG R. C. PETERS was sending a plane for the gun. 15 Points—West Farms in Heavy Syrup. Clerk Auctioneer Aviation-Ordnance experts were ex — Terms Cash — pected, on the spur of the moment, to Sale Under Cover If Necessary. devise a new technique for breaking down the heavyweight howitzer in such a way that it could be safely air Peaches— Hume Fancy Sliced Clings 29-oz. tin 29e Fine for Juice transported and then quickly re-as- Fruit Cocktail— Del Monte ............ 29-oz. tin 2lc sembled in New Guinea. Pineapple Gems— Doles...................... 20-oz. tin 2lc By an all-out effort, the howitzer was lashed down securely in a Flying Spinach— Walla Walla..................... 27-oz. tin 17c Fortress. Then a tractor was put on Tomatoes— Sugar Loaf...................... 20-oz. tin 12c board, followed by an eager gun crew Tomato Juice— Walla Walla 46-oz, tin 22c and 25 rounds of ammunition. The Prune Juice— Delight...................... 32-oz. glass 22c burly howitzer—the right Army Ord Green Beans— McGrath’s ................ 28-oz. tin 19c nance gun in the right place at the right time—helped to save the Allied Peas— Fresh Flavor ............................ 20-oz. tin 12c bridgehead and force a Jap retreat. According to a report prepared by Major Frederick W. Walker, Jr., of Milwaukee, recently returned from Large Size Pink the Australian and Southwest Pacific theatre, and made available to Col. A. S. Buyers, commanding Umatilla Ord Use Carnation Milk for nance Depot, Aviation Ordnance com Appetising Creamed Gravies SHELLED WALNUTS panies work 10 hours daily, and spend 8-Oz. Cello ............................. ........................................... 10 hours thinking up and trying out new ways to exterminate the Japs. SNAP AROON COOKIES Sometimes, as in the Port Moresby l-Lb. Cello ......................................................................... crisis, they don’t sleep at all. But Shoulder Arm Cuts (3 points) RED DIAMOND MATCHES when they do catch 40 winks or so, Carton .................................................................................. they wake up to find that the daring scientific minds of MacArthur and DENNISON’S PEANUT BUTTER OPTOMETRIST Kenney are three hair-raising ideas 2-lb. Jar ....... - ................. - ................................. - ............ Center Cuts (7 points) ahead of them. SAYS— VALERO SPAGHETTI Col. A. S. Buyers said that dare- 12-Oz. Glass ................ -........... -..................................... devil ideas and experiments, prosai cally known as projects, are dreamed WHITE KING SOAP IT IS A PROFITABLE No Serial (6 points) Giant Package .................................................................. up at headquarters, and are translat TO HAVE ed into practical battle aids by Avia INVESTMENT SCOTCH GRANULATED tion-Ordnance personnel in jungle YOUR EYES EXAMINED Giant Package ................ -............................................... camps and stations, with the vigor and rapidity of a starving man wolf PERIODICALLY. . . . WHY Choice Cuts (7 points) GOLDEN WEST COFFEE ing a large platter of Maryland fried NOT DROP IN THE NEXT 1-Lb........... -.................... -...... —..................................... chicken. TRIP TO PENDLETON AND MORTON’S SMOKED SALT “American ingenuity and inven No. 10 Size —............... ....... .................... ...... ............... tiveness,” he declared, “are causing HAVE— Mild Cure (2 points) the Japs as much roaring annoyance as a sprinkling of glass in a plum pudding.” Parachutes for fragmentation bomba were improvised at a time when silk and rayon were at a premium. 225 So. Main St. 18 Points. 8 Points. Jeeps. guns, bomb service trailers Pendleton, Ora. and other Ordnance equipment were 12-oz. glass .... 2-lb. pkg............. modified to meet novel air-transport Bxami-nation Without Charge requirements. Price* Effective Jan. 8th to 14th—Subject to Market Change*. Helping to add extra Ordnance Union Oil Company FUEL OILS Hermiston Transfer Co. IRRIGON NEWS ITEMS STANFIELD NEWS Stone’s Pledge to You for 1944 ... A Continuous, Bang-Up, Year-Around AUCTION SALE Tuesday, Jan. 11 3 4 200 PLANES DELIVER LARGE GUNS TO BATTLEFIELDS EGGS .... Dozen 48c PEAS . 17-0z. tin 10c Mexicorn • 12-0z. Tin 15c Marmalade • 2-Lb. Jar 35c 4 3: 23C 23C 67c 3 Blackberries 20-0z. tin 34c Lower Point Values Now On Many Items Wm. Lindner fkesh PKOOUC^ ORANGES 2 doz. RUTABAGOS lb. BULK CARROTS lb. FRESH DATES lb. TEXAS GRAPEFRUIT 3 for MEATS 59c 5c 4c 69c 23c No Points on These Pork Roast lb. 32C Pork Chops lb. 37c DR. STRAM Ground Beef lb. 27c “Enjoy Good Vision” Beef Roast lb. 27c Smoked Picnics lb. 31c Your Eyes Examined? Economy Seedless Raisins 240 Pierce’s Catsup 12c Stram Optical Co.
