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.