NEWS
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After visiting last week with friends |
at Umatilla Ordnance Depot. Mrs. F.
H. McKnight left Pendleton on the
Streamliner Saturday, February 19,
to join Captain McKnight at Char- VOLUME XXXVII
lottsville, where he is attending the
University of Virginia in preparation
for duty with the Allied Military
Government. Mrs. McKnight plans
to remain in the East until Captain
McKnight’s departure for foreign ser
vice, which is more or less imminent.
IRRIGATION DISTRICT
ACTIVITIES MANY AS
SYSTEM IS REVIEWED
OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER
HERMISTON,
Corp. Felthou»e On FurloupK
Corp. Gale Felthouse, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Willard Felthouse, arrived
here Thursday from Buckingham
Flexible Gunnery School, Ft. Meyers,
Fla., on a 10-day furlough. Mr. Felt-
house, who has been baling hay near
Ontario, met Gale there and they con
tinued on to Hermiston by automo
bile. Corp. Felthouse has been in the
service about 13 months.
UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 24, 1944
BED CROSS GOAL
TO BE HIGHEB
Mrs. Roy E. Tiller has been named
ehairman of the local War Fund Red
Cross drive which is expected to get
underway here after March 1. Mrs.
Tiller stated that the usual house-to-
house canvass will be augmented
again this year by a booth on the
street.
Although no quota has been set as
yet for Hermiston, it has been an
nounced that the Umatilla county quo
ta will be approximately three times
that of last year or around >31,000.
Consequently everyone is expected to
give more this year than last. More
information concerning the subseri
tion will be printed next week.
T/4 Stanley Freiheit, on furlough
from Great Bend Army Air Base,
stopped by Ordnance February 20 to
visit with friends on his way through
from Kansas to his home in Seattle.
Stanley is well known in this vicinity
J. M. Spencer, manager of the Her
as a member of the old 330th Service
miston Irrigation District, has furn IN
Group at Pendleton Field.
ished the Herald with a synopsis of
maintenance activities about the pro
Plans are now proceeding toward ject during 1943. An interview with
Now it can be told. No word had
the completion of a new day room for Mr. Spencer brought out many facts been received from Pvt. John H. Nye
the enlisted Medical Detachment as which show him to be well fitted, both for some time until early this week
signed to the Post Hospital. The boys by training and experience, for the when a letter arrived from him, writ
are renovating the old PX in the civil position he now holds.
ten February 10. The letter stated
ian dormitory area, and while they
He is a native Oregonian, having that he had been with the 4th Divi
have sufficient furniture to equip the been born in Ashland. During his sion, U. S. Marines, in the attack on
room, there is urgent need for “all earlier years he did much engineering the Marshall Islands, particularly the | er ye *F=I rr rmrn r cn
the comforts of home”, draperies, ma work in connection with exploration, | island of Roi. Pvt. Nye stated that —A— M—— 1IHV
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gazines, ash trays, and most of all a surveys and construction on mining he came through the battle without a |
radio-phonograph combination. Or and lumbering properties in five wes scratch—well, just a little one, on theThe fifth anniversary of the Inland
- neck.
-
i Cooperative will be celebrated at the
ganizations and individuals who are tern states, was with the National back of - - his
Pvt. Nye. one of Hermiston’s young- I annual meeting of that concern Sat
interested in donating articles or their Copper Co. in Idaho, was assistant en
services toward the furnishing of this gineer in charge of construction for est business men, made some type of urday, February 26, in the banquet
day room will find that their contri the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining record recently when he entered ac
butions will be much appreciated, and Co. in the same state, and has made tual combat duty after only 21
can contact Lt. F. L. Graves, the Med mineral surveys for the government months of training. Apparently he I business will include the election of
ical Administrative Officer at U.O.D., in Washington and Idaho. Later he was in condition to “take it” as the I directors from three districts now be-
ing held by F. L. Huntting, J. D.
for further details.
I made surveys for an irrigation pro Marines of the 4th Division made
Christley and P. J. Quinn.
short
work
of
the
attack
at
Roi.
ject in the Rogue River valley.
The business meeting will commence
Needless to say, Pvt. Nye’s wife and
Lloyd Waid. 2/c Seaman, spent Sat
In World War I he enlisted with
at
11:00 o’clock with a free lunch to
his
parents,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Sam
Nye,
urday afternoon visiting in the West the U. S. Engineers and served over
be served at 12:00. Entertainment
Area.
seas until the end of the war. After were glad to hear that he was safe.
will also be enjoyed during the lunch
his 1 eturn the Eagle Point Irrigation
hour. Mr. Shaw stated Thursday
Miss Frances Culver spent the week district in southern Oregon was built
that anyone doing business with the
•end with her mother, Mrs . Zelma under his supervision, and at its com
concern in 1943 automatically be
pletion he was chosen to be manager.
Culver.
comes a member of the concern and is
Before coming to Hermiston to take
cordially invited to attend.
Magazine Area Field Office receiv- over the operation of the Hermiston
Four members of the newly orga
Irrigation
District,
Mr.
Spencer
was
ed a card from Charles Cook in Fort
nized Air Scout Squadron of Hermis
L-.wis, Washington. It seems all he for some years watermaster of dis ton were advanced in their rank to
has done so far is march and march. trict 5 of the Water Resources depart that of Apprentice Air Scout at the
ment of the State of Oregon, working recent court of honor held at the
Magazne Field Office has a new out of Pendleton, his territory cover U. S. O. recently. Those receiving
Mrs. Walter Hamm has received ■
ing all waters of the Umatilla and these awards were Gordon Shown,
addition, Linda Mary Neary.
Walla Walla rivers within that dis- James Rugg. Virgil Logan and W. A. belated request from the County Sal
vage Committee for used clothing to
, trict. Through this branch of his
The radio program broadcast from ' work he is conversant with the use of MacArthur, squadron leader.
be sent to war stricken countries. The
The air scout program is a new one drive must close Tuesday, February
the Hermiston U. S. O. by the U.O.D. water in this end of the county and
Employees’ Association was enjoyed with irrigation practices and laws in designed by the Boy Scouts of Amer 29, so very little time is allowed for
ica to train the boys of 15 years and the collection of these articles here.
by every one who was a part of the ' general.
Mrs. Hamm asks' that anyone Wish
audience and also by those who li i
The Hermiston Irrigation District, over in the basic, fundamentals of
tened over their radios. Russe . c- | originally designed to irrigate some aeronautics, air-ology, airplane struc ing to donate clothing to this worthy
Coy of the Magazine Area was the. 22,000 acres of land, is at present ture and aero-dynamics. With the cause please leave the articles at the
lucky winner of the door prize, a War ' serving only about 9,000 acres. The coming universal use of the airplane, Hermiston Drug Co. or at the office
it is recognized that those with spec of the assistant county agent. Any
Bond.
I original canal system was very well
ial training will be needed to promote type of clothing except the following
! planned and constructed with capacity
this mode of transportation following articles is wanted: hats, shoes, caps,
| enough to take care of considerably
belts, rubbers, galoshes, girdles or
more land than is now being farmed. the war.
Any boy. whether he has had scout party dresses. However, suits, sweat
This condition allowed for some de
experience before or not, and is now ers, shirts or other clothing is earn
terioration of the canal system with
15 years of age, is urged to join this estly desired.
out threatening the success of the
squadron. Meetings are held each
The house rivers and harbors com smaller acreage now served. There
mittee Wednesday adopted several comes a time, however, when the Wednesday evening at 7:30 p. m. in
amendments, some of which are in canals can not be allowed to deterior the social halls of the Methodist
line with suggestions by President ate further. This condition has now church.
Roosevelt, which will be offered on arrived. It is unfortunate that the
The American Legion Auxiliary
the floor of the house when the om
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nibus rivers and harbors bill (HR tion in recent years so that their re- |
habilitation could have been postponed TO HJEáAR 0PEAKER February 10. After the business
3961 ) comes up for consideration.
meeting, a social evening was enjoyed,
The committee adopted a suggestion until after the war when labor and
honoring Mrs. Roy Tiller, rummage
by the president that the proposed material costs might be lower or at
A change has been made of the sale chairman. In appreciation of her
Umatilla dam on the Columbia river least more available.
We must frankly admit that the Townsend club meeting originally set efforts, a valentine gift was present
between Oregon and Washington es
timated to cost 850,000,000 including system is in rather a dilapidated con for Tuesday, February 29. It has ed to her. Refreshments were served
power installations—should be 30 feet dition at present, and further delay been postponed to Thursday, March later in the evening.
The March meeting will be post
in repairing some of the worst condi 2, at 8:00 p. m. in order to hear A. 0.
higher than previously approved.
This would raise the pool above the tions is dangerous and should not be Soholm, national representative of the poned a week and will be held March
Townsend movement. The meeting 16. It will be in the nature of a pot
dam to 340 feet above sea level in permitted.
The Feed Canal, even when first | will be held at the U.S.O.. according luck dinner, celebrating the birthday
stead of the originally contemplated
310 feet. Mr. Roosevelt had said this constructed, had not too great a capa- to Mrs. Joe Udey, who was informed of the American Legion. Mrs. Grace
Logan and Mrs. Laura Kelley will
would aid navigation and power de city as the time in which water can | of the forthcoming visit.
be tun to the reservoir is limited by ' Mr. Soholm will explain the state serve on the social committee. Al'
velopment.
The committee also approved an several factors. The irrigation sea- [ Townsend bill which is now under dis- members and prospective members are
amendment to the section authorizing son on the Umatilla river extends cussion by the various Townsend or- cordially invited to attend.
construction of four dams on the from March 15th to November 1st, ganizations. Those wishing to hear
Snake river in Idaho—estimated to during which time only excess water first hand information concerning
cost >30.200,000—which would pro may be used for storage. After Nov the proposed bill are urged to be on
vide that construction of the dams ember 1st. there is rarely enough wa hand.
could be modified as deemed advisable ter to much more than prime the can
The annual meeting of the Umatil
by the secretary of war after consul al until well into the winter months.
la Cooperative Creamery will be held
tation with the secretary of the in During the deep winter there is usual
Tuesday, February 29, in the banquet
terior and other affected federal agen ly one month or more in which water
may not be safely carried on account
room of the Methodist church, accord
cies.
ing to Herman Plass, manager. Acti
President Roosevelt had suggested of freezing conditions. With a capa
vities will get underway at 10:00 a.m.
that final approval of the four dams city of 300 second feet the canal could
with E. L. Jackson as program chair
on the Snake be withheld until a joint fill the reservoir in about three
man. A turkey dinner will be served
investigation could be undertaken by months. If the capacity is allowed to
the army engineers and the interior drop down to around 200 second feet
at 12 30.
as it is at present it will require full
Mr. Plass stated this week that
department.
five months to complete the required
anyone interested in dairying, even
storage and there are only five months
though he is not a member of the
between November 1st and April 1st
creamery, is cordially invited to at
when irrigation must begin.
tend the meeting. Prominent men of
It is therefore imperative that the
the dairy industry will be present to
feed canal be brought back to near its
disucss present day operations and
Garland Elkin of Hermiston is the original capacity as soon as possible.
possible future developments.
proud possessor of a diary of a dead This is a problem, as the time when
An advertisement telling of the
Jap officer given to Mr. Elkin by his the eanal can be worked is short and
coming meeting will be found on Page
cousin, Neil Elkin, Chief Petty Offi- the cost is too great to be attempted
4 of this issue.
cer, U. 3. Navy. The latter, who is in any one year. The worst section
Ixteal Girle On Committee
visiting in Hermiston with his cousin, of the canal is directly under the
got the diary while in service at Attu. lands of the Stanfield Irrigation Dis
The annual Colonial Ball will be
The document has been translated trict and is filled with waste and sub
held in the colege auditorium of East
from Japanese into the American lan water from their irrigation well into
ern Oregon College Friday, February
guage and is quite interesting reading the fall. This water causes grass and
18th. This formal dance highlights
willows to grow luxuriously during
the social calendar for the winter
matter.
On the beaches of Italy, in the
Chief Petty Officer Elkin is the son the summer and presents a most irri jungles of the Pacific—planes, tanks, term and is sponsored by the Women’s
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Elkin. He has tating problem of maintenance.
artillery must move—and fast: no Athletic Association. The 354th Air
been in the service about 18 months
Complete cleaning of the canal waiting to build roads or airfields. Force dance band will furnish the mu
and has seen considerable action dur would require from 110,000 to 115,000 That’s when our soldiers must un sic for the ball. Mary Perry and
and the work must therefore be spread roll these “steel mattresses,” as you Mary Margaret Kennedy of Hermis
ing that time.
The diary is at The Herald office over five or six years. We have at see them in this photo. Your War ton are in charge of the Decoration
Bonds pay for them.
and anyone wishing to look at it is tempted to make some headway to-
| and Entertainment committees, re-
U. S. Treenry
(Continued on page 7)
quite welcome.
' spectively.
ED WORK
PVT. JOHN NYE
ROI BATTLE
INLAND CO-OP TO
FOUR AIR SCOUTS
ADVANCE IN RANK
USED CLOTHING
IS ASKED HERE
UMATILLA DAM
CHANGE OK'D
HONORED GUEST
ANNUAL MEETING
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S. :
JAP DIARY IS
eald
Double Trial Date Set
The trials of E. E. Pulley and Jim
Shearer on charges of driving while
under the influence of liquor have
been set for Friday, March 3, begin
ning at 10:00, in the Labor Temple
hall. The cases have been postponed
several times due to various conflic-
tions.
AUTO HITS POLE
Loren Van Buskirk of Portland,
who with his family is visiting a sis-
ter in Pendleton, was the driver of
the car which soundly crashed into
the stop sign near the Hermiston rail
road depot Monday evening. Mr. Van
Buskirk, who is a driver for the Ar
row Transportation Co., had come
alone from Pendleton to Umatilla and
was returning to Pendleton when the
crash came.
He stated Tuesday that another car
was crossing the tracks in the oppo
site direction, going west on Hermis
ton avenue. He swerved his car in
order to avoid a collision but came in
to contact with the stop sign. The
automobile, a ’37 Chrysler, was a com
plete loss but the driver was unin
jured.
SATER ATTENDS
STATE CONFAB
Ermol Sater, buttermaker at the
local plant of Umatilla Cooperative
Creamery, attended two conventions
in Portland last Thursday. Friday
and Saturday. The Oregon Dairy
men Manufacturing Association met
Thursday and the Buttermakers As
sociation met Friday and Saturday.
Mr. Sater, whose record in making
butter is quite enviable, won third
prize in a quiz sponsored during the
session. He represented the local or
ganization at both meetings.
HAROLD HAMLIN WESTON
Harold Hamlin Weston was born at
Amet, Michigan, on May 8, I860. His
early youth was spent working in the
woods of northern Michigan. When
a young man he came west and helped
build the first trails and roads
through Yellowstone Park. In 1891
he came on west to Oregon and settled
near Cascade Locks, where he farmed
for several years, moving to Morrow
county in 1901. For several years he
operated a ferry across the Columbia
river at Castlerock, moving to the
Boardman project proper, in the early
spring of 1918, where he lived contin
uously until his death, on February
19, 1944.
He leaves no known blood relatives,
but three step-daughters, Mrs. Addie
Broyles of Sandy, Oregon. Mrs. Awil-
da Bleakney of Mabton, Wash., and
Mrs. Breta Morgan of Boardman. Mr.
Weston was affectionately called
"Dad" by all who knew him. He held
an honorary membership in Green-
field Grange.
WATER IS HIGHER
Citizens who are always prone to
worry about the slowness of Old Jupe
Pluvius to fill the Cold Springs reser
voir are beginning to breathe a little
easier. Although the water level is
still behind schedule the outlook is
quite promising. The reading Febru
ary 20, 1944, was 35,800 acre feet,
while the reading on the same date in
1943 was 43,650 acre feet. However,
at present the feed canal is working
overtime and unless something dras
tic happens, there will be water for
all during the hot summer months.
The reading for the week, accord-
ing to Chas. Taylor, follows:
Max. Min.
Date
37
50
February 16
22
. 52
February 17
34
. 47
February 18
30
. 48
February 19
19
. 47
February 20
25
- 47
February 21
23
. 48
February 22
KORTGESMITH
NUMBER 28
EMERGENCY CROP AND
FEED LOANS SIGNUP
DATES SCHEDULED
FOOD PRODUCTION
C. A. Riley, field supervisor for
the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan
Office, stated that farmers of Uma
tilla county are now applying for
loans to finance the production of
their 1944 crops. Applications for
loans can be written on afternoons of
February 23. March 7 and 28, and
April 4 and 8 in the assistant county
agent’s office in Hermiston.
Mr. Riley stated that, in addition
to financing the production of regu
lar crops such as grain and hay, loans
were also being made for the produc
tion of those crops declared essential
to and so vitally needed in the war ef
fort this year. Plans for 1944 call for
increased production of many food
crops. The production goals for these
crops, which can be successfully plant
ed and grown in Umatilla county
should be met, and the need for funds
necessary for their production will be
given special consideration with the
view that credit will be extended,
wherever needed, so that no farm
family will be denied an opportunity
to make its maximum contributions to
the Food Prduction Program.
Emergency crop loans are available
to farmers, either owners or tenants,
who own or can make arrangemnts
for land to farm, who own or have the
use of necessary workstock and equip
ment with which to farm, and who
can give as security a first lien on the
crops to be financed. These loans will
be made to farmers whose cash re
quirements are relatively small and
who are unable to obtain loans from
other sources, including local banks
and production credit associations.
Loans are also available for the
purchase or production of feed for
livestock whose produets will be mar
keted, for livestock to be fed for the
market, or for breeding animals with
the increase to be marketed, but. as
security, a first lien on such livestock
is required.
Mr. Riley emphasized that these
loans are not restricted to selected ap
plicants but are available to all farm
ers who can establish eligibility, ac
cording to the terms of the loan regu
lations and the authorizing Act of
Congress.
Harold Ewalt, Dairy Husbandry
specialist from Oregon State College,
will talk on dairy and dairy feeding
problems Friday, February 25th at
8:30 p. m. at the Westland Grange
hall. George Penrose of the Union
Pacific railroad will show two pic
tures along dairy improvement.
WORLD DAY OF
PRAYER FRIDAY
The churches of the community
unite tomorrow (Friday) evening with
churches all over the world in a mass
prayer service beginning at 7:45 p.m.
at the Central Church of Christ.
Prayer moves the hand of God, and
such movement was never so sorely
needed as now. Everyone is asked to
come and worship and unite in this
prayer service, that the people might
be led by God to a new experience and
thus to a new and better world order.
LOCKER PLANT
IS PLANNED
Frank P. Sargent of Hermiston is
contemplating the construction of a
frozen food locker plant in Hermiston.
Considerable “business” is essential
prior to actual construction of such a
plant, according to Mr. Sargent. It is
necessary, in order to obtain proper
priorities to obtain building materials,
that a prospective renter to deposit
his first year’s rent in escrow to be
held until the plant is ready to use
Mr. Sargent states that the rate
will be one dollar per annum per cu
bic foot of storage space with eight
cubic feet as the minimum. The lock
er boxes will vary in size from eight
to 15 cubic feet. Mr. Sargent has
made arrangements with the Hermis
ton First National Bank where pros
pective renters may place reservations
in escrow with proper receipts. He
urges that those interested make the
proper arrangements as soon as pos
sible.
Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Smith of Van-
couver, Wash., are announcing the
marriage of their son. Bob, U. S. Ar
my, to Miss Winifred Kortge, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. O- W. Kortge of
Portland, on Saturday, February 19,
at Vancouver, Wash. The bride
given in marriage by her father and
the couple was attended by Miss Ul-
dine Kortge, sister of the bride. and
Francis Hollinger, U. S. army.
Members of the immediate families
Auriliarif Meet ina le Planned
were present and a reception was held
The Farm Bureau Auxiliary will
after the ceremony at the home of the
meet Friday, March 3, at the home at
bride's parents.
The Smiths formerly resided in Mrs. Lester Hammer. An interest-
Hermiston and Bob is well known ing program is being planned and «*
members are urged to be on hand.