THURSDAY. AUGUST 17. 1944.
HFRM ISTON HERALD HERMISTON OREGON
PAGE SIX
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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Dirt Is Flying for Two New Schools
The first dirt is being moved for a new school in
Hermiston and also one at Ordnance. The Hermis
ton building will have seven rooms at a cost of about
$56,000.00 and the one at Ordnance will have four
rooms at a cost of about $28,000.00. Both structures
are in the Hermiston school district No. 14 and will
be operated by the same board of directors. All this
building is being done at the cost of the government,
without any expense to the taxpayers of the district.
It is with the utmost sincerity that we here wish to
congratulate those in authority for these necessary
extensions of the educational facilities in this de
fense area. Though the war must be carried on at
great expense, we must also carry on at home. No
effort will be more rewarded than the development
of our grow ing generation of boys and girls. Many
college students have been interrupted in their work
by the requirements of their country, but those of
younger age may be allowed to continue their edu
cation unbroken by the ravages of war. By such ex
penditures as these good school buildings that our
government will find itself rewarded in the years to
come by better citizenship and more intelligent con
trol of all our affairs. Many phases of the tragedies
of war may be overcome. In this connection it is well
to compare what our Uncle Sam is doing for his ne
phews and nieces to what is happening to the unfort
unate children of war torn Europe.
j land Tuesday where she plans to meet
Arlie Dabney, who has been in
i several sisters. Among them are Mrs. Portland several weeks, returned
Jesse Kane out here from the east and Thursday and will live here with his
| Mrs. Maggie Alloway from Southern father. John Dabney, this winter.
I California.
I Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Culver arrived l
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Connell and sons I Saturday to take their daughter. De-
and Maxine Fraser were Boardman ' lores, home to Gladstone with them.
I visitors at the Gene Lewis home.
She has been visiting the E. J. Nie-
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Van Cleve of lands in Echo for the past months.
Kennewick arrived Monday to visit Clarence Culver, who has been visit-
their daughter. Mrs. Milton Bailey ing here this summer, returned to
and family.
Gladstone Tuesday.
Mr. Van Cleve and Mrs. Bailey and | The new bulk loading
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elevator
Avery Shoun were Heppner visitors which has been under construction at
Tuesday.
,
¡Echo Mills, is expected to be com-
The H. H. Whipples are having a pleted in a few days. Due to the
family reunion Tuesday as Cpl. Doug change from sacks to bulk handling of
Whipple of the 41st division of Aus- grain the Mill warehouse contains
tralia and New Guinea with Mrs. cimparatively little grain this sea-
Whipple are here to visit. Mr. and son. Some barley and also some small
Mrs. Ervin Whipple of Southern Cal- lots of wheat are sacked for storage
ifornia are also coming up.
| in the warehouse and about half the
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Adams spent space is filled with wool. The new
Sunday in The Dalles, bringing their elevator will greatly facilitate bulk
sons Donald and Robert home. They handling, as about 50 tons a day is
spent several days down there.
all that can be loaded with the old
Mrs. Herman Plass and three child equipment.
ren and her father-in-law, Giles Plass
of Wallowa were visitors of the H. H.
(Held from last week)
Whipples last week.
Bessie and Lisle Young are in Co
Mrs. Minnie Fraser and children
and Mrs. James Henderson and child quille for a two weeks visit with their
ren were Hermiston visitors Friday. grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. F. D.
George Linn was an Irrigon visitor Fisk.
Monday. He and Mrs, Linn will teach
H. H. Bromell has received a tele
in Boardman this fall, Mr. Linn was gram from the government that his
the principal the last school term.
son. Pfc. Herman S. Bromell. age 21,
The post office inspector was here has been injured in action and is now
Monday inspecting the loss of the up in a marine hospital. No information
going mail that was damaged when as to the character of the injury is
j the mail sack fell off the hook and given- but letters from Herman to his
j was run over by the train.
brother Fred and to friends here indi-
eate that he was wounded by shrapnel
in the shoulder, and that his injury
was sustained in action at Saipan on
June 16th. Bromell —
has been
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STANFIELD GIRL
PLACES FOURTH
: ,
:,
:,
First National
Bank
of Hermiston
$
2
M. D. Parker of Aberdeen. Wash.. Lake scout camp. Those in the group
agent are Homer Bowman. Daniel Bowman.
of the Donald Eagle. Junior Bloom, James
His brother W’alter is taking naval office Saturday. He will bring his Lilly, Joe Ray Tolar. Dean Rohde,
Mary McCourt. Stanfield, 4-H club training at Pasco, and another broth wife and children as soon as living' Eugene Wiglesworth, Argol Collins-
Fred will enter the service in four
worth and Mark Cotton. Rev. Earl B.
member for four years, placed fourth er
months when he will be 18 years old. quarters are secured.
Cotton will accompany the party as
Sergeant
George
E.
Williams
of
in the 4-H canning contest last week.
Mrs. Martha Scrivner is spending a
substituting for F. C. Chas-
Mary is an individual canning club few days at Bingham Springs with Echo, who has served 29 months with leader,
tain, who is unable to leave his work
the
Field
Artillery
in
the
Southwest
member. Other winners are Jean Ai- her daughter. Mrs. Cioè Meador and ! Pacific theater of operations, has re at Ordnance.
chele. Fruitvale canning club in the Mrs. George Markham.
Blair Coleman writes his parents. turned to Echo on a furlough for a
Freewater district, first: Thelma Mr. and Mrs. Troy Coleman, that he visit with his wife, Mrs. Katherine
Morris. Pleasant View district near is now stationed at Camp VanDorn. Williams. Mrs. Williams had been
he would be granted a fur
Freewater, and Barbara Records. Mississippi. He is in an ordnance evac expecting
lough but had h ard nothing from him
Umapine, tied for second: and Jo Es uation unit. Blair was home on a fur recently until Wednesday when he
lough a few weeks ago after long ser-
ther, Mission Canning club, third. vice in the Alaska theatre of opera- | phone that he was in Portland. She
went to the citv the following day to
The contest was held in three sec- tions.
¡ tons, at the Hermiston high school on | Bill Esselstyn was taken to the meet him.
Sales of war bonds at Echo postof-
| August 9, in the Pendleton Junior | Pendleton hospital Tuesday for treat-
in .
11 nient for infection of the jaw result- fice during the recently ended drive LET US SOLVE
igh school on August 10. and in the ing from extraction of a tooth. He is totalled $20.593.75. All of these were
series E bonds except $100.00. series
McLoughlin Union high school on | reported to be improving.
YOUR EYESIGHT
August 11. Mrs. Mac Hoke of Pen-j Autoists who desire to purchase G.
PROBLEM!
War Front Broadens Scope of Attack
federal
auto
use
stamps
will
be
un
Mrs.
Leona
Thompson
visited
here
dleton was the judge.
able to secure them at the local post Tuesday. Since breaking her arm If your eyes trouble you come here
Another war front is being established and a great
Seventeen girls entered the contest. office
as sale of the stamps has been ! several weeks ago at Pendleton, she
a thorough examination . . . .
army of our young men is now streaming northward Joann McCourt of Stanfield being the stopped at all third and fourth classhas been staying at the Bryan Bran for
Modern glasses ground to fit if
only
other
contestant
from
the
West
offices
except
at
county
seats,
as
of
stetter
farm.
The
cast
was
removed
from the Mediterranean toward the heart of France.
they are needed.
Prize money is donated by the July 31. Short term use stamps can this week from her arm.
We are elated and proud of the success in Southern end.
purchased only from deputy collec
Tech. Corp. Wayne McFaul, who Over 30 Years Successful
Spreckels Sugar company. Later in be
France. We are more elated and proud that our I the fall the first prize winner will go tors. About $1000 of these stamps visite 1 his mother here last month, is
nave been sold at the Echo office this now stationed at Camp Hood. Texas,
Optical Experience!
forces are on so many fronts and are driving forward to Portland to enter the state contest. year.
,
in an anti-tank corps. He reports
Troy
Coleman
reports
that
he
will
|
that
the
summer
heat
in
Umatilla DR. DALE ROTHWELL
so rapidly toward the end of the bitter struggle.
complete the wheat harvest at his conntv is nothing compared with pre-
OPTOMETRIST
With men and war material and equipment we are
Stage Gulch ranch next Thursday. vailing temperature in the Texas
The yield was much better than he camp.
418 South Main St. — Pendleton
on every front around the world, and when the ac
had anticipated, he says, and is above
Ten Echo Boy Scouts will leave Sat
Near But Depot
counting is made after the final gun, the world must
normal.
urday to spend a week at the Wallowa
deal with us as the most powerful nation on earth.
P. C. Hunter, who was Union Paci- I
station agent at Echo in World
We hope that our statesmen will stand firm on this fic
War 1 times, stopped in Thursday for
claim in the peace settlement, to the end that all the
a brief call on friends. Hunter re
from railroad work about five
enemies of free government will recognize the power tired
years ago and now resides at Pasade
that may be developed under a democratic form of na. Cal. He and Mrs. Hunter are
visiting friends in Pendleton.
government.
Mrs. M. A. Parker and sons. Mike
and Denny, of Portland, stopped here
Friday on her way to Pasco for a sur
I Chester Wilson and family of New prise visit with her husband on their
Meadows arrived Wednesday to visit wedding anniversary Saturday, Mike,
his brother, Pvt. Joe Wilson and his who has been in the hospital with
Bu Mrg. Grace Shoun
mother, Nora W ilson and other rela sinus trouble went to La Grande from
Mrs. Roy Minnick and daughter tives. They all went to the Freewa- here to spend a few weeks with his
Luella went to Spokane Saturday to ter Pentecostal camp meeting Thurs grand mot her.
N. A. Bleakney. former Meadows
visit her son Leroy Minnick, seaman day.
The Chester Wilsons took dinner farmer, writes from Mabton. Wn.,
2/c. He is stationed at Farragut.
with Mrs. Emma Steward Monday that his son. Bob. is a pharmacist I
Idaho, but is to meet them there.
mate 2/c. serving with the marines.
Mrs. Milton Bailey and Mrs. Ernest evening.
Stephens and daughter Janet were
The Irrigon melon men are surely He was on Tarawa and Saipan and
Pendleton visitors Wednesday.
busy. Don Kenny, the Haddox fam has received a citation for his service
Wm. Allen returned from Portland. ily, G. E. Aldrich. Paul Slaughter and there. Neal is a pilot in the navy. He
He will be here from 21 to 90 days. the Whipples, Sparks and Provanchos was one of four highest in a class of
150 who received their commissions in
He is going to go on working at the are ail usy getting out ripe melons.
,
.
.
...
May, and is now acting as an instruc-
Holub ranch until called. He spent
Joe,
the week end in Irrigon.
who graduated from high school this
Chas. Acock Jr. went to The Dalles
Mrs.
Harvey
Warner
had
a
Sunday to visit the Adren Allen fam for her daughter Beth on her party | year, has enlisted in the army air
10th j corps. All of these boys attended
ily and to bring his mother, Mrs. C. birthday
with games, presents and I j school in Echo several years ago.
W. Acock home. She had spent a week eats, including
a birthday cake.
The natives of New Guinea are
with the new grandson. Freddie Lee.
Verna Mae Santer arrived Thurs ■ tops, according to Sgt. George Wil
and his parents.
Pvt. Joe Wilson is leaving Wednes day to spend two weeks with her aunt liams. who is home on a furlough. He
says they are cooperative, very friend
day after spending ten days with his Mrs. Paul Häberlein and family.
Bessie Edwards and children of ly with the soldiers, good workers and
mother. Nora Wilson, and other rela
Cook. Wash., arrived Wednesday to i extremely anxious to be helpful to
tives.
Mrs. W. L. Suddarth was a Hermis visit her mother, Nora Wilson, and the allied cause. Williams, who en-
other relatives. Her husband, Herb I tered the service in April. 1941. has
ton visitor Friday.
Mrs. Steagall was a Pendleton vis Edwards, came up after them Sun been 29 months overseas, stationed
for a while in Australia and has seen
itor Saturday. She has completed her day.
work at the Häberlein Cafeteria.
Mrs. Tom Caldwell left for Port- actual fighting service in New Gui
nea and elsewhere in the South Paci-
I fic. Details of these engagements.
' many of which were comparatively re-
cent, are not given for reasons of mili
tary security, but as a sergeant in a
tank destroyer battalion he has seen
plenty of action. During all these
months of service Williams has not
been wounded or sick. It is notable
that Pete Able of Echo, who entered
the service with Williams, has been in'
the same battalion and a buddy of
machine
depth
SO WE MUST TAKE CARE OF OUR
his during all the months in the South
operation you selected,
Pacific. Able is due for a trip home
No
uised knuckles, pinched
but his furlough has not been granted
PRESENT EQUIPMENT
yet. The only other Umatilla county
tra,
backache
and tired arms from
man he recalls meeting was Corp. Bud
our back
Lavton of the field artillery from Pi
uent adjustment of lever equip-
lot Rock. Williams is on furlough un
touch a fi
lever
plows, cultivators and other im-
til August 27, when he will report to
CHECK that air cleaner regularly.
Camp White. Medford. What assign
ment will be given him at that time
KEEP oil and grease compartments full of good
which
automatic
is uncertain. Sgt. and Mrs. Williams
returned Thursday from Spokane and
clean lubricant.
Idaho points where they visited rela
tives.
• BE CAREFUL where you drive.
about this mo
Homer Coppinger completed har
exclusive
vest
operations
last
Tuesday
and
is
:
that are not
• CHECK air pressure in tires regularly and keep
now hauling his wheat to Echo for
bulk shipment. Four carloads have
properly inflated.
already been loaded out and about 14
whole
more are to be shipped as cars are
• KEEP rubber tires protected from weather when
available.
Mr and Mrs. Warren Center and
not in use.
two children arrived Thursday from
Spokane and will reside in the Dorn
• PAINT your machines to protect from rust
cottage opposite the school house. Mr.
Center is superintendent of Echo
schools for the coming year and is
now preparing for opening of school
early in September.
Bids have been called for operation
of school buses on the Meadows route
and the route east of Echo for the
Phone SIS
Pendleton, Oregon
coming year. Bids are to be opened
marine,
corps,
February,
1943.has
been appointed .U. P.
much
of the
time since,
in the
South Pacific.
at Echo and assumed charge
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