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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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Wildcatting Land Value* In War Times
Effort has been made throughout the years to
maintain reasonable land prices in this irrigated
area. Values fluctuated from time to time with the
national economic conditions, but not to the wild ex
tent we hear of nowadays. In the beginning of these
projects, prices rose during the fruit boom to $250.00
to $400.00 an acre for raw land, and the result was
that nearly every settler lost his investments, and pri
ces flattened to $10.00 and $75.00 an acre. After the
World War land boom Iowa corn lands were sold for
$400.00 an acre, and thousands of people went broke.
A report is current that a tract of land nearby that
was sold a few years ago for about $3000.00 is now
being offered at over ten thousand by outside parties
to possible suckers.
We have great respect for the values of land here
for homes and a good living, and a reasonable profit
on fair investment. But the boom here does not jus
tify the prices asked and accepted in a number of
cases, and the purchasers, if they go in debt for such
ranches, will become a liability to the community,
and many of them did 20 years ago. We, of course,
recognize a reasonable advance in prices is justifi
able, but to sell land far in advance of current infla
tionary conditions or great speculation of the pros
pects of the Umatilla Rapids dam, is little less than
Al Capone and Pendergast practices after World
War I. The men who do this have done nothing to
advance the development of this section, nor do any
thing to contribute to its stable values for legitimate
investment, but are leeches on the condititions creat
ed by war. All good citizens should put the stamp of
disapproval on such practices.
the Walla Walla hospital for an
appendectomy last Thursday, and
is doing all right.
By Mre. Rote Hedrick
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Longhorn
Mrs. G. W. Sturdivant of Park- have a new son born January 26 at
dale is the house guest of her their home. Dr. Gray was in at
daughter, Mrs. C. C. Rhea, for a tendance.
few weeks.
Mrs. Roy Strode and son were
Virgil Crane, who has spent two brought home from the Post Hos
years in the navy, is on leave and pital January 26 by Lon Myers.
visiting in Stanfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert La Rue,
John Quimby, a bus driver from who live on the Umatilla ranch,
Seattle, accompanied a friend, Ed have a son born January 25.
Arnold of the navy, to Stanfield
Jack Stewart left to join the
over the week end. en route to the army at Ft. Lewis on January 25.
latter's home at Buhl, Idaho.
Mesdames Heyden. Campbell
Mrs. Wiley Hewitt was taken to and Chapin took several children
over to Hermiston to the speech
clinic Friday, conducted by Dr.
I Lassen.
The Stanfield-Echo unit meeting
and lesson on January 26 was at-
tended by 22 members. Mrs. Fred-
’ ericks w as assisted in the sewing
demonstration by Mesdames Bard
and Helmick.
A “red letter” day for the Lad
LET US SOLVE
ies Aid was the social on Thursday.
YOUR EYESIGHT
Mesdames Stuart and Elliott re
PROBLEM! reived gifts for their efforts in
If your eyes trouble you come here the contest which closed January
1. A skit by some high school
for a thorough examination . . . .
girls, a musical game by Mrs. Mc
Modern glasses ground to fit if
Cormick and some special music,
they are needed.
and good eats were enjoyed. Mrs.
Over 30 Years Successful Florence Knotts, who was moving
to Freewater, was presented a
Optical Experience!
parting gift.
Mrs. A. M. Slow took her grand-
DR. DALE ROTHWELL son,
Buzzy Williams, to Lewiston
OPTOMETRIST
Sunday so he can be with his
118 South Main St. — Pendleton mother.
Mrs. Rose Hedrick accompanied
Near Bue Depot
by her grandson. Dicky Caplinger,
STANFIELD NEWS
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1945.
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spent a fed days in Portland visit •
ing her daughter and family, Mrs. .
Ralph Isackson.
Stanfield won the game with 1
Echo January 26 with a score of :
33 to 23.
Mrs. Leo Clark has returned I
home from Baker where she was ;
for two weeks at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Cliff Conrad. The ■
latter is convalescing from an op
eration.
Mrs. J. G. Clark left Pendleton
the first of the week to join her
husband, Cpl. Clark, at Bremer
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Caplinger
and sons called at the Hedrick
home Thursday.
Thirteen members attended the
meeting of the Study club January
25, and donated $12.00 Thursday
to the Educational fund in the re
cent Polio drive. A very interest
ing session was held.
it home was in May, 1944. At that
a
time he was stationed at Ft. Ben
ning, Ga., where he was taking ad-
vanced paratrooper training. He
has two brothers, John, who is
with the army in Luxemburg, and
Joseph of Echo.
T/s Zoe McFaul, who is now sup
posed to be stationed somewhere
in the British Isles, completed
three years of service December 8
and is receiving extra compensa
tion for long service. He enlisted
the day after Pearl Harbor and
was stationed for a long time in
Iceland.
T/5 Stephen Spike writes from
Paris where he is in the army pos
tal service that Paris is a very
beautiful city with wide avenues,
boulevards, palaces and monu
ments everywhere, but he will be
happy to get back to Umatilla
county. He says a gift of cigar
ettes was very acceptable as he has
been under a ration of two packs
Notice To Personal Property
a week since early November.
Mess Sgt. Eddie Liesegang has
Owners
informed his parents that he will
be home on a furlough, leaving
Fort Jackson, South Carolina,
Every person in Umatilla Coun about February 7.
ty owning or having in their pos
Miss Helen Brommel has re-en-
session on the first day of January, rolled in Echo high school after an
1945, any assessable personal pro absence of several months.
perty such as machinery, livestock,
Echo high school girls volleyball
, merchandise, store fixtures, shop team defeated the Stanfield girls
F. B. SWAYZE, President
equipment, etc., is required by law team for the second time this
I to report same to the County As week, in a game at Stanfield gym.
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sessor not later than March 1,
The first measurable snow of the
1945. New people in the County winter fell here Monday night,
and those having no personal as measuring about half an inch. For song festival which will be pre subject will be “Color and Ar
sessments last year may either call the preceding two weeks the tem sented early in the spring. This rangement of Furniture" with
at the office or write for a blank. perature has varied only slightly will be a complete concert, includ Jane Marie Warren as leader.
ing nothing but vocal music. Mrs.
All mailed blanks should be re from the freezing point.
Five hundred bedside arrange
turned as soon as the values can be
Echo high school band is becom Gladys Alberding is director of ments of the dish garden type are
determined.
being planned for the McCaw gen
ing popular in the community and ' the chorus.
We earnestly ask your coopera has been called upon to furnish i Miss Maxine Nofsinger, former eral hospital at Walla Walla. Mrs.
tion in this matter.
| music for several events of the ly a student at Echo high school, William J. Helmick of Echo, vice
D. W. DAVIS.
spring. This week the band will | is here from North Powder for a president of the Blue Mountain
County Assessor.
district Garden clubs has been
play at a public installation of Po visit with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Meyers are named to have charge of the pro
(Feb. 1-22)
cahontas lodge and on Saturday
will provide music for the commu now visiting their son, Seaman 1-c ject. As garden clubs of this part
Rene Meyers at Port Chicago, Cal. of the state have found it hard to
nity institute at the city hall.
Mrs.- Fannie Vaughn of Pendle secure material of the right kind
Storekeeper Harold Liesegang
By Mrt. Glenn Oetr^m
left Wednesday for the naval sta ton spent Sunday at the home of at this time of year, the state
tion at Oakland. Calif., after Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gaskill in West chairman of dish gardens, Mrs.
furnish ma-
spending a week’s furlough here lawn. The occasion was the birth Hugh O’Connor,
day of Mrs. Gaskill.
terials to Mrs. Helmick for the
Mr. and Mrs. John Mustard have with his family. He expects to be
Marshall Meyers, son of Mr. and project.
announced the engagement of assigned to oerseas duty soon af
Mrs. Claude Meyers, and Dean
their daughter, Betty, to Charles ter his return to camp.
S. A. Westfall received word Robertson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Hale of Hermiston. Miss Mustard Monday that his brother, T5 Fred Neill Robertson, were among the
is a nurse cadet in St. Anthony’s erick E. Westfall, with the infan young men from this neighbor- HIGHEST PRICES PAID
hospital in Pendleton and expects try in France, has been wounded in hood who went to Ft. Lewis Wed
for your
to finish her training. Mr. Hale is | action. No details were given. nesday for induction. They are
in the navy. No date has been set Westfall recently received a cita- now awaiting assignment to a
: tion for bravery in the push across training camp.
for the wedding.
The Stanfield-Echo home eco
Mrs. Phyllis Newgard was hos France.
Pvt. Clifford E. Dewey writes nomics unit met at the church in
tess to the pinochle club at her
See Me Before You Sell!
home Wednesday evening. Prizes his wife that he is now in Italy Echo Friday. The subject was “A
were won by Mrs. Al Vieg and and is getting along nicely. He Professional Look in Sewing,”
has been overseas about two with Mrs. G. H. Frederick as lead-
Mrs. Ken Arnold.
Call Harry W. Kelley
er. The next meeting will be at
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kester of months.
Members
.
of
the
Echo high the home of Mrs. W. J. Helmick,
Phone 2452
Medford spent Friday and Satur-
school chorus are working on a February 23, at 1:30 p. m. The
day here visiting friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Del Gord ion of
Pendleton visited friends here
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. F. S. Baker and Mrs. Phyl
lis Newgard spent Friday in The
Dalles.
There is to be a meeting at the
church Sunday evening at 7:00 o’
WHITE
a
BRAND
clock to talk over the interest of
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•FOODS /
the new church, and are urging
Yes, if is fresh as the day it
everyone to be there.
was roasted: Red & White cof
O. R. McNabb of Portland spent
fee is blended from the finest
a few days visiting at the home of
mountain grown coffee obtain
his brother, Pete and family.
able from Central and South
Mrs. Glenn O’Neal and infant
America, scientifically blended,
: . .
daughter Glenna Sue returned
roasted and packed to bring you
home Sunday from the Hermiston
coffee at its best. Ask for and
hospital.
get the genuine Red & White
Mrs. Oliver McNabb and son Jon
brand, famous for quality from
and Mrs. Vane Hiatt spent Friday
coast to coast............................ .
morning in Pendleton
Many people attended the March
of Dimes dance given at the school
gym. The Jive Bomber Negro
orchestra from Pasco furnished the
music and was enjoyed by all.
BABY FOOD
About $225 was cleared from the
R. & W .
4 for
door and the “dime march" to con
FROZEN FOODS — We have a complete
tribute to the fund. The dime
PRECOOKED Beans
wishing wells have not been col
line of quick-frozen fruits and vege
Copel’d, 8 oz. 2 for
lected yet.
tables. Try them today. Ration free!
MINCED CLAMS
Mrs. Bill Nugent is in the Eman-
eul hospital in Portland after a
Royal Chef. No. 1
major operation.
HONEY, Bradshaw’s
— FRESH PRODUCE —
Sugar Syrup. 2 lbs.
First National
Bank
of Hermiston
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First National Bank of Normiston
$
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Coffee, Red & White
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ECHO NEWS ITEMS
Following is the program for the
Community Institute to be held at
Echo Saturday and Sunday. Feb
ruary 3 and 4:
Saturday session will start at 11
a. m. in the city hall, the opening
( •
speaker being Lowell Steen of
Milton. a state officer of the Farm
Bureau.
At noon a pot luck dinner will
be served in Odd Fellows hall.
The afternoon session in the city
hall will include talks by Lyle
Johnson, registrar of the Eastern
Oregon College of La Grande,
whose subject will be “G. I. Bill
% of Rights”; Rev. Earl P. Cochran,
' I pastor of the Presbyterian church,
<1 Pendleton, speaking on “Better
? i | Homes”; and Dean Dubach of the
:} ■ Oregon State College. Corvallis, on
4,1 "Better Communities".
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There will be music by the Echo
< i [ high school band and girls' chorus
% at both sessions of the institute.
The final address will be made
[ I by Dr. Silas E Fairham. a veteran
of World War I. who will speak on
“A Better World." His address
will be Sunday forenoon at 11:00
o’clock in the Echo Methodist
church. Everyone is invited to all
of these sessions
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Correa receiv
ed a telegram Monday announcing
that their son, William Correa, 20,
is missing in action in Belgium.
Correa graduated from Echo high
school in 1943 and entered the ser-
vice soon afterwards His last vis-
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Tomatoes, Squash and Peppers.
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CUT BEANS
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Roasting Chickens - Wieners and Kraut
Choice Cuts of— Beef — Pork — Veal — Lamb
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SUNSPUN SANDWICH SPREAD....... 8 oz. 16c
FLOUR, Red & White...................... 25. lbs. $1.05
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28 oz. 18c
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15 oz. 11c
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