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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1937)
FOLK THE BO NNEV IL LE DAM T H E BONNEVILLE DAM CHRONICLE HOOD RIVER, OREGON 4-H CLUB NEWS w h h w v h w h h h h w h iw h h w w FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1937. CHRONICLE h w h h h h iw w v strike during the coronation ceremon ies. Almost as unpatriotic as a strike of pop salesmen during a World Ser ies game. • • • By H. A. S. Some day a major league ball play H H V W H 4V H V W V W V W V W H er is going to set a new record by go U. S. ambassador to Germany ing through an entire season without • record. says he knows a man who “ owns a setting a new m 9 • billion dollars’’ who is willing to back It isn’t half so hard for a player to a dictator in this country. Heck, we always thought it took five billion. break a record as it is for statisti cians to discover whether or not a • • • The common fly is said to lay eight record has been broken. • • • octillion eggs in the course of a single season. That still leaves some of We see Stevenson, Wash., wants our office flies unaccounted for. to become Stevenson, Ore. All we can • * • say to the boys across the river is High school seniors now laugh at “ If at first you don’t secede, try, try the pictures they had taken as fresh again.” men ; a few years from now they’ll * * * laugh at the pictures they had taken School’s about over for another as seniors; and a few years after year. And listen, kids—don’t think that their kids will laugh at the pic the teachers aren’t glad too. tures they had taken as grown men. Such is life. • Odd Shots PARK DALE FLOWER CLl’ B CASCADE LOCKS HANDICRAFT Official paper of city of Cascade By Dorothy DeHart CLUB Locks, Oregon. (By Robert Morgan) Official publication for American The Parkdale Sunset Flower club On May 13 at the regular meeting Legion post No. 88, Bonneville, Ore. was organized May 5, 1937. The fol there were 18 out of 23 members pres lowing members joined the club: SUBSCRIPTION RATES Chizuna Noji, Nellie Hamada, Chim- ent. A number of the boys were ex Three months ........................... $0.50 iko Hamada, Dorothy De Hart, cused early to do some work for the eix months ................................ $1.00 Mary and Hope Rumbaugh. The of Boy Scouts. Several of the boys One year ................................... $2.00 ficers chosen were Hope Rumbaugh, passed their requirements. president; Chizuna Noji, vice presi Entered as second class matter at dent; Nellie Hamada, secretary; Dor the postoffice at Hood River, Ore othy DeHart, club reporter; and gon, under the Act of Congress of Mary Rumbaugh, assistant leader. They discussed the flowers they March 3, 1879. were going to plant. They are sup JOHN H. TRAVIS.................. Editor posed to have their gardens all HUGH A. SCOTT. .Associate Editor planted in two weeks, so Mrs. Rum Cascade Locks Chamber of Com baugh, their leader, can go around merce — Merrill’s dining room, Published every Friday in the and look at them. Tuesdays, noon. Harold and Kenneth Busig and interests of the Bonneville Dam area Clayton Hatfield, Ray Heycock and • • • Bonneville Parent-Teachers Associa by the Sun Publishing Company, Inc Truth is stranger than fiction. Pos Arlene Magnusson are new members. tion — First Wednesday every sibly because we run across it so The president handed out seed cat month, study club at 1:30, regular much more infrequently. WORLD’S THRIFT RECORD alogues. • • • meeting at 2:30 in Bonneville grade Probably the world’s most power school auditorium. The perfect politician will be the ful object lesson in thrift is the ex traordinary ranking of America as PARKDALE HOMEMAKING CLUB Bridal VeU Lodge, No. 117, A.F. and guy who can raise everybody’s in By Vera Parrott A.M. — School house, Latourelle come without raising income taxes the leading nation of life insurance falls, second Saturday in each too. owners. This country contains only Last week the Homemaking meet . . . seven per cent of the world's popu ing was postponed until Friday. At month. Visiting Masons welcome. Shelley wrote about the beauty of lation. But Americans own 70 per the beginning of the meeting each Cascade Yacht Club—Model room of the imperfect, whereas modern chor cent of all the world’s life insurance. girl was asked to state the chore she new administration building, Fri us-girl romances deal with the im Equally astonishing is the growth had chosen and it was found that perfection of beauty. days, 8 P.M. in popularity of life insurance in most of the girls have completed their • • • Cascade L ocks City Council—Second this country in only a few years. For project except making the luncheon Anybody can holler about “ isms” and fourth Mondays, city hall. instance, in 1900, only one American cloth and napkin set. and get away with it. If his aud Cascade Locks Boy Scouts — High in every eight had made provision Our club is having a pop corn ball ience leans one way, they infer that school, Tuesdays, 8 P.M. for his dependents and himself and candy sale at the Parkdale high he means communism, socialism, an through life insurance. Today, every school play, “ Dulcy" on Friday, May Bonneville Boy Scouts—Grade school archism; if they lean the other way, other American is numbered in the 21, to earn money toward sending a auditorium, Tuesdays, 7 P.M. they infer that he means capitalism, ranks of life insurance owners—64,- girl to the 4-H summer school ses Cascade Locks Townsend Club—Odd conservatism, individualism. That’s 000,000 of them. And this army of sion at Corvallis in June. Vera Par Fellows hall, first and third Fri why politicians would hate to see provident people have pooled their rott was chosen chairman and the the “ ism” done away with. days, 8 P.M. resources to the extent of creating committee working with her includes . . . Rebekahs—Cascadia lodge, Cascade $104,500,000,000 of life insurance in Margaret Ballweber, Bobbie Run A Havana race-track tout might Locks, first and third Wednesdays force. also might be referred to as a Cuban corn, Kikue Sizuki, and Audrey Cox. of each month, Odd Fellows hall, heel. These millions of Americans are Our Homemaking club has held the 8 P.M. expressing their American love for required ten meetings so will dis • • . freedom—hy banding together to continue our regular weekly gather Damsite post, Veterans of Foreign Some people like to get eight hours achieve individual security—security ings and have a few irregular meet Wars — First and Third Mondays, of sleep every night, and some people against leaving dependent families ings during the summer months. meeting room of administration listened to the coronation. • * • (If they die too soon) and against building, 8 P.M. their own dependence upon others (if Ex-King Edward need not feel so Cascade Locks P.T.A.—Second Fri they live too long). badly about not being mentioned in day of each month, 8 P.M., high OAK GROVE COOKING CLUB These figures give added empha his brother’s first coronation speech. school. (By Susan Farkhurst) sis to Life Insurance Week, being ob Izaak Walton league—Meets second Among other things, the new king served throughout the United States Monday of every month in Bonne did not mention the effect of sun The Oak Grove cooking club held May 17 to 22. They also lend power ville auditorium. Directors meet spots on the weather, the advantages ful emphasis to the slogan of the their third meeting recently. of correspondence school training, or fourth Monday. The meeting was called to order week—“ The sooner you plan for your the cultural backgrounds of modem art, to name but a few. future, the better your future will by the president, Mary Kawachi. The minutes were read by the club sec . . . be.’ ’ retary, Susan Parkhurst. The roll We read that transportation em was called and the members answer OREGON’S TRAFFIC ployees in London threatened to YOUR SCHOOL TAXES ed with the cereals they had made. DEATHS To many residents of Hood River Some cooked rice, and oatmeal, and county the problem of school finance some cornmeal, etc. A song was then A Series of Weekly Articles on may seem unnecessarily pressing and sung by all the members led by Miss the Problem of Highway Safety bothersome. LeGore. All the members then stood By EARL SNELL, Secretary of There’s a reason for this situation. and said the club pledge. State Oregon and Kansas are the only For new business we filled out Three hundred and fifty-five men, states in the union where the total some report cards. The foods which women an children were killed and burden of school expense falls upon we filled out were toasts, and cer the county—which means directly on eals. We also copied down some rec 7,725 injured in 34,880 motor vehicle the individual landowner, since the ipes for making cocoa and baked cus accients reported to my office during the year 1936. county has virtually no revenue be tard for group three in division one. Face to face with this ghastly rec sides its property tax. A motion to adjourn until next IT ’S YOUR NECK! ord, can anyone doubt that this prob In our neighboring state Washing week was made and carried. lem is the problem of all of us—can ton, 50 per cent of the burden is anyone longer refuse to admit that borne by the state. In some eastern is must be met by an aroused public states the total cost of the schools is PARKDALE HIGH SCHOOL opinion, that conditions upon our) state-financed. SEWING CLUB streets and highways require imme Also, Hood River county has the By Harriet Enney diate an drastic action? second smallest area and twelfth The welfare of happiness—the ac smallest population of Oregon's 36 The Pierettes held a meeting tual safety of your family, your counties, meaning that the question , . . . , Thursday afternoon during eighth of finance is bound to be more or less pcriod to plfm the candy sale for friends and your neighbors—is too in everpresent with the voters, partic Achievement Day May 20, at the extricably involved in this problem ularly since the tax valuation is not Parkdale grade school. Naomi Hess. of street and highway safety to al high enough to relieve the pressure Margery Sato, Yukie Katayama, and low of an attitude of indifference. The record is before us; it can be im on small tax-payers Kikue Sizukie are to be in charge of proved only through a strict adher Perhaps it’s a good thing that this the sale. ence to traffic laws and regulations condition exists. Certainly local res In order to have a variety the girls the laws and regulations that were idents are more apt to take a direct have promised to make different interest in school affairs than they kinds of candy. Anyone wishing to written and must be enforced for would if the state were paying a put in an order for their favorite your protection. The accident reports that reach large part or all of the bill. candy may get in touch with one of my office daily are a written history The welfare of the children should the girls in the following groups: of death and injury due to disregard still bo the controlling factor, how Chocolate fudge—Letha Peyton, El ever the schools are financed. Be eanor Clapp, Esther Sato, Kikue Si of the law and an inexcusable care And you have a right to hang cure to acquaint yourselves with the zukie. Uncooked fudge — Eleanor lessness on the part of motor ve anything around it you wish. hicle operators. On our heavily trav facts and vote intelligently when you Brunquist. Pinoche — Maxine, and elled streets and highways, a mo But. if you want to grace it with go to the polls June 1. Harriet Enney. Peanut brittle—Yukie ment’s inattention on the part of any a shirt that has a comfortable Katayama, Laura Pitts. Taffy—Na one at the controls of a fast-moving collar that always looks trim and omi Hess. Light fudge—Margery Sa oar may well mean the difference t?e- TRIBUTE TO TRUMPETERS ttesh — treat it to our Arrow to, Evelyn Gibbs. Katherine Smith, tween life and death, happiness or Hitt. Hitt’s famous Aroset collar There is something in hand music June Lowe. Divinity Hope Rum will remain tidy and wrinkle-free that lays hold of the pulse as no baugh. and Harriet Monroe. The mon misery to many persons. through your longest day — yet it other music can. ey received from this sale is to be requires no starch. Some music touches the fountain used for scholarships to send club of tears, some lulls to rest, some eirls to the summer school at Cor Hitt has the Mitoga form-fit, too. tempts the feet to dance; hut what vallis. Sanforized-Shrunk . . . a new INSURANCE besides the thunderous strains of the shirt free if one ever shrinks. $2 LOANS brasses and drums onn set the ar- toric 'fire, and tickle the spine so? PARKDALE GARDEN CT.T tb A BSTRACTS II.'- Paul Benrdett REAL E S T A T E ! A noil er trouble is to< nir.ny people Arrow for Graduation I he garden club of Parkdale had its are willing to give a i ree of their tongue hut unwilling to lend an ear. last meeting that will be held during the school year. Harold Busig has As a rule it isn’ t long after a man joined the club, and we hope he can Hood River Abstract begins courting trouble that he finds catch up with the rest of us. At the last meeting the members of the club himself married to it. Inc. & Investment Co. filled out the first reports and with It may not be posible alwnys to the help of our leader we had them Photic 1331 3rd and Cascade Hood River, Ore. preserve American life but a good filled out in a short time. We will meet again the second day of June. ' portion of it will always be pickled. Meetings 1 a rkin FISH ANOTES 'B y Rudy Schroeder) Good fishing is still around the cor ner so far as Hood River county and the Deschutes country is concerned The wind was blowing so hard on the Deschutes it was impossible to use a fly. Some steelhead were ta ken with spinners, and a few trout with worms. Fair catches were made far up the river Saturday. The lakes in the Green point region are still frozen over for the most part, and fishing is poor. North lake is open but there is little to be caught. Coat and Suit SALE // GGER--TROTTEUR and PRINCESS COATS 10.00 and 15.00 Tweeds — Fleeces — Worsteds Beige — Grey and Blue Size range 12 to 46. 14.00 Coats, now ......1 0 .0 0 19.50 Coats, now . .....1 5 .0 0 Strictly Tailored SUITS of Men’s Wear Gray — Navy and Postman Blue Sizes 12 to 40 $14.00 SUITS 10.00 $19.50 SUITS 1 5 .0 0 i he Choice of the Season's Best Styles and Materials at Real Sav ing Prices. GET YOURS N O W The Leonora Specialty Shop Hood River, Oregon
