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strike during the coronation ceremon
ies. Almost as unpatriotic as a strike
of pop salesmen during a World Ser
ies game.
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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
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says he knows a man who “ owns a setting a new m
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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
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The common fly is said to lay eight record has been broken.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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(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
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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
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