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N Y S S A G A TE C IT Y JO U R N A L, TH U R S D A Y , DEC. 30,1937 IRONSIDE NEWS By MRS. E. J. BEAM ST A T E C A P IT O L N EW S A. L. LINDBECK State Capitol News Bureau SALEM. ORE.—The state supreme court this we k rewrote the ballot title for the proposed contitustiorul amendment legalizing certain forms of gambling which is being sponsor ed by the Oregon Merchants' Leg- is’ ative Leauge. The League in its appeal to the court charged that the ballot title prepared by Attorney General Van Winkle was unfair and misleading and reflected the pre judice of the attorney general against all forms of gambling. —L— A revised draft of his initiative measure providing for a blanket pri mary law was filed with the state department this week by Elbert Eastman, Por.land attorney. The new draft attempts to avoid the weaknessess in the original mea sure which were pointed out by A t torney General Van Winkle at the time he prepared the ballot title. The measure seeks to abolish party lines in the selection Gt public o f ficials in this state in the future, throwng a'l candidates in to slngL po„ in the primary election, the two high candidates for each office to “ run it o ff" in the general election. —re charges that representatives of the National Labor Relations Board “ exerted undue influence" in order to swing the election held by em ployees of the Inman-Poulsen Lum ber mill in Portland to the C IO are being investigated by Governor Martin. The charges were made by B. W. Sleeman and Frank Chap man, representatives of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, an A F L affiliate. The "un due influence” charges include promises of back pay for the idle workers as well as state aid in the MyFavoriteRecipes — Frances Lee Barton says: — H EN chill winds blow and the family are roaring hungry for their dinner, It’s a thoroughly sound id e a to b u ild your dinner i //-. around a plate of good, substan- IC \ )Q tlal eoup. One of the best soups for this purpose Is b e a n sou p , which Is sa voury and has plenty o f body. A generous dish of cole slaw, some hot muffins and the family’s favorite dessert—and there Is your dinner. This bean soup is thickened to the king’s taste with a small quan tity of quick-cooking tapioca. W form of unemployment compensa tion. —L — Earl F:hl, former county judge of Jackson county, entered the state hospital for lnsanme at Salem this week, having been committed to the institution by Circuit Judge H. D. Nor,on following an examination by a board of alienists- —L— Christmas was a doub'e holiday for State Corporation Commissloer, James H. Hazlett o f Hood River. Santa Claus and the stork visited the Hazlett home at Milford, Illinois, ihe ¡.ame day 62 years ago last Sat urday when little Jimmie was born. —L — Governor Martin this week ex tended his pants kicking activities to the National Labor Relations Board and Madam Perkns, secre- ry of labor, with a gentle slap on the wrist for the president thrown in for good measure. The governor’s -riticism o f the federal officials was voiced during a speech at Astoria in which he placed blame for the lm- po'.ency of the federal administra tion in dealing with labor troubles which have paralyzed the Oregon lumber industry. The governor’s speech drew imme diate fire from Howard Latourette, democratic national committeeman, who charged that the governor had always been an enemy of the presi dent and his new deal program. — L — The next legislature will be asked to restrict the sale of fortified wines to state liquor stores and agencies, according to Arthur McMahan, chairman o f the Liquor Control ccmmission. McMahan blames much of >he trouble now being experienced on account of drunkenness on the unrestricted sale of these wines some of which have an alcoholic content as high as 21.7 percent. Officials of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition are plan ning to make 1939 the greatest .ravel year in history. O Oelioious Bean Soup S tablespoons quick-cooking ta pioca; 1 teaspoon salt; dash of cayenne; % small onion; 2 cups bean pulp; 3% cups milk; 1 table spoon butter; 2 strips broiled bacon, diced; bacon drippings; 1 table spoon minced parsley. Combine tapioca, salt, cayenne, onion, bean pulp, and milk In top of double boiler. Place over rapidly boiling water and heat until scalded (allow 5 to 7 minutes after water resumes boiling); then cook 6 minutes, stirring frequently. Add butter, bacon, drippings, and pars ley. Remove onion before serving. Serves 4 to 6. Note: Bean pulp may be prepared from cooked fresh or dried, beans or baked beans. 11THEN bells are booming, sirens YT shrieking, whistles tooting and general bedlam seems to have broken loose at midnight of De cember thirty-first, everyone will SYCHOLOGISTS, as you know, ne wishing everyone else “ A H ap py N ew Y e a r !" And there’s one urge married couples to seek periodic vacations from one another ..-fallible way of making It at least start to come true, and that’s J u s t to k e e p by beginning the New Year right. life's grandest The way is to give a New Year's ¡relation from be- party to as many guests as you c o m i n g hum ■rant. We can’t make any sugges drum. So, too. tions about the number, but we inveterate "mar- have some ideas about the foods maladers" w h o lo serve. Here’s the menu for a de want always to licious dinner for eight people. appreciate t h e wonderful morn Deviled Ham Eggs ing taste experi Cream o f Asparagus Soup ence that accompanies toast and Toast Sticks marmalade, would do well occa Bread and B utter Sandwiches sionally to vary the old standby, Baked Chicken and Mushrooms like this; Ice Cream Banana Cake with Blackberry Marmalade Pineapple F illin g 3 cups (lt4 lbs.) prepared fruit; Mints Coffee 6 cups (2)4 lbs.) sugar; % bottle Choroletes fru it pectin. Deviled Ham Eggs: Hard cook To prepare fruit, peel off yellow eight eggs, peel them, cut them In Yind of 1 orange and lemon with halves and remove and mash sharp knife, leaving as much of volks. Add to mashed yolks two ■white part of fruit as possible. Put tablespoons melted butter and one yellow rinds through food chopper; 'ablespoon lemon Juice, and season add H cup water and H teaspoon to taste with salt, pepper, paprika soda, bring to a boil, cover, and and a few grains mustard. Add simmer 10 minutes. Cut off tight two tablespoons mayonnaise and skin of peeled fruit and slip pulp the contents of a 2‘» ounce can out of each section. Add pulp and deviled ham, and mix thoroughly. Juice to cooked rind. Crush or grind Refill the whites with this mix about 1 quart fully ripe blackber ture, then press the two halves to ries. Combine with orange mixture. gether and wrap In waxed paper. Measure sugar and prepared fruit C 'ream of Asparagus Soap; Cut Into large kettle, filling up last cup off the tips o f the asparagus from with water if necessary. Mix well one tall can, and set aside as a and bring to a full rolling boil over garnish. Turn the rest hottest fire. Stir constantly before ot the asparagus, cut j; and while boiling Boil gently 5 fine, and the liquor m -lutes. Remove from fire and stir from the can Into a lr Vittled fruit pectin. Then stir saucepan, add one quart ai ' «kirn by turns for Just S mln- roup stock, and boll ten to cool slightly, to prevent minutes. Press through .ig fruit. Pour quickly Paraf- • sieve. 8auté two 4 ot marmalade at once. Makes tablespoons chopped a t 3 glasses (< fluid ounces sweet red pepper In P f Saturday ?TîjKt in Japan A large crowd gathered at the Grange Hall on Thursday evening for the community Christmas tree and excellent school program pre sented by the teachers and pupils of the Ironside and Grouse Creek school Santa arrived later to h;lp distribute a generous sack of goodies to each child present Later dancing was enjoyed for several hours. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Beam, Arthur Beam and daughter. Barbara. Viv lan Van Cleave and children were guests Christmas day at the Ralph Beam home at Unity. The ladies club held their regular meeting on Wednesday before Christmas at the Grange Hal' After the business meeting an ex change of Christmas gifts by the members, which is an annual affair took place. Later the ladies filled the candy sacks for the community Christmas tree. Mrs. E. J. Beam and Vivian Van Cleave served refresh ments at the close. Gordon Dickson motored to Bak er on Friday for his two daughters “/~iOME on In, the water’s fine.’* Dorothy and Ella Mae who attend V j Bathing in Japan is on a different school in Halfway. They are at plane from ours as these two Ameri can gentlemen can tell you. Tubs are home for the holidays. perpendicular there. Instead of hori Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Boor of zontal, and you stand In the water up Fox Valley were in Ironside on to your neck. But we shouldn't laugh Friday on their way to spend Xmas at this somewhat primitive scene, ac at the parental Chas. Boor home at cording to Consumers Information, which points out that only a hundred Fruitland. years ago, there were only 1,500 bath Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Lofton and tubs in the United States, all of them Andy Lofton left on Friday for in Philadelphia, where they had a Mcnument where they will spend city water system and taxed each Xmas with Mrs. Loftons and Andy's tub $3.00. President Fillmore Installed mother. Mrs. Vivian Van Cleave and child ren went to Prairie City on Sunday where they will vist until New Years at the Walter Laurance home. Four hundred patrons and friends The Lloyd Howard fam ily were guests Christmas day at the John of the Owyhee school heard the pupils give th ir Christmas play “The Woodcock home near Vale. The H. -C. E'ms and Floyd White Grouchy Goblins,” on the last W ed homes had as their guests for Vmas nesday evening. The players were dinner, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hinton all in costume and each of the 75 and two daughters of Boise, Mr. and pupils In the school had a part. It Mrs. C. D. Houser and Chas. Elms of was well given and enjoyed by the Haines. M r and Mrs. Frank Elms audience. Much credit is due their Mesdames Schweiaer, of Unity and Mr. and Mrs Kenneth teachers Grabber of the Macey mine near Chadwick and Abbott as well as Mrs. Earl Strickland who was pian Baker. The Ed Oakes fam ily are home ist and Earl Crocker who played the violin. And many thanks are due from Ontario for the holidays. the P. T. A. for making the cos tumes used. 375 treats were handed Master of Jewish History out by Santa and his committee at Heinrich Graetz (1817)1891) was the close of the evening. famous as a historian. His principal Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mitchell enter work, “ Geschichte Juden,” begun in 1853 and completed in 1875, won for tained at dinner Christmas day for him the position as recognized mas the Geo. and Lonzo Knowles and the Winnie Unwin families. ter of Jewish history. Kenneth McDonald o f Ilomedale, Idaho, spent several days with his mother Mrs. Martha Klingback. The Grover Douglas, Don Morgan families, Mrs. Anna Larson and Mrs. Violet Rice and son Bob were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Glenn on Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mendiola, three sons and dafffehter of the Butter field ranch near Vale were Christ mas ca'lers at the Klingback home. The Oce Schweizer and Ellis Walters families were dinner guests of Mrs. Bradney in the Bend on Christmas. B ill Gordon brought his sl< ep from Diamond to their winter quarters at the Chas. Bradley ranch last week. Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Hite enter tained at a family gathering for their children and families on Christmas Jack McConnell was taken ill Sat urday and moved to the Dixon home in Nyssa for treatment. Others who entertained on Chrlst- mas are as fo'lows: Mrs. Martha Klingback for the Chas. Culbert sons and Kenneth McDonald; Ray Franklins for his brother Claude and family; Lynn Kygars for his four tablespoons butter, add four parents asd brothers Mr. and Mrs. tablespoons flour, and stir until J$ss K y g jr and fanjlly: Earnest thickened and smooth. Then add Barkers w nt to the Brewer home the asparagus and stock liquor, near Ontario. stirring constantly until smooth The Chas Bradley family spent and creamy. Add one-half cup the day Christmas with their daugh cream, season to taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg and serve. ter Mrs. Ole Solomn In Boise. Baked Chicken and Mushrooms : Mr. and Mrs. Neil Dimmick are Make a white sauce of four table spending the C h r t) mas violation spoons butter, four tablespoons with Mrs Dimmick's parents in flour, two cups top milk or light Walla Wa'la. Washington, and Mr cream, salt, pepper and paprika. Dimmick's folks in Yakima, Wash Add one tablespoon lemon Juice ington. slowly. Dice the contents of a 12- Phillip, Lewis and Margaret M it ounce can chicken, and add. Par boil one cup diced celery, and add. chell were Sunday guests of the Put In Individual bakers and top Kllngbacks. Christmas treats were with buttered crumbs. Remove given to the Children at the Owy stems from eight large mushrooms hee Sunday school last Sunday. (reserving them for soups, sauces O W YH EE etc.) and lay one large cup (two or three, if small) in center of each dish. Put a good sized bit of butter In each cap and bake for from twenty to thirty minutes in a hot oven. A Cake to Croon Over Banana Cake with Pineapple Filling: Cream two-thirds cup but ter and two-thirds cup sugar, and add two well-beaten eggs. Add one and three-fourths cup mashed bananas S ift together two cups pastry flour, three teaspoons bak ing powder and one-fourth tea spoon salt, and add alternately with one-half cup milk. Add one teaspoon vanilla, and bake in two layers in a 378-degree oven for from t w e n t y to twenty live minutes. When cool, spread the following pineapple Oiling be tween the layers, and cover top and sides F with white icing. Pineapple F i l l i n g : Boil slowly together until thick, one cup ot crushed pineapple, two tablespoons butter and two-thirds cup sugar. Cool Buena Vista News M r and Mrs. C. C. W ycoff and family were Christmas dinner guests of Mr. nd Mrs. Bert Bratton. Several from this community a t tended the Christmas tr</ party at the Community church in Nyssa on Thursday evening. Mr and Mrs. A. P. Qoodell and children were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs. Harold McCormick near PaAna on Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Day had as Christmas dinner guests M r and Mr Alfred Scott and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Florea and their chil dren, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Day and their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Sorensan with their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle True of Nampa and Mr and Mrs. Highland dined on Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hoffm an, M r and Mrs C. C. W ycoff and fam ily and Mr. an<^ Mrs. S. B. Hoffm an and family visited In O n tario on Thursday. M r and Mrs. Chester Sage, Mr. and Mrs. C C. W ycoff, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Jamieson home on Sun day. Dwight and Deane W ycoff attend ed a party at the Fred OsterKamp home on Sunday. the first tub In the White House in 1850. Advertising of the advantages of convenient and sanitary bathing started 31 years later, has continued increasingly ever since, and has made the United States the cleanest nation on earth. Even the most ad vanced European nations are far be hind us In this respect, and the pos session of a bathtub in most countries Is a sign not only of opulence but os tentation. The United States is among the few countries generally educated to the knowledge that health and cleanliness go together. SEVEN R YE V A R IE TIE S TESTED BURNS—Seven different varieties or selections of rye are being tried out under Harney county conditions on the farms operated by Claude Boyle of Burns and R. B. Jackson of Wagontlre, In cooperation with County Agent W. A. Sawyer. Three one-rod rows of each variety have been planted, using the standard variety test plot method, Sawyer says. MUCH CRESTED W H EAT SEED SOLD L A O RAND E— The Blue Moun tain Seed Growers' association mar keted a total of 38,052 pounds of seed during November, most of which was crested wheat grass, re ports County Agent H. G. Avery. In the period from August 1 to Decem ber 1, the association sold 93, 312 pounds of seed, of which 74,851 pounds were crested wheat grass, he said. Although the association had purchased more than 20,000 pounds of seed In addition to consignments from members, less than a ton of seed remained on December 1 to supply spring orders. MODERN PLUMBING D A IR Y HERD RECORDS VALU ABLE H ILLSB O RO — Reliable produc tion records of some sort are the A home is only as modern as its plumbing. first necessary steps In the establish ment of a breeding program In the dairy herd, Roger Morse, O.S.C. ex tension dairyman, told a group of Washington county dairymen at a SAVE LIVES” IS NEW YE A R RESOLUTION'. In bathrooms, kitchens, laundries and lava tories, attractive fixtures and dependable “ hidden” m ater ials pay dividends in extra satisfaction and convenience. Governors of Seven Western States recent meeting. I f a dairyman tests consistently and does what the test Advance Red Cross Program For Highway Safety. Indicates should be done, he will be well on the road toward bullring up San Francisco, California, Dec. a more profitable herd. Morse said. Plumber 30.— The new year is ushered In with the Governors, highway o ffi PHONE 134-J-3 cials and school departments of W ATE R EROSION C LAIM S A T T E N T IO N seven western states in a concerted effort to advance the American Red HEPPNER— W ith the increase in Cross campaign to prevent accid nts thereby saving thousands of lives, trashy summer fallow acreage from A. L. Schafer, Red Cross manager practically nothing a few years ago !n the Pacific Area, announced to to some 40,000 acres in 1937, the em phasis on soil conservation work in day. Morrow county is shifting from Cooperation 100 Per Cent Home from conferences with gov wind erosion to water erosion, says Agent Joe Belanger. A l ernors and other state officials, Mr. County Schafer said that he had found though less spectacular, water ero each State 100 percent in its oc- sion has probably caused greater losses over operation. There is a definite and more permanent movement In the several states to j most of the Columbia Basin counties have the Highway Patrols and the | than wind, he says. Highway Maintenance see the value j of having the drivers o f all school T reat the old bus to our busses trained in Red Cross First [ aid methods to render greater ser W IN T E R vice to the children should emer L U B R IC A T IO N gencies arise, Mr. Schafer said. JOB SCREENED Maps Show Aid Stations And don’t forget our Winter and He also found a desire to mark | Grade Oil will make it start State Road Maps with a smal' Red W A SH E D Easier. Cross to designate locations of emergency First Aid Stations. A ri zona was the first State in the West to adopt the plan. Since then Ida ho and Nevada have adopted it. Oregon and Utah are the latest to give the pro|>osnl consideration. An 2nd and Main S t interesting summarization of the Phone 06R1 Red Cross safety campaign in the western states follows: Oregon Patrol Trained Governor Charles H Martin an nounces all members of the Oregon Highway road maintenance trucks and crews serve as Red Cross First Aid units. First Aid instruction for all school bus drivers is considered The protection your Insurance offers is no by Dr. V. D. Bain, State Department of Education. T h e State is now stronger than the insurance company behind the considering the proposal to mark policy. highway maps with Red Cross des ignation for emergency First Aid stations. Red Cross chapters aim to increase from 66 to 122 the num ber o f emergency First Aid stations. PH O NE 31 A t Salem the Cherry City Baking Company is training the drivers of 30 cars to serve as a mobile First Aid unit GEO. J. KINZER j WHY NOT? GRAVEL Basement Excavation VIRGIL JOHNSON NORCOTT SERVICE Nyssa, Oregon InsurelnSUREInsurance F R A N K T. M O R G A N t irsl Bank Notes in China Bank notes bearing the name of the bank, date of tisue and a serial number, were first printed in China »697 B C Start The New Year Right Baby Bears Very Small Bears, which are among the larg est animals on the North American continent, are remarkable for the small size of their cubs at birth. Black bears, which weigh from 250 to 500 pounds when grown, start from 10 to 15 ounces. Grizzlies, which reach more than 1,000 pounds, start from 14 to 24 ounces. W et Wash. lb. 4c Rough Dry. lb Flat Work. « lbs 35c 5c Dresses. Fancy Shirts, etc. 2 for 25c. finished Work Shirts 10c Finished Cleaning and Pressing CITY LAUNDRY Mrs. Wm. Marshall First house South on Road east of Depot DOUBLE YOUR PRODUCTION ON 5e A M O N TH ! W IT H OUR LAYING MASH STAND ARD COAL Al Thompson & Son Feed, Coal, Grain Phone 26 John Deere Tractor Baldridge Implement Co. 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