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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1931
Page
3
The article lists Oregon driver license guidance with Q and A on yielding to vehicles and pedestrians, emergency vehicles, streetcars, alley exits, and parking rules. It notes exceptions and penalties across sections 36a 36b 38a 38b 38c 41 41a 42 42b 44 49 50a, and includes a prune crop note from Walla Walla Valley with crop estimates ranging 500 car loads and up.
Lionel Davidson Earl Gould and Glenn Johnson of Otis Gould's surveying crew visited Weston Saturday and Sunday to stock the camp larder and talk with friends. They describe chilly weather at their station with frequent heavy frosts. Mrs. Caroline Nelson longtime Weston resident and wife of Nelson H Nelson Union Pacific foreman died August 5 in Oaksdale Washington after long illness.
Harold Piersol of Weston and Violet Trump of Athena obtained a marriage license on Saturday.
Pendleton Week builds to a peak with 1050 horses and cattle in barns, 75 to 100 riders in the cavalcade, and major events like coronation ball and Happy Canyon shows. Contest horses include Midnight and a $5000 trophy list plus roping saddle, belt buckles, and a star company teepee village rising by week’s end. The town expects crowds and a 2000 population surge as the bomb at 1:30 pm signals the annual Round-Up kickoff.
National commander Ralph T. ONeal said the Carnegie Foundation report branding Legion pension policies as unfair was erroneous. He emphasized the Legion seeks disability compensation for disabled veterans and notes the loan bill simply allows veterans to borrow their own money at a profit to the government.
Delegates from western states report parched ranges burned crops scarce grain and water forcing sacrifices of herds. Utah plans include low freight rates for livestock and feed to drought areas and federal drought relief aid. A clash erupts over grazing rate cuts between wool grower leaders and US forester Robert Y. Stuart.
The Edison Institute in Detroit houses General Electric’s one millionth refrigerator in a permanent exhibit. The gift was unveiled June 20 via nationwide radio hook up with GE president Gerard Swope presenting from New York NBC studios and Ford accepting in Detroit. Attended by industrial leaders, the event contrasted rapid appliance growth with earlier speeds of telephone and auto development.
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