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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1930
Page
4
The 1929 Oregon legislature approved extensive changes to election statutes including broadened absent voter eligibility, physician certificates for ill voters, later absentee applications, new registration allowances, and simplified ballot handling to reduce costs.
John A Jeffrey of Portland files with the secretary of state as a candidate for Republican nomination for Governor. His platform calls for Salem-Free school books, water power development for public use, and exclusion of Mexican and Filipino immigration. He advocates abolition of useless commissions, cutting state expenses, highway and waterway development, and enforcing laws by honest officials while supporting the president.
The Walla Walla County Baseball League is renamed the Inter-State League. Wallula Touchet Prescott Fruitvale and two Walla Walla teams join the circuit scheduled to begin March 2 and end July 6.
Classified notice offering hatching eggs from the Joe Hanson strain of non-setting Rhode Island Reds from 1 to 10 dollars per set of 16. Incubators range 5 to 10 dollars per 100. Cockerels priced at 3 dollars each. Contact John Ross or Al Milton in Oregon by phone 24F5. April 4.
The War Department begins a wide scale reorganization of the coast artillery corps to cut costs and boost efficiency. A new anti aircraft unit forms at Aberdeen Maryland and will move to Fort Crockett Texas. other units will be at Fort Totten New York Fort McArthur California and Fort Sheridan Illinois for training. Five seacoast forts remain at full strength including sites in Long Island Sound Chesapeake Bay Pensacola San Francisco and Puget Sound.
The steamer Admiral Benson ran aground at the north jetty entrance to the Columbia River in heavy fog. A crew of 65 and 40 passengers rode out the tide while salvage efforts and danger from breakers continued.
C K Cranston files declaration of candidacy with the county clerk to run for county treasurer. Cranston, a county pioneer and Republican, is slated to appear with the designation Former Treasurer on the ballot. Bettye DeHart, current treasurer, is the first candidate and seeks Republican nomination in May.
Kiddle of La Grande a joint senator from Union Umatilla and Morrow counties announces he will seek reelection. He plans to run for the ee party nomination at the May primary.
Senator H L Corbett chairing the interim committee pressed the loan authorization from the state industrial accident funds for new state office buildings. He called the move the most unmoral act the senate ever did and warned the fund trustees risk misapplying commission money in construction.
Eight cases of smallpox developed last week at the Washington state penitentiary in Walla Walla. In response patients were isolated and all visitors barred from the institution.
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