Umatilla County Taxpayers Form Conservation League
A large Pendleton meeting created the Umatilla County Tax Conservation and Equalization League with Mac Hoke as president and M. L. Watts and B. B. Richards in vice-presidential and secretary-treasurer roles. The group aims for a 20 percent tax cut, urges budget tightening, salary adjustments to reflect 1.42 dollar value, and restricts road work and new districts while praising Governor Meier for tax reduction efforts.
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Umatilla County
Pendleton
State Tax Conservation League
Tax Conservation and Equalization League
Mac Hoke
M. L. Watts
Athena
B. B. Richards
League
Adams
Helix
Weston
Umatilla
Salem
Julius L. Méier
State of
Oregon
Hoosier Picnic Planned at Milton On Sunday
The Hoosier picnic announced in The Press last week will be held at Milton on Sunday. Dinner is at 1 o clock, and all Hoosiers and families are asked to bring well filled baskets. A big table will be set family style, with a program arranged and sports featured in the afternoon.
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Milton
George Ludwig Dies After Illness in Walla Walla Jewelry Trade
George Ludwig a longtime Walla Walla jeweler died at 5 30 p m Saturday after a two week illness. Though in ill health for years he continued to work in Ludwigs jewelry store until two weeks ago.
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George Ludwigs
Walla Walla
Ludwigs
Deputy Sheriff Bert Nation Drives Down Car Thieves
In Her Miston, deputy sheriff Bert Nation has led a crackdown on automobile thieves, arresting five suspected thieves in the past ten days.
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Bert Nation
Hermiston
Fifty Bushels Per Acre Report Across Athena District
Harvest runs near perfect as hot weather aids threshing with no large grain fires. Local mills receive steady grain, while farmers report yields from 44 to 65 bushels per acre on various farms including Lila Kirk ranch, Marion Hansell home place, Arnold Wood, and others. McBride Bros thresh 400 acres totaling about 8000 bushels.
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Athena
Walla Walla
Whitman
Preston-Shaffer Milling Company
Farmers Grain Elevator Company
Wilson
Chicago
Lila Kirk
Marion Hansell
Arnold Wood
Glenn Dudley
Glenn
Dean Dudley
Amiel Schubert
George Sheard
Preas
George
John Walker
O. H. Reeder
Adama
McBride Bros
Big Harvest
Seed Company Installs Unique Cooling System
The Washington Idaho Seed Company on West Main Street adds a cooling and ventilating system to its pea cleaning and grading plant. Fresh outdoor air is pushed in through water soaked wicks by two electric fans, lowering the operating room temperature by several degrees though the 40 electric lights keep the room warm on hot days.
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Washington-Idaho Seed Company
West Main Street
May Raise Money To Reimburse State Hospitals Funding
A 1931 legislative measure requiring estates and relatives of patients in state hospitals and the state home for the feeble minded to contribute to care will bring in about $200 000 to the state during the biennium according to prepared figures.
Burglars Sentenced For Union Pacific Tool House Burglary
Arthur C. Smith and Ray Parr, transients, were sentenced to three and two years respectively in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to burglary not in a dwelling. They admitted breaking into a Union Pacific tool house at Hermiston before Judge Sweek on Wednesday.
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Arthur C. Smith
Ray Parr
Sweek
Union Pacific
Hermiston
Water users curb irrigation to eight hours daily near Freewater
To help farmers west of Freewater in drought straits, Milton water users restrict themselves to eight hours daily from 6 to 8 a.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. The saved water will significantly aid irrigation on farms.
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Freewater
Milton
Pendleton Blankets Chosen for Olympic Village Cabins
Four thousand Pendleton blankets ordered for the Los Angeles Olympic Village cabins for the 1922 games. C. C. Wintermute says the white single bed blankets with colored borders match Pendleton design and will be sold at cost to participants after the games. Samples will be shown at the Portland Chamber of Commerce forum next Monday.
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Portland
Pendleton
Los Angeles Olympic Village
C. C. Wintermute
Pendleton Woolen Mills
Yellowstone National Park
Pendleton Mill
Wintermute
Olympic Organization
Portland Chamber of Commerce
State School Questions Up at Annual Conference
Salem. County superintendents of schools will hold their annual conference with the state department of education here the first three days of next week. Governor Meier will speak Monday morning followed by C. A. Howard.
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Salem
State Department of Education
C. A. Howard
Howard
Hector MacPherson
Red Cross Institute
Meier
Dudley Recovered Moves From Good Samaritan Hospital
E. A. Dudley, after a long illness and surgery at Good Samaritan hospital in Portland, was moved this week to an apartment at 609 Johnson Street taken by Mrs. Dudley two blocks away. His health continues to improve satisfactorily.
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E. A. Dudley
Good Samaritan Hospital
Portland
Dudley
Johnson Street
Mr. Dudley
Gardeners Prepare Fall Lettuce Planting in Blalockee and College Place
Gardeners in the Blalockeee and College Place district clear land of onions to plant fall lettuce next week. The effort aims to ready soil and boost late-season yields for local markets.
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Blalockeee
College Place
Idaho visitors stay with the Jenkins family
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Wandling from Wallace Idaho are visiting at the Arthur Jenkins home with Mrs. Jen king and a Wandling sister.
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Idaho
E. F. Wandling
Wallace
Arthur Jenkins
Jenking
Mr. Wandling
Four Heat Victims Found on Sonora Desert Highway
Nogales based dispatch reports four travelers died of heat on a Sonora desert road about five days after their stage failed 250 miles west of Nogales. A 16 year old girl Rufina M de Ojeda and her 45 day old baby Consuelo perished with two brothers Jesus and Ramon Orantes. Driver Vicente Gutierrez and his son and Juan Ojeda were rescued in critical condition.
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Nogales
Sonora
Mexico
Civilization
Rufina M. de Ojeda
Consuela
Jesus
Ramon Orantes
Vicente Gutierrez
Vicente, Jr
Juan Ojeda
Sonoita Hospital
Rafael Montes
Sonoita
Pinto
Oregon Schedules Long Away-From-Home Grid Season
Oregon plans seven to nine road games for the coming season totaling a 13000 mile itinerary. The schedule includes trips to Los Angeles to face USC and UCLA, and journeys to New York City Portland Seattle Grand Forks N C and San Francisco. November 7 is the only open date between September 26 and November 26.
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University of Oregon
Los Angeles
Southern California Trojans
University of California
New York City
Portland
Seattle
Grand Forks
N. C
San Francisco
Milwaukee line cuts rates to aid Montana drought areas
The Chicago Milwaukee Bt. Paul and Pacific railway announces reduced emergency rates on livestock feeds hay and straw from South Dakota and nearby points to all counties of Montana east of Harlowtown aimed at drought relief.
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Milwaukee
Montana
Chicago Milwaukee Bt. Paul & Pacific Railway
South Dakota
Harlow Town
Meadow Creek Fire Burns in Umatilla National Forest
A small fire was reported Wednesday in the Meadow Creek district of the Umatilla National Forest. Eight men were dispatched to combat the blaze.
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Meadow Creek
Umatilla National Forest
Freewater Couple Granted Marriage License
A marriage license was issued to Russel W. Grosegebaur and Edith Brunton, both of Freewater, authorizing their wedding.
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Freewater
Russel W. Grosegebaur
Edith Brunton
Heat wave bakes California and West with high deaths
A record heat wave sweeps California and the West with 78 heat deaths reported. Imperial Valley sees forty fatalities as temperatures average above normal by six degrees, while Phoenix Needles Taft and Las Vegas report deaths and Utah records one. The Northwest stays cooler as the heat extends across the plains toward Kansas City area.
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California Weather Bureau
Imperial Valley
Phoenix
Ariz
Needles
Taft
Cal
Las Vegas
N. M
Utah
Rocky Mountains
Plains
Kansas City
Dave Lavender Dead Former Weston City Marshal Dies in Salem
Dave Lavender a well known former resident of Weston and city marshal there died Saturday night at his home in Salem after a months long illness due to heart disease Funeral services were held at Weston Tuesday He was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1865 and came west in 1886 He married Ella Price at Weston in 1894 Later he served as a Pendleton sheriff deputy from 1919 and in 1924 joined the Salem state penitentiary guard Surviving are his widow two daughters Mrs Josephine Brockman of Portland Mrs Anna Ramquist of Vashon Island Wash and one son Frank Lavender of Salem
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Dave Lavender
Weston
Salem
Louisville
Ella Price
State
Ella Lavender
Josephine Brockman
Portland
Anna Ramquist
Vashon Island
Wash
Frank Lavender
Army Worms and Grasshopper Plague Hit Midwest Farms
Farmers in the Dakotas Nebraska and Iowa report army worm outbreaks while grasshopper hordes invade northern Minnesota near Fossin and Hibbing. Michigan’s Muskegon County also sees a renewed campaign by the state conservation department to exterminate pests.
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Dakotas
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Fossin
Hibbing
Muskegon Country
Michigan
State Department of Conservation
Two Surviving Gronvers After Wilkin Springs Fight
William Blakeley’s death leaves only two gronvers alive from the Wilkin Springs engagement. Doc Ferguson and Andrew Sullivan, both of Pendleton, remain. Sullivan ran a stock ranch and served as Starkey Prairie postmaster in earlier years.
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William Blakeley
Wilkin Springs
TT. D
Doc) Ferguson
Andrew Sullivan
Pendleton
Sullivan
Starkey Prair
Drunken Driving Charge Plea Rejected in Court
Marsh Courtney of Echo pleaded not guilty to drunken driving when he appeared before a justice of the peace. He was placed in custody after the Wednesday morning hearing as further details emerged about the wreck involving Ree City.
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Marsh Courtney
Echo
City of
Ree
Potter, 56, Dies in Grain Elevator Collapse
Charles Potter of a north Athena farm died from suffocation when a grain elevator at Waterman Station collapsed burying him and a co worker under timbers and wheat. Potter born 1874 in Walla Walla, leaves widow Ellen F Potter and two sisters, with services held in Walla Walla and burial at the nearby cemetery.
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Charles Potter
Athena
Waterman Station
Mr. Potter
Alex McIntyre
Potter
Dr. McKinney
Waterman
Walla Walla
Charlie Fotter
Pendleton
Ellen F. Potter
Harry Biffle
Harry Brown
Auburn
Wash
Loyal Order of Moose
Fires Under Control in Medford Forest Area
Fires in the Medford section are reported under control. Forty men continue patrolling the Applegate district where about 200 acres of fine timber burned.
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Medford
Applegate
Poor Wheat Crop In Wyoming Montana And Idaho
Reports from Wyoming Montana and Idaho indicate wheat crops are poor and far below last year’s average yield.
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Wyoming
Montana
Idaho
Murray named manager of Eastern Oregon district
J A Murray is appointed general manager for the new Eastern Oregon district covering Baker Pendleton Bend and The Dalles with Pendleton as headquarters. He has 28 years with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph and 14 years as Pendleton district manager. The move aims to improve service relations with customers and the public.
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Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company
Pendleton
J. A. Murray
Oregon
Mr. Murray
Baker, Pendleton
Bend
Dalles
Murray
University of Oregon
Portland
Seaside Farmer Acquitted in Elk Killing
Jasper Hovgaard, a Seaside farmer, was acquitted by a justice court jury after five minutes of deliberation on a charge of wanton waste of a game animal. He killed an elk that repeatedly damaged his crops despite protests and lack of relief from game authorities.
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Jasper Hovgaard
Justice Court
Hovgaard
Farmer Burns Sets Fire to 75 Acres of Oats
Edward Herbert, an Illinois farmer, burned 75 acres of oats after harvesting five acres yielded 11 cents a bushel while his cost to raise was 40 cents. He chose to burn the remaining grain to avoid adding 4 more cents per bushel for harvesting and threshing.
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Edward Herbert Illinois
Low Price for Fresh Corn in Kansas City Market
One cent bought a dozen ears of sweet corn in Kansas City on Wednesday as dry heat accelerated maturity. A merchant purchased an entire field at the bargain rate, enabling a record low price for sale to customers.
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Kansas City
Forest Fire Threat Grows Near Metolius River
The Metolius forest fire continued to pose a definite threat after breaching bounds on the Warm Springs Indian reservation. It roared downstream and came within five miles of the revvedliogal ren or Metolius as firefighters raced to contain the blaze.
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Warm Springs
Oregon Legislators Oppose Special Session Tax Measures
Final returns from 63 Oregon lawmakers show strong opposition to a special session to tackle tax matters and to the Indiana plan for local budget control. Most favor leaving decisions to the governor or limiting the session to tax issues only, with mixed views on enactment and scope.
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Robert C. Netson
Morning
Oregonian
Indiana
Oregon
Meier
Oregon Taxpayers’ Equalization League
Senate
House
Slow Wheat Delivery Delays River Shipment
The Dalles reports slow wheat delivery from Balfour Guthrie & Company ranches in Gilliam County. The steamer Umatilla from Portland is delayed as wheat sits on a river bank platform beside the Columbia and Willamette Towing Company. Only three trucks operate to the Gilliam ranches about 75 miles away, and ranchers complain lack of Portland warehouse space hinders river transport.
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Dalles
Balfour Guthrie & Company
Gilliam County
Umatilla
Portland
Columbia & Willamette Towing Company
Balfour Guthrie Company
Corn price surges on drought and heat in Midwest markets
Corn jumped 10 cents a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade amid droughts grasshoppers and heat. Northwestern Iowa and other grain regions reported crop perils while other areas said corn was in decent condition with July futures reaching highs around 684 and closing near 67 percent.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Iowa
Plan to Consolidate State Universities at Salem
A prominent southern Oregon man urged in Salem that the University of Oregon at Eugene merge with Oregon State College at Corvallis and that the university property be sold to the government at a low price for use as a national soldiers home to resolve the federal institution site controversy.
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State University
Eugene
Oregon State College
Corvallis
Salem
Southern Oregon Rman
Walla Walla Farmers Sign Tax Pact Protest Demand
More than 200 farmers in Walla Walla County including top taxpayers sign a pact to pay no taxes for two years unless taxes are cut by at least 25 percent of farm product prices and meet a 60 percent threshold in the aid.
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Walla Walla County
Theades
Cougar killed near Eugene after two months of depredations
A seven foot long cougar responsible for repeated killings of goats along the Lorane highway was killed Sunday about eight miles from Eugene. The animal had been preying on livestock for two months.
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Sig Cougar
Lorane Highway
Eugene
River at The Dalles Reaches New Low Amid Sandbars
The Columbia River at The Dalles falls to 9.5 feet, one foot lower than a year ago, marking a new low after last year’s record drought. Sandbars reappear where water once covered shorelines.
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Columbia
Dalles
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County Tax League
Mrs. Hoover
Hrbert Hoover
Akron
Ohio
Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation
California
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