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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1929
Page
2
The Athena Press announces subscription rates for 1929 with prices for one year six months and three months. Rates listed include two dollars for a year and one dollar for six months with seventy five cents for a three month copy. The notice is from Athena Oregon dated June 7 1929.
Dr. E H B McDaniel, president of the Oregon State Motor Association, praises the states highway program citing a 1917 bond issue up to 4 percent of assessed valuation. About 30 million dollars remain debt, with 3500 miles of improved roads in Oregon, a rapid build compared with only 142 miles nationwide in 1904.
A New York judge wins Hearst prize for best temperance plan arguing 18th Amendment should endure, distinguishing distillation from fermentation and urging legalization of light wines and beers under state regulation. The judge calls distillation man made and linked to liquor evils, while fermentation is nature’s act.
A new act effective Wednesday increases penalties for drunk driving from a first offense misdemeanor with a 100 to 600 dollar fine and 60 days to six months in jail to felonies for second and subsequent offenses with prison terms up to five years and fines up to 200 dollars. The report also notes Hoover backing cruiser construction and pilots Robbins and Kelly logging 172 hours. The Supreme Court adds six months to Harry Sinclair’s sentence for jury shadowing, to run concurrently with three months. Wheat traders see a rebound after prices dipped Monday, with July futures clearing the dollar mark again at 1.0575.
The liberal party holds the balance of power after the recent general election. David Lloyd George remains the dominant figure guiding the political situation in the county.
A busy collection of brief items touches topics from politics to weather and travel. Governor George A Parks of Alaska is noted for using an airplane, Des Moines University confronts a campus clash with the Ku Klux Klan, a Marshfield woman uncovers moonshine in a grave top, and gas in France costs fifty cents a gallon. June brings bridal blooms, and the Pioneers’ Weston picnic arrives with a million dollar rain. Colonel Lindbergh dominates headlines.
Lawmakers face a pivotal decision on whether to recess, shaping timing for legislative actions as major issues press for attention. The debate centers on balancing political calendars with urgent policy work and constituent needs.
Portland motorists found gas at 17 to 21 cents per gallon, with many filling tanks amid lightweight Sunday traffic and routine fueling patterns.
Candidates for the Legislature pledged to George E Chamberlain express willingness to back him for U S Senate. Edward Zeuske, son of North Cold Springs pioneers, killed in a run away accident near Weston. Athena brief updates include fishing, travel to Portland for Democratic convention, trips to Camas Prairie and Umatilla river, visitors from Walla Walla, Pythian Lodge delegates to Portland, a shoulder injury to Miss Reta Rothrock, moves of Mr and Mrs Will Read, race entries for Butte meets, Mrs G C Osburn returning from a long eastern trip, death of Will Stumpf at McCloud Alberta, fruit crops promising, a notable strawberry display at Palace drug store, Kitty Gholson’s 16th birthday party, and Montie B Gwinn with Mr Stevens traveling by auto to town with road repair by Dick Wright.
A brief reflective verse by Mary Sangster urging steadfast integrity and noble aims as life’s seasons pass, promising that dreams grow real when one follows high ideals.
A fragment lists old time puddings and cakes with recipes for Indian Pudding Grandpa's Gingerbread Cottage Fruit Cake Yankee Plum Pudding and Were May wetd. It mentions ingredients like milk flour corn meal suet dried fruit molasses spices and eggs with baking or steaming instructions. The text ends abruptly with a garbled phrase Were May wetd.
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