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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1931
Page
3
More than 700 boys and girls from 31 Oregon counties travel home from the seventeenth annual 4 H club summer school at Oregon State College ending June 20. Enrollment rose about 50 over last year with girls outnumbering boys two to one and many holding scholarships for outstanding work.
Lela Saling played the leading role in The Beggar Student at the Heckscher Theatre with the New York Light Opera Guild. A New York Times critic praised the cast and production, noting the orchestra and chorus contributed to a polished performance. She reports ongoing singing and teaching, with a lyric voice and trills suited to light opera, and plans summer opera at Forrest Hills, Long Island.
May production reports show Louie Ringel’s pure bred Guernsey herd on Wild Horse Creek attaining the second highest average among 36 herds in the Umatilla Herd Improvement Association. The Ringel herd averaged 35.2 pounds butterfat per cow for the month. Coppock and Sons in Athena district also set a record with a three year old Guernsey cow producing 1,119 pounds of milk and 45.9 pounds butterfat.
Angora rabbit breeder H. A. Frick of Pendleton has bought 40 acres along the Uma tilla river east of Pendleton. He raises Angora rabbits not for meat but for wool. Wool sells for 10 per pound and one rabbit plus a third of another's wool yields about one pound per year. He shears the rabbits four times annually.
Stockholders and friends met with Dr. Robert Warner of Deaconess hospital Spokane to map a plan for the Walla Walla Valley General hospital. Efforts aim to persuade Methodists to assume ownership and run the facility in an advisory capacity amid financial difficulties.
Oregon Grange adopts a resolution urging consolidation of the University of Oregon and Oregon State College under a single president with the office in Salem. Aimed at uniting normal schools, the measure warns the state board of higher education against retaliation over higher education funding referenda.
Henry Collins has sold his chain of Independent Warehouses in Umatilla county to Farmers National Warehouse corporation. The facilities hold two million bushels and sit at Adams Cayuse Cold Springs Havana Lena Lexington McCormmack Myrick Mikkalo Mission Nolin Rieth Saxe Shuttler Stanfield Sparks. The Independent Warehouse Co. is the state's largest firm. Collins has run it for about twenty years.
Directors of the International Base Ball League favored a plan to include the Pacific Coast League in the junior world series. The format would have the International and American Association champions face off, with the winner meeting the Pacific Coast League champion in the Far Western League winner's series.
Merle Hufford of Freewater, a UW halfback, married Miss Grace Umphlette Saturday night at University Lutheran church in Seattle. The bride lives in Seattle and Hufford will return to complete his final year in college this fall after the romance that began during Hufford’s first Husky season.
The Kansas City board of trade sold No. 3 hard wheat at 77 percent cents a bushel basis Chicago. The grain, from Temple Oklahoma, priced about 51.5 cents on the Temple track, marking one of the lowest payments for new wheat in many years.
A. L. Thompson, a Wallowa district farmer, lies in Enterprise hospital with a fractured skull after an altercation over water rights with Neal Baker’s neighbor. Reports say Baker and his son Buster were arrested.
Jose B. Ramirez formerly of Cayuse died last week in Utah near Provo from tick fever contracted while working. His death highlights health risks tied to outdoor labor and regional tick-borne illnesses.
Dayton Chronicle Dispatch reports valley farmers will cover electricity costs to operate Preston-Shaffer Milling mill in June to restore irrigation water. Water rights relinquished for the month allow stream flow regulation, with each farmer paying a share, potentially around 400 dollars total, prorated by acreage under watermaster Harlow Barney.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company expands its safety program to 12,000 drivers, including 10,000 private cars, urging strict traffic law compliance. In Oregon 800 employee cars join 176 company vehicles under J. A. Murray, aiming to cut coast motor accidents around 40,000 yearly. Posters, pamphlets, articles, and a questionnaire push the campaign.
Perfect weather brought big attendance to the annual Umatilla county pioneers reunion in Weston with Friday and Saturday programs. Senator Fred Steiner and Walter M. Pierce spoke. Weston beat Athena in both baseball games. Charles A. Winn was elected association president with Walter M. Pierce as vice president, B. Barnes secretary, and Charles Pinkerton treasurer.
Astoria branch of the Oregon Experiment station introduced the Bortfield turnip two years ago. It has become popular among coast dairy farmers and is now being trialed in Baker County as a root crop for winter cattle feed. Baker County agent P. T. Fortner obtained and distributed a small seed quantity for trials.
The Pendleton post of the American Legion will host its annual regatta on McKay Lake tomorrow and Sunday with log rolling, diving, and swimming included alongside speedboat races. Harold Brock chairs the regatta committee and says many amateur enthusiasts in the district will participate.
A 14 year old schoolboy Bob Wiers was killed when a shorted conduit on a rain slicked power pole completed a ground path as he touched the pole after leaving a confectionery and approaching the ice. The incident occurred Saturday night on a rain drenched sidewalk.
Judge Richards assessed a fine of 7.40 dollars on J. L. Chilton of Weston after he appeared Saturday charged with driving with four persons in the front seat of his automobile.
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