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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1944)
THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1944 TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON CLASSIFIED DEPARTM ENT RABBITS AND SKINS G ULTKY. R a b b it« , H ide«. W ool. Good w h ite fr ie r ta m e ra b b it »k in » 60c to 11.00 a lb. S hip or ask price«. B a b y It Co., 935 8. W . F r o n t, P o r tla n d , O regon. Russian Generals Visit Allied 8tli Army Major General V asiliev Is pictured saluting as his party of Soviet gen- erals drives away in a jeep after a visit to Gen. Bernard L. M ontgom ery's 8th Army com m and. V asiliev was named as the com m ander who directed the cam paign which cut off the German arm ies in the C rim ea. Railroad President Becomes Colonel Ralph Budd, left, president of the Burlington railroad, as he w as sworn into the arm y as a colonel of transportation. He w as placed in charge of all railroads in the central western region when the arm y seized the railroads as a strike threatened to disrupt service. Left to right are: Budd, Col. D. A, Hart, MaJ. A. Hillman, and Maj. G. E . Van T assel. Marshall Inspects Oahu Jungle Fighters Furlough Fun McKinley Park, a luxury hotel in Alaska, has been taken over by the arm y and is used as a recreation center for wom en war departm ent em ployees and soldiers stationed there. M argaret Mylius is helped to her feet by Lieut. Anselm Tibbs Jr. as they walk to the skating pond. Mediterranean Chief Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, who w as nam ed suprem e com m ander in the M editerranean theater of war succeeding General Eisenhow er of the United States. Wilson form erly was the British com m ander in chief of the Middle East. FD’s Son, Grandson Gen. George C. M arshall, U. S. army chief of staff, and Lieut John Ferguson (left) of the infantry, watch a w ell trained jungle fighter sh a barbed wire obstacle with a fast lunge. Lieutenant FergBson, an ,n' ictor in jungle fighting, w as the first married m an to be drafted from Antonio, Texas. Lieut. Franklin R oosevelt Jr. shows his son, Franklin 3d, age 5 one of his grandfather’s boat mod els. This picture w as m ade at P res ident R oosevelt’s Hyde Park home Washington, D. C. LITTLE PIGS GO TO MARKET Agriculture officials are staring with bulging eyes at the telegram s received from the livestock m arkets. The number of hogs killed in a sin gle day has passed the figure of 300,000, and is still going up. Novem ber has already set an all- tim e record in hog slaughter of 6,900,000 (federally inspected). De cem ber will go still higher. Cattle slaughter also set a record in No vem ber, but is now tapering off. Not so with hogs. Nothing like this has ever hap pened in the history of the world. Nature, plus a low ceiling price on corn and the delay in putting a ceil ing price on hogs, is now scatter ing pork all over the landscape. This will continue through January, Feb ruary, and into the month of March. In spite of the pork flood, however, there is no surplus, and officials in sist that there must be no “ holiday” from rationing. OPA and War Food administration agree on this. They have had many differences in the past, but they stand together on the m atter of red points. F act is, they have debated rem ov ing pork from rationing, but ran into so much prospective grief that they gave it up. For if housew ives | could buy pork without stam ps, they , would use their stam ps for beef and butter, which are still short. Or if OPA tied the points to the product, making separate stam ps for pork, others for beef, and others for but ter, etc., there would be outcries from different groups, such as Jew ish people, who ban pork. Conclusion is that the ration books m ust be left alone, and the only way to solve the bounty problem is to m ake federal purchases heavier and m ove them more rapidly. Army purchases of beef w ere ex trem ely heavy in the beef months of Septem ber through Novem ber. To day, Lend Lease purchases of pork are growing heavy and will hold up through the "hog run” now flooding the market. But this does not alw ays take the m eat out of storage. Lend Lease shipm ents to Russia can be made only when Russia is ready to eat the pork, since they have no storage space. Britain, on the other hand, can store pork, and is taking ship m ents faster than the rate of use. With livestock production high, and submarine sinkings low, more beef and pork are getting to Allied fighting forces overseas than ever before. • • • MORE STRIKES AHEAD There are a lot m ore strikes in the country than the public is aware of. The government has abandoned the policy of regular announcements of the number of strikes and the number of man-hours lost. Thus the strikes do not get into the news papers. But here are som e figures which reveal that the no-strike pledge of labor organizations is not very ef fective. In November alone, there w ere 120 strikes. The Decem ber figure will be only slightly lower. In the week before Christmas, 91,000 m an-days w ere lost in plants engaged in war production. Two days before Christ m as, 21,000 people w ere out on strike, and a number of critical item s were behind schedule. Som e of the strikes have no rela tion to w ages. Take for exam ple the strike which Washington officials refer to as “ the Baltim ore back house strike.” The Western Electric plants at Baltimore are producing such highly important item s as m a rine cables and radar wire. But w’hite workers went on strike be cause white and colored workers did not have separate toilet facilities. The war department w as obliged to step in last week and take over the plants—solely because of toilet trouble. Workers began com ing back slow ly, but four days after the plants w ere taken over, over half the workers were still out. Unfortunately, there is every prob ability that strikes will increase, rather than decrease in the future. N ext in line demanding w age in creases will be aircraft, steel and shipyard workers. John L. L ew is’ victory broke the line, has stim u lated dem ands for increases in many industries. After the President yielded to Lewis, George Harrison, railroad brotherhoods chief, visited the White House and said: “ For Gawd's sake, you give it to your enem ies, why not to your friends?” • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND <L President Rios of Chile recently told newsm en he expected to visit the United States. This plan is new set aside, due to the grave situation in Argentina and Bolivia. FOR SALE .'O L U M B 1 A B A S IN LANDS— BEST L O C A T IO N S . I ’re -d e v e lo p m e o t p r i c e « , »6 to »20 acre. T e rm » . John- eo n -M cK en zle, 600 C olu m b ia B ld g ., M ain 1033, S p o k a n e, W a sh in g to n . 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He had told them that of all the equipment is sued to a soldier, his gas mask would prove the most valuable. “Now,” he said impressively, sum ming it all up, "when a soldier goes into battle, what is the best protec tion the army can give him?” Replied a voice from the rear row: “Life insurance!” NOT RATIONED* Old Lady—That seems like an aw ful small piece of meat to give to a lion. Keeper—It may seem like a small piece to you, but not to the lion. Wishful Thinking? Joe—How’s your wife today? Bill—Well, not so good, I'm afraid. I wish she'd get well, or something. Light Occupation Joe—What’s the easiest work you can think of? Bill—How about brakeman on a canal boat? Hunting Epigram The life of a rabbit is like all of us; simply hare today and gun to morrow! Well-Known Bird! Chicken—What are you but a quack! Duck—You aren’t so smart! What if you’ve got a comb, you haven’t any hair! As She Is Spoke Limey—It’s terrible the way you Americans murder the king's Eng lish! Yankee—You slobbered a bibful, all right! Real Trouble Housewife—How come you left your last employers? Maid—1 couldn't stand the way they quarreled. When it wasn’t him and me, it was her and me I
