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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1942)
t r"' Salem Citizens Spend 'Vacations' at Work In Fields and Factories and Enjoy It; JWucli of Money Goes Into War Savings By MARGUERITE GLEESON ""Tell me how you spent, your vacation and Til tell you how patriotic you are" is the paraphrased form of an old rhyme with which returning vacationists are greeted with these day. Bankers, clerks, salesmen and saleswomen picked hops or beans, worked in canneries, ran the combines on the old home stead, worked in logging camps and stacked grain. One vacationist from the south "West, a honeymooner is now working in a Salem cannery. His bride is working there too. Of coarse, they were married 30 years go, but ' they had never had a "honeymoon and this seemed , good year to rectifiy that error. They, worked at various harvest Sobs along the highway northward from their Arizona dairy ranch tip to Tacoma, where their son Is stationed with a naval detach ment ' The "bride" thoaght It was time te retain te the dairy farm bat the saaa wasted to stay In Oregon. He finally compromls-' . ed with hb "bride- and said he . weald rctarn to Arizona If she . ceald find ten people who lived here who did net like Oregon. She lost, and they are back In Arlzana 'to seU the dairy and start living In Oregon. The mat- -ter came to the attention ef the -employment service when, the wtman admitted to a reception- I 1st. "I Just can't find anyone who does not like Oregon.' - One outstanding patriot as pointed out by Douglas McKay recently in a war bond talk is Arthur "Pat" Johnson, assistant manager of J. C Penney company store, who spent his vacation sell ing more war bonds to people who were already buying them. A Marion county teacher drop ped into town last week and re plied to the standard question How did you spend your vaca tion?" with "I worked in the harvest field. Drive tractor? No, that is easy compared to pitch ing grain." And to one who had pitched grain herself, in a wheat country, there was no argument bout which was easier. Many so-called white collar workers have been putting in a half shift a day in the canneries while holding ' down their regu lar Jobs. Then others spent the two weeks of their vacation in the cannery, which, perhaps they had done for school fees in the past, and now they did despite n -eight hour shift behind them at their regular jobs. . r - f One stenographer: in a state' of fice had agreed to work in the cannery during ' her T vacation but the cannery was la; such ' a;- rush to j get ". her services they 'called her two nights before her. vaca - tion began. She was an old timeH canner and gladly responded, worked ' all X night and was on hand for her regular job at 8 o'clock the next morning. One newspaper editor with a yen for the wheat fields of his loved eastern Oregon pat In his . vacation sewing sacks on the combine, another editor painted his house when painter eoald not be foand who weald do the Job. Still another, disappointed in his desire to devote the vaca tion . to civil air : patrol doty, served his time as timekeeper - at the local airport. . fV .-." Ncr have the men of the news paper werld been alone in lending a hand. One newspaper woman spent her long-planned for vaca tion canning berries, and the wife of a newspaperman stepped in and took over the'work in a bindery when the man in charge, was called to a Portland shipyard. ' A newspaper engraver is spend ing all his spare time and week ends in the task of getting in the winter wood. As his boss said, "He'd spend his vacation at it, too; If we could give him a vacation. A job printer delivered an or der to a local cannery and could hardly get out of the plant with out being put to work, but he, too, Is doubling up as workers drop out to take up more -active forms; f defense work. . . The teen age daughters of , a , Polk county farmer spent the sum-; mer operating the tractor on their father's farm and were ready for the opening; of j college this 'week. The daughter' of ' a Salem grocer stepped behind the counter and operated the doughnut machine in her father's store. A smlverslty professor worked - Ma meat tatter to her father's' market for the three, months of her vacation. New she Is . back la the biology laboratory , and - -doubtless finds the small bags .smaller than osaal when-compared with the hogs and beeves . .she has been catling and wrap-- , ping for the storage lockers. ., The , women of thev farm were the first to see the need for help In the harvest fields but when the - call went out for more and more workers the women and girls from Ealem responded with .good will. "How many pounds of beads I - picked" has in many- cases been the favored topic of conversation Instead of how I made that six heart hid. : .T w-' Ten Salem school teachers act ed as leaders for some 4 DO junior high school pupils who were or ganized in platoons and set about i V-U J k ...... . . J LydU E. rirharrTj Compound -Jar to wpman's tu iisomtl tntrtu!a;aEe period. K:.; ia.bel direr- jg. the harvest of the various crops with a will. . zr. School, as an end to the fun of vacation : was changed, to a time when many boys- and girls start an easier lif k again. This applies to college and high school students j well as the younger generation anxious to get its share of the work and tho rewards. When several Marlon eottnty farmers eoald not get' men to work in the fields for any mon ey the US employment service suggested, "get boys and . pay them men'a wages." The plan worked so well that the first farmer was back In a short time -.'asking fof the same crew to do ether work, .."-- The problem of getting farm help was so difficult this year that the farm labor specialist with the local employment service took his vacation working on the farm. Many men in all types of work, employers or employes, Impress ed with the pressing need ". for winter fuel, have" devoted "all their time Off, evenings, week ends and even full vacation1 time to getting In wood. Salem teachers are found in all manner of places where-there is work to be done this- year. Be sides the women who led the pla toons of junior high school pupils, others . have been found behind the counters in stores, in the har vest fields on their own, helping their fathers or brothers with the farm work. They were on hand when the school bell rang Mon day. . - .. One Salem teacher has spent the entire vacation as a painter for : tho Salem, school district. Many men teachers left early for work in the shipyards- and other defense industries imploring for help. I.,"-. Salem's first woman service station operator did not have any vacation to spend on extra cur rteular" activities, but she had 18 hours during which she had no thing to do and she decided to work at the. cannery for a four hour shift Her husband is in the US navy, stationed in Alabama. When someone asked, ,What does she do with her money?" rjaer roommate replied, "Buy war bonds, I suppose; what else can she do, sha works ail the time." The vacationists have been well rewarded for their work In the way every one likes to be rewarded, with hard United States money. Mnch of It, It may be safely said, has gone into war bonds. In fact it has become the usual thing to re port earnings In terms of bonds or war stamps. Glamour of a sort is attached to most of the jobs listed but it remained for a statehouse work er to take over the Job of "kitchen helper" in her boarding house during her vacation. She did not do it because she liked it A visit to: the Prineville. ranch lands of Slcalij BOLOGIJfl; Ovcrunrsl or Frcnhs, lb. . . . 230 SufcTur-Cured C7i7r Snoked . 1 ClAc picmcsiiHiMf i SQuzmis. -;; -. Uln Pork i TS S? Kampf er IIW5rmdew &ZTZ2 CHOPS v &W CIa - S r, SnOP.P.EC: SPECIALS Ell rV Featuring Inspected Meats Tit Out of the Woods "Could you use a cigarette?" "Thanks, I couldif you'd put it in my face and light it My hands ain't working." ,i "Like my feet, .That Jap machine-gunner surely cured my corns . . . Iere goes . . Got it? ."Got it thanks . . . Ah-h-h. boy" Does that drag taste sweet! What haooened to the Jap?" i IThe lieutenant picked him off. with my own' rifle. I hadn't passed out so . X saw it And here I am at First Aid. alive, if not kicking. My luck could have been worse." "Me too, . soldier. I bomped into three of the savages, all of a sodden In the bosh. Bat I rated a major to save, my tide he did wow very nice wrk with a pistol jasi when I had to grab a bayonet with my bare' hands to keep It from doing me no geoeV '-i . . O v , ' -we ve got a real army every- bodv. fights." "xou said it soldier." We re a team."- . "Now we're logging ... let me knock the ashes off your smoke. or they'll go down your neck . How's that?" "Okay ... What was that you said about logging'? I was setting chokers on the round stuff. Get it?" -"Why, I . ... . Wait, listen! . , Our planes, aren't they?" "Sounds like yen, you pegged 'em . . . navy bombers, for good guess, after the Jap transports. Sundown in the ocean for another thousand J aps I hope. More of that teamwork." ; . ; " That's the word. The ma rines down an Talagi and Goad aleanal, the eld army and the Anssles here in the Guinea country it's a team that's going places. I hope to get my j feet working again in time to catch up." "Sure you wilL soldier . . : Would you bat that ash off again?" . . . Thanks . . . We ought to be moving on back to the field hos pital real soon ... Say, where'd you log?' "I didn't X was just a year out of school when I enlisted worked the year - on a sawmill . green chain at ever hear of - a place called Tacoma?" -"Sure but a long way off. used to log out of a town called Eugene," - "Hiyah, Webfoot! I feel like we're used-to-be neighbors old blicums." : ' :u"Sama here, soldier. We're out of the same woods Washington and Oregon, the northwest corner of the USA. "Homesick any?" : "Not up to now. A year ago last spring I hooked on to the army because I was fed up with all the arguing, cat-and-dog fighting, jacknifing, and the like in the woods. AU pinhead stuff. Nobody seemed to think we were rolling hell-bent into war." - "Double check, logger. Wonder her loved central Oregon would suit her better, but the kitchen job had to be done. Her fellow boarders are agreed "C'est la guerre," and are cheering for her; they, too, have to eat Grain-Fed fa n To Fry or Bake - .. - ' - 1 1 if' OrXGOII STATESMAN, Cclea how it is back home how if they are still pinheadlng on the war job in the woods . . . Hey, why the groan. Your hands-want me to call a pill shooter?" "Nope the cig. burnt my lip. Could X have another?" "Right with you.' Don't kid me about the hands V . . Here, you are. . keep a choker on, old-timer. They'll be moving us soon." .:: "I'm okay.; You worry about your feet . Say, I hope we can keep together while they're patch ing us up into - fighting ' shape again." , "Same with jne,-Sure, well keep hooked up. Tacoma lumber puller and Eugene - choker setter 4 long way apart" back home. but one: family over here i in the war. I hope it's become the same in the home woods." . "Here's hoping with you, sol dier. That is up' to them, like this is up to us . . . Top off that ash again, will . you , . . That's the old fight V New Secretary At Chamber Announced Sylvia T. Knox, of Park; lane. Salem, was announced Thursday by Manager Clay C Cochrtn ' as successor to 'Rose Brmkley, - re signed, as secretary to the man ager for the Salem chamber of commerce. Her husband, Arthur W. Knox, member of . the United States National bank staff, ex poets to be called for military service next month. Y' Mrs. Brinklev. who resigned re. cently as of October 1, will have been in the. secretarial position at the chamber , exactly seven years on September 31. In addition to handling office matters, she has served as supervisor of the week ly chamber luncheons. Mrs. Knox was for several years on the staff of the United States National bank in Salem after hav ing been employed for six years in eastern and 'California banks. She has also served as secretary to Sen.- W. H. Steiwer and chief clerk of the committee on assess ment and taxation in the senate during state legislative sessions Pulp Manpower Plans Discussed - Joe Harvey and Donald Reems from the administration office of the US employment, service in Portland met in Salem Thursday with the management of the Ore gon Pulp and Paper company and representatives of the local em ployment service to discuss, plans relative to a cooperative ' move ment for maximum utilization of manpower in the pulp and paper Industry. '-''.. 1 Plans for a labor pool were dis cussed and these were elaborated upon -at a later meeting of the staff of the local employment ag ency. ; " " J . Services Today For Otto Krausse Funeral services for Otto E. Krausse, 83, who died in Portland Wednesday, will be-held Friday at 1 o'clock from J. P. Finley Funer al home. Burial will be made in City: View cemetery. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Helen Sigel, Portland; a bro ther, John K. Krausse, Portland; three sisters, Mrs. Willis S. Moore, Salem; Mrs. Oscar Stephenson, Cblckasha, Okla.; Mrs. Howard Moore, Mendota, tu. Picnic llsasls DEEITCUTS 173 Ih; ... trl Oregon. Friday Hernia?, Cepteriber 23. KIZ Women Plan Extension Program Changes since Pearl .Harbor have placed u p on American homemakers a new job that of being the moral "up-keeper" l. in the family, according to Mrs. Aza lea Sager, state home demonstra tion-; leader; from - Oregon State college at Corvallis, who met with representatives of w o m e n's groups Wednesday at the YMCA to plan the home extension pro gram in Marion county for the coming year. Problems brought about by these "changes had . an . important bearing on the suggestions - made and program selected by the vote of those attending. The following program was arranged: r For Oc iober, "Buying new materials in war-time;" Novembe r. v Meat cookery considering low-cost cuts and meat substitute;" December. J no meetings scheduled; January, "Neighborhood leader program;' February, "B u 1 1 d i n g morale;' March . T I m e management- kitchen arrangements;" I, April, "Care and repair of clothing." lJf-', ' - ' 1 i i ! ; ' ' ''. ' 'Several representatives ex pressed an - Interest in schools to be conducted during the year. "Making slip covers," a four day schools .. f B m deling clothes" and dressmaking." two day schools each, were consid ered. These schools will be held to communities where the 'most people are Interested, to be de- 1 elded after' meetings start this rfalL ' - ' , Miss Frances Clinton, county home ' demonstration- agent sum marized her work' from January to September, conducted ! in 303 meetings with a total : attendance of 12,424, and 170 individual home visits, as well as , 437, office calls and -1287 ; phone calls ' re ceived. ; x i! Robert E. Rieder, county agri cultural agent spoke on . the neighborhood leader, program; Wayne D. Harding, .county 4H club agent, told how the home extension program assisted in the 4H work; and Judge Grant Mur phy of the county court,' gave greetings. Attending from the county home extension committee . were: Mrs Your . 1 JH1 7c:l "'oo m mm f m-mmae sW m a, oS : H. E. Mitchel, Salem,' Mrs. Floyd Fox, Siver Cliff, Mrs. X A. Lynds, Pratum, Mrs. James Keys, Salem, Mrs. Harry Martin, sr, Macleay and Mrs. Verny Scott, Sublimity. Extension units represented were: Pratum, Mrs. Harry Martin: Edina Lane, Mrs. James Keys anf Mrs. Milan Boniface; Union Hill, Mrs. W. M. Tate; Silverton, Mrs. Glenn L. Bridewell and Mrs Frank M. PowelL New extension groups starting this fall represented were: Hnb ' bard, Mrs. Grace Cramer and Mrs. L M. Schalls; West Wood borsw MrsElden Hart and Mrs. ejr Koas; North Howell by Mrs, Thomas Bomp, who als represented the county farm and rural life committee. t -.; vi '. Other organizations represented werer Pomona grange, Mrs. Alvin E. Hartley, Silverton, Pomona grange, HEC, Mrs.' Verny Scott. Sublimity; 4H leaderv Mrs. Floyd Fox, Silver-Cliff; Woman's dubs. Mrs. W. R. Terhime, Jefferson; county PTA, Mrs. W. O. Widdows, Salem. .' - Miss Jane Knapp, home super visor of the farm security admin istration, -and Mrs. Harry E. Mitchell, county nutrition chair man, were also present.' Witnesses Form " Small Part of ' Camp; Occupants ; ' Of the'' 196 Oregon conscientious objectors who have bsen sent to public service camps, only a hand full : are members of Jehovah's Winessos religious sect, state selective- service headquarters here declared Thursday. - ; Officials explained that mem bers of this sect refuse either to serve in the armed forces or go to the camps.- Some of these . are now being prosecuted. Jehovah's Witnesses contend theyare min isters ordained by God and should be deferred. This claim has been disregarded by selective service officials.'"-' , : ; ' Many "Witnesses liave been de i f erred because of having families or being unfit for military ser vice. :J-; ..Mennonites lead in the num ber of conscientious objectors In Oregon. Selective service officials said they have had more trou ble with. Jehovah's - Witnesses in Lane and. Jackson- counties than job is important and we know your best efforts in doing your part so we Tiave added to our stock of women's wear many, many more overalls, slacks and other garments so necessary for your work. You will not only find what we have practical but comfortable and attractive as well. Shop our Fred Meyer Women a Wear Sections and see for yourself the gTeat selection from which you may choose. :-.. Regular Overall Weight Donini Dungarees "A $2.29 For activo service ia field or factory. Suforl&od . trill clva lonz. hard wear. Two slash pockets li 10 a. "D" DcrJm FuU leaa-lb bottoa froat . . . easy C to slip lata Oao-piaeo suit that's "f stylsd for comfort: Loaf sltove, hip pocket, adjustable belt lino . . . 14 to 20. . Spectoi Porckaso Mtgru. Cloeeomt Seersudicr, CIcuses $1.29; .7fte.-2for r VsIuj- V $1.50.; Stri aa prtata ia all colors : varv oasv to laaador. Coavortiblo ceUar aa actios I V V s - r J in any other part of the state.. Multnomah county, with 33 con scientious objectors, tops all coun ties. Marion county is second with 30 conscientious objectors and Lane county third with : 28. Linn county has 17, Clackamas 14, Yamhill 12, Jackson II, Polk 7, Malheur 6 and Benton a W SS9 Brands of Cigarettes and Tobaccos Arm Carried in Oar Stores . . . Try a D'Jferent Brand . Today for a New Smoking Pleasure. ( , t - - - " . I1 " " ; " Men ia Ths Scrvicg A$k For Cigartftss -Scnd Soma Today! 15c White Eagtfl r Cigarettes, 2 for 25c ui i ntCirtoriof 2C0 ;$ti A mild bw braid that you win Uko. Uado by )VoCm& Um Foltsh goTsrones Ja tho .VaJted States. ; . !. 5 - -rrdi : G in J Always Fresh at Fred Meyer. .. 5c Yaa Dyekt ir VVhitt OwU rlti ff CAr William temm-f aaafelas - v www AH those are fresh and good smoking ploasuro. 15c teak Matches, O 9Rr Carton el 50 leaks f $10 Revelation Tlra ' 1 AC.-'-.''... . 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