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Weekly Letter From Washington, D. C. 1
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BY CONGRESSMAN HARRIS ELLSWORTH
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COQUILLE. OREGON. THl'MDAT, NOVEMBEK 18, IMS.
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Out-of-Doors Stuff
Nov. Is ''Christmas
Mailing Month" C
FAOB 8EVÈN
Oregon Leads In
Quinine Donations
eral times that of Oregon.
There­
fore, on a per capita»bi^is Oregon's
contributions to Jhe National Qui-
which to so essential to the
health and well being .of the boys in
the service located in malaria infested
areas, leads the nation.
Oregon’s
quinine donations average 4.7 ounces
per drug store. „
LAN* LENEVE ’
J-. J. Lynch
of the Oregon
Delivery of the annual flood of
Washington. D. C., November 13, possible to predict that quantity pro­
♦I Christmas gifts and cards on__
rmaceutical and Portland
1943—1 have been writing and talk­ duction plana and specifications may
There were 150,000 hunting licenses always za serious problem? “wifi be Retail Druggists’ Associations, has
ing about utilizing wood waste for be forthcoming in a matter of weeks, issued in Oregon this yeajr. A JH-mOfe than a problem this year—it received word from the National
many months. The quick summary troduced a similar bill
cease over any previous will be an impossibility
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— unless Quinine Pool in Washington, D. C„
of the subject to that if we can get d
Christmas mailings —
are —
made largely that Oregon's drive for quinine for
production can year.
pi uducta of vakie-from The sawdust be taken.
Special doe tags were sold for cer- in November," Postmaster Frank C. the armed forces in the tropics, made CHADWICK LODGE. A. F. A M.
and slabs now being consumed in the
under the sponsorship of the Oregon
A special communication of Chad­
It to quite possible that at least tain districts and in addition to this. Walker warned today,
refuse burners of the sawmills, ev­ eight 5,000,000 gallon plants will ul­ there were many antelope tags sold.
Transportation facilities are heavily State Pharmaceutical Association, re­ wick Lodge, No.. 88, will be held in
eryone will beneit. Suchs» develop­ timately be installed in communities as well as elk. And many of these burdened. The number of railway sulted in a total collection of 1,096,712 the lodge room next Tuesday Nov.
ment will, in fact, be the creation of in western Oregon, south of Portland. special licenses were purchased by cars and airplanes available for hand­ grains or about 2500 ounces.
This 23, at 7:30 p. m.
Work in F. C.
new wealth for our stat«. February, This
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plan for ____
using wood waste is hunters who had kidded themselves ling Christmas mail to far below that amount is sufficient to supply 10,000 Visiting brothers invited.
tins year, when I first begin diggfHg- by no means merely a war develop- into believing that they would receive of former years.
R. C. Johnson, W. M.
Facilities simply service men for more than three
into the subject here, actual phiduc- ment. The post-war possibilities are an extra allotment of gas from the ' are not available to transport and de- months with the normal immunizing
tion seemed years in the.future. Now, excellent.
In some future weekly OPA for a deer hunting trip. And liver, in the last 3 weeks before dose of ten grains a day.
If it is Insurance, see me.—F. R.
as one of the chief chemists for the letter, I will give that story as it many purchasers of such special tags ' Christmas, the tremendous quantities
The initial drive, which netted Bull.
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Forest Ser vide said this morning has been developed here.
grains, was confined
largely
had their windshields adorned with of mail that we heretofore moved in 587,017
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when we were discussing recent de­
B and C stickers and they were toid that period.
i to the retail drug stores of the state, r
velopments, “She's a cornin’ round
There is a minor undercurrent of in no uncertain terms that it would) More than 30 thousand postal em- i many of whom contributed their en-
Spring Filled
the mountain—and fast.”
revolution in the House these days. go hard with them if they were caught ployees have gone into the armed tire quinine stocks having a value of
This country needs alcohol for the Quite a sizeable number of Repub­ over ninety miles from home on a forces. They have been largely re­ more than $50 each.
synthetic Rubber program and for lican members — a number which deer hunting trip.
The second drive, which has just
placed with leks experienced person-
AND CHAIRS
other uses. We also are very short would quite likely in fact include the
We know of one party who sported nd- In the past, we have called in I been completed, produced 506,695
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of, high prbtein content feed. We are entire Republican membership if one a C ticket on hto windshied, being more than «200,000 temporary em- I ««’»ms, a considerable portion of
New Style Arms and New Material
short of gasoline. Meanwhile we are would take a poll—are disgusted by turped back by officials after travel- , ployees fc help us with the holiday which was donated by the public in
Old Springs and Frame
burning up and wasting at least 25,- the tactics of the majority leader­ ing 90 miles from North Bend and yet mails. Great numbers of these are response to a special appeal from
000,000 tons of wood annually—each ship of the House. Day by day, week many miles from -the mule deer how in the armed forces and war in- Governor Earl Snell which was pub­
ton of which would produce:
This year must rely largely 1 Ucized by “
the
newspapers and —
radio
after week, we have been almost to­ country where he was heading. The dustries.
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50 to' 60 gallons of alcohol
tally inactive on the Floor. , But a whole thing in a nut thell, is the fact upon women and high school boys j »tations of the state. According to
or 500 pounds of 50 per cent pro­ number of important bills and reso­ that Minting licenses and special and girls, who cannot work long hours the «overnor, clipping service re-
tein content feeding yeast.
lutions are being withheld from action tags were sold nimrods of the state or at the high speed of experienced turns indicated that newspaper and [
One gallon of« alcohol mixed with by several legislative committees and and after purchasing them, they personnel/
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| radio station cooperation was one,
four gallons of ordinary gasoline by the all-powerful Rules cohwnittee. found that they had no way of getting' The only way, therefore, in which 1 hundred per cent. Hundreds of pack- I
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makes an ideal motor fuel—and our , Administration
J forces are simply to the hunting grounds they intended deliveries of Christmas mails can be a«*8- containing from two or three
dwindling gasoline supply could be sitting on this legislation and will not visiting, owing to the fact tha’t they : made on time is by spreading the «rains to several dozen grains, came
lengthened accordingly.
' permit it to be reported out foe ac- possessed a C or B or T sticker.' mailings over a longer period so that from the medicine chests of citizens,
Cost? Recently completed tests in- , tion on the Floor.
There were many disappointed and, i available transportation equipment although Oregon drug stores also con-
dicate a cost of less than 25 cento per j Possibly the most important Item no
doubt,
disgruntled
hunters | and postal personnel can be used dur- | tributed to this total,
Collections of these donations were
gallon for the alcohol from wood jn the "smothered” legislation is the throughout the state. Oh well, the ing more weeks.
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waste. The alcohol for our stepped- bill to consolidate the handling of Game Commission’s “take” on li­
Special efforts should be made also made by the Oregon State Police,
See
us for photographs of
ut> synthetic rubber production, us- '" food under one administration. This censes was the largest in history, so 1° extend the use of postal delivery headed by Charles Pray, who covered
ing grain and molasses, is costing was first introduced last spring by perhaps we may receive an extra , wne numbers on all mail addressed every drug store outside Multnomah
• Family Groups
about 96c.
Thomas A. Jenkins, a Republican crate of “Chinks” or a few thousand Ito cities having that system, because county, whereas collections in Mult­
The development, when it comes, from Ohio, but was not acted upon. fingerlings in this part of the country Ithe numbers expdite mail distribu- nomah county were made by the Red
• Service Men
Cross MotA Corps headed by Miss
will be under the control qf private It happens that many Democrats fa­ with some of the surplus money that1 t*on-
• Babies
enterprise, perhaps aided by the De­ vor this bill, too, so Hampton P. the trusting deer hunter contributed ' The Postal Establishment today is Ruth Clark.
fense Plants Corporation if production Fulmer, a Democrat from South this season.
Senator Lynch stated that Oregon's
¡delivering record-breaking volumes
• Copies of Pictures
is speeded up for war—as it doubt­ Carolina, and chairman of the pow­
It matters not concerning the
mail “nd also is performing huge record is something of which the
less will be.
In working out the erful Committee on Agriculture, in­ weather—rain, snow or sunshine; it extraordinary war-time tagks. The state may well be proud since the
plans, private industry, through the troduced a similar bil land got it matters not if it is the dark of the j Christmas mails will be in a Ah t ion to collection average for all States was
National Lumber Manufacturers As-, reported out of his committee. But, moon or the moon is full, when the al* these services, which must toe kept 2800 ounces. However, many of the i
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sociation, the West Coast Lumber­ the President does not approve of the deer hunting season opens there is “t maximum efficiency. We must states have populations running sev- I
men’s Association and the Willamette bill, so the Administration-controlled always a mad rush for the deer coun- have public cqgperation if these mails
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Valley Lumbermen's association, is Rules Committee will not let it come try on that
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first, day. It is a safe bet ,are 10 be delivered on time.
co-operating with Dr. J. A.’ Hall, out on the Floor.
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Last year, at the urging of postal
that 90 ■> ru>r
per „ant
cent of all
the hunters
chief biochemist for the U. S. Forest
But, to get back to the’ subject of take to the woods the first day of the People, the public did start its mail­
Service, and with the Office of Pro­ the inaction, what has happened to season.
"The fever” rages high in«s earlier than ulual, but the early
duction Resources and Development the Jenkins - Fulmer bill has also amongst the ranks of the deer hunt-,v°lume wal small. There was a de­
of the War Production B^ard.
happened to numerous other bills— ers and one not familiar with the long lu«e of later mailings. Many people
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Partly due to approaching necessity to everything that does not havq an I season would imagine that there was'who did not mail within the time
and party as a result of a series of endorsement from the White House. just one day in which a hunter had specified by the Post Office Depart-
FUEL ..."
fortunate developments, including an Republican members endeavoring tq to bag hto buck in.
< ment learned to their regret that their
TRANSPORTATION .
unusually and, in fact unexpected, break this legislative jam have been
.
friends
did
not
receive
the
cards
and
And many times the woods are
fine set of -reports from the last tests making speeches, writing letters, and dry as tinder, such as they were the «ift* until after Christmas.*
VITAL MATERIALS . »
run at the OPRD pilot plant operated otherwise have been “needling” the start of this deer season, making' Postmasters and other postal em­
MANPOWER ...
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by the Forest Service Laboratory New Deal leadership, but with dis­ stalking a buck a difficult task. Af-[ ployees therefore should use every
people at Marquette, Michigan, it to couragingly small results.
means
to
bring
to
the
attention
of
ter the first heavy raiir the hunting
A
is much better, but by that time half mailers this warning:
The
war
has
dislocated
the
Christ
­
the
hunters
have
spent
their
vacation,
such as stenographers, typists, comp­
tometer operator, etc.,- with a Wac, returned home minus their buck and - mas mailinc season. This year No­
Wave, Spar or Marine, regardless of are unable to go again. But the fever I vember is the Ume for mallinc Christ­
the fact that they are qualified in ev­ that attacked them has been re-1 mas gifts and cards. Gifts should be,
ery detail to do the work. Thousands duced, owing to the fact that they) marked. “Do not open until Christ-
of splendid young women have joined were able to hit out Into the deer -----
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j If that message is spread widely
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some branch of the armed service in country on the first day.
Continue
to
use
all
the
electricity
you need for
It
to
weU
to
remember
that
there
and
effectively
through
your
local
order to do their "bit” in this war.
radio
commentators,
proper lighting and eye conservation. But, turn
In civilian life they were stenograph­ are plenty of bucks for every hunter newspapers,
off lights when you no longer need them.
ers, clerks, typists, general office em­ and that hunting to just as good, if theatres, schools, churches, chambers
ployees, etc. The salary they re­ not better, a few days after the open­ of commerce, posters, post office bul-
ceived in civilian employment was ing of the season than it is on the ! letin boards, and other means, it will
—Eliminate unnecessary
much more than they are paid as first day. We have never been able then be fairly up to the public to
make
its
own
decision.
If
the
de
­
waste in the use of your
to
dope
out
to
our
satisfaction
just
members of the enlisted personnel of
appliances. They will last
the army, navy, coast guard or ma­ why the mad rush on the opening cision to to mall early, gifts and cards
longer and you will be
date. Whether it to a desire to seek will arrive on time. If mailings be­
rines.
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conserving critical ma-
In all branches of the armed service to beat the next fellow to the game, come a last-minuta deluge as in
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Washington, D. C., Nov: IS—With
peacetime years, it will be physically
terials.
the Dies committee investigating re­ there is always considerable “paper to have the honor of bagging the
impossible to deliver them by Christ­
cent riota by disloyal Japanese held work” to be done daily in the hun­ first buck, or whether it to those pent
mas in view of the wartime handi­
at the Tulelake relocation center con­ dreds of offices, induction centers up emotions that stir in the breast of
Conserve, whenever pos-
caps.
flict over the proper manner of pro­ and cantonments scattered over the the deer hunter throughout the year > ■'
sible, in the use of pro-
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cedure has arisen in the house by nation. This work requires the ser­ and comes near the bursting point as
motional or display light­
ftanied/
the
season
nears.
demand of the House committee on vices of experienced office staffs and
ing, non-essential interior
The
woods
are
a
mighty
unsafe
all
work
is
100
per
cent
for
the
armed
immigration and naturalization that
and show case lighting
place
to
be
the
first
day
—
crowded
the whole matter should be referred services. The average pay for a
and decorative*. or orna­
y
to it.
Chairman Dickstein of the third class Wave yeoman (stenog­ with hunters, many of whom have
mental lighting^ etc.
never
before
hunted
for
deer.
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To make this simple, no risk hear­
committee asserted on the floor of the rapher) la $78 per month and subsis­
ing
test
If
you
are
temporally
deaf
­
house that the Dies committee had tence. The civil service employee do­ far as we are concerned, ahy hunter ened, bothered by ringing buzzing
already wasted $000,000 of the tax­ ing the same work in the same office may have our share of the first day. head noises due to hardened nr coagu­
payers’ money on investigations with­ averages $180 per month or more. We are content to wait until the rag­ lated wax (cerumen), try the Ounne
out any constructive recommenda­ The Wave, Wac or Spar is subject to ing fever has subsided, until the hot Home Method test that so many say
has enabled them to hear well again
_ S "A Self-Supporting, Tax-Paying, Private Enterprise"
tions and that it has no authority to the command of her superior officers dry days have passed before ventur­ ; You must bear oettor after making
ing
forth.
And,
too,
there
to
some
­
and
does
as
she
is
toid
to
do.
The
proceed with an inquiry into the sit­
thia simple teat or ycu get your money
uation created by the Tulelake dis­ gang of civil service girls in the same thing about a rain drenched land­ back at once. Ask about Ourine Eat
office are not subject to service disci­ scape, the wind whirling the yellow­ Drops tndav a* Barrow Dree Co,
turbances.
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Several bills are now before the pline and they are continually stand­ ing leaves of the maples from their
committee on immigration and nat­ ing on her "righto” as civil service branches, the sight of V formations
of geese winging southward, in those
uralization the provision of which employees.
latter days of the deer season that-has ’
It
’
s
an
everyday
occurrence
for
range all the way from depriving
American-born Japanese of their civil some "sweet thing” of the civil service its appeal. Yea, we will choose a day
rights to deportation of all Japanese, crew to tell the commanding officer in in late October for our quest for a j
regardless of their place of birth. charge that it’s against the rules for buck—that magic month with itr
Chairman Dickstein contends that her to do some particular line of of­ varying moods and when Old Mother .
Japanese bom in this country cannot fice work other than her regular rou­ Nature outdoes herself with her
be deported without violating the tine. If she is not listed as eligible to paint brush and her jars of magic
bill of rights and that this would in do the work, according to civil ser­ colors.
effect be destructive of the very dem­ vice rules, she won’t do it, and there’s
ocracy for which the war is being nothing the officer in charge can do such idea.
Thousands of such civil service em­
fought. His contention is that the about the matter. And if the officer
doesn
’
t
handle
the
situation
diplo
­
ployees
could be profitably employed
alien Japanese should be deported
and the American born be deprived matically he is liable to be told where for the duration in some of the many
of their civil righto at least for the du­ to "head In.” Here is a concrete ex­ essential war industries which are
ration of the wkr. Meanwhile the ample of a minority group, repre­ in daily search for more help. Thou­
Dies committee probe is continuing sented by a potent lobby, successfully sands of Waves, Wkcs, Spars and
S1UDIBAKER
and it is expected that a report on browbeating congress Into a deal Marines are available to take’ their
its lindingg will be made within a which is coating taxpayers millions places, thereby saving the govern­
upon millions of dollars in additional ment » fabulous sum of money each ,
wages each month. When it was sug­ month. Meanwhile many members j
gested to a group of civil service em­ of the Waves, Wacs, Spars and Ma-’
When congress passed the act cre­
ployees that legislation should be rines pre sitting idly twiddling their
ating a‘ woman’s branch of the armed
passed enabling them to take a leave thumbs because they have not the
service which Includes the Waves,
opportunity to do the work for which
Wars. Spars and Marines, the very of absence, which would not jeopar­
they enlisted. Who to to blame for
potent civil service lobby was right dize their civil service standing, and
this mess? Absolutely no one else
on the job to see that their sacred let the enlisted personnel take car«
but congress.
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righto were protected. Tucked away of all such office work for the dura­
down in the bill is a provision which
tion they threw up their hands in
Hand-carved Myrtlewood for col-
prohibits the armed forces from re­
s
placing any civil service employees. holy horror at the thought of any lectors at Harbison’s.
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