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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, February 21, 1946 FINAL GOALS FOR STATE SEEK HIGH OUTPUT IN 1946 Fari s Filo BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BEGAN ELECTRICAL STUDIES 700 YEARS AGO, 1746 - CULMINATING IN KITE EXPERIMENT, 1751 .... Li.S NAVY TAKBS ELECTRIC GALLEYS P atterned after THOSE ON SUBMARINES ARE BEING DESIGNED RDR railway PINING CARS • V Father Protests Sentence Meted Out To Son In Navy Orlando, Fla.— When John L. Whitehurst, fresh from the fringes of hell, walked down the gang plank of his ship in Seattle last July 24, he represented what the American public has been told was a symbol of national patriotism. He had been in nine major sen engagements, participated in 13 in vasions and had one citation for conduct under fire. Although his chin was smooth his service bar showed he had been upholding the fighting standards of the Navy be fore Pearl Harbor. Forty-eight hours later this lad of the sea had been sentenced to 15 months in a federal prison be cause his weary body and jang ling nerves failed to respond when it was time for him to go aboard his ship. He had just plain over- slept. When he reported at the that afternoon his ship was He appealed to the Military police and they told him it had berthed at another point on the other side of the harbor. He asked the Shore patrol for information, as any good Navy man would have done. Although, according to testi mony offered at his trial, his ship did not sail for hours after he re ported, Whitehurst was thrown in the brig. Next day he was sen tenced. His testimony was sus tained by Aaron Emerson, pfc., U. S. Marines, who attempted to help him locate his ship and by Carol Baker, Marine MP, who recalled Whitehurst asking him to call the Naval Shore Patrol. Lieut. W. R Studley of the Seattle Naval St i tion t< titied Whitehurst could have reached his ship long before it sailed had he been aided by th» shore patrol instead of being thrown in the brig. All witnesses testified Whitehurst was sober and of sound mind when he came to them. Four months later D. L. White hurst. father of the lad of 20 years, was able to unearth the fact NAVY BLIMPS TROLL CYLINDEfeUKt FISH CONTAINING SMALL ELECTRIC PUMP WHICH FORCES WATER- THROUGH HOSE i NTO BLIMP AS BALLAST«... Another year of high output from Oregon’s farms and ranches I is asked for in 1946 farm produc tion goals for the state, just an nounced by R. B. Taylor, chair man of the state AAA committee and Oregon director of the field services branch USDA Production and Marketing administraion. The goals were determined by a committee of Oregon agricultur al officials and the USDA on the basis of desirable trends and state production capacity. For most crops, the goals call for acreages about the same or larger than in 1945. With the exception of dairy products, goals for livestock and poultry are somewhat lower. Increased outputs of feeds and grains are requested. The goals are: corn, 50,000 acres, up 25 per cent from 1945; oats, 450,000 ac res, up 10 per cent; barley, 260,- 000 acres, up 7 per cent; all tame hay, 880,000 acres, up 4 per cent; wheat, 1,000,000 acres, up 3 per ¡cent; rye, 35,000 acres, up 6 per cent. Goals for food crops include dry beans, 1,000 acres, no change; sugar beets, 17,000 acres, no change; potatoes, 46,000 acres, down 16 per cent. Although no ' Oregon goals have been set for vegetables for processing, atten tion is directed to national goals of 25 per cent reduction in snap beans, 2 per cent cut in sweet corn, 8 per cent cut in green peas, and the same acreage of tomatoes. Goals for cover crop and legume seeds are: Hairy vetch, 55,000 ac res, up 2 per cent; Willamette vetch, 70,000 acres, 24 per cent less than last year’s combined Willamette and common vetch ac reage; Austrian winter peas. 30,- ihat his son had been court mar- tialed and was being held in pris oner barracks in Bremerton. His son, having honor for the family name had continued to write that he- was on shore duty of highly military importance. When the senior Whitehurst went into the fight to save his son from what he considered unfair justice he took with him the support of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the governor and the Florida congressional delega tion. “I have been told in a letter from the Thirteenth Naval Dis cal Corps, U. S. Navy, Reserve; trict which is Seattle, that I should Lieut. Colonel John C. Machamer, not be Willing to drag my son U. S. Marines, Reserve; Comman through the limelight of publicity, der Edward Sparrows, U. S. Navy, just because I did not like the Retired; Commander John W. pay-off for patriotism," White Fields, U. S. Navy, Retired; Lieut. hurst said at his Tallahassee home. Commander Samuel E. Kenney, U. “I have been told by a member S. Navy and Lieut Commander of congress that publicity on the Clarence W. John, U. S. Naval Reserve. • matter is not advisable." Whitehurst said he thought th-1 incident concerned the future of America too deeply to be consid ered in a personal light. He said if conditions had reached a point I in America where young veterans could be sentenced for a single offense of over-sleeping that the time had arrived for parents and those who run the government *o have an understanding. He sug gested that parents of veterans who have been treated like his son join in an effort to iron out such misunderstandings before America • jvm Joq)oUH o;ui p.utJfujp st "I, like thousands of other pa triotic parents, sent my son away to war because I thought it was the proper thing to do. The Navy puts a blemish on him for life and gives him plenty of grounds to become bitter toward the na tion he fought to defend. Amer- ican patriotism cannot thrive un der such miscarriages of justice and I do not think parents of this nation will accept such treatment for their sons.” The naval court that sentence 1 Whitehurst was composed of the following men: Captain Frank I.uckel, U. S. Navy. Retired; Com mander Park W. Willis, Jr., Medi- 000 acres, up 7 per cent; common ryegrass, 80,000 acres, no change; alfalfa, 10,000 acres, up 43 per cent; red clover, 20.000 acres, up 53 per cent; alsike clover, 25,000 acres, up 150 per cent; ladino clo ver, 10,000 acres, up 61 per cent. Continued need for maximum output of dairy products is reflec ted by the goal for 1,445,000,000 pounds of milk. Five per-cent few er eggs—37,640,000 dozen—is re commended. On poultry numbers, the goals suggest 3,286,000 hens next January 1, 5 per cent less than January 1, 1946, and 2,859,- 000 hens by this coming March 1 through heavy culling. The goal of I 4,251,000 chickens raised is 8 per cent less than 1945. All of the poultry goals, as finally approved in Washington, are somewhat less than Oregon recommendations. A 15 per cent reduction in turkeys raised, down to 2,221,000 birds, is recommended. The goal of 20,000 sows to farrow this spring, compared with 22,000 in 1945, was announced earlier, with Oregon officials hoping for more. The goal for all cattle and calves on farms next January 1 is 1,150,- 000 head, a 3 per cent decrease during the year. 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