Illinois Valley News, Thursday, February 21, 1946
FINAL GOALS FOR
STATE SEEK HIGH
OUTPUT IN 1946
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
BEGAN ELECTRICAL STUDIES
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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
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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
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"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.
A campaign to acquaint all
farmers with the goals will be con
ducted jointly by the OSC Exten
sion Service and AAA Committee-
men in connection with the mak
ing out of AAA farm plans
February and March.
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