THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1948
CENTRAL IN ÍNT AMERICAN. CENTRAL POINT, OREGON
Big F’Pe Line
To Carry Oil to
East Now Complete
fhe answer. We shall crush Germany
tuid her Pole t’at gangsters via the
Aieoplane. The most bloodless meth­
od. so far as our boys are concerned
but the quickest to bring home to the
enemy the futility of trying to carry
on the fight.
guard our possessions. Our land
. I used planes sleeping In their han­
gars and on the fields.
They were
, -upertor in everyway to the Japanese
planes.
But
they
were
without
i ciews, grounded and unready. In less
than one hour and a half we lost
Do not under estimate the damage more Naval lives and Naval tonnage
I eing inflicted upon Germany by toe than was during entire AA’ar I.
J continual bombing of her war indus-
The Island of Crete had demonstra­
The following article on the ‘Big
li.eh” taken from the Monroe Co.
Ohio paper was handed us by E. C.
Faber and it contained so much in­
teresting information we are printing
tries. No one thing is going to win
thi war But "the lack of some ona
thing may lose It”. By our constant
bombings we are’, each day getting
nearer and nearer to that one thing
that wil cause the enemy to collapse.
'- ju can recall that homely old jlngie
but startlingly true—".For the want
, of a nail the shoe was lost, For want
of n shoe the horse was lost.” Every
German and Italian industry bombed
j is making It harder and harder for
:
;
-
-
it for our readers.
Big Inch is all but finished.
Test runs of crude oil are being
pumped through the eastern section
of the $95.000,000 transcontinental
pipeline from Norris City. 111., and
this Monday at
Phoenixville.
Pa.,
government dignitaries including ttee-
ietary of the Interior Harold Ickes
will witness welding of the last sec­
tion of the 1,341 miles of 24-lnch
pipe.
Monday is 15 days short of a year
from the time the first section was
laid.
Officials of the Petroleum Admini­
stration for War and War Emergency
Pipelines. Inc., said pumping started
at Norris City last Wednesday und
<•¡1 is moving eastward 33 1-3 miles
a day.
Engineers are checking the
run for leaks or other "hugs.'’
Work is progressing on the laying
of the Big Inch under the Musking­
um river south of Gaysport and of­
ficiate are confident the link will be
finished by the time oil reaches the
Muskingum county section.
Big Inch, conceived to help meet
th< wartime oil crisis, now stretches
from Longview, In the east Texas oil !
fields, to New Y'ork and Philadelphia |
irfineries.
At Phoenixville junction,
the line splits, one branch going to
Unden, N. J., the other to Philadel­
phia.
The 15,000 men who ditched plains
.'lid mountains, woods and cornfields,
end laid and welded the pipe aren't
i.ultting. They" e staying on the Job
to finish the 20-inch gasoline line
from Beaumont, Texas, paralleling
Big Inch most of the way. Officials
of WEP headquarters here predict
the smaller line will be
ready by
December.
Work wiis started July 12, on the
20-inch
pipeline from
Beaumont.
Texas, to tht east coast.
It will be
fieder lines
from
Baytown,
near
1 480 miles long, not including the
Houston, to Beaumont. This 20-lnc.l
line is expected to deliver at least
235,000 barrels a day of gasoline or
light fuel oil. It will take 2,840,01)0
barrels of gasoline or fuel oil to fill
it from eBaumont to the New York-
Philadelphia area, It is expected to
be completed this year at a cost of
$70,000,000.
Contract for the work in Monroe
County is let to The Bechtel-Demp-
si y-Prlee Co., working for War Em­
ergency Pipelines, Inc. Two spreads
are in operation, one gang beginning
at Sarahsville and working east and
’he other near
Miltonsburg,
also
working east to the Ohio river. Each
gang including supervisors, machine
o| erators, time-keepers and laboren.
has about 300 men.
The 20-lnch line will be laid on
same right-of-way as the larger line
a nd in a ditch from five to twenty
feet from the larger line, The varia-
tion is due to difference in terrain
et el­ which the lines pass. The steep
idila In Monroe County make it ont
ot the most difficult areas to operate
over in the entire length of the pipe­
line.
Construction of the Big-Ineh la ■'
winter and spring proceeded under
most adverse weather conditions of
rain, snow, ice and sleet. Much bet­
ter working conditions are anticipated
for the next four months.—Printed
July 19, 1943 In Monroe County Bea­
con, AVoodsfield. Ohio.
»
Letters to Nephews
By Ella II. Leonard
I »ear nephew:
“Looky here!
Look.v here!
Ixtoky
here!"
No. It wasn't Robin or Sisty c:illinc.
but a quail with a curl “in the middle
of his forehead.” Now just what do
you suppose he was In to? He wasn t
seen until he whirred over the fen e.
Like a kid caught in mis< hief.
in a few seconds he came o
again swiftly and scuttled
bean patch. Do quails eat green
beans? Or eat from an ear of Ruccu-
lent corn; or hunt for seeds that may
from the tall sun­
have < dropped
me. That sort of
i
Search
fewer*
thing is one of the many angles v
There are
Interest about a garden.
smile
or a
so many things to cause a
"belly laugh ”
back.
It
The birds are coming
firms as if they make the!r appea’-
ence in the spring and fall. Dad has
Iren mourning I »ecause he thinks he
drowned out a nest of baby quail
The mother took on achingly one
when he was watering under
willow tree
She tried to toll
rvray. He looked carefully along
fence among the shrubs but four.d
no sign of them
Flickers flash
I’AGB THREE
ted that lanX areas could be and
were completely invaded and con­
quered from the air. What has made
possible the successful convoying of
material across the oceans? The
Aeroplane! ! ! Even though they
smashed the submarine one by one
It saved the conveys. Now they ¡ire
hurling their mighty bombs thru
cement walla many feet thick and are
destroying the "rattlesnakes" at their
source.
army maneuver area at night when­
ever possible in a statement issue 1
today by Secretary of state Bob Far-
relL
He reminded motorists that armj
field maneuvers are conducted under
simulated war conditions and this,
means a great many vehicles moving
along the highway without light«.
Fcot personnel, also travelling along
highways without lights, may be en­
countered tn these areas.
"The army is not asking (Oregon
| motorists to stay off highways in the
maneuver area, but it is adviable for
drivers to uvoid
these roads after
dark
if they can," Farrell said.
"From the standpoint of convenience
alone, It would be wise to avoid night
travel In this area.
Military move­
ments along or across highways may
them to keep their horses shod: T"
Yes. we can do it.
Win the war bold up traffic for some time".
gi- that nail. To fix that shoe. Etc. and crush our enemies from the air. ,
Etc.
I
"Don't let thenutell you differently." |
l.ien at the start of world war No.
—D. Darwin Davis.
2, we did not recognize the devasta­
The facts for this article were
ting power of the aeroplane. We be
"lifted" from the July ladies' Home
gan to recogntze it- in 1940 at the Journal.
Congratulations
laidlet,'
battle of Dunkirk. What saved those Home Journal.
Ia>t's have some
S*Nl», «RAVEL, CEMENT
gallant British soldiers? What made more like it.
it possible for so many of them to
SEPTIC TANKS
get back to the British Isles? 1 he
aeroplane
Beaten and pressed back
Sewer Pipe <£ Irrigation Pipe
to the beaches, their condition Hope-
!<•“.. they looked toward England fol
Phone 2 100
Oregon
motorists were
urged to
help. Then it came. The British sir
N. Riverside
Medford
fleet was up and in the air hurtling cvold driving In the central Oregon
Medford Concrete
Construction Co.
Motorists Warned
Of Night Driving
I've got a home, too. Mister! Every extra bor’d you buy through the
Payr« 11 Savings Plan will he'p me get back to it. “Figure it out your-
self.”
i their bright wings as they strive foi
| the light pole, on the top
of which
they beat their bills. A bluejay in-
vestlgated the condition of the nuts,
lust a committee of inquiry sent out,
no doubt.
Bea ts all how some folks pay no
'tention
When dad went to see if a
room was vacated, he found the sol­
dier < a man: grayed hair) swigging
on a quart bottle. We had t 6 this
boys
week, Two were fine young
They
been here before.
Corn, tomatoes, string beiftis, cu­ who had
make reservations i for
cumbers from the garden for supper. phoned to
1 When
Have canned I tea ns. Think 1'11 try h themselves and two others.
M gallon seen In the farm section they left, they asked if they might
of the Oregonian: using a darning come again. . . . We had company
needle and flour twine, string Oregon besides, So dad had the cot-in the
Giants and hang thetn in the sun to front room and I used the davenport.
diy.
Lou Arthurs of Lakeview al- The home elastic? Don't you remem­
ways dried her beans. And were ber how your grandmothers stretch­
ed to meet the need? What's a lit­
they good!
About next week will lie corn dry- tle thing like a lfi-sheet wash com-
fared with your dally’ task?
ing time.
it is so much less work
As Sisty says, "It’s gettig dahk ”, to
tl.an canning, and, I think, much bet­
Eph. 6. 10-17.
Your loving
corn.
Not many of us write.
ter tasting
I
Aunty.
ha ve cream, and so can not use the
n. me paper’s recipe for drying. Any-
way. if the corn is right, the simple
way of drying makes a product so
good it would make any man's moult
wafer.
Simply cut it from the ear.
put in a biscuit pan in the-oven until
the "milk" i,s set. and set on a clean
cloth ton an old screen door) in thi
sun to dry. ("over it with a thin doth
to keep flies away while drying.
1
used an old scrim cm tain. A cup will
make six big servings. And Just tell
mo if any other Christmas gift brings
b:ick to- vou such a hearty thanks.
"There’s something about a farm. . ."
It’s A Fact
Air Power, The World- Most Dc-
AV eapon.
struct lie And
Ika-islyc
Born Forty
Will Win Our War.
Y eais Ago Ou Tlic Sandy Beach of
Kitty hawk.
No
Carolina.
It Is
Winning The War For The Miles
Today—IT'S A FACT.
The “brain child" of the Wright
Brothers. It was made of piano wire,
v ood, glue and linen. It is averred
that all of five i persons were suf-
flciently interested to watch it make
How many tomatoes shall I pu
Its first flight.
It soared a total of
your name “in the pot" for. huh .’
about 12 seconds. and traversed 120
You'll like to have some the way 1
feet, Man had finally conquered the
fix them. . . laits of folks say that.
air. Man's dream had been fulfilled,
And nothing could lie more simple.
Eut it has taken a world war to find
Take your no. 2’A can. add- 1 tea­
spoon salt, 3 or 4 tablespoons sugar
(according to taste), butter the size
of a walnut, cayenne to make it hot.
A soldier here for
There you are.
d'nner one day said he never ate
tomatoes; did not like them: and
after downing one dish said, as be
second,
"That's
for a
passed . it
And had a third helping
GOOD."
Jimmy ( our roomer) couldn't pass
the kitchen door when he came home
“Something smell
in the evening.
mighty good in here. What is it.
lightbread?" 1 It keeps me busy keep­
ing some on hand. The children like
with
creamed
honey
it buttered,
added.
to their rescue.
Hundreds of Hurt’S
canet ans spitfires.
They formed a
protective cover clear across those
Dover Straits. Under this cover three
hundred thousand
British
soldiers
i eie evai-uated in less than five days
and brought safety home. The ans-
iwei? Air Power! ! ! The eomllned
use of all the boats England had and
het entire population could not have
done this had she not had “air con­
trol." Germany w.is stopped. Except
foi this she might easily have con­
tinued across and finished the battle
with England for "AU time."
And yet, we in America" could not
see.
We lay with belly open and
exposed, still
believing that this
could not happen to us. Too much
water lay between us and our ene­
mies.
Then the Awakening—Pearl
liarl or .' ! ! The stupidity of it and
those who were supposed to safe
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