SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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nearly 25 per cent in the number
of hogs this year, corn has been
used at a faster rate than it is be
ing produced
Unless substitute
feeds are found, next year will see
a shortage of corn for feeding pur
poses
If the transportation prob
lem of moving some 25.MM1.OOO
bushels of wheat from th« produc
ing areas to the stock-raising re
gions can be solved, this would go
a long way toward relieving the
feed outlook.
Output of meat, milk, and eggs
is sure to remain high
Farmers
arc raising 20.000.000 more hogs
than they did last year
The n-
crease is close lo 25 per cent The
number of laying hens has in
creased 14 per cent, and egg pro
duction during tne first seven
months was at a new peak, with
100 eggs per layer. Milk produc
lion has also established a new rec
ord due to the number of milk co1 s
as well as unusually good pasturex
and ample feed.
Farm Income Up.
Abeve map indicates business conditions throughout the country as
analysed in the article appearing herewith.
and 23 per cent greater than the
average during the period from
1934 through 1939 This large out
put was produced without a corre
sponding increase in the number
of acres used. Yields per acre
have been 6 per cent higher than
in any previous year, and about 28
per cent higher than the average.
They indicate not only favorable
growing conditions, but also better
farm engineering and manage
ment, greater attention to soil
building and conservation, more in
tensive farming and superior meth
ods of cultivation, as well as bet
ter selection of seed.
Many Striking Gains.
Farm products of which the pro
duction goals are being reached or
surpassed, include cattle, hogs,
milk, eggs, and many of the impor
tant vegetable-oil crops.
Most
striking gains have been made in
fruits, soybeans, peanuts, flaxseed,
barley, rice, sugar beets, and can
ning vegetables.
Some of these
crops are 50 per cent larger than
last year.
More cattle are on farms and
ranches than ever before, with
much of the increase in feeder cat
tle throughout the great central
plains of the West and Middle West.
Pastures have been in excellent
condition in most of the country.
The hay crop has been far above
average, even though some of it
has been damaged by rains and by
delays in harvesting because labor
was scarce.
The feed situation is the least
encouraging side of the farm pic-
of larger
ture. As a consequence
_
herds of cattle and an increase of
While farmers have been t'oing
their part in the war effort by pr ..
ducing, these larger quantities ot
foods and other products that nr»
urgently needed, they have also i t-
creased their incomes
Mom.il-
cash income received by farmers
has averaged about 40 per cent
higher than it was last year. In
come from livestock and livestock
products has increased slight).-
more than income from crops. A
substantia) part of tills additionxl
income must be paid out In . i-
creased cost of labor and mater .-
als. but the net income remain-
higher than it has been for man.*
years.
Production goals for next year
are being set even higher than th-.-
were this year, and fanners ti«
preparing to meet them Farmer
are determined to do their best m
supplying the much larger f^ud rt
quirements of civilian consume*,
and the military forces both h—-
and abroad, as well as the gr- ’-»
needs of other countries which Ge
pend on us.
Retail trade in rural areas rc
mains high, but the volume ha
been reduced by curtailment of p *
duction of certain consumer a* *
cles. This is a condition which w >
be aggravated with the passing of
the months as more and mor.-
items go off the market, Howevc
serious shortages of essential con
sumer articles are not exjicctea
and the small town and rural re-
taller can anticipate a steady vol
ume of business on these items.
Manufacturing continues to turi
more and more to war production
with 50 per cent of all output con
sisting of materials and munition
of war
The national Industrie
payroll index has risen to 194 an.
indications are that wages will con
tinue to rise gradually as the term
of war production is increased
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
GO TO GRANDE RON DE
By L. G. ELLIOTT
President, I* Salle Extension Unirersilv.
9 per cent more than it was in 1941
American farmers have met the
■hallenge and have won a major
ictory on the important food pro
motion front They are harvesting
he largest crops they have ever
produced, as well as turning out the
argest amounts of dairy, livestock
ind poultry products. They have
ichieved these results in spite of
abor shortages, some unfavorable
leather in some parts of the coun-
xy, and other difficulties.
Much of the credit for the splen
did showing of the American farm-
rr in meeting emergency demands,
iclongs to the wives, daughters,
«nd young sons of farmers who
ork side by side with the men in
rie fields. The sight of farm wives,
;een-age girls, and schoolboys
iriving tractors, planting, cultivat
ing and harvesting the vital crops
Has been no novelty on the farms
■f America during the past season.
An important contributing factor,
if course, is the high degree of
mechanization which farms have
ittained this year. Every farmer
nade a special effort the early part
if the year to put his farm ma-
.•hinery in topnotch condition, and
every piece of farm machinery saw
double duty this year.
High Goals Reached.
Even the very high production
goals which were set this year have
been surpassed in many lines. In
those places where the goals were
not quite reached output has been
much higher than it was a year
ago and, in most cases, higher than
ever before. Farmers can justly be
uroud of what they have accom-
>lished in the face of handicaps.
Total production of food will be
Charles Rugg of Siskiyou re
turned Friday from Roseburg
where he spent a month in the
veterans' hospital. He stated that
he was greatly improved and re
turned hörne feeling fine.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kerns left
early
this week for Grande
Ronde, Yamhill county, where Mr,
Kerns has been employed to
teach in the grade school. Their
son John took them in his car,
expecting to return to Ashland
VISIT POKT1.ANI)
after helping them to get settled
Miss Florence Allen and Miss in their new home.
Alta Norcross left Monday night
for Portland where they will
stay a couple of days and return RETURNS FROM VACATION
Mrs. Ivor Erwin and daughter
to Ashland with Miss Edith Bork
who has spent her vacation at Marilee, were Portland visitros
her brother’s farm near Mon- the past week. Mrs. Erwin re
turned home Monday but Marilee
mouth.
did not have her visit out so re-
mained for another week.
VACATIONS AT HOME
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Don Hinthome is spending his
The
average
motorist puts 8.-
annual vacation from bank duties
000 miles on his car in a peacetime
at home this week.
year.
First vending machine without
CHEAP printing is expensive.
Have your work done BIGHT at plungers to sell penny gum was
the Home of Better Printing------ made in Rochester, N. Y., in
i 1897.
Miner office.
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BY
JANE1 CURIÍB
WOMAN of the WEEK:
By the
time you read this, June Sprau
may again be on the high seas,
bound this time for duty as a Red
Cross ambulance driver. Only a
few weeks ago she was enroute
here from Hawaii as a U. S. army
matron in charge of 11 alien pris
oners, all women. There weft six
Japanese and five Germans, and
it was June’s duty to see that no
one jumjed overboard. Before that
she was a governess on the islands
and watched the attack on Pearl
Harbor from her employer’s house
while the bullets whizzed past her
head. Now 27, June is a native of
Muskegon, Mich. When she was
little she wanted to be a boy so
she could travel. Since then her
adventures have included traveling
around the world several times,
hitchhiking all over this country
and flying to South America in a
plane of questionable age and
safety.
Commissioned:
I
A general felt
like applauding, their director was
“proud," as all but eight of the
original group of 444 WAAC offi
cer candidates received their com
missions at Fort Des Moines . . .
But no one was more pleased than
Representative Edith Nourse Rog
ers, who delivered the commence
ment address and whose earlier
insistence on the need for such a
corps was based on her own ex
periences in World War I.
"BUT HEROES”:
An Illinois
girl with the Army Nurses corps
in the Southwest Pacific recently
told. In a letter to her mother, of
the heroism of the boys wounded
in the Solomon islands battle . . .
The question most of them asked
first was how to send a letter
home . . . They were just "kids,”
she said, “but what heroes!”
WAVES LAUNCHED: Reveille
for the WAVES now attending
the indoctrination school at North
ampton .Mass., will be sounded by
a gong instead of a bugle . . .
Asked why women who will do
shore duty must know about boats,
the commandant of the school,
Capt. Herbert W. Underwood, ex
plained that the navy’s women
must be able to “hold their own
conversationally” . . . When the
present officer candidates finish
their training (their commissions
are provisional, you know,) they
will be accorded a very special
privilege. They will be permitted to
wrte a letter of criticism to the
navy department ,
Bom in Jap Camp
Mrs. Regina Owens is shown
with her four-month-old daughter,
Keginia Madeline Jeanette, aboard
he 88 Gripsholm, "diplomat ship."
Die baby was born in a Japanese
nternment camp in Hong Kong.
Mrs. Owens’ home is in Elizabeth-
own, Pa.
I
‘Must Whip Japs’
TODAY
and
TOMORROW
Dy DON ROBINSON
JAIL.
possiblUtie».
rm anyone wuu is linen..», vu u<
| spuming me wiucet m a wu.ui jnii
. uieie u.e .ui outline iiuiuia .« in
I now miiiioua loi uiiaiiging such a
I aujuuiu.
regulations ftoni Washington,
wme.i u violated involve Jan sen-
lenues and siauoie lutes, nave Oven
issued so tmcK and last iateiy mat
a peison needs me constuni cutu-
puiuonsmp oi a good lawyer to
avoid las.willing an alleged criminal
or a traitor to his countiy.
In many ways it resemules the
New lot a cuy paraing icguiu
lions, wneieby u Oliver, n he pants
at an, sianus a 9 b per cent cnanci
ox ending up wun u paining tica
et. On many stieets there aie no
signs to wain tne perpiexeu motor
ist, and tne best auvice ue cun get
num people on Uie street is, ''kun
can piouuuiy get away Wiui it u
you parx mere a wolle.” Then
may oe a couple of old lime taxi
driveis who anow wuttt a wli».
about parking, but to me great
majority, paining anywhere at un
is uiviting a lint.
bi nil la ny, tne new regulations
from Wusmnglon, published on the
inside pages ot some of tne news
papeis, have not been digested by
moat uf us and anyone may un-
witllingly be commuting some hei
nous ciime even without venturuig
out from the security of his own
m .side.
VIOLATIONS ............... willful
There have been many arrests
and convictions for violating new
government regulations, but so far,
as far as 1 can determine, those
who have been jailed or fined were
well aware of the fact that they
were "trying to get away Will!
something."
Industrial concerns which have
violated priority regulations were
undoubtedly aware of the regula
tions which applied to their indus
tries.
Women who have been arrested
for making false reports on the
amount of sugar they had hidden
away in their attics, knew they
were making false reports.
Tire dealers who have sold tires
to people who had no fight to have
them knew that they were carry
ing on a form of bootlegging which
was both against the law and un
patriotic.
Gasoline dealers in the East who
sold gasoline without collecting ra
tioning tickets were well aware of
the possible consequences
There may be a lot of regula
tions which we don't know about,
but so far it seems hecessary to
commit a willful violation in order
be assured of quarters in the win
ter resort with the iron bars.
I SO NOTES
Companies A and D of the 331st
engineers, located on 9th and C
avenue at Camp Wmte, are badly
In need of equipment of all kinds
for their day rooms, such equip
ment as books, games, tables,
chairs bridge lamps, ping-pong
table, old radio or phonograpn, etc.
Contact Sgt. Herman T. Niehaus,
Coast A 3b 1st engineers.
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B udget
ANSWERS
I—Msactte bar.
Í—Altar mi« war.
s—s.ooe <E(ypt).
S—<»).
«—A "Jot.
When thta picture was taken, the position of the V. K. insrln«» In
the Holomon Islands had become so »Iron« that only "niopplnx up
operations were In progress, along with further strengthening upri atlons
of vantage points in the »lx Island» which ha«! alri-adt been wrewd
from the Jap» by the U. 8. lighting lorcr»
l|err you see the mnrlnrs
under the palm tree» with gun» ready as they look for hidden Jap» In
these tropical Islands.
HERMITS
.................
crlnm
I suppose there are n few her
mits, who don't ieau ucwapupeia
or listen to the radio, who know
nothing about the regulations.
There Is a story ucout a moto■•-
ist who stopped at a gamillne sta
tion In a rural section of Maine.
While waiting fur gaaoiine, n.u
motorist commented, "The war
nows looks kind of bad, doean't
it.”
“What war” queried the gaso
line dealer.
The motorist patiently told him
about our fighting the Germans
and the Japs and then said. "Can
you sell me four tires?"
"Sure,’* said the dealer.
But there are few cases of ig
norance of the law so far us the
major regulations on rationing are
concern«*!.
Those with whom government
enforcement agents will deal moat
severely are the criminal clement
who will deliberately vlolat«* the
regulations in order to make n big
profit out of beating the law
Recently a gang of tire bootleg-
gets, who had a group of salesmen
out to sell tires at fancy prices,
was jailed Some of the salesmen
were said to have made as much
as 3140 a day by tsiotlegging
tires. But it was a short-lived en
terprise as will lx- nil such enter
prises when an aroused public aids
the polios m ninning down tin 00
who arc working against tho best
Interests <»f the country in time of
wai.
IGNORANCE ..................... rauilon
But <>n the grounds Dial ’ Ignor
ance of Hie law la no excuse." we
must expect «<>nio uiiesla which
result from people not bothering
to keep iii touch with the latiwt
regulations.
As with the Now York parking
unnoyance. which la caused by the
difficulty of handling the parking
problem in a large city and the
unwillingness of the people to
learn the rules, many diff?. ultica
with new federal regulations could
be avoided If all of us would make
an effort to leurn as much about
them as we csn.
Finding out ahottl new regula
tions is bound to be a hit-or miss
proposition. But if we move cau
tiously and check the Hiles before
enterin ginto any transaction
which involves materials on which
there arc shortages, n lot of trou
ble may tie avoided
Wo are ail glad to make sacri
fices which seem necessary to aid
in winning the wpr. but too many
of us want a ¡»eisonal letter from
the President .or at least dozens
of newspaper sto: tea waver! under
our eyes, before we are willing to
read and digest a new regulation.
•
FOR VICTORY! BUY BONDS
f
War
Damage
Insurance
GOOD FOOD
This will protect against
direct loss or damage to
property (fire and bombard
ment) due to enemy attack,
It supplements your regular
insurance.
If Interested In thia protec-
tlon, apply now an the for
mer coverage expired June
30.
»
Camp White* gardner wants
seeds, bulbs or anything green. .11
potted plants, trees in January.
Please leave trees at north side of
the Ashland USO house; leave
seeds, bulbs and potted plants in-
side.
see
A piano for the music room at
the USO center in Ashland is
needed. If you have one that you
will lend to the center for the use
of singing groups phone 7391, Ash
land USO.
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To take one's self too seriously
is a great mistake. Complacency is
the unpardonable sin, and the man
who says, “Now I’m sure of it”
has at that moment lost it.- Hub
bard.
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Love ia like a poker game:
takes a pair to open, she gets
flush, he shows diamond« and
Joseph C. Grew, former ambas ends with a full house.
sador to Japan, la pictured upon
arrival from his post in Tokyo on
the diplomatic ship Gripsholm. He
said that a crushing defeat for the
Japanese militarists Is our only as
surance of peace in the Paclflc.
1— What Is the name of the canvas bag slung diagonally over a
soldier’s shoulder and used for carrying toilet articles, etc., in
the field? ------------------------------------------
2— When were chevrons for non-commissioned officers first
worn? --------------------------------------
3— Chlorine is (1) a chorus girl, (2) a chemical element, (3) a
choir of seven people, <4> a sub-detector? □
4— What is a new recruit called in the marines? -------------------
5— Would you say women have been known to paint their nails
at least (1) 100 years ago, (2) 6 years ago, (3) 3,000 years ago,
(4) 200 years ago? □
Thursday, Scptemhrr 10, 1942
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