LET US GO ALL OUT FOR SCRAP
VOL. XI
Sec. of Agriculture Jackson County Going
Asks for Extra
Into High Gear
Chickens
"Help beat th. meat .hortage’
by raising an extra butch of full
anil winter < hl< k< »■ I. th. cull
going out thia week from Oregon'.
UNDA war board to every Oregon
poultryman who ha. th. fncllltlu.
H.< r.l«ry of Agriculture Claud"
Il Wlckard hua asked for KOO,-
000.000 extra chicken. to Increase
civilian Incut .uppllva. A goal of
"100 chicken, from
a
million
poultrymen" ha. been sot
Ors-
gon's poultry Industry I. asked to
add to Ila lmprea.lv. record of In
ci.n.ed egg production by opera1. •
Ing poultry production equlpin.nl
"an extra shift" during th« norm«
ally alack season.
The additional chicken. run be
produced with
existing
faeilltle*
and without Interfering with pro
duction of chh-ka to replace lay
ing flock. In 1043, believe. N. II.
Honnlon, ..tension poultryman ut
Oregon Ntate college. Many poul
trymen can utilize empty brooder
houae. and Idle heating equipment
to rule, chicken. Io a three-pound
weight and market them before
1143 egg production demand, their
attention. h«> pointed out. In ad
dition,
turkey
producer.
w n o
normully use purl of their equip
ment to turn out a batch of full
fryer, can increase the nunilar,
Itennlon Mid.
A. moat of the chicken, raised
under the program will have to be
started In October or November,
an Increased hatchery output will
be neceaaary during thia off-season
period, the egten.lun specialist
Mid. Oregon hatcherymen will be
naked to cooperate In the program
Moderate priced, high quality
feed will be available to ral.e the
extra chicken., poultrymen are
advised.
Plenty of wheut can b"
obtained through the fet-d wheal
program, and oil cake will ahortly
he available through a similar
program.
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John l.tughlin, A.hland'a pio
neer printer, ha. been admitted to
the Hacred Heart hoapltal in Med
ford for a general check-up and a
much needed and deserved reel.
Mr Loughlin baa th. Miner', beat
w lakes.
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It la mighty good to gee KI wood
lledberg back In hl. old chair at
the Hank again.
Mr. il.dburg I.
communtlng between the First Na
tional Bank of Medford and the
Flrat National Hank of Ashland,
while A. II. Wenner in on a two
week.' vacation.
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ASHLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1942
With th. urmy In.plred and su
pervised metal wrap
drive
for
Jackson County going Into high
gear, Camp White officials an-
noun* cd today that enlisted per
sonnel
numb.ryig
hundreds of
.peclnlly trained soldier. arc now
combing the camp area for thn
preclou. wrap.
Th. Camp Whit, 'wrapper.' a.
they have been aptly named, have
been thoroughly trained to .pot
lhe valuable metal and to tllward
that which I. untt.ahle nt the pre
sent time.
Hupervl.rd by Major
Lyman V. Williamson. Camp sal
vage officer who I. also In charge
of the wrap drive, th .«Idler de
tail I. charged with thn sizeable
task of seeing that every u.uublo
piece of wrap In the camp I. col
lected.
"There la murh wrap metal ly
ing about the
reservation.”
ex
plained Major Williamson, "which
remained after the contractor, had
finished building the cantonment.
Hom. of it I. hurled under pile,
of dirt, and much of It 1. rusting
In ditches and open fields. In ad
dition there
are
hundreds
of
pound, of nulls scattered about the
camp. Wo Intend tc get It all and
eventually pla o procure a giant
magnet mounted on a truck with
whic h we can gather the nails and
other .mall wrap. It I. the little
thing, that will win this war—
and we do not Intend to mlns any
beta." he said.
Reports of the first day'» collec
tion In the count^wldo drive have
been gratifying, Major Williamson
al»o reported, and
high
praise
given to aJckson county cltlsen.
for their response to the urmy up-
pea) fur scrap.
«'AMP WII1TK FIHIUNG
Immediate compliance and co
operation of all Camp White per
sonnel with the recent order of
the Oregon State flame Commls-
slon closing all stream, and for
est urea, to hunting and fishing
was announced today
by
head
quarters. ('amp White, Oregon.
Beetion X of Camp regulation,
provide, that all provision, of the
law. of the Htate of Oregon and
the United Htate. pertaining to the
taking of fish and game, other
than the procurement of a .tote
hunting and flaking license will
be compiled with on the reserva
tion of Camp White.
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Broady Bros. Drugs, announce,
a brand new shipment of Myrtle
Wood.
Come In and make your
choice of these beautiful, lasting
gifts before they are pl< ked over.
/W MINGO
Washington, D. C. (NWNSi—Con control over 2.300,000 federal em
gress had Its busiest week in msny ployees so that the commission can
months when It rushed through de transfer any of them to other
bate on the bill to stsbilize wages duties, either with the government
and farm prices and when the sen or in private industry.
These are the first two steps of
ate tackled the problem of put
ting through the biggest tax bill In many which will probably be taken
in the next few months to see to
history.
Although there was considerable it that every man is doing the job
llsagreement on the anti-inflation which makes him most useful to
measure, the farm groups and the his country. As a result of the
labor groups fighting to guard the occupational questionnaires filled
interests of their members, the in by all men up to the age of 65,
measure met less opposition than the government now has a complete
was expected—largely. It Is be record of the abilities of each man
lieved, because oi the President's and will, when necessary, assign
threat that If congress didn’t act men to jobs. With such a large
before October 1 he would use his number of young men now in the
war powers to dictate a policy on armed forces, and with more job.
to fill in factories than we have
wages and farm price control.
It is not expected that food prices ever had before, the manpower
to the consumer will be reduced problem is becoming increasingly
because of the measure, but there alarming. Because of this, the
probably will be no Increase per right to take a job or leave it,
mitted on foods excepting those few which has been 'such a cherished
which have been selling at an un right in this country, may soon be
usually low price. The measure is denied to all of us for the duration.
Another form of conscription,
expected to put an end to strikes
and prevent demands for wage in which is being talked about here
creases, although there are loop more and more, is the conscription
holes which would lead to demands of goods owned by the people. The
for higher pay if the cost of living whole policy of the administration
so far has been against such meth
Increases appreciably.
Whether the measure will freeze ods, but the increasing need for
prices and wages completely de such things as scrap metal, rub
pends entirely on the President, ber, textiles and automobiles may
since "adjustments" car. be made bring about a rapid change in this
by him if he considers them nec attitude.
One congressman already has
essary.
In addition to wage and price written a bill which would give
stabilization, job stabilization is ex- i the President power to order the
pected to be insisted upon in the confiscation of our automobiles
next few months. One of the big- I whenever he considers it necessary
gest recent problems in war pro- | —and the bill provides for a fund
duction is that of men shifting from of >5.000,000,000 to pay us for the
one plant to another in order to get automobiles taken. It is not ex
better wages. There have been in pected that this bill, or any order
stances, for example, where an air calling for the confiscation of auto
plane 'actory which is short of men mobiles will be put through at pres
will raid another airplane factory ent, but it la a possibility. And
to take away men by offering high the continued use of millions of
er pay. In addition to this type of pounds of rubber tires for unneces
piracy, it is natural that workers sary driving is apt to hasten
themselves are on the lookout for action.
What will happen about automo
better jobs and make changes
whenever they see prospects of a biles, tires, gasoline rationing,
fatter pay envelope. This trend has speed limits, etc., from now on will
caused inefficiency and delays In be in the hands of William M. Jef
fers, president of the Union Pacific
many factories.
To cope with this situation, two railroad, who has been given full
steps a .ready have been taken by authority to direct our nation's rub
the government: (1) the War Man ber program.
The failure of many towns and
power commission, headed by Pau)
MeNutt, has ordered workers in the cities to do a successful job in the
non-ferrous metajs and lumber in collection of scrap metal is also apt
dustries to obtain a "certificate of to lead to some sort of confisca
separation" from the United States tion. It is vital that the steel mills
Employment service before leaving be kept going at full speed—and if
their jobs to take new jobs; (2) thia scrap can't be obtained by vol
President Roosevelt gave the War untary means other methods will
Manpower commission complete have to bo adopted.
Women in Airplane Plants Show
Great Adaptibility on Many Jobs
Muny <>t the women now doing
ordinary assembly work in airplane
pltfnts throughout the nation can be
trained so that they can fill posi
tions requiring high degrees of skill
and responsibility.
Thi> information, besides many
other important and helpful Indus
trial notes, was learned as a re
sult of a nation-wide field survey
made by the women's bureau, U. 8.
department of labor.
According to the report, women
work on most of the manufactur
ing processes that go into the fabri
cation and assembly of an airplane.
There is hardly a department in
most of the massive airplane pro
duction plants that women are not
holding down a position, and mak
ing good at it.
Up to the present, women were
hired largely to increase growing
production forces. However, they
will be recruited in large numbers
to replace young men going into
military service. One company ex
pected to take on 2.000 additional
women riveters.
Due to varying factors in war
production, many firms hesitated
to estimate the numbers or propor
tions of women in their anticipated
future personnel, but all the plants
visited expected a steady growth in
the number of women employees
■nd the production activities as
signed to them, indicating that at
DEER HUNTING—
All National Forest land. In the
State of Oregon have been closed
by the Regional Forester under
Federal Regulation* on account of
high fire hazard, effective Heptem-
her 22, according to Karl L Jan-
ouch. Forest Supervisor
of
the
Rogue
River
National
Forest.
Highway, and county roads, Im-
proved forest camps and summer
home urea, will be open, but no
other area, may be entered ex
cept by those employed or having
urgent business therein, and then
only after securing written permit
from a forest officer. No permit,
will be required of any actual set
tler going to or from his home.
.Mr. Janouch pointed out that, in
effect, this will close to hunting
tali of the Rogue River National
Forest except the small portion
lying In California, and will also
prevent Ashing except at Igike O'
Wooda. «Y><-re there Is an
Im-
proved Finest camp. This super-
cedes the closures previously in
effect on this Forest this year and
contrary to former ruling fisher
men will nut be permitted to reach
stream.
which | parallel
nearby
roads.
The closure will affect Forest
Service employees as well as all
others. Instruction, having t>een
Issued
to prohibit
them
from
shooting game while In the for
est. and all violations of the clos
ure must necessarily be prosecuted
wlth< ut favor or discrimination.
Mr nJnouch said that It is
hoped that weather conditions will
permit lifting the closure before
the • nd of the hunting season.—
Medford News.
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Broady Hros. Drugs, announces
a brand new shipment of Myrtle
Wood
Come In and make your
choice of these beautiful, lasting
gifts before they are picked over, j
peak production the number of
women will have increased .lx or
■even time* the number in the ear-
ly spring of '42
It is currently estimated that
250.000 women will be in the air-
craft industry by the end of thls
year as compared to some 2,000
women production workers In the
aircraft assembly plants late in
IM).
The majority of plants reported
a minimum hiring age of 18 years,
but usually stated that preference
was given to women over 21. Some
personnel managers added that
women from 25 to 40 years were
preferred. Special employment pol
icies in regard to family status,
such as hiring only wives and
daughters of men employees, are
fast disappearing as the available
labor supply dwindles.
As the aircraft subcontracting
program gains momentum it will
come into prominence as a major
field of employment for women in
war Industries.
A great opportunity for women's
employment exists in the sub
assembly plants because the parts
and plane sections are compara
tively small, and because speciali
zation in production has given rise
to the breaking down of operations
entailing much more repetitive
work which women can learn easily
and quickly.
I PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES—
More than half the pedestrian
annual fatalities reported In Ore
gon occur during the last, four
months of the year, Earl Snell,
secretary of state, declared today
In urging motorist, and person, on
foot to increase ther precaution,
u. the fall and winter approaches
"In 1941. for example. 52 per
cent of the pedestrian fatalities
during the yeaf occurred In the
months of Heptember. October.
November and December.”
Hnell
■aid
"The month of December,
with 22 pedestrian deaths, was the
worst month of the year while
September, with 14 deaths was
second.”
Longer hours of darkness and
adverse weather conditions
were
listed by the secretary of state a.
the chief factors In this increase
In pedestrian Xccidlents during the
last four mo •>ha of the year, The
bad weather and darkness com-
bine to lower visibility and wet
road and street surfaces make for
poor ■topping conditions in traf-
fic.
"Many protons have the erron-
eaus belief that drivers of cars
with bright headlights can see
pedestrians, even on the darkest
night," Snell said, "but what they
fall to understand is that these
drivers see only by the light that
is reflected from the
object
in
their headlight beams. Thus, the
person with dark clothing, reflects
only about five per cent of the
light that strikes him
and con-
sequently, the driver may not see
the individual in time to avoid an
accl lent."
Pedestrians arc urged to wear
or carry somethin white at night
or display a lighted flashlight,
Workmen are advised to paint
their lunch buckets white as a pre
caution« ry measure.
Ashland U. S. 0
The Friendly Club
imber 40
We Must Have
Ashland U4B.O. is fast becoming
known as the "Friendly Club" to
soldiers from Camp White. There
were approximately
200 soldiers
who took advantage of one U.8.O.
activities this last Munday.
Th"
doors were opened at 10:30 A.M
and from that moment they poured
in!
Home to write letters back
home, others to read the Sunday
papers and magazines—etill other,
to make Inquiry
about
varioU.
church services or to take
out
game equipment, .have for dinner
invitation., or to talk over many
personal problem.—such
a.
a
coming
military
wedding—or a
Job for the wife who I. soon to
arrive. The high-light of the day
was the venison feed—with noo
dles, cabbage .alad
with sour
home-made
cream desslng and
bread—this last Item contributed
Dr. Chas.
by Mr.. L, H. Ja< ks.
Haines and hi. .on, Keith, Ash-
land’, most consistant “deer bring-
er-inners", positively amazed the
soldier guests, (especially the New
Yorkers.) by driving up in front of
the U.M.O. and pulling out of the
trunk of the car, two magnificant
dramatic
deer—thus
giving a
touch to the venison feed, During
Dinner”,
the "Cook Your
Own
Corporal Frank Todaro, of New
York, and his soldier aids, took
charge' of the kitchen, cutting cab
bages. boiling noodles and making
coffee,
while Junior
Hostesses.
Ann
Mary Jean Hendricks
and
salad
Munkres, whipped up the
dressing. And soon Madge Mitch
ell was lying around the tables
with bowls of delicious vension.
Connie Ehrheart, also a Junior
Hostess helped with games or was
on the dance giving soldiers her
friendliest .miles.
Miss
Florence Allen,
Senior
Hostess says that more Volunteer
Senior Hostesses are needed, e«-
Iieclally after church and until
5 o'clock on Sundays.
The October schedule is now be
ing made up. Men or women In
terested in helping to serve the
fighting men, please phone, or call
at the U.8.O. building.
The clean-up squad, headed by
Pfc. Paul Mount, of Ohio.
and
Pfc. Harold C. Lynch of Los
Angeles, was assisted
by
Mary
High
Jean
Hendricks, Ashland
School teacher. Lova Dusenbury.
Junior Hostess, of Medford, gn<l
Mesdames Adna Wood and Edith
Good.
The young people then gathered
In the main room for a program
of music.
Mrs. C. Clyde Dunham sang the
following group of songs, which
were greatly appreciated:
"The Little Brown Bird", "Syl
via", "Dawn", and "The Sweetest
Story Ever Told"—and was asked
to repeat the last number, that
the group might sing with her.
Cay Hufman was at the piano
and in her usual good form for bar
Sunday night "Sing-Song" wtuah
followed Mrs. Dunham's grout- ®f
songs.
One of the privates sang a
I.Ulla by,
his
own
compositton,
which was also well received.
During the morning on Sunday,
Mrs. Small conducted a "Philo
sophers' Hour" and several liter
ary expressions were turned 3n.
One of them stood out especially,
contributed by Corp. L. J Monlco,
whose mother was a French Priota
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oo S mo 90 aro
The Scrap and
Have It Now
"We are facing a criais in our
war production program.
Unie«,
we salvage enough metal scrap-—.
■crap Iron and steel—we are not
production
going to
meet
our
our
and
quotas, and our men
Allies are not going to get the
materials they need—in time, The
nut
situation is serious.
I
—too
once
again be—too
late.”
Thia is the ABC of the metal
scrap drive now being conducted
In Jackson county by the Army
officials of Camp White, Oregon,
Major
Lyman
V.
Williamson,
Camp White Salvage Officer in
charge of the scrap drive, revealed
today in an interview.
"We must have the scrap.” he
■aid, "and we must have It now.
That is the reason the Army has
stepped in to cooperate with other
the
governmental
agencies
in
scrap collection drive.”
Major Williamson also told of
the type scrap which Is most ur-
gently needed at the present time
and what war materials such scrap
would produce for our fighting
men.
"We need old ■toves, radiators,
plumbing, tools, iron
bed
ends,
batteries.
cooking utensils, rods,
tire chains, furnace grates, pipe,
of all kinds, lighting fixtures, all
types of united farm machinery",
he said, "In fact, we need anything
metal with the exception of gal
vanized products.
"All these things." he went on.
"will help make shells, guns, ships,
tanks, armored cars, submarines
and all machines and arms of war.
Give your scrap now—and give it
quickly. Just get to your tele
phone and call the Camp White
Salvage Officer, Phone 5221, Ex
tension 16, or Mr. G. S. Fowler,
County Agricultural Agent in the
Courthouse Building." Major Will
iamson concluded.
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THIS AND THAT
(By OM Timer)
Tv the Editor.
Subsidies for farmers or wage
earners merely transfer Inflation
costs from consumers to taxpayers.
rev
For the emergency union lead
ers would da well to -ee that their
"no-strlke” pledge Is kept.
ere
It is said that Hitler is dissatis
fied with Quisling.
That about
makes it unanimous.
ere
Franco proved that
he really
was a dictator when he fired his
brother-in-law and got away with
it.
* 1 r
China has staked claims to some
airfields which will be fine jump
ing-off places for bomb-bearing
traffic' to Tokyo.
re»
Farmers are
worried about a
shortage of help. The farm hand
who used to go to town on Sat
urday night now has gone to stay.
r r
*
When the war is over and sugar
is no Jonger rationed. Uncle Zeke
opines that life will be sweeter.
r i e
Laval must be getting skeered.
lie has organized his own special
corps of Troops.
e » e
Selflshnes Is the cardinal sin of
the age.
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Broady Bros. Drugs, announces
a brand new shipment of Myrtle
Wood.
Come in and make your
choice of these beautiful, lasting
gifts before they are picked over.
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Jake (in drug store): "I want
to buy a plow.”
Clerk: "I am sorry, sir, out we
don't carry plows."
Jake: "This is a hell of a drug
store.”
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Approximately 45 members of
the Ashland Gof club attended a
covered-dish dinner at the Club
House ast Sunday.
Hostesses for this enjoyable
event were Mrs. Frank VanDyke
and Mrs. C. I. J. Porter.
Many of the members came
early and played several rounds
of golf durinp the afternoon.
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CAMP WHITE ANNOUNCES
NEW TRAFFIC RULES
In line with the government’s
policy towards decreasing the
speed limit in the interests of con
servation, as outlined by Gov
ernor Sprague's recent proclama
tion, all military personnel at
Camp White will limit army
vehicle speed out of camp to thirty
five miles per hour, it was an
nounced today by Headquart
ers, Camp Uhite, Oregon.
Camp White's traffic regula
tions hhave been so amended, the
announcement added. The lower
speed witll effect a substantial
savings of gasoline and rubber.
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Though Spanish is the official
language of Guatemala, many In
dians of the country speak dialects
that have come down
straight
from Mayan forebears.
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