t Page Four Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER GAZETTE. Established March 30, 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES, EHtablished November 18, 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912 Published every Thursday morning by CEAWFOED PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 Three Years 6.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months . .75 Single Copies .05 Official Paper for Morrow County Let's Go Ahead T'HE die is cast and the American system will prevail. Bitterness of campaign heat has already been as suaged through felicitations of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates following Tuesday's el ection results. True to his campaign pleas for a united America, Wendell L. Willkie has joined in backing Mr Roosevelt as president. That is the American system in which this newspaper joins, with reservation of the privilege of constructive crit icism should presidential policies at times not conform to what we consider the American system. Wendell L. Willkie made a clean hard fight as he led a crusade that was backed by 25 million Americans. Such a showing cannot be ignored, and the principles for which those votes were cast must be given re spect by the, third term administra tion. In saying this there is no threat of disunity. It is but to say that while Mr. Roosevelt may expect the support of these 21 million Amer icans ,he must in fairness give their cause the consideration to which it is entitled. In such case America will go ahead with strong determin ation to face the issues of the future. Washington, D. C, Nov. 7 Now that the residential election is over with and the post-mortems have been held (with a few exceptions) the American people will concen trate their attention on the national defense program, which was such a controversial subject during the past two months. Up to the present the Oregon part of the Pacific north west has been almost neglected in the plans for defense, although Washington has received projects amounting to many millions of dol lars. Washington state, for example, has been selected for the construction of a fleet of destroyers, a number of seaplane tenders, harbor net tenders, several hundred airplanes of the flying fortress type. Fort Lewis is being expanded by 901 new build ings; McChord flying field is being expanded. At Spokane an air base has been located and a housing pro ject for the personnel arranged. The navy yard at Bremerton, on Puget sound, has been assigned all the fighting ships it can construct and a large housing project has been or dered there to shelter the thousands of mechanics. Two importana developments un der defense program can be expect ed in Oregon ship construction and air bases. The naval air station at Tongue Point, near Astoria, from which patrol squadrons pre to op erate, is to be expanded. The Colum bia airport at Portland is to become a base for swift pursuit planes and will have a personnel of a few thousand men, fliers, ground crew Iliillfiiill Heppner mechanics, etc. Then east ot the Cascades a bombing range will be located where bombers can practice hitting targets. The bombing range will be on waste land. Near Umatilla will be established the munitions base for the entire Pacific northwest. Here will be a series of magazines in which will be stored the bombs, ammunition and similar explosives to be used by all the army air force in Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho. It will be the largest munitions dump west of Ut ah, where the heavy bombers will be supplied; the bombers in the Pacific northwest will be the type known as light bombers. The base to be established at Spokane will be supplied from the Umatilla mag azines. Supplementing these naval and army air bases, there is a proba bility that airports in as many as ten Oregon cities will be developed, making them better equipped for warplanes. A study is now being conducted in the ten communities and a report will be made in De cember, according to present esti mates. There are more unused facilities for ship construction in the Portland area than in any other section on the Pacific coast or Atlantic coast. The navy is prepared to give orders for all the ships (not warships) that the local people are able to accept, but for one reason or another the local people have been holding back A Canadian mission and a British mission have visited Portland to learn if they can look to that area for the building of cargo vessels. The British have suffered great loss in tonnage and with bombs raining on British shipyards, preventing con struction there, they are negotiating for new ships in the United States. This opportunity to revive a former industry on the Willamette and Col umbia rivers, and possibly Coos bay, will not . be neglected. Shipyards mean payrolls and the employment of thousands of skilled mechanics. When congress resumes business the military highways subject will Sm? I lie IVow It !csiin in COMMUNITY PLATE It's lovely! A floral design charming , . , feminine . . . Cxquisitely carved . . the kind of a design thousands of women have demanded. Now, in Community Plate. 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It may be necessary for congress to make a special and specific appropriation for the military highways program. To date it has been impossible for the Oregon-Washington delegations to induce the bureau of mines to take active interest in the mineral resources of those states to the ex tent of ascertaining what can be done to find formulas for treating the various ores in order to make them commercially available. The bureau is busy in other western states but is indifferent to the north west. Experiments at Washington state college have demonstrated that magnesium a metal lighter than al uminum, can be produced with na tive raw material. This means a future industry. Notice of Election: An election of members of the Advisory Board of Oregon Grazing District No. 7 will be held in the Morrow County Court House on November 19, 1940, in ac cordance with section 18 of the Tay lor Grazing Act and of the Federal Range Code revised to August 31, 1938. One member at large is to be elected. Nominations will be open at 1:00 P. M. and voting polls will remain open from 2:00 to 5:00 P. M. Virgil Starr, District Grazier. m m m 1 FIRST RBTIORRb MIES Oregon FREE SHOW AT IONE A free show is scheduled for next Tuesday night at the lone school auditorium at 7:30 p. m. to be spon sored by the Pacific Power & Light Good Printing s a mark That's why so many business houses prefer printing that comes from the Gazette Times Printery - w'.ncf the 1 ... a..j. r; low tusi rmancine -1 mm m . - Builds Bank Credit for your other needs in 41 state-wide branches B. C. PINCKNEY, Manager OF PORTLAND Thursday, November 7, 1940 company. The film, "24 Hour Ser vice" will be shown as a part of the program. Othe features will also be included. An interesting and in structive evening is promised. of distinction ? . - 0