Thursday, December 12, 1940
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Five
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Washington, D. C, Dec. 12. Con
gress is getting into an ugly mood
about strikes which are interrupting
the national defense program. On
the floor of congress there has been
much said and critical regarding
the troubles in the lumber industry
of Washington and Oregon. The
Pacific northwest strikers, irrespec
tive of the merit of their cause,
have increased the impatience of the
lawmakers and already several con
gressmen have sponsored measures
which are really drastic. At the
moment there is a special committee
studying all laws of the first world
war and those enacted since which
deal with labor, the purpose being
to ascertain whether there are ex
isting laws to meet the strike situa
tion without enacting new ones.
Congress has been informed that
12,000 men went on strike in the
lumber industry and that three times
that number of men are in uniform
and living in tents at Pacific coast
camps waiting to be housed in can
tonments. The strike is preventing
completion of the barracks, compel
ling soldiers to live under canvas
in winter. War department is pro
voked at the lumber strike, too, be
cause the department has given its
solemn pledge that conscripts will
not be sent to camp until camps are
built and comfortable. Stopping con
struction is delaying the' plans for
military training of thousands of
conscripts.
With the shutting off of materials,
naturally the hundreds of carpenters
employed in building the canton
ments were idle.
Various proposals have been sub
mitted to congress to curb or pre
vent the strike menace insofar as it
retards national defense. The lumber
industry strike is only one of many;
there are rumors of pending dis
turbances in the shipyards on Puget
sound and on the Atlantic coast; in
the automotive plants manufacturing
tanks and airplane engines. Short
age of supplies, for instance, resulted
in 1,800 men being laid off at the
airplane plant in Seattle, where the
great flying fortresses, bombers, are
being built.
All delay is not caused by labor,
however. One reason for slowness
in production is the tendency of a
,contractor to do all the work in his
own establishment. National Defense
Advisory commission is now urging
(later will insist) that sub-contrac
tors be given part of the job. By
spreading the work of procurement,
using the facilities of small factories,
plywood establishments, etc., parts
can be sub-contracted and the en
tire project speeded up. In a few
months the public will learn more
about this method of expediting pro
duction. When the Oregon and Washington
legislatures assemble next month
there will be introduced bills im
posing severe penalties for conviction
of sabotage. The measure has been
written by the department of justice
and will be submitted to the gov
ernors, who are expected to have the
proposed legislation sponsored by
one or more lawmakers. It is part
of a nation-wide plan for co-ordina
tion of federal and state governments
in dealing with subversive activities.
Another act will require licensing
of persons who wish to use explo
sives. This would apply to miners,
or farmers using dynamite to blast
stumps in clearing land
More than' 40 different govern
ment bureaus, state and local agen
cies are cooperating to determine
methods for developing the 1,200,000
acres to be irrigated' by the Grand
Coulee reclamation project. In Jan
uary the new congress will be asked
to make an appropriation for the
start on the reclamation end of the
gigantic project, as practically every
cent to date for Grand Coulee has
gone into the dam. The planners
have even spotted sites for towns
and recreational centers for the fu
ture settlers.
,
Army officers are provoked be
cause Rep. Knute Hill, Washington,
prematurely announced that a bomb
er base, originally intended for Yak
ima, was to be located at Pendleton
. . . Oregon's Congressman Pierce
wants a committee appointed to in
vestigate election polls. He has writ
ten Dr. Gallup of his desire and
Gallup has replied that his poll on
Oregon was wrong only one-tenth of
one percent . . . Explanation of why
nothing is being done to prevent
British Columbia from dumping ap
ples on the American market to the
detriment of orchardists of Oregon
and Washington, is to enable Canada
to acquire dollar exchange with
which to purchase war munitions
. . . Government wants instructors,
air corps technical school, salaries
$2000 to $3800 a year; inspectors
aeronautical engineering materials,
$1620 to $2600 a year; aeronautical
engineering aids, salary $1620 to
$2600; aeronautical engineering
draftsmen, $1620 to $2600. For in
formation apply to any first- or
second-class postoffice.
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Rural Builders
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Farm families planning to build
new homes will find considerable
help in materials now available at
any county agent's office, some of
which have been especially adapted
to Oregon conditions, says Herbert
R. Sinnard, experiment station ar
chitect at Oregon State college.
A U. S. D. A. publication, No. 319,
entitled "Plans of Farm Buildings
for Western States," is one recent
plan book available. These plans
have been developed jointly by state
experiment station architects and
engineers of the United State de
partment of agriculture. Various
Oregon bulletins are also available
on detailed suggestions for the rural
home with special emphasis on kit
chen planning.
After building plans have been
talked over and decided upon, actu
al working drawings of the plans
shown in the U. S. D. A. publica
tion may be obtained through the
agricultural engineering department
at Oregon State college for a nom
inal charge. These blueprints show
enough detail to be used in actual
construction.
Designs suited to the western re
gion have been carefully worked
out for houses of different sizes,
says Sinnard. Regardless of the size
of a farm house or its cost, it is
best to build the type suited to the
local climate and adapted to neigh
borhood practice, he adds. Condi
tions in Oregon vary greatly, as some
sections ' are hilly, others are flat,
and in some parts of the state insul
ation is needed while in others it is
less important. Because of regional
building customs and designs, usu
ally based on sound experience, it is
well to consult someone with ex
perience in the locality before build
ing, Sinnard believes.
The plan books available at the
county agents' offices include many
structure besides houses. There
are layouts for general purpose and
livestock barns, different kinds of
shelters for dairy cattle, horses,
sheep, and hogs, as well as plans
for equipment and poultry houses.
Other plans may be obtained for
roadside stands, milk houses, smoke
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