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Washington, D. C, Jan. 16. Ev
eryone in Washington knows that
congress will enact the "lease-loan"
bill under which President Roose
velt can do anything he desires with
American war 'material. Naturally, it
makes the president a dictator, but
that is understood and, if need be,
he can be deprived of these powers
by a vote of two-thirds of con
gress. It will be no rush job, enacting
the measure, for the senate will con
sume time in debating the bill. At
present the bill (it was introduced
simultaneously) is in the foreign re
lations committee of the senate and
the foreign affairs of the house. The
fireworks will begin when the bill
emerges from committee and reaches
the floor. Opposition will not be on
party lines; there are good Demo
crats as well as Republicans who
believe that the measure gives too
much authority to the president, and
each will have his "say" before the
bill reaches a rollcall.
What is occurring in Washington
is what had been predicted; anyone
who refuses to go the whole distance
in aid to the British is viewed with
suspicion and is called an appeaser
and is not regarded as exactly
"right." Somehow such individuals
are gradually being considered as
disloyal. It is in reality the begin
ning of a witch hunt such as always
presages entry into war.
Tucked away in the bill (its num
ber is 1776) is a little item which
authorizes the president to make
available the ports of the United
States to disabled foreign warships.
It makes no mention of what na
tion, but, of course, means British.
This gives the British fleet full ac
cess to American ports and all fa
cilities for repairs. For the larger
vessels there is only one such place
on the Pacific coast the Bremerton
navy yard, and two on the Atlantic
side. With the Germans bombing
the docks of Britain, the English
navy is looking for a place to have
repairs made to the fleet, and this
bill will meet all requirements in
that respect. There is, perhaps, more
objection to this part of the measure
than to any other. It sounds too
much like war.
While debate rambles on, Ameri
can production will be geared up.
New plants are being erected at the
expense of the government for the
manufacture of smokeless powder,
for shell-filling, for tanks, for air
planes, engines, etc. Several months
will be required to prepare these
plants for production and once they
are running out their particular pro
duct, the president will be sending
the material to the British, saving
only a trifle of the output for Am
erican national defense.
Of this material for the British
none will be paid for by the British
taxpayers; the load will be carried
by American taxpayers, whether or
not they like it. There is no men
tion of money anywhere in the bill.
The measure is an authorization bill
and once it is passed congress will
be told how much money to vote.
The extent to which the United Sta
tes will aid Britain, Greece and China
(possibly some Latin-American na
tions) is a matter of guesswork, but
administration leaders expect it to
be not less than three billion dol
lars to start with. This is on fop
of the 17 billion dollars which the
president has submitted to congress
more than congress voted in the
, first world war for any one year.
In the president's budget he has
eliminated all river and harbor
work, and road funds other than
those he must sanction. There is
not a nickel for military highways
in the budget, but there is a strong
and persistent demand for such and
before this session closes a military
highway bill will be offered by the
Heppner
Reclamation Now
Gives Most Hope
For New Farmers
Control of water through reclam
ation offers the greatest opportun
ity for increasing the number of
economic farm units in Oregon, says
Dr. W. L. Powers, head of the soils
department at Oregon State col
lege, in an introduction to the tri
annual report of the Oregon Recla
mation congress covering the three
annual conventions from 1938 to
1940, inclusive.
The present irrigated area in Ore
gon has recently been estimated at
1,500,000 acres. It appears probable
that this can ultimately be increased
by perhaps 500,000 acres, says Dr.
Powers. About 152,000 acres are
within 70 developed drainage or
dyking districts in the state, and
nearly a million acres are still sus
ceptible of improvement by farm
tiling or community drains.
Latest census figures show that
the increase in the number of farms
in Oregon has been confined largely
to the irrigated areas. To date 1500
new families have settled on the
Vale-Owyhee project land.
As to future reclamation devel
opment, Dr. Powers points out the
possibility of small feasible projects
in Douglas and Josephine counties
and the desirability of re-examining
the John Day project in the light of
recent power developments. Early
completion of the Deschutes project
is needed, he says, and there may
be a combined flood control and
reclamation approach to the Grand
Ronde project.
The greatest field for drainage
and irrigation remaining in Oregon,
however, is in the Willamette valley,
he says. While there are close to
750,000 acres of good irrigable soil
types in the valley, various limita
tions make it improbable that more
than half a million acres will be
irrigated in the next generation.
"Sound reclamation decreases the
unit cost of production and increases
quality of products, and it renders
the least area sufficient for the
support of a family and thus con
tributes toward a peaceful world,"
said Dr. Powers.
The triannual report covers the
proceedings at the Klamath Falls,
Clatskanie, and Redmond conven
tions. A few extra copies are avail
able to non-members at cost.
START HOME PRACTICE
Oregon State College Seventeen
senior women have entered the three
home management houses here
where they will live for the next
six weeks, carrying out all normal
household duties including the care
of a young baby. These houses, each
with a baby of its own loaned by
Oregon child care institutions, pro
vide a means for home economics
seniors to apply the information
gained in their college courses under
some supervision.
house committee on roads. To date
the report on military highways
which has been on the president's
desk for months is still there. Ad
ministration forces contemplate us
ing federal aid funds, wherever pos
sible, for access roads. State high
way commissions are not all in fa
vor of this program.
For rivers and harbors and flood
control the president proposes stop
ping any further work. There are
14 dams in the flood control pro
gram which he has eliminated two
are in Oregon. Only maintenance
is allowed for rivers and harbors on
existing projects.
In the shipbuilding program, to
be under the maritime commission,
one or more yards will be located
on the Willamette and Columbia,
owned by the federal government
and operated privately. These are
for steel ships. There will also be
a program (yet unannounced offi
cially) for wood ships and some of
these may be allocated to Coos Bay,
Tillamook and Astoria. For the time
being the Puget sound yards have
all they can handle and while one
recently submitted bids on five car
go carriers, it was $1,000,000 higher
on each ship than a bid from Port
land. Before the end of the year
approximately 10,000 men will be
employed in shipbuilding in the Willamette-Columbia
area.
Gazette Times, Heppner,
Soil Improvement
Short Course Topic
A three-day annual soil improve
ment short course at Oregon State
college has been set for Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, Jan. 30 to Feb.
1, announces W. L. Powers, head of
the soils department. While the
program for the course has not been
completed, acceptances have been
received from a number of out-of-state
speakers who will join with
specialists on the experiment sta
tion and extension service staff in
handling the lecture and demonstra
tion work.
The first day of the course will be
devoted to soil surveys, land classi
fication, and land use. The second
day will be confined largely to con
sideration of reclamation problems,
including irrigation, drainage, and
flood and erosion control. The final
day will be devoted to discussion of
soil fertility and the use of commer
cial or other fertilizers.
A considerable amount of new in
formation has been accumulated
from research and observation dur
ing the past year, said Dr. Powers.
The short course will provide an
opportunity for growers and agri
cultural leaders to obtain up-to-the-minute
information on the gen
eral subject of soil improvement.
The relation of land use adjustment
to national defense will be consider
ed in one or more luncheon meeting
discussions.
Oreqon License Plates
ks
Changed Early
Only the statutes of Oregon and
Washington, in the eleven western
states, make the changing of motor
license plates compulsory the first
of January, according to a survey
of the Oregon Motor association.
Laws of the other nine western
:tates have periods ranging until
March 31.
The two Pacific Northwest states
are not in the Dec. 31 plate chang
ing class by themselves, however,
with eight other states in the east
and the territories of Alaska and the
Canal Zone providing the change
be made on that date. In Washing
ton, D. C, on the other hand, 1940
plates are good until March 31.
Plate changing dates in other wes
tern states are as follows: Arizona,
Jan. 31; Calif, Feb. 4; Colo., Feb. 1;
Idaho, March 31; Mont, until Feb. 1;
Nevada, until Jan. 31; New Mexico,
March 2; Utah, Feb. 28; and Wyom
ing, March 1.
Provinces in Canada likewise have
longer to make the changes, with
Manitoba's new plates due Jan. 15,
and the last, New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia and Prince Edward island,
due April 30.
Winter Enrollment
atOSC Same as 1940
Oregon State College Despite flu
epidemics and increased demand for
men in defense industries, enroll
ment here for the winter term is al
most exactly equal to the record
winter term enrollment of a year
ago, reports of Registrar E. B. Lem
on reveal.
At the end of the first week the
total enrollment was 4479 or just
8 more than that of a year earlier.
The final total with all late regis
tration in is expected to reach the
4544 of last year.
Enrollment of women has reached
1553, 5 percent more than last year,
but the 2926 total for men is a de
crease of 3 percent, largely account
ed for by the increased employment
opportunities, it is believed.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of Or
egon for Morrow County, Adminis
trator of the estate of Clyde G.
Wright, deceased, and all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased, are hereby required
to present the same with proper
vouchers duly verified, to the said
Administrator at the law office of
P. W. Mahoney, at Heppner, Oregon,
within six months from the date of
this notice.
Dated and first published this
16th day of January, 1941.
HAROLD A. WRIGHT,
Administrator.
Oregon
Five Morrow Young
People at EOCE
Eastern Oregon College of Edu
cation, La Grande, Jan. 11 An en
rollment of 326 students during the
first week of the winter term at the
Eastern Oregon College of Educa
tion shows an increase of almost
6 per cent over the enrollment of
the same date last year.
Registration of new and returning
students will be accepted until Jan
uary 18, according to Dr. Roben J.
Maaske, president, and it is expect
ed that some additional students will
enter. The present enrollment,
however, has already exceeded the
final registration of the winter term
last year.
The increased enrollment is par
ticularly gratifying at this time since
many prospective college students
have this year been drawn into the
National Guard, vocational educa
tion classes or into jobs which were
not open a year ago.
Students from Morrow county en
rolled in the Eastern Oregon Col
lege of Education are Willard Jones,
Irrigon; Vernon Knowles and Ka
thryn Parker, Heppner; Ted Wilson,
Boardman, and Helen Lindsey, lone.
Willard Jones and Helen Lindsey
are members of the freshman class;
Vernon Knowles and Ted Wilson are
senior teacher-training students, and
Miss Parker is a member of the
sophomore teacher-training class.
Oregon Flea Secrets
To be Told by Expert
Oregon State College Anyone de
siring to learn intimate details of
the lives led by Oregon fleas will
have the opportunity the night of
Jan. 18, when Dr. C. Andreson Hub
bard, Pacific university's noted flea
authority, will lecture here to a
combined meeting of the Entomo
logical Society of Oregon, Phi Sig
ma, honor society in biology, and the
O. S. C. Wildlife club.
Dr. Hubbard is the author of a
book describing the hundreds of spe
cies of fleas found west of the
Rocky mountains, some of which
are of c&nsiderable economic im
portance as carriers of diseases of
men and animals.
V. R. RUNNION
AUCTIONEER and
REAL ESTATE1
Phone 452 Heppner, Oregon
Professional
Directory
Maternity Home
Mrs. Lillie Aiken -Phone
664 P.O. Box 142
Heppner, Oregon
Phelps Funeral Home
Ambulance Service
Trained Lady Assistant
Phone 1332
Heppner, Ore.
NEW AUTO POLICY
Bodily Injury & Property Damage
Class A $13.00 Class B $17.00
See us before financing your
next automobile.
F. W. TURNER & CO.
Heppner City Council
Mecls rirst Monday Each Month
CUL..iio having cutters for dis-'
cussion, please bring before
the Council.
J. O. TURNER, Mayor
GLENN Y. WELLS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ATwater 4884
535 MEAD BUILDING
5th at Washington
PORTLAND, OREGON
Thursday. January 16, 1941
J. 0. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
HEPPNER, ORE.
A. D. McMurdo, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nurse Assistant
Office In Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Heppner
Abstract Co.
J. LOGIE RICHARDSON, Mgr.
BATES SEASONABLE
Roberts Building Heppner, 0e.
P. W. Mahoney
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GENERAL INSURANCE
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow St. Entrance
J. O. Peterson
Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods
Watches . Clocks - Diamonds
Expert Watch and Jewelry
Repairing
Heppner, Oregon
Vawter Parker
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
First National Bank Building
Dr. Richard C. Lawrence
DENTIST
X-Ray and Extraction by Gas
First National Bank Bldg.
Phone 562 Heppner, Oregon
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG.
Rec. Phone 1182 Office Phone 492
HEPPNER. OREGON
Jos. J. Nys
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
V. R. Runnion
AUCTIONEER
Farm Sales and Livestock a Specialty
405 Jones Street, Heppner, Ore.
Phone 452
MAKE DATES AT MY EXPENSE
Morrow County
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INC.
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Office in New Peters Building
Peterson fir Peterson
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
U. S. National Bank Building
PENDLETON. OREGON
Practice in State and Federal Courts
RoaJ Estate
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Bona
W. M. EUBANKS
Notary Publio
Phone 62 lone, Ore.
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