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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, July 31, 1941
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Gazef-fe Times
THK HEPPNER GAZETTE.
Established March 30, 18S3;
THE HEPPNER TIMES.
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JASPER V. CRAWFORD. Editor
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Official Paper for Morrow Connty
AAA Program for
1942 is Simpler,
More Adaptable
Elimination of total soil depleting
allotments and the establishment of
a uniform soil conservation require
ment for each farm are the prin
cipal basic changes in the 1942 AAA
program as applied to Oregon, the
state AAA office has announced.
There will be no commercial
vegetable allotment, but special al
lotments will again be established
on wheat r.nd potatoes. However,
payment for compliance with these
special allotments will be condi
tioned by a requirement that 20 pel
cent of the crop land on th
be deoted to soil conserving uses,
such as perennial grasses and le
gumes, biennial legumes, protected
summer fallow, approved green ma
nure or cover crops, and forest tree
planted on crop land since 1936.
The new provision puts soil con
serving acreage requirements on a
uniform basis for each farm. In the
past, total soil depleting allotments
have been established for each
county, and then set up for each
farm by the county committee.
The changes are expected to sim
plify administration of the pro
gram, and also place greater empha
sis on conservation," commented N.
C. Donaldson, state AAA executive
officer. "They also make the pro
gram more flexible to meet national
defense needs.
"The new program should result
in an increase in soil conserving
practices in the wheat area. It will
also give credit to the farmer who
has already put his operations on r
sound soil-conserving basis," Don
aldson added.
A farm's soil building allowance
will be calculated in much the same
manner as last year. A flat 70 cents
an acre will be allowed for each
acre of crop land in excess of spe
cial allotment acreage for wheat and
potatoes, $2 an acre for commercial
orchard acreage, $1 an acre for com
mercial vegetables, and 50 cents for
restoration land. Non-crop nastrre
ajjd range allowances will be little
-changed from 1941.
-Soil building practices, rates of
payment and deductions are expect
ed to be about the same as 1941.
"They are now being printed and will
hv announced as soon as available.
There are, 20 meunings of the
word "knot," and one of them is
a measure of speed. So speed up
your mental processes and swing
into this one mark your choices
for your rating.
(1) Mark Twain once had one of
his characters call another a "loga
rithm," which was amusing because
it is, (a) fancy word for dunce;
(b) a mathematical term; (c) a
beat of music; (d) I I
a kind of type.
(2) Everybody agreed that the
smallest state was Rhode Island,
but when it got to the second small
est it was either (a) Connecticut;
(b) Vermont; (c) Delaware I 1
or (d) New Hampshire.
(3) Water doesn't usually run up
hill, but Joe said it did in (a) the
Adirondacks! ; (b) an aqueduct in
Rome; (c) in a siphon; (d) I 1
in parts of Latin America. (
This Week In
O DEFENSE
(Editors note: "This Week in De-I a bill authorizing federal aid to pri
33 1-3 percent in motor fuel con
sumption in the Atlantic coast states
to avoid rationing. Congress passed
fense," offered Gazette Times read
vate firms in constructing interstate
ers for the first time this week, is ' Pnes and Mr Ickes recom-
(4) The creature above is easy
enough to name, but would you de
scribe It as (a) a pachyderm; (b)
a reptile; (c) a I 1
mammal; (d) a fish.
(5) The discus thrower is famed
as Greek art, and the thing he's
throwing, is it (a) round like a ball;
(b) flat like a plate; (c) sharp like
a spear; ( d ) I I
square like a box.
(6) A football gridiron is so-called
because (a) it's rectangular in
shape; (b) it is torn up by the play
ers' feet; (c) it has white stripes
across it; (d) it has goal-posts I 1
like handles at both ends. ( J
(7) Joe said a corsage and a cor
tege both had flowers in them, but
tne latter was: (a) only worn at
funerals; (b) a group of flower-
laden horses; (c) a funeral proces
sion; (d) a pall of flow
ers to go over a cofli
'GUESS AGAIN"
ANSWERS
Tally
Score
Here
1. (b) for 25 knots
2. (c) tor 10
3. (c) again for the same
4. (c) right back for 15
5. (b) for 10 pts
6. (c) for 15
7. (c) again for 15
RATINGS: 90-100,
mighty fast; 80-90, TOTAL
speedy; 70-80, fast
enough; 60-70, SDeed up!
New Pledging Plan to
Be Tried at Corvallis
Oregon tate College A new plan
for handling the pledging of fresh
man girls to sororities, designed to
avoid the confusion and interfer
ence with class work of recent years,
has been announced for this fall by
E. B. Lemon, registrar and chair
man of the Freshman week commit
tee, and Mrs. Buena Maris, dean
of Women.
The plan calls for having the
approximately 250 girls who plan to
join sororities come to the campus
Wednesday night, September 17, in
advance of the opening of Freshman
week Monday, September 22. This
will permit the entire group to be
housed together in Waldo hall until
Sunday under dormitory supervi
sion during the rushing period in
stead of being scattered temporar
ily in Corvallis hotels and elsewhere.
This plan was requested by the
local sorority leaders and was agreed
to by the college on an experiment
al basis. It is similar to the plan
used successfully for years at Wash
ington State college, says Dean
Maris.
No change is being made in the
fraternity rushing, as freshman men
live in the fraternity houses during
North Pacific Region
Tops Forest Receipts
The North Pacific region brought
in two-fifths of the total forest ser
vice receipts last fiscal year, ac
cording to F. H. Brundage, the de
partment of agriculture associate re
gional forester in Portland.
"The net receipts for the North
Pacific national forests were $1,659,
454," Brundage said. "The value of
timber cut in sales plus the value
of timber cut in land exchanges
makes a total of $2,116,893. Timber
sales brought in $1,424,896 for a lit
tle over 567 million feet cut.
"The Olympic natonal forest top
ped the list with $482,275 for timber
cut," Brundage said. "The Malheur
brought in $168,330, the Snoqualmie
$138,829, the Deschutes $124,210. The
receipts from grazing for the region
were $122,697 and for special use,
including water power, $46,590."
An all time high in timber busi
ness was reached by the forest ser
vice in 1941, aocording to Brundage.
The 1,552,270,000 board feet cut
brought $5,803,313. The-v require
ments of the defense program ac
count in part for this increase.
Freshman week and are pledged the
first day that class work starts in
stead of the end of that week as
has been the case with women stu
dents. With women's dormitories al
ready practically reserved to capa
city, more efficient use of available
space is expected by having all sor
ority housing settled before the
opening of the Freshman week period.
a resume of highlights in the Nation
al Defense week, up to 1 o'clock p.
m. last Friday. It is arranged for in
terest according to direction of the
National Editorial association.)
Acting Secretary of State Welles
said present Japanese activities di
rected toward Indo-China endanger
peaceful nations of the Pacific
jeoparize the procurement by the
United States of essential materials
such as tin and rubber . . . necessary
for . . . our defense program. . ." He
said the safety of other areas, in
cluding the Philippine Islands, also
is endangered.
The president issued a statement
that the United States has been let
ting oil go to Japan "with the hope
and it has worked for two years
of keeping the war out of the South
Pacific for our own good, for the
defense of Great Britain and the
freedom of the seas. . ."
Mr. Roosevelt told his press con
ference events in the Far East arei
bringing to the American public a
greater awareness of the danger of
the whole world situation. But as
yet, he said, the public is not suf
ficiently cognizant of the perils of
the situation, any more than it real izes
the dangers of war in the West.
ARMY
Secretary of War Stimson said
production of vital items has been
increased with the cooperation of
American industry during the past
"100 crucial days" as follows: light
tanks, 475 percent; medium tanks,
467 percent; smokeless powder, 127
percent; machine guns, 93 percent;
TNT, 92 percent; training planes,
55.7 percent; bombers, 17.8 percent.
The war department said arm
expansion has progressed faster in
the past year than the manufacture
of modern weapons, but since it is
more important to know how to
employ a weapon tactically rather
than to know how to fire it, "little
training value is lost by the substi
tution of a stove pipe for a mortar
or an oak bough for a machine gun."
If a company has fewer guns than
men, the guns are rotated so each
man has a chance to learn how to
handle them.
The war department said it is
giving four types of tests to dis
cover a trainee's ability and to help
find his "right" place in the army.
Selective Service headquarters an
nounce that 752,572 twenty-one-year-olds
registered on July 1.
IFIGIIWAYS
Congress passed a $320,000,000 de
fense highway bill for construction
of roads and experimental airplane
landing strips, and to pay states for
damages from army and navy man
euvers.
AID TO BRITAIN
Federal Loan Administrator Jones
announced the RFC has authorized
a loan of $425,000,000 to the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Nor
thern Ireland to pay for war sup
plies Great Britain ordered before
the Lend-Lease act was passed. Mr.
Jones said Great Britain has put up
collateral which includes securities
of U. S. corporations, capital stock
of 41 British owned U. S. insurance
companies worth $500,000,000, and
the earnings of U. S. branches of 41
British insurance companies which
have net assets of approximately
$200,000,000. The loan matures in 15
years and bears interest at 3 percent
per year.
POWER
OPM Director General Knudsen
named J. A. Krug, OPM Power
Consultant, head of a special power
unit to assure an uninterrupted sup
ply of electrical energy by reducing
consumption in non-defense indus
tries, and, if necessary, by rationing
power where shortages are threat
ened. Mr. Krug said vast "power pools''
will be created to insure adequate
mended that the petroleum indus
try construct a $70,000,000 pipeline
from east Texas to the Atlantic
coast with a daily capacity of 250,
000 barrels He also asked the in
dustry to construct 40 to 50 large,
high-speed oil tankers in addition
to 139 now on order.
CIVILIAN SUPPLY
Price Administrator Henderson
announced a tentative program to
cut production in the automotive,
domestic mechanical refrigerator
and mechanical household laundry
equipment industries to make more
materials available for defense. He
said the cut will be offset by de
fense work these industries would
undertake. OPM Director General
Knudsen said the proposed shift
should coincide with increased de
fense orders to the industry to avoid
unemployment.
LABOR
President Roosevelt established a
committee on fair employment prac
tice in the Office of Production
Management to prevent discrimina
tion against defense workers or gov
Chet Christenson
Writes From Quantico
Chester L. (Chet) Christenson
wrote this week from Marine Bar
racks, Quantico, Va., where he ex
pects to soon complete his schooling
as an officer in the Marine corps.
He wrote:
I was surely surprised but thrill
ed to see my picture in the G. T. and
the article that was with it.
For the last month we have been
I having very warm weather; it does
' n't get any hotter here than at
home but it is a sticky heat, be
cause of the high humidity that is
always present. It rains quite often
but even that doesn't cool it off for
very long at a time.
We are in the midst of our studies
as reserve officers; in fact we are
about half way through the course.
It is very comprehensive, covering
everything a good marine officer
should know before going out on
active duty with troops of his own.
All my fellow officers are thinking
quite a bit about where they are
going to be sent Iceland or Guam.
Of course, we won't know until
September 10th, when we are sent
out on duty. We will be sent to
wherever they need us and that
1 will include any place where there
ernment employees because of race, I are marines,
supply of electricity for aluminum
and magnesium plants now under
construction. He said one has al
ready been formed for aluminum
plants in Tennessee an others are
being considered for Arkansas, Ok
lahoma, Texas, Louisiana, the sou
thern sections of Kansas and Mis
souri, and for the Northeastern sec
tion, including the New England
states, New York, eastern Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey.
OIL 9
Defense Petroleum Coordinator
Ickes requested a voluntary cut of
creed or national origin. The six
members represent the CIO, AFL,
the newspapers and radio, and in
clude two negroes.
OPM Associate Director General
Hillman announced that 800,000 AFL
building trade union members have
reached a stabilization agreement
with the government calling for no
strikes on defense projects for the
duration of the emergency and no
stoppage of work because of juris
dictional disputes "or any other
cause."
LABOR SUPPLY
Mr. Hillman told railroad officials
and labor executives in Chicago
that the 100,000 unemployed, skilled
railroad workers could be shifted to
defense work under a "voluntary
labor priority" plan. Mr. Hillman
said an estimated 1,000,000 workers
will be needed by the aircraft in
dustry by July, 1942, as compared
with the 200,000 employed today. He
said 555,600 will be needed by next
July in the shipbuilding industry
where 375,000 are now employed.
NAVY
Navy Secretary Knox presented a
special Naval ordnance flag to 14
companies who are ahead of pro
duction schedules of Navy contracts.
He said firms who are "all out" for
defense will be permitted to fly the
flag and their employees will be
allowed to wear in their lapels an
"E," the traditional Navy mark of
excellence. The Maritime Commis
sion said the entire shipbuilding
program is nearly sixty days ahead
of schedule.
PRICES
Price Administrator Henderson
asked the baking industry to re
duce operating expenses instead of
raising bread prices. He said in
gredient costs have risen half a cent
a loaf. Bituminous Coal Counsel
Harr recommended maximum prices
at 10 percent above the present min
imum. AGRICULTURE
OPM Associate Director General
Hillman said agriculture will be rep
resented in all of the recently creat
ed OPM Commodity Sections con
cerned with "commodities produced
by agriculture or necessary to the
production of agriculture "
ALUMINUM. COLLECTION
OCD Director LaGuardia announ
ced that on July 30 local aluminum
collection committees will send ma
terials collected in the voluntary
program to concentration points in
the large cities of the 48 states. He
said the Treasury Department's
state procurement offices will then
offer the scrap to smelters having
defense contracts, at OPACS prices.
I enjoy my work but if I think
about Oregon very long at one time.
I start wishing I were in eastern
Oregon again, soil surveying.
The last Sunday in June the Ore
gonians in and around Washington,
D. C, held a picnic at Rock Creek
park. I went out with several oth
ers here from Oregon and ran across
a number of people whom I knew
or had met at Oregon State.
Would you send me another copy
of last week's paper, if you have
any left over.
E. R. Merritt, former Heppner
resident visited this week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Schwarz from his home in California.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
In the Matter of the Estate of
Clyde G. Wright, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, as Administrator of
the estate of Clyde G. Wright, de
ceased, has filed his final account
in the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County, and
that Tuesday, the 2nd day of Sep
tember, 1941, at the hour of 10 o'
clock in the forenoon of said day
in the Court room of said Court
has been appinted by said Court as
the time and place for the hearing
of objections thereto and the set
tlement thereof.
Dated and first published this 31st
of July, 1941.
HAROLD A. WRIGHT,
Administrator of the estate of
Clyde G. Wright.
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