Page Four Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Thursday, July 31, 1941 eppner Gazef-fe Times THK HEPPNER GAZETTE. Established March 30, 18S3; THE HEPPNER TIMES. Established November 18. 1897: CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 1912 Published every Thursday morning by CKAWFOHD PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Tear J2.00 Three Years 5.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 75 Single Copies .05 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. SMART MONEY HhlOHS WHERE TO ,L GO AFTER READING THE AOS IN THIS Mm JH NEWSPAPER NOWHERE FACTORY MACHINE for lawnmower sharpening. We'll make your lawnmower like new. We also do sw filing, bi cycle repairing, floor sandini?. knife and scissor sharpening j emu uana saw worK. N. D. Bailey SHIP BY TRUCK The Dalles Freight Linef Inc. 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