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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, November 6, 1941
LEXINGTON NEWS
Parties Feature Week
Of Lexington Activity
By MARGARET SCOTT
Miss Helen Breshears entertained
with a utensil demonstration dinner
at her home last Tuesday evening.
Those present besides Mrs. Bresh
ears were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bre
shears and daughter Bunny, Peggy
McCourt, Mr. and. Mrs. Wilbur Stea
gall, Mr. and Mrs. Callie Duncan,
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Whillock and
daughters Carla and Sandra, and
Mrs. Crump and son Everett of
Heppner. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson
were in charge of the demonstra
tion. Among Pendleton visitors Satur
day were Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mic
Millan and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Merritt Gray, and Mr. and Mrs.
Veron Seott.
A large crowd attended the Hal
lowe'en party at the Leach hall
Saturday evening. Games, cards,
and dancing were enjoyed, followed
by lunch of pie, coffee and cocoa.
Susie Vinson visited at the Char
les Buchanan home Monday from
her home on the Claude White
ranch.
Clair Hunt entertained the third
and fourth grade room with a Hal
lowe'en party Friday afternoon
which was also his birthday. The
house was attractively decorated
with Hallowe'en motif and each
guest came in costume. Games were
played and refreshments served.
Mr. Stilwell of lone was m town
Monday.
Faye Ruhl and sons and Nettie
Davis spent Sunday in Stanfield at
the Gene Gray home.
Mrs. Cicero, formerly Minnie
Leach, is spending a few days here
She was a dinner guest Monday at
the Ella Barnett home and a supper
guest at the Earl Warner home.
A tea party honoring Pearl Gen
try of Halfway was enjoyed by the
members of the Ladies Aid Wed
nesday in the aid room.
Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Gray, Mrs.
Vernon Seott and sons Jerry and
Timmy spent Sunday visiting in Ir-
rigon and Stanfield.
Monday guests at the Merritt
Gray home were Mr. and Mrs. Ray
P. Conser and daughters Dixie and
Florence, and Mr. Reiks of Irrigon.
Sunday school will be held at 10
a. m. in the Christian church Sun
day. Everyone welcome.
Miss Sylvia Severence, fifth and
sixth grade teacher, is staying at
the Laura Scott home.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Peck were
Pendleton visitors Tuesday.
STOCKPILES OF FOOD FOR PEACE
Here is what the U. S. Department of Agriculture means whfn it
urges farmers to help produce "stockpiles of food for use after the
war." The upper picture shows barrels of dried rnilk, just as good a
year from now as today. The lower picture shows a warehouse filled
with huge drums of cheese, even better with aging. These farm
products, plus condensed ilk, dried milk, cured pork, and canned meat
and vegetables, constitute the stockpiles of defense food which, says
Secretary Claude R. Wickard, will be needed by hungry Europe and
will exert tne maximum influence at the peace conference table.
12,000 Miles Thru Russia
Extension Shift
Improves Agent,
Marketing Work
Two important changes in the ex
tension service, approved at the last
meeting of the state board of higher
education, are designed to streng
then both the state-wide marketing
work and the county agent project
of the service, according to an an
nouncement by William A. Schoen
feld, dean and director of agricul
ture. These changes involve transfer
ring Clifford Smith from his position
of assistant marketing specialist to
that of assistant county agent leader,
and moving H. C. Avery, for 20
years county agent of Union county,
to the marketing post vacated by
Smith.
"Avery has made one of the most
outstanding records in marketing
among county agents in the entire
west," commented W. L. Teutsch,
assistant director' of extension. "His
conception has been that marketing
begins with production of the kind
of commodities the consumer wants."
One of Avery's early accomplish
ments was introduction of lamb
grading in Union county before
shipment to market. This led to a
lamb pool which in turn grew into
a county shippers' association hand
ling all types of livestock.
Small seed production was started
under Avery's leadership which re
sulted in the formation of the co
operative Blue Mountain Seed
Growers association, which serves
most of eastern Oregon and of which
Avery has been manager this past
year while on leave from the ex
tension service, He has also organ
ized a poultry marketing associa
tion and been active in the better
ment of dairy and fruit marketing
in his region.
By MARVIN KLEMME
(Editor's Note This is the second
installment of an article by Mr,
Klemme, former district grazier for
this district, who traveled extensive
ly in Russia and Europe just before
outbreak of hostilities in the pre
sent war.)
At one of the large experimental
farms I saw a twenty acre field of
perennial wheat. While this specie
had not yet been declared a success,
it showed great promise. This specie
of grain grows something like our
big bunch grass and would need re
planting only every ten years or so.
If it proves a success, it will go a
long way toward solving the "dust
bowl" problems of the world. I
think it well to state right here that
I have great respect and admiration
for the Russian scientists, especially
those connected with agriculture
and horticulture. They impressed
me as being extremely interested in
their work and took little interest
in the political problems of the
world.
One thing that seemed to be plen
tiful in Russia that is very expensive
and hard to get throughout the rest
of the world is caviar. On the trains
and in the restaurants I was served
great "gobs" of this delicacy. Caviar
is nothing but fish eggs that come,
I believe, principally from the stur
geon fish that are caught in great
numbers in the Caspian sea and up
the Volga river.
Most of Russia's agriculture has
been mechanized. I was advised that
something like 93 percent of all
their land was now farmed with
motorized machinery. The wheat or
grain fields seemed to me to be fair
ly efficiently handled but the row
crops were rather badly grown up
with weeds. They impressed me as
trying to farm too much land rather
than trying to increase the yield on
that which was already under cul
tivation. Vast areas were being
cleared and plowed up in northern
Russia and throughout large stret
ches of Siberia. I believe that the
Soviet Union has enough land un
der its jurisdiction, if even only half
efficiently handled, to feed all of
Europe and perhaps part of Asia.
The standard of living in Russia
is still low compared to what we are
used to, but it is improving every
day. There is no question in my
mind but what the great mass of
the people are much better off than
they were under the old regime
when they were practically re'd in
bondage by the nobility and the
Greek orthodox church. Despite the
fact that they are still regimented
and are told only what the govern
ment wants them to know, the
younger generation can all read,
write and figure, which is a whole
lot in a country like that. I was
fcreatly impressed with the intense
desire of the young Russians to ac
quire knowledge. Their greatest pro
gress will likely continue to be in
the field of science, since the gov
ernment places little or no restric
tions on learning in that field. Out
side of what goes on in the foreign
field, they are being given an in
creasing amount of liberty or self
government. The teaching of relig
ion is now permitted so long as it
is kept strictly separated from the
state. The old idea of "free-love'
has been given up and divorces are
harder to get. A limited amount of
capitalism is now permitted and
many of their old theories are be
ing replaced with more practical
ideas. The Russian government vol
untarily gave up communism quite
sometime ago and adopted instead
a modified form of state socialism
or state capitalism, as some prefer
to call it.
The homes or living quarters in
Russia are still poor compared with
those of western countries. Most
rural homes in southern Russia are
constructed of sod or mud bricks,
with sod or straw roofs. Throughout
most of northern Russia and Siberia
the country homes are constructed
of logs. In the cities many new
apartment houses are going up.
However, they lack many of the
conveniences of a modern apart
ment house in this country. One of
the more modem ones that I was
shown through had only one bath
and toilet for each eight families.
I was informed that the reason that
more progress had not been made
along this line was due to the fact
that most of the country's efforts
had been directed toward building
up their "heavy industries," which
really meant national defense.
Should I return to the country ten
years later, so I was informed, I
would find the people much better
dressed, living in better homes and
enjoying more of the luxuries and
conveniences of life.
Despite the progress that Russia
has made, and is still making, she
impressed me as being seriously in
need of trained technical leadership.
They have a good crop of compar
atively intelligent young people
coming on but they need leaders
right now and they need better in
structors for the young folks who
are so eager to learn.
The Russians all impressed me as
being extremely patriotic. I found
no criticism of their government.
Despite reports of supposedly well
informed people, I believe that Rus
sia's more recent "purges" strength
ened the country, rather than weak
ed it. Most of those "bumped off"
were political leaders and reaction
ary army leaders whom the country
could very well get along without.
The nation now seems united as
never before. This is great credit to
them, too, because of the many races
that go to make up the Soviet Un
ion. Russia has been very success
ful in handling her complicated ra
cial problems. While in Moscow I
saw delegates composed of many
different races making official calls
at the capitol. They have been per
mitted to keep their native language,
clothing and customs which most of
the other European countries have
failed to do.
I found the common people of
Russia, and especially those on the
large state and collective farms, ex
tremely friendly. Since they had
seen few foreigners. I seemed to be
something of a curiosity. Upon my
leaving, many of them would bring
me hands full of fruit and vegetbles
to take along with me It was quite
common for the wrrkers to' extend
their legards to the American work
ing penile. The poliveal leaders of
the country were, however, not so
trusting and friendly. With the pos
sible exception of the Japanese, I
don't believe that there is a more
suspicious group of people on earth
than those found in Russia's foreign
office. I've had American and other
foreign officials tell me that they
had been in the country four years
or more and had never been permit
ted to get outside of Moscow. There's
no question but that the country's
leaders had a number of things go
ing on in the country that they did
n't want foreigners to know about.
Quite naturally, most of those things
were of a military nature.
Russia's army appeared to me to
be among the best fed, best clothed
and best equipped in all Europe. I
saw a large part of their army on
maneuvers between Kiev and the
Polish border, just a few days be
fore war was declared. They had
motorcycles, armoured cars and
tanks rambling all through the coun
try. Russia's great weakness, as it
appeared to me, was in their trans
portation system, lack of roads and
faulty equipment. This has appar
ently proved to be the case in their
present war with Germany. While
the Russians have without question
fought bravely, it has been the vast
ness of the country and the difficul
ty of transportation of men and
equipment that has caused the Ger
mans the most trouble..'
There is no question in my mind
but what Hitler merely "beat Stalin
to the draw." Russia's leaders had
hoped that all of Europe and pos
sibly America would fight itself out
and leave everyone weak, bankrupt,
tired of war and ready for revolu
tion. In the meantime they were
rapidly becoming stronger, as is
shown by the vast amounts of war
supplies which they accumulated.
Then at the right moment when Eu
rope was all down and out, and with
the help of the communistic or rev
olutionary elements in the various
countries, they would sweep over
all of Europe. Had this plan worked
out, it is doubtful if there would
have been any force in Europe
strong enough to have stopped them.
The fact of the matter is that they
haven't been stopped yet. Even if
the Russian armies are destroyed or
driven far to the east, their ideas
may go marching on. If and when
Germany "cracks" there is a good
chance that "Communism" or some
kindred ideology may sweep a war
torn, bankrupt Europe. America
could hardly afford to finance and
police such a vast area indefinitely,
for in doing so we might oatch the
same disease.
HEAD DISCUSSIONS
Three Morrow county officials,
Judge Bert Johnson, Commissioner
George N. Peck and Engineer Harry
Tamblyn will lead committees in
four organizations in the near future
which will have discussion of tax
matters in hand. Judge Johnson will
officiate at the annual meeting of
the state association of county jud
ges and commissioners next week
end. Peck will appear as committee
chairman at conferences of both the
Oregon Farm Bureau federation and
the Eastern Oregon Wheat league,
and Tamblyn heads a similar com
mittee at the meeting of county en
gineers of the state convening at the
same time as the judges and commissioners.
REBEKAHS TO NOMINATE
Sans Souci Rebekah lodge No. 33
is having its first meeting in No
vember on Friday the 7th, at which
time there will be nomination of
officers.
Stop! Look! Take Heed! Do you
like good eats? Then come to the
Christian Church, Fri., Nov. 7, 1941.
Cafeteria. Prices reasonable. Meals
served from 5 to 7.
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ft AW
Is it necessary to be a high
school graduate in order to en
list in the Navy?
No. Navy enlistees need not be
high school graduates. All appli
cants will be given an examina
tion containing approximately 100
questions. A grade of SO per cent
or better on this examination is
sufficiently high to pass the Navy
educational standards. However,
a high school education will be
valuable to the seaman during his
Navy enlistment.
If I enlist in the Navy or Naval
Reserve, will I be sent to a
Navy Trade School?
All new recruits are sent to one of
four Naval Training Stations and
after a training period they may
take examinations for entrance
into Navy Trade Schools. Those
recruits who pass their examina
tions with sufficiently high grades
are sent to Navy Trade Schools
before assignment to the fleet.
While attending these schools,
they will receive regular Navy
pay and free schooling valued at
$1500.
What is the greatest possible
pay I can expect to earn during
my first term of enlistment?
It Is possible to earn as much as
$126 a month by the end of your
first term of enlistment, and re
member that your clothing, lodg
ing, medical and dental care are
all supplied free.
After I have served my term of
enlistment, what benefits do 1
get for re-enlistment?
Depending on your rate and
length of service, you can get a
cash bonus up to $300 plus 30 days
leave with pay.
What does the term "ash can"
mean in the Navy?
An "ash can" is a slang term ap
plied to the depth charge used to
combat submarines. The average
"ash can" is a container filled
with approximately 300 poufids of
T.N.T. and can be dropped over
board from a ship and so con
trolled as to explode at depths
ranging from 36 to 300 feet. These
are generally carried by the fast
ships in the fleet, as a boat drop
ping a charge regulated to ex
plode at 70 feet depth must move
away from the explosion area at a
speed of 25 knots or more. These
"ash cans" are either rolled off
the stern or shot from "y-guns"
which hurl one right and one left
simultaneously.