Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday. January 15, 1942
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Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER (JAZETTE.
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
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Clear Heads
NE citizen once gained popular
acclaim with the remark, "What
America needs is a good five-cent
cigar."
The remark relieved the stress of
weighty problems then confronting
the nation.
Today America is at war; the Pa
cific coast is actually a theater of
operations, no less real than Eng
land or the Philippines, as a recent
speaker was heard to remark. There
can, and very well may be shooting,
and time of its arrival may not be
foretold.
In the face of actuality the home
defense program fire, police, air
wardens, first aid, bomb information
all need to be taken very serious
ly and a really workable program
oiled for smooth operation. The pos
sibility must be faced with grim de
termination. Yet there must be
maintained a balanced perspective.
All must take a leaf from the
book of the London cabby, who,
when his rig was blasted by a Ger
man air bomb, looked up and shook
his fist, defying the cowardly air
man to come back and fight like a
man.
Each new day brings dislocations
in the business world, and readjust
ment to bridge upsets in the orderly
conduct of life is not readily made.
In many instances adversities appear
insurmountable at first glance. On
deeper study and application of new
ideas, they "may not be, however. It
is for each individual to do his best
to help keep the work-a-day world
going in the usual manner so far as
possible. To do otherwise is but to
delay the day of victory.
Those in command have asked
that everyone continue in his cus
tomary pursuits, doing that for
which he has been trained, and do
ing it a little better, until or unless
called upon to do duty for the war
effort as directed by those in com
mand. In this way, each shall con
tribute his greatest share toward
the common welfare and hasten the
overthrow of aggressor nations.
It is the duty of every citizen to
safeguard any bit of military in
formation which he may learn, to
make sure that it does not become
of use to the enemy. It is also the
citizen's duty to not repeat any idle
rumors which he may hear.
Press and radio are operating un
der a voluntary censorship, with
direction from military authorities
as to what news might aid or give
comfort to the enemy. There is no
attempt to keep free speech from
raising its voice against such mat
ters of governmental policy as may
be deemed not best suited to pros
ecuting the war effort.
But above all things it today be
hooves everyone to keep a true
perspective, to maintain a clear head.
America must think straight, work
straight and shoot straight.
.
A few weeks ago a contributed
article in these columns took bus
iness men of Heppner to task for
not attending high school basketball
games. Comes forward this week a
reader who asked why the editor
didn't answer that one. He wanted
to know if it wouldn't be better to
discontinue athletics entirely and
put the athletes to work at FFA
projects, from which they could get
something constructive. Sound bod
ies and good coordination as well as
good sportsmanship such as is ac
quired from athletics are of much
value to the athlete and to the na
tion, but maybe the reader is right
in wondering if high school athletes
play only for approval of the crowd.
BUY A SHARE IN
DEFENSE SAVINGS
BONDS AND STAMPS
BANK WITH YOUR COUNTRY is the theme of this effective
Defense Savings poster now seen in store windows and in the lobbies
of buildings all over the country. Drawn by artist Henry Billings,
of Rhinebeck, N. Y., the poster portrays the spirit of patriotism by
investing in the United States Government through the purchase of
Defense Bonds and Stamps. Stamps are priced from 10 cents to $5;
Bonds from $18.75 to $10,000.
That doesn't mean to infer that the
article was written by an athlete.
We saw one of OSCs'l942 Rose
Bowl players on the train the other
evening. He had the fact prominent
ly displayed on the front of his
jacket a just show of pride. In a
corner chat his one remark about
the whole affair was, "I'm glad it's
all over."
And there's a three-year-old boy
at the editor's house for whom an
athletic career is anticipated. When
told not to "swallow it whole," he
made the quite lucid reply, "What
hole, mama?"
As this seems to be an airing of
privy matters concerning the edi
tor with intention, actually of giv
ing some elucidation upon common
affairs it seems mete to thank a
contemporary reporter for recently
giving us a little advertising. We
told some friends we didn't care for
the long accustomed nickname of
Jap, which actually is a shortening
of a Christian name. Our friend
had the fact published in a contem
porary newspaper, as well as told on
the air. Yet the name has stuck,
despite many observations from those
who learned the news.
Whether or not this matter in
spired someone to leave a clipping
under the sanctum sanctorum door
last evening from another contem
porary newspaper is a matter for
conjecture. It told observations of
a reporter in Japan from which it
was deducted that the Japanese
planned ruthless treatment to make
themselves hated. ,;The campaign
has resulted in one very definite
accomplishment, the article conclud
ed. It has so unified the Chinese
that the strengthened Dragon will
soon rise to devour perpetrators of
the plan.
However it may be we are to bear
some stigma from a name, we here
disclaim one requisite for an accept
able Nipponese patriot, that of aqua
tic ability, and to deny any connec
tion with the man who was stricken
to death when he found a Japanese
vessel under the bed.
Which again may be just one of
those idle rumors which everyone
should ignore and make a practice
of not repeating. Don't believe it
unless it comes from an accredited
news source and that's not baloney.
Repeating somebody's say-so, if it
be true, might be to divulge to en
emy ears news that might cost lives
A, -w. vl
Fish Regulations Set
By Game Commission
The state game commission, at a
meeting held January 10, set the
general season for trout six inches
or over in length in 1942 from April
18 to October 31, with the exception
of twelve eastern Oregon counties
where the season will extend from
May 2 to October 31. These counties
are Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Hamey,
Klamath, Lake, Morrow, Umatilla,
Union, Wallowa, Wheeler and Mal
heur. The daily bag limit remains the
same as before fifteen pounds and
one fish but not to exceed fifteen
fish in any one day. The limit for
any seven consecutive days or in
possession at any one time is thirty
pounds and two fish but not to ex
ceed thirty fish.
All tributaries of the Snake river
and of the Columbia river east of
the Deschutes river will be closed
to steelhead and salmon angling af
ter October 31.
Changes in black bass regulations
include the establishment of a min
imum length limit of eight inches
and a closed season during May and
June to protect the spawning fish.
Also, the separate bag limit for bass
is eliminated and bass are included
in the general bag limit for spiny
rayed fish, which is 30 in any one day
of all species combined or in posses
sion at any one time.
No bullfrogs under four inches in
body length may be taken. The
season will be open from June 1 to
April 15 of the following year with
the exception that in the counties
east of the Cascades the season will
not open until July 1.
A daily bag limit of five fish will
be effective for striped bass.
In addition to the present bag lim
it of three for sturgeon under four
feet in length, the limit for stur
geon over four feeet in length is to
be two.
Special seasons and limits in the
individual counties will be listed in
the annual synopsis of angling reg
ulations to be issued by the game
commission in the very near future.
Mr. and Mrs'. Hugh B. Smith who
were in Portland since before
Christmas, arrived home the first of
the week, having been delayed from
making an earlier start by the sil
ver thaw that blocked the highway
for several days.
of loved ones or friends, and if un
true it can only add to uncertainty
and unrest, the basis of panic an
ally courted by the Axis.
A WEEK OF THE WAR . . .
(A "Week of the War" summar
izes information on the important
developments of the week made
available by official sources through
and including Friday, January 9.)
The President, in a message to
Congress, said he had directed Fed
eral agencies to arrange a new
schedule of war production calling
for 60,000 planes in 1942, including
45,000 combat craft, and 125,000 in
1943, including 100,000 combat units;
45,000 tanks in 1942 and 75,000 in
1943; 20,000 anti-aircraft guns in
1942 and 35,000 in 1943; 8,000,000
deadweight tons of merchant ships
in 1942 and 10,000,000 in 1943.
The President told Congress he
would order the U. S. armed forces
to a world-wide front to find the
enemy and "hit him and hit him
again whenever and wherever we
can reach him." He said U. 13. forces
would take up positions if necessary
in the British Isles, the Far East and
on all oceans and bases within and
without the New World necessary to
protect the Western Hemisphere.
The President proposed total ex
penditures in the fiscal year 1943 of
$77,000,000,000. Of this $56,000,000,
000 would be for the war. He said
total war expenditures are now at
the rate of approximately $2,000,000,
000 a month and may surpass $5,
000,000,000 a month during fiscal
1943. The President said he could
not predict ultimate costs "because I
cannot predict the changing for
tunes of war," but he proposed an
increase in tax collections of $27,
000,000,000. He asked careful con
gressional consideration of income
taxes collected at' the source, pay
roll taxes, excise taxes and taxes on
state and local government bonds.
Mr. Roosevelt said expenditures
for farm aid, work relief and youth
aid would be reduced by the end of
the 1942 fiscal year $600,000,000 from
last year and will be reduced an
other $860,000,000 next fiscal year
when the total cost will be $1,400,
000,000 or about half of the sum for
the present year.
PRODUCTION PROGRESS
The Office of Emergency Manage
ment reported increased pooling of
aircraft production facilities within
the industry and with the auto in
dustry, and concentration on super
ior types of planes. The OEM said
in almost every month of 1942 addi
tional plants will begin production
of planes with parts supplied' by in
dustrial pools.
The War Deartment reported at
least one plant of each of the 13
types required for the munitions
program wa completed in 1941, mak
ing a total of 28 now in operation.
The announcement said 28 more will
begin production soon.
OPM Director Knudsen announced
the auto industry must double its
scheduled war output to handle $5,
000,000,000 additional war contracts.
OPM formed a 10-member industry
labor committtee to study conver
sion of the industry to war units.
EMPLOYMENT
. Labor Secretary Perkins reported
15,000,000 workers will be engaged
in war production by the end of
1942 three times as many as were
so employed in the fourth quarter
of 1941. There will be only a rela
tively small increase in total em
ployment, however, Miss Perkins
said, because many persons now
working in civilian-goods industry
will be shifted to war work. WPA
announced 3,800,000 persons were
unemployed in December, 100,000
less than the previous month.
CONSERVATION OF MATERIALS
OPM announced industrial conser
vation programs will be set up in
more than 30 industrial centers to
wreck old machinery and equipment
to salvage needed materials; to min
imize waste and spoilage, to handle
scrap and speed its return to users.
OPM also recommended elimina
tion of special deliveries of milk and
substitution of every-other-day de
lievery for daily delivery to con
serve tires. The agency recommend
ed manufacturers simlify the types
of bottles and other containers and
eliminate those not necessary; or
dered all tin and lead scrap under
rationing control, restricted use of
ethyl alcohol in toilet soaps, mouth
washes, rubbing alcohol, candy
glazes; cut use of certain materials
in manufacture of vending machines
dispensing cigarettes, food, candy
and other items; cut the amount of
wool for civilian use to 80 percent
of last year; and restricted the use
of copper in certain radio parts.
OPM granted permission to auto
manufacturers to make 204,848 cars
in January in order to use up parts
already made before the plants are
converted to war production. Con
gress passed a law permitting the
President to order daylight saving
time to save electric power.
PRICES
The President sent a message to
Congress asking for provision for a
single price administrator for all
prices in the price control legislation
now under consideration. The OPM
issued a pamphlet, "How to Stop In
flation," explaining in noh -technical
language the causes of inflation,,
measures taken in other countries
and what can be done here to keep
prices down. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported wholesale prices
are now at the highest level since
193917.6 percent above this time
last year.
CIVILIAN DEFENSE
The President appointed James M.
Landis, dean of the Harvard law
school, as executive of the Office of
Civilian Defense to direct the civ
ilian defense program under the
general supervision of Director La
Guardia, who is also mayor of New
York City. The House and Senate
passed and sent to conference a bill
appropriating $100,000,000 for civil
ian defense. OCD asked its region
al directors to obtain from state and
city governments all possible equip
ment needed by the auxiliary fire
men, policemen, air raid wardens and
other volunteers. Director McNutt
of the Defense Health and Welfare
services set up in each of the 49
states a state nursing council on
defense to promote recruiting of stu
dent nurses and enrollment of 50,000
voung women in nursing schools in
1942.
AGRICULTURE
The Oklahoma Agriculture De
fense board established an experi
mental "machinery bank" to pro
vide a reservoir of spare parts for
farm equipment. All idle farming
equipment on Oklahoma's 32,000
farms will be centrally located, re
paired and made available to farm
ers as they need it.
PAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS
OEM announce that for the
first time in recent history, U. S.
imports from Latin America have
been larger than exports. U. S.
trade in Latin America, the agency
said, was one-third larger than in
the corresponding period of 1940 and
about 75 percent than in the first
three quarters of 1939. The State
Department elevated the U. S. le
gations in Paraguay, Ecuador and
Bolivia to the rank of embassies in
"formal recognition of the import
ance of developments" leading to
Pan-American solidarity. Under
Secretary of State Welles left Wash
ington to attend the Pan-American
conference of foreign ministers at
Rio de Janeiro January 15.
THE WAR FRONT ,
The White House announced the
U. S., Britain, the Netherlands and
the Dominion governments agreed to
a unified command in the South
west Pacific area with all sea, land
and air forces under Gen. Wavell of
the British army, with Lt. Gen.
Brett, of the U. S. army air forces,
as next in ' command, Gen. Mac
Arthur, commander in the Philip
pines, reported his lines holding
against renewed Japanese attacks.
The Army and Navy reported sink
ing of three enemy cargo ships of
10,000 tons each, one enemy trans
port and more than a score of Jap
anese bombing and fighting planes.
The Marine Corps announced that
new reports showed defenders of
Wake Island had sunk one cruiser,
four destroyers, one submarine and
one gunboat before succumbing.
The President cited the entire Wake
garrison for heroism.
The White House announced the
RAF dropped more than 2,000,000
American pamphlets on Nazi-occupied
France stressing the historic
ties between the American and
French people. The pamphlets in
cluded pictures of the Statue of
Liberty and quotations from the
President's speeches.
The President set February 16 for
selective service registration of men
from 20 to 44 who have not pre
viously registered.