FgPEFENSE
Volume 58, Number 48
Women Workers'
Inventory In County
Aids War Work
Reserve Labor Pool
Object of Drive to
be Launched Feb. 16
A large group of women, repre
senting various organizations of the
county will meet at the office of
Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, county chair
man, at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morn
ing to complete plans for mobilizing
all Morrow county women for war
and defense work.
The board for mobilization of wo
men has been set up by Governor
Sprague in conection with state and
federal employment agencies to make
an inventory of women and women's
skills to be used as a reserve labor
pool.
The registry of women's skills will
be placed at disposal of the employ
ment service and, if women are call
ed for emergency work, they will be
fully paid according to prevailing
wage standards.
In general women will not be call
ed until available Oregon man pow
er has been utilized to the fullest,
and an employment emergency ex
ists. Object of registration is to pre
vent disruption of normal business
activities accompanying a general ex
odus of man power into defense in
dustries and military service.
The inventory is not compulsory
but is a patriotic endeavor.
Questionnaires will be distribu
ted all over Oregon in a 'house-to-house
canvass, to begin February
16, 1942. The goal is to register all
women between the ages of 18 and
65. Morrow county's workers come
from the women's organizations of
the county and they are a group of
capable patriotic women who are
giving their time free of charge for
the work. All women are asked to
give those who call upon them ev
ery consideration in filling out the
questionaires. The women calling
will give every assistance in filling
out the cards.
Suppose a women is available for
work, but lacks experience or train
ing, opportunities for women to se
cure vocational training in the na
jkional defense training schools which
are now teaching thousands of men,
may be developed. A limited num
ber of women will be permitted to
register for these courses as soon as
it is reasonably sure that they can
be employed following graduation.
Women chosen by the organiza
tions which they represent will take
the inventory for Morrow county.
They are as follows:
Mrs. Mary Edwards, representing
Congregational Ladies Aid, Lexing
ton; Mrs. Harry Duvall, Morrow
County Woolgrowers auxiliary; Mrs.
Vera Rietmann, Topic club, lone;
Mrs. Matthew Gordon, Grange H. E.
C, lone; Mrs. Ollie L. Engelman,
Tone Community Ladies Aid; Mrs.
Elaine Rietmann, Past Noble Grand
club, lone: Mrs. Walter Becket, Rhea
Creek H. E. C; Mrs. Ben Anderson,
Luthern Missionary Society, Hepp
ner, Mrs. Algott Lundell, Garden
club, lone; Mrs. Ida Slaughter, Wo
men's Pep club, Irrigon; Mrs. Frank
Adams, Ladies Aid, Irrigon; Mrs.
Alice Attebury, Ladies Aid, Board
man; Mrs. Geo. A. Corwin, Grange
H. E. C, Boardman; Mrs. Beth Hynd,
Friendship club, Cecil; Mrs. Ethel
Adams, American Legion auxiliary,
Heppner; Mrs. Faye Ferguson, Past
Worthy Matrons, Heppner; Mrs. A.
Q. Thomson, B. P. W., Heppner; Miss
Rose Leibbrand. Bookworms and
Ruth Chapter O. E. S., Heppner;
Mrs. Alta Brown, Women's Society
of Christian Service, Heppner; Mrs.
Gertrude Parker, Christian Mis
sionary Society, Heppner; Mrs. Ta
cie Parker, Past Noble Grand club,
Heppner; Mrs. Ann MiUer, Altar
Society, Heppner; Mrs. Anna Bay
less, Episcopal auxiliary, Heppner;
Mrs. Gladys Connor, Carnation club,
Heppner; Mrs. Cyrene Barratt,
What's Trumps, Heppner; Mrs. A.
D. McMurdo, T & C, Heppner; Mrs.
WAR RELIEF FUND
PROGRESS SLOW
Morrow county's Red Cross war
relief quota of $1500 had just ap
proachd the fifty percent mark
yesterday, with returns from out
side Heppner incomplete. James
Driscoll, county chairman said the
fund to date was $730.60.
Complete check on the annual
roll call, completed just at the start J
of the war relief drive, shows the
county exceeded its quota. Of the
total $569.80 collected, $308.30 stays
at home and $261.50 was sent to the
national organization. The roll call
money supports the administrative
set up of the great relief agency,
While the special drive money is all
expended on actual relief in war
emergency cases, at the front and
behind the lines.
No concentrated effort has been
made locally, but Chairman Driscoll 1
expects to get a campaign of soli
citation under way immediately to
raise the balance of the quota. The
sum so far raised has come in al
most entirely by voluntary action
of contributors.
Presently Red Cross sponsored
first aid classes are being popular
ly patronized. Bud Hanlon has a
class of 36 in Heppner, C. J. D. Bau
man has a class of 36 at lone, while
Harold Buhman is tutoring a size
able class at Lexington.
Mustangs Tip Over
Arlington, Umapine
Heppner's rearing Mustangs came
across again last week end to tip
over Arlington and Umapine, con
tinuing their race toward leader
ship of "B" teams of the section. To
morrow night they journey to Con
don. At Arlington Friday high scorer
Barratt contributed 11 of the 28
points Heppner was ringing up while
the Honkers were tallying 22. Clough
and Ferris each garnered 8 points
for Arlington. The half ended 13-10
with the Honkers leading.
Heppner's second squad took a big
edge over Arlington's second string
ers, 32-8.
First team line-up:
Heppner 28 Arlington 22
Barratt 11 F 8 Clough
Skuzeski 5 F. Colosso
Snow 2 C. 8 Ferris
Scrivner 7 G Scroggins
Pinckney 1 .G 4 Peek
Kenny 2 S... Christopher son
Wetherell
Saturday the Mustangs took Um
apine, 55-37, on the local maple. This
victory was really a feather in the
Mustang's hat as Umapine is rated
one of the top teams in eastern
Oregon, boasting 15 straight wins
in high school competition. The game
was very fast throughout. Halftime
score was 28-20 with Mustangs lead
ing. Barratt and Grimes, forwards,
! led scorers for their respective teams
' with 16 points each.
Line-up:
Heppner 55 TJmapine 37
Barratt 16.. F. 16 Grimes
Skuzeski 10 F. 11 Franklin
Snow 13 .C .7 E. Hamper
Scrivner 13 .G G. Hamper
Pinckney 3... G .2 Alexander
Keny S 1 Curtis
Ferguson S
Padberg .S
Snow S
Bothwell S
Davidson S
CLYDE BELLOWS IN MARINES
Clyde R. Bellows enlisted Satur
day in the United States Marine
corps through the Walla Walla re
cruiting station. He is the son of
Mrs. Bessie Bellows of Walla Walla
and for 18 months has been mana
ger of a meat market in Heppner.
Private Bellows has been transfer
red to the Marine Corps base at San
Diego, California, for his recruit
training. He enlisted as a "leather
neck" for the duration, of the war.
Lilian C. Turner, Rebekah lodge,
Heppner; Mrs. Edna Coxen, Degree
of Honor, Heppner; Mrs. Mary
Thomson, Contract Bridge club,
Heppner; Mrs. R. C. RosewalL O. E.
S. Social club, Heppner; Mrs. Mil
dred Wright, Rebekah lodge, Hard-man.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January
No Recap Available
When Top Soil Goes,
Says Specialist
Erosion Meeting
at Lexington Brings
Informed Messages
The tread on our soil is wearing
away fast and we have no priority
on a new tire or even a recap job,
was the explanation of our erosion
problem that Art King, soils spe
cialist from Oregon State college,
gave at the annual Lexington Ero
sion meeting neia at jxingion
grange hall Monday, January 26.
King further explained that after
the top six or eight inches of soil
is removed by water or wind the
remaining soil can be compared to a
worn out tire carcass that is past
recapping and is worthless for any
further use. Over 90 percent of all
plant food is found in the surface
layer of soil and the only value of
the subsoil is for water holding pur
poses, said King.
Joe Belanger, of the Soil Conser
vation service, stated that we must
defend our soil as well as our na
tion if our country is to stand and
our standard of living remain where
we feel it should. He said there is
little difference between losing our
land to erosion and losing it to Hit
ler. Belanger supported his remarks by
figures which showed that out of
the 368 million acres of land suitable
for cultivation in the United States,
57 million have already been com
pletely destroyed by erosion. An-1
other 50 million has lost 75 percent
or more of its top soil, while 25 to
75 percent of the top soil has been
removed from another ' 100 million
acres.
Protecting summerfallow by leav-,
ing the straw on top was recom
mended for the lower rain fall areas
and contour and strip cropping was
considered the best possibilities for
controlling erosion on crop land in
higher rainfall areas where there
has been some reduction in yield
by using the straw.
E. R. Jackman, crops specialist
from the college, discussed adapted
wheat varieties and gave an ex
planation of the millers' objection to
the commonly grown variety of Rex.
He said it produces a more fluffy
flour that takes a little longer to
mill and a darker colored flour that
requires more bleaching. He ex
plained that the dark color of Rex
flour is due to the high carotin or
vitamin content which nutritionally
is a very good thing and that millers
should -advertise its nutritional val
ues and capialize on the dark flour
rather than object to it.
Until the price differential offsets
the increased yields which Rex gives,
Jackman recommends that the far
mers continue to grow it. He said
the experiment stations are contin
uing their crossing and selection
work in an effort to find a good
milling wheat that has the yielding
and smut resistant ability of Rex
but at the present they have found
none.
Henry , Smouse and Joe Devine
were eleced as directors of the Lex
ington Blow district to serve for a
two year period along with Werner
Rietmann and R. B. Rice, the other
two directors whose terms will ex
pire in 1943.
Dinner was served at noon by the
Lexington grange ladies.
EASTER CANTATA PLANS LAID
The Easter cantata committee met
Monday evening to discuss plans for
the cantata to be given Easter Sun
day, April 5, with Rose Hoosier di
recting, with the cooperation of
the St Patrick's Catholic, All Saints
Episcopal, Methodist, Christian and
Pentecostal churches. The Heppner
Music Study club is sponsoring
this worthwhile project. The first
meeting will be held Sunday, Feb.
1, at the Methodist church follow
ing the evening services. Anyone
interested in singing is invited to
attend this meeting.
29, 1942
CAR TAKES DIP
AS CREEKS FLOODED
The automobile occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Allyn of lone took
a dip into the murky waters of
Butter creek about 11:30 o'clock
Tuesday night as the major ac
cident caused by high waters in
all creeks of the county this week
as chinook winds cleared the land
scape of snow in the south hills.
The Allyns were returning from
a basketball game at Echo. They
were following a school bus loaded
with students and players. On ap
proaching the Jarmon bridge they !
came to a pool of water in the road.
Feeling the car settling, Mr. Allyn
stopped and threw it into reverse,
but before it could be got to solid
ground the road bed gave way and
it went into the swirling waters of
the creek. Mr. Allyn, being on the
landward side, was able to jump out,
but as Mrs. Allyn attempted to get
through the door it was closed
against her arm, and as the swift
current carried' the car downstream
Mr. Allyn had a battle to extricate
her. The imprisoned arm was badly
injured.
Charles McElligott took the Al
lyns home in his car. The Allyn car
was rescued from the stream yes
terday and was brought to a local
garage for repair, eing badly silted
from the muddy waters.
Private bridges were reported out
on streams all over the county, but
county and state roads were all be
lieved passable last night, by Harry
Tamblyn, county engineer, with ex
ception of the Lexmgton-Jarmon
road Motorists were being notified
at Lexington yesterday that detour
was necessary to get to Echo or Her
miston. President's Party
Saturday, Popular
While adverse weather conditions
kept down attendance at parties at
Boardman and lone last Saturday
night, the pre-sale of tickets for the
Heppner party next Saturday night,
honoring President Roosevelt's birth
day, evidences a large attendance,
reports Chas. B. Cox, county chair
man. Men About Town will dispense
tunes for the occasion, and it prom
ises to be a gala affair. Special
features are being prepared by Bill
Isom, assisting with the affair.
Besides the parties the "Mile of
Dimes" cans have been placed at
accessible spots all over the county,
and their patronage has been lively,
according to reports received by the
chairman.
Vawter Parker CoHed
Into Active Service
Vawter Parker, local attorney and
secretary of National Farm Loan
associations, received telegraphic
word yesterday to report for army
duty in his capacity as a reserve of
ficer. He enters the army with the
rank of first lieutenant.
Directors of the loan associations
were in a huddle this morning to
name a successor to Mr. Parker in
his capacity as secretary.
Mr. Parker expected to leave Sat
urday. Due to the short notice it
was not expected that Mrs. Parker
and daughter would accompany him
at this time.
Stephen Thompson has purchased
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Par
ker. SCHRIEVER-SHOUN
On the afternoon of January 26
Eleanor May Schriever and Andrew
McDonald Shoun were married at
the Presbyterian parsonage in Kelso
by the Rev. Phillip A. Laurie, at
tended by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Bell and Mr. and Mrs. Schriever,
and Mrs. J. A. Shoun, who went
from Walla and Irrigon to attend
the wedding. Mrs. Shoun who was
reared in Walla Walla, finished the
Walla Walla high school and has
been associated with Gardners. Mr.
Shoun was graduated from Heppner
high school and spent two years in
Hawaii. He is now associated with
the aluminum plant in Longview.
The young couple will make their
home at 109 Lincoln St., in Kelso.
Subscription $2.50 a Year
War Production .
Goals Subject Of
Vital Farm Meeting
Machinery, Labor,
Sack Situations
Will be Covered
Vital matters affecting Morrow
county's agriculture and the agri
cultural war production goals, in
cluding machinery, farm labor,
sacks, storage, and movement of
wheat will be discussed at a county
wide meeting in the Heppner high
school gymnasium beginning at 10
a. m., Wednesday, February 4, ac
cording to C. D. Conrad, county ag
ent. Conrad states that the meeting
will be one of the most important
held for Morrow county farmers this
winter as well qualified and inform
ed speakers are being obtained by
the extension service to discuss the
things which so definitely affect
Morrow county agriculture during
the all-out production period.
A representative of the Portland
Machinery Dealers association will
discuss the-machinery situation and
the procedure to be followed in or
deiing machinery and parts.
An explanation of the labor sit
uation and plans for meeting the la
bor scarcity will be discussed by a
representative from the Federal
Employment agency.
Burlap sack supplies and bulking
will be discussed by a AAA repre
sentative who will also explain the
new plan for making loan wheat
available to all farmers and live
stock men for feeding purposes at
less than the local loan value. This
plan, says Conrad, is expected to
stimulate even greater production
of the vitally needed meat, dairy and
poultry products and at the same
time relieve to some extent the
crowded wheat .storage conditions.
He says there is more than three
times as much wheat stored in Mor
iow county this year than last.
A Commodity Credit corporation
representative is being asked to dis
cuss possibilities of moving loan
wheat out of the northwest.
Wa'ohousenien, machinery deal
ers and repair men, and all other
business men are invited to th
meeting and will find the informa
tion of as much value in their bus
iness as will the farmer.
PLAN HOME EC CONFERENCE
In connection with the home ec
onomics conference to be held in
Hepner in the near future, some of
the home economics girls of the1
high school went to Pendleton to
talk over plans with Miss Bertha!
Kohlhagen, state suervisor of home
economics education. Those making
the trip were Claudine Drake, pres
ident; Peggy Tamblyn, past presi
dent; Jean Turner, Connie Instone,
and Miss Davolt, adviser. They left
for Pendleton after school last Mon
day, and on reaching there had din
ner at the Pendleton hotel as guests
of Miss Kohlhagen. An interesting
and enjoyable time was reported.
THESPIAN CLUB NEWS
By Betty Coxen
The dramatic club of Heppner
has been named the Thesian club.
A meeting was held ThursdayJan
uary 22. At this meeting the date
was chosen for the three one-act
plays. "Silence Please," "Corn Fed
Baby," and "The Trysting Place" will
be given on Thursday, February 10.
The proceeds will go to the Red
Cross, U. S. O. and the school hot
lunches.
BIRTHDAY OBSERVED
A group of friends called at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Patter
son last evening to wish Mr. Patter
son happiness on his birthday. In
cluded were Mrs. Agnes Curran,
Mrs. Sadie Sigsbee, Miss Elaine Sigs
bee, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Happold,
Miss Betty Happold, Dr. and Mrs.
R. C. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. P.
W. Mahoney, Mr. and Mrs. J. V.
Crawford.