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FOOD for
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By Frances Stewart
"Grow a Victory Garden in 1942."
This is sound advice, says C. D.
Conrad, local county agent. "But
one should grow a garden only if he
feels he has a chance for success,"
qualifies Mr. Conrad.
Seeds are precious packages this
year. You know that greater quan
tities of seeds are being shipped to
our allies and more people all over
this country are growing gardens,
so it behooves us to care for our
seeds after they are planted to har
vest them carefully and to have a
plan for storing the finished pro
duct. Did you know that vegetables
grown under cover are crisper and
have a better flavor than vegetables
grown in the open? A frame garden
with a sub-irrigated system to keep (
it well watered is fine for amateur
gardeners in this part of the country.
A space about five by ten fifty
or sixty tin cans some scraps of
old lumber and you. have the mak
, ings of a frame garden. If you would
like more detailed information on
frame gardens ask at your local
Farm Security office.
But it will be some time before
gardens will be producing. Until
that time we can be getting our vit- .
amins and minerals from root veg
etables. There is a good supply of
parsnips, rutabagas, turnipst car
rots, sweet potatoes, and hubbard
squash on the market now.
We usually get tired of these foods
before it is time for green things
to put in an appearance. But we
can dress up these root vegetables
to make them seem like new,
Parsnips contain a good supply of
vitamin C near the center. If cook
ed in a covered casserole dish this
precious vitamin isn't lost.
Slice or shred three parsnips, cov
er the bottom of the dish, sprinkle
with salt and dot with butter. Cut
two apples in quarters and place a
layer over . the parsnips and cover
with a, little sugar. Alternate ; the
layers of. parsnips and apples. A
layer of bread, crumbs may be add
ed. Next add about two-thirds cup
of boiling water. Cover and bake at
350 degrees about one half hour.
If you've been wondering about
substitutes for sugar honey, a lo
cal product, is fine. In substituting
honey for sugar in your regular re
cipes, a good rule to follow is to
reduce the liquid one-fourth cup
for each cup of honey used.
Don't forget the extension meet
ings scheduled throughout the
county this week. "Food to Keep
You Fit" is the topic. Lucy Lane,
a specialist from Oregon State col
lege, is conducting.
Machinery Repair
Week Comes in Week
Next week is Farm Machinery
Repair week in Morrow county, ac
cording to the county USDA War
board.
:With weather conditions more far
vorable every farmer who has not
already done so should give all ma
chinery a complete overhauling and
obtain the repair parts immediately.
Some machinery dealers report a
good supply of parts on hand, but
some parts may be difficult to ob
tain and if immediate repair is not
made some parts might not be ob
tainable. By getting all machinery repair
ed now our farming problems will
be lessened just that much. Most
fanners feel that the labor and .
shortage problems will furnish en
ough headaches without having
their machinery fail them at a crit
ical time.
The war board wishes to discour
age the ordering of parts that may
not be needed which would mean
using materials needlessly. They
however want to see every fanner
take immediate steps to determine
his needs and get orders placed for
the parts needed.
Priorities for materials to manu
facture repair parts on a whole are
high, but it takes material rather
than priorities to manufacture ma
chinery and parts and in many coses
materials may not be available.
If repair parts and attachments
cannot be obtained, farmers should
report to the war board and every
thing possible will be done to help.
Volume 58, Number 50
All Men 20 To 45
Must Register
Next Monday
Heppner Office to
Be Open Two Days
Rrevious and 16th
Everything is in readiness in
Morrow county for the Third Se
lective Service registration, slated
throughout the nation next Mon
day, February 16, announces Judge
Bert Johnson, chairman of Morrow
County Local Board of Selective
Service.
Irrigon, Boardman, lone, Lexing
ton and Hardman will held registra
tion only on- Monday the 16th, 1942,
from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m.
The office of the local board in
Heppner will be open for registra
tion on Saturday and Sunday, Feb
ruary 14 and 15 from 8 a. m. to 6 p.
m., as well as on Monday the 16th.
All men who attained the twen
tieth anniversary of their birth on
or before December 31, 1941, and
who have not attained the forty-fifth
anniversary of their birth on Feb
ruary 16, 1942, must register, ac
cording to the instructions received
from national headquarters of the
Selective Service.
RODEO MEETING
COMING TUESDAY
What shall be done about staging
Heppner's annual rodeo this fall will
be the leading question confronting
a meeting called for the Elks club
at 8 o'clock next Tuesday evening,
announces Len Gilliam, secretary.
The meeting is on call of President
Lee Beckner and urgent request for
attendance by Heppner business
peope and everyone else interestd is
requested.
By-laws of the association pro
vide that any interested citizen of
Morrow county is a member of
the association and entitled to vote.
This is the first meeting of the
Heppner Rodeo association since the
staging of last year's successful
show, for which a detailed financial
account will be read. Plans will be
discussed for staging a show this
year and if concensus of members
desires that it carry on, directors
will be elected and other organiza
tion details undertaken for this year.
Last year's Rodeo was the twen
tieth consecutive year of the event
since its first inauguration in 1921,
when it was first conceived by C.
W. MicNamer, first president, L V.
Gentry and other community lead
ers. If it is decided to proceed this
year, the Rodeo will enter upon its
third decade: of continuous yearly
representation of days of the Old
West .
Heppner Bakery Goes
To North Bend Man
J. Arnold Sharp, proprietor of
Heppner bakery for the last six
years, reports transfer of the busi
ness last Tuesday to G. A. Sanders,
formerly of North Bend, when Mr.
Sanders arrived to complete nego
tiations for purchase that had been
under way for some time.
In leaving the bakery business here
Mr. Sharp expressed his wholeheart
ed appreciation for the many friend
ships made in his six years of bus
iness here, and wished them all God
speed. He expected to go to Grass
Valley, his former home, shortly for
a visit, but had no definite plans to
announce further.
Mr. Sanders is a married man
but his family has not yet joined
him here.
INSTALLING PIPE ORGAN
Tom Wells and Clifford Conrad
motored to Athena the end of the
week, bringing back with them a
used pipe organ that is being ren
novated for use of the Methodist
church.
Man Who 'Pulled
McKlnley Summoned
Edmund L. Berry, once engineer
on the Pennsylvania and Ohio
railroad, when he had the privil
ege of pulling the throttle on the
campaign special of William Mc
Kinley in his successful campaign
for the presidency, will be buried
at rites in Heppner, the time yet
unannounced.
Case Mortuary brought Mr. Ber
ry's remains from St. Anthony's
hospital in Pendleton Tuesday, where
he passed away after confinement
for three years following a stroke
sustained in this city.
Mr. Berry for many years had
been a sign painter and caretaker
of St. Patrick's church in this city.
The story of Mr. Berry's life was
learned this morning from W. T.
Campbell, for whom Mr. Berry
worked as steam engineer on the
Campbell threshing outfit from
Local Growers Turn
Wheat to Credit Corp.
With the double objective of eas
ing the acute shortage problem and
of providing abundant stocks of feed
for conversion into livestock and
poultry products needed under the
"Food for Victory" program, wheat
producers are now turning over a
considerable amount of their 1941
loan wheat to the Commodity Cred
it corporation. The corporation will
make this wheat available for live
stock and poultry feed wherever it
may be needed at local loan values
less 4 cents.
According to Henry Baker, chair
man of the local Triple A commit- -tee,
Morrow county producers have
released 340,694 bushels under this
program to date, and while it is ob
vious that most of this wheat may
be sold in other areas, an order
has already been received from a
group of Boardman farmers for a
carload, and it is expected that oth
er shipments will start immediate
ly thus making local storage space
available for the 1942 crop. Mr. Ba
ker added that producers who wish
to release their wheat under this
program should contact the coun
ty office as soon as possible.
Thespian Plays Set
18th for Charities
The Heppner Thespian club ben
efit plays will be given February 18
at the gymnasium at 8 o'clock.
In "Silence Please," Julia, a young
wife, is played by Mildred Clary;
Darrel, her husband, Raymond Par
rish; Madge, a . neighbor, Louise
Green; Dolinda, her friend, Betty
Coxen.
In "Corn Fed Babies," Wilma Ba
ker, the wife, is played by Maxine
Browning; Leslie, her husband, Irl
Clary; Alice Warner, her mother,
Virginia Lee; Lulu, the maid, Mau
rine Browning; and John Bernard,
the boss, Calvin Crawford.
In Booth Tarkington's play, "The
Trysting Place," Mrs. Curtis, a young
woman, is played by Gwen Glas
gow; Lancelot Briggs, a twenty year
old boy, Dick Ferguson; Mrs. Briggs,
his mother, Mrs. A. H. Blankenship;
Jessie, his sister, Neta Rae Bleak
man; Rupert Smith, a young man,
Bob Pinckney; Mr. Ingoldsby, a man
of fifty-five, Arthur Straus, and The
Mysterious Voice, John Lane.
These three one -act plays are be
ing given for one' of the worthiest
organizations, the Red Cross, also
the U. S. O. and hot lunches. All
proceeds will go to them.
GRANGE SCHOOL POSTPONED
The grange school for state, Po
mona and subordinate grange lec
turers at Corvallis, that was plan
ned for February 18-19 has been
postponed until later, possibly in
March, due to illness in the family
of Jas. Farmer, national lecturer,
who will be in Oregon this spring
to help the lecturers plan programs
and other lecture work.
Heppner, Uregon, I hursday, February 12, 1942 H
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1898 until 1916. -Here is Mr. Camp
bell's story:
I first became acquainted with Ed
Berry in 1898 when I bought a steam
thresher. A man told me of a paint
er working on the Lexington school
who was an engineer. Mr. Berry
worked for me every year except
one until 1916.
He lost a leg in a saw at lone. I
forget just what year it was. The
people of lone sent him to St. Vin
cent's hospital in Portland. He had
a terrible time, and missed one har
vest. I helped put a wooden leg on
him. i
In the years he worked for me I
became well acquainted with Ed. He
told me he had been an engineer on
the Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad.
He had a good home in Columbus.
A big house. His father and mother
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SCOUTS PROGRESS
AT BIG DINNER
, A pot-luck dinner at the Church
of Christ celebrating the 32nd an
niversary of Boy Scouts of America
was held last Monday evening at
which time Randall Peterson, Virgil
Ezell, Carter House, Lowell Rippee
and Tom Hughes were invested with
the rank of tenderfoot, and Jack
Aiken and Billy Ulrich were ad
vanced to the rank of second class
soouts.
Following the dinner toastmas
ter Kenneth House introduced
Mayor J. O. Turner who gave a
"short address on the relation of
tho scout to the community. Clif
ford Hansen, assistant scout ex
ecutive of the Blue Mountain
council, gave a very interesting
talk on the history of scouting.
Troop charter was presented to
Scoutmaster Martin Clark and cer
tificates of scouting were presented
to troop committee chairman Ken
neth House and committee mem
bers Merle Cummings and Don
Woelfer. After the program and
dinner an informal flag talk was
held with scouts explaining the
meaning and history of the flag of
the United States of America.
Pledge Signing Urged
To 'Save on Tires'
Anyone who has been missed in
the defense bond pledge card sign
ing campaign and wishes to sign a
pledge, may do so at the First Na
tional bank, announced P. W. Ma
honey, county chairman,, this morn
ing. Such people can in this way as
sist the local committee, members
of which are working without pay,
and the voluntary response will help
the committee members to save on
tires which are scarce at this time.
General pledge signing will avert
necessity for compulsory savings,
Mahoney pointed out, and in the
event compulsory savings should
come those who have purchased
bonds will be given credit for their
purchases.
JOHN DAY DEFEATED
Heppner's Mustangs went on the
rampage last Saturday evening on
the local court when they threw off
John Day's husky Prospectors, 51
19. Jimmy Barratt, John Skuzeski
and Claude Snow led Heppner scor
ers, and they and Bill Scrivner and
Bob Pinckney composed the starting
line-up. Before the game was over
all the reserves had seen action. In
a preliminary game Heppner's B
hoopsters had little trouble in tak
ing a big edge over St. Joseph acad
emy of Pendleton, with James Ken
ny and McClintock leading the scor
ers. Tomorrow night a fast action
game is expected when Arlington's
Honkers play on the local court.
Mr. and- Mrs. Gus Nikander are
spending the week in Portland,
having gone to the city Sunday.
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Meeting Series
Slated For County
County Chief Urges
Importance Every
one to Attend
A series of "Food for Victory"
meetings is slated in Morrow county
beginning next Tuesday, announces
C. D. Conrad, chairman of Morrow
County Nutrition council, as fol
lows: Lexington grange hall, Tuesday,
Feb. 17, 7:30 p. m.
Hardman, high school, Wednesday,
February 18, 7:30 p. m.
lone, grange hall, Thursday, Feb.
19, 2 p. m.
Heppner, school gym, Thursday,
Feb. 19, 7:30 p. m.
Irrigon, high school, Friday, Feb
ruary 20, 10 a. m.
Boardman, high school, Friday,
February 20, 2 p. m.
"Food to Keep You Fit" will be
discussed at each meeting by Miss
Lucy Lane, extension specialist from
Oregon State college. Other phases
of the war food problem will be dis
cussed at later meetings and will
include planning the family food
supply, said Conrad. Demonstrations
will also be given on using milk,
eggs arid milk products, and on food
preservation by canning, freezing,
storing, drying and curing.
Conrad urges a large attendance
at the first meeting as it is funda
mental in the series.
"Good nutrition is vital to com
plete victory," said Conrad in mak
ing the announcement. "A great deal
of new knowledge has recently been
discovered on the effect of foods on
eyesight, strength of muscles, nerves,
bones and teeth; resistance to dis
eases; general health, vigor and effi
ciency; and even on mental atti
tudes and morale. The B vitamin,
for example, has been called the
morale vitamin because it definitely
affects the functioning of the nerv
ous system. The A vitamin is help
ing our fighter pilots in spotting
enemy bombers at night.
"The war emergency demands that
the whole nation be strong and alert.
... We can all help make America
strong by making each family a lit
tle arsenal of pep, vigor and alert
ness," continued Conrad.
"This war will be a drain on our
man power, on our pocket bookst
and on our health and nerves. Ev
ery mother has a patriotic duty in
seeing that her family is well nour
ished. The effect of this cannot be
measured but we know it will help
a lot in preventing sickness andV loss
of time and will insure everyone be
ing physically fit to devote extra
hours and strength to helping win
this war," Conrad averred.
Conrad urged that dads as well as
mothers participate in the meetings,
averring that eating habits of chil
dren are often influenced as much
or more by him than by the mother.
Vawter Parker Car in
Wreck on Way South
Their car, in which Vawter Parker
and family were on their way south
as Mr. Parker went to report for ar
my service as a reserve first lieu
tenant, was in a wreck, according to
a card, dated February 5, received
by Mr. Parker's parents; Mr. and
Mrs. Frank S. Parker, this week.
Signed by Mr. Parker, it read:
Arrived today by train from
Shreveport, La. A negro hit our
car just outside of that city and
we had to put it in the garage for
repairs. Alberta, Mrs. Barry and
Cecelia went back to Dallas until
the car is repaired."
Mr. Parker's destination is with
held in accordance with army direc
tions, but other members of the
family were going to Florida for a
visit. All had been calling on the
Garfield Crawford family at Dallas
and a previous card reported a very
enjoyable visit.
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