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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1942)
' AT $THE N RfffltiflL'- Washington, D. C, March 19. War activities in Oregon are caus ing a housing problem which is arousing concern in the national capital. Pendleton, for example, needs more housing units for non commissioned officers at the air field, at least 100 dwellings. While ar rangements are being made for ex panding the accommodations, it is proposed to transfer 100 modern trailers from Umatilla to be used by workmen, for there are no ac commodations for carpenters and mechanics who must construct the 100 dwellings. At Medford and the Albany-Cor-vallis area where cantonments are under contract (designed for a to tal of 60,000 soldiers) how to take care of the workers is already a problem, according to word receiv ed in the capital. In the two can tonment districts there are no va cant dwellings and workmen are filling the auto camps. There is and will be a drain on school accommo dations, as several hundred children are being brought in while father works in the cantonments. In other cantonments during con struction it has been possible for workers to live 20 or 30 miles away from the job, but the sites in Oregon have been designated since the cur tailment of automobiles and tires. Unable to replace tires when they become useless, the workers hesi tate to use cars for any distance. Also feeding these families will develop another problem in the Willamette and Rogue river valleys. There is a possibility that by the time the cantonments are finished these wor kers will be available to gather in crops. Hood River orchardists are anx ious that a property custodian be named to take over the 98 orchards operated by 70 Japanese in that val ley. Someone familiar with the fruit industry will be required to super vise the Japanese holdings, as care of the orchards is technical. Spring work on the trees must start in a few days and the association of or chardists has communicated with Washington, explaining that when a decision is to be made the Hood Riv er association has a name to submit. The alien property custodian will be a part of the treasury set-up and he will appoint field men. Metals division of war production There was a young farmer named John, Who said to himself "Well, I swan! Defense Bonds get bigger In value I figger While helping our Victory on." Get a bumper yield on your saving by investing them in V. 9. Defense Bonds and Sumps for Victory. Get one today! Heppner Gazette Times, March 19, 1942 3 board has heard that there is nickel in Oregon and has arranged to send scientists to that region to make an investigation. No nickel is pro duced in the United States, the cur rent supply coming from Canada. WPB has a tip that one deposit is in Douglas county, not far from Riddle, and that there is a smaller deposit somewhere in the Jackson-Josephine area. If, explains the metals divi sion, these deposits can be used at all and even through they may cost more to produce than would be jus tified in ' peacetime, WPB will see that federal money is available to make the properties active. There is before the senate a bill authorizing the secretary of war "to construct a permanent gate and monument to commemorate the deeds and achievements of early pa triots whose efforts were responsi ble for the establishment of the title of the United States to the Oregon country." The site of the monument is to be at Champoeg. Twice, years ago, the senate passed bills authoriz ing $100,000 by the federal govern ment to match a similar sum from the state for a Champoeg memor ial, but the bills were lost in the house. The present measure is mod est; it authorizes only $25,000 and requires the state to maintain the memorial. On the upper Columbia river, somewhere in Umatilla county, the war deartment plans the construc tion of a depot for quartermaster supplies. The depot will cost sev eral million dollars and work is ex pected to begin during the coming summer. The contract will be ne gotiated and not competitive. A ne gotiated contract usually eliminates any contractor or contractor group not known to the army officers and the job is given to a concern that has worked for the army before. This is why some of the govern ment work in the northwest has so frequently been handed to the same few contractors and is why mari time commission refuses to award ship orders to new concerns, re gardless of their experience. The income tax just paid on last years income is the heaviest that has ever been imposed on the Am erican people. However, it is slight compared with that which must be paid one year hence. Secretary Mor genthau is proposing that the tax be doubled and that part of it be de ducted from wages every month. One reaction is a demand on con gress that every unnecessary ex pense be eliminated, including cost ofthe publicity bureaus. There are 3,000 press agents in Washington with a payroll in the millions and at present an entire block in the heart of Washington is being dug up for a press bureau building. Con gress turned down this super-bureau but somewhere the promoters man aged to get the money. 8 Ue've come a long way Sb Electric Rates, too! 15.38 5.85 5.TO N PRICE OF 100 KWH OF PP&L ELECTRICITY IN HEPPNER HOMES 4.97 -if M.54 4.01 1926 1928 1931 I BUSINESS MANAGEMENT made these amazing reductions in your elec tric rates without any help from the public treasury! Pacific Power & Light has put up all the money for its power plants, transmission lines and sub stations, and has taken all the risks of pioneering and development. 1936 1939 1942 S Instead of receiving a tax subsidy, PP&L has aires ' aid over $10,000,000 in taxes. This year alone its rapidly in increasing tax bill will exceed $1,000,000. You get lower r lower electric rates government gets more and more tax money. Business management always gives a better bargain! AN AMERICAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE IfiasaMHsKaHsiBMaslfl