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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1942)
C 7 to n o -3 O 7) A Week of the War r -A O mmrnxn (Summary of information on im portant developments of the week mads available by official sources through 5 p. m., Monday, March 30.) President Roosevelt announced creation of a Pacific War Council which will sit in Washington, rep resenting Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Canada, China, Britain and the United States. The first meeting was scheduled for Ap ril 1 at the White House. Mr. Roose velt said " it is imperative that all of the United Nations now actively engaged in the Pacific conflict con sider together matters of policy re lating to our joint war effort." He said the Council "will be in intimate contact with a similar body in Lon don." Production and Conversion The President authorized the War and Navy Departments and the Mar itime Commission -to guarantee or make direct loans to small business es seeking to engage in war produc tion. Any Federal Reserve Bank may serve as agent for the Depart ments concerned. Loans, discounts, advances and commitments may be arranged with private banks. The War Production Board reported or ganization of a Bureau of Finance with 35 representatives located in WPB field offices to help contractors and subcontractors in solving fin ancial problems arising in connec tion with war orders. The Federal Reserve Board said steel production was a 98 percent of capacity in the third week of March. War Production Chairman Nelson said more than 100 war plants have already organized management-labor production drives. The Presi dent approved a plan by Attorney General Biddle to defer Federal anti-trust action which would "inter fere" with the output of guns, tanks, planes and ships. Rationing The OP A said county clerks thru out the country now have 180 mil lion sugar rationing books which will be transferred to schools for registration of commercial sugar users April 28 arid. 29, and of in dividual consumers May 4 through May 7. The office released for ra tioning beginning April 13 more than 100,000 new typewriters now in the hands of distributors, whole salers and dealers. April quotas for tires provide 102,000 new tires and 470,000 recapped tires for essential passenger cars and motorcycles, Continued on Page Four Sunrise Service and Cantata Slated Easter Heppner churches' observance of Holy week will be climaxed Sunday with a joint sunrise service and a cantata in the evening. The sunrise service is set for 6:45 at the cross atop Morrow hill, with song service and special music. Ven. Eric O. Robathan, Episcopal arch deacon, will bring the message and other pastors of Heppner will take part in different capacities on the program. "The Resurrection Song," by Roy E. Nolte, will be sung in the eve ning, beginning at 7:30, in the Meth odist church by joint choirs of the city. Soloists include Miss Rose Hoosier, director, Miss Lucile Bar low, Mrs. Raymond Ferguson, Mrs. Ture Peterson, Rev. Martin B. Clark, Charles Barlow, Frank Turner. Thir ty voices will compose the chorus. River Discussion Set for Pomona Meet Discussion of Morrow county court's stand in the matter of sup porting the Inland Empire Water ways association will be made by George N. Peck, commissioner, be fore the Pomona grange meeting at lone next Saturday. President Chas. Baker of the association will also speak during the lecturer's hour be ginning at 1:30 in the afternoon. The meeting is open to all, announces Mrs. Vida Heliker, lecturer. A business session in the morning will begin at 10 o'clock, and lunch eon will be served at noon. Other program numbers in the afternoon will be presented by various subor dinate granges, and the fifth or Po mona degree will be exemplified in the evening. Volume 59, Number 1 13 Light Tanks Made Available From County Scrap Response Good So Far But Continued Supply Needed Enough scrap iron has already been assembled in Morrow county to help make more than thirteen light tanks and more than thirty anti-aircraft guns, according to C. D. Conrad, who was recently ap pointed by the Morrow County USDA War board to handle the salvage program in the county. Conrad states that approximately 100 tons of scrap iron has been brought to Heppner by farmers, the Heppner FFA boys and the Lexing ton Boy Scouts. Most of the mater ial has come from the lower eleva tions because of bad road conditions in the southern part of the county. Much scrap is still to be brought in and original estimates of the amount of scrap in the county will be greatly exceeded. All scrap iron is needed immedi ately in order to keep our smelters operating and to insure the great est production of war materials and farm machinery repair, parts. All farmers who have not turned over their scrap are urged to do so im mediately as time is as important as the scrap itself. Scrap iron is being assembled at the Interior warehouse in Heppner and all farmers who can bring their scrap in are being paid at the rate of $6.85 a ton, and those farmers, who are unable to bring their scrapJ are asked to turn it over to the FFA boys at Heppner or the Boy Scouts at Lexington.. , Arrangements have not been completed for an assembl ing point at lone but it is expected that such arrangements will be made soon to save hauling the scrap to Heppner. Salvage committees for each com munity in the county were recently appointed by the Morrow County Civilian Defense council. These com mittees are to handle the entire sal vage program in each of their com munities and this program will in clude the collection of scrap iron, paper, old tires, rags and various metals. The committees appointed for the communities were: Heppner, FFA boys and Boy Scouts; Lexing ton, Boy Scouts; lone, high school boys; Boardman, FFA boys; and Ir rigon, high school boys. Definite instructions on some of the materials to be collected have not been received but it is expected that these instructions will be com ing soon from the state salvage com mittee recently set u with Claude Sersanous as chairman. DICK EDM ONDSON WINS 4-H AWARD Oregon State College, Corvallis, April 2. Dick Edmondson of, Hepp ner has been ' named as Morrow county's recipient of the $100 Carl Raymond Gray college scholarship granted each year by the Union Pa cific system to the most outstanding 4-H club members in counties serv ed by that railroad. The 'money is payable throughout the first year when the winner is enrolled at Ore gon State college. Dick is a junior in high school this year and plans to use his scholarship in the fall of 1943. Dick will graduate from Heppner high school. He has been in club work six years and has carried two different kinds of projects. They are dairy and sheep. In approving the selection of this student as recommended by the state club office of the Oregon State col lege extension service, Joe Jarvis, su pervisor of agricultural development for the U. P., commented that Dick has done an excellent job and is to be complimented on his perseverance. Calls For R ii ' J'TtriiMniiiiil mum .1 ill hum m mml Governor Charles A. Sprague presents Mis. Ralph Rasmussen, president of the League cf Womn Voters, with a proclamation call ing on all members of all parties to register. "Time out for Democracy" is the watchword of the League of Women Voters' state-wide registration pro gram, April 4th to 11th, for which, at the league's request, Governor Charles A. Sprague has issued a spe cial proclamation, calling on all members of all parties to register, that they may participate in the pri mary election May 15th. "While husbands, sons and bro thers are lighting to preserve our republican form of government, our number one job is to maintain the right of franchise, first by qualifying through registration, and secondly, by going to the polls and" having "our Say"," "dcclare3 Mrs. Ralph Rasmussen, state pres ident ot (he League of Women Voters. The league has designated the spe cial period as registration week, and committees throughout the state will stress the duty of every citizen to register and vote. Governor Spra gue's proclamation follows: "I want to endorse heartily the effort of the League of Women Vot ers to obtain a full registration of eligible voters by the close of the registration books on April 14th. Special emphasis is needed because the public interest is so absorbed in the war that the political duties of citizens may be neglected. The suc cess of the democracy we are fight ing for depends on popular exercise of the right of franchise. It is not enough to do civilian defense duty. We must also discharge our obliga tion as a citizen and vote on election days. "Newcomers to the state, youth coming of age must register to vote; also persons who have moved out of their voting precinct or who failed to vote at the last general election. "I urge party committeemen and civic groups to join with the League of Women Voters in a campaign to get all eligible voters to register in time to participate in the coming primary elections." Paul Brown Safe; May Be on Bataan Paul Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris P. Brown of this city, was "well and fine" when he sent the letter received by his parents this week. It was the first word received from him since the outbreak of hos tilities in the far eastern Pacific. He was in Manila before war was de clared, and the letter stated he was "in the field," which his parents in terpreted to mean that he is proba bly on Bataan peninsula with Gen eral Wainwright's forces. Mrs. Brown believed the letter may have been brought out by Gen eral MacArthur when he broke thru the Japanese armada to take com mand of the forces in Australia. "I am well and fine. Do not wor ry. Type of work gives me a good appetite," Paul wrote. Heppner, Oregon, egsstratson AIKEN, McNAMER FILE FOR OFFICES Closing time for candidates to file , for office -in the May 15 primary election, Monday, was marked by Henry Aiken's announcement for state representative in the democrat ic ranks and that of C. W. McNamer for county commissioner in the re- publican lists. Aiken, only Morrow county can didate fr the representative post will not be opposed for the nom ination, according to latest reports. Giles French, incumbent, is the only republican seeking a state representative post from this dis trict and with two positions to be filled both candidates will receive p their party nomination, as matters now stand. McNamer enters the lists in op position to E. O. Ferguson whose candidacy for commissioner was an nounced last week. At the end of filing, for local of fices, the lists showed Bert Johnson, incumbent and George Peck, oppos posing each other for the republi can nomination for county judge; Ferguson and McNamer for commis sioner; L. W. Briggs and W. O. Dix, republicans, for treasurer; T. J. Wells, democratic incumbent, for assessor, and Harry Tamblyn, dem ocratic incumbent, for surveyor. Other late filings brought Arthur M. Geary, republican, seeking nom ination for U. S. senator against Charles McNary. James T. Morgan, 65 Was County Native James T. Morgan, 65, prominent Hinton creek farmer who began life on Rhea creek in Morrow county October 19, 1876, died at the farm home last Friday following a several weeks' illness. Mr. Morgan's entire life was spent in this county as a farmer and stockraiser, arid he held the respect of a wide circle of ac quaintances. Large tribute to the deceased was paid at memorial services at Phelps Funeral home last Sunday after noon, followed by interment in Ma sonic cemetery. Rev. Bennie Howe officiated. Mr. Morgan was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Morgan, pioneer set tlers. Surviving are the widow, Ef fie; two sons, Lester and James, Jr., of Lone Rock; a daughter, Mrs. Leo E. Johnson of Gold Hill, Nevada; two sisters, Mrs. Katie Slocum of The Dalles, Mrs. Clara Slocum of Hunts ville, Wash.; and a brother Marcel lus Morgan, of Heppner. ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT Miss Lois Jones announced her engagement at a party given in her honor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin B. Clark last evening. The groom -to-be is Charles Greybeal student at Northwest Christian col lege, Eugene, whose home is Kim berley, Idaho. A group of young friends of the young lady were in vited guests. Thursday, April 2, 942:;o L. 1 J ' O Morrow County Gains In Settlement Of Land Claim Cases Jury Ups U. S. Offer on Bombing Field, Ordnance Sites Morrow county is ahead several thousand dollars as a result of the juries' decisions in federal court in Pendleton Tuesday and Wednesday when decision of price was made for county owned lands condemned by the U. S. government for use as bombing field and ordnance depot sites. Three cases were consolidated in Tuesday's trial when the jury re turned judgment in favor of the county for $36,086.46 on land for which the federal government had previously made an offer of $31,758. 25. This land, taken for use as bomb ing practice field, did not include closed portion of the Boardman-Ione road, on which the government made no offer but for. which the county settled previously for $14,816, after filing suit. Total received by the county on bombing field site and highway right-of-way was $50,902. Two other cases involving small par cels of land on which the govern ment offered $1000 were settled with jury allowance of $1280. . P. W. Mahoney, district attorney, who represented the county's inter ests was informed by telephone this morning that the jury verdict on the ordnance depot site, 3760 acres, was above the government offer but the definite price was not learn ed. C. Z. Randall, Pendleton attor , ney, assisted Mr., Mahoney, and the case was heard by Judge James A. Fee. Order Nails Now if Building Grain Storage An immediate attempt will be made to manufacture a sufficient supply of nails to take care of all nails needed for the construction of bulk grain bins, according to word recently received by the county ag ent's office from Chas. W. Smith, state county agent leader, following replies received to a telegram sent to Washington, D. C, by F. E. Price, head of the agricultural engineering department at Oregon State college. The following wires were sent and received from the office of ag ricultural defense relations in Wash ington, D. C: "Oregon farmers un able to purchase nails for construc tion of grain bins. They are advised to submit PD 1A priority application to war board in order to secure nails. Have checked wholesalers and find extreme shortage of nails this territory. Is above priority form correct or can, anything be done to secure an overall supply of nails for grain bins to avoid necessity of each farmer making priority application accompanied by probable delays. What can be done to get nails from other territories into this area to relieve the emergncy? Wire." An swer: ."Prospects are War Produc tion board will send authorization this week to all producers of nails to operate plants to almost capacity until July 1. This action should re lieve general shortage. Do not be lieve anything would be accomplish ed by farmers filing PD lAs." It is very important that all farm ers planning on. building bulk stor age facilities get their orders for nails to their local dealers immedi ately, according to the Morrow County War board. All possible sources for obtaining nails should be exhausted before filing PD lAs and unless such sources have been exhausted, the war board is unable to give much assistance; however, when it is found that nails or repair parts or other needed materials can not be obtained, the county war board should be notified. Girl wanted to go to work by Monday. Heppner Bakery. r w o o rn 'A