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(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
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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
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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.
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