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(Summary of information on the
important developments of the week
made available by official sources
through 5 p. m. Monday, April 6.)
War Production Director Nelson,
speaking in New York City, said
"America's industrial plant is really
beginning to roll." He said airplane
production schedules for the first
three months of this year have been
met or exceeded, and production of
tanks is ahead of schedule.
Mr. Nelson said production of
merchant ships is "rising rapid.y"
and this year's schedule should be
met A Gar and rifle is now avail
able for "every one of our combat
soldiers who is supposed to have
one," he said. Production schedules
for anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns
also are being met However, "This
is no time for easy optimism," he
stated, because the production of
war goods is so huge a job "we can
break every record we ever made
and still fall short of the need."
The Senate passed and sent to the
House legislation to set up a $100
million smaller War Plants corpor
ation under the War Production
board. The corporation would ob
tain contracts from government pro
curement agencies and reaward
them to small enterprises, breaking
the orders into subcontracts where
necessary.
Civilian Supply
The WPB ruled persons buying
toothpaste or shaving cream in tubes
must turn in to the retailers some
kind of tin or tin-coated tube for
each new one purchased. The board
froze sales and deliveries of all new
bicycles for adults, including those
already ordered and paid for. Red
Cross local chapters began collec
tion of the extra cloth made avail
able by the elimination of cuffs
from approximately 50 million pairs
of trousers now on hand in stores.
The salvage clip will make about
300,000 new suits.
The board ordered production of
cover caps to tinplate or terneplate,
used as closures for catsup, jelly,
etc., stopped immediately, and of
crown . caps for . bottled beer and
soft drinks stopped April 30. Pro
duction of fluorescent lighting fix
tures was also ordered ended imme
diately; of vacuum cleaners, April
30; and toys and games made of
metal, plastic and other essential
materials, June 30. The board cur
tailed use of crude rubber and latex
in 50 articles, including fire and
mill hose, storage batteries, etc.
Priority . Order Compliance
The WPB reported investigations
of 14,000 firms for compliance with
priority orders have been undertak
en since last June. Reports have
been completed on 3,500 firms, the
board said, and of these 1,600 show
ed no violations while approximate
ly the same number reported minor
violations through misunderstand
ings. The reports resulted in 35
suspension orders, affecting 46 firms
and one individual. Thirteen fed
Continued on Page Four
Tuesday Last Day
For Registration
To accommodate last minute reg
istrants the county clerk's office
will be open continuously from 8
o'clock a. m. to 8 o'clock p. m. next
Tuesday, April 14, the last day for
registering for the May 15 primary
nominating election, announces C.
W. Barlow, county clerk.
Throughout the state thousads of
voters, have been taken off the lists
because they have changed their
place of residence since the last elec
tion and failed to re-register. There
are thousands of others, newcomers
to Oregon now employed in her
shipyards, her mills, her factories,
on her farms who have been here
six months or more, and are entitled
to vote.
To vote in the primary in May,
registration must be effected before
April 14.
TAKES GOVERNMENT WORK
W. N. Vail, local contractor for the
last year and a half, has bid in a
construction job in connection with
government construction . at Walla
Walla and is leaving in the morning
with his family. He is also connected
with two other construction con
tracts, taken by Hartung and Hanson
of Seattle, one at Plainsfield and one
at Seattle.
Volume 59, Number 2
Morrow In Lead In
Per Capita Sales
Of Series 'E' Bonds
July to January
Compilation Shows
Average of $31.84
Morrow county leads the state in
the sale of Series "E" defense sav
ings bonds, with per capita sale of
$31.84 against the state average of
$16.06, announced George H. God
frey, deputy state administrator of
the Oregon Defense Savings coun
cil. Godfreys compilation, from July
1941 to January 1942, showed that
Morrow county's population had
purchased a total of $138,088 of the
series "E" bonds in the six month
period. ' In January purchases in this
county totalled $43,433 for a per
capita average of $2.10. The state
total for January was $6,677,833, for
a per capita average of $6.13.
Morrow county lagged in the
pledge card signing for continued
purchase of the bonds, Godfrey said,
acknowledging the difficulty of those
on the farm ascertaining just what
their income for the year may be.
He did compliment this county for
its good record, however, and looked
for continued good support here of
the important war financing pro
gram. Helping eastern Oregon to take
the limelight in bond purchases were
Sherman county, in second place,
with per capita sales of. $28.40; Was
co, third, $22.83, which barely led
Multnomah, in fourth place, with
$22.81, for the sixth months.
In commenting upon the pledge
campaign, P. W. Mahoney, county
defense savings chairman, pointed
out that the drive came at a time
when country roads were next to
impassable, making solicitation very
difficult. He urged the importance
of more bond and stamp buying by
those with smalller incomes as a
buffer against depression days which
will inevitably follow the war. Once
the regular saving habit is estblish
ed, be it only a dime or a quarter
a day, the saver will find real joy
in the sum that will be accumulated
in a short time, he said.
3RD DRAFT QUIZ
SHEETS ISSUED
Morrow county local board will
today mail questionnaires to all
registrants of the third selective ser
vice registration, announces Judge
Bert Johnson, board chairman. .
The questionnaires will go to
men holding order numbers 10,001
to 10,272 inclusie. This group in
cludes a late registrant, Order No.
10,153-A.
Registrants will be allowed ten
days in which to complete the ques
tionnaires and return them- to the
office of the local board. They will,
upon request, be assisted in filling
out their questionnaires by the fol
lowing men: J. J. Nys, government
appeal agent; P. W. Mahoney, asso
ciate government appeal agent; J.
O. Turner, advisory board member.
The questionnaires being mailed
today are the regular selective ser
vice questionnaires, the same as
were sent registrants in the first
two registrations. In a short time, a
second, "occupational" questionnaire
will be mailed all registrants in the
third draft, Judge Johnson said.
APRIL TIRE QUOTA GIVEN
Morrow county's tire quota for
April includes 8 passenger car tires
and 56 tubes; 107 recaps for passen
ger cars; 31 truck tires, 30 recaps
and 30 tubes. The quota is meted out
one-fourth each week, and demand
so far is ahead of supply, announces
Alva W. Jones, chairman of the ra
tioning board.
Joe Aiken, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Aiken, is visiting his parents.
Wheat Price Support
Depends On Quotas
Continuance of a federal price
support program for wheat depends
entirely on marketing quotas re
ceiling at least a two-thirds favor
able vote at the referendum May 2,
Henry Baker, chairman of the coun
ty AAA committee, reminds Mor
row county wheat growers.
The existence of other price sup
port programs and the recent enact
ment of the price control law has
resulted in the false impression in
some circles that a price support
program will be continued for wheat
regardless of the ' outcome of the
quota referendum, the chairman
said.
No existing legislation provides for
any form of support to wheat prices
except loans, and the law specific
ally provides that if quotas are re
jected, the loan program cannot be
continued, Baker declared.
Under the Steagall amendment,
prices are supported at 85 percent of
parity for those commodities for
which increased production is need
ed in the Food for Freedom pro
gram, the chairman explained, add
ing that wheat is certainly not one
of those commodities. The price
Red Cross Organized
With New Officers
A complete Red Cross organiza
tion for Morrow county was formed
at a meeting Friday night at the
city hall under the supervision of
Mrs. Margaret Bermejo of Portland,
field representative for Oregon for
the American Red Cross. Rose Leib
brand was elected county chair
man; Mrs. Frances Stewart, vice
chairman; Florence Bergstrom, sec
reary and Jack Van Winkle, re-elected
treasurer. Miss Leibbrand re
places James Driscoll as county
chairman.
Chairmen for the various units of
the Morrow county chapter are Jesse
Turner, disaster chairman; Mrs.
Harry Tamblyn, production; Mrs.
Clara Gertson, home service; Clif
ford Conrad, canteen and nutrition;
Dr. A. D. McMurdo, medical aid
and Mrs. Irene Wilson, publicity.
Harold Buhman will retain the wa
ter safety chairmanship until Aug
ust. Mrs. Alfred Houghton is gen
eral chairman of the Boardman unit
and Mrs. Carl Haddox is in charge
of emergency closets in that area.
Mrs. Macomber is general chairman
in the Irrigon district and Mrs. For
tier, emergency closet chairman. Or
ganization of Red Cross units in
other outlying areas will be com
pleted as soon as possible.
Auditing of the county Red Cross
books will be done immediately by
Mrs. James Thomson, Jr., and Vir
ginia Humphrey, according to Miss
Leibbrand.
Jesse Turner, disaster chairman, is
forming a complete committee to be
ready in case of disaster. One of
the four state Red Cross warehous
es is located in Pendleton and will
be accessible to this area in case of
disaster,
Frances Stewart is slated to give
a course in canteen aid as soon as
authorization is completed.
Mrs. Bermejo, Mrs. Tamblyn and
Miss Leibbrand spent Saturday in
Boardman and Irrigon
Red Cross units.
organizing
Hoke, Holt to Address
Wool Organizations
Mac Hoke, president, and Walter
Holt, secretary, Oregon Woolgrowers
association will be the leading speak
ers before a joint dinner meeting of
Morrow County Wool Growers and
auxiliary at the Episcopal parish
house at 6:30 o'clock next Monday
evening.
All members of the local organ
izations are urged to attend as mat
ters of prime importance to the in
dustry will be up for discussion, it
was announced. Among problems
to be discussed was expected to be
the current shearing problem.
Heppner, Oregon,
control law, the chairman added, is
strictly a price ceiling measure, and
does not provide any form of sup
port to the price of wheat or any
other commodity.
What will happen to wheat prices
in event quotas fail and the loan is
withdrawn is anyone's guess, Mr.
Baker believes. "When you consider
that the United States has a sur
plus of 700 million bushels, and Can
adian and Argentine wheat farmers
are getting around 50 cents a bush
el, it's not difficult to determine
which way U. S. wheat prices will
go," he added.
A meeting of the county and com
munity AAA committeemen will be
held in the county agent's office on
Friday, April 10, at 9:30 a. m. to
discuss the wheat quota referendum
and make plans for informing all
farmers in the county of this refer
endum, the 1942 farm program will
be reviewed and recommendations
for the 1943 program made. Clyde
L. Kiddle of the state AAA office,
Chas. W. Smith, assistant county
agent leader, and E. H. Miller, one
of our Morrow county farmers, will
be present at the meeting to assist
with the discussion.
FIRE WARDENS TO
COMPLETE UNIT
Fire wardens and assistant fire
wardens of the recently organized
lire control districts throughout
Morrow county will meet in the
county agent's office, at 1:00 p. m.,
Wednesday, April 15, to complete
the organization of the county for
fire patrol, to draw up fire preven
tion regulations and to discuss fire
control measures.
Lyman Tibbies, county fire war
den for the Civilian Defense coun
cil; Fred Wehmeyer of the forest
service, and Arthur King, extension
soils man from the college are now
working with county organizations
on fire control, will assist the war
dens in completing the organization.
Because of the importance of the
rural telephone line to any rural
fire control program, it is hoped
that a representative of the Paci
fic Telephone and Telegraph com
pany will be able to attend this
meeting.
There has been much time, gaso
line and tires wasted in previous
years by everyone running to grass
and wheat fires throughout the
county and with a shortage of these
items this year, a better coordinated
and organized fire control program
should prove advantageous.
May Day Music Fete
Plans Under Way
Morrow county's annual all-school
music fete and field day has been
set for Friday, May 1, in Heppner,
announces Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers,
county school superintendent.
The grade school athletic field
meet is set for the morning, and
the music festival preceded by
Maypole winding in the afternoon.
Lyle Eddy of Irrigon is in charge
of the field meet, and Juanita Car
michael of Lexington is head of the
festival pnn!mitt wViiVK inliifli
, Qse fjoosier, Heppner; Rachel Dick,
lone; Mrs. Maude Kobow, Board-
man; Winston Bunnell and Ila Mae
Starr of Irrigon.
ON HONOR ROLL
Oregon College of Education, Mon
mouth, April 8. Katherine Griffith
Lindstrom, senior at the Oregon
College of Education, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Griffith of Mor
gan, has earned a place on the sec
ond Wnor roll for the winter term
by carrying a load of fifteen term
hours and making a grade point
average of 3.0 or B. Those students
earning places on the first honor roll
are required to carry a load of fif
teen term hours for which a grade
point average of 3.5 or better is
earned.
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Thursday, April 9, 1942J
Blankenship Gives
Up Post To Accept
Columbia U. Offer
Seven-Year Service
With Schools Ends to
Take Scholarship
Coming out of a clear sky this
week was the tendered resignation
of Alden H, Blankenship, city school
superintendent, who had one year
yet to serve under a two year con
tract given by the board last year.
His release is being asked at this
time, effective with the close of the
present school term, to accept a
scholarship from Columbia univer
sity, New York. His letter of trans-,
mittal states: .
"I hereby submit my resignation
from the position as superintendent
of the Heppner schools to which I
have been elected for the coming
year so that I can accept a scholar
ship to Columbia university.
"My seven years' association with
the Heppner schools have been thor
oughly enjoyed. The many friends
whom Mrs. Blankenship and I have
made in Heppner and Morrow coun
ty will always hold a particularly
warm spot in our hearts. So my
pleasure at being able to realize an
ambition of long standing of doing
graduate work at Columbia univer
sity will be tinged with mingled re
grets at leaving all of our fine Mor
row county friends.
"Your trust and confidence in me
have been sincerely appreciated. I
in turn have kept as my major ob
jective working for the best edu
cational interests of all the young
people of Heppner and the sur
rounding area served by our schools."
The letter was written to the
board Monday. That evening Mr.
Blankenship was in attendance at
a meeting of the Inland Empire Tea
chers association.
In his regime as head of the local
schools, Mr. Blankenship has main
tained the high standards for which
the school has been noted, and has
engineered many improvements. He
and Mrs. Blankenship have taken
active interest in community affairs
generally, and they will be greatly
missed by the community, which ex
tends congratulations for the recog
nition given by Columbia university.
No announcement of a successor
has so far been made by the board.
Chamber Endorses
Tax-Saving Program
Heppner chamber of commerce
went on record at its regular meet
ing Tuesday evening as favoring the
objectives of the Citizens' League
for War-Time Tax Saving that of
focusing attention on the necessity
of greatest possible economy in pre
paring 1942-43 local property tax
budgets by eliminating every dollar
of expenditure for wasteful or non
essential public purposes. .
The resolution also pronounced it
the duty of every taxpayer in Ore
gon to buy United States defense
bonds and to pay federal war taxes
promptly.
A committee to assist in war time
defense measures was named, in
cluding K. A. House, Mel Serle and
George Howard
President P. W. Mahoney explain
ed the new defense bonds soon to
be offered to the public, and an
nounced that Morrow county was
now in the lead of all Oregon coun
ties in per capita purchase of the
series "E" bonds, the per capita av
erage of $31.84 being double that of
other counties in Oregon.
A church meeing wih speaker was
recommended for the next regular
meeting.
B. C. Pinckney explained a credit
exchange for Heppner and offered
his free services for three months
in starting it. An investigation will,
be made.
Word has been received by his,
parents that Bill Barratt has been
elected president of his fraternity,
Sigma Phi Epsilon, at Oregon State.
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