Heppner Gazette Times, April 9, 1942 3
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Wasington, D. C, April 9. Z. E.
Ilerrill, chairman of the Linn.coun
ty defense council, has raised the
question whether workers in alum
umim plants are threatened with
Nuber.culosis from breathing the dust,
llie question was asked because of
the expanding aluminum industry
in Oregon and Washington and the
possibility of new plants in the ter
ritory. According to Dr. J. G. Town
send, chief of the division of indus
trial hygiene, there is no danger
from the dust unless it is mixed with
dust containing free silicate. Dr.
Townsend says that an examination
was made of 50 men in aluminum
blast furnaces from five to 40 years
and that not one was affected.
Storing wheat is a real problem
for grain growers of the northwest,
for they are handicapped in obtain
ing materials. Construction of bulk
facilities is wanted at Lexington for
200,000 bushels; lone 200,000; Hepp
ner 150,000, and Dufur 150,000 bush
els. For a crib elevator nails, iron
roofing and pipe are required for
wood, while roofing and pipe are
needed for concrete structures. The
difficulty is in obtaining the metal.
Especially important are nails. Triple
A : has requested war production
board to issue an order requiring
nail makers to devote their facilities
to producing nails instead of other
articles. '
At present wheat stands very low
on the order of war purposes and
no matter what the priority may be
there may not be enough supplies
of critical materials to go around.
The wheat grower is getting a dif
ferent deal from what he did in the
first world war when the price of
wheat was sky high and there was
great demand for it abroad. Thus
far wheat is one article of food that
it not being shipped foreign.
Preparations for control of the
Mormon cricket in various sections
of Oregon are now under way, ac
cording to the bureau of entomology
and plant quarantine. The infesta
tion in Wasco county will be the
first to receive attention, announces
the bureau to J. M. Oxford, of South
Junction.
With hundreds of thousands of
acres in Oregon devoted to growing
legume seeds, the harvesting has
been studied by the department of
agriculture for some time. Few of
the seed growers had sufficient
equipment and many had none. By
pulling a few wires the department
obtained a priority fromwar pro
duction board and will have avail
able about 300 new combines to
handle this year's crop. The hairy
vetch and Austrian winter peas are
grown principally in the Willamette
valley, but there also is a vast
acreage in eastern Oregon. The de
partment of agriculture states that
these seed crops are the most prof
itable grown in the western coun
try. Market for the seeds will be
in the south, for soil conservation.
Engineers of the war department
have turned thumbs down on im
provement of the mouth of the Ro
gue river. Three plans were con
sidered and the engineers reported
after considering each that none
would justify the annual mainten
ance and therefore the development
was "out" Gold Beach also asked
for the location of an airport or land
ing field which would be convenient
if a Japanese bomber should blow
out a bridge on the coast highway.
This, reported the engineers, is not
within their province, as General
DeWitt of ninth corps area at San
Francisco, has charge of such mat
ters. Report of the engineers on
Rogue river is very long, covering
many typewritten pages, but it
sums up that there is nothing they
can do about it
At the moment there is question
as to where mail for soldiers at the
Corvallis cantonment shall be de
livered. It is said that mail for Cor
vallis goes to Albany before it is
taken across the river to the home
of Oregon State college, and for this
reason mail for the cantonment
should be distributed at Albany. In
either event, the present postoffice
will require additional facilities and
Albany reports that a large store
room is available.
Postoffice department announces
that congress has granted free post
age to soldiers and postal officials
do not relish the idea, saying no
other country in the world is giving
free mailing privileges and that it
will inspire soldiers to write moie
letters and enormously increase the
cost of handling franked mail. Also
postoffices will not be benefitted by
these additional cancellations. Post
al department says that where the
soldiers shall get their mail is some
thing for the army to decide, but
army is said to be passing the buck.
There is no argument about the
Medford cantonment The mail will
be handled by the Medford postmaster.
SERVICES AT GOOSEBERRY
Pastor Harry W. Lundblad of
Gresham will hold services at the
Lutheran church in Gooseberry on
Sunday, April 12, at 10:30 a. m. and
in the evening at 8 p. m. All are
invited, says Leonard Carlson.
STANDARD MAKES STATEMENT
M. E. Harris, district representa
tive of Standard Oil Co. of Califor
nia, in the city last week end, cited
a lettergram received from E. V.
Burns, district sales manager at
Portland, indicating the local com
pany's connection with recent syn
thetic rubber charges. It says:
"Newspapers are publishing charges
by Government officers that Stand
ard Oil Company of New Jersey has
interfered with the development of
synthetic rubber in this country.
Owing to lack of public understand
ing that the various Standard Oil
"companies are unrelated, these stor
ies are likely to create a public im-nrFRf-'on
that this comranv is in
volved. If anyone is our organiza
tion encounters criticism on this
.' co:c he should say that the Stand
ard Oil Company of California is not
involved in any way whatsoever,
and that this is a matter between
the government and an eastern company."
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