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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1942)
Heppner Gazette Times, April 30, 1942 3 AT ATHE ppfL Washington, D. C, Apr. 30. With in a few months there will be 90,000 workers in the shipyards managed by Edgar Kaiser in the Portland ar ea. Mr. Kaiser plans 30,000 men for his plant at Vancouver, 30,000 for Oregon Shipbuilding Co. in Port land, and 30,000 at Swan island, where 50 oil tankers are to be built on what will be virtually an assem bly line arrangement. These 90,000 do not include the workers employ ed at Willamette Iron works, the Commercial Iron works, and other plants with navy contracts nor the plants with orders to build engines for the "ugly duckling" ships at Portland and Vancouver. Where this army of workers will live, how they will find means of transportation to the yards (with rubber tires wearing out and no more streetcars available) and where they will be fed will prove serious problems for Portland and Vancou ver. It is proposed to transport 6,000 .workers daily from . Portland across the Columbia to the yard there, pos sibly the boat leaving the seawall in Portland, but there will be 24,000 others on the Vancouver job, most of them domiciled there. Of course these thousands of workers are to be temporarily employed, but they will be working at least until the end of 1943, by which time the mar itime commission may provide more contracts for more boats carrying over into 1944. Locating all of this labor when the armed forces are drafting men is no simple matter. Scouts will be sent to the midwest, to Colorado, to Kansas and Wyoming recruiting workers for the shipyards. The war department is spending many millions of dollars now in Oregon and expects to spend many other millions before it is through using and developing facilities. Much has been talked of the two canton ments, Medford and Corvallis, rep resenting approximately $60,000,000, and it is known that the army air force at Pendleton has a large sta tion, with another at the Portland Columbia air base, and the hundreds of concrete igloos forming the mu nitions dump at Hermiston; but this does not complete the list. There are shore stations for the navy along the coast, an elaborate program of air fields which embrace every sec tion of the state, a munitions depot on the Oregon side of the lower Col umbia river, a proposed shell load- f&nmjllJise says... "Counting cents is common sense" SLIP-COVERS made to fit loosely wear longer than tightly stretched, well-fitted "jack ets". Give your cover plenty of loom to shift on the job folks have a habit of being restless. With all the money you'll save, buy DEFENSB SAVINGS STAMPS Every Stamp and Bond you buy is an investment in freedom. War needs money 1 ing plant in eastern Oregon, two bombing ranges in the central and southeastern sections of the state. Under present conditions the loca tion of many of these facilities can not be divulged, although each is known to the people in the vicinity where it is placed. Government was slow in recog nizing Oregon but now it is going to town in a big way. There is no politics involved in the location ,of the various air bases, mnuitions dumps, cantonments, etc. Members of the congressonal delegation know nothing of a development until they are cofidentially advised. Until all is set the high command refuses to discuss plans with anyone. Little of the army's preparations is handled by Oregon contractors. The army has preferred dealing with contractors who can put up a heavy bond, a bond larger than any local contractor or group of contractors can provide. To help the Oregon contractors, however, the Corvallis job was broken down into sections roads, sewers, construction being let individually instead of in the lump. The navy, too, is awarding a con tract for a floating drydock in the Portland area. Local experienced contractors have been passed up and the job given to a Puget Sound con cern. Navy explains that as Port land will have the drydock it should not begrudge the building job to an outside outfit. It will not be compulsory for the. women of Oregon to register, but registration will be solicited on a voluntary basis. Registration for women will probably be called for Julv 4. at least that is the talk of the national capital. There is expect ed to be 1,500,000 women working in munitions factories and on farms within 12 months, plus the thousands of trained nurses required for the armed force, and the women's aux iliary corps, the latter a uniformed group which can be sent to any part of the world where American troops are stationed. Reclamation service announces that it will carry on investigation of the feasibility of projects at John Day, for the basin; Pendleton, Tal ent, Medford, Clear Lake, Sam's valley and five projects in Willam ette valley. They are intended to be "backlogs" when the war is over and there will be need for public works -to provide employment. No appropriation was allowed for con tinuing the Deschutes project, but it will not be suspended as there is MUSTANG NETTERS LOSE Last Saturday the Echo tennis squad defeated the Heppner high school team by a 4-2 count. The only matches won by the locals were the two girls' singles played by Wanda Howell and Dorotha Wilson. This was the first match lost this season by Heppner. In earlier mat ches Hermiston was defeated 5-0 and in a return match, 3-2. The next match is a return match with Echo there Saturday, May 2. Two matches have also been scheduled with Pendleton later. Cooked food sale, Case Furniture Co. store, Friday, May 1, by ladies of the Rhea Creek grange. sufficient surplus from previous ap propriations to carry on the work at least one more year, say into the summer of 1943. We 'we come a long vay in Electric States, too! 15.38 5.85 5.10 A ( PRICE OF 100 KWH OF PP&L ELECTRICITY IN HEPPNER HOMES M.01 1926 1928 1931 1936 1939 1942 J 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. Instead of receiving a tax subsidy, PP&L has already paid over $10,000,000 in taxes. This year alone its rapidly increasing tax bill will exceed $1,000,000. You get lower and lower electric rates government gets more and more tax money. Business management always gives a better bargain! AN AMERICAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE X