Heppner Gazette Times, April 30, 1942 3
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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!
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