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-3 O C 7i 0 CO f1 o r " xi - o .-i o r z. c - tj o w . A O O O 73 ;rj P0 - A Week of the War (Summary information on import ant developments of the week made available by official sources through 5 p.m. EWT Monday, May 4.) Price Administrator Henderson issued a general price regulation placing rigid government controls over retail and wholesale prices for for the duration of the war. . Beginning May 11, manufacturer and wholesale prices may not ex ceed highest March 1942 levels for each individual seller. Beginning May 18, retail prices may not ex ceed highest levels charged by each seller during March. Beginning July 1, no one may charge more for ser vices sold at retail in connection with a commodity than he charged during March. All retaiers, manu facturers, wholesalers and sellers of services must preserve for pricing purposes existing sales records made during March. Every retail store as of Mlay 18 must display publicly the ceiling prices for "cost-ofiiying" commodities. Agricultural commodities are ex cluded from the order. Various oth er items which do not conform with the Price Control Act's definition of a "commodity" are exempt also. In addition Mr. Henderson issued or ders for rent stabilization in 300 areas of 46 states and Puerto Rico, housing more than 76 million per sons. Four-fifths of the rents will be frozen as of March 1, 1942. The remainder were ordered cut back to early 1941 levels. President Roosevelt said the cost of living has advanced about 15 per cent since the autumn of 1939, and "We must now act to keep it from soaring another 80 or 90 percent during the next year or two to hold it to somewhere near the present level." The President said "The on ly effective course of action is a simultaneous attack on all of the factors which increase the cost of living prices, profits, wages, taxes and debts." Rationing The Office of Price Administra tion said five different gasoline ra tion cards will be distributed during registration in 17 eastern states and the District of Columbia May 12-14. One card will be for non-essential users and the other four will desig nate varying degrees of essential users. Commercial and government users of gasoline will be exempt from the card rationing plan, OP A said, and such vehicles need not be Continued on Page Four Loan Association Meeting Draws Many Henry Baker was reelected to the board of director of the Hardman National Farm Loan association at the annual meeting of stockholders last Thursday at the Odd Fellows hall. About eighty association members and their friends sat down at noon dinner served by the ladies of the Sans Souci Rebekah lodge which followed the morning business ses sion. In the forenoon the officers gave their reports, and President John J. Wightman appointed a nom inating committee composed of Os car Peterson, chairman; Clive Hus ton and C. R. McAlister who brought in recommendations that afternoon. Vocal numbers by Dorotha Wil son, Patty O'Harra and Margaret Tamblyn, trombone solos by Calvin Crawford, and accordian numbers by Walter Skuzeski made up the musical program at the noon hour. The afternoon session opening with colored moving pictures of fishing scenes in central Oregon and the state's antelope farm in Harney county. These films were prepared by the state game commission and were obtained by Logie Richardson, president of Morrow County Hunt ers and Anglers club, for this occa sion. Raymond Parrish handled the exhibition of the pictures. David E. Grobe, representing the Federal Land Bank of Spokane, gave a talk in the afternoon meeting and answered questions on the opera tions of the land bank system and the association. At an organization meeting Mon day afternoon, Mr. Wightman was reelected president of the associa tion, Mr. Baker vice president, and Elart F. Hultgrenn, acting secretary-treasurer. Volume 59, Number 6 County Responds To Sugar Rationing As 1070 Sign Here 'Glad to Do It, If It Will Help Win War General Attitude This evening from 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 o'clock will be the last opportunity for Morrow county people to obtain sugar rationing cards under the in itial sign-up. Response over the county has so far been good, indi cating that a near 100 percent sign up will have been made by the time the books close at 9 o'clock this eve ning. At the close of registration in Heppner last night rationing books had been issued for 1070 people, re ported Alden Blankenship, in charge of registration here. Six teachers have been on the job each period since the start Monday, and have been busy all the time. They have worked hard at this extra duty. People generally have been patient in awaiting their turn, and while waiting for considerable time at in tervals, the general reaction has been, "Well, I'm glad to do it, if it will help to win the war. With Heppner's 1940 census plac ed at 1140. it was indicated that few persons remained to be signed up to make the registration complete for the sugar allotment here. ONLY TWO VOTE AGAINST QUOTAS Morrow county wheat producers, along with their fellow producers all -over the nation, voted very defin itely in favor of marketing quotas in the referendum held Saturday, May 2. The final official tabulation for Morrow county showed 478 vot ing "Yes" and only 2 voting "No." By their vote in upholding quotas, wheat producers who are in com pliance with their wheat acreage allotments will be eligible for loans on their 1942 crop. The basic loan price for wheat in this area has been announced at $1.21, Portland, basis No. 1. This will mean our local loan value will be about $1.10 per bushel. Producers who have exceeded their acreage allotment will be eligible for loans at 60 percent of the value of regular wheat, but only for that part of their wheat which is determined to be in excess of their marketing quotas. City Budgeteers Set For New Schedule. Freeholders to serve with mem bers of the city council in drawing up a schedule of expenditures for next year were named at Monday evening's council meeting. The time of meeting for the budget commit tee had not been determined. Those named are M. L. Case, C. W. McNamer, J. G. Thomson, Sr., D. M. Ward, W. C. Cox and Lee Howell. GUY MOORE WEDS Guy Moore, son of Mrs. L. D. Neill of Pine City, took MissDonna Logsdon as his bride Saturday eve ning, April 25, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Logsdon, in Athena. Rev. Mr. Carl son, Baptist minister, performed the ceremony in the presence of rela tives of the young couple. At a re ception following 65 relatives and friends were received. Following a wedding trip to Portland and Cor vallis the young couple are at home at Athena where Mr. Moore is em ployed with a cannery. Mrs. Moore is a memer of this year's graduating class of Athena high school. Mr. Moore, O. S. C. student and mem ber of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity was graduated by Heppner high school and was prominent in high school athletics throughout his high school career. Battle of Britain Shows Air Strength Import Why of the purchase of war sav ings bonds, urged in talks by B. C. Pinckney and Ralph Jackson, was graphically depicted in the address of Major James A. Frier from the Pendleton air base at a dinner meet ing of the chamber of commerce at Episcopal parish house Tuesday eve ning. While not directly given as a plea for war savings bond purchases, the money from which goes to buy air planes, tanks, guns and other war materiel, Major Frier's depiction of the 1940 Battle of Britain and the lesson it taught of necessity for air superiority in modern warfare, was an answer to the "why?" that may have been present in listener's minds. Mr. Pinckney had previously quoted figures to show that average sales of war savings bonds bought through the local bank, of which he is manager, had slumped 70 percent in the last ten weeks over the per iod immediately following Pearl Harbor. Mr. Jackson brought re port from a state conference of war bond workers that quotas must be met, and Mrs. Ture Peterson sang "The White Cliffs of Dover," ac companied by Mts. Alden Blank enship. P. W. Mahoney, president, presided and introduced Major Fri er and Capt. W. E. Borland who ac companied the major to Heppner. Especially fitting was Mrs. Peter son's song, said Major Frier, for it was in the country of Dover that his story was laid. He divided the 1940 I" 1 iiiiliiiiiiiiiiiii liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiriiiiu ! The Right to Vote I I I By i Governor Charles A. Sprague i I The right to vote is precious. I Our armies and navies are jj I fighting all around the globe to preserve for us self -govern- i ment, the basis of which is the i voting franchise. Here at home let us not neglect to use this f I right, as free American citi- I zens. : : The primary election on May i 15th is of great importance. I From the persons therein nom- inated the final selections will : be made for important federal, state, and local offices. In large j measure the primary election : will determine who will serve 1 i the state in legislative, execu- : tive, and judicial positions. All electors, men and women, should, both in exercise of a 1 s high privilege and perform- ance of the duty of citizens, : vote for the candidates of their 1 I choice in the primary election of May 15th, f Remember, the right to. vote is precious. Do not lose it through your own neglect. niiiiMiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMMiifiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiii Pierce Staying on Job, Mot Campaigning Walter M. Pierce, congressman from Oregon's second district, is not making a personal campaign in his effort to seek reelection to office, say his Morrow county club mana gers, of whom Del M. Ward is pres ident and Harry Duvall. secretary. The local men say that Mr. Pierce feels his presence in Washington at this time is vital to the nation's war effort, and that to take time off to personally greet his friends in behalf of reelection would be to slight the duties of his high office. GOOSEBERRY MOISTURE GIVEN September 1 to May 1 precipita tion in the Gooseberry district is given at 13.21 inches by Leonard Carlson, climatological observer, in the city Friday. This compares with 10.48 for the same period a year ago. War of Britain into phases, described in detail the German strategy in each phase, and showed how a small er, but mighty and brave, British air force and British morale success fully repulsed each German attempt to invade the island, and in the end maintained th air supremacy which it is building to greater strength in continued bombing of the German homeland, the factor which Major Frier foresaw to be the beginning of Germany's downfall. Air strength, as depicted in the Battle of Britain has risen from an inferior place in combat striking force which it held in World War I, to gain a place of at least 70 percent importance today, the major said. To win a war today the victorious side must have air supremacy first, and fire supremacy, secondly, as well. The United Nations are now just getting well started in their program of airplane construction and pilot training. A long road lies ahead. The objective must be attained No matter whether one likes to fight or not, the time has come to either fight or become slaves to ruthless nations. He told a story heard recently from a Swiss refugee who served with the French and was taken pris oner in the War of France. This re fugee had observed rations of the concentration camp which consisted of slow starvation rations. It were better, the major said, for one to give his life in the chance of escap ing than to endure such a starva tion process. HEPPNER LUMBER FOLK BUY BONDS Morrow county's largest payroll industry, Heppner Lumber company, will contribute ten percent of its to tal payroll to the purchase of war savings bonds. The amount of bonds represented will be approximately $1000 a month, announces Orville Smith, manager. Purchase of the bonds was vot ed voluntarily by the employees themselves, under a plan sponsor ed by the U. S. Treasury depart ment. The 10 percent for bonds is withheld from pay checks and credited to each employee, bonds being turned over to them as suf ficient amounts for purchase are accumulated. Augmenting the local mill opera tions this week was the start of the Blackburn Lumber company mill under management of M. E. Baker, which is under contract to cut and deliver output to Heppner Lumber company. The Blackburn mill has capacity for an average of 25,000 to 30,000 feet cut a day, and a season's cut of between 3 and 4 million feet is expected. The lumber is deliver ed green here. Scritsmier Lumber company, also delivering to the local mill, cuts 25,000 to 30,000 feet a day, and has been operating for 30 days, to make an expected season's cut of from 5 to 6 million feet. A stockpile of logs accumulated through the winter made an earlier start of the Scrits mier mill possible. The Scritsmier mill has ordered its second tractor logging unit, sim ilar to the one purchased last year, consisting of an RD7 Caterpillar tractor with hydraulic bulldo7)sn and log arch. Using this method of logging makes it possible to bring tree length logs directly from the stump to the mill, eliminating truck logging. MUSTANGS WIN MATCHES Heppner high school's Mustangs came out on top in two matches this week. They won at Softball from Lexington there yesterday after noon, 17-3, and took four out of seven matches in a tennis meet with Pendeton here last Saturday. Next Saturday a return tennis engage ment will be played at Pendleton. Defense, Health Call For United Front In Clean-Up Next Week, May 1 1 to 16, Set by Mayor to Make City Shine Heppner's annual clean-up week, set May 11 to 16, takes on added sig nificance this year with the need for preparing against possile bomb attacks as well as maintaining health at a high standard for prosecution of the war effort, points out Mayor J. O. Turner in asking that the city be made to shine at this time. Mayor Turner points out that rub bish in attics and basements is an added hazard should an incen diary bomb fall upon a house, and urges that these places be given special attention. Rubbish and garbage heaps, man ure piles and other health offend ers are breeding places for germs that jeopardize the city's general physical fitness in doing its share toward prosecuting the war, he points out. While some people have indicated by actions in the past that the city's clean-up week is a time to have their year's accumulation of tin cans and bottles carried away at city ex pense, Mayor Turner declares this is not the case. The city will again furnish free transportation to the junk yard for all refuse placed at curbs in proper containers boxes, barrels, etc. but it is urged that everyone make frequent disposal of cans and bottles to aid sanitary con ditions at all times. - ' "We want everyone to help Bill Morgan keep the city shining after clean-up week, by keeping their places neat and clean," said the May or. He also advised cleaning vacant lots and curbs so as to eliminate much of the fire hazard which ex ists wtih arrival of the dry season. Selective Service Board Attends D is net Meet Members of Morrow County Se lective Service board, the govern ment appeal agent and the clerk of the board attended a district meet ing of Selective Service in The Dal le Monday evening. Col. Elmer V. Wooten, Oregon state director of Selective Service; Major Lewis from national head uqarters, and Captain Brennan of Oregon state headquarters were present. Members, appeal agents and clerks of six counties were pre sent, these counties being Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,, Wheeler and Morrow. Judge Bert Johnson reports for the local board that Major Lewis stated there are 6433 local boards in the United States and serving on these boards are 25,000 members and 7,000 appeal agents. Besides these people there are the local examining physicians, advisory board members and others.' The major stated that there are 160,000 people working without pay in keeping the Selective Service system functioning. Of special interest to members of local boards and their appeal agents was the discussion of classifications, Judge Johnson said. Occupational deferments received a good bit of attention. Colonel Wooten was call ed upon by members to answer numerous questions and by his an swers and personal knowledge of the local board problems it was plain to see why Major Lewis stated that Oregon heads the nation in the way it is handling the Selective Ser vice problem. Mrs. Henry Taylor returned Tu esday from Portland where she was with her daughter, Linda Taylor fol lowing the second operation the lat ter underwent for an injured hip sustained in an automobile accident more than a year ago. Linda ia at the St. Vincent's hospital. The sec ond operation was more severe than the first, if anything, Mrs. Taylor said. V) O O n