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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
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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
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! 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.
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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.
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