Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1942)
Heppner Gazette Times, May 14, 1942 3 at"ATHE "' - Sip Washington, D. C, May 14. Addi tional air fields are to be sprinkled over Oregon as the defense program moves forward. They will be east and west, north and south and on the high desert of central Oregon. Plans have been made and sites se lected but all depends on the passage by congress of an appropriation bill asking for 200 million dollars. This sum will not be spent in Oregon, but a large chunk of it will. Existing facilities are to be enlarg ed and runways provided at least one mile in length it requires that distance for a heavy bomber to leave the ground. Many of the fields will have accommodations for ground crews to service army planes, but for general repair they will be re conditioned at the great sprawling depot seven miles from Spokane, where civilian mechanics will do the work. No political influence will alter the program; officials have carefully selected the places where the devel opments are proposed and the se lections have been based on strategy and military importance. At a rough guess about $5,000,000 will be spent on the air fields. A few of the fields will be the home for a dozen planes with accommodations for fli ers and ground crew. No breakdown has been announced as to where the fields will be; that for the time being is a military secret. After following a policy of se crecy since Pearl Harbor, army and navy have decided to publish cas ualty lists. Heretofore the next of kin has been notified and local pa pers could announce the death if they learned of it from relatives. There Was no general publication of any list. The public resented this se crecy, the policy being adopted on the theory that a list of casualties would weaken morale. Oregon has already lost a number of its boys, but there has been no comprehen sive list. Another matter which the public protests is that the selectees have slipped away to reception centers without any fuss or feathers as though it was a disgrace to fight for the United States. In the first world war the draftees marched through the streets wih music, led by he mayor or some like official, with crowds on sidewalks cheering and waving flags. There has been none of this in the present war, although Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson has decided that some demonstra tion would be proper. Earl Snell, Oregon secretary of state, in Washington recently, took up the proposed gasoline rationing with the gasoline administrator. The Oregon picture was presentad by Snell and Senator McNary, and the administrator agreed that since Ore gon is receiving an ample supply by truck and tank car more gasoline arriving than was being consumed the rationing program would not be extended to Oregon. At the same time the master of Idaho State Grange telegraphed McNary to see that the barge service on the Colum bia be not interrupted. The grange official declared that if the barges were stopped it would work a gen uine hardship on Idaho farmers, many of whom receive their gaso line from California via the Colum bia river. There will be no surplus of eggs in Oregon this year. Lend-lease of ficials are trying to fill an order for 80 million pounds of powdered eggs, or 240 million dozen, for the Russians. This is in addition to the demand for powdered eggs from the British. The price to be paid for lend-lease eggs will be about 35 cents a dozen. Government has been advised that there are about 200 plants in Oregon which can dehydrate fruit and veg etables. With the shortage of tin, canning will be a problem and it is being suggested that as much food as possible be dehydrated. The nam es and locations of these Oregon plants have been submitted to the proper authorities, together with the daily tonnage capacity. Also sub mitted is a list of the fruits and vegetables grown in Oregon that can be processed by this method. Unless someone upsets the apple cart The Dalles will have two in dustrial plants; they may have been officially announced by the time this item appears. One is to be a stainless steel plant and the other a chemical plant. Other sections of the northwest have been trying to pull these industries for themselves and a hard drag has been made by Montana. La Grande also is being considered for a plant of some de scription, but those who are familiar with the situation refuse to discuss it, explainng that a tip-off would start other communities after it An educational order has been given to a Portland concern to man ufacture gas masks for the civilian population. Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Ferguson ar rived last Friday from their home at Gold Beach to visit relatives and friends. Mr. Ferguson recently pur chased a sheep ranch near Myrtle Point, where they expect to move in the fall. Coccidiosis Control Outlined in Bulletin A late practical guide to the con trol of coccidiosis in chickens has just been issued by the agricultural experiment station at O. S. C. as sta tion bulletin 445. The Oregon sta tion has for many years been a cen ter of important research on this most widespread of all parasitic dis eases of chickens. The work, begun by the late Dr. W. T. Johnson, is now being carried on by Dr. E. M. Dickinson, author of the new bul letin. The idea that it would be desirable to have chickens raised absolutely free from coccidia infection is re jected in this bulletin, which points out that protection or resistance against the parasite develops follow ing a limited infection. The amount of infection necessary to produce protection varies among the seven different species of coccidia para- sues. Preliminary trials on methods of artificially immunizing chickens aganst the more common species are still in progress at the station. A system of management and sanita tion, based on knowledge of the parasite, is recommended by Dr. Dickinson as the most practical con trol known at this time. Use G-T want ads to dispose of your surplus stock. Ue Ve come a long vay in Electric Bates, too! 15.38 5.10 A PRICE OF 100 KWH OF PP&L ELECTRICITY IN HEPPNER HOMES 4.97 4.54 4.01 I 1926 1928 1931 1936 v 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 till 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 I lilli? VxZU HIE GHD O OiliV UmiUi) I trip i r i w w i r v v i i rww vv j w v m