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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.
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