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Tj O c n -3 rrj d o r o o H O U jl : O U tl H O O O VI ;r? w rn O . t: r tmtB A Week of the War (Summary of information on the important developments of the week made available by official sources through 5 p.m., EWT, Monday, May 18.) The White House reported the na tion's vast cargo ship construction program is on schedule and "the American people can be assured that -the shipyards will do the job assign ed to them." The statement said shipyards delivered 120 new vessels in the first 130 days of this year, 20 percent more than were built in all of 1941, and the production peak has not yet been reached, American shipyards are building merchant vessels faster than ever before in the history of the world, the White House said Cargo ships are being built in less than one-half the time originally allotted "The progress made thus far is easing our shipping problem, but there will be a shortage of ships until sinkings throughout the world are brought under better control and the ship building program gets into full pro duction," the statement said. Army-Navy War Review A joint Army-Navy communique reviewed the progress of the war to date. The communique said that during a period of preparation for offensive action, a "number of suc cessful thrusts" at the Japanese had worked a "lasting effect upon the strategic situation." Among such strokes it listed the Naval raids on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Wake Island, Marcus Island, and the bombing of Japan itself. It included also the destruction of Japanese ships in the battles of the Coral Sea and Macassar Straits, the accom plishments of American submarines in the Far Pacific and the numerous raids by American planes based on Australia. The joint communique also re ported that during the first three weeks of the war, about 600,000 Am erican troops moved to battle sta tions, many of them overseas. Uni fied command is now in effect in ev ery theater of war. The defense of the Philippines, the communique said, "demonstrated the comparative weakness of the Japanese as an in dividual fighter," a factor which "alone forebodes disaster for the en emy Japanese in the future when the battle is met on terms approach- ing equality." Cost of Living The Office of Price Administra tion said the general ceiling on re Continued on Page Four First Aid Instructors' Course Set June 8-1 3 The Morrow county chapter of the Red Cross will sponsor an in structors' course in first aid to be given in Heppner, June 8-13, by a qualified instructor sent from San Francisco, at no cost to the local chapter. Anyone desiring to take this course must present the following require ments: Completion of the advanced first aid course and willingness to give first aid instruction if called upon to do so. Instructors who wsh to renew their credentials, or to take the course as a refresher class are eligible. Those wishing to take the class beginning Monday, June 8, and con tinuing for five consecutive nights will please sign up with Rose Leib brand at Humphreys Drug store. The Morrow county chapter has been assigned 200 comfort kits for the boys in the armed services, Miss Leibbrand reported. The khaki and tape will be supplied by the San Francisco office and the contents will cost about one dollar. At present the war department needs 300,000 kits from the U. S. as a whole. The contents of the kit, which are not supplied the men except in this manner, include a small soap box and soap, deck of cards, package of cigarettes, shoe polishing cloth, pen cil, package of envelopes and paper, chewing gum, pair of shoe laces, water proof match box, razor blades pocket size book, sewing case and buttons. These comfort kits will be made as soon as possible and letters have been sent to the various units in the county concerning the production of the kits. Volume 59, Number 8 Snell, Wallace, Stockman, Pierce Are Voters' Choice Johnson, McNamer Get Bid for Judge and Commissioner "As Morrow county goes, so goes Oregon" again held true in last Fri day's primary balloting. With Snell and Wallace their parties' choice for the fall governorship race, both held substantial leads in this county. The vote: Snell 416, Sprague 291; Wallace 120, Latourette 68. Morrow county also upheld the district's selection for state and na tional representatives. McNary beat Geary 583-106 here in the largest landslide recorded to help his over whelming endorsement for the GOP U. S. senatorial nomination. Stockman 452, Klemme 186; and Pierce 200, Mack 51, is the way Mor row county republicans and demo crats voted respectively for the na tional congress seat Heading interest in local races was the republican judgeship contest in which Johnson, the incumbent, beat Peck, 387-299. Secondly was the re publican commissioner contest in which McNamer beat Ferguson 346 330. Briggs took the nod over Dix for treasurer in the republican ranks, 523-166. In the one non-partisan contest for supreme court judge, Brand re ceived 651 votes to 248 for Ashurst. Work of local boards was compli cated by a total of 183 write-ins. Only announced write-in candidate, Henry Peterson for state represen tative received a- total of 154 votes from his republican partisans here, and is expected to have the second nomination for this position from his party. Giles French is the other re publican nominee, while Henry Ai ken received the endorsement of the democrats. Johnson, polling 59 dem ocratic write-in votes to 27 for Peck, received democratic endorsement for judge, along with the republican. A total republican vote of 717 was cast, representing 58 percent of the registered voters, and 267 democrats visited the polls for a 37 percent representation of the total number of registered voters. The average vote cast in this county was approximate ly 45 per cent. WPB BUILDING RULING GIVEN The county USDA War Board has been designated to handle applica tions for construction of farm build ings and agricultural processing plants otherwise prohibited by the War Production board's recent buil ding conservation order, Henry Ba ker, USDA War board chairman, announced yesterday. To conserve war materials, the WPB has restrcted the use of ma terials for construction which ex ceeds certain definite limits, the chairman pointed, out. Special WPB authorization is necessary before construction can be started, with the following exceptions: Farm residences costing less than $500. Farm buildings, fences, irrigation and drainage structures costing less than $1000. Storage, processing, marketing or other off-farm facilities for fan.: products costing less than $5000. The order also does not affect con struction started before April 9, 1942, Continued on Page Five PAUL DOOLITTLE ENLISTS Paul Doolittle enlisted in the navy at Pendleton on Wednesday last week, and reported to Portland on Saturday, from where he was sent to San Diego for training. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Doo little, and a student at Oregon State college. Abstract of Morrow County Primary Vote REPUBLICAN ll gc g I I eg gjo B ij a 3 j g K in p U. S. SENATOR ) Geary 0 6 1 7 3 4 12 6 6 12 28 0 21 106 McNary 10 41 33 14 13 33 92 14 17 66 148 11 91 583 REP. IN CONGRESS Klemme 1 12 16 4 2 6 28 5 9 17 44 7 35 186 Stockman 9 33 16 16 11 22 72 12 13 5S 121 3 66 452 GOVERNOR Snell 5 29 17 10 15 35 65 11 19 49 89 2 70 416 Sprague 4 19 18 11 1 4 41 10 4 28 96 9 46 291 SEC. OF STATE Farrell 8 36 31 15 10 28 92 13 20 70 157 7 91 578 LABOR COMMIS. Kimsey 6 29 23 12 10 19 78 11 20 57 123 7 75 470 STATE SENATOR Ellis 10 37 28 13 11 26 89 16 21 61 126 6 73 517 STATE REP. French 8 34 28 9 7 20 67 12 20 59 126 6 83 479 Peterson 2 0 4 12 4 10 7 0 0 13 66 5 31 154 COUNTY JUDGE Johnson 3 27 30 15 7 11 78 14 7 28 100 5 62 387 Peck 7 18 3 4 9 28 26 6 15 50 81 5 47 299 COMMISSIONER Ferguson 5 24 17 7 8 23 37 7 7 40 96 1 58 330 McNamer 5 18 17 14 7 16 62 7 15 34 86 10 55 346 TREASURER Briggs 9 30 32 18 13 34 86 15 14 64 123 10 75 523 Dix 1 12 1 2 3 5 20 2 9 10 61 1 39 166 DEMOCRATIC U. S. SENATOR I I Milne 2 11 3 2 0 4 9 5 0 1 16 1 16 70 Whitbeck 4 22 3 9 6 5 16 5 3 13 19 1 13 119 REP. IN CONGRESS Mack 4 11 050343 1 5 10 05 51 Pierce 4 35 6 10 6 9 27 8 1 18 38 5 33 200 GOVERNOR Fretvvell 3 11 0000240 0312 26 Latourette 1 11 1 3 3 2 4 3 2 6 21 0 11 68 Wallace :. 4 20 5 8 3 7 18 31 1 9 19 2 21 120 SEC. OF STATE I Lambert 8 36 6 9 5 8 20 6 2 15 32 4 27 178 LABOR COMMIS. Hyde 7 26 5 8 5 10 19 8 2 13 29 4 27 163 STATE REP. Aiken 7 36 5 12 5 10 22 7 3 18 32 1 30 188 ASSESSOR ! Wells 8 38 5 15 6 13 29 10 3 19 34 4 38 222 SURVEYOR Tamblyn . 7 23 3 8 4 8 24 7 2 151 28 0 31 160 PAUL BROWN IS MISSING IN ACTION Paul C. Brown is the first Hepp ner bey to be reported missing in action. Official word from the war department received this morning by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris P. Brown, said that Paul's where abouts had not been determined since surrender of the Philippines, where he was last known to have seen service. The communication stated fur ther that it was hoped the Jap anese government would soon give a list of American prisoners thru Geneva, but until that time no means may be had of knowing whether the young man were tak en prisoner. Paul is the second Morrow coun ty boy to have been reported missing, the first, Clayton Davis who enlisted while residing at Lexington was reported missing following the Battle of the Java Sea. City Plunge to Open June 1, Expected Heppner's municipal plunge will open sometime about the first of June, according to present plans, announced Dr. L. D. Tibbies, chair mon of the council's swimming pool committee, this morning. Harold Buhman, qualified Red Cross life-saver and swimming in structor, has been retained to man age the pool for the season. NAMED PRINCESS Eastern Oregon College of Educa tion, La Grande, May 20. Kathryn Parker, Heppner, has been selected as one of the six princesses to at tend the queen of Evensong in the annual Evensong program which will be held on the grand stairway of the college Thursday evening, May 28, beginning at 8:15 o'clock. FRANK ALFRED PROMOTED Word just received by Heppner friends announced the promotion of Frank C. Alfred, Morrow county dis trict attorney on leave with the arm ed forces, has been promoted to the rank of captain. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 21, 1942 GAS RATIONING SIGNUP MAY 28-9 The Office of Price Administra tion has requested that registration for gasoline rationing be administer ed through the public elementary schools just as was registration for sugar rationing. Registration for gasoline ration ing will be held May 28, 29, 30. People are urged to register on the 28th and 29th if possible. Fewer registration sites for gaso line have been set up for Morrow county than were used for the su gar registration but these have been distributed so that no one will have to travel a great distance in order to register. People may register at any one of the centers, but they are requested to register at the cen ter nearest their homes. Registration centers and administrators for Mor row county are as follows: Heppner, A. H. Blankenship; Lena, Mrs. Kathleen Hisler; Willow Way, School Dist. No. 3, Mrs. A. T. Har ris; Morgan, Mrs. Echo Palmateer; Rhea Creek, School Dist. No. 6, Mrs. Pearl Wright; Cecil, Mrs. Beth Hynd; Irrigon, Ladd Sherman; Lex ington, T. R. Burton; Boardman, Bob Harwood; Pine City and Alpine, Mrs. Faye Finch; Eight Mile (Liberty, Hail Ridge), Mrs. Edith Batty; lone, Mrs. Rachel Dick; Gooseberry, Raymond Lundell; Hardman, Mrs. Iris Bran non; School Dist. No. 42, Mrs. Betty Estberg; School Dist. No. 59, Mrs. Margaret Cason. 2 TRUE BILLS RETURNED Grand jury for the June term of circuit court returned two true bills and one not true bill after deliber ating at the courthouse Monday. Grand jurors were Ralph I Thomp son, Noah E. Pettyjohn, Cornett Green, Else M. Petersen, Cecil Thorne, W. T. Gerard and Herman J. Green. PURCIIASE WAR BOND The seventh and eighth grades of the Lexington schools recently pur chased an $18.75 war bond. With Graduation Tomorrow Evening Dr. Crane Relieves Dr. Giersbach as Exercise Speaker Climax of a busy week of school closing activities comes tomorrow evening with graduating exercises for 27 high school seniors. Last Fridy evening the public re ceived a treat at the annual free band concert. Saturday evening the junior-senior banquet followed by junior prom were highlights. Today students are finishing their exam inations, and tomorrow Heppner and lone high schools will join in an all school picnic. Last minute word from Dr. Wal ter G. Giersbach, president of Pa cific university, told of his inability to deliver the commencement ad dress as announced last week, and his place will be filled by Dr. Ger trude Boyd Crane, dean of women at Pacific. Prelude, "Love Theme from Ro meo and Juliet," Tschaikowsky, will be played at the piano by Jean Tur ner. Norbert E. Peavy will play the processional, "Pomp and Circum stance March," Adolph Schmidt. Rev. S. D. Spiesz will pronounce invoca tion, and Lucille Barlow will sing "I Love Life," Irwin M. Cassel, pre ceding the address. Following the address will be a vocal trio, "Ride Out on Wings of Song," J. W. Haywood and W. Ber wald, by Lucille Barlow, Dorotha Wilson and Peg Tamblyn; presenta tion of Jane Mitchell trophy, by Jane Boyer; presentation of honor plaque, by Lyle Swenson, high school principal; presentation of Norton Winnard cup, representative of Class of 1918; presentation of Class of 1942, Alden II. Blankenship, superintendent of schools; presenta tion of diplomas, Charles W. Barlow, chairman of school board. The class roll includes Lucille Bar low, Merle Burkenbine, Jackson Cantwell, Mildred Clary, Calvin Crawford, George Davidson, Frances Egan, Joe Farley, Dick Ferguson, Kay Ferguson, Dorothy Green, Eli zabeth Healy, Helen Healy, Wanda Howell, Wilm'a Hudson, Ellen Hugh es, Constance Instone, Bill Padberg, Bob Pinckney, Betty Rood, Bill Scrivner, John Skuzcski, Claude Snow, Tom Starkey, Margaret Tam blyn, Ralph Taylor and Birdine Vance. The class motto is "Sail On Tho the Sea of Life May Be Rough; the class Colors, lavendar and silver, and, flower, lilac. Rose Leibbrand Gets State BPW Office Rose Leibbrand was elected first vice-president of the Oregon State Federation of B. P. W. clubs at the state convention held at Roseburg, May 16-17. She previously held the office of eastern Oregon district chairman. This is the first time an eastern Oregon district club has been honored .with an administrative officer. Florence Bergstrom, president of the local group, attended the state convention and gave the annual re port of the year's activities. She received special commendation for increaing membership in the Hepp ner club 200 per cent. MISS ZINTER WEDS Miss Irene Zinter was married to Echo B. Neal, instructor in fleet landing force at San Diego, in a ceremony performed at Yuma, Ari zona on April 16, Rev. Raymond C. Acheson officiating, according to announcement made by the bride's mother. Mrs. Neal is manager of Morrow County Credit bureau. She and her mother returned to Heppner following the ceremony, and a trip which included visits to Mexico and points in California. CI o O n ' i
