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Washington, D. C, May 21. Camp
Adair, the new cantonment under
construction in the Corvallis-Al-bany-Monmouth
area, is far from
satisfactory to 100 or more farmers
whose lands are being taken by the
war department. The farmers, who
have been holding meetings and
sending complaints to the national
capital, explain they are for any
thing that will win the war, but
they protest at the way they are
being treated by the war depart
ment. From these petitions it ap
pears that the farmers are being
told what appraisal is made on their
farms and that they are (or some
of them) ordered to leave their land
on a few days' notice, or immediate-
ly.
Many of the farms are in the fin
est farming section of Willamette
valley and have been in cultivation
almost a century. Farmers think
they should know what the govern
ment intends paying, and when. In
asmuch as they must seek homes
elsewhere, in strange surroundings,
they must have money to purchase
a place, or at least make a down
payment. Those who have cattle or
sheep say they cannot pull up stakes
and move away without sufficient
time to make arrangements for their
livestock. War department simply
says the land is needed for the can
tonmnt; that money will be paid in
due time, but they refuse to promise
any extended notice of when the land
must be surrendered.
In late summer the 104th division
will be organized and located at
Camp Adair, according to announce
ment by the war department. Over
the many thousand acres in the can
tonment property troops will be
trained in anticipation for overseas
service.
Linn county is also registering a
kick. War department plans acquir
ing a great acreage near Halsey
which will embrace many fine farms
and homes. The people in the region
do not want to move. The area is
to be used as a target range.
At Camp Adair the mail will be
carried through Albany to Corvallis
because, it is explained by the postal
department, Corvallis has facilities
and is a larger town. (Albany and
Corvallis have practically the same
population except when students are
at state college). The postmaster
will not gain at Corvallis; soldier
mail is free and therefore no allow
ance is made for cancellations.
Army is in the market for hun
dreds of horses for the cavalry to
be used on the Oregon coast. Con
trary to popular impression the
horse has not been eliminated from
the cavalry, which is not all mech
anized. Cavalry is needed in the Ore
gon coast range, on cut-over tim
berlands and in the forests. Horses
can maneuver in that country with
greater expedition than tanks and
trucks; they can go where it would
be impossible for the machines to
operate. From Curry to Clatsop
counties detachments of horse cav
alry will be spread supplementing
existing forces.
Gold Beach, at the mouth of the
Rogue river, has asked for an army
air base but for the present, at least,
nothing will be done.
War Production board is interest
ed in the lime deposits of Wallowa
and Baker counties (lime plays an
important part in a number of ma
terials needed for war). There is
talk of locating a war industry in
Grant county adjacent to the chro
mite deposits in the John Day coun-
try, and transporting lime to the
site. Nothing definite as to this, but
it is in the conversation stage.
If the powder plant discussed by
the war department is located in
the northwest it may be in the vi
cinity of Ontario or the Snake river,
near Lewiston. There are only a few
places where sufficient water is av
ailable, say the army men, and the
best of all is at The Dalles. How
ever, they add, The Dalles is too
close to the ocean and the policy is
to push all new industries inland at
least 200 miles, if possible. No pow
der plant will be built, however, un
less WPB decides that existing
plants are insufficient. One story
is that the plants now operating
have capacity to provides all the
propellants required for a global
war.
For several years growers of bent
grass in Clatsop county have been
urging an appropriation which would
permit department of agriculture
scientists to study grasses to deter
mine which are best for certain lo
calities. Always the request has
been kicked out the window be
cause bent grass is used on golf
courses and was regarded as recre
ational. In the new appropriation
a substantial sum is allowed for
grass experimentation as a war mea
sure. New diversion .air fields re
quire a grass that will stand up
where runways are not paved. Bent
grass will hold the soil from blow
ing and afford a cushion for landing
planes. As airfields are scattered
all over Oregon, different grasses
are required, and to find out which
is best for each climate the experi
ments will be made.
Scott McMurdo Takes
Pre-Medics Exam
Oregon State College, Corvallis,
May 21. Scott H. McMurdo of
Heppner, junior in science at Oregon
State college, is one of 19 pre-med-ical
students who took the national
aptitude test prescribed by the as
sociation of American Medical col
leges as a part of the regular re
quirements for admission to any
first class medical school in the
United States. The same test is
given throughout the country or.
the same day and is intended to in
dicate a student's general fitness for
a medical career.
McMurdo has been a member of
the pre-medics club which has been
in existence at Oregon State col
lege since 1932. Enrollment in pre
medical work here has ranged be
tween 75 and 100 students annually
since that time.
Those completing the course this
year will enter the University of
Oregon Medical school in Portland,
St. Louis University Medical school,
and Northwestern University Medi
cal school.
McMurdo, who is a member of
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, plans
to apply for admission to the medi
cal school with the class which starts
in 1943.
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Ed Chinn, Prop.
Oregon 4-H Girl
Early Winner in
Anual Contests
Oregon's first major winning for
the year in the 4-H club field has
just been announced by the national
committee on boys' and girls' club
work. Harriet Phyllis Kempston of
Lane county has placed in the blue
award group in the western exten
sion section in the farm accounting
record contest. Her achievement
entitles her to a trip to the twenty
first national 4-H club conests this
fall.
Oregon is again paricipating in a
of such national contests, according
to H. C. Seymour, state 4-H club
leader. Most of these contests have
been given a wartime emphasis this
year.
The national canning contest, for
example, is aimed at stimulating
even a greater preservation of food
by 4-H canning clubs than the 11
million jars of food preserved by
250,000 4-H girls last year. State and
national awards in excess of $600,000
have been provided by Mrs. Ruth
Kerr, glass jar executive, for this
year's contests. National winners
will receive $200 college scholar
ships. The national girls' record contest
is aimed at training girls for the
best use of material and financial
resources to make satisfying and
happy homes, partcularly during the
days of wartime stress. Montgomery
Ward and company is supplying
scholarships and other awards for
this contest.
Emphasis on greater use of elec
tricity on farms to replace a short
age of labor and to increase pro
duction is part of the purpose of this
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Heppner Gazette Times, May 21,1 942 3
Lumber Freezing
Cause of Concern
Much local speculation as to the
scope and intensity of the recent
lumber freezing order is being wit
nessed. This order has directly affected
thirty or more farmers in the coun
ty who were planning on building
farm storage facilities as well as all
those interested in the construction
being planned by the Morrow Coun
ty Grain Growers.
We all have a reason for being
concerned over this order, states C.
D. Conrad, secretary of the Morrow
County USDA War board, because
we will have a million bushels or
more of wheat which will have to
be piled on the ground if materials
are not available for building addi
tional storage facilites.
Some local speculators have heard
that the freezing order will be
changed shortly to release enough of
the lower grade of lumber to take
care of all farm storage needs but
Conrad adds that very little infor
mation has been received officially
other than all stocks of lumber in
wholesale hands are frozen. Retail
ers are still permitted to sell any
lumber they have but the stocks in
the hands of retailers are not suf
ficient to even make a start on the
building, which of necessity must
be completed in the county within
the next month.
year's rural electrification contest
sponsored by the Westinghous
company under the supervision of
the extension service. Awards be
gin with county winners and end
with the presentation of six scholar
ships of $200 each to those who rank
highest nationally.
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It is expected that the nail situa
tion will be relieved shortly and
word has been received from J. Fred
Bergesch, priority manager for this
district, that priorities are not need
ed for the purchase of nails but that
some retailers are asking for prior
ities and they have a right to de
mand them if they wish; however,
Bergesch added that priorities will
be of no value to retailers in re
plenishing their nail supply and that
any priority rating that a farmer
may have requires the retailer to
sell nails if he has them in stock.
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