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r A Heppner Gazette Times, May 21, 1942 Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER (JAZETTE. Established March 30, 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES, Established November 18, 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 16. 19U Published every Thursday morning by CBAWFOBD PTTBLISHINO COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $2.50 Two Years 4.50 Three Years 6.00 Six Months 1.25 Three Months 65 Single Copies 05 Official Paper for Morrow County The American Way Voters of Oregon have just emerg ed from one of the highest exempli fications of American freedom the right of exercising a free and un trammeled privilege to vote at the polls for the candidate of their choice. Overshadowed by the all-out war in which the country is now engaged, Friday's election lacked much of the flare and fanfare that go with nor mal elections. But the results ex press the will of the majority of those who voted, and there were no armed guards at the polls to remind one that he must vote one way, or else a custom that has been em ployed in conducting plebiscites by other nations who even now would institute the practice in America. Most important in the voting was selection of party nominees who will head their respective tickets in the governorship race in November. Eastern Oregon, long accustomed to victories of her native son, Earl Snell, again showed confidence in his ability by leading the march for his candidacy on the republican ballot. Mr. Snell has been placed a high example by the man he left at the post, Governor Charles A. Spra gue, who has kept Oregon to the front in all war efforts, and other wise brought honor to the state's high office. To the credit of each candidate is the high type of cam paign, marked on either side by de termination that Oregon shall con tinue to lead, no matter who next presides at the state house. In the democratic ranks, also, a high calibre man was nominated. Ijew A. Wallace has served the state in various capacities, and has been a good servant. In the campaign months ahead, it it to be hoped that determination ot steadfast service will be the weigh ing factor in the balances, and that sober judgment will determine the outcome. In such case, we all will say, in the true American way, may the best man win. GIVEN FAUEWELL PARTY Mrs. L. B. Scrivner was honoree for a farewell party at the home of Mrs E. R. Huston Monday after noon, with Mrs. Alex Green as co hostess. Mrs, Scrivner will leave for the farm home immcdately upon the closing of school. Besides the hon oree and hostess, those present were Mrs. Grace Hughes, Mrs. Millie Doo little, Mrs. Casha Shaw, Mrs. Emma Drake, Mrs Coramae Ferguson, Miss Leta Humphreys, Mrs. Emma Jones, Mrs. Ollie Scrivner, Mrs. Nellie Ak ers, Mrs. Elma Hiatt, Mrs. Cora Crawford, Mrs. Blanche Barlow, Mrs. Marvel Jones, Mrs. Gertrude Par ker, Mrs. Bertha Johnson, Mrs. Ver na Hayes. APPRECIATION I extend my sincere thanks to the people of this county for the support given me last Friday at the primary election. The good words and work of many friends is thor oughly appreciated. BERT JOHNSON. Our Job Is to Save Dollars Buy XAnr RaiiWc Every Pay Day Week of the War continued from nrst page tail prices, now in effect, is ex pected to cut the cost of living by IV2 percent. The Labor Department reported that by mid-April, famil ies of wage earners and lower-salaried workers to spend $1.17 to buy the same things for which they spent $1 before August 1939. Price Administrator Henderson said the American standard of liv ing will be reduced to the depression-bottom level by the end of 1943. Civilian purchasing power will be about three times the 1932 figure, while available consumer goods will decrease 24 percent during 1942. To aid the anti-inflation program, rep resentatives of the 550,000 shipyard workers in the nation's private ship yards agreed to relinquish approx imately $80 million in wage increases, the WPB reported. Rationing The OPA announced gasoline card rationing in Oregon and Washington will begin June 1 and contiue until July 1, when a coupon rationing plan will be placed in effect. The WPB restricted deliveries of fuel oil and gasoline to the two west coast states to 50 percent of normal de liveries, effective immediately for oil and June 1 for gasoline. Petro leum Coordinator Ickes said there is no immediate need of curtailing deliveries of petroleum products elsewhere in the country. The OPA removed the 50-mile zone west of the East coast rationing area where motorists from the rationed area were to have been required to pre sent cards for gasoline. Local ration boards will be direct ed to open their records to public inspection as soon as practicable, the OPA announced. The agency also said gasoline dealers will be respon sible for checking ration cards to determine whether they have en ough units to cover purchases, to see that the descriptions on them apply to the cars for which they are pre sented, and to destroy or mark used ration card units. Commerce Secre tary Jones announced the Recon struction Finance Corporation will make $150 million available for pur chase of tires held by consumers. The OPA authorized manufacturers to ship adult's bicycles to distribu tors and said it will begin bicycle rationing in about three weeks. Civilian Supply The WPB notified stove manufac turers whose sales for the year end ed June 30, 1941, totaled more than $2 million, as well as those in any of 39 "labor shortage areas," that they cannot produce domestic cooking and heating stoves after July 31. Manufacturers authorized to produce stoves were limited to certain ap proved types and to monthly iron and steel use of 70 percent of the average they used in the year ended June 30, 1941. New installations of air conditioning and commercial re frigeration equipment were banned, except for war and essential civilian requirements. Anti-freeze produc tion was limited to 50 percent of 1941 output. Manufacture of color ed sheets must cease July 1. The Office for Emergency Man agement said an average of Zxk per cent of all American motorists are wearing irreplaceable rubber from their tires each month. To date about 5 percent of U. S. automobiles are laid up for lack of tires, OEM reported. The office also said 20 mil lion of the 28 million passenger cars will go off the roads within 12 to 15 months unless car pooling can be made effective on a nation-wide scale. The WPB said the whole hearted response of the American people to the wastepaper salvage campaign has brought an unusual surplus of the material. The Board asked continued collection, however, to meet large requirements for the manufacture of paper-board con tainers. Eastern Military Area Eastern Defense Commander Drum proclaimed all East coast states from Maine to Florida to be the Eastern mititary area primarily to enforce effectively the dimout restrictions to safeguard shipping. The procla mation said the protection of United Nations commerce from enemy at tack involved the effective control of artificial lighting along the At lantic and Gulf coasts for a "rea sonable distance inland." The Armed Forces President Roosevelt said American Women Workers in Employment' Set-Up Statewide plans to use the exten sive organizations which conducted the house-to-house women's occu pational census, first of its kind ever made in the United States, as a farm labor recruitment body cooperating with area offices of the United States employment service, were announced today by Mrs. Lucy Rod gers, Morrow county chairman of the Oregon Board for Mobilization of Women. Mobilization chairmen will be in vited to attend county meetings with the agricultural labor committee which consists of, for souhern Mor row, Dave Hynd, J. J. Wightman, Henry Smouse, Henry Baker and E. H. Miller; northern, Fred Houghton, Jack Gorham, Minnie McFarland, W. A. Baker, Frank Frederickson and Hugh Grimm. It is hoped by this means to make effective use of the previous census, said Mrs. Rodgers. The "acid" test of the new plan is expected to come in the next week or two when more than 50,000 men, women and chil dren, mostly in family groups will go into western Oregon fields to har vest what is expected to be one of the largest berry crops in recent years. - FORMER TEACHER ILL Friends here have received word of the serious illness of Winifred Winnard, former teacher in the lo cal schools when H. H. Hoffman was superintendent, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Fred Fleet, in Klamath Falls. Miss Winnard was recently forced1 to resign a position held in Commerce high school in Portland, because of ill health. STAR MEETS TOMORROW Ruth chapter 32, Order of Eastern Star, will have a social evening to morrow, May 22, at Masonic hall. The meeting will honor Grand Electa Hattie Wightman, and refreshments will be served. Ella Benge, worthy matron urges attendance of all mem bers. forces are getting into the world fight more and more, and in new places all of the time. He said the increasingly far-flung fight calls for increasing numbers of transport planes to enable the Army and Na vy to get to the rapidly expanding battlefronts. The War Department said a substantial proportion of av ailable flight equipment of domestic airlines will be transferred outright to the Army air forces.' The airlines will also convert approximately 70 ships into cargo carriers, which they will operte for the air service com mand. The House passed and sent to conference a bill increasing the monthly pay of enlisted men in the armed forces. The House-approved bill would increase the pay of pri vates and apprentice seamen from $21 to $50 a month; the Senate-approved bill provides for an increase to $42. War Secretary Stimson said Army field maneuvers will be. held from the last week in May through the first week in November in the South and Southwest. The Army said 1,500 volunteer officer candidates will be accepted each month under its plan to' enroll class 3-A registrants for training in Officer Candidate Schools, with allotments for each area bas ed on the number of such regis trants in the area. SS Director Her shey said the U. S. may have 10 million men under arms by late 1943 or by 1944. He said men in ducted through Selective Service after June 15 will be granted 14 days for concluding personal affairs be fore being assigned to active duty. Transportation and meals incidental to induction precedures will be at government expense, he said. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Congress authorized establishment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps to the limit of 150,000 mem bers, and the President directed Sec retary Stimson to limit initial mob ilizaton to 25,000. Mrs. William P. Hobby of the Army Bureau of Pub lic Relation was named WAAC Di rector. Mrs. Hobby said WAAC members will be assigned 62 differ ent kinds of jobs and will replace enlisted men who are now perform ing noncombatant duties. The first class of 450 officer candidates will be trained at Fort Dea Moines, la. From where Whenever I hear about anybody having a big family I think of Dad and Ma Hoskins. The Hoskins' had thirteen children. They weren't a bad bunch of kids, by and large but it seemed one or the other of them would always be having a fuss with the neigh bors, or would break a window playing baseball, or some other kid trick. Kept Dad and Ma mighty busy all the time. One day Dad got a bright idea. He called the whole family to gether for a special meeting at the dinner table. He told them he was tired of checking up on them all the time. He said he thought they were old enough now to check up on them selves. The older children would watch the younger ones. They would have meetings every so often and hand out rewards or punishments. Well, it was a crazy idea but the kids liked it and they started be having better than they ever had before. The idea worked and Dad finally did get a little time for himself. No. 41 of a Series Copyright, 1942, Brewing Industry Foundation (PAID ADVERTISEMENT) LOCAL ITEMS . . . Kathryn Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Parker, visited at the home of her parents over the week end. She was accompanied by her roommate, Daphne Pratt of En terprise. Both girls are seniors at E. O. C. E. at La Grande and are graduating on May 29. Miss Parker will teach at Myrtle Point this com ing year. Jay Harris arrived this week to take the position of head brakeman on the local branch railroad. He held the same position for a couple of years about twenty years ago, and has been enjoying renewing old ac quaintances. He expects his family about June 1, when they will make their home in the Jones apartments. Basil and Marvin Brookhouser arrived in Heppner Tuesday evening to visit friends and relatives until today when they are returning to their home at South Tacoma, Wash. Their father, W. T. Brookhouser, former painter and paperhanger here, is also located there. Mrs. H. D. McCurdy returned home last Friday from a month's visit in California with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gilman, near the Mexican border, and son, Harlan, Jr., station ed at Camp Roberts. She reports a very enjoyable trip. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Howell are in Portland this week attending ses sions of state Odd Fellow and Re bekah conventions in Portland this week as delegates from the local lodges. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Akers and daughter, Alma Gilliam, are in the city to attend graduation exercises for granddaughter and niece, Miss Lucille Barlow, member of the class of 1942, H. H. S. Mrs. James Leach of Corvallis vis ited over the week end here with her mother, Mrs. Letha Archer. Mr. Leach is employed in the shipyards at Portland, and Mrs. Leach plan ned to visit him on her way home. Cornett Green is driving to Pal ouse, Wash., today in company with C. C. Hall of Portland, on business for Balfour -Guthrie company. Mr. Hall is millwright for the company. Week end visitors at the Henry Taylor home were Mr. and Mrs. George Baxter and baby, and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Taylor of Bremer ton, Wash. Merritt Gray was treated by a local physician Monday for a broken hand received when a plow he was loading on to a truck slipped and caught the member. Mr. and Mrs. Norton King re turned to their home at Po:-tland Monday after spending several days I sit . . li Joe Marsh I mention this story about Dad Hoskins because it's something like what I understand the beer industry is doing to regulate itself. As I see it, most of the beer in dustry behaves itself perfectly all right . . . but every now and then, I guess, a retailer comes along who runs a place that isn't up to scratch . . . sort of like a wayward kid. So like Dad Hoskins' family, the brewers and beer distributors have united together in an indus try self -regulation program to help the proper authorities "clean up or close up" offending retail places. The brewers, who want to pro tect beer's good name, cooperate wisely with the authorities who enforce the laws. From where I sit, that's a fine thing for the brewers to do . . . particularly when you realize that after all they're really not rcsp' sible for retailing conditions. here with relatives and friends A. T. King and Everett King of Portland were over Sunday guests at the home of the former's daugh ter, Mrs J. V. Crawford. D. R. Hyslop of Hyslop Sheep company, Spokane, was in the city for several days this week, pur chasing sheep. Mrs. Clay Clark of Mosier visited this week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Farley. J. F. Davis, filer with Kinzua Pine Mills was a visitor in the city Mon day. Norman Mclntyre of Athena was a business 'visitor in the city Tues day. Henry Cohn has been spending the week in Heppner from his home at Pendleton, buying sheep. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wells were week-end visitors in Portland. 0. M. YEAGER CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Cabinet and Mill Work HEPPNER, OREGON Dr. W. H. Rockwell Naturopathic Physician & Surgeon Gilman Bldg. Office hours: 1 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. Exam free Ph. 522 Heppner, Or. Lexington Grange Hall SATURDAY MAY 30 Music by ROY QUACKENBUSH and his Orchestra Admission 50c per Couple (Tax Included) EVERYBODY WELCOME!!!!! Dance