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A Heppner Gazette Times, May 21, 1942
Heppner
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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
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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
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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.
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