Heppner Gazette Times, May 28, 1 942 3
Washington, D. C, May 28. Con
sidering the possibility of saboteurs
setting fire to Oregon forests or
Japanese raiders dropping incendi
ary bombs, the forest service is now
up on its toes and every lookout
station is manned. There were 965
fires in private and state lands in
Oregon last year, a decrease of 390
under the total of 1940. Area burned
last year totaled 9,281 acres com
pared with 29,272 in 1940. Principal
cause of fires in Oregon, according
to the report of the chief forester,
is lightning, which accounted for
584. Deliberately set fires were 64;
smokers set 99 fires; debris burning,
59, lumbering 39, railroads 12, camp
ers 46 and not classified 62.
This year and next, and as long
as the duration, there will be more
people on the watch for fires in the
woods than ever before. In addition
to the CCC camps, the forest ser
vice and troops, there will be many
thousands ' of civilian volunteers.
From Montana to the Pacific shore
and from British Columbia deep into
California a network of watchers and
alert men and women will be on the
job until the fall rains.
Creeping down from the Puyallup
valley in Washington is a parasite
which is destroying cover crops and
threatening the 400,000 acres of
vetch, Austrian peas and rye grass
in Oregon. Oregon farmers are al
armed and the farmers in Washing
ton are working desperately to pro
tect their crops. Washington offi
cials are making a survey to deter
mine the limits of the pest and
government scientists are trying to
determine the life history of this new
menace. The cover crop in Oregon
will bring about $10,000,000 unless
the parasite reaches the fields and
begins its work of destruction.
In the rush to ration 130,000,000
people with sugar cards the office
of price administration forgot about
the practice of Oregon housewives
who "put up" a variety of fruit and
A dime out of every
dollar we earn
IS OUR QUOTA
for VICTORY with
U.5.YAR BONDS
Said a Boy Scout named
Anthony Gray,
"Gee whiz about all I can
pay
Is a dime at a time
For Savings Stamps, but
I'm
Going to own a Savings
Bond some day!"
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Save them and bay V. S.
Saving! Stamps and Bond.
berries as jams, jellies and preserves.
The housewives have written to
Senator McNary and he has con
ferred with Leon Henderson (who
always smokes a five-cent cigar).
Henderson says that his staff will
work out some arrangement by
which housewives will have suffi
cient sugar to meet their require
ments. Still to be determined, how
ever, is what the housewives can
use to seal their Mason jars, the
rubber rings being no longer made,
although there are, presumably,
some in the stores.
Owing to the shortage of copper
wire it is probable that no more
PUDs will be started in Oregon for
the duration. Every pound of copper
is required for warships, freighters,
tanks, anti-aircraft guns, etc., and
there is none to spare, according to
war production board, for civilian
purposes. It is a fight now for the
government power dams on Colum
bia river to obtain copper wire they
require for planned transmission
lines, and this may not be sufficient
to connect with some of the newly
formed utility districts. WPB has
already decided that wire for rural
electrification program cannot be
spared from war work.
There are 170 contractors in Dou
glas county who operate 300 trucks
hauling logs and they fear they will
have to quit unless they can obtain
new tires and re-caps. Reports from
Coos, Lane and Linn counties say
that loggers in those sections are
in need of tires. WPB will put out
an order curtailing shipments from
sawmills for a couple of months, ex
cept for mills having government
orders which must be moved. Retail
yards, it is explained, have sufficient
lumber to take care of regular bus
iness until the emergency has pass
ed. The emergency is a matter of
transportation, for all available roll
ing stock is being pressed into ser
vice to handle the urgent needs for
war material.
In this connection, WPB will curb
railroad passenger travel this sum
mer and will discourage the usual
vacation rush. Sleepers are being
converted into day coaches and din
ers will be removed from many
lines. Travel by automobile is "out"
for under the new gasoline program
it will be difficult for a traveler to
buy-sufficient gas to go from one
place to another.
Government is determined to ab
olish state barriers which impede the
flow of commerce for the war per
iod. This applies to regulations as
to size and weight of all trucks, and
the "inspections" of cars that may
have a pound of cherries or a
grapefruit. The "inspection" barrier
on the Redwood highway, estab
lished by California, is among the
handicaps WPB wishes to get rid of.
Milksheds, which prevent a dairy
man from shipping his product out
of his own milkshed into another
area, are also to go under the ban.
1W
come a long vay in
Electric Mates,
15.38
5.85
3
5.10
PRICE OF 100 KWH
OF PP&L ELECTRICITY IN
HEPPNER HOMES
M.97
M.54
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1928
1931
1936
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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT made
these amazing reductions in your elec
tric rates without any help from the
public treasury! Pacific Power & Light
has put up all the money for its power
plants, transmission lines and sub
stations, and has taken all the risks of
pioneering and development.
Instead of receiving a tax subsidy,
PP&L has already paid over $10,000,000
in taxes. This year alone its rapidly
increasing tax bill will exceed $1,000,000.
You get lower and lower electric rates
government gets more and more tax
money. Business management always
gives a better bargain!
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AN AMERICAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
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