at Athe - v
Washington, D. C, June 11. An
other new shipyard is slated for
Oregon. Contracts have been given
for four navy boats to be construct
ed at a yard near Rainier. The yard
has been prepared and hundreds of
workers will be employed. It is said
there is no housing problem at
Rainier. Originally, both the navy
department and the maritime com
mission were disposed to ignore the
Columbia river as a shipbuilding
area but now it is one of the prin
cipal shipbuilding districts in the
United States. Shipbuilding on the
Columbia (which includes Portland)
and on the coast will provide em
ployment tor approximately two
years.
Union Pacific railroad is anxious
to abandon its branch line to Bro
gan in central Oregon. Shippers on
the line have written to Washington
requesting that ICC refuse permis
sion. Railroads are so hard pressed
for locomotives and freight cars that
they are trying to abandon short
branches in the west in order to use
the rolling stock on the main line.
In the early days of the war the rail
roads had a high priority on mater
ial for cars but before they could
acuire all the materials needed other
war demands came and the building
program was slowed down. Railroads
have also lost considerable freight
cars and engines as these have been
shipped overseas to places where
American army engineers are build
ing railroads from supply bases. No
large amount of equipment is in
volved in the Brogan branch but,
small as it is, the railroad has other
use for it
After battering around in congress
for years the house has passed an
act permitting the Piutes and Snake
Indians, who were on the old reser
vation in Malheur county, to sue in
the court of claims for what they
contend is damages for being ousted.
Members of these bands, now living
in Idaho, Nevada and Washington,
are included in the act. One ses
sion the senate would pass the bill
and it would be rejected by the
house, then at another session the
house would pass the bill and the
senate would find fault with it. Now
it appears that the bill will become
a law. The Malheur Indians re-
member that the Klamath Indians
won several million dollars (and
collected), and they want to re
cover on their own claim.
There is prospect for the old coal
mine at Coos Bay to go into action.
The White cantonment at Medford
and the Adair cantonment at Cor
vallis will each require an estimated
70,000 tons of coal to keep warm next
winter. Bids will be invited. Coos
Bay coal was formerly mined and
shipped by the boatload to San Fran
cisco, colliers doing a regular bus
iness with this fuel. Coos Bay mines
are closer to the two cantonments
than any other coal operation in the
northwest.
Oregon canned salmon chinook
is probably off the market for the
duration. The war department has
informed the packers to hold all of
their canned fish until the army
has been provided for. After the ar
my, the lend-lease comes in and
wants salmon. Between the two, a
can of salmon will in all probability
be a rarity on the shelves of dealers.
The salmon pack in Alaska will be
reduced to a minimum as the navy
has ordered all packers out of Bris
tol bay and is permitting fishing
only on the southwest coast where
the pack is never large. There is
no regulation, however, against a
civilian purchasing a whole salmon,
or catching one yet.
There will be a tremendous loss
of fruit and vegetables in Oregon
this year unless dehydrating plants
CAR TAX STAMP
SALE UNDER WAY
Federal Motor Vehicle Tax stamps
in the denomination of $5.00 went on
sale yesterday in all postoffices in
the state of Oregon, according to an
nouncement of J. W. Maloney, col
lector of internal revenue. The stamp
will evidence payment of the tax for
the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1942, and must be purchased on or
before that date. The stamps will
be serially numbered, will be gum
med on the face, and will have pro
vision on the back for entry of the
make, model, serial number, and
state license number of the motor
vehicle. The use on the public high
way of an automobile, truck, mo
torcycle, or bus, makes it subject to
the tax. The tax stamp is transfer
able with the motor vehicle. If
the vehicle is in storage or out of
use July 1, it will become subject
to tax as of the month in which it
is placed in use on the public high
way. The collector said that advice had
been received from the Office of
Price Administration, that, in the
issuance and use of gasoline ration
ing books, an important identifica
tion will be the serial number print
ed on the Motor Vehicle Use Tax
stamp. In those areas where gaso
line is being rationed and in those
areas where gasoline will be ra
tioned, possession of the tax stamp
evidencing payment of the use tax
on motor vehicles will provide one
of the necessary means of identify
ing the gasoline rationing coupon
book with the vehicle in the se
curing of gasoline.
Collector Maloney said that to
guard against loss or theft, it has
been suggested that, when affixing
the stamps, the vehicle owner should
dampen the windshield rather than
the adhesive side of the stamp. An
other effective method is to brush
clear varnish over the stamp after
it has been affixed. These methods
have been recommended to keep the
stamp intact upon the windshield.
As an additional precaution, it is
suggested that each motor vehicle
owner should make a record of the
serial number which appears on the
Use Tax stamp in order that there
may be some means of identifica
tion in connection with gasoline ra
tioning in the event the stamp should
become lost. In Oregon, all stamps
are required to be placed in the up
per left hand corner of the inside
of the windshield.
Every owner of a motor vehicle
which is used upon the highway
should call at his local post office,
or at the office of the collector of
internal revenue, 210 Custom House,
Portland, Oregon, and secure a $5.00
use tax stamp and affix it to his
vehicle on or before July 1, 1942.
The various post offices will sell the
stamp over the counter for cash
only, and no mail order business
with respect thereto will be con
ducted by the post offices. When
stamps are ordered from the col
lector of internal revenue, Portland,
Oregon, payment may be made by
post office money order or certified
check or cash. Cash should not be
sent by mail. As the stamps have
a money value, an uncertified check
cannot be accepted in payment
therefor.
come to the rescue. There are more
than 200 such plants of varying ca
pacity in that state. Canneries are
short on tin and cannot accept all
the fruit offered prunes, for ex
ample and dehydration is the only
way to save the surplus. WPB is
refusing to break its rule of strict
regulation of tin for the canneries
and confesses this will lead to waste.
On the other hand, the government
says it will buy all the dehydrated
vegetables and fruit it is offered.
Director of AAA announces that
the seed dealers of Oregon can have
a profit of $18 a ton on hairy vetch
and $16 a ton on Austrian winter
peas. If the dealers want a higher
profit the only way they can get it,
says AAA, is for producers in Ore
gon (about 400,000 acres) to accept
a lower price for their seed or for
planters of the southern states to
pay more. ' Triple A considers that
the profit indicated is very good. . . .
A WPA project has been approved
for improving the water system at
La Grande; cost $9,647. However,
scarcity of metal will delay the work
until after the war.
Troedson-Nottage
Nuptials Solemnized
The wedding of Miss Linea Troed
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johan
Troedson of lone, and Howard J.
Nottage, son of W. J. Nottage of
Newberg was solemnized Sunday
afternoon, June 7, at the home of
the bride's parents. Martin B. Clark
of Heppner read the double ring
service.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father, wore a light blue silk
jacket dress with matching hat and
a corsage of white orchids.
Miss Nellie A. Carlson of King
City, California, was her attendant.
She wore a rose colored silk dress
with white accessories and a corsage
of gardenias.
Carl W. Troedson, brother of the
bride, acted as best man.
Miss Clara Cunha, of Echo, played
the wedding music, and Mrs. Fran
ces Johnston, of Walla Walla, Wash
ington, sang "Because" and "At
Dawning."
Those present, besides the bride's
parents and brother, Mr. Vernor
Troedson, were Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Clark of lone.
The bride, a graduate of Oregon
State college and a member of Kap
pa Delta sorority, is a teacher in
Girls' Polytechnic high school, Port
land. Mr. Nottage is a graduate of
Willamette university and teaches
in Grant high school. The couple
will make their home in Portland.
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Chevrolet dealers than from any other dealer organization.
. . . because Chevrolet dealers specialize in giving skilled, de
pendable service on all makes of cars and trucks.
FERGUSON MOTOR COMPANY
Heppner Oregon
Heppner Gazette Times, June 1 ) , 1942 3
Rural Fire Units
Giving Advice on
Fire Prevention
Prevention rather than cure will
be the biggest factor in cutting down
Oregon's farm and rural fire loss,
says Art King, extension specialist
at Oregon State college, who has
been in charge of organizing some
1100 rural fire control units through
out the state.
Nearly one-third of all fires in
farm dwellings start from stoves or
chimneys, according to the state fire
marshal. While most of these fires
probably occur during the winter,
greatest damage is done by such
fires in summer. Regular removal
of soot and the repair of cracks and
leaks in chimneys, and protection for
walls and woodwork near stoves or
stovepipes will prevent this type of
fires.
About one -fifth of all farm dwell
ing fires are caused from sparks
lighting on roof. Clean, sound wood
shingles are difficult to ignite but
dry moss or old warped shingles
make ideal places for fires to start.
Cleaning moss from roofs now and
replacing old or broken shingles is
an effective type of fire prevention,
says King.
Some of the most common types
of farm fires are caused by too much
moisture. Storing hay before it is
dried out, or water leaking through
a barn roof onto stored hay will
cause heating and spontaneous ig
nition. If, because of a wet season,
proper curing and drying of hay is
difficult or impossible, it is safer to
stack such hay in the field than to
take chances by putting it in the
barn.
While liberal quantities of salt
added to damp or undercured hay
may ' retard fermentation, there is
no indication that reasonable am
ounts of salt will prevent spontan
eous ignition. It is, by no means, a
Eu
First Cutting Hay
Controls Cattle Bloat
The most effective method of
controlling bloat among cattle in the
feed lot has been the use of first-cutting
hay where grass is grown with
alfalfa, says Dick Richards, superin
tendent of the eastern Oregon
branch experiment station. The two
grasses used most successfully for
this purpose have been big bluegrass
and Fairway crested wheatgrass.
Reports from some regions that
the use of a considerable quantity
of beet pulp with grain controls
bloat have not been proved true so
far in tests made at this eastern
Oregon station. While beet pulp is
being fed to study its feeding value,
it has not successfully controlled
bloat thus far.
CULLING EXPLAINED
Culling the poultry flock is a
year-round operation, starting with
the selection of eggs for incubation,
says H. E. Cosby in a recent exten
sion bulletin, No. 590, on this sub
ject. It is a good plan, however, to
have two general flock cullings a
year, the first early in June, and
the second early in August, he says.
After this second culling it is just
as important to stop any general
culling as it was to start it. Even
the best hens moult and go out of
production during fall and winter,
Cosby points out Individual cull
hens may be removed at any season
of the year they are detected.
substitute for good curing of hay in
the field, King adds.
Most of the fire fighting units are
also taking precautions against fires
that start in dead grass or weeds and
spread to farm buildinga Mowing
a ten-foot strip around each build
ing, or better yet, plowing fire
guards around the farmstead, are
effective prevention measures.
For "Service That
Satisfies - Service
That Saves"
1 Check and Rotate
Tires
2 Get Regular Lub
rication 3 Service Engine
Carburetor - Bat
tery 4 Test Brakes
5 Check Steering -Wheel
Alignment
6 Check Transmis
sion, Clutch, Rear
Axle
7 Check Cooling
System
8 Protect and Pre
serve Finish