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A Week
of the War
(Summary of information on im
portant developments of the week
made available by official sources
trough noon EWT, Monday June 15.)
The Office of Price Administra
tion fixed July 1, 2 and 3 as the
dates for motorists in the eastern
states and the District of Columbia
to register for their new gasoline
ration books. The permanent ra
tioning system in the east becomes
effective July 15, and the unit value
of existing cards was doubled to six
gallons to carry motorists to this
date. The OPA said motorists who
hold A and B cards and have used
all the units on them will not be
able to get any more gasoline for
the next 30 days unless they show
need to a local rationing board.
Only A books will be issued by
school registrars. Supplemental B
and C permanent ration books, and
bus and truck S books will be issued
by local rationing boards any time
between July 1 and July 15. Thesa
books will be "tailored" to fit needs
of individual motorists and com
panies, the Office said. B books con
taining 16 additional coupons will
have a variable expiration date; C
books contining as many as 96 ad
ditional coupons will be issued for
three months, but coupons in ex
cess of a motorist's actual needs will
be removed before the book is is
sued. Bus and truck S books will
be good for four months and will
cover just enough fuel for the mile
age allowed in forthcoming ODT
regulation. Gasoline service station
operators will be required to turn
over to suppliers the exact number
of stamps for the amount of gasoline
delivered to their stations.
Rubber and Oil
President Roosevelt ordered an
intensive drive this week and next
to collect from home, offices, farms
and. factories all articles of rubber
that have been or can be discarded.
The scrap rubber is being collected
by the nation's gasoline filling sta
tions, transported to central collec
tion points by petroleum industry
trucks and sold to the Rubber Re
covery corporation. Filling stations
are paying a cent a pound for the
rubber. Under Secretary of War
Patterson reported Army and Navy
crude rubber requirements during
the 21 months after April 1, 1942,
will be 800,000 tons, compared with
Continued on Page Four
Effie Andrews Named
C h a mteT"D i rec to r
Miss Effie Andrews, manager of
the local Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company office was nam
ed director of the Heppner chamber
of commerce to succeed Elaine Sigs
bee, resigned, at a directors' meeting
at the office of F. W. Turner, secre
tary, Tuesday ' evening. Miss Sigs
bee recently moved her residence
to Condon where she operates the
Liberty theater and assists in the
county clerk's office.
Seven members attended the
meeting and Blaine Elliott, new
manager of the J. C. Penney Co.
store was introduced as a new mem
ber and visitor. Motion was made
and carried that the secretary be
instructed to remove names from
membership board of all those whose
dues are not paid in accordance with
the by-laws.
P. W. Mahoney, president, ex
plained the war savings bond drive
and told of donations from Tum-A-Lum
Lumber company and Gilliam
& Bisbee to this drive. The secre
tary was authorized to spend $5.00
if necessary for the purchase of a
thermometer to be used in this work.
C. B. Cox, E. H. Miller and F. W.
Turner were named on a committee
to seek ways and means of using
the CCC camp to best advantage
for defense purposes. Progress of
the defense council was told by B.
C. Pinckney, county chairman.
Mrs. LeMoyne Cox arrived this
week and is visiting at the home of
her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Elbert Cox. LeMoyne is a sergeant
in the Marine corps and now in
foreign service. Mr. and Mrs. Cox,
the younger, were married in South
Carolina, and Mrs. Cox stopped over
here on the way to her home at Los
Angeles. LeMoyne is in the first
parachute division of the U. S. Mar
ine corps, and likes it fine.
Volume 59; Number 12
County Responds
Readily To Call
For Scrap Rubber
Garages, Service
Stations Collecting
On Chief's Orders
Hardly had President Roosevelt's
voice faded from the ether in his
appeal for a two weeks' campaign to
collect the nation's old rubber than
garages and service stations in
Heppner commenced receiving de
liveries, a steady flow of which has
continued since.
Morrow county has come to the
front in this campaign in a won
derful way, said C. D. Conrad, coun
ty salvage chairman, in extending
special congratulations to the boys
and girls who have been rustling
like troopers.
All garages and service stations
in the county are taking the old rub
ber and paying a cent a pound for
it. They in turn are selling the
reclaimed rubber at $25 a long ton,
and turning the money over to the
Red Cross, U. S. O. and Navy Relief.
All oil companies are cooperating
in the rubber collection and have
sent out special representatives to
boost the drive.
"The rubber must come," said Jack
Harris, special representative for
Standard Oil company, in the city
the first of the week from Arlington.
"People have been given to under
stand that upon the success of this
rubber collection depends the gas
rationing program. If the scrap rub
ber supply proves sufficient to re
lieve the tense rubber situation now
existing, it appears probable that gas
rationing on a national scale will
not occur. On the other hand, if
the rubber reserves are too low, na
tional gas rationing to protect the
rubber now in use is almost certain."
While everyone is urged to give up
all scrap rubber possible, it is em
phasized that no rubber articles now
in use and which would require
replacement through purchase of
new articles should be given. The
object of the president's order, it is
stated, is to gather up only scrap
rubber, but to get every bit of this
scrap possible.
CROW-MAGPIE
HUNS ENDS 29th
Youngsters of Morrow county
have accounted for destruction of
between 1400 and 1500 bird preda
tors, and collected considerable ex
tra spending money therefor from
Morrow County Hunters and Ang
lers club, reports J. Logie Richard
son, club president.
Richardson has set a deadline
for bringing in trophies for pay
ment of bounties, to be Monday,
June 29.
The elimination of the large num
ber of crows and magpies removes
a large menace to the game birds,
said Richardson in commending the
boys and girls for their good work.
War Bond Sales Lag
as Half Month Passes
Morrow county was lagging in the
purchase of war bonds as the middle
of June passed, and much more buy
ing will be necessary before the
end of the month if the county is
to attain its June quota of $46,000
announces P. W. Mahoney, county
war savings chairman.
Mahoney's compilation of sales as
of June 15 showed a total of $8,512.50
for the month to that date.
Mrs. Ellor Brock of Pendleton and
Mrs. J. B. Cooley of Brownsville
arrived in the city Saturday evening
and visited until Monday. Mrs.
Brock was a guest at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Josie Jones, and Mrs.
Cooley visited her sister, Mrs. Cora
Crawford.
Men 18 to 20 Called
For Registration
Morrow county local board is pre
pared for the registration of men in
the fifth registration, on June 30,
announces Bert Johnson, chairman
of the Selective Service board.
He states that those who must reg
ister according to the presidential
proclamation are "all male persons
who attained the eighteenth or the
nineteenth anniversary of the day
of his birth on or before June 30,
1942, or the twentieth aniversary of
the day of his birth after December
21, 1941, and on or before June 30,
1942." To make it clear, "Men born
on or after January 1, 1922 and on
Eddie Chinn No Jap
Officers Find on
Making Investigation
It was just a little matter of
watching a troop train pass, and
looking at his watch. But it
brought Eddie Chinn into clutches
of the law in Pendleton one day
this week.
The local Chinese restaur an -teur's
action aroused suspicions
that he might be a Japanese agent,
but he soon produced evidence
and friends to prove his identity.
Mr. Chinn has had business in
terests in China destroyed by the
Japanese, and has been a heavy
contributor toward relief of his
countrymen. His Heppner friends
will vouch that he's no Jap.
Port Angeles Man
Is Penney Manager
Blaine Elliott, recently of Port
Angeles, Wash., arrived in Heppner
Tuesday to take over duties as man
ager of the local J. C. Penney Co.
store, recently resigned by George
Howard. Mr. Elliott is accompanied
to Heppner by Mrs. Elliott- and two
daughters, aged 9 and 12.
Mr. Elliott is no stranger to east
em Oregon, having been manager
of the Penney store at The Dalles
for ten years before going to Port
Angeles. He said he was impressed
by the clean and modern appear
ance of Heppner and looked for
ward to pleasant relationships with
the people of Morrow county, with
whom he hoped soon to become ac
quainted. Mr. Howard and family are leav
ing shortly for a two weeks' vaca
tion and will then return to Hepp
ner. He has made no announcement
of his future plans.
School Officers Set,
New Budget Passed
The annual meeting of school dis
trict No. 1 of Heppner Monday af
ternoon was featured by a light at
. tendance and the business was trans
acted with little friction.
Charles Barlow, renominated for
director and Mrs. Blaine E. Isom,
renominated for clerk, were the only
nominees for the, two offices to be
filled and each was elected, Barlow
with 21 and Mrs. Isom with 22 votes.
The budget for the ensuing year
was passed without alteration from
the printed estimate, receiving 22
votes for, and none against its ad
option. BRASSFIELD-BURKENBINE
Loyd Burkenbine took Miss Chris
- tina Brassfield as his bride in a cere
mony performed by Martin B. Clark
at the Phelps chapel last Thursday
evening. Following the ceremony a
wedding supper was enjoyed by the
wedding party at Merrill's cafe, and
the young coule were sent on their
way to Portland and the Rose Fes
tival with clanging of cans and
honking of horns. They are now at
home at the Ferguson court.
UNION MISSION MEET SET
Union Missionary society meets
at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist church
on Friday, June 26, anounces Etta
Howell, president
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 18, 1942o
or before June 30, 1924."
The following registration places
and names of chief registrars are
given:
Irrigon, A. C. Houghton; Board
man, S. C. Russell; lone, Walter
Roberts; Lexington, Mrs. Thelma
Smethurst; Hardman, Mrs. Brannon,
and Heppner, office of the local
board.
Unofficial notice of the men re
porting for induction on June 16
gives 12 men belonging to Morrow
county local board as accepted and
one man transferred to this board
as accepted. Names of those accept
ed will be given in the next issue.
GET NAIL ORDERS
NOW ADVISED
Oregon's allotment of nails for
farm storage construction is now on
its way, announces C. D. Conrad,
secretary of the Morrow County
USDA War board, and all those
expecting to purchase nails should
get their purchase orders from his
office immediately.
No one may purchase nails with
out an order from the county war
board, and early listing of expec
tancies will assist the board in
seeing that everyone is served who
should be.
Release of nails for construction
of grain storage facilities was ob
tained from OPA by northwest far
mers, after laying their case before
that body a month or so ago. Stocks
were not available at that time, how
ever and it was necessary to in
crease production of factories bo
fore the necessary nails could be
had.
County to Assist
Red Cross Service
Twelve card tables were set as the
present quota for Morrow, county
to contribute to the newly formed
Blue Mountain camp and hospital
service council. Mrs. Richard Buz
zard, chairman; Mrs. B. C. Pinckney,
delegate, and Mrs. Tom Wilson, al
ternate, were appointed by the lo
cal Red Cross chapter to represent
the Blue Mountain council at a
meeting held Tuesday night at the
city hall.
The purpose of the council, which
includes five counties in Washing
ton and five in Oregon, is to fur
nish a convalescent recreation room
at each of the Pendleton, Pasco and
Walla Walla army and airbase hos
pitals. This organization was set up
under the Red Cross on a nation
wide basis and $250 designated to
the Blue Mountain council for or
ganization and administrative pur
poses. Mrs. Harold Bamett of Pen
dleton is president of the council.
Among the items required to fur
nish these rooms are card tables,
radios, draipes, furniture, pianos,
bedside tables, rugs and other equip
ment. Donations of jig-saw puzzles,
Chinese checkers, ash trays, ping
pong sets and other games are wel
comed by the council. Donations
by persons in this county may be
left with the local chapter of Red
Cross.
Various members of the Red Cross
have been designated to contact lo
cal organizations to help fill the
quota for the Morrow county area.
Rose Leibbrand, chairman, report
ed that 50 comfort kits are being
completed in this county for the
Red Cross. These kits will be used
by soldiers going abroad.
ON HONOR ROLL
Oregon College of Education, Mon
mouth, June 12. The honor roll for
the fall term at the Oregon College
of Education has now been released
by the registrar, Ellis A. Stebbins.
Katherine Griffith Lindstrom, sen
ior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. El
mer Griffith of Morgan, earned a
place on the second honor roll which
requires a 15 hour load and a grade
point average of 3.0 or B.
Civilian Gas Mask
Comes To County
For Demonstration
War Risk Insurance
Effective July 1,
Lions Club Told
Morrow county received its first
World War n new style gas mask
this week, and Dr. L D. Tibbies has
been busy demonstrating it wher
ever possible. The mask, property
of the U. S. Army, was loaned to
the-county defense council with in
structions that every individual be
given opportunity to wear it.
Dr. Tibbies had the mask at the
Monday Lions luncheon, where each
member was privileged to try it.
Tibbies said that any person car
rying a mask should be able to
put it on in three seconds time. He
said production of the masks is now
on sufficient scale to soon supply
every man, woman and child in the
country with a mask, and it is the
intention to have everyone carry a
mask at all times.
The masks have a canvas holder
with snap fastener, and sling for
fastening at the side. Extraction
from holder and placing on the head
can be accomplished with one move
ment, throwing back the head cov
er and inserting chin, then bringing
head cover into place. The wearer
then places finger over mouth vent
and blows to expel any gas that
might be in mask at time of inser
tion and to bring the pliable rubber
securely into place. Then finger is
placed over intake vent at bottom
and several inhalations quickly
made. In case of a gas attack, the
mask is worn until the wearer as
certains through admitting a slight
portion of air, that he is away from
gas infected area.
James F. Gordon, special insurance
agent from Portland, was a guest at
the luncheon and told of the new
war risk insurance to go into effect
July 1. This insurance augments
the regular old line policies to cover
damage sustained purely from ac
tual military operations. Rates on
the war risk insurance are reason
able, Gordon said. Losses by sabot
age or any other action not a part
of actual military operations, are
paid by the private companies un
der contracts in force, but present
contracts do not hold private com
panies for losses sustained as a re
sult of actual combat.
Gordon said accidental fall of a
bomb from an airplane which just
happened to be flying over did not
constitute actual military operation
and that loss sustained in such event
would be the liability of the private
companies.
Farm Labor Placement
Se rvice Starts 22nd
Farmer's requests for farm labor
ers and other types of laborers can
now be placed with a representa
tive of the United States Employ
ment agency to be stationed at the
county agent's office beginning Mon
day, June 22.
Local labor needs will be taken
care of locally as far as possible.
When workers cannot be obtained
locally, requests will go to the Pen
dleton office where it is reported
by Don Robbins, in charge there,
that good results have been had in
obtaining hay hands.
Laborers who want work are also
advised to leave their names and
addresses at the agent's office.
HURT IN ACCIDENT
Mrs. Claud Coats of Boardman
received a broken right hip and
other painful injuries Sunday when
the car in which she was riding
overturned near Cecil. She was
brought on to Heppner for treatment.
Accompanying her in the car were
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barlow, all being
on their way to Heppner for a visit
with relatives.
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