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of the War
(Summary of information on the
important 'developments of the week
made available by official sources
through noon EWT, Monday, June
22.)
Price Administrator Henderson
told the press if price ceilings hold
during the next 20 months the en
tire war effort will cost $62 billion
less than it would cost if prices rose
as they did during the last war. He
said savings on steel alone under
price ceilings were more than $161
million in 1941.
He said subsidies are necessary,
however, to support price ceilings
at March levels and to prevent suf
fering among consumers and re
tailers. Other "major threats" to
price stabilization remain in the yet
uneffeced parts of President Roose velt's
anti-inflation program, in
cluding holding down agricultural
prices, stabilization of wages, and
the failure to reduce the inflation
ary gap through any tax action to
date, he said.
Approximately 2,000,000 to 2,500,
000 persons eventually may be help
ing with price control and rationing,
although few of them will be con
cerned directly with enforcement,
he said. He stated he might take
over some of the WPA staff in set
ting up the OPA organizations in
state and district offices, because
its facilities apparently were avail
able as more and more people were
going into employment from relief
rolls.
The Labor Department said living
costs in large cities dropped 0.1 per
cent between May 15 and June 2,
the first drop in such costs since
November 1940. Clothing, house
furnishing and rent costs all de
clined, but food costs continued to
advance. The Department's index
of nearly 900 wholesale prices
dropped 0.3 percent during the week
ended June 13, but was still 13.5
percent above a year ago.
War Manpower and Labor
The War Manpower Commission
said the goal for men in the armed
forces is 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 men
by the end of 1943; 20,000,000 work
ers will be needed in war produc
tion and transportation by 1944; 12,
000,000 will be required to harvest
the 1943 crop. The President's Com
mittee on Fair Employment Prac
tice said in 1944 high school enroll
ment might be reduced by 40 to 50
percent, college enrollment by 70 to
80 percent, and half the nation's
schools may be closed due to the
increasing need for war workers.
The President signed legislation
appropriating an additional $9Vfe mil
lion to finance the cost of training
war workers in vocational courses
of less than college grade. Selective
Service announced registrants in thj
non-military age group 45 to 65 will
receive occupational questionnaires
shortly which will be used to locate
individuals with professional and
Continued on Page Four
Sarah Ann Matteson
Long County Resident
Funeral services will be held to
morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Phelps Funeral Home chapel for
Mrs. Sarah Ann Matteson, 72, a
resident of Morrow county for 63
years who passed away at the home
of her son, Lyle Matteson, in this
city yesterday morning. Rev. Ben
nie Howe will officiate and inter
ment will be in Masonic cemetery.
Sarah Ann McFerrin was born to
Jesse and Elizabeth McFerrin at
Myrtle Point, this state, August 4,
1869. Coming to Morrow county at
the age of 9 in 1879, she was reared
to young womanhood in this county
and on August 17, 1890 she was mar
ried to Eugene Matteson in Hepp
ner. The family home was made in
the Matteson district in the moun
tains east of Hardman until the time
of Mr. Matteson's passing a few
years ago.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs.
E. A. Bennett, and four sons, Loren,
Lyle, Lawrence and Delvin, all of
Heppner; three sisters, Minnie Gaunt,
Grace Hughes and Ida McFerrin,
and one brother, John McFerrin.
LaMont Slocum from The Dalles,
former Heppner boy, spent the last
week here while doing relief as
fireman on the local railroad branch.
Volume 59, Number 13.
1943 Wheat Plan
Seeks Diversion
Into War Crops
Allotment About
Same as Year Ago;
New Products Asked
Oregon's 1943 wheat acreage al
lotment will remain almost the same
as this year's allotment, but grow
ers will be asked to underplant their
quotas and divert from wheat to
more vital war crops this fall, the
state AAA office announced this
week.
The national allotment remains at
55 million acres, the minimum al
lowed under the present law. With
a two-year supply of wheat in sight
after harvest, the national allotment
for next year would have been set
at a much lower figure if the law
permitted, state AAA officials ex
plained. The formula under which
allotments are determined would
dictate a 1943 allotment of only 20
million acres.
County committees will soon an
nounce 1943 allotments for each
farm, and at the same time will ask
growers who have the land and
equipment for growing more needed
crops to hold it out from wheat
planting this fall.
Flaxseed for oil, feed crops, Aus
trian winter peas and canning peas
are some of the "war crops" adapted
to Oregon which can be grown in
stead of wheat Many western Ore
gon growers this year replaced
wheat with winter legume seed
crops, and further shifts out of
wheat to cover crop seed production
will be encouraged to meet needs
for the seed in southern states.
Wheat payments to growers will
probably be based on fulfillment of
a farm plan that will call for use
of each farm's resources in such a
way as to make a maximum con
tribution to production of crops
needed for the war effort.
14 MORE BOYS
GO INTO SERVICE
Morrow County Selective Service
board was credited with thirteen of
its registrants entering the service
this week, and sent one more in by
transfer from another board.
Two local registrants going in
by enlistment were R. Norton
King in the army air corps, and
James McLaughlin in the marines.
Accepted for induction on the
June 16 selective service call were
Lawrence Phillip Doherty, Darold
Orvle Hams, Eugene Kenneth Lam
oreaux, William Joseph Van Winkle,
Kemp Ashton Dick, Walter Richard
Lundell, Lawrence Andrew Wil
liams, Robert Harold Davidson, Pat
rick Doherty, Carl Gail Van Horn,
Jackson Earl Gilliam (leader), and
the transfer, Lewis Word Dunsworth.
Rubber Drive Lagging,
Says State Executive
"Information from headquarters
indicates present return on rubber
drive show 50 percent of time gone
with less than 25 percent of rubber
in," said a wire to C. D. Conrad, lo
cal salvage chairman, from Ralph H.
Mitchell, executive secretary for
Oregon, today.
Mitchell's wire said citizens' par
ticiation is slowing up and urged
immediate house to house drive to
stimulate collection.
Local garage and service station
reports also indicate that the rubber
turn in is slowing up here, with es
timated collection in the county to
date placed at some 25 tons.
IN WEEDER ACCIDENT
Robert Rietmann was ascidentally
run over by a weeder at his farm
near lone Monday, receiving a se
verely cut leg, necessitating treat
ment by a local physician.
Fire Wardens, Rules
Given For County
Complete organization for rural
fire control has been perfected by
the Morrow county defense council
and USDA war board, which this
week sent out a mimeographed map
showing the 22 rural fire districts
of the county, and the communities,
telephone lines serving each, and
names of wardens, along with a list
of rules. Every rural resident is be
ing urged to familiarize himself with
his telephone line number, district,
names of wardens and rules, and to
comply with the latter promptly and
carefnlly to avoid delay in fight
ing fires that may happen, and also
to avoid confusion on the telephone
lines which are to have clearance
for fire use at any time.
The list of fire districts, telephone
lines serving each, and wardens, fol
lows: East Morgan, 33 & 34, Werner
Rietmann, Otto Rietmann, Elmer
Griffith.
West Morgan and McNab, 33 & 38,
Jack Bailey, Bert Palmateer.
North Jordan, 32, M. J. Fitzpatrick,
Fred Mankin.
North Lexington, 34, 36 & 2,
Claude J. White, O. W. Cutsforth.
Blackhorse, 1, Oral Scott, H. L. Du
vall. Sand Hollow, 2, Sam Turner, Ray
Ezell.
Local Board Has
Credit for Two
Women in Service
Morrow County Selective Ser
vice board takes pride in having
credit for two women in the se
vice. Both are second lieutenants
in the army nursing service.
They are Bertha Mae Akers,
daughter of Ralph Akers of lone,
and Hazel L. Adkins, daughter of
Laura Adkins Driskell of Eight
mile. Board Ready to Sign
Young Men 18 to 20
Everything is set for registration
of men between the ages of 18 and
20 years in Morrow county on June
30, according to announcement of
Bert Johnson, chairman of the local
selective service board.
By proclamation of the president,
Tuesday, June 30, 1942, has been des
ignated as registration day for those
young men who have attained their
eighteenth or nineteenth birthday
on or before June 30, 1942, or their
twentieth birthday, after December
31, 1941 and on or before June 30,
1942 and who have not heretofore
been registered.
Announcement of registrars and
places of registration for the var
ious points in the county was made
in these columns last week.
All registering places will be open
from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on June 30,
and for the convenience of those ad
jacent to lone and Heppner, regis
trations will be taken at these points
on the three preceding days. Walter
Roberts, registrar at lone, has an
nounced that he will take registra
tions any time the preceding three
days if those desiring to register
will look him up. The office of the
local board in Heppner will take
registrations during regular business
hours each of the preceding three
days as well as the designated hours
on the 30th.
BUDGET HEARING HELD
The county tax levying board held
open house yesterday for hearing
objections to the budget proposed
for the ensuing fiscal year. No one
appeared in objection to the budget
as advertised.
RESIDENCE SOLD
Announcement has been made of
the sale of the Mattie Huston house
on Gale street to Mr. and Mrs. Lee
' Beckner of lone.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 25, 1942
Southwest lone, 35, E. Markham
Baker, Delbert Emert.
West Eightmile and Gooseberry,
36, C. E. Carlson, A. W. Lundell.
Eightmile, 12 & 13, Lawrence Red
ding, Harley Anderson.
South lone, 36 & 37, Lee Beckner,
Walter Dobyns.
Lower Clarks Canyon and Social
Ridge, 35, Roy Campbell, Terrel L.
Benge.
Upper Clarks Canyon, 11 & 18,
Frank E. Parker, Earl Blake, Murl
Kirk, Paul Jones.
West Willow, 3 & 35, Harvey
Bauman, Burt Peck
Hardman,' Hardman Exchange,
Neal Knighten, Harold Stevens, El
mer Palmer, Catherine Mclntyre.
Balm Fork, 7, Hugh Smith, A. L.
Osmin.
Upper Willow Creek, 8, Ralph
Thomson, Howard Cleveland.
Sanford Canyon & Rhea Creek, 9
& 10, Cleve Van Schoiack, Paul
Webb, Jr.
Hinton Creek, 16, John Hanna, Ben
Cox.
Little Butter Creek, 5 & 6, Marion
Finch, Frank Swaggart.
Big Butter Creek, 6, Charlie
Morehead, A. E. Wattenburger.
Boardman, Boardman Exchange,
Dan Ransier.
Irrigon, Irrigon Exchange, Harry
Smith.
OFFICIAL OPA
ORDER GIVEN
The new district OPA office at
LaGrande released official order to
all retailers this week, which said:
"All retailers should be remind
ed of the fact that under the law
the list of cost of living commod
ities MUST be turned in to the
local War, Price, and Rationing
Board in your county on or be
fore July 1, 1942.
"Under the General Maximum
Price Regulation retailers were re
quired on May 18, to have posted at
the place in the store where the
commodity was offered for sale, or
marked on the cost of living com
modity itself or on the shelf, bin, or
other container in which the com
modity is kept, the maximum price,
that is, the highest price for which
the same or similar commodity was
sold and delivered during March,
1942.
"In addition, all wholesalers and
retailers must prepare on or before
July 1, a statement showing the
highest prices which were charged
for all of the commodities or ser
vices which were delivered or sup
plied during March, 1942, together
with an appropriate description or
identification of each commodity or
service; and all the customary al
lowances, discounts, and other price
differentials.
"Those individuals who do not
understand just how the General
Maximum Price Regulation applies
to them, should get in touch with
the new district OPA office imme
diately for proper- instructions."
GIVEN THREE YEARS, PAROLE
Edward L. Webb was sentenced
to three years in the state peniten
tiary and released on parole when
he plead guilty to two charges in
circuit court here yesteday before
Judge C. L. Sweek. He was charged
with malicious and wanton injury
and destruction of certain personal
property, and with obtainging prop
erty under false pretenses.
C. B. Cox, postmaster, returned
home the first of the week from
Portland where he spent several days
attending a convention of postmas
ters of the state. He was accom
panied on the return by Mrs. George
Burroughs who is visiting at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Ulrich, and Alex Thompson,
who is assisting his father, Ralph
Thompson, in haying.
New War Bond
Sales Thermometer
Shows Heat Low
Chairman Appeals
As June Quota Only
Fourth Raised
"This month's quota $46,300 Re
member Pearl Harbor." That is the
reminder on the big war bond sales
thermometer which appeared at the
corner of Willow and Main streets
this week, the indicator on which
appeared a little more than a fourth
of the way up to the month's quota
with the month half gone.
"We can't expect our armed forces
to win the battles if we lose the home
forces," said P. W. Mahoney, county
war bond chairman, in reporting to
tal sales up to Tuesday, June 23, of
$14,127.
Chairman Mahoney has expressed
confidence that greater strides will
be made later when a large propor
tion of the county's yearly income
is received, but he believes there
are still many people not buying war
bonds who should, and urges them
to become regular purchasers.
"In purchasing war bonds, there
is actually no sacrifice," the chair
man pointed out. "The bonds are
really an investment in future se
curity, while providing the money
to build the machines of war which
must come if victory is to be ours."
Mr. Mahoney pointed out that
while Morrow county led counties of
the state early in the days of war
bond sales, it failed to make its
quota last month, and is farther be
hind on the June quota. Quotas in
coming months will be still further
increased, making it ever more dif
ficult to attain the total goal by
year's end, even in face of expected
increased income after the present
wheat crop is harvested.
The goal is for everyone with an
income to be a regular purchaser of
bonds, he emphasized, and that is
the goal toward which the commit
tee in Morrow county is working.
Dr. Fred E. Farrior
Passes at Pendleton
Heppner friends were saddened
this week by news of the untimely
death of Dr. Fred E. Farrior, 51, who
succumbed suddenly to a heart dis
ease at his home in Pendleton last
Sunday. Funeral services are being
held at 3 o'clock this afternoon from
Folsom's chapel of Pendleton. John
Wightman of this city is one of the
pallbearers.
Bom in Charleston, South Caro
lina, Dr. Farrior was graduated with
honors from North Pacific Dental
College in Portland, and after serv
ing in the navy dental corps in the
last World war came to Heppner in
1919 to start private practice. He
remained here for ten years before
going to Pendleton in 1929 where
he had since resided. He was a
member of the Episcopal church,
Masonic lodge and American Legion,
, being a past president of the local
legion post.
Besides the widow, Mrs. Iva Far
rior, he is survived by one son,
Fred, Jr., now at sea with the U. S.
navy in the hospital corps j the mo
ther, Dr. Jessie B. Farrior, M.D. of
LaMesa, Calif; a sister, Mrs. Jean
Farrior, of LaMesa, and brother,
Commander John Farrior, in the U.
S. army medical corps.
NAMED TO PHARMACY POST
, The first woman in Oregon to be
so honored, Miss Leta Humphreys
was named a director of the Oregon
State Pharmaceutical association at
the convention (of the association
which she attended in Portland last
week.
CITY BUDGET PASSED
The proposed budget for the city
of Heppner was adopted as adver
tised without amendment at the
regular budget meeting last Monday
evening, calling for a tax levy of
$4,545.00.