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4 Heppner Gazette Times, July 2, 1942 Heppi rier Gazette Times THE HEPPNER GAZETTE. Established March 30, 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES, Established November 18, 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 19U Published every Thursday morning by CBAWFOBO PUBLISHENO COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $2.50 Two Years t 4.50 Three Years 6.00 Six Months 1.25 Three Months 65 Single Copies 05 Official Paper for Morrow County Independence Lost and found columns of Toklo newspapers are crowd ed these days. Every time an American buys a War Bond, the Japs lose face. Buy your 10 every pay day. Men are dying for the Four '5 Freedoms. The least we can 35 do here at home is to buy fjy. War Bonds 10 for War JE-St Bonds, every pay day. HORSESHOES We have sizes 1 to 6 in stock. Plates or fit up. McCLINTOCK'S WELDING & Repair Shop Heppner m a 2-cliet Freedom of spirit, though the physical being be shackled in bond age, is the heritage of every man. It has expiesed itself since the time of Ben Hur, but it remained for the founders of America to so unite free-thinking men into a nation founded upon the principles of in dependence of human action as well as independence of thought. Saturday we of America will again pause upon the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Inde pendence to give solemn thought to the meaning of independence, now made more dear through being jeo pardized by aggressor nations, while mayhap in action we exemplify the great heritage of citizens of this great republic. While the arch protector of free dom sits in the nation's capital at Washington, we need not look there for exemplification of our liberties. It is in the institutions here at home that touch our daily lives that we may judge the rights of human free dom ia America the churches, the schools, and yes, thank God, the press, which so far are at liberty to perform the dictates of a free mind, guided by a conscience steeped in philosophies of human freedom, love of home and of country. Through the right to own property and to use the profits of his own labor, Americans have builded the greatest nation on the face of the globe. We in Morrow county have this week seen fruition of the sys tem which has bridged the gaps of ever narrowing frontiers through such individual effort. It is in the es tablishment of the Heppner-Butter Creek mail route. It was not by or der of a high executive that the route came about, but by petition of the people to be served. That, and the action of the Babbits, if you prefer those with the vision and energy for community development. We in America enjoy the privil eges of a free ballot; to name those whom we desire to hold the reins of government. It is through this privilege that we have the guarantee of keeping monarchy from gaining control from within. Presently out army and our navy are engaged in combat, even to the death, to keep dictatorship from gaining control of America from without. So Saturday, the anniversary of independence for Americans, should be a day of rededication for every loyal American, to the principles of right and justice, and to the prose cution of this war to the utmost; that government "of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth." mMM ' I : j: IFJj CRR SS ' Jj 11 CopyrW 1942, BrpTo. ELKS It WOULD IT HELP ANY IF YOU READ THIS ONE BEFORE I DO?" Week of the War Continued from First Page (exclusive of anti-aircraft), more than 50 000 machine guns and 50,000 submachine guns. "We are well on our way towards achieving the rate of production which will bring us to our goals," the President said. This is no time, however, for the American people to get overconfi dent, he said, because there are plenty of serious production prob lems ahead, particularly those caus ed by raw materials shortages. War Production Chairman Nelson called on Americans to observe In dependence Day this year by work ing for their freedoms, because "We at home dare not have a July Fourth Holiday in war production." Mr. Nelson said the U. S. war produc tion program will call for $220 bil lion worth of war goods, of which $140 billion must be bought at the average rate of $6 billion a month during this year and next, compared with the current rate of $3.8 billion a month. The FBI arrested eight specially trained Nazi saboteurs landed by German submarines at Long Island, N. Y., and at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. A number of "contact men" for the saboteurs were also arrested. Rationing The OPA announced that plans for permanent gasoline rationing for the east, effective July 22, pro vide all passenger car owners are entitled to A books based on 2,880 miles of driving a year and contain ing six pages of eight coupons each each coupon worth four gallons. Application for supplemental ra tions may be filed when motorists register for A books on July 9, 10, and 11. In order to qualify for supplemental B or C books, a motor ist must prove occupational driving is in excess of 1,800 miles a year and that he has formed a car-sharing club. S-l and S-2 books for trucks, ambulances and Government vehi cles will contain 96 and 384 coupons, respectively, each coupon good for five gallons. Filling stations may give prefer ence to defense workers, trucks and ambulances, after posting notices to that effect, if their supplies are in sufficient to meet all demands, OPA ruled. The Offices suspended deliv eries to 64 -filling stations in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, bringing to 78 the total suspensions for alleged violations of rationing regulations. The OCD asked 3,000 defense councils in the east to es tablish machinery for bringing au tomobiles owners together in car sharing clubs. Tire and tube quo tas for July were increased over June to take care of greater wear during the hot summer months. Army and Selective Service The House passed and sent to the Senate the $42 billion Army supply bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1 the largest single appropri ation in U. S. history. Services of Supply Commander Somervell said the Army will reach 4,500,000 men by the middle of 1943. The Army food bill in 1943 will be $1,300 mil lion, he said. Beginning July 1, the CAA will train 13,000 pilots for the Army Air Forces enlisted reserve as glider pilots, airline co-pilots, service pilots and pilot instructors. Men between 18 and 37 are elgible. The War Department said the air ferrying and the air transport op erations of the Army will be coor dinated into a new air transport command, effective July 1. Selective Service headquarters said local boards should segregate registrants into four categories and call them to service in the following order: 1. Those without financial dependents; 2. Those with financial dependents other than wives or children; 3. Registrants who mar lied prior to December 8, 1941, and who are maintaining bona fide fam ily relationships; and 4. Registrants who have wives and children or children only with whom they main tain bona fide family relationships. SS headquarters said local boards will decide on disposition of men who were in process of being in ducted at the time the categories were set up. Navy Expansion The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill authorizing the Navy to increase the size of the U. S. fleet by 1,900,000 tons at an estimated cost of $8,500 million. The program will give the Navy a total of 5,650, 000 tons of combat ships, far in ex cess of any other Navy in the world. The President signed legislation au thorizing a 25 percent increase in pay for Naval officers assigned to submarine duty and . providing a $5-an-hour bonus for Navy divers engaged in hazardous undertakings. The War Front A European theater of operations for U. S. forces was established with Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, formerly Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of the Operations Division, as Commanding General. Headquarters will be in London. Brig. Gen. Hugh Casey of the Army Engineer Corps reported to the Allied Works Coun cil and the U. S. Army Engineers in Australia have built 100 military airdromes, built or improved thous ands of miles of strategic roads, and are working on 12,000 separate pro jects in Australia. U. S. airmen damaged a Japanese cruiser and sank a transport in Kiska harbor in the Aleutians. The sinking of 17 more Allied merchant vessels by enemy submarines was announced. Transportation and Rubber Salvage The Office of Defense Transport ation established a U. S. Truck Con servation Corps to mobilize the country's 5,000,000 trucks for more efficient war service. The office said conversion of the trucking industry to a wartime basis is effecting a big saving of rubber and equipment, despite a sharp increase in the vol ume of business. Railroads in 1941 set an all-time record of ton-miles of freight carried and increased cir culation of freight cars by 33 percent over 1929. Passenger service of both railroads and buses is about 50 per cent greater this year than last, Mr. Eastman said. He requested discon tinuance for the duration of all county and state fairs in order to conserve transport facilities. President Roosevelt extended un til midnight July 10 the scrap rub ber collection campaign because the response was disappointing and yielded only 219,000 tons as of July 27. Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Wickard said the U. S. will have to rely more and more on the contribution small farmers can make toward meeting wartime goals for food production. He said the Agriculture Department is doing everything it can to help such farmers purchase new equip ment and stock for expanding crops. The Department estimated the 1942 pig crop at a record total of 105 million head, compared with 85 mil lion head in 1941. Total milk pro duction as of June 1 was more than 3 percent greater than last year. The Department reported almost 12 million persons employed on farms June 1 more than a million above the May 1 total and 99 percent of the 1910-14 average. Farm wage rates on June 1 were 183 percent of the 1910-14 average. WATCH THAT m mm m AMI J f t EVERY FOREST FIRE IS AN AXIS FIRE Always build your campfire in a designated place where it will not spread and BE SURE it is completely out before leaving it even for a short time. IT'S UP TO YOU IN A You CM Jo your ihr . . writ Kp Orvgo Grn Ann SiUm, Ortfon STAR Reporter FRIDAY-SATURDAY A Special Treat In Store For Your Holiday Entertainment Two Yanks In Trinidad Pat O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Janet Blair They're rough . . . they're tough! Laughter and thrills follow the army to America's danger-stalked outposts of defense! Pius Mr. Bug Goes To Town (In Technicolor) With hundreds of the most lovable characters ever seen on the screen! A feature-length cartoon that is amusing for young and old alike. SUNDAY-MONDAY To the Shores of Tripoli (In Technicolor) John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott In love or war, they have the situa tion well in hand. Here's the inside, on-the-scene story of the making of the Marines. It's grand entertainment! TUESDAY Adults 25c Bargain Night Children 10c Alias Boston Blackie Chester Morris, Adele Mara, George E. Stone Fiction's most beloved rascal is knee deep in a slaying he never saw . . . and a jail break he never committed. COMMUNITY SING WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY Sullivan's Travels Veronica Lake, Joel McCrea, Eric Blore, Franklin Pangborn A blonde bundle of dynamite bumps into Sullivan in a lunch wagon at 2:30 ayem . . . and Bingo! They're off on the wildest series of mad ventures that ever startled an au dience. : plus : Menace of the Rising Sun An amazing story of the Jap double cross from the Naval Conference in 1921 to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. RR. FIRST IN HOME CANNING Kerr Mason Caps and Lid's are GOLD lacquered on BOTH sides ... the Dur able, Color-fast, Non-Porous, Reliable lacquer that has proved successful for 39 years. In addition to KERR Caps and Lids, we have ... ECONOMY JARS KERR MASON JARS WIDE MOUTH MASON JARS Gilliam & Bisbee