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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1942)
Ted McMurdo, with the U. S. ar my at Ft. Lewis, arrived in Heppner Friday to visit his parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. D. McMurdo. The McMui -do's two other sons, Bernard and Scott, are also in the service, Ber nard having passed examinations for enlistment in the naval medical corps, and Scott studying pre-med-ics in the navy at San Diego, Cal. David Hynd was in the city Mon day looking for hay hands. He said that the large crops at the Sand Hollow farm, where eight men were normally employed at this season, are proving a bit too much for him self, brother Will, and a grand nephew, the only help employed since the death last week of a hired hand. Among Heppner people attending last rites for Dr. Fred E. Farrior at Pendleton last Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. John Wightman and Dick Wightman, Mrs. Lucy Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Mahoney, Chas. B. Cox, Fred Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vaughn, Mrs. J. 0. Hager :and Mrs. E. E. Gilliam. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Halseth, Mr. and Mrs Ted Jaross and Laverne R. Emmons are in Forest Grove attend ing the state archery meet. Mrs. Halseth held the state women's archery championship last year. . Harry O'Donnell, Jr., left Tuesday to qualify for enlistment in the U. S. navy. He recently passed exam ination for entrance in the marine corps, but decided he wanted to be a sailor instead. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Merrill were spending several days in Portland this week, their son Jack, recently returned from Portland, assisting with the cooking at Merrill's cafe during their absence. David Chinn arrived back in the city Monday evening to resume his position at the Elkhorn restaurant after undergoing medical treatment for several weeks. Dean Gilman left Tuesday to re port for trining as a U. S. marine, having come home for a short visit after being accepted for enlistment last week. 11 Assembly Lines II On Nation's Farms Yield Huge Output The magnitude of the food pro duction job undertaken by Ameri can farmers, including those in Ore gon, is not fully appreciated because it is not concentrated in one plant, but is rolling off an "assembly, line" of six million farm units through out the country, points out Robert B. Taylor of Adams, chairman of the Oregon USDA war board. "Every time a cargo ship sails for Ireland with food for American sol diers and their allies, it carries the average annual production of 3800 American farms," Taylor said. "These ships are loaded with pro ducts that might have come from Oregon farms dried eggs, dried and evaporated milk, cheese, can ned and cured pork, lard, and can ned and dried vegetables." To keep these 'vital supplies mov ing wherever they are needed all over the globe, farmers in this state and throughout the nation are mobilized behind production goals that are so large they are difficult to grasp, the chairman added. Breaking down food-for-freedom production to an hourly, basis, he cited the following figures: Every hour of every day, Amer ica's farm plant produces 6,486,000 quarts of milk, 5,236,000 eggs, 134 carloads of hogs, 88 V2 carloads of beef, 2,696,000 pounds of potatoes, and similar quantities of vegetables, oil crops and other products. Besides food uses, farm crops are directly in the war too, Taylor said. Cotton and alcohol are used to make smokeless powder. When a battle ship fires a 16-inch gun, a bale of cotton and 18 bushels of wheat are hurled at the enemy. To paint the battleship required the oil from flaxseed produced on 169 acres. Mr. and Mrs. John Spencer of Stanfield, and Mrv and Mrs. Ben Spencer and daughter Edith of Uma- . tilla were visiting relatives and friends in the city Monday. Mr. Spencer, Sr., is a brother of Mrs. Cora Crawford. E. H. Miller arrived home Tuesday night on a month's leave of absence from his duties as AAA field man, to take care of his harvest opera tions. He plans to start harvest a week from Monday. Biddies Welcomed By Ocean Lake Friends A few old-time friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Biddle gave them a lit tle housewarming party Wednesday afternoon, June 24, in their beautiful new home in Delake. It was in the nature of a surprise. The guests provided the refresh ments which consisted of strawber ries, ice cream and cake. Mr. and Mrs. Biddle have just purchased the A. R. Miller home which is conceded to be one of the finest homes along the beach, com manding as it does a view of both the ocean and the lake. The guests were old Heppnerites who were friends and schoolmates of the Biddies years ago. Old-time friends will remember Mrs. Biddle as Nina Dorman. Hie list of visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Harry Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Brians, Minnedel Brians Baker, all of Ocean Lake, and Eva Brians Adams of Vancouver, Wash. The afternoon was spent in look ing over old-time pictures many of them taken in the gay nineties, representative of the pioneer famil ies of Heppner, and many of whose lives went out all too soon in the tragedy of flood in 1903. The pic tures were provided by Mr. and Mrs. Warren wo have a wonderful collection taken at the time of the flood. The spacious lawn of the Biddle home with its rare plants and beau tiful flowers, many of which can be grown only in this locality, was also a feature of the afternoon's enter tainment as was the victory gardens. Mr. and Mrs. Biddle, who are charming hosts, have come to live among us, and will be happy to greet old and meet new friends at their beautiful lake-shore home. Contributed by Minnedel Baker. OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY WAR BOND QUOTAS FOR JULY 22J300i 1 1 tccnn -- i t L IBMm ( ' "H66,200 ) I s4H200 l, I 7-sayv N"x.v.4 i $20,300 1 44 p,gooj $80,500 1 18,000 I Q64.900 ! I83,500 1 The above map of Oregon shows the War Bond quotas, by counties, for the month of July, 1942. Total War Bond quota for the state is $8,865,000. With the National quota total placed at a billion dollars, the nation goes into high gear in its support of the War financing and to give our fighting forces adequate implements of war which will bring ultimate Victory. American Soldiers, IT COULD HAPPEN Imagine reading the following government announcement in your Heppner Gazette Times: "All men of lone have been shot. The women have been deported to a concentration camp and the chil dien sent to appropriate centers of education. All buildings of the vil lage were leveled to the ground and the name of the village was imme diately abolished." . Those are the words of an official Nazi statement issued a few days ago except that the town was named Lidice a quiet little community of Czecho-Slovakia near Prague. In Lidice (pronounced Leed-eet-say) men and women lived where their ancestors had lived for more than 600 years. A Lidice son brought his bride to his parents' home; his children were born in the same room where his grandfather first saw light. Above the roofs of the town rose the spire of St. Margaret's church, a symbol of community faith since the church's building in 1736. In Lidice, a farmer with earth sticking to his boots greeted the coal-dusty miner who as a boy set beside him in school. On a warm day the tapping of the shoe repair L t MtRMM I IK Kiln 1 i v. "1 WOO l n f 87,600 lsr i ( MlCMur' ciwo u H6.200 ,J 95,700 -1 l f (V KLMMTM t 55,000 1,400 n w m Mtat mmMa 1 uii:uui U.S.Tre asury Official War Bond I Quotas for July July Quota for State, $8,865,000 j Tht May Quota for Oregon W $5,611,000 ! Th My itt for Oroijon Wcr $5,676,000 307,400 Sailors, Marines and Airmen are on every front. They are giving 100 percent for their country. What are we doing here on the home front? Are we lending at least ten percent of income to help them? It's very little. But to fight this war suc cessfully our country needs a billion dollars in War Bonds every month from us the People. Let's Go, America. V. S. Trtaswy Dtportnuni Heppner Gazette HERE man sounded through an open door like a faint echo of the blacksmith's hammering. A storekeeper going to the tailor shop paused on Wilson street named for the American president to gossip with a man carving wood before his front door. Children laughed and played or were drawn to kitchens by the sweet scents of the cakes their mothers baked. Life was not so easy after the German conquerors came. The men had to do what the rulers ordered. Limits were set on worship in the church and on schooling for the children. The women didn't have such good things or so much to fix for meals. But the people lived on, they worked, they loved, they dreamed oppression had been upon them in the past but "Wilson" street seemed a reminder that to a people of unconquered spirit, freedom at last returns. Then two men fatally wounded Reinhard Heydrich who, as Nazi "protector" of Czecho - Slovakia earned the title of "Hangman." That happened on a highway which does n't even go through Lidice. The Li dice people told the Nazi secret po- 70,600 f 25,30b ' r ,1 1 r- IUMOH Ll ?by,L v! 69,000 .1 - s 145,800 32,300 i r- 1 39,800 ' 55,400 Times, July 2, 1942 5 Higher Feed Costs Seen in Farm Report The growing season has been generally favorable for hay and pastures, feed grain crops, and the oilseed crops from which high pro tein feeds are derived, yet the pros pects are that feed will cost more and be less abundant in Oregon during the 1942-43 feeding season, according to a report on the agri cultural situation just issued by the OSC extension service. Oregon's hay crop of 1941 was considerably larger than average and the carry-over in May, 1941 was above average. Nearly all of this hay has been consumed and the carry-over is much less than last year. These conditions indicate a smaller supply of hay for the next feeding season although the num ber of hay consuming animals has increased somewhat. Feed supply and price data for the country as a whole indicate .that the increase in numbers of hay and grain consuming animals and poul try has resulted in a marked reduc tion of reserve grain and hay sup plies, says the report. The general prospect is that feed will cost more during the 1942-43 feeding season, as the supply of feed grain in relation to the number of animals to be fed is expected to be about 10 percent less than last year and probably below the 1937 1941 average. The situation is af fected by the difficulty farmers, are having to secure a adequate number of harvest hands even at farm wage rates substantially higher than a year ago. lice that they didn't know anything about the two men. But the Gestapo agents learned that Lidice folk still dreamed of freedom. They claimed they found a radio, forbidden by German con querors, arms and munitions. Sev eral of the Lidice young men had escaped to join United Nations forces fighting the Germans. And the Nazis follow their policy of bloody vengeance' a policy which has meant the murder, in retalia tion for the death of Heydrich, of more than 700 innocent men and women. So when you read or hear the name of Lidice imagine what it would mean if lone were crushed to the earth, its name scratched from all records, the bodies of all its men dumped into a common grave, their widows imprisoned, and the doubly-orphaned children in the hands of vengeful and mer ciless foreigners. A G-T want ad will do wonders If you have anything to sell, trade or exchange. Results every time. A LUNCHEON PLATE That Hits the Spot o Our special hot weather plate is tempting to look at rousing to appetite! Full-flavored cold meats, extra-good potato salad it' a feast! Try it today. Also a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, in cluding good old-fashioned strawberry shortcake! ELKHORN RESTAURANT Ed Chinn, Prop. s2
