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
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Q64.900 ! I83,500
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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
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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-
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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.
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