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A Week
of ihe War
(Summary of information on the
important developments of the week
made available through official
sources through noon EWT, Monday.
July 27.)
The U. S. overall output of planes,
tanks, ships, guns and ammunition
during June was nearly three times
that af last November, the month
before Pearl Harbor, War Produc
tion Chairman Nelson reported. Mr.
Nelson stated, however, "Too much
boasting about production progress
is altogether premature the biggest
part of the job is still ahead." Any
letup now, he said, "would mean
years more of war and hundreds f
thousands more lives."
Chairman Nelson, as an index of
the nation's productive effort, esti
mated that approximately 36 per
cent of the U. S.'s record breaking
income during the first six months
of this year went into military chan
nels. This compares, he said, tc
the 50 to 75 percent of total income
being spent by Great Britain and
Germany.
The War Production board an
nounced it will concentrate produc
tion of civilian goods in certain
plants and regions as much as pos
sible. The board said, as a general
rule, small plants will be kept in
civilian production and large plants
will be required to suspend civilian
production. Civilian production will
be restricted or suspended in re
gions where labor is urgently need
ed in war plants or where power
shortages are likely to occur.
Rationing
Price Administrator Henderson
reported gasoline coupon counter
feiters had been peddling bogus ra
tion books in the East and stated
these "Saboteurs attacking our war
program" will be prosecuted prompt
ly and vigorously. All persons
found to be in possession of the
counterfeit books, he said, are li
able to have their regularly issued
ration books either revoked or with
held. Because of delays in obtaining
gasoline rationing coupon books, the
OPA said service stations may sell
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County Bicycle Ration
For August is Two
Portland, Or., July 27. Oregon
OPA headquarters today was advis
ed by Washington, D. C, that twice
as many adult bicycles could be
rationed by the local war price and
rationing boards during the month
ahead, as were available this month.
The August reserve quota is six
times greater than the July reserve.
The August quota for Multnomah
county alone, approaches the entire
state quota for July.
The August state quota is 664 bi
cycles, with 240 more in the state
reserve. The July quota was 332,
with 40 in the reserve.
The county quotas announced to
day by Richard G. Montgomery,
Oregon OPA director, follow: Baker
8, Benton 12, Clackamas 32, Clatsop
14, Columbia 12, Coos 18, Crook 4,
Curry 2, Deschutes 12, Douglas 14,
Gilliam 2, Grant 4, Harney 4, Hood
River 8, Jackson 24, Jefferson 2,
Josephine 10, Klamath 26, Lake 4,
Lane 42, Lincoln 8, Linn 20, Mal
heur 8, Marion 50, Morrow 2, Mult
nomah 224, Polk 10, Sherman 0, Til
lamook 8, Umatilla 14, Union 10,
Wallowa 4, Wasco 8, Washington 28,
Wheeler 0, Yamhill 16.
BUIIMAN'S FETED BY FRIENDS
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Buhman,
who will leave before the beginning
of school for their new home at
Lakeview, were honored Sunday by
a picnic tendered by friends with
whom they formerly associated here.
Included in the party were Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Baldwin from Uma
tilla, Mr. and Mrs. Crocket Sprouls
of Hermiston, Mr. and Mrs. John
Turner of Baker and Hubert Gaily
of Pendleton who joined Mrs. Gaily
here for the event.
SUSTAINS BROKEN ARM
Lee Scritsmier sustained a broken
arm Monday morning at the mill
on upper Rhea creek when he be
came mixed up with a belt on ma
chinery under the mill. He was
brought to town by his brother Har
old, who assists in the Scritsmier
lumbering operations, and received
treatment by a local physician.
Volume 59, Number 18
Modern Woods
Town Fast Taking
Form In Local Area
Wineland Lake to
Take 5 Million Feet
Of Logs This Year
Five million feet of logs many of
them from within the boundaries of
Morrow county will go into Wine
land lake this season. There they
will have their first view of a mod
ern mountain village, Camp 5, thank
you, end of Kinzua Pine Mills log
ging railroad and head base for its
widespread logging operations in
Morrow and adjoining counties.
The 14-acre lake, into which the
logs will start rolling within ten
days, is a combination natural and
artificial lake. Its improvement has
been no little task, says Carl Cole
man, woods uperintendent for the
large lumbering concern, who now
is rapidly pushing a modernly en
gineered village to completion for
housing the 250 people expected to
reside there in the next few months.
Logging operations will be carried
on throughout the winter.
One task that baffled in clearing
the lake was that of removing a
large acreage of rushes. The job is
n't yet complete, but a big part of
the solution came when Mr. Cole
man conceived of connecting a long
cable between a locomotive on the
railroad on one side of the lake, and
a tractor on the road on the other
side and dragging it along the rushes'
roots. The plants were thus made
into a floating lake which still re
mains to be bailed out.
Unlike the storied lumber camp
bunk houses are the many small
dwellings, constructed in permanent
manner that are being erected to
house the woods folk. Designed af
ter the fashion of small, modern city
dwellings, they will be decorated
within and painted without, and
contain all modern household facil
Contivued on Page Eight
BONDSALES OFF;
TWO DAYS LEFT
Morrow county was $8000 be
hind it July war bond sales quota
thus morning, reported P. W. Ma
honey, county sales chairman,
with only two days remaining in
which to make up the deficiency.
Total sales so far for the month
were $16,500, with the July quota
set at $24,000.
While speed of buying has slowed
up in the county due to the stress of
harvesting operations, Chairman Ma
honey believes there are not yet as
many people buying bonds and
stamps regularly as there should be.
He reasserted the goal of the nation
al treasury department to have ev
eryone with an income apply at
least 10 percent of the total to the
purchase of war bonds and stamps.
"The money must come to pay for
the arms and equipment for the
fighting forces; spent for war bonds,
it will withdraw money from circu
lation that would otherwise add to
inflationary price tendencies, and
besides remain as a cushion for the
individual against days of depres
sion following the war," the chair
man emphasized.
Scott McMurdo, who visted his
brother Bernard and wife in Port
land this week from San Diego, in
forms his parents, Dr. and Mrs. A.
D. McMurdo, that he was flying
back to San Diego yesterday. As
petty officer third class he will go
on active duty at the San Diego nav
al hospital in charge of a 50-bed
ward.
Mrs. Leonard Gilman arrived
Friday from her home at San Die
go, Cal., for a visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan D. McCurdy.
Mr. Gilman is a member of the U. S.
border patrol.
Drying Hinterland
Brings First Fires
A half-acre fire in Dixon canyon
and a 160-acre fire in the Monument
section heralded an increasing haz
ard from fire in the timbered area
this week, as prolonged sunshiny
days are drying out the timbered
region.
The Dixon fire, inside the timber,
was subdued with slight damage.
The Monument fire, in the juniper
country outside the timber threat
ened nearby grain fields and called
out most of the residents of Monu
ment and vicinity before it was put
under control.
The entire town of Monument
"closed shop" to answer the fire call,
and the local forest office praised
highly the work of volunteers.
Ripened grass in the lower regions
of the forest already contribute to
a hazardous fire condition, the local
office reports, in further admonish
ABSENT THIS WEEK
With arrival of press time today
the Gazette Times had failed to
receive reports from its Hardman,
lone and Lexington correspond
ents. Our Chit-Chat reporter be
ing out of town, leaves this feature
missing from the columns this
week. We regret these absences.
Morrow Farmers Lay
Up 'Future Payments'
Members of the Hardman National
Farm Loan association, whose char
tered territory is Morrow county,
are taking President Roosevelt's ad
vice to pay their debts and thus
"provide a form of insurance against
post-war depression," John J. Wight
man, president of the association,
declared this week.
"Since last fall," Mr. Wightman
reported, "our members have set up
future payment funds totalling more
than $18,000 with the Federal Land
Bank of Spokane. These future pay
ment funds are designed to protect
land bank and land bank commis
sioner borrowers against possible
lean' years in the future when they
may not be able to make their reg
ular payments. The funds earn in
terest at exactly the same rate the
borrower pays on his loan, so he
saves as much interest as if he paid
it on his loan right now, and he
gets the future protection besides.
"This is concrete demonstration
of the fact that farmers haven't for
gotten the lessons of the last war, or
of the more recent years when crops
and prices were both low.
"As a matter of fact," Mr. Wight
man said, "money going into the
future payment fund is doing double
duty. All over the country farmers
are remembering these old lessons,
and the land bank is taking in more
money than it is loaning out. The
result is that in the past year the
bank has bought more than five
million dollars of government bonds.
And that's carrying out the presi
dent's idea, too, because as he said
recently in a letter to the secretary
of agriculture, repayments to cred
iors will enable them to buy more
war bonds, thereby contributing
materially to the war effort. I can
not emphasize too strongly the need
for a continuation of the construct
ive policy of the Farm Credit ad
ministration and its cooperating
borrowers."
BOARD OFFICERS NAMED
Alva W. Jones was recently ap
pointed district office manager for
several counties, including Morrow,
to administer price control and ra
tioning board work. Pat Mollahan
was named chairman . of the local
board, succeeding Mr. Jones.
Henry Peterson, in the city Mon
day from the Gooseberry farm, an
nounced that his son, Henry Thea
dor, had enlisted in the navy.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hall and small
son from Rawlins, Wyoming, visited
relatives and friends here the end
of the week.
Heppner, Oregon,
ing all forest users to take extreme
precautionary measures at all times.
The higher reaches are not in as
critical condition, but are fast reach
ing the tinder stage.
Attention is again called to the
fact that only those having business
within the Kinzua and Heppner
Lumber company slash areas are
permitted entrance and these only
upon issuance of special permit. All
forest areas, except on main grav
eled highways are closed to entrance
except by permission, and no smok
ing is allowed while traveling except
on the main traveled gravel high
ways. Cooperation of each individual in
preventing fires and assisting in
fighting such as may occur when
called upon will materially aid in
breeching the fire season with the
least possible damage to this great
resource, the officials say.
FOOD MEETINGS
STARTING TODAY
Food preservation demonstra
tions at which Lucy Case, nutrition
specialist from Oregon State col
lege, will demonstrate methods of
canning, drying and freezing are
getting under way in Morrow
county today with demonstra
tions at Irrigon and Coardnian.
Demonstrations will be held to
morrow, Friday, from 2 to 4 p.m. in
the grange hall and from 8 to 10 p.m.
in the grange hall at Lexington.
Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. a demon
stration will be held in Heppner in
the basement of the Methodist
church. Methods of food preserva
tion requiring less sugar will be
demonstrated and discussed by Miss
Case and should be of interest to
all housewives.
Home food preservation is import
ant in the Food for Victory program
this year as it will not only insure
the family a year-round food sup
ply but will also help release com
mercial canned vegetables and fruits
for the armed forces and also the
lend-lease.
All homemakers are urged to at
tend the demonstration most con
venient to them.
Dallas Ward Takes
Bride at Iowa City
Mrs. Lawrence Redding has an
nounced the wedding of her son,
Lt. Dallas Carl Ward and Miss Jane
Ann Helwig at Minneapolis, Minn.,
on July 18.
The ceremony was performed at
the Church of the Ascension. Miss
Dorothy Helwig, sister of the bride,
was her only attendant. Earl Loose
was best man and Charles B. Wil
kinson and Earl Svendsen were
ushers. Mrs. Ward is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George Helwig of
Minneapolis. Mr. Ward, native Mor
row county boy and graduate of
Lexington high school and Oregon
State college were he was promin
ent in athletics, held the position of
freshman football coach at Univer
sity of Minnesota before entering
the navy. He is now stationed un
der Major Bernie Bierman at Iowa
City, Iowa, where he and Mrs. Ward
are at home.
REMODELING BUILDING
Art Stefani started remodeling
operations this week on the former
Patterson & Son building which he
recently purchased, preparing it for
occupancy by Heppner bakery. The
building will be made into modern
and attractive quarters for the bak
ery operated by Mr. and Mrs. G. A.
Sanders.
DR. LAWRENCE GOES MONDAY
Dr. R. C. Lawrence, recently call
ed into service as an officer in the
army reserves, expected to leave
next Monday evening for Fort Doug
las, Utah, where he will report for
service.
Thursday, July 30, 1942o
Grain Storage
Facilities Nearing
Completion
Cribbing at Lex to
Be Finished Today,
Heppner, lone Soon
What appeared a few weeks ago
as a bottleneck in taking off this
year's bumper wheat crop in Mor
row county has been almost over
come. New storage capacity at Lex
ington, with last of cribbing going
into place today, will be ready to
receive wheat the first of next week
if plans materialize, reports D. W.
Glasgow, manager of Morrow Coun
ty Grain Growers who took the lead
in enlarging the county's grain stor
age capacity, congestion of which
with hold over wheat from last year's .
big crop and the sack shortage led
to a widespread commercial and
farm storage building program.
Addition to Heppner facilities is
progressing at the rate of six feet a
day and the cribbing here will all
be in place next week, Glasgow said.
Work at lone is not so far along, but
will be rushed by moving the big
crew from Lexington as soon as the
work is finished there. The lone
construction has so far been handled
with a short crew.
Difficulty in straightening out pri
ority ratings for materials, and then
in obtaining the materials them
selves, complicated by the difficult
labor situation caused much delay
in building the needed storage fa
cilities. This was not only true of
the commercial extensions but of
the many new granaries installed on
farms as well.
A number of ready-made bins
distributed by Commodity Credit
corporation for storage of wheat
going into loan with that organiza
tion has helped relieve the situation.
While harvest is now in full swing
in the lower country, deliveries to
town have been held up because of
the storage situation, Glasgow said.
Farmers and warehouses have co
ordinated their efforts to help each
other along, some farmers laying off
cutting wheat to do needed weeding
of summerfallow while space was
being cleared for new wheat, and
the warehouses trading space, rush
ing construction and otherwise do
ing all possible to facilitate steady
movement of the new crop as it is
being cut.
Yield average on the whole now
appears to be well up with last
year on reports from fields that
have been cut. In spots the yield
is below a year ago, while in other
spots it is more. The grain is gener
ally lighter than a year ago, but still
largely grading number one, accord
ing to the grain growers manager.
Wheat cutting in the upper coun
try is just starting, with a few de
liveries of new wheat having been
made at Heppner.
Grain in the higher country was
more in the "soft dough" stage at
the time of the heat wave the latter
part of June, and indications are
that smaller grain will be harvested
than that threshed in the lower
country.
NEW YORK SAID HOT
In a recent letter received by Mrs.
F. W. Turner from Jeanette Koehn
ke, a former teacher here who now
resides in New York City, related
of having the coolest apartment in
a certain block in the metropolis,
and at the time of writing the tem
peraure was 105 degrees, with wet
sheets at the window and fans going
NAMED DEPUTY SHERIFF
Elaine Sigsbee, manager of Star
theater here and Liberty theater at
Condon, was recently appointed
deputy sheriff of Gilliam county, to
take office the first of August.
Charles Overby, assistant super
visor of the Umatilla National forest
with headquarters at Pendleton, was
a business visitor in the city yesterday.
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