Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE.
Established March 30, 188J;
THE HEPPNER TIMES.
Established November 18, 1897;
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Official Paper for Morrow County
The Red Peril
In another column comes a plea
from Oregon's forest and wheatland
protective agency, Keep Oregon
Green, for everyone to enlist as a
committee of one to do everything
within his power to prevent occur
rence of fires and to aid in subduing
any fires that he can reach.
This is no idle patter. Forests and
grain fields are now in an incendi
ary stage, and a conflagration might
start at any time that would do
immeasurable damage to vital ma
terials needed in the war effort. The
grain and timber must be protected
at all costs, and should a fire emer
gency occur, everyone who can be
of assistance must leave tasks of th
moment and give aid.
State and national forest crews,
as well as logging crews, are primed
for any emergency and are ready
to take the lead should the "red
peril" show its jagged teeth of
flames, but in case of a large fire
these forces must be quickly aug
mented. Farm folk have also been geared
for fire emergency in the wheat
lands, but at any moment there may
occur an emergency when more help
is needed than that immediately
available. In such event all who
can assist must readily go.
Better That Way
In Germany or Japan, eight for
eigners who invaded the country
unwelcomely with intent of sabot
age would no doubt immediately be
lined up before a firing squad. And
probably that's the notion most of
us have about what should be done
to the eight men, similarly appre
hended here, who are now standing
trial in Washington.
It may seem peculiar that such
men could have recourse to the
country's highest tribunal to appeal -for
trial in the civil courts rather
than face a military judgment. That,
however, is what has happened and
the United States supreme court has
the appeal under consideration
No matter how we feel about so
much delay in executing justice
upon these individuals encouraging
further desperate attempts at this
nation's security, we must admit
that this is probably the only coun
try in the world where such an oc
currence could take place.
Those now facing judgment might
well consider the comparison of how
they are being treated in the coun
try they sought to desroy with how
they would have been treated had
they been captive similarly in the
country they were serving. Time
for a little remorse might not be
amiss.
PVT. WARFIELD PROMOTED
Pvt. Robert W. Warfield, son of
Jesse Warfield, of lone, has been
promoted to the rank of corporal in
the Army Air forces, and is station
ed at Hill Field, Ogden, Utah. Cor
poral Warfield enlsited in Septem
ber, 1941, and was sent to Fort
George Wright, Spokane, Wash. He
was formerly employed at the Nel
son Brothers ranch, near Lexington.
MORROW BOY IN IRELAND
Mrs. Frank Turner has received
a letter from Henry Rauch, Jr., who
was a student under her in the Lex
ington school, that he is now "some
place in Ireland" and likes it fine.
Army life is great, he said, but he
would like to be back in Mbrrow
county.
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"COLONEL, NOTHING I
Week of the War
Continued from First Pace
gasoline on a "coupon credit" basis
until midnight July 31.
The OPA increased tire and tube
quotas for August and said 90,000
bicycles will be made available for
rationing in August as compared
with 45,000 in July. The office said
only trucks engaged in services es
sential to the war effort or public
health and safety will be entitled to
recapped or new tires after July 28
under a drastic revision of the tire
rationing regulations. The OPA
published names and addresses of
field representatives who may be
called upon by tire dealers, recap
pers, truck operators and other us
ers of tires for aid in solving prob
lems arising under the rationing reg
ulations. Maximum Prices and Rents
Price Administrator Henderson
reported "Government controls of
prices and rents, where they are in
effect, are doing a good job of hold
ing down prices, but uncontrolled
food prices are flowing a definite
inflationary tendency." He said "the
total cost of food to city families
advanced 1.3 percent between May
15 and June 15, continuing the
steady upward price trend of the
previous four months and offsetting
the benefits of price control on all
foodstuffs covered by the general
regulation.
Mr. Henderson said housewives
and other members of the buying
public will acquire the legal right,
beginning July 31, to bring civil
suits for damages against any store
keeper who charges more than OPA
regulations permit. The purchaser
is entitled to recover $50 in damages
plus attorney's fees or triple the
amount of the overcharge plus at
torney's fees, whichever is larger
Similar suits may be filed in defense
rental areas against landlords who
collect rents above those permitted
by OPA orders. The office report
ed it has designated 370 areas as
defense rental areas and by August
1 rent regulations will become ef
fective in 94 of these areas.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard
announced a price adjustment and
subsidy program designed to easo
the temporary shortage of meats in
Eastern state and some- parts of
the mid-west. The OPA asked live
stock and meat packing industries
to maintain a supply of meats in all
normal trade channels rather thar;
concentrate shipments to large cit
ies where ceiling prices are relative
ly high.
The War Front
The Navy reported U. S. submar
ines in Far Eastern waters have sum:
another Japanese destroyer, a medium-sized
tanker, three cargo ships,
and possibly a fourth cargo ship.
The Navy said all of its large sub
marines are being fitted with cam
eras designed to fit over the eye
piece of the periscope to record the
results of submarine attacks on the
enemy. Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brere
ton, commander of the Air Forces
in the Middle East, said American
Air Forces caused heavy damage to
enemy docks and port installations
at Tobruk, Benghazi, Suda Bay and
Crete.
President Roosevelt said Admiral
William D. Leahy, former U. S. Am
bassador to Vichy France, has been
called back to active duty to serve
as chief of staff to him as command
er in chief of the armed forces Gen.
MacArthur reported from Australia
''Satogg Copyright 1942, 8. P. 0. ELKS
HE'S THE MAIL ORDERLYI"
that the new 2,500-mari Japanese
invasion force landed in the Buna-Ambasi-Gona
area in New Guinea
on July 22 has been subjected to
such damaging raids that few, if
any, Japanese ships are left in the
vicinity of the invasion. The Navy
announced 17 more United Nations
merchant vessels have been lost to
enemy submarines.
Army
The nine Army Corps areas were
reorganized and renamed "Service
Commands." The reorganization will
further decentralize the operation of
services of supply activity and elim
inate duplicating facilities. War
Secretary Stimson said 28,000 jaun
dice cases developed among Army
personnel in the U. S. and abroad
between January 1 and July 4, ap
parently due to the use of yellow
fever vaccine. Sixty-two deaths re
sulted. "There has been a change
in the form of yellow fever vaccine
now used which the Surgeon Gen
eral thinks will eliminate the whole
trouble," Mr. Stimson said. Direc
tor Hobby of the Womens Army
Auxiliary corps said 20 companies of
150 women each will be trained by
the end of this year and 25,000 wo
men will be trained by April 1943.
Taxation and Profits
The House passed and sent to the
Senate the War Revenue bill, esti
mated to yield about $6,300 million,
providing a 45 percent normal and
surtax income rate on corporations
and a 90 percent excess profits tax.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau
however, said a tax program of less
than $8,700 million of additional rev
enue would be inadequate. He rec
ommended removal of these "special
privileges": tax exemption for state
and municipal securities, exemption
from taxation of 27 percent of in
come from oil wells and mines, and
separate income tax returns by mar
ried couples.
The House Naval Affairs com
mittee, ' after investigating 40,000
contracts, said "95 percent of the
war contractors are doing an honest
and effective job and receiving only
fair and reasonable profits," the av
erage being 8 percent.
President Roosevelt reported the
recent scrap rubber collection drive
added 454,000 tons to the Govern
ment's stockpile exclusive of rub
ber in small piles still at service
stations and junk dealers. WPB
Chairman Nelson asked state and
local governments to lend their
trucks and workers to local salvage
committees to help transport scrap
material collections before winter
sets in. To keep steel furnaces goin?
at full capacity, more than 750,000
freight cars will be reuired to carry
scrap iron and steel, most of which
must be moved by trucks to rail
points.
The WPB extended the tin can
salvage program to 104 cities in ad
dition to 36 metropolitan areas pre
viously announced, because de-tinning
plant capacity requirements
have been increased from 250,000 to
40,000,000 tons. The board said the
government will requisition from
junk dealers all useless automobiles
those that cannot be repaired on a
practical basis to maintain the pre
sent peak movemen of automobile
scrap to mills. On the basis of a
questionnaire to 350 firms, the board
estimated 100 million pounds of es
sential chemicals could be realized
in the next 18 months if manufac
turers of war equipment began now
to recover wasted spray paints.
Heppner Gazette Times, July 30, 1942 -3
TRANSPORTATION
ON OREGON FARMS
AIDED BY GROUPS
Organization of county farm
transportation committees has been
completed throughout the state as
another step in the program to make
certain that Oregon agriculture con
tinues to give maximum support to
the nation's war effort, says William
L. Teutsch, assistant director of the
extension service at O. S. C.
Farm transportation and farm la
bor are recognized as two of the
major obstacles to maximum farm
production in Oregon, said Teutsch.
The farm transportation committees
will deal on a local basis with this
acute problem, just as county farm
labor committees are already deal
ing with the labor problems, he said.
The Oregon State grange took or
ganized action on the transportation
problem early last spring and spon
sored six district transportation con
ferences in April, in which repre
sentatives of the interstate commerce
commission and the college exten
sion service participated. The pre
sent committees are an outgrowth of
these conferences and result directly
from action of the Oregon USDA
war board.
Leading citizens in each county
have been chosen to serve on the
committers, while county agents us
ually serve as secretaries of the
committees and as county farm
transportation representatives on
the state highway advisory commit
tees appointed by Governor Sprague
at the request of John B. Eastman,
national director of the ODT. This
arrangement serves to coordinate,
so far as rural communities are
concerned, the committees working
on transportation in each county.
While normally 600,000 trucks are
produced and used annually for re
placing old trucks, only 130,000 new
trucks remained in the national pool
at the end of May for distribution
in the entire country. Farmers own
nearly one-third of the five million
trucks in the United States.
The county committees are charg
ed with keeping in close touch with
transportation problems In their own
areas, advising the proper agencies
of such problems, assisting in devel
oping cooperative transportation pro
grams, and initiating a general
movement among farm people fo
conservation of trucks, automobiles,
and tires.
NEIGHBORS ASSIST
Fourteen neighbors and friends
called at the Sam Turner farm in
Sand Hollow Sunday and assisted in
putting up Mr. Turner's hay crop,
Mr. Turner being prevented by ill
ness from doing the work.
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LUNCHEON
PLATE
That Hits the Spot
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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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Less Hay, More Feed
Grain for State, 1942
Less hay but somewhat more feed
grain will be produced in Oregon in
1942 than in 1941, according to crop
prospects information summarized
in a report on the agricultural sit
uation just released by the O. S. C
extension service. The hay and feed
grain production outlook in the three
Pacific northwest states combined
i3 similar to that of Oregon, but in
the country as a whole a larger hay
crop is expected than last year. Feed
grain production may be slightly
larger if the corn crop holds up in
condition as good as early in July.
With reserve stocks of hay nearly
cleaned up in Oregon, a smaller
crop of hay than last year and more
animals on hand, hay prices have
advanced materially in some local
ities compared with a year ago. Re
serve stocks of feed grains have
been reduced, also, but there is an
abundance of wheat, some of which
will be used for feed. The supply
of high protein feeds in the country
as a whole is expected to be larger
than last year.
In some localities in Oregon the
hay and feed situation is more fav
orable than the average, but sea
sonal conditions and the farm labor
shortage have made it difficult for
hay producers to put up as much
hay as last year.
During June this year the United
Sstates index of farm wage rates ad
vanced from 183 per cent of the 1910
1914 level to 202, the highest in 22
years. The advance brought the in
dex up to a level 26 per cent over
July 1941 in the whole country, but
in Oregon farm wage rates are near
ly 50 per cent higher than a year
ago.
The demand for farm labor is the
highest since 1920 and the supply of
farm labor is the smallest on record.
Washington is the only other state
in which farm wage rates have ad
vanced as much as in Oregon.
Ordinarily, July is the month of
greatest farm labor demands in Oie
gon, but there is much farm work
yet to be done in August, Septem
ber, and later.
Copies of the complete report may
be had through any county exten
sion office.
STAR Reporter
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