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(Summary of information on im
portant developments of the week
made available by official sources
through noon, EWT, Monday, Aug
ust 3.)
Price Administrator Henderson
announced that maximum gasoline
prices in the rationed area of the
17 eastern states and the District of
Columbia will be reduced 2V2 cents
a gallon beginning August 5. He
also announced reduction of 0.9 cents
for kerosene, 1.1 cents on distillates
and light heating oils, and 15 cents
a barrel on residual fuel oils.
Mr. Henderson said the reductions
were made possible under the re
cent agreement worked out by the
Office of Price Administration, the
Office of Petroleum Coordinator and
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion, whereby the Defense Supplies
Corporation will absorb the extra
costs for moving petroleum into the
Atlantic seaboard areas.
Commerce Secretary Jones report
ed the Defense Plant Corporation
will finance a two-point program to
convert existing steel dry-cargo
barges into tank barges to transport
oil, and to improve existing inland
waterways. The Bureau of Manes
estimated the national gasoline de
mand for July, August and Septem
ber will be about 17 percent less
than in the corresponding period last
year, eliminating the necessity for
a large winter accumulation of
stocks.
Consumer Supply and Maximum
Prices
President Roosevelt issued a state- .
ment that every user of fuel and
heating oil on the east coast "should
face realistically the fact that there
can be no guarantee that he will
get enough oil even to meet his
minimum needs." Petroleum Coor
dinator Ickes asked all sellers of fuel
and heating oils in the East to re
quest their customers to convert oil
burners to the use of coal or, other
available fuels. The Office of Solid
Fuels Coordinator reported bituin
ous coal stocks in storage in the U.
S. increased an estimated 5,850,000
tons in June, to a near-all-time
record. The office said consumer
stockpiles, however, continued in
sufficient to provide adequate pro
tection against possible shortages
during the fall and winter.
The OPA established a wholesale
ceiling price on milk and cream,
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FRANK TOUSLEY FLYING
Mrs. Frank Tousley went to La
Grande last week end to visit her
husband who is studying at that
city for civilian pilot training. He
expects to graduate the last of Aug
ust. Mr. Tousley trained hores at
the Rodeo grounds last fall and this
spring. Thornton Makison, who as
sisted him with the horse training
is in the army air corps stationed at
Hawaii. Mrs. Tousley reports that
Mr. Tousley has completed examina
tions for acceptance into the Civil
ion Pilots Training corps for train
ing as instructor for glider pilots.
Mr. Tousley passed the entrance
exams with an average of 97 and
was one of five men to pass the
exams.i After completion of" the
training course at La Grande he will
be transferred to 29 Palms, Cal., to
complete training as a commission
ed officer. He will be joined there
later by his family.
ENTERTAIN IN MOUNTAINS
A pleasant party was held at Hynd
Brothers company timberline ranch
on Sunday when Mr. and Mrs. Elvin
R. Schaffer and family entertained
and dined the following persons:
From Pendleton, Cecil Lieuallen,
Mrs. Cecil Lieuallen, Suzanne Lieu
allen, Frank Lieuallen, Mr. E. C.
Hosea, Mrs. Hosea, Bonnie Hosea,
Jimmie Hosea, Claudia Hosea; from
Ukiah, Charlie Hynd, Mrs. Charlie
Hynd, Lilias Hynd; from around
Morrow county, Charlie Luckman,
Walter Luckman, Paul Hisler, Mrs.
Paul Hisler, Joan Marie Hisler,
Francine Ann Hisler, W. G. Hynd,
David Hynd. A very happy day was
spent.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brosnan arrived
Saturday from their home at Port
land and visited until Monday after
noon at the home of Mr. Brosnan's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Brosnan,
at Lena.
Volume 59, Number 19
Late School Start,
m m mm
4-H hair, bet Action
Of Commerce Body
Camp 5 Relations
Committee Set; For
est Pictures Shown
Feasibility of delaying the opening
of schools at Heppner, lone, Lex
ington and Hardman for two weeks
will be investigated by Heppner
chamber of commerce on advice of
farmers that harvest may extend be
yond the scheduled opening time,
September 7, and that help of many
high school students now engaged
in the harvest will be sorely needed.
That was one item of business be
fore the dinner meeting before the
chamber Tuesday evening at Lucas
Place, with twenty persons in at
tendance. The chamber resolved in favor of
holding a one-day county 4-H club
fair or achievement day in Heppner
this fall at a time found convenient.
C. D. Conrad, county 4-H leader,
said that harvest labor conditions
have complicated the matter of set
ting a date, but hoped it could be
made soon enough to show produce
of the exceptionally large number
of boys and girls doing victory gar
den work.
A lively interest was exhibited in
the new Kinzua Pine Mills town at
Camp 5, now under construction
where 250 people are expected to
be housed within the next few mon
ths, and a neighborly relations com
mittee was authorized. The town
will be permanent logging headquar
ters for the big lumber company.
Consideration was given the mat
ter of use of the local CCC camp,
and opinion was paramount that
should the government desire to use
the camp for concentration of con
scientious objectors, the town would
express no opposition.
Kenneth House, chairman of the
Heppner Boy Scout executive com
mittee gave an interesting and de
tailed report of the Blue Mountain
council scout encampment which he
attended at Wallowa lake last week.
Edgar Parker, assistant in the local
forest office assisted with explana
tion of the Camp 5 development and
showed a large number of color
slides. The majority of the slides
showed native wild flowers, but
a number of landscapes taken from
mountain peaks in the local area,
and another group of airplane pic
tures taken over various parts of the
northwest added to interest of the
assemblage.
Blaine Elliott and George Sanders
were introduced at new members,
and affiliation of Mrs. Margaret
Phelps was announced by F. W.
Turner, secretary. President P. W.
Mahoney, presided.
18-20 BOYS SENT
QUESTIONNAIRES
' Morrow county local board mail
ed selective service questionnaires
to registrants of the fifth draft, 18
to 20 year group, order numbers
10275 to 10202 inclusive, on July 28.
As registrants of the fifth reg
istration reach their twentieth
birthday they will be mailed sel
ective service questionnaires ac
cording to present regulations.
Classification of registrants of the
fifth registration has been started
by Morrow county local board.
Clarence Hugh Currin has been
accepted for service in the Army of
the United States. He reported at
the induction station on August 4th.
Boyd Everett Redding has been
accepted in the U. S. Army Air
Corps Enlisted reserve.
Friends here have received word
from Mrs. Nellie Anderson, former
ly of this city, that she is now locat
ed in Salem, holding a position with
the state.
Credit Agency Sends
AW
216,000-Bu. Storage
Seventy-two 3000-bushel grain
storage bins have been received in
the county from Commercial Credit
corporation to relieve the congestion
of local storage facilities and assist
in caring for the 1942 crop, an
nounces the local ACA office.
Thirty of the bins have already
been set up, 15 were sold to indiv
idual farmers, and ten men are em
ployed in setting up the remaining
bins, which are going up rapidly.
Farmers who have wheat under
loan to the corporation, in storage
in the county and who are in need
of sacks should immediately advise
their warehouse and the sacked
wheat will be put in the bins to re
Many New Books
Received by Library
A fine assortment of new books
has been received by the Heppner
Public library. Included are:
The Just and the Unjust, James
Gould Cozzens, selected by the
Book of the Month club as the best
book of the month; Tinsley's Bones,
Percival Wilde; The Last Time I
Saw Paris, Elliot Paul; Assignment
in Brittany, Helen Mclnnes, who
wrote Above Suspicion, one of the
most popular books of the year;
Blood on Her Shoe, Medora Field;
See Here, Private Hargrove, by Mar
ion Hargrove; Majesty's Rancho,
Zane Grey; Frenchmen's Creek,
Daphne DuMaurier; Past Imperfect,
Ilka Chase; Brfath of Life, Faith
Baldwin; Only One Storm, Gran
ville Hicks; Trail Town, Ernest Hay
cox; Rock and the Wind, Vivien
Bretherton; Flying With the CAA,
Theiss; Seventeenth Summer, Mau
rine Daily; Ginger Lee, War Nurse,
by Dorothy Deming.
For children there are also a num
ber of new books: Away Goes Sally,
Coatsworth; Cumbo of the Circus,
Disney; Little Cat That Would Not
Sleep, Fox; Raggedy Andy Stories,
Gruelle; Oh Susannah, Halberg;
Hansi the Stork, Ludmann; Crybaby
Calf, Evers; Cowboy Tommy, San
ford Tousey.
County FSA Office
Moved to Pendleton
Borrowers have received notice
from the district Farm Security Ad
ministration office at Pendleton that
the Heppner office of that federal
agency has been consolidated with
the Pendleton office, and that Uma
tilla, Morrow and Gilliam counties
will in the future be serviced from
this office.
Since the distance involved would
eliminate all but correspondence
contacts with the Pendleton office,
arrangements have been made for a
monthly office day in both Heppner
and Condon. Beginning on Monday,
August 10, the supervisor may be
contacted at the Heppner hotel from
10 to 12 a.m., and at these hours on
the second Monday of each month
thereafter. In Condon at the Condon
hotel, the supervisor's hours will be'
1 to 4 p.m. the second Tuesday of
each month effective August 11.
IS NEW SAFEWAY BUTCHER
Don Larson of Pendleton, accom
panied by his wife and small son,
arrived this week to take the posi
tion of meat cutter at the Safeway
market. They are residing at the
Halton cabins. The Larsons wer
originally from Minnesota, and have
been in Oregon for four months
Mrs. Margaret Bennett visited in
the city Monday from Walla Walla
where she holds the position of sec
retary to, the military post com
mander. She was accompanied by
her son, Billy, and two friends from
Seattle, Miss Lucille Manion ard
Robert A. Byrnes. Billy remained
here at the country home of Mrs.
James Morgan to stay until school
starts. He attended the Boy Scout
camp at Wallowa last week and
passed his tenderfoot work.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 6, 1942g 2
lease the sacks, the office advises.
If bins are not already set up,
they will be right away for dump
ing '41 crop wheat under loan, and
more bins can be obtained if they
are needed.
. The office also advises that appli
cations for insurance on 1943 crop
are now being taken, and Louis
Bergevin of lone was announced as
the first applicant.
Merle Cummings, ACA secretary,
is now on vacation which he is util
izing by assisting in harvest at the
John Lane place as sack sewer. In
town this morning he announced
that Mr. Lane's Rex wheat is going
right at 40 bushels to the acre.
LOCAL SCOUTS
ENJOY OUTING
Kenneth House, executive council
chairman; Martin B. Clark, scout
mater, and six members of the local
troop joined the Blue Mountain
council Boy Scout encampment at
Wallowa lake last week. The troop
members were Lowell Rippee, Tom
Hughes, Billy Ulrich, Glenn Coxen,
Frank Gentry and Carter House.
Special recognition was given
the local boys for camp improve
ment, as they were privileged to
display a mounted elk head three
days out of the four they were in
camp, the mounted head being so"
displayed in front of the tent
showing the greatest amount of
improvement each day.
A complete schedule of supervis
ed activities covered the time the
boys were in camp, including hikes,
swimming and other sports. One of
the local boys was privileged to
make a horseback trip to Aneroid
lake, while most of the others, in
cluding Mr. House and Mr. Clark,
joined in a hike to the top of Mt.
Joseph. A spectacular court of hon
or, Indian style, featured Friday
evening's activities.
Fifty boys in all were in attend
ance including Dick Belt of Hermis
ton who the camp boomed for pres
ident in 1964.
Advancement to second class
scouts was made by Tom Hughes,
Lowell Rippee and Carter House,
while Billy Ulrich made three, merit
badges.
Organizations of the city contri
buted toward expenses of the trip.
Mr. House reported the trip to
the Lions club Monday and to the
chamber of commerce Tuesday eve
ning. JOHN McNAMEE PROMOTED
Oklahoma City, Okla., August 6.
Promotion of Private John L. Mc
Namee, formerly of Heppner, Ore.,
to the grade of private first class
has been announced by headquar
ters of the Oklahoma City Air de
pot. Private McNamee is a member
of an ordnance group at the depot,
newest establishment of the Air
Service command for the mainten
ance and repair of aircraft and the
training of air depot groups. Private
McNamee is the son of Mrs. Anna
E. McNamee of Heppner. He for
merly worked for the Beamer Oil
company, and has been on duty
since April 29.
Lee Pettyjohn, private first class
in the marines, enjoyed visiting
Heppner friends last week end while
in the county on furlough from
Camp Elliott near San Diego. A
hard-hating back on the local foot
ball team before going into the ser
vice, Lee praises marine training
highly. Just as an example, he said
he weighs 15 pounds more than he
did upon entering the service while
still wearing the same size clothes;
He has seen many screen and radio
stars who have appeared for camp
entertainments, and too still does a
little footballing for recreation.
Wanted Young saddle pony.
Write Box 61, Heppner. 19p.
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Causes $25,000 Fire
At Kinzua Pine Mills
. Heroic Work of Mill
Hands, Neighbors
Subdues Bad Start
An over-heated motor started a
fire, estimated at less than $25,000
in the Kinzua Pine Mills planing
plant and factory last Friday after
noon, reports "The Pine Log," mill
mimeographed newspaper.
"Kinzua employees with material
aid from Fossil men, and men from
surrounding ranches battled for four
hours with a persistent blaze that
swept under the factory and plan
ing mill floors," the report said, con
tinuing: In the words of Mr. J. F. Coleman,
vice president and general manager,
"The only reason the whole plant
didn't burn is because the men and
women just wouldn't let it."
Plunging into the smoking build
ing, crawling beneath the floors .,
searching out the flames, soaking
wet, smoke-sick men whipped the
fire to a standstill about 5 p.m. All
the courage of an army was shown
by these men and women.
The gas masks loaned by County
Defense Co-ordinator Joe Schott
were a material factor in letting the
men work in the smoke for long
periods.
Fortunately only two men suffer
ed injury. One was overcome by
smoke, but was dragged out and
given artificial respiration. Another
was jabbed in the back by a nail.
With the hazards involved: of suf
focating, smoke, water, swinging
tools, crowded departments full of
lumber, this low injury rate was no
thing short of remarkable.
Pumping facilities and water sup
ply were found to be more than ad
equate to take care of this fire.
Damage has been estimated at less
than $25,000.
Mr. J. F. Coleman laid immediate
plans for replacement of the vital
flooring areas so the plant will be
running by Monday, August 3.
The reconstruction work was bus
ily going before the mopping up
work on the fire was finished. At
the height of the fire, 14 2V2 inch
streams of water were counted.
All thankfulness was expressed
by officials of the Kinzua Pine Mills
company, Mr. E. D. Wetmore, pres
ident, of Warren, Pa.; J. F. Cole
man, first vice president and general
manager of Kinzua, for the valiant
efforts of the company employees,
and those of Fossil and surrounding
country men who rushed into the
work of extinguishing the blaze.
Budd Jones, insurance company
appraiser, was in Kinzua early Sat
urday morning and remarked he
had never seen such clean-cut ac
tion in getting a fire under control,
and starting the reconstruction
work so quickly,
The sawmill, woods and green
chain, and dry sort crews were op
erating their usual departments
Saturday, to produce the lumber so
badly needed in the war production.
DR. LAWRENCE LEAVES
Dr. R C. Lawrence departed
Monday evening for Fort Douglas,
Utah, to be inducted into the army
as a first lieutenant. He was ac
companied as far as Pendleton by
Mrs. Lawrence and daugters, Anne
and Patricia, who are maintaining
the home here.
Harold Dobyns, with the U. S. for
est service wild life department, in
charge of predatory animal control,
has been working in the local dis
trict this week. His headquarters
fire at Pendleton.
J. O. Turner, county defense co
ordinator, was in Salem last Thurs
day , to attend a state meeting of
defense workers.
Ivan Leathers of Monument was
a visitor in the city the first of the
week.
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