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Washington, D. C, Aug. 13 Farm
security administration is providing
nine camps in Oregon for migratory
workers, FSA advises Rep. Homer
Angell. One camp is stationary and
eight are mobile. The mobile camps
are moved to three locations during
the season, being shifted to where
the migrants are needed to attend
to the crops. In the permanent camp
there are 267 family dwelling units
with an individual capacity at any
one time of 1148. The eight mobile
camps have family dwelling units
for 1428 with an individual capacity
at any one time of 6140. Grand total
of family dwelling units 1695; total
individual capacity 7128. Despite
this number of migrants there is a
large shortage of labor for the farms.
Lt.-Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief
of the army air force, plans to set
tle in Oregon, somewhere in the
, Willamette valley. The general used
to fly at Eugene and is still enamored
of that section. As the war is occu
pying all of his attention, he has
sent Mrs. Arnold to Oregon to sur
vey for a home.
The tenant-purchase loans in Ore
gon are eligible in Clackamas, Coos,
Deschutes, Jackson, Lane, Linn,
Malheur, Marion and Wallowa coun
ties. There were 66 loans made as
of June 1, with a total of $594,909,
and there were on hand applications
for loans from 489. For each loan
made for the 1942-43 fiscal year
there were 23 applications for each
of 21 loans made. There are 3856
families known to the government
agency who are eligible but are not
receiving rehabilitation assistance.
After a year, filled with obstruc
tions, the plant site board has fin
ally approved the Oregon electric
steel rolling mill plant at Portland.
The plant will have a capacity of
30,000 tons a year. To date only
private money has been invested
not a red cent of taxpayer funds
amounting to several hundred thou
sand dollars. Plant site board raised
many reasons against authorizing the
plant; said there was no electric
power, no labor and, finally, that
the scrap the plant would require
was needed at the steel mills in Cal
ifornia and it should all be shipped
to San Francisco. The plant will use
about 130 workmen and is a perm
anent industry.
Henry J. Kaiser pulled the lid off
a military secret when he proposed
that 5000 70-ton cargo carriers be
built. Already under contract for
cargo and transport purposes are 20
percent of the army's multiple en
gine aircraft production and a con
fidential report of a special commit
tee of WPB was made a month ago
recommending an elaborate cargo
plane program. It also came into
the. blare of publicity that tons of
cargo have been taken to England
in the planes operated by the ferry
command; important freight, such as
medicine spare parts. Another mil
itary secret was that troops have
been sent by transport planes to
various parts of the country and its
possessions. When Kaiser made his
proposal army officers explained
that they were already using and
having made larger planes for freight
and transport, but not the size of a
70-tonner.
A postal star route running from
Baker south of Ontario needs a large
truck, for all the goods shipped in
comes via parcel post. The contrac
tor's present Ford is too small. Rep.
Walter Pierce went to the priorities
board to see about the contractor
being authorized to buy a truck. He
was told that no priority would be
given and the ranchers along the
route could drive to town to pick up
their parcels. "You wish to save
rubber and gasoline," said the con
gressman. "Instead of wearing out
School Bus Conserving
Will be Ration Basis
A plan of the national council of
chief school officers for conserving
school busses will be the "yardstick"
by which new vehicles will be al
located to school districts by the
ODT, Herman O. Sites, Oregon field
manager for the ODT motor trans- ,
port division was informed today.
Formally endorced by ODT direc- ,
tor Joseph B. Eastman, the plan
calls for reorganization of all school
bus routes, where needed, to elim
inate duplications, less-than-capa-city
loads, and unnecessary trips.
Applications for new equipment
previously on file with the alloca
tion section of ODTs motor trans
port division have been returned,
and new applications must be chan
neled through the various state
school heads, who will determine if
the request is justified under the
council's program.
Specific recommendations which
schools must adopt to meet the new
"yardstick" requirements include:
1. Transportation should not be
provided for pupils who have less
than two miles to walk. Exceptions
may be made for physically handi
capped children, those who would
be subjected to extreme danger or
physical hardships because of unus
ual conditions, and pupils who would
be required to leave home at an
unduly early hour and return after
dark.
2. Transportation should not be
provided for pupils who live in ar
eas served by public carrier routes.
3. Use of school busses should be
limited, to carrying pupils to and
one set of tires on the mailman's
car you think it better to have
20 or more farmers wear out their
tires driving as much as 100 miles."
In the government printing office
(the largest in the world) the proofs
have been taken for a universal ra
tioning book. When these books have
been distributed Leon Henderson
can, over night, announce rationing
of any article and it will come with
such suddenness that no one will
be able to rush to- the stores and
stock up. ' -
The book will have pages of var
ious colors and all Henderson will
have to do is to announce rationing
of something and designate the green,
or blue, or red page. Such is the
machinery being set up for the ra
tioning that is to come. One book
will serve for the rationing of any
article, even clothing.
There was so much confusion and
criticism over the sugar rationing
that this will not be repeated once
the books are in the hands of the
customers.
A
LUNCHEON
PLATE
That Hits the Spot
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.
Rural Areas
from school, or projects which are
a necessary part of the school pro
gram. This would eliminate the use
of busses for trips to such events
as athletic or music contests.
4. Staggering of hours for opening
and closing of schools in a given
area so that busses could serve two
or more schools on one trip. Thus
a bus might carry pupils for an
elementary school and also for a
high school which would not be
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SCOTTY'S Super Creamed
Ice Cream Store
on FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 -the first anniversary of their
arrival in Heppner for your friendship and patronage.
IN APPRECIATION
they are offering a SUPER SPECIAL
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ON THE ANNIVERSARY DATE
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reached until later.
5. Permission for pupils to stand
in busses where safety is not en
dangered. 6. Reduction of the number of
stops to a minimum.
The program of the chief state
school officers also calls upon school
boards to cooperate in arranging
for the use of school busses for the
transportation of war workers wher
ever needed, as long as basic school
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Oregon's 1100 rural fire protec
tion crews, organized this year by
the O. S. C. extension service, are
fitting in well with, the second
annual Keep Oregon Green cam
paign, aimed primarily at forest
protection but at field and farm
safety as well. At left Is an
emergency water tank and equip
ment station of the Irish Bend
district In Benton county which
displays a KOG sign. Above is
County Agent Stonewall Jackson
testing a trailer outfit consisting
of a 110-gallon tank, a washing
machine engine and 50 feet of
garden hose.
The electric generators on a big
U. S. battleship or carrier could fill
the electric power requirements of
a city the size of Newark, N. J.
Such warships have power plants
generating an outpiit two-thirds as
great as that of TVA's Norris dam.
The steel in one hand cornsheller
would make three 6-inch shells.
requirements also are met.
AUGUST 14
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