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a O G 2 t td ri o r- o ?o o h o : r X . c - U U W H O O O 70 ;o fT - O c :-- r- w o o n H - Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, December 31, 1942 Volume 59, Number 40 To All Our Boys We Wish Them Luck Where E'er They roam May the New Year Send Them Marching Home! 7 i r 1 i -yw"w,rtr 7 a si a w m warn mm m sui mh u a Victorious 1943 S v;- .... i nere's a new spirit in this New Year's Day of 1 943. As we ring out the old and ring in the new ... we hear, too, the clanging of factory bells calling American workers to the pro duction lines ... we hear the ever swelling roar of American planes and tanks and guns . . . and we hear the jingle jangle jingle of our cash registers as we ring up more sales of U. S. War Bonds. Your Morrow County mrchantsare proud to have a share in ringing out the Axis . . . and ringing in the new day, when Liberty Bells will be heard again throughout the world. Work Is Chief Pastime Of Women's Army "One thing the WAACs do and that is work and plenty of it. But work never hurt anybody and it is good to be a WAAC So said Lt. Rose Liebbrand Wednesday eve ning as she addressed a group of men and women in the Christian church parlors under the auspicies of the American Legion auxiliary. Miss Liebbrand graduated with rating of lieutenant, Dec. 24 from the WAAC's officers school at Fort Des Moines, Iowa and was given 14 spending in Heppner visiting with friends before returning to Ft. Des Moines to take up her duties as in structor in the WAAC administra tive specialist school. There are several schools of in struction for the various branches of " the women's service corps cooks and bakers, office personnel, radio, air corps ground, and motor transport, to name a few. Where ever a girl's previous training tick ets her, there she is placed for in tensive training preparatory to as suming her place on the 69 fight ing fronts of the armed forces. The air corps is demanding tens of thousands of WAACs for non combative service; the army needs thousands more; the air craft warn ing service needs 50,000 to corry on in the filter stations on the east and west coasts for every woman trained for administrative work re leases more men to the combat service. And each WAAC enlists for the duration and six months. One hundred twenty WAAC re cruiting officers are now on duty throughout the entire United States. One million women 21 to 45 years old are neededd. If they fal to vol unteer, conschiption is next. Fort Des Moines has facilities to turn out 1500 girls each week and to re ceive a like number. Other training centers are being established. Day tona Beach, Fla., and Ft. Oglethorpe Ga., have just recently been equip ped to receive 1000 recruits each week. .The women are given four weeks drill in military customs and courtesies, then either assigned in officer specialist's training school Continued on Page Six Mustangs Ready For Hoop Season Jim Barratt With already a record of three victories with no defeats behind them, the Heppner Mustangs are now getting in shape for the Big Wheat League opener with the Ar lington Honkers here Jan. 8. Al though the Honkers have been beaten several times this season, they always play their best against Heppner and a tough game is ex pected. Led by flashy All-state Clough and their elongated center, McClaskey, the Honkers are con sidered by the Mustangs as the big gest obstacle keeping Heppner from repeating the winning of the league championship won last year. With only 10 games to be played due to the present emergency, the smallest schedule in years has been drawn up by the Mustangs. This is quite a change from last season's schedule in which 26 games were played. Although only two lettermen Barratt, forward and Drake, center, are back this year, the team has been greatly bolstered by transfer lettermen in Bucknum from Her miston, Shideler from Grant high and Runnion from Wyoming. Up Continued on Page Eight WHO CAN AND WHO CANNOT BUY COFFEE A person who was 14 years old at the time of his regis tration for War Ration Book One and is now 15 years old is NOT entitled to use War Ration Book One for coffee. Only a person whose age is shown as 15 years or over on Book One is eligible to use his book to buy coffee. Mrs. Francis Loans Piano to Soldiers When a group of Heppner people visited Camp Heppner Wednesday evening of last week several were heard to remark, "Where did they get the piano?" In answer to that question, members of the local unit of the Blue Mountain Camp and Hospital Council of the Red Cross announce that Mrs. Rose French Francis was the lender, and the council has asked that the coun cil's thanks be extended through the columns of this newspaper. The recreation hall at the camp has been fitted up quite comfor tably and with the addition of table lamp, card tables, easy chairs, davenports and other pieces of furniture, donations of which the council is seeking, the soldiers will be well fixed for relaxation. Food Rationing Fails to Disturb Heppner Dealers Secretary Wickard's announce ment of a food rationing program scheduled to go into effect on or about Feb. 1, 1943 failed to create much disturbance in local food re tail circles, a canvass of business houses revealed early this week, ealers are at a loss to know how the program will be carried out but feel it is a situation that must be met and that they will solve it when actual rationing begins. Although aware of the secretary's announcement, retailers have no more information on food rationing than have their customers. Until such information arrives they are not committing themselves upon the workability or advisability of the program. They have seen the workings of sugar, coffee and gaso line rationing and feel sure the ex tended rationing will work smooth ly as soon as dealers and customers understandd all phases of it One dealer stated that he had not waited for general rationing in estab Continued on Page Six t