Farm War
News
FARM LUMBER RATINGS
Higher preference ratings have
been assigned to orders for lumber
used in agricultural Construction.
The ratings, AA-3, and AA-4, may
be applied by farmers to obtain
lumber for maintenance and repair
of farm buildings, to reconstruct
buildings destroyed or to construct
storage facilities, barns, ets. The
new regulations permit dealers to
pass on these ratings to replace
lumber sold out of inventory.
MORE STEEL FOR MACHINERY
An additional 50,000 tons of steel
have been allocated for manufac
ture of farm machinery, increasing
the allotment for the first quarter
of 1943 by 30 percent. Reports in
dicate that a good part of the ad
ditional steel will go into repair
has requested that labor-saving
parts. The Oregon USDA war board
types of. haying machinery be given
first priority on any increases in
state quotas.
ALFALFA CEILING
The new OPA regulations will set
specific maximum prices prices for
alfalfa hay. The ceiling prices will
reflect parity, or approximately
$19.50 a ton, loose, on tihe farm.
Smooth Dry Peas
To Be Crop On
Oregon Farms
Oregon farmers' will plant in ex
cess of 20,000 acres of smooth dry
edible peas this season, judging
from reports from county agents
received by E. R. Jackman, exten
sion crops specialist at Oregon State
college. These peas are in great de
mand this year by the government
for general use as a substitute for
meat, as they are especially high in
protein.
In addition to being listed as a
war crop, the dry peas will qualify
growers for incentive payments for
the AAA for all acreage above 90
percent and up to 110 percent of the
farm goal. The incentive payments
amount of $15 an acre.
Guaranteed prices have also been
offered for the 1943 smooth crop
amounting to $5.50 a hundred for
U. S. No. 1 peas and $5.25 for No.
2 grade at farmer's shipping point.
Columbia basin wheat counties,
where moiisture is abundant this
year, will lead in acreage, Jackman
reports, although the Willamette
valley and some irrigated sections
in other parts of the state will
have sizeable acreages.
These peas have been grown for
many years at branch experiment
stations in eastern Oregon, where
they usually make far better yields
than any of the small grains in
areas where they can be grown at
all. At the Union branch station
yields in excess of 2000 pounds per
acre have been obtained over a 14
year period. Yields up to 1000
pounds are more more common in
less productive areas.
Jackman recommends using the
Alaska variety for the lower yield
ing sections of the Columbia basin,
with White - Canada or First and
Best in the irrigated sections. Any
of the three will do well in the
Willamette valley.
Early planting as soon as the
ground can be worked, or around
the first week in March for most
of the state is recommended. Seed
ing is at the rate of about 100
pounds per acre, except when seed
ed in rows in the drier parts of the
Columbia basin, when much less
is needed.
Inoculation is essential for best
results unless peas have been
grown previously on the land. In
oculating materials may be ob
tained from the state college.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their kindness, words
of sympathy, and floral offerings
extended to us in the loss of our
daughter and sister.
Mrs. Verl Frederickson
Donald Frederickson
PINE CITY NEWS
Ey BERNIC3 WATTKVBURl'lER
Mr. and Mrs. A. E .Wattenburger
spent Saturday and Sunday in Pas
co visiting their son Earl and fam
ily. Dinner guests Monday evening at
the Marion Finch home were Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Barns, and Mr. and
Mrs. E. B. Wattenburger and fam
ily andDawse Adams. Later in the
evening Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Myers
and Clayton Ayers joined them.
The evening was spent in playing
cards.
JVTr. and Mrs. John Healy received
word that their son Jack expects to
be home on a furlough about Feb.
23. He is in the navy.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Moore
spent Tuesday in Pendleton.
Mrs. Marion Finch and Mrs.
Dawse Adams were shoppers in
Heppner on Monday. Also Tom
Healy.
Tony Vey lost his small white
house on the Morris place by fire
Monday. Cause was an overheated
stove.
Mrs. George Currin was a Pen
dleton visitor Saturday.
LIBRARIES STRESSING
VICTORY BOOK DRIVE
A drive for books for use in ar
my camps and hospitals is under
way and will continue until March
9. Books are sorely needed, good
books the kind you would like to
keep. Because of shortage of ship
ping space it is urged that books of
the highest quality, the best sellers,
be contributed.
Directors of the campaign wish to
impress upon prospective contri
butors that magazines are not
wanted. They urge that after you
have read your new book you pass
it for the benefit of members of
the armed forces.
Heppner Gazette Times, February 1 1, 1943 5
Joseph C. Grew Warns
Half-Effort Will Not Defeat Japan
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By JOSEPH C. GREW
United States Ambassador to Japan until the outbreak of tear, and author of
"Report From Tokio."
(Written for the Treasury Department in connection with the Retailers' "SAY YES"
campaign to complete the nation's 100,01)0,000 partially tilled War Stamp albums.)
VyASHINGTON, D. C In de
' scribing one of the big air
battles over Guadalcanal a recent
newspaper account tells of an Amer
ican flyer who parachuted from his
crippled plane to the waters of
Lunga Bay. The Navy craft which
picked him up next went to the res
cue of a Japanese pilot seen strug
gling in the water nearby. As the
rescue boat reached the Japanese
flyer he suddenly pulled out his re
volver, aimed it at the drenched
American pilot and pulled the trig
ger. The cartridge failed to explode.
Then the Japanese officer turned the
gun on himself with suicidal intent.
Again he pulled the trigger and
again his revolver failed him. At
this point an American sailor
knocked him out with a boat hook
and pulled him aboard the Ameri
can craft a prisoner. "
Almost daily one reads eye-witness
stories such as this one, and all
of them clearly demonstrate that
war with our enemy in the Pacific
cannot end in compromise.
For ten years I lived in Japan.
The truth as I know it from close
observation is this: Nothing less
than the exertion of our maximum
capacities, individually and collec
tively, in a war of offense will bring
our beloved country safely to the
longed-for haven of victorious peace.
The Japanese are pawns of a
senseless but mighty militarism
a warrior caste which is ruthless and
cruel beyond comprehension.
From the flood of eye witness ac
counts of atrocity and bestiality one
f
JOSEPH C. GREW
Says It's Fight to Finish
fact shines clear. We must utterly
crush that machine and caste and
system. If, however, we Americans
think that collectively and individu
ally we can continue to lend our nor
mal lives, leaving the spirit of self
sacrifice to our soldiers and sailors,
we shall unquestionably run the risk
of a stalemate with Japan. I do nut
have the slightest doubt of our even
tual victory. But I do not wish to
see the period of our blood, sweat
and tears indefinitely and unneces
sarily prolonged. We must not fail
to realize that we are up against a
powerful fighting machine, a people
whose morale cannot be broken even
by successive defeats and untold
economic hardship, a people who
gladly sacrifice their lives for their
Emperor and their nation. We must
also remember that Japan did not
start this war without carefully laid
military plans for victory over the
United States and a peace dictated
by their war lords at the White
House.
This is a total war, the only an
swer to which is a total American
victory. It is a war in which hah)
measures of any kind mean incredi
ble waste of material, energy and
human life. In this sense a half
filled War Savings Stamp album is
symbolic of a half effort. There are,
I am told, roughly 100 million par
tially complete War Stamp albums
now in circulation. These uncom
pleted Stamp albums are, in a meas
ure, like a 100 million threats to a
speedy and victorious peace. On
ty other hand, for every War Sav
ings album completed and cashed in
for a Bond, you the owner have
helped some soldier or sailor take a
forward step on the uphill road to
total victory, u. S. , Doartmci
About three -fourths of all sports
equipment now being manufactured
goes to members of the armed ser
vices and to those receiving pii.'
inductiion military training.
Allied troops fighting in North
Afrca are familiar with ratioining
of the scarcest commodity there
water. From private to general, wa
ter rations are identical.
VICTORY TAX DEDUCTIONS
The following information on the
5 percent Victory tax as it applies
to farm laborers was received from
Paul Carpenter, extension econo
mist in marketing for Oregon.
An agricultural laborer is liable
for payment of the 5 percent Vic
tory tax provided he earns more
than $12 a week, $52 a month or
$620 a year. Board and room, com
puted at the prevailing rates in the
community, being part of the la
borer's income, is included in the
amount on which the tax must be
paid. Payments of the Victory tax
under present statutes 'will be made
by the laborer March 15. 1944, in
connection with his return for 1943.
"Agricultural labor" for these tax
purposes is defined as in the social
security act.
Employers as "agricultural labor"
are not required to make the 5 per
cent deduction and have no respon
sibility relative to payment of the
tax.
The covering statute is Public
Law 753, 77th congress 2nd ses
sion, the Revenue Act of 1942, sub
chapter D, part II, Section 465, sub
section (b), page 100.
IN HOSPITAL
Henry Schwa rz has entered the
hospital at The Dalles for treat
ment. He has been ailing for some
time but insisted on working until
it became evident he could carry
on no longer. It is hoped that a good
rest and proper care will restore
him to normal health.
JOINS MEDICAL CORS
Bob Walker, popular young ton
sorial artist at the Coxen shop, re
turned from Portland Tuesday
where he took hisi physical exam
ination for entrance, in the military
service. He has been assigned to the
medical corps and will report at
Fort Lewis.
HERE FROM PENDLETON
Mrs. Walter McNeill of Pendleton
and Miss Rae Cowins, student at
St. Joseph's academy, Pendleton,
were week-end visitors at the
home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. G. Cowins.
FOR SALE Fresh milk cows.
Ralph Butler, Arlington Ore. 46p
TO SHEEPMEN All Lindelaine
ram lambs will be raised under
contract for the coming year. 'If
you are interested in these good,
half-blood rams or in 85 head of
big, open-faced wide-horned
purebred yearling Delasne rams,
write before March 1, to Mason
Folsom, J. E. Smth. Livestock
company, RFD 2, La Grande,
Oregon.
ONE STEP WONT
GET YOU THERE
And One AD Won't Bring
Success-You Must Keep On
Advertising
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WO ITS
THIS
PAY LICEN
MONTH
After March 1st the price will be double
NOW
$1 for each male and spayed female
each female
MARCH 1st
and spayed female
each female
C. J. D. BAUMAN,
erriff and Tax Collector
ror
AFTER
$2 for each male
$h for
Sh
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