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Mrs. America Meets the War Being a stay-at-home is not only fashionable this summer, but it's a patriotic responsibility of Mrs. America and her family to ' travel only when necessary. Here's the way the Office of Defense Trans portation looks upon travel during this wartime summer. If you make a train or bus trip for any of the following six purposes it's non-essential travel: Trips to other cities to visit friends, trips home for the "week-end, sightseeing trips, trips to the theater, races or other places of amusement, any social travel or travel for pleasure, travel merely for the sake of going somewhere. Curbing unessential travel is im perative because of heavy troop movements and other military traffic. If Mrs. America hasn't made up her mind that wide variety in fur niture is out for the duration, she can be certain of that fact now that a WPB order has gone into effect cutting the number of existing pat terns allowed manufacturers. But they're fre! to select those patterns. It is expected that manufacturers will concentrate on the most de sired furniture, cutting out novelty items. Of course, it's no easy task being a furniture manufacturer these days, obtaining materials and labor. Many types of wood are not available for civilian goods for they're- needed for military uses, end metal is permitted furniture makers only for essential joining parts. But good old American in genuity has been able to get around the lack of metal, and comfortable and satisfactory furniture without isprings has been developed. As for upholstering furniture, there's a change in the stuffing used since fine down is reserved for army army sleeping bags, and kapok is in the navy now filling life boats. However, cotton wadding and some types of feathers are available. Be sides several varieties of plant fuzz are being tried. Mrs. America will have" until Oct. 31 to make her selection of foot wear with the new shoe stamp, number 18 in war ration book one. That's 11 days longer than the per iod of validity for stamp 17. The length of time assigned to the shoe stamps brings the rate of purchas ing to about the same as it was dur ing the period from 1936 through 1941. Here's good news on the textile situation. Improvement in wool sup plies in recent months is responsi ble for a relaxation of some restric tions of the WPB. For example, manufacturers no longer are re quired to use any part of their wool quotas blended with reprocessed or used wool or with other fibres. The choice of using wool quotas either for a production of 100 percent wool or blended civilian yarns and cloths is left to the manufacturer, Reporting on the cotton fabric pro duction, the WPB explained that production for the first quarter of 1943 exceeded that of the same per iod in 1942 by 27,000,000 linear yards. The new pay-as-you-go income tax law, which goes into effect July 1, has focused Mrs. America's in tention to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. As a matter of fact, the bureau will draw the interest of many women workers for most of the approximately 15.000 new em ployees added to handle the new tax system will be women- How ever, the addition of so many wo men employees is not new to the bureau. As far back as February, 1942 women employees made up to 42-8 percent of the total personnel. Although the majority of the women employees are clerical workers, many of them have been handling technical jobs requiring thorough knowledge of various tax laws. And now for encouraging news from the leather goods department. There should be more dress gloves and mittens, pocketbooks, hand bags, brief cases, tobacco pouche3 and key cases made of cattle hide and calf and kid skin leather on the market. These leather products for civilian use had been prohibited, but a WPB amendment will allow manufacturers to use until Decem ber 31 cattle hide and calf and kid skin leather for any purpose pro vided it was ordered prior to Feb. 17, 1943 and delivered before April 1. The letters "MR" on radio tubes made for home sets stand for "Maintenance and Repair" and they earmark tubes which are made from materials allocated for civilian sets. Speaking of radios, it is not necessary now to remove a radio from an automobile when selling the car or to get a special WPB authorization for such a transfer without removal of the radio It should be easy for Mrs. Amer ica to remember the point ' values set on the latest additions to the red stamp ration list, evaporated and condensed milk. Any number of small-sized cans whose total weight is one pound or less may be purchased for a single point. Al though one six-ounce can costs one point, two six-ounce cans also can be obtained with one point. When Johnny Doughboy comes home on a leave of absence he'll be able to obtain ration allotments to share with the family at whose table he eats. Formerly it was ne cessary for a member of the armed services to present his leave papers at the local war price and rationing board for a point certificate. Now a serviceman is provided with a com pleted application form before he leaves camp, and he turns it over to the person named as provider of board, having 15 days after the ser meals. The food provider then sub mits the application to the local viceman's furlough ends to do this. PINE CITY NEWS By BERNEECE WATTENBtTRGEB Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wattenberger and son Jean of Pasco spent Sat urday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McCarty. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Myers and family and Mss Frances Finch made a business trip to Walla Walla Monday. Heppner callers on business Mon day were Harold Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. John Healy, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch and daughter Patty, Mrs. George Currin and sons and Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wattenburger. Bill Finch and Mrs. Adams of Hermiston spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs- Marion Finch, Rain Sunday night and Monday stopped haying on the creek for Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch spent Monday evening with Mr. and Mrs Edwin Hughes. Mrs. George Currin' was called for jury duty at the spring term of court Elroy Moore who has been visit ing for two weeks in Seattle re turned Sunday evening to the Rus- Heppner Gazette Times, June 24, 1943 3 Wetmore Library Books Installed By Mrs. Harold Kirkham The Wetmore library board re ports that all books have been re ceived and that work on entering and classifying them has started. It is hoped to have the library open in the next few weeks. The chair man, Mrs- Marie Rhoton, reports that several donors have turned in some really good books, including one encyclopedia. Other board members are Mrs. H. N. Kirkham and Mrs. L. H. Knowles. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kirkham drove to Pendleton last week to meet Mr. Kirkham's brother who has recently arrived from the Brit sell Moore place to work during harvest. ish Honduras. He had been visiting his family before leaving the States again for Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Provo moved into the house recently occupied by the Eddie Myers family. Eddie has moved to his ranch at Fossil. Mr. and Mrs. Les Harris drove to Pendleton last week and brought their daughter "Cappy" back with them for a few weeks stay. Cappy attended school at Pendleton and is looking forward to working there this summer. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Betts received word late Friday from Yakima, Wash., that Mrs- Betts' father, Charles Wier, was critically ill at his home. Mrs. Betts will stay till his condition improves. Wallace Moore is up and playing again after a light case of measles, To buy, sell or trad, use the G-T advertising columns. Along the shores of the Great sels are being built for war services, Lakes and the Mississippi river, $765,000,000 worth of sea-going ves a figure more than twice as great as was spent by the navy in 1940 for all new naval construction. I Recruits Are Needed for r TROP nope rmrmmm mm Earn the respect and the gratitude of those on the home front and our sol diers overseas ...... The farmers in your com munity need your help in harvesting the crops this year so that we will be assured of an adequate food supply Put your summer spare time into vital work for the war effort and earn added dollars to buy those war bonds. JOIN THE LAND ARMY NOW! COXEN'S Barber Shop May I Serve Your Dinner? Come in for a point saving dinner of fine food well cooked. Save time and trouble. HEPPNER CAFE Put on Your Jeans and JOIN THE LAND ARMY! Uncle Sam needs workers to help our far mers harvest the crops! If you are not em ployed in vital war work and can give a few weeks, or the whole summer, get out those denims and go to work on the farm ! Uncle Sam Needs Your Help... JOIN THE Inpuire at the U. S. Employment Service All the food our farmers can raise will not beat the Axis unless we help in this year's harvest. If you have any free time this summer, do your country a service and get out in the fields to help our farmers! It's not easy work far from it but you will be fairly paid and doubly compen sated by your sense of pride and accomp lishment in doing your part in this impor- or Agricultural Agency tant summer war job. Ferguson Motor Co.