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.
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Recruits Are
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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.