6 Heppner Gazette Times, July 1, 1943
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WASHINGTON, D. C, July 1
Is Henry Kaiser, shipbuilder, the
miracle man he is supposed to be?
Lots of big-wigs around here don't
think so, and have never thought
so. Whenever Kaiser's name and his
shipbuilding accomplishments were
discussed this certain group would
say nothing, but do much thinking.
Stories of extravagance and waste
in Kaiser's west coast shipyards
have been going the rounds for over
a year. This same group were in
strumental in arranging for a thor
ough investigation of the Kaiser
operations at Richmond, Calif-, and
a like investigation will be made of
the several shipyards located around
Portland and in the Puget Sound
region, including others besides
Kaiser. With not a thin dime of his
own funds invested (the U- S
maritime commission furnishes all
the money) the miracle shipbuilder
Mr. Kaiser, in a report just sub
mitted to a congressional commit
tee, is charged with waste extrava
gance and lousy management in
every sense of the word. Accusa
tions made in this report are
astounding and appear to be based
on concrete facts. The congres
sional sub-committee will continue
its investigations in Richmond,
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle in the
next few weeks.
No great interest was aroused in
the senate by the statement of Sen
ator Bennett Clark of Missouri last
week that Jesse Jones of the RFC
"could be impeached" for his at
tempt to dissuade members of con
gress from voting against the sub
sidy program to roll back prices of
foodstuffs. In the first place, the
action of Mr. Jones does not come
within the field of activities for
which impeachment is provided, and
in the second, advocates of the sub
sidy plan point out, the practice of
granting subsidies is as old as con
gress itself. All early tariff legis
lation was in effect a subsidy, the
beet sugar industry has been the
beneficiary of a subsidy from its
very beginning, and all congres
sional enactments for the benefit
of farmers in the past 10 years have
been along the line of providing
subsidies. Even members of con
gress have themselves benefited
from the practice both in the cost
of living and through the granting
of free mailing privileges. All of
these enactments have been at the
expense of American taxpayers and
the money has come from the fed
eral treasury Members of congress,
as well as ex-members, have neyer
hesitated to lobby for such subsidy
legislation as promised to further
their individual purpose.
By senate amendment to the in
terior department appropriation bill
funds were added for continuation
of construction, general investiga
tions and administrative . expenses
of two Oregon projects which are
to. remain available until expended.
The projects are Deschutes $25,000
and Klamath $420,000, the latter
being partly in California. The
Boise project, Payette division, will
receive $500,000.
Every senator and congressman
has his bags packed, ready to high
ball it for home not later than Fri
day night. The congress is sched
uled to recess under a gentlemen's
agreement until about Sept- 15. If
any important legislation needs at
tention in the interim, they will
be so notified. The entire Oregon
and Washington delegations will
make the long trek across the con
tinent to cooler weather and home.
All of the lawmakers are very
anxious to find out what the home
folks think of their record, so far.
Washington's Bone and Oregon's
Holman are up for re-election next
year and, naturally, these two will
do much political fence building.
Oregon's McNary, the senate's mi
nciity leader, will have an easy
time, inasmuch as he was ju.;t re
elected last November. McNary will
visit his Oregon farm and sit aside
the farm fence instead of straddling
the political ience, which should be
quite a relief to him.
The treasury depaitmtnt is re
ceiving many complaints from busi
ness firms concerning the new
Lincoln pennies, which are made
principally of steel washed with
zinc in order to conserve copper.
The new pennies are giving busi
ness firms, large and small, much
grief because they look for all the
world like dimes ;nd many of them
have been innocently accepted as
dimes by both seller and purchaser.
The dime stores all over the United
States are hollering their heads off
Their clerks are now Instructed to
scrutinize each dime offered in pay
ment lor merchandise to ils that it
isn't a penny. These stores claim the
new penny has already cost them
thousands of dollars. Many city
transportation companies, such as
street cars and bus lines, have also
given thousands of dime rides for
a penny.
GUESTS OVER WEEK-END
Mrs. LeRoy Jones and sons
Quentin and Vawtcr were week
end guests of relatives in Heppner.
They wtTe met in The Dalles by
Mrs. J. O. Turner and Mrs. R. B.
Ferguson, sisters of Mrs- Jones. All
were in The Dalles to visit Mrs.
Cora Crawford, a patient in the
hospital.
Church Service
Flag Dedicated
At Evening Rites
A flag bearing 33 names of young
reople in the service from the
Eight Mile-Gooseberry area of
Morrow county was dedicated Sun
day evening during the regular
worship hour at the Swedish Luth
eran church. A congregation filling
the edifice was attentive during the
statement of Rev. Stanley Sandberg
and the reading of the names by
Mrs. Ben Anderson. Preceding the
unveiling of the flag, Mrs. Ture
Peterson . of Heppner sang the
prayer hymn for our armed forces.
A star represented each of the
following: Lt. Arthur Wendell Berg
strom, Pfc Clifford Leon Carlson,
Pfc Henry Theodore Peterson, NoV
man Maurice Bergstrom, James
Wallace Lundell, Pfc Charles Lun
dell, Pvt Walter Richard Lundell,
Cpl Robert Warfield, Pvt Clarence
Edwin Baker, John Darst, Av Cadet
Rhea Norton King, Pvt Frank Mar
tin Lovgren, TjCpl Lawrence F.
Becket, Pvt Norman Griffin, Pvt
Guy Edward Hastings, Pvt Charles
Nelson, Harold Van Horn, Sgt Wil
liam Clayon Wright, Pvt Lawrence
Williams, Pvt Ellis Williams, Pvt
Floyd Williams, Lt Donald Ells
worth Drake Pfc Douglas Elmo
Drake, Pfc Robert Scrivner, Pvt
William Sct.ivner, Raymond John
son. Lt Hazel Adkins Pvt Tilden
Williams Jr. Lt Paul Smouse, AC
Raymond F. Batty, Pvt Earl Hogue,
Lt Elmer Peterson.
At the morning service Rev. Sand
berg confirmed a class of six young
people, including Shirlee Smouse
Dcrcthy Bergstrom, Audrey Majes
ke, Eunice Peterson, Mildred Carl
son end Louis Carlson. A baptismal
service was held in the evening at
which time Mrs. Roy Ekstrom was
received into the church.
THE EIGHT GOLDEN
RULES OF RATIONING
1. Share your food with our
fighting men.
2- Plan your family's diet care
fullysee that all members get
enough nourishment. Make up the
menus for the week.
3. Use fresh fruits and vegetables,
cereals, fresh fith, poultry and oth
er unrationed foods whenever you
can i
4. Make a shopping list and add
the points BEFORE you shop.
5 Shop early in the week at hours
when the stores are least busy, and
no oftener than you need to.
6. Plant a Victory Garden. Do all
the home preserving possible.
7- Don't blame your grocer or
butcher for war-time inconvenience.
8. Take care of your ration books.
Keep a record of the serial numbers
and notify your ration board at
once if a book is lost-
Paper is now used in making
alarm clock and flashlight cases,
clothes hangers, buttons, string, gar
bage pails, rugs, porch chairs, dust
pans, mail bags, blankets and many
ether articles in order to save more
essential materials.
Cotton fiber:., impregnated to
make them duiablj, are now used
to manufacture house screens.
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is just one long battle with FIRE, say
most foresters.
Nature is bountiful, trees reproduce
and grow rapidly, thrive to maturity
quickly on lands which have been cut
over, if seed sources and young seed
lings are not consumed and the land
rendered sterile by forest enemy Num
ber one FIRE.
Devastated forest areas are usually
the result of repeated fire.
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