4 Heppner Gazette Times, July 15, 1943
Heppner Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE
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THE HEPPNER TIMES
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It's Too Big a Job
This war is too big a job for any one man or
group of men to direct. The war department has
accomplished wonders bordering on miracles in
selecting and training men for combat duty and all
attendant branches. This fact is being proved in
no uncertain terms right this very week. Totally
unprepared to defend ourselves three years ago,
today we have one of the finest fighting machines
in history and the word defense has been almost
erased from the American vocabulary. It is of
fence now and will continue so to the end.
There have been some 90,000 casualties in
American forces up to the Sicilian campaign. With
the "big push" underway, casualties are going to
mount rapidly. Hospital facilities in many points
over the land, and particularly on the west coast,
are experiencing difficulty in caring for daily in
creasing numbers of wounded men returned from
battle fronts in the Pacific area. This condition
prevails right in our own area in the case of the
McCaw Genera hospital in Walla Walla where
the Blue Mountain Camp and Hospital Council is
endeavoring to provide comforts for the boys. The
council is doing a good job, a big job, in fact, but
the work has only fairly started. As the offensive
campaign progresses the number of disabled will
multiply rapidly, thus creating a bigger problem
for home front war workers.
One may be led to ask why the task of provid
ing comforts for disabled men is placed in civilian
hands. The navy takes care of its own disabled and
that raises the question relative to the army.
A partial answer is found in the fact that the army
has neither funds nor personnel to handle more
than straight hospital care. The extras must come
from civilians. An effort is being made to
acquire certain items of convalescent necessities
by direct army purchase but this has not been ac
complished so far and may require several more
months to make a start in that direction. Although
up to the present campaign navy casualties have
been slightly higher than those of the army, it is
expected that land force casualties will mount
much faster in succeeding months. It is true the
navy asks for no outside help in caring for its
disabled, but land forces now number several
times the naval personnel, hence the organization
of camp and hospital councils to provide additional
facilities.
Kindly permit repetition of the statement that
the work nv started is but begun. We must go
on and on raising funds, donating materials and
dividing our time in making life more cheerful
for these American lads who are offering their
lives and sacrificing their futures, not from choice
but because they do not wish to surrender the
principles of freedom and justice under which
they have been raised. It is a big task, but it will
be done. We of Morrow county have not failed on
any score so far and we can ill afford to break that
precedent. Make your contributions today and
don't count your change too closely.
O
Pleasure Last
This page has more than once called attention
to the difficulties of travel on rail and bus lines
during the war emergency. The transportation
companies, while serving as public utilities, have
but one object in view and that is to move troops
and supplies just as fast as possible. To do this
they need every passenger car seat and every foot
of space in freight cars most of the time. Coming
to the rescue of the passenger lines, the Office of
Defense Transportation insists that strictly non
essential travel on trains and buses must be elim
inated and vacation travel must be rigidly limited.
This admonition is directed to everyone and it is
pointed out that it is impractical to apply a system
of travel priorities.
The Industrial News Review has compiled some
statistics which should give us valid reason for
passing up the usual vacation trip by rail or bus
Organized troop movements by rail are proceed
ing at the rate of over 2,000,000 men a month.
They require the constant service of over one-half
of all Pullman sleeping cars and of nearly one
fourth (over 3,000) of all day coaches.
Soldiers make an average of eight moves by
railroad between induction and embarkation for
service overseas. It takes 356 passenger cars, as
well as 82 baggage cars and over 900 freight cars,
made up in 65 trains, to move an infantry division
of 15,000 men and their equipment. Movement
of an armored division and its vehicles requires
75 trains of from 28 to 45 cars each. Furlough
travel on regularly scheduled passenger trains
equals approximately the volume of organized
troop travel. Both are to increase substantially
during the months immediately ahead. No new
railroad passenger cars or locomotives, and no
new intercity buses, are being constructed.
These are a few of the reasons why civilians
are being asked to limit their traveling activities.
It is no sacrifice to limit your traveling to necessity
if it helps your boy get home on furlough or
speeds freight on which his very life may depend,
concludes the Review.
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New Magic in Wood
New Magic in Wood is the title of a booklet
just released by American Forest Products Indus
tries, Inc., Washington, D. C. It is the third in a
series of three booklets descriptive of our Amer
ican forests and their contribution to our lives,
and the objective of the organization is to per
petuate the supply of forest products through
sound forest management and to promote under
standing of forest ownership and enterprise.
Illustrations throughout depict the many uses
to which wood is being put, especially in this war
time emergency when so many strategic metals
have been withdrawn from civilian use. Familiar
uses of wood include houses, furniture, ships, tur
pentine, paper and bridges. Some new uses are
wooden soles for shoes (not too new, at that),
cases for thermos jugs, rayon for stockings, tex
tile mixture of wood fiber and wool, jewelry, com
pacts and lipstick cases, tableware, including uten
sils, dishes and other new types of dining equip
ment, and curtains and blankets. When the lignin
in wood is dissolved and the cellulose made flex
ible through chemical treatment we have a fluffy
substance which looks like cotton and contains
the same ingredients, the booklet states.
All-wood washboards and buckets are now
being marketed. Instead of the usual metal mail
box, we now have plywood mail boxes. Strong
good looking bumpers for our cars can be fash
ioned from wood and even new fluorescent light
ing fixtures are now made with wood cases.
These new uses found for wood products are
just the beginning of the things scientific labora
tories will develop in the future. With the end
of the war followed by a reconstruction period, we
doubtless will hear of many new developments in
the use of wood and the AFPI is encouraging a
program of selective cutting and forest manage
ment that will permit tthe heavy inroads of war
time demands and at the same time preserve our
forests for future needs. Says the booklet, "If
we harvest heavily we must protect the forests
from fire and keep injurious insects and tree
diseases under control. Only then can the young
seedlings have a chance to grow into trees for an
other harvest. Trees may be harvested, but a
forest can go on forever."
were spared. That was a bit of
luck that will not hold from now
on,- for another week of dry wea
ther has turned much of the grain
in this vicinity and weatther con
ditions similar to those "prevailing
last week are almost bound to
bring disasterous results ii more
grass fires get started.
IONE PASTOR CALLED
TO VALLEY CHURCH
Rev- J. Fred Stilwell, pastor
the Co-operative Church of lone
has resigned to accept the pastorate
of the Church of Christ at Yam
hill. His resignation becomes ef
fective July 30 and in the mean
time he expects to finish the job of
painting the church, which will be
complete a total of $1550 improve
ments to the church property since
he assumed ths work there more
than a year ago.
The Yamhill church is consid
ered one of the best rural organi
zations in the Willamette valley
and Mr. Stilwell states the call was
unanimous.
A new pastor will be called to
the lone church.
CHURCH LADIES MAKE
PILLOWS FOR HOSPITAL
Ladies of the Church of Christ
held an all day meeting in the par
lors of the church Wednesday. The
group is engaged in making 45 pil
lows for the Blue Mountain Camp
and Hospital council and in addition
has contributed $26 in cash, to the
hospital fund.
Three ladies of tiie group, Mrs.
Minnie Gaunt, Mrs. Bertha John
son and Mrs. Burl Coxen, were ob
serving birthdays. Mrs. Frank S
Parker baked the birthday cake
which climaxed the bountiful re
past that was served at noon.
RETURNS HOME
Mrs. Virgil Hatfield returned to
her home in Portland; Monday after
visiting a couple of weeks at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Instone.
. .
LEAVE FOR BORTLAND
Rev. and Mrs. Beniue Howe
drove to Portland Monday where
Rev. Howe expected to have eye
treatment and" Mrs. Howe some
dental work done.
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and use the points saved to buy need
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It is one thing to talk about fire prevention and
quite another thing to accompiish prevention. For
some time this column has been urging strictest
caution in the matter of starting and controlling
fires, yet the past week-end was a busy period
for fire fighters. Fortunately, while considerable
acreage of grass was burned over, grain fields
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