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4 Heppner Gazette TimesJuly 29, 1943 Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER GAZETTE Established March 30, 1883 THE HEPPNER TIMES Established November 18, 1897 CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912 . Published Every Thursday by CRAWFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as second-class matter. O. G. CRAWFORD, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $2.50 Two Years 4.50 Three Year? 6.00 Six Months 1.25 Three Months b5 Single Copies 05 well would suffer from an increase of rates at this time. A means to avert this postal rate menace and combat any moves in that direction is passage of the Burch bill, (H. R. 2001) which provides that all government departments and bureaus be ' required to pay postage on all mail they send out. Active support of this bill would be in the interest sound governmental accounting. . of all mail users, the post office department, and Big Money Not Everything Teachers, as a rule, perform a work, of love in guiding the young people placed in their charge and willingly or not accept the responsibility for training their charges in lieu of parental in terest. For this work and responsibiity, few if any, of them ever get more money than they are entitled to receive. To attain a certificate to teach they have had to study hard, pass up many of the pleasures enjoyed by other young people and then wrangle with school boards over salaries and contracts. Is it any wonder, then, that when positions are open in other lines of endeavor which pay consid erably more wages or salaries that teachers should abandon their school work and go out and try to gather in more of the worldly goods while the gathering is good? It is hard to condemn them for it, yet we wish they would not lose sight of the fact that the big wages of the present may be of short duration and that in the long run the finan cial gain will be more or less disappointing. No one knows how long the war will last. It may run a year or several years. Whenever.it ends, there will be a mad scramble for jobs. Those who remain on the job throughout will be doing a pa triotic service just as much as if right in the thick of things, for the generation of young people of today will be the leaders of tomorrow and now more than ever it is essential to have well trained leadership. Teachers are needed here and everywhere. Sal ary advances are being made to the limit possible under school budgets. If you have a certificate tucked away somewhere, get it out and dust it off and march right up to the superintendent's office. O . The Threat Behind Free Mail As far back as anyone can remember the post office department has shown an operating loss at the end of each year. And, on several occasions, this ever present deficit has been projected by some congressmen as argument in favor of in creasing postal rates. Such a move threatens again. Through heightened efficiency and economy of operation, the department in the last 10 years has trimmed its annual deficit from 112 billion dollars to only 14 millions. However, there is still a defi cit and as long as it exists it is a potential lever with which some legislators may try to raise postal rates. This deficit is due entirely to the free mail car ried for the many government departments and agencies. The volume of this mail has multiplied five-fold in the last ten years. Last year the pos tal department estimated that if this free mail had been paid for, it would have brought 72 million dollars into its coffers, wiping out the 14 million dollar deficit and leaving a 58 milion dollar profit. Thus it is clear that the way to turn the depart ment's loss into gain and eliminate this threat to rates is to revoke the free mailing privilege and require the agencies to pay postage on all mail they send out. ; Business mail users and private individuals as He Might Be Your Boy Perhaps the service flag in your home means that your own son is at some camp or station at the other end of this great country; and maybe you've heard from him within the last day or two and know that he is safe and well. But forget that comforting fact for a moment and imagine that the youngster lying sick and lonely in the military or naval hospital not far from your town is your boy and not another's. Wouldn't you want to do everything you could to give him the little com forts that mean so much to a convalescent? Of course you would! Somehow, you'd manage to get into that hospital on every possible occasion. You'd do all in your power to give him courage and strength and a new interest in life, to keep his mind so well occupied that he'd have no time to feel neglected or unhappy. Heaven itself could scarcely keep you away from him, if you knew he was in need of certain small conveniences and comfort articles that you could provide. Then why not find a way to do for that other plucky young patient in the nearby hospital the same thing you would do for your boy? You can do it through the program of your camp and hos pital council. You'll be the better person for it you'll know a kind of satisfaction you haven't known before, especially if you bear in mind the thought that in another part of the country some other parent may be doing the same thing for your boy, and feeling exactly the way you do about it. Our goods are marked right in the first place, making specials unnecessary. Here are a few proofs Quart Fruit Jars Doz. 79c 9x12 Feltbase Congoleum Rugs $3.98 and up Davenos beige $69.95 wine $75.95 Baby Cribs $6.95 to $12.95 Unfinished Dinette Table, extra leaf $7.29 Gamble Store Dealer Conley Lanham, Owner You Can Eat Your Points and Have Them, Too! Just drop in occasionally and have one of our unexcelled Steak Dinners and use the points saved to buy need ed meats and fats for household use. Elkhorn Restaurant -0- Food On Every Hand If doubts are entertained about the ability of this nation of ours to feed itself and a large num ber of other people besides, a trip around the country will quickly remove them. There is but one doubt that could persist and that is about the ability of our remaining man- and woman-power to harvest the crops and preserve them for con sumption during ensuing months. A drive through a portion of eastern Oregon the past week-end convinces us that this region is self sufficient and is doing its part to help win the vic tory for democracy. By the time the timber line was reached south of Hardman we had lost sight tered a belt where "another essential industry is of the vast grain fields of Morrow conty and en doing its part the timber industry. Then one en ters the John Day valley. Always a delightful drive, this year that region presents more of interest,. Evidently there is a potato project on in that val ley. There were gardens all along the line gar dens of wide variety of foodstuffs, all doing well and giving that region an aspect of thrift that would be discouraging to Hitler and Tojo. Then, leaving the beautiful John Day at Prairie City, the car once again roams into the mountains, over Dixie mountain, down into the rolling, semi-arid section of southern Baker county, then over the hill and down into the Willow creek valley of Malheur county. Hay, potato, beet and other crops from'Brogan to Vale, from Vale to Ontario, from Ontario to the end of the irrigation opposite Weiser. Upon reaching Baker one again finds potatoes evidence on every side. Grain is the mainstay in as a feature crop, although hay and grain were in the Grande Ronde valley, too and of course our neighbor, Umatilla, is doing its part in many lines. Yes, the crops have been raised and if the major ity of them are saved there will be plenty to eat the coming winter. Professional Directory . O. Peterson Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods Watches . Clocks - Diamond Kxnert Watch and Jewelry Repairing Heppner. Oregon Blaine E. Isom All Kinds of INSURANCE Phone 723 Heppner, Ore. A. D. McMurdo, M.D. Trained Nurse Assistant PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office In Mosonic Building HEPPNER, ORE. 0. M. Y EAGER CONTRACTOR & BUILDER All kinds of carpenter work Country work especially Phone 1483 Dr. W. H. Rockwell Naturopathic Physician & Surgeon 227 North Main St. Office hours: 1 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. Exam free Ph. 522 Heppner, Or. NEW AUTO POLICY Bod. Inj. Pr. Dam. Class A 6.25 5.05 Class B 6.00 5.25 Class C 7.75 515 F. W. TURNER & CO. J. O. Turner ATTORNEY AT LAW Phone 17? Hotel Heppner Building Heppner, Oregon CLEANING Wednesday-Thursday-Friday SERVICE HEPPNER CLEANERS Morrow Gounty Abstract & Title Co. INC. ABSTRACTS OF TITXJi titiiB rasrrmAHca Office In New Peters Building Phelps Funeral Home Licensed Funeral Directors Phone 1&2 . Heppner, Ore. Dr. L. D. Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician ft Surgeon FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDQ. Rec. Phone 1182 Office Phone 492 HEPPNER, OREGON GUET CI RELATIVES Miss Betty J:an Robinson of Berkeley, Calif. rp?nt the pest week in Heppner, the guest of her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Shan non, and aunts, Mrs. T. J. Wells and Mrs. D. E. Hi; ebon. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson gave a dinner party Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Robinson attene by Mr. and Mrs. Shannon, Mr. an Mrs. Hubert Hudson and Mrs. Wells. Saturday evening, Mrs. Wells entertained with a picnic in the court house park for her niece. Miss Robinson left for Portland Sunday to spend a few days with friends before returning to her work in Berkeley. RETURN FROM PORTLAND Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hill returned home Sunday after spending five weeks in Portland for the benefit of Mr. Hill's health. He feels some what improved and expects to re turn to the city at a later date for further treatment. Heppner City Council Meets First Monday Each Month Citizens having matters for dis cussion, please bring before the Council J. O. TURNER, Mayor Directors of Funerals M. L. CASE G. E. NIKANDER 862 Phones 262 Jos. J. Nys ATTORNEY AT LAW Peters Bail ding, - Willow Street Heppner, Oregon P. W. Mahoney ATTORNEY AT LAW GENERAL INSUBANCB Heppner Hotel Building Willow St Entrance
