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"0 o r o o i o U mxmt 47 C) ) O a r o j o I Morrow Farmers Not Limited in . '44 Wheat Acreage Oregon's Share of National Goal Set At 950,000 Acres Wheat farmers of Morrow county will not be limited in 1944 on the acreage of wheat that they can grow. Instead, they will be asked to grow more wheat, and in gen eral they will be asked to grow as much wheat as they can without following practices which might re duce their production in 1945 or subsequent year The War Food administration on July 13, 1943, announced a 1944 na tional wheat goal of 68 million acres- Oregon's share of this goal is 950.000 acres as compared to .plantings of 750,000 acres in 1943. 761,000 acres in 1942, 890,000 in 1940, 827,000 in 1939 and 1.159,000 in 1938. There will not be any farm wheat allotments established in 1944 under the Triple A farm program. The state goal will be broken down by the state war board and will be dis tributed among the wheat produc ing counties. County goals will not be broken down to individual farm goals unless county war boards and triple A committees oterrnine such steps are advisable as a guide for farmers. Present legislation does not pro vide for 1944 wheat payment, and wheat marketing quotas will not be applicable for 'the 1944 marketing year. A support price, however, will be available through loans offered by Commodity Credit Corporation through county triple A committees. Loans are provided for at not less than 85 percent of parity. It is contemplated that any pro ducer of acceptable wheat will be eligible to participate in the loan program unless he has adopted farming practices inconsistent with good farming practices in the area in which his farm is located. The need for wheat has not yet reached such an extent but what the goal can be met without sacri ficing those practises which have been determined to be effective in maintaining production and pre venting wind and water erosion Our Men in Service ALMOST ENCIRCLES GLOBE Mr. and Mrs. Earl Evans are in receint of a letter from their son Donald, armed guard of the navy assigned to duty on a liberty ship. He thinks the trip is wonderful but would like to see more action. By the time he returns to San Francisco he will have encircled the globe. Don enclosed a picture of himself sans most of his cloth ng, which would seem to indicate that he was in a tropic climate at that time. Although his mother writes him three times weekly, by V-mail only three have caught up with him since he left in May. They gave him a great lift he re ports. LT LIEBBRAND! TRANSFERRED In a telephone conversation to Miss Leta Humphreys early this , week, Lt. Rose Liebbrand states that she is being transferred from Camp Richmond, Ky., to Camp Campbell. Ky. in the southwestern part of Kentucky where she will be company commander. In the old camp she was in the quartermas Continued on Page Eight Whistle Signifies Renewal of Activity At Heppner Mill Delayed beyond the date expect ed to start due to difficulty in ob taining materials, the Heppner Lum ber company's new sawmill started a test run Monday and has been operating on a limited basis during the week This is made necessary to make adjustments to the mach inery and it is expected sawing will be in full swing by the first of next week. A much more complete plant has been built and cutting capacity will be greater than the mill destroyed by fire last Feb. 5. The mill proper is located to the west of the engine house, placing the power plant be tween it and the fuel bunker. Al together, the new plant presents an aspect of efficiency and cutting should proceed in regular order. Death Ends Career Of B. R. Patterson Death came suddenly to B. R. Patterson at the family home on north Gale street Friday evening. He had suffered a heart ailment for several years and his passing was attributed to this cause. A brief service was held at Phelps Funeral Home chapel at 2 o'clock p. m. Sunday, conducted by Arch deacon Neville Blunt, and the body was later shipped to Portland for cremation. Ben Patterson, as he was famil iarly known to most residents of the county, was 74 years of age. He was bom at Hornell N. Y., the son of John and Rebecca Patterson. The father passed on many years ago and the mother resides at Forest Grove. Mr. Patterson was engaged in the drug business in Heppner for many years. He was in partnership with his father under the firm name of Patterson & Son and after the fa ther's death carried on as Patter son's Drug store. The widow. Addie, and aged mo ther are the only survivors- Combine Cleaning Results in Burns Two men suffered serious burns on their hands and arms the past few days while cleaning combines. Fred Nicolson was cleaning the brushes on a combine near lone, using gasoline for the purpose. The gasoline ignited and his left arm was badly burned. In attempting to extinguish a fire on a combine in the Hardman district, Blaine Chapel suffered se rious burns to hands and arms. Both men came to Heppner for treatment REPUBLICAN SECRETARY VISITOR HERE TUESDAY Returning to Portland from two conventions held in Baker the past week-end,, Carl R. Moser, execu tive secretary of the republican state central committee, stopped in Heppner to get a line on the political set-up in this section. Moser at tended the American Legion state convention and a conference of re publican leaders of eastern Oregon- He reported an interesting Legion convention, one he thinks will prove quite constructive. The Oregon group took the initiative in formu lating a measure to accept members of the fighting forces as members of the Legion. The Oregon resolu tion will be presented to the na tional convention with the recom mendation that it be approved and forwarded to congress for enact ment, since the Legion was author ized by an act of congress. Politically. Moser was sounding out the local organization to see what will have to be done in ce menting an effective working force for tht forthcoming national election. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 26, 1943 Death Comes to Cora D. Crawford, Pioneer Resident Entire Span of 71 Years Spent in Morrow County Following an illness of several months. Mrs. Cora D. Crawford passed1 away about 8 o'clock Tues day evening at The Dalles hospital where she had been a patient for nearly three months. Death was due to a heart ailment with which she had been afflicted for a num ber of years but which did not be come acute until last spring. Services will be held from the Christian church at 2 o'clock p. m. Friday, O. Wendell Herbison, pastor, officiating. Arrangements are in charge of the Phelps Funeral home Accompanied by Miss Marie Bar low, Mrs. C. C .Dunham and Miss Kathryn Parker will sing "In The Garden" and "Softly Now the Light of Day." Honorary pallbearers cho sen are T. J. Humphreys, E. R. Huston, L. D. Neill, F. E. Parker and F. S. Parker. Active pallbear ers include Burl Coxen. Frank Tur ner, C. W. Barlow, Lee Howell, C. N. Jones and Blaine Elliott Mrs. Crawford was perhaps the oldest continuous resident of Mor row county. She was bom May 28 1872, to John and Virginia Spencer among earliest settlers of that sec tion. She received her education in the local schools, attending the old grade school that stood on the block where her future home was located. She also attended school at Irving, near Eugene. On Christmas day, 1890. she was united in marriage with Vawter Crawford, a young printer coming here from Waitsburg, Wash., who had been employed for some time as foreman on the Heppner Ga zette, then published by Otis and Alvah Patterson. Nine children were born to this union, eight of whom survive. These are Virginia E. (Mrs. J. O. Turner) of Heppner; Arthur R. of San Francisco, Calif.; Janet C. (Mrs .LeRoy Jones) Mon tesano, Wash.; Margaret E. (Mrs. Everett Hayes, Joseph, Ore-; W. V. and J. V. Crawford, Portland, Saving and Collection of Waste Materials Will Shorten War Continued savings and collection of waste materials is one of the major means by which American are helping to bring this war to its earliest possible conclusion, it was asserted in Heppner last Saturday by Rod Finney, executive secretary of the Oregon State Salvage com mittee. "Tin cans, silk stockings and kitchen fats, three continuing sal vage programs, present good ex amples of materials once discarded as waste that are now serving es sential purposes in our war produc tion program," Finney said, "Every ton of tin cans salvaged by Oregonians and sent to the de tinning plant at South San Fran cisco, Calif., now makes available to the war effort no less than 20 pounds of much-needed tin and 1500 pounds of urgently required copper, the latter being derived through precipitation methods at western copper mines. "Waste kitchen fats salvaged by housewife and turned in to her butchers are converted into glycer ine. Glycerine makes explosives and camouflage paints for ships, guns and tanks. "Silk and nylon hose are used in the roduction- of powder bags and parachutes and parachute eloign $357,800 A telegram received this after noon by the chairmen of the Mor row county war bond and stamp committee states that Morrow coun ty's quota in the third war loan bond sale has been fixed at $367, 800. Of this amount individuals are expected to invest $212,500 and cor porations $155,800. In preparation for the drive the ery time a bond sale is made the place a bell on Main street and ev local committee is planning to bell will be rung. Is there someone awning a sizeable dinner bell who will donate it for the duration of the campaign? If so. get in touch with P. W. Mahoney or B. C. Pinckney. LIKES AVACS Ei-ma VanSchoiack is home on a furlough visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cleve VanSchoiack. .Ask ed if she liked the WACS she re plied she did. She is receiving train ing at Gulfport, Miss. CoraMae (Mrs. R. B. Ferguson) and Mary L. (Mrs. L. R. Schwarz, Hep pner. Spencer Crawford, fourth child, passed on in March, 1940. The husband and father departed this life in April 1935. Mrs- Crawford is also survived by 25 grandchildren and 6 great grand children; one sister. Mrs- J- B. Cooley, Brownsville and one broth er, John Spencer, Stanfield. Mrs. Crawford united with the Church of Christ in early woman hoods nd devoted much of her life to the work of the church. .She also was a member of the Eastern Star. Although never learning the printing trade, Mrs. Crawford assist ed in the publication of the Gazette Times for many years- She assumed the role of folder and mailer on publication day, a task she perform ed until failing health forced her to abandon it. Following the death of Mr. Crawford, she became part ow ner of the Gazette Times, being as sociated with her son Spencer until frs death in 1940, then with her son Jasper until the fall of 1942 when the business was sold to the present publisher- shrouds for our armed forces. "Each of these materials should be saved and disposed of as directed by your county and local salvage committees," Finney said. In addition, the executive secre tary declared that indications were beginning to point more and more to the possibility of another scrap metal drive this fall. Of the 120,000 tons of metals gathered by patriotic Oregonians during the last six months of 1942 and Morrow coun ty residents finished first in the state in per capita o llections only en estimated 6,000 to 7,000 tons re mains, he said and much of this is sheet metal which must be baled before it can be utilized- "Steel mills and foundries, of course must be assured of ample supplies of .scrap to insure their capacity op erations at all times and if another scrap drive is necessary the Ore gon State Salvage committee knows it can count on the people of Mor row county to respond in the same grand manner as they did before.." En route to the far-eastern sect or of the state. Finney conferred with C. D. Conrad, chairman of the Morrow county salvage committee, and with other Hepnerifces who have actively engaged in the Sal vage for Victory program since its inception in March, 1942. Volume 60, Number 22 County's Desires For Better Roads Told Commission Johnson Presents Essential List at Wednesday Meet Improvement at the earliest pos sible moment on the secondary state highway between Ruggs and Spray junction was declared Morrow county's number one road project Wednesday afternoon when Judge Bert Johnson presented the coun ty's highway program to the state highway commission in a meeting at the city council room. A map clearly marking the improvement program and notes prepared by the county' court and the road commit tee of the Heppner chamber of commerce were left with the com- s mission. Judge Johnson briefly outlined the needs in this county, showing that no ambitious program has been contemplated. The greatest need is improvement and completion, of roads now in use. Taking the Ruggs-Hardman section of the Hcppner-Spray highway first, he judge emphasized the need of re alignment, broadening and hard surfacing for a matter of seven or eight miles. He pointed to the dan gers encountered by travelers in ' meeting log and lumber trucks on the narrow grade; how the heavy hauling is wrecking the grade, making upkeep more difficult and expensive. Hard surfacing the en tire way from Ruggs to Spray is es sential, now that lumber hauling is a regular thing. In this connec tion he stated that approximately 1,000,000 feet of lumber per month is hauled from Dayville, Mitchell and Spray mills to Heppner, while approximately 5,000.000 feet annu ally comes from Reed's mill. In ad dition to the heavy lumber traffic there is an increasing amount of logs, sheep and cattle trucked in over the road, and this volume is certain to increase. Number 2 on the court's sched ule is completion of the Heppner Condon highway About five miles remains to be surfaced and this un finished stretch is in the heart of a heavy wheat producing area. Number 3 is the Lexington -Jar-man section of the Lexington-Her-miston highway. The court urges immediate resurfacing of the road from Lexington to the top of the hill perhaps as far as the Cutsforth cor ner. A large volume of grain raised in the north Lexington district comes in over this highway and it is the main artery of travel from all of the county north, south and west of Lexington to points north and east. It was suggested by R. H. Baldock. state highway engineer, that this particular piece of im provement comes under the main tenance department and as such is subject to immediate consideration. Deviating from the state controll ed roads. Judge Johnson dwelt for a few moments on county roads, particularly those that might re ceive aid funds through federal grants. Chief of these is the Willow creek road from Heppner to the top of the hill beyond the old coal mines, a distance of about 24 miles. This road, too is used for log haul ing, as is the road from Lena to the Johnson creek logging camp. The Rhea creek road from Ruggs to Jordan needs improving, as does the Hale Ridge road from Hard man to the Davidson ranch. P. W. Mahoney pointed out that heavy truck hauling over the moun tain roads, has increased rapidly in recent year since sheepmen and cattle men no longer trail their stock to Heppner from interior ranches Continued on Page Eight