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6 Heppner GozetteTimes, November 25, 1943 illl Washington, D. C. Nov. 25. WHEN the big push in the South Pacific geta under way, Pa cific northwest' ports and ports elsewhere along the west coast will play hosts to thousands of army trucks loaded down with war supr plias, wh,ici will make the long trek from the east coast under their own power. This move has been decided upon by army high com mand in order to relieve the rail roads of the avalanche of war sup plies which must be moved to the west coast, and it will serve a double purpose. First, it will get the miles of army trucks out here Cor shipment, plus the million or mare tons of supplies they will car ry which otherwise ' would take hundreds of railroad cars to move. West coast officials are all a dither in an effort to find' proper locations and sufficient parking space to accommodate such a de luge of motor equipment. In the meantime army engineers are rush ing to completion scores of ware houses to store these war sup plies. Twelve such units are now being built in Auburn. Wash., and are almost finished. Other build ings which can speedily be con verted into warehouses, located close to waterfronts in the Puget sound and 'Portland-Vaneouvelr areas, will be taken over by the army. Another problem will be the housing of hundreds of army and navy officers and other personnel plus their families in an already overcrowded area. These officers will be permanent for the dura tion, directing and supervising the huge task of embarkation for dif ferent points in the South Pacific. Before the spring of next year this gigantic push will be in full swing. OTHER naval plans which are rapidly going forward call for ex tending faduities where necessary in several -west coast shipyards to service and make extensive repairs to all classes of warships damaged being taxed to capacity. Many of our ships which were damaged in action have been repaired in west coast ports. When the big push starts, which no doubt will involve stepped up sea acjtion, additional repairing facilities will have to be made availalile. Incidentally, with a two-ocean navy now a reality, other permanent repair yards will be needed after war's end. The peace time Pacific fleet pnomises to be as large as the entire navy was pWor to 1940. By the same token, thjis couldl mean 1ihat one or more of the present shipyards located in the northwest will be taken over by the navy on a per manent basis after the war. As it is the government practically owns all of the yards anyway. WAR food administration in the past 90 days has released over 5.400,000 cases of canned food for civilian use. Recently WFA an nounced over a half million cases of pineapple and close to 100,000 cases of figs, which had been ta ken by the government, would be released for civilian purchase. In the next few days a large quantity of canned corn, asparagus, pump kin, spinach, beans and several 'other vegetable packs will be made Available from government stocks for the public. Before next spring rolls around it is understood WFA will release two or three million cases of canned fruits, berries and preserves for John Q. Public s use. AS pointed! out in this column over a month ago, OPA will in augurate a system of giving addi tional meat ration points to house wives in exchange for their kitch en fats in lieu of paying them 10c per pound. Heretofore the house wife didn't have much of an incen tive to save waste fats other than as a patriotic duty. The 10 cents per pound which the corner butch ershop paid her was nothing, so to speak, and consequently the drive bogged down. But with ad ditional meat ration points being offered as an incentive, OPA big wigs are confident the amount of waste fats received from the' house wife's kitchen will be increased considerably. OPA wUl put the new plan into effect about Dec. 15. NATIONAL Chairman Flrank Walker, big boss of the Democratic party, has sent out a call to all state committeemen to meet in Washington. D. C, Jan. 22 to open the 1944 presidential campaign. Mr. . Walker is very much worried about the outlook for 1944, al though he won't publicly admit it. It may be a struggle for the na tional chairman to get all of his boys together, especially those from the far west. Making a round trip of 6,000 miles" in these days of un certain transportation is quite a chore, just to hear some big shot give a pep talk and put the bee on for campaign funds. Rumor has it that Mr. Roosevelt will give the gathering an "qli the record" in order to put a little pep in the gang and goodness knows they need it. When congress passed the act creating a woman's branch of the armed service' which includes the Waves, Wacs, Spar and Marines, the very potent civil service lobby was right on the job to see that their sacred rights were protected Tucked away down in the bill is a provision which prohibits the arm ed forces from replacing any civil service employes such as steno graphers, typists, comptometer op erators, etc.. with a Wac, Wave, Spar or Marine, regardless of the fact that they are qualified in every detail to do the work. Thousands of splendid young women have joined some branch of the armed service in order to do their bit in this war. In civilian life they were stenographers, clerks, typists, gen eral office employes, etc. The sal ary they received in civilian em ployment was much more than they are paid as members of the enlisted personnel of the army, navy, coast guard or marines. In all branches of the armed ser vice there is always considerable "paper work" to be done daily in centers and cantonments scattered over the nation. This work requires the services of experienced office staffs and all work is 100 percent for the armed services. The aver-' age pay for a third class Wave yeoman stenographer is $78 per monthl and subsistence. The civil service employe doing the same work in the same office averages $150 per month or more. The Wave. Wac or Spar is subject to the com mand of her superior officers and does as she is told to do. The gang of civil service girls in the same office are not subject to service discipline and she is constantly standing her "rights" as a civil service employe. It's an everyday occurrence for some "sweet thing" of the civil ser vice crew to tell her commanding officer in charge that it's against the rules for her to do some partic ular line of office work other than her regular routine. If she is not listed as eligible to do the work, acording to civil service rules she won't do it, and there's nothing Ihe officer can do about the matter. And if the officer doesn't handle the situation diplomatically he is liable 1o be told where to "head in. Here is a concrete example of a minority group, represented by a potent lobby, successfully brow beating congress into a deal which is costing taxpayers millions upon millions of dollars in additional wages each month. When it was seggested to a group of such civil service employes that legislation should be passed enabling them to take a leave of absence, which would not jeopardize their civil ser ice standing, and let the enlisted personnel take care of all such of fice work for the duration they threw-up their hands in holy hor ror at the thought of such an idea Thousands of such civil service employes could be profitably em ployed for the duration in some of the many essential war indus tries which are in daily search of more help. Thousands of Wave?, Wacs, Spars and Marines are avail able to take their places, thereby saving the government a fabulous sum of money each month. Mean while every member of the Wacs, Waves, Spars and Marines are sitting idly twiddling their thumbs because they have not the oppor tunity to do the work for which they are enlisted. Who is to blame for this mess? 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