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-3 o t M n o r & $? - o aMte Gran 'J o w Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, December 2, 1943 Volume 60, Number 36 mnwtsv Our Men in Service Farm Truck Status Not So Good for 944 Report Shows HOME ON LEAVE Russell O'DonnU is spending his 15-day leave at home follow ing completion of boot camp at Farragut. BACK TO TRAINING Merle Burkenbine left Tuesday . for Alemeda , Calif. , to resume training after a leave of about a month, during which time he as sisted in the operation ol the Hep pner market. Reese Burkenbine al so called home because of their father's illness, will return to his post this week-end fcf an exten sion of his leave is not granted. From Los Angeles, Capt. Frank C. Alford writes the Gazette Times to extend his subscription. "I have been away from Heppner so long it seems like I have lost touch with everyone, so even though at times the paper may be slow in catching up with me, I know I would rather have the news late than not at all." ON PACIFIC COAST . Howard Furlong. Ph M 2c has finished his course at the nr)-al medical school at Bethesda, Md., and is now located fit Mare Island where he is connected with the U. S. Navy hospital, so he has in formed D. A. Wilson. Boyd Redding, former bank em poye of Heppner now training at Ellensburg, Wash., believes in the value of the program. Boyd starting his training in August, 1942 has more than 700 flying hours. "I think the Aviation Student Train ing program is one of the best," he said, "and it really helps the fellows out. It gives each student an idea what a plane is like and is real encouragement for the future they have before them. I like my job here very much and have found great pleasure in working with the aviation students. I would like to get in the Ferry command, but since I have been placed here I intend to make the best of the job. After all, there is plenty to leam here." Contact With High Tension Wire Fatal To Leo Lieuallen STILL THE LIST GROWS Donald K. Peck is another Mor row county boy showing ability at xifle practice. At Buckley Field, Colorado, he made the grade of sharpshooter with carbine and re ceived a medal for same. The scheduled four-fold increase in civilian truck production in 1944 doesn't forecast an early easing of the tight farm trucing situation, according to information received by the county farm transportation committee. Farmers will still have to depend for the most part on ex isting equipment to keep farm pro ducts moving to market, and extra emphasis will have to be placed on repair and maintenance of trucks and tires. The reason is that the greatef share of scheduled truck produc tion cannot be made available until the latter part of 1944. due to lim ited production facilities. An ex pansion program is being launched, but an increase in the output of trucks cannot be expected until the second half of 1944. The WPB production schedule calls for an output of 123,492 new trucks. Medium trucks are sched uled as follows: First quarter, 1944, 6,250; second quarter, 12,062; third quarter, 20.118; fourth quarer, 20. 120. Light heavy trucks, first quar ter, 500; second quarter, 1,000; third and fourth quarters. 6.424 each. Heavies, first and second quarters, 1500 each; third and fourth quarters, 2,734 each. No light trucks, one-half ton, J4 ton and one ton. are scheduled for ci vilian production. Of the total output of 123,492 trucks, agriculture is expected to get between 25,000 and 35,000, about 20 percent of anticipated needs. A recent OPA survey of the gas oline supply situation indicates that all farmers will be allotted enough fuel to meet essential re quirements, bvl further sacrifices are in store for civilians. The mounting offensive in the Pacific backs up OPA's plea for the greatest caution in the use of gaso line even for essential uses.. Far mers are asked to hold off -highway allocations for tractors, combines, ets., to a strict minimum. Conser vation now, says OPA, means more gasoline in the leaner days ahead when military needs increase. By MBS. OKAB BXETMANjr Leo Lieuallen, whose death oc curred Saturday at the Edward Tucker ranch, formerly the Corri gal place, was the son of Roy Lieu allen, who with Mrs.. Lieuallen op erates the Victory cafe in lone. Leo was electrocuted when he attempt ed to sever or disconnect a high tension wire on his father-in-law's place. Funeral services were held in Walla Walla the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lieuallen closed the cafe a few days, having gone to Walla Walla to attend the funeral. Since Leo was working alone at the time of the accident it is not known just what occurred. Sheriff John Fuiten and District Attorney Phil Mahoney visited the scene and concluded that Lieuallen grasped a high tension wire with one hand and probably was holding onto a guy wire with the other. He had on gloves and both showed burns on the palms. Young Lieuallen had just recent ly come to the ranch which Mr. Tucker purchased a few weeks ago from Mrs. Gladys Corrigal. Sole of Christmas fcw War Service To Be Undertaken s By Local People Earl Bailey arrived home early Friday morning from Farragut, having finished boot camp there. After a day or two with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. N. D, Bailey, he went to Portland to spend part of his leave. Albert Bailey left , this morning for Pendleton on his way to Farragut, having been accepted on a volunteer basis. His parents took him to Pendleton. Support Prices for Hogs Now Effective The establishment of government support prices for hogs at all mar kets became effective Monday, Nov. 29. The support price for Portland, which in effect becomes the floor price, is $14.75 a cwt and fanners need not sell for less at that market. Slaughterers who fail to pay far mers the support price stand to re alize a substantial loss, as roll-back subsidy payments will not be made to price-cutting slaughterers. Sub sidy payments of $1.30 a cwt. for hogs, and they are available to slaughterers who butcher 2500 pounds of meat or more hogs, cattle and sheep a month for sale as meat. . OUTGOING PASSENGERS Passengers on Monday's stage for outside points were Eunice Os min and Claudine Drake, return ing to school at Salem after spend ing Thanksgiving at home, and Claude Drake who went to Cor vallis to visit his brother, Bay Drake Jr. SIX MEN ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE PAST WEEK Everett Leroy Her. first of the fathers to be inducted through the Morrow county local board, has been accepted by the navy. Her was nc in line but volunteered s that he could go to service this month. Other Morrow county men ac cepted by the navy were Albert William Partlow, Boardman; Don ald Gean Miller. Irrigon; Roy Walter Frederickson, Irrigon. and Glen Arnold Fell, registrant from Multnomah county. Anson Edward Rugg of Wallowa. son of E. E. Rugg of Heppner, was accepted by the army. . DEPUTY COLLECTOR TO BE HERE DECEMBER 6 Advice has been received from the office of J. W. Maloney. inter nal revenue collector, Portland, that a deputy collector will be in' Heppner Monday, Dec. 6, to assist taxpayers in the filing of declara tions of estimated income and Vic tory tax for the calendar year 1943, on Form 1040 ES. Filings must be made on or before Dec. 15. Taxpayers unable to avail them selves of the services of the deputy collector on the 6th may obtain the same assistance at the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue Customs House, Portland. FELLOWSHIP MEET SLATED A district fellowship meeting has been scheduled for Dec. 8 at the Assembly of God church, accord ing to the pastor, Clifford W. Noble. Three services will be conducted, 10:30 a. jm,, 2:30 p. in. and 7:30 p. m. The pastor has extended an invitation to everyone to attend. Rev. and Mrs. H. N. Waddell ar rived from Nyssa Wednesday of last week. With them are, their son Willard and small daughter Char lotte. Their son Richard will re main in Nyssa to finish his senior mar in hi oh school. Rev. L. W. Flenner of the Congregational church of Condon spent Sunday afternoon visiting the Waddells. The families have been friends for a number of years prior to moving from Montana to Oregon a few years ago, - Word has been received of the marriage of Miss Guyla Cason and Rudolph Misetich in Portland Nov. 16. Mrs. Misetich is the daughter of Mrs. C. W. Burton of Portland and granddaughter of Mrs. Lana Padberg of lone. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Ray spent Thanksgiving with their sons and families Billy and Claude of Iiye Wash. Mrs. Pauline Boyer left Tuesday spending Thanksgiving with rela tives in Portland before returning to her home in Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Omar Rietmann and family left for Portland Wednes day to spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Rietmann's mother. Mrs. Inez Freeland. Also visiting Mrs. Free land were her other daughter, Mrs. W. W. King and family of Redmond. Rev. Joseph Stevens and family moved to his father's ranch above the Rugg place on Monday. Due to the shortage of farm help Rev. Stevens will assist his father with the work and drive to lone each Sunday for services here. Mr. and Mrs. John Bryson have received word from their son Hus ton who is stationed in Honoluu. He wrote of visiting with Joe En gleman. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Salter spent Thanksgiving with their daughter and family, the Richard Sturgills of Bremerton, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Baker and family drove to Walla Walla to spend the Thanksgiving vacation with relatives. Miss Mary Eamett spent the hol idays with her family the Ray Barnetts of lone. She reported her grandmother, Mrs. Charles Nord of Portland is slowly recovering from two major operations. Mary re turned to Portland Sunday to re sume her studies. Mrs. Ella Davidson was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dick Sr. of Heppner on Thanksgiving day. Misses Doris Palmateer and Mar jory Peterson spent the Thanks giving vacation with their families They are taking student nurses' training in La Grande Mrs. Vera Warfield and son Da Continued on Face riT Seals Moving Fast As a result of the first week of the Christmas seal campaign came in it was found that a total of $212 worth of the little stickers which mean so much to tuberculosis suf ferers had been sold. This repre sents one-third of the amount set as the goal for Morrow county, ac cording to Mrs. K. A. House, chairman, who added "we have great hopes of reaching this goal, which was carefully set by offi cials of the Morrow County Health association as the exact sum needed to carry on next year's work." Prizes of a doll and an electric wood burning set will be given to the girl or boy in Morrow, county guessing the number of Christmas seals sold up to Dec. 24. The age limit is 10 years or under. Last year's total was 63,350. Participants are asked to leave name, address, age and number of seals at the of fice of the Pacific Power & Light company or mail same to Mrs. Ro ger Thomas, Heppner. New B and C Cards Grant Five Gallons Holders of B and C gasoline ra tion books are advised that all such books issued up to and including Nov. 30 are worth three gallons of gas per coupon and will continue to be worth that amount as long as they can be used. B and C coupons issued on and after Dec. 1 are worth five gallons to the coupon. The C coupons are red with a figure 2 while the B coupons are green, the only change being that they too have a figure 2 on them. A cards are unchanged. A movement has been launched by Heppner lodge No. 358, B. P. O. E. to arrange for blood dona tions in Morrow county. Exalted Ruler Clyde Denney and Lee Beck ner were working on the project in Heppner today and it is ex pected that a full outline of the plan will be released next week. Interior areas such as this have not been called upon before due to the lack of facilities for handling the plasma, Blood will not hold its strength more than a few hours and this made shipments by rail or truck inadvisable. Recently, the of ficials in charge of the Portland blood bank have devised a method of preserving the blood a little be yond the natural period and have fitted up a station wagon to visit outlying districts. Schedules are be ing set up in various communities where on certain dates local physi cians take blood and deliver it at once to the station wagon. People living a . rugged outdoor life such as is characteristic of east ern Oregon are deemed the best blood donors. That is one reason why the blood bank officials are desisous of reaching into this ter ritory. A listing station will be arranged at some central office, probably the Gazette Times, where those wishing to donate blood may enroll. It is expected the wagon will visit here every 60 days, since that is as often as it is' safe to drain the vital fluid. TRUCK MEETING SCHEDULED FOR NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT J. H. Headrick from the truck and tire division of the Oregon OPA office will meet the truck opera tors of the county in the music room of the high school at 8 p. m. Thursday, Dec. 9. Tire inspectors, fleet owners, commercial truck drivers and owners are urged to attend. In a sense, this is a "must" meeting, officials of the local ra tion office state. HEALYS HAVE SON A seven pound 13 ounce baby bov was born Monday. Nov. 29 to Mr. and Mrs. James Healy at St Anthony's hospital in Pendleton. It was a cesarian birth and both mo ther and babe are doing nicely, so the proud father informs this newspaper. Te young man, born on his uncle St. Sgt. Willard Martin's birthday, has been named James Michael. ' 1 DIGGING POTATOES Mrs. C. C. Carmichael of Lexing ton has a crew of potato diggers at work in a 29-acre field near Hardman this week. Although the spuds have been through some win try weather they are in good shape, she reports, although the yield has been cut some by frost. The field was one planted by her brother, the late Ivan Leathers. W. II. FRENCH SERIOUSLY ILL A letter from his daughter, Mrs. E. R. Nelson, Forest Grove, in forms the Gazette Times that W. H. "Harry" French is seriously ill at Providence hospital in Portland. He was stricken Thanksgiving night and was taken by ambulance from Stevenson, Wash. . to the hospital where his condition is growing gradually worse. Mr. French left here a few weeks ago hoping to recuperate his health with the ex pectation of going to Mineral Wells, Tex. to make his home. Among those coming from outside points for Thanksgiving were Billy Schwarz and family of The Dalles, who spent the day with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schwarz, and the Leonard Schwarz family. The visitors returned to The Dalles Thursday ereniag. Christmas Packages Due by December 8 Donors of Christmas packages for distribution by the Blue Moun tain Camp and Hospital council should remember that the parcels must be in the hands of the coun ty chairman by Dec 8, according to Mrs R. I. Thompson, Mjorrow county chairman. The gifts are be ing received at the office of the Pa cific Power & Light company in Heppner. Donors are reminded that contents of the bags should cost no less than $1 and not to exceed $2. lone school childen are concen trating their gifts on the December gift box for the McCaw General hospital. Mrs. Thompson reports. A meeting of the council will be held in the parish house of the Episcopal church in Pendleton Fri day, Dec. 10. Mra Thompson urges that any Morrow county people in Pendleton that day avail themselves of the opportunity to attend and get an insight of what is being done. Added interest will be found in the checking of Christmas boxes during that meeting. BIG PLANE MAKES RECORD LANDING AT HARDMAN A four-motored bombing plane made a forced landing in a wheat field adjoining Hardman Monday evening. No reports as to injuries to personnel have been made but the plane was damaged to the ex tent that it had to be dismantled for removal. A large crew from the Pendleton base was sent in to do the salvaging. It is reported that the plane ran out of gas. MISS ORWICK BRIDE OF SGT RONNIE OSCARSON .The marriage of Donna Lee Or wick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Orwick of Heppner, to Sgt Ronnie Oscarson was an event of Nov. 22 at Lorado, Tex. The bride's grandmother, Mrs. William Harri son of Heppner. accompanied her to the Lone Star state for the ce remony. The groom is a member of the Oscarson family that re sided in Heppner several years ago and now living at Newjort, Wash. .Mrs. Harrison will visit relatives in Colorado before returning to ker home. H O- .- o : : r o o :n