A Heppner Gazette Times, February 3, 1944
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE Est ablished March 30, 1883. THE HE PPNER TIMES Established
November 18. 1897. Consolidat ed February 15. 1912.
Published every Thursday and entered at the Post Office at Heppn er, Oregon, as 2nd-class matter.
0. G. CRAWFORD, Publisher and Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.50; Six Months $1.25.
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We Are Still Lagging
Some improvement was recorded in bond pur
chases during thfe past week and it can be stated
that the half-way mark has been passed by a small
margin. This has encouraged bond officials in
the belief that our people are waking up and at
the same time they poist to the fact that the half
way mark is the easiest to accomplish the hard
grind is ahead in making up the second half of
the quota.
The next move in the drive is personal solicita
tion. This will involve more effort than the com
mittee had looked forward to, but it seems inevit
able that a house-to-house canvass will have to be
unfortunate inasmuch as we are faced with an im
made if the total amount is to be raised. This is
mediate curtailment of gasoline and it should not
be necessary to burn extra gas in order to put
Morrow county over the top.
Last week Morrow was seventh in line among
the counties of the state in point of bond sales.
What the status is this week has not been revealed
but judging from reports coming in from other
sections it is not so favorable. Some of the small
er counties are out in the lead, and one of them,
a thinly settled cental Oregon county, completed
its campaign by the end of the first week.. Jef
ferson, with scarcely half the population of Mor
row, and with not nearly the resources of this
county, has not held back. Jefferson's quota was
not as large as Morrow's, although the pro rata
basis doubtless is the same. It is doubtful if the
corporation purchases there have been any hea
vier than here. This brings the comparison down
to individual purchases in which we appear to be
coming out second best.
If we have been waiting for something to jar
us out of our lethargy, is not the report on Japan
ese atrocities sufficient cause for us to pour our
money out generously? Can we stand the thought
of countless other American youths facing this
inhuman enemy without sufficient equipment to
not only defend themselves but to wipe that ene
my off the face of the earth? Let us mull these
facts over a bit and then go to the bank or post
office and make our purchases more than we
had contemplated.
Back the attack! Buy bonds to the limit!
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West Faces New Problems
; More than two years of fighting the Japs has
taught us that the little brown men comprise a
formidable enemy and that they are fighting with
a purpose,' main objective of which is the exterm
ination of the white race, if such a move is con
sidered necessary for them to accomplish their
mission of world domination. It has taken a costly
war for us to realize the ambitions of the Japanese
war lords and now, with our forces on the offens
ive, we have the courage to think a little on the
question of what will be our status after the war
is won.
Unless the Japanese war machine is competely
crushed and the national spirit so broken that it
'vill require; several generations to recover, we can
look for another war as soon as preparations can
be made for it. It is the Japanese conception that
they are destined to rule the world and it takes
more than defeat in battle to convince them that
are not a super race. This has special significance
for the Pacific coast, which already has experi
enced unpleasant contacts with the enemy before
he was rated as such, and which in all likelihood
would be the point of attack in an attempted in
vasion. This entire coastal area and the other
are rich in undeveloped resources which appeal to
states embraced in the "eleven western states"
any foreign people possessed of covetous desires.
The time has arrived in our national history
when the great west must be really developed.
Water power will be a factor in establishing new
industries utilizing the products of mine, field
and forest. This region, for the sake of national
defense, must no longer be dependent upon the
east for essentials such as figure in the present
conflict. It will not be a chamber of commerce
sales talk that will sell the west. It will be a mat
ter of necessity. Instead of shipping raw products
elsewhere in the country for processing, there will
be conversion points in the western states, plants
that may readily be transformed into munitions
and materiel factories if need be. The proper lo
cation of these industries will alleviate the trans
portation problem and even if there is no occasion
for converting to a war basis there will be a more
equitable distribution of wealth.
Methods of converting products of the soil here
in Morrow county would aid in disposing of sur
plus crops. Coal in the Blue mountains, if not
available in sufficient quantities for fuel, might
provide the basis for chemical enterprises, and
our timber should be manufactured to the finished
product stage. The field is almost unlimited
if we but set our attention to the study of our sur
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Professional
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J. 0. Peterson
Latest Jewelry and Gift Oooda
Watches Clocks - Diamonds
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Heppner. Oregon
Even a War Cloud
Has a Silver Lining
And that's peace . . . it's plenty . . . it's business-as-usual !
That's what we're fighting for!
WAR BONDS will make our dreams of peace come true.
They will win the peace for us.
Let's all Back the Attack! BUY MORE BONDS!
PETERSON'S
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 3.
WHILE members of the north
west delegations in congress labor
ed for months to induce war pro
duction board to recognize the
value of chrome deposits in south
western Oregon, $23,000,000 was
being spent to construct a chrome
extraction plant at an elevation of
7,500 feet in the Montana. Rock
ies. Not only was a complete plant
installed but there were also built o
modern hospital, recreation center,
busines structures and houses for
the prospective workers. It was a
complete city on a small scale a
city that has no occupants and from
which not a single pound of chrome
is being shipped. The only person
to enjoy the luxury of this costly
installation is a watchman.
The modern hospital has never
been entered by a single nurse or
doctor; it has never had a single
patient. The recreation center has
a large bowling alley in which the
workers in the chrome plant were
presumed to amuse themselves,
but it has never resoundtd to the
booming of the balls or the crash
of pins. Its alleys are as smooth and
glistening as the day they were
completed. No store or other busi
ness enterprise has ever opened its
doors to supply an anticipated pop
ulation of many hundreds.
Almost before the "city" has been
competed other sources of chrome
ore had been made available and
extraction of chrome from the gra
nite formation of the Montana
Rockies was found to be altogether
too costy for continued operation.
The whole plan was abandoned and
so far as present prospects indicate,
the venture will be a total loss to '
the government Chrome ore is
now being produced in quantity in
southwestern Oregon and steel
mills are having no difficulty in
supplying their needs for this es
sential alloy.
In the investigation of war spend
ing this example of hasty under
taking is regarded as a prime illus
tration of the snap judgment which
caused waste of money and man
power immediately following the
treacherous attack upon Pearl Har-"
bar and ranks with the Canol oil
field development in the Fort Nor
man district of Canada. The total
investment of government funds is
less, but the ultimate loss may be
even greater, in the opinion of
those who still defend the Fort
Norman adventure as supplying a
wartime need.
PROMISES have been given that
Oregon and Washington federaliz
ed guardsmen will be brought back
to the United States from the
South Pacific for a respite some
time this year. These home boys
were among the first transported to
Australia and they have been in
that area so long that under the
program for a rest pericd for men
over seas they are entitled to be
brought back. They will return as
means of transportation afford the
opportunity and not in one body.
OPPOSITION is being raised to
the proposal of the state depart
ment to bring into the United
States some 75.000 Italians to re
lieve t'ie shortags of labor. One ar
gumen: is that there is no man
power situation warranting the in
vasion and that once they are ad
mitted they may remain for many
years. The situation with regard to
Mexican labor is different. The Me
xicans worked in the fields of the
northwest during the harvest where
there was an accute shortage of
help and did such a good job that
plans are now under way to bring
in an equally large number for the
1944 crop year.
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