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-a T3 O f i O da mnnmx r J I I t. - O O OiirMen Bn Service Sgt. Joe E. Aiken has been seeing a hit of the world in the Mediter ranean area and wrote an interest ing letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aiken, describing some of the scenes and his experiencesi Ed, referred to in the latter is a pal with whom Joe "tours" the region when the two of them have fur loughs at the same time. 22 March J944 Dear Folks: . . Well I have a lot to tell this time for a change for I have just come back from six days leave with Ed. . We went to Italy and from there to the Isle of Capri. It was a two and one-half hour . trip by ferry from the main land, and on the way over to the isle we went by the only mountain in Italy that is an act ive volcano, the one that destroyed Pompei centuries ago. Enough of that for now as I will come back to it after awhile. We docked about 5 in the after-' noon, and as we were coming off the ferry there was a crowd of kids that seemed to be trying to get on as we were getting off. It turned out that they wanted to carry our bags to the truck. After we had placed our baggage on the trucks which took it to the hotel, we went to the tram. It is made up of five cars, all of which make one about the size of a street car in Portland. Each section is made so that when it starts up the mountain it is level at all times. There are two cars on the track when one goes up the other comes down. It works on a gravity pulley . of some - kind. From the tram station, ' Finiculi. we walked about two and onehalf blocks to the hotel, (one block there if you can find where it ends is about as long as two in Portland.) The streets are just about, wide enough for a jeep, and wander all around the island. The' hotel was much the same as any that we have in the states at any resort. Your meals are included in your billj We paid a dollar a day to pay the help. The food is GI but you would never know it as it is really fixed up. Ed and I had1 a room in what they call a villa, in the states J. think it would be called an annex. Twin beds and a balcony that overlooked the sea, In the lobby of the hotel they had a bar that was open just before meals and just after; of an evening it stayed open until 11. We would walk into the dining room and sit down at a table with a white table cloth and real silver ware there was a glass of fruit juice or fruit cocktail; after you finished1 that off they brought the first course .usually meat, and fol lowed by another meat course, with vegetables. The butter was fixed like little seashells. After the last course they served coffee gals brought that around. The cups were about the size of small teacups and I drank about seven cups (maybe it was the cute gals who served it or perhaps it was the small cups In either case, I got enough coffee). Capri is one of the oldest resorts I think there is. The Romans used it back in Christ's time. And the story that goes with the island is that the sirens of lihe sea used it to entice the sailors there in anceint tunes. Some of the high spots I saw were: BLUE GROTTO: It. Is a cave made by the ocean in a solid rock cliff. You go in by boat through a small opening just large enough for a row boat. We had to lie down in the bottom of the .boat to get in. It was real dark inside but after our eyes got accustomed to the dark we could make it out. What light that comes in penetrates through the rocks and is reflected off of the bottom. It takes the strangest blue Continued on Page Three Heppner, P. P. & L. Patrons to Receive Share of Profits in May Customers of Pacific .Power & Light company will receive a $300, 000 "rate dividend" erly in May under a wartinn-earnings-siaring pVn approved by the Oregon Public Utilities commissioner and an nounced at Salern on Wednesday. Amount of the dividend will be proportionately one-half of each customer's average monthly electric bill, according to Homer Beale, dis trict manager for the company. To be paid to each participant by check instead of by credit on bills, the "rate dividend'' will return ap proximately $28,000 to electric users in this district, he said. "Designed to meet the abnormal ccnditons created by wartime loads and revenues, this 'rate dividend' is just one more consistent step taken by P.. P. & L. to give customers the benefit of greater volume of busi ness," said Beale. "Its effect will be to reduce still further the low av erage price of electricity of our nyttem." A,ll active customers who weic billed for electric service between Feb. 20 and April 20 and who are on the company's books on May 1 will share in the dividend. Red Cross Drive Brings in $5,958.06 Financial tabulation was ,made Wednesday of the recent Red Crosj war fund campaign!-and Chairman Bennij Howe '. states that' Morrow county, went over the top to the tune of $5,958.06. The quota was $3,G00. Divided into districts the results ;weie as follows: In-igon .$67.75; - Boardman $177.75 Blackhorse $46; Cecil $174.50; Pine City $112.10; Hardman $117.35; Reed's Mill $24.81; Morgan $86.50; Eight Mile and Gooseberry $701.50; lone $1,855.50; Lexington $1,127.50; Heppner $1,465.80, and Lower Wil low creek $20. STINGLE-VANCE A wedding of interest to Heppner people was held in Winnemueca, Nev. April 11 when Mrs. Izora Vance and E. V. Stingle were mar ried with Mr. and Mrs. Glen Stingle of Ontaria witnessing the ceremony. A wedding trip which took the newly-weds through parts of Neva da and Idaho was enjoyed enroute to Portland where they stayed a few days before returning to Hepp ner, where they are at home in the Jones apartment house. SERVICES AT VALBY CHURCH Rev. Kenneth Andeen of Seattle will hold services at Valby Luther an church at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday, April 21. Petty Officer, Ivy Quale of the WAVES will be in Heppner Tues day, April 25, from 1 p. m. until 3:30 p. m. to assist young women in learning about their opportu nities in the WAVES. She will be at the temporary WAVES recruit ing office at Morrow county local board of selective service. iiimii r trfcV '- XJksamm Oregon, Thursday, April Potato Surplus to Be Used in Making industrial Alcohol New Equipment to Be Installed for Big Scale Operation According to the Oregon City Banner-Courier, which p-inted an exclusive interview with Ben Wal ing, manager of the Curver Distil lery, processing of Clackamas, mid Multnomah counties potaoees of lower grades into industrial alcohol will be under way within a month. Installation of a 2-ton cooker, two huge stills and other equipment , to augment the plant that was operat ed last fall in producing alcohol from cull supples and prunes, will be started as soon as an industrial engineer finishes his survey of the plant, the BC quotes Walling. The cooker has been purchased at 'St. Helens and the tills are awaitinj shipment from a California copper works. With the conversion of the steam plant from wood to oil, priorities for which are now being processed, the Carver distillery will be ready to turn out 3800 gallons of high proof industrial alcohol every 24 hours, Walling stated. , A contract, from the Commodity Credit . corporation to the Carver company, now owned by the Grain Products!, Inc., "Heppner, has been recommended by the War Food ad ministration to care for surplus po tatoes. Announcement of this con tract is expected in a few days, ac cording to Walling. ; Later word from Oregon City is to the effect that the Carver plant will have to be enlarged to accom modate the new equipment. It was found that a charging hopper to be placed atop the 200-ton cooker will require extensive alterations, in cluding the raising of one section cf the roof to about 50 feet. The cooker will stand abut 25 feet and the hopper, conveyors, elevator and working space above that will re quire an additional 25 feet. Officials of the company residing at Heppner verify the report on these improvements and state that they expect a profitable run on po tato alcohol production at the Car ver plant. Choral Club to . Appear May 9 Tuesday evening, May 9 is the date chosen by the Heppner Wo men's Choral club for the presenta tion of the first annual concert. This concert, culmination of the year's training, will be held in the high school gymnasium and open at 8 o'clock p. m. A nominal admission will be charged, the proceeds to be donated to the Portland blood donor center. The" concert will consist of three part choruses sung by the group of 25 women under the direction of Mrs. O. G. Crawford, and piano numbers by Marylou Ferguson, guest artist. This is the first year of work by the group, formed from members of the Heppner Music study club and others invited to participate. There are few such groups in the state, even in larger cities. The club held annual election of officers Tuesday evening at which time Miss Rose Hoosier was elected president; Mrs. W. E. Davis, vice president; Josephine Mahoney, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. O. G. Crawford, director. Itaiph Benge, Mrs. Rosa Eskel son and Mrs Ruth Barnett, Pendle ton, were called to Lewiston, Ida. Sunday by the illness of a sister, Mrs. Mattie Henderson. Terrill Benge took his lather and Mrs. Es kelson to Pendleton Sunday to catch a train for Lewiston. 20, 1944 Purity Squad' in Removes Old Tires And Other Rubbish A group of volunteers from the Heppner chamber of commerce re sponded to C. D. Conrad's appeal for aid in clearing off the rubber salvage on the corner next to the Noble harness shop and Tuesday evening found them engaged at the task. All salvagable tires, those that are fit for shipment were removed to the fair pavilion where they will be held awaiting shipping orders. All other rubbish, and there was plenty of it, was hauled to the city dump ground. The huge box built to receive the old tires was torn down and there will be no furthei excuse for people to make a public dump ground of the corner. Miss Marjorie Sims, senior at Heppner high school, was the guest speaker at the chamber of commerce luncheon Monday. Her topic dealt with conditions as viewed from the young peoples' standpoint. She pul1 ed no punches in pointing out the conduct of the older people and her remarks were so well receivd that the was invited to visit the club again sometime. Dead Service Men To Be Honored Service men who have lost their lives in the armed forces will be honored by having their names I laced on a memorial plaque at Portland's Victory Center, it was announced this week by P. W. Ma honey, chairman of . the Morrow county war finance committee.' and E. C. Sammons, state chairman, Oregon war bond staff. Families of men eligible are re quested to turn in names either to Mr. Mahoney or the war finance committee, American Bank build ing, Portland, Oregon. ALL SCHOOL MUSICAL EVENT OF EARLY MAY Heppner teachers and pupils are busy putting on finishing touches of the all-school music program which will be presented on the evening of March 5. This event will replace the usual county-wide day of music. An interesting program is promised and your attendance is hoped for. La Grande Rotary Club Sponsoring Teacher Training An increasing shortage of teach ers is causing others than school authorities to "view the situation with alarm" This is seen in recent action by the La Grande Rotary dub to sponsor teacher training scholarships at Eastern Oregon Col lege of Education, he club has post ed seven $74 scholarships alt the college, of which five high schools outside of Union county will be recognized. One senior from La Grande high school will be chosen; one from a Union county high school outside of La Grande, with the other five to be chosen outtside of Union county. Condidate will be selected upon scholarship ability, charactr and personality, worthiness and need, and leadership quality. Students in terested in a scholarship should ap ply for application blanks from either" the principal of La Grande high school or the Registrar, East ern Oregon College of Education. Mr. and Mrs. Earl January of Pendleton were business visitors in Heppner the first of the week. Bill Sampson left Sunday for Ft. Knox, Ky. after visiting his father F. L. Sampson, section foreman on the Heppner branch. . WiHiam Newhard who went to Seattle last week for a physical went right on to San Diego for training. His wife and chidren hav moved to town from Keene's log ging camp. She is a niece of Fred Lorenzen. Volume 61 , Number 4 Farmers Urged to Keep Trucks in Best of Condition Increase of New -Trucks Not Seen In Current Trend Information being circulated tht a considerable number of nfw trucks are now available for im mediate delivery to farmers is not in accordance with the facts, the county farm transportation commit tee reports. The real situation in regard to new trucks constitutes an urgent warning for careful repairs and maintenance of all existinf farm trucks, the committee believes. A total of 88,000 new trucks has been authorized for manufacture in 1944, but most of them will not be made until fete in the year. ThL, compares with 725,000 new trucks sold during 1941, more than half of which were for replacements. The pool of pre-war trucks has practically disappeared, with few being left after release of 63,500 in 1943. Of this total, 18,335 went to agriculture, or about 29 percent. If farmers receive the. same propor tion of the 88,000 new trucks .to be made this year, then agriculture can count on only about 26,000 new trucks for replacements during the year. Repair and maintenance pro grams, together with mileage-saving conservation measures are being pushed by all concerned. The repair part picture is considerably bright 'er. Manufacturers' have been given materials for all of the parts they can produce in the portions of their plants not tied up on military or ders. Maintenance specialists of the office of defense transportation of fer assistance in locating any repair parts still on the "scarce" list. Farm truck owners who are unable to find needed repair parts are urged by the committee to use this service Full information can be obtained from the farm transportation com unoo ain ui sjavrenbpeau, s aanu AAA office. County Invests Heavily in Bonds Morrow county may not have in vested heavier than other sections but figures submitted by P. W. Ma honey this week reveal that since the war finance committee was or ganized the people of this county have purchased $1,910,963 worth of war bonds. Mahoney has been chairman of the war finance committee since its organization and tendered his resig nation this week in view of soon be ing called for service. B. C. Pinck ney, who has been active in the war finance campaign, at times serving as co-chairman, has been appointed to take Mahoney's place. a RETURNS TO HOSPITAL After a few weeks at home, W. G. McCarty had to be taken back lo the hospital in Portland, His daugh ter, Mrs. Raymond Rice, accompan ied him Monday. She was enroute to British Columbia to visit her hus band, Dr. Raymond Rice, member of th Canadian medical corps. Mrs. Oscar Borg came from Portland Sunday to be with their mother until Mrs. Rice returns. Mrs. Lawrence Mills was called to Booise, Ida. the first of the week due to the illness of her mother and a sister. Ensign Lewis Gilliam is spending the week here with his father, L, L. Gilliam. Mrs. Donald Rowe took her mo ther, Mrs. Clifford Noble, and her sister to Portand Monday for med ical treatment.
