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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1944)
Cruisers Figuring Sustained Yield in Heppner Forest Area To give timber companies oper ating in the Helppner area of the Umatilla National forest an esti mate of annual cutting available to them under the sustained yield plan, cruisers have been working south of this city for the past two weeks cecking thja merchantable timber. Fred Matz, of the lumber divsion of the National Forest ser vice is here from the regional of fice at Portland and with the as sistance of Bert Bleakman is cov ering the region from whence the Kinzua Pine Mills company is drawing and will draw its supply. Prior to the war the mills could figure quite accurately the length of their operations in the pine belts but since war demands have speed ed up cutting there is more or less uncertainty about postwar supplies, forest officials point out. The gov ernment is taking the best timber and just where the demand will stop or decrease materially is as yet unforseen. One promising fac tor is seen in the use of other timber, inferior to pine but quite acceptable to the trade. This is in evidence locally and is affording some relief to the lumber drouth which civilians have felt for many months. Over to the east end of the Hep pner district, Boyd Rasmussen from the Pendleton forest office and Orville Smith, manager of the Heppner Lumber company have been making a survey of the com pany's holdings and government timber in the vicinity in order to determine what the USFS can grant the mill concern to help ex tend the cutting of the local plant. Heppner Gazette Times, November 23, 19445 CHILDREN COMING HOME The C. N. Jones home will be the scene of a family reunion this week end. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gray beal and baby are driving up from Eugene for Thanksgiving. The are accompanied by another daughter, Loma Mae Jones who is attending the Eugene Bible school. On Fri day their soldier son, Sgt. Charles Marvel Jones and his bride will ar rive from Camp Chaffee, Ark. GUESTS AT GAMMELLS Mrs. John DeMoss is expected to be at home for the. week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gammell. Vada' attended a special ist school after going to Portland and is now a long distance tele phone operator in Portland.. She will likely be accompanied by her brother Floyd and fiamily from Eugene. - i BAZAAR ANNOUNCED ' Ladies of All . Saints Episcopal church have announced the date of their annual bazaar. Beginning at 2 p. m. Dlec. 2, in the parish house they will offer a variety of articles for slale, cooked foods, aprons and hand work. Tea will be served dur ing the afternoon. Come and take care of your Christmas worries at the Episcopal parish house Dec. 2. ' THANKSGIVINGGUESTS Mr. and Mrs. James Cowins are entertaining their on-in-law and daughter, T. Sgt and Mrs. W. R. McNeill. Sgt McNeill is at home for a few days furlough from Moun-, tain Home. Ida. Normandy Invasion Continued from First Page was involved an incredible number of surface craft. I have never seen, on a scale even remotely compar able, as many ships las we used in this assault. I have seen ships at many Grandreiews, but they were as the proverbial drop in the buckfet! Needl I mention the fact that this pending impact of their cargo (acted as a shot in the arm to us about to close with the self asserted "master race"? We realiz ed with an indescribably stark, all-out-clear-cut certainty that Hitler was about to get one H of a kick in the belly We needed no added incentive, to be sure; Amer icans knew what they had at stake, but the injection of such abundant confidence in our might served to help us over thoe last doubtful hurdles. Our entry through mine-sown coastal waters was a painstaking, tortuous affair. We were on our last phase preparatory to situating safely in our predesignated target area. Nerves were drawn ever so tightly as our progress through, the mine-field was indicated by chan nel buoys. Our. skipper, Captain Richards, had said in his address to the crew, wishing us Godspeed, that he would put us in position to fight, and he did just that We were moving through darkest pre dawn hours and on a schedule of minute exactitude. It proved a dangerous phase, well carried! through, and at the swfit approach of H-hour wb were settling into position and had our wraps off pending the sound of the bell: "to action!" ON BUYING TRIP Mrs. Agnes Curran is spending H& week in Portland attending a buyers' market. She left Sun day for the city. Pfc Cleave Vinton Howell is vis iting relatives for a few days com ing from Camp White for a fur lough. He will stop a day or so in Portland on nis return to south ern Oregon. GOES TO MILTON Mrs. . Percy Hughes returned! to Milton Tuesday with her daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Lutcher. Mrs. Hugh es hfes rented an apartment for the winter and will be there most of the time for a few months. PARTY DANCE Saturday Night, Nov. 25 Elks and Their Ladies Only Music by "Kids About Town" Dancing at 10 o'clock . ANNOUNCING Change in Ownership of Heppner- lone - Portland Freight Line This freight line will continue to serve Morrow county and we solicit your patronage. J. E. Sutherland Phone orders to LaVerne Van Marter 152 or 1442 -Heppner or Phone 60, Pilot Rock, Ore. The high cost of living 0 p QQ The low price of electricity LoOK AT THE COST OF LIVING up 25.4 since 1939 Then look at the average kilowatt-hour price of P.P.&L. electric- itydown 21 for residential service during the same period! Part of this reduction in the average cost of electricity is due to increased use of electrical helpers, which automatically moves users into the lower steps of our progressive rate schedules. But even more important have been the three rate reductions and the two "rate dividends" received by our customers in the past five years. These forward steps have cut the average price we get for residential electric service from 2.36 cents per kilowatt-hour in 1939 to only 1.86 cents at the present time. And compared with 15 years ago, the average home served by P.P.&L. is now using about twice as much electricity at no more cost. The actual record of steady reduction in the cost of your electric service is your assurance of continued better value in the future. Figurt from U.S. Burtau of Ltbor StathtUs. Pacific Power & Light Company Your Business-Managed Power System