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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON. OREGON
The Hermiston Herald
Published Every Thursday at
Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon.
Alfred Quiring and Leander Quiring, Publishers.
Entered at the post office at Hermiston as Second
Class Matter, Dec. 1906, Umatilla County, Oregon.
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PUBLISHERS Ass p£l AT I 0 N
WE MUST STRETCH OUR RUBBER
So far the Japs have us licked on rubber. Alrea
dy the war is beginning to pinch the average car
owner, and according to general reports the pinch
will grow tighter as the days and months go by. We,
of course, can stand the pinch on pleasure driving,
and much of the going about here and there that is
unnecessary. But business is being affected along
many lines. The farmer will feel the handicap in
movement of products. The transportation of pro
ducts in trucks along highways will be heavily re
stricted, and the railroads will be loaded beyond
capacity. Automobile dealers, service stations and
oil companies will find business reduced to a mini
mum.
These are facts that we are facing now, and how
much worse they may become depends largely on
the course of the war. Such restrictions of our nor
mal business activities will reduce our ability to buy
defense bonds, and our capacity to support all war
effort.
But we will have to meet the condition until relief
comes. It is our duty, and our patriotism will help
us, to yield ungrudgingly in our all out struggle to
regain our ways of life under our form of govern
ment. There may be good reasons in statesmanship
why all this should not have been allowed to hap
pen, but that is all off now, and if you just don’t like
it, try to imagine a Japanese invasion of our west
coast and a Japanese gestapo telling us much worse
things to do.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1948
the referendum, the county AAA of ’ pococ**8900****7 socc*s*s****cc**c********c*******0*2
fice reports. Only those farmers
growing more than 15 acres of
wheat are affected by marketing
quotas, and accordingly are eligible
The Farm Bureau and auxiliary
to vote on quotas.
requests that as many men and lad
Quotas for the 1942 wheat crop
ies as possible attend the clean-up at were proclaimed by the secretary of
the, Columbia park Friday, March 6. agriculture last July, when it became
Del Christley has kindly offered to apparent that the wheat supply would
dig the trench to lay the water pipe exceed the marketing quota level by
I in the park. A pot luck dinner will law. The greatest supply of wheat
be served at noon by the ladies. The on record, 1,428 million bushels, is
ladies will sew on Red Cross mater now in sight for 1942-43. This is
nearly 100 million bushels more than
ial.
The following is a list of future last year’s huge supply.
With Umatilla county farmers do
meetings, titles to be discussed and
ing their part in American agricul
I committees :
March 6 -Cleanup day and sewing. ture’s great wartime food production
Mrs. Doris Mikesell, Mrs. Emma program, A. R. Coppock, chairman of
Hutchison and Mrs. Emma Christ the county AAA committee, believes
that it has become doubly important
ley.
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that •marketing quotas remain in ef
March 20—Homemakers.
Mrs.
fect for the 1942 wheat crop.
Margaret Blahm, Mrs. Mary Buell
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Labor, materials and machines are ( >
and Mrs. Mary Harr.
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going to be scarce in 1942, and to ob ’
April 3 Planning for gardens. tain the production needed in the
Mrs. Grace Foster, Mrs. Minnie Ott Food for Victory program, agricul
and Mrs. Essie Turnblad.
ture must concentrate every effort
April 17—Food preservation. Mrs. and resource on needed crops, the
Catherine Sommerer, Mrs. Mabel chairman pointed out. Needless pro %
F. B. SWAYZE, President
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Weeks and Mrs. Edith Bensel.
duction of crops of which there is al %
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Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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May 1 Health. Mrs. Catherine ready a plentiful supply would be 1 »
Jendrzejewski, Mrs. Emma Upham wasteful and might endanger the en
and Mrs. Ethel Hughes.
tire food production program.
The chairman reported that with and son. She went down with Mr.
May 15—Vacation. Mrs. Fern
spent Wednesday and Thursday in
Zivney, Mrs. Edith Cable and Mrs. out producing a single bushel this and Mrs. Emery Cox of Hermiston. Wasco.
year the United States has enough
Miss Marie Healy of Portland
E. C. Voglan of Cornell, Wn.,
Mabel Reid.
wheat on hand to supply all home spent the week end with her parents spent Friday at his ranch on Butter
needs and foreign outlets. Indica Mr. and Mrs. John Healy. Marie Creek.
in the First National Bank of
Mr. and Mrs. George Corrin and
WHEAT GROWERS
tive of the size of present supplies works
Portland.
sons of Lena spent Monday afternoon
is the recently announced feed wheat
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Doherty of Al with Mrs. Hugh Corrin Sr. at the
ELIGIBLE TO VOTE
program, whereby wheat is made pine spent Sunday with Mrs. Doher Voglan ranch.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dal
The sheep men are reporting quite
QUOTA REFERENDUM available to livestock and poultry ty's
loss of lambs during the lambing
producers at the local loan value in ey.Miss Helen and Rosetta Healy of a season.
an attempt to reduce stocks and pro Heppner spent the week end with
Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Bartholomew
Umatilla county wheat growers, vide storage for the 1942 crop.
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John sent word to their parents, Mr. and
Healy
and
sister,
Miss
Marie
of
Port
who last year approved wheat mar
Mrs. H. Bartholomew, that they are
land.
the parents of a baby girl born Feb
keting quotas by a vote of 1,330 to
Lloyd Ballridge spent Sunday at ruary 23, weighing 712 pounds.
18, will join wheat farmers through-
the A. E. Wattenburger and Roy
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Struthers were
out the nation in voting at the second
Neill home.
By Mrs. Bernice Wattenburger
Sunday callers at the Marian Finch
wheat marketing quota referendum
Mrs. Neill Knighten of Hardman home. Also a visitor was C. H. Bar
spent Sunday night with Mr. and tholomew.
on May 2.
Bernice Wattenburger spent Wed Mrs. Roy Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hanna of
Approximately 1,600 farmers in nesday and Thursday in Portland
Norse Rassuamann of the Voglan Heppner have moved their sheep to
this county will be eligible to vote in visiting Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Strain ranch and Mr. Judy of Walla Walla | the Finch ranch to feed and lamb.
COLUMBIA PARK
TO GET CLEANING
NOTICE OF
CHANGE OF HOURS
:
Hereafter the bank will
open at 10:00 A. M. in
stead of 9:OO, and close
at the regular 3:00 P. M.
A
| FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HERMISTON |
PINE CITY NEWS
73
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The registration books for voters at the coming
May election are now open. We have among us a
great many new voters who should be encouraged
to register and vote. They are now citizens of the
various communities, and have made investments
and established their homes here, and should be in
terested in our local activities, as well as county,
state and nation. Our former residents, who know
our problems and ambitions, should take a good
citizen interest in our new friends and see to it that
the y registe i' and go to the polls.
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THEY WOULD READ -OUR AD
TOO. IF IT APPEARED HERE
FARMERS SUPPLY
AT THE
Hotpoint
SIGN
Ranges
Refrigerators
Wash Machines
Oil Heaters
Competitive Prices On
Small Electrical Appliances
and Supplies
Farmers Supply Store
HERE'S WHERE COPPER
WIRE IS GOING!
Every four-motor
bomber contains
more than three and a half miles of
copper wire!
A single anti-aircraft shell uses nearly
8 pounds of copper—a battleship takes
more than 200,000 pounds of the red metal.
And during the last war our Signal Corps
strung enough copper wire to stretch
around the world several times.
Add these enormous requirements of
the army and navy together and you can
see why civilian use of copper must be
drastically curtailed.
Power companies, normally the largest
civilian users of copper, no longer can
build long extensions to serve farms, su
burban homes or non-defense industries.
The challenge of the day is to make the
most effective possible use of existing
power lines—in fact, of all the nation’s
production facilities. That is the way to
save precious time, materials, manpower.
When the war is won. Pacific Power
& Light will again string copper wire
through suburban tracts and down coun
try roads to deliver to new farms, homes
or industries the cheap electricity that
makes this region the envy of the nation.
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