THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942.
HERMISTON HERALD HERMISTON. OREGON
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The Hermiston Herald
Published Every Thursday at
Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon.
Alfred Quiring and Leander Quiring, Publishers.
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This Is Election Day!
When you read this Friday morning, remember it
is primary election day. From both Republican and
Democratic candidates are to be chosen nominees
for Fall elections throughout the state and all the
counties. You, no doubt, have preferences, and the
only way to show it is by your ballot at the polls to-
day. Of course you are busy, but this is your govern
ment, and the vox populi is what determines wheth
er it is good government, or weak government. At
no time in our history, since the Revolution, has the
vital issues of that our forefathers fought for and es
tablished by constitution, been so threatened. These
American rights, so established, are sustained by the
right and privilege of free American citizens to vote
in secret places their will.
If we are going to eat well next year, help will
have to be provided for farmers during crop har
vesting season. Because of conditions it is already
well known that production in this area will be much
less for 1942, and unless farmers can secure help at
the right time, much damage will be caused to the
crops that are being produced. Armies must be fed
and industrial producers must be fed, and the har
vesting problem is not being met by the wise acres
or “Solomons” of management.
Oregon’s food-drying facilities, that
exceed in volume those of any other
state, can be made quickly available
to further the nation’s war effort in
a gigantic food-drying program if
national officials will cooperate by
indicating the type and volume of
foods needed and prices to be expect
ed, according to a comprehensive
report submitted to Washington by
William A. Schoenfeld, dean and di
rector of agriculture at Oregon State
college.
The report was drawn up at Dean
Schoenfeld’s request by Henry Hart
man, head of horticultural research
of the experiment station; E. H. Wie
gand, head of the department of food
industries, and O. T. McWhorter, ex
tension horticulturist.
It shows that when the last detail
ed survey was made by the state de
partment of agriculture in 1938, Ore
gon had 281 food driers of various
types, capable of handling 100,000
bushels of fresh produce per day.
The government is already encour
aging the dehydration of many types
of vegetables and is seeking a large
volume of dried foods for shipment
all over the world. Without sacri
fice of food values, dried foods are
light in weight, of small volume, need
no refrigeration, and keep long per
iods, according to the college men.
Even at present production levels,
Oregon has about 15 million tons of
fruits and 13 million tons of vege
tables per year suitable for dehydra
tion, the report points out. Oregon’s
wide diversity of crops, furthermore,
would make a year-round drying pro
gram possible, with small fruits,
cherries, and certain kinds of vege
tables to be dried in the summer,
with apples, pears, potatoes, cabbage
and root crops to be dried the re
mainder of the year.
For 25 years the state college has
carried on research in drier construc
tion and fruit-drying methods, which
will be invaluable at this time, al
though additional research is needed
in the case of vegetable dehydration,
Dean Schoenfeld points out.
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Sgt. Delmar I. McCracken, son of
Charles E. McCracken, 500 S. Alba
ny St., Yuma, Colo., has been admit
ted as an officer candidate to the
Air Forces Officer Candidate School
at Miami Beach, Florida. After suc
cessfully completing a twelve week
intensive course of instruction, offi
cer candidate McCracken will be
commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in
the army of the United States, air
forces.
At this school, the first of its kind,
the officer candidate studies 35 spe-
cialized courses in administrative,
personnel and supply duties. Upon
graduation, officers will be assigned
to duty in one of these depatrments
in the air forces thus relieving
trained pilots from such duties and
allowing them to devote their full
time to flying. The immediate avail
ability of housing and training faci
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choose Miami Beach as the ideal lo
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Problems of sanitation and fly time are approach
ing. They w ill be as difficult to handle as last year,
very soon. The state authorities have been here and
are endeavoring to instruct camp operators and oth-
ers as necessary methods to comply with state laws.
If violations occur, punishment will follow. It is not
that such authority wants to use any unreasonable
methods, but that the health of the community must
be protected by all reasonable methods. There are
various ways of preserving cleanliness, but careless
ness and indifference can lead to epidemics which
are hard to control.
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Heres
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We’ve come a long way in
Electric Rates, tool
$11.90
,
HOW THE COST OF 100 KWH
♦9.20
OF ELECTRICITY (residential) HAS
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DECREASED IN UMATILLA COUNTY
♦8.60
TOWNS SERVED BY PP&L.
♦5.10
♦4.55
♦3.17
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1925
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1942
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