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THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942. THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON. PAGE SIX Students Go A-Farming 0 at Farmingdale, O 2 L. I. UNION Gibraltar Rock Made Stronger Defenses Called ‘Fantastic* —Guard Fortress From Attack by Land. si : 22 54 There is a threatened shortage of are needed this summer, and some of these are being trained at the State students at work in the dairy section In farming. farm labor this year. In upstate New York alone 25,000 men and boys 7,000 boys from eity high schools have enrolled for farm training. Many Institute of Agriculture in Farmingdale, L. I. At the left you see of the institute. Kight: Some of the students who arc taking a course --------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------- I N.Y.A. TO ACCEPT GIRLS FOR OFFICE WORK TRAINING are being called to jobs in the Port land and Seattle ship yards at a base wage of $1.12 1 per hour immediate ly upon passing the American Bureau of Shipwelding test. An average boy requires 150 to 200 hours of training to pass this examination. Semi- skilled machinists, sheet metal work ers and carpenters are in great de mand. Many thousand girl clerical workers are now needed in defense industries. Ail boys and girls assigned to de fense training and work experience in Pendleton receive their board and room plus approximately $9.00 per month in cash for personal use. Young people interested in NYA assignments to defense training and work experience should contact Mr. Glenn T. Norton, Area Youth Per sonnel officer, Observer Bldg., La Grande, Oregon, for application. “Forty girls ranging in age from 17 to 25 and from various parts of Eastern Oregon will arrive at Pen dleton May 18 and 25 upon assign ments to the new NVA Girls Resi dent Center near Hawthorne school”, said Henry Vorlicky of La Grande, NYA director, and Mrs. Connie H. James of Portland, state director of NYA Girls’ projects, today. The girls will reside in one of the two dormitories rthe boys occupy the other—which will be under the direc tion of Mrs. Marian Moriarty, who has been in charge of the NYA girls in La Grande for the past year. Twenty of the girls will do part- time office work at the Pendleton Air Base and also receive stenogra phic training, while twenty will be trained in radio and sheet metal work, leading to employment in vital defense industries. The educational program is under the direction of Austin Landreth, city school superin Comparatively few changes in the tendent and recent elected president 1943 AAA program are sought in of the Oregon State Teachers asso recommendations proposed by 1300 ciation. The Pendleton teachers will Oregon farmer committeemen and give instruction. reviewed this week by the state AAA At the youth center in the past, I committee, R. B. Taylor of Adams, only boys have been residents, taking state AAA chairman, announces. training in machine shop, radio, car- I The state recommendations, based pentry, cooking, and welding; the on action of the state AAA confer average number being forty. Rev. ence and the results of questionnaires Ed Stauffer, graduate of Northwes filled out by county and community tern Theological Seminary, is resi committeemen last month, demon dent supervisor for NYA. strate that the present farm program Boys taking training in welding is adaptable to wartime as well as PROPOSED AAA CHANGES HAVE WAR BASIS ---------- .................... peace-time adjustments, Taylor said. | The changes sought, mostly de- | signed to give greater assistance to I I farmers in meeting Food for Free- I dom production goals, place greater emphasis on pasture improvement, weed and rodent control, and simple conservation methods of farming needed to keep soils in condition for top production for the duration of the war. One proposed change would en courage growers to utilize legume straw left on the land after seed crops are harvested, by discouraging burning of such crop residues. High in plant food content, legume straw has become more important for its fertilizer value since nitrates have become scarce, Taylor said. Maintenance of the present allot ment system for surplus crops and continuance of the provision requir ing that 20 per cent of a farm’s crop land be devoted to soil conserving uses were also asked. Use of lime has developed to the point where existing lime plants in ! the state cannot keep up with the de mand, and are now 10,000 tons be- | hind on orders from farmers, the I state committee learned. Continuance of the conservation materials pro gram, which provides for distribution of lime and phosphate in lieu of AAA payments earned, was recommended for its contribution to pasture im- I provement and increased milk pro duction. Adoption of a modified “honor sys- 1 tern” whereby farmers would report | their own compliance with the pro- | gram and performance of practices | was also recommended by the com- j mitteemen. You Can Whip Our Cream, on rue sack / F V. But You Can't Beat Our -l* Milk A Phone 3761 Hermiston Dairy H. L. PAYNE, Owner ===== j NEW MONEY FOR YOUR OLD THINGS Your Discarded Furniture, l’iano. Radio, Bicycle, Tools, Ice Box. can be sold with A WANT AD IN TEIS NEWSPAPER TO ALL MY FRIENDS IN UMATILLA COUNTY May I take this opportunity to re-affirm my intention to conduct the office of County Treas urer in the most efficient manner possible. I appreciate the trust given me in the past, and it is my sincere hope that I may have your support in the coming Primary Election. It is my belief that the affairs of the County Treasurer have been handled in a proper and business-like manner during my tenure of office. At any time I have been unable, because of ill ness, to be in the office, it has been in charge of a capable deputy, at no expense to the County. On the record of the quality of my work in the office. 1 base my request for your further sup port. BETTY F. DEHART FOR COUNTY TREASURER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE (Pd Adv.) LONDON.—The reported arrival of German troops on the Spanish frontier as having come through the Nazi-occupied Biscay littoral arouses renewed interest in the defenses of Gibraltar. Just before the war Marshal Pe tain, when ambassador at Madrid, paid a visit to the Rock and pro nounced it, in a private letter to a Paris friend, “impregnable even from the land side, where the ap proaches can be easily enfiladed by warships."’ In the last four years, according to periodic reports dealing with gen eralities, the defenses have been completely reconditioned in order to meet modern methods of attack, which have been employed by the Germans elsewhere with more and more finish. Writer Looks It Over. Quite recently General Viscount Gort, who is in command of the Rock and director of the various naval, army and air staffs assem bled there, was permitted to divulge certain aspects of the “new Gibral- tar” and ordered an officer to ac- company a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph of London on a tour of inspection through the works. From Madrid the correspondent got the follow ing dispatch through to his paper, with nc censoring in evi dence: “For two days I was taken through every phase of these fan tastic defenses, starting where you cross into the zone from the little town of La Linea on the border. “There are three zones. They are: “The new defense area against attacks by land from Spain; the har bor areas containing the immense anchorage and dock facilities and the tremendous new seaplane base; the interior of the Rock itself, which has been developed fivefold since the war began, for the British have now made Gibraltar as impregna ble from land as from sea. “You reach Gibraltar along a nar row peninsula separating the Medi terranean from the harbor. On this stretch 26 sets of concrete tank bar riers cross the road and you weave through these for a mile. No General Entrance. “On each side of this single route is a fiat area 700 yards wide, stud ded with immense pillboxes and tank traps, flame-thrower stations and anti-aircraft batteries. “At the end of the mile is the first of two canals between the sea and the harbor, cut across the road and serving as great modern moats. Beyond these you reach the garri son gates and the cantonments, the mined approaches to the docks and the Mole. “Here a great battle fleet rides at anchor, among it two famous ships recently under repair at New York. “There is no general entrance to the Rock. The Rock itself is a mile long and a half a mile wide, 1,000 feet high, consisting entirely of lime- stone, through which it is relatively easy to tunnel. Its fortifications are centralized on each of the three faces, each an immense network in itself. “Some 2,000 tunnelers are work- ing in Gibraltar 24 hours a day. There were two miles of tunnels when the war started. Today there are ten. A total of 20,000 men can live in that Rock indefinitely, and these men are stationed at Gibral tar now. | WELL j I | Materials—and si’ll more materials—for planes, tanks, guns must be delivered to a mult lude oí industrial plants. Troops mist be transported to military camps. It’s an important job the railroads are doing today and Union Pacific is proud to do its share. A fleet of gigan tic locomotives—largest ever built—haul vast quanti ties of vital war materials and completed armament over the Strategic Middle Route, planned by Abraham Lincoln to connect the East with the West. All of our facilities plus thousands of experienced Union Pacific employees are on the job for Uncle Sam Jay and night. We re keeping 'em rolling to “keep em flying.“ | For information concerning passenger and freight transportation, consult local representative. —e Ynoq neaaive UKON PACIFIC RAILROAD The Sbateçic Middle kouie. JEEPTOONS By Fighting Men 1 I | | | j | Uncle Sam Contracts for 632 More Cargo Vessels I , | HE’S IN GOOD HANDS" Men of the fighting services are adept with pen and brush, as proven in art groups in USO clubs. USO presents examples of their work in a series of "Jeeptoons.” WASHINGTON. - The United States maritime commission an nounced that it had negotiated con tracts for the construction of 632 additional merchant vessels. These, it was said, would bring its program up to President Roosevelt’s request for 8.000.000 deadweight tons of ship ping this year and 10.000.000 dead- we ght tons next year. Captain Howard L. Vickery, a n ember of the commission, estimat- ei that the 632 vessels, all of the emergency type known as Liberty shivs, will cost $1.110.000.000 All the vessels will be completed by the end’of 1943. 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