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The A WEEK OF THE WAR 4o.’LmLAtG n -l^e.ta.LdL OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER VOLUME XXXVI "A Week of the War” summarizes information on the important devel opments of the week made available by official sources through noon EWT, Monday, October 19. DRAFT PROSPECTS FOR NEXT YEAR ARE CLEARED BY ARMY HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 22, 1942. ELECTION FAILS TO STIR ACTION IN HERMISTON Speaks Here NUMBER 10 PHEASANTS ARE ELUSIVE BIRDS THIS SEASON MCKENZIE TELLS OF LENGTHY EASTERN JAUNT AND VISIT Acting at the suggestion of the For some unknown reason, phea Although the fall election is only President and the request of the War sant hunters in these parts are hav 12 days away, little interest is being Department, the House passed and ing a difficult time reaching their shown to date by either the candi sent to the Senate legislation to re limits this year due in the most part dates or the general public. Only in duce the minimum draft age from 20 to extreme wildness of the birds. Al i the case of a representative to Con- to 18. The Bill provides that those though there are more birds than in gress, 2nd Congressional District, has who are in high school or college may V re former years, very few hunters are | there been any concern manifested finish the present school year, but For the first time since Pearl Har | here. Both Lowell Stockman, repub- : - na At 1:00 A. M. Sunday, September .having any amount of luck and many after next July educational defer * report that they cannot get the limit 6th, we left Hermiston to catch the ments would be forbidden. The Bill bor the average American today had lican, and Walter Pierce, democratic i Portland-Spokane train at Umatilla, of four roosters. would also make mandatory the poli a relatively clear picture of his draft encumbent, have appeared on the Due to some misunderstanding, a which train was supposed to leave cy of calling all single men in a state prospects until the end of 1943. Tes scene. However, more action is anti- | story appeared in last week’s Herald Umatilla at 2:10 A. M.. and arrive before calling married men, and then timony by high army officials before cipated during the next 10 days. stating that hunters could pursue in Spokane at 7:30 A. M. But un calling all childless married men be congressional committees on the bill Locally “everything is quiet on the | to lower the draft age to 18 made western front” and except for a game until one-half hour after sun fortunately on this particular morn fore men with children. this possible. set. The correct ruling is that you ing the Spokane train was held up for | change in the council and for city ! Secretary of War Stimson an may hunt one-half hour before sun three hours waiting for the Portland As the bill to draft 18 and 19-year- treasurer, no new developments have | nounced there are approximately Dr. Charles E. Barker rise to sunset. Many arrests are be Rose from the East, on which there 4,250,000 men in the army at present olds moved quickly toward the White transpired. N. R. Mueller has de- | ing made by state police this year for were five ears of soldiers. We arrived House, the selective service situation dined to run again for his council | and this total will be increased to failure to comply with the law. Most in Spokane at 10:15 A. M. only to 7,500,000 by the end of 1943—distri until the end of 1943 shaped up like post which he has held for some Those who heard Dr. Charles E- prevalent is hunting from the high find that the train on which we had this: years. W. W. Felthouse has placed buted as follows: 3,300,000 in the Those who have finished high his name on the ballot in Mr. Muel Barker speak to the students of the way but some are being nabbed for reservations had left at 8:00 A. M. ground forces, 2,200,000 in the air high school, the Rotarians at noon hunting without plugged guns. Sev We were therefore held up in Spo force, 1,000.000 in training and school, are not attending college and ler’s place. For the position of city and to a general meeting in the eve eral local hunters have been fined kane until 8 A. M. Monday. 1.000,000 in supply services. Mr. have not already started to enlist in treasurer. Mrs. Florine Brace Lan- ning all agreed that what he said W e were fortunate in getting reser quite heavy. the army or navy or marine corps or genwaiter will run for the position Stimson said 18 and 19-year-olds are was simple but fundamentally sound. Sunrise and sunset hours for the vations on the Monday train straight more responsive to leadership, are not the aviation cadet corps of those ser held by Mrs. Gertrude Sanders who Dr. Barker, who has probably talked next week are as follows: through to Chicago via St. Paul. The as easily fatigued and make better vices can expect to be called starting has held that post for the past two to more high school students than any Sunrise Sunset trip over the Great Northern through late in November. By the middle of terms. According to city statute, no soldiers than older men. He said other man in North America, had the 5:53 ..... 7:18 Northern Idaho, the Rocky Mountains October 23 there is danger at present that the February all such youths who are person shall occupy the position of complete confidence of the students 5:52 7:19 October 24 in Northern Montana, the prairies of physically fit will be in the army. At treasurer for more than two terms. army might get too old, in March of I at the very beginning and at the end 5:50 ..... 7:20 October 25 North Dakota and the rich farming A familiar name will appear on the of his address. He didn’t say any this year the average age of divisions the end of the present school year and 5:48 ..... 7:22 October 26 lands of Minnesota and Iowa were all no later than next July 1, 18-19-age ballot for mayor, when F. C. McKen being activated was 26 years and 2 thing that all of us don’t already 5:47 .... 7:23 very interesting. October 27 months, but in August the figure had youths who have been attending high zie will again aspire to that office. know but he placed a new and fuller 5:45 ... . 7:24 October 28 .... We left Chicago on the C. & O. R. school and college will be called. Ex Councilmen who are running for risen to 28 years and 2 months. meaning on simple ideas. 7:26 5:44 October 29 R. for Columbus, Ohio, arriving there ceptions to an extent not yet deter another term are Dr. W. L- Morgan, ______ If the draft age is lowered to 18, 5:42 ..... 7:27 October 30 at 6:30 Wednesday evening, and then mined will be made for medical and Al Quiring, B. Haneline. George Har- a 7,500,000-man army can be built up on to my old home at Circleville, in 1943 without calling married men pre-medical students, engineers and kenrider and Dan Gray. Although Ohio, where we visited for two weeks other prospective scientists. there has been some talk of adding with children, Selective Service Direc with my mother who is now past 86 They, and single men without col several names to this list, no definite tor Hershey reported. Induction of years of age. This was my first visit - has ‘ 224 action has been taken and probably lateral dependents, will start receiv married men with wives only will be to Ohio in 21 years, and my second in : sit \ s gin immediately to fill the army’s call ing calls immediately. In November, won’t. 38 years, and I found many changes, James McCarty, for many years ioyp A complete story of district, state, 400,000 of them will be inducted. for 1,100,000 by January 1, he said. and saw very few of my boyhood a Butter Creek farmer, passed During December, January and part county and city offices will appear in friends. At Circleville we had the away Wednesday afternoon from an Farm Prices and Production of February, the induction of mar next week’s issue of the Herald. use of the family’s new Dodge ear, extended illness which began with a By Mrs. Wm. Logan President Roosevelt, in a radio ad ried men and single men with depend heart attack December 5. He never Mrs. Harold Barnett, area chair and plenty of gasoline, so we saw ents will be suspended while the ’ teen- (Continued on Last Page) dress, said “we are learning to ration fully recovered from the stroke. Fun man of eleven counties of S. E. Wash materials: and we must not learn to age youths are taken up. In Febru eral services will be held Saturday af ington and five counties of N. E. Ore ration manpower. . . Perhaps the ary, this draft will be resumed until ternoon at the Echo Methodist church gon is in charge of furnishing seven most difficult phase of the manpower the army’s requirements for a 7,500,- with burial in the Echo cemetery. teen recreational rooms at Pendleton 000 man force are met. problem is the scarcity of farm labor. Mike Hunt, recently of Klamath Mr. McCarty, who was 73 years old, base of which seven are yet to be fur They will not be called before late Falls, has been named the new man . . . Every farmer in the land must came to this district when eight years nished. Mrs. Frank Duff of Pendle realize fully that his production is | in 1943 and probably not until 1944. ager of the Hermiston Stone’s food old and had resided in the Echo dis- ton held a meeting Tuesday afternoon The past week has seen consider part of war production, and that he The only move that can change the store. He replaces Kenneth McKee trict since that time. Mr. McCarty, at the local U.S.O. building to tell of able activity in the Hermiston scrap -s -eguided by the nation as essen- status of married men with children who has been transferred to Spokane who never married, is survived by two the dire need of this work being done drive, with old and young “chipping tial to victory.” Agriculture Secre would be a revision of the selective where he will manage another Stone brothers, Will and Otis, in addition and which must be accomplished at in” to make the venture another com tary Wickard, as chairman of the service law by congress to remove de market. The meat department also to a number of other relatives. once. Although your boys may not munity enterprise which has turned WPB Food Requirements Committee, pendency as the principal grounds for has a new manager, V. B. Isaak, re be at Pendleton base, remember he is out successful. Citizens of Hermis He was well known in this area by reduced production goals for such deferment and substitute essentially cently of Spokane. He replaces My the old timers. at some other camp where the Red ton and surrounding farmers have crops as cantaloupes, cucumbers, wa of occupation. Cross is doing this same thing. ron Dale who will soon enter the dug up scrap steel and iron while They can expect to be called in in armed forces. termelons, and celery, and said “first Mrs. F. B. Belt, chairman of the both boys and girls from the high consideration” would be given to win- | creasing numbers until virtually all Mr. Hunt’s family consists of a local Red Cross, says she wants each school have been picking it up ter vegetables which require the least have been replaced. The same men wife and small daughter who will organization to assist, which includes through the week. The material is labor in relation to their nutritional on farms who are already deferred come to Hermiston as soon as suitable all lodges, clubs, churches, auxiliaries being left at the Hermiston Auto value. Mr. Wickard also called for a will not be called in general because arrangements can be made. and granges. She says her district Wrecking House lot and at the Her 10 per cent increase in 1943 spring of the farm labor shortage. Paul Marble, son of Dr. and Mrs. consists of seven precincts which in miston Blacksmith Shop. hog production over the 1942 record The house committee amended its A. E. Marble, was severely injured clude Umatilla, Columbia, Echo, Stan An exact figure as to the amount Reeves At Camp Murphy crop, asking for about 68 million head 18 and 19-year-old bill so that all men one day this week at the U.O.D. when field and Hermiston. This district of material gathered has not been de- as compared to the 1942 crop of 62 within a state of the same category Camp Murphy, Fla.—Pvt. Fred M. his foot was caught in a machine has been allotted one room to be fur termined but this will be compiled by million head. He estimated 1943 re must be called before any board in Reeves, son of J. A. Reeves of Her chain. He suffered a badly cut heel, nished throughout. She says the boys next week. Supt. W. G. Kersbergen quirements of dressed pork for the that state starts working on a new miston, has been enrolled in a special torn muscles and other bruises. He haven’t a place to go to entertain stated Wednesday that his students U. S. Armed forces and Lend-Lease category. That amendment was de course of instruction at the Signal was rushed to the Pendleton hospital their parents and friends, or even to had a total of over 20 tons and both will exceed 1942 requirements by signed to meet the objection that some Corps’ school at Camp Murphy. Pvt. immediately following the accident. write letters. So come on, citizens! receiving stations report considerable more than one billion pounds. Latest reports are that Paul is Let’s put this over in record time. draft boards already are drafting Reeves was selected for this special other material. When the present ized training on the basis of his apti getting along nicely although the in married men, while other boards in Articles of furniture must be re- drive is completed and this figure ad Rationing jury is quite painful. the same city have not yet exhausted tude. (Continued on Last Page) ded to that of the Inland Cooperative The Office of Price Administration their supply of single men. which was sent out a short time ago, ruled that after next January 31, all the total amount should be quite motorists holding A mileage ration high. ing books must have their tires in spected every four months and those receiving books allowing them supple mental mileage must have their tires Jake J. Fees, 58, of Portland, was inspected every two months. Original killed and William J. Smith, also of 4 inspections of tires on all passenger Portland, suffered minor injuries Pouring of cement began Thursday cars must be made between December Sunday afternoon when their car morning on the 10 houses being con 1 and January 31, while commercial smashed into a concrete standpipe at structed in Hermiston under the spon vehicle tires—which must be inspect the east city limits of Stanfield, over sorship of the Hermiston Housing ed every two months or every 5,000 turning. Mr. Smith, driver of the Corp. The work is being done by the miles, whichever comes first—may be fateful machine, reported to state po Tri-State Construction Co. of Port checked any time after November 15. lice that a tire blowout caused him to land who estimate that it will prob Price Administrator - Henderson lose control, the automobile running ably take about two months to com sets November 9 as registration day on the shoulder of the highway about plete the buildings. The structures for gasoline rationing in the states 250 feet before smashing into the will be modern five-room houses with where rationing is not already in ef concrete. full basements, hardwood floors, and fect, while motorists in the present The two men had been deer hunt furnished with shades and hot water rationing area must file a tire in ing and were en route home when the heaters. spection certifcate with their local accident occurred about 2:30. Pass The units will be sold to defense rationing boards by November 22. Car ing motorists gave what aid was pos workers under the F.H.A. plan. Any owners in the latter area must list the sible. Mr. Fee’s body was brought to one wishing to purchase one of these serial numbers of all their tires, and Prann’s Funeral Parlors here while homes should contact Lee Quiring at if there are more than five per car, Smith was taken to Pendleton for his home any night after 6:00 o'clock. the owner will be denied gasloine ra treatment. It is probable that another group of tion books until he has disposed of This was the eleventh traffic fatal houses may be constructed as soon as the extra tires. Mr. Henderson said ity in Umatilla county this year. these are completed. Anyone having the government already has started to a vacant lot to sell with a clear title purchase from car owners all new or should also contact Mr. Quiring. used tires in excess of five per auto mobile. The Defense Supplies Cor poration, which has advanced $150,- — 000.000 for the program, has designa All parents, whose pre-school child ted 160 warehouses throughout the country as delivery points, and the ren have not yet received protection The semi-annual meeting of the 23,000 offices of the Railway Ex against diphtheria or smallpox, are Crippled Children’s Clinic, sponsored press Agency will collect the tires urged to bring them to the Hermiston by the University of Oregon Medical | U.S.O. building on October 28th from and bring them to the warehouses. School, will be held on October 27th The OPA said war ration sugar 9 to 11 in the morning. Any child, at the Vert Memorial building in Pen stamp No. 9 will be good for the pur from 9 months to 6 years will be giv dleton. Any child under 21 years of chase of three pounds of sugar be en this protection free of charge. age may be seen by the attending or tween November 1 and December 15. | School children will be offered the The Hermiston U. S. O. welcomed its 32,700 visitor since January 1 when Mrs. Gerald White signed the thopedic physicians. The sugar allotments for institution same opportunities in a school clinic Application for attendance may be guest book at the popular center. Shown looking on as she registers are left to right) A. M. Thrasher, local al and industrial users for November at a later date. These clinics are sponsored by the Pacific Power * Light company manager and USO chairman: Mary Lou Johnson, Jean Wilson and Mrs. Wal obtained through local physicians or and December were set at 60 and 70 per cent, respectively, of the sugar Umatilla County Public Health Unit ter Pearson, USO hostesses. Mrs. White has taken over the duties of her soldier husband’s civilian job at the through Miss Ethel Bruce, Public Health Nurse. under direction of local physicians. Hermiston post office for the duration. Hs is in an officer training camp at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. base established by them. YOUTHS REPLACE MARRIED MEN HISTORIC SPOTS ARE IMPRESSIVE ECHO RESIDENT DIES WEDNESDAY STONE MARKET HAS NEW FACES SCRAP DRIVE IN FULL SWING HERE PAUL MARBLE IS ON INJURED LIST HUNTER KILLED IN CAR WRECK U. S. O. Workers Are Busy Lot Here WORK BEGINS ON HOUSING UNITS L CLINIC ARRANGED FOR CHILDREN CLINIC SET FOR CRIPPLED TOTS 32,700 SIGN AT HERMISTON U. S. O. CENTER
