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RATIONING CALENDAR GASOLINE: “A” book coupons No. 5 good for four gallons each until May 21 outside the eastern gasoline shortage area. SUGAR: Coupon No. 12 good for 5 lbs. Must last through May 31. COFFEE: Stamp No. 23 (1 lb.) good from April 26 through May 30. FUEL OIL: Period 5 coupons valid in all zones. SHOES: No. 17 stamp in war ra tion book one good for one pair through June 15. RED STAMPS: Red stamps letter ed E became valid April 25 through May 30. Unusued A, B, C or D stamps good through April 80. BLUE STAMPS: D, E, F expire on April 30; G, H. J became valid April 24 and are good until May 31. OFFICIAL UMATILLA COUNTY PAPER — I OLUME XXXV1 MEETING SCHEDULED MONDAY EVENING TO EXPLAIN RATIONING HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 29, 1943. Second War Loan Drive Ends Friday ESSENTIAL THAT DEALERS ATTEND A general meeting for all mer chants, retailers of any kind, service War ration book No. 3 will be dis organizations and any others who sell tributed through the mails to more any commodity or service, will be than 120,000,000 individuals begin held Monday evening, May 3, at the ning late in June and ending July 21, high school auditorium, according to the OPA has announced. Mailmen information received here by the War will leave postcard application forms Price and Rationing board. The meet at every home between May 20 and ing will be in the form of a clinic, be June 5. The postcard, properly filled ginning at 7:30 as a general meeting out by the head of the house and and then dividing into three groups. Present for the evening will be: J. mailed to OPA, wilt bring ration book No. 3. Prentiss M. Brown, price ad N. Chambers, general commodities; ministrator, emphasized that book Ernest Cline, service organizations, No. 3 is a replacement book only, con and Clark Van Fleece, rationing. At taining a new supply of stamps to these gatherings various details of the take the place of those now being used war price and rationing setup will be up. He said if any more rationing explained so that every merchant and programs were necessary there would dealer will understand the problems be official notice by the government. now confronting him. It is essential that all merchants, retailers of any kind, service organi No Limit On Recapping After May 1 there will be no re zations be present from this board strictions on the number of certifi area, which includes Echo, Stanfield, cates that may be issued for recap I Hermiston, Umatilla and the U.O.D. ping truck tires. Because recapping For example operators of grocery takes .only one-sixth as much crude | stores, banks, service stations, shoe rubber as a new tire, the OPA has repair shops, restaurants, funeral removed quota restrictions so that the parlors, beauty parlors and many oth- tires will not be driven beyond the ers schould be present at this meet ing. recapping point. The meeting has been called to clarify the many questons and prob Play Shoes To Be Rationed “Play” shoes not ordinarily used lems that have arisen since the ra for street wear that are manufac tioning and ceiling price restrictions tured, packaged or shipped after have been in effect. =» • = April 15, 1943, go back on the ration ed list. Such shoes, if they leave a DOGS KILL CHICKS factory before April 15, remain non rationed, even though they may reach AT BENSEL FARM consumers months later. John Bensel. farmer residing about Rationing Program Changes four miles north of Hermiston, suf Farm fencing is no longer rationed. fered a severe loss Tuesday morning Quota controls on milking machines, when stray dogs killed approximately grain and forage flowers, portable 425 young fryers and chicks. Mr. Ben and stationary elevators have been re sel estimates the loss at about $300.00 moved, and pressure cookers have as he was selling many of the fryers been placed under rationing, the U. S. at $1.00 each. This is the second such department of agriculture has an loss in this area in recent months nounced. The 150.000 pressure cook with Harry Kelley losing a number ers which will be produced in 1943 of turkey breeder hens recently. will be rationed by county farm ra Mr. Bensel sighted the dogs but tioning committees, to users showing was unable to catch up with them greatest need for them. Community when they ran across rough country. organizations composed of several | The matter of dogs is becoming quite families who agree to use a pressure | serious and farmers are threatening cooker jointly will get first consider to kill on sight. ation. Coal Situation Coal users are reminded again that stocks will be low and transportation inadequate during the winter of 1943. Coal producing capacity is definitely limited and the user who has inade quate stocks on hand may be caught short next winter by a tight market and delays in shipments. "Hold the Line” Farmers and others now employed i in an essential industry cannot change ' to a job at higher wages unless the change is in the interest of the war program, according to recent rulings of War Manpower Commission. Men now in unessential work are encour aged to get into jobs contributing di- | rectly to the war effort, even if an increase in wages is involved. CHAMBER GROUP MEETS MAY 10 The next meeting of the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce will be held Monday night, May 10. at the U.S.O. building, according to A. M. Thrasher, president. H. D. Dean of the Uma tilla Field Station will report on the farm labor situation in this area. Mr. Dean was appointed chairman of a committee to check on this matter. Members are urged to be present as several other items of interest will be discussed. The meeting was ori ginally scheduled for May 3 but was postponed one week due to a War Price and Rationing meeting to be held Monday, May 3. ENSIGN GRAY IS VISITOR HERE Ensign and Mrs. Dan Gray came Tuesday for a short visit with friends in Hermiston. Ensign Gray recently graduated wit hhigh honors at the U. S. Navy school at Chicago and is being transferred to San Francisco for another two months of training. Mrs. Gray, who has been with her husband for the past two months, will Boh Smith Visits In Hermiston accompany him to San Francisco. Bob Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. I The Grays expected to spend Wed Virgil Smith who formerly resided | nesday in Seattle with his parents here, visited in Hermiston the fore- and continue from there to the bay part of the week. Bob has recently city. Mrs. Gray’s parents, Mr. and returned from Sitka. Alaska, where Mrs. Harold Crawford, reside in Wal he was employed with a construction la Walla. Ensign Gray was employed firm for 13 months. He graduated with the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. from Hermiston high school in 1942, | here prior to his enlistment and was and visited at the home of his grand- | Hermiston’s youngest councilman. parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Smith.. Bob stated that his father has recov MEAT MARKETS ered somewhat from his recent acci dent. WILL INVENTORY Mr. and Mrs. Warren Rust and in fant daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Moore and also a daughter and sor in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Moore were Easter Sunday visitors at the O. H. Thompson home at Irrigon. Mr. and Mrs. Rust and daughter returned to their home in Vancouver Monday where he is employed in the ship yards. BOND QUOTA IS NOT YET GAINED IN THIS REGION ■ • • • • • • • • • ❖ • • • • ❖ War Ration Book No. 3 Loans for Conserving Fuel Home owners who want to convert their oil heating equipment to use other fuels, or to install inside insula tion, weather-stripping, storm doors, or storm windows may get FHA loans on a delayed payment plan. Initial payments on loans made between April 20 and September 1 may be de ferred until November 1, 1943, if the entire loan is used for such work. etald 7Ao -amiston • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Word was received at the Her- • aid office just before press time • that the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. • had purchased $20.000.00 in war • bonds at the First National Bank • in Hermiston as that company’s • allotment for Umatilla county. • 1 The Tum-A-Lumber Co. has al- • I ways been very cooperative in • various undertakings sponsored • by local communities and again • in this bond purchase is giving • | Umatilla county credit towards • its quota. • ❖ • A • total • • of • • $76,661.25 • • ❖ • in • bonds • ❖ « has • AY ? AM,. ... * 1-6. : ! ‘ “They Give Their Lives—You Lend Your Money" U. S Treasury Department Dear Reader: -, " * " Friday is the last day of the Second War Loan Drive. The time is at hand when everyone must help to make this war effort a success. It is not yet too late to dig down, Dear Reader, and help to answer the challenge of buying War Loan Securities this month with every idle dollar you have except what you need for the barest necessities of life. The time to do that is NOW. Now while there is yet time to aid the boys who are doing our fighting for us. Hermiston doctors are sponsoring the war bond message for this week on page four. WATER PROJECT LOSES RATING TRACKSTERS TO GO TO LA GRANDE An Associated Press article from Washington with a dateline of April 27 read as follows: “Preference rat ings for a water works improvement at Hermiston, Ore., were revoked to day by the war production board. The project, part of the federal works agency program, called for a deep well pump, a small pumping station and water distribution mains.” No official word has been received by Mayor F. C. McKenzie concerning the matter. A quartet of Hermiston high school track artists are planning to go to La Grande Saturday to participate in a regional meet which will qualify men for the state track meet later in the month. Going from here will be Lowell Tiller, Dan Follett, Erwin Null and Frank Harkenrider. Tiller is given a good chance to place in the high jump event. He re cently placed second in the Carnival of Speed at Mac Hi and hopes to do better at La Grande. COOKING SCHOOL TROUT SEASON TO STRESS SALADS AROUND CORNER Crisp cool salads add a spring fur below to family and party menus. Hearty cottage cheese for a main dish meal; lima beans. Italian style in a big salad bowl: salmon in aspic in a ring mold: and a party plate of as sorted salads and finger sandwiches for your next bridge. For that old fashioned homey touch, so very fas hionable nowadays, hot potato salad— the old favorite. On this Friday afternoon at 2:00 p. m., Mrs. Georgea Sutch will make these salads at the U.S.O. Cooking school. Make a date to meet your friends there, and stay for a sociable cup of coffee afterwards. Miss Wileox Is Graduated The following note was received from Miss Eva Wilcox. Auxiliary First Class, who recently graduated from WAAC branch No. 5 at Com merce, Texas: “Well, we are all graduated, all packed and ready to go. and will be moving under sealed orders, when we get them ; where we are going we do not know as yet, but we are all guessing: We had very nice exercises and shook hands with the Colonel when he gave us our certifi cates, saying, we had completed the course. As far as Texas is concerned I have had a right nice time here, and I have learned a lot about the country and the people. If I do as well in the other places where I am sent I should The angling season for trout not less than six inches in length opens May 1 in Baker. Grant, Harney, Kla math, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wheeler and Malheur counties- The trout bag limit is 15 fish or 15 pounds and 1 fish in any one day but not to exceed 30 fish or 30 pounds and 2 fish in any seven consecutive days or in possession at any one time. Exceptions to the general season and limit are to be found listed in the 1943 synopsis of angling regula tions published by the Oregon state game commission and available now at all license agencies. The game commission again urges anglers to cooperate by reporting the results of each fishing trip on the special orange colored “Catch Report Cards” that are being distributed by license agencies, sporting goods stores, fishing lodges and boat concessions. For each fishing trip made a card should be filled out and mailed to the game commission even if no fish are caught. Information gathered from these cards will help determine the re sults of past fish planting programs as well as the future policy. Information from the local War Price and Rationing board states that Fire Damages Harris Home all meat markets in this board area must invoice their stock at the close The Hermiston fire department was of business on May 1 instead of Fri called to the Dayton Harris home last day night, April 30, as some had Thursday where some rags had ig- thought. , nited in the attic. Prompt action by This data must be in the hands of those first on the scene prevented a the local rationing board prior to have a fair knowledge of areography serious fire, most of the damage done May 14. when I am through.” f , being caused by water. been purchased at the First National Bank and the Hermiston postoffice during the Second War Bond Drive which was launched April 12. Al though this is quite a sum of money it is still short of the quota set for this community, according to Mayor F. C. McKenzie who headed the local campaign. He stated Wednesday that he was depending on local citi zens to buy a lot of bonds before Fri day evening when the drive ends. Faithful workers have been can vassing the town and countryside dur ing the past few weeks. In many in stances the response was most hearty, but in some cases the money had been spent for other things. It is hoped, however, that many will buy bonds before Friday evening in order that this part of the county will do its share toward filling the county and state quotas. RAINFALL COMES AT OPPORTUNE TIME FOR CROPS NUMBER 37 STUDENTS RECEIVE AWARDS AT ANNUAL ACTIVITIES BANQUET DANCE TO FOLLOW IN GYMNASIUM -- — The annual Activities Banquet, sponsored by the H. U. H. S. student council, will be held Thursday. April 29, in the gym from 7:00 to 9:00. The Activities Banquet was orig- inated in Hermiston * high school by Superintendent W. G. Kersbergen, in his second year here and since that time it has grown to be a tradition and each year the students look for ward with great pleasure to this memorable event. Approximately 97 guests will be in attendance, including members of the school board and their wives, the fac ulty, and students who have made outstanding contributions to the school. The program will consist of pre sentation of letters by Coach Lee Weber and Superintendent Kersber- gen will make honorable mentions of other students. Two musical num bers will be sung by “The Tones”, Ja net Hodge. La Desea Pieper, Peggy Todd and Alta Mae Guerrant, and there will be a violin solo by Hope Reynolds, accompanied by Jack Jack- son at the piano. After the banquet, a Victory Prom will be held. Student body tickets are good for this dance and all high school students are invited, to attend. Guests are admitted by card only. Red. white and blue streamers are draped around the lights with blue streamers criss-crossed between them. A thirty-foot American flag is being placed on the cyclorama of the stage and large red, white and blue “V’s” for Victory will add to the decorative scheme. Sometime ago Miss Lavina May Lynch contacted 150 leading business firms in the United- States to secure posters on the war effort and vic tory campaign ideas and most of them responded very generously. Decorations for the Victory Prom (Continued on Last Page) “A million dollar rain” in deluxe form came this week with a total of .77 in. recorded by Charles Taylor, weather man. A total of .75 of that total came from midnight' Tuesday night until mid-afternoon Wednesday during which time it rained or misted almost continuously. Gardens and farm crops will benefit immensely from the precipitation, especially those which are just coming up. Old timers in this area had a hard time this week convincing new resi EATING PLACES dents that the rainfall was unusual MUST FILE PRICES at this time of year. One man stat ed. “When I came here they told me Owners of restaurants and other I was in for a long dry spell but it rains here just like it does in the val eating and drinking establishments in ley.” A reply from a hardened old Hermiston were reminded this week timer came quickly, “Stick around by the local Price and Rationing board to file immedlately copies of awhile.” every menu or price list in use during The report for the week follows: Date Max. Min. the period of April 4 to April 10. If you own or operate a restau April 22 63 44 rant, hotel, cafe, dining car, bar, deli- April 23 68 45 April 24 63 30 I catessen, soda fountain, catering bus iness or any other eating or drinking April 25 63 45 place, it is your direct responsibility April 26 67 46 to file these lists with your local April 27 67 49 board. April 28 ........ 65 49 According to the board the filing are very simple. A MORE DEALS ARE I requirements menu, bill of fare, or price list for all ANNOUNCED HERE 1 meals served during the period of 1 April 4 to April 10, must be signed This story begins where last week’s and filed with the War Price and Ra- item left off. New property transac ! tioning board not later than May 1. tions announced this week include the A copy of each menu or price list is sale of the Leonard Nation property | to be retained by the establishment, to Mr. and Mrs. W. .1. Warner. Dr. j If the menus do not show all the food and Mrs. A. C. Willcutt and family | items, meals or beverages offered dur will continue to reside in the resi ing the specified period a supplemen tary price list must be prepared and dence. ; L. W. Dixson is also dealing with submitted. In the event that eating and drink- a Portland firm for the sale of his j ing establishments do not use menus, hop ranch and needs only the settle ment of small details before the ac price list containing every food item, tual transfer of title is made. Mr. meal and beverage offered during the Dixson also announces that in event seven day period must be prepared the sale is finally completed, he has and submitted to the War Price and made arrangements with Mr. and Rationing board before May 1. A filing of menus or prices of foods Mrs. George Strohm for the Strohm ranch southeast of Hermiston. Should served during the seven day period everything go as scheduled, Mr. and from April 4 to April 10 is the first Mrs. Strohm are planning an extend step of an OPA order designed to bring under price control the costs of ed visit before settling down again. “ Several other deals are in the off eating out”. ing but not far enough along to be RANKIN PITCHES put into print. BONNEVILLE MAN NO-HIT CONTEST TO BE SPEAKER Fred Rankin, well known here Dr. Carl D. Thompson of Bonne ville will be the special speaker at a meeting at the Columbia park hall Monday, May 3, at 8 00 o'clock. A pot luck supper beginning at 7:00 will precede the business meeting. Dr. Thompson, who is an authority on public power, will speak on “Public Power in the War and Post-War Per iod”, according to A. H. Cable, pres ident of the project farm bureau. Anyone interested in hearing Dr. Thompson is cordially invited to at tend the meeting. abouts for his prowess on the baseball diamond, Monday almost made the hall of fame when he pitched a no-hit game for the Walla Walla Jaycees against the Walla Walla airbase Bomb and Gunmen aggregation. The only flaw in the setup was a run scored by the airbase team on an er ror, the Jaycee» winning 5 to 1. Mr. and Mrs. Rankin recently moved to Walla Walla where he is em ployed with the Union Oil Co. Fred came to Hermiston Wednesday to take a physical examination following a notice from the draft board.
