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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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“They Give Their Lives—You Lend Your Money"
U. S Treasury Department
Dear Reader:
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.