February 3, 1944 (4 pages)

: Nevada City Nugget — — Thursday, February 3, 1944 he —— age Three ere a eoubtantiy increasing tax burden nation’s requirements can be met. . pox value, mo3: tanfed fish, iA Pa “PROMPTNESS., CLEANLINESS . are now doubly assured in our . newly remodeled prescription department. All biologics are refrigerated. Only the finest drugs are used. Fair prescription charges. e R. E. HARRIS THE REXALL DRUG STORE Phone 100 Qe ww €& 1! FLYING” . o> nS we ODO DB . U. S. GOVERNMENT : IS BIGGEST LAND GRABBER By RALPH H. TAYLOR It is one of the strange vagaries of life that many of the dire things which are viewed with alarm, which cause great public concern, never come to pass, while some of . the more sérious threats to mankind . come almost unheralded and unnoticed. i Illustrative of this and ° truism, there . . was a period, during the pre-war . years, when many city doctors for, . Tural people warned that corporate . . farming, with ‘‘factories in the field’ . . crowding out individual farmers, . would constitute the greatest thregt . to.a sound American agriculture. There may have been some basis for that. fear at one time, particularly on the parts: of persons knowledge of agriculture was more academic than practical, ‘but actual experience demonstrated that the independent farmer could more than hold his own in competition with the farm corporation—-and the great majority of California’s farms, despite dire forecasts to the contrary, are still one famly units, while many of the big acreage farms have been split up into small units and re-sold. The big land. grab, when it came, and it was already well under way during the period when corporate farming was supposed to be the threat. came from Uncle Sam—the last fellow most people would suspect. By the time the United States government gets through with its present land purchase program, according to U. S. Senator Arthur Capper, it will have title to onefifth of all the land in the nation. Reports Senator Capper: “The extent of taese federal holdings 383,600,533 acres, may § be realized by noting that this area is eatial to the entire areas of the 21 states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, ‘Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Alabama, Kentucky . and .Indiana. “Of course, land acquired by the federal government for war’ purposes in the last two or three years is only a small part of this huge total of federalgovernment ings. ‘The Department of Interior holds more than 200,000,000 acres of land practically all in what is known as the public domain. “The Department of Agriculture holds 163,000,000 acres, mostly in the public domain. “The War Department, when acee ” — . blag quisitions. pending are completed, ‘will have possession of a little more than 23,000 000° acres. “The Navy Department has acquired 593,488 acres; is acquiring an additional 799,198 acres. “And the fifth largest government landholder is the Tennessee Valley Amthority, (TYA. which has acquired 6'2'55,505 acres.” The seriousness of this develop{ment to the farmer, .and common property owners generally, is that four fifths of the landed area in the United States is now forced to carry not only its‘own tax burden, but alyso‘that of the one fifth which is owned by the .fedéral government, and is tax exempt. ‘ In California, the situation is particularly acute, because the federal government, in this state, owns 43 per cent of all’ the land, instead of 20 per cent as in the nation at large. ment has been acquiring privately owned forest land in California in connection with its timber conservation and national park program, and this has adversely affected many of the state’s rural counties, forcing e '% % Can you % % ‘Drive a Car? WHEN YOU were a kid, did you always pester to “go along’’:on every ride? And now, do you get a kick out of handling the jnot actually needed for governme . purposes. whose . : land hold-j. For years ‘past, the federal govern-. on farmers, home owners and other common taxpayers. And since the advent of war the federal government’s property acquistions have embraced not only rural areas, but important acquisitions have removed from the/ tax rolls of ‘local government in California real property with an as; sessed valuation of more than $100,000,000. There is a determined movement . on foot to see that the federal gov ernment, when the war is eadeds! turns back to private ownership (and tax rolls) all the land that . } he is nt That is imperative, but. that, itself, is not enou7h. It ‘is perative that farm land, particular a lly, should be disposed of by federal . agencies direct to farmers, without . permitting private speculators to get . hold of it and sell it again at ex. tortionate profits. And if the federal . government continues to hold vast acreages of land on a, permanent. basis, then it is imperative that such land be foreed to carry its fair share of the tax load, either by direct taxation or by refunds by the federal govertiment_to Yocal taxing agencies. WASHINGTON NOTES By CONGRESSMAN CLAIR ENGLE One of the greatest natural sources of the second congressional district is lumber. We have an estimated 150 billion board feet. The annual cut in the United States prior to the war was 20 billion board feet. Today the annual cut runs about. 32 billon board feet. In other words the could take all the lumber used n the country from our district for seven years before the supply ran out. That is a lot of lumber and a great resource, and we should think in terms of what it means to us economically now and in the future. ee There are* several matters of interest pending in congress that pertain to lumber. I nthe first place if we are to make the best use of our timber, we should know how much there is of it, and where it is located on a national scale. There is a bill coming up on the floor of the house shortly which will provide for making a ninventory, completely. ‘and atcurately. Today we do not have that inventory and we should have it so we will know what our total resources in lumiber are, what the present depletion rate s, and how to plan the future of the industry. in . also im-} TSsThe two greatest enemies of our forests are fire and bugs. Every tree burned or killed by insects is a dolledged sheet of our community. Pine beetles are .responsible for killing more trees on the Pacific coast than ‘we now lose by fire. This is a particularly serious problem in our district. We have lost over 17 per cent of our ponderosa and Jeffrey pine stands in the last 12 to 15 years, representing a loss to forest owners of over $12,000,000 and a community loss of nearly ‘$95— 000,000: in finished timber products. Norvheatann. California is interested in maintaining in the federal budget sufficient funds to continue the work on insect control by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. Their budget has ‘suffered continuous cuts and the item is so small and obscure that little laboratories in maintained at Berkeley and some of their field work} is done at Hat Creek near Burney and a Black’s Mountain Experimental Forest northeast of Susanville. Over $1,000,000 ‘has been spent by federal, state and private owners in pine beetle control work in.California, Oregon and Washington in the last 10 years. Some $158,000 has been spent in northeastern California. o The budget item to continue the Berkeley Laboratory of the Burean of Entomology and Plant Quarantine and their field offices comes up before the appropriations committee around the early part of February and I expect to appear before the committee to urge the continuation of this work. . . There are two other bills of interest to the lumber industry: one increasing the authorization for fire control from $2,500,000 to $9,000,000 and the other providing for cooperative sustained yield unit agreements. Most everyone, both in and out of the industry, agree now that we should put our timber on a sustained yield basis. Placing our cuttmg operations on that basis will make lumbering a stable sound inlars and cents debit on the economic. is known of their work. One of their} . FooD ‘urban property. These war. / gress, “. prices on. ductS announced Jast {vin Jones ,;are now available at. . County AAA Office, according to io{formation released . Sleeman, . County AAA Committee. . man said, I dustry for our communities and save a; arn * eect? WAR NEWS 1944 CROP LOANS Subject to approval by -the con1944 food production suprort 34 principal farm proweek by MerFood Administrator, the Nevada War . Boe OS Nevada today chairman of. the by ‘The proposed support prices Slee‘follow along slosely with »1944levels. although barley,,» flax. . seed and milo’ are 10 cents higher and® sugar. beets $1.50 higher. The. only significant decrease is the -dol. lar a hundred pounds drop in hog . prices previously announced and ef-. fective on October.1. Loans on corn and wheat’ will again be at 85% uf parity ‘and cotton will remain subject to loan at 90% of parity. Prices for butter, cheddar cheese, skim mlk, butter, eggs, and. chiekens, likewise will be unchanged.” _ The list includes these principal crops: Corn and Wheat—Contnued loans at 85% of party, Barley, Continued loans at ratés 10 cents per bu. above 1943. Cotton, Rice, Continued loans at 90% of parity. Flaxseed, Increase at suppert. prices from $2.85 .o $2.95 per bushel. Dry peas, wrinkled, loan support price $3.25: Dry peas, (smooth type) continue support at $5.65 per ewt. Dry beans, No change, continue support of $7.59 per cwt. for certain varieties, and $6.50 for others. /Blackeye beans— Will be grouped with other .dry beans $6.50 support level. Milk and milk products—Some adjustments in price ceilings for milk and milk products. Continuation of dairy feed payment program. Poultry—(Including chickens: and turkeys) — Support program at about the level of 1943. Eggs—Support prices at 30 cents-a dozen d@uring spring-and summer, and an anrnual average farm price of not less than 34 cents per dozen with differentials by area and ceiling .to be worked out. Irish potatoes—Support prices at 90% parity. Vegetables—(for canning, including snap beans, cweet corn, tomatoes, cabbage for kraui. peas, beets, and lima ‘beans)—-Support prices same as those’ in effect under the 1943 program. Fresh vegetables—No announced support ‘price. Sugar beets—Support price $12.50 per ton. Peanuts—Support price $157.80 per ton. The chairman pointed out that the announcement made no mention of the Commodity Credit Corporation and again stressed the fact that the tentative support prices included in the announcement cannot be made official pending final eapravat by congress. WHEEL TRACTOR PRODUCTION ‘Chairman Donald M. Nelson, of the War Production Board has announced that production of wheeled tractors, used principally on farms, was responding favorably to the combined efforts of the manufacturers; W FA and WPB to obtain increased output. ‘Nelson said that telegraphic reports from manufacturers show that December production of tractin two’ years—in excess of 20,000 as* ‘compared with a production of 4,200 in December, 1942. : Production has shown a steady increase in each quarter of 1943. In the first quarter 16 . 000 wheeled tractors were built; in the second. quarter 18,000; in the third quart 33,000; in the fourth quarter 56,000. Nelson pointed out, however, that “the current: rate of production must be absolutely maintained. in order to meet the tractor quota for the twelve months that will end June 30, 1944; which has been set at»209,000. This, he said, will not be éasy, especially in view of. the tact that many of the components needed ° for tractor. production are also used in landing craft, ere now in urgent demand by the ed services. Conseqyently, if a flict were to arise, landing ‘craft would have first cali on com ponenis. . Bvery effort is being made by’ WPB to provide enough components for both the landing craft and tractor program, aS well as for other ‘approved programs, and with full cooperation between industry and the government, it is believed that the us from looking. at.,lumber.ghost. ,. iy towns 25 or 30 ‘years hence. the armed services and ed by . manufacturers !feed consumption with the 1944 live ; ors, was the largest for any month . ) which} SURPLUS WAR GOODS WONFERENCE Northern California . materials from: war con-. tractors at a special conference callthe WPB Regional Redistribution in San Francisco last week.Over:400 leading fholesalers and distributors heard representatives. of the armed forces, and government agencies oui line listings or huge stores of critical . chase surplus war materials and other items. These are . values. change for thes stamps on and afauthorized . ter February 27th. now: availajle under WPB action. waiving restrictions to buyers. This WPB move to channel . excess inventories into usalble war . production or civilian uses in an-. other ‘first’ for west coast industry. . and means controlled release of the! items ranging from hardware and electrical fittings to textiles and steel to buyers in established commercial trade. The PB program does not include retailers, brokers, . ? _or speculators. FEED STRETCHING RECOMMENDED Experts concerned with making} the 1944°available feed supplies go) as far as.possible are suggesting, ‘several methods to balance livestock . stock production goals. They say light hogs can-be produced with less than heavy hogs, more eggs will result from culling out non-layers and keeping a larger percentage of pullets, beef cattle should: be fed shorter and lighter, and more dependence can be placed on roughage for cattle and sheep. A rate of feeding mid-. way between the two-thirds of a ton} of concentrates fed during 1942-43, and the three-fourths of a ton fed. ‘during 1941-42 will save -7.000 ,000 tons and keep the needs within the. 169,000,000 ton supply. ‘ [BITS AND PIECES American farmers have purchased ; more machinery in the last ten years than during the previous 100 years. War needs are the argument for the gram. goes ) 27th, the color of ration stamps waAll at the present time, . X stamps, on February 6, will be good until ‘good on February 20, ; values, in‘cluding tuna and salmon, was ¢uv by four businessmen! remained unchanged in point value, poirts a pound: Oxly oysters ~ had their firstopportunity to pur-. still selling at.4 points per pound. When the new ration tokens prointo effect on February go back to red for meats aud £2%5 and to blue for. processed foods. Green stamps K L and M in War Book Four—-which are the last of the green stamps for 'will be good for processed foods until March 20 at their 8 5 2 and 1 the time being And tokens will be given in SN Brown stamps V and W: both valid and the brown which will be ‘validated, February 26. Y to be. validated on February 13 and Z which becomes will be good until March 20 at their 8 5 2 and 1 Tokens will be given in change for these also on and after February 27th. , February oth is the final day on imwhich your shoe dealer will offer Ta 'tion free women’s low’ preed shoes which have been moving too slowly to.suit him. No shoe stamp is required if the selling price is not more than $3.00. Soups on——and if it’s split pea soup—it soon will be costing lesé. The reason is that the OPA hasbrought dry peas—whole and split —under price control. This will i/mean a slight reduction as retailers get in new supplies. Champagne. is, sometimes under: iy pressure of 100 pounds per square. inch in bottles. 4 ; Fort. Mason, Army center in San Francisco, was nam: ;ed :for Colonel Richard B. Mason. ° California military governor. from” 1847 to 1849. : ‘The U. S. Coast and Geodetic ‘Sure ve maintains seismographs — at “the” closest possible cooperation by the farmers in. holding down, the consumption of both non highway and highway use of gasoline. A 6 hour’ mission by 1000 four engine bombers gasoline which ,from a strictly. gallonage.point of view would operate a farm tractor using 1200 gallons a year for 1500 years. If the tractor were geared to run on 100 octane uses 1,800,000: gallons of 100 octane} top, center and bottom ‘of a San Francisco office building. to study _earthquake stresses on skyscrapers. gt gasoline, it would be sufficient to materials alloys, containing cobalt, chromium, tungsten, nickel molyb-inum have been removed from restrictions. As soon as housewives are ready to start their 1944 home canning programs, they will be able to use sugar stamp No. 40 in’ War Ration Book 4 for this: purpose. It will. be valid for 13:-months and’ it will be the only stamp validated for sugar used in canning. . However, those housewives who wish to can and preserve more fruit than can be put up ‘with the five pounds. per. person allotment of stamp 40 may make apfor this purpose. é chart has its downs as well as ups. Although meats and -cheeses generPoperater dt: 3,000years: Hard: facing 4 denum, vanadium or secndary alumplications to their local boards lat-. er when they need additional sugar if This month's meats and fats point . BARGAINS IN ‘OUR : ie “HAND PAINTED © POTTERYSALAD SETS FIRE-KING 3-PC: OCEDAR —Bee e ec eweewewnee ally showed an upward movement in Prey, * ~* and every detail of \a funeral. P 78 an ee “ nie Ones ed OUR CHAPEL fo p beautiful place ¢ hold the last. rites for a loved one. 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: Nevada City Nugget — — Thursday, February 3, 1944 he —— age Three ere a eoubtantiy increasing tax burden nation’s requirements can be met. . pox value, mo3: tanfed fish, iA Pa “PROMPTNESS., CLEANLINESS . are now doubly assured in our . newly remodeled prescription department. All biologics are refrigerated. Only the finest drugs are used. Fair prescription charges. e R. E. HARRIS THE REXALL DRUG STORE Phone 100 Qe ww €& 1! FLYING” . o> nS we ODO DB . U. S. GOVERNMENT : IS BIGGEST LAND GRABBER By RALPH H. TAYLOR It is one of the strange vagaries of life that many of the dire things which are viewed with alarm, which cause great public concern, never come to pass, while some of . the more sérious threats to mankind . come almost unheralded and unnoticed. i Illustrative of this and ° truism, there . . was a period, during the pre-war . years, when many city doctors for, . Tural people warned that corporate . . farming, with ‘‘factories in the field’ . . crowding out individual farmers, . would constitute the greatest thregt . to.a sound American agriculture. There may have been some basis for that. fear at one time, particularly on the parts: of persons knowledge of agriculture was more academic than practical, ‘but actual experience demonstrated that the independent farmer could more than hold his own in competition with the farm corporation—-and the great majority of California’s farms, despite dire forecasts to the contrary, are still one famly units, while many of the big acreage farms have been split up into small units and re-sold. The big land. grab, when it came, and it was already well under way during the period when corporate farming was supposed to be the threat. came from Uncle Sam—the last fellow most people would suspect. By the time the United States government gets through with its present land purchase program, according to U. S. Senator Arthur Capper, it will have title to onefifth of all the land in the nation. Reports Senator Capper: “The extent of taese federal holdings 383,600,533 acres, may § be realized by noting that this area is eatial to the entire areas of the 21 states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, ‘Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Alabama, Kentucky . and .Indiana. “Of course, land acquired by the federal government for war’ purposes in the last two or three years is only a small part of this huge total of federalgovernment ings. ‘The Department of Interior holds more than 200,000,000 acres of land practically all in what is known as the public domain. “The Department of Agriculture holds 163,000,000 acres, mostly in the public domain. “The War Department, when acee ” — . blag quisitions. pending are completed, ‘will have possession of a little more than 23,000 000° acres. “The Navy Department has acquired 593,488 acres; is acquiring an additional 799,198 acres. “And the fifth largest government landholder is the Tennessee Valley Amthority, (TYA. which has acquired 6'2'55,505 acres.” The seriousness of this develop{ment to the farmer, .and common property owners generally, is that four fifths of the landed area in the United States is now forced to carry not only its‘own tax burden, but alyso‘that of the one fifth which is owned by the .fedéral government, and is tax exempt. ‘ In California, the situation is particularly acute, because the federal government, in this state, owns 43 per cent of all’ the land, instead of 20 per cent as in the nation at large. ment has been acquiring privately owned forest land in California in connection with its timber conservation and national park program, and this has adversely affected many of the state’s rural counties, forcing e '% % Can you % % ‘Drive a Car? WHEN YOU were a kid, did you always pester to “go along’’:on every ride? And now, do you get a kick out of handling the jnot actually needed for governme . purposes. whose . : land hold-j. For years ‘past, the federal govern-. on farmers, home owners and other common taxpayers. And since the advent of war the federal government’s property acquistions have embraced not only rural areas, but important acquisitions have removed from the/ tax rolls of ‘local government in California real property with an as; sessed valuation of more than $100,000,000. There is a determined movement . on foot to see that the federal gov ernment, when the war is eadeds! turns back to private ownership (and tax rolls) all the land that . } he is nt That is imperative, but. that, itself, is not enou7h. It ‘is perative that farm land, particular a lly, should be disposed of by federal . agencies direct to farmers, without . permitting private speculators to get . hold of it and sell it again at ex. tortionate profits. And if the federal . government continues to hold vast acreages of land on a, permanent. basis, then it is imperative that such land be foreed to carry its fair share of the tax load, either by direct taxation or by refunds by the federal govertiment_to Yocal taxing agencies. WASHINGTON NOTES By CONGRESSMAN CLAIR ENGLE One of the greatest natural sources of the second congressional district is lumber. We have an estimated 150 billion board feet. The annual cut in the United States prior to the war was 20 billion board feet. Today the annual cut runs about. 32 billon board feet. In other words the could take all the lumber used n the country from our district for seven years before the supply ran out. That is a lot of lumber and a great resource, and we should think in terms of what it means to us economically now and in the future. ee There are* several matters of interest pending in congress that pertain to lumber. I nthe first place if we are to make the best use of our timber, we should know how much there is of it, and where it is located on a national scale. There is a bill coming up on the floor of the house shortly which will provide for making a ninventory, completely. ‘and atcurately. Today we do not have that inventory and we should have it so we will know what our total resources in lumiber are, what the present depletion rate s, and how to plan the future of the industry. in . also im-} TSsThe two greatest enemies of our forests are fire and bugs. Every tree burned or killed by insects is a dolledged sheet of our community. Pine beetles are .responsible for killing more trees on the Pacific coast than ‘we now lose by fire. This is a particularly serious problem in our district. We have lost over 17 per cent of our ponderosa and Jeffrey pine stands in the last 12 to 15 years, representing a loss to forest owners of over $12,000,000 and a community loss of nearly ‘$95— 000,000: in finished timber products. Norvheatann. California is interested in maintaining in the federal budget sufficient funds to continue the work on insect control by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. Their budget has ‘suffered continuous cuts and the item is so small and obscure that little laboratories in maintained at Berkeley and some of their field work} is done at Hat Creek near Burney and a Black’s Mountain Experimental Forest northeast of Susanville. Over $1,000,000 ‘has been spent by federal, state and private owners in pine beetle control work in.California, Oregon and Washington in the last 10 years. Some $158,000 has been spent in northeastern California. o The budget item to continue the Berkeley Laboratory of the Burean of Entomology and Plant Quarantine and their field offices comes up before the appropriations committee around the early part of February and I expect to appear before the committee to urge the continuation of this work. . . There are two other bills of interest to the lumber industry: one increasing the authorization for fire control from $2,500,000 to $9,000,000 and the other providing for cooperative sustained yield unit agreements. Most everyone, both in and out of the industry, agree now that we should put our timber on a sustained yield basis. Placing our cuttmg operations on that basis will make lumbering a stable sound inlars and cents debit on the economic. is known of their work. One of their} . FooD ‘urban property. These war. / gress, “. prices on. ductS announced Jast {vin Jones ,;are now available at. . County AAA Office, according to io{formation released . Sleeman, . County AAA Committee. . man said, I dustry for our communities and save a; arn * eect? WAR NEWS 1944 CROP LOANS Subject to approval by -the con1944 food production suprort 34 principal farm proweek by MerFood Administrator, the Nevada War . Boe OS Nevada today chairman of. the by ‘The proposed support prices Slee‘follow along slosely with »1944levels. although barley,,» flax. . seed and milo’ are 10 cents higher

and® sugar. beets $1.50 higher. The. only significant decrease is the -dol. lar a hundred pounds drop in hog . prices previously announced and ef-. fective on October.1. Loans on corn and wheat’ will again be at 85% uf parity ‘and cotton will remain subject to loan at 90% of parity. Prices for butter, cheddar cheese, skim mlk, butter, eggs, and. chiekens, likewise will be unchanged.” _ The list includes these principal crops: Corn and Wheat—Contnued loans at 85% of party, Barley, Continued loans at ratés 10 cents per bu. above 1943. Cotton, Rice, Continued loans at 90% of parity. Flaxseed, Increase at suppert. prices from $2.85 .o $2.95 per bushel. Dry peas, wrinkled, loan support price $3.25: Dry peas, (smooth type) continue support at $5.65 per ewt. Dry beans, No change, continue support of $7.59 per cwt. for certain varieties, and $6.50 for others. /Blackeye beans— Will be grouped with other .dry beans $6.50 support level. Milk and milk products—Some adjustments in price ceilings for milk and milk products. Continuation of dairy feed payment program. Poultry—(Including chickens: and turkeys) — Support program at about the level of 1943. Eggs—Support prices at 30 cents-a dozen d@uring spring-and summer, and an anrnual average farm price of not less than 34 cents per dozen with differentials by area and ceiling .to be worked out. Irish potatoes—Support prices at 90% parity. Vegetables—(for canning, including snap beans, cweet corn, tomatoes, cabbage for kraui. peas, beets, and lima ‘beans)—-Support prices same as those’ in effect under the 1943 program. Fresh vegetables—No announced support ‘price. Sugar beets—Support price $12.50 per ton. Peanuts—Support price $157.80 per ton. The chairman pointed out that the announcement made no mention of the Commodity Credit Corporation and again stressed the fact that the tentative support prices included in the announcement cannot be made official pending final eapravat by congress. WHEEL TRACTOR PRODUCTION ‘Chairman Donald M. Nelson, of the War Production Board has announced that production of wheeled tractors, used principally on farms, was responding favorably to the combined efforts of the manufacturers; W FA and WPB to obtain increased output. ‘Nelson said that telegraphic reports from manufacturers show that December production of tractin two’ years—in excess of 20,000 as* ‘compared with a production of 4,200 in December, 1942. : Production has shown a steady increase in each quarter of 1943. In the first quarter 16 . 000 wheeled tractors were built; in the second. quarter 18,000; in the third quart 33,000; in the fourth quarter 56,000. Nelson pointed out, however, that “the current: rate of production must be absolutely maintained. in order to meet the tractor quota for the twelve months that will end June 30, 1944; which has been set at»209,000. This, he said, will not be éasy, especially in view of. the tact that many of the components needed ° for tractor. production are also used in landing craft, ere now in urgent demand by the ed services. Conseqyently, if a flict were to arise, landing ‘craft would have first cali on com ponenis. . Bvery effort is being made by’ WPB to provide enough components for both the landing craft and tractor program, aS well as for other ‘approved programs, and with full cooperation between industry and the government, it is believed that the us from looking. at.,lumber..ghost. ,. iy towns 25 or 30 ‘years hence. the armed services and ed by . manufacturers !feed consumption with the 1944 live ; ors, was the largest for any month . ) which} SURPLUS WAR GOODS WONFERENCE Northern California . materials from: war con-. tractors at a special conference callthe WPB Regional Redistribution in San Francisco last week..Over:400 leading fholesalers and distributors heard representatives. of the armed forces, and government agencies oui line listings or huge stores of critical . chase surplus war materials and other items. These are . values. change for thes stamps on and afauthorized . ter February 27th. now: availajle under WPB action. waiving restrictions to buyers. This WPB move to channel . excess inventories into usalble war . production or civilian uses in an-. other ‘first’ for west coast industry. . and means controlled release of the! items ranging from hardware and electrical fittings to textiles and steel to buyers in established commercial trade. The PB program does not include retailers, brokers, . ? _or speculators. FEED STRETCHING RECOMMENDED Experts concerned with making} the 1944°available feed supplies go) as far as.possible are suggesting, ‘several methods to balance livestock . stock production goals. They say light hogs can-be produced with less than heavy hogs, more eggs will result from culling out non-layers and keeping a larger percentage of pullets, beef cattle should: be fed shorter and lighter, and more dependence can be placed on roughage for cattle and sheep. A rate of feeding mid-. way between the two-thirds of a ton} of concentrates fed during 1942-43, and the three-fourths of a ton fed. ‘during 1941-42 will save -7.000 ,000 tons and keep the needs within the. 169,000,000 ton supply. ‘ [BITS AND PIECES American farmers have purchased ; more machinery in the last ten years than during the previous 100 years. War needs are the argument for the gram. goes ) 27th, the color of ration stamps waAll at the present time, . X stamps, on February 6, will be good until ‘good on February 20, ; values, in‘cluding tuna and salmon, was ¢uv by four businessmen! remained unchanged in point value, poirts a pound: Oxly oysters ~ had their firstopportunity to pur-. still selling at.4 points per pound. When the new ration tokens prointo effect on February go back to red for meats aud £2%5 and to blue for. processed foods. Green stamps K L and M in War Book Four—-which are the last of the green stamps for 'will be good for processed foods until March 20 at their 8 5 2 and 1 the time being And tokens will be given in SN Brown stamps V and W: both valid and the brown which will be ‘validated, February 26. Y to be. validated on February 13 and Z which becomes will be good until March 20 at their 8 5 2 and 1 Tokens will be given in change for these also on and after February 27th. , February oth is the final day on imwhich your shoe dealer will offer Ta 'tion free women’s low’ preed shoes which have been moving too slowly to.suit him. No shoe stamp is required if the selling price is not more than $3.00. Soups on——and if it’s split pea soup—it soon will be costing lesé. The reason is that the OPA hasbrought dry peas—whole and split —under price control. This will i/mean a slight reduction as retailers get in new supplies. Champagne. is, sometimes under: iy pressure of 100 pounds per square. inch in bottles. 4 ; Fort. Mason, Army center in San Francisco, was nam: ;ed :for Colonel Richard B. Mason.. ° California military governor. from” 1847 to 1849. : ‘The U. S. Coast and Geodetic ‘Sure ve maintains seismographs — at “the” closest possible cooperation by the farmers in. holding down, the consumption of both non highway and highway use of gasoline. A 6 hour’ mission by 1000 four engine bombers gasoline which ,from a strictly. gallonage.point of view would operate a farm tractor using 1200 gallons a year for 1500 years. If the tractor were geared to run on 100 octane uses 1,800,000: gallons of 100 octane} top, center and bottom ‘of a San Francisco office building. to study _earthquake stresses on skyscrapers. gt gasoline, it would be sufficient to materials alloys, containing cobalt, chromium, tungsten, nickel molyb-inum have been removed from restrictions. As soon as housewives are ready to start their 1944 home canning programs, they will be able to use sugar stamp No. 40 in’ War Ration Book 4 for this: purpose. It will. be valid for 13:-months and’ it will be the only stamp validated for sugar used in canning. . However, those housewives who wish to can and preserve more fruit than can be put up ‘with the five pounds. per. person allotment of stamp 40 may make apfor this purpose. é chart has its downs as well as ups. Although meats and -cheeses generPoperater dt: 3,000years: Hard: facing 4 denum, vanadium or secndary alumplications to their local boards lat-. er when they need additional sugar if This month's meats and fats point . BARGAINS IN ‘OUR : ie “HAND PAINTED © POTTERYSALAD SETS FIRE-KING 3-PC: OCEDAR —Bee e ec eweewewnee ally showed an upward movement in Prey, * ~* and every detail of \a funeral. P 78 an ee “ nie Ones ed OUR CHAPEL fo p beautiful place ¢ hold the last. rites for a loved one. 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