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/XvXv’v' Betweenthe Bookendl By Nancy Burch Vernonia City Librarian Effective Wednesday, February 21, the li brary will be open for business as usual. No flood damage was suffered by the building or the books, but the library has been used this past week as one of the meeting places for ef forts needed to help resolve the problems re sulting from flood damages to the community. No one will be held accountable for books that incurred water damage beyond repair, but please try to keep lists of the books that could not be saved so those titles can be pulled from the card files. The State Library will be sending some information on restoration of books (drying methods, etc.) which will be available shortly. Since the library was closed today, (Mon day) a shopping trip to Costco and to Barnes and Noble was on the agenda. New books by C ity was ignored during flood crisis To the Editor: As an A m erican, I am ashamed! Your city was ig nored by every faction of the PEOPLE’S government dur ing the recent floods. All the tax dollars you have sent to the state and federal govern ments got you nothing! Even your National Guard finds it self without amphibious vehi cles to help people in the Columbia River valley. Now w ith Sen. W yden, Jon ath an and Faye K e lle rm a n , LaV yrle Spencer, Robin Cook, J.A. Jance, Nancy Tay lor Rosenberg, and Lillian Jackson Braun (the cat stories) will all be available when the li brary reopens. After the experiences that Vernonia resi dents suffered this past week and a half, some quotes on adversity, compiled in a book by E.C. Mackenzie, seem appropriate: “Your character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose." “Trouble is what gives a fellow a chance to discover his strength — or lack of it." It certainly appears that the citizens of Ver nonia have lots of strength and character. ...................................... Don Schwarz Stoughton, Mass. Writer says country is lulled to sleep To the Editor: Many centuries before the birth of Christ there lived a Chinese warrior whose name was Sun Tzu. Tzu is w ell CREDIT PURCHASES WELCOME EASY FINANCING I Letter» te the Editor can and Russian troops train tobether at Ft. Riley, a Rus sian government official was destroying an U.S. nuclear silo. On Oct 29, Russian de fense minister Pavel Grachev detonated a charge that de molished a U.S. Minuteman silo, about sixty-five miles from Kansas City.” The same article goes on to quote G rachev’s boast, “The first foreigner to blow up a U.S. missle silo is the minis ter of defense of Russia, Now how about that?” W illia m Perry, U.S. d e fense secretary also partici pating remarked, “A great act of symbolic significance.” This should have been front page news, but what pa per carried it? This should have shocked congress and the nation to the core. Has the C.F.R., who has been do ing the thinking for Washing ton so easily lulled us to sleep?“ Thank You, Juneious F. Harty Scappoose .......... ........................................ Libra ry Hours: Monday and Friday 1-5 p.m., Wednesday 9 a.m -5 p.m „ Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. P reschool S tory Time: every Wednesday from 10:30-11 a.m. more of your tax dollars will be wasted on failed social program s. Now you know why citizen m ilitias are re forming. The INDEPENDENT, Feb. 21,1996 Page 3 îlü,. known today for his teachings on military strategy and the art of warfare. Military instructors believe his tre a tis e s are u n s u r passed. One of his dictums reads, “To overcome and de feat an emeny without com bat is the acme of great skill.” Tzu is teaching his students th a t a nation can be c o n quere d w ith o u t fo rce or bloodshed. This is called to co n q u e r by p a rlia m e n ta ry procedure. This is a quote from the Dec. 11, issue of The Ameri can Magazine, “While Ameri Pacific presents Children’s Hour The Children’s Hour, Lil lian Heilman’s drama set in a girls’ boarding school, will be performed by the Pacific Uni versity Theater Department March 1-3 and 7-9 in Tom Miles Theater. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 fo r stu d e n ts and sen io rs, available at the door or in ad vance through the box office by calling (503) 359-2918. The play follows the events in a boarding school after one of the girls begins spreading a story that two women have an abnormal attachment for one another, according to Merrill Lynn Taylor, who di rects the production. It was first performed in 1934 and ran fo r nearly 700 p e rfo r mances. 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