FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935.
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Springfield, OTe.
'Editor,
Vernonia Eagle,
Up to three years ago I was
a resident of Vernonia and as
some of the happiest days of
my life were spent there and as
I have many friends in your city
I still consider it my home town.
Occasionally I receive a bunch
(or a flock rather) of Eagles and
I derive much pleasure in read­
ing of the different things that
occur from day to day and the
doings of my many friends. By
last mail I received eight copies,
(June 7 to July 26) of the
Eagle and while I found many
things that were interesting 1
was still awfully dissappointed.
It made me think back to the
time when Vernonia was a fight­
ing town when we enjoyed a good
scrap and every body was on
his toes. Now the greatest fight
of all time is on and Vernonia
seems to be laying dawn. In
eight issues of the Eagle it men­
tions the Townsend plan three
times—in very small notices of
meetings to come. Shame on you.
Up here in Lane county we have
the plan for breakfast, dinner
and supper. Newspapers talk it,
city councils talk it, clubs talk it,
lawyers, doctors, dentists and
all classes of business men talk
it, old and young. There are
40 Townsend clubs and with a
voting registration of 50,000.
30,000 have signed the petitions.
I am not writing this letter
for publicity. I believe the Town­
send plan will give the U. S.
prosperity. It is the only thing
the common people have ever
asked for. Heretofore the politi-
tions have told you what you
could have and made you take
it and say it was good. I am
going to do all I can for the
plan. If it is enacted I’ll have
my hand out for the $200 and I
want to be able to say I helped
get it. I believe the plan is the
only hope and I want to help
put it over and I woul like to feel
that my old home town will be
away up in front.
J. P. McDonald
plete. The amount of the second
payment will then be determined
according to the amount need­
ed to bring parity return to farm­
ers for their allotments.
Growers need not hesitate to
sign the new contracts for fear
of adverse decision on the con­
stitutionality of the AAA, says
Chester C. Davis, administrator.
It is impossible to wait until af­
ter a decision by the supreme
court to launch the new program,
because fall grain for 193.6 will
be planted in the near future.
He gives assurance, however,
that anybody signing a contract
will be paid for compliance as
long as it stays in force, regard­
less of whether the act is upheld
or not.
Mr. Davis points out that the
new amendments to the adjust­
ment act, as passed by both sen­
ate and house, removed many of
the objections to the processing
tax provisions found by a fed­
eral circuit court which gave a
divided decision against the act.
He points out also that the new
contracts permit cancqiation by
the secretary at the end of any
year and allow the grower ¿to
withdraw at the end af the first
two years is he so desires.
“Even if an adverse decision
by the supreme court should
materialize at some future time,”
Mr. Davis said, “the contract in
its present form is admirably de­
vised to protect both the farm­
ers and the government.”
NOTED COUNTY
ATTORNEY DIES
IN ST. HELENS
(St. Helens Sentinel-Mist)
Joseph Warren Day, dean of
Columbia county attorneys and
city attorney here for the past 22
years, died Tuesday morning at
the Good Samaritan hospital
where he had been a patient for
a ween. Although he had not felt
well for some time, he had con­
tinued his law practice until
about two weeks ago.
Mr, Day was born October 7,
1860 in Medford, Maine, and
came west 52 years ago, stopping
at Olympia. He then went to
Shelton, Washington, where
he was interested in lum­
bering and shipping industries,
and was later admitted to the
bar, Judge Day located in St.
Helens in 1897, and was for years
the partner of W B. Dillard. He
had been a continuous resident
since that time, and was closely
associated with the development
of the city and its environ.
He was married September 3,
1890, at Lebanon, to Irene An-
sorge. Mr. Day was a member of
St. Helens lodge No 32, A. F. &
A. M., Columbia Chapter No.
53, R. A. M., and Woodmen of
the World.
Funeral services and burial
in the family plot Thursday at
Shelton, Wash., were private.
Mr. Day leaves to mourn their
loss, his widow, Irene; two daugh­
ters, Mrs. Jane Day Northrup of
St. Helens, and Mrs. Betty Day
Campbell of Walla Wada; a sis­
ter, Mrs. Sarah Day Weymouth,
of California and a host of
friends in St. Helens and through­
out the county.
thousands starting out in a cru­
sade to get more of our modern
church members to practice
Christianity. We need to clean
up the churches before attempt­
ing to save the world.
“It is only through individual
lives completely freed from fear
and selfishness, and surrendered
to the guidance of the God in
whom we profess to believe and
to the service of their fellowmen,
that the new and better world
can come into being. Our group
exists to bear witness to the be­
lief that such a life is possible
and that is is effective.
“The Christian Action move­
ment began in Cincinnati, Ohio,
late n 1933. Already there are
Christian Action groups in ev­
ery state in the United States,
every privince in Canada and in
many foreign lands—Mexico, Ja­
pan, India, Australia, New Zeal­
and England, etc. There are no
membership rolls, no dues, no
officers, no organization, and
no obligation but to do the will
of Christ.”
Everyone welcome.
“A New Deal In Religion”
A new deal in religion is the
object of the “Christian Action”
group formed in Vernonia at
the home of Nola Brady, 1107
Ruth Ave., Tuesday evening at
7:30. There will be weekly gath-
eringh of the group for prayer,
Bible study and Christian Action.
The convener of the local
group said in a statement to
the press, “Our group is one of
RAINIER-APIARY
ROAD
APPROVED
(Rainier Review)
Approval of the road leading
from Rainier through Apiary to
the Nehalem River was given
by the county planning board last
week. The board action merely
puts the project on the approved
list to receive consideration when
the government looks round for
places in which federal funds may
be spent.
KEASEY
Verle DeVaney is employed at
the Rowe Bros, garage in Port­
land.
Word was received here that
Norman Pettijohn was married to
Miss Lois Smith of Astoria.
Cedric Slosik of Portland vis­
ited over the week end at the J.
O. DeVaney home.
Anna DeVaney left Sunday
for Portland where she will do
secretarial work.
A mill for sawing alder and
maple is being set up on Joe
Lindsley’s place by Bob Mead of
Cedar Mills.
A picnic dinner was held along
Rock Creek by the James Wal­
ter family and Jess Churchly of
Cedar Mill, W. I. Kelley family
of Banks and the W. J. Lindsley
family.
Joe and Vernon Lindsley made
a trip to Portland and Mt. Hood
Saturday night. Jack Hendrick-
sen of Rhododendron returned
with them.
Mr. DeWitt broke three ribs
Saturday while grading for his
bridge.
Marvin Cromwell of Portland
is visiting at the home of his
sister, Mrs. Lloyd Cummings.
TWENTY FOURTH ANNUAL
Columbia County
IR
NEW WHEAT PLAN READY;
DAVIS URGES BIG SIGNUP
With general features of the
new wheat contracts now decided
upon, including the rate of re­
duction to be asked in 1936, the
campaign for signing up farm­
ers under the new four-year plan
will be launched in Oregon and
other states soon, probaDiy in
August.
The decision to go ahead with
the new program and attempt to
sign up from 50,000,000 to 53,-
000,000 acres of wheat land,
was announced from Washington
recently. The Oregon State col­
lege extension service was infor­
med by the Washington officials
concerning many of the details
of the new four-year program.
A reduction of 20 per cent be­
low the base acreage has been
decided upon for 1936, which is
the same amount asked the first
year the old contracts were in
force. Lack of expert markets
and continued prospective pro-1
duction beyond domestic require­
ments makes acreage control nec-1
essary, if farmers are to receive
anything like a fair price, the
Washington officials declare.
Features of the new contract
are in line with decisions reached
by producers and1 the AAA of­
ficials in conference in Washing­
ton early in July. In a general
way the new contracts follow
the plan of the old, although some
important innovations are includ­
ed. One is that instead of there
being a fixed rate of benefit
payments, decided upon at the
start of each crop year, the rate
will be left more or less flexible
to conform to changing market
prices.
Under this plan approximately
two-thirds of the prospective
benefit payment will be made
as soon os contracts are approv­
ed. The second or final payments
for each crop year will not be
made until the market price rec­
ord for that year year is com­
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