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Friday, July 18, 1941, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon 4 Comments thfe Week THE CARNIVAL DESERVES A COMPLIMENT A compliment is certainly due the Browning Brothers Amusement company for the showing made here last week. Other carnivals have brought their equipment to Vernonia in times past and have left without the feeling of good-will which was much in evidence this week. The Brownings conducted a show that was, above all, honest in its dealings with its patron age and with the city park board which acted as sponsor. From the standpoint of the city police force, no trouble was experienced from members of the company. That, in itself, is another commendable feature of the show. In addition to the favorable showing made, the park board benefits from the funds it derived from the show. It is certain that Browning Brothers will be accorded a good reception should they return to Vernonia in the future. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE -- THE PURPOSE OF THE USO DRIVE Vernonia will soon begin its drive for USO funds in coop eration with the nation drive for United Service Organizations for National Defense, Inc. That was the decision made Tuesday at the chamber of commerce meeting. But it is likely that many people are not familiar with the purpose to which those funds will be devoted. Camps and defense plants have been built quickly and towns near them are not ready to play host to multitudes of soldiers, sailors and defense workers off duty. For example, somewhere in the south is a contonment of 40,000 soldiers. A few miles away is a small community of 17,000 people. The government cannot finance organizations which will provide recreation for these soldiers, sailors, etc., when they are not on duty because they are private organizations and must re main so to make their work effective. At the same time it is not possible for small communities near cantonment to properly handle the problem. The USO is composed of several branches: The Young Men’s Christian Associations, The National Catholic Community Service, The Salvation Army, The Young Women’s Christian Association, The Jewish Welfare Board, and The National terim during which he received no copies. Acting on this conclusion Travelers Aid Association. Tonstol has decided not to send THE USO PROGRAM the 20 kroners (about $6) for the Kragero Blad. The Germans, ho The USO program has been given as follows: maintains, can pay for their own Contact with the Community: Friendly and wholesome con tacts between persons in military and civilian life; organiza war. tion of social events, such as dances; arrangements for actual home hospitality. I _L I • Religious service for soldiers, sailors, and defense workers <_✓ | ¿j | S K ¿Hl IG of different faiths, including lay activities. Counsel and guidance on personal porblems of all kinds. NEW CLASS TO START Clubhouse accommodations including organization of enter IN AUTO MECHANICS— tainment and games, meetings, and social functions; provision of A day class in auto mechanics light refreshments, reading and writing facilities, lounges, and is to start in Clatskanie July 28. sleeping accommodations. Three young men who have been Educational and cultural services including organization of taking the work here in sheet musical and dramatic groups; formation of hobby and discus metal classes left last week for sion groups; provision of books. Seattle where they were called by Information service regarding a community’s recreational the Boeing Co. resources, transportation facilities, and room registry; aid to W ord from the boys who re- relatives and friends in locating soldiers who do not correspond cently went to work at Burbank, regularly. California, for the Lockheed Air- Transient aid to soldiers and sailors on leave, to visiting craft corporation is that they have relatives and friends, and migratory defense workers and their already received a pay increase of families. six cents per hour and that they Local USO programs will be carefully individualized to meet are enthusiastic about the work. local problems, such as those of women in defense industries and migratory workers. GIVE YOUR ASSISTANCE WHEN ASKED Within a short time the people in this vicinity will be asked to aid the USO drive by a small contribution. The work is worthwhile aYid well worth any amount you can give for that sum will become a part of the $86,700 which Oregon must by J ames P reston raise as its part of the national drive. COUNTY NEWS PRODUCTION OF BUTTERFAT RISES— St. Helens USO COMMITTEE TAKES IN $169— Committees in charge of the drive for $600, St. Helens’ contri bution to the United Service Or ganization, met Tuesday evening to tally their receipts and discover if the campaign went over the top. It is expected that sufficient money will have been raised by that time to meet the local quota, but if the $600 has not been taken in then, the drive here will continue. Treasurer Carl Vauyhan report ed that the canvass of the down town and West St. Helens sectors by a committee in charge of Chas. Rogers and Fred Schnapp netted $169. Additional funds for the USO are expected when the com- mittee which has been canvassing local union members will turn in its money. Solicitation has been going on in the industries since last Monday morning. Like the $600 which is beiti); raised in the remainder of Colum bia county, St. Helens’ share will go toward providing recreating for the thousands of citizen-soldiers— and regulars as well—now with Uncle Sam's much-enlarged army. The Vernonia Eagle MARVIN KAMHOLZ Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail matter, August 4; 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 8. 1879. Offieial newspaper of Vernonia, Ore 0» I PCillS 1*1» CUTIO* Production in butterfat in this area has shown a considerable in crease over the 1940 output, II. M. Tuly, manager and butter maker for the St. Helens Co-op Cream ery, said last Thursday. One reason for this is the fact that early pas ture has been better than in sev eral years past, probably because of the plentiful rains of recent weeks. Some dairymen are reporting that the July drought is resulting in the drying up of pasturage with a consequent drop in production of herds. Although the price of butterfat is down 2c over what was offered a week ago, the price paid by the local creamery Thursday was 38 *4 C for first grade with premium grade being purchased at a cent more. Little second grade fat was receiv ed at the creamery. Butter is be ing quoted in St. Helens stores at 42c to 43c a pound this weex. TONSTOL PATRIOTIC: HE'LL SEND NO MONEY— Harold Tonstol, a former resi- dent of Kragero in southern Nor- way. is not going to aid in finan cing the German war effort if he can help it. In fact, so determined is the local man on this point that he has decided to get along with out his home town newspaper for fear money he might send for the subscription would fall into Ger- man hands. His suspicions on this point were aroused recently when, after being ignored for months by the Norway publication, the Kragero Blad, he received a copy of the paper to- gether with notice his subscrip- tion was due. Putting two and two together Tonstol figured that maybe the nazis who occupy Norway had like wise occupied his paper in the in- Other Surprise« in Store Washington in a tong time, simply because it really tries to get at the truth of the situation, let the chips fall where they may. One large company that is play ing a big part in the defense pro- gram has been accumulating a mer chant fleet of its own. And a cer tain so-called “liberal” publication doesn’t like the idea of the com pany’s failing to accept government assistance. Here is the story: Most steamship companies with merchant shipping plans apply to the government for a subsidy. When they receive the funds, the organizations concerned are com pelled by law to open not only their own books, but to books of all affiliated companies, to inspec tion by the Maritime Commission. In other words, a considerable degree of government regulation is the price paid for the subsidy. This particular company, how ever, chose to pay all its own ex penses in building up its fleet. So the “liberal” publication comments sourly that “Congress never antici pated that any shipper might ig- nore the subsidy.” All of which is highly reminis- cent of the old story about the soapbox radical who shouted, “Comes the revolution, you’ll all The important House Military eat strawberries and cream i —and Affairs Committee, headed by Rep- like it!” resentative May of Kentucky, num- Incidental Intelligence: One of bers 17 Democrats and 11 Republi- cans in its membership. But it rose the more recent government pub above partisanship and reached lications is titled “Food Habits of heights of real statesmanship in the American Coot, with Notes on the majority report on defense Distribution.” Your reporter hasn’t read this little pamphlet yet, but which it made a short time ago. The document in question is he can’t help wondering whether worth serious study by anyone this is the coot that some people interested in the defense situation. are supposed to be as crazy as. By the way, the coot classic is Unfortunately it didn’t receive mqeh initial aidtentio'n, for the published by the Bureau of Biolog Committee, more serious-minded ical Survey, a division of the Fish than publicity-wise, made it public and Wildlife Service, which has on a Saturday. As a result, it ap now been classified as a “defense peared in the newspapers the fol agency.” That leads to a further lowing day, and anyone who has question pondered by many observ ever tackled a three-pound metro ers: Can it be that the Fish and politan Sunday edition knows that Wildlife Service, along with other any single piece of news has a non-defense agencies, was thus re pretty good chance of getting lost classified in order to confuse the issue at a time when the press and and “buried” there. The report is a big affair, the public were actively clamoring for outcome of many weeks of careful non-defense economies to make up study, and only a few of its main in part for odr huge defense expen thoughts can be summarized here. ditures? It is most notable as a piece of statesmanship for the unflinching way in which it lays the blame for deficiencies of the defense pro gram, such as they are, squarely on the shoulders of government. That took realism and courage. Serious present deficiencies in defense, the committee frankly de clared. were attributed largely to “absence of a responsible head with authority and power,” and to too much zeal in recent years for “social reform rather than nation- al security.” It asked for greater “vision” on the part of govern- ment official's, and then lashed out with a strong indictment of the present tendency towards more Providing congress approves (and and more bureaucracy as a sub it has not yet disapproved any thing in the way of an appropria stitute for intelligent planning: "The Administration has been tion) te U. S. maritime commis- too prone when difficult problems ston will soon be given another arose to easily dispose of them fund of $1,698,000 with which to by creating another board, only construct 566 vessels of various to add to the confusion of the types and sizes, all of which would assortment of agencies we now be completed neyt year and in 1943. Out of the 566 ships the have.” Though the report is extremely Columbia river area will have an critical, it is one of the most en- allotment. The Oregon Shipbuild- couraging releasee to come out of ing Co. wilt undoubtedly receive (fàuàkinqtcrn, ^^napòhcts some and there is a prospect of new yards being given orders at Vancouver, Rainier, Portland and Astoria. Yards at Coos Bay and Tillamook may be included. The commission has heretofore preferred expanding existing yards (as at the Oregon Shipbuilding Co. plant) to financing new ways, but if the present bill is enacted the commission will require 48 addition al ways and to reconditiop old shipyards. The new w. ys will give the Columbia river area an op portunity to have at least two new yards, possibly three. The problem of steel enters into the situation tnd there may be such a shortage that the commission may abandon its present policy of all-steel ships and order some wooden boats. This would be a concession to Oregon and Washington, two states partic ularly qualified to build boats of wood. New York contains the greatest foreign population of any spot in the United States and they reflect the bitterness of European peoples. Knowledge of Weather Needed In Alaska, on islands stretching toward Asin, workmen are hurried ly constructing air bases, canton ments and underground shelters. These workers were picked up in Oregon and Washington and »ent north with no publicity on ships carrying supplies. The sudden storms which sweep down from Bering sea almost wrecked the steamer the day it landed in a small cove and the ship had to be beached, as it had lost its anchors. One of the important pieces of equipment at this air base will be meterological instruments, for know ledge of the weather is very im portant in defense of Alaska. It is important that this particular sta tion be completed before winter, and workmen are operating in shifts. Special clothing is now under contract for troops to be stationed there, a barren island with moun tains and fierce storms. Building the underground retreats is a real struggle. This is only one of the Alaska projects in the defense pro gram. Spread of American defense to Iceland and a base in north Ire land is now old news, but there are other surprises in store. Amer ican officers are being dispatched to India and can be expected before long at Singapore. The Pacific ocean is playing as important a WPA Roll Small role in the war as the Atlantic, Complaints continue pouring in although it ha> not been so dram from farmers who want workers atized as the latter. Wake island to pick fruit. Washington county will be ready for occupancy in farmers wanted all WPA work August. This is a small coral isle suspended in that county and those represented on the map by a dot. on relief projects released for farm The navy is having a station con work. They said the WPA workers structed there and while it is not would solve their problem and stat completed, the first of the naval ed that they needed 1,500 men. A fliers will settle down there in check-up disclosed that there were some three weeks. Midway island only 75 on WPA in Washington is another where contractors are county and these were men mostly building a base for the army and 50 years or more. The entire state navy; Guam is being prepared, and of Oregon is now credited with ’ittle Johnson and Christmas is 6,500 on WPA, a cut from 9,000. lands. To handle access roads on the de Western congressmen are busy fense program it is necessary to taking polls of their constituents establish camps and ship WPA by the post card method to ascer workers to the job. At present tain what the people think about WPA in Oregon is rushing the going to war or keeping out. Many Wilson river road and the Wolf of these polls have not been com creek road and hopes to open them pleted, but the tabulation to date and have a formal ceketjl'ation shows decided opposition to war in about September 1. the Pacific northwest and in the Three men went from Willam middle west. President Roosevelt’s ette valley to work in the Boeing »own congressional district voted aircraft factory in Seattle. They against war and his own precinct were refused work because they of Hyde Park found only six people were more than 35 years of age. favoring war. A poll in New York' The maximum age for employment city, conducted by a newspaper, in an aircraft factory, it is alleg gave a slight edge for war, but ed, is 35 years, and this despite the call for men to aid in the pro duction of nlanes. Lodges Vernonia Lodge No. 246 .O.O.F. Meets Every Tuesday 8 P. M. Alton Roberson, N. G. Paul Gordon, Secretary 4-41 — Business-Professional Directory For Your Beauty Needs ELIZABETH’S BEAUTY SALON Phone 431 Vernonia F. O. E. of Eagles) I.O.O.F. Hall Elizabeth Horn Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist Vernonia 2nd and 4th Friday Nights 8 o'clock Alford Doree, W. P. Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y. Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 72; Residence 73 7-41 Dr. U. J. Bittner Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 116 Vernonia, Oregon Harding Meetings:—I. O. O. F. Hall, Second and Fourth Mondays Each Month. Pythian Sisters Dentist Joy Theatre Bldg. Phone 662 Expert Tonsorial Work BEN’S BARBER SHOP Vernonia Temple No. 61 Vernonia, Oregon Meeting«:— I. O. O. F. Hall Second Marshall A. Rockwell M. D. Vernonia, Oregon and Fourth Wednesdays Each Month 2-41 Order of Eastern Star Nehalem Chapter Nehalem Valley Motor Freight 153, O. E. S. Regular Communi cation first and third Wednesdays of each month, at Masonic Temple. All visiting sisters and brothers wel come. AHie Dickson, Worthy Matron Mona Gordon, Secretary 1-41 Portland - Timber • Vernonia Sunset • Elsie - Cannon Beach Gearhart - Seaside Vernonia Telephone 1042 A. F. & A. M. LOCAL and LONG-DISTANCE HAULING Vernonia Lodge No. 184 A. F. & A. M. meet, at Masonic Temple, Stat ed Communication First Thursday of each month. Special called meetings on all other Thprsday nights, 7:30 p. m. Visitors most cordially wel- come. Special meeting« Friday night«. 1-42 VERNONIA POST 119 AMERICAN LECION Meet« First Wed. and Third Mon of Each Month. AUXILIARY Fir«t and Third Monday« Hartwick, Proprietor CASON’S TRANSFER SEE US For Your Old-Growth 16-INCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES Roland D. Eby, M. D. C. L. ■ Brock, W. M. Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec. Frank PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Town Office 891 NEAL W. BUSH Attorney at Law 1-41 Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663 In Vernonia Mondays and Tuesdays
