Friday, July 18, 1941, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon
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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.
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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
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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
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Vernonia
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Vernonia, Oregon
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