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4 Friday, Augr 1, 1941, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon Comments Week THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGES A TRULY WORTHWHILE BENEFIT Any action which provides safety for children, whether it be the seeking of funds to carry out a project or the starting of a project in itself, drawB the support of nearly everyone and well it should. Foremost in that respect was the making of plans for a benefit softball game to be played this Thursday evening at the city park. The funds which will be derived from that game will be devoted to defraying expenses in maintaining a lifeguard at the swimming pool. A guard at that place is a necessity for the safety of children who use the pool. Funds in the amount of $150 are needed to provide that protection, hence the benefit softball game is one that should receive the cooperation of every individual. (&ubliinqton by SWIM GROUPS TOTAL 154 While the subject of swimming is in mind a news article, which bore the head “Swim Groups Total 154,” in The Eagle last week told of the instruction which is being given many persons at the pool. A total of 22 adult beginners and 57 chil dren are learning to swim from the instruction by Noble Dut ton. Thirty-seven pupils are learning more about swimming in the intermediate class. In addition to swimming, classes in life-saving are being conducted with 15 students in the senior class and 23 in the junior. Those classes are being instructed without charge and by one who is highly capable. Where else could one find such an opportunity to learn to swim safely? The recent spell of high temperature was responsible for the death of many, many fish in streams of this vicinity as well as in other localities according to reports which have been heard. It seems that many forces work to prevent an abun dance of fish so that angling may be a pleasure for those who enjoy the sport. In the case of the steelhead, which is one species of fish providing much pleasure to anglers here, nets remove many before they reach spawning beds in smaller streams. In this locality we experience an ever-decreasing number of steelhead which have evaded nets and have been fortunate in reaching places where they may spawn. With the decrease in numbers which reach spawning grounds comes a decrease in the number of fish. The circle completes itself with the result that the angler gets little pleasure from a journey to his favoritet fish ing spot for he can catch no fish when he goes there. The steelhead is not making its annual run now but high temperatures are responsible for the loss of many trout which also provide angling pleasure. The temperature cannot be con trolled it is true, but the taking of steelhead by nets can be and if it should, a much greater revenue to the merchant and much more pleasure for the angler would be the result. COUNTY NEWS St. Helens CLATSKANIE MAN PICKED FOR JOB— TEN YEARS AGO— A dam has been built at idle concrete bridge over Rock creek to form a swimming pool'. The efficacy of the old willow water witch was demonstrated when C. Bushart dug a 30 foot well' on his farm and struck an under- ground stream which gives him an unlimited supply of clear cold water. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO— J. W. Brown plans to move his present residence back and will build a large stucco building in front to be used as an undertaking parlor. The building will be two stories with living apartments on the second floor. Book Talk . . Selection of Ira Tucker of Clats kanie to fill the important post of city superintendent of schools here coincided this week with the an nouncement that two members of the high school faculty has resigned to take other jobs. Clem Clarke, vocational educational' instructor here for the last year, and Harvey Adams, band instructor for city schools for the last three years, are the departing teachers. Mr. Tucker, who comes here from seven years in the Clatskanie system, five of which were spent as superintendent, succeeds Fred Patton, who has taken a city scnool superintendent’s job at LaGrande. By EDNA ENGEN “There is no book so bad but some Six counties reported 58 per thing good may be found in it” cent of the fatal accidents occuring --- Miguel de Cervantes. ♦ • • in Oregon during the first six months of this year, figures com “The Ship and the Shore” by piled at the state traffic safety di Vicki Baum. vision disclosed today. These coun The story of “The Ship and the ties were Multnomah, 33; Lane, 16, Shore” takes place all in one tropic Marion, 11; and Klamath, Jackson night. and Clatsop with ten each. Hdw this one night changes the There was a total of 155 persons lives of all six of the main char killed during the first six months, acters makes very interesting read a decrease of slightly more than ing. four per cent from the total for the Those who remember Miss Baum’s first six months of last year when “Grand Hotel” will know how welt 162 persons lost their lives in traf- she can handle this unusual type ic accidents in this state. of .story. CAMPAIGN NETS TON Lane county’s death list of 16 METAL — OF WHITE was an increase of 166 per cent As varied a collection of pots and over the toll for last year when six pans as a junk dealer might collect pei-sons were killed during the first in a month’s hardwork was the re half of the year. This increase was sult of a brisk four-hour aluminum the heaviest reported on any of the drive here yesterday by the Colum more thickly populated counties in bia county defense council'. The the state. Clatsop, with ten deaths ‘loot” of the campaign is stored in this year against four last year, had the city warehouse back of the fire an increase of 150 per cent. station. Following are the counties and Although the aluminum collected the number of persons killed dur yesterday has not been weighed as ing the first half of the year: yet, estimates were that it would Baker, 1; Benton, 2; Clackamas, total at least a ton and probably 6; Clatsop, 10; Columbia, 5; Coos, more. 1; Crook, 4; Curry, 1; Deschutes, &; Douglas, 4; Gilliam, 0; Grant, 0; Harney, 0; Hood River, 2; Washington, D. C., July 30—This Jefferson, 0; Josephine, 2; Kla- town, the heart of America, is math, 10; ; Lake, 2; Linn, 5; Lin- practically in the hands of the cohi, 0; 1 Malheaur, 4 Marion, 11; British and royal refugees. They ELECTRICAL STORM Marrow, 0, 1 Polk, 0; Sherman, 0; have moved in bag and baggage STRIKES CLATSKANIE— Thursday night, July 17, the Tillamook, 2; Umatilla, 3; Union, and are elbowing the natives to worst electrical storm in 30 years 3; Wallowa, 1; Wasco, 6; Wash- one side. The government is oc hit Clatskanie and surrounding ter ington 3; Wheeler, 0; Yamhill, 3; cupying all of its own buildings and is renting 201 other structures, ritory, causing some damage to Multnomah, 33; Lane, 16. paying rent at the rate of $5,054,- power lines and houses. 000 a year. Government within the Power was interrupted f«» a District of Columbia is bursting its short time during the storm out was soon restored. bounds and government agencies The temperature for the last are spilling over into adjacent Vir week in which the highest temper- ginia and Maryland. Accommoda ature for this locality has been tions for federal workers are diffi registered in the past six years ONE YEAR AGO— cult to find. Girl clerks are living since the establishment of the four and six to a room in the The Vernonia Bakery closed for boarding houses. weather bureau was read at >03 one week for remodeling. The bak Workers Crowd Quarters cn Monday, July 14th. ery had been operated for one year There are 11,500 workers in the by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Boss. old navy buildings on Constitution The Disaster Relief Committee avenue and there is a cafeteria collected $143.58 for a call of the which can feed 2,500. The other Red Cross. MARVIN KAMHOLZ thousands must bring their lunch Editor and Publisher An extension of power lines by or go without food, 1 for in the the Oregon Gas and Electric com short time permitted for lunch Entered as second class mail matter, August 4, 1922, at the post pany and the Timber Light and they can not walk to a i drug store office in Vernonia. Oregon, under Power company made possible the or cafeteria almost two miles away the act of March 3, 1879. connection of the two lines. and return. In the old days some enterprising woman would drive up Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore FIVE YEARS AGO— in a dilapidated car and sell sand E. Sorenson opened a tailor shop wiches to the hungry, but this is MU next to the old post office on Third verboten now—there is no place ORt cisti on street in the building formerly for such an itinerant merchant to rems bousing the Apparel Shop. park her car. Clatskanie Eagle Items Of Past Years J ame S P reston It is reported that the even-tem pered Robert E. Lee became tired of receiving instructions from so many sources at one point durii.^ the Civil War. and humorously complained “that he had got a crick in his neck from looking over his shoulder towards Richmond.” The average business man with a defense contract is likely to feel a certain amount of sympathy with Lee’s plight these days. Partly be- cause of the complexities of de fense work, but even more because of the bureaucratic habits of Washington itself, it frequently looks as though there are more officials—"more cooks than cus tomers”—than there are occasions to officiate. Thus, one commentator observes, a regulation from the Office of Production Management will be signed by five important officials and attested by another gentleman. Meanwhile the Labor Division of the same 0PM will announce “a new and concentrated approach to the problem,” which it immediately signalizes by naming one man as a director of a particular branch to work in association with 12 other chiefs, chairmans, and commissions! It all points to the need, often reiterated here by experienced ob servers, for one man with a busi ness and executive sense who is permitted authority enough to clear up the defense program’s ambigu ities and divided responsibilities. MANY FORCES WORK AGAINST FISH The Vernonia Eagle Answer was “No.” Then the offic ial' asked, “Why don’t you make um of existing facilities and ex pand them instead of starting new and buying machinery which is reeded for other purposes? NYA hadn’t thought of that. Machinery for a quicksilver mine is rusting on the floor of a dealer in the midwest. It is wanted by n Oregon mine operator, but he has been unable to obtain a priority license. The vast green sward at the foot of Washington monument could ac commodate several thousand autos The navy department has requested the secretary of the interior to per mit parking, but the secretary (who has charge of all parks) absolutely refuses; he doesn’t want the grass destroyed. Nor will the secretary permit the navy to use the army’s polo grounds nearby. There are no underground garages in the new buildings and in these days *of the automobile clerks must park their cars miles from where they work. Agents Criticize British agents of all sorts fill the cocktail lounges and criticize the United States for not “going Incidentally, all the cricks in in in.” They are demanding that an dustry’s neck don’t come from AEF be dispatched and quote some looking to Washington for “go- of the British generals that Amer ica must send manpower. At pres ent Britain is said to be receiving 75 percent of the munitions produc ed in the United States—the Brit Vernonia Lodge No. 246 ish are receiving so much that at the army maneuvers in September (500,000 men) stovepipes and sticks cf wood will' be used for cannon Meets Every Tuesday and machineguns. S P. M. The agents of Britain have taken Alton Roberson, N. G. so many offices (ousted govern Paul Gordon, Secretary 4-41 — ment bureaus) that the government has to rent any old mansion that Vernonia F. O. E. it can find. The British also insist of Eagle«) on air-conditioned quarters, which are needed in this climate, and it I.O.O.F. Hall is asserted that this air-condition ing is paid for from the lend-lease Vernonia act. The British embassv has 1 had 2nd and 4th to build two wings and is still crowded. Friday Night« Lodges I.0.0.F, British Ships Repaired 8 o’clock Under the lend-lease act British ships are now being repaired in navy yards 'on the Atlantic coast. In one yard 1,500 American mech anics are tinkering with a battleship vhose name is never mentioned. These mechanics are taken away from their work of constructing aestroyers and submarines. Food is the first line of defense, writes an Oregon farmer to Secre tary of Agriculture Claude Wick ard, and Oregon dairymen are complying with the secretary’s re quest to speed up production of milk by increasing their herds. While the dairymen are doing this, however, they are unable to obtain the right kind of farm labor. All that many dairymen have been able to hire are inexperienced older men and young boys and with such help it is difficult to operate a farm, The dairy business. writes tihis Oregon farmer, is an all-year prop osition, with work required seven days a week, and experience is es- sential. A similar situation con- fronts the poultry grower. Secre- tary Wickard sympathizes and ad mits that a farmer cannot compete with the wages paid in defense in dustry, and there is the selective service. Local boards, says the sec retary, are misinformed on the law and have taken farm boys when these should be deferred as long as possible. tome. Teach Boys Welding Special meeting« Friday night«. Alford Doree, W. P, Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y. 7-41 ahead” signals. You’ve heard a lot .bout the growing power of labor anion officials. Well, here’s an act ual case where one wielded "life or death" authority over paM of the defense program itself: A Pennsylvania company receiv ed a defense order from the Army and found that it required certain raw materials on which priorities were in force. Having duly applied to the local Army Ordnance De- P'rtment for a priority certificate, which was sent to Washington, countersigned, and returned to it, the company naturally assumed that it was ready to go ahead and fill the defense order. But it happened that there was a trucking strike in the Pennsyl vania city that completely tiea up operations. The company found that it would be permitted to sub mit the priorities certificate to un ion cffic'als, who would determine whether the shipment of raw ma terials was sufficiently important in their eves to justify delivery. The officials having concluded that it W’l worthwhile to have the defense equipment in question, they then gave the company a list of “approved" truckers and also pre sented it with the names of men whom it could hire to unload the needed materials. Thoughtful people have already been greatly concerned over the manner in wh:ch defense strikes have hamstrung large parts of the defense program. Bu^ how would they react to the idea of local union officials entering into the realms of high military strategy and decid ing whether Army orders are impor tant enough to be filled? Washington Snapshots: Buried in the middle of Leon Henderson's recent gloomy report on sacrifices that lie ahead in the defense pro gram was a real' tribute to the efficiency of American industry, and its component parts—skilled management and loyal workers. Henderson declared that we can out-produce Nazi Germany and its conquered territories by working three hours out of every eight on defense, although Germany is work ing four to five hours out of eight to produce war materials. The Price Administrator didn’t go into the reasons for this superiority, but they ought to be pretty plain—private enterprise, and a way of life based upon individual opportunity! Business-Professional Directory For Your Beauty Needs ELIZABETH’S BEAUTY SALON Phone 431 Elizabeth _Horn Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist Marshall A. Rockwell M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 72; Residence 73 Dr. U. J. Bittner Knights of Pythias Harding Lodge No. 116 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:—I. O. O. F. Hall, Second and Fourth Mondays Each Month. Pythian Sisters Phone 662 Expert Tonsorial Work BEN’S BARBER SHOP Vernonia Temple No. 61 Vernonia, Oregon Meeting«:— I. O. O. F. Hall Second Dentist Joy Theatre Bldg. Vernonia, Oregon and Fourth Wednesdays Each Month 2-41 Order of Eastern Star 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. Allie 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 Nehalem Chapter Vernonia Lodge No. 184 A. F. & A. M. meets at Masonic Temple, Stat ed Communication First Thursday of each month. Special called meetings other Thursday nights, 7:30 Visitors most cordially wel- C. L. Brock? W. M? National Youth Administration Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec. had an idea. It would teach boys welding, and Portland would be a VERNONIA good place; probably 2,000 young POST 11» sters could be taught the trade. AMERICAN NCA arranged for renting a build LEGION ing and began to talk about mach Meets First Wed. inery. At this point they ran up and Third Mon. egainst an Oregon official in Wash of Each Month. ington. This official asked whether AUXILIARY NY A had inquired as to facilities First and Third Mondays for welding already in Portland. Frank Hartwick, Proprietor CASON’S TRANSFER SEE US For Your Old-Growth 16-INCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES Roland D. Eby, M. D. 1-42 PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Town Office 891 NEAL W. BUSH Attorney al Law 1-41 Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663 In Vernonia Mondays and Tuesdays
