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Thursday, Oct. 2. 1941, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon
Comments thfe Week
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
DON’T GET OVER CONFIDENT NOW
Football fans here have been anticipating a good season
for the Vernonia Loggers this fall and to date they have not
been disappointed by the showing that has been made by the
team in two county openers and one league game. The scores
made by the Loggers in those three games were music to a
true sports fan who enjoys nothing more than having his team
win.
But there is one thought which should not be forgotten
at a time when, forgetting that one fact, the Loggers may
falter in their stride towards a county championship two years
in succession. That fact is that overconfidence of players may
cause them to “let down” temporarily and thereby be the vic
tim of defeat by another team. When such a good start has
been made and speculation on a championship team runs high,
the loss of a game and possibly the championship would be
hard to accept.
FINANCIAL CONDITIONS ARE COMMENDABLE
Appearing in this edition is a news account of the financial
condition of Union High School District No. 1. The article tells
of the progress that has been made in reducing bonded indebt
edness of the district until that burden no longer exists. A few
weeks ago another article told that the City of Vernonia was
free of its bonded indebtedness. It is noteworthy that both at
one time carried heavy financial obligations and that both have
taken steps to erase those obligations from the respective books.
Such progress will undoubtedly place Vernonia in a much better
financial condition than is true in many other communities of
similar size in the state.
While this has been done with the one district and the
city, the other district is making good progress in that same
direction of decreasing its outstanding bonds.
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK, OCTOBER 1-8
The newspaper is a typical American institution. It has
been that throughout our history. Newspapers and their editors
were numbered among the trail blazers that peopled the nation
from the Alleghenies to the Pacific coast. They aided materially
in building our towns and cities. Collectively, they have had
and still have a greater influence on sane American thinking
than any other class of publications.
Individually, the rural newspaper, daily or weekly, is an
institution in each community in which it is published. It is
the steering wheel that directs the activities of the community
and the carburetor that ignites the spark of energy and pro
ductivity.
In many ways the newspaper promotes the community it
serves. It encourages better merchandising and better stocks
for the benefit of town and country patrons and encourages
patronage of local merchants by those living in the community
and in the surrounding country. It supports the schools, churches,
clubs, whatever makes for cultural growth and social enjoy
ment. It does these things week after week, year after year,
without any blare of trumpets and without expectation of com-
rjendation.
Individually, rural newspapers are serving more than 10,000
American communities. Their collective effort and influence
makes of us a better, stronger, more prosperous, more cultured
matkrn. Through them wifi be preserved that philosophy of
government that has given us our American way of life. Collec
tively, they speak for more than one-half the people of the
nation. Individually, each is the voice, the eyes and ears of the
community it serves.
The newspaper is an institution that deseryes well of the
people of the nation as a whole and each one is deserving of,
and entitled to the consideration and support of people of its
community. It is deserving of that not only for the brief period
of Newspaper Week, but throughout all of each and every year.
It is their worthy representative.
COUNTY NEWS-
St. Helens
ANOTHER RISE IN PRICE
OF MILK SEEN—
A milk price boost which may
bring costs here to the 14c per
quart being asked—and received—
in Portland was forecast for the
St. Helens milkshed by a Warren
dairyman on Wednesday. He said,
however, that the six or seven
dairymen serving St. Helens and
vicinity homes have not yet set a
definite meeting date to decide on
the question of raising the price
of milk.
If distributors here do decide to
increase prices it will be the second
boost within the last few months.
Dairymen in this miikshed met July
14 in the courthouse here and push
ed prices up generally, a principal
item of this raise being an increase
of 4 per cent milk to 12 cents per
quart from the former 11 cent
price.
PROOFS OF LABOR
FILED ON CLAIMS—
A reminder that there are mining
claims being worked in Columbia
county, A. A. Muck last week filed
20 proofs of labor statements in
the county clerk'» office. This is a
formality required by law if the
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 3, 1879.
Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore
owner of a claim is to maintain his
right to it.
The law requires that work or
improvements worth at least $100
be done on claims each year. Mr.
Muck, whose holdings are all in the
Scappoose area, has claims totaling
several hundred acres, according to
the proofs of labor filed.
Clatskanie
TAX EXPERT
SPEAKS HERE—
“It really makes no difference
what your assessment ratio is, but
tax all property at the same rate,”
urged Alex Hay, tax expert with
the Long-Bell company at Longview
before the Clatskanie Kiwanis.club
recently.
Mr. Hay spoke on the comparison
between the taxes and tax laws of
Washington and Oregon and nis
address was very well received.
First. Mr. Hay traced the growth
of tax legislation in Washington
down to the sales tax which was
enacted in 1935 and then raised
from wo per cent to three per cent
in the last session of the legisla
ture.
The results of this legislation he
stated, was to cut the taxes on
property from 12 million in 1931
to two million in 1941. The total
appropriations for 1931 were 101
million dollars for the biennium
and in 1941, 261 million. The reduc
tion in property taxes for all pur
poses, state and local government,
city, port, etc., was 50 per cent.
duled to start at the Ege Welding
Works next Monday with Mr. Ege
in charge of the instruction.
R. L. Henagin, high school prin
cipal, announces that already the
quota of 20 students has been fill
ed with the exception of two poss
ible openings.
Recently the general age specifi
cation for these defense classes has
been raised from 17 to 24 to 17
to 40, but it is noted that the local
facilities have all been taken up by
high school boys.
Depression Not Expected
Every once in a while Mr. Johnny
You can expect to be reading Q. Public does something that has
and hearing in the months to come Mr. Average Congressman, with his
about something called the “Boren- ear glued to the coming election,
Disney Bill." Boren and Disney completely confused. You will re
stand for Congressman Lyle 1. call' the amazement when Mr. Pub
Boren and Wesley E. Disney oi lic said he wanted to be taxed and
Oklahoma. Their bill actually was taxed plenty to pay for defense.
born in Bcffalo, New York, a* the Mr. Public was apparently pretty
annual
convention
of
Railroad well informed on the dangers of
Yarnmasters of North America, Inc. growing deficits, staggering debt
This railroad labor union was wor carrying charges and inflation.
ried about the effects of the rash
Now Mr. Public, as reported bv
of strikes in defense industries on the American Institute of Public
the future of unionism. It drafted Opinion poll, is willing to have his
nnd Unanimously adopted a resolu wage or salary frozen at the pres
tion aimed at improving the caiiber ent level if the cost of living can
of unidn leadership and at freeing be prevented from climbing any
the labor movement from unscrup higher. Sixty-two per cent of the
ulous individuals who have reaped wage and salary earners said thev’d
richly under the protection afford be agreeable to such a move. Asked
ed by the Wagner Act.
if they considered they were now
These railroad workers said that being paid a fair wage or salary,
they believed the union labor move some sixty-four per cent said they
ment to be “a permanent founda were. Yet Mr. Average Congressman
tion to the workers’ rights,” and still can’t believe it. So Congress
they felt, “as unionists, we must is still locking for the magician’s
not allow this foundation to be formula that permits prices to be
weakened by a minority group who frozen while labor costs continue
would destroy it to gain their to rise.
mercenary ends.” They designed
The “planned economy” boys are
their resolution, not to destroy any
of labor’s prerogatives under the hard at work again. For some
Wagner Act, but to protect these months they’ve been digging around
rights by providing an added meas in the reports the professors pre
pared for the Monopoly (T.N.E.C.)
ure of responsibility.
Here are the six objectives of the Committee, building up outlines for
cartels
to
union’s resolution, as incorporated government-controlled
cover all basic American industries.
in the Boren-Disney Bill:
They have quietly formulated
1. Aliens, are prohibited from
plans calling for cartelization of in
holding any labor union office.
2. Union leaders must have had dustries like automobiles and auto
three years of experience in the parts, iron and steel, transportation
equipment, hardware, building and
trade represented by the union.
3. All officials of the union han-. construction materials, foodstuffs,
dling funds of the organization textiles, beverages, tobacco, and
many others. The plan provides for
must be bonded.
4. A financial statement must be the Government controlling and su
issued to each member at least once pervising each cartel consisting of
the private concerns within each of
a year.
5. Stoppages of work because of these major industries. As a corol
jurisdictional disputes is forbidden, lary of the scheme, the New Deal
and jurisdiction ascertained by cer ers would establish “yardsticks” for
each industry—a system of indus
tified proof of representation.
. A sixty-day “cooling off” ar trial TVA’s.
The springboard for the plan is
bitration period is provided, with
the argument that regardless of
settlements to be retroactive.
The actual bill isn’t much more when the war ends and regardless
complicated than that. Maybe that’s of who wins, the cartel system
another reason it’s attracting more under Government control will be
essential to the operation of any
successful trade relations with the
foreign nations.
After the war, it is believed by
economists in the department of
agriculture, there will be no such
depression among farmers as follow
ed the first world war. To take up
the slack the stamp plan will be
continued, providing an outlet for
farmers and also assisting needy
families. The eating habits of the
American people are also under
going a change. Government is lay
ing stress on the need of various
vitamins and endeavoring to educ
ate the people to use a balanced
diet. In brief, food supplies being
purchased for Britain gives a gen
eral idea of what commodities are
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highest in vitamins.
Quiet inquiry has been started
in the northwest to find garage c
mechanics who know their business
Meets Every Tuesday
and are ready to go to the Burma
8 p. M.
road to repair trucks constantly
Alton Roberson, N. G.
being broken down while hauling
Paul Gordon, Secretary
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munitions to China through the
back door. The Chinese can not
Vernonia F. O. E.
make repairs and when a truck is
(Fraternal Order of Eagle*)
down it stays down, whereas a
mechanic would have it rolling again
I.O.O.F. Hall
in a few hours. The importance of
maintaining the transport system
Vernonia
on Burma road is so pressing that
2nd and 4th
the government is trying to round
up enough garage men to meet the
Friday Night*
situation. There are a few Amer
8 o'clock
icans now at shops along the high
way but they are only a drop in Arthur Kirk, W. P.
the bucket compared with the num Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y.
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ber required.
Lodges
I.O.O.F.
Washington, D. C., October 1—
Department of agriculture has start
ed out its extension agents and the
local farm committees to ask every
farmer to plant all his acres and
make the 1942 crop the greatest of
all time. There is one exception:
wheat growers of Oregon and Wash
ington will be requested to curtail
as there is more wheat than the
domestic market can consume and
the foreign market is gone.
iClaude Wickard, sedretary of
agriculture, says the United States
must ship to Britain one billion
dollars worth of food in the next
five months or the people there
will starve. Of course, this food
must be sent before the 1942 crop.
Without challenging the statement
of the secretary, but simply for the
record, British Minister for Food
Woolten recently announced that
Britain had ample supplies of food
for the winter and more wheat than
required. There it is; Woolten says
the British are getting along nicely,
while Wickard says the United
States must send convoys of food
at once.
Farmer« Urged to Produce
Reverting to the 1942 crop. The
vast machinery of the department
of agriculture is urging farmers to
greater production. The soil con
servation program is thrown out
the window, or suspended, and this
should put an end to the federal
checks which have been such a ben
efit to many farmers. The depart
ment plans, by this enormous yield,
to build up a vast surplus of food
beyond domestic requirements and
have this available when peace
comes. Food, according to Secretary
Wickard. will play an important
role at the peace table and im
mediately upon the call for peace
the accumulated surplus will be
shipped to Europe to feed hungry
people of the conquered countries
until they can grow their own
supplies.
If a farmer doesn't make money
next year it will not be the fault
of the department of agriculture.
Good prices are assured, asserts the
DEFENSE METALS COURSE
department, although the cost of
STARTING NEXT MONDAY—
production will be higher. The gov
The National
Defense metals ernment, with its lend-lease money,
training course sponsored locally wiH be the principal customer «or
by the Rainier high school, is sche everything from prunes to potatoes.
Rainier
As surpluses pile up they will be
held for the peace period. To rush
or already processed is intended to
to Europe with food ready to cook
convince the conquered people that
Uncle Sam is their friend.
by'lTAMeS P reston
than a few cursory Congressional
glances. But the main reason is
this: when a union gets busy »nd
proposes a constructive plan for
getting racketeers out of the union
business, it's news.
Agreement Said Satisfactory
Hop marketing agreement by
which hopmen of the three Pacific
coast states do business with brew
ers is about to expire. The agree
ment is said to have worked so
satisfactorily with the hopmen that
they are asking for its renewal.
Companion bills, one in senate and
the other in house, have been pre
pared and will be introduced. The
west coast produces practically all
of the hops raised in the United
States.
Estimate of the nut crop of the
northwest is placed at 4,500 tons
of filberts and 5,500 tons of wal
nuts this year by the department
of agriculture. The department also
says there is a brisk demand for
pickers to harvest the nuts. Owing
to war conditions, the tonnage will
be consumed in this country.
OPM has notified a timber con
tractor in the northwest that he
must produce heavily of spruce for
airplanes in December, January and
February, the worst months in the
year for logging. The operator is
now seeking lend-lease funds, as the
spruce is to be used by the British,
to cut the logs before the bad
weather starts. No furtds are yet
available, and the operator is be
coming anxious.
Business-Professional
Directory
For Your Beauty Need*
ELIZABETH’S
BEAUTY SALON
Phone 431
Elizabeth Horn
Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist
Marshall A. Rockwell
M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office Phone 72;
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
Residence 73
Vernonia, Oregon
and Fourth Wednesday?
Each Month
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Nehalem Valley
Motor Freight
Order of Eastern Star
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
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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. meet» at
Masonic
Temple,
Stat
ed Communication First
Thursday of each month.
Special
called
meetings
on all other Thursday nights, 7:30
p. m. Visitors moat cordially wel-
come.
Special meetings
Friday nights.
C. L. Brock, W. M.
Glenn F. Hawkins. Sec.
Frank
Proprietor
CASON’S TRANSFER
SEE US
For Your Old-Growth
16-INCH FIR WOOD
AND CEDAR SHINGLES
Roland D. Eby, M. D.
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VERNONIA
POST 119
AMERICAN
LEGION
Meet* First Wed.
and Third Mon.
of Each Month.
AUXILIARY
First and Third Monday*
Hartwick,
Town
and SURGEON
Office
891
NEAL W. BUSH
Attorney at Law
Joy
1-41
Theatre Bldg., Phone 663
In Vernonia Mondays and
T uesdays