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4 Thursday, Oct. 9, 1941, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon Comments Week THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE REDUCTION OF CITY TAXES POSSIBLE The reduction of the taxes of city property owners should be forthcoming within a short time if a favorable vote is given the proposed amendment to the city charter which is released for publication this week. That reduction has been contemplated for some time by city officials due to the accumulation of money in the water department fund. With the accumulation and with money that will be taken in, in the future, funds will be sufficient to meet the expenses of administering the city’s business without the need of a tax or with only a small tax. That news should be of considerable interest to the people who will cast their ballot October 24th on adoption of the amend ment. ONE REASON FOR A SHORTAGE The government declares federal requirements must be filled before civilian needs. Figures from OPM show some of the purchases since the start of the defense program on paper products as follows: 2,000,000 rolls toilet tissue for each army camp. 50,000,000 corrugated cases to ship canned goods to England 80,000,000 grocery bags 1,000,000 pounds of water-proof paper to cover equipment sent to Iceland 1,000,000 envelopes for lease-lend work 1 carload of blueprint paper used in the construction of each battleship 14,000 pounds of asbestos paper for each cruiser of which 64 are now being built 100,000,000 pounds of paper for soldiers handbooks 30,000,000 albums for defense stamps 50,000,000 paper file holders The most critical thing facing paper mills today is the matter of chemicals. An important chemical used in the manu facture df paper is chlorine. The curb on the use of chlorine means that writing paper, napkins and other paper items will have a yellowish appearance. It is likely that most people will not object strongly to the unusual color of the paper if they are able to get some of it for use. The case with paper is similar to that of many other products of daily consumption. * MORE THAN 357,000 POUNDS OF IME BEES ARE SOLO By MAIL By AH OHIO COMRANy—4.500 BBS TO THE AooHP Í6 7tws of fit- coMomoneo M A MINUTI VUU Bl PPOTIDSD FOR IMPioyeet in a Ntw AIRPLANf FACTbgy IN CALIFOBN'* r PREfZiW WERE 0RI6WAUŸ W5I6NEP 8/ M0NX5 or THE EABiy CHRISTIAN ERA, WHO MA0E 1Ht "LITTLE CAKE'S -TO RESEMBLE FO l PEPARMS N PRAÿER.• T*ey 6HIN to OUlMtNM tfVMiOS ft* -rutK rrtMCDi PERHAPS A POULTRY-PRODUCING AREA Mention was made a few weeks ago of the development of a small industry here—poultry. The start that has been made in that direction by one man is a move that, if made by a num ber of people, would mean a thriving industry for this commun ity. The start is small, it is true, but it is an indication of what can be done with proper initiative. The raising of chickens as a means of livelihood is only one of several farm enterprises that could and is being undertaken on a small scale to provide in Washington, D. C., October 8— come for those who are not employed as lumbermen. When congress debates the price COUNTY NEWS- St. Helens COURT WILL PONDER FUTURE OF BURNED-OVER LANDS— The question of who shall own and administer the thousands of acres of logged-over or burned- off land now held by the county was brought to a head last week by a request from the state foresit- er’s office that the county give a deed to the staite for approximately one-third of 23 sections in the Oak Ranch section, Judge Ray Tarbell said. Decision on this matter— which would probably set a long- range policy—will be made ait the October 10 meeting of the court. Briefly, here is the issue at stake: A considerable portion of Colum bia’s marginal lands is made up of burned-over or logged-off acres, and of this portion the county owns a heavy percentage because of fore closure. The state is seeking to take over part of these lands, plant them to young trees and then administer these forests. According to the pre sent state law, the county would receive 75 per cent of the returns from these acres while the state would get the other 25 per cent. COUNTY VALUE SHOWS FIRST RISE IN YEARS— For the first time in nearly a decade, Columbia county's assessed valuation, which has been steadily declining along with the vanishing forests, has shown an increase, a summary of the new assessment roil as released by County Assessor Fred Watkins disclosed last week. Total net taxable value, exclusive of utilities, is $11,160,340 for 1941 as compared with $10,266,435 last year, an increase of $893,905 This increase is registered despite a reduction of acres of timber land from 26,330 valued at $1,184,170 in 1940 to 23,193 acres valued at $974,680. WORK TO START ON SCAPPOOSE SECTOR ROAD— Johnson's crossing, the infamous 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 control legislation the bill proposing a ceiling on many commodities and excepting farm prices and labor will undoubtedly be enacted, but with modifications. Instead of one man, Leon Henderson, being in control there may be a board. It is recog nized that wages are an important item in costs of any article, from potatoes to automobiles, and the contention is made that unless wages have a ceiling the prices will soar. Instead of a ceiling on wages, how- efer, government officers suggest that wages can be maintained at a level' by voluntary agreement with unions. S-shaped curve two miles south of Scappoose which has claimed three lives in car crashes already this year, will be eliminated about Nov ember 1 when paving and other work will be completed on a new section of road from Scappoose south to the Multnomah county line. H. J. Montague, foreman for Roy L. Houck, the Salem contractor who bolds the contract for the job, said last week that paving equipment and a crusher crew would move in Price Rise Seen next week and that work should be Farmers will be hurt. That is ex completed within three weeks. pected. In the first two years of PETERSON NAMED TO the first world war farm products COUNTY SCHOOL POSITION— went up 12.6 per cent,, according Otto H. H. Peterson, principal of to the office of emergency manage the Scappoose grade school since ment, and already they have gone 1929 and a teacher in Columbia up 43.1 per cent. These are whole county since 1926, has been chosen sale prices, not what the farmer as county school' superintendent to receives nor what, yet, the consum replace W. B. Schnebly, who has er will play. The full force of the resigned. Judge Ray Tarbell said increase will strike the consumer last week. The county court made within a few months. The retailer the selection at its meeting Thurs has had to pay the increase ana he day and the appointment will hold can not sell at the old price without for the entire length of Mr. Schneb- going broke. Early next year prices ly’s term of office which has three will be sky high unless the price years and three months yet to run. control legislation is passed. Department of justice, propagan da department, is making a great fuss over the speeches which appear ed in Congressional Record by isola MINT CROP NEEDS tionists and which were in envel MORE DRY WEATHER— A week of good weather and the opes •bearing their free postage Clatskanie community’s harvest of frank. Among others were the franked envelopes of Rep. John mint would be about completed. Something like 3000 acres are Coffee of Washington. Rep. Hamil grown on the local diked lands and ton Fish of New York, Senator prospects were for a bumper crop. Gerald Nye of North Dakota. There The rain of late August and Sept is an intimation that postat inspec ember, however, cut the yield about tors will investigate this use of the half, according to the growers who franking privilege. state that it takes the sun to bring Argu ment Arising the oil from the leaves. The con To tell the truth, what Coffee, tinued rains also caused some mint to rot in the field. Fish, Nye anl others are doing is the same thing that Senator Norris, RESERVES SET ASIDE Senator Bone, Representative Leavy, In the first six months of this Representative Rankin, Representa year reserves set aside for federal tive Pierce have done in Washing income taxes by a group of 275 ton and Oregon when their articles industrial companies, represented, and franked envelopes were used in in the aggregate, 51.6 per cent of fights against Washington Water their earnings. Power Co. of Spokane, the proposed PUD in Portland, Baker, Eugene— all to bring about government own ership of power. Administration was silent on these canned speeches and free mailing privileges, and it now is regarding various agencies poss essing a postal frank. Assertion is made that isolationists are running up the cost of the postal service. And while this is going on the grazing service of the department of interior (now transferred to Sale Lake City) is franking out of Wash ington, D. C., press releases to the papers of the northwest containing Clatskanie as a billion dollars a year—wnich even in these days of tossing billions around can come in pretty handy. The greatest tax bill in history is law and thia is all-American gloom week for the U. S. Taxpayer. In come taxes for most people will be tripled or quadrupled this year. Two and a quarter million persons will be paying income taxes for the first time in their, lives. Buy an electric light bulb, you pay a five per cent tax. Go to the movies, and it’s ten per cent. Play bridge and it’s 13 cents on a pack of cards, or play pool and it’s part of the annual $10 tax on pool tables. You car. breathe without taxes hitting you directly or indirectly, but that’s about ali. Eat your breakfast, drive your car to work, make a telephone call, there’s no escaping the new taxes. And then once you’ve digest ed this tax bill, and decided that security and national defense are worth paying for, there’s still some thing else to take: most experts say this is a mere nothing as compared to the taxes to come next year and the year after that. Believe it or not, there's a mild sort of silver- lining even to this gloom. It goes by the name of Title VI, Section 601 of the new tax bill. Credit for this strange-named silver lining goes to Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia who pushed through an amendment^ to the re five copies of a single article which cord-smashing bill that calls for appointment of the joint committee would cost a taxpayer six cents to to recommend cuts in non-defense send through the mails, and neither spending. Secretary Ickes nor the postal de This committee to investigate partment utters a peep about stuff “non-essential Federal expenditures” ing the mails with this dope. will consist of three members each from the House Ways and Means Blowup Expected and Appropriations Committees, A blowup can be expected over three each from the Senate Finance the contract signed by Jesse H. and appropriations Committees, the Jones, RFC administrator, with the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the Bureau of the Bud Aluminum Company of America, get. The Committee is authorized vzhich has been declared “outrage to conduct an investigation and ous.” The contract provides that recommend as soon as possible elim the plants can be taken over by inations or reductions of non-essen; Alcoa after the war, although they tial government spending. are being built with government High hopes are held for this Com money. The original intention was to pay Alcoa a managerial fee. The mittee. It marks the first time in Alcoa contract and the actions of some twenty-two years that Con the company in selecting sites is gress has approved something like declared responsible for the delay Congressional budgetry control'. And in building aluminum plants in Ore many believe it may save us as much gon and Washington. It is now fou. months since the government-owned plants were recommended by OPM Business-Professional and nothing has been done in the Directory way of construction. There are con gressmen who are becoming curious. For Your Beauty Need* Estimated number of employes in August in non-agricultural establish ELIZABETH’S ments in Oregon and Washington BEAUTY SALON amounted to 783,000. Of this num ber 499,000 were employed in Wash Phone 431 ington and 284,000 in Oregon. From July to August 9,000 new workers Elizabeth Horn were on the job in Washington and Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist 8.000 were added to Oregon pay rolls. Compared with August, 1940, the number employed in Washing Marshall A. Rockwell ton increased 65,000 and in Oregon M. D. 34,000. As the defense program Physician and Surgeon speeds up these states will' have an Office Phone 72; Residence 73 all-time high of employment in 1942. The figures give an idea of the number of workers to come under the social security payroll taxes. Dr. U. J. Bittner Rumor* Circulate Defense Bond VUIZ Q. Has the Government set a quota to be raised through the sales of Defense Savings Bonds? A. No; there is no quota and no time limit. The Defense Savings Frogram is to be a continuing ef fort, and both Defense Bonds and Stamps should be purchased steadily and regularly. Q. Why were the Nation’s retail stores asked to sell Defense Savings Stamps? A. American retailers were not asked—they volunteered through their national organizations to un dertake the sate of Defense Savings Stamps on a vast scale. Note.—To buy Defense Bonds and Stamps, go to the nearest post office, bank, or savings and loan association: or write to the Treasur er of the United States, Washington. D. C. Also Stamps now are on sale at most retail stores. Joy Theatre Bldg. It has been estimated that some 75 per cent of more than 100,000 plants making non-defense goods cou.d be kept going by small allot ments of materials, which if not made available would mean—espec ially in the cases of the small manu facturer—death to many of the plants and local ghost towns or depression areas. Under the present priorities set-up non-defense indus tries unequipped to do defense work are out in the cold, no matter how little they need of aluminum, rub ber, or some other strategic mater ial. So the ’.talking-of-revising” stage has been reached on the prior ities setup, with a view to alloca ting small amounts of materials to plants where that is necessary to keep firms alive, towns from dry ing up, and labor employed. To assist the government in sav ing as many jobs and as many firms as possible, the National Association of Manufacturers, through member state and local associations affiliated with the National Industrial Coun cil, has launched a survey of “Prior ities Unemployment.” Industries all over the country will be asked: “Do you anticipate that within the next 90 days you will be forced to decrease produc tion, either because of priorities and the raw material allocation system, or the inability to get defense con tracts or sub-contracts?” If the manufacturer answers in the affir mative, he is asked to tell how many workers have been laid off. the reduction in wages as the re sult, and what success he has had in his attempt to gain defense work. Such detailed information will us invaluable to the Washington auth orities in directing material's flow, in trying to avert shutdowns, and in transferring workers where dis locations are an inevitable concom itant of defense production. Lodges Vernonia Lodge No. 246 I.O.O.F. Meets Every Tuesday 8 P. M. Alton Roberson, N. G. Paul Gordon, Secretary Vernonia F. O. E l.O.O.F. Hall Vernonia 2nd and 4th Friday Night* 8 o'clock Arthur Kirk, W. P. Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y. 1 Expert Tonsorial Work Vernonia, Oregon Lodge No. 116 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:—I. O. O. F. Hall, Second and Fourth Mondays Each Month. Pythian Sister* Vernonia Temple No. 61 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall Second Nehalem Valley Motor Freight 7-41 Knights of Pythias Phone 662 BEN’S BARBER SHOP 4-41 — (Fraternal Order of Eagles) Harding > Dentist Rumors have been circulating for months that the federal government is contemplating the establishing of a pulp mill somewhere in Oregon or Washington to manufacture an ingredient in smokeless powder, and probably placing it in the “fog belt.” This report has reached the territ ory affected, but no amount of in quiry in the national capital has been able to uncover any support ing evidence. All the present two score pulp and paper mills in the northwest are reported 'o 'be work ing on a 24-hour basis, so great is the demand for their material. Right up near the top of the cur rent Washington worries is the growing danger that .thousands of manufacturers will not survive these days of stringent defense material lationing, and that hundreds of thousands of workers will be thrown out of work. and Fourth Wednesdays Each Month 2-41 Order of Eastern Star CASON’S TRANSFER Nehalem Chapter 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 1-42 LOCAL end LONG-DISTANCE HAULING A. F. & A. M. Frank Hartwick, Proprietor Portland - Timber - Vernonia Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach Gearhart - Seaside Vernonia Telephone 1042 SEE US For Your Old-Growth 16-INCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES Roland D. Eby, M. D. PHYSICIAN end SURGEON Town Office 891 NEAL W. BUS« Attorney at Law Joy Theatre Bldg.. Phone 663 In Vernonia Mondays and Tuesdays Vernonia Lodge No. 184 A. F. & A. M. meets at Masonic Temple, Stat- ed Communication First Thursday of each month. Special called meetings on all other Thursday nights, 7:30 p. m. Visitors most cordially wel- tome. Special meeting* Friday night*. C. ‘ L. Brock, W. M. Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec. 1-42 VERNONIA POST 11» AMERICAN LEGION Meets First Wed. and Third Mon. of Each Month. AUXILIARY First and Third Mondays 1-41