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4 Thursday, Oct. 23, 3941, Vemonîa Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon Comments Week THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE NAVY DAY, OCTOBER 27 Monday, October 27th is the date set aside this year for the observance of Navy Day. The event, this year, takes on even greater importance than has been true in former years due to the defense program which is producing a two-ocean navy for this nation. The work of producing the ships for that navy is far ahead of schedule—two years ahead. With the in crease in number of ships comes the pressing need of men to operate those ships, hence the importance of the event which will be the kick-off of a navy recruiting campaign in this state. In connection with the observance, Secretary of the Navy Knox has been informed by Joseph K. Carson, Jr., state com mander of the American Legion, that the Legion of this state will raise a company of 140 men for induction into the Navy on that day. The induction ceremony is to take place in Portland at the civic auditorium and will be a part of a mass meeting and patriotic celebration dedicated to the Navy. Navy Day annually takes place on the birthday of former President Theodore Roosevelt, who was instrumental in first adopting a sound basic naval policy for this country. In addition to paying a deserved tribute to the sea heroes of the nation and recalling the splendid part the Navy has played in making and keeping us a dominant world power, the Navy Day ob servance has proved a valuable means of fostering a better understanding of the Navy and its work. Such information, in a country where government is by public opinion, ¡p essential to the formation of correct judge ments affecting naval policy and in this work of dispensing in formation to the people of the United States, Navy Day has played a considerable part since its inauguration in 1922. M o PER t J AIRPLANE ENGINES ¿AST !2 TIMES AS LONG ANP TRAVEL 32 TIMES AS FAI? IN S1N6LE FLI6NTS Ai LJORLP MR MOVEIS iVurffe wrNW BLOW SO HARP on nte Muuer KANSUIA. COUHN TAX REVFNÜE5 CÇRlVeP FROM THE SALE ANP OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES REACHEPAN ALL- TIME HIGH IN 1940—-------- a5z 802 748 OOO TO FEDERAL. STATE ANP LOCAL TREASURIES IHt PlffERWrf BWÍW TIPE AMOUNTS N 1HE MIÑA« HERE’S ONE WAY TO DO IT A recent news item from Scotts Mills tells of plans that are being made at that place for Hallowe’en pranksters. The same idea could be used to advantage in manysother places. At Scotts Mills a social evening is planned on October 31st to which children of the community are invited to enjoy enter tainment and refreshment providing they do not undertake a trick. It is likely that many people would deeply appreciate such a program in other communities if it would prevent the “trick or treat” game that is so common now. COUNTY NEWS- St. Hele ns JUDGE SEES NO NEED FOR RISE IN '42 BUDGET— In the face of rising federal levies to pay at least part of the national defense bill, county taxpayers may derive some consolation from the prediction by Judge Ray Tarbell that the county’s budget will prob ably not be any higher next year than in 1941 and may even drop a notch. October 27 has been set as the date when the six-man budget com mittee will meet to figure out the county’s new cost sheet. Because of a change in the fiscal year dates by the legislature at its recent ses sion the budget will cover only sev en months, from December 1, 1941, to June 30, 1942, another budget committee meeting will be necessary during the early months of 1942 to draw up a cost sheet for the fiscal year starting June 30, 1942 and running until June 30, 1943. The 1941 general fund budget totaled $189,635.7 , which was $5,- 525.0 lower than the 1940 allot ment of $195,160.82, and indica tions are that the new budget will not require any more taxes than were levied this year. UPA QUOTA 70 MEN, 45 WORKING NOW— unpaid bills of $2,197.87 over and above the $7,368.01 it paid out for various expenses, an audit of the four-day show prepared for V. H. Merrifield, treasurer of the county fair board, disclosed last week. The county court, which has assumed fair deficits in previous years, will likewise take over this one, it is expected. The $2,197.87 deficit this year is considerably under the approxi mately $3,500 which the annual show lost in 1940 when much new construction was launched. Com parison with years prior to 1940 is difficult since complete audits do not exist for these years, Mr. Mer rifield said. Total receipts from the 1941 fair were $5,393.25, with income at the gate accounting for $2,007.41 of this and grandstand admissions for $2,- 245.30. Browning brothers, carni val paid $489.94 while entrance fees were $335.50. Receipts other than those direct from the fair itself in cluded $587.93 from the dog races, $576.16 as a fair appropriation from the state and another $232.50 from the state racing commission. Clatskanie RED CROSS IS RE-ORGANIZED— Red Cross work is being started again in Clatskanie this fall. An or ganization is formed with local members of the various organiza tions being represented and work is being done under the county unit. Definite work plans have not been announced as yet. Work meet ings will be held on regular days at some convenient and suitably equip ped place. Work will also be done at homes. An office will be estab lished along with the work room with volunteers in charge at certain hours where people may gu to secure supplies. Washington, D. C., October 22— Corps of army engineers who have been making a study of various projects in Oregon have completed their reports on Alkali canyon near Arlington, and on Bully creek but their recommendations cannot be made public until the reports are printed. They are now in the gov ernment printing office. Arlington has had a couple of bad floods, and Bully creek destroyed life and property back about 1923. The loi.g delayed report on Grande Ronde is due December 1. The Um atilla (Ryan dam) can be expected about next June. A revised report on the John Day will not be filed until 1943. Birch creek has a fav orable report but will require $34,- 000, and no money is available. Crooked river report has also bean filed. OPM Not Interested It appears impossible to interest OPM in the mining possibilities of Oregon. Despite the increasing shortages of metals and the Metals Reserve corporation (subsidiary of RFC) importing quantities at high prices, there is no money to ex plore and develop the mineral re sources of Oregon, although it is known that most of the strategical and critical metals are buried in the soils of that state. There are almost unlimited bodies of zinc in various parts of the state, particularly west of the Cas cades. Zinc is vital' to national de fense. However, RFC which fur nishes the money, has none for a smelter to reduce this Oregon ore despite the fact it is advancing $3,843,000 for 187,106 tons order ed in addition to tonnage already brought in and in stockpile. With chrome available in Coos and Curry counties and in the John Day country, the government has ordered 298,805 tons from abroad and has already imported 110.000 tons, all at a cost of $12,000.000. Government is also importing quicksilver when Oregon has some of the richest mercury mines «nd prospects in the United States. Those quicksilver deposits aie in Willamette valley, in central Ore gon, in southeastern Oregon and elsewhere. At the moment the gov ernment has contracts amounting to $140.110,000 'or alien copper, while Baker county has miles of un developed but valuable copper prop erties. Within a few days OPM will crack down on civilian use of copper in water faucets, lipstick holders, the bronze casket and a myriad other articles. Greater employment, a large per centage of which can be traced to rational defense-inspired work, has reduced the numbe: of certified WPA workers in Columbia county to such a degree that only 45 men are employed at present although the county quota is 70. These 45 workers are busy on three projects, ail of them in the St. Helens area. The Salmon creek dam being built for the city water hoard is employing about 23 men. the Fifth and West streets project here in St. Helens has a crew of six and about 16 men are employed on the pool project at the high school. In addition to these, a numoer of Columbia county men have been certified for employment in Clatsop BRIDGE GROUP APPEARS county where seven large projects, BEFORE COMMISSION— all of them connected with national A delegation from Rainier, spon defense, are under way. sored by Rainier commercial club. Thursday morning, attended a hear ANNUAL COUNTY FAIR ing held by the state highway com ENDS UP IN RED— The 1941 edition of the Columbia mission for presentation of argu ments for a free Longview bridge. county fair piled up a deficit in The hearing is the result of a re cent meeting of the Lower Columbia Highway Defense association, at The Vernonia Eagle which time it was decided that it would be futile for Columbia county MARVIN* KAMHOLZ Editor and Publisher ’’one to continue promotional ef fort without the support of Long Entered as second class mail view and Kelso and preferably also Concern Expressed matter, August 4, 1922, at the post Concern is expressed by orehard- office in Vernonia. Oregon, under of Portland. ists, stockmen and others over the the act of March 3. 1879. PRODUCTION CHANGES MADE Argentina treaty, signed by the One large automobile company United States last week. From all Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore has made production changes in its sections of the state senators and new models that will resuit in sav represent aitiwes baw been asked ings of 80 per cent in nickel and fcr further particulars, as it is 10 per cent in aluminum over the feared the treaty wilt affect the amounts previously used. domestic market for winter pears. Rainier beef, turkeys, etc. In all trade treaties heretofore made by Secre tary of State Cordell Hull the northwest has been hurt in one or more commodities. (Canadian treaty injured the lumber industry severe ly). Attitude of Secretary Hull is that whenever this country encour ages trade relations with a foreign nation the United States must make some concessions and that produc ers of the affected commodity are benefited by betterment of the general welfare. To date no treaty has made concessions to any of the agricultural products of the Pacific northwest. At least one project for the Ore gon coast will be included in the rivers and harbors bill, to be re ported out in a few days. This is for deepening Yaquina bay and providing for a turning basin. In clusion of the item does not mean that work will begin immediately; there may be no start for several years, as the committee is building a backlog of public works to be undertaken when the duration is over. The United States geological sur vey is preparing a survey of the Coos Bay region to determine the extent of various ore deposits, such as antimony, chromite and man ganese. This does not necessarily mean that the government plans any development; it is part of the routine of USGS . . . Check is under way to determine the extent of myrtle trees in Oregon prepara tory to legislation to set aside a small area for their preservation s has been done with some of the Port Orford cedar. the government can control ship ments of materials abroad, prohibit ing sales to neutral countries when government information is such as to indicate the materials may ul timately end up in one of the Axis nations. Control of imports is another weapon in the economic warfare category. From Latin America aijd other foreign countries, the Gov ernment can insure our industries of supplies cf native materials and make certain these strategic mate rials are not sold to the Axis pow ers first. Fcr example, an agree ment recently negotiated with Mex ico and Brazil arranges for these countries to sell all their exportable surplus of certain war materials to this country exclusively.' The Economic Defense Board, in addition, is working out a system of priorities for the Latin Ameri can republics. This would not only keep trade flowing between the two Americas' but would aid in strengthening the defenses of the South American countries as well. And control of shipping allows this government to make effective defense use of what is rapidly - be coming the greatest merchant fleet in world history. Allocations of ships and new bottoms as they be come available will play a not un important part in obtaining defense cooperation from foreign nations. From all over the country, sup port is being received by Senator O’Daniel' of Texas for his proposed “right to work” amendment to the Constitution. Now that Congress is getting back to work this week, the chances are that this amendment will get more than cursory atten tion from the Senate Judiciary Com mittee. The amendment reads quite sim ply: "No person shall be denied employment because of membership or affiliation with or resignation from a labor union or because of refusal to join or affiliate with a labor union; nor shall any corpora tion or individual or association of any kind enter into any contract written or oral to exclude from em ployment members of a labor union oi persons who refuse to join a la bor union, or because of resignation from a labor union; nor shall any person against his will be compelled to pay dues to any labor organiza tion aas a pre-requisite to or con dition of employment.” Senator O'Daniel sees this amend ment— it would be the first Con Business-Professional Directory For Your Beauty Needs ELIZABETH’S BEAUTY SALON Phone 431 Book Talk . . . Bv EDNA ENGEN “Nan-fiction is the physical world, comprised c-f fact* and accomplish ed deeds. Not always kind, this physical world we live in, but al ways interesting. Fiction is the emotional world, but none the less true because it is imaginative rather than concrete. Fiction probe* the human mind and soul. Good fiction was, perhaps, the first textbook on psychology and the truly great poet the first psychologist.” —Isaac Sanford Thy following new non-fiction have been placed on the library shelves: Berlin Diary. William L. Shirer; Shnke Hands with the Dragon, Carl Gl’ck. Also the following new fiction; The Tin God of Twisted River, W. C. Tuttle: Wakefield’s Course. Mazo De la Roche; The Keys of the Kingdom, A. J. Cronin; Twin Rambrorns Zane Grev; Between Two Autumns, Percy Marks. a a a National Book Week—November 2nd to 8th. REFRIGERATION BETTERED Oregon and Washington fruit growers have been meeting a short age in refrigerator cars by improv ing the refrigeration so more fruit can be shipped in a single car. One method is to use dry ice, found particularly valuable in shipping cherries. Pear shippers, by precool ing the fruit, are able to load nearly half again as many pears in a car as is possible otherwise. Lodges Vernonia Lodge No. 246 .0.0.F Meets Every Tuesday 8 P. M. Alton Roberson, N. G. Paul Gordon, Secretary 4-41 — Vernonia F. O. E. (Fraternal Order of Eagles) Elizabeth Horn l.O.O.F. Hall Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist Vernonia Marshall A. Rockwell M. D. 2nd and 4th Friday Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 72; Residence 73 (Qaslungton stitutional amendment since the re peal of Prohibition if passed and laiified by the States—as particu larly necessary in these critical times, but as important in normal times as well. “It is absolutely fool ish,” he says, “to talk about main taining democracy in Ame ica if we do not maintain in America the right to work.” Democracy ends, as the Senator sees it, when citizens of a country are deprived of the right to work unless they pay tribute to some or ganization or agency. This is dicta- t r.-hip of organized minorities, who are under the control of none ex cent their unrestrained leaders. Dr. U. J. Bittner Dentist Joy Theatre Bldg. Phone 662 by J ame S P reston Preparations are quietly advanc ing in Washington for a broad econ Expert Tonsorial Work omic attack on the Axis powers. The Economic Defense Board— BEN’S BARBER SHOP which was created in June—will shortly begin to open its economic Vernonia, Oregon “blitz.” The weapons for this attack were forged when the President set up Nehalem Valley this Board of the Vice President and seven Cabinet members to in Motor Freight sure full use of the enormous econ- < mic power of this Government in Frank Hartwick, Proprietor the effort to he’p Great Britain in Portland - Timber - Vernonia her job of defeating the Axis. Top Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach officials of the Eoard will tell you Gearhart - Seaside Vernonia Telephone 1042 they see it as having two main ob jectives: first, to ernserve for the United States and its friends large stocks of vital materials; second, to CASON’S TRANSFER prevent their flow to unfriendly LOCAL and LONG-DISTANCE nations. HAULING This Economic De'ense Board has a collection of not-to-be-sneered-at SEE US weapons in its arsenal—weapons of For Your Old-Growth considerable striking power against 16-INCH FIR WOOD the Axis nations, already showing AND CEDAR SHINGLES signs of shortages f important ma terials. and of financial strain. Financial pressure is one of these Roland D, Eby, M. D. weapons. Washington hopes to crip ple the Axis wherever possible PHYSICIAN and SURGEON through financial manipulations, such as the step al-eady taken of Town Office 891 treezing bank accounts of unfriend ly powers, coupled with increased financial assistance to friendly or NEAL W. BUSH neutral nations, and other means Attorney at Law of using money to obtain coopera tion, materials or good will at the Joy Theatre Bldg.. Phone 663 In Vernonia Mondays and expense of the Axis. T uesdays Through the export licensing con trol, major economic weapon No. 2, Nights 8 o’clock Arthur Kirk, W. P. Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y. 7-41 Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 116 Vernonia, Oregon Harding Meetings:—I. O. 0. F. Hall, Second and Fourth Mondays Each Month. Pythian Sisters Vernonia Temple No. 61 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall Second and Fourth Wednesdays Each Month 2-41 Order of Eastern Star 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 A. F. & A. M. 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 Visitors most cordially wel- P m. come. Special meetings Friday nights. C. L. Brock, W. M. Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec. 1-42 VERNONIA POST 119 AMERICAN LEGION Meet* First Wed. and Third Mon. of Each Month. AUXILIARY First and Third Mondays 1-41
