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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1942)
2 Thursday, Feb. 12, 1942, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon Service, and private forest land owners are pooling their resources in an all-out effort to meet uh is hazard. 1100 Tons of “That vast hazard is the real dan Phosphate Due ger that the war has brought to Y€UK TOWN’S TOPICS Family Moves— Grandma Sitta Here— Mr. and Mrs. Morris Mowe are Mrs. Alma Sitta, who has been moving to Lester Mowe’s camp above living in Portland with her grand- Keasey, after spending two weeks uaughter since the death of her visiting Mrs. A. V. Mowe. brother last fall, was here last Exam* Announced— week, visiting friends. The United States Civil Service Commission announces the follow- Ralph Condit Leaves— Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Condit left ing competitive examination, extend- ing the closing date of receipt of recently for Seattle where Mr. Con application to March 2, 1942: dit has employment in the Boeing Trainee Repairman, Signal Corps Aircraft plant. Fquipment (male or female) *1440 a year. Attend Mobilization Meet---- Mr. and Mrs. Judd Greenman. Remember the Boy Scout waste Mrs. J. W. Nichols and Mrs. A. J. paper drive. Save your paper. 2tf Hughes were in Portland Monday. Mrs. Greenman and Mrs. Hughes Brown* Close Shop---- Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brown moved attended the state-wide meet con- cerning the registration of women the end of last week from the ir the mobilization effort which will building in which they had their flower shop and home; they are begin February 16. living on Cougar street, Brown is Belated Card Received— employed at the Oregon-American Mrs. M. B. Willard received Fri camp, Camp McGregor. day, February 6, a Christmas card from her sister, Mrs. Clyde Phil- Teacher 111— Mason McCoy, high school coach, lips, who has been living on Hilo island of the Hawaiian group for was ill with a cold and unable to a number of years. The card was attend school Wednesday. mailed on December 10. Home from Hospital---- Miss Zonweiss Douglass returned Visiting Mother Here---- Mrs. Jake Wilhelm, and small Sunday from the St. Vincent’s hos son, arrived two weeks ago from pital in Portland where she had her home in Spokane to visit her been under treatment for primrose mother, Mrs. Tillman Hardy. Mrs. poisoning which she contracted from Wilhelm is Ithe former Martha a primrose plant in the city library. Miss Douglass expects to return to Middlebrook. her librarian duties this coming Dance, Legion Hall, Saturday, Feb week. Triple superphosphate in the Douglas fir forests. If the man- caused fire can be well controlled, amount of 1100 tons will be avail able to Columbia county farmers we will not lack for timber.” m February and March according to George A. Nelson, county agent. Two carloads are expected to ar rive within the next few days. The farmers are urged to place their orders at the AAA office as soon as possible. Farmers taking Cooperative use of new and the phosphate direct off the car existing farm machinery and equip when it arrives will get a cheaper ment as stressed by Secretary Wick- price in that storage charges will ard, offers many possibilities for have to 'be paid per ton if it is conserving steel and labor vitas 1» necessary to store the surplus and arms production without curtailing redistribute it at a later date. The phosphate will be given as a production of Food for Freedom, W. C. Johnson, chairman of the grant of aid to AAA signers with ■Columbia County War Board, said the only cost a small handling charge per sack. The initial cost this week. will be deducted from the farmers Financing for all farm operators AAA payment next fall. Phosphate without credit facilities to provide purchased as a grant of aid must for joint use and ownership of new be applied on soil-building crops. equipment or participate in estab lished machinery services, can be SMALL WEIGHT secured through the County Farm The world’s total stock of radium, Security Administration office in valued at $18,000,000 weighs about the Federal Building, Astoria, Ore two pounds. gon. Loans bear only three per cetav interest and are payable over the life of the facility, usually five or ten years, explained Mr. Johns,.. Cooperative Use Has Possibilities ruary 14, Glen Davis orchestra 7tl — At Fort Belvoir,Virginia— £orporal George Laird is at pres ent attending Officers’ Training School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He has been stationed at Fort Leon ard Wood, Missouri, until the first of February. Smiths Move— Mr. and Mrs. George Smith mov- ed Tuesday to the home of Mrs. Smith’s mother, Mrs. A. V. Mowe who left for Portland Wednesday to be with her husband who is ill with pneumonia. Smith was recently released from the hospital following his fail from a monorail at the O. A. mill. He will be in a cast for several more weeks. Dance, l.egion Hall, Saturday, Feb ruary 14, Glen Davis orchestra 7tl — Association Tells Forest Facts Demand* Get Your Onion Sets Early—Start Your Victory Garden Now! Onion Sets ........ lb. 15c Peas, Amer. Wonder, Gradus, Tall Tele phone, Dwarf Tele phone, Blue Bantam Pound 25c Sweet Peas .... oz 10c Lawn Grass, 15c and 35c package LUX morcrop New Growth Started “Latest Forest Survey statistics on 12 Western Washington counties show that, during the decade 1930- 1940, new growth started on 574,- 000 acres of cutover lands, while but 479,000 acres of sawtimber were logged in the same period. These facts record industry progress in growing trees and protecting new timber crops from fire. In 1941 a cooperative forest nursery was in stalled by the association to supply 5 million seedlings a year for plant ing on burned lands. Protection against the forest fire was expand ed through intensive campaigns in Oregon and Washington. “What do such facts mean? Steady progress toward an unfailing supply of forest products from the Douglas fir region, in war and in peace. Full Line of Garden Tools For Hardware- See Hoffman HOFFMAN HDW. CO. 1XHZHXHXHXHZF Vernonia Laundry & Cleaners Phone 711 Vernonia The Forest Grove NATIONAL BANK setting for the gem of your dinner. As a suggestion serve one of California's fine appe tizer wines such as sherry, vermouth, madeira, marsala; or the piquant flavor of Oregon's apple wine. • WINE COUNCIL OF OREGON Farm Labor Survey Due in County Invites You to Bank by Mail if Inconvenient to Come in Person PESISI».«'« «VENUE HOC. rOITlSNO OIECOH __ J. A. Thornburg, President | “THE ROLL OF HONOR BANK” Setting in motion machinery to counteract the threatened labor shortage faced by Oregon farmers during this coming year, the Ore gon State Grange has announced that during the week of February 15, it will conduct a series of con ferences throughout tile state to survey anticipated farm labor needs, and to present a constructive program for meeting those require- ments. The meeting scheduled for Col umbia county will be held Tuesday, February 17, at the Beaver Homes Grange at 2 p. m. Working in close harmony with the Grange will be 1 the U. S. em- ployment service which will have representatives at each of the meet ings to outline plans already under way to insure that the necessary la'bor to harvest crops will be avail able when and where needed. These representatives will also confer with growers present at the meeting to ascertain the types and numbers of agricultural workers which will be required at various times through out the year. and outstanding leader of the CAR CONSERVATION PLAN' Designed to keep America’s cars serving State Grange Master Ray W. Gill, has requested that each Po mona a <1 Subordinate Grange Mas ter appoint a committee of five from their respective Granges and also to invite several leading farm ers in the community who do not belong to the Grange, to attend. Fire First Concern 5 pounds keener flavors of the appe tizer wines provide the perfect in Spotlight “War demands,” the association Visitors at the Olin Robbins home said, “are now in the spotlight as Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lindberg and family and Mr. and the bogey which is consuming our accessible timber and creating a Mrs. George Robbins. post-war shortage. Here from Portland— “This fear—at least in the Pac- Lester Mowe and Miss Laurel ific Northwest—is not borne out by Brown of Portland spent Tuesday the facts. In the Douglas fir region visiting Mrs. A. V. Mowe. Lester, national defense took at the most who is employed as first aid man in 1941, 3 billion feet from the for the Oregon Ambulance company 600 billion feet of timber standing is off work for a short while due in the region, or one-half of one to an injury. per cent. The war may take twice as much in 1942; but sharp restric Remember the Boy Scout waste tions on civilian building will pro- paper drive. Save your paper. 2tf bably keep the total cut to the 1941 level or less. Trees are now iXHXHXHXHXHXh growing, according to the U. S. For- est Survey, on 11 million Douglas fir acres which have previously been logged or burned. The Vernonia Extension Unit will meet at the I. O. O. F. hall Friday, February 13th at 10 o’clock, it was announced this week. Those who attend are urged to bring a cup, saucer, dish, spoon and paper sack lunch. Of course not! It would be a waste of time and effort, and hot, messy job at that. Your wife’s time is valuable too, and it isn’t fair to ex pect her to drudge a- way at a man-sized job Lke ironing. tid-bits or hors d’oeuvres, the All Columbia county farmers in terested in setting up cooperative machinery services or participating in existing facilities are asked to contact the County FSA Supervisor, County Agent, or member of the War Board. Robbins Have Visitors— Extension Unit to Meet Oh, Say, can you see yourself ironing your own shirts? ♦ SMART HOSTESS Cooperation between neighbors can contribute further to the war effort through community and neighborhood efforts in farm mach inery repair centers, rounding up scrap iron, and group purchase of materials and parts for machinery servicing and repairs, Mr. Johnson said. While West Coast lumber forced its production in 1941 to 15 per cent above normal capacity, in re sponse to urgent requests irom Donald Nelson and Leon Hender son, the total cut for defuse was only one-half of one per cent of the timber in the Douglas fir reg ion, the West Coast Lumbermen’s association stated this week. This, the Association said, is the lumber industry’s answer to wide spread fear that war needs are stripping America of sawtimber. Oregon farms can probably con tribute upwards of 30,000 tons of scrap iron in the current drive to collect scrap iron and steel through out the nation, believes Clyde Walk er, associate professor of agricul tural engineering at Oregon State college. He estimates that close to a thousand pounds of scrap per farm will be collected if all use less material of that sort is gather ed up and sold. For the nation as a whole the USDA war board has estimated that 1 *4 million tons of farm st^rap could be collected, which would be the equivalent of the amount of steel required to manufacture one million 37-mm. anti-aircraft guns. TWINES 100 Per Cent Use Needed “If all present farm machinery was given its widest possible use through exchange of machinery and labor between neighbors, little new equipment would be required,’’ Mr. Johnson said. “Every piece of farm machinery must be 100 per cent employed to meet the war emer gency.” 30,000 Tons Scrap On Oregon Farms for the duration. ... To prolong the life of your car—to avoid many major repair bills —to protect your pocketbook—to preserve CONSERVE GAS r Yes, everywhere ... in the army, navy and civ ilian ranks, you’ll find thousands who know and en joy the beverages we serve. The opportunity awaits you, too, to enjoy a famous beverage at Dessy’s Tavern L. 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