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4 Thursday, March 5, 1942, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon_____________________________________ Comments t°hfe Week THE POCKETBOOK , o/ KNOWLEDGE by VERNONIA LOSES A GOOD OFFICER Many many people will hear with regret the announcement that State Patrolman R. W. Wheeler is to change his place of residence to Clatskanie from Vernonia which has been his home for the past several years. That change will come about due to an official order from state .police headquarters which has sanc tioned the move, although Wheeler will continue to patrol the same territory as he has in the past and will specialize in the same line of police work—the supervision of game laws in ad dition to regular police duties. As just mentioned, his duties and territory, the Upper Ne halem Valley, will be the same according to information received here although he will reside at Clatskanie instead of Vernonia. That change in residence seems hardly necessary when the same territory is to be supervised and, in fact, that change has the earmarks of being a political move of some sort, judging by op inions which have been expressed here. If politics is to blame, there are plenty of remarks to be made on the subject—primar ily that politics has no place in a police department and a police department has no business being influenced by politics. A considerable amount of concerted action was brought to bear at one time by many Vernonia citizens to obtain a resident state patrolman for this vicinity. That action finally bore fruit with the stationing here of a patrolman. Afterwards, similar ac tion by that group of citizens was necessary to keep that patrol man here due to the fact that there was some objection to such a man who enforced the law, but he did remain because a defin ite need for such authority was in evidence. Now, evidently, the powers that be have the belief that such a need has ceased to exist and have seen fit to make the change. Reason for the change is hard to ascertain, especially when that same man is to be active in the same territory but is to live outside of the area in which he will be active. C ontact Mimworfes. w NEW WALLPAPER CAN BE AAAPE TO LOOK! LIKE LEATHER, PlGSW. WAL a /UT. MPR81 Ç ANP THC LIRE HAS SEEN PEVELOPEP----- - IT ■ l6 LIGHT-FAST, 1 WATERPROOF ANP J WASHABLE “That will mean that this dis trict is then in position to establish its policy of lowering rates, improv ing the service, and gradually pay ing off the bonds from the income of the operations spread over a period of about 25 years. In taking the liberty of mentioning these things, we may be severely taken to task but the mention is being made neverthe less. Ip many, many parks of the nation we find big guns which have served their useful time and have been relegated to the parks to serve as ornaments. It would seem that now is hardly the time for such ornaments to serve merely as pieces of decor ation. Instead, they could be put to valuable use along with other collections of scrap in building new pieces of fighting equipment which would be of far greater value at a time like this. And, along with these ornamental guns, there is the Battle ship Oregon which, alone, would contribute many tons of valu RAINIER FRED HERMAN, able metal. NEW SENATOR Rainier Early Monday morning, February 16, a local lodge hall was robbed of approximately $30 in cash and a small number of other articles. Two boys were apprehended for the crime a short time later, and the proper procedure taken to bring them to justice before the county judge. That procedure is the filing «•f a complaint. After a complaint is filed the matter rests with those coun ty officials whose duty it is to see that charges in the complaint are heard before the court. Up to Tuesday of this week no word of any action on the matter was heard here. It seems that the delay is longer than necessary. Could the delay be due to lack of cooperation, perhaps? COUNTY NEWS- St. Helens COURT SEEKING LAND FOR SITE First steps in the Acquisition of the 80-odd acres which will be need ed for construction of the $150,000 airport by the civil aeronautics administration in the Sjeappoose d.strict were taken last Thursday by the county court. Judge Ray Tarbell indicated that condemnation proceedings were not improbable in tt e event that the court finds prices too high or discovers that obtaining clear titles to the necessary tracts w.ll take longer than the present emergency justifies. Although only about 80 acres will be needed to build the northwest- routheast runway which the CAA has designated for construction, rep resentatives of that federal govern ment agency who mot with the court last Tuesday indicated that it might be well to obtain options on approximately 150-175 addition al acres to provide room for expan sion of .the port if this proves ne cessary. Actual construction of the port— and officials here regard the build ing of the field as virtually a sure thing—wil probably not start until about the first of May. COUNTY PUPILS TO REGISTER Tuesday. March 3 has been set aside for Columbia county students from the seventh grade through high school to register to aid nat ional defense work, according to announcement last week from the The Vernonia Eagle MARVIN KAMHOLZ Editor and Publisher office of Otto H. H. Petersen, coun ty school superintendent. The registration, which is state wide, is intended to provide both •the state and federal employment agencies with an inventory of \the labor available from grade and high schools. Blanks to be used in the sign-up were received last week by Mr. Fetersen and contain spaces to write in the special courses such as shop, chemistry, drawing, etc., that the registrant may have had and include room to designate the rate of speed at which the student can take short hand. Questions are asked concerning 4-H club work in gardening, voca tional education under the Smith- Hughes act and other skills or ex periences. Each registrant will be asked to designate if he will be available if called for national de fense work or seasonal defense ag- r cultural work. In addition to a blank for the signataure of the reg istrant, the form requires the signed consent .of the parent or guardian i f the student before he will be called for work. Practically all students, except possibly those in the top grades in high school, wjll be assigned work in their own localities if they are needed, Mr. Petersen said. The county superintendent's of fice. working in conjunction with principals. superintendents and clerks of the various Columbia schools which are served by bus systems, is making a suruvey of the buses available in the county and the capacity of these vehicles. The buses may be used this summer as t.anspi’Ttation units for agricul tural workers, it was indicated. Clatskanie THOMPSON URGES VOTE mail TOR BONDS Entered as second class matter. August 4, 1922, at the post “Passage of the revenue bond office in Vernonia. Oregon, under ii sue by the voters in the Clatskanie the act of March 3, 1879. P4bples' Utility District can be able Official newspaper of Vernonia. Ore to look forward to soon owning the present electric system of the West Coast Power company in its Clats kanie division and begin operations OiidoOpisfîH« of this system under the control Punisi|E|> c f the district,” Henry Thompson, president of the Clatskanie PUD, OPERATING LIKE A CtftWSCOPE, NOW AIRPLANE PRCHS TO LISTEN IN ON THE« ENGINES AN2 PETECT ÎR0U8LC BEFORE il BECOMES ‘SERIOUS VtoRkMEN IN ONE FACTOR? RECENTLY PUG UP THE GROUNP AROUNP THElR PLANT ANO RECOVERED 50 TONS OF VALUABLE SCRAP METALS IN OPPS ANP ENPS THAT HAP BEEN THROWN OUT OTHER PLACES TO COLLECT SCRAP * We hear much on the subject of collecting scrap from farms and other places where the material has been collected but there are some places where considerable scrap might be collected al said lait Friday. though no mention has been made of those places. LACK OF COOPERATION, PERHAPS? ^nupshets Fred W. Herman, Rainier lawyer and veteran legislator, was named by the county courts of Clackamas, Multnomah and Columbia counties last Wednesday afternoon as sen ator for the Joint district to suc ceed Harry M. Kenin, resigned. Mr. Herman defeated Chester E. McCarty, Portland, by a vote of 6-3. He was nominated by J. N. Miller, Clatskanie, Columbia county commissioner. Mr. Herman served in the Oregon house in the 1933 and 1939 ses sions. He has been city attorney of Rainier since 1916 and for many years has taken a prominent part in county and state activities. The new senator will serve until his successor is elected by the peo ple or until the end of 1942. Portand, Ore., March 4.—The Consumers league. Housewives coun cil and other women’s organizations are getting all hot and bothered about the sharp advance in food prices. If the ladies go on the war path over prices the fur is bound to fly. These several organizations, rep resenting an active membership of thousands of housewives, are a very potent force. Do you remember what they did during world war No. 1, when food prices went sky high? Well, they staged one of the most effective buyers’ strikes ever pulled off and prices tumbled pronto. Once again the ladies are seriously talking a buyers* strike. They point to the very sharp increase in flour prices, such as flour, which has ad vanced over 14 per cent in less than three months while wheat prices have advanced only nine per cent. Portland milk prices also came in for a lambasting; they are higher than in Vancouver, just across the river, which is in the same milk shcsl. and Vancouver purchasers also pay a three per cent sales tax. William A. Delzell. who recently resigned as chief field deputy of the internal revenue department, will be a candidate for secretary of state. Mr. Dehell, a warhorse Democrat, was secretary to Walter M. Pierce when the latter was governor and later ran for congress in the First distict against the late Willis Haw ley. who only defeated him by a THE eoRpt-sv OF BRAZIL. TOUCH EVER? COUNTRY IN «SOUTH AMERICA EXCEPT TWO___ CHILE A Nt* ECUAPOR. «J ame S P reston “Do what you can with what you have.” This is Donald M. Nelson’s advice to American manufacturers. The War Production Board is placing emphasis on plant conversion— changing over from the production of peacetime to military goods. It also lays stress on the necessity of each factory-owner’s going out to get a defense contract. The procedure suggested is to find out what is needed by inquir ing at the proper local offices; then, to check machinery and other fa cilities to determine where the fac tory owner can fit into the picture. Once that is decided, it’s up to the manufacturer to land his contract, even at the risk of making a nui sance of himself. Persistence does it. War Production Board Chief Nel son thinks that it isn’t possible to put too much stress on the need for conversion of all’ available facilities from civilian to defense production. In his latest statement on the sub ject he says: “We must have all-out conversion, for all-out conversion will mean vic tory. “Conversion is our Number One probem.” The Division of Industry Opera tions of WPB answers all comments to the effect that conversion isn’t as simple as it sounds by pointing to conversions which have already taken place. For example, a plant that used to make merry-go-rounds is now making vital Army and Navy equipment, irr spite of the fact that the company was told it couldn’t be done with its machinery. More than $150.000.000 w->rth of war goods have been centre cted for in the shops of a community which is in the under-100,000 population class. And then there is the man whose noimal business was making orange squeezers and metal games for chil dren. He is now engaged in the busi ness of making intricate gauges, dies, and bullet punches. AH of this is reflected in the changing attitude of government of ficials toward small business.” Pearl Harbor, Guam and Singa pore have resulted in toughening the attitude of Administration men in charge of production and of businessmen working to meet pro duction schedules. small margin. So far, no other Democrat has had the urge to run and it may be that Delzell will be unopposed for the nomination, which will be in line with Robert Farrell, who so far is the lone can didate on the Repubican tickekt. Delzell, who is well schooled in the rrt cf poitics, has a large state-wide acquaintance and the political pro phets say he will give anyon a real race. As we predicted in this column several weeks ago, E. J. Griffith has resigned his position as state direc tor of WPA and will be a candidate for congress from the Third (Port land) district. In all probability Mr. Griffith wil hive the support of a Portand daily paper. * * * The state chairmen of both par ties are busy scouring the field in quest of good candidates for the state legislature. Greatly improved business conditions as against two years ago have caused many of those who heretofore were easy to coax in as candidates to turn a deaf ear to such pleas. They have good jobs, or their business now demands their entire time. Hence From the Women’s Bureau of t^e the legislative ticket is a real head Department of Labor comes the ache to the high command of both news that for the duration of the Democrats and Republicans. Inci war, at least, the nation’s women dentally, the leaders of both parties will' join hands in an attempt to put over the measuure increasing Business-Professional the pay of legislators from $3.00 to $8.00 a day for a 50-day session, Directory which will be voted upon next Nov ember. Last session the lawmakers Glen J. TenBrook, M. D. received their regular $3.00 per day Physician and Surgeon for 40 days only, but they couldn’t finish their chores until 63 days had Office Phone 72 elapsed; hence they worked for Residence Phone 172 about $1.90 per day. Hardly enough in this day and age. Three dollars per day was fine 40 years For Your Beauty Needs ago, when one could get board and ELIZABETH’S room for $3.00 per week and legis lators could easily wind up a session BEAUTY SALON in the allotted 40 days; but times Phone 431 are different now. It’s time, we think, for the people of Oregon to Elizabeth Horn . lemedy this injustice by voting yes Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist on the legislators increase in pay bill next November. « « * The coming campaign will' hear Dr. U. J. Bittner many candidates for office adopting as their battlecry “Get more indust Dentist ries for Oregon.” The chambers of Joy Theatre Bldg. Phone 662 commerce, incumbent office-holders, certain big business leaders and the state tax structure will Come in for some heavy panning. It’s the firm belief of many who should Expert Tonsorial Work know that the above have done more than their share to keep industry BEN’S BARBER SHOP out of Oregon. One well known po Vernonia, Oregon litical' figure intends to base his whole campaign on the “business big-shots” who. he charges, have Nehalem Valley done everything in their power to retard Oregon and keep out new Motor Freight business because they don’t want any competition. He intends to call Frank Hartwick, Proprietor them by name, and says he has Portland • Timber - Vernonia fa^ts and figures to prove his Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach charges. Gearhart - Seaside WOOD HOMES LAST A U. S. Government laboratory states “A wood house will last as long as its owner wants it to last provided he gives it reasonable care.” There are houses in this country that were bu'lt in Colonial times, out of lumber and timber lo cally available, that are still occu pied and in good condition after .’00 years, more or less. There are wood frame houses in Europe that were built before Columbus dis covered America and will continue to serve their owners for an in definite number of years to come. Vernonia Telephone 1042 Roland D. Eby, M. D. PHYSICIAN .nd SURGEON Town Office 891 NEAL W. BUSH Attorney at Law Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663 In Vernonia Mondays and Tuesdays will add to their duty as homebuild ers the task of filling in on the factory front The Bureau reports that the War Production Board is studying the advisability of having a compulsory l'cgistraliun of women for defense jobs. Many informed people reel that such a registration will be needed before the war is over. Mrs. Rooseveit, for instance, advocates the immediate registration of wo- mea under 45 yea is of age in order to save time later as the need de velops. Sidney Hillman says that at least one million American women wil be needed to work on the pro duction of war materials, especially to replace men who are cai.ed to the colors. Where women are used for fac tory and precision work, personnel managers agree that they perform their tasks as satisfactorily, and, in many instances, better than their male predecessors. Briefs: Launching traditions are going. Congress has passed a bill icducing the cost of a step-launch ing, which ordinarily runs from $14, 000 for a destroyer to $125,000 fi r an aircraft carrier (plus a d amond- studded gift fo the sponsor), to $25.00 . . The Department of Agri culture was authorized by Congress to provide funds for planting 75,000 acres of the guayule shrub. Ths shrub is to be used for the product ion of synthetic rubber. The acrea- age covers all for which seed Is available. The Labor Division of WPB plans to train 200,000 skilled foremen and supervisors in factories throuughout the country by July 1, 1942. Fore men will be taught how to break in untrained men on skilled jobs and experienced men on new jobs. The factory itsei'f is the classroom. . . . C. E. Wilson, president of the Gen eral Motors Corporation, made his tory for the automobile industry. He is the first head of a large auto mobile firm to appear in person at a union meeting to talk things over. IMMUNE TO FIRE That wood hangars Can be made immune to fire danger by auto mate sprinklers was graphically and dramatically demonstrated in a sciies of tests by a Committee or ganized by the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce. Lodges Vernonia Lodge No. 246 I.0.0.F, Meets Every Tuesday 8 P. M. Harry George, N. G. Dwight Strong, Secretary 4 42 Vernonia F. O. E. (Fraternal Order of Eagles) I.O.O.F. Hall Vernonia 2nd and 4th Friday 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. O. F. Hall, Second and Fourth Mondays Each Month. Pythian Sister* Vernonia Temple No. 61 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall Second and Fourth Wednesday? Each Month 2-41 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. Verla Porterfield, Worthy Matron Mona Gordon, Secretary 1-42 Nehalem Chapter 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 ther Thursday nights, 7:30 Visitors most cordially wel- meetiny, Fridav night,. Elmore Knight, W’.-M. Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec. 1-44 VERNONIA POST 11» AMERICAN LEGION Meet, First Wed. • nd Third Mon. of Each Month. AUXILIARY First and Third Monday, 1-41
