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4 Thursday, April 23, 1942, Vernonia Eagle Vernonia Oregon
the voting public still apathetic but
showing a little more interest in
the coming primary, the candidates
will bring out their war drums and
tom-toms in order to keep political
interest alive. However, the politic
WORTHY OF MENTION
ally wise men still say less than 50
J ames P reston
per cent oif the registered vote will
Well worthy of mention is the work that has been done by
During the next few months civ
go to the polls election day.
two groups of students at Vernonia high school, one the track
ilians all over the country are go
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team under the coaching of Mason McCoy and the other the
ing to feel' the impact of war moie
It
may
be
just
a
coincidence,
but
singers who competed last week-end in the annual northwest
strongly than ever before. Short
we hear via the grapevine route
Oregon district state high school music contest. Both groups
ages like those that have already
that Donald Nelson, big boss of
have made very favorable showings in representing their school
occurred in many lines of consumer
WPB,
has
been
requested
to
make
in competition with like groups of other schools.
goods are going to increase, and
a personal investigation of why so
A short time ago the track team competed in the Hayward
increase rapidly, according to of
many
industries
proposed
and
eve
1
Relay meet at Eugene and was successful to the extent that
ficials here, as more and more in
announced
for
the
northwest
are
it retains a championship cup awarded to winners in the
dustries change over to the grim
shoo-flied away from this region.
classification in which Vernonia competed.
and sober business Of full-time war
Chemical
plants,
aluminum
plants,
Last week-end high school soloists, the sextette and glee
production.
stainless
steel
plants
have
been,
for
club competed in the district music contest and rated high hon
The experts say that an acute
one reason or another, throttled.
ors for their performances.
metal shortage is rapidly developing
There
is
a
suspicion
among
some
Both groups, the singers and the trackmen, and theii in
congressmen of the northwest that cn the production front. It’s bound
structors, Mrs. Sam Hearing, Jr., and Mason McCoy respective
someone in the war production to cut still further t.. i i mount of
ly have spent a sizeable amount of time, especially after school
board is responsible for blocking metals now available for the manu
hours, in preparing for the events. The showings that have i.een
one thing after another that is facture of many of the articles that
made have given Vernonia much favorable publicity and the ef
planned for this area and is under are regarded as necessities in peace
fort that has been expended and the results achieved deserve
taking
to sabotage any industry time. Army and Navy estimates for
credit from the people of this community.
that migjit become paramount after the current war program indicate
the duration. By special messenger that military demand alone exceeds
IS IT NECESSARY TO HAVE SUCH A COUNCILMAN?
a letter inviting Nelson to look into the supply of many metals.
This month five industries —
the matter was sent 'from “the
It is likely that the average citizen of Vernonia gives little
hill,” citing stainless steel as a case laundry equipment, radios and
thought to the actions of the city council as it deals with the
history, suggesting other inquiries. phonographs, electric refrigeration,
general order of business as that business arises from one meet
There is ample hydroelectric pow vending machines, and vacuum
ing to the next because, as is usually the case, those matters
er in Oregon and Washington from cleaners—are going to stop making
are dealt with in a satisfactory manner. However, at the coun
government dams at Bonneville and civilian goods. No lawnmowers ex
cil’s last meeting Monday evening an occurrence that deserves
Grand Coulee to either build new cept those used to harvest crops
wide mention did arise. Before continuing with some of the de
aluminum plants or expand the may be turned out alter June 30.
Iron and steel used in making beds
tails of that occurrence, let it be understood that this concerns
ones already built. Instead of in
bedsprings and mattresses have al
the actions of only one individual whose name will not be men
creasing capacity in this area WPB
ready been curtailed from 15 to 69
tioned and not the entire council. Those people that are suffic
proposed more aluminum produc
per cent. Iron, steel, and zinc used
iently interested can easily learn the person’s name.
tion at TVA, but TVA has every
On Monday evening there appeared before the council a
kilowatt under contract; and then in manufacturing scores of kitchen
yommittee of two representing the chamber of commerce which
it was announced aluminum plants and household articles will be cut up
now enjoys a weekly attendance of 20 to 30 business and pro
to 50 per cent, beginning June 30.
would be placed in Boston, New
fessional men of Vernonia. That committee appeared to ask for
These reductions are only a few
York and Chicago where private
of the many that a-’e coming, but
a pump to be used for fire protection should the city experience
power would be abailable. That
a large fire, it being the opinion of those attending the commer More Fir for MacArthur
Aires. The ship was the West Mah- New York and Boston are on the they indicate what’s happening, and
what’s going to happen in the fu
cial club meeting that additional pumping equipment was highly
Australia is a timber country, wah. After San Pedro, we were 37 ocean front and in a target area
necessary as an emergency measure.
ture, as industry continues to con
outside its desert areas. There the days straight on deep waser. Down was ignored, despite army policy on
To continue, the committee presented the request to the white .mbuntain ash (eucalyptus the South Pacific, through Magel the west coast. Well', these develop centrate on war production.
WPB and OPA officials are frank
council and immediately this councilman began a tirade against
grows to the tallness o'f lan’s Strait, northward to B. A , ments were apparently dropped and
the commercial club in general and against the spending of regnans)
ly
worried over the possibility of
Douglas firs. The hoop pine is then some 400 miles up the Parana now WPB is asking for aluminum
money for a pump in particular, stating that the city already our
“panic buying” as a result of these
a powerful tree of Queensland. River to Rosario, the Chicago of from Canada. In response, Canada
scarcities. They realize that some
possessed a pump that could be so used.
says it can use its hydro power for
Sassafras, myrtle and blackwood, as the Aigentine.
Further testimony was presented pro and con on the pump’s well
On the homeward voyage we took either aluminum or newsprint, and thing must be done to prevent runs
as eucalyptus, produce timber
condition and is not of interest here.
on stores by anxious consumers,
wages and dividends in Tasmania. on beef hides at Montevideo, coffee suggests WPB make the decision.
What is of interest here is the attitude taken by that
but so far no one has come up with
at
Santos,
Brazil
nuts
at
Parana
—
Most newsprint in the United States
But for forty years and more the
councilman, who, it is well to mention was being influenced in Aussies
a workable solution to the problem.
have been heavy importers up the Amazon—-more coffee at comes from Canada and diversion
his remarks by intoxicating liquors. When the request was pre of Douglas
fir for use in theii best Port of Columbia, and then we roll of power to aluminum would have SIGN POSTER
sented, this councilman immediately took it upon himself to construction. They call it “Oregon” ed through the Carribean to the an effect on American newspapers.
Sign outside of one lange war
veto the suggested need, not allowing other councilmen to ex just that, even when it is fir Panama Canal and up the coast > Half a year has been lost in ar
production plant: “We have been
press themselves, and to air his views in stronger language —
British Columbia. In their war California.
ranging for more aluminum.
than was necessary. During the course of the conversation, the from
asked for the impossible. Let us do
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Five months for a round trip. Its
year ending June 30, 1941, our
remark was made by this person that he was not paid to look “.air dinkum” comrades of battle main business was delivery of fir Four chemical companies wished it, as usual.”
after city affairs and to spend time attending council meetings still managed to raft some 80 mil from our forests—two million feet to locate in the Bonneville-Grand
and that he would resign after the meeting closed. So far that lion super feet of “Oregon” across in the holds and a million feet Coulee area. There was talk of their
resignation has not been tendered.
lashed on the decks—to cons’ruction being placed at Pasco, Wenatchee
Pacific.
The purpose of this outline of happenings at the meeting the Australian
lumber trade has meant jobs in the Argentine. Railroad and Spokane. For a time it looked
is to ask the people of Vernonia if they consider that such a a lot to our tidewater mills, partic bridges, wool warehouses, shock as though one plant would be esta Vernonia Lodge No. 246
reception of a committee which appears in good faith should be ularly
Grays Harbor and Goos yards, grain storage structures, box blished in some Puget Sound city.
permitted. If that councilman cannot appear at meetings with Bay, in on times
Only the Army cars, wooden ships—among all the Then WPB ordered one of the
out the reenforcement of intoxicants and be civil to others it and Navy know past.
what is going over forests of the world, timber from plants to Alabama, in TVA territ
seems that he should be asked for his resignation if he does these days for war construction. We our woods in Washington and Ore ory, where it was to make phos
Meets Every Tuesday
not carry out that move himself.
8 P. M.
can just be sure that heavy Austral gon was demanded by Argentine phates for Cotton farmers. This
ian shipments from our forests in builders and engineers.
boost for TVA was frustrated be Harry George, N. G.
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other years are serving right now We’ve Got What It Takes
cause TVA has no surplus power, Dwight Strong, Secretary
That same demand rules with our but neither this nor any of the
in many types of military buildings
Vernonia F. O. E.
Army and Navy engineers wherever other chemical plants was ordered
down under.
(Fraternal Order of Eagles)
What timber-faller wouldn’t like war bases are being built. The story to the Columbia river. As the com
found it necessary to raid them for to know that some .prime fir tree cf our forests going down to the panies interested expected the gov
I.O.O.F. Hall
possession of slot machines.
brought down by his labor is now sea in ships on war missions .an’t ernment to put up the money, they
floor, walls and rooif used by Gen be told now. But we can be jure naturally would go where WPB
Vernonia
WAR ORDERS IMPORTANT
eral MacArthur or by MacArthur’s it’s the biggest story in the history proposed. Thus far no chemical in
ATTORNEY SAYS SLOT
AT LOCAL PLANTS—
2nd and 4th
men somewhere in Australia? What of lumbering.
dustry has been launched within
MACHINES MUST GO—
Evidence of the important part
A base force without buildings reach of transmission lines from
Friday Night»
District Attorney Walden Dillard that war orders are playing in the sawyer Wouldn’t feel mighty pride
Coulee.
gave formal notice last Thursday business o'f local industries was ob in a certainty that structural lim is like an individual soldier without Bonneville or Grand
8 o'clock
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that businessmen who have slot tained in a survey made this week bers from his headrig are now a uniform. The start Of those
buildings
must
be
at
a
tree
—
most
When the late J. D. Ross took Arthur Kirk, W. P.
machines—a st.-eamlined, newer mo by the chamber of commerce com hangar roof trusses for MacArthur’s
likely a Douglas fir ten thousand over Bonneville one of the custom Willis Johnson, W. Set?'y.
del of the well-known “one armed mittee which is preparing data for lip-roaring planes?
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Hundreds of millions of feet from miles away, with two rugged timber ers he announced for cheap power
bandit”— had better have the de an appeal to the federal housing
Knights of Pythias
vices out of their possession by authority in Washington, D. C. to our woods and mills are in such fallers swinging axes and pulling was a stainless steel company of
Harding Lodge No. 116
Friday night, April 24 or face pos have St. Helens declared a defense service down there. Somebody fell a saw—“giving ’er snoose” to ax Baltimore, but nothing happened
Vernonia, Oregon
ed the trees. Somebody saweo ’em the Axis, to beat ’em with timber.
until recently. This is a large con
sible arrest by county authorities. housing critical area.
The
tradition
of
the
American
Meetings:
—I. O. O. F.
up.
Here
’
s
an
old
sergeant
’
s
salute
cern
which
can
finance
itself.
It
In issuing the notice, Mr. Dillard
The checkup of industries here
Hall, Second and
also warned that anyone operating disclosed that at least 50 per cent to those somebodies. With a—“More timber-fighters goes back to the be has bought quantities of chrome in
ginning of our history. And right Grant county, Oregon, has other de
Fourth Mondays Each
the machines likewise could be ar of the orders obtained in St. Helens fir for MacArthur!”
now, in this war, mechanized though posits in southwestern Oregon and
Down
Argentine
Way
Month.
rested if caught and he added that plants is going for defense purpos
The Douglas fir lumber haul to it is, the work of the Douglas fir northern California. Chemists of
owners o'f the devices might also es, while in some industries as much
Pythian Sisters
Australia is not so long as thui to timber-fighter extends around the the company have developed a for
Vernonia Temple No. 61
feel the hand of the law.
as 85 per cent of the business is
the
Argentine. Back in the days of world—to the plane factories of mula whereby a Io we- grade chromo
Vernonia, Oregon
The crackdown by the district at directly attributed to the war ef
plenty and peace it was my luck > England ... to our fartherest war can be used than th > 40 per cent Meeting,:— I. O. O. F. Hall
torney was apparently not aimed at fort.
pet a ride with three million feet bases ... to MacArthur and his standard. Without cl- ime no armor Second and Fourth Wednesdays
the numerous pin ball machines
Each Month
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of lumber from Aberdeen to Buenos men . . .
would be available for tanks or
which can be found in practically VOTER SIGN UP SLOW
battleships.
every county beer parlor or restau LAST TWO DAYS—
Order of Eastern Star
Voter registration during the two who enjoyed the hospitality.
Agents of the stainless steel c. m-
rant. These devices are licensed by
Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S.
days
before
the
books
were
closed
pany
browsed
the
northwest
care
When
Route
1
was
established
some towns, including St. Helens,
Regular Communi
fully. Having inspected Washii,,-
and their legality is still open to was less than half what it was dur 20 years ago, the length in miles
cation first and
ing
the
same
period
prior
to
the
ton,
they
looked
at
Baker,
La
was
29.5
with
175
boxes
and
the
debate.
ANO
third Wednesdays
Grande, I’endleton and The Dalles.
of each month, at
Mr. Dillard also cited the possi genetai election in 1940, according mail was taken three days a week.
Masonic Temple.
The company wanted water trans
bility that places licensed by the to a count made in the county Mr. Parcher quit a job at Snider's
clerk's
office.
All
visiting sisters
portation,
rail,
power
and
access
mill
which
paid
him
$6.75
a
day
to
Oregon liquor control commission
and brothers wel
About 100 persons appeared for carry the mail' for $93.50 per month.
to its chrome deposits. Stainless
would face suspension of these per
Steel was ready to announce its ad Verla Porterfield, come.
registration Monday and Tuesday of
The length of the route is now
Worthy Matron
mits in the event county officials
last week, while in the final two 62.60 miles.
vent in the northwest when the Mona Gordon, Secretary
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days before books closed in 1940
president of the company, then on
CARSON SPEAKS TO
approximately 250 voters signed up.
the west coast, was advised to re
A. F. & A. M.
New registrations this year from LARGE GROUP HERE—
turn immediately to Washington,
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
Over
100
men
including
the
en
MARVIN KAMHOLZ
all county points totaled 250, but
and whether WPB will sanction use
A. F. & A. M. meets at
Editor and Publisher
gineers
and
American
Legion
mem
in this number there are several
of Columbia river power remains
Masonic Temple.
Stat-
bers
heard
Captain
Joe
Carson
to be seen.
ed Communication ____
First
Entered as second class mail who mei'ely moved from one pre
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Thursday of each month.
matter, Aui’iHt I. 1922, at the post cinct to another. In addition there speak at a Legion meeting on Mon
Special called meetings
day night a week ago at the 1. O.
office in Vernonia. Oregon, under
So many industries on the verge jn all other Thursday nights, 7:30
are a number of cancellations of O. F. hall in Clatskanie.
the act of March 3. 1879.
cf
moving
to
the
Pacific
northwest
p. m. Visitors most cordially wel-
registration, so there will probably
Carson, who is department com
Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore
have been diverted or discouraged eoine.
not be much of a rise in the total mander of the American Legion
Special
Portland, Oregon, April 22—It’s (diverted generally to TVA) that
gave one of his usual good talks in just about three weeks until Mr,
Elmore Knight, W. M.
number of voters registered here.
there is a growing suspicion that
which he urged an all out effort to and Mrs. Voter treck to the polls,
Glenn F. Hawkins. Sec.
1-4«
there
may
be
dirty
work
at
the
O reg I o O lwspâ > îr
win this war.
to decide who is to be who on both crossroads; that there is some in
VERNONIA
P ublism | erjs z H sq £|*TION
party tickets. These closing weeks
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dividual
within
the
framework
of
AUTOMATIC TURN-OUT *
of the campaign will see the can
AMERICAN
TRACY PARCHER. 20
M
PB
who
has
been
influencing
the
A new radio set automatically didates turning on the heat for all
M t P I C A N
« t S S Ä S S 011 »T10 M ¡I
LEGION
YEARS ON ROUTE—
turns out the lights on outdoor it is worth in order to capture war board to the detriment of Ore
Tracy Parcher has been the mail signs during blackouts. The set is every vote
Meet,
Fir,t Wed.
possible.
Governor gon and Washington. There is an
and Third Mon.
N ational A dveitisinc carrier on Route 1 Clatskanie for tuned to a near-by radio station; Sprague, who started slow, is now
employe of TVA who is on advisor, of Each Month.
the past 20 years. A party was giv
REPRESENTATIVE
AUXILIARY
en at his home on Wednesday night when the station stops broadcasting, campaigning in high gear, and so but in the letter to Donald Nelson
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Fir.t and Third Monday,
and there were about 39 persons the radio switches off the lights.
is his opponent, Earl Snell. With no names were mentioned.
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