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Thursday, May 21, 1942, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon
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thfe
Week
A GOOD FINANCIAL CONDITION HERE
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
The good, in fact excellent, financial condition of Vernonia
in regard to the two grade schools and the city merit men
tion again this week due to the publication last week and this
week of the city budget and the appearance of the budget for
School District No. 47 Jt., this week. As has been mentioned
previously, the city cost sheet does not carry an item for di
rect tax for city property holders. That in itself is a very heal
thy condition financially.
In regard to the grade school district, a recent report by
the school board clerk gives information that the total bond
ed indebtedness unpaid as of May 13, 1942, is $4,000 and that
$1,000 of that amount will be paid off when a bond is retired
on July 1st leaving only $3,000 of that indebtedness for the
district.
Although the budget for the high school district has not
been published yet, that district, too, is in excellent financial
condition on the question of indebtedness.
Although Vernonia has been accused by those who are not
informed of being in poor financial condition, those accusa
tions do not hold true when the facts are known.
REASON FOR CASTING A SMALL NUMBER OF BALLOTS?
The election here Friday in one respect, if in no other, was
like the election throughout the state in that ti much smal
ler number of ballots were cast than is true when compared
with other years. There is a reason for that small casting. To
advance one, it might be said that the war was occupying
the attention of the majority of people so that they were
not devoting time to thoughts of who would be the proper
candidates to select.
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County News
St. Hele ns
Clatskanie
ttory would have been different.
As we predicted in this column last
week, the young aggressive Charles
Mack of Klamath Falls came within
an ace of defeating the veteran
Walter Pierce. Less than 500 votes
separated the two—the closest call
the Mr. Pierce has had in his very
long political' career.
All of the ballots had not yet
been counted on both tickets for
legislative seats before the battle
house. Wm. McAllister of Medford,
who was nosed out of the speaker’s
seat by Bob Farrell last session,
is again a candidate. Mr. McAllister
was busy all last week-end signing
up pledges. He doesn’t intend to let
this time. So much for politics.
• • •
Army in in the market 'for hun
dreds of horses for the cavalry to
be used on the Oregon coast. Con
trary rto popular impression, the
horse has not been eliminated from
the cavalry, which is not all mech-
anized. Cavalry is needed in the
Oregon coast t range, on cut-over
timberlands and in’ the forests.
Horses can maneuver in that coun
try with greater expedition than
tanks and trucks; they can go
where it would be impossible for
the machines to operate. From Cur
ry to Clatsop counties detachments
of horse cavalry will be spread, sup
plementing existing forces.
Gold Beach, at the mouth of
Rogue river, has asked for an army
air base, but for the present at
least, nothing will be done.
• • •
took Christ as my Savior and God
that instant breathed his life into
me. Eight years old was I, and
from that day I have had peace as
to my standing with God. —’,Being
therefore JUSTIFIED by faith, we
have peace with God, though our
Lord Jesus Christ.” JUSTIFIED—
in God’s sight JUST-AS-IF-WE-
HAD-NEVER-SINNED.
But I was rough—
All these years since, the Holy
Spirit has been showing me my
many sins. The old Adam in me is
like Johnson grass—it keeps send-
up shoots. Looking toward the cen
tury mark and after more than
half a century of service under
the banner of the cross, John the
Apostle said the same—“If we say
that we have no ^sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in
MR." And he gave the rule for get-
ting back into step—“If we con
fess cur sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us f 'om all
unrighteous
ne.ss.”
1 John 1:81-9.
God wanted me. By Christ’s
death he cleared the record that r
in righteousness, he might poud in
the new life. And he wants you.
May IChrist become your Savior
and then your Cheer-Hope-Joy-
Peace-Wisdom-Strength all the day
all the way.
Cloverdale, Oregon
This space paid for by an Oregon
businessman.
War products board is interested
in the lime deposits of Wallowa
CAPTAIN REXFORD
SESSION EXTENDED TO
and Baker counties (lime plays an
TALKS BOMBS
AID DRAFTEE-TO-BE
btevens
important part in a number of ma
of
Captain P. V. Rexford, veteran
Because Joseph
Henderson
If It’s a Ten Year War ...
1952 with bright hope for them terials needed for war). There is
Mist, plaintiff in a circuit court of the Multnomah county sheriff’s
The longer the war goes on, the selves and for their children. Here’s talk of locating a war industry in
case heard last Monday, was sla cffice gave a practical demonstra more it will become a war of
the reason: the saw log is still' the Grant county adjacent to the chro
by
J ame S P reston
ted for induction into the army tion of bomb control at the I.O.O.F. wood, at least
as far as the U.S.A main source of forest wages and mite deposits in the John Day
Wednesday with the 80-man Co hall in Clatskanie Saturday night.
is concerned, That’s the opinion forest business. It takes from 50 country, and transporting lime to
How much money John Doe will
The speaker brought full equip
lumbia county draft contingent, the
stated in high places of war pro- to 100 years to grow a crop of the site, Nothing definite as to pay for the things he needs during
court continued hearings on his ment with him to show how the duction and
it’s backed up by saw logs on Douglas Fir land, this but it is in the conversation the war is still a favorite topic
case until 11:30 p. m. in order to bombs work and what different many facts in the news. You’ve
of discussion here. Opinion in most
depending on its site quality, while stage.
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clean it up and allow Henderson to control methods do to the bombs.
seen the pictures of the newest in a pulp log crop can be grown in
quarters seems to be that while
prepare for his induction, Inciden
If the powder plant discussed prices may be frozen for a time
wood plastic planes, the latest in roughly half the time. Most of
VETERANS HOLD
tally, Judge Howard ti. Zimmerman
wood mosquito boats, heavy timber the new forest products in view by the war department is located by the present ceilings they will
CONVENTION HERE
decided in 'favor of the Mist man
The district convention of Dis construction replacing steel in new start with pulping and this will be in the northwest it may be in the slowly creep upwards after a short
and allowed him the $535 he sought
vicinity of Ontario or the Snake period at their current levels,
true of things made
trict No. 2 of the department of production factories and so > on.
in a suit against L. Ç. Cotner and
river
near Lewiston. There are on
This
is
only
a
starter,
with
a
One reason is that labor is ex-
lignin.
Oregon V.F.W.- and Auxiliary was
Jane Doe Cotner.
We’ve got the best timber-crop- ly a few places where sufficient pected to continue its demands for
held in the I.O.O.F. hall in Clats long war in view. The concoc-
The action was brought for col-
t.ions and
contraptions
<
of
the ping area in the world, consid- water is available, say the army wage increases. A check of labor
kanie on Sunday, May 17.
lection of a mechanic’s lien of
wood
!
chemists
and
other
scientists
ering climate, Soil, timber species, men, and the best of all is at The leaders and key New Dealers re
The district comprises units and
$535 which Henderson alleged he
forest products laboratories, and other factors all' in a bunch. Dalles. However, they add, The veal's that they do
not
regard
posts in Columbia county, St. Hel in
had coming for attaching a bull
ens, Clatskanie, Vernonia and Rain which in peacetime were considered Hemlock is tops among pulp woods. Dalles is too close to the ocean and President Roosevelt’s reference to
dozer to a tractor belonging to
ier. A delegation from each town mainly as experiments, are now A process for pulping Douglas Fir the policy is to push all new in wages as playing a ceiling on ex
the Cedarwood Timber Co., Vernon
was expected for the election and being tried out in a big way for is being per. ected. Anytime time dustries inland at least 200 miles, isting pay levels.
ia, of which the defendants were
installation of officers which was actual use. Wood wool, wood sug- now we may expect some timber if possible. No powder plant will
owners. The defendants, who asser
The major showdown on wheth
ar, wood livestock feed, wood gas chemist to announce a new brand be built, however, unless WPB de-
the main order of business.
ted they suffered damages because
for automobiles, tractors and trucks of snoose—with a lignin base. In cides that existing plants are in- er there will be a ceiling or union
of faulty workmanship on the part
in
obtaining
wood as a source of explosives— any event, we can be sure that sufficient, One story is that the labor will succeed
o'f Henderson, advanced a counter
wage
boosts
is
expected
to come
plants
now
operating
have
capacity
such items are already standard in the war will breed new industries
claim of $1,200, but this claim
the Germany of
Butch Hitler. for this forest region, all using to provide all the propellants re- in the “Little Steel” and General
was not allowed by the judge in STRAWBERRY PICKERS
now pending before the War Labor
war.
We’ll soon be away ahead of him. timber as a raw
material
and quired for a global'
• • •
bringing in his verdict for Hender NEEDED IN RAINIER
Board, the unions are demanding
from the cellulose part of the most of them calling for pulp logs
There is an urgent need for
son.
For several years growers of a dollar a day increase.
tree. The second major part of ev instead of saw logs. To my mind,
strawberry pickers in Rainier, ac-
Should the increase be granted,
ery kind of tree in lignin. It can the timber business in this neck of bent grass in Clatsop county have
MEN PLAN COAST GUARD
cording to County Agent George A.
Practically all these items come the woods has only started. The been urging an appropriation which legislation is expected to be intro-
AUXILIARY HERE
Nelson. The local acreage, which
mos| simply be described as a glue dawn of a new age of wood is a would permit the department of ag duced in Congress immediately to
Formation of a coast guard aux-
is the largest in Columbia county,
of nature that holds the cellulose real bright spot in the clouds riculture scientists to study grasses establish wage ceilings. Support-
the
iliary to aid in
protecting
looks well, although the crop has
tr determine which are best for ers of such legislation will cite the
fibres of wood together.
Lignin of war.
waterfront in this area from sabo
weather. A turn of the weather
certain localities. Always the re- fact that Price Administrator Leon
washes
out
in
the
pulping
of
cellu
Charcoal
Gas
tage or attack is planned by a
in Australia ...
in the next two weeks would bring
lose, From their experiments the
For a year and more farm wood- quest has been kicked out the win- Henderson has opposed the “Lit
number of St. Helens men and
on the berries rapidly, and it is wood
scientists can see wonderful lot owners in Australia have been dow because bent grass is used on tle Steel” wage increases because
formal organization of the unit
emphasized, the pickers to save the
uses
ahead
for lignin, as in plan making charcoal in small burners golf courses and was regarded as they would induce an inflationary
was scheduled for Tuesday evening crop are not yet in sight.
spiral.
tics.
cf this week at the council cham
designed by their forest service. recreational. In the new appropria
Mr. Nelson urges that, enyone
If we have
to
hack’er out Charcoal gas is now the main tion a substantian sum is allowed
bers when coast guard representa
Now that the nation has been
who can volunteer to help get in
through ten years of war, as most fuel for civilian trucks and cars for grass experimentation as a registered for sugar rationing, of
tives will be on hand.
touch with him or with local grow
war
measure.
New
diversion
air
experts predict, it’s a good bet on the Paul Bunyan of the world’s
Temporary commander of *he ers at once.
ficials here are turning their at
that a lot of new products will islands. You can safely bet that fields require a grass that will stand tention to the procedure that will
group is E. I. Ballagh, while Butler
up
where
runways
are
not
paved.
rapidly be worked up from the for General MacArthur won’t miss ap
Clevinger is second officer and Har
be Ùtollowad in the rationing of
est tree. Products that will be as plication of that example to his Bent grass will hold the soil from other articles.
ry Higgs is third in command. At
valuable in peace as in war, proving own country and its forests. I’m blowing and afford a cushion for
present the group has approximate
Present plan is to set up a
that even from bloody war some prophesying we’ll soon be hearing landing planes. As air 1 fields are
ly 21 boats lined up. Ten boats are
dew of good may fall.
the minimum number of craft in To the Editor:
much more about it, probably with scattered all over Oregon, different group rationing system, as contrast
a squadron.
orders. And ten ; years from now— grasses are required and to find ed with the present procedure of
Today throughout the country Saw Log vs. Pulp Log ...
We
’
re
going
to
win
the
war
and
well,
maybe the war won’t last that cut which is the best for each cli- individual rationing of such pro
there are thousands of young wo
COUNTY MEN GO
we
’
re
not
going
to
the
dogs
doing
long
after
all. Just to make us feel mate the experiments will be made. ducts as autos, tires and rugar.
men whose husbands have depart
CONTINGENT OF 76
This means that instead of having
ed for army training camps or it even if it does take ten years. better, let’s call it five. That’s 60 But I Was Rough
Last Wednesday, for the first
one ration card and quota for cof
All
but
the
oldest
meh
of
the
months
and
we
’
re
through
six
of
foreign service on either ocean. I
I had no part in being born in- fee, another for sugar, another for
time in the history of the present
am one of those “war widows” who woods and mills can look beyond them already.
Mv
to this world ; I just arrived.
war,Columbia county draftees de
tea and so on for each item that
have been forced to seek out some
are trying to figure out how come parents saw to all that. Nor did is rationed, similar items will be
parted for the induction center in
sort of temporary
security
and
Portland with a free meal in their
Wallace defeated Latourette, w-ho I have any part in being born in lumped together and cards issued
anchor’against an uncertain future.
God’s family—i. e. as to the act for the whole group. Consumers
stomachs and an impromptu com-
was favored to win. One of the
This task of readjustment may be
itseli. God |saw to that. It was
munity send-off ringing in their
answers is the ridiculously small done of him, all in an instant. Up will then have a choice of using
easily accomplished or may be made
ears. The meal was served by nine
all their points on one item <xr
difficult and trying. Either situ
vote cast by Democrats. In Mult- to then I belonged to the fallen
women who are students in a local
of dividing them among the group.
nomah county about 30 per cent sons of Adams. A sinner by birth,
canteen class and the coffee and ation depends not entirely upon the
of the registered Democrats took choice and practice I was. Then
Patent authorities here are cal
doughnuuts they hail available in woman herself. Outside factors ov
er which she has little control es
the trouble to vote. In the Third cn ai\ instant, God breathed himself ling attention to the fact that the
the courthouse plaza were consid-
District (Multnomah county) race into my soul and I was born again. government has long had the pow
erably appreciated by 70 army- pecially in the smaller community
often determine the success of that
for congress the three Democratic —Ye must be horn again, said er to have goods produced for it,
bound selectees.
readjustment.
candidates polled a total cf 35.482 Christ, as I was. First I had a hu regardless of patents on them.
I am speaking specifically of
This is a fact which has been
votes. In the same district the three man father who gave me his human
those individuals who willfully or
gubernatorial candidates polled on nature and now I had the Heav ignored by the Senate Patents Com
stupidly invent the incredulous re
ly 32,428 votes, which means that enly Father, who gave me his God mittee. It has been holding hear-
ports concerning
my
husband’s
MARVIN KAMHOLZ
ings on a new bill, ostensibly draf-
3,054 Democrats who took the nature.
Editor and Publisher
health, activity, whereabouts, assign
trouble to vote for congressional
ted to make inventions available
What
led
up
to
it?
general attitude toward the war,
candidates didn't vote their choice
for use in the war emergency.
Entered as second class mail
Bible
reading
and
family
Daily
for governor at all. The Democrat prayers
matter. August 4, 1922. at the post etc., etc. These statements are
in the old home, laid the
An act passed in 1910, and a-
office in Vernonia, Oregon, under ¡.wo: n by the narrator to be direct
ic leaders poinj out that many of
the act of March 3, 1879.
quotations from the wife. I learn
Portland, Ore.,
May 20—Now their best workers are now in the foundation. On Sunday afternoons, mended in 1918, makes it possible
today that I am credited with de- that the tumult and shouting has trmy. Also that shipyard workers, in the winter, we cracked nuts and now for anyone to make anything
Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore
daring my husband has been in died down from the recent pri iabor, are predominantly Democrat ate popcorn beside the old coal for the government, without con-
stove—-New York State it was
sidering whether any patents may
tcrned in a concentration camp!
mary election, the boys and girls ic, were too busy drawing $10 or
JZrwi/ir«
I write this letter to publicly aie holding the usual post niortems $12 a day to vote. So, they claim, while father told us Bible stories. apply. This is true whether the
I learned about God and that we country is at war or at peace.
deny these rumors as being true, that always follow every political therein lies the tale.
O re
were here to do his will. But down
or that they originated from me. battle. While Snell was favored to
Regardless of laws
...
governing
inside I was heavy. I had not done
I certainly hope that in the future, defeat Sprague, not even the most
A deal is now in the making
the situation,
industry generally
His
will;
I
saw
myself
a
sinner
lost.
when "war widows” are quoted, sanguine thought he could romp to trot out an independent candi
has made its patents fully available
the listener will doubt the reliabil- home a winner by close to 30.000 date for congTess in Mult|>niah Then I was told that God had a
many feel that the present attack
ity of the statement until actually Votes, Astute political observers county. ' The powers that ¡be on Son who died for my sins and I
on the patent practices of iiyiustry
laid
hold
on
Him.
confirmed. Exaggeration is common had it all figured out that Snell both sides of the potitical fence
N ational A dvertising
is paving the way for far-reaching
and forgivable, but false represen couldn't win by much more than want none of either Angelí or Ma-
What part had I?
R epresentative
legislation which has little or no
tation is not.
8,000 votes but he did. In another honey. If Mr. Griffith had been
By Godgiven faith, I laid hold connection with the immediate job
NEW YORK • CHICAGO ■ DETROIT
Mrs. Donald Tower post mortem huddle the wise men nominated by the Demócrata the <n Him. By that spark of faith I
of winning the war.
Rainier
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