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4 Thursday, June 4, 1942 Vernonia Eagle County News St. Helens BERRY PICKERS OFFERED HIGHER PAY THIS SEASON Highest prices paid in years are being offered strawberry pickers this season, according to word re ceived this week by the county a- gent from C. H. Gram, commission er of labor, who reported that a conference held in Salem recently set pay at 2l4c per pound with a one-half cent bonus for those pick ers who remain through the season. Present at the conference in Sa lem was an Oregon State Small Fruit Grower’s committee as well as representatives of the various grower’s associations in the state. Picking on a large scale will not get under way until early in June, since continued wet weather has slowed ripening of the berries, but Columbia county ¿rowers expect 4o have good crops this year. Pick ers are needed in most yards and County Agent George Nelson has asked that those who wish to work in the fields register at his office in the courthouse here immediately. Entered as second class mail matter. August 4. 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore 0«EClOtWSfi>il Pl) I IIS Hits MtPICAN F SSOCIATION I N ational A dverti » inc R EPRKSE NTATIVl NEW YORK • CHICAOO • DETROIT News of the Theatre DIAMONDS VS. SABOTAGE There are diamonds and there are other diamonds, according to Michael Shayne. Lloyd Nolan, who plays the private detective on the screen, explains there are those that decorate milady’s wrists. Jew elry of this kind is “Blue, White and Perfect,” the title of Nolan’s latest picture for 20th Century- Fox. But there are other rough y cut diamonds which are used for defense work in industrial plants. This difference is the cause of two murders in the exciting new mys tery-comedy. Rainier MEETING SEEKS PLANE AND FIRE OBSERVERS (fyudhingfon Snapshots The Vernonia Eagle THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE which was forwarded to the Port land headquarters qf the campaign. On behalf of the area chairman, the management hereby extends sincere thanks for the splendid sup port given to this worthy cause. First Lieutenant Robert L. Clark and a group of non-commissioned officers and privates from the ar my interceptor command in Port land appeared at the Rainier Amer ican Legion hall Wednesday even ing, June 3. The meeting had as its purpose the recruiting of help for airplane observation and also fire watching during the danger season. A long standing difficulty in securing vol unteers for observation posts has become more acute with the open ing of the farm working season and the stepping up of employment opportunities. Members of all organizations in the community, such as the Knights of Pythias, Masons, the commercial club, Woman’s club, American Le LITTLE LUMBAR MOVED gion, etc., were asked to come and BY SHIP SO FAR IN 1942 hear the case the interceptor com Lumber shipments by water from mand presented. St. Helens during May will total about 5,300,000 feet, with this total figure split up among about seven ships. In view of the fact that only approximately 11,000,000 feet of lumber has moved out of this port by vessel during the first five months of the year, it can be seen by J ame S P reston that May shipments were the heav Taxation continues to be one of iest thus far in 1942. Up to date only 13 ships have theh most-discussed topics of the called at the local port to load week here. With the war current lumber since start of the year. Sev ly costing over 3 billion dollars a en of these came this month, two month, need for new revenue is ob loaded in April, two in March, none vious. The only question is: how in February and two in January. to get it? This is an election year, lawmakers are doubly Despite lack of shipping, probab and the ly as much or more lumber ha3 anxious not to do anything that will gone out of the Pope and Talbot send votes to rival candidates in the sawmill here this year as in pre November battle of the ballots. Administration leaders continue vious years, for the company has changed over to shipment by rail to exert strong opposition to a as much as possible during recent sales tax although the proposal to apply such a levy keeps cropping months. up. Their action to lower personal BOMBARDIER OF TOKYO PLANS income tax exemptions to bring FARM NEAR WARREN millions of new wage earners into Corporal Jacob D. Deshazer, who the Jax fold was interpreted in probably sat hunched over a bomb many quarters as an attempt to sight when he accompanied Gener forestall the sales tax demand. As al Doolittle on the Tokyo bombing the income tax plan is set up now, raid in mid-April, is figuring on a single man earning $10 a week buying a place out in the Warren would have to file a return. vicinity after the war and settl At present the House Ways and ing down, according to his brother, Means Committee has approved a Paul Deshazer, a resident of War provision for requiring joint in ren. come tax returns of a husband and A member of the air corps since wife. Unless there is a sharp shift 1939, when he gave up operation of sentiment in the Committee, it of a profitable turkey growing bus appears likely that this controver iness near Medford to enter the sial legislation will be the subject sirvice, Corporal Deshazer has been of another bitter floor fight in both in Warren a number of times and the House and the Senate. paid his most recent visit last Feb Meanwhile a sales tax is still a ruary. In addition he has flown over possibility. Whether or not it will the Warren area many times in a be enacted remains to be seen, but, plane and has told his brother that at the moment at least, the pro he likes this country better than posal is far from dead. any place he has seen. When the war is over and bomb The Administration continues to ing Tokyo will no longer be neces oppose labor reform legislation, sary, Corporal Deshazer intends to bi t here, too, Congress is display trade a bombardier's instruments for a farmer’s tools and settle down ing a mind of its own. The House Judiciary Committee in Warren. Local opinion is that plans to begin drafting a bill short the Japanese will be glad to have him turn his hand from bombing ly after June 1 that will permit the Department of Justice to prosecute to agriculture. labor unions for violations of the anti-trust laws and make* labor unions subject to the Federal Anti Racketeering Act. This would rep NAVY RELIEF DRIVE resent a combination of provisions NETS NICE SUM fiom several other labor bills that Clatskanie and surrounding area have been introduced recently. made a splendid showing in the Meanwhile, a resolution has been campaign recently conducted by the presented in the House to require theatres of the United States in be government officials to appear on half of the Army and Navy Relief request before Congressional com fund. mittees to testify concerning pend Collections made at the Avalon ing legislation. This springs from Theatre during the week of the the recent refusal of Attorney Gen campaign netted the sum of $158.(H) eral Biddle to permit Assistant At torney General Arnold to testify about labor practices which, in the opinion of some legislators, woqld have shown the need for labor re MARVIN KAMHOLZ form legislation. Editor and Publisher Clatskanie CLOTHES DON’T MAKE MAN Clothes may make the man is the way Fifth Avenue puts it, but if you were to ask “Hopafong Cas- :dy he’d put it thia way: clothes sometimes break the man! And “Hoppy,” the famous Clar ence E. Mulford character inter preted for the fortieth time in Paramount’s “Stick to Your Gu-ns,” wouldn’t be re! erring to the cost. Recently “Hoppy,” who in real life is William Boyd, has been em ploying switches in costumes, ef fective disguises, to break crime on the range. In “Stick to Your Guns, he changes his customary dark cos tume for an elaborate and fancy gambler’s rig. He pretends to be an out’aw in order to capture the outlaws. In “Secret of the Waste lands,” he shows as an outlaw in order to round up claim jumpers. Don’t Let This Changeable Weather Worry You! Keep on hand enough food so that you may match your meals with the weather. Buy it from our quality stock. SAM’S FOOD STORE ’ GROCERIES, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES An Independent, Home-Owned Grocery FREE DELIVERY Dedicated to the production of '' ' quality wines and their moderate use— for meals & friendly hospitality! Out of the Woods ____________________________________________Stevens A Prime Place for a Murder . . . The other day o forester friend of mine was running a line through timber in Southwest Washington when he prowled into what had once been a rugged house of shakes and legs. The sides were still holding up and the roof, though sagging dismally, was able to stave off rain. What had plainly been a good- sized clearing around the house was now second-growth timber. Right up to the mossgrown doorstep, which was a nice slab of fieldstone, grew Douglas fir trees almost as thick through as a man’s waist, thicker than a boy’s. Nowhere could the sunlight crawl through to the clam my sides of the four-roomed house. A place where you might expect to find a skeleton. Plowing through the timber and undergrowth, the forester entered the main room of the house. A packrat stared, then scurried out. The stove had set there: you could tell by the four deep markings in the floor, still sound enough. Rust spots told of a stovepipe i n the roof through which had dripped the snow and rain—of how many years? What the Wall-Paper Told. . . That’s what my friend was curi ous to know. How long? One of the looms had been sheathed with news papers, now brown and damp, ang- Ing there in shreds, here in long half sheets. Mildew had all but ob literated the type. But whoa—here was a page, a front page, still fair ly clear, in type and picture, with a headline telling of a time long ago. “THE JAPS AND PORT AR THUR,” it said. Underneath in closely set type was a dispatch from Tokyo reporting the bombard ment of the Russian-held city by little brown men who even theh shot first without warning and declared war later. The date of the paper was January, 1905. . . Well, that gave this new forest a fairly certain age, this forest that had swamped the clearing and smothered the house. It was thirty- five years old, probably. But who bad papered this home, then gone sway? The iborester got the story later, from an old citizen of good memory. It had been a squatter and his wife. Never troubled about a deed or things like that. They just went in there, into the woods, in ’85 maybe it was '84. Bred and raised a family, they had, two boys rnd two girls. The kids grew up I ere then went away into the world. The old folks, too, went away, and none came back. Slowly at first, then faster, ever faster, the forest grew in from the edges oif the clearing. It closed in over the potato patch. It caught and crushed -the small barn into fragments of rotting boards. It sur rounded and squeezed the life cut cf the small apple orchard, leaving skeletons that did not live and still would not fall. From mere seedlings into saplings, then into trees that felt their power and began to reach for the sun, until from a distance of sixty feet one could not know that here had been the home of a family for twenty years. It all makes a human picture of the growing ability and staying power of the Douglas fir—a picture that holds true on all our harvested timberlands that escape fire. By EDNA ENGEN “Diet and Personality” by Bogert. Dr In Diet and Personality, Dr. Bo gert has written an informed, eas ily-read book on the relationship be tween what we eat and what we are In discarding the old theory that certain set lists of foods are good for everyone. Dr. Bogert has out lined the different types of people, such as the slender person, the stocky person, the medium buiid. etc., and has explained how each of these types require different foods and different habits of liv ing to enable them to attain the maximum enjoyment and efficiency Congress is about to write into f,-om their bodies and minds. luw a subsidy for manufacturers who are caught in a squeeze be or distribution of any article or tween price ceilings and rising pro commodity for the purpose of stim duction costs. This legislation would ulating production or holding down empower the Reconstruction Fi prices, and to “purchase, acquire, nance Corporation to make pay carry, sell, or otherwise deal in any ments to such business concerns to article or commodity." help them over the rough spots of Meanwhile, legislation has been price control. offered in the House to revise the As the bill now stand*, the RFC present price control law complete would be authorized at the request ly. One bill would establish a three- of the Price Administrator anrt man war labor unit to enforce ad with the approval of the Secretary justable ceilings on wages and sal- vf Commerce to make payments in rries and eliminate the 110 per conjunction with the production, cent of parity provision on farm procurement, processing, servicing, production. 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