Thursday, June 25, 1942
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County News
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
as they enter the forests and a.»
HtCCM
intended to reduce the chance of a
fire being started by carlessness.
The bags hold a package of cigar-
U. S. ARMY OKEH SEEN
PROBABLE FOR COUNTY FA1R ettes and a few matches.
Fears that Columbia county’s 31st
annual fair late in August might
be prohibited by army authorities
are apparently groundless, at least FRUIT CANNERS ASK
at this time. A letter received this
FOR SUGAR SUPPLY
week by E. E. Mallaber, secretary
Approximately 850 units were
of the county fair board, from Leo
represented in applying for canning
G. Spitzbart, manager of the Ore­
sugar since the registration for that
gon state fair and liason for public
purpose started. This will involve
gatherings, declared, “I
do
not
some 2460 persons.
think you will have any trouble in
The people
registered
applied
securing permission to hold your
for from anywhere between 20 to
fair. . . ”
100 quarts per person per year.
Spitzbart’s letter added, however
No. 4 stamp is usable now and
that army authorities are not con-
will be good until June 27.
ridering any applications for ap
proval for a public gathering more
than one month in advance of its
date. The Salem man promised that
the question of Columbia county’s FINAL CANNING SUGAR
fair would be brought to the atten­ REGISTRATION SATURDAY
tion of army officials in July and
Sugar rationing signup is to be
that the local fair board would be held again next Saturday at the
notified as soon as clearance had American Legion hall between the
been received from army authori­ hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. for
ties.
any who were not among the 775
The provision that an army okeh who registered last Saturday and
must be secured 'before eVents Monday.
which will attract large crowds may
It is expected that the cards
be planned was set up as a protec­ will be here for those who regis­
tive device shortly after the war tered and who were granted the
started. It applies to the combat cards from -earlier registrations.
zone, which includes western Ore­
This probably will be the last
gon, and approval must come from session held by the local volunteer
____________________________ Stevens
the office of Lieutenant-General De­ ration registration setup.
Witt, chief of the western defense
duke. But the lady had logger blood
The Real War. . .
command.
We are still quite a way from be­ She was back to the woods to stay.
GIRL SCOUTS COMPLETE
ing out of the woods with this Bill Statler was her kind of man.
800 “FAG BAGS” HERE
man’s war. That is, the big bat­ The duke had turned her against
Approximately 800
“fag bags"
tles which will, one by one, make*Bulgai .ans generally, even the plain
have been completed as a national
for full final victory are yet to breed. What Bill did to the five
defense project by the 100 Girl
come. We can hope with reason was the first strong bond between
Scouts in the St. Helens area it
that our worst defeats are behind them.
was announced this week.
That’s how Bill used to tell the
us, but our victories are still' in the
The “fag bags,” a new idea this
production stage. They can be won story. Anyhow, it was a real ro­
only when the planes,ships, tanks, mance of the woods. Bill and his
year, are to be given to smokers
guns, ammunition and other supplies bride struck out on their own. He
now being made are actually o.i made the grade as a timber opera­
American Income Rises
the war fronts with millions of tor on his own hook in British Co­
tiained men to use them. In the lumbia, and rode out the depres­
16 Cents; Living Costs
tep rank of essential materials for sion. He was early in the war.
Up 13 Cents Over 1941
this terribly vital stage of the vic­ Make the FirFly. . .
Bill is back home for a spell,
tory battles is wood—logs, timber,
for good reason. He’ll be over again
trees, and all their products.
This is not being put up here up there blasting, in due course.
Portland, Oregon, June 24—There as my own idea. It’s a summing Right now he has to take it easy.
is no place in the country where up of a pretty grim talk to me by It’s too bad he can’t make a trip
the Townsend movement is more at ar old friend who has been in the up and down the timber coast, talk-
home than in Oregon. The doctor’s thick of the air war over Europe. *'ng to men of the woods and mills
followers are numbered by the I worked for him back in the twen­ ns he talked to me. Bill has a wond­
thousands and they have, on occa­ ties, when he was the youngest erful way of making you see the
sion, been an important factor in camp push employed by a big log­ work of loggers and mill' men in
an election. It is assumed that house ging outfit. For good reason I’ll just real battle—spruce and fir iri the
bombers and fighters, products from
members from Oregon have signed call him Bill Statler.
timber doing a thousand war jobs
petition No. 7, now on the desk of Love in the Woods. . .
As a boy woods boss Bill Statler no other material can do.
Speaker Rayburn, but until there
If you’re a timber-faller, or if
are 218 signatures no publicity can was what the Australians call a
be given as to the signers. Any “fine beaut” of a man. He liked a you’re a green-chain sorter, Bill
member can walk up to the speak­ fight, and was fast with fists and Statler can make you feel that you­
er’s desk and sign without anyone feet. One day in town he tangled ’re a powerful top hand in this
with five Bulgarians. The place was man’s war; that the soldiers can’t
else being aware of it.
Petition No. 7 seeks to bring to on the large front porch of his do their job until you have done
the floor for debate II. R. 1036. company’s headquarters. Bill laid yours.
Fighting flyers want bombing
which is the latests of the Townsend two of the big Bulgarians out, and
planes. Wood is essential to the
plans for old age security. A few­ the other three high-tailed.
The daughter of the main owner plane builders. The men who build
years ago any member who whis­
pered that he favored a plan for of the outlif was a witness of the the ships to carry airplane spruce
HE above chart, showing bow
the average American fared in
pensioning aged men and women fray. She had just come home for and fir overseas asolutely must
national income changes in the was regarded as a crackpot. Dr. keeps, after four years at an East- have lumber. So must the men who
last twelve months, is based on the
regarded
(he cm college and two in Europe. Her make the big crates for planes and
monthly consumers* study of In­ Townsend was so
vestors Syndicate of Minneapolis.
proposed $200 a month) and when ma had educated her to marry at boxes for bombs. And so, on and
The American Public in April
he refused to answer questions of least a high-toned Long Island polo on.
had a “real income” of $1.16, or an
Bill Statler says: “You men of
a
house committee he was sentenced player, and while in Europe it had
increase of sixteen cents on the
dollar over the same 1941 month.
for contempt. Against the doctor’s looked for a spell as though there’«! the woods have got to make the
This "real income” Is not a sub-
wishes the president pardoned him. le a wedding with a Bulgarian fir fly.”
11 action of cash Income and expen­
The number necessary to complete
ditures but an average relative of
the petition is a bare majority of tion and seed dealers. The soil con­ Washington.
these figures designed to show how
living costs affect adjusted income
the house membership, 435, and it servation program in the south, us­
Not one banana will be on the
dollars.
'
is assumed that when a petition re­ ing vetch and peas, started in 1938 market for the duration. Owing to
Cash income of the American
ceives 218 signatures the measure when the department bought one
Public in April was $1 30 for every
ship shortage Lewis Douglas, form­
$1 a year earlier. Thia gain of
will be passed. Providing the re­ million pounds of seed at $5.40
thirty cents on the dollar resulted
quired number is obtained
the per hundredweight for peas and $11 erly budget director until he pro­
from the following changes per
Townsend plan may be shoved for vetch. The cost was deducted tested against the mounting public
dollar: wages up thirty-nine cents,
through the house this session.
from Triple A payments to farmers. debt and now in charge of cargo
and salaries twenty-one cents;
and other income was up thirty-
Pilots of the legislation are arg­ For the seed northwestern grow­ space, is refusing space on vessels
three cents on the dollar. Invest­
uing that the pension plan will be ers received $2.28 for peas and
ment income at 98 cents was down
from isoutuh America for anything
rn important step in preventing in­ $6.18 for vetch. The difference be­
2 cents.
not
needed by the army.
It
is
Kents iu April were up four
flation ¡that it will take away some tween what the grower received
cents over a year ago. Food was
of the purchasing power of the and what the government paid went Douglas who will try to bring in
up twenty-two cents, and clothing
people, which the administration to distributors, wholesalers, jobbers, meat from the Latin Americas, al­
was up twenty-one cents. Miscel­
laneous items were eleven cents
wishes so much to do. The adminis­ dealers and transportation.
so leather, wool and coffee. The
higher than in April, 1941.
tration. however, has not committed
By 1940 the growers had pro­ nation is heading for a shortage of
itself to H. R. 1036 nor has it duced 53,000,000 pounds of peas
been mentioned in the ways and and 26.000.000 of hairy vetch, coffee and what is imported will
means committee as a method of which was four times the 10-year be for the armed forces. Douglas
operating on the pocketbook of average and double the peak pro­ is not keen about bringing sugar
MARVIN KAMHOLZ
John Q. Citizen.
duction up to that time. Triple A from Cuba.
Editor and Publisher
Farmers in Oregon will be cal­ had launched an educational cam­
Sheepmen and cattlemen with
Entered as second class mail led upon to furnish carloads of paign among farmers Of the Pacif­ permits or licenses to graze their
matter. August 4. 1922, at the post hairy vetch and winter peas to ic northwest—apparently the only stock in national forests or on pub­
office in Vernonia, Oregon, under
save the soil of southern planters section where these seeds are grown lic domain are being shoved around
the act of March 3, 1879.
and to ship to England in the days satisfactorily. The seed trade bought by army air force and are appeal­
Official newspaper of Vernonia. Ore to come. Ten trains of 60 cars each a total of 35,000.000 pounds of the ing to their senators. The war de­
have rattled across the Sntinent seeds and growers sold the balance partment has taken over many
and the 600 carloads of seed have to commodity credit corporation, lo­ square miles for practice bombing,
been stowed in ships and landed in cal southern dealers being paid 20 ordering the stockmen out and tel­
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England. These shipments are charg­ cents per hudredweight to distrib­ ling them not to mention the targ­
PvtLISlEU 44$ftflATION
ed up to lend-lease.
ute to farmers. Some 300,000 south­ et, “military information." etc. Sen­
Expansion of seed cultivation in ern farmers planted the seed for a ators from states where the war
the northwest is scarcely six years cover crop, compared with 140.- department has established these
MEXICAN . RISS
SSOCIATION
old. It is part of the program to 000 farmers in 1939. When the bombing areas have presented a
N ational A dvertising save soil in the south from erosion program started less than three bill, jointly sponsored, directing
and is worked out by the depart­ per cent Of the farms had such a Secretary of War Stimson to com
R E présentâtive
ment of agriculture through Triple crop. The south is being rebuilt pensate the stockmen for loss of
NEW YORK • CHICAOO • DETROIT
A, the commodity credit corpora- by farmers in far off Oregon and their grazing rights.
St. Helens
Clatskanie
Rainier
Out of the Woods
T
though no one can predict accur­
ately exactly what they will be.
This much is certain: “Our civilian
economy is fast going on a mini­
mum subsistence standard, in the
Vernonia Eagle
by
J ames P reston
WASHINGTON SNAPSHOTS q:d:
Patch and pray—that’s the ad­
vice that William Batt, chairman of
the War Prixiuction Board require­
ments committee, has given to the
men who are turning out war goods
and consumer supplies in the na­
tion’s factories. As rationing of ci­
vilian goods is increased—and it
will be—the same advice can well
be applied to everyone in the na­
tion.
Observers here are careful to
point out however, that such “do
without” warnings do not apply to
products that are not scarce at the
present time. There is no disposition
to encourage people to skimp on
consumer goods just for the sake
of skimping.
Nevertheless, because of short­
ages in steel and other building sup­
plies, construction of new war
plants will be curtailed. This means
that existing equipment must be
used to the limit, and many more
factories now turning out peace­
time products will be changed over
to war production. Such conversions
are going to take a lot cf ingenuity
in adapting old machines to new
jobs and in training employees rap­
idly in new production techniques,
lut there is little doubt here that
these cap be done. In this connec­
tion, officials point to the speed
and efficiency that have character­
ized this change-over in the thous­
ands of plants that have already
gone all out for war.
So far as civilian rationing in
concerned, the office of price ad­
ministration is working on an over­
all rationing plan that will force
civilian purchasing to follow the
pattern of available civilian sdç-
plies more closely than at present.
More products are going to be ra­
tioned under the new set-up, al-
words of one official.
News that the aircraft industry
has increased military plane produe
tion 85 per cent in the six months
since Pearl Harbor is viewed here
as another indication of the spurt
that has taken place in war indus
tries generally. Plane output now
is so great that it will soon exceed
the total number of aircraft that all
the Axis countries combined can
make.
Not only are freighters and bomb­
ers coming off the assembly lines
faster than ever before; they are
also coming off better, because they
incorporate many new lighter fear-
uris that give them the edge on
the Axis.
There still is a conflict between
the Treasury and the House Ways
and Means committee over how
much money can 8»' raised from
the new tax bill, scheduled to be
reported to the House for action
about July 1.
The Treasury has recommended
l ew taxes that would bring the total
amount of additional revenue to
$8,700,000,000.
However, the bill in its tentative
farm as drafted by the Ways and
Means committee will raise approxi­
mately $6,700,000,000.
Thus, the Treasury and Congres­
sional tax experts are about $2,-
000,000,000 apart, and the argu,
■ment continues on how to make un
this difference.
The Treasury says it should come
from higher corporation taxes and
increased individual taxes on high­
er incomes.
There are many members of the
Ways and Means committee, how­
ever, who believe that most of the
money can be obtained through a
sales tax, and strong sentiment for
this type of tax continues.
COMMERCIAL FOREST AREAS
OF OREGON
14,414,000
OLD GROWTH UW T1MRF0 MATIIDtn
2,963,000
2,949,000
1,763,000
«TINT OF RESTOCKING NOT SURVEYED
147,000
1,212,000
24,265,000
Let Everybody Know You’re Investing
10 Percent of Your Income in War Bonds
The Vernonia Eagle
The attractive red. white and blue window sticker, pictured above, is
the new yardstick of patriotism in the War Bond drive throughout the
nation. With the slogan, "Everybody every pay day, ten percent,” sweep
ing the country, patriotic Americans on the home front are rallying to theii
Government s appeal for funds with which to help finance the war. The
home which displays the “ten percent" sticker is doing its share toward
Victory for America and the United Nations. The stickers are being dis
tributed through local War Savings Chairmen.
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