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4 Thursday, July 2, 1942 Vernonia Eagle County News tions of job-seekers will be taken there. Of interest to local men was his announcement that the same wage scale which holds in Portland COUNTY’S NEW COST SHEET shipyards would be paid here and IS ECONOMY ONE that men living in this area would A war-time economy budget in be given first opportunity for em which such appropriations as cash ployment. for the annual Columbia county fair were entirely eliminated was the product of two days of labor this week by the six-man county budget committee. The general fund cost JOHNNY VOLL ELECTED sheet runs higher than the one set coach at M c M innville Johnny Voll has been elected up in 1941, but the road budget is down substantially, so that the coach and physical education in entire budget is $4,304.67 less than structor at McMinnville for the in 1941, which is the latest full year coming year. Mr. Voll, who was coach here for which a cost sheet was set up. Total of the general fund budget for several years previous to last is $192,595.08 with receipts esti year when he taught at Rainier mated at $65,050 and the levy set high, submitted his resignation to at $127,543.08 compared with $110- the Rainier school board Wednes 637.51 levied in 1941. A six mill day, June 24. levy will raise an estimated $81,000 for the road fund, while receipts of $65,350 will increase this budget to $146,350. DR. BAILEY IS NEW The budget committee entirely e- REPUBLICAN LEADER liminated a $3,500 item to help fi Dr. A. C. Bailey, St. Helens dent nance this year’s fair and only al ist, was elected chairmen of the Co lowed $165 to pay insurance on the lumbia county Republican central buildings at the fairgrounds. It is committee at a meeting held in believed that money available from Rainier Thursday evening, June 18. the state will not be sufficient to Dr. Bailey was chairman of the finance much more than a one-day Snell for governor club at the re club fair. cent primaries and long has been Pay Raises Given active in Republican circles. Pay raises for four county of Mrs. Alice Wood of Rainier was ficials, the assessor, sheriff, clerk, chosen vice-chairman; Mrs. Leila and treasurer, are contained in the Bushman, Scappoose, secretary budget committee’s recommenda treasurer; Frank Taylor, Vernonia, tions. It set sufficient funds aside state committeeman; Mrs. George to pay each of the four $300 extra VanNatta, St. Helens, state com a year, which would make the sal mitteewoman; Grant Watts, Scap aries paid the assessor, sheriff and poose, congressional committeeman; clerk $2,100 per annum and $1,500 Mrs. Bessie P. Weed, Vernonia, for the treasurer. congressional committeewoman. Clerks at the courthouse were raised from their present $85 per RED CROSS CANTEEN month limit to $95, while provision COURSE STARTS JULY 2 tvas made to pay clerical workers Miss Mildred lElrod, economist who have had more than a year’s Tor the N. W. Electric company, is experience .with the county $100 being loaned for instruction of a per month. These raises become ef Red Cross canteen course, and the fective July 1. class (30 wanted) is to start July When, as and if the county em 2. ploys a nurse she'll receive $1,800 Mrs. W. E. Proctor is local chair per year, plus $600 in traveling ex man for enrollment, and is being penses and a small allotment for assisted by Mrs. J. A. Jensen, either office costs, the budget committee of whom may be contacted by decided. women interested in enrolling. Anticipating the call for county Those taking the course, which in financial assistance in civilian de structs in preparation of food for fense, the committee alloted $100 large groups on short notice, per month to be spent for this serv should have taken the Red Cross ice, Another new allotment this nutrition course. Others may be year is $200 for maintenance of the accepted, but cannot receive the ccunty park at Hudson. canteen pin unless they go back Although the county is not cer and take the nutrition course later. tain what it will have to pay for the site of the CAA airport at Scap poose, the budget committee allo cated $3,525 to buy the approxi mately 100 acres which will be needed. Total relief allotment was $41,- 270, which is a small decrease. This sum is broken up for the following programs: Aid to dependent chil dren, $4,970; public assistance, $15- 000: blind aid, $800; old age assis tance, $20,500. THE POCKETBOOK KNOWLEDGE St. Helens R ubber heel WITH A WOODEN CORE HA6 BEEN DEVELOPED ey ONE COMPANY AC A MEANS OF SAVINO Clatskanie Ruasrn Rainier CONCERN PLANS BUILDING OF FOUR WAYS The final hurdle in the way of the long-anticipated shipyard at Co lumbia City was surmounted last Friday when the Columbia Ship building Co. signed a lease on the 27-acre Cibley mill site at its board of directors meeting in Portland. Plans now are, John Webb, the vice president said, to construct four ways at Columbia City and the new company hopes to have these ways built inside of 30 days, provided a green light can be ob tained on priorities for practically every bit of material which will be used on the work. Mr. Webb an ticipated no difficulty in obtaining the priorities. Hiring of men to help build the new yard which is to raise on the foundations of the old site is to start in a few days. Mr. Webb de < larcd a field office would he lo cated on the site in Columbia City probably by next week and applies The Vernonia Eagle MARVIN K AMHOLZ Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail natter. August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879, Official newspaper of Vernonia. Ore O ieg I o O lws p T pe » P ublishers 4-sfs * tio $ N ational A bveitiiihc R epresentative NEW YORK . CHICACO • DETROIT Arnold: “The end of the war should bring a boom rather than depres sion.” (^i/ilunqton Gas Ration Plan May Be Delayed owe eoMpAwy ie To SPEMP £ $000,000 nSìl Ww SrK “THIS yEARTÖ TRAIN MECHANICS FOR. THE ARMEP forces ey PACVIU6 F|5H IM A MEV7 "ANTISEPTIC * ICE FISH OPOR CAN BE completel / pEsifecyeP1 . rr « ESTIAAATTP NlOfeTH PACIFIC FISHERMEN WILL use «woo tons of THIS NEW ice TM i 5 /EAR — Out of the Woods Stevens Paul Bunyan, I’ve heard some where was able to juggle logs—in his prime he could keep seven fir tuts tossing in the air at one time. But Paul was puny, compared to the forest economists of our day, who can sit at a desk and juggle hundreds of billions o’ board feet end hundreds of millions Of timber land acres without raising a bead of sweat. What is more wonderful this tre mendous timber juggling is done by remote control, in offices far, far from the woods. It’s truly big stuff. It uses up earloads of paper and tanks Of ink every week. The figur ing is done by electric power, and at a rate so furious that hardly a day goes by without a fire alarm be ing rung because of an adding machine hot-box. shaft-hole in the center of the circle, and the headquarters clerk couldn’t figure the drawing out as meaning anything ibut cheese. A blizzard closed the camp roa.t Paul’s ehop- pers had to roll boulders down a bill all winter and run beside them to grind an edge on their axes. The next spring Paul Bunyan got him a lifetime grindstone—it was so big it only made one revolution be tween paydays—but in Paul Bun yan’s outfit there was a payday tve.’y seven minutes. And that was when Paul hired Johnny Inkslinger to write proper words and figures for him. There has never been another ‘forest econ omist like Johnny—he used a bar rel of ink every time he dotted an “i.” Would Johnny have fun nowa days, back in Washington! Boy! Peril* of Paperwork Foreitry. . . The Admiral's Way. . . Timber Jugglers. . . The accident rate is high. Once a forest economist piled up so much paperwork that when the pile caved in on him it took a crew of miners 74 hours to dig him out. Anyhow, that’s what I’ve heard. It’s not too unlikely, when you re member that, for the whole country, the paperw’ork foresters have over 600 million acres of forests, 1700 billion board feet Of standing tim ber, and similar Bunyan figures on second-growth, forest fires, forest products production, and on many „‘her items to juggle with. They’ve figured it out that 13,- 507,118 and % persons live, directly or indirectly, wholly or in part, off the forests. The H person is a for est economist who was run by mis take into a super mimeographing machine—and lost his legs before it could be thrown into reverse. Probably you’ve heard that when Paul Bunyan invented logging he used to make rough drawings of items he wanted freighted up from headquarters—-Paul couldn’t write words. Once he ordered a new grindstone that way. But it was a cheese that was brought back tc camp. Paul had forgotten to draw a A gyppo logger in our times has to keep legal and bookkeeping tal ent on tap to do the work that he used to handle on his hip, wtyh time and tally books. Even a whistlepunk has forms to fill out. And we “ain’t seen nothin’ ” yet. The forest econ omists, the paperwork foresters, have laws on deck which, if passed, will probably boost big-timber pa perwork a good 25 per cent. If this gees cn, in time there’ll have to be an adding machine on every stump ranch. But maybe it won’t g" on. They’ve got a real fighting Admiral running the Navy now. He found his outfit swamped with paperwork. What he did about it was to order exactly onehalif of all the typewrit ers, mimeopraphing machines, and the like, on the Navy’s ships to be put ashore. This hasn’t seemed to hurt the Navy any in Midway wat ers and the Coral Sea. Maybe, by some miracle a real timber forester, with plenty of bark on him, will get to be bull of the woods over the forest economists. And maybe he will swing his ax, a la Admiral King, and slash the red tape out of the woods. Maybe. After being in a congressional committee for almost a year, a bill has been reported which, if it be comes la«’, will be a blessing to the t xing bodies of half a dozen coun ties in Oregon. The measure intro duced by Senator Charles L. McNary would permit states and counties to levy taxes on land acquired by the military establishment. It would apply, for instance, to Jackson. Ben ton. Umatilla and Tillamook Coun ties. where there are cantonments, ammunition dumps, bombing ranges, shore stations and army air fields Where an air field Is municipally owned it would not come under the presumptive law. Corvallis canton ment has 34.000 acres and the Med ford cantonment is equally large. There are 14 sections of land used by the Hermiston munitions dump. Total aggregate for Oregon has not been compiled. • * • Oregon department of geology in a bulletin states that production o' Coos bay coal is between 10 and 20 tons a day. The two army can tonments will require 140,000 tons a year. Whether the Coos bay coal fields are sufficiently extensive to meet this demand will not be known until a personal inspection is made by an army engineer who will visit •hem this month. The comment of army engineers is that there are no lail facilities and no machinery to increase the output. Furthermore, there is a greater lack of miners in the northwest than in any othet part of the country, a shortage of 22.8 per cent as against 7.4 per cent for the nation. Washington coal fields, declares an army officer, are capable of providing the coal ton nage if they can obtain the labor. If it is possible, the army always ob tains its coal from the nearest mines, but the chances are that Washington coal will supply the Oregon cantonments. • ♦ ♦ Only seven field offices of war production board are doing as much business as the regional of'ice at Portland. It has surprised the field operations division, the activity of Portland, which they frankly ex pected to be way down the list. As soon as the office force can be en larged repre-entatives will visit Eu gene and eastern Oregon—anywhere in the state necessary—instead of compelling people from these com munities to travel to Portland to discuss war orders. The Start of Ink*linging. . . Portland, Ore., July 1—Orders by Price Administrator Leon Hender son placing a ceiling on canned goods, and requiring trucks to main tain a 75 per cent load on return trip«, have aroused an increasing volume of protest from canners and truck operators in Oregon. The canners explain that while the price which must be paid growers and the price at which the processed product may be sold are fixed, there is no limit on labor cost and that this it- em^has increased to a point where continued operation of canneries is practically impossible, unless ceil ing prices are changed to conform with the higher labor costs. For the- truck men it is asserted that more than 90 per cent of the food and other supplies are deliver ed to inland points by truck and that there is no comparitive move ment of canned goods in the oppo site direction; hence it is impossible for them to obtain loads for the re turn trip. Both independent and chain store operators declare that it is physically and legally impos sible for them to comply with the order since many of the trucks in which deliveries are made are not licensed to do commercial hauling and therefore eould not solicit re turn loads if there was demand for movement of the goods toward wholesale supply centers. Obviously, the order cannot apply to oil and gas trucks for the reason that they cannot transport other goods and there is no oil and gas movement from the points where they make deliveries. Inside tip is that the Columbia Power Authority bill sponsored by Senator Homer T. Bone of Washing ton, will not pass this year; may not pass next year unless it is thorough ly revamped and modified. There has been a tremendous wave of ap position to the measure r jm city councils, service clubs, ch mbers of commerce, editors and others, all of whom insist that this is no time to raise a controversial question and that if there should be need for a Columbia Power Authority of some sort it can wait until the war is won. Rep. Walter M. Pierce, al though a public ownership advocate, doesn’t like the bill. Rep. Homer Angell is a member of the joint committee which held hearings and has not committed himself, Rep. Martin Smith of Washington, co sponsor with Senator Bone, assured the joint committee that the Oregon delegation was solidly for the bill. Mr. Pierce followed this with a speech in which he stated his ob jections. byv"jAMES P reston There is a growing conviction among ranking fiscal leaders in both the House and Senate that cor porate and individual rates in the new tax bill must be reduced to prevent destruction of the sources of revenue. It is feared that the tax rates proposed by the House ways and means committee might seriously hamper war production by not permitting some companies to retain enough money from their earnings to meet debt obligations, expand plant facilities end provide for a sound financial future. The tax measure probably will be reported to the House by the ways and means committee about July 1. Well-informed congressmen say tfiat many members are feeling great concern about the proposed corporate taxes. Many believe that the House committee may modify these rates. Some influential leaders feel that these changes should be made: Re duce the excess profits levy from 94 to about 90 per cent end pos sibly as low as 85 per cent; and scale down slightly the tentative normal tax of 24 per cent and the corporate surtax of 16 per cent. Senator Vandenberg, a member of the finance committee, recently asserted: “It is for less important for us to raise an additional one or two billion dollars in taxes than it iis for us to preserve functioning economic resources out o’r which the government can safely borrow the funds to close the gap in the bal- anc sheet.” From WPB Chairman Nelson came the following significant state ment: “For the first time in the history of the human race there can be (after the war) enough 'f everything to go around.” Observers here are wondering about the lecent sts-.emeni. by the War Labor Boil'd in i»s official publication, VICTORY. The maga zine says the beard plans to handle the closed shop issue by requiring mantenance of union membership. This contrasts with statements !>■.' WLB Chai:man Davis th t no rig id policy would be followed; that ea h case wou'd be handled serae- ately and on its merits. The execu tive order creating WLB savs that each dispute must be settled on its own merits, and it is believed that this police will be -dhered to despite the iffic'al pronouncement. That nationwide gasoline ration ing may be delayed through the summer season is the encouraging possibility reported to the Oregon State Motor association, according to Dr. E. B. McDaniel, who points cut, however, that a sudden change io the war condition might disrupt the situation. Although the rubber supply is the determining factor in gasoline lationing there are other points which tend to delay installation of the national alllotment program, he rays. “The success or failure of the present drive for waste rubber is of prime importance and if public co operation produces a reasonabe supply of this scrap material, the ration will be postponed. Also it will require from four to six weeks at a minimum, to determine the amount f scrap secured, which means that at least a month will elapse before the true figures can be evaluated. << Rationing boards would have difficulty installing the card syst- em inside of two or three weeks after the scrap rubber has been evaluated. “Congress dislikes to force leg- islation of this kind upon the public close to election and their tendency will be to delay as long as military requirements will permit.” Failure of the general public to cooperate in the rubber campaign or in the slower-driving program or their inattention to demands that they eliminate unnecessary use of vehicles could hasten rationing, he Wage controls are still one of pointed out, urging that people the most discussed topics here. The should realize where the final re necessity for stablizing wages to sponsibility rests—upon themselves. '■■event inflation is emphasized by Price Administrator Henderson, who said recently: “We face the basic fact that the war program is cut ting down the supply of consumers' goods. At the same time, it is swel ling the stream of civilian incomes. "If wages and other incomes con tinue to grow at the same rate they have this past year, the pressure of swelling spending power upon the MOTHERS— shrinking supply of civilian goods will smash through our price ceil Medical science has ing. proved that milk is “I want to say franklv that un the most satisfactory less wage rates are stabilized—that food for growing is to say, unless wage adjustments are limited to remedying substand children and adults! ard and inequitable conditions—the Grade A Milk & Cream cost of living cannot be held.” International economy and social organization after the war have been favorite subjects if key Ad ministration spokesmen in state ments and addresses both here and in other parts of the country during the last fortnight. AeeiQfpn* A'*’’—C.w—' Phone today for reg ular delivery to your home. 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