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6 Thursday, July 30, 1942 Vernonia Eagle County News St. Helens “WE DID IT BEFORE AND WE CAN DO IT AGAIN" At the instance of the coast guard, members of St. Helens local 1-68, ILWU filled out persona; history forms in February, had their pictures taken and were fing- < rprinted. This was necessary be cause the men’s work required them to be on vessels and be on the wat erfront, All forms were delivered to a coast guard man to be filed in the Longview office of the guard. If the four page forms were fil ed such filing was so careful'}’ done that the entire lot, 60 or more, cannot be located and the longshoremen were busy Wednesday filling out duplicate forms. Photos will again be taken and a coast guard man, probably assisted by the sheriff’s office, will take the fing erprints. The Vernonia Eagle by peas to the viners. The crop is very spotty this year with some fine yields and a few very poor ones. The wet weather this year was given as the cause of the difference in that some fields were full of weeds which the own ers were unable to clean during the wet, rainy weather and which chok ed out many of the peas. The peas are threshed and cool ed here and then trucked to the Hillsboro plant of the Maling com pany where they are frozen. Early indications are also that the mint crop in the Clatskanie sec tion will be rather spotty with again some of the finest crops in prospect that this community has over had and again some fields which are not looking too good. At The Churches . . J ames P reston Because news from far-flung battle fronts fails of cheer, intel ligentsia here declines to hazard a quick war guess. But, new peaks will rise on the home front where the battle of production, already ov er the top, continues prolific under daily orders and regulations expect ed to be more drastic and of long duration. Christian Church —The Livingstone». 9:45—Bible school, M. L. Herrin, superintendent. 11:00—Communion service. 11:30—Morning se.mon, subject— "Becoming a Christian.” 7:30—Song, evening Communion and preaching, sermon subject, “I Choose Christ.” 7.30—Every Wednesday evening, prayer meeting. Changes already affected are no', the end. Hardly an industry, no matter how remote from war effort, St. Mary’s Catholic Church Mass at 8 o'clock Sunday morn will remain unaffected. Major in dustrial plants already have been ing, August 2. converted. The smaller plants will be brought in to forestall as many Church of Jesus Christ casualties as possible. Of Latter Day Saints— OREGON NEWS SIGN-UP FOR SWIM SCHOOL COMING ALONG RAPIDLY Registration for the American Red Cross-Kiwanis club learn to swim school is coming along rapidly, Herb lEisenschmidt, who is in rharge of the course said. First to register for the class was Lee Tucker, 7, of West St. Helens. Principal stroke to be taught dur ing the campaign will be the pop ular crawl stroke, which is the most efficient. The class instruc tion is free and classes will be held for swimmers of various abilities Portland, Ore., July 29—The from beginners to life savers. Reg smart and progressive Gunderson istration blanks and a schedule of classes can be obtained at the swim brothers, Chester and Alvin, scored a ten-strike for the plywood in ming pool. dustry of Oregon when they succes SEPTEMBER ELECTION sfully sold 'he government on the DUE ON PETITIONS idea of plywood lifeboats for the Petitions asking that the ci.ty re United States maritime commission. corder call a special election at A contracts signed last week calls which voters may consider a chart for the construction of 1000 such er amendment abolishing the water boats in Gunderson Brothers Port commission were printed this week land plant, involving over $1,300,- and presumably are in circulation 000. Heretofore all lifeboats fot now seeking signatures. The pe the American fleet of liberty ships titions will have to have a total of have been made of steel. Tests have between 350 and 370 signatures be proved that the plywood boats are fore the election can be called since much stronger and lighter thar the law requires that they be signed boats made of steel, and over 1000 by a number equivalent to 15 per tons of this precious metal which cent of those voting for mayor at heretofore has gone into the Con the last general election. struction of lifeboats will now be The election itself, if sufficient saved for other purposes. However, signatures are obtained, will be selling the advanced idea to the beld Monday, September 28, which government was no easy job for the is about as early as it can legally Gundersons, who doggerly stuck to be scheduled. The council is ex the task for many months in the pected to enact a resolution at its face of almost insurmountable ob next session, which will be August 3 stacles. The company spent thous setting the election date, apointing ands of dollars proving the practi judges and election boards and des cability of plywood for such pur ignating polling places. poses and many months of engineer ing, which finally convinced skep tical officers of the navy of the merits of 'the plan. The Gundersons have opened the door for plywood HOGUE RIVER MAN ELECTED through this contract which shou'd NEW SCHOOL HEAD prove its worth in many other Walter M. Dennis, superintendent fields of manufacturing. All of of the Rogue river schools for the which will add millions of dollars past five years, has been elected as to the payrolls and industries of head of the Clatskanie schools for Oregon, the home of lumber. the coming year. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Dennis and ten Several small packers in Oregon year old son arrived in Clatskanie have joined in protesting against last week to make their home the no ceiling on livestock and a here. ceiling on processed meat. The de Mr. Dennis is a graduate of the partment of agriculture is trying Rogue River high school in the to work out a plan which will pre class of 1923. He attended Albany vent the small packers from be college at Albany and got his B.A. ing forced out of business. It is degree there in 1929. He has at suggested that the government pur tended the summer session of the chase 75 per cent of the product university of Oregon in 1939, 1940 at lease-lend prices, which are going and 1941 and has been there again to the large packers, and then sell this summer. the meat to retailers at a price which will enable them to make HARVESTING OF PEAS a profit and at the same time pro UNDERWAY IN CLATSKANIE Work was started here Monday tect consumers. The government morning. July 20, on the harvest would nose on the transaction of ing of approximately 200 acres of course. Another proposal is for the government to buy the livestock and green peas. About eight viners and two cool pay packers a fee for processing. The lease-lend program is upset ing systems have been set up by the B. E. Maling Co.. Inc., of Hillsboro, ting domestic prices. It is causing outbid the who have contracted for the crop, the big concerns to nn the old Graham place, and « small packers for livestock. The crew of truckers is hauling the price of butter has been upped 3 cents a pound for the lend-lease. This, in turn, is affecting the price cf fluid milk, but if a dairyman can find labor to milk the cows it i1' a benefit to him. There is no ceil MARVIN KAMHOLZ Editor and Publisher ing on butter. * • • Entered as second class mail Ralph Mitchell, executive secre •latter. August 4. 1922. at the post office in Vernonia. Oregon, under tary of the Oregon state salvage Vie act of March 3, 1879. commission advises that his organ isation will have between 1500 and • fficial newspaper of Vernonia, Ore 2000 patriotic volunteer workers in the national drive to save waste material. Incidentally, Walt Disney 0 R EdoObW $ £ I will have a cartoon movie urging P U 111 S If E RJ 44s A T I 0 N conservation of fats. It is Disney’s contribution. To harvest the pear crop in the Rogue river valley Senator Holman's office in the national cap- N ational A dvertising itol has been asking the department to permit COC enrollees at the R epresentative several camps in that vicinity tn NEW YORK . CHICAGO . DETROIT go into the orchards and do the Clatskanie THE POCKETBOOK! (tyubkinqtbn q / KNOWLEDGE | Out of the Woods War Gloom in the Woods ... The black war news of summer has made pessimism popular, but to any man of sane mind and sound heart this gloom is as fool ish as was the exaggerated opti mism that spread from spring vic tories in Russia and the Pacific. It makes nice going for the Crybaby Charlies and Weeping Willies of defeatism. They’ve crawled out of the walls and from under the logs, end they are telling us again that England is haywire, Russia is burned out, and the Chinese are sunk, with “What’s the use?” as the theme of all the moaning. I’ve heard the like in a dozen towns in recent weeks. The defeat ist line has been given special ap plication for the people in the tim ber centers of vital war production. The forest resource of the region is pictured as being ravaged and “denuded” for the needs of our sol diers, sailors, shipbuilders and plane makers. “The forests are being ruined by all this cutting for the war,” the Weeping Willies moan. “It begins to look like we're losing. /Even if we do win, there’ll be no more timber, but only ghost towns.” That’s a big help to our fighting forces, is’nt it iGriticism of the English is 'n style again for the moment, but you can be sure that in Great Britain there is little of the defeatism that we tolerate here. The forests of Scotland really and truly are being stripped for war uses, and the for est and timber agencies of the Brit ish Government are throwing all their resources into the job instead cf using official power to impede it. Also in Australia Government for estry has gone all-out for the war effort. Here is a typical item from the April issue of the Australian Timber Journal: “In Baradine district ( New South Wales), cutters were crowded on Crown areas, when private prop erty supplies became exhausted The life of the Crown areas, how ever, is limited.” In Canada, likewise, there is just cne over-all forest policy, and tha' is to use the forests to the utmost for war production. But in our own forest-rich coun try, where estimated war require ments for lumber in 1942 amount to le3s than 2 per cent of the na tion’s supply of standing sawtimb er, there is constant propaganda egainst forest war production. It. is propaganda because it is not di rect and honest. It wears a false face of horror and woe over “de vastation” that does not exist in fact, an 1 it weeps and moans on the theme of “What’s the use of wood for victory if the peace leaves us nothing but barren tim berlands? Great stuff for the Crybaby Charlies and Weeping Willies to use nowadays. And for more sinister agents to talk in perfect freedom —it’s official. A report from London cites a remark of one working man to an other on the day after the fall of Tobruk as an example of the spirit of the plain people of England in the face of disaster. He said, “I can’t rightly see at the moment ex actly how we are going to win, but if anyone told me we wasn’t, I’d bust a larfing.” As yet we haven’t had to suffer the beatings the bombed London ers have endured. Surely we can take the bad war news in a spirit a3 tough as theirs. Real loggers laugh at the “We’re losing” squuwkers and the “What’s the use?” moaners, while they work to get out more logs for Mr. Nelson. heavy work—the lighter work be ing handled by women and children. The answer is that the government will take all the boys home, as their parents had been promised, and that all will go together. The suggestion that the boys who would like to pick pears be given their transportation and return home af ter the harvest met with emphatic refusal. * • * r.nd Curry the proprietors of resorts have banded together and asked congress for relief. It is estimated that $20,000,000 is invested in re sorts in these counties alone. They can be reached by automobile only and the tire situation has caused business to drop at an alarming i«te. Next year, they fear, it will be worse. Senator McNary has in troduced a bill authorizing RFC to make loans to distressed resort own ers up to 75 per cent of the value. In the counties of Clatsop, Tilla This proposal is similar to that of mook, Lincoln, Lane, Douglas. Cool, Home Owners Loan Corp., whici loaned to the home owner to pay iff a mortgage. The McNary bill lequires that taxes shall be paid, the mortgage, if any, disposed of. the property maintained in go„d condition and the insurance kept up. No payments would be required ♦ ♦ * by RFC until two years after the war. While the bill was inspired Wirt ar« won by »Hading. not by by resort owners on the Oregon »¡♦ting in a fortl And today America il taking the coast the measure, if enacted, offensive against the Axis with hard- would help practically every resort fighting, non-stoppabla men and in the mountains as well and hun materials! dreds of resorts in the Atlantic We're taking the offensive, too. states. against the enemy at home—the infla ON THE OFFENSIVE AMERICA! tionary 6th column that blows prices sky high. You can help in both fights by saving at least 10% of your money in U. S. War Bonds every pay day. Attack the Axis with your dollars today. You can start with as little as a 10c War Stamp and you can get a $25 00 War Bond (maturity value) for only $18.76—at your local post office, bank or other convenient sales agency. V. S. Tvraseey Depavrurrnr There is prospect of Oregon bid ders receiving contracts for 180- foot wooden tugs ¡rom the navy de partment. Limit is six boats to a yard. As this is written, it is under stood that a contract for about 40 small aircraft carriers of top speed and capacity of 32 planes has been awarded to the Kaiser yard in Portland. Sunday school convenes at 10 With its production house in or a. m. at the I. O. O. F. hall under der, WPB now assumes a new role the direction of Charles Ratkie. as umpire to decide what proportion superintendent. of available materials goes to armed forces and how much civilians will get. What happens to allocations Assembly of God Church —Rev. John W. Hodges, Pastor from here on is up to recipients. Sunday services: Two major problems remain: sta 9:45 A. M.—Bible school, direct bilization of wages and farm prices. ed by Alban Colsen, superintendent. The absence of a well-defined policy 11:00 A. M.—Morning worship, on these threatens to collapse the f :30 P. M.—Christ Ambassador’s Presiden’t anti-inflation program, services. unless average factory rates, up 26 7:45 P. M.—Evening services. per cent and farm prices, up 38 per Wednesday night, 7:45—Bible cent (over a year ago) are checked, study and prayer meeting. price control efforts of OPA Hen Thursday, 2:00 P. M.—Ladies derson can’t work. missionary and prayer band. Friday, 7:45—Christ Ambas If the War Labor Board blunders sadors. in favor of the “Little Steel” wag? We invite everyont to be in our increase, similiar demands are cer services. tain to spring up all around. The end result could force the whole price structure out of line and con trol might go glimmering. Hender son and other officials, therefore, are increasing pressure on the Pres ident to spell out a wage stabiliza Consolidated reports to national tion chart in dollars and cents. and state foresters show that Ore While the problem is how to have gon suffered one “man made” fire wage stabilization without freezing, in timber over the Fourth of July a point by point formula is needed week-end. During that period there to determine exactly under what were 75 fires but 74 of them were conditions increases will be granted started by lightning. All were con in all industries. Labor rails against trolled. This is a marvelous record freezing and advocates industry and one which we believe major subsidies which latter measure Con credit must be given to “Keep Ore gress opposes. gon Green,” the educational move Confusion, which already has ment to remind Oregonians of the forced the President to take direct importance of preventing fires in action to control faim prices, may our forests. However, the most dangerous por also bring sufficient pressure to get down to brass tacks on wages. It is tion of the fire season lies ahead believed, by the politically jnformed, of us. The next two months are however, that the administration the critical months, and if the nor hopes to dodge this issue until after mal fall rains are delayed we may have danger right through to the November elections. Thanksgiving or even Christmas. Meantime the Washington picture Records show that some of the presents many oddities: Mr. Hen worst fires in Oregon history came derson, a top new-dealer being push in late September or October. ed all over town by labor pressure Facta Important groups who, at the same time, eulo These facts must be borne al gize Mr. Nelson, a business man, for ways in mind: his labor-management policy. Lumber and plywood are among the most vital army and navy ma The whole wage situation neces terials. sarily involves consideration of the Forests hold the water supply War Labor Board’s recent New Eng for most Oregon agriculture. land textile decision, which con Forests are the major factor in ceivably might lead to a policy of flood control and soil conservation. eliminating regional wage differen Destroyed forests require 100 tials. If this ruling, which granted years to replace. wage increases to nine plants, were The Japanese and the Germans adopted as a national policy, it know all this. They know the de would make wage scales uniform moralizing results which could fol throughout the country. This would low general conflagration. They cause general disruption of wage can attack by plane or they can scales and almost certainly eliminate attack by sabotage. Our defense any possibility of the successful against such attacks depends on operation of Mr. Henderson’s price the grid system of patrols and look control policy. outs. For that reason we must keep If wage scales become uniform, the skies clean and clear so that Washington realizes that labor lookouts can report each fire as would have a strong tendency to soon as it makes smoke. We learned over the Fourth what evacuate congested industrial cen ters and this move, in turn, would we can do. We can use the forests aid and abet the plans of the Na without being careless. There should tional Resources Planning Board be no excuse for sweeping forest which envisage the wide use of ex restrictions if we all continue to isting government-financed plants “hold the thought” that any per surrounded by government-owned son who is careless with fire at this season makes himself the ally housing. of the Nazi and the Jap. Fire Danger Lies Ahead, Is Opinion JOIN THE ATTACK ON TOKYO, . . YOURSELF! Every person in America may not fly over Tokyo, but every one's dollars can help produce the bomb ing planes that do! You, you, you, can join the attacks on Tokyo by saving at least 10% of yaur pay in War Bonds—by joining your com pany's pay-roll savings plan today or going to your local bank or post office and buying War Savings Bonds—at least 10% of your pay—every pay day. Remember you can start buying War Bonds by buying War Stamps for as little as 10c and that you get a $25 War Bond (maturity value) for only $18.75. V S. 7r«uar> Dararlwwxt
