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Thursday, October 15, 1942
Vernonia Eagle
County News
® O ut -OF the W oods
•né*
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
Stand By, Hot Biscuit Slim!
lulose ig highly usable for thousands
The logging camp cooks have to of product«; first of all the paper
wait a week. Some items remem­ on which these and other words are
printed. Many new wonders have
bered from my own times at tables been wrought from wood cellulose
STREET WORK SET BECAUSE
loaded with provender designed and for war uses. The Nazis have made
OF CASH “GIFT”
executed by such powerful logging cow feed from it, and the cows
Thanks to a “Christmas gift” of
camp cooks as Hot Biscuit Slim, turn .their timber fodder into milk
$2,152 in tax money which the City
Steve Lid Malarkey and Cream Puff and beef.
of St. Helens received last Decem­
Fatty, had been rigged up for this
But so far lignin is mainly a left-
week’s cohmn. But I’ve had my over from the cookhouses of the
ber from the state highway com­
L ife rafts that H old to persons
nose in a book again. So here’s nation’s pulp mills. Those using the
ARE BEING MADE OF A NEW RUBBER,
-I.e
mission, some much needed repair
f __ developed gy a u s manufacturer .
something hot off the griddle about acid or sulphite process sluice out
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the RUBBER. IS BTSliTANTTO OIL,ACID
work will be done on the Old Port
ANP FIR.E
a modern cook of the woods.
more than two milion tons—yes,
land road and on Deer Island road.
Elwin E. Harris is his name, and two million tons—of lignin each
A state highway crew will be here,
his cookhouse is the Forest Prod­ year. Forest products chemists know
probably nex. Tuesday, to start the
ucts Laboratory at Madison, Wis­ that those tons have a world of val­
DEHYDRATION ANP TIGHT
project which is expected to be
PACKING IN HERMETICALLY
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consin. He has succeeded, says For­ ues. The pulp industry’s Institute of
SEALED TINS NOWMAKE
about a 10-day job.
tune magazine, in hydrogenating Paper Chemistry, the laboratories
IT POSSIBLE FORONE SHIP
S S.jf'
Work to be done on the t A'«
TO CARRY THE AMOUNTOF /
lignin and wood ,perh ps for the of individual companies, researchers
BEEF IT REQUIRED /O /
A/
stretches of -oad includes patching
first time anywhere. Fortune calls of the University of Washington
Srt/PS TO TRANSPORT/ ,
of bad spots and other repairs. The
IN
WORLD
WAR
I.
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this ‘‘an accomplishment of histori­ and Oregon State College of forest­
appropriation is insufficient to re­
cal proportions.”
ry schools, and others, as well as the
pave the two roads, but will aid ma­
Here’s why, to go on quoting U. S. Forest Products Laboratory,
-THe P ilot ofa
MOOERN BOMBER VS k
terially in putting them in go al
from the feature article, “The New have studied and experimented for
CAN PERFORM
shape again.
APPROXIMATELŸ
Age of Wood,” in the October is- many years to break lignin as well
KLEPP MARINE WAYS CO.
TWENT/FIVE DIFFERENT,
sue of this ten-dollar magazine of as cellulose down into effective
OPERATIONS «SIMPlÿ
GETS KAISER BARGE JOB
CITIES LEAGUE
py TOUCHIN6 BUTTONS
industry:
working parts, ,
WILL MEET HERE
The Klepp Marine Ways Co.* has
"Forcing hydrogen into wood or The Invisible Machine . . .
St. Helens will play host at a re­ received an order for three work
lignin
in a high-p.-essure bomb. he
& THERe
-
gional meeting of the League ot
ARE
The scientists have been steadily
barges
'.'rom
the
Kaiser
Shipbuilding
(Harris)
has
produced
a
substance
,
860
COURT PLASTER
\
Oregon Cities Nov. 9, it was an­
learning new things to do with the
' DIFFERENT
h/' SPOKEN
GETS ITS NAME FROMTHE '
LANGUAGES
nounced last week. The session will Co. of Portland. It is estimated the very much like ;he result of hydro­ cellulose part of wood, as they have
IN
/
FANCY PLASTER PATCHES
genating coal; a heavy, dark viscous
THE WORLD /
be held following a dinner, hut barges will be completed in
USED By LADIES AT COURT
.
discovered new facts about its mole­
TOPAy
IN THE TIME OF QUEEN ANNE
mixture
looking
and
smelling
like
place where the meeting is to be month.
cules and applied lhem. The great
OF ENGLAND. THE PATCH
—_
INDICATED POLITICAL AFFILIATION—
held has not been decided nor nas feet wide, the other two, 36 feet crude oil. From this it was easy to part of this field is still a blank un­
WORN ON THE RIGHT CHEEK INDICATED A
dis
ill
of
countless
fractions,
rang
­
WWI6; ON -THE LEFT . A TO«y
the program been entiiely outlined.
known. Fortune says, “Compared,
Expected to attend the meeting, long and 18 feet wide. The barges ing all the way irom alcohols, gly­ however, to what chemists know
cols, glycerine, to cyclic alcohols
11:00 A. M.—Morning worship.
in addition to League officials, will are to be 6 feet deep.
about lignin, their ignorance of cel­
and phenols for making plastics.
6
:30 P. M.—Christ Ambassador’s
be mayors and other city officials
lulose amounts to positive enlight­
Such fractions are being analyzed
services.
from the Columbia county towns of
enment. They don’t even know the
not only for war purposes, but to
7 :45 P. M.—Evening services.
Scappoose, Rainier, Colombia City,
exact chemical formula for a lignin
put
a
fingei-
on
the
will-o
’
-the-wisp,
i
Wednesday night, 7:45—Bible
Vernonia
plus
those
Clatskanie and
molecule, much less the arrange-
lignin.”
study and prayer meeting.
of St. Helens. A similar regional
s
ment of molecules in a chain. Until
Thursday, 2:00 P. M.—Ladies
Lignin a Cookhouse Leftover . . . they know this, they will continue
League session was held here about
St. Mary’s Catholic Church missionary and prayer band.
a year ago.
I
The splinter you stick in your to have a hard .time unlocking the
• Fr. Graecae
Friday,
7:45—Christ Ambas-
finger handling wood seems to be world of possibilities.” But they
Fr. Thiele
CREWS LAID OFF AT
sadors.
all tough fibre. But you know there will, Mr. Fortune, they will.
8:00 A.M.—Mass, 1st Sunday of
COLUMBIA CITY YARD
We invite everyone to be in our
are cells in it the naked eye can’t
Dictionary definitions of the
each month.
With the crews which once total­
services. z
s?e, and you know something binds molecule don’t help much in under- 7:15 A. M.—Confessions.
ed as high as 40 men laid off for
Ì the fibres of wood solidly together, standing this smallest of all mach- 9:30 A.M.—Mass, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Christian Church
an indefinite period, the Columbia
The fibres are “cellulose,” and Ma ines, this littlest working part of a
Sunday of each month.
City shipyard appeared to be pretty
—O’he Livingstones, Ministers
Nature’s glue that holds them in the vital substance. Wood chemistry is
much on dead center last week. A
9:45
—
Bible school, M. L. Herrin,
'form of wood is “lignin.”
seeking
working
knowledge
of
.
just
Church of Jesus Christ
»
check Wednesday disclosed that the
There you have the two basic how the lignin molecule is rigged up Of Latter Day Saints—
superintendent.
only personnel left at the company’s
parts of wood, cellulose and lignin. as-is, and then how it can be rigged
Sunday school convenes at 10 11:00—Communion service.
site at Columbia City were two
Chip the wood, cook the chips in in other ways to do o.her jobs than a. ni. at the I. O. O. F. hall under 11:30—Sermon subject: “The Will
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watchmen and Alfred Johnson, a
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either an acid or alkaline solution, the one for which Ma Nature made the direction of Charles Ratkie.
of God.”
foreman.
UERNÒH
WILLIAMS
’
and the lignin is dissolved. The cel- it, the binding of fibres into wood. superintendent.
6:30—Young People’s mee'.ing: Pan­
Exactly where the shipbuilding
el discussion.
Portland, Ore., Oct. 14—Direc­
plant, hailed early in the summer
7
:30
—Song, evening Communion
Assembly
of
God
Church
sible
that
some
hard-headed
type
of
Ten per cent of your income
as the successor to the Sommar- tor McNutt of the war manpower
—Rev. John W. Hodges, Pastor
and preaching service; subject of
in War Bonds will help to
strom brothers of World War I board reveals that an additional 18,- individual will come forward with
build the planes and tanks Sunday services:
sermon: “When God Says No.”
fame, goes from here could not be 000,000 workers should be engaged a rational and effective program
that will insure defeat of Hit­
9:45 A. M.—Bible school, direct­ 7:30—Wednesday evening piayer
ascertained. The story seems to be in war productive work by the end for balancing the labor situation. It
ler and his Axis partners
ed by Alban Colsen, superintendeu-
meet'ng.
that officials of the Columbia Ship­ of 194?. Of this total he estimates
is, without doubt, one of the big
building Co. have yet to tell their that 11,000,000 must be semi-skil-
e
foreman what type of ships they led, which means that they should, problems o'f the day and will be­
plan to build, possibly because the in most cases, receive considerable come more serious each week.
...
officials are not yet sure themselves instruction and training before re­
It appears to be only a matter of
On top of this, in spite of a fairly porting for duty.
high priority number, the yard ap­
This is another of the labor prob­ days until workmen will begin re­
pears to be unable to get material. lems which are developing apace. moving the 70 miles of rails of the
However, the Nation’s top priority Whether the computation is accur­ Shaniko branch of the Union Pacif­
wouldn’t help it out much for the ately based upon productive re­ ic serving Shermon and Wasco
reason that work has gone just quirements is not doubted, but the counties, despite .the protests of
about as far as it can until it is de­ assumption comes that something county officials and property own­
cided what type of vessel thé yard must be done to reach these figures ers of that area. The Metals Reserve
is to produce.
as to number of workers. No one in Co. has issued a requisition for the
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the 'federal service seems to be sug­ rails through war production board.
gesting that out of the 3,400,000 Decision to abandon the road was
civilian workers now on government reached at a hearing ir. The Dalles
VVTOULD you give up your pres-
Poor Man’s Chances
payrolls there could be some reduc­ before the interstate commerce com­
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
’’ ent income for two months to
tion
for
the
sake
of
industrial
pro
­
Blocked by Pay How
mission. Despite considerable effort
REACHES 330 TOTAL
work from 12 to 16 hours a day for
Enrollment in the local schools duction. At the peak of the first in the national capital by those in­
Under
the present inadequate pay
$1.94- Of course you wouldn’t—
lust week reached the total of 330. world war civil employment by the terested in keeping the road in ser­
for legislators, a poor man can’t
In the high school the enrollment government was slightly mire than vice their arguments proved futile.
neither would anyone else. And
afford to serve in the legislature.
of 133 was divided among the' four 900,000. Already, before the army Officials insist they have weighed
you wouldn’t ask anyone to work
classes with the seniors having 29; has exceeded in numbers that of all factors and that rails and other
This
is not American representative
for this less-than-bare-living wage.
juniors. 37; the sophomores 33; the first world war total, employ­ steel from Grass Valley south to
government!
This is not true de­
ment
i
s
up
approximately
150
per
Shaniko will be removed. The steel
and 34 freshmen were enrolled.
$1.94 was the rate of pay for
mocracy!
The elementary grades had the cent above (he employes needed at from Biggs to Grass Valley will be
members of the 1941 Oregon legis­
removed later.
following number of pupils register- thnt time.
The present rate of pay was fixed
Some people have been so bold
lature. This did not pay for one-
Grain growers and other shipping
ed: 1st, 27; 2nd, 23; 3rd, 35; 4th,
in
1859 or 83 years ago. $3 a day
23; 5th. 19; 6th, 19; 7th, 29; and as to suggest that at least one mil­ interest# are already worrying about
fourth of their actual living expenses
lion
o'f
these
federal
employes
en
­
then would be equal to $30 a day
moving the 1943 wheat crop. Sher­
Sth, 22. making a total of 197.
in working day and night to give
gaged with innumerable new
1
deal man county, largely agricultural,
now. Oregon pays its legislators less
you fair and just laws.
emergency agencies could be dis­ has produced more ;han two and a
than any other state in the Union.
pensed with and permitted to take half million bushels annually for the
Play Fair
work in factories, but this sugge«- past 20 years. Whether it will be
Oregon Heeds its Host
NEED CANDIDATES: MAYOR,
tion falls upon deaf ears, On the possible to move this crop to market
With Pour Lawmakers
WATER BOARD. COUNCIL
other hand, women will be impor- on trucks in 1943 is a moot ques­
legislators. Cive Them
A mayor, four councihnen, two tued ;o heed the industrial call to
You can assure that your representa­
tion, with no one apparently in po­
Adequate Pay
member» o’f the water commission, the tune of about six million,
tives in the Oregon legislature will
sition to guarantee that equipment
a city recorder and a city treasurer Whether this is a gallant course,
This
pay
increase
measure, has been
will be available. By 1944 synthetic
receive fair and reasonable pay by
are to be elected at the November according to old standards of chiv­
endorsed by
rubber production should have ad-
voting 300 X YES on November 3
general election, making a heavy alry, has not been made the subject
vanced far enough to ease the rub-
American Legion
ballot for consideration by the vot­ of congressional debate.
for the measure to increase the pay
ber crisis.
ers of the municipality.
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Farm workers are the most crit­
Congress of Industrial Organiza­
of Oregon legislators from $3 to
The final date for filing for these ically needed in al! the labor field.
Oregon poultrymen will have a
tion
$8
a
day
for
a
50-day
session,
only.
Reports are pouring in that perish­ busy fall and winter if they do their
American Federation of Labor
able crops in many sections of the share in producing the 200,000.000
In these critical times, Oregon
country were partly lost due to lack extra chickens that Secre.ary of
Oregon State Grange
needs its most able citizens as legis­
c'f labor for harvesting. One report Agriculture Wickard has called for.
MARVIN K AMHOLZ
lators.
They
must
be
given
adequate
League
of Women Voters '
from the northwest is to the effect Wickard has asked that these chick­
Editor and Publisher
pay. Remember, sound legislation
that out of a crop of 60 tons < f ens be held from the market until
And many other fair-minded
Entered as sec" nd class mail cherries, only 20 tons were saved.
comes from sound legislators.
they average three pcunds in order
groups.
Vatter. August 4. 1922. nt the post Some farmers, too
old to operate that meat supplies might be increas­
iffice in Vernonia. Oregon, under
except with the aid of modern ma- ed by 600.000,000 pounds before
The act of March 3. 1879.
chinery and whose boys have been the winter is over.
Official newspaper of Vernonia. Ore taken by army or navy, frankly
Since is hrs been requested that
state that they will be unable to the 200,000,000 extra birds be pro­
make the farm produce as it should. duced with existing equipment it
While processions o'f farm labor would seem tha. the Pacific coast
O re
have gone to shipyards and war in­ states will be called upon to furnish
dustry factories, leaving the farms a good share of the total increase,
inadequately manned, Farm wages as many of the mid-west states arg
are climbing rapidly and in some not equipped .or cold we ther pr »
r
r.id advertisement toy State-wide Citirene Committee To Increate Leaitlator'e Par. Erecweive committee—Dr. William G.
cases soaring toward shipyard lev- duction. Wheat and vege.able oil
Etereoa. Archbishop Edward D. Howard. Mrs. V. D. Dusenbery. Frank C. Bramwell. Mrs. P. S. Kaadt. Vernon WdUama.
meals will be an important part cf
Offscwa: 4LS S. W. Eleventh Avenue, Portland. Oregon.
N ational A dvertising els.
After the scholasties and econ- the feed required for the chickens,
REPRESENTATIVE
omista
and politicians have finish- and the supply of the latter is by
NEV.’ YORK . CHICAGO . DETROIT
id planning and debating it is pos- no means what it should be.
St. Helens
positions is 8 p.m. Saturday, Octob­
er 17.
To date there have been no such
filings.
Mayor Wilbur J. Smith has an-
nounced that he will not be a can-
didate for re-election, his expression
having come at the Monday even­
ing meeting of the council.
Three councilmen are to be chos­
en for a 'four-year term and one
for a two-year term. The terms of
O. J. Bish, Chares Rosebraugh, Joe
Oliva and Glen Williams are expir­
ing. 1 Remaining on the council are
E. R. . Zimmerman and W. J. Silva,
The terms of F. J. Tucker, re-
signed recently on account of poor
health and of John A. Anderson,
resigned because he is out of the
city, are to be filled on the water
commission. Holdover members of
the water commission are Paul Ev­
ans, I. B. Lindeman and F. D. Jone3
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Rainier
The Vernonia Eagle
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