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Vernonia Eagle Thursday, November 26, 1942 THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE ounty News by +. Helens .IE SHIPMENTS DUE FOR EVADA, OREGON PLANTS Three carloads of Columbia coun- iron ore—totaling about 150 tons -will be shipped within a few days i plants at Coscade Locks and at oulder City, Nev. where experi- ents will be conducted to discover this ore, which has a high phos- jiorous content, can be smelted by ew processes so that it can be con- erted into high grade iron and teal. This move to obtain Columbia ore or experimental purposes was spon- ored by the Pacific Northwest War ndustries commission, a recently- ormed organization which repre- ents Oregon, Washington and the Jonneville administration. Ore for the three carloads which ire expected to ¡be dispatched within he next few days is being taken rom the Charcoal Iron company’s loldings about two miles west of »cappoose. County trucks are haul- ng the ore to Scappoose where it will be loaded into rn Iriad cars. A ¡hovel supplied by the Bonneville administration is being used to load Ithe trucks and the machine later be moved to J.oppoose place the in the railroad cars. ALL-OUT C D DRILL PLANNED IN DECEMBER December 7 will mark the first anniversary of the vicious attack made on Pearl Harbor by the Japs and on that date the St. Helens ci vilian defense organization, which I existed principally on paper a year ago, will be given another test in an all-out incident drill which if. scheduled to start at 7 p.m., Mayor R. W. Simeral said. The test Dec. 7 will include all elements of the civilian defense or ganization, the mayor declared, and will be the first one which has been staged after dark, Regulations which formerly forbade night drills for civilian defense have been apiended so that these tests may be staged during darkness. Rainier ODT Deadline Postponed Pos.ponement of the ODT dead line for “Certificates of War Neces sity” .rom November 15 to Decem ber 1 will give county farm truck owners time to make application for a certificate before effective date of the ODT program. The county USDA War boa d urges ev ery truck owner who has not yet made application to do so immedi ately. The county farm transporta-» tion committee sti'l offers assist Meetings are now being held to determined the minimum level of es ance to farm truck owners in get ting and filling out application sential civilian production. All that forms. is allotted to civilian production must conform to simplification and Horieiho—i “Urf oxen” standardization program decreed Horseshces, milk cans and fenc for civilian industry. A sunburst of ing material.-, are not included in the simplification orders was recently machinery freeze order, W. C. John released by WPB. 1943 fashion ad son, head of the county farm ma mits no frills. chinery rationing committee, reports He also cautioned farmers agr.inst The six-weeks War Bond drive appealing for release of frozen started November 15 will be the farm machinery and equipment un greatest publicity drive in history, less a real emergency exists. Ma Treasury officials predict. Success chinery released through appeals or failure means voluntary or com will be charged against rhe county’s pulsory savings after January. 1943 quota. FOUR WORLD WAR 1 GUNS GOING BACK FOR SCRAP Four world war field guns, two 3-inch pieces and two five-inch pieces which were secured by the Rainier American Legion post with city cooperation, were recently ord ered returned to the army to be used as scrap in the building of modern weapons. Army trucks last Friday came and took away the old guns which had 'been located on the city hall and Rainier school grounds. MOOSE LODGE GIVES FLAG TO OBSERVATION TOWER The Rainier Moose lodge has chased and donated a flag to local observation post. A pole h^s been erected by E. A. Britts and I. E. Tyrrell, who did the work over the week-end so the flag is there to display when weath er permits the use of it. OREGON NEWS AND COMMENTS VERNON WILLIAMS 1 Seattle to bid on orders ottered by The Great Fir Freeze . . . No doubt you’ve heard that the the agency. Government has hogtied Douglas fir This is war, war in the woods. It lumber at the sawmill docks, ex has come close home to the men of cepting only one low grade. No one lumber. Most have sons, brothers can buy any without the say-so of or other relatives on the fighting the Army Engineers, signed and fronts. By now they know, when counter-signed. No other war article bids are asked for a particular or has been so completely chokered in der, what it means in terms of the Government’s own wire rope. battle. Aircraft lumber, decking for There are reasons. The War Pro fighting ships, ponton timbers, duction Board has summed them up structural timbers for docks and in calling Douglas fir "the most crit warehouses, boat-framing timbers— ical species of lumber in the United all such items are mainly destined job where the shooting States for war purposes.” These arei to ’ do ’ their • • ------- fine, large words. Just what do they* an^ bombing goes I on. Douglas fir for such fighting need® mean? One answer is minesweepers. i. is being produced because the mesa and . employ- Maybe you read in some of the news of lumber, ... employers ,- ,r , stories from Guadalcanal of U. S., eeis; t selves to be right in the thick of it. Navy minesweepers tackling Jap* destroyers. Did you think of that Men were short and equipment was item in terms of Douglas fir? Well, short in October, 1942, but more it's a good thought. Think around lumber was produced that month some more about our war job, and than in October, 1941. your mind’s eye should see mine The Freeze Is Hard . . . sweepers swarming about a whole The war needs for Douglas fir are lot of attack bases. There should be mostly in what the trade calls heavy more, and there will be. cutting—big timbers, giant timbers, You’ve read of wounded fighting produced according to rigid engi ships being towed. There's a type neering specifications. To make sure of boat called a rescue tug. The of this material at each mill, prac Navy has slews of tugs. Even the tically all Douglas fir lumber was Army has them. More are urgently sewed up by the WPB order, the needed, many more. ever-to-be-remembered L-218. Frozen to Fight . . . Sawing on orders for timbers; The items cited are small snap leaves a sidecut of boards and shots of a giant scene. Back of it is dimensions from the logs as they go a great driving effort of building through the saws. They are also in. secondary Navy boats—the mine the freeze The sidecut has to b« sweepers, the subchasers, the tugs, piled around the mill, wherever and other types. To each yard a there’s a hole for it, until some ci flow of framing timbers, decking vilian buyer can get an order over and planking must be kept moving the long route “through the char« steadily, at the top level of demand. nels” that will release the small stuT from the freeze. Then it may go It is all Douglas fir. The Corps of Engineers has a i into cantonments and defense l.o'.ia- civilian setup called the Central . ing, or into farm buildings f >r Iced Procurement Agency. It buys lum storage, repairs to homes and ..the« ber for the Navy as well as for the i civilian construction raten as rssen- Army. Douglas fir producers are i tial by WPB. This is war lumber. called to auctions in Portland and I but not fighting Douglas fir. Portland, Ore., Nov. 25—Potato growers of Oregon have finally been advised as to the ceiling prices. OPA says that for Malheur county U.S. No. 1, weight 100 pounds, No vember is $1.95, December $2.00, January $2.05, February $2.10, March $2.20, April $2.30. For the remainder of the state add 10 cents for each monthly call. For No. 2 the prices will be 30 cents lower in each category. OPA promises to revise its reg CHOIRS COMBINED FOR ulations for Oregon onions, which THANKSGIVING SERVICE have a ceiling of $1.75 per 100 Appropriate Thanksgiving day pounds, Growers have protested this services were held for the communi price, asserting that it costs about ty at the Presbyterian church Thurs $2 to get them into a warehouse and the present price is so low that day. Special music and plans were ar there is no inducement to plant; ranged for this community service that fields will be uncultivated next and choirs of both the Methodist year unless prices are such that the and the Presbyterian church were grower can break even and then combined for special music. Rev. some. Experienced labor costs 40 Jon Hosford and Rowan O’Brien cents an hour last year while this year the grower had to pay 65 cents took part in the hour of worship. A new organization has been born for women and children without ex in Clatskanie to be known as the perience. • • • Clatskanie Church council. The pur Government is considering ration pose of this new organization is to unite church-going people of the ing butter. The disposal of hundreds community so that a greater work of dairy cows has made a shortage of milk. The various federal agen may be done. cies, such as lend-lease and the war OVERSEAS BOYS TO GET department, are in the market for CHRISTMAS SMOKES ten million pounds of butter every Louis Larsen post of the American month and butter in storage is Legion through cooperation with down to approximately 85,000,000 Oregon’s two new congressmen, one of the tobacco companies is ar- pounds or 100,000,000 pounds short Lowell Stockman of Pendleton and ranging a “bonus cigarette deal’’ of the supply one year ago. The Harris Ellsworth of Roseburg, have which will make it possible for the price to customers is the highest been making inquiries as to commit folks at home to have their cig- it has been eince 1929—13 years tee assignments. Stockman would arettes and give them away, too. ago. There is one thing about but like to be on the committee on pub Starting November 25 tickets will ter—it is not suitable for hoarding lic lands, most of the public domain be offered for sale to the public by housewives and the shortage can in Oregon being in his district. The at a cost of $1.50. The ticket, when not be laid at their door. Tons of hardest job these congressmen will redeemed at a station to be an butter for Russia have been mov have is to find a place to live in nounced later will entitle the hold ing out of the ports of the north Washington. ers to a carton of popular cigarettes west, together with other tons and • • 0 plus seven free packages. The free trainloads of powdered eggs and With new dimout regulations for packages will be sent to the boys powdered milk. the Oregon coast, a resident there in the service. Receptacles for hold • • • inquires of the bureau of naviga- ing these packs of cigarettes will In the draft of 18 and 19-year tion why, if it is so important to be conveniently placed at the re old boys (now referred to as men) keep the coast dark, the Tillamook deeming stations, labeled for army, the law stipulates that youths of light. Cape Mears and other light- navy and marines so the donor may these ages will not be taken from houses are permitted to let their select the service to which the cig the farm until absolutely necessary. lights shine like a good deed in a arettes will be sent. If the farm boy leaves to go to a naughty wo. ■ Id. shipyard his deferment will be The bure •au answers that these changed and he will be in the 1-A are aids to naviga,ion which must class and put into uniform. The be kept in operation. None of the higherups in Washington are grad Japanese submarines which have MARVIN KAMHOLZ ually coming to understand that un been popping off along the Oregon Editor and Publisher less there is farm labor thousands Ct ast have taken a shot at the light Entered as second class mail of farmers will throw up their hands houses; the enemy needs these aids latter. August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under and cease producing, and that would as much as do the cargo carriers. ♦ * • be dangerous. )he act of March 3, 1879. Many farms in Oregon have al Protes ing ag inst the scrapping Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore ready tossed in the sponge for they of the battleship Oregon, now rest have been unable to operate with ing in the Willamette river, a vet out experienced help. It does not eran at Grants Pass has written 0|EClO(N please the farmer to hear the gov Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox ernment will assign women to farm saying that the battleship should not PU8 11SHI « work, for very few women are cap be taken for that purpose until it able of operating farm machinery, is absolutely necessary. He suspects pitch hay or do simi'ar work. The that "the greedy, grasping hands of farm situation in Oregon is dupli junk dea’ers have egged the matter N ational A t> v i i t i i t n c cated in every section of the coun on. as the wreck is due to make try. The problem is national in $25,000 or $30,000,” and he thinks R E PR E S E N TATITM scope and will require national the disposal of the battleship has NKW YORK . CHtCAOO . DETROIT handling. been promoted by "taxpaying es- Clatskanie The Vernonia Eagle J ames P reston The immediate future in describ ed here as the area of the vanishing civilian. Two major developments make this condition inevitable. One is the early imposition of drastic regulations curtailing, even banning, ■cross hauling. The other is the Con trolled Materials Plan, the full ap plication of which is almost certain ■to leave only those materials for essential civilian industry that the armed services permit. It is iron clad control destined to skim off all the fat and possibly some muscle. tates in Portland to free the Btate from making an appropriation for the maintenance of the ship.” Secretary Knox replied that a: commercial wrecker will di.-mantle the vessel and that he must be paid, but that there will be no profiteer ing by by junk dealers or anyone else. At The Churches . According to Chairman Davis, the WLB will not approve any wage or salary increases in the rates pre vailing on September 15. 1942, un less such increases are necessary to correct maladjustments or inequal ities to eliminate substandards of living, to correct gross inequalities, or to aid in the effective prosecu tion of the war. “The Little Steel formula,” Chairman Davis said, “will be rather strictly interpreted •and raises above that will be few.” Milk Output Stays High No good dairy cows are going to the butcher, the state USDA War board reports, after a thorough probe of the situation. Heavier cul ling is indicated by an increase in slaughter of poorer dairy type an imals, but good cows from the large herds that are being reduced be cause of help shortage are going in to smaller herds. 1943 Goals Due Soon 1943 Food for Freedom produc tion goals for this county will prob ably be established shortly after an nouncement of state and national goals around December 1, the coun ty USDA War board reports. The board reminded that hog and cover crop seed goals have already been announced, and emphasized that all of the livestock, dairy and poultry produe.g that county farmers can produce will be needed in 1943. Engineers, scientists, technicians, aad inventors now in private indus try will be asked by WPB to assist the War Department in a new pro gram to redesign and improve war weapons with a view to saving crit ical ma.eriuls, machines, and man power. The army believes consider able pavings can be achieved by ap plying tested methods and skills acquired by men engaged in com News for Victory Gardeners petitive private enterprise. Victory gardeners will be able to get plenty of bug-killing materials The War Manpower Commission to protect next year’s gardens, the is studying plans for importing state USDA War board has been in workers from Cuba and Puerto Rico formed. WPB says an adequate sup and'is also working on a program ply of insecticides will be available. which will provide for handlings manpower and draft problems on a 1943 Fertilizer Supplies Foreseeing a record demand for p!ant-by-p’ant basis. The plant-by- plant program, developed jointly by commercial fertilizers in 1943, the ■he WMC and Selective Service Sys department of agriculture reports tem, provides for the establishment that farmers generally will be able of “manning tables” on which would to get enough to m • 't production be charted the labor needs of a goals. Biggest pinch v.*ll be on nit plant, the necessary deferments of rogen fertilizers, which can be off essential workers from the draft, set with legume crops. and the subsequent withdrawal of Whea: Quota Edict Important workers from the plant for military The supreme court’s decision up -duty. holding penalty provisions of wheat marketing quotas ’is seen as histori According to the Bureau of La cally important, not only to agricul- ' bor Statistics the number of work ture, but to all walks of life. Wash ers involved in strikes and the ington authorities point out that the amount of idleness resulting con decision clarifies the power of con tinued through September at Aug gress to regulate virtually any type ust levels. The number of strikes of local, state or national industry tin September was 23 per cent under the interstate commerce •greater than the average for the clause. five-year pre-defense era. Newspaper» Se Farm Tribute Many Oregon newspapers are ESTIMATES MADE According to government esti planning special tributes to their mates, the seasonal kill of water- county farmers for the phenomonal £rwl would provide enough down 1942 food production jobs. The trib aetid feathers for 300,000 aviators* ute will take the form of a special ¡pants and parkas, more than 10,000 Thanksgiving Harvest Observation ■looping bags or 500,00 sub-zero edition of the newspaper. The ob jackets if hunters plucked and turn servance is being promoted by the ed in the down and small body Oregon Newspaper Publishers as sociation. feathers of all birds they kill. Our Great America iV Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints— < Tf Sunday school convenes at 10 a. m. at the I. O. O. F. hall xnder the direction of Charles RarJbk. su perintendent. S’,'- it IS ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN 126.000.000.000 TREES OF AIL L SIZES ARE NOW SROWIN« IN AMERICAN FORESTS. THAT'S ABOUT 1,000 TIMES AS MANY TREES AS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AMERICAN MEN.WOMEN, ANP CHILDREN/ St. Marv s Catholic Church Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. Frederick Thiele Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun day in month—Mass at 8:30 A M. Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. TOP THAT OHE HOURS WORK BV AN AVERAGE WORKMAN------ IN THE USA. / WILL 1 8UV 7 5 POUNDS OF BREAD IN NATI GERMANY will buy 2.5 POUND« of bread BUY WAR BONDS 4
