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Thureday, January, 7, 1943
Vernonia Eagle
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
County News
St. Helens
packages and cards for Christmas
were being mailed at that early
date.
COURT TO APPOINT
COUNTY WORKERS
First Christian Church
—The Livingstone», Minister*
9:45—Bible school, M. L. Herrin,
superintendent.
11:00—Morning Communion ser
vice.
11:00—Junior church.
11:30—Morning sermon.
Subject:
“The Door of Faith.”
6:30—Young people’s panel dis
cussion.
7:30—Evening
song,
communion
and sermon. Subject: “Of Wha.
Are We Sure?”
The Women’s Missionary society
will meet at the home of Mrs. John
Junkins on the O-A hill Friday
evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Statewide Mobilization Set
Oregon’s mobilization of farm re
sources for the tough 1943 “food
Appointment of road supervisors,
production job will start with state
deputies and other county employ-
ees will be an item of business at
wide observance of Farm Mobiliza
the first session of the county court
tion day, as proclaimed by the
in 1943. The session will be held
president for Janu ry 12. Governor
this week. Selection of the county
Charles A. Sp ague has issued a
official papers will also be made
similar proclamation, and leaders
at that time.
Judge Ray Tarbell said last week
of state farm groups and civic clubs,
that as far as he knew those al-
newspapers and radio stations a.e
ready in the employ of the county
supporting the observance. During
would be continued at their pres
the week following Mobilization day
ent posts. Selection of deputies is
community meetings to acquair*
left largely up to the heads of the
After a year’s experience with farmers with all ; hares of the pro
various departments and the court
all-out effort to shape U. S. for duction program will be held in
usually merely confirms their de
many counties, leading ur to the
cisions.
full-scale war, thia control center is
every-farmer canvass later in Jan
Miss Ruth Peffley, county nurse,
settling down to more concrete plo.- uary.
who was appointed some months ago
Portland, Ore., Jail. 6—A rancher
ting anji far greater concentration
will be up for reappointment next
High Rating Given Farm Machinery
in Harney county made a mistake
of
power.
week.
To speed production of ti'lage im
in applying for his certificate of
plements and other equipment need
COUNTY PAYMENTS TO SIAC
necessity and asked for 40,000 gal
Nineteen forty-three will see ed for spring planting, the war pro
RISE IN THREE YEARS
lons of gasoline. The strangest thing
decks cleared for action, supplies duction board has assigned manufac
Payments by the county to the about it is that the bureau in De
stowed away, and battle stations turers an AA-1 rating for needed
state industrial accident commission troit authorized him to use 36,000
manned. “If, as some say,” accord materials A similar rating has been
have been mounting steadily in the gallons. Other who did not make an
ing to Knox, “we have been ankle assigned for materials to make ma
last three years, i igures received error have not fared so well. One
deep in the war this ear, we’ll be chinery repair parts.
last week by Judge Ray Tarbell in- cattle outfit asked for 18,000 gal
up to our necks in the year ahead.” Canning Vegetable Program Due
dicated. This increase in cost is at- lons and was allowed 4980; another
tributed to a hide:' ’ ate which the asked for 13,000 and was given
The state USDA war board will
Fighting and working manpower shortly submit acreages and suggest
county has been forced to pay.
5360; another asked for 5000 gal
under WMC Chief McNutt will be ed grower support prices for th-
Incidentally, in return for pay lons and received 2000; one settler
more effective'.y allocated by the 1943 canning vegetable program.
ments tota’ing $16,754.38 in 1940, who applied 'for only 500 gallons
voluntary me,hod if possible—if Price support machinery will be
1941 and 1942, the county received was cut to 150 gallons.
not,
other means may be necessary. simitar to the certification plan in
$6,024.28 in benefits for its em
Unless, wrote the association of
ployees. Most of the benefits have settlers in Harney county to the
operation last year for tomatoes
Blue Jeans . . .
The new food czar. Secretary of and peas, but for 1943 will also in
frame. The saw was turning so mod
gone to workers on the County department of agriculture, farmers
It happened, according to repbrt, erately that it was possible to count
Agriculture Wickard urges greatly clude snap beans, corn, beets, car
roads, it was explained.
cam get enough gas to carry en
in the Old Marquam Grand, long the teeth as it turned. The log on
expanded production and warns that rots and cabbage.
Payments made by the county tot their operations Harney county will
the
alleged
carriage
was
not
“
a
giant
since razed, in Portland. My friend,
more concentration may be neces
aled $4,577.94 in 1940, stepped up not be able to attain the food goals
of
the
forest,"
’
as
advertised,
but
an
the ancient head-sawyer, could not
sary on the most urgently needed War Board Aid« Repairmen
to $5,433.74 in 1941 and then rose which have been set for that sec
remember the exact date, but it was obvious cull, approximately ten
Repairmen and farmers who have
of the time when gaudy pictures of feet long and 12 inches thick at the
foods.
to $6,741.70 in 1942. Benefits re tion by the food administrator.
fat burlesque queens were to be butt. There weren’t any dogs. The
been unable to obtain welding rod
Donald
M.
Nelson,
WPB
Chief,
ceived Iby county workers were $1,-
Harney county is one of the “op
found in every package of Sweet log just lay there on what one man
discloses that U. S. combatant arm to repair farm machinery are ad
048.24 in 1942, totaled $1,801.13 in en spaces.” The 400 farmers on
Caporal cigarettes; which is to say, in the audience termed, audibly, ‘‘a
in the days before moving pictures mess of roller skates.' A titter rip
aments now equal the Axis powers vised to contact their county USDA
1941 and were $3,174.01 in 1940, the 6,500,000 acres produced 16,-
had corrupted our taste for the pled through the theater.
and that by the end of 1943 they war board.
the figures revealed.
000,000 pounds of beef, 600,000
Nor were there any levers to be
spoken drama.
will be as great as all the rest of Canned Milk Released
Increase in the rate the county pounds of wool and almost 4,000,-
In those days the drama was a seen. Old sawyers in the crowd
the world combined.
must pay is attributed to increased 000 pounds of mutton. If these
thing of flesh and blood, and the puckered their brows. How th’ hell
Two million cases
of govern
blood was very red and often flow could that log be cut without no
hazards in operations covered by ranchers follow the suggestions of
ment-owned condensed milk will be
ed copiously. It was the heyday of dogs and no levers? They had never
Leon Henderson’s prediction of released by the department of ag
the state industrial accident com Wickard these figures must be in
melodrama, the high noon of “East seen the like. A mild buzz should
more czars, more red tape, and riculture to alleviate a shortage in
mission, for the commission aver creased by 10 per cent in 1943, but
Lynne,” of ‘‘H azel Kir k e” and, have warned the “Blue Jeans' com-
among countless others of “Blue pany that the sawmill was in lor a
more rationing has already come civilian supplies.
ages costs for the state as a whole this can be done ony by providing
Jeans.” It was the great sawmill razzing.
true.
He now predicts increased
in determining individual rates.
sufficient gasoline. No dinky little
drama of the time—the first In which Heist Again . . .
controls which will be exercised Poultry Prices Favor Increase
the villain conspired to s a w the
farms are in Harney—they are ro
Anyhow, the action of the great
Oregon poultrymen can undertake
away from Washington. No satis
hero in half, like a log. At last
bust affairs, 400 acres of culti
the great and moving drama of third act went forward; and in due
expansion
of meat, chickens and
factory
substitute
for
free
enter-
vated land and 2400 acres of pas
“Blue Jeans” came to Portland, the time the handsome blond youth got
p ise and free markets has been turkeys with the knowledge that
into the clutches of the mean devil
ture;
that
is
the
average
ranch.
A
city
of
big
sawmills.
CLOSNERS OPEN NEW
with the silk hat and riding crop,
found after a year of price admin OPA’s recently-announced price ceil
Audience of Experts ...
books, given motorists, would pro
MILL NEAR HERE
and was tied to the log on the car
istration, according to the OPA ad ings will give them returns averag
The action of the show went riage. The log rolled uneasily. The
Closner brothers, Emery and Les, vide only sufficient gas to enable
ing between 115 and 120 per cent
ministrator.
smoothly forward through two acts, saw continued to whirl, even if but
are setting up machinery for a tie a farmer to drive from the farm
but there was only mild interest in moderately fast, and the log moved
of pari.y. Oregon’s 1943 food for
house to the mailbox three or four
mill in the Marshland area.
the audience. It was apparent why slowly in the general direction of
Congress, during the next session freedom production goal calls for a
folks had come that night, and that the saw. The silk-hatted mean-fel
The site of the mill is at the top miles away.
plans to devote a great deal of at 15 per cent increase in both chick
was
to
s
e
e
the
widely
advertised
low
made
one
more
adjustment
of
of the Favorite road where H. L.
tention to organized labor. Numer ens and turkeys.
“Great Sawmill Scene—Mechani some sort to a wheel attached to the
Administrator. Wickard is respon
Colvin an I Tom Colvir logged ir.
cally Perfect in Every Detail." And log—something new in the sawmill
ous labor reform bills will be con
sible
for
something
else
—
reducing
More Wheat C-irg for Alcohol
the early nineties.
at last when the curtain arose on line—and laughed a sneering laugh
sidered and plans are in the making
this scene, the crowd sat up in their at his brave but helpless victim. “Die
Between 8 and 1 ! million bush
At that time logging was done the ice cream wanted by the troops.
to
probe
the
War
Labor
board
and
seats. They not only sat up in their like a dog, you— he began.
At Camp White in Jackson county,
with ox t-ims.
els of government-ov ned wheat will
seats, but they gaped in astonish
“Set over your blocks, stranger,*
the Office of Economic Stabiliza
be used in production of alcohol
The timber which the C'osners the consumption of ice cream ' is
ment, or something. There were came a clear, bellowing and slightly
tion.
whisperings, too, and mutterings. alcoholic voice from the audience,
will fall and convert into ties is 27,019 gallons and Wickard has re
during the next three months. Com
And no wonder.
“set over your blocks or you won t
second growth and is a fine stand. duced this supply to 5490. At Camp
modity credit, distillers and flour
The mastodonic sawmill of “Blue get no clears outa that log.’’
A message recommending drastic
millers are now working on a pro
The Closners will operate their mill Adair the consumption is 18,812
Jeans” was revealed by the search
This technical, professional and
changes in the existing social secur
gram to increase production of al
cn McGoon creek on the Fishawk gallons and the amount that can be
ing glare of the footlights to be brotherly admonition brought down
ity system is expected from the
jnothing more or less than a stage I the house; and the manager of the
cohol for war uses
near Thompson siding dur’r.g the sol<l is only 1334. And they said
president in January. The propos
whereon rested a very small saw- “Blue Jeans” company brought
summer months but plan to work in ice cream would not be rationed.
mill
carriage
made
chiefly
of
No.
4
down
the
curtain
on
the
greatest
al's
will
follow
the
lines
of
the
El
Soldiers
Eat Turkey
• • s
their new location during the winter
boards, and a pitifully small circu- sawmill drama ever staged.
_
It was
iot
bill
and
provide
for
federaliza
Five
million
pounds of turkey—
Chicken raisers of Oregon state
lar saw attached to a very wobbly never staged again in Portland.
weather. They employ from seven
tion of the state unemployment a good part of it from Oregon
that they will be able to produce
to 12 men.
compensation systems, a total of farms—was supplied American sol
the increase of eggs and poultry in the service. Army will be actually
ten per cent unemployment tax— diers at home and abroad for Christ
CHRISTMAS BUSINESS
1943—if the government will see making over boys at the age of
five on the employer and five on mas dinner.
HEAVY IN CLATSKANIE
that they can buy the proper food. about 14—or whenever they enter
the employee for hospitalization, dis
Financially, in stores and in the The demand, it appears, is for meat
Spud Support Price» Suggested
ability. and health benefits.
local postoffice, Christmas business scrap from Argentina. The depart high school.
The state USDA war board, after
far exceeded any previous year.
ment of agriculture explains that
Two-thirds of the treasury de consulting county war boards in
Some of the business houses esti owing to the scarcity of cargo car
Tillamook county creameries are
partments December drive for nine commercial potato areas, has sub
mated that the increase was 200- riers due to the activity of German asking for hay for their stock and
billion dollars has ‘ been produced mitted suggested siippert pi ice lev
.300 per cent over former years. All submarines, no space is available
the matter has been taken up with Assembly of God Church
from large subscriptions in the els needed 'o get the 16 per cent
reported empty shelves and lack for scrap meat at this time, although
Rev.
Clayton
E.
Beish
—
Minister
.he
department
of
,
agriculture.
first
ten days of the month. There increase called for by state’s pro
of merchandise at the close of the the subject is being studied. Chicken
9:45—Sunday school with classes are still vast sums of accumulated duction goa' While this first goal
Charles
Bowling,
chief
of
transpor
Christmas shopping.
growers are advised to feed soy
for all ages.
savings in the h-nds of individuals is for 43,000 acreas word received
Hundreds of dollars of gift's were bean cake meal and cotton cake tation for the department, has been
11:00
—
Morning
worship
which should be converted into war by the state war board indicates
in war stamps and bonds.
meal while the Argentina matter told that there are quantities of 7:30—Evangelistic service.
bonds, according to Secre.ary Mor- that Oregon may be asked to up
The business at the Clatskanie is under survey. At present the
hay in Nevada but that freight rates 7:30—Wednesday evening,
that figure.
mid-
genthau.
postoffice was the largest sitk-e principal items brought from Argen
week service
its founding. In
1941
Christmhs tina are leather and vegetable oils, are too high to bring it to Tillamook
ODT Appeal Forms Here
An investigation is underway to see 7:30—Friday evening, Young Peo-
Plans to feed starving European
business exceeded any previous rec which have been
The county farm transportation
considered
of
pies' Christ Ambassadors service. nations with vast quantities of var
ord by $150. The 1942 business greater importance in the war ef whether lower freight rates are
commit.ee wkl soon be ready to as
ied foods after the war are already sist farm truck owners with appeals
was in excess of 1941 to the extent fort.
possible.
underway Wheat may be the foun for adjusted certificates of war ne
of $150. The month of November
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Church of Jesus Christ
dation around which shipments will cessity. Supplies of the necessary
exceeded any previous November
University of Oregon and Oregon
Walter M. Pierce has requested Of Latter Day Saints
be made because of the immense revised ODT forms «and ins' ructions
by $100. Much of the November in State college will be sn the pro
Sunday school convenes at 10 supply now in the U. S.
crease was due to the fact that gram of army and navy to educate the federal power commission to in
are expected within the next few
a. m. at the I. O. O. F. hall under
days.
part of the 250,000 teen-age boys vestigate the pooling of power by
the direction of Charles Ratkie. Draft Boards Get War Units Plan
subject to draft. The intention is to Bonneville and Grand Coulee with superintendent.
Local draft boards have received Machinery Quotas Due
give the lads a thorough military Eugene and the private companies
Work of setting up county quotas
instructions for classification of
training along special lines and fit The former congressman says that
farm workers and operators in Class for each of the 60 items of farm
MARVIN KAMHOLZ
the
“War machinery and equipment to be
them to be officers. The schooling by this pool government power is St. Mary’» Catholic Church II-C or III-C under
Editor and Publisher
Units” plan. Production of 16 war rationed under the new program
will be paid for by army and navy; being sent to Idaho. Montana and
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace units will provide the basis for de has been competed by the state
Entered as second class mail students will be in uniform and live Utah, where industries have been lo
ferred classification. One milk cow USDA war board. County quotas
Rev. Frederick Thiele
»after. August 4. 1922, at the post
cated.
whereas
these
industries Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun constitutes one war unit. Other ex will probably be in the hands of
iffice in Vernonia. Oregon, under in barracks under army conditions.
amples
are 75 laying hens, 20 hogs, farm machine-v rationing commit
There may he 1000 or more of such should have been located in Oregon
»he act of March 3. 1879.
day in month—Mass at 8:30 A.M. five acres of dry beans, two acres tees within a few days. Meanwhi'e
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students at each of these institution. and Washington. Federal power Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on.
of potatoes. 15 acres of wheat, 15 in Washington. Senator Truman
Rfficial newspaper of Vernonlh, Ore
Plans of the high command do not commission has not indicated wheth
acres of cover crop seed. Crops announced that his special senate
that have no rating include hops, investigating committee may hold
start with the teen-'gers but with er it will make the investigation.
cucumbers and head lettuce. Local hearings on the farm machinery
high school kids. A course of in
Evangelical Church
draft boards are advised to con shortage early next month.
0 R £ c1o(N
struction in mechanics such as will 7.000.000 SEEDLINGS PLANTED
—Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister sult with county USDA war boards
ft them for ground crew work,
Subsidy to Up Cheese Output
in
making determinations.
One
southern
wood
processing 9:45—Sunday school.
PullISHER
The government’s cheddar cheese
greasing tanks and jeeps, and the company in M:ssissippi has distrib ll 00—Message: ' “Prayer.”
Machinery Prices Fixed
subsidy program, designed to in
undamentals of radio, is being uted more than
7,000.000 tree 6:30—Junior and I Y. P. Christian
Effective December 17, OPA crease cheese output without rai»
brought a'l used farm machinery ing the price to consumers, is now
prepared for the new school year. seedlings for farmers to plant since
Endeavor.
and
equipment selling for $100 in operation. The agricultural mark
In this manner military authorities 1936. in furtherance of the pro- 7:30—Evangelistic
service.
Mes- or more under price control. New eting a iminis ration will buy cheese
hope
to
give
the
school
boys
a
pre
of
gram
the forest products indus-
N ational AovitTiiiN«
sage: “Lead Us No. into Tempta- machinery prices are already con from factories for one price sell
conditioning education which will tries to encourage a balance be
trolled. The farm machinery ration it bark at a price
cents less.
tion.”
R epresentative
includes
provisions All of this payment must be passed
speed up their fitness when they tween growth and yield in the for- Wednesday evening at 7:30—Bible ing program
WE'.V YORK . CHICAGO . DETROIT
that will furnish a check-up on pric on to .he producers shipping milk
are old enough to be inducted into està.
study and prayer meeting.
es charged for machinery.
to the cheese plant.
Clatskanie
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