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4 Thursday, January 28, 1943 Vernonia Eagle County News tribution system properties of the West Coast Power company in Co- lumbia and Clatsop counties, and for the paying of the costs for mak STATE LIBRARIAN SPEAKER ing such improvements and exten AT LIBRARY TUESDAY “Books of Today” was discussed by sions as are necessary. Miss Eleanor Stephens, state librar ian, Tuesday afternoon, January 26 in the St. Helens public library. Miss Stephens was in St. Helens by invi tation of Mrs. Dale Perry, chair man of the Literature department of the St. Helens Woman’s club and spoke preceding the business meet ing of the group. Although Miss Stephens has vis ited the St. Helens library since her appointment to the state librarian ship, this was her first talk to club members and other friends of the ..brary. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE ONE ENTERPRISING MANUFACTURER HAS SÉtk A BILLION fEjf BEES TO MAKE ^3» HONEY TO HELP ¿W OFFSET THE SUGAR p?..;..... SHORTAGE St. Helens -a I I l\ LOAVES OF BREAP FOUND Z—i IN THE RUINS 1^5 OF ANCIENT |fc POMPEII WERE V“.» FCKINP TO HAVE THE SAME TEXTURE AND STRUCTURE AS MOPERN-tWy BREAP So HE WILL NOT BE ROBBEt» OF HIS VOICE ANP HEARING DURING AN ENEMY GAS ATTACK, A NAVY GUNNER WEARSA MASK. EQUIPPED WITH MICROPHONE AND HEAD BET ENABLIN6 HIMTO RECEIVE ANCt 6 ive rahge setting ORDERS CASH COMING IN ON STREET ASSESSMENTS Probability that the City of St. Helens will not have to go through the expensive procedure of issuing bonds for unpaid assessments on the Fifth and West streets improve ment districts was seen last ^eek by Recorder J. E. Beeler, who said that more than ha'f of the assess ments had been paid so far. He in dicated that the council may decide to hold warrants on the unpaid as sessments instead of expending $300 or $400 on a bond issue. Last week notice was given to property holders on the North Fifth street and West street improvement districts that they have 20 days from last Friday in which to file with the recorder a written appli cation to pay their assessments (prov i. " they total $25 or more) by the ins aliment method. (QaJiinqtc/n At The Churches byjAMES P reston The president’s report on the state of the nation was generally Evangelical Church interpreted on Capitol Hill as a —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister gesture toward the relief of strains 9:45—Sunday school, Mrs. Madge set up by various executive agen- Rogers, superintendent. cies. 11:00 — Morning service. Sermon subject: “Highlights of the Mid The admission of home front mistakes was taken to indicate that Winter Conference.” the chief executive would endeavor 6:30—Junior and Y. P. Christian to keep a step or two ahead of the Endeavor. new congress in administration 7:30—Evening evangelistic service. house-cleaning. 7:30 Wednesday evening—Prayer and Bible study. It is rumored that the White House will create another “Baruch Commission” to study the manpower Assembly of God Church problem and to quiet the increasing Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister bitter eontroversy over whether the military or civilians will run the 9:45—Sunday school with classes war. Crux of the dispute is whether for all ages. the military services are to retain 11:00—Morning worship their present procurement powers or surrender them to a civilian agency 7:30—Evangelistic service. evening, mid such as is proposed in the Tolan- 7:30—Wednesday Pepper-Kilgore bill. week service 7:^0—Friday evening, Young Peo The armed services, chiefly rep ples’. Christ Ambassadors service. resented by Under Secretary of War Patterson, are bitterly opposed to this bill. It is expected that the Church of Jesus Christ president’s statement of 1942 pro Of Latter Day Saints duction records will be used by Mr. Sunday school convenes at 10 Patterson to prove that procurement a. m. at the I. O. O. F. hall under in the hands of the military estab lishment should not be disturbed at the direction of Charles Ratkie. superintendent. this juncture of the war. » STATE HOUSER Salem, Jan. 27 —Never in the memory of the old est of old-timers around these parts can they remember a legislative _ A NEW CHEMICAL session that has been as slow as the Ki P5 FI6HTER PLANE WINDOWS CLEAR IN present one. The lobby is almost di RAINSTORMS vested of the usual array of visi A LUMINOUS BAIT RECENTLY PATENTED 14 MOLDED OF A PHOSPHORESCENT tors. The usual daily trek of school PLASTIC kids, who in every past session spent hours each day hounding the law Closely allied with this contro- makers for their autographs, is versy is the dispute over the size of St. Mary’s Catholic Church missing. With the legislature well Rev. Anthony V. Gerace the army. It is said privately, in mil- into its third week of work a very Rev. Frederick Thiele itary circles, that Manpower Chief few lobbiests have appeared on the McNutt is trying to obtain authori- scene, who heretofore were as thick Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun ty for the WMC to determine the as flies on a pet coon. There is no day in month—Mass at 8:30 A.M. size of the army and navy. Congress glamor or fireworks mixed in with Homesick Logger . . . Charlie had loaded family and be Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. is restive, in this connection, over this session so far, although sev- Credit this to the Stroller’s Col longings up In the family flivver in the spring of 1930, and quit the the protest of farmers against a umn in the Seattle Times: eral hot bills are scheduled to hit Here’s one war worker who is fed woods—for keeps, he thought. They depletion of the farm labor supply First Christian Church the floor of the house for debate up aplenty with city life and by had a stake of about $500. It could —The Livingstones, Ministers by both selective service and ex in the next day or so. have bought three good acres near now he probably is heading for the panding war industry, and there 9:45—Bible school, M. L. Herrin, However, is may be that a slow tall timber, literally. He sat beside the logging town—two cleared, with the Stroller on an uptown trolley a five-room house, unfinished in are rumblings of an investigation start will wind up much differently J/M ABBE SPEAKS IN superintendent. side, and a well-located spring. Mrs. bus this morning. of the whole situation. a week or so before adjournment. S’ ’-LENS LAST WEEK 11:00—Junior church, Mrs. Bass, “Let me know when I get to Pine Shields had been for staying on, It is believed that the Administra and Fourth,” he cautioned. “I’m on buying that home, and buildin» it Gj many—a much stronger Ger Legislators have been known to get Mrs. Knoedler, directing. tion will propose the Baruch Man 11:00—Morning Communion ser- my way to report my new address up. n at the moment than the one a whole flock of brilliant ideas, “ But I could see no future in tim to the draft board, and then it ’ s back power Commission to soothe con h in 1917 fought on for a year when it's time to go home. In all vice. to Hapowsin and my old bunk at ber-falling,” Charlie said. “I’d work gressional anger in that sector as 11:30—Morning sermon. o'fore quitting—would like to have probability the very severe weather Subject: the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber ed enough around my cousin’s gar the Baruch Rubber Report quieted age to become a rough mechanic. I Company. 1 'n < now, if it could get the right that hit Salem and all of Oregon “Christ at the Door.” “And am I going to catch up on figured I could go places with the the furor on the rubber front. k:i <1 of terms, James Abbe, noted last week had much to do in keep 6:30—Young people’s panel dis the sleep! Been working here for automobile industry here. I have— After a careful study of the row commentator, told the Kiwan- ing down the expected stream of down the skids. ” cussion. five months at the iron works. Work president’s message, more than one 7:30—Evening service. Subject of three days, then loaf two, but I Assembly Line Blues , . . i club at its luncheon last week. onlookers, visitors, etc. It’s a cinch on the hill considers that the Chief don’t catch up on my sleep. Ifortunately for the Nazis, they the weather had plenty to do with sermon: “Recharging the Bat “I can still see good prospects,” “Out in the logging camp I just Executive has not compromised on Charlie Shields went on. ‘ This de br.ve the Russians to deal with “and keeping practically all the lawmak tery.” work, eat and SLEEP. Here, just a single new deal policy. Reference 7:30 Wednesday evening—Prayer the Russians aren’t the kind of ers in Salem last week-end. As a work, ram around and try to eat— pression won’t last forever. But so what? I'd still feel crowded and to the assurance of security “from but I don’t sleep! people to quit now,” the speaker de rule they always “high-tail” it for meeting. "You can have your city life and cramped, and that’s been my trouble the cradle to the grave” and the Portland or home to enjoy their clared. the dim-outs. I’m homesick for the all along. statement that “this great govern- Abbe refused to get excited over week-end siesta. smell of fresh-cut Douglas fir—and’ "We rented a house, at first. But • * • it was in a slot twenty-five feet ment can and must provide this YESTERDAY frying ham and hot cakes. an invasion in force of the west wide, with other houses. I drove “Back at the logging camp I come assurance” was taken as but one Could we but live the past again, Many guesses are going the coast of the United States by the eight miles to work, most of the way Life would be but golden years; In from work, and here ’ s the grub of the president’s thoughts on post Japs, pointing out that one lesson rounds as to whom will be named set right out in front. No waiting, in another slot—three lanes of cars Hearts we have given needless pain, war planning. on the waitress. Just stick out the batting along, fender to fender. demonstrated so far in this war is for several of the juicy jobs to be Would be soothed by our tears. Then it was park in another slot at old fork and stab another piece of handed out by Governor Snell after that land-based aircraft is super pounded round steak and drag in the factory parking lot, and work in When in your anger you would ior to carrier-borne forces. He ad- the session adjourns. Rumor has another potato. Coffee, too—second a slot on the assembly line. “Not a move on the job I could speak, it that George Flagg, who served as mitted that the Japs may try a few helpings. And then it’s the bunk make but it was figured out and house and sleep! Pause awhile, think awhile; chief deputy secretary of state und raids "just to be spectacular.” “I hope that draft board doesn’t lined out, and there is always some er Earl Snell and always his good One may be strong, the other weak, take up too much of my time. I’m college punk looking down my neck right arm, will become liquor ad Give your hand with a smile. headed for Pierce County and the and holding a stop watch, figuring ministrator, which is one of the deep woods—where dreams come out more slots to fit me into. No The threads of life so readily true.” matter how good the times get best paying jobs on the governor’s broken, Exile In Detroit . . . agan here, that won ’ t change. I ’ m a p'.atter. Frank Lonergan, long a BOND DRIVE FOR SMALL And cruel words can never die; I met just such a logger, one who man who needs his room. legislative war-horse, is said to be FIRMS STARTING “Back home that three acres look had been a West Coast timber-faller Don’t let the angry words be spoken. Every business house in Clatskan first choice for a Multnomah county most of his working years, in De ed small to me—now I’d feel lost Lest in after years you vainly cry. troit, in 1932. ie is being asked to have every em judgeship when and if a vacancy in them, especially since we’ve been But there was a difference. Char jammed in that flat. I sometimes occurs throug retirement of one or ployee and member of the establish Could we recall words unkindly lie Shields had a family. He was a wonder when I do get back—and I ment buying War Bonds to the ex more of the incumbents; and, inci spoken, long, long way from home in Ore will, if I live—how long it will take dentally, it’s a certainty that one tent of 10 per cent of his salary. gon. He was lucky to be working me to feel free to take a full swing Could we recover links of love sixteen hours a week on an auto with an ax again. That bothers me. For several months now, large or two of Portland’s judges intend long broken; mobile factory assembly line—lucky firms have been asked to and were to retire if a judges’ pension bill When ’tis too late we hear the sad r'x to be able to pay rent for three It may sound foolish, but with all enrolling their employees in 10 per goes through this session, as is be refrain, rooms in a rickety flat building in our depression troubles, the thing I the Corktown section of Detroit, and worry on most is whether I can ever cent clubs, Now every business ing planned. Jerry Saylor, who di I’d give my life to bring those dear feel free again, after being what you to buy a little hamburger, bread and house is asked to join the move rected several successful’ campaigns ones back to earth again. “OH, MIN—We’re going to buy more milk without calling on a relief sta might call a slot-machine man for ment, as well as every individual. for Mr. Snell, is sure to be reward —Dora Washburn War Bonds. Like everyone else we're so long.” tion. going to 'top that IO'“*- - Irving T. Rau, bond chairman ed. A successful insurance man, it for this county, and Ira Tucker, is understood he has his eye focus- were in Clatskanie and explained sed on the job of insurance com- away pays his $75 or $100 a year the new drive at the Kiwanis club missioner. Floyd Cook of Portland, taxes. Many of the legislators would meeting and that organization will another of Governor Snell’s close like to know the reason why, and political advisors, is scheduled for Multnomah club is only one of many direct the sign-up here. a good job, and many other good jobs are in the offing for some which have been on the free list LOCAL PUD CALLS of the faithful after the legislature for years. FOR BIDS ON BONDS • • A call for bids was made last is out of the way and homeward While we’re on the tax subject, week for the purchase of $175,000 bound. It's always poor politics WASHINGTON, D. C.—Approximately 50 000,000 American | leaving 73.5 billion dollars of dis par value Clatskanie Peoples' Util to make political appointments white several lawmakers are giving real workers began to make an added contribution to the War cost posable income. During 1943 total the lawmakers are in session. attention to the problem of collect income payments are expected to ity District revenue bonds. this month in the form of a 5% Victory tax. - For many millions of Americans the Victory tax and the 1943 rise to 125 billion dollars and total The purpose of the bond issue So the boys will have to wait awhile. ing state income taxes from the thousands of shipyard workers and Income tax are the first direct levies to be made by the Govern personal taxes under existing reve h to acquire the first unit of an legislation will be 15 billion dol The courageous Giles French of others who are certainly in the tax ment to meet the staggering War costs. And it will take both . . . nue electric utility system for the dis- lars—leaving 110 billion dollars of Moro took the bull by the horns taxes and War bonds ... to provide the supplies and materials paying bracket, but for the most tiict, consisting of the electric dis- income at our disposal as against to win the War and the peace afterwards. when he introduced the bill to part seldom pay. Many are new ar- only 73.5 billion dollars in 1940. The Treasury Department esti-* place churches, private schools, etc., rivals in Oregon who do not own In 1943 Mr. Average American will has purchased ccnain War Bonds, mates that the Victory tax will raise on the tax rolls, which have al homes but as a rule have families still be carrying a much lighter tax or paid old debts or paid life insur approximately $2,000,000,000. Every load than his Canadian or English ways been exempt from real prop and one or, more youngsters of person receiving more than $12 per ance premiums equal to the amount brothers-in-arms. In Great Britain M ARVIN KAMHOLZ erty taxation. Observers give the school age. As to be expected, these of this credit. In the case of single week must pay the Victory tax upon total national and local taxes paid Editor and Publisher measure little chance of passing but itinerants, who are receiving wages that part of his income over and persons this credit will be 25 percent by individuals at present amount to agree it's a step in the right direc as high as $12.50 per day, pay above the $12. For example, a mar of the Victory tax paid (up to a 31 percent of the national income. Entered as second class mail tion. Too long have many revenue nothing in the way of city or state ried man with a salary of $50 per maximum of SSCO). Should the Vic In Canada, total individual taxes »utter. August 4, 1922. at the post producing businesses been exempt week, with two dependents, would tory tax cred t exiced the individu amount to 25 percent of the national taxes, yet they demand and receive inqome tax, the unused »tfice in Vernonia, Oregon, under make only a net payment of $1 06 al’s Federal from taxation, such as private all functions of government that of the credit may be refund income. In the United States, total )he act of March 3, 1879. per week after allowance for post portion personal taxes. Federal, state and able to the taxpayer. schools, clubs, etc. Multnomah club, taxpayers receive. war credit. Even with the Victory tax, the local, will amount in 1943 to 18 per Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore for instance, which does a whale of The Government has made every 1943 income tax, and all other taxes cent of national income. Our Eng a business in its bar, restaurant and Observations from the press box: effort to make the impact of the paid by individuals, the average lish allies invest an additional 10 other club activities and also re Frank Bramwell, former superin new tax as light as possible. The American will have more money percent of national income in War ceives about $36,000 stadium rent tendent of banks, here on business O*Edo(£ law, in effect, provides that in the with which to buy War Bonds than savings. Our Canadian allies invest al each year from the dog races, . , . O. D. Eby of Oregon City, case of married persons whose sole he has ever had before. Here are an additional 11 percent of national Pums Ji « income is from wages or salary, 40 the statistics which expiain that income in War savinga. We Ameri pays not one cent of real property chairman of the Willamette valley cans, to match the record of our Ca percent of the Victory tax paid (up statement: tax. They own and operate several flood control project, drops in to to a maximum of $1,000) plus 2 per In 1940 the totai income payments nadian neighbors, would have to in miriean T F ISS \SS0CIATI0N acres of real estate in downtown talk about floods. . .Arthur McMa- cent for each dependent (up to a made to the American people vest this year 20 percent of our na KaJHMBü Portland which for years has receiv- hon of Albany looks around, . .and maximum of $100) may be used as amounted to about 76 billion dollars. tional income in War savings. To ed police, fire protection etc.. from so does Charles Sanford, vice pres a credit against whatever Federal In that sam< jear t'.c total personal match the English record we would N ational A dvertising income taxes the individual may owe taxes paid, Feoeial, State and local, have to invest 23 percent of national the city without paying one cent ident of Pacific Power and Light. . . R epresentative at the end of the year—provided he were roughly 2.5 b.lUon dollars. 'ncome in W„r savings. of property taxes. Yet the little King Byran of the retail furniture REW . CHICAGO . t»FT"A|T I'.S. Tn»mt Dtfanment fellow who owns his home a block dealers looks things over. •A, Andy Gump says- Clatskanie It Takes Both, War Bonds and Taxes, to Win—Victory Tax Special Direct Levy Asked to Help Meet Heavy War Costs The Vernonia Eagle • • • ♦
