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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1943)
4 Thursday, February 25, 1943 Vernonia Eagle County News St. Helens INITIATION INTO »1,000,000 CLUB DUE RAU Columbia county’s bond buyers, who have put more than a million dollars into the treasury issues since they were released for public purchase were honored Sunday night when Irving T. Rau, chair man of the county war bond com mittee was initiated into the “Million Dollar club” in a program over KOIN at 9:30. Mr. Rau was the first person from any of the county committees to be initiated into the newly-formed club, which restricts its membership to those who have either sold a million dol lars worth of war bonds themselves or else have had charge of organ izations which have attained this goal. A factor in the selection of Mr. Rau for initiation into this organ ization is the fact that Columbia county was the second U. S. county to over-subscribe its bond quota when the issues were first placed on the market in May, 1941. Since that time the county has made its quota fairly regularly and in many cases ¿ias more than subscribed its monthly allotment. BILL BOOSTS CHILD CARE PAYMENTS Terms of senate bill No. 189, in troduced in the Oregon legislature by the joint committee on ways and means Feb. 15, will require that Colun ' !> and other counties under 100.('f’'l no illation increase the ,,.nntl:’ ..... nients made toward care of ’-li-- - nt children committed to ' ~ active institutions by them. * ' osent the payment is volun- t...........d amounts to »4 per month p ■' i’d. In Columbia county’s r this totals about $40 each m nth, but if the prftposed measure i- »•meted, the payment will be $5 r month per case, which will in- c o costs here approximately $' "0 a year. Clatskanie BAILEY OFFERED PUD POSITION The position of manager of the Clatskanie PUD has been offered to Alden Bailey, former manager of the local branch of the West Coast Power Co., and now of John Day, and it is thought that his acceptance is positive. While the deal is not completed, all indications lead to the fact that Bailey will probably be the Clats kanie manager. The PUD takes ov- tr March 1. The rates for the present time will undoubtedly not be changed due to the war conditions. Power will be obtained from Westport under the present set-up until such time when the government can re lease power from Bonneville which is not necessary in the war effort. TIGERS DEFEATED BY WARRENTON TEAM In the sudden turn of events aft er beating the Vernonia Loggers February 5, the Tigers were pound ed to a 42-18 defeat by the War renton Indians Friday, February 12. The B team played better ball however, and held the long end of the 18-1'1 scire. Rainier STRAWBERRIES TO BE DISCUSSED AT MEETING O. T, McWhorter, <»xtension ag riculturist of Oregon State college will address local strawberry grow ers in the Rainier city hall Satur day afternoon, February 27. accord ing to an announcement made by The Vernonia Eagle ~ M ARVIN IKAMHOLZ Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail matter. August 4. 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Official newspaper, Vernonia, Ore. 0«Ec1oOui$fi>u PuillSRf RS M.IRII»» V > t i S jfcsj C CI A T10 N X ti IC A m N ational A dvcrtisinc R epresentative NEV.' TCP* . PWVAOO . P—’’•CTT THE POCKETBOOK] KNOWLEDGE I STATE HOUSE, Salem, Feb. 24— The forty-second regular session of the legislature is drawing to a close. All things being equal, the presiding officers of both houses hope to bang down their gavels for the sina die adjournment not later than a week from next Saturday which will be March 6. If such can be accomplished it will be the shortest session in many years, namely 55 days. Next Monday, March 1, will mark the end of the 50-day ses sion. From then on the lawmakers will work for love and glory, because their pay stops, regardless of how much longer they remain on the job. Everyone is anxious to get home, except the rest of the hired help, who continue to draw down their $5 to $8 per day as long as the legislature remains in session. The closing days will see many of the several remaining hot bills be fore both houses for final action. Tempers are on edge from the long grind and some of the boys are be ginning to indulge in personalities when they engage in debate on the different measures. • • • Speaking of the open and closed seasons on hunting and fishing, it looks very much like some groups have decided to declare an all-year open season on farmers. Senate Bill 115 would give any group of farmers the right to establish a bird game preserve on their land. The fa'Tiers would raise their own hirds, such as pheasants, grouse, and quail, paying for all such prop agation, and in turn would be priv ileged to charge aA fee to sports men who came to shoot on their land. The bill further provides that the farmer sh 11 be licensed by the state and must propagate 25 per cent more birds than he will be licensed to kill. However, several sportsmen from a swanky private Salem gun club appeared before the senate committee where the bill was under consideration and hol lered their heads off. The very idea to even think the farmers of Oregon would ask for such a law. But, of course, it’s absolutely ail O. K. for the sportsmen to have such clubs, which they do. and many of them too. These protesting gun club members apparently overlock the fact that the bill also provides that each fanner applicant shall pav a license fee of »10 which shall go to the game commission and be come a part of its funds for the benefit of the sportsmen. • • • The house taxation committee, which has been wrestling with the THE SHADOW OF THE BOTTLE We are virtually being drowned in drink. From April, 1933, to August 31, 1941, 101 months of repeal witnessed the consumption of 13,924,871,297 gallons of legalized GARDEN FERTILIZER To spike rumors that chemical alcoholic drinks by the American fertilizer is restricted to commer people at a cost of $23,386,526,000- cial production, the state USDA In addition, it is estimated that ap war board reminds Victory garden proximately 3,000,000,000 gal'ons ers that a special garden fertilizer of illegal whiskey were sold surrep has been authorized for use this titiously during the seven-year per year. It is labeled “Victory Garden iod. Federal agents averaged 25,000 Fertilizer—For Food Production On ly,” and contains 3 per cent ni arrests a year for violation of li trogen, 8 per cent phosphate and 7 quor laws and destroy 1,000 stills a month, while the treasury depart per cent potash. ment and the liquor interests unite in bewailing the enormous increase GARDEN SEEDS There will be enough vegetable in this illicit trade. The legalization seeds for Victory Gardens this year, of the liquor traffic made this great expansion because possession but there won’t be any seed to of liquor poinson no longer was a waste through careless sowing, neg violation of the law. lect of a planted garden or at The winning candidate in the tempt to garden on soil to poor 1932 presidential election, recog nizing the debauching influence of for vegetables. the old saloons, gave his personal WAR CROP ADVANCES pledge: “By no possibility at any “Special War Crop Advances” to time, or under any condition, at protect growers who undertake ex any place, or under any circum tra production of certain high-risk stances, shall that institution, the saloon, or its equivalent, be allowed crops will be extended through coun to return to the American life.” ty USDA war boards and the re But there are now more than gional agricultural credit corpora 400,000 taprooms and saloons, with tion. The county war board can the bar and brass rail, to say noth ing of 300,000 other establishments supply additional information. legalized to sell liquor, or four POTATO PRICES times the number before prohibi Oregon growers who increase pro tion. There are two , taverns to ev duction of potatoes to meet critical ery church, three taverns to every school, one tavern to every seventy- wartime needs will be assured of five families, one tavern to every good returns. Through government fifty-one youth between the ages purchases and loans to producers, of sixteen and twenty-four, accord prices of U.S. No. 1 grade Bur ing to the American business men’s banks will be supported on the fol research foundation. Says the New York Times: “The lowing basis: Klamath county, $2. old saloon had its faults, but at its per 100 pounds; Malheur county, worst there never was any chance $1.80 per 100 pounds. These price that you would have to fight your levels are for the first three months way through the schoolgirls to get of the fall season, with 15-cent in to the bar.” In the old days it creases during subsequent two- was “Gome home, dear father, month periods. Supporting prices come home with me now.” Today it in these two commercial producing is, “Come home dear daughter.” areas is expected to maintain lev Another significant innovation is the employment of more than a mil els throughout the state. lion young women as barmaids. John Barleycorn is responsible, CANNING VEGETABLE PRICES Minimum prices for Oregon grow according to the national safety ers of four major vegetables for council, for more than one-half of processing have been announced by all the fatal' accidents which occur the state USDA war board. Proces on our public highways. Last year sors paying the specified prices will there was a tremendous increase in be certified as eligible to partici fatal auto accidents over the pre pate in a government purchase pro vious year. The accidents in factory gram. Minimum grower prices, rep and on the highway are in exact resent considerable increases over proportion to the amount of liquor last year. consumed in the country. The same is true concerning the increase in FARM LABOR insanity, increase 1n crime and in The department’s labor recruit crease of paupers. ing program will be started immed When the amount of liquor con iately In all major counties produc sumed increases or decreases, all ing perishable fruits and vegetables the records of arrest for drunken for canning. Plans to alleviate the ness, auto accidents, insanity, crime farm labor shortage also includes and poverty increase or decrease, in the possible use of Axis war prison exact proportion, which is positive ers on the volunteer basis. This pro proof that intoxicating liquors are gram will include provisions for principally responsible for all these regular wages in addition to mili delinquencies. tary allowance. This plan will not The government is asking every be inaugurated immediately but body to conserve and economize may be desirable. Wickard estimat a'ong all lines for national defense es that 3,500,000 farm laborers and rightly so, but why should the must be recruited to produce the liquor crowd be allowed to indulge 1943 farm crops. their appetites and spend all they want for liquor without any re FOOD RATIONING FOR strictions placed upon them. Last ISOLATED FARMS OPA announces that individuals year nearly $5,000,000,000 was living too far from the marketing spent for liquor, and a comparative centers to buy rationed food as of ly small amount of that was turned ten as twice a month, may apply to over to the government in revenue. The brewers have an exclusive the local rationing board for certif icates allowing them to buy in monopoly to sell beer to our boys quantity. This will apply to many in the military canteens and camps. ranchers, prospectors, and others. In the Brewer’s Digest for May, 1941 the diabolical scheme to ex FLUID MILK PRICE CEILINGS ploit the boys in the military camps OPA has announced nation-wide with beer is shamelessly revealed. emergency ceilings over the prices This liquor magazine boldly says: fluid milk distributors and handlers “Here is a chance for the brewers may pay farmers. This is to pre to cultivate a taste for beer in vent further rise in cost to the millions of young men who will public. Regulations of this order eventually constitute the largest will soon be released. They will beer consuming section of our pop stipulate that from effective date ulation.” of the order until April 9 no fluid Here is disclosed the sinister reas milk distributor may pay to a pro on why beer is now so copiously ducer other than the highest ppice and freely famished by the brew paid in January, 1943. A perma ers to our boys in our army camps. nent policy on milk prices will be What is the purpose? issued within the next 60 days. Is it to inspire patriotism? To tnake the boys more efficient? To ALFALFA HAY CEILING OPA regulations to be issued this insure the safety of our army and week will reduce prices on alfalfa our country? No, but to cultivate a taste for hay in parts of Oregon by from »4 beer in millions of young men who to $8 per ton. will eventually constitute the larg 18 MILLION VICTORY GARDENS est beer consuming section of our Victory gardens—18 million of population.” What a sordid motive! them—will be needed in 1943 to What a selfish purpose! Shall we help meet expanding food produc give these brewers who have such tion goals. Fanners are pushing low-down motives “a chance” to for the biggest food production in make good this selfish purpose in history under handicaps of labor our army camps? Not with my con and material shortages. A victory sent Shall it continue with your rardsn is every fsmi’y’s direct'con consent? tribution to the war effort. —Submitted by G. F. Brown WAR NEWS George A. Nelson, county agent. The bean growers of the commun ity are also invited to attend the session, which is scheduled to start at 1:15 p.m. . Mr. McWhorter will discuss the price of strawberries and also im proving of stocK for planting and its importa ice now at d after the war. Consideration will also be giv en to home gardens, si.d the ini* portance of the family orchard COMMERCIAL CLUB APPROVES PLAN TO CONTINUE DINNERS Commercial club members who met at the Monday evening dinner held at the Interstate cafe approv ed the executive eommittes'3 plan of holding a dinner on the third Monday of each month and the once-a-month schedule is to be con tinued unless some unforseen situ ation cal’ i for a chan :e in plans. Erik Klepp, who had been ’’nvitei by the chairman of the road com mittee to present his plans for a new road to the shipyard, informed the ■ club that he was starting the following day on construction of a drive to replace the old way via the highway underpass, and that the press of time did not permit of a change of plans. Mr. Klepp reported preliminary work to be progressing and the time for actual shipbuilding to be near. The Forum & A K NEW P ILLUMINATED HANDBAG FOR | BLACKED-OUT | AN APPLE iG OVER flO PERCENT WATER streets I ls I FITTED L WITH A LIGHT A: WHICH Z- FLASHES ON WHEN THE BAG tG OPENED, ELIMINATING FUMBLING AMONG CONTENTS P olar bears AND CHOW DOGS ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS THAT HAYE BLACK TONGUES I aw A M08ILE K-PAY MACHINE TESTS WAR WORKERS AT THE RATE OF QNE MAN A MINUTE THE MATOR AND A COUNCILMAN OF A TEXAS TOWN, IN ADOITION L TO THEIR OFFICIAL DUTIES. A X HAVE GONE TO WORK IN /g .X a NEARBY AIRCRAFT PLANT/ ' he can reach most around the bole Po You Know Swing Jensen? the usual spar. The shortage of able men for the of Another credits Swing .«killed and rugged trades of the Jensen with account keeping the works go Douglas fir woods has produced a ing in one snow when it ran out of row breed of big-timber whoppers, —he’d just hook his wonder or tall tales. Or rather, a new char chokers long arms around a log, lock feet acter on which 1943 versions of Paul ful and legs in the rigging, and then Bunyan fables may be hung. I first sail in with the mainline pull to the heard of him a month or so back, ’landing. Of course it was downhill, but it seems he had come alive a and no stumps or windfalls to jolt spell earlier. Maybe you have heard him up. the same and have wondered Another time, when a cat driver whether there might really be some and his rigging man failed to show powerful man of the woods who up, Swing Jensen took out the trac started the stories. tor and made a record haul — he “Swing Jensen” is the name of the could reach back through the arch r ighty man, as I've heard it. One and hook ' formant sandwiched “Shift" into his seat. on a log without leaving the name, but that doesn't apply only trouble with Swing Jen >.: visibly to a logger--it rings of the The is the way he works his reach si’ pyards. Of course Jensen may sen In the cookhouse. who claim *<»■> be a ship builder. It is such to have sat with Loggers at meals vow 11.ms that need to be cleared up. his reach is not him eight feet, eight The truth must be known. Anyhow, he is “Swing Jensen” to inches—but twice as long. ibis column. The common key to now Tall Talcs Grow . . . hit character in all the stories I've Such are samples of the stories heard is the prodigious reach of his about Swing Jensen, the man who arms, and this powered with an urge is making up for the shortage of to get out logs for war that is akin help in the woods. Doubtless there to the urge of the U. S. Marines to are others much more amazing and wonderful. There is a very real rea kill Japs. son for them. True loggers, men Lone Faller of the Fir . . . with bark on them, make humor out Jensen also stands high—seven of their troubles, as soldiers do. And feet, seven inches. But his reach is the majority of the skilled and ex eight feet, eight. Thus he is well perienced men who have stuck to equipped to work as a lone timber the woods to get out timber for the faller in the giant Douglas fir. He Army and Navy, have plenty of notches undercuts with an ax in trouble because their crews are each fist Sawing, he stands at the short Often each man has to be a middle of a seven - foot, six - inch man and a half to keep the logs crosscut, spreads his arms, grabs a booming to the landings and the handle in each hand, and saws fir mills. as powerfully as any team of timber Out of similar conditions in the fallers ever heard of. pioneer logging of the Lake States "It's not only his reach and mus grew the Paul Bunyan stories. They cle does the trick ' I'm told “It's reflected the spirit of the pioneer his swing from the knees and hips " woodsman who met and conquered Swing Jensen s reach also makes giant obstacles. him a prune substitute when hts Swing Jensen, mighty forest front outfit is short a high climber and fighter, seems to be a 1943 reincar a spar tree has to be topped He nation of Paul Bunyan. Does any doesn't bother with s life rope until reader of thia column know him? he Is up to the limbs, but climbs the Further facts on him should be Srst 80 feet ar so with hands alone— • worth more spec« state income taxe headache ever since the session opened, finally has drafted a bill which would reduce all taxes a flat 10 per cent. The majority of the committee brought in a report of Do Pass on the bill, but Lawmakers Pier and Hall of Multnomah county, who are also members of the committee, squawk ed long and loud and have written a minority report which would grant a 25 per cent reduction. The bat tle is now going on for votes to sustain the minority report, and from all appearances Messrs. Pier and Hall will have enough votes to put their bill over for the 25 per cent cut. Chairman Giles French of the committee says 10 per cent is as far as it’s safe to go. while Pier and Hall argue that with thousands of new taxpayers to extract money from, 25 per cent is safe for the next two years. The next legisla ture could then fix the tax at any rate the existing conditions seemed to justify. • • A Just before the close of any leg islative session the politically ambi tious always start their campaigns for two years hence, especially those who aspire to be president of the senate and speaker of the house. Both honors were accorded up-st.ite candidates this session, so it’s only natural lor Portland lawmakers to be casting an eagle eye in the direc tion of the chairs. Senator Corbett in 1935 was the last Portland leg islator to head the upper house. Dorothy McCullough Lee, who ran a dead heat with the present in cumbent, President Steiwer, and then withdrew on the 45th ballot, will be urged by her supporters to again be a candidate. However, Dorothy must be reelected again, as her term expires before the next session. Then we hear that Senators Coe McKenna and Marshall Cornett have the same idea. Over in the house Stanhope Pier, Portland, Earl Hill, Cushman, Carl Engdahl, Pen dleton, John Steelhammer, Salem, and H. H. Chir.dgren, Molalla, are being groomed by their supporters for the speakership. The boys are now busy attempting to obtain pledges, for their favorites. • « • Observations from the press box: The “third house” show was a hon ey. . .all lawmakers came in for some good ribbing; some got more than others. . .and the big dance after the show, attended by many of the state house stenogs. . .and many soldiers too. . .Many Portland folks came down for the show including flocks of ex-lawmakers. . .Some talk of night sessions to assure ad journment not later than March 6 . . .Who wilt Governor Snell appoint to this, that and the other thing, after the legislators have gone home, is the burning question. . . Lots of t*lk cn the subject. . .and the governor very mum. . .which is smart.
