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St. Helens
Rainier
COMMANDO TRAINING
GIVEN STUDENTS
PASSENGERS LUCKY
WHEN BOAT BURNS
“Commando” style training which
includes a 500-yard course full of
obstacles designed to make tough
going even for superman, is devel­
oping St. Helens juniors and sen­
iors into the kind of material the
U. S. armed forces will be glad to
get. According to Herb Eisen-
schmidt, high school physical edu­
cation instructor who handles the
toughening course, the boys are in­
terested in it because most of them
are headed for some branch of the
service and are convinced that the
training will be of value to them
then.
Eight to 10 passengers on the
Ferris Brooks ferry Vulkarie got a
scare, but escaped any harm when
the boat caught fire Monday about
7:45 a.m., just as it was approach­
ing the dock at the Longview Fibre
company plant on the Washington
side of the Columbia. Mr. Brooks
ran over the top of the cabin and
leaped to the float with a line, haul­
ing the boat in to allow the passen­
gers to land without having to jump
into the river.
The course, copied after those
the army developed to toughen its
men, hasn’t been much toned down
from the regulation model. It in­
cludes ditches, a "bear trap,” which
is a fence-enclosed square into and
out of which students must climb,
a sand pit and parallel bars along
which throe going over- the course
must swing hand over hand.
One of the last obst cles on the
course is a six-foot fence which
must be climbed without assistance
—a fairly tough job after a boy
has already been through the other
obstacles.
BOARD ACCEPTS RESIGNATION
BY HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
In a special meeting held March
10 at the high school, - the board
of dis.iu.'t No. 2 voted to: 1. Re­
hire .. re tified teachers in the
local ysein except the principal
ano ‘.vo t achers of McBride school.
2. (.
I-a W. Tucker, present city
in ii.lendent, a contract for an-
o . ■ year.
After the passengers had scram­
bled off, the 34-foot cabin craft
burned to the metal hull.
1
SCHOOLS IN RAINIER
INCREASE SALARIES
Rainier grade and high school
boards have ordered a pay increase
of 15 per cent for the next school
year. This has been necessary to
hold any teachers to continue the
work in the face of rising living
corts and attractive wages in other
lines.
It is expected, however, that de­
creased expenditures and additional
outside income for the schools will
still leave a lowered tax millage in
the local districts.
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
IH WORLD WAR 1 IT WAG 4OMEU AMP 8 HORSES TO A BOX CAR.
THIS TIME 260 SOLDIERS TRAVEL IN A MONSTER.TWO-PECKER
PLYWOOD BUS
UNOER
NORMAL
CONDITIONS,
A SOLDIER'S
WOOLEN
COAT
LASTS 33
MONTHS,
HIS WOOLEN
TROUSERS
14'4 MONTHS,
HIS
OVERCOAT
36 MONTHS,
HIS SHOES
5 TO 7
MONTHS, AND
HIS WOOLEN
SHIRT 6
MONTHS
A NEW ALL-PURPOSE FOAM HAS BEEN
DEVELOPED WHICH WILL EXTINGUISH
ALCOHOL FIRES. IT IS INTRODUCED INTO
THE WATER STREAM BEIN6 PLAYED ON
THE FIRE
because of
THEIR
FRAÖRAHT
QUALITY,
NUTME6S
WERE SUSPENDED
ON CHAINS ANO WORV
Sy WOMEN IN OLDEH6LÄND
A n amphibious
öudek is - me newest
WEAPON OF THE U.S. NAVy
Town and Farm in Wartime
(A weekly news digest prepared by AID LUMBER PRODUCTION
the Rural Press Section, OWI News
To stimulate production of lum­
bureau.)
ber and other forest products re­
quired for war and essential civilian
NEWSPAPERS PRAISED
Commending the press, Prentiss needs, WPB has set up a program
M. Brown, OPA administrator, in to: (1) locate and transport labor;
a letter to Arthur T. Robb, editor (2) obtain greater employment of
of Editor and Publisher magazine, women in the industry; (3) locate
said, “No finer single service in the stumpage for existing operations
interest of the American public and put operators in touch with
has been performed during this war owners of merchantable forest pro­
than the splendid handling by the ducts; (4) present draft defer­
nation’s press of the OPA processed ment needs of logging and milling
operatives before local selective ser­
foods rationing program.”
vice boards; (5) present the needs
CEILING PORK PRICES SET
On April 1, 1943, ceiling prices of logging and milling operators be­
will be fixed on all retail sales of fore ration boards; (6) present
fresh and processed pork. The U. factual data when establishment or
S. is divided into eleven zones, in modification of ceiling prices is ne­
each of which the pork prices will cessary.
vary for different classes of retail
stores. Prices in OPA maximum FLOUR PRICES UP
price regulation 336 take the place
Prices of soft wheat flour sold
of all previous ceiling prices.
by eastern, southern and midwest­
On and after April 1, a retailer ern millers and blenders were raised
may sell only: (1) pork cuts given approximately eight per cent by
dollars and cents prices under OPA the OPA, because of increased cost
336; (2) pork products whose prices
are fixed under general maximum of wheat. Ceiling prices will be
price regulation, including pork placed on soft wheat east of the
sausage, canned pork, pork variety Rock mountains, to prevent fur­
meats or offal (including temple ther rises in soft wheat flour.
,
meat cutlets, brains, chitterlings,
TRANSPORTATION
BILL
liver, plucks, kidneys, tongues, lips,
An emergency transportation act
snouts, ears, hearts, cheek and head
meat, stomachs, and heads), and has been proposed by ODT to the 44
quick frozen cuts which are deliv­ state legislatures in session to ex­
ered to the retailer in individual pedite war traffic. The bill would
packages in' which he sells them. confer on a state governor flexible
Ceiling prices on pork must be post­ authority to take emergency action
ed in each store beginning April in regard to the following: (1)
1, and, upon request, the retailer staggered hours of employment to
must give a customer a receipt facilitate transportation to and from
showing the date, name and address places of employment; (2) maxi­
of retailer, name and weight of mum rates of speed for motor ve­
each pork cut sold, and the price hicles. (3) sizes and weights of
motor vehicles may be permitted
paid for it.
to use state highways. (4) suspen­
NO CLOTHES RATIONING
sion of statutes or regulation re­
Elmer Davis, director of the of­ quiring licenses or fees for the
fice of war information, after con­ entry and operation of a motor
sultation with WPB chairman Don­ vehicle licensed in another state;
ald Nelson and OPA chairman Pren- (5) conservation of vital equipment,
tissf Brown, stated that no ration­ materials and supplies, especially
ing of clothing is in present pros­ rubber.
pect. There is no shortage of cloth­
ing now, nor of the textiles out of
which clothes are made, according
to these officials.
name, in fact, is the New Yorker.
One Man's War Gripe . . .
In their own home states the men The writer is E. J. Kahn, Jr. He
of the 41st Division, are the forgot­ is an enlisted man.
ten men of the war. Amid all the Kahn's accounts have been pub­
bellyaching of 57 varieties about lished regularly in the New Yorker
our own troubles, trials and tribula­ during the past year and more.
tions—the horrors we are enduring, There are no heroics in them, no
the ghastly sacrifices we are mak­ blood flowing. He has pictured the
ing here in Oregon and Washing­ simple, plain details of t h e day’s
ton-very little indeed is being said work for the soldier in Australia
¿bout the home boys who have done and in New Guinea. So New York­
one great fighting job in a far land ers know how it goes with our guys
. meetings earlier in the week
and who have much, much more of over there, but we do not.
Kahn tells, for example, how he
th. board decided to re-establish the
the same hell ahead of them.
If the home front in 1918 was of was digging a latrine trench "in a
post of city superintendent of
rather
leisurely fashion,” because
the same character that it is today,
s. » ids, thus reversing an action
I’m glad I was in France during the heat, as he cites in another
t. .< n by it about two weeks ag..
that year. It's not just our chronic place, beats down there until the
civilian bellyaching, our perpetual soldier feels his head is being
T e board likewise voted unani-
self-pity, or even our general week­ pounded by his helmet Jap planes
n i. sly Monday night to accept the
end debaucheries, that make up the came in sight. Kahn dug like sixty.
STATE HOUSE, Salem, March
ri ignation of Francis Gill, St. Hel­
worst of our home-front picture— When the planes pulled into bomb­
COTTON SUPPLIES
ens high school principal and an 17—A week has passed since the
it’s the attitude of “I don’t give a ing range, he huddled into the shal­
damn” about our own gang over low hole. As they circled on, he dug
There are large
supplies
of
employee of the local school sys­ president of the senate banged down
there in the jungles, the green hell, in again like a sidehill gouger. Then,
his gavel, the night of March 10,
short-staple, low-grade cotton on
tem for the past 10 years.
as the planes swung back, he dived
of the Guinea country.
J ames P reston
at 11:30, announcing the senate
hand, says the department of agri­
Well, that’s how we are. As the again. And so on, until the Japs
Chinese say, humanity is humanity. flew off. And then, says Kahn, "I
had adjourned sine die. The chief
culture, but relatively small sup­
As the war needs of the nation
discovered I had completed an ex­
Bully Beef Fritters . . .
clerk of the senate personally de­
plies of the higher grades and expand, the home front begins to
cavation of commendable depth.”
And,
anyhow,
the
boys
in
Guinea
livered the notification to the chief
longer staples of upland cotton. ■feel the pinch, and congressional
do have their bright spots, their Ration Boxes . . .
clerk of the house, and 12 minutes
Total upland cotton supply for the fires flare in various quarters.
WILLAMETTE DEAN TALKS
wonderful times. One outfit, after a Reading Kahn’s plain account of
later at 11:42, the speaker adjourn­
current season is slightly larger
TO C.H.S. STUDENTS
siege of grief, had the luck to enjoy how a supply dump was built up out
a hi-yu drinking party on mixed In the jungle, from boxes toted in
than last years, but demand will
Walter E. Erickson, dean of fresh­ ed the house sine die, which wound
The public has been notified that
coconut milk and lime juice. An­ by native carriers or dropped by
probably be larger. “Upland” cot­ it will have to get along with half
men at Willamette university, was up the 42nd regular legislative as­
other had a big breakfast feast one transport planes, you will get an­
ton includes more than 99 per cent as many types of f ods as it has
at the high school last week to sembly. The lawmakers just missed
morning—the mess sergeant had other snapshot of our main job in
of United States cotton production. been accustomed to, and has been
speak before an assembly. Mr. Er­ going into the 60th day by 18 min­ ' somehow scraped them up a won­ this neck of the home front The
derful mess of fritters. They were box lumbeif and plywood we pro­
ickson discussed the “Attitude of the utes, and the final day was a
given a preview of what might hap-
stuffed with bully beef. Bully beef duce have to be good to hold to­
LOWER EGG PRICES
high school and college student to­ mighty long one for all concerned—
en if war force* civilian economy
fritters—what more could men gether with that kind of handling
Fixed
mark-ups
which
retailers
over 14 hours.
want?. Wounds, malaria, sudden and against the jungle weather. We
ward education and the war.”
will use to establish their maximum to “bedrock” level.
death—such troubles seem small are in the New Guinea Service of
It didn’t take the lawmakers long
when you' can get your coconut Supply.
prices on sales of eggs to the house­
“After the war the theme song to clear out their desks and high-
The “bedrock” formula, possible
milk, lime juice, and bully beef Seems that Kahn is, too. He winds
wife have been set by OPA. The
of the present day, ‘Praise the Lord tail it for horne. Last Thursday
fritters once in a while.
up this way:
but not imminent, would have the
mark-up
is
figured
over
the
retail
­
and Pass the Ammunition’ will be night saw but few around the corri­
All this ill-natured growling from
“All in all, my life in New Guinea
an old vet of the 41st is the result of has been a cinch compared to that
er’s costs. This action will lower effect of restricting the purchasing
changed to ‘Praise the Lord and dors of the capitol; the place looked
my
reading
another
chapter
on
the
of
soldiers
in
the
front
line,
who,
prices this spring somewhat under power of every American to the
Pass the Ballot,’ ” Erickson declar­ deserted. Quite a contrast to the
everyday life of a soldier in New in order to kill Japs, have had to
those
established by the temporary level of the family with a $1,500
ed.
Guinea. While censorship did not incur endless risks and incredible
hustle and bustle of only the day
annual income.
freeze
of October, 1942.
permit the naming of units in the hardships. Sometimes we soldiers
The present generation will not before. A few remaining members
account, I could feel sure that it who haven’t yet been in a position to
Congressional heat on the war
DRIVE AGAINST BLACK MAKET
visualized the way of life of our destroy any of the enemy think
write the words or the music to the stayed over to see the governor on
own men. Do you want to know we’re having it tough, but we’re
An extensive and vigorous en­ manpower commission i s intense.
new song but they will have a vital political matters. Several have am­
where I read it? Not in any West­ not.”
forcement drive against meat black Many congressmen are accusing its
role in determining the basis upon bitions to be appointed to high
ern publication, but in a magazine
But are we having it tough here
ranking
jobs.
From
now
on,
the
gov
­
markets has resulted in 420 indi­ chief of permitting the manpower
which men shall live together, ac­
•f, by and for New Yorkers. It’s at home! Boy! How do we stand it?
ernor will have one grand headache.
viduals and firms being indicted, situation to get into such a tangle
cording to Erickson.
Many are called, but few will be the hopper. The senate defeated or centennial, a flock of buxom dow­ arrested, enjoined or sued for treble that it is threatening the nation’s
chosen. It has been suggested that indefinitely postponed 10 senate agers descended upon Salem to urge damages. Of these, 160 are being food supply. Lawmakers, angered
GENERAL MOORE, FROM
a "wailing wall” be erected for bills and three house bills. However, passage of the measure. All of these prosecuted criminally and the re­ by the war-work-or-fight order, are
PACIFIC SPEAKS
seeking legislation to slow down
A great deal of interest was be­ the disappointed pie counter boys, a flock of house and senate bills fine old ladies came from anteced­ mainder by civil process.
draft of fathers, and otherwise
ing shown in the appearance of because the wails will be long and died in committee.
ents who crossed the plains in ’49 GRADE LABELING
♦ ♦ •
curb
WMC moves that they say
loud
when
some
of
the
faithful
Brigadier-General Bryant E. Moore,
Grade labeling of the 1943 pack extend beyond the intent of the
Taking into consideration that or thereabouts, so they said—real
who spoke at the high school vic­ are left at the post, which is bound
of canned fruits and vegetables will
tory corps demonstration Tuesday to happen. Then it will be time to close to one-half of the house mem­ pioneers. When they had finished be required by the OPA. Price ad­ laws from which Mr. McNutt derives
his powers.
organize
the
hatchet
squad,
and
the
bership
was
serving
its
first
term,
talking
about
their
forefathers,
etc.,
night, March 16th.
ministrator Prentiss M. Brown re­
General Moore, now serving as slogan of said squad will be, “If freshmen so to speak, all in all they it made the rest of us natives feel iterated this announcement to set
Although the real heat has not
assistant division commander of the it hadn't been for me, with my po­ did a good job. iVery conservative, like a bunch of foreigners. Purred at rest rumors to the contrary that
Timber Wolf division at Camp Adair litical influence and hard work, he in fact too conservative on several one old girl, my great grandfather have been given wide circulation in yet been turned on, the crown
of public office is said to rest un­
returned in the past month from wouldn’t have been elected; just important bills, especially tax mat­ was “this” and my grandfather the food industry.
”
easily on the head of the food de­
ters, this legislature had but few “that” and her father something
active duty at Guadacanal where you wait and see,
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partment. While OPA price policies
crackpots, according to the views else. All of which is fine—to come SEEKS WOMEN RESERVISTS
he commanded troops engaged in
The
house
introduced
a
total
of
have born considerable b'.ame for
of
veteran
observers.
Several
made
from
such
splendid
pioneer
stock.
The
navy
department
is
seeking
some intense battles against the
418 bills, and the senate 312, wlpich outstanding records, especially John But it seemed to us the lady was approximately 5,000 women with ex­ part of the food situation, there is
Japs.
totals do not include the numerous Halt and Phil Brady, who proved working the argument overtime. In perience in a variety of medical increasing criticism of many basic
resolutions and memorials introduc­ themselves
excellent lawmakers; our opinion, she should remember and dental fields for service with New Deal farm policies which Mr.
ed by both houses. Rep. J. D. Perry both are veterans, while Fred Himel­ that her connection with this well the hospital corps. Procurement and Wickard directly controls.
of Columbia county was top man wright and Ralph T. Moore were known pioneers name was strictly recruiting offices have been asked
MARVIN KAMHOI.Z
for house bills introduced, with 22 among the freshmen members who a biological accident, and that’s- all. to enlist 600 women a month for
The house naval affairs commit­
Editor and Publisher
to his credit; while Irving Rand, were rated tops. Even the anti-labor There are thousands of others in the next eight months in order to tee has denounced absenteeism in
joint senator for Columbia, Clacka­ crowd respect and admire Phil Oregon who came from such pioneer provide replacements for many of war plants as a “very ugly situa­
Entered as second class mail mas and Multnomah counties, cap­ Brady, who has been actively iden­
stock, but they don't spend all their the male hospital corps personnel tion” in a report recommending
matter. August 4. 1922, at the post tured top place in the upper house tified with organized labor for close
time trying to get by on that ar­ stationed at any medical activities enactment of a “work or fight”
office in Vernonia, Oregon, under with 24. President Steiwer intro­ to 40 years. Reasonable in his labor
statute to apply to workers in nav­
gument.
on shore.
the act of March 3, 1879.
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duced but one bi l, which is the low views and rated a man who will al­
al construction and repair yards.
score for the senate. Representa­ ways keep his word, but always
There is some talk on Capitol Hill of
Well folks, this column is the last "STOCKINGS SALVAGED
Ot'ficial newspaper, Vernonia. Ore
tives Moore of Coos, Himelwright battling for the working stiffs, the “With the Lawmakers at Salem.”
Since the beginning of the stock­ possibly enlarging the measure or
of Wallowa and Pearson of Multno­ ex-blacksmith Jias a host of loyal We hope you have enjoyed reading ing salvage campaign three months supplementing it later, to apply to
mah each dropped in but one bill, friends among the top flight em­ these weekly articles, and trust we ago, 12,522,540 pairs of silk and absenteeism in all plants engaged
the low score for the house. In ployers of the state.
have given you some news concern­ nylon stockings have been salvaged in war production.
• • •
the horse 19 bills were substituted
“The principal of work or fight
ing the lawmakers yau would riot by the women of America for war
for a like number which previously
Some of the real cheers I get out have received otherwise. Anyway, use. In the third month period, is sound if wisely administered,”
had been introduced and the same of a legislative session are the com­ we got home in time to make out which ended February 15, 253,969 the committee report said. “The
number were withdrawn. The house mittee meetings, and especially some our federal income tax; and re­ pounds of hosiery were collected in workers in war plants, for causes
defeated or indefinite’y postponed of the people wh^ put in an appear­ member all of us have a state in­ stocking salvage depots of thous­ we have not ascertained are not on
45 house bills and nine senate meas­ ance to argue for or against some come tax to file by April 1. Here’s ands of retail stores. This is an in­ the job long enough,
N ational Aovt itiiikc
steadily
ures. The senate introduced 10 sub­ particular measure. When Senator hoping we’ll be writing for your crease of 81.4 per cent over the enough, and as a consequence we
R E P» E S K N TAT IVI
stitute bills and withdrew but eight Strayer introduced Senate Bill No. paper again real soon. S t long, first months collection figure, bring­ are not doing a good enough job
VS’V YOPK . CHICAGO . DETROIT
of th« total number dropped into 1, relating to the Old Oregon Trail everybody.
ing th« tot*! op to 626,127 pounds. to win the war.”
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