4______Thursday, March 25, 1943
County News
Vernonia Eagle
THE POCKETBOOK
¿/KNOWLEDGES
The report was made March
16 that better than $1,047 had
been turned in.
LIONS RETURN WITH
The quota for Clatskanie was
FOURTH PLACE TROPHY
$800. V. L. Shepard, chairman,
Carrying the consolation trophy feels confident that around $1201)
and the knowledge that they had will be realized before the drive
won fourth place against some closes.
tough competition, the St. Helens
Lions came home from the state
A TOMBSTONE
tournament with a highly success­
MANUFACTURER ACTING
A5 A SUBCONTRACTOR
ful basketball season behind them.
IS USING HIS
5ANDBLA5T CHAMBER
The kids who made up Coach Hal LITTLE HOPE SEEN
TO FINISH IO TONS OF
Smith’s squad this year lost only
I CASTINGS WEEKLY
I FOR WAR-VITAL
one conference ball game in the FOR RATIONING BOARD
ELECTRICAL
Thumbs down was OPA’s reply
EQUIPMENT
regular schedule, dropped another
A ir - cooled GL0VE6 PREVENT
to
Rainier
’
s
request
for
a
local
to Beaverton in the inter-district
WORKERS FROM BURNING
THEIR HANDS WHILE
playoffs and were licked once in rationing board, the same as
WORKING ON HOT 6LA55 FOR
St. Helens, Clatskanie and Vernon­
the state tournament.
AIRFIELD LANPIN6 LAMPS
The St. Helens record at Salem ia were given.
Thos. L. McBride, writing as
went like this: Thursday night, de­
feated by the towering, fast-break­ secretary of the Rainier commer­
ing Baker squad 54-26; Friday, cial club, had recited to Richard
won over the Salem team 44-27; G. Montgomery, Oregon OPA di­
Saturday morning, handed the Axe­ rector, some of Rainier’s troubles
men of Eugene a 35-24 drubbing. in obtaining service at the St.
Helens ration board, and as well
the necessary travel and delay in­
SCHOOL SITUATION UN­
CHANGED; ACTION EXPECTED curred in getting ration books for
OftPiHA&y CLEANIN6 FLUID
Although there has been an in­ the 1200 families in this area.
HAS BEEN____
______ By
_ . A .
ADAPTED
A
merican
bombers
CHEMICAL MANUFACTURER
Mr. Montgomery replied that
formal meeting of the board, no
HAVE SPANNED THE
. IO CREATE CHEMICAL SMOKE-
ATLANTIC AND REACHED
K SCREENS FOR MILITARY A
action had been taken up until due to lack of funds it was im­
LONDON IN THE RECORD
- \
OPERATIONS
Thursday afternoon on the school possible to establish more local,
TIME OF 6 HOURS RNO
boards
and
turned
the
letter
from
L/.O
MMJTES
situation here, where two superin­
tendents are apparently on the Rainier over to Mr. Chaney, OPA
job. Ira W. Tucker, who withdrew organization officer, who also
a resignation he made earlier wrote that the assignment of Rain­
at a board session, said he intend­ ier to the St. Helens board had
ed to continue at the superintend­ been made after “careful study.”
ent post and that he considered He excused lack of service from
St. Helens by pointing to lack of
that meeting “illegal.”
Francis Gill has been returned forms and to congestion caused by
could look back and see, under the
Keep It Green for Buddy . . .
as high school principal and as the rationing of fuel oil on top
sun, only a rough green
It will be a black homecoming for morning
blanket
the hills yonder, with
acting superintendent, according to of other rationing duties.
Buddy Lane, if he shoots his way hardly a on stump
showing through.
the board, which apparently con­
safely into the time when hetramps And that green would
his first
through Tokyo and can call it a sight in the evening as be
siders that Tucker’s resignation
the school
war.
His
folks
are
yet
altogether
rounded the turn that brought
was final. It is expected that the
and in good health, and his girl is bus
farm in sight.
board will meet very soon at a
true-blue and doesn’t have it in her' the It Lane
is
such times Buddy remembers
to show any other color. And there- when he
formal session to take some ac­
mentions the hills in his
will be a logging truck for him to letters. The
tion.
look of them on leav­
wheel down the mountain side, so ing, and on the
return. He remem­
One reason for delay in hold­
long as his old company has logs to bers the soft light
of Indian sum­
by .J ames P reston
ing this meeting may be that two
get out and a place to peddle them. mers on the hills, the
long shadows
But there is one thing that will get at sunset time, the warm
members of the board—Chairman
glow in
One of the most fundamental
Buddy Lane downhearted to see.
the
green
of
the
young
trees—the
S. F. Heumann and Caley Sher­ and important issues that have
The thing is a vast black scar on glow deepening into red and
gold as
man—are ill.
the hills west of the Lane home­ the sun would slip behind the
con-fronted the nation in nearly
stead. There is frequent mention of of the hills. Soft shadows on rim
the
one hundred years, in the opinion
those hills in Buddy’s letters to his home, then, with wood smokt weav
­
SCALES IN COLUMBIA
of congressmen, is the issue of a
mother and father. They were the ing
through
them,
smoke
that
sig
COUNTY TO BE CHECKED
place of his first adventures and his nified supper cooking for a boy with ­
compulsory labor draft that has
first work. There was a spring, a the appetite of a cub bear.
Heavy duty scales including suddenly been thrust into the
creek, a cave, big stumps, windfalls
public weighing, highway, grain limelight.
trees In the sunset—that’s
and other down timber left in log­ the Green
sort of thing Buddy Lane re­
and livestock scales in Columbia
ging—a world of stuff in the great members
This measure, sponsored ¿>y sen­
as he broils, sweats and
outdoors for boys to play with. And
and Clatsop counties will be check­ ator Warren R. Austin of Ver­
there was grazing for the Lane cows. fights in the New Guinea jungle.
ed between March 29 and April mont and Representative James
That was B u d d y's first w o r k— Sentimental stuff? Well, yes. But
4 by the state department of ag­ W. Wadsworth of New York,
rounding up the cows at milking that’s how it is with most of our
soldiers. It’s the stuff of the songs
time. Then, wood cutting.
riculture weights and measures would permit the president, if he
Mark Lane, Buddy’s father, was they sing. It’s what they remember
division.
deems voluntary methods inad­
from Michigan. He was one of the —“there are such things."
Ray Cates from the Salem head­ equate, to draft any man or wo­
few among the two hundred farmers He’ll Get Over It . . .
of the valley who did not burn the
quarters will be in charge or the man in the United States from his
says the boy always used
logged uplands each year. Mark to Mark
big weights testing truck and ex­ or her job to serve in any capacity
worry a lot when the valley
held that in the long run such burn­ smoked
with
fern fires every spring
pects to check all western Oregon or job designated by a govern­
ing would not improve grazing, but and with land-clearing fires each
ruin
it
He
’
d
learned
that
by
ex
­
scales between now and May 15.
mental board.
But Buddy had learned to re­
perience in Michigan, he said. Any-. fall.
sign himself to human carelessness
While the endorsers of this
how, he wanted woods on the Lane and cusseflness, and he’ll shake off
measure were the war department
hills. The land was thick with fir
loss. Mark thinks.
seedlings when Buddy was a five- this
and the American Legion, initial
“What bothers his» mother and me
year-old.
is
how
to forewarn him,” Mark Lane
opposition came from War Man­
“The trees and the kid will grow told me. “When the war’s over he
FLOTILLA HAS
power Commissioner McNutt, the
up together," Mark Lane would say. may
and head home before we
21 BOATS, 45 MEN
"We'll keep the hills green for know land
AFL, and the CIO. Labor pro­
it, come sudden as a big sur­
Buddy.”
Clatskanie’s auxiliary of the posed as a substitute the Tolan-
prise. I don’t feel good when I think
Green Trees In the Sunset . . .
of Buddy rounding that turn yon­
United States Const Guard is rap­ Pepper-Kilgore bill to set up an
And so they were kept. Greener der, straining his eyes to see what
idly growing into one of the Office of War Mobilization. This
grew the hills of home for Buddy he remembers so deep in his soul—
most active and interesting or­ now rests before the military af­
Lane year after year. He saw the and then see only where that neigh­
ganizations of the community.
ferns and other ground cover slow­ bor’s fern-burning fire got away and
fairs committee.
ly crowded out by the wonderful swept our home hills. I hate to
There are 21 boats now signed
growing force of the Douglas firs. think of that kind of black home-
up for use in the event of an
Grenville Clark, New York at­
When he was ten or so the trees coming for Buddy. He'll get over
emergency and more than 45 torney who drafted the orginal
were tall and thick enough to screen it. and get married and live his life
most of the windfalls and old log­ —but not on this place. It won’t
members are available and on call selective service act, as well as
ging debris on the hillsides. When ever again be really home to him,
at all time?.
the Austin-Wadsworth bill, has
he started to ride the bus for his with the green hills burned into
Just recently 24 new members stated that this legislation is
first year at high school in town, he black acres of hell."
have been admitted and four more necessary to convince our allies
boats added to the flotilla.
that Americans are determined
Church of Jesus Christ
. The men meet twice a month to go all-out for war. Congres­
Of Latter Day Saints
and study small boats navigation, sional proponents of the legisla­
Sunday school convenes at 10
Morse code and other matters tion. like Mr. ¡Clark, contend that
a. m. at the I. O. O. F. hall under
pertaining to their duties.
equality of sacrifice is necessary
the direction of Charles Ratkie.
The purpose of the auxiliary and that some legislation must be
superintendent.
is to patrol the river or to help enacted to clear up the muddled
in anyway at the time of an manpower situation. Some law­ St. Mary’s Catholic Church Evangelical Church
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
emergency or disaster at any time makers consider the measure a
—Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister
Rev. Frederick Thiele
they might be called.
Sunday, March 28, 1943
possible vehicle for carrying cer­
tain reform legislation, pointing Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun­ 9:45—Sunday school, Mrs. Madge
day in month—Mass at 8:30 A.M.
CLATSKANIE FIRST IN
Rogers, superintendent.
out that union “featherbed” and
COUNTY TO REACH GOAL
11:00—Morning worship service.
“make-work” rules, union respon­ Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on.
Clatskanie is the first incorpor­ sibility, absenteeism, strikes, and A mission will start March 28 for
Message: “A Perfect Atonement”
ated town in Columbia county to racketeering are all factors in one week. Time will be announced 6:30—Junior and Young People’s
at 9:30 mass.
reach and exceed its quota in the ' the manpower picture.
Christian Endeavor.
•
present Red Cross drive.
7:30—Evangelistic service. Message:
Other congressmen
however,
“What Really Happens When a
said that those desiring such cor­ Church of the Nazarene
Man Becomes a Christian.”
rective legislation might well look Located in old post office building
The Vernonia Eaqle twice at the Austin-Wadsworth bill —Rev. George Hartzell, pastor Wednesday:
»
because it abolishes the right of 9:45—-Sunday school. Brother L. D. 7:30—Prayer meeting and Bible
MARVIN KAMHOLZ
study.
Jackson, superintendent.
a man to select or quit a job .of
Editor and Publisher
Friday, 2:00 p.m.—Cottage prayer
his own accord, and the right of an 11:00—Morning worship.
meeting.
Entered as second class mail employer to hire or fire at his 7:30—Evening services.
Cottage prayer meeting every
matter, August 4, 1922, at the post own discretion.
First Christian Church
Tuesday evening.
office in Vernonia, Oregon, under
—The Livingstones, Ministers
Representative W. M. Colmer
We welcome everyone to our ser­
the act of March 8. 1879.
9:45—Bible school, M. L. Herrin,
of Mississippi told the House of vices.
superintendent.
Representatives that before an­
Official newspaper, Vernonia. Ore
11:00—Junior church.
other year has passed America’s Assembly of God Church
11:00—Morning Communion ser­
war costs will have reached 213
Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister
vice and morning sermon. Subject
bi'liott dollars, compared with 88
9:45—Sunday school with classes
“The Tragedy of Nazareth.”
O» ec 1 o 0N pis
*
billion dollar« for the British Em­
for
all
ages.
P U • LI S m [ e B-S
oJV« • TI 01»
6:30
—Young people’s meeting.
pire. The 100 billion the United
States will spend this year is 11 11:00—Morning worship
7:30—.Evening communion and twi­
billion more than the combined 7:30—Evangelistic sen-ice.
light chat with question box. Sub­
NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL—
1943 budgets of England, Russia, 7:30—Wednesday evening,
mid­
ject: ' “Saving Our
Heritage
Odi
association
Canada. Germany. Italy and Japan,
week service
Through Work.”
according to Representative R. 7:30—Friday evening. Young Peo­ 7:30 Wednesday evening—Church
Risley of Oklahoma.
ples' Christ Ambassadors service.
night.
St. Helens
Rainier
Clatskanie
At The
Churches . .
Town and Farm in Wartime
TOWN AND FARM oimoi?i-qt
(A weekly news digest prepar­
ed by the rural press section, OWI
news bureau)
JAIL FOR VIOLATORS
“The prison terms of up to sev­
en months in jail with accompany­
ing fines ranging to $5,800 meted
out to 13 individual violators of
OPA price ceilings on beef at the
wholesale level today is only the
start of our broadened campaign
to wipe out the black market in
meat in this country,” price ad­
ministrator Prentiss M. Brown said
on March 9 in commenting on the
sentences and fines handed out
by federal judge Goddard in
the United States District Court in
New York City.
FRESH VEGETABLE PRICES
Regional OPA offices may ad­
just the maximum price of any
seller of fresh lettuce, spinach,
carrots, green peas, snap beans,
tomatoes, and . cabbage when the
ceiling price is likely to disrupt
normal distribution, the OPA has
ruled.
SEEDS NOT RATIONED
Peas, beans and lentils when
bought exclusively for use as seed
are exempt from the processed
foods rationing program and do
not require the surrender of eith­
er point stamps or ration certif­
icates, acording to OPA.
CERTIFICATES TO FARMERS
Farm families who have enlist­
ed in the hugh 1943 food produc­
tion program will be awarded a
certificate of farm war service,
signed by Secretary of Agriculture
C'aude R. Wickard, in recognition
of their war work. It will be pre­
sented by county USDA war
boards as soon as possible after the
completion of the 1943 farm mobi­
lization drive.
FARM INCOME
office of defense transportation
warns. The minimum necessary
mileage for each school bus will
be determined on the basis of in­
formation contained in these ap­
plications.
GARDENING MATERIALS
Supplies of essential garden
tools, seed, and insecticides are
reported to be sufficient to meet
the needs of the expanded vic­
tory garden program, but there
are none to waste, the USDA has
announced. Wasting seeds, tools,
fertilizer, or insecticides is nev­
er desirable and in war-time is
to be condemned.
FARMERS PAY LOANS
More than 100,000 farmer-bor­
rowers from the 12 federal land
banks and land bank commissioner
repaid their loans in full in 1942.
“Farmers are paying off their
long-term debts from high farm
income,” stated A. G. Black, gov­
ernor of the farm credit admin­
istration. “The demand for new
farm mortgage loans was about
22 per cent less in the last six
months of 1942 than in the same
period in 1941«with 33,000 fewer
farm mortgages recorded by all
lenders in the U. S. in the last
half of 1942.”
NAVY CONSTRUCTION
In his annual report to the pres­
ident, secretary of the navy Knox
declared that 1942 proveij that a
two-ocean navy is not enough, that
the United States must have ships,
planes, weapons, officers, and men
in any area in the world where
enemy forces must be met.
Earlier Knox had announced the
shattering of all naval shipbuild­
ing in February when 130 combat
vessels’ and 700 landing barges
were completed for the navy. An­
other construction record was set
in February with the delivery of
1,400 naval aircraft.
A preliminary review of the
data available on farm income BUTADIENE PRODUCTION
Construction of facilities for
and expenditures during 1942 in­
dicates that the net return to the production and purification of
farm operators for their labor, Butadiene has been halted by
capital investment, and manage­ WPB at two more refineries. The
ment, and for the other unpaid two plants were a BeaunTont re­
family labor, was about 10,200 finery of the Magnolia Petroleum
million dollars in 1942. In 1941 company, of Dallas, Texas, and a
the net return to farmers was es­ Wood River, Illinois refinery of
timated at 6,748 million dollars. the Standard Oil company of In­
The previous record pet income, diana.
in 1919, amounted to 8,799 mil­ TO CONTROL OILS
lion dollars. Total cash income
Peanut, sowbean, cottonseed and
from farm marketings and govern­ corn oils going into commercial
ment
payments
during
1942 channels will be controlled on a
amounted to 16,138 million dol­ monthly allocation basis after
lars. In 1941 cash income from April 16, Secretary of Agriculture
marketings and government pay­ Wickard has directed under food
ments totaled 11,754 million dol­ distribution order 29.
lars.
STOCKING PRICES REDUCED
Reductions of from 5 to 40
cents per pair for rayon stock­
ings have been announced by the
OPA. New prices, which will be
put into effect by mid-April at
all sales levels, will represent
price cuts averaging 15 per cent.
Stockings made to the standards
of OPA, as set for grade “A”
hosiery, will contain features de­
signed to lengthen the life and
improve service of the hosiery such
as reinforcements in the foot and
welt (top) and a minimum num­
ber of rows of stitches in the leg
to prevent “skimpy” construct­
ion.
apatia
Augusta Travers—you know, the
one who runs the little hat shop down
on Main Street—she’s always been
dead set against gambling in any
form. Never will forget when I was
a kid and she found little Hammy,
her youngest nephew, playing mar­
bles for keeps out back of the shop.
Took it on herself to give him a whal­
ing and point out the evils of gam­
bling. She’s a strict woman, Augusta,
real strict. Good as gold, of course.
But mighty set against the lighter
things of life.
WAR MATERIAL PRODUCTION Well, so you could have knocked us
all over with a
January production of certain
feather when Au­
types of war material; 70,000 air­
sasi •
gusta started her
craft bombs of 1,000-pound size
>
gambling cam-
paign for War
or larger—enough to bomb the
■—Bonds
and
enemy for thirty days at the rate
•
Stamps, right out
of 2,300 bombs a day; approxi­
ir»
♦
lira
minrlzMir
’n **** window r\f
of
mately 5,000 airplanes, more than
'>'«¡'1 V/ k' her shop. First
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1
'
'
she
got
hold
of
the
65 per cent of them of the combat
photographs of
type; equipment for ground and every boy here in town
who's joined
air forces—3141 times the rate of up, and pasted them on a big board
in
the
window,
with
little
American
January 1942; 58,000 carbines;
at the corners. Half the town
80,000 garand
rifles;
27,000 flags
was down there watching her do it.
50-catibre aircraft machine guns; She left the middle empty. Then she
7,000 20mm aircraft cannon; and brought out a placard she’d had
printed up and put it in the middle,
68,000 sub-machine guns.
and this is what it said: “These are
the Local Boys who have enlisted in
WAR HOUSING
America's War—They are betting
Applications for FHA-insured that you are buying war Bonds and
financing of approximately 12,500 Stamps—Hitler and the Japs are bet­
you aren't—Place your bets in­
proposed new dwelling units for ting
side.” ■
war workers were filed at FtHA My wife couldn't wait to get her­
field offices during February, fed­ self down there and inside Augusta's
eral housing commissioner Fer­ shop to see what in the wide world
had happened to her. turning right
guson .announced. The upturn in around about gambling like that.
FHA insurance applications last You know my wife. She kind of likes
month points toward increased ac­ to talk. She went" right up to Augusta
said, “Augusta Travers, seems
tivity by private builders during and
like something's come over jrou.
coming weeks under the FHA’s Why, I never thought I'd see you run­
war housing program. Approxi­ ning a gambling campaign in your
shop.”
mately 85 per cent of all privately own
Mean to tell me it’s a gamble
financed warhousing construction whether this country buys enough
is now financed by mortgages in­ bonds to win this war?" Augusia
asked.
sured by the FHA.
I forgot to say. Wasn’t just a hat
my
wife brought home. Was a hat
GAS FOR SCHOOL BUS
and a $25 bond.
If school authorities do not (Story from an actual report in the
promptly return applications for flies of the Treasury Department.)
Remember: It takes b .«.—‘.axes
revised certificates of war neces­ and
War Ben:’« (end mere T"ar
sity, there may be insufficient Bond.«)—¡o rua t' e T.'ar r id tcri'-at
r j n« . nrf,
gasoline for school bus operations inflation!
in the second quarter of 1943, the