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Thursday, April 15, 1943 4 Vernonia Eagle County News St. Helens GRADUATION AT HIGH SCHOOL DUE MAY 19 St. Helens high school will grad uate a class of approximately 84 seniors at exercises planned for Wednesday, May 19, but about 30 per cent of the class will receive their degrees in absentia because nearly that many students will be in the armed forces, Francis Gill, acting superintendent of city schools, said last week. Speaker for the graduation ex ercises which are to be held in the high school “auditorium, may be Governor Earl Snell, who has been extended an invitation to be pres ent. • COUNCIL PASSES DOG RESTRAINING LAW From now on, dogs in St. Helens had better stay in their own back yards and confide their wandering to peering nostalgically out at the inviting streets and gardens where once they romped unrestrained. Otherwise—and on a strictly legal basis, because the city coun cil passed its much-anticipated ca nine-restricting ordinance Monday, April 5—a bogey-man in the shape of one of the St. Helens officers is likely to put the snatch on them and transport them to the new municipal pound. This last is a fairly commodious structure built under the direction of City Engineer Dave Slaght and located near the city reservoir. The new ordinance, which was inspired by the protests of Victory gardeners and others anent the destruction wreaked by maurad- ing digs, was passed unanimously and had the emergency clause at tached. Clatskanie FALL IN RIVER RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH The body of Jack Widows, well- known and popular Clatskanie restaurant man, who had been mis sing since Sunday, April 4, was recovered from the Clatskanie riv er the following Wednesday after noon about 1:30. Wednesday, L. S. Hattan found a quarter lying on the end of the dock back of the National Bak ery. A hunch led him to start looking for the missing business man. Norman Cobb was called and after using a grappling hook three times the body was found tnd recovered. State police and Coaoner Rogers were notified. An inquest was held the results of which was a ver dict of accidental death due to drowning. WESTPORT STARTS NIGHT SHIFT AT MILL Westport Lumber Co. has an nounced that it is starting the night shift nt its mill on April 16, after a close down of that shift for several weeks. The Westport plant is working overtime on important war orders. The company has issued a call for all former employees to any millworkers who desire positions at the mill. There are some posi tions open on the day shift as well as people being needed for the night crew. A good portion of the night < new previously had been made up of personnel from this sur rounding territory. MEN OVER 38 WILL NOT BE DISCHARGED The war department on March 31 stopped the discharging of men over 38 years old. Hereafter such individuals will be transfer red to an inactive status in the enlisted reserve corps subject to the following conditions: A. The man must request trans fer to an inactive status to enter an essential industry, including agriculture and accompany his re quest by a statement from the war manpower commission to the effect that his release is desired. B. The man will be recall’d to »ctive duty upon request of the war manpower commission. by^jAMES P reston The government is deploying its forces and clearing its decks for the long, hard pull. Chairman Nelson of WPB has simplified his organization structure and clearly defined lines of authority among vice-chairmen. The president has "drafted” Chester Davis as "food czar.” WMC has created a new nine-man labor-management pol icy committee for greater effic iency and better representation among the three major economic groups—industry, labor and agri culture. The WPB realignment will give Mr. Nelson more time to look aft er broad policy matters and work out major problems. The magni tude of the new program was made known when Mr. Nelson told the senate military affairs com mittee that the United States will carry 80 per cent of the United Nations production burden. WPB changes came at a time when the agency faces a tremen dous task of rescheduling of war orders to meet shifting strategic needs. This means some disruption for war material manufacturers, quick negotiation of new contracts conversion to new types of pro duction and, in many instances, resumption of some civilian pro duction on a limited scale. It al so means a vast increase in smal ler prime contracts and in sub contracting as well as changing emphasis on such vital issues as manpower. Stressing this point, Secretary of the Navy Knox ask ed this question: “Isn’t it true that the speed of production of all implements of war has exceed ed expectations because manufac turers, when they got into produc tion, found that they could pro duce far more rapidly than the original estimates?”* Mr. Davis, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve bank, was given complete charge of food production and distribution activi ties of the agriculture department and at his own request, control of farm labor. He also would be given control over farm prices and enough steel to meet farm machinery needs. These moves would place Mr. Davis on a par with WPB Chair man Nelson and Economic Stabil izer Byrnes. While Agriculture Secretary Wickard’s role is not clear, he will remain a member of WPB, the «Economic Stabiliza tion board and the combined food board. WMC has reminded employers and workers of the April 1 dead line for extension of the 48-hour week and the WMC order on 65 non-deferrable industries and oc cupations. Congressional attitude toward business was reflected in the ov erwhelming vote which the senate and house cast in favor of legis lation to revoke the president’s $25,000 salary limitation and to ward agriculture in the passage by both houses of the Bankhead bill which would eliminate benefit pay ments in computing parity. The latter move. Administrator Brown said, might raise the retail price of foods by 7 per cent and add $1,500,000.000 to the cousumer's food budget. RUBBER USE REDUCED Logger at Harvard . . . Hols Holbrook is the one logger with bark on who was ever in vited to lecture at Harvard Univer sity. More, Hols was so honored three years in succession. He hit that intellectual jackpot three times without benefit of college education. In his rugged schooling he had graduated, cum laude, from the war in France as a top sergeant of the Field Artillery; then from the Uni versity of Logging with the degrees of River Pig, Choker Setter and Ink Slinger. With such equipment, Hols had set forth on a career of histori- pal writing. A number of us have come out of the woods to write pieces for the papers and story books. But Holbrook is the lone historian of eminence the woods have produced. It íb genuine eminence. Harvard is the authority, and there is none higher. And Harvard is backed up by the top editors and literary critics of the East. Hols, for exam ple, has for years been a regular contributor of reviews on books in his historical field to t h e weekly book section of the New York Her ald-Tribune. Every fall he is called East on lecture tours and for ap pearances on t h e circuit of book fairs, amid the most elegant and effulgent of the nation’s literati. Forest Fire Fighter . . . Mr. Stewart Holbrook, he is known as in them effete parts, where he can wear a monkey suit and emit broad "a’s” with the best. Out here he is still “Hols,” and here he is at home in mackinaw and corks and takes on snoose and gabs log ger talk with the best of us. The woods are his home, and the people of the woods are his people. This is why Hols is on the job again, for his fourth year, in the Keep Washington Green and Keep Oregon Green campaigns. Officially he is director of Keep Washington Green only, for the period from April 1 to October 1, as assistant to the State Supervisor of Forestry. Keep Oregon Green is a distinct and separate setup. Actually Hols begat, as the Good Book puts it, both KWG and KOG. In the early spring of 1940 the publicity bullcocks of forestry and lumbering decided to have another go at forest-fire prevention by means of an educational campaign. The At The Churches . . St. Mary’« Catholic Church Forest Service, the state and pri vate fire-fighting organizations, an<J the lumbermen had been at this lor many years, but without effec tive public response. Summer after summer, the man-caused forest fires blazed. The leaders of all forest interests met with Governor Clarence Mar tin at Olympia. A conventional publicity campaign program was dis cussed, and an old slogan, ‘Keep Washington Green,” was revived. The Governor’s concern was on the caliber and repute of the campaign director. He settled instantly far Holbrook, when informed that Hols was a combination of old logger and. Harvard lecturer. Here are the figures on Washing ton forest fires for the three years of KWG: 2,000 in 1940; in 1941 the figure was reduced to 1,562; in 1942, to 842. Words Are Weapons . . . Holbrook wrote fire-warning stor ies for the newspapers which were in newspaper language. His produc tion for radio was professionally tops. And his tours among forest communities had effect because he talked the language of the woods. It was that simple—work unadorn ed a n d unpretentious, striking a common chord of response every where, doing a plain job in a plain way, without ballyhoo and bush- wah. The KWG success Inspired a Keep Oregon Green program, which rose to a high peak of results in forest fire prevention last year. Hols has completed another his tory book. This one is on Ameri can forest fires. It should be his best book to date Years of hard and deep digging for facts have gone into it, along with his general knowledge of the plain history of our land and peopl.e, his love of green forest country and hatred of tree burning, and his rare gift for writing which is rugged and vital— and scholarly to boot. Hols could be a Harvard favorite yet. living the literary life at its top crest in New York and Boston, but he’s sticking to his mission in the woods. That mission is to fight for est fires with words. Most of us who work with words are unable to make more than popgun weapons out of them. Hols, the old top ser geant. makes words operate like field artillery. Entered as second class mail n atter, August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. About 400,000 household re frigerators, 148,847 electric and gas-operated and the rest “ice bpxes”, will be available to the general public this spring, accord ing to the cousumers durable goods division of WPB. Only those who cannot be served by other types of refrigerators are eligible to buy gas or electric re frigerators, the order provides. “The Sense yf the Saviour.” Passion week Services every ev ening except Saturday at 8:00 o’clock. Everybody welcome. Assembly of God Church Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister LEGAL HELP AVAILABLE FOR SOLDIERS Free legal assistance will be available for all military personn el under a plan sponsored jointly by the American bar association and the war department. Legal as- First Christian Church Official newspaper, Vernonia, Ore Evangelical Church O iec | o 0N uìsfìpei Pu insist’ 44 so 3IÄT,°* NATIONAL EDITORIAL_ ASSOCIATION Buy More War Eonds Today —Rev. Allen H. Backer. Minister Palm Sunday 9:45—Sunday school, Mrs. Madge Rogers, superintendent. 11:00—Morning worship service. Theme: “Who Is This?” 7:00—Junior and Young People C. E. 8:00—Evening service. Theme: —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45 A.M.—Bible school; classes for all ages. 11:00—Junior church. 11:00—Communion and preaching. Subject: “I Am the Truth.” 6:30—Young people’s meeting 7:30—Evening song service, ques tion box. Communion and twi light chai. Subject: “The Hour of Hope.” FOOD DISTRIBUTION DISCONTINUED MORE ICE BOXES TO BE MADE AyAILABLE 9:45—Sunday school with classes for all ages. 11:00—Morning worship 7:30—Evangelistic service. 7:30—Wednesday evening, mid week service 7:30—Friday evening; Young Peo Church of the Nazarene ples’ Christ Ambassadors service. Located in old post office building —Rev. George Hartzell, pastor 9:45—Sunday school. Brother L. D. Church of Jesus Christ Jackson, superintendent. Of Latter Day Saints 11:00—Morning worship. Sunday school convenes at 10 7:30—Evening services. a. m. at the I. 0. O. F. hall under Cottage prayer meeting every the direction of Charles Ratkie Tuesday evening. superintendent. We welcome everyone to our ser vices. MA RVIN KAMHOLZ Editor and Publisher sistance offices will be established at each post, camp and station in the U. S. a qualified commissioned officer who is also a licensed at torney is to be appointed by the commanding officer of the post as the legal assistance officer. As sisting the legal assistance offic er, will be volunteer civilian law yers from nearby communities. Distribution of foods through state welfare departments to local communities for ure in school .unch p.ogiams is being discon tinued on April 30, according to the department of agrie-lture. Under a new program announced WIVES OF SERVICE MEN TO 4 in February, schools are able to GET MATERNITY CARE purchase foods locally for their Maternity care for wives of ser lunch programs and receive reim vice men and care for their in bursement in part f om the food fants will be available shortly for distribution administration. those who apply to state health departments, according to Kather 2000 SACKS OF ARMY ine F. Lenroot, chief of the child MAIL LOST Through enemy action more rens bureau of the U. S. depart ment cf labor. Following approp than two thousand sacks of U. S. riation by congress of $1,200,000 mails carried on United Nations to meet estimated need to July, ships and destined for American plans are being rushed to extend solders overseas in recent weeks have been lost, the army postal such aid to women in the 48 service reports. In making this stance* Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto announcement, the war depart Rico and the District of Columbia. The care will be available to the ment said that the loss of these wife or infant of any “Buck” mails was a striking illustration private, private first class, corpor of why V-Mail should be more al or sergeant in the army and fully utilized in communicating comparable grades in the navy, with soldiers overseas since 30,- marine corps or coast guard. It 000,000 pieces of such mail have is not available to wives of men in been handled thus far without the loss of a single letter. This is higher ranks. made possible by holding the orig TIRES FOR FARM inals at the ports of embarkation EQUIPMENT until the duplicate copies arrive Tire dealers or persons selling safely at their overseas destina or servicing farm equipment are tions. now entitled to keep on hand a maximum of six rear-wheel trac USED COMMERCIAL VEHICLES tor tires. Dealers who have the re PRICE CONTROLED Used commercial motor vehicles plenishment portions (part B) of rationing certificates calling for have been brought under price truck tires may restock with tires control by the OPA. By establish suitable for farm equipment in ing ceilings at a percentage of the value of the vehicle when new, the stead. new regulation is expected to GAS FOR SCHOOL BUSSES halt the activities of speculators ALLOWABLE which have resulted in some in School bus operators who did stances in prices that are 200 per not receive revised certificates of cent or more over the normal war necessity before April 1 may value of the used truck. obtain supplemental gasoline al lowances 'if necessary, ODT has COMMISSION CLASSIFIES announced. An appeal form may TEXTILES “ESSENTIAL” An order establishing textile be obtained from the nearest dis trict office of ODT’s division of yarn and fabric as “essential” motor transportation, completed for military and civilian needs and presented to the public school and classifying important posi superintendent for his recommen tions in cotton, wool and rayon dation and returned to the dis plants as “necessary” will soon be issued by the war manpower com trict office. mission. The cotton fabric and EXAMINATIONS FOR yarn industry has been urged to TUBERCULOSIS increase ias 1943 production by Since the outbreak of war, the at least 10 per cent. U. S. public health service has given X-ray examinations for tu berculosis to nearly a quarter of Guaranteed a million people. Slightly mire Watch Repairing than one in every 100 persons W. T. JACOBS examined have significant tuber 941 1st Avenue, Vernonia culosis of the lungs. From 55 to 60 per cent of the cases are in the early state most amendable to treatment, usually without san atorium care. From 35 to 45 per cent of the cases discovered by the public health service are moder ately advanced and only three to four per cent far advanced. Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Through U. S. Army measures for conserving rubber, the use of Rev. Frederick Thiele crude rubber in war materials has Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun been reduced by 45 per cent and day in month—Mass at 8:30 A.M. at many posts, crimps and stations Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. animal-drawn vehicles are used in certain jobs to save tires. The Vernonia Eagle 1041 Town and Farm in Wartime (^lAkbujjton EXPENSES OF RAID LARGE A single night raid of 1,000 bombers over «tie Rhineland calls for $375,000 of gasoline plus a million dollars for bombs dropped and an average of 11 million dol lars as the cost of planes lost through enemy action. 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