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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1943)
4______ Thursday, July County News St. Helens FIELD COMPLETION DUE BY AUGUST 15 ♦ Columbia county’s $150,000 air port near Scappoose will be com pleted ready to be turned over to the county for maintenance and operation by August 15 if present plans materialize, Ken Stuestall chief engineer on the project, said last week. Work of pouring the 8.000 tons of blacktop paving be gan this week and when that is completed the major part of the job will be done. , In Stuestall’s opinion, the coun ty will be getting a fine airport one whose runway is well enough constructed for any plane, no matter how heavy, to land. He pointed out that the base course on which the paving is placed is resting on solid rock which gives a rock foundation "going all the way to China,” was the way the engineer put it. CHOICE FARM ACRES TAKEN BY UNCLE SAM Total net taxable value of Co lumbia county for 1943 stands at $11,216,585, a decrease from $11,387,875 last year, according tb announcement last week. So far, the assessor’s office has not re ceived the county’s new public utility valuation, but since this is believed to be up from last year, it may change the picture some what. The county’s total valua tion for 1942 was $13^793.515 but this figure included public utili ties. Although the valuation shown by the assessor’s office represents a decline of $171,200, the drop was not this much when other factors are considered. For exam ple, during the past several months the government has taken over approximately 850 acres of some of the choicest farming land in the county. This land, valued at about $97,960, now pays no taxes, but probably will revert to its original owners at conclusion of the war. In addition, the county has fore closed on land valued at $97,- 750 and this move took that much off the valuation. However, busi ness in county-owned real estate has been brisk and it is estimated that some 30 percent of the acre age foreclosed upon has been sold and has thus been restored to the tax rolls. This restoration, howev er, will not show until next year. Exception is that all lands sold from Jan. 1 to June 30 will ap pear on the tax roll but not in the summary. Clatskanie FARM HELP PROBLEM MAKING PROGRESS The farm help situation is pro gressing quite satisfactorily at the present time, according to the latest reports from the registra tion office of C. J. Miller. Several local business men have been going out from a few hours a day to half a day or better, helping with the haying and some with the been weeding. Enough help has been secured for the mint weeding which will soon be finished. Some help including stringing and weeding has been taking place in the bean fields. At the present time there is no shortage of help in this line. Farmers are reminded to leave their names at the registration office with C. J. Miller and what their demands for help may be. The-Vernonia Eagle Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher Winifred Romtvedt, Reporter 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 Oitclo^NuisfÄri« P 0 111 S l<E «.s' 44s Oj)l « T I 0 « 1943 Vernonia Eagle FORMER TEACHER PRISONER OF JAPS IN CHINA Miss Geneve Sayre, former Clatskanie grade -school teacher, has been reported a prisoner of the Japs in a large concentration camp near Wehsein in Shantung province. The word came to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward. Sayre of La Grande through a publication of the Free Methodist church under which Miss Sayre had worked in China for more than 20 years. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE Rainier 37000 TANKS S ince THIEVES RANSACK THREE PLACES IN WEEKEND N. N. Blumensaadt, the grade school and the old Huycke pas time felt the impact of thieves about' two weeks ago. Mr. Blumen saadt lost about $50 in cash and a collection of uncancelled stamps valued at $30. Checks in the same compartment containing the cash was left untouched. The stuff stored in the former Huycke location had been gone through, and apparently some bot tled beverages had been Consum ed. The office at the grade school had been ransacked, it is thought, in a search for money, of which there was none present, according to T, L. McBride, principal. A small motor in the office is miss ing. PEARL HARBOR AMERICAN FACTORIES HAVE PRODUCED /4 BlUIOfJ BOUNDS OF . AMMUNITION l The serious situation on the home front was brought into sharp focus by three recent develop ments at headquarters: the resig nation of War Food Administrator Chester Davis; the Wallace-Jones controversy; and the temporary unsuccessful opposition to food price rollback through subsidies. Some capital observers believe that the rift between top administra tion ranks and congress is forc ing some changes in administra tive tactics. Shortly after naming Judge Marvin Jones as the new head of the war food administration, the president also made him a mem ber of the war mobilization board and of the war production board. Mr. Davis, who was a member of neither board, had told the presi dent that he had been given one of the most important home front assignments but had not been giv en real authority. In his letter of resignation to the president Mr. Davig said that he had been plac ed in a position where he could not even consult with those who formulated the policies which he was supposed to carry out. The Wallace-Jones rift resulted from charges and countercharges in connection with alleged ham stringing of the nation’s war ef- fort. It appears probable that a congressional investigation of the charges will expose the facts to public view. "TROOPS CARÜICD IN FIRST 12 MOS or WORLD "WAR 1 association TROOPS CARRIED iHriBSTn /*» op world • waru IT TAKES FROM 14 TO 2.2 MONTHS FOR. A PINEAPPLE TO MATURE ders. Giant sword ferns .flourished, Down to Earth . . . The best bet I ever made for fu and there was a good market for ture peace and security was on a them in Portland. Big trees fringed beautiful 63 acres, more than a the creek in the hills. third cleared and plowed, the bal Transportation over the river was ance fir, spruce and alder, on the the main problem. The Alsea is southward side of the Alsea in Ore never a sleepy stream. Winters it gon. The savings from three years can rise up roaring. There was no of pulling lumber off green chains, road on my side. The previous after World War I, paid for it in owner had rigged up a ferry, but yhigh water had torn it out. My first full. I made the bet, then failed to fol need was to work and save some low up the play. What turned me more to pay for a new ferry rig. I off was the mob fever of the twen went to town. I never got back. A haven of happiness and health ties, which swept so many millions of us out of the woods and off the was mine just for living and work farms into the big towns and the ing on it, and in the end I let it go for taxes. Caught in the mob fever high life. We were fools. The same fever is raging now, but of city life, the crowds, the excite with far greater fury because -of ment, the so-called good times, the war and the inflated wages of war. big wages, I failed to come down to It is making fools of millions again. earth again until the depression had It is wrecking families, ruining chil dropped me with a bang. dren, breaking up homes. Don’t Do as I Did . . . New slums are in the making, and The fact that I was a fool has new slum populations in Western struck me particularly hard of late, cities. The mob life that has grown as I work on the land again after like a cancer in Eastern and Mid many years, in a backyard Victory western cities, with Chicago and De Garden. It’s a small thing but my troit as the most horrible examples, own. It means no more chasing is taking root in our big towns of around of evenings to clubs and to the West. parties. No more long, aimless The evil of it is that recovery for week-end drives and cruises. My the individual is very difficult. Once hands work with the good earth. infected with mob fever, men and The fruit of my work is on the fam women have to make a real fight to ily dinner table. get back to the land, to get down In Seattle, Portland and Tacoma, to earth, and stay there. as I see thousands of young men People who have stayed in the and women working and living as woods and on the land don’t know particles of a mob, I want to mount how well off they are. a soapbox and preach a warning to Happiness Haven . . . them. They are risking their phys But about that bet of mine. It ical and moral health, and that of was really wonderful. A creek ran their children; they are wasting the down from the forested hills and substance of future security; they through the cleared bench. There are forming habits of mob-living as was a plain but sound four-room hard to quit as the drug habit, as house and a small barn. A single tough to cure as malaria. And all crop had been grown on the 22 for what? cleared acres—wheat hay so heavy ( Big money? Good times? With it had stalled the mowing machine. millions dying. . . Plenty of fish and game. Over the I want to tell them; ‘‘There is land hump was the Johnson sawmill, and employment to be had out in planned for permanent production, ithe clean woods and on the good as a source of work whenever I’d earth. Don’t do as I did. While there need it The wild land was ready is time, go back to the woods, come to produce income. Prime furniture down to earth, and find Happiness stock was in the big riverside al Haven—and stay there!” started with approximately 118 billions in federal appropriations to pay for the war and other gov ernment expenses. Tax receipts for the year are estimated at $38,- 000,000,000. President Roosevelt warned con gress that if the roll-back subsidy program became law over his ve Patent legislation is destined to to, he would no longer accept re become a major controversial is sponsibility "for holding the wage sue before congress in September. line and for stopping the infla When the members return from tionary spiral.” their summer recess they will find Strategy of the opponents of several new measures pending, a the roll-back subsidy program is number of them providing dras to continue the commodity credit tic changes in the patent system. corporation with a very limited amount of money for what they regard as necessary subsidies. In the meantime they are drafting a program to stimulate increased food production as well as pro tect the price of staples to the consumer. Assembly of God Church Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister Taking note of congressional 9:45—-Sunday school with classes for all ages. criticism of possible military "ex travagance.” OWM Director James 11:00—Morning worship. Byrnes has asked the procurement 7:30—Evangelistic service. agencies to establish boards of re 7.30—Wednesday evening, mid week service. view. Such boards would review Young “objectively and critically" their 7:30—Friday evening, Peoples’ Christ Ambassadors programs in an effort to achieve service. a better balance of manpower, materials and money. At The Churches . . St. Mary’s Catholic Church NATIONAL € DITORI AL_ MILEAGE FOR AIR RAID WARDENS OBTAINABLE Special rations of gasoline for travel to victory gardens were dis continued July 12, although ra tions already issued for this pur pose may be used as long as valid. This action was taken by OPA up- on advice of the department of agriculture that gardens planted after that date would be too late to produce enough food to warrant extra use of tires and gasoline in cultivating them. Air raid wardens, while not el igible for C ration books, may ebntinue to get B books, accord ing to OPA. Volunteers regularly performing work contributing to the war effort or public welfare who need supplemental mileage should have applications certified by some authorized representative of the agency for which the work is being performed. CAN’T SEND RECORDINGS OVERSEAS, RULED STRAIGHT’S VARIETY STORE; CAFE IN TRANSFERS Two sales of Rainier property were reported last week—the transfer of Straight’s Variety store to Miss Margaret Malcolm of Kelso, and the sale of the In terstate cafe to Cora E. Newell, of Longview. NO GAS TO GO TO GARDENS In spite of the fact that in his Rev. Anthony V. Gerace message to congress last January Rev. Frederick Thiele the president called for an ex Mass: 9:30 A M. except first Sun penditure of $104,000,000,000 for day in month—Mass at 8:30 A.M. this fiscsl year, the new period Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. Evangelical Church —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45—Sunday school. 11:00—Morning worship service. 7:00—Junior and Y. P. Christian Endeavor. 8:00—Evangelistic service. 8:00 P. M. Wednesday—Prayer meeting and Bible study. Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall under the direction of Charles Ratkie, branch president and Van Bailey, superintendent. First Christian Church —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45—Bible school, a school for all. M. L. Herrin, sup’t. 11:00—Communion service and preaching. Sermon: "The Days of Our Years.” 7:30—- Evening song, communion and preaching. 7:30 Wednesday evening—Weekly prayer meeting. BANDAGE CLOTH SUPPLY ASSURED Adequate supplies of bindage cloth, both for civilian an J mili tary use, will be available. Looms making cotton cloth suitable for bandages an I other specified uses will continue to do so by a recent WPB order. • CASUALTIES OF ARMED FORCES TABULATED Discs or recordings containing personal messages cannot be sent to soldiers stationed outside the continental limits of the U. S., the war department has announced. There is no objection to sending discs of personal messages within the continental United States. Casualties of the United States armed forces from the out-break of the war to July 3 total 91,644. This total, based on war and navy department reports, includes: dead, 16,696; wounded, 21,828; missing, 31,579; prisoners of war, 21,541. Of these, army casualties total 64,- 621; navy, 27,023. AGRICULTURAL JOBS FILLED BY EMPLOYMENT SERVICE TRAFFIC DECREASES IN RURAL AREAS During May, the United States employment service of the war manpower commission filled 1,- 005,489 jobs in industry and ag riculture an increase of 11.2 per cent over April. Of these jobs, 297,725 were in farm work or food processing, an increase of 33.3 over April and 63.6 over May 1942. For January through May, the total placements were 739,044, an increase of 128.4 over the same months in 1942. Traffic on rural roads in the east decreased from December through May to less than half of pre-war normal, according to the public roads administration of the FWA. A minor exception is March when eastern traffic was 52 per cent of normal. Traffic in the western area, rationed since De cember 1, 1942, has settled down to less than two-thirds of pre war normal. RATIONS FOR SICK ARE AUTHORIZED MORE FERTILIZER TO BE AVAILABLE Although the need to conserve rationed foods is great, no hospital patient’s health need suffer, the OPA h?s announced. Local ration ing boards have been given au thority to provide supplementary allotments to meet the dietary re quirements of patients in hospit als—whether or not such patients are on special diets. From 5 to 10 percent more chemical fertilizer will be avail able in the year ahead according to WFA officials, it is estimated that U. S farmers used about 10 million tons of chemical fertilizer during the 12 months beginning July 1, 1942. Although the supply of nitrogen and phosphates will be greater, potash is expected to be less plentiful. FUEL FOR INCUBATORS NOW ALLOWED FARM SUPPLIES PRO-RATED NOW Fuel oil for incubators, brooders and other equipment used in rais ing poultry, livestock, or other ag ricultural products can now be ob tained regardless of the age of the equipment. Opa has recently removed these items from the list of equipment for which no fuel oil rations were previously al lowed. A distributor of farm supplies is now authorized to pro-rate de liveries on the basis of normal shipments in cases where the amount of farm supplies set aside by him does not completely cover all the orders he receives. Before this recent amendment to general preference order M-330. a distrib utor was required to fill orders solely on the basis of preference ratings. COAL PRODUCTION LAGS; NEEDS GREATER Coal production for the first half of 1943 was an estimated 1,- 729,000 tons less than for the same period in 1942, Solid Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes has reported. “The gravity of this loss of production is emphasized by the fact that the nation will need an estimated 25,000,000 tons of coal more this year than last,” he said. WINTER COVER CROP SEED TO BE RELEASED Large supplies of winter cover crop seeds, acquired by the gov ernment in stabilizing prices for the 1942 crop, will be released for planting this summer and fall. AAA will release about 20 mil lion pounds of Austrian winter pea seed for sale by the CCC to deal ers at $5.65 per hundredweight, F.O.B. Oregon points. Cover crops which are a soil conservation meas ure, increase the nitrogen in the soil when plowed under and there by reduce the amount of fertiliz er required and release nitrates needed for munitions. LOCAL POULTRY PRICES CAN BE ADJUSTED Regional administrators of the OPA now can adjust local proces sors’ prices for dressed poultry. Regional administrators also have the power to change definitions of sellers and types of sales. They are not empowered to change the farmers’ selling price for live poul try however, and may not increase the selling puce of poultry at're tail, or to any ultimate consumer. MANY SHIPS LAUNCHED THIS YEAR The nation's shipyards delivered 168 cargo vessels totaling 1,676,- 500 deadweight tons in June, the waritime commission has announc ed. This may be compared with the record total of 175 for May and 157 in April. The June figures brought production for the first half of 1943 to 879 ships totaling 8,818,622 deadweight tons. In the entire year 1942 the yards pro duced 746 vessels totaling 8,089,- 732 deadweight tons. flesh also. Therefore we have the right to salute our American flag, without offending Our Saviour. YES, SALUTE TWO ENSIGNS First Samuel 10: 4. St. Mathew A spiritual flag, "Christ, in re 10: 12. Jesus commanded His spect of God’s Holy Heaven. twelve Apostles to salute a house Psalms 20: 5-6 Isaiah 11: 10. 62: when they enter it. To salute is 10-11-12. Note, Christians seek not to worship. The two words are (and rally around Christ, rejoic not identical. We need no statute ing spiritually). We salute our law requiring a salute of our earthly flag in respect of our American flag. Respect for natural earthly government; we salute it law is sufficient. The beauties of and go rejoicing in the Lord al nature, God’s handiwork, is glor ways. We heed both while here in ious to the natural eyesight but the flesh. We do not desert God the spiritual eyesight exceeds in and His Immaculate Son by sa glory. II Corinthians 3rd chapter. luting our American flag as Aaron God wants humanity to use their and the people deserted God and natural eyesight to view the beau Moses and bowed down and wor ties of nature as He did, no doubt. shipped the golden calf they made Genesis 1:31. Cling to the Bible. for an idol. That is not a just It is our help and guide. Be fully comparison as some people main persuaded in your own mind from tain. Exodus 32C. Until we do, we study of the Bible, not tract? of are not offending God. Exodus humanity. Then, I believe, we 20: 1-2-3-4-5. No, we do not serve will have a better world to live our American flag for salvation in. as we do our God and Christ Sincerely, We salute our friends in the Albert Wood, Vernonia, Ore. The Forum
