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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1943)
4______ Thu--4uy, July 29, 1943 County News St. Helens ROAD WORK SINKING FUND IS INCREASED Vornn” mvnt district engineer in Fort land gives notice: Application has been made to this office by Klepp Marine Ways of Rainier, Oregon fw a per mit to construct additions to their present wharf and marine ways at Rainier, Columbia county, Ore gon. The proposed work will cons'st of extensions to their present wharf and marine ways, of pile and timber construction, to ex tend into the waterway approxi mately 500 feet channelward of the mean high water short line. Information obtained locally is that the work it not to be ex tensive, consisting of the driv ing of a dolphin, extension of the small ways a few feet furth er into the water and the rein forcing of the ways. TH£ POCKET^COK of KNOWLEDGE ----------------------I------------------------------- -------- - —- --------------- - I " I ' I ' i----- 1----- 1— *—~~ A "0RICK AGING ' - “ PANCAKE* PIE6EL EHó'NES NOW POvUERINó hlAVy^HlPS VJEI6H LESS “THAN A FOUR1W AZ MUCH AS PREVIOUS MARINE PIESEL6 OF COMPARABLE POWER Adjustments made at the July solution , appliep to 21st hearing on the county 'bud NEW BRICKS THAT ONLY HAVE BEEN GET INTO CUE oySTKR get for 1943-44 will result in the OLP WALLS, MAKES our o’-' THE NEW ANP OLP EVCRy 800 general fund cost sheet register LOOK ALIKE IN A FEW HATCHEP ._ l hours EVcR ing a decrease of between six I ----------- — and seven thousand dollars, while XAÄTÜWiy the road fund budget will be up three or four thousand dollars. A principal reason for the decline of the general fund budget is that cash receipts which came in from June 15 to 30—after the budget had been made up by the court and its committee—totaled more than had been anticipated. Protests by some of the few by^jAMES P reston persons attending Wdnesday morn ing’s hearing resulted in the in The 78th congress which will re clusion of a provision in the bud convene on September 14, is tak get for a government trapper. An allotment of $300 for the year ing its first real recess since the was set up for this work and it war broke out in Europe. Meantime if any chaotic devel -IHE W0R» -= is understood that the state and CMTttN'' ORMSlNMWSPPLiro federal governments will match opments break out on the home -,o A 50L9IER S WATER EST. HE Ö PE.lrÆP FROM THE V.’CRC> the sum, making $900 available. front—any increases in the cost •CV/TlUA", MEANWS V/IIIS CHILAR The budget has usually listed of living or any food shortages money for a government trapper, that occur before the fall term but it. was eliminated this year —the responsibility will' rest sole largely because Washington and ly with the White House in the Clatsop counties, which bordeir opinion of observers. Columbia, do not provide for this The congressional concession on work. It was felt that possibly Columbia was paying for preda the subsidy issue, leaders em tory animals killed in the neigh phasize, is only temporary — it The Best Homes on Earth . . . concrete blocks which the fov boring counties, Judge Ray Tar ends January 1. When the legisla Haven’t you had the idea all along tion was made of, into the cel r. tors return in the fall they will bell explained.* that, as far as your own home and In fact, the foundation itself co d family were concerned, the base be driven in by the shock and y at attempt to wo;k out a permanent ment of your house was the best leave the house standing intac.. .FORMER COUNTY commodity ^edit corporation pro place for a “refuge room” in an en “The wooden houses proved in SURVEYOR ENLISTS gram and write statutory guides emy bombing? That brick, concrete credibly sturdy. Under these tc .s Columbia county appears to for any subsidy action. a house 18 feet from the bomb was or stone walls were the best shield lifted clean off its foundation and have lost both of its surveyors to against bomb blasts, excepting a Farm leaders contend that the deep hole in the ground? I’ve got moved bodily a distance of eight the armed forces, for Orin Ad administration’s major goal in de Government pamphlets that say as feet across the ground by blast. Ard ams, who held the post of deputy manding huge subsidies and roll much. I’ve heard the same from yet examination of the first and sec ond story showed that anyone who surveyor for a time, left Friday back programs is not aimed pri trained men in Civilian Defense. taken shelter there would have Well, if disaster comes to this had for duty with the Seabees. Adams marily at inflation control—but Coast, in the form of 500-pound had a good chance of escaping with will get the rating of Bos’ns’ to win 1944 votes With the loss his life. ” bombs dropping near your home, like of this, says Mr. Landis, mate, second class. you and your family will be safest "is The of the WPA, the NYA, the FSA, contrary to popular belief.” within the lumber walls, of the aver John iE. Eilertson, former coun and other government aid pro age house that the building indus And so we come to the moral: it ty surveyor, was a reserve officer grams which congress has efmi.i- pays to advertise. try provided in the years of peace. with the rank of captain and was ated or curtailed, they say the Take the word of OCD Director The World’s Most Mcdest James M. Landis for that, in a re Merchandisers . called into service several months subsidy and roll-back programs port he has made through Ameri Before the war evidence had piled ago. He is now a major and at would serve as effective vote-get can Magazine on some all-out bomb up for years that when dises' ‘r last reports was stationed with ting substitutes for these agencies. ing tests. A man may wonder why comes, in flood, cyclone or earth U. S. forces in North Africa. we had to wait ten weeks or more quake, the lumber-built home is best One aspect ef the subsidy strug to get details of such vital informa for family safety. But the facts of Adams has recently been work gle has been the crystallizing in tion, and then through one medium such evidence remained “contrary ing at Swan Island shipyard and congress of a determination to —but then all of us private people to popular belief.” Why? Because the county’s surveying work has curtail the president’s veto pow are just Alices and Als in Wonder non-wood materials for home build land these times. been handled by D. C. Slaght, St. er and give a greater voice in ing were advertised all over the The prime point is that, with all map, ballyhooed as best for family Helens city engineer. the government to the legislature. the bombings in Britain for the past safety. Worse, in all ways short of four years and with our own Coast criminal libel, propaganda on the A constitutional amendment which under bombing danger for a year “danger” of lumber walls and wood provides that a presidential veto aid a half, at last we’re told some shingle roofs was broadcast. may be overridden by a majority thing important to our safety that Yet lumbermen modestly kept out has tested facts behind it. of both houses rather than two- of advertising competition, stayed The results of the bombing tests, under their tree and smelled the NEW SALVAGE thirds is being sponsored by Rep as Landis expounds them, tell you flowers of business as it came to DRIVE STARTS resentative Hatton "W. Sumne's to stay upstairs, if you have a stan them, like Ferdinand the Bull. Some A tin can drive is being made of Texas. dard lumber-built home. If you of them, indeed, succumbed to the haven’t such a house, run to your advertising of competitive materials for the days of August 2, 3 and neighbor who has one. Find refuge and built their own homes from 4. Fats, tin cans and paper are This amendment according to in a spot with two walls between brick and stone. Competitors took the salvage items which will' be M. Sumners “would get the ex you and the outside, as a shield pleasure in advertising this inter concentrated on at the present ecutive branch of the government against bomb fragments. esting fact z Quoting Mr. Landis . . . So it has remained for a Harvard time, according to the members back on its side of the fence and professor, the head of a Govern The OCD head tells us this: of the salvage committee, V. L. would remove a hurtful confusion “When a 500-pound bomb burst ment agency, to write the best ad Shepard, F. Mallory, S. Maerz of the allocation of governmental within 18 to 25 feet of these wooden vertisement ever heard of for the and C. J. Miller, who attended a powers .... The incorporation buildings, while the house itself did major product of this region as a not collapse, the earth shock itself home building material. Let’s praise county meeting in Rainier last of this proposed amendment in the threw quahtities of earth, brick and his name. Hail, Landis! week. Constitution giving the congress Fats are to be taken to the the power to make <he law would meat markets and sold just as definitely increase the possibilitv soon as they are accumulated. of procuring the relntribution of A large truck load of paper government powers now concen was taken to Longview last week trated in Washington and the re by Mr. Shepard, and it is again establishment of democracy in the being called for. Word has been received from country. The job has got to be Assembly of God Church R. Finney, evecutive secretary tackled soon,” he said. Walter A. Duffy, regional direct Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister of the salvage committee for the In commenting on the grow or of the farm security adminis 9:45 — Sunday school with classes state, was in attendance at the ing abuse of the veto power by tration that appropriations have meeting held in Rainier. Otto H. the executive branch of the gov for all ages. been approved by congress and are H. Peterson, county chairman was ernment at the expense of con 11:00—Morning worship. available for the making of loans present as were representatives gress, Mr. Sumners noted that 7:30—Evangelistic service. to help increase production of feed from the various town in the from the administrations of pres 7.30—Wednesday evening, mid and fibre. county. ident Washington to Présider* week service. Tjiese loans will be made to Lincoln, a period of 76 years in Young farm families operating economic clusive, there were only 43 bills 7 :30—Friday evening. Peoples' Christ Ambassadors farm units and to farmers who vetoed by those sixteen p'esi- cannot secure adequate credit dents. But from March 1933 when service. KLEPP MARINE WAYS TO through other loaning agencies due Mr. Roosevelt assumed office, to MAKE ADDITION TO WAYS to lack of sufficient security, re June 26, 1943. there have been St. Mary’s Catholic Church ports Victor S. Madsen, county The office of the war depart- 592 vetoes! Rev. Anthony V. Gerace supervisor for Columbia and Clat In spite of its growing independ Rev. Frederick Thiele ence of the chief executive, con JThe Vernonia Eaqle gress has been very cooperative in Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun sop counties. Applications are received at the supplying record-breaking approp day in month—Mass at 8:30 A M. farm security office located in Marvin Kamholz riations for the prosecution of ihe Editor and Pub'isher Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. the Sentinel Mist building, St. Hel war. It has passed eighteen appro Winifred Romtvedt, Reporter ens. priation measures providing a to Entered as second class mail tal of $110,396,229,014 for the Evangelical Church —Rev. Allen II. Backer, Minister SOLDIERS CAN SEND matter. August 4. 1922, at the post operation of the federal govern MONEY BY RADIO office in Vernonia, Oregon, under ment. Including re-appropriations 9:45—Sunday school. American soldiers overseas ex the act of March 3, 1879. —unused money made available 11:00—Morning worship service. for the new fiscal year—the ap 7:00—Junior and Y. .P. Christian cept those in Alaska. Hawaii, Pan ama Canal Zone, and Puerto Rico Official newspaper, Vernonia, Ore proximate total is $130,000,000,- Endeavor. may now send money home by ra 000. 8:00 P. M. Wednesday—Prayer dio. In a recent week more than meeting and Bible study. EGG SUPPLIES 9,000 soldier^ sent nearly $1.000,- O hc I o O ejäs F ämi HOLD EVEN 000, in amounts of $10 or more, P U 11 • S «[i «.$ Ms Oj)l » TI 0 N About the same quantity of eggs Church of Jesus Christ with no maximum limit. Money may be transmitted to an individ will be available to civilians in the Of Latter Day Saints Sunday school convenes at 10 ual payee, or to a bank. The pro 12 months beginning July 1, as in NATIONAL EDITORIAL— the same period last year, the a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall under cess is speedy and sure. If a sol- WFA has indicated. Of a total the direction of Charles Ratkie, died desires to do so, he may also of 5 billion dozen eggs, civilians branch president and Van Bailey, purchase war bonds by this meth will get about 3H billion dozen. superintendent. od. Clatskanie At The Churches . . Rainier WÄiSS Farm Security Aid Is Available THE INSPIRATION OF BIBLE THE there before you. THE BIBLE MAKES THING3 SAFE And it is a curious fact that most of our skeptical friends con trive to keep very close to where its shadow falls. It does not a great while to get out of sight of the Bible. You can go in a very few days, where there are no churches, Sunday schools, Y'oung Mens’ Christian associa tions, preachers, deacons or any thing else of the kind. There is little difficulty in getting beyond the reach of the Bible. But the infidel, while finding fault with the Bible, takes good care to stay where the Bible is. Why is this? Part III '/A few months ago some learned men, after working for a number of years on the revision of the New Testament, finished their work. Having inserted a few modern words instead of others which had become obsolete, made some slight corrections of errors in translation, and rectified from ancient manuscripts, some little errors that had been made by copyists in transcribing the New Testament, at last the book was There was once a vessel wrecked leady to be issued on a specified on one of the South Sea Islands. day. What was the result? Why, men There was on board a sailor who offered five hundred dollars to had been there before and who get a copy of that book a little in knew that the people were canni advance of its publication; and bals, and when the ship was the morning it was published, the wrecked, and they were cast streets of New York were block away on this shore, they knew aded with express wagons backed there was no hope for them, for up and waiting for copies of that they saw no way of escape. The book which had been refuted, ex sailor, however, climbed up on a ploded and dead and buried for hill top to reconnointer a little. so many years. Millions of copies Presently his shipmates saw him of that book were sold as fast as swinging his arms in great ex they could be delivered. They tele citement, and inquired what was graphed that book from the first the matter. He had seen just ov of Matthew to the end of Ro er the hill the steeple of a meet mans, from New York to Chicago, ing house. That was what took all about 118,000 words—the longest the fear of trouble out of his message ever wired—for the sake soul. He knew that church spire of getting it there twenty-four made his neck safe on that canni hours sooner than steam Could bal island. carry it, to print in the Sunday I have read of a young infidel newspapers. who years ago was traveling in A dead book, it is? They would the West with his uncle, a bank not pay for telegraphing the great er. They were not a little anxious est infidel speech ever delivered in for their safety when they were th s country, from here to Tophet. forced to stop for a night in a This old book seems to show some rough wayside cabin. There were signs of life yet. It is like Aaron's two rooms in the house; and when rod that budded and blossomed, they retired for the night, they and it is being scattered all over agreed that the young man should the world. sit up with his pistols and watch This book outlives its foes. If until midnight and then awaken you could gather all the books his uncle, who should watch un written against it, you could til morning. build a pyramid' higher than the Presently they peeped through loftiest spire. Now and then a the crack and saw their host, a m-’n goes to work to refute the rough-looking old man, in his bear Bible; and every time it is donfe skin suit, reach up and take down it has to be done over again the a book—a Bible. After reading next day or the next year. And it awhile, he knelt down and be then after its enemies have done gan to pray. Then the young in their worst, seme of its professed friends torture and twist and fidel began to pull off his coat and mystify and misrepresent it. Sure get ready for bed. The uncle said, “I thought you were going to sit ly it is no fool of a book if it up and watch.” But the young lives through all that. Infidels have been at work man knew there was no use in nearly eighteen hundred years, sitting up, pistol in hand to watch firing away at it, and making all night long in a cabin that was about as much impression on it hallowed by the word of God and as you would shooting boiled consecrated by the voice of pray er. Would a pack of cards, a rum peas at Gibraltar.. The fact is this book has come bottle, or a copy of the “Age of into the world and it seems to Reason” have thus quieted this have come to stay. It is in the young infidel's fears? Lord Shaftesbury tells of two world and I do not know how you are going to get it out. All sailors, cast away on a cannibal over the globe it goes; touch any island who were in great fear; but shore and you will find that book while creeping cautiously around the island, they came upon a cabin There was no one there but on venturing inside they found a Bible, that book banished all their fears. Every one knows that where this book has influence it makes things safe. Why is this? If it were a bad book, we should expect felona. to find it in the hands of the I eonora straightened the objects worst men. In New York there is on her desk with great care. She had a kind of rogue’s museum—a place put her desk at the end of her room where they have all kinds of skel facing the door so that when her mother came in she would have-to eton keys, jimmies, brass knuckles, cross the whole room under Leo dirks, pistols and implements of nora’s stern executive eye to get to mischief, which they have taken her. From movies and pictures in the newspapers Leonora had gotten a away from roughs and criminals. good idea of how the desk of a busy Do you suppose there is a single woman of affairs should look. New Testament in the whole kit? With an important scowl, Leonora Why not? If it were a bad book, picked up a sheet of paper. Now she was two people—herself, the busy you would expect a rogue to have woman, and her own stenographer. a revolver in one pocket and a “Mips Simpkins, take a letter to the New Testament tucked away in Secretary of the Treasury, will you? ” she murmured under her breath. another. “Yes, immediate There was a row the other ly,” she mur night and a man broke his wifi’s mured back at herself. head with a—Bible? No! It was Leonora cleared her throat and a bottle! Where the Bible bears looked at the ceil sway, the rows and quarrels do ing for inspira not come. tion. Miss Simp All countries without the Bible kins beet over the sheet of paper are good countries to move away from. Countries where the Bible ' _= the words about to fall. “Dear Mr. Morgenthau,’’ — "Get is read and obeyed áre good coun that?” — “Yes. madam.” tries to move into. Those who “I am — ahem — thirteen years study and love the Bible will old and anxious to be of all possible service to the country at this time, know the reason why. Those who ahem! hate the Bible can easily find “I earn a weekly income of from some countries where it is not $1.37 to S2.12 by helping w-ith the housework and by shovelling snow. read. Why do they not move there I am at present in possession of one and see how they like it? War Savings Bond and am buying Submitted by G. F. Brown stamps weekly. I want to become a member of the 10 percent Club. I feel it to be — ahem — not only my VEGETABLES, FRUITS duty, but my privilege’ (“How do you. spell privilege?’ asked Miss ALLOCATION DECIDED Simpkins. “Don’t bother me with Nearly 70 percent of the can these details,” said Leonora)—my privilege as an American to invest ned vegetables and 53 percent of at least ten percent of my income in the canned fruits and juices avail War Bonds. able in the next 12 months will Yours truly.” go to feed civilians. These quanti “Get that off at once. Miss Simp ties, allocated by the WFA for the kins.” said Leonora. “Yes, Ma’am! Ycu certainly are an important 12 months beginning July 1, con woman, .la'am,” said Miss Simp stitute about 4 percent more can kins. (Letter from an actual communi ned vegetables but about 40 per cation in the files of the Treasury cent less canned f.-uit than were Department.) r. S. T'nnrt consumed on the average during the 1935-39 period. 7
