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4 Thursday, September 30, 1943 Events in Oregon Vernonia Eagle THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE by J ames P reston American industry's policies and operations both during and after TILLAMOOK—The Third War the war will be vitally affected bond auction hol'd at the invasion by the new inquiry that congress center on the old court house lawn, has undertaken. Almost a week under the sponsorship of the Tilla ahead of the reconvening of con mook Elks lodge was a grand gress the house ways and mean^ committee opened public hearings success. on the whole question of renegoti The announcement by I. E. ation of war contracts. Keldson, county chairman, that Government spokesmen, includ Tillamook county was lagging in ing those for the armed services, the drive with only approximately are presenting vigorous opposition $225,000 of the county’s $1,019,- to any proposals for drastic 100 quota ‘subscribed led to spir, changes in the present renegotia ited bidding on the many valuable tion act, while many leading con as well as interesting articles do gressmen are agreeing with Sena nated for the sale. tor Walter F. George (chairman, When the day’s sales were senate finance committee) that counted, the receipts were found the renegotiation statute will have to total $37,855 which equals to be either repealed or drastical approximately $47,318.95 in bond ly amended. The whole question maturity value. of renegotiation promises to de velop into one of the sharpest CONTROL ON RENT controversies and biggest of the SEEN AT SALEM major issues to be decided by Federal rent control in the Sal congress during the coming fall em area was in prospect last week and winter months. when Chester Bowles, OPA act Federal Security Administrator ing administrator, revealed that he was ordering an investigation to Paul V. McNutt has announced be made of housing costs in the the establishment of a new office area. His action is said to have of vocational rehabilitation with followed reports that rents had in his agency. Headed by Michael been increased from 20 to 25 per J. Shortley, the new office will facilitate reemployment of the cent within > few months. physically' handicapped by provid MORE MEXICAN FARM ing for physical restoration where WORKERS ARRIVE possible, and training necessary HILLSBORO—Forty additional for employment. Mexican farm laborers arrived at The capitol expects bills this the farm labor camp at the fair fall to require all government grounds in Hillsboro last Friday. agencies to file financial reports This brings the total number of of expenditures with congress and Mexicans working in the county to have their foinancial opera to 199. However, it is expected tions audited by the general ac that 54, whose contracts with the counting office. Decision to press government expired, will soon re for such legislation stems from the turn to Mexico. investigations of the joint com Demand for these Mexican na mittee on non-essential govern tionals to do farm work has ex ment expenditures which found ceeded the number available and that a total of 51 government ag the shortage of labor has become encies have authorizations of more acute since harvesting of funds for disbursements totalling many of the fall crops have come $32,948,000,000. It was pointed more or less at the same time. out that these disbursements do The contract calls for 75 of the not come before congress for re Mexicans to stay in the county jection or approval or even for during the month of October. Most scrutiny. of these have already been ordered by farmers. Some congressmen have been advised that a special manpower POSSE'S SHODEO report prepared by Bernard M. GETS CROWD M c M innville — some 2000 Baruch and John Hancock stresses spectators from Washington and incentive wage payments as one Yamhill counties and from Port of the most effective means of land and Salem areas attended solving many existing labor sup the first annual shodeo by the ply difficulties. Though the report Yamhill county posse September has not yet been made public, con 12 despite wartime restrictions. gressmen say the program to sta With 17 events, more than 100 bilize labor conditions on the pa riders took part in the review. cific coast (effective September Judge of the shodeo was Ralph 15) stems from the Baruch-Han Giesy, drillmaster of the Clacka cock recommendations. Keynote of the plan is that it would avoid na mas county sheriff's posse. tional regimentation of labor from PRUNES NOT RIPE Washington and have the admin AS CANNERS BEGIN istration of manpower problems FOREST GROVE—Prune dry handled by local committees in ers attempting to start have found the areas where labor shortages in most cases that the prunes are exist. not sufficiently ripe for drying, according to reports received from Three hundred and sixty-nine several dryers. However, canning more coal mines held 'by the gov and barreling operations have con ernment have been released under tinued at their peak with both the Smith-Connally act. Secretary early and late prunes being receiv of the Interior Ickes said, bring ed. ing the total to 549 mines releas ed. Still in government possession PLANE WRECKED ON are 2.829 mines. WAR BOND AUCTION SALES RUN HIGH TILLAMOOK BAY GARIBALDI—Recently a navy seaplane phimeted into the Tilla mook bay off Ilobsonville point carrying with it five crew mem bers, none of whom was seriously hurt. The plane landed in only five feet of water and was soon surrounded with a veritable fleet of fishing boats as well as coast juard rescue squads. The plane was towed to shore lorded on a truck and returned to its base. The Vernonia Eagle Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher 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. oiictarwErfspÄPE« P U IIIS h [ e V 44s » T I 0 M NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL- IÍ1M W ASSOCIATION STRUCK DOWN AT NOON Years later the Apostle Paul tells King Agrippa of that crisis hour when he was struck down by the glory of the Lord. It was on the old caravan road to Damascus and out of the glory came a Voice— "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?’’ “Who are thou, Lord?” "I am Jesus whom thou perse cutest.” It was the Risen Lord who spoke and on that instant this man who had been the bitter enemy of Jes us, became the Apostle Paul, the bond-slave of Christ, as he named himself ever after. Let Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the Gospels tell of God coming among us to suffer and die for our sins; God in Christ to prove his Icve. Paul knew all this but his Christ with the Etern al Son, raised from the grave and seated all glorious at the right hand of the Majesty on High. He ever saw the Raisen Lord, all glorious. Stoned, beated with rods; in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness; Paul the Apostle bears the beatings and jeers all through ■’A'Si.WKS' !i!H7ii|iliPi Timber Town The piece this week is a little outline of history of Granite Falls, Snohomish County, Washington, pictured through one man—Wirt Robe, tree farmer, sage of Pil- chuck, and in days long gone pur veyor of Universal' Balm and Old Wahoo Bitters to the peaked and ailing. When Wirt Robe, with four brothers and their father and moth er came to Western Washington in the 1880s, Snohomish county was pretty much solid timber, un surveyed, untracked, except for the dim trails of Indians and a few trapper and prospectors. The Robe men took homesteads and the boys worked at logging and surveying. Rumor had it that Sno homish county was going to be the big mining region of the West, a sudden mining boom. Prospectors had found outcrop pings of gold, silver, lead, galena and copper. And in the 90s came The Monte Christa mine, backed by the Rockefellers, looked to be something big. A huge smelter was built at Everett, A narrow gauge railroad was driven up the Stillaguamish gorges and through the big timber. Trainloads of min ers rolled to the mountains and ore began to pour down by tram and train. The timber business also boom ed. Wirt Robe logged his claim and worked as a timber-faller for others. Skidroad after skidroad was opened in the tall and un cut, and the clanking of chains and roars of bullpunchers rose everywhere in the wilderness. Set tlements mushroomed. Seven Saloon* The town of Granite Falls, which Wirt Robe surveyed, grew up overnight in the tall dark tim ber. It was formed at first of sev en saloons, as many dance halls, and a drug store. In due course a general merchandise emporium edged in. But young Wirt, with an eye for business, saw that most of the loggers’ wages went to the saloons, and he opened one of his own. He could not get a license to sell whiskey as such, but an enterprising firm was ready to supply a form of bottled dynamite labeled Old Wahoo Bitters, two drinks of which. Robe avows, would turn a man's hat full around on his head. Trade was good, but Robe had no liking for the business and he quit it in a year. The settlement had a pretty good band, in which Wirt Robe played a tuba horn. In local the atricals he found he could act and sing. So, when a medicine show came along to Granite Falls Wirt, tired of falling trees and selling bitters, took to the road. He kept on it for 20 years. But off and on he would come back to visit. He saw the mining boom fade, the timber business rise, and stump ranching begin and fail. And he also noted the swriftly growing new crop of trees on the old homestead. A Timber Crop Future It was not till four years ago that Wirt Robe found what he wanted in life and it was on his land near Granite Falls. Most of its acres were packed with hemlock trees. Their seed source was Green mountain’s old hem lock forest northeastward from Robe Ranch. Much was timber of sizes good for the Everett pulp wood market. So Wirt Robe settled down to live out his days as a tree farmer. From one small part of his land he took off 700 cords of pulp wood. He built several cabins and rented them by the year to a group of Seattle artists. He start ed an experimental tract, on which he is trying out the growth of 37 varities of trees and shrubs At 79 he is full of hope and steam. What’s the moral? Well, it’s that the story of Wirt Robe re flects not only the past of Gran ite Falls, but the future of the community, and that Granite Falls more or less visualizes the yester days and tomorrows of every tim ber town in the Douglass fir re gion. Only in the last few years have even the old timers awakened to the fact that logged off land has a future in the growing of tim ber Crops. The folly of stump ranching has been realized. We no longer think of second-growth fir or hemlock as worthless brush. Tree farming on a giant scale has become a going concern for exactly the same reasons that brought Wirt Robe back to the old heomestead and have kept him there. Trees are a real cash crop for our future. the years, as he gives out the Glad name Christ as having died for Tidings of Christ, the Victor over your sins, you’ll be there. sin and the grave. In the cruci QUIZ: fied and risen Savious, all glori When is Resurrection Day? Answer—For the saved, at the ous, Paul lived by Power From On end of this present age. High. When will the lost dead be On Resurrection Morn, Paul’s Christ is to raise the saved and raised for judgement? Answer—At the end of Christ's give them their bodies of glory reign of a thousand years on the “a house eternal in the heavens” throne of David. Check John 5:28- as the Bible puts it. Do you claim Christ as the 29; Revelation 20: 4-5 and the 2nd Lamb of God slain for your sins? Psalm. These among many refer Then count yourself among the ences. saved and when the roll is called up yonder, know that you’ll be Cloverdale, Oregon there. We shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an This space paid for by an Ore eye and you will be there. If you gon businessman. The Forum WINNING THE. SQLOMOl^ ISLANDS FOR CHRIST washed and disgustingly filthy. Tribal wars were continually fought, and the war canoes, filled with fierce fighters, carried death and destruction to neighboring is- lands> But within a few years a trans formation was seen among the na tives. Where there had been filth and savage war cries, now cleanli ness and songs of praise took their place. Many whole villages, we are told, became Christian; and twice daily at sunrise and at sunset, the people now assemble in their chapels for song, study and pray er. The mission school changed the lives of the islanders. Missionary Jones gave the people a written language and soon thereafter young men were learning to read and write their native tongue. He taught them to read English and made the Bible their chief text book. Marvelous results were seen among the degraded people. A printing press sent from Austral ia by friends made it possible for the mission to publish papers and books for the natives. Rapidly expanding missionary enterprises called for additions to the staff of workers. Through the years island after island in the Solomon group has been the scene of new advances for the cross of Christ. Truly it can be said of many islands, “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.” Isiah 9:2. * When global war came to the south Pacific, emergency measures were taken to keep the Christian missions intact. Today many val iant, well-trained natives are car rying on the school and evangelis tic programs and the miracle of modern missions continues under God’s divine touch. From the south Pacific comes a challenge to Christians. When peace returns we owe these loyal people the blessings of education, medical care, and a full knowl edge of the word of God. Thou sands of natives have seen- our giant bombers, they have heard the roar of guns from our ships at sea. They have watched the soldiers of the United Nations fight victoriously in the jungles and on the shores of their islands. What shall we offer them in days of peace? “The isles shall wait for His law,” declared Isiah, and today this prophecy is wonderfully ful filled. Modern airplanes will link a thousand islands in the South Seas together after the war. Christian missions will have their supreme opportunity for advance. Soldiers of Jesus Christ who pio neered and willingly gave their lives as martyrs to tell the story of Jesus to cannibals and head hunters did not preach the gospel in vain. Today we witness the fruits of Christian missions; to morrow we forsee an even richer harvest for the kingdom of God. When the United States marines landed on Guadalcanal more than a year ago, the Solomon Islands suddenly loomed in the headlines and strange names were broadcast by news reporters. This was a new battle front of the war, and all eyes were focused on the val iant offensive made by courageous fighters. This was not the first attack made on the Solomons or the other South Sea Islands by white men. Almost a hundred years ago soldiers of the cross of Christ be gan the fight against heathenism and savagery on these shores and the struggle against evil cost the life of many a missionary. "Except for the courage and persistence of Christian mission aries,” declares Newsweek (June 28, 1943), “the United Nations would be enduring an even tough er war in the Pacific; instead of just the Japanese, American ser vicemen might also be fighting the headhunters and cannibals of the south Pacific Islands under strange and terrible conditions. However, the oft-termed ‘imprac tical’ missionary work of the church has produced one of the most welcome and practical sur prises of the war—invaluable as sistance to allied warriors by is land natives.” Sons and grandsons of cannibals who met our marines on the shores or who rescued our aviators from disabled planes have greet ed them with mission-school Eng lish: "We Christians.” They have carried the body of a United States naval pilot shot down in combat to a grave by the seashore and buried it with a Christian funeral service. With Christian love they have ministered to the wounded and saved lost groups of soldiers. A Seventh-day Adventist Solomon Island chief, as we read in the Signs recently, has organized a na tive rescue squad to save airmen who are shot down on land or sea. This rescue squad, at last report, had saved 34 airmen and had given a Christian burial to others who were killed. How did cannibals and head hunters receive the transforming power of Christianity? Strong- hearted men with the love of God in their hearts pioneered the way among tribes that were “enthus iastic head-hunters.” Protestant missionary endeavor began when George A. Selwyn, first Anglican bishop of New Zea land and Melanesia, visited the Solomon Islands in 1851 and de cided to open a training school in Auckland, New Zealand, where boys from the islands could be taught Christianity. When trained these youth might return to their homes as evangelists and teachers. By 1852 the bishop had visited 50 islands and had collected 40 young men, who spoke 10 differ ent languages. In 1851 a young Anglican from Oxford joined Bishop Selwyn. He was John Coleridge Patteson, who had heard the call for “men of mind and faith,” men who were Seventh Day Adventist willing and able to work with Church their hands, to rough it at all Services on Saturday: 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. times. For 10 years Pohn Patte 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. son carried on his perilous mis sion as a warrior for Christ. Then 8:00 p.m. Wednesday—Devotional service. in 1871 while visiting one of the islands, he was murdered in re Sermon by district leader—third Saturday of each month. venge for a wrong done by white men who had landed there pre A cordial invitation is extended to visitors. viously on a slave ship. When his body was recovered, a palm frond with five knots tied in its foliage Assembly of God Church Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister lay across his breast. 9:45 —Sunday school with classes The sacrifice of this hero for for all ages. God thrilled England. The mission was mentioned in the queen’s 11:00—Morning worship. speech at the opening of Parlia 7:30—Evangelistic service. ment in 1872. Max Muller, writing 7.30—Wednesday evening, mid week service. in the London Times, said, “To 7 :30 —Friday evening. Young have known such a man is one of Peoples’ Christ Ambassadors life’s greatest blessings.” service. Mission schools and hospitals were established by other denom Church of Jesus Christ inations and thousands of natives Of Latter Day Saints turned from heathenism to the Sunday school convenes at 10 light of the gospel. Many of the a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall under smaller islands in the Solomon the direction of Charles Ratkie, group are now completely Chris branch president and Van Bailey, tian. superintendent. Seventh-day Adventists began work in the Solomon Islands in Evangelical Church 1914 when Missionary G. F. —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister Jones and his wife established a 9:45—Sunday school. mission station on New Georgia 11:00—Morning worship service. Island. The chief magistrate gave 7:00—Junior and Y. P. Christian them a cordial welcome. The war Endeavor. riors were armed and painted, but 8:00—Evangelistic service. as they heard the appeal of the 8:00 p.m. Wednesday—Bible study missionary, they said. “We will and prayer meeting. build you a house and a building for your school and gladly hear St. Mary’s Catholic Church Rev. Anthony V. Gerace your words.” The islanders were Rev. J. H. Goodrich controlled by witch doctors and devil worship was commonly prac Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun day in month—Mass at 8:30 A.M. ticed. Their habits were extremely gross and revolting; they were un Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. At The Churches . .
