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I h. I Thursday, ' November 11, 1943 -------- — Vernonia Eagle Comments oí The Week B lì : i I q t J J I •( 111 <■ > A Week Worth Observing Weeks to observe this, and weeks to observe that, have been set aside for a good many different things. Not all of them are worth observing or giving a se cond thought, but this week, American Education Week, from November 7 to 13 is worth a good deal more than ___ . passing notice. “Education for Victory” is the general theme for this 23rd annual observ ance — victory on all bat tlefronts. In this effort the schools have converted pro grams to the needs of the armed forces, of industry, and of government. Five million workers have been trained for war jobs. Pre induction and physical fit ness programs have been developed. Scrap and bond drives and scores of other activities have been spon- sored. Teachers have given millions of hours to regis- tration and rationing ser- vices. important, the Most Turn in News Items The fall and winter sea son here marks the renewal erf social activities of clubs and lodges and also is the time of the giving of a greater number of parties, than is the case during summer months. In order to publicize these meetings it is neces it sary that articles giving details of the meetings or parties be written by some member of the group who is familiar with the details that will be interesting to f those who may read them. In order to obtain these it ems, many organizations ii Events in Oregon KINNIKINIC FLOUR USED TO MAKE CAKES SEASIDE—Indian lore, which has been a hobby with Mrs. F. C. Moore, provided her with an interesting and successful experiment last week when she baked a number of very tasty cup cakes from flour made by .1 an Indian process, from kinni- kinic berries. The results were ‘I having a chocolate It delicious, taste and color. They provided a treat for several of Mrs. Moore’s friends. WHITE SWAN DUNKS DOG WITHOUT MERCY 3 :l ii it I ii il i i I i I 1 ROCKAWAY - Wednesday of lost week was a bad day for a fox terrier owned by Jim Shearer. The dog saw a large white swan feeding in quiet water and splashed in after it. The swan, however, was the aggressors, beating the little dog and dunking him without mercy. If Mr. Shearer had not come to his rescue, he would have been drowned. HOUSING AGENCY IS PLAN HERE FOR ARMY FOLK MEDFORD — Establishment of a single, centralized rental bureau to assist incoming army families in finding homes is being considered by the City of Medford, the Jaekson coun ty court and the local U.S.O. The Vernonia Eagle Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail matter, August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Ore gon, under the set of March 3, 1879, Official Newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon i RS M s OÜIHION NATIONAL EDITORIAL- I schools have carried on with their regular program of developing 27,000,000 boys and girls into strong, loyal intelligent freedom- loving men and women. In order to emphasize the many phases of the general theme of the week, a spec- ial topic for eash day has topics been named. Those “ deserve mention here to demonstrate the diversity of present day education in preparing the children of today to live successfully when they must provide for themselves. The topics are: “Education for World Understanding” “Education for Work” “Education for the Air Age” “Education to Win and Secure the Peace” “Education for Wartime Citizenship” “Meeting the Emergency in Education” “Education for Sound Health” appoint press correspon- dents who in turn jot down those details that are ne cessary for a news article. Some organizations, how ever, do not have corres pondents and consequently the news about those organ izations is not published. In order to receive for publication as many articles as possible, The Eagle urg es every organization to appoint a press correspond ent who is charged with the duty of reporting the events of interest about that organization. Many families of soldiers are moving into Medford and vicinity now, and are unable to find suitable living quarters, partly due, to the fact that there is no central agency to clear such requests. Schade said the problem was one for the county as much as it was for the city. TORSO FOUND ON BEACH IS UNIDENTIFIED TILLAMOOK—The torso and parts of the legs of what is undoubtedly a man were found Monday by Coast Guard patrol- men on the beach about a half mile south of Manzanita, where it had apparently been washed up by the tide. Identification of the torso was made impos- sible by the condition of the body. WAR GAMES COME TO CLOSE PRINEVILLE—United States army maneuvers in a 10,000- square mile area of central Oregon i came to a close last week end and by midweek Prineville seemed strangely de- serted as the hundreds of sol- dierh who had visited the city in recent weeks, disappeared. HILLSBORO GETS SLEEPING BAG PLANT HILLSBORO—Hillsboro gain ed another manufacturing con cern when Mr, and Mrs. E. G. Paine a week ago Monday op ened a plant for the produc tion of sleeping bags. The Paines hold a sub-contract with a Portland concern and most of the sleeping bags will go to the service post exchanges for sale to soldiers. At present the concern has five power sewing machines and a power cutter, but four more machines will be installed shortly. Five women are now employed but the Paines ex pect to increase the payroll to between 10 and 12 persons in the near future. Normal produc tion capacity is about 50 sleep ing bags a day. SHERMAN COUNTY BUYS MOST BONDS MORO—Sherman county cit- izens bought more war bonds per capita than the citizens of any other Oregon county in the recently closed Third War Loan drive, according to a compila- tion of county and state figures published recently. The official report gives further evidence of the extent of the county’s bond buying spree of Septem ber when Sherman countians averaged purchases of $96.81 to $31 for the state as a whole. THE POCKETBOOK p/KNOWLEDGE MEXICAN FARM LABOR AVAILABLE FOR WINTER HILLSBORO—Some Mexican ' nationals will be available for winter jobs on farms, provid ing they are released in the spring, according to a recent announcement received at the county agent’s office. Immed iate action is necessary. Palmer S. Torvend, county agent, said. Otherwise, the men will be shipped south. Farmers who are interested in making application for this type of labor should apply at the agent’s office. Wet weather has hampered the walnut picking. However, as soon as the Mexicans finish the jobs for which they are already contracted, they will be available to assist other grow ers. These men, in addition to the school children which are being made available by the lo cal schools and local people, should be able to take care of most of the crop providing the weather is favorable. A NEwiy PEVELOPEP CCWtPOUNP HELPS RETAIM "THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF PROCESSE? FRUIT WITHOUT CAAH61MÖ ITS FLAVOR Washington Snapshots One of the big questions of the week here is which govern ment agency will have final authority to settle terminated war contracts. Two congres sional committees have opened hearings on the subject which has become a point of conflict between the general accounting office and the procuring agen cies (war and navy depart ments, etc.) for final word on terminations. Industry, caught between the two, contends that speed in settlement of a terminated con tract is highly necessary. Busi ness can be wrecked by pro longed audits and controver sies, especially when so many firms have extended themselves to produce unplanned quanti ties of war goods. The procur ing services concur in this con tention. As for the general ac counting office, industry fears that the flood of terminated contracts would swamp that agency and make for destruc tive delays. Another campaign under way in congress is the renewal of the plan to overhaul the patent system with the opening shot sounded by Vice President Hen ry A. Wallace who urged pas sage of the Kilgore bill to cre ate an office of scientific and technical mobilization. Although it is felt that congress will op pose any attempt to make dras tic changes in the patent laws, the administration is expected to exert pressure and, conse quently, extended hearings on the measure are a certainty. The reemployment bulletin No. 1 just issued by selective service divulges the details of the nationwide organization be ing set up by the system to re turn discharged veterans to their old jobs or help them find new ones. Reemployment committeemen are now being named for each of the 6,500 lo cal draft boards in the country to act as the veteran's “per sonal representative, agent, or advisor.” A national clearing house committee consisting of representatives of fifteen or ganizations has been created which will be followed by state and local committees organized on the same basis. The commit tees will try to handle commun ity problems of reemployment eases that could not be handled by the local reemployment com mitteeman. Members of congress are planning to demand an investi gation of the recent action of the U. S. department of labor in suspending publication of its monthly statistics on strikes, which for many years have pro vided the only official index to strike activity. The only rea son given for the suspension, that the OWI has discontinued its press clipping service to the bureau of labor statistics, is viewed with suspicions by con gressmen who point out that the gathering and publishing of strike statistics was begun in 1927—years before the OWI was established. Flag Over Your Roof We vision it flying to the breeze above your home—a pure white flag with a cross in the center. In the navy, this blue on white calls the ship’s crew to worship and here on land, if such were the custom, many .would raise such a banner. Old and young, many a family gath ers, as the Bible is read and all bow the head in prayer. Well may we heed the teach ings of the Holy Book, for— “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”—BIBLE. And as the lines are followed, what heart is not made strong at the old, old story of the love that brought Christ out of heaven to die under our sins? After the Bible readings, comes a prayer. Praise is lift ed that the mighty God has made himself personal to us in the gift of his Son. Here thanks are given for the bless ings of the <Jay and a plea that we be set free from our evil thoughts and ways. And we be set free from the worries and fears that so easily beset. When God’s eyes rest n your home, let the blessings be poured out—“The eyes of the Lord run to and fro througout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the be half of them whose heart is perfect toward Him.”—BIBLE Army Men Read Bible forth and follow the paths through Fur-Bearing Jap . . . Monkeys have been insulted by ferns and other tough ground cover, cartoons of Japs in their image which the tree planters had oblig countless times since Pearl Harbor. ingly made for him. Every few feet West Coast foresters have main he would encounter a tree seedling. tained all along that they had a With his buck teeth nippers he'd better animal twin for the Jap than strip it into a naked stem—skin it the monkey, but so far no artist has alive. To a boomer the most suc taken their tip. It’s a critter not culent morsel is fiber from inside very well known outside the woods. the bark of a baby tree. He will The foresters know him as Aplo- uncover the roots of a Douglas fir dontia, or as the mountain beaver. six inches in diameter, and strip the roots, killing the tree. Loggers call him the boomer. Such forays of the boomer Under any name, this nocturnal usually beyond satisfaction of his animal needs only thick-lensed hunger. go Once started on a row of spectacles to pass inspection as a planted seedlings, he is either too miniature double of one of the sons stupid to know when to stop, or he of-uh-heaven. He is a rodent. As is a natural-born devastator. is a beaver he is an imitation and a apt to destroy all seedlings in He the runt, seldom packing more than' three pounds. He sports four large row before he backtracks for a day rest. buck teeth. Cornered, he bares of The boomer is strictly nocturnal. them in an expression that is Two hours or so of exposure to hot startling in its resemblance to a sunlight will kill him. He is a Jap grin. He is narrow between sucker for deception. One forester the eyes, which slant. The eyes, had his planter crew in a boomer- boring at you like two nail points, infested area cover each seedling belie the buck-toothed grin. The boomer’s habitat is mainly with fem leaves. The planting was practically unmolested. the Douglas fir region. He is a dev ilish destroyer of forest seedlings. Boomer Control . . . For years he kept himself pretty The boomer’s fur and skin are well hidden, and his ravaging of worthless, so no commercial trap second-growth was so occasional ping of the animal can be expected. that it was not taken very serious No one will advocate restocking of ly. Big, tough timber beasts, such the forests with wildcats, unless as the mink and the wildcat, kept the destructiveness of the boomer the boomer under cover. Predatory becomes more generally serious. All animal hunters reduced his nat poisoning experiments have failed. ural enemies. The boomer multi In areas where the boomer has plied. His tribe spread as it in actually threatened the ruin of tree creased. It filtered into all necks farming, intensive trapping has of the woods. solved the problem. Leonard Wal- The boomer could live on skunk lulis, of the Oregon State Forestry cabbage and bracken fern sprouts. Department, has experimented with Well, why doesn’t he? Because, ordinary steel traps, taking 700 probably, he enjoys killing baby boomers on one area and saving 90 trees. The mountain beaver, re per cent of its seedlings, while only member, is the Jap of the animal 40 per cent of the seedlings sur kingdom. vived on a neighboring area where no trapping was done. Tree Farm Raider . . . At present Aplodontia, alias the The boomer has become a real mountain beaver, alias the boomer, problem on the tree farms that for est land owners have developed remains a minor forestry problem during recent years. Particularly in the Douglas fir. That was the where seedlings have been plant status of the Jap problem in the ed by hand on burned areas has affairs of the United States for the boomer demonstrated his de many years. We'd do well to take notice and make sure we do not structive genius. At night in the winter months let history repeat itself in the for the slant-eyed rodent would sally ests of Washington and Oregon. At the Churches Assembly of God Church Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister 9:45—Sunday school with clas ses for all ages. 11:00—Morning worship. 6:30—Young people’s Christ Ambassadors service. 7:30—Evangelistic service. 7:30 Wednesday evening—Mid week service. 4:00 p.m. Friday — Children’s church. 7:30 Friday evening—People's meeting. St. Mary’s Catholic Church Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. J. H. Goodrich Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first Sunday in month—Mass at 8:30 a.m. Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall und er the direction of G. W. Bell, branch president and Van Bailey, superintendent. Evangelical Church —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45—Sunday school. 11:00—Morning worship service 6:30—Junior and Y. P. Chris tian Endeavor. 7:30—Evangelistic service. 7:30 p.m. Thursday — Bible study and prayer meeting. Seventh Day Adventist Church Services on Saturday: 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. 8:00 p.m. Wednesday—Devo tional service. Sermon by district leader— third Saturday of each month A cordial invitation is extended to visitors. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45—Bible school, M. L. Her rin, superintendent. 11:00—Junior church. 11:00 — Morning communion and preaching service. 7:30—Evening communion and preaching. 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meet ing. 11:00 Sunday, Nov. 21, Har vest Home service. —“I read my Bible every day and I recommend that you do the same.” Genera! Mont gomery of the British Eighth Army to his staff officers. —“Christ has saved and satis fied me for forty-seven years.” General Dobbie, who for so many months commanded Malta , the most bombed island—“I give thanks to God who has brought us this success in our great crusade.” General Doug las MacArthur— A Pacific Northwest man of large interests and a true man of God told how he came in to the Christian life. It was back in the old home, kneel ing beside the kitchen stove as his father led in family worship. And now comes his son, even more active in the Lord’s work than the father or grandfather. When your brood leaves the family nest, may they go out with the con viction that Christ SAVES- KEEPS and SATISFIES. This space paid for by an Oregon business man. The Forum THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE Part XV WHAT ARE THE PRIMITIVE FORMS It is intimated that as the rich varieties of apples are de veloped from the worthless crab, and as grains are devel oped from grasses, therefore men are developed from mon keys or from some inferior species. But these claims take for granted the idea that the wild crabs or the wild grasses are primitive forms; but this is pure assumption. It may be true that the culture of the wild crab will result in a lus cious apple; but have we any better culture for it that it had when God “planted a garden eastward in Eden,” and in it placed all manner of trees and set man to care for and dress the garden? Thousands of years of neglect and hard usage in a world that is cursed with sin and filled with thorns and briers, may Well have stunted and dwarfed and degraded these products of the soil, which yet show something of their native excellence when, under culture, they come back to a semblence of their original perfection. The law of degradation is quite as effectual as the law of evolution or elevation. An infant stolen and suckled by wolves, becomes wolfish in its nature and nevei- rises to the proper dignity of a human be ing; and there is quite as much reason to believe that a mon key is a degenerate man, as that man is a superfine mon key with a few modern im provements. Indeed, in cultured Boston, a man slightly overcharged with certain well known bev erages, has already been known to walk upon all fours in the gutter; and if some of our skeptical friends should under take to prove that they were developing downward, with the prospect of becoming monkeys, by and by their reasoning might be quite as conclusive and as well sustained by existing facts, as that by which they seek to prove their brutal or igin. Doubtless there are brutal el ements and tendencies in man kind. And the Apostle Peter sharply contrasts two classes of men, one composed of those who “have obtained like pre cious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ;” to whom are given “exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be par takers of the devine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust; and another class describ ed “as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroy ed,” who speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.” 2 Peter 1:1,4; 2:12. But the difference between these two classes is wrought not by the slow methods of pro gression and evolution, but by the speedier processes of regen eration and salvation. Centuries of “progression” have produced the cruel savage, the blood- smeared cannibal; but the Gospel of Christ in a single lifetime, yea, in a single year, makes that same savage canni bal as gentle as a lamb, he “being born again, not of cor ruptible seed, but of incorrupt- able, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. Submitted by G. F. Brown GUARANTEED Watch Repairing w. T. JACOBS 941 1st Avenue, Vernonia GROWING SCHOOL CHILDREN Need lots of milk for health and energy. They’ll like Nehalem Dairy milk, too. Phone us for regular delivery to your home. NEHALEM DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. Phone 471 Dry Cleaning Prices Reduced Pants ............... 50c Overcoats ........ $1.00 Dresses ........... $1.00 Suits ................ $1.00 Sweaters................ 50c Pick Up and Delivery Weekly on Thursday« Office: Ben Brickel’» Barber Shop Oregon Laundry and Cleaners
