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Thursday, December 9, 1943
Events in
Oregon
THOUSAND DEER
IS BAG FOR *43
PRINEVILLE — A total of
1000 deer and an estimated 20
elk only were killed on the Och-
oco National forest during the
past hunting season. This figure
is low for mule deer, as seen by
a reported kill of approximately
2500 last season and resulted
from a combination of factors.
Gas and tire rationing forced
many hunters from other coun
ties to stay closer to home and
those who did have the neces
sary gas were so limited that
their hunting trip was very close
ly scheduled. The result was dis
appointing to most who came
early and found the forest Cover
dry and noisy. Army maneuvers
blocked out some 300,000 acres
of the forest during the early
part of the season, too, mater
ially reducing the kill.
TILLAMOOK HAS FINE
TAX COLLECTIONS
TILLAMOOK — The Tilla
mook county sheriff's office re
ports the sum of $308,976.94 as
the amount turned over to the
county in current roll taxes, the
best ever collected at this time
of the year. Last year collec
tions amounted to $282,684.88.
Large
contributors
included
Mountain States Power company,
$19,039.79;
Southern
Pacific
$27,420.08; Pacific Tel. & Tel.
Co., $6368.98; Standard Logging,
$11,842.00; Consolidated, $10,-
605.78; Crown Zellerbach, $10,-
393.75; Hawley Pulp and Paper
Co., $9798.77; and Peterman
company, $4765.47.
PROBLEM OF HOUSING
EASES HERE
SEASIDE — For the first time
in many months the housing sit
uation in Seaside has eased, at
least temporarily. It is now pos
sible to place everyone seeking
accomodations and while there
is a marked shortage of some
types of accomodations, there is
something available for all ap
plicants.
CITY LEADERS TOLD TO
PREPARE POST-WAR JOBS
MEDFORD — Municipal lead
ers of southern Oregon were
warned here a week ago Tues
day night that cities and coun
ties must be prepared . to offer
peacetime work to our return
ing soldiers after the war, but
that the cities and counties must
also plan to raise most of the
money themselves lest control
of projects and control of labor
be turned over to the federal
government.
Mayors and other city offic
ials, as well as county officials
met with Mayor John Houston of
Klamath Falls, president of the
League of Oregon Cities, and
Herman Kehrli, secretary of the
league.
All the speakers emphasized
the need for planning now to
do work after the war, when the
country is being converted from
a wartime to a peacetime econ
omy.
TRAILER CAMP WORK
GOES AHEAD HERE
FOREST GROVE — Work on
the trailer camp being set in
order here is going ahead with
the arrival of the rest of the
25 trailer units.
Trailers have been placed in
an orderly plan intwo distinct
sections of the camp.
Gravel walks from the road bo
the various units are also being
oompleted. At present a large
part of the work is centering
ar-und laying of pipe for water
and sewer systems.
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second class mail
matter, August 4, 1922, at the
poet office in Vernonia, Ore
gon, under th« act of March 3,
1879.
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
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Vernonia Earl?
The Forum
WAR LOAN HEADS
MAKE DRIVE PLANS
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL_
HILLSBORO — Washington
county war finance committee
area chairmen and county bank
ers met last Friday to discuss
plans for the Fourth War Loan
drive which starts January 18
and lasts until February 15. Goal
in the Fourth War Loan is $14
billion.
A statewide meeting of all
county chairmen of the state
war finance committee was held
recently in Portland and infor
mation gained there was passed
on to county committeemen. Some
new ideas, that may prove ef
fective in the ccming drive, will
also be presented.
TELEPHONES SUFFER IN
FIRST BIG WINTER BLOW
FOREST GROVE — A num
ber of telephone lines were down
Monday night of last week as
a result of the first big blow of
the season ushering in the last
day of November. According to
the West Coast Telephone com
pany all but two lines were in
operation by morning. It was a
30-mile gale, according to the
forest service, the heaviest so
far this season.
A sub-line to Gaston was still
out Tuesday morning and a toll
line to Vernonia. Other lines
disabled Monday night, were
found to be weighed with brush
and tree debris.
Washington
Snapshots
The pattern for manufactur
ing’s reconversion to civilian pro
duction is taking form, with lim
ited industrial demobilization al
ready getting under way.
This does not. mean any slack
ening of the war effort. On
the contrary, it means an inten
sification of it in selective lines
of industry.
The fact is, however, that we
have reached the point where
more efficcient scheduling makes
possible the production of needed
war goods with less facilities and
materials.
Washington has been slow to
grapple with the conversion prob
lem, apparently fearing that its
motives might be misunderstood
and that discussion of postwar
problems and contract cancella
tions might divert attention from
war production.
10,000 Contracts Cancelled
But with Sen. Walter F.
George (D. Ga.) reporting that
10,000 war contracts have been
cancelled and that plant conver
sion and disposal of surplus ma
terials already have started, the
capital realizes that determina
tion of a uniform overall con
version policy requires immedi
ate consideration.
Presidential Advisor Bernard
Baruch has stated he will not
head any operating agency to
handle industrial reconversions.
There are indications that mak
ing WPB the top reconversion
.agency and Chairman Donald
Nelson the top reconversion di
rector are under consideration.
Under such an arrangement
the WPB would perform a de
mobilization task comparable with
its mobilization of industry for
war, functioning primarily as
an administrative agency and
supervising the flow of mater
ials while exacting compliance
with its orders.
WPB would work through its
various industry advisory com
mittees, depending upon these
industrialists to help guide the
reconversion program. This would
end much of the confusion that
has attended consideration of this
vital postwar problem thus far.
At the
Churches
Evangelical Church
—Rev. Allen H. Backer,
Minister
9;45 —
Sunday
school.
11:00 — Morning
worship service.
6:30 — JunioT and
Y. P. Christian
Endeavor.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 p.m. Thursday — Bible
study and prayer meeting.
Following pryear service, Sun
day school board meeting.
Assembly of God Church
Rev. Clayton E. Beith—Minister
9:45—Sunday school with clas
ses for all ages.
11:00—Morning worship.
A Story for Christmas, 1943 . . ,
The small son that Sergeant John
Hope had never seen crowed and
waved his hands at the shining
Christmas tree. Mary Hope's arm
was tense about the baby. Her gaze
never wavered from the letter in
her father-in-law's hand as he read
on, his slow, hearty voice lingering
a little on each word. John’s mother
watched the flames from the log in
the fireplace as she listened.
It was John’s Christmas letter, a
long one written weeks ago and
mailed to a neighbor for Christmas
morning delivery at the Hope home.
Last year Corporal John Hope had
written one from North Africa. Now,
they were sure, Sergeant John was
in Italy—probably in the snows and
winds and battle fury of the Ap-
penines.
“Just as last year,’ Dad Hope
read, “I’m putting all my homesick
ness into one letter—for another
year I'll write nothing of it. Don’t
let it make you cry. Be glad that I
can still be homesick. A man can
get mean and hard and forgetful of
all that is good in life when he’s
long at this killing business. I’ve
just got to be all soft and senti
mental in this Christmas letter, even
if it makes you sad ...”
Dad Hope read steadily on. There
was much for Mary and on the son
John Hope had never seen. There
were strong, fierce words, on the
need to win the peace as well as the
war.
“This must not happen to my son,
dad,’’ John Hope had written, “as it
happened to you, and then to your
son—never, never again!"
The Little Things of Home ...
“Those are some of the big things
on my mind,” the letter went on.
“Now, Mom, here’s a little thing I get
homesick about, over and over. Is
my old school coat hanging in its
place on my own special hook above
the basement stairs? Of course I
know it is. Christmas morning—it’ll
be evening over here—I’ll imagine
we’re having one of our heart-to-
heart talks again at that familiar
spot, just with ourselves. You know.
You will remember ...”
Two pages more on the little
things of his old home and the old
lite of his young days in and about
his home town. The grade school,
the high school, the church, the
stores, the soda fountain, the wood
working shop where John had
worked for two years after high
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
ch irch.
7:30 Friday evening—People’s
meeting.
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.
First Christian Church
—The Livingstones, Ministers
9:45—Bible school. A welcome
awaits you.
11:00—Morning communion and
preaching. Sermon
subject:
“The Most Popular Book of
the Years.”
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7:30—Evening communion, song,
and preaching service. Subject:
“Void If Detached.”
7:30—Prayer meeting Wednesday
evening.
school, making and saving money to
put himself through the state uni
versity—the roads and trails, the
trees and fields of the country—all
were in the letter, each with some
little touch of memory. Then:
“Now, dad, here’s a special for
you to work on,” Dad Hope read.
“The first thing I'll want after th
job is done and I’m back with all 01
you is a new home of our own tor
Mary and me and our son. I want
you to look into this prospect for us,
and then write me on it. Nothing you
can do will help me more to hold a
grip on the things I need most to
keep alive in myself as our fight
over here goes on . .
Homecoming Homes . . .
Long after the reading of the let
ter was done Dad Hope sat quietly
thinking about that part of planning
a new home for John and Mary and
their son. The women were going
over the letter again and again,
talking. The baby cried for the
lights of the Christmas tree.
It would be nightfall soon over
there now, Dad Hope mused, and
likely enough Sergeant John would
be leading a patrol out over the
mountain rocks, through windy
darkness and blowing snow, into
God only knew what dangers. Dad
Hope remembered mountain fight
ing in the Argonne. He shivered,
and forced his mind to think on the
plan John had put up to him.
He couldn't figure just where to
start on it. If it was an automobile
proposition, now, there were five
dealers on Main Street he could
call on and get the necessary facts
in a forenoon. But a home propo
sition—there was the land, the site,
to figure on, the plan, the ma
terials, the he iting. plumbing and
electrical equipment, the building
job, the financing—a dozen such
items to look into, at- forty places of
business.
Ten million fighting men, mused
Dad Hope, and in something like as
many American homes in towns
all ovet the country Christmas
mornings more or less like this
one of the Hope family. There
would be homecomings of millions
like Sergeant John on some great
day. And millions of new homes to
build and make as the roots of a
better America and a better world
of the future.
“One thing I do know now,” said
Dad Hope, “War Bonds will build
homes. We can buy more Bonds, and
get ready."
St. Mary’s
Catholic Church
Editor of Vernonia Eagle,
Verncnia, Oregon.
Dear Sir:
With hundreds of other Colum
bia county citizens I mourn the
death of that goo4 man, J. B.
Wilkerson. I have heard many
“off the tip of tongue” sincere
eulogies of him especially among
the younger men, many of whom
came under his influence as a
teacher and I believe he left
with men and women of today,
but who were boys and girls a
decade past, a lasting imprint on
them which is a fitting memorial
to his memory which I know they
cherish.
As a former member of the
St. Helens school board for a
number of years and also mem
ber of the county fair board, I
had many consultations with Mr.
Wilkerson and no more fair
minded, honorable man have I
ever met.
One incident stands out in my
memory; it was some ten years
ago that I took my regular ad
vertising space for my bakery in
a local paper to congratulate the
graduating class of St. Helens
high school, mentioning each of
the graduates. Mr. Wilkerson
was then in Vernonia and no
sooner had he seen my message
to the graduates than he wrote
me a cordial letter of approval
and added his wish and hope for
a sucessful career for the grad
uates. It showed his love and in
terest in the boys and girls with
whom he worked and encouraged
for many years.
Yours truly,
S. F. Heumann
St. Helens, Oregon
Hotel at Timber
Gets Furnaces
TIMBER—The Southern Pacif
ic and Montag company of Port
land are installing furnaces in
the Gilmore hotel. . Three fur
naces are being installed.
Mrs. Ida Cutright, who has
been with her son, Amos Cut
right, at Banks for the past two
months, passed away Tuesday,
Nov. 30.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Leslie
had over the week end as guest,
Mrs. Leslie’s mother of Beaver
ton.
Mrs. Will Shepard spent sev
eral days last week with her
daughter, Mrs. Ambrose Schmid-
lin, to help care for little Evelyn
Elaine Schmidlin, who was quite
ill.
Mrs. Gordon Small of Portland
spent the week end with her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Frank Pierce.
Dinner guests at the Bill Huf
fman home last Thursday were
Lucinda Bine, Mae Tailman, Za-
die Lambert, Billie Parker and
Mr. and Mrs. William Huffman.
George Ritthaler of Portland
spent Sunday here, looking after
his property, recently vacated by
the Murphys.
Evelyn Shepard of St. Marys
school of nursing, Astoria, spent
the week end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Shepard.
Mrs.
Hamilton
and
baby
daughter, Gayle, of McMinnville
spent several days with Mrs. Don
Kiesel, arriving last Friday.
KEEP ON
with
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.
It was a great day for the
thieves, thugs and prostitutes.
The Son of Man had moved out
of Joseph’s carpenter shop over
in Nazareth, to begin His public
ministry. Up to the window of
Levi the grafter, He steps with.
Follow Me! And Levi left all and
followed Him. Yes—It was Levi
the despised, who gathered in the
Hebrew gold and silver for the
hated Romans who held the
country.
Now watch Levi. Since Christ
had honored him with this call
to join the Disciples, he in turn
would honor Christ. He sets a
banquet. And seeing our Lord’s
leaning toward the lost, Levi in
vites in for the feast, the no
torious criminals and the under
world. Was there ever such an
other coming together, with the
Son of God on hand to grace the
hour?
Up in the Temple, the relig
ious leaders are shocked. How
can one sent from God rub el
bows with such human scum?
So they ask. But Jesus came to
seek and to save that which was
lost. He came, not to call the
selfrighteous but sinners to re
pentance.
The months pass. By many a
miracle, Christ certifies to the
Jews that He is the long looked-
for Prophet. Through four cen
turies. no voice had qualified,
but now He comes wit hsigns ami
wonders, speaking as no man
ever spoke before.
When the time came that He
should be received up, He stead
fastly set His face to go to Je
rusalem. Said He “Therefore doth
My Father love Me because I
lay donw My life, that I might
take it again. No man taketh it
from Me but I lay it down of
Myself. I have power to lay it
donw and I have power tq take
it again.” John 10:17-18.
Come as you are. Stand on
the Bible that it was you for
whom Christ died. Count your
self cleared by flis death for
your sins. Now live by the Bible
and prayer, looking to Christ for
the power to carry on in Hie new
life.
This space paid for ty an
Oregon business man.
FUEL OIL RATIONS
REMAIN SAME
Rations of fuel oil throughout
the 33-state rationed area re
main unchanged at 10 gallons
per unit for period 2, which be
gan November 30, Chester Bowl
es, OPA administrator, said re
cently. Period 3 coupons, which
also went into effect November
30 i midwestern and southern
states under fuel oil rationing,
have the same unit value—10
gallons. This applies to class 4
coupons, used mostly by small
householders. Class 5 coupons,
used by larger consumers, are
good for 50 gallons each. Class
1 and 2 “change making” cou
pons for fuel oil, part of last
year’s ration, are invalid for all
purposes beginning December 1.
Hats Cleaned, Blocked
85c
DRY CLEANING PRICES REDUCED
Pants ............... 50c Overcoats ......... $1.00
Dresses ........... $1.00 Suits ................ $1.00
Sweaters..........
50c .
Seventh Day
Adventist Church
Pick Up and Delivery Weekly on Thursday*
Office: Ben Brickel’s Barber Shop
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.
Oregon Laundry and Cleaners
The Forest Grove
NATIONAL BANK
BEAN PRICES
TO BE REDUCED
Reductions up to two cents a
-pound in wholesale and retail
prices for dry edible beans will
result from recent OPA action
reducing the price spread be
tween country shipper and whole
saler. Country shipping point
prices remain unchanged.
WAR
Eats with Thieves, Thugs
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INVITES YOU TO BANK BY MAIL IF
INCONVENIENT TO COME IN PERSON
A Locally-Owned, Independent Bank
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