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Thursda
December 16, 1943
Events in
Oregon
CITY COUNCIL PROVIDES
FUNDS FOR STATE CASH
MEDFORD — Financial mat­
ters occupied the Medford city
council a week ago Tuesday.
The council, by ordinance, es­
tablished a fund to be known as
the State Tax Street Fund, to
handle the money paid by the
state highway department to the
City of Medford for use in street
repair. The sum is estimated at
about $15,000 annually. Another
ordinance provided for an agree­
ment with the government for
payment to Medford of $4140 for
use of the airport.
HOUSING UNITS FOR
HILLSBORO TO START SOON
HILLSBORO — Construction
of the first 10 of 25 new family
units authorized by the National
Housing agency for Hillsboro will
probably be started soon by Fred
W. McYain, according to Harry
Seabold, chairman of the local
chamber of commerce housing
committee.
The houses are part of the 65
authorized recently in the Forest
Grove area to aid in relieving an
acute housing situation.
ACHIEVEMENT FLAG
PRESENTED SCHOOL
SEASIDE — An achievement
flag, now flying beneath the
American flag at the Central
school was presented recently to
the school by Mrs. Mitchell C.
Thorn, local chairman of the
women’s war finance committee,
in charge of the bond and stamp
sales for the duration of the
war. In presenting the flag, Mrs.
Thorn congratulated the faculty
and student body for the excel­
lent record made thus far in.
bond purchases.
SHERMAN TAXES NEARLY
ALL PAID
MORO — The tax turnover
for November when the sheriff
collected $110,802.43 in taxes
and interest on a 1943-44 roll
of $109,718.23 was about the
only one of the year that will
amount to much. Of this total
$3,130.88 was returned in re­
bates making $101,297.82 col­
lected and retained on the cur­
rent roll. There was $6,373.73
collected on delinquent taxes
and interest.
OVER TON OF
CLOTHING GATHERED
PRINEVILLE — More than a
ton of useable garments—2,622
pounds of them—were collect­
ed by the people of Prineville
and vicinity in the clothing sal­
vage drive held recently. There
were 4,177 garments in the 56
huge bundles. The clothing rang­
ed from outgrown but still good
overcoats to tiny socks for in­
fants.
Washington
Snapshots
While congress and the execu­
tive agencies are finding that re­
conversion presents many new
and baffling questions, neverthe­
less the framwork of industrial
demobilization is beginning to
take shape.
Perhaps the most compelling is­
sue is:
“How can the government
schedule resumption of civilian
production of civilian produ
production on an equitable basis
that will not penalize the con­
tractor who must remain in war
production, and give a head
start to the manufacturer whose
facilities are no longer needed
for war?”
In other words, shall a plant
in a labor surplus area, with ma­
terials available for production
of needed civilian goods, be kept
idle until the end of the war
just so the' operator will not
gain an advantage over his com­
petitor in a labor-shortage com­
munity who must continue to de­
vote his full capacity to war
orders?
Vernonia Eagle
At the
Churches
Evangelical Church
—Rev. Allen H. Backer,
Minister
9:45 —
Sunday
school.
11:00 — Morning
worship service.
6:30 — Junior and
Y. P. Christian
Endeavor.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 p.m. Thursday — Bible
study and prayer meeting.
Assembly of God Church
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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.
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.
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.
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—Church school session. M.
L. Herrin, superintendent.
11:00—Morning communion and
preaching.
Sermon
subject:
“The Schedule of God.”
(Christmas sermon)
7:30—Evening communion, song,
and preaching service. Subject:
“Departing Opportunities.”
7:30 Monday—Annual Christmas
program.
7:30—Prayer meeting Wednesday
evening.
The Forum
THE
INSPIRATION OF THE
BIBLE
Part XIX
UNANSWERED
QUESTIONS
There are mysteries in the
realm of natural science which
will elude the research of the
wisest. They have not yet learn­
ed “the balancings of the clouds,
the wondrous works of Him
which is perfect in knowledge.
Great things doeth He. which we
cannot comprehend.” Job. 37:16,
5. Job knew in his day that
No Idle Plant«
God had made “the weight for
While no one in Washington the winds.” Job. 28:25. Though
has as yet a satisfactory answer,
one thing appears certain—plants it was ages before Torricelli
will not be left idle, with result­ proved it with his barometer. He
ant unemployment, even if hard- knew that God “hangeth the
shit» does result from this policy. earth upon nothing,” Job. 26:7,
Washington appears to be mov­
ing cautiously to devise an eq­ ages before philosophers and
uitable reconversion plan. But. priensts ceased to declare that
in the absence of a necessary and it was borne upon the shoulders
clear-cut policy laid down by the
government, the uncertainties in of Atlas. The latest discoveries
of science verify the earliest
utterances of revelation.
The Vernonia Eagle
But the wise men of this age,
with all their science and acute­
Marvin Kamholz
ness, have not yet learned the
Editor and Publisher
answers to the question on nat­
Entered as second class mail ural philosophy contained in the
matter. August 4. 1922, at the boo kof Job. If osie of them
post office in Vernonia, Ore­ be asked. “Canst thou send light-
gon, under the net of March 3, ining that they may go, and
1879.
say unto thee, Here we are?”
they may now after more than
Official Newspaper of
three thousand years of research,
Vernonia, Oregon
be able to say. “We can do it.”
But if the scientist be asked,
P U I LI S 4 e «.S
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
the researches of the countless
ages of eternity to lead us to
exclaim, “O the depths of the
riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God I How un­
searchable are His judgements,
and His ways past finding out!”
But tho the deeper mysteries
of the universe are yet unex­
plored there are some primary
lessons in the great book of na­
ture which are so simple as to
be within the comprehension of
a child; and there are proofs of
creative intelligence, working ac­
cording to mathematical law,
throughout all the realms of ani­
mate, organic and inorganic na­
ture. The simplest illustration
will make this palpable to any
candid mind.
Submitted by G. F. Brown
How Paul Bunyan Made Iowa . . • words of the kind. "We’ll sioux
Old Larrity, the bullcook, gave yioux,” was how the Big Hole chief
me an idea, in his telling of the first served written warning on
history of how Paul Bunyan took Paul Bunyan. When Paul quit the
the land of Iowa out of the Califor-‘ country, the tribe started “sioux-
nia country in his time and muved ing” the government, and has been
it to fill up the Big Hole of the at it ever since. Larrity says he has
Midwest—a hole so tremendous that all that information straight from
It swallowed, even in flood seasons, North Dakota.
all the water the Mississippi and The California country where
Paul and Babe flauled off the good
Missouri Rivers poured into it.
The idea may not amount to earth of Iowa is now the Death
much, as it couldn't be realized Valley region, Larrity declares.
without Paul and Babe the Blue ‘The old Californy blood is still
Ox. It is for a deal to make four strong in Ioway folks," he affirms,
new states in the New England "which is why so many of ’em go
neighborhood out of our more than there to live out their last days. But
8 million acres of junior forest on Californy people themselves still
the west side of Oregon and Wash­ don’t set much store on the land
ington. The present states of Con­ that yet fills the Big Hole—the land
necticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey of Ioway State."
and Delaware all together do not History or tall tale, there’s a les­
run to many more acres of land son in it.
than we have in crops of Douglas Four New Forest States . . .
fir and hemlock trees of less than, Our more than 8 million acres of
saw timber size. In addition we
forest land in the Douglas fir
have enough acreage of second- junior
region are acres that were once cut
growth saw timber to make a fifth over
or burned over, but were
state half the size of Massachusetts, somehow
and are now bear­
or three new Rhode Islands. But ing crops seeded
of trees thick and thriv­
that story of Larrity’s—
ing
enough
to
be
classified as tim­
Only a tribe of Indians lived in
growth in the U. S. Forest Sur­
the Big Hole in Paul Bunyan's time, ber
according to Larrity’s “best authori­ vey.
The trees of the junior forest are
ties.’’ When I aul started logging just
standing there on the land,
up north he found he couldn’t raft growing.
of them won’t be
his logs anywhere unless the two usable for Most
from ten to forty years
big rivers were made to run on to come, except
for Christmas trees
south. So he scouted all over, look­ and poles perhaps.
still think of
ing for land to fill up the Big Hole. forest values in the We old
way; that
The only good prospect he met was is, in terms of virgin timber,
big
in California. The Californians had trees. We burn the junior forest,
a piece of land called Iowa which and when it burns we too often say,
was the size of the Big Hole, and “Only brush fires; just fern fires;
they put little value on it. The only why get excited?”
crops they cared about were oranges New Englanders have a different
and tourists. The big piece of land attitude. In the wake of the great
would only grow corn to feed hogs. hurricane of several years ago
Even Los Angeles didn’t want to whole forests were down and shat­
annex it. Paul Bunyan could have tered, forming the most tremendous
it and welcome. So he hitched Babe, forest fire hazard of American his­
who could pull anything with two tory. Tourist travel was much
ends to it to a county at a time, heavier in the region than it was
and by next spring he had Iowa all here. Yet the blowdown forests of
set in its new place in time to start New England came through with­
the year's corn crop.
out a serious fire. The reason was
Indian Trouble . . ■
the high value the people there
All hands concerned were happy place on junior forests. They have
about the deal, except the Big Hole no other kind.
Indians. They s t a rt e d a lawsuit Foresters would like to see Paul
against Paul Bunyan, and they fol­ and Babe come back and move our
lowed him with it wherever he 8 million acres of junior forest
logged. In fact, that was how the lands to the Atlantic seaboard,
tribe got its new name, which it among a population that would
still bears—the Sioux Indians. The cherish and protect the growing
spelling is Old Indian Style for j trees.
“Dost thou know the balancings lover of nature, cut a foot square
of the clouds, the wondrous of sward from the college park
works of Him which is perfect in and agreed to study and exam­
knowledge?” or, “By what way ine it together. To their amaze­
is the light parted, which scat- ment, it took no less than six
tereth the east wind upon the weeks to separate its various
earth?” Job. 37:16; 38:24 he contents, vegetable, animal, and
can give no answer to such ques­ mineral; and from the press of
tions. Science has indeed learn­ other pursuits they were obliged
ed to “part” the rays of light to abandon the undertaking, leav­
and untwist its rainbow hues ing unsettled a multitude of
but it has not yet learned what questions which rose from the
the parting of the light has to examination of those materials
do with “scattering
the east and their history and relation to
wind upon the earth.” Science each other.
Those men were investigators.
has only begun to collect its
facts and work its way among But many who know nothing
the mighty mysteries that per­ whatever of such subjects are
vade the visible creation. Nothing ready to give credence to the
is more absurd than the sup- wild gueswork of some scientific
positio nthat a man who claims prophet whose assertion» broaden
to be scientific has mastered the in proportion to the narrowness
whole circle of knowledge and of his field of view. Thus, men
that what he does not know is theorize concerning the forma­
hardly worth considering. The tion of worlds, when they do not
circle of knowledge is too vast even know the material of which
they are composed, and map out
the field of industrial reconver­ for one man, or all men, to ful­
with all exactness the history of
sion are so numerous that many ly comprehend.
a globe of which they have nev­
manufacturer» are understandably
HIS WAYS PAST FINDING
apprehensive about what they
er investigated one millionth
OUT
consider preferential treatment.
Dr. Robinson, astronomer roy­ part. In all departments of scien­
It is now permissible in Wash­
ington to discuss reconversion to al of Armagh college. Ireland, tific investigation, men are con­
civilian production openly, provid­ related in a lecture that when fronted by ten thousand mystei-
ed there is an emphatic under­ a student in Trinity college. Dub­ ies which mortal life is too brief
standing that war production
lin, he and a fellow student, a to solve, and which need but
comes first.
Could it be that she holds a
dagger in one hand and a Bible
in the other?
It could be, but why the dag­
ger?
With it she is to slay the neigh
bor down the street.
—“Yes, Mary is good in her
way BUT—” And then out pours
the slime until Mary is plastered
over with all that scandal can in­
vent.
But could it really be a Bible
in one hand and a dagger in the
other? Yes, it might be if the
the Bible were to her but a dust-
covered book and never read if
it were not in her heart, all
this might be.
But say it were in her heart,
what then? Being read and pond­
ered, new life it to flow in. No
Bible, no faith. Little Bible lit­
tle faith. Much Bible, much faith.
Ye are born again by the Word
of God, which is the Bible, says
Peter, the Apostle. 1st Peter 1:23
When the Bible is believed as
to the mighty work God waits to
do for you, and in you the new
birth becomes a fact. You are
not asked to feel your spiritual
pulse to make sure of the new
birth. You are to stand on it
that God has made you his own.
Feelings or no feelings, stand on
it that Christ died for your sins
and cleared the page so that God
could in righteousness make you
his own.
Now the Spirit of God takes up
the mighty works against your
oaid sinful nature. He puts within
you a ne wset of godly urgings.
You wake up to it that you are
of a new order of created beings
here among men. Old things have
passed away and all things have
become new. New relatives, new
name, new destiny, new eye­
sight, new Bible, new neighbors,
new home right in the same old
house and new joy in just know­
ing that with sins forgiven, the
mighty God is to prove himself
to you through time and eternity
In the ages to come he is to show
the exceeding riches
of
his
grace in his kindness to us
through Christ Jesus. Ephesians
2:7.
Which for you,, dagger or
Bible?—
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This space paid for by an
Oregon business man.
Xmas Seal Artist
Keeping Up
With Rationing
Vernonia war price and ra­
tioning board (No. 85.6.2) lo­
cated in bank bldg.
Hours
9:30-12:00 and 1:00-4:30 daily.
Saturday 9:30-12:30.
Open
Tuesday nights at city hall
6-10 p.m.
RATION BOOK THREE
January 1, 1944—Expiration
date of brown stamps L, M, N,
P andQ. L valid on No­
vember 21; M on November
28; N on December 5; P on
December 12; and Q on Decem­
ber 19. Each weekly series good
for 16 points.
January 29—Expiration date
of brown stamps R, S, T and U.
R series valid December 26, S
on January 2, T on January 9, U
on aJnuary 16. Each weekly ser­
ies good for 16 points.
RATION BOOK 4
November 1—Green stamps
A, B, and C valid through De­
cember 20.
January 20, 1944—Expiration
date of green stamps D, E, and
F.
SHOES
Expiration date of stamp
No. 18 for one pair of shoes
extended indefinitely
beyond
October 31. “Airplane” stamp
No. 1 in book 3 good for one
pair of shoes on November 1,
expiration indefinite.
SUGAR
November 1—Stamp 29, in
book four, good for 5 pounds
through January 15, 1944.
STOVES
Purchasers must get certif­
icates at ration boards for most
new stoves.
WOOD, SAWDUST, COAL
Fuel dealers deliver by pri­
orities based on needs.
GASOLINE
January 21, 1944—Expiration
date of No. 9 stamps in A book,
each good for 3 gallons.
Value of gasoline coupons: A,
Bl, Cl, 3 gals; B2. C2, R and
T, 5 gals; D, 1.5 gals; E, 1 gal.
TIRES
Cars with B books must have
tires inspected every 4 months;
cars with C books every 3
months; cars with A books ev­
ery 6 months.
Commercial motor vehicles
—tire inspections
every
6
months or every 5,000 miles,
whichever occurs first.
FUEL OIL
January 3, 1944—Period 1
coupons in new fuel oil rations
valid September 30, expire on
this date.
Andre Dugo. above, prominent in
International art circles. Is artist of
Christmas Seal of National Tuber­
culosis Association and its affiliated
societies.
Give him a crisp WAR
BOND for a CHRISTMAS
present to be remembered.
Keep on BACKING THE
ATTACK.
Hats Cleaned, Blocked
85c
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
The Forest Grove
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INVITES YOU TO BANK BY MAIL IF
INCONVENIENT TO COME IN PERSON
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