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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1944)
ThurÊ ^y, February g, 1944 4 Vernonia Ragie Comments of The Week Help Will Be Appreciated The announcement that lo cal taxpayers will be able to get aid with their income tax blanks Friday and Satur day will no doubt be wel comed by those who have difficulty in filling out the forms. This year marks the first time that such aid has been made available locally from the bureau of internal revenue by the scheduling of representatives to appear here. Those who have in the past sought aid from the bu reau have had to go else where for the information they sought. Such an additional conven ience will be doubly helpful this year as will be determin ed by those who have been brave enough to look at the tax forms in that those forms are considerably more complicated for the 1943 tax than has been the case in previous years. The maize of schedules and instructions have reached proportions that almost defy the under standing of any but those fa miliar with the detail and ex cessive wording of law lan guage. Unraveling the pro cedure will no doubt be easy for those who make that their business but the ordin ary human being is not able, especially in these days when his time is more occupied than ever, to devote the study necessary to complete the forms correctly. Yes, aid from the tax rep resentatives will be very wel come. There Is One Here, Too Accounts are frequently seen in metropolitan news accounts of the birth of small babies, telling of the weight at birth, the care given, the chances for survival and the amazement such occurrences arouse. None of those accounts yet have been more amazing than one we have right in this valley. Mrs. E. L. Lloyd announces this week the weight of little Mary Edith Branton as being ten and one-half pounds, a gain of nine pounds over that at birth'. Little hope was held for the child’s survival at birth but excellent care has chang ed all that. To make the case all the more unusual and to add greater credit to the suc cessful efforts of Mrs. Lloyd, the infant survived without the aid of an incubator as has been the case when such occurrences have been an nounced elsewhere. 8 that evening, the longest alert pet called. Watchmen arrived at the post within seven minutes following the call. Events in Oregon BOYS KILL 11-FOOT BEAR, WEIGHT 4,200 POUNDS ROCKAWAY — A letter from the U. S. submarine base at Ko diak, Alaska says the boys there had brought down a large Kodiak bear that had been turning every thing upside down. The first bear killed weighed 4,200 pounds and stood 11 feet, 2 inches high. A week or so later they killed the other 'bear ewhich holds the record weighing 4,700 and stood 11 ta feet tall. The meat and hides have to be turned over to the na tives. It takes so much powder to bring one down, even dynamite sticks, the hides are not worth much. WH1TESON YOUTH SHOT BY BROTHER MCMINNVILLE — Paul Yod er, 18, is in a serious condition at the McMinnville hospital with his right eye blinded and paral ysis of his left side after an ac cidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of his brother. The ac cident happened a week ago Wednesday afternoon as the two young men were coon hunting near their home. NOT MUCH SNOW AT CRATER LAKE REPORTED MEDFORD — The depth of snow at Crater Lake is as low as it has been this time of the year for the past five years. Depth at ranger headquarters is 60 inches where it was 162 inches at this time last year. In 1940 there was only 60 inches but in 1942 there was 72 inches, in 1941 there was 116 inches, in 1939, 98 inches and in 1938, 89 inches. BERRY GROWERS EYE MEXICANS FOREST GROVE — Berry growers may be able to get Mex ican labor to help in hoeing or harvesting this spring if they con tact the Washington county ag ent at once, it was indicated last week in an announcement to growers. Growers will be able to have house Mexicans on their farm in berry cabins this year undei- a revamping of the re quirement that the nationals mU3t live at a central camp. JOINT ACTION ON AIRPORT FAVORED PRINEVILLE — City and county officials, meeting here last week for a discussion of pos sible development of the Prine ville airport for commercial use, agreed to complete the unfinish ed hangar at the field if legal problems can be ironed out. Chief obstacle to immediate use of city or county funihs on the airport, it was agreed at the meeting, is the fact the field is under a 25-year lease by the government. Assembly of God Church 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 «ct of March 3, 1879,________________________ .fftifrrZrt OlECloOuisMPE« P U 111S 4 e * TI 0 N NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL— SSOCIATION At the Churches —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. WILLAMINA — The aircraft warning service received the Sth alert Friday, January 14th, last ing from 2 in the afternoon to Official Newspaper of Vernonia. Oregon doned and much of this was refor Some Southern Pine Items . . . Logging pine in the South has not> ested by natural processes and pro gone in much for heroics. No legend duced quite a crop of timber. of the winter of the blue snow sur-; Other areas of young timber had vives, nor of endless log drives on been coming along, and between white - water rivers; no ringtailed' them they made a lot of common roarers with cr’ked boots, in from lumber. The big mills were replac the woods and taking the town ed by a greater number of little apart. Nothing like that. Winter mills. Trucks and the new highway was the dry season; the lazy rivers system took the place of the log twisted through endless swamps;; ging railroads. Nearly half the for the woods crews were colored and' est area was in farm woodlots and other small ownerships. The trucks tractable. The climate permitted logging the, could and did pick up these odds year round. No long shutdowns. The., and ends of timber that the big op flat open country encouraged rail erations had missed. The market road logging. A characteristic econ-' was not so fussy about its lumber omy used in some areas was to lay grades as it had been. Common the rails on spur tracks with the, grades answered most purposes, and ends even, not staggered. When the’i were consumed in huge quantities. spur was moved, the plates were The pines grew and grew. The saws loosened and a crane picked up a| hummed on. section, ties and all, and loaded it The Outlook Is Bright . . . onto a flat car. When a sufficient' The area where the coastal plain number of carloads were accumu and the Allegheny foothills meet is lated and moved to the new Ioca-> known as the “fall line.” Here, at tion. the crane would lay them in' the edge of the big pine stands and position, the plates were fastened, of cheap transportation, the rivers and there was your track practi leave their turbulent upper courses cally ready to carry a train of south-' in a last series of cascades. The fall ern pine. Other items, such as wage line is marked by waterpower de differentials and a short haul to the' velopments, pulp mills, and chemi thickly populated Eastern and Cen cal plants, mostly for working up tral regions, helped. wood. In these plants, size and Highlights of History . . . quality do not count. All they need In most forest regions in America is plenty of wood. Just cellulose the exhaustion of the virgin stand and lignin. Cheap power, cheap and the end of the local timber in-> logging, and an accessible market dustry came at the same time. The; promise use for all the young pine South kept on logging. Not on. the land will raise, and then some. the same massive scale as before, The South now has 125,000,000 and not in quite the same way, but acres of permanent forest land. If production, after a precipitous drop, fully stocked, it will produce about more or less found a level in some half a cord of wood per acre per areas, and in others started another year, which is better than any but upeurve. Most unusual! West Coast land will do. It has an When the startled industry look ugly fire problem, something less ed into it, the answer was simple. Ithan half solved, and some excel Southern pines are tough. They lent starts at forest management, in seed profusely and are hard to dis both privately owned tree farms courage. The summer is hot and and in public forests. wet, which is just right for tree The South is awake to the values growth. Some 28 million acres, of growing trees, and is acting to cleared for crops before the War improve and protect its junior for Between the States, had been aban ests. More power to you, Dixie! Evangelical Church CRAFT WARNING SERVICE HAS 6-HOUR ALARM JAN. 14 More and more our armies are landing our fighting troops by para chute, disrupting enemy lines, en emy communications, but paying a heavy price in casualties. Silken fineries and their substi tutes are fast passing from the mar ket to provide safe landings for our distant fighting men. We can still buy silk and nylon for them with War Bonds and Stamps. V. S. Tnuir, Dtfartmtn! f Washington Snapshots 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. 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 extendej to visitors. 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. M. L. Her rin, superintendent. 11:00—Junior church. 11:00—Morning communion and preaching. Subject of sermon: “As the Twig Is Bent,” third in a series of three sermons on the education of the young. 7:00—“Everybody Sing.” 7:30—Evening song, communion and preaching. 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meet ing. 7:30 Friday evening—Women’s Missionary Society meets at the home of Mrs. Blanche Millis in Riverview. Important cutbacks in both army and navy basic materials are coming all the, time as here tofore critical materials are eas ed up and the requirements of our own and allied forces can often be filled from growing re serves. Production officials are quick to explain that in many instanc es the cutbacks would be more than 'offset by the increases in some military items, and that the 1944 war production program calls for increasing the 1943 out put by 17 per cent. WPB Executive Vice Chair man Charles E. Wilson, agreeing with General Eisenhower that the war with Germany will end in 1944, emphasizes that we cannot safely count on a quick collapse of Germany and warns against any undue optimism over an early opening up of general civil ian production. Meanwhile, concrete steps are being taken toward solving all the problems involved in the tre mendous job of dismantling the nation’s industrial war machine. According to Col. David N. Hauseman, director of the newly formulated readjustment division of the. army service forces, policy formulae on three problems have been drawn up and submitted di rectly to the president. They are: disposal of surplus materials; dis position of government plants; and a uniform termination clause Decisions are expected shortly. For the immediate future, or until these transition problems are settled, industry can expect a gradual inching up of civilian production as war production dips down. 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 February 26, 1944—Expiration date of brown stamps V, W and X. V series valid January 23, W on January 30, and X on Feb ruary 6. March 20—Expiration date of brown stamps Y and Z. Y series valid on February 13, Z on Feb ruary 20. Each weekly series good for 16 points. RATION BOOK 4 February 20—Expiration date of green stamps G, H, J, which became valid January 1. March 20—Expiration date of green stamps K, L and M. RATION TOKENS February 27—Starting date for use of red and blue ration tokens. 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. HOME ON LEAVE “Some of our men spend all their spare time and money in the taproom. They spend it on beer. Ten years from now these men will be burned out and the state will have to • care for them.” So reports one of our home boys back on leave. Then he told of other men being schooled for desperate tasks; men who must be always on their toes, even while in training. These fellows lose their edge from the liquor in the city nearby and at length the officers ruled that they could have city leave but once in three weeks. Also our man told of the fellow who imbibed too free ly and of how on the train it all came up. What a mess all over his uniform, car seat and out in the aisle. And he wond ered why the higherups should tolerate liquor when a nation is fighting for its life. Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, rules the Bible. Law or no law, the- thing is wrong in itself and is an of fense to the God of heaven. Ig norance of the law is no excuse since every babe born into this world has the moral law engrav ed on its heart. He may be born in the blackest jungle of Africa, but the moral law is deep writ ten on his heart. See Romans 2:14-15. Here it is—Thou shalt not steal, bear false witness, commit adultery, kill, take the name of the Lord thy God in vain and so on through. And along with the law is conscience telling him to stop, look and listen. With it the mind acts as umpire. It tells him he has sinned. All have sinned. One only, of all born of woman, ever rounded out the keeping of the law of God. In thought, word and deed, Christ kept the law to the full. He loved the Father with His whole heart, soul, strength and mind and His neighbor as Himself. Christ did more than keep the law. He became my attorney. He stood in court and said I had done all the evil charged against me. Then He showed the nail prints on His hands. He held them up for the great Judge to see. Those nail-prints gave token of His death for me, the prison er.- He took my place and suf fered death to set me free. Sure ly, Christ SAVES-KEEPS-SAT- ISFIES. If you live by Power from On High postal card me a line that I may use for 'help to others. SUGAR March 31, 1944—Expiration date of stamp 30, in book four, good for 5 pounds. This space paid for by Oregon business man. an 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 March 21—Expiration date of No. 10 coupons in A book, 3 gal lons each. Value of gasoline coupons: A, Bl, Cl, 3 gals; B2. C2, R and T, 5 gals; D, 1.5 gals; E, 1 gal. TIRE INSPECTION 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 Your money goes Into battle every months or every 5,000 miles, time you invest in War Bonds—goes whichever occurs first. up to the German lines in the form of tanks, planes, assault boats as pic FUEL OIL tured here In the Mediterranean February 8, 1944—Expiration area. date of period 2 coupons. Success of our troops depends upon March 14—Expiration date of the help they get from the home front. Bullets fired yesterday won’t period 3 coupons. win tomorrow’s battle. War Bonds PRICE CONTROL bcu’ht last month won’t pay for Refer price inquiries and com our next offensive. Give your dol plaints to the price clerk of your lars action: Buy More War Bonds. local war price and rationing V. S. Trtanr, Drfartmfnt board. 4
