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4 Thurs'^ÿ, February 10, 1944 Vernonia Eagle ÏHÎ POCKETBOOK oi KNOWLEDGE ’ TOPPS Comments of The Week Evangelical Church ÌO’W v Ì h I \ • V</ 2-ZÙ1 UlXó * DISCOVERED U VITAMIN OF THE B GROUP IS BEING MANUFACTURER syNTHETlCAUy ByINCUSTF/ a A Worthy Cause Probably every community in the United States has con tributed a good deal of time and effort to causes which bring no financial gain to those who do the work but at the same time these causes are invaluable to the carrying on of the war and in bringing the war to a suc cessful conclusion. The residents of this val ley are no exception in the amount of effort they have put forth in a number of different ways to help the war effort. Among those very worthy causes is that one known as blood doning. Although no mobile Red Cross unit comes here, local people have made , trips to other towns where these units are regularly scheduled. These blood dop ing visits are important in that they make available to the armed forces a supply of blood plasma which has sav Events in Oregon FOUR DIE IN FIRE AT HOME SEASIDE — A mother an! four children died early last Tuesday morning in the flamts that consumed their home on the Astoria-Seaside highway. The hus band and father, Frank Rummell,* was in an Astoria hospital suf- fering from severe a burns and shock. THREE MEN BUY BANKS BANK ed the lives of a great many men who have been injured in battle and who otherwise would have died. At the present time blood donors (from Vernonia are going to Hillsboro and the next visit there is to be made on February 18, next week. Due to the great need of an ever larger supply of the plasma as the United Na tions push forward and en gage in more costly battles with the enemy it is to be hoped that more and more people will be willing to make arrangements so that they may donate some of their blood. Transportation is provided without cost to the donors and those ar rangements can be made by contacting Mrs. Frank Hart wick. Remember that the next trip is to be made on February 18 and your help is needed' <7, HEALTHY, INTELLIGENT /// / I ¿A | 1 __ TWE PRESIDENT OF ONE OF “M e country LARGEST PETROLEUM FIRMS HIMSELF HAS GALLED FOR A 7-^ RETURN TO THE /hlTELLlQEhJT COMPETITION9 THAT 4’ADE THE i^PUSTR/ THf 6RMT ‘SUPPLIER. OF OUR AIR ARW1OA THAT IT IS TDiW y 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. '' w 7 \ /> St. Mary’s Catholic Church Ln jn - 1— AlIRRORS. ATTACHED TO 1-046 HANDLES By A1EAN5 OF HlNGCS, ARE U6EP TO INSPECT "HARO TO G et at * places in machiner / anp OTHER EQUIPMENT to JUNIOR RED CROSS SENDS HIGH TYPE OF WORK TILLAMOOK — Dr. Caryl Croissant, assistant chairman of the Junior Red Cross, announces that, in addition to the articles shipped at Christmas, two more shipments have been sent to Camp Adair. Included in the shipments were cross word puz zles, joke books, stories, gift boxes, pad and pencil sets, crib- bage boards, games, puzzles and wash cloths. The work sent in from all over the county is of uniformly high quality. BANKS — Sale of the Wash ington county bank at Banks to George Laver, present cashier of the institution, and to William C. Christensen and J. L. Searcy of the Commercial National bank of Hillsboro and their associates was announced last week by Wil liam L. Moore, veteran county banker and president of the Banks bank. That there will be no change in the policy of the bank was Laver’s declaration in assuming active management of the insti It may not be generally rea tution. The bank will continue lized that congress is about to to operate as an independent con pass a life-or-death sentence on cern and every effort will be the system of free private enter made to take care of the credit prise in the post-war world. needs of the farmers and busi In legislation for the terminq- ness men in the area. tion of war contracts and for the disposal of government plants CHEST FUND TO and surplus war supplies, con PROVIDE BUNKS PRINEVILLE — About a doz- gress is shaping instruments en fully equipped bunks now in which may either set industry the Prineville barracks formerly free or wreck it. In enacting a policy for the used by aviation cadets in train ing here will be purchased with peace-time termination of some funds from the Crook county war $50,000,000,000 of current war chest to provide sleeping facili- contracts, congress may leave a ities for service men. It was private contractor indefinitely announced recently at a meeting paralyzed, or may enable him to of the Prineville-Crook county get funds due to reconvert his chamber of commerce. The bunks business to peacetime employment owned by the Portland Flying immediately. Congress also has before it var Service, were offered for sale after the CAA training program ious proposals to dispose of some $50,000,000,000 of surplus war here was cancelled. supplies which the government FOREST GROVE DISTRICT will probably hold currently GIVES $700 TO POLIO DRIVE when the last shot is fired. Un FOREST GROVE — This dis less these supplies are disposed trict added ovet $700 to the of in an orderly fashion, they fund to be used for the study will paralyze the postwar mark of causes, prevention and the ets and employment indefinitely. cure of infantile paralysis dur Would Disrupt Economy ing the campaign which closed Finally, it would effectively last week. Collections by the Boy disrupt the postwar economy if Scouts taken four nights at the the $15,000,000,000 of govern Grove theatre following the ment plants are operated by gov showing of the special polio film ernment in competition with pri brought in $271.92. A school vate enterprise. program at the high school net These war commitments may ted $411.92. be liquidated by the government either inadvertently or deliberat The Vernonia Eagle ely, so that they may usher us into a free or into a controlled Marvin Kamholz economy. Editor and Publisher Government has not enough Entered as second class mail present control to run enterprise. matter, August 4, 1922, at the But it has enough to ruin it. post office in Vernonia, Ore Despite the achievements of gon, under the act of March 3. private enterprise, ft is seriously 1879. proposed to turn the economy of this country over to political gov Official Newspaper of ernment bureaus with no prac Vernonia, Oregon tical experience. That would mean another costly series of business lessons for the education «of gov ernment. going further even than P U » 11 S h [ e MT I 0 N the NRA and the convulsions of the present shifting wartime con —multiplied manifold. NATIONAL ¿DITORIAl_ trols That is the momentous hazard IQJA K association which underlies the war liquida lu IT -Ü t I x ÊÏ- î SilunttA— tion measures now before con gress. Washington Snapshots —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 WATER IN THE WORLD TO COVFR.-THE EARTH "TWO MILES DEEP IF ALL THE SURFACE WKE LEVEL. 4TH WAR LOAN SALES GET STRONG BACKING HERE WILLAMINA — If Yamhill county citizens will dig down and buy their share of E bonds this area will make its battle of the fourth war- loan quota, it was an nounced last week. Sales of the series E issue had climbed to ap proximately 62 percent of the county quota. At the Churches 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. 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 I. 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. Seventh Day Adventist Church “Such are the facts, the facts of Christmas Tree Ashes . . . "Sometimes knowledge is an evil history no one can dispute,” stated thing,” said Thoughtful Bill Hagg-. Thoughtful Bill. “Yet I feel like a erty, the Are warden, in dismal tone. tramp for speakin’ the simple truth "It has been so in me since this of the matter, even just between mornin’, when I used the chopped ourselves. And I don’t let myself up remains of the Christmas tree think of the facts before Christmas in the Haggerty home to kindle a time. The kids get too much joy out blaze in the fireplace. Seein’ the of the Christmas tree for me to little limbs and leaves-flare up, then raise a whisper against the custom. blacken and turn to ashes, I thought "But now—the trees are ashes, of how it was the same with ten or on the garbage dumps. And now million, more or less, Christmas is the time, if any, to face the facts trees all over the land. Ashes now, on Christmas trees. Now is the time or dead things on garbage dumps. for foresters, anyhow, to knock in And in growin’ forests all over the the head all the nonsense about land, little dead stumps, and debris Christmas trees bein’ something from the cuttin’ for a fire hazard sacred and that this somehow makes tree thievery in December justifi next summer. "I'm makin’ due exception of the able.” places where Christmas trees are a Crime on the Land . . . harvest done by rule of good forest "Trespass is a crime, wherever practice. But this exception still it happens,” the fire warden affirmed. leaves a problem of trespass and “The* citizen who claims exception thievery that foresters are stumped and demands free use of another by in all timber growin’ regions. man’s property which he would They are stumped by the contempt fight off with firearms on his own that the public generally has for property is a pretty poor American. forest protection laws of all kinds. But foresters and forest protection And by the general ignorance on the men are always and forever up paganism of the Christmas tree and against the claims for free public the mockery of its use in a Christ use of* forest lands and the trees on ian festival." them. And commonly the only Thoughtful Bill came to a grim support the claims have are such pause, puffed hard on his pipe, and phoney p.ejudices as the ones used scowled through the smoke. to justify Christmas tree piracy. America's First Christmas Trees. .* "Ah, well, humanity is humanity,” "It was the Hessians who brought sighed Thoughtful Bill. "I’m sorry the Christmas tree custom to this you caught me in a pessimistic country, as every schoolboy should mood. But me and my men will know,” the fire warden went on. have to be cleanin’ up fire hazards “Hired killers of the breed that pro after Christmas tree takers all over duced the Nazis of our time. The my district. Then will come the Huns had taken the custom out of February and March fern fires, and the paganism of their old time killer then the regular fire season, and gods with horns. In the Colonial after that the slash burnin’—and times, before the Hessians, any fam Christmas again. And in all of that ily that would have put up a lighted fire flghtin’ I’ll be at grips with the and decorated tree at Christmas fact that nine-tenths of the fires that time would have been run into the destroy growin' trees are due to the woods as heretics, and in some general contempt for property places might have been hung as rights in the forests—exactly the witches. The Christmas tree was no 'same property rights which are the more a pert of early America than heart, soul and body of all this it was or is a part of Christianity. ‘American system of free enterprise’ It is Hun paganism only. we’re hearin’ so much about.” Getting the Enemy's Range 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.* 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 Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints March 31, 1944—Expiration date of stamp 30, in book four, good for 5 pounds. Surfday 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. STOVES Purchasers must get certif icates at ration boards for most new stoves. First Christian Church WOOD, SAWDUST, COAL Fuel dealers deliver by pri orities based on needs. —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: “Two A Company.” 3:00 p.m.—Memorial service for Homer Michener. 7:00—“Everybody Sing.” 7:30—Evening song, communion and preaching. Sermon subject: “What Have You?” 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 A—every 6 months (by March 31, 1944) B—every 4 months (by Feb ruary 28, 1944) C—every 3 months (by Febru ary 28, 1944) T—every 6 months or 5,000 miles of driving, whichever oc curs first. , , ■ MARCH OF DIMES HITS TOTAL OF $617.00 CLATSKANIE — This com munity can well be proud -of the amount of money taken in for the March of Dimes for the In fantile Paralysis fund in the drive completed last week. Dom Aldecoa, chairman, in making his report told that $617 had been received this year and that possibly a few dollars would yet be turned in. Last year’s total amount in the entire coun ty totaled a little under $750. FUEL OIL February 8, 1944—Expiration date of period 2 coupons. March 14—Expiration dlte ot ‘ period 3 coupons. PRICE CONTROL Refer price inquiries and com plaints to the price clerk of your local war price and rationing board. FIGHT PAPER WASTE Paper is used in the produc tion of many weapons of war: bomb bands, wing tips, para chute flares, fuse tank linings, practice bombs, airplane signals and shell containers. A DEAD CHRIST To the People of this Community YOU ARE IMPORTANT There is no such thing as a “little” investment in the Fourth War Loan. a Your $25 or $50 or $100 Extra War Bond may not have great importance in your mind in making up a 5 Li biUion dollar total for individu als. But multi ply yourself by 130,000.000 and then you see in real perspective how truly treat each citizen becomes in massing national strength against the Nazis and the Japs. Capt. Maurice Witherspoon, Navy chaplain aboard the Car rier Wasp when she sank, tells ot a rescued wounded sailor, who as he regained conscious ness. asked: “Did I do my best?” That's the only question you. too. have to ask yourself when you decide the extent of your personal participation in the Fourth War Loan. There undoubtedly will be large single purchases of War Bonds in this community, but yours—if it is “your best” will deserve equally the red. white ar.d blue shield you are privi leged to display In the window of your home. So “f.et's All Back the Attack.” i Is your Christ still in the tomb? Is He a dead Christ to you? Just a bit ago a servie« man asked Dr. Geo. Truett of Dallas, Texas, “Is Christ real to you? “As real and here present to me as you are.’ At this this, the fellow threw himself info Dr. Truett’s arms. He hungered to meet a man who knew the living Christ. He longed for the Christ who would go with him all the way. ONE—You saw Christ , dying on the cross under your sins? . j. 7' “Christ died for our sifts.”__ BIBLE. By that you count your ' sins blotted out. TWO—Yoa set* Christ come forth from the tomb —the victory over death. THREE —He lives to give you new life. In the hour of trial He will not let you down. Olson, converted saloon keep er, always closed with—CHRIST LIVETH IN ME! Turn to Christ Shout your joy. iov. À jwv • t W Clatskanie. Ore. 4 ■ (This space paid for by an, Oregon business mau.)