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4 1 rsday, April 13, 1944 At the Churches CRHOK COUNTY TOPS RED CROSS QUOTA Events in Oregon FARMERS jSET WAGE CEILING AT 75 CENTS Vernonia Eagle / FOREST GROVE — Ceiling for wages to be paid farm labor was established through an agree ment of representative growers and farmers of Washington coun ty Tuesday night of last week, whei it was decided that the maximum wage for labor should be 75 cents an hour. Growers and farmers from 18 communities agreed to the wage ceiling. In recommending the wage the group recognized that specialized help should be paid higher, depending on operations. It was further cited that women and children should receive such compensation as is felt in line with the type of work being done SPEEDING IN CITY RAISES COUNCIL IRE M c M innville — Are the speeders now “burning up" Mc Minnville’s streets in their auto mobiles morons or intelligent people? But whatever the speeders are, the law of the city is about to crack down on them and crack hard, if orders of the council, is sued after a long discussion, are carried out. The police department was told to launch an immediate campaign to apprehend every motorist ex ceeding the city speed limit and to particularly bend every effort to stop high speeds on some of the main thoroughfares. LOGGERS PROTEST OVER WEIGHT RULE SEASIDE — In another effort to reach some solution of the log hauling controversy, opera tors from this area joined in a protest at the meeting of the state highway commission a week ago Tuesday, at the policy init iated recently, of forcing truck drivers to unload part of an over-weight load. About the only thing accom plished was an agreement with the commission for a system of permits which would permit truckers to haul logs not more than 24 feet in length in spite of their weight. Previously it had been necessary to saw off a part of the log if it was over weight, thereby destroying much of its value and reducing the length of timbers from it at a time when long timbers are es pecially needed, 4 SOLDIERS DIE IN TANK UPSET MEDFORD — Four soldiers lost their lives on the training range at Camp White recently when the tank they were oper ating overturned and caught fire trapping the four-man crew in side, according to an announce ment by the Camp White public relations office. The men died of asphyxiation, Camp White of ficials said. NEW HANGAR IS ABOUT FINISHED PRINEVILLE — Payment ef $2,173 from the city funds to O. C. Hart, contractor construct ing the new hangar at the Prine ville airport was authorized by the city council at its meeting recently. The city’s payment represents half the cost of com pleting the new hangar, the oth er half being paid by the county. SOLDIER KILLED IN PLUNGE INTO NECAN1CUM SEASIDE — One soldier was killed, another suffered a skull fracture and other severe injur ies and two others, minor injur ies last Wednesday when the staff car in which they were rid ing plunged from the highway into the Necanicum river. The dead man was pinned beneath the car and under water for about 15 minutes. 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 act of March 3, 1879. Official Newspaper of Vernonia. Oregon 4/s—Àas 0RECloOMs HHI PUBLISH^ R.S 4^944-1 *T IO I NATIONAL CDITORIAL— Q44.XÎ association PRINIVILLE — Crook colunty went over the top in the Red Cross war fund drive early last week, and had reached a total of close to $6,500, the quota being $5,800, The excess over quota may be accounted for by the many citi zens of Crook county who, with superb generosity, gave as much as $35 dollars per family instead of giving $5 which was deemed the minimum amount required to fill the quota. First Christian Church —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45—Bible school. M. L. Herrin, superintendent. 11:00-i-Junior church. 11:00—Morning communion and preaching. Subject of sermon: “The Temples of God.” 1:30—Pot-luck dinner. 2:30—Song service and dedica tory sermon by Clifford Trout, minister, Christian church, Hillsboro. The 90 and 9 Men of the Christian church will hold their monthly business and social meet ing in the church parlors tomor row (Friday) evening, beginning at 7:30. Welcome men. SCARLET FEVER CASES REPORTED HILLSBORO— Reports of 24 cases of scarlet fever in Wash ington county have been made to the health department. These are distributed over nine different locations, Hillsboro having four households affected. The cases are light but their seriousness should not be dis counted, Health Nurse Corinne Pennington declared. In certain very mild cases no rash at all may appear. Scarlet fever is often spread by this type of case as it may go unrecognized. Evangelical Church POST-WAR AIRLINE PLAN GAINS MOMENTUM HILLSBORO—Expansion of air transportation to the nation’s smaller cities and towns, chiefly through establishment of area (feeder) airlines of the type pro posed by Southwest Airways for serving Hillsboro, has been rec ommended by Civil Aeronautics board examiners. In expanding direct air service to the smaller communities, the examiners urged that new routes provide a combination of passen ger service and air-mail-air-ex- press pick up. The examiners recommended that hearings on applications au thorizing use of helicopters be de ferred until models suitable for commercial operations actually ex ist, terming them “still in the de velopment stage.” They also urged that the Civil Aeronautics board refuse to allow surface car riers to operate air services, un less such operations are supple mental to their surface carrying activities. Washington Snapshots Opposition has risen in both the Senate and the House against the United Nations Relief and re habilitation Administration plans to provide hundrers of thousands of farm machines to other na tions while American farmers are said to be unable to obtain ade quate equipment. Rep. Disney (D. Okla.) characterized the plan as “not only deplorable, but as tounding.” Senator Reynolds (D., N. C.) quoted in the Senate from the Truman report, which assert ed that the farm machinery pro gram was now behind, and that many farmers have “pressing” need for such equipment. He re ported that despite this shortage, UNRRA was planning to send abroad 85,000 plows, 30,000 'trac tors, 30,000 separators, 30,000 two-wheel traitors and other farm machinery. Industrial executives from the District of Columbia will be a- mong those attending the N.A. M.’s Eighth Institute on Indus trial Relations at the Royal Worth Hotel, West Palm Beach, Fla., on April 3-6. A total of a- bout 160 executives from 33 states will be present. The con ference, which will probe every present-day and postwar problem from morale to manpower, is de signed to aid in establishing sound human and industrial re lations between the nation’s work ers and managers. V out of the «, BV W oods jT'bczyc/x-i Tree Farms for All ., . efforts were made to turn the forest lands of the Lake States into farms, Just before the war Jim Marshall, with net result that the fertility the Collier’s writer and editor, had of the the soil went up in smoke of land a chance to pick up 11 acres of cut- The same folly pre over land that was fairly well clearing for fires. years among the stump stocked with Douglas fir around vailed ranchers of our region. Hardly one seven years old, at a price of some ¡out of each hundred who put sav thing over a hundred dollars. ings and labor into sti mp ranching "The soil is no good for farming," made pay. That fact is now well Jim said. "If the tract wasn’t on a known. it So stump ranching is past road I could buy it for maybe four history. bits. Of course the young tree crop The belief is still widely held, on the land can never pay me in my however, that cutovers may have lifetime—I’ll never see it cut. What more value for grazing than for tree I’m interested in is the growth of growing and that burning helps the investment value in relation to the grass crop. whole of this propo grototh of the trees year after year. sition is far The of the facts. It is So I figure to experiment with my instead the wide main element of the hundred dollars and see what works Igreatest barrier to timber growing out. At the worst, it'll make an arti 'as a business investment —the risk cle every five years or so. of forest fires. The project stopped at the investi gation point, for Jim moved to Cali* Tree Farmers Are Fire Wardens ... fornia for his health. Dut he did To come back to Jim Marshall, his explore the idea enough to make first worry and doubt on his pro pretty sure that cutover forest land posed little tree farm was in the was a sound investment for small hazards around the 11 acres he capital as well as large—provided it planned to buy. Land clearing fires was made on a long-term timber started by farmer neighbors, fern growing or tree farming basis and fires set by grazers, cigarette fires not as an investment in farm land. lit by travelers on the road—in any Now people generally in Western spell of dry weather the trees on the Oregon and Washington are waking 11 acres might be destroyed. The up to the values of tree farms. The foresters he talked with gave him facts Jim Marshall figured out are ■this answer: “Somebody must pioneer, and this becoming popularly knowr People now really see money growing on will be your mission if you become trees. It is slow growth, but nothing a small-acreage tree farmer. You’ll Is surer than increase in uses and have to sell your neighbors on the values of tree growing. Get the values of wood. sentiment of the majority in your No More Stump Ranches . . . neighborhood against fires of any Foresters see great hope in this kind on the land, post the roads and popular tree farm movement, just trails with fire warnings, and in as the despair of forestry has been time your 11 acres of trees will be in the "stump ranches” of the past. as safe as anything living may be. The point on this is that any given With fire kept out, twenty years tract of forest land on which the from now your tree farm will be virgin stand has been cut may be worth at least twice what you paid managed either as a stump ranch or for it, and no labor or other further as a tree farm. The cost of clearing Investment required.” Douglas fir land is so great that only That’s the way the large timber the richest kind of underlying soil owners figure, too. Maintaining land justifies the project. Four acres out for timber growing—tree farming— of every five of all the land of West is good business. The great risk to it ern Washington and Oregon have is fire. They have joined with the little value in farm-crop soil but do foresters in supporting the proposi have high value for timber growing. tion of “Tree Farms for All.” When In the past people said, “Land that we are all tree farmers there will be will grow trees should grow any few man-caused forest fires. We the thing.” In that false faith disastrous people just won’t stand for ’em. it will be necessary to put the squeeze on some of the more than 3,000,000 employees of the gigantic bureaucracy recently at tacked by Senator Byrd, Virginia democrat. According to Senator Byrd, the federal bureaucracy alone is costing about eight billion dollars a year in salaries. In terest on the public debt as of the middle of 1945 is expected to. amount to three billion per year and the government will be obliged to spend an estimated A new slant on the postwar billion and a half for the veter prospects of small business is Cov ans’ administration. These three ered in a Department of Com items alone sum up to 12% bil merce survey which should be of lion per year. Senator Taft de special interest to industries that clared flatly that after the war normally dispose ‘of a large pro the government must eliminate portion of their output to small all unnecessary expense and post distributors. In a nutshell, the pone Utopia. A good many fed survey acknowledges the heavy eral office holders fear their mortality suffered by small en jobs may be eliminated under terprise as a result of the im the head of unnecessary expense. Bet even if the fears of the pact of war, but based on a long-range study of business and office holders are realized, many population trends, it predicts a believe the job will still be only healthy postwar resurgence. half done. Seasoned economists believe that it will not be enough Senator Taft’s recent proposal to fire officials who have been to hold postwar federal taxes making Utopian plans . . . down to a level of 15 or 20 bil lion dollars a year selves notice SAVE SPACE WITH V-MAIL on federal office holders that One roll of V-Mail film weighs they face a season of hard-boiled about 7 ounces, holds about 1,800 economy. letters, and saves 98 per cent in The sober truth is that in ord cargo space, the Office of War er to make such a cut in taxes Information reports. ONE LAST KISS Up in Aberdeen, Wash., it was and some years ago. “Good-bye, Sonny! Good-bye till we meet on that other shore.” With that the aged woman reached up and gave the lad a good-bye kiss. They would meet on that other shore. She knew it for they both had the Bible for it. They had Christ’s word—“Be cause I live, ye shall live also.” Did you glance into the dining car of the road’s crack train that 'Easter morning? Did you note above the fine linen and the silver service, the stately Easter lilies? They told the hope of all our people that after death comes resurrection- and that the great God will raise all mankind to share His glory. Are they right in this? For said Christ—"No man cometh un to the Father but by Me.” Neith er is there any other name giv en among men whereby ye must be saved. Not by our own good works do we come to God, but by Christ. Clatskanie, Oregon This space paid for by an Ore gon business man. —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45—Sunday school. 11:00—Morning worship service. Subject of sermon: “For Self or God.” 6:30—Junior and Y. P. Christian 'Endeavor. 7:30 p.m.—Evangelistic service. Subject of sermon: “The Fir ing Line and the Base of Sup plies.” 7:30 p.m. Thursday — Prayer meeting, Sunday school board and Administrative council meeting. Assembly of God Church Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister 9:45—Sunday school with clas ses for all ages. 11:00—Morning worship. 11:00—Children’s church. 6:30—Young people’s Christ Ambassadors service. 7:30—Evangelistic service. 7:30 Wednesday evening—Mid week service. 7:30 Friday evening—People’s 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. 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 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. NEW VITAMIN TABLETS DUE BRITISH TROOPS A new kind of vitamin tablet will be issued to British and Indian troops who in future cam paigns may have to fight in areas where there are no fresh meat, fruit and vegetables. By taking one tablet a day, soldiers will 'be able to keep fit almost indefinitely without fresh foods, according to Indian information. 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 4 Red t'.smps A8 through M8, valid indefinitely. Blue stamps A8 through K8, valid indefinitely. SHOES: Loose Stamps Invalid No. 18, in book one, good for one pair of shoes, expires April 30th. Airplane stamp No. 1, in book 3 good for one pair of shoes, indef- inately. (New stamp to become valid May 1 for one pair.) SUGAR Sugar stamp 30, in book four, good for 5 pounds indefinately. Sugar stamp 31 good for 5 pounds indefinately beginning A- pril 1st. Sugar stamp 40, Book 4, valid for 5 pounds canning sugar through February 28, 1945. STOVES: Purchasers must get certif icates at ration boards for most new stoves. WOOD, SAWDUST, COAL Order your 12-m>onths supply now during temporary winter storage program. GASOLINE June 21st —Expiration date of No. 11 coupons in A book. 3 gal lons each. (May renew B or C coupons within, but not before, 15 days from date shown on cover). 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; “B” ev ery 4 months; “C” every 3 months; “T” every 6 months or 5,000 miles of driving. FUEL OIL September 30—Expiration date of period 4 & 5 coupons, both valid now. PRICE CONTROL Refer price inquiries and com plaints to the price clerk of your local war price and rationing board. CITIZENS ABROAD ENROLL FOR SERVICE Nearly 25,000 male titizens of the United States between the ages of 18 and 45 years, who are living abroad have registered with local consular officers and reg istrars for possible military ser vice in the armed forces, the Na tional Selective Service office announced. Registration began November 16, 1943, for these men who may be living far back in the hills of India, in South Africa, the South Pacific, or other remote places. Hats Cleaned, Blocked 85c DRY CLEANING PRICES REDUCED Pants ............... 50c Overcoats Dresses ........... $1.00 Suits ........ Sweaters............... 50c $1.00 $1.00 Pick Up and Delivery Weekly on Thursdays Office: Ben Brickel’s Barber Shop Oregon Laundry and Cleaners Oregon-American LUMBER CORPORATION Vernonia, Oregon
