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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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