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T' rsday, May 11, 1944________ Vernonia Eagle
Support Fire Prevention
Program to Prevent Loss
THE POCKETBOOK
or KNOWLEDGE ’ rorrs
Last week’s “epidemic” of fires in this vicinity was a har
binger of things to come unless every citizen realizes the im
portance of observing care in the use of fire where necessary’
and in preventing fire where it is likely to start. The fires
that started last week, although small in most cases, were
such that they could have developed into serious proportions
had not quick action been taken.
Preventative measures will again be taken this year, as
in the past, with hoped for results. Harry Culbertson, city
fire chief has issued his annual order requiring those people
wishing to burn to obtain permits from him before doing so.
Observance of the order and extreme care on the part of the
person obtaining the permit will do much to prevent fire
from causing destruction.
For those areas not within the city limits, the Keep Oregon
Green association will again conduct its campaign of fire
prevention and forest conservation. Sixty-seven leading Ore
gon citizens have been named to the general KOG committee,
Judd Greenman being named from Vernonia in that capacity.
Past efforts of the association have been effective to a
high degree as evidenced in a statement by Governor Ear!
Snell: “The sustained public support of the Keep Oregon
Green association has proved to be the effective medium
that has reduced man-caused forest fires to the lowest point
in the history of the state. Governor Snell points out, “The
main factors contributing to this success are the voluntary
endeavors of our leading citizens, who have given time and
eifort from their busy schedules to aid in the education of
the public to this war and peace-time need.”
If every citizen will be careful with fire, that record can
be maintained and even bettered!
Events in
Oregon
M c M innville
boys to
GET FURLOUGHS
M c M innville — Lt Col.
H. Taylor returned to McMin
nville Friday after more than two
years in the South Pac. theatre
of operations. He emphasized the
difficulties inherent in defeating
the enemy on a battle-front
whose supply lines reach a third
of the way round the globe, when
interviewed this week by the
local paper.
“Despite these difficulties,” he
said, “I think we arc on our way
and in some respects the cond
itions under which the men will
be fighting will be less trying
than during the initial phases of
the campaign. The high command
is no longer attempting to clear
the jungles of every Jap, which
was our mission in one sector,
but is obtaining control of the
beaches and leaving the enemy
troops to perish from lack of
food and supplies after his sup
ply lines have been severed. ’
Col Taylor said that it was his
opinion that all of the McMin
nville boys would be given leave
between now and October, arriv
ing a few at a time as conditions
permitted. Many of them are now
stationed in Australia.
WEATHER AIDS
FRUIT CROP
MEDFORD — Fruitmen of the
Rogue River valley are breath
ing easier today following a
change in the weather that put
an end to a threatened frost per
iod. Orchardists lighted their
smudge pots Tuesday morning
for the heaviest smudging of the
season, when the temperature
went to 26 degrees in the coldest
places and damage was done to
some orchards.
The frost season may yet ex
tend for another 30 days.
CHEMISTRY STUDENT
MAKES EXHIBIT
mately five and half pounds.
Not eligible for regular chem
istry classes at the high school
because she was a freshman, Miss
Jones was permitted to work in
the laboratory during the noon
hours.
NATURE STUDY
A LA SALEM
SALEM OREGON — The owl
is a bird which has acquired
a reputation for great wis
dom because it looks so dumb.
In this respect it is resembled
by college professors and editors,
both of whom outrank it in either
particular. The owl is a night
prowler and has a cavernous and
sepulchral voice. Its vocabulary
is limited to the observation
"Whoo-oo,” and it is claimed that
an Irishman named Terence, re
turning one night through the
woods after his shift at a wake,
broke the world’s standing broad
jump record upon hearing a hoot
owl address him with this funer
eal monosyllable. The flesh of the
owl is not good to eat, greatly
resembling a boiled bicycle seat
when thus prepared. The owl has
a hooked beak and a flat face,
with a profile like that of grampa
when he has misplaced his false
teeth. There are at least three
kinds of owls—hoot, horned and
screech. As nobody has ever dis
covered what the owl is good for
that seems to be plenty.
STOCKMEN HOLD
BIG CONVENTION
PRINVILLE — Stockmen from
all parts of Oregon gathered in
Prineville last week for the 31st
annual convention of the Cattle
and Horse Raiser's Association of
Oregon.
The event featured several
days of business and entertain
ment, climaxed by a banquet and
dance.
Washington
Snapshots
One reason official Washington
PRINIVILLE — Marjorie Jones is so engrossed in postwar avia
Crook county high school, student, tion plans is the belief here that
is displaying a bright blue crys air travel will be the sparkplug in
tal ball which she developed in a transportation boom that will
the laboratory at the high school. be felt throughout all industry,
From copper sulphate crystals and which to the general public
weighing three or four grams in will spell jobs and better service.
Some of the top men in the
February, when the experiment
began, the ball has grown to ex aircraft industry have told gov
actly 2566.6 grams, or approxi- ernment postwar planners that
the increased efficiency of planes
resulting from the war, indicates
The Vernonia Eagle
the possibility of halving passeng
er rates, and cutting freight rates
Marvin Kamholz
to as low as one-fourth of the
Editor and Publisher
prewar levels.
Entered as second class mail
Far-sighted railroad men, how
matter. August 4, 1922, at the ever, have no intention of lying
post office in Vernonia, Ore down and permitting the airlines
gon, under the act of March 3, to take away the bulk of the
1879.
passenger business. Their answer
will be the traditional answer of
Official Newspaper of
American industry to new and
Vernonia, Oregon
spirited competition — better
service and lower rates. Trains
will be faster. Accomodations, es-
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pecialy in the coaches, will be
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*T I o R improved.
The direct result will be a de
mand
on industry for newer, bet
NATIONAL EDITORIAL- ter planes,
locomotives, passenger
cars, motor buses, and passenger
ships as land, sea. and air trans
portation wage their battle for
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Green Glory . ..
The worst is over, and it was a
good fight against the fern and
brush fires that usually run wild in
dry days of •early spring. New shoots
and leaves of bracken and other
green ground cover are now up
amid the dead residue of last year’s
growth. The protection men of the
forest can breathe easily for a bit-
provided there is no unseasonable
May drouth.
The weather was far more cooper
ative than it was last spring when
millions of tree seedlings were de
stroyed in fern fires. But 1S44 saw
• intensive educational campaigns on
fern burning in both' Washington
and Oregon, and these helped too.
Full reports from all districts will
be a long time in the making. One,
however, is at hand right now. It is
an inspiring story, presenting a pat
tern of forest community coopera
tion on fire prevention that may be
applied anywhere in Oregon and
Washington.
The report shows that on our two
worst spring days of fire weather—
April 1 and 2—there were no fires
within the 300,000-acre area covered
by the community program cited;
while in a neighboring 500,000-acre
area fern fires burned a total of a
thousand acres in the two “dyna
mite days.” The record is worth ex
amination.
Neighbor to Neighbor . . .
Here was the picture in January
of this year: three separate towns
forming a community territory with
in a 30-snile valley oval; a thousand
families directly dependent upon
forest industries for livelihood;
many more families making a living
from markets for farm products and
sources of business provided by in
dustry of the woods and mills; and
fire a mortal threat to every enter
prise in the forest neighborhood and
to the welfare of all its people.
The summertime threat of forest
fires had been long recognized in the
valley. Every summer the local
newspapers carried display ads and
ran publicity warning the public
against fire danger. By means of
booklets, radio, billboards and ora
tory, there was tremendous sum
mertime agitation against the forest
fire, particularly after the start of
jthe "Keep Green" movement.
This was all to ihe good, as far as
it went. But it was finally realized
that a complete job of forest lire
.prevention could be done only by
the home folks, in the way of neigh
bor to neighbor.
When the campaign against fern
fires was started generally in Wash
ington and Oregon, the valley peo
ple formed their own local program.
One of its simple activities was the
mailing of a postcard to persons
with a past record of carelessness
with fern fires. It said:
“This is to remind you that the
law holds you legally responsible
for any damage, either to farm
buildings or young forest growth
caused by fire originating on your
place.” It was signed by representa
tives of the two forest industry un
ion locals, the American Legion post
of the Valley, and the USDA County
¡Farm Board. There was a P. S :
“What would your original second
growth timber be worth today if it
had not been burned off by fern
■fires?"
Down to Earth . ..
That little postcard mailing was
one of several simple itelns of a pro
gram that resulted in no fires in the
sections covered by the mailing,
while many fires blazed in neigh
boring territory that lacked local
ized fire prevention work.
It wasn’t the postcard alone, of
course. The problem was brought
up at Grange and Union gatherings,
and at the meetings of the American
Legion and other groups. The boys
of the valley were well organized
for fire prevention, through the val
ley schools and Scout troops. Wher
ever people met — in stores, at
church, at work—there was some
body to bring up the subject of ruin
wrought by fern fires. Simple word-
of-mouth. down-to-earth talk on a
community problem and its plain
solution.
Look at the record. It seems to
prove that the way to forest fire
prevention is the way of neighbors
working together.
lucrative postwar traffic.
The other direct result, in the
opinion of experts, will be a tre
mendous stimulus to travel, as
the reduction in passenger rates
makes extended trips available to
a larger section of the public.
lEqually important, all of this
means a tremendous increase in
passenger travel — for certainly,
as airline, train, and steamer
rates are brought within the
means of more people, more peo
ple will take advantage of them.
the Judgement day and to deliv
er you from sinful ways here and
now.
Oran R. Bell, Shipfitter First
Class U.S.S. California, says—
“I love my work for through it
I have the joy of revealing that
Christ is real and ’ Christianity
practical.
FACED
DEATH WITH
3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port
land, Oregon.
This space paid for by an Ore
gon business man.
JOY
-“Yes, we gave up our boats CHINESE HELP
and fish business to follow Jesus. ARMY PILOT
To enable a U. S. Army Air
So Peter would have told you
and he spoke for his brother Forces medium bomber pilot to
Andrew and the partners, James take off from a rainsoaked emer
and John.
gency landing field in China, the
They left all to follow Jesus
villagers plodded across the mud
but He had nothing in houses or
lands to offer them in return. dy terrain, some for a distance
Only Himself did Jesus have for of a mile, to bring their wooden
them-and trials and tribulation. doors from their homes — the on
But they chose to have Him, for ly boards available for a make
in Him their hearts foun<i> hope shift runway, the war department
and these simple fisherfolk, along
with you and me and all the says.
many who trust Christ, are His
SERVICE MEN
joy.
Know Your Bible.
SERVED COFFEE
Hebrews 12:2 speaks of Christ,
who for the joy that was set be
fore Him, endured the cross. It
is His joy to present you to His
Father with your sins put away.
God can then see his way clear
to pour in the blessings. It is
Christ’s joy to save you from
American service men in tea
drinking Britain are getting fresh
tasty coffee every day, proces
sed by trained experts of the
quartermaster corp who blend
and roast it, the war department
says.
Learnin'
At the
Something New
By Rona Morris Workman,
Vernonia, Oregon
It is good sometimes *o drop
one way of living and take up
another. You learn so many new
things, and old things lose one
aspect and take on another en
tirely different, because you see
them from another viewpoint. For
instance, until this year, a bolt
and a nut were only pieces of
iron to me. Now when “Gipsy
Rose Lee”, the i ractor (so-called
because she is always shedding
semething) drops a bolt, it ceas
es to be only an uninteresting bit
of metal and becomes a vital
necessity. Wrenches, Stillson or
Cresent, formerly only something
that somebody else yelled for
end you co'ild never find, have
become living malignant creatures
endowed with strange perversity.
After this war I’m going to get
me a good one, one that doe3 not
slip. I covet a good wrench now
when 1 see one in some person’s
possession, with a desire I form-
eily held only for some beauti
ful art treasure. Values change.
A year or two ago I could lock
at a cow or a pig, or even a
horse, and nothing really regis
tered in my mind “ave that they
were fat or lean, ugly or nice
looking, but now—well now, they
are Herefords or Jerseys, Poland
Chinas or Chester Whites, Mor
gans or Percherons, or what have
you. They are well fed or too thin
and what is their owner feeding
them, and why doesn’t he try-
see what I mean? The war and
a new job have given me a total
ly new view point on such things,
and I am finding it decidedly in
teresting.
The good rich earth isn’t just
a piece of dirt, larger or smaller,
any more. It has become a living
reality to me. What does it need
to produce a better crop this
year? Is it too wet to plow; too
cold to germinate the seed prop
erly; will it need more discing
and harrowing? Shall I put oats
and vetch in this field, or would
clover be better, or should I use
a cultivated crop instead? Just
dirt, uninteresting dirt? Never
again.
And another thing I have
learned. A simple fact. I knew it
theoretically of course, but not
from experience, which is, after
all', the only way we really learn
anything. There are no men on
this ranch. They are figh'ting oth
er things now, more important
for the moment than weeds and
wrenches, soil problems and cat
tle difficulties, so we two wo
men do a man’s work. Then we
come back to the house and do
a woman’s work. And we have
learned through experience just
how much a hot meal and a
clean house means to a man when
he comes in from work. Women
have often made the remark that
a man’s heart is in his stomach.
I can understand that now. After
eight hours in the hay field, I
find my heart in exactly the same
place, and I would adore any fe
male, no matter how homely, who
would have a hot dinner waiting
for me.
Maybe this learning new jobs
and the change of view point
which it gives isn’t a bad thing
Churches
Evangelical Church
—Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister
9:45 —
Sunday
school.
11:00 — Morning
worship service.
6:30—Junior En
deavor and Evan
gelical Youth Fellowship meet
ing.
7:30 P. M. — Evangelistic ser
vice.
7:30 p.m. Thursday — Bible
study and prayer meeting.
Assembly of Gcd 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.
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.
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-i— Bible school. M. L. Herrin,
superintendent. Classes for all;
11:00—Junior church.
11:00—Morning communion and
preaching. Subject of sermon:
“Looking at Ourselves.”
7:30—Evening communion and
preaching. Subject of sermon:
Redigging the Wells.”
The 90 and 9 men’s class of
the Christian church holds its
regular monthly meeting, Fri
day evening at 7:30. It will be
■the usual business and social
meeting.
for the future. Even if women
and men go back to their old jobs
after the war, they won’t be quite
the same. They cannot lose en
tirely the deepened understand
ing gained through new and wid
er experiences.
LUMBER—Wholesale and Retail
See my bargains in kiln dried lumber at $12
per M and up. Open Saturday 8 a.m. to noon.
C. BRUCE
NEW AND USED PARTS
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Gas and Oil
Open at 7:30 A.M.; Closed at 7:30 P.M.
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