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able invention, to bring about
greater uninformi'y in court de­
cis ons thereon; t3) minimizing
delay in issuance of patents and
consequent delay in entrance of
inventions in the public domain
following the expiration of pa­
tents; (4) redyeing expense and
delay involved in patent litigation
including interference proceed­
ings; (5) improvement of patent
office proceedure.
Vernonia Eagle
The War Is Not Won—
There's Work to Be Done
The meeting held here last week under the spon
sorship of the Clark and Wilson Lumber Co. brings
forcibly to mind the great need of lumber in fighting
this war and the fact that a good many workers are
taking time off occasionally which in turn decreases
the amount of lumber that can be produced.
One would think that such a meeting should not
be necessary at a time when millions of Americans
are overseas fighting battles that require more sup­
plies than any previous war in history. Lumber is one
of the necessities to make it possible for these men
to win these battles, yet production is hampered by
absenteeism. And if anyone doubts the importance
of lumber, the experience of one of the servicemen
here last Wednesday should throw considerable light
on its value.
This man was one of those engaged in the invasion
of Europe. As the story was told, he was brought up
for court martial for gathering up a few scattered
pieces of lumber in order to build a platform to sleep
on so that he might keep out of the mud. The army
is in such dire need of lumber that every piece
is retrieved for use as many times as possible.
In* order to win battles, one need of an army is
supplies with which to fight. We expect our army to
win, yet success depends partially on lumber, which
can not be produced by absent workers. The answer
to quicker victory is: STAY ON THE JOB EVERY
DAY AND KEEP PRODUCTION AT ITS PEAK.
A Benefit from the REA
It can be anticipated that this area of the Upper
Nehalem Valley will benefit from the setting up of
an REA district in a way not generally apparent when
the matter is first viewed.
What is readily apparent is that electricity will be
available in a much greater quantity when contact is
made with Bonneville power distribution lines there­
by enabling a greater use of electricity than is now
possible. Along with a greater use will come the sale
of equipment, when production makes it available,
which requires electricity for its operation. That part
of the anticipated REA has been mentioned a num­
ber of times by those who have been instrumental in
bringing the organization into being.
Another feature of setting up here of the central
office of the organization will be the liklihood that
more people will make Vernonia their trading center
which in turn will mean additional selling activity
for this community. To say that such would definitely
be the case is not being made as a statement but as
a possibility that has happened elsewhere in the case
of REA organizations. REA officials connected with
headquarters of the administration mention that they
have witnessed such occurances and they see no
reason why a business increase can not be anticipated
here.
Events in
Oregon
STORMS KEEPING
LOOKOUTS BUSY
Cooper company, builders of fire­
fighting equipment, and will be
mounted on a V-8 chasis.
GLOVE FACTORY HEAD
REPORTS LABOR SHORTAGE
M c M innville — a serious
labor shortage that is growing
more acute each month has
forced the McMinnville factory
of the Wells Lamont Glove com­
pany to reduce production to one-
third of their pre-war levels.
According to reports, only 100
workers are employed at the pres­
ent time while formerly the fac­
tory used 250 employees.
Commenting on the cut in pro­
duction, the manager said, “Week
after week, managers of the
lumber mills and logging camps
tell us that their men are refusing
to work because they are unable
to get heavy work gloves, and
PIORITY RECEIVED
we are making only 1200 dozen
FOR NEW FIRE TRUCK
pairs where we have the produc­
WILLAMINA — City officials tion facilities to1, turn out more
Thursday received from Wash­ than 4500 dozen each week.”
ington the priority rating certi­
ficate authorizing them to pur­ SCHOOL STAFF
chase new fire fightng equipment. VACANCIES DECLINING
FOREST GROVE — During
The new engine has been con­
tracted for and will be of a type the period between June 6 and
especially adapted to the rural July 25 the number of teaching
fire problem. It will be equipped vacancies in Washington county
with apparatus for fighting fire schools has been reduced from 72
from the truck itself while being to 28 according to a summary re­
driven alng the fire. The new en­ leased by Austin Scrafford, coun­
gine will be built by the Howard ty school superintendent.
As of June 6 there were 58 el­
ementary school teachers and 14
The Vernonia Eagle
high school instructors needed to
fill vacancies. As of Tuesday 19
Marvin Kamholz
elementary vacancies and nine
Editor and Publisher
school vacancies were still to be
Entered as second class mail filled.
matter. August 4, 1922, at the
post office in Vernonia. Oregon,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
HERE’S WHERE
PRINEVILLE — A series of
electric storms moving over the
timbered areas of central Oregon
during the past two weeks has
kept forest service lookouts busy
spotting “strikes” and rangers
and fire guards on the alert for
smoke when the storms had
passed on Thirteen lightning fires
were spotted in the Ochoco forest
last week, three of them attaining
class B size before they were
checked. This week at least three
more fires were started by light­
ning.
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
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YOUR GAS IS GOING
Honors to P. Bunyaft . . .
Saying that Paul Bunyan is
the only fictional hero of Amer­
ica who deserves a place with
the real heroes of our history,
Fortune Magazine concludes a
series of essays on these great
and good personages of the past
with a powerful piece on Paul
in the July issue.
This is honor indeed for the
one and only king jack of the
lumber woods and for the men
who made him—the pinetops of
the Lake States and the bullteam
loggers of the Douglas fir, for
Fortune is recognized as the top
number among America’s quality
publications.
The Fortune essay points the
moral that Paul Bunyan repre­
sents the first big job in the mak­
ing of America—clearing the land
for agricultlre and doing the
groundwork fo rindustry. Also,
the simple staight facts are for
once told on what the original
lore of Bunyan actually was and
on how it grew into printed
stories and books.
How the Stories Started . . .
All the evidence I have dug up
in 20-odd years of prowling for
facts and clues to facts on the
start «f the Bunyan legend shows
the Saginaw Valley of Michigan
as its birthplace. After the Civil
War the tales were spread thru
the Lake States pineries by the
Irish shanty boys.
Your Real Self
Except with rare and special
lumberjafks, the Paul Bunyan
legend lived and grew among
woodsmen in the way of brief,
sollemn, casual references. An
old jack would make such a ref­
erence to another old head, near­
ly always for the benefit of one
or more greenhorns, and then go
on to a new topic as though
nothing unusual had been said.
Sample: “Wasn’t you one of
Paul Bunyan’s river pigs that
spring he worked a drive for
’leven weeks, and then found the
blistered river was ROUND? . .
Thought so . . .Well, wasn’t that
the spring before the spring Tiny
O’Teeney broke his kg three
feet below the knee? . . .What
I was hinkin’ of was the time I
got my collar bone broke. Didn’t
I ever tell you? . . .” Just about
like that.
So, as briefly as one may tell
it, the Bunyan legend came into
being and was carried on. That’s
my belief anyhow, after years of
investigation.
My first Paul Bunyan book
was written in 1924. I used the
old themes as texts for tales
which I invented, in the way that
I had done in the woods. Other
writers have pproduced a total
of 17 Paul Bunyan books since.
Practically all have presented
my inventions as old, old stories
of the shanty camps. Heh-heh.
Washington
Snapshots
God holds the photo of your
real self and even now it shows
yen to be dead.
Yes- In his eyes, you are al­
ready dead, for you sinned and
Complaints of American ex­
the wages of sin is death.
porters that secret foreign trade
KNOW YOUR BIBLE- It says
you are dead in trespasses and agreements are depriving them
sins- wherein you live your daily of their foreign markets have re­
life- stepping along with a world sulted in creation of a new inter­
of men also dead in God’s sight. departmental government com­
You live under the urge of your mittee to investigate and make
human appetites and under the recommendations. William L. Batt
cravings of your mind. You are vice-chairman of the WPB, de­
without Christ, having no hope nied a charge that CPRB I. x!
and without God in the world. made a secret agreement by
KNOW YOUR BIBLE- Ephe­ which Indian importers are un­
able to obtain import licenses for
sians 2:1-3 and vs. 12.
EVEN ONE SIN- And so, even $300,000 worth of American belt­
if you have only one sin stand­ ing leather formerly imported an­
ing against you, then you are nually. Batt likewise assured bus­
inessmen that any trade agree­
dead in God’s sight.
WHAT TO DO? You must be ments entered into for war pur­
born again- born of God- born poses are for “the duration only.”
from above. For-‘Except a man Businessmen nevertheless feared
be born again, he cannot see the that the agreements might repre­
sent a trend for the postwar per­
kingdom of God.”-BIBLE.
YOU MUST SAY- On the in­ iod. The new committee is now
stant you settle it in your heart studying the complaint that A-
that you are cleared by Christ’s merican leather belting is being
death for your sins- that instant barred from India.
Expressing all-out opposition to
God makes you his own. He
breathes Himself into your heart any attempts and schemes “to de­
His Spirit gives life to your stroy property rights in invention
spirit. Receive Christ as your and emascullate the Patent Sys­
Saviour and take your stand that tem," the National Association of
sin is written off your page and Manufacturers has submitted 10
specific
recommendations
for
life eternal written in.
HOW TO LIVE THE NEW Congressional consideration as
LIFE- “Christ died for our sins” improvements to the system. It is
Your sins were laid on him and pointed out that without our tech­
he cleared you by his death. He nological resources, developed o-
suffered your penalty for you. ver the years under patent pro­
Now count him the Lord of your tection. the United Nations now
life. Let Christ be your all in all. would be far behind in the time­
Lean all your weight on him. table for victory, i
The suggested improvements
Look away from self. Trust him
utterly. Live to the glory of God are directed toward: (1) minimiz­
ing uncertainty as to valid pa­
by power from on high.
tents; (2) minimizing uncertainty
as to what constitutes a patent-
3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port­
land 1, Oregon.
This space paid for by an Ore­
gon business man.
Murder on
The Farm
Rona Msrris Workman
Rocking W Ranch, Vernonia, Qre
I am never surprised when 1
hear that a farm woman has mur­
dered her husband, the only thing
that surprises me is . that it
doesn’t occur more often. This
is probably due to the fact that
a farmer's wife is too busy to
attend to that little matter at the
OH OREGON!
moment and puts it off, then
GREEN OREGON!
something else comes up to be
It does not seem quite natural done, and by the time that is
That when this universe was finished, she is over her mad and
so he escapes again.
made-
.
'
Take this co-operation business,
One part should get all the for instance: He barges in five
minutes after
breakfast
and
beauty
While other lands were meanly wants you to take something to
the blacksmith to be repaired.
laid.
You think cf all the things you
Yet this is true in Oregon
have to get dune that .morning,
Where beauty found a happy and you don't want to go. You,
say so. That is the wrong ans­
home
He barks back his wonder
In mirrored lake and towered wer.
that their can’t be a little co­
peak
operation around this place, so
Pacific sl>ore to Heaven’s dome. you say ‘well, if he feels that
way' and proceed to climb into
Oh Oregon! green Oregon!
some other clothes, jab some lip
Your beauty land is fair to see stick in the general direction of
your mouth, and depart.
Oh Oregon! green Oregon!
Of course, the blacksmith is
Preserve all for posterity.
busy, and you wait. Then you
Al.'ho I come from far away
wait some more. Finally, by the
And home is where I must re­ time you have gnawed your nails
down to the| second knuckle, the
turn
is done and you rush home.
Still for the scenes of Oregon job
Your husband meets you with
Still for the scenes of Oregon the cheerful request to know
My heart and soul will ever yearn what in heck have you been do­
ing all the time, implying by his
From proud Mt. Hood to Crater tr-ne that you have 'been having
a pleasant morning of idle chit­
Lake
chat with friends, plus a few
Astoria to Portland’s hum
ice-cream sodas, and possibly a
While timbers sigh from mount­ movie thrown in, while he has
ain wind
been fighting fiercely to keep
Along the trail your children the howling wolf from the door, j
You look at him and make a
come.
mental note to buy a bit of rat
Lewis and Clark and thru the poison, or a nice lethal dose of
years
strychnine the next time you go
From pioneer to modern day to town, then you tear into your
The trail grew wide the forests kitchen, which you find exactly
as you left it. Whereupon you
fell
utter a few pithy remarks of
And happy men were here to your own about co-operation as
you
heave the breakfast dishes
st.y.
into the sink and scrabble to­
Oh Oregon! green Oregon!
gether some food for the poor
Your beauty land is fair to see man who, judging from his ex­
pression, is in the last stages of
Oh Oregon! green Oregon!
death by starvation, but resolving
I thank the Lord because of to bear it with fortitude and si­
thee.
lence.
After lunch, you make beds,
The loved ones may be far from
clesn up the house, wash dishes
here
and the separator and milk pails
And lonliness my soul has and incidently discover that he
known
has forgotten to set out the
cream can. Then you grimly at­
Still in the heart of Oregon
The warmth of friendship has tack the washing, knowing, as
you hang it out in the middle of
been shown.
the afternoon, that your neighbor
Tho today war has wrought the will undoubtedly remark to her
dearest friend at the next grange
calm
meeting, that you are not a fore­
Your children dear are scat­ handed woman with your work
and she certainly feels sorry for
tered far
vour husband. While vou are try­
But for a view of Oregon
ing to get those clothes out be­
Their eyes are turned where’er fore dark, there are a few inter­
they are.
ruptions, chiefly calls for a few
more co-onerative actions in hold­
Be true to tiem, great Oregon
ing
or other while he
And build your ships to clear dees something
something or other to it.
the seas
You listen while vou do so to a
Your children fight and die for running series of facetious re­
marks about women never learn­
you
Work hard to bring them back ing which way a nut screws on
to a bolt, and vou look at a
to thee.
wrench and wonder if it would
be as effective as rat-poison, but
Oh Oregon! green Oregon
you decide it would be too messy,
In peace and war you’re fair so vou don’t.
Finally evening comes. Dinner
to see
is over. The chickens and pigs
.Sweet Oregon! great Oregon!
are
fed. the cows milked, the
Victory nears because of thee. dishes,
the milk buckets and the
When calm returns to this sad separator are again washed, and
world
you sit down with a sigh of relief
And God receives his righteous and the remark that it has been
a busy day. He looks at you ov­
due
er his naper and says, in the kind
This earth will be a better place patronising tone one rises to a
Oh Oregon! because of you! s'mple-minded child, “Well, my
ROBERT A. LEHR, JR. dear, if vou wouldn’t try to do
(The above poem was written so many things—” and you grin to
yourself, remembering what the
by a member of the a.,my air old
negro woman said about her
force soldiers stationed here.)
min: “Dat only de grace o’God,
ma'am, keeps me from takin’ de
carvin’ knife to him”. Then you
pick up your book and laugh
ouietly at yourself, because vou
know perfectly well that it isn’t
‘de grace o’God’ that keeps him
from immediate execution at
your hands, but the fact that he
r
“ally is a good e>rg, and you're
St. Mary’s
sorta fond of the big lug
At the
Churches
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.
First Christian Church
—The Livingstones, Ministers
9:45—Bible school. M. L. Herrin,
superintendent. Classes for alt.
11:00—Morning communion ser­
vice and preaching.
7:30—Evening song, communion
and sermon.
7:30 Wednesday evening—Pray­
er 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—
First Saturday of each month.
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
Evangelical Church
—Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister
9:45 —
Sunday
school.
11:00 — Morning
worship service.
7:00—Junior En­
deavor and Evan-
gelical Youth Fellowship meet-
ing.
8:00 P. M. — Evangelistic ser­
vice.
8:00 P. M. Thursday — Bible
study and prayer meeting.
Assembly of God Church
William and D. Reed, Ministers
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 Charles
Long, superintendent.
WAR BONDS