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Thursday, September 28, 1944
Vernonia Eagle
Service Club Work Commendable
f
LEDGE
The efforts of one organization here, the Mother’s
Service Club, deserves much favorable comment for
the work that its members have done since the club’s
organization shortly after Vernonia and vicinity
began to contribute a lot of men to the armed forces.
The club was organized to give what aid it could
to the servicemen by providing them with convenienc
es and with aid whenever needed. The work has been
carried on with a will by club members who have
donated their time and much material for the work.
The latest project, that of providing a fund for
long-distance telephone calls, is also worthy of men
tion here. Servicemen stationed at distant points in
the country may call their relatives collect and the
charges will be paid by the club from the fund, no
charge being made to the serviceman or his relatives
who are called.
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LOCOMOTIVES IN SHOP
CITY RAILWAY IS IDLE
PRINEVILLE — Service ever
the City of Prineville Railway
was suspended for several days
" this week when all three locomo
tive- were out of service for re
pairs. The last trains moved over
the 19 mile line connecting
Prineville with the main lines
Sunday night, and the last a-
vaileble locomotive went out of
»ervice that night.
Sidings in and near Prineville
w<*re choked wih loaded cars by
Wednesday, Manager C. W.
Woodruff estimating that at least
100 cars of lumber were awaiting
shipment in the meantime, the
stockyards near the depot had
filled up with cattle and sheep,
for this is the peak period for
livestock shipments, and Mr.
Woodruff estimated
about 35
carloads of livestock
awaiting
shipment. Repairs on the locomo
tives were rushed, but it was not
possible to resume service until
nearly a week had passed.
FISHERMAN AID IN BAY
CHANNEL CORRECTION
TILLAMOOK — A delegation
of tne Tillamook Bay Fishermen
was present at the last Tillamook
city council meeting and regis
tered a complaint regarding pol
lution of bay waters, saying it
vas harmful to the oyster and
fish industries and requesting
that something be done to elim
inate 'the pollution. They also
stated that the main channel in
the bay is being filled up and a
nevz channel is cutting directly
through the oyster beds. They
stated the Fisherman’s Union had
raised $1000 'toward the cost of
putting in a fill or jetty across
the new channel which would
turn the water back into the reg
ular channel. They asked for fi
nancial assistance from the City
Council, stating that $1000 was
not sufficient to do the necessary
wi rk.
176 ENROLLED FIRST DAY
AT HIGH SCHOOL
WILLAMINA — A surprise
awaited teachers at the high
school Monday morning when reg-
Ft rat ion figures, expeetd to be in
the neighborhood of 140 pupils,
soared to 176, and it is expected
that a considerable number will
be added after the prune harvest
and other harvests are completed.
Last year’s opening enrollment
totaled only 143. Of the 176 en
titled this year, 60 are fresh
men.
COUNTY FALLS SHORT
OF BLOOD BANK QUOTA
HILLSBORO — Washington
county fell below its blood bank
quota for the first time in six
months, according to the report
of Mrs. F. Abendroth, county
chairman, only 135 pints of blood
were donated Friday, five short
of the minimum goal of 140 pints
for the day.
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second class mail
matter, August 4, 1922, at the
post office in Vernonia, Oregon,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
Subscription price. $2.50 yearly
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Reasons given for numerous
cancellations pf set appointments
were vacations, harvest work and
colds. Ten volunteers who re
ported at the center were refused
for .inability to meet blood bank
requirements. Many of those reg
istered who did not report did so
due to apathy growing out of
erroneous belief the war was
nearly over.
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OF NATURAL
PU ENROLLMENT
HAS INCREASED
FOREST GROVE — Pacific
university has in all probability
passed its wartime low in reg
istration and is begining to move
back down the road of larger en
rollment if incomplete returns is
sued by the office of he registrar
Tuesday are indicitive.
Registration totals showed 145
signed the admission register as
compared with 137 during the
opening days last year. This is an
increase of eight with others ex
pected to register before orienta
tion week ends.
Washington
Snapshots
Emphasizing that private en
terprise must be considered our
main source of postwar prosper
ity, the House Economic Com
mittee is advocating a sharp cut
in postwar taxes for business
and for individuals in the lower
and middle income groups. Its
recommendations include aboli
tion of “double taxation” of cor
porate earnings, elimination of
the excess profits tax, and re
examination of the capitol gains
tax 'to encourage venture capital
and stimulate a high level of eco
nomic activity. The committee re
port is regarded as a significant
index to what Congress is think
ing about postwar policies. . . .
Washington is striving to
keep industrial home front pol
icies in tune with the changing
war situation. Acting Chairman
Krug of the WPB has announced,
in effect, that industrial recon
version will not be hampered by
government production controls
after the fall of Germany. He
places the responsibility for early
reconversion upon industry, ex
pressing unlimited confidence in
its ability to do ithe job. “That
means, in substance, that our
private economy has to carry the
ball on the job of reconversion,”
Krug declares. . . .
Support of legislation to curb the
powers of bureaucrats and pro
vide an established procedure of
court review for all actions and
decisions of federal agencies and
bureaus is developing in Con-
gre-s. Two Senate bills and three
House bills for accomplishing
these reforms already are pend
ing ... .
Facing Forest Fire Facts. . . .
The 1944 season has shown
again how close we may be
brought to economic catastrophe
by situations of forest fire dan
ger beyond all human control.
In the week of Sept. 3 a long
drouth and dropping humidity
formed the worst fire hazard the
woods of Washington and Oregon
had ever know. An average of
20 new fires daily blazed up dur
ing the week. The newspapers on
the morning of Tuesday, Sept.
12, reported fires burning every
where in the two great forest
states, two large ones “out of
control” and others threatening
to blow up.
In the critical dawn of Sept.
12, the wind could have been
from the east, devastatingly dry.
Instead it blew out of the west,
bearing in a drizzle and fog over
the Washington Coast and also
hoisting the humidity in Oregon.
Logger’s luck saved us from
another 1933 season, when dire
drouth did run on week after
week, and was climaxed by the
Tillamook fury. Every warden
I’ve talked to on the danger says
he got through it just by the
skin of his teeth.
It is time to look the facts
of forest fire causes full in the
face and to speak out honestly
on what we see there.
Crime and Misdemeanor ....
Forest fire prevention, in real
and effective sense, abides in the
laws and their enforcement. Right
there is the tap root of the pro
blem of preventing the man-
caused forest fire. This is a grim
fact that has never been fully
faced and looked in the eye. It
is too simple and easy to con
sider fire causes in terms of
“cigarette flippers”, “careless
campers”, and such-like, and to
be content with campaigns of
kind appeals to the general pub-
lis to be “careful with fire.”
The KEEP GREEN programs
To Cross on Plank
In my last hour on earth, I
shall throw away all the sermons
I ever preached and all the
prayers I ever made and all the
calls on the sick and all the helps
I ever gave. And I will took to
the good plank Grace to carry
me over to my Father’s House.
Washington is expected to an
So said the aged minister as he
nounce more ration exemptions
came on toward the end.
before election. A coupon-free
And what is Grace?
holiday for odd-lot shoes is in
Grace is everything for the
prospect for next month. After
man who deserves nothing and
the canning season, sugar may be
who could not pay for anything.
taken off the list. Middle grades*
God is the God of all Grace.
of beef and pork will be declared
Many a time we have set our
point-free soon.
selves against his holy will, to go
our own way. Yes, these human
hearts of ours spout out a lot of
sin, first and last and the good
Book says-All have sinned. But
God gave us his Son to die for
our sins. God gave us a Savior.
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of Oregon and Washington are of
course all to the good and are
vital in the field of public edu
cation on the first problem of
forest conservation.
But their
sponsors do not pretend that they
have any effect on the sinister
minority of vicious criminals and
irresponsible conkheads among
the people who live in the woods,
or work in the woods, or find rec
reation in the woods.
Criminals and conkheads cause
the worst fires. They cannot be
touched by any sort of an appeal.
Th forest arson they commit can
only be reduced by the strong
arm of the law with a club in
its fist—by full-strength enforce
ment of the forest protection
laws we already have, through
the cooperation of ALL law en
forcement agencies, including the
courts.
The man who deliberately sets
a forest fire is a criminal, heart,
soul and hide. Under present laws
it is well-nigh impossible to con
vict a forest arsonist as such. Be
cause public opinion still holds the
setting of a forest fire to be
not a crime but misdemeanor,
judges, law officers and law
makers commonly consider arson
in the woods no crime.
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The No. 1 Job , . .
Such are the facts we need to
look into and to grasp with
fighting determination to root
them out and work them over.
Appeals to the noble «and good
in human nature will not Itouc'h
these evil roots, any more than
spring burning of fern may touch
the roots of this tenatious weed.
The tough, mean, miserable
job we have 'to do is agitation of
public opinion into a state that
will force public servants to jail
the forest criminals and conk
heads without mercy. That is the
one and only sort of fire pre
vention that the worst human
sources of forest fires can under
stand or will obey.
We did not deserve it but in
grace, God did it.
More of Grace. When you said
yes to God and received Christ
as Savior and Lord, you had a
flock of sinful habits. Now, by
his spirit. God and Christ come
to keep house in your heart. As
you yield to them, your sinful
ways drop off, the Bible be
comes your delight, prayer the
very breath of life and you find
yourself living in a new world.
So we ask-What is God's grace
to you? Do you merely profess
Christ or do you actually posess
Him?
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The Forum
BIBLE
MILLENNIUM
Part
3
In Gen. 1:2. we have a dis
cription of this earth before it
became an in habited planet;
“And the earth was without form
and void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep.” , , ,
At the coming of Christ the
earth will be left in the same
chaotic condition: “Jer.4:23-26.
“I beheld the earth, and, lo, it
was without form and void; and
the heavens and they had no
light .... I reheld, and, lo,
there was no man, and all the
birds of the heavens were fled.
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful
place was a wilderness, and all
the cities thereof were broken
down at the presence of the
Lord, and by his fierce anger.”
In our King James transla
tion of the scriptures, the term
“Bottomless Pit” in Rev. 20:1,3.
is rendered “abyss” in the Re
vised Version, the same also in
the
Goodspeeds and
Moffats
translations:
and the word
“deep” in Gen. 1:3. is translated
“abyss” in Gcodspeeds and Mof
fatts, and we know what is meant
by the word “deep” as
there
used; it is applied to 'this earth
in its chaotic state. Precisely this
we believe it means in this third
verse f Rev. 20 . At this time,
let it be born in mind, 'the earth
is a vast charnel-house of desola
tion and death. The great earth
quake has leveled to the earth
the mightest works of man; the
burning glory attending the com
ing of the Son of man has borne
its part jn accomplishing the gen
eral desolation; the wicked have
been given to the slaughter, and
their bodies lie unburied, and
ivnlamented, from one end of the
earth to the other. Jer. 25:33.
Thus is the earth made empty
and waste, and turned upside
down. Isa. 24:1.
Rev. 6:14-17. “And the heaven
departed as a scroll when it is
rolled together; and every moun
tain and every island were moved
out of their places. And the
kings of the earth, and the great
men, and the rich men, and the
chief captains, and the mighty
men, and every bond man, and
every free man, hid themselves
in the dens and in the rocks of
the mountains; an dsaid to the
mountains and rocks: fall onus,
and hide us from the face of
him that sitteth on the throne,
and from the wrath of the Lamb;
for the great day of his wraith is
come; and who shall be able to
stand?”
Isa. 2:10-21. “Enter into the
rock, hide thee in the dust, for
the fear of the Lord, and for the
glory qf his majesty. The lofty
looks of man shall be humbled,
and the haughtiness of men shall
be bowed down, and the Lord
alone shall be exalted in that
day. Fortlie day of the Lord of
Hosts shall be upon every one
that is proud and lofty, and upon
every one that is lifted up; and
he shall be brought low..............
And 'they shall go into the holes
of the rocks, and into the caves
of the earth, for fear of the
Lord, and for the glory of his
Majesty, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth; in that day a
man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, to the moles
and to the bats: to go into the
clefts of 'the rocks, and into the
tops of the ragged rocks, for
fear of the Lord and for the
glory of his Majesty, when he
arise th to shake terribly the
earth.”
Surely these are convincing
scriptures that tell us of the
condition of the earth at the
second coming of Christ.
Let us now turn our attention
to 'the binding of Satan, brought
to view in Rev. 20: 1-3. Notice
that the removal of his power to
“deceive the nations” is the thing
that constitutes the binding of
Satan; it is a representation in
symbols, but Satan is truly bound.
There is not a huuman soul on
which he can bring to bear his
arts of deception. He is bound in
this prison house of a wrecked
and desolate world, ruined by
sin. The phrase “bottomless pit”
means a waste or void, an abyss;
and that is what this world is
for a thousand years.
The earth desolate and under
the curse of sin, and no man
left in it, that is a fit pit or
prison for the holding of Satan.
But after the thousand years
“he must be loosed a little sea
son.” Rev. 29:3.
The binding was in the re
moval of his power to deceive.
The loosing, then, would come
with the resurrection of the wick
ed, giving him opportunity again
to ply his arts of deception.
Two texts show how these two
evets - the resurrection of the
wicked and the loosing of Satan
- are effected at the same time.
First, “the rest of the dead”
('the -wicked) lived not again un
til the thousand years were fin
ished.” Rev. 20:5.
Second, therefore, “when the
thousand years are expired, Sa
tan shall be loosed out of his
prison.” Verse 7.
Satan is bound for a thousand
years by circumstances, as you
migh say: my way was complete
ly hedged up; my hands were
tied etc. or a combination of
circumstances made it possible
for you to act. Just s ohere; and
why will not people grant to the
Bible the same liberty of speech
thait they give without question
and without ridicule to their fel
low-men in the common inter
course of life?
Submitted by G. F. Brown
At the
Churches
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.
First Christian Church
—The Livingstones, Ministers
9 :45—Bible' school. M. L. Herrin,
superintendent. Classes for all.
Evangelist E. H. Fife will
speak at Bible school and
preach both morning and even
ing.
11:00—Morning communion ser
vice and preaching.
Topic: “God’s Supreme Task”
Subject of Sermon: “God’s
Answer 'to Prayer”
7:30—Evening communion and
sermon: Subject: “The Day of
Go..d Tidings” .
Evangelistic services each
evening during the week except
Monday evening.
7:30 p. m. Friday—Missionary
meeting at home of Mrs. R. L.
Tunnell.
Subjects for evangelistic ser
vices of Rev. Earl Hanson
Fife:
Tuesday—“Born of Four”
Wednesday—“The Necessity
of True Repentance”
Thursday—“The Terms of
Pardon” —
Friday—“The Grave of Sin”
Saturday—'“The Necessity of
Confession”
Sunday—a.m. Bible school,
“Brands from the Burning"
a.m. “God’s Man”
p.m. “The Church from Pent
ecost to Now.”
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, Branch President.
Earl
Genzer, First Coun.
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.
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.
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