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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1944)
Thursday, October 19, 1944 4 Why Democrats Support Dewey Note—Tha following article has been prepared by Republican leaders as one of several articles to appear in this paper. Both political parties are offering their opinions on the current cam paign, the first being presented last week. Opinions and state ments made in these articles are those of the parties presenting them and do not reflect the opin ions of this newspaper. We have been impressed by the member of thinking demo crats supporting Dewey. When we have asked them why, their ans wers have been interesting. One says: “I am just as good a demo crat as ever. I feel that my par ty has been stolen by the new dealers. I don’t like the bunch of advisors who have been gathered in Washington. They are too rad ical. It is quite possible that the president will never serve his six teen years as president. To turn the country over to this bunch would wreck America”. Another says: “Sixteen years would leave the whole judicial system politically appointed by one man with one thought. Wreck the courts and freedom is gone. The first plank in fascism is “the courts must make their decisions, not on law but on political ex pediency”. Another: “I have been a democrat because I believe in developing state’s rights. The pro gram has been ■ reversed. Now republicans are the only ones op posed to. an all powerful centra- ized government at Washington. My only hope is in the election of Dewey and Bricker. The place of power in which Sidney Hillman is placed with the activity of ¿he PAC spending un limited money sanctioned by the whole communist aggregation and the first place of preference which this bunch will demand if the fourth term is successful to gether with the fact that all Eu rope, with the possible exception of Britain, will be threatened by communism is given more often a3 a reason for democrats of long standing supporting the republi can national ticket than all oth ers. Many democrats tell us that they are concerned about the post war economic problems of the country and feel that the present administration has never appreciated the value of a dollar or a million dollars, and they doubt that the policy of wasteful spending will ever be changed, and with the unthinkable nation al debt, a continuing the past policy of indifference as to how much public money is spent and a careless attitude to cost of any project will bring financial ruin. There is a general acceptance of the thought that the issues of the present campaign are not on party lines but the desperate con ditions-will require a solid front of thinking people to withstand the organiized riff-raff vote of all big cities coupled with the effort to some to destroy the American system of life. Lieutenant Visits Parents TIMBER — Lt. and Mrs. Geo. Nelsen and 2-months-old daugh ter spent Sat. and Sun. with Mr. Nelsen’s aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Heinie Nelsen. Lt. Nelsen was on furlough from Texas. Mr. and Mrs. George Long were Sun. dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Tolson. A good sized crowd attended the bazaar and fair Fri. night which was held at the gym. The following amount of money was taken in on different activities. Fish pond $11.50, Bingo $16.65, and on needlework 32.75. Pie and coffee was sold by the 4-H girls which brought $2.80. Tick ets were sold on a box of home made candy which brought $5.10. Cy Snider moved his family to Albany Mon. where he has em ployment with the 8. P. Mrs. Bob Crop of Buxton was a visitor last Tues, night at the B. Tallman home, enroute to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Markee. The Markees were celebrating their 35th wed ding anniversary that evening. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Markee and family. Vernonia Eagle Farm experts in the capital are wondering how much American agriculture will be asked to con tribute to the food supplies need ed by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Former Gov. Lehman of New York, director general of the UNRRA, says Europe alone will need 3,178,000 tons of grain in the first six months after Ger many’s collapse. Europe’s other needs during the same period are listed as: 182,000,000 yards of woolen textiles, 560,000,000 yards of cotton textiles, 78,500, 000 pairs of shoes, and material to repair 48,000,000 pairs, and 864,000 tons of meat, fish, cheese and eggs. . . WPB industry divisions are working on a list of manufactur ers intended to be the first to resume wide-scale civilian pro duction. In the words of the TIMBER — Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Benefiel and Nathlyn of Portland were Sun. visitors at the William Huffman home. Miss Betty Hickey of Port land spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray McCoy. Mr and Mrs. Frank Shank of West Slope were dinner guests Sun. at the E. Peterson home. Paul De Remer, MMl-c, ar rived Mon. from Brooklyn, N.Y. and spent Mon. nite at the Roy Townsend home and Tues, night at the Ed Peterson home. De Remer visited in Timber Tues, and Wed. with his many friends. Mrs. Carl Brelin and son, Den nis, of Tigard were guests last week of Mrs. Brelin’s aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peterson. Mrs. lEd Peterson entertained the following at dinner recently: Mr. and Mrs. Earle Fisher of> Hillsboro, Frank Shank of Syl van, Paul DeRemer, USN and Mrs. Carl Brelin and son, Dennis, of Tigard. j At the Churches St. Mary’s Catholic Church First Christian Church —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45—Bible school. M, L. Herrin, superintendent. Classes for all. 90 and 9 men. 11:00—Morning communion ser vice and preaching. 7:30 p.m.—Evening communion service and preaching. 7:30 Wed.—Prayer 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, Branch President. Earl Genzer, First Coun. 7:00 P. M. — Evening Sacrement meetings. 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. 7:30 P. M. — -Evangelistic ser vice. 7:30 P. M. Thursday — Bible study and prayer meeting. Assembly of God Church —Rev. Gail McIlroy, Pastor 9:45—Sunday school with clas ses for all ages. 11:00—Morning worship. 11:00—Children’s church. 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. SUBSTITUTION SAVES Savings of more than five mil lion dollars the past two years were achieved by the army thru substitution of a web gun sling for the traditional leather sling. 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 OlEGloOluisrtHt P U • 11S 4' V »DOI CRUD ERUBBER SAVED The chemical warfare service saves nearly 5,000 tons of crude rubber yearly by utalizing syn thetics and reconditioning all sal vageable rubber products. Washingion Snapshots Timber Events Are Recorded 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. NATIONAL« DITORI Al_ Q44X< association directive ordering the list, the plants "must be cleared, as soon as possible after X-day,” of mil itary orders so that civilian pro duction may be started. Issuance of the directive brought into the open some doubts as to complete elimination of the programming of civilian production, although acting WPB chairman Krug said recently that such programming would be unnecessary . . . Ponton Bridge Lore ... Ponton bridges of wood have been used to cross streams for thousands of years. There are records of their use in the writ ings of Homer, around 900 B.C. The Persian kings, Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes used them. The Per sian army engineers under Cyrus built the first ponton bridge of actual record in 537 B.C. Xerxes made his famous crossing of the Hellespont some 50 years later using one row of 360 boats, and a parallel line of 314. The floor ing was “made of tree trunks sawn into planks and cut the width of the bridge.” With military us as old as the ponton bridge itself, each war has seen its higher development. Today is a far cry from Xerxes. It is even somewhat removed from the time when the Union Army was stopped at the Rappa hannock, had to wait 20 days while a ponton bridge was secured and assembled—a delay that Cost them a resounding defeat in the Battle of Fredricksburg. In this war, ponton bridges are on the spot and ready when needed. Blasted out bridges are sometimes crossed by superimposing prefab ricated structures on the wreck age, whereas, pontons come in handy for cross-country work, and fighting in primative areas and islands. The pontons are lined up, fre quently kicked into place with little outboard motors, anchored, and the decking quickly laid down, and the crossing effected as heavy mobile guns, troops and supplies roll forward. The same bridge can cross as many streams as necessary. The Allies don’t burn their bridges, they take’m with them. A Job for Douglas Fir ... To match the exacting de mands of this up-to-date military precision, the behind the lines story reaches back to the lumber mills and to the forest itself. Douglas Fir ponton lumber has a specification and science of its own. No other species will serve as well. With a deviation of straight ness of grain that cannot exceed one in 15” in slope, the first job is to find areas where Douglas Firs could yield a high percent age of suitable logs. There is no precise rule to locate such an area. The lumber companies did it by noting where their staight- grained logs came from. Only those who found a good supply of them undertook to produce pon ton lumber. In some cases, spec ial devices at the sawmill's head rig were used to check for straightness of grain. Otheaz were for testing texture. Wood Chemistry . . . After the mill has discovered a green candidate for a ponton balk (stringer) or chess (plank), the next concern is to reduce its water content to 19% or less without developing more than 4 moderate surface checks “not more than *4" deep, 12” long, and well distributed.” Specifica tions like this, on top of hungry war demands, made air drying too risky and too slow. Kiln dry ing at proper humidity is also slow and delicate. The manufac turers turned to chemical season ing. West Coast mills are now us ing a powdered urea salt with good success. Befcre trying chemical seasoning losses through checking degrade were running as high as 40 to 60 percent, where <he same mills are now holding under 3 percent loss. Our men have a good many more rivers to cross between here and Tokyo and between home and Berlin. Douglas fir will help. The Vernonia Auto Co., keeps reminding you that your car is an important asset to you, and one that will be difficult to replace. Au tomobiles are going out of service at an alarm ing rate. A goodly por tion of them were per-, fectly sound vehicles that became victims of owner neglect. A faulty brake, loose steering gear or inattention to motor maintenance did the deed and nothing can now undo it. spotless white and forever “Abra ham believed God and it was counted unto hint for righteous ness.”- —BIBLE. Faith says that* God brings forth life out of death, that he raised Chist from the dead and that he will breathe life into your soul now “dead in trespasses and sins.”—BIBLE. Faith says that God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Faith loves the Lord’s promise— “I will never lea.ve thee nor for sake thee.” Which for you? Sin and death or Christ and life.” In the name of good sense, don’t let this happen to your car! Vernonia Auto Co. 3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port land 1, Oregon. This space paid for by an Ore gon business man. A Safe Place to Tfade KILL TO WIN WIVES Not until you have dipped your spear in blood, will I look at you. So ruled the women of the Guin ea tribes in the South Pacific. By that, every man of them must first take a life before he Could hawe a wife. Now take a look at this pile of stones, twenty feet square at the base; twenty high and flat on top, the human victims were first offered in worship, before being eaten. —“Not only were most of these tribes cannibal, be fore the coming of the mission aries, but also in roasting their victims alive, they took a pecul iar delight in their sufferings.” Today, a large white cross tops this cairn.—“Instead of taking part in cannibal rites, the natives were sitting in front of the cross and singing—.“Jesus shall reign where’er the sun doth his successive journeys run.” The text book out of which the children are taught to read is the New Testament. They feed on it during their ea*ly years and no one can assess its value in their later lives. See WORLD* DOMINION-July ’44 MIRACLE—So with the Bible came new life to these South Pacific islands. And God speaks though this book. When Abraham was 100 years of age and Sarah, his wife 90, God promised them a son. But with Sarah so past the age, how could it ever be? Now Abraham staggered not at the promise of God thru unbe- kif, but being strong in the faith, gave glory to God. He be lieved that what God had prom ised, that he was able to perform. And in due time, as promised, Isaac, the son, was born. SPOTLESS ROBE—Because of his faith, God counted Abraham righteous. God robed him in HE’S OFF A Yep—you guessed it! He’s on his way to DESSY'S and all H-- couldn’t stop him now! Dessy’s Tavern Mike and Marge White Managers How can a motor oil save gasoline? Much gasoline loss is caused by gradual ring and cylinder wear. Gas mixtures then “blow-by,” compres sion is reduced, performance gits rough. RPM Motor Oil slows this wear ’way down — sticks tight on hot or cold metal surfaces, insures cold motors againsc extra starting wear, protects critical hot spots on long runs. For more mileage, less wear — use Standard’s RPM Motor Oil. L. G. Hawken Vernonia Phone 502 • s Your loccil representative for STANDARD OF CALIFORNIA OPPORTUNfTfES! You’ll find them every time at KING’S. That old saw about opportunity doesn’t hold water when you buy staples at KING’S counter! Every trip brings an opportunity for meal time variation and delightful dishes to sur o prise the family. They are full of rich goodness and hearty full bodied flavor too. Shopping time is something to look forward to when you do it with us. KING’S Grocery - Market “Where Your Money Buys More” At the Mile Bridge Phone 91 Riverview
