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Thursday, November 30, 1944
Vernonia Eagle
The Postman Is Honored
The 38th annual Christmas Seal sale is underway.
The mailing of seals here Monday coincided with
similar mailings in other communities the country
over. Many of those who receive them will not give
more thought than that the dollar should be returned
in payment thereof, but there is a feature of the sale
this year that deserves further and more elaborate
mention.
During the 38 years that seals have been sold,
the knowledge gained from research has made pos­
sible a steady reduction in the death rate from tu­
berculosis which 40 years ago killed 200 out of 100,-
000 persons. Today the rate is a fifth of that. Money
from seal sales of the past has made possible this re­
duction until now complete wiping out of the disease
is in sight. That is the goal from now on—a country
free from tuberculosis.
Of prime importance in combatting TB is diagnosis
of the disease at an early stage and immediate and
proper treatment, and with that in mind the Oregon
Tuberculosis association will send a mobile X-ray
unit to every county in the siale this next year. The
unit will visit Columb a coanty in the spring. Build­
ing of the unit and the visits it will make are financed
only by money received from Christmas Seals.
Everyone who fails to remit for the seals is retard­
ing the attainment of a TB-free nation.
Events in
Oregon
CITY RAILWAY
PROBLEMS EYED
PRINEVILLE — Represent­
atives of the Interstate Com­
merce Commission and the A-
merican Association of Railways
were in Prineville Monday of
last week to confer with City of
Prineville Railway officials and
shippers regarding difficulties of
maintaining service over the city
owned line in recent months.
Since its own locomotives are
out of commission, the railway
is now using a locomotive
leased from the Union Pacific
railroad, but several derailments
have interrupted service since
the problem of motive power
was at least temporarily solved.
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coast, January 10, 11, and 12.
About 1000 persons are expect­
ed to attend. The event will be
held at the Hotel Seaside.
Seaside was host to the log­
ging congress in 1936 and the
event proved to be the most
important, so far as conventions
are concerned, in many years.
Washington
Snapshots
Howard Coonley, a director
and former president of the na­
tional association of manufactur­
ers, is gojng to China to give the
Chinese government the benefit
of America’s industrial “know­
how” in establishing a Chinese
War Production Board. The chief
function of the Chinese WPB
will be to get maximum produc­
tion out of existing facilities.
BLOOD DONORS
Mr. Coonley, chairman of the
EXCEED QUOTA
McMINNVILLE — Blood do­ Walworth Co., was director of the
nors here made a quota of 200 WPB's conservation division un­
pints last Thursday. According to der Donald M. Nelson. Express­
Reu Cross workers, this was the ing delight that Mr. Coonley was
first time the quota has been able to accept the appointment,
met in full since last April when Mr. Nelson said, “Yours will be
160 pints were donated when the the responsibility, more than that
mobile blood bank was in Mc­ of any other American, to aid
the Chinese to get maximum war
Minnville.
production out of theil- indus­
GRADE PUPILS BUY
tries.”
$3,085.20 ONE DAY
Mr. Nelson suggestd a Chin­
GRESHAM — Gresham grade ese WPB in a conversation with
school pupils purchased $3,085 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
in war bonds and stamps at the last September. The Generalissi­
special sixth loan drive sale last mo accepted the proposal as a
week when they raised the total measure for strengthening the
of November stamp and bond war effort of China, but declared
purchases to $4,116.
he must lean heavily upon the
Principal C. M. Quicksall an­ United States for guidance be­
nounced
the youngsters
now cause of our “unparalleled ex­
have purchased a total of $6,826
perience in the management of
in stamps and bonds to their
a war economy.” Mr. Nelson, who
credit since the opening of the also is returning to China, wrote
school term.
Mr. Coonley that establishing the
Chinese WPB “is a matter of
MEXICANS START
the utmost urgency in the Pacific
TRIP HOME
FOREST GROVE — Mexican war, and I am looking to you to
nationals who have been assisting see that it is done promptly and
in the harvest of Washington completely. . . .”
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county crops since May, have
begun their trek back to Mex­ Activities of Holiday
ico.
Week End Mentioned
Last week 131 Mexicans left
the center at Hillsboro with the For Riverview People
remainder expected to leave
RIVERVIEW — Mr. and Mrs.
soon. There are 53 men remain­ A. L. Bassett and Mrs. Ward
ing in the camp at the present Plumer made a business trip to
time. These are working at jobs Portland Sat.
such as topping onions, digging
Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis spent
potatoes and carrots and hoeing the holiday with their daughter
strawberries.
Mrs. Mary Kaphammer in Port­
land. Mrs. Ellis returned home
LOGGERS CONCLAVE
that evening accompanied by
TO BE HELD HERE
SEASIDE — This city will be her grandsons, Edwin and Rich­
host to the Pacific Logging Con­ ard Kaphammer who spent the
gress, one of the most impor­ week end here while Mr. Ellis
tant events of its kind on the went to Oregon City to spend
the week end at the home of
his son, Wm. Elis.
The Vernonia Eagle
Mr. and Mrs. John Wilcoxen
and family and Miss Dorothy
Marvin Kamholz
Hogberg drove to Jewel Sun. to
Editor and Publisher
visit Mr. Wilcoxen’s mother, Mrs.
Entered as second class mail K. M. Wilcoxen, his brother Fe­
matter. August 4, 1922, at the lix, and a sister, Mrs. Vic Nor­
post office in Vernonia, Oregon, man' and her family.
under the act of March 3, 1879.
Miss Betty Ratkie left Mon.
for Vancouver for a week’s visit
Official Newspaper of
with her sister, Mrs. Harvard
Vernonia, Oregon
Malmsten, who recently returned
Subscription price, $2.50 yearly to her home from a Vancouver
hospital.
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Mrs. Gerald Ball and daughter,
O ieg I o O^ s H h «
Vicki Ann, moved last week to
P 0 B LIS h | e V
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Miss Myra Olsen of Pocatello,
Idaho came Nov. 22 to visit
NATIONALiDITORIAI— frieeids and relatives in this
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time with her cousin, Mrs. Clar­
ence Fowler.
At the
Churches
Donkey Bought
At Sweet Home
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
MIST—Mr. and Mrs. Chet
Alexander from Vernonia were
here and spent Sun. with her
mother, Mrs. I. E. Knowles.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sundland
and Sharon spent Thanksgiving
with her parents, the Seifkin
family at Newberg.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Jones were
in Portland Fri.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hughes vis­
ited Thanksgiving day with the
Claude Johnson family. The Par­
mans were also visitors.
Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Johnston
visited Tues, with their son and
wife, E. T. Johnston.
Roy Hughes and Laurence
Jepson went to Sweet Home
Tues, to bring back a donkey
they bought.
Mrs. Roy Hughes ami Mrs.
Rob’t. Mathews went to Ver­
nonia Fri. to help their mother,
Mrs. Maude Rodgers, celebrate
her birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Austin Dowling and son,
Bernard, and Mr. and Mrs. Don­
ald Sundland were movie visitors
Sun. eve. at Clatskanie.
H. Jepson was a village shop­
per Mon. afternoon.
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
A gurMui oewTiCT show «
MOVIE« TO >»1« RBTlENT« IN
—The Livingstones, Ministers
9:45—Bible school, Ed. Dept, of
church. M. L. Herrin supt.
11:00—Morning communion ser­
vice and preaching.
Sub. “After What?”
11:00— Junior church, Bernice
Tunnell, Sup’t.
5:00—Vesper Ser., eve. ‘ com­
munion sub. “I Believe the In­
spiration of the Scriptures.”
The high school sextet will sing
7:30—Wed. eve. Prayer meeting.
7:30 — Friday —
90 and 9 men’s meeting.
The women’s missionary soc.
will meet Fri. Dec. 1 at 7:30 at
the heme of Blanche Milles.
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
Ancient Tale of the Woods . . .
It was back in the time be­
twixt the Cleveland Panic and the
Spanish War, back yonder in
1896, when tales of the ancient
and honorable great American
hodag burst into print. It was not
strictly a Paul Bunyan legend, as
Paul and Babe were not men­
tioned in it, but was a true blood
brother of the Bunyan whoppers.
So it is not stretching history
too far to present this as a pic­
ture of printed, documentary
proof of the prevalence of the
Paul Bunyan order of tall tales
as being in common use among
lumbermen 50 years ago.
However and anyhow, here’.",
the hodag story, age 50 years.
The source is Florence Schubert
of the American Lumberman.
“Capture of a Hodag . . .
“We learn from the New
North, of Rhinelander, Wis., of
August 27 (1898) that there ha3
recently been captured a speci-
man of the ‘spotted hodag’.
"A lumberman while out fish­
ing was paddling his canoe along
the muddy banks of Lake Creek,
on Section .37, town, 37 range
9 east, opposite Daniel’s iron
mine, when he noticed moni-
strous tracks in the mud, which
indicated that the beast was in
the habit of coming to the bank
to drink and feed on water
snakes and mud turtles.
“The discoverer of these signs
watched for the return of the
beast for two days and then re­
turned to camp and notified his
fellows of what he had seen.
“After consultation, it was de­
cided that the monster could be
none other than the hodag, and
preparations were at once made
for its capture, alive if possible.
A search of more than two
week’s duration finally resulted
in the discovery of the hodag'.;
nest in the old mine, located by
men following the trail from
the river to the mine. A guard
was placed and plans laid for
the capture. Part of the crew
came to Rhinelander and pre­
pared a pit at the fair grounds
and the assistance of Dr. Stone
was enlisted.
"When ail preparations were
completed, in the dead of night,
the animal was chloroformed, re­
moved in a wagon and taken to
the fair grounds. Its surroundings
were, as near as possible, a dup­
licate of those in the mine; a
nest had been prepared and food
and drink such as water snakes
and mud turtles enjoy, had been
placed at his disposal. It was net
possible, at the time, to weigh
this speciman, but it was estimat­
ed that he weighed about 180
pounds. The men are now on the
watch for the female.
“Holy Old Mackinaw! . . .
“It should be mentioned that
when this speciman was captured
the nest was rifled and the eggs
placed on the new one. If all
the eggs hatch and do well a
rich harvest will be realized by
the men who braved the perils of
this capture, as there is a demand
for them far and near. Our read­
ers, perhaps will remember that
a celebrated Mexican not long
ago had a promise of one from
Brown Bros. Lumber Co.
"The above is mainly from the
New North, but we are in re­
ceipt of later information under
date of August 31, from Mr. E.
S. Shepard, who writes as fol­
lows:
“ ‘The hodag came to after
the chloroforming and is con­
tented as can be. He will hatch
out about the 9th, from the sound
of the eggs. I will send you a
photograph as soon as one can be
fininshed, and have a cut made
shewing this animal on its nest.’
“It has been intimated that the
Brown Bros. Lumber Co. are pre­
paring a brochure on the bovine
spiritualis, or American spotted
hodag. Scientific men will doubt­
less await with impatient curio­
sity the outcome of the incubat­
ing process now under way, which
is expected to be completed ear­
ly next week. Among lumbermen
there is great confidence in the
ability of Brown Bros. Lumber
Co. and Mr. Shepard to hatch
out anything.”
Car Hits Boy’s Pet
Come Stub—Come Stub—Come-
But the dog never came and his
breakfast went untasted. Bobby
never saw his pet again, in the
night a car hit the dog and did
its ugly work. Death had come
between Bobby and his pet.
Again, all in a week’s time
death laid its cold hand on May-
ette., the high school girl. It was
all so sudden, coming to one who
was the .ery life of the crowd..
The afternoon she was buried,
her group stood in silent awe as
her body was laid in the cold
earth. Once more the grave had
separated between the living and
the dead.
God Paints A Picture.
Just as the grave separates
between the living and the dead,
so does sin come between God
and man. Your sins have sepa­
rated between you and God, the
lover of your soul. To clean
your page, God sent his Son to
die for your sins. Christ suffered
and yet so did God himself. God
was in Christ, changing us over
to himself. He took our trespasses
on himself and that being so,
the vast number stand before
him as sinless beings. In his
holy eye, their guilt is put away.
Your New Day
Your part is to count yourself
the one for whom Christ died.
Also you are to take forgiveness
for all sin, on the ground that
paid the debt. —“One thing I
know,” said the Portland bus­
iness man.—“I have a Savior.”
Take the stand with that man
and on the same Bible ground,
that you also are saved from the
penalty of sin by Christ's death
to clear you.
The saved are never to see
the Judgement Dav. Instead, they
are to come forth on Resurrec­
tion Morn at the call of Christ
and receive reward for living
the new life to the glory of God.
How shall we escape if we ne­
glect so great Salvation?
—Rev. Alkn 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.
7:00 P.M. — Thursday, choir
practice.
8:00 P. M. — Thursday, Bible
study and prayer meeting.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
—Rev. Gail McIlroy, Pastor
9:45—Sunday school with clas­
ses for all ages.
11:00—Morning worship.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 Wednesday evening—Mid­
week service.
7:30 Friday evening—People’s
meeting.
NATAL—Mr. and Mrs. Noble
Dunlap and Mr. and Mrs. Lind­
say spent Sat. eve. with the L.
Carmichaels, the occasion being
Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael’s wed­
ding anniversary.
Mrs. Titus worked in Vernonia
Sat. at the bond drive sale in the
old post office.
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Lindsay
and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lind­
say visited at the Dunlap home
Sun.
Norman Peterson was home
from school over the holidays.
Mrs. Eva Pingle’s daughter,
Pat, was here from Seaside and
spent Thanksgiving with her
mother and family.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
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.
Portland People Make
Home at Mist; Sister
In Montana Visited
MIST—Mr. and Mrs. E. Oschsner
have moved from Portland here
and are occupying their property
purchased last spring from Ain
Wallace. Mrs. Oschsner was Ger­
aldine George before marriage.
Mrs. Willard Garlock’s little
nephew is visiting at her home.
We received a card from Mrs.
Rob't. Berg, who, with her sist­
er-in-law, Mrs. A. R. Melis, is
visiting another sister, Mrs. Lou-
quist, at Anaconda, Mont. Prof,
Louquist once was high school
principal at
Birkenfeld, ’ but
moved to Mont, and studied for
the ministry and is now a pastor.
The Earl Roper family h'ad
guests all last week from Astoria
and Seaside.
Tie a little string
around your finger, so
you will remember the
one place to go for
automobile service and
repair. We’ve said it
before and we’ll say it
again, that your auto­
mobile is far too val­
uable to trust it to
hanhazard care.
It is a well known
fact that experience is
a large item in operat-
ng an establishment of
this kind. On that basis
there is no question as
to who leads the field
in this vicinity.
Vernonia
Auto Co.
A Safe Place to Trade
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
PRODUCE, IN SEASON, IS ONE OF THE MAIN
FEATURES AT NEHALEM. THE SEASON OF LARGE
ASSORTMENT IS OVER BUT THERE ARE STILL MANY
THINGS FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE.
W/0PPMÇÂ
PHONE 721
3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port­
land 1, Oregon.
This space paid for by an Ore­
gon business man.
Wedding Anniversary
Is Occasion for
Celebration Saturday
OUR SERVICE IS NOT
LIMITED
TO
PRODUCE,
AS YOU WILL NOTE THE
MOMENT
YOU STEP IN
THE DOOR. WE HAVE A
VARIETY
OF
STAPLES,
ALL OF THEM
ARE OF
THE VERY FINEST QUAL­
ITY OBTAINABLE!
NEHALEM
MARKET AND GROCERY