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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1944)
4 Thursday, December 21, 1944 Vernonia Eagle just could not penetrate that psychological wall of separation. Then I quit trying, and turned roundabout from things personal. I simply set out before Ken some information on the promise for the everyday home of America in the peace ahead. Street Signs Help Old, New Residents Signs for VeYnonia streets are badly needed, both as an aid to new residents and to residents who have lived here for many years but who are not fami liar with street names. The need was brought out em phatically this week by a remark by one man who has lived here for a good many years, yet who wanted to know the name of a certain street which was not signed. He stated: “Why isn’t something done to place signs on all streets so that they can be easily identified?” The need for street marking is apparent when even a long-time resident has difficulty in finding his way about, not to mention newer residents who have not had time to become somewhat acquainted with the city. The Homecoming Home . . . It was a year and a half ago that I began to write in this column on the subject of the home that America would offer for the homecoming of the men at war. It has been my job to continue study and work on that proposition. So I know it fairly well. I was able to talk and talk to Ken about it, keeping away from things personal until he made the home a personal ques tion. The first fact Ken grasped was that legal ownership of a mod*, ern home might be his in short order after his return to civilian life. He had not even let him self imagine such a possibility. No one had told him about the FHA insured loan on low-cost homes for everyday folks, a prop An Aid.to Late Shoppers Many Vernonia business houses plan on keeping their doors open during the early evening hours this week to accomodate late Christmas shoppers. An nouncement by those making this convenience pos sible deserves mention here due to circumstances which prevent many men from shopping during day time hours. Employment during the regular hours prevents people so engaged from visiting stores unless special store hours are arranged. No doubt the arrangement will prove satisfactory during the holiday season. Events in Oregon TIN CAN TAKE BRINGS ONLY 12H TONS FOREST GROVE — About twelve and one half tons of tin cans started on their way to war this past week when the savings of Forest Grove and Hillsboro area residents were collected from school salvage depots. Both county and city salvage officials expressed dissatisfaction with the small number of cans collected. If every person in Washington county had saved one can per month since the collec tion last spring, totals would have been 27 tons. AREA SHIVERS IN EAST WIND GRESHAM — Greshamites threw another log on the fire this week and still shivered in their woolens as the Columbia valley’s notorius “east wind” roared down the river gorge with a velocity described by long-time residents as the worst in memory. The official U.S. weather sta tion attendant at Crown Point reported wind velocity of 120 mph at 11:00 o’clock Monday night. By Wednesday the gale had dropped to 90 and 100 mph. 16,900 POUNDS WASTE PAPER SHIPPED TILLAMOOK — Last Sunday’s waste paper salvage drive in which the Business Women’s Breakfast club and the Junior Chamber of Commerce cooper ated, brought in a gratifying amount of paper. A truck load of 16,900 pounds was prepared for shipment and enough more was located to make another drive in the very near future a necessity. TURKEYS ARE SECOND YAMHILL dkOP M c M innville — when the current turkey season ends dur ing the latter part of January, more than two and one-half mil lion pounds will have been shipped to the armed forces by the McMinnville plant of the Northwest Poultry and Dairy Products company, and Yamhill county formers will have received $1,200,000 for their 1944 crop. These figures including only the totals for turkeys processed through the larger of the three plants in the county, and the figures compilled by the office of the county agent places tur keys second among Yamhill county farm crops. 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 P U ILI S y “Ms*?! * TI 0 ■ NATIONAL EDITORIAL— osition that will certainly be made more effective than ever after the war. • He’d heard, but only with cynicism, of the home loan provisions of the “G. I. Bill of Rights.” Ken had never heard a hint, however, of the success of state measures for home loans to veterans of World War I, which had stood up right thru the depression—with California the outstanding example — all justifying more of the same in all states after Wbrld War II. I am emphasizing those points because it seems to me there is no excuse for men in the ser vices being left in ignorance on the opportunities in home owner ship that will be open to them, with peace. Anyhow, the idea that he could own himself a home in no time after the war cleared the cloud from the eyes of my friend Ken. 6000 TONS OF MAPS In the 90 days following D-Day in Europe, army engineers sup plied combat troops with 6,000 tons of maps. A 5ca.D1ER ar CcMp aevMoips oa)K5fP -«? ARM/ OfNTiiT« flUM > 6CS> BEWCM UÍ1U» FRVT TEfTH-- Hi COULWT VW/srie AT TAeSifflç / Washington Snapshots Congiessmen who oppose com pulsory training say sponsors of the plan bid for farm support by proposing to have a large proportion of the trainees in structed in agriculture. The idea is that farmers who have op posed military training might give approval if assured it would not deplete the farm labor sup ply .. . The Alien from Home ... Maybe I’ve hit on something that is really a vital need with that sailor relative or soldier friend who talks to you now with a stranger’s tongue, who regards you with an alien eye as you try to tell him that all will be well with his postwar world. It is the strong «hope in him that is eager to awaken and to believe, the hope that is the heart and soul of his outlook on his own Philip Murry of the CIO is future. It is the eternal hope of attempting to revive the old la man for family and home. bor-management committee plan Certainly something is needed for creation of a National Pro to wash out that alien sense duction Council. The council to when he returns, on long fur include members of industry, la lough, or by discharge. Even bor, and government, with farm those who are fortune’s favor representatives permitted to sit ites suffer it. I heard Leland in on problems directly involving Stowe the other day, in a broad agriculture. Through subsidiary cast from England, telling of a industry and regional councils, pilot who had flown back from the national organization would America with him, after cutting decide how much each industry his furlough short by ten days. should produce, how output An officer, bearing decorations, should be distributed. . . owning the fortune of education and good connections—yet he Resignations from the WPB had been unable to escape the have reduced the personnel from sense of being an alien at home. more than 22,000 to below the It is far tougher with the ev 12,000 mark. Most persons re signing feel the job at WPB is eryday enlisted man who was ob scure and had little at home be finished, and are anxious to re fore putting on the uniform. Take turn to their own businesses and Ken, for example, a Pfc friend peace-time employment. Howard of mine who is back home after a Cconley, director of WPB's Con year in the Aleutians. servation Division, director of the One Gripe of Ten Million . . . National Association of Manufac Ken is still a kid, but even so turers, and former president of he was an HJE. man before he the NAM, has recommended his was drafted. That is, a powder division be abolished. . . monkey, a dynamite handler. He Three long strides have been was shipped north with a T-3 taken to speed reconversion after rating, expecting to shoot hard rock. Instead, with the tradi V-1E day: •1 tional luck of military classifi (1) Office of War Mobiliza cation, Ken found himself with tion and Reconversion clarified a shovel, swamping for a bul- the step-by-step procedure to be dozer. He soldiered, although he followed in terminating contracts knew nothing of machines and them. Eventually he (2) Action was taken to sim disliked plify dealings of war plant con turned in his rating, but his gripe tactors with the various ser was kept and cherished. It grew vice agencies in termination of and it grew, as such things have a way of doing in such places as contracts. the Aleutians. Ken brought it (3) War Department planned to issue new regulations covering, pre-termination of contracts. Na vy is expected to act shortly along similar lines. back, and proceeded to apply it to the civilian situation at home. And in this there was plenty of gripe fodder. What Ken had to say did not hurt my feelings any—what wor ried me was the alienation from home and country that showed through his talk. I approached the problem from several ang les. I tried kidding him, arguing with him. appealing to his senti mental side, and so on, but on each try I was stopped cold. There was no actual conflict. I Christmas is once more captivating us with its irreclstable charms. Simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, there is scarce wonder that our hearts sing out, even though cur world is not yet freed from the pity of War. Another Christmas, per haps, will bring us in all its glory, “Peace on earth, good will toward men!” SAM’S FOOD STORE i A BEST WISHES TO ALL BEN’S BARBER SHOP OOD CHEER! There’s noth ing quite like it. And good cheer is an affair of the heart. It cannot be withheld and hoarded to gain added value with the days or years. Good cheer must be spent! Let us all radiate good cheer this Christmas of 1914, for there are reasons enough for good cheer if we but pause to reflect. Merry Christmas greetings from all of us to all of you. G ROBERTS AND HIEBER Book Talk By Edna Engen “Boston Adventure” by Jean Stafford This is the story of Sonia Mar burg, born of German-Russian parents. The first part of the book deals with her poverty- stricken childhood in a small fishing settlement in Massachu setts and the shadow of her Mother's growing insanity hov ering over th« household. The last half of the noox is about her life in an aristocratic "Back Bay” household of an elderly spinster. The characters are well drawn and vivid and the book is exceptionally well-written. "The Conqueror Inn” by E. R. Punshon An nteresting and satisfying mystery story for all whodunit fans. The locale is England. The time is present. The central fig ure is Inspector Bobby Owen of the C.I.D. of the season is expressed in this hearty MERRY CHRISTMAS. You've been the best of friends to us in 1944 and here’s wishing for you the very best! LINES’ SHOE REPAIR A
