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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
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P U ILI S
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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.
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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
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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
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