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Thursday, January 25, 1945
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Vernonia Eagle
"Oasis at Mist
Closes Doors
Something to Think About
Publication of the Notice of Sale by the County of
Limited Interest in Real Property and the purpose
involved, as explained by the notice, makes apparent
several thoughts which could develop if gas or oil
were discovered in this county.
Such a discovery would certainly lead to many de
velopments that would be beneficial to residents
and property ow’ners. Not only would those people
living in the county now benefit but the state would
gain from an enterprise which would employ many
workers. Industrial development of Oregon has been
a matter receiving considerable thought in order that
the state might be the better for having these indus
tries.
Steps are being taken, of which this publication is a
part, to seek new wealth. Greater employment will
result if favorable discoveries are made and the state
and county will likewise gain from industry which
would provide postwar employment at a time when
employment will be a great problem.
The Texas Company, which it is understood will
place a bid with the county for the land, merits coop
eration for the work it has done to date. Research
has been necessary to determine whether drilling
for oil would merit expenditures of funds. That re
search has been carried on by this company.
MIST — Mrs. Roy Hughes
and Mrs. Austin Dowling were in
Clatskanie Sat.
Lee Stevens has closed the
“Nehalem Oasis” for an indef
inite time to seek employment
elsewhere. Jim Hill is looking
BE GOOD TO WIFE
Events in
Oregon
SCHOOL BOARD FACING
GRAVE PROBLEM HERE
PRINEVILLE —Overcrowding
in the Prineville grade school,
with the almost certain prospect
of still further increase in en
rollment next year, have con
vinced the Crook county school
board that a building program
must be undertaken this year.
There were 684 pupils attend
ing the Prineville school last
week, using a building designed
to house not more than 500. To
find places for the students, the
garage building is being used as
a classroom, two classes are be
ing held in the auditorium by us
ing a temporary partition, and
two rooms are being operated on
a two shift basis.
CITY PER CAPITA TAX
$7.32, SUMMARY SHOWS
FOREST GROVE — If the to
tal city tax of $17,916 for the
city of Forest Grove for 1944-45
had been evenly divided among
every man woman and child the
amount each would have to pay
would be $7.32.
Based on the 1940 population
of 2494 for the city, the figure is
the per capita average. The actu
al sum in terms of present popu
lation which is larger than the
1940 figure would place the per
capita average somewhat less.
SEASIDE HAS DRY
YEAR IN 1944
SEASIDE — Believe it or not
but Seaside enjoyed a very dry
year in 1944, with only 58.14
inches of rainfall. The precipita
tion was less than for several
years and 9.54 inches less than
for the previous year. The mean
average precipitation for Seaside
has not been announced by the
weather bureau but it is likely
to be at least 70 inches.
July and August were the dri
est months of the year, with .55
of an inch falling in each month.
The wettest month was in Novem
ber, with 9.30 inches of rainfall.
CASCADE SNOW BELOW
AVERAGE SURVEY SHOWS
MEDFORD — Snow depth at
Crater Lake is somewhat above
that of last year, according to an
announcement by E. P. Leavitt,
superintendent of the Crater
Lake National Park, but is far
under two years ago, and under
the average for this time of the
year.
Measurements made recently
showed 41 inches of snow at
Annie Springs with a water con
tent of 13 inches, compared to a
snow depth of 35 inches last
year at the same time with a
water content of 10 inches.
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The Vernonia Eagle
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Marvin Kamholz
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Entered as second class mail
matter. August 4, 1922, nt the
post office in Vernonia. Oregon,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
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P U I LIS 4* LS
A T I 0 N
NATIONAL € DITORI Al_
QM5& j A ssociation
Red Ball Fir . .
Thl dry forces are on the
march once again. Tucked away
in the pocket of a certain Sen
ator, (who incidently has sev
eral of his colleagues on the
measure with him), is a bill
which if passed, would prohibit
the sale of bottle beer and
light wines in any place other
than taverns or like places where
beer is dispensed by the glass.
Ever since the last election, when
the Drys walloped the Wet forc
es, by over forty-eight thousand
votes on the Burke Wine Bill,
which put fortified wines back
in the state liquor stores, the
White Ribbon Workers have
taken a new lease on life. Make
no mistake about it.
If the situation looks right, the
Drys will also try to crowd a
bill through the Legislature call
ing for a constitutional amend
ment to be submitted to the
voters at the next election, which
would abolish and prohibit the
manufacture and sale of all in
toxicating beverages containing
over four percent alcohol. This
smart move would leave beer out
of the picture, but would put
the skids under all hard liquor
and wines. Such a bill would
not bother the brewers, dispen
sers, or the potent hop growing
industry of Oregon, hence the
Drys figure they would not have
these forces fighting their bill,
so to speak.
Thousands of LCMs, LCVPs
and other “smallboats” made of
lumber from these woods of ours
saved the European invasion for
our forces when the hurricane
that roared upon the heels of
D Day wrecked hundreds of the
larger craft. The soldiers on
the beaches had to have supplies.
The smallboats
delivered the
goods. In a week the weather
cleared and the big LCs re
turned.
In the first hundred days of
the invasion a million tons of
supplies and a hundred thousand
vehicles were unloaded in Nor
mandy. Then the supplies had
to Toll. The progress of the war
depended absolutely upon the
transportation corps and its
equipment.
General
Patton’s
breakthrough was a miracle.
But a greater miracle was the
transportation follow-up which
provided all that his armored
forces needed to keep going. It
was heightened by the fact that
the general took over the trucks
of his own Third Army supply
trains and used them to carry
his infantry along with the
tanks. The transportation corps
then had to roll supplies right
up to the front lines.
The job was done on the im
mortal Red Ball Express high
way’s—“red ball” being the tra
ditional symbol for high prior
ity freight.
Trucks from the Timber. . .
That follow-up supply job
from the one open port, Cher-
bourgh, had to be done mainly
by motor truck, because the
railways of France were shot to
pieces. Trucks were so blasted
near the front and chewed up
by the grind of the Red Ball
Express that the average life of
one was only days. Giant de
mands for replacements struck
Detroit. These branched out, in
If the move to put such a bill
orders to Akron for more truck
thru the Legislature is not at tires, and also in orders to
tempted, or fails, the Dry forces
Western Washington and Ore
intend to initiate a petition a-
gon, the Douglas fir region, for
■mong the voters sometime later more lumber of a grade to
this year. They have until July build military truck bodies.
5, 1946, which is four months
It struck the lumber industry
before the next general election
here as the first wave of what
to complete such a petition. The
has become a storm of new re
required number of voter sig
quirements for war lumber.
natures necessary to place such
Lumber of truck body grade is
a measure on the ballot, would
only total 23,108, which is eight superior to steel for the purpose
per cent of the highest vote cast Hardwoods are preferred, but
for justice of the Supreme Court
at the last election. Justice J.
D. Bailey polled the highest vote,
namely 288,8339, and eight per
cent of that total, is only 23,108.
The Dry forces believe that
rural Oregon would support such
a bill in a big way. Only towns
like Portland. Klamath Falls, As
toria, and others would be ex
pected to vote Wet, but not by
enough of a margin to effset the
large Dry rural vote. All in all,
it begins to look like Oregon
will be one of the first states
in the Nation to vote on state
wide prohibition since John Bar
leycorn was resurrected from the
dead in 1933.
FIGHT TO CONTINUE
America’s contributions to the
Ma ch of Di. mes. January 14-31
make possible the relentless fight
against infantile paralysis.
the hardwood industry can not
begin to supply the needs. The
only softwood in large supply
that can meet the specifications
is the king tree of our forests.
A slew of logs has to be brought
out of the woods for every one
that has up to snuff truck bo
dy lumber in it—the red ball
grade of Douglas fir.
And that is just one of a num
ber of reasons why the Army
is tearing its hair over the lack
of key loggers on the job. in
the West Coast woods—rigging
men most of all. Trucks are not
trucks without bodies. And truck
bodies take timber.
The Public is Alarmed . . .
Highly dramatic but official
accounts of transportation on
the invasion of Europe and the
great offensive through France
are in January Harper’s—“The
Far Shore,” by Lieuteant Com
mander Max Miller, and “Trucks
and Trains in Battle,” by Pri
vate Irwin Ross. Our lumber is
not cited, but the woods-wise
reader can see it fighting in just
about every paragraph.
Our lumber, in fact, was first
in the fight. Minesweepers that
preceded the invasion and the
PT boats that followed them
were built out of Northwest for
est products. The supplies that
were dumped on the beachheads
and carried on the Red Ball Ex
press were boxed and crated in
wood from the
West—pini
hemlock, and fir. We’ve got to
keep it up. For the transporta
tion corps to deliver" the goods
we’ve got to deliver the woods.
This should help. At last the
public is growing somewhat al
armed over the manpower short
age in the forest industries. Not
for fear of a shortage of sup
plies for the military forces, how
ever, but because grocers have
begun to ration tissue. Now one
hears really serious talk about
the need to produce more logs
for the pulp mills and sawmills.
A tissue shortage—oh, NO!
TEN MILLION SPENT
More than ten million dimes
contributed by the American
people was spent by the National
Foundation for Infantile Paral
ysis in 1944 to provide the best
modern care and treatment for
all victims of the epidemic. Your
dimes are again solicited this
year to keep up the work.
Yes, be good to the wife and
kiddies—also be kind to a neigh
bor who is in hard luck and boost
every good work.
This is your religion; now face
about for God has something
real for you.
ONE—In Christ, God died to
clear you for God was in
Christ changing mankind ever to
himself.
TWO—When your heart tells ti
is true—Christ stepped into my
shoes anil became the sinner and
took the count for me and I go
free—that instant, feelings or no
feelings, G.,d takes up in your
heart. His spirit touches your
spirit with life eternal. You are
born again; born from above.
THREE—Let God prove it.
Forward march to whatever duty
your Bible tells you and look
to Christ to see you thru. “He
that hath begun a good work in
ycu will go on completing it.—
BIBLE.
Be cleared of sin. Look utterly
to Christ and live to the glorious
glory of God by power from on
high.
May God, the giver of hope,
fill ycu up with joy and peace
because you trust in him.. See
Romans 15:13.
3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port
land 1, Oregon.
This space’paid for by an Ore
gon business man.
after the premises while the
Stevens are away.
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Wikstrom
Wire in Portland last week on
b-siness.
Mrs. O. D. Hall and daugh
ter, Betty, came from Glenoma,
Wash. Sun.
Mrs. Hall visited
relatives while Betty attended
the memorial services for Ger
ald Turner, killed in action.
Mrs. Chas. Hanson was a
Clatskanie business visitor Fri.
The C. O. Haydens were din
ner guests Sun. of the Roy
Hughes and also Mrs. Don Hall
from Wash.
T)scar Jones was a Clatskanie
visitor Sat.
SUPPORT MARCH
More children contracted in
fantile paralysis in 1944 than
in any compa-ab'e period in
many recent years, Fight this
disease. Support the March of
Dimes.
GROWING SCHOOL
CHILDREN
Need lots of milk for
health and energy.
They’ll like Nehalem
Dairy milk, too. Phone
us for regular delivery
to your home.
NEHALEM DAIRY
PRODUCTS CO.
Phone 471
HOME APPLIANCE SERVICE
CLEANING, REPAIRING AND SERVICING
Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and all
types of household electrical or mechanical equipment.
E. L. “Al” Robertson
925 Ro.e Ave.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
Phone 556
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NEW AND USED PARTS
Expert Auto Repairing
Gas and Oil
Open at 7:30 A.M.; Closed at 7:30 P.M.
WE CLOSE ALL DAY SUNDAY
LYNCH AUTO PARTS
Phone 773
RIVERVIEW
Hats Cleaned, Blocked
85c
DRY CLEANING PRICES REDUCED
Pants ............... 50c Overcoats ......... $1.00
Dresses ........... $1.00 Suits ................ $1.00
Sweaters............... 50c
Pick Up and Delivery Weekly on Thursdays
Office: Ben Brickel’s Barber Shop
Oregon Laundry and Cleaners
The Forest Grove
NATIONAL BANK
INVITES YOU TO BANK BY MAIL IF
INCONVENIENT TO COME IN PERSON
A Locally-Owned, Independent Bank
SAVE WITH CONFIDENCE! IT IS COMFORTING TO
KNOW THAT THE SAVINGS YOU EFFECT BY SHOP
PING WITH US ARE NOT ACHIEVED AT THE EXPENSE
OF YOUR HEALTH. GET THE BEST AND GET THE
BEST RESULTS AND STILL BE EASY ON YOUR BUD
GET. SHOP NEHALEM!
NEHALEM
MARKET AND GROCERY
Phone 721
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