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4 Thursday, March 8, 1945 The heat has been turned on the lawmakers by the “powers that be“ in an all-out attempt to fold up the session by Sat urday, March 10 and adjourn sine die. However, but very few are sanguine enough to think such an objective can be accom plished before the latter part of next week The “wise men” say March 15 is the earliest date to expect adjournment, and as things look now the session could very easily go a couple of days beyond that time. It may be that the lawmakers intend to turn out the lights’ in a blaze of glory on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. Plenty of important legislation is still pending for the considera tion of both houses, which is bound to call for lengthy debate. All of this takes time, and inas much as the majority of the leg islators are against holding lengthy night sessions, it’s reas onable to believe the lawmakers will still be at their tasks next week. Legislators have been ap proached from many angles for some sort of legislation that might curb some of the methods of OPA in seeking evidence by fair means or foul upon which to obtain fines and closures. Com plaints have been paaticulary strong from business people, who have claimed OPA’s policy has been to harass and browbeat rather than guide and help mer chants in a difficult and con fusing situation. But nothing in the way of legislation has been devised. Legislators drew much satisfac tion from the appearance on the Portland front last week of a new type of OPA executive— one Commissioner Marvin E Lew is from San Francisco, who came up to hear the evidence against merchants caught in the dragnet of the famous “Christmas day food stamp cancellation.” Lewis heard the evidence of the local OPAers and kicked the whole mess out without stopping to as much as hear the defense of the merchants. Lewis apparantly rode roughshod over the local bureau crats and summed his opinion of what they had done with the statement“ The matter is dis missed.” “It seems,” said one legislator who had given the subject con siderable thought, “that even in a bureaucracy there is a saving clause in the form of higher-ups who have common sense and be lieve in fair play in dealings with reputable merchants. I think this action in Portland make* it un necessary for us to worry about some kind of legislation to get at the same problem.” The pressure groups and their lobbyists have been mighty busy all week trying to get their bills The Vernonia Eagle * 1,1 1 — — —■ Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail matter, August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregoh, under the act of March 3, 1879. Official Newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon Subscription price, $2.50 yearly 0 R E cloO LW sOP E R P uilis 4 er , s 44 s 5 j ) irtion NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL- lOACXCAlSQCÍATlQN Vernonia Eagle through one house or the other before adjournment. In the house, the Oregon liquor control commission have several bills which passed the senate only to run up against plenty of oppo sition when they arrived. In the senate, the house-passed fire men’s pension bill is still buried deep in spite of all efforts to get it out on the floor for a vote. Several other highly controver sial bills are in the same fix— by being passed in one house to be stalled in the other. House bills involving the hot subjects of taxes, fish, and milk have reached the senate, where they arc certainly getting 4 good go ing over by having plenty of a- mendments tacked on for the house to concur in—or else. From the looks of the tax sit uation, state income taxpayers will not get any discounts on their 1946 tax bill, such as they did in 1944 when they received a 75 percent discount, and 30 percent for this year, 1945. Ap proximately five million dollars more is needed for state aid to schools, and the lawmakers are of the opinion this amount can best be obtained by wiping out any state income tax reductions for the years 1946-47. The ways and means committee is still looking for ways to get more money, which they say is nec essary to meet ever increasinjg state expenses. Cigarettes are be ing eyed as a good source of tax revenue, and other luxuries may be added. The search goes on and on for more tax money. Another proposal for additional revenue is a state tax on draft and bottle beer. So far this session the legisla tors are running about neck and neck for bills introduced and passed, as against the same time last session. However, before the boys adjourn it looks like they will beat the mark set by thel943 assembly for bills introduced, be cause they will remain in ses sion longer. The house, as us ual, is away ahead of the senate in the number of bills dropped in the hopper. Johnie Knew How Many “There were twenty sheep in the pasture and one jumped over the fence. How many were left?” So asked teacher and up shot Johnnie’s hand. Said he, “Not a sheep was left, for if one goes over they all follow.” RIGHTO Johnnie and we are all like sheep, for all we, like sheep, have gone astray-BIBLE. God sees us out in the fields of sin and yet he loves us. He proved his love, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Of the day of Christ’s death, we read that Christ, bear ing his cross, went forth to a place called Golgatha and there they crucified him. Then as Christ hung on the cross, God laid our sins on Him. All the sins of all men were laid on Him. Name the most shameful crimes and the blackest deeds of the lowest human brutes and you sense what it must have been for Christ, the Sinless One, to have become sin for us. All that is murder, theft, lying, pro fanity and all that is unspeak able, Christ became. Then the fierce wrath of God followel over and burned itself out on Him. You see how God loves the sinner but his wrath is against the sin. So Christ paid the pen alty to free the sinner. Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Begotten Son to pay the penalty and free all who would believe in him. The debt is paid. Count yourself cleared-Be at peace with God. And make your prayer-THANK YOU GOD FOR SALVATION. From now on look utterly to Christ to see you through. Live by power from on high. 3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port land 1, Oregon. This space paid for by Oregon- Washington people. If you wish a part in this gospel by newspaper, send your sum, large or small. 52 GIFTS IN ONE— AN EAGLE SUBSCRIPTION NEW AND USED PARTS Expert Auto Repairing Americans are notably for getful of circumstances which have caused them trouble in the past, or if not forgetful, they tend to become soft-hearted and let by-gones be by-gones. In world affair we tend to let matters take their course with the result that we ususally suffer the consequences of that soft hearted attitude. At this time the Jap-Americans are being al lowed to return to the Pacific coast from relocation centers es tablished shortly after Pearl Harbor and that permission to return has created a lot of an imosity, especially among those Americans who lived near the Japs before the evacuation. Appearing in the Eagle last week were two letters telling of the existence of Americans in Japanese prisons in the Philip pines. Everyone, no doubt, has also read other accounts of the atrocities perpetrated by the Japs there. Perhaps it is difficult to understand the attitude of people in communities here where Japs formerly lived. Many of those people have taken a def inite stand objecting to the re turn of the Japanese and no doubt they have excellent rea sons for their objections. Per haps if these people and those Americans who have been im- To taks bolo SWTIMS NtW BUSMBSStS-. TÓ MMF In the Beginning . . . When Captain George Van couver sailed into the Sound he was to name Puget more than 150 years ago, the Douglas fir region, then nameless, was as much a land of mystery and leg end as darkest Africa. On the decks of the sailing ships that anchored in the Sound men gazed at the towering black walls of a primative forest that rose and dipped in unbroken vistas to the horizon except where stony mountain peaks rose above timberline. So in the same year the men of Captain Robert Gray beheld the forest from the deck of the Columbia, anchored in the estu ary of the “Great River of the West.” Entering that forest, a man might be lost within 30 paces, unless he followed an Indian trail or steam bed. Hardwoods and shrubs grew wherever they could steal land and light from the ruling trees. Huge rotting windfalls met the explorers at every turn. It was a jungle reg ion in the temperate zone. Start of the Timber Trade . . . When he sailed home from his northwest discovery the ships of Captain Vancouver bore new masts and yards, and many new planks and timbers from the king trees of the’ Puget Sound forests. Thus, the incomparable value of the yet nameless Doug las fir for the masting of ships was made known to the shipbuild ers and sailors of England, and they were its first salesmen. The next world market opened for Pacific Northwest wood was the Sandwich Islands-now the Hawaiian. In 1828 boards were shiped from the Ft. Vancouver sawmill on Hudson’s Bay Com pany schooners to the Islands Kanakas were brought back to get out the logs and whack up the lumber. So >ur Pacific timber trade began. When the covered wagons be gan to roll down the Barlow Trail a local market was made for Dr. McLoughlin’s lumber. Other water power mills sprang up with the settlements. Then the United States of A- merica hi-jacked California and other provinces away from honest Mexico. This dirty work at the crossroads is shame on our his tory, but it paid off at once. Gold was discovered on the Sac ramento, and a wonderful boom was on. In 1849 a million feet of lumber was shipped from the Wil lamette Valley to California. Within five years sawmills were cutting all through the Douglas fir wilderness for California and world trade. teach us, apart from just the plain record of what has hap pened in these parts and when. On the early economic growth of the Pacific Coast region we need to remember and study the fact that for nearly 60 years —from 1792 to 1849—this was growth from the fur trade and the timber trade. It was in 1828 that the gov ernor of the Hudson’s Bay Com pany ordered timber to be put before furs in the Oregon Coun try. Then, from 1849 until 1870 the stuff of Western growth was timber, silver and gold. Then it was timber and railroads, timber and ships, timber and farms, timber and fish, timber and gen eral manufactures, timber and electric power—but always tim ber. Yes, and forever timber it will be. Four-fifths of the land is good for little or nothing else but timber growing. For timber, considering the climate and the tree species here, we have the best land in the world. In setting the sights of your children for their future, don’t pass up the timber business for fear that it may be through. Really, with all the new and hopeful things before it, the best days in the woods are ahead. This one came across the desk last week and is passed on here : for your entertainment. It .ap peared in The Forest Log, month ly publication of the Oregon State Board of Forestry and, is entitled: “A Smack in the Dark” (Smellodrama in one act). Scene: A Pullman section in a train headed for California, via ■ Klamath Falls. Characters: A little old lady, a very lovely lassie, a Marine ser- ’ geant and a buck private. Of a sudden the train enters a tunnel. During the ensuing dark ness there is heard a kiss, fol- 1 lowed by a hefty sock. When the train comes into daylight again the Marine sergeant sports a ’ beautiful black eye. The little old lady thinks: j “Lawsy me! How refreshing to see such a lovely young girl re sist the attentions of that brute.” The lovely lassie thinks: “How strange that he should try to kiss that little old lady instead of me.” The Marine Sergeant thinks: “That buck private is a smart guy. He steals a kiss and I get socked for it.” The Buck Privte thinks: “That is one for Uncle’s history book. I kiss the back of my hand, sock a Marine sergeant, and get away with it.” Paperhanging Painting - Signs FRANK HIRSCH Keasey Rt. Phone 462 CINNAMON ROLLS These rolls will make you long to sample them and will make that tast er of yours tingle with de- light when you do. Good with coffee, tea or milk. The Ax and Saw Forever ... Regional history has a lot to Oregon-American LUMBER CORPORATION Orvel Edwards is seeing with, out benefit of specs due to an accident a few days ago. His story is that his glasses were broken when he walked into a chimney in the dark. That’s a- bout as bad as the man whose arms were longer than his nose. . . . Uncle Sam isn’t going to like Vivian Laird if she doesn’t count change better. A post office cus tomer handed her a dollar in payment for 60c worth of post age and she gave him back 60c in change which doesn’t figure out right according to the way the school books read. The cus tomer was honest, though, and corrected the error ... 1 ■ j VERNONIA IIAKEHY Phone 991 Vernonia, Oregon Vernonia, Oregon Change it from a chore to a pleasure by trading at KING’S MARKET. Do your shop ping the easy way, where stocks are large and your favorites can be chosen at will; where you can rely on the fact that all items are first in quality; where service is kept exactly the way you’ve always liked it. Ga> and Oil Open at 7:30 A.M.; Closed at 7:30 P.M. 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