Vernonia eagle., March 29, 1945, Page 4, Image 4

Thursday, March 29, 1945
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Sawdust...
While this is being written
the rain is pouring and the sky
is heavily clouded just as so
many winter days are. The
dreary, dark day gives one the
thought that summer with its
warmer, more pleasant weather
will never come, although we
know that it will. And knowing
that clear, sunshiney, weather
will come, it is more than appro­
priate to draw attention to fern
burning. An article under the
heading “Out of the Woods” on
this page deals with that sub­
ject in greater length and with
more authority than could be
4one here But. Mr. Stevens in
this particular article does not-
mention specifically the great
loss to future generations from
the burning of baby trees along
with the fern. The tree loss
can’t be prevented if the fern
is burned. Read the article by
Mr. Stevens and it’s likely you’ll
think twice before applying the
match.
This week brings one of the
bigger fish stories of the sea-
son. It was told like this by
Cleve Robertson: Cecil Johnson,
Miller store manager, wished to
present his boss in Portland two
steelheads caught from local
waters, so prepared to do so.
His preparations were made in
reverse of the usual procedure.
Mr. Johnson first obtained a
suitable box of the approximate
size needed. After carefully
measuring the size of the box,
he took up his tackle, went
forth to his favorite spot to woo
the fish, and
eventually re­
turned with tw’o of them. His one
lament is that he had to fold
the tail of one steelhead to
make it fit the box. The other
fit exactly!
The Eagle always welcomes
letters expressing the opinion of
readers on any subject, as long
as those letters are signed and
are not of a libelous nature, but
several letters received within
the past few weeks have not
been signed and cannot, there­
fore, be published. In fact, some
writers have “dared” the man-
agement to publish their letters,
but at that same time have not
“dared” to sign their names. In
such cases the letters are us-
ually filed in the waste basket.
As is usual when an attempt
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NANCE
PHARMACY
Vernonia Eagle
is made to start an organization,
there are some who refuse to
lend their support in making the
attempt successful. So far that
has been the rare occurance with
the Vernonia Booster club but it
has happened. This club is being
formed with the idea of pro­
moting the Upper Nehalem Val­
ley to a greater use of the
means of livlihood that are to
be found here. To make this
organization one that can carry
out its intended purpose, the
cooperation of everyone is high­
ly important. Without that CO-
operation, it will fail.
Events in
COUNTY OVER TOP IN
DRIVE FOR RED CROSS
GRESHAM — Suburban Mult­
nomah county headed the par­
ade of the many divisions of the
Red Cross war fund drive by go­
ing over the top last week, and
wound up late last Wed. with
collections reaching $35,393.15
for better than 140 percent of its
$25,000 quota.
PRE-INDUCTION EXAM
ORDERED FOR 101 MEN
McMINNVILEE — A new list
of men from Yamhill county who
were ordered to appear for pre­
induction examination on Mar. 27
According to this report, a total
of 101 men will be called, 63 of
whom are fathers and 11 of
whom are transfers from other
boards who will report here for
convenience.
$2,062,000 TO BE
QUOTA OF MAY DRIVE
HILLSBORO — Goal for the
seventh war loan drive in Wash­
ington county will be higher than
the sixth drive for the overall
quota in the campaign to get
un4er way May 14 will be $2,-
062,000 as compared with »1,-
750,000 last November.
With emphasis of the drive to
be placed on individual sales the
county will be expected to meet
a quota of $1,122,000 in the pop­
ular E bond series.
66 FARMERS REGISTER
FOR MEXICAN LABOR
FOREST GROVE — Demand
for Mexican workers to aid in
county farm work continues with
66 farmers signing up for a total
of 11,726 man days during the
first week of the registration.
Walnut growers lead the list
with 2976 man days contracted,
followed by 2384 for prune har­
vest, 1656 for onions, 1650 for
hops and 961 for filberts. Last
year 200 growers used Mexican
labor.
CHEMICAL FROM PINE
Derived from Southern pine, a
chemical that makes soil water­
proof is in use in combat areas,
General mud may have met his
master.
52 GIFTS IN ONE—
AN EAGLE SUBSCRIPTION
ft.
CUSTOMERS AND
FRIENDS
The ownership of the Vernonia Bakery
has been transferred and in closing our busi­
ness relations here, we wish to thank our cus­
tomers and friends for their patronage and to
urge them to continue in the future to extend
the same courtesy to the new owner, Mr. E. W.
Peterson.
MR. AND MRS. ROBERT BURT
The
Terminal Cafe
will open Saturday,
March 31st
FREE COFFEE
Saturday Afternoon
Chicken Dinner Sunday
Mr. and Mr».
BRUCE BASS
time will I wait, till my change
come.” Job 14:14.
The resurrection is the hope
MAN, HERE AND HEREAFTER
of the sleeping saints of all
LIFE AFTER DEATH
ages. David sang with joy about
,
ASSURED this blessed hope, saying: “As
for me, I will behold thy face
After His resurrection Jesus in righteousness: I shall be sat­
had flesh and bones—a real isfied, when I wake, with Thy
human body. The disciples saw likeness.” Psalms 17:15. The roy­
that body. It had been raised al poet and singer lies waiting
from the dead, and was alive. in the tomb for that resurrection
When Thomas heard about it day to come, “for David is not
he doubted. But later he was ascended into the heavens.” Acts
given an opportunity to feel the 2:34. (See also verse 29)
Concerning the man who be­
Lords body and see that it was
lieves in Him, Christ says, “I
real and living.
After its resurrection the body will raise him up at the last
of Christ was glorified by His day.” John 6:40. Blessed is the
Father. John saw it in its daz­ man who shall have a part in the
zling glory. (Revelation 1:14-15) resurrection of life. Beloved,
The promise given to the re­ now arc the sous uf Gcd, and it
deemed is that He “shall change doth not yet appear what we
our vile body, that it may be shall be: but we know that,
fashioned like unto His
glor­ when He shall appear, we shall
ious body.” Philipians 3:21. “It be like him; for we shall see
is sown in corruption; it is raised Him as He really is. And every
in corruption; it is sown in dis­ man that hath this hope in Him
honor; it is raised in glory: it purifieth himself, even as He
is sown in weakness ;it is raised is pure.” 1 John 3:2,3. To be
in power, it is sown a natural cont. G. F. Brown.
body; it is raised a spiritual
body. 1 Corinthians-15:42-44. In
VERNONIA
the resurrection “this mortal
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shall have put on immortality,”
Experienced in designing anti
and “then shall be brought to
building
special
equipment.
pass the saying that is written,
Truck, cat and logging ma­
Death is swallowed up in victory.
chinery welding.
O death,, where is thy sting? O
DO NOT THROW THAT
grave, where is thy victory?”
HARD-TO-GET
PART AWAY
Verses 54,55. From that glad
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moment forward the saved of
the Lord will be eternally free
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Ph. 453
from the fear ofl death, and
everlastingly beyond the power
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of its reach.
Not all the redeemed will
sleep in the grave. There will be
some alive upon the earth at the
moment of the Lord’s second ad­
vent, and they will be translated
to heaven without seeing death.
(1 Thessalonians 4:16,17) But
all redeemed—both those raised
from the dead and those trans­
lated—will experience a bodily
change by having the state of
incorruption and immorality con­
ferred upon them. That is what
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Ph. 1262
Paul meant when he said, “We
shall not all sleep, but We Shall
All Be Changed.” 1 Corinthians
15:51. That is tne experience to
which Job referred when he said:
“All the days of my appointed
The Forum
Oregon Asparagus
Mr. Stewart H. Holbrook was
on the phone. The first historian
and top literary light of this re­
gion was calling between planes,
on a flight to improve the mor­
als and morale of the war log­
gers of British Columbia. What
Mr. Holbrook wanted to phone
about was fern.
“Flying from Portland to
Seattle, I looked down on a
two-color map,” he said. “There
were the godly greens of virgin
timber and growing trees almost
everywhere. But in too many
places they were bordered and
broken up by the ghastly, unholy
browns of the fern fields of ear­
ly spring—chambers of horror
in our forest temples. All well
and good, sir, while the rain
lasts. But a few days of sun­
shine will be sin. With matches
in their hands, hundreds of
stump ranchers will kt hell pop
from the forest land and run
wild. Millions of baby Douglas
firs will burn . .
The man who made the Keep
Washington Green movement
what it is today had more to say
on fern-fire dangers. It was im­
portant, but even more so was
the fact that Stewart Holbrook
was no longer a lone voice bel­
lowing murder in the wilderness,
but that now he had thousands
whooping it up with him on the
fern-fire evil.
Interest has gone even fur­
ther, right into the rather un­
known subject of the bracken
fern itself. Here I had, for ex­
ample, a letter from a reader,
J. F. Dix, Colton, Oregon, that
extolled the virtues of fern as
fodder fit for man or beast.
And a report on a bill that a
patriot legislator had prepared
to provide for the changing of
the name of bracken fern to
OREGON ASPARAGUS.
When It’s Fine to Eat ...
Mr. Dix, I’ll bet, would sup­
port the name change. He says
to me, "Bless your heart, it
(fern) makes one of the finest
greens in the spring of the year.
Just pick them when they are
nice and tender, brush off the
fuzz, and cook like asparagus
and see how good they are . . .
, I have never seen cattle fatten
any quicker on anything than
they do on fern in the spring
of the year. As you say, fern
is cover for young trees just
starting.”
That foresters’ forester, E. H.
MacDaniels, agrees with Mr.
Dixon on the edible virtues of
the fern, but warns that they
vanish after the fern sprout
has passed the “fiddlehead”
.stage and put on branches.
Could be. I’m willing to try
a mess from my bit of backyard
wilderness when the first fern
shoots appear there. Then I’ll
report.
To Get Rid of Fern ...
Burning fern is futile, as a
means of getting rid of the
weed, all authorities now agree.
Fire won’t touch the bracken
roots unless they are grubbed
out and burned in piles.
“Fern,” declares Albert Arnst
of the Soil Conservation Service,
“can be licked by NOT using
fire . . Mow and clip on slopes
that are not too steep for hand­
ling in this manner,” continues
Arnst, in the February issue of
Green Gold. “Run the mower
over the green fern patch around
July 4th and again later in the
season. This bleeds the plant and
retards its recovery, because the
bracken is hit while manufactur­
ing food for its buried rootstocks
... on soils adapted for pasture
and on tillable slopes, plow the
land and harrow out and pile
the fern root stalks. Cultivate
the land frequently during the
crop season or plant it to a row
crop. Effective anti-fern treat­
ment is the growing of oats and
vetch, cut early for hay, followed
by summer-fallow.”
Forester W. B. (Bush) Os­
borne has pioneered in the study
of the part played by fern in
the tree growing of this region
and in demohstrating the menace
of fern burning to Douglas fir
forestry. Just as the Osborne
fire finder was the greatest
single contribution to modern
forest fire detection, so may the
Osborne studies of fern and
trees turn out to be basic in tree
farming on the West Coast.
Oregon Termed
"Not So Bad"
MIST — Several ladies gath­
ered at the home of Mrs. Robt.
Mathews Tues, to help her cele­
brate her birthday.
The Tom Enneberg family will
move from the Burn to one of
the Bridger’s cottages this week,
until school is out. Mrs. Enne­
berg is one of the teachers here.
May Brock of the WAC was
visiting her sister, Mrs. Claud
Johnson last week, she has re­
turned to her post in Texas.
“Signs of Spring”: a few mush­
room’ pickers observed in the
pastures; big backyard bonfires
here and there; spading has
begun.
A letter from the White Mts.,
N. H. brings us tales of snow,
ice and fuel very short, none to
buy and no one to be hired to
cut it. Maybe Oregon isn’t such
a bad place to live after all.
Fred Busch, Jr. of the CBs is
home on leave.
Wilfred Holce of the USN and
his wife spent a couple of days
last week with his mother, Mrs.
Robt. Mathews and her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hearing in
Vernonia. He is stationed on the
island across from Seattle.
Fred Siegenthaler, who has
been ill since Xmas is recover­
ing slowly.
Roy Hughes was a Portland
business visitor Mon.
The Tavern has changed hands
again, Les Stevens selling to an
eklerly couple from outside. We
did not get their names as we
go to press.
Jim Hill spent last week vis­
iting his daughter, Mrs. Percy
Ballett. She brought him back
Sunday from Portland.
Visiting is Main Topic
For Riverview Report;
News of Relatives Heard
RIVERVIEW — Miss Martha
Wells left Friday evening for
Portland for a three day visit
with her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Beck.
Mrs. A. J. Dashney of Aloha
spent Friday night here with her
aunt, Mrs. Jenny Shaver.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fowler
motored to St. Helens Sat. taking
Clarence’s mother, Mrs. D. R.
Fowler to her home there.
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reside in Jefferson.
Pastor McIlroy of the Assemb­
ly of God church, Vernonia and
his wife with Mrs. Partridge and
her daughter Mrs. Joe Eggert and
small son were Sunday dinner
guests at the W. D. Stele home
last Sun.
Mrs. Olof Jacooson, Mrs. Her
man Wood and Laurel Wittwer
spent Sat. in Hillsboro and Forest
Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Prefontaine
of Portland drove out Sat. fox- a
visit with his sister, Mrs. Chas.
Beacom and husband.
Shoe rationing won’t
bother you, if you buy
well-built footwear and
keep it in good repair.
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tires examined thoroughly for cuts, bruises
and wear. Be sure to keep them inflated to the
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Geo. Johnson Vernonia Serv. Sta.
While vacationing along the
west coast, Patrick Gaffney of
Jefferson, Iowa, stopped between
busses Thursday p.m. at the J.
A. Wirtz home. Mr. Gaffney has
many relatives in these parts a-
mong whom are three Jesuit
Fathers, one being the parish
priest at Sheridan. Pat is also
a cousin to Molly McGee (Marion
Cavanaugh) of the radio broad­
cast, Fibber McGee and Molly,
and states that “Beulah” is an
actor not an actress. Mr. Gaffney
brought messages from Mrs.
Wirtz's mother and sisters who
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