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4 Thursday, April 19, 1945 Events in Oregon VERNONIA CO-OP SEEKS POWER SALE IN YAMHILL McMINNVILLE — The Yam hill county court is preparing an order designating the location and conditions for erection of power transmission lines along county roads by the Western Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc., of Vernonia following notifica tion by the cooperative of its "in tention and desire” to serve northern portions of the county. According to the information received here, the cooperative power company plans to erect transmission lines along certain roads in northern Yamhill county to serve farms and communities in the area. SMELT FINES HERE HIT $1,800 GRESHAM — Fines assessed in the court of Justice of the Peace O. A. Eastman from vio lators of smelt fishing laws since the 1945 run started in Sandy river reached the $1800 mark Wednesday of last week. Judge Eastman reported that an even 100 fishermen, both sports and commercial, had been hailed into his court by Multno mah county deputy sheriffs and state police for all manner of law infractions. 476 X-RAYED SETS RECORD HERE FOREST GROVE — A total of 476 persons were X-rayed Monday of last week between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. by the mo bile X-ray unit outside the Le gion Memorial hall. Sponsored by Washington county public health unit in con junction with the Oregon tuber culosis society, the tuberculosis survey was a success according to the findings of the Forest Grove unit. Advertised a.4 having a 350 capacity as the equipment was new and had been tried out in only three other counties, Forest Grove furnished a record, the greatest number X-rayed in a working day since the machine has been in operation in Oregon. Weekly News Events Recorded MIST — Mrs. G. B. Galeton is getting along well from her recent spell of illness. Her daughter Gertrude Huchine is attending her. Blood donors last Fri. to St. Helens from here were: Mrs. Geo. Jones, Mrs. A. E. Jones, Mrs. Roy Hughes, Mrs. Claud Johnson and Mrs. Guy Belling ham. Mrs. William Bridgers took the group up, she having given •blood recently in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Ballet drove down from Portland Fri. nite and spent the week end at the L. P. Wikstrom home. Mr. Kerr is doing the janitor work at the school taking the place of Mrs. Galeton while she is ill. The C. O. Hayden family went to Hebo to help his parents cel ebrate their wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hughes spent Sat. eve. with the Querin family. Mr. and Mrs. Ain Wallace are visiting friends in the valley be fore returning to Seaside, where they hnve bought a home. They were visitors at the L. Carmich aels over the week end. Floyd Libel was at home from Portland over the week end. Mrs. A. E. Jones’ daughter and friend catne home Sat. for a few days. "Shady” Lane was a recent valley visitor from Seaside. The road crew are busy yet with taking out slides, removing remnants of trees, etc. from the storm of a week or so ago. Lt. F. R. Wilk and Mrs. Wilk and son, Jackie, of Seattle were here over the week end visiting her mother, Mrs. I. E. Knowles. Jackie is joining the merchant marines on Sat. Mrs. L. P. Wikstrom spent last week in Cal. She returned home Sun. Bernard Dowling returned to work Mon. for Mathews Bros., after 3 months of illness. Mr. .and Mrs. Walter Mathews are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby girl at the Emanuel hos pital in Portland. Mr. Mathews brought them home a few days ago. We understand Richard Banyer, with the armed forces overseas, was slightly injured recently. Seaside clam diggers Sun. were the Bern Bliss and Lloyd Garlock Vernonia Eagle POTENTIAL FEED SOURCE The Forqm Washington Snapshots While the WPB is preparing a new reconversion plan for get ting industry back into civilian production, observers in the cap ital believe reconversion may be deferred until long after the war ends in Europe. No appre ciable increase in civilian pro duction is expected until pro curement officers make full es timates of what is needed to smash Japan. . . Representatives of wholesale and retail dealers have protested against an OPA proposal to re quire dealers to absorb any price increases granted manufacturers. Paying a tax bill equal to twice the 1942 levy, American corpor ations contributed a total of $16,- 789,553,313 to the U. S. Treas ury in 1944. Proposed agreements between the United States and British governments for avoidance of double taxation under tbeir re spective income and estate tax laws will soon be presented to the senate for ratification. . . The plan to "streamline” Con gress has been moving ahead. The senate has approved the house resolution establishing a joint committee to study and recommend reorganization of committees. Rep. Frank Carlson (R), six feet of hard Kansas cattleman with slow, soft-spoken voice of the prairies, cut his eye-teeth in the hardboiled taxation (Ways and Means) committee some few years ago. He quickly decided a taxer just couldn’t know too much a- bout a taxpayer. He sponged in formation from every known quarter and invented a few pri vate sources. He interviewed, wrote letters. Between times he caught up with the economists and planners. All this developed into a year ly chore, and Carlson thought it was the hard way. Last year he wrote himself a bill in typically sparse Carlson terms. He wanted Congress to set up a fédéral tax commission composed of members of Congress and representatives appointed from agriculture, labor, business, tax accountants, tax lawyers, tax economists and tax payers. The commission would sift the facts of taxation, hold hearings, have the power of subpoena and make tax recommendations to Congress. Nothing stirred on Carlson's bill last year until heavy wartime taxes began to stir taxpayers. Then he was asked to make many speeches and to confer with tax complaintants about relief and the future. The canny Kansan needled his audiences plenty a- bout “personalizing your tax com plaints when Everybody wants a cut.” “Why don’t you get together with other groups?” he suggests. “When taxpayers divide, it just makes blocs in Congress.” All at once the Carlson bill began to look good. The Kansan was asked to put the measure in the hopper again. Taxpayer groups have put up some 60 post war tax plans. The overworked Ways and Means committee has a mountain of planning to do, and few on Capitol Hill would deny that it needs expert help. “I’m just a stubborn Swede,” Carlson shugs. "But I guess some times I just make sense.” families. The Austin Dowlings have treated their* house to a new papering job. FOODY WOOD? Since food can now be made from wood, landlords who offer “room and board" may soon be speaking literally. 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 th« act of March 3, 1879. Official Newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon Subscription price, $2.50 yearly O rec 1 o O ums { mpei p 4 s [ s £$)| a TI 0 N P UIIIS NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL— FORMULA FOR PEACE l)A UA5 POTENTIAL MARKET FOR 500 TO 600 HEW SHORT MAUL PLANES ^EL^ISIOfJ WILL BE A 615 ' POSTWAR INDUSTRY SOURCE Of AAAhiy JOB OPPORTUNITIES / ( J C onstruction 15 STARTING NOlX/ A $20 MILLION NYLON PLANT FOR OfJ ESSENTIAL MILITARY USES. A VET 0f?6ANlZATl<%J PEEL ONIONS UNDER WATER. and you WON'T WEEP. Cow Poison ... | A forester has said it, and I bow to his authority, that “al though bracken fern at times may be a very delicious and nu- tricious food for man, it is a well- known fact among scientists and stock raisers that bracken is also capable of causing serious stock losses because of its pois onous properties at certain seas ons of the year.” The cows seem to agree. Even the boldest of bulls makes it plain, while grazing amid brack en fern or when eating hay in which it is entangled, that his position is, “I never touch the stuff.” My correspondent, William A Weber, of the Pacific North-- west Forest and Range Experi ment Station at Carson, Wash ington, reveals some more slants on fern that are new to me. Maybe I am too interested. But the subject looks to me to be of highest concern to everybody who has a stake in the use of the land—and that does mean everybody in Western Washing ton and Oregon. 80 per cent of the land in this region is tree growing land. This means that it is also brack en fern land. Bracken infests much of the remaining farm crop land. It invades cutover land and follows forest fires, serving as a nursing cover for tree seed lings. From February 1 on into May when new fern grows high, the old brown bracken on the ground is deadly fire hazard on a million acres and more of old bums and recent cutovers. And on fern many people know too much that is not true. Is Fern Your Asparagus? . . . • Another letter writing friend had talked me into trying a mess of fern this year as a dish of cooked greens. I was all primed to go forth and pluck a pan of the first “fiddlenecks” to appear, and to have my good wife defuzz ’em and then cook ’em—first bv parboiling in salt water, and then as with asparagus. But since hearing from Mr. Weber, she has balked, and I am not objecting so very much— It’s the idea of that fern pois on lurking around in your innards innnocent like for some months before doing its dirty work that worries me. Makes me think that as a vegetable the bracken is a Jap. B-r-r. Mr. Weber cites Muenscher’s book, "Poisonous plants of the United States,” as authority for SENT 700 STYPTIC 5HAVIN& PENCILS TO SI'S--FOUND 18 ON THE LIST WERE WACs. the proposition, that the young shoots of the fern may be eaten if throroughly cooked, and that the fresh rootstocks are often eaten by hogs without injury. “However, the feature fronds, both fresh and dried in hay, are poisonous to stock .... The poison is apparently cumulative, so that animals may not be stricken until several months aft er their first exposure to feed containing bracken. “It is entirely possible that hu mans may be affected also,” Mr. Weber continues grimly, “altho it is difficult to be sure, since the symptoms may appear long after the "plant is eaten.” What I. It? The true and exact* nature of the poison in bracken fern is not known, my authority states. It seems that heavy study on it is under way. He says “Muen- scher reports that recent experi mental evidence indicates* that the fern may act as a photosen sitizing agent when eaten by cat tle. If this is true, the plants would be poisonous to light col ored animals exposed to sunlight after eating bracken.” This was Greek to me. J tried it on a photographer and a for est engineer. Both are college men but this idea of fern as a host to a poison that may act like a photo film developer stumped them. Might be we’ll have to call on Hollywood for the film experts to give us the real dirt on our bracken fern. Anyhow, I for one am not go ing to try to fool my innards by feeding them bracken fern as “Oregon Asparagus.” To revert to the cow comparison, I am the cream Jersey type, and I have a hunch that the photosensitizing agent of bracken fern would soon run to overexposure inside my pallid hide. We are face to face with the acid test to whether we can win a lasting peace after the blaze of battle is subdued. The success of any undertak ing, whether it be individual, group or nation, must be found ed on sincere human relations. Tolerance is the key that opens the door to success. We may not approve, we may even con demn certain characteristics and actions of oui- fellowman and therein lies our chance of success and our right to that success. Environment causes all human ity to see and understand things in different lights. Experience comes to one in a certain way and to another in a different way. It would be hard to find two people who would react to cir cumstances in the same manner. Then, too, humanity as a whole is selfish. Egotistical desire rises above all things. Unless we are big enough to rise above that personal desire, we are often de layed in achieving our goal. More often than not, the in dividual who could help us most is one who has a different view point than our own. Because of that viewpoint, we condemn him and thus lose the help he might have given. 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