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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
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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.
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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
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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.
Intolerance, indifference, greed
and ignorance are blockades a-
long the path of successful pro
gress. Unless we endeavor and
strive to understand the other
viewpoint, we fail to cement what
might have become a fast and
lasting friendship. Through that
friendship or through fellowship,
by working and living together on
friendly terms, viewpoints are
ironed out.
That feeling of fellowship must
exist within the group, the na
tion and between all the people
of the world before we can gain
any great degree of success or
any worthwhile, lasting peace in
the trying days that lie ahead.
Alfred A. Newton
New England’s wood waste
and low grade wood could pro
duce 1,000,000 tons of protein
feed.
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