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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1945)
f 4 Thursday, Dec. 13, 1945 VERNONIA EAGLE The Forum .•i ^SERVICE t BUREAU EDITOR'S NOTE: This newspaper, rough special arrangement with the 'ashington Bureau of ITestern News* Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. IF., ashington, D. C., is able to bring s this weekly column on prob- of the veteran and serviceman his family. Questions may be ad- to the above Bureau and they I be answered in a subsequent cob No replies can be made direct by II, but only in the column which will pear in this newspaper regularly. Local Service Centers _________ Gen. Omar N. Bradley, adminis trator of veterans' affairs, in a re cent statement declared that the most pressing need, insofar as the civilian population and the veteran is concerned, is the establishment of a single service center in every community so that benefits to the veterans can "get down to the grass roots of the home community." Many communities already have set up these centers where the re turning veteran may go for informa tion, for service, for advice, but Fiere are thousands of home com- lunitles where no such benefit is vailable to the veteran. “We have the plans.’’ General Bradley said, "but you can’t help a veteran with a plan. We need the belp of business, patriotic and civic organizations, of the press and ra dio, in solving a problem of space and personnel which is slowing up our Job.” In the meantime, the veterans ad ministration has inaugurated a six- point program for amputee rehabili tation to include: (1) direct veteran contact to learn problems, invite criticism and provide corrective measures; (2) a survey to determine availability of prosthetic appli ances; (3) to provide each veteran a 'booklet with essential information; |<4) a program of scientific after care designed to meet the need of the veteran; (5) a conference with artificial limb manufacturers to es tablish fixed limb standards; (6) to establish a museum of prosthetic a| pliances. 5 Quesfions and Answer» R.E.A., but also to our own staff, pending future adjust ments. Respectfully Yours, Noble Dunlap BIRTHDAYS ARE HONORED AT PARTY ■ MIST—A party was given at the home of Mrs. Wm. Bridgers last Sun. night a week ago in honor of her birthday and also for Mrs. A. ‘ E. (Doc) Jones. Games, cards and charades were enjoyed. A most delicious lunch was served during the eve. Each honored guest received some lovely gifts and the Circle pre sented each lady with lovely silver lined dishes. Six or more trucks are haul ing rock to the oil drillers road in the making about two miles off the Eastman road. The entertainment and dance afterward given at the Mist gym Sat. nite netted the Mist Helping Circle $89. Nehalem Unit of county dem onstration met Fri. at Mrs. Fred Siegenthaler’s. Owing to such __ _ bad weather attendance was less than it would otherwise have been. L. P. Wickstrom left for Myr- tie Point last week after 10 days at home. Mrs. Joe Roeser is looking forward to having Joe home in a short time, as word from him received last week stated he would be home. Mrs. Wilson and her daughter from the Burn were shopping in Mist Mon. Les Stevens, former Tavern keeper, was in the village last week on business. Austin Dowling and another state employee were in Seaside Sat. morning in the interests of the state highway dept. Jackies Nelson of the merchant marine was here a few days during the week end visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Knowles. He left Sun. Jackie is joining the navy Sat. The Lloyd Garlocks were in St. Helens a day last week. Licensed Contractors REFRIGERATION RADIO SERVICE and Appliance Repairing STRONG’S RADIO AND ELECTRIC 969 Bridge St. Ph. 576 WILL THERE BE I • who Q. I want to know if a man six Jb(as been in the army over (months, is 30 years old and has a wife and four children, will be sent overseas or will he get a discharge soon?—Wife, Strasburg, N. D. A. According to regulations at this .¿time your husband is eligible for overseas service. According to the information you give, he has only approximately 42 points. q. I want to know If my husband can get a discharge. He has been in service 21 month'« and overseas 14 months and has four children and is needed at home since his mother is his dependent, too, and very feeble. He is in the army and Is 29 years old.—L. B., Pisgah, Ala. A. Without any points for battle stars or decorations, your husband has 71 points so he would be eligi- ^-•'Yle for discharge. ; q. My husband served nine months in World War I. five of these over seas. While In service, one of his ear drums was affected from roar of guns and he can hear but very little. During this time his service record was lost and now he cannot get help because he doesn't have a record of Ills ear. Docs he have to be handicapped because the army lost his record? He can do very lit’.le work.—Wife, Deatsville, Ala. A Your husband's service record should be in the war department in Washington. Would suggest that you immediately file a claim for pen sion, due to disability, with the Veterans administration at Birming ham. Write to the bureau of en listed personnel, war department, Washington, D. C.. concerning his service record, giving all details possible. q. 1 was called for the army Sep tember 4. 1918, and went to Fort Kiley, Kans., and got my discharge at Fort Riley September 14. 1918. I got the Slit) bonus and the whole out fit of uniforms. Did guard duty and niy serial number was 3474300. I asked for the soldier tax exemption in Iowa and they turned me down. —E. J. H., Webster City. Iowa. A. You were apparently in the army only 10 days, but the in ternal revenue bureau says there is no federal tax exemption for veter ans except on disability payments and the $1,500 exemption on active service pay. There may be an Iowa state law providing for some form of tax exemption for veterans. Sug gest you apply to your state or local tax authorities. q. My husband, who Is in the navy, has three children and Is 20 years old. Under this new system ot discharging fathers of three chil dren. will he be eligible for dis charge?—Wife, Vanderbilt. Mich. A. The navy department says ••yes.” q. How long will boys 18 or 19 years of age. who entered service In the spring of 1945 and are now on their way overseas, remain In the service?—N. G., Lancaster, Wis. A. Under present regulations, un til they have the required number of points to make them eligible for discharge. q I want to know If a man who has been in the navy 21 months, is 34 years old and has a wife and three children will be discharged?— Wife, Owens Cross Roads. Ala. I Dec. 11, 1945 To—West Oregon Electric Co-op: Vernonia Eagle: R.E.A., St. Louis, Mo.: There seeming to be very lit tle chance for a local director of West Oregon Electric Co-op to submit his opinions before the board verbaly, I am taking this opportunity to place in writing the result of my observations of the working of the R. E. A. dur ing my time in office. I am very sorry that I am forced to express a very disagreeable opinion of our proceedures so far. I am only going to take into consideration what I have seen in that part of the district in which I live. In the Mist-Birkenfeld area three months ago the people there were well served and satisfied with the service given by the Clats kanie P.U.D. and the private utility Co. operating there be fore the P.U.D. Since the arrival of the R.E.A. working in the Mist-Birkenfeld area I have been showered with complaints day after day by al most every one living in that community with whom I have come in contact. These complaints are well founded and come from people whom I have known up to 45 years and who never com plain only when the trouble caused exceeds the power of their endurance. The original source of electric energy coming from Clatskanie to these people has been cut off by orders from no one knows who. For two months I have been trying to ascertain the cause and get relief from this blunder ing system introduced as I be lieve by employees of the St. Louis R.E.A. I have always believed R.E.A. in principal to be a very fine act to promote better living in general. However, I am now con vinced that principal and pur pose have given away to politics, with the main objective of some or most of the employees to hold a job by pleasing a boss either in St. Louis or Washington, D.C. and there seems to be plenty of jobs being held. We on the board here spend night after night as late as 2 a.m. listening to many words that express little. We come again another nigh® to listen to a new program that voids nearly every thing we heard at the last meet ing, thus being kept mostly in the dark and acting as a rubber stamp for government job hold ers. Our efforts to maintain bus iness contact with R.E.A. seems to me like dealing with the dead as the group we talk to (or rath er the group that talks to us) at one time passes away and a new bunch appears when we wish to counsel with them again. I wish to confess at this time that I hold myself in no way perfect in this business and I believe that my associates on this board agree with me in believing we would be much better qual ified to earn our $3.00 per month if we were permitted to deal with some responsible agent from R. E. A. who is available and responsible. There are other matters of importance that could be mentioned and will be men tioned in respect to not only A. Yes, he is eligible for sppUca- tion for discharge. ? I Not if the CIO abides by its pledged word, given only last spring Question: What would be the general effect on the country of a steel strike? Answer: Over 40 percent of all the factory workers in the country earn their living by making steel into useful products for American life. A shut down of the steel industry would be a disastrous blow to reconversion and would cause a serious loss in both wages and industrial production at a time when they were most needed. did they want a long-term contract? Union’s own words before the War Labor Board, “The Union’s request for a termin ation date of October, 1946, is not made capri ciously or pressed here for bargaining purposes. It represents the considered view of the Union that only such a term will adequately serve the needs of stability.” Question: Why Answer: In the Question: Did the recent strike vote violate the contracts? Is it true that the Steelworkers Union has Answer: No. Only an actual strike would violate pledged itself not to strike? [.vi them. Answer: Yes. Every contract which the Union has Question: Haven’t there been strikes already during signed this year with the various steel companies the life of the contracts? has a clause wherein the Union agrees not to Answer: Yes. There were 998 strikes in steel plants strike during the life of the contract. during the past year alone. They were mostly local strikes which the Union characterizes as Question: Are those contracts still in effect? “wildcat,” but they meant a big loss in produc Answer: Yes. They were signed in the spring of tion. 1945 to run until October, 1946. Question: Does the end of the war justify changing the contracts? Question: Who signed for the Union? Answer: No. The bond was sealed on both sides Answer: Its international officials—Philip Murray, and should be kept whether times be good or Van Bittner, Clinton Golden and others—and the bad. The steel companies are continuing to live local Union heads at the various plants. up to these agreements. If a strike is called, it will be in clear violation of the existing contracts. Question: Is there no “escape clause” by which Question; either side could end the agreements? Answer: No. The Union demanded a fixed, long term contract and got it. A strike in the face of existing contracts would shatter any confidence in the validity of union agreements in the steel industry American Iron and Steel Institute 350 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. OUR COMPANY MEMBERS EMPLOY 95 PER CENT OF THE WORKERS IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY.
