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THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1946
A b a service to veterans in the
community, this newspaper will
publish a weekly column of ques­
tions most frequently asked con­
tact men of the Veterans Admin­
istration in this area. For more
detailed
information,
veterans
should contact or write to the
nearest VA contact unit at P. O.
Bldg., Rm. 216, Longview.
Q. I received a disability pen­
sion. Is my pension subject to
change if I take a position?
A.
No.
Disabled veterans
are encouraged to do such work
as their disability permits. This
does not affect the amount of
their pensions because they are
based on the veteran”s disability
as determined by the Veterans
Administration rating schedule.
Such pensions are subject to
change only as the disability it­
self changes.
Q. Can I get a guaranteed
loan to pay off a debt that is
past due ?
A. Yes, under certain condi­
tions. Full information may be
secured from the lender or from a
VA loan guarantee officer.
Q. Why is it necessary to have
the property appraised before I
can get a guaranteed loan ?
A. The law requires that the
purchase price paid or to be paid
•'or the property or the cost o.
construction, alterations and im­
provements, must not be more
than the reasonable value there­
of as determined by proper ap­
praisal made by an appraiser des­
ignated by the VA. This provi­
sion and the appraisal it entails
are requirements by congress for
the protection of veterans.
Q. I received a bad conduct
discharge. Am I eligible for/any
benefits under the Servicemen’s
Readjustment act (The GI bill)?
A. As you hold neither an
honorable nor a dishonorable dis­
charge from the armed services, it
would be necessary for you to
contact your nearest VA office
for a decision as to whether you
were discharged under conditions
other than dishonorable—or you
may apply to your branch of the
service for a review of your dis-
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Ex-Sergeant Tells News
Of Dakota Neighbors;
Body Cast Is Removed
RIVERVIEW — Ex-Sergeant
Aaron Albrecht of New England,
North Dakota, spent Thursday
and Friday at the J. A. Wirtz
home. The Albrecht and Wirtz
homesteads were only one-half
mile apart on the Dakota prairies
when Aaron was a school boy and
he brought much interesting news
to his old neighbors. He also
gave a graphic account of in­
cidents of his sergeant days.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lindsley
and children, Joanne and Ken­
neth, were at Sweet Home July
4th to see little Gary Smith who
is doing nicely.
The doctors
planned to remove the body cast
the following day.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Millsap
and children were in Portland
Saturday and gathered cherries at
the Baker home near there.
Mrs. Ida Condit is spending
the week at Mist with her daugh­
ter, Mrs. Walter Mathews, and
family.
Evelyn Krieger of Keasey spent
from Monday until Wednesday
with her friend, Joenne Lindsley.
House guests at the J. W.
Nichols home during the past
week were their daughter. Miss
Joanne, of San Francisco and
her friend, Mrs. Britt Schweitzer,
also of S.F. and a Eugene friend,
Miss Margie Robinson.
Mrs. Ann Pomeroy of Portland
is spending several days at the
Lee tyhite home here.
The Forum
FROM OLD SCRAP BOOK
A Big Dollar met a small
Penny, newly coined, and having
a nice clean face. Said the Dol­
lar, in a pompous manner:
“You look as though you
thought yourself gold, whereas
you are ony cheap brass.”
The Penny answered modestly:
“I am what I am, and can claim
no more.”
At that the dollar swelled up
and said. “I am patriotic. See, I
have the emblem of Liberty on
my bosom and I am also trust­
worthy, because the United States
Government has placed on me,
‘In God We Trust.’ ”
After a little silence the Penny
said: “But I am more pious than
you are. I go to church oftener
than you do.”
6. F. BROWN.
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Three thousand five hundred
lives are lost each year through
fires on farms and in rural com­
munities of the United States.
This rural loss is about one-third
of the total national loss of lives
due to fires. KEEP OREGON
GREEN.
GOOD
HOUSEKEEPERS
know columns classified; and
depend on them whereby to
spy or notify the wanted
or the wanters.
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Work
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Tree Farm Raider . . .
fhe boomer (otherwise known
as “Aplodontia” and “mountain
beaver”) has become a real prob­
lem on the tree farms that forest
land owners have developed dur­
ing recent years.
Particularly
where seedlings have been plant­
ed by hand on burned areas ha3
the boomer demonstrated his de­
structive genius.
At night in the winter months
tha slant-eyed rodent will sally
forth and follow the paths through
ferns and other tough ground
cover, which the tree planters
have obligingly made for him.
Every few feet he will encounter
a tree seedling. With his buck
teeth nippers he’ll strip it into
a naked stem—-skin it alive. To
a boomer the most succulent mor­
sel is fiber from inside the bark
of a baby tree. He will un­
cover the roots of a Douglas fir
six inches in diameter, and strip
the roots, killing the tree.
Such forays of the boomer usu­
ally go beyond satisfaction of his
hunger. Once started on a row
of plantecT seedlings, he is either
too stupid to know when to stop,
or he is a natural-born devastator.
He is apt to destroy all seed­
lings in a row before he back­
tracks for a day of rest.
The boomer is strictly nocturnal,
wo hours or so of exposure to
hot sunlight will kill him. He is
a sucker for deception. One for­
ester had his planter crew in
a boomer-infested area cover each
seedling with fern leaves. The
planting was practically unmo­
lested.
A Pure Rat.................
Under any name, this nocturnal
animal is a real rodent. As a
beaver he is an imitation and a
runt, seldom packing more than
three pounds.
He sports four
large buck teeth. He is narrow
between the eyes, which slant.
The eyes, boring at you like two
nail points, belie his buck-toothed
grin.
The boomer’s habitat is main-
up the Douglas fir region. He is
a devilish destroyer of forest
seedlings. For years he kept him­
self pretty well hidden, and his
ravaging of second-growth was
so occasional that it was not
taken very seriously. Big. tough
timber beasts, such as the mink,
coyote and wildcat, kept the
boomer under cover. Predatory
animal hunters reduced his nat­
ural enemies. The boomer multi­
plied. His tribe spread as it in­
creased. It filtered into all necks
of the woods.
The boomer could live on skunk
cabbage and bracken fern sprouts.
Well, why doesn't he ? Because,
probably, he enjoys killing baby
trees—t'ne dumb rat.
Boomer Control . . .
The boomer’s fur and skin are
worthless, so no commercial trap­
ping of the animal can Ire ex­
pected. No one will advocate re­
stocking of the forests with wild-
Electric water systems.
Free installation & free
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ANDERSON WOODWORKING SHOP
By PILGRIM
THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
charge.
Q. I was disabled as a result
of my World War II service in
the Merchant Marine. Am I en­
titled to vocational rehabilitation?
A. Not from the Veterans Ad­
ministration as you are not a
veteran of the U.S. military serv­
ice. However, you may secure it
from the Federal-State rehabili­
tation program under the Federal
Security Administration.
CHEVRON
GAS STATION
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Events in
Oregon
CHERRY LOSS ESTIMATED
AT $750,000
HOOD RIVER—Of a cherry
crop estimated at 110 to 120 cars,
only 11 had been shipped from
Hood River valley by last week
according to reports from the
AGA, Duckwall brothers and Sta-
dleman Fruit. Financial loss to
local cherry growers because of
rain spoilage this season were
being estimated at around $750,-
000.
OREGON COAST GOLF
TOURNEY PLANNED
SEASIDE — Several hundred
golfers are expected to participate
in the Oregon Coast amateur golf
tournament, scheduled for the
Gearhart golf course for August
12 to 19, inclusive. The event is
expected to be one of the most
important events of the year, and
in addition to those entered it is
expected to draw hundreds of
spectators.
TILLAMOOK MILK
PRICE RAISES
TILLAMOOK—In order to take
the place of the milk subsidy
which has been offered to milk
producers during the period of
OPA local milk distributors have
adjusted their milk prices upward
as of July 11, 19146.
The price to the milk producers
is thus equalized with those prices
being paid to those producers
shipping to the Portland market.
The retail price will be 16*4
cents per quart.
O
cats and coyotes, unless the de-
structiveness of the boomer be­
comes more serious. Al! poisoning
experiments have failed.
In areas where the boomer has
actually threatened the ruin of
tree farming, intensive trapping
has solved the problem.
GOP House Leader Joseph W.
At present Aplodontia, alias the
mountain beaver, alias the boom­ Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts,
er, always a real rat. remains a contends that American private
minor forestry problem in the enterprise could do more to re­
Douglas fir. That was the status lieve the housing shortage than
of the Jap problem in the affairs the administrations huge emer­
of the United States for many gency program ’ with its vast sub­
years. We’ll do well to take no­ sidies.
Mr. Martin is recalling that
tice and make sure we do not let
history repeat itself in the for­ Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt,
ests of Washington and Oregon. who has $400,000,000 to be used
to subsidize production of build­
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ing materials, has announced the
Dad Get3 Lost Boy
goal of his efforts for 1946 as
Chubby Bill toddled along un­ 700,00 conventional type dwel­
mindful of the wet bushes, and ling units.
the falling darkness. Then came Figure« Cited
But, adds the congressman, the
a dad who had youngsters of his
own and picked up Billy and made bureau of labor statistics says
for a phone. Yes, the police that in the first three months of
wanted a stray boy and in no this year 171,000 building permits
time a car rolled in and Chubby’s were issued for conventional type
father had the fellow in his dwelling units, and that 150,000
aims. So it was that Billy was units actually were under con­
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saved from drifting off in the struction.
The bureau also estimated that
chill night and to what fate?
And do our older folks drift in the month of April, 65,000
away? Do they stay out late units were started.
"These figures clearly show
of a night?
And when they get
that
private industry on its own
in and at midnight maybe, are
not our hearts glad? So we can than the expeditor expected to
sense it, what our Lord meant obtain,” Mr. Martin points out.
“Give the American people half
when He told of the Ninety and
Nine all safe in the fold and of a chance—and they will take care
how the shepherd tramped the of the housing shortage with the
hills searching for the one that same energy and the same speed
was lost. We need this Bible pic­ they showed in supplying the
enormous demands of the war ef-
ture to get over on God’s ground ford.
”
and see ourselves as heaven sees
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us, with God’s heart yearning to
XDDING machine rolls, sale«
have us safe with himself.
books, scratch pads and signs.
And there is the Good Shep­
Get them at The Vernonia Eagle.
herd. our Lord Jesus, who came
to seek and to save that which
was lost. He gave up His life for
the man lowest down and the man
farthest away. To as many as
receive Him as dying for their
sins, He gives the right to name
themselves the sons of God. Here­
in is love—not that we loved
God but that he loved us and
gave his Son to die for our sins.
So God would have us home.
il'.APSKOTSj
At the
Churches
N.AZARENE CHAPEL
The church that cares.
.—H. L. Russell, Pastor
1208 Bridge St.
9:45 a. m.—Sunday school.
11:00 a.m.—Morning worship.
7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and
prayer.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
—Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor
9:45—Sunday school with clas­
ses for all ages.
11:00—Morning worship.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
8:00—Wednesday, prayer meet­
ing.
7:30—Friday, People's Night.
FIRST CHRISTIAN
—Ernest P. Baker, Minister
9:45—Bible school led by M. L,
Herrin.
11:00—Morning worship and Jun­
ior church.
7:30—Sunday evening service.
7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting.
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
Rev. Jl H. Goodrich
Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first
Sunday in month—Mass at
8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on.
SEVENTH vAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
EVANGELICAL
—Rev. Allen II.
Backer, Minister
9:45 — Sunday
school program
11:00 —, Morning
worship service.
7:00 — Junior Endeavor and
Evangelical Youth Fellowship.
3:00 p.m.—Evangelistic service.
8:00 p.m. Thursday—Prayer meet­
ing.
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LATTER DAY SAINTS
Sunday school convenes at 10
a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und­
er the direction of Charles
Long, Branch President. Polly
H. Lynch, Superintendent.
7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament
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The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
Entered as second class mail
matter, August 4, 1922, at the
post office in Vernonia, Oregon,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Meal planning to get the utmost
in grocery needs fra mevery dol­
lar is an easy matter when you
shop at King’s.
When we make this statement:
FOOD DOLLARS GO FAR­
THER HERE, we are not exag­
gerating. You can easily learn
that fact by following our sug­
gestion to
Do Your Grocery Shopping At
KING’S
KING’S Grocery - Market
“Where Your Money Buys More”
At the Mile Bridge
Phone 91
Riverview