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4 THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1946 As 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 want to establish a florist shop with the aid of a G.I. loan. However, I do not intend to go into business for ' several years. How long do I have in which to apply for the loan. A. The time limit for loan ap plications is ten years after dis charge or ten years after the end of the war, whichever is the later date. Q. If for any reason a loan is not completed after the guar anty or insurance has been en tered upon the veteran’s honor able discharge or certificate of eligibility, what should be done? A. The veteran should send his honorable discharge or certificate of eligibility to the regional of fice of the VA where the en try was made with the appropri ate information so that the entry may be cancelled and the amount of the guaranty restored for the veteran’s use. Q. Are there any age limita tions for veterans who wish to take educational training under the G.I. bill? A. No. Q. Is medical treatment avail able to veterans who are in school or tranng on-the-job under the G. I. frill? A. The veteran in training is entitled only to such medical treatment as he would otherwise be entitled to by virtue of his mil- tary or naval service. Q. May I be allowed to spe cify the hospital in which I am to be treated ? A. Veterans are not permitted a choice. Hospitalization must be accomplished in the nearest suit able facility. Consideration is given the veteran’s choice pro vided the hospital, home or cen ter chosen is suitable and the ap plicant agrees to defray the ex pense of transportation to and from the selected institution if it is other than the nearest hospital. • Congress is coming face to face with the problem of how to man age the nation’s tremendous war debt. The federal reserve board also has interested itself in the prob lem. Increasing discussion of the subject is likely both in govern mental and business circles in the next several months. , The policy adopted for manage ment of the debt is of vital impor tance to business. It will affect taxes, credit, rates of interest and government expenditures. With passage by congress of the Byrd resolution reducing the au thorized national debt (With some exceptions) from $300-billion to S275-billion, the government must face realistically the problem of a balanced budget. Debate on the subject produced demands for a study of methods of managing the debt. Proposals made in congress include revision of the monetary system, greater economy, and application of re ceipts from sale of surplus prop erty to debt reduction. 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. Subscription price, $2.50 yearly OiEdoO^/irii Pun JVM NATIONAL tDIVORIAL— THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE By pilgrim Events in Oregon Mail#“') j^SAApSAOlgf THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. HEAT RECORDS BROKEN MERCURY ZOOMS TO 115 MEDFORD — Medford gained the dubious honor of being the hottest place this side the center of an atom bomb cloud as the thermometer soared to 115.2 de grees at the U. S. weather bureau at the airport Saturday, July 19, at 4 o’clock. Friday was bad enough when the thermometer went to 110 de grees. INTENSE HEAT KILLS TURKEYS BY THOUSANDS M’MINNVILLE — Intense heat Saturday and Sunday of last week caused the death of be tween 25,000 and 30,000 turkeys in Yamhill county, poultrymen es timated here as the suns rays continued to bear down with little relief in sight. The 100-plus degree tempera ture recorded was charged with causing most of the deaths where growers were unable to provide shade and cool water for the birds. Estimates of th<f probable loss in dollars to growers ran to over $125,000 and many experts have expressed fears that a continu ance of the high temperatures may cause further heavy losses. EXPANSION PROGRAM IS STEP NEARER FOREST GROVE—Expansion of Forest Grove’s city limits to in clude a ' vast surrounding area moved one step nearer the vote of the people last week as a mem ber of the City council explained the tentative plan to the cham ber of commerce. It takes in at least three in dustrial plants, the Kercher mill, McCormach brickyard and part of Carnation, plus a large residential region. Residents living in the effected territory have voiced themselves both favoring and disfavoring be ing taken into the city limits. Ad vantages from the property own er’s standpoint are (1) reduced insurance rates which will offset the increase in taxation; (2) as sured use of city utilities such as water and sewage; (3) increase in property value by being inside the city limits. • Boating Said 'Most Fun' RIVERVIEW—“The most fun I ever had in my life” was the pro nouncement of Mrs. Clarence Fow ler on her week end outing with her husband, spent at Rainier. Their host, Ira Mitchell, has a motor boat and he and Mrs. Mit- chell kept their guests on the wa ter most of the day. The Claud Gibson family was grateful this week for the re moval of the gas ration set-up. An Tuesday Mrs. Gibson, Patsy, Claudine and Claud and Miss Vir- gina Millis motored to Forest Grove; Wednesday Mrs. Gibson and Claudine were in Portland where Claudine kept her date with the orthodontist; another trip to Portland was made on Satur day when Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, Claudine and Claude transacted business there; and very early Sunday morning the Gibson fam ily accompanied by Bob Sunnell of Vernonia motored to Gearhart and went aclamming with very good success. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Herd are re modeling and re-roofing their residence on First street this week. Tom Magoff is enclosing the two lots he purchased at the entrance to Fourth street with a picket fence and Otto Schwab has painted the poultry house, a former garage, white with green trim. A genuine surprise was pulled on Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Anderson early Wednesday morning when a gentleman came to their door and asked, "Can I get something to eat?*’ Mrs. Anderson asked, “Are you really hungry?” Then the caller demanded, “Open the door. Trill, and let me in.” Cautiously she hesitated until her husband recognized Robert Ar thur of Sheridan. Mr. Arthur was accompanied by his wife and the foursome had a right jolly breakfast together. The Arthurs and Andersons had been ne.ghbors at Yamhill years ago and had not met for 27 years. Mr. and Mrs. Middleton Craw ford and son, Dennis, of Portland accompanied by their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Buzz Pemble, were Sun day visitors at the T. M. Craw ford home. Headrig King . . . If you were to set forth to tell the story of America’s job of the year — house-building — where would you start? Hundreds of material items and as many pro fessions and trades go into the new house. A story of the house could begin with any one of them. As for me, I’d start in one of the country's 40,000 sawmills. I’d set the scene and put my hero in it this way: The morning whistle boomed over the acres of millhouse, sheds and yards of the Great West Lum ber Company (sawing capacity— enough board feet per eight hours to supply lumber for 15 average homes). Rain clouds were rolling in from the North Pacific, and the morning was wet and dark. In the sawmill lights blazed over every machine. Saw steel glittered from trim mer, edger, resaw and slasher, as the sharp teeth of circulars and bands bit and ripped through boards, cants and slabs. The screams of the monster saws, the rumble of live rolls bearing tim bers, and the steady thunder of machines were like an uproar of battle. At the headrig stood Eagle Eye Hawley, the king of it all, the main man of the sawing floor of the mill—the head sawyer. It was just another day for him; of saw ing wood; of making lumber for another 15 homes. Scattered all over the country, even amid the corn fields of Iowa, were some 40,000 others of Haw-” ley’s breed and trade sawing wood for houses. Home in a Tree . . . The Great West’s head sawyer was off to a tough start. A log of Douglas fir seven feet through and forty long was on the car riage. Its end had a bullseye of “conk,” a symptom of extreme old age in the tree. Other character istics gave the log individuality in the eagle eye of the headrig king. Hawley had been sawing for 25 years but he had never, he declared, “seen two logs alike.” In split second timing the saw yer had to fix a pattern through his survey of the log. The pat tern took shape according to the items and grades of the lumber orders posted on the headrig board. The pattern was also shaped to make the most of the "uppers,” the finest grades in the log. Deep bark. Thin sapwood plenty of solid clears before the bandsaw should cut into the coarse grains and knots of the heartwood. Flooring, siding, fin ish, dimension for framing, boards for sheathing and form lumber— the log held all that stuff of homes, and much more. Other logs of the old, old Douglas fir tree were on the deck. They amounted to more than 15,000 board feet. A home in a tree, a bigger-than-average home. The 50-foot bandsaw was spun at ten thousand feet a minute on an upper wheel ten feet in diameter and by another under the headrig floor. The sawing space was between the two wheels. Eagle Eye Hawle'- sort of walked the log carriage up to the silver flash of ripping steel, then drove it through. A giant screamed. A slab three feet wide and forty long dropped like a slice of bread from a knife. The log carriage came to a sharp halt. Reversed, it was raced backward. Then the sawing went on ... . from a tree in Oregon . . . for a home in Brooklyn. Balloon-Tire Sawmill . . . Many more headrig artists run saws in mills that cut 5000 board feet a day than in such 150,000- foot outfits as the Great West. Many are the mills with two-man crews. But in every case the sawyer is king. In 1941 he and his high and mighty tribe were the key men. in keeping 350,000 carpenters supplied with lumber for cantonment building, the foun dation of the defense and war ef fort. They are key men still, in the housing crisis. Farmers in the Douglas fir country own a million acres and more of forests. Small sawmills of many varieties are cutting farm timber for housing and other urgent lumber needs. One is a trailer sawmill on balloon tires that is employed in the way of the custom hay baler or threshing machine. It travels at 45 miles per hour on the open road, can set up in 30 minutes and knocked down in 15. I’ve heard it said that the operators won’t hire sawyers for these jobs unless they can show records of service with Patton as tank-punchers. I’m not say ing, but it could be so. Anyhow, in big mill or little one, the king of the headrig in the Douglas fir is home-maker to America. IPGAKIVN At the Writer Lists Week's Activities Churches NAZARENE CHAPEL RIVERVIEW — Last Tuesday The church that cares. Miss Dorothy Huntley accompan —H. L. Russell, Pastor ied Mr. and Mrs. McCool of Tre- 1208 Bridge St. harne and Mrs. McCools sister 9:45 a.m.—Sunday school. and her son of San Diego, Calif., 11:00 a.m.—Morning worship. to Garibaldi. All were having a 7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services. jolly time when Mrs. McCool 7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and stepped into a hole and injured prayer. her ankle badly. She was brought to Vernonia as quickly as possible assembly of god where Dr. Eby made an examina- __ Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor tion and reported a triple break. 9:45—Sunday school with clas While enroute from Pasco, ses for all ages. Washington, to Seattle, Mr. and 11:00—Morning worship. Mrs. H. M. Gower spent two days 7:30—Evangelistic service. the first of the week at the home 8:00—Wednesday, prayer meet of Mrs. Gower’s brother, Walter ing. Moore. The Moores also had as 7:30—Friday, People’s Night. three-day house guests Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Duncan and son of FIRST CHRISTIAN Portland. They took the Duncans —Ernest P. Baker, Minister to Seaside on Friday for a picnic 9:45—Bible school led by M. L» Herrin. lunch on the beach. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Hillyer mo 11:00—Morning worship and Jun ior church. tored to Portland Sunday, picked up Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Combs 7:30—Sunday evening service. and Delmer Combs and the quin 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting. tet rolled away over the Colum ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC bia River highway to Hood River, Rev. Anthony V. Gerace around the Mt. Hood loop and Rev. J. H. Goodrich home through Government Camp. Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first They report a hot drive around Sunday in month—Mass at the loop. 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. House guests at the Pete Bruns Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. man home this week are Mr. and Mrs. Lew Wilcox of Pasadena, SEVENTH LAY ADVENTIST Calif., who came Saturday and Services on Saturday: Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Rourke of 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. San Francisco who arrived earlier 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. in the week to visit here and with A cordial invitation is extended the Brunsman family who recent to visitors. ly purchased a home on Corey hill. EVANGELICAL Mr. and Mrs. Bud Rose and —Rev. Allen II. sons, Mancel Lee and Bobby Joe, Backer, Minister and Nelson Bird returned Monday 9:45 — Sunday from Marysville. Calif., where school program they had gone July 20 for a visit 11:00 —Morning with Mr. Rose’s parents. They worship service. report a nice trip. Another Cal 7:00 — Junior Endeavor and ifornia returned Monday was Lor Evangelical Youth Fellowship. raine Mahar who had been away 8:00 p.m.—Evangelistic service. two weeks. 8:00 p.m. Thursday—Prayer meet • ing. Old Rags Now New Man You see Old Rags staggering, cursing, and vermin infested. On a day he heard the voice of God calling him to face about and put his trust in Christ, victor over sin and the grave. So it was that Old Rags put his remnant of a life into Christ’s keeping and you see him today alert, dressed and making good, his family gathered about and his business in hand and on the up and up. (As told by Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer.) CRIPPLE HEALED—our men brought a hopeless cripple and laid him at the feet of our Lord. Seeing the faith of the four, Christ then and there honored their faith and healed the man. Healed, he was for the Bible sees him rise up and walk. By these miracles, raising the dead and such, Christ proved Himself to be none other than the Creator and author of life. So today, Christ delights to honor the faith of such as put their trust in Him. Yes—Trust and obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey. Trust Him as having died for your sins. Trust Him to break up your sinful ways and trust Him to lift you up to glory on Resur rection Morn. 868 Bridge St. Vernonia, Ore. Ph. 1262 S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland 1, Ore. This space paid for by a Portland family. Paint and Wallpaper Contract or day work Licensed Contractors DUTCH BOY ENAMEL AVAILABLE NOW REFRIGERATION and RADIO SERVICE FWWWWW Appliance Repairing STRONG’S RADIO AND ELECTRIC 969 Bridge St. Ph. 576 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 • Wisconsin accounts for between 30 and 40 per cent of the coun try’s total harvest of peas for canning. • Marriages in the first three months of this year were nearly 50% above the 1945 period. RHEUMATISM and ARTHRITIS I suffered for years and am so thankful that I found relief from this terrible affliction that I will gladly answer anyone writing me for information. Mrs. Anna Pautz, P.O. Box 825, Vancouver, Wash. Pd. Adv.—NUE-OVO Laboratories Send your Laundry & Dry Cleaning to Portland’s most mo dern plant. Two pick ups and deliveries weekly at Vernonia at your home or our local agent— BEN BRICKEL’S BARBER SHOP OREGON Laundry and Dry Cleaners ■I Oregon-American LUMBER CORPORATION Vernonia, Oregon