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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.
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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.
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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
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Vernonia, Ore.
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S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland
1, Ore. This space paid for by
a Portland family.
Paint and Wallpaper
Contract or day work
Licensed Contractors
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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.
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