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THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1946 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
By PILGRIM
Had Date With Death
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. If I enlist now, will I be
eligible for benefits under the
G.I. bill
A. You are eligible for G.I.
bill benefits if you serve any
time before the war is officially
terminated.
However, you will
still be eligible (if you enlist be­
fore October 6, 1946, if the war
is officially terminated before
that time.
Q. What is the veteran popu­
lation of the United States?
A. The total number of veter­
ans at the end of June was 16,-
819,000. There were 12,848,000
World War II veterans and 3,971,-
000 veterans _ of World War I
and other wars. ’
Q. I was a V-12 student in
the navy for six months of my
service. Is the t.me spent in V-12
applicable on education entitle-
ment time under the G.I. bill ?
A.
Formerly, all V-12 time
was deductible from the period of
educational entitlement. The lat­
est directives, however, make
many exceptions. It is recom­
mended that you apply to the VA
office in your locality for a deci­
sion. If dissatisfied with the de­
cision, you may have your case
reviewed.
Q. What is the correct mailing
address for NSL insurance pre­
miums ?
A. Insurance records are now
kept in the branch offices of the
VA. You should send your pre­
miums to:
Veterans Administration
Branch 11
Insurance Collections Division
Exchange Building
Seattle 4, Washington.
Q. If a lender turns down a
veteran’s application for a loan,
what should the veteran do?
A. He should see another lend­
er. The fact that one lender is
not interested does not indicate
that another may not be. One
lender may not wish to make the
type of loan the veteran wants.
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^WASHINGTON'
SNAPSHOTS^
The senate military affairs com­
mittee has reported the Andrew-
Gurney bill to prevent employers
from being held liable for viola­
tion of the seniority clauses of
collective bargaining agreements,
through having followed directives
of selective service that returning
veterans must he assured of re­
employment, even if it means over­
riding seniority agreements.
The measure passed the house
■without objection. However, some
labor union officials are vigorous­
ly opposing the bill in the senate.
The majority of the military af­
fairs committee took the position
that employers should not be held
liable for following the selective
service interpretation of the law.
Whether a joint congressional
committee will be established to
investigate the need for labor
legislation remains undetermined
at this writing.
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
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Jesus set His face like flint to
go to Jerusalem for there He had
a date with death. In the night,
the officers came to arrest Him
and then it happened. For an
instant he must have again
clothed Himself with His eternal
glory and flashed it forth for
they all went backward and fell
to the ground. We humans, can­
not stand before such heavenly
splendor.
So they fell before
Him.
Then Christ let them back to
their feet and gave Himself up to
be crucified by them. He gave
His back to the smiters and His
cheeks to them that pulled out
the hair. He hid not His face
from the shame and spittle. The
third day, He arose from the
grave to breathe life into your
dead heart. You have lived your
days in sin, along with the rest
of mankind, taking your orders
from satan and are deserving of
God’s just wrath, even as they.
All this, the Bible dares tell you.
Ephesions 2:1-3—Bible.
So Christ made His date with
death to clear you. Take your
stand that His death cleared you
and by that God puts your name
in His Book of Life and His Spirit
into your heart. So you are born
again, born from above, born of
God, into eternal life. Prove the
new life. Follow the Bible. Look
to Christ for strength when the
going is hard—” “Casting all your
care upon Him for He careth for
you.”—Bible.
S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland
1, Ore. This space paid for by
a Portland family.
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Even ts in
Oregon
TELEPHONE COMPANY
TO BUILD AT SEASIDE
SEASIDE—The Pacific Tele­
phone & Telegraph company has
purchased a lot and will construct
a new Seaside telephone building
as soon as possible.
The building will house a new
business office and commercial
quarters for the company, as well
as a three-position attended public
station with 10 local and long
distance telephone booths. These
public telephone booths are ex­
pected to materially lessen the
load on the present switchboard.
Space also is being provided
in the building for the ultimate
installation of dial equipment to
serve Seaside and vicinity.
MANY TEACHER
VACANCIES LISTED
HILLSBORO—A total of 18
teacher vacancies, 16 at grade
school, are op list at the county
school
superintendent’s
office.
Less applications have been re-
ceived locally this- year than us-
ual.
More older teachers haye ap-
plied than previously, probably
due to the new retirement statute.
Only one applicant has been re­
ceived this summer from a normal
school graduate and the place­
ment was made. Forest Grove
and Sherwood high schools still
list vacancies.
CONSERVATION OF
WATER REQUESTED
SEASIDE—Seaside people are
asked by the city water depart­
ment to do everything possible
to conserve water, in the hope
that stringent regulations may be
avoided. So far there is plenty
of water and with good luck the
supply will continue to be ade­
quate. But with the present dry
weather it is possible- that the
supply will dwindle to the dan-
Water department officials point
out that if everyone conserves
water it may be possible to avoid
restrictions on the use of water,
ger point.
LEADERS DISCUSS AIMS
IN FARM LABOR SESSION
M’MINNVILLE — Organization
of farm workers in Yamhill coun­
ty continued last Thursday fol­
lowing a mass meeting of approx­
imately 80 workers, small farm­
ers and businessmen held Wednes­
day night at the Dayton Farm
labor camp under the auspices of
the Yamhill county local of the
Food, Tobacco and Agricultural
workers union, CIO.
Speakers appearing before the
group included Joe E. Faddling,
president of the International
Woodworkers of America, Stanley
Earle, state CIO secretary, and
Al Hartung, regional CIO direc­
tor.
No boycotts and no picket lines
were pledged by David Saunders,
FTA international representative,
who declared that the newly-
formed union will not force farm
Ferry Trip . . .
“The engine of the ferry beat
like a giant’s heart through the
floor of the passenger cabin. On
the bench seats humanity talked,
slept, read newspapers, gambled,
dreamed or stared with stony
faces. For the time wealth and
pocerty, good and evil, hope and
despair, rode in brotherhood.
“Chance had placed Mr. Bart­
ley Haddon, president of the Tide­
rock Timber company, beside a
family of Finnish loggers for the
ferry trip. A professional gam­
bler and a deacon touched elbows.
A forester, whose domain was
70,000 acres of big timber, and a
bulb fancier whose pride was a
backyard garden in a slum were
in botanical conversation.”
Murder, or Else . . .
On a May afternoon in 1535 I
sat and stared at the words in
those two paragraphs on the top
half of a sheet of paper in my
typewriter. For better—or worse
—than two days I had been mak­
ing false starts on a magazine
short story. This was, it, I hoped.
The stage was set. A main char­
acter had been brought on natur­
ally among a number of people.
It seemed to me that a feeling of
movement had been caught. There
was some breath of life in the
words, a few touches of color.
Anyhow, it seemed safe to work
on, without too much fear of
wasted t.me. A gamble, of course,
always a gamble. But it should
be made as much of a sure thing
as possible. This was dictated by
family economics, which demanded
a story that would sell surely—
and soon. This would be for a
newspaper syndicate.
There were a dozen royal mag­
azine markets to dream about for
stories that might be written from
the start I’d made. Each held a
promise of far more money than
the newspaper syndicate I was
aiming for could (possibly yield.
Why not gamble for one of them?
But there was the knowledge
that at least 400,000 other per­
sons were competing in the short­
story markets. Some 20,000 were
fighting to live by giving all
working time to the writing of
magazine fiction. The other 380,-
000 were in part-time fictioneer-
ing. No more than 200 were on
the editor’s lists as regular con­
tributors. My name was down
somewhere among the 99 per cent
of the enlisted personnel of the
creative writing craft—the 19,-
800 sergeants, corporals and pri­
vates.
A story written for the newspa-
workers to join its ranks nor will
it seek to force farmers in any
way.
The organization of the Yamhill
county local is making national
news on the labor front, Saun­
ders declared. “The 100 to 150
members of our group are an in­
significant number but the sig­
nificance of our stand is that our
program goes right to the roots
of the economic problems of the
nation.”
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Oil companies expect to pass
out 150 million road maps this
summer as history's greatest
stampede of motoring vacationists
are on a tour:ng rampage.
per syndicate would have to be
3000 words.
Acceptance would
yield $60.00—rent and groceries
for a month, in our modest way
of life. And to get that blood
must flow. It was murder, or
else a gamble.
So I put temptation aside and
wrote on with the third para­
graph: “Down in the murk of the
ferry’s freight dock three men
were planning the murder of
Bartley Haddon .... ” Three
days later I had 3000 words: writ­
ten and revised. Three weeks
later I had a $60.00 check—for
another murder in a typewriter.
Writing Is More Fun . . .
To expound and discuss such
case
histories,
among
other
things, the Pacific Northwest
Writers Conference opened July
29th for two weeks at the uni­
versity of Washington. Main at­
traction will be top writers and
editors from New York and Hol­
lywood. The prospect is that they
W11 be heard, through morning,
afternoqn and evening lectures
and panels, by three thousand
subscribers to all or part of the
two weeks’ conference.
After my dismal picture of the
real thing, you may ask, “Why?”
Well, after all, writing is ex­
citing. It is the greatest gam­
ble imaginable—you bet you can
take dreams and words and make
them into a winner of money and
fame.
Writing is also escape
from what is becoming the worst
of all possible worlds. And one
does not need a college education
to write. Far more writers have
come out of logging camps in
the Pacific Northwest than out of
universities.
Yet, it is far, far rarer to win
at writing than it is io win at
playing slot machines. It
is really “the writing game.”
Thousands will attend the Pacific
Northwest Writers Conference to
learn a little about the game. Old
Loggers Hole Holbrook, Bob (Cho­
ker) Case and your Uncle Jim
will tell ’em how the game is
played in the woods.
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Eggs may be stored in the
home for use during the scarce
season by the water-glass method,
or by dipping in mineral oil.
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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The Forum
DISCUSSES PAC PROGRAM
To The Editor:
The question has arisen in the
minds of many persons concerning
the status of the CIO political ac­
tion committee and its purpose in
the political world. Communists
are generally associated in the
public mind with the organization
and are believed to be the leaders
and sponsors, in the minds of
the misinformed.
The PAC is non-partisan, non*
sectarian, non-political, believing
in the government of the people,
by the people and for the people.
A government of right and justice
in which the great majority of
people shall win the rights of a
free people and govern themselves
accordingly.
Democrats, Repub­
licans, Catholics, Jews, Protes­
tants, CIO, AFL and all other lib­
erty-loving people are invitod to
join the ranks of the PAC and
help place better men in office
who will make for us a better
government.
The citizens’ political action
committee of northwest Oregon is
spreading out and increasing its
membership at every meeting.
The organization is becoming a
power and we ask the people, of
whatsoever belief, or affiliation,
to meet with us and see for them­
selves what the PAC really stands
for.
At the meeting in Rainier last
Sunday, many new faces were
seen and much encouragement
manifested. Among the notable
events of the day was the ap­
pearance of Dennis McGuire of
the Oregon Educational associa­
tion, who explained to those
present the object of the basic
school support bill. This is one
of the most important measures
to come before the people at the
coming November election, and
the question of good schools and
the proper education of the chil­
dren of the statq is at stake, and
only the passage of such measures
will guarantee the heritage of
those we leave to take up where
we leave off. Mr. Galloway of
the state tax commission, is the
author of the bill, which be­
speaks for its merits.
We endorsed this move at the
Rainier meeting which reflects
the views of the thousands of
members interested in proper edu­
cation and the promotion of edu­
cational matters.
Many candidates attend these
meetings and expound their views
for* us to take home and ponder
over. Also every effort will be
expended in promoting the best
to be had for the masses.
You will hear plenty from the
PAC in the future, and let us
hope and pray it will be for the
good of the majority, and bless­
ings for the minority.
FRED E. WINCHESTER,
Secretary Northwest
Oregon PAC.
GUARANTEED
WORK
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penter work, repairing or ce­
ment work. By the job or
hour. Sidewalks a specialty.
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NAZARENE 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. J. 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 oAY 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 H.
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.
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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