•;J| THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1946 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
MailBW
Ae 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. Can I get a loan guaran­
teed or insured to construct more
than a single-family home?
A- Yes, but one veteran cannot
get a guaranteed or insured loan
to buy or build more than a four-
fiamily home.
If more than one
veteran is buying, then the basic
four-family home is allowed for
the group and thia may be in­
creased by one additional family
unit for each veteran participat­
ing: thus two veterans can buy
or build a six-family home, three
veterans a seven family home,
ate.
Q.
How many hospital beds
are there in veterans’ hospitals?
A. The total number of exist­
ing beds of all types is 94,817 in
106 VA hospitals. The proposed
expansion program of the Veter­
ans Administration will bring this
total to 161,832.
A. What are the most import­
ant provisions of the amended
bill regarding National Service
Life Insurance?
A. 1. Three new type per­
manent policies—20 year endow-
metn, endowment at the age of
60 and endowment at 65.
2. All restrictions on the
choice of beneficiaries imposed
by the original act have been re-
SHORTAGES SLOW
WORK ON HOMES
GRESHAM—Shortages of build­
ing materials are responsible for
long delays in the completion of
47 homes within the city limits
of Gresham, first results of a
survey now under way by the
housing development committee
of Gresham chamber of commerce
revealed.
wife.
So it was that he began
to help himself from the com­
pany till. Then he was found out,
arrested, tried and named guitly
sent to the pen and his sin was
out in the open. Yes, says the
Bible- Be sure your sin will find
you out.
Your lusts, unholy loves, spites,
hidden habits, hates, grudges and
godless plans may bq secret just
now but they will all come up
on Judgment Day when you must
give account to God.
Now face about and see God
with outstretched arms, yearn­
ing to possess you and make you
rich forever as the son of his
love. But he must see you cleared
of all sin. So it was, he put them
on Christ, our Lord, who ded
for them and blotted them out.
Hia blood can wash the vilest
clean.
MIRACLE ONE.—Settle it in
your heart that your sins are
blotted out by Christ’s death and
God gives you new birth into his
family. You become a son of his
love. TWO—No matter how hard
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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NATIONAL EDITORIAL—
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T he umitep states
Buys A BOUT 50%
OP CUBA'S SUGAR
RECORD FLAX
YIELD TOLD
FOREST GROVE—What is be­
lieved to be a state record for
flax straw yield is reported from
the Ritchey Brothers farm in the
Groveland distircL
From a 20-acre field, Don Fish­
ier, manager of the Washington
county flax growers plant, reports
80.99 tons of flax staw were
weighed in. The flax was of the
new certified Cascade variety.
Under experimental conditions this
variety has surpas-<ed all others
both for tonnage and percentage
of fiber.
BONNEVILLE INSTALLS
HUGE TRANSFORMER
HOOD RIVER—Installation of
a 3000 KVA transformer by the
Bonneville administration was un­
derway last week at the Bonne­
ville substation in Hood River. The
new huge unit will take the place
of a 1000 KVA transformer which
has been in service since the sub­
station was energized.
All anticipated future demands
for many years to come of the
Hood River Electric Cooperative
will be taken care of by the new
transformer.
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His Secret Sin
The cashier was playing the
ponies and he had an expensive
By pilgrim
Events in
Oregon
FARM WAGES HELD
SAME BY BOARD
M’MINNVILLE — Farm labor
wages remained at the previously-
3. Insured may have payments established level of a maximum
made to the beneficiary in lump of 85 cents an hour and 2% cents
ram or in equal instalments rang­ a pound for bean picking last
ing from 36 to 240 months. Pre­ Thursday following a hearing con­
viously, the only method of set­ ducted Tuesday night by the U.S.
tlement provided was. monthly in­ department of agriculture wage
come or annual payments.
board for Oregon to gather facts
Q. At present I am working for a possible boost in wage ceil­
part-time and collectionn partial ings.
readjustment allowance. Because
The session was calle dat the
of the reduced payment, am I request of the Yamhill county
«legible to collect for a longer local union of the Food, Tobacco
period of time than the unem­ and Agricultural workers, CIO,
ployed veteran.
which has announced Lt intends to
A. Each time a veteran re­ obtain a $1 hourly wage for
ceives payment of a weekly allow­ farm labor and 3t4 cents for bean
ance, regardless of the dollar picking.
amount of the payment, he has
med up one week of the limited
number of allowances to which he
may be entitled.
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THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE <0
Lack of cooperation among exec­
utive branches of the federal gov­
ernment is being cited here as a
major factor in the collapse of
the veterans’ emergency housing
program.
The National Association of
Home Builders says that a survey
of 23 states shows that 92 per
cent of the veterans’ houses start­
ed since January 15 "are either
at a standstill or seriously de­
layed.” The reason given is that
the government has failed to as­
sure an adequate steady flow of
building materiales.
For Want of a Nail
This accusation is supported in
one instance by the recent an­
nouncement that the war assets
administration and the national
housing authoirty are releasing
12 million pounds of nails from
army and navy stockpiles.
According to the two govern­
ment agencies, this hitherto un­
tapped source of a vital material
is enough for construction of
30,000 houses — provided other
scarce materials are available.
What some people here are
wondering is why it took the
WAA and the NHA months to
discover and release this stockpile
of nails . . . and what other crit­
ical materials vital to building
still are buried in government
warehouses.
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GOLD RUSH
The Outdoor Writer« . . .
If you are interested in working
up a fine state of confusion for
yourself an easy wav to do it is to
start figuring on the term, “out­
door writers.” You mar ponder
first on the question, “Are there
two broad divisions among the
tribe of inkslingers; that is, in­
door writers and outdoor writ­
ers?” And then: “Is an outdoor
writer one who does his writing
outdoors, rain or shine, or what?”
Keen it up and you'll end mum­
bling the old song, “Who takes
care of the caretaker’s daughter
while the caretaker’s busy taking
care ? ”
To get down to business, there
are some 700 members in th»
Outdoor Writers Association of
America. They are newspaper,
magazine and book writers who
rather up stories on hunting,
fishing, and conservation and
write them as their main busi­
ness in life.
The famous novelist, Louis
Bromfield, is an outdoor writer
in his work today, with soil con­
servation his chief interest. Every
sizeable daily newspaper has an
outdoor editor who is a specialist
in knowledge of soil, woods, wa­
ters and wild life, and who can
also sling words.
No writing group is mnre sig­
nificant to the future of the Pa­
cific Northwest.
The Good Land . . .
The outdoor writers form the
main channels of information be­
tween the public and the tourist
and outdoor recreation industry.
No one questions that an enorm­
ous boom is in the making for
this industry—if we don’t get
atom-bombed into oblivion. That
prospect is something to make
the forest-land owner and the
farm-land owner tremble.
For
them the tourist and the vaca­
tionist so often means destruction
of property.
There are many signs that an
age-old instinct for the life of
the good land, the soil and the
things of the soil of Mother Earth,
is (in rising tide among the people
of the towns. Among our think­
ers the idea of Thomas Jefferson
on the abiding virtues of life on
the soil and his fears of indus­
trialism are gaining new respect.
Thus the driving urge of so
many to get back to the good
land, to take to the woods, to
drift with time on a quiet lake.
Lumbermen are facing that
prospect as an inexorable fact.
Farmers are coming to it. How
can they all make the best of this
rising problem of urbanites escap­
the way or dark the day. look ut­ ing to the land ?
The first thing, isn’t, it, is to
terly to Christ and He will see
you through. Which for you? find common ground for meeting
and talking things over? And
Sin and despair or is it Christ
where is there a better means' for
with heaven’s hope, peace and
this than with the 700 organized
Joy?
outdoor writers of the country ?
Can you suggest a better place
to stait? And start we must.
8. W. McChesney Rd.. Portland 1. The Writer« Conference . . .
Ore. This space paid for by an
At the super-colossal writers’
Oregon family.
conference, held for two weeks by
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the University of Washington,
Changes and improvement in one day was given to outdoor
hosiery machines will make ladies' writing. Two national leaders in
stockings fit better, be more sheer the field, George Robey of Ohio,
—and greatly increase tneir pro­ and Charley Gillhan of Illinois,
duction.
were brought to the Pacific
Northwest for the day. Both are
read regularly as authorities by
Hundreds of thousands. Both are
leaders in the Outdoor Writers
Association and their influence
carries through the entire group.
With them were writers whose
main work is in other fields but
who also are well known for their
efforts as friends of the land and
evangels of its good use. Ex­
amples: Ph losophy Professor Ba­
ker Brownell of Northwestern
University, Harry C. Eldridge,
publisher of plays, Laura Bolton,
famous as explorer, ethnologist,
lecturer, and writer of articles in
National Geographic.
All were informed of the for­
est-land problems of this region
in relation to the hunter, the fish­
erman, and the vacationist. Every
one was responsive, heart and
soul, to the objectives of Keep
Washington Green and Keep Ore­
gon Green. The power of these
writers and their fellows for for­
est-fire prevention in the future
cannot be calculated.
Vic Vet
At the
Churches
Class Reunion
Saturday Event
RIVERVIEW—Beverly Turner
and Lorraine Mahar, members of
the ’44 V.H.S. graduating class,
attended a reunion of that body
Saturday evening at the city park,
enjoyed a weiner roast at the
pool and later attended a dance.
They regretted the absence of
many of their classmates.
Their first view of the Pacific
was enjoyed Sunday by Mr. and
Mrs. Cates and children, Joyce
and Shelby Jean, when they ac­
companied Mr. and Mrs. Art
Owens and family to Seaside.
Mrs. C. Cook was also a member
of this picnicking party.
Herman Wood has suffered
much the past week with a badly
infected hand, spending most of
his time with it submerged in
medicated water.
A physician
opened the sore Sunday which
gave Mr. Wood some relief.
Recent visitors at the Monty
Dewey home were her brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Wildey, and their five chil­
dren of Redondo Beach, a suburb
of Los Angeles, California, who
were visiting other relatives here
and at Grants Pass.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Falcon-
bury and daughter, Juanita, John­
nie Strunk and Mr. and Mrs.
H. Bledsoe went jetty fishing at
Rockaway Sunday.
They were
successful Ln getting a nice bunch
of crabs and Morris caught his
first perch, a nice one.
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Serviceman Aboard
Ship Bound for Home;
Relatives Visit
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
—Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor
9:45—Sunday school with clas­
ses for all ages.
11:00—Morning worship,
7:30—Evangelistii service.
8:00—Wednesday, prayer meet­
ing.
7:30—Friday, People's Night.
EVANGELICAL
—Rev. Allen II.
Backer, Minister
9:45 — Sunday
No church services in morning
or evening.
8:00 p.m. Thursday—Prayer meet­
ing.
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.
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.
LATTER DAY SAINTS
RIVERVIEW—Leo, Mary Ann
and Marcella Parker of Barview
and Juanita Newcomb of Tilla­
mook drove up Sunday for a visit
with Mrs. Anna Parker and with
the Chas. Gill family in Vernonia.
They returned home via Portland
where Miss Newcomb stayed for
a two-week vacation with rela­
tives.
Mrs. Oscar Sorlee of Portland
spent the week end here with her
patents and reports that her hus­
band who is still .in the service is
aboard ship bound for the U.S.A.
To avoid the heat Mr. and Mrs.
T. M. Crawford, Mrs. Elizabeth
Brown and her son, Andy, drove
to Seaside Sunday. They report
a cool sea breeze.
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
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 GAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
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weekly at Vernonia at
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WORK
Estimates made free for car­
penter work, repairing or ce­
ment work. By the job or
hour. Sidewalks a specialty.
E. M.
OREGON Laundry
and
YORK
Dry Cleaners
CONTRACTOR & BUILDER
108
A
St.
Al Norman
Ed Roediger
C. I. Anderson
Experienced cabinet maker.
Mill work built to order. Free
estimates.
Plumber. Repair and new
installation. Call for free
estimates of work.
“A hird in the hand i»
Worth Two in the Bu«h"
A Car That Operates is
Worth Two that Won’t!
Lee Motors is equipped
to give you that better
grade of car repairing
service.
Lee Motors
Sales and Service
PHONE 173
Electric water systems.
Free installation & free
service for one year.
ANDERSON WOODWORKING SHOP
Phone 575
Riverview
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LUMBER
CORPORATION
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Vernonia, Oregon
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