« THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 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. What legislation affecting
veterans was enacted by congress
before adjournment?
A. Almost every phase of vet­
eran affairs was touched in last
minute legislation by the 70th con­
gress. In brief, the bills passed
provided for:
1. Liberalization of the Na­
tional Service Life Insurance to
include the three new types of
permanent policies—20-year en­
dowment, endowment at age 60
and endowment at age 65; lump
sum payments to beneficiaries in
caae of death; permit« the naming
of beneficiaries outside the re­
stricted classes in the original
bill.
2. A 20 per cent increase in
pensions to veterans of both
World wars and their dependents
and some increase to veterans of
other wars. Veterans in hospitals
may now receive full payment of
pensions (formerly there was a
considerable reduction for hos­
pitalized veterans without depend­
ent*).
3. Automobiles will be provid­
ed for veterans who have been
crippled as a result of amputa­
tion or paralysis. The VA will
pay the cost of the oar, including
special equipment or attachments
necessary up to $1600.
4. A bill was passed establish­
ing standards for on-the-job train­
ing and providing reimbursement
to states for supervision of train­
ing programs. The act prohibits
payment of subsistence allowance
to veteran« with dependents if
they are earning more than $200
while studying or training under
the G.I. Bill, Veterans with no'
dependents are limited to $175.
5. Terminal leave pay for for-
mer enlisted personnel of the
armed forces. Application blanks,
when available, will be obtainable
at all post offices.
6.
Authority and funds to
provide canteen service for em­
ployes and patients in VA hos-
petals and other insballations
where commercial facilities are
not available.
7. Retired officers of the armed
forces, public health service and
coast and geodetic survey may
be employed by the VA without
loos of their retirement benefits.
8. Persons who are living in
euemy-occupied territory during
the war and who did not receive
benefits due them by the VA will
l>e reimbursed providing they
prove that they remained loyal to
the United States,
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GUARANTEED
WORK
Estimates made free for car­
penter work, repairing or ce­
ment work.
By the job or
hour.
Sidewalks a specialty.
E. M.
YORK
CONTRACTOR A BUILDER
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St.
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
Entered as second class mail
Blatter, August 4, 1922, at the
peat office in Vernonia, Oregon,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
TRAVEL SHOWS
HUGE INCREASE
MEDFORD—Travel to Crater
Lake National park for the cur­
rent year totals 137,742 visitors
compared to 30,855 at the same
time last year, an increase of
346.4 per cent.
Registration of visitors at the
same time in the last pre-war tra­
vel year of 1941 exceeds that of
this year by 59,028 or 39.9 per
cent. The park was open through-
out the travel year of 1941 and
61,839 people had registered by
June 11, the date the park was
open to the public this year.
PEACH RUN
AT NEW PLANT
FOREST GROVE—A peach
probably starting the end of
week inaugurated the new Hud­
son-Duncan cannery in northeast
Forest Grove.
About 100 men and women will
be employed when both day and
The
night shifts are running.
plant will start with a day shift
and later operate the night shift
as the run increases in volume.
The peach run will be the only
activity at the plant for the pres­
ent.
MOST COUNTY SCHOOLS
OPEN SEPTEMBER 9
HILLSBORO—Hillsboro
union
high school and the local grade
schools and a majority of the
other Washington county schools
will officially open on September
9.
Many are also opening on
September 3.
Banks, Tigard, Forest Grove
and Beaverton high schools are
all scheduled1 to open on Septem­
ber 9 and Gaston and Sherwood
highs will open a week later.
Scofield is the first county school
scheduled to open, according to
a list of schools which has re­
ported to county school superin­
tendent’s office, with the dare
set as August 26.
DESPERATE CALL
OUT FOR PICKERS
M’MINNVILLE — Desperate
need for several hundred bean
pickers was announced last Thurs­
day by several Yamhill county
growers.
The beans have come on fast
and many pickers went home be­
fore heavy yields started making
picking really profitable.
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So Babes Are Born
Must a babe know of its birth
into this world?
Anyway, the
babe is here and later it can
know. Just so it is with the man
born of God. He wakes up to it
that he is a new man with new
urges and the peace that passes
understanding. Now turn back to
Bible time« and see Stephen, a
man born of God, with the new
urges in his heart. He speaks
for Christ and they arrest him.
In the court room, being filled
with the Holy Spirit, he looked up
to heaven and saw the glory of
God and Jesus whom they had
crucified, standing at God’s right
hand. This was to profane God’s
name and they set on Stephen
and stoned him to death. Dying,
Stephen prays for them and asks
God not to lay their sin against
them. So God gave him a new
heart and out of it he could for­
give and pray for his enemies.
Yes—Out of the new heart, you
love your enemies, you do good to
them that hate you and you bless
and pray for such as revile you.
Believe in Christ our Lord
that He is God the Saviour and
that He died for your sins. Do
this and God gives you the new
heart that knows true love, cheer
and the peace that passes under­
standing.
S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland 1,
Ore. This space paid for by an
Oregonian family.
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By PILGRIM
CHEST X-RAYS DROP
BELOW EXPECTATIONS
M’MINNVILLE— Result of the
second annual county cheat x-ray
survey, completed recently fell
far below expectations of the
county public health association.
A goal of 5000 examinations by
the mobile and portable units had
been set by the association for all
communities in the county. Total
number examined was 2114.
Subscription price, |2.50 yearly
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THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
Events in
Oregon
Mail&W
As of today, a girl of 20’s
chances of marrying within the
year are 15.5 out of 100—her nor­
mal chances of ever marrying
ane 92 out of 100.
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
Besides giving thousands of
medical consultations over a ra­
dio telephone system, Australias
flying doctor service for isolated
areas covers more than 130.000
miles annually by plane.
Defective Timber . .
This column is by Forester E.
H. MacDaniels.
The flame of the slash fire
filled the canyon from wall to
wall. The bull-of-the-woods had
tears in his eyes as big as prunes.
“There goes 60 thousand feet of
flooring to the acre,” he said,
choking back a sob.
“Well, for Pete’s sake, why
didn’t you bring it in before you
set fire to it?” asked the ignor-
ant bystander.
With a brief struggle, the
B.O.T.W. got control of himself,
“That forty was all doty old
growth. The trees were big and
smooth, but between the conk
and the breakage, the scaler had
to throw out pretty near all of
it.”
The bystander was still baffled.
“But if it ran 60 thousand feet to
the acre of upper grade lumber,
why did ho want toi go and throw
it out?”
“It Wa. Conky” . . .
“Most of the logs were just
shells and a lot of them were
split and broken. When we logged
this the market was off.
We
couldn’t monkey around picking
up stuff like that with our big
machinery, and if we did, we
couldn’t have hauled it in our
logging cars nor run it through
the mill,” was the patient re­
sponse.
“Yes, but you pick up every
scrap of cedar, and you pay less
stumpage on that than you do
for old growth fir—.”
“Sure, but cedar goes into
shingle bolts and things like that.
We dont’ run it through the big
mill. We have special machinery
to work it up.” The reply was
not quite so patient.
“W’ell, if you can have a spec­
ial mill to work up cedar why
can’t you have one to work up
clear fir?”
The bull-of-the-wood couldn't'
be bothered any more. He said
Nuts,” and began making signals
to the driver of a cat that was
strengthening the fire line at
a point where the fire was trying
to cross it.
The bystander still felt rather
ignorant. To save him, he couldn’t
see why there wasn’t some good
picking in that doty old growth,
True, thel logs were only shells
of sound wood around a crum-
bling center. He had made a note
of that. But the shell was gen­
erally a foot thick, or better.
Further, it was the part of the
log that is supposed to make the
profit.
No common lumber to
peddle at a loss.
Question of Equipment................
He got the argument of not
hauling short logs on standard
logging trucks and not running
culls through the big mill. Grant­
ing all that, a lot of stuff that
brings good money in town is
left in the woods. Not quite so
much right now when the demand
is strong, which goes to show that
the bystander was right in the
first place. Much of the material
left in the woods has value, and
getting that value is mostly a
question of equipment.
With plenty of timber close to
town, defective logs can’t compete
with sound logs, particularly in a
buyer’s market, such as we gen­
erally have here in the fir belt.
^WASHlNGTOl'A
smapsmots ^
Arabella M. Mansfield was the
first American woman lawyer.
She was admitted to the Iowa bar
They’re
telling
the
story
around the capital these days
about the American newspaper­
man who, by some chance, took
along a couple of mail-order
house catalogues when he went
to Russia.
In Moscow he showed the cata-
logues to the wives of some of
the Red diplomats, and they were
fascinate«^ by the things the cata­
logue offered for sale: washing
machines, refrigerators, vacuum
cleaners, radios, underwear, suits,
etc., etc., the merchandise, so rea­
sonably priced, from America’s
manufacturers which the average
citizen over here takes for grant­
ed as a part of living.
For Common People?
“Wonderful things!” the Soviet
officials’ wives gasped. “They are
reserved, we suppose, only for the
American government officials
and their families? The common
people can't buy them, of course ’"
"But of course they can—any
American can buy everything
listed in the catalogues,” the
American newspaperman assured
the amazed Reds.
“As a matter of fact,” he added
—and this really floored the Com-
munist women—“as a matter of
fact, Americans are BEGGED to
buy them—all they want!”
H/ruR
At the
Churches
Straw Saving
Improves Soil
Farmers who burn straw and ASSEMBLY OF GOD
stubble from grain and seed —Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor
crops are losing valuable plant
9:45—Sunday school with clas­
food, increasing the danger of
ses for all ages.
wind and water erosion, and jeo­
11:00—Morning worship.
pardizing the conservation prac­
tice payments for their farms,
7 ;30—Evangelistic service.
warns E. Harvey Miller, chairman
8:00—Wednesday, prayer meet­
of the state PMA committee.
ing.
“Burning straw and stubble
7:30—Friday, People’s Night.
actually destroys nitrogen, phos­
phoric acid and potash that the
operator will have to replace with EVANGELICAL
high-priced commercial fertilizer
—Rev. Allen H.
—if he can find it,” Miller de­
Backer, Minister
clared. Pointing to forecasts
of continued tight fertilizer sup­
9:45 — Sunday
plies for the coming year, the
PMA chairman cited the following
11:00—Morning worship.
per ton values of crop residues,
based on commercial fertilizer 7:00 p.m.—Young People’s service.
8:00 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
prices:
Crimson clover straw, $5.19 a 8:00 p.m. Thursday—Prayer meet­
ing.
ton; Ladino clover, $9.46; red clo­
ver, $6.11; sweet clover, $4.80;
FIRST CHRISTIAN
white clover, $7.21; alsike clover,
—Ernest P. Baker, Minister
$4.86; hairy vetch, $7.41; Willam­
9:45—Bible school led by M. L.
ette vetch, $5.39; Austrian peas,
Herrin.
$4.92; barley, $3.05; oats, $2.92;
11:00—Morning worship and Jun­
wheat, 32.18; rye, $2.61; grass
ior church.
straw (average) $2.93; bean vines,
7:30—Sunday evening service.
$11.18; pea vines, $9.56.
7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting.
Aside from the fertilizer val­
ues, crop residues returned to the NAZARENE CHAPEL
soil also improve soil tilth and The church that Cares.
help hold the soil in place to pre­ —H. L. Russell, Pastor
vent wind and water erosion.
1208 Bridge St.
Burning crop residues also may 9:45 a.m.—Sunday school.
cost a farm operator his entire 11:00 a.m.—Morning worship.
payment for performing agricul­ 7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
tural conservation practices, Miller • 7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and
warned. Many county ACA com­
prayer.
mittees, especially in western Ore­
LATTER
DAY SAINTS
gon .have ruled that straw burn­
Sunday school convenes at . 10
ing defeats the purpose of the
a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und­
conservation program and will
er the direction of Charles
disqualify a farm for any practice
Long, Branch President. Polly
payment he reported.
H. Lynch, Superintendent.
Ml.ller also called attention to
practice payments under the con­ 7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament
servation program for utilization ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
of crop residues. These include
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
“trashy” or protected summer­
Rev. J. H. Goodrich
fallow, which will be offered
Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first
again under the 1947 program at
Sunday in month—Mass at
rates similar to this year’s; haul­
8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
ing straw for use as a mulching
Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on.
material on orchard, strawberry,
potato and commercial vegetable SEVENTH LAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
land, $5 a ton for legume straw
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
and $3 for non-legume; incor­
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
porating pea and vetch straw into
A cordial invitation is extended
the surface soil on land subject
to visitors.
to erosion, 60 cents an acre.
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
Making a tasty cold drink for
your satisfaction is our chief
aim. We like to make them
so you’ll like to drink them.
DON’T FORGET OUR
ARDEN ICE CREAM
OREGON Laundry
and
The Cozy
Dry Cleaners
Bus Depot
Phone 582
-
Al Norman
Ed Roediger
C. I. Anderson
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Experienced cabinet maker.
Mill work built to order. Free
estimates.
Plumber. Repair and new
installation. Call for free
estimates of work.
Electric water systems.
Free installation & free
service for one year.
ANDERSON WOODWORKING SHOP
Phone 575
Riverview
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Oregon-American
LUMBER
CORPORATION
Vernonia, Oregon
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