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THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1946 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
By PILGRIM
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
¿vents in
Oregon
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. 2U>, Lôngview.
Q. What is the advantage in
having a loan insured instead of
guaranteed by the VA?
A. Only 15 per cent of the
obligaton is charged against the
entitlement of the veteran if the
obligation is handled by the lender
under the insurance provisions,
whereas the charge may be as
much as 50 per cer><; of the obli­
gation, if guaranteed. The result
is that more of the entitlement is
used up in a loan transaction by
guaranty and so less remains
available for future tnansactons.
Q. I have had no farm ex­
perience, but
believe I could
learn quickly to operate a farm
successfully. Is there any way I
can get training under the G.I. bill
so that I could later qualify as
a good risk, with a lender?
A. Undir both public law 16
(vocational ix-hahiliation) and 364
(GI. bill), eligible veterans are
entitled to both on-the-farm train­
ing and institutional education
which gives them a practical and
a scientific knowledge of agricul­
ture.
Q. Does the fact that I receive
other income have any bearing on
the amount of compensation I get
as a veteran, with a service-con­
nected disability?
A. No. Since your compensa­
tion is for a Stervice-connected
disability the amount of income
you have will not generally affect
the amount of compensation al­
lowed you.
Q. I believe I am entitled to a
car under the recent legislation
providing vehicles for amputees.
How do I go about getting it?
A. Obtain an application blank
from your VA contact office.
Upon approval by the VA, take
the application to the state agency '
responsible for license to operate
a vehicle with special appliances.
When the license is granted, take
application» to your automobile
dealer and pick out your car.
Dealers will bill VA for cost of
the vehicle not to exceed $1600).
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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 ÉDITORIAL-
KEEP YOUR CAR
IN TOP
CONDITION
It may be quite awhile before
you get that new car ... so
its smart to keep your present
one in good shape. It’s easy if
you have it checked regularly
here.
Lee Motors
Sale« and Service
SCHOOLS LIST RECORDS
IN ATTENDANCE
HLLSBORO—Hillsboro schools
had .record attendance on open­
ing day Mondav with more stu­
dents expected in coming weeks
to further crowd classrooms, ac­
cording to school officials, Hilhi
had 830 pupols as> compared to
780 a year ago, and Hillsboro
elementary schools had 815 as
compared with 773 for 1945.
Hilhi attendance is expected to
reach 875 by next week.
60 NEW LINES
INCREASE SERVICE
M’MINNVILLE — Sixty new
lines have been installed in the
McMinnville switchboard of the
West Coast Telephone company,
District Manager Harley J. Bar­
ber, Forest Grove, announced last
week.
The 60 new lines went into
service on August 31. Barber said
that the new lines will enable the
company to fill many of the or­
ders for business service and other
main line services which it had
previously been unable to fill.
FARMS FACE CROP
LOSSES; LABOR SHORT
FOREST GROVE—Washington
county farmers and those through­
out the state last week were faced
with a labor shortage termed more
critical than at any time during
the war.
A dearth of labor to harvest
late summer crops threatens to
bring serious losses, particularly
in hops.
Two hundred fifty hop pickers
alone are needed immediately i»
the county.
So We Grow Rich
You were like a dead man on
a slab in a morgue and then you
were lifted out of death into life.
To you God has given life, says
the Bible. To you who lived in
trespasses and sins, after the
ways of this world, obeying Satan,
the spirit that now works in the
sons of disobedience. And you
were deserving of wrath, the
Bible adds.
Then on a day, you believed
God, that Christ, his Only-Born
Son, had died for your sins and
that His blood cleared your page.
Now with all your sins written
off and forgiven, God has lifted
you out of death into life.
Prove God and prove the new
life. One way is to stand on
the Bible promises.—“Standing on
the ¡promises, the Gospey hymn
gives it. And to stand on the
promises is good sense for it
opens the way for God to prove
himself and you get to know his
mighty power and faithfulness.
Here is a promise that has
made one man rich in blessing—
“If any man serve me, him will
my Father honor,” so said Christ
in John 12:26. Serving Christ the
man has grown rich in blessing
from the time he taught a class
of hoodlums, in a mission Sun­
day school, down in the stock-
yards section of Chicago, to this
day. Yes, stand on the promise.
Prove God and grow rich in bess-
ings.
S. W. McChesney Rd., Portand I,
Ore. This space paid for by a
Portland family.
The Forum
Dear Editor:
All the citizens of the nation
are taxed to provide splendid re­
tirement annuities for the Presi­
dent of the United States and his
widow, for supreme court and
federal district court justices, for
members of the house and senate.
Why not let the people tax them­
selves just a little more to pro­
vide pensions for themselves under
the Townsend Plan bill HR 2229,
now before congress; the only
pension that must he spent, not
hoarded, every 30 days.
Yours,
Mrs. A. E. Jennings
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A “year without a summer” ac-
curred in 1816 when killing frost
fcnd snow were reported every
month of the year in New York,
Pennsylvania. New England and
even as far south as the Virginia
mountains.
According to one
theory, the cold was caused by
groat quantities of volcanic dust
in the air which prevented suf­
ficient sunlight from reaching
the earth.
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AT THE CHURCHES
—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.
EVANGELICAL
—Rev. Allen II.
Backer, Minister
. 9:45 — Sunday
school
11:00—Morning worship service.
Conference brotherhood repre­
sentative will be guest speaker.
6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service.
7:30 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
Wed. Eve., 7:30—Bible study and
prayer meeting.
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.
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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.
LATTER DAY SAINTS
Forest« and Floods . . .
The power of governmental
propaganda is a favorite theme
in this tower of truth, as readers
of the column do not need to be
reminded. Such propaganda often
proclaims what is absolutely not
so. An example is that which
blames lumbering for floods. The
innocent reader is asked to take
for granted the proposition that
forests “hold back the runoff”
and prevent floods.
But listen to Dr. Willis Luther
Moore, for 18 years and more
chief of the U. S. weather bureau.
Thus:
“Do you believe that the turn­
ing of forest areas into cultivated
fields, pasture lands, vineyards
and orchards, and the subjugation
of the wilderness to the needs of
civilization have intensified floods,
prolonged droughts, or otherwise
harmfully affected the climate?
I do not, and I have spent a half
century in the study of these prob­
lems, daily watching changes in
the weather, the fall of precipita­
tion upon various catchment ba­
sins, the gathering of waters into
tributary streams and their cul­
mination as floods in main-stream
arteries . . .”
Flood Fact« . . .
Dr. Moore cites, in support of
his thesis, “one of the leading hy­
draulic engineers of ... the world,”
Prof. D. W. Mead who through
study of the run-off of Wisconsin
rivers, demonstrated that lumber­
ing in the state had caused no in­
creased floods, either in inensity,
duration or occurrence. In im­
portant instances, decreases were
shown. Dr. Moore finds the same
sort of factsi in studies of the in-
nundations of Paris by the River
Seine. For years the deforesta­
tion of the Seine valley had been
blamed for floods. But the re­
port of the French engineer stat­
ed:
“The continued decrease of the
floods for each half-centnry is
remarkable, and yet the trees have
been steadily and unceasingly cut
down, and the forest transformed
into cutivated farms. What would
we gain, then, in rewooding our
fields?”
Dr. Moore points out, “The fact
is that when the rainfall is heavy
and continuous, as it must be to
cause noteworthy floods, there is
practically no difference in the
flow of water in the forest and
dn the open, for it can be shown
that the runoff from a smooth
surface and a rough one covered
with debris is equal after the
rough surface becomes well wet­
ted. As it is only after all sur­
faces are saturated that flood
conditions occur, the rain that
falls before saturation has little
or no influence on freshets . . .
“A flood In a stream is caused
by the rain or snow that falls
upon the watershed drained by
that stream . . . the area drained
at the source of the stream and*
its tributaries are infinitesimal in
comparison with the total areas
that catch the flood waters."
You Win, Mr. Barnum . . .
Dr. Moore explained further:
“If the growing of vegetation on
a watershed actually conserves
the moisture in the soil and pro­
tects it from loss, then «very or-
chardist, instead of cutivating the
spaces between the rows of his
trees, should allow these spaces
to grow up and be covered with
bushes, weeds and grass. But
the man who js growing fruit
listens to the voice of science in­
stead of paying heed to the hys­
terical screams of interested of­
fice holders. These office holders
wish only to retain their jobs of
protecting worthless vegetation.
“Forests should be conserved
for the value of the timber that
they may produce in the future,
or not at all. Instead of wasting
public money in protecting bush­
lots, let us expend it in the im­
pounding of flood waters.”
Dr. Moore wrote that expose of
propaganda on lumbering as a
cause of floods about 20 years
ago. His facts are not forgotten.
The propaganda rolls on from the
Washington, D.C., mimeograph
machines. The people still like
to be fooled, and a sucker, is yet
born every minute. You win, Mr.
Barnum.
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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 DAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A cordial invitation is extendej
to visitors.
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New Chemical
Kills Aphids
A new commercially produced
chemical,
hexa-tbeyl-tetra-phos-
phate, that does not yet have a
common name, looks like it may
start where DDT leaves off in
controllng some of the worst agri­
cultural pests, according to R. G.
Rosentiel, assistant entomologist
at Oregon State college.
Chief value of the new chemical
in tests so far is in its effective
control of aphids and red spider
mites even at very low dilutions.
These are largely immune to
DDT. The new chemical, devel­
oped by one of the spray com­
panies, forms a vapor when put
in water so that a combined con­
tact killing and fumigation affect
is obtained when used in enclo­
sures such as greenhouses.
Most of the testing has been
carried on in greenhouses so far
but field tests will follow. No
plant injury has yet appeared
even when applied to tender green­
house growth. Further tests will
be carried on before the new ma­
terial will be recommended for
general use.
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The Commercial Bank of Banks
Fear that labor will start a new
series of higher wage demands—
and thus further throttle indus­
try—is mentioned prominently as
one of the possible causes of the
severe stock market decline.
Those in Washington who hold
this view explain that future in­
dustrial earnings would be jeop­
ardized if industry is compelled to
pay still higher wages without
compensating price increases.
They add that apprehension over
this possibility undoubtedly caused
some of the stockholders to unload
their shares.
Whether or not this is the real
or complete explanation of the
market recession, genuine concern
is feld in the capital over the fu­
ture course of labor.
Union bosses already have
served notice that they intend to
seek wage boosts if prices continue
to increase. They ignore the fact
that the price increases have been
largely due to the recent round
of wage increases.
Other possible causes of the
stock market drop mentioned here
include the delicate U.S.-Soviet
relations growing out of Stalin’s
policy of baiting the democracies;
the continued shackling of indus­
try by OPA controls, and failure
of the government's housing pro-
gram to provide an adequate num­
ber of homes for veterans.
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