the Forest Grove hospital
4 THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1946
Az a service to veterans in the
eomaranity, this newspaper will
publiait a weekly column of ques-
aa mast frequently asked con
tact men of the Veterans Admin
istration in this area. For more
detailed
information,
veterans
should contact or write to the
neareat VA contact unit at P. O.
Bl*, •Rm. 216, Longview.
Q. I am the qtep-mother of a
vetenui killed in service. He was
in my care and custody before
his entrance in the army. May
I file a claim ?
A-
Yea.
Q.
How long must a National
Service Life Insurance policy be
in effect before it can be convert
National Service Life In-
surance must be in effect at least
one year before conversion.
Q.
I am training under public
law 16
act.)
(vocational rehabilitation
Does the new legislation
limiting combined subsistence and
earnings affect me?
A.
No. The limitations are
placed only on veterans training
under public law 346 (The G.I.
bill).
Q. I am a widow of a World
War II veteran killed in action.
1 have four minor children. Will
I ba allowed more pension under
the recent legislation regarding
widows pensions?
A. Yes. Before the new act
was passed, there was a ceiling of
S1W for a widow with children
for wartime-connected death cases.
Full pension credit, therefore, was
not given for more
children.
Under the
eadh minor child will
ered in determining
than three
new law,
be consid
a widow’s
pension.
Q. What is the “national serv
ice life insurance fund"?
A. A nation service life insur
ance is mutual insurance.
All
premiums paid on this insurance
and all interest earned thereon are
deposited in a separate trust fund
in the U.S. treasury, designed as
the “National Service Life Insur
ance Fund.” The government dé
rivas no profit from its administra
tion and acts in the capacity of
trustee of the fund for the sole
benefit of the policyholders and
their beneficiaries.
The Forum
Dear Editor:
What a, great deal of money is
spent each month in counties,
states and by our federal gov
ernment in maintaining great
staffs of “snoopers” to check care
fully into the means available to
each individual before any help
_is granted under the old age laws.
If ell this money' thus spent
for “administration” were made
available
for "assistance” the
rhaaces are that every age-aid re
cipient. would be able to draw the
maximum now permisaable. If a
pesaan were found later to be
chesting, he could be penalized.
This is the principal upon which
the Townsend Plan now before
congress as HR2229 would work.
Mrs. A. E. JENNINGS.
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You too can be a fire warden.
Report any forest fires to nearest
fire warden. Keep Oregon Green.
Calling all berry pickers. Watch
yowr campfires and cigarettes!
Ibsi’t start forest fires.
Keep
Oregon Green.
The Vernonia Eagle
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ÎHE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE v
By pilgrim
j
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.
Subscription price, $2.50 yearly
SCHOOL ROSTER INCREASES
107 IN 1ST COUNT
M’MINNVILLE — McMinnville
city school enrollment at the
first count last week reached 1244,
an increase of 107 over the com
parative enrollment of 1137 last
year.
This first report figure
has already gone up slightly in
some schools ahd is expected to
rise still more after the first few
weeks of school.
REYNOLDS PLANT OPENING
EXPECTED BY WEEK'S END
GRESHAM — Gleaming pink-
tongued molten aluminum will
again start pouring from the pot
lines of the gib government-owned
aluminum plant this week, accord
ing to E. J- Appel, assistant vice
president and plant manager for
the property which will resume
operations under lease by Rey
nolds Metals company.
Approximately three days are
required for the hube reduction
pots to be “baked out,” after
which the actual reduction of
alumina to aluminu mstarts.
Only one pot line will be put
into operation at the outset, but
the remaining three will be start
ed as quickly as installation of a
new air washing system for them
can be completed.
•
To Slay World Ruler
This present age is to end with
the nations under a World Ruler
who is to meet a strange death.
Powered by Satan, the man will
demand that he be worshipped as
vGod and the masses will so bow
to him. Worshipping him, they
in fact bow down to Satan who
powers him.
At this blasphemy, God lets
loose his just wrath in fearful
plagues and if those day had not
been shortened, no flesh would
have been left upon the earth.
They who thus give their worship
to this World Ruler, Satin’s man,
must answer with their lives since
God cannot step aside for any.
Says he—"I am God and there is
none else.”—-BIBLE.
After those awful days, Christ,
our Lord, descends from heaven
with power and great glory and
slays the World Ruler with the
breath of His mouth. Christ then
sets up Peace on Earth wtith
equity and justice to all.
This is not the age of Bible
peace. This present age sees God
calling out a people from all na
tions on whom to spend his love
forever and ever. Today, may you
prove the life that God gives to
all who believe on Christ, our
Lord, as having died for their
sins. Step ahead now—grow up—
look utterly to Christ for strength
—live by Power From On High.
8. W. McChesney Rd.. Portland 1,
Ore. This space paid for by a
Portland family.
•
Berry pickers attention! Last
year you started several forest
fires because you were careless
with fire. Make this a no-fire
year. Keep Oregon Green.
•
EAGLE
NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL—
IMLY ASSOCIATION
—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.
FIRE LEVELS FORCE
MILL NEAR BUXTON
BUXTON — Fire of undeter
mined cause late Sunday afternoon
a week ago, destroyed the Force
sawmill near Vernonia junction
north of the Sunset highway,
causing a loss estimated at $30,-
000 and throwing 26 men out of
employment.
The blaze was the second re
cently to sweep a sawmill in this
area, the Manning plant having
been destroyed two weeks earlier.
FIRES LEFT BY
CARELESS HUNTERS
TILLAMOOK — District Fire
Warden Norris Joyce issued a
warning last week that until a
prolonged rain struck this coun
ty, danger of forest fires is still
quite acute. Two fires broke out
in the Bear Creek area, southwest
of Tillamook in the Crown Zeller-
bach holdings, during the past
week and were extinguished only
after an all night battle.
The fires were attributed to
careless bear hunters building
fires in a pitch stump and leaving
them for the east wind to stir up
into a blaZe.
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SEVENTH LAY ADVENTIST
AT THE CHURCHES
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A cordial invitation is extendej
to visitors.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Events in
Oregon
MailBaq
ed?
A.
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
iaat
EVANGELICAL
—Rev. Allen H.
Backer, Minister
OF 122 TRAFFIC ACClPFNTS
OCCURRING IN A SOUTHERN
-TOWN LAST yEAR,45 OCCURRED
ON UNII6UTEP STREETS
”T he GARLIC
SURVEY BY THE BUREAU
OF LABOR STATISTICS
5HOW6 MORE THAN
77VG M/LL/ON VETERANS
EMPLOYED IN MANUFACTURING
CROP |6 EXPECTEP
TO RUH 50%
ABOVE MORAAAL
-THIS yEAR-----
ABOUT
23.3 MILLION
POUNDS
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The leaders of organized labor
again have defied the policies of
the Truman administration.
This blunt fact far overshadows
the immediate issues raised by the
maritime strike itself, because it
constitutes a challenge to the
American people whether their
duly-elected
representatives or
union leaders will run the govern
ment.
Another blunt fact which the
controversy points Up h’arply is
the futility of the government’s
attempting to manage a part free
and a part federally-regulated
economy.
In the opinion of the few mem
bers of congress now in Washing
ton, the admiistration’s wage pol
icy is a complete wreck. This
meas that the nation will be
forced to wabble along with the
unions setting their own wage
policy, and the government con
trolling the price policy.
The capitol opinion is that the
wage stabilization board made a
serious mistake in interfering With
the wage agreement negotiated
by the AFL with the ship owners
through collective bargaining. This
is regarded as another example
of how government meddling with
the economy results in nothing
but confusion.
•
Among famous religious relics
looted from the Hapsburg trea
sure chambers in World War II
were three links of iron chain
with which the Apostles Peter,
Paul and John were believed to
have been fettered, and the Sa
cred Lance long thought to be the
origipal one thrust into the cruci
fied body of the Saviour.
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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Complete Coverage on
All Makes and Models
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.
LATTER DAY SAINTS
posing volume of clear lumber
that they undoubtedly carry.
Mining companies go to much
trouble to work out methods of
recovering the value from law
grade ores. Here is a depost of
value that would make most mines
look sick—waiting everywhere for
the bright idea, the proper gad
gets, the human initiative and
know how to make it pay.
On the other side, it is a volume-
of natural resources that this
country urgently needs. The hous
ing program demands the logging
of defective timber. Forestry re
quires it, to realize full produc
tion of forest land. Everything
about the conky stuff says, “come
on in and log.”
52 GIFTS IN ONE—
AN EAGLE SUBSCRIPTION
9:45 ‘— Sunday
school
11:00—Morning worship service.
6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service.
7:30 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
Wed. Eve., 7:30—Bible study and
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.
More on Defective Timber . . .
(By Forester E. H. McDaniels)
When you next look on what
seems to be a lot of wood
in logging leftovers, remember
that freight on a sound log and
on a cull log is the same. In the
mill, sawing defective timber costs
as much as sawing sound timber;
picking out the unmerachntable
boards and heaving them into the
proper conveyor costs about as
much as putting merchantable
boards onto the sorting table. A
big highball null is stowed down
plenty' by too many conky logs.
These are good enough reasons
why salable material has been left
in the woods. As the haul gets
longer and the conky stands in
southern Oregon are inreasingly
pened, more partly sound timber
will be left. In cat and tractor
logging, the logger can be more
selective. He leaves the defective
trees standing. Operations with
40 per ent of the volume left
uncut are not too uncommon. It
all adds up to a whale of a log
of good material.
It also adds up to a big nui
sance. Douglas fir grows best in
full sunlight These overmature,
partly logged stands are not grow
ing at all. Decay is usually faster
than growth. As long as they ac-
cupy the ground, young stands
that will put on 600 to 1200 feet
of wood per acre per year have
not a chance. In some ways it
was better to clear cut and give
the junior forest a show.
Neew New Little Mill . . .
Doing something about these de
fective stands is becoming more
urgent.
Operators, large and
small, have already demonstrated
that something can bei done. The
percentage of upper grade lumbar
is high.
Roads and other im
provements are in place, and more
are coming. As the logging front
retreats up the canyon, the haul
is shorter for this material than it
is for the virgin stands. A good
many logs are already felled and
bucked. Heavy equipment should
not be needed—is really not want
ed.
Some small mills have already
been built to work on these vet
erans. More small mills close to
the woods may be a main part
of the answer. That takes care
of the item of transporting un
marketable material for long dis
tances. A small mill designed to
cut high grade lumber from de
fective logs should have an ad
vantage over a big mill designed
for a big cut from sound logs.
Don’t ask me what the design of
that little mill should be like.
Several designs are already work
ing. Look them over—then in
vent one of your own.
Waiting for Idea . . .
If the land owner intends to
keep his forest land producing, it
is certainly worth money to him
to get the old stand out of the
way—especially in the present
market. Girdling the old hollow
butts to kill them has been sug
gested. That leaves a snag patch,
as big a fire hazard as if the
trees had bean killed by a broad
cast slash fire, and much more
expensive. Further any such move
as that finally disposes of any
chance to salvage the really im-
•
Last year nearly 300 forest
fires were started from campfires
left burning. Don’t be a fire bug.
Use plenty of water on that camp
fire. Keep Oregon Green.
•
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
SHODDY SHRINKS
SHODDY may look like
real “all wool” when you
buy it—but not for long.
Cheap insurance may
seem like sound protec
tion but its value shrinks
when a loss comes. When
you insure your property
avoid shoddy — insist on
real protection through
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
VERNONIA
INSURANCE
EXCHANGE
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
905 Bridge Street
Phone 231 Vernonia
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estimates.
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Ed Roediger
C. I. Anderson
Plumber. Repair and new
installation. Call for free
estimates of work.
Electric water systems.
Free installation & free
service for one year.
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J From where I sit... ¿y Joe Marsh
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Going Fishing?
Here's How!
To hear Willie Wells and Basil
Strube arguing about trout fish
ing, you’d think it was more im
portant than the atom bomb.
Willie favors dry flies, Basil
pooh-poohs anything but wet flies.
Willie swears by a Royal Coach
man ; Basil won’t hear of anything
but a Silver Doctor. And by the
time it comes to steel rods versus
bamboo rods . . . #!X&**!?1
But on Saturday, each got back
from Seward’s creek with a catch
that couldn't have differed by more
than several ounces!
Each had used his favorite kind
of fly, his favorite rod and his
favorite place to cast So over a
friendly glass of beer, they al
lowed as how maybe they were
both right . . . which is how so
many arguments should end.
From where I sit, if we all re
spected one another's different
opinions—whether about trout
flies, or drinking beer, or voting,
life would be a whole lot pleasanter.
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