4 TMUR8DAY, OCTOBER 3, 1946 THE
EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
By PILGRIM)
*Atthe
Churches
Events in
Oregon
Aa 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.
BW-. Rm. 216, Longview.
Q. How long after discharge
from service are readjustment al­
lowances available to the vet-
Readjustment
A.
allowances
are available to an eligible vet­
eran at any time after his dis-
■charge or release until two years
after the date of his discharge or
two years after the termination of
the war, whichever is later. How­
ever, no allowances will be paid
for any week which begins more
than five years after the termàna-
tioa of the war.
Q. What is the “total disability”
clause under the amended na­
tional service life insurance bill?
A- The original insurance law
provided for waiver of premiums
in «vent of total disability.' In
addition, the amended law pro­
vide* for benefits at the rate of
$5 * month for each $1000 of
insurance in case of total disabil­
ity. By payment of a small ex­
tra premium. The face of the
PoHry will not be reduced by
such payments.
Q. Hao a veteran any recourse
io the civil courts for the purpose
»f »«curing a review of his claim
•for disability compensation or
penmon denied by the VA?
A. No. A veteran does not
have recourse to civil courts. How-
rvvar, he may secure additibnal evi­
dence and have his claim reviewed
by the veterans administration.
Q. Can a member of the wom­
en’» armed service obtain medical
aid from the veterans administra­
tion in pregnancy cases ?
A- Veterans administration has
ruled that pregnancy is not a
dieease or a disability, but a
natural phenomonoh or process
and therefore is not a responsibil­
ity of the government. However,
if there are pathological compli­
cations, the ex-servicewoman can
apply for medical aid.
Q. I am attending school under
the GI bill and working part-time.
My combined salary and subsis-
. tencc at present i^ over the $175
- ceiling set by congress for single
veterans. What am I required
to do,
A You should have received
notification from the VA to re­
port your August, September and
October earnings by November
5. Failure to report by the dead­
line will result in stoppage of-sub­
sistence cheeks until the neces­
sary information is received. Over­
payment of subsistence must be
paid beck to the government. The
VA will announce later the meth­
od* by which such adjustments
wiO be made. In reporting on
earnings, do not include informa­
tion on subsistence, compensation,
or pensions paid by the VA.
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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The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
Entered as second class mail
■satter, August 4, 1922, at the
post office in Vernonia, Oregon,
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NATIONAL tDITORIAL—
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ASSOCIATION
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ASSEMBLY OF GOD
—Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor
0:45—Sunday school with clas­
ses for all ages.
11:00—Morning worship.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
8:00—Wednesday, prayer meet­
ing.
7130—-Friday, People’s Night.
ENROLLMENT SETS
NEW RECORD
SEASIDE — Enrollment in both
Seaside schools went to new high
records last week as additional
students registered. Seaside high
school particularly showed an un­
usual increase, with the result
that in certain sections seats
were so short that two students
were forced to sit in seats meant
for one.
The Gearhart school, with 103
pupils, was also crowded in spite
of the fact that two new rooms
have been added.
On Wednesday, the registration
at the high school was 278 as
compared with 211 for the pre­
vious year. At the central school
the registration was 497 as com­
pared with about 480 for the same
time last year.
FILBERT, ONION
HARVESTING STARTING
HILLSBORO — Harvesting of
filberts and onions was getting
under way in the county last week
with pickers in demand.
On a wage scale agreed upon by
growers, the ceiling pay for fil­
bert pickers is 3l>4 cents per
pound without a bonus. Onion
workers will be on a straight
hourly basis on pay, it was an­
nounced.
The main walnut harvest is not
expected to start before the mid­
dle of October. Pay agreed upon
by growers will be 15 cents for
a 12-quart pail plus a 3-cent bo­
nus.
SCHOOL BARS PUBLIC
FROM GYMNASIUM
FOREST GROVE — Basketball
fans will have to go elsewhere
than the union high school to
drink of their favorite sports this
winter for the general public
is to be barred admission to the
gymnasium, Principal Paul A.
Menegat made known last week.
The crackerbox structure which
bulged at the seams and creaked
under the weight of over-capacity
crowds during the past few sea­
sons will no longer be open to
the public for evening basketball
contests.
“We can’t even accommodate our
own student body anymore,”
Menegat commented.
In order to make room for Stu­
dents and so that the public will
not be tempted to gain admit­
tance, contests will be played
without wide scale publicity and
whenever coaches agree to sched­
uled games.
FIRST ALUMINUM ROLLS
FROM PLANT MONDAY
TROUTDALE—Idle for nearly
a year, the aluminum plant here
went back into operation Mon­
day.
The huge, modern plant has
been quiet for nearly a year,
since the lease by the Aluminum
Company of America was termin­
ated by the Reconstruction Fi­
nance Corporation, a government
agency last October
Between 400 and 500 persons
are employed at the plant now
and this number will be aug­
mented as the Reynolds firm
readies other potlines.
•
Boy and Plow Horse
The boy pulled the old horse to
a stop and gave ear. Then like
the rising sun, a new light came
into his face, a surprised look,
an eagerness, a joy and an excla­
mation—“Then all my sins are off
my page and it is very clean!”
A new boy he was, alert, awake.
He knew that he was out from
under the death sentence that
hangs over every soul that ever
committed a sin. And would the
boy like to bow his head and say
a word of thanks? At this, he
dropped the lines over the plow
handle, took off his hat, bowed
his head and gave thanks in his
own words from a heart at peace
because of sins blotted out and
new life given.
And how do believers, old or
new, come to know that God has
made them His own? ONE—Be­
lieve and keep on believing. Be­
lieve that the Blood of Christ has
blotted out your sins TWO—Press
ahead. Live by the Bible, looking
to Christ for victory in ths many
daily trials and for victory over
the old sins. Sooner or later,
along the path of Christian duty,
there comes the holy hour when
the Spirit of God bears witness
with your spirit and God has
made you His own. You His and
He your Heavenly Father forever
•nd ever.
S. W. McCheaney Rd., Portand 1,
Ore. Thia space paid for by a
Portland family.
The trouble) with OPA all along
has been like that of Uncle
Moe’s old mule: “He hears what
you say, but he just don’t give a
damn.”
Here’s q current example:
The Wall Street Journal reports
(Sept. 17) that a 3.3 billion-bushel
corn crop is about ready to roll EVANGELICAL
out of the fields.
—Rev. Allen H.
“Farmers in Illinois, Iowa, In­
Backer, Minister'
diana, Minnesota, Nebraska and
South Dakota don’t have enough
9:45 — Sunday
crib space to handle it.
school
“And they can’t get lumber to 11:00—Morning worship service-.
build the cribs.
6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service.
“If the lumber isn’t forthcom­ 7:30 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
ing within the next few weeks, as Wed. Eve., 7:30—Bible study and
much as 50 million bushels of
prayer meeting.
corn may be piled on the ground.”
On Feb. 2, a press release FIRST CHRISTIAN
showing results of a spot survey —Ernest P. Baker, Minister*
of price control operations stated 9:45—Bible school led by M. L.
Herrin.
among other things:
11:00
—Morning worship and Jun­
“A Winchester, Ind., grain, coal
ior church.
and wood company revealed that
it had been unable to buy picket 7:30—Sunday evening service.
cribbing desperately needed for 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting-
Indiana’s corn harvest because NAZARENE CHAPEL
sawmills could not furnish the The church that cares.
lath at OPA prices.”
.—H. L. Russell, Pastor
OPA was publicly warned seven
1208 Bridge St.
months ago. But now that har­ 9:45 a.m.—Sunday school.
vest time is about here, it looks 11:00 a.m.—Morning worship.
as if the corn is to go on the 7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
ground.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and
prayer.
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Wyatt’» Flophou»er> . . .
From foxholes for the night to
dream homes in the attic of old
houses—that’s what coming back
from years of war to a future of
peace is meaning to many veter­
ans. The housing bureaucrats—
“housers,” they term themselves—■
in Washington haven’t openly ad­
mitted it yet, but their proten-
ious programs are mostly stuck
in the mud.
By the hundreds of thousands,
the saviors of the civilized world
are holing up in shanties and
tents, parking in trailers, bunk­
ing in basements, hanging out in
“temporary” housing that was
tossed up for war workers,
squeezing in with ma and pa, and
perching in fehe-alUcs of old
houses. It is time to start call­
ing the federal housers *‘flop-
housers.”
The record is clear. Yet no
one who commands a public audi­
ence of importance ¡stalking truly
from the housing record. All that
I’ve heard or read from pundits
and pcliticiansnn the subject has
been versions Of the Wyatt Flop-
hcuser:’ press Beteases. It is time
for private enterprise in build­
ing to get a hearing.
Attics for Veteran» F. .
The record of industry on plan­
ning homes for veterans may be
cited in the Home Planners Insti­
tute program, which was set going
nationally by the West Coast
Lumbermen’s association an the
National Retail Lumber Dealers
association in 1943. At V-J Day
there were institutes in more than
a hundred cities throughout the
U^A, serving as educational me­
diums and aids on home building.
The Big G boys had nothing of
the ,kind. They had their mimeo­
graph machines going full blast
on such for the veterans as the
home-loan phoney in the so-called
GI Bill of Rights.
In the last two years of the
war, Bill Bell, manager of the
Western Retail Lumbermens asso­
ciation, traveled from town to
town throughout the Pacific
Northfest, to sound the warning
of a shortage of homes for vet­
erans after the war and urging
action to meet it.
But the power for such action
was all in the hands of the hous­
ers on the Potomac. Nothing that
amounted to anything was done.
Nothing of vital substance is be­
ing done today.
Last February lumbermen de­
manded a stop to the use of
The Forum
LATTER DAY SAINTS
desperately short materials in the
Sunday school convenes at 10
building of saloons, roadhouses,
a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und­
racetracks and other catchalls for
er the direction of Charle»
Dear Editor: Attention! Mr.
the billions of sucker money loose
Long, Branch President. Polly
Mackenzie, chairman of Oregon
in the country. No move on
H. Lynch, Superintendent.
Pension Plan Committee, Dear
this had been made since V-J day.
Sir: Replying to yours of August 7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament
It took another two months to get
6th will say the gross income tax
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
action. And the action is still
as
we have it in Hawaii is the
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
pitifully feeble.
simplest and most satisfactory talc
Rev. J. H. Goodrich
In April this column, pointed out we have. The cost of collection
Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first
that the only hope average vet­ is about 1 Ms per cent and after 11
Sunday in month—Mass at
erans could have for decent Years experience, I can say it
8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
dwellings within a year would be meets almost universal approval.
Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on.
in the remodeling of old homes It is not a sales tax as it includes
to produce housekeeping apart­ all types of income, We find SEVENTH LAY ADVENTIST
ments for modest rent. That’s it easy to administer and there
Services on Saturday:
how it still looks. It’s Attics for is no pyramiding. It has a very
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
Veterans.
beneficial effect on our economy
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A Housing Traffic Cop . . .
because it is collected monthly
A cordial invitation is extended
No one denies the essentiality and immediately spent back into
to visitors.
of the police function of govern­ trad« channels. Due to monthly
ment What is needed in the collections there is a continuous
For Pasteurized
housing crisis is for the federal flow of money into the treasury.
housers to serve as traffic cops
Before its enactment, edch
under simple provisions fo the session of tho legislature appro­
routing of materials and labor priated a quarter of a million
into homes for veterans through dollars to pay,, interest on borrow­
the established channels of’private ings when taxes were paid in
enterprise, and away from un­ June and November. We have
needed construction.
not borrowed a dollar since and
and
The latest figures put out by instead of deficits, we have con­
Housing Expediter Wyatt show tinued to have a surplus and have
BUTTERMILK
that over 600 thousand houses paid several millions on our bond­
were started in the first 7 months ed debt. It is our best tax mea­
right from the farm to
of 1946 and that 550 thousand re­ sure from every angle. Signed:
your door, write or call
main unfinished. A great share Wm. Dorthwick, tax commis­
Telephone No. 7F51
of the skeleton dwellings report­ sioner.
ed will still be unfinished when Submitted by Mrs. A. E. Jennings.
CUR PRODUCTS
winter strikes. They will have
ALWAYS
SATISFY
the bulk of the lumber they re­
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quire—the framing. Some will
lack wiring, more will lack
plumbing equipment and soil pipe,
others will want plaster and brick,
some will need sash and doors.
And nearly all will be held back
Timber Rt., Box 56
by the dire shortage of skilled
building labor.
Vernonia, Oregon
The federal flophousers have
flopped worse on labor to build
homes. They are doing little or
IF YOU NEED
nothing to route a fair share of
carpenters, plasterers and others
A NEW BATTERY
of the building trades from com­
mercial building into home build­
or any other accessory
ing. They are doing little or
for your auto, see Heath’s
nothing to police the black mar­
kets. They are duds in the busi­
stock.
ness of building. They are dumb
cops. They are flops.
•
A tattered remnant of the
American flag that flew at Cor­
regidor was hidden away by two
brave men during the Japanese
occupation and flies today on the
Pentagon building in Washington.
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Phone 5711
At the Mile Brige, Riverview
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