Events in Oregon DEER HUNTERS CAUSE FIRES FOREST GROVE— Deer hunt­ ers were bilamed for a series of Aa a service to veterans in the what were termed “careless” fires community, this newspaper will breaking out the first day of publish a weekly column of ques­ the annual hunting, season through­ tions most frequently asked con­ out the Northwest Oregon fire tact men of the Veterans Admin­ district, headquarters reported last istration in this area. For more week. Some 30 acres were de­ detailed information, veterans stroyed over the week end and should contact or write to the numerous fires discovered before nearest VA contact unit at P. O. they escaped. Careless action on the part of Bldg., Rm. 216, Longview. hunters in the woods combined Q. Can a veteran draw insur­ with “very bad” fire weather—an east wind of high velocity and ance benefits for total disability low humidity—resulted in five and be rated not permanent and fires costing the state of Oregon total for pension purposes? a total of $1000. A. Yes. The criteria for two SPUD HARVEST STARTING different types of ratings are not IN MIDSTATE PRINEVILLE—Potato harvest identical. Q. What happens to my Na­ operations in central Oregon are tional Service Life Insurance if I getting started this week, with die without naming a beneficiary ? about 9500 acres of potatoes to A. Payments will be made to be marketed in the three your estate in lump sum, provided central Oregon counties this sea­ son and the usual worries on the it does not revert to the state. Q. May a discharged veteran part of potato growers as to the apply for additional National labor supply. County agent E. L. Woods reported that Crook county Service Life Insurance? A. Yes. Under the new provi­ has about 4500 acres of potatoes sions, any veteran having less to harvest this year, 1600 acres in than $10,000 NSLI may apply for the Prineville area and the rest that amount, subject to all other in the Powell Butte district. An­ regulations regarding the insur­ other 5000 acres in Deschutes and Jefferson counties will bring the ance. Q. I have been working full- 1946 acreage about up to the 1945 time and attending school under level, best potato year on record the GI bill. Under provisions of here. the new legislation, can I receive BUILDING TOTAL FOR HILLSBORO HITS $573,826 subsistence payments ? HILLSBORO—Building permit A. Yes, provided your com­ bined earnings and subsistence total for 1946 in Hillsboro soared will not exceed the ceiling set by to $573,826 for the first nine the legislation ($175 for veterans months despite a September drop -without dependents, $200 for mar­ on estimated construction of $19,- 499 from the August* total of $37,- ried veterans). Q. I have repaid my guaranteed 001, according to figures released loan and am wondering if the by City Recorder E. M. Bowman. Eighteen permits were filed guaranty privilege is restored to during September, one less than its original amount? A. No. However, you are al­ the previous month. Two more lowed a maximum of $4000 for residences were added during last, realty loans, $2000 for non-real month to push the total on new estate loans. If you did not use homes in Hillsboro for the year the full amount of your first loan, to 64. PARKING METER PLAN you may use the balance now. Q. Is a loan for household AGAIN UP FOR AIRING M’MINNVILLE — The parking furniture eligible for loan guar­ meter question for McMinnville, antee? A. No. Veterans are cautioned after a few months of slumbering, against “side deals” in furniture came out for airing with a spe­ or other household articles priced cial meetinf of the retail merch­ above reasonable value, as a con­ ants committee and public safety dition of sale * when purchasing committee of the McMinnville homes using their loan guaranty. chamber of commerce. A meter program for the city Q. I plan to buy a book shop using my loan guaranty privilege. to solve parking problems was I have had no experience in the first suggested early this spring, business, but believe I could be but did not progress beyond the successful. Can I obtain a guar­ discussion stage when strong op­ position was voiced against the anteed loan ? A. It is up to the lending plan by farm interests in the agency to decide whether, you are county. The opposition was chief­ a good risk. Moreover, it is ad­ ly raised, it is now reported, visable to get) a job and gain ex- through incomplete understanding perience in the business before of the problem. you use your guaranty privilege. Betrayed by Judas “A bird in the hand i» Worth Two in the Bush" 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 The Vernonia Eagle Marvin Kamholx Editor and Publisher Official Newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon Entered as second class mail matter. August 4, 1922, at the poet office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $2.50 yearly On the day He chose His apos­ tles, Jesus took on Judas and whenever His eyes fell on the man, Jesus saw death come closer. After three years, Jesus set His face like fline to go to Jerusalem, there to die, under your sins to clear you. At Jerusalem, came the night of the Last Supper and Jesus turned to Judas to tell him to act and be quick about it. Judas hurries out to find the officers and betray Jesus over to them for those 30 pieces of silver. Yes—Jesus suffered pain as they nailed Him on the cross. But His real suffering was His an­ guish of soul as He took on the pains of hell and suffered them to clear you. He came under your death sentence. From your first sin, you have lived condemned. You awake in the morning, you live the day, you lie down at night, a condemned man, for you sinned and the wages of sin is death—BIBLE. What do? Stand on it that Christ died for all your sins and cleared you as says the Bible. Settle it and God gives you new life, then and there. Now prove God and prove the new life. Look utterly to Christ for strength to get you through every hour. Live by POWER FROM ON HIGH. S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland 1, Ore. This space paiid for by a Portland family. EAGLE At the Churches Highway Man Is Transferred 4 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 194« THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. MINES Sn1 ^°AL ON MAcn°3r°°O '" crease F eanuts can BE SPUN INTO FIBER ANP WOVEN INTO CLOTH — WEARS AS WELL AS WOOL J e BURHEP CMDLEi IN OUR HOMES. THE COST WOULP BE 200 TIMES THE MONTH Ly ELECTRlCny BILL TÍRE NON-POISONO ü S IÑPI6O SNARE RILLS ANP EATS THE PEAPLy RATTLER 90% OF CAR TRIPS IN THE U.S. ARE OMiy 30 MILES IN LENSTM MIST—Mr. and Mrs. Earl ASSEMBLY OF GOD Roper went to Hebo Sunday morn­ —Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor ing to see about a home. They 9:45—Sunday school with clas­ plan to move next week. Mr. ses for all ages. Roper has been transferred from 11:00—Morning worship. this district to Hebo as highway 7:30—Evangelistic service. boss. We shall miss the Ropers. 8:00—Wednesday, prayer meet­ They have lived in our midst for ing. the past five years and have 7:30—Friday, People’s Night. gained many friends. We wish them success in their change. EVANGELICAL The Austin Dowling family shopped in Vernonia Saturday. —Rev. Allen IL Mrs. Jane Carter iis improving Backer, Minister rapidly. Mrs. Earl Roper took Mrs. Er­ 9:45 — Sunday nest Kysej- and little girl to the school doctor in Vernonia one day last 11:00—Morning worship service. week. We understand the little 6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service. girl has whooping cough. 7:30 p.m.—Evangelistic services. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Libel were Wed. Eve., 7:30—Bible study and home over the week end from prayer meeting. Fairview. The Bud Murphy family moved FIRST CHRISTIAN Sunday from Roy Hughes’ little —Ernest P. Baker, Minister cottage, where they have lived 9:45—Bible school led by M. L. the past two years, to Vine Maple. Herrin. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Melis pur­ 11:00—Morning worship and Jun­ chased a new electric range last ior church. week from Chas. Sundland, who, 7:30—Sunday evening service. with his helper, Bernard Dowling, 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting. installed it last week. NAZARENE CHAPEL • The church that cares. —H. L. Russell, Pastor 1208 Bridge St. 9:45 a.m.—Sunday school. To the Editor: 11:00 a.m.—Morning worship. Nearly every issue of newspa­ 7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services, pers reports some business man 7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and complaining of his increasing tax prayer. burden. When are business men going to consider the fact that LATTER DAY SAINTS Sunday school convenes at 10 they must add every penny of a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und­ taxes, interest, profits and wages er the direction of Charles- into the co. t of the goods they Long, Branch President. Polly sell before they offer their goods H. Lynch, Superintendent. to the ultimate consurfier. When they realize this, business 7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament men will have to confess that ST. MARY’S CAThJLIC they never have at any time paid Rev. Anthony V. Gerace any taxes whatever, but have Rev. J. H. Goodrich simply functioned as a tax col­ Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first lecting agency for some govern­ Sunday in month—Mass at ment unit Once they realize this, 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. their thinking will be consider­ Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. ably clarified on all tax matters. So $3.00 tax out of $200 will not SEVENTH LAY ADVENTIST hit them. Customers and Town­ Services on Saturday: send Plan folks will pay every 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. month, so hurry in more shelves, 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. Mr. Merchant A cordial invitation is extendej’ —Mrs. A. E. Jennings. to visitors. The Forum Ocean of Pulp . . . Shading the slopes between gray water and snow peaks along the fairer part of Alaska’s coast­ line nearly 34,000 miles are for­ ests of hemlock and spruce. In the Alaskan national forest alone there is more than 85 billion board feet of sawtimber., In terms of pulpwood, the forest resources of that Paul Bunyan of America ter­ ritorial possessions is a green ocean of raw material. Despite the urgent expanding demand for pulp and paper throughout the world, the prospects for an in­ crease of its production in Alas­ ka are dim. The prospects for development of Alaska’s other natural re­ sources are likewise none too bright. The reasons are made clear in Dick Neuberger’s article, “What’s Wrong With Alaska?” in the current issue of Reader’s Digest. It is the dictatorship of the federal bureaucracy that s wrong with Alaska. Tough charges are made against the corpora­ tions who operate up that way by Mr. Neuberger. I’ve heard similar blasts against the unions which operate in Alaska. The plain and simple fact remains that all private enterprise is in Alaska only on sufference from the bureaucracy. The federal government must bear the blame for the blundering and plundering in Alaska, from the time of Bar- anoff to Ickes. Baranoff, by the way, was a Russian (czarist) bureaucrat. Ickes is, or was, one of ours. Each stands as a prime specimen of dictatorship in government. The Curse on the Land . , . Dick Neuberger does a brave and true job of exposing the ty­ rannical power that was exerted on and against Alaskans by Ickes. But it was not just the man—it was, and it remains, the system. The Reader’s Digest article does not reveal the fact that most vital importance in the Alaskan tragedy—for tragedy it is. The fact is the war be­ tween the interior department and the department of agriculture. The article states, “The real ruler of Alaska is the U.S. secretary of the interior.” This is true, ex­ cept that immeaaurably valuable resource, the 85 billion feet of sawtimber on the 25 million acres of the Alaskan national forest. The national forests are under the U.S. forest service, which is a division of the department of ag­ riculture. Henry Wallace was yet secre­ tary of agriculture when Ickes went into open battle to capture the forest service and carry it over to the interior department. The old curmudgeon was beaten back. But the war goes on. The helpless Alaskans are victims of it, as people of a land on which two foreign armies are in con­ flict. There are also endless bat­ tles between the bureaus of the interior depart/nent and Alaska. Mr. Krug may bring peace to his own department, but it will take a long time. And it will take many, many years to heal the breach between interior and agri­ culture. There is just one thing that the whole pack of bureaucrats up yonder can get together on, and that is opposition to statehood for Alaska. Toll of Freedom . . . Just the other day I sat in at a meeting of a group of North­ west leaders with leaders of pri­ vate enterprise from Alaska. It- was an educational experience. My one contribution to the meet­ ing was a suggestion that every­ body in the Northwest should be given the information that was presented to the meeting—that a campaign of public information on Alaska should be put on in Washington and Oregon. No ons objected. But the re­ sponse was passive and had a pe­ culiar quality that puzzled me un­ til I’d thought it over. In Alaska, as in any other ter­ ritory or nation ruled by a dic­ tatorship, people do not meet pri­ vately and talk and plan cam­ paigns of public information. That is a function of the government and its agents wherever the government owns the land and runs the works. I was suggesting revolution! For less than that men have been shot. • Every U. S. gold coin is now a rare coin. • Marine borers undermine bridges, pier;, trestles, and under­ water structures to the extent pf $50,000,000 damage yearly. Worst are the teredas, which are only three-eighths of(an inch thick but grow six feet long. I Licensed Contractors I i REFRIGERATION I and BUTTERMILK right from the farm to your door, write or call Telephone No. 7F51 CUR PRODUCTS ALWAYS SATISFY 11-22-46 : RADIO SERVICE ■ | Appliance Repairing ! I STRONG’S RADIO ! ! AND ELECTRIC ! PEBBLE CREEK DAIRY 969 Bridge St. Ph. 576! Timber Rt., Box 56 Vernonia, Oregon GIVE IT THE “WORKS” Drive ’er in and we’ll give it the ‘works’ includ­ ing a thorough Signal lube job and oil change. -, Experienced servicemen plus Signal lubricants assure you of the best car lubrication available anywhere. Estimates made free for car­ penter work, repairing or ce­ ment wo'rk. By the job or hour. Sidewalks a specialty. E. M. MILK CREAM • Two sacred cows and two sa­ cred bulls have been flown here from India for cross-breeding with American cattle. With due re­ spect to their sacredness, / music was played for them en route. GUARANTEED WORK Heath’s Service Station YORK CONTRACTOR A BUILDER 108 A St. For Pasteurized iPhone 5711 At the Mile Brige, Riverview GIROD’S FOOD STORE FRESH PRODUCE AND FRUITS MEAT BAKERY GOODS STAPLES Get them all by stopping at one store only—Girod’s. You need go no further for all your food wants than this modem grocery and market You can serve yourself if you wish or ask one of our experi­ enced clerks to fill your* order. REMEMBER—It’sGirod’s for all your grocery needs. i NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL- XIATION thuht FREE DELIVERY CIROD'S FOODSTORE •