4 THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1946
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A* a aervice to veterans in the
community, this newspaper will
publish a weekly column of ques­
tion* meat 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 1019
SW 10th Ave., Portland, Oregon
LUMP SUM SETTLEMENTS
AVAILABLE FOR INSURANCE
Veterans who objected to Na­
tional Service life insurance be-
X cause their beneficiaries could not
obtain lump-sum settlements may
now choose from several types of
payments, the Veterans Adminis­
tration explained today.
The new insurance law provides
for optional settlements including
lump-sum payment. Under the
original law, the only settlements
authorized were monthly income
or annuity payments.
Any veteran who wishes to
change the type of settlement on
his policy should contact the VA
immediately. If no change is re­
quested payment will be in 36
equal installments.
VETERAN’S BUSINESS HUM­
MING
When most business men get
stung on a business deal, they
don’t brag about it, but Morris
W. McKnight, former Navy yeo­
man, gets stung sometimes 10 or
15 times a day, and to him it’s
just part of the job.
McKnight who lives in Seattle,
Washington, made use of his G1
loan privilege and bought a part
interest in the bee business—a
honey of a business.
He has 240 colonies in his
apiary, and each colony includes
some hundreds of thousands of
bee*. McKnight has never gotten
around to taking inventory—too
bee-zy.
While the main crop is honey,
McKnight’s bees do double duty.
In the spring, he will rent his
bee* out to orchardists to polli­
nate fruit blossoms.
EARNING REPORTS OVERDUE
No subsistence check in Dec­
ember is the bad news for vet­
erans in training under the G.I.
Bill who negelected to mail in
their “Trainee Report of Earn­
ings” slip by November 5, the VA
warned today.
Many veterans, however, who
will recieve their first subsistence
checks from the VA this month
have not had the opportunity to
report so will not be penalized if
they immediately return the re­
porting slip which will be enclosed
with their first check.
The VA emphasized that these
reports are due only from vet­
erans who are drawing subsis­
tence under the G.I. Bill
Disabled veterans receiving vo­
cational rehabilitation under Pub­
lic Law 16 are not affected by the
regulation and are not required
to report their earnings.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Q. I ant a World War II vet­
eran of the U.S. Navy. At pre­
sent I am living in Canada. Am
I entitled to readjustment allow­
ance?
A. No. Residence in the United
States, its territories or posses­
sions is a definite eligibility re­
quirement
for
readjustment
allowances.
Q. Are monthly payments on
my G. I. loan applied first to the
guaranteed portion or to the un­
guaranteed portion of my loan ?
A. The amount of guaranty de­
creases pro rata with any de­
creased in the unpaid balance of
the loan. In other words, as
periodical payments are received
and credited so as to reduce the
loan balance a proportionate re­
duction takes place in the amount
guaranteed.
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
Entered as second class mail
matter. August 4, 1922, at the
po*t office in Vernonia, Oregon,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
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THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
Writer Mentions
Sick List Names
Events in
Oregon
GROWING VOLUME
ADDS POSTAL RATE
Forest Grove—A growing vol­
ume of business at the Forest
Grove post office has necessitated
addition of another city route,
bringing the number to four.
The new route covers the busi­
ness section of town and A street
S. This route man also handles
city parcel post deliveries. Other
routes have been adjusted for the
addition.
PUD LOSES IN
DECISIVE TEST HERE
Seaside—The proposed people’s
utility district lost by a vote of
more than four to one in the Sea­
side district according to a tabula­
tion made last Wednesday. The
total vote was, for 322, to 1426
against.
The proposal failed to carry in
a single ward or precinct. At the
last PUD election the proposal
was defeated in all Seaside wards
except No. 4. That ward return­
ed a heavy majority against the
measure at the election Tuesday.
BUILDING TOTAL HITS
$642,974 FOR HILLSBORO
Hillsboro—City of Hillsboro
building, on the rebound after a
third quarter slump, has reached
$642,976 on estimated construction
for 1946 with the addition of $69,-
100 on 21 building permits during
October, according to figures re­
leased by City Recorder Ed M.
Bowman.
The building totals, already at
a record high, were augmented by
12 new residences during the past
month to reach 76 for the year.
Only April with 13 new homes
has been higher. April was also
record single month on building
for Hillsboro with $137,220 on 29
permits.
October permits were close to
the figure for the entire third
quarter—July, August, September
—which was $87,181 and 16 new
homes.
The Decay of Lying . . .
Rain was drumming hard on the
windows of the Polewater Fire
hall. Thoughtful Bill Haggerty,
dean of fire wardens, had his
worries about hunters in the
woods put on the shelf for the
day. He was at his ease, with
a fire popping in the stove, his
pipe fogging, and something read­
able under his nose.
“What I have here is an item
printed a hundred years ago,”
said Thoughtful Bill. “Yes, sir,
an 1846 number of Davy Crock­
ett’s Almanac. I could guess it
was brought over the Oregon
SKI THRONGS
Trail by wagon train. Come to
INVADE MT. HOOD
hand with a trunk of other stuff
GRESHAM—The vanguard—5,000 not as old that I bid in at an
strong—of the thousands of skiers auction sale on a pioneer place
who will flock to the Mt. Hood down the valley. I brought it to
winter playland during the winter the fire hall to show you. You
months passed through here over maybe know that the tall tales
the weekend.
of Davy Crockett were told
Heavy snows blanketed Mount through the woods long before
Hood and the lower reaches to any were told al->ut Paul Bun­
provide excellent sking for the yan.”
Saturday and Sunday throngs.
I said, yes; as far as I knew,
Ski traffic on the mountian last Davy Crockett was the grand­
year was heavy, but it is expect­ daddy of all the ring-tailed roar­
ed to surpass all previous records ers, stem-winders, and rip-snort­
this year. Many new facilities ers; the first of the mighty liars,
have been, added.
American style, excepting per­
haps Jim Bridger.
O
New York City’s subway trains
“Anyhow, Crockett’s were the
are scheduled to average 25 miles tales that were told in the tall
an hour as expresses and 15 miles timber here before the Civil war,”
an hour as locals. Actual running Haggerty said. “Reading them,
speed is from 45 to 50 miles an I grow sad, realizing something
hour.
fine and mendacious has gone
out of the world. Yes, sir, among
all the other ruins of life we see
American ‘Real Income'
now, there is also the decay of
In August Up 6 Cents
lying, American style. Hearken
to this.”
On SI From Year Ago
Crockett's Big Battle
Thoughtful Bill read, with pow­
erful relish, as follows:
“He grit his teeth at me, and
poked out his tongue about six
inches. With that I telled him he
was a pickax and would dig him
out of his stumps. He said he was
a flint image cut out of a big
rock. I telled him my gizzard was
a wasp’s nest and I breathed rifle
balls. He said he could double up
a streak of lightning and threash
me with one end of it.
“Then I was pesky oneasy and
spit at him so hard that if he
hadn’t dodged it, he’d have had
his nose knocked flat. He came to
me feet foremost and I caught
the great toe in my mouth, but
the nail came off. very lucky for
him, and he got his toe back
again. But while he was bring­
ing his foot to the ground, I
caught the slack of his breeches
in my teeth and lifted him up in
HE above chart, showing how the air, swinging like a scale
the average American fared in
national income changes in the last beam, as if he didn’t know which
twelve months. Is based on the end it was best to light on. But
monthly consumers' study of In­ his trousers tore through it in a
vestors Syndicate of Minneapolis.
The American public In August minute, and he came down sprawl­
had a "real Income" of $1.06. or 6 ing.
cents on the dollar more than In
“He jumped up speechless, and
August. 1945. This “real income" is
not a subtraction of cash income looked around as amazed as if he
and expenditures but an average were born into a new world. He
relative of these flgures designed turned as pale as a scalded nig­
to show how living costs affect ad­ ger, and telled the people that
justed Income dollar*.
Cash income of the American was looking on how they had bet­
public tn August wss $1.17 for ter interfere as he was afraid he
every $1 a year earlier. The follow­ should be the death of me, if we
ing change* per dollar were: wages come to the scratch again. I
up 5 cents, salaries off 3 cents
on the $1.00; Investment income at telled the lying sarpint to own he
$1.19 was up u cents and other war chawed up. or I would make
Income at $1 14 was up 14 cents. fiddle strings of his tripe. So he
Rents In August were unchanged
compared with a year ago. Food squat low and felt mean. He
was up 22 cent*, clothing up 9 cents sneaked off like an Injun in a
and miscellaneous Items up 11 cents. clearing."
T
Paul in a Sweater . .
Warden Haggerty paused ret
a pleased look out at the rain
whith was such prime insurance
against
huhting-season
forest
fires.
“That simple bit was read at
random from among the many
Crockett examples of tall lying
as it went in the old days,” he
said. “T’other day I read in a
big magazine a story on Paul
Bunyan of the kind that the
professors tell since they begin
to pretty up the mighty logger.
It told that Paul
got mad at
Babe the Blue Ox one day and
threw him all the way to the
northwest corner of the country.
When Babe lit one of his hind
legs made Hood Canal and a
foreleg made the Strait of Juan
de Fuca. No more to the story
than a senseless blowing up of
3ize and strength. No story, actu­
ally. No character. No color or
feeling of the life of the woods
and its humor. Yet a big maga­
zine had evidently paid big money
for the stuff.
“Just one more item of the old
American life that has gone to
ruin,” sighed Thoughtful Bill.
“Lying, American style, is done
for. All the truly powerful lying
of our time is done in Washing­
ton, D.C. Loggers long ago stop­
ped trying to compete with the
bureaucrats.”
Publishing the annual list of
top salaries always makes in­
teresting reading. It bears evi­
dence that opportunity still exists
in America.
Few people realize that the top
income earner, a movie director,
worked ten times as hard for the
government as he did for himself;
that out of $1,113,035 paid for his
services in 1944 he paid into the
U. S. Treasury approximately
$1.000,000.
The take home pay of this
man and other high income earn­
ers—in and out of Hollywood—
represents only a small fraction
of what their employers thought
they were worth on a box office
or management basis.
The Generous Scale
For from such incomes come
large sums of what it takes to
keep the government going on the
generous scale that has become
its pattern.
Rates on the upper tax
brackets are admittedly out of
line. If a married man's income
was $50,000, he paid 55 per cent
during the war, and in 1946
would pay almost 50 per cent
compared with 18 per cent before
the war
In the prewar period. 1936-1939,
• married man paid the Federal
government six per cent of a
$15,000 income. During the war
he paid 31 per cent, and under
1946 rates he would stall pay out
27 per cent—or four and one-
half times the prewar amount.
On high incomes. Uncle Sam's
take-home represents the larger
share.
Sunday visitors at the W.D.
Steele home were Mr. and Mrs.
W.R. Hallowell, their daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Ploub, and their son Wil­
fred Hallowell, and his wife all of
Dallas and Mr. and Mrs. Nick
Farnstrom and daughter, Joyce
of Vancouver.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Frost and
daughter, Nadine, of Portland
spent Sunday at the Jim, Bond
home.
A telegram to Mr. and Mrs.
P.L. Welter from Folsom, Calif.
Monday informed them that
Frank Marvin of Folsom had
passed away following a stroke
suffered a few days previous. Mr.
Marvin was the husband of Mr3.
Welter’s sister. The Welters have
the sympathy of their friends in
their bereavement.
Our sick list this week reads
thusly: Mrs. Herman Wood, suf­
fering with sinus trouble; Mrs.
Otto Schwab and children, Hild­
egard and Bobbie, colds and sore
throats; Sharron Lee, five-year-
old daughter of ■ Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph McKee who lost a week of
school due to a bad cold; little
Virginia Carl who was brought
home from the Forest Grove gen­
eral hospital Monday evening of
last week and does not respond
readily to home treatment. She
has been in a steam tent mo3t of
the week; Ruby Wells and Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Armstrong.
Sunday evening dinner guests
at the John Wildman home in
Portland were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Steele of Riverview.
Due to slow locomotion, appro­
aching winter weather, failing
eyes and plenty of home work
this will be my last contribution
of Riverview news. Thanks to
everyone who helped make the
news more newsy and I will fade
out by doubly quoting Jame3
Abbe, “Anyway it was fun while
it lasted” and “That will be all
for now”.
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Full Practice
Paymer t Assured
At a meeting Wednesday of last
week of the Columbia county
agricultural conservation Assoc­
iation in St. Helens, N.C. Donald­
son, executive assistant from the
state P&MA office at Portland,
conferred with the committee in
regard to conservation work for
the coming year. Mr. Donaldson
reported that Columbia county is
above the average counties in
the state for percentage of farm­
ers complying with the conserv­
ation program.
A discussion of some of the
practices for the coming year was
held. Mr. Donaldson pointed out
thrt
payment
would
be
made for the use of 2-4-D weed
control next year. It was the
feeling of the committee thit
some commercial outfit should be
employed through the AAA office
to apply this weed killer.
Mr. Donaldson also stressed the
fact that Columbia county will
have 10 per cent of next year’s
allocation for payment on a spec­
ial practice which will be selected
by the farmers at their commun­
ity end county election meetin s
which will be held this month.
Another point of interest which
Mr. Donaldson brought up, was
that all farmers could rest as­
sured that they would receive
100 per cent payment on all prac­
tices which they signed up for on
their farm plan and completed
and that payment would prob­
ably be made also on any other
practices performed which they
had not included on their farm
plan.
For Pasteurized
MILK
CREAM
At the
Churches.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
—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 If-
Backer, Minister
9:45 — Sunday
school
11:00 — Morning worship. Rev.
Norman Riggins, guest speaker.
6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service.
7:30 p.m. — Evangelistic service.
Rev. Norman Riggins, speaker.
A gospel team from Cascade
college, Portland, will furnish
special music.
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.
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.
ST. MARY’S CAThJLIC
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 uAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
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Calling All Lovers
You send her candy and flowers
and at last she names the day
that is to make you a happy man.
Now for the oldest love story
of all. A father had two sons and
the younger pled for his share
of the family wealth. At last the
father divided it and the young
fellow packed off into a far coun­
try and there wasted his all in
a wild life. When he was down
and out there came a famine in
the land and son found work
feeding hogs and was hungry
for the very pods they ate.
Then he came to himself and
faced about to travel back to the
hills of home. His father saw him
afar off and ran to him and fell
on hi.3 neck and kissed him and
told the servants to kill the fatter
calf and said he, “Let us eat,
drink,and be merry, for this my
son was dead and he is alive
again.” He was lost and is found.
—Bible. Luke 15 th.
Jesus told this parable to teach
that God yearns to see us turn
home.
We are to believe
the Bible that he gave Christ» his
only born Son, to die for us. Be­
lieving, God gives us new birth
and becomes our eternal Father.
As born of God, born again, we
are to press ahead and prove the
new life, looking utterly to
Christ for victory over old ways
and worries.
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S.W. McChesney Rd.. Portland -1-
Ore. This space paid for by a
Portland family
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Slavery was abolished in all
British colonies 30 years before
its abolition in the United States.
and
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