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THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1947 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
American 'Real Income’
In September Up 4 Cents '
On 81 From Year Ago'
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As a service to veterans in the
community, this newspaper will
publish a weekly column of news
briefs from the Veterans Admin
istration. For more detailed in
formation, veterans should con
tact or write to the nearest VA
contact unit at 1091 S.W. 10th
Avenue, Portland.
Reports of Past Year
During 1946, more than 736,500
personal contacts with veterans
administration offices in the Pa
cific Northwest and Alaska were
made by veterans and their de
pendents, an average of slightly
over one contact for every veteran
in the area, the VA reports.
Figures for the year just ended
show 19,698 veterans received
loans for homes, farms and busi
nesses at a total value of $87,881,-
359.
National service life insurance
policies of more than 400,000 vet
erans were moved to Seattle in
July as a part of General Brad
ley’s decentralization program,
giving more efficient service to
veterans of the Northwest.
At the end of the year, 73,900
veterans were taking training un
der provisions of the G.I. bill.
More than 54,000 were in educa
tional institutions and almost 19,-
500 were taking job training. Al
most 50,000 more than at some
time during the year, been en
rolled in training courses.
A total of 166,598 disability
claims were filed during the year
by Northwest veterans. Approx
imately 80,000 monthly disabil
ity or death benefits were being
paid to veterans of all wars and
their dependents at the end of
1946.
Protection Given Home Buyers
Added protection for veterans
purchasing real estate in the pres
en high market is being offered
through new procedures to be ef
fective January 2, the veterans
administration announced.
Under the revised system, the
veterans administration, not the
lender, will pick the appraiser of
property under consideration for
purchase by veterans. Appraisers
will be designated by name for
each piece of property under con
sideration.
For the past 15
months, a lender was allowed to
choose any appraiser from a panel
whose general qualifications had
been approved by the VA.
A tendency of some lenders to
select “obliging” appraisers ex
clusively and consequently, get
higher appraisals to meet the ask
ing price, necessitated the change,
the VA says.
LONGER TRAINING
FOR DISABLED VETS
Seriously disabled veterans who
cannot be restored to employ
ability in the four years training
allowed them will benefit by a
new Veterans Adminstration rul
ing which allows Regional Office
to extend the period of training.
Provision has been made for
those veterans and for other dis
abled veterans who had begun
long professional courses before
the war, to continue their study
ing under the Vocational Rehab
ilitation Act will l>« eligible for
the added training, the VA empha
sized. It doçs not apply to vet
erans training under the G.I.
Bill whose eligibility is based on
length of service, up to a maxi
mum period of 48 months.
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Veterans Adminstration is now
operating 28 former Army and
Navy hospitals to meet veterans*
needs for hospitalization.
WE CAN DO IT
If its carpenter or cement
work, new or repairs, we can
do it. Just see York, the
builder.
Sidewalks a Specialty
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above chart, showing how
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the average American fared in
national income changes in the last
twelve months, is based on the
monthly consumers' study of In
vestors Syndicate of Minneapolis.
The American public in Septem
ber had a ’“real income" of $1.04.
or 4 cents on the dollar more than
in September. 1945. This “real in
come" is not a subtraction of cash
Income and expenditures but an
average relative of these figures
designed to show how living costs
affect adjusted income dollars.
Cash income of the American
public In September was $1.17 for
every $1 a year earlier. The follow
ing changes per dollar were: wages
up 27 cents, salaries up 9 cents on
the $1.00; investment income was
up 6 cents and other income was
up 19 cents.
Rents in September were un
changed compared with a year ago.
Food was up 25 cents, clot’’,ng up
15 cents and miscellanee
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up 13 cents.
CAPITAL PARADE
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or amended so as to give the
cities priorities on government-
installed facilities on their air
ports, and also create schools for
aircraft and engine mechanics to
be conducted by the state depart
ment of vocational education.
OREGON MILK PRODUCTION
If you did not eat 41 gallons of
ice cream this year you missed
out on your allotment somewhere
along the line of average con
sumption as there were 41,719,000
gallons of ice cream made in
Oregon this year from mily pro
duced in this state.
If your
youngster had the appetite and
nickles for his share of ice cream,
nrd tool: it in five-cent cone3,
you might ai well make a note for
the 1947 family budget right
now—“$164.00 for Junior’s ice
cream cones.”
CAPITAL SHORTS
Governor Earl Snell played
Santa Claus to his twin grand
children, whose parents, Lt. and
Mrs. William Snell arrived from
San Diego,, California where Lt.
Snell is connected with a naval
hospital -State Highway Engineer
R. II. Baldock was elected first
vice-president of the American
Association of State Highway
Official) at its convention in
LA. last week—There are now
292,647 covered workers in Oregon
drawing in excess of $62 million
a month in wages to establish a
new peace-time high in employ
ment
records—Governor
Earl
Snell has appointed Dr. Thomas
Franklyn Hudson of Portland as
a member of the Temperance
Advisory Committee to the Liquor
Control Commission. Dr. Hudson
was appointed to succeed Dr.
Thompson L Shannon who re
signed prior to his removal from
the state.
A ccidental
injuries
OCCUR IN AMERICAN
HOMES AT THE RATE
OF ONE EVERY S/K
A/70 3 UfiiF SECONDS
- ime ~ waters
of the river
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iAIERE BELIEVED BY THE RNCIENTS TO
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Forestry Fairy Tale
The most agreeable visitor to
boom-pond shack this week was
little Oluf Spjalggson. He asked
me to tell him- a Christmas time
story, and I gave him this one.
Once upon a time, Oluf (I
said)—about sixty years ago, it
was—Santa Claus sent down an
order to President Benjamin
Harrison that said, “Let the
Christmas trees go on growing
and sending in the woods this
year. I want to see what will
happen.”
At around that time people
were saying,“ There is no Santa
Claus." This caused a little girl
named Virginia Maffey to write
a letter to the New York Sun,
asking if it was true what so
many people were saying. The Sun
backed up the old faith in Santa
Claus.
So President Harrison,
who read the Sun, decided to
back up Santa Claus. He ordered
the people not to cut any
Christmas trees that year but to
let them stand and grow on and
on.
“Why? Simply because Santa
Claus wants it,” was President
Harrison’s only explanation. He
was kind of crusty. “Let’s not
have any more questions or quib
bles but just lay off the Christ
mas trees, see!”
That sounded like real business,
so it was done. Over 20 million
young trees that would have been
cut for Christmas, if Santa Claus
had not sent his order to Presi
dent Harrison, stood on and grew
on.
Nobody had a Christmas
tree and nobody died of it.
And then, Oluf (I said), what
do you think ?
After Sixty Years
Little Oluf Skjalggson did not
know quite what to think. He
just moved his chair over closer
to the door.
Well. Oluf (I said) the young
'trees went on standing and grow
ing for sixty years, except for
some choked off by the crowding
of other trees in the Douglas
fir region.
Mostly they lived
and thrived. We can be very
safe in saying that right now,
today sixty years later, the young
Christmas trees which Santa
Claus and President Benjamin
Harrison left standing amount to
more than six billion board feet
of lumber.
That is a lot of lumber. That
is as much lumber as the whole
West Coast lumber industry is
expected to cut in 1946.
Six billion board feet of lumber.
Oluf, is enough for the building
of six hundred thousand homes
of five rooms each. If you enjoy
brain teasers, figure it out in
boxcar loads, at 30,000 feet per
car. Or cargo for deep-water
ships, at two and one-half million
feet per cargo.
Think a little faster, Oluf. and
get the picture of how year after
year, ever since the one year when
Santa Claus and President Ben
jamin Harrison gave their amaz
ing stop order and control reg
ulation. Christmas tree cutting
has gone on and on—to the tune
of lumber for six hundred thous
and homes a year.
Isn’t that something to think
about. Oluf?
Don't Cry, Oluf
Now, Oluf (I said), swab off
the tears, take a blast of the
schnozzle in my bandana here,
and cheer up, for nobody is going
to try to stop you from having
Christmas trees. If the custom
couldn't be stopped back when
the New York Sun was backing
both the President and Santa
Claus, then it may never be
stopped.
Christmas trees are wonderful.
They are a grand and glorious
use of the forest crop.
But
lumbermen do wonder sometimes,
when they see mountains of
Christmas trees burned as waste
and they witness the results of
butchery in their own young
forests by gangs of Christmas
tree pirates.
Yes, Oluf (I conclud'd), lum
ber and plup are coming more
and more from trees that begun
to grow only forty, fifty, sixty
and seventy years ago. Seventy
years from now nearly all lumber
and pulp will come from trees
that are now young or starting.
So be careful with those Christ
mas trees, Oluf!
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Events in
Oregon
LONG DISTANCE CALLS
SWAMP LOCAL EXCHANGE
GRESHAM—Long distance calls
at the rate of almost one a min
ute for a 24-hour period were
completed at the West Coast Tel
ephone company’s Gresham ex
change Monday of last week as
Christmas well-wishers placed
calls throughout the nation.
Reported to be the largest num
ber of calls for a sincle day,
Monday’s traffic reached 1056
completed long distance calls, in
addition to the numerous local
calls.
SALE OF SEALS MIGHT
BETTER 1915 FIGURES
M’MINNVILLS—Response has
been enthusiastic to this year’s
Christmas seal sale and receipts
to date have shown a marked
increase over last year, according
to reports received from local
and county Christmas seal super
visors.
Mrs. Gale Vinton, chairman of
the seal sale in McMinnville, re
ports that around 950 answers
have been received so far reply
ing to the 1600 letters sent out
by the local seal committee to
residents of the McMinnville area.
Over $1300 in payment for Christ
mas seals were inclosed in re
plies.
DIAL PHONES FOR 1947
PROSPECTS FAVORABLE
S1IERIDAY — The Northwest
Telephone company is completing
the building in Sheridan designed
to house its new equipment and
has the promise of early delivery
of part of the dial telephone
equipment, ordered some time ago,
soon after the first of the year.
The plan is to have Sheridan com-
pletly converted to the dial sys
tem by the end of 1947.
LOCAL DRUG STORE
ROBBED OF NARCOTICS
HILLSBORO — Hillsboro was
scene of two Christmas eve bi^ak-
ins, one yielding a quantity of
narcotics from Kramien’s Drug
store and the other an apparent
act of vandalism, a large front
plate glass window being broken
at Faber’s Electric store.
L. C. Kramien returned to his
drug store at approximately 10:55
p.m. and discovered that entry
had been made, by breaking a
glass in the sky-light, the culprit
sliding down a rope. Value of
the stolen narcotics 'was set at
less than $200.
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Churches
EVANGELICAL
—Rev. Allen H.
Backer, Minister
Whether wage problems can be
solved without upsetting industrial
production will be an important
factor in determining the amount
of relief which the nat'on’s tax
payers get from congress in 1947.
Also playing an important role
will be the loss in national income
caused by the coal strikes, and
the growing determination among
groups of congressmen to substi
tute sound fiscal policies for
new deal procedures.
These policies call for balancing
the federal budget and a statutory
plan for debt retirement.
Difficulty of obtaining an accu
rate appraisal of the future tax
picture stems from uncertainty
about the size of the national in
come in 1947. A wave of new
strikes would knock billions off
the nation’s taxable income.
One group of congressmen be
lieve the budget can be balanced
and a 20 per cent across-the-
board personal tax cut voted,
through decreased federal spend
ing.
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, 1870.
Subscription price, $2.50 yearly
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NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL—
9:45 — Sunday
school
11:00—Morning worship.
6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service.
7:30—Evening service.
Wed. Eve., 7:30—Bible study and
prayer meeting.
LATTER DAY SAINTS
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
NAZARFNE 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.
Grave To Be Opened
Your Grave—Christ is to raise
back to life all that are in the
graves. He is to raise you to
glory or He will raise you for
judgment.
Proved His Power—The third
day after His crucifixion and bur
ial, Christ proved His power
to raise you up out of the grave.
He Himself came forth from
among the dead, the victor over
death and the grave. For the
next 40 days, He proved Him
self by many a sign and miracle,
to be Christ Himself whom they
had crucified.
First Resurrection—May you be
there. In that great hour, Christ
is to descend from heaven with
a shout and the dead in Christ
will rise first and afterward, we
of His own who are alive, will
be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord.
And so shall we ever be with the
Lord.
God Names Terms—Believe God,
that He counts your sins blotted
out by the blood of Christ, His
only Born-Son. God proved His
love for us in that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for
us.
Believe and God gives you
life from that instant. You pass
from eternal death to eternal life.
Believe and count yourself saved.
Whether you have feelings or not,
life begins then and there. Now
is the day of salvation.
S.W. McChesney Rd., Portland 1,
Oregon. Paid for by a Portland
garage man.
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Timber Rt., Box 56
Vernonia, Oregon
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
Rev. J. H. Goodrich
Mass: 9:30 a.n,. sxcept first
Sunday in month—Mass at
8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
—Rev. H. Gail McIlroy. Pastor
9:45—Sunday school with clas
ses for ail ages.
11:00—Morning worship.
6:30—C. A. service.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 Tuesday—Prayer meeting.
SEVENTH »AY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
Thorough lubrication of I
the vital points of your
car means longer care
free performance
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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