At the
Churches
EVANGELICAL UNITED
BRETHREN
Master Warns of
BPA Rate Fight
The well being of every North
west citizen is threatened by the
—Rev. Allen H. current campaign to force Bonne
Backer, Minister ville power administration to in
9:45 — Sunday crease its rates, according to Mor
ton Tompkins, master of the Ore
school
gon state grange.
11:00—Morning worship.
‘.This is not a question of pub
6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service.
lic vs. private power. It is a move
7:30—Evening service.
Wed. Eve., 7:30—Bible study and on the part of eastern and mid
west industry to keep the Pacific
prayer meeting.
Northwest in the status of a back
LATTER DAY SAINTS
ward empire,” he asserted.
Sunday school convenes at 10
“The standard Bonneville rate
a.m. at 925 Rose Ave un<L produced net revenues in excess
er the direction of Charles of $4,000,000 last year, which is
at a rate more than ample to
L< ng, Branch President. Polly
amortize the investment of the
H. Lynch, Superintendent.
government within the time limit
7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament set and gives the lie to Repre
sentative Ben Jensen of Iowa and
N tZARENE CHAPEL
Robert Jones of Ohio who are
T le church that cares.
spearheading the fight to have
--H. L. Russell, Pastor
Bonneville’s wholesale rate upped,
1208 Bridge St.
claiming the rate to be ‘obviously
inadequate’ to repay the cost of
9:45 a.m.—Sunday school.
the project,” Tompkins asserts.
11:00 a.m.—Morning worship.
“Low-cost power is the life
7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and blood of the Northwest’s industrial
economy. Without it, we will be
prayer.
at the mercy of the industrial em
ST. MARY’S CAThOLIC
pires of the east and mid-west
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
which have been built up through
Rev. J. H. Goodrich
utilization of resources of coal
Mass: 9:30 a.n,. sxcept first and oil which we in the North
Sunday in month—Mass at west do not have. And that is
8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
just where we will be if the
Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. group for which the Jensen-Jones
combination is acting has its way.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
-—Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor The balance of power is now in
9:45—Sunday school with clas their hands and only united action
on the part of every Northwest
ses for all ages.
citizen will prevent them from
11:00—Morning worship.
having their way,” Tompkins con
6:30—C. A. service.
cluded.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 Tuesday—Prayer meeting.
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SEVENTH LAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
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.
It’s All Right
To Keep Your
Fingers Crossed
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VA to Select
Appraisers Now
In action aimed at giving vet
erans increased protection against
buying of over-priced real estate,
the western administration has
taken over selection of the ap
praiser for each GI loan, at the
same time dropping its former
policy of permitting lending agen
cies to pick any appraiser from
the VA-approved panel.
Thomas M Craig, VA repre
sentative here, explained that this
tightening of GI loan policy
agair.st real estate inflation
means that the VA now desig
nates by name the appraiser for
each piece of property considered
for purchase by a, veteran.
Explanatory letters have been
sent to 300 lending institutions
and to 280 approved appraisers
in Oregon. The VA’s roster of
appraisers has not changed, ex
cept for five earlier dismissals.
The new policy, effective since
January 2, is expected to halt the
tendency of a few lenders to use
exclusively the services of certa’n
“obliging” appraisers.
The lending agency now sends
its request to the VA’s regional
office in Portland in a simple let
ter in duplicate for each appraisal,
giving the veteran’s name and
identity of the property. The VA
will return one copy after writing
in names of its designated ap
praiser and one alternate.
Closer control and reduced du
plication of appraisals on the
same property for different lend
ers are expected, Craig said.
Craig meets with veterans each
Wednesday morning at the city
hall in Vernonia.
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1947 5
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Oregon State
Fair Dates
Set %
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The 1947 Oregon state fair
will open on Labor day, Septem
ber 1, Director E. L. Peterson
and Manager Leo G. Spitzbart an
nounced last week.
The dates were set by the state
board of agriculture at its recent
semi-annual meeting. The 1947
fair will run seven days, closing
Sunday, September 7. The seven-
day exhibition has been scheduled
for a number of years, as also
has been the Labor day opening.
Fair officials and the board are
already giving attention to
strengthening some of the phys
ical facilities at the fair grounds.
This applies particularly to those
overtaxed on the days of greatest
fair patronage. At the 1946 fair,
the first after a four-year war
recess, more than one-fourth of
the entire week’s paid attendance
of nearly 200,000 persons jammed
the grounds on the opening day.
Crowds smashed all previous rec
ords.
In setting the dates for this
year’s fair, the officials are op
timistic that the farmers of Ore
gon will point to that week with
a record exhibit of livestock and
farm produce.
•
Ag Bccklet Ready
For Distribution
A revised edition of the book
let, “Agriculture in Oregon,” is
now being mailed in response to
queries for information about
.Oregon farming, the stat; de
partment of agriculture reports.
Besides containing a general pic
ture of farming in the various
sections of Oregon, the 32-page
booklet gives considerable addi
tional agricultural data, mostly
broken down to a county basis.
Much of the statistical informa
tion is from the federal farm cen
sus of 1945, although the state
30 Tour Tree
Farm Saturday
Trapper Wins
Daily Award
James K. Martin, well known
trapper from Birkenfeld, is a
winner of the daily award for
correct pelt handling in the
Eighteenth National Fur Show
conducted by the Raw Fur Mar
keting Service of Sears Roebuck
and Company at Seattle.
Martin’s carefully handling of
mink pelt brought him one of the
$5.00 daily awards, as a result of
its being judged one of the three
best handled skins among all pelts
received at raw fur marketing
station in Seattle on Saturday,
December 28, and in addition en
titles Martin to consideration for
one of the major awards, in-
vluding $1000.00 first award to
be selected at the final judging
which will be held in April.
Correct pelt handling — the
prime purpose of the fur shows—-
has proved to be of vital import
ance to trappers due to the fact
that milllions of dollars were for
merly wasted through careless
incorrect skinning, stretching and
drying of furs—dollars which
could readily have gone into the
trappers’ pockets instead pf be
ing cast to the winds. Well-pre
pared pelts command more money
than poorly handled ones thus
increasing not alone the earnings
to the trapper, but the value of
our country’s natural resources,
(See Story Page 1)
Thirty professors and students
from Oregon Stat* College came
here by bus Saturday on a special
trip to view first-hand the work
that is being dorte on the Colum
bia County Tree Farm. The vis
itors were taken on a tour by
Farm Supervisor Glen Hawkins.
Making the visit were: W. Mc
Culloch, J. R. Dilworth and R. F.
Keniston, professors and Wayne
O. Harris, James C. Manley, Scol-
lay C. Parker, A. L. Sorseth, Milt
Easton, Sherwood C. Trotter, N.
E. Bjorklund, R. E. Rogers,
Rarryl E. Storm, Ralph A. Wiese,
J. W. Wagg, R. E. Corthell, B. H.
Underwood, R. D. Schwartzlender,
F. J. Lyne, L. D. Hayes, K. G.
Borchgrevink, L. thka, R. C. Fink,
W. I. Stein, Richard A. Campbell,
William J. Sauerwein, J. M.
Barnes, C. H. Hinman, E. L.
Johnson, Wayne G. Hubbard and
R. C. Mangroll.
•
The estimated American veteran
population increased by 210,000
during November to reach a
total of 17,905,000, of whom
13,9959,000 had served in World
War II.
More than 50,000 veterans (in
the Pacific Northwest) are en
rolled in schools and colleges.
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