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6 THURSDAY. JANUARY 16, 1947 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
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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.
EXTRA PREMIUM INSURES
TOTAL DISABILITY
A small additional premium will
insure policy holders of National
Service Life Insurance against
total disability, according to the
.Veterans Administration.
Benefits at the rate of $5 a
month for each $1000 of in­
surance are payable after the
veteran has been totally disabled
for six consecutive months. Pay­
ments will continue as long as the
veteran remains totally disabled.
Any policy holder may add the
disability clause upon application,
by proving good health and by
paying the extra premium. Dis­
abled veterans who have service-
connected disabilities less than
total in degree are not barred,
provided they apply before Janu­
ary 1, 1950.
The VA stressed that the face
value of the policy is not reduced
by any disability payments which
may be made.
VETERANS GET
ELK AND VENISON
Ou,t-of-season game will be
legal on the tables of some Idaho
veterans, thanks to Dwyer D.
Best, Veterans Adminstration con­
tact representative.
A proposal by Best that wild
game taken from out-of-season
or improperly licensed hunters be
given to needy families has been
accepted by Game Warden Charles
Gallagher and Edward Johnson
of the State Department of Pub­
lic Assistance.
MORE VETERANS ON
SUBSISTENCE ROLLS
Over 50,000 Pacific Northwest
veterans were on Veterans Ad­
minstration subsistence rolls at
the end of November, an increase
of almost 14,000 over October
figures, the VA reports.
While job trainee rolls dropped,
schools and colleges showed an
increase of almost 8,000 veteran
enrollments. Wage ceiling made
some veterans in training in­
eligible for subsistence payments.
SIXTY-EIGHT AMPUTEES
GET FREE AUTOMOBILES
Delivery of 68 automobiles
during November to World War
II veterans who lost, or lost the
use of, one or both legs through
war service, was announced by
the Veterans Adminstration.
In absence of an official prior­
ity system, automobile manu­
factures and dealers were giv­
ing disabled veterans “priority"
treatment. Most veterans waited
less than six weeks for delivery
of their cars. The automobiles
are being purchased under the
$30,000,000 program set up by
Congress last August.
Questions of the Week
Q. Is there a provision for
total disability income in national'
service life insurance policies?
A. Yes. Total disability in­
come benefits authorized by re­
cent legislation can be added to
any plan of national service life
insurance upon application with
proof of good health and the pay­
ment of an extra premium.
Q. As a World War II vet­
eran on terminal leave and hos­
pitalized pending final discharge,
am I elgible for benefits under
the Vocational Rehabilitation Act?
A.
Yes, subject to all con­
ditions of the act except the re­
quirement of final discharge
papers. However, you will re­
ceive no subsistence allowance
while on terminal leave.
Q. I failed to turn tn a "trainee
report of earnings” and my sub­
sistence payments were suspended.
I have since filled out the report
and returned it to the Veterans
Adminstration. Will I lose my
subsistence for the period of sus­
pension ?
A. If your report shows you
are entitled to receive subsistence,
you will not lose payments for
the suspension period.
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Veterans Adminstration is at­
tempting to restore nearly 160,000
disabled veterans to employability
under the Vocational Rehabilita­
tion Act (Public I.aw 16).
SNO-CAT WILL
GO TO INDIA
MEDFORD — Extensive tests
will be made this week end at
Crater Lake National park of the
latest model Tucker Sno-Cat, be­
ing produced by the E. M. Tucker
company here. The new cat is
being purchased by a group from
India, where they plan to use it
in making snow surveys in the
mountains of that country.
The Tucker Sno-Cat assembly
plant, south of Medford, has been
a beehive of activity during the
holidays getting the machine as­
sembled, as well as other ma­
chines destined for sale to Italy,
where that nation is undertaking
snow surveys.
YEAR BRINGS GREATEST
EXPANSION IN HISTORY
GRESHAM — Proof that the
Gresham area entered its greatest
period of expansion during 1946
is found in figures released today
by Jack Morton, Gresham division
manager of the Portland General
Electric company.
Figures for the first 11 months
of the year show that PGE furn­
ished service to 393 new custom­
ers, in the company’s Gresham
division, bringing the grand total
of consumer outlets in the area
to a record high of 10,031.
CROWN STARTS BIG
PLANTING PROJECT
SEASIDE—12,000 tree seed­
lings will be planted on 200 acres
of the Clatsop County Tree Farm
of the Crown Zellerbach Corpora­
tion during the 1946-47 planting
season. In addition, 300 acres will
be broadcast-seeded, and 300 acres
seeded by airplane. The species
used in planting will be: 27,000
Noble fir, 20,000 White fir, 70,000
Port Orgord cedar, and 3000 hem­
lock.
STATION RECORDS SHOW
RAINFALL NEAR RECORD
SEASIDE—The past year was
the wettest in Seaside since 1937,
according to the records of the
Seaside weather station. Total
rainfall for the 12 months ending
December 31 was 90.03 inches, as
compared with a high of 98.03
inches in 1937, and a low of 54.12
inches in 1944. During the past
year the dryest month was Au­
gust with a total of .55 inches
of precipitation.
The wettest
month was February, with 13.71
inches. The coldest day was De­
cember 30, with 23 degrees. The
greatest amount of precipitation
in any one day was 2.80 inches.
POST OFFICE SHOWS
GROWTH OF SALES
TILLAMOOK — Tillamook city
is growing steadily and this is
revealed in statistics gathered
from the post office receipts as
well as from other business places.
Postal savings amounted to
$333,168.00 in 1945; to $365,054.00
in 1946. Mail was delivered to
44 40 persons, this number includ­
ing men, women and children in
the incorporated city limits; to
2138 persons on the rural routes
which serve about 500 people.
Hotels were not included in the
number of persons counted, so
without doubt, the post office
serves more than the above.
Stamp sales totaled $65,945.43
in 1916, an increase of $9625,00
over 1941 when receipts were
$56,320.83.
PIPE LAYING PROJECT
FOR CITY ADVANCES
HILLSBORO—I-aying of the
first 10-mile unit of 18-inch metal
pipe on Hillsboro's post-war wa­
ter system improvement project
was completed Thursday by P S.
Lord Construction Co.
The Lord contract is from one
mile west of Hillsboro to the
mouth of Scoggins valley south of
Forest Grove.
Clean-up work,
such as fixing of the highway
right-of-way and installation of
valves and fittings, it nowbeing
pushed forward.
The pipe will be cleaned and
chlorinated soon and the city
hopes to be using the new line
within 30 days.
1*88 SEEKS 1947 Al'TO
LICENSES AT CITY HALL
GRESHAM—Car-owners seek­
ing 1947 state automobile license
were still flocking to the Gresham
city hall last week, according to
Mrs. George Fowler, who is hand­
ling the issuance of the tem­
porary permits that serve as li-
census until the plates are mailed
from Salem.
Between December 15th, first
date on which temporary permits
were issued, and January 6, 1933
applications were received at the
city hall. Over 300 of the ap­
plications were made after Janu­
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First Step for Housing . . .
Once a week, for five years,
I wrote an article on housing. To
put substance in each piece I had
to do a heap of studying, sur­
veying and such. Even a half-wit
should know a few primary facts
about a subject after giving that
much time and work to it. I
am claiming to be no more than
that. Anything but an expert!
Anything!
Around a year ago I ventured
the first of a couple of lame­
brain columns on the proposition
that most young married vet­
erans want to rent; that they are
unable to finance home owner­
ship; that they are too uncertain
of what they may be doing, or
where they will be doing it for
more than a short period; and
that, therefore, the individual for-
sale home on any terms whatever
should be secondary in the veter­
ans’ emergency housing program.
What was suggested, with the
backing of painfully gathered
facts, was an all-out drive for the
building of apartments in at least
a million existing homes through­
out the country—for rental by
veterans only. For a year narrow
all subsidies priorities, etc., down
to that single project of new
apartments for veterans in exist­
ing homes.
It was pointed out that the
country has a million homes of
eight rooms or more, most of
them built before 1915, four-fifths
of them of wood and therefore
simple to remodel.
Plumbing Already Installed . . .
The bureaucrats are still on the
housing deck, with billions back
of them for their visionary
schemes; but at least the home­
building industry now has more
freedom to produce housing.
The nation’s retail lumber deal­
ers and the little business men
who work with them as small­
home and remodeling contractors
have been pretty well by-passed
or frozen out by the political
housers. They had to stand aside
and watch the average young vet­
eran with an everyday job, his
small family parked on relatives,
or in shacks, tents and trailers.
Now the building supply dealers
and their cooperating contractors
are free to work on that problem.
They are taking the only practical
first step toward a solution. And
that is the production of rental
homes within existing homes.
Here the outside walls, the roof
and the floors already exist. Here
the water, plumbing, electrical
and heating systems are already
installed. What is needed is the
making over of the interiors of
one or more rooms and the in­
stallation of a few items of equip­
ment and new laterals to the main
systems already in the house.
Only a comparatively small
amount of scarce materials is re­
quired for each housing unit so
produced. And only a compara­
tively little building labor, which
costs so enormously in building
the new home, is needed. . The
veteran does not sell his soul or
mortgage his future to “own’
a new home to live in. He may
do much of the work himself.
Attics 1-ook Good . . .
The newspapers are carrying
stories and pictures now of re­
modeled attics, basements, and of
other rooms of big houses in
which two or three people have
found themselves “rattling around’’
and so welcome tenants. These
projects have mostly been carried
through by the veteran ¡and the
owner of a big, old house getting
together through some sort of
accident and then doing business
in some makeshift way.
Even* attics look good to vet­
erans who have been living in
holes or by crowding in on pa or
uncle. Every regular retail lum­
ber dealer knows all the ways and
means to remodel an old attic
into a bright, charming, insulated
apartment. The problem is main­
ly that of bringing veteran, deal­
er and home-owner together.
No aid and comfort on this is to
be expected from Washington,
D.C. The proposition is too sim­
ple, obvious and feasible—and
does not call for the blowing in
of public money.
Government
press
agentry,
which flowered under the New
Deal to cost the nation’s tax­
payers more than $74,000,000 in
the fiscal year, faces drastic cuts
from economy-minded members of
the new Congress;
Official records show that in the
last fiscal year there were 23,009
full-time employees engaged in
tasks falling under “educational,
promotional and publicity’’ activi­
ties.
In addition. Federal employees
devoting more than one Week but
less than a full year to these ac­
tivities totaled 22,769.
Criticism of the government’s
huge corps of press agents reach­
ed its peak during the OPA ex­
tension fight in Congress. Of the
overall $74.8 million so-called “in­
formation” budget, $2.6 million
was budgeted for OPA.
The OPA’s press agents literally
flooded the country with propa­
ganda favoring extension of the
price control law without change.
To spread their propaganda they
utilized the “grass-roots” orgini-
zations established orginally as
volunteer watch-dogs for price
regulation.
The Vernonia Eagle
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Now The Legislature
The first peace-time legislature
since 1941 is facing a financial
enigma—a depression in reverse,
next, week they will swamp
themselves with bills, the pile top
heavy with political measures. The
destiny of the greater portion
of the mass of bills will depend
on the form state financing takes.
It all would be very simple, and
agreeable, to these lawmakers, “a
cross-section of the intellect of the
state,”’ if they would authorize
the ways and means committee to
photostat the graph of present
revenues and lable the print “ex­
penditures for the 1947-49 bien­
nium.” The principal difficulty
with this elementary plan is
that state revenues are now at a
high peak but no one knows
what a graph of revenues will
look like along about this time
next year. As soon as the pat­
tern for financing the state is
sketched the real business we
have always known as. “legisla­
tive affairs” will start. The boys
will begin the aged rumpusing
routine with their old toys: trucks,
fishnets, milk bottles, slot ma-
chipes, etc., etc.
Veterans Win a Home War
Veterans of World War II
know how to make democracy
work, even if they did neglect
to have more than a feeble rep­
resentation of candidates on tn«
November ballot, they have just’
shown proof of their political
know how.
Three months ago Oregon vet­
erans were being given the go-by
in the matter of war surplus com­
modities. Now there is an equal
spread of supply. A veteran can
get a sleeping bag without getting
the brush-off, “they are sold in
lots of 100 only.” When appeal)
to brass-hat-higher-ups got no­
where they started working on
their own cases with letters to
congress and vox populi letters
to newspapers. The groundswell
they created brought the goods.
College of Fairs
Leo “Starts Labor Day” Spitz-
bart, manager of the Oregon State
fair will be one of a panel of 56
sneakers at the college of fairs of
western sfates and Canada to be
held at San Luis Ob’spo. Califor­
nia. February 17 to 21. Over
400 representatives of western
fairs are scheduled to attend the
novel college which is sponsored
hv th» Western Fa'rs association.
Vocational School Suspense
Oregon may not accept the of­
fer of the federal government to
donate to the state the great
Klamath Falls marine base with
its 734 acres and 65 major build­
ings. Last September when the
offer was first made the gov­
ernment dangled the proposed
gift before state officials without
strings of any sort apparent,
and with a “take it now or never”
attitude. A brief time limit was -
set in which the state could ap­
ply for possession. It did so
promptly after hurried meetings
and surveys.
After the suspense of waiting
three months a dispatch came
this week from Washington—drip­
ping with red tape. The Real
Property Division, of the War As­
sets Administration reports that
it ha3 approved the donation.
Then follows the "fine print,”
and provisos, the property must
be used for 25 years as a voca­
tional school, and limits other
uses. The state must pay all
“external costs.” Then come3 the
typical bureaucratic phrase: “The
consideration is nominal.”
Another letter to Washington.
Another three months suspense.
Thirty Tons of Shoes
More than 17,000 pairs of soes
have just been purchased by the
state that will save taxpayers
amout $30,000. They were pur­
chased from the War Assets Ad­
ministration to be added to the
commissary stock of the Oregon
state hospital, Eastern Oregon
sfate hospital, Fairview home and
the state training school for boys.
The GI brogues were brought
from Camp Adair where they
were piled more than six feet,
high with the 72,970 mismated
shoes paired and sorted as to
size »nd width. They are ex-
.pected to fill the need for this
type of shoes for a period of five
years at the state institutions for
which they were bought. The
’•'•"•’•«se price to the state was
$3090.
Gubernatorial Appointments
Governor Earl Snell announced
this week the reappointment of
Paul H. Spillman, Powell Butte,
a member of the state board
of education, representing agri­
culture. He was named for a fonr-
year term. At the same time the
governor reappointed Arthur (J.
Lundberg of Tillamook end Ken­
neth W. Holman, of Portland as
members of the state board of
f”neral directors and embalmers,
wore appointed for two-year
terms.
Res'«-» predictions on the theory
of cycles, long range weather
forecasters expect a period of
severe drought, possibly of world­
wide proportions, about 20 years
hence.
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Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
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