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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1947 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
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Gubernatorial Inauguration
It was almost poetic.
All day long a gentle snowfall
drifted down on a becalmed mar­
ble ship of state. Inside the
capital not a breath of dissention
disturbed the prearranged pro­
gram of the convening of the 44th
session of the Oregon legislature.
The tempo of events were so even
that they were uneventful.
A president of the senate and
speaker of the house of repre­
sentatives were nominated by for­
mer opponents and elected. And
so it was down to, the last ap­
pointment of pages. All this vast
and weighty program consumated
in an hour and at a cost of only
$1000 to taxpayers. Then to await
the pomp and ceremony of the in­
auguration of a governor and
hear his biennial message.
In his message Governor Earl
Snell first extolled the perform­
ance of Oregon’s civilian, defense,
state guard, selective service, post­
war readjustment and develop­
ment commission and the depart­
ment of veterans’ affairs.
He stated he was “making
a rather exhaustive study of his
proposals to establish boys’ camps
for youthful offenders or delin­
quents” and recommended con­
struction of an “intermediate” in­
situation for criminals; offered a
10-year program levying a 20-
cent-per-thousand excise or sever-
ence tax on all stumpage or tim­
ber cut in the state to raise $12,-
000,000 to be used for forest re­
habilitation and fire prevention. “I
desire to suggest,” said the gov­
ernor, “that the assembly by reso­
lution or memorial urge strongly
the importance of a free press.”
The governor eased the responsi­
bilities of members when he said,
“I urge that any major tax pro­
posals be referred to the people.”
No inference was made that would
offend either of the extreme wings
of labor controversy.
The governor’s -statements and
inferences fell as gently as did
the drifting flakes outside the
legislative halls.
The message to the 44th legis­
lative assembly might be reduced
to five short words.
"It’s up to you boys.”
Tax Commissioner Passes-
Coe A. McKenna, 59, Oregon
tax commissioner and a former
state representative and senator
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
Entered as second class mail
• latter, August 4, 1922, at the
post office in Wrnonia, Oregon,
ender the act of March 3, 1879.
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from Multnomah county, died in
a hospital in Salem last Wednes­
day night following a cerebral
hemorrhage. He was recently re­
appointed to the commission for
a four-year term.
Widely known in real estate
circles and a past vice president
of the National Association of
Realty Boards he was recognized
as an authority on tax problems
and as a leading advocate of the
sales tax for Oregon. He was an
alumnus of the University of Port­
land, the University of Notre
Dame and held a political science
degree from George Washington
university.
Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday
An anouncement from the of­
fices of Governor Earl Snell this
week called attention to Benjamin
Franklin’s birthday, January 17
and to National Thrift week, Jan­
uary 17 to 23.
These dates, the governor’s pre­
scribe reads, “will be dedicated to
the promotion of wisdom in spend­
ing, care in handling of money,
and following of th£ example of
Franklin, whose quotation . ‘A
penny saved is a penny earned,’
has assumed the aspect of a tru­
ism. I can think of no more ap­
propriate way to celebrate Frank­
lin’s birth than to remember, and
observe, the tradition of thrift and
economy which he so well exem­
plified.”
State Police Report
There were 2296 arrests made
during the past 30 days by Ore­
gon state police for violations of
the motor code which resulted in
sentences totaling 1727 days in
jail and $18,3049.75. General law
enforcement arrests numbered 268
with sentences totaling 99.43
years in prison and $3566.69 in
fines. There were 261 arrests for
violations of the game code, re­
sulting in 1.30 years in jail and
$7481.70 in fines. Violations of
the commercial fisheries code
numbered 13 with $433 in fines.
Of the 42 arrests for driving while
intoxicated 41 convictions were
secured with sentences totaling
$4453.50.
Almost 86 per cent of World
War II veterans, polled in a re­
cent nation-wide survey by the
American Legion, hold the opinion
that America’s farmers “did a
good job” during the war.
Only 0.9 per cent felt that the
farmers had not done a good job
while the GI’s were away fight­
ing, while 13.3 per cent held no
opinion.
The same survey revealed that
almost 75 per cent of the veterans
polled by the Legion expressed
the opinion that the nation’s man­
ufacturers also “did a good job,”
with only 5 per cent holding a
contrary view and 20.7 per cent
having no opinion.
Nine out of 10 veterans polled
opposed government ownership or
operation of electric power com­
panies, and 10 out of 11 opposed
federalization of the nation’s rail­
roads.
Commenting on the survey. Na­
tional Commander Griffith, the
top man of the American Legion,
said:
“The survey shows, beyond
doubt, that World War II vet­
erans recognize free enterprise as
an essential factor in our demo­
cratic system,”
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Division or Defamation ....
There is only one major agency
of the federal government now
which operates a division of de­
famation. The government’s hous­
ing agencies are at last decent
and honest in their political pro­
grams and publicity practices, as
they relate to the building indus­
try. But over the radio, in the
newspapers, through motion pic­
tures, there is yet one agency
that still hammers and yammers
away at the forest industries as
“devastators” and “exploiters.”
This is done by means of hun­
dreds of thousands of dollars of
public money, all appropriated by
the congress.
I leave the agency nameless
simply because it has divisions of
public service which really serve
the) people through an army of
able, devoted and technically-
trained men who are paid none
too well. These men are not re­
sponsible for the Pravda Boys on
the Potomac to keep the one
surviving Wallace-Tugwell machine
of defamation in operation, on
working orders that come from
powerful pressure groups outside
the government.
A simple example of the work
is a clever little cartoon sent re­
cently in mat form te newspapers
all over the nation. It shows a
background of hills dotted with
stumps. In front is a beaver
and a baby ’tree. The beaver is
telling the little tree it can never
hope to grow up because of the
“destructive cutting practces” of
lumbermen. That cartoon example
is just one flyspeck in a smear
that is kept black and spreading
through the power to misuse pub­
lic money.
Some Real Devastation ....
Whle the Pravda Boys on the
Potomac were concocting their de­
famatory cartoons a working
service division of the agency was
publishing a scientific study which
showed how well baby trees can
spring up and grow even where
fire has caused the worst devasta­
tion the forest can suffer.
The ground of the study was
that of the great Nast.ucce. burn
between Otis and Keskowin, Ore­
gon. Over a wide area a fire
raged in the early 1850’s, leaving
black snags jutting from blankets
of ashes.
Most of the burn was soon re­
seeded from neighboring forests.
Fire did not strike the area again
from that day to this. Now a
flourishing forest of 'hemlock and
spruce, 94 years of age, greens
out practically all signs of the
“devastating” fire of long ago.
Measurements have been made
of sample plots in the forest.
They show on the average a net
annual growth per acre of 247
cubic feet or 1454 board feet.
One plot, spruce for the most
part, has an average gross scale
of 168,291 board feet per acre.
This means that the average an­
nual growth (gross) per year for
the 94 years th;i^ the new forest
ha3 been coming up on the burn
is 1790 board feet. That is on the
one specific plot, of course. An­
other plot shows little net growth
in the past 11 years due to heavy
mortality by overcrowding, blow­
downs and other causes.
So the average annual growth
of the forest is reduced to 1454
board feet. This is nearly three
times the conservative growth
figures used by industrial forest­
ers in computing estimates for
growth on |Douglas fir cutovers,
although the latter tiow keep good
seed sources under state law and
are otherwise managed for in­
tensive production of 'new tree
crops.
Snafu Forestry ....
As long as the Pravda Boys are
given a free hand with public
money in Washington, D.C., their
defamation of the character of
the forest industries will continue
and the publication of honest in­
formation on the good side, the
bright side, the constructive side
of timber growing in the U.S.A.,
will remain as neglected as gov­
ernment business.
The present policy is not only
to flood the country with propa­
ganda on “devastation” and “de­
structive cutting,” but to give
never a hint to the public on such
facts as that of a 50 per cent
increase in net annual growth in
the Douglas fir region between
1933 and 1946.
That is a policy of snafu for­
estry. Real forestry hides out
in the woods.
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Champ Cusser
AiR WAS BLUE—It was haying
time and the boys bet that Bill
couldn’t pitch the load off the
rack without swearing so many
oathe3. So they hid and counted
the times. Never mind who won
the bet, the point is that Bill had
a name all through that section.
He was the champ cusser.
MOUTH CLEANED—Come on
Dad, ain’t you in on this? And
Sonny took Bill’s hand and led
him up front and there Bill
kneeled down. When he came
to his feet he had a new mouth.
God gave him new birth, new ap­
petites and a new urge. When
Bill made Christ his own Lord
and Saviour right then God made
Bill a new man.
GOD DID IT—It was not that
Bill kneeled down. I was not
something he did for God but
what God did for him. God looked
into his heart and saw that Bill
had come right with Christ. Bill
had it settled that Christ had
died for all his sins and by that
he was in the clear. Then God
took up and made Bill a new man.
T. AND O.—God moves in and
saves us even though we have
lived a life of sin. Only so we
claim Christ as dying for us and
clearing us with God. Then God
acts. By His mercy and love He
saves us.
See Titus 3:5—BI­
BLE. Then it is T. AND O.
TRUST AND OBEY for there’s
no other way, to be happy with
Jesus than to Trust and Obey.
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Willie Goes
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Vernonia, Oregon
Moves to Increase Bed Space
A new program to make more
beds available in Veterans Ad­
ministration hospitals Is now un­
der way, the VA has announced
VA hospital managers are being
authorized to furlough patients
whose treatment can be completed
adequately out of hospitals, there­
by making additional beds avail­
able to new patients.
Procedures will differ for serv­
ice-connected and non-service-con-
nected disability cases. Veterans
with service-incurred disabilities
who are sufficiently improved to
warrant release will be discharged
and will receive out-patient treat­
ment in other VA facilities or on
a fee basis “as circumstances war­
rant.” Transportation for this
treatment may be furnished at
government expense.
Non service-connected cases will
be granted leaves of absence from
the hospital but will continue to
be carried on hospital rolls as pa­
tients. They will report for treat­
ment in VA hospital clinics or
field stations but will be ineligible
for transportation costs at gov­
ernment expense.
The VA emphasized that the
program will apply only to those
patients whose actual period of
hospitalization may be shortened
by this method, without prolong­
ing treatment or impeding recov­
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As a service to Veterans m the
community, this newspaper will
publish a weekly column of hews
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.
ery.
Need Not List Guard Pay
Veterans in training who are
required to report on earnings
other than their subsidies need not
list National Guard pay, the vet­
erans administration says.
A recent ruling exempts the
drill pay from the $175 and $200
ceilings on combined earnings and
subsistence which congress im­
posed on veterans in training un-
dpr the GI bill. A ruling is ex­
pected shortly on whether naval
reserve and other reserve training
pay should be included in veterans’
earning reports.
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Lightning strikes oak trees
six times more frequently than
smooth-barked trees, such as the
beech.
Everybody’s joshing Willie Wells
about going back to school. They
remember when Willie would hide
out in the woodshed—scared to
bring his report card home to Pa.
But under the G.I. Bill of
Rights. Willie (who has a wife and
baby) is getting a free educa­
tion at the Agricultural College.
And Uncle Sam is giving him a
fine report: “Deportment, excel­
lent; Progress, above average.”
That goes for all those under­
graduate veterans. Like Willie, they
appreciate an education more than
ever now. They’re industrions and
well-behaved—their favorite bev­
erage is milk, or a temperate glass
of beer. For them the “three R’s”
seem to mean: Responsibility, Re­
sourcefulness. Restraint.
From where I sit, cynical folks
who thought veterans wouldn’t
want to return to school—wouldn’t
stick to steady habits of work and
moderation—have their answer
in “undergraduates” like Willie.
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