4 THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1947 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE By PILGRIM Events m Oregon Mail*“! 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 Office at Odd Fellows Bldg., Portland Oregon Veterans who received over payment of subsistence allow ances will be able to repay the government without undue hard ship, the veterans administration announces. Instructions to that effect have been sent to all VA field offices. In addition, any veteran whose subsistence allowance has been suspended to balance prior over payments, and who can show re sultant hardship, may apply for readjustment at his VA regional Office. The overpayments resulted from wage ceilings for veteran * trainees established by the last congress and which provided that combined earnings and subsist ence could not exceed $200 for married veterans, $165 for single veterans. Each trainee is re- quired to report earnings every three months to the VA. Veterans who received over- payment of subsistence were warned, however, that they would be required to remit all such amounts to the government. Questions of the week Q. Where can I get inform ation about readjustment allow- ances? A. Inquire at a public em ployment office or at an office of the unemployment compensation agency in the state or territory in which you reside. Q. Must property, to secure a guaranteed loan, be covered by insurance ? A. It is customary for lenders to require insurance on buildings against which loans are made in order to protect themselves against loss of security. This also protects the veteran since it may provide funds to replace the loss. Buildings used as se curity for loans which carry the guaranty of the VA must be in- i ured against fire and other haz- r.rda against which it is cus- t omary to insure in the commun- ity- Q. I have two dependent chil- dren. I am a World War I veteran and would like to know if I can get a nonservice-connected pension ? A. If you believe you are per manently and totally disabled, you should contact the veterans administration regional office haring jurisdiction over your ad- dress and forward to the VA 1'orm 8-526b, (obtainable at the nearest VA contact office) to- irether with evidence of your con- dition. lleaefits to Vets, Dependents Compensation to widows and children,: Description: Monthly payments. Widow alone, $60; widow and one child, $78; each additional child, «15.60; no widow but one child, $30; 2 children, $45.60; each ad ditional child. $12. Requirements: Veteran must have served during war period and died in service or been discharged under conditions other than dis honorable. Death after discharge caused by service-conected dis- ability. Widow must have been married to veteran within ten years after termination of war. Widow's payment stops if she re marries. Payments to children continue while they are under 18, or longer under certain conditions. Compensation to dependent par ents: Description: Monthly payments. Mother and father, $30 each. Mother or father, $54. Requirements: Veteran must heve served during war perinei and died in service or been dis charged under conditions other than dishonorable, Death after discharge caused by service-con- neeted disability, Dependency of parents must be established. The first screw propelled steam war vessel ever built was the USS Princeton, constructed at Philadelphia in 1843. PAINTING PAPERHANGING Paint and Wallpaper for Sale Carlin Hackney Call 422 STATE NEWS BILL BANS STOCK ON COUNTY ROADS HILLSBORO—A Farm Union- sponsored to prohibit stock from running at large on any highway or public road in Washington County was introduced by the Washinton county delegation, Representatives J.O. Johnson and Harry Schmeltzer and Senator Paul Patterson. The bill provides that it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation either as owner or in possession of any horses, mules, cattle, swine, sheep or goats to permit the same to run at large on any highway or public road in Washington county, also provides for a finer of more than $100. SKATING TOURNEY SET MARCH 8-9 G R E S H A M—Dates for state roller skatin champion ships which will be held at the Gresham Fun Center have been sell for March 8 and 9 by the Oregon chapter of the Roller Skating Rink Operators of Amer- ica. The big affair will attract skat ers from throughout the 3tate. TEACHERS ASK $2100 MINIMUM SEASIDE—A salary schedule calling for a minimum of $2400 annually, graduated according to experience and educational attain ments to $3200 annually, was proposed by a committee of teach ers last week. In addition the teachers re quested a bonus, above the con tract requirements for the present school year, of $236 for each teacher. The proposal, which would add approximately $10,000 an nually to the amount paid to teachers for next year, was taken under advisement by the two members of the board who were present and who were entirely sympathetic to the idea of a salary boo3t. Washington Directly or indirectly, the Amer ican people in 1944 and 1945 had to put out $1 from each $3 of to tal income payments to support the government — federal, state and local—or an average of more than $1300 per family. Revealing these statistics based on a study of department of com merce and national industrial con ference figures, the Institute of Life Insurance notes that “a tax bill does not always represent the total cost of government,” and adds: “Public bodies, when they do not live within their incomes, bor row to supplement tax revenues, and the total public debt has shown an uptrend for years. Everyone Affected “In the last analysis, virtually all taxes levied by public bodies are paid by the people at large. This is obvious in the case of per sonal income taxes, sales taxes and the like, which the individual pays directly. “It is just as true of other taxes. Business taxes may not be visible separately in the cost of everyday goods and services, but they are there nonetheless. “Real estate taxes are an integ ral part of the rent bill or the cost of home upkeep, And so on down the line.” Thus the cost of government has a direct impact on every in dividual and family in the nation, affecting standards of living, ca pacity to save and to plan for the future. Fhe 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 s7*>u P II 111 S ME » s' S IA T I 0 N NATIONAL EDITORIAL- x*c Ittnbt t_ Scared Boy I’M SCARED—for tonight the angel of death is to kill the .first- born in every family and I’m oldest with us.” No, you will not die, says his chum.—“For I saw your' father kill a lamb and put the blood on the door post. He obeyed God, who said the angel of death would see the blood and pass over. You are safe under the blood.” So it was on that awful night in Egypt, From Pharoah on the throne to the prisoner in the call, all the first-born died. But of God’s people, under the blood, not one was taken. Safe under the blood. NOT AFRAID—The four child ren stood by the bedside of their dying father to hear him say— “I’m leaving you now and going out to meet God and I’m NOT AFRAID.” No, he was not afraid to meet God, for he had put his sins under Christ’s blood and by that he knew them washed away. Right, for the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses from all sin.—BIBLE. CALL TO YOU—God is today calling out a blood-bought people on whom to spend his love for ever and ever, and he is calling to you. Lay hold on Christ as Lord and Savior.—“Just as I am and waiting not, to rid my soul of one dark blot.—But that Thy blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come.” S.W. McChesney Rd., Portland 1, Oregon This space paid for by a Port land auto repair man. At the Churches "OUT ofthc woods . J*. t. ,.<»>. The Satsop Squirrel Case . . . Not since I let loo3e with Paul Bunyan in 1923 has any story of mine raised as much halleluiah as this one about Mrs. Cliff Rice, her tree-seed business in the Sat sop woods, and the squirrels. So many letters to Mrs. Rice have blazed in from such far spots as Penobscot, Pasadena, Baltimore and Bogalusa that an other newspaper yarn has been made from them and sent around the world. I mean, “blazed.” The original story of Mrs. Rice and her contribution to the restock ing of burned-over forest lands had three hooks. One was the theme of reforestation—my own main interest. A second was that of “the better mousetrap,” with the world beating a path through deepest woods to the maker’s door. The third was the animal theme. A Seattle reporter wa3 inter ested in the story with the part played by squirrels in the busi ness which Mrs. Rice has built up for herself out in the Satsop woods. Actually it is a trifling part. The cones of fir, hemlock, cedar and spruce are, of course, the raw material of the business. People pick cones for pay by the bushel or pound. When a picker finds a store left by squirrels for winter in a tree or stump hollow, it is like finding money. This does not happen very often. It means nothing to the squirrels, outside of natural indignation. The animal hook put the story on the front page of a Sunday newspaper. Then a thousand pa pers throughout the country car ried versions and pictures. And then the powerful spirit of folk lore entered in. The Scuirrilous Squirrel Fans . . . The headlines back in Bangor and Baltimore read, “Squirrels’ Winter Caches Looted for Seed Business.” And so here we had another oldtime story theme of undying popularity—the pirates and the treasure hunt. But this case Mrs. Rice, not in the role of a friend of the forest, of a wise woman of nature who knew the ways of providing vital seed for tree growing by lumbermen and foresters, but as a starver of squirrels, a mortal enemy of the Sciuridae family. An amazing number of letters written to Mrs. Rice plumbed the lowest possible depths of scur rility. Mostly they bore no names or address. Some were obvious- ly the poison-pen outpourings of the insane. Others were compara tively temperate and decent in tone, with a few on engraved sta tionery from such high-toned dumps as Forest Hills. N.Y., and Rahway, N.J. While the main body of letters were inquiries on forestry or business, the many that were scurrillous and violent—and ah without reason or sense—remain a depressing fact to meditate upon. The number of people who are ready to explode in violent hate from the smallest spark is larger than we think. Cranks keep Communism. Fanatics feed Fascism. And hell pops on. The Story's the Thing . . . But to come back to my sim ple main point, the tried and true, the ever-beloved story themes are the ones to use in getting facts of forestry, or of any other concern of this region, before the people of the. country. Paul Bunyan was brought out of the woods to give readers a new land of make-believe, an American fairy tale—one in a mackinaw and calked boots. I have been fooling around with animal stories of the Douglas fir for a long time. Looks like I’ve located me a claim. It’s wide- open territory. Bu!| forestry ought not to be forgotten in it. ★ < ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ * B j I® * ★ ★★★★★★ ★ Growing Pains If professional wishful guessers are only half right Oregon is nearing rainbow’s end. Nothing 1 The but prosperity is ahead, budget will balance itself. Old Easy Street will be renamed Boom Boulevard. The February report of Ore- gon’s postwar readjustment and filed development commission, with Governor Earl Snell this week, predicted a building boom for the state. “For the first time the industrial east is spreading its activities in Oregon in a sub stantial manner,” the report ede- clares. It lists 33,700 needed homes to cost $388,500,000 and farm improvements to cost over 37 million dollars, as contributing to the momentum of prosperity. Private projects continue to come to Oregon. All will not be lo cated in the large cities. Act ivities will be general over the state. Since V-day some 30 out- of-state firms have built plants here. Exclusive of cost of machinery and building sites the investments totaled $17,000,000, with indidual investments ranging from $1,500,000 down to $100,000. The commission has previously listed the expenditure of over half a billion dollars as being ap- proved for "public works in Ore- Txjcal expansion is also gon. stressed in the report with em phasis on new airways develop ment, railroad improvement and sea lane extension. Lumber and fishing industries have had more than their share of labor short age. caused primarily by cessation of building during the war. Recently much progress has been made in providing homes for their workers but these industries are still shorthanded. Covered pay rolls, the report indicates, will be around $654,000,000 in 1947. This would be only 14 per cent below the peak in 1945. If the estimate in the report were discounted 24 per cent the situation would not balance the labor market over the entire year. The seasonable labor problem would be as difficult as it has been for several years. Jobs at good wages should be available for all who want to work in 1947. Jobs at good wages mean big profits for the state's liquor con trol monopoly. They will increase profits to the estimated $25,000,- 000 for the next biennium and substantiate the Governor’s bud get as given the legislature. New Bills Introduced CHURCH OF GOD These measures of wide interest IN CHRIST (Colored) were dropped into the legislative Elder J. C. Foster, Minister. hopper the past week. Provide Services every Sunday at 1:30 and for the us» of “script” in clubs 7:30. licensed by state liquor com- ASSEMBLY OF GOD mission and permit a “pool” of —Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor liquor in clubs . . . Legalize is 9:45—Sunday school with clas suance of PUD revenue bonds, ses for all ages. eliminate all provision for general 11:00—Morning worship. obligation bonds, which are a 6:30—C. A. service. lein on property . . . Give salary 7 :30—Evangelistic service. raises to state officers of $1200 7:30 Tuesday—Prayer meeting. to $4500 a year with governor’s EVANGELICAL UNITED salary boosted to $12,500 . . . Per BRETHREN mit election on PUDs to be held only concurrently with general —Rev. Allen H. election . . . Compel each PUD to Backer, Minister obtain a certificate of public con venience and necessity from the 9:45 — Sunday- public utilities commissioner be school fore the district could be organ ized . . . Tax business at rate of 11:00—Morning worship. one half of one per cent of gross 6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service. receipts, less cost of goods and 7:30—Evening service. services . Ban strikes or lock- Wed. Eve., 7:30—Bible study and prayer meeting. outs without a majority vote of NAZARENE CHAPEL group by secret written ballot. The church that cares. The Colonel Shelved —IL L. Russell, Pastor Did Oregon’s 92.2 per cenll pure 1208 Bridge St. replubican legislature work the 9:45 a.m.—Sunday school. old “Yankee Council” play on the 11:00 a.m.—Morning worship. democrat’s most potential political 7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services. threat, Joe Carson? The unusual 7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and speed with which House Joint prayer. Memorial went through both of FIRST CHRISTIAN houses would so indicate. It was —Ernest P. Baker, Minister given a one-trip on the first day 9:45—Bible school led by M. L. of the session. HJM 1 asked the Herrin. president of the United States to 11:00—Morning worship and Jun appoint Colonel Joesph K. Carson, ior church. Jr. as a, member of the U. S. 7:30—Sunday evening service. Maritime commission. Announce- 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting. ment of the appointment came SEVENTH LAY ADVENTIST this week. Removing the ubane, Services on Saturday: vote getting ex-mayor of Portland 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. from political competition has 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. eased the nerves of republican A cordial invitation is extendeJ office holders. to visitors. Legislative Tempo LATTER DAY SAINTS At the end of the first three Sunday school convenes at 10 weeks of the 1947 legislative cal a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und enders of the senate and the er the direction of Charles house showed that 618 bills, mem Long, Branch President. Polly orials and resolutions had been H. Lynch, Superintendent. introduced, 259 in the senate and 7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament 359 in the house, Final action ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC had been taken on 37 of the 220 Rev. Anthony V. Gerace bills in the senate and on 31 of Rev. J. H. Goodrich the 326 bills in the house. There Mass: 9:30, a.n,. except first were 183 senate bills and 265 Sunday in month—Mass at house bills which had been in 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. definately postponed , in com- Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on mittees or on the desk. At the same time during the Homing pigeons have diffi 1945 session 635 measures hadl culty with their sense of direction been introduced and final action when in the vicinty of active taken on 163. radio broadcasting towers. • The Forest Grove NATIONAL BANK INVITES YOU TO BANK BY MAIL IF INCONVENIENT TO COME IN PERSON r See this bank for LOANS of all types A Locally-Owned, Independent Bank