Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974, February 20, 1947, Page 4, Image 4

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    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
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL-
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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