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THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1947
Events in
Oregon
PUPILS EARN »400
DESPITE SHOWERS
SANDY, April 10—April show
er* over the weekend interrupted
the campaign of the Sandy grade
school students to raise »1,000 as
a eontrigution to the Sandy Me
morial Hospital.
The rain ipade it impossible to
work on all of the 398 jobs avail
able to the students, who plan to
contribute their wages to the
Memorial.
Howevdr,
approxi
mately »400 has been earned by
the students already. The drive
has been extended for another
ten days which will allow the
students to work after school
hours and on two Saturdays, de
clared Principal Duane Knapp.
CAMP FOR BOYS
DUE AT TIMBER
FOREST GROVE—A camp for
boys from the Woodburn training
school is to be established near
Timber in a former CCC camp,
according to action taken during
the past week by the legislature.
A bill appropiating »150,000 for
establishment of the camp received
senate approval. Of the total
amount, »100,000 will come out of
the state’s general fund and »50,-
000 from the state building fund.
Licensed Contractors
REFRIGERATION
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Vernonia, Oregon
Kenneth R. Sax
Certified Sonotone Consultant
Thursday, April 24th
2 P. M. to 6 P. M.
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THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
WHISKER CONTEST TO
START ON APRIL 10
SEASIDE—April 10 is the day
when the whisker contest, to be
held in connection with the Lewis
and Clark festival, started. And
woe to any man capable of grow
ing a beaver to be without it, or a
non-whisker permit.
The festival is expected to be
one of the outstanding events of
the summer. To be held June 27.
28 and 29, the pfogram will in
volve a revival of a western at
mosphere with emphasis on the
story of the Lewis and Clark ex
pedition and its visit to Seaside and
Clatsop county.
A cut in President Truman’s
requested »37.5 billion budget
would not impair defense effic
iency, in the opinion of tax ex
perts. Examination of the de
fense budget shows that the
civilian personnel of War and
Navy Departments is about equal
in number to the military person
nel.
THE ARMY AND NAVY de
partments should prove their case
for maintaining as many civilians
as there are men in uniform, the
tax experts point out.
AT THE PEAK of the war, we
spent an average of »6,960 per
soldier.
THE PRESIDENT’S budget for
1948 is equivalent to an expendi
ture of »6,790 per man, or only
$170 le3s than when we were
fighting a global war.
FOR EXAMPLE, the Army
does laundry and, dry-cleaning for
officers, and when the war ended
it had enough equipment to per
form these services. Yet, in 1946
it bought »33 million worth of
new laundry equipment; in 1947 it
bought »23 million more, and in
1948 it proposes to spend another
»23 million.
NAVY OFFICIALS have com-
]■’. ined that the 1948 fuel allow
ance would permit only three
days steaming per month. How
ever, the figure is only »5 million
less than for 1947 and there is
no complaint this year.
EVERYONE, say the experts,
should weigh Admiral Nimitz’s
statement that “No naval or mili
tary man is ever satisfied with
what is made available.
•
The speed of a champion racing
greyhound on an English course
recently was timed at 525 yards
in 28.99 seconds, or 37 miles an
hour.
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FISHING FOR BARGAINS?
DROP YOUR LINE IN THE
CLASSIFIED COLUMN.
Oregon-American
LUMBER
CORPORATION
Vernonia, Oregon
By PILGRIM
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FURNACE IN THE
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IN VIRGINIA IN
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DOLLARS IN NEVJ LIFE INSURANCE
PENSION TRUSTS WERE SET UP LAST yEAri
By COMPANIES FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES
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The Old Lumber Yard
Any day now I expect to see
display adds under some such
heading as “Moderne Building
Products Salon” or “The Ritz
Lumber Parlors,” with announce
ment that a line of cosmetics has
been added to the Fine Arts and
Wallpaper Department, and that
a slick hostess has been hired to
put on bridge teas as a daily
feature in the Orange-Pekoe
Annex.
Worse than that happened to
the oldtime drug store.
Tile
change of the pre-Volstead saloon
into the cocktail bar of these de
generate days is an even more
disheartening subject for male
meditation. As successor to the
livery barn, the garage is. a tomb
of the hopes and dreams of an
age in which the Horse was
mightier than the Atom.
The old lumber yard down by
the tracks has been the hardest
of all the traditional institutions
of its kind in the American com
munity. It is yet to be found in
its ancient form, albiet rundown,
ramshackle, nigh to dissolution,
in many a town.
Before the war I stumbled into
one such in the capital city of
California.
The proprietor was
out in overalls, unloading a car of
cedar shingles. (Once upon a
time there really were whole cars
of shingles.) I stood back and
watched him for a long time. He
set me dreaming.
Mountain to Prairie
What I remembered mostly was
first breath of magic from the
mountain pines. It was in a little
town of Southern Iowa, a farm
village in the prairie cornfields.
I was seven. In one way or an
other I was taken along with an
uncle when he drove to the yard
over by the Wabash tracks for a
jag of timber. A boxcar on the
siding was half unloaded. The
dealer said that it was just in
from Wild Idaho. That impressed
me, for realatives were living in
that Wild Western state.
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“Yes , sir”-the lumberman said
to Uncle Joe. “Prime pine from
Idaho, the best I’ve ever seen.
White, bright, planed to a hair.
I expect to handle a lot of the
same.”
My uncle put me up in the car,
and I smelled pine as I had never
known it before. The scent haunt
ed me for days, and seemed to
breathe life into pictures seen and
tales heard of the mountains of
the West and their forests. There
were more visits to the lumber
yard, and it later became one of
the places in town where I’d hang
around with other boys to watch
men’s doings and hear their talk.
The yard was just that—a lot
by a Wabash siding, lumber piled
in rough assortments, without
cover, the office a shack with a
stove. A draying business was
operated from the place, and it
had a small barn, wagon shed and
storeroom. Eventually the part
ners added an icehouse and coal
piles to their enterprises.
No women set foot in the lum
ber yard in myj time around it.
The one step toward modern
building materials merchandising
that I can recall was the erection
of a rough shed to protect siding,
flooring and other high-grade
lumber items from the weather.
The yard owners were commonly
to be seen in working clothes,
sweating at hard labor, or else
talking with male customers and
callers.
Such was my recollection as I
stood in the dusty and weathered
establishment of California retail
lumber dealer and watched him
at his heavy labor. It was all a
spectacle to scandalize a retail
sales expert. It was a throwback
to the horse and buggy. But it
restored a bit of boyhood in a
quiet little Iowa town ... a shack
and lumber piles by a Wabash
siding ... a locomotive whistling
in from the We3t ... a carload
of pine, strong with breath of
mountain timber and high adven
ture.
Frank's Pastime
I
management
ER
UP
Redecorated and Remodeled
We are now open
With Signal
AT
Heath’s Service Station
Phone 5711
At the Mile Brige, Riverview
CHURCH OF GOD
IN CHRIST (Colored)
Elder J. C. Foster, Minister.
Services every Sunday at 1:30 and
7:30.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
—Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor
9:45—Sunday school with clas
ses for all ages.
11:00—Morning worship.
6:30—C. A. service.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 Tuesday—Prayer meeting.
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
Rev. J. H. Goodrich
Mass: 9:30 a.n>. sxcept first
Sunday in month—Mass at
8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on.
FIRST CHRISTIAN
—Ernest P. Baker, Minister
9:45—Bible school led by M. L.
Herrin.
11:00—Morning worship and Jun
ior church.
1 :30—Sunday evening service.
7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting.
NAZARFNE CHAPEL
The church that caree.
—H. L. Russell, Pastor
1208 Bridge St.
9:45 a.m.—Sunday school.
11:00 a.m.—Morning worship.
7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and
prayer.
EVANGELICAL UNITED
BRETHREN
—Rev. Allen II.
Backer, Minister
9:45 — Sunday
bool
11:00—Morning worship.
6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service.
7:30—Evening service.
Thursday evening 7:30—Prayer
meeting and Bible study.
SEVENTH oAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
J. E. FOSSUM
Electrical Service
! Home, Commercial, Residential
BE
WISE
Preserve your winter Clothes
by having them Cleaned before
storing.
Vernonia Cleaners
For Pasteurized
MILK
CREAM
and
BUTTERMILK
right from the farm to
your door, write or call
Telephone No. 7F51
OUR PRODUCTS
(ALWAYS SATISFY
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LATTER DAY SAINTS
Sunday school convenes at 10
a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und
er the direction of Charles
Long, Branch President. Polly
H. Lynch, Superintendent.
7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament
PEBBLE
¡CREEK DAIRY
Timber Rt., Box 56
Vernonia, Oregon
BEAUTY TREATMENT
FOR YOUR CAR
Everything from a Facial to a Permanent
Th* finish of your cor con bo kept sparkling new by a little care.
If you wont to do this work yourself, wo carry all kinds cf "beauty”
olds, such as Polish, Wax etc, that are highly recommended for
H WOk WASH
&
POLISH
We are mighty proud the way the boys wash and polish cars
in our place. They take a lot of pride in their work—and have
proper equipment for doing a splendid job. Better phone us in
advance for an appointment, as this department is kept busy
and naturally we do not wish to disappoint you.
BEAUTIFUL WAX JOB
COMPLETE
PAINT JOB
With the choice of late modem color,. If your paint is scratched
or faded . . . and if your car is shabby looking, have it painted
at our place, and it will look like new. EASY PAYMENTS IF
YOU WANT—and the price of a complete new paint job is
surprisingly low. Get our estimate.
HAVE YOUR CAR STEAM CLEANED WITH
OUR NEW KERRICK CLEANER
Pick up, perk up for the
Spring Parade
for your recreation
Our job includes steam cleaning the chassis
and motor and washing the car for
$6.50
Ed's Recreation Center
Vernonia Auto Co.
Ed Ling, Proprietor
I
I 208 B St
Vernonia
Telephone 283
CONTRACT
DAY WORK*
INSTALLATIONS
ALTERATIONS
REPAIRS
There is no two ways about it. A WAX job, when it is done
right and the way we do it, just adds life and sparkle to your car.
Dirt and grime just slide right off on a waxed car . . . and it is
so easy to keep clean and looking good by just wiping it off.
Now under new
FILL
Paris, France, was founded be
fore the Christian Era as a fort
ified town of the Gallic tribe of
the Parisii and was originally
called Lutetia.
At the
Churches
Phone 342
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