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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1947)
4 THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1947 Sawdust... Numerous requests in recent weeks and several remarks that Eagle readers miss the old column of Sawdust would make it seem that its revival will be welcomed. So, for whatever it may be worth, let's consider this a start. Perhaps the most-discussed tapic Monday morning when business resumed after last wteek's holiday w«s the flying saucer reports. Two "schools” of opinion were expressed: 1. The saucers are merely an optical illusion; 2. The saucers really exist and are some new scientific development which has not been revealed to the public. Whichever thought is correct the fact remains that several Vernonia people have reported seeing the saucers and these people have never before been ac- cased of optical illusions Surely, the great number of reports that tell of seeing the saucers cannot all be illusions. Too many of the reports have come from reliable people. Across the desk of a newspaper office comes much material which ia suitable only for the waste basket (hence part of the reason for the paper shortage), but once in awhile some of this “free” material carries wording which justifies its printing. An example is the following article which appeared in a mail advertising folder received last week: “The other fellow’s economic grass may look greener to us be cause it’s farther away and de liberately clouded in mystery. “But before we fall in love with any foreign “isms,” let’s remem ber that, in spite of temporary troubles, we have the sweetest set-up on earth right here, ac- cording to all facts and figures. Right now we have nearly 57 million people employed, Nor- ■tally, with only 7 per cent of the world’s population, we have Ml per cent of the automobiles, 50 per cent of all telephones, 60 per cent of all life insurance pol icies. Before the war we used 75 per cent of the world’s silk. We had 1 radio to every 3 people, against 1 for every 90 in Russia. ‘‘And we still have more free dom and less harness on us than any other people on earth.” ► J • --------- YOU FIND IT: What prominent st a re window in town bears a mis spelled word in the lettering paint- «d thereon? • Ten inches of snow equals in •water content, on the average, ap- imximately one inch of rain. DANCE AT NATAL I As a service to veterans m 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 Increase Possible Veterans carrying less than $10,000 national service life in surance are reminded by the vet erans administration that they can obtain additional protection. Many veterans who were with out dependents when they entered service did not apply for the full amount of insurance available, the VA says. Ex-G.I.’s who have mar ried on return to civilian life, may now feel the need for additional protection as head of a family. They may apply for increased in surance in multiples of $500 up to the $10,000 limit. To obtain additional coverage, a veteran must take a physical ex amination to provide satisfactory evidence of good health. However, good health will not be denied for service-connected disabilities less than in total degree. Veterans desiring to increase their NSLI policies should inquire at the nearest VA contact office for full information and applica- tion forms. Costs Mount More than six and a quarter million dollars a month is being expended in the Northwest for veterans’ education, the veterans administration reports. During the first seven months of the 1947 fiscal year, a total of nearly $69,000,000 was expanded for education and training under the G.I. Bill and the vocational rehabilitation act. Breakdown of this total shows 52 million dollars for subs’stence allowances, 17 mil lion dollars for tuition, supplies and equipment, and 150 thousand dollars for counseling and guid ance of veterans. Expenditures for May, 1947, the VA says, were 98 per cent greater than for the corresponding month in 1946. At the end of May, 77,774 world war II veterans were enrolled in the VA’s education and training program in the Pacific Northwest area. Question of the Week Q. I am a world war I veteran and I was married in June, 1945. Is my wife entitled to receive pension when I die? A. A widow of a world war I veteran is entitled to receive a pension if she was married to the veteran before December 14, 1944 or for 10 or more years. Con- sequently, your wife would not be eligible for pension if you died less than 10 years after your mar riage. • Saturday Juily 19 No fish live in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, because the average salinity is almost six times great- er than that of the oceans. Tate Orchestra < SHIH TO RPM GEAR LUBRICANT FOR EAST SHIHING GEARS! Sometimes, mister, you wonder how Sears keep up their tough job in to- ay’s hign-powered engines — and sometimes they just don't. That's why RPM Gear Lubricant is compounded to protect modern gears—by carrying heat away, keeping a pressure-resist ing oil film on 'em while making ex tra starts and stops. Keep in gear with RPM Gear Lubricant! Lumber by the Pound This is not a piece on lumber prices, heaven forbid! It is simply to sum up a few simple cogitation« on lumber costs as I have ex perienced them in some recent patching of my domicile. The jag of lumber I bought was figured at retail yard cost of, roundly, $100 a thousand board feet. All told, my patchy order ran to about 200 board feet. There was a 16-foot 6x8 and 4 pieces of 6x6 that totaled 24 feet in length, with some short lengths of 2x4. The lumber for under-the-house repairs. It all came to $20 and some nickles, delivered. I bor rowed a couple of screw-jacks and did my own work in three even ings. The house now looks good for another 20 years, except for the roofing, gutters and paint. The point on these dull, every- day figures is that, in cogitating on the cost, I thought up several fresh ways of looking at it. The regular way is on that old standby basis of $100 per thousand board feet, and divide. Another way is per annum—less than a dollar a year for the job. Yet another is by the pound. Yes, lumber by the pound. My jog, delivered, cost me something like 4 cents a pound. What else have you brought for 4 cents a pound lately? If Apples Were Houses The next time you hear some barbershop crank complaining that lumber is out of sight in cost, and no dad-burned building for him till it’s back down where it was in the good old days of 1935, ask him how he’d like to use apples instead of lumber to build a house. At the going rates in the corner grocery store where I trade, 500 pounds of apples would cost me $72.20 instead of the $20 the lum ber cost—and not delivered, as the lumber was! Now I’m not crying about the cost of apples. Yet they only have to be picked, packed and shipped over a short period by large crews, with a small force doing the pruning, spraying and irrigating in the months between At the Churches CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST (Colored) Elder J. C. Foster, Minister. Services every Sunday at 1:30 and 7:30. ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. J. H. Goodrich Mass: 9:30 a.n,. except first Sunday in month—Mass at 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on FIRST CHRISTIAN —Rev. L. Aplett, Minister 9:45—Bible school led by M. L, Herrin. 11:00—Morning worship and Jun ior church. 7:30—Sunday evening service. 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting. NAZARENE CHAPEL The church that cares. —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. Vernonia A STANDARD OF CALIFORNIA PRODUCT c The average American uses about six pounds of salt a year to season food. Salt is found in 19 states, and produced in commercial ouanit:ties in 13, according to the United States Bureau of Mines. The Vernonia Eagle Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher Official Newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon SEVENTH LAY ADVENTIST Services on Saturday: 10:00 am.—Sabbath school. 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. A cordial invitation is extended to visitors. Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und er the direction of Charles Long, Branch President. Polly H. Lynch, Superintendent. S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland- 1- Oregon. This space paid for by an Oregon family. Vic Vet $ay$ For TOPS In TASTE . . . try any one fountain dishes The Cozy Rainier 5? GIFTS IN ONE— THE VERNONIA EAGLE of Ice Cream Subscription price, $2.50 yearly Mutilai ORE g I o O 'SPÄTER SiyílATICN PUBLISHERS' NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL— 5SOÇIATION et ¡Car Got The SUPERIOR UUINIII PRODUCTS InL on —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45 — Sanday school 11:00—Morning worship. 7:00 p.m.—Young People's service. 8:00—Evening service. Wed. evening choir practice—8:00 Thursday evening 8:00—Prayer meeting and Bible study. $250,000 DAMAGES ASKED IN FIRE SUITS TILLAMOOK—As the opening barrage in a definate effort to pin the responsibility for the 1945 forest fire which raged unchecked in the Tillamook Burn area for three weeks during July of that year, nine seperate complaints were filed in the circut court this week. The complaints, asking for approximately $250,000 in damages named the Consolidated Timber Co. a corporation; Carnation Lumber company, a corporation; Inland Logging company, a corporation; Portland Lumber Mills, a corpoi- ation, and Bert Lampa as defend ants. BUILDING HITS NEW HIGH FOR YEAR HILLSBORO — Hillsboro went through the biggest building boom of the year last month when 17 building permits totaling $100,186 worth of estimated construction were issued by City Recorder Ed win Bowman. The biggest single previous month came in May when construction started on an est imated $85,770 worth of building and repairs. BAD CHECK OPERATORS ‘SLICK’ WARNS FBI FOREST GROVE —i Striking home to merchants who were caught in the recent surge of bad check passing in this area, Howard I. Bobbit of the Portland office of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion told the chamber of commerce last week that professional frau- dulant check passers are one of the slickest groups of criminals in the country. Bobbitt who is special agent in charge of the Portland office said one individual earned some $100,- 000 a year passing bad checks. He warned the membership that these criminals are good actors and look the part they are going to platy. GROUP OPPOSES NEW DAMS ON ROGUE MEDFORD—Kenneth Denman, Medford attorney and sportsman, was named chairman of the newly formed Rogue Bas'n Conservation committee, when that group met here recently. By resolution, the group opposed the building of any more dams on the main channel of Rogue River, but made it clear that there was no opposition on their part to the building of dams in the tributary streams, Denman read messages of many sportsmen’s groups throughout the west, as well as from the interna tional fishermen and allied workers union of America, whose concern was that the dam in the main charnel of Rogue River would de stroy spawning beds, and therefore damage the off-shore fishing. BAD ACTOR—He drinks up hi» wages, curses wife and kiddies,, keeps them all in rags and even the dog slinks away. And you say that Almighty God can make him a new man. You’ll have to show me. OKAY—Come along to see them nail that Heavenly Visitor to those rough beams, to die for that drunk en fellow’s sins. He is no mere man, that Heavenly Visitor. Be fore time began, He created the sun, moon and stars, angels and arch-angels and the universe. He is the Creator and by Him all things were made—BIBLE. And He came among us as the Son of Man to die for that drunken wretch. And to die for you also, only so you receive Him into your heart as Saviour and Deliverer. IT IS DONE—When you can say from the depths of your heart that Christ's blood has blotted out the guilt of your every last sin IT IS DONE. God right then makes you his new creation. Old ways are to drop off. But you must look utterly to Christ to see you through. Christ only from that on. Christ—Saviour and Deliver- er. —“I have not touched a drop in years. I have my family back and my business. I was the town drunkard until I received him.” A HARNESS MAKER. Yes, Now is the day of salvation.—BIBLE. Entered as second class mail matter, August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN LATTER DAY SAINTS Ph. 502 crops. And there is a crop each year. The logger has to pay fire-pro tection costs on his trees until it comes time to pick the lumber. Then he has to lay out money for Expensive roads and equipment. The lumber crop is harvested. Then the slash is to burn, Then more protection—and the next crop in 70 years! There are the log hauls, by tractor, donkey, truck, railroad, towboat. Then the sawmill and planing mill and other processing and handling, before shipping. The transportation charges, At the retail yard, unloading, storage, loading for retail delivery, and handling at delivery point. Quite a lot of doings and stuff for 4 cents per pound, seems to me. Find me a better retail-store bargain than lumber per pound, or per cubic foot, and I’ll eat it—un less it’s prunes. No prunes! Homes per Pound We were spoiled silly on house building cost for ten years. Take my wee domicile for about $9,000, and you’ll be paying close to its real value, in terms of relation to other commodities. (It’s not for sale, by the way, at any price I might expect to get.) The cost tag on the house in 1940 was $4,500. The financing broke this down into a monthly cost, after 10 per cent down.payment, of $30.00 per month, including interest, taxes and insurance. At a conservative guess, I have 23 tons of house, excluding garage and doghouse. In other words, it was sold to me in 1940 at less than two cents per pound, with garage, doghouse, land, roses, picket fence, dandelions and the little hellions next door thrown in. Today the going cost of a home of this s'ze and quality runs only between four and five cents a pound, with its plans, paint, plumb ing, furnance, wiring—30,000 parts, all told. And this for a product bu'lt to last a min'mum of ” —ors. No ou"s*'on. seven a I’m houses were far and away too cheap. 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. Must Show Me Events in Oregon THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. er in combinations to 'signify exactly what you wish to be conveyed A tip-top job of lubricating at A message, a greeting or a record is not complete unless it bears the this UNION service station is the answer unmistakable characteristics achieved by EAGLE composition. to smooth riding pleasure and longer trouble-free performance for your auto. JAKE’S UNION SERVICE THE VERNONIA EAGLE !
