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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.”
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YOU FIND IT: What prominent
st a re window in town bears a mis
spelled word in the lettering paint-
«d thereon?
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Ten inches of snow equals in
•water content, on the average, ap-
imximately one inch of rain.
DANCE
AT NATAL
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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.
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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
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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.
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—Rev. Allen H.
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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.
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