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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1947)
4 THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1947 THE EAGLE, VERNONAI, ORE. Sawdust... Glowing now for everyone to see are the new lights which have been so long in coming to Bridge street in downtown Vernonia. Practi cally all comments on the improv- ments have been favorable, only a few objecting to the pallid colors brought out by the mercury-vapor units. Much of the work of bringing the lights to reality from the talk ing stage can be attributed to the Booster club which was active here over a year ago. The group of men who were members of that organization were responsible for much of the work of arranging for part of the finances required to pay for the improvement. Perhaps it is not remembered by many people, but the club is also responsible for the printing and distribution of a pamphlet that has brought favorable publicity to Vernonia. Mention of the work accomplished on the pamphlet and also the work done to help pro mote the new lights has been made frequently in these columns, but people are prone to forget or be little when they are not familiar with the accomplishments that have been made. An unusual discovery was made at the Adolph Nelson home a week or so ago. Mrs. Nelson says, “It will be eight years Christmas since I dis covered that the little brass knob that turns the switch on my floor lamp was missing. Last Sunday while I was ex amining the kitchen door lock, I found the little knob hid away in the keyhole. It was as good as ever after eight years of hiding.” Mrs. Nelson believes that busy grandchild ren were responsible. First of its kind in Vernonia SHOE REPAIRING ALL KINDS Shoes and Logging Boots for sale Lumber Aprons Made • to order E. F. CHAMBLISS 761 Second Street Events in Oregon / l.i ft' The First Economist As everbody knows, Paul Bun yan was the first and greatest of the race which is now as numerous as bark beetles in the woods—the race of economists. When Paul Bunyan invented log ging he used to make rough draw ings of items he wanted freighted up from headquarters—Paul could not write words. Once he ordered a new grindstone that way. But it was a cheese that was brought back to camp. Paul had for gotten to draw a shaft-hole in the center of the circle and the head quarters clerk couldn’t figure out as meaning anything but cheese. A blizzard closed the camp road. So Paul’s choppers had to roll boulders down a hill all winter, and run beside them to grind the edges on their axes. The next spring Paul Bunyan got him a lifetime grindstone—it was so big it only made one rev olution between paydays. Then Paul hired Johnny Inkslinger to write proper words and figures for him. There has never been another forest economist like Johnny—he used a barrel of ink every time he dotted an “i” and two barrels to cross a “t”. Would Johnny Inkslinger have fun nowdays, back in Washington! Boy! The First Juggler But an economist has to do more than a man of figures—he has to be a juggler of figures, to boot. Paul Bunyan comes in again at this point, for he also was the inventor of juggling. Paul Bunyan was able to juggle logs—in his prime he could keep seven fir butts tossing in the air at one time with his left hand, using an ax in his right to slab and will be the gladioli show scheduled Saturday by the Vernonia Bakery. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, sponsors of the show hope the event w'll develop into an annual affair that will encourage local home owners to plant more flowers and take more interest in beautifying their homes. They have a good idea that is worth the effort they are putting forth to make the show a success. square each log as it came down. But Paul was puny compared to the forest economists of our day, who can sit at a desk and juggle hundreds of billions of board feet and hundreds of millions of tim ber acres without raising a bead of sweat. What is more wonderful, this tremendous timber juggling is done by remote control, in offices far, far from the woods. It’s truly big stuff. It uses up carloads of paper and tanks of ink every week. The figuring is done by electric power, and at a rate so furious that hardly a day goes by what a fire alarm is rung because of an adding machine hot-box. It’s the main reason for Grand Coulee Dam. The accident rate is high. Once a forest economist piled up so much paperwork that when the pile caved ip it took a crew of miners 74 hours to dig him out. Anyhow, that’s what I’ve heard. It’s too unlikely, when you remem ber that, for the whole country, the paperwork foresters have over 600 million acres of forest, 1,600 billion board feet of standing tim ber, and similiar Bunyan figures on second-growth, forest fires, forest products production, and on many other items, to juggle. Perils of Paperwork They’ve figured it out that 13,- 507,118 and % persons live, direct ly or indirectly, wholly or in part, off the forests. The 16 person is a forest economist who was run by accident into a super mimeo graphing machine —and lost his legs before it could be thrown into reverse. A gyppo logger nowadays has to keep legal bookkeeping talent on tap to do the work that he used to handle on his hip with time and tally books. Even a whistle punk has forms to fill out. And we “ain’t seen nothing” yet. The forest economists, tbe paperwork foresters, have laws on deck which if passed, will probably boost big timber paperwork a good 25 per cent. If this goes on, in time there’ll have to be an adding machine on every stump ranch. • K’ds Can Come PROUD PARENTS—I was the oldest in our family and my folks used to dress me up and show me off as being the first born. I looked good to them but not to God, for his Word says I had a wicked heart—The heart is de ceitful above all things and des perately wicked—BIBLE. I SEE MYSELF—Along in my 8th year, a dozen of us stopped in for a Boys and Girls Bible hour I cannot recall what was said but the hour closed with prayer. From then on God began to show me that I had sinned and that I was lost. You see me, a small boy with a heavy heart and full of despair. CAME PEACE—Then the great day when my Mother told me that God’s Son had died for me I saw myself cleared and I came into a great peace. Now I know why— The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses from all sin. JUSTIFIED—Just as if I had never sinned. So God counts you and you too will have that peace when you lay hold on Christ as your own Saviour. Yes, Kiddies can come for kiddies can know the deep things of God. And big folks too if they will only believe God that he proved his love by giving Christ to die for them. What for your and yours? )U ARE WHAT YOU EAT” ALANCEO All our meals are planned to give you the balance needed for a healthy diet in addition to being tasty and attractive, No need to worry about vitamins when you eat at the Hotel MacDonald Dining Doom ATTENTION: We have added Merchant* Lunch to our regular menu 11 A M. to 2 P.M. ------ •------ 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Buffet Supper* and Club Banquet* by appointment S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland- 1- Oregon. This space paid for by a Beaver ton high school boy. KTIL TO BE DEDICATED AT COUNTY FAIR TILLAMOOK—Starting at 7:45 P.M. Saturday, August 16th, the dedicatory program of the new Radio station KTIL will be held. The program will be broadcast by loudspeaker to the throngs at the Fair and—if all equipment arrives in time—will be the first program to go out over the air from the Tillamook station. October 10). This will be utilized F.F.A. livestock. Exhibitors who are accustomed to the traditional Saturday open ing have been urged to adjust their for additional time for judging calenders and change dates of the Pacific International to October 3 to 11, Holt stated. This year’s exposition will be the 73th annual showing of the P.I. FG POPULATION SHOWS GROWTH FOREST GROVE — Forest Grove's population, on the increase due to the influx of workers during the war is now estimated to be in the neighborhood of 3000 by J. R. McCready, City Attorney. The passing of a bill to enlarge the city limits would increase that number by approximately 800 people. CANNERY PRICE ON BARTLETS $85 TON MEDFORD—Pear picking and packing got into full swing in the Rogue River valley here last week, with all packing houses operating. Contracts with canners, negoti ated last weekend, will bring a price around $85 per ton to the growers, packers report. This fig ure is slightly higher than the fresh fruit returns on the eastern markets, but the market, shippers report, is growing stronger. JAIL BUILDING BEING REBUILT AT WILLAMINA WILLAMINA — Willamina is scheduled to become the first city in Yamhill county to have special detention quarters for wo men and juveniles with a matron subject to call for their care 24 hours a day as the result of the remodling of the city hall and fire department. The Willamina detention quart ers for women and children will be strictly modern and sanitary with space for six adults. It is to be part of the jail. 0 P.I. Opening Set Ahead WANT TO BUY OR SELL? USE EAGLE CLASSIFIED ADS Waterman’s Wake up folks!—here comes the sun. 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