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Norblad to Open Office at Salem 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 administration answers the 10 questions most frequently asked by World war II veterans about education under the G.I. Bill. The veterans asked the questions in a study that VA conducted to learn how much they know about their federal benefits. The ques tions and answers follows: Q. How is the length of entitle ment calcuated and does a year of entitlement mean a school year or a calender year? A. Under the G.I. Bill, any elig ible veteran is entitled to education or job-training for a period of one calender year, plus the time he spent in the armed forces between September 16, 1940 and the of ficial end of the war. The total period of education or training may not exceed four calender years. Q. What schools may a veteran attend under the G.I. Bill? A. A veteran may enroll in any approved school that will accept him. Q. What books and equipment does VA supply the veteran in school? A. VA pays for all books and equipment that the school requires of all students in the same course so long as this amount plus tuition does not exceed $500 a year for the course. Q. How much subsistence is paid and how soon may the veter an expect to receive benefits after he is enrolled? A. VA may pay eligible veter ans without dependants a sub sistence allowance of $65 a month The 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, 1879. Subscription price, $2.50 yearly ORE g I o QN l W SPACER F m IISH[ER,S ATI ON NATIONAL EDITORIAL— 1047 W association ’«nr Submitted for this column by a man who has been in Vernonia several times before and is visit ing here now, is the verse below. It carries a lot of truth that could well be heeded by all of us. Congressman Walter Norblad (R-Ore) has closed his Washing ton, D.C. office, and the members of his staff are enroute to Salem, where the representative will main tain headquarters beginning Sept ember 2. All correspondence to him should be addressed to Con gressman Norblad at Salem, Ore gon. and veterans with one or more de pendants, $90 a month. The length of time required to issue the first subsistence check varies with each case. Generally, the first check is issued within 30 days after the end of the first monthly pay per iod. Subsistence allowances in arrears are paid, but none is paid in advance. Q. May a veteran change his course if he finds the original course in which he enrolled is not satisfactory? A. Yes, providing he has VA’s permission to do so. Whenever the facts in the case indicate that a change will be to the best in terests of the veteran, VA will grant authorization for the change. Q. May a vetran enroll in a night school or a part-Jjme course ? A. Yes. Q. May a veteran receive VA subsistence payments if he works while attending school under the G.I. Bill? A. He may work part-time or full-time and still draw his full allowance, provided that the wages he earns for such emplyment, plus his subsistence allowance while attending school, does not total more than $175 a month if he has no dependants or $200 a month if he has one or more dependents. His VA subsistence allowance is reduced proportionately when the total exceeds the furegoing stat utory limits. Q. What happens if the veter an’s marks are low or his progress is unsatisfactory? A. He may receive the assist ance of VA’s educational and guidance service in an endeavor to correct those factors which may be contributing to his deficiency. But he is obliged to meet the re quirements of the school if he wishes to continue his course. Q. May the veteran take part of his training in one school and part in another? A. VA may permit a veteran to take more than one course of study at the same time, either in the same or in a different school, pro vided that the course in the second school is not offered by the first school in which the veteran is en rolled and the latter school will certify that the second course is essential to the successful com pletion of the veteran’s training objective. Q. May a veteran study with a private teacher and receive benefits under the G. I. Bill? A. No. DO YOU NEED WATER SERVICE Our business is to furnish and install the modern equipment for your water needs. ELECTRIC OR GAS water systems if it has to be pumped. FILTERS OR SOFTENERS for clear, soft water. ELECTRIC AUTOMATIC water heaters or coils and range boilers for hot water. INSTALL AND FURNISH fituxres for the kitchen, bath, laundry room, etc. ALSO, electric or gas irrigation systems from the size for a garden to a whole farm. REMEMBER US TOO, FOR STOCK MILL- WORK, DOORS, WINDOWS, ETC. ALSO BROKEN GLASS REMOVED AND NEW GLAZED TO REPLACE ANDERSON-ROEDIGER Plumbing and Stock Millwork Supplies Vernonia. Ore. Phone: Plumber, 5713, Shop 575 So That Your Child Will Have Capital EYES.. School children should be spared the handicap of defective eyesight- which retards their learning! Before school begins, bring your child here for scientific examinations, prescription and filling. Free Private Parking for Patients DR. CHARLES A. PLUMSTEAD CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST (Colored) Elder J. C. Foster, Minister. Services every Sunday at 1:30 and 7:30. ASSEMBLY of god GET TOGETHER Boost your city, boost your friends; Boost the church that you attend. Boost the street on which you’re dwelling; Boost the goods that you are sell ing. Boost the people ‘round about you; They can get along without you, But success will quicker find them If you’ll only get behind them. Boost for every forward move ment; Boost for every new improvement. Boost the man for whom you labor; Boost the stranger and the neigh bor. Cease to be a constant knocker; Cease to be a progress blocker. If you’d make your city better; Boost it to the final letter. A Boosting Stranger forest fires has been carried out by Good Sportsmen The hunters are oiling their conservation authorities in the Lake States; very scant study of guns. Fishermen have been in the the kind has been made in Wash woods for weeks, whipping the ington and Oregon; and this is the streams and lakes, and their sport major reason why sportsmen here has weeks to go. Each tribe is a are apt to feel that forest-fire powerful user of the coffee pot prevention is not so much in their and the frying pan. In each case interest as it is in the interest of federal, state and private forest the use means a campfire, and ownership. every campfire is a menace, more “In 1930 (quoting Mr. Holbrook) or less. A campfire literally can the Wisconsin Conservation Com raise hell and set it rolling over mission made a close study of the thousands of acres of timberland. effects on wild life of a big fire Too often this is just what a camp in the central part of the state. fire does. This fire ran over one hundred Most hunters and fishermen are thousand acres in excellant game also users of the weed in fiery country. D. H. Kipp of the Com- form. Hot cigarette butts, cigar * m'.ss;on was of the opinion that stubs and pipe heels are menaces this fire killed at least one-quarter too, when tossed into dry brush or of the grouse and quail in the area. bracken fern or firewood in which The indirect effects of the fire, see fling trees are growing and however, were considered greater young game is sheltered. than the direct loss because the The real sportsman seldom builds fire caused a dangerously large a campfire so big that it may send concentration of game in a small brands sailing into the autumn adjacent area.” fuel that exists on any forest Surveys of this kind are a vital floor, and he does not leave the need in Oregon and Washington. littlest campfire without drowning The results would surely show that it. He uses the ashtray of his »f're is a mightier menace here to automobile and is otherwise care game than is generally realized. ful with his smokes. The good sportsman, that is. God Is God Mugs and Babes In the Pacific Northwest the real Do you sorrow by an open sportsmen form a great majority grave? Are'they about to wheel of the hunters and fishermen and you into the surgery? Are you other recreationists in the woods. flat broke with a family to feed? But there remains a genuinely Whatever it may be, God loves you menacing minority of born boobs and he stands by to prove it. For and hopeless hellions among those God is love. who take to the timber to fish and MORE THAN LOVE—God is hunt. They shoot themselves and love but he is also the great law each other,they poach, they get giver. You cannot steal, kill, take stinking drunk in car.ip, they brawl another man’s wife, cheat nor lie —they set forest fires. and get away with it. God leaves With this bunch of mugs it is us free to obey his law or not as tough. And the only ones who we choose—But, Judgement Day can police them properly is the is on the way. group of real sportsmen, the We are lost to God if we have majority who hunt and fish. sinned and yet he yearns after us In his “Burning an Empire” as a father yearns after a lost son. Stewart H. Holbrook has a chapter So what? Shall God wink at our on the destruction of wild life by sins and set aside his law? Never, forest fires that should be studied for then God would not be God. by every man who goes to the His law must stand. If you sin, woods to hunt or fish. Holbrook vou die. BIBLE DEATH—Eternal follows the lead of the great wild seperation from God. life authority, Ira N. Gabrielson, GOD IS GOD—God put your in laying heavy emphasis on how sins on his Son, Jesus, who died forest fires hit the game crop by under the law in your place. By destroying young game, just as that He upheld the law and you fire does its worst in the timber can be set free. You can be in the crop by ravaging the young forest. The simple fern fires of spring are known to slaughter the nests of pheasants, grouse and quail by the thousands. Often it is the eggs that are burned. Too many times the baby birds have been hatched, and then the mother is likely to stay with them until she is sufffocated by smoke or is burned to death. Thus mugs murder babes. Facts Wanted The most thorough checking on the damage done to game by • WATER WELL DRILLING A. J. GAUNT Shallow or Deep—Large or Small WITH OUR NEW AND MODERN EQUIPMENT WE CAN GIVE YOU FAST SERVICE —Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor 9:46—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.m. sxcept first Sunday in month—Mass at 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. SEEN AND HEARD ABOUT TOWN: C. F. Hieber remarked mat the verse appearing above carried some sound advice that should be followed . . . The wife of an ex-service man was seen mop ping the front porch of her home a few days ago. The method she uied indicated that she must have hud lessons from her husband about the most satisfactory tech nique to accomplish the work . . . Pete Brunsman maintains that t.iere are very few mistakes made in his store . . . L. W. Skuzie la ments that the colors brought out at night by the new street lights are unsatisfactory . . Deri Roberts is lucky. When the Union Oil truck he drives runs out of gas for the motor, all that he needs do is refill from the large tank on the truck and drive on. That hannened last Saturday. FIRST CHRISTIAN —Rev. L. Aplet, 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 CHAPFL 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. EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45 — Sunday school 11:00—Morning worship. 7:00 p.m.—Youth Fellowship 8:00—Evangelistic Service Wed. evening choir practice—8:00 Thursday evening 8:00—Prayer service and Bible hour. clear and the law is honored. God is still God and his law is law. Now the heart of the Bible—God so loved you that he gave his Only-born Son to die for you and if you will have Him as your own Saviour, you will not perish but have eternal life. LATTER DAY SAINTS S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland- 1- Oregon. This space paid for by a Pfc in Japan. 52 GIFTS IN ONE— THE VERNONIA EAGLE 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. Sunday school convenes at 10 H. Lynch. Superintendent. a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und er the direction of Charles Long, Branch P-»sident. Poily DIAGNOSING AUTO TROUBLE . . . is one of our specialities and one that will pay you dividends in satisfactory car performance after we make needed repairs. Geo. Johnson Phone 311 Vernonia Serv. Sta. Vernonia, Ore. MINNIE WEST -her duties os a Chief Operator of the West Coast Telephone Com pany provide real life drama. When darkness settles over the country side and one by one the lights blink out, your telephone center still remains alert and ready to serve you instantly. . Whether it be a doctor's call, flood, fire or catastrophe, the Chief Operator acts surely and swiftly to summon aid and keep com munications flowing smoothly. The calm, ex perienced Chief Operator, responsible for the training of switchboard operators, also supervises the routine work of handling calls. It takes more than mere skill—it takes ex perience and a dutiful sense of service to maintain our telephone system as one of the finest in the nation. WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED FINANCING OPTOMETRIST Phone 445 Hillsboro 233 E. Baseline "You Can’t Be Optomisitic if You Have MISTY Optics" At the Churches Sawdust... 4 THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1947 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. TELEPmE fllMH Aloha, Oregon Phone 6528
