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4 THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 1948 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Caap Life, 1907 Here’s a little more about Geo. Grabby, also called the High Red, a famous walking boss of the Western construction camps of 40 years ago. In the last column I noted that a large crew of able specialists followed him around the coantry, always “workin’ for the High Red” and only incidentally for the outfits that provided the payrolls. My first night in the High Red’s camp is never to be forgotten. The talk I heard carried back as far as the building of the Union Pa cific, even to the days of the Waddell overland freight, with its outfit of sixty thousand mules and oxen, an army of bullwackers and jerkline skinners, and the wagon master as king of the trail. I looked on Paddy the Devil, Grabby's machine skinner, a fight er who had been locked in the back s' . 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 «Mg. Portland Oregon Deadline Set Commencing January 1, 1948, medical or dental treatment will not be given to veterans seeking to establish service-connected dis abilities until their claims have been adjudicated, the VA has an nounced. The ruling stated that prima facie evidence will not be accepted as sufficient proof for veterans to establish service-connection for purposes of treatment after De cember 31. Hitherto it has been the practice of the VA to treat conditions for which service-con nection was claimed, pending ad judication, at the option of the medical officer, and based upon the evidence immediately avail able. This ruling in no way affects the year’s presumption of service connection for certain specified conditions, to which all veterans are entitled after discharge. The VA made it clear also that the ruling in no way denies veterans any rights they are granted by law, nor does it limit services giv en to those whose conditions are rated as serviçe-connected. Applications for treatment re ceived or mailed afte*r December 31, will have to be formally ad judicated under the VA’s regula tions before other than emergency treatment can be given. Xmas Gifts Okayed Christmas bonuses or certain «Mher gifts made by employers to wterans in training need not be reported as income from produc tive labor for the purpose , of de termination of subsistence allow ance to be paid trainees, the vet erans administration announced this week. Christmas gifts which are “rea sonable” in amount and which are made by firms or business establishments to veterans and won-veterans in the same .amount without regard to length of the service or the salary paid to the individual employee, need not be construed as income from produc tive labor. In the past such gifts had been considered bonuses and were re portable as earned income. The now ruling makes an exception of Christmas gifts and other gifts subject to the specified conditions noted above. The general rule that all bonuses must be reported ns compensation is not altered the VA said. Question of the Week Q. I have a G. I. loan, but have recently lost my job. Does the inw permit me to get the addition al benefit of readjustment allow- A. Yea, you are entitled to readjustment allowance, if you ■set the eligibility requirements regarding length of service and type of discharge. Your home lean has no bearing on your right ta unemployment compensation. Apply to your state unemploy ment service for information ro- gtading madjuatta^t allows room of a Shashone, Idaho saloon with seven men the previous sum mer, for a finish fight. He had come out the victor in an hour and fifteen minutes. I heard the voice of Wingy Magavern, Grabby’s hard-rock boss, who had blasted tunnels and cuts on every big railroad job from the Northern Pacific on. A little old man whose left arm had been blown off, he was yet re spected and feared for his repu tation of packing primed dynamite sticks in a coat pocket when on the roatk or in town. A mean man to monkey with. There were many others with storied names. All were proud men of work, a picked tribe of labor. Hero on a Hill A knoll rose in the trampled camp yard. There the High Red always squared away when he . sounded the call to work. In a clear, cold autumn dawn I stood back and watched him. Around the camp the sagebrush desert was an unbroken gray sweep to all horizons. The camp was a speck of human life in that vastness, yet it was somehow grand to me •in the solitude. The High Red shouted, “All out, you savages!” in a voice with the ring of a hammered anvil. His rugged men marched to his call. The hard-rock dynos headed out for the powder cache and to the blacksmith shop for hammers and steel. From the corrals trace chains jingled and chesty oaths roared amid the clomping beat of shod hoofs on the hard earth. It was the color and music of a mighty life. I had experienced the like in other camps, but never with such magic of awakened imagination. It was evoked by the hero, the boss of it. Glory Trail He gave me a job. It was the same old job that had so sickened me with work for the past year in other camps—a boy’s job of greasing dump wagons and pack ing drinking water. In Grabby's camp it was a particularly hard job, for the crew was unusually large, and wagon-greasing was work that water boys were seldom ordered to do. In most other out fits the skinners greased their wagons on their own time. But that was not for the High Red’s men. I packed water, and jacked wheels between trips, with out a slack minute from dawn to night. I kept hard at it, the more so I learned that the job had kil led off, as the saying was, a dozen or more kids in the past few months. I worked for the favor of the High Red. And I got it. When winter came and some of the stak- ey skinners quit the camp, Grabby tried me on a three-up wagon team. I satisfied him. And I followed him for the next three years, on jobs that ranged from Montana to California. Much of the heroic glamor of the High Red vanished for me in that time, but he remained in my eyes a great man of his kind, a boss with the bark on. My debt to him was great. Under his hard hand I grew into a man. • In Oregon DRIVE AT HALFWAY MARK McMINNVILLE—The halfway mark has been reached in McMinn ville’s Christmas ship drive to raise $5000 to send 10,000 pounds of milk to starving European children. McMinnville’s campaign, origin ally slated to end New year’s day has been extended 10 more days because the Christmas ship will not sail from Portland until after January 15. NEW BANK ASKED TILLAMOOK—Donald B. Peter son, vice-president and manager of the Commercial Bank of Tillamook announces that the bank has filed an application with the superin tendent of banks of the State of Oregon for permission to open and maintain a branch bank at Wheeler, Oregon, to be known as the “North Tillamook County Branch of The Commercial Bank of TiUamook.” This announcement will be welcome news to the bus iness firms and people living in the northern part of the county as it has been over twenty years since there has been any banking facilities in that section. SCHOOL COUNT UP HILLSBORO — Washington’s county school census recorded a five per cent increase this year over the previous high of 13,572 The total is the greatest jump in any single year in the county since 1942, when the school census rose nine per cent. POSTOFFICE SETS RECORD PRINEVILLE — Prineville’s postoffice receipts set another new record in 1947 topping the 1946 figures by just 18 cents less than $3,000. The 1947 total was $29,- 967.00 and the figure in 1946 was $26,967.18. SEASIDE DONATES $285 SEASIDE—About $285 was do nated by various organizations and individuals in Seaside toward the cargo of the Christmas ship which will carry food from the North west communities to several na tions in Europe. Because of lack of time there was no solicitation for funds and most of the money was donated by five Seaside ser vice clubs. The balance was given by individuals on their own init iative. The Forum Special Rates FOR ELECTRIC ° Foundation Blocks I I w. __ INSTALLATION on hand 6-8 x 10 ANDERSON-ROEDIGER E. M. YORK CONTRACTOR | Phone 1107|i GENERAL 108 A. St. S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland- This space paid for by a G-I home from Japan. • The hoary marmot of the northern Rockies spends the long est time in hibernation. He Is the first to go into hibernation in the fall and the last to eome out in the spring in a region where the winters are longest. HOT WATER HEATERS AND | Plumbing and Stock Millwork Supplies yernonia, Ore. Phone: SUPERIOR PRINTED PRODUCTS Your Pet Sin You love it, you slave for it and maybe you count it a secret. But long since God your Maker saw it and laid it on Christ. He was made the sinner in your place. Just as a father loves his own, so God loves you but he would not wink at your sins. So it was he put them on Christ who suffered the pains of hell for you under the curse you earned. GOOD WORKS OUT—Your hu man best will not blot out the stain of even one sin. But the blood of Jesus Christ, God's only- born Son cleanses from all sin. God cannot lie. Believe Him, that your sins are settled for and he gives you eternal life. Believe and stand on it that you have eternal life. Now feed the new life out of the Bible. out” to find employment for the gentlemen talents. That drains our -little common wealth of its moat enterprising youngsters, mostly because the parents have fostered the white collar myth. Whereas, the thousands of acres in the bottoms alone of this com munity could support a thriving self-sufficient little mountain em pire, it is not being done because of the mind-fix of the parents who fear for the callouses on Johnnie’s hands. Habits of indo lence are formed by children with such viewpoints foisted upon them by educators and parents. They become a problem both at home and school and mature into not too Useful citizens. Note, Studebaker would use these pupils in a part-time work- a-day world where real adult re sponsibility is needed. He knows that boys are just little men and that they will rise to adult cal iber if one but expects it of them, modified as to brawn and time, of course. They would learn their life work by “doing” it, and thus qualify for the maximum of that late American educator, John Dewey, i. e. “School should be like life.” Sincerely Clint M. Seibert Keasey Rt. Vernonia, Oregon • Pedestrians deaths are four times as great for the hour be tween 6 and 7 p.m. in December and January, as the average for the other months. Persons on foot should accept responsibility for their own safety. saved to help at least one of the family to be a “white collar stiff" I always wanted to be a farmer though, so here we are. Imagine Editor, Eagle, a history major and English and Vernonia, Oregon philosphy minor pounding a couple Dear Editor: fuzztails down through the woods Lets hope that our new U. S. with a log tied to them. commissioner of Education will be Of course I may more fully able to make some headway with appreciate this great history-mak his philosophy as presented in ing period now,and its dead-end “Time”, December 15. He con too, so, what have I? Too I can tends that because only four out see the direct parallel of our own of ten finish high school and only U. S. civilization with that of one out of five attends college, Greece, 350 B. C., and our efforts why force the other 60 and 80 to forestall the same results. Its per cent to bore through and bear all interesting, but I could have with courses in foreign languages, led just as useful and happy a literature and algebra. He would life if I hadn't sat under Lin- like to explode this “white collar” forth at Berkley in his Greek myth because only a very few Heritage lectures. can understand these intellectual It is not going to be easy for subjects anyway, and so why use Mr. Studebaker to persuade his them. Instead why not, “on with constituents that Johnnie should the dance”, and teach Johnnie and skip professors Linforth, Adams Mary “adjustments to life” by and Morris, because is it not letting them work part-time at the mark of a gentleman and lady the different trades, while attend to be accomplished in such sub ing school, but Mary would be jects? How many arrive though? taught homemaking because most Only 20% of the 40% finish Marys will be wives? the goal pop and mom set. As a To apply this locally all we result, according to Studebaker, have to do is watch the unfold and I’ll add Bob Sproul of the ing of the 4-H county program University of California, the 80% which will eventually care for the of the 60 per cent become frus rural young people, but how about trated, maladjusted citizens be the town children? Would not cause of the psychological reaction most of our delinquency disappear of failure. Studebaker would fore if they were also given a nitch in stall failure by advising the young our workday economy so that they, pupil to pursue what he both likes felt as though they to “belonged”? and is adapted naturally to suc Educators usually give the pub cessfully do. Locally we can never absorb and lic what it wants so it behoves Mr. Studebaker to first educate use all the white collar products the pops and moms to the bless of our schools. Of necessity these edness of toil. My observation aspiring (?) “whites” must "go is that most parents don’t want ! the “white collar myth” exploded, because most Marys and John nies should be doctors, lawyers and chiefs from pops viewpoint. My own life is a case in point. Pop and mom scrimped and Ink OH paper •—• in combinations L I to signify exactly what you wish to be conveyed. A message, a greeting or a record is not complete unless it bears the unmistakable characteristics achieved by EAGLE composition. THE VERNONIA • EAGLE • Plumber, 5713, Shop 575
