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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1948)
4 THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 194« THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Work of the Age “The Story of American Rail- roads” is Stewart Holbrook’s lat est book. This means the story of the lumber industry L, for American railroading and lum bering have grown together. I’ve read it, as one whose pappy was a king snipe on the PIN— that is, when I was a boy my father was a section boss for a spell on the Pacific & Idaho Northern. And I’ve read it as a lumberman. It is prime reading all ways. The book is packed with the poetry of railroading. An unfor gettable picture in the Story is that of a lone locomotive abandon ed to rust in the middle of an Il linois prairie. Another landscape of the kind is the chapter, “Bio graphy of a Flagstop.” Here is really beautiful stuff, as in Hol brook’s nostalgic paragraphs about a boy and the mogul locomotive in the Hevan Woods of Maine, and in his high, wide handsome writing on the great Jim Hill. Panorama But “The Story of American ■Railroads” is a history job first of all. Thus M t . Holbrook masses his narrative on the birth and rise of the great carriers. In Chapter I he takes the reader inside and «round the whole panorama of American railroad development, from its place in the imagination of an American boy to such facts and figures as those of the current 398,730 miles of track which carry each day 24,000 freight trains and 17,500 passenger trains. Then the historian steams with out a stop back to the prophets of 1813. There he wheels on Oliver Ames, designer of steam flour mills and of a steam dredge won derfully named Orukter Amphibole «nd a prophet of steam railroads who stood well-nigh alone in his time. The Iron Horse really began to snort and roll in 1831. In the 1840’s railroad fever possessed the nation, and by 1851 the Erie, first “work of the age” had linked the Hudson and the Great Lakes. Mr. Holbrook gives four chapters The Vernonia Eagle Mnrvin Kamholx Editor and Publisher Rawlings will visit any orchardiats in the county who have particular pruning or thinning problems. Growers interested in this assis Pruning Methods To Be Shown to his panorama and early back As a service to veterans in the ground. community, this newspaper will The history goes on to demon publish a weekly column of news strate that the railroad was the briefs from the Veterans Admin main stem of economic develop istration. For more detailed in ment in every section of the coun formation, veterans should con«, tact or write to the nearest VA try. In this sense the stories of Contact Office at Odd Fellows the Erie, the Grank Trunk, the Bldg., Portland Oregon Monon, the Illinois Central, the lines of the Pacific Northwest, VA Extends Deadline and the other rail giants are of a World war II veterans now have single significance. But railroads are people as well as rolling stock, the privilege of reinstating lapsed and men made them. Mr. Holbrook national service life insurance tells his story chapter through without a physical examination un the mighty characters of railroad til July 31, 1948, the veterans ad making, as with the Erie’s man ministration has announced. of vision, William C. Redfield, and All term policies may be re its builder, Lord and Loder. instated upon payment of two Erie and Grand Trunk month’s premiums with a signed There, along the route first statement to the effect that the sketched by Redfield, the towns veteran is in as good health as and hamlets drowsed beside turn at the time of lapse. During the month of December pikes and waterways until the gangs of wild fighting Irish storm 4329 Pacific Northwest veterans ed along, digging and drilling on reinstated insurance with a face for Dunkirk on Lake Erie. Then value of $31,581,500. In the past the towns heaved with new life. 11 months 53,019 policies have Farmers awoke to prospects of been reinstated for a total of land deals with the railroad, of $362,186,000. timber sales for construction, of Mental Hospitals Nearly forty per cent of the a new fast way to rich markets for their products. The tumult Pacific Northwest veterans re and the shouting rose, never to maining in veterans administration hospitals at the end of November die in our times. At the same time John Poor were being treated for mental dis was laboring like Hercules to get orders, the VA has revealed. The veterans administration op the Grand Trunk built from Port land, Maine to Montreal. Other erates two neuropsychiatrie hos giants were building the New pitals in this area, located at York Central and the Pennsyl American Lake, Wash., and Rose There are 1418 vania. In 1853 James Brooks had burg, Oregon. the New Albany & Salem Rail veterans being cared for at these« road operatirfg in Indiana—but so two institutions. Seventeen hundred additional badly that Horace Greeley had to ride a handcar all of one moonlit veterans, at the end of November, night to keep a lecture date. In were patients in five other special 1848 William Butler Ogden took and general VA hospitals in the a ten-mile ride with his steam Northwest, while 681 were being cars and brought back wheat—a cared for in other government or trip that started the change. of private hospitals under contract Chicago from a farmers’ trading to the VA. Nearly all veterans are eligible place into the Big Junction of American railroading. Then lum to receive care and treatment in VA hospitals, but because of the ber brought the railroads West. present shortage of beds those with So the epic rolls in “The Story disabilities were caused or ag of American Railroads”. I haven’t gravated by service with the arm even hinted at a tenth of the ed forces are given preference. items in the ten tightly printed A veteran whose disability is pages of an excellent index. The not service-connected is given care issue of. the Land Grants Pullman, and treatment in a VA hospital Dobs, newsbutchers, hobos—, I when a bed is available and when could go on gabbing about this he cannot'afford treatment at his book all night. Pruning fruit and nut trees will be demonstrated January 16 at 10:00 a.m. on the J. A. Johnson farm at Warren, according to W. G. Nibler, county agent. The John son farm is located one and one- half miles west of the Warren Schoolhouse. The actual pruning of trees will be demonstrated by C. W. Rawlings, extension hort iculturist from OSC who will work on peach, apple and filbert trees at Johnson’sfarm. Anyone interested in pruning is invited to attend. This will be an opportunity for many people in Columbia county who have just a few trees in the family orchard to get some pointers on tree prun ing. In the afternoon of January 16, own expense in a private hospital. Question of the Week Q. Will the VA pay tuition for a veteran to attend school while he is taking on-the-job training un der the G.I. Bill? A. Yes, veterans administration will pay for such schooling if his course of study is related to the vocation for which he is in train ing, or if the school course is pre scribed and recommended as a part of his job-training. tance can make arraaympnts for ft by attending «tee demonstration in the morning or by Contacting the county agent’s office. Special Rates FOR ELECTRIC HOT WATER HEATERS AND INSTALLATION ANDERSON-ROEDIGER Plumbing and Stock Millwork Supplies Vernonia, Ore. 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