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4 THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1948 In Oregon TRASK BRIDGES COLLAPSE TILLAMOOK — Log jams brought by extreme high water swept the underpinnings out from under both the new and temporary bridges over the Trask river early a week ago Sunday morning, destroying the only means of highway travel between Oceanside, Netarts and Bayocean, and the outside. At least a 30 foot section of each bridge plummeted into the river as the underpinnings gave way. RAINFALL 3.62 INCHES SEASIDE — Whatever definite shortage which may have existed in the year’s rainfall was rapidly disappearing under a heavy fall of rain which lasted for six days with but minor interruptions. The total, however, was only 3.62 inches for the past six days with an unusual volume of precipita tion registered only on two days. DAMAGE SUIT RESULTS M c M innville — Suit for $20,- 850 was instigated last week by May Yocom against the Sheridan chamber of commerce, J. W. Cope land Yards and Floyd Dickey, ac cording to a complaint filed in the county clerk’s office. Mrs. Yocom claims that she was aeverely injured in the parade celebrating Phil Sheridan day, held June 22 and 23, 1946, in which she rode as a pioneer mother. She al leges that she was seated on a chair on a flat- bed truck belong ing to J. W. Copeland Yards and operated by Floyd Dickey. The chair, the complaint asserts, was thrown from the truck to the ground. She suffered concussion of the brain, shock, bruises, con tusions and impacted fracture of one of the vertebrae, according to the complaint. Mrs. Yocom asks $20,000 general damages and $850 special dam ages. BURGLAR TAKES $2000 HILLSBORO — Over $2000 in currency and checks was stolen j GREEN’S SHOE REPAIR HANDMADE LOGGERS Loggers Made to Order I Your Old Loggers Rebuilt at Factory j If tops are good on your old loggers bring them in and we will make new loggers from them : Leave all shoe repair work at I Green’s Shoe Shop for Expert For Pasteurized MILK CREAM and BUTTERMILK ififbt from the farm to /our door, write or call Telephone No. 8812 CUR PRODUCTS ALWAYS SATISFY 11-25-48 PEBBLE CREEK DAIRY Timber Rt., Box 56 Vernonia, Oregon THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. sometime early Wednesday morn ing of last week from the Hill theatre ticket office in Hillsboro Orange Phelps, owner, reported to police. The thief or thieves took about $1783 in cash and about $225 in checks from the theatre wall safe after the office was locked at 12:30 a.m. The loss was discovered by A. J. Foelker of the Hill Florists at 8:30 Wednesday morning when he went to the ticket booth to get a telephone which is used in the flower shop during the day. MailBaq 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 Allowances Increased Subsistence allowance increases, recently authorized by action of Congress and the president, will be paid automatically on May 1 to most student veterans attend ing school, college or university full time under the G. I. bill. Under the r.ew subsistence schedule, the veterans administra tion will raise subsistence allow ances of single veterans with no dependents from $65 to $75. Vet erans with one dependent will re ceive $105 instead of the current $90, and those with two or more dependents $120 a month. Only veterans with two or more dependents will not receive auto matically the total authorized sub sistence increase of $120, the VA states. These veterans must sub mit to their VA regional office proof of dependency in the form of certified copies of birth records of their children, church records of baptism or other legally ac ceptable evidence. To establish dependency of par ents, veteran students must ex ecute a VA “Affidavit of Depend ency” and submit a certified copy of their own birth record. Veterans in the following types of training are not eligible for the new subsistence rates, but will continue to receive the current payments of either $65 or $90, according to their dependency status : 1. Part time institutional train ing. 2. Institutional on-the-farm training. 3. Appreticeship or other train ing for which veterans receive compensation from productive la bor. 4. Combination of .cooperative training in which students attend school part time and are employ ed part time, usually in a related field. 5. Interneship and residency training. 6. Graduate training under a fellowship requiring a reduced cre dit course load because of services rendered under provisions of the fellowship. The subsistence allowance in creases will be included in checks mailed veteran students by the VA after May 1, 1948. Question of the Week Q. I lost my last month's G. I. subsistence check before I was OUT or Forestry Is So Young schols grew lustily in the univer- American lumbering is three ‘sities of forest states. hundred years old. Industrial for The Stump Forester estry in America is just now com Even now forestry is poorly ing of age. The losses of the na regarded and cheaply treated by tion’s forests through the history government in relation to the re of American’s people have been as sponsibility it carries for the scien forestry on tific management of our vita! much due to lack of i of in- wealth of forest soil—the great the land as to the excesses i dustrial cutting. renewal resources on one-third of Until the end of the Nineteenth the nation’s land area. In the Pacific Northwest, where Century there was little popular outcry for less lumbering, and the greatest stands of wilderness none whatever for more forestry, forest survive, the forester has There were no laws on the disposal at last become a power on the of logging * slash, no organized land. In the lumbering of the means of setting up safeguards Douglas fir region—Western Ore against fire hazards in dry sum gon and Washington—he is rising mer, no tried methods or special a leader of the enterprises ot equipment for forest fire control, men in the woods. Here the tim no proven ways to provide for the ber industries alone now employ growing of new tree crops on the over 275 technically trained for logged lands. There was no one esters and the Federal and State to say with official or professional governments have hundreds more. The stump is where the for authority what such laws, mejns, methods, equipment, ways and ester’s productive work begins. provisions ought to be. If there Today he .works hand in hand had been, few would have listened. with the logger in planning and There was “plenty” of virgin tim carrying through the log harvest. In the old days the logger left ber. Why bother about the stump lands? Let ’em burn—fire helps the logged land to itself. Now to clear the soil for farming. Such he leaves it to the forester, not was the public attitude toward the as “cutover” but as tree-grow ing land—“tree farm” land. forests. Steps of Growth Before the 1890’s the enthus iasts who had turned to forestry as a science that needed to be ap plied to the vast woodlands of America—one third of the nation’s total land area—were, for the TREHARNE — Mr. and Mrs. most part, actually naturalists, botanists and horticulturists. The Linwood Reynolds and Mrs. Exie only important sources of forestry Weaver made a trip to Canby, education were in Europe. It was California over the week end to after 1900 that defense against the visit Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rey forest fire, based on experience nolds. Mrs. Weaver stayed for and investigation, was established a week’s visit. Mr. and Mrs. Beck Thompson and investigation, was establishd throughout our major woodlands. m'"">d to Scappoose Monday. Mrs. Flora Prutzman is visiting Effective* public support of such organized and equipped defense in Portland for a couple of weeks. was won by forestry principally Mr. and Mrs. Dave Reynolds through a series of disastrous and family iwere at the Everett fires. Reynolds home Tuesday. Albert Walker spent Tuesday The forester at the turn of the century was an agent at the Harry Wilson home. Truman Davenport is quite ill of conservation, which was cen tered on policies of reserving na with tonsilitis. tural resources from commercial The United States has 81 per use. In 1898 the Interior De- partment’s Division of Forestry cent of all passenger automobiles employed only seven men. Seven in the world. There is less than years later, when the U. S. Forest seven per cent of the world’s pop Service was formed from the old ulation in this country. Division and transferred to the Department of Agriculture, the The Vernonia Eagle eleven had increased to eight Marvin Kamholz, hundred. Editor and Publisher In 1895 only New York and Roy Frank, Printer Pennsylvania had substantial state Melvin Schwab, Linotype Operator forestry departments, By 1911 Official Newspaper of there were twenty-five states with Vernonia, Oregon some form cr another of official forestry organizations, but in the Entered as second class mail main they were poorly financed matter, August 4, 1922 at the and ineffective. In the Lake States pest office in Vernonia, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest indus under the act of March 3, 1879. trial forestry, fixed on forest fire control, took root in the 1900s. Subscription price, $2.50 yearly. During the same period forestry Family Moves To Scappoose able to cash it at the bank. What should I do? A. Write or visit your local VA office immediately and explain what happened. The VA will take necessary action either to recover or replace the' lost subsistence check. 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A dozen cans of salmon sold for $2.50 so this pa per states, but we paid $27.00 for a sack of sugar at the beginning of World War I. - Old- Paper Tells OFLow Prices RT. 2-BOX J22 A-PAVL NINAMON-ALSO IN LONGVIEW POSTOFFICE LONGVIEW, WASHINGTON 1 I’iMf. FROM HILLSBORO ON PORTLAND HlvMYZ W
