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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1948)
4 THURSDAY,. APR. 8, 1948 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Six Homes Per Acre Let us try to see the work and leavings of the timber fallers through the eyes of a forest en gineers—an industrial forester. It is a view that will sketch the old and the new, the loss and the promise of America’s forests in outline of a vital enterprise of nature, history, industry and scie- ence, a continuing drama of trees and men. The crown of the tree at which the timber fallers work will be from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet aloft, its bole a clear column for the first sixty or eighty feet, and , at the height of a man's chest from three to four feet in diameter. There will be forty trees on an average old- growth Douglas fir acre, bearing enough lumber to build six or eight five-room homes. The Great Work Tree The typical Douglas fir tree is not a thing of beauty. The high boughs of the tree form a grim ragged pattern against its usual sky of rain clouds or fog. Its bark is muscled with irregular ridges and in color is gray-black, tinged and flaked with rusty browns. Few trees are more foreign to the lyric poetry of nature than the Douglas fir. Nor does the Douglas fir forest present a scenic invitation. The Oregon-American LUMBER CORPORATION Vernonia, Oregon ‘Wards’ Shop Ward Bruington, formerly with Wallace Welding Works, has re opened Harry Junkens Welding Shop at Columbia and Rose Ave. people who traverse the highway threads in the great forest fabric of Western Washington and Ore gon seldom go beyond the road side fringes of the woods. In the deep forest of old trees the boughs spread a canopy of dense foliage high above the earth. Three spec ies that are tolerant of shade may grow as forest understories amid the columns of the firs. Wind thrown snags and huge rot ting stumps are everywhere bar ricades on the ground. Only the hardy and woods-wise can cruise the true wilderness forest. Young stands on old cutovers and burn« are commonly so dense in growth that even the woods man must hew his way through them. Where fire has left its wreck age, and recent logging its slash, the scene repels the forest travel er. The Douglas fir forest was made for toil by nature and man. Its dominant tree, like its typical woodsman, is a giant in rugged and durable working clothes, equipped to do a giant’s job. It is no picnic tree. It is no way pretty. Stumps of Promise The lumberman looks at the forest as standing saw timber. The people of the towns look at the work of the axman and see stumps as the headstones of a forest graveyard. These views are a leg acy of tradition and they still pre vail. It is the mission of forestry to change both views, to teach all of us to see our real forest re source in the soil; and to under stand the elementary forestry practices required for tree grow ing and tree production. The syl van stump, no less than the tree, proclaims a renewable resource. For illustration: if the stumps of a logged area are great in bulk and are many, forestry does not mourn the passing of trees but hails the promise of thriving growth. The forest engineers ex amines the results of the logger’s “slash burn,” to find how well it has served to clean the ground of fuel and how much humus It las burned from the surface. He looks for standing snags, the worst fire hazards on cutovers. He turns to the east and measures what trees have been left as seed sources. He notes the .location of fire roads and trails. Like the farmer in autumn, the forest en gineers surveys the stump lands as a harvested field, he studies its records, and plans for the growth of the soil. He is a tree farmer. His soul rejoices in the sight of stumps big and thick, as the Iowa farmer is uplifted by the sight of shocks of fodder thisk and tall. Each sees signs of good earth for the crops to come. • Yesterdays INSIST ON THE BEST n Say: "RAINIER MAID!" THE FINEST PRODUCED IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Columbia County’s Highest Quality Dairy Products For Over Fifty Yeatis From where I sit... ¿y Joe Marsh Ben's Bride Gets Chickenhearted Ben Ryder was mighty proud of hi« young bride when she offered to care for his new flock of baby ehirka. “Just like a mother with her brood." he boasts. Then came market time for fry ers—and the crisis 1 Sue simply wouldn't let Ben near her chickens with an axe. She’d raised them as babes . . . she’d named them . . . they were her very own! Bea poured himself a glsss of beer, to think things over sensibly. He hsted to lose the price on fryers ...but he figured Sue hsd put up with his peculisrities, he guessed he could put up with her fondness for the chicken«. So now Ben has the nicest brood of laying hens in town, and from where I sit, one of the most suc cessful marriages, too. All because he "lived-and-let-live"— literally. And whenever he wants fried chicken, he takes his bride over to Andy's Garden Tavern for a crisp wing and a glass of beer. Copynf Af. 1948. I nüed Slate» Breuer» Foundation FIVE YEARS AGO From The Eagle, April 8, 1943 Lower rates for electrical power users within the city of Vernonia came closer to reality Monday night when the city council had the first full reading and the se cond reading by title of the city ordinance proposed several months ago and which will set electrical rates. The exact rate schedule will be decided at the next council meeting. A representative of the Bonneville administration has been asked to go over the proposed rates with the council to make certain they are favorable. TEN YEARS AGO From The Eagle, April 8, 1938 John Kirk, Vernonia was ac claimed champion Rock creek ang- Hoffman, proprieter of Hoffman’s Hardware, announced this week. Kirk caught a 14-pound, 12 H- ounce steelhead in February to take the first prize for himself, a $6.50 fly pole. The Natal school district will decide whether to re; air its pre sent school building, construct a new one or consolidate and trans port pupils to Vernonia at a meet ing which has been called by Chairman Ira H. Peterson for the schoolhouse at 8 p.m. April 14. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO From The Eagle, April 7, 1933 Friday, April 21, was designated by the city council Wednesday night as clean-up day, with the recommendation that all stores For Columbia County Commissioner John D. Winslow REPUBLICAN Efficient, Courteous and Impartial Service close from one to three in the afternoon and the request that schools be dismissed for the after noon. Robert Turner was injured by a fall from the top of Riverview bridge Saturday morning. Al though he fell head first the fall was broken when he struck Sonny Schalock which deflected him so that he lit on his side. He was bedfast for a few days because of injuries to his head and side. Track plans at the Washington grade school include a meet be tween the boys and girls April 15, and an all-star meet April 22. At this meet contestants will be chosen for the zone meet April 28. • In Oregon INFLUX STARTS FOREST GROVE — An early spring influx of transient farm workers into Washington county in noticeable numbers was reported last week by authorities. The majority of the workers are coming north from drought- struck California areas and are rapidly filling up existing labor facilities in some parts of the county, it was learned. DIAL PHONES SLATED WILLAMINA — The Northwest Telephone Company announced last week that it hoped to be able to “cutover” telephone service in Willamina and this vicinity to dial service on the evening of April 20. The changeover will have to be made overnight in order not to disrupt service during business hours. Prior to the change new directory will be provided con taining the names of new tele phone numbers of the Willamina subscribers. DOG SAID CULPRIT M c M innville — a cocker spaniel is the “defendant” by proxy in a case brought by E. L. Fisher against Guy Shumway. Fisher claims that he is the owner of turkeys which the cocker spaniel, owned by Shumway, is al leged to have killed or maimed on or about October 2, 1947. He asks $702 damages. TROUT PLANTED HILLSBORO—An Oregon State Game commission fish liberation truck Saturday did a good turn for county anglers by dumping 4829 trout into McKay creek and East Dairy creek. Approximately 3300 fish were dumped into the latter stream. BANK NEARS COMPLETION WHEELER — Remodeling was started recently on the Wheeler For Pasteurized city hall which will soon be the home of the North Tillamook coun ty branch of the Commercial Bank, according to Don Peterson, man ager of the Commercial Bank. 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