4
THURSDAY, AUG. 12, 1948
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
A b End to “Luxury Lumber”
We are paying: for a past in
which everybody called the forest
inexhaustible and in which lum­
ber was the cheapest of all com­
modities. Until recent years, the
poorest people could afford to buy
the best lumber for Common
uses. Now we all have to take
HOUSE BUILDING
CARPENTER
WORK
By the Day or Hour
E.M. YORK
GENERAL
108 A. St.
CONTRACTOR
Phone 1107
Printed Forms Are
common lumber for common uses
and low-grade lumber for low-
grade uses.
Millions of our existing homes
were built before 1900. To the
eye of today’s builder most of
them exhibit a monstrous waste
in the use of lumber. In the gay
nineties and earlier, lumber was
graded and often applied hap­
hazardly.
In old houses clear,
close-grained framing lumber is
generally mixed with pieces that
show knots and other “defects.”
Experience teaches that low-
grade lumber lasts and serves
as well as the high-grade when
it is not overloaded or otherwise
abused. Knots can be the strong
points of a piece of wood. There
is more of bad habits and base­
less prejudice than common sense
and pure reason in our opinion of
low grade lumber. The big job
of the lumber salesman is to
change these habits and prejudices
of public opinion into a reason­
able appreciation of the values of
the lumber tree of today and of
the future.
Tomorrow’s lumber will be
For Pasteurized
MILK
CREAM
Order Yours NOW!
and
BUTTERMILK
right from the farm to
your door, write or call
Telephone No. 8812
CUR PRODUCTS
ALWAYS SATISFY
WE ARE EQUIPPED TO DO
AN EXPERT PRINTING JOB
FOR YOU
Your business will func­
tion more smoothly
when you have printed
forms to do the job. We
can help you design the
necessary forms and
print them for you ec­
onomically and quickly.
11-25-48
PEBBLE
CREEK DAIRY
The
Vernonia Eagle
Timber Rt., Box 56
Vernonia, Oregon
DANCE AT NATAL
Saturday, Aug. 14
- Doug’s Rhythm Boys
10 p.m. to 2 p.m.
common and low grade. We shall
use it and like it. No really com­
petitive substitute is in view.
Key to Forest Conservation
The ke^y to permanent pro­
ductive use of forest land is in
the hand of the lumber salesman.
While the foresters and the pro­
duction bosses put their heads
together in the woods and mills
to determine what raw material is
available and how completely it
may be utilized, the lumber sales­
man is out on the firing line of
the timber market».
The salesman may represent a
manufacturer, a wholesale group
or a retail yard. In any case, he
is the man who has to fight for
the product of the lumber tree to
maintain its place with those who
represent established practices in
building. codes, in engineering,
architectural and Federal housing
specifications, in trade regulations,
in consumer habits—the salesman
has to “sell” them all on the
utility values of the lower grades
of lumber, the grades that pre­
dominate in the lumber woods of
the present—our 461,000,000 acres
of commercial forest.
Selling Sunlight
Trees will grow wherever their
seeds will sprout and take root,
in poorest soil or dark swamps
or on high mountain reaches. In
their growth, nature converts so­
lar energy into wood.
Over a
period of 25 years a poor pine-
land acre in the South will pro­
duce eight times as much cellulose
per year as an acre of cotton.
Cut for its lumber, the harvest
rubbish left from each logged tree
is substance of the sun that adds
to the soil. And it is sunlight in
the shape of lumber that the
salesmen sell all the way from
tree to retail yard. Nature, with
roots in mean earth and moisture,
makes lumber out of thin air.
There, even in its lower grades,
the salesman has a product which
yet puts all competition in the
shade. The more of it he sells,
the more of it the land will grow.
This is the big job of lumber
selling.
•
Yesterdays
the Bush Funeral home at 2:00
p.m. Wednesday with Rev. Living­
stone officiating. Interment' was
at Forest Grove.
TEN YEARS AGO
From The Eagle, August 12, 1938
A total of 100,000 steelhead
fingerlings were liberated Sat­
urday in the swimming pool on
Rock creek, a check with the
Necanicum hatchery officials
shows.
An initiation of many members
is slated here Friday evening by
the local Eagle aerie, officials re­
ported this week, to be followed
Sunday with a big picnic and
outing at Arcadia park.
Jack Lindsay, owner of Ja-k’s
club here, has opened his club
lunch in the space form- rly oc­
cupied by Brownie’s Barb?r shop.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
From The Eagle, August 1!. 1933
An increase of wages ten cents
■w
* L
an hour by the Clark and Wilson
Lumber company, placing the
minimum at 42H cents, was an­
nounced yesterday by J. F. Baker,
superintendent at Wilark. There
will be five eight-hour days, or
forty hours a week, with no work
on Saturdays or Sundays.
Dane Brady won on decision
from Marangel of the Mist C.C.C.
camp in the main event at the
Legion hall Saturday night. Mar­
angel outweighed Dane 19 pounds,
but the latter put up a scrappy
fight.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Sirnmoa»
sold the Terminal cafe to C. W.
Mahan of Portland, formely of
Montana, who will take possesion
Monday.
i
HANK'S PARTS HOUSE
Open week days until 6 p.m.
RICHMOND DOUBLE GUARANTEED TIRES
If you’ve Got the Pieces, I’ve Got the Parts
Phone 773
Riverview
* a
> J < J
REPAIRS
Let us repair or paint your
car.
Regardless of how large'
or small the job may be we
are equipped to give you ex-
pert, speedy service.
Jim Bond
Chuck Allen
Jake Berger |
I LEE MOTORS BLDG. I
2nd and Maple
FIVE YEARS AGO
From The Eagle, August 12, 1943
Considerable interest is being
shown here in the reorganization
of a rod and gun club and a
meeting for the purpose of select­
ing a name, form, and officers of
the organization will be called the
early part of next week. Petitions
are being circulated in the Ne­
halem valley to gather the names
of sportsmen who wish to join
the organization.
One local man, caught speeding
50 miles per hour in Washington
state, lost 5 gasoline coupons as
the result of a hearing held here.
Funeral services for Lena Mary
Forquer, who passed away here
Monday, August 9, were held at
The curtain rises on
MORÌ POWER
morì
SPUDS
AUTOMATIC HYDRAULIC OVIRLOAD
PROTECTION
HYDRAUUC IMPLEMENT CONTROl
fROHÎ WHEEL TREAD ADJUSTABLE
•
•
•
BH
H* sAsr tT««*»1
cm M m * AU
•*’"*
8? NOW ON
ini
DISPLAY
CRAWFORD - OLSON EQUIPMENT COMPANY
Phone 1342
734 2nd St., Vernonia
Free Delivery
AND riRGUSON SYITEM IMPLEMENTS
A