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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1948)
« THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 1948 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON The Champion Competitor The common characteristic of all branches of the great Ameri can enterprise of selling commodi- titiea, is the competitive spirit. In no other nation-wide business is there such varied and exciting opportunity for individual initia tive and prowess, so much to appeal to one who lives by the rule of “Nothing ventured, noth ing gained.” The wholesaler per sonifies individual enterprise, he is the perfect anti-monopolist. The competitive character of whole saling is a magnet for the born go-getter and risk taker. Sales operations between the vast and diversified forest indus tries and the immense complex of timber markets have always been especially dependent on the jobber and the wholesaler. The wholesale lumber trade offers a service which the average con cern among 40,000 sawmills can not provide for itself. At the same time the wholesaler offers the average retail lumber dealer of the country’s 25,000 a service of supply. It is an indispensable service to most dealers, and to thousands of buyers and users of lumber—those of the furniture in- Week End SPECIALS • Girl’s Fine Bicycle in perfect Condition • Chest of Drawers • Coffee Tables and Mirrors • Kitchen Table and 4 Chairs • Ranges from $15 up We want your odd dishes and tools of all kinds. Come in and look around. Mott's Used Store dustry, for example. Wholesale Lumber Groups Lumber wholesaling may be divided roughly under these head ings: Wholesale concentration yards, often with remanufactur ing plants: wholesale distributing yards; mill shipping wholesalers; wholesalers in the export lumber trade; and numerous sub-groups, in which the individual commission lumber salesman may be included. Here are large jobbing organiza tions which cover every phase of wholesale lumber selling. But even the largest wholesalers commonly specialize in one type of market. Every large sawmill operation has a principal or an executive whose responsibilities are the sell ing of the product. A major lum ber manufacturing organization will have a sales manager and sales office either in the plant or in a city near the plant's loca tion. The company will have employee salesmen in the field, and also be connected with inde pendent salesmen who sell lumber op commission. However large a lumber com pany may be, it will have whole sale relations in special markets where it does not extend its own sales coverage completely. A pre-war example of the kind was the export lumber field, in which there were large lumber wholesaling organizations that had offices all around the world—and they have survived, with some invading lumber manufacture. Wholesalers who specialize in rail road and industrial lumber are also standard “connections” of the large lumber companies. Service to Little Business The average wholesale dealer in HOUSE BUILDING CARPENTER WORK By the Day or Hour E.M. YORK GENERAL 108 A. St. CONTRACTOR | Phone 1107 lumber does business principally with the small sawmill of the country. An example is a typical mill in Louisiana which produces 10,000 board feet in an average day. The mill is designed to cut second growth pine timber of small sizes. Our Southern brother buys “stumpage” from farmers — 40 acres here, 20 there, 60 on another farm, taking only trees, not the land. The business of buying stumpage and the problems of trucking, milling, labor, and other items of production are sufficient to keep him busy. He sells only part of his product locally, “at the mill.” The remainder is trucked to a "concentration yard” or to a lum ber remanufacturing plant, or is loaded for rail shipment ordered by one or more lumber wholesaling organizations. In any case, the small sawmill owner is served by a marketing system that relieves him of busi ness problems at his shipping platform. Out in the immense and mysterious world of the tim ber markets, the lumber whole saler is the champion of his interests. • fered. They issued a warning to grow ers not to be in too big a hurry to sell. As a service to veterans in the community, this newspaper will publish a weekly column of news briefs from the Vet erans Administration. Fur further information vetera-s should contact or write theii nearest VA office. Obtain Certificates Northwest veterans planning to attend college for the first timo this fall, or a different school than last attended, should apply immediately to the veterans ad ministration for a certificate of eligibility. The certificates form the basis for payment of tuition, fees, sup plies and subsistence allowance and must be turned over to the college at registration time, the VA explained. Veterans returning to th? same school they last attended will not Clatskanie mint growers ex need a new certificate. To insure prompt payment of pressed themselves «s pessimis tic over the mint crop this year subsistence and other authorized VA expenditures, veterans should at a meeting held last week. Those who had distilled any at arply for the documents at least all last week, reported only about 30-days prior to registration date a half crop and with present wea of the school of their choice. An- ther with the lack of sunshine plication should be made to the which is necessary to bring out VA regional office in the state the full oil content, prospects do in which the veteran’s files are located. not seem at all bright. After September 1, the VA will The belief was expressed at the meeting that a 75 per cent begin issuing new streamlined yield was the best that any could certificates of eligibility. They expect and if the cool weather are expected to simplify and continued, less than that seemed expedite enrollment of G. I. stu dents by easing the administration certain. While no price figures have load on college registration of been mentioned by the very limit ficials. The new certificates will in ed number of mint oil buyers, reports are that they are going corporate material previously in to make an attempt to force the cluded on four seperate registra tion forms which the coleges were price down this year. In view of the increased costs required to f’ll out. • in the raising and distilling of The smallest state in the Union mint at the present time, growers feel that in keeping with the has the longest name—the State trend, higher prices should be of of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. I.O.O.F. Avenges Softball Loss The Vernonia Odd Fellows soft- ball team Sunday took the mea sure of the Portland Odd Fellows in a game played at Columbia park there. The score was 7 to 2 and reversed the score between the teams, the Portlanders having won the first game at Vernonia one week earlier by a 2 to 0 score. The Portland team started strong by gaining a two-run advantage in the first inning whle Ver nonia was retired in order. It was a different story from then on as Vernonia began to solve the slants of the Portland chucker. The locals scored two rip’s in the third and one in the fourth to go out in front for the first time, while Tomlin, Vernon'a pitcher, was handcuffing the Portland team. The four runs added later just increased the lead as the Vernonia power at the plate broke loose. The game was fast and well played on the part of both teams with Vernonia’s defense working good behind Tomlin’s sparkling pitching. Marv Turner played a bang-up game in right field as did the entire Vernonia infield which completed the only double play of the day. In a second game also played at Columbia park, another Port land Odd Fellows team defeated a team composed of the Ver nonia outfit and a couple of fill- ins. The Portlanders gained a 12 to 6 win for a little satisfac tion for the day. The two games were followed by a picnic lunch enjoyed by mem bers of all the ball clubs and their wives, joined by Odd Fel lows and Rebekahs of Vernonia and many Portland lodges. Another game is in the making between the two teams although a definite date has not been set as yet due to the handicap golf tournament put on by th® local lodge and which is scheduled to come off soon. Trophies for the tournament will be on display in a show window at Bush Furni ture. HANK'S PARTS HOUSE Mint Crop Said Not So Good Open week days until 6 p.m. RICHMOND DOUBLE GUARANTEED TIRES If you’ve Got the Pieces, I’ve Got the Parts Riverview Phone 773 ■ C-rrr>Iete Line of Johnson’s SALTED AND TOASTED NUTS '! Good Eating at Week End Parties and Picnics ARDEN ICE CREAM------ COOKIES VERNONIA BAKERY HOME OF BUTTER KRUST BREAD y A Be careful with fire today! Good hunters want to enjoy their hunting grounds—and keep them? too. That’s why they make "Be careful with fire!” the first law of the woods. I The sportsman who safeguards our timberland serves all America.’ He serves fellow sportsmen by protecting our great outdoor playground? He helps preserve our vital forest resource on which we depend for our thousands of wood-using requirements. He guards the inheritance of generations to come. However you use America's forest lands—as hunter, fisherman, camper or nature lover—give our trees a sporting chance. Do your pan to keep* fires out of the woods. ‘‘He’s sure to win the track meet, since he started eating ice cream from THE PA LSHOP.” Oregon*American Lumber Corporation Vernonia, Oregon ♦
