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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1950)
The Forum FROM WHERE I STAND Dear Editor: Peg and Ray had split up, and everyone who knew them took it badly because we loved them. They made a striking couple. She was as trim a little Irish Rose as ever one saw and a neat and economical housekeeper. He, with his piercing dark eyes and hair, cut a figure anyplace he went. When Ray came out of War I and married Peg. her uncle staked them to 20 Jerseys, and many’s the tale he regaled me with as we sat our horses with one leg hooked over the horn while our stock fed nearby on the common green, we leased. Soon the great depression hit but things still came their way. They saw to it that their poorer neighbors had food, you bet. Turkeys and eggs and milk ga lore went over the fence. As time went on Ray would say to me, "you watch them,” and away he’d dash on coal- black Pal with Blue his Aus tralian, yipping a streak to keep up. Ray had taken to drinking, and over the hill a mile was his source of delight. That social - nip soon became a habit. He started it but it would finish him. It soon drugged his mind and broke down his resistence. His friends watched the slow disintegration of a fine man. Pegs tongue became sharp and Ray turned to other women. He became involved in two shady cattle deals and one of them landed him in jail for a few days. His face became flushed and his eyes hard and beady. Several years of this and Peg could stand no more. Liquor had made a beast of an otherwise home-loving man and she called it quits. Ray tried to sell the gift jerseys and buy more whis key. She felt unsafe when he was so doped. Sixteen years later we find them a continent apart living out their old age alone. They still love one another, we know. Ray lately spent a couple stretches in the chain gang. Our mutual friends would not at first tell me where I could visit him when I was down Christmas. I found him with the same infectious grin and generous nature but a much changed man. He was tough one or he’d not have lasted. From where I stand I don’t blame Ray any more than I do a community that harbors booze. The brewers and saloons helped dope and beastialize and wreck that home. Those little social drinks became a big social prob lem. Why? Because alcohol is its own vicious circle. It does not stimulate the body, it drugs dopes and stupifies it, and a stupid body craves more to try to stimulate the stupified. j For Grade fi | Pasteurized : | : j Dairy Products • ! Call or Write ! PEBBLE ; CREEK DAIRY i ■ ! Telephone 8812 Timber Rt., Box 56 Vernonia. Oregon From where I stand I see more Pegs and Rays being sold down the river all ‘about me. Pegs and Rays we all like and res pect, common people like you and me. We see drink getting them and we shake our heads but we do nothing about it. Why not? From where I stand I see a na tion of Pegs and Rays eating from the horn of plenty then drinking our country into pover ty and degradation. One won ders if the end is near for us all. Are the signs of the times ripe for the Lord’s second coming? He warned that even as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the last days. How was it in Noah’s day? For the earth is filled with violence—I will destroy them with the earth. Mournful indeed, would this old world ba if this were the end of the story.” Come unto me. all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest,” promises our Creator. "Believe, on me said His Son, and thou shalt be saved.” God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” And in His New Earth He says “There will be no hurt in all my holy Mount.” So you see the P gs and Rays can beat this old game here after all if they return to their ’7'>''-er power. Sincerely, Clint Seibert Jimmie, the crowing rooster, the sprouting peas. The idea was, has backslid. Until recently he she said, to make the pheasants had been a respectable, if some sick and they would blame it on what noisy, member of the barn peas and leave them alone. But yard society but he has fallen she did not figure on Jimmie, from grace. He has become an the rooster; he discovered the irresponsible inebriate and his alcohol-soaked corn and found disgraceful conduct has banned it much to his liking but the ef him from the better social fect it has had on his conduct and morals leaves much to be circles. It all came about when Ma desired. He pays little or no attention planted her early peas. When the peas came up the pheasants to his barnyard duties but spends came along and began pulling most of his time looking for the them up and eating the pea they spiked corn, and when he has would find on the end of the acquired a snootfull, or rather plant. I wanted to take the a crop full, he staggers away to scatter gun and have a pheasant sleep off his jag. He has become His dinner but Ma vetoed that idea. bleary-eyed and sodden. Said they were such a beautiful, once brilliant plumage is dis- lordly fowl that it would be a sheveled and unpreened. Where sin to kill one of them. Besides he once stepped forth boldly and it was out of season anyhow, so proudly, his gait is now stum Ma proceeded to take care of bling and uncertain. He no longer i crows at midnight as was his the matter in her own way. She soaked a batch of corn in wont, in fact, he seldom gets up alcohol and scattered it among in the morning in time to crow Highway Entry Backed by Law Have you. wondered at the audacity of the driver, who after waiting for some time at a side street while trying to enter a through highway, finally bulls his way into the traffic stream, perhaps escaping a collision by inches? That driver may be taking a chance, but at least the law is on his side. And according to the state safety division, it is a law that few drivers know and fewer still obey. Many who are familiar with the law have acquired their knowledge through a damage suit or traffic fine. This is the way it works. A vehicle stopping as required at the entrance to an arterial high way must yield to all vehicles within the intersection or ap proaching so closely as to be an immediate hazard. After hav ing yielded to these vehicles, he may then enter the highway, and all vehicles approaching on the through highway must yield to him. Confusion arises over the fact that vehicles often continue to approach rapidly on the through highway and may constitute a continuous hazard. According to the law, however, only those close enough to be a hazard at the time the other vehicle stop ped have the right-of-way. The problem is one which could be best solved through common courtesy behind the wheel, safety officials pointed out. 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The date and name of the stream is writ ten on the card in the space pro CORN, »» X* HANK’S PARTS HOUSE — Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher Melvin Schwab, Operator CRACKERS, S-49* s 3b SAFEWAY GUARANTEED MEATS Phone 773 The Vernonia Eagle SAFEWAY On Display ... Universal Typemaster typewriter with touch Ideal for home or school. Fish Tally Card System Started HAIUH UNDERWOOD ' ! THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950 S I against the other roosters and vided. The cards are to be ® when he does his voice is dry and tained by the anglers until May 31, 1951, so that the game ad throaty. He even became so befuddled mission may obtain cards I tjt ■ study of the catch. Specific Mi one night that he could not find ters are to be sent to individcud his way back to the henhouse, anglers requesting return of the- but spent the night roosting on cards a fence rail. 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