FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1930.
FIVE
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
for Linn and Marion counties,
Preliminary Report Made
will succeed >the late T. A. Mc
Bride as associate justice of the
supreme court, according to an
announcement by Governor Nor-
Of Oregon Roadside Survey blad.
OREGON NEWS
ODDITIES
Kelly will retain the justice
ship until January l. Meanwhile,
SALEM— (UP)—“They were
"Oregon will rapidly become years from now, as travel be candidates for the vacancy will catching the balls before they
one of the leading playgrounds comes very heavy along your be chosen by the state central stopped rolling,” Frank Summers,
of the nation.” This is the con scenic routes, these shrubs will committees of the Republican golf pro accused two lads whom
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viction of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. have disappeared from tHe Im and Democratic parties and will he saw stealing balls from a local
Lawton, who have just complet mediate roadside unless protected. be included on the November course.
The boys served 30
ed a roadside survey in this state.’ North Caroline sets a good ex ballot.
days.
Spending two months in Oregon ample by her law forbidding the
they motored 4500 miles and picking or breaking of flowers or
Oregon ranks third lowest in
JUNCTION CITY—(UP) — A
taken a great many photographs 1 shrubs within 300. feet of the 27 states in the nation in the
showing roadside conditions. highway unless with the written number of persons killed per mil swarm of bees have taken up
They have spoken before many I ! consent of the property owner. lion gallons of gasoline. The state abode in a dome of the Southern
civic groups.
This law is enforced by the state had an automobile death rate Pacific water column. All ef
forts to persuade their evacua
“We are much impressed with highway commission.
of l.44 per million gallons dur tion have been in vain.
“Like every other state, Ore- ing 1929, a survey showed.
the beauty of your state and
with your plans to protect it," gon suffers from the unnecessary
advises that “reasonableness in
says Mrs. Lawton. “Beyond the ugliness of filling stations and
Willamette University gradu
beauty of your luxuriant green food plants. A system of state ates will form an alumni associa the search and siezure” be exer
forests, your mountains and clear , ( or county license and regulation tion, it was decided here last cised.
waters, beauty which is found I j of these places of business is week.
A new world’s bicycle endur
everywhere along your everyday ; now being sought in some states.
ance record of 507 hours was
roads, you have certain high- | The Maine development commis-
The Oregon national guard
ways unique in character which I ' sion has started a contest in rifle team returned here this established by four Silverton
can scarcely be matched any-I | every county in Maine, offering week from the infantry matches boys.
where in America. Where can' cash prizes and honor shields to at Camp Perry, Ohio, with a
A horse quarantine was ef-
the Easterner find another high the stations showing the best trophy symbolic of U. S. National
fected in Southern Malheur coun
way like the McKenzie, leading character and appearance.
Guard shooting supremecy.
ty Monday when evidence of
“The formation of the Save
him across the lava fields, be
According to Adjutant Gener
tween snow-capped peaks and ov Oregon Scenery society is most al George A. White, this honor dourine caused the state live-
er the cascades?
Where can promising. This civic group, is the most difficult of all to stock sanitary board to place
he match the Columbia River I headed by J. C. Ainsworth of obtain. It is the third time the a ban on the shipment of all
highway or the Roosevelt high Portland, will seek to vromote Oregon guard has won the tro- horses unless accompanied by
way along the glorious coast? For roadside development in every phy—having captured it in 1924 health certificates.
All animals showing evidence of
still further variety you offer way. Their first project will be and 1927.
the disease after a thorough
him the desert beauty of Eas to raise funds for the immediate
blood test must be killed, it was
tern Oregon, the majesty of purchase of strategic spots along
“What’s good for the goose ” held.
National Forests and the inspira the highways where special beau
The old adage was again ap-
ty or interest needs protection. plied when Rhea Luper, state en-
tion of Crater Lake.
Seeking to reestablish emer
“It is not surprising that al Eight states now have a simi gineer, declared that when he gency freight rates on pear ship
though your highways were only lar organization for protection said no further action on appli ments, the Southern Oregon Sales
started in 1917 you already enjoy of roadside beauty—Main, R. I., cations would be taken pending company, incorporated, a pear
a tourist trade which brings 30 N. J., Va., N. C., Calif., Wn„ and the next meeting of the state le growers’ corporation, pleaded for
million dollars into your state Oregon.
gislature, he meant it to apply
“In Oregon as elsewhere, the as well to municipalities as to the assistance of the public ser
annually, the third largest of any
vice commission in the fight. A
character
of
the
roadsides
de
state in the union.
private corporations.
California supreme court deci
pends upon the people. Public
“There is no question of pre sion abolished the rate.
“We are also impressed by the opinion, aroused and organized,
work of your state highway com can make the filling stations servation of power sites for
mission. The system of road attractive, can keep advertising particular parties.” declared Lu
side parks and timber fringes off the landscape, can save the per. “The intention is to grant
which they are seeking to estab timber along the roadsides and rights to those persons who will
lish is a unique piece of work can keep Oregon beautiful. When develop Oregon water resources
and will be of immeasurable enough Oregonians demand and to the best interests of the peo
value to the state. The Oregon practice roadside beauty, when ple.”
commission has unusual legal they personally patronize only the
Oregon shippers attended a
authority to acquire by purchase, good looking stations, favor the
gift or condemnation, scenic firms which favor the scenery, meeting of the Pacific Northwest
places and timbered areas in back up the laws to protect Regional advisory board in Ta
proximity to state highways for beauty, and give their whole coma, Washington, September 12.
the development of parks, pub hearted support to the work of
A joint meeting of members
lic camps, recreation grounds, th ehighway commission, then
etc. Oregon has been extremely roadside beauty in Oregon will of the Central and West Willam
ette Association of the Baptist
fortunate in its highway commis become an accomplished fact.
church formed one association
sion, made up of men of vision
who realize that the highways' “The natural beauty of Oregon here last week, The same boun-
are the shoy windows of the state roadside, the clean condition daries effective more than 25
and that the lure to the tourist maintained by the state highway years ago, were again formed in
commisison, the unusual beauty the union.
% is the beauty seen from the of bridges, the efforts to keep
Officers were selected as fol-
highways. They are deeply in
terested in roadside development away advertising signs, and the I lows: Rev. F. H. Beard, Lebanon,
and will doubtless extend the attempted protection in some I moderator; H. E. Nordeen, Cor
program just as rapidly as the places of your scenic spots and vallis, vice-moderator; Mrs. Ed
timber fringes—all go to make gar Burns, Newberg, clerk; Rev.
people demand it.
U. S. Royal Cord Tires
“We find Oregon’s highways the highways of Oregon nearer W. Earl Cochran, Salem, trustee
remarkably clean, due to the than those of most states to a to the state board.
Shell Products
fact that your highway commis realization of the right ideal—
Game wardens are employed
sion gathers up the rubbish along Every Highway a Parkway.”
Mr. and Mrs. Lawton, repre in an attorney general’s opinion
Dependable Mechanics
the roadsides once every month
and on some of the busiest roads senting the American Nature as to search without warrant, all
sociation,
came
to
Oregon
at
Shop Work Guaranteed
automobiles believed to contain
once every week.
“Your roads are also unusual the invitation of the State Fed contraband game. The opinion
ly clean of the small advertis eration of Garden clubs. The
ing signs. The commission not Vernonia Garden club assisted
only keep all signs off the in sponsoring the survey.
right-of-way but also tries to
persuade the farmers to keep
the signs off their barns, trees
and fences.
We have noted
many barns in Oregon bearing
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a small marker, Post no Bills,
Ore. St. Hy. Com. The Oregon
Commission and the Pennsylvan- in the state industrial accident
nia commission are the only two, commission, Oregon workmen are
so far as we know, which make receiving immediate action upon
any attempt to reduce the signs application for compensation due
to accidents received during the
on private property.
“Oregon needs to campaign course of empolyment.
against billboards which are plac-
Sixty ver cent of August fires,
ed at sharp curves, bidding for
your attention just when your aside from Portland, occured in
Let us show you some clever new de
attention should be entirely on rural districts of the state, fire
signs.
Total losses
the road. A bill has been propos- reports showed,
ed in Oregon to prohibit all amounted to $341,700 of which
We can furnish some good grades of
signs within at least 500 feet $284,755 was suffered by rural
Farm dwelling losses
of curves and intersections. This sections,
inexpensive
paper,
would be a Bafety measure in amounted to $88,255 while barns
burned
were
valued
at
$30,350.
line with the recommendations
Or the very be»t that can be secured
of the U. S. Bureau of Pub- Incendiarism was the chief cause
lie Roads and the Association for the conflagrations.
in the Pacific Northwest.
of State Highway Officials, and
Judge Percy R. Kelly of Al-
should be supported.
Oregon
might well follow the example hany. since 1911 circuit judge
recently set by New Jersey and
tax billboards 3c per square foot,
thus requiring the billboard in
Martin & Forbe»
dustry to pay a just return for
LEADING FLORIST
the special benefit it receives
from your state highway invest
387 Washington St.
ment, and at the same time re
Portland, Ore., Phone
ducing the number of signs which
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already disfigure some of your
highways.
“The roadsides of Oregon are
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by "no means as cluttered with
advertising as are the roads in
the east, or even in California,
FACE A LITTLE
but as , your travel increases,
MORE Mt CWW UW,
billboards will follow, and now
LOOK UP PLEDSE '.-ITS
is your chance to head them
off.
PE POSE Til! I TELL YOU-
"Too many Oregon towns are
developing the usual messy bill
TUATS FINE
boarded approach so character-
istic of America. It is a pity
when towns of such natural beau
ty of approach as those along the
Pacific highway, especially in
Southern Oregon, permit that
beauty to be entirely obliterated by
lanes of billboards and ugly sta
tions plastered with signs.
“Your native shrubs, the rho
mountain
dodendron,
azalea,
spray, syringa, wild rose and
scotch bloom, need protection.
They add greatly to the beauty
of your country.
Twenty-five
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VERNONIA EAGLE
FINNEY OF THE FORCE
BEND— (UP)—A picnicker
SILVERTON—(UP)—One hill
of E. P. McNeer’s potato patch was seriously injured by a rock
yielded 10 and one-half pounds which tumbled off a near-by
of “spuds.”
I mountain and rolled into the
1 park.
YAMHILL— (UP) — A note
dated August 22 from Mount
PORTLAND—(UP)— An ap
Carey and tied to a leg of a ple which had grown on a grape
carrier pigeon said one “Chrys-' vine is displayed by A. F. Jaksha.
1 r” was living on berries and Tendrils continued to cling to
n its and asked assistance, The the fruit after it had been knock-
bird was found exhausted in a ed free of the vine.
barn near here.
LYONS—(UP)— Sixty feet
above the ground in the stump
of a tree, fire warden H. F.
V.’arren found a fire burning. A
50- pound meteorite had lodged
in the cavity.
SALEM—(UP)—Two 14 year
old lads have gone into the
minature golf business here. A
permit from city authorities to
build an $8 cady-office struc
ture, was secured.
Anticipate
your printing need*
Miss Pullet Knows When
It’s Time to Move Her
Well, it’s September and our owner is
moving us from the range to our permanent
laying houses. We can hardly be expected
to lay out in the winter rains.
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Being modest
est I should say I am about
average in development.
t" ’ .
The owner has
already taken some into the laying houses
and will leave the slow ones on the range
until later.
Can’t he see that it irritates me to be
moved in the evening? I would much rather
be moved in the morning.
At least he doesn’t frighten us by chasing
us all over the range. At the county agent’s
suggestion he sprinkles feed in a portable wire
covered feeding shed and when all are in,
away we go. I heard him talking about get
ting more detailed information concerning us
from the agricultural college experiment sta
tion. He’s good to us now, but when he can
give us the proper care in every way, we’ll
do our best.
BBank of Vernonia
“TO FURTHER AGRICULTURAL PROSPERITY”
Professional and Business Directory
For your convenience the following business and professional people are listed on
this page alphabetically. These men and women are known in Vernonia as reliable business
and professional people.
BEAUTY SHOPS
< Personal Service j
< Reasonable Rates!
Hotel HyVan
STEAM HEAT
PASTIME
The best for those
who appreciate the
best.
LIGHT LUNCHES
CARDS AND
Lloyd Baker, Prop.
ANNETTE BEAUTY SHOPPE
Phone 431
Electrotherapy,
The
Dixie Grill
Physiotherapy
DR. R. A. OLSON
HOME COOKING
Chiropractor
L
1117 Stat
Vernonia. Ore
WE AIM TO PLEASE
CONTRACTORS
Terminal Cafe
JOHN A. MILLER
The Right Place to Eat
Excellent Cooking
General Contractor
Mason Work, Building
Bafford Brothers
General Plumbing
ANNOUNCEMENT
I have leased and am now
Sessman
operating
the
Blacksmith Shop.
DENTISTS
M. D. COLE
I
Dentist
Vernonia, Oregon
DR. W. H. HURLEY
Cason Transfer
Local & long distance
HAULING
Phone 923
Office in
Workingmen’« Store
Repairing of All Kinds
W. M. Faulkner
Mary Kato
LAWYERS
I
Dentistry and X-Ray
Hoffman Hdwe. Building
Vernonia
Gordon R. Watt
Attomey-at-law
Chop Suey
Restaurant
You’ll enjoy a bowl
of delicious Chop
Suey after the show.
Joy Theatre Building
Vernonia, Oregon
Vernonia, Oregon
PHYSICIANS
HOTEL
HOTEL GORDON
Marvin R. Eby, M. D.
Newly Furnished Room»
Hot and Cold Water
Physician and Surgeon
Next to Post Office
Very Reasonable Rates
Phone Hospital 931
Town Office 891
EATINC HWI
id MteEATIMj
AT HOME 4
hotel
M c D onald
COMPLETE«
FUNERALS
BROWN MORTUARY
Phone 593
Dr. J. A. Hughe«
FSVIT'V
Physician and Surgeon
Office Phone 683 Vernonia,
Res. Phone 664 •
Oregon
TOM H. KING, SR., TAILOR
Snoop Holds the Pose