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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1930.
Cap^f
THE VERNONIA EAGLE
orchards in Oregon was found to
be $667 per acre, of which $646
is orchard value and the remain­
der equipment and improvements.
Seedling trees and poor loca­
tions are believed to be the ma­
jor reasons for low average
yields. Pound costs ranged be-
tween the two extremes of 7.8
cents to $1.05, with about half
the growers as well as half the
6000 Oregon school children to acreage falling below 17 cents
school.
average.
The school bus system has be-
Only 37.4 per cent of the op­
come of such importance in the erating cost represents cash cost,
state’s education plan that the according to the report, while
number of school busses increas- labor costs accounted for 34.4
c-1 in Oregon in one year from per cent of the total, taxes 3.6
175 transporting 3500 school I per cent, interest on investment
children to nearly double that i 50.9 per cent, and miscellaneous
figure—300, according to figures 11.3.
released by James Burgess, as-
sistant state superintendent uf
HILLSBORO—Three Washing­
education.
ton county farmers are this year
Columbia county has 31 bus trying out Hood wheat, a new
lines providing daily service for variety developed from a selec­
654 students, Burgess figures tion of Jenkins Club at the Ore­
showe^l.
gon experiment station.
During 1929-30, the average
Farmers making trials of
cost per student per year was this new verity in cooperation
$44.53 and an average of 32.9 with the county agent are Ritchey
pupils were taken to classes each Brothers of Forest Grove and W.
day, Burgess said. As each bus J. Enschede and J. L. Batchel­
traveled an average of 20.6 miles der of Hillsboro.
per day, the cost of transfer­
ring each child each mile, every
day was 1.02 cents.
• BY UNÍ IEÜHPRESS"
BY
DENNIS
LANDRY
U. P. Staff Correspondent.
SALEM—(UP)— Several bills
to rule potential killers off Ore­
gon highways, will be introduced
in the 1931 legislature.
Included in the proposed legis­
lation, was a measure to compel
automobile drivers to pass a com­
petency test, and another to pro­
vide for licensing of only ma­
chines physically conditioned for
highway traffic.
Figures show more deaths oc­
curred in Oregon from automobile
accidents last year and so far
this year, than should have in
proportion to the increase of
automobiles.
Only 15 per cent of the cars
on the nation’s highways would
be able to pass a safety test,
according to reports received at
the state house.
Although a starte-)wi<ta test
never was mede in Oregon, a ser­
ies of recent examinations in
Portland showed only 19 per cent
of the cars on the road there
were in excellent physical condi­
tion.
Most states force would-be-driv-
ers to pass a road test before
issuing them a license, traffic
department attaches say. The
test includes driving in traffic,
stopping and starting on hills,
turning on narrow streets, and
several oral questions.
Another proposed bill said to
be receiving more than a little
attention from traffic experts
of the state, is that which would
compel pedestrians traveling on
highways after dark to “light
up” with some sort of a lantern.
The bill was recommended by
Traffic Captain C. P. Talent.
He said:
“Pedestrians on the highways
at night are in danger them­
selves and constitute a menace
to motorists.
“It is impossible, almost, to
see these hikers walking along
the side of the pavement, and
frequently minor wrecks are the
result of a sudden application of
brakes, Or the swerving of a
car to prevent a more serious
accident.”
Talent believes should such a
law be enacted, a pedestrian
light of some type would be in­
vented to meet the needs.
SALEM—(UP)— Unnecessary
depletion of Oregon and Wash­
ington fir tree stands are threat­
ened by unemployment, according
to Lynn Cronmilled, state for­
ester.
Cronmiller received word from
Los Angeles authorities that an
over supply of Christmas trees
threatens to exist in Los Angeles
markets this winter due to many
persons entering the business
through lack of other employ-
ment.
According to Cronmiller, a
Bingle Washington town will ship
eight carloads of Christmas trees.
Similar heavy shipments will
leave other Oregon and Wash­
ington towns.
Although not opposed to
Christmas tree cutting, foresters
will urge those in the business
only to cut enough trees to fill
standing orders.
Oregon will receive $1,334,-
195 forest highway funds from
the federal government for the
year ending June 30, 1931, it
was announced by Lynn Cron­
miller, state forester.
This is nearly double what was
received last year when only
$632,638 was apportioned the
state, it was said.
The additional funds were
made available not only for
mdre rapid road construction
work but to aid in relieving un­
employment, Cronmiller said.
CORVALLIS—(UP) — Ore­
gon’s dairy industry now ranks
third in total income among her
agricultural enterprises, being
surpassed only by cereal produc­
tion and livestock, according to
biennial report of the Oregon Ex­
tension service.
Increases have taken place
most rapidly in the irrigated
districts of Eastern Oregon, and
dairying has assumed an import-
tant place in these former live­
stock regions as well as in the
coast sections.
OREGON NEWS
ODDITIES
BY UNITED PRESS
PAGE FIVE
measured 42 in­ derbrush when Mr. Patching ap­ For
What Other chrysanthemums
ches in diameter, not four feet proached. The cows were full Eagle
as “Rip” claimed in his noted fea­ of curiosity over their visitor
from the hills, while the doe
Editor» Think ture.
seemed willing to have joined
(Continued from Page 4)
of “saving at the spiggot and
wasting at the bunghole.”
—Columbia River Pilot.
Chicago is noted for gangsters,
Boston for beans, Los Angeles
for hot air and Portland is rapid­
ly rising to the front for its love
triangles.
—Hillsboro Argus.
in a blanket.
pallbearers.
Indian boys were
BEND—Henry Blackwell could
not remove an oil tank cap. He
used a blow torch. The cap was
removed. So was Henry.
OREGON STATE COLLEGE—
Bill Bullis takes bedclothes to
class, claims he is making a
study of sound absortion and re­
flection.
ALBANY—J. W. Quattlebaum
grew turnips 33 inches in cir-
cumference.
SALEM—Believe it or not,
Ripley is wrong- Mrs. J. M.
Woolery of Salem said her largest
ASTORIA—Beach sands drift­ them if it had not been for the I
ed, revealed to horrified bathers, fence, Mr. Patching said.
a skeleton.
Mr. Patching’s first thought
was to go to the house for a
A subscription to the Eagle gun, but on second thought (he
makes an ideal gift.
says Mrs. Patching supplied the
second thought) it developed that
cows
DEER GRAZES WITH
the deer was a doe, that the sea­
son was closed and that the only
From somewhere out of the gun on the place was a shotgun.
foothills that border the dike The deer accordingly was un­
lands below Rainier, a doe came molested and spent a quiet day
out Wednesday morning and browsing near the cattle.
through a woven wire fence fra­ Late in the afternoon the cows
ternized the greater part of the were still looking into the under­
day with the cattle on the C. R. brush with curiosity and it was
Patching place in Rainier drain­ presumed that the doe was still
age district. The doe, a partly there. That evening she went
grown deer, stayed on her side of away, but the Patchings have no |
the fence, probably because she idea where she went or from.
could not go through it, while whence she came.
—Rainier Review.'
the cows stayed on theirs, but
they stayed rather close togeth­
er from early in the forenoon un­
til late in the afternoon.
Presence of the doe was first
discovered when Mr. Patching no­
ticed that the cows were looking
with curiosity through the wire
fence at some object on the other
side. He investigated, and found
the doe close to the cows. It
made no effort to run away, al­
though it walked off into the un­
WHAT
WHEN
ASTORIA—Hotel switchboards
flashed when screams and shots
issued from an adjoining build­
ing. “It’s all in the play,” clerks
replied.
HOW
SALEM— Entering a Salem
bank, a depositor left $1900 in
$20 gold pieces. Latest coins
were dated 1915.
WHERE
Oregon-American
r
Lumber Co
Dr. Brower
NEXT
TIME YOU NEED
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Invitations
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Statements
Envelopes
Billheads
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The Catalogue and Cal­
endar of Market, Price
and Crop Reports avail­
able in Oregon will tell
you what reports may be
obtained by radio, tele­
graph or mail, and when
and how and where.
Write to the Oregon
State Agricultural Col­
lege Extension Service
for your free copy, or
get one from the county
agricultural agent.
Bank of Vernonia
“TO FURTHER AGRICULTURAL PROSPERITY’’
Optometrist and Optician
CORVALLIS—(UP) That the
average cost of producing wal­
nuts in Oregon is $60,58 an acre,
or 17.4 cents a pound of nuts,,
and that present average yields
are far below a profitable figure,
is the gist of a preliminary re­
port of the walnut cost study be-
ing carried on in the state by
the farm management depart-
ment of Oregon State college.
The study, which will continue
at feast two years, covers 119
producing orchards, totalling 2,-
818 acres, and includes trees
ranging in age from 12 to 37
years.
Average investment in walnut
Of Portland
WILL BE IN
Lockjes
Vernonia
EVERY 2nd AND 4th
MONDAY OF EACH
MONTH
All day and Evening at the
A. F. & A. M.
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
A. F. & A. M. meets
at
Masonic
Temple,
Communication
Stated
First Thursday of each
month. Special called
meetings on all other Thurs-
day nights 7:30 p.m. Visitors
most cordially welcome.
E. Tapp, W. M.
B. Wilkerson. Secretary.
Hotel Hy-Van
See Him About Your Eyes.
Order of Eaatern Star
Advertising Stimulates
Buying
SALEM—(UP) — A “private
chauffeur” each day transports
Advertising—printed salesmanship— is the
LOW
greatest of all agents in stimulating buying.
ROUND TRIP FARES
OVER
It makes people want things to which other­
Christmas
To Points in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and
Montana.
Tickets on sale Dec. 18
to 25 inclusive; Return
limit January 6, 1931,
Albany ................. $5.75
Astoria ................. 7.30
Bend ................... 14.75
Corvallis ............... 6.20
Eugene ................. 7.85
Gearhart ............... 8.05
Great Falls ........... 39.90
Portland ............... 2.75
Prineville ............. 15.39
Redmond ............. 13.92
Salem ................... 4.75
Sand Point ........... 24.05
Seaside ________ 8.15
Seattle ................. 11.55
Spokane.................. 20.65
White Salmon ....... 6.40
Yakima ............... 17.35
To Eastern Points
Tickets on sale Dec. 18,
19, 20; return limit Feb.
28, 1931.
Examples—
Chicago ......... $105.70
St. Louis ........... 108.20
St Paul ............. 89.49
Tickes, reservations, fur­
ther information, etc.,
R. M. ALDRICH. Agent.
Phone 161
J. C. Wright, Gen. Agt.
United Railways Co.
an
Market, Price and
Crop Reports
MEDFORD—Al Smith, (no re­
lation to the brown derby) arriv-
ed here seeking a new title—
“World’s champion motorcycle
pusher.” He’s pushing from Se-
attle, to New York.
AURORA—W. W. Irvin re­
quested to be buried like pio­
neers of old. He was wrapped
quick results—try
want ad.
wise they might have been indifferent
—Publishers’ Auxiliary
NEHALEM ASSEMBLY NO. 1«
ORDER OF RAINBOW
FOR GIRLS
Regular meeting second and
fourth Mondays.
Audrey Austin, Recorder
American Legion
Mountain Heart
Rebekah Lodge No. 243
No. 243, I.O.O.F., meets every
second and fourth Thursdays in
I. O. O. F. hall, Vernonia. Visit­
Vernonia Temple 61 meets ors always welcome.
every 2nd and 4th Wednesdays in
Edna Linn, Noble Grand
W.O.W. hall.
Grace Sunell, Vice Grand
MARJORIE COLE, M. E. C.
Myrtle John, Secretary
DELLA CLINE. M. of R. 4 C.
Margaret Shipley, Treasurer
Pythian Sister«
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
I. O. O. F.
HARDING LODGE 116
Meets every Monday
I.O.O.F.—Vernonia Lodge No.
night in the W.O.W. 246 meets every Tuesday night
hall. Visiting broth­ at 8 o’clock, in I.O.O.F. hall. Vis­
ers welcome.
itors always welcome.
C. W. Kilby N. G. ,
H. Culbertson, C.C.
John Glassner, Secretary.
U. A. Scott, K.R.S.
Vernonia Trading Co
Ed Tapp
Meets third Thursday of each
month at the I.O.O.F. hall.
Mrs. May Mellinger, president.
Vernonia Post
Nehalom Chapter 153, O. E. S.
119, American
Regular commu­
nication first
Legion.
Meets
and third Wed-j
3 2nd and 4th
nesdays of each !
month, at Ma-1
Tuesdays
each
sonic Temple.
month, 8. p. m.
All visiting sis­
Dan Nelson, Ad-
ters and broth­
jutant; P. Hughes, Commander.
ers welcome.
Mrs. Gwladys Macpherson, W.M.
Mrs. Grace Reberger, Secretary.
On it depends the continued prosperity of the
nation.
WOMENS RELIEF
CORPS
Cass Bergerson
Solved
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