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FRIDAY, APRIL 1?, 1981. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE FOUR Umunna Eaglr MCMSte Pacific Coaat Representative Arthur W. Stype», Inc. San Francisco Member of National Editorial Association and Oregon State Editorial Association. Issued Every Friday $2.00. Per Year in Advance Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922. at the post office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; legal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion, 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line. RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher Geo. Nelson Advises Squirrel Poison Now “The poisoning of ground squir rels should be done at this time to obtain the best results,” states Geo. A. Nelson, county agent. “They will take poison readily now when there is a limited amount of feed and they are hungry after the winter season. By destroying the squirrels now • they will not be allowed to in- | crease and cause greater des truction of crops later in the season. “Mr. Branson, of the U. S. Biological Survey, recently mixed a supply of poison for the use of farmers in Columbia county and this can be obtained from the county agent’s office. Supplies are also located in practically every community in the county.” Among Our Neighbors . • DEPRESSION HAS ITS BENEFITS A period of economic depression is not without its benefits. It teaches the lesson of carefulness in public expenditures. Just now this subject is receiving careful scrutiny. To be sure, Congress appeared to worry not at all over the plight of the taxpayer, and our own state legislature was but little better. The reason for this callousness lies no so much with individual congressmen or legislators as with the system. Appropriations secured by “pork barrel" methods, each energetic congressman or legislator getting as much as he can for his own district by swap ping votes with other energetic congressmen or legislators bent on getting as much in turn as they can, does not make for low taxes. It means, all too often, the piling of ap propriation upon appropriation. Emilio Parodi, section hand at Camp 1 of the Clark and Wil son Lumber company, committed suicide April 6 by blowing off his head with a shotgun. J. Mc- Guckin, formerly of Longview, committed suicide by jumping in to the river, and his body was found at Rainier April 7, mak ing two suicides in the county in one week. What Other Editors • • . Think • • . . HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COSTS We are not presuming to ven ture very inclusive comment on the report of the recently re leased survey of Oregon’s insti tutions of higher learning. It has already become a much moot ed question and will continue to be the subject for increased dis cussion. One fact the report brings out is that Oregon has been liberal in its support of higher education. This state is expending $276.99 per student enrolled in the state higher institutions as compared to $214.92 for the United States as a whole. For capital investment Oregon has $3,985 per million dollars of wealth as compared with $2,500 for the nation as a whole. The value of the capital SCRUTINY FROM WITHIN investment per thousand of pop Governor Meier has announced ulation is $13,241 for Oregon to that no "housecleaning” of state $6,314 for the United States as highway department employes a whole. impends. That announcement, At the same time it should be like the reappointment of M. A. taken into consideration that Lynch to his place on the state while the United States as a | highway commssion, will be re whole had only 49 students per ceived with public satisfaction. ten thousand of population in col There would be public dismay at lege in 1928, Oregon had 112. Al any prospect of the throwing of so at the same time for the Unit-] ed States as a whole only 50.6 per cent of the students in higher schools being educated in state St. Helens chamber of com merce members are still hoping for favorable consideration of the site offered for a soldiers’ home. various organizations represent ed.” Scappoose is making a bid for The system of 'recreational poultry raisers by offering 20 training schools was developed by three-acre tracts of land free to representatives of the American responsible settlers who will start Play association, cooperating with a poultry farm. the extension service of the U. Although the lesson of adversity was scarcely heeded Clifford Gobba, cashier of the S. department of agriculture, and has been successfully presented by our law making bodies, executive departments are stop First National bank of St. Hel in various states, Mrs. Case de ens, has been transferred to a ping to look and listen. In Oregon Governor Meier is en-| similar position in Camas, Wash clares. forcing real economy in administration. $50,000 gets lop- i p ington. ped off the appropriation for institutions of higher learn ing, all salary increases of state officials are denied, and just this week the proposition to outfit penitentiary guards with Sam Browne belts is coolly turned down by the board of control. A minor item this last, perhaps, but indicative of the spirit of the times. Ornaments and frills are not to be had at public expense. When money is plentiful and nobody raises his voice in protest against high taxes except the chronic kicker who usually storms in vain, ex penses mount regardless of the effect on taxes. Mrs. Olive J. Malcolm, 91, who resided in Clatskanie until about three years ago, died at her daughter’s home in Carlton April 3. Voters of Union high school district 5, Forest Grove, approved a bond issue of $75,000 in an election held April 4. Of this amount $30,000 will be used to purchase the present high school building from district 15, and the Yet not every paring down of public expenditure is remaining $45,000 for construct sound economy. A penny wise policy may indeed add to ing an addition. expenses later on, and sometimes, even causes an immedi ate loss. Keeping the Vernonia city budget down by not providing enough for an adequate sinking fund for sewer bonds has meant an increase to us this very year of ap proximately 20 mills. Inadequate police or fire protection, curtailment of lights, laying off necessary clerical help— any number of economies might be and have been sug gested that are not economies at all, for to do away with necessities costs more than to retain them. It is the frills, the unessentials, the Sam Browne belts, that we should do without and save money for the overburdened taxpayers. Recreation School Dated For Rainier A recreational training school will be held April 27, 28, 29 and 30 in the American Legion hall at Rainier, according to an an nouncement by Mrs. Sarah Case, county home demonstration agent. The purpose of the school, as given in a statement sent out by Mrs. Case, is to train leaders in recreation for the service or ganizations of the county in which they are held. “Representatives from granges, service organiza THE INDOOR BASEBALL SERIES tions, parent teacher associations, 4-H club leaders and any others Sport for the pure fun of the thing, the healthiest who have a time set aside in their ¡kind there is, was much in evidence during the recent programs for recreation or enter are enthusiastic in their series of indoor baseball games, Sectional jealousy or the tainment praise of the new ideas on plays desire for financial gain had no part. Rivalry there was, and games which they receive at with on the whole the best of feeling, and fine sportsman these schools. Both men and wo men are cordially invited to at ship. The one withdrawal was not in anger or because of tend these meetings. The plays dissatisfaction, but rather from the desire to avoid any and games are arranged to suit rift in the good feeling, to the discredit of the organiza every taste and to meet the con ditions that are presented in the tion represented. institution* and 49.4 per cent in the highway department into poli private schools, while Oregon was tics. Now there is reassurance. educating 75.3 per cent in state The highway department, like supported schools and only 24.7 all other branches of our state per cent in private colleges. These government, is not above scruti figures of the larger college at-, ny. Indeed it has just voted to tendance and the greater task of i place itself under self-scrut'ny, the state supported schools in through the ordering of a sur Oregon help to explain why Ore-' vey of all of its activities. Doubt gon is considerably above the nat-i less that survey will reveal some ional average in its support of i flaws and point the road to some higher education. economies. To suppose otherwise Considerable savings can be would be to assume for the high made through economies in oper way administration a perfection ation although the oen suggestion that exists nowhere. The present made in the survey for the ex times demand a scanning of their change of students and faculty own conduct of affairs by all between the two innstitutions does not appear particularly feas ible on first examination. Alto gether the question is a grave one and merits thoughtful study. In conclusion we cannot help but believe that education is going to continue to be expensive after all possible economies have been made and that the day will arrive when those receiving th» education will have to pay a lar ger share of the cost. —Forest Grove News-Times Coming to Portland Dr. Mellenthin SPECIALIST TESTED SEEDS We advise . . . Western Grown Seeds for Western Soil Vernonia Trading Co. Cass Bergerson Ed Tapp Phone 681 J. C. Henderson Freight Phone 1021 Delivered To and Called for at Your Door Book« of 1930 Wall Paper Samples Now Here On Display TRUCKS LEAVE VERNONIA 9 A. M. DAILY Long Distance Furniture Hauling Between Vernonia and Portland Vernonia Paint Shop Portland-Vernonia Truck Line W. A. Davis, Local Manager. Vernonia RES. PHONE 443 __ ______________________ l[l BENSON HOTEL OFFICE PHONE 1041 Professional and Business Directory THURSDAY and FRIDAY April 30 and May 1 Office Hour«: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. TWO DAYS ONLY No Charge for Consultation 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. ANNOI INCFMFNTq Dr. Melenthin is a regular grad ANNOUNCEMENT uate in medicine and surgery and I have leased and am now op is licensed by the state of Ore erating the Sessman Black- gon. He does not operate for chronic appendicitis, gall stones, 3II11LI1 OIlVp« ulcers of stomach, tonsils or ade Repairing of all kinds noids. W. M. Faulkner He has to his credit wonderful results in diseases of the stomach, RAPRFP SHOPS liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart, kidney, bladder, bed wet ■ BARBER ting, catarrh, weak lungs, rheu shop matism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal ailments. Haircutting for Men Remember above date, that con Women and Children sultation on this trip will be free and that his treatment is different. Expert Work Guaranteed Married women must be accom CARD ROOM panied by their husbands. Address: 4221 West Third St., Los Angeles, California. (Adv.) PASTIME CARDS AND LIGHT LUNCHES Lloyd Baker, Prop. CONTRACTORS General Contractor Mason Work, Building C. BRUCE Family and Fortune Wholesale and Retail LUMBER B ank of V ernonia With PAPER HANGING AND TINTING JOHN A. MILLER It is infinitely wiser and better to begin the Family Fortune in a small way with a few dol- lars in bank here, than attempt at once to leap into a great Fortune. The latter has too often proven a leap in the dark mystery of poverty and failure. RIGHT! Will be at The armory was a fine place for men and women to pack up their troubles in kit bags, if they had any, and enjoy life. The Athletic association is to be congratulated upon sponsoring so successful and enjoyable a series of community games. The history of a Fortune like that of a Family frequently finds its origin in a very small and insignificant beginning. Both Families and For tunes grow to greater things through the grow ing years. Neither springs suddenly into large being. Start Your Garden House And -sSIGNs- PAINTING in Internal Medicine for the past eighteen year« DOES NOT OPERATE concerns, public or private. But it is well that in this case the movement starts from within. There has often been politics in the appointment of highway commissioners, but the business of the highway commission has always been carried on apart from and above politics. The Oregon public, which is both proud of our system of road* and satisfied in general terms with the methods by which they have been built and maintained, want* the highway department kept out of politics. —Oregonian. Vernonia, Oregon Oregon-American Lumber Co. BAFFORD BROS. General Plumbing Vernonia DENTISTS M. D. COLE Dentist Vernonia, Oregon DOCTORS TELEPHONE— Office 672 Re«. 673 DR. R. A. OLSON OVER Chiropractor CLINE FURNITURE STORE Marvin R. Eby, M. D. Physican and Surgeon Phone Hospital 931 Town Office 891 REEHER & LUEBKE New And Used Goods Bargains in Furniture & Stoves 11 First Ave. North Forest Grove, Oregon RESTAURANTS DAD’S SANDWICH SHOP DR. J. A. HUGHES Phytician and Surgeon Office Phone 663 Res. Phone 664 Eyes Tested Vernonia, Oregon Glasses Fitted DR. C. O. ANDERSON Eye Delicious Chile and Sand wiches—Also Roasts and Short Orders Spelialist—Optometrist 1st Monday in Each Month. At Kullander’s Jewelry Store TERMINAL CAFE The Right Place to Eat Excellent Cooking hqtfi s HOTEL GORDON Mary Kato Newly Furr.'shed Rooms Hot and Cold Water Next to Post Office Very Reasonable Rates Hotel Hy-Van STEAM HEAT Chop Suey Restaurant You’ll enjoy a bowl of delicious Chop Suey after the show. The best for those who appreciate the best. TRANSFER — TRUCK PVlTIMi F U MteEATIMi k AT HOME CURLY’S TRANSFER Phone Business 221 Residence 653 j Local and Long Dis tance Hauling COMPLETE« CASON TRANSFER Local & long distance HAULING Phone 923 Office in Workingmen’s Store hotel M c D onald MORTUARIES BROWN MORTUARY Phone 593 ----------- MONEY TO IOAN Money to Loan On improved real estate; long time and reasonable terms. See Attorney John L. Storla, St. Helens Oregon. WS CAN GTV1 TOU what you want IN PR1NTTNO whan you want ft!
