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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1931)
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE FOUR Brntmtia Pacific Cout Representative Arthur W. Stypes, Inc. It San Francisco constant inflow of new people if the present population is to be kept at average. One of the jobs of the county chamber is to advertise the county, with the correct appeal to the type of people we want. —St. Helens Sentinel. Taxpayer* Must Work Governor Meier’s dramatic Member of National Editorial leadership is performing a stu Association and Oregon State pendous public service in con Editorial Association. centrating public attention on lo- cal taxes. The success of his 12.00. Per Year in Advance great move for local tax reduc Issued Every Friday tion will depend upon two de Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922. at the post velopments: office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. 1— The amount of hard labor taxpayers are willing to put in Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; to helping manage the affairs legal notices. 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding of each of some 2,700 local tax- insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion, | ing units over which, under 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line. present law, neither the gover nor nor any other state depart ment has any managerial juris RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher diction. 2— Constitutional amendments and laws to create the state con ONCE MORE REGARDING MARSHALS trols recommended by the gover nor in his message. Early adop “There is nothing for two marshals to do,” is an argu tion of these controls will involve ment that was heard considerably ever since the matter a special session of the legisla ture, a special election, possibly of laying off one of them was discussed. a constitutional convention. Risks Indeed, it must be admitted that the town got along attend attempts to make rapid very nicely for more than a month with only one man on changes in form of government, the job. Nobody disturbed the peace at unseasonable hours, especially with public opinion emotional as it now is under nobody was held up on the streets, no safe-cracker invaded stress of depression and tax bur our precincts with a supply of “soup.” Business was dull den. Yet, as the governor so apt in the law-breaking line, and one marshal attended to all ly said, if we do not “strike while the iron is of it. dé opportunity may Sunday night, however, there was a demonstration of lays. the need for more adequate police protection, as there was bound to be sooner or later. Noise Not Enough Resolutions demanding that lo- cal taxes be reduced 20 per cent One marshal, however efficient, cannot serve 24 hours by each of the 2,700 taxing units a day. Theoretically, under the present arrangement, he is will have some effect. Some supposed to rest during the day and be on duty at night. thing like the blowing of horns In practice this does not work out, for so many day-time in the winning of battles. The real fighting, however, must be demands are made upon him that in reality we have only done in each of the 2,700 dis a day marshal who puts in extra hours evenings. Crooks tricts by taxpayers willing to of the variety of those who helped themselves to S. P. sacrifice their time and devote and S. cash wait till all good citizens, including the day their energies to detail work. If taxpayers content themselves with marshal, are in bed. applauding, cheering, passing re- Plenty for two marshals to do? Yes, if nothing else ' solutions, they are likely to get to act as a warning that somebody is on the job here all little real relief. Great hopes aroused by the governor’s lead the time, and Vernonia is a good place for burglars and ership may be sadly disappointed stick-up artists to stay away from. unless those who cheer are will ing to engage in trench warfare, where weariness is unrelieved by CONCERNING WAR band music and fortitude is put to the test. Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, no pacifist but a If calling for 20 per cent off soldier of long experience, declared Saturday at a disarma will bring a 2 per cent off; the 2 per cent will be welcomed. ment meeting in London, “War hurts everybody, benefits More than 2 per cent can be only the profiteers, and settles nothing.” shaved off if taxpayers will real- Among Our Neighbors . Ruzek figures. A mixture of made under the direction of the RAIN SPOILED HAY NOT TOTAL LOSS, SAYS O.S.C. oats and vetch will run slightly experiment station, pears of ex , less, but is equal to red clover cellent quality are now available Although practically all of the hay in nitrogen, phosphorus and over a comparatively long season hay cut in Oregon previously to potassium. In some sections of in both local and eastern mrkets, the recent rains is now unfit for!the state, orchardists are using available information for cooking ¡livestock feed, it is not neces- alfalfa hay and discing it in their I pears, particularly baking them, Three Columbia county child isarily a total loss, says C. V.'orchard soils for its organic mat- has been both meager and contra dictory, To give the homemaker ren were killed accidentally last ' Ruzek, associate soil scientist of i ter and fertilizer value. reliable directions for obtaining week. Arnold Kynsi, 12, and his the Oregon Experiment station.! the best product with the great sister Verna, 10, children of Mr. It can be turned to good ac OREGON PEARS DELICIOUS BAKED SAYS COLLEGE est ease Miss Kolshorn has made and Mrs. John A. Kynsi of Clats count for “food” for the soil. If this partially rotted hay is a careful investigation to deter kanie, were drowned in Westport slough July 6 while in swim*! stacked or composted and then’ Oregon grown pears of either mine factors influencing color, ming, and Davis Svoboda, 6, son| applied to the soil previous to the Bose, D’Anjou or Comice flavor and texture of baked pears. of Mr. and Mrs. John Svoboda of the next seeding, more organic (varieties can be baked so as to In addition to furnishing the the Florence Auto park, was matter will go back into the soil obtain a delicious, attractive food minerals, vitamins and bulk which struck by an automobile July 8. than if the hay had been saved that may be used as a breakfast constitute primary value of most and fed to livestock, Ruzek says, fruit, a salad, a meat accompani- fruits in the diet, pears have been t + t Petitions are being circulated In addition to the organic mat- ment or a dessert, according to a found to compare favorably with in West St. Helens protesting ter, hay and other bulky resi- new Oregon Experiment station such fruits as apples, grapes, lem- against the proposed discontin- dues contain all of the essential bulletin 283, “Baking of Pears,” ons and oranges in alkalinity, plant nutrients which are ordi- just published by Miss Agnes which aids in maintaining a de- uance of Houlton post office. narily replaced in the soils by the Kolshorn, assistant professor of sirable acid base relation in the t + t I foods and nutrition. diet. The home of Van Prichard, use of commercial fertilizer. The commercial fertilizer value, Although as a result of ex- janitor of the Rainier high school, To buy, sell or trade, use was completely destroyed by fire of a ton of alfalfa hay, for in- tensive studies on the production July 5. Nothing was saved from stance, is about $8.25 per ton, and handling of Oregon pears Eagle classified ads. the house. t t t The Longview Rolleo associa tion had to institute a suit against Harold Hooper, Rolleo champion log roller in 1930, to recover the belt which each cham pion holds for the succeeding year, so that it could be present ed to Bob Craig, Kelso, who won in the 1931 trials. MOTHER’S BREAD Just like Mother used to bake—and doesn’t any more . . . For there are too many other things better worth doing t + t The Clatskanie city council has granted the West Coast Tele phone company a franchise for 25 years. The right is reserved for the people to vote the fran chise null and void. When one can step into a store and get such fine bread at such slight cost. Old Plank* to be Used With one picture exposed every seven minutes for six days and nights, a new Department of Ag riculture motion picture shows a speeded-up version of how spring vetch seeds sprout. * * * ly do their share of work. The resolutions and the excitement are necessary, but of themselves accomplish little without being backed up by real work, By work we mean work. —Oregon Voter. 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. CROQUIGNOLE PERMANENT $5 Annette Beauty Shoppe Telephone 431 ~~"Â p R FP~~TÌ77 p ~~~~ The selection of E. E. Wist as president of the newly organized county chamber of commerce is an auspicious beginning for the enterprise. Mr. Wist has achieved con spicuous success in developing a large-scale poultry industry in his community, Scappoose, and his energy and talents applied to all of Columbia county will be of inestimable benefit. What Other Editors Think dens. Columbia county has in the past (and will probably continue to do so in the distant future / turned its attentions and yearn ings toward industrial plants. OVER Chiropractor CLINE FURNITURE STORE Money to Loan On improved real estate; long time and reasonable terms. See Attorney John L. Storla, St. Helens Oregon. RESTAURANTS Marvin R. Eby, M. D. DAD’S SANDWICH SHOP Phone Hospital 931 Town Office 891 Delicious Chile and Sand wiches—Also Roasts and Short Orders CARD ROOM DR. J. A. HUGHES CURLY’S TRANSFER PASTIME Physician and Surgeon Phone Business 221 Residence 653 CARDS AND LIGHT LUNCHES Lloyd Baker, Prop. CONTRACTONS General Contractor Oregon-American Lumber Co. DR. R. A. OLSON Physican and Surgeon w/ Ly JOHN A. MILLER lumber mills, paper mills, and wood products generally. More recently, canning and preserving plants have found our sites de sirable, and fish canneries have fitted into our industrial land scape nicely. All these, and other industries will hear of us through the con County Chamber of Commerce certed county advertising pos sible by means of a county cham Right in line with the general ber. But, even more important modern trend toward group or from the standpoint of general ganization of a Columbia County county-wide prosperity— people Chamber of Commerce whose pri who have no wish to start mills mary object seems to be to put or even work in them will hear of Columbia county “on the map” Columbia county, its cut-oiver both at home and abroad—in the lands, its dyke-lands, its climate, county itself, in the state and in its rainfall, its scenery, its gen the whole United States. eral desirability as a home site, The county organization will and that will bring in the small not come amiss here. We have I farmers, the great “back-bone” thousands of acres of land to of the nation. farm—in a climate that is most Columbia county, and Oregon excellently suited to crops of the in general, from the standpoint most desirable varieties, It is of the statistician, must have a true that our land will take ef- fort to prepare, and that, too, I will prove a benefit to the coun- THE FEATHERHEADS ty. Settlers will not come in and take a thousand acres at a time and sow it to wheat, thus controlling large areas with a scant population. On the con trary one man has his work be fore him when he starts clear ing a small acreage, and the rich soil he has for planting as a result of his labors, plus the cli matic conditions, opens before him a wide range of profitable possibilities. Then there are the acres of “overflow” lands which are yet to be made paying farms and gar MONEY Tn in AN DOCTORS TELEPHONE— Office 672 Res. 673 BARBER shop Haircutting for Men Women and Children Expert Work Guaranteed B The sooner the world comes to realize the truth of the field marshal’s assertion, the less will be the danger of a catastrophe even more destructive and disastrous than the last. « VERNONIA BAKERY Planks taken from the Jewell- Birkenfeld road, now being rock ed by Clatsop county, will be placed on the Northrup creek road, according to the court which estimates that by using this plan, a $5,000 rocking job can be put off for a number of years. —Clatskanie Chief. Mason Work, Building C. BRUCE Wholesale and Retail LUMBER TRANSFER — TRUCK Office Phone 663 Res. Phone 664 Eyes Tested Vernonia, Oregon Glasses Fitted DR. C. O. ANDERSON Eye Spelialist—Optometrist 1st Monday in Each Month. At Kullander’s Jewelry Store HOTELS Hotel Hy-Van STEAM HEAT The best for those who appreciate the best. General Plumbing rtATIMj WERE iTINC ¿¿MteEATIM I AT HCME hotel M c D onald 4 Vernonia MORTUARIES M. D. COLE COMPLETE« ^«FUNERALS Dentist Vernonia, Oregon BROWN MORTUARY Phon« 593 DENTISTS CASON TRANSFER Local & long distance HAULING Phone 923 Office in Workingmen’s Store REEHER & LUEBKE New And Used Good* Bargains in Furniture & Stove* Vernonia, Oregon BAFFORD BROS Local and Long Dis tance Hauling 11 First Ave. North i Forest Grove, Oregon Money spent here for printing buys Quality Work «< VERNONIA EAGLE Jop Printing Dept. Quick-Change Artists