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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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