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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1931)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2S, 1&31. ■■ _____ T— VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE FOUR Hmmnia Eagle Pacific Coast Representativa Arthur W. Stypa«, Inc. San Francisco Member of National Editorial Association and Oregon State Editorial Association. Issued Every Friday the athletes supposedly working for wages when the only long run. —Register, Storm work is the drawing of wages, will go merrily on listening Lake, Iowa. to the cheers of their admirers. Mighty is the outcry NO CAUSE FOR WORRY against professionalism—when it finds some luckless play By a strange trick of fate, er to be the goat. the Wilson river project, which' It’s Not too Early... was originally attached as a sort Action of the city council Monday night in authorizing of tail to the Wolf creek short the hiring of a street sweeper is a wise measure. It gives cut proposal, is now on the high way map and we find that our, somebody a part-time employment that is better than none own route is the tail of the Wil-| at all, and it tidies up the down town streets that were look son river kite. I ing somewhat tacky, at a cost to the city that is trifling. We believe, however, that the! Clatsop beaches have nothing to: Vernonia is certainly glad to see Engineer H. N. fear from this situation. The! Choose yours from our large stock of samples of highway engineers have proposed I Hackett and his crew on the job. a “Y” system, with two short cuts to the coast. It was obvious public interest.” No newspaper that the Wilson river road was is permitted to go through the the logical southern route, while mails if it contains either news there are two alternatives for the MANY FINE CARDS AT 5 CENTS EACH or advertisements pertaining to northern course. The commission, ■ any of the above. we believe, was sincere when it Recently the attorney general declared that a northern route| of Iowa has issued orders to all would be surveyed and chosen as' county attorneys, that merchants soon as added information was in any town, for instance, dare available. We understand that not give away prizes such as the additional surveys of the two SUGGESTS NEW RECALL automobiles to the persons hold proposals, the Wolf creek and the LAWS ing what is known as “the lucky Lester Sheeley, attorney of number.” And it is just too bad Scappoose-Vernonia routes, have Vernonia and hustling secretary for any newspaper that should been ordered. As a matter of fact, the com AT LOWER COST THAN EVER BEFORE of the Vernonia chamber of com attempt to boost such a gift giv mission by placing the Wilson merce, has an idea in his crani ing enterprise through its col 12 Cards Imprinted $1.00 river route on the highway map, um as to a new recall law, and umns. 25 Cards Imprinted 1.25 has put itself in a position where that’s not just all, for Mr. Sheel But does Uncle Sam take simi a second highway must necessari-1 50 Cards Imprinted 1.75 ey says he will put that law through the legislature at its lar steps to put a quietus to lot ly be built. If there is to be but next session. His bill would pro tery advertising via the radio? one highway, it should have as vide that any person or persons Verily, he does not! Any radio its terminus a point mid-way be tween the beach areas, somewhere who originate or circulate a re listener-in knows that local lot call petition would be compelled teries are being advertised over in a range between Hamlet Junc COMMERCIAL PRINTING DEPT. to post with the county treasur the air in increasing quantity. tion and Garibaldi. There is no er or state treasurer, a bond Not only that but fake mediums, possible justification for the nam sufficient to cover the cost of numberologists, fortune tellers, ing of the Wilson river route as clairvoyants and grafters are a single short-cut to the beaches. the election and if such election working overtime, through broad It can only be justified by the failed to carry, the bond would casting stations on programs idea of building two roads, one to be forfeited. On the other hand, “ if the election carried, the bonds sponsored” by this or that con the southern and one to the nor cern. No reputable newspaper thern resorts. men would be relieved of the This is the project that the obligation and the state or coun would be permitted to carry fake advertisements of this sort even highway department has recom ty pay the expense of the elec mended and we believe that the Order of Eastern Star tion. Under such bill there if it should desire to do so. A. F. & A. M. Manifestly, there is an injustice commission intends to carry it Nehalom Chapter 153, O. E. S. would be no recalls, of course. Vernonia Lodge No. 184 out. This belief is confirmed by Regular commu He expressed another idea on here. A bill which was introduced A. F. & A. M. meets every' “ grapevine ” report we have nication first in congress recently reads as fol at Masonic Temple, recall matters that was more sen and third Wed heard, and we are not at all dis- lows: Stated Communication sible. Recall petitions instead nesdays of «ach heartened by the results of the First Thursday of each Be it enacted by the Senate month, at Ma of being circulated should be left last highway meeting. month. Special called sonic Temple. at the office of the county clerk and House of Representatives of All visiting sis meetmgs on all other Thurs- —Seaside Signal. and other registrars and if any the United States of America in ters and broth day nights 7:30 p.m. Visitors one wished to sign them they Congress assembled, That the last ers welcome. most cordially welcome. RECALLERS REBUKED Mrs. Leona McGraw, W. M. sentence of Section 29 of the could go to these places to do so. E. G. Anderson, W. M. Recall elections, founded on Mrs. Alma Bell, Secretary. He might introduce or have in Radio Act of 1927, as amended, W. E. Bell, Secretary. spite and personal grievances, sel- troduced a bill along these lines. is amended to read as follows: Mountain Heart dom succeed, as witness the el- —St. Helens Mist. “No person within the jurisdic I. O. O. F. tion of the United States shall, ection held in Columbia county Rebekah Lodge No. 243 Recall election returns show by means of radio communication, last week in which effort was be No. 243, I.O.O.F., meets every second and fourth Thursdays in that about one third of the peti (a) utter any obscene, indecent or ing made to recall Commissioner I. O. O. F. hall, Vernonia. Visit tion signers did not vote or if profane language, or (b) an J. N. Miller. In spite of the ors always welcome. I.O.O.F.— Vernonia Lodge Nd. they did they exercised a wo nounce, advertise, or conduct a psychology of the times, which Margaret Lines, Noble Grand. | 246 meets every Tuesday night more or less puts every public at 8 o’clock, in I.O.O.F. hall. Vis man’s privilege, changed their lottery, gift enterprise, or similar Bessie Herrin, Secretary. itors always welcome. minds and voted the other way. scheme, offering prizes dependent official on the spot, the recall Chas. Holt, Noble Grand. Pythian Sister« —St. Helens Mist. in whole or in part upon lot or sponsors were defeated by a two | G. G. Holt, Vice-Grand. I Vernonia Temple 61 meets chance or announce or advertise to one vote. G. M. Holt, Secretary. We are not acquainted with every 2nd and 4th Wednesdays in LOTTERY BROADCASTING any list of prizes drawn or (A worth while editorial sel awarded by means of any lottery, the merits of the controversy 1 W.O.W. hall. waxed bitterly in the neigh-! Isabel Culbertson, M. E. C. ected by the National Editorial, gift enterprise, o r similar which American Legion boring county but we understand C ara Kerns, M. or R. & C. association.) scheme.” Vernonia Po.t a discharged county employee and Newspapers are on the whole in KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS This is newspaper shop talk but 119, American HARDING LODGE 11« it might be of general interest favor of the passage of that act. his friends initiated the movement! Legion. Meets against Miller. He was accused Meets every Monday anyway. It’s all about a discus Or, they desire permission to 2nd and 4th night in the W.O.W. among other things of overlook sion that is taking space in the carry the same brand of adver hall. Visiting broth Tuesdays each newspaper trade publications rel tisements through their columns ing the desires of his constituents ers welcome. month, 8. p. m. in making appointments. that now goes over the air. ative to the lottery laws. M. D. Cole, C. C. J. E. Kerr, Com- Newspaper men cannot see It is well known to postmas (Continued on Page 5) H. Culbertson, K.R.S. mander; Eugene Shipman, Adj. ters, newspaper men and most why, if Uncle Sam permits this advertisers that the postal laws I sort of advertising to clutter up are exceedingly strict in forbid air currents, he cannot permit ding publication of news or ad the merchants of their own town vertisements pertaining to raffles, to compete with these big con games of chance, guessing con cerns through guessing contests, For your convenience the following business and professional people are listed on tests or any other scheme that raffles or similar gift enterprises. this page alphabetically. These men and women are known in Vernonia as reliable business We believe the public sees the Uncle Sam has always regarded and professional people. as falling under the general head injustice of the present situation ing of lotteries. Such schemes both to the newspapers of the RARRFR «HOPS DOCTORS are declared by the post office country and to the local business department as “inimical to the houses who are the goats in the To Order Your Christmas Cards $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 A LOP-SIDED SAW For years municipalities and school districts in Colum bia county—and perhaps elsewhere in the state for aught this newspaper knows—have been drawing up their bud gets and adopting them without special elections, secure in the belief that if the amount of tax asked for is not more than six per cent in excess of the levy for the pre vious year, authority of the voters is not necessary. Somebody in the state tax department probing around in the records finds that these cities and school districts in the county have been all wrong—that the original “base” stipulated in the law has been disregarded, and even, as sometimes happens, a tax lower than that of the previous year must be voted upon just as if it were five times as great. Authority to exceed the six per cent limitation must be granted by ballot. As to Vernonia, the reason is easy to understand. When the law imposing the limitation went into effect, Vernonia was a little village. A small budget was suf ficient. When the boom came, there was a tremendous leap in expenditures. Much more than the six per cent increase had to go into effect, and no doubt it was duly authorized. The original base could not be disregarded however. An increase in excess of six per cent, although approved by the voters, can not form a new base. On the other hand, a tax levy reduced temporarily be low the base because the usual amount is not needed in some particular year creates a new low base. The rule is poor that does not work both ways. The result of this lop-sided law is that cities and school districts that have grown rapidly are compelled year after year to submit to a vote the question of ex ceeding the limitation, irrespective of how careful and economical the budget committee has been. The expense of the election is needless, and there is always danger that enough voters will misunderstand the situation to refuse authority to exceed the limitation. According to Assessor Watkins that very thing was done in a school district in the county this year, and it is compelled to restrict itself to a base of $230.00. The city of Vernonia’s base this year is $1,865.13. Imagine trying to run the municipal government on that! According to Judge Reasoner’s computation, it will take 24 years, allowing six per cent increase each year, for Vernonia to catch up with the base. If Vernonia grows faster than that—as indeed it undoubtedly will grow—the base can never be overtaken. Of course law is law, and must be obeyed. To scold against it, or to blame the county assessor, who had noth ing whatever to do with the making of it, would be futile. Sentiment, however, that will be so strong at the next ses sion of the legislature as to demand in no uncertain terms a revision is perfectly in order. Vernonia, and other cities like it, should not have to wait 24 years to catch up with a base that they may never be able to catch even then. Attractive Cards, Priced Low What Other Editors ... Think • • • • YOUR NAME IMPRINTED Vernonia E^gle Professional and Business Directory ■ r»/ J L y barber shop Haircutting for Men Women and Children Expert Work Guaranteed The Pacific Coast conference, having disqualified Joe Lillard of the University of Oregon football team for play ing semi-pro baseball under an assumed name a couple of seasons ago, doubtless feels very self-righteous. In the meantime the rest of the semi-pros in all the colleges, and CARDS AND LIGHT LUNCHES Lloyd Baker, Prop. ----------- £QNT" 21st Annual Exposition For the twenty-fir»t consecutive year Pacific International Livestock Exposition will be held in Portland, October 24-31. Good foods were never PRICED LOWER In line with other commodities, our food prices are lower, but not our quality. We preserve the same high standards of excellence as always. TELEPHONE 721--------WE DELIVER Nehalem Market & Grocery (Incorporated) Physican and Surgeon Phone Hospital 931 Town Office 891 Chop Suey Restaurant DR. J. A. HUGHES OPEN FRIDAY, SAT URDAY AND SUNDAY ---------------- CARD ROOM PASTIME With its 11 acres of exhibition space under one roof—mil lions of dollars worth pure-bred Beef and Dairy Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Hogs, Goats,* Poultry and Rabbits competing for $100,000 in Premiums—exhibits of agricultural and in dustrial products—lectures by experts—and demonstrations by 4-H Club members, this event affords every farmer, and every prospective farmer, an opportunity to gain knowledge and information comparable with that obtainable at farm colleges throughout the nation. Realizing the importance, today, of a thorough knowledge of the factors contributing to successful and profitable farm management the Bank of Vernonia recommends attendance at this year's Pacific International, October 24-31. BANK of VERNONIA JOHN A. MILLER General Contractor Mason Work, Building Mary Kato Marvin R. Eby, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 663 íes. Phone 664 Vernonia, Oregon 729 THIRD STREET _____________ HOTFIS_____________ STATE LAUNDRY Co. Hotel Hy-Van STEAM HEAT Agency at hotel The best for those who appreciate the best. M c D onald Laundry and Dry Cleaning. Pick-ups Tues., Deliveries Fri. TRANSFER — TRUCK CURLY’S TRANSFER BAFFORD BROS. General Plumbing F U MteEATINC k Al* HOME hotel Vernonia J M c D onald Phone Business 221 Residence 653 Local and Long Dis tance Hauling MONEY TO LOAN C. BRUCE Wholesale and Retail Money to Loan Vernonia, Oregon On improved real estate; long tiiie and reasonable terms. See Attorney John L. Storla, St. Helens Oregon. DENTISTS RESTAURANTS M. D. COLE Terminal Cafe LUMBER Dentist Vernonia, Oregon CASON TRANSFER Local & long distance HAULING Phone 923 Office in Workingmen’s Store THE RIGHT PLACE TO EAT H. A. SIMMONS. Proprietor For real bargains—watch the classified columns of the Eagle. Eagle classifieds will pay you
