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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1931. _____ VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA, I OREGON gJJ-J—■ ■■ ■!■■■■■■■■ ■ Pacific Coaat Representative Arthur W. Stypei, Inc. San Francisco Member of National Editorial Association and Oregon State Editorial Association. $2.00 Per Year in Advance Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922. at the post □nice at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; *egai notices, 10 c 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 THE NEED FOR A CITY ATTORNEY The need for a city attorney was forceably illustrated Friday night, when legal objections to the budget as it stood were voiced by Judge W. A. Harris. For such a situation, necessitating a rearrangement of dates and more or less confusion in bringing the issue to a head, neither the mayor, the council, the recorder nor the budget com mittee, are to blame. They are not attorneys, and cannot be expected to know, as a competent lawyer would, the precise legal requirements in budget making, particularly when the circumstances this year are different from those of any preceding year. The affair of the budget is only one item. Again and again there is urgent need of the advice of an attorney. Failure to have one might involve the city in an expensive law-suit that would cost infinitely more than the amount of salary involved. The city council, in its decision to engage the services of an attorney for the coming year, are acting prudently and for the best interests of the taxpayers. of the Pomona grange, to add in getting through a resolution dir ected to the county court to ask that provision be made for re taining those engaged in exten sion work in Columbia county.” Mr. Young, who presided at the meeting, states that the col Columbia post 42, American lege representatives present drid Legion at St. Helens will be host not know of the local fight and to a conference of district 1 to that one of them brought a state be held some time in January. grange speaker to the meeting, The district includes Columbia that they took no part in the and Clatsop counties, the posts debate and did not even speak represented being St. Helens, Rai until after it was settled and' nier, Clatskanie, Vernonia, As then at his request. He states toria and Seaside. About 80 del that they did not want to take egates are expected. any part in the controversy. ******* It was also stated in the un The topic of discussion at the signed letter that the vote was a St. Helens chamber of commerce tie and then barely passed. Mr. last week was that unemployment Young says the tie vote was on may be caused by failure to pat whether or not the resolution was ronize home industries. to be sent back to the committee ******* for rewording and that only." The A general relief committee with final vote was 32-13 in favor of representation from each lodge the extension work. —Clatskanie Chief. and civic organization is being formed in St. Helens. • * * ******* This same letter was received Permission to exceed the six by the Eagle but was not printed because it was unsigned. It is per cent limitation in the St. Hel characteristic of some of the ens school district passed 6 to 1 baseless attacks made on the last week, with only about 75 votes cast. The budget called for county agent’s office. a substantial reduction. ******* MILLS COMMENDED The Columbia County Medical I appears that Commissioner T. association met in Rainier Nov. B. Mills finally appointed Judd 13, with all the members in at Greenman of Vernonia on the tendance. The guest speaker was budget committee, to take the Dr. L. Howard Smith of Port place of Leo Gallagher of Rain land, who talked on diseases pre ier, who declined to accept the valent among children at this time of year. appointment. «**•*«*' The Review desires to commend Rainier high school lost its Mr. Mills for the selection of Mr. Greenman. It will be remembered first game of the season Nov. 18 that Mr. Greenman was recom when it was defeated by Long mended by the Columbia County view 26 to 6. ******* Taxpayers league as one of the men they desired appointed on Livestock thieves are raiding this committee. Columbia county farmers again, It goes without saying that Mr. according to Sheriff Oscar G. Greenman will be able to take Weed. ******* care of himself as a member of PUNISHING THE DRUNKEN DRIVER the budget committee and that The Yamhill County Tax Con may expect a budget that Will servation and Equalization league The campaign now being waged by Portland news we be satisfactory to a large por passed a resolution Nov. 14 com papers and the Portland police against drunken driving tion of the taxpayers of the mending Charles K. Spaulding of deserves the support of all careful motorists. The drunken county, notwithstanding the num the state highway commission for driver is a serious menace, and he simply should not be erous requests from various and his efforts towards reduction of sundry organizations, each request expenses in the engineering de tolerated. There has been altogether too much laxity in punishing calculated to keep up rather than part. reduce taxes. intoxicated drivers. Lawyers more interested in secur With Mr. Greenman, Clarence State Tax To Be Lower ing fees or winning their cases have interposed technicali Evenson of Clatskanie and Mar ties that have meant delay and inaction. Friends with tin White, together with some aid The Oregon 1932 state tax will some sort of pull have interceded. The public has been the taxpayers may get from some not exceed three mills according apathetic. Perhaps therein lies the chief trouble: few members of the county court, to State Tax Commissioner Earl county expenses may be expected Fisher. Last year’s levy was ap care—very much. to take a tumble. In making proximately six mills. Other re Police, prosecuting attorneys, judges, juries — and this prediction we are assuming duction was effected through le above all, the public, should be aroused and kept aroused that Clarence Evenson is a “chip gislation doing away with the to the grave danger of allowing fuddled drivers at large off the old block,” the son of O. market road tax, waiver of the to wreck, maim and kill whatever and whoever is luckless J. Evenson, a consistent tax re veterans’ state aid tax this year, ductionist, and The Review trusts cuts in appropriations to higher enough to be in their way. that it will not be disappointed educational institutions and vari in the young man. ous savings in conduct of state However, we shall see what we institutions and departments. THANKSGIVING —Clatskanie Chief. shall see. —Rainier Review. What is there to be thankful for, in spite of depres sion? A great deal, right here in the Nehalem valley. For one thing, crops have been excellent, and there is no lack of food, nor any reason why a Columbia county resi dent, however hard-pressed financially, should go hungry. Again, good wood is plentiful and cheap, and no one need suffer the chills of winter. Besides, those who have enough are showing a gener ous disposition to share with those who lack. Economic depression engenders a sympathy that is neglected some times in more prosperous days. Finally, there is the hope of spring, of increasing warmth and light, of greater employment and swelling payrolls. One can be thankful for the hope for the future as well as for the attainments of the past. Correction is Asked Warren Young, master of the county Pomona grange, asks us to correct an impression that was made in one of the county papers last week. Relative to the vote of the county grange at its meeting at St. Helens concerning the in for hospitality fo«ufoods After the completion of the Pan ama canal General Gorgas went to South Africa to fight pneumonia In the gold and diamond mining fields. Due to his efforts, the death rate dropped from 350 per 1,000 to 3 per 1,000, and the death rale from all diseases to 6 per 1,000. Oxford university bestowed upon him the degree of doctor of science. A Fable M ultnomah PHONE 681 Vernonia Trading Co. Agency for McCormick-Deering ------ TRACTORS ------ kj. Fireproof ---- --- OAUIO Large cross-cut, drag □ Anu ant* carpenter saws wn ■ • v gummed, retoothed, jointed, set and filed accurate ly by machine. Every tooth cuts. Better work. PORTLAND SAW SERVICE 327 E. Morriton St. of poRD E conomy City of Detroit purchases 137 new Ford cars Hundreds now in use prove low cost of operation THESE 137 new Ford cars represent one of the largest deliveries ever made to a municipality at one time. 21 radio-equipped Ford scout cars were traded in on this purchase. They had been operated day and night for two years in heavy traffic and all kinds of weather. TTteir individual records ranged from 78,434 miles to 143,723 miles with a grand total of 2,283,097 miles. The operating cost of the 21 cars was 2.284 cents a mile — less than 2 1/3 cents. This cost included all fuel, oil, tires, repairs and every other item except depreciation and insurance. Of 577 Ford cars in Detroit City service, the 300 in the Police Department traveled a total of 6,591,937 miles during the past fiscal year, at an average cost of 2.9 cents a mile. Many claims have been made on operat ing costs, but here in the carefully kept motor car records of the City of Detroit is positive proof of Ford economy. In the paragraphs above, it is seen that 21 Ford scout cars averaged less than 2 1/3 cents a mile and 300 Ford cars in all branches of Detroit police work averaged 2.9 cents a mile! Day and night, twenty-four hours a day, these Ford cars are in operation. Few branches of transportation demand such grueling service. The records show that low fuel and oil consumption is but one of the Ford’s many economies. Ford ma terials, simplicity of design and accuracy in manufacturing provide unusual strength, stamina and freedom from replacements and repairs. The individual car buyer as well as tLj purchasing department of a city or a busi ness cannot afford to ignore the proved economy of the Ford car. FIFTEEN DIFFERENT BODY TYPES »430'»’640 (F. O. B. Detroit, plug freight and delivery. Bumperg and »pare tire extra at low co»t. 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Dairying paid these farmers, on fat prices, or just a cent above an average five per cent on their production costs, which, however, investment in addition to pre included interest, depreciation and vailing wages for the dairyman wages for the family. Irrigated sections of eastern and his family in caring for the cows, during the year between Oregon again led in low cost of April 1, 1930, and April 1, 1931. production, the irrigated pastures The fact that feed prices dropped and cheap alfalfa giving farmers even before the big slump in dairy 1 there a seven cent advantage ov prices, which did not hit hardest er the Willmette valley and five FOR PORTLAND, OREGON NEW LOW RATES. -_1.L______________ J 'B until early in 1931, is responsible cents over the famous coast dairy OREGON DAIRYMEN for the comparatively favorable sections where year around pas GET FAIR RETURNS showing, say those in charge of ture is a great asset. -- j —— ------------------------------------------------------ for service tel . Gorga»' Good Work This fable Is credited to Jona than Swift: "An old miser kept a tame Jackdaw that used to steal pieces of money and hide them in a hole, which, the cat observing, asked, ‘Why would he hoard up those round, shining things that he dorsement of the extension work could make no use of?’ ‘Why,’ said in the county, an unsigned let the Jackdaw, ‘my master has a whole chest full and makes no ter was received by the Chief more use of them than L' ” and evidently by other county pa pers. Reference was made to the let ter editorially by the Rainier Re view, quoting that “Oregon State College sent out its high powered speakers to attend the meeting AMOUS PAGE THREE .1 Among Our Neighbors .. Uernintta ÎEaglr Issued Every Friday . At Your Grocer’s ... or Vernonia Bakery TO MAKE SURE OF GETTING WHAT YOU DESIRE. We have a very attractive line of processed cards, giving the effect of engraving without the prohibitive cost. Your name included without extra charge. 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