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OernoHpr/Eagk VOLUME IX. City Budget Limitation is Voted Down Defeat Attributed to Fail ure to Understand Issues R.D.F. Permission to budget an in crease of more than six per cent above the base levy allowed the city was refused by a vote of 80 to 73 in the special election in the city hall Friday. ? VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931. FINDS CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT IN CITY IN FIVE YEARS TIME I OLD ROMAN Election Is Called For Henry Jackson of Astoria is making a two weeks' visit at the home of Ed Salomonsen, his step son. Mr. Jackson who arrived here just after Thanksgiving, had not been in Vernonia for five or six years and was very agreeably surprised with the improvement December 28 Designated of the town. He is enthusiastic As New Date for in his praise of the new Wash ington school and is very pleased Voting with the street improvements, since he vividly recalls having In view of the seriousness of to wade about our streets ankle deep in mud on his former visit. the city budget situation, the city council at a special meeting Friday night called an election for December 28. Two Young Men “We are asking for less money than we had last year,” states Held Up on Road ¡Mayor J. E. Tapp. “We plan to save money in the budget as Floyd Johnson and Archie Ad-' prepared, and do not expect to City Budget DAYS TO BE DEPICTED AT SUNDAY SCHOOL A special attraction at the Christian church Sunday school December 6 will be a living scene depicting an inner Roman prison, showing the glorious days of old pagan Rome, according to F. Claude Stephens, minister. The main thought will be con tinued in the morning theme for the hour of worship, Mr. Steph ens states. Directors Hold Joint Session J. E. Kerr is Chosen As C. C. President Chamber Discusses Valley Development, City Budget The board of directors of the Vernonia chamber of commerce have elected J. E. Kerr presi dent to fill the unexpired term of Geo. W. Ford, according to announcement made at the meet ing of the chamber Wednesday noon. A. L. Kullander was chosen vice-president, succeeding Carl Davidson. ' o NUMBER 71 SEES GEORGE FORD, CHET ALEXANDER AND JOSEPH SCOTT Cuts Made In K. A McNeill, who was here over the week end, reports see ing George Ford, Chet Alexan der and Joseph Scott in Klam ath Falls upon his visit there last week as a commercial traveler. Mr. Ford, according to Mr. McNeill, is engaged in developing a central heating plant which Road Funds, Salaries, Of already is doing big business, and Mr. Alexander is engineer for fice Allowances him. Mr. Scott is considering lo Reduced cating in the city. Mr. McNeill encountered con siderable snow between Klamath Heavy reductions in many Falls and Bend, and at one point , items and a marked increase in skidded off the highway. The I warant indebtedness which had rest of the trip he was not both to be provided for by an addition ered with snow, but the weather al tax levy characterized the was very cold. 'county budget as drawn up from Mr. McNeill left again Tues-, Monday to Friday of last week day morning. by the budget committee and the county court. The hearing on the budget has been set for De School Budget cember 26 at 10 a. m. in St. Helens. 1932 Budget For County The board of directors of the Columbia county chamber of commerce met with the directors of the St. Helens chamber of Proposition Misunderstood One of the factors in the de ams were held up on the high-luse “11 the amount asked for.” commerce in St. Helens Monday Round Table Held evening, November 30. Irving feat was the misunderstanding on way about one mile south of I Lower Levy Asked The meeting was in the nature the part of many voters who town at 10 o’clock Wednesday! A comparative statement is Rau, president of the St. Helens of a round table discussion, each were under the impression, they night. Johnson was relieved of'being prepared showing the sub- chamber of commerce, told the member, as far as time permitted, admitted afterwards, that the bud about $19.00 and Adams of about stantial decrease in this year’s county organization directors of contributing a constructive sug Meeting Dec. 11 Officos Retained the action his group had taken in get calls for an increase in taxa $23.00. The offices of county agent, budget as compared with several gestion as to what service the turning over half the membership tion. They had not been suffi While bound south they noticed' preceeding years, and will be re- A meeting to consider the bud- county nurse, home demonstra- dues of the St. Helens organiza organization should aim to per ciently informed that increase of a car ahead of them that appear-'leased at an early date, form. “ The time to be most ac get for school district 47 for tion agent and county roadmast tion to the county group, in re $4,756.57 asked for is not above ed to be having trouble and af-| Many Fail to Vote tive is when things are the most 1932-33 will be held at the er were retained, the allowances last year’s tax, but above the ter passing it stopped to see ifl The vote at Friday’s election turn for which routine duties for difficult,” President Kerr declar Washington grade school Friday, for each, however, being cut. $1,758.43 allowed the city with they could be of assistance. As despite the spirited contest, was the St. Helens chamber of com- ed. Largest reduction of all was that December 11. Bar- merce will be taken over by out recourse to election. The fact they approached in the glare of comparatively light—153 out of| of the county agent, from $2000 Albert Childs mentioned the year is The school district this ______ , ____ __ r _ of the ney Garrett, secretary that there has been no election the lights, a man commanded, 436 registered voters. in 1931 to $1500 in 1932, 25 per need for extension of trade into position in a favorable financial ' Columbia county chamber of com- in several years led some to sup “That’s far enough now. Stick Camp Eight and other localities 1 One reason ascribed for thefmerce R was further pointed out because of economies in admini- cent. The county nurse’s allow pose that a more than six per them up.” failure of some to vote is the [that the county organization now served by competitors. stration during the current school ance was cut 10 per cent and the cent increase has been foisted H. E. McGraw spoke of the year, when the teaching staff home demonstrator’s $300 with Johnson, considering the mat-' impression that only taxpayers would not be expected to take upon them this year when, of ter a joke, kept his hands in his (as in school elections) can vote an active interest in any particu-j ®daPt“bilit< ,of Nehalem valley | was cut down, and salaries lower- the recommendation to the county course, no increase could be tol court that the office be physically pockets until a second and gruf-, upon budgets, lar local St. Helens matter that land for raising chickens, the soil ed. The savings thus accomplish erated unless absolutely unavoid fer command was barked out.1 All voters who have registered may have opposition from other being suitable for the growing of ■ ed have been carried over as an merged with that of the county able. Failure to hold the elec Two men relieved them of their prior to 30 days before the el sections of the county. The ques feed, and the climate favoring asset. With the delinquent taxes agent. tions was simply because the Consolidation of the offices of ection, and did not fail to vote in tion of placing the organization greater production and the growth due the district and the cash bal- county assessor accepted budgets cash, but kept in the darkness so that the boys could not get the last regular election, may on record in favor of or in op of sturdier chicks than in many ance on hand it is estimated that county surveyor and roadmaster if the levy showed no increase of vote, declares recorder D. B. position to controversial matters , other poultry centers. there will be enough in the gen were found impracical of accomp more than six per cent over that a good look at them. Ray D. Fisher urged a survey I Reasoner. There are no property eral fund to pay the operating lishment, the committee report As soon as the robbery was was discussed and it was decided of the previous year. Now, how or other taxpaying qualifications. that the policy of the organiza | for the purpose of having defin- j expenses of the schools for the ed, as the surveyor receives no over Johnson and Adams return ever, he has orders from the state salary and his office is support tion should be to not go on rec 1 ite locations for prospective sett- year. Hence no election to ex ed by fees established by statute. tax commission to enforce the let ed to their car, and gave pur lers to consider. ceed the six per cent limitation O. E. S. ELECTS suit to the robbers’ car, a road ord in matters of controversial ter of the law. Only $100.00 was appropriated will be necessary. Budget Discussed ster of a make they did not re WORTHY MATRON nature. This action was taken so The City for the surveyor’s office. Certain Item* Criticized Unlike the levying of a county was ’ rest of the meeting cognize. Their hope was to crowd that the organization will not get Another factor was criticism Road Levies Reduced however, only the or city budget, devoted to a discussion of Mrs. Edith Pearse was elected the name of boing merely a “re- certain items in the budget, which the men into the ditch, but the Road levies for market road city budget situation. j | taxpayers, according to Chairman robbers turned off the Beaver worthy solutin ’ ” body? matron and J. E. Tapp some of the voters felt should Judge D. B. Reasoner pointed A. C. Knauss of the school board, and the general road fund were Returns are coming in from the have been reduced even more than creek road. Adams, unable to worthy patron of Nehalem Chap- out that the amount asked is have the right to pass upon the reduced from 5.3 mills in 1931 make the turn at the rate he ter, No. 153, O. E. S. at the an answers to inquiries. Indications was done. ¡4 not an additional tax but a lower budget at the meeting. Voting is to 3 mills in 1932, effecting a At the budget hearing Novem was going ran beyond the inter nual election of officers held point that land in Columbia coun- one. The levy that would be al-1 restricted to those who pay tax- net saving of about $40,000.00. section, stopped and borrowed a ! ty will be widely sought after as Wednesday evening. Other offi ber 20, when according to law lowed the city if the budget' es in the district, or who own Included in the general road ap- LlltlllBClVCS | V soon UB as peupic people XillU find themselves all who are subject to the tax rifle at the Wilson place in Tre- cers elected were Mrs. Lillian I I BUUIl that ’’ little ‘ (stock in a corporation --------- “— **■ “* propration is an item of $10,000.- able to come to this part of the ! should be voted down would had a right to appear and voice harne. By the time they again Brown, associate matron; Glenn I Any registered 00 for unemployment relief. more than pay for the street pays taxes, took up the pursuit they could Hawkins, associate patron; Mrs. country. their objections to any items in County Fair Disapproved Tuesday evening Secretary lights, he declared. "It is a ques- voters, Mr. Knauss explains, the budget, the discussion cen get no trace of the highwaymen. Alma Bell, secretary; Mrs. Eur- The budget committee recom ___ __ _________ __ _______ „ __ ___ for directors, but tion whether the people wish to can vote Adams was driving his roads ma Hartwick, treasurer; Mrs. Garrett outlined the purposes of tered upon certain legal as live in darkness so that they can- [ the budget elections are restricted mended to the county court that pects and their bearing upon ter for the first time after it Minnie Hughes, conductress; Mrs. the organization before the mem not see each other,” he declared, to taxpayers. no county fair be held this year, was repaired since the accident bers of the Rainier Lions club. Corinne Wall, associate conduct the whole amount involved, and und appropriated only a sufficient economy that has Mayor J. E. Tapp asserted j The same October 29. ress. Much interest in the work that is there was no specific remon sum to take up the existing debt going on was expressed by those that for the past five years the J characterized the administration strance against any of the de city had incurred no new indebt- j this year is carried out in the created by past deficits in fair at the meeting. Membership work tails. As the budget was adopted operation. is going ahead and is still the edness, but was paying off the budget for the next school year, without change the following for salaries High School Fund Hit The moneys set up obligations already incurred. The major problem of the organiza Monday the issue then became The committee refused to ap only possible reduction is in op are on the basis of the present tion. budget or no budget, and some erating expense, he said, and this reduced salaries. The school board propriate the full amount asked voted against the whole of it G. H. Campbell in St. Helens is provided for in the proposed does not contemplate any addi for by union high and high merely because they did not ap tional equipment or facilities in school boards for care of tuition G. H. Campbell, manager of budget. prove of a few portions. Apparently, the Teachers pulled Upon motion, a committee to the school, Mr. Knauss declares. pupils from non-high school dis the local Mac Marr store until Unpaid Taxes a Factor The budget committee consist tricts. The amount asked was Team Pct. themselves together and decided shortly before its consolidation present to the citizens the bud W L A third reason alleged for the Athletics .... ........ 3 0 1.000 to play ball as it’s played in with the Safeway unit last Octob get issue was authorized, and ed of Judge W. A. Harris, C. W. $45,425.19, and the amount bud defeat of the measure was the Legions ..... ........ 1 2 .333 the old country for they came er, has been made manager of a President Kerr appointed W. W. Reithner, Ray D. Fisher, and the geted $38,154.00. fact that the proposed budget Federals ....... 1 2 .333 out on the long end of an 18 to grocery in St. Helens started Wolff, Emil Messing, J. E. Tapp, members of the school board, A. Charity Contributions Refused contained no credit balance from Teachers .... ........ 1 C. Knauss, R. M. Aldrich and A. 2 .333 12 score. Feeling that contributions to there by a former MacMarr super and Ray D. Fisher. economies in force this year, Both of the Mills boys, Kilgore, E. Owen. charitable institutions are individ visor, P. A. Loos. Athletics 9, Legions 0 when several hundred dollars less Dustin and Calef played good ual matters, the committee re L. BROCK STILL (Forfeit) than the amount budgeted for Athletic Club To Meet games for the Profs, each of ports, to be handled by each citi 1931 was spent. Suspicion was Teachers 18, Legions 12 UNABLE TO WORK The Athletic club is to hold zen as he sees fit, the budget these boys getting three runs NEW MANAGER OF Athletics 12, Federáis 11 aroused in the minds of some O. G. -------------- E. CO. HERE apiece. ’Tis also said that Coach a meeting Tuesday evening Dec- | C. L. Brock, O.-A. hill resident, ember 8, at the Camp Fire Cabin. committee made no appropriation that the money had disappeared Tucker put a good exhibition, for this purpose but did provide in At the end of the third week driving in a number of runs with | S. E, Lasher, successor to who was injured November 21, with no accounting made of it. There will be in indoor track According to H. E. McGraw, of play in division A of the in his heavy slugging and batting I Geo. W. Ford as manager of the when he narrowly escaped with I meet for entertainment, and vis- the budget for the county poor city treasurer, the city spent, des door league the Athletics find nigh onto a thousand percent I Washington Gas and Electric his life, is still unable to work. jitors welcome. No admission will and for widows’ pensions. Delinquent Tax Problem He was working in the Clark- be charged. pite the economies, even more themselves perched on top with for the. evening. For the Legion ¡company at Longview and the Despite all the substantial re than the actual receipts from tax a good comfortable margin by Outlaw team, Mills was high I Oregon Gas and Electric com Wilson machine shop hoisting a ductions the committee effected, ation, due to the great propor virtue of a couple of wins during score man with a total of three pany at Vernonia was in town j two-ton casting above his head it found the problem of reducing I Wednesday on business. the past week. The first was a As it fell, when the chain broke, tion of unpaid taxes. The balance $625 Pledged to runs while Davis, Nissen and Jor the total levy extremely diffi saved, therefore, can be of no forfeit from the Legions and the dan followed him closely with ! Previous to his new appoint- the casting grazed his right side, cult because of the large propor advantage to the city until it is other a hotly contested game with two each. The score by innings I ment Mr. Lasher was with the dislocating his thumb and bruis- Community Chest tion of unpaid taxes. Approximate I Puget Sound Light and Power ing his right knee. actually paid in. Until then it is the Federáis which the A’s won follows: ly $60,000.00 in outstanding war merely a book credit, not avail in the last half of the ninth in Legions ............ 210 011 160—12 company at Everett. rants had to be provided for in some- Everett, he says, is in CHRISTIAN W. M.S. able for reducing next year’s ning 12 to 11. In the other game Teachers total of $625.25 has been A 004 171 23x—18 the budget Long- of the week the Teachers de what the same situation as taxes. pledged for the Community Chest Batteries: Mills and Davis; Kil- TO HOLD SERVICE The committee made the fol and Vernonia as regards feated a pickup Legion team 18 view to date, according to Mrs. E. Friend Unaware of Danger gore and Russell Mills. lowing statement regarding the ! the lumber industry, but feels H. Washbum, acting treasurer. Still another factor was that to 12. Athletic* 12, Federal* 11 Sunday, December 6, which will delinquent tax situation: a large number of those who fa In the best and most hotly con-'the depression less because of be celebrated all over the world It is hoped that about $200 Last Wednesday night after it “Tax delinquency is another the the extensive farming territory vor the budget failed to realize was definitely determined that tested game of the season. as Woman’s day in missionary more will be raised. problem causing much study and The committee in charge wish I the strength of the opposition and the Legions were not going to Athletics nosed out the Federals in the county. circles, will be observed in the Mr. Lasher plans to make fre local Christian church at the to emphasize the fact that all I many budget complications in Co did not vote. As is the case fre show up and the game would have in a thrilling ninth inning finish quent trips to Vernonia in or Sunday evening service with the kinds of farm produce, bedding lumbia, as in nearly all othe^ quently in budget elections, they to be forfeited to the Athletics Wednesday night 12 to 11. The Oregon counties. To meet it and der to supervise the company's W. M. S. members in charge. and clothing will be welcome the, assumed there would be little 9 to 0, the Outlaws of the divi Athletics led the parade for most to provide for the minimum oper same as cash, as they will save popular interest and expected an sion B league organized a team of the game staying on the top interests here. Special music and a playlet ating expenses of the county, a easy victory. «rill be features of the service in the Chest from buying these com- substantial increase in the war and played Virgil Drorbaugh's side of the score from the first DANE BRADY WINS Legal Objections Overruled which F. Claude Stephens, minis modities. Athletics a practice game. Dror- to the seventh innings when the indebtedness of the county Dane Brady of Vernonia won ter, will give a short sermon on Recent contributors to the rant The legal objections to the , baugh’s team defeated the pick- Federals forged slightly ahead has been necessary. Forced by six round decision over Happy a Chest include Charlotte Hilts, budget, expressed at the public > up club in a snappy exhibition, with a five run rally to put them the subject of missions. law and custom to budget a Safeway store and market, J. H. hearing, were overruled after winning by a 12 to 4 score. two runs to the good. This mar Chapman of Chehalis at the Le sufficient to pay outstand- sum BANQUET POSTPONED Bush, G. R. Mills, K. A. McNeill, wards by Attorney W. W. Dil gin was short lived, however, for gion smoker in Clatskanie Wed ing warrants, the committee found Tuesday night the Teachers had the A’s came back with two runs nesday night. Knights of Pythias, Vernonia Ser lard, who was retained by the The mother and daughter ban Kenneth Parker of Vernonia quet planned by the W. C. T. U. vice Station, Mac’s Pharmacy, many of its efforts at tax re council for the purpose of advis somewhat the same thing to con in the eighth to tie it up and duction nullified by the necessity tend with as Bert Tisdale and got a draw in the match with ing them as to the right proce for December 8 has been post A. D. Hall, Geo. Bell, E. G. An of providing funds for a largely won the old ball game in the derson, Ray Mills, post office dure. It is not believed that any his gang failed to put in an ap- ninth when Larry Marshall cross Pete Stepp of Castle Rock. poned indefinitely. increased floating debt. Notwith Johnny LaCruse of Vernonia employes, Masonic lodge, Elma L. considerable number voted against ' pearance again. Consequently, a ed the platter with the run that standing the sharp increase in the ! team composed mostly of Outlaws won by a knockout in the second K. A. McNeill returned Thurs White, F. E. Malmsten, Mrs. Eth the budget merely because of spelled defeat for the post office and a few Legions was again round with Ray Tillotson of St. day evening from a trip to Tilla el Ray, Jsck Perry and the Am ¡budget item for retirement of I organized to play the Professors. (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page 6) Helens. mook and Astoria. erican Legion Auxiliary. (Continued on Page 6) Athletics Keep on Top By Good Comfortable Margin c
