FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1931. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON NO ALARM FELT OF SMALL POX Bentonia Pacific Coast Representative Arthur W. Stypes, Inc. San Francisco Member of National Editorial Association and Oregon State Editorial Association. Issued Every Friday $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 Four cases of small pox, report­ ed this week in the St. Helens and Columbia City community, caused a rush of vaccinations among school children and grown­ ups. At Columbia City every pupil in the school except two were vaccinated and there many vaccinations at John Gumm and McBride schools her*. The cases reported are a mild form of small pox. The prompt health measures left little cause for alarm that an epidemic would be caused. —St. Helens Mist. Among Our Neighbors • Paul Welter was acquitted Dec. 10 in the circuit court at THE COUNTY BUDGET St. Helens of the charge of grow­ ing marihuana. ******* Whether or not any opposition to the county budget Glen Webster, state policema« will be developed at the hearing in St. Helens December . from the Portland district head- 26 is not known at this writing. , As regards ____ the __ urge _________ for quarters, has been transferred to further reduction there will probably be no concerted1 the st- Helens territory to sue- action of any consequence, in view of the sane attitude (ceed D- *McCoy. 4 of A. E. Veatch, president of the county taxpayers’ league,! c Peter - Person died at his home who has stated editorially m his newspaper, the Rainier '¡ ... n st. Helens __ .. _____ Dec. 6. _. He was Review, that the showing of economy “is remarkable and a resident of Columbia county is far beyond the expectation or anticipation of any of 41 years. the members of the county tax league.” Presumably any The Rainier city council has protests against the retention of the county agent, the made an arrangement with the county nurse and other officers under fire will be feeble. community chest of that city County Budget Shows Decrease (Rainier Review) The Review promised its read­ ers a comparative statement of the county budget of last year and this. This statement is inter­ esting in the extreme. Space for­ bids a comparison item for item. In the bond redemption item last year there was an item of $10,- 000 for sinking fund, while this year this item is eliminated. The total estimate under Gen­ eral County Fund last year was $337,584.54 while this year this item was cut to $265,612.05, a reduction of $71,973.49. Last year the item under Gen­ eral Road Fund amounted to $95,870.62, while this year this item totalled $73,445.87, showing a cut of $22,424.75. Included in the item this year was $10,000 for unemployment relief work. The various road districts prac­ tically all show a reduction in the amount to be raised by taxa- tion. The high school tuition tax last year, affecting all property out- side high schools, amounted to $45,000.00, and this year this item is reduced to $38,154.00. The sum total of all taxes lev­ ied last year was $430,730.86, while this year the total is $302,- 097.23, a reduction of $128,633.- 63. This item includes district whereby able bodied men are to do some of the numerous jobs which the city needs to have done in exchange for assistance given Elmer Bergerson and C. G. their families. Jensen motored to Portland Sat­ ******* urday on business. Rainier has reduced the wage Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hughes , scale for common labor on city and daughter have been visiting Certainly the work of the budget committee and the'work from $3-00 and $3.50 to at the home of C. C. Bergerson yielding de-,*2’50 a daf, , , , . county court was thorough. Instead of „ ____ „ to __ for several days. They left for mands for a few superficial reductions that might have' Charter revision having for its their home in Washington Sun­ answered politically without helping the taxpayers at all J purpose the inclusion of a pro­ day morning. they studied the whole budget carefully and reduced vision for a city manager is be­ Mr. and Mrs. Antone Smejkal wherever reduction was possible. If they erred at all it ing considered in Forest Grove. and Mrs. G. H. Ohler and daugh- ******* ters motored to Portland Satur- was in lowering some items too much, rather than in Employment of a crew on the day to visit with George Ohler overlooking any that might reasonably have been reduced. east end of the Wilson river road and do some Christmas shopping. The Kist school children are within four weeks time is fire- casted in a report given by Ray practicing for their Christmas A THOUGHTFUL DEED A. Klein, state highway engi­ program which will be given De­ neer, to J. A. Thornburgh, mem­ cember 23, at 7:30 p. m. The Vernonia post of the American Legion has within ber of the Washington county em­ Comparison of the lists showing the past week performed a service that does not call for ergency employment committee, registration of motor vehicles in big black headlines; it necessitated no great sacrifice of according to the Forest Grove the state department for the cur­ News-Times of Dec. 10. rent year and those of 1927 money or of time, and a committee of three or so was able shows a heavy mortality in ob­ solete makes of automobiles, evi­ to handle the entire job. Yet it was, nevertheless, a dently due to the much heavier thoughtful deed—the erection of Christmas trees along type of older cars which re­ quire larger license fees and to Bridge street. the hardships encountered in ob­ taining parts for repairs. What is everybody’s business is often nobody’s busi­ Lewis Stanton has returned ness, and it is easy to let a little thing like the distribution home from San Francisco to You are missing a most valu­ of Christmas trees go on the assumption that somebody spend the holidays with his par- able part of the Eagle if you do else will look after it. Had the Legion done nothing about ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Stanton. not use the classified section. it nobody could have blamed them any more than they Harold Purney spent the week blame numerous other civic organizations which have their end at the home of his grand­ Mrs. McDaniels. own immediate interests and are not particularly concern­ mother, Mrs. Shay visited at Pleasant ed with the adornment of Bridge street during the holiday Hill school on Tuesday. season, The Legion went ahead and performed the service, Percy Bergerson drove the and for it they deserve the gratitude of the rest of the Beaver Creek bus one day last week. hay ------------------- citizens. School program will ba the -------- GRAIN --------- evening of December 23. Par- ----------------------- FEED ents and friends are invited. CONCERNING A COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE Mrs. E. Morton, who is at St. PHONE 681 Vincents hospital, is getting A community Christmas tree with a carefully prepared along nicely. program and plenty of good things for all children provides Mrs. Thacker was called to an occasion long to be remembered. Hillsboro to the home of her mother, who is very ill. Decision of the chamber of commerce this year, how- Christmas trees were shipped Agency for ever, to search out the needy children and see that they from Treharne on Saturday. Whether the drastic cuts in certain departments will provoke any considerable demand for increase above the amounts allotted is of course problematical, though some such movement is forecasted by the action of the St. Hel­ ens school board against the reduction in the high school tuition fund. KIST PAGE THREE road taxes and items of every ■been named Kenneth Lyle. Mo­ description. ther and son are doing nicely. The warrant redemption item On going out Wednesday about this year calls for $60,182.95 as 6 a. m. Mrs. J. O. Devaney saw against $32,598.06 last year, a coyote near their house. Turn­ J. O. Devaney and Mayo Petti- caused by the enormous delin­ ing on the porch light must have john made a business trip to quent tax list. dazed him as he stood still until Banks Saturday. The folowing are a few com­ she started back. Mr. and Mrs. White were Ver­ parisons : D. K. Mendenhall returned This nonia shoppers Saturday. Last Sunday from the east, where he C. O. Evers returned Monday Year Year visited his parents. Bond redemption $16050 $ 5900 from Forest Grove where he has been working for two weeks. Co. Surveyor ...... 150 100 Fees collected from motor Lavelle Gosa and Hilbert transport companies since the law Elections .............. 1470 3025 Young were married in Hillsboro became effective in September Sheriff’s Office .. 12360 10924 Clerk’s Office ..... . 8470 7678 Saturday at a quiet wedding. 1927 to September 30, 1931, to­ Assessor’s Office . 6795 6167 Mrs. Young is a graduate of Ver­ tal $1,406,181.07, of which $312,- ll 622.84 has been distributed nonia high school and is we v,»... - , . to Treasurer’s Office .. 1515 1530 known here She will finish her I ()f the the countles the provision mot