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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1932. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE THREE -S’ the people of this country and Britain to have much desire to1 enter another conflict unless ab solutely necessary. War is so futile.—Hillsboro Argus. Urntmtia Among Our Neighbors • Pacific Coast Raproaantativa Arthur W Stypea, activities at the Forest Country club March 13. ... - Hills COST OF RAISING HEIFERS FOUND IN OREGON SURVEY Heavy Hauling Damages Roads is that the soft roadbed is torn up.” Before adjournment Thursday afternoon the court decided to confer with District Attorney Foote and have an order drawn regulating the gross tonnage, and such regulations will probably be put into effect in the very near future. If good weather would prevail for ten days or two weeks and none but light traffic pass over the roads, they would be packed down and then in better shape to stand the heavy traffic, Commissioner Miller stated. If regulations are made, which no doubt they will, they will be strictly enforced. The court had a busy two- day session and without many delegates to take up time, got right down to work early Wed nesday morning, so practically all matters were cleared up in the two day session.—St. Helens Mist. Worrying over income tax is a cause of gastric ulcers at this ' The West St. Helens Progres The dairy farmer who raises Considerable damage has been reason, says a British physician. I sive club has been organized to heifers to freshening for other done to the mecadam roads in the rhere’ll be no ulcer epidemic in promote the development and pro-¡than his own replacement must country because of heavy laden Jregon.—Oregon Voter. gress of West St. Helens and St. figure on doing it for less than trucks using them while the frost Member of National Editorial Helens as a whole. Meetings are the total cost of production, ac is still in the ground, according to Association and Oregon State held every second and fourth cording to figures on cost of rais Commissioners Mills and Miller, WHALE COMES Editorial Association. Wednesday evening in the S. P. ing dairy calves in Oregon just who have occasion to see some of released by the Oregon State the damage done. The cold and TO ST. HELENS an<j s. depot. Issued Every Friday $2.00 Per Year in Advance college experiment station. Cash snowy weather has been very E. O. Lessard, St. Helens ran-] 1 Columbia county has 18 one- costs are below sales prices, but hard on the highways, Mr. Miller Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922. at the post eher and old time whaler, brought' schools operating the re- total costs including labor, inter- said, and unless some curb is put office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. his whale home this week after a jroom and depreciation are higher on the heavy loading, further . ' quired eight months with less than successful tour of western Wash-1 ¡10 pupils, C. A. Howard, state than present market values. damage will be done and with Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; ington. Figures were based on actual road funds for repair work much | superintendent of public instruc- .egal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding as ,. , .. ,, insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion, i- The whale, known variously j T7..1. , ition, told the St. Helens cham- records gathered from 514 dairy less than last year, the highways Jim McCool’s whale and Ethelbert, L 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line. |ber of ------- commerce last week Mnn Mon- . farms in this state. They show would be in bad condition for the came in from the ocean last fall, .day. . ' He recommended . ............... that these that for the year ending April 1, remainder of the year. reaching Portland and remaining small units be eliminated in the 1931, it cost the average farmer “It is not the home people who RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher in Oregon slough for about two $81 per head to raise a heifer have caused the damage,” Mr. interest of economy. weeks when it was harpooned by calf to freshening time. This was Miller said, “but outsiders, many «•••**« Mr. Lessard and his son. Follow- a big reduction from the pre of whom load tht trucks to ca High school directors and prin ing a court battle the whale was THE REASON FOR CONTROVERSY vious year, however, when it cost pacity and come in at night. The turned over to the Lessards who cipals in Columbia county met $110 per head. loggers and truckmen of the for conference with State Super have been exhibiting it. Mr. Les- JFe do but Why the recurrence of recall elections with their per sard brought it to his ranch west intendent Howard in Rainier Feb. Farm management and dairy county have been very reason specialists who made the study able. They do not wish to dam sonal controversies, innuendoes and accusations, bitterness, of here and will place it in a vat1 29. A representative of the Rai- point out that there are import age the road when they expect one kind of attempts at retaliation? Because, one might say, the Co until late spring or summer. He'nier Review was excluded, acco.d ant advantages in raising one’s to use it the year around, but then plans to visit Seattle and in * to that newspaper, and no printing — lumbia county court did not adopt the recommendation own replacement regardless of these outsiders who perhaps will Spokane and go to Los Angeles j first-hand press reports are avail these facts, but that there is no haul one or several loads to some of the annual budget meeting, or the rpayor and council able. in time for the Olympic games. reason to raise great numbers of certain point, pile on all the truek of Vernonia could not agree on the appointment of a The whale is a killer whale, heifer calves to add to the pres will carry and the consequence recorder. Mr. Lessard said, a species about ' Speakers at the recall meeting ent surplus of cows unless there , . . . . . .L No, such events are only the immediate occasions which little is known by natural-1 in Mist included A. E. Veatch of is an assured market, such as is I , from . high producing herds than that precipitate the rows. Underneath them all is a psy ists. The killer is wolf of the Rainier, Albert Adama of Deer in prospect in California. It costs from poor herds, the survey and destroys other whales of Island, L. E. Gulker of Rainier, but $6 more to raise a heifer shows. chological condition, the outgrowth of hard times, when sea commercial value as well as any Frank Peterson of Natal, B. S. men are idle, earnings are meagre, wants are unsatisfied. living thing. He said this whale Golden of Beaver Homes, Or- People know that something is wrong, but they do not came into the river to relieve ris Kellar of Fern Hill and S. comprehend the reason and they strike at the thing near itself of barnacles in fresh water Ouderkirk of Goble. Wm. Rose of est at hand, as when a boy, restless and angry, pokes a and stayed near the mouth of the Mist was chairman. After ad- for about three weeks. journment Commissioner "J. N. stick into a hornet’s nest. Stings, instead of helping Columbia He believes the scent of blood Miller asked permission to speak. matters, only make them worse. caused it to come upstream and but was refused. How can we remedy such a situation? We would all enter Oregon slough, where the agree on mending the times if we could, but we cannot, Swift’s packing plant is located, Clatskanie is the smelt center We must take depression as it comes to us, and adapt our- and once there would not leave of the country, according to the it could have done so. Chief. Approximately $17,000 was selves to its demands as best we can. What we can do, although He said the whale was slowly paid to local gill-netters this year however, is to realize that the other fellow has his prob- starving to death when harpooned. for smelt. There were 30 boats, lems, too, and if his way of trying to solve them is dif —St. Helens Mist. averaging from $300 to $800 each for the season. ferent from ours, it will not help either him or us if we BETTER HOME • * * ♦ ♦ a a aim to black each other’s eyes and break a few teeth in GARDENS ADVOCATED is worrying Tax delinquency each other’s jaws. IN DEPRESSION Hillsboro officials, who plan a rigid reduction in expenditures to Better home gardens and food avoid going on a warrant basis. A CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS preservation as a means of im proving living conditions on farms One can sympathize, perhaps, with the point of view during this serious depression will A dubs and duffer tournament of the sponsors of the recall of the county court in their be given emphasis by the agri will open the season’s tournamenf refusal to allow any one to reply to their arguments at cultural committee of the Beave tween grange members of things their meetings. They hire halls, they assert, for people to Valley grange, it was decided at they want or have to sell. An a meeting of the committee held will be made to get each listen to reasons why the court should be recalled, not why in the grange hall Wednesday effort of the 12 grange committees to it should not be recalled. evening, March 2. Those present adopt this buy and sell list so Yet in trying to gain that much of strategic advantage were Guy R. McGinnis, chairman, that it may be placed on a coun MMORTALIZED in story and song, the they are in reality confessing their own weakness. A reas Mrs. Narcissus Parcher, master, ty-wide basis. on for any course of action should be convincing enough to J. Van Orden, E. R. Rainwater, old “comer store” has passed—along and County Agent Geo. A. Nel- fair-minded persons to withstand criticism from opponents. son. with the free potato on the kerosene can, In gagging the opposition, the recallers admit that they The home garden, it was dare not let the other side of the question be presented to brought out, if properly planned and the customers’ access to the cracker the audience. It is easy to persuade folks who hear only can be made to provide a sub stantial portion of the family box. It was picturesque, but you never one view of a controversy. living the year round. The pro hay — ---- ------------ Then, too, it is unfair to make charges against a per- ject will be carried on in co quite knew what you would find there. -------- GRAIN --------- son which he has no opportunity to refute. Anybody could operation with Sarah V. Case, Half of the time it was full of people who be tagged as a thief and a liar if only the people who mis county home demonstrator andl ----------------------- FEED County Agent Nelson. Each PHONE 681 understand or dislike him are privileged to express their didn’t know what they wanted. The other views about him. Give a man a fair break. None are so month a timely letter will be sent to those enrolling in the half, it was empty. It was more of a club deaf as those who won’t listen. garden project containing infor mation on varieties and amounts than a store. money. It has been money raised to plant, time of planting, fer by taxes on property, and Scott tilizers to use, disease and pest Agency for has been diligent and very effec control, canning and storing. McCormick-Deering Today, when you enter your grocery Other projects adopted for at tive in getting a maximum of tention of the committee include ------ TRACTORS ---- value out of this tax money. Btore—or any store—you know what you poultry, dairying, a buy and sell He has schooled a good many list to facilitate the exchange be- want, how much you want of it, and the counties in the proper policies , and methods for secondary road price you are going to pay. Advertising work, and he has accomplished A TRIBUTE TO A GOOD this with tact. Here in Clatsop has rendered you this service. It brings SERVANT county he has been worth his We note that movement has weight in gold in the actual sav- you, through the columns of this newspa- been started in several counties ings which ahve been effected per, the merchandising opportunities of to protest the elimination of J. 6y reason of this program. H. Scott, market roads engineer, Scott is slated to be retired the whole world. In the quiet of your from the state highway depart- April 1 as a result of the gen- ment. It is not surprising. ■ eral curtailment necessary in the own home, you are enabled to select ev Scott has been connected with department. But it is not surpris the highway department for more ing that county courts over the erything you want to buy! than a decade. He has been the state should protest the entire I contact man with the various removal of the one man who I county courts and commissions, knows the secondary road system | The modern way to be certain of qual He has supervised the building of the state better than any oth- er and who has already won his system. of the secondary road ity and value is to read the advertise and in this capacity he has prov spurs in tax saving and wise tax . . . if it is properly cared for by scientific en himself remarkably competent. spending. It is a tribute which he ments. Representing almost every field sanitary methods and equipment. deserf es.—Astorian-Budget. 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