Vernonia eagle., April 08, 1932, Page 3, Image 3

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1932.
VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA, OREGON
who bought homes? They are
asked to pay a tax on their pro­
perty and their assessment on the
bond. When they go down to ask
for their dole as unemployed they
Pacific Coast Representative are told, “No, you have proper­
ty.”
Arthur W. Stypea, Inc.
San Francisco
What are they going to live on,
please? Aren’t they just as good
as the man that lives across the
I treet in a rented house? He
Member of National Editorial
I gets the dole but the owner can
Association and Oregon Stata
starve in his own house because
Editorial Association.
he saved and tried to be self-sup­
porting during good times. And
Issued Every Friday
$2.00 Per Year in Advance they are the last class of people
that will ask for charity in hard
Entered as second class matter Auguai. 4, 1922. at the post times.
office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879.
This nation should take some-
Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; other course. We cannot afford to
legal notices. 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding lose these working people who
insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion, are property owners. Many of
15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line.
them need the dole as badly as
the class that is getting it. They
are willing under normal condi­
RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publish?r
tions to help contribute to the
government, but when their job
is gone and they have no means
CHEMICAL TANKS NEEDED
of support they are asked to feed
the man .vho didn’t want to own
anything. And how long will it
Fire insurance rates in Vernonia are much too high. be before they are in this class
too? What encouragement are
The reason for this is not that the fire department is we holding out to the home own­
regarded by underwriters as less efficient than departments er? Can’t we raise this dole
money some other way, or can’t
in towns where rates are lower.
we get employment for this un­
Indeed, as regards the local department, very little employed army that will be self-
can justly be said in way of critHsm, and a great deal sustaining and not a loss as now?
WALTER CARL,
in terms of highest praise. The boys are prompt, and if
Birkenfeld.
there is the slightest chance of extinguishing a fire before
Brninnia Eayh'
the building is consumed, that fire is out within a few
minutes. The average householder, when awakened at night
by the siren, often finds that the department is not only
already at the scene of the fire but has it under control be­
fore he himself can get outdoors. How the boys manage
to dress, run to the station and get the truck under way
so swiftly is sometimes a puzzle, but at any rate they do
it. Only firemen who live in the station and slide down
poles from upstairs could beat them, and they by only a
minute or two. Then too, the boys have put out many fires
with comparatively little loss when the buildings at first
seemed doomed.
Regardless, however, of the efficiency of the depart­
ment, insurance companies figure on a greater percentage
of loss in Vernonia than in many other cities of the same
class, because of lack of certain items of equipment. The
fires in the old hotel and the W. E. Bell house are ins­
tances in point.
Among Our
Neighbors • •
The St. Helens welfare bureau
is requiring the wage earner of
each family receiving assistance
from it to do two days work each
week for foodstuffs sufficient to
last during the week.
*******
Geo. Bohanen will be tried in
St. Helens on a first degree mur­
der charge April 18, according to
present plans. He is accused of
shooting Melvin Pontius Feb. 21.
W W. Dillard is his attorney.
Mayor Ballagh of St. Helens
has announced that the city will
donate vacant lots, vacant streets
and other property belonging to
the city for people of the com­
munity to plant gardens.
In the former, as Judge Harris indicated, possession
of a gas mask would have permitted direct contact with
the source of the fire, whereas without one the only pos­
sible method was to stand outside and flood the place af­
ter breaking the windows. Judge Harris’s contribution
C. J. Larsen of Warren has
towards a fund for purchase of masks is a fine start in filed for county commissioner on
that direction, and it is understood that a couple of them the republican ticket, in opposi­
will soon be procured.
tion of T. B. Mills.
The other fire illustrated forcibly the need not only
for gas masks but for chemical tanks of larger capacity
than those now belonging to the department. As in the
other case, the only way to combat the smouldering fire
was by the liberal use of water which unavoidably damaged
furniture, walls and floor that otherwise would have es­
caped injury. What might have been a minor loss became
both to the insurance company and the owner a serious
one. The lack of chemical tanks adequate for handling
just such fires means higher insurance rates for all, and
bigger losses to those whose property catches afire.
*******
Work will soon begin on the
game pens to be erected in Clats­
kanie, according to an announce­
ment of the committee. Enough
money has been secured for the
material, and construction will be
by volunteer labor.
PAGE THREE
BOUNTIES PAID ON
PREDATORY ANIMALS
What Other
Editors ...
Think ....
SHORT CUT PROSPECTS
BRIGHT
Prospects that the Short Route
to the Sea will be through Scap­
poose and Vernonia are brighter
than ever, in the opinion of most
people in touch with the situation.
State Senator Joe E. Dunne,
chairman of the roads and high­
ways committee, Oregon state
senate, called on Dr. McDonald
of the bureau of public roads,
Washington, D. C„ and asked for
federal aid, to quote John W.
Kelly of the Oregonian, “to build
a short-cut road from Portland
to
the sea,
a
road
that
wasn’t much of a short cut, for
it wandered from Scappoose to
Vernonia and then to Hamlet.”
Many of us do not realize what
a saving to the county in market
road taxes this Scappoose-Verno­
nia short cut will mean. If th«
road is built from Scappoose to
Vernonia, the county can spend
the market road money which
would ordinarily be used for that
same road in other parts of the
county. Thousands of acres of
new land will be opened up and
put on the tax rolls at a higher
valuation. Traffic will come
through this county insead of
many miles to the south, and we
will receive the subsequent busi­
ness and advertising.
Most of us have become con
vinced that there is going to* be
a short cut whether we like it or
not, and the best thing for us
to do is to see that the short cut
comes through our county. —St.
Helens Sentinel.
MIKE PUT IN CLASSROOM
TO BROADCAST LECTURES
Five Years
Ago * * * *
Bounties totaling $46 were paid
Something new in educational
on 18 predatory animals this
radio broadcasting in this state
month according to records at the
i has been started by KOAC at
office of J. W. Hunt, county |
‘Oregon State college with the
clerk. Of this number, 13 werej Vernonia Eagle, April 7, 1927. placing of a microphone right
wild cats and five were female I
in one of the lecture rooms
Construction of the new Legion where Dr. E. H. Moore, profes­
coyotes. Most of the animals were
hall
was
started
Monday.
killed behind Rainier and Clats­
sor of sociology, will deliver a
The feasibility of buying water weekly lecture to his class in
kanie although some were brought
in from the Vernonia community. meters for the whole city was dis­ general sociology. Radio listeners
O. D. Hall of Birkenfeld col­ cussed oy the city council Monday tuned in at 11 o’clock each
lected bounty on three wild cats; night, but no action was taken as Tuesday morning may hear this
E. Jepperson of Bacona, two wild a method of raising the money1 lecture exactly as he gives it to
cats and one coyote; Laurenz to buy the meters was the diffi­ the students.
Aamodt, Mist, one wild cat; W. D. cult question.
Arrangements have been made
E. W. Holtham has gone to
McCormick, two coyotes and one
for listeners to follow the course
wild cat; Marshall Erickson, Quin­ Southern Oregon on business.
A son named Glen Archie was more closely, as they may enroll
cy, ope wild cat; Charles Cater,
born
April 3 to Mr. and Mrs. E. for home study and will thereup­
Warren, one coyote; T. Kauppi,
on receive additional material
Vernonia, two wild cats; Chester A. Shipman.
prepared for their guidance. Two
M. Girt, Rainier, one coyote; Wil­
examinations will be given the
liam Johnson, Clatskanie, one
radio class and certificates will
wild cat; Harold Young, Rainier,
be issued those “passing,” though
one wild cat; and Andrew Waris,
no college credit will be allowed.
Clatskanie, one wild cat----St. Hel­
The course will deal with gen-
ens Sentinel.
i eral sociological problems such
as crime, poverty, family life, re-
18,000 POUNDS WHEAT
| creation and racial and economic
Vernonia
Eagle,
April
10,
1931.
TO BE DISTRIBUTED
conflicts.
The Federal« and Mildews con­
Eighteen thousand pounds of
tend tonight for the league
government wheat have been ob­
championship.
ON OREGON FARMS
tained for this county through
Representatives of the timber
the efforts of the Columbia coun­
interests and other industries
ty Red Cross chapter, it was
of the county plead with the coun­
THE DALLES — Five Wasco
learned at the monthly meeting
ty court for retrenchment in county farmers have arranged
of the executive committee of
county expenditures.
complete commercial fertilizer
the county chapter held Tuesday
Reconstruction of the Carter trials on their farms, cooperating
evening at the home of Dr. and
building at Bridge street and with County Agent W. Wray
Mrs. L. G. Ross.
Lawrence to determine the best
Weed avenue begins.
Acrording to Miss Nettie Alley,
W. L. Van Doren loses two types of fertilizers for production
county Red Cross nurse, this
fingers while cleaning a diesel of spinach and garden peas under
wheat which can be obtained only
Wasco county conditions. Special
engine at Pittsburg.
through the Red Cross will be
The city council decided Mon­ spinach and pea fertilizers are al­
ground into flour and distributed
day night not to instal stop but­ so being tried. Farmers cooperat­
among the four welfare bureaus
tons at Bridge street intersec­ ing in these trials are C. E. An­
in the county.-St. Helens Sentinel
derson, Roy Johnson, J. W. Shaf­
tions.
Camp McGregor resumes after er and Fred Cyphers of Thomp­
Read the Eagle classified ads
—there may be something that repair of the bridges damaged by son’s Addition, and William Byers
of Fifteen Mile.
high water.
will save you money.
Merely a
Year Ago
ANNOUNCING
THE NEIU FORD
V-8
Art Danielson, Clatsop county
roadmaster, has been instructed
to call for bjds on four road
jobs, including one for the Bir-
kenfeld-Jewell road.
According to Earl Smith, fire chief, two 35-gallon BAND BOYS, FARM LADS
chemical tanks would be sufficient. By obtaining them
PLAN MEET AT O. S. C.
second hand the cost would be low, the effect on taxes
Oregon State college students
nothing, and the saving in insurance rates considerable. and faculty are preparing to en­
They should be purchased.
tertain two large groups of young
The home owner kind bought
1 homes by the thousands, a little
j down and so much a month, pre­
paring themselves against those
slack times around the corner.
Many of them have a few acres
To the Vernonia Eagle: I won­ maybe not all paid for and a
der if we are not making a mis­ family to support. These people
take in the way we are handling are a credit to any nation who
our unemployed labor. There is a will during prosperity lay by for
class of people that is being dis­ a rainy day, becoming taxpayers
criminated against who are as to help carry on our government.
hard up as anybody. We as a na­
Now what happens? Times are
tion have prided ourselves on be­ hard, mills and factories close.
ing a nation of home owners. We The working people who yesterday
have preached it to the people were getting a salary and spend­
and we have many of that class ing it are out of work. They
of people who have saved and ac- have quit spending. The tinker
cumulated a house and home and the tailor and the honest
while they weae saving and de­ little Quaker are not selling any­
nying themselves to gain this thing and so a great cry goes
home. .....
up. Something must be done. This
We have passed through one is a disgrace and immediately we
of the greatest orgies of spending do something. We issue a bond on
this nation has ever seen. Money the assessable pioperty and we
seemed to grow on the trees. Any­ put the unemployed on the dole.
body who had energy enough But what happens to that other
could get a lapful.
class who are not employed, those
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people from all parts of the state
going there for the annual state
high school band contest, April
15 and 16, and the annual state
convention of Future Farmers of
America, April 28 to 30.
The band contest, which in fu­
ture will alternate between O. S.
C. and the U. of O., will bring
close to 700 musicians to vie for
honors in the six solo contests
and three band classes. Albany,
Gresham and Irrigon are the
three state champions at present.
The Future Farmer convention
is the successor to the old “Smith-
Hughes Weekend," which brought
together students studying agri­
culture in high schools for a
weekend of demonstrations and
observations at the school of ag­
riculture. Some 200 delegates are
expected this year.
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