VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA,. OREGON
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1933.
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of Douglas fir in 1931 was great-1
er than that of southern yellow
Tk 1* r I
pine. This fact is in line with the 1
Long Way to Go trend continuation of which will
Relief Is
Mr*. Jake Neurer
Ballagh Instigator
lead to vast developments in Ore
gon
lumber
production.
Produc-i
The meeting Tuesday was call
(Oregou Voter)
(St. Helens Sentinel-Mist)
tion of western yellow pine is j ___
.vou.».
ed by Mayor Edison I. Ballagh,
Miss » Millie
McMullen, a student
Representatives of ail organiza who is also calling the meeting
When lumber starts up, it will holding its own proportionately at ” - Pacifte
spent 'her
••vmv LnTveraUy,"
unit CIOIUJ1, ’ CpCIIL
Utif
tions are to meet Monday after-1 •for Monday afternoon. It is his have a long way to go. Production with Douglas fir.
! Easter vacation here with her
noon at 2:30 in the city council desire to have all local lodges, • in 1932, some 9,000,000,000 feet,
nts, , Mr. and Mrs. Dave Mc-
Sawmill employment, reported ■ Pare ----
chamber of the city hall for the civic and patriotic organizations was about the same as it was in
purpose of formulating plans for represented so that a suitable pre-civil-war days after the panic on the up grade in Portland dur- ‘Mullen,
ing the last few weeks, struck its1 The speedy new road grader be-
relief work in St. Helens.
• board of directors may be formed. of 1857; half of what is was after national low in February—index' longing to the state, which was
This course of action was decid-, Questions asked Mr. Greenman the panic of 1873, one-third of 29.8 for employment, 13.3 for
brought in last week and operat
ed after a meeting held Tuesday at the meeting deveolped the in what it was after the panic of amount of wages, with February ed by Carl Enneburg, is working
1893,
one-fifth
of
what
it
was
afternoon which was addressed by
1926 as 100.
on the highway here this week.
formation that the present plan
Judd
Greenman,
of Vernonia,
in 1929 and a little over half of'
.
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,
.. - t»i
win uru-
of neip
help xur
for nccuy
needy ytvpit
people will
pro-
Reed Holding and Lincoln Pet
what is was in 1931.
chairman of the
county
rehei
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¡vide only for those actually in
ersen are farming the Z. Holmes
committee appointed by ' Governor , ¡want. No
r program of attempting
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Oregon lumber production is
place, which joins them both.
eler‘
¡to provide work for those who now where it was 20 years ago,
They are planting it to grain
In the course of his talk, Mr. may y,ecome needy unless they but during that 20 years mill ca
mostly.
pacity
has
been
increased
stupen
Greenman state that St. Helens secure WOrk in the near future is
Mr. and Mrs. Noble Dunlap
is the only major community ¡n. t>einjf contemplated at the present dously, chiefly by construction of
were guests Easter Sunday of Mr.
Columbia county which does not time by the county relief com. fine new mills by southern lum
Dunlap’s mother at Riverview.
A fight over retention of Supt.
have any organized bureau to care
bermen, partly by adaptations of
Dave McMullen purchased a
for those in need. The care of the I Members of the county relief mosquito equipment to numerous H. B. Ferrin of the St. Helens new team of horses to do his gen
schools
developed
at
the
session
poor in St. Helens has been handl .committee are Judd Greenman, jitney operations. In 1929, Ore
eral farm work.
ed through the city and county Vernonia, chairman, Mrs. Robert gon lumber production established of the directors April 10. About
Mollie Wright and her daugh
and there has resulted some dup- DuBois, Rainier, Willard Evenson, a new peak by exceeding the 100 persons, most of them Fer ter, Mrs. Mae Sutphin, were in
lication of relief given, it was Clatskanie, J. G. Watts, Scap- 1926 peak production of 4,454,- rin supporters, were in the audi Portland to visit Mrs. Ella Cay-
ence, and there is reported to wood and other relatives.
pointed out.
poose, and the three county com 735 thousand feet.
have been some disorder until a
Organization Necessary
In
Washington
and
California,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fessler and
missioners, Judge J. H. Welling
Under the present method of ton, J. N. Miller and William it is necessary to go back to member of the board suddenly Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fessler and
moved
adjournment,
30 years ago to find production
caring for relief, according to Pringle.
son Robert of Portland were the
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figures comparable with those of
Greenman, unless St. Helens has
weekend guests of their sister and
the present time. In the southern
At a second meeting of the brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jake
an organization it will not be
field, production has dropped back board the following Thursday de- Neurer.
possible to secure any portion of
to what it was 40 years ago. Min cision was made to combine the
the funds provided through the
Saturday being the opening day
nesota and Wisconsin are pro offices of city superintendent and of the season for trout fishing
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ducing less lumber than they did high school principal and to re- surely brought fishermen by the
tion. The method now being used
before the civil war.
duce salaries. Grade school teach hundred. Every available place
is -for each locality, through the
| All these figures portend tre- ers will be offered a minimum along the Nehalem was crowded.
local organization, to investigate
| mendous future increases in Ore- of $90 a month and high school
applicants for relief, then when
Mrs. Charles Hill of Portland
Vernonia Eagle, April 20, 1923.
[gon lumber production as the teachers $110, with contracts for was here visiting the Dave Mc
they are found to be worthy, to
market recovers.
eight months.
Mullen folks. She returned to
provide work for which pay in
Clarenee Reed’s restaurant was
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Fir Passe* Pine
groceries will be made.
Portand Monday evening, taking
damaged by fire of mysterious
For the first year in the history
The relief applicant is paid at
State Policeman Paul Parsons with her Miss Millie McMullen.
origin Saturday night. The walls of lumber of America, production
Fred Gritzfield went to Port
the rate of $2.00 per day, but
I
who has been stationed at St.
were burnt and much stock was
payment is made through some
Helens, has been transfered to land to enroll in the federal for
injured
by
fire,
smoke
and
water.
est project recently.
store where no cash is handled
The 200 acres of the O.-A. mill I tion signed by 175 voters asked Bend.
Donald Sundland from Mist was
between the applicant and the
• • • • • •
site have been cleared, and the jthat cows be kept from running
here Monday to inform the school
merchant. The applicant has a re
trees, logs, stumps and trash have I at large, and the council voted to
Clatskanie grange now meets board that he received a position
quisition for an amount of gro
been piled into many huge piles. pass such an ordinance.
in the hall recently vacated by to teach at the Mist school. He
ceries and the grocer is paid by
The 56 room bunk house on the the Masons.
Sunday evening some of these
was also an applicant of the
O.-A. mill site Is finished, and
were set ablaze.
Natal school.
will
be
used
as
temporary
quar
John Bryan was sick for several
Forest Grove held its eighth
days this week and unable to at ters for the workers constructing annual daffodil show Friday and
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Gardner
tend to business.
the mill.
Saturday of last week.
have moved to Hillsboro whero
P. Hill states that his strain of
Weaver Clark assures us that he
Mr. Gardner has a position for
has received the machinery for [ white leghorns are too well
Beginning April 22 approxi the summer.
his laundry and will have it in known to need any boosting. They'
mately 750
pieces ui
of ¡uuu
land in
Parchment butter wrappers 10
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iiiavciy
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runn.ng order by the middle of(do their own crowing and
WaSh}n(rton county wiu be
by cents for 25 (pound size) or
ne * t
- a
• "nin
r>
a
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sheriff for taxes, penalty and 30 cents for 100; printed, 100
J. W. Rose’s new residence is
Bergerson Bros, store reports ¡nteregt for 192() to 1924> inclu. for $1.75, 200 for $2.25. Ver
• business improving and more cash sive.
What’s all this hooey about receiving a coat of paint.
nonia Eagle.
(Adv.)
in circulation.
A new marshal was appointed 1 ...
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getting off the gold standard?
by
the
council
Monday
night
in
I
The
Hazlewood
has
installed
a
Most of us have never succeeded
in getting on yet.—Dufur Dis- the person of Mr. Abbott. A peti-1 draught beer fountain.
patch.
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Urnmtiia Eaglr
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RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher
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A SAD CONFESSION
Beer of moderate alcoholic content may have its ad-
vantages as a revenue measure, and as a substitute for
vile bootleg and high-powered home brew, but all will not
be suds, pretzels and innocent joy if necessary regulatory
measures resolved upon are to evaporate into the spring
sunshine.
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Already there are indications in some places of the
danger of the same break down of respect for law and
order that was charged against prohibition. In Astoria,
for example, the beer ordinance specifies that licenses
should not be granted persons who are not citizens, per
sons who have previous records of liquor violation con
victions, and only to persons of good moral character.
The Astorian-Budget, in reporting the council meeting for
Monday, stated, “To make the matter right the council
has granted four or five licenses to persons with previous
convictions for liquor law violations; to at least one non
citizen;” and also to proprietors of several rooming houses
of ill repute. Concerning the latter places the chief of
police commented that there was no law to prevent them
from possessing beer, and that they would sell it anyway,
with no way of proving sale on part of the police except
by “hiring a flock of stool pigeons.”
Thus it goes—a resolve to curb the sale of liquor is
followed by a feeling that liquor will be sold anyway, and
then comes permission to do that which the authorities
feel themselves powerless to prevent. It is a sad confes-
sion that government makes when it decrees itself impo-
tent to do that which it believes it ought to do. If a city
government—in Astoria or anywhere else—has no respect
for itself, how can it expect others to have respect for it?
Beer regulations (or any other for that matter) if
wisely conceived should be enforced. If unwisely conceived
they should be amended, and lived up to as revised.
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the county relief committee from
I funds provided by the R. F. C.
ni ' 1’hese funds are those secured by
Plan the county.
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What Other
Editors . •
Think
Send us your Spring Suit
One good thing brought out
through the act to reduce veter
ans’ benefits has been the an
nounced determination on the
part of veterans to carefully
watch governmental expenditures
to eliminate every possible waste.
With such an objective millions
Now is the day for getting rid of those tin cans, old of veterans may accomplish much
in the way of economy.—Hills
auto tires, bottles. Put them where Earl Smith and his boro Argus.
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Items gleaned here and there
in the news columns indicate a
slight pick-up in the lumber busi
ness. Olympic peninsula camps
and mills closed for a long period
are opening one by one. The Ben
son Timber company up the Co
lumbia has the largest crew in
the woods that has been operated
by the concern for years. It will
take much more progress to bring
the industry to anything resembl
ing normal conditions, but every
little bit helps.—Astorian-Budget.
And
WE WILL MAKE IT
Reduce
Expenses ▼ ▼ ▼
were required to forward the in
formation.
“The fact that each municipal
SCRUTINIZED SAYS HOSS judge, or city recorder, is forced
to make a report of all serious
Reckless and drunken automo traffic violations upon which con
bile drivers will be under closer victions have been recorded, will
scrutiny of state officials after practically double the effective
June 9, as a result of changes ness of the curb on outlaw opera
made by the state legislature in i tors,” explained Secretary oss.
the operators’ code, reports Hal “Many serious traffic violations
E. Hoss, secretary of state.
have come under the jurisdiction
Every person convicted of oper of these courts and the convicted
The hardest part of making
ating a motor vehicle because of drivers have continued to operate good is doing it all over again
incompetency, driving while |n- their automobiles because the every day.
toxicated, recklessness and hit and state was unaware of the fact and
run drivers, regardless of the could not suspend or revoke the
court having jurisdiction in the operator’s license. The new law
matter, will be reported immedi will eliminate that condition,”
ately to the secretary of state for Hoss said.
An additional help to the en
appropriate action in the matter
of license suspensions or revoca forcement of the suspension or
tions, changes in the law require, revocation of drivers licenses is
There are two facta concerning the
These citations of traffic viola the new provision in the law re
electric utilities, entirely aside from any
tions are required from all Ore quiring each convicting magis
question of service or rates, that should
trate to _________
immediately
take —
up the
gon courts, which will include,______
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receive wide public attention.
courts in every city and town. • license of those found guilty of
These facts are: The gas and electric
Previously only justice courts. | serious offenses and forward the
utilities of the country give direct employ
district courts and circuit courts [cards to the state department.
ment, with a payroll totaling $600,000,000
a year, to about 500,000 workers, and Pro
vide indirect employment for thousands
more.
For every customer receiving electric
service, the industry pays in taxes $8.60 a
year, and for customers receiving manufac
tured and natural gas service it pays $4.23
and $4.66, respectively.
Perhaps no other major industries are
so dependable in the matters of employment
and taxation. We have passed through three
DRIVERS TO BE CLOSELY
Natal
Ten Years
Ago * * * «
five-year plans will likely not be so keen for awhile, for
whether or not the accused and convicted Britons were
guilty as charged, the foreign mind cannot banish the sus
picion that the Russian secret police are apt to smell sabo
tage and spying where none exist, and so-called confessions
are extorted by threat and persecution.
RECKLESS AND DRUNKEN
Lumber to Have
Among Our
Neighbors •
Begins to look as though the
new deal is making business
The desire of technical experts to go to the land of shuffle along a little faster. —
the soviets and show the Russians how to accomplish their Rainier Review.
crew can conveniently pick them up—and burn up the
trash.
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years of unprecedented economic disorder
and business disorganization—but the utili
ty payrolls have been maintained far above
the average. This is due, of course, to their
nature. A certain standard of service must
be provided whether business is good or
bad. Too, we have become so accustomed to
freely using electricity and gas that these
are among the last things we conserve on.
As a result, the utilities have been able to
maintain remarkable stability.
This means a great deal to the nation.
If there were more such industries, our
depression would have been a great deal
less severe. Those who would destroy the
industry, or cripple it with excessively strin
gent laws, Should thing the problem over
again carefully. Stable employers and tax
payers are easier to eliminate than to create.
JOHN A. MILLER
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Walnut 2911
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Vernonia,
Oregon
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