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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1934)
VOLUME XII $2.00 per year; 5c a copy. Referendum Is Objected to by City Council New Pastor Is Expected to Be in Pulpit on Sunday Rev. A. N. Glanville, who was appointed to the Vernonia Evan gelical church at the recent an JUDGE HARRIS EMPOW nual conference session of that denomination, is expected to ar ERED TO FIGHT IT rive here and will fill the pulpit of his church on Sunday, July 29. Mr. Glanville was prevented Legal Arguments Are Cited from reaching this field sooner because of unexpected regulations Against Proposed governing the transfer of a minis Measure ter from the Dominion of Canada to the U. S. The Glanvilles have been residents of Vancouver, B. The city council Monday night C. for the past eight years. unanimously passed a resolution The local Evangelical pulpit empowering Judge W. A. Harris, has been supplied since June 17 attorney for the city in the case I by the former appointee, Rev. against H. E. McGraw, to take D. R. Kauffman. all necessary steps to protect the —————— city’s interests in the matter of the referendum on the ordinance authorizing settlement of the suit. Objection* Cited Judge Harris cited two legal objections to the referendum, that it affected an act not sub ject to referendum and that it was not in the proper form. He explained that only legis lative acts of a city council are subject to referendum, admini strative acts, such as the ordi nance in question, not being sub ject. Even if they were, be went on to say, the petition did not follow the precedure prescribed by the 1933 legislature and hence does not comply with state law. He did not believe the referen dum would stand the test in the courts. Protect Is Late Mayor Owens argued that it had been necessary to compromise the case because of inability of getting cash and no complaints had been received while negotia tions were in progress. The pro test was filed after the settle ment had been made. It was the best settlement obtainable, he de clared. *j Members of the council ex pressed a similar opinion. Council man Johnson said if the thing was not legal there was no use fooling with it. A city ordinance contrary to state law never stood, he declared, as was the case with , the city’s beer ordinance last win | ter. Airport Deed* Accepted The council voted to accept deeds to the Wilson and Siedel- man properties included as part of the airport site, tendered by L. H. Dewey on behalf of the chamber of commerce. He ex plained that it took a lot of hard work by the committee to put the project over. It was worth the effort, he maintained, for the $1200 payroll was the only thing around here for the last month or so in the way of I community income. Lester Sheeley stated that the government was to put a full time engineer on the airport job. Transfer of John Maloney’s beer license to Mrs. Ada Curtis was authorized upon vote of the council. A proposition of the coast and geodetic survey to provide a bench mark for placing in the city was accepted, and referred to T. B. Mills for location. NUMBER 30. VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934. Koster Company To Resume Work On Next Monday Clark and Wilson Plans Are not Yet Known Koster Products Company will resume operations next Monday, according to announcement Wed nesday. The camp has been down since the Fourth. Up to yesterday afternoon nothing was kown here as to when Clark and Wilson will re sume. Delay in the longshoremen returning to work prevented the forming of any definite plans. Boy Scouts Begin To Make Park of Airport Section — Work of transforming into a park about seven acres of land belonging to the airport site but not needed for airport purposes was begun Wednesday by a group of 15 Boy Scouts under Dr. H. M. Bigelow. They trimmed trees and built a trail to the river. Included in the plans besides slashing and clearing up the pro perty is the building of a cabin. Progress will be slow, Dr. Bige- low believes, as there is a great deal to be done. Much of the clearing will have to wait till fall because of the fire hazard from slashings. Work on the project will be done each day, it is expected. A group went out yesterday. Petition for Nelson As City Marshal Filed Yesterday A petition for Roy Nelson as marshal if and when the present marshal, Tom Carmen, resigns, was filed with the city recorder yesterday. There were 55 signers. Mr. Carmen has been given a position with the state forestry department. He assumed his new duties the first of the week. BRUSH FIRE STARTS B> HIND BRAZING WORKS A btush fire back of the braz ing wrtjcs occupied the attention of CCC men yesterday after Tom Medley of Salem visited noon. It was soon brought under I in Vernonia over the week end. control. Vernonia Team Wins Ball Game At Deer Island Contest Is Close with Locals Holding Slight Edge The Vernonia team beat the Deer Island team at Deer Island Sunday by a score of 5 to 4. The game was close throughout with Vernonia holding a slight edge. Holcomb as first man up smacked the first ball pitched for a home run only to lose it when he forgot to touch third base. He beat the throw back to third base so was credited with a triple. Dodson, the Deer Island pitcher, settled down and struck out the next two men. Vernonia went about the win methodically. When they needed a run they went to work and got the necessary hits. The team col lected 11 hits off Dodson pro ducing five earned runs. Gordon hit well with a single and a double. The victory was made sweeter by the fact that Deer Island has never lost a game on their home field and had lost only one game this season pre vious to the Sunday defeat. They surely died hard. The fans and players were convinced that the home town boys couldn’t lose and they worked hard to pull the game out of the fire. In the ninth they got two men on bases with two down but Holcomb erased all danger when he raced out into short left field taking Dodson’s high fly and ending the game. Vernonia played Its usual steady game with the infield playing the kind of ball the fans like to see, spectacular stops and throws making them look big league. The outfield took every thing coming their way with Gor don racing about taking line drives that had hits labeled all over them. Larson pitched well and was never in danger, himself collected two hits to help the cause. Hawkins went hitless the first game in the last four years. Vernonia has some strong teams lined up for games in the near f uture. Enumclaw, Wn., Is Host to Loggers Union Delegates Enumclaw, Wash., a few miles south of Seattle, was host July 21 and 22 to delegates represent ing many mill workers and log gers unions in the Northwest. The mayor of Enumclaw give the speech of welcome. James Taylor, president of the Washington State Federation of Labor, C. O. (Dad) Young, vet eran labor organizer, and Row land Watson, president of the conference, were distinguished speakers. The Vernonia loggers were rep resented by Fred Lumm, G. I. Baker and R. W. Linn. They re port enjoying their stay in Enum claw. Bernardin Made Trustee for All Central Holdings Receivership of O.-A. Company To Be Terminated The Central Coal and Coke company and its subsidiaries are, by order of the federal court, now under one trustee in bank ruptcy, J. M. Bernardin of Kan sas City, instead of being under four different receiverships. According to this order A. R. Watzek will terminate his re ceivership of the Oregon-Ameri can Lumber Co. when his final report is made. The action was brought by bondholders and stockholders of the company in order to bring it under the new bankruptcy law which facilitates reorganization of bankrupt concerns. Fire Fighting Activities Open At CCC Camp First Real Call Is Received Mon day Afternoon Proposition to Pave Highway to Pittsburg Made BALANCE FOR USE ON BEAVER CREEK Chairman, Engineer of State Commission Tour Roads Suggestion that the state high way department put in an oil pavement from Al Parker’s to Pittsburg, a distance of 2 Vi miles, and use the balance of the federal money in complet ing the Beaver Creek high way to the Hess bridge was made by Judge L. R. Ruther ford and Wm. Pringle, br., of the county court to Chairman Leslie M. Scott and Chief Engi neer R. H. Baldock of the high way commission Tuesday and promise was given of considera tion of the proposition. A meet ing of the commission was held in Portland Wednesday, but whether this matter was decided at the time had not been learned in Vernonia up to time of going to press. • Mr. Scott and Mr. Baldock made a tour of the Beaver Creek road Tuesday noon, being met at Buxton by a Vernonia group consisting of F. D. Macpherson, Tom Crawford, Albert Childs, Ed Bollinger and Ray D. Fisher, to gether with Judge Rutherford and Commissioner Pringle. While traversing the route Mr. Scott explained that there had been so much disappointment in Vernonia over the loss of the Scappoose-Vernonia road that the commission had tried to open up the Beaver Creek road so as to provide a convenient short route between Vernonia and Portland. North of Buxton, he maintained, the road, regardless of the coun ty line, is essentially a Columbia county road, being used almost altogether for the benefit of Co lumbia county. Improvement* Estimated Mr. Baldock estimated that re Reeher’s camp, C.C.C., Westim- ber, July 26-(Special)-Activities rocking and in some places wid of an unusually late fire fighting ening and realignment is neces season finally opened with a bang sary for 5.2 miles at a total cost this week and extended to round- of about $26,000. This is divided the-clock hours for Civilian Con into two section, 2.8 miles north servation corps men of Com of the new grade now being con pany 1313 headquartered at structed, and 2.4 miles south of it. The new portion when com Westimber. First real fire call of the sum pleted will be in fine shape, he mer was received Monday after-1 said, being built according to sec SEEN AND HEARD noon for the suppression of a ondary road standards. Les Sheeley carrying an axe conflagration that had started Mr. Baldock doubted if $5000 into Mac’s drug store ano get-1 south of Forest Grove as the a mile would be sufficient to ting kidded about helping the i result of road clearing activities. pave the Nehalem highway north Boy Scouts clear land without A crew of some 40 C.C.C. wor of Al Parker’s, as the foSndation getting a sweat up . . . Ken Me- ■ kers were sent from the Wilson is not good enough. It might Neill wondering how to fix up' river side camp and from the take $8,000 or $10,000 a mile, the airport donkey sled without i main site at Westimber to fight depending upon the amount of any money to fix it with . . . the fire. rock needed and the drainage. Geo. Johnson remarking that the The main crew had an oppor In the afternoon the party, bank case is about as long drawn tunity to get needed rest only which was joined by a number out as the longshoreman’s strike from 10 o’clock Monday night of the engineering staff left on ... A. Vernonia delegation kill until 3:30 Tuesday morning, an inspection trip down the ing time in Buxton by adorning opening up suppression activities valley. the bench in front of the village again with sunrise. A small pat- ( grocery . . . Ase Lolley’s midget rol remained on duty the entire I Pomona Grange to Meet light plant in the rear of his night. The 100-acre burn was 1 The Columbia County Pomona Buxton shop . . . Frank Berg brought under control Tuesday. grange will meet Saturday, Au strom’s red fire wagon parked on A second fire calling for more1 gust 4, at Cedar Grove, near Bridge street between forest fire, than “early bird” hours started i Clatskanie. 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