Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1934)
VOLUME XII $2.00 per year; 5c a copy. Enrollment at Grade School Somewhat Less VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934. TEACHERS’ RECEPTION TO BE GIVEN NEXT FRIDAY IN CHURCH A public reception for the teach ers of the Vernonia high school, the Washington grade school, and of the schools in nearby districts NUMBER ARE STILL OUT including Keasey, Rock Creek, Pleasant Hill, Kist, Beaver Creek FOR HOP PICKING and Natal, will be given in the local Evangelical church next Friday evening, September 21, at New Changes Made in Bus 8 o’clock. Schedules, School Hours Enrollment at the Washington grade school up tj-yesterday af ternoon was 340, a decrease of about 45 since last year. At the close of school in the spring there were 365, and as at least Z0 are known to be out this week for hop picking it is believed that there will be virtually the same number as in the spring. There are 19 new pupils in grades above the first, and 40 beginners. The newly organized industrial arts class ulider Paul Gordon has begun making a parking space in the drive way, and also has started the foundation for a rock garden. Age Limit Fixed The directors at their meeting Saturday night set the age limit at six on or before Nov. 1, with provision for others whose birth days are near that date if they pass satisfactory tests. Bus Schedules Established The H. M. Condit bus takes a load of younger pupils out to Riverview at 3:15, returning at 3:30 in time for taking the older pupils on his Stony Point rout* without delay. Older children get ting off at the bridge take the T. M. Crawford bus. In this way there is no delay for either group. New Bus in Service Mr. Crawford’s new bus made its first trip Wednesday, hanling about 70 in each load without crowding. No difficulty was ex perienced in negotiating the curves on the Camp 8 road. The bus has a steel body and shat ter proof glass, and a heater will be installed. A governor on the motor limits the speed to 35 miles an hour. School Hours Set School opens at 9 in the morn ing. The lower grades dismiss at 11:30 and the upper grades at 12:00. The noon recess ends at 12^45. The first and second grades are out at 2:30, the third at 3:15, and the rest at 3:30. This is the same time as dismissal at the high chool. New Teacher Named The directors named Marjorie Gray of Portland as teacher at the Saturday night meeting. Library Drive For Paper to Be Made Soon House to House Calls Planned For Next Week A drive for old newspapers and magazines will be made next week by the board of the Ver nonia public library, which will sell them as old paper to help gain funds for badly needed books and supplies. The drive will end on Saturday of next week, Sep tember 22, at which time board members assisted by the Boy Scouts will make house to house calls in Vernonia to collect bundles from front porches. People living in Vernonia or on the O.-A. hill and Riverview districts are requested to tie mag azines and newspapers in easy to handle bundles and place them on their front steps not later than 9 o’clock Saturday morning, Sept. 22. Bundles will De re moved as fast as the cars and Boy Scouts can get around. The library will be pleased to have people living in the country and nearby communities bring old magazines and papers to the city hall any time during the week. If anyone outside of town cannot bring his papers in some one will call for them if they are within a radius of five miles, pro vided the name and exact loca tion is sent to the library on a postal card of by telephoning 592 before the end of next week. Members of the library board, Tuesday night, completed plans for the old paper drive, and heard the monthly report of the librar ian, 'Edna Owens. Four new books for the Inter national Mind Alcove donated by the Carnegie foundation have re cently arrived. They are “The Air Menace and the Answer by E. K. Fradkin, The Saga of Fridjof Nan- son by J. Sorensen, The Romance of the Labrador by Sir W. Gren fell, and On the Roads from Rome by L. Villari. TWIN BABIES ARRIVE Twins, a boy and a girl, one weighing four pounds six ounces REGISTRATION TO and the other six pounds two CLOSE OCTOBER 8 ounces were born to Mr. and SAYS MRS. WASHBURN Mrs. J. E. Tapp yesterday even ing. Registration of voters closes October 8, announces Mrs. E. H. Home Demonstrator Appointed Washbum, who has charge of Mrs. Maude C. Purvine, form registration for the Vernonia pre erly in home demonstration work cincts. All who have changed in Linn and Marion counties, has their residence or wish to record been appointed home demonstra a change of party should regis tion agent in Columbia county to serve during the absence of Mrs. ter, she states. The Oregon Gas and Electric Sarah V. Case, who has a posi company’s office is the place of tion supervising emergency relief education in Salem. registration here. Commission to Attend Banquet Here October 8 The Oregon State Game Com mission at its meeting November 10 in Portland decided to accept the invitation of the Nehalem Rod and Gun club to the ban quet to be held here October 8, according to word received from F. B. Wirs, state game commis- siones, addressed to C. R. Watts, secretary of the local organiza tion. Mr. Wire stated his belief that there would be a full at tendance of the commission; if not, there will at least be a majority, he promised. J. W. Brown Wins Four First Prizes At Oregon Fair J. W. Brown of Vernonia won four first prizes and a second prize for red leghorns at the state fait last week. At the Washington county fair in Hillsboro the previous week he won six first prizes and two second prizes for Rhode Island red*. This week Mr. Brown is show ing some chickens at the Clack amas county fair. LOCAL SPORTSMEN PLAN TO ATTEND ST. HELENS BANQUET and.. .Talons High School Tax Again to Be Voted on A number of local sportsmen are planning to attend the annual banquet of the St. Helens Rod and Gun club in the Congrega tional church of that city tonight. MISUNDERSTANDING AS Several reels of motion pictures TO BASE ARISES of wild life will be shown Dy the state game commission. A caravan will start from the Limitation Authority Needed Vernonia post office at 5 p.m. For SERA Work Traces of Ocean Are Found Near Camp Reehers Don Depue and B. Henderson Discover Fossils CAMP REEHER’S CCC, Wes- timber, Sept. 13—A tremenaously long time ago—25 millions of years ago or more—the site of Camp Reeher’s was an ocean bed. In fact, a sea way covered Ver nonia and Forest Grove and much of the whole of northwes tern Oregon where now the Pa cific ocean does not appear to have the slightest possibility of entering. In that prehistoric age sea RAILWAY EXPRESS shells lived and died much as they NOW COMING IN BY PORTLAND TRUCK do now. Some were washed up on the beach. Some were ground up by rocks. Many sank into the Railway express is now being brought to Vernonia daily by the ooze of the sea bed and were buried. Portland-Vernonia Truck line. Now, inconceivable ages later, Discontinuance of passenger some of those prehistoric shells service on the S. P. and S branch are again seeing the light of day Sept. 1, necessitated the change. —and for the reason that the The number of trips have been residents of the W. F. Brinxmey- increased from two to five a er farmstead, next door to Camp week. Reeher’s decided on the digging of a new well. SLIGHT DAMAGE Don Depue and Beryl Hender RESULTS FROM FIRE IN PORTERFIELD SHED son of Vernonia, and former mem bers of the nearby CCC camp, have excavated as the well dig Slight damage resulted from a gers some 60 feet down. They fire in the W. O. Porterfield have descended at the approxi woodshed Wednesday night. mate average of more than 500,- Flames apparently catching from 000 years per foot of well, sci a stove in the shed, spread be entific authority indicates. tween the walls. Most of the fire Proof of the age of scores of was extinguished before the de shells dug from the soft shale of partment arrived. the well site was received here Mrs. J. R. Lee left Friday for as result of the submission of a month’s visit with her daughter, several specimens to the school Mrs. James Wilkes, in San Diego, of sciences, Oregon State College. Specimens found at a depth of Cal. She expects also to take a 50 feet “represent three differ trip into Mexico. ent marine molluscs that once lived in a sea way that covered much of northwestern Oregon some 25 or more millions of years ago at a time when three-toed horses were living in the now fa mous John Day Basin, said Dr. E. L. Packard, head of the O. S. C. school of science. SEEN AND HEARD A small mollusc, little larger Mayor Owens and Water Supt. than the end of a man’s tnumb, Smith looking down at a buried was of particular interest to the meter . . . Tom Crawford’s big scientist. new bus, much admired . . . “This little specimen certain- Kenneth Bollinger and Happy is a nautilus which is rarely Thompson in a tow car hauling found in that part of geologic a sedan with a smashed wheel time in North America. Its pearly . . . Children with books and shell is nearly destroyed but its lunch pails . . . Headlights of mud internal mold gives some bicycles ridden by newsboys de clues as to its general nature,” livering papers after dark. wrote Dr. Packard. “I wish I • « » might have a better specimen By rights Ed Tapp should hand ( from those same shells of your out two cigars each instead of | region for study since I am one to congratulating friends. doubtful if that form has ever Feathers . . . NUMBER 37 Owing to misunderstanding of information received from the accessor’s ofice, authority to ex ceed the six per cent limitation must be sought by the directors of the union high school district 1, and an election has been called for Saturday, October 6, from 2 to 7 p.m. The directors were notified that the tax base is $18,404, and upon the assumption that six per cent could be added to this amount a tax of $19,393.16 was asked for in order to provide for SERA work on the gymnasi um, as well as thé normal ex penses of this year. The practice of the assessor’s office is, however, to add the six per cent before giving the base, and the total amount to be levied could not exceed $18,404 without exceeding the limitation. The district, therefore, is compel led either to abandon the SERA work or call for election. The budget itself will not need to be voted upon, having already been adopted. been found before.” The rare specimen is related more closely to the cuttie fish or the octopus than to snails or clams. Its modern close relative is the pearly or chambered nauti lus of tropical waters. Another fossil remain found in the Brinkmeyer well was a “tooth” or “tusk” shell known as a Dentalium. The three-inch, straight, tubical shell is open at both ends and not coiled like most modern snails. “Modern forms live along the coast and were used as beads by Indians of North America.” The third species of fossils found in the well were pearly clams belonging to the group gen erally known as mussels, and tech- nichally called Modiolus. “They were attached to objects like stones or shells,” commented Dr. Packard. “Their shell was lin ed with thick layers of pearl and strangely it has not lost its pearly lustre through these long years.” In the opinion of the school head, the general vicinity of the present geological finds should yield many other specimens. Be cause little geologic collecting has been done, however, no special areas have been determined as yet at of being of especial rich ness in fossils. MACPHERSON CAR FENDERS DAMAGED The fenders of F. D. Macpher son’s car were damaged in a collision on the St. Helens road Monday while he was on his way to jury duty in St. Helens. The other car, driven by a St. Helens man, did not give him room in rounding a curve, Mr. Macpher son says.