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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1934)
Pall of Smoke Is Caused by Permit Fires BLAZE IS CONFINED TO CERTAIN AREAS Smoke Is Declared to Be Thickest Ever Known Vernonia Post Instals Officers For Coming Year Vernonia post of the American Legion installed officers Tuesday night as follows: Earl Atkins, commander; Clyde McDonald, vice-commander; Chas. Biggs, ad jutant; J. IE. Tapp, finance of- Collectiona to be Made Tomorrow arms. M. R. Calhoun was in stalling officer. E. A. Shipman, retiring com mander was appointed service officer to take care of anything pertaining to service work. There was a large turnout. Plans were considered for activi ty along new lines. Despite the thick smoke, there are no fires in this locality except on lands where permits for burn ing slashing have been secured, according to report from the pa trol officers yesterday afternoon. The smoke is particularly thick along the Mist road, where Clark and Wilson are burning slashings over a large number of acres. Mo torists report that extreme caution in driving is at times necessary. Some declare the smoke to be the thickest ever known in the Natal region. ficer; H. H. King, sergeant at By Volunteer. Newspapers etc. Are Wanted for Library Drive Road Engineers Arrive Here for Work Assignment A party of seven state high way engineers arrived in Verno nia Wednesday wtih the expecta tion of remaining for some time. Orders as to the exact work they are to perform have not yet been received, they state. The highway commission has authorized two projects in the immediate vicinity—oil pavement from Al Parker’s for two miles north to Pittsburg, and regrading and surfacing of portions of the Beaver Creek highway between the Hess bridge and Buxton. It is assumed that the engineers will work on one or both of these projects. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO MEET TUESDAY IN MASONIC HALL The Vernonia Chamber of Com merce will meet next Tuesday in the Masonic hall, the meeting date having been postponed one week. Judd Greenman is program chairman. Feathers . . . and.. .Talons I SEEN AND HEARD Clarence Watts giving banquet tickets to rod and gun club mem- berg . . . High school freshmen girls in curl papers, splotchy freckles, and cheese cloth skirts . . . Boys with rouged faces and knickers ... A COC grader mounted in a truck en route through town . . . Archie Knauss bidding good bye to friends . . . Red Sesseman driving by the house he was looking for, much to the amusement of Ernie Her man, who was riding with him . . . Albert Childs proudly sur veying a beef just slaughtered . . . Harry Culbertson attending coun cil meetings that fail to meet . . . E. Treharne telling what he thinks of the republican machine. Old newspapers, old magazines and even discarded books are wanted by the Vernonia public li brary tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 22. Tie magazines and newspapers in separate bundles and remove the covers from worthless books. Place the bundles on your front steps by nine o’clock tomorrow morning. Boy Scouts will help collect the bundles which be sent to Portland sometime next week and sold as old paper to gain funds for new books and supplies for the library. Bundles will be collected from house to house in Vernonia, on O.-A. hill and in Riverview. At Camp 8, Alice and Patricia Baker will collect old paper which will be brought to the library. The library board will appre ciate having other out of town re sidents bring their bundles to the city hall today or Saturday. If notified the library board will call out of town for papers within a radius of five miles. The local schools, churches, fra ternal organizations, Boy Scouts and business men are all giving their support to the drive. Cattle Raisers Hold Meeting In Grange Hall Government Campaign Against Abortion Explained A meeting in the interest of the government’s campaign against contagious abortion in cattle was held in the Vernonia grange hall Tuesday afternoon. Among those who participated were Dr. S. B. Foster of Portland, representative of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, Dr. F. G. Rankin of St. Helens, county herd’ inspector, and Geo. A. Nel son, county agricultural agent. Under the federal plan, it was explained at the meeting, those who sign contracts agree to have their herds tested free of charge, and in case reactors are found, to dispose of them and clean up the premises in an approved man ner. In return the government agrees to have the animals ap praised that are found to be re actors and to pay the difference within certain limits between such appraised value and the amount the animal brings for slaughter. The amount of cash the govern ment will add to the “salvage” value of an animal is $20 for a grade and $50 for a purebred. Owing to the short time in which arrangements were made for the meeting and the lack of adequate notice only about half the cattle raisers of the vicinity were present. A committee con sisting of H. M. Condit, Victor Bergerson the Siedelman broth ers, Art Kirk, Chas. Biggs and T. F. Epping are contacting owners of cattle each in his own locality, and it is expected that there will be a 100 per cent sign.up- Democrats Meet With Candidates In Clatskanie Members of the democratic central committee of Columbia county met with the party candi dates in Clatskanie Monday night. Attending from Vernonia were E. R. Treharne, J. B. Wilkerson, Wm. Pringle, Sr., and E. H. Washburn. Of each dollar of CWA money NO CLUES DISCOVERED spent in this state the republican AS TO NATAL GRANGE HALL VANDALISM bureau in control spent 80 cents of it and the men got 20 cents, No clues have been obtained Mr. Treharne declared. as to the persons who broke Into the Natal grange hall after the A. C. KNAUSS LEAVES FOR NEW POSITION IN dance a week ago Saturday night, MADISON, WISCONSIN says Noble Dunlap, master. No trouble was experienced with any A. C. Knauss left yesterday one at the dance, and the motive remains a mystery. Nothing was noon for Madison, Wis., where he has been given a six months stolen. The only damage done was position under the U. S. forest from the smashing of gas lamps service in the wood products against the windows, breaking the laboratory in that city. His work mantles of the lamps and the will consist in conducting tests in kiln drying for small and panes of glass. medium timbers and other season ing problems in lumber. Moe« Move to Canby Mr. Knauss, previous to coming Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Moe and family are moving from to Vernonia, was an engineer for Hood River to Canby, where Mr. eight years in the laboratory at Moe will be employed on the Madison. About 60 engineers Canby Herald, according to word and physicists are employed there. He expects to remain in Madi received here yesterday. Mr. Moe was for several years son until the last of March. His pirblyfher df Vernonia Eagle, j family will continue to reside in moving to Hood River in 1930. Vernonia. Largest Class Is Initiated Into I. O. O. F. Lodge A class of ten, said to be the biggest single class in the history of I. O. O. F. lodges in the county, was given the first degree in Vernonia lodge 246 Monday night. The class consisted of W. A. Davis, Dr. H. M. Bigelow, Lode McDonald, Clyde McDonald, Wal lace McCrae, Paul Gordon, George W. Johnson, Harold McEntire, Ed Salomonsen and Otis Hyland. There were 17 visitors from the St. Helens and Clatskanie lodges. The local degree team will go to St. Helens Sept. 28, where the candidates will be initiated into further mysteries of the order. Several Attend Game Meeting In St. Helens Work of Game Commission Is Explained Several members of the Nehal em Rod and Gun club attended a banquet of the St. Helens Rod and Gun club last Friday night. Features of the meeting were a dinner, drawing of prizes which found E. M. Bollinger, Ross Dun can and E. H. Washburn from Vernonia among the winners, and speeches by Dr. R. E. Dimick, en tomologist of the Oregon State Agricultural Experiment station, Frank B. Wire, supervisor of the state game commission, and oth er. Dr. Dimick explained what the commission is doing in the way of analyzing the food of fish and what streams have the right kind of food for sustaining fish planted by the commission. Mr. Wire explained the source of funds for running the state game farm and hatcheries, entirely from the sale of hunting and fishing li censes and not at all from taxa tion. He also showed motion pic tures of wild animal life. The St. Helens club raised $56 at the meeting to build in their community holding pens for pheasants. Attending from Vernonia were E. M. Bollinger, Dr. H. M. Bige low, Ross Duncan, Emil F. Mess ing, Ed Salomonsen, E. H. Wash burn and Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Watts. Referendum on Ordinance 202 Declared Void JUDGE H. K. ZIMMERMAN ISSUES ORDER Recorder Is Restrained from Further Action In Matter Ordinance 202, providing for a settlement of the case of the city of Vernonia against H. E. Mc Graw by transferrence of cer tain assets of the defunct Bank of Vernonia will not be subject to referendum, according to an order received last Friday by Re corder C. F. Hieber and signed Thursday by Judge Howard K. Zimmerman. At the hearing in circuit court that day the plaintiffs were re presented by Judge W. A. Har ris and Huntington, Wilson and Huntington, while the city re corder, named in the complaint as defendant, was not reprsented. The order restrains the record er from certifying, printing or causing to be printed on election ballots the ballot title or number of the measure described in the complaint. It directed that the recorder take no further action with regard to the petition for referendum, and declared Ordi nance 202 not to be subject to referendum. Recorder Explain« In explaining the fact that no answer was made to the com plaint Recorder Hieber states that he was without authority to en gage an attorney or represent the city in behalf of the petition. The city council, upon whom the authority rests, had agreed to the settlement with the attorneys of Mr. McGraw, and naturally was not interested in opposing it in the courts. The council had em powered Judge Harris to take all necessary steps in protecting the interest of the city in the matter of the referendum. The petition for a referendum was filed July 18. It bore 40 names. CCC Roads Are Closed to Travel During Hunting CONTEST IN NAIL BRINGING WILL BE CHURCH FEATURE Permit* Are Required for Entry In Closed Area There will be a contest to see who can bring the largest or Travel on CCC roads in this smallest nail to the Christian locality during the hunting season church Sunday evening, Sept. 30, is prohibited, states J. J. Russell, says C. R. Pritchard, pastor. There inspector. The roads have just will be a prize for the one who been bladed, and are in danger brings the smallest nail and the of being torn up if opened to one who brings the largest. Only general use by hunters. Gates will real nails will be considered by be erected as soon as possible at the judges. The nails will be used the entrances of the roads, and in the sermon, and the public is in the meantime snags will be invited to enter the competition. felled across them. Hunting on the area closed by QUORUM LACK PREVENTS proclamation, including the burn CITY COUNCIL MEETING of last year in this locality, will Lack of a quorum prevented a be allowed only on permit, which meeting of the city council this may be obtained from wardens at week and no date has been set the fire patrol headquarters at for the hearing or election on Pittsburg, Jewell or Forest Grove, the proposed budget. or at the CCC camps.
