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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1934)
VOLUME XII $2.00 per year; 5c a copy. Davis Petitions Are Filed with City Recorder VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1934. DEWEY APPOINTS COMMITTEE FOR WARRANT PROBLEM One SERA Class Allotted Each City in County CAPT. HAZEN HERE IN INTEREST OF ARMISTICE DAY NUMBER 40. Alleged Flaws In Registration Are Detected Capt. M. S. Hazen of St. Hel A committee consisting of Ivan ens was in Vernonia yesterday N. McCollom, chairman, K. A. in the interest of the Armistice MacNeill, Albert Childs and C. S. Hoffman was appointed by Pres Counei for Adults Over 16 to day all-county celebration to be TAKES ROBERTS’ PLACE ident L. H. Dewey of the Verno held there. For the first time in CITY COUNCIL LEARNS Be Given ON TICKET history, he reports, the seventh nia chamber of commerce this OF SITUATION One SERA teacher for each of infantry band from Vancouver week to investigate the mat the five cities in Columbia coun “Sticker” Candidate for May ter of acceptance of teachers’ ty was authorized at a meeting Barracks is to appear in a town Gordon Building to Be Torn outside of Portland for an Armis warrants by local merchants. or Is Considered Down for Lumber This committee was authorized of the state SERA educational tice day celebration. The commit Possible By Culbertson committee in Hillsboro Tuesday. tee in charge is making every pos at the meeting of the chamber Besides the five there will be sible effort to secure a destroyer, Sept. 25. Petitions for W. A. Davis as Discussion of the apparently three alternates, all of whom are also. councilman were filed with the improper registration of voters to attend a training conference city recorder last Friday. He will for city elections occupied the in Salem the middle of this month. be a candidate for the term for attention of the city council There will be clases for adults which Loel Roberts was nominat Monday night. While checking above 16, with a minimum en ed at the caucus. Mr. Roberts, lo names on nominating petitions rollment of 10 each. The maxi cal relief agent, became ineligible it was discovered that many of mum salary of teachers will be when a ruling was made from the cards, made out several $48 a month. Washington, D. C., that no em years ago, do not bear the signa Harold McEntire was appoint ploye administering relief could ture of the voter or the other in Movement Sponsored By Local ed as committee representative hold any political office, national, Public Ownership Advocated By formation required, the name Study Club in Vernonia to make arrange state or local. merely being written at the top Independent Candidate The Community Chest drive for ments for starting a class. With the entry of Mr. Davis and in some instances old dis Peter Zimmerman, independent carded cards with other signa E. H. Condit, county school there will be two candidates for money, clothing, food and other each of the three positions on useful commodities will begin superintendent who attended the candidate for governor, was in tures being used. the council and the office of next Monday, October 8, and con Hillsboro meeting, reports that Vernonia Monday afternoon on a City Attorney D. O. Bennett, tinue until Saturday night, Oc an effort was made to secure speaking tour, and addressed a who was present, took the matter mayor and treasurer. Possibility of a “sticker” can tober 13, according to the an a home nursing class for Verno small audience at the Odd Fel under advisement, and agreed to didate for mayor looms, V. M. nouncement of Mrs. H. V. Hol nia, but as only 15 were allotted lows hall, little advance notice of send in a written opinion. Whitsell being mentioned, and he comb, civic committee chairman the entire state and one to Col his appearance here having been Building to Be Torn Down is considering entering the con of the Vernonia Study club, umbia county the state commit given. The council voted to accept which sponsors Vernonia’s com tee had already allotted it to The problem confronting the Harry Culbertson’s offer of $20 test as a third candidate. munity chest. St. Helens. people, he declared, is not one of for the privilege of tearing down production but of underconsump the old Gordon hotel building Donations or pledges of dona tion. This problem can be solved and keeping the lumber. He pro tions are to be left at the office only by putting the principal mised to put up a $50 guarantee of Loel Roberts. Each day during all of next week the office will tools of production in the hands to clean up the premises. be open continuously from 9 a. | of the people. As public opinion There was Tull attendance, each m. until 6 o’clock with some mem develops, he maintained, the cred member of the council being pre ber of the Study club in atten it system, utilities and manufac sent. dance to receive gifts or pledges. tures would be handled by the Program Afterward» to Be Open state. As it is now there is too “Everyone in the community Portland-Vernonia Line Is Affect much difference between the To Public must do his part to help,” said ed by Order price paid for the original pro Preparations are being com Mrs. Holcomb, who explained Suspension of truck service by duct and the ptice charged for pleted for the banquet of the that federal relief organizations Nehalem Rod and Gun club in demand that communties do what the Portland-Vernonia Truck line the article when sold. Mr. Zimmerman commit ted the Odd Fellows hall Monday they can to aid themselves. “Ev has been forced by the truck night, says C. R. Watts, secre ery gift helps,” Mrs. Holcomb drivers strike in Portland. W. A. himself in favor of the grange tary. The banquet will be open said, “no matter how small, and Davis, proprietor, went into Port power bill, asserting that if it is to members only, with 110 al people of limited means can all land Wednesday and was unable not passed the power generated None Is Necessary for City Elec tions He Affirms to return. In a phone message to at Bonneville will go into private ready signed up. A number from do their bit.” It is hoped that the response Mrs. Davis yesterday he stated hands and the people will not get In an opinion received yester Portland, Forest Grove and St. to the drive next week will be that he did not expect resump the benefit of public ownership. day morning by Recorder C. F. Helens are expected. “Public ownership at its most Hieber, City Attorney O. D. Ben There will be a prize to the so wide spread that personal solici tion the rest of the week. lady or girl member bringing in tation during the following weeks Freight to Vernonia is being careless is better than private nett declares that registration the best f’ve cutthroat, and an will not be necessary. brought out by the S. P. and ownership at its best,” he de for city elections in Vernonia is other to the man or boy member. now unnecessary. No ordinance It is understood that communi S., which now maintains a service clared. The principal address will be ty chest funds and supplies are this way Mondays, Wednesdays He maintained that taxes prescribes a method of registra given by Dr. Irving E. Vining of not connected in any way with and Fridays and to Portland on should not be raised from real tion, he pointed out, and since the state game commission. The the federal relief organization, alternate days. estate but that ample revenues no state law requires voters to program, scheduled to begin at and can be dispensed by the can be obtained from those who register with a city recorder any 7:30, will be open to the public community chest board wherever can afford to pay them, through otherwise qualified voter who re upon payment of a small admit needed most irrespective of fed a utilities tax, a graduated in sides within the city may vote tance fee. come tax and if further neces at a city election. eral relief qualifications. Venison for the banquet has Question regarding the right to sary an automobile tax. If the been secured by Ross Duncan MIST RESIDENT “secrecy clause” were eliminated vote came up at the city council and Harve Christiansen. from the state law and the real meeting Monday night as the re PASSES SATURDAY figures made available, he argued, sult of discovering of registration | MIST— (Special.) — George Hearing I» Held in Salem Last four or five million dollars re cards said to be improperly made venue would be available from the out. Cooil, a long time resident of Tuesday utilities alone. A stiff income tax Mayor Ben S. Owens takes this vicinity, passed away Satur would discourage men who seek the position that registration with A hearing on the application day evening at the Bell home in the recorder is necessary, and Clatskanie vicinity, where he was of the Banks-Portland stage line exhorbitant incomes. The bus and truck bill also that those whose cards are im taken early Friday morning. for extension of its route from came in for Mr. Zimmerman’s properly made out should register He lived alone on the moun the present terminus at Buxton criticism, on the basis that it by Saturday to be on the safe to Vernonia was held before the tain between Mist and Clatska SEEN AND HEARD works a hardship on the small side. Shorty Kullander, republican nie for many years. The last few public service commission in Sal farmer. em Tuesday. months he had been in very poor committeeman, introducing Pete TWO VERNONIA MEN Protest against the extension Zimmerman to the boys in Skin health and unable to get around. GETS NEW TRUCK KILL BIG DEER ON was made by K. H. Cliff, of the ny’s . . . Kenneth Bollinger and His age was 78 years. DEEP CREEK TUES. his tow car towing Tom Carmen The only known relative was Forest Grove-Vernonia line. Wit Xhe Nehalem Valley Ice and in his coupe, with a two wheel a nephew, living somewhere in nesses who confirmed Mr. Cliff's Creamery has bought a new Ford A five point buck weighing trailer behind, up Bridge street the east. The funeral was at contention that traffic is insuf pick-up truck from the Craw 161 pounds was killed by Ross . . . Harry Kerns’ new pick-up Clatskanie Monday, where he ficient to support two lines were ford Motor Co. Harry Kerns, Duncan and Harve Chri tiansen Lloyd Baker, Roy Raymond and creamery manager, traded in the Tuesday near the head of Deep truck out for limbering up . . . was buried. Ed Bafford. E. R. Treharne ap old Ford truck and the Hudson creek. It took them fous hours Two I.-P. dirt cars in the local peared for Mr. Grumbach, of the sedan. railway yards on the way from Carnival Date Set to drag it out, and had to be Keasey to Glenwood . . . Zon- November 17 has been set as Banks line. cut in two. weiss Dougalss carrying her sev the tentative date for a high The question was taken under Robert Kilb/ was ill Monday Mr. Duncan bagged also a deer en weeks old chow pup. school carnival. advisement by the commission. ! with intestinal flu. last week. Drive for Chest Donations to Start Oct. 8 Preparations For Gun Club Banquet Made P. Zimmerman Comes Here on Speaking Tour Truck Service Suspension Is Strike Result City Attorney Gives Opinion' On Registration Banks-Portland Stage Line Asks Extension Here Feathers . . . and.. .Talons
