FRIDAY,
JANUARY
18,
1935.
PACIFIC COAST
•‘TAKES RAP" ON
GASOLINE PRICES
1-MINUTE SAFETY TALKS
Natal
By Don Herold
During Friday night three inch
es of snow fell followed by freez
ing weather with more snow on
Tuesday night and throughout the
day. A huge snow plow was used
to clean off the highway.
Two
oline
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Peterson spent
Sunday afternoon down the river
calling on Mr. and Mrs.' L. B.
Eastman.
Word was received here of the
arrival of a daughter Lois Shir
ley to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Neur-
er on Jan. 9. Mr. Neurer is or
ganizer and leader of the Colo
rado Wranglers orchestra and a
nephew of Jake Neurer.
Bob Seal’s logging camp moved
from Johnson creek to their new
camp site at Cedar creek. They
are logging a piece of timber
between Noble Dunlap’s and Jake
Neurer’s on the highway which
is being taken out by trucks.
Mrs. Nettie Peterson’s mother
fell injuring herself Monday. She
is confined to her bed. Mrs. An
na Osborn is helping Mrs. Peter
son care for her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Berg were
Wednesday visitors at Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Carmichael’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Osborn en
tertained Sunday with a supper
for a few friends at their home.
The occasion was their wedding
anniversary.
GRANGE
HALL
MEETINGS
The meetings in the grange
hall continue for another week.
Subject for Sunday, Jan. 20:
Daniel.
This is illustrated by
large charts. A real treat for
you.
Monday:
The 2300
years
most wonderful prophecy.
Tuesday: Christ
our
High
Priest.
Wednesday:
The Sanctuary
in Heaven.
Thiursday: no meeting.
the
United
prices,
and
the
Pacific
to the Oregon State Motor As
sociation, which has just issued
a table of January retail prices
on gasoline throughout the na
tion.
The Rocky mountain district
is the other in which prices are
out of step with the rest of the
nation.
Clyde Johnson has been sawing
camp wood for Bob Seal the past
week.
Otis Seal drove to St. Helens
Wednesday evening to see his
wife and small son.
in
coast is one of them, a
Richard Peterson has been suf
fering with an attack of lumbago
for the past week.
Robert McMullen was sick for
a few days last week with a bad
cold.
districts
States “ take the rap” on gas-
Mr. and Mrs. Van Anderson
spent the week end at their home
in Gresham, returning Sunuay.
Mr. and Mrs. Noble Dunlap
celebrated their wedding anniver
sary Wednesday, Jan. 9. This be
ing grange night at Natal the
couple were congratulated.
PAGE FIVE
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
On the Pacific coast district,
the northwest is most heavily
penalized, with Spokane, Wash
ington, topping the list for Ore
gon and Washington with 24
cents per gallon, including a 6-
cent tax.
Code for a Pedestrian
I will try to keep my mind on my
work as a pedestrian, the coming year.
When I cross a atreet I will try to
?uit thinking about that pretty blonde
met last Thursday or that deal by
which I hope to ahake 11,000 out of
Bill Smith next week.
I will figure that every motoriat in
tends to hit me until he proves that he
doesn't.
I will not cross streets against the
traffic signal, but will remember that
according to The Travelers Insurance
Company 28,870 of my fellow pedes
trians were injured that way in 1933,
and 810 killed.
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I'll be simpleton enough to walk
dbwn to the corner and cross with
traffic instead of crossing in the middle
of the block, for that's how 67,290 of
us hoofers got hit last year—3,320
with fatal effects.
I will not step out from behind
parked cars without first thrusting my
nose out to see what the chances are of
getting my block knocked off, as did
35,010 of my pedestrian friends last
year—1,460 of whom didn’t recover.
I won’t step off any curbs with my
head in the sporting or financial section
of any newspaper.
I won’t trust any motorist to taka
care of my hide; I’ll take care of my
own.
Therefore, when I walk on country
roads, I’ll walk facing traffic, instead of
taking it in the back.
I won’t play hopscotch in the middle
of the street.
When my rubber ball rolls off the
sidewalk, I won't run off the curb after
it until I have stopped and looked for
cars coming in both directions.
NATIONAL SAVINGS
MARK INCREASES
NEW YORK. — Tne annual sav
ings compilation of the American
Bankers Association for the year
ending June 30. 1934, shows that for
the first time since 1930 total sav
ings in all American banks recorded
an annual increase.
A statement by W. Espey Albig.
Deputy Manager of the association
tn charge of its Savings Division,
in the organization's monthly maga
zine "Banking.” says that savings
deposited in banks as of June 30.
1934, gained 3.5 per cent as com
pared with a year earlier.
"The aggregate is an increase
over last year of J742.132.000, the
first since the year which closed
June 30, 1930," he says. "Thia Is a
notable achievement, tor the decline
since 1930 had been precipitate and
all-embracing, in that year savings
had reached the all-time high of $28.-
478.631,000. A year ago the amount
was J21,125,534,000. a loss in three
years of $7 353.097,000. This year the
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In Helena, Montana, Rocky
mountain district, the price rea
ches as high as 25 cents, the
highest
listed in the
United
States. There, as in Oregon, the
tax totals 6 cents.
A low of 9.5 cents per gallon,
including a 4-cent tax, is reached
in Peoria, Ill. At Decatur, Ill.,
the price is only 9.9 cents, in
cluding a like tax. Other mid?
west prices range slightly higher,
but far below those in the North
west.
Oregon’s state and federal tax,
totaling 6 cents,
brings the
price of gasoline up to 21 cents
in Portland. California motorists
pay slightly less per gallon owing
chiefly to a tax of anly 4 cents.
For example, if California were
paying a 6-cent tax,
prices
would be 20.5 cents in San Fran-
cisco, 19.5 in Los Angeles and
21 in Fresno.
figure stands at $21,867,666,000.
"Depositors, too. have gained in
number, going from 39.262,442 on
June 30. 1933, to 39,562.174 on June
30 this year, a gain of 299.732. Four
years ago there were 52,729.432 de
positors, or one depositor for each
2.3 persons In the country. Now
there is one account for each 3.2
nersons."
Southern and south central
districts sag under heavy taxes,
but total gasoline prices in many
instances are considerably lower
than on the Pacific coasf.
NEW WEALTH FROM SOIL
New wealth which comes from the
soil is of special interest to those to
In Birmingham, Ala., the tax
I whom falls the responsibility of
also totals 8 and the motorists
maintaining our credit structure.
Unless agriculture is successful pay only 17 cents per gallon.
farm borrowers cannot ultimately
succeed, neithei can the banks they
serve. Foreclosure sales are not a
sound basis for good farming or
good banking. Bankers, therefore,
are as much interested in the per
manent success of the agricultural
Industry as are the farmers, wheth
er the deposits come directly from
’arm patrons, or Indirectly througli
the ordinary channels of business.—
D. H. Otis, Director of Agriculture.
American Bankers Association.
Professional & Business Directory
Fridnv; The T,aw and Gospel.
Ssturdav:
no meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Denny Ryves are
All meetings begin at 7:30 p. guests at the home of Mr. and
m.
You can’t afford to miss
Mrs. E. H. Washburn.
one for they mean eternal life
to you.
Come and hear lor
yourself.
Paul Iverson, pastor
Guaranteed!
The government is behind
Mazda Lamps
Electrical Appliances
every
deposit you
have—
up to $5000. That is the
finest guarantee
world—as
in
certain
as
the
j
the
very existence of our gov
ernment!
Make
posits with
OFFICE HOURS
9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
they
are
your
de- I
confidence — I
guaranteed,
by
Federal Deposit Insurance.
SATURDAY
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9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
“THE ROLL OF
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HONOR BANK”
Oregon Gas and
Fnn’sf Grove
Electric Company
?:A ììuì ; à LBANK
C22 Bridge St
Telephone 691
J. A. Thornburgh, President
R. G. Thornburgh. Cashier
VERNONIA BRAZING AND
MACHINE WORKS
NEHALEM
TAVERA
3 MILES NORTH EAST
OF VERNONIA
Authorized CHEVROLET
Sales and Service
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PHONE 342