VOLUME XIV $1,50 per year, 5c a copy.
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VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY,
OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936
Three Hundred
Are Now at Work
In Lumber Mill
¡Swimming Hole
Briarcliff
golfers
defeated To Be Sponsored
Vernonia 25 V4 to 1314 at Briar­
cliff Sunday. Scores were as fol­ By City Council
Three Remaining Crews Will
Add about One Hundred
More Men
lows:
The Oregon-American mill op­
ened Monday morning, using one
side. Tht second will be put to
work Monday, bringing the tot­
al to about 300. Three crews
are yet to be put on: the planer
crew, the sorting crew and the
shipping crew. When these are
at work the number of men em­
ployed in the mill will be about
400.
Department heads and foremen
are as follows: C. L. Anderson,
plant superintendent; L. H. Rob­
erson, mill foreman; W. T. Lilley,
stacker and sorter foreman; Wal­
ter Thompson, dry kiln foreman;
W. F. Manthey, timber dock fore­
man; H. V. Holcomb, planing
mill foreman; John J. Grady,
shipping clerk; Dave Marshall,
shop foreman; R. A. Simmons,
chief engineer; A. J. Hughes,
chief electrician; E. R. Estey,
woods superintendent. F. M. Ruhl
is head of the office staff.
A large proportion of the men
are old employes. The stacker
and sorter crew, under W. T.
Lilly, consists entirely of men
who had the same job before the
ahut-down.
Camp has oeen operating with
one side, hat another is being
put on this week. There will be
about 200 in camp.
Feathers
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.. .Talons
SEEN AND HEARD . .
Sam Hearing and Bill Briot
scattering corn meal on Bridge
street to get it ready for the
street dancing . . . Les Sheeley
vigorously pushing a broom to
spread out Sam’s corn meal . . .
Kids racing dow'n the street as
soon as the offer of a free show
is announced . . . Julia Wang-
ler and Marguerite Laird start­
ing the dancing .... Judd
Greenman emphasizing the fact
that some of us arn’t here
again; we’re here yet . . . Crowds
elbowing their way up and down
street, but everybody orderly . .
. Jim Monger and George McKay
detouring triffic by waving flash­
lights . . . Cars parked as far
away as the depot.
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NEW SHOE SHOP LOCATES
IN VERNONIA
A. Federci,, for many years a
shoemaker in St. Helens, is open­
ing up a shop on Second street,
between the Crawford garage and
the Paterson Furniture store.
Briarcliff Golfers
Defeat Vernonia
Briarcliff
Decision to sponsor the swim-
Bateman . .. % Girt ....... 2V4 ming hole in Rock creek as a
Al Childs ....H J. Stennick 2 Vi i WPA project was made at a
H. King ... 2 G. Stennick -1 meeting of the city council Tues-
Tisdale .... .. % W.Stennick 2 Vi day night. An option on property
Messing . .. 1 Clement ... .. 2 belonging to C. A. Mills abutting
Heath .... ... 2 Pumala .... . 11 the creek was taken up by res-
D. Linn .. ... 3 Moline ..... .. 0 1 olution of the council.
K. Linn .. ... 0 Thompson . ....3 1 The council authorized the pur­
Inouye .... .1% Jubinville . iti ! chase of 24 squares of shingles
Skuzie .... . H Niles ....... 2 Vi i for repair of the city hall roof.
J. Childs ..... 0 Graham .... •
H. L. King was authorized to
P. Linn .... .... 0 Naehle ..... .. 3 buy police equipment necessary,
Simon ..... ... 2 Davis ....... . 1 and W. H. Kent was authorized
A return match with Briarcliff to buy material for repair of the
will be played here next Sunday. water tanks at the pumping plant.
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The Superior Amusement Co.
was granted a license for one pin
ball machine.
L. H. Dewey of the Miller Mer­
cantile Co. was granted per­
mission to erect a corrugated iron
Vernonia’s Tualatin valley base­ fuel shed in the rear of the store.
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ball team continued its winning
ways Sunday, beating Banks by Services Held Here
a score of 8 to 6. What was For Lee Hall, 68
supposedly a weak Banks team
Services were held Tuesday in
played superior ball and forced
the locals to fight an up hill the Vernonia Evangelical church
battle all the way. Vernonia for Wilburn Lee Hall, 68, who
pulled the game out of the fire died Saturday in his home at
in the ninth inning by scoring Waldport. Rev. G. W. Plumer,
two runs, after knotting the former pastor of the local church,
officiated.
count in the eighth.
Mr. Hall was born in Me Dow-
The Vernonia’s big guns start­
ell,
Kentucky, and was married
ed booming when Morey Heiser,
Vernonia’s new utility man, singl­ September 25, 1892 in Lowton,
ed to center field. Krieger singl­ Ky., to Miss Nannie B. Tipton.
ed to right, Turple brought both Two sons and three daughters
men home with a long triple to were born to this union, the two
Centerfield. Holcomb, Vernonia i sons preceding him in death sev­
scrappy second baseman, who has eral years ago. Surviving are his
seemingly found his batting eye, widow, Mrs. Nannie B. Hall of
boomed another long triple to Waldport; three daughters, Mrs.
Centerfield, scoring Turple. He iE- E. Mills of Waldport, Mrs. A.
scored on Cline’s fielder’s choice, 'J. Kirk and Mrs., C. R. Fowler
knotting the count. Vernonia of Vernonia; three brothers, B.
played a bang-up game Sunday T. Hall of Weiser, Idaho, Matt
making only one error. Heiser, ■and Walker Hall of Warnock,
Vernonia southpaw although wild Ky.; two sisters, Mrs. Cora Ak­
struck out 15 men and allowed ers of Pocatello, Idaho, and Mrs.
only 8 hits, but was continually Jennie Hamilton of Bonner, Ky.
There are also six grandchildren
in trouble from his wildness.
and
one great grand child.
Sunday Vernonia travels to
Mr. Hall spent his young man­
Amity to take on the first half
champs in what promises to be hood in his native state. In 1903
he moved with his family to the
a thriller.
state of Washington, where he
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was engaged in the timber bus­
CARPENTER WORK ON
iness until 1908. He then moved
BROWN BUILDING NEARY
to Vernonia, where he lived un­
FINISHED
til five years ago when he moved
Carpenter work on J. W. to Waldport, where he conducted
Brown’s building next to the , a'service station. He was a mem­
Eagle shop is nearly completed, • ber of the Baptist church for
and painting and paper hanging 35 years.
are under way. Shingles are used
Interment was in the family
for surfacing the outside, and I plot in Riverview.
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these are being sprayed with a |
gun. Bob Morrell is doing the REEHER RESIGNS FROM
painting and paper hanging, and GRADE SCHOOL FACULTY
Bert Depue, assisted by Mr.
H. A. Reeher resigned this week
Brown, the carpenter work.
When completed the building from the Washington grade school
will be thoroughly rebuilt and staff. He is now operating a
much more attractive in appear­ grocery store opposite the school
building, and intends to devote his
ance than formerly.
entire time to it.
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A son was born July 14 to
Mr. Reeher’s successor will be
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Myers of Tre- named at a future meeting of
harne.
the board.
Vernonia
Vernonia Defeats
Banks Ball Team
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Second Floor of High
School Is Undergoing
Repairs
The floor of the assembly room
of the high school building has
been torn up preparatory to lay-
ing a new floor throughout the
second story. Noble Dunlap and
Bert Depue are doing the work.
Kalsomining the walls upstairs
is also under way, with Ben S.
Owens, janitor and Elmer Mich-
ener doing the work.
The second floor of the build­
ing was in rather bad shape. It
is believed that the first floor
will be serviceable for another
year.
NUMBER 30.
Reopening Marks
New Epoch Here
Avers Greenman
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Event Is Celebrated
Short Program and
Street Dancing
with
Reopening of the mill marks
• new epoch in Vernonia history,
according to Judd Greenman,
who spoke briefly at the celebra­
tion Monday night. The Oregon-
American, free from the shackles
which bound the old company,
has now a much better chance of
succeeding in the highly compet­
itive business of manufacturing
and selling lumber than it did on
July 12, 1924, when the mill
started, he believed.
Mr. Greenman also paid trib­
ute to Clark and Wilson, whose
establishing of their headquart­
Election upon the right to ex­ ers camp near here alone enabled
ceed the six per cent limitation the local merchants to remain in
in connection with the budget business during the lean years
of Union High School District 1 that the mill was down.
for 1936-37 will be held tomor­
Sam Hearing, president of the
row afternoon from 2 to 7 in chamber of commerce, in intro-
the high school building.
ducing Mr. Greenman, referred
The budget calls for a tax of to Monday as the greatest day
$30,012.87, about $600 less in Vernonia’s history since the
than that of the past school year. day that the mill first started
However because of the fact sawing loga.
that the base which determines
At the beginning of the pro­
the excess tax is low, it is nec­ gram the Vernonia junior band,
essary for the question to be in their white uniforms and blue
voted upon the same as if there i caps, rendered several numbers
were an actual increase in excess under the direction of their lead­
of six per cent.
er, Clarence R. Watts. At the
conclusion they marched from
the bandstand down the street in
front of the assembled audience.
Following the speaking the
BACK TO VERNONIA
Cobert orchestra of Hillsboro
played for the street dancing.
A noteworthy fact in connec­
Hearty response to request for
tion of the reopening of the mill funds to finance the event is re­
is that the majority of men are ported by Mr. Hearing. In add­
old employes. Many of them still ition Mrs. Zelma Bush gave free
have their homes in Vernonia, admisión to the second show in
and it is natural that their pre­ the theatre. All amounts above
ferred employment should be at expenses will be donated to the
the local mill. Yet a large num­ junior band, Mr. Hearing says.
ber have been scattered through­
A large crowd, estimated at
out the Pacific northwest and from 1500 to 2,000, was present.
have given up other jobs to re­ The dancing was conducted on
turn here at the first opportun­ Bridge street, between First and
ity. That is ample testimony to Second. Traffic was detoured to
the popularity of Vernonia as a Maple street.
place in which to live and even
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more than that, to the fairness W. I. BIGGS FUNERAL HELD
which the company, under Judd IN CLATSKANIE
Greenman as superintendent, has
treated its employes. Men, once
Services for William Isaac
loose from a place, do not come. Biggs of Wauna, son of Mr. and
back unless they like it—and Ver-¡Mrs. T. C. Biggs of Vernonia,
nonia and the Oregon-American | were held Saturday in Clatskan-
> ie.
are liked.
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I Mr. Biggs was a resident of
WORTH WHILE EFFORT
I Wauna for the past 12 years.
[Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Pearl
The effort of the Vernonia IBigys; a daughter, Florence and
post of the American Legion to 'a son, Lee, all of Wauna; his
secure an inhalator for commun­ i parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
ity use is in keeping with its ; Biggs; a brother, Carl Biggs, and
already accomplished service of i a sister, Mrs. Ruby Fowler, all
sponsorship of the community i of Vernonia.
ambulance. Both are indispensi-I
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ble in saving life in emergencies,. B. F. Owens and family of
and the Legion should have the Klamath Falls returned home yes-
hearty cooperation of every one terday after a week’s visit here
in obtaining the one essential \ with Mr. Owens’ parents, Mr. and
thing now lacking.
Mrs. B. F. Owens.
Election to be
Held Tomorrow on
School Budget
Editorial