VOLUME XIV
$1.50 per year,
5c a copy. VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY. OREGON
FRIDAY,
JANUARY 22,
1937
NUMBER 4
Hearing Resigns Petitions Circulated
Roberts Is Named
Flu Epedemic Not Creston Man Dies
On Visit Here
i
For Consolidation
rroni C. C. Board i Petitions are being circulated Severe Here Yet I Charles South Van Sickle, 42, As City Recorder
of Creston, Wash., died Wednes For 90 Days
for an election on consolidation
of Directors
The flu epidemic, which has day while he and Mrs. Van
I of Rock Creek school district 27
end Vernonia district 47. A ma been spreading throughout the Sickle were visiting with her
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Way I* Opened for Another
state, has reached Vernonia, but
Petitions in Favor of Both
To
Of
Serve as President
Local
Organization
jority of the voters in District
27 are said to have signed the
petition circulated there. Pre-
viously sentiment was evenly di-
vided.
The date of the election will
be fixed by the county boundary
board.
Ivan N. McCollom was elected
a director of the Vernonia cham
ber of commerce at the meeting
in the Masonic temple Monday
noon in place of Sam Hearing,
who resigned with the explanation
CHURCH TO HOLD
that his business duties preven
ted him from giving to the or INSTALLATION SERVICE
ganization the time that on offi-
The First Christian church will
cer, particularly a president,
hold an installation service Sun
should give. None of the other day morning, inducting into ser
directors felt free to serve as vice the newly elected officers
president, he declared, hence the of this year. They consist of
only solution was to step out elders,
deacons,
deaconesses,
and make place for some one church clerk, treasurer, financial
I
else.
secretary, chorister and pianist.
WPA projects for the com- This service is planned to be
im-
munity were discussed, Lester pressive and' interesting and the
Sheeley explained that only 10 i public is invited.
men are at present on the WPA
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list here.
Their time is now
being taken up with work on. the
Fishhawk road and with sanitary j
toilet projects. Work on the
airport, as far as authorized by!
~
government, has been completed,
In the hardest fought game of
he eaid, and the final report
turned in.
Additional work the year the Vernonia Loggers
would require a new project. It defeated Clatskanie 18 to 15 at
would be possible to work on a Clatskanie Tuesday night. It was
cemetery project now, he de the first time in years that Ver-
clared, if one were granted, but nonia defeated Clatskanie on
the swimming pool project must their floor.
await low water in the summer.
Vernonia got the first basket
The city has withdrawn its ap and at the end of the first
plication for the dam project be quarter led 8 to 2. At the end
cause half the work has been of the first half the score was
done under private contract. The 12 to 5. It was not until the
city should file a new applies-1 fourth quarter that Clatskanie
tion asking completion of the j began to even up the score, and
work together with some details [that was because of the loss of
not in the original application. [Adams and Condit on fouls.
The Loggers are to play Rain-
Neal W. Bush, secretary, read
a letter from the state labor ier here tonight.
commissioner asking about pay
for labor done on the dam, the
men having reported to the com
missioner that they had not been
paid as promised.
J. W. Nichols, reporting for
the committee appointed at the
Ivan N. McCollom was elected
last meeting to look into the president of the Vernonia cham
matter, stated that the chamber ber of commerce at a meeting
had paid to the workers $183.43 of the directors Tuesday night.
and the city $47.50, leaving a K. A. McNeill was chosen vice-
total debt of $372.11 outstand president, J. W. Nichols secre
ing, of which $249 was due for tary, and E M. Bollinger trea
labor. Of this the city had pro surer. Dr. H. M. Bigelow is the
mised to take care of $150, and other director.
Judge C. F. Hieber added that
a warrant had already been EVAMINER TO BE HERE
been drawn for it The balance of ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1
approximately $100 for labor will
have to be financed some way,
R. J. Dooley, examiner of
Mr. Nichols declared.
operators and chauffeurs, who
Mr. Sheeley explained that ex was unable to get to Vernonia
penses of construction had been last week Thursday, has sent
much higher than anticipated be word that he will be here Mon
cause of a rise in the level of day, February 1, from 10 to 5.
the water. Once in the job the
only thing to do was to go one evening meeting every three
ahead lest what had already been months, in addition to the noon
day meetings. Program rather
done be swept away.
than business will be stressed at
Night Meeting Planned
The chamber voted to hold the evening seeione.
LogfferS Victors III
Hard Fought Game
McCollom Named
Head of Chamber
not to serious proportions at
present. There are a large num
ber of cases of bad colds, some
genuine flu, and there has been
one death from pneumonia. That,
however, was complicated with
other diseases.
Twenty-one cases of flu are
reported at Camp McGregor.
Rumors, however, that the camp
camp has closed down because of
it are erroneous.. Attendance in
the two Vernonia grade schools
is virtually normal for this time
of year, with the first noticeable
drop in attendance Wednesday.
High school attendance is re
ported as normal.
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Townsend Club Names
Advisory Board
(Special Correspondent)
The Vernonia Townsend club
held its regular meeting Monday
evening, January 18 in the Tho
mas garage office. Many mem
bers stated it was the most en
thusiastic meeting held in the
past three months. A new ad
visory board consisting of the
following members, Mrs. C. O.
Thomas, Mrs. Manthey, M. Gib
son, Mrs. P. Wiedman, Mrs. Al
Schultz, Mrs. A. B. Johnson,
Mrs. J. W Brown, Mrs. Corey,
Carl Enstrom and Mr. Manthey
were elected to serve for the
next six months.
Mrs. C. 0. Thomas is holding
a Townsend Tri-County meet
ing at Hillsboro Sunday after
noon, January 31. Arthur Moore
of Monmouth, congressional dis
trict manager of District No. 1,
will address the meeting. Each
club in the three counties will
be asked to elect three delegates
to attend this meeting. Verno
nia club will elect their delegates
Monday evening, January 25.
This mass meeting will be open
to the general public and every
one is welcome.
Vernonia Townsend club ex
tends a hearty welcome to every
one to attend their meetings at
all times.
sister, Mrs. May Cameron, in
Roberts and B. F. Rogers
this city. He was ill for five
days .with pneumonia, complicated
Are Presented at Meeting
with other diseases.
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Loel Roberts was named as
Mr. Van Sickle was owner of
a garage in Creston. The body city recorder at an adjourned
was shipped Thursday to Wilbur, meeting of the city council Wed
nesday night. The appointment,
Wash., for interment.
made by Mayor Owens after a
AFTERNOON MAIL CLOSING majority of the council had ex
pressed their preTerence for Mr.
TIME HALF HOUR LATER
Roberts, was for 90 days.
Closing time for the after
A petition for Mr. Roberts
noon mail to Houlton and out was presented to the mayor and
side points has been changed council in addition to the peti
from 4 to 4:30, which still al tion presented Monday for Mr.
lows working time for the mail Rogers. Mayor Owens declared
in the Houlton post office be that ihe presentation of the peti
fore the evening train for Port tions was evidence of a lack of
land.
confidence in the council and the
The change accommodates the mayor, and if the people wanted
O.-A. office and other business the privilege of naming their
places that found the earlier own candidate they should be
time inconvenient for getting out allowed to do so by means of a
mail.
charter amendment making the
office of recorder elective." He
felt that rather than choose either
[ candidate the whole matter should
be deferred until the voters had
a chance to pass upon the amend
An ordinance establishing the ment. Councilman Adams con
salaries of city employes was pas curred in the opinion, but Coun
sed with an emergency clause at cilmen Raymond and McNeill
the council meeting Monday both declared that further delay
night. According to it the salary in naming a man would be in
of the recorder and water col jurious to the city. The mayor
lector is set at $120 a month, thereupon left to the council the
the marshal’s at $120, the deputy choice as to whom to select, and
Raymond, Stacey
marshal’s at $100, the water Councilmen
collector’s at $120, the treas and McNeill each expressed a
urer’s at $30 and the librarian’s preference for Mr. Roberts.
Mayor Owens named Mrs. W.
at $20.
O. Livingstone as a member of
Rogers Petition Presented
A petition asking that B. F. the library board. A .E . Adams
Rogers be reappointed as recor was elected president of the
der was presented, signed by 83 council.
names. Action was deferred until
Wednesday night.
Application of Jack Lindsay
for ilcensing of pool tables and
card tables was approved.
City Officers
Salaries Fixed
Feathers . . .
Two Commissioners Named
and... Talons
Mayor Owens announced the j
appointment of Ed Tapp, Dr. R.
D. Eby, L. G. Adams, W. H.
SEEN AND HEARD
Kent and C. C. Dustin to the
Ivan McCollom and Bill Nichols
boxing commission upon confir
mation by the council. Appoin in the light and power office
tees to the park board were L. figuring out plans for the cham
H. Dewey, R. M. Aldrich, Mrs. ber of commerce activities . . .
BATEMAN ENCOUNTERS
E. M. Bollinger, Mrs. J. L. Tim “V.F.D. Fire Chief’ painted by
SEVERE STORN IN IDAHO
mons and Mrs. Geo. H. Stankey. some one on a window of Everett
The bill of the chamber of Rundell's red sedan . . . Peggy
O. T. Bateman, who returned commerce for labor on the swim Byers applying to Les Sheeley
Sunday from a visit with rela ming pool dam amounting to for the job of chamber of com
tives in Idaho, encountered a $150 was ordered paid.
merce stenographer (ten years
severe snow storm while motor
The bond of H. H. King as too late) . . . Frank Rogers
ing 48 miles out of Idaho City city marshal was approved and again in the water collector’s
with his brother, C. L. Bateman. Mr. King was sworn in.
office during the illness of Edna
They made the trip from Idaho
Owens . . . George Baker while
City in safety, but were com WM. HORSHAM RESIGNS
visiting council meeting trying
pelled to turn back while on EIGHTH GRADE POSITION
to keep the reporter from finding
the return trip, and awaited a
out something (he never learned
snow plow. Following behind
Wm. Horsham, eighth grade what) . . . More snow, as if
the snow plow they came upon teacher in the Washington school, we didn’t already have enough.
two cars that had stalled in the ' resigned this week. He has been
drifts, one of which had been ill, and Mrs. H. G. Sandon has
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. DeCew of
abandoned and the other of been substituting in his place. Portland were out Sunday to
which sheltered the driver un His successor will be named by visit Mrs. DeCew’s parents, Mr.
harmed.
the board.
and Mrs. C. F. Hieber.