Vernonia eagle., June 03, 1938, Page 21, Image 21

FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1938
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
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VERNONIA EAGLE EDITORIALS
We Have Something,
Let's Use Itl • —
IN THE swimming pool—Dewey Pool—in the
center of Vernonia, this community has an asset far
beyond description.
The pool, with its refreshing tendencies for all
who employ its depth and attractiveness, should
prove attraction enough to this town to act as a
magnet during the summer for hundreds, yes, thous­
ands of visitors from over the entire country and
trading territory.
The pool will only be as good a magnet as we
make it. In other words, if you think we have
something in that natural swimming hole, why not
tell your out-of-town friends about it. Make it spec­
ific that the City of Vernonia, its park board, and
Chamber of Commerce, plus ill of the other o.'gani.
zations that have aided in its development, have con­
structed the project with a view toward its wide and
frequent use by all'.
No one shall be barred, except, of course, for
infractions of rules that certainly are not out of
reason nor strict. Every soul wanting to employ the
cooling waters of Rock creek this summer will be as
welcome as the proverbial first sprig of green after
the heavy winter snow. The project is for you, your
family, friends both in and out of town.
Let’s make Vernonia the district swim center.
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EVERY SPORTSMAN SHOULD RUN
DOWN A STEELHEAD PETITION—
AFTER A wait of several weeks, during which
time valuable moments have been lost in the avail­
ability of signatures to steelhead petitions, the legal
work and publication of the forms in the steelhead
fight have been completed.
The ferms were received by officii Is of the
Nehalem Hunters & Anglers club this week and
straight away these selfsame forms were distributed
to competent hands for the task of obtaining, at an
early date, the greatest number of bonafide signa­
tures.
Already the foes of the “Make Steelhead a
Glime Fish” bill are at it. Already the enemies of
true sportsmanship are expending sums and in­
fluence where it is believed the influence will be the
moat felt. Already the coffers of the commercial
fishing interests have opened their vast jaws to
fight a conservation bill that, in our opinion, will
aid them, will make them friends, and will safe­
guard their great industry from unscrupu­
lous hands in the future.
After all, there is a pendulum, mt that pen­
dulum must, after swaying back and forth, to and
fro, with public opinion, rest at a midway point.
That midway point betw.en the commercial interests
and sportsmen faits just ahead of the steelhead.
Commercial interests admit the lack of canning
quality in steelhead. They admit the lack of con­
sistent poundage. They admit a lack of profit in
the steelhead opt rations.
Sportsmen admit the steelhead’s game-ability.
Sportsmen admit steelhead to be the Pacific Coast’s
finest stream catch.
Sportsmen admit spending
many times the value of each fish for the thrill of
landing it.
In The Eagle’s opinion, the proclaiming of
steelhead as a game fish, and the consequent placing
of that spicie in the lists over which the State
Commission exercises control would be the
greatest single step forward in the transformation of
Oregon’s Coast waters and inland streams from
mere succession of poetical waves to the greatest
fishermen’s paradise in the World;
We have made the statement before and we re­
affirm it here: If steelhead is voted a game fish
by statute, those communities which are now furnish­
ing the fodder for the anti-campaign, will become
the first to laud the bill after its enactment.
Why?
Because a bountiful' supply of this
greatest of trout in the fresh waters of Oregon will
bring, in dollars and cents, many times the figure
now realized from the closely confined commercial'
interests.
Sportsmen spend money. Commercial fisher-
mer save money.
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THERE'S ONE thing about living in this pait
of Oregon, and that is that we know ere long we’re
going to have rain. Dust Bowl people aren’t so
fortunate.
Verncnia Eagle
Mnrvin Kamholz and Marion Sexton, Publishers
MARION SEXTON .......................... EDITOR
MARVIN KAMHOLZ ................ Business Mgr.
He Was Harct but
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For a number of years the people of unknown cases have been dis­
Fire deatroyed the home and of Columbia county have been help­ covered among school students
most of the contents of Herman ing to fight Tuberculosis by pur­
which, when discovered in time, can
I Veal. Some of the furnishings of chasing Christmas Seels, but it is
the living room and some clothing doubtful if many know how the be cured. The work of the associa­
was saved.
money is i used or how much is tion is not completed and must oe
raised each year. It is with the idea carried on year after year if we
TEN YEARS AGO—
of giving such information that are going to stamp put this dread,
Approximately $500,000 of rail­ this article is being prepared,
ed disease. Oregon is still losing
road rolling stock is in Vernonia
For over thirty years the Oregon
each day from tuberculosis with
cne
.ai the present time according to Tuberculosis Association has carried
Lee Schwab, employee of United on the fight against Tuberculosis. the greatest number of deaths bet­
Railways. A total of 273 cars of Columbia iCounty has assisted in ween the ages of 15-45. Every
all descriptions are in the yards this fight each year to the extent I twelve d'ays in 1936 a boy or girl,
which are filled almost to capacity. of the Seal Sale, but all fund.- I
less than 20 years of age, died of
from the sale of seals in the county the disease. Oregon is spending a
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO—
Albert Childs is opening a new up to the year of 1935 were sent quarter of a million dollars (tax
to the State Association for the.r money) annually for hospital care
butcher shop in Vernonia.
Dr. M. D. Cole is attending a use throughout the state. Colombia of patients sick with the disease—a
County derived some benefit indir- I disease which could have been pre­
dentists’ convention in Portland.
ectly. In the fall of 1935 the Col- ! vented. Tuberculosis is not inherit­
umbia County Public Health Associ­ ed but comes from contact with
ation was organized ant entered another case. Therefore, no one can
into a contract with the State Tub ) be secure against the disease as
trculosis Association to conduct the hng as it is in the community. Thie
seal sale on the commission basis,1 seals purchased by the people of
that is, the county through this ar­ Columbia County are working to
», »AM. SHtll. Snirtery •* tt«c,
rangement was permitted to retain eradicate Tuberculosis and your
a percentage of the funds to be us- continued interest in, and financial
HOW FAST SHOULD I DRIVE
ed to fight Tuberculosis within the
support of this campaign is your
PAST A “MEN WORKING” SIGN? County.
b'ist insurance against the disease.
While there is no definite indic­
The figures given below gives
Columbia County Pub­
ated speed listed in the motor vehi­ »mount of the sale for each of
lic Health Association
cle law for this case, the motorist past twelve years. Your attention
By T. L. McBride
is directed to the fact that for the
Secretary-Treasurer
should regard a “men working'
yeir of 1937 the County’s Share
sign as an indication that he should amounts to mpre than the total
prepare to stop in case the roadway gross sale for any of the previous
is obstructed. Particularly on a years and yet the State Association
curve, Where vision is cut off, the does not suffer a loss.
FIVE YEARS AGO—
OUR UTTER inability of understanding, as it
is with millions of others, prompts us to spend a
few lines on an incident to which we were a witness
Memorial Day morning during the brief, but im­
pressive exercises held on the creek bridge and
which were marked by the deposition of the flower
blooms into the waters below as a gesture by the
living to the dead.
There was little said during the few moments.
The program had been planned ahead. The young
musicians played the old hymn, “Nearer, My God,
to Th.e.” There was the traditional singing of “My
Country, ’Tis of Thee,” with band accompaniment.
There was nothing of the spectacular in that pro­
gram.
Of course, we were affected. We always are.
Those gestures bring memories to our mind, mem
ories that obliterate all that might be bright . . .
for the moment . . . and a human mind drifts to
those fateful days of yesteryear when a mother . . .
mayhap a father, sister, brother, grandparent . . .
or dear friend has passed the veil into what we
know to be be a better world, yet there is unex­
plained sadness.
And so it was at the Memorial program on the
bridge.
Yet, wait, near us stood a man. Alone. He had
wandired up the avenue as if in a dream. We knew
him to be hard. Hard physically and morally. He
did not have to be near. He could have stayed at
some remote place. Yet, he was there.
No different was he compared oo us. Tears
foggid his eyes. He wiped them back at first with
a half-ashamed forefinger, then his hand . . . then
his handkerchief. He was hard. Hard physically
and morally.
Christmas Seal Sale
It has been written that we only get to know motorist should proceed cautiously
$414.99
2.5
God in those stark moments when we are driven to when he sees such a sign, as there 1926
1927
413.72
2.6
depen'd on Him. Perhaps our friend knows this.
tray be one-way traffic ahead.
1928
396.29
2.5
Just an incident ... an incident with a lesson.
In proceeding past a group of 1929
390.71
2.1
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workmen on the highway, one should 1930
1.7
358.69
WHAT ABOUT THE TROUT?—
rot exceed a speed: of 15 or 20 1931
260.12
1.2
THERE IS much ado in communities fronting miles per hour, since the workmen 1932
175.30
.3
1.0
th. Columbia river, from Astoria to The Dalles and are keeping their minds on their 1933
202.36
1.2
256.68
on east to far-inland points concerning the scarcity job rather than on the passing traf­ 1934
fic, and are apt to step suddenly 1935
318.58
1.5
of salmon this season.
Some say it's the Bonneville dam. Others lay in front of a car without looking. County share this year was $127.43.
695.47
3.4
the bl. me on the intruding Japanese floating can­ Any greater speed may be inter- 1936 ’
neries along the Alaskan coast. Others point to the pi*eted as reckless driving, which County share this year was $278.18.
5.2
1046.05
peculiar water conditions which have frequented the includes driving “at a speed or ill ’937
i manner so as to endanger or be County share this year was $627.63.
l.orthwcst during 1938. Still others come forth
The money retained by the Coun-
with other explanations, covering a wormy condition ’ likely to endanger any person OT
iroperty.”
y Association is used exclusively
which has killed many of the salmon to observations
for Health Education, testing and
which are not worryful, giving the fish the benefit
S
IT
LAWFUL
TO
THROW diagnostic work, and Tuberculosis
of the doubt.
It is a shame that the salmon aren’t running, if BOTTLES OR REFUSE ONTO
they aren’t. But what of our trout. There just THE HIGHWAY?—
It is illegal for any person to
ain’t any of the critters in our streams. And most
of the lakes are said to be giving up but few of the throw or place on the highway any
material which is likely to injure
finny denizens. What about it?
Our observation is that the fish, salmon and any person, animal or vehicle. Mat­
trout, are just slickering us. That’s all. One could erial which is specifically mentioned
in the law includes glass bottles,
Knights of Pythias
hardly blame the fish.
Harding Lodge No. 116
Huimans, if they utilize what gray matter they glass, nails, tacks, hoops, wire and
Vernonia, Oregon
might have, do not drive their cars smack-dad into cans. Refraining from throwing pap­
sure death. Do they? If they know that they are er and other small objects of refuse Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall.
walking along pathways that lead to annihilation, upon the highway is largely a mat­ Second and Fourth Mondays Each
Month
ter of good citizenship. Dumping of
that path is frequented little.
Give the fish some credit. Perhaps they see the garbage on the highway, of course,
Pythian Sisters
hand writing on the sand banks. They are staying violates laws other than the motor
Vernonia Lodge No. 61
at sea until their numbers are large enougn to cop» vehicle law.
In this connection, it is also un­
Vernonia, Oregon
with almost sure death as they make their seasonal
lawful to operate on the highway a Meetings:--- I. O. O. F. Hall
swims up our streams.
The salmon and trout have worked a hardship vehicle which is constructed and Second and Fourth Wednesdays
Each Month
on us, but honestly, if they never swim up our leaded so that the load is permitted
to drop, sift or leak upon the high­
streams again, you can’t blame the poor fish.
way.
Order of Eastern Star
THE COOK1NG~SCHOOL—
Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S.
IN WHAT was probably the most outstanding See Commencement—
Regular Communi­
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Douglass were
cation first and
event of its type ever sponsored in this community,
third Wednesdays
The Eagle’s moving picture cooking school termin­ in Portland the past week attend­
of each month, at
ated Saturday afternoon following three days’ show­ ing the commencement exercises at
Masonic Temple.
the
Portland
Bible
Institute.
Their
ings.
All visiting sisters
laughter,
Zonweiss,
who
is
a
stu
­
To those who failed to attend, all we can say
and brothers wel­
dent
at
the
institute
accompanied
come.
is that you missed a clever bit of merchandising
them home. Rev. and Mrs. W. 0.
Eurma Hartwick, W. M.
plus much valuable and informative material.
Leona McGraw, Sec.
Its worth as entertainment was clearly attested Livingstone were with the Douglass
’
amily
in
Portland.
to by the 1,100 women who attended, as well as
perhaps 100 men. With each succeeding afternoon
A. F. & A. M.
the valley ladies came in larger numbers.
You can always get a Bargain
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
Though men are prone to discouragement in an
A. F. & A. M. meets at
in second hand goods at the
event of this type, we were encouraged) as out of
Masonic Temple,
Stat­
ed Communication First
the theatre came the women many of them with
Vernonia Bargain Store
Thursday of each month.
praise of the show, and more of them thanking us
818 Bridge St.
Special called meetings
personally fcr the opportunity of attending.
on all other Thursday nights, 7:30
Your Vernonia merchants are the men to whom
p. m. Visitors most cordially wel-
come.
much of the appreciation should be directed for it
Special meetings Friday nights.
was through their consistent cooperation that the
Ray Mills, W. M.
daily and grand prizes were awarded.
Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec.
Business
Professional
j Directory
Roland L. Treharne
Expert Automobile Repairing
WELDING
ROLAND’S
SERVICE STATION
BAFFORD BROS
General Plumbing
Vernonia
LODGES
IMPROVEMENTS-^
Entered as second class mail matter, August
4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Ore­
gon, under the act of March 3, 1879.
County Public Health Group
Eagle Items
Submits Revort for Activity
Of Other Years To the Editor:
preventative measures. A
SEVERAL BLOCKS of Vernonia’s streets are
to be improved starting about July 15. The rock
for the base is now under process and the city of­
ficials are rnxious that the betterment come into be­
ing.
Residents on the streets affected should be I
pleased with the opportunity to rid the avenues of I
summer dust and others who may not be directly
affected should be glad to see the community re­
ceive a much-needed improvement on a basis that
brings it within reach of so many.
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THE LITTLE fellow that shoved the neighbor
girl into the swimming pool this past week and then
laughed on the beach knows all about this old saying
“Hades has no fury like a girl shoved into a swim- !
ming hole.” He’s still using ointment for bruised
shins.
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9ETH SEDGELY, our Schofield Sage, sfcys he
can understand how these scientists can find the
new planets but he’s darned if he knows how they
learn their names.
FARMERS
VERNONIA
POST 119
AMERICAN
LEGION
Meets First and
Third Mondays
County Proven Squirrel Poison
to Get Those Troublesome Ro-
dents — Get it now for best
I
Nehalem Valley
Motor Freight
Frank Hartwick, Proprietor
Portland - Timber - Vernonia
Mist - Birkenfeld - Jewell
Vernonia Telephone 1042
CASON’S TRANSFER
LOCAL
and
LONG
DIS­
TANCE HAULING
SEE US
For Your Old Growth
16-1NCH FIR WOOD
AND CEDAR SHINGLES
Dr. C. O. Anderson
SPECIALIST
AT
Kullander’s Jewelry Store
First Monday in Each Month
EYE
Roland D. Eby, M. D.
PHYSICIAN
and
SURGEON
Town Office 891
NEAL W. BUSH
Attorney at Law
Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663.
In Vernonia Mondays and
Tuesdays
H. M. BIGELOW
DENTIST
Joy Theatre Building
AUXILIARY
First and Third Mondays
Vernonia - - • Oregon
results.
Lumber, Shingles and Rejects Veneer
Wholesale and Retail
Vernonia
Trading Co.
CASS
BERGERSON.
Prop.
See my bargains in Kiln Dried Lumber at $8.75
>er M. and up. Open Saturdays from 8 a. m.
to noon.
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