Vernonia to Have Celebration
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Firemen Will Act
As Sponsors oj
Event September 2,3,4
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1939
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
Construction Guard Is
Progress on Stationed
Road Rapid At Pool
Chapman WPA Work
Aided by Steam Shovel,
Two Bulldozers, Said
Travel over the now-under-con
struction WPA road from Chapman
to Scappoose is not suggested as a
pleasure trip according to reports
of the road’s present condition due
to the work being done. Rapid pro
gress is being made on the new
highway and much of it is rocked.
A steam shovel and two bulldozer*
one of them new and furnished by
the government, are moving tons
of earth daily and two crews of
men are at work. There are a num
ber of steep but passable detours
from the old road to the new grade
which in many places are almost
side by side.
A new superintendent, formerly
roadmafater olf Tillamook county
and more recently foreman on the
Wolf Creek project is in charge of
the work and and in a month it
should be completed to the end of
the right of way strip., recently
taken over by resolution of the
county court.
Engineer James Martin of the
Chapman WPA camp wishes the
court to obtain right of way from
that point to the highway but since
the right of way wanted will be
through some fertile bottom land
along North Scappoose c.eek, Judge
J. B. Wilkerson believes that the
damages which might be claimed
would be excessive and the old road
with additional grading and elimin
ation of some sharp curves might
be used. The court is investigating
fully before making a decision and
the matter was discussed at the
special meeting of the court recent
ly.
Delegation
Meets with
Commission
Favor Given to Naming
of Timber Road as Sec
ondary Highway
Two members of the Columbia
county court, two representatives
from the Vernonia Chamber of Com
merce, the Washington county
court and several' other persons
were in Portland Thursday of last
week to appear before members of
the State Highway Commission. The
party meeting with the sommission
sought the naming of the Timber
road as a part of the state second
ary system.
It W es thought that should the
road be so designated, effort would
be made to have an oil surface ap
plied connecting the distance be
tween the Stoney Point rock crush
er and Sunset Camp, the only por
tion of the road not now oiled.
The commission members ex
pressed themselves in general as
favorable to th'e designation for the
road but would take no definite ac
tion until an engineer has examin
ed the road and returned his re
port to them. Among those present
from Vernonia were J. W. Nichols
and Lester Sheel'ey. William Prin
gle and Judge J. B. Wilkerson of
the Columbia county court were
also present.
WMS TO HOLD ANNUAL
BREAKFAST AUGUST 11—
The Annual Missionary Breakfast
given "by the Woman’s Missionary
Society of the Christian church
will be held in the dining rooms of
the church Friday morning, August
11 at 9: 3 0 o’clock. The program
of the occasion •will be supplied by
the state officers from Portland.
Everyone is welcome. however,
reservations will be necessary.
VOLUME 16, NUMBER 31
Mill to Run on
6-Day Basis
Is Announcement
Watch
Roland Kelly to
Swimmers; Is Certified
Guard, Instructor
Rev. Henricksen
Outside Logs Available
Makes Possible Addition
al Work
Roland
Kelly,
certified
life
guard experienced in first aid work,
Announcement made by bulletin
is to be stationed regularly at Ver
this week makes known that certain
nonia’s swimming pool is the word
departments of the Oregon-Amer
received this week following a
ican mill will begin operation on a
move made Monday evening by ij
six-day schedule this week until
number of Vernonia people at a
further notice. Those departments
to operate on that basis were not
meeting held at the high school
named but foremen will be notified
building.
at a later time.
Considerable comment has been
The reason given for the addi-
heard recently as to the necessity
j tional work was that outside logs
for a guard capable of checking
1 are available for cutting and that
the actions of swimmers and to
• longer operation of the mill depart-
provide a means of protection for
I ments will make possible their utili-
children where formerly no pro
: zation here.
tection has been available.
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At the Monday evening meeting
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Chester Dusten, Lee Schwab and
Earl Smith were named as a com
mittee for the raising of funds
necessary to obtain the guard. E.
H. Condit was named to make the
necessary contacts seeking a guard
from WPA headquarters in Port
land. The guard, Mr. Kelly, ar
rived here Tuesday evening.
Bob Mitchell’s Orchestra
Under the WPA provision the
Scheduled to Entertain
guard will be paid $61 per month
Local Dancers
which is considerably less than
may be obtained for similar work
The music n* Bob Mitchell ar.d
in Portland. In order to provide
Assembly of God Church ’ his eight-piece orchestra is scheduled
the additional' funds necessary the
Members Hear Rev. Hen here this Saturday evening at the
committee of Dusten, Schwab and
I O.O.F. hall for the entertainment
ricksen Sermons
Smith will contact parents of the
of Vernonia and vicinity dancers.
community seeking the remainder
The band has been scheduled for
Reverend Ingvald M. Henriksen
which must be Obtained, $34.
of Thief River Falls, Minnesota, is the appearance for some time under
conducting a series of revival ser the arrangement of Bill Byers, who
was responsible last year for the
PIONEER ASSOCIATION
vices nightly (except Monday) at showing here of several renouned
TO PICNIC AUGUST 13—
The Dixie Mountain Pioneers’ As 7:45 p. m. at the Assembly of God bands on local floors. The Mitchell
group is the first outside band to
sociation will hold their annual pic Church here.
nic on Sunday, August 13th, be
Reverend Henriksen has recent play here for some time and comes
ginning at 10:30 a. m. at the John ly returned from a Gospel tour in under good recommendation as a
Trnnock picnic grounds, states Nor Europe including a lengthy stay in provider of entertainment.
The dance is scheduled to start
man Nelson, president of the assoc
iation. He states that preparations Norway. He was accompanied on at 9 o’clock, according to Byers.
are being made for another big pic this tour by the boy evangelist,
nic this year and that former pio Jay Gorham, who is now assisting RECORDER’S COURT FINES
neers of the Dixie Mountain area i him in the services. Those attend- ITINERANT PHOTOGRAPHER—
and their friends are invited to be i ing the services will be interested
F. L. Rutter, photographer, was
present at the meeting. They are to
fined $2.50 in the Recorder’s court
I to hear the young evangelist who
of Loel Roberts Tuesday morning
>ring with them a basket lunch.
will be speaking and singing in
of this week for the offense of
the Scandinavian and English lan
house-to-house
canvassing.
The
GRASS FIRE EXTINGUISHED
guages, accompanied by his piano
method of house-to-house contact is
SATURDAY AFTERNOON—
accordian. Mr. Gorham has been
A grass fire, thought to have or singing for a number of years. At specifically prohibited by a city
iginated from a carelessly disposed the age of nine he sang before a ordinance, it was stated.
cigarette, started and was quickly congregation of 14,000 in the city
extinguished Saturday afternoon by auditorium in Minneapolis, Minne COUNCIL TO MEET
AUGUST 7—
fire-fighting equipment of the Ore sota.
The
Vernonia city council’s
gon-American Mill. The blaze ori The services are being well at
ginated at the west end of the O-A tended as the evangelist has been first meeting for the month of Au
lumber sheds and on the bank of bringing the old-fashioned Gospel gust is due on August 7, the first
the road leading into Vernonia in an inspiring manner. Everyone Monday of this month. Two weeks
from the O-A mill.
is cordially invited to attend these will have elapsed from the last
meeting until the coming session.
services.
Sermon subjects for the remain At Cannon Beach—
OCCUPATION LICENSES
der of this week are: Thursday,
OVER HALF PAID—
Mrs. Judd Greenman was at
Loel Roberts, City Recorder, stat August 3, When God Stirred the ¡Cannon Beach from Friday until
ed this week that the month of Spirit; Friday, August 4, Your Sec I Sunday of the past weekend to at-
July saw the payment of over half ret Sins; Saturday, August 5, Di I tend a meeting of the County
of the city occupation licenses for vine Healing; Sunday, morning ser Home Demonstration Committee.
the second half of the year, 1939. vice at 11:00 a. m., How to Satisfy Twelve
people from
Columbia
Approximately 60 are due to the God; Sunday evening evangelistic .county were present, it was stated,
city and 38 have already been ; service at 7:45, Prepare to Meet I at the retreat for the past mem
¡Thy God.
paid.
I bers of the committee.
Revival Now
Being Held
At Church
Popular Band
To Play Here
Saturday Eve
Farmers toGetAll »imeni Info Soon
Farmers of Columbia county, tices of individual wheat allotments
soon will receive notices of indi- ’ are going out earlier this year
vidua! wheat acreage allotments un-j than a year ago, aiding farmers
der the 1940 program, according greatly in planning operations.
to Geo. A. Nelson, secretary of1 The allotments will be mailed
the county agricultural conserva from the county office to all wheat
tion committee.
farmers who signed work sheets
Oregon’s 1940 wheat allotment during any of the years 1936 to
of 851,458 acres recently was an 1939. Mr. Nelson emphasized that
nounced. Columbia county in turn there is no compulsion in comply
was allotted 2,012 acres. The coun ing with allotments, and that only
ty committee is sow engaged in farmers who intend to cooperate
subdividing this allotment among with the 1940 program need plant
individual farms on the basis of in accordance with them.
the wheat acreage grown during the
“Farmers may ask adjustment
years 1935 to 1938.
of allotments, if they are dissatis
Mr. Nelson pointed out that no fied,” he said. "As soon as farmers
have received notice of their al
lotments, they have 15 days in
which to appeal to their county
committees for reconsideration, ex
plaining reasons for wanting a
change.”
Similarly, the 15-day period of
fers opportunity to request 1940
allotment« for “new” wheat farms
—those which grew no wheat for
harvest during 1937, 1938 or 1939.
Applications must be made to
county committees in writing. Three
per cent of each county’s wheat
allotment has been set aside for
use in establishing “new” wheat
allotments, it was explained.
Fire Near
Elsie Said
Gaining
200 O-A, 111 CCC Men
Combat Flame» Wednes
day Evening
A forest fire near the scene of
the Van Vieet and Camp McGregoi
logging operations was stated to be
progressing it was learned Wednes
day evening by a call to the Ore
gon-American camp.
Men fighting the fire numbered
200 from Camp McGregor and 111
from CCC camps it was also stated
at that time. The fire originated on
Cow creek at 1:45 Tuesday after
noon and by 8:30 that evening had
approached the Wolf Creek highway
near the Quartz Creek bridge. Two
“spot” fires had started on the south
side of the road and were bein^
checked by water fighting equip
■nent.
It was not known as to the ex
tent of the acreage covered by thi
fire nor the amount of equipmeni
destroyed at publication time.
6 Arrests
Recorded in
Justice Court
Charges Vary Widely
Against Those Appre
hended by Patrolman
The arrest of six persons wa:
made within the past week by a
State Patrolman here for charges
varying widely in nature. Three oi
the violations involved infractions
of traffic rules, two were based
on game charges and the remain
ing one on failure to obtain a cer
tificate of inspection.
For failure to obtain the certifi
cate, John S. Pilkenton of New
berg was arrested on July 21 for
moving bees. The plea of not guil
ty was made in the Justice Court
of Oscar Weed and the date of the
trial set for August 8, next Tues
day.
Traffic law violations involved
Louis Mussman of Portland driv
ing 60 miles per hour on the Tim
ber road without certificate of
registration and without operator’s
license; Louis Haverland of Ver
nonia for driving 75 miles an hour
on the Timber road without opera
tor’s license; Lloyd Stevens of St.
Helens for speeding with a truck.
Hoverland was fined $15 and costs
by Judge Weed and Stevens was
assessed $3 and costs by Judge J.
C. Nauman of St. Helens.
The game charges involved Les
ter Nelson of Birkenfeld for al
lowing dogs to run deer and Ralph
Simpson of Buxton for killing a
deer out of season. Nelson was
lined $25 and costs and Simpson
$50 and costs and his rifle con
fiscated and the deer sent to the
State Game Commission, in the
ioca! Justice Court.
COLUMBIA COUNTY POMONA
GRANGE TO HOLD MEETING—
The regular session of the Col
umbia County Pomona Grange will
be held at the Natal Grange hall
on Saturday, August 5, at 10:30 a.
m., is the announcement this week
by Mr«. Pearl Becker, Secretary, of
Scappoose.
VERNONIA FIREMEN
ORDER DRESS CAPS—
Members of the Vernonia Fire
Department, at a meeting held last
Thursday evening, voted to purchase
eight new dress Caps. The members
of the department will meet again
Thursday evening of thia week.
Tentative Program Al
ready prepared by Com
mitteemen
Definite action favoring the stag
ing of a celebration for Vernonia
again this year was taken last Fri
day evening at a meeting held at
the Oregon Gas and Electric office.
The meeting was called by Fir«
Chief Earl Smith of committees ap
pointed by the Firemen, Eagles and
Chamber of Commerce to deter-'
mine whether an event of the na
ture of a celeibration would be pos
sible again this year. Considerable
comment had been heard at various
times but until Friday evening no
move of a concrete nature was
made.
With the calling of the meeting
to order by Smith immediate favor
was voiced for an event and the
date set as the Labor Day weekend,
September 2, 3 and 4. The same
name is to be used this year as
last, Vernonia Host Days, with ah
events being offered at no charge
to spectators.
The second day, Sunday, Septem-
oer 3, will be cared for by the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, at which
time they plan to have a number of
drill teams and bands of other
Aeries of the order present for a
parade. A further program for that
day will be announced at a later
date when arrangements have been
completed.
A special program committee ap
pointment "was made before the
close of the meeting naming J. W.
Nichols, Sam Hearing and Marvin
Kamholz to formulate a program
of events for the first and third
days. The program was arranged
tentatively Sunday and will be con-^.
sidergj^ further at a second meeting
of the entire group on Friday of
this week at the Oregon Gas office.
The celebration of last year wa»
staged entirely free to spectator»
and was financed through contribu
tions by merchants. One of two pro
cedures will be followed this year
in raising funds it was derided.
Contact is being made with a carni
val company for their appearance
here on the dates of the Vernonia
event and should it prove feasible,
the necessary funds for prizes will
be supplied by the carnival. Should
it not then those present decided
that contact would be made with
merchants seeking their aid.
Two representatives of the Don
nybrook company were here Wed
nesday contacting committeemen
relative to the proposed plans.
Heat Hits Here
In Same Month
Of Two Years
1939, 1938 High Tem
perature» Recorded at
Almost Same Time
A check with the monthly wea
ther chart maintained by Harry
Culbertson, Cooperative Weather
Observer for Vernonia, for the
month of July revealed this week
that the high temperature of 104
degrees on July 26th came at al
most the same time of that month
as the 1938 heat wave. The high
point of last year was 106 degrees,
two degrees higher than for 1939,
and occured on July 21st. Other
high temperatures for 1938 were
103 degree», July 20; 99 degrees,
July 13 and 14, both days.
A greater amount of precipita
tion was experienced for 1939 than
1938 with the following amounts:
July 2, .01 of an inch; .1 of an
inch, July 3; .01, July 4; .28,
July 5; .05, July 6; .01, July 11;
.02, July 13; .02, July 15 and .15,
July 19.
The following is the record of
maximum and minimum degree
readings for the month:
Day
Max.
Min.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
74
72
68
65
61
65
78
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