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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1939)
P/GE FOUR VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON EAGLE EDITORIALS A SUITABLE TIME TO SEED FOR PASTURE— THE EAGLE last week carried an article relating the importance of the present time for seeding grasses in burned over land suit- uLle for the pasturing of livestock. Columbia county every year is losing more of its timber growth which at the pres ent time provides a livlihood for many people. There must come a time when that stand of timber will be exhausted and following that another period of time for the growth of new and harvestable trees which may be a pro- vidor of livlihood. In the meantime some action must be taken towards utilizing the land for other pur poses. The article of last week mentions mix tures of grass which have been proven suit able for seeding logged-off land after that land has been burned to remove objectionable brush growths. Some land has been seeded in the Upper Nehalem Valley and with the grass growth obtained it has been learned that a very desirable pasture has been ob tained—a pasture which produces beef cattle of high market value. The seeding of land no longer valuable for the growth of timber which has been re moved will mean the further use of that land in a productive manner, in a manner which provides sustenance to those people who are its inhabitants and who must find some other means when the timber is exhausted. True, all forest territories will not reach that point of exhaustion for some years but the time is approaching. The present is not too soon to consider and plan for the future. THE ANSWER TO A “TRADE AT HOME” APPEAL— FREQUENTLY ARE appeals heard for editorials urging people to trade at home with local merchants instead of patronizing those merchants of nearby towns or mail order houses. There are two answers to be given which will automatically bring about the results de sired by a “trade at home” appeal. One answer is that the merchant place on display in his store that merchandise which is up to date in design and purpose and which will sell at reasonable prices in comparison to the same articles displayed by merchants in other cities. In other words the merchant must be content to sell his merchandise on a competi tive basis—make a large turnover of stock at a small margin of profit thereby placing his s^ore on a competitive basis with other store«. The other answer is this. People are going to shop where they are invited to shop. Merchants in nearby cities are getting trade for the very reason that they go after that trade. Thev make a continued effort to get trade. Mail order houses get trade because they advertise for it. and they advertise liber ally. In hundreds of small towns, live mer chants, seeking to meet competition, are prov ing every week that trade can be kept at home by sound merchandising methods. No merchandising in small town retail business is sound without plenty of local newspaper advertising. Vernonia Eaele MARVIN KAMHOLZ, Editor »nd Publisher Entered as second class mail matter. August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia. Ore gon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate $2 per year Local advertising rate: 26 cents per column inch Foreign advertising rate: 35 cents per column inch Classified advertising rate: Minimum 25 cents, 5 cents per line, three insertions for price of two. Legal advertising rate on request Reader advertising rate: 10 cents per line. Official newspaper of Vernonia. Oregon SOME FIGURES ON EXCESSIVE SPEED- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939 pox, four; whooping cough, 151; mumpa and chickenpox, 111, and tuberculosis, 50. ATTENDANCE IN SCHOOLS GAIN Indications were today that en rollment in the St. Helens schools wtl reach 1000 pupils in the next few weeks. The total number, of boys and girls enrolled at present stood at 951 yesterday afternoon when a check was made by City Superintendent Fred Patten. Since the opening day on Sep- tembebr U, the enrollment has in creased from 898 to 951, a boost of 53. A comparison of attendance fol lows: Sept. 21 Sept. 11 High school ............... 389 John Gumm ..... . 340 McBride Totals EXCESSIVE SPEED was directly res ponsible for the deaths of two out of every five persons killed last year by automobiles. Speed is the one thing which must be cured before the problem of traffic safety can be solved. Few persons fully realize the tremendous force generated by speed, the potential dan ger to safety in speed uncontrolled. Consider a speed of 25 miles per hour as one. When you double that speed you have multiplied the danger possibilities not by two but by four. When you treble that speed and go 75 miles per hour it will take you nine times as long and as far to stop. TWO YOUTHS BOOKED FOR The energy to be absorbed by an object ’ETTY THIEVING CHARGE— we strike while running 25 miles an hour is Nine canneries have reported at West, 19-y ear-old Richard J. just the same as a fall from a height of 20.9 Astoria, an estimated output of Jewell youth, and James T. Ttn- feet. Striking a solid object at 25 will do you gent, 18, of Bremerton, are in 261,546 full cases or approximately and your car about the same damage as if the Columbia county jail on an 26 per cent above the 1938 level Mild cure output, however, drop- you had driven off a two-story building. En alleged petty larceny charge. The . . ped this year, resulting from the countering a stone wall at 50 will be just as youths, apprehended by county i ; lack , of large fish, More frozen serious as if you had dropped from eight sheriff's deputies, had served a 30- I fish was handled however this sentence in Clatsop county for stories. A car that will roll over once in case day I year with 2845 boxes of glazed petty thievery, and are charged of a too sharp turn at 25 will roll over nine with similar offenses in this county, steelheads turned out compered with 1588 boxes in 1938. The boxes times at 75. according to Sheriff M. R. Calhoun. weigh 200 pounds each, Expansion And excessive speed is expensive in dol HOSPITAL FUND BOLSTERED of the New England Fish company’s lars and cents, merely in the matter of gaso BY BRIDGE LECTURE SERIES— line consumption. Consider an average speed Approximately $15 was realized of 35 miles per hour. If you increase that to for Doernbecher Children’s hospi 45, you will save a little over six hours in tal at a Sam Gordon bridge school every thousand miles you drive. But it will sponsored by the St. Helens Wo man’s club during Monday, Tues cost you 65 cents for each hour you have. SCOUTING SERVES A NEED— THE VERNONIA Boy Scout troop is again starting a series of fall meetings for those members of the troop with plans no doubt being considered for an even larger membership than has been enjoyed before. A meeting has already been held and others are in store for the boys. Scoutmaster Jewell Lloyd has spent con siderable time and effort with the boys and has been able to give them a good deal of instruction as to the principles of scouting. Within a short time a meeting is to be held at which parents are urged to be present, for they too should show an interest in the train ing which their children may receive. Scout work deserves every consideration and effort from those who would have it be successful for it does serve a definite need in the train ing it provides. THE FORUM COLUMN OPEN TO EVERYONE— THE EAGLE at intervals has published articles submitted by readers under the Forum heading. The management of The Eagle ap preciates any reader’s expression of opinion and gladly welcomes the opportunity for pub lishing those opinions. In order that the publication may be protected from any possibility of libel it is necessary that those articles be edited but as little change as possible to provide that protection is made. By as small a change as possible to achieve that protection the reader’s expression is maintained in more nearly the exact form in which it is wished. To those who submit articles for Forum publication, it is urged that writing be short and to the point as much as possible so that reader interest may be maintained day and Wednesday of this week. The six sessions, afternoon and evenings, were held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Smith, and were arranged by a committee of the Woman’s club, headed by Mrs. Charles Rogers. Twenty-five people attended the classes. LaSalle Ex tend on University. Dept. L-83 Chicago A Correspondence Institution ANNOUNCEMENT WAS made recently of a movement to publicize the Graphic Arts industry through nation-wide observance of a printing industry week, beginning Septem ber 25. The celebration is timed to coincide with the issuance of the special three-cent postage stamp commemorating the three-hun- dreth anniversary of the introduction of print ing in the American colonies. This is the first time in the history of the United States Gov ernment that an industry has been honored through the assuance of a special stamp. First day sale of the commemorative stamp will be in New York City. LODGES Meets St. Helens- Dentist J Joy Theatre Bldg. Phone 662 ___________ Each Month. 8 P. M. John Grady, Commander Vernonia F. O. E. Grange Hall Vernonia Friday Nights Knights of Pythias Harding Lodge No. 116 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:—I. O. O. F. Hall, Second and Fourth Mondays Each Month. Pythian Sisters Vernonia Temple No. 61 First 30 KWH per month at Vernonia, Oregon per KWH. 3c Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall Next 70 KWH per month at I Second and Fourth Wednesdays per KWH. Each Month Excess KWH per month at 2c per KWH. I All Kinds of Wood Delivery 1 Phone 241 Expert Tcnsorial Work BEN’S BARBER SHOP Vernonia, Oregon (Fraternal Order of Eagles) I I I Hoy Barnes, W. P. ¡Marvin Kamholz, W. Sec’y. A reduction in electric rates for the Clatskanie territory was an nounced Wednesday by the West Coast Power company, new rates to be effective immediately, that is with the bills which will be is sued after October 15. The new rates are as follows: J. E. TAPP First and Order of Eastern Star 153, O. E. S. Regular Communi cation first and third Wednesdays of each month, at Masonic Temple. All visiting sisters and brothers wel come. Mrs. Jean Crawford, W.M. 1 40 Mrs. Helen Dewey, Secretary .Nehalem Chapter This year’s spring salmon pack A. F. & A. M. on the Columbia river, figures for Vernonia Lodge No. 184 ROGERS CITES SPLENDID which were announced last week A. F. & A. M. meets at WORK OF RED CROSS HERE— end, shows recovery from the slump Masonic Temple, Stat- ed Communication First of last year with a normal pack The splendid work of the Red Thursday of each month. approaching the average for a Special called meetings Cross is doing is pointed out by number of seasons back. on all other Thursday nights, 7:30 p. m. Visitors most cordially wel- two weeks, held practice maneuvers Charles Rogers, city chairman of the come. under the lights for the first time annual Red Cross drive which opens H Price Special meetings Friday nights. in Columbia county on October 8. Lowell Hieber, W. M. on Wednesday evening. LOCAL FOOTBALL Rogers cites the projects carried Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec. Following last evening's game. out by Miss Nettie Alley, Columbia Save over SEASON TO OPEN Smith will groom his squad for the Main i _ _ ___ county Red Cross nurse, as a reason •1«. Also portables SEPTEMBER 29— VERNONIA initial Conference game of the sea why residents should contribute lib- at reduced prices. The St. Helens Lions opened the son with Vernonia high on John erally. During the past year. Miss SIND NO POST 119 MON BY football season with a practiee game ! AMERICAN ' Gumm field the evening of Septem Alley held 10 first aid classes hav All Isle models completely reftntshed with the Roosevelt Ramblers of | LEGION like brand new FVl-LT Gl’ABAN- ing 124 pupils, gave 2,560 Mantoux Big tree catalog shows actual Portland on the lighted John Gumm! ber 29. The second game scheduled tests, 393 smallpox vaccinations and TKED Meet» First and machines tn full colors Lowest price». Third Wednesday» SEND AT ONCE. field last evening. Coach Hal Smith, is for October 13, when Forest 267 toxoids. Her visits in connection la typing Inelnded S’ho has been giving the team mem- Grove will come here for an eve- j with communicable diseases were: Typewriter Ixc bn»9» AUXI> IARY Si.. Oeps *34. Cblcags | Scarlet fever, 52; measles, 6; smal.- >ers sitff workouts during the last ning clash. First and TMrd Monday COUNTY NEWS- Vernonia _______ $ ------ Dr. U. J. Bittner Prompt 8 o'clock INCREASE SHOWN IN FISH PACKS— BOB MORRELL 376 B Street V. F. W Legion Calendar for the October term I of the circuit court in Columbia | county is being arranged in readi-1 ness for its opening October 10,' when Judge Howard K. Zimmer-1 mtn wilt have returned from at-1 tending the national convention of the Odd Fellows lodge in Minne apolis, Minn. First 100 KWH per month at per KWH. Next 500 KWH per month at per KWH. Excess KWH per month at per KWH. 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Treharne Expert Automobile Repairing WELDING ROLAND’S SERVICE STATION BAFFORD BROS. General Plumbing Vernonia Nehalem Valley Motor Freight F rank Hartwick, Proprietor Portland - Timber - Vernonia Mist - Birkenfeld - Jewell Vernonia Telephone 1042 b CASON’S TRANSFER LOCAL and LONG DIS- TANCE HAULING SEE US For Your Old GrSwth 16-INCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES 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 'S and Tuesdays