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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1939)
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE SIX tration of lightning fires in a 48- ward and completing the fire trail Linden Hall, Augusta H. Seaman; hour period. On several of the as they progressed, proved more Doll Cottage, Adele De Leeuw; larger fires, wind velocities of 40 effective than two or three times Timberline Tales, Rutherford G. to 50 miles per hour were meas- i the same number of men without Montgomery; Circus Shoes, Noel ured. this training and organization. Streatfeild. The total area burned in the Ben and Me, Robert Lawson; forest service protective area was Round the Mulberry Hill, Alison B. Alessios; The Devon Treasure 88,024 acres. Of this 58,947 acres Mystery, Margaret Wilson; The Statistics Show Longer were national forest land. Trail of the Buffalo, Rutherford Period of Excessive Dry Of the 2,008 lares started, (Continued from page 1.) lightning set 1,282, smokers and G. Montgomery; Son of the Iro- ness for Season campers 515, incendiaries 47, in of said bicycle, and also a reflex quo.s, William H. Bunce; All Ocer The fire season which has just dustrial fires, which include rail mirror or lighted lamp on the ,eai Town, Carol R. Brink; Sue Barton- closed had a number of features road, logging and land clearing, 99. of said bicycle, exhibiting a red Rumi Nurse, Helen D. Boylston; that were out of the ordinary, and I One thousand four hundred seven light visible under like conditions Natalie Enters Advertising, Dorothy above the average in severity, ac ty-six fires were held to less than from a distance of at least two D. Hutchison. cording to a statement by region a quarter acre, 386 were more hundred feet to the rear of such 1 child non-fiction: Osa John than one-quarter acre and less than bicycle. al forester Lyle F. Watts. son’s Jungle Friends, Mrs. Martin No person shall oper- Section 2. Johnson. The danger statistics showed a 10 acres. Improved techniques in the use ate or ride on any bicycle upon longer period during which forest the streets, alleys or public high- fuel was excessively dry than any of mechanical equipment was work ways in the City of Vernonia with Girls’ League to ed out for controlling fires. In on record. On eight per cent of two or more persons upon the Give Program— the days in August, the fuel mois dense young timber, lodgepole pins same bicycle, provided, however, The Girls’ League in the local ture content was five per cent less. tangles and similar difficult going, that this restriction shall not apply high school has an interesting pro two or three heavy tractors with This extreme is seldom reached bulldozer attachment or plow, in to tandem bicycles or other bi- gram in store for their next meet west of the Cascades. cycles equipped for two or more ing, Monday afternoon during the tandem, made good time. August 24 and 25 a lightning Trained crews of about 40 men riders and no person shall be per activity period. Mrs. Justine Pres storm set 662 fires on 17 national selected for physique and skill in mitted to operate a bicycle with cott, advisor to the club, has made arragements for a Meier and Frank forests. This is a record concen- the use of wood tools, moving for- the passenger in front of the oper clothing demonstration to be given ator. Section 3. No person, while rid to all the girls of the school. The ing or operating a bicycle on any motive of the display is to show street, alley or public highway in correct, yet inexpensive clothes for the City of Vernonia, shall hold on girls of school age. to any other vehicle. Section 4. No person shall ride Advisory Committee of or operate any bicycle on any side NYA to Meet in Rainier— .‘v”' * The Advisory Committe of the walk in the city of Vernonia ex Values for Friday and Saturday, December 9 and 10 cept bicycles used for delivery of County NYA is holding a meet papers or merchandise and then ing at the Methodist crurch in only in the residential section of Rainier, Wednesday, December 6. the city when the sidewalk is not Mr. Ivan G. Munroe, State Admin- I being used by pedestrians, and no istrator of the National Youth Ad person shall ride or operate any ministration for Oregon will ex bicycle on the sidewalks on Bridge plain the problem of the administra- tion and its relation to the youth Street in Vernonia, Oregon. !b. bag |4c Section 5. Every person riding problems of the communities in or operating a bicycle on any street Columbia County. Superintendent alley or public place in the city of Condit has been invited to attend Vernonia shall keep said bicycle on the meeting. the extreme right of the traffic lane, and it shall be unlawful for F OR SALE—gasoline washer, in ■ —Shop Safeway for Quality Meats— perfect condition. 1 mile south | two or more operators of bicycles to travel abreast on any street, alley of Treharne on Banks-Vernonia • or public place in the city of Ver highway. Willard Ingermanson. 49tl nonia or to operate said bicycle on traffic lanes otherwise than in single file. Section 6. Every person riding or operating a bicycle on any street, alley or public place in the city of Vernonia shall be subject to all provisions of the laws of the state oif Oregon and the ordin ances of the city of Vernonia ap Shoulder plicable to the drivers of vehicles, except the provisions thereof that by their very nature can have no application. Section 7. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to run LARGE BARS Fine Granulated or engage or cause to run or to be 10-lb. Bag ....... Art MEIX SIZE BARS |- engaged in any bicycle race on any EACH ......................... JC street, alley or public place within I. the corporate limits of the city of Vernonia, except under permit —Fresh Fruits anc| Vegetables— from and supervision of the city marshal of said city. Section 8. No operator of a bi cycle shall leave his bicycle lying Large Size or standing in such a manner that u. s. no . i shall' hinder or impede pedestrian oi vehicular tratflic upon the side walks or paths and upon the —Farmer-Consumer Holiday Apple Sale— streets or alleys within the city of Vernonia, but shall take proper care to see that his bicycle is so F ancy Red placed to avoid annoyance and dan ger of accident during his absence Faced and from it. Filled Section 9. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordin ance shall, upon conviction thereof in the office of the city recorder, be punished by impounding his bi Sleepy Hollow cycle in the city hall of Vernonia, Qt. -size can in charge of the city marshal, foi 1- lb. bag c I such period as the recorder shall designate. 2- lb. bag 39c Section 10. Whereas, bicycles are operated in the city of Vernonia | without sufficient regulations, en dangering the riders and other per CANTERBURY sons, an emergency is declared to Orange Pekoe exist and it is declared to be nec essary for the immediate preserv ation of the peace, health and safe ty olf the city of Vernonia, that this ordinance take effect immed iately upon its passage by the SUGAR BELLE common council and its approval * VC13 No. 2 Can by the mayor. Fire Season Shows Many Features City Council Adopts Bicycle Ordinance SAFEWAY Airway COFFEE 39c 4 Lbs 35 c Pure Lard lb. 20c Sliced liar on 19c lb Pork Chops • • lb 15c Link Sausage • 101/oC lb ■Soiling Beef POrk BoaSt lb. 14c Ivory Soap SUGAI! 25c 50 lb. bag 59c Potatoes No.2 Grapefruit Onions doz 35c 10-lb. bag 15c Spitzenburgs E*tra Fanty B omes Spitzenburgs 7 lbs box box 25c 95c 49c Syrup 29c * FRIDAY, DECEMBER S, 1939 2Q 65c '/¿-lb. Tea Grapefruit Si*? pkg. 29c 3 for 29c Grapefruit Juice rr..rsE4for 25c 2 for 25c 2 pkgs, 9c Library Board «Jell 5Vell J Shortening Syrup Boraxo Pigs Feet 4-lb. pkg. Cleans Dirty Hands C'y] HORMEL'S 28-oz. Jar 39c 69c 14c 29c Macaroni Dinner KRAFTS 3 pkgs. 29c Honey Valley Brand 5-lb. can 39c Corned Beef FRAY BENTOS can 15c Chocolate Drops 2-11). nag 25c Purchases Books (Continued from page 1) English Accent. C. V. R. Thompson; Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler; In Priv- I steer’s Bay, Robb White; The Horse i nd Buggy Doctor, Arth'nr E. Hertz- ler; Inside Europe, John Gunther. 23 child fiction purchased: The Hired Man's Elephant, Phil Strong; Air Trail’s North. Frederic Nelson ! Litten; Flkka, Ricka. Dicka, Maj Lindman; Vai Rides thè Oregon I Trail, Sanford Tousey; Joseph, i Moses, David, all by Maud and | Miska Petersham; Pinocchio, Walt | Ihsney's Version; Lonely The Little Pig, Wilhelmina Harper; Fly ing Hoofs, Wilhelmina Harper; The Mystery of the Chinese Box, Alma Benecke Sasae; The Mystery at I