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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940
Eagle
VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
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School Attendance of Livestock Association Takes Action
City Lowered Due to
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Laurel,
Okehs
Resolutions
Sat.
SicknessEpidem ic,Said
Chicken Pox, Whooping
Cough, Flu Main Causes
of Absences
Attendance in the city schools
has been lowered the past few
weeks according to reports offered
by school heads. Flu, whooping
cough and chicken pox are the prin­
cipi 1 causes of the absences. Wed­
nesday’s report revealed that Lincoln
Grade school has the largest num­
ber of absentees, 30 children, while
Washington grade school has 15
children absent. In the high school
there were 16 absent; not enough
to be alarmed about, but more than
there should be, according to Prin-
cipal McCrae.
License
Tests Due
Students
21 to Be Examined for
Driving Permits Tuesday,
January 16
An announcement made Wednes­
day by Wallace McCrae, high
school principal, gave the time dur­
ing which an examiner will be
in Vlernonia to test students who
enrolled in the driving shcool re-
cently conducted here.
Those passing the tests will be
issued driver’s licenses qualifying
them to operate motor vehicles it
was stated. The examiner will be
Henry L. Zicar. The tests will be
made between the hours of 10 a.
Rank Advancement, Mer­ m. and 4 p. m. Tuesday, January
16, and will be given 21 students.
Scout Cour I
Of Honor Due
Here Monday
it Badge Awards to Be
Made by Examiners
A court of honor for the mem­
bers of Vernonia Boy Scout Troupe
201 is slated here for Monday, Jan-
uary 15, it was announced this
week by Ira Baucom, Scoutmaster.
At that time several scouts from
Forest Grove, in addition to the
Vernonia boys, will be present to
receive advancement in rank and
merit badge awards.
The examining board at that
time will be J. B. McGlasson, dis­
trict judge, L. P. Bush, district
commissioner and W. Waltz, Ralph
Mills, and Fred Zeiner, district
committeemen. The board has juris­
diction over the Forest Grove dis­
trict of which Vernonia is a part.
Junior Class to
Present Play—
The Junior class of Vernonia
high school will present a play on
the night of January 26, Friday,
at eight o’clock, at the Washington
grade school auditorium. The three
act comedy “Button, Button” is
under the direction of Miss Jane
Wilkinson.
School Assembly
Program Due Soon—
“The Potter with His Clay” will
be the next National School As-
sembly entertainment to be offered
Vernonia students, Monday, Janu­
ary 15 at 2:30. Edwin M. Dill, the
potter, appeared for two years at
the Century of Progress Fair at
Chicrgo; he is one of the few re­
maining craftsman who produce
beautiful pottery by skill of hands,
Students to
Complete Half
Year’s Work
January 12 Marks End
of Semester; Schedule to
Get Change
IWA Wins
From
Rainier
First Game of Season
Brings Favorable Results
for Vernonia
Tax Office Gives Inform­
ation on Delinquent Per­
centages for 1939
Vernonia’s I. W. of A. basket­
ball team won the first game of
the season Thursday, January 4th,
at Rainier against the Rainier Ad­
vertisers, the League leaders of
Rainier.
Ed Carter and Fred MacDonald
were high point men and were
well supported by Howard Rundell
and Merle Chase.
The IWA team will play at Ver­
nonia Friday, January 12th, at 8
p. m. at the high school gym again­
st the Clatskanie Cavaliers. The
team will be coached by Merle
Chase, who was one of the out-
tanding players last year and per­
forms better than ever this year.
The team was pleased to see Earl
King back on the floor last Sun-
lay for regular practice, after a
bad leg injury.
Members of the squad turning
out at present include Chase and
Carter, towards;' "Childs, center;
MacDonald and Aldrich, guards; and
Rundell,
Parker,
Phiillips
and
Acord, substitutes.
The following report is that sub­
mitted the County Court by Sheriff
M. R. Calhoun and gives informa­
tion relative to work of the sher­
iff’s office during the past year:
The Honorable County Court
of Columbia County, Oregon.
Gentleqjen:
I herewith submit my annual
port 1 or the Sheriff and Tax Of-
flee for the year 1939. In addition
to the tax information enumerated,
I wish to submit the following in­
formation:
The 1939 current Real Property
Tax Roll has been 80% collected,
leaving 20% delinquent. The Re­
forestation Tax Roll is 37% collect-
id and 63% delinquent. The Per­
sonal Property Tax Roll is slightly
over 97% collected and 3% delin­
quent.
In addition to the regular pay­
ments on personal tax, a field man
has contacted the delinquent tax
payers during the summer. He has
made about 250 contacts and col­
lected ift the field about $950.00'.
He traveled nearly 3500 miles. Dur­
ing these contacts he served civil
papers which included nearly 850
>f these miles.
There have been seventy-six
ieeds issued for sale of real prop­
erty and a total of $5808.33 re­
vived from such sales and applied
upon delinquent taxes. There have
been ten timber sales from which
we have received $2095.00. This
does not include property being
sold upon contracts for which deeds
have not been issued.
There have been 264 civil cases
filecT and services made from which
we have received $838.16 in Sher-
iff’s fees.
There have been 1346 temporary
automobile license stickers issued
rom which the County has derived
$324.00 for the sticker charge of
twenty-five cents (25c) each.
In the Criminal Department there
have been 148 prisoners, including
both men and women, through the
year. This is an everage of about
twelve per month, and they received
a sentence averaging about fifteen
days each.
The cost of medical treatment
for the year for these prisoners
amounted to $62.65. The cost of
laundry and miscellaneous supplies
was $171.05.
There have been twenty-three
insane cases, one feeble-minded,
twenty-one juvenile delinquent boys
and four juvenile delinquent girls.
Respectfully submitted,
M. R. Calhoun, Sheriff,
Columbia County, Oregon
Friday, January 12, marks the
end of the semester at the high
school; students will have complet­
ed one half o the year’s work at
the end of this week. Monday the
schedule will be changed somewhat:
in the home economics class, sew­
ing will replace cooking; in the
Junior Gun Club Mem-
English classes, literature will re­
bers to Be Included in
place grammar; political geography
Club
Senior
will replace Northwest geography.
Members of the Vernonia Gun
The activities which meet the last
period of the school day will re­ Club held their annual meeting
last Friday evening to name new
main on the schedule as they are.
o ficials for the coming year. Ron-
aid Fetsch will act as president;
Vernonia Losçs to
Harold Kellmer, vice president;
Harry Culbertson, executive officer
Forest Grove—
and J. W. Nichols, secretary-treas­
The Vernonia Loggers were de­ urer. The meeting must be held
feated by Fore~t Grove by a score once each year in accordance with
of 43 to 26 in a basketball game the by-laws under which the club
held in Forest Grove Tuesday night. is organized, it was stated,
The executive committee of the
Jack Baker was high point man for
the Loggers. Vernonia held the club consists of the above elected
Vikings well the fore part of the officers. By-laws of the club were
game, three points separating the amended during the evening so that
scores at the end of the half, The Junior Gun Club members may­
last half was marked by the Vik- take p. rt in shooting matches with
ir.gs gradually pulling away to wid- the la: ger club if members of the
en the gap which resulted in the former obtain the consent of their
parents.
final score.
Gun Club
Officials
¡Named Friday
Seth Sedgeley Gives Views of
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Note—Seth Sedgeley, the sage of
Scofield, during an interview this
week, the first for some time, told
us of a recent visit he made to
Vernonia. In the interview he tells
us:
Deer edtr
i went down to see my ol pal ed
bollinger the othr nite, you know
i always go see him come first of
the year, you know he is mare of
Vernonia.
he says seth i see by the paper
you moved over on salmon creek
Washington, rite then i began to
get hot under the collar, last time
i was to see him got kinda rilled
some, he bought one of them new
fandangled stoves burns oil or
something must be getting Jo dang
lazy to carry in a little wood, the
darn thing never had a hole in
hit where a feller Could spit had
to swoller my tobacker juice all
Sheriff
Report
Submitted
even, shore lost lot of #ood prac-■ and most half of my licker was a
tise. i says see here bollinger thats running down the hill side and a
not the first time i heard i moved settin fire to everything. Well' sir
an im a gettin danged tired of ait. twould have done you good to have
says i to bollinger ived lived in seen that darn wood pecker the
these here hills fer a long time and way he was a canning on that
no danged edtr or revenor is a gon licker had burned off about too
to make me move now. healths inches of his bill.
an mr edtr as ive always said
been- pretty good here.
Rumatizm been some worse this “it dont pay for a feller to be a
winter on account a danged wood­ sticking his bill in tother people’s
pecker bored a hole in my licker business.” funny thing happened
barrel an i ran a little short, wood tother day I saw a feller comming
have lost hit al hadent a ben for down the trail i says ole woman
the old woman, one day she says hand me the gun mite be nother
“seth you got a fire up in the revenour. ole woman says seth you
woods” an I says no haint had a have got to get you a new gun
ire up in the woods since I run haint room for nother notch on
of that last batch licker 2 weeks this one. but hit wuzent a revenour
ago. Wei sir i run for the licker wuz feller called him self a radio­
barrel and sure nuff here was a railman he had a danged thing that
fire all round the barrel. A danged looked like one of those things the
wood pecker had bored a hole women now a days carry the kidds
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about half way up from the bottom
WINNER OF EAGLE
BABY CONTEST
YET TO BE BORN
Contact with the doctors of
Vernonia just previous to pub­
lication time this week revealed
that no baby had been born
which could qualify as winner
of The Eagle baby contest
inaugurated with the opening
of the new year. As stated
by the rules of the contest
the parents must reside within
the trade territory of Vernonia
and must be attended by a
Vernonia physician. The first
child born to comply with the
contest’s rules will be the re-
cepient of a number of prizes
offered by Vernonia merchants.
Basketball
Schedule
Completed
Loggers to Play Scap­
poose Friday, Birkenfeld
Tuesday
Wallace McCrae, high school
principal, this week released the
season schedule for the Vernonia
Loggers, Most games have been
contracted for some time but vac­
ancies for two dates prevented
completion of the listing. It is poss­
ible that some changes may occur
later it was stated.
The schedule at the present time
is as follows:
Tues., Jan. 9—Forest Grove, there.
Fri., Jan. 12—Scappoose, there
Tues., Jan. 16—Birkenfeld, there.
Fri., Jan. 19—Rainier, here.
Fri., Jan. 26—St. Helens, there.
Wed., Jan. 31—Banks, here.
Fri., Feb. 2—Clatskanie, there.
Tues., Feb. 6—Birkenfeld, here.
Tues., Feb. 13—Scappoose, here.
Fri., Feb. 16—¡Rainier, there.
Tues., Feb. 20—Banks, there.
Fri., IJeb. 23—St. Helens, here.
Fri., March 1—Clatskanie, here.
Rille Club
W ins Over Rose
City Group
Vernonia Shooters Score
836 to Gain Decision on
Opponents’ 810
The Rifle Club of Vernonia won
over the Rose City Post American
Legion at the local range Sunday,
January 7. The score was 836-810.
Kellmer,
178;
Nichols,
173;
Fetsch, 167; Zimmerdahl, 164; Wag
ner, 154.
There is a change in schedule
which alt members of the Rifle
Club will please note, announces J.
W. Nichols. Friday night, January
12, the Canco Rifle Team of Port­
Christian Church to
land will come to the local range
Have Service Series—
instead of Vernonia’s team going
The Christian church is begin- to Portland as was scheduled.
ning a series of services on Sun­
day evening that will continue until New Quota Received
Easter, March 24, every Sunday
and Wednesday evening. These ser- for Vacancies—
vices will be made attractive and
According to announcement made
helpful. The themes dealt with will today by Sergeant Sam Gimpelson,
be practical and timely and the the recruiting officer at 211 New
public will be most cordially wel- Post Office building, Salem, Ore­
gon a new quota has been received
corned.
for the following vacancies for
enlistment in the U. S. Army for
Campfire Girl« Seek
foreign service, Phillipine Islands,
Used Furniture—
Hawaii, Panama and several stat­
The Campfire Girls would apprec­ ions on the Pacific coast. The vac-
iate all donations of used furniture rncies are for the following branches
suitable for use in the Campfire of service: U. S. Army Air Corps,
Cabin. Cail Miss Grace Condit at Coast Artillery, Infantry, Quarter­
the Washington school or Mrs. master Corps, and Medical Depart­
ment.
Wauneta Timmons at 321.
Cattle
Branding
Discussed
Experience with Pastur­
ing of Sheep on Cut-Over
Land Given
Over 50 livestock men of Colum­
bia county met last Saturday at
the Yankton Grange hall for a dis­
cussion of problems relative to the
industry and to hear speakers on
various subjects of interest.
The morning hours of the meet­
ing were occupied with the usual
business session which also saw two
of the day’s three resolutions giv­
en a favorable vote and placed as
matters of record. The morning
session also heard a talk by George
A. Nelson, County Agricultural
Agent, on range development and
weed control.
The afternoon was devoted to
the various speakers and the pass­
ing of the remaining resolution.
James Moran, Assistant State For­
ester, remarked concerning the
spread of laurel which has taken
a considerable acreage of land in
some sections of the county. The
last resolution came about as a
result of suggestions made by Mr.
Moran.
Other speakers were C. S. Mere-
dyth who discussed cattle branding
and the registration of brands;
Herb Howell, Superintendent of the
Northrup Creek Experiment Stat­
ion, discussing the wintering of
livestock; L. G. Parman, prominent
sheep raiser, discussing his exper­
ience with pasturing sheep on cut-
over land; and H. A. Lindgren of
the O. S. C. Extension Service.
One of the morning resolutions
receiving a passing vote to become
a part of the records was the fol­
lowing:
RESOLUTION
Butter is one of the real food
products for human consumption
that has no equal. It contains the
main essentials of food require-
ments, and is high in vitamin con­
cent so necessary to maintain
health in the human body.
There are no substitutes for but­
ter because only butter contains the
well balanced nutrients for human
consumption. Butter is the cheap­
est food figured on its actual value
and cannot be compared in price
to butter substitutes. It is a mis­
taken idea that a substitute can
take the place of butter.
Those who consume butter are
adding to the payrolls of the farm­
ers of Columbia county and the
State of Oregon. The payrolls of
dairymen help to maintain the pay­
rolls in other lines of industries. A
farmer is one of the heaviest pur-
chaser of many commodities in-
eluding lumber, machinery, chem-
icals, besides many other commod-
¡ties that help to maintain the pay-
rolls of the State and of this
County.
Buy only real butter in order
to contribute to your health and
your family’s health, and in so do­
ing help maintain the payrolls of
yourself and others.
The second action was that tak­
en regarding the purchase of meat
products from sources outside the
United States:
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Livestock produced
in the United States provide meat
products equal to any in the world,
and the sam» are canned under
very strict sanitary conditions and,
WHEREAS, Our livestock pro­
ducers have had prices endangered
by over-production, even to the ex­
tent that legislation has been en­
acted to reduce production there­
fore,
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