FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1940 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON Oregon Gas, Electric Announces Reduction Of Customer Rates Schedules Become Effec­ tive as of January 1, 1940, Stated During the past several months the Oregon Gas and Electric com­ pany has been making a careful study of rate and service classifi­ cations in Vernonia and as a re­ sult of that study is announced the following new rates to be ef'ective for service used after January 1, 1940. The new schedule is as fol­ lows: CITY RESIDENTIAL First 12 KW or less $1.20 Next 28 KW @ 8c per KWH Excess @ 3c per KWH Minimum $1.00 RURAL RESIDENTIAL First 12 KW or less $1.20 Next 28 KW @ 8c per KWH Excess @ 3c per KWH Minimum $1.50 Schedule “RS*’ Both in and out of city. First 30 KWH @ 8c Next 70 KWH @ 3c Excess @ 2c per KWH Minimum $2.00 Commercial Lighting 30 KWH @ 170 KWH @ 100 KWH @ 300 KWH @ Excess @ 12c Minimum $2.00 First Next Next Next 8c 6c 5c 3c Flat rate water heater» Available only to existing cus­ tomers now using the rate only for the life of the present equipment being used for flat rete water heating service. Metered off-peak water heating service Separate water heating service for heating water only metered at l%c per KWH. This service is limited to installa­ tions requiring not more than 5,- 000 watts capacity of storage type and restricted to 18 hours out of 24. When so restricted company will provide suitable time switch to regulate the hours of use. The ratio between heater capacity and tank capacity must be within the following limits: 30 gal. tanks 75 Watts per gal. 40 gal. tanks 62% Watts per gal- All installation must be properly insulated and controlled and where more than 1,000 watts are required two heating elements are to be in- stalled. Details will be furnished upon request. It is stated by the company offi- cials that the earnings of the Com­ pany are inadequate to permit a reasonable return on any valuation that could properly be placed upon their property, but a reduction was nevertheless decided upon in the hope that it would encourage a greater use of electric service and thereby give the customers a much lower average cost per KWH and eventually increase earnings to a point where still further reductions would be possible. In addition to changes in rates the new schedules embody a re classi ¡cation of services so as to give the smrll user of several classes of service the benefit of larger use through a single meter and thereby eliminate one minimum and provide substantial savings in most cases and some reduction in all instances except that of mini­ mum users. All of these changes have been discussed with the Public Service Commissioner of Oregon and have received his approval. These new schedules will become effective as of January 1, 1940. License Examiners Due Here Monday— Two examiners for those desir­ ing to take tests for automobile driver licenses will be in Vernonia on the coming Monday between the hours of 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. it was stated this week. The visit of the examiners at this time comes in addition to the regular schedule maintained by those giving the tests. GEESE LIGHT ON HIGHWAY; MISTAKE FOR WATER A flock of geese, Canadian Honkers, flying over Top Hill near Buxton early last Monday morning, lit on the highway where a driver of a bread truck coming to Vernonia accident­ ally killed a number of the birds. Patrolman Raleigh Wheel­ er was notified. It is thought that the birds, unable to see because of the very thick fog, lighted, mistaking the strip of highway for water. Students Honor Roll Issued Grade Six-Week Period End ScllOOls Also Ends Semester; | Many Get Mention I Close Principal Wallace McCrae issued Tuesday the names of high school I students who are on the honor 116 Children Absent on roll of the past six weeks, and Wednesday to Bring De­ cision those who are on the honor roll for the entire semester. The third Washington and Lincoln grade six weeks period which marked the schools closed Wednesday afternoon end of the first semester or half for the remainder of the week as of the school year came to a close a result of a decision reached after last Friday. The classes having the Nettie Alley, County Red Cross nurse, paid her visit to the schools, largest number of honor roll mem­ 116 youngsters were absent that bers will be listed first: day from the two grade schools with whooping cough, flu and Third Six Weeks Honor Roll Sophomores: Priscilla Hansen, .chicken pox. Because so many of Virgie Killian, Lillian Laird, Etha the attending children had cold» and coughs the danger of an in­ Morris, Jack Olin, Winifred Romt- crease in the number of cases of vedt, Opal Scheuerman, Martha the diseases deemed it necessary Tapp. to school officials to close the Seniors: Bessie Bell, Delores schools for Thursday and Friday, George, Joanne Nichols, Heidi Classes will be resumed Monday if Reich, Wilton Rogers, Helen Romt- enough of the pupils are present to continue the regular classes. A vedt. number of schools in the county Juniors: Barbara Nichols, Betty have been closed this week because Thacker. Of the flu epidemic. The local high Freshmen: Barbara Kennedy, Joy school had only 25 absentees Wed- Willard. nesday. Semester Honor Roll Juniors: Barbara Dusten, Lillian Hedman, Betty Thacker, Barbara Dance Due Here Nichols. Saturday Evening— Sophomores: Winifred Romtvedt, Announcement made this week Opal Scheuerman, Martha Tapp, gives information of a dance to be Fred Thompson. held here Saturday evening of this Seniors: Joanne Nichols, Heidi week, January 20, at the Legion Reich, Helen Romtvedt. hall. Music for the evening will be Freshmen: Barbara Kennedy, Joy furnished by Bill Hune’s eight-piece Willard. Hollywood Sweet and Swing band which will feature a vocalist. Icy Road Causes Truck Turnover Paralysis Dance Slated Here Saturday, Jan. 27 Baby Contest Winner Bollinger Determined by Birth Named Chairman On Januasy 14 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bell Parents of Child, Announced Whetmore’s Orchestra to Play for Benefit Affair at Legion Hall Announcement is made this week of the winner of the Vernonia Mer­ chants Baby Contest instigated with the opening of the year of 1940. The winner is the child born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bell last Sunday Three-Act Comedy to Be I morning, January 14, at 10:55 a. m. Presented at Washington The child, a girl weighing six and one-half pounds, was born at Grade School the home of Mr. and Mrs. V. M. The Junior Class play, “Button, Whitsell here. Dr. R. D. Eby was Button”, will be given Friday night the attending physician. January 26, at eight o’clock at the Washington grade school. The three act comedy centers about a young man, Bill Duncan, who is thought to be a mental defective. He is taken to the home of a very wealthy brother, George Turner, through the interest of the sister- Sportsmen to Meet at in-law, Lillian Hedman, who is con­ Astoria in February to tinually involved in antique dealing snd in some philanthropic project.! Form Group Complications arise when the girl j The annual meeting of the St. next door, Barbara Dusten, falls in love with the patjent who is in love Helens Rod and Gun Club held last Wednesday at Houlton brought with the maid, Pauline Rollins. As a final conclusion, the aud­ forfh a discussion of the possibil- ience will realize that all the char­ ¡ties of forming a tri-county sports­ acters are more mentally deranged man’s association at a future date. than is the young man under treat­ The meeting of the St. Helens club was attended by delegates from ment. Dorothy Austin is to be commend­ several other clubs in this area in­ ed for her convincing performance cluding a delegation from Vernonia. of a much addled antique collector. Emil Messing, president of the Ne­ halem Hunters and Anglers group, was present accompanied by Lester Sheeley. The counties to be included in the discussed association would be Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook. To gain further progress on the matter a meeting in February at Astoria is scheduled at which dele­ gates from local sportsmen clubs Unavoidable Mishap Re­ n the three counties are urged to suits in Fractured Rib be present. E. M. Bollinger, Vernonia mayor, was appointed local chairman this week to be in charge of the staging of the infantile paralysis benefit dance to be held here tfie evening of January 27. The appointment of Bollinger was made by George Caldwell, Clatskanie, county chair­ man. Bollinger, Tuesday evening, nam­ ed his committeemen to assist him in promoting the affair as follows: J. W. Nichols, Lyman Hawken, E. H. Washburn, George Baker and 0. T. Bateman. The committee was to hold its first meeting yesterday evening but arrangements lor an orchestra had already been made by Nichols so that the date of the dance was already established. The names of local chairmen for other communities in the county were made known Wednesday to ne: Mayor Milton Butler, Scap­ poose; Mayor Ray W. Simeral, St. Helens; Ferris Brooks, Rainier; William Kumpula, Clatskanie; Wil- liam Bridger, Mist; Representative J. D. Perry, Deer Island; Cai’s I Fowler, Goble; Guy Bellingham, Birkenfeld. Half of all funds collected remain in Columbia county for local use and the other half is sent to the National Foundation for general use. Junior Tri-County Association Discussed Collission of Cars Injures William Pringle for Commissioner Hartwick Injured Slight­ ly in Thursday Night Ac­ cident One of the Nehalem Valley Mo­ tor Freight trucks overturned Thursday night at Timber on the hill in back of the church. Frank Hartwick, owner of the truck line, was driving from Portland with a load of furniture and produce in the truck and a load of oil in the trailer. Due to the ice on the road, as the carriers made the sharp curve, the trailer skidded, and with its weight of oil pulled the truck over the bank. Hartwick fortunately suffered! only a badly bruised ear and elbow Accident Damages -• a result of the impact caused Cond’t Car when the truck cab landed on its In driving on the East side of side. The freight with the excep­ Portland last Thursday, Mrs. E. H. tion of one chair was intact. The Condit had the misfortune to collide ye connecting the truck and the'at an intersection with another car. railer was snapped off when the Mrs. A. L. Parker, a passenger in railer skidded. Damage to the rear, the Condit car, was bruised some, end of the truck was the most Considerable damage was done to serious damage done. the front of Mrs. Condit’s car. William Pringle, County Road Commissioner, suffered a fractured rib, a cut over the right eye and severe bruises when his car collid­ ed with that of Abele Palanuk at the intersection where the Wilark road comes into the highway. Th* accident, which occured last Friday morning, was unavoidable, accord­ ing to Palanuk, who claims he did not see the Pringle car until it was upon him. Palanuk was on the Wil- ark road; Pringle, on the county road to St. Helens. The Pringle car is under repair at the Crawford Motor Company with damage amounting to about $90; the Palanuk car is at the Vernonia Auto, damage amounting to $160. Man III with Chicken Pox— Garland Gilman has been quite ill since last Friday with the chick­ en pox. Most of the children a'flict- ed with the sickness are having very light cases, but the adults are not faring so easily. Bill to Seek Cultural Station Here According to a telegram received by Lester Sheeley from Senator Charles L. McNary. United States Senior Senator from Oregon, he will re-introduce Senate Bill 3485 providing for the establishment and construction of a fish cultural sta­ tion at a suitable location on Rock Creek, a tributary of the Nehalem River. This Bill was introduced in 1932 by Senator McNary in the United States Senate and in the VOLUME 17, NUMBER 3 • • House of Representatives by Repre­ Be it enacted by the Senate and sentative Willis Hawley, but failed House of Representatives of the of passage on account of the fact Unite# States of America in Con- that an qmnabus bill had been pre­ gre • assembled, that there is here­ viously introduced providing for a by authorized to be appropriated program of fish hatcheries through­ for the establishment and construc­ out the United States. Mr. McNary tion of a fish-cultural station at a stated in his telegram that a nation­ suitable location on Rock Creek, a al survey is now being made for tributary of the Nehalem River, in suitable locations for fish cultural stations. I Columbia County, Oregon, a sum The proposed bill is as follows: 1 not to exceed $50,000.00 District 5 Tourna nient Plans Changed Playoff Between Winning Team» of Each County to Be Held Instead Gun Club Wins Two Matches Canco, Corbett Get De­ feat Score» from Ver­ nonia Riflemen The Vernonia Gun Club was success, ul in winning two shooting matches held during the past week­ end, one of them Friday and the other Sunday. The Friday match with the Canco Rifle Club of Port- land resulted in a score of 896 to 836. Scores for the five highest men shooting on the Vernonia club were as follows: Zimmerdahl 183 Kellmer 163 Nichols 181 Fetsch 178 Culbertson 171 The Sunday match was shot in competition with the Corbett Club resulted in 821 for Corbett and 847 'or Vernonia with results as follows: Zimmerdahl 181 Fetsch 170 Tomlin 168 Melis 165 Nichols 163 The Vernonia Club has won six of the seven matches held so far during the season. Through action taken at O. S. T. A., the Oregon State Athletic As­ sociation decided to discontinue the former basketball tournament plan of District 5, composed of Class A teams in Columbia and Clatsop counties. Heretofore the seven Class A teams of Columbia and Clatsop counties have held tourna- ments in Astoria and St. Helens, alternately, each year. Because of the grinding nature of a two and one-half day touma- ment, play was too difficult and taxing on the high school boys. The newly adopted plan is as follows: A playoff held between the winning team of each county, determined by Stage Scenery to regular schedule during the regu­ Give Surprise— lar season shall consist of one game The public will be pleasantly sur­ in Columbia County, Tuesday, Feb­ prised when it views the setting for ruary 27 at the winning school; and the Junior Play, Friday night, Jan­ one game in Clatsop County, Fri­ uary 26. Through the combined ef­ day, March 1, at the winning school. forts of the Industrial Arts dass If a third game is needed it shall and the Drama Club of the high be played on a neutral floor Mon­ school and Miss Wilkinson, drama day, March 4, place to be deter­ coach, scenes to give the effect of mined by a District Board to be an interior are now being built. made up of principals from schools Wooden frames which can be used of the two counties. for other plays provide the founda­ Proceeds of the playoff games tion over which muslin which has after deducting expenses will be been sized is tacked and stippled divided equally am