Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974, February 23, 1940, Image 1

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940
Settling Basin at
Water Intake to Be
Replaced, Ordered
Council Received Bid for
Lot; Delinquent Accounts
Discussed
■City Councilmen meeting Monday
evening gave authorization to pro­
ceed with the rebuilding of the
city water intake settling basin,
which matter was given considera­
tion at the first council meeting
this month.
Cost of the construction was
given at $832.92 which includes
the cost of materials for the tank
and its erection but does not in­
clude the cost of foundation tim­
bers or the foundation itself,
A bid was received by council-
men from Lloyd B. Lane to pur-
chase the Stuart block, the block on
Bridge street now vacant except
for the band stand. The price nam-
ed for the block in the bid was
$700.
An amendment to the cemetery
ordinance was given official okeh
making the price of lots in Section
D $10 i' interment is made in a
concrete vault and $15 if in wood.
Final business of the evening
was the discussion of delinquent
water accounts end the authorizing
i der to wr’te letters
of the Citv R
■vhos ■ accounts are
to those
delinquent
Three ('ases
Heard by
Recorder
Charges of Disorderly
Ccnd’jct Placed Against
Two Defendants
The Recorder’s Court for Ver­
nonia was active last Saturday on
two cases involving infractions of
the law, the first cases for several
weeks.
Both C. B. Ashley and E. S. Baf-
'ord were charged with disorderly
conduct and fined in the court last
Saturday, the former being assessed
a fine of $20 and the latter $10.
Neal King was released from the
city jail Sunday on $15 bail after
arrest on a charge of being drunk
on a public street.
Trucking
Business
Sold
E. H. Washburn Disposes
of
Lumber-Hauling to
O. E. Johnson
E. H. Washburn sold his lumber­
hauling business last Friday to
O. E. Johnson of Banks. Wash­
burn, who has been operating the
business for the past two years,
had just purchased a new Federal
diesel truck previous to the selling.
The new owner began operation
of the trucking service Monday of
this week. "Washburn has not an­
nounced nlans for the future.
Warning Given
Dog Owners
By Marshal
rh’nvle Mill Capacity
Estimated—
An estimate was given this week
of the capacity of the shingle mill
to be in operation at Riverview
within a short time as 30,000
shingles per day with the plant in
full production. Timber will be pur­
chased in bolts and hauled to the
site of the mill for manufacture.
Survey
Asked on
Station
Proposed Fish Hatchery
Site to Be Examined by
Regional Director
Word was received this week by
Lester Sheeley from Charles L. Mc-
Nary, Senior United States Senator
of Oregon that the United States
Bureau of Fisheries has requested
a survey to be made of the pro­
posed site on Rock creek for a
Fish Cultural Station.
According to the word, Fred J.
Foster, Regional Director of the
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, with
headquarters in Seattle, Washing­
ton, will be in charge of the work.
The survey will 'be made to deter­
mine the feasibility of a site on
Rock creek where a bill recently in­
troduced by Senator McNary pro­
poses the construction of a $50,000
hatchery.
Justice Court
Docket
Reveals Fines
Violation of Motor Ve­
hicle Law Leads to Ma­
jority of Arrests
An examination of the docket of
the Vernonia Justice Court this
revealed action taken in the
License
Required
for week
court in the past few days fior in­
Animals by March 1 to fractions of laws.
Avoid Penalty
Jasper Raymond Crabbe was fin­
Through a notice published by ed $5 and costs for speeding with
a truck while James Walter Charles-
City Marshal A. D. Lolley dog own­ > worth was accorded the same fine
ers of the city are warned to make "or improper lights. The third case
the purchase of licenses for their in the court in recent days was a
animals before the date of March violation of the motor vehicle law.
1 or be assessed a penalty of 50 Harold Benjamin Moore was given
the same fine as the two previous
cents for the delay. The warning
cases for failure to possess an
is made in accordance with a recent­ ■operator’s license.
ly passed city ordinance.
On Monday a fine of
was
the
Licenses may be obtained at the assessed Hale Bankston
city hall for a regular charge of $1 charge of being drunk on
highway.
for males and $1.50 for females.
Sheep, Goat
Raisers to
Meet Sat.
Student to See
Lanny Swallow—
Students of the Vernonia schools
will he entertained by Lanny
Swallow, “the man with the X-
Ray eyes” at the National Assem-
bly Program to be held Friday
a ternoon at the Washington school.
Swallow will demonstrate “the
th sense”; he will see without
ing. He will show how he
though blind-folded. Of added
tcrest the audience will have
“spook racket” exposed by
Swallow.
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY. OREGON
VIC SMITH AS MR. CARTER
Mr. Carter is the pater familias
“The Carters of Elm Street,”
popular and realistic script pro-
gram which is now hteard locally
over Station KWLK, and is aired
coast-to-coast over 83 other sta-
tions of the Mutual Broadcasting
System. The program is heard daily
Mondays through Fridays, from
9:45 to 10:00. Mr. Carter in real
life? Vic Smith is his name, and
he is one of radiodom’s most ver-
satile character actors.
VOLUME 17, NUMBER 8
Delegation Hears Naming
of Committee for Change
Diphtheria Clinic
To Immunize Children
Here Wednesday
Pettijohn
To Be
Buried Here
Accidental
Shot
Kills
Brother While on Hunt-
ing Trip
Jean Pettijhon, 25, of Portland
was killed by his brother, Robert,
20, late Tuesday near Gold Beach
while they were hunting d/eer.
Young Pettijohn and a hunting
companion, Vernon Turner, of Gold
Beach, told Police Corporal Guy
Forsythe that they had separated
from Jean who had shot a deer
pnd was packing it into camp. See­
ing the animal through the brush,
Robert fired, the bullet striking his
brother in the head.
The Pettijohns whose homestead
is located on Rock creek are well
known in this community. Left to
nouia are: the mother, another
brother, Norman, and a sister, Mrs.
Ray Cummings of Portland.
The victim’s body is being shipped
from Gold Beach to the Bush Fun­
eral Home.
Plans Made
to Welcome
Homemakers
Cas^s of Disease in Ad­
joining County Leads to
Action
A clinic to immunize children
against diphtheria will' be conduct­
ed at the Washington grade school
next Wednesday morning, Febru­
ary 28, beginning at 9 a. m. Miss
Nettie Alley, Columbia County Red
Cross nurse, in making this an­
nouncement early in the week
states that there have been reports
of several cases of diphtheria in
an adjoining county and since a
number of children here have not
been immunized, steps are being
taken to provide the means. She
urges that the parents see to it that
their children are protected from
this disease by taking advantage
of this county-wide service.
Toxoid will be given the children
in two doses, three weeks apart,
for the small charge of 50c. Child-
ren of pre-school age as young as
six months old are eligible to be
immunized.
Parents of large families, unable
to pay the fee for the immuniza­
tion of their children, are request­
ed to see Miss Alley at the school
Wednesday morning.
Additional
Candidates
Seek Election
Four More File Intentions
for Public Offices During
Past Week
Filing of candidates for the May
Conference Dates Set for primary election late last week re­
February 27, March L vealed four additional candidates
will be in the political race at that
Inclusive
time, as shown by records in the
Plans to welcome some 1200 office of J. W. Hunt, County Clerk.
Oregon homemakers for the tenth
Those filing were County Clerk
Set annual Home Interests conference, J. W. Hunt, Sheriff M. R. Calhoun,
Annual
Gathering
for Saturday, February 24 and for the celebration of the fifti- Assessor Fred Watkins and Coroner
eth anniversary if the establish- J. O. Elibon of Rainier. Elbon has
at St. Helens
ment of home economics at Oregon competition in the filing of Charles
The Sheep and Goat Raisers As­ State college, are being made, says N. Rogers, St. Helens, for coroner.
sociation of Columbia county will Mrs. Azalea Sager, state home de­
hold their annual meeting on Sat­ monstration leader in the extension Deputy Collectors
urday, February 24, at the court service. Dates set for the combined Itinerary Given—
house at St. Helens beginning at event are February 27 to March 1,
Information released I by the
10:00 a. m., according to Mr. W. inclusive.
Treasury Department this week
The joint program is being makes known the dates upon which
A. McClintock, president of the
planned so that Tuesday evening Deputy Collectors for 1 Federal in­
Association.
Mr. R. A. Ward, manager of the and Wednesday will be devoted come tax will be in the county: St.
Pacific Wool Growers Association primarily to the anniversary cele­ Helens, Feb. 26, 27 inclusive; Rain­
of Poi tland who is now at Boston, bration, while on Thursday and ier, Feb. 28; Clatskanie, Feb. 29.
Massachusetts, in connection with Friday, the regular events of the In addition to the places shown,
the marketing of wool, will be the Home Interests conference will be the same assistance is also available
main speaker of the day. He will emphasized. Demonstrations and dis- |to taxpayers at the office of the
ulso have a number of interesting eussions featuring all phases of ' Collector of Internal Revenue, Cus­
exhibits to show and will make a family living will be conducted by tom House, Portland, Oregon, each
report on the wool and mohair leaders in their respective fields, in- day until March 25th, which is the
jnarketing situation as he found it • eluding foods and nutrition, cloth­ final day of the filing period.
among the manufacturers on the ing and textiles, home furnishings,
home management, parent educa­ Here from Portland----
eastern coast.
Helen Messing who is working
All sheep and goat raisers who tion and child development,
Costs of attending are being for Fred Meyer Company in Port-
are interested in this meeting are
invited to be present at that time kept at a minimum, says Mrs. land was a Vernonia visitor Wed-
nesday.
Sager.
and take part in the meeting.
Forest Grove Chamber
of Commerce Active on
Road Problem
Through an invitation issued to
the Vernonia Chamber of Com­
merce by the Forest Grove Chamber
a short time ago, five members from
Vernonia were in Forest Grove Mon­
day noon to participate in a dis­
cussion of the Rainier-Apiary road
which has been under construction
for the past several years.
The road when completed will act
as a shorter route for Highway 99
from Longview to McMinnville by
providing a road that will avoid
heavy traffic in the Portland dis-
trict and one that will shorten con­
siderably the distance in miles be­
tween the two points.
Members of the Washington coun­
ty court were present and through
their chairman, Herman Kirkman,
extended cooperation to the two
chambers in seeking to have the
road declared a secondary state
highway. Before the business of the
»neeting was concluded a motion
•vas heard to name a committee to
have charge of no other detail than
the seeking of that change.
Members of the Vernonia chamber
present for the day included: J.
W. Niohols, Lode McDonald, Joe
JIursh, Lester Sheeley, Tom Bate­
man and Marvin Kamholz.
Seeding
Lands Urged
By Agent
Suitable Mixtures for
Planting Named in Re­
lease to Fanner*
The seeding of grasses and clov-
ers can be done to good advantage
on fall-seeded grain lands or on
logged-orff land that was burned
over last fall'.
The seeding can be done either
when the ground is frosted or the
seeding can be made in the mud.
In this way the seed will usually
be sufficiently covered to insure a
good stand.
A good mixture to seed on this
type of land is as follows: western
rye grass, 4 lbs.; English rye grass,
4 lbs.; timothy, 2 lbs.; orchard
grass, 3 lbs.; alsike clover, 2 lbs.;
and white clover, *4 lb. To this
should be added sod-forming grasses
if the pasture is to be permanent
such as one or two of the follow­
ing grasses: Astoria bent, % lb.;
Chewing’s fescue, 2 lbs. or tall
fescue, 2 lbs.; and Kentucky blue
grass 2 lbs. About 19 or 12 pounds
of the above mixture should be
applied per aere.
The permanent grasses may seem
to be high priced, but they are only
added to the mixture in small
quantities and will continue to
spread after they are planted so
it is important to have some of
these grasses in the mixture where
a permanent pasture is desired,
even if it is necessary to put in
a small amount of the recommend­
ed amounts in the mixture.
For pasture on low, moist lands
English rye grass of 8 lbs. and
ladino clover of 4 lbs. is recom­
mended.
City Recorder’s Yearly Report of Expenditures Shows Surplus in 1939
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IC-ompletion of the City Record­
er’s report of receipts and expen­
ditures for the budget year of 1939.
which was released this week by
Loel Roberts, revealed the finan­
cial standing of the city for that
year as compared with the budget
for the same length of time.
The first part of the statement
dealing with collections revealed
a total of $7,021.08. A breakdown
To follow the statement st!!.
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aneous, $381.20.
only four items but surplus from
the remaining items more than
of the different items revealed the
various sources for those collec-
tions and the total for the year
for each source: Fines, $630.00;
occupation tax, $1,820.90; contract
payments, $2,285.25; rents, $734.50;
assessment
payments,
principal,
$916.93, interest, $194.80; ceme­
tery sinking fund, $57.50; miKell-
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budget total for the year was $14,-
246.25 and expenditures actually
made were totaled at $10,557.54
leaving a surplus of $5,058.76. Ex­
counteracted the overexpenditures.
Overexpenditures occured for police
department personal service, $134-
.51; police department other ex­
pense, $55.42; cemetery. $1002.76;
and insurance and surety bonds,
penditures over the amount deter­
mined in the budget occured for
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“
1001.49
948.21
i collections by months were as fol- Oct.
$177.36.
1101.85
I Nov.
1105.19
The final portion of the report lows :
1097.36
1096.69
Billings
Collections Dec.
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deals with collections and disburse- j Month
Warrant expenditures compared
$1142.24
1043.94
ment for the water department, ! Jan.
1160.70 with the budget were:
1106.82
The total uncollected accounts at Feb.
surplus
budget
expenditures
1107.68
1107.67
the beginning of the year was March
1265.89 Superintendent’s Salary
1139.53
$4,528.68. Total billings for the April
1496.40
123.60
1166.56
1298.91 $1620.00
year was $13,1/73.35 and total col­ May
1111.63
1120.41 Collector’s Salary
lections $13,565.55. Billings and June
60.00
1225.53
1201.91
810.00
750.00
more reveals the statement of war­ ' July
1329.01
1332.29 Supplies and maintenance
rant expenditures as compared with Aug.
2696.31
2303.69
1143.66
883.73 I 5000.00
the budget for the year 1939. Thej Sept.