FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1940
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
PAGE FOUR
EAGLE
EDITORIALS
WARMER WINTERS
A RESULT—
A RECENT account in a daily newspaper
told of the tests made by a scientist, the
The explanation of the scientist for the
raise in water temperatures was that the
Vernonia Eagle
MARVIN KAMHOLZ, Editor and P ublisher
Entered as second class mail matter, August
4, 1&22, at the post office in Vernonia, Ore­
gon, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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The National Problem
Japan current, a warm flow of water suppos­
edly circulating past our own coasts had
changed in such a manner that the raise
tests revealing that the temperature of the
ocean off the Pacific coast had raised a num­
ber of degrees in the past few years, suffic­
iently so to serve as an explanation for the
increased runs of tuna in waters along this
coast.
i
had occured. Not being in a position to
agree with the scientist little argument
be made with the contention so that it
be assumed as correct.
However the statement that the increased
temperature has led to increased runs of
tuna might be broadened to include also a
more mild winter. Geologists contend that
those countries bordering warm bodies of
water may expect more mild and even
weather conditions throughout the entire
year. Could not the rising ocean temperatures don, Mrs. Earl Smith, Mrs. Virgil Dunn
also be partly responsible for the mild Oregon Powell, and Mrs. George Baker. B. Hall
winters which are experienced each year on
Many nice gifts were received by Tallman
the western slope?
St. Helens
LODGES
The Forum
The Forest Grove
National Bank
Invites You To Bank Bv Mail if
Oregon-American
LUMBER
CORPORATION
Vernonia, Oregon
Whereas: It has pleased an all­
wise Providence to remove from
our midst the wife of our brotiher,
Frank McCabe.
There ore be it resolved: That
his local express our sincere sym­
pathy to our brother in his bereave­
ment and,
Be it further resolved: That a
opy of this resoultion be spread
-in our minutes, sent to our brother
published in our local paper.
Local 2557 Lumber and
Sawmill Workers
READ THE AD$
Along With the News
Business
10 Duram
11 Mulikan
McCauley,
Johnson
4 Sagar
Lloyd • Porter made a business I
trip to Newport Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Vanderzanden
of Forest Grove visited his brother, (
Expert Refrigerator
Nick, here Saturday night.
George Riggle of Buxton is do­
Service
ing some carpenter work for B. |
Household
and Commercial
Tailman this week.
Timber P. T. A. had a business
BERT
EASTMAN
meeting last Wednesday and a
Paterson’» Furniture Store
shower for Mrs. Francis Vick. Mis.
Vick received many useful and
beautiful gilts. Cake and cocoa
were served for refreshments.
PAINTING
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hensley
PAPERHANGING
escorted Mr. Hensley’s mother, Mrs.
CALSOMINING
Beatrice Squire, to her home at
McMinnville Friday. Mrs. Squire
BOB
MORRELL
has been visiting the past two
376 B Street
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Vernonia
weeks at her son’s home.
Nathalin Benefiel of De Lake is
staying at the William Huffman
home while her mother, Mrs. Ken­
neth Benefield, is convalescing from
Dr. U. J. Bittner
recent operation. Mrs. Benefiel
is at Good Samaritan hospital.
Dentist
Mrs. Ida Page visited at the
Kilburg home from Wednesday un­ Joy Theatre Bldg.
Phone 662
til Sunday.
Mrs. Ward.
Mrs. Art Rice spent Wednesday
DIPHTHERIA CLINIC,
night in Portland.
A PREVENTATIVE MEASURE-
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Olson mo­
tored
to Portland Saturday and
I HE DECISION last week to stage the
diphtheria clinic here this week was one that purchased a new 1940 Chevrolet.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Halverson
Official newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon
will very likely mean less suffering for the
were at the Chet Taylor home for
many children attending Vernonia schools.
A few cases of the disease have made dinner Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Olson were
their appearance in Washington county thus
making necessary immediate measures to dinner guests at the Chet Taylor
P«PiR
prevent a spread of the malady in this county home Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Woods went
OBI ATI OH
Parents having children not having taken
preventative precautions will do well to see to Clatskanie Sunday and spent
the day with Mr. Wood’s mother.
that the protection is received.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Olson were
dinner guests at the home of Mr.
proper time to make such a de- and Mrs. Harold Gay Monday eve-
mand? Is the price of lumber and ning.
cost of production such that the
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Pearl and
industry can pay this additional children and niece, Frances Ann
Cantwell, spent last weekend at
miles west of Scappoise. The prop­ wage at this time?
Goble.
erty is owned by D. W. Price of
Is the immediate future of the
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Pearl and
Scappoose.
industry so assured that we can
children are spending a few days
SCAPPOOSE ORE TO BE USED
assume a continuance of even the in Portland this week with Mr.
50 MEN ENGAGED MOVING
IN REDUCTION PLANT—
present price of our product.
Pearl’s mother, Mrs. Harold Pearl.
WPA CAMP TO SCAPPOOSE—
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Woods and
It is presidential election year
As was first announced in The
A crew of 50 men are engaged
St. Helens Sentinel-Mist in the in installing equipment and mov­ and if you will look back over’,erand-daughter, Connie Sutherland,
issue of Friday, February 16, a new ing buildings of the 1 WPA road history is it noit a fact that during^ were Vernonia shoppers Monday
iron reduction industry using ore camp from Chapman to Scappo jsc- each such year not only our in­ afternoon.
Betty Olson gave a party Sat-
mined in the Scappoose district will this week. Work on the new Scap-
dustry but all industry is accustom- urday evening for some of her
be located in the greater Portland pooise-Vernonia highway will oc-
V. F. W.
area. Formal announcement of the cupy at least six more months to ed to mark time and see what is Vernonia friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Bransdel
to be tflb result of the election
industry financed by western cap­ complete.
Meets First and
before taking any radical steps in and Mrs. Gene Orwig were Ver­
ital and utilizing Bosneville power
nonia
shoppers
Tuesday
afternoon.
Third Friday* of
and northwest iron ore, limestone CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CITY production or expansion.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Roberts and
If at such a time labor demands
and coal', was made last Tuesday JAIL STARTS IN FEW DAYS—
Month.
Lester Roberts were Portland visit-
by Paul J. Raver, Bonneville power
Construction of the now city jail so large an increase in pay, is there irs Saturday.
not
a
very
definite
peril
that
the
administrator.
Legion
P. M.
will start in a few days on property
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Ray and
While the industry, Sierra Iron adjacent to the St. Helens fire management might prefer to close
John Grady, Commander
Mrs.
-hildren,
Mr.
Ray
’
s
mother,
Company, a Nevada corporation, j station on Columbia boulevard. Con­ the plant rather than to add so
will be located in Vancouver, Wash., tract for the concrete structure, materially to the cost of produc- ■Ray, and Katherine Ray were visit-
Vernonia F. O. E.
several sites in Portland and also which will cost $3,380, was award­ tion without assurance of a con irs at the Earl Atkins home one
(Fraternal Order of Eagle*)
lay last week.
Columbia city were first consider-! ed last week by the city council to tinuous or a rising market?
A group o' the ladies here gave a
Before you vote to make such
ed by representatives of the com- j William Quigley, Portland eon
handkerchief shower on Mrs. Stan­
a
demand
please
give
serious
pany.
L' gion Hall
tractor.
ley Olson. Mr. and Mrs. Olson are
thought to the above.
The Sierra company will purchase
•joing
to
be
in
the
East
for
a
few
Vernonia
We who sell our labor wish to
its ore from D. Earle Stewart, min-1
do so as advantageously as possible weeks.
ing engineer, who has acquired ex­
Friday Nights
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hanna and
but if by asking too much we de­
tensive properties in the vicinity of |
Dorothy
were
Vernonia
shoppers
8 o'clock
stroy the market we now have, and
Scappoose and elsewhere which will
be immediately developed by him To the Employees of the Oregon it is conceivable we might do exact­ Saturday.
ly that, we might be killing th<
with shipments of ore by rail and ' American Lumber Corporation:
Roy Barnes, W. P.
water to Vancouver. Stewart has
It seems that there is a move- goose, etc., etc.
P. T. A. MEETS;
Marvin Kamholz, W. Sec’y.
done 15 months work on the Scap-Jment on the part of our Labor
Let us “think on these things”. MISS KILBURG HAS
poose deposits and is acquiring Organizations to ask for a very
Knights of Pythias
ASTORIA VISITORS
titles, leases and mining claims, substantial raise in pay for all
Harding Lodge No. 116
He said the Scappoose ore is equal men in the lumber industry,
Vernonia, Oregon
(Omitted last week)
To the Editor:
TIMBER—(Special to The Eagle)
Meetings:—I. O. O. F.
to most ores used in the United
At first thought this seems a
We the neighbors and friends of
States and Europe and better than very meritorious idea and one that Mayo Jean Pettijohn were saddened —Ida Eliasson of Astoria and her
Hall, Second and
a great many.
the laboring man should indorse at the untimely passing of a boy sister, Ziggi Eliasson, of Portland
Fourth Mondays Each
were overnight guests Saturday
The mining will be open pit op­ but another thought may seem to in the bloom of youth.
Month.
< Ida Kilburg.
eration, utilizing power shovels and qualify this action,
Mayo was loved by all who knew night of
Mrs. . Edward Klein and infant
will begin on a tract about three
In the first place is this the him and his big smile and happy
Pythian Sisters
disposition brightened and made one daughter returned home from the
Vernonia Temple No. 61
Emanuel
hospital
Saturday.
wish for more like him. But if his
Oregon
Sunset camp was closed down Meeting»: Vernonia,
passing will make other boys, who
— I. O. O. F. Hall
from
Thursday
until
Tuesday
be
­
Second and Fourth Wednesdays
take high powered guns into the
Each Month
brush, stop, look and listen, his cause the water in the Willamette
Short stay on this earth will not river was too high to dump logs.
Nick Vanderzanden is now em-
Order of Eastern Star
have been in vain.
ployed
at the Timber Mercantile Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S.
His very close friend,
store.
Regular Communi-
Mrs. J. O. DeVaney
Mrs. Earle Fisher and Mrs. Elmo
CEftion first and
Tallman were visitors in Buxton
third Wednesdays
of each month, at
OLSONS FETED AT
last Thursday at the homes of Mrs.
Masonic Temple.
Edith Riggle, Mrs. Billie Pratt and
PARTIES; BIRTHDAY
All visiting sisters
Inconvenient To Come In Person
Mrs.
M.
B.
Watson.
PARTY GIVEN
and brothers wel­
John Marshall is ill in St. Vin­
come.
J. A. Thornburg, President
(Omitted last week)
cents hospital, Portland, having been
Drorbaugh, W. M.
l|40
WILARK—(Special to the Eagle) taken Sunday.
"THE ROLL OF HONOR BANK”
Helen Dewey, Secretary
—Mrs. Chet Taylor gave a surprise
Mrs. William Huffman and daugh­
A. F. & A. M.
and farewell party for Mrs. Stan­ ter. Billie, and little Nathalin Bene­
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
ley Olson Friday afternoon, Febru­ fiel spent Wednesday and Thurs­
A. F. & A. M. meets at
ary 16. Those present were Mrs. day o' last week in Portland where
Masonic Temple,
Stat-
Harold Gay, Mrs. Oscar Johnson, they visited Mrs. Kenneth Benefiel
ed
Communication First
I Mrs. Bill Linsey, Mrs. Chris Fowler. at the Good Samaritan hospital.
Thursday of each month.
| Mrs. Bob Wood, Mrs. Grant Layer,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kubler spent ■
Special called meetings
Mrs. Denny Ryves, Mrs. Vance last weekend in Wilsonville at the i
other Thursday nights, 7:30
Visitors most cordially wel-
Sutherland. Mrs. Blaine Cobat and home of Mrs. Kubler’s sister. Mrs.
come.
Mrs. Art Davis. Those sending gifts George SattleT, and her family.
Special meeting* Friday night*.
but unable to attend were Mrs.
A basketball game was played
Roland Treharne. W. M.
I Jim Hanna and Mrs. Art Rice. The or the Cornelius floor between the' Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec.
I honor guest received many lovely Hillsboro C. E. team and the Tim-1
ber Town team. Timber boys won
gifts.
over Hillsboro boys with a score
VERNONIA
Dan Rollins and Robert Roeser of 34 to 32 and the Timber girls
POST 119
| attended the basketball game in won over the Hillsboro team 28
to 8.
AMERICAN
| Vernonia Sunday night.
The town team also played
LEGION
Mrs. Bob Woods gave a birthday Thursday night at Yamhill
with
party for Mrs. Harry Sandon’s Yamhill’s town team boys and were M*et» First and
mother, Mrs. Hattie Ward. Those- defeated one point. score being 40 Third Wednesdays
present were: Mrs. Charles Lewis, to 39.
39
Yamhill 40
AUXI> IARY
I Mrs. Art Rice, Mrs. Chet Taylor,1 Timber
D. Hall 14
F
First and TMrd Monday»
11 Kerr
/ Mrs. Harry Sandon, Mrs. Paul Gor- Karpstein 8
F
4 Dickinson
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All Kinds
of Wood
Prompt Delivery
Phone 241
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Vernonia, Oregon
LESTER SHEELEY
Attorney at Law
Bank of Vernonia Bldg.
Phone 231
Roland L. Treharne
Expert Automobile Repairing
WELDING
ROLAND’S
SERVICE STATION
BAFFORD BROS
General Plumbing
Vernonia
Nehalem Valley
Motor Freight
Frank Hartwick, Proprietor
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In Vernonia Mondays and
Tuesdays