PAGE FOUR
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
right now bo brighten the sunset son of Bladhly, Oregon, and Mr.
of our aged while we are working and Mrs. Ray McGee and daughter,
and waiting for a more ideal nation Bonnie, of Mist were weekend visit
FISH PACK
al
pension system to be established? ors with Mrs. Maude DePue and
SHOWS GAIN—
Is
it not inhuman of us to lot family.
FIRST ACTION ON
NEW OFFICIALS UNDER
The total fish pock on the Col- the aged among us die in wont
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Browning
HATCHERY RESULTS—
TAKE SIZEABLE JOB—
umbia river fior 1939 according to When we could help them to at and son, Otto, were Portland visit-
MONÜAY OF this week brought the first
THE EAGLE this week carries as one of the Pacific Fisherman reports, least have ordinary food and shel orr Saturday.
definite local action m connection with the
its front page news items a story announcing showed a gain of 14,482 cases over ter by simply making it mandatoi-y Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Mellinger
proposed fish cultural station on Rock creek
when three game officials made a preliminary
the names of new officials for 1940 for the the previous year. The total was upon our State Legislature bo draw and children, William Van Daren of
upon the general fund of the state
inspection of the proposed location for the
Vernonia chamber oi commerce. Details of 322,472 cases. The average case f<oi money with which to match in Vancouver, Washington, and C. C.
average for the past 40 years has
project.
the election of those officials are mentioned men 356,494 cases.
full the Federal aid now available? Vun Duren spent Monday with Mr.
Little could be said at that time of the
in the story but the job they undertake is
Th- 1939 pack by species is: That is all that is required to giv3 nd Mrs. Milton Lamping of Keasey.
results of the examination with the exception
one not given space m the article.
Miss Rcealie Driscoll spent Sun-
Chinooks 217,595 cases and is a cur elders $40 per month.
that the men were impressed with their first
Do we not make ourselves ridic day night with her friend, Miss
durtince
gain over 173,892 eases in
The chamber ot commerce during the
v’"w of the location. As was stated by one
year 1939 suffered somewhat of a relapse in 1938; 5301 eases of blueback; 69,- ulous when we bombard Washing Erma Koberstein.
of them, several visits must be made at dif
that meetings were not held for some months 082 cases of silvers; 15,201 cases ton D. C. for pensions for all up Mr. and Mrs. Carl Davis spent
ferent times of the year in order to determine
with the consequent result that little accom > chums; 25,293 cases of steel on equal terms and then do nothing Sunday .mhing at Keasey.
how plentiful the supply of water will be
to prevent our State Legislature
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Mellinger
plishment could be named for that period. At heads.
during the dryer month? of the year. For a
from
providing
generous
retirement
and
children were Portland visitors
the
same
time
another
result
of
the
scarcity
successful hatchery venture the flow of
pensions at the expense of all ofI Sunday,
of meetings can be seen in that the chamber
water must be always sufficient for needs
us, for the younger en^pl'oyeos j
has been derided for its lack of activity by
hence the necessity of several tests. However,
only?
many of the townspeople. For that attitude
a favorable first impression would lead one
Is it any wonder that so much I
to continue will mean in 1940 the same result
to believe that the proposition will receive
To the Editor: An address on the is wrong in our country when we I
as that of 1939—small accomplishment.
favorable recommendation.
Old Age Pension and Public Assist brazenly disregard the one Com
For a chamber in any city to function for ance Act is to be broadcast ©ver mandment in the Good Book that i
FIRST SIGNS
the interests of the city the body must be
tation KWJJ, 1040 kilocycles, each earn» s with it a promise of bless-
supported by every citizen of the community. Sunday at 9:15 p. m. The proposed ing if we keep it——HONOR THY |
OF SPRING—
That support must be given in large measure pension bill for Oregon is as fol- FATHER AND THY MOTHER
IT IS probable that everyone has so-call
.by attendance at meetings, by voice in the lows:
MAY BS WELL WITH
THAT
ed signs upon which he may base judgment
proceedings, by ideas of a large number of
for future happenings. Not to be outdone, a
To match Federal funds, for bath THEE IN THE LAND WHICH
people—ideas that will, by development, mean ntan and wife 65 years and over, THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH
prediction that the spring season as at hand
I
advancement or betterment. No small group making a total of $40 each, per THEE.
could not be far amiss at this time.
Why not cooperate in the Oregon
of men or women can be expected to bring month, with $20 to those between
A basis for the prediction can be taken
Expert Refrigerator
Pension Federation’s e Tort to get
great accomplishment when it is not ac 60 and 65.
from several incidents witnessed the past few
corded support by others in the community.
the pension minded people of Ore
days: school children have made their appear
NO PAUPERS OATH
Service
Household
ance on sidewalks, jumping ropes in hand:
and
Commercial
An exemption allowed recipients gon to unite for immediate im-
A
chamber
of
commerce
has
definite
ob
nrovement and a square deal in
the hoop-rolling pastime for youngsters has
value
on
real
of
$3000
assessed
jectives upon which to devote its efforts. It
BERT EASTMAN
Estate pensions? Why not attend the
also come into existence; and kites, the love
Paterson', Furniture Store
has a definite position to fill. In Vernonia property; $1000 on personal prop- Regional Pension Friends Confer
if every small boy, have been seen ascending
life
insurance
$1000
its one high ideal should be the development erty and
ence for your area and otherwise
on more mild currehts of air, currents which
of
the city through development of the trad allowed.
do something to help this worthy
in themselves seem to breathe the approach
ENTIRE
NEW
RELIEF
SET-UP
PAINTING
ing area of the city. No matter of importance
of spring.
Elected officials, responsible to cause?
PAPERHANGING
to one or two individuals can receive great
Our
County
Convention
meets
at
CALSOMINING
consideration for the purpose of a chamber of the people, will administer all' re Astoria, on March 2nd, 10 a. m.
commerce should be devoted to matters of lief. Does away with, excessive Come and help all you can.
i
BOB
MORRELL
■alaries and “swarms” of profess
importance to the entire community.
Mrs. A. E. Jennings
I 376 B Street
-------
Vernonia
ional "social workers.” Creates a
There is much that can be done for the commission for administration of
Upper Nehalem Valley and much that must the act, consisting of State Treas VISITORS FROM
be done if a substantial future is to be assur urer, the Secretary of State, and
MARVIN KAMHOLZ, Editor and P ublisher
Dr. U. J. Bittner
ed. But a few officers cannot be expected to one member to be elected from MIST, BLACKLY
act successfully unless they receive the sup among the County Courts or Coun ENTERTAINED
Dentist
Entered as second class mail matter, August
port of citizens for whom they are working. ty Commissions.
STONEY POINT—(Special to The
Joy
Theatre
Bldg.
4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Ore
All necessary employees selected Eagle)—Mr. and Mrs. Earl Robert-
Phone 662
gon, under the act of March 3, 1879.
from
Relief
Rolls,
if
qualified
and
YOU BET
efficient.
YOUR LIFE
NO PAUPERS BURIAL. $75 ah
Subscription Rate $2 per year
J. E. TAPP
TRAFFIC AND traffic accidents have loyance for funeral expense.
Local advertising rate: 26 cents per column
Security 'And
humanitarianism
long been the source of much comment hence
inch
the following poem which is posted in a guaranteed through the imposition
k.
Foreign advertising rate: 35 cents per column
All Kind, of Wood
of a modest Gross Income Tax,
traffic
court in San Francisco:
inch
Do you speed when the sign says "Beware”? identical with the INDIANA PLAN,
Prompt Delivery
Classified advertising rate: Minimum 25 cents,
V. F. W
which has been endorsed and ap-
You bet your life!
5 cents per line, three insertions for price
both,
Republican
and
proved
by
Do you take chances when you should take
Meets First and
of two.
Phone 241
«
Democratic parties; by Employer
care ?
Legal advertising rate on request
Third Fridays of
and Labor, big and small business.
You bet your life!
Reader advertising rate: 10 cents per line.
Do you make blunders you never should make? "ranges and business organizations,
Each Month.
t REDUCED TAXES in Indiana by
Do you take dares that you oughtn’t to take?
Official newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon
Imost
one-hal'f;
INCREASED
BUS-
Expert Tonsorial Work
What are you betting, Alan?
8 P. M.
Legion
NESS and completely cleaned up
You bet your life!
John Grady, Commander
BEN’S BARBER SHOP
tate indebtedness, because it pro
You gain a second—or maybe a minute—
dded a WIDENED TAX BASE. In
You bet your life!
Vernonia F. O. E
Vernonia, Oregon
pcration in Indiana since 1933,
If you would bet you should figure the cost;
(Fraternal Order of Eagles)
O r í t1o(
PER
Too late to argue with fate when you’re lost! ’.(•nee it is NOT AN EXPERIMENT.
P ub us h | e
Tax if one-fourth of one percent
IATI OR
Too late to claim that you’ve been double
on gross incomes of wholesale trans
crossed!
L( gion Hall
LESTER SHEELEY
actions. and two percent on retail
You bet your life!
Vernonia
and other gross income. EXEMP
Attorney at Law
Puerta Caibellow; American S. S. TION of $2000 on retail sales and
Friday Nights
Bank of Vernonia Bldg.
West Nilus, 622,730 feet, 188,000 of $1000 on persons and individ
Phone 231
8 o'clock
ual other than those benefitted by
cet and 129,000 feet, San Juan the a'oresaid $2000 exemption.
Mayagüez and Ponce; American S
Remaining funds (in excess of
S. Manini, 691,536 feet, Honolulu. nension requirements) shall be allo Roy Barnes, W. P.
Roland L. Treharne
Marvin Kamholz, W. Sec’y.
board feet and the high was in No
cated: 25 percent to the GENERAL
Expert Automobile Repairing
vember, with 4,727,785 board feet. ST. HELENS’ IRON DEPOSITS
SCHOOL FUND, and 75 percent to
WELDING
Knights of Pythias
The shipments, mostly Confined AMONG FIVE KNOWN IN WORLD “he REDUCTION of taxes on REAL
Harding Lodge No. 116
ROLAND'S
FOREIGN LUMBER OUTPUT
The
iron
ore
bodies
immediately
PROPERTY.
Personal
property
to South America, its adjacent is
Vernonia, Oregon
SERVICE STATION
LOCALLY AT HIGH POINT—
lands and Hawaii, were: September, tributary to St. Helens are among taxes paid in the year this act be
Meetings:—I. 0. O. F.
Lumber shipments from St. Hel 3,410,000; October, 3,765,589; No the five known deposits in the comes effective, may be used AS
Hall, Second and
ens to foreign ports for the five- vi mber, 4,727,785; December, 4,- we rid which are of equal quality, AN OFFSET on gross income tax.
Fourth Mondays Each
nrionth period from September 1, 046,908; January, 2,471,124.
Administration expense shall not
according to D. Earle Stewart, min
Month.
BAFFORD BROS
1939 through January o'f this year
Only six foreign shipments left ing engineer who has spent many exceed 5 percent of the gross
total 18,421,406 board feet, the Feb St. Hejens in January. The flhipo, months recently intensively inves ■»mount accruing to the fund, in
General Plumbing
Pythian Sisters
ruary issue of The Timberman mag their cargo board feet, and destin tigating the county’s ore possi any one calendar or fiscal year.
Vernonia Temple No. 61
Vernonia
azine Shows. During this period ations were: Norwegian S. 8. Ev- bilities. Mr. Stewart has been con
Vernonia, Oregon
the slackest month was January, anger, 697,658 feet, Buenos Aires; nected with mines in PeTu, Chile,
Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall
MAN’S INHUMANITY—
when the total export was 2,471,124Danish 8. S. Tanja, 142,000 feet, Scuth Africa and re-opened the
Second and Fourth Wednesdays
Five
years
have
elapsed
since
the
Each Month
coal mines of Siberia for the Czar
Agitation for the Townsend old age
of Russia many years ago.
Nehalem Valley
Not only are St. Helens ore bod pension plan became statewide in
Order of Eastern Star
ies of unusually h.gh quality, but Oregon. Available statistics indicate Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S.
Motor Freight
the known quantity is sufficient to that since that time about 65,000
Regular Communi
Combat Intestinal Poisoning
Frank Hartwick, Proprietor
supply a major smelter requiring of those who had reached age 60
cation first and
Portland - Timber - Vernonia
third Wednesdays
then have been called into the great
many
thousands
o'
tons
each
day.
that may be causing your
Sunset-El tie-Sea, ide
of each month, at
beyond. Thousands of them died
for over 100 years.
Masonic
Temple.
Vernonia
Telephone 1042
Mr. Stewart likened St. Helens prematurely lor want of proper
All visiting sisters
I Ten ore with the Massaba range dental and medical care. Others
and brothers wel
in Minnesota, the mines around died for want of sufficient food
come.
Sara Drorbaugh, W. M.
l|40
Birmingham. Alabama. South Am and adequate shelter. Many thou
sands who have lost, through no
CASON’S TRANSFER
Mrs. Helen Dewey, Secretary
erica and India.
Here's a marvelously simple way of
If yoa nre one of the many folk* that
Charles Schwab of the United fault of their own, large and dear-
feel* "punk” much of the time and «uffer combating intestinal putrefaction that’a
LOCAL
and
LONG
DIS-
A. F. & A. M.
from little aches and pains, biliounneaa, proven to be effective in so many, many
'fates Steel corporation investigat Iv earned savings have skimped on
TANCE HAULING
headache*, fatigue, furry" tongue, anti cases. Best of all, it doesn’t call for the
Vernonia
Lodge
No.
184
food
and
gone
without
clothes
evtu foul breath, we want you to know that use of harmful laxatives or drugs. Modern
'd Columbia county iron both in
very often these condition!« are due to the science now says that extract or concen
SEE US
A. F. & A. M. meet» at
1909 and 1917. AT that time the which they should have had in order
activity of harmful bacteria in the colon. trate of GARLIC gives valuable help to the
Stat-
Masonic Temple,
For Your Old Growth
These bacteria attack food wastes and colon in its tight against these poison-
'hat
they
might
have
some
money
ore
was
not
used
because
of
the
often produce poisons that are absorbed by crenting bacteria.
cd Communication First
16-INCH FIR WOOD
If you feel 'half dead'* much of the time,
the body and so cause many very distress
Tok of lime and coal or coke re with which to help the pension
Thursday of each month.
ing conditions. It is hard to kill these bac have minor aches and pains, headaches,
AND CEDAR SHINGLES
Special called meetings
quired in refining it. Now eoal slack movement. Thousands of these pen
teria in the colon. Powerful dru -s that di iness, or foul breath, it might well be
might kill them may also hurt you if taken I hat intestinal putrefaction is at the bottom
other Thursday nights, 7:30
is obtainable from the coal mines sion pioneers believed firmly that
of it
Why suffer? DO SOMETHING
internally.
Visitors most cordially wel-
However, if you just "»low down" the ABOUT IT.
i
National
pension
system
would
be
•
’
hehalis
a*
a
vary
nominal
price
If you suffer aches, pains, headaches,
activity of these harmful bacteria that
come.
cause putrefaction, nature will be given a dimness and fatigue, why not do as so
and lime can be supplied 'rom sev ■'«tahlished in time ‘or them to en-i Special meeting«
_ Friday night«.
many other folks are today doing. Try
chance to set things right again.
iey at least a taste of ordinary; Roland Treharne, W. M.
eral available sources.
Roland D. Eby, M. D.
Garlic Concentrate for your troubles.
DEARBORN Con entrated Garlic Tablets
Hving again before father time
Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec.
offer % ou the medicinal virtues of Garlic la
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
tasteless, odorless, easy-to-take tablets.
W W. DILLARD MAY BE
should gather them into his fold.
Start using them today and learn for your
CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE—
Feel, if you can, the heart-break-
self just what these tablets can do for you.
Town Office 891
A package of 4 0 tablets (a two-weeks
VERNONIA
It is understood that W. W. Dil- ng disappointment that fell upon
‘upplyi. costs only fide. At all good
POST 11»
1 Drug Stores Be sure to get the genuine
j lard, St. Helens attorney, is consjd- hese pioneers when they found
DEARBORN Garlic Tablets.
AMERICAN
' ering being a candidate for the bey had io die in poverty and be
CDCCe Come in today and get
LEGION
nomination of district attorney on Juried in paupers graves.
I lit to generous FREE TRIAL
NEAL W. BUSH
the Democratic ballot at the prim-
package of DEARBORN Concen
Is it not time that we come to Me— ta First and
Attorney at Law
trated Garlic Tablets. Costa nothing.
I ary election on May 17. Mr. Dillard 'tir senses enough to realize that Third Wednesday,
No obligation.
Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663.
' admits he is considering entering •ve are inhuman when we do not
In Vernonia Mondays and
I the race but has reached ao definite ’’«stir ourselves to do the things
Tuesdays
W. J. ARMITAGE, DRUGGIST
decision.
; J !hat can be done in our own stale
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