FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1940
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
Annual Meeting of
Stockmen Here to
See Officers Elected
Dean Schoenfeld of Ore
gon State College Expect
ed to Attend
Of interest to Nehalem Valley
farmers and stockmen and agricul
ture men throughout the county
will be the annual meeting of the
Columbia County Stockmen’s As-
sociation slated for Vernonia this
Friday evening, April 19th. The
meeting will be held at eight o’clock
at the Grange hall.
The purpose of the session sched
uled is the election of officers and
the transaction of any business that
may arise, it was stated by W. E.
Crawford, secretary-treasurer.
On the same evening Dean Scho-
enfeld, Director of the Experiment
Station and Extension Service >f
Oregon State College, and Har y
Lindgren of the Animal Husbandly
Department of the college and secre
tary of the Western Oregon Live
stock Association are expected to
attend. No announcement of possible
speeches by the men were given
but it is expected that both will
rddress the gathering on topics of
interest to stockmen.
E. A. (Lode) McDonald, presi
dent of the Columbia county assoc
iation, and Mr. Crawford both have
expressed the hope that a record
crowd will be in attendance Friday
for the yearly Vernonia .meeting.
Three Get
Fines in
Justice Court
Cleanup
Day
Discussed
Water Ordinance Given
Official Okeh by Council
men Monday
City councilmen, at their second
meeting lor April held Monday eve
ning, heard the reading of an ordin
ance authorizing the water rate
reduction voted upon at the first
April meeting and gave the official
okeh to the draft.
Action was also taken to sell lot
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in block 7, Central Addition to
he city to A. H. Tisdale. Those
wo offical acts completed business
i >r the evening with the exception
of a discussioin of the naming o’
a cleanup day. Several comments
were heard on the matter to lead
to the decision to set no official
ay for cleanup. Due to the under-
: tanding, as it was expressed, that
nmany residents within city limits
would retain garbage from one year
to the next in anticipation of the
etting aside • of a special day for
•emoval and would thereby be in
trumental in contributing to a
.reater accumulation, no action was
taken.
Committee
Appointments
Charges Var y from In
toxication to Fishing in To Be Made
Closed Strear i
r
Chamber Commerce Lun
Three cases were heard in the
cheon Due Next Tuesday
•Vernonia Justice al Peace court
Noon Says President
since Saturday of last week, an
examination of the court docket
Chamber of Commerce President
revealed Wednesday. The first case Slam Hearing stated Wednesday
was that of Earnest Arthur Stacey! that the second April meeting of
who was charged on Saturday with the group is slated for the Termin-
being in a state of intoxication on al Cafe next Tuesday noon. In the
ft public highway. A plea of guilty i announcement Hearing stated that
to the charge was entered and a ■ business men, residents af the com-
fine of $25 and cost of $2.50 inunity and farmers in the valley
assessed.
surrounding Vernonia are invited
On April 15 Roy James Garner f0 attend.
The appointment of committees
of Portland was arrested for fish
ing on the east fork of the Nehalem wil‘ occupy the business session o
river, a closed stream and fined' L^e meet'n®-
$25 and costs of *2.50. On th« KWLK to Change
same day Russell Hiram Hewitt was groadcagt Frequency-
charged with driving while intoxicat-1
Beginning with Thursday s broad-
ed and entered a plea of not guilty., ,ast> Ra(Jio
RWLK, Long-
The date of hearing was set f°r'vuw will be found on a new spot
April 17, Wednesday, and he was ¡on the dial, is the announcement
admitted to bail but on the 16th, made to Vernonia listeners this
—
,
, he appeared , in court to
. i week
by A. H. Green, manager
of
Tuesday,
L,
,
the station. The new number on
change the plea to guilty. A fine fche dia] win be J37o kilo<,ycIes an(i
of $100 and 30 days in jail were instead of being a daylight station,
levied as penalty.
i that is signing off at sunset, pro-
’ grams will run every day from 7
| a. m. until 11 p. m.
Registrar from
Willamette to Speak—
W’after Erickson, registrar of Wi|-
lamette University, will address sen-
iors of the high school Thursday
morning at 9:45. Because of limit
pd time, Mr. Erickson was unable
to speak to the entire student body
in addition to the graduating class.
Money
1 Vernonia Scouts
fo Participate—
The Vernonia Boy Scouts are to
be represented in the scout Skill-
orama to be held in Portland April
26 and 27. Scouts from here will
participate in the parade to be held
on Saturday, stated Scoutmaster
Ira Baucom.
Credit
Union
Formed
Union Purpose to Pro
mote Thrift Among Mem
bers
A group of Vernonia residents
wish to announce the formation of
the Vernonia Community Federal
Credit Union, Charter No. 3723.
Mr. Robert Raymer ci April 5
called the group togeth r and in-
troduced Mr. Powell of the Farm
Credit Administration wl > was here
t-> install the charter and explain
the purpose of Federal Credit
Unions. The purpose of Credit
Unions as explained is to promote
thrift among its members, by af
fording them an opportunity for
accumulating their savings; and to
create for them a source of credit
t or loans for provident and pro
ductive purposes. ,
Officers elected at this meeting
were, President, Robert Raymer;
'inancial Secretary, Dwight Strong,
'redit Committee: John Roediger,
H. A. Stevenson and Rurus Bram
lett; .Supervisory Committee: Mrs.
’Obert Raymer, Lester Wells and
Warren Stevenson; Board of Dir-
ctors: John Gritdahl, Hale Bank-
on, Dwight Strong, Robert Ray-
ner, E. Burton, O. D. Willard ana
Edwin Ade.
Membership in the Vernonia Com-
■nunity Federal Credit Union is
imited to the residents of Vernonia
■ nd those living within a radius of
ix miles, There are no paid of-
icials in this Credit Union and
t is non-political and has no other
affiliations other than being undei
he direct supervision oif the Farm
Credit Administration, which audits
ts books annually.
There are now 66 such Credit
Inions with a combined member
hip of 13,500 in the State of Ore-
ion in the business oe saving money
md in turn loaning it to their mem-
>ers in need of such loans. Vernonia
’s getting off to a good start, now
aving 34 members and with others
howing interest in the Credit Un-
on. For more information please
•ontacf any member or any officer
nentioned above.
High School
Budget Board
Named Sat.
Meeting Date Set for
May 7, Tuesday, by Dis-1
trict Directors
Directors of the high school board
of directors for District No. 1 last
Saturday named budget board men
to draft the high school budget for
the district at the director’s meet
ing held last Saturday, April 6.
Those named to the board are
C. W. Johnson, Cass Bergerson,
Ed Bollinger, Henry Johns and R.
M. Aldrich. The budget meeting
late has been set for Tuesday,
May 7.
Firemen Called to
Action Wednesday—
The Vernonia fire department
was called into action about 4:30
Wednesday afternoon when an
alarm was turned in for a fire at
the Walter McDonald home. Chim-
ney sparks had ignited the roof
but timely arrival of firemen pre-
vented any but small damage.
Total 107,
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It is often said that statistics are day being the first day of business
not of jnterest to the reader but | in that year. The first money order
that statement can hardly be con of that day carried number 171,678
sidered true when those figures ' and the last order last Thursday
are of an amount revealed last night was numbered 279,519.
week by an examination of the
With that information in hand
number of money orders issued I the question arose a« to the total
th rough windows of the Vernonia amount of money concerned which
post o'fice. A statement made last came to the figure of *1,272,534.60;
Thursday by O. T. Bateman, assist <o average *11.80 per order.
ant postrpaster, led to questioning
Mr. Bateman, when questioned,
which revealed that 107.842 money Stated that a special government
orders have been issued by the of permit is required before the old
fice since January 2, 1935, that orders. which are made out by the
person wishing to send the money,
can be destroyed. It was also stated
that, by law, the orders must be
retained for three years.
With the review of the older
records completed, attention was
directed to the amount of money
order totals by months during 1939
to determine the result of the mill
shut down in September. It wa-
stated that post office money order
business is a good indication of the
business turnover of merchants. B
months during last year and deal-
VOLUME 17, NUMBER 16
NEW STORE TO OPEN
Majorette Contest to Business
Be Featured for First To Start
May 1st
Time Here Fri., Eve
Contest, Band Concert
Will Present Array of
Vernonia Talent
Vernonia’s outstanding civic or.-
ganization, The Vernonia Junior
Band, will on Friday evening >f
this week, April 19th, stage a band
concert and majorette contest in
the Washington grade school audit
orium. Plans for the evening will
feature lor the first time locally
• he majorette contest which will be
governed by high school regulations.
C. R. Watts has faithfully directed
the local band aspirants in practice,
inarching and drills and has, in the
past few years, perfected an out-
tanding group of young musicians
now in demand for conventions,
parades, etc. to represent Vernonia
with justified honors. Only three
of the original members of the first
I and, started five years ago by Mr.
Watts, are active in the present
;roup, Jane Watts, daughter of the
director being one of the three, She
s now assistant director.
Two trophies, one gold and one
silver, as first and second prize
will be awarded in the majorette
contest in which a number of at-
tractive young ladies will pantici-
pate.
Funds derived from the concert
will be used to defray band expenses
on trips and other expenses that
may arise.
Oregon Offers
Advantages
To Industry
Washington Utility Dis-
trict to Lose Payroll to
Neighboring State
Officials of the Aberdeen Ply
wood Company have just announced
that they will seek a new manufac
turing location for their huge enter
prise in Oregon and will not rebuild
their $800,000 Aberdeen plant
which was recently destroyed by
fire.
Beyond stating that Oregon offeis
better industrial advantages and
greater raw material supplies, oom-
pany oficiáis gave no hint con-
eerning what possible Oregon com
munities they are considering as
the site for reestablishment of their
enterprise.
Announcement of Aberdeen’s per
manent loss of one of its largest
industries and its 450sman payroll
has come as the second heavy blow
to the righ hopes of thousands of
citizens that the new Grays Harbor-
Public Utility District would bring
aheap electric rates to city dwellers
nd farmers and attract new pay-
■oll indurtricc.
Acting on these repeated promises
of public power advocates the coun
ty voted in a PUD in 1938. Last
month thq PUD commissioners sold
$3,350,000.00 of 4V4% tax exempt
bonds and purchased the private
itility system serving the 35,000
people in Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Cos-
n-opolis and surrounding rural ter-
•itory.
Immediately after taking over the
irivate lines, the PUD commissioners
rnnounced that the people will not
Precipitation Totals Ov tet any of the promised electric
er Four Inches, Records ate reductions under the new
>ublic ownership system. Instead the
Reveal
?UD will continue to charge the
Cooperative Weather Station fig- »eme prices that the private utility
ures released recently by Harry collected for an indefinite period,
As a result the only benefiiciarie»
Culbertson, observer, revealed a
of
the PUD thus far are the power
maximum temperature for March.
politicians and their financial and
last month, of 76 degrees. Further Political allies. They and their
check of the recordings revealed friends, the now available public
that the month’s readings also drop records reveal, made private profits
ped to 28 degrees for the lowest or themselves of a minimum of
recording, The high temperature more than $300,000 from the dis
trict’s funds for "organization” etc.,
occured on March 21st and the low nd from investors in the 20-year
on March 19th. Readings for seven tax-exempt bond ¡issue. The bond
days showed minimum recordings issue itself was for $508,000 more
than required to buy the private
below freezing, 32 degrees.
Precipitation records gave a total system. Of this half million dollars
of excess borrowing $103,000 cash
of 4.92 inches of moisture for the was paid to PUD lawyers, engineers,
month with .82 of an inch being lif-.-nts, etc., for fiscal engineering,
recorded on March 26th.
legal fees and other “organization
Mr. Culbertson also revealed that expenses.”
This leaves the district with
he will no longer be in charge of
$100,000 for working capital and
the cooperative station, it having another spending fund of $305,000
been transferred to the charge ot for “rehabilitation”, replacements
Ed Sesseman, recently appointed and other property improvements.
cemetery caretaker. The station has
It leaves the people with only
been relocated atop Corey hill near these millions of debt to re-pay and
the Sesseman residence.
little hope of procuring any perman
ent rate reductions for many years.
The New York attorneys for the
bond selling group drew an iron
-lad agreement under which the
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ing only in thousands of dollars district must build up at least *250,-
money order figures were as fol 000 cash to assure bond payments
lows: January, *22 thousand; Feb and interest for a year in advance,
ruary, *21 thousand; March, *25 It must also build up another *250,-
thousand; April. *24 thousand; May. 000 cash fund to maintain prop-
limes must have
nave
$24 thousand; June, $23 thousand; I | erne*
erties atiu
and at mi
all times
July, *21 thousand; August, *22 at least *120,000 cash on hand for
thousand; September, *24 thousand; working capital.
(then the shut down) October, *19
Since bonds must be retired at
thousand; Novembet, *18 thousand;
and December, *23 thousand. Dec a rate ranging from *118,000 a year
ember business for a normal year to *248,000 a year and interest
is above *35 thousand.
(Continued on page 5)
Tempera I ure
In March Hits
76 Degrees
H. L. Hatchard Prepar
ing Oregon Gas Building
for Use
Vernonia’s newest business estab
i shment is due to open its doors
to the public on May first or short-
ly therea fter was the word of H.
L. Hatchard, owner of the con
cern, when contacted Wednesday re
garding the store. Mr. Hatehard
is employed at the present time in
preparing the store space for the
< pening. The completion of that
•vork will determine the opening
date, it was stated.
Ice cream and confections will
be the attraction, the ice cream
<o be manufactured from a mix
upplied by the Lower Columbia
Dairy Association. Some milk will
be purchased from local producers
io be u.^ed in the making of milk
shakes and other confectionery pro
ducts.
Contest for
Boy Scouts
Started
“Why I Am Glad I Live
in America,” Theme of
Keds Offering
L. H. Dewey, Miller Mercantile
company manager, announced last
week an essay contest of interest
to all Boy Scouts, the contest start-
: ng April 15 and continuing to
June 15.
In the announcement made by
Mr. Dewey it was stated that the
essay theme is to be on the sub
ject “Why I Am Glad I Live in
America.” The essay is not to ex
ceed 250 words and emphasis will
be placed on clear, logical, honest
statements rather than on fine
English. Other rules are neatness,
writing on one side of paper in
ink or with typewriter and essays
must be accompanied by entry
blank with proper signature and
questionnaire filled out. Blanks are
obtainable at the Miller Mercantile
company.
A display in the Miller window
will give further details as will Mr.
Dewey.
Instructor
To Hear
Lecture Thurs.
No Official Visiting Day
Assigned
to
Vernonia
Schools This Year
Miss Freda Beck, commercial
teacher in the high school, will at
tend at Commerce high school in
Portland Thursday, a lecture by
Lewis A. Leslie, author of "Func
tional Method of Gregg Shorthand”,
on the shorthand course as given
in his book. Teachers from the
vicinity of the Portland school have
been invited to attend.
Owing to the fact that no oflficial
visiting day has been assigned to
the Vernonia schools because of the
four day» lost during the flu
epidemic, each teacher will take
his own day thereby not disrupting
the entire school by declaring a
general visiting day. Miss Beck will
take advantage of this particular
day to enjoy visiting other classes
as well as to hear the author and
editor of the book on shorthand
method.