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% Derno jfKÏÆ agi e VOLUME 17, NUMBER 31 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940 Elementary Fluorescent Lighting Improves Connection of Power Lines to Schools Get Two Business Places This Week Be Completed in Coming Week 86560.75 1940 Tax $143.58 Collected for Electricity State School Fund Allot Bakery to Red Cross Fund— Payments ments Amount to $1.15 Per Census Child For Farms Exceed 1939 Undergo Available Property Tax Collection Remodeling Is 56.08 Per Cent of Levy State School Fund allotments amounting to $1.15 per census child, are being sent by William B. Schnebly, County School Superin tendent, to all elementary school districts. The total allotment to Columbia county was $6560.75. The largest allotments were to the most populus districts as follows: St. Helens, $1331.70; Vernonia and Pleasant Hill, Consolidated, $993- .60; Rainier, $515.20; Scappoose, $489.90; and Clatskanie, $455.40. The smallest allotments were to District No. 6, Willow Bar, $9.20: Alder Grove, $20.70; and Cedar Grove, $20.70. Dance Date Announced An announcement made this week by Ed Horn gives information for dancers. Arrangements have been made f > a dance for Vernonia on August 10th at the Legion hall. The dance will be the first public affair to open the fall season of danc ing for this vicinity. The dance will’ be sponsored by Ed Horn and Jack Childs. Music for the dance will be pro vided by McDonald of the Navy and his Musical Mariners who have been highly received in the past in Vernonia. . Old Contract To Be Effective Of interest to members of Local No. 37, IWA, is the information released this week that the old con tract of the local with the Indust rial Hospital Association is to re main effective during the month o«f August. Under the old contract the assoc iation will continue to furnish med icine when needed. Negotiation lor a new contract will be carried out at the Columbia River District Council which meets August 3 and 4. New Elag Pole To Be Erected A new flag pole for the Wash ington grade school was being pre pared for erection the forepart of this week. The pole was purchased a short time ago by the school board to replace the old pole which has rotted at the base and is in danger of falling. The new pole will be set near the old and will be in readiness for use at the opening of school. W. E. Crawford, Washington grade school janitor, is in charge of the work. The installation of fluorescent lighting fixtures for two Vernonia business houses this week adds greatly to the appearance of those places, both from the added amount of light and the appearance of the signs themselves. The Dew Drop Inn owned by Desmond Laird in Riverview has installed the lighting across the building front and has changed the sign to read Dessy’s Tavern. Much more light is shed on the building at night due to the new fixture. for Columbia County The Squeeze Inn has also purchas Columbia county was one of thir- ed a new sign which employes the ty counties in the state whose 194CT fluorescent lighting principle. property tax collections were better than the collection of 1939 taxes, using May 1 as the date of com- parison. $666,438 was the total amount of property taxes levied for all KEASEY—(Special to The Eagle) purposes for collection in Columbia —Orris Harold DeVaney, age 31 county in 1940. As rtf May 1 this years, son rtf Mr. and Mrs. J. O. DeVaney of Keasey, died at Med year, 56.08% or $373,751 of the ford July 22. He came to Keasey total taxes levied had been collect- with his parents 18 years ago and ed. lived and worked in this vicinity In 1939, 53.24% of the county’s until 1933 when he went to Port- $675,270 of property taxes for all land. He later was married to Jessie purposes had been collected at the Maden of South Dakota. same date, according to infonnation Funeral services were held Thurs supplied Oregon Business & Tax day in Portland and interment took Research, Inc., which recently pub place at the Lincoln Memorial Park. Besides his wife and parents he lished tax collection data for all leaves to mourn his death three Oregon counties in taxpayers’ pub brothers, Verle, Darrell and Ralph, lication “Your Taxes.” end one sister, Mrs. Anna Wester- $42,603,802 was the total amount berg, of Portland. of taxes on all property in Oregon for all purposes payable in 1940. Of this amount $27,442,973 had been paid about May 1, or 64.41% rtf the 1940 total levy. Last year, $42,059,396 was the A three-act play “Marihuana” is total amount of taxes on all prop- screduled for presentation at the ei ty levied or all purposes 1*, Ore- Christian church Friday evening of gon, including drainage and irriga- tion assessments, forest patrol and this week, August 2. The play, dealing with the rav reforestation. Of this 1939 total, ages of the narcotic, is educational $26,060,495, or 61.96% of the total as well as being humorous ana is levy, was reported as having been reputed to please audiences wher paid by about May 1, 1939. Six Oregon counties, Baker, ever presented. No admission is to be charged Grant, Lincoln, Sherman, Tillamook but a silver offering will be taken and Union, reported slower payment of property taxes this year than during the evening. in 1939. The other thirty counties reported a better rate of tax pay ments, although the increase was small in some counties. $955,368 was Columbia county’s total tax delinquency for all years prior to 1939, according to the Three representatives of Local State Tax Commission. The Oregon No. 37, IWA will be in attendant« Business & Ta,x Research, Inc. data at the Columbia River District Coun reports that $46,274 of delinquent cil meeting slated this week-end at taxes were paid in Columbia county Toledo. The meeting is slated for by about May 1 this year, or a August 3 and 4. collection of 4.84% against the Vernon Ego, Chester Dusten and accumulation of tax delinquency, George Baker will represent the Washington, Umatilla and Linn Vernonia Local as delegates. counties made the best showing in The council meeting is held in cleaning up past-due taxes, while order to negotiate busines affairs Tillamook and Coos counties reportT- incidental to the Columbia river ed the least progress in collecting district. delinquent taxes. Funeral Service Held Thursday ^Marihuana” Play Slated Council Meet Due Aug. 3, 4 Chimney Blaze Crowd Large at Calls Firemen IWA Picnic Vernonia firemen were called in to action Sunday evening about 8 o’clock to answer a call to the Floyd Watson home. A chimney blaze gave rise to the call bu<t little damage resulted and the fire was quickly extinguish ed. Firemen to Discuss Celebration— A meeting of members of the Vernonia Fire Department is to be held this evening, Thursday, at the city hall was the announcement made Wednesday by Harry Culbert son. The meeting will hear a dis Word from the Nehalem Basin cussion of the advisibility Of staging PUD directors this week states that a Vernonia celebration this year. a meeting of officials of the local power company and the directors McCrae Named to is slated next week at Longview. Honorary— Wallace McCrae was named a Business at that time will be the initial work of negotiating for member of Phi Delta Kappa, men’s the purchase of the local company national honor society for education majors this week. McCrae has been power facilities with the ultimate attending summer school at the idea being the furnishing of power University of Oregon. He was one of 13 to receive the honor. for the Upper Nehalem Valley. Negotialion Meet Arranged The weather, after threatening all week, cleared last Saturday for the staging of the IWA picnic at Arcadia park. The day’s festivities were started with a concert by the Vernonia Junior band directed by C. R. Watta and was followed by various activ ities such as softball, racing, horse shoe pitching, wrestling and a tug- o-war. First and second place win ners received prizes which were made possible by Orvel Edwards, Bill Ellingsworth and the Vernonia Bakery. The Local expressed apprec iation to the donors of prizes and to all others who assisted in making the picnic a success. In the evening, a free dance was given at the I. O. O. F. hall. The dance was enjoyed by one of the largest crowds seen in Vernonia. Rain Stops Log Hauling— MIST—(Special to The Eagle) — Rain'all was responsible for a tem porary stop of log hauling at Mist last Friday. $143.58 is the amount of funds collected to date by the Disaster Relief Committee it was announced Wednesday by Emil Messing, treas urer. In addition to that amount a small amount of change has not Oregon Gas and Electric Business House to Close been collected from bottles in dif Completes Stringing of August 4th for 10 Days, ferent places in town. No funds Wire; Poles Up have been collected to date from Stated bv Owners Construction work necessary for The Vernonia Bakery, which has precinct 3. the connection of the Oregon Gas been operated for the past yjar and Electric power line with the by Mr. and Mrs. Jake Boss, is to Timber Light and Power company close for a 10-day period August has progressed almost to completion 4th for extensive remodeling, it this week. Connection of the two was learned this week. lines will be made at the Columbia- Mr. and Mrs. Boss will leave on From a strictly entertainment Washington county line. a short vacation during the time standpoint, this year’s Columbia The Oregon Gas has completed the work is being done. County Fair is a “honey.” The fair the building of its portion even Changes in the building will in- board has been especially diligent to the stringing of wire. Right-of- elude moving the partition separat- in searching out entertainment ways have been cleared where nec ing the front display room and the features, and will have a group essary and dangerous snags which back part of the establishment, a of numbers which will keep the might topple and disrupt service change in the location of baking Lolks amused every hour of the have been removed. equipment to facilitate convenience, three days of the fair, August 22, The Timber company’s portion of and painting. 23 and 24. the work was delayed a few weeks The partition will be moved to- One number which will be an ago by the West Timber fire which ward the front leaving less room important part of the opening day’s made necessary the construction of for display but increasing working program, will be the judging of some new line at that place. Walter room at the back. That change the Whiskerino Derby. All parts o' Gildner, manager olf the Timber will also provide additional light, the county have co-operated in vhis company, was seriously injured event and to the owner and grower it was stated. which also contributed to the delay. The bakery will reopen for busi of the finest set of whiskers will However, all poles had been set by go a substantial prize. ness August 14 th. Thursday also will see the crown Monday of this week and nearly leav- ing rtf the fair and rodeo queen. all guy wire work completed wire ing only the stringing of This is another part of the pro- before connection for service could gram in which the county as a whole has been greatly interested, be made. Reports eafly tWf week gave' atid there is eveiy indicatiofT that stringing the event will be a gorgeous one. information that wire would begin the latter part of this Of interest to golfers this week The queen will preside over the week and that service would be festivities at the fair and rodeo is the information that the Ver- available by the coming week. and will also, with her court, be nonia golf course will operate under the recipient of many honors and rew management effective today, prizes. A full afternoon of horse racing Thursday, it was learned yesterday. The course, formerly under the will greet the fans Thursday alfter- event of the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley noon. The feature afternoon will be the Columbia Frisbie, will be cared for by Homer County Dexby, which will be limited Next year’s AAA farm program and Elmer Miohener. Mr. and Mrs. strictly to Columbia county horses. will continue to emphasize soil Frisbie have been its managers for There also will be relay races, cihar- conservation and soil improvement, iot i aces and several other wild will strengthen the “ever-normal the past three years. City councilmen have not yet west numbers. granary” plan of balanced produc- The celebrated Swedish choir tion, and will give Oregon farmers ratified the change but when the matter was discussed several weeks from Portland has given a tentative increased opportunity to fit the ago they expressed themselves as promise to be here for Thursday program in with their individual willing to allow a change should evening. Those who have heard this farm requirements. excellent group of singers are eager one be made. This summary of 1941 AAA plans to hear them again. Other musical was brought back to Oregon by treats will be given by bands from William Steen of Milton, chairman the cities off the county. Thursday of the state agricultural conserva evening the Shell Oil Co. fireworks tion committee, following his atten display will thrill the visitors. The dance recently at the national AAA Shell company gave a brilliant dis conference in Washington, D. C. play last year, and officials of the Plans for the following year must TIMBER—(Special to The Eagle) company state their 1940 display always be made in advance of fall —Due to the failure of the orchestra is by lar the best and most elabor- seeding time. to appear the Red Cross dance ate they have ever sponsored. Changes Suggested sponsored by the Sub-Deb girls And, then, of course, the second N. C. Donaldson, in charge of club, scheduled for Saturday night annual Columia County Rodeo will the state AAA o fice at Corvallis, at Timber, was a complete failure. be the crowning event of the en accompanied Steen to Washington. The hall, which was nicely decorated tertainment program. This year the While at the conference, they of- with red, white and blue colors, rodeo will be handled entirely by lered a group of suggested changes was filled with a capacity crowd. rodeo people, and the aggregration in the 1941 program, as made pre Proceeds of this dance were to of horses, steers, cows and calves viously by the 36 county AAA com have been donated to the American will be the wildest obtainable. There mittees throughout the state. Some Red Cross for relief purposes. will be Brahma steers in abundance, of these were accepted and will be The girls are contemplating a some rtf which have never been incorporated into the official farm dance in the near future. ridden and probably never will be. program for next year, Steen said. The success of the 1939 rodeo has The state chairman declared that put Columbia county on the rodeo the AAA program, as set up for Logger Gets map and the best riders in the west 1941, will continue to be a vital Severe Injury— will be o*n hand to compete for the factor in “agricultural prepared KEASEY—(Special to The Eagle) handsome cash prizes and trophies. ness” as an aid to national defense —Ronald McDonald was severely The grand award of the rodeo Recommendation* Made injured last Thursday at the Birken will be a $150 saddle, which will be An important recommendation feld Logging operation when he awarded to the best all-around cow-’ concerns expansion of the grant Of was struck by a falling limb. He boy in the contests. The saddle aid plan under which farmers re was taken to the Emanuel hospital will be put up as a prize by the ceive advances of lime, superphos in Portland. He suffered a fractur business men of St. Helens, and will phate and similar conservation mat be emblematic of the Columbia erials, with costs deducted from ed skull. county championship. payments which they have earned. Another recommendation is that O-A Logger Hit farmers be permitted to earn por School Entrance By Choker— tions of their payments only by Age Specified— carrying out specified soil-building Kenneth Richardson, logger at the Oregon-American camp, was The 1939 Legislature defined the practices most needed in their com- injured late Monday afternoon age at which a child may enter munities. In general, next year’s farm pro when struck on the head by a school by providing that “a child choker. He was rushed to the Eman entering tchool for the first time gram will follow very closely that uel hospital in Portland for medical during the fall term, shall be deem- now in e'fect, Steen said, and attention but no definite report as ed to be six years of age if his pointed out that there have been to the extent of the injury was birthday occurs on or before Nov few major changes in the agricul tural adjustment act since 1938. ember IS.” available. Fair Offers Entertainment Golf Course Gets New Managers Conservation ProgramTlieme Orchestra Fails To Appear -9