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PAGE FOUR VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON COMMENTS OF THE WEEK A LEGAL PROOF OF EXISTENCE IS NEEDED— TO MANY people it has never occurred that without a proper birth certificate there is no legal proof of a person’s existence in the eyes of the state. This fact has been brought home to many thousands of citizens throughout the country with the passage of social security legislation and more recently with legislation, enacted or pending, which bears upon national defense. For the three-month period ending with July, 1940, the number of certified copies of birth certificates issued by the Oregon State Board of Health was. a little over ten times that for the corresponding period of 1939. The registration of births is now recogniz ed as a governmental function. This recog nition, however, came somewhat late and for that reason a great portion of the vital sta tistics data of the nation from its early history through the end of the last century is in a chaotic condition. Birth and death records of Oregon citi zens from 1903 to the present are on file. The city of Portland, in its Bureau of Health has on file birth and death records of its citizens as far back as 1880, although many of the latter are incomplete. For the purpose of registration of births and deaths the state created registration districts. At present there are 145 such dis tricts each under the jurisdiction of a local registrar. Oregon laws make it mandatory upon the attending physician to file a certif icate of birth, properly and completely filled out, with the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurred, within ten days after date of birth. A transcript of each certificate is sent to the Bureau of Census, Washington, D. C., and one to the county clerk of the district in which the birth oc curred. It can be seen that at the present time there are three sources from which birth record information . may be obtained : the county clerk, the State Board of Health and the Bureau of Census. In applying for a certified copy the following information must be given: The Vernonia Eagle MARVIN KAMHOLZ, Editor and P ublisher Entered as second class mail matter. August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Ore gon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Official newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon full name of the applicant, the date of birth, place of birth, name of the father and the maiden name of the mother. If no typewriter is available, print this information—it will save delays and unnecessary correspondence. Enclosed with the request if sent the Oregon State Board of Health should be fifty cents to cover the statutory fee for a certified copy. A WELCOME ANNOUNCEMENT IS THAT OF THE NIGHT SHIFT— AN ANNOUNCEMENT welcomed by everyone is the one made this week of the beginning of a night shift at the Oregon- American mill wherein an additional number of men will receive employment by the con cern. The shift will require that one side of the mill be operated with a resulting increase in the output of lumber and the resulting increase in business activity. The announcement can be taken as one of encouragement to the people of the Upper Nehalem Valley in that they may expect greater industrial activity than has been evident for several years. The night shift comes at a time when reports of business conditions throughout the country indicate a more prosperous year during 1941 than has been experienced so far this year. ANOTHER SWIM SEASON COMPLETED— THF END of the month of August mark ed the close of the swimming season at Ver nonia’s Dewey Pool. The season, which lasted during June, July and August, was the safest ever held due to the presence of a lifeguard at the pool during that time. During last year’s season a guard was on duty only a part of the time and the year before that no protection for swimmers was provided. It is commendable that the safety of children who make daily use of the pool has Leen taken into consideration. It seems that the number of injuries has been greatly reduced and certainly the element of safety is far greater than when no guard is pro vided. It is also worthy of note that swimming lessons were made possible through the ser vices of Noble Dutton, who was engaged as lifeguard. Those lessons provide an even greater safety element in that those who enjoy the water have been afforded the oppor tunity to acquaint themselves with the mo tions of swimming. For those who have learned, it is much safer when they make use of the pool. Made known this week are the names of those who contributed to the fund which made possible the hiring of the guard. Of that fund, one-half was contributed by the City of Vernonia. Within a short time the city budget committee will meet to draw up the 1941 budget at which time it might be well to take into consideration the need of a fund for the next swimming season. COUNTY NEWS- St. Helens- FINAL PETITIONS FOR UTILITY DISTRICT FILED— Final petitions seeking an elec tion on s proposed Columbia coun ty peoples’ utility district were placed in the hands of the county clerk Monday for checking. If they contain the required 280 names- - and sponsors for the measure said they had at least 400—the petitions will be sent to the state hydro electric commission, in whose hands they must be by September lb. The proposed district covers most of the Columbia river area from Delena to the Multnomah county line except the municipalities of Rainier, Goble, St. Helens, Scap poose and Columbia City. Involved in the district is a population of 0,283 people and 175 square miles of territory with an assessed valu ation of $4,024,900. SLIGHT DROP NOTED IN ENROLLMENTS— St. Helens’ three city schools opened their door to 891 students Monday, a figure which was 13 pupils lower than last year's open ing day total of 904 enrollees. School officials emphasized that the figures should be regarded as tentative only and said that they would probably be revised upward s. late-starters registered. John Gumm, which registered 350 pupils this year and 340 in 193'.., was the only one of three schools to show a rise in enrollment Mc Bride’s total was 103, compared with 169 last year, and the high school's tentative opening enroll ment waa 378, 17 lower than 1939’s first day registration of 395 pupils GUARD COMPANY GETS 16 RECRUITS— Although some 16 enlistments have been received in the last week or 10 days, Company “K”, St. Hel ens national' guard unit, still needs about 25 men to bring it to peace time strength before it leaves ¡br a year’s training, Cwpt. Leland Aus tin, company commander, said Tuesday. St. Helens has thus far contribut ed only one man in the intensified recruiting campaign, the captain said. Remainder of the volunteers have come from other Columbia county towns. ALIEN REGISTRATION MOUNTS TO 50 AT P. O.— Some 50 aliens residing in Co lumbia county have been registered and fingerprinted at the St. Helens post office since Aug. 27, post of ice officials reported Monday. Regis tration will continue until Dec. 26. After an opening-week rush, when local registration facilities were k“pt busy, the number of aliens coming in to comply with the re cently-enacted ‘sign-up’ law has dropped to three or four a day. Clatskanie- MANY ALIENS HEED REGISTRATION CALL— The registration of aliens is well under way in this locality and Wed nesday evening a total of 42 per sons had been fingerprinted and registered at the Clatskanie post office. Most of the registrants here were Finnish people. About 45 minutes is required to complete the registration. SCHOOL BEGINS THIS MONDAY— School started Monday. September 9th. A full corps of teachers, with five of them new in Clatskanie, have been contracted and will ar rive in town this week-end to begin their year’s duties. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940 company Monday. Eagle Items Visitors vt Mrs. G. A. White Sun day evening were Mr. and Mr*. W. R. lYmce, Mrs. Georg, StnnMm. Mrs. Vernon Lindsiey, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lindsiey and Claribel Lind- ONE YEAR AGO— aley. The Vernonia Bakery, owned by Ralph DeVifclisa and George Mr. and Mrs. George Shaker, wa« Richardson visited at Birkenfeld leased to Mr. and Mrs. Jake B om Of Past Years Hi. and Mrs. Charles Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Lefria were Ver- botda showers Thursday afternoon. Dvtvthy Hc.hna spent Friday eve ning visiting Mr. a^d Mr*. Burt Garner, Jr. They speyt the waning playing pinochle. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Bransdel were Vernonia shoppers Saturday eve ning. Sunday. Mrs. Anna Luther and son, Jim- Industrial research can now make my, made a trip to Hillsboro Sat- FIVE YEARS AGO— sponges, superior to those in nature, orday. out of wood and cotton. Plans for the dedication of the 5 _____ Vernonia Airport September 21, 22 were discussed at a chamber of commence meeting. for one year. TEN YEARS AGO— Ten fires were started by light ning on the Clatskanie mountain. Union high school No. 1, Ver nonia, opened with an enrollment oi 163. That attendance is approxi mately the same as last year. Boy Suffers Injured Arm Visitors in Wilark Manv o' Professional WILARK—(Special to The Eagle) —Mr. and Mrs. George Cobat, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cobat and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cobat, all of Vernonia, and Mrs. Roy Cobat’s fathar, Mr. Carter of Utah, visited at the Blaine Cobat home Sunday after noon. Marshall A. Rockwell, Ed Carter o>f Vernonia and Mar ian Reller motored to St. Helens M. D. on business Saturday afternoon. Physician and Surgeon Mr. and Mrs. Burt Garner, Jr., and son were in Portland on busi Office Phone 7J| Residence 73 ness Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Art Davis and chit- dren of Vernonia were Wilark vial. Wendell’s Barber Shop tors Sunday evening. Shaves and ¿Haircuts Mr. and Mrs. Burt Garner, Sr.. of Vancouver, Washington, visited Conscientious Work at the Burt Garner, Jr., home Sun Shoe Shining day. Shower Baths Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hanna and daughter were Vernonia shoppers Saturday afternoon. DRESSMAKING Mr. and Mrs. Dick Lewis spent the week-end in Rainier visiting ALTERATIONS Mrs. Lewis’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Caton John Roberts. The Apparel Shop Jean Lewis of Portland spent the week-end visiting her parents. "" ' '■ '(--------------- -— Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis. PAINTING Pauline Rollins was a Vernonia PAPERHANGING shopper Saturday afternoon. CALSOM1NING Mr. and Mrs. Earl Atkins and Evelyn Joselyn were Vernonia visi- BOB MORRELL tors Saturday afternoon and eve- Varan a ia ning. Walt Fowler was in Vernonia tr on business Thursday a ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Howard visi Dr. U. J. Bittner ted in Vernonia Sunday. Directory RIVERVIEfW— (Special to The Eagle)—Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Stev- enson and family and Mrs. Steven son’s brothers, Roy and Charles Bell, spent Sunday lishing at Clats kanie. Roy and Charles Bell are leaving for Fort Lewis Monday morning to join the National Guard. Little Gayle Gill, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gill, had the misfortune of running his arm through the wringer Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Green and children were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gatton Sunday. Mrs. Roy Arnold -of San Diego, California, returned to her home Thursday after spending a week with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Graves. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Lynch, Mar garet Haiman, Richard Banzer and Bessie Bell spent Sunday at the fair in Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Turner and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Tackett and son, Ralph, spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wright in Port land. Ralph Tackett remained with his aunt and uncle, the Wrights, to spend the winter. Mrs. W. W. Stevenson and chil dren, Evelyn, Mary and Vernon, motored to Portland Saturday on business. Mrs. Betty Johnson, who has been Vernonia Lodge No. 246 visiting relatives in this vicinity, le't Sunday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Counts, in Rose burg. She was accompanied by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Johnny Counts. Meets Every Tuesday (Mr. and Mrs. Louis Huntley and • P. M. family spent the week-end at Hills Sam Hearing, Jr., N. G. Paul Gordon, Secretary boro and Neatus, Oregon. Mrs. Roy Cobat’s father, Mr. Jeff Carter, from Utah, is visiting Vernonia F. O. E. at their home. (Fraternal Order ■f Eagles) Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cobat visited at Lebanon with Mrs. Cobat’s sister, Lagien Hall Mrs. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. George Cobat were Ver neeia In Portland Saturday on business. ■r. and Mrs. Sam Anderson have Friday Nights sold their cottage at Glenwood and • e’eleeh have moved to Taft where Mr. Anderson has employment. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marston Alford Doree, W. P. spent Friday in Portland and Sat Harold Carrick, W. Sae’y. urday in Longview where Mr. Mar Knights of Pythias ston delivered an address to a group Harding Lodge No. IIS of southwestern Washington engin Vernonia. Oregon eers on the subject of truck and Meetings:—I. O. O. F. “cat” logging. Hall. Second and Fourth Mondays Bach Month, LODGES TOMPKINS ON POWER ISSUE— Morton Tompkins, representative of the Bonneville Power Administra tion gave a straight forward un biased talk on the Bonneville pro ject, its importance and the possib ilities offered municipalities and the P. U. D. that may be formed at the Kiwanis club meeting and at the P. U. D. meeting at the Highway Pavilion where 100 people attended KEASEY—(Special to The Eagle) Tuesday evening. —The Keasey Extension Unit met at the Anna Luther home Friday, September 6, and made baskets, Those present were: Georgia Meil- inger, Grace Pierce, Eda Parker, Marie Christenson, Iva Gillham, Vivian Counts, Viola Comstock, Blanche Brady, Blanohe DeWitt and s**A tetti. >■**■* * Clara Lindsiey. Mrs. George Stanton, Clanbel Lzbor Day week-end tra fie fatal and Mrs. Vernon Lindsiey visited ities in Oregon this year totaled Mrs. DeVaney Monday morning. three, a reduction <rf 62 percent A birthday dinner was held at from the toll of eight reported for the W. J. Lindsiey home Saturday, the same period last year. September 8, for Mrs. Oscar Smith The traffic toll was tha lowest and Mrs. W. J. Lindsiey whose reported over a Lebor Day week-end birthday* both fall on September in this state for several yean This 10. Those present were Mr. and reduction was made in the face of Mrs. Oscar Smith, Mr. and Mrs. travel increase estimated to be at Richard Prince, Mr. and Mrs. Sam least seven percent. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Lind During the past three years, an siey, Mrs. George Stanton and three average of five persons killed per children, George, Jean and Susie, Labor Day week-end has been noted Bobbie, Ray and Ronald Smith and Bunny Cod* besides the Lindsiey in Oregon. Oregon will stand well up in the family. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lindsiey and list of states effecting a reduction in the Labor Day highway toll this children, Claribel, Lee, Joan and* year. Fatalities over the nation as Kenneth, and Mrs. George Stanton a whole showed an increase this and children, George, Jean and year and the fact that Oregon show Susie, visited Mrs. Sadie Austin ed such a strong reduction should Saturday evening. place this state high among those Richard Sharon of Bend started states showing improvement. working for the Birkenfdd Logging Extension Club Meets Business- Dentist Phono 663 Joy Theatre Bldg, J. E. TAPP AH Kinds- a# Wood ,. . S'- Prompt DeHvary Phone *41 —-------------- -------------------- Expert Tonsorial Work BEN’S BARBER SHOP Vernonia, Oregon Roland L. Treharne Expert Automobile Repairing WELDING CARBURATOR3 REPAIRED ROLAND’S SERVICE STATION BAFFORD BROS. General Plumbing Vernonia ythian Sisters Vernonia Temple Na. SI Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:— 1. O. O. F. Hall Second and Fourth Wednesday* Each Month Order of Eastern Star Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S. Regular Communi cation first and third Wednesdays of each month, at Masonic Temple. All visiting sisters and brothers wel come. Sara Drorbaugh, W. M. II46 Mrs. Helen Dswey, Secretary A. F. 4 A. M. Vernonia Lodge No. 164 A. F. A A. M. meata at Masonic Temple, Stat ed Communication First Thursday of each month. Special called meetings other Thursday nights, 7 :30 Visitors most cordially wol- Special mootings Friday nights. Roland Trehame, W. M„ Glenn F. Hawkins, See. Nehalem Valley Motor Freight Frank Hartwick, Proprietor Portland - Timber - Vernonia Saaaat-Elaie-Seaaide Vernonia Talaphaaa 1041 CASON’S TRANSFER LONG dis HAULING SEE US For Your Old Growth 10-INCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES LOCAJ’4 •** tance Roland D. Eby, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Tow* Office 691 NEAL W. BUSH Attarany at Law Joy Theatre Bldg.. Phone 663. I* Vernonia Monday* aad Tnaadny* X.
