PAGE FOUR
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
COMMENTS OF THE WEEK
WORTHY OF YOUR
SUPPORT
BEGINNING NOVEMBER 11 and con
tinuing until November 30 is the annual Red
Cross drive, a drive which this year is of
added importance due to the uncertain state
of world affairs and due to the increased
number of men who will be active in military
service in this nation.
The call has been made in other years,
has received widespread assistance and
should receive even greater aid this year
due to the worthy cause for which funds are
used.
The Red Cross is a philanthropic organiz
ation whose general rules were drafted by
an international conference which met at
Geneva in 1863. The conference agreed upon
a treaty for the purpose of alleviating the
evils inseparable from war and recommended
the formation in every country of a com
mittee to cooperate with the hospital staff
of armies in times of conflict.
Forty-four nations including the United
States ratified the treaty and adopted a flag
and badge upon each of which was a Geneva
red cross on a white ground.
The American branch was organized in
1881 as the American National Association
of the Red Cross and reincorporated in 1893
and 1900. Headquarters of the organization
are at Washington, D. C. and its present
peace membership is about 5,000,000.
CONGRATULATIONS ARE
IN ORDER
CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order this
week for two departments of activity at the
Vernonia high school. Of first merit is the
winning of state-wide recognition by the
staff of the Timberline at the annual high
school press conference at Eugene.
The Timberline, high school publication,
Vernonia Eagle
MARVIN KAMHOLZ, Editor and Publisher
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 Ver”onia, Oregon
PER
PUBll sh [ er J? ÄSS o c I ATI 0»
was accorded second-place mention last year
but at the most recent conference it rated
top listing in the state for high school
mimeographed papers. That rating certainly
speaks well of the work being done by the
student staff and its advisor, Miss Beck.
In the field of sports the Loggers Friday
completed their last conference game of the
season by defeating Scappoose. The winning
of that game gives Vernonia county champ
ionship rating. Only one other team, St.
Helens, may tie the Loggers for the champion
ship by winning all its games against county
teams. Such a record of wins speaks well
for the team and its coach, Mason McCoy.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO PICK
GOVERNING OFFICIALS—
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, marks the
end of the present political campaign and
affords voters throughout the nation an op
portunity to express their choice of officials
who shall take over the reins of government.
The election is the opportunity of the govern
ed to chose those who shall govern.
On the November 5th ballot will be the
names of many candidates professing alleg
iance to one political party or another. The
voter may make his or her choice regardless
of party. In other words, should one be reg
istered as a democrat, it is not requisite to
vote for all democratic candidates. The ballot
may be marked according to the individual’s
choice of the man best fitted for the of
fice regardless of the candidate’s party affili
ation. Likewise, the same is true should the
registration be republican. The above explan
ation is given to clarify what is said to be a
misunderstanding in the minds of a number
of people.
HALLOWE’EN NOW A
COMMERCIAL IDEA—
Eagle Items
Of Past Years
ONE YEAR AGO—
Like a woman, Congress reserves
the right to change itts mind.
When the present session began
in January. Congress was economy
bent. In the first three weeks of
the session, it cut appropriations
$128,000,000 below amounts re
quested by the President.
By mid-Octolber, however, "na
tional defense” had impelled it to
vote for the expenditure of l$27,-
€60,000,000. Some
indication of
the size of this amount may be
had from the fact that during the
last war the biggest expenditure
in any one year was $18,522,000,-
000.
The oldest building in Vernonia,
the F. A. Zilgett general merchan
dise store, was torn down. The
building was constructed in 1890.
Vernonia higii school's news pub
lication, The Timberline, received
second place mention in the s.a.e
for mimeographed p.pers at a
judging held at Eugene.
FIVE YEARS AGO—
The city budget for 1936 was
approved 40 io 11 in an especially
light election. Chief interest cen
tered in the allo.ment of $1125
for the cemetery project.
The Pit-sburg-St. Helens and
Rainier-Ajpiaiy read project was
approved.
TEN YEARS AGO—
Vernon» golfers lqt to .St.
Helens by a scare of 27% to 20%.
The peak World War expenditure
The American Legion voted to
amounted to $176.40 for every sponsor an ambulance service for
man, woman and child in the Unit Vernonia.
ed States. This year’s figures are
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO—
$210.38 per person.
Mrs. J. W. Brown, district school
If all this money were to be cl'erk, has been busy taking the
census.
spent on “national defense,” a school
Vernonia high school defeated
substantial portion of the people Knappa 30 to 0 Saturday. It was
probably would not object. The the first victory the local football
trouble is that the boondoggle« team won in two years.
are using defense as a smoke
screen for funny doings.
Every month the Office of Gov
ernment Reports issues a list of
“defense” contracts awarded. The
War and Navy Departments invar
iably are careful enough with the
money to figure their contracts
down to the last penny. But not
so with some other government
agencies.
Just to take one state at random,
THIS EVENING marks a festive date of the latest monthly report shows
the year, Hallowe’en, when according to super War and Navy expenditures in
stition, ghosts and goblins are supposed to Maryland amounting to $714,555.43
play havoc throughout the community.
(notice even the pennies figured).
Hallowe’en originated with the Celtic But the WPA makes allotments for
people on the British Isles ages ago and with five “defense projects” as follows:
the spread of Christianity was taken over $200,000, $100,000, $200,000, $250,-
as a date for the paying of homage to the 000 and $250,000. (They don’t
saints. One day was set aside as All-Saints bother with anything less than
Day, there being so many that it was impos $50,000.)
sible to commemorate each one as an indivi
Although this might not be true,
dual.
The affair came to be considered a har it wo<uld at least be fairly reason
vest festival and a time when evil spirits able to assume that somebody in
were wont to play tricks on persons not gen WPA decided “we must spend a
million dollars in Maryland,” and
erally liked.
Today the idea has changed somewhat found five projects to which they
in that the younger people have commercial could allocate that amount in nice,
ized, using the day as a time for the “trick juicy, round, lump sums.
or treat” game.
Or it might indicate a desire at
WPA to allot enough money to
cover “defense projects” without
advance calculation on what they
really will cost. Certainly, though,
if the War and Navy Departments
can figure to pennies in buying
guns, planes and ships, the WPA
ought to be able to do the same
thing in installing a new “stock
accounting” system in the Balti
more Coast Guard station.
Pinochle Club
Meets Sun day
•!
(Omitted last week)
TREHARNE—(Special to The
Eagie)—¡Mrs. Pete Schaiback enter
tained with a party in honor of
her two sons, Lewis and Allen, on
I.riday evening. Those present were
Patty and Verna Pickens, Beverly
and Sheila Bailey, Dale Coady,
Bobby Sunnell, Marvin Smith, Al
vin McChristen, Leland Moehler,
Donnie Uhlin and the honored
gues.s, Lewis and Allen Schaiback.
Refreshments of cake and jel'.o
were served to the group.
Mrs. Luella Barrett and Mrs
Betty Schram visited in Portland
over the week-end.
Mrs. Frank O’Connor, Viola,
Beulah and Ruby O’Connor spent
the week-end visiting with Mrs.
Evin Treharne in Seaside. Donnie
LODGES
Wiisjn returned home with them
to make an extended visit.
Mr. and Mis. Carl Anderson
and Robert Tunnell were Portland
business
visitors
Tuesday
of
las; week.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Johnson and
Mi. and Mrs. Tom Magoif visLed
¡Sunday wj.h Mrs. Lund.
M. B. Friable visited his son,
S.an bi.ibie, Monday.
'the Quilunt Club met at the
home ol ALs. Mivhener ,ast Thurs
day
Mr. and Mrs. C ss Bergerson
and daughter, Nancy, spent Sun
day evening at the William Nissen
h me.
Ellis Wooldridge of Fort Lewis,
Washington, and June Michener
visited the Wilbur Thacker family
Sunday,
Pinochle Club met with Mrs. Nell
Thacker Wednesday afternoon; Mrs.
iPauJine Schmid'lin winning high
score, Mrs. Millie Keck, second and
Mrs. Rita Frisbie, consolation.
Business-
Professional
Directory
Marshall A. Rockwell
M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office Phone 72; Residence 73
Wendell’s Barber Shop
Shaves and Haircuts
Conscientious Work
Shoe Shining
Shower Baths
DRESSMAKING
ALTERATIONS
Cleo Caton
The Apparel Shop
PAINTING
PAPERHANGING
CALSOMINING
BOB MORRELL
478 Rose Avenue
Vernonia
Dr. U. J. Bittner
Vernonia Lodge No. 246
1.0.0.F,
Dentist
Joy Theatre Bldg.
Phone 662
county association meeting in the
Rainier I. O. O. F. hall Saturday,
Meets Every Tuesday
November 2, beginning at 2 p. m.
J. E. TAPP
8 P. M.
A short business meeting is to
Sam Hearing, Jr., N. G.
be followed by a program and re
Paul Gordon, Secretary
convenience to local police since, freshments will be served.
All Kinds of Wood
with the coming of cooler weather,
Vernonia F. O. E.
Prompt Delivery
it has not always been possible to
(Fraternal Order of Eagle«)
COUNTY BUDGET FOR ’41
use the jail.
Phone 241
ÌFACTS
Several offenders who would or
UNDER CONSIDERATION—
/I
$0**
|M»|M
Work of compiling the 1941 bud dinarily go to the city lock-up have
There’s another interesting side
get for Columbia county began last been placed in the county jail and
Vernonia
light
which is being emphasized
Expert Tonsorial Work
Thursday when members of the others, who are working out fines,
9, «atu. tat IL
tt tunt
by the squabble over whether Con
Friday Night«
county court met with the newly- have stayed at their own homes.
gress should recess or adjourn. Last
BEN’S BARBER SHOP
appointed budget committee for the
8 o’clock
Endorsement of the International May majority party leaders in Con
SCOUT CASH DRIVE
start of a three day session.
Paciiic Highway project and a call gress began getting ready to ad
Vernonia, Oregon
Expenditures for 1941 should not NEARS $700 MARK—
journ in June. They said there was Alford Doree, W. P.
The Boy Scout dawn to dusk for coordination of the endeavors
run over the $225,000 it cost to op
nothing more to do.
Harold Carrick, W. Sec’y.
erate the county hist year, provid drive, conducted last Monday, has of all interested organizations to
Roland L. Treharne
ing no sizeable new items are in netted $625 from the St. Helens advance this enterprise to comple
Congress, however, insisted upon
Expert Automobile Repairing
Knights
of
Pythias
area
alone
and
other
pledges
here
cluded, the judge declared. Adop
staying in session. And since then,
WELDING
tion was voted at the recent annual
Harding Lodge No. 116
tion of the food stamp plan for Co should bring the total to over the
it has appropriated millions for de
CARBURATORS
REPAIRED
Vernonia,
Oregon
lumbia may be one of the new items $700 mark, Francis Gill, county meeting of the Western Confer fense, voted for conscription, agreed
ROLAND’S
Meetings:
—
I.
O.
O.
F.
Scout
chairman,
said
yesterday.
ence
of
Automobile
Clubs
in
Reno,
sought, since considerable interest
to call out the National Guard, or
SERVICE STATION
Hall, Second and
No reports have been received Nevada, it was announced today dered the size of the Navy doubled,
has been aroused in the system,
Fourth Mondays Each
as yet from Rainier and Clatskanie by Ray Conway, manager of the lifted the limit on the number of
according to Judge Wilkerson.
Month.
Installing the food stamp plan where similar drives were staged,
E. S. BAFFORD
airplanes
which
the
armed
services
Oregon State Motor Association,
here would cost between $7500 and but it is expected that their totals
may have, ond so on.
Pythian
Sisters
who
was
chosen
Conference
Cnair-
General Plumbing
$10,000 to set up a revolving fund will not be nearly as great as the
Vernonia Temple No. 61
Some legislators are asking:
man for this year.
and about $100 a month for admin local one.
Vernonia,
Oregon
Vernonia
“Where would we be now if we Meeting»:— 1. O. O. F. Hall
istrative expenses. The revolving
The forty motor club executives had adjourned in June?”
Second and Fourth Wednesdays
fund would eventually be returned
Each Month
at the Conference were unanimous
to the county, but the administra
Government regulations some
in supporting this international
tive costs would not.
Nehalem Valley
Order of Eastern Star
Probably included in the 1941 CLATSKANIE BUDGET
highway project which contemplates times are so absurb that they Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S.
would
be
laughable
if
they
weren
’
t
budget will be an item, new in 1940, MEETING MONDAY—
connecting north-south routes in
Regular Communi
tragic. Take the new Wage-Hour
Motor Freight
of $500 to be paid for a govern
cation first and
The City of Clatskanie’s annual western United States with Alaska definitions, for example.
ment trapper for control of preda
and
with
Central
and
South
Amer
third Wednesdays
budget meeting was held Monday
Frank Hartwick, Proprietor
tory animals in the county.
of each month, at
“Executive” and “administrative”
evening at eight o’clock in the city ica.
Portland - Timber - Vernonia
Masonic Temple,
IM embers of the budget board hall.
employees
are
exempted
from
the
Sunset • Elsie • Seaside
Gap« Need Closing
All visiting sisters
with whom the county court will
provisions of the law. The Wage-
The proposed budget calls for a
Vernonia Telephone 1042
and
brothers
wel
work are C. R. Evenson, Clatska
To provide a continuous motor Hour Division defines an “adminis
total of $6825 to carry on the city
come.
nie; R. L, Raymond, Vernonia and next year and of this they propose road linking the Americas, gaps trative" employee as one who works
Sara Drorbaugh, W. M.
l|40
George Frakes, Scappoose. As bud to raise $4800 by taxation. The will have to be closed beyond Hazel for an “executive.”
Mrs. Helen Dewey, Secretary
CASON’S TRANSFER
get committee members they serve
But the regulations say that an
budget is $42.50 higher than the ton, British Columbia northward to
without pay.
“
executive
”
must
make
a
minimum
A. F. & A. M.
LOCAL and LONG-DISTANCE
one for the present year and does Alaska and southerly beyond Mex
HAULING
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
not exceed the six per cent limita ico City through the Latin-Ameri «alary of $30 a week while an “ad
JAIL, FIRE HOUSE
can republics. The resolution of ministrative” employe must make
A. F. & A. M. meets at
tion.
SEE US
GET HEATING PLANT—
at least $200 a month.
Masonic Temple,
Stat
endorsement reads:
Prisoners in the city's brand new
For Your Old-Growth
ed Communication First
In short, the subordinate must
Thursday of each month.
"Because of its economic value, make more than the boss. But may
16-1NCH FIR WOOD
jail out on Columbia boulevard will
Special called meetings
its contribution to national defense, be that’s the way the planners want
Boon have the added comfort of
AND
CEDAR SHINGLES
on all other Thursday nights, 7:30
and its social significance, we, the it.
steam heat in their modern bastite
m. Visitors most cordially wel-
P-
Western Conference of Automobile
and firemen will no longer have to VOTER REGISTRATION
Another sample at absurdity is come.
Clubs, endorse the International a recent ruling by the Federal Special meeting* Friday night«.
rely on a fireplace for warmth be HEAVY IN RAINIER—
Roland D. Eby, M. D.
Roland Treharne, W. M.
Registration of voters for the Pacific Highway, and urge the Trade Commission, which held a
cause most of the installation work
Glenn F. Hawkins. Sec.
was completed this week on a new Rainier city election November 5 American Autimobile Association, sock manufacturer guilty of an un
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
steam heating system for both the closed Saturday evening with 658 national headquarters, and other fair trade practice because he label
VERNONIA
Voters recorded, this being the interested organizations to continue led his socks “genuine 6x3 ribbed.”
fire house and jail.
Town Office 891
POST 119
The heating unit, an automatic greatest number registered since their efforts o procure Congression
That phrase is supposed to indi
AMERICAN
oil burner, thermostat controlled, 1924, according to Alfred S. May, al help in advancing this enter cate to you and me that the socks
NEAL W. BUSH
prise.”
LEGION
and steam coils, is being put in by recorder.
were made in England and imported
J. W. Akin whose bid of $1467.50
into the United States. Probably Meet« First and
Attorney at Law
was low. The old system heated only COLUMBIA COUNTY I. O. O. F.
Mr. and Mrs. William Falconer not one person in 10,000 ever Third Wednesdays
Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663
MEEETS IN RAINIER NOV. 2— and children. Mr. and Mrs. Otto heard the phrase before.
the fire station.
In Vernonia Mondays and
and Keith Wolfe visited
AUXILIARY
The Columbia county I. O. O. F. Stowell
Lack of heat in the city’s jail has
Yet the government has forbid
Tuesdays
Sunday at the J. R. McNew home
First
and
Third
Mondays
been a source of considerable in- and Rebekah lodges will have their in Mountaindale.
den its use!
COUNTY NEWS-
St. Helens--
Clatskanie-
Rainier-