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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1940)
VOLUME 17, NUMBER 48 Activities GroupBegins Work Wed. Benefit Dance to be Held Thia Saturday Night at Legion Hall At the first meeting of the Christmas Activities committee neld Wednesday night, November 20, at the Oregon Gas and Electric office, plans were started for the annual Christmas party to be staged as in previous year? at the Wasning- ton grade school following the pro gram provided by the schools. Officers named at the meeting were: Harry Culbertson, chairman; George Baker, finance chairman (Mr. Baker is to select assistants); J. W. Nichols retains his office as secretary. As in previous years, organiza tions give contributions to provide money for purchasing the candy and nuts for the children. Also to swell the fund, two dances, the first for which tickets are now on sale, are planned. The first benefit dance will be held this coming Saturday night, November 30, at the Legion Hall. Jimmie Whetmore and his orchestra will play. The second dance will be given Saturday December 16. Honor Roll Released Wed. The honor roll for the second six weeks period for the current tChool year was released this week from the high school by Principal McCrae. The total number of stu dents to be named is 29, an in crease of 4 over last six weeks; The freshmen, sophomores and juniors all tied for first place with each class having 8 pupils on the roll. The seniors had 5 representa tives. On the honor roll were: fresh men: Beverly Bassett, Ida Bond, Eleanor Corll, Irene Driscoll, Mary Hall, Maxine Hayertz, Lorraine Mahar and Caroline Romtvedt; sophomores: Margaret Anderson, Mary Lee Hall, Erma Koberstein, Mary KovaGh, Betty Olson, Ruby Thacker, Arthur Tousley and Joy Willard. Juniors: Molly Butler, Margaret Haiman, Jack Olin, Virginia Red- ner, Lottie Reich, Winifred Romt vedt, Opal Scheuerman and Fred Thompson; seniors: Dorothy Austin, Lillian Hedman, Barbara Nichols, Pauline Rollins and Roy Soejima. Seven Persons Get Fined This Week The following persons were hail ed into Justice of Peace court this past week by State Patrolman Ral eigh Wheeler: Glen Mattoom, oper ating a car without a tail light, $5 fine and costs with the execution suspended indefinitely; George Smith, fr.ilure to stop upon enter ing a state highway, $5 and costs, with the execution suspended inde finitely; Tom Magoff, hunting without having an alien gun li cense, $5 fine. Three persons were drivers >f trucks: Andrew Martin, John Bak er and Eugene Brown, all f whom were operating trucks at night with out tail lights or reflectors. Each was fined $5 and court costs. Carroll Chance was operating r trailer ait night without a tail light; his fine was $5 and costs with ex ecution suspended indefinitely. DRAFT BOARD CALLS ATTENTION OF REGISTRANTS The Columbia County Local Draft Board calls attention to tlhe registrants that it is neces sary that all questionnaires be ‘ made out in ink or by typewriter i and must be signed and sworn : to before a Notary Public, Post master or other person qualified to administer the oath. ~ --- - ------ — STORY OF HONESTY OF NATAL FAMILY RELATED Note—Because she felt that Donald Hall should pass along the example of honesty as set Iby his mother, Mrs. Mabie Graves, teacher in the Natal School, has passed along to us ■the following story: Donald Hall, 8-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Hall of Natal, believed in fairies or in ‘.Pennies from Heaven,” when last Sunday morning he stumbl ed over a purse full of money and checks near his own gate. When Donnie rushed with his find to his mother his eyes were shining, for was not his fortune made? But Mother showed him how someone must be sad and disturbed, for here was a big wad of greenbacks, a few pounds of silver, and several checks. It couldn’t be Donnie's to keep! Seeing the matter as his mother did, they came to Vernonia, seeking the owner who proved to be a Bridge Street merchant. Donnie still believes in fairies, for a generous reward w:.s given him by the owner of the money. BOARD VETOES STAMP PLAN Christmas Seal Sale Starts Thurs. Mrs. McCoy to Head Local Sale; Eradicate Theme of Campaign CARTOON CHAR ACTER RELATED TO LOCAL LADY In the “Believe It or Not” cartoon in Monday’s Oregonian, Mrs. Mary Ramsey Lemons Woods, 1788-1908, who lived under the administration of every president from Washing ton to Taft, and died at the age of 121 years, is pictured. This lady who was crowned “Queen Mother of Oregon" was the grandmother of Mrs. Robert Holcomb’s father, J. C. Lemons. Mr. Lemons was twelve when his mother and grand mother and he came to Oregon from Missouri. On Thanksgiving Day, Christmas seals were mailed to people in the community by Mrs. Mason McCoy who was named by the Columbia County Public Health Association as representative to conduct the sale in Vernonia. The money from the seals goes to fight the battle against tuber culosis. Because of the increased purchases of Christmas seals Col umbia County last year discovered and cared for more active cases than in any previous year. Eradicate!, the tuberculosis cam Vernonia High School’s junior paign word, is an encouraging one class will ’.iresenit a play, “Seven for,' now it is certain that the Sisters” . t the Washington grade disease can actually be eradicated. “By using these Christmas seals school auditorium on December 6, on your letter and your packages at 8:00 p. m. The play, a hilarious three-act at Christmas time, you spread a cheerful message but, best of all, farce, deals with a large, nineteen you share in a sound investment. th-century Hungarian family. The widowed mother, Mrs. Gyurkovics, It is a good way to start the holiday «/ season,” writes the Columbia County finds that marrying off four daugh An election to determine whether ters, in order of their age, is no Public Health Association. simple matter, especially when she or not a tax in excess of the six can’t provide a sizeable dowery. percent limitation, as now allowed But of course four handsome by law on the base, may be levied army officers tend to relieve the was held at the City Hall, Monday, straining situation. November 25. Forty-nine votes Mitzi is a delightful and romantic problem-child played by Margaret were cast; thirty were for the levy; O. T. Bateman, assistant post Haiman and wooed by handsome 12 were against. master, announced Tuesday that Ferenz Horkoy. a young army offic aliens who have failed to register er. Iloikoy, piaytd ,by Jack Olin, and to be fingerprinted will have aids Mamma greatly in marrying off to make appointments for evenings. the other daughtess. ■ Katinka, the This, pirn is necessary, Bateman charming oldest daughter, played states, because the Christmas mail by Molly Butler, finds that Colonel ing is beginning and he cannot Radviany, Fred Thompson, makes a H. C. McDonald who has for the take time during pcstel hours to fine friend—in fact, it turns out past three years operated the Banks meet the wouldJbe registrants. to be romance. Sari, the second Pool Hall plans to open his newly December 26 is the last day for daughter, played by Virginia Redner, established business, “The Club”, alien registration which started thinks that Michael Sandorffy, a next week; he informed The Eagle August 27, so those persons who handsome man about town, Edgar early this week. Plans to open this have not yet taken care of this Culbertson, is the most interesting week were frustrated, McDonald matter are urged to see Bateman man she has ever met—he also says, because the State Liquor Com at the post office soon, in order to thinks she is a “pretty little pig mission did not meet Friday because make appointments for evening reg eon.” Simple little Ella is the third of the Thanksgiving holidays, there istration. sister and third love of Gida Rad by delaying the approval of his viany, the Colonel’s nephew. Ella's application for license. blind devotion and Gida’s troubles The Club which has not been in are pl,.ed excellently by Martha operation for over a year will have Tapp and Jack Myers. a gala opening, the new operator Besides overseeing the affairs of states, and that opening will be her four oldest daughters, Mrs. announced as soon as the Commis Gyurkovics. Patricia Moran, has The American Legion and the three little and misdhievious girls, sion sends approval which McDon ald expects the latter part of the American Legion Auxiliary are stag Terka. Liza and Klara, played by ing a Christmas party to be given Lillian Laird, Frances Cantwell and week. Wednesday night, December 4, at Delores Bonislaw. Other characters 8:00, at the Legion hall. This is include the lisping cousin, Toni Eagles to Have Dinner an annual affair but unlike previous Teleki, portrayed by Jim Temple And Dance Saturday years the Legion members are in ton and the butler, Janko, Cloice The Fraternal Order of Eagles viting everyone who is interested Hall, who remains indolent and is sponsoring a pot-luck dinner and in bringing a gift, particularly a forgetful. dance Saturday night to be held at toy, which will be given needy the I. O. O. F. hall at 7:30. These families in our Community or will Pro America social gatherings are held each be given disabled veterans who are month for members of that organ unable to give their children a Group to Meet ization, their wives and their friends. Christmas gift. A special Pro America meeting This Saturday promises to be an will be held Friday evening, Nov evening of fun states J. L. Timmons, Meeting to Be Held ember. 29, at the home of Mrs. chairman of the entertainment com Judd Greenman. Members and their At Christian Church mittee. Assisting Timmons are Art husbands are invited. Officers in Kirk, Willis Johnson and Lee Friday evening, November 29, the recently organized Republican Miller. Plenty of good food, and nt 6:45, the Christian Church will group are: Chairman, Mrs. Judd a good time are assured all Eagles, hold its monthly Stewardship meet Greenman, vice-chairman, Mrs. their wives and friends who at ing and “90 and 9” business meet Harry Sandon and secretary-treas ing. tend. urer, Mrs. Charles Marston. "Seven Sisters” Slated Dec. 6 Six Percent Lew Carries Aliens to Make Appointments McDonald to Open The Club Christmas Party Slated lor Wed. Contest Gets Motion Dies Under Way At Welfare This Week Board Meet Business Women Offer Cup for Best Window Display at Christmas For the first time in Vernonia a Christmas window display contest will be held. The Vernonia Business Women’s Club, sponsors cf the con test, are offering a loving cup as trophy to be awarded each year to the business firm having the most attractive window array de picting Christmas. Merchants are being contacted this week in regards to the activity and much enthusiasm is being ex pressed concerning the contest. Dec ember 19 hrs been named as the judging day; judges will be impar tial persons who are not members of the business club and who are not connected with any of the business houses. The trophy which has been order ed this week will soon be on dis play in a window of a local mer chant as soon as it arrives. Schmidlin Owns Highest Herd According to the recently released report of the Columbia Dairy Herd Improvement Association, Albert Schmidlin was announced owner of ■the highest milk-producing herd in Gclumbia County during October. Schmidlin owns 14 grade Holsteins and Guernseys averaging 791 pound of milk and 32.9 pounds of butter fat. * Richard Peterson of Mist was also named in the report for possessing a high herd; he owns 5 grade Guernseys averaging 702 pounds of milk and 33.6 pounds of butter fat. Temperature Is Lowest Nov. 22 Ed Sesseman, Cooperative Wea ther Station reporter, gives the following weather statistics since the beginning of the cold snap experienced. On Tuesday, Novem ber 12, the temperature was ’be low freezing for the first time this year with a minimum of 31 degrees. There was a steady decrease of one degree for the next four success ive days; Sunday, November 17, the minimum temperature was again 31. The maximum of 60 degrees was reached Friday, November 15. For last week, the lowest degree of 20 occurred Friday, November 21. “Abe’s” Store Undergoes Change J. C. (Abe) Lincoln is remodeling the inside of the liquor and men’s furnishing store which he operates. Mr. Lincoln is at present construct ing attractive, modernly designed shelves which will give more display Colorful Career of Judge Wilkerson Cited • (From the St. Helens Sentinel-Mist) A long and varied career in the service of the people of Columbia county will be diminished but not brought to a close January 6, 1941 when J. B. Wilkerson, county judge since 1935, turns over his position to his fellow democrat, Ray Tar bell. But the 71-year-old judge will not be retiring entirely from pub lic life for he has been elected to serve as justice of the peace in Ve> nonia, the city in which he and Mrs. Wilkerson plan to make their home after the first of the year. It has been a long time since the tall judge, then 33 years old, landed in Portland one April day in 1902 from his home below the Mason and Dixon line in Tennessee. Port land and Oregon were comparative- ly new places then and the Tenne ssee democrat found to his surprise that even the more respectable ele ments of the community were not above shooting .craps on the board sidewalks. Jobs were plentiful, and for a time Mr. Wilkerson worked as a freight checker on a Portland dock. Later, since he was a graduate of Perlbody Teacher college in Nash ville, he sought and obtained a job teaching school. His post was in the isolated community of Spring; water in Clackamas county and e taught the entire school year of four months for wages of $40 a month. Since board and room, “and very good board and room it was,” Judge Wilkerson recalls, cost only 110 a month, the salary was not • as inadequate as it sounds. A school year at Springwater was followed by a transfer to Rainier where wages were better — $65 a month, to be exact. After some years at Rainier — then the larg est town in Columbia county — and three years as superintendent of schools at Forest Grove, Teacher Wilkerson became County Superin tendent Wilkerson and assumed th t post here in Columbia coun ty's ne rly new courthouse. Pay .vas only $900 a year then and, as the new superintendent was mailed and found it difficult to keep a wife and family on this income, he re signed after two years to return to a school prineipalship at Rainier. Shortly before 1920, when the county superintendent’s pay had • been boosted to $1300 per annum, Mr, Wilkerson again was elected to the job, served two years and then accepted a better‘offer as city superintendent in St. Helens. After five years in St. Helens he went to Vernonia where he was principal of the union high school for 10 years. Judge Wilkerson, who attributed Many of the votes he received for county judge to the loyalty of hun dreds of former students, was not a candidate to succeed himself. In recent years his health has not been of the best and he plans to take life a little easier in Vernonia, his “home town,” just as every county city has been a "home town” to him during the three decades he has spent in the lower Columbia area. Discussion to Be Held This Week, States Judge Wilkerson Extension of the Food Stamp Plan to Columbia County met with a definite No at the meeting of the Columbia County public welfare committee held in St. Helens Mon day. The motion to admit the plan died for lack of a second. Further discussion of the plan will be held later in the week, according to Judge Wilkerson, . who is acting chairman during the absence of Mrs. Nellie B. McCormick. Judge Wilkerson states that the action on the welfare committee means that the Stamp Plan, which is a means of distributing over abundant crops through neighbor hood markets to families receiving pviblic assistance, will not come to this county at least until some time later. The necessary $4500 necessary to set up the revolving fund to meet costs of the plan are now available but there is no provision made in thes 1941 budget for the plan; after Decem ber 1, the new fiscal year for the county begins. Had the Stamp Plan been ac cepted in Columbia County, it would have begun operation here by the latter part of December, accord ing to Jonathon Garst, regional director of the Surplus Marketing Administration, and Elmer Goudy, administrator of the Oregon State Welfare Commission. The Stamp Plan, the primary purpose of which is to assist farm ers to dispose profitably of their over-abundant crops, works in this manner: Persons eligible for relief purchase food stomps of which there are two types; orange colored, good for the purchasing of all foods normally bought at retail stores (with the exception of al coholic drinks, tobacco or food con sumed on the premises) and blue colored stamps which are free and ere good only for the purchase of foods designated as surplus by the secretary of agriculture. For each dollar spent for orange colored stamps the applicant re- seives 50c in blue-colored stamps free. The food stamps are issued in books amounting to $2 to $10 in orange stamps; included in the book are free blue stamps. Of the 18 foods on the present surplus list the majority are pro duced by Oregon farmera. The Plan, it is felt, is ideal in that it not only aids the farmers but in addition it provides more food and better balanced diets for under- consuming public assistance famil ies. Also the increased volume of surplus foods which move through regular trade channels increases business generally and by increas ing such activity eventually leads to increased reemployment. THANKS— We wish to thank our adver- j tisers for cooperating so readily ! in submitting their ads for this week earlier than usual. Marvin underwent an appendectomy early Thanksgiving morning, ne cessitating the remainder of the Eagle staff to begin work earlier on this week’s publication. The . business firms have been very considerate in getting their adver tising material to us as soon as possible. We are very grateful. Since Marvin will not be able | to do the usual amount of work , next week, we are asking the news correspondents as well as the business men tn help us by sending early all material for publication. We will appreciate ! your help in this matter and we are putting forth our best to get your news to you on time. The Staff
