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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1941)
1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1941 _______________ VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON S P ORTS Basketball Jamboree Is Slated Columbia County Teams to Be Featured at St. Helens January 3 A basketball jamboree for Col umbia county teams is billed for Friday evening, January 3rd, at St. Helens. Team play will start at 8 p. m. at the St. Helens high school gymmsium and will include six teams, Westport having been elect ed to fill the sixth team vacancy which otherwise would make im possible the evening’s play. Teams have been divided into East and West divisions and each team will' play 15 minutes. East teams are Vernonie, Scappoose and St. Helens and West Teams are Westport, Clatskanie and Rainier. The time of play and the oppon ents will be determined by a draw ing on the floor just before game time. Various stunts and music will add color to the evening. Admission tickets are being sold in rdvance in Vernonia with money raised thereby to remain in Ver nonia. For that reason it is urged that those from this vicinity who attend, purchase their tickets here. IWA Sked to Start Soon A schedule sf games for the IWA I asketball team for the remainder i f the se..son will be drawn up within a short time it was revealed recently by Denny Ryves, team manager. Intentions to date hold that the team will sign for play with the Washington County Lea gue. The IWA team this year is re putedly one of the best with a suf ficiently large turnout for two good ‘earns. Club Average Listed at 873 ’S RESEARCH 7RIUMPH- OVER 50 MACH we GUN BULLETS CAN BE FIRED INTO SELF-SEALING GAS TANKS MADE By THE AMERICAN RUBBER INPUSTRy WITHOUT LOSS OF FUEL. A team average of 873 was at tained by the Vernonia Gun Club it was figured recently by J. W. Nichols, secretary, in computing scores of eight matches in the re cently-completed qualifying round. This average figure will be used in determining the classification of the club for remaining matches this sea son. Sixteen more matches will com prise the Vernonia club’s schedule this season, it was stated. The individual player averages for those shooting who have been active so far were computed as follows: Zimmerman, 176’4; Keli- mer, 175’4; Nichols, 174% ; Fetsch, 174%; McCollum, 171; Ray, 170; Meilis, 164 1/7; Culbertson, 152 6/7. Treharne, 152%. - - its \ X " THE cleanest country ' / U S USES '/3n0f ML THE WORLDS SOAP------ THERE ARE NEARLY 20 OOO EMPIO/EES IN THE SOAP INDUSTRY IN THIS COUNTRY “Man From Montreal,” which comes Saturday to the Joy Theatre. Arlen is seen as the ycung Can adian fur trr.pper who falls in love with a girl Who betrays his devo tion. Serious complications develop when Arlen is falsely arrested and charged with fur thefts and mur der. Devine portrays the friendly mounted police officer who comes to Arlen’s aid and helps him bring the real criminals to justice. Britian's recent recapture of 300 prisoners-of-war from the German naval auxiliary, Altmark, was seiz ed on by Hollywood movie makers and included in “Mystery Sea Raid er,” which epens at the Joy Theatre Saturday. By coincidence, the picture’s in tended ending almost paralleled the newer Altmark affair, in which British destroyers entered neutral waters to board the vessel and re lease its Allied seamen who had been taken by the ill-fated Graf Sipee. Only slight revisions in the script were necessrry. Intrigue, murder and mystery make up the story of “South of Suez,” the new Warner Bros.’ ad venture film which epens next Sun dry a< the Joy Theatre. The scene is laid in the seething heat of 3 South African diamond mine where greed and cruelty are rampant. George Brent is cast in the star ring role as a mine foreman who has to fight off treachery, George Tobias plays the role of a ruthless mine owner who »tops at notning to gain his ends. Brenda Marshall is charming as the girl who proves her love for Brent by trying to show that he is innocent of her father’s murder. CAPACITy 1Ö PROpuc'E ESSENTIAL MILITARY GOODS- — IS NEARLY 271 TIMES THAT OF GERMANY AND ALL ITS CONQUERED TERR! TORIES! men who brave death every time they go out an an assignment and battle a thousand terrors on the streets of every big city! But the story of these fearless, fighting heroes has finally been told on film, and comes to the screen as “Emergency Squad,” which Paramount will present next Tuesday at the Joy Theatre, with a cast topped by Louise Campbell, William Henry, Richard Denning and Robert Paige. Three-alarm fires, battles against gangsters, rescues of would-be sui cides and countless other acts of heroism are all in a day’s work for members of the “Emergency Squad” and most of them form vivid thrill sequences in Paramount’s new ac- tion drama. "TIN PAN ALLEY” WINS ACCLAIM— Heralded in advance by such sup erlatives as “greatest,” “most spec tacular musical ever produced”— “Tin Pan Alley,” 20th Century-Fox film which stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable, starts its engagement on Wednesday at the Joy Theaitre. Keyed to the mcod of America and stirring with romance, mem “MAN FR1M MONTREAL” HAS ories and melodies of the unbeliev ’.OARING ACTION— NEW “MAISIE” ADVENTURES able street that makes Ithe whole Rich'rd Arlen and Andy Devine ON ARIZONA DESERT— nation sing, “Tin Pan Alley” has a -l a e r‘arring honors in Universal’s Frcm the African jungles of great featured cast of top-notch en drama of t.he Canadian north-woods, “Congo Maisie,” Ann Sothern jumps tertainment-makers headed by Jack to the lonesome desert of Arizona Oakie and John Payne. in “Gold Rush Maisie,” third in itihe popular series dealing with the laughable and lovable stranded show girl which opens Tuesd. y at the Joy Theatre. This time Maisie is en route to a job as cafe singer in a small Ariz- Contract bridge is a cinch, accord ■ na town, when her old jallopy breaks down in the middle of the ing to Sam Gordon, The Kibitzer, desert. A young rancher, Bill An who will be here for a contract ders, gives her overnight shelter bridge lesson on Tuesday, January only to have her descend upon him 7, in the Masonic Temple. He is again with a whole family of itin sponsored by the Nehalem Social erant crop-followers who are pros Club. He says the only aim of two pecting for gold. partners in a bridge game is to tell each other how many tricks they FILM ACTIONCADE HAS expect to take and what is their ■DEATH SQUAD’ STORY— The screen has found time to best trump suit, if any; and that’s glorify the army, navy, racket all. And to give that information, a busters, fire-fighters and police, but player need not be a civil engineer, until now has neglected a group of a statistician and a clairvoyant. Oregon-American | LUMBER I CORPORATION Vernonia, Oregon New and Used Parts New and Used Tires Gas and Oil The Kibitzer To Teach I I X-ray Used in Detecting White Plague Expert Auto Repairing LYNCH AUTO PARTS Phone 773 RIVERVIEW The Forest Grove National Bank Invites You To Bank By Mail if Inconvenient To Come In Person a. A. Thornburg. P isident. “THE ROLL OF HONOR BANK" Young woman having X-ray picture taken of her chest. Tuberculosis associations, which are supported by Christmas Seal Income, urge this method in helping to find persons with the disease. Oregon. 52t3 WILL BUY—Cattle for butchering. Will pay market prices. See Bob Tipton at Sam and Bob’s Grocery and Market. 34tf—• Bush Funeral Home FLOWERS — Cut Flower« Potted Plants Sprays for Funerals Corsages Classified Ads TiMLER WANTED—6-inch 7-foot split Cedar posts. Quote price, earliest shipment. Niiedermeyer-Mar- itin Lumber Co., 1207 Spalding Bldg., Portland, Ore. It3— LOST—Yellow gold Elgin wrist watch. Reward. See Mrs. W. A. Fowler, Wilark. Oregon. 51t3 GEORGE BRENT STARS IN FILM FOR JOY— ALTMARK INCIDENT DEPICTED IN FILM— All he needs is to learn the few basic rules and signals used by ex perts and other practical players, which is the Horse Sense method, the only requirements to play an acceptable bridge game, His method of counting tricks is the natural way any player would use if he were not confused by too many suggestions. All depart ments of the game are treated in a vein of simplicity. WANTED—iMiddle-aged couple of good character. Board and room offered for the wife’s caring for invalid woman, and cooking for two men. Inquire at Eagle office. It3— I News of the Theatre fou can't be too particular about your family’s clothing. Sending ■'t out to be cleaned save# your ime and health, but sending it o ui saves your family’s health, oo, fur everything is done under he most sanitary conditions. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE PAGE FIVE I1 OUND—Stray Holstine heifer, one- year old. Come and get her as soon as possible. R. Pedusen, Jewel, Railway taxes last year averaged $1,000,000 a day. Grade A Milk & Cream ASSURES YOU OF PURITY UNMATCHED ANYWHERE Phone today for regular de livery to your home—by prompt, efficient route men. Nehalem Dairy ProductsCo. PHONE 471 LUMBER — SHINGLES — VENEER WHOLESALE AND RETAIL See my bargains in Kiln Dried Lumber at $7.50 per M. and up. Open Saturdays from 8 a. m. to noon. <’. ItEtlK’li! HOW MUCH DOES $1.00 BUY? Maybe yesterday your dollar bought three pounds of meat. Today perhaps you got three pounds of meat and a can of corn. Prices are lower here so you can make a dol lar s-t-r-e-t-c-h much farther. Prove it to yourself today. DELIVERY SCHEDULE------ Corey Hill—10 A. M. and 3 P. M. O-A Hill and East Side—10:30 A. M. and 3:30 P. M. Phone 761 Quantity Orders Gladly Delivered SAM and BOB Grocery & Market
