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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1941)
A O Oernog^^Eagte FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1941 Directors Of PUD to Meet Tues. Reginald Greenway, Wife to First 15 Give Program Here January 12 Listed Reginald Greenway, former con Greenways King, Uhlin to Assume Directorial Duties at That Time Directors of the Nehalem Basin Peoples’ Utility District will meet again Tuesday evening of next week it was stated in announcing the next date for discussion of PUD affairs. The meeting marks the time when the recently-elected directors will begin duties of their term of office. Only two new faces will be seated at that time: Harry King end Charles Uhlin who will replace C. S Hoffman and J. E. Tapp. Directors who convene at the ap pointed time will hear a report from R. M. Burley, attorney for the district, as to progress to date on acquisition of the existing power company holdings in this valley. Legion Calls For Magazines A recent suggestion, which was made here, brought a request last week from Camp Murray officials that reading material be sent to the camp for use of the men locat ed there. The suggestion to collect reading material was made by a Legion man, a letter was dispatched seeking information as to whether such material could be used and the reply received was in part: “I am sure be pleased with magazines and in your recent General White will your plan to gather books as mentioned letter. “I suggest such reading matter which will be highly appreciated by this division be directed to the 41st division chaplain who will care for its distribution.” VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON New JP to Take Office Former County Judge J. B. Wil kerson will assume the duties of Justice of the Peace for the Ver nonia precincts with the opening of court business next week, it was learned Wednesday. Mr. Wilkerson has not as yet qualified for the office by posting bond and taking the oath of office. With those de tails completed he will take over in his official capacity as judge as determined by the November elec tion. Judge Osctr Weed has carried out duties of the office this week. AU cases up to Wednesday were minor in nature, most of them be ing traffic violations. Car owners who failed to obtain 1941 license plates have been arrested and have ceived minor fin««. By Board cert violinist and professor for 16 years and scholarship winner with Mrs. Greenway, gifted accompanist and skilled harpist will present n Two from Vernonia to Be unusual program based on classical Inducted into Army 1» transcriptions of spiritual songs and Announcement hymns at the Evangelical church A news release received here next Sunday evening. The program Wednesday from the Columbia is scheduled for 7:30 p. m. County Selective Service Board During the service they will play makes known the names and an unusual type of instrument addresses of the first 1B men on known as the Theremin. The instru the Columbia county list of selec- ment is unique in that the per tess as follows: former never touches it while play John Roland Roscoe, R. F. D. 1, ing. The player enters an electro Scappoose; Arnold Walter Strain, magnetic field that is developed 115 N. 4th St., St. Helens; Oplis about the instrument. The tone Rhoades Parton. Clatskanie; Chas. quality is similar to the viola or Arrowood Iaeger, P. O. Box 34, cello and is produced by manipula Rainier; William Erik Larson, Box tion of the hands. 192, Vernonia; Robert Charles Singers Plan May Concert Plans were begun Tuesday night for a public concert to be given by the recently organized Choral Club which is under the direction of Al- venia Connell, music instructor in the high school. It was agreed at this week’s meeting that National Music Week would be an appropriate time to give the concert so a date during that recognized week will be chosen for the night of recital. In addition to presenting the women’s chorus, Miss Connell also will present her high school girls’ glee club, some of the selections to be sung jointly with the older chorus. An artist in a field other than vocal will also offer several groups of musical numbers. be worthy of the efforts of the individuals who have so faithfully attended. For that reason she re quests all those who have been ab sented from the regular weekly meets to be present from now on. Owing to colds and other illnesses and the break caused by the holi days, attendance has dropped off considerably the past few weeks, but now that everything is more or less back “in the groove”, it is felt that it isn’t too much to de mand that all members who intend to appear in concert with the chor al group in May be faithful in be ing present at each of the meetings which are held Tuesday nights at 7 o’clock at the high school. As it was stated at the last meeting, “It is embarrassing to be the only one to sing out at the crucial moment when the choir director has train ed the remainder of the group to an effective «¡lead«.” tnd has been developed to give a Vivian Laird who has for the clearer reproduction of the picture past two years been employed by being shown. the N. Y. A. in the high school be gan this week, in addition to her high school secretarial duties, the work formerly done by Alice Baker Addresses should be complete in the Washington grade school. with house number and name of Miss Baker left for Portland re street, post office box, or rural cently where she entered beauty route number and typed or plainly school; she has been employed in written in ink. A return address secretarial work for the grade school should be placed in the upper left for the past three years. Gertrude McCabe will take over corner of every piece of mail. If a tag is used, the address and return the morning office work in the Washington grade school; Miss address should also be written on the wrapper for use if tag is lost Laird, the afternoon. and a copy of the address should License Examiner be enclosed inside the parcel. Station Gets New Owner Theatre Gets New Screen Grade School Has The screen is called plastic mould New Office Girl Postal Notes Postage must be fully prepaid on all mail. Affix the required amount of postage in the upper right corner. Full information con cerning postage rates can be obtain ed at the parcel post or stamp win dow. No parce' may be more than 100 inches in length and girth combined nor exceed 70 pounds in weight. Scheduled Here A traveling examiner of opera tors and chauffeurs is scheduled to arrive in Vernonia Thursday, Jan uary 16, and will be on duty at the city hall between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. according to a recent announcement. All those wishing permits or licenses to drive ecrs are asked to get in touch with the examiner during those hours. A change in ownership for the Sunnyside service station is an nounced this week by Nelson E. Moeller. Mr. Moeller will manage the business establishment in the future, it was stated. Dorothy and Pat Reed, evangel ists from Missouri, are in charge of the special revival services which are now in progress in the Assem bly of God church. According to reports, interest has been increas ing from night to night in the unique messages the evangelists bring. Everyone is invited to the revival meetings which are held nightly with the exception of Mon day. Bollinger Begins Second Term of Office a* Head City Official at First 1941 Meeting Monday Eve ning; Appointive Offices Filled Mayor E. M. Bollinger continued his duties Monday eve ning as top city official for the second successive term in that capacity when the council met for its first 1941 session. Boll inger appointed committees to serve during the year and named the city marshals, water superintendent and city recorder for the next 12 months. Appointments were confirmed by council men. J. T. Anderson Fair Feature To Show Here week marked the opening of the term of office for three new county offic ials who were chosen at the gener al election last fall. Taking the oath of office will be W. W. Dillard, who replaced D. 0. Bennett as district attorney; Ray Tarbell’, who takes the place of J. B. Wilkerson as county judge; and Charles Rogers, who assumes the duties of county coroner replacing J. O. Elbon. The initial session of the new officers atid those who were re elected began Monday. One of the first problems was that of the ap pointment of many county employes. Appointments must be made for members of the dog control board, county health doctor, county nurse, herd inspector, road foreman and courthouse janitor. Skuzie Quits Teaching Post An action taken last Saturday evening by board members of the Vernonia high school gives infor mation this week of the resigna tion of Leslie Skuzie, high school instructor. The board accepted his resignation which is to be effective at the end of the school semester. John Grady was seated as the new council member as elected in November. Charles VanAlstine, also elected at that time continued in the office has has previously oc cupied. Councilmen for the coming term will be John J. Grady, Charles VanAlstine, J. E. Tapp and Robert Spencer. C. F. Hieber, city treas urer, also succeeded himself in that office. A. D. Lolley and H. H. King will continue their duties as law- enforcement officers, Walter Kent will again act as water superinten dent and Loel Roberts will serve s city recorder. The council named Neal Bush as city attorney. Notices received by the local board would indicate that the first nine will be inducted during the week beginning January 20, 1941. If any are turned down at the in duction station, the next man n the list will be called for replace ment. All men called will be sent a notice, “Order to Report for Induc tion,” by their local board at least The wonderland of inventions five days before they are to report, notifying them of the place, date and industries, one of the Oregon State Fair feature attractions, will and hour they are to report. appear in the Washington grade school auditorium on the afternoon and evening of January 20t>h. The station was formerly owned After that time Skuzie will take by E. G. Roediger. It is located over business duties at the Hoffman near Treharne. Hardware company. Evangelist* Hold Revival Meet» Mayor Chooses Names For 1941 Committees; Grady Takes Chair Morey, Birkenfeld; Russel Clausen Jorgenson, Scappoose; Robert Good ale Crover, Box 227, Houlton; Paul Christensen Gylling, c/o John Lock wood, Rrinier; Wesley Keith Pace, Vernonia; Henry James Corra, 515 S. 4th St., St. Helens; Rene Emil Wasser, Rt. 1, Box 114, Goble; Glenn Arthur Chestnut, Clatskanie; Gilbert Franc Palomaki, Rt. 2, Clatskanie; Roy Joseph Walborn, Rt. 1, Goble. County Men Because of the interest shown in Letter Tells of the Choral Club which had its ini Consequently the Legion is issu Take Office tial start this fall. Miss Connell is ing a request that magazines and Ex Post Member very eager that the concert shall bocks, which are of no further use Monday morning of this to owners, be bronn-ht either t< the A letter received here a short O'egon is and Electric comnan time ago by the American Legion office or to J. C. (Abe) Lincoln at The Men’s Store where proper mentioned present activities 01 a member of the post during the disposal will be made. 1920’s. The letter, written by the Suggestions as to magazines that member’s wife, tells the story very will be most appreciated were giv well: en as: Liberty, Colliers, Life, Red Dear Sir: I wonder if the members of your Book, Cosmopolitan, Western Stor ies, Popular Mechanics and Popular Post would be interested to know Science. Such reading matter as that Henning F. Feilberg is with contains fiction will be most appro the Canadian army now in England? H. F. Feilberg was at one time priate. a member of your Post in the 1920’s and has now been in Eng land over a year. I thought maybe some of your members would re member him and like to know that he is back for another chance to get to Berlin. Joy Theatre patrons were treat Yours, ed to the first showing on the new Mrs. H. F. Feilberg est and best type of screen last Vancouver, B. C. Sunday evening, according to Har old Dow, theatre manager. VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2 The show consists of the latest and most modern inventions in color motion pictures. Everything from household gadgets to huge logging trailers are shown in action on the screen, it was announced today by J. T. Anderson, Patent and Industrial Coordinator, produc er of the show. The National Association of Man ufacturers is cooperating with Mr. Anderson in presenting on the screen the “Frontiers of the Fu ture,” the wonders of tomorrow that today are being developed in the laboratories. Other Features Other features of the show will be a “Review of 1940 Newsreel,” featuring “Bombs Over Europe,” a hair raising and sensational picture. Another feature of the show will be the “Hoosier Hot-Shots” in a musical comedy. The Hoosier Hot- Shots are well known radio stars. In addition the audience will see the “Pendleton Round-Up,” “As toria Regatta” and the “Portland Rose Festival” in beautiful colors. Chambers of Commerce through out the country have wholeheartedly endorsed Mr. Anderson’s progr-m. It has proven most educational and entertaining to all who have viewed it and has assisted in establishing new industries. Many people who have viewed the show have invent ed something themselves that was new and today are making money with their ideas. Person« having an idea or invention on their minds should by all means see this show as it may mean a great deal to them. New jobs are made by creating something that people want When this is done industries have to pro duce the new products, thereby, making more employment. This year marks the seventh suc cessive teaching term for Skuzie. A Urge portion of that time has been devoted to teaching in the commer cial field. He has been interested in electricity, lighting »nd sound during those years and has served Superintendent as advisor for those student activ Announces Classes ities. He has also served as assist J. M. Boss, recently elected ant coach. Sunday school superintendent at the No new teacher has ns yet been Evangelical church, announces this appointed but the selection will be week that the school has classes made so that duties of t,ie post open for students of al! ages from may be filled by the 20th of this the cradle roll age to adult. An invitation to attend is extended. month. Committees Named The committees named by Bolling er were also affirmed by council men as follows: Judiciary: Tapp, Spencer, Grady. Fire and Water: Grady, VanAl stine, Spencer. Park Board: Spencer, Stacey, Mrs. George Stankey, Mrs. E. M. Bolling er and Wallace McCrae. Finance: VanAlstinie. Grady, Tapp. Street: Spencer, Tapp, VanAl stine. Health«, Tapp, Spencer, Grady. Police and Printing: VanAlstine, Grady, Spencer. ■Cemetery Board, Tapp, J. A. Bush, VanAlstine and Grady. Regular business matters of the evening included passing monthly bills and purchasing two fluorescent lights for the city hall. Library Gets New Shelves Patrons of the Vemoni Library will be treated to one new display case and refinishing on old cases with the completion of work now in progress. The work was started last week by George Stankey and will be completed within a short time so that books may again be found under their proper classifi cations. 191 Enlist In December With 191 enlistments for the reg ular army during the month of Dec ember, the Oregon recruiting dis trict of the regular army recruiting service finished the year 1940 with 2,967 enlistment« to the state cred it, according to figures recently an nounced by Lieutenant Colonel B. H. Hensley, district recruiting offic er. This figure set the best annual total recorded locally since the re cruiting district was established in Oregon in 1922. Local recruiting activities brought their best results during the month of October with the enlistment of 454 young Oregonians. Among dis trict sub-stations, Salem was accord ed first place with 237 enlistments for the year. Other major Oregon cities enlisted army volunteers as follows: Astoria, 42; Baker, 133; Bend, 46; Corvallis, 29; Eugene, 196; Klamath Falls, 184; LaGrande, 37; Marshfield, 166; McMinnville, 7; Medford, 169; Pendleton, 74; and The Dalles, 70.
