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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
Week
MANY SPORTSMEN. FEW COMMERCIAL . FISHERMEN
Western Oregon sportsmen rallied for the hearing last
Wednesday evening at Salem in far greater numbers than the
commercial men to present a milch more convincing show of
sincerity in seeking enactment of the Steelhead Senate Bill.
Sportsmen turned out in such numbers that seating capacity
of the hearing chamber was at a premium.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1941
ItTHE-POCKETBOOK
W KNOWLEDGE
by^jAMES P reston
The day of miracles may be gone
—but American industry is doing
the “impossible” these days in its
effort to supply defense goods to
alt those free nations now battling
Comments heard here on the measure, which will regulate dictators.
the use of nets in coastal streams with exception of the Colum Authorities for that sta.ement are
bia, gave greater promise of enactment into law than was the none other than William S. Knud
case two years ago when anglers attempted to have the steel sen and John D. Biggers who,
head declared a game fish by legislative action. That measure through the new OPM, head up this
of two years ago passed the state senate but was voted down country’s defense production.
in the house.
TWENTY THREE POUND STEELHEAD
Regardless of the inroads of commercial fishing on the
number of fish which escape nets and swim to upper readies
of the Nehalem and Rock creek, one fish caught last week is
the largest steelhead ever to be reported. It weighed 23 pounds.
Ordinarily a steelhead of 15 pounds is considered plenty large.
CARD OF THANKS
'ish to express our sincere
appreciation for the many acts of
kindness, floral offerings and ex
pressions of sympithy during the
recent illness and death of our
beloved husband and father, E. D.
Denson.
M’S. E. D. Benson
Charles, Mark and Cl ra Benson
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Durrett
and' family.
/Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bergerson
and family.
Those statements, of course, are
VERNONIA CONTRIBUTES ITS SHARE
based on fact and not fancy. Many
Many who attended the President’s Ball Saturday evening reports reaching Washington tell
expressed themselves favorably with the dance. The dance com of new “impossibles” which have
mittee also was pleased with the result of their efforts in bring been accomplished by surmounting
ing to completion a successful affair and with the amount of difficulties and proglems which in
funds which Vernonia contributed to the infantile paralysis ordinary times would be “impos-
sible.”
fund.
Same reports already have been
Along with the sale of dance tickets, the Tawanka Camp repeated in this column. Here are
Fire girls sold pins for an amount of $15.24 which in itself is a few more:
a considerable contribution. Surely the amount this year will
Most defense contracts have oeen
be greater than was last year’s in giving assistance to such a placed with fewer than a thousand
manufacturers. The reason was that
worthy cause.
Business
LEE GETS PUBLICITY
Eagle Items
Of Past Years
COUNTY NEWS
Uiw. R.’.iek has written a gay
and amus ng oook of a happy mar-
r age Mr. and Mrs. Cug-t married
"for bet.er, for woroe.” Sometimes
it was definitely worse. Such as
the time Mr. Cugat appeared at a
very foimal masquerade dressed in
a suit of armor and slightly reeling.
To make matters worse, he manag
ed to set himself afire inside the
minor and disrupt the whole affair
by his strange gyrations.
Mrs. Cugat’s very b d habit of
exaggeration pretty nearly has ser
ious results, but Mr. Cugat steps
in at the last minute and saves
h:s w'fe’s face by a little fancy
ex "geration of his own.
Knudsen reported a couple of
weeks ago tthat industry already
had done the “impossible” but must
do more. Now Biggers says that
the word “impossible” has been
struck from the American manu
facturers’ vocabulary.
the government did not know where
taken care of before too long a else
to go. Neither government nor
Appearing in Colliers this week time. The job isn’t easy. For many any
other group had facts and fig
is an article entitled “Our New people it is very disagreeable but ures describing small plants here So the manufacturer is making the
Army” in which Howard Lee, well- the deputy collectors will assist and
goods on old—and less efficient—
there which alone are not big
known Vernonia boy and graduate you if the bookkeeping of your enough to handle a sizeable defense machines and will start deliveries
of Vernonia high school, gets size business is up-to-date. If you can’t
February 1, more than two months
order but which could do part of
ahead of schedule. So far he has
able publicity mention by the meet with the collectors, or do not it.
article’s author, Lee, it seems, is wish to, there are several people
Government officials wanted in had no assurance—not even silent
of an inventive nature and has de- in Vernonia who will make out formation aibout these small pia.tts assurance—that the
government
vised a game called “Blitzkreig” your reports. If you can make them but they thought it was “impossible” will pay his higher costs.
which he i intends to market if out yourself you needn’t worry to get it. So now industry itself
about having someone else do it. is doing the job. Through the Na
Another comparatively small man
possible.
Vernonia also gets mention as Nevertheless, the returns must be tional Industrial Council, which is ufacturer has made loans of more
a mythical land, a part of the filled on time: Federal, March 15 sponsored by the National Assoc than $500,000 to even smaller sub-
and State, April 1.
game.
iation of Manufacturers, a nation contractors so they can turn out
Regardless of whether the game
wide survey of plant capacities . parts faster, The banks thought
the loans were “impossible” and
proves successful, Lee has received DONKEY BASKETBALL
being made.
The donkeys received most of
considerable publicity and the name
wouldn
’t make them, so the manu
When the information is covre.at-
facturer did.
* Vernonia” has been spread across the advance publicity for the don ed and tabulated, it will
be turned
much of the nation by means of key basketball game Monday eve over to defense officials
in Wash-
that magazine’s wide circulation.* ning but the donkey’s riders pro ington. Then they will
These
know
the of how are but a very few samples
vided much more of the entertain practical details about
the “impossible” is being
thousands
ment than did the deasts. The eve of small plants into which defense done these days. Small wonder that
A GENTLE REMINDER
With the announcement this week ning’s entertainment was interesting, jobs can be put.
Knudsen and Biggers say that
of the itinerary of deputy collect was something different for Ver
Then there will be even more word is going the way of the dodo.
ors who will assist in making out nonia people and was very amus instances like the soap manufactur
income tax returns comes the re ing, especially, as mentioned be er who is loading shells, the type
minder that that detail must be fore, the riders.
writer factory that is working n
machine guns, and the stove com
pany that is making special bolts.
You will enjoy meeting Mr, and
Mrs. Cugat. They are de'.'.gntful
pe.pie.
Book Talk . .
By EDNA ENGEN
“We all should spend more time
with books,
And not so much upon our looks.
The world would be a better place,
If we thought more of book* and
less of face.”
—L. E. D,
Professional
Directory
Marshall A. Rockwell
M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office Phone 72; Residence 73
a
“Mr. and Mrs. Cugat” by Isabel
Scott Rorick.
LODGES
Wendell’s Barber Shop
Shaves and Haircuts
Conscientious Work
Shoe Shining
Shower Bath*
DRESSMAKING
ALTERATIONS
Vernonia Lodge No. 246
I.O.O.F.
Cleo Caton
The Apparel Shop
Under ordinary circumstances ,'t
Meets Every Tuesday
Dr. U. J. Bittner
would be “impossible” for a manu- ONE YEAR AGO—
8 P. M.
Oscar
G.
Weed
announced
inten
LIGHT CATCHES
acturer to take many of his best
Mike
Willard,
N.
G.
Dentist
REPORTED HERE—
workers out of his own plant and tion to file as a candidate for
Paul Gordon, Secretary
county judge in the May primary
turn
them
over
to
another
manu
Joy Theatre Bldg.
Phone 662
The few fishermen who are op
election.
erating in the St. Helens and Co facturer for training in a new line
COUNTY FARM
Vernonia
F.
O.
E.
The
Nehalem
Hunters
and
Angl
lumbia City districts on the river of work. Any man who did that ers club met to discuss the possib
REVIEW GIVEN—
(Fraternal Order of Eagles)
are taking light catches of steel long, under usual conditions, would ility of obtaining a fish hatchery
A review of the farm situation head salmon with an occasional not stay in business long.
J. E. TAPP
in Columbia county as it has de- early Chinook salmon, a few of
But in one Eastern state, one on Rock creek.
L. gion Hall
veloped since 1938 was given last which have arrived far ahead of manufacturer is selecting about 700
Thursday at an all-day meeting of the March run when the commercial of his own most capable workers FIVE YEARS AGO—
All Kind* of Wood
Vernonia
The Mist-PStltsburg section
farm crops, livestock, farm home fishing season closes.
and turning them over to a second
Friday
Night*
Prompt Delivery
and rural life committees held in
manufacturer for training in mak the Nehalem highway will be paved
the courthouse. The meeting, devot
It was reported that one fisher ing airplane engines. Not only that, with oil process macadaam during
8 o'clock
Phone 241
ed to a review of the agricultural man took close to 100 pounds of but the first manufacturer is supply the summer it was announced by
set-up and to suggestions on future steelhead one 'night early in the ing free a huge building in which J. W. Bishop, state highway main Alford Doree, W. P.
developments, was one of a series week and a number of 'Chinooks his workers are befng trained to tenance engineer.
Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y.
being sponsored in all Oregon coun have been delivered to the local work for the other fellow. The
Expert Tonsorial Work
ties by the O.S.C. extension service. markets. A price of 10c a pound is first manufacturer is even furnish TEN YEARS AGO—
Knights of Pythias
The Brown Furniture Co. moved
paid for the steelhead and 20c a ing heat for the building.
Harding Lodge No. 116
BEN’S BARBER SHOP
Speaking at the morning session, pound for Chinook.
its stock from the building east of
Vernonia, Oregon
George Nelson, county agent, des
It usually would be “impossible” Rock creek to the McGee building
Meetings:—I. O. O. F.
Vernonia, Oregon
cribed the gradual decline of Bang’s FATHER FLEMING TO
TAKE
for
a manufacturer to deliver to at Second and Bridge streets, the
Hall, Second and
disease reactors in Columbia’s dairy OVER ST. FREDERIC’S—
location
formerly
occupied
by
the
a purchaser goods which cost him
Fourth Mondays Each
herds since a campaign was launch
Mellinger Hardware company.
Roland L. Treharne
Father Michael E. Fleming, pastor more than he gets for them. That
ed against the disease in 1924. At
Month.
Expert Automobile Repairing
would
mean
either
bankruptcy,
or
of
St.
Wenceslaus
parish
at
Scap
that time, approximately 14 per
Pythian Sisters
WELDING
I
cent of the cattle in the county poose for the last several months, a new manager. But one manufac-
Vernonia Temple No. 61
CARBURATORS REPAIRED
turer
who
got
a
sizeable
order
is
were reactors, while at present only will assume the pastorate of St.
Vernonia, Oregon
ROLAND’S
about one per cent react. Mr. Nel Frederic's parish in St. Helens and doing just that,
Meeting*:— 1. O. O. F. Hall
SERVICE STATION
He
expected
to
get
new
machines
Second and Fourth Wednesdays
son also traced the increase of for St. Mary's in Vernonia, starting
I
Each Month
with services Sunday here. He re more efficient than those now in
age crops in the county.
places Father John Green who left use. He was to begin deliveries in
•y
aaa*.
I«IU.
—
Nehalem Valley
Order of Eastern Star
Thursday’s meeting was devoted for his new charge in Silverton April. The new machines, how’ever,
Nehalem
Chapter
153,
O.
E.
S.
almost entirely to a review of the yesterday morning following a par won't be finished until late March.
Oregon’s visitors traveling by
Columbia county happenings since ochial school reception.
Regular Communi
Motor Freight
automobile will no longer be re-
cation first and
the last farm outlook conference
quired to register their cars under
Frank
Hartwick, Proprietor
third Wednesdays
The new pastor will say mass
in 1938. During the next two
the provisions of Senate Bill No.
Portland - Timber - Vernonia
of each month, at
weeks the various committees rep Sunday at 8 a. m. and 10:30 p. m.
4, which has passed the house
Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach
Masonic Temple.
resented at the session will have at St. Frederic’s and will be form MILITARY ROAD
Gearhart - Seaside
without a dissenting vote. This bill
All
visiting
sisters
meetings and will make recommen ally installed at ceremonies set for AGAIN ASKED—
Vernonia Telephone 1042
and' brothers wel
was the first through the Senate,
dations on a program at a session 3 p. m. Rev. John Laidlaw Dean will
come.
The Lower Columbia Associated being unanimously approved, and
planned for February 15 at the officiate at the installation.
Chambers of Commerce threw their was also the first Senate Bill to Allie Dickson, Worthy Matron
Mona Gordon, Secretary
courthouse here.
CASON’S TRANSFER
Father Fleming is a Canadian weight behind a movement to have receive the approval of the House.
Folio ing this general committee born and bred, but received most the Lower Columbia river highway Prepared and introduced at the re
A. F. & A. M.
LOCAL .nd LONG-DISTANCE
meeting a series of community ses of his training for the priesthood from Pcrtlsnd to Astoria designat quest of Secretary of State Earl
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
HAULING
sions will be held in which the in the United States and has been ed and improved as a military Snell, the bill bringing about this
A.
F.
&
A.
M.
meets
at
adopted program wilt be exphiined a U. S. resident since 1923. He highway at a meeting of the beard repeal places Oregon in line with
SEE US
Masonic Temple,
. .
Stat-
to County residents.
For Your Old-Growth
ed Communication First
.......
completed work at the University of governors in Portland Monday the many states that are doing all
Thursday of each month.
16-1NCH FIR WOOD
in their power to eliminate barriers
of Toronto in 1923 and was grad morning.
Special called meetings
The board adopted a resolution between the states, and to promote
uated with the degree of bachelor
AND CEDAR SHINGLES
other
Thursday
nights,
7:30
petitioning the United States roads the free and uninterrupted flow
of science.
administration and the Oregon of traffic, with the least possible come. Visitors most cordially wel-
State highway commission to elim inconvenience and delay to the Special meetings Friday night«.
MARVIN KAMHOL7.
LUMBER SHIPMENTS
Roland D. Eby, M. D.
inate curves and grades on the traveling public.
C. L. Brock, W. M.
Editor and Publisher
TOTAL 10.000.000 FEET—
1 •
Glenn
F.
Hawkins.
Sec.
bwny ind m ke it more curable
In commenting upon the measure,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Entered as second class mail
Lumber shipments from the local
matter, Auarust 4, 1922, nt the post Pope and Talbot unit will total of handling movements cf troops Mr. Snell stated that the need for
VERNONIA
office in Vernonia. Oregon. under s.ightly more than 10,000,000 feet and materials as well as to make non-resident registration had long
Town Office 891
it more attractive to tourists and since passed with the lowering of
POST 119
the» act of March 3, 1879.
during January, approximately the motorists.
AMERICAN
license fees, and that experience
Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore amount of the mill’s production.
NEAL W. BUSH
The resolution pointed out the in handling this work had convinced
LEGION
This figure does not include sever fact that the roadway was of im- him that it should be eliminated.
M*ets
First
Attorney at Law
al hundred thousand feet of creo- portance to the national defense He further stated that it would
Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663
On »0’0
soted material and much green and program because of the new and save the state some $20,000 eich Third Wednesday«
S 0 Cl AT I OK
In Vernonia Mondays and
creosoted piling, estimated to total renewed activity at Tongue Point, biennium, which is the cost of the
AUXILIARY
pjoiistV
Tuesdays
2,000.000 feet board measure.
First
and
Third
Mondays
Fort Stevens and Camp Clatsop.
present service.
Si. Helens
( 'lalskanie
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