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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1941
VOLUME 18, NUMBER 9
VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
Council to Make No Change in Tuesday to National Rifle Shows
Occupation Tax for Laundry
Be Date of To Be Given Here
No change will be made in the
amount of city occupation license
charged for dry cleaning and laun­ Nehalem Valley Meeting
dry as the result of the hearing
Thursday, March 13
conducted Monday evening by the
Chamber of Commerce
city council. The hearing was called Pioneer Dies
to Meet for Election,
in order to hear expressions of
opinion from owners of Vernonia
concerns and from representatives
of the Forest Grove Cleaners. A
recent attempt by the Forest Grove
concern to solicit dry cleaning in
Vernonia without paying the full
amount of the $75 license led
eventually to the Monday hearing.
Councilmen have given considerable
discussion to the problem previous
to that time.
STATEHOUSE, Salem, Feb. 27—
Comes now the last half of the
seventh week the lawmakers have
been working. The controversial
bills are coining in from their com­
mittees where the majority of them
have been slumbering for many To Solicit Dry Cleaning
weeks. A compromise has been
As contended by the Forest
agreed upon between employers Grove firm, their representative
and labor over proposed changes would solicit only dry cleaning here
in the unemployment compensation and should not be charged the -till
law. If the legislators accept the $75 which covers both dry dom­
recommendations of the judiciary ing and laundry.
committee and the amendments
As was expressed by several Ver­
wihich have been made to the bill,
nonia
men, the occupation license
it is scheduled to pass. But then it
a means of pro­
must run the gauntlet of the sen­ should serve as
t«clion for these firms which have
ate. If successful, this will dispose
in the town and
of the hottest measure introduced money invested
this session. The amendments are which provide payrolls for people
many, and it may be that others living here. It was stated that the
Vernonia Laundry and Cleaners
will be edded when the bill hits the
has the second largest payroll in
house for action.
Friday or Saturday of this week Vernonia.
will see the several pension bills
up for debate. Last Saturday an
unsuccessful attempt was made to
bury the firemen’s statewide pen­
sion bill by having it re-referred
to the ways and means committee,
who were all set to kill it. But this
Among the students at the Univ-
was blocked and the bill has been e uity of Oregon to sing in Handel’s
reported out by the judiciary com- “Messiah,” the second annual per­
mi tee Do Pass.
formance of the University, choral
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union, are four students from Col­
The politically wise around the umbia county. They are Joanne
lobby can’t figure out why the Nichols, Vernonia; Oberlin Even-
truck bill went down to such an son, Clatskanie; Feyetta Wasser,
overwhelming defeat last week in Rainier; and Dorothy Walworth,
the senate. The dopesters were of Deer Island.
’he opinion the bill would win or
The choral union, which now in­
lose by not more than two or three
votes. Came the roll call, and the cludes more th n five hundred stu­
measure was defeated by a vote of dent voices, will be accompanied
by the 70-piece University sym­
two to one—18 to 9.
Albert Hampson, able attorney phony orchestra. It will be present­
frr the Southern Pacific railroad, ed March 2 in McArthur court
who made some brilliant arguments under the auspices of the school of
against the bill, naturally contribut­ muse and the educational activities
ed to its defeat. It may be that i -i ard. It is under the direction of
the truckers will attempt to put Theodore Kratt, dean of the school
through another bill before the ses­ of music.
sion adjourns sine die, but it looks
Miss Nichols, a graduate of Ver­
as if bigger and better trucks are nonia high school, is a freshman
through for this session. Governor majoring in journalism at the Un­
Sprague and the state highway com­
iversity.
mission advocated passage of the
bill. Are their faces red!
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The renpportionment bill creat­
ing a new congressional district has
had Benton county added to the
roll. However, many of the law­
makers are not very hot about the
Funeral services for Audrey Cline,
idea of Benton being in the new nine-month old daughter of Mr. and
district and many citizens of that Mrs. Russell A. Cline of Riverview,
county are bombarding the legis­ was held at the Bush Funeral Home
lature with letters and telegrams Monday. The child’s death occurred
stating that they want to remain at the Doernbecker hospital last
in the first district. If the bill does Thursday from pneumonia. In addi­
pass the house as is, it may run tion to the parents the child is sur­
into trouble in the senate, where vived by three sisters and two
consider'alble lobbying is now going brothers in the immediate family.
on to keep Benton county out. In­ Burial was held at the Vernonia
cidentally, the politically ambitious Memorial Cemetery.
who would like to be the first
congressman from the new district
include Guy Cordon of Roseburg,
Neil Alien of Grants Pass, William
McAllister of Medford, and Earl
Hill of Cushman. Many others are
on the sidelines carefully watching
Dads will have their night Mon­
the political weather vane before
tossing their hats into the ring. day, March 10th, according to plans
There will be no dearth of candid­ being made by the high school Boys
CUu’b it was announced this week.
ates come May, 1942.
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The Boys Club, sponsors of the
Every effort will be made to event, conducted a similar night
wind up the session and adjourn last year for the first time and suc­
sine die in the small house on Sat­ cess cf the affair led to a decision
urday night, 'March 8. Howeve-, to again stage the “night.”
good intentions may sometimes go
High school boys will invite their
astray. If the several controversial
dads,
or if that arrangement can
bll now before the house run into
any trouble in the senate—anu not be made, any man they may
there is good chance they will— wish. The evening will be informal
the session is sure to go well into and basketball and volley ball games
the following week. In that event will provide entertainment.
the best guess is the final gavel
will fall Wednesday or Thursday Fifteen Absent at
r’ebt. The house worked its lirst High School Monday
Saturday last week, and it looks
Fifteen high school students were
as if night sessions are in the off­
absent from classes Monday due
ing for next week.
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principally to sickness. The number
Rumor has it that J. J. Hague, of absentees had decreased consid­
erably Tuesday.
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4 to Sing in
Choral Union
Cline Funeral
Conducted Mon.
Dad’s Night
Due March 10
Ambrose Schmidlin, Sr., was
'born in Switzerland, Kanton of
Bern, Village of Blauen, on Novem­
ber 11, 1855. As a young man, a
butcher by trade, he immigrated
to the United States where he
worked for several years in the
middle west. No longer following
his trade, he came to Portland, Ore-
gon. In the year 1889, he located
on a homestead on Beaver Creek
in the Nehalem Valley where he
resided until his death February
25. He was among the earliest
settlers of Beaver Creek.
Business March 4
A chamber of commerce board
of directors for the coming year
will be elected next Tuesday noon
when a meeting of the commercial
club is to be held at the Terminal
Cafe according to Sam Hearing,
president. The meeting will be the
first for several months.
According to both the president
and Tom Bateman, secretary, the
comme'.vial group should reorganize
in order to handle business affairs
that may arise.
The term of the present officers
has expired thereby making necess-
ary an election of officials for the
In his experience as homesteader, coming year. The meeting will be
Mr. Schmidlin, like all pioneers, held at the Teilminal Cafe at nooa.
endured many hardships. Traveling
transportation,
particularly,
and
were very difficult for at that
time Forest Grove was the nearest
railroad station. The deceased told
of carrying a fifty-pound sack of
John Wesley Boughner died Sun­
flour on his back from Forest day morning in the St. Helens hos­
Grove to his home. Another incid­ pital following an extended illness.
ent told was that of carrying a “Wes”, as the deceased was known
cook stove from the site of Con- in Vernonia, was born in Canada
nacher camp to his home, a dis­ and came to the United States 58
tance of three miles. In 1904, a years ago. He is survived by four
forest fire destroyed the house and daughters and two sons in Saginaw,
all the belongings of the early Michigan; Mrs. George Young, the
settler.
only one known in Vernonia. A
Left to mourn his death are his sister, Mrs. Ida Leonard, lives in
daughter, Mrs. Emily Hansen and Bellingham, Washington.
The funeral services will be held
family of Portland, and his son,
Charles Schmidlin and family of at the Bush Funeral Home Saturday
Beaver Creek with whom the father afterncon at two; burial services
had lived since the death of his will be at the Vernonia Cemetery.
wife in 1928.
Boughner Dies
After Illness
Play Tickets
Released Tues
There will be services for the
deceased Friday at 8 p. m. in the
chapel of the Bush Funeral Home
and Saturday at 10 a. m. a< the
Buxton Catholic Church where masr
Tickets for the senior class play,
will be said. The remains will be
laid to rest at the Buxton ceme- “Yes and No”, slated March 7,
were released for sale Tuesday of
tery.
this week and may be purchased
from any member of the class, an-
nounces Miss George, drama coach.
Prices for the tickets are as fol-
lows: grade sehool students, 10c;
high school students, 20 c; and
adults, 35c.
Last Sunday night’s lecture at
Entering the final week of pre­
the Silver Dome Tabernacle brought paraiion for the unusual stage play,
many listeners to hear a discussion the departments of the production
on the cause and cure of America’s staff are very actively engaged in
orgy of crime. “The fate of the making sure the drama will be ef-
United States,” said G. A. Thomp­ fective in providing the Vernonia
son, speaker, “lies in the hands of audience with an evening of goo.!
the churches.” He pointed out that entertainment.
fifty years ago the vast majority
of the American people attended
church regularly. Then the United
States was the most law-abiding
nation in the world. In the religious
worship of that time children learn­
ed from their earliest home exper­
The Wonders of Liquid Air will
iences what God’s eternal standard
of right and wrong are. God de- be the subject of a National School
dared them with thundering and Assembly program to be held at
the Washington grade school M ok
lightning from Mount Sinai.
day, March 3, at 10:45 a. m. A de-
law,
In the Ten Commandment
monstration will be part of the
God pointed out exactly what con- program and the speaker will be
stituted sin and in these Ten Com- Professor Walter Everman.
mandments we find an absolute
Adults may attend the program
standard of right and wrong. Great if they so wish, it was stated.
men of the world are calling for a
revival of teaching the same stan­
dards today. With a group of men Groups to
like John Wesley we could cure Join Friday
this enveloping evil. Because of his
The union service sponsored by
determined stand and influence Eng­ the missionary society of the Evan­
land was spared a similar exper­ gelical and Christian churches will
ience to the Voltaire vice-taught be held this Friday, February 28,
French in 1789. The same influ- at the Christian church for ob-
enees which brought about the ■•ervance of the World Day of
French Revolution are to be found Prayer. This annual meeting of the
in our own country today.
combined missionary groups is open
'Clarence Darrow, in defending to all ladies in the community who
the murderers of the Franks boy, are invited to attend the one o’clock
asserted that such crimes were com­ luncheon and the two o'clock pro­
mitted as a natural result of the gram.
philosophy of law and order of to­
day. Many of our large educational Saturday Dance to Be
institutions are imbued with the Sponsored by Eagles
Nietzche idea that virtue is vice
A dance at the Pleasant Hill
and vice is virtue. This teaching
brings potential criminals the ex­ Grange hall will be held Saturday
cuse that what is right today is evening of this week according to
wrong tomorrow and what is wrong an announcement from the Eagles
today is right tomorrow. This con­ Lodge. The affair is open to the
forms to the popular idea that there public it was stated. Music for the
is no absolute standard of right evening will be furnished by the
Davis orchestra.
and wrong.
Large Crowd
Hears Talk
Liquid Air
To Be Feature
Students, Adults to Have Opportunity to Witness
Free Show at Washington Grade School; Rifle
Matches, Sport Events to Be Viewed
Of interest to sportsmen and to those who enjoy shooting
a gun will be two free shows to be staged here Thursday, March
13th. Word of the shows was released Monday by J. W. Nichols
who was informed of the events by Lieutenant E. F. Sloan,
western representative of the National Rifle Association, who
was in Vernonia last week. While
here Sloan visited the Vernonia
Gun Club range.
Two shows will be given. One may
be seen in the afternoon although
it is being given at that time prim­
arily for school students. The other
will be held in the evening. Both
are free and bobh will be staged a‘,
the Washington grade school aud­
itorium.
The pictures included will' be
rifle matches at Camp Perry and
scenes of hunting and fishing.
Woman Dies in
Hillsboro Fri.
20 Leave for
Induction Tues.
The following 20 men left St.
Helens on the noon bus for the
U. S. Army induction station at the
Armory in Portland on Tuesday
of this week: From Rainier, Paul
Ci Gylling, Glenn V. Jennings,
Woodrow W. Wood and Jess A.
Johnstun. From St. Helens, Henry
J. Corra, James L. Beeler. From
Goble, Roy J. Walborn and Laton
II. E. Blake. From Clatskanie, Carl
L. Hoeninger, James A. Muthers-
baugh and Edwin R. Mickelson
From Scappoose, Joseph Jobanek.
From Birkenfeld, Howard A. John­
son. From Houlton, Glenn H. Fish­
er. From Quincy, Einer Q. Mattila.
From Keasey, Ellsworth F. Bemis
nnd Robert D. Conlee. From Ver­
nonia, Wesley K. Pace, Harold B.
Wold and Thermor.d E. East.
Nettie Blitterswyck died Febru­
ary 21 at the age of 42 years in
Hillsboro where she had been tak­
en the previous day for meaical
James L. Beeler of St. Helens
care. She is survived ,by her chil­
was the leader and Wesley K. Pace
dren: Robert, William,, Betty, Mrs. of Vernonia was the Asistant Lead­
Dorothy Siedelman, a), of Vernonia, er.
Mrs. Phyllis Meilis of Jewell, and
by her mother, Mrs. Elmina Ilugoes
of Portland. Also surviving are five
sisters, three brothers and four
grandchildren. Funeral services were
held Tuesday, February 25, in Hills­
boro. Interment was at Fir Lawn
A total of 404,662 Christmas
cemetery.
trees were harvested in the State
of Oregon for the 1940 holiday
trade, according to figures released
today by State Forester N. S. Rog­
ers. This represents a considerable
reduction from the peak of 622,-
000 that were cut for the previous
Due to the departure for induct­ holiday season. More than 146,000
ion into the army, Wesley Pace, trees of the 1940 crop were ship­
head billing clerk at the O. A. Lum­ ped out of the state, most of them
ber corporation office, a number to the California markets. The bal­
of changes in office personnel has ance of them found their way into
come about this week, according local commercial channels. The av­
to F. M. Ruhl. In the position erage stumpage price for the trees
formerly held by Pace, who left was about five cents each.
for St. Helens Tuesday to report
in Portland for a physical exam, Heaviest Cut Noted
Alton Roberson has advanced. Re­
For the third consecutive year
placing Roberson is Lloyd Frezet the output from Clackamas and
who has been employed as extra Marion counties was the heaviest
since November 18; coming Mon­ with a cut of 65,000 trees. Clatsop
day to serve as extra clerk, is Elsie and Columbia were second with a
Duncan who has been attending cit of 55,000, while Lane was third
business college in Portland for the with 51,000 and Wallowa followed
past year.
wth 37,000.
Columbia In
Second Group
Changes Made
At O. A. Office
Livestock Convention
Scene to Be Gold Beach
Gold Beach will entertain mem­
bers of the Western Oregon Live­
stock Association April 9 and 10
for the 1941 convention, is an an­
nouncement made this week. Com­
mittee assignments will be sent out
early in March. The Columbia coun­
ty association is one of the larger
county groups belonging to the
Western Oregon group.
The Shasta red fir, perennial fav­
orite of the Christmas tree shopper,
brought from seven to ten cents
per lineal foot on the stump. The
supply of this tree is very limited
and the annual demand greatly
exceed the number of trees avail­
able for sale. White fir and noble
fir crept up on the old-time stand­
by Douglas fir, and threatened to
replace it whenever the supply is
sufficient to fill the demand.
Gunmen Win
Fourth Match
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Conway, who
Pictures of Hawaiian
Islands to Be Shown
spent a number of years in he
Hawaiian Islands, will show pictures
of the islands and various other
pictures Saturday evening at 7:30
at t'he Silver Dome Tabernacle. No
admission will be charged and all
are cordially invited.
Radio Shop Department
Being Remodeled
Remodeling work is being done
on the radio repair shop at the
Paterson Furniture store to increase
space and provide better working
conditions for repairing. Better
lighting facilities will be a part of
the improvement derived from the
work.
Rifle shooters of the Vernonia
Gun Club were successful in win­
ning their fourth match of the
present schedule last Friday eve­
ning when they met the strong
Eaco team of Portland here. Ver­
nonia’s score totaled 907, the high­
est score shot by the club this year,
as compared to 883 for Esco, the
Electric Steel company.
J. W. Nichols led the five high
Vernonia shots with 188. Following
him were R. Fetsch, 184; II. Kell-
mer, 183; C. Meilis, 180; and E.
McCollum, 172.
The club will shoot against
Troutdale there Friday evening of
this week.