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Comments +hfe Week ANOTHER PIONEER IS GONE With the death of Ambrose Schmidlin this week another pioneer of the Nehalem Valley is gone. He was one of Jiose individuals who homesteaded in the valley in early days >vhen the making of a home was anything but an easy task. As is stated in the story of Mr. Schmidlin’s death, no railroad came closer than Forest Grove. To get necessary articles they must be carried from that place to the homestead site. Carrying was not an easy matter for roads as we know them now had not been built. Timber was a wealth that many of us now wish existed in greater abundance but in those days it was not con sidered valuable. It has been told that forest fires destroyed thousands of acres and the destruction was considered a boon for there were that many more acres for pasture. Not until sawmills and loggers appeared on the scene did the timber rise many times in value. Those of us living now find it hard to real ize that people of those days considered the timber of little value, for the scene has changed. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE 50 IMPORTANT WAS PÊPPEW IN THP Ml DO LE AGE* THAT MEN MADE PROVISIONS IN TREIR. W/LtS FOR THE. DlSPOSmON Of IWElR PEPPER------ ■ PROSPERITY MUST BE HERE It’s possible that some people might object should a state ment be made that prosperity has returned in full force but an incident on Vernonia’s Bridge street Monday would strongly indicate that such a statement would be true. The incident— traffic became so heavy at the intersection of Third and Bridge streets that a traffic director was necessary for a short time. When traffic becomes sufficiently great to cause a jam and Con stable Virgil Whitsell is called to untangle the interruption, then business must be on the boom. HERE IS U. S. AID TO BRITAIN Perhaps you wonder about the extent of aid to Britain by the U. S. so far in the war for survival by the island kingdom. It is true that the extent of our aid has not reached the peak to w>ich increased production of manufacturers may lead Dut this country has played an important part so far. Until June, 1940, most of the U. S. plane exports went to France. After the fall of that country, planes were turned to Britain. The Foreign Policy Association estimates that in 14 months ending in Octo ber, 1940, 1056 planes had been sent to Britain, 427 to Canada and 142 to other British areas. The number has increased to around 300 a month since October. The total now is probably over 2500. < fAt 4 Small arms were much needed after Dunkirk. Army rifles numbering 970,000 have been sold to Britain. Other guns total ing 62,988 anti-aircraft machine guns, 10,000 Browning machine guns, and a total of 14,494 Lewis, Vickers and Marlin macnine guns. More than 10,000,000 rounds of ammunition was also sent. Revolvers totaled 200,500. Other guns included 395 75-mm. guns with limbers and sights, and 500 others in good condition; 316 Stokes mortars, a British weapon originally, and 93,113 shells; miscellaneous material included 1350 caissons and limbers for 75 mm. guns, 10,200 tripods, 100,000 ammunition belts, 1,- 000,000 magazines, 18,000 Lewis gun barrels and 30,- 000 Lewis magazines, 17,716,500 pounds of TNT. 'BACK'OF 7&F finished pvoduc T- BUILDlNfi A RAILWAY BOXCAR PROVIDES ABOUT 2,000 MAN-HOURS OF •NORK----- NOT INCIWINS THE __ *• IA3OR 1B PRODUCE THE NEEDED '' the county since 1907, all of this material being on file with the state board of health. There are six reg istrars in the county who furnish the vital statistics to the state board. MINOR BUILDING BOOM BRINGS $1460 IN PERMITS— A minor building boom resulted in applications for construction per mits totalling $1460 being filed with City Recorder J. E. Beeler last week. Largest of the applications was by Arthur Sorber for a 5-room, 26 x 30 house to be constructed in Little’s subdivision at an estimated cost of $1000. ing purposes. Through the U. S. Maritime Commission, 132 ships were transferred to Britain and 43 to Canada. In December, 1940, 16 additional ships werg sold by the commission. Private transac tions have probably added considerably to this total but it is difficult to obtain figures. The American ambulance organization has sent 260 am»ul- ances and various other organipations have added to these. More than 250 mobile canteens and kitchens have been provided by private organizations and the Red Cross has accumulated a stock of 2,000,000 garments for distribution to people rendered needy by air raids. Diphtheria serum for a million children has been sent or is on the way, and movements like the Bundles for Brit ain and Defense of British Homes have sent thousands of gar ments and haj^d weapons. In addition several millions of dollars in cash have been sent to various relief organizations to buy supplies in Britain. COUNTY NEWS- Yankton grange purchased the stock outstanding on it at a discount and took possession of a building that was a serve them until last April. YANKTON UNVEILS GRANGE HALL— ORGAN COMMITTEE A modern grange hall, one of the REPORTS $752.40— finest in Oregon, and valued at nearly $5500, was formally ded icated Sunday at Yankton thanks to a $27 building fund and 10 months of hard work by members of this pioneer Columbia county grange. The dedicatory ceremonies were the high point in a two-day celebration. In April, 1940 when the Yankton grangers decided that their old hall was inadequate, they had a building fund which totaled exactly $27. In the ensuing 10 months additional cash has been raised by socials, raffles and dances to aid in pur chasing the materials which have gone into the new structure. The new structure is locatea on the site of the first hall which was built about 1901 by the Yankton Hall association, an organization which sold stock to finance the building. A few years after the pioneer hall was constructed, the The Vernonia Eagle MARVIN KAMHOLZ Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail matter, August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 8, 1879, Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore. O r » ita r ?•i« s »V With $2,000 as its goal, the com mittee in charge of the drive for funds for a Dr. L, G. Ross memor ial organ at the Methodist church disclosed this week that $752.40 had already been subscribed and mem bers are hopeful that remainder of the necessary funds will soon be forthcoming. Money-raising projects which in clude a carnival, a series of con certs. collection of old newspapers and magazines and a Tom Thumb wedding have been planned by var ious groups within the church. All contributions toward the or gan will be entirely voluntary, the committee said, since the instru ment is to be regarded as a pos session of the community for com munity use. VITAL STATISTICS SHOW 5 DEATHS. 20 BIRTHS— The January report of Dr. Edwin Ross, city health officer and regis trar of district 82 which Comprises Deer Island, Columbia City, Yank ton, Warren and St. Helens, shows there were 20 births and 5 deaths in this district during the month. Of the deaths, two were residents of St. Helens, two of the Warren district and one of Deer Island. St. Helens was the home of 16 of the 20 babies born during January, the parents of one lived just out side the city limits and the other three infants were from three dif ferent precincts. Columbia county has complete records of all births and death* in Clatskanie-- LEWIS STARTS NEW BUILDING— J. F. Lewis, proprietor of Lewis Market, announced last week that he will begin construction about the middle of March on a $16,000 thoroughly modern fireproof build ing to take in what is now the old Panama hotel and the market prop erty. The structure itself will have a sixty foot frontage and will be 80 feet deep. It will be of reinforced concrete. The new building will have a complete refrigeration sys tem. ministration was addressing the AYC convention, and Mrs. Rooeeveit was having as overnight White House guests a.-d aco.-.x.punyir.g to Capiul Hill AYC wr;ne.-ses who were bein* questioned about “un-Americanism” by the Dias committee. This , while the House was extending the Dies committee, Wil liams boycotted the AYC conven tion and Mis. Roosevelt, instead ol attending the convention, found ether things to do. There’s another interesting change too. Time w s, not so long ago, when Congressmen were accused of taking too many “junkets”—free trips to interesting places at gov ernment expenses. Now it develops that at the height <f the “season,”— last win ter, when vacationers were desert ing the snewy north for the warm south, 700 government employees went to Florida at government ex pense. Ineiden ally, government employ ees used to be among the most highly incensed critics of Congress ional “junkets.” Eagle Items Of Past Years ONE YEAR AGO— TEN YEARS AGO— George W. Ford, manager of the Oregon Gas and Electric company in Vernonia for th» past three year», was promuted to manager of the Washington Gas and Electric com pany- at Longview. D. A. Kramer, manager of the Miller Mercantile company store, announced his resignation. The Ve. nenia hotel; which was taken over by the owners, Mr. and ■Mrs. F. E. Malmsten in September, after having been leased for several years, was undergoing numerous re pairs. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO— The county court appointed P. Bergerson as road patrolman for district 11. About 17 inches of snow fell dur ing the week. The fourth annual convention cf the Rebekah lodges of the fifth district of Oreg, n met in Coyle's Fall with Mrs. Lena Stanton in the » Business- Professional Directory Bob Spencer, member of the city park board, announced that seedl ing of the city park would begin Gas, Oil, as soon as weather permitted. Batteries, Tires A report by the United States Geological Survey listed two eoa< Auto Repairing deposits in the Upper Nehalem Basin. The field was estimated as ROSE AVENUE GARAGE 717 Rose Avenue approximately 13 miles in length and from one to two miles wide. RAU/AWTERlALS Other applicants were A. H. God dard for an addition of one room In September, 1940, the exchange of 50 destroyers for Brit to his house at a cost of $360 and ish possessions was made. Other surplus material was 229 Lizzie Roberson for a woodshed to light World War tanks sold to Canada as still valuable for train cost $50. St. Helens- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1941 VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE FOUR For Your Beauty Needs FIVE YEARS AGO— Simon Brothers of Kelso, Wash ington, have rented from Clarence Coyle the store next to Ben Brick- el’s barter shop and plan to install a line of men’s furnishings. The Vernonia high school board of directors re-elected teachers. They were: Harold McEntire, prin cipal, Nan Crary, Freda Beck, Wal lace McCrae, E. R. Mills and Leslie Skuzie. Times, things, and people change —even in Washington. Only a few months ago, Ameri can industry had to exert every effort to prove it wasn’t a war monger, seeking war profits. It did disprove those false accusations even to the. point of endorsing, through its spokesman, the Nation al Association of Manufacturers, an excess profits tax to prevent war profiteering. Since then, France has fallen. Britain faces a critical sattle for existence. Washington emphasis has shifted. Nowadays, some of the for mer industry haters will almost Vernonia Lodge No. 246 raise the canopy and roll out he velvet cai'pet if an industrialist who can make cannon barrels shows up in Washington. But the industrialists are realists. Many of them went through the Meets Every Tuesday 8 P. M. World War and are conscious of the Mike Willard, N. G. attempts that followed to pin re Paul Gordon, Secretary sponsibility for that upon them. Now, every confidential and public statement shows that with only rare Vernonia F. O. E. exceptions they are building a re (Fraternal Order of Eagles) cord which will stand any scrutiny. For instance, there is loose talk Legion Hall about how contracts have been granted to only a few big com Vernonia panies. That, in general is true. But Friday Nights the reason given is that the Army and Navy want defense material in 8 o’clock a hurry so they first went to the big companies which have the facil ities and workers to turn it out in Alford Doree, W. P. Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y. a hurry. Now, reports in defense ottices Knights of Pythias show, the big companies are sub Harding Lodge No. 116 contracting volumes of work to Vernonia, Oregon smaller concerns. No less an author Meetings:—I. O. O. F. ity than the office of the Assistant Hall, Second and Secretary of War reports that 50 Fourth Mondays Each per cent of all contracts for muni Month. tions have been sublet. It will be constructd for two stores, one with a 40-foot frontage and the other, 20 foot. Large plat? glass windows will give big display space on the street. Work has already started in the interior of the hotel in taking out the doors, windows, etc. The first of the month, the work of tearing down the two buildings will begin in earnest. Actual construction is expected to be started by the There ajso are reports about how middle of March. many concerns are making money out of defense. Again, the Assistant BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN Secretary of War says that the PLEAS ARE MADE— companies which are turning out Mrs. V. S. Gearey, president, and munitions are averaging about a 4 Mrs. Edith Ricardi, secretary of per cent profit. They could do much the Westport group in the interest better than that by producing for of Bundles for Britain were in the public market, but instead they Clatskanie on Thursday of last are taking »mailer profits and turn week making and completing plans ing out goods for the government. for benefits in Clatskanie for the They are still having their prob aid of the movement. Bundles for lems, too. One big manufacturer Britain. happens to be operating in a state A benefit show will be given at which has l law forbidding discrim the Avalon Theatre March 18th ination in wages between men nd when a British picture will be women for any reason whatever. shown. That manufacturer is running his A call for knitters has been made plant 24 hours a day. He does not in this locality and for financial or like to put women on night work, material aid from anyone interested so he has all men on the “grave yard” shift. He would like to pay NOTICE night workers a little more because Dog owners, get your dog’s li they have to live on a topsy-turvy cense before March 1st; 50c penalty schedule. But if he gives the night if not obtained before. Obtain workers more money, then he has to licenses at the city hall. 8t2— pay the women the same thing, be cause the state law compels him to, Twenty-one min;mum requiremen* so there is no premium for night dairies were closed dui in™ Tan-i -ry work. because they did not meet state sanitary requirements, and nine Speaking of change, the official such dairies were given additional Washington attitude toward he time in which to comply with san American Youth Congress is an x- itary requirements. Three other of cellent sample. A year ago. Earl these dairies, which are the smaller Browder was bragging about how ones, were granted additional time tthe AYC is a “transmission belt" in which to make repairs on their for Communistic doc’rines, Aubrey milk houses. William* of the National Youth Ad- LODGES I.0.0.F, Pythian Sisters Vernonia Temple No. 61 Vernonia, Oregon Meeting»:— I. O. O. F. Hall Second and Fourth Wednesdays Each Month Order of Eastern Star Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S. Regular Communi cation first and third Wednesdays of each month, at Masonic Temple. All visiting sisters and brothers wel come. Allie Dickson, Worthy Matron Mona Gordon, Secretary A. F. & A. M. Vernonia Lodge No. 184 A. F. & A. M. meets at Masonic Temple. Stat ed Communication First Thursday of each month. Special called meetings an all other Thursday nights, 7:30 p. m. Visitors most cordially wel- come. Special meeting» Friday night». C. L. Brock, W. M. Glenn F. Hawkins. Sec. VERNONIA POST 11» AMERICAN LEGION Meet» First and Third Wednesdays AUXILIARY First and Third Monda,» ANNETTE BEAUTY SHOP Phone 431 Elizabeth Horn Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist Marshall A. Rockwell M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 72; Residence 73 DRESSMAKING ALTERATIONS Cleo Caton The Apparel Shop Dr. U. J. Bittner Dentist Joy Theatre Bldg. Phone 662 J. E. TAPP All Kinds of Wood Prompt Delivery Phone 241 Expert Tonsorial Work BEN’S BARBER SHOP Vernonia, Oregon Roland L. Treharne Expert Automobile Repairing WELDING CARBURATORS REPAIRED ROLAND’S SERVICE STATION Nehalem Valley Motor Freight Frank Hartwick, Proprietor Portland - Timber - Vernonia Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach Gearhart - Seaside Vernonia Telephone 1042 CASON’S TRANSFER LOCAL and LONG-DISTANCE HAULING SEE US For Your Old-Growth 16-INCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES Roland D. Eby, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Town Office 891 NEAL W. BUSH Attorney at Law Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663 In Vernonia Mondays and Tuesdays
