l imber CCC
Camp to
Celebrate
Mr. and Mrs.
Meyer Tan-Ditter
The evangelistic meetings
at the Christian church are
attracting much attention,
Public Invted to Visit
R»ehers Sunday, April 6
To Feature Barbecue
according to reports. Mr.
and Mrs. Meyer Tan-Ditter.
TIMDER—(iSpecal to The Eagle)
—In celeibiation of the eighth an-
r versary of the CCC, Co. 5461 at
< nip Reehers will hold an open
1:. use for the public on Sunday,
A pi il 6. Featuring the celebration
will be an old fashioned southern
’ ‘i becue and demonstrations of the
m.ny camp activities. The camp
w:1 be open for inspecion by the
vid1 rs who will be entertained
by softib. 11 and volley ball games
and various contests including an
archery meet between the CCC
camp and the Timber unit of the
Wrmen’s Ambulance corps.
The celebration will begin at
11:30 a. m. and end with a motion
picture during the evening. Activ
ities are under the direction of
company Commander Julian D.
Under the National Defense Act,
Freedman and Project Superinten
a home nursing course is being
dent Marion F. Whiting.
sponsored in each county and will
be under the direction of the cuun-
ty Red Cross nurse. The Mothers’
Club has charge of making arrange
ments in Vernonia for the classes
to be led by Nettie Alley, Columbia
Negotiations were carried on be county nurse.
tween the Oregon Gas and Electric
The classes will be two hours in
ond the Nehalem Basin Peoples’
and will meet each Tuesday
length
Utility District Wednesday of last
week and were continued again at one o’clock at the Lincoln scnool
yesterday, reports from the PUD The first meeting will be held this
coming week, April ,8, and the
told this week.
Condemnation proceedings start- course will last for twelve weeks,
ed a short time ago were discontinu At the end of the Home Nursing
ed for a time in anticipation of an couise, Red Cross certificates will
agreement being reached through be awarded those who missed no
the iiegoviautms. As reported this more than two of the meeting®.
Mrs. Frank Lane, president of
week, no settlement was reached
between the two and little progress the Mothers’ Club, states that at
least ten ladies must be present to
on a price agreement was made.
E. M. Bollinger, president of the begin the classes. So much interest
PUD board of directors, and R. has been shown already in regard
M. Burley, attorney, acted in be to the course that Mrs. Lane ieels
half of the district. Negotiating confident that there will be good
attendance.
was done in Portland.
Nine to Be
Inducted
Into Army
Selectees Must Report
tn St. Helens States Local
Board
A total of nine Columbia county
Jewish evangelists, are prov- men have been selected for induc
ing excellent leaders; Mr. tion into the army by the Columbia
County Local Board, word received
Tan-Ditter’s preaching is
during the week announced. Five
strong and tire vocal duets of the nine have been instructed to
by the couple and solos by report to the board at St. Helens
at 11 a. m. Friday, April 4th, and
Tan-Ditter are very
Tuesday, April 8th. •
The first group of five to re-
good.
four will report at 11 a. m. on
port April 4th are Russell Allen
Hill, Clatskanie; John Kenneth Mil-
ler, Wilark; Joseph August LaSol-
len, Rainier; Donald Bruce Ander-
son, Goble; and Dale Edward Chap-
pell, Houlton.
The second group of four to re
port April 8th are Edward Simmon
Kightlinger, Scappoose; Donald Mar-
ven Osborn, Mist; William Anderson
Brimmer, Vernonia; and Leonard
Wesley Evans, Rainier.
Home Nursing Course to Be
Sponsored by Mothers9 Club
PUD, OG & E
Negotiate
D. MacDonald
Services Held
Services for Dave MacDonald
were held in Portland at the Pear
son Funeral Church Monday morn
ing following his death here last
Friday, March 28. H. R. Scheuer-
man officiated. Interment was held
at the Rose City cemetery. Mr. Mac
Donald leaves to mourn his wife,
Gertrude; three daughters, Margar
et, Daisy and Nina; a sister, Mrs.
John MacLean, and two brothers,
Charles of Caromonle, Canada and
Evan of Linacy, Canada.
David MacDonald was born in
Glencoe, Pictoe county, Canada,
June 19, 1866. He moved to Port-
land from Canada and in 1905 to
Clatskanie where he operated the
Grand Central hotel until 1912.
Where the O. A. cook house now
stands at Camp McGregor and on
adjacent land, the deceased home
steaded, selling to the Central
Coal and Coke company of which
the Oregon American Lumber com
Applications for making 82 matt pany was a branch when the com
resses have been received in the pany began operations for establish
Extension office of the county ac ing a logging camp and mill.
cording to a report from George
In 1922, the MacDonalds mov-
Nelson, Ag ¡cultural agent for Col ed to Vernonia inhere on July 7,
umbia county; applications are still they bought the Nehplem hotel
coming in. Eligible persons who which they managed until April 7,
wish to take advantage of the matt 1925, when they moved to the
ress-making project must apply at building now known as the Hotel
the Extension office in St. Helens MacDonald.
on cr bef re April 15. To be elig
ible one must have a net income
of less than $500 a year.
82 Apply for
PS valuation
Group To Meut MaltressMak ing
Rainier high school will be the
school to be evaluated Thursday
and Friday of this week when a
committee made up of D. A. Emer
son of the State Department of
Education, Fred Patton, superinten
dent of the St. Helens schools, E.
O. Fowler, principal of Astoria
high school, Henry Gunn, principal
of Lincoln high school in Portland
and Wallace McCrae, principal of
Vernonia high school, meets. Mr.
'MctCrae served last year on the
committee when it evaluated ^cap-
poose high school.
Turkington
Death Noted
Word was received here this week
of the recent death of Martin Ellis
Turkington. Mr. and Mrs. Turking-
ton and the three children, Martin,
Jr., Jeanne and Shirley, lived in
'Vernonia for several years. The
Turkingtons operated a restaurant
where the present Vernonia Bargain
store is and opened at a later time
the Squeeze Inn. The family has
been residing at Kansas Citi; Kan
sas, according to the report.
Grange Council
Meets Sunday
The Columbia County Grange
Council will hold its quarterly meet
ing, Sunday, April 6, at the Chap
man Grange hall. The meet will
begin at 11 a. m.; pot-luck dinner
will be served at 12:30, announces
Elsie Kupari, secretary.
School Masters
Meet Monday
The School Masters, men teach
er club for Columbia county, will
meet Monday, March .7, at the St.
Helens Golf course where they will
have dinner and discuss school leg
islation and problems concerning
track activities.
VOLUME 18, NUMBER 14
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941
Flying Club
Organized
Mothers’ Club
Meets Friday
The Mothers’ Club will meet this
coming Friday, April 4, at 2 p. m.
at the Lincoln school to plan de
tails of the children’s clinic "to be
held in the Legion hail in the after
noon of Thursday, April 10. All
mothers are invited to attend the
meeting. Interest is growing in
the recently orginized club, states
Mrs. Frank Lane, president, and
several worthwhile projects for the
remainder of the year are under
way. Mrs. Cass Bergerson Ts vice-
president and Mrs. E. Frazee, sec
retary-treasurer of the club.
Ten men met Monday night to
start plans for organizing a Ver
nonia Flying Club. If a member
ship of twenty can be obtained, the
fee for flying instruction will be
$10 a month with the plan of
each stndent taking one hour of
instruction a week. The date set
for the goal of 20 members for the
club has been set for May 1; each
of the ten present at the Monday
meeting stated that he felt he could
interest another in the flying school,
according to Neal Bush at whose
office the meeting was held.
Report to K. P. Building
The men will report to the board
at the K. P. building, St. Helens
whereupon they shall be sent to
an induction station of the army
at the Multnomah County Armory,
N. W. 10th ar.d Couch, Portland.
According to the board, if one
or m ire of the above men are not
accepted at the induction station
replacements will be taken from the
following: Lloyd E. Osborn, Mist;
Albeit Attig, Scappoose; Richard
W. Salmon, Woodson; Robert Lee
Perkins, Rainier; Arthur E. Krage,
St. Helens; and Bernard J. Larsen,
St. Helens.
April Surplus
Fords Named
Su.plus'fjods which will be avail
able to families taking part in the
Food Stamp Plan in the Vernonia
area during the April 1 to April
30 period were announced today
by M. Louis Belangie, area super
visor for the surplus marketing ad
ministration. These are the surplus
foods which may be obtained in ex
change for blue surplus food stamps
in local stores.
The nationally designated sur
plus foods available in all areas for
the April 1 to April 30 period are
as follows: fresh grapefruit, oranges,
apples, carrots, onions (excent
green on’ons), Irish potatoes, but
ter, raisins, pork lard, all pork
(except that cooked or packed in
metal containers), corn meal, shell
eggs, dried prunes, hominy (corn)
grits, dry edible beans, wheat flour
and whole wheat (graham) flour.
Prospect of Lights
For City Ball Field
Growing Brighter
TOM TURNS TABLES
ON TYKES; LAST
LAUGH LOUDEST
Tuesday morning when Tom
Crawford was leaving Wilark
with the school bus filled with
children, one of the passen
gers sang out, “Mr. Crawford,
you forgot to stop for So and
So back there!”
Tom backed to the spot
where the “forgotten child”
was expected to be waiting.
"April Fool.” Children’s voices
sang out, much to the driver’s
embarrassment.
Funny thing about kids. They
are so satisfied with them
selves after pulling a fast one
that they forget the grown-up
involved hasn’t forgotten and
is “laying for them”, Tom
hadn’t forgotten the morning
incident as he drove the stu-
dents home.
On a hill somewhere between
Vernonia and Wilark the Craw
ford school bus began to spit
and sputter. “Out of gas,” was
the reply given worried passen
gers. “You’ll all have to get
out ind as I steer you help
push the bus off the road.”
Out clamored *he morning
pranksters who strained and
pushed until the big car was
safely out of the highway. Can t
you just see those faces when
Mr. Crawford sang out, “April
Fool.”
NeM Law Aids
Aged Sportsmen
Sportsmen 65 years of age cr
over, who have been residents of
the state of Oregon for 10 yeaiS
or more, may obtain annual com
bination fishing and hunting licenses
for 50c. However, to obtain this
concession, each applicant must
make an affidavit before the coun
ty judge or chairman of the board
of county commissioners of h)s
county that he is unaible to pay the
regular $5 license fee.
No such license may be issued
until June 14, when the new law
becomes effective. By that time ap
plication blanks for this type of li
cence will be in the hands of all
county judges and county commis
sioners, and will also be obtainable
at the Portland office of the Ore
gon State Game Commission.
Snell to Speak
At Exercises
Announcement by E. H. Condit
reveals that Earl Snell, Secretary
of State, will be the speaker for
Easter Cantata
the eighth grade ’commencemen.
exercises to be held May 22. Mr
To Be Given
Condit expressed his pleasure in
An Easter cantata under the having obtained the services of
direction cf Mrs. Ervin Ackley such a capable speaker for the oc-
will be given at three o’clock in casion.
the afternoon on Easter Sunday
at the Christian church, The public
is cordially invited to attend the Wilkerson Moves
musical offering which has been Justice of Peace Court
J. B. Wilkerson, Justice of the
planned so attendants of other
Easter services may have an oppor- Peace, moved his office equipment
tunity to hear it. The cantata will Friday to the Bank building. Mr.
lost about an hour, it has been Wilkerson was located in the Scott
Studio building.
announced.
State Health Board Gives Polio Precautions
The State Board of Health was
contacted this week regarding th»
present
infantile
in
community.
this
paralysis
The
outbreak
board
re
leased information which may prove
valuable to parents in the care of
their children.
The current poliomyelitis outbreak
is not alarming. Nor is it likely
that this infection will pproac’i
what might be termed epidemic pro
portions. Oregon has not had an
extensive outbreak of this infection
since 1927. The splendid coopera
tion of physicians and health offic
ers should be appreciated by the
people of this state.
For the information of parents,
poliomyelitis is an acute infection
with such early signs as digestiv»
disturbances, fever, mental dullness,
headache and sometimes convul-
sions, often followed by rigidity of
the neck and pain or soreness over
the spine or affected part. The on-
set of the disease may be gradual
or sudden. It is important in the
interest of both the community and
the individual that the physician
be called at the first sign of dis
ease. Early diagnosis of the disease
accompanied by subsequent medic
al care and prompt orthopedic treat
ment should paralysis occur, will in
most cases prefent any serious aft
er-effects of this disease.
disease.
3. Only a small portion of cases
result in paralysis.
4. The infection probably enters
through the mouth and throat.
5. All children with suspected
symptoms should be isolated.
6. Do not lei your child visit
another sick child.
7. Teach your child to keep his
fingers out of his mouth and to
avoid allowing dust or stagnant
water to enter his mouth.
8. Help your child to keep hands
clean.
9. Avoid unnecessary exposure to
sunburn.
10. Avoid extreme exercise.
contact
No proved prevere* tive has yet
been found for poliomyelitis, but
much has been done in the preven
tion and correction of deformities
from this disease. Physiological rest
and skilled orthopedic treatments
are the methods used in combating
the after-effects of poliomyelitis.
It is recommended that parerne
protect their children from polio
myelitis by taking the following
precautions:
1. Do not become hysterical or
panicky when the disease makes its
appearance in your locality. Mod
ern traffic is a much greater dan
ger to your child than poliomyelitis.
2.
Poliomyelitis
is
a
“Buck” Club Started to
Add to Needed Funds to
Insure Lighting
The third meeting of the group
interested in obtaining lights for
the Vernonia city park brought
heartening information last Thurs
day night when reports by various
intere.ted persons revealed that a
to-tal of $166 had been collected
during the week since the last , re-
vious meeting. That figure was
comprised of donated by various
business firms in Riverview and
Vernonia and at that time not
everyone had been contacted,
Started this week was the “buck”
cl uh. Members of the lighting
group are seeking contributions of
a dollar from individuals in the
community with the view of swell
ing the needed fund.
Less Than $100 Needed
With the $166 reported last
Thursday and the $250 authorized
by the city council, less than $100
was needed to swell the fund to the
necessary $500. Lights cannot be
installed until that amount is ob
tained.
Another meeting is to be held
this evening, Thursday, at The
Eagle office for further reports
on progress of the financing, it
was decided last Thursday.
AAA Payment
Deadline Ended
'Local farm and ranch operators
had until March 31 to sign applic
ations for payment under the 1940
agricultural and range conservation
programs and to file such applica
tions with the county agricultural
conservation essociation office.
Only an estimated seven applica
tions remained to be submitted, stat
ed county AAA chairman W. C.
Johnson, out of a total of 820 ap
plications expected to be filed in
this county under last year's pro
gram.
Soil, Range Pay Sought
As was the case in previous pro
grams, the greater percentage of
applications have been submitted
for payments in connection with
soil and range-building payments
and erosion-control measures, Mr.
Johnson said.
Mr. Johnson also pointed out that
the acreage allotment feature of
the agricultural conservation pro
gram has encouraged soil conserva
tion, because it enables farmers
to take land out of the surplus
production of soil-depleting crops
and use it for conservation meas
ures that will meet individual farm
requirements.
(Hub Sponsors
Child Clinic
A pre-school medical clinic will
be held Thursday, April 10, at 1
p. m. at the American Legion hall,
under the sponsorship of the Moth
ers’ Club. Dr. R. D. Eby, Dr. Mar
shall Rockwell, Dr. U. J. Bittner
and Nettie Alley, county nurse,
will conduct the clinic which is open
to pre-school children starting from
the age of three.
Money Order
Record Broken
The Post Office reports an all
time record for the month of March
in the number of money orders
issued. The figures released was
$30,566.92. Money order fees to
taled $265.63; paid money orders
amounted to $1,927.79. December,
1940, showed the next largest num
ber of orders which totaled $28,-
880.27.