VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
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Comments ¿ Week
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
WHY NOT HAVE A CLEAN-UP DAY?
At least two years have passed since Vernonia experienced
a general clean-up day, one in which unsightly rubbish was re­
moved from conspicuous places and carted to the city garbage
dump for proper disposal. Surely enough time has elapsed since
such a, day has been declared that another time could be set and
carried out with a much cleaner city as the result. The city
provides a place for garbage disposal, it is true, but rubbish
will accumulate and will mar the appearance of a community
unless a special effort is made to remove unsightly material.
Crews were busy last week in the
Scappoose area making preparations
for start of work on the 3.09 miles
which is to be graded and paved
on the highway from the south
fork of Scappoose creek to the
Multnomah . county line by Roy
Houck, Salem contractor.
A pile driver is being built near
Johnson’s .crossing to drive piling
so that a culvert may be installed
and another crew of men is busy
near the Stasna greenhouse build­
ing tool sheds where equipment to
be used on the road job will b»
housed.
Actual start of work on the road
will come in a few days, workmen
said.
Work in Clatskanie for Bundles
for Britain is starting in earnest,
according to announcements of the
working center.
Each Tuesday afternoon in the
back room of the Clatskanie lib­
rary work meetings will be heio.
Home work will be given out to
anyone wishing to take it to their
homes rather than to attend the
work meetings.
MILLER RESIGNS AS
CITY’S MARSHAL—
Stanford Miller resigned Wed­
nesday as Clatskanie city marshal
and yesterday reported to duty with
the uepartment of the interior a3
a senior watchman.
Mr. Miller applied for the posi­
LONGSHORE GANGS
tion about a month ago and took
KEPT BUSY—
the civil service examination. Wed­
The St. Helens waterfront has nesday he received a telegram no­
been the scene of much activity tifying him of his appointment anJ
during the week with one or more yesterday began his new duties.
vessels at the mill dock each day
and with from 70 to 120 longshore­ MRS. PETERSON, 102,
men, some of them from Rainier CALLED BY DEATH—
'Mrs. Gertrude Peterson for many
and Longview, working each day.
years
a resident of this locality
Yard, crane and carrier crews have
worked overtime to expedite load­ passed away at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. V. O. Blood, at
ing of the vessels.
Biggest customer of the week Hamilton last Sunday.
Mrs.
Peterson
passed
away
was the steamer Hollywood which
departed last Friday for sea and quietly in her sleep. The little cen­
San Pedro with nearly 2,500,000 tenarian had weakened gradually
feet of lumber loaded in day and after her 102nd birthday on Jan­
night operations which began Tues­ uary 27.
day when the vessel docked. All
but 300,000 feet, which is for del­
ivery to Porto Rican portts, will g >
to the east coast.
COUNTY TO BUILD NEW
ROAD ON TOP OF DIKE—
Construction of » 114 mile road
on top of the newly built dike at
Sauvies island will be undertaken
by the county in about a month.
Judge Ray Tai’bell said yesterday.
The road will connect the Steel­
man place with Multnomah county
roads. Siae of the dike will restrict
the road to a width of less than 20
feet.
BENNETT NAMED TO
CITY ATTORNEY POST—
All traffic accidents in Oregon
must be reported, regardless of the
amount of property damage or
whether anyone was killed or in­
jured, Earl Snell, secretary of state,
replied today in answer to several
inquiries on this matter received
from Oregon cities.
Confusion exists in the minds of
many persons on this matter, these
queries indicated. Many persons be­
lieve there is a minimum property
damage limit under which accidents
need not be reported. Some states,
for example, do not require report­
ing of accidents in which no one is
killed or injured and property
damage amounts to less than
$50.00. However, in Oregon, there
is no such legal minimum and all
accidents must be reported.
David O. Bennett, former countj'
district attorney, was named to the
post of city attorney last Monday
night at the council session. Ilf /e-
places John Foote, who ten,, 'cd
his resignation Monday after hav­
ing held the post for the past two
years.
Mr. Foote gave the press of other Report to Sheriff
business as the reason for his res­
Accidents in rural areas should
ignation.
be reported to the sheriff of the
county in which the accident oc­
curred while accidents in urban
The Vernonia Eagle areas should be reported to the
local chief of police. These reports
MARVIN KAMHOI.Z
are required to be made within 24
Editor and Publisher
hours of the time the accident oc
Entered as second class mail curred.
matter, August 4. 1922, at the post
Accident reports in Oregon are
office in Vernonia, Oregon, under not open to public inspect!, n and
the act of March 3, 1879.
may not be admitted as evidence
Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore in any court action arising from
any accident, it was emphasized.
The reports are used in assembling
facts on accidents with the view of
improving conditions and preventing
their reoccurrence.
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“Murder Without Motive” by R. L.
Goldman.
This is an exceptionally well-
written mystery story, concerning
the efforts of a small town news-
prper man to break the power of
the local "Boss” and to solve a
mystery that threatens the security
tf a beautiful girl and her family.
Also several new children’s books
have been placed on the shelves.
Pie Social Nets
$16.10 Friday
KEASEY—(Special to The Eagle)
—Miss Davis and Miss Boe, teach­
ers from Beaver Homes school visi­
survey shows, is on time or ahead ted at the Ed Boe home over the
of schedule in the case of 75 per week-end.
A total of $16.10 was taken in
cent of firms with defense con­
at the pie social at the Pleasant
tracts.
COUNTY NEWS-
BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN
WORK HERE STARTED—
■Mr. and Mrs. Herb Counts and
daughter, Betty, visited Saturday
club.
New books on the library »helves— night at Mrs. Luther's home.
“Tassels On Her Boots” by Arthur
Mr. . Armstrong is building a
Train.
house on tihe Armstrong place
“One Bell Calls the Watch” by
William Winter.
This is a collection of sea stories
entertainingly written by an Oregon
author, a graduate of the Univer­
sity of Oregon.
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Perhaps someone has remarked that he won’t paint the old
shack for fear of raising taxes. It is obviously not wise to let
the building lose $500 or $1000 in value merely to save $5 a year
in taxes. Furthermore, when the whole community undertakes
improvement and renovation the whole valuation rises to such
an extent that the tax levy goes down and the tax bill is not
raised.
Property improvement is an economical investment when
made on a sound basis. It is a source of family pride and a
step toward civic service.
CREWS TO START
WORK SOON—
Book Talk . . .
________ By EDNA ENGEN________
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MORE ON THE SUBJECT OF CITY IMPROVEMENT
At this season when nature, herself, renews her own lustre
the homemaker, especially in towns and cities where there is
not spring farm work to do, is tempted to likewise improve ap­
pearances. Even though you have decided upon a new paint job
for the bungalow as a source of comfort to yourself and family
and of course as a good economical investment, it is likewise a
good gesture on your part to the community at large.
Clatskanie-
Vale school Friday night The soc­
ial w..s given for the Keasey 4-H
This is a story of the New York
of the 1870’s when Boss Tweed
was in power and when cows stilt
obstructed crosstown traffic. It is
a dramatic story of characters
drawn from the famous Four Hun­
dred of that day.
At the present time the chamber of commerce is active in
attempting to create civic improvement for Vernonia. Perhaps
a clean-up day would be a suitable project for that body.
St. Helens--
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941
beyond Arcadia park.
Mrs. Heib Ooun'.s and daughter,
Betty, visited Mrs. Lindsley, Mrs.
DeVaney and Mrs. White Sunday.
School Closed Friday
Miss Anna Mae Ramey was call­
ed home to Independence Thursday
night because of the death of a
very close friend. There was no
school Friday.
Lee Lindsley and Lloyd Gillham,
Jr., drove to the beach Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Bolma and
baby from near Forest Grove visi­
ted at the Albert Kreiger home
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kreiger
visitted at Noel Wood’s home Sun­
day evening.
Business-
Professional
Directory
Gas, Oil,
Batteries, Tires
Auto Repairing
ROSE AVENUE GARAGE
717 Rose Avenue
For Your Beauty Needs
The attitude of a noisy minority
that “dog bites business man is
the real test of headline news has
misdirected the attention of many
people from the really tremendous
achievements of American industry
so far in building up the national
defenses.
■Coupled with the vociferations of
disgruntled theorists in obscuring
the accomplishments of industry has
been the necessity of keeping de­
tailed figures and information con­
cealed in many cases. After all,
when you’re creating defenses to
make the nation safe, you don’t go
out of your way to give potential
enemies a complete set of charts
on those defenses.
But even parts of the record of
manufacturing achievements so far
afford suficiently startling evidence
to give the average citizen a new
measure of confidence and a new
measure of pride in the industrial
machine of his own United States,
the greatest, most adaptable, and
most efficient in the whole wide
world.
It is not, for instance, giving away
a military secret to state the plain
truth that in the course of the last
18 to 24 months, American industry
has arrived at a state of production
of the weapons of defense which the
Germans reached only after six
years of an intensive effort that
ended with Mars eating up 72 per
cent of the German national income
each year.
Like a champion runner compet­
ing against a man hobbled with
chains, American industry is “lap­
ping” its field of totalitarian oppo­
nents again and again as time goes
by. Free men move fastest. In the
fields of thought and action, they
not only move fastest, they also
move most intelligently.
In defense, there are examples
galore to prove this point. A few
among thousands may be interesting
to readers.
To begin with, the manner in
which industries geared to peace­
time production have changed over
swiftly to the making of defens«,
equipment is one of the most fasci­
nating stories on record. At the
present time, a maker of sewing
machines is turning out pistol's; a
maker of lingerie weaves mosquito
netting for Army cantonments; a
linoleum factory makes shells; oil
plants make rubber and rubber fab­
ricators make gas masks; a type­
writer factory turns out machine
guns, a tobacco machinery plant puts
together diesel engines, auto mak­
ers turn to tank production, a lip­
stick maker produces shell casings,
a lawn mower manufacturer turns
out fuses, and a carpet manufact­
urer fabricates machine tool parts.
The list could be continued almost
endlessly.
Even m ire remarkable. ’hough
perhaps on the surface somewhat
less colorful, is the way in which
American industry—in almost every
case unused to making military
equipment—has fulfilled the new
requirements set for it. In spite of
countless handicaps, it took on ten
billion dollars' worth of defense
contracts between last June and the
first of the year and currently, a
Space doesn’t permit relation of
the whole breath-taking story, but
one more example is of particular
moment. Remember the case of the
machine tool industry? It makes
the “super-machines” necessary for
modern imass production. At the
outset of the defense program,
carping critics said that this part­
icular industry would become a ser­
ious “bottleneck,” and hold up the
entire program.
Well, the machine tool companies
answered those idle statements with
deeds. They expanded, they set
their minds to the utilization of
all available machinery, they went
in for sub-contracting on a big
scale. The 1940 production figure
for the machine tool industry was
—hold your breath—2000 per cent
over the depression low! It will be
even more startling for the year
ahead.
That’s the spirit in which industry,
not counting the risks or the un­
certainties, is moving ahead to make
America strong. Every week ’here
are stories like these: an airp'ano
factory built in 57 days ... a tank
factory in 4 % months in the snow
and cold mud . . . ships launched
three n^-ths ahead of schedule.
Free men build best. Americans
hoped that was true, knew in their
hearts it must be true, for it was
the best justification of the kind
of life our forefathers conceived
in this country. Now industry, with
free men working for it and free
men doing the planning, is proving
the value of human liberty beyond
the least shadow of the smallest
doubt!
Phone 431
i. w. a . — c. i. o.
Lumber and Sawmilfl
Workers Union No. 5-37
MEETINGS every Friday evening at
7:30 except the second Saturday in
each month. Saturday meeting at
1:30 p. m.
EXECUTIVE BOARD meetings each
Monday evening, 7:30.
OFFICE HOURS Mon. to Fri„ in­
clusive, 11 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 3 p. m.
to 7 p. m. SATURDAY 9 a. m. to
5 p. m.
Alford Doree, Pres.
5-41 —
Dwight Strong, Recording Sec.
Vernonia Lodge No. 246
I.0.0.F,
Meets Every Tuesday
8PM
Mike Willard, N. G.
Paul Gordon, Secretary
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
Vernonia F. O. E.
J. E. TAPP
Legion Hall
Vernonia
All Kind, of Wood
Friday Nights
Prompt Delivery
8 o'clock
Alford Doree, W. P.
Willis Johnson, W. Se-c’y.
7-41
Knights of Pythias
The Forum
A Friend.
4-41—
Elizabeth Horn
Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist
(Fraternal Order of Eagles)
Harding
DAVID MACDONALD
Citizen, Father, Man
“ ‘Tis not all of Life to live,
nor all of death to die.”
Longfellow says that life is real
and earnest, and Ingersoll says in
death “listening love can hear the
rustle of a wing.” His life was
real, it was earnest, but Death,
the great equaler, carries that
reality to his unknown abode. And5
the silent captan of the ship left
the port with the voices of a noble
woman and devoted children ring­
ing in his ears, and he said not a
word.
As a citizen, he stood equal to the
best; rs a father, let the tear
stains of his children make answer;
as a man, let the countless friends
make reply.
The state has lost one of its
best citizens, the family the only
father they can ever have, and
mankind has lost a man. But a
man cannot die. “To live in the
hearts we leave behind is not
death”. We know that this is true.
Words of sympathy are as Dead
Sea fruit. The citizen, husband,
father and man is physically dead,
but he lives in the hearts of those
he left, and he will live and out
of the mist and murk enshrouding
the silent grave of the dead there
shines the guiding star of Bethle­
hem.
We believe that the future will
blot from the present some heart­
aches, that life may yet be hope­
ful for those now almost without
it, that God reigns and rules.
ANNETTE BEAUTY
SHOP
LODGES
Expert Tonsorial Work
Lodge No. 116
Vernonia, Oregon
BEN'S BARBER SHOP
Meetings:—I. O. O. F.
Vernonia, Oregon
Hall, Second and
Fourth Mondays Each
Month.
Pythian Sister*
Vernonia Temple No. 61
Vernonia, Oregon
Meetings:—— 1. O. O. F. Hall
Second
Phone 241
and Fourth Wednesdays
Each Month
2-41
Order of Eastern Star
Roland L. Treharne
Expert Automobile Repairing
WELDING
CARBURATORS REPAIRED
ROLAND’S
SERVICE STATION
Nehalem Valley
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
1-41
Portland - Timber - Vernonia
Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach
Gearhart - Seaside
Vernonia Telephone 1042
A. F. & A. M.
LOCAL and LONG-DISTANCE
HAULING
Nehalem Chapter
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
A. F. & A. M. meet« at
Masonic Temple,
Stat­
ed Communication First
Thursday of each month.
Special called meetings
other Thursday nights, 7:30
Visitors most cordially wel-
Motor Freight
Frank
Hartwick,
Proprietor
CASON’S TRANSFER
SEE US
For Your Old-Growth
16-INCH FIR WOOD
AND CEDAR SHINGLES
come.
Special meetings Friday nights.
C. L.
" Brock. W M.
Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec.
Roland D. Eby, M. D.
1-42
VERNONIA
POST 11»
AMERICAN
LEGION
Town Office 891
NEAL W. BUSH
Meets First Wed.
and Third Mon.
of Each Month.
AUXILIARY
First and Third Mondays
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Attorney at Law
1-41
Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663
In Vernonia Monday, and
Tuesdays