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Thursday, Oct. 30, 1941, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon
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THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
Week
TWO CHAMPIONSHIPS CONSECUTIVELY
The meeting of Vernonia and Scappoose Friday evening at
the city park field and the result of that game assured Vernonia
of the county football championship for the second year in
succession. That game can be considered a climax to the Log­
gers’ season for the championship is assured them although
there will be other games before the football season ends.
Those who saw the game Friday, and the crowd was a re­
cord-breaking one, could easily be of the opinion that they had
been well repaid for their attendance. The thrills were many
.and the players, performing under the tension of deciding the
championship, exhibited clean football the whole game. One
penalty only was called and that on Vernonia in the fourth
quarter for off-side.
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THE AMENDMENT CARRIES
Residents of the City of Vernonia may expect a reduction in
their taxes soon by the passing of the charter amendment. The
vote cast last Friday revealed an overwhelming majority as in
favor of the change. The amendment makes possible the trans­
ferring of monies from the Water to the General fund where
it may be used to meet current city indebtedness. Formerly it
has been necessary to levy taxes to provide funds for the latter
department. With the payment of all bonded indebtedness and
with the revenue which is derived from the water department
councilmen have thought for some time that the change would
be a desirable one.
NO TOLL-FREE SPAN AT LONGVIEW
Residents of Columbia county who make use of the Long­
view bridge will find a toll charge in the future as they have in
the past if government action is taken according to the recom­
mendation of the federal works agency. News of their recom­
mendation was released last Tuesday just following the arrival
of petitions here which would seek to bring influence on legisla­
tors to pass the McNary bill which would make the bridge toll-
free.
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Another group will also be effected. Members of that group
have sought the change so that improvement on the Rainier-
The old bridge had become very he asks that both these activities
Apiary road might be made to facilitate civilian traffic as well dangerous for travel, the wooden be put under his direction. As Mc­
as troop transport. Now, the work that has been done in that
timbers in some places having be­ Nutt stands well with the president
direction seems to have hit a serious snag.
BLACKOUT HERE UNLIKELY
Along with St. Helens, Vernonia will probably be another
Columbia county town which will not blackout Friday evening.
No definite order was given last week by the city council to
blackout. The matter was discussed but left open for a decision
this week. If the blackout were carried out, the mill would have
to cease operation in order to make the experiment successful.
As far as the army is concerned, it is of little import whether
civilians undertake the move. Of prime importance however is
the testing of air raid observation posts which will be done
that night.
COUNTY NEWS
St. Helens
AGENCY TURNS THUMBS
DOWN ON BILL—
Hopes that a bitt by Oregon’s
senior senator, Charles L. McNary,
would bring to reality one of Col­
umbia county's dreams of long
standing, a toll free bridge across
the river at Longview, were blasted
Inst week with announcement from
Washington, D. C. that the federal
works agency has reported uniuvor-
ably on the measure. News of the
action was given in a report by
the Washington bureau of the Ore-
gon Journal Tuesday.
The report, which was returned
to the senate committee on com-
merce, said that no reason was seen
to ask the government to take over
a privately constructed toll bridge.
If this were done, the report point­
ed out, it might become a precedent
for similar legislation for other ex­
isting bridges and even lead to
building of new toll bridges with
the same thought in mind.
CITY DADS SAY NO
TO BLACKOUT—
Bombers of a mythical enemy
will have a fine target in St. Hel­
ens Hallowe’en eve when they swing
over western Oregon, for this city
will be all lighted up like the pro­
verbial Christmas tree. There'll be
no blackout in St. Helens, even
for 15 minutes, the city council
decided at its session last Monday
r.ight. The council members voted
two to one against turning off the
l'ghts.
If the proposal had been adopted
it would have called for a complete
cutting off of all outside lights,
which would have required a vir­
tual shut-down of operations ât the
Pope and Talbot sawmill.
COMMUNITY CHEST PROPOSAL
VOTED DOWN—
in the council chambers.
As a result of action taken last
Tuesday night, the drive for funds
for the Louise home and for China
relief will be Jumped and a quota
of $1,200—$600 for each cause—
will be sought in the county.
Helens’ share of this quota
be $600. A meeting was called
Tuesday night of this week at
council' chambers
chambers at
at which
representatives of other county
cities were present to discuss the
campaign.
come badly rotted.
he may gain his point.
Rainier
The war—it is generally admitted
in the national capital that we are
in it, even to shooting—has already
begun to touch Oregon people in
their way of living, the economics
ot the state, and it is also agreed
that this is only the beginning, for
no one will risk his reputation as
a prophet by offering a prediction
as to when peace will come, or how
peace will be brought about. The
war machine is gradually reaching
out and seizing things heretofore
customary and turning them over
to the army. Copper is the first,
aluminum next, and then steel and
even waste paper. The glass makers
are thriving now as tin becomes
scarce for cannery containers .Wash­
ing machine makers are giving their
attention to gun mounts and they
have orders for many thousands,
The change was made when OPM
stopped the use of copper and alum­
inum and rubber in washing mach­
ines.
RAINIER OBSERVING
BLACKOUT OCTOBER 31—
Rainier citizens will be requested
to blackout homes and business
houses Friday, October 31, “about
10 p. m. for approximately fifteen
minutes.
Councilman W. J. Silva Wednes­
day and Thursday made a canvass
of the citizens of the city and
found that a majority favored co­
operation with the government in
this test of war conditions. Ar­
rangements will be made to have
a warning signal given and other
measures planned by the state and
county defense Councils will be tak­
en to similate attack conditions.
TRANSFER OF LANDS
TO STATE OPPOSED—
Opposition to deeding of county-
< wned lands to the state developed
recently at a meeting of the Col­
umbia County Farmers union at
Yankton when the union passed a
motion taking a stand against trans­
fer of the lands out of county
hands. Recently the county court
gave its consent to the deeding of
some 4,000 acres of logged-off land
to the state for reforestation pur-
poses.
Cla+skanie
CITY ELECTION
NOVEMBER 4—
Election time again rolls around
and it is time for the citizens ot
Clatskanie to make their choices
for the councilmen to serve the
ensuing terms.
The city election this year will
be held on Tuesday, November 4.
and will be confined to the election
of four councilmen. Three are to
•serve a two yenr term and one to
serve a one year term. Petitions
must be in by Friday night. October
31.
The terms of the mayor, recorder
treasurer nnd one council member
do not expire at this time.
A meeting for the discussion of
the city budget, as prepared by the
budget committee of Clatskanie in
compliance with the local budget
law, will bo held on Thursday, Oct­
ober 30 at 8 p. m. in the city hall.
Recommendations of an investiga-
ting committee suggesting that a
community chest campaign for St.
Helens is not advisable now were
rdopted last Tuesday night at a NEW WOODSON
meeting of the U. S. O. committee BRIDGE BEGUN—
A new bridge, costing approxi­
mately $7,000, is to be constructed
The Vernonia Eagle to replace the old Woodson bridge
and actual work of tearing down
MARVIN K AM HOLZ
the old structure begins the first
Editor and Publisher
of the week and it will be closed
Entered as second class mail to all traffic Wednesday and Thurs-
matter. Aueust 4. 1922. at the post day.
office in Vernonia. Oregon, under
The new Woodson bridge will
the act of March 3, 1879.
have a steel ■ span of 48 feet in­
Official newspaper of Vernonia. Ore stead of the present 98 feet. The
span will be two feet above the
Woodson dike and about 12 feet
lower than the present bridge, in
OM«1o(
solciaTi o»
other words, it will be almost level
wiisiV
with the road.
Washington, D. C., October 29—
Oregon farmers will have to pay
their proportion of the $350,000,000
which it will cost the federal gov­
ernment to deliver lease-lend goods
to the British and Russians. Every
British and neutral vessel engaged
in the work is paid with lease-lend
money; the wages of the crew (Brit­
ish sailors will' receive double pay
for entering war zones of their
native land); the cost of docking
in American and British waters;
the cost of stores for the ships,
etc. There are 185 of these British
and neutral ships engaged in the
operation.
Under the American flag are
135 boats, taking munitions to the
Red sea. a long journey and through
troubled waters. Uncle Sam is pay­
ing the cost of these voyages, from
skipper to cabin boy, and when
these American freighters are un­
loaded in Egypt tile Oregon farmer
will be helping to pay the long-
shoremen. The United States has
come a long way since 1939, wnen
Congress adopted the cash and
carry system of neutrality and the
president declared the act would
keep the war from American shores.
Because of this tremendous out­
lay of money, a joint special com­
mittee has been appointed to scan
all appropriations, other than for
defense purposes, and determine
what can be eliminated. This com­
mittee is now at work but can do
little or nothing on the expenses
for the present fiscal year, which
ends June 30, 1942. It is quite
likely, however, that a stash will be
made in non-defense appropriations
next year and cuts and eliminations
recommended. Among these slated
for a reduction or total extermina­
tion are CCC and NYA. or these
may be consolidated, as they have
been competing with each other the
past year for eligible young men
to keep their ranks fitted. Paul V.
McNutt makes this suggestion, and
the open season on big business.
And reporters covering committee
tearings have come sway with the
distinct impression that a new un­
easiness is arising in the minds of
some economic-minded Senators and
Representatives about the financial
structure of our government. They
are asking a lot of questions, for
example, about where new revenue
ccn be raised without undermining
the productive system of the coun-
tiy, what the effects are likely to
be about the piling up of Govern­
ment bonds in commercial banks,
end other such ponderous topics.
Truth of the matter is that the
voter back home is beginning to
get worried, and his worry is being
translated into letters to his Con­
gressman, and into ambitious local
taxpayer programs to reduce local'
and state spending, and local and
state taxes. Authoritative observers
cn Capitol Hill are giving consider­
able attention to the clamor com­
ing from the distant communities
for prudent government spending
whether done by City Hail, the
State Capitol, or the Congress.
And here it may be related that
an Oregon firm was all set to take
the gun mount orders when the
washing machine people raised such
a howl' that the army turned the
job over to them. The Oregon firm
had been trained with educational
orders for the past two years ano
had been told that making gun
mounts would be their specialty if
war came. Just another few million
dollars that did not come to Oregon;
there are other orders which were
supposed to go to Oregon factories
but wound up somewhere else.
Ralph Budd, commissioner of
transportation, has issued a warn­
ing that truck transportation will
soon be a difficult problem affect­
ing the smaller communities of the
northwest. He suggests that shippers
cooperate with truckers by notify­
ing them well in advance when they
have a shipment, and see to it that
the shipment is ready at the ap­
pointed time. Owners of trucks are
advised to have their vehicles lubri-
cated, tires inflated, and kept in
prime condition; if repairs must
be made, to make them at night or
when the truck is idle, but to be
always ready to roll.' Mr. Buad ts
a well known railroad man but is
not playing favorites in his present
position and his warning is intend­
ed to save much grief later wnen
the United States gets down to
production. There are about 40,-
000 commercial trucks in Oregon.
Quest for $35,000,000 with which
to purchase the Pacific Light &
Power company brought a delega­
tion from The Dalles to Washington
a few days ago. They were repre­
senting a PUD, in connection with
other PUDs on the Washington side
of the Columbia. The delegation
was informed that congress will not
pass a special authorization bill at
this session, and probably not for
several years to follow. Reconstruc­
tion Finance corporation refuses to
lend money to PUDs to purchase
private utilities; two such proposals
have been rejected. The Dalles rep­
resentatives proposed acquiring the
private plant and operating it until
such time as Bonneville administra-
tion, Dr. Paul J. Raver, would be
able to take it off their hands,
They were at the national capital
with Administrator Raver.
by
J ame S P reston
It’s open season in Washington
again. Unlike the deer season, the
duck season, or the trout season,
this particular open season has no
definite beginning and ending dates.
It’s one of these recurring things—
e sort of game labelled “to be tak­
en out and used when needed.”
The game consists of a collection
of hard line drives against the
mythical opposition named “big
I usiness.” Since attacking a mirage
is pretty tough work, the Congress­
men, when they have been playing
the game lately, have called the
opposition something more specific
—“government Doll'ar-a-year” men.
Like the rest of us, Congressmen
like to relax when they’ve got a
lot of seemingly stupendous jobs
facing them. Who wouldn’t rather
go fishing than stay in the plant
or at the desk all day? Well, some
With a national debt this year
of the Senators felt pretty tired
exceeding $51,000,000,000, and a
of worrying about impending in­
deficit above $12,000,000,000, with
flation and the price-fixing mess,
the necessity, after passing the
*he apparent inability of the Ad­
biggest tax bill in history, of bor­
ministration to formulate a labor
rowing seven or eight billions more
policy, the fear that sources of
this fiscal year, earnest Congress­
taxation are being rapidly dried up
men are beginning to think some
with future billions still to be rais­
ed, and other gloomy and Complex serious thought should be given,
and some action taken in the direc­
problems. So they declared the
tion of putting a halt to the mush­
season open and immediately chang­
rooming of non-defense activities
ed into their campaign-against-big-
cf the government, and to saving
business clothes.
s >me national pennies.
Senator Murray of Montana, who
is Chairman of a Senate Small Busi­
ness Committee, let go with a for­
mal statement charging that “big
business dollar-a-year men, drawing
By EDNA ENGEN
huge salaries from private corpora­
“FORWARD WITH BOOKS”
tions. have moved into control of
This is the slogan that has been
the Defense Commission, and made
it a sort of badge of honor for big chosen for National Book Week
business.” He then asked for a this year—November 2nd to 8th.
There will be a display of books
million dollars for his committee.
Not to be outdone, Senator Wall- at the public library during the
gren of Washington announced that week. Also watch for our window
he had requested the special Sen­ display on Bridge street.
Coming Soon— The following
ate Defense Committee headed by
Senator TrUman, to investigate the books will be available at the lib­
activities and connections of the rary within the next two weeks:
more than 125 “dollar-a-year men” Behind the Rising Sun, James R.
in Washin<Hon. A couple of other Young; My Mother Is a Violent
Senators joined in at once with Woman, Tommy Wadelton; The
Furpie Onion Mystery, H. Ash­
similar proposals.
brook.
There are plenty of Congress­
men, however, who’ve stuck dogged­
ly to work, shamelessly neglecting Lodges
Book Talk . . .
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Vernonia Lodge No. 246
.O.O.F.
Meets Every Tuesday
8 P. M.
Alton Roberson, N. G.
Paul Gordon, Secretary
4-41 -
Vernonia F. O. E.
Phone 431
(Fraternal Order of Eagles)
Elizabeth Horn
I.O.O.F. Hall
Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist
Vernoni»
Marshall A. Rockwell
M. D.
Friday Nights
Physician and Surgeon
8 o'clock
Office Phone 72; Residence 73
Dr. U. J. Bittner
Arthur Kirk, W. P.
Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y.
Lodge No. 116
Vernonia, Oregon
Meetings:—I. O. O. F.
Hall, Second and
Fourth Mondays Each
Month.
Phone 662
Expert Tonsorial Work
BEN’S BARBER SHOP
Vernonia, Oregon
Pythian Sisters
Vernonia Temple No. 61
Vernonia, Oregon
Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall
Second
Nehalem Valley
Motor Freight
7-41
Knights of Pythias
Harding
Dentist
Joy Theatre Bldg.
2nd and 4th
and Fourth Wednesdays
Each Month
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Order of Eastern Star
Nehalem Chapter
CASON’S TRANSFER
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
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LOCAL and LONG-DISTANCE
HAULING
A. F. & A. M.
Frank
Hartwick,
Proprietor
Portland - Timber - Vernonia
Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach
Gearhart - Seaside
Vernonia Telephone 1042
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 Monday* and
Tuesdays
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
A. F. & A. M. meets at
Masonic Temple,
Stat­
ed Communication First
Thursday of each month.
Special catted meetings
on all other Thursday nights, 7:30
p. m. Visitors most cordially wel-
tome.
Special meeting. Friday nights.
C. L. Brock” W. M."
Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec.
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Meet. First Wed.
and Third Mon.
of Each Month.
AUXILIARY
Fir.t and Third Monday.
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