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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1941)
Derno Thursday, November 13, 1941 Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon Thieves Active Signing of Armistice Is Remembered Here Tuesday In Paterson Store Thursday Vernonia Store Robbed of Guns, Ammunition, Cash in Early Hour Break Thieves were active in Vernonia about three o’clock Thursday morn ing. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Yeoman who live in the apartment above The Past Time were awakened up on hearing glass breaking. Arising and looking from a window, they report having seen a man make his entrance into Paterson’s store through the broken glass of one of the front doors. The thief took a rifle from the show window and supposedly opened the back door to admit two other man and a woman who assisted in collecting a dozen pistols and automatics and an un known number of rifles and am munition. The cash register was also robbed. The group (then drove away. The Yeomans informed Marshal Lolley who after investigating drove with Kenneth White to Forest Grove, thinking that the culprits might be accosted along the highway. Upon reaching Forest Grove they talked to the night police there, but he knew nothing of the thieves. Later in the morning, a report from the Washington county sheriff revealed that about 2 a. m. a hard ware store in Forest Grove and later 2 stores in Banks were looted. Sheriff Calhoun and Patrolman Holcomb of St7Helens were present in Vernonia to investigate the case Thursday, and according to Marshal Lolley there were clues they were following which they hoped would lead the way to the capture of the culprits. Although the national drive for the Red Cross began Armistice Day in other cities and is to continue until Thanksgiving, Vernonia repre sentatives have not as yet received from the county office material for the house to house canvass. In charge of the drive is Mrs. A. J. Hughes, chairman of the Civic com mittee of the Vernonia Study club, and assisting her will be other mem bers of the club who have taken over this work each year. Since no material for distribution has been received by the ladies they have no means of knowing what the quota for Vernopia and vicinity will be. The quota for Columbia county is $3,04)0, it has been announced. In the canvass, which is expected to begin soon, it is not unlikely that some citizens will not be reached. In that case those persons are ask ed to leave their contribution at the Eagle office. Rev. Lee C. Fisher Plane Trip to Game Attempted 250 Delegates Attend Conclave An attendance of approximately 250 delegates came to Vernonia from schools in this part of the state for the Girls’ ■ League Con vention held here last Saturday at the Washington grade school. The day was devoted to discus sion groups and two speeches which were of much benefit to those at tending, it was stated. Schools send ing delegates were St. Helens, Sea side, Astoria, Clatskanie, Rainier, Warrenton, Westport and Scap poose. The convention for next year will be held at Astoria. Evangelistic Series To Start Nov. 16 Press Membership Awarded Memolog Fathers, Sons to Banquet Friday A certificate awarding member ship in the National School Press Association was given the Memolog. high school year book, last week, it was announced. According to the certificate, “staffs of member publications pledge themselves to aid in the advancement of ethical journalism based on sincerity, good taste, ac curacy and service to their fellows. They believe that the standards of journalism in the publications they are directing will do much to deter mine the standards of journalism that will be demanded by students after graduation.” Appointment Made Joanne Nichols, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Nichols, has been appointed to the publicity commit tee for the University of Oregon Homecoming festivities it was an nounced this week. The U. of O Homecoming is scheduled for Nov ember 27 to 29 in Eugene. Navy Athletics Stress Sportsmanship match to make certain they are “in the pink.” Each ship has its own baseball and football teams and when a ship comes into a Naval base a series of games are arranged with the teams of other naval units. Spirit runs high and rivalry is keen. Dur ing baseball season, when the ships are at anchor at sea, the sailors rig up large nets on deck and stage batting practice just as easily as if they were on a baseball field. Some bluejackets even take their golf clubs along and practice driv ing into the nets. Healthy athletic competition puts a never-say-die spirit into the men. It tends to develop efficient units, just as it welds unity in high schools and colieges. It develops an esprit de corps that is remarkable. An excerpt from the Battle Fleet Athletic Rules reprinted in the U. S. Navy Bluejacket’s Manual reads as follows: “The commander in chief desires to urge upon all that athletic competition unless it is characterized by clean sportsman ship, free from any taint or sus picion of sharp practice, and free from any unfriendliness, is not the spirit of true Americanism, which is to play fair and give a square deal. Winning or losing, the main thing is to show yourselves good and clean sportsmen—modest win ners if the breaks are with you and good losers if the breaks are again st you.” Red Cross Fund Drive to Start In Community Vernonia Quota Not Giv en Yet; Study Club Mem bers to Conduct Park Cabin Gets Bepairs Musical Evangelist Rev. Lee C. Fisher, whose work has taken him into twenty different countries and nearly every state in the Union, will be in Vernonia to conduct a series of Evangelistic meetings at the Evangelical church November 16 to 30. The musical instruments —piano, piano-accordian. trombone and Hammond solovox—will be used. The Gospel of a living, supreme Christ, a justifier from sin and a sanctifier of being—will be preach ed in the Bible message. Children, young people and the elders alike profit by the varied presentation of the full Gospel. The public is The annual Father and Son ban invited. Evening meetings 7:30. quet at the Evangelical church soc ial hall is slated for tonight, Fri Schoolmasters Meet day, November 14th at 6:30. The A meeting of the Schoolmasters affair is stated each year by the Club was held in Rainier Thursday Evangelical Missionary Society. evening. Membership is composed The speaker of the evening has of school men from schools in Col been announced as Dr. W. C. Giers- umbia county. A basketball sche bach, president of Pacific university, dule for Columbia county teams who will talk on the subject: “His will' be given consideration at the Majesty, the American Boy.” meeting. You wouldn’t think that Uncle Sam’s men who go down to the sea in ships would have much time for sports—but they do. The Navy considers athletics to be an integral part of a well-balanced Naval life. Nearly every popular American sport is played in the Navy. There are football, baseball and basket ball teams. Boxing, wrestling, track and field and swimming meets are enjoyed. Every ship and station has an officer in charge of athletics. He, in turn, has several assistants. All work together in producing winning teams, building competnrve spirit between ships and fleet*. To play on Navy teams, a man must be physically fit for every contest. Boxers and wrestlers are examined carefully before every Poster Keynotes Red Cross Drive The signing of the Armistice on November 11th, 1918, was remem bered here Tuesday, Armistice Day, 1941, with the closing of stores and mills and by an American Legion and Auxiliary event at the hall. The Armistice event this year was given added impetus. The day serves as a symbol of the determination of this country to preserve the ideals upon which it is founded. This is the 23rd anniversary of the signing. The Legion commemoration of the day came in the form of the annual pot-luck dinner Tuesday eve ning at the hall. Attendance was estimated at 75 people who were Repair work on the city park service men or members of their cabin was being done this week by families. Of interest to the Vernonia Post C. A. VanAlstine following a recent was the fact that the membership order by the city council that the quota was attained that day. The quota had been set at 70 and that building be repaired and made fit number was achieved in a drive for use again. A number of window panes have been broken and other which had been conducted. Past Commander jewels were damage done to the building making awarded to George Baker and Harry it unfit for use. Kerns. The structure will be used by the Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts as a place for those groups to meet. The building was formerly used by the Camp r ire Girls alone. Repair work being done includes the building of heavy window screens to prevent further breakage of glass and replacing the broken panes. A count, made by Mr. Van Alstine, revealed that 40 panes of glass will be required to replace those broken. Seal Sale Begins Thurs. The 35th Annual Christmas Seal Sale begins Thanksgiving Day with Mrs. Paul Gordon acting as local chairman for Columbia county. The Seal' Sale is the sole support for the 1,700 tubercular associations placed strategically throughout the country to battle the dreaded dis ease which each year claims so many victims. War and Tuberculo sis, the grim allies, may easily de feat much of the good work nccom- pl'shed since the year 1919. The Sell Sale needs the support of the people of this country more than ever before. Help your Columbia County Pub lic Health Association carry on its part of the program bv purchasing as many of the Christmas seals as you can from your local chairman, Mrs. Gordon. Volume 18, Number 46 France« Fedden. attractive Bronxville, N. Y., artist’s model, is the 1941 Red Cross poster girl. Thousands of posters like the one pictured above have been distributed throughout the country calling attention to this year’s Roll Call membership appeal. Painted by Bradshaw Crandell, prominent New York illus trator, the poster carries a national defense theme, portraying the active part being taken by the Red Cross in serving the armed forces. Loggers to Battle with Springfield Here Thursday The Vernonia Loggers will again take the field in an attempt to win another game before their season closes when they met the Spring field Millers here Thanksgiving aft ernoon. Negotiations for another game were started here Monday at a meeting of the student council of the high school. The game promises to be excellent considering the standing of the two teams so far this season and the defeat suffered last week at Prineville by Ver nonia. Tentative starting lineups are: Springfield Vernonia Roeser LER Frye LTR Adams Bennett Crawford LGR Brock Errand C Radmore Gray RGL McGuire Olin RTL Coombs Blacker REL Williams Culbertson Standage Q Duncan RHL Nice Sunnell' LHR Seaman Hall F Todd The Millers are coached by Eldon Fix, a former University of Oregon man. Springfield has completed this much of its season with only one defeat which was administered by University high school in Eugene. The Millers play in the tri-countv league, Coos, Linn and Lane, which includes such schools as the Univer sity high, Cottage Grove, Lebanon, Reedsport, and Sweet Home. Spring field is in second place in that league following its game with Leb anon Tuesday which ended score less. Ralph Bennett, a former Ver nonia high school student plays fight tackle on the Miller team. Commerce Meeting Called by President Shriners Buy Phone System TIMBER^—Mr. and Mrs. John Shriner recently purchased the Tim ber Telephone company from Mr,. Mary Turley who has owned and operated the system for the past 3 vears. The Shriners who took possession of their newly purchased business on November 1 have lived in Vernonia for the past year; Mr. Shriner was employed as night electrician in the Oregon-American saw mill. A meeting of the Vernonia cham ber of commerce is called for Tues day noon of next week. The date is November 18 th and the g,oup will convene at the Terminal' Cafe for the business that may be on hand at that time Dr. U. J. Bittner, president, stated Monday. Telephone calls will be made to all members of the club Tuesday morning reminding them of the time and place of the meeting in order to obtain their attendance. Meeting Attended Richard Lewis, Vernonia senior in science at Oregon State college, is one of the members of the stu dent chapter of the American In stitute of Mining Engineers who recently attended a dinner meeting in Portland. Lewis is secretary of the student chapter. Leaves for Resort— C. F. Hieber plans to leave the latter part of this week for Soap stone Springs. Washington, a health resort. Mr. Hieber has been suffer ing for several months with sciatica. Two Vernonia people, Weston Pemble and Robert Wagner, wished to see Vernonia and Prineville play football last Friday afternoon but they did not wish to make the trip by auto. The two men started from Vernonia Friday morning by airplane and would hav been in Prineville with time to spare had they been familiar with the terrain of Oregon and -their intended des tination, but not being familiar, they arrived too Tate. Taking off from Vernonia they flew eastward, landed at the Warm Springs Indian Reservation for dir ections, landed again at Madras for gasoline and again at Redmond for more directions. The two men finally ireached Prineville at 3 o’clock, too late to land, see the game and return that day so they circled the field and returned to IVernonia. The return was made in an hour and 35 minutes. Spectators at the game may remember seeing a plane circle the field. Annual Service, Building Planned On Sunday, November 16, the First Christian church will' observe its Annual Harvest Day service, at which time will be brought fresh fruits and vegetables and canned goods of all kinds for decorating the church. As per custom, this wilt be taken to the Home for the Aged t Beaverton, as a Thanksgiving gift. Cooperation within or without the church will be welcomed and ap preciated. A dozen or more men of the 90 and 9 Men’s organization of the Christian church used Armistice Day for the purpose of constructing their “Pagoda” on the church court. The building, for recreational uses, is 24 x 18 feet with fireplace, tables, etc. The "crew” plans to practically complete the building on Saturday of this week. The building will make a very adequate center for social activities of the church. Group Hears Food Talk "Food to Keep You Fit” will be the topic of discussion at the meet ing of Vernonia Extension group which meets Friday (today) at 10:00 a. m. at the Pleasant Hill school. Mrs. Anne Luther will be in charge. As a part of defense work, it is the duty of the housewife to see that her family is given the balanc ed diet which provides nutrition, that is body protection and energy. The purpose of this meeting is to help the wife and mother to pattern her meals to provide better family living for national defense.
