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2______Thursday, July 30, 1942 Vernonia Eaerle YCUK TOWN’S TOPICS GREEN GUARDS BELIEVE IN DOING "BIG' THINGS VI-The Anti-Gas Organization In Your City By Dr. Ward L. Mould land for a week. Betty Packer re Med'oal Gas Officer U. S. Office of Civilian Defense Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Meyer, son turned with her for a visit here. (This is the last of a series of six articles about war gases, Arthur, and daughter, Beverly, at Attend Convention — their characteristics, and measures the civilian can take to pro tended the Hathaway reunion at tect himself against gas injury) Mrs. Ruby Biggs and Mrs. Pete Washougal, Washington on July 19. Weidman attended the Legion and The anti-gas organization in your city is divided into two It has the largest family group in parts. In association with casualty stations and hospitals of Auxiliary department convention in Clark county. After contacting rel Civilian Defense Emergency Medical Services, facilities are being developed to remove all traces of “persistent” gases atives in the East, the historian of Portland on July 23, 24 and 25. fron. injured people. This is necessary to prevent the gas be the group now has a complete rec Mis. Lealha Tousley and Mrs. J ing carried into hospitals. The average person can “decontam ord of the family as far back as C. Lincoln attended the banquet inate” himself, as described in a previous article. Special hos on Thursday night, July 23. Charles 1600. pital and decontamination facilities should be reserved for Biggs was the only Legionairre those who have other injuries as well'. Personnel needed to Helps with Work— who attended the convention. man these stations are now being trained. Mrs. Otto Meyer has been helping The "persistent” gases may remain in an area for days Mrs. Clifford Bergerson with the Hartwicks Have Visitor*— or weeks. To meet this danger, decontamination squads have Visitors at the Frank Hartwick hay-bailers. Mrs. Bergerson has been been organized in Departments of Public Works. These squads home recently have been Billy Briot are equipped with street flushing machines, brooms and spec quite ill with an infected tooth. of Portland and Mary Lee McGraw ial spraying apparatus. They are furnished with special chem icals which can be used to destroy the “contaminating” gases. Leave* for Training— of Banks. Billy is with them this Phillip Millis, Jr., left July 21 to week and arrived at the end of last The senior gas officer in your community will be respon report to Vancouver. He will receive week. Mary Lee, Mrs. Hartwick’s sible for identification of war gases, marking off the gassed area, for technical advice on the work of decontamination army training before being appoint niece, visited them last week. squads, and the handling of food, water or clothing which may ed to a school as a flying cadet have been contaminated. He must have trained assistants for He was accepted in March, but Goe* to Portland---- these tasks. Mrs. John Hatfield accompanied wasn’t called until now. Remember, in ca*e of ga* attack— Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth White to KEEP CALM, KEEP COOL, WALK—DO NOT RUN Attend Convention— Portland on Tuesday on a business TO SHELTER. KEEP THIS SERIES OF ARTICLES Mr. and Mrs. Tom Knock attend trip. WHERE YOU CAN FIND THEM. ed a convention of Oregon O.K. Files Bankruptcy — Rubber Welders in Camas, Wash Clarence New filed for bankrupt on July 26 on a disorderly conduct and curtail schedules and services ington, on July 16. About 26 mem cy this week. bers were present. charge. He was fined $10 and costs to extent necessary to comply with Elys Have Guest*— the order. by Judge Wilkerson. In Portland for Day— Sunday guests at the Glenn Ely 2.Limit speed of trucks to 40 Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Ruhl were Benefit dance at Odd Fellow* hall home were Mr. Ely’s sister, Mrs. Portland visitors on Saturday. miles an hour. Oral Stormer, and her family of Sat., Augu*t 1, Mu*ic by Night 3. Conserve and properly maintain Return to Beaverton— Estacada. They were accompanied ingale orchestra. 31tl— tires and equipment. Mrs. Hale Greenman and son, by Mr. Ely’s mother, Mrs. Amy Jim, returned to Beaverton last Ely, also of Estacada, who is re Attend Regatta— ■4. Lease or rent their motor Mr. and Mrs. Ed Salomonsen, trucks whenever practicable or ne Thursday after visiting in Vernonia maining here for a visit of a few and Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Sykes at since the Saturday before. weeks. cessary to comply with the order. tended the Delake Regatta on Sun End Visit— Mileage-reduction exemptions in Spend Time at Beach---- day. Mrs. Charles Burrow and two Mrs. Lowell Hieber and Mrs. clude trucks engaged exclusively in children, who have been visiting Todd Bowerman spent several days the transportation of explosives, in with Mr. and Mrs. Judd Greenman at Seaside beginning with Monday. transportation of repair and service for over two weeks, left Saturday men and their supplies and equip To Return Home — night for their home in Vale. ment, sanitation trucks, trucks serv Patsy Peterson, who has been vis ing public utilities, trucks operated Motor to Eugene---- iting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and in emergencies for the protection of Mrs. J. W. Nichols and daughter, Mrs. Roy Zimmerdahl, will return Revised standards for conserva life and health, and trucks handling Barbara, motored to Eugene Fri today or tomorrow to her home in tion of trucks operated by contract telegraph, radio and cable communi day, and returned Saturday with Portland. and private carriers in both local cations and the U. S. mails. Joanne Niohols, who has been work- and over-the-road service have been with the extension division at the Returning from Hospital---- set up in a new order announced Some Are Exempt Mrs. Marvin Kamholz is expected university since the dose of school. Sites, to return from the St. Vincents this week by Herman O. Tank trucks and trucks control Benefit dance at Odd Fellows hall hospital in Portland today, Thurs field manager of the ODT motor led or operated by persons princi Sat., August 1, Music by Night day, with her son, Marvin Gregory, t-ansport division. pally engaged in farming are ex The new order (general order empt from the entire order, as in ingale orchestra. 31tl---- who was born July 18. ODT No. 17) will supplant gen order No. 3, revised. Visits in Portland— Arrested — eral orders ODT Nos. 4 and 5, gov General permit to order 17 also Carol Kupersmith returned Fri Ray Rasmussen was arrested by erning over-the-road operations of day after visiting friends in Port- State Patrolman Raleigh Wheeler contract and private carriers, and was issued this week exempting for a period of three months any con portions of general order No. 6 tract or private carrier from cer which govern local delivery opera tain provisions of the order when tions of such carriers. engaged in transporting farm pro General order 17 requires that on ducts to market, processing places, and after August 1, trucks operated warehouses or to other carriers or by contract and private carriers in in hauling supplies back to the farm over-the-road service be loaded to The permit exempts such trucks capacity on a considerable portion from the 25 per cent mileage reduc If a man smashed an alarm clock of the trip out or back and that tion and the limit on the number of would he be guilty of killing time? the operator use due diligence to deliveries. NO—not if the alarm clock struck obtain a full load over the entire Sites announced that general per round trip. first. mits to cover the movement of cer tain additional commodities are be Silly, isn’t it? Must Try for Load ing considered. These commodities On and after September 1, con include newspapers, solid fuels and Well—here is something that tract and private carriers must en ores, commodities delivered to ves in dead earntat about. deavor in good faith to rent or sels and construction projects, con lease a truck prior to its departure struction materials delivered to the I No more steel bed springs or box I from a point without a load. This armed forces, certain materials us springs are being manufactured for the will include registering any truck ed in connection with printing and deration. for which no load has been obtained duplicating, deliveries to multiple with a joint information office and, unit bakeries and restaurants, ice, We have a few sets of the beautiful in the event no such office has been war materials, forest products and box springs with matching Sealy Tuftless established in the vicinity, making rubber and scrap metals. The nature Mattresses in stock. appropriate inquiries of other car of such permits would be deter riers. mined by the types of operations Get vour NOW WHILE YOU CAN. Joint information offices are in involved. NO MORE FOR THE DURATION. process of being established by car riers and carrier associations MAGNET GETS IT YES—They are sold on easy terms. throughout the country under gen A magnet tied to a string has eral order ODT 13. This order, an become an important tool at oik 1 nounced this week, tied in with gen airplane plant. When small tools, eral order No. 17 and revisions in screws and scrap metal fall accident general order No. 3. The amend ally into engine parts, the magnet ment becomes effective this week. gets in where fingers or tools can’t Phone 802 and lifts them out. To Be Classified Attend Reunion— "It’s easy to get to be a Green Guard," Dale Lander, 15-year- old Roseburg youth tells Oregon boys and girls. “Just drop » postal card to address shown on card I am holding and sign your name. The Green Guard program is a splendid one for the boys and girls of Oregon to join to help our nation win the war. You know, we watch and report fires in our forests.” Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg publisher and Keep Oregon Green chairman for Doug las county looks on approvingly to Green Guard Lander’s novel way of enlisting Green Guards, as does Harry Pinninger, county civilian defense coordinator. THE RANGERS SAY— An operation recently cured a Chicago boy of a malady that caused him to see everything upside down. If he had been in Germany, he could have landed a good job in Doc Goebbel’s propaganda depart ment. i —by a Defense Ranger Every ton of iron and steel scrap salvaged saves two tons of iron ore, one of our most precious national For Sunday's Picnic Get at the Vernonia Bakery, bread for de licious sandwiches, and some tasty cookies, or choose a cake from the assortment they bake. Vernonia Bakery PHONE 991 a Exert Auto Repairing Good Food at Reason Served Days a Week Gas and OIL Open at 7:30 A. M.; Closed at 7:30 P. M. We close all day Sunday LYNCH AUTO PARTS Phone 773 King’s 7 **It is not (ilufiys May”—Longfellow JULY 30—First legislative assem- bly in America at James- OW A town. Va.. 1619. 'q 31— Lafayette commissioned >') major general in Revolu- tionary Army, 1777. AUGUST - 1—Nelson destroys French F‘act« Aboukir Bay, 1798. •^■^^-T-Ccngress votes $200000 J II to complete Washington r^~l II > bionument, iö'ö« ^3—Columbus sails from flw Palos. Spain, 1492. 4 -Philadelphia presents League Island to U. S. for navy Yard- 18o& " 5— First transatlantic cable, .* xPJ-'k-— Ireland Ireland to to Newfound- 1858. * ^an^‘ completed, comp^ — WNU Service s\ RIVERVIEW A Perfect Picnic Have you ever been an a perfect picnic when the weather was perfect and the food .vas still more perfect? You ate and you ate, And when you couldn’t ?at another bite you still felt good! That’s he perfect picnic. We can’t do much (bout the weather, but .ou’ll get the best food here! ----- •------ One Delivery Daily TWO DELIVERIES ON SATURDAYS and PAY DAYS King’s Grocery and Market 01 “Where Your Money Buys More” Phone 91 At the Mile Bridge, Riverview The beer with the high I*O e (1/ Quenches!} Th e West’s flavor-tte, because it’s a flavor hit! Westerners like ACME be cause it's "the beer with the high I. Q.” It Quenches vour thirst... quickly... zestfully! Order Acme... today. ACME BREWERIES F fmcbm * Buy WAR SAVINGS BOND* • STAMM SCME beer Instruction* Given All operators affected by order 17 must: 1. Eliminate wasteful operation and duplication of parallel services. 855 Bridge. Phone 393 NEW and USED PARTS Killing Time! Au truck operators will be divid ed into two main classifications— common carriers and motor carriers. Common carriers are those which hold themselves out to the general public to transport property for hire. Contract and private carriers, who cannot pick up loads for hire, are defined as motor carriers. Under general order 17, contract and private carriers will be re quired to reduce their total mileage by at least 25 per cent as com pared with the corresponding month of last year. They also must eliminate all spec ial deliveries, except to hospitals, and all call-backs. They also are prohibited front making more than one delivery a day to the same point from any one point of origin, except under certain circumstances. Deliveries extending up to 25 dir miles beyond the boundaries of a municipality or involving one-way trip up to 25 miles in length are de fined by the orders as focal deliv eries. All others are considered as over-the-road deliveries. Terminal Cafe able Prices SAVES ORE Order Affects Use of Trucks Paterson’s resouroes. GET IN THE SCRAP. Nehalem Dairy Products Vernonia Distributors 7
