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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1942)
r Oernoiipr^Eaqí Thursday, August 6, 1942 Army Officer To Train Company C Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon Service Men 's Flag Now Hanging in Patersons Mattresses Being Made This Week Hanging' in the window of Paterson’s Furniture Store this week is a flag dedicated to Vernonia’s service men. It’s permanent position will be in the city hall, as the Women’s Relief Corps presented it to the city. At it’s dedication Saturday evening at the grade school auditorium, the crowd was not large. But among (those present were men and women Enlistment Blanks Mrs. Maude: Caswell who could best appreciate such a program—the fathers and mothers of For Co. C, State Guard service men. With such a banner ------------------------------------------------ Directing Work hung, these parents can feel that Are at Paterson’s At Grade School At the Rangers meeting Friday their absent sons are fittingly em “Industry” is the word that will evening. August 7, at 8:00 o’clock blemized. come to the mind of anyone who in the old laundry building, Ken Dressed in white frocks and blue steps into the basement of the neth White will resign as Captain of capes lined with red, four fiag- Mrs. Paul Gordon was fairly Washington grade school this week. the Vernonia Rangers, he has stat bearers of the Women’s Relief swimming in figures at the close of And anyone may step in, because visitors are welcome to watch those ed, so that a man of military exper Corps marched to the stage with July. She has been working as sugar people who applied to make mat ience may be chosen to fill this '.he participants in the ceremony rationing clerk, but just recently tresses over a year ago at work position in accordance with guard The program opened with the leceived a Civil Service appointment under the supervision of Mrs. regulations. A young army officer Pledge of Allegiance, singing of the as clerk of the rationing board. Maude Caswell, county home dem who has received the latest training National Anthem, and a prayer by Loel Robems, member of the ra onstration agent. Work began on will train the Rangers for combat. Reverend W. O. Livingstone. Fol tioning board and City Recorder, Wednesday, July 29 and will con tinue until the 65 mattresses which lowing a vocal number, “We’ll The Ranger company will be Meet Again,” by Leota White, the has been handling the records and were applied for are completed. A family of 5 is limited to 3 of known as Company C, 9th Batta flag was unrolled by Alma Mills, applications for tires, but since her lion. Enlistment blanks are obtain and presented by Mrs. Tom Turner appointment she will do all the (hem, and a family of 3 may make 2. To be eligible families had to ed at Paterson’s Store, filled in, and to Franklin Malmsten, who accept clerical work at her office ir. the have an yearly income in 1940 of ed it for the city since no city of left there. Arrangements will be bank building. The rationing board, not over $500. Making a mattress made for men working on the night ficial was present. however, still accepts and rejects is a lot of work for one person, so shift at the mill to meet and train. Ha» Many in Service applications for tires. The rationing most of the workers bring several It is believed that the Rangers I The speaker of the evening, Judd office is open from 10:00 to 12.00 members of their family or some have equipment which compares Greenman, ea ¡mated that Vernonia and from 1:00 to 6:00 on week neighbors along—4 or 5 people can very well with others in the state. has proportionately three times as days and from 10:00 to 1.00 p.m. complete one in a day. Cotton Supplied They have lots of ammunition and many service men as the average on Saturdays. For each mattress there is al guns of many kinds in their pos community does. He attribiAed the lowed 50 pounds of cotton and session. New steel helmets are avail high percentage to the fact that this Apply for Canning Sugar 10 yards of 6-ounce ticking. Sew able to the men at a cost of $2.95 is a lumbering community of strong, In Vernonia 323 families applied each. One of the active rangers, vigorous, young men. Mr. Greenman lor 22,008 pounds of canning sug ing machines are supplied by some Kenneth White, says that “with the brought out the widely scattered ar for 988 individuals, and received of the women, who also supply patriotic response that the state is and many fighting fields, and em 19,751 pounds. Mist families num their own thread. The cotton is first picked and sunned ( 01’ Sol is ne receiving 'from the Rangers, it is phasized the Four Freedoms. ber 3 and wanted 241 pounds of cessary, but he didn’t choose to ap believed that Vernonia, for its size To conclude the program, Mrs. sugar for their total of 9 individuals pear every day he was needed). will soon have one of the largest Maude Ramsey sang “Danny Boy” but received only 171 pounds. The groups of heavily armed guards in and “Dear Little Boy of Mine,” the 23 Birkenfeld families which tot The cotton is placed in the partial ly sewed ticks in 3-pound bats, the state.” audience sang “God Bless America,” aled 82 individuals were a.lowed sewed into something that looks and Reverend H. R. Scheuerman 1,413 pounds in comparison io the more like a mattress, then beat gave a prayer. Mrs. J. W. Nichols 2,053 pounds for which they ap en into a welt mattress and fin accompanied the singing on the plied. These figures make the dis ished. piano. trict totals as 'follows: 1079 indi On a particular day this week, viduals represented, 349 families about 60 people— women and child represented, 21,335 pounds of sugar ren and a few men—were engaged allowed, 24,302 pounds desired. Monday night’s council meeting in this work. Some were sewing, was late in getting started, and also some were picking cotton, some Tires Granted late in adjourning—11.00 a.m. was were cutting, but the ones who During July the rationing board were enjoying themselves the most the hour. The main reason for the late hour was that several hours Members of the Vernonia Study rlloted the following: 4 new pas were busy in hitting the nearly- were spent in coming to an agree Club are making a canvass this senger tires, 2 new passenger tubes, completed mattresses with sticks. ment on a street light bill from the week for the Civilian Defense Com 26 new truck tires, 6 new truck Oregon Gas and .Electric Co. The mission. It is necessary to have a tubes, 24 passenger recaps, 25 city wanted an adustment by reason permanent record of all available truck recaps, 1 bicycle, and 2 Class of the blackout of street lights, beds in the community in case of B, Grade II passenger tires. The and finally compromised. It was disaster here or evacuation of ci last .two articles are new to the suggested that a contract be drawn vilians from the coas.al areas. board. Class B tires are allowed to up as a basis for determining the Temporary sleeping quarters will certain workers in concerns employ School—both grade and high— bill, since there is no meter on the be needed. Those who have not ing 100 or more men. Bicycles are street lights, and one probably been reached through the canvass allowed to vital workers who show will open in Vernonia on Monday, September 14, it was definitely couldn’t be obtained. by Monday and who have a day sufficient need and comply with learned this week. High school prin certain rules. Other first of the month bills bed or a cot available should call cipal McCrae conferred with hop passed including one for $50 for Mrs. R. D. Fletcher, phone 843. She During August the board may pickers and found that they will is the chairman of the canvass. the improvement of the garbage allow the following for passenger be through by that time. dump. A bulldozer was hired to lev cars: 4 new tires, 16 recaps, 11 Several vacancies in the grade el off the top of the heap, so that tubes; and for trucks: 20 new tires, school teaching staff will be fil it is now possible to dump garbage 26 recaps, 24 tubes; and also 4 led at a school board meeting Sat in the cavity. A pump with 200 feet bicycles and 2 Class B, Grade II urday night, it is thought. The high of 1 H -inch pipe has been installed tires. It is urged by the State GPA school staff is complete with the that logging trucks apply for re exception of one vacancy which will for fire protection. caps before their tires wear out, be filled soon. The high school is About 25 or 30 members of the Other business included the table- since the shortage of new tires ing of a petition for the building of State Guard attended an open for otherwise would mean the curtail practically ready for the start Of a sidewalk between North and mation practice Sunday afternoon ment of an essentia! industry, log school. The building is being re paired and refinished; hall and Bridge streets on Washington Ave at the city park. They practiced ging. study hall floors are being sanded. nue. The spending of $33 to re patrolling and scouting, and learned Beginning at about September 1, pair the roof on the city hall was how to (take cover, crawl, spread school busses will carry hop pick approved. Arrangements were also out, and fall. This practice was not ers to the Hartwick ranch near made for the pumping of wate' a part of the required two hours of Banks, as was done during the drill each week. at the plant at night so that the strawberry season. electrical load will be more evenly At the regular practice Wednes distributed. day night about 18 guardsmen were Vernonia’s Red Cross sewing unit AT JENNINGS LODGE mustered in, which means that Those who left Sunday to attend has assembled 25 Red Cross com there are around 75 in the guard, all or part of the Evangelical sum or plenty for a company, according fort kits and sent them to the mer camp which ends July 16 at county chapter of Red Cross. Since to the captain here, C. L. Ander the quota was 20, the extra five Jennings Lodge are: Eileen Enos, son. More may join. will be applied on the Christmas Vona Weidman, Dorothy Roland, quota for kits. Every United States Dale Roland, Wendell Riggins, Last week’s list of service Several Accidents Reported service man sent on a foreign as Gladys Pierce, Mrs. Minnie Malm men from Vernonia and vicinity Several minor accidents have oe- signment is given, at the embarka sten, and Reverend and Mrs. H. R. would have been better if it had Scheuerman and daughter, Gloria included the names of five more cured this week and last week. tion port, a comfort kit. Mrs. Joy. Mrs. Alta John is attending Dick McDonald, son of Mr. and Philip Carlson, county production fellows, which makes the total part of the time and Geraldine 180. Since someone thought of Mrs. E. A. (Lode) McDonald, had chairman, says that the kits sent these men, they are no longer an unpleasant con.act with a block from Vernonia were the most com Riggins plans to attend beginning Sunday. Mrs. E. E. Garner, former forgotten soldiers. In the Army while hauling hay. It nearly cut plete ones from the county. ly of Vernonia, is cooking for the • are Donald M Osborn, Lloyd E. off his thumb. The following organizations and Vernonia group. Osborn, and Captain Burford Tuesday night Lester Mowe fell people contributed materials for Wilkerson. Howard R. (Bud) from the turkey at the mill and kits: Rainbow Girls, J; Nehalem Baker and Lieut. Joe Tertek are severly bruised his hip. Social Club, 1; Masonic Lodge, 4. in the Army Air Corps. Hugh Ragle’s son dived in the C.I.O., 3; Vernonia Business Wo Glen Hieber’s name should creek Sunday, and suffered a brok men, 1; Adventist church, 1; IOOF, have had the title of "Lieuten Pleeeese, telephone operators, en arm when he hit a rock in the 3; Pythian Sisters, 1; Neighbors ant” in front of it, and Fred be careful how you accidentally bottom. The break diagnosed as a of Woodcraft, 1; Service Mothers’ Ritchie is a corporal serving in Club, 2; Catholic Alter Society, 1; touch that siren button. The fractured humerous. Central Ameriei. Oh, yes, Earl Vernonia Grange, 1; Women’s Re fire chief is very glad to run (Skinny) Washburn is not in Mrs. O. O. Melburn was treated lief Corps, 1; Women’s Missionary two blocks to the fire truck the Marines; he is in the Naval Monday alter stepping on some Society of the Evangelical church, when there is a fire, but when Reserve. glass and cutting an artery in her 1; Mrs. Dennis Davis, 1; Mrs. Carol there isn’t a fire he would foot. Brock, 1; Mrs. U. J. Bittner, 1. rather not be bothered. Rationing Figures For July Given City Council Discusses Bills Available Rooms Being Recorded Schools to Open September 14 Guard Practices At City Park 25 Comfort Kits Filled Locally Five Service Names Added It's Okay When There's a Fire J) Library. V f " • Volume 19, Number 32 > Jobs at O.A. Mill 7o Open to Women As will be noticed from the advertisement appearing on page two of this issue, the Oregon-American Lumber Corpora tion, for the first time in its twenty years of existence, is plan ning to employ women. Manager Judd Greenman said that while women have been employed in a few sawmills in the Northwest for some time, their employment in the Portland district has been very limited and even yet most df the Portland sawmills do not work any woman. The employment of women, ac cording to Mr. Greenman, will for a time ait least, be on somewhat of a trial' basis with relatively few employed at the outset and the pos sibility of a larger number being ad ded to the working 'force later on as a shortage of men necessitates it and as women demonstrate their capabilities in this line of work to the satisfaction of /the management, Mr. Greenman was uncertain i bout the exact date when the first women workers will be used because some preparations for their employ ment must be made. The advertise ment tells the details of the man ner in which applications for jobs must be personally made before a representative of the company on Saturday, August 8. Mr. Greenman said that when women actually are employed pref erence would be given first to the residents of Vrnonia and the vicin ity. Donations to Be Left at Store Donations for a complete uni form, like the one recently pur chased by the chamber of commerce for Marshal Lolley, 'for Marshal H. H. King are being accepted at Pat erson’s Furniture Store. Since no one has found time to go to the business houses and individuals who wish to donate for th's uniform, they are asked to leave the money at the store whenever convenient. The uniform should be secured as soon as possible as the material is getting scarce and the deliveries slower, it is pointed out. A complete list of names of the contributors will be kept on file. Salmon Bake To Be August 12 Tickets are being sold for the canteen class’ salmon bake which will be held Wednesday, August 12 at the city park. The heads of alt of the various civilian defense groups are asked to be present. This meal is a part of the train ing the 12 women enrolled in the canteen course go through. Mrs. Maude Casswell is the supervisor of their work. This feed will be their first attempt at feeding the public. ________________________________ Grange Discusses Farm Problems Farm problems were under dis cussion a» the regular session of the Columbia County Pomona Grange held at the Natal Grange hall, Sat urday, August 1; Master Noble Dunlap of Natal presided. During the meeting Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Henderson of Natal and Walter Mathews of Vernonia became mem bers. Visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Russell and Lizzie Bauman of Forest Grove, members of the Gale Grange of Washington coun ty. Mr. Russell spoke of (the living conditions here and of the large eastern cities where it has become a major problem. A resolution asking the highway commission to cut all weeds in the right-of-ways of the various roads and highways was approved by the Pomona Grange. Noxious weeds are very often allowed to go to seed and spread over the farmlands and oither lands. Also approved was the resolution favoring the repeal of the law protecting bear in this county, as bears have become a detriment to the farmers having cheep, stock, and orchards. Is New Deputy Mrs. IE. H. Condit, in Clatskanie this summer, has been selected the new county Grange deputy to suc ceed Mrs. Pearl Becker of Scap poose, who resigned recently. Several men gave reports of in terest to farmers. George A. Nel son, county agent, said that secur ing farm labor is a serious problem and that a County Labor Committee has been organized to study the problem of securing and transport ing labor. Ralph Langdon, of Chap man Grange, stated that much of the hay in this county has been damaged. Grasses have no fattening qualities, he said, until it begins to dry; as a result of the wet sum mer, many cattle and sheep on the ranges are not as fat as they should be for market. James Bacon, of Warren Grange, reported that various noxious weeds are spread ing throughout the county and that each farmer should try to control such weeds on his own farm. Record Quota Hit and Passed Vernonia quota of 1500 records was not only reached, but passed —2096 records were collected, and were shipped Wednesday to head quarters in California. Many of the discs were practically new ones and some families contributed over 100. Priscilla White did not walk to town with 133 records as was stated in last week’s paper. How ever, she did bring in that number. Some other girls made several trips During July .79 inches of rain to town on foot to add their records fell, the minimum temperature was to the collection in Thomas’ Vari 43 degrees, and a maximum tem ety Store. perature of 103 degrees was re corded at the weather station atop Corey Hill on July 2. Speaking of the weather, much lightning was seen, and much thunder heard Sun day night and morning and Monday night. Thoughts of bombs even Copies of Public Proclamation laced through some people’s heads. No. 10, issued yesterday by In J. W, Nichol’s opinion, the sky in the direction of Por land at one Lieut. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, giv time Sunday night looked as if ing full details of the dim-out Portland were being bombed. How regulations and the area em ever unpleasant to the ears the braced in the Zone Of Restricted thunder was, no lightning was re. Lighting in Oregon, Washington ported to strike in this vicinity. and California, may be secured at post offices, gasoline service stations, local defense offices and Sewing Material* Scarce The only Red Cross sewing from block air wardens as soon meeting during August will be this as they receive them. All persons Friday, August 7 in the home econ are requested to ask for a copy, omics room at the high school. if in doubt as to how the reg There will be no more because of ulations affect them. the scarcity of materials. Lightning Seen, Thunder Heard Proclamation Has Details
