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Thursday, November 26, 1942 JI More Learned Of Dimout Proclamation Nichols Attends St. Helens Minting To Hear Authorities Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon Nelson Urges Farmers To Clean Up Scrap “The government is asking the American farmer to dedicate the remaining weeks of 1942 to an in tensified scrap hunt,” wired Donald M. Nelson, scrap chairman, from Washington, D. C. Monday morning. "Steel mids need more heavy scrap hnd the farms are one of the best sources of this type of metal,” the' telegram continued. "... All salvage committees are being instructed to continue to make available to the farmer all their transportation facilities and man power. . . . The nation is looking to the American farmer. I am sure ... he will come through,” was Mr. Nelson’s further message. Local comment on the message was that there will be no letup on scrap gathering until the fight is over. Inasmuch as Vernonia and State Lighting Committee Chair man C. H. Lundell and Walter E. Potter, vice-chairman, met in St. Helens Friday night with air raid wardens of the St. Helens vicinity. After hearing of the meeting, J. W. Nichols, local civilian defense head, attended to see what more should be done here. The purpose of the meeting was the explanation of Proclamation 12. According to their information, Ver nonia measures up very well with army requirements. The following things of interest to local individ uals were learned: 1. While driving on sea coast vis ible from ocean, a special lamp which gives no more than 260 can dlepower of light is required. (Reg ular dim lights on cars give about H. H. “Hank” King reports that 1000 candlepower of light.) 2. No further reduction of light he collected last week from the box on streets is necessary if no light es placed around town 263 pack ages of cigarettes and 16 bars of goes up. 3. Exterior lights should be extin candy. Of the cigarettes, 200 were guished. (The exterior is less than taken from one place. The small 3 walls and a roof.) A 40-watt yard number of candy bs/rs is due to the lamp if 12 feet high may be used, general lack of that item in Ver but must be shielded. Open fires nonia. After receiving them November are absolutely out during hours aft 19 at St. Helens, Sgt. C. E. Throne, er sunset and before sunrise. 4. Standard window shades and Jr., of the state police and county drapes, if heavy and lined, are suf Red Cross chairman, wrote Mr. ficient window covering, but lace King: “These cigarettes and candy bars curtains are not. Transóme windows are certain!]) appreciated by the must also be blocked out. 5. Pin ball and music machines, if boys leaving Columbia county, and visible through the front of the also the b.-ys Vfho are sick in tbe store and lighted, must be turned hospitals. . . . I want to thank all around or extinguished. The same the people of Vernonia for their generous response to this worthy applies to beer signs. 6. Awnings, if used to screen cause, and will enjoy turning these light must be tied down permanent gifts over to the committee in charge of this fine project.” ly- 7. Porch lights are the most flag rant violation of the dimout. A 25- Defense Drill Due watt bulb may be used if the light Local civilian defense has obtain is 8 feet high, but it must be shield ed permission from the state Of- ed. lice of Civilian Defense to have an 8. Lights on gas pumps are a vio all-out civilian defense drill. The lation. A 25-watt bulb may be used date, however, has not been set. in front if properly shielded. The 1 foot candle rule applies here. 9. Sky lights are not allowed and must be blocked out. As an aid in complying with the dimout, beginning this week the Eagle is printing the sunrise and I sunset hours. The dimout applies to those hours between sunset and sun More and more of you boys on rise. the figh.ing front and in the camps are receiving the Eagle, thanks to the thoughtfulness of the folks on the home front. The Eagle would like to hear straight from you boys; the people here as well as the other boys in the service are interested Joanne Nichols of Vernonia has in you. Or if you get a furlough, been appointed salvage chairman of drop in at the Eagle office. There’s Orides, independent women’s organ- always space for you in the paper. iation, according to a recent an O. T. Bateman, employee of the nouncement by Billy Lilly, co-chair man of the campus salvage depart local post office for 18 years come ment at the University of Oregon. January, enlisted in the Navy last This salvage campaign, which be- Thursday as a first class petty of gan November 18, is sponsored by ficer, a mail specialist. He expects the University war council primarily to be called to duty in late Decem for the collection of waste fats, ber or early January. but all salvage materials that are Nelson Byrd’s training at Iowa available will also be collected. State College is an 8-week special ized course which will give him the Mill Haa Vacation rating of motor machinist's mate. The O-A mill is not working He is learning the theory, opera Thursday, Friday or Saturday of tion, maintenance, and repair of this week because of a Thanksgiv diesel and gas engines. ing holiday. The length of the Christmas vacation will be determ Technical Sergeant Elmer Buelow ined by the legs there are to work visited in Vernonia Sa.urday on his with, according to Judd Greenman, way back to his station at the Olym vice-president. pia airport. His furlough had been The logging camps in this vicinity spent in visiting his folks in Minne however, are working Thanksgiving. sota. Sgt. Buelow worked in the mill here previous to the time he went into the service. Dimout Aid More Cigarettes Collected Here Lumber View Brought Out At Union Meet Sunrise and Sunrise Nov. 26—8:27 27—8:28 28—8:29 29—8 JO 30—8:32 Dec. 1—8:33 2—8:34 3—8:35 Sunset Hours Sunset 5:30 5:30 5:29 5:29 5.28 5:27 5:27 5:27 James Glassner was promoted to sergeant two weeks ago. He is sta tioned in a training battalion which handles new recruits at Camp Haan California. Volunteering for Navy duty last week, Marvin Earl Holmes haa re ported at the new U. S. Naval Volume 19, Number 48 Xmas Mailing Cautions Cited The local post office ha* the vicinity is not classed as farming following things to say about country, but rather industrial, more Christmas mailing: scrap is to be gathered from log 1. The bulk of Christmas ging operations. Much has been col mail should be in the post of lected, but more has not been touch Army, Navy Officers fice by December 1 if deliver ed, and more is accumulating. How Tell IWA Monday That ies on time are to be assured. ever, logging cable, for instance, Lumber Essential 2. Don’t put Christmas seals cannot be removed at this time of Lumber—the importance of it to the year. on the address side of an en Thos who are active locally ¡4 the Army and Navy— and the labor velope or parcel. scrap collecting voice their intention stabilization program were fully 3. Send printed Christmas of keeping on, and say that more discussed at an IWA meeting Mon greetings as first class mail. help can be used. day night which was well attended (Otherwise they don't have the by union members. Major Ricken- privilege of being forwarded in back, U. S. Army liasion officer, case the addressee has moved Lt. John Riley, U. S. N., and Ern and are disposed of as waste. es; Leonette of the War Manpower commission were speakers. Frank Gordon, secretary of the district Commercial vehicle operators who council of IWA was also present. have aplpied for, but not received Major Rickenback stressed the Certificates of War Necessity may importance of men staying on their now apply for temporary transpor jobs, not losing time unnecessarily, tation rations valid on and after ar.d .getting out as much lumber December 1. The applicant will file as possible. Thirty prospective basketball form OPA R-536 with the local Lt. Riley brought out why it is squad members began practice at board showing gallonage he believes so important to the Navy and the the high school Monday with Coach necessary for his operations through war effort that the raw material December 31, 1942. The board will be gotten out. He told his audience Robbins in anticipation of pre-seas then grant temporary transport ra that 25 kinds of boats used by the on games and a regular schedule to begin January 8. Regular turnouts tion for this amount if it appears Navy are made entirely of wood. in basketball this week followed the reasonable. Mr. Leonette explained, in dis Should this ration not be used up cussing the stabilization program, checking in and storing of football during December, it will be valid that it will not work a hardship on equipment last week. The Columbia county schedule in until April, 1, 1943. This gallonage any worker. The main purpose, he will later be deducted from that al said, is to maintain maximum pro cludes the following games for Ver lowed by the ODT on the Certificate duction and place workers in the nonia: January 8 of War Necessity, job they are best fitted for and Vernonia bye most needed. He said »he labor sta January 15 bilization program is to be extend Vernonia at Rainier ed to other industries. January 22 Questions which came to the Scappoose at Vernonia minds of the men were answered by January 29 the speakers. Vernonia at St. Helens Miller Mercantile, Peggy’s Appar February 5 el shop, and Lynch’s Dry Goods Clatskanie at Vernonia store'in Riverview have been desig Febnuary 12 nated as silk coUeeticm depots here Vernonia bye beginning Monday, November 30. February 19 Depots yill also be established at Rainier at Vernonia Mist ano Birkenfeld. February 26 Strange as it seems to some peo Women are asked to donate all Vernonia at Scappoose wont and discarded, washed wo ple, those who have Ration Boog No. March 5 men’s and misses' silk and nylon 1, the sugar ration book, have noth St. Helens at Vernonia hosiery to one of these depots. Silk ing to do in order to buy coffee be March 12 and nylon mixed with cotton or ray ginning Sunday, November 29, but Vernonia at Clatskanie on are also desired. Silk and nylon take along this ration book. The This year the championship will are critically needed for the produc grocery will tear out stamp No. 27. tion of powder bags and for other Information reaching the I3cal ra be determined on a percentage bas war materials. Collections must be tioning office indicates that those is, as there will be no tournament. who have coffee on hand will have continued for the duration. to deciare it later on. Those persons who had an extra supply of sugar at the time of the original sugar registration, and Still have a sufficient extra supply to preclude their having received Ra Beginning December 3, the local tion Book No. 1, may now apply rationing office will commence re for this book at the local rationing ceiving registrations from automo Training station at Farragut, Idaho. office in order that they may se bile owners who did not secure “A” His wife, Betty Jean, lives here in cure coffee. book» at the original registration Ration Book No. 1 is a necessary Vernonia. in the schools. Five per cent of the possession by December 15 of ev For the next several weeks he total passenger auto registration is will receive his recruit training, eryone excluding only members of expected. At the grade school here, the armed forces, those people out learning the fundamentals of sea 840 applications for “A” books were manship and undergoing intensive of the country, those in hospitals received. Three motorcycle appli physical hardening. After gradua or similar institutions, and babies cants were also received. tion he will be a full-fledged blue born after December 15 A month Applications for supplementary jacket and will be assigned to a after birth, after leaving a hospital, and non-highway gaoline rations are entering the country, or no longer Navy service school for training in being received by the local board, a technical field or be transferred eating in organized mess in the armed forces, the individual affected but too many applicants are depend to duty with the fleet. ing on help from the office. These must register for a book. forms should be mailed to the board The call is made because book “It’s not big, but, oh, my!” said and already filled out. Seaman 1/c Ed Horn in speaking of one is a prerequisite of book two, At least 500 tires were turned in the boat on which he is stationed, which is expected to come into use to the Railway Express agency here the U.S.S.P.C. 682, a sub-chaser. early in 1943. for that pant of the mileage ra Those who apply for books should Ed will report back to his boat at tioning program. Bremerton at 12 p.m. Saturday after have proof of identity and address. The inspection part of the pro spending a week's furlough here. Identity may be proved by a selec gram begins December 1. Additional This is his first furlough other than tive service registration card, auto inspector» authorized by the OPA week-end leaves, and probably his mobile driver’s license, bank book, are Harry Culbertson and H. H. e*<* Address may be established by last, ag he expects to “shove off” Sturdevant at the Rose Avenue a currently dated utility bill or an soon. garage. Seaman Horn served in the Navy envelope properly postmarked and addressed to the applicant. If the for two and a half years beginning in 1919, and is studying to be a proof of identity includes the ad Half School Haa Gas Half of Vernonia high school— quartermas.er, which, in a small dress, no further proof is necessary. the juniors and freshmen— have boat is next to being navigator. now had training in war gasses, it was said Monday. The juniors’ train Ervin P. Mullins enlisted in the ing was complete Monday after ex Navy Tuesday in Portland. aminations on the course were giv en. It is the aim of the school that Randolph field, Texas is the new every student should have this station of Air Cadet Desmond Laird. He has completed his primary fligh» Elmer Baslington, 32, was killed training, and sophomores and sen training at Cuero, Texas and has instantly Wednesday morning when iors will get their’s soon. reported to Randolph field for hia a falling limb struck him on the basic. It is the second of three back of his neck. He was a faller No Sewing Friday courses that will qualify kirn for the at Camp McGregor. There will be no Red Cross sew wings of an army flyer and the He is survived by his wife and ing at the high school Friday, No commission of second lieutenant. one child. Information as to other vember 27, and there was none on After thit basic course he will be relatives and funeral arrangements Wednesday, due to the nearness of assigned to an advanced fighter or were not available late Wednesday both days to Thanksgiving, Mrs. (Continued on page 6) afternoon. John Hatfield, chairman, announces. Transport Rations Allowed for Time Basketball Games Put on Schedule SilkCollection Depots Selected Coffee Obtained With Sugar Book Late Registration To Re Allowed Those Who Are in It Local Girl Heads Orides Campaign Library. U -f ü • Man Killed at Camp McGregor Safety Meeting Due at Theatre Tuesday Night State Industrial Accident Commission Sponsors Show, Talks Under the auspices of the State Industrial Accident commission, a safety meeting will be held at the Joy theatre Tuesday night, Decem ber 1 at 8:00 o’clock. Speakers for the commission, music by the high school band, and two short movies on the logging and lumbering in dustries will be included in the pro gram. Admission will be by tieket. These tickets are being distributed free to logging employees and their fam ilies in this vicinity as their attend ance is especially desired. Other in terested persons are also invited to attend, and may get their tickets at the theatre. This program is primarily for the education in safety of logging and lumbering workers, and is not for children. Mrs. Crue Ohler Dies November 23 MRS CRUE OHLER fro outD8hUa Funeral services for Mary Mag dalen Ohler were held at the Catho lic church here Wednesday, Novem ber, 25 with Father Gerace of Beaverton officiating. Mrs. Ohler, wife of Crue Ohler, died November 23. She was born September 18, 1898 at Buxton and has lived in this vicinity all her life. She was a member of the Catholic church. In terment was at Buxton, and the Bush Funeral home was in charge. In addition to Mr. Ohler, she is survived by her mother, Emma Schmidlin, three sisters, Emma Con- dit, Anna Ohler, and Louise Smejkal three brothers, Gregory, Frank, and Joe Schmidlin. All survivors are Vernonia residents. Junior Church Organized Here For two Sundays now a Junior church has been in progress in the basement room of the Christian church under the leadership of Mrs. Bruce Bass and Mrs. E. A. Knoed- ler. The room is crowded to capac ity, presenting the only problem— a bigger room is needed. Services are conducted as the regu ar church, and during the regular service. They are, of course, adjust ed to the plane of children. Regular services will 'be held Sun day at the Christian church. Many Students Purchasing Books MANY STUDENTS froddadn’iatoi” Approximately 9Q books were re ceived by juniors and seniors at Vernonia high school Monday from the High School Book league. This is a monthly book club which allows students their choice of 5 books at special rates. They may buy from one to all of the selection. Included in the first shipment were: "The General Died at Dawn” by Charles Booth, “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw, "The Moon stone” by Collins, and “Take It Easy," short stories which are a study of modern slang. New Sound Installed New Western * Electric sound equipment was installed at the Joy theatre Sunday night. New Wake field, form-fitting seats have also been installed recently. The logos are all new and part of the seats have been replaced by sew mes.
