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Thursday, January 14, 1943 Drive Started To Locate AH Delinquents Colonel Wooten Says Some Draft Delin quents to Have Chance Start of a cuapaign to locate for compliance or prosecution all Oregon registrants listed by local boards as delinquent was announced by Colonel Elmer V. Wooten, state director of selective service, follow ing a conference with United States Attorney Carl C. Donaugh and rep resentatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Willful violators of the selective service act can expect speedy proc- ecution and stringent penalties, U- nited States District Attorney Do naugh has assured the state direc tor. Maximum penal.y under the act is 5 years in prison or $10,000 fine, or both. Although willful violators of the act can expect no leniency, Colonel Wooten indicated that registrants who became delinquent only through unintentional neglect to notify their boards of change of address or oth- er unintentional minor infractions of the law would receive less String- ent treatment. D. A. Makes Decisions ’’Any person who voluntarily re- ports to his local board during the month of January 1943 and whose delinquency was not willful is likely to be given'a chance to comply with his obligations and not be prosecut ed,” .Colonel Wooten said. “In the event such persqns have been listed by the local board as delinquents but not yet reported to the United States District Attorney, the deci sion will rest with the local board. Decision as to the prosecution of registrants reported to the attorney as delinquents will rest with him al though the local board is authorized to make recommendations. Colonel Wooten stated that assist ance of newspapers and radio had been enlisted in the hope of locating many registrants listed as de linquent but whose delinquency was probably unintentional and consisted chiefly of forgetting to report a change of address to local boards. Only by immediately contacting lo cal boards can registrants suspected of delinquency hope to clear them selves, he pointed out. Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon County Farmers to Be Contacted in Canvass A drive to enlist every Columbia county farmer in the 1943 produc tion program and to make sure that ea(h farm is equipped and in gear for production of essential foods up to its full capacity will be launched January 18 by the Colum bia county USDA war board. Every farmer will' be contacted by AAA committeemen during a farm-to-farm canvass starting on that date and continuing until the county’s agricultural resources are fully mobilized for the coming year’s tough war production job. The committeemen will help the farmer work out a farm plan that will enable his farm to contribute a maximum of the essential commod ities needed to win the war. An in ventory of the farm’s production resources will be taken, warcrop goals will be determined, and soil building praecipes that will boost production will be porked out for the coming year. Statistics Noi Plan ment. It will be worked out on the basis of information from the work sheet, which will determine the farm’s war rating under the “war School Board Hires units” plan for draft deferment; Gordon Sat. Night; provide an inventory of what each Term Starts July 1 farm has or needs to get the pro duction, and show each farm’s man Paul Gordon was elected head of power resources, including future Vernonia elementary schools at labor needs. school board meeting Saturday night to replace E. H. Condit, who Members of the county war board is resigning to take either defense will have supervision of the drive for a section of the county, and or farm work, Mr. Gordon’s term will be responsible for seeing that will begin July 1. emergency needs for assistance re vealed by the sign-up are given prompt attention. • W. C. Johnson called for the co operation of every farm family in getting a 100 per cent mobilization The committeemen are giving time from their own farms for the drive and asked for full cooperation of the farmers to get the job done Purpose W. C. Johnson, county war board chairman, ertiphasized that gathering statistics is not the primary pur-, pose of the sign-up drive. Main ob jective is to enable maximum help to be given each farmer in develop ing and carrying out the most ef fective possible plan for his 1943 war production, He listed live ob- jectives: 1. Developing a 1943 production plan for every farm in line with the war goals accepted as this county’s share of the minimum amounts of food needed during rhe coming year. 2. Locating those farmers who need special assistance in carrying out their war production program. 3. Assisting the county war board in determining each farmers eligi bility for rationed supplies. 4. Assisting the selective service board by providing information for classification of essential workers. 5. Locating farms on which there is labor and machinery that cou’.d be used on other farms. A farm plart and worksheet will to Be Used be used to accomplish this, Johnson explained. The farm plan itself will constitute a “production contract” between the farmer and his govern- School Sponsoring Slogan Contest As a part of the Columbia county Schools, at War Program, which has Lyle E. Lee of Scappoose as its chairman, the Washington grade school is sponsoring a grade school slogan contest with $5 in War stamps as the prize. Each school in the county is to submit one slo- gan pertaining to the Schools at War Program to E. H. Condit. This contest is only one of sev- eral sponsored by different groups throughout the county. Each school may submit one .entry to each con test and they must be mailed on, or before, February 26. Examiner Visits Changed A. change in the schedule of the state drivers’ license examiner’s vis- it to Vernonia was announced this week by the secretary of state, Ef- fective after the first of the year, the state examiner will be in this city one Thursday a month from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at ¡.he city hall. Formerly the examiner was in Yer nonia on Tuesdays. His first will be on January 21. Notices Were Sent Notices of delinquency have been sent to 3,467 Oregon registrants since the beginning of selective ser vice operations, but 1515 of this number cleared themselves with lo cal boards without being reported to the U. S. District Attorney. The balance includes 752 registrants listed as delinquent but not yet re ported to the attorney and 1,200 who were reported to that official. Of the 1,200 reported to him, 709 were either cleared or prosecuted and 491 cases are pending. Beginning February 1, 1943, de linquent registrants can expect law enforcement officers to “crack down hard,” it was indicated by Wooten, “in time of war even unintentional shirking of a prime duty of citizen ship is reprehensible and a deliber ate attempt to evade service for the nation cannot be condoned.” It was also intimated that regis- trants could expect increased activ- ity upon the part of law enforce ment officers to investigate persons between 18 and 65 who failed to carry registration certificates. Per sons 18 to 45 must not only carry with them the registration certifi cate but also a notice of classifi cation if they have been registered for six months or more. In connection with the new re quirement that a registrant have no tice of classification in his posses sion, Colonel Wooten urged regis trants between 18 and 45 to obtain duplicate classification notices from local boards if the originals have been lost. All registrants have been classified with the exception of the 18-year-olds who registered during the latter part of December. .. Truman Knight has now attained the rank of corporal and expects to remain ai Oxford, Mississippi until he receives another rating. Truman is using his trombone-playing ability in an Air Corps band which has giv en several concerts. week period were: 87 per cent in mathematics, and 97 per cent in “knowing tools and how to use them." His address is: Lloyd Melvin Powell, S 2/c, Naval Training school A.M., Barracks 49, Norman, Oklahoma. Walter E. Seifert spent New Year’s day with Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Washburn in Astoria. Mr. Seifert is located at Tongue Point just out of Astoria; and Mr. Washburn at Nav al Section base in Astoria. Both are former Vernonia residents, and Seifert is a former employe of the Oregon-American Lumber corpora- tion. , Word from Private E. V. “Lidge” Rober.son to Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Washburn is that he is in North Africa and located near Casablanca. He says everything is okay there ex cept exchanging American money for French money. He claims you get plenty of it but it doesn’t buy much.Sorry, his address can’t be printed, but Vernonia friends who want to write may get it at the Eagle office. Pvt. Cleve Robertson, who is in Co. C, 92nd Signal Battalion at Camp Maxey, Texas, says of the people of Vernonia and surrounding territory: “They will never know how glad they made me when ¡hey donated to the Vernonia Ser vice club, so they could send me the n>ce and much-appreciated Xmas gifts. I want to say ‘thanks' to all of you.” He say9 he is “making it fine here in Texas and likes soldiering fine.” “It’s good to talk to real people,” says Seaman 2/c Melvin Powell, af- ter meeting a boy from Rainier and another from Astoria while at- tending Naval Aviation Machinist school at Norman, ¡ Oklahoma Orf- goniana are appar^htly more to his liking. He toM his mother to “tell the gang ‘helio’ and that he “likes it fine, it’s real cold there, and there’s lots of mud." The mud is explained by the fact that the bar- racks are new. Melvin’s grades for the first two- Gordon to Succeed Condit As Grade Supt. The Rainbow Girls received let- ters from LeRoy Bell, Elmer Mich- ener, George Turner, Fred Ritchie and Glen Hall, in which they thank ed the girls for the homemade candy- sent them at Christmas time. Several of them expressed the thought that it was good—while it lasted. Volume 20, Number 2 Victory Corps to Aid War Effort . Launched this afternoon during an assembly at the high school will be the High School Victory corps, “a national voluntary, wartime, stu- dent organization designed to mobilize secondary school students for more effective preparation for and participation in wartime service. »> During the assembly students will apply for membership in this voluntary, non-military youth rpovement. Speakers scheduled for the meet ing are J. W. Nichols, local head of civilian defense, and Otto H. H. Peterson, county school superintend ent. Column About Lawmakers Due To be eligible for the Victory corps, the high school student must meet the following requirements: (1) Must be participating in a phys ical fitness program appropriate to their abilities. (2) Must be pursuing a regular course of study appropri ate to their age, grade and ability. (3) Must be participating in at least one important wartime activi ty, either continuing or recurring. As yet, there is no definite indi- cation as to whom will replace Mr. Gordon as principal of Washington grade school; that is, if someone is obtainable for the position. When asked as to future policy, Mr. Gord on said: “No two men can run any thing alike, so there will naturally be changes.” He had no statement as to what changes would be made. Students must fill out an appli However, he hopes “to continue the cation blank setting forth their harmonius policy that hos prevailed qualifications, which must be ap during Mr. Condit’s term of office. proved by a faculty committee. This will entitle the student to general Mr. Condit’s teaching career in membership and to wear the insig Vernonia began when he was elect- nia of the Victory corps. Those ac- ed to teach the sixth grade in 1920. cepted for general membership are In 1927 he was named coach, and entitled to seek admission into spec- in <928 he began a term as head ial service divisions by meeting ad- of grade schbols. This ended in ditional requirements. 1933 when he resigned to become coun.y school superintendent. He Curricular Changes Due returned to Vernonia in 1937, and Several curricular changes will has since held his present position. be made next semester in harmony Mr. Gordon, who is “happy to with the Victory corps. These will get the job/’ has had approximately include: a pre-induction machine 10 years of teaching in Vernonia— shop course; intensification of first as physical education teacher physical education work—stressing and coach at the grade school, then militarized calisthenics, emphasis on coach at the high school, and for rugged muscle-building activities, the past*_jew years, grade school and utilization of noon-hour for principal. He attended O.S.C. for intramural sports for both boys three years, and received his B.A. and girls; rescheduling of individ degree in education from the Ore uals for classes of greater immed gon normal school. He was active iate usefulness; granting of credit in most types of sports at bothfor related war activities outside schools. In addition, he spent threethe school; increasing discussion of summers taking graduate work at current affairs in social studies the University of Oregon. He also classes took graduate work from the Uni- Principal McCrae has listed 14 versity of California. extra-curricular activities which his students are doing at present which tie in with the program, as follows: (1) serving aa air raid wardens; (2) fire warden service; (3) plane spotting service; (4) preparing ov erseas kits for soldiers; (5) assist A danceless President Roosevelt’s ing with Red Cross activities; (6) birthday celebration will be held in clerical help for Civilian Defense Oregon, but the campaign for funds organizations; to fight infantile paralysis will be held as usual, announces Dr. E. T. Activities Many Hedlund, Portland postmaster, who (7) Volunteef library service; again has been named state chair (8) assisting casualty station as man. first aiders and ambulance drivers; The National Foundation for In (9) assisting in community salvage fantile Paralysis’ 10th annual appeal campaigns; (10) assisting in har will be held from January 15th to vesting farm crops; (11) member 30th, the latter which is the pres ship in model airplane construction c'.uB; (12) membership in pre ident’s birthday. flight mathematics activity; fl3) The march of dimes again will be membership in local unit of state the method to raise funds in Ore guard; (14) part-time employment gon. Last year the state contributed ■to meet manpower shortages. more than $35,000, of which 50 per Planned activities are as follows: cent was retained by the state and selling o' stamps and bonds; con county organizations. ducting school correspondence with “Instructions have been received school alumni in the service, addi from the national committee,” Dr. tional salvage campaigns; broader Hedlund said, “Suggesting that the participation in various branches birthday balls, such as held in pre* of local civilian defense organiza vious years, be discontinued, and tion; air scouts. the energy of the county and city chairmen be concentrated on fund Each School Different rai«'ng.” As these lists woultj reveal, each Paralysis Funds To Be Solicited The Portland postmaster has i been identified with the infantile paral- ysis campaign movement since 1934. This is his fourth time as state chairman. Mrs. Grace K. Magruder of Clats- kanie is Columbia county chairman. As the Mt. Heart Social club here has a dance scheduled for January S. Naval 30, members plan to donate part Arriving at the U. Training station at Farragut, lo of their profits to the infantile pa cated in the mountains of northern ralysis fund. Idaho, Harry Lusby, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Lusby of Vernonia, has be TIMBER FALLER DIES Clark Hayes, a timber faller who gun his recruit training for service lived here 10 years, died in Spo with the U. S. Navy. During the next several weeks be kane on Monday, January il, ac- will learn the fundamentals of sea cording to a phone call received manship while he trains there. Lo by Mrs. Frank McCabe Wednes- cated on the shores of Lake Pend day. He left two weeks before Oreille, Farragut is one of the Christmas and was quite well known (Continued on page 3) here. Inside stories of happenings at a session of the state legislature are always interesting and frequently just as important as the recorded proceedings, insofar as they inform the public of legislative trends and the efforts and ambitions of indi vidual lawmakers. Because of his state-wide contacts and ten years’ experience in reporting sessions of the Oregon legislature, Vernon Wil liams is specially qualified to write such stories and his column of news and comment on the 1943 session which will appear in the Vernonia Eagle beginning this week will be of special interest to Eagle readers. Because of war conditions and the consequent problems every state lawmaking body must face, this weekly report from the state capítol will be particularly valuable to all who wish to keep informed on bills proposed and laws enacted to meet the grave situations imposed bj, war demands and their affect upon state finances. Mr. Williams will maintain head quarters in the capítol building press room throughout the session and his column will coVer events of the preceding week, together with time ly comment on bills offered in the two houses. The reports will le strictly non-partisan and free from bias and prejudice, the purpose < f the column being at all times to ad here to facts, with sincere inter pretation of the possible effect of all measures proposed by the legis lator. Forest Gr. Again Beats Loggers Although to a lesser degree, the Forest Grove Vikings again beat the Vernonia Logger basketball team in the last pre-conference-play game, which was held here Tuesday night. This game ended with a score of 32 to 38 -in the Viking’s favor, while an earlier game ended 44 to 30. The Logger second team, how ever, won by one point, the score being 20 to 19 as the result of a last-minute basket. The first *conference game for Vernonia will be with Rainier at Rainier on Friday, January 15. A return game with Hillsboro will be played here next Tuesday, January 19 and a conference game with Scappoose here on Friday, January 22. After the first quarter, which found Vernonia leading 7 to 6, the their Vikings steadily increased score. From a lead of 19 to 16 at the half, it soared to 28 to 19 at the third period end and ended 38 to 32. Although the Loggers battled most vigorously in the last few min utes, they were not successful in surpassing the Viking’s scoring. Referee for the game was Paul Gordon and players and their scores are as follows! Vernonia Forest Grove Lane*(4) . Gibbons (7) F F Les Gallowey 4 Dundas 10 Kent 8 Hudson 9 C MacRoberts 5 G Lyle Galloway 10 G Lusby 6 O’Donnel 6 Substitutes: Williamson, Forest Grove 1; Rollins, Vernonia. school must work out its own pro gram according to its facilities and ability, with these objectives in mind: the training of youth for war service thaï will come after they leave school and the active partici pation of youth in the community’s war effort while they are yet In school. Under the sponsorship of the UhLed States office of education, the war and navy departments, the department of commerce, and civil Sunrise and ian aviation, the reason for the Victory corps is the demand of war Sunrise for trained personnel. Training fa Jan. 14—8:50 cilities wi.hin the armed forces can 15—8:49 not supply the specialists needed by 16—8:49 the modern army—63 out of 100. 17—8:48 EVery available facility particularly 18—8:47 universities, colleges, and high 19—8:46 schools must be utilised to meet this 20—8:45 need. 21—8:45 Dimout Aid Sunset i Hour, Sunset 8:51 5:52 5:53 5:55, 5:56 5:58 5:59 6:00
