Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon
Thursday, May 13, 1943
City Budget
Thirty Plane Canning Sugar Requests
Watchers Are Allowed Beginning May 15 Again Omits
Direct Tax
Needed Here
Chief Oakes Says
Many Observers Have
Left Post Recently
Thirty people are badly needed
for volunteer service as watchers
on the aircraft warning service
post near here. Chief Observer M.
A. Oakes said Tuesday. Free
transportation is provided volun
teers. Those willing to serve a
certain number of hours each week
should see Mr. Oakes, phone 774.
Some training will have to be giv
en new. volunteers on the proper
procedure for turning in flashes.
The post was operated last
week by using substitutes, as
many observers have quit the
post during the last few weeks
due to work elsewhere and vari
ous other reasons. It is necessary
that the post have watchers 24
hours a day and volunteers are
urgently needed to maintain the
high rating the post has earned
during the past seven months.
Awards Given at
High School Wed.
Wednesday was “award” day
for the high school student body,
for on that afternoon student
body officers were sworn into of
fice, basketball and track letters
were awarded, and model airplane
certificates were presented.
Letters were presented to the
following members of the basket
ball squad: Fred Lusby, Bob
Kent, Les and Lyle Galloway,
Lewis Lane, Jack Nance, Gerald
Riley, .Larry Brady, and Melvin
Schwab, the manager.
Track, lettermen
recognized
were: Fred Lusby, Lewis Lane,
Fred Busch, Glen Justice, Harry
Lazott, Jimmy Johns, Leonard
Belongia, Bobby Schwab, Max
Millis, Bobby Condit, and Gerald
Riley, the manager.
Committee Check* Models
Preliminary to the awarding of
certificates to model airplane
builders, a civilian committee met
Monday night to approve the
planes for shipping to the navy
for its use. This civilian commit
tee consisted of the following:
Emil Messing, chairman, Paul
Gordon, Cecil' Johnson, J. W.
Nichols, M. B. Willard and Harry
Culbertson.
The making of solid airplane
models is a continuation of last
year’s project, but is an activity
period enterprise this year. It
is sponsored by the U. S. office
of education and the U. S. navy,
bureau of aeronautics. ' Certifi
cates of awards are given to
those making models which pass
inspections. The awards are pro
gressive and indicate the approp
riate rank, the requirements be
ing cumulative.
The following
students won awards:
Procedure by which housewives will obtain sugar for home canning
and freezing of this season’s fruit crop on and after May 15 was re
leased Monday by the office of price administration.
As previously announced by Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown,
sugar for home canning is being allotted on substantially the same bas
is as last year—that is, one pound for each four quarts (or eight
pounds) of the finished product, and by essentially the same procedure
—written application to the local board.
A top limit of 25 pounds of sugar per person is set in the new reg
ulations, which become effective
May 15. The OPA emphasizes,
however, that the 25-pound figure
is a maximum, to be granted only
in the relatively few cases where
this large amount of fruit will be
canned and preserved.
At a meeting of the grade
school
board Saturday night, two
5 lb*, for Jam Allowed
bus contracts were awarded where
Within the 25-pound per per
three would normally have been
son limit, any family can apply
given. This was one of the changes
for sugar to put up jams, jellies
made in school bus schedules re
and preserves at the rate of five
sulting from the ODT’s require
pounds per individual. This is a
ment to eliminate unnecessary
more generous allowance than last
stopping and excess mileage. After
year, when sugar for preserves
studying the system, the upper
was limited to one pound per per
river bus route, now being driven
son. Motive for this is stretching
by Mrs. Tom Crawford and
butter and margarine ra’tions.
Said Mr. Brown: . “The more George Johnson, was combined to
use only one bus, and Tom Craw
fruit and vegetables put up at
ford was awarded the contract.
home, the less demand there will
George Johnson was awarded
be on the limited civilian supply
the
Camp 8 route, formerly driven
of commercially packed foods. I
earnestly appeal to those who by Crawford. Other routes will
home-can fruits and vegetables to remain the same, except that the
travelling of the same road twice
use their processed foods rations
on Stoney Point will be eliminated.
sparingly. It must be remembered
High school and g:ade school
that millions of war workers and
students share the busses; other
others in essential industries have
neither the time nor the facilities bus contracts were awarded earlier
in the year.
to put up fruits and vegetables
The budget committee met in
at home. They must depend en
conjunction
with the board S tur-
tirely on commercially - packed
foods. Every can of the commer day night and a budget was ap
cial pack that is saved for these proved. It will ^be published in
this paper at a later d te, and
folks through home canning is a
direct and important contribution will be voted upon at the annual
school meeting on Monday, June
to our war effort. We can run
the total into hundreds of mil 21.
Bus Routes and
Drivers Changed
lions of cans. Let’s do it.
Board
Receive*
Applications
Local boards throughout the
country will receive written appli
cations under the new provisions
on and after May 15. No special
form is required unless it is plan
ned to sell the home products, and
application may be made in person
or by mail.
The applicant must furnish the
following:
1. A copy of war ration book
one for each person for whom
home-canning sugar is sought;
2. The total number of quarts
or pounds of finished fruit to be
put up; and
3. The amount of sugar to be
used for making jams and jellies
(not more than five pounds per
person, within the 25-pound over
all maximum.)
The board will record the num
ber of pounds of sugar granted
each person on the cover of his
or her war ration book one.
Last year, housewives were re
quired to fill out an official form
in considerably greater detail.
Coupons
Used
Home canning sugar allotments
under the new program will be in
the form of “sugar allowance
coupons” in denominations of 1,
3, 5 and 10 pounds. Housewives
thus can spread their sugar buy
ing over the entire canning sea
son, instead of making a single
Carroll Keasey—It. (jr. grade), purchase as they did last season
It., It. commander, and commander when boards had only purchase
aircraftsman for completing 9 certificates for buying in quanti
models, including one 4-engine ty to issue.
bomber and planes from 4 na
Each sugar allowance coupon
tions; Lloyd Stuve—It. (jr. grade) will be marked with a serial num
it., and If. commander aircrafts ber of war ration book one and
man for completing 8 models, in the book itself must be presented
cluding a torpedo bomber and to the retailer for checking when
biplane, and planes from 3 na ever a sugar allowance coupon is
tions; Lee Lindsley, It. aircrafts “spent.” Unless the numbers on
man for completing 7 models in the books »nd the coupons cor
cluding a seaplane.
respond, the coupon is not valid
The following boys and girls and the retailer cannot complete
received cadet aircraftsmen certif the sugar sale.
icates for completing up to three Gifts Limited
planes of any type: Jimmy Frazee
Gift* of home-canned foods,
Ralph Keasey, Melvin Snook,
Ralph Sturdevant, Donald Atkin both fruits and vegetables, may
son, Geraldine Keller, John Wil- be made but no one person may
coxen, Beverly Turner, Mary Hall, give away more than a total of
Betty Hall, Glenn Shipman, Billy 50 quarts. Any gifts made in ex
cess of that amount and all sales
Marshall and Dale Roland.
Glenn Ely has been supervisor can only be made against the eol-
(Continued on page 6)
of the project.
Budget Meeting Held
Wednesday, May 5;
Budget Is Increased
No direct tax will again be
levied in the City of Vernonia
for the fiscal year beginning July
1, 1943 and ending June 30,
1944, the city budget drawn up
Wednesday night, May 5 reveals.
Total estimated expenditures for
the year are $20,482.50, compared
to estimated receipts of $25,814.-
50. The last budget estimates re
ceipts at $26,792.09, and that
higher figure is due only to a
larger amount of cash on hand—
the actual' receipts estimated are
the same, water rentals to bring
the most money, $11,000.
Last year’s total budget was
less, $19,775—the higher figure
for the new budget due mostly to
raises in salaries of city employ
ees. In addition to higher salaries,
the building and grounds expens
es are estimated to be $1100, as
compared to last year’s figure
of $650. The cemetery expenses
have been raised from $460 to
$770. Most decreased item is the
street and sewer budget, which
was $2000, and will now be $1250.
Volume 20, Number 19
39 Seniors Are to
Graduate Friday
Thirty-nine seniors of Vernonia high school (two of them
already serving in the armed forces) will participate in com
mencement exercises at the Washington grade school auditor
ium this Friday night, May 14 at 8:00 o’clock. Dr. U. G. Du
bach, dean of men at Oregon State college, will be principal
speaker of the evening, while Joy Willard will deliver the val
edictorian address.
The processional and recessional will be played by Mrs. Sam
Hearing, Jr., and invocation and
benediction will be spoken by Rev.
W. O. Livingstone and Rev. AJlen
Backer, respectively. Greetings to
the class of 1943 will be extended
by Miss Lillian Laird, after which
the high school sextette will sing
“Venetian Love Song,” by Nevin.
Wallace MrCrae is to present
awards and introduce the speaker,
while O. G. Weed, chairman of the
school board wi.l present diplomas.
As Melvin L. Schwab and Arte-
mas L. DeHart, Jr., left during
the last semester of the year,
they will receive their diplomas
in absentia.
There will be a short reception
in the library immediately follow
ing the exercises. For the second
time in the history of Vernonia
high school, caps and gowns will
be worn by the graduates.
PUD Abandons
Purchase Plans
At a regular monthly meeting
of the Nehalem Valley Public
Utility district here Sunday even
ing, the board of directors took
up the matter of the purchase of
the Oregon Gas and Electric com
pany properties and decided that
there is no possible chance to get
together with the company on a
price. They plan to wait until aft
er the war, when they would build
a new system—unless a lower
price should have been arrived up
on.
The PUD directors’ and attorn
ey’s salaries were paid and ar
rangements were made to call a
Honor* Shared
budget meeting in the near fu->
ture. It is understood that no tax
Robert Kent and Arthur Tousley
Members of the budget commit share the honor of being saluta- will be asked for in next year’
tee are A. L. Kullander, chair torian of the class. Robert is also budget.
man, R. M. Aldrich, Harry Kerns, president, while Fred Lusby is
Ray Mills and Roy Raymond. A vice-president; Rosaile Roediger,
meeting will be held on Monday, secretary; Ruby Thacker, treasur
June 7 at 8:00 p.m. at the city er; and Miss Beck, Mrs. Hearing,
hall, at which time all persons and Mr MoCrae, advisors.
subject to the tax levy mav appear
Class colors are green and white
to speak ‘Tor or against the bud the flower being the white carna
Miss Marie DeBolt, music teach
get.
tion. Motto chosen by the seniors er for the Washington grade
is: “Before Us Lies the Timber;
school and high school band in
Let Us Build.”
Grade school commencement ex structor, has completed work on
ercises will be held Thursday (to a standard length tnovel, “Life
night) at 8:00 p.m., also at the of Her Own,” and is to send away
grade school.
the manuscript this week with the
(A list of the high school grad hope of publication. Miss DeBolt
Montana F. Marshall
uates will be found on page 6 of staried the book in the summer
Bakers and cooks is the only this issue.)
of 1941 under the supervision of
section of the WAAC specialist
Mrs. Beulah S. Thornton at the
school that will be in operation at
Oregon College of Education at
Monmouth. It was completed und
Camp Ruston. Additional training
er the personal supervision of
at other specialist schools will be
Dean Alfred Powers and the lat
taken at other WAAC training
ter half of the book was written
centers. Upon completing the basic
Miss Roberta Sword, graduating in Vernonia.
course, auxiliaries will also be el senior at Vernonia high school,
“Life of Iler Own” is the story
igible for officer candidate school was appointed life guard for the
of
a young women in search of
city’s swimming pool at the post
at Ft. Des Moines.
poned city council meeting Mon security and happiness who finds
Machinist’s mate 2/c Reggie day night, and will be on duty it in a sense of spiritual attain
Watson was here Tuesday and for the summer as soon as weath ment, aided by attention to envir
er permits the pool to be opened.
Wednesday from coast guard Miss Sword received life-saving onment and all factors that con
tribute to one’s well being. The
training at Hammond, Oregon.
and water safety training from • several themes—search for secur
Noble Dutton, life guard here sev ity and happness, religious de
Captain Robert Rushing has eral summers ago. She has enter
velopment, and love—have been
been in New Guinea for nearly a ed county and city swimming woven together in an attempt to
meets and is a capable swimmer. make interesting reading. Port
month now.
Other business .accomplished by land and a fictitous town, Wilton,
P.F.C. Louie Tunnell, after the council was the approving of Oregon, are the settings for the
spending much of a 15-day fur monthly bills and the sale of sev story.
lough here, left Monday to return eral lots, and setting the value
If published, the novel will
to his camp in Los Angeles, where at $1.00 per cord of stumpage
he is a radio operator, works on which is being taken from the appear under the pen name of
a searchlight, and also does guard cemetery property for wood.
Camilla Mariott.
duty. Tunnell arrived in Portland
Miss DeBolt plans to teach in
April 30 and was met by his
California next year, as teaching
brother, Robert Tunnell, and his Deaths, Illness Added
According to a recent tabulation standards there have been low
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.
in ths Oregon Health bulletin, ered and will continue her stud
George Tunnell.
During his furlough, Tunnell there were 17 deaths in «Columbia ies. She will spend the summer in
and his parents visited in Scio county during March. The causes San Jose, her former home.
with Mrs. Millard Urban, his sist were as follows: influenza, 1; can
er, and her family. Mrs. Urban cer and tumors, 3; diabetes, 1; Inventories Necessary
and son then continued on to heart disease, 7; pneumonia, 1;
Local merchants who handle
Bend with him to visit their digestive diseases, 1; nephritis, 2; rationed foods are reminded that
accidents
other
than
motor,
1.
three brothers. A special chicken
when the point value of any mer
Disease cases reported for the chandise goes down, or up, they
dinner was served to 19 guests
on Sunday, May 2 in his hon^r first time during the week ending must take a point inventory of
by his mother, sister—Mrs. Henry May 1 were-, 4 cases of measles, the affected merchandise and file
Ade, and sister-in-law. Fifteen 1 of chicken pox, 10 of mumps, the same with the local ration
guests were present for lunch 1 of syphilis, and 1 of gonorrhea. board,
Eighty-three percent of physicians
that evening.
This was Tunnell’s first fur reported.
lough since he enlisted in the
army December 16. 1941. «'■
Sunrise and Sunset Hour«
Booklet Available
Copies of the booklet, "You
Sunrise
Sunset
KEASEY—Pvt. Roy Juola, who and the War,” are available free May 13—5:41
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has been stationed at Duncan of charge at the Oregon Gas and
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Field, Texas, is home for a 10-day E'ectric • company office. This
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f"rlcugh with his father, Tom pamphlet was prepared by the
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Juola, his sister, Mrs. Vernon U. S. office of civilian defense,
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Lindsley, and his two brothers, and tells what part each man,
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Clifford and Russell.
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woman and child on the home
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More “Those Who Are,” page 6 front ean have in war service.
8:42
Grade Teacher
Completes Novel
Those Who
Are in It
Aviation Cadet Philip J. Millis,
21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip
J. Millis, this week reported with
members of class 43-H at Good
fellow Field, army air forces bas
ic flying school near San Angelo,
Texas, where he has begun the
next-to-the-last stage of his flying
training in pursuit of wings and a
flying officer rating.
At Goodfellow Field Aviation
Cadet Millis has stepped up from
the slower primary training planes
to speedy, military-type BT13A
trainers. Here he will learn navi
gation and radio code, night fly
ing and precision formation and
cross-country flying. Next stage
in his aerial education will be ad
vanced school, where he will win
his wings and his long-awaited
assignment to duty.
Millis, a 1940 graduate of Ver
nonia high school and a member
of the state track team, set sev
eral track records and was a
member of the all-star football
club as well. He had been in pri
mary flying school at Bruce
Field, Ballinger, Texas.
Private First Class Luther M.
Ball, who is stationed at the west
ern signal corps training center at
Comp Kohler, California, has been
promoted to the grade of corporal,
according to an announcement by
Colonel Harry E. Storms, com
manding officer.
Corporal Ball, a resident of
Vernonia, is the husband of Bar
bara Ball of 134 Bridge street.
Camp Kohler is the signal corps’
newest training center and the
only such post on the west coast.
The signal corps is responsible for
installing, operating and maintain
ing the the army’s vast communi
cation system.
By whatever means necessary—
radio, telephone, telegraph, tele
type, rockets, or runner—the sig
nal corps’ mission is to "get the
message throagh.”
One of the first enrollees of the
Women's Army Auxiliary corps
to arrive for training at Branch
A of the fifth WAAC training
center at Camp Ruston, La., is
Roberta Sword
To Be Life Guard
Dimout Aid