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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1943)
Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon Thursday. May 27, 1943 A Gas Books To Be Renewed Through Mail Applications to Be Obtained and Mailed ; New Books Returned Plans by which car owners an,t motorcyclists may renew their present basic gasoline rations (A and D coupon books) by mail have been announced by the office of price administration. Under the streamlined proce dure which eliminates another registration at school or ration board sites, a motorist will: 1. Pick up a simple application form any time beginning about June 22 at a service station nr other conveniently located place designated by his local ration board, 2. Fill out the form and mail it to his war price and rationing board together with (a) the signed back cover of his present A book, and (b), his current tire inspec tion record showing that proper inspections have been piade. > IlVA Schedules Open Meeting Tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 o’clock, I.W.A. Local 5-37 will hold an open meeting to which the public is welcome and which will feature Cap tain Harry D. Williams. Ac companying him will be two boys returned from the fighting front, who will speak on the war and their personal experiences in it. They will answer all questions possible. In addition to the speak ers, moving pictures of the different uses of lumber in the war effort will be shown. Joseph Smejkal . Killed in Woods Volume 20, Number 21 Next Grade Memorial Observance Due School Budget Steres Plan to Legion Head Relief Corps Close on Mon. Is Increased Plans Services, Urges Poppy No Parade Wearing Sat. Annual Meeting of Dist. No. 47, Jt., to Be Monday, June 21 At the annual school meeting of school district No. 47 Jt., sched uled for Monday, June 21, legal voters of that district will have before them a budget which pro poses to raise a tax which ex ceeds the 6 per cent limitation, set forth in the state constitu tion, by $39,633.81. The limita tion last year was exceeded by $36,435.82. Although estimated re ceipts are more thia year—$17,- 654, as compared to $16,650 last year—estimated expenditures are higher to a greater extent—$01,- 547, as compared to the $57,113.. 92 figure for the 1942-43 budget. Memorial day will be observed this Sunday, May 30 by the Women’s Relief corps, not by the usual parade in which various lo- c.-.'. . rg: ::izn'.::ns take part, but by the customary services for the war dead. The corps will start their observance by attending in a body services at the Christian chuch. They will then go immed- iatelv to the Rock creek bridge for memorial services for sailors who died at sea. Following this ritual, the group will go in cars to the old Ver nonia cemetery, where graveside services will be held and D.A.R. graves decorated. All patriotic groups in the town, including the American Legion and Auxiliary and the Vernonia Service club, and as many children as can have been invited to take part. Local stores have indicated that they will remain closed on Monday, May 31, as the fact that Memorial day falls on Sunday makes it a legal holiday. The post office, how ever, will be open. The operation schedule for Monday of the Oregon-Amer ican mill and camp is unde cided, Judd Greenman said Wednesday. For Clark and Wi'son, Monday is definitely “not a holiday,” was the word from camp. Due to the Monday closing, the Vernonia Eagle will be published a day late, and will be out Friday. Judd Greenman on State Committee Men who served in the first world war were urged to be first to put on a poppy on poppy day next Saturday, in a message is sued this week by Charles Biggs, commander of Vernonia post, American Legion. Recalling the service and sacri fice of the men who fought for America 25 years ago, Commander Biggs said: "Men are again being called up on to give their lives for America, as did our comrades in 1917 and 1917. Our boys and our neighbors, boys are among them. Our hearts, are heavy at the thought that these young men must meet the same fate as those other young men we have left beneath the pop pies of France 25 years ago. An accident at the Oregon, American lumber camp Wednes Salaries Raised day, May 19, at about 11:45 a.m., $120 yearly raise for each of took the life of Joseph Smejkal, Reaching into nearly every Ore who made his home on a farm the 23 teachers which totals $2760 gon county and into many walks on Tophil) (between here and is the principal reason for the in- of life, Governor Snell this week Poppy I* Memorial Buxton). Funeral services were creased budget-. Two extra teach has selected 75 state leaders to Tire Inspection Needed held at the Bush funeral home ers’ salaries and the salary of a "To show that we honor and serve on the general state-wide Sunday, May 23 with Father teacher of the subjects Paul Boards will begin processing Frederick Thiele officiating. In Gordon taught last year are also Cemetery Beautiful Keep Oregon Green committee remember the dead of both wars we have our memorial poppy. By these applications as soon as they terment was at the Buxton ceme included in the budget. Mr, Individuals will visit and dec and three working policy forming wearing this little flower on poppy start coming in, so that all new Gordon will be superintendent of. committees. The main idea is to tery, orate the graves of their lost ones day, we express feelings we cannot A books should be mailed out Washington and Lipcoin Mr. Smejkal was standing by the on Sunday or Memorial Monday. enlist the support of every man put into words. We show that we and in the hands of motorists be while a tree was being felled and schools for the coming year. and woman in Oregon to help Those who visit the Vernonia fore Jply 21. However, to be sure got out of the way of this log, Other reasons for an increased prevent careless, man-caused fires are carrying on in their spirit of getting a new A book by the The falling tree, however, struck budget are added operation costs Memorial cemetery will find it in Oregon’s valuable forest lands. for the final triumph of the cause especially beautiful. The green is time the old one expires, motorists Selected from this county as for which they laid down their a log which rolled over his body, —last year $6466 was allowed, should act promptly in filing their crushing and killing him instantly. while this budget's estimate is in an excellent condition this a member of the general commit lives. spring, and the shrubbery is be “Poppies, made by disabled war applications, OPA warned. Joseph Smejkal was born May $7767—-and the taking out of coming more attractive. With the tee is Judd Greenman, veterans, will be offered on the Motorcycle owners will follow 30, 1898 in Austria, and has lived more insurance, "This year we miwt keep smoke caretaker, Ed Sessman, working streets all day Saturday by the the same procedure as motorists. in the Upited States for 35 years; Receipts Estimated constantly the site is kept trim, from our skies," the governor women of the American Legion Attached to the application stated as hg picked the men and he spent 17 years in this commun even to the hillside above the form will be a tire inspection women on whose shoulders will Auxiliary. I feel certain that they The budget allows a $3000 ity, where he was employed as a record which the ration board logger. Survivors are his wife, emergency fund; interest on bonds cemetery which is dotted with fall the responsibility of reducing will be accepted eagerly and worn small trees. A new flag will fly proudly by all citizens. I urge will tear off and mail back to the Oolah, his mother, Thresa, of Bux was estimated at $500 last year, over the grounds on Memorial man-caused forest fires to the that among the first to put them applicant with the new A or D zero point. “ Smoke from forest ton, two sisters, and six brothers, but $200 Is the figure this year. day to replace the one which has book. Ag previously, applieants fires would make an ideal smoke on be the members of the Ameri Mrs, Charles Schmidlin and Mrs. Estimated receipts from delinquent will be required to write in their Frank Schmidlin of Vernonia are taxes and elementary tuition re faced the tattering winds for a screen to cover enemy attack on can Legion for we, before all year. others, should understand the sig tire serial numbers. These num the sisters. The brothers are An main the same as last year; the Forty-nine graves are now in our state and would likewise nificance of the little red flower bers may be copied from the old tone of Timber, Ernest of Jewell, former, $2000, and the latter, this cemetery and several of them keep our eyes off the airforce and should lead the way in paying tire record, unless corrections are from reconnaissance. ” $500. Estimated receipts from the William of Tillamook, Edwin of are marked with stones. All rn tribute to the nation’s fallen de necessary to take into account Vernonia, Frank of Camp Beale, county school' fund decrease fro»» all, the flowers which are placed Radio Leader* Picked fenders.” the acquisition of new tires, or of $9500 to $9000, from the elemen California, and Rudolph of Camp An innovation this year is the on these graves and the distant Poppy posters made by grade errors in the old record. tary school fund increase from hills and verdant trees which sur selection by Governor Snell of Swift, Texas. Any motorist who has not had $3700 to $5060, and from the round it should make the Ver eight leaders in the radio industry school pupils are displayed in lo at least one tire inspection by a s,tgte irreducible school fund in nonia Memorial cemetery a scene in Oregon to head up a radio com cal store windows to advertise the poppy sale. Those which qualified inspector will be denied First Aiders Wanted crease from $950 to $1154, of serenity and beauty on Mon mittee for KOG. These people will Anyone desiring to take a stan a renewal. As Columbia county this year day, and perhaps Sunday evening, have charge of policy of radio pro won prizes are to be .found in dard first aid course is needed Miller's window. wlil get $27,664 from the elemen gram« and will coordinate radio as a member and may yet enroll tary school fund, and under the support in Oregon’s broadcasting in the class which started last bill passed at the 1943 Oregon outlets with the general commit week. This group meets every legislature will get $40,299, the tee's work. Friday night at 8:00 p.m. at the school district here should get Newspapers like radio stations Legion hall with Harry Culbertson more from that fund in 1944-45. have given tremendous support to as instructor. The acreage of state forests in the Keep Oregon Green campaign Several facts concerning Ver during the past three years and AU Vernonia people should plan flatsop county will be «materially nonia and Columbia county are Governor Snell in recognition of to attend for one and one-half increased in the near future contained in a booklet, “Oregon the job already done and the need hours on Monday, June 14 at the through a donation of land to the Traffic Accident Facts, 1943,” for state-wide support this season Washington grade school a pro state by the county and by an recently released from the office has named a newspaper advisory gram of moving pictures spon exchange of state-owned stumpage of Robert S. Farrell, Jr., secretary committee for privately owned forest lands. for Keep Oregon sored by local' civilian defense, of state. J. W. Nichole announced this week. The area which is to be acquired Green. Lyman G, Hawken, son of Mr. ter at Ft, Des Moines, Iowa and In the 1942 Oregon cities traf That day is also flag day. from the county comprises some and Mrs. Lyman Hawken, ar has started 8 weeks’ training in fic safety contest, Vernonia rank Especially of interest here will 0,000 acres of second growth lo. rived last week at Farragut, Ida be movies of Clark and Wilson, eated south of the Nehalem river ho, the second largest U. S. naval the administrative school at Com ed 19th out of 25 cities in divi sion IV (population of 1000 to logging and O-A mill operations. between Jewell and Birkenfetd. training station, and has begun merce, Texas. She will receive ad These pictures were taken in 1941 The transfer has already been recruit training. While he is in ditional training in a specialised 2000). Cities were graded on im by Frank J. Kahrs of the Rem approved by the Clatsop county training there, he will learn mili field preparatory to taking over provement or lack of improvement Earl Carricker was welding at ington Arm* comjpny who visited court and the final papers are in tary discipline, the fundamentals an important behind-the-Unes ar in accident record for the contest the course of preparation at the of seamanship, and undergo rig my job, releasing a soldier for year, compared to the city’s own United Loggers’ sawmill on Pebble the gun club here at that time. The program, which will start present time. At the request of orous physical hardening. Upon combat duty. The school at Com previous three-year average ac creek Friday afternoon, when sud the county officials the forest graduation he will either be sent merce, Texas is the state teacher’s cident experience. Thue, each city denly he found himself engulfed at 8:00 p.m., will include movies competes against its own record, in flames, evidently started from on eight subjects: films on "Wood will be named the Nehalem Pio to a navy service school, many college. and the cities making the best a spark from his torch. Although for War,” song shorts, the air neer forest as a tributa to the of which are located at Farragut, showing are ranked highest. An Auckland, New Zealand it took several hours to extinguish raid warden, the CD rescue unit, early pioneers who settled that for additional training in a spec In the 1942 Oregon counties the flames, only slight damage was “Safeguarding Military Informa part of the country. ialized field or ordered to join the newspaper sent by S I/c Bob safety contest, Columbia ranked reported. tion,” and "The Tree in a Test combat forces of the U. S. fleet Tindall to his, mother, Mrs. O. S. Timber in Demand Poynter, is one example of how 8th among counties with a 10,000- When Mr. Carricker found him Tube:,” haMp been ordered. in action against the axis. different the American boys find 25,000 population. Her death rate self in the above predicament, he In this transfer the county will was .47 per 10,000 population, naturally sought the quickest way WORK BEING DONE reserve some scattered old-growth Pvt. Lawrence P. Wikstrom has things in foreign countries. The and there were 349 accidents, 157 out of the mill. He was able to The old Swvrd building on Douglas fir trees in the area. This been transferred from Boise six pages sent were presumably injuries, three fatalities. the second section, as the front escape unharmed, but singed. Bridge street is being cleaned out type of timber is very much in de Barracks, Idaho to the Pittsburg The estimated motor vehicle reg preparatory to putting a new mand at the present time and the replacement depot in Pittsburg, page contained nothing but ad istration was 6884, a figure less vertisements and notices. It con roof on the structure. The upper county is anxious that it be sold California. tained no large ads, and few ads than that of 1941, but wore than story was recently torn down and but asks that the state administer Alma Jean Norman of Portland, of any site—one of these was that of 1940. the tile is being used by R. A. all details of the timber sate. A Simmons, who recently purchased percentage of the gross income who attended school here with the for the WAAF, the Women’s Arthur Tousley is in the navy the building, at his home. will be turned over to the state class of ’43 has enlisted in the Auxiliary Air force. Movie ads A missionary from the Ken to defray the costs of administra WAVES, it was learned recently. are very small; many of the mov now—he wag one of those Ore Miss Norman graduated from ies showing are current in the gon boys sworn into the naval tucky mountains. Miss McConnell, tion. The lands involved in the ex Parkrose high school and has been United States and they are gjtbar reserve Monday in Portland. Ar will speak at the Evangelical Sunrise and Sunset Hourg change of state stumpage for land employed as a saleswoman in the "recommended for ur\iwr»al ex thur’s moth«?, Mrs. Leaths To us- church this evening, May 27 at 8:00 o’clock. The public is cor Sunrise Sunset abe owned by Jens Lerbeck and Meier end Frank candy depart hibition,” or “reuommended by ley, looked on. He p’ans to work in the forest dially invited to hear her bring May 27—5:27 8:49 Dave Waterhouse, Seaside logging ment. She is the daughter of censor fos adults.” 28—6:26 8:50 bach page is crammed to the service in this vicinity until he is this *tory of the missionary pro operators. The lands are located Harry E. Norman, but has betn 29—5:25 8:51 within and immediately adjacent making her home with an aunt. maximum, due to tha newsprint celled, either July 1 or Novem gress in Kentucky. An offering will be taken to 80—5:25 8:52 to the Hamlet State fo-est and Miss Lillian R Smith in Portland. ahf rtage. and eaoh paif con ber 1, for navy officer training 81—5:24 8:53 tains very little variety. In short, at some college or university. He’s help Miss McConnell in this great will become a part of that unit. missionary work. Rev. Allen H. anxious to go and prefers Stan June 1—5:23 8:54 the New Sealand Herald I* very Auxiliary f.c. Zonweiss Douglass All have been logged but an ex Backer, pastor of the Evangelical 2—5:23 8:55 cellent stand of second growth has completed her basic training much unlike the metropolitan ford university. church, announces. 3 — 4.22 American newspaper. More “ Those Who Are, ” page • 8:55 at the First WAAC training can is coming in on most of it. New State Forest Created in Clatsop Booklet Contains Accident Facts Movies to Be of Special Intel est Those B71O Are in It Spark from Torch Cause of Flames Kentucky Mission Worker to Speak Dimout Aid