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Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon Library, Thursday, July 8, 1943 Proclamation On Fireworks Made by Gov. Fireworks and Othtir Combustibles Sales And Use Prohibited A proclamation made by Gover nor Earl Snell on June 30, under the Oregon Civilian Defense Act of 1943, makes “the sale, distri bution, or use within the State of Oregon of fireworks, pyrotechnics, firecrackers, cap pistols, or other forms of noise-making devices which might be used for signaling or to stimulate sounds of gunfire” unlawful. The governor was empowered to make this proclamation by the 1943 state legislature, and did so at the request of Lt.-Gen. DeWitt, commanding the western defense command and fourth army. “Any person violating any of the provisions of this proclamation or any lawful order issued there under or pursuant thereto shall be subject to arrest and prosecu tion in pursuance of provisions of Section 11, Oregon Civilian De fense act of 1943.” Members of the Oregon State police, county sheriffs, city police, and other law enforcement offic- inals have been directed to aid in the enforcement of the provisions of the proclamation. Statistics Taken From Health Sheet Disease cases reported in Co lumbia county for the first time during the week June 26 were two of measles, one of whooping cough, and one of mumps. Sixty- one percent of physicians report ed. A report in the Oregon Health bulletin shows that communicable diseases in this county have shown a 57.1 percent decrease in May, 1943 from May, 1942. They num ber 33 this year, while last May they numbered 77. Other news of interest in the bulletin is the information that there were 31 birth and 16 deaths in the county in May. Committees Help With Applications Rather than apply to the local ration board for their B and C cards, tires, and tubes, those Ver nonia residents who are employed by certain Portland and Vancouv er firms should apply with the transportation committees of the firms, it has been announced. These firms are: Willamette Iron and Steel, Willamette Hyster company, Commercial Iron works, Timber Structures, Kaiser Co— Swan Island, Vancouver, or Ore gon, Gunderson Bros,. Iron Fire man—4784 S. E. 17th or 1870 S. W. Front, and Albina Engine and Machine works. Use of Writer's Poem Announced Fanny Ellsworth, editor of Ranch Romances, notified the Portland Poet’s association re cently that a poem by Elsie Mc Donald, Vernonia writer, will ap pear in an early issue of that mag azine. The poem is entit’ed, “The Newt Outfit,” and is just one of many by Miss McDonald to be published by that periodical dur ing the past four years. Dimout Aid July 9—5:29 10—5:30 11—5:31 12—5:32 13—5:33 14—5:34 15—5:35 9:03 9:02 9:01 9:01 9:00 8:59 8:59 Those Who Are in It It’s Major William F. “Red” MacDonald now! In a letter sent to Emil Messing on^June 16 and received this week, this former Vernonia high school teacher told that good news. In mentioning letters he had received, Major MacDonald said the last was the best, coming from “Ike Also,” who is better known as General Eisenhower. “Major Red” is somewhere in Africa, of course, and in the air service air corps. After a num ber of years at Vernonia high school, Mr. MacDonald was cal led from the reserves in the sum mer of 1941. While in the United States he was stationed at the Pendleton air base until not long before he was sent across last fall. The promotion, the second such to come to a Vernonia man, was made on June 7. Beginning their training at the U. S. naval training station at Farragut, Idaho are men from Vernonia. For the next few weeks these men will learn military discipline, various phases of seamanship, and undergo rigorous physical harden ing. Upon completion of their re cruit training, they will be given an opportunity to qualify for ad vanced training in one of the navy’s many service schools. These Vernonia recruits ‘ are: Norvan Wikstrom, son of Law rence P. Wikstrom, Taft; Paul Schaefer, son of Mrs. Nellie Roat- cap, 1432 Ogden Meadows, Van couver, Wash.; and Harold Lloyd Calhoon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Calhoon, Vernonia. From “in Tent City in Africa” comes a letter from Walter Par cells, who has recently been pro moted to technical sergeant. Walt describes a ten-day rest at a rest camp on the Mediterranean “to prevent the onset of secondary flying fatigue.” The camp is a large exclusive hotel taken over for a combat crews' rest camp on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea and a “swell beach.” Here’s what he says about his stay there: “The cooking was done by a French chef and we were served in courses by French waiters in white coats, black bow ties, and dark trousers. The food was very good and an excellent change. There were two Red Cross girls there to help entertain us; in fact, one of them was from Portland. “We slept in these quaint French villas, and let me tell you it was surely nice; This villa with its small trees, pretty flowers, etc. During the time I was there I did a lot of swimming . . . We got sail boats from some French sailors and would spend a great deal of the time sailing . . . You know, this Med. is one of the most beautiful bodies of water I have ever seen . . . “While we were there they had numerous shows for us along with a stage show—then on Saturday night they brought out French girls from the nearby coastal city and we had a swell dance. Some of the girls could not speak Eng lish, but the one I had has been spending the last five months studying English so we got along pretty well together. I like to hear these French talk broken English—it surely tickles me.” Walt concluded his letter by saying he felt 100 percent better after his stay there, and by men * tioning his promotion. After six month’s silence, Mrs. Herb Counts has received a let ter from her son, Eugene Cleve land, who is now a seaman c 1/c in the navy. He wrote from some where at sea, and reported he had been gaining weight. NATAL—Pvt. Darroll Dobyns and company have been moved from Fort Lewis to Pomona, Cal ifornia. Jackie Heenan has been trans ferred from Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri to Ft. Sheridan, Illinois for 6 weeks training in an ord- dnance auto school there. Elmer Goodman, son of Mrs. E. Nygaard, is at Bremerton for two weeks gunner’s training. Lloyd Frese, TM3/c was heard from this the South Pacific. He paymaster in the mill in the navy week from is a former office. Pvt. 'Claire Sunnell of Ft. Benning, Georgia is spending sev eral days here this week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sunnell. Clair, who is in the para troops, has a 15-day furlough, but because of traveling so long a dis tance, does not have time for a very long visit. Philip Estabrook of the navy was here recently on leave. S/2c Reggie Watson of the coast guard was here Tuesday night while on a 24-hour pass from Hammond, Oregon, where he is stationed. S/lc Martie Moreland, a navy gunner who participated in eight major battles off Attu, left here Thursday after spending a nine- day leave here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moreland. Seaman Moreland joined the navy about a year ago, and had been attending Roosevelt high school ir! Portland. His father has been Union oil plant manager here for about four months. Sgt. W. L. Walker, having fin ished maneuvers in Tennessee, is now stationed at Pine (Camp, New York. Grover A. Howard of the U. S. army arrived here Wednesday to be with his wife on O-A hill on a furlough which ends July 15. Price Reports Now Not Required Effective July 6, supplemental monthly reports of ceiling prices of cost-of-living commodities pric ed under the general maximum price regulation and the maximum price regulation which adopt their provisions with respect to such reports need not be filed with the war price and rationing board, Mrs. Ray Mills, price clerk for the local board announces. However, they must continue to keep invoices and other records showing how prices of new cost-of- living commodities were deter mined. Fiscal Year Is Ended June 30 At Post Office Bond Sales Nearly Quarter Million; Money Orders More With the end of the postal fis cal year on June 30, it was found that nearly a quarter-mil lion dollars worth of United States wj ’ savings bonds were sold at the local post office during that time. The exact total is $249,- 995.00, which represents an av erage monthly sale of almost $20,- 833. This January was the big gest bond sale month with a total of $44,006.25, while the month following, February, saw a low sale of $13,968.75 in bonds. War stamps worth $13,952.60 were sold, representing over $1,000 average sales a month. January was also the best stamp month, nearly half of the total, or $6,188.45 worth, being sold during that month. November was low month with a total of $439.25. The sale of money orders dur ing the year brought more money in the office than did bonds, for the total in that department is $389,417.43. The monthly sales were quite uniform, running either slightly more, or slightly less than $30,000.00 each month. During the deposited in creased from 202, which is fiscal year, money postal savings in $123,418 to $174,- a jump of $50,784. 86 Degrees Top June Temperature Highest temperature recorded by Ed Sessman at his weather station during June was 86 de grees on the 29th. The previous day had a high temperature of 82, while the high temperature for the 30th was 78. On June 30, 1942, the mercury climbed to 96 degrees. April and May maximum temperatures this year compared well with that of June, being 83 and 81 degrees, respectively. Min imum temperature last month was 37 degrees, occuring on the 11th. As for rainfall, 2.05 inches was recorded. Although to many, the showers experienced seemed like a lot of rain, 2.39 inches fell last June. In June, 1941, however, only 1.38 inches were recorded. In May of this year 1.45 inches of rain fell. Volume 20, Number 27 Shingle Mill Resumes Work Thursday morning saw the Cedarwood Timber company shingle mill crew of seven men back at work after a shutdown of over a month, due to a fire which badly damaged the mill on May 27. Rebuilding started almost im mediately, and it was hoped that operations could re sume two weeks ago. Howev er, L. E. Thompson, manager of the mill, was pleased to start up when he did. Food Preserving To Re Featured Mrs. Maude Casswell will give a lesson on frozen pack for the cold storage locker, as well as canning and drying of foods, on Friday. July 16, when the Vernon ia extension unit meets in the home economics room at the high school. The meeting starts at 10:30 a.m., and the public is invited. Those attending should take paper sack lunches and cups. Coffee will be served. May Gas Use Is Little Decreased Gasoline consumption in Ore gon during the month of May registered the smallest decrease for any month so far this year, according to Secretary of State Bob Farrell, who disclosed that gas use dropped only 10.8 per cent this May in comparison with May of 1942. There were 20,143,547 gallons of gasoline used in Oregon in May, compared to 22,602,294 gal lons in May of last year. Monthly decreases so far this year were: January, 29 percent; February, 22 percent; March, 15 percent; April, 17 percent; and May, 10.8 percent. For the year to date, gasoline consumption amounts to 84,887,- 393 gallons, a decrease of 18.4 percent from the gallonage of the first five month's of 1942. Taxes paid on gasoline used in Oregon for the first five months this year totaled $4,244,369,083. Animals Killed Walter Keene, government trap per, succeeded in trapping Thurs day, July 1 on the Sunset sheep ranch 4 coyotes and 2 wildcats. The ranch is located on the Wolf creek highway in Clatsop county, just over the Columbia county FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF July War Stamp Drive Asks $21,323 Of Columbia County Governor Snell assigned a quota of $21,323.00 to Columbia county to be raised by the sale of war savings stamps during July, ac cording to word received by Ir ving T. Rau, county war bond chairman. This is equivalent to $1.00 in war stamps for every in dividual in the county. ( The drive is part of a national campaign being conducted by re tail merchants to finance the building of an airplane carrier to be named Shangri-La. Cost of'the navy carrier is estimated at $135,- 000,000. Retail merchants of Columbia county are underwriting the cam paign to sell their share of Ore gon’s $1,164,000 quota during the month of July. Each merchant has purchased a supply of war sav ings stamps from his own capital funds and is handling the labor and accounting involved at no cost to the county war bond staff. The campaign is scheduled to continue through July. Coincidental with the July quota for stamps in the county is the fact that $21,300 worth of bond! were sold at the local post of fice alone during June. This figure is higher!* than that of May, and ranks third in six months. Total Rations Allowed Counted During the month of June the local rationing board allowed the following tires and tubes: for passenger cars-—55 new grade I tires, 36 grade III tires, and 47 tubes; for trucks—54 tires, 16 tire recaps, and 30 tubes. Miscel laneous items granted were 3 pairs of boots, 2 bicycles, 13 pairs of shoes (3 were denied), and 15 pounds of canning sugar to one applicant. Eight ration books No. 2 were issued, while 11 were surrendered. Truck gas rations, TT1, number ed 122; and TT2, 12. July quotas are as follows: 61 new grade I passenger tires, 15 grade III passenger tubes; 58 truck tires, 25 truck tubes, 2 farm tractor and implement tires, 2 new passenger autos, and 3 bi cycles. Bulk Gas Users Bank A plan has been inaugurated whereby gasoline rations for bulk needs will be issued in the form of gas deposit certificates, which enable the users to become depos itors under the ration banking systems without cost. Checks will be issued by the bulk user unoer the same checking system as for a monetary bank account. Cason's Truck Rurned Friday Cason’s motor transfer truck was rendered a complete loss by fire last Friday morning, July 2 while about 7 miles from here en route to Portland. The fire start ed at about 11:45 o’clock in the body of the truck in the rear. The truck contained upholstered furn iture, and was driven by D. C. Cason, owner of the truck, who was accompanied by Mrs. Cason. Mr. Cason has found another truck, which he expects to re ceive in a week or ten days. Complete instructions are avail able at the local rationing office. Distinction Won Mrs. J. C. Lincoln, former clerk at the local post office, was in the news in Vancouver last week when she wrote the millionth mon ey order at the Vancouver post office. The order, which only cost $1.00, was the millionth issued at the Vancouver office since 1900. Road Condition Improved Those who have been able to go to Portland within the last week or so have found the road between Treharne and the Co lumbia county line in a much im proved condition, due to the re surfacing of that stretch of road by the state h:ghway crew. Other work of the crew was likewise repairing that part of Bridge street from the foot cf Corey hill to the Lincoln grade school. Stamp Quota Of $1 for Each Person Is Set Mrs. Lincoln left the local post office last fall to be clerk at the Vancouver office. Lineman Is Hired U f. Clarence Divine, from Puyallup, Washington, began duties July 1 as lineman for the Oregon Gas and Electric company here. He fills the position left vacant sev eral weeks ago by Car] Sherman.
