County
News
FORMER LOCAL BOY IS
CLATSKANIE MURDERER
RAINIER—Rainier unexpectedly
developed a “personal" interest in
what previously had been the
Clatskanie murder mystery.
The 16-year-old boy now facing
a first degree murder charge is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J.
Myers who operated a shoe shop
here last year. He attended Rain
ier high school and was involved
in the theft of a microscope and
was at one time found in the store
room of a local drug store at
tempting to obtain chemicals.
THIRTY-ONE BLOOD
DONORS GO FROM HERE
CLATSKANIE—Thirty-one don
ors from Clatskanie went to the
blood plasma bank in St. Helens
on Friday of last week. This is
the largest number from Clats
kanie since donations have been
made at the county seat.
A large number of those who
went were repeaters, many of
them on their third or fourth trip
to the bank. Need now appears
to be for more new donors, for
their are not enough of the re
peaters to keep the bank operat
ing to capacity.
WORK ON SHIP PLANT
TO START SOON
ST. HELENS—The 45-day job
of erecting a pier, a machine shop
and a warehouse and completing
the present unfinished office build
ing at the site of the Columbia
Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. at
Columbia City will get underway
soon and the concern expects to
be repairing ships at the expanded
yard in about two months, O. Alex
ander Mechlin, new general man
ager of the company said last
week. He estimated that the yard
would require 200 men “to start”
and added that the company plan
ned on employing a maximum of
400 men eventually.
HIGHWAY HEADS WARN
AGAINST ROAD ‘MIRACLES’
ST. HELENS—Members of the
state highway commission who paid
an official visit to Columbia coun
ty a week ago Monday heard post
war road construction plans as
conceived by the county court and
also listened to suggestions by rep
resentatives from various portions
of the county. When the job of
listening and discussing was end
ed. Merle Chessman, Astoria pub
lisher who was appointed to the
board some months ago, expres
sed the commission’s thanks for
the suggestions but cautioned that
road conscious citizens should not
“expect miracles.”
He pointed out that Oregon’s
commission expects to have some
federal money at the end of the
war to help finance a road con
struction prog’-am, but said the
exact amount would depend on
a measure now pending in con
gress. In any case, he warned,
there would not be enough cash to
pay for all the roads that Oregon
citizens want built.
Packages for
Service Men
Are Mailed
Mother’s Service Club
Wraps, Sends 100
Parcels Overseas
Members of the Mother’s Service
club met for three days last week
to wrap 100 packages for over
seas service men. All packages to
overseas army men were mailed
and some to the navy men. Other
packages are being held for lack
of the correct address.
The ladies of the club urge all
those having sons in the service
to hand their addresses to some
member of the club or send it
to Mrs. H. H. King, secretary.
The Mother’s service group will
hold a regular meeting at 2 o’clock
Wednesday, October 27 at the
Legion hall. At that time it will
be decided what Christmas gift
will be sent to the service men
still in the United States.
Columbia County
Men Inducted
The following men were induct
ed into the military service on Oc
tober 12 through the Columbia
county local board.
Arthur Walter Clawson was
placed in the coast guard.
In the navy are: Gordon Lyle
McClincy, formerly of Vernonia;
Troy Raymond Grimshaw, Harold
Norman Foshaug, Clarence Lowell
Hamilton, Daniel Boulton McCal
lum, Delbert William Zerkel, and
Robert Herbert Mattson.
Inducted into the army are: Carl
Edison Putman, Zedic Henderson,
Theodore Alford Pelletier, Richard
Aurelius Guentner, Robert Birch
Ziemer, Robert Riley Timmons,
William August Crawford, Ver
nonia; Paul Gene DeShazer, Rob
ert Lloyd Hartney, Edward Carl
Sirnio, Johnnie Donald Weaver,
and George Bud Armstrong of
Vernonia.
Transfers were Marvin Wesley
Hawkins from Troy, Missouri and
Charles Becundo Marson, from
Oakland, Calif.
Park Lights
Hard to Obtain
In order to use city park lights
it was necessary to obtain permis
sion from the 9th Regional Civilian
Defense board, with whom Wallace
McCrae, principal of the high
school, dealt to gain the permis
sion. It was learned that recrea
tional lighting for football is per
RAINIER PRESENTS PLEA FOR mitted up to a maximum of thirty
BUILDING HIGHWAY SOUTH
foot candles, but only when it is
RAINIER—Rainier’s long-sought used for sports or recreation. A re
highway development, the Long port also had to be made by J. W.
view Bridge-Nehalem valley link Nichols as to the complete informa
of the north-south highway pro tion on the lighting installation, the
ject, was placed last by the county actual footcandles of light on the
court when it met with the state ground and what percentage of
highway commission Monday at light was emitted above the hori
St. Helens in a conference upon zontal.
Mr. McCrae also asked about
post-war construction and as well
declared for rebuilding of High an outdoor bonfire and found that
way 30 beginning at St. Helens permission could not be granted as
and continuing west. This opposes the light would /lot be shielded
the Rainier proposal that the “bot above the horizontal.
tleneck” section between Rainier
and Tide creek be improved first.
It is the local view that the road
between St. Helens and
Tide
creek is a fairly satisfactory one,
but that curves and grades on this
end of the route make it diffi
Members of the Nehalem Valley
cult and relatively more danger Rod and Gun club will hold their
ous.
October meeting this Friday, Oc
Fred W. Herman, speaking for tober 22 at 8 o’clock at the Bush
a delegation from here laid out a Funeral home, according to an an
map showing the proposed north nouncement Wednesday by the
south highway as it would extend club president, Jewett A. Bush.
from Canada to California, bring At that time members of the club
ing travel over the Longview will discuss problems relative to
bridge and thence south to 99 bettering fish and game conditions
west via the Apiary route. iVer- jn the Nehalem valley.
To date the club has 92 mem
nonia and Forest Grove—or also
providing a connection for travel bers and all are urged to be pres
ent Friday evening.
to Oregon coastal points.
Rod and Gun
Club to Meet
Friday Foolball Game Here
May Decide County Title
Vernonia football fans will have
the opportunity to see what may
be the game that will clinch the
Columbia
county
championship
title for the Loggers this Friday
when Scappoose will be here for
their annual game with the Log
gers. Reason for the opinion that
this may prove the deciding game
for the county title is the record
of both teams to date in this
years play. Scappoose has been
defeated by two other elevens,
neither of them
being league
teams, and must win over St. Hel
ens and iVernonia to win title
honors and the championship for
the second consecutive year.
So far this season the Log
gers have a better record hav
ing won over Tillamook and St.
Helens and losing only to Seaside,
the latter not being a conference
game. Should Vernonia win Fri
day’s game over the Indians, the
only hurdle between the Loggers
and title honors will be Rainier
as Clatskanie is not entering a
team in league play this year.
The Friday event will be the
first game of the season under
city park lights and the first time
for two years that the lights have
been used due to dimout regula
tions which have been effect.
Both tenms will be in top form
for the event, both having rested
over last week end in anticipa
tion of the contest. Vernonia’s
eleven will be strengthened by
the return of Glen ‘Scooter’ Jus
tice who has not seen action so
far this season.
Defendents Win
In Court Cases
In a case heard in the circuit
court in St. Helens last week, the
jury found for the defendants
in an action filed by Baxter S.
Moore against the United Log
gers. The plaintiff was sueing to
recover some personal property
which he alleged United Loggers
had removed without his consent.
The property included a gasoline
donkey.
In his complaint Moore asked
for $1874.50 damages, plus $85
per day from April 28, 1943.
The case of Christine McKenzie
against T. B. Mills, also was
scheduled for
hearing
Friday,
October 15 but has been post
poned indefinitely.
Clarence Steel of Vernonia,’ who
has been held in the county jail
for several weeks on an auto theft
charge, appeared before Circuit
Court Judge Howard K. Zimmer
man last week and entered a plea
of guilty to the court. Zimmer
man sentenced
him
to
four
months in the county jail and
gave him credit for the time al
ready put in at the jail.
Revival Meetings
Prove Interesting
The revival meetings at the
Christian church are becoming in
creasingly interesting and
the
church is lending its heartiest co
operation, it was stated this week
by the minister, Rev. W. 0. Liv
ingstone.
The young evangelist, Oouglas
Winn, is a young man of unusual
talents for his work and his ser
mons are attracting much atten
tion. He plans to give a feature
sermon on Tuesday evening of
next week on the story of his life
and how he became a preacher at
the age of eight years. The public
is cordially invited to all of the
services.
BARBER SHOP OPENED
E. P. Richardson has started
operation of the barber shop form
erly operated by Wendell Kuper-
smith. Mr. Richardson and family
moved to Vernonia last week from
Gresham.
Vernonia Loggers
Scappoose Indians
Lyle Galloway (38) 164 lbs. LE 165 lbs. (30) Carlton Dudley
Larry Brady (32) 160 lbs. LT 176 lbs. (19) Eldon Anderson
Ralph McDonald (35) 165 lbs LG 145 lbs (29) Thomas Satchell
Dan Rollins (30) 166 lbs.
C 195 lbs. (15) Gorden Johnson
James Johns (31) 142
RG 176 lbs. (27) Wallace Johnson
Gerald Riley (34) 170 lbs.
RT 164 lbs. (31) Leonard Martin
Jack Riley (41) 158 lbs.
RE 165 lbs. (16) Warren Lund
Les Galloway (40) 176 lbs. Q 150 lbs. (50) Ernest Cardwell
Glen Justice (33) 136 lbs. LH 181 lbs. (25) Robert Anderson
Fred Larsen (36) 142 lbs. RH 170 lbs. (51) Ronald McReary
Lewis Lane (39) 178 lbs
F
155 lbs. (21) Jim Shearer
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Those Who
Are in It
HOME ON LEAVE
Bob A. Tindall is home on a 35-
day leave from the navy hospital
at San Diego. He is visiting with
his mother, Mrs. O. S. Poynter
and sister Betty.
FOUR BROTHERS IN SERVICE
A letter received a few days
ago by Ed Frazee from his mother
told of the various locations of his
four brothers, all of whom are in
the armed forces.
Hubert L. Frazee is with the
Seabees in the 97th N. C. Bat
talion and is stationed at present
in Ireland.
Cpl. Joe Frazee of the army
is located on Guadalcanal in a
signal company and has been there
for 16 months.
Aviation Cadet Merle will grad
Outside Lights Effected
There seems to have been some
misunderstanding as to how strong
the lights may be on the outside of
buildings. According to J. W.
Nichols outside lights over 100
watts are still effected by the
lighting restrictions.
Fortress Flys Low
Over Vernonia
Many Vernonia people were
startled and then left to wonder
why a flying fortress was circling
and flying so low over the city
Tuesday afternoon. It was later
revealed in a telephone message
to the former Alice Hoffman that
her husband, Major Donald Tower,
was just saying hello to her. Mrs.
Tower left immediately for Port
land to visit with her rusband as
he left Wednesday morning for
Moses Lake, about 80 miles from
Wenatchee, Washington, where he
is stationed.
uate about November 1st as pilot
at Thunderbird Field at Glendale,
Arizona.
The fourth brother, Max, is in
the cooks and bakers division of
the army and is located in Ala
bama.
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SEES LOTS OF PACIFIC
In a letter received this week
by Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bush, Wil
liam Larson writes that he has
seen quite a lot of the Pacific
ocean lately and that all of the
country that he has seen so far
doesn’t compare with the good old
U.S.A. He also thinks that the
West Coast is pretty wonderful.
HOME ON FURLOUGH
Lt. Phillip Millis Jr., is home
on furlough from the army air
corps.
War Chest Drive
Gets Under Way
The war chest drive was start
ed in Vernonia Saturday, Octob
er 16 with a dance sponsored by
the American Legion Auxiliary and
the Mother’s Service club at the
Legion hall. After the expenses
of the dance were met they were
able to turn: over $55.30 to the
drive. Several business places have
been visited by the committee
members under the chairmanship
of Mrs. H. M. Culbertson and the
response has been very good. To
date the total amount received is
$337.80.
Revival Meeting
Cancelled Here
Registration
For War Book
4 Dates Set
School* Here Will Be
Closed for Thursday,
Friday Sign-Up
According to word received here
Wednesday by Paul Gordon, grade
school superintendent, war ration
book four will be issued in the
elementary schools in Columbia
county on October 28 and 29. The
hours of registration are from
1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Octob
er 28 and from 9 a.m. to 8:00
p.m. on October 29. The registra
tion will be held for two days only.
Otto H. H. Petersen, county
school superintendent who has
charge of issuing war ration book
four in Columbia county, an
nounced that the following people
will be the site-administrators in
the Vernonia ration board area:
Natal--Mrs. Bertha Smith
Birkenfeld — Miss Frances Sharp
Vernonia and Keasey—
Paul A. Gordon
Mist—Elva J. Owen
Kist—Mathilde Bergerson
Mr. Peterson states that all el
ementary schools will close Thurs
day noon and remain closed until
Monday. November 1. He asks that
no person apply at the school
for book four until Thursday,
October 28, but urges that appli
cations be made as early as pos
sible after that time to avoid a
last-minute rush.
Any person may apply for war
ration book four for a family
group but the applicant must be
sure to have with him war ration
book three for each person for
whom he is applying
War ration book four will be
distributed to all persons except
members of the armed forces who
are subsisted in kind, or who are
members of officers’ messes, per
sons confined to institutions and
persons residing less than 60 days
in the United States.
Application blanks for war ra
tion book four will ‘be found at
the schools on the dates of regis
tration.
Mr. Peterson states that he has
been informed that stamps from
book four will be used on Novem
ber 1 in lieu of the blue stamps in
book three. It i# therefore import
ant that each person register on
October 28 from 1.00 p.m. to
9:00 p.m. and October 29 from
9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. since it will
be impossible to obtain »book four
from the local ration board for
some time after November 1.
Revival services with Rev and
Mrs. A. J. Princic will not be
The arrival of the plane over held at the Assembly of God
Vernonia created much comment church as was scheduled to start
and brought people to the streets October 17. At the last moment
to see a plan that probably few an unforseen difficulty arose mak
civilians have had an opportunity
ing it impossible to carry out the
to witness at such close range.
The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
plans. It is felt by the Pastor,
of Vernonia helped to a consid
Rev. Clayton E. Beish, that to get erable extent the purchase of a
Examiner Due Here
a substitute speaker at this time Flying Fortress with bonds pur
A traveling examiner of opera
chased by members of the two
tors and chauffeurs is scheduled would be unsatisfactory due to the
groups according to information
to arrive in Vernonia Thursday, fact that the ■Christian church is
released by Emil Messing, post
October 28 and will be on duty having their revival.
master this week. The two lodges
at the city hall between 10:00 a.m.
A fellowship meeting and prayer purchased $14,888 in series E
and 4 p.m. All those wishing per
mits or licenses to drive cars are conference was enjoyed and felt bonds during the 3rd war loan
asked to get in touch with the ex very profitable by visiting minis drive between September 9 and
October 2. that money being ear
aminer during these hours.
ters and representatives from this marked to apply on the purchase
section of Oregon.
which was made by the members
CARETAKER NEEDED
in Oregon.
The
same
meeting
schedule
will
The Vernonia Golf club an
The name "Odd Fellows and
nounces this week that a care be continued as was in effect be
taker is need for the Vernonia fore the announcement of the Rebekahs of Oregon" will be plac
course and that the individual special meeting.
ed on the plane.
who is interested may avail him
self of free house rent in addi
SUGAR USE EXPLAINED
tion to the income from the
Acording to Mrs. Paul Gordon,
course. Applicants are urged to
clerk of the local rationing board,
Sunrise and Sunset Hours
see C. L. Anderson for details.
5:1$
there seems to be some misunder October 22—6:38
23
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6:39
5:12
NO SHOE STAMP DUE NOW
standing about the sugar that is
5:10
24—6:41
Information wa,: released this obtainable with the blue ration
25—6:42
5:08
week by Mrs. Paul Gordon, ration
stamps. This sugar can be used
26—6:43
5:07
board clerk, that no special shoe
—6:45
5:05
stamp will be issued between Oc only for canning and not for
28—6:46
5:03
table use.
tober 15 and November 1.
Ronds Aid in
Plane Purchase
Dimout Aid