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County News WAR CHEST OVER TOP IN COUNTY ST. HELENS — A check for $1,817.47 from Local 37, IWA, representing Clark & Wilson em ployees at Wilark put Columbia county over the top in the war chest drive. The sizeable sum from Clark and Wilson’s work ers pushed the total cash receipts to $17,758.83 and there are still several districts to be heard from, so it seems probable that the chest will be subscribed well past its $17,500 goal. MONTHI Y PAPER DRIVE PLAN OF COMMITTEE CLATSKANIE — Monthly drives for newspaper salvage are planned by the county committe, according to Otto H. H. Peter son, Starting in January, people of the county are asked to co operate by saving their news papers and magazines. Tentative plans have been made to supply cord to various schools in the county so that children can take it home to use in tieing paper for delivery. The salvage committee has a contract with a Longview con cern calling for payment of $10 a ton and also providing for the company to pick up the paper at various collection points in the county. FLUORESCENT LIGHTING INSTALLED AT SCHOOL Group Formed 18 County Business Rise Here Recently Men Called Reported Over For Chest Last Year Hope Is to Care for Any Cases That May Be Reported The civic committee of the Vernonia Study club and the CIO war chest committee met on the evening of December 14th to ap point a permanent community chest committee. Three from the CIO, Harry Hall, Otis Fuller and Tom Henderson and the civic committee of the sjudy club, Is- abell Culbertson, Olivia Brickel, Mary Fletcher and Evelyn Heath, will comprise the chest group. The committee worked out plans and a budget for the com ing year and have presented them to the Columbia county war chest committee for its ap proval and action. It is hoped that the Vernonia community chest will be able to function then and care for any cares that may be reported. RAINIER — Fluorescent light ing at the grade school, which has been carried on during the weeks of fall, has progressed to a point where installation in the old building Jias been completed. It was in this section of the school plant that lighting was the poorest and providing the greatest handicap to student pro gress. The new lighting program will SEES PRESIDENT be carried to other portions of' In a letter received by Mary the building as rapidly as war Katherine Norris from Jack Bak time conditions permit the work er, he writes that while he was to proceed. on guard duty he was privileged DEFENDANT PAYS ito see President Roosevelt. He al OFF IN PENNIES ST. HELENS — Ordinarily it so writes that he is getting his isn’t necessary for a justice of Eag’es regularly and enjoys them the peace to get a wheelbarrow very much. The following men were re cently inducted into the service by the Columbia county local board. Those inducted into the navy were: Billie W. Bassett, In Spite of Shortage, Steve Bjornson, Guy Lowell Rationing Markets Hanson. Russell Charles Juola, Show Improvement John Raymond Chambers and Paul Martin, all of Vernonia, Most all types of business in and Harold Lorenzo Thomas, Vernonia report a marked in James H. Lyons, Del W. Dungey, Harry Gilbert Bowles from Be crease this year as compared loit, Kansas; and Thomas J. with last year. The drug busi Sherlock from Westmoreland, ness has had an increase even Kansas. though there has been a shortage Those going into the army of merchandise. The dry goods were: Charles Donald McDonald, business reports a marked in and Lloyd Ellise Tunnell from crease this over the past sev Vernonia and Dick F. Bousley eral years and the opinion was and Jack Penney. Carl Payson expressed that this is due to Dietz went into the army air having a morj complete stock of corps. merchandise. The sale of hardware has en CLASSES RESUME JAN. 3 joyed a little increase this year, Classes for students of the although last year was a very Vernonia grade schools and the good year for that business. The high school will resume January food stores report a good year 3 after being closed for the this year with an increase over Christmas and New Year’s holi last year, but the furniture bus days. Students have been on va iness has not been as good this cation this week, classes having year as compared with other ended December 24 years due to the lack of mer chandise such as washing ma chines, refrigerators, hot water heaters, and many other types of furniture. The garages report a very slight increase in business this year over last and a decrease of his aptitude as measured b.v in business of former years when a written examination. He grad there were new ears available uates from the school well fitted to sell. In general, although many for more important service in the articles formerly offered for sale American army. are unavailable, business locally COURSE IS COMPLETED has experienced a gain over the Second Lt. George Lowell previous year. Hieber completed a course De cember 23 in depot administra YANKS’ VERSION: SOME tion ar.d supply at the army ser WHERE IN AUSTRALIA vice forces at Columbus, Ohio. Somewhere in Australia, where He received his commission in the sun is like a curse. the quartermaster corps at Camp Where each long, dull day is re Lee, Va., May 28, 1943. placed by another slightly worse, SPENDS CHRISTMAS HERE James R. Templeton arrived Where the brick-red dust is thick er than the shifting desert home Thursday, December 24 to sands, spend Christmas with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Temple And a white man dreams and wishes for the greener, fairer ton. He left Saturday for his lands. camp at Pittsburg, California Those Who Are in It < to trundle cash receipts from fines to the bank, but J. G. Nau man, St. Helens J. P., felt like putting in a call for such a con veyance recently when a “custo mer” paid off the $22.50 in fine and costs Nauman had levied on him. The customer was' Floyd D. Smith of Columbia City and he took care of the money he owed the court by plunking down a sack filled with 2,250^ pennies— “piy savings”, he told the consid erably astonished J. P. Instead of making a careful count of the cash before issuing a receipt, Nauman hefted (using both hands) the bulging sack, conclud ed it had the required amount of pennies inside, and then reached for the receipt book. REPAIR DEPOT MEETING HELD CbATSKANIE — A meeting of all interested farmers was held here Wednesday evening to organize groups for farm -ma chinery repair. Plans are now underway for establishing a farm machinery program to assist the farmers in keeping their equip ment in working order. The pro gram is under the state division of vocational education and is cooperating with local schools in setting up the program. One repair depot will be at the Walter Thomas repair shop in Quincy and one or two will be established in Clatskanie, de pending upon the response and demand of local farmers. They will be located at the Puzey Ma chine shop and the Thomp son Machine and Repair shop. COURT OPENS BIDS ON LAND SALE Opening of bids for purchase of 4,748.08 acres of county-own ed land in -the Clatskanie dis trict was set for Wednesday aft ernoon by the county court. It is no tcertain that the court will accept any of the bids at its session .however. Incidentally, although the coun ty general fund will benefit from the several thousand dollars ex pected to be received from the sale, school districts with holdings in the tract now on the block will get about half of the pro ceeds, Judge Ray Tarbell said. ATTENDS COLLEGE Donald Zeiner is reported to be taking training at Marshall College in West Virginia. He is studying meteorology, mathemat ics, English and physical train ing. He will continue his training at this college for eight months and is then slated to continue training in the air corps at Ran dolph Field, Texas. Donald went into the service last August. He is a former (Ver nonia high school student. GRADUATES Recent graduation exercises at the naval training school (diesel) on the Iowa State col lege campus, Ames, Iowa, saw Bluejacket George E. Schmidlin, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Schmidlin, receive recognition as a “qualified striker” for the petty officer rate of motor ma chinist’s mate third class. His selection to the speciality school was based on the results of his recruit training aptitude tests. The completed course of study included the operation, function and maintenance of in ternal combustion engines. A theoretical phase also included fuel oil engines and electricity. The newly graduated man, now a fireman second class, will await active duty orders to sea or to some shore station. RETURNS TO DUTY Paul Cummings CB 3/c, who has been home on furlough since December 17, has returned to his ship at Gulfport, Miss., leaving here December 27. RETURNS TO SITKA Hale Graves AMM 1/C has returned to Sitka, Alaska after completing a special assignment in Seattle that required about a month. During Graves’ stay in Seattle he had two week ends in Vernonia with his family. COMPLETES COURSE Second Lt. Daniel D. Olin, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Olin, Ver nonia, successfully completed on December 23 a special course of instruction at the southern signal corps school at Camp Murphy, Florida. Lt. Olin was selected for this specialized training on the basis where he is taking training in combat engineering. REPORTS COLD WEATHER Pfc. George E. King writes in a letter received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. King, that the weather has turned cold where he is stationed and that it has snowed and has been freez ing. He also writes that his dad has nothing on him as he is now a cop and he likes his work very much. George is stationed at Shrev- port, La. RETURNS TO CAMP KEASEY—Pvt. Ralph Kreiger who has been home on a five- day leave, returned to his camp at Pittsburg, Calif., where he had just been transferred from West Virginia. He is in the quarter master corps of the army. CONFINED TO HOSPITAL Sgt. Ben J. Fowler is con fined to a hospital due to ulcers of the throat. WEATHER TOLD In a letter received recently from his uncle, Hubert, James Frazee learned that he is sta tioned in Ireland with the Sea bees. He wrote that the weather there is just like it is over here. AUSTRALIAN GIRL REPLIES Sometime ago there appeared in this column a poem entitled "Somewhere in« New Guinea.” Now it has been learned that the correct title is more likely to be “Somewhere in Australia.” Recently an answer came to that poem from Glen Kobow, son of Mrs. Maude Kobow. He is a warrant officer stationed in Aus tralia and he writes that a girl from Brisbane, Australia had written a reply to the poem. Both the poem and reply follow: Somewhere in Australia, where a women ’» never seen, Where the sky is never cloudy and the grass is never green, Where the dingoes’ nightly howl- ing robs a man of blessed sleep, Where there isn’t any whiskey, and the beer’s never cheap. Somewhere in Australia, where the nights were made for love, Where the moon is like a search light,' and the Southern Cross above Sparkles like a diamond neck lace in the balmy tropic night, It’s a shameless waste of beauty when there’s not a girl in sight. Somewhere in Australia, where the mail ,is always late, Where a Christmas card in April is considered up to date, Where we never have a pay-day, so we never have a cent, But we never mias the money, ‘cause we’d never get it spent. Somewhere in Australia, where the ants and lizards play. Where a hundred fresh mosqui toes replace everyone you slay, So take me back to ‘Frisco, let me hear that mission bell, For this God-forsaken outpost is a substitute for hell. REPLY Somewhere in Australia, where the Yankees are a curse, (If I wasn’t such a lady I could think of something worse.) Where the Yankee’s hide is thick er than the brick-red» dust they scorn. And the baseball players' bowl ings wake the roosters up ere morrt. Somewhere in Australia, where a women’s never seen (Continued on page 4) Ten Events of Past Year Told A.W.S. Placed on Alert— The aircraft warning service was placed on an alert status at 6:00 p.m. October 16. The observa tion post was no longer manned 24 hours a day but observers were subject ito call instead. The aircraft warning service definite ly was not abondoned. Death Call* Wilkerson— Judge James B. Wilkerson died at his home here on November 25 at the age of 74 years. He served as county school superintendent, taught school in several Columbia county cities and was also a county judge, the justice of peace for Vernonia, and was serving as school clerk at the time of his death. School* Buy Jeep*— The Ver nonia grade schools set a goal to purchase a jeep by December 7, which was Pearl Harbor day. The enthusiasm was so great that two jeeps were purchased hy theat date. The first jeep was priced at $1165 and was called the Original, the second was the Amphibion and cost $2090, The Vernonia high school also purchased a jeep which was cal led ithe Grasshopper and was priced at $3000, This jeep was also purchased by Pearl Harbor day. Stamp Valid Now for Pork Spare stamp No. 1, in book No. 4 became valid on December 22 for 5 points to consumer pur chase of pork products only. The expiration date for the consumer is January 2, 1944. This stamp is good for pur chase of any ration 16 products by retailers and wholesalers. Re tailers and wholesalers will hand le these stamps like any brown stamps worth five points. The date for filing token re quests by retailers with banks has been extended to January 8, 1944. Since a number of inquiries have been received on the sub ject of slaughtering and curing farm animals considerable thought has been given the subject with respect to the issuance of sugar for the homecuring of meat. Subject Bring* Comment This subject occasioned com ment last year and a study was made to determine whether or not an adequate formula for is suing sugar could be devised by OPA. It was found that the amounts of sugar used in rela tion to meat for home curing varied to such a degree that it is impossible to set up any stand ard by which issuance could be made. In view of the administrative impracticability of issuing small amounts of sugar to farmers for heme curing, it was felt by OPA that the best solution of the problem was the encouragement of production of curing com pounds by manufacturers. Ha* Accident Gerald Riggins had an acci dent with his car December 22, when it ran off the road, hitting a fence and damaging the side and top. . Chrittma* Dinner Enjoyed Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Frazee and family enjoyed Christmas din ner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold McEntire. • Visit from Seattle Sgt. and Mrs. Dale Poore ar rived from Seattle to visit with Mrs. Poore’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Casselman, and he- daughter, Janice. They visited from Wednesday of last week until Sunday. Note—The following is a tabu lation of the ten most important news events of the past year in Vernonia and the Upper Nehalem Valley. Gordon Named Head of Ver nonia Grade School*— Paul Gord on was elected head of Vernonia elementary schools at a school board meeting Saturday, Janu ary 9,^ to replace E. H. Condit, who resigned to take either de fense or farm work. Mr. Gordon's term began July 1. Nehalem Hotel Ha* Fire— A stubborn fire of indefinite origin began shortly before 9:00 p.m. on March 14. The fire almost completely destroyed the upper story of the building, causing a $5,000 damage of which there was no insurance to cover. Shingle Mill Burn*— A fir« starting in the engine room shortly before 3:00 p.m. Thurs day, May 27, quickly swept over the Cedarwood Timber Co. mill leaving damages estimated at about 50 per cent and the loss was $3,500 to $4,000 with no insurance to cover the damage. 40 Ton* of Scrap Shipped— Trucked to Portland around June 17 were 40 more tons of scrap metal. This was the second ship ment since last fall’s scrap drive about 85 tons being shipped by rail early in April. Star* Added to Flag— A star for each of 310 men and women who have gone ‘into the service from Vernonia are now contain ed in the service flag which hangs in the Evangelical church. Fifty-eight stars were added around the first of July, seven of them for women, and a dedi cation service was held Sunday, June 28 at the Evangelical church. The center of the flag has a large V for Victory. Tiny Baby I* Born — Mary Edith Branton, weight one and one-half pounds, was born Satur day, August 21 at 6:00 a.m. at home and an hour later wa3 tak en to the Lloyd Maternity home in Riverview where she was cared for by Mrs. E. L. Lloyd. War Bond Drive—September 9 was the start of Vernonia’s in vasion war bond drive, which featured house-to-house canvas sing, an invasion bond rally Sep tember 10, an auction, and other means to help make it possible for Columbia county to meet its quota of $1,017,900. Plans were made for the drive to continue through September. Flu Epedemic Still Going The influenza epidemic in Ver nonia is still going at a steady pace with approximately 25 to 30 cases reported per day. It is also reported that this illness strikes without warning, leaving some very ill. but few cases of pnuemonia have been contacted. There seems to be no rise in the number of cases, nor has there been any decided decrease in number. Persons coming down with the flu may be doing them selves a favor In a round-about way for if a more serious va riety should develop, those who have had the disease may have become immune to it. CEASE WORK FOR WEEK The Oregon-American Lumber corporation stopped operation December 24 to do some neces sary repairing and to observe the Christmas holidays'. The mill will resume operation January 3. Portland Visitor* Mr. and Mrs. R. Casselman visited in Portland for two days this week.
