County
News
DAIRYMEN DISCUSS
SAVING OF TRUCKS
RAINIER — Dairymen of Col
umbia, Wahkiakum, and Cowlitz
counties met in Rainier at the Volume 22, Number 14
• order of the office of defense
transportation to discuss means
of reducing the mileage of trucks
engaged in collecting cream.
Trucks are extremely short and
it was stressed that everyone
must do his part to conserve
mileage and keep those now op PRAISES WORK DONE HERE
erating at a maximum -of effic
Mrs. Helen Spofford received
iency. Men were chosen to elim- a letter recently from her broth
inate duplication of effort on the er, Claude Veal, who is stationed
collection routes. Barnyard col in the South Pacific. He writes,
lections were also eliminated. “A load of 3rd class mail came
This will save truck milage and in the other day and I got three
will necessitate the bringing of copies of the Eagle. They were
all cream cans to the highway.
all December but were welcome
anyway. I’d almost forgotten
COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS
that letter the Eagle reprinted
TO BE RENOVATED
ST. HELENS — Prospects of and was very surprised when I
holding a Columbia county fair saw it. It is good to see my name
in the paper. I’ve been away so
this year are practically nil, but long that I know very few names
the fairgrounds near Deer Island I read about.
will be renovated in anticipation
I am really proud of the work
of post-war fairs, the new county done by the Vernonia schools in
fair board decided last week at their bond drive and the award
its organization meeting follow they received. Although the treas
ing the appointment of two new ury bestowed a great honor on
members.
the schools it is insignificant in
The board made plans for comparison to the appreciation
building a new fence along the of us over here. The ordinary
highway, and for repainting the civilian has no comprehension of
fairground buildings and repair the vast quantities of material
ing the roofs.
which we have had and still need.
The efforts of those at home
make it possible for us to get
the material and we know what
to do with it. Now I am the only
one in this battalion who knows
about the Vernonia schools but
we all know wherd our backing
The weather report as given is coming from, so on behalf of
by the cooperative observer, Mrs. my buddies and for myself I
Helen Spofford, is maximum want to say that we’re as proud
temperature, 70 degrees on the - ■o fyour efforts as you are of us.
Another thing I am proud to
29th, that being the warmest
day. The coldest day temperature hear is the number of blood do
was 40 degrees which was the nors from home. That pint of
4th. There were six days when blood is, at its journeys end,
snow fell with a total' amount worth more than all of the gold
of snow of eight inches for the at Fort Knox. I’ve seen it used
■to success where, without it on
month.
There has been much talk of ly a miracle of God would save
the weather being unusual this a life. The process itself is a
year but March 1943 was the miracle and under these condi
unusual month. The record for tions, God’s most human and
that month shows a maximum great gift to man. It may inter
temperature of 60 degrees. The est the folks at home to know
coldest day had a maximum tem that we also make donations to
perature of 41 degrees. There blood banks. There can never be
was a total precipitation of 7.25 too much over here and the grat
inches as compared with 3.62 in itude that we feel to those that
ches for this year. The nearest give of their own life blood
to that amount since 1938 came that others may live can not be
in March, 1940 with a total of told in mere words.”
Claude wishes his Vernonia
3.14. It may be said that the
past month’s weather was aver friends would write to him and
age for this locality. Now is the has sent his address for that
time to put in gardens. In 1941 purpose, it is; Claud H. Veal
May was a very wet month and Fl/c 97NCB Co D-4, APO San
gardening was delayed. In July, Fransisco, Calif.
1941, no rain fell. However, TELLS OF NEW GUINEA
March 1941 was the driest March
Elmer Michener, son of Mr.
since 1938. These figures are giv and Mrs. Otto Michener, in a let
en for those who like to fore ter written March 21st and re
cast future weather.
ceived last Thursday by his par
ents, tells, "I am in New Guinea,
the land of the ever-never.” He
has been in Australia since last
November. He tells that he actu
ally saw an ice cream machine
and purchased three bars of hot
The eighth grade commence weather chocolate. He tells fur
ment date has been set for May ther of his usual evening chow,
23 at which time 60 students which consists of two slices of
will graduate. The commencement ham, sweet potatoes, gravy, lima
speaker will be Mr. C. A. How-, ■beans, pinapple, coffee and sugar.
ard, president of the Oregon Col As amusement he has gone to a
show every night for a week.
lege of Education.
Glen Hall and "Red” Ade are
located at the same place as
DEDICATION DATE SET
On Sunday, April 16, the Elmer.
Christian church will dedicate the LEAVES FOR FORT
newly-decorated auditorium in an
Pfc Geo. E. King left Monday
all-day service. Pot-luck dinner to return to Fort Leonard Wood,
will be served at 1 p.m., and in Missouri, after spending a weeks
the afternoon a special speaker visit with his parents Mr. and
will talk. Rev. Clifford Trout, Mrs. H. H. King.
minister of the Christian church
at Hillsboro, will probably be the GRADUATES AS PILOT
Among the flying fortress pil
speaker. The public is cordially
ots recently graduated at Hen
invited.
dricks Field, Sebring, Fla., was
Flight Officer Marshall C. Ma-
EXAMINER DUE APRIL 13
kinster.
He was assigned to
A traveling examiner of oper
ators and chauffers is scheduled Tampa, Florida following gradu
to arrive in Vernonia, Thursday ation.
Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon
Those Who
Are in It
Weather Report
For March Told
8th Grade To
Graduate May 23
April 13 and will be on duty at
the city hall between the hours
of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
All those wishing permits or
licenses to drive cars are asked
to get in touch with the examin
er during these hours.
CAFE GETS PAINT JOB
Mrs. Ray Buffmire and Mrs.
E. P. Belongia finished redecora
tion of the Terminal Cafe last
Thursday. The interior of the
building received a new Kem
Tone finish.
LIKES THE U.S.A.
1st Lt. A.C. James L. Smith,
who is in the European area has
completed 25 missions and has
hopes of getting to this country.
After being away he says he
really appreciates the
United
States. He says, "There just isn’t
any place to compare with it.
I’ve been to Africa, England,
Scotland, Ireland and haven’t
found a place that even comes
close.” He tells of his like for
this country in a letter received
a few days ago by Emil Measing.
IN AUSTRALIA
Bud Baker, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Baker of Wilark, has
been in Australia for two weeks
after completing 25
missions
from New Guinea, as was told in
a letter received recently by
Lyle Baker, his brother.
MERCHANT MARINE VISITS
MIST — Joe Henderson of the
Merchant Marines was down
from Portland one day last week.
He is waiting for his ship to be
refitted for a cruise.
HOME ON LEAVE
MIST — Frankie Checmonck
of the U.S.N. was at home over
the week end from Astoria, where
he is stationed at present.
Tax Declarations
Must Be Filed
Thursday, April 6, 1944
Gardening Musi Be Increased
City Park
Plans Show
Progress
Details May Be
Announced After
Next Meeting
In a report given by Wallace
McCrae to the city council at
the meeting Monday evening, he
assured the council that it will
be definitely possible to go ahead
with plans for improving the city
park by not only having a swim
ming instructor but by enlarging
the playground and having an
instructor in charge of tennis,
basketball, football, volley ball,
horseshoes, badminton etc. He
assured the council that funds
will be available and arrange
ments could be made for plans
to go ahead.
Details of these plans may be
announced after the next council
meeting. Some cleaning up has
been done at the park by high
school boys and they are plan
ning to mow the turf this week.
Six Local Men
Give Blood
Six men from Vernonia mo
tored to Portland Sunday to do
nate a pint of blood each in
payment for the donations which
have been given to Lode Mc
Donald. Those making the trip
were: Paul Gordon, who took the
men in his car, M. B. Willard,
Jim Cox, Al Bassett, Bob Spenc
er, and Cecil Johnson.
After completing their dona
tions, it was learned that 26
pints still were urgently needed
in payment to the blood bank
for the amount received by Mr.
McDonald.
Deputy Collectors
To Visit County
By April 15 this year declara
Deputy collectors will visit sev
tions of estimated 1944 income
eral cities and towns throughout
the state of Oregon between A-
and victory tax will be required
pril 1 and April 15 for the pur
of Borne 15 million Americans,
pose of assisting taxpayers in pre-
the Bureau of Internal Revenue
paiing their forms 1040ES, dec
predicts.
laration of estimated tax for the
When the federal “pay-as-you-
calender year 1944.
go” system lof income tax pay
They will be in three places
ment was put into effect the mid
in Columbia county. They will
dle of last year, it became nec
be at Rainier April 3, Clatskanie,
essary for the Bureau of Inter Council Approves Purchase
nal Revenule to make arrange t Other business taken care of April 4 and St. Helens, April 3
and 4 inclusive. They will also
ments to collect income and vic
by the council was the approval
tory tax in quarterly “pay-as- of the purchase of a 1935 one be visiting Washington county
you-go” instalments. For a large and one-half ton truck which is and will be in Hillsboro on April
number of wage-earners and sal subject to inspection. This truck 1 and April 13, to 15 inclusive.
In addition to the places shown
aried persons, their instalments will be used for a fire truck.
the same assistance is also avail
were taken care of by employers’
The council also
approved
deductions from pay-checks. For work to be done on the city able to taxpayers at the office of
some wage-earners and salaried dump. Regular business and the the Collector of Internal Revenue
persons and others whose income paying of bills was taken care Custom House, Portland, Oregon,
each day until April 15 which Is
came from other sources, declar of before the meeting closed.
the final day of the filing period.
ations, accompanied by instal
ments where taxes were due,
were required.
In 1944, “pay-as-you-go” is in
effect the whole year, and with
holding by employers is expected
to take care of the tax obliga
tions of most Americans. For oth
April is known as the early
Every one recognizes the im
ers, farmers and farm laborers
diagnosis month to the National
portance
attached
to
food
pro
included, tax declarations and in
Tuberculosis Association.
The
stalment payments still are nec duction and the need for supply Columbia County Health Associa
essary. Farmers, but not farm ing sufficient gasoiine rations to tion is sponsoring a Tuberculosis
wage earners, may1 wait until De farmers. It has been likewise film which was shown through
cember 15 to make their declara recognized that requirements of the courtesy of the local theater
tions, but if they wait, they must
non-highway gasoline for farm in connection with the regular
pay the entire amount due at
use have been most difficult to program.
that time.
One of the chief functions of
“Am I required to make a def- determine.
the local health association is the
laration by April 15?” you ask.
It has generally been the opin sale of Christmas seals.
Read on for your answer.
ion of our local boards that trans
Thursday April 6 another pic
Who Muit File Declarations
ture will be shown at the local
The following single persons port rations and non-highway ra union meeting. This has been
(married persons who have sep tions have been over-issued and made possible through the cour
arated are considered single) for that reason a coordinated tesy of the high school by giving
must file declarations and if tax program with the county farr.i permission to use their projector
now and also due to the assistance of
es are due, pay instalments by transportation committees
is deemed most important.
April 15:'
Mr. Paul Gordan who will oper
The new application for non- ate the machine.
1. Those who make more than
$2,700 in wages that are subject highway gasoline ration, Foi-m
A free T. B. test will be of
R-537 (Revised 1-44) provides fered to all the employees of the
to withholding by employers.
2. Those who make more than a place for the amount of gaso Oregon American mill. The test
$100 from sources not subject line recommended by the CFTC will be given at the mill some
to withholding, provided their to and the approving signature of time during the month of April.
tal income, regardless of source, that committee.
Tests will also be given in local
Where possible it is suggested schools. Exact dates for the tests
is expected to be $500 or more.
The following married persons that the applicant have his appli will be announced later.
(who have not separated) must cation R-537 considered by the
file declarations and if taxes are CFTC jrefore it is filed with the
due pay instalments by April 15. local board. When an application
1. Those who have a total in is submitted direct to the local
come of more than $3,500 in board by the applicant, on which
wages that are subject to with there is a quuestion as to the a-
holding by employers.
mount of gasoline applied for es
Six teams have been chosen
2. Those who make more than pecially for tractors and other
$100 from sources not subject to farm implements, it is suggested from the boys of the Washington
withholding provided that - - (a) that such application be referred grade school to form a league for
their combined income, regard to the CFTC for recommendation. baseball. There are thirteen boys
less of source, is expected to be In most instances we believe the on each team and the teams are
$1,200 or more, or (b) one indi county farm transportation com chosen from the boys of the sixth,
vidual income, regardless or mittees are in a better position seventh and eighth grades. Their
source, is expected to be more to determine from their records games are played during the noon
than $624.
and knowledge of the applicants’ hour at school. The captains for
While members of the armed farm Operations the amount of the six teams follow: -Dick
forces are not exempt from filing gasoline required. Although the ie Renfro, Donovan Reynolds,
tax declarations, the first $1,500 new form R-1537 does provide Donald Shepard, Homer Epperson,
of pay for each member is not space for certain information per R. A. George and Chuck Richard
taxable. This makes it unneces taining to the applicant's crops son.
sary for most of them to file and acreage, nevertheless there
declarations.
are many other factors to be tak SCHOOL GETS CITATION
Mustering out payment' to dis en into consideration which would
The Washington grade school
charged servicemen and cost-of not be revealed to the local board received their third citation for
living allowances paid to civilian on the applicati ■ but would be the third jeep which was pur
officers and employees of the known by the CFTC.
chased by the teachers and the
Government stationed outside of
The CFTC in your county can students of the school. The cit
the United States are exempt be contacted through the county ation was made by the treasury
from tax and are not counted in agent, who is secretary of the department and was for the jeep
income.
CFTC.
called the “Flying Jeep.”
Farmers Gasoline T. B. Tests To
Program Changed Be Given Soon
Grade Boys To
Play Baseball
More Planting
Urged To Meet
Food Demands
Info Is Available
from Many Sources
on Methods, Seeds
With the almost sure arrival
of spring days which, of course,
may be interspersed with some
rain, the thoughts of many Amer
icans will again turn to the prep
aration of a victory garden. This
week’s Eagle is devoted to point
ing out the necessity of an in
crease in the number of victory
gardens for 1944 over the num
ber urged last year. The need is
great. With food supplies going
to the armed forces and others
of the United Nations, those peo
ple remaining on the home front
must do their part to make up
for the shortage of food on the
home front.
To do away with much of that
shortage, the department of ag
riculture has announced a 1944
goal of 22 million victory gar
dens, two million more than last
year. Achieving the goal would
mean 10 million tons of fresh
food or 25 per cent more pro
duction than in 1943.
Plan your gardon
To many of those people who
are planning a garden for the
first time, the venture will re
quire a good deal of study in or
der to obtain satisfactory results
from the labor and money ex
pended. There are several sourc
es of information that will prove
valuable. Pei haps the best source
is the experience of neighbors
who have gardened successfully
before. They can tell the begin
ner of the best time to plant,
the most satisfactory method of
ground preparation, what insect
*pests may appear, what fertili
zers to use, which are the most
productive vegetables to grow in
this climate, about plant diseases,
tools, irrigation, and can’ give
many helpful hints that will save
time, effort, and expense.
Following the suggestions of
those who have gardened before
will prove of great value to the
beginner in raising a successful
garden.
There are other sources of in
formation that ca be tapped by
the new gardener. One is the
county agent, George A. Nelson,
who will be glad to assist in
every way possible and another
is the state agricultural exten
sion service which has bulletins
and circulars that may prove
helpful.
Us« basic tools
In Vernonia there are sever
al business firms which have sup
plies available for gardeners. Tho
Vernonia Trading company will
again stock flats of growing veg-
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