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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1944)
County News DRILLING STRATED ON NEW 12” WELL RAINIER — Drilling of a well on the Rainier watershed was started last week and two shifts are working under the direction of A. M. Jannsen of Beaverton, a well driller who was hired to test after being consulted on the matter at a water commission meeting. At that time it was apparent that the water supply was too low for safety, and it was voted and advertised that the intention of the water commission was to expend an amount not to exceed $10,000 for the purpose of se curing a suitable and sufficient water supply, by employing a competent well driller to drill a 12-inch well. So far the drillers have got ten to a depth of somewhere near 150 feet and only clay has been drilled so far. CHARLES N. ROGERS TAKES ASTOR1AN AS PARTNER ST. HELENS — Charles N. Rogers, for the past six years owner of a Funeral home here announced last week the sale of a one-half interest in his business to Ben O. Coleman of Astoria, who will move here as soon as his business affairs in the dowrt river city will permit. The local business will be man aged by both Mr. Rogers and Mr. * Coleman, both holding licenses as embalmers and funeral direc tors. P. O. SHOWS BIG INCREASE CLATSKANIE — Business at the Clatskanie post office for this year so far has exceeded all pre vious records. Acting Postmaster Martha Col vin has just completed the re ports for the quarter of the year which includes' July, August and September. Compared with the same figures for 1943 an increase of practically 50 per cent has been made. 50TH YEAR CEREMONY HELD ST. HELENS — Commemora ting its founding on October 10, 1894, Mizpah chapter, Order of Eastern Star, held its golden an niversary on Tuesday evening, Oct. 10, in the Masonic Temple. Invitations were extended,to the Masonis body, and to all chapters of Eastern Star in the state. Service Man's Ration Larger Starting last Saturday, service men on leave or furlough 72 hours or longer can obtain fur lough rations of processed foods on the basis of ten points for each nine meals, Williard Case, OPA food rationing representa tive has advised. Before the new amendment, which became effective October 7, furlough rations of processed foods were issued to service men on the basis of eight points for each nine meals. The adjustment was necessary because point val ues of processed foods are now set in multiples of ten, Case ex plained. Progress in War Fund Drive Made $3600 Needed Here To Help Meet Quota of County The solicitation of funds for the Oregon War Chest drive which began the first of this week is progressing better to date than is usual for such campaigns, au thorities in charge of the affair stated Wednesday morning. The contacts so far have been made by the committee working under the chairmanship of Mrs. Harry Culbertson and have been made among those who probably will not be contacted through IWA Local 5-37. Committee workers include Mrs. Harry San- don, Mrs. Ralph Valpiani, Mrs. Holly Holcomb, Jr., Mrs. A. J. Hughes, Mrs. Ben Brickel and Herman Dickson. No total of funds for the chest has been made at this early date but the opinion that the drive was pro gressing better than usual was based on the general response received by those making the con tacts. Mist Worker Named Subscriptions to the war chest will be sought at Mist by Mrs. Bridgers and at Birkenfeld by Mrs. Guy Bellingham. To fill Columbia county’s quo ta of $15,725, this area has been assigned as its portion of that amount, a figure of $3600, ac cording to D. O. Bennett of St. Helens, county chairman. Overseas Mail Nears Last Date Mailing of Christmas packages to service men and women over seas must be done within a very short time as the final date set by postal authorities for that mailing is October 15. That dead line leaves only three days for mail to be sent through this post office—today, Friday and Sat urday. Considerable mailing has been done he.. already, various or ganizations sending gifts in ad dition to individuals. The Assem bly of God church has mailed 11 packages, seven of them over seas. These packages contained shaving kits, soap, soap boxes, tooth paste, tooth brush, station ary, and candy. The gifts were wrapped and packed Monday evening at the H. H. Frank home. Five Names Filed No new names were filed be fore the Oct. 5 deadline other than the four men now serving as councilmen and the mayor. The names filed are: George John son, mayor, J. E. Tapp, John Grady, Ray Mills and Loel Rob erts, councilmen. AUbITORIUM REDECORATED GET’EM IN THE MAIL NOW I Don't Forget, October 15th 1« the Deadline Completed this week was the redecoration of the auditorium of the Christian Church. The floors have been sanded and refinished; walls and woodwork received new paint. Hunters Spot More Deer This Year, Said The annual trek qf hunters to these places where they hope to bag their animals brings out many stories of experiences, the hunters fortunate enough to make a kill elaborating on how they were successful and those who didn’t return with meat, tell ing in the same detail why they failed. A good many hunters have Vernonia, Columbia Couffi, Oregon Volume 22, Number 41 been successful so far in the season and the general opinion is that the deer brought in so far have been bigger on the average than ¿hose of previous years and that more deer have been seen. The sale of hunting licenses was a brisk business shortly be fore the opening season date and one place where licenses are sold reported a greater number of purchases than last year. Dayton to Consolidation Play Friday Comes to Vote Filling an open date in the Logger football schedule, a game with Dayton high school has been obtained for Friday night of this week here. No advance information about Dayton was available as to how the visitors have performed so far this season but high school authorities believe the game will give fans a good show. Game time is set at 8 o’clock. 6th War Loan Slated Nov. 20 Irving T. Rau, county war fi nance committee chairman, re ceived notification last week of a state conference October 18 and 19 in Portland to plan Ore gon’s part in the 6th war loan. The drive is scheduled for Nov ember 20 through December 16. Over-all goal was announced as $14,000,000,000. Five billion dol lars is set as the goal for indi viduals, of which $2,500,000,000 must be raised in E bonds. Mar ketable issues will be on sale from December 1 to December 16. Oregon's quota has not yet been set nor is any information available as ito the quota for Columbia county. Tues. Evening Taxpayers of District 47 Vote For Combination Voters in District 47, Jt and in the Kist district had the op portunity to cast ballots for or against the consolidation of the two districts Tuesday evening. A check with District 47 author ities for results revealed that four people cast ballots here, all of them favoring the consolida tion. Up to Wednesday afternoon, authorities here were unable to contact anyone in the Kist dis trict to determine results there. Both districts must vote favor ably before the consolidation can be made. Navy Announces Message Service Persons deviling to send mes sages to navy, marine and coast guard personnel overseas can avail themselves of the services of the navy’s inexpensive and speedy Expeditionary Force Mes sages, thirteenth naval district headquarters announced this weak Service Half-year Old Sewing Work to Begin Friday Mrs. Harry Culbertson, chair man in charge of Red Cross sewing for this vicinity, an nounced Wednesday that sewing would start Friday afternoon of this week at 1 o’clock. Workers will meet at the home economics room in the high school building.* The work at this meeting will be the making of hospital bed side bags, material being now a- vaiiable. Supplies for the work is furnished by the Red Cross. Sewing work has been hindered for some time due to difficulty in obtaining needed materials and consequently a large volume of work has accumulated which must be done as soon as the supplies are provided. The return of many service men to hospitals has in creased the demand. Reeds Leave Pastorate Here Mr. and Mrs. William Reed and Miss Marion Marlowe who have been acting as pastors at the Assembly of God church temporarily and the Reed’s daugh ter, Fern, will leave at he end of his week for California where they will continue evangelistic work. They have been here since the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Beish who are now in Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. Gail McIlroy, for merly pastors at Bay City, have been elected as pastors for this church and will be here this Sunday to take charge of the ser vices. Alarm Is False The O-A mill fire alarm sound ing shortly after midnight Mon day morning was falsely turned in. Many people were awakened by the alarm and inquired con cerning thesupposed fire. The service, now more than half a year old, is available to anyone desiring to communicate with navy, marine or coast guard overseas personnell who are land- based with permanent fleet post office numbers, or in some cases to certain mobile land-based units with fleet post office or army post office numbers. Members of these services in turn may use EFM to communicate with per sons at home. EFM service cannot be used to send messages to men aboard ships. COMPLETES TRAINING Detal Given The navy code address or navy number designating the unit to which personnel are attached is necessary to assufe delivery of EFM. This code address, if not al ready known to persons wishing to send messages, may be ob tained from the naval postal af fairs section, navy department, Washington, D. C. Local tele graph offices can also be of as sistance in this respect. In ad dition to the code address, EFM communications should give name and rank or rating, and the ac tivity to which the person ad dressed is attached. Wind Spreads Slash Fire The brisk east wind Tuesday whipped sparks from the slash ing fire burning near Camp McGregor and scattered flames on downed timber, scorching it and two donkey engines, accord ing to information given by F. R. Olin. Crews at McGregor are fighting fires and are also set ting new slash fires, Olin states. PURPLE HEART RECEIVED TIMBER — Word reached here last week that Sgt. David Hall recently received the Purple Heart. Young Hall was injured Sept. 18th. Loggers Yet Undefeated This Season Lt. <j.g.) Rollin Morris Gal enas, 28, of IVernonia has com pleted his training as a transport pilot at the naval transitional Seaside Game * ' school operated at Roanoke, Va. Won Friday by by Pennsylvania-Central Airlines. 26 to 0 Score The intensive course qualifies Contrary to reports in Portland pilots to fly the naval air trans Sunday papers, the Vernonia high port command’s multi-engined school Loggers smothered a stur aircraft after being trained by dy band of Seagulls under a PCA’s experienced airline cap score of 26 to 0 Friday afternoon. tains. A beautiful autumn afternoon Lt. Galenas, who is the son greeted the local team at the of .Mr. and Mrs. Frank Galenas, resort town as they churned to entered the service on January four touchdowns and two con 15, 1942, and completed his versions on a slow, sandy * field flight training at the navy’s Pen which slowed the flashy Logger sacola, Florida, school. Prior to attack. Determined to maintain their that he was a salesman for Bor position among the undeafeated dens dairy. teams of the state, the Vernonia high boys lost no itime in scor TAKES TRAINING CRUISE Pfc. George King has been ing by pushing the Gulls over transferred to Camp Cooks, Cal. the goal line twice in the open from Camp San Luis Obispo, Cal. ing period to lead 13 to 0. Millis, to continue with his amphibious flashy Logger half, broke the training. He is now on a 10-day ice after a series of running ■cruise devoted to that training. plays set up the score. In this He believes he will be stationed march, long gains were made by at Camp Cooke for some time, he Byers, Larsen and Millis. The has informed his parents,. Mr. second score came on a running pass from Jack Nance to Jack and Mrs. H. H. King. Riley in the end zone. HOME ON FURLOUGH Drive Ended at 10 Pfc. John E. Ade, brother of Henry Ade, arrived this week on furlough from the Southwest Pacific theatre of operations where he served 30 months in the army infantry corps. The 'big Gull team came back strongly in the second period but a determined drive was repulsed by a pass interception by Byers on the Vernonia 10-yard line. The third period was played entirely in Gull territory. A cost ly fumble and numerous penal ties prevented any scoring during this period. A rejuvinated Log ger team scored twice in the last period. The first was set up by a 70-yard run by Fred Larsen, diminutive halfback, who broke through the weak side, reversed his field, and was hauled down by three desperate Gulls on the three-yard line. The local boys scored twice before the touch down was allowed. Following two penalties, a pass from Byers found Larsen waiting in pay dirt. The second touchdown followed a Logger drive to the Seaside 35- yard line when Millis powered his way through the line and behind beautiful blocking elud ed the secondary to score standing up without being touched. WOUNDED Word received here a few days ago by Mrs. Fred Layman made known to her that her husband had been wounded in Holland on September 18 and that he had been transferred to a hospital in England. He has received the purple heart award for his action there, Mrs. Layman also learned. CALLS LONG DISTANCE Mrs . Oscar Vike received a long-distance telephone call the first of this week from her son Pfc. John Vike, who .is stationed at Camp Hood, Texas. His duty is the guarding of prisoners there. IN OAKLAND HOSPITAL A total of 237 fixed texts are RIVERVIEW — DeLoss Pow available to users of EFM service, ell,BMlc, who was last heard any three of which may be com from in Australia surprised his bined to comprise one message parents with a telephone call last which cost 60 cents, plus federal week from Oakland, California, tax, and which may be sent from at the naval hospital where he had any local telegraph office. The arrived a few hours earlier. Said texts are designed to cover a he was homesick just to hear wide range of topics to meet their voices and that he might every situation requiring fast be sent farther from home soon. communication service. His wife is with him in Oakland. ROOF WORK COMPLETED The work of building a new roof structure and the shingling, which has occupied Masons for the past several weeks, was com pleted Wednesday. Heavy com position shingles were used. Those Who Are in It , October 12, 1944 CONVALESCING Word from Capt. Harold Ca son, who was wounded at the in vasion of France, is that he is »till hospitalized but is convales cing. He mentions that it will probably be two months before his leg is normal again. WAGNER ON LEAVE Aaron Wagner, owner of the Pal Shop, having completed boot training at Camp Farragut, is now on a 15-day leave. He antici pates that he will attend radio school after reporting again to the naval training center on Oct. 17. LT. HE1BER HERE 1st Lt. Lowell Hieber arrived last Friday on a 15-day leave of absence from Camp Ellis, Illinois, where he is commander of his company. SEABEE ON LEAVE Chief Petty Officer Lytle Greene and Mrs. Greene arrived here from San Francisco on Thursday of last week, Greene leaving yesterday to report for duty at Camp Park near Hay ward, Cal. DON PETERSON WRITES T-Sgt. Don Peterson is now in Germany and has been in Luxembourg. He writes the Frank McCabes that the people are very different from the French and that they don't know quite how to take the coming cf the Americans. Game Fought Hard Coach Robbins kept his team running from the T formation, mostly on the ground, and used a parsing attack only occasionally. Coach Cook used the box, his team getting power largely a- jound the ends. Friday's game was bitterly fought and feelings ran high. Two boys were ejected from the field because feelings became personal. Friday’s lineup: Lloyd Stuve, le; Gordon Cline, It; Doug Culbertson, lg; Ralph Sturdevant, c; Marvin Turner, rg; Dan Rollins, rt; Jack Riley, re; Jack Nance, q; Max Millis, lh; Fred Larsen, rh; Duke Byers, f. Weed's Topics At Church Told The listing of topics below which will be heard for the com ing week at the Christian church will give those attending an op portunity to hear Rev. Earl Han son Fife, Evangelist, who is con ducting meetings. Both the Fri day and Saturday sermons con cern subjects which have been es pecially requested by local peo ple. Thursday: “The Sins that Cru cified Jesus.” Friday: “The Second Coming of Christ.” Saturday: "Battle of Arma geddon.” Sunday morning: "Prove M<> Now.” Sunday evening: "Gates Ajar.” Tuesday: “Redigging the Wells” Wednesday: "One More Week to Live.’” Thursday: "Lord’s Supper.’’ (Closing service).
