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
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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).