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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1944)
Thursday, October 26, 1944 4 Vernonia Eagle "Form a Car Club" Week “Right here in Oregon, approximately 60 automo biles wear out and are taken off the highway every day. This means that each day 150 people must find new means of transportation in this state.” That is part of a recent announcement from the OPA and is the basis for the action of Governor Earl Snell in declaring the week of October 23-30 as “Form a Car Club” week. Probably few people realize that the need of car sharing is even more imperative today than when the program was first started some months ago, but further information in the release telling about the number of cars wearing out each day and the de crease of the number of passenger cars in the hands of dealers emphatically makes that need apparent. The OPA says: • “When rationing of automobiles went into effect in January, 1942 there were 500,000 new passenger cars in the hands of deal ers and manufacturers. This national pool has shrunk to 20,000 at the present time, only a two-day supply at prewar rates of consumption. “Only 23 million cars are now rolling on the nation’s highways compared to 28 Vi million in January, 1942. OF THESE 54 PER CENT ARE SEVEN YEARS OLD OR OLDER! “Cars are disappearing at the rate of 4,000 a day. During 1944 1,500,000 cars will go off the highways permanently. “Three out of four persons use private passenger cars to get to work. It is believed that 20 million cars in the hands of essential drivers is the absolute minimum required to keep civilian trans portation working. “The number of repair men in the nation has dropped from 400,000 to 200,600.’’ Events in Oregon FUEL SUPPLY MAY DEVELOP HERE SEASIDE — Possibility of in- Illness, Burns Are Suffered RIVERVIEW — Mr. and Chester Rice took his aunt, Herriet Oliver who has been them since Labor Day to her home in Fall City Saturday. Little folks on the sick list the past week were David Mc Adam, Nina and Pat White, Wal don Ratkie and Cora Jean Knoed- ler. The first four suffered 3-day sieges of flu while Cora suffered from lye burns on lips and face. Mrs. Emery George of Port- Ian spent the week end at the parental Rundell home. Mrs. Larry Grice and children of Banks and Mrs. Marion Hall of Portland spent Sunday at the Ralph Mahar home. Mrs. W. D. Steele and Mrs. Ruby Smith returned last week end from a week’s visit in Port- land and Vancouver where they were guests of Mrs. Steele’s daughters, Mrs. L. A. Billings and Mrs. Claribell Farmstrom. Mrs. William Higley made a business trip to Clatskanie Mon. Mrs. Ralph Condit and little daughter Lynn of Seattle came Saturday to spend the week end with Ralph’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Condit. They visited relatives at Natal before coming here. Mrs. Margaret Bell of Port land spent last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lee White. Mrs. Joe Howard of. Pittsburg and Mrs. Ray McAdam made a business trip to Forest Grove Monday. Mrs. Adella Chapman of Port- land, Mrs. Roy Cook and child ren and Mrs. T. C. Cook of Camp McGregor visited at the Art Owens home Saturday. Mrs. John Tate visited her husband’s mother, Mrs. Sally Tate of Portland from Tuesday until Friday of last week. Adams' Home Is Occupied Now RIVERVIEW — New neigh bors? Yes. This week we wel come Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Hig ley, four sons and one daughter who moved Friday into their new home at the east end of 2nd St. N. of Mile Bridge. This family comes from Los Angeles and purchased their property from Paul Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Shad and two sons, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Kennedy and daughter, Bar bara and Mrs. Gwin of Portland visited at the Glen Bodell home over the week end and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Alexander were Sun day afternoon visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mills en- in ■> Mr and Mrs. Cleone Woodruff, Mr. and Mrs, Bert Mills and Mrs. Cloise over the week end. Mr. Armstrong has been off the working list the past week due to a crushed foot he quired while at work at the mill. Mr. and Mrs. Riley Hall joyed a visit Saturday p.m. with Mrs. Hiram Collins, a cousin of Mrs. Hall from Olive Hill, Ky. which is Mrs. Hall’s birthplace. Mrs. Collins is visiting a group of relatives in this vicinity and was accompanied Sat. by Mrs. Myrtie Cline and Mi’s. Nan Schindler of Vernonia. Over the week end the Halls had as their guest their grandson, Mel vin Devereux, of Portland. Mrs. Jenny Shaver, Mrs. Arm strong and son Eric motored to Aloha Sunday to visit Mrs, ver’s neice, Mrs. Bashny, Mrs. Artie Buckner who was ill last week with pneumonia is up and about again. Mrs. Wm. Bond was her nurse. NEHALEM MARKET AND GROCERY be shipped here. There was just one catch. This wood, because vf the long haul, would cost at least $12.50 a cord, depending upon whether or not the OPA could obtain a subsidy of $2 a cord to apply against the freight charge. At the same time it was re vealed that the fuel officials of the Portland area had discovered a large supply of wood at Mist, located in the Nehalem valley. They are now trying to conjur up some means of getting it to Seaside. The wood is located miles from a railroad and must be transported by truck. It would be a haul of about 50 miles. Lack of labor and transporta tion is the difficulty in this case and it is doubtful if it will de velop into a reliable supply of wood. COMMERCIAL BANK CHARTER GRANTED FURNITURE STORE SETTLES $562 OPA FINE MCMINNVILLE —The Stand ard Furniture company has set tled an OPA administrator’s claim for $562.75, representing three times the overcharges on various items of furniture sold over ceiling prices. In particular, the firm had sold a used electric washer, valued at $43.50 for the exhorbitant sum of $125.00, Within 10 days the store will be rechecked to see that all mer chandise has been properly priced according to the regulations. “TO ESTABLISH a world organization in which aH nations may share as sovereign equals, to deal with future threats to the peace of the world from whatever source, and on a perma nent basis. n k: “That world organization must be the work of many minds. No one man or two or three or four men can shape it. Some sixty nations all « over the globe, great and small, must help to -shape it, must believe in it, join it and make it work over all these years to come. V’ “This world organization should develop effective cooperative means to prevent or repel military aggression, and such means should include the use of force as well as the mobiliza tion of international opinion, of moral pres sure and of economic sanctions however and to what extent they may be devised. There should be a world court to deal with justifiable disputes." — -T hom is E. Dtn tr Kr„ Stpt.mb" «. 1944. The Vernonia Eagle Ma rvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail matter, August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Official Newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon Subscription price. $2.50 yearly 0IE him NATIONAL € DITO-RIAL— IQ<ÌÙÈ^SSOC,ATION VOTE FOR DEWEY and About one third of the com mercial forest of America is on farms. WE’D LIKE, TO HAVE ALL THE NEWCOMERS .TO VER- NON1A PAY US A FRIENDLY VISIT. WON’T YOU DROP IN ON YOUR NEXT TRIP TO TOWN AND GIVE US A CHANCE TO SHOW YOU WHAT A REALLY FINE FOOD MARKET SHOULD BE LIKE? WE WANT YOU TO MEET OUR BUTCHER AND OUR SALES CLERKS—GET ACQUAINTED WITH OUR EX- CELLENT QUALITY PRODUCTS AND OPEN AN AC- COUNT WITH A MARKET KNOWN AND RESPECTED THROUGHOUT THE VALLEY FOR ITS DISTINCTIVE BRAND OF SERVICE. PHONE 721 creasing materially the supply of wood available here last week when officials of the Portland OPA office informed M. C. Thorn, local ration board chair man, that there was lots of wood available at Eugene which could TILLAMOOK —The Commer cial Bank of Tillamook, the pro posed new institution for which application for a charter was made on August 21, <1944, has been approved by the Board of Directors of the Federal De posit Insurance Corporation and a charter has been granted. The new bank will open the first of the coming year. FARM FORESTRY BRICKER ON NOV. 7 Paid Adv. by Columbia County Republican Central Committee A. C. Bailey, Chairman
