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Crown Zellerbach Makes 47,000-Acre Purchase Here Clark-Wilson Completes Sale April 1; Sustained VUJ of Company fc o< °-w- Volume 23 Number 14 County News EARLY SEASON CATCHES GOOD CLATSKANIE — Ideal weath er, storms at sea and the river at the proper stage along with a good run of salmon have given the Columbia river gillnetters a sensationally heavy run of salm on. Several fishermen turned in high boats well in excess of 1000 pounds during last week's fish ing which opened at mid-week after a later winter closure. It closed again last week end. The fishermen were getting 20 cents a pound for the salmon This was the price set by the OPA. DR. ROSS D1ES SUDDENLY AT HOME HERE ST. HELENS — News was re- ceived of the death Thursday at 2:15 p.m. of Dr. Edwin Ross, 80, resident of St. Helens for the last 60 years, most of which he spent in the practice of medicine, He retired in July of last year from private practice and the position of city health officer, which he had held for many years. The end came suddenly, at his home, friends said. 285 PERSONS HAVE X-RAYS TAKEN RAINIER — ' Two hundred eighty-f ivt^ persons, i, 15 less than the estifrfated estimated caps capacity for the day, were X-rayed Wednesday when the mobile unit of the Ore gon Tuberculosis association was in Rainier under the auspices of the Columbia County Health as- sociation. CONSOLIDATION • VOTE CALLED CLATSKANIE — Monday, A- pril 16th has been set by the dis- trict boundary board as the day when a special school meeting will be held and the balloting in Clatskanie, Alder Grove and Ce dar Grove on consolidation of districts will be the order of bus iness. Paterson Store Gets New Owner The Geo. G. Paterson furniture store, which has been closed for the past few days, is scheduled to reopen Saturday under new management is the announcement made here this week. The change in ownership was not fully com pleted until the middle of this week although negotiations had been under way for a week pre- vious to that time. The store, when it opens will be under the management of Jewett A. Bush, Sr. Purchase of the business was made by Bush Furniture store, believing that the future of Vernonia justifies the investment. The store remained closed for several days in order that the new owner might have time for rearrangement of stocks and for pricing of items. Welding Shop Going The Vernonia Welding shop which was started a few days ago by Harry Junken, contains the latest in welding equipment, Mr. Junken mentioned this week, He will devote all his time to that work now -after quitting work for Clark and Wilson. Mr. Junken hps had many years ex perience, at one time being em ployed by the Lincoln Electric Co. for 10 years. SEWING INTENDED FRIDAY Red Cross sewing will be held Friday at 1 p.m. in the high school building. Hospital bedside bags and baby layettes will be made at that time. Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon THOSE WHO ARE IN IT GETS FINAL TRAINING Cpl. Lewis Lane is in the final stages of combat training as a tail gunner on a B-17 .He ex pects to finish about the middle of May. He is now stationed at Gulfport, Miss, and his wife re- sides there with him. Quota Amount INDIVIDUAL BOND At Drive End QUOTA $741,000 Not Attained Attainment of the Red Cross quota of $5,500 for the Nehalem Valley including Wilark, Birken- feld, and Mist and Natal areas was not reached by the end of HERE FROM FORT STEVENS March, the original date set for RMlc LaVonne George was here the end of the campaign, Mrs. last week end while on leave Harry Culbertson announced this from duties in the coast guard. week. As a result of not reaching He is also visiting his parents in the quota here as well as in Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Merle some other localities of the coun- King, before returning to his ty, E. M. Fisher, county chair man, has extended the time of station at Ft. Stevens. the campaign to April 15th. It OVERSEAS is noted, hqwever, that although Cpl. Murvel Frank, son of Mr. the valley quota has not been and Mrs. H. H. Frank, has ar- reached, the quota of $556.68 rived in France and in a letter to assigned the Mist-Natal area has his folks tells something of the been exceeded by $238.80. country there. He says, “Being Within a short time an auc over here is much different than tion sale is planned to further being in the islands. (He was increase the Red Cross amount. formerly stationed in the Aleu For that sale, John Winslow of tians for nine months). Here Birkenfeld has given a Percheroi are many details of interest to stallion as his contribution to note. We were rather awed at the the drive and the sale of that sights and customs of the peo animal will probably help mater ple. Though France is much ially towards meeting this val older, the states are more ad- ley’s quota. vanced. The cities especially are, Latest figures of the amount to us, unique. The streets are raised to date are given as very, very, narrow, as are the $4,204.02 which amount includes highways. The tewns are small Birkenfeld, Mist and Natal con- in area but densely populated. tributions. Benefits held here I noticed a couple of street cars within the last two weeks were and several autos but the most the Legion and Auxiliary dance popular means of conveyance- is here which contributed the a- the bicycle and horses with bug mount of $61.75 and collections gies and carts. The custom of from the Joy theatre which add dress varies little from ours. One ed $96.80 to the fund. thing, though, is that the Amer An itemized listing of the icans are much more prosperous quota and amounts raised from than the French. The women fix, various valley districts was re- their hair exactly like the ones leased early this week by Mr. at home and the popular headress Fisher. for the men is their well-known Locality quota raised beret. They are most expressive Vernonia-Wilark $4700 $3298.62 with their hands and do a lot Mist-Natal $550 $788.80 of gesturing. They place a high Birkenfeld $220 $116.60 value on trees and take the very Total $5500 $4,204.02 best of care of them. AU build- ing are of stone or masonery, not a single wooden structure hâve I seen. Dwellings are small. Farms are small and the farmers tax'* advantage of every foot of land they have.” Sportsmen of the Nehalem Val Cpl. Frank enterci! the service Feb. 11, 1943 and after being ley Rod and Gun club named new in the Aleutians was stationed officers last Thursday evening at in the states a year before going, a meeting held at the Bush Fur niture store following the show overseas. ing of wildlife pictures at the IN GERMANY NOW Washington grade school. Cpl. Loren (Bud) Atkins in Named to head the group and forms his parents, Mr. and Mrs. succeding himself in that capa Earl Atkins of Wilark that he is city was Jewett A. Bush. W. G. in Germany now and has been Heath was voted in as vice-presi traveling a lot since being over- dent, Harold McEntire, secretary seas. He has been in England, and R. L. Spencer as treasurer. France, Belgium and Holland Duties of the treasurer were also with the aviation engineers. In held previously by Mr. Spencer. his letter written March 17 and Most of the sportsmen attend received here April 2nd. he says, ing the meeting also saw the "We are not allowed to talk to showing earlier in the evening of these people (German) but that’s moving pictures by Frank Wire, not the half of it. I haven’t any state.game supervisor. Mr. Wire desire to. The only people I want attended the business meeting to meet is the Russians.” also. Sportsmen Name Officers Thursday GETS SPECIAL TRAINING Thursday, April 5, 1945 Schedule Noted The Camp Wolters, Texas piftlic The secretary of state’s office relations department announces announces that a traveling ex this week that Vernon Sykes has been assigned to a battalion stres aminer of operators and chauf sing specialist training after ar fers is scheduled to arrive in Vernonia Thursday, April 12. He rival at the infantry replacement will be on duty at the city hall training center there. between 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. Drivers licenses and permits to SHOT AT IWO JIMA Word received here a short drive may be obtained then. time ago from First Lt. Dick Lewis, marine corps, tells that he was shot in tie abdomen on February 22 during the invasion of Iwo Jima. The dum dum bullet which hit him caused seri Lincoln and Grant campaign ous injury but he is recovering and is to be transferred to Pearl medal of the civil war is being Harbor soon. The injury neces- exhibited by F. M. Scott, night sitated removal of eight inches machinist at the O-A machine of intestine and inflicted 23 shop, who brought the relic here from his home at Salem a few other holes. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. days ago. Information available R Lewis, reside at Wilark and about the medal is that it was both he and his wife attended worn by a member of the Tan- school here. nen, a political organization ac- tive in civil war times, and of More "Those Who,” page 6 “All E bonds sold to individ uals will count from April 9th to June 30th which means that we have almost three months this time to make our quota.” stated Irving T. Rau, Columbia County chairman of the war fi nance committee late last week. “The E bond quota is $672,- 000 plus $69,000 for sale of other individual bonds making the individual quota $741,000. Our over-all quota is $1,084,000. “While the over-all quota is not as large as it was before, the E bonds and individual bond sales quota is much larger. In other words, we must have a personal quota of $187.50 from every one employed in Columbia county if we are to make our quota. Putting it another way, for every $100 invested in the sixth war loan, the investment now must be $187.50 which means that in stead of saving $50 per month during the sixth war loan which ran only for two months, we must save $62.50 per month for each of the three months in or- der to make our quota.” Huit Service Held Monday Carl Marvin Huit, killed here March 28th in a logging accident, was committed to the Vernonia Memorial cemetery Monday, April 2nd following services held at the Bush Funeral home. The deceased was born Febru ary 1, 1912 at /Vernonia, and passed away March 28th, 1945 at the age of 33 years one month and 27 days. He is survived by his wife Mildred; a daughter, Charlotte; two brothers, Gustof of Vernonia and George of the US army, now in the Philippines; a half-brother, Floyd Leslie of Me hama, Ore.; and an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wilson Vernonia, who were his foster parents. Interment here was at 2 p.m. Marvin Huit was married to Mildred Smith April 14th, 1932 at St. Helens. He was a mem ber of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and IWA Local No. 37. Rev. W. O. Livingstone officiated at the services. Radio, Electric Shop Anticipated Vernonia’s newest business en terprise, which the owners intend to open soon in a downtown building is to be Strong’s Radio and Electric, Dwight Strong stat ed this week when making the announcement. Associated with the business will be Russell Thompson, both having had con siderable electrical experience. At present all work is being cared for at their homes and this ar rangement will continue until the business location in the building at 969 Bridge, formerly the As sembly of God church, can be remodeled and made ready for the opening. Radio sales and service, refrig erator service, appliance repair ing and motor rewinding along with contracting work will be dore, the owners state. Old Campaign Medal Owned by F. M. Scott which Mr. Scott’s father was a member. The medal is the shape of a star and bears in its center tintype picture of Lincoln and Grant. Mr. Scott also is showing a pen and pencil set and a pocket inkwell which was in use during civil war times and which are highly prized as keepsakes. Forty-seven thousand acres of the Clark & Wilson timberlands in Columbia and Washington counties, which Crown Zellerbach corporation purchased as of April first, will be designated and developed into their seventh large tree farm just as quickly as man power is available, officials of the corporation in formed the Vernonia Eagle Monday. This means that the owners will maintain the lands designated as a tree farm for the production of forest crops, provide adequate protec tion from fire, insects, disease and damage from excessive graz ing and will harvest the timber crops from the area jn a man ner that will assure future crops. Future Wood Source Good ■Crown Zellerbach officials stated that while the area has reached its high point of useful ness for saw timber purposes, the former Clark & Wilson lands have a wonderful growth poten- tial for other purposes, chiefly the providing of a future contin- uous source of wood for the corporation’s pulp and paper mills at West Linn, Oregon and Camas, Washington, which are the two large operations closest to the tract. In excess of three thousand men and women work in these two plants. Crown Zellerbach’s plan is to develop the full tract into a modern tree farm and operate it on a true sustained yield basis cutting no more than the lands will grow. The holdings are said to lend themselves well to this purpose because of the varying ages of second growth now re stocking from natural sources. and also from the fact that Clark & Wilson logged the area clean ly, felling snags as they logged, thus materially reducing the fira hazard. Old Growth Fir Included March Behavior Far from Quiet March's behavior was far from being gentle as a lamb, but im itated a year’s weather in 31 days, cooperative weathA sta tion records made by Mrs. Spof ford show. The first day was clear, the last one cloudy. There were only 4 clear days, 6 partly cloudy and 21 cloudy. Prevail ing wind direction was south east. Throughout the month there were high winds, rain, sleet and snow and a little sunshine. On the 14th, 22nd and 31st rain, sleet, snow and sunshine appeared, giving a variety on each of the three days. Total preciptation was 10.05 inches. Last year for March precipita tion was 3.64 inches. Looking back over the records for a month with similar rainfall Mrs. Spofford found February, 1940 accounting for 11.87 inches and November 1942 for 11.05 inches. Maximum temperature was 63 degrees on March 1. Minimum re- cording was 22 degrees March 16 Oregon crop bulletins will be issued soon and anyone wishing to get these free weekly reports may send a card to Mrs. Spof ford giving the complete address. These bulletins are sent out from the U. S. department of com- merce and give a summary of crop and livestock conditions throughout the state. Included in the purchase is 4000 acres of old growth Douglas fir which contains about eighty million feet of saw timber. This will be logged by private con tractors on the basis of war re quirements. Logs will be hauled by truck about 30 miles to the . log dump near Scappoose, Ore gon, on the Columbia river, for Drivers of automobiles in this allocation to river mills designat vicinity will have the opportun ed by the war production board. ity of a brake check here from Six thousand acres carries April 15 to June 1 in keeping y<jung growth stands from thirty with the national brake empha to sixty years in age. When man sis program. A. D. Lolley, Ver power is available after the war, nonia police chief announces. it is the plan to undertake sys The program is sponsored by tematic thinnings in these stands the International Association of to accelerate growth of the re- Chiefs of Police and its purpose amining tree, and to use the is the emphasizing of the im thinnings for pulpwood in the portance of checking periodically West Linn and Camas mills, The to assure highest possible effici plan of operation visualizes the ency. employment of small units all Cars are being driven farther through the tract, delivering wood and are Older than is true; under to a central shipping point. This normal conditions hence increas practice is expected to provide ing the danger of accidents. The considerable employment to res check consists of placing a one- idents within the area. inch block of wood under the Intensive fire protection will pedal and depressing it to deter be developed for the twenty thou mine if the brakes take hold be sand acres now coming back in fore the pedal strikes the block second growth which is between Brakes that do not act before one and 17 years in age; and for the block is touche^ are not ad the naturally restocked or fu- equate for safe driving. ture hand-plantings- which will take place in logging operations of more recent years. Brake Check to Start Here Soon Fire Protection Planned There are about 200 miles of old logging railroad grades and spurs in the big tract, and as rapidly as possible, these will be developed into truck roads for fire protection purposes, thinning operations, tree planting and e- ventual harvest on a sustained yield basis. The new tree farm will great ly augment the corporations pro- gram of bringing the bulk of their forest holdings in the Pa cific Northwest to a state of sus tained growth capable of furnish ing a continuous supply of pulp timber for its mill at Camas, Port Angeles, and Port Townsend Washington and West Linn and Lebanon, Oregon. Other tree farms are known as the Clatsop, Take niteh and Tillamook tree farms in Oregon and the Cathla met, Pacific and Neah Bay tree farms in Washington. Most of the newly acquired forest lands are .ocated in Col umbia county, south of Scapoose and St. Helens, Oregon and just north of Vernonia. There are also sou,« timber patches in Washing ton county. Missionary to Talk of China Mrs. Rodney Sundberg, recent ly returned missionary from China, will speak at the Evangel- iacl church this evening, Thurs- dap, at 8 p. m. Rev. and Mrs. Sundberg have been in China the last four years serving an Evangelical church missionaries. Because of increasing living costs and the uncertainty of a major drive by the Japanese towards Changsha, where the Evangelical mission compound was located, authorities advised missionary wo- mfj and children to return to home Countries. Mrs. Sundberg with their two children, Janet and Jimmy left the latter part of May, 1944 by plane to Bombay, India and from there they sailed on a navy ship to this coast, arriving in October. Rev. Sundberg is on his way back now. The public is cordially invited to hear her thrilling message of present day happenings. During the service an offering will be taken for China.