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THOSE WHO ARE IN IT IN FRANCE RIVERVIEW — Pvt. Joseph W. Lindsley, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lindsley, wrote his parents this week that he has arrived in France and says it is a very beautiful country and each little farmstead has a nice lawn and flower garden. His brother, Vern Lindsley, S2c, left Miss, the 23 of March and has been to Africa and back and is now in San Francisco. KEASEY GETS TRAINING Cerroll Thomas Keasey is en rolled at the San Antonio avia tion cadet center, Texas where as a potential pilot, bombardier or naviator he is receiving pre flight training. The future fliers are subjected to a rigorous 10- week program of instruction cov ering physical, academic and military training. Students re ceive the first five weeks in struction as a group, then are separated for specialized train ing. GRADUATES Jane Watts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Watts and a graduate of Vernonia high school graduated from the United States Naval Training School at Stillwater, Oklahoma on April 16 as seaman first class, striker for yoeman. She was assigned to active duty at San Diego and will be assigned for further duty from there. RETURNS FROM ALASKA Coast Guardsman Irven C. Ackley, 28-year-old seaman, first class, has returned for duty in the Pacific Northwest after 21 month’s duty in Ketchikan, Al aska, aboard a 50-foot patrol boat and has been stationed at Portland. Ackley enlisted in the service in November, 1942. Before the war, the Guardsman was em ployed in a sawmill. He plans to return to that work after the war is over. HOME ON LEAVE Hal Fowler, RT lc arrived here Friday from Norfolk, Vir ginia where he has been sta tioned since returning from North Africa. He entered the service in the fall of 1943 and has spent about nine months at his present station. He is here on a 10-day leave. AT MEDICAL CENTER After spending 24 months in Africa, Italy and France, S-Sgt. Lawrence W. Bennett has been returned to the United States and is at a medical center in Walla Walla, due to illness. DOING RADIO WORK S-Sgt Ralph H. Bennett, U.S. M.C. returned to the States re cently after 17 months with a marine air group in the Pacific combat area. He is at present in radio work at the marine airbase at El Toro, California. AT ASTORIA NOW First Lt. Dick Lewis is now at the naval hospital at Astoria following a serious injury on February 22 during the invasion of Iwo Jima. Sufficient recovery has been made so that he was able to visit here for a short time last week end while enroute to Rainier where his wife and daughter reside. GETS lc RATING PhMlc Joe McNutt and Mrs. McNutt were here Saturday from Astoria where he is stationed at present. He earned his lc rating just last week. IT DOESN’T RAIN HERE RIVERVIEW — Pfc. George Peachey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Peachey, writes his par ents that everything is O.K. with him but that it is a tough life. He also mentions in his last let ter home. “I thought I knew what rain was but last night I found you don’t have rain there. I was in my foxhole and every thing I had was soaked, but I did get dry this evening." (More ‘Those Who’, page 6) Thelma Hobin Will Lead Festivities as May Queen The annual May Day event will be witnessed this year on Friday, May 11th, a somewhat later date than that usually scheduled for the program, Wal lace McCrae, high school prin cipal, announces this week. The naming of Thelma Hobin as May Queen was made this week and practice for the program has started. Selected as senior princesses were Marjorie Loll':;' and Dorothy Sasse. “Book of Many Lands” is the theme of the dances and musical numbers to be portrayed. Many countries will be represented in cluding: Hawaii, Australia, Scot ian, Ireland, Russia, Spain, Hol- land and France. Mrs. Alvenia Martin and Mrs. Orile Robbins, high school instructors, are di recting high school students in their parts and Mrs. Maude Ko- bow assisted by all grade school instructors is supervising the work of grade school students. New Shoe Stamp Valid August 1 Schools Plan v-£ Day hveni Program Here SLOGAN CHOSEN BY 3 JUDGES The end of the three-week contest for the finding of an advertising slogan for the Ne halem Valley and Vernonia was Appropriate Program closed last Saturday April 28th For Students Prepared making possible the selection of By School Authorities the winning entry this week. Grade and high school offic Judging of the contest was com- ials here have made plans for - pleted Tuesday morning by three the commemoration of iV-E, they individuals who have had no in-* announce this week, when that terest in the contest and who day is officially announced from had not submitted slogans. authoritative headquarters. An Named as winner of the prize ticipation of the event has led to of $5 is Mrs. Bertha. Rosa, Tim the making of plans which in ber Route, and the winning slo clude students of the Lincoln and gan submitted by her is: “Ver Washington grade schools and the nonia, Gateway to Nehalem Val high school. ley Logging, Dairying, Fishing.’’ When the announcement is mad?, students from the three schools will assemble at the Washington school auditorium where the program has been ar ranged as follows. The assembly will first sing The Vernonia fire depart several patriotic songs; prayers and talks by local ministers will ment’s new fire truck was ini be heard; talks will be given tiated last Saturday when a call by school students and teachers; was received to report to the the American Legion will be rep resented by J. W. Nichols who home 'occupied by L. A. Hewitt near the Cedarwood Timber will deliver a short address. Should the V-E announcement company mill. The call was an swered more quickly than pos fall on Saturday or Sunday the program will not Be carried out. sible with the old truck and the tank of water carried by the new truck made it unne cessary to connect hose to a fire plug as hase been required formerly. About three - fourths of the water, supply carried was Five new blue stamps worth used to extinguish the blaze. A new shoe ration stamp will become valid on August 1, 1945, for one pair of shoes per ra tion book holder, M. R. Collins, district OPA shoe rationing rep resentative announced this week. Airplane stamps 1, 2, and 3 are now good and will continue to be valid indefinitely, Collins added. Validation of another shoe stamp is being announced well in advance, Collins said, so that the shoe trade can make mer chandising plans, and so that AIRPORT OPENED SUNDAY remaining stamps to fit their AT SCAPPOOSE own and their families’ needs ST. HELENS — Air-minded now and in the future. itizens of Columbia county were The number! of the new stamp invited to inspect the CAA air has not yet been selected but port near Scappoose Sunday. The will be announced before August field was opened for public in 1st. spection in connection with the When the new stamp comes Civil Air Patrol program started into use, a period of nine months in this county. 1 will have elapsed since the last This program is a government stamp was validated on Novem authorized county operated pro ber 1, 1944. From November, ject} which is an auxiliary to the 1943, when airplane stamp 1 be air corps. came good, to November 1, 1944, CAP trainees will receive ob s shoe stamp has been validated server and ground instruction un every six months. 10 points each—a total of 50 der the direction of Pat Cody. L. All of the contents of the The longer interval between points—and five new red stamps, R. Fulton is the county manager. Hewitt home was savied but validation of stamps is necessary, also worth 10 points each for a This is the first time since the OPA said, because of the ex total of 50 points were good for considerable damage was done field was built a year ago as an tremely heavy demands for mil buying processed foods and meats to the building before the alarm army emergency field that it has was received. The truck was itary shoes and severe inroads on respectively, on Tuesday, May 1, been open to the public. Several retail inventories of ration shoes. the OPA announced this week. made ready for use the Thurs L-type army planes were on dis day afternoon previous to the The five new blue stamps are: fire. play. Y2, Z2, Al, Bl, and 'Cl. FISH SEASON The five new red stamps are: REOPENED MONDAY Q2, R2, S2, T2, and U2. CLATSKANIE —■ Monday was Both red and blue stamps vali opening day for the commercial dated on May 1 will be good fishing season for salmon on the At 6:30 p.m. on Monday, May through Friday, August 31. Columbia river. The new sugar stamp, No. 36, 7, the Columbia County Public The season opened, at noon on George W. VanAlstine, a for Health association will hold its also became good on May 1, with April 30 after being closed at annual meeting in the banquet sugar stamp No. 35—validated on mer resident of Vernonia passed noon April 20. room of the Houlton Coffee Shop February 1 —'Continuing good away a few days ago at his according to Jack Murton, pres through June 2. After June 2, daughter’s home in Portland at FERN FIRE BURNS ident. At this time the election sugar stamp No. 35 will not be 5630 N. Yale. Mr. VanAlstine OVER 1000 ACRES CLATSKANIE — A fern fire of officers will be held and good but sugar stamp 36 will came here in 1923 and lived here in the Cedar Grove district last annual reports made by the var continue to be good through Fri for several years. He was con Sunday proved costly for some ious officers and committeemen. day, August 31, 1945. nected with the work of those Sadie Orr Dunbar and Mary of the residents there and could who helped on the construction have caused serious damage had .Jane Green of the Oregon Tu of the O-A mill. He passed are ex not the rain of Sunday evening berculosis Association away at the age of 77 years. pected to be present for the put it out. Mr. VanAlstine was the broth A modern large chicken house meeting. One of the outstanding er of Charles VanAlstine of was destroyed as the fire spread reports of the evening should be Four Logger track men are this city. Funeral services are that on the results of the Chest from one location to another. A lot of fencing and acres of X-ray Survey Unit which was qualified to enter the Beaver being held in Portland today, pasture lands were burned over in the county during the last of ton district track meet as the re Thursday. when the fire spread over 1000 March and the first of April. sult of wins at the county meet Mrs. L. G. Ross, .vice-president at Scappoose last week and will acres of land. Mr. and Mrs. Olof Söderström in the St. Helens area, is asking go there Friday to try for fur suffered the loss of fences and those who plan to be present to ther wins. The Beaverton meet pasture when the fire jumped to contact her and make their res will Dring competition from track men in Washington, Columbia, their place according to reports ervations for the dinner. Clatsop, Yamhill and Tillamook received at this office. Remodeling of the building counties, the requirements for STATE DESIGNATES ROADS qualifying being a 1st or 2nd housing the Men’s Store and DUE FOR IMPROVEMENT place win. also the Oregon Liquor commis ST. HELENS — Columbia The Loggers will be represent sion agency was started a few county’s share in the three-year ed by Ralph Keasey, mile; Loren days ago under the direction of postwar road building program, Dodge, half mile; Reuban Sulli Less copper wire will be avail van, quarter mile; Duke Byers Pete Brunsman. The building was as announced last week by the state highway commission, will be able for farmstead wiring during discuss. formerly partitioned making a $180,000, of the $36,000,000 to the next three months than for space for two business locations, be spent in Oregon, and will be any comparable period since a but that partition will be removed confined to two county roads. year, ago, Oregon farmers are Named Chairman to provide greater space for dis Wallace McCrae has been The two roads, which are list told by Robert Taylor, chairman playing merchandise. named chairman of a committee ed in the secondary highway sys of the state AAA committee. to consider redistricting the T. B. Mills, real estate agent, Reflecting increased demands tem are the Scappcose-Spitzen^, berg road, on which will be spent by the military, the tighter cop state for all high school activ who formerly occupied part of $6,000, and the Vernonia-Sunset per wire situation will mean that ities. His committee meets on tbe building, has moved to the Camp read, which is scheduled fewer farms can obtain new elec Thursday, May 10, at Corvallis Erickson building at the corner tric connections for operation of with the state board of control of Bridge and Second Streets. to cost $120,000. irrigation pumps and livestock to consider recommendations of When remodeling work is com production equipment, the state coaches of the state. Clarence plete Brunsman will display a Thanks Received assistant superintendent chairman reported. He asks that Hines, larger stock of sporting goods. Washington grade school stu farmers hold their copper wire of schools at Eugene, and Har old Schenck, superintendent of dents who participate in the Jun requests to a minimum, and that ior Red Cross unit work here they postone plans for new elec schools at Corvallis are other Next Dinner Planned have received letters from Rose tric hook-ups until wiring is more members of the committee. Members of the Vernonia Flaherty, Red Cross field direc plentiful. Booster club will meet this com tor, and from Major Karl Piper The state has been allocated Pomona Meet Dated of the Barnes Genera) hospital 11.900 pounds of copper wire for The regular meeting of the ing Monday at the I.O.O.F hall thanking them for the articles distribution on farmers’ copper Columbia County Pomona Grange at 7.00 p.m. far another dinner they have contributed to the wire certificates issued by county will be held Saturday, May Sth at and business s^sion. Committee welfare and comfort of the men AAA committees, Taylor said. the Clatskanie high school with reports will probably occupy a there. This unit was also com This allocation will have to last Marshland Grange entertaining. good part of the evening’s bus mended for showing greater in tntil June 10, and Compares witn The meeting begins promptly at iness, according to Edward terest than has been true in many 16.900 pounds for the past three 11.00 a.m., Mrs. Elsie Tracy, Salomonsen, president of the loealititea. months. Many county committee* secretary announces. club. County News New Fire Truck Gets First Use New Food Stamps Are Good Now Health Group to Name Officers Former Resident Dies in Portland Four Qualify for District Meet Enlargement of Store Started Less Copper Wire Made Available Autopsy Will Determine Death Cause Byrd Lee Maxwell Being Held Here Pending Examination An autopsy is to be performed here today, Thursday, to deter mine the cause of death about 10 p.m. Monday night of Frank Noel, owner of the Hy-Van Hotel. Mr. Noel passed away about 15 minutes after being assisted to his home following a fight which occured on Bridge street between 1st and 2nd streets. Byrd Lee Maxwell, 1908 E. Burn, side St., Portland, is being held here pending the result of the autopsy. City officers A. D. Lolley and H. H. King, State Patrolman R. W. Wheeler and District Attor ney W. W. Dillard have conduct ed examinations of the incident. Gowens Return From Islands Rev. and Mrs. Vincent Gowen and children, Geoffrey and Ann, arrived here Thursday to rest at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Olin, after spending nearly three years in Japanese prison camps in the Philippines. The Gowens have all gained in weight since their release from Bilibid February 4 by American soldiers but still show the effects of malnutrition during the time spent in prision. Neither of the children tasted milk during their confinement and though both grew inches neither gained a pound. . The Gowens went to Luzon in 1939 under the auspices of the National council of the Episcopal church. He was teaching school in the mountainous Igorot coun try when the /irst Japanese raiders came in Februray, 1942. The following May the family was ordered to report to Baguio, where they were imprisoned un til last December, when they were removed to Bilibid. Rev. Gowen continued teach ing in camp, a few books having been brought in, and there be. ing enough teachers interned to handle all grades and high school courses. Three high school classes were graduated under Gowen who acted as principal. Writing mater ial was the backs of old army files. Two More People Fill Gallon Quota Two more local people have now filled the requirement of giving one gallon of blood which is the amount necessary to bo eligible for membership in the Gallon Club of blood donors. The necessary donation was made last Friday at Hillsboro by Mrs. June Wasser and Mrs. Eleanor Gib son. Others from here giving blood at that time were: Mrs. Will Chalmers, Mrs. Jacobson, Mrs. Mary Lee Dübendorf, Mrs. Jua nita Edwards, Mrs. Hilda Keasey, Mrs. A. L. Bassett, Mrs. Zoe Whitsell, Mrs. Otto Carlson, Mrs. Jack McCown, Mrs. Fowler, Mrs. Harry Junken and Sgt E. V. Robertson. Examiner Slated The secretary of state’s office announces that a traveling ex aminer of operators and chauf feurs will be in Vernonia at the city hall Thursday, May 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If permits or licenses to drive cars are desired the examiner should be contacted at that time*
