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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreatin'' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- ----- =—— —|y ” Ot . o Volume 23 Number 23 Noted Speaker New Ruling Sets Sugar To Appear Here For Canning at 10 Lbs. September 17 Nationally-Known Authority to Talk On Education Value Dr. Willis Sutton, nationally prominent ajs a lecturer and scheduled for a short visit in Oregon this fall, has been en gaged to appear here Monday, September 17 when sclfool fac ulties and residents of this part of the state will gather to hear him talk on the values of educa tion. Dr.’ Sutton is one of the most sought-after speakers in the na tion and his lectures and tours of' the country are being spon sored by the Readers Digest. His appearance here has been arrang ed by Paul Gordon, grade school superintendent and Wallace Mc Crae, high school principal, with the Oregon State Teacher’s as sociation. At the time of Dr. Sutton’s visit, school authorities and lay men from Clatsop, Washington and Columbia counties will be in vited to hear his address, as this wil be hisK only appearance in this area. County- News DELEGATION ASKS HIGHWAY WORK CLATSKANIE —A delegation from Clatskanie and from Col umbia county were in Portland on Tuesday last week to attend the meeting of the state highway commission held at the Imperial hotel. Delegates asked that the Low er Columbia highway be recon sidered and some work be done down this way in both repair and straightening out some of the curves. The commission said they would reconsider their de cision not to do any work down this way. The county court, Judge Ray Tarbell and commissioners Joe Miller and William Pringle were in attendance and from Clats- kanid were Mrs. Grace Kent Ma gruder, Dr. Kent Magruder, Ed Condit, and Vilas L. Shepard. A delegation from Rainier con sisted of Fred Herman, W. Reid and Fred McKinley. I. S. WILSON TAKES OVER SILVA GARAGE RAINIER — The garage here operated far many years by W. J. Silva as Silva Chevrolet has been taken over by I. S. Wilson, who came to Rainier from Astor ia a year ago and since has been employed as mechanic for Lowes Motors. The Wilson Motors is offering complete automotive service, and Mr. Wilson hopes to establish a sales agency when automobiles are in production again. BOND SALES LAG AS FINAL MONTH BEGINS ST. HELENS — Chairman Ir ving Rau of the Columbia County war finance committee painted a disappointing picture of progress of the seventh war loan drive as the nation entered upon the final month of the mighty seventh. “Columbia county ‘E’ bond purchases to date total $269,000 which is only about 40 per cent of our quota of $672,000,” he said. “This is in spite of the fact that the drive is now two-thirds over.” Rainier, Mr. Rau said, was far ahead of all other Columbia county communities with purchas es amounting to approximately 75 per cent of its quota of $103,- 740. Thursday, June 7, 1945 Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon A new ruling by OPA Region al Administrator Charles Baird June 2 further - restricts the a- mount of home canning sugar which may be issued to 10 lbs. per person and made the rule effective as of last Saturday. The ruling came after some ap plications for canning sugar in the amount of the old quota had already been issued so that some applicants have received the 15-pound-per-person quota. Baird complimented housewives in the Pacific region for their “patriotism and fair play in the 1943 and ’44 seasons in apply- ing for sugar which allowed a fair and satisfactory distribution of supplies in those two years.” The regional order establishing the 10-po.und limit also was at variance with emergency policies announced in the East and Mid West by OPA where an excessive amount of applications has tend ed to exhaust sugar allotments and already has resulted in a complete suspension of sugar is suances in many areas. This order is intended to prevent need for such suspension in this Tegion and to assure continued fair distri bution. Post-war Building to Be Vote Topic June 22 Oregon voters who will be away from home and thus unable to vote on election day in the special election Friday, June 22, may vota by absentee ballot any time up to June 17, five days prior to election, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell said this week. “It has come to our atten tion that there are a number of conventions scheduled in Oregon during June and some of them may cause voters to be away from home on election day,” Mr. Farell said. “Voters who will not be home to vote on June 22 should obtain their absentee bal lots now and cast them prior to the deadline, five days before June 22.” At the special election, voters will be asked to authorize a post war building program for new buildings and additions at the state institutions, including in stitutions of higher education. “It is important that voters understand they are not being asked to authorize collection of additional taxes in this election,” Farrell said. “Oregon now has the $10,000,000 needed to fi nance the building program in in come tax surplus, but under the state’s constitution, this money cannot be expended unless the people authorize a ten mill tax Tri-County Meet Slated Here Next School instructors from three counties, Washington, Columbia and Yamhill, will meet here Oc tober 26th, probable date, for the annual tri-county teachers’ insti tute, according to plans announc ed this week by local school au thorities. The date is tentatively set and will be definitely an nounced when the time nears. Judging by attendance at former institutes, the meeting will probably draw one cf the largest crowds ever to Come here. Benefit Dance Arranged On Saturday, June 16 at the Legion hall a benefit dance will be sponsored by the American Legion to raise funds for the completion of the local swim ming pool. Tiny Dumont’s Sad dle Pals from Portland have been engaged to furnish the music for the evening. Few Cases Reported The most recent bulletin of Health for the week ending May 26, lists only two communicable diseases for Columbia county with 100 per cent of the county’s physicians reporting. Reported in the bulletin were one case of scarlet fever and one of tuber culosis. REDECORATION COMPLETED The apartment and office of the West Coast Telephone com pany has been completely re decorated. The work was done by E. E. Upgard. THOSE WHO ARE IN IT levy. “When, this tax is authorized by the people, the tax commission can then apply the income tax surplus to off-set the property tax which then will not be collect ed. The levy is a devise necessary under Oregon law to authorize the expenditure of .the exisiting surplus fund from income taxes.” Farrell emphasized the fact that the building program is one that is needed to enable over crowded state institutions to meet demands on their facilities. it will provide In addition, sound employment projects dur ing the post-war period. Son Dies from Action Wounds Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. May of Vernonia received word from the war department May 21 that their son, Pfc. Clyde E. May of the marines sixth division died at 3:30 p.m., May 13 from wounds received in action on Okinawa. Pfc. May was born at Ver nonia August 24, 1925 and was a graduate of the Salem high school, class of 1943. He en listed in August, 1943 and left September 23. He received basic training at Camp Elliot, San Diego. May passed up a fur lough home to volunteer in a replacement unit and was sent overseas in January, 1944. He waf a veteran of Guam and had received the expert rifleman’s badge. Pfc. May played base ball with the Salem high school. Besides his parents, he is sur vived by a sister, Mrs. Boyd Siseck of Vancouver, Wash. New Hunting Rules Topic of Hearing The Oregon State Game com mission will hold its hearing in regard to the 1945 hunting reg ulations on July 14, 1945 at ten o’clock in the morning at its of fices in 616 Oregon Building, Portland. The last legislature changed the date of the hearing from June to July in order to give additional time in which to ac quire field data on game condi tions before regulations are. de termined. Representatives of sportsmen’s organizations are invited to be pre.^fht at the hearing. MEET IN PHILIPPINES EVANGELIST A. E. Kite began special meetings here last Sunday at the Assembly of God church. The meetings will continue every night except Monday and Satur day at 8 p.m. Rev. Kite is also a chalk artist. Sales Here Are $52,374 A check with Vernonia post office records for the sale of series El war bonds revealed that a total of $52,374 maturity val ue had been sold at one o’clock Tuesday of this week. That fig ure is less than half of the local quota of $118,560 assigned this area, Mrs. Ben Brickel, local chairman, mentioned. Mrs. Brickel also reports that $21,300 worth of bonds were sold by solicitation of employees at the O-A mill by Mrs. Alfred Jortes and Mrs. Cecil Huff who were selected by IWA Local 5-37 to make the canvass. This amount is comprised of sales in addition to the regular payroll deductions authorized by em ployees there. Northrup Station Inspection Set The field trip to the Northrup Creek Experiment Station will be held on Saturday of this week. This trip is being planned by George A. Nelson, county agent of Columbia County and the county agent of Clatsop County. The j'an is to meet at the exper ment station about 10:30 a.m. There will be a short program before noon in regard to the ex periment station work in pro ducing grass and legumes and the utalization of this by cattle and sheep. Red Cross sewing at the high rchool is continuing every week Mrs. Harry Culbertson announced Monday and a greater turnout for the work is urged. Ladies who sew and have time to de vote to the work are needed every week. The work begins at 1 o’clock every Friday in the home economics room. May Wet Month May of this year was the wet test month of May here for many years with a rainfall of 3.44 inches. The warmest day w^s May 4 with 95 degrees and the coldest was the 9th with a min imum of 32 degrees. Prevailing wind direction was northwest. Weather records here are kept by Mrs. Helen Spoffcrd. Annual Meeting Called Pioneers of the Nehalem Val ley will meet at Birkenfeld this coming Sunday, June 10. accord ing to an announcement th's week. Members of the association will gather at 10:30 that morn ing for their annual meeting. Tom Bateman, who is now sta tioned in the Philippines, wrote recently of meeting Ray Thacker, Company Spends Large who is also stationed there. The Sum to Arrange for circumstances of the meeting were somewhat unusual. A letter Increased Production had been mailed which was over The Cedarwood Timber com weight so Tom examined it more closely and was surprised to find pany shingle mill here began it addressed to H. A. Thacker, work the latter part of last week Vernonia, Oregon. In that way after being closed down for sev he found out that Ray was sta eral weeks while changes were tioned there also and that they made in the mill structure, the had been eating in the same mess burner and pond. hall for sometime although not The mill machinery has under- aware of it until the letter inci 'gone some rearrangement and dent. They immediately arranged an addition is being made to the to meet and talk over incidents structure to permit installation at home. of anotjher saw which will make possible double the former pro RETURNS TO DUTY ARTCl-c Hal Fowler left Sun duction. The new machine is day noon for Norfolk, Virginia ready for installation and that to return to duty. He has been work will be attempted Sunday, here over a month on leave dur according to E. C. Koski, local ing part/ of which time he was manager. A new burner has also been confined to his home with an constructed and at a greater dis attack of scarlet fever. tance from the mill machinery GETS DISCHARGE to provide greater protection Lt. Clifford Bergerson has re from fire. The burner is screened ceived his discharge from the to prevent fire from sparks. army air corps after serving in Considerable work has also the European theatre. been done on the pond which was used at the time the Ben CAPTAIN NOW nett sawmill was located on the Recent word received here by site now occupied by the shingle Mrs. Lowell Hieber from her mill. It is the plan to again use husband announced that he was the pond to receive logs which promoted to captain in May. He are being purchased from the is stationed in Belgium. Crown-Zellerback corporation. As soon as the new machine BROTHER O. K. First Lieut. Douglas Decew, is placed in operation, Mr. Koski USN, son-'in-law of Mr. and Mrs. stated, the mill crew will be in C. F. Hieber, has been notified creased to 14 or 15 men from by the war department that his the present seven who are em brother, Bill Decew, is reported ployed there. O. K. after being first reported lost in an airplane crash in Ger many. The accident happened sometime ago and it was thought that he had been killed. SEES MOTHER Lt. Gordon Hieber, USN, has been here from last Thursday to Wednesday of this week to see his mother, Mrs. C. F. Hieber, who has been ill. He returned to Corpus Christi, Texas. PROMOTED Gene Cleveland, son of Mrs. Herb Counts, has just been pro moted to Master at Arms, ac cording to word he sent his moth er in a recent letter. ON GUARD Pvt. L. O. Gillham, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gillham, is serving on guard duty as a member of the army of occupa tion troops in Germany, he men tions in a recent letter here. In the afternoon an inspection GETS PROMOTION will be made of the plantings on R. A. DePue, son of Mr. and the hill lands consisting of about Mrs. Bert J. DePue, has been pro six hundred acres. All those at moted to Technician Fifth Grade tending, states Mr. Nelson, are at an engineer aviation battalion, asked to bring their lunch for the 7th AAF Western Pacific base. noon hour. Coffee will be fur DePue is a steam shovel operat nished by the experiment station. or with an engineer aviation bat- tallion. Sewing Continues Picking Date Told Strawberry pickers who plan to work at the Hartwick farm at Banks will begin work Friday morning, June 8th. Busses will leave at the same time and from the same place as last year. Cedarwood Mill Starts After Changes Made DESSY WRITES Mr. and Mrs. George Laird received a letter Monday from their son, Lt. Desmond Laird, who was then in Paris. It was written May 25. In his letter he mentioned: “It seems funny to write a letter that isn’t a form or censored but even at that I still don’t have a great deal to say. I have been in France for 11 days and each day I intended to write but put it off because I thought we wen-e pretty near ly ready to start home and would beat the letter. It is hard to believe that such a short time ago this city was being bombed. It is quite hard to find any damage done to the city but not so far away there is quite a bit of destruction." A recent news account heard over KOIN also mentioned Lt. Laird and Lt. George Perry of St. Helens who were held captive in Stallag Luft No. 1 prison camp and who were released along with <30 other American airmen. The dispatch said that the liberated men stated they had Fire Destroys Farm Home Thu. The farm home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Stout on the Stoney Point road near the junction with the Mist highway was destroyed last Thursday when fire broke out about 4 p.m. Very little fur niture was saved and the family lost all fruit, groceries, dishes and most of thq clothing and bedding. The refrigerator, cook stove and washing machine was saved. An insurance inspector attribu ted the cause to an explosion in the chimney which caused it to crack, permitting fire to start in the upstairs. Partial insur ance was carried. Consolidation Vote Favorable Monday The joint high and grade school district consolidation elec tion held here Monday afternoon at the Washington grade school building resulted in the casting of eight ballots, all in favor of the question of joining the lo cal districts and district 87 of Washington county. A similar election was also held in district 87 but results were not known yesterday al though it is thought that resi dents there would favor the consolidation. Schroll to Leave Wayne Schroll, Safeway mana ger, left Wednesday for Tilla mook where he has been trans ferred by the company to as sume duties as manager of that store. His place will be taken by Joe Finnerty who was formerly employed in the Safeway store at Camas. He has been here since last Friday. Mrs. Schroll will re main here until a home can be located at Tillamook. been well treated under a Ger man colonel until the SS became resentful of his conduct and kicked him out for fraternising with the Americans. After that life in the camp was somewhat tougher.
