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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1945)
Volume 23 Number 39_____________________________ Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon_______________ '_____________ Thursday, September 27, 1945 Postal Notes Will Be Sold Here Oct. 1. Bulletin Instructs Use of Notes, Tells Method of Issue A recent bulletin received here announces the sale of postal notes at all second class post offices in the continental U.S. effective October 1st. The notes have been issued previously by first class offices only but the service is being extended now and will be available to (Verno nia office patrons. Careful Handling Needed Postal notes are supplied in denominations of 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8.9, and 10 dollars and postal note stamps in denominations of 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 cents. In order to facilitate their handling with mechanical sorting equipment postal notes are pre-punched at the time of manufacture to in dicate the serial number and de nomination and therefore should not be folded spindled, or mu tilated. A good deal of information is contained in the bulletin ex plaining details of postal note use. Postal note stock is not to be furnished to rural carriers for sale on their rural routes, nor are they to be issued for remit tances of C.O.D. funds. Patrons will be given the choice of pur chasing money orders or postal notes. While the maximum a- mount of a note is fixed at $10, there is no limitation as to the number that may be sold to the purchaser at on® time. Cost 1» 5 Cents No application shall be re quired in the purchase of notes. The purchaser shall write in the name and address of the payee on the face as well as his own name and address on the back, the notes cost their face value plus a 5-cent fee and will be paid at any post office in the con tinental U.S. if presented within two calendar months from the date of issue by payees whose names appear, by a bank, or by the original purchaser. Postal notes are not negotiable or transferable through endorse ment and may be paid only at post offices, branches and sta tions and banks, and they must be paid only to the payees named or to banks in which they have been deposited for collection. Winners to Be Named The winning side of the mem bership drive will be announced at the regular meeting of the W.M.S. nt the Evangelical church Wed., Oct. 3rd at 2 o’clock. The captains, Mrs. Judd Greenman and Mrs. Leroy Christensen and their teams are working for vic tory and this will be feature of the annual guest day. Members and friends are urged to attend RATION BOARD CLOSED HERE The Vernonia war price and rationing board closed its office here in the bank building Tues day to end a phase of work that arose with the beginning of the war. The Vernonia war price and rationing board office here in the bank building is closing this week and the remaining work of rationing will be consolidated with the Forest Grove board, Mrs. Paul Gordon clerk, men tioned Monday. The change is being made by OPA which an nounced several weeks ago a plan hereby local boards would grad ually be consolidated into area boards or price panels. This board was started shortly before June 1942, Mrs. Gordon beginning work as clerk that month. Items remaining on the ration ing list which will require action by the Forest Grove board in clude principally tires, shoes and sugar. Applications can be made by mail with that board. Loggers, Sabin Tie at 0 to 0 Vernonia’s Loggers drew a blank score here Friday as did Sabin high of Portland when they met for their first try of the season. Sabin came back with nearly the same lineup as last year, losing only one man by eligibility while the Loggers started the season with a good many lineup changes from last year. Vernonia threatened several times to tap pay territory but lacked the final push to over come Sabin’s extra effort. Log ger drives brought them to with in seven yards in the second per iod and again to the 20 and 25 markers in the fourth. Numer ous fumbles by both teams arose due to a wet turf but the breaks worked out about as evenly as could be wished. The Loggers were outweighed by a consider ably heavier Sabin eleven. Vernonia will meet St. Hel ens there at John Gumm field this Friday at 7:45 for the sec ond try and will be better pre pared because a lot of time this week is being devoted to iron ing out defects apparent last Friday. To offset this two regu- lars, Brady and East, may be out due to old injuries. Last Friday’s lineups were: Vernonia 0 Sabin 0 Parker le Searcie Cline It Marbott Brady M. Johnson lg Anderson c Bixel Ccndit Gisby rg Bvell rt Snyder Riley re Robertson East Sorenson q Frank rh Cage Byers lh T. Johnson Dodge fb Freeman Officials: Bingham & Hawkins. October 1-13 Time of Last Chest Campaign October 1st to the 13th is the time set for what will likely be the last drive and last solici tation to be made for the war chest fund, plans for which are being made locally along with other parts of the country. In this area a procedure similar to that of last year will be followed. Memebrs of Local 5-37, IWA will be solicited by the union which is organizing its part of the drive under the direction of Jack R. M. Taylor. The civic committee of the Vernonia Study club will have charge of solicitations of business houses, schools, logging and lum bering concerns and the O-A of fice. Other communities in the valley will be contacted soon re garding the drive in those local ities. Plans for ohlganizing the work of solicitation were formulated here Tuesday evening when the study club and union representa tives met to m3ke the arrange ments. At that time it was de cided that, should the quota be exceeded, $200 will be retained here to add to the community chest fund. The study club civic committee has named the following to carry out its part of the work: Mrs. Harry Sandon and Mrs. W. G. Heath, schools; Mrs. Ralph Val- piani, logging and lumbering con cerns and the O-A office; and Mrs. Marvin Kamholz, business section. The Vernonia quota for the drive is $3,325.40. Deer Hunters THOSE WHO ARE IN IT Prepare for SeasonOpening Many Plan Trips to Eastern Parts of State to Seek Game The deer season will be a more enjoyable sport this year than for several yeses past for many sportsmen due to release of restrictions on gasoline there by making possible trips to hunt ing locations which have not been visited by many for some time. The season opens September 29. One government agency, the for est service, anticipates a record breaking number of hunters in the big game areas. Indications of that are evident here, as many hunters have signified that they are preparing for trips" which they have not taken since the war started. The forest service also men tions that the fire danger is far from over. Recent light rains easily may be nullified by a few days of dry weather and eastern and southern Oregon, favorite areas for many, are reported to be extremely dry. One difficulty for many hunt ers in recent years has been the difficulty of obtaining shells and that condition still exists to a great extent because the manu facture of only small ammuni tion has been carried out recent ly. Many of these who do hunt will be using stocks obtained pre viously. First Timberline Issued Friday The first issue of the Timber line, biweekly publication of the students of Vernonia high school, was made last Friday. The mim eographed paper is produced by students under the direction of Miss Doris Lacy and is devoted to news of students and school activities. Listed as staff members are: editor, Mary Ann Johns; business manager, Betty Nance; produc tion manager, Stella Bellingham; sports editor, Jimmie Frazee; art ist, Mary Pat Caton; advisor, Miss Lacy; and reporters, Dot Roland, Mary Jane Robbins, Or- pha Coburn, Sally Kasper, Cora Dusenberry, Willete Floeter, Pat Berg, Jim Peterson, Mary Vera Coyle, Kenneth Lindsley, Roy Frank, Maxine Hartwick, Rena Cantwell, Dolores Johnson, Alice George, Beverly Herrin. Mimeographing is done by the office training classes and the Timberline staff. V.F.W. Auxiliary Makes Donation The Auxiliary of the V.F.W. donated and sent their first hos pital box to the Barnes Hospital in Vancouver, Washington. It in cluded 26 packages of candy, three one pound boxes of choc olates and 60 Hershey bars. The Auxiliary plans to send a box every month or so to differ ent veteran’s hospitals. If anyone is desirous of contributing to this worthy cause, donations will be gratefully accepted and may be left with Mrs. Jennie Lusby over Dad’s Place. Now that the war is over, many people feel that such help is their duty to returned veterans. Many veterans are returning home to be hospit alized for perhaps months and this is a means of doing some thing for them. Convict Out Again A news announcement Tuesday noon from Portland told that Robert Arley Brockman, escapee from the state penitentiary, had escaped again from the Multno mah county jail. Brockman was apprehended here by state police about August 29th while he was having his car serviced at the Vernonia Service Station. IN MARIANNAS Lt. High Caton, son of Mrs. Cleo Caton, is now stationed in the Mariannas, recent word here reveals. He is with the army air corps. IN YOKAHAMA Al Christ, who has been in the Pacific since April, writes his family that he is now in Yoka- hama. Mrs. Crist, the former Catherine McKenzie, and their two children are at their home in Cutler City. BROTHER VISITS Guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Walker the past week was Clyde L. Sutton, AFC2c, brother of Mrs. Walker. He was employed at the O-A mill before his enlistment in the navy. While here he visited the mill and also visited with old friends, stating that he enjoyed being back. He will Teport back to Florida in early October. GETS DISCHARGE Sgt. Walter Workman, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Workman, has been discharged from the 1st marine division and has returned home from Klamath Falls where he was last stationed. The Sgt. saw action at Tulagi, Bougan- ville, Midway and Guadalcanal. He will make his home with his parents at their farm on Timber route and will be associated with his father in their ranch business. FURLOUGH GRANTED RIVERVIEW — Mrs. Gerald Ball recieved a cablegram last week from her husband, Lt. Ball, stating that he has been given a furlough for a stop in the U.S. This is contrary to a previous message that the Lt. was being sent directly to Japan. HERE ON LEAVE RIVERVIEW — Alfred Sand er of the merchant marine is here on leave for a visit with his father, George Sander. Alfred has been in the service since Jan., 1942. This is his first vis it with his father in his new home. MARINER HERE Guy Wilbur, member of the merchant marine, is home for a visit after being at Okinawa. He arrived last week end. ARMY MAN HOME Joe Roeser, USA, is home on furlough and is visiting his moth er, Mrs. Ella Roeser of Wilark and friends. New Teacher Arrives Miss Dorothy Voge, Vernonia high school instructor, started her work here Monday to fill a position in the commercial de partment and to teach freshman orientation. This position has been filled temporarily by Mrs. Gilbert Paterson. Miss Voge will also be advisor for the Girl’s Athletic associaticn. Assembly Program Heard “Bub” Burns appeared on a national school assembly program here Tuesday afternoon at the Washington school auditorium. Burns presented himself as the brother of Bob Bums, radio com edian, and was billed as the Arkansas Traveler. The program consisted of plays, songs and stories. City to Receive $3,130 from State Vernonia will receive a total of $3,130 from state- collected highway and liquor revenues as the result of allocations to cities by the state. Excluding alloca tions from liquor license fees, these allocations totaled $2.04 per capita for all cities except Portland. The cities’ share of the liquor fees is distributed on the basis of the number of licenses issued in each city, rather than the basis of popu lation. As an average this a- mounted to an additional 20c per capita The law providing for the dis tribution of license fees went into effect March 18, 1943 but the allocation of fees collected during 1943 was not made to cities until January, 1945. Cities with local option did not receive any share of the manufacturer’s and importer’s tax, nor any rev enue from liquor licenses. These allocations mark the 1st substantial recognition by the Oregon legislature that the cities are entitled to share in certain revenues which have been taken over by the state. The general property tax, however, remains the primary source of revenue for the cities and the supplemen tation received from new state- collected sources is still nominal. In Vernonia’s case, no property tax is assessed so the principal source of revenue is that from the water department. At present the city’s financial condition, ex clusive of the $3,130 to be al located, is very good. As listed in the bulletin from the League, Vernonia’s total of $3,130 will be divided as follows:. $1,157, total liquor allocation and $1,973, highway allocatio” Club Hears Info About Dentist Members of the Vernonia Boosters club present for the dinner Monday evening heard committee reports and named a new committee to follow out one suggestion voiced at the meeting. A subject that has been talked a good deal has been the possibil ity of obtaining the services of a dentist for the community. Information received from letters written by the club indicate that no dentists are available at this time, hence people here must con tinue to wait until men of this profession are released from the armed "forces. Oregon - American authorities have also attempted to obtain the services of a dentist and have met with the same results. Two suggestions of needs for the community were also heard. One was the proposal that a youth center be organized and the other that a public rest room be sought. Both suggestions were referred to committees for furth er consideration and action. Named as the next banquet committee were Cleve Robertson, Mrs. John Dickhaut and Cecil Johnson. Oil Test Abandoned At Clatskanie Well The Texas Company’s try for oil or gas in Columbia county has come to an end, perhaps permanently, a company official stated Wednesday when inter viewed by The Eagle and a new try for oil is to be made in Wash ington county about 15 miles from Portland. Hopes of find ing either oil or gas in this county drew considerable spec ulation some months ago when the company was actively seeking leases from private parties and from the county. The Clatskanie well reached a cfcpth of 5650 feet without a showing of the products sought and will be capped so there will be little evidence in the future that the drilling was carried on. One detail that drew consid erable attention here concerned compliance with the company’s lease from Columbia county of 95,962.28 acres of land. The com pany representative contacted Wednesday stated definitely that terms of the lease were complied with in full. The lease with the county was completed February 19th of this year. COUNTY NEWS ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL UPPED CLATSKANIE Enrollment in both the Clatskanie high and grade schools has passed last year’s figures and it is expected that within the next week or two the registrations will increase considerably. In the high school the enroll ment as of Wednesday last week, stood at 142, which is 12 more than last year at peak regis tration. It is thought that be tween 150 and[ 160 students will be in attendance in a short while. The grade school enrollment stood at about the same figure as last year’s registration. By that time 281 students had signed with a possible increase in sight. OFFICIALS REVALUATE COUNTY-OWNED LAND ST. HELENS — Assessor Fred Watkins and Roland Watson, re valuation man working out of the office of the assessor, left last Thursday morning for the lower end of the county to make a re valuation of county property. With the county owning much land on which might be valuable stands of timber, it is the. pol icy of the county court to have such carefully looked over before, so to speak, selling it "sight un- Been” although the prospective purchaser probably knows the value. RAINIER’S SCHOOLS UP IN ENROLLMENT RAINIER — Substantially in creased enrollment over last year has been compiled at both the Rainier union high school and the Rainier grade school. The high school, which last September had an enrollment of approximately 200, has 239, in cluding 73 freshmen, 51 sopho mores, 71 juniors and 44 seniors. At the grade school there have been enrolled 261 students in comparison with 247 last Septem ber. COUNTY COURT TO SELL SEVERAL LAND TRACTS ST. HELENS — The Columbia county court is advertising some 10,000 acres of county-owned land for sale. The land, according to the advertisement "is consid ered suitable for tree farming but not necessarily sold as such.” The lands are in townships 4, 5, and 6, and the' tracts run from 40 to 677 acres, with most of them being from 80 to 160. Some of the lands border the lands sold by Clark A Wilson to the Crown-Zellerbach company for tree farming. Services Held For Boy Wed. Funeral services were held here Wednesday, yesterday for Rich ard Allen Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonn Jones of Birkenfeld. who was drowned a few days ago. The boy was born at Lebanon, February 17, 1943 and passed away September 18th at the age of two years, seven months and one day. The father is in the U.S. navy and was two thousand miles out at sea when he received the message. He arrived in Port land by plane and was here for the service. Grandparents of the boy are Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Lousignant Birkenfeld. The services were conducted by Rev. W. O. Living stone with the Bush FuneTal Home in charge and interment at the Lincoln Memorial cemetery.