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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1946)
THOSE WHO ARE IN IT RETURNS FROM EUROPE Virgil Hiatt, brother of Mrs. Ralph Reynolds, has just re turned from Europe according to information received here. He is a graduate of Vernonia high school. DISCHARGED Dan Rollins is home with a discharge from the service due to a foot injury. He is planning to work for some time then will probably enter school later this year. EXPECTED HOME Mr. and Mrs. Tom Turner recently received word from their son, Robert, in which he stated he would be leaving Tokyo about the 7th of this month to return home. GET DISCHARGES AFC3c Wilfred Holce arrived home early last week with his discharge from two and one-half years of service. He received his papers at Shoemaker, California. Leo Ludwig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Ludwig, is also home with his discharge as also is Mike Anderson who arrived here last week from Eremerton. Lyman Hawken, Jr. has also received his release after spend ing 34 months in the service, about 14 of those being on the high seas. He was discharged abcut two “weeks ago and with his wife spent last week here Gun Club to Shoot Ian. 11 The Vernonia Gun Club will enter a rifle shooting contest January 11 when it begins com petition fjr the first time since the start of the war. The club was actively engaged in rifle shooting matches in the Culum- bia-Wilamette Rifle league be fore the war and tallied some high scores in the contests held then. Club members engaged in a qualification round December 21 at Hillsboro in order to estab lish handicaps as a basis for future matches. The qualification round was shot in three positions, prone, sitting and standing. Com peting from here and the scores were: prone Sit. Stg. 96 82 98 Ronald Fetsch 79 96 94 J. W. Nichols 84 81 88 Ben George 81 82 Dick Thompson 81 95 88 62 Ernest Darst 68 95 90 Leon Hanson 86 61 91 A. Brimmer Members of the club will meet January 9th for their annual meeting and election of new of ficers. Seal Sale Here Reaches $465 The sale of Christmas seals this year is somewhat behind the amount for last year at this time a comparison with the re ceipts of the two years revealed early this week. Up to Wednes day of this week 1465 had been received by Miss Xelva Ramsey, local seal sale chairman, who said that letters reminding those who haven’t paid will be sent soon. Last year »594 had been re ceived by the early part of Jan uary. Funds from the sale last year financed the visit of the mobile chest x-ray unit and will be used again this year for that purpose. The sale will be closed officially March 15th, Miss Ram sey «aid. with his parents. Ted Smith, a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Hawken was also here Monday after receiving his dis charge. He spent over three years in the service and is a former Vernonia high school student. VISITS HERE Pvt. Lloyd Stuve is here on furlough, having entered the service last summer after the close of school. TRANSFERRED Lt. Harry Culbertson hag been transferred to the New Hebri des Islands from his previous station in the Hawaiian Islands. He left Hawaii December 9th and will probably be at his new lo cation for five or six months. IN GERMANY Pvt. Ralph Sturdevant, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Sturdevant, is now stationed at Munich, Ger many in an MP battalion. He ar rived there during the forepart of December and; expects that to be his location for some time. ADVANCED TO MAJOR Harold G. Cason received no tice this week from the war de partment of his promotion from infantry captain to the rank of major, effective Dec. 23rd, 1945. Major Cason is now on terminal leave prior to separation from the service and on March 9th, 1946 will be placed on an inac tive reserve status. MOTHER VISITED RIVERVIEW — Pfc. Walter Buckner of Victorville, Calif, came Dec. 20th for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Artie Buckner and othei- relatives. He will leave Jan. 10th and report in camp the morning of Jan. 13th. GET DISCHARGES Two local men have received their discharges from the navy at the personnel separation cen ter at Bremerton, Washington ac cording to recent discharge lists from the center. James E. Fluke, S2c, received his separation papers on Decem ber 21st and John P. Hursley, Cox., was discharged December 26th. Demos Still Top GOP Registration A compilation of voters in the 31 county precincts by J. W. Hunt, county clerk, for the spec ial election of January 11th, 1946 still places the democratic registration ahead of the repub licans in this county. The list was prepared December 11th. The old precinct of Birkenfeld has been eliminated and the elec tors will now vote at Mist, which precinct includes the entire end of the valley. Total county republican reg istration is 4,265 and democratic, 5,211, with other registrations being independents 69, socialist 13, prohibitioniists 5, and mis cellaneous 48. Total listed is 9,611. Registration of demos and republicans in the Mist and, four Vernonia precinctsi is: Rep. Dem. 94 67 Mist 178 Vernonia No. 1 77 Vernonia No. 2 138 185 304 Vernonia No. 3 148 Vernonia No.4 109 152 Game Fish Rules Hearing Subject The annual hearing of the Ore gon State Game commission with reference to angling regulations will be held at ten o’clock, Sat urday morning, January 12, 1946 at its offices in 616 Oregon Bldg. Portland. Consideration at that time will be given to seasons, bag limits and other regulations affecting the taking of game fish for the ensuing year. The hearing is open to the general public. New Year Makes Noisy Power Line To Bonneville Entrance Here Tuesday Brought In Service Off Here From Wednesday Morning to Noon Electrical service connection with Bonneville dam power was made here Wednesday noon of this week when the service was Tesumed about noon after bein^ off from 7:30 that morning. A crew of men we.e engaged New Year’s day and part of the night making connection with the Clatskanie line at Pittsburg so that power could be turned on again Wednesday. Difficulty in obtaining repair parts for the power plant at the Oregon-American mill made the shut-off necessary Wednesday morning when the mill resumed work after being closed for the holidays. The sawmill did not work Wednesday due to the trouble here. It is probable that electric service from Bonneville will continue although mainten ance of the line from Clatskanie is difficult due to the mountain ous terrain and the liklihood of shorts from falling branches or snow or ice. E Bond Sales Reach $48,000 The New Year began here without a mishap to mar it3 en trance. As was the case in many places Americans celebrated more lustily than for several years since the war began. The toll of accidents and deaths was great er generally throughout the coun try for this new year beginning than for. several years, probab- Reports Required Before Payment How soon farmers receive their 1945 conservation practice pay ments depends on their prompt ness in completing reports of performance on practices per formed during the year. c In Columbia County, as in most counties, no applications for payments can be prepared untij performance reports are in for all farmers. This is because the value of practices which farmers indicated intentions to perform generally exceeded county allo cations of funds for practice pay ment'. The Columbia county committee will pay for all ap proved practices, but it will be necessary to determine the total of all practices performed before this can be done. Also the com mittee announced that there will be funds for payment of addi tional practices which required prior approval of the county committee. The sale of E series victory bonds here through the en<j of the d ive which closed Monday totaled $48,000 for the Nehalem v*illey, Mrs. Ben Brickel, local chairman, said later this week. This figure tops by a consider able amount the quota for this area of $37,500. Sn far, about one-fourth of the estimated 500 county farms taking part In the 1945 program have filed performance reports. January 15 ¡3 the closing date. The county as a whole has also far exceeded its quota of $620,- 000 Irving T. Rau, county chair man, stated. The grand total of victory bonds sold during this campaign has reached $1,148,517. OPA ceiling prices on used passenger automobiles will be reduced 4% Jan. 1, 1946, accord ing to a statement made last Saturday by E. J. Klien, auto mobile price specialist. According to information re leased at St. Helens, the people of this county, over 20,000, have bought $6,323,824 worth of E bonds at the purchase price. When figured at the maturity value the figure reaches $8,431,- 765. The war loan campaign just ended completes the eighth since the start of the war. This 4% reduction, which ap plies not only to the base price of used vehicles, but also applies to extras, is the regular depre ciation scheduled by the regula tion to be taken at six months intervals. Klien also pointed out that every person, when he sells a used car covered by the reg ulation shall prepare a certificate cf transfer in duplicate and not later than five days from the date of sale, turn in the original ccpy to his local war price and rationing board and give the other copy to the purchaser. Bakers Purchase Riverview Inn A property transaction that has been in the making for some time came to a climax this week when Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Baker of Longview, Washington took over Wayne’s Inn and opened for business Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Pugh and fam ily moved Monday and Tuesday to the home they purchased in Vernonia of Fred Oveson. The home is near the high school. Mr. Pugh* will work as whole sale candy and tobacco salesman. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have been in the merchantile business for 16 years as owners and opera tors of a general store carrying everything from pins to gaso line. Juniors to Give Play The high school junior class play, "Drums of Death,’’ is scheduled for presentation on Friday evening of the coming week. The play will be given at the Washington grade school auditorium. Car Ceilings to Be Reduced Flu Cases Decrease The number of absentees from the flu and other illness has de creased from the peak of sev eral weeks ago at the high school Ray Mills, principal, said Wednes day. Twelve students were absent when school re-opened this week as compared with a peak of ov er 20. ly because more people were cel ebrating. Private parties, church watch parties and the annual Amer ican Legion Auxiliary carnival dance provided the means of cel ebration for local people. This dance drew a larger attendance than is usually true for the rea son that more people, relieved of the stress cf wartime, were in the mood to enjoy the arrival of the new year. Up to Thursday morning no births had been reported here for the r.ew year so that the name of the first 1946 baby can not be announced. COUNTY NEWS YULE SEAL SALES TO HIT $4000 MARK ST. HELENS—Sales of Christ mas Seals in Columbia county will total in exce.-s of $4000 when the drive ends Jan. 1, and all receipts are totaled, but there is little prospect that the county will come anywhere near attain ing the goal of $8000 which had been set for the 1945 campaign, figures released by the County Public Health association indi cated. St. Helens has responded well to the campaign and up to Dec. 22, latest date for which sales figures are available, had turned in nearly $1,100, which is in excess of its quota of $1,000 and also more money than was rea lized here last year from Seal sales. DEMOCRATS OUTNUMBER REPUBLICANS IN COUNTY ST. HELENS—The democrats still hold a majority in Columbia county, shading republican party registrants by nearly 1,000 voters a precinct-by-precinct breakdown of registrations for the Jan 11 special election showed last week. As of Dec. 11, there were 5,211 registered Bourbon voters and 4,265 who sided with the G.O.P. These two parties represent all but 135 of the 9,611 registered voters on the books at the county clerk’s office. There are at pres ent some 69 registered independ ents, 13 socialists, 6 prohibition ists and 48 of miscellaneous po litical faiths. COLUMBIA RIVER RISING RAPIDLY ST. HELENS — The Columbia river is rising rapidly and the gauge at the city dock showed 11 feet above zero Sunday morn ing, the highest the river has been for several months. The . pptr Willamette river is at flood stage and will continue to rise until Tuesday, according to riv er readings by the U.i. Weather bureau at Portland. This will affect the Colum bia which on its own account has been swollen by the heavy rains and melting snows in the upper reaches of the river. The weath er man predicted that the river would reach the highest stage since 1943. Western Auto Supply Store Is Planned Roediger Building Purchased by Walter S. Ready. Heppner A Western Auto Supply store is slated to occupy the E. G. Roediger building on Bridge St. between Second and Third Sts., Mr. Roediger announced Thurs day morning when he said that arrangements for purchase of the structure had been made. The building was constructed for a garage a number of years ago and was remodeled several years ago when the top story was removed. Mr. Roediger had previously planned to >use the structure again for a garage un til the sale was made this week. The store will be under the management cf Walter S. Ready of Heppner who plans consider able remodeling before opening the store. He plans to begin the work as soon as possible and will carry automobile parts and a line of general merchandise. Loggers to Meet Saints Friday Coach J. Hergert’s Logger hoopmen will take the floor Fri day night this week to play their first county basketball game when St. Helens invades the Ne halem valley. Both the first and second teams will play, the first game being called for 7:30 that evening. Vernonia met the Saints twice in last year’s schedule and will do the same this season. The 1945 games were divided with the Loggers winning one and losing one. The Loggers completed their pre-season schedule last Friday night when they lost to Forest Grove here by 19 to 35. The B squad wen their game from the Grove. Former Graduates Enter Colleges«*'' Several graduates of Vernonia high school who have completed their terms of service in the armed forces have made arrange ments for entering college and have left for their respective schools. Completing the papers necessary for entrance has been done by Ray Mills, principal, who released the names of the ex- servicemen who are starting .heir college work. Listed by Mr. Mills and the schools they will attend are: Jack Childs, University of Cal ifornia at Los Angeles; Robert Kent and Paul Gray, Or, gon State; Joe McNutt, Oregon; Vic tor LaPorte, Portland Univer sity; and Carroll Keasey, Oregon State. Financial assistance has been obtained through the GI bill of rights. County Polio Chapter Gets $1000 Check A check for $1,000 has been sent by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to its chapter in Columbia county to fight poliomyelitis. Dispatched in response to an appeal from Chap ter Chairman Otto H. H. Peter son, St. Helens, the money will supplement chapter resources de pleted by continuing care for patients from last year’s polio outbreak. As of December, Columbia county had reported no cases of poliomyelitis this year, compared with five for the same period of 1944. Oregon as a whole had reported 62 cases by December, compared with 231 cases for the same period last year. Principal expenses of National Foundation chapters are hospit alization and transportation of patients, special equipment, and medical and nursing services. Not only must treatment and care be assured for victims of current and recent epidemics but also for patients carried over from pre vious years. Poliomyelitis is one of the most expensive diseases known to med icine. Hospitalization for a single patient costs more than $2,500 a year. Some cases require con tinuing care for several years. Few families can meet the cost of extended polio treatment. It is the policy of the National Foundation that no infantile pa ralysis patient shall go without carq and treatment for lack of money, regardless of age, race creed or color. Half of all contributions to the annual March of Dimes, Jan uary 14-31, remain with local chapters of the National Founda tion. The other half goes to the national organization for scien tific research, education and ep idemic aid. No chapter appeals for help to the National Founda tion unices it anticipates exhaus tion of its own funds. More than »1,000,000 in epidemic aid has been disbursed by the National Foundation so far this year.