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.