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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recre»* VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 24 NUMBER 8 t O THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1946 —---------------------------------------------------------------- Tree Bid for COUNCILMEN Big Eddy Park HEAR REPORT Awarded Sat. L. D. Lloyd Will Remove Overripe Stand for Grange The board of directors ’of the Columbia County Pomona Grange opened bids Saturday for all the old growth timber now standing or lying at Big Eddy park eight miles north of Ver nonia and the highest bid was awarded to L. D. Lloyd of Portland, accaring to Noble Dun lap, secretary. The Pomona beard members are William Sheets, Albert Par ker and Clyde Henderson. In ad dition to removing the trees the board requires that all tops, and limbs, rotten portions and other debris that occurs from the log ging operations be removed. Pur pose cf the st'p.Iation is to clean the park so that new trees may be planted later and the park improved. Trees now standing there are overripe and dange ojs to peo ple who’ use the park. Several trees have fallen during wind storms. The grange has owned the park for 18 years and plans to improve the site by later planting several va-ieties of trees including red wood, Cyprus, fir and Port Orford cedar. Seven bids were received to be opened Saturday, Mr. Dunlap sa d. The work is to be completed on or before June 1 of this year. Club Mesting Date Postponed The monthly meeting of the Vernonia Booster club, which or dinarily would be held on the coming Monday evening has been postponed for a short time on the authority of Lou Girod, club president. Arrangements for the meeting would come too close to the football banquet to make pos sible a successful meeting, he said, hence the reason for the setting of a later date which will be an nounced next week. The organization’s board of di rectors will meet Thursday even ing of this week at The Eagle office to outline a program for the coming year. 560 Beaver Pelts Sold At the second beaver sale held by the Oregon state game commission this season, 560 peltls were sold for a total price of $27,853.50. The most successful bidder was Harry Jackson of the Blue Mountain Fur Co. who re ceived 312 pelts. Landowners who have contracted with the game commission under its beaver man agement program will receive one-third of the proceeds from • the pelts taken on their lands. The rest of the money goes toward payment of trapping, management and administration. Youth Rally to Be Mon. Event The Columbia County Christ's Ambassadors Youth Rally will be held in the Assembly of God church in Vernonia on Monday, February 25th at 7:30 P.M. The program shall feature special singing, a Bible qv-z on the characters in the book of Gene sis and an open discussion on the “Christian youth and the World.” On Tuesday evening at 7:30 Rev. Heath Lowry sectional Sun day school representative, will speak at a Sunday school con ference for all interested in Sun day school work. The public is cordially invited both evenings. Councilmen for the City of Vernonia met Monday evening to hear that a charter could not be obtained from the stats banking examiner for the installation of a bank which was anticipated following the special meeting of the week before. The council was open to the hearing of objec tions for the street assessment charges for last summer’s street paving but none was presented. The news of the bank charter was received after the move of the previous week when the city authorities decided to grant a lea’e for the bank building to the Bank of Rainier for a branch here. Hopes that a bank could be established were high fol lowing the special meeting of the week before, but were lowered whin information about the char ter were received. • Mail notices are being p~e- pared notifying property owners of assessments for the st eet paving. A notice of the hearing was posted at the city hsll pre vious to this week’s meeting. County Ne ws TEEN AGE CLUB MAKES BOW ST. HELENS—Colombia coun ty’s newly formed Teen Age club made its bow into St. Helens so ciety at the K. <f P. hall Satur day night, with a highly success ful dance attended by 239 young sters of the district. Accord’ng to the student-draft ed constitution, membership cards will be pi inted and sold to pros pective members of the organi zation on a 50 cents per high school semester basis. Member ship is unlimited and extends to all students in the ccunty be tween the ages of 13 and 19. SCHOOL AWAITS WORD ON AID FROM GOVERNMENT CLATSTKANIE — The board of directors of Clatskanie School district No. 5 is on the anxious list, awaiting word if federal money will be available for re placement of the high school building destroyed by fire No vember 1st. To date no legislation has been passed but word has been received from Senator Morse to the effect that he has such a bill prepared to pre-ent to Congress. No assurance of its passage or time of passage is possible. The grade school building is now inadequate to take care of enrollment. All available space has been made into class rooms and the condition is still over crowded. ED CONDIT IS CANDIDATE FOR HOUSE ST. HELENS — With the March 8 deadline for filing only three weeks away, so far there have been only two official en tries from Columbia for county and state offices. Jim Hunt, pres ent clerk, has announced his intention of filing for county judge while Ed Condit, Clatska nie mint grower, intends to en ter the race for state represen tative from this county. Condit, who defeated the vet eran representative J.D. Perry for the legislative job in the 1944 election, will thus be seeking his second term in the state house. Address Changed Nehalem valley sportsmen who wish to contact the Oregon State Game Commission must now do so at its office at 1634 S. W. Alder, Portland, according to an announcement by Frank B. Wire, state game supervisor. All mail should be addressed to the commission, P. O. box 4136, Port land 8, he mentions in a news re lease this week. Wire is well known by sportsmen in this area, having made several visits here to attend rod and gun club meet ings. Article Says Vets Get Property "Run-around" A release of information about the top priority veterans are ac corded in the purchase of sur plus government property is made this week by the local V. F. W. post and the state depart ment. The situation explained in the following article was reiter ated Monday by a local group, most of th epi veterans, who at tempted tx> purchase government surplus at Tacoma. Members of that group were Cleve, E. V. and Ray Robertson and Fritz Hausler and his son, Fritz, Jr. The Vernonia V.F.W. post, in making the release this week, strongly urge3 all veterans to sign, cut out and mail this ar ticle to one of the Senators list ed at the bottom. The release states: “Before our discharge ’ the “Stars and Stripes” explained that veterans were to be given No. 1 priority on the purchase of surplus government property, in order to start in business. “Now veterans are pushed down to No. 3 position, on the purchase priority list. Then the fun starts. “Consumers goods div’sion of the reconstruction finance cor poration (now known as war as sets corp, of the R.F.C.) ; noti- f.’c: the veteran that certain p eperty is for sale (naming ar ticles wanted) at certain govern ment depots (location) ; and that he (the veteran) has 3rd choice on the articles when he arrives at the depot. “But when the veteran arrives at the disposal depot, he finds the articles he wants (and is certified by smaller war plants corp, to purchase), is sold “en masse” to a buyer of a junk or retail business concern; and he (the veteran) is given the old army “horse laff” for being fool enough to waste his time filling out forms and then wasting his money on trips up “blind alleys” to these R.F.C. controlled dispos al centers. • “If the veteran arrives before the articles are sold to private business concerns, then the veter an is told his application is on the bottom of the pile of 1,800 other applications for the same article or articles! “Instead of having a No. 3 priority the veteran finds he has a No. 1,800 priority, for govern ment property with which to start his business. "G.I.’s are you tired of being given the' old army run-a-round and horse laugh by the R.F.C.? If so, sign this and mail it to: Senator Wayne L. Morse, Sen ate Office Bldg., Washington, D. C. or Senator Guy Cordon, Sen ate Office Bldg., Wa hington, D. C.” Signed ................................................. (Name of G. I. Joe or Jane) DRIVE START SET MARCH 1 Mrs. Harry Culbertson, Ver nonia chairman of the coming Red Cross fund drive, announced Wednesday that the 1946 cam paign to raise finances for that organization will start March 1st and will continue through that month. The drive in yernonia and vi cinity will be carried out very much the same as last year and all organizations will be asked to help and business houses will be solicited. Mrs. Wm. Bridgers will direct the drive for the Mist-Natal area and Mrs. Guy Bellingham for Birkenfeld. Considerable campaign mater ial has been received here and is ready for distribution. The ma terial gives information of the scops of Red Cross work and outlines the need for genercus c nt'butions to this cause. Those Who Are in It ALDRIDGE GETS MEDAL A belated p-esentation cf the bronze star medal, awarded for heroic achievement in action, has been made to ex-Staff Sgt. Elmo I. Aldidge, who entered the army from Eugene. Aldridge was a Add^ .......................... ........................... sergeant at the time of the ac Approved by Pete Fredrickson, tion i.i c unpzny A, 1st talk ta':- commander, department of Ore t.-.llion f the United States 1st gon, Veterans of Foreign Wars rumoured division. The citation of U.S. and by Smith Christiansen related: For heroic- achievement Post, VFW, Vernonia, O.egon. on Apail 24, 1945, near South Secondo, Italy. Staff Sgt. Ald ridge led his tank section into the midst of an enemy vehicle con voy, destroying it completely, causing many casualties and tak ing many pzis ners cf war. He ty by the first of May with few showed a k~en sense of duty an I changes being made in the list demonst-ated real !ead:rship in as compared with that of pre this action.” vious years. Aldridge, the son of Mrs. Vera E. H. Condit, Clatskanie mint Aldridge of Vernonia,* served 36 grower, has resigned from the. months overseas with the 1st ar board and his position has not mored division and saw acton been filled by an appointment through the Africa and Italy of the county court. campaigns. Board Plans First Fair For County in Five Years August 14 to 18 are the dates set for the first Columbia coun ty fair to be held since Pearl Harbor at the Deer Island grounds. This dec sion was made Saturday aft: noon when the fair board m’et to plan the event. Attractions at the fair will in clude the popular carnival, if one can be obtained, and a rodeo to provide part of the entertain ment, the board decided. A premium list will be pre pared and circulated in the coun- Building of New Station Started The construction work on Ver nonia’s newest service station was started a few days ago and will be pushed to completion as fast as possible. The station is located cn the lot at the corner of Weed and Bridge and Jake Berger is the owner. The lot was purchased from the Washington Federal Savings and Loan associ ation of Hillsboro. Part of the work includes raz ing of the old frame structure which was moved to the back of the lot several years ago. The new building will be concrete and cement block construction, the foundation pouring being completed early this week. Chief Thanks C-D Policemen Members of the Vernonia civ ilian defense police force which was active during the war re ceived the sincere thanks of Chief A. D. Lolley this week when he expressed his appreci ation for the cooperation he had received. The civilian defense force was disbanded recently when the possibility of needing their services ended. The force was organized in the spring of 1942 and at one time numbered 40 men who received considerable instruction and prac tice in the work. In later years the force was reduced to 20 men. Building Repair Started Monday Repair work necessary before the opening of the Western Auto Supply store started Monday on the building purchased several weeks ago by Walter S. Ready from E. G. Roediger. Mr. and Mrs. Ready arrived here a few days ago to supervise the re modeling of the building. The remodeling will include in terior refinishing and changing the building’s front to allow for display window space. No time has been set for the store open ing which will be determined by the speed which can be accom plished in the remodeling. Dist. 47 Board Sells Property The school board of district 47 Jt., moved again last Satur day night to follow up a policy started when other, smaller dis tricts in the Nehalem valley con solidated with 47. That policy was the disposal of the buildings and grounds of the district which had consolidated so that they might be used for other pur poses. Saturday night’s sale was the two buildings and grounds of Pleasant Vale district 18, Keas- ey to G O. Brown who plans to build a home from the ma terials obtained. Price was $500. The district 47 board members also discussed installation of an oil burning unit for the school furnaces and the letting of new bus contracts. A joint meeting of the grade and high school boards is planned for March 2 to further discuss the bus con tracts. , MURVEL FRANK HOME Sgt. Murvel Frank, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Frank, arrived hrme la-t Friday after receiving his discharge from the army at Ft. Lewis the day before. At the time of his discharge he Com pleted three years and three days in the service, during which time he served in the Aleutians and Germany. He spent the past five or six months recruiting in Ok lahoma. DISCHARGED Francis L. Wolf, MoMM3c, re ceived his discharge from the service at the personnel separa tion center at Bremerton, Wash. February 8th, a news release from the center reveals. He re turned to this country aboard the USS Haskell, an attack trans port from Yokosuka, Japan, leav. irrg there January 19th. GETS NEW RATING In a letter received from her son, Thomas Osborn, Mrs. O.. B. Bittner of Kcasey route, was informed that he now has the new rating of sergeant. He is stationed in Okinawa and has been there since the forepart of November. OSBORN PROMOTED Word has been received by Mrs. Thomas Osborn that her husband, who is on Okinawa, has received a Sgt. rating and her brother, Pfc George Christian sen, has received his discharge at Camp Beale, Cal. AWAITS SHIPMENT Darrel Rcse S2c is now sta tioned at Bremerton, Wn. and is awaiting word to be shipped out at any time. ANDERSON HOME Jack Anderson received his discharge from the army Wednes day of last week and arrived here Friday from Camp Beale, Cali fornia where the release was re ceived. He spent 42 months in Phone Line Construction Crown Plan Installation Being Made on Permanent Basis for Tree Farm Telephone lines into the Pebble creek area have been completed and work is starting on line con struction towards Camp 8 and the country east of there, Glen Hawkins, local representative of the Crown-Zellerbach corporation said this week. The line construc tion is being done on a perma nent basis, he said. The building of the system of telephone lines will provide con tact with all parts of the cor poration’s tree farm principally for fire protection but also« for casts of emergency. Telephones will be set in, prominent places near roads and will be painted red for easy identification. In struction will also be di played for the convenience of users. Present plans call for perma nent lne construction into the Crooked creek area before tha next fire season period which will begin April 15. Over 50 miles of line will comprise the complete system covering the tree farm land will be a major step in carrying out itensive fire pro tection by making it pos ible to dispatch fire fighting crews in a h-.rry when calls telling of fires are received. REA Buys Truck For Line Work repairing of present electric lines and the construction of r.ew lines will be possible with in a very short time due to the purchase last week of a 114 ton lire construct'on truck by the West Oregon Ekctri- Coop. Inc., Freak D. Seelye, manager, said Saturday. The truck v.as obtained from government surplus property at Fort Lewis and was brought here last Friday. The new vnit will be ready for work by the first of the coming week, Mr. Seelye said. Bishop Praetorius To Speak Mon. On Monday evening, February 25th, members and friends of the Evangelical church will have the opportunity to hear E. W. Prae torius, Bishop of the northwest a ea of the Evanglical church. His visit here is tnusual in that it provides a rare chance to hear the message he will bring. Bishop Praetorius is a man much admired by Evangelical church members and is consid ered one of the greatest Bible expositors of the present day. The service that day will begin at 7:30 and people of the com munity are invited. State Tax Aid Itinerary Lisied A state income tax agent has scheduled visits at three points in Columbia county during the month of March to give assist ance to people who must file the returns. Visits will be made at the Clatskanie city hall March 13 from 8:30 to 5:00; the Rainier city hall March 14 from 8:30 to 5:00; and the St. • Helens court house on March 15 from 8:30 to 5:00. People who need assistance in preparing their returns may get help at any of these places. the service. He plans to work for some time then return to school this fall.