“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recrea. ______________________ _________________
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 10
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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1946
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New Church
Opens Doors
Wednesday
Nazarene Church to
Hold Gospel Meetings
Through This Month
THOSE WHO
ORE IH IT
DISCHARGED
LaVon George has received hi
discharge from the coast guarf
and was here to visit friends ant
relatives for a short time last
week end. He spent 44 month;
in the service, the last seven in
Alaska. Six of the seven month;
in Alaska were on isolated duty.
He was released at Seattle Febru
ary 21st.
A new church for Verne nia
opened its doors Wednesday ev
ening, Mar?h 6th, when evange WITH CAVALRY DIVISION
listic services were started by
Sgt. Wayne Crume, son of Mr.
Evangelist Coryell of Meridian, and Mrs. Harvey H. Crume, is
Idaho to continue for the rest now seiwing with the 12th Cav
of the month of March.
alry regiment as motor sergeant.
Preparation for the opening in
He is in the Tokyo occupation
the McGee building at the corner forces, and has been overseas
of Bridge and Second streets has since July 27, 1945. He entered
been underway for some time the army July 12, 1944.
with G. H. Hartzell doing much
RECEIVE DISCHARGES
of the work and assisting in
Harold L. Calhcon, fireman
many of the necessary arrange
lc, and George F. Schmidlin,
ments.
The young people of the Port ■JfMlc, received their discharges
land Central church are backing from the Bremerton separation
this church and have rented the- center February 28.
building. They al-o purchased the CAPT. MEEKER HERE
house at Bridge and First avenue
Capt. and Mrs. Everett Meek
for use as a pa-sonage, A resi er were overnight' guests of the
dent minister will be assigned Holly Holcombs Friday. On leave
here soon, it v.-as stated.
from his station in North Caro
lina, Meeker will repoit there
shortly for reassignment.
COUNTY NEWS
APPRENTICE TRAINING
15 ACCEPTED
ST. HELENS—The chance to
learn a t ade with Uncle Sam
paying a good part of the over
head is attracting plenty cf tak
ers in Columbia county among re
turning GIs, Robert Biikford,
trade and industry coordinator,
who is handling field work on
this program in the county, raid
last week. So far, Bickford has
16 ex-servicemen signed up and
at work in St. Helens and he has
handled more than 100 applica
tions. This jeb-training program
being financed by the govern
ment for discharged servicemen
and women pays them up to -75
per month if they are single and
up to -90 monthly if they're mar
ried. This, combined with what
their employer gives in the way
of salary, is supposed to bring
them to a journeyman’s scale or
nearly so.
PIRATES WIN
FIRST ROUND
CLATSKANIE—The Westport
pirates defeated the Clatskanie
Tigers 41 to 36 an exciting fast
moving game Feb. 26 at Astoria,
for the title of Clatsop-Columbia
county “B” championship.
CLATSKANIE PUD IS
MAKING MONEY
CLATSKANIE — The Clatska
nie PUD showed a profit for the
year of 1945. After bond redemp
tion fund payments had been
made a net income amounting to
-20,566.69 was realized.
In 1945 $76,521.72 was the
operating revenue and of that
amount $17,282.89 was expended
for purchasing
power,
which
proved one of the largest items.
TACOMA MEN BUY
VANVLEET SAWMILL
RAINIER—Sale of the Van-
Vleet Lumber company plant in
Rainier to Donald and Lee Doud
of Tacoma was consummated re
cently. R. B. VanVleet is retir
ing from the field and is said to
have no immediate plans to an
nounce.
Teachers Rehired
For Coming Year
The board of union high school
district No. 1 met Saturday night
tp offer contracts to the present
members of the teaching staff
of the high school for the coming
1946-47 school year. Of the pres
ent staff, two have signified that
they will not return next year,
Ray Mills, principal, said Mon.
Those teachers intending to re
turn are: J. Hergert, Harold Mc
Entire, Leonard Baker, Doris
Lacy. Dorothy Voge. T. P. Hab-
erly and Principal Mills.
LINDSLEY HERE
RIVERVIEW—Pfc. Lee Linds-
ley, USM, is here on a 60-day
furlough from Camp Pendleton,
Oceanside, Calif. Lee has reen
listed fur two years and expects
to b; sent to a r.ew base at the
end of his furlough.
RETURNS FOR ORDERS
Pvt. Etan Brady, who
had
been spending his furlough from
Ft. Lewis here, his former home,
and in Portland, reported Tues
day for embarkation orders.
Bulleein Explains
Army Parcel Size
The war department advises
that effective March 1, 1946 par
cels not exceeding 22 pounds in
weight or 48 inches in length or
72 inches in length and girth
combined, containing articles re
quested by the addressee, may
be accepted for mailing to a my
personnel overseas.
Information about the regula-
lations was received here a few
days ago by postmaster Emil
Messing.
Personal recordings, voice or
instr;mental, may now be accept
ed for mailing to army personnel
overseas, pr.vided they are suit
ably prepaid for transmission
through tig? mails and meet the
requirements as to weight, size
and request of the addressee
However, such recordings in par
cels not exceeding eight ounces
in weight may be accepted for
mailing at the first-class rate of
postage without the specific re
quest of the addressee.
Teachers Draw
Baseball Shed
Men school teachers from Co
lumbia county schools and a del
egation from Seaside met here
Monday evening at the Mason
ic Temple to draw up a tentative
baseball schedule of play for the
coming season. The men also dis
cussed several other topics Mon
day, among them being teacher
retirement and attendance at an
Oregon State Teachers’ associa
tion event scheduled March 28,
29 and 30.
The Nehalem social club served
the dinner previous to the meet
ing which was attended by about
25 instructors from other parts
of the county.
Sewing to Start
Red Cross sewing will start
again Wednesday, March 13, Mrs.
C. L. Andersen announces this
week. The work will be done at
the high school and will start at
1 o’clock
.
Veteran Bill PEASLEY PLANS
Topic of Talks LOCKER PLANT
Friday Night
Vets Invited to
Hear Details of
Bill of Rights
Veterans are extended a spec
ial invitation by the Vernonia
Booster club to hear details of
the GI bill of rights explained
Friday night at the Legion hall.
The meeting is also open to oth
er1, both men and women, who
are interested in learning about
the law and they are urged by
the club to attend.
Three speakers will be here
that evening from the Commer
cial National Bank of Hillsboro
to present the information. Wil
liam C. Christen.en, president of
the bank, will head the three
speakers to tell about the gen
eral hous'ng crisis. With him will
b J. L. Seaicy, vice-president, to
develop the educational and ap
prenticeship situation, and M.
Lynn Judy, assistant a hier to
talk on the mortgage loan sec
tion.
The Booster ciub's next speak
er will discuss a topic cf interest
to 'farm owners in the valley,
that of fruit and produce raising.
Information of the time, place
and name of the speaker, will be
announced next week.
This bank has established a
special department d;voted to GI
problems and has seven special
ists who are thoroughly familiar
with the law to give assistance
to those wishing it.
The meeting is scheduled for
8 p.m. at the Legion hall and re
freshments will be served after
the talk?. This program is the
first of several planned by the
Booster club to present speakers
to people cf the Upper Nehalem
Valley.
Health Group to
Meet March 11
Paul Gordon, president cf the
Coljmbia County Public Health
association announces a meeting
of that group for Monday even
ing, March 11, at the Scappoose
high school. Invitations to attend
are being sent to a number of
local people for what is antici
pated will be an interesting meet
ing.
Scheduled for that evening are
speakers from the state beard of
health who will present trends in
social hygiene and venereal di-
sea e control. A dinner and bus
iness meeting are also on the
schedule.
Extension Meet Set
The Vernonia Extension unit
meets March 7 at 10:30 a.m. in
the high school home economics
room. The project is "Seasonal
Cleaning.” All interested are in
vited to attend.
The construction of a building
and cold storage locker plant ai
the Sunnyside Service
statioi
near Treharne is planned withir
a short time according to Roy
Peasley who has purchased the
property. At present he is con
tinuing the feed store and statior
businc s in the buildings in which
they were located
when
he
bought them a short time ago.
The building will be construct
cd on the site of the present feed
store, Mr. Peasley said, and wil
house the lockers which will be
of fireproof construction.
The
lockers will be of three sizes, 8
foot, 12-foot, and 15-foot and ap
plications are being accepted now
from prospective users, he said.
The building will be construct
ed of cement blocks and will alsc
be fireproof. Mr. Poosley has an
nounced new hours for the busi
ress, now being epun from 7
a.m. to 7 p.m.
Street Lighting
Talked Monday
Preliminary plans and sugges
tions about the installation of
new street lighting for Vernonia’3
Bridge street business section oc
cupied a considerable part of
Monday evening’s city council
meeting. Appearing before t’e
council that night was Fiank D.
Seelye, West Oregon Coop man
ager, who presented suggestions
to the council about the lights.
Mr. Seelyc’s suggestion, in ord
er to obtain definite information
about lighting fixtures and the
best means cl installation, was to
obtain the services of several il
lumination firms to g.t the need
ed data. He stressed to the coun
cil the need for considering the
problem now in order to have »
definite blueprint of th: project
when it is time to do the work.
Councilmen also authorized the
purchase of an Ingersol-Rand ah-
compressor and equipment neces
sary for pavement breaking. Thi«
equipment will be used when the
laying of new water mains be
gins, to replace present mains
which have been in use over 20
years and which arc giving con
siderable trouble due to breaks.
This project is being discussed
for the coming s.mmer.
Fowlers Start
Radio Repairing
Hal and Ben Fowler are start
ing a radio repair service, the
brothers announce this week, and
are ready to begin work. They
have obtained the equipment ne-
vessary for radio repair and have
installed it at 841 Rose avenue,
the home of the former.
In addition to the actual re
pairing, they have announced a
pickup and delivery service which
can be obtained by calling 454.
Employers Can Help in
Placing Disabled Vets
Oregon employers can go a the supreme court justices and
long way toward placing the dis Clerk Arthur S. Benson say that
he fits in perfectly.
abled veteran in employment if
A number of other employers
they are made cognizant of the now are insisting on hiring only
fact that in many cases they disabled veterans
for
certain
have jobs in their own plants types of work, Rosson said, but
which handicapped veterans can the added that as more disabled
men return from hospitals the
handle.
This observation was made by problem will grow, and he urged
Hugh E. Rosson, director of the employers to place their names
department of veterans’ afairs, on file with local service officers,
discussions with counsellors of contact representatives for the
the veterans’ administration and veterans’ administration, or vet
eran counsellors of the USES,
the U. S. employment service.
An example cited by Rosson for hiring of disabled veterans.
Those now employing these
was that of Harvey Shafer, Sa
lem, one hundred percent dis men declare that the handicapped
abled through the loss of his veteran in most cases is an effic
right arm, who obtained a job in ient and reliable worker, which
February as bailiff for the Ore they attribute to the fact that
gon supreme court. Shafer is he realizes what an opportunity
enthusiastic about his work and it is to be able to work.
TREE SEEDING
TO START FRI.
The first forest planting in
Columbia county lands is sched
uled for Friday, Saturday and
Sunday of this week end Glen
Hawkins said Tuesday when he
mentioned that arrangements for
the work had been made. The
planting will take place on land
owned by the Columbia County
Tree Farm of the Crown Zeller-
back corporation for which Mr.
Hawkins is the local representa
tive. This first planting marks
another step in the direction of
building the farm to the basis of
sustained yield of forest pro
ducts.
High schol boys will do the
work, Mr. Hawkins said, and the
first tree will be planted by the
Bey Scouts Friday in se:ti n 25
at the lead of Coal creek where
a breaking plow was used late
last year. The t ees now on hand
total 35,000 of which 25,000 are
Douglas fir and the rest are
Noble fir, Port Orford cedar and
hemlock.
Mr. Hawkins will be in charge
cf the werk which will require
several week ends before comple
tion.
Breaking of the land last No
vember was done by a tractor
and 22-inch. breaking plow pre
para' y to this planting. F:r-
- ws v-sre plowed cn a level con-
Budget Law
Sets Term
A new state law becoming ef
fective this spring requires that
taxpayer members of the local
committees to fix budgets will
h: appointed to se ve on a "stag
gered term” plan. Directors or
the governing body of any tax
levying
municipal
corporation
must designate one-third of the
appointed members to serve one
year, one-third for two years and
the remaining third for three
years.
The purpose of the plan for
local budget committees is to
make certain that a part of the
gioup shall have had previous
experience in determining how
much tax money should be spent
for cost of local government.
New Sugar Stamp
Valid March 11
Spar: stamp 9 will become
good Monday, March 11, for five
pounds of home canning sugar
and will be valid through Octob
er 31, 1946, the OPA announced
Tuesday.
Most consumers will find spare
stamp 9 in their war ration book
4, Others, who received their ra
tion books only recently, includ
ing many returned servicemen,
will find the stamps in the single
sheet sugar ration book issued to
them in lieu of war ration book
4.
Spare stamp 9, the first of two
stamps to be made good for buy
ing home canning sugar, is made
valid now to provide iugar in
the southern areas where fruits
are available early in the year.
Since’ it will be good through Oc
tober 31, housewives in other
parts of the country can plan
their use of sugar to coincide
with the arrival of fruits in good
quantity. It is expected that a
second stamp can be validated in
late June or early July.
tcur eight feet apart and was a
new procedure in t)ie Douglas fir
region. In the South, pine culti
vated forests have proved very
productive and cultivation there
has become an attendant factor
in successful tree farming.
PUD LINE BREAK
STOPS SERVICE
The loss of power Tuesday ev
ening on the Clatskanie PUD line
section was the cause of inter
rupted servio, on the Vernonia
feeder. This interruption of elec
trical service in the Clatskanie
arqa was caused by timber men
falling trees .across the line.
Service interruptions of this
type can be eatily avoided if
these c.ncerned would contact
the power company when cutting
trees adjacent to pcwer'line3.
One of the electrical magazines
carried a story in its January is
sue te’.lig how a farmer in Idaho
was electrocuted when a tree he
was cutting fell and hit a power
line.
Frank D. Seelye, manager of
the West Oregon Electric Cooper
ative, requests all people who are
working adjacent to the lines to
rotiiy his office so that he can
arrange to have experienced men
standing by in case an emergency
should occur.
Library Adds
17 New Books
Recent purchases of books by
the City <f ,'Verncnia library
board has added 17 new volumes
to the shelves for the use of
readers. Release of the list was
made by Mrs. E. J. Douglass, li
brarian.
The new books are: Brave Men
Pyle; Angus and
the
Ducks,
Flack; The Egg and I, MacDon
ald; Too Big, D’Aulaire; Twin
Colts,
Hogan;
River
Road,
Keyes; Anatomy cf Peace, Reves;
Mr. Pepper's Penguins, Atwater;
Wilderness Champí;.n, Lippincott;
Desert
Town,
Stewart;
The
King’s General,
Du
Maurier;
Honk the Moore, Witse; Cannery
Row, Steinbeck: Bedelía, Cas-
pary; Remembered Death, Chris
tie; Blue Willow, Gates; and
Burlap, Dennis.
All these books are ready to
go out. In addition, a pres.-lmard
folio of cancer literature has
be’en received from the Oregon
Division of the American Cancer
Society and that, too, is avail
able to the public.
Surplus Property
Listing Available
Received and available for in
spection at The Eagle office are
listings of surplus government
property which is listed for sale
by the reconstruction finance cor
poration, a disposal agency des
ignated by the surplus property
administration.
One listing is dated February
20 and includes copper and cop
per base alloys (sheets, tubing,
pipe and bars) 1 and the other
dated February 28th lists powei
and light cable.
Local people who may be in
terested in the listings may see
them by calling at this office.
Solicitors Start
Librarian Position* Open
Red Cross solicitors started
work Monday of this week, Mrs.
Harry Culbertson, local chairman,
said Wednesday. The Vernonia
district has been allocated the
amount of $2844, Mist - Natal
$290, and Birkenfeld $114 to
raise in this drive, she said.
According to an announcement
from the Vernonia library board,
the positions of city librarian and
substitute librarian are open for
application until March 14th.
Anyone wishing to apply for
either position may leave an ap
plication at the city hall.