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“Vemonia, Gateway to Nehalem galley Lumbering, Farming, Recrea!1' THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1946 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 24. NUMBER 11 ¡.ti’ Farm Program THOSE WHO Scheduled by ARE IN IT Booster Club Berries, Produce, Talk Topics at March 25 Meeting A program of interest to farm ers of the Upper Nehalem valley is next on the spring schedule of talks being arranged by the Ver nonia Booster club, Lou Girod, president, said this week when he announced that a dinner and speakers are being arranged for the evening of Monday, March 25th. One of the speakers definitely engaged for the evening is Milton Johnson, assistant superintendent of Hudson-Dunean at Forest Grove. Mr. Johnson has been asked to talk cn berry and pro duce growing in this a ea- He will tell what this area is best adapted to grow and will also give informat'on on what the cannery and packing plant will handle. Farmers in this arei are espe cially invited to attend the af fair, Mr. Girod said. Report Tells Drive Progress : A report of the first week of solicitation for the Red Cross fund drive was released Wednes day by Mrs. Ha^ty Culbertson, local chairn;an$'who has also sent the figures to County Chairman Ben Coleman at St. Helens. During the first week the Re bekah lodge members have solicit- er the amount of $5Q.8O at the Vernonia Drug company store and Girod’s Food store, -while members of the Eatern Star, Rainbow Girls and Pythian Sis ters have solicited $94.74 at the post office. Th? American Legion auxiliary- donated $50 and the Masonic ledg;, $11 The amount from the business district has not yet been turned in the chairman said. Mrs. Tom Crawford has col lected $60 from Riverview and $15 has been turned in from that business district. The total for the first week is $281.54. Members of different organi zations will continue soliciting in the busines houses. Plumbing Shop Sale Is Made Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hirsch an nounce the sale of their plumb ing shop building this week to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bays.. Mr. and Mrs. Hirsch have lived here one and one-half years, coming from Portland to reside in this community. Mr- Hirsch has been doing plumbing during most of that time, but his health makes the move necessary. They are going to southeastern Oregon to reside in the Jordan valley where he will be foreman of construc tion on a 600-acre stock ranch. Safety Program March 26 Event A meeting, sponsored by the Oregon-American plant safety committee, will be held on Tues day evening, March 26, in the Washington school auditorium. Dr. D. R. Chambers, professor of psychology at Oregon State col lege will be the main speaker of the evening. Mr. Robert M. Evenden, director accident pre vention division. State Industrial /.ccident Commission, will also speak on accident prevention. The public is invited to attend. DISCHARGED Pfc. Russell A. Peterson, Jr., has received his discharge from the army and is at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pe terson- He was given his release March 8 at Ft. Lewis after be ing in the service a little over one year and seeing action in the Philippines. SCHMIDLIN HOME George Schmidlin, McMMlc, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schmidlin, arrived home a week ago Sunday evening after com pleting more than three years in the navy. He was discharged at Bremerton, Washington. ANDREWS VISITS Curtis Andrews, former school student of Vernonia, arrived here spend a few days visiting friends. He has completed three years in the navy and saw action in the Pacific on a supply ship and has reenlisted for further service. He hitch h ked |ere from Nor folk, Virginia. COUNTY NEWS SCHOOL PLANS BASEBALL TEAM ST. HELENS—Practice will probably start this week as the St. Helen-: high, tchool prepares to field its first baseball team since well before the war. A two-mrnth schedule with the ether fo r Columbia county high schools has been lined up with the first game set f-r April 11 at Scappo :e. “MARCH OF DIMES” TAKE $433-64 AT RAINIER RAINIER—Roland Cu”teman, chairman for the local infantile paralysis drive, has reported the final results if the drive, and tol tai gross receipts' were $433.64. Theie were a few expenses such as postage which amounted to $5.50. Net receipts were $428.14. EXFERT STUDIES SCHOOL NEEDS CLATSKANIE—The Clat ka- nie school board secured the services of Prof. C. F. Huffacker and were in conference with him the past week- He is now pre paring an analysis of the prob lems confronting District No. 5. Prof. Huffacker, who is con nected with the Univer. ity of Oregon, will survey the needs cf both the high school and the grade sch:ol. Su:h problems of location, number of rooms re quired. costs, relationship with outside districts will be covered in the report. MARCH OF DIMES SETS NEW RECORD ST. HELENS—With all agen cies heard from with the excep tion of the county’s theaters, Chairman Ben Coleman an nounced this week that the March of Dimes drive in Co lumbia county was now well over the $4000 mark. The total, to help fight infantile paralyris, is considerably more than any previous March of Dimes has pro duced here. Receipts from the theaters are expected to be about $700, which will put the grand final total in the close vicinity of $5000 Attendance at Church Pleasing Attendance at the Nazarene Chapel since the opening last Wednesday has been pleasing but there is room for more people and a larger attendance is urged especially on Friday evening. Evangelist Coryell said Tuesday. Scheduled for Friday evening is a delegation from the Portland Brentwood church. A sign was painted and erected cn the church front a few days ago by the United Elec tric and Supply company. 11,000 frees Planted on Farm Distributor For Texaco Co- Plans Station Health Program Talked Property Purchase Shows Confidence In Valley Future Confidence in the future of Vernonia and the Nehalem valley has resulted in the purchase of the corner property at 2nd and Bridge streets by J. A. Pater son, distributor for Texaco petro leum products for Vernonia and Washington county. The con struction of a modern service unit and Firestone store will be started soon, Mr. Paterson said. The property, which has a 115- foct frontage cn Bridge street, will be improved with a concrete building containing the latest im provements end facilities for au- tometive service. ( A complete line of Firestone tire', home and au o s. pplies will be carried- Coat cf the improvement and facilities will be approximately $20,000. Unless delayed by lack of equipment and materials, it is planned for opening about June 15th. When making the announce ment, Mr. Patersrn said:. “This development is a part of the po.-t war prog am designed to provide employment for returning vet erans, not alone in the construc tion field, but permanent posi tions in the f eld of a tomotive servicing, this being an obl ga- tion business owes to our vet erans.” Speech Class Enters Tourney Members cf the Vernonia high school public speaking ciass will go to Salem to enter a pub- lc speaking tournament Friday at Willamette university. This will be the second contest fcr the public speaking group this year, the first being held at Lin field college, McMinnville. Mrs. Betty Jean Sherman will accom pany the two ca • loads of stu dents who will make the trip. Sixteen boys who were mem bers of this year’s basketball squad will also go to Salem to attend the state basketball tourn ament Thur day, Friday and Sat urday- Coach J. Hergert will accompany them. Mrs. Tousley to Act as Cashier Mrs. Leatha Tcusley, a former Verncnia resident who recently received her discharge from the service, has accepted a position with the West Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc., and began her work here Monday of this week. Mrs. Tousley will take over the duties of Mrs. J. W. Nichols who has resigned, effective Friday, March 15 th. By Association Monday Preparation for the education of Columbia county people on social hygiene and the presenta tion of information by two repre sentatives cf the Oregon State Health association occupied Mon day night’s ccunty health group meeting at Scappoose. Appearing“ at the county meet ing were F. G. Scherer, director of social hygiene for the Oregon state tuberculosis association, and Dr. W. H. Aifranc who present ed statistics on the rise in social diseases in Oregqn in recent months. Both men are traveling the state presenting information end u ging the spread of health information to the public. The county association mem bers voted Monday to spend $100 for pamphlet? containing in formation on social diseases and on other pamphlets dealing with hygiene. These pamphlets will be distributed to the public, to schools and will be used also by local health groups which are be ing organised in many county communities for the study of per sonal hygiene. Paul Gordon, president of the Death Claims Andrew Floaten V Andrew II. Floaten, father of Lew Floaten, passed away early Friday merning of last week at about 1 a.m. while asleep in his small home near his son’s resi dence. Death came as the result of suffocation from a fire, the origin of which was unde termined. And ew Floaten was born in Norway June 19, 1856, and passed away at the age cf 89 years, 8 months and 7 days. He is survived by his son, Lew, his daughter-in-law, Ann, and grand daughter, Patricia, all of whem reside here He was proceeded in death by his wife who pasted away November 28th of last yea“. At the age of 14 he borrowed $40 from r.n elder brother for passage money on a sailing ves sel. The Atlantic crossing took Nehalem va’.ley hunters and five weeks. His first job was on anglers will meet Friday night a farm where he worked for $1 to reorganise their group, the a month, board, room and cloth, s- The clothes consisted of one Nehalem Valley Rod and Gun club, W. G. Heath, vice-president pair of overalls, two shirt3 and said last week. The meeting is shoes and sox. Through diligent study at r.'f.'it scheduled for 8 p-m. at the Odd he finally secured a job as gro Fellows hall. The club has been somewhat cery clerk at $10 per month inactive for about a year and the and -board and room with the president, Jewett A. Bush, is owner. By further study he edu now residing at Clatskanie. Other cated himself until he was ap officers now holding positions in pointed clerk and secretary, of He the club are Mr. Heath, Harold the Wisconsin legislature. McEntire, secretary and R. L. then went into business for him self and was successful in busi Spencer, treasurer. Plans for Friday night include ness in five d fferent states. Services were held Sunday at the election of new officers and discussion of possibilities for 2 p.m. at the Bush Funeral home p'anting fish in Nehalem valley with Rev. Allen H. Barker of ficiating and cremation followed streams. in Portland. Rod, Gun Club To Reorganize Vet Committee Spring Planting To Meet Thurs. * 01 Trout Made The next meeting of the vet erans service committee will be held at the highway pavilion at Clatskanie at 7:30 p.m. on March 21st. Representatives of the vet erans and various service or ganizations are invited to at tend as well as world war I and II veterans- Present at this meeting will be a representative of the veterans’ admini.-tration to talk on loans and insurance plans for world war II veterans. Over 1OOO Oregon Vets Taking Job Training More than 1000 Oregon vet erans in a wide variety of more than 80 occupations are now working in jobs which provide training by employers and sub sistence allowances under the GI bill of rights, Hugh E. Rosson, department of veterans' affairs director, was informed this week. Lorrin Andrews, director of apprenticeship council which works with the department of vo cational education to supervise Oregon’s on-the-job training pro gram, told Rosson that in spite of these figures there is still a big field of potential occupations in which veterans might be hired and given training if more vet erans and more employers real ized the merits of the program. Andrews suggested that vet- county health association, will ap point ^person in every área to work on this health program, he said Tuesday- Attending the Monday meet ing from Verncnia were Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, Ray Mills, Miss Velva Ramsey, association secre tary, and Mrs. A. J. Hughes. erans get in touch with their lo cal U.S employment service of fice or with a local apprentice ship council coordinator, of which there are 24 located throughout the state, for details of the job training program. In C-clumbia county, the coordinator is Rob ert Bickford of St. Helens. When a veteran is hired under the job-training program, the vet erans administration then pays him a subsistence allowance of $65 a month if single and $90 a month if married, until such time as the man’s earning power ap proaches that of the skilled worker in the same occupation. Then the GI allotment is tapered off so that at no time will he receive more income than the journeyman. First plantings of trout this year began February 25 from the Cedar creek and Roaring river hatcheries in Tillamook and Linn counties. More than 1,000,000 trout have been held over the winter for spring release at the 14 Jjatcheries of the commission and the fish are now aproxímate- ly eight inches long. About one- third of the fish were raised at the Oak Springs hatchery in Was co county. The commission re cently purchased four new tank trucks to haul the fish to the lakes and streams of the state. Fall rainbow brood stock at the Roaring river hatchery in Linn county yielded 3,500,000 eggs this season. First Daffodils Picked Mrs. A. E. Jennings reports that she picked daffodils at her home Tuesday morning cf last week and that the blooms were supported by 10-inch stems. She asks if anyone else has been fortunate enough to be able to pick these flowers this early in the season Childs To Preach Ulysses S. ChiMs, D.D., of Bolivar. Mo., will preach at the First Christian church this Sun day, March 17th. He will address the congregation at both the 11 a m and 5 p.m. services. Seedlings Placed 8 Feet Apart 2 to 3 Week Ends Needed to Complete Entire Planting Last week end’s planting of tree seedlings on the Columbia County Tree Farm owned by Crown Zcllerbach corporation placed 11,000 seedlings in the ground, Glen Hawkins, Vernonia representative of the owners, said Monday. This week end of work is the first of several that will be required to complete the en tire planting, he sad. Similar plantings will be carried out this Saturday and Sunday and prob ably the next two week ends after that. Three thousand of the trees were placed on the f^rst day last Friday and four thousand each on Saturday and Sunday. Pic tures were a.'en of the Uoy Scouts who planted the ' rst seedling, Mr. Hawkins said- The t ees come in individual bundles of 100 and are packed in peat moss to keep the roots moist which is th? secret of keeping the trees alive. The plantings are made eight feet apart but this distance is altered if it is possible to place a seedling in live or dea i shade, that is a living bush or a dead log. Shade contribute' much to successful growth of the trees when they are small and briorw they have developed a good ro:t system. Last Friday’s planting was den? in the Coal creek area where experimental plowing was drne late last year. The work ha? been completed there and zhe remaining trees will be p'laced in the area between Pittsburg and Camp 8 where need-d to fill in vacant eroes not now sup porting tree growth. In addition to the pre-r.t sup ply of seedlings cn hand, Mr. Hawktns has ordered eight th >u- rand red alder which will be planted as firebreaks. Alder does not burn easily ar.d will slow or stop a fire- The aide ■ will be placed along thfe trails an 1 roads and on ridges and will be uSel to circle the planting on Coal c:e?k. Nine boys worked on the job last week end and there may be more f. r the remaining time. Those who have already planted are: Alvin Tapp, Terry Brady, Kenneth Anderson, Owen East, Richard Renfro, Dudley Spof ford, Donald Parker, Murray Brownhill and Lynn Michen- r. Student Honor Roll Released The names of Vernonia high school students who, because of th-eir grades for the last six-week term just ended, have attained the honor roll were released this week by Principal Ray Mills. The roll contains the names of 15 students. By classes they are: Seniors: Mary Pat Caton and Patricia Berg; Juniors: Miriam Corll, Cora Dusen berry, Barbara Keasey and Eina Morris; Sopho mores: Beverley Lobdell and Theresa Schmidlin, and Fresh men: Mary Jane Armstrong, Georgianna Mills, Arlene Kirk, Maxine Hartwick, Delores John son, Sally Kasper and John Berg- Church Plans Mission A mission will be held at St. Mary's Catholic church starting March 17th and continuing through March 24. Everyone ia invited to the morning and eve ning services which will be con ducted by Rev. Fr. Cavanaugh, an announcement of the mission states.
