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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation ” VOLUME 24, NUMBER 14 Street Signs Appear in Riverview Marking Project Nears Completion; Several Give Aid A project started in Riverview some weeks ago, is nearing com pletion to add much to that vi cinity and leave Vernonia some what behind in the improvement of its streets, so a report from Riverview mentions. The street marking was start ed by Oscar Steele who set the ball rolling” by offering to furnish and print the signs if others furnished and set the posts All the material and work needed for this project was do nated and those who deserve hon orable mention are the Crown Zelle back corporation which fur nished seven new dipped pests and a man, Billie Bassett, to stake the spot where each post was to be set; W. G. Heath, ■who located the posts and brought them i to his station; Harry King, who furnished the paint and a painter, Everett Johnson; A. F. Schalock, who distributed the posts, and Oscar Steel and Waiter Moore, who set the posts and helped in other ways. Al but two of the signs now up a id Virg 1 Powell has volunteered to furnish and set the posts for them as soon as he completes a new addition to his home. O O Sportsman to Hear Smith Fri William Smith, representing the Wildlife League of Oregon, is scheduled to talk here Friday evening, April 5, W. G. Heath said early this week when he made the announcement and urged all sportsmen and ethers who might be interested to at tend. The talk will be made at the 1.0.0 F. hall at 8 o’clock. Smith is coming here at the invitation of the Nehalem Valley Rod and Gun club which has be come active again and which Is starting a campaign to close the mouths of coastal streams to commercial fishing during part of the year so that steelhead may reach the headwaters of these streams for spawning. Catches of steelhead have been steadily decreasing in these streams due to the fact, sports men believe, that the fish are un able to reach the headwaters for spawning in any great numbers. Siding Added Workmen have been busy since last week end adding composition brick siding to the exterior of the Ben Brickel building on Bridge street. The siding adds much as an improvement of the appearance of the structure. COUNTY NEWS Cancer Drive Scheduled April 1 to 36 Red Cross Fund Total Reaches $1475 Friday DRUNK DRIVING CHARGE REDUCED ST. HELENS Permission to plead guilty to a reckless driv- ing charge was given Robert Summers of Vernonia m circuit court after Summers had »;:• pealed a Vernonia m.nicipal court sentence given him for alleged drunken driving. Summers was promptly fined $50 by Judge Howard K. Zimmerman cn the reckle-s driving count. Although the fines imposed in both cases were the same, by be ing allowed to plead to reckless driving Summers will not face a jail term nor will he lose his driver’s license for a year, as the Oregon law provides. SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT PROPOSED CLATSKANIE — A general open meeting is called at the Highway pavilion on Ap"il 4 at 8 p.m. for the purpose of organiz ing a soils conservation district for the Clatskanie area. The pro posed district is to include all land in the nine diking d'stricts and some pieces f property ad jacent to these districts. Pu-pose of the organisation is to promote improved farm practices, soil improvement through drainage and irrigat n and prevention cf soil erosiog. CONSTRUCTION STARTED ON $125,000 PLANT Mrs. Judd Greenman Named Chairman of Vernonia Campaign Starting Monday of this week, April 1, is the campaign of ths American Cancer society to raise f.nds which will be used to fi nance research and treatment of the disease which takes so many lives each year. The campaign will extend through the month of April and posters signifying the importance of raising funds for this purpose are being displayed locally. Heading the local drive is Mrs. Judd G.eenman who is planning for a house to house solicitation in order to bring the importance of this drive to every person. In addition to the conva ., contain- ers and appropriate advert sing material will be placed in busi ness houses in this vicinity to receive donations to the fund. The Vernonia quota has been set at $250, Mrs. Greenman said. Further plans for the campaign will be announced next week. Arrangements have also been mode with the post office depart ment again this year to serve as a medium through which citizens may give to cancer control cam paign by merely addressing a let ter marked “Cancer” and drop ping it into any mail box: Past office department em ployes will forward te letter to the proper place so that the en- closed funds may be devoid to this important work. ST. HELENS — Construction of a $75,000 building which will house a new industry, Western In sulating Products Co., scheduled to be ready for operation by Sept. 1, has been started on the property north-west of the Fir- Tex Insulating Beard Co. plant. When completed the plant will represent an investment of ap proximately $125,000, $50,000 of this representing machinery and equipment, R. W. Simeral, Fir- 1 Tex manager, said. Fir-Tex is interested in the plant since it will use part of the local output of Fir-Tax in its product, brick siding. Secretary cf State Robert S O ® Farrell, Jr., reminds Oregon mo torists that it is illegal to dis- , play the old 1942 license plates on the front of their vehicles, and urged the prompt lemoval cf all such plates. A huge supply of welded and The 1942 plate on the front flanged pipe' fitltngs including of vehicles is misleading to law ells, tees, return bends, crosses, enforcement officers and there couplings, reducers, Y’s and have been several cases in which unions, al surplus government drivers have been stopped by property, was announced for sale officers who thought the vehicles on a sealed bid bas s this week were not properly licensed. In by the regional office of War order to avoid unnecessary in A«»ts Administration, *310 S.W. convenience to the public and Sixth ave., Portland. Most items to officers, the 1942 plates are 150-pound or 300-pound pre?. should be removed at once. sure but some range as high as According to Oregon motor 6000 pounds. vehicle regulations, no plate, em Another sealed bid sale covers blem or device may be displayed navy salvage material such as on the front of the vehicle for compressed wood blocks, airport the current year 1946 except and blackout screens, wind- those which may be officially is scopoes, damper > sets, telephone sued or approved by the secretary ijoxes, anemostats, connection of state. and distribution boxes, câble Farrell urged motorists to clamps, copper lugs, stuffing and check their cars at once and terminal tubes, and miscellaneous make sure the 1942 plate has items. been removed as citations may be given drivers found operat- ing cars with the plate still attached. e • Display of '42 Plates Illegal Pipe Fittings Sale Announced Report Disabilities Is Warning o£ Commander Attention to an article in the National Tribune was called by Hugh E. Rosson, department of veterans’ affairs director, in which Dow Walker of Newport. Ore., urged servicemen about to be discharged to be sure and re port their disabilities before leav ing the service. Walker, national commander of the disabled Amer. ican veterans, issued this wam- ing in a recent speech in Michi gan. In their anxiety to return to their homes as quickly as possible, many servicemen are allowing themselves to be discharged with out reporting disabilities, Walker told members attending a D.A.V. district conference at .Grand Rap ids. He urged every terveeman w’th a disability to rep rt it at the THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1946 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON separation center to make it a matter of official record and make easier the proving of a claim for pension in later years. Walker said that even if a serviceman is not aware of siny disabilities, he should obtain a complete medical examination im mediately after discharge to pro tect disability claims he may make in later years. “The ree- ord of a reputable physician,” he said, “may be invaluable later in proving a claim for benefits." Walker went east early in March to appear before a con- gressional investigating comm ttee in Washington on vetefans’ legis lation. The National Tribune) in which the article appeared, is a weekly newspaper- dealing with veterans" affairs, published in Wa hingtrn; D. C. • • Milk Producers Get Price Raise Milk producers in all Oregon counties (except Morrow, Grant, Harney, Umatilla, Wallowa, Ba ker and Malheur) have been granted a 6c per butterfat pound increa e by the national office of price administration effective as soon as the formal price order is issued, McDannell Brown, Ore gon district OPA director, was advised Monday by telephony from the regional OPA director in San Francisco, The order will be received in about a week, it was estimated. The resulting increase in price to the consumer is provisionally e timated to be ’ic per quart. The final report of funds col back corporation donated $50. lected in the 1946 Red Cross Mrs. T. M. Crawford solicited $7 drive from this vicinity shows an from Riverview; Mrs. Ralph Val- amount considerably less than piani, $20 from the O-A office; the quota which was assigned Mrs. Bert Tisdale and Mrs. Emil this area previous to the start Messing, $1 from Treharne. The proceeds from the patrons of the campaign, Mrs. Harry Cul bertson said eally this week. Mrs. and management of the Joy Theater amounted to $52.25. Culbertson has been in charge • • of the campaign which ended of ficially last Friday. The total collected as of that date was $1475.32 as compared with the quota of $2844. Re ports from other parts of the Opening day cf the general county also indicated collections totaling conciderably less than trout seasen for the state will quotas assigned. The amount be Saturday, April 20, and not collected her e does notinclude the April 13, it is announced by the Mist-Natal or Birkenfeld dis Oregon State Game commission. tricts in this valley. Inquiries received at the game Figures were not available department office indicate that Wednesday afternoon for the but the many anglers are under the erro district Birkenfeld amount from the Mist-Natal area neous impression that the earlier CHAPLAIN (major) Dean I L. where Mrs. William Bridgers was date prevail.-. Printing difficul Vermiilicn, who ha» served with chairman, is $360. Of this ties have delayed issuance cf the the 99 h infantry division of Pat. amount, $278 was taken in as official synopsis of the angling ton’s third army, is speak'ng < each the result of the aucti.n held at regulations but it is heped that distribution can be started aeon evening this week, inc’uding Sat- Natal. Mrs. Culbertson wishes to to all license agencies. Until the urday at the Evangel’cal church thank all the women and or- Ap il 20 opening, coastal waters at 7:30. Cha pla n Vermiilicn has . ganizations who aided in carrying are closed to all angling for trout related many of liis experiences out the drive, frr it was through regardless of size. The season at the front where he served their diligent work that the is open, however, for salmon and seven months before being hospit money was obtained. She also steelhead twenty inches or more al zed. His services there reached mentioned that anyone not hav in length. thousands of men who highly re O • ing made a donation may do so spected him because of hie wil- by seeing her personally or mail Pngness to give his s.erv eei to ing the • contribution. them unstir.tir gly in the mid t of During the last week of the battle, T! e public is cordially d ive, the fo'low’ng amounts invited to hear Chaplain V er were solicited: Mr.?. Harry San- mill on as he preaches the gospel don and Mrs. W. G. Heath turned like he cH to the boys over there, Timber to the value of over in $12 from the Washington Tonight he will show souvenirs five and a quarter million dol grade school; Mrs. Dora Wash brought from Gerr-any. burn solicited $2 at the post of- lars was cut by U.S. forest 0 9 f ce; members of the Woman’s service :ustained yield timber Relief Corps turned in $9.35 sales on the nineteen national from Girod’s Food Store. C.llectirn boxes were placed forests of the North Pacific re- in the following stores and the gi n during 1945, according to amounts f oni each were: King’s a report just iss.ed by the re Krocery, 65c; Vike’s restaurant, gional office, Portland. A change in cwnership for an- The thirteen Oregon forests 65c; Vernonia Drug store, $1.10; other Vernonia business, the Ver- Safeway, 65c; Lew’s Place, 95c; produced timber sales receipts of jionia 5 and 10, is announced Pete Brunsman, $17.05; and Chat $3,219,197, while the six Wash tlis week. The store was start ’N Nibble, 65c. Crown Ze'ler- ington forests accounted for $1,- ed several years ago by Mr. 915,680. Highest ranking forest and Mrs. Merle Cline who have was the Rcgue River, in south- cwned and operated it until a e n Oregon, with a total of few weeks ago. $648,222. The Olympic, in north The new owners of the prop western Wa.-hington, ranked a erty are Mr. and Mrs. j Al'rei close second with $644,992. To Bay.?. The purchase was i ccm- In response to a telegram tal for the region was $5,134,877. pleted as of April 1. These receipts were produced received by Dr. J. H. Flynn, • • by cutting 1,084,952,000 board county health officer, from Ur. feet of timber, of which 717,342,- Harold M. Erickson, state health 000 board feet came from the officer, last week, an appeal is Oregon forests, and 367,610 from issued to all residents of Colum the Washington forests. Minor bia county to cooperate in the forest products, not convertible to board feet, accounted for A new service for the people current drive for smallpox im $6412 of revenue. These in munization, At the time the tel- of Vern nia and the Upper Ne eluded Christmas trees, ferns, received there were egam was halem valley was started Monday seven cases in San Francisco and casckra bark, pole stubs, and peat of this week when S. F. Warden 15 known and three suspected moss. The forest service points out of Portland announced the start cases in Seattle. of a taxi business here. The that all of the national forest Both Washington and Califor. business is a new venture for this timber was cut under sustained nia are engaged in an intensive vicinity and one that will be a yield management principles, program of vaccination and Ore- convenience for local people. which means that the forest is gon is following suit, No cases Mr. Warden and C. W. “Wim of the disease had been reported kept in a productive state for future crops. Management of py” Jackson will be the drivers, in the state last Week. these public forest lands to pro the fi rmer being an ex-Vernonia The disease is a virulent form duce the maximum in human and bus driver who covered the route of oriental smallpox. Dr. Fylnn community welfare and stabil between here and Portland for urged that all children who have ity in the long run is guiding almost a year. not been vaccinated be brought principle in making rational for- . People wishing to make use of *o their private physician as soon the taxi service may do so by ’ as possible and that all adults est timber sales, it is said. • • calling 582, The Coxy Confec who have not been vn-cinated tionary. within the past five years take the precautionary measure. Brown said. This will also be • • come effective when the order is received. Examiner Scheduled The action was taken by the A drivers license examiner is Students of the Vernonia high national OPA, with the approval scheduled to be in Vernonia school senior class are parctic- of the off'ce of economic stabili zation, in an effort to halt di Thursday, April 11 at the city ing for the presentation of their version from fluid manufactur hall between the hours of 10 play on Friday evening of next ing milk which is not under a a.m. and 4 p.m. Persons wish week. The production is en price ceiling, OPA officials ex ing licenses or permits to drive titled “Snafu” and has also tree n plained. are asked to get in touch with produced as a motion picture. The dairymen had asked for the examiner well ahead of the Mrs. Betty Jean Sherman is an increase from present prices scheduled closing hour in order coaching the students. The play ranging from 85c-95c per pound to assure completion of their ap- is scheduled for showing at 8 butterfat, to $1.15 per pound plications with a minimum of o'clock at the Washington grade butterfat. delay. school auditorium. April 20 First Trout Season Day Forest Service Re: or is Sales Store Property Owners Change Officer Urges Vaccinations Taxi Service Started Mon. Seniors Prepare For Class Play