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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VOLUME 24, NUMBER 24 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON 1 VA Official Tells Loan Procedure Craig Spends Day Here Weekly to Give Vet Advice Council Lacks Quorum Mon. The Vernonia city council, scheduled to meet Monday eve ning of this week in special ses sion, postponed the meeting until a later time due to lack of a quorum of members. The Monday meeting wab sched uled for the council to okeh the proposed budget as drawn up re cently by the budget board. As the cost ¡sheet for the coming year now stands, no property tax will be levied to meet future expenses. However, the need for a tax was narrowly averted and it is anticipated that such a levy will be necessary next year. Principal source of funds for the coming period will come from water department revenues. Mayor George Johnson will probably call the council together pometime this week to obtain their sanction for the budget. • Veterans wanting to obtain GI loans Should go drectly to the bank, savings and loan associa tion or other lending agency, Thomas M. Craig, contact repre sentative for the veterans admin istration in Vernonia, advised this week. They should not apply to the VA for the loan, Craig said. Craig, who operates out of the Portland regional office of the veterans administration, has es tablished headquarters in Ver nonia at the city hall. He will be available to veterans at that, ad dress on Wednesdys of each week, he stated. By observing the following points of advice, veterans will save themselves a lot of time and effort in obtaining a loan— whether it be for building a home, establishing a business or buying a farm: STRAWBERRY HARVEST 1. Dont rush into any ven UNDER WAY ture; have definite plans for ST. HELENS—Harvesting of mulated. 2. Contact a leanding the red gold ripening rapidly in agency, which will process the ’the nearly 300 acres of strawber case through the VA; the VA ries in this district started does not make the loan, it Wednesday of last week with pre only guarantees to the bank a dictions that the yield would be certain portion of the loan. a bumper one. Attracted by rec 3. Submit original dis ord prices—4%c per pound, 5c if charge papers or original sep they stay the season—pickers are aration papers to the lending fairly plentiful this year, enough agency at the time of apply to that growers aren’t worried ing for a loan in order to es at the moment over the labor tablish eligibility for the loan shortage. guarantee and to facilitate Growers themselves should find endorsement of the papers by this year a prosperous one, for the VA. At the end of May a total of caneries are paying 24%c per 2372 in GI loans had been ap pound for berries, in contrast to proved for veterans in Oregon, last season’s 18c. Bulk of the crop in southern Columbia coun Craig said. ty is going to Hillsboro for pro • cessing, although some berries are being handled by the Pacific Con serving Co. at Scappoose and in dependent buyers are handling some. COUNTY NEWS Johnson Takes Savings Post < FOREST GROVE—Changes in the executive leadership of two important Washington county fi nancial institutions were an nounced last week with the retire ment of J. M. Person, manager of the Washington Federal Savings & Loan association of Hillsboro, and selection of Alf O. Johnson, executive vice president of the Forest Grove National bank, as Person’s successor. Person was founder and organ izer of the savings and load asso ciation in 1925 and has been its manager since that date. The resignation of Johnson from the Forest Grove National bank will be effective as of June 30. • PICTURE PUBLISHED A photograph of Vernonia ap pears n the May, 1946, issue of “Crosstalk,” a publication of the employes of the West Coast Tele phone company. The photo was taken by Ward Robertson, station man at Clatskanie. SCHOOLS ASK HIGHER LEVY CLATSKANIE—Expenses for running the schools of Clatskanie District No. 5 for the school year beginning July 1, 1946, will be $88,100, compared to $72,102.50 for the current school year. In addition to the amount asked, an item of $10,000 is included in the budget to apply on the cost of a new high school building to replace the structure destroyed by fire last fall. DEATH ENDS CARER OF OREGON-BORN ENGINEER ST. HELENS—Death early Sun day morning claimed Raymond Wilton Simeral, 633, mayor of St. Helens since 1938 and general manager of the Fir-Tex Insulat ing Board company. In poor health for some years but still very active in civic and business affairs, Mr. Simeral become ill in Portland on Memorial day and was taken to St. Vincents hos pital, where he died at 2 a.m. Sun day. Terminal Leave Pay Bill Awaits Congress Action Veterans were cautioned this week not to become prematurely excited over the pending “terminal leave pay’” bill in congress be cause the possibilities are that, should it become law, it will be some time yet before any pay will be available to ex-servicemen for unused furlough or leave time. This word of caution came from officials of the state department of veterans' affairs, after reports that veterans have started already tif make application for this pay in various veterans' aid offices throughout the state, believing that the bill had already been passed. Actually, veteran s’ affairs spokesmen said, the bill only came out of the house military affairs committee last week. Although passage by the house seenfe certain, the senate still must take action, and consider able delay is expected there. Furthermore, even if the pay bill should pass both houses there is a possibility the president will follow the lead of the budget bu reau, which is opposed to the bill, and veto it. If and when it does become law, veterans' affairs officials said they will release full details and explain how Oregon veterans can apply for the pay. Street Light Fund Still Lacks $480 Over 20 Business Firms to Be Asked For Financial Aid The business firms’ portion of the fund needed for installing a complete new lighting system in the downtown part of Vernonia still lacks $480. The amount was determined after a check Tues day by Cleve Robertson, commit tee chairman appointed by Mayor George' Johnson to seek the money. The business district portion was set at $1500 and to date $1020 has been turned in. When figuring the amount needed yet, a count of the firms not yet contacted placed the number over 20. Should a favorable response be received to the project by the remainng people to be contacted, the $480 will be easily obtained. In order to complete the so licitation and find out whether the lighting system can be in stalled, Mr. Robertson plans a final survey Monday. So far 34 business firms have added to the fund. The $1500 will be used for the purchase of fixtures and should more than the above amount be subscribed, additional fixtures will be purchased. • Parking Signs Not Available Country C&x> Meeting Asked All members of the Vernonia Country club are asked by Presi dent Tom Bateman to be present for a meeting Friday evening at the club house. When he an nounced the meeting, he set the time for 7 o’clock and urged that every member attend. Planned for that evening is the making arrangements for a field day and picnic at the course at an early date. • $500 Campaign Fund Voted Sportsmen of tha Nehalem Val ley Rod and Gun club met last Friday night to vote a fund of $500 from the Club treasury to the Wildlfe League of Oregon, Presi dent Harry King said this week. The sportsmen sponsored a cam paign locally to raise the money by solicitation. This fund will be used to spon sor a campaign before the No vember election to adopt HB 378 which is written to improve sports fishing in all Oregon coastal streams except the Columbia riv er. The bill would change the use of nets in the mouths of these streams so that the fish would have an opportunity to reach the headwaters of streams for spawn ing. The campaign for passage of the measure will be conducted by the Wildlife League. • Fire Training, School Purpose Signs designating parking time Organized protection of forests limits are not obtainable at the is the purpose of a training school present time, according to a com which started Wednesday at the munication received by City Re old Reehers CCC camp at West corder Albert Childs a few days Timber and will continue today ago. The signs wanted are those and Friday. designating parking time limits This Ischool is one of a series in keeping with the new city of schools held throughout the ordinance regulating parking on state with personnel of the state the business section of Bridge forestry department at Salem as street. sisting district wardens and other According to the letter, strikes keymen conducting classes. in the steel industry have pre The schools are designed pri- vented obtaining material for marly for wardens and operator manufacture of the markers so representatives. Two representa that the city’s order can not be tives of the Columbia County Tree filled until a later time. Farm are attendng, Glen Hawkins In the meantime, the ordinance said. can not be made effectives until Some subjects to be covered are the markers arrive and are in public relations, equipment, dis stalled so motorists will be in patching, fire control, use of formed of the regulations. . water, fire chasing, map reading • • and fire mapping and safety and first aid. Cent Rise for Bread Okehed Consumers will pay one cent per pound more for bread and one cent a dozen more for bread-type rolls, starting June 12, the office of price adminstration announces. On most loaves of bread the in crease will amount to a cent a loaf, OPA said. The increase does not apply to rye bread, whch was recently granted an interim increase of two cents a pound. An order issued April 22, 1946, by the United States department of agriculture cut wheat flour quotas for domestic • users to 75 per cent of their use during cor responding months of 1945. The actual effect Is to reduce supplies of flour available to bakers by more than 25 per cent and to cut their volume of sales correspond ingly. EXAMINER SCHEDULED A drivers license examiner is scheduled to be on duty in Ver nonia Friday, June 14, at the city hall between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Persons wishing licen es or permit« to drive are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead of the sched uled closing hour in order to as sure completion of their appli- caticnk with a minimum of de lay. * • New Store Space Nearly Complete The building owned by Walter S. Ready and which is being pre pared for use tq house a Western Auto Supply store was nearing completion this week. The final work, with the exception of some electrical fixtures, is the painting. Exterior painting was started Wednesday morning by E. E. Up- gard who has also nearly com pleted painting the interior. Mr. Ready announced a short time ago that he hoped to have the store open in August. • Anderson Is Sun. Winner Jack Anderson was winner of last Sunday's gremlin tournament at the Vernonia Country club courve and second place went to Paul Dyer. Low score went to R. D. Jackson. The tournament was one of sev eral entertaining events planned at the course during the summer by the entertainment committee This vent featured odd and un usual handicaps of all sorts to “harry” the efforts of participants and make their game appear ex ceedingly bad. ot O —r —----- - —-------------- THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 194W r Right-of-Way Clearing For Power Line Started The clearing of a right-of-way for the construction of a power line from Scappoose to the Ne halem valley started Monday morning with all energies of all employes of the West Oregon Electric devoted to this one proj ect, Frank D. Seelye, manager, said Tuesday. Right now this line will re- Mrs. Paul Gordon Named Librarian At a special meeting of the library board held last Friday evening, Mrs. Paul Gordon was named head librarian to succeed Mrs. Lee Engen whose resigna tion was read and accepted sev eral weeks ago. Mrs. Engen will, however, continue to serve on the board of which she is chairman. The fact that Mrs. Gordon will be gone part of the summer months necessitates another as sistant to be named to work with Mrs. Waunita- Timmons who has been acting librarian following the resignation of Mrs. Engen. The arrival of a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica re cently is also being announced by library board members who voted to purchase the set of ref erence books a short time ago. This provision marks a ¡step toward further modernization and expansion of reading material available through the local li brary. The only reference books on the shelves at present date back many years. In July, a $25 expenditure will be made to add new adult fiction, non-fiction and childrens books to the shelves. • Boxes, Window Changes Made A change that hes been con templated since the time the present post office quarters were released earlier this year was completed last week end. Tha change is a rearrangement of the lock boxes and the parcel post window so that all windows of the office are on one wall and the boxes and letter drop on another wall facing the entrance. This change, according to Port master Emil Messing will provide more floor space and make possi ble a more convenient interior for handling the mail. The work was done by D. L. Skoog, traveling mechanician for the post office department and wa|s started Wednesday of last week and completed before the week end. • Stores Start Early Closing ceive all the attention of th» West Oregon organizaton so that completion may be rushed be fore October 1. At the present time 60 per cent of the needed material is on storage here and the remainder is scheduled to arrive to coincide with the construction schedule, Mr. Seelye said. The devoting of all the co operative’s energy to the line is warranted due to the extreme need for a greater supply of elec trical energy for people of the valley. As a result, new cus tomer connections will be delayed until a later time wnen the trans mission line is completed and the cooperative is in a position to con sider service to new customers. • Vandals Damage Old Cemetery Damage to the grave markers at the old Vernonia cemetery is the result of vandalism that has taken place in recent months, a member of the Womans Relief Corps said Tuesday. Part of the destruction has happened sinca Memorial day and some of it oc curred before that time. A number of flags were placed on graves at that cemetery on Decoration day and the report is that many of these flags were taken down and ¡scattered about the vicinity. Previous to May 30 several tombstones were broken or torn down and one such instance has happened since. Much of the work of maintain ing this cemetery is done by the Corps, either through the effort» of members or by hiring the work. It is believed that juveniles may" be responsible for some if not all of the damage. • Relief Clothes Shipped Monday Clothing which will eventually find its way to people in ,Europe was shipped Monday of this week by Mrs. George Nichols who has been in charge of preparing th« material, and boxing it for ship ment. Much of the clothing was col lected through the Harvest In gathering activity of the Seventh Day Adventist church. Mrs. Nich ols has been assisted by Mrs. Dennis Davis and Mrs. Albert, Krieger. • McLaughlin Due Here Sun. Fans will see the second home game so far this season on Sun Most Vernonia retail stores day when McLaughlin Heights have started an earlier Saturday will take the road here. The game evening closing ,the first time is scheduled for 2:30 at the O-A being last Saturday evening. Mer ball park. The Heights leads the Lower chants were contacted prior to .-tarting the new procedure so that Columbia league with wins for the practice is uniform in the city. every game so far this season. • The new time when the doors will close is 6 p.m. The opinion expressed by several about the change is that practically all business is completed by that time and the change gives proprietors and employes an opportunity to The board of directors .of the have more time for themselves away from the details of business. West Oregon Electrit jiroopera- tive will convene b'ri^iky night • of this week to stint1’notes for TO SPEAK FRIDAY the recently authorized loan of Rev. Ernest P. Baker, pastor $190,000, Harry King, president of the Chri-tian church and a of the board, said Tuesday. major and chaplain during the The fund is authorized by the war, will relate some of his ex rural electrification administrator periences during his two years in and will be used for the power Europe. He will speak at the transmission line from Scappooss Men's Fellowship meeting Friday and for rehabilitation of the pres night at the church at 7:30 p.m. ent system of the cooperative. Directors Sign For Co-op Loan
