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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.”
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 34
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 194»
REA Begins Vernonia 4-H Club Wins
County-wide Emergency Child Care
Homes Are Welfare Need Making Loans
Council Is
First in Judging Contest
From Fund
Meet Purpose
Sunday, August 25
Set for Meeting at
Wilkerson Park
Camp Wilkerson or Wilkerson
Park as it has been called here
will be the scene for a county
wide meeting Sunday, August 25.
C. A. Poff, St. Helens, chairman
of the county Boy Scout council
has set the date and the time at
2 p.m. and is asking that repre
sentatives of various organizations
be present then.
In a letter from the scout coun
cil chairman, he mentions that,
“It is hoped that at this meeting
a county-wide planning council be
appointed for the purpose of
studying camp requirements for
permanent camps as set up by the
various organizations and
so
planned that none would be
barred by reason of fa.lure to
comply to set national specifica
tions, and that the entire county
be permitted to work out a per
manent camp for use of all young
sters of the county.”
A bulldozer, which was made
available by a local firm|, was
busy at the park early this week
and completed the building of a
swimming pool and road which
will add much to the park site.
Vernonia Boy Scouts and their
scoutmaster, Ed Frazee, have
made use of the park several
times this summer and have done
considerable cleaning work.
The Wilkerson site consists of
200 acres that was set aside in
1940 by the county court with the
specification that it be used “by
scouting and other juvenile or
ganizations of this county.” The
Boy Scout council of this county
was named as governing body.
According to Mr. Poff “There
are Camp Fire Girls, Junior
Granges, church groups and 4-H
clubs which alone include 350
boys and girls who want such fa
cilities. For the past five years
the 4-H club members and their
leaders have tried to have a camp.
This was impossible because of in
adequate facilities.”
In the announcement it is men
tioned every effort is being made
to contact by letter all leaders or
definitely interested people, but,
should they not be reached in that
manner, an invitation is extended
to be present Sunday.
Failure to secure a home to
provide emergency care for chil
dren was reported at the August
14 meeting of the Columbia Coun
ty public welfare commission in
St. Helens and the need is just as
great now as before because the
commission believes there will
continue to be emergencies. In
one recent instance a child was
detained in the county jail be
cause no such home was avail
able.
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A home certified for this pur
pose is to be mainly a study home
where the youth can feel seoure
the commission report states. In
many instances further planning
will rest almost completely on the
Vernonia Man
Held in Jail
Apprehended by city police
Monday night of last week in
McMinnville was Ray Harvey, 30,
who is charged with grand lar
ceny, burglary and breaking and
entering.
The charges were made for
breaking into a cooperative cream
ery and a food market and when
caught had $89.75 'In his posses
sion which allegedly bad been
taken from the food market
The accused waived preliminary
hearing and was bound over to
the grand jury. Bail was set
at $1000.
Harvey was at one time asso-
siated with the United Electric
and Supply company and later
started a supply ccgnpany selling
electrical appliances and other
items.
120 Go to Picnic
The all-day picnic Sunday for
members and friends of the Chris
tian church drew an attendance
of about 1200 people Rev. Ernest
Baker said this week. The picnic
was held at Roger’s Park and
Bible school classes, morning
worship slid afternoon vesper
services were conducted in the
open.
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New Equipment Added
A foam heater and air space
thermometer, new equipment
which insures thorough pasteuriza
tion of milk has been added to
the Nehalem Dairy Products com
pany plant, Floyd Bush, owner,
said Tuesday. Other improvements
at the plant include painting of
the interior which was started
early this week. Mr. Bush plans
to hold open house at a later
time when the work is completed.
New Amendents Make GI
Insurance More Liberal
New amendment* liberalizing
the national service life insurance
add numerous advantages for vet
erans holding G.I. insurance pol
icies, but the veterans administra
tion is urging that inquiries be
delayed for a short time until
new forms and full information
can be obtained and distributed,
Thomas M. Craig, VA representa
tive who meets with ex-service
men and women each Wednesday
morning at the city hall, said
Wednesday.
About 60,000 policies in Oregon,
part of the 6,000,000 now in force
in the nation, are eligible for the
liberalized peace-time
benefits.
Ten million others that were per
mitted to lapse throughout the
U.S. are still entitled to rein
statement.
The new amendments, Craig
pointed out, offer endowment
types of policies not included in
the original NSLI law, permit
naming of beneficiaries outside
the restricted classes allowed by
the original bilL offer lump sum
payment and total disability bene
fits which were not previously in
cluded.
Veterans now holding term in-
surance policies are advised to
give mature thought to their in
surance programs, since ample
time remains for changes. Policies
issued before this year may be
continued without change for
eight years from date of issue and
policies created this year are good
for five years without converting.
Permanent policies as originally
issued were: Ordinary life, on
which the policy holder pays for
as long as he lives at a level
premium; 20-payment life, on
which premiums are paid for 20
years and after which no more
premium are required, and $3,-
payment life, on which premiums
are paid for 30 years.
New types now to be permitted
are: 20-year endowment policies,
endowment at age of 60 and en
dowment at 65. 6n these endow
ment policies premiums must be
paid for the indicated time, at
the expiration of which the face
of the policy may be paid to the
veteran.
Veterans who have already c M ij
verted their term insurance will
be permitted to chang« again to
one of the endowment, plan* if
they wish.
evaluation of the foster mother.
Care for any one ehild is limited
to 30 days—long enough for auit-
able permanent homes to be found
or court decisions to be rendered.
The foster mother would of
necessity have to be willing to re
linquish any child placed when
other plans had been made and
should consider the difficulty in
parting with some boy or girl as
of minor moment in her overall
service to many girls and boys.
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The Vernonia Livestock 4-H
club judging team placed first
Part of Large
against all other clubs of the
Fund Being Used
county in the judging contests at
the county fair at Deer Island and
By West Oregon
Harold Schmidlin tied for first
On June 1, REA began to make
with Bernard Miller in the indi
loans from the $250,000,000 fund vidual judging.
The Vernonia
authorized by congress for the club is led by Mrs. Florence Kirk
fiscal year of 1946-47 and the bride who has spent considerable
West Oregon Electric is benefit time leading the club and who
accompanied the members to the
ing by $190,000. Loans from the
fair and camped on the grounds
1947 fund will be used largely to while supervising their work.
finance the expansion of present
«Club members making up the
rural electric systems.
Some team were Harold Schmidlin,
loans, however, will be used to Edwina Siedelman and Melvin
MIST—A bad accident occurred finance the construction of new Beck, each being rated first, sec
early last Saturday on the Clat electric systems in rural areas ond and third respectively.
Exhibits by the club members
skanie mountain when a car car- where there are no existing facil
also brought several wins. Re
ities.
ryig two men and three women
The allocation to the local co sults were. Herefords—Jerol Mor
from Seattle enroute to visit
operative is being used for the an, first; Jerry Oakes, third; Du-
friends here met a coupe on the construction of the Warren-Ver roc sows—Pearl Siedelman, first;
wrong side of the road and in nonia transmission line and sub Edwina Siedelman, second; Guern
trying to avoid hitting the car, station facilities and 26 miles of sey—Melvin Beck, fourth. Pearl
Siedelman also tied for first in
went down some 100 feet.
line to serve 146 new consumers. roping. The calf was sold for
The women were taken to the
During the. 1946 fiscal year, $75 and the money divided be
Clatskanie hospital quite badly
tween the winners.
which
ended June 30, REA made
cut.
They were sent back to
In most of the departments
Seattle on the third day. The loans totalling $290,463,910 to there was heavy competition. In
car was badly smashed and re borrowers in 45 states and Alas the showmanship contest there
ports state that it is difficult to ka. This was the largest one-year were over 30 contestants and Jerol
believe that a car leaving the loan total in the 11-year history Moran won third place as a first-
road at this point could do so of REA. State loan totals ranged year boy in club work with his
without killing its occupants.
from $37,000 in Nevada to $23,- fine Hereford steer.
The accident took place at the 685,000 in Texas.
Horse racing events in the aft
These loans
same spot that an army truck financed the addition of more ernoon of the first three days at
went over last year, killing one than 183,000 miles of rural dis the fair also brought wins for lo
soldier and injuring several.
Transportation for
tribution line and more than 565- cal riders.
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000 consumers of REA-financed the mounts and riders was pro
vided to and from the fair
systems.
grounds at Deer Island by Albert
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Reynolds and Bert Tisdale and
this was the first time that such
a number of local people com
peted in faiir racing events.
The Palace Cafe will open its
Events for the three days und
doors Monday and be ready to
local winners were:
serve meals the owners said
Appearing in the circuit court Thursday—
Tuesday evening when some rf
Boys and girls quarter-mile,
before
Judge Howard K. Zim
the cooking equipment arrived.
Ruth Beck, 3rd; barrel race, Bob
All cooking will be done with merman last w>eek was Carl C. Pringle 2nd; half-mile derby, Lo
butane gas and the stove which Miller, 47, u.. a district attorney’s ren Dodge, 2nd; tail race, Bob
will use the gas arrived that eve information charging sodomy. He Pringle and Sam Beck, tie for
ning to assure the opening Au was sentenced to two years. Also 2nd.
gust 26.
appearing on a district attorney’s Friday—
The cafe has been closed for information was Joseph Benjamin
Girls' half-mile, Ruth Beck, 1st,
several weeks, during which time Brissett, 69, who was charged Lavonne McCool, 2nd; four-man,
remodeling has been underway. with contributing to . the delin one-horse relay, Sam Beck, 1st;
The interior redecorating has quency of a minor. He also re
Columbia county derby, Loren
been completed and installation of ceived a sentence of two years.
Dodge, 1st, Sam Beck, 3rd; flag
the equipment, which includes new
State police arrested Fred Biggs
booths and a different counter here Monday morning on a charge
arrangement, will be done this of larceny and he was taken to
week.
St. Helens that afternoon where
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he will appear before Judge Zim
merman in the circuit court.
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Lews’ place was closed by the
owners Monday morning of th's
week for complete redecoration
of the interior. Announcement of
Record motor car registrations
the closure was made by Lew
marked the first half of this year
Floaten who also said that the
in Oregon. 423,000 vehicles were
Bulletins listing surplus govern reetauarnt and bar will be opened
licensed with fees adding to 3’4
ment property are being re .again Friday, August 23.
million dollars, it has been an
The work is being done by Earl
nounced by Robert S. Farrell, Jr., ceived nearly every day and are Maddox, paint contractor from
available
for
inspection
at
The
secretary of state.
Portland. Mr. Maddox is a rela
The number of vehicles has Vernonia Eagle office.
tive of Mr. and Mrs. Floaten.
swelled seven per cent over last
Invitations to place sealed bids
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year. The great bulk—336,000—
for the items are asked by the
are passenger cars, with trucks
Business to Reopen
and light deliveries totaling 90,- war assets administration which
D. P. Spofford announced Tues
00. Of the rest 3000 were motor- is offering the surplus property
day that he intends to reopen the
cyces and 1300 buses.
Every to priority claimants including
Vernonia Card Room Friday or
classifioation showed gains.
veterans of World War II and to Saturday of this week and that
“The tremendous miileage piled
all other buyers concurrently.
free cards and pool will be offered
up by this record number of
Listed in recent bulletins re customers on the opening day.
vehicles,” said Farrell, “explains
ceived are plumbing, heating and The card room was closed the
how the death rate in Oregon is
restaurant supplies, and construc last day of June for repairs
falling although the actual toll
tion and miscellaneous materials. andl remodeling of the building
in numbers is increasing.”
Local people interested in ex which is owned by John Erickson.
In view of the increasing shift
amining the bulletins are welcome The interior floor space was en
of fatalities to rural areas, mo
to «all at The Eagle office where larged considerably and is now
torists and pedestrians were urged
24 feet by 48 feet in size.
the bulletins are on file.
to exercise new caution on inter
city highways and main-traveled
roads.
The first half of this
year over 70 per cent of Oregon’s
traffic deaths took place outside
All rivers flow from the forest—
towns or cities.
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Car Accident
Injures Three
Cafe Opening
Date Is Mon.
Three Appear in
Circuit Court
Car Registration
Surplus Property
Up 7 Per Cent
Lists Received
Restaurant
Redecorated
protect our sources of water for
Sign Painted
The exterior of the west wall
of the building housing Green
wood Motors now bears a s.gn an
nouncing the name of the busi
ness and the Chrysler products
sold.
power and agriculture.
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race, Loren Dodge, 2nd; tail racet
Loren Dodge, 2nd, Don Reynolds«
3rd.
Saturday—
Boys’ quarter-mile, Gene Beck,
2nd, Bob Pringle, 3rd; girls’ quar
ter-mile, Lavonne McCool, 1st,
Ruth Beck, 2nd; Columbia county
derby, Sam Beck, 3rd; flag race,
Sam Beck, 3rd; bareback quarter-
mile, Ruth Beck, 2nd, Sam Beck,
3rd; tail race, Loren Dodge, 2nd,
Don Reynolds 3rd.
COUNTYNEWS
PEACHES HEAVY,
BUYERS SCARCE
ST. HELENS—Peach crop thia
year is a good one, in fact there
are more peaches than there are
buyers, possibly because sugar is
scarce and still rationed, accord
ing to J. A. Johnson of Warren.
Johnson, who has 10% acres of
peaches, says his trees are heavy
with ripened fruit, but that de
mand has not been brisk, perhaps
because home canners can’t get
sugar to preserve the fruit.
FLOWER SHOW
SEPTEMBER 6
CLATSKANIE—The Clatskania
Garden club will revive their an-
nual flower show this fall and
have set the date for Friday,
September 6 at the Methodist
church.
This is the first flower show
staged since September, 1942.
HAIR FARMER
GETS LIFE
ST. HELENS — Life magazine
may be the next national publica
tion to carry the story of thse
Yankton "hair farmer,” Cart
Brandenfels, it developed last
week when a reporter and a cam
eraman who wet as correspond
ents for tke magazine were in St.
Helens to photograph some of
Carl’s guinea pigs and the Y**)q£.
ton man himsslf.
After the St. Helens shots werw
madc, the group went to Salens
where Governor Earl Snell and
Brandenfels“ were photographed
looking at plans for the new 60s
50 foot laboratory Carl is building
at his farm in Yankton. Work
started Thursday on the new units
and when it is completed the
“hair farmer” will abandon the
bathroom lab where the hair-
raising concoction was created.
COLUMBIA TAXES
RISE THIS YEAR
ST. HELENS—Like new auto
mobiles, tax levies in Columbia
county have gone up. A release of
the new tax levies for the current
fiscal year by the county assessor
last week disclosed that most of
these levies had shown a distinct
rise though there was one notable
exception — the road fund levy
dropped from 9.36 last year to
only 6.6 this year.
Missing from the road fund levy
was the 2.78 mill assessment to
provide funds for a special sink«. '
ing fund for road oiling. I/asto
year, road taxes raised a total of
$129,498.74, while this year they
are expected to bring in $91,936.—
91.
The county general fund levy
took a sharp rise, going to 11.S
mills from 5.40. It will raise
$164,372.05 in tax cash this year
as compared to $74,710.81 last
year.
DAIRY COOPERATIVE
SETS NEW RECORD
CLATSKANIE—The Clatskanie
dairy plant of the Lower Colum
bia Cooperative Dairy association
established a new record in month
ly payments to the farmers of
this community during the montla
of July, 1946.
A total of $106,132.91 was paid
during the one month to farmers
delivering milk at the plant This
was the first time in the 16 year*
history of the factory that over
$100,000 was paid out in* any on*
month.
The association paid $1.03 per
pound butterfat for premium milk
during the period.