“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farm1-
Busses to Make
Return Trip at
11:30 on Monday
Grade and high school students
•will make an easy start Monday
for the next nine months of
classes by dompleting the opening
day at 11:30 that morning, heads
of both the grades and the high
school said Wednesday.
As is
usual for the opening, class at
tendance will be sort of a pre
view of what is to come and stu
dents and teachers will familiar
ize themselves with arrangements
in order to start a full day Tues
day.
Bringing of noon lunches will
not be necessary Monday because
classes will be over by 11:30
and the busses will start their
trips to return students to their
homes.
At the high school one teacher
was lacking for the commercial
department Principal Ray Mills
said, but he was hoping that one
of several possibilities would ac
cept the position so that a full
roster of teachers would be on
hand for the start.
By Wednesday morning the
grades lacked three instructors,
but there, too, the situation was
similar to the high school in that
three prospective teachers might
sign contracts and be on hand
for Monday.
Otherwise both schools are ready
to go with repairs having been
complted and o.l burner instal
lations made.
The first school week will be
shortened by two days with coun
ty institute dated for Thursday
and Friday September 12 and 13
when teachers from all schools
will meet at St. Helens.
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Petticord to Come
Rev P. P. Petticord will be at
the Evangelical church next
Wednesday evening, September
11, Rev. Allen H. Backer an
nounced this week.
The first
quarterly conference of the new
year will be held at that • time
with Rev. Petticord in charge.
All are invited to attend the serv
ices.
COUNTY NEWS
15 LETTERMEN
BACK FOR TRIBE
ST. HELENS—With 15 letter-
men, the Scappoose high school
football team is looking forward
to a good season. Coach Erwin
Elder held his first practice ses
sion Monday and has scheduled
his first game September 20 with
Columbia Prep on the Preppers’
home field. As a matter of fact,
the Indians won’t play a home
game unt.l Forest Grove comes to
Scappoose Sept. 27 under the
present schedule.
TO REMAIN ON
PART-TIME BASIS
ST. HELENS—Miss Ruth Pef-
fley, Columbia county health
nurse, will remain here on a
part-time basis after September 1,
date when her resignation from
the post was to have become ef
fective. Miss Peffley expects to
spend about three days a week
in the county.
The arrangement calling for a
nurse on a part-time basis is en
tirely temporary, she explained,
and will be in .effect only until
the court can obta.n a public
health nurse for full time.
SCAPPOOSE GRADE SCHOOL
AWARDS CONTRACT
SCAPPOOSE — The
grade
school board at Scappoose has
awarded a contract to erect a
central heating plant and another
contract for equipment to two
Portland firms.
The building contract was given
to H. J. Settergren, who submit
ted a bid of $9667 for the 25x42
foot structure. The P. S. Lord
company of Portland was award
ed the equipment contract for
$13,289.
The building is the first to be
erected by the Scappoose school
district in a 10-year program
which contemplates complete re
building of the school plant
‘BLUE BABY’ CASH
NEARS $1000 MARK
ST. HELENS—The $1000 need
ed to help take care of expenses
for a trip east and an operation
on the St Helens “blue-baby,”
Earl Jennings, 16-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Sid Jennings,
was all collected by last week
end.
St. Helens Pulp & Paper Co.
has announced that it will match
any money contributed by its em
ployes toward the fund.
Early Day, Modern Road
Building Methods Difier
Last week’s account of intend
ed road oiling for this vicinity
brought to mind the early day
method used in building the first
road in the Nehalem valley to St.
Helens. The story of that first
road is told by County Commis
sioner William Pringle, Sr., who
was a member of the crew that
did the work.
Mr. Pringle had lived here two
years before the road was opened,
which was in 1879. Travel to the
Columbia river previous to then
'was by horseback over a trail
across the mountain and that was
the way Nehalem valley residents
received their mail.
Mail de
livery was made once each week
before the road the commissioner
recalls.
To start proceedings towards
obtaining the improvement, sev
eral valley residents went to St.
Helens to seek the help of peo
ple there and that help was forth
coming.
An agreement was
reached whereby local people
were to do the work and St.
Helens people were to furnish
food provisions.
In March, 1879, a crew left
here for Yankton where the road
from St. Helens ended. By June
9 of that year the work had been
completed, all by volunteer hand
labor, to Pittsburg and travel be
gan.
As near aa Mr. Pringle can re
call, and he believes the list is
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, IMS
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 36
Schedule of
First School
Day Outlined
° -ation.”
complete, these are the names of
those who donated their time to
the improvement: John Pringle
(father of Wm. Pringle, Sr.),
Peter Brous, Jacob Brous, George
Brous, A. H. Powell, A. H.
Matthews, Albert Tucker, Wil
lard Tucker, W. S. Pearson
(cook for the crew), George Pear
son, Andrew Elliott, Wm. Haz
lett, John Bailey, Pat O’Hay,
Josiah Konkle, Charles Konkle
and Wm. Pringle, Sr.
Mr. Pringle was the youngest
member of the crew and is the
only one now living.
Willard
Tucker passed away only a short
time ago.
This early day route to the
county seat encountered difficul
ties within a short time after
its opening when, on January 9,
1880, one of the strongest wind
storms in ths history of Oregon
fijled the road with more logs
than were removed when it was
built.
Again it was necessary for a
crew to go to Yankton, this time
to clear the way because of the
storm.
St. Helens people pro
vided provisions, as before, and
the men were divided into three
gangs. The first shoveled snow
from the logs, the second gang
sawed the logs so they could be
moved and the third group carried
peavies for rolling logs from the
right-of-way.
The clearing work required over
a week's time.
Western Store Recent G.I. Bill Changes
Opening Set Outlined by VA Official
For Sept. 12
Displays Being
Prepared; 3-Day
Sale Announced
Vernonia’s newest business en
terprise, a Western Store, is
scheduled to open Thursday of
next week with a three-day grand
opening sale Walter S. Ready,
owner, said earlier this week. He
and Mrs. Ready have been busy
for several weeks preparing for
the opening. Many of the sale
items are listed elsewhere in this
issue by the owners.
Preparation for the. store has
been underway sinoe last year
when the building was purchased
and remodeling started, but the
usual present day difficulties in
obtaining merchandise postponed
original plans for the opening
earlier this year, Mr. Ready said.
When announcing his sale, Mr.
Ready also mentioned that he
planned to increase his displays of
merchandise later, special orders
will be taken if customers desire,
to be filled as soon as possible.
Only a small amount of farm
machinery and dairy equipment
is being displayed for the three-
day opening sale, but future plans
call for the showing of such
merchandise.
Doors will open at 9:30 a.m.
next Thursday for the sale and
regular store hours will be from
9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with the
exception of Saturdays when the
closing time will be 8:00 p.m.
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Surplus Variety
Offered by WAA
A variety of surplus, from shoes
to parts for seven ton trailers,
were offered this week by the
Portland regional office of war
assets administration.
The shoes, over 17,000 pair,
are the arctic work type, leather,
12 inches high, with double heels
and soles. In various sizes, the
shoes may be inspected at the
WAA building at Swan Island.
Priority and other buyers may or
der, but purchase offers will not
be confirmed until September 9.
Manlila, jute and sisal rope are
being offered in a sale to prior
ity claimants, vets of World War
II and other buyers. At fixed
prices, WAA has 173,000 pounds
of it, which may be inspected,
with confirmation of orders sched
uled for September 12.
Parts of the seven ton trailer
includes rear guards, coil compres
sing springs, tarpaulin and end
curtain canvas sets, and other
component units. Approximately
34,000 parts are available to those
with priority and other buyers on
a bid basis, to be opened Septem
ber 3, 1946.
Items offered by WAA in other
sales include light plant and blast
ing machine transformers, insulat
ed wire and cable, steel and
wrought iron and a supply of
valves and fittings.
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No Polio Cases
Recorded Here
Only one case of infantile par
alysis has been recorded for Co
lumbia county so far and that
case did not develop here local
health authorities said Wednes
day.
The recent closing of the park
swimming pool was made because
of this one case. At the same
time as the dosing of the pool,
children 12 years old and under
were denied attendance at shows
as a further precautionary mea
sure in attempting to prevent the
occurance of the disease here.
Reports a few days ago that
there was a polio ease here proved
unfounded.
Knotty problems raised by re
cent changes in the G.I. bill which
placed a ceiling on subsistence
allowances and set up standards
for on-the-job training of veter
ans were clarified Wednesday by
Thomas Craig, veterans adminis
tration representative in this area.
The limitaion law, which went
into effect August 8 after it was
signed by President Truman,
prohibits payment of subsistence
allowances to veterans if they
earn more tnan $200 in their
training job.
Veterans without
dependants caui draw no subsist
ence if they earn more than $175.
The following distinctions in
the new law were emphasized by
Craig:
1. It applies only to veterans
in training under the G.I bill. It
does not spply to disabled veter
ans training under the vocational
rehabilitation act (Public Law
16).
2. The law applies to veterans
already enrolled in education and
training as well as to those who
may enroll in the future.
3. The subsistence allowance
limit applies to every veteran
training under the G.I. bill
whether in college or school,
standard apprentice course or
other on-the-job training. In no
event shall the rate of earnings
plus subsistence exceed $175 for
White Services
Held Wednesday
Funeral services wehe held at
the Christian church Wednesday
afternoon at 2 p.m. for Mike
White and interment took place at
the Vernonia Memorial cemetery.
The death occurred at the Hills
boro hospital last Saturday fol
lowing an operation.
Mike Madison White was born
at Seaside April 8, 1916 and died
at the Smith hospital |in Hillsboro
August 31 at the age of 30 years,
four months and 23 days.
He spent most of his life in
Nehalem where he attended grade
school and high school. He made
Vernonia his home for the last six
years.
Surviving th« deceased are his
wife, Margery, and 16-month-old
daughter, Connie Lou; his father,
Charles Fuller of Warrenton and
adopted mother, Edna White of
Vernonia;
his
sisters,
Edna
Hardesty of Seaside, Ella Cox,
Dena Ackerman and Hallie Rimer,
all of Portland, and Dorothy Eg
gleston of Warrenton; and broth
ers, Otis Fuller of Vernonia, Ed
mund Fuller of Marshfield and
Lyle Fuller of Sweet Home.
He was a member of the
I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 246 of Ver
nonia and also Rebekah Lodge
No. 243 and Columbia Encamp
ment No. 8 .
Funeral services were in charge
of the Bush Funeral Home. Rev.
Ernest P. Baker officiated and
graveside services were conducted
by the I.O.O.F. Lodge.
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Sportsmen to
Meet Saturday
Sportsmen of the Nehalem val
ley are notified this week of a
meeting Saturday night, Septem
ber 7, to bean W. J. Smith, presi
dent of the Oregon Wildlife Fed
eration, talk.
The meeting is
open to members of the Nehalem
Valley Rod and Gun club and
other sportsmen who are invited
to attend.
Principal topic of the evening
will be presented by Mr. Smith
who will outline the coming cam
paign to publicize the fish con
servation measure which will ap
pear on the November ballot. The
Wildlife Federation will carry
on the campaign to educate vot
ers of the need to adopt the
measure.
The meeting is scheduled for
the LO.O.F. hall at 8 p.m.
veterans without dependents or
$200 for those with dependents.
4. The law distinguishes be
tween standard apprentice train
ing, supervised by federal and
state apprenticeship agencies, and
other training on the job. “No
standards have been set for ap
prentice courses and they still
may run to a maximum of four
years if the veteran is eligible
for that much training. Standards
for states to follow in other job
training stipulate the training
must not be less than three
months or more than two years
duration.
5. Two choices are open to
establishments offering on-the-job
training of more than two years
duration. The program, in some
cases, can be adjudged to fit
state or federal requirements for
apprentice training so the two
year limit does not apply. Pro
grams now in effect may be con
densed and streamlined so that
the veteran can complete them
in two years.
“This new legislation does not
mean that a veteran will not re
ceive further educational benefits
of the G.I. bill because his sub
sistence is stopped by limitation,”
Craig concluded. “He can keep on
with his training course without
subsistence and either save his
eligibility for additional educa
tion or training later or take
night or correspondence courses.”
Veterans continuing on-the-job
training courses without subsist
ence allowances should notify the
VA immediatey to stop counting
time against their eligibility.
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Permits to Burn
Still Required
Judging Team
Competes at
State Fair
J. Moran Enter*
Showmanship; Is
One of Top 12
Winning first place for judging
at the county fair entitled ther
Vernonia Livestock 4-H club judg
ing team to a trip to the state
fair where they competed Monday
of this week with other teams
from the state, County Agent
George Nelson said Tuesday“.
Team members making the trip
were Harold Schmidlin, Edwina.
Siedelman and Melvin Beck who»
are accompaied by the club leader,.
Mrs. Florence Kirkbride. They
left here last Sunday with Mr.
Nelson in order to be present for
their first judging competition
Monday, results of which- were
not available when Mr. Nelson
returned from Salem Tuesday.
Judging was made of cattle, sheep
and hogs, Mr. Nelson said.
Another local boy, Jerol Moran,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Moran,
also competed at the fair with his
Hereford calf in the showmanship
contest. Final results for that
event weren’t available her*
earlier this week either, but he
was chosen as one of 12 com
petitors to be one of the top 12
entries in the contest.
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October 5 Last
Registration Day
Voters who intend to exercise
the right to cast ballots in the
November election and who need
to attend to registration details
Permits to burn rubbish are
still required for residents in the have until October 5 to do so.
city limits Fire Chief Harry Cul October 5 is the end of the first
bertson said Wednesday in a week of that month and JUS* M
warning given because a number month before the general elic-
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of fires have been started with tion, November 5.
Registration here may be made
out official okeh the last few
at the city hall where Recorder
days.
Probable reason for not taking Albert Childs will take care of
care of this detail is the recent- the details for voting in the city,
rains which have reduced the dan county, state and federal elec
tions. People who have moved
ger incident to dry periods.
However, Mr. Culbertson point h^re since last election, who have
ed out, a city ordinance explains changed their residence from one
the procedure and states that a precinct to another must sign
permit must be obtained to burn. again in order to cast a ballot
Periods of dry weather will come November 5.
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before the fall rains begin and
not until then is it permissible
to burn without obtaining that
right from the chief.
Stamp 51 Valid
Now for Sugar
Spare stamp 51 in family ra
tion books was made good Sep
tember 1, 1946, for five pounds
of sugar for regular consumer
use and will be valid through
December 31, 1946, the OPA an
nounced Saturday. Spare stamp
49 will continue) to be good for
five pounds of sugar through Sep
tember 30.
By extending for 30 days from
August 31 through September 30,
the period for which the current
spare stamp for sugar is valid,
OPA will make it possible for
housewives in certain local short
age areas to cash in their stamps.
Maldistribution, largely caused by
the difficulty of getting boxcars
to ship sugar from producing
areas to deficit consuming areas,
has had the effect of making it
impossible for housewives in cer
tain sections of the country to
cash their stamps for sugar.
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Annual Picnic Dated
The Clatskanie Grange No. 321
is having its annual picnic at
Hudson park Sunday, September
8. Pot luck dinner will be served
at noon. Coffee will be furnished.
All Columbia county grangers
their families and friends are
invite. Como meet your friends.
Councilmen
Meet Monday
City councilmen met Tuesday
evening for the first September
session to talk over the small
amount of business that de
manded attention and accept the
bills for last month. Little ur
gent business was evident at the
meeting, probably because the
council held its last previous meet
ing in August only a short time
before.
At that previous session coun
cilmen accepted the resignation
of Dr. R. D. Eby as city health
officer and appointed Dr. H. E.
Schlegel to that position. Other
business at that time was the
sale to R. J. Whaite of lota 1,
2, 3,4 and 5, block 3, in Rose
addition.
City Recorder Albert Childs
has been authorized to write a
letter to the Oregon-American
Lumber comporation expressing
the city’s appreciation for a div
ing board and other lumber which
the corporation provided as a gift
to improve the city park swim
ming pool.