“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farmin'*
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 37
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VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1946
Saturday Power Line Construction
SAT. OPENING SET Free
Movie Matinee
Western Store
Delay Proves
Unavoidable
The opening of the Western
Auto Supply tgtore, which was
originally scheduled for tomor-
dow, Thursday, September 12,
was unavoidably delayed, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Ready announced
late Wednesday when an unfor-
seen difficulty arose which made
a delay necessary.
As it is, the store will be ready
to receive customers Saturday
morning of this week instead of
today.
Local mercshants, who had
planned a “trade in Vernonia”
week end event are going ahead
with their plans which include a
free Saturday afternoon movie
matinee at the Joy Theater.
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Grass Seeding
Is Tour Object
A tour of inspection of the
grass seedings made on the ranch
now owned by Walter Workman
on Timber route will be held
Friday afternoon, September 20,
states George A. Nelson, county
agent. The tour will start from
Vernonia at 1:15 p.m. The seed­
ing is located back of M. E. An­
derson’s place near the rock pit
on the upper Nehalem river in
sections 21 and 22, in township
4 north, range 5 west.
Different grass seedings were
made nearly seven years ago on
about 320 acres of land then
owned by the county. It was pas­
tured one year by sheep and has
since been pastured by cattle.
Inetresting developments in the
different clovers and grasses
grown ii\ this seeding will be
pointed out.
All who are interested in the
seeding and utilization of logged
off land are invited to be present
for the tour,, states Mr. Nelson.
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Car Wrecked Sunday
Damage estimated at approri-
mately $100 resulted from an ac­
cident early Sunday morning near
the Sunnyside Service station
when the automobile owned by
Ray East overturned. No seri­
ous injuries resulted from the ac­
cident.
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Bus Depot Changed
The Oregon Motor Stages bus
depot is being changed by Cleve
Robertson, owner of the Cozy
Confectionery, from the Cozy to
the Palace Cafe. Stage travelers
may obtain tickets at the new lo­
cation effective Thursday of this
week.
COUNTY NEWS
COUNTY NEWS
$40,000 IN WATER
BONDS UP FOR SALE
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SCAPPOOSE—Notice of sale
of $40,000 in water bonds by the
City of Scappoose was made last
week, w.th September 27 set as
date when bids on the issue will
be opened by the Scappoose coun­
cil. Each bid must be accom­
panied by a certified check for
$800.
Cash realized from the sale of
the bonds is to be used in im­
proving the Scappoose water sys­
tem, including construction of a
reservoir. The bonds are to bear
5 per cent interest and are to
be paid off from 1948 to 1961.
MARRIAGE PERMIT
BUSINESS BRISK
ST. HELENS—August was a
light month, comparatively speak­
ing, at the clerk’s office, but
Cupid was busy. As a matter of
fact, 18 marriage licenses—at $3
per license—were issued by the
clerk during the month and that
constitutes somewhat of a record
so far this year, not even the
traditional old shoes and rice
month of June approaching this
figure.
Total income for August was
$1278.95. Sources of this cash
were as follows: Recording fees,
$551.10; county fees, $281; circuit
judge, $70; district attorney, $65;
trial fees, $14; reporter fees, $30;
probate court, $42.50; law library,
48.60; marriage licenses, $54;
liquor license, $5; migratory chat­
tel fees, $22.50; miscellaneous
fees, $95.25.
ZINAVICH LOST $1000
BY TWO POUNDS
CLATSKANIE—Just two more
pounds of fish would have brought
the $1000 prize to W. E. Zinavich
of Clatskanie in the salmon derby
just closed at Astoria.
Mr. Zinavich won the $100 for
the largest fish caught and it
tipped the scales at 47 pounds,
8 ounces. It is thought that if
the fish had been weighed in
shortly after being caught it
would have outweighed the win­
ner for the derby but the shrink­
age accurred in the lapse of
three or four hours.
D. R. DRIBBLE IS NEW
PRESIDENT OF PIONEERS
RAINIER—D. R. Dribble of
Rainier was elected president of
the Columbia County Pioneer
association at the annual meet­
ing and picnic which was held
recently at the Hudson park.
The newly elected secretary is
Grace Reid, also of Rainier, and
the board of directors includes
Peter Banzer, Fritz Anliker, Bill
Pringle, G. W. Watts and Fred
Colvin
In order to be eligible to
membership a person must have
resided or have been bom in
Columbia county before 1900
VA Advises Dental Care
Regulations for Vets
World War II veterans are en­
titled to dental care for one year
after discharge from active duty,
at government expense through
the veteran administration, ac­
cording to information received
by the Oregon department of vet­
erans’ affairs this week.
Veteran« are advised that they
should first contact the veterans
administration regional office at
1019 S.W. 10th, Portland, to ascer­
tain their needs for dental treat­
ment.
This is in accord with recent
dental regulations of the VA,
which proride that within one
year after discharge, a veteran
with faulty teeth can have them
fixed at expense of the veterans
administration, without need of
medical proof that the fault was
service incurred.
In many instances, VA officials
said, it will be possible for that
agency to authorize dental treat­
ment through the veteran’s own
private dentist. His dentist will
first be required to apply for and
fill out a VA form, in order to
be appoved by the veterans ad­
ministration. The patient will fill
out form 2827, and “Request for
Dental Rating.”
Those teeth which are deter­
mined by VA dental examiners in
Portland to need treatment, will
be taken care of by the patient's
dentist, who in turn bills the
Veterans Administration.
Those veterans out of military
service more than a year also
may have their own dentists' serv­
ices at VA expense, but only for
ailments which were service in­
curred—in other words, those
teeth which the veterans’ service
records show to have had treat­
ment during time of service.
Being Planned
Business Firms
To Be Sought as
Show Sponsors
This week’s “Welcome to Ver­
nonia” edition of The Eagle carries
on an inside page an advertise­
ment announcing a free Saturday
afternoon movie matinee that will
prove both entertaining and edu­
cational.
With the announce­
ment of this Saturday’s free show
came the decision Monday evening
at a Vernonia Booster club meet­
ing to attempt an arrangement
whereby a free matinee will be
sponsored every Saturday after­
noon in the future.
The plan as explained at the
club meeting hinges on the idea
that the additional feature of the
Saturday afternoon movie will be
an attraction for people to come
to Vernonia. About 20 business
men were present to hear the
plan and to okeh the procedure
whereby every other business firm
will be interviewed relative to co­
operating in the undertaking.
This week’s matinee is being
sponsored by the West Oregon
Electric Cooperative and next
week’s Saturday afternoon event
will be financed by the Booster
club. After that, if the plan is
approved the business firms will
act as sponsors to carry on the
feature.
The West Oregon show at 2
o’clock this week will feature an
animated history of electric wir­
ing and a full length western pic­
ture.
The Booster cub iwill convene
again next Monday evening at
The Eagle office and to this meet­
ing President Lou Girod has ex­
tended an invitation to all Ver­
nonia business men in order that
a definite decision may be
reached.
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Large Dahlia
Blooms Grown
Flowers hit the headlines again
this week. This time they are
dahlias instead of sweet peas and
they are growing for Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Watson at their home
on State street.
The blooms were produced by
four plants which grew from bulbs
which Mr. Watson brought home
from Garibaldi while there on a
fishing trip. The bulbs had been
discarded by a grower of dahlias
at that place.
The size of the blooms has at­
tracted considerable attention iron»
flower lovers. The flowers mea­
sured between nine and 10 inches
in diameter. They are pink and
yellow varigated and deep yellow.
Log Cutting
Film Topics
Harvesting pulpwood and saw
logs on tree farms located in the
southern part of the U.S. will be
depicted by two color films which
are scheduled for showing Mon­
day, September 16 at the Wash­
ington grade school. The pictures
will be screened at 7:30 and ar­
rangements for the showings are
being made by Glen Hawkins, Co­
lumbia County Tree Farm man­
ager.
Scenes of logging activities
were taken on tree farms located
in the area between Lufkn, Texas,
and Tampa, Florida. Managed tree
growing in the south has advanced
farther than in the west and these
films will be of educational value
for people engaged in logging
here because of the methods em­
ployed.
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Progressing on Schedule
The construction program of the
West Oregon Electric Cooperative
is progressing on schedule. The
Vernonia-Warren transmission line
is well under way. Charles Rob­
inson and the line crew are set­
ting poles and installing guys in
the Chapman-Spitzenberg area.
Charles Biggs and his crew con­
tinue to dig holes and complete
the right-of-way cutting from
Spitzenberg into the proposed
Bonneville Power Administration
substation which will be located
on Church street about two miles
west of Warren.
This line wa3 originally sched­
uled to be energized on October
15, but due to the delay in obtain­
ing necessary materials the ener­
gization will be delayed until ap­
proximately November 10 provid­
ing further delays in the shipment
of materials do not occur.
The Cooperative early in March
placed an order with Phelps
Dodge Copper corporation for 24,-
000 lbs. of wire for the transmis­
sion line. Due to repeated strikes
in the Phelps Dodge plants it be­
came necessary to postpone the
delivery of this wire until Febru­
ary, 1947. Frank D. Seelye, the
Cooperative’s manager, was no­
tified of this postponement on
August 28 and has scoured the
country in search of wire and has
already located sufficient wire to
build half the line and is in hopes
that the other half will be pro­
cured on firm order sometime
this week.
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The allotment of $190,000.00
made by the Rural Electrification
Administration to the West Ore­
gon Electric Cooperative in June
will be allocated in the following
fashion: $100,000.00 for Vernonia-
Warren transmission line with
distribution facilities in tha Chap­
man-Spitzenberg area; $50,000.00
for the erection of lines in the
Treharne - Scofield - Buxton area;
$20,000.00
the rehabilitation of
existing lines in Vernonia and vi­
cinity; $10,000.00 for rehabilita­
tion of lines in the Mist-Birken-
feld area, and $10,000.00 for ex­
tensions and service connections
to new members throughout the
area.
This week orders are being
placed for a carload of service
transformers with the delivery
date established for April 25,
1947. The poles and the greater
percental of the pole line hard­
ware are on ordr for the Ver-
Forgery Count
Brings 15 Years
Appearing before Circuit Court
Judge Howard K. Zimmerman
last Friday at St. Helens was
Lee Schwab, former school clerk
for District 47, Jt., to plead guilty
to district attorney’s information
charging forgery.
Schwab was
arrested in Portland August 26
and has been held in the county
jail awaiting trial.
He expressed willingness to
waive preliminary hearings and
plead guilty to the charge last
Friday for sentencing immedi­
ately.
The judge decreed 15
years in the state penitentiary.
District Attorney Walden Dil­
lard indicated Friday that a
charge of embezzlement of district
funds would also be brought
against Schwab who may again
waive preliminary hearing« in or­
der to receive immediate sen­
tencing.
A detailed audit of the district’«
books lists a shortage of $35,-
995.50 which cannot be accounted
for and which will be the basis
for the embezzlement charge.
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nonia-Schofield lines.
Providing
these delivery dates are not de­
layed due to strikes or other un-
forseen contingencies, construc­
tion in the area south of Ver­
nonia will be started earljflr’jjttKt
spring.
With the energization of the
Warren-Vernonia transmission line
there will then be available to
the Nehalem valley double the
present power supply. Plans are
now being made and orders will
be placed in the near future for
additional transformer capacity
to be installed at the proposed
Vernonia substation. It is now es­
timated by the Cooperative’s
manager and engineer that the
Eagles Plan
Forum Series
The first of a monthly series of
public opinion forums on ques­
tions of general interest, spon­
sored by the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, will be held by Vernonia
Aerie at the Aerie home, 810
Bridge street at 8 p.m. Friday,
September 13, 1946, it was an­
nounced this week by H. W. Car­
rick, Aerie president.
The openingl meeting will con­
sider the question of lowering the
voting age to permit 18-year-olds
to cast ballots, a subject which
has received national attention re­
cently. The most logical argu­
ments for and against grating the
right of franchise to youths will
be presented.
Similar forums on the same
subject are being held by other
Eagle lodges throughout the
United States, inaugurating a
series of “pro and con” discus­
sions which are expected to re­
veal trends of thought ton ma­
jor problems of the day.
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New Library
Hours Start
Patrons of the Vernonia Public
Library are informed this week
by Mrs. Paul Gordon, librarian,
that the library board has estab­
lished new opening hours. Ef­
fective now, the hours are from
1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Fri­
day of each week. Due to lack
of demand the evening open
hours have been discontinued.
People who came to the library
will find a set of the 1946 En­
cyclopedia Britannica which was
added this summer. An invita­
tion is extended to all to make
use of the new volumes.
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Bowling Alley
Being Built
Four regulation size bowling
alleys will occupy a new building
addition which is being made to
Dessys Tavern by Mr. Laird and
which he expects to complete and
open for business in about 60
days.
The exterior of the building is
nearly completed Mr. Lair said
early this week, but the work re­
maining on the inside will delay
the opening for some time yet.
The alleys to be installed will
be regulation in size and not of
the smaller dimensions.
This
bowling alley will add to the
recreational facilities available to
residents of the Nehalem valley.
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Cement Being Poured
New Sign Erected
Workmen began the pouring of
cement for approaches to the
Texaco service station which has
been in process of construction
since earlier this year. This part
of the cement work was delayed
due to difficulty in obtaining
necessary materials.
A neon sign carrying the
name of Kaiser Frazer was erect­
ed at the Vernonia Service station
Monday of this week.
George
Johnson, station owner, said he
had been informed that one of
the cars would be available for
display here this month.
normal growth of the Cooperative
will call for this increased trans­
former installation by late fall of
1947. A second transformer bank
is contemplated at this time, and.
the installation will be made when
the Cooperative’s load demands.
All of the engineering that has
been done by the Cooperative
during the last seven or eight
months has been based on an
estimate of the progress of the
Nehalem valley for the next 10
year period. “We feel that thia
estimate is conservative and an­
ticipate the members of this Co­
operative increasing their elec­
trical consumption by six times
their present usagé in the coming
10-year period,” Mr. Seelye said.
“The manufacturers of electrical
equipment and appliances have
many new electrical gadgets on
their drawing boards, and new
electrical
appliances will be
seen on the market during the
coming 12-months’ period. In an­
ticipation of the future demand
that these appliances will make
for additional electrical service
we have designed the backbone
of the Cooperative’s system to
take carp of the requirementn of
our mehibers and as soon as ma­
terials become available a larger
construction program will be put
into effect.”
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Class Officers
Named Tuesday
The four Vernonia high school
class groups named their officers
Tuesday to act during the coming
year. Elected were:
Seniors: President, Gordon
Cline; vice-president, Kenneth An­
derson; secretary, Evelyn Steven­
son, and treasurer, Barbara Kea-
sey
Juniors: President, Barbara Lol­
ley; vice-president, Kay Miller;
secretary, Jean Turner, and trea­
surer, Florence Tisdale.
Sophomores: President, Calvin
Bass; vice-president, Deri Roberta;
secretary, Shirley Bennett, and
treasurer, Beverly Herrin.
Freshmen:
President,
John
Brown; vice-president, Billy Chal­
mers; secretary, Sally Olin, and
treasurer, Rosalie Parker.
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4 Candidates
Need on Ballot
Wanted — candidates for four
positions for the City of Vernonia.
That’s the set-up, according to
Recorder Albert Childs, that will
be necessary to fill city offices
which are expiring this year. Po­
sitions to become vacant and for
which candidates must announce
32 days before the November 5th
election, are two councilmen for
two-year terms, a city mayor and
a treasurer.
Candidates may be named for
the ballot by two procedure«, n
petition which has to be filed with
the recorder 32 days before elec­
tion or by a city caucus.
The present office holder»
whose terms expire are George
Johnsbn, mayor; C. F. Hieber,
treasurer, and Art Davis and J. E.
Tapp, councilmen. Both council
terms are for periods of two
years.
4-H Club to
Reorganize
The Vernonia 4-H livestock club
will reorganize at a meeting
scheduled for Saturday, September
14 at 2 p.m. Mrs. Byron Kirk­
bride, club leader, said Tuesday.
The reorganization will take place
at the Waschington grade school.
Any child between the ages of
nine and 18 interested in 4-H
work m urged to come and also
any girl or boy interested in
cooking can attend the same meet­
ing, Mrs. Kirkbride said.