“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.”
Conservation
Measure Gets
Club Support
Free Movie Plan
To Continue for
Several Weeks
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Fish bill 312, which will ap­
pear on the November ballot,
will receive the support of the
Vernonia Booster club. That was
the decision Monday night when
members of that organization met
to talk about the measure and
discuss its importance to sports
fishermen.
Harry King, president of the
Nehalem, Valley Hunters and Ang­
lers, was present to explain the
measure and point out the devel­
opment that could come from
improved fishing conditions on the
Nehalem river and Rock creek.
The measure would prevent the
use of nets at the mouths of coast­
al streams, with the exception of
the Columbia, during the steel­
head runs. Sports fishermen at­
tribute the decreasing runs of
steelhead to excessive takes of
this fish by commercial interests
and also say that taking the fish
by hook and line method would
increase the runs and bring about
a greater financial return to busi­
ness interests.
Along with the decision to back
the fish bill came another Booster
move to contact every business
firm seeking assistance to spon­
sor a free Saturday matinee movie.
The free matinee is being spon­
sored along with the promotion of
Vernonia as the shopping center
for this part of Oregon.
The sale of club memberships
was also proposed Monday evening
and accepted as timely and neces­
sary if the club is to continue its
work. Floyd Ensworth and Cieve
Robertson have the job of solic­
iting last year’s members and new
members.
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Fluid Milk Is
Hearing Topic
A public hearing to consider re­
vision of minimum prices paid
producers for fluid milk and
wholeale and retail prices to con­
sumers in the Columbia county
area, will be held in St. Helens
in the jury room of the county
courthouse at 1:00 p.m. September
20, 1946, according to notices is­
sued by the milk control section,
state department of agriculture.
E. Eugene Chadwick, field repre­
sentative of the department is in
charge of arrangements for the
hearing which is’expected to estab­
lish official data for minimum
milk and cream price schedules
under conditions now prevailing in
this area.
The Columbia county hearing is
one of a series being held by the
state department of agriculture
to investigate costs and other fac­
tors affecting the production and
distribution of milk in bottle and
can trade following the removal
of ceiling price regulations of the
office of price administration and
the cessation of milk subsidy pay­
ments by the federal government
July 1st.
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F. O.E. Convention
Is Sunday Event
Many F.O.E. officers, members
and candidates for initiation will
go to St. Helens this Sunday,
September 22, for the district No.
2 convention for which the St.
Helens aerie will be host. An invi­
tation to the affair has been ex­
tended to local members and a
sizeable delegation is planning to
attend according to President H.
W. Carrick.
Registration will begin at 9
a.m. and the day’s program in­
cludes many interesting topics. Re­
freshments and a dance in the
evening are also scheduled.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1946
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 38
Enrollment
Figures Up
Enrollment figures for the open­
ing days of school last week in­
creased over figures the same
time last year both Superintendent
Paul Gordon and Principal Ray
Mills said late last week.
In the high school the opening
enrollment totaled 191 students
with the freshman class listing
the lagest group figure.
Last
year the total was 162. By classes
this year the students number:
seniors, 41; juniors, 42; sopho­
mores, 47, and freshmen, 61.
The grade school increase was
less than the high school, but nev­
ertheless was greater than the
1945 enrollment. The total for
the grades was 465 this year as
compared with 456 last year. The
third and fourth grades show an
excess of students while the sev­
enth and eighth have decreased.
Dental Treatment
Law Explained
Cost of dental treatment for
veterans will be assumed by the
veterans administration only in
cases reasonably shown to be serv­
ice connected, Thomas Craig, VA
contact representative in this area,
said Wednesday.
To clarify a report issued re­
cently by another agency, Craig
described limitation of the law au­
thorizing free treatment of dental
troubles for veterans of World
War II.
First of all, no treatment will
be given or paid for by the VA
unless the veteran has already
made application and received
written authority.
In general, the VA will author­
ize treatment of dental conditions
within one year after service dis­
charge, provided that VA’s adjudi­
cation staff does not find that
the trouble originated subsequent
to discharge from causes not re­
lated to servioe or that the dis­
ability existed prior to entry in
the service.
The veteran must have served
at least six months continuously
prior to discharge. For conditions
brought to the attention of the
VA later than one year after dis­
charge, service connection must
be more clearly shown from the
patient’s service Record.
Only the VA’s outpatient clinic
can start treatment prior to for­
mal authorization, Craig pointed
out. The VA has arranged with
private dentists of Oregon for
“home-town” dental treatment for
veterans, but in these cases, the
VA is unable to pay for any work
done prior to written authoriza­
tion, which is sent to the apply­
ing veteran.
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Library Gets
12 New Books
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Patrons of the Vernonia library
wlil find 12 new books for their
use in the future, Mrs. Paul Gor­
don, librarian, said Monday when
she listed the additions. Four of
the books are for children and
the remainder for adults.
Children’s books are: My Dog
Rinty—Terry;
GiGi in America
—Foster; Lassie Come Home—
Knight; and A Cabin for Crusoe
—Severn.
Adults will find: Then and Now
—Maugham: Last Chapter—Ernie
Pyle; Bell Tim son—Steen; House
Above the River—Foster; Dark
Wood—Weston; And That’s No
Lie—Talbot; World in His Arma—
Beach, and Honolulu Story—Ford.
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Hay Ride Enjoyed
Forty young people of the Chris­
tian church enjoyed something
different last Friday when a hay­
rack ride took them by a round­
about route to North Rose ave­
nue where they enjoyed a weiner
roast and refreBhments.
This
group meets every Sunday night
at 6:30 at the church.
COUNTY NEWS
SHRINER PAPER
DRIVE SUCCESS
ST. HELENS—Paper collected
Sunday of last week by members
of the Shrine club completely
filled a big truck donated by the
Johnson Truck line to transport
the paper to Longview. Shriners
estimated that the vehicle held
about 15 tons.
A considerable amount of paper
came from the outlying areas,
through collection centers
in
towns from Rainier to Scappoose,
but the bulk of the contributions
came from St Helens.
TIMMY WINS CANADIAN
RIBBONS AT DOG SHOW
CLATSKANIE—“Timmy,” Bos­
ton terrier owned by Jewett A.
Bush, has just returned from two
Canadian shows in which he en-
ered and received winner’s ribbons
at Medicine Hat and Calgary.
Timmy, whose registered name
is Pavers Little Bit of Hagerty,
has but two or three points to get
before he wins the Canadian cham­
pionship. He holds that cham­
pionship in the states.
DISASTER GROUP
SET UP BY R-C
ST. HELENS—In the event a
disaster—large or small—strikes
Columbia county the job of a
new committee set up by the Red
Cross here will be to offer aid to
those struck by the disaster. The
committee, headed by William
Begenich, is called the committee
for disaster preparedness and re­
lief.
ENROLLMENT RISES
IN LOCAL SCHOOLS
RAINIER — Grade enrollment
was 272 and the high school ex­
pected to have close to 300 by
the end of the first week.
1033 STUDENTS
START SCHOOL
ST. HELENS—A total of 1033
students, ranging from six-year-
olds getting their first taste of
the three ‘R’s to sophisticated sen­
iors winding up their public school
careers registered at the St.
Helens schools as Classes resumed
after the summer holiday.
Biggest sign-up was at the high
school, where 395 registered.
Other schools and their totals
were: John Gumm, 355; McBride,
252, and McNulty, 31.
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Dahlia Size
Story Topped
Flowers make news again for
the third consecutive week. This
time it's dahlias again and the
size of the blooms are reported
by J. L. Fair who resides on 10th
street in Riverview. Mr. and Mrs.
Fair, too, are flower lovers and
they have sold some of their
blooms locally.
Last week's story about nine-
inch diameter dahlias grown by
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Watson on
State street brought mention by
Mr. Fair that his blooms in River­
view were 12 inches across.
Mr. Fair also specializes in
glads and brought along a bouquet
to prove his point. Those he ex­
hibited a few days ago were
two-foot spikes with individual
blooms measuring five inches
across.
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Farm Building
Plans Available
A new circular describing the
Oregon State college farm build­
ing plan service and listing farm
building and equipment plans
available through that service has
just been prepared by the O.S.C.
department of agricultural en­
gineering. Included are residences,
farm labor iouses, camp cabins,
roadside stands, rural community
halls, bams and a wide range of
items of equipment from buck­
rakes to water wheels. Copies
of the booklet, extension circular
No. 487, may be obained from
county extension agents.
County Adds 20 New
Firms Since VJ Day
Columbia county has increased
not only in population but also in
the number of new firms doing
business in the year since V-J day
according to a special survey made
by the state unemployment com­
pensation commission of the year’s
registrations.
The 20 new firms employ a total
of 139 people. The commission’s
survey doesn’t include firms with
less than four employes; agricul­
tural, public, other uncovered em­
ployment; employers not yet reg­
istered; and those continuously in
business.
In the whole ' state,
about 265,000 now are employed
by the 13,000 firms liable to the
unemployment law.
In this county eight new lum­
bering firms opened for business
and are employing 57.
Eight
new trade firms also started but
they employ a few less people at
44. Others are one construction
firm employing 18, one manufac­
turing besides lumber with 11
Paper Shortage
Brings Substitute
The St. Helens Chronicle, one
of the two newspapers published
at St. Helens, appeared last week
printed on Kranila, a kraft paper
made by the St Helens Pulp and
Paper company. The change in
paper became necessary due to
the newsprint shortage Paul S.
Paulson, editor and publisher, said
in an editorial in the issue.
“Although newsprint mills are
running at capacity all over the
country and Canada and despite
the fact that publications are
holding themselves to quotas rig­
idly, many of them leaving out
classified and other pages as the
Oregonian has been doing for
months, the shortage has caught
up with the trade and has passed
from the merely critical to the
acute stage,” the editor said,
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Council Talks
Development
The Camp Wilkerson develop­
ment council, which was formed at
the camp some weeks ago from
people representing various coun­
ty communities, met Monday eve­
ning at the St. Helens high school
to begin plans for the develop­
ment of the park as a central unit
for camping. It will be used by
all county youth groups.
Representing Vernonia at the
meeting was Rev. Allan H.
Backer,, Mrs. Byron Kirkbride and
Ed Frazee.
The evening’s meeting resulted
in the appointment by Claud Poff,
chairman, of a planning committee
which will draw a blue-print of
the project and present it at the
next council meeting.
The planning committee will be
headed by Glen Hawkins as chair­
man and he will work with Ed
Frazee, Joe Cramer of Scappoose
and Wallace McCrae of St. Hel­
ens.
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Austin Awarded
Purple Heart
Milton Homer Austin, whose
death occurred October 20, 1944,
while in the service, has been
awarded the Purple Heart by the
president.
The award was re­
ceived here Tuesday by his mo­
ther, Mrs. A. L. Austin.
The award reads: “This is to
certify that the President of the
U. S. of America pursuant to au­
thority vested in him by congress
has awarded the Purple Heart
established by General George
Washington at Newburgh, N. Y.,
August 7, 17f2 to Milton Homer
Austin, fire control man lc, U. 8.
Naval Reserve for Military merit
and for wounds received in ac-
workers and two service firms
with nine on their payrolls.
For the state, the commission
survey lists 2250 new firms em­
ploying 22,798 workers since V-J
day and 126 of these reopened
after closing down in the early
years of the war. Employes of
these peace-time firms are almost
equally divided between (1) con­
struction—5820; (2) trade—5521;
(39) lumbering—5599, and (4)
service small manufacturing and
other divisions—5858. Of the last
group 1978 are in light manufac­
turing employment and 843 in
heavy industries.
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AAA Compliance
Time Is Near
Columbia county farmers are
reminded that compliance time is
drawing near for all signers in
the AAA program. The deadline
for compliance will not be until
shortly after the first of the
year; however, now is the time to
start getting these practices com­
pleted, it was announced by W.
C. Johnson, chairman of the Co­
lumbia county agricultural conser­
vation association, as the rainy
season or winter weather will
possibly set in soon and cause
many practices to go undone.
It is the aim of the committee
this year to break all records in
getting intended practices com­
pleted so this county will have a
better chance of obtaining a larger
allotment for payments next year.
If it is impossible to get some
practices completed that were
signed on the farm plan and
some other practices «that were
not signed have or will be com­
pleted, it will be possible to amend
the farm plan if the county office
is notified of this change before
Deoember 1, 1946.
Farmers who have completed
their 1946 AAA practices may
come to the county office at their
earliest convenience to report and
sign performances.
Final com­
pliance dates will be set, how­
ever, with meetings in the various
communities for those unable
to come to the county office.
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Free Saturday
Show Booked
Another free Saturday matinee
movie is booked for this week
end at the Joy Theater to follow
up the start made last Saturday
when the first showing was made.
The show last week was sponsored
by the West Oregon Electric Co­
operative and the one this Sat­
urday has been booked by the
Vernonia Booster club.
If the venture proves success­
ful, business firms may continue
sponsoring the matinees for many
week ends during the winter
months.
Last Saturday’s billing included
a Walt Disney cartoon entitled
“Dawn of Better Living” and por­
trayed the development of elec­
tricity up to the present time.
The film was made available
through the Westinghouse Electric
Supply company of Portland.
tion resulting in his death October
28, 1944.”
The award was made the 20th
day of August, 1946.
Engineers
Start Corey
Hill Survey
Work for Winter
Months Being
Planned Now
The engineering department of
the West Oregon Electric Cooper­
ative started preliminary engineer­
ing work that will be required for
the rehabilitation of the Corey
Hill district, the balance of the
downtown business district, and
the Park district.
As soon as this preliminary
engineering work can be done,
materials will be placed on order
and most of this work will be
completed during the winter
months. Mr. Seelye, West Oregon
manager, states that some time
ago he ordered transformers for
this construction.
The General
Electric company hopes that they
can start delivery on transformers
within the next 120 days, and the
line work will progress in accord-
once with the delivery of mater­
ials.
Mr. Seelye and Ed Reichwein,
the manager and the engineer for
the Cooperative, got themselves
lost in the Park district last
Monday. This goes to prove that
engineers can lose themselves un­
less there are adequate street
signs or other directional beams
available with which to guide
'hem. It is our understanding
that early last spring George
King, Mr. Reichwein’s assistant,
took on as a side job a deal with
the city fathers to paint, repair,
and erect the street signs. Now
that that charming lady has
George corralled it is hoped that
he will find/ timq to complete that
contract, thus saving much an­
noyance amongst those who might
visit Vernonia. Everyone can rest
assured that Mr. Seelye* and Mr.
Reichwein will each day needle
George about getting this job
completed, as considerable addi­
tional work is planned by the
Cooperative within the city limits
of Vernonia, and, apparently,
street signs are needed to expedite
that work.
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Girls Select
League Leaders
The Vernonia high school Girls’
League named officers for the
coming school year this week and
selected Mary Ann Johns as their
president.
Other students to serve in of­
ficial capacity are: Cora Ilusen-
berry, vice-president; Beverly Her­
rin, treasurer; Shirley Bennett
and Aileen Johnson, song leaders,
and Jean Peasnall, sergeant-at-
arms.
Another election will be neces­
sary to decide a tie vote for
Alioe George and Pat Gibson for
secretary.
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I.O.O.F. to Back Scouts
The Odd Fellows lodge will act
as sponsors for the Vernonia Boy
Scout troop again for another
year the members decided a short
time ago when the sponsoring
committee was appointed. Head­
ing the committee 4s Todd Bower­
man who will be assisted by Glen
Hawkins and Homer Gwin. Ed
Frazee was named scoutmaster
again.