“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumk“rj^gu Two Councilmen, Mayor, Treasurer Seek Positions Petitions have been filed at the city hall with Recorder Albert Childs to place the names of two present councilmen, the mayor and the Vernonia city treasurer on the November ballot for reelec­ tion. The petition route is one of th two means which may pe used to place candidate names before the voters. The other is by cau­ cus. The petitions which were circu­ lated late last week were for J. E. Tapp and J. A. Davis, councilmen and George Johnson, mayor. All three men now hold the positions for which they seek reelection and all three terms are for two years. The filing for treasurer position was made by C. F. Hie- ber who now holds that office and has held it for several years. Other candidates may file for the positions, but if they do so by petition the petitions must be handed to the recorder not later than 32 days before election. • Hunting Season Starts Saturday Saturday is the big day. That’s the date set by the Oregon state game commission as the opening of the general deer season and it will last for a month, or to October 25. Most every hunter has been anticipating the event for weeks and many local peapie have planned trips to eastern Ore­ gon where they will make their try for the game. Archers, too, have a season, but its shorter, extending from Sep­ tember 28 to October 6 in a small part of the Deschutes game ref­ uge and from October 9 to 25 in a portion of the Canyon Creek refuge. To top off the season special deer shoots will be held for deer of either sex. All checking sta­ tions maintained by the commis­ sion for speciaj deer and elk shcots will be open at noon one and one-half days before the open­ ing of each season and remain open until 5 p.m. the day fol­ lowing the end of the season. Bag limit for the general sea­ son is one deer, either blacktail or mule, having not less than forked antlers. All Disabled To Be Enrolled “Every disabled veteran in Oregon who has applied for col­ lege or trade school this fall and has qualified for entrance will be enrolled,” Tom Craig, veterans administration representative in this area, declared Wednesday while here on his weekly visit. Nearly 1200 ex-servicemen are expected to take school training in this State with government as­ sistance provided for disabled vet­ erans under law 16. All who have applied thus far will be signed up. and this includes business and trade schools as well as colleges and universities. "Every school in the state has cooperated with the veterans ad­ ministration in giving top pref­ erence to disabled veterans," Craig pointed out. “Extremely crowded conditions in all schools have prevented some able-bodied veterans from enrolling under G.I. bill in the school of their choice, but not disabled veterans as yet.” Veterans may obtain educa­ tional information from the VA’s contact office at the City Hall, Vernonia on Wednesday mornings of each week. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1846 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 24, NUMBER 39 Petitions For Three Are Filed p “creation.” COUNTY NEWS LITTLE CHANGE IN ENROLLMENT CLATSKANIE—Both the Clat­ skanie high, school and the grade school have about the same num­ ber of students at the beginning of this term as in the fall of 1945. C-H.S. has an enrollment of 124 the first week of school. It is expected to reach 135 when the students who are yet working are back. The Clatskanie grade school had 284 students enrolled this week as compared with 281 last year. FIRST CLASS STATUS DUE POST OFFFICE ST. HELENS—Probability that St. Helens will have a first class post office when the year’s re­ ceipts are tallied up was seen this week in a rise of $3,612,94 over the income for August a year ago, and a new record for the local office. Fir.t class status will go to the office if its postal receipts—cash income from sale of stamps, box rent, etc.—total $40,000 for the yieer. A prime reason, for the heavy rise in postal receipts here, other than the fact that Station A in­ come is now credited to the down­ town office, is that the post office has acquired a new customer dur­ ing the past year. The customer is Carl Brandenfels, the Yankton man who has become the “hair farmer.” Mailing of his two-bottle treat­ ment, which must ba carefully packaged because postal regula­ tions on the sending of fluids through the mail are especially strict, requires an average of about 40c in postage per pack­ age. ELECTRIC RATE CUT BRINGS SAVINGS RAINIER—Bringing at least one bright spot into the picture of rising prices facing residents of Rainier, Northwestern Electric company last week announced an­ other reduction in rates for elec­ tric service. This latest price slash by Northwestern will bring system- wide savings to its customers es­ timated at $160,000 a year, ac­ cording to E. A. Britts, local manager. Largest savings from the pres­ ent rate cut will go to small home users of electricity, Britts said. For instance, the cost of 100 kilo­ watt hours per month delivered to a Rainier home will be cut 8 Vi per eent. SLUMP IN FISH CATCH REPORTED ST. HELENS—The fall run of salmon is just about over if the receipts at the CRPA station can be taken as an indication. Re­ ceipts have varied from two tons to one ton per day and is expected that they will be less now, for most of the fishermen have taken their nets from the river. The season, however, has not night the CRPA station had re- been a bad one up to Wednesday ceived and shipped to the Astoria cannery slightly more than 54 tons, almost the same tonnage as in 1945, and thq value of that re­ ceived by the CRPA alone is worth close to $11,000 paid the fishermen. v, • • October 5 Last Day to Register Voters who intend to exercise the right to cast ballots in the November election and who need to attend to registration details have until October 5 to do so. October 5 is the end of the first week of that menth and just a month before the general election, November 5. Registration here may be made at the city hall where Recorder Albert Childs will take care of the details for voting in the city, county, state and federal election. People who have moved here since last election, and who have changed their residence from one precinct to another must sign again in order to cast a vote. Robertson Named New Fire Chief Neal Bush to Open Office Here Mondays Zone Signal Plan Talked; Hydrant Check Started Opening Scheduled Monday, September 30 for Attorney Neal Bush, attorney-at-law, who maintains an office at Hillsboro, is planning to open his office here in the Joy Theater building beginning Monday, September 30, it is announced this week. Mr. Bush will be here the first busi­ ness day of every week to care for legal matters. Mr. Bush maintained an office here before the war, but his practice stopped when he entered the service and the office was not reopened after he received his discharge. The attorney is the present com­ mander of the Hillsboro American Legion post. • Pasture Seeding Results Seen The pasture seeding tour ar­ ranged by Geo. A. Nelson, county agent, last Friday at Vernonia was attended by about 17 persons. On this tour the land seeded by Columbia county in the fall of 1940 and winter of 1941 showed some very definite results for pas­ ture production. This land is now owned by Walter Workman who is pasturing this land with cattle. The seeding on section 21, 4 north, 5 west which was seeded in the ashes of a heavy burn shows ex­ cellent results and there is splen­ did. pasture on this land six years after it was seeded. The cattle seen on the range owned by Mr. Workman are in fine condition. The basis of this pasture was tall fescue, chewing fescue pyren- nial rye grass, orchard grass, bent grass, alsike clover, and a small amount of creeping red fescue. In section 22 there was a lighter bum, as it was an old bum, there was lots of fern on the area. How­ ever, the chewing fescue is show­ ing remarkable headway. The pas-' tures and sod farming qualities of the chewing fescue together with the tramping of the cattle in pasturing the land is thinning out the fern considerably. The seeding demonstrates quite a possibility of utilization of cut over lands to advantage when properly seeded to long life and sod forming grasses together with the legumes, the agent said. • Country Club Plans Tourney Three topics, two tournaments and a revival of the Little Dance club, occupied last Friday’s meet­ ing of Vernonia Country club members at th« clubhouse and re­ sulted in the. appontment of two committee heads to follow out the various proposals. Mrs. Frank Hartwick will head a committee she will pick to re­ vive the Little Darnoe club, a group that functioned here several years ago, but which has been dormant during the war years. Revival of the club under the sponsorship of the golf group is being sought as a means of winter activity when the course can not be used. Mrs. Tom Turner will be chair­ man of another committee of her own choosing to arrange a tourna­ ment for lady golfers later this fall. The handicap tournament, for which scores must be turned in by this Sunday, is to be played after that date Tournament Committee- man Kent Bauersfeld said Tues­ day. He also mentioned that prizes for the fall handicap will be dis­ played in a window at the Bush Furniture company. Highway Signs Display Welcome, KOG Messages “Now when visitors come to Oregon we can show them the true spirit of western hospitality as soon as they enter our state,” Otto H. Petersen, Columbia Coun­ ty Keep Oregon Green chairman, said in commenting on the beauti­ ful outdoor marker-signs erected at four main highways entrance points to Oregon by the state highway commission. “These signs carry a dual ptes- sage,” the chairman pointed out “They first extend an official welcome to Oregon by an official agency of the state, the Oregon State highway commission, and then they ask the visitor to be careful with fire and help protect our wonderful forest resources.” Already four signs have been built and are in place at Rainier near the Longview bridge; on Eagles Attend Sun. Convention the Coast highway near Brook­ ings; on the Redwood highway south of Grants Pass; at the summit of the Siskiyou mountains south of Ashland. The commis­ sion has approved construction of a fifth south of Klamath Falls near the California line. The sign at the Oregon end of the Longview bridge was the first one to be erected in the state and was commemorated with an ap­ propriate dedication. • Flowers Again Hit Headlines More proof that flowers, and vegetables, too, can and do grow well in the Nehalem valley is forthcoming this week. It’s River­ view again where the achievement came about. Mrs. T. F. Hillyer proves that she can produce both large flowers and vegetables. Her hollyhocks reach 10 feet high and her gladoli spikes bear seven-inch florets. Mrs. Hillyer’s vegetable garden has produced cucumbers eight inches in circumference and 10V4 inches in length. The F.O.E. district 2 conven­ tion at St Helens last Sunday drew seven Vernonia aerie mem­ bers to participate in the day’s activities and hear talks by eGr- • a’d Mason, F.O.E. president, and other state officers. Youth guid­ ance was Mason’s topic. Attending from here were Al­ ford Doree, Ray Canida, John Wilcoxen, James Combs, Oscar Enstrom, George Armstrong and Another sawmill and shingle Freeman Schelene. Wilcoxen mill industry is being planned for was included among the candidates this vicinity Ed Garner announced for initiation and ritualistic work. Monday when he said that 30 Eagles from all over the state acres of land had just been pur­ were present for the meeting chased to be used partly as a site and drill team competition at the for the mills. i St. Helens foothall field later in Machinery will be erected soon the day and the banquet and and Garner said it is planned to dance that