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Library, U of O “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem V.alley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 24, NUMBER 49 Part of Light Material Received; Census Taken Rehabilitation Of Toll Lines In Progress Early Completion To Improve Local Service—Barber General rehabilitation of toll lines between Vernonia and For est Grove is now in progress ac cording to w’ord received yester day from Harley Barber, district manager of the West Coast Tel ephone company. This work should be completed early in De cember according to Mr. Bar ber. Il will greatly increase the effic'ency of long distance calling in the area. Reconstruction of urban lines in conjunction with the West Oregon Electric Cooper ative, Inc., is also in progress. Local and long-distance service in Vernonia has improved greatly in the past 30 days, said Barber, and will improve steadily as more materials and equipment become available. A system-wide expsw.- sion program of over five and a half million dollars has been scheduled by the telephone com pany, but many phases of this work are being delayed due to shortages of materials. “There are still 41 unfilled or ders for telephone service in the Vernonia exchange.” said Barber. “Since V-J day we have been able to get telephone instruments for only 25 per cent of our total or ders. Other shortages such as cable, lead, copper wire, central office equipment, etc., also have slowed down the progress of our expansion. “The West Coast Telephone company is doing everything pos sible to restore its service to its high pre-war levels. It has taken us much longer than we antici pated to obtain equipment and supplies, and many vital items are still difficult or impossible to secure. We will continue, however, to make every effort to speed up our expansion and serv ice-improving program.” Loggers Win 1st Court Try Coach Hergert’s Loggers cap- tured their first court win of the season Tuesday evening when Forest Grove invaded the local floor to lose 27 to 23. The coach has cut the squad from the number first turning out and will concentrate on the trough spots from now on. The lineup Tuesday listed Cline as high scorer. Graney Rites Read Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Susan Graney were held at the Bush Funeral Home Wednesday, December 4 at 2 p.m. with Rev. E. P. Baker in charge. Interment was ' at the Vernonia Memorial cemetery. Mrs. Graney was born July 22, 1887, at Mobile, Alabama, and passed away November 28 at the age of 59 years, four months and six days. Surviving are two sons, Robert J. and Thomas W. Fulton, both of Vernonia; a daughter, Mrs. Kath erine M. Johns of Vernonia; a brother, Joe Daniels of DeRidder, Louisiana, and ten grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mrs. Graney had been a resident of Vernonia for about 21 years. • IWA Meets Grove CIO This Eve. The I.W.A. basketball team will meet the Forest Grove CIO five here tonight, Thursday, at the high school gym. The game will be the first for the local team this year, but the IWA squad has been turning out steadily for sev eral weeks preparing for the win ter’s schedule. The court action is scheduled for 8 o’clock sharp, John Roediger, manager, says. • Young People Expected Guests this Sunday at the local Nazarine chapel will be a group of young people from Portland Central Nazarene church. Several special numbers in mus e will be furnished by the group. Rev. H. L. Russell will bring the mes sage. Dairy Club to Meet The Nehalem 4-H Dairy club will meet Saturday, December 7, at 2 p.m. at the Washington grade school Jerry Oakes, secretary, an nounced Monday. All member: are asked to attend and parents and visitors are welcome. creased labor and operating costs through an increase in telephone rates. The city will register an objection to the increase. On hand so far in the line of the necessary supplies to make the new mercury-vapor street light installation is the trans former, Albert Childs, recorder, mentioned. No word has been re ceived as to delivery of the re maining supplies needed for the set-up. Councilmen also learned re sults of the recently-completed census. City population now has been determined at 1420, some what less than estimated. Com piling the figures were Mrs. June Wasser, Mrs. Frances Mullins, Mrs. Frank Hartwick, Mrs. John Grady and Mrs. Arthur Nanson. The census was authorized by the secretary of state’s office and carried out under the system au thorized by that office. • Keep Dates lor Exams Craig Says Failure of hundreds of Oregon veterans to keep appointments for scheduled physical examinations for disability rating, purposes is jeopardizing their chances of re ceiving benefits to which they may be entitled, Thoma.3 M. Craig, veterans administrating represent ative in this area, warns. Each month an estimated 20 percent of the 2500 veterans whose claims for disability com pensation are being processed by the Oregon regional office fail to appear before physicians of the VA or the Oregon physicians’ service or other designated doc tors for their examinations. The VA cannot adjudicate veteran claims or take award action un til medical reports have beqn completed, Craig explained. Fifteen per cent of the veterans are failing either to reply by mail to examination notices or to ap pear in person before the phy sicians, Craig stated. Another five per cent have neglected to notify the VA of a change of ad dress, so do not receive their notices. To speed up the work, the VA has authorized many private doc tors to give rating exam nations through Oregon physicians’ serv ice, which augments the VA’s own medical facilities. Craig urged veterans to observe their appointments promptly, or if they cannot meet their examin ation dates they should notify the VA and ask for later ap pointments. Craig meets with veterans each Wednesday morning at the city hall in Vernonia. Sportsmen to Meet The Nehalem Valley Rod and Gun club will meet Friday night at the I.O.O.F. hall, Harry King, president of the group, said Tues day. f f c g g 9 Havernick Parmley Hodge Morgan 4 Noah Subs: Vernonia—Tiffney, Wil liams, Renfro 3. Parker 4, Frank, Walgomott 2, East, New and Sabilino; Forest Grove—Simmons 4, Borst, Swanson 2 and Cunning ham 6. The Loggers led the scoring for the entire game. Tillamook is next on the schedule here Tuesday at 7 p.m. The Logger seconds lost to the Grove 22 to 27 after leading for the first two periods and tieing in the third frame. Lions to Get 60,000 Trees Received for Charter Next Planting; Work Starts Mon, Evening District Lion Representative Plans Attendance Preparations for the Lions club charter night here Monday, De cember 9 are nearing completion Frank D. Seelye, charter night chairman, said Wednesday. The affair has been arranged to be gin at 7:30 with a turkey dinner to be served at the Masonic Tem ple by the Nehalem Social club. Present for the evening will be Kenneth Wilcox, deputy district Lion governor, who will present the local club’s charter. Acting as sponsor for this club will be the Hillsboro Lions club of which Neal Bush is president. Mr. Seelye, in outlining the Monday affair indicated that members attending the dinner must be accompanied by their wives or lady friends. At present the club membership exceeds 40 men and others who wish to be listed a3 charter members have but a few days to join before the charter is presented. • Ex-Verr.onid Han Drowns Thomas Bramblett, former resi dent of Vernonia, drowned last Saturday in the Umpqua river near Scottsburg. He complained of feeling dizzy while running a trap line and tumbled into the river. His son, Richard, 9, was present and saw the drowning after which he ran to a govern ment housing project nearby to obtain help but it was impossible to locate the father. He was wearing heavy clothing, boots and a pack sack. After the search, the l>oy hiked 18 miles to Reedsport to tell his mother of the tragedy. Surviv ing are the widow, Jenny; a daughter, Betty, 12, and Richard. The Brambletts left here about two years ago. • Honor List of Names Compiled Twenty-one high school stu dents attained honor roll rating with the completion of the last six-week period, Principal Ray Mills said this week. The Soph- more class led the school with eight students on the roll. By classes the students were: Seniors—Elna Morris, Mary Ann Johns, Cora Dusenberry, Miriam Corll and Owen East; Juniors— Martha Wells, Florence Tisdale and Theresa Schmidlin; Glen Hawkins, Columbia County Tree Farm manager, announced the start of tree planting Friday when he said that 50,000 Douglas fir and 10,000 Port Orford cedar seedlings had been received. The work will probably require sev- Phone Company Asks Rate Raise A public hearing has been scheduled by George H. Flagg, public utilities commissioner of Oregon, to hear testimony con cerning a petition filed by the West Coast Telephone company requesting tariff schedule in creases. The hearing is, scheduled for December 9 at 10 a.m. in the Blue Room of the Multnomah ho tel. The company is asking that “emergency relief be granted to cover increased labor and other operating costs by permittinf tar iff schedules increasing existing telephone rates by $205,000.00 and establishing certain new toll rates over free service interchange routes . . .” The West Coast Telephone com pany furnishes telephone and tel- agraph service in 41 cities and towns in its Forest Grove, La- Grande, Klamath and Coos Bay districts in Oregon and 22 cities and towns in Washington. • Commission Tells Trapping Rules Individuals desiring to trap fur bearing animals during the open season from November 15 to Feb ruary 15 are warned that it is necessary to mark all traps with a brand registered with the office of the game commission. Land owners are not required to have a trapping license to trap on their own land but are required to register the location of their land and their trap brands. Furbearers for which the season is open include marten, mink, muskrat, otter and raccoon. There is no open season for fisher, bea ver and ringtail cat. Unprotect ed species, such as coyotes, bob cats, cougar, fox, weasel, skunk and badger, may be taken at any time. Attention is called to the new regulation prohibiting the use of the flesh of salmon and steelheaed as trap bait, as well as the flesh of any game girds and game ani mals. eral weeks time because much of it is done on w’eek ends by high school boys. The first planting this winter was done Friday by 16 boys who were divided into 6 to 8-man crews. It is likely that the number of planters will increase later Mr. Hawkins said and it is also likely that more seedlings than those on hand will be received be fore the work is completed. The work this year is sched uled for the Crooked creek area in sections 15 and 16, township 5 north, range 4 west. This area was logged in 1941 before the state conservation act became ef fective and as a result few seed trees were left standing and some of those were destroyed by subsequent fires. COUNTY NEWS COMMUNITY CHEST HEAD IS SOUGHT ST. HELENS—Wanted, a chair man for the Columbia county community chest drive. The an nual campaign for funds has been virtually completed in most Ore gon counties, but Columbia has not even started because it has been unable to find anyone who will head the drive. Goal of the community chest in the county this year is a rela tively modest one—about $6500— which is in sharp contrast to last year’s collection of 18,000. A good part of this money will go toward financing Girl Smut ahd Boy Scout activities in the county during the year, while the remainder is largely diverted to charitable organizations which take care of juveniles. ROD AND GUN CLUB MEM BERS TO FEAST ON ELK CLATSKANIE —. Members of the Clatskanie Rod and Gun club will have an elk feed on Decem ber 1, at the Clatskanie I.O.O.F. hall, according to an announce ment made by Jewett A. Bush, president. JOBLESS CHECKS GO OUT TUESDAY ST. HELENS—The more than 200 persons who claim weekly checks because of unemployment did not forget that the clerks of the state unemployment compen sation commission would be at St. Helens on Tuesday instead of Thursday, the day which they ordinarily come to St. Helens. The Tuesday session was because of Thanksgiving coming on Thurs day, a holiday. A clerk of the commission es timated that more than 200 checks were delivered. PLANNED ECONOMY '« srssf Sophomores—Georgianna Mills, Sally Kaspar, Arlene Kirk, De lores Johnson, Maxine Hart wick; Alice George, John Berg and Mary June Armstrong; Fresh men—Betty Jane Snook, Donna Mae Barrett, Marjorie Roland, Sally Olin and Lois Frank. • Forest Grove Vernonia Anderson 2 Cline 9 Byers 2 Tapp 5 , Grenia City councilmen met early this week to hear a report of the recently completed census, to take a stand on the hearing next Mon day at which time the West Coast Telephone company will ask a tariff increase and to learn that part of the material needed for the intended street light instal lation has arrived. At this meeting Neal Bush, attorney, was authorized by the councilmen to appear at the pub lic utilities commission hearing in ^Portland December 9 when the West Coast Telephone com pany will appear before the pub lic utilities commission to ask for emergency relief from in- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1946 Auxiliary Plans Dance The Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars announces a Pearl Harbor dance for Saturday night of this week. The event is scheduled for the Legion hall. • Yule Program Dated These workers are lined up for their chest X-rays—to make sure that they haven’t tuberculosis. Periodic chest X-rays, to Bud TB before Its outward symptoms are apparent, are advocated by tuberculosis associations. The campaign of the associations against the disease la supported by the sale of Christmas Seals. The Christmas program of the Evangelical Sunday school will be given on the evening of Decem ber 22 at 7:30 in place of the regular church service. A varied program of song, recitation and pantomime is being prepared as well as ChristmM treats for all in attendance. "Here’« a fen-poge questionnaire from The Bureau of Iovine Con- tentment.The only woy we con answer II , , , feto atk the cowl*