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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation. ”
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 51
School Program
Scheduled Friday
“Why the Chimes Ring” is the
title of the school Christmas
play which local people will see
Friday evening at the Washing-
ton grade school auditorium, Paul
Gordon, superintendent, said Tues­
day. Preparation for the program
has been carried on for over three
weeks and students from all
schools will participate.
Mrs. Dorothy Sandon as dra­
matic instructor and Mrs. Maude
Kobow as music supervisor a.<:
directing the undertaking and
are being assisted by the other
school instructors.
The presentation will be a pan­
tomine in two scenes, the first be­
ing outside a city wall in mid­
winter where peasants are seen
COUNTY NEWS
TEACHER SALARIES
ARE RAISED
ST. HELENS—Fifty-three em­
ployes of school district No. 2 will
receive an extra Christmas pres­
ent in the form of a salary raise,
it was decided at a school board
meeting Wednesday of last week.
A motion carried that the salary
of the school superintendent be
raised $200, those of the three
principals $150 each and all other
employes, teachers, etc., $100 an­
nually. Reason for granting this
raise was the increased cost of
living since contracts were signed
for the current school year.
At the same time it was decided
to raise the salaries of substitute
teachers from their present $6.87
per day to $8.00 daily.
PAPER DRIVE
NETS 5 TONS
ST. HELENS—Amount of pa­
per collected in the St. Helens
area by members of the Columbia
county Shrine club rose to 30 tons
Sunday when trucks loaned by
H. W. H. Adams took a five-ton
load to,i Longview for processing.
This was the third five-ton load
sent by the club, which collected
15 tons in orfe lot early in the fall
as the result of a paper drive.
BRIDGE OFFFICIALS REPORT
BIG INCREASE IN TOLLS
RAINIER—A total of »175,999
vehicles crossed the Longview-
Rainier bridge in the 12-month
period ending September 30. This
was an increase of 47 per cent
over the previous 12 month period
aad represented an increase in
tolls of $81,023.
These figures were revealed m
the annual report of the stock
holders of the Longview Bridge
company which was published re­
cently.
The increase in traffic and re­
sultant increase in revenue re­
sulted in a net. increase for the
year of $14 ,164.45.
TIMBER BRINGS
CITY $20,000
CLATSKANIE — Deals have
been completed recently whereby
the City of Clatskanie has sold
almost $20,000 worth of timber
on land not in the city watershed
or timber on land, not needed by
the city.
A contract was entered into
with Archie Adams for the sale
of a tract of land adjoining, the
Walkey place and below the two
city reservoirs on West creek for
$13.008.00.
Mr. Adams has also purchased
from the city 901.000 feet of red
and yellow fir and hemlock (14,-
000 feet) for $4407.50. No land
is involved in this deal.
,
carrying gifts to the church, hop­
ing their offering will cause the
chimes to ring.
Students from the Lincoln
school will sing as also will the
high school sextette.
In keeping with the Christmas
season, a large Christmas tree
will decorate the auditorium. The
program is scheduled to begin at
8 p.m.
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Rock Creek Farm
Chosen for Herd
Recently Mr. and Mrs. Irving
Conklin purchased the Luther
place seven miles up Rock creek
where they intend to run their
herd of purebred Saanen milk
goats. They expect to move from
San Luis Obispo county, Califor­
nia, where they have been neigh­
bors of Clint M. Seibert who is
already located on Rock creek
with his Saanens.
These two herds represent ap­
proximately the same bloodline
blend, that is the three Oak3 and
Supreme, Mr. Siebert reports,
both harking back to the early
imports from Switzerland in the
20’s. Both are racing to produce
a super milk goat of utility as
well as beauty through a con­
trolled and selected program of
breeding.
Already both herds possess a
heavy and repeated concentration
of the famous Supreme Big Boy
and the world record doe, Blossom
of Three Oaks.
Although an accomplished pho­
tographer and a publisher of . a
well known book on lighthouses,
Mr. Conklin has chosen Vernonia
after two months searching to
find a natural habitat for his herd.
He expects to modernize his
place.
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Gresham Hoop
Men Win Sat.
Gresham was the winner here
last Saturday when that team in­
vaded the Logger territory and
left with the larger figure of the
34 to 22 score. Coach Hergert’s
team roster listed Byers as high-
point man for Vernonia while
Robinson of Gresham was tops
with 14.
Lineups were:
Gresham
Vernonia
4 Keltmer
Anderson 2
f
5 Lemon
Parker 3
f
14 Robinson
Cline 1
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2 Hartman
Byers 6
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3 Ambrose
Grenia 3
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Subs: Vernonia— Walgomott 1,
Frank 2, Tapp 2;Gresham—Oster-
guard 1, Bingham 4, Misluma,
Jolley and Bemner.
Scoring by quarters gave the
"visitors the lead at the end of
every period with 8-4, 14-9, 26-13
and 34-22.
The Loggers made up for the
1O3S to Gresham, however, when
they traveled to Tillamook Tues­
day of this week to win 34 to 25
over the Cheesemakers.
Byers
was high scorer with 15 points
and Renfro was next with nine.
The Loggers juniors lost 23
to 33. Williams of Vernonia and
Edwards of Tillamook were top
tossers with 10 points each.
Lineups:
Tillamook
Vernonia
f
12 Coates
Anderson 4
f 4 Christensen
Renfro 9
c
2 Noteboom
Cline 2
g
3 Swanson
Tapp 2
g
3 Nelson
Grenia 2
Subs: Vernonia—Frank 2, Wal-
gomott. Byers 15, Parker; Tilla­
mook—Goldmhn 1, Mameral, Tate,
Crawford, George. Bedortka. Law-
son.
The Loggers led the scoring at
th* end of every quarter by 5-4,
15-12, 23-19 and 34-25.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1946
Churches Plan
Separate Yule
Time Programs
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Christmas Theme
To Be Presented
To Congregations
Vernonia churches will be fea­
turing special programs in keep­
ing with the Christmas event and
most of them will be presented on -
the coming Sunday.
A Christmas pageant of the
Nativity, “The Sweetest. Story
Ever Told,” by Mabel Crampton
Cox, will be presented at the
Christian church Sunday evening,
December 22 at 7:30. The youth
choir will sing and the children’s
department will present a worship
service. The public is invited.
At the Assembly of God church
the Christmas program will be
given on the same evening, De­
cember 22 at 7:30. It will feature
exercises and recitations by the
lower classes and the intermediate
and senior young people will pre­
sent the play, “The Empty Room.”
An
old-fashioned Christmas
program is planned at the Evan-
ical church with the children of
the Sunday school participating
and with treats for all being in­
tended. The congregation will
gather at 7:30, December 22 for
the event.
Christmas programs and special
arrangements are also be’ng pre­
pared at other local churches.
•
Grade Five Wins
First Two Games
Playing last Friday afternoon
and again Tuesday afternoon of
thi3 week, the Washington grade
school basketball team captured
two wins in two starts. Banks
came here Friday to lose 23 to
18 and St. Mary's at Beaverton
did the same thing Tuesday to
lose 16 to 7.
The county grade court schedule
doesn’t start until January 3 Su­
perintendent Paul Gordon said
Tuesday, but games are scheduled
every week after that until Feb­
ruary 28 when the county tourna­
ment will be held.
Clatskanie will come' here for
the first game. Games are to be
played on a home-and-home bp­
sis. Winner of the tournament in
February will represent Colum­
bia county at the Hill Military
tournament later in the coming
year. Vernonia has been the coun­
ty representative at this event
for the past two years.
•
Mailing Hours
Extended Sat.
For the convenience of patrons
of the Vernonia post office, Emil
Messing, postmaster, announced
Wednesday morning that the of­
fice will be open all day this com­
ing Saturday. Ordinarily the of­
fice is closed Saturday afternoon,
but the extra holiday mailing
makes the extension of time ne­
cessary in order to take care of
the extra amount of business.
Mr. Messing also expressed his
appreciation and that of the post­
al employees here for the consid­
eration of patrons so far this
season. Much mailing has been
done well in advance of the final
few days, he said, and has eased *
the rush of the last few days con­
siderably. This year is the first
that many people have mailed
well in advance.
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Sneaker Scheduled
Drew P. T^wrence. representa­
tive of the Great American Fire
Insurance company, will be here
from Portland next Monday to
talk at the Lions club noon lun­
cheon. Bill Horn, chairman of the
Monday program announced Wed­
nesday.
Drilling of Clark-Wilson 6-1
Started By Texas Company
Drilling has started on the sec­
ond test well drilled in Colum­
bia county on land held under
lease by the Texas company. The
scene of operation is a short dis­
tance from Mist. Heavy equip­
ment, which was being moved in
a few weeks ago, has been as­
sembled and the well has been •
spudded in, officials of the com­
pany said late last week. Actual
drilling started Wednesday eve­
ning.
This well is being drilled by the
T. and T. Oil company with head­
quarters at Rio Linda, California,
this company having a contract
with the Texas company to do
the work.
The work is being carried out
Some Businesses Plan
Two-day Closing Time
Due to the fact that the Decem­
ber 25 holiday this years falls
on Wednesday, many z Vernonia
businesss firms have talked of
closing their doors for two day3,
December 25 and 26.
A Check with many local firms
brought forth the opinion that
the two-day closing would cause
little, if any, inconvenience. Some
grocery store owners have said
they will be closed for the two
IWA Is Victor
In Two Starts
Two wins are credited to the
Vernonia IWA in two games
played la3t week, one Thursday
with the Forest Grove IWA and
the other with the Rainier Inter­
staters. Rainier came the closest
to toppling the IW'A, but missed
the win column by a two-point
margin. Ralph Sturdevant led the
IWA scoring with 18 points in
the Forest Grove game and Kent
Bauersfeld topped the other local
tossers* with 11 in the Rainier
encounter.
Lineups:
Vernonia
Mullins 4
Sturdevant 18
Bauersfeld 2
Frank
Killian 7
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Forest Grove
14 Keller
Fea ton
4 Prochnow
Walsh
4 Smith
Subs: IWA-—Schwab 2, Lyle
Galloway 9, G. Riley, Davis, F.
Lusby 2, McDonald 1, Les Gallo-
way 1, J. Kiiey; r orest urove—
Amundson 1, Debont 5, Gage 2.
IWA
Mullins
Sturdevant 9
Bauersfeld 11
Frank
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Rainier
10 L. Chase
3 M. Chase
3 H. Chase
12 Baaxerman
Killian 7
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4 Les Chase
days and others will not. Custo­
mers will be informed in many
cases by signs posted at the var­
ious stores.
Hardware and furniture stores
in some instances have said they
will not close and others were un­
decided up to Wednesday morning.
Two local variety stores will not
open December 26, both having so
stated in advertisements this
week.
Garages and service stations
probably will also notify custo­
mers if doors will be closed the
day following the holiday.
•
American Legion
Sign Installed
An illuminated sign, which was
ordered about six "months ago by
the American Legion for instal­
lation at the hall, was received
last week and mounted Tuesday.
The sign was ordered through
the United Electric and Supply
company which concern later
closed its doors for business and
difficulty was experienced by the
local post in getting delivery of
the fixture.
The sign displays the Ameri­
can Legion emblem prominently.
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Students to Get
Week’s Vacation
dents will have one full week of
vacation, but will return to their
class rooms before the new year
holiday, grade and high achool
officials said this week.
The schedule for the vacation
calls for no classes during Christ­
mas week. Studies will be re­
sumed December 30 and 31 and
only the one day will be alloWed
for January 1 with classes being
resumed January 2 and 3.
under a three-shift arrangement
with a driller and four helpers
comprising the crew of each shift
and with a set-up that never per­
mits drilling to stop, once started.
In addition to the drilling crews,
mechanics and carpenters are em­
ployed. The men, coming here
at a time when housing is diffi­
cult to obtain, are living at Ver­
nonia, Clatskanie, St. Helens and
some at points outside the coun­
ty.
This well is designated as Clark
and Wilson 6-1, a Texas company­
official said. He also explained
that the surface hole ¡3 large in
diameter, but will be reduced in
size as the depth increases and
sections of easin,; are installed.
Heading the drilling operation
as superintendent is J. I. Mac­
Donald, who is residing in Verno­
nia.
•
Grid Men Hear
lohn Warren Mon.
The county championship Log­
gers heard John Warren, Uni­
versity of Oregon football coach,
tell some of his experiences dur­
ing his years of coaching and
show a motion picture Monday
noon.
Mr. Warren and the logger
squad were present as guests
of the Lions club at that group's
Monday luncheon.
The squad
and Coach Jake Hergert captured
the county grid championship this
fall.
The Monday event .took the
place of the evening football ban­
quet that has been held in pre­
vious years.
•
Federal Tax Aid
Itinerary Told
Visita at two places in Colum­
bia county will be made by depu­
ty collectors of the internal rev­
enue service to assist farmers
with the filing of their forms 1040
ES, declaration of estimated tax
for the calendar year 1946, or the
preparation and filing of their in­
come tax returns for the calendar
year 1946 in lieu thereof.
Other taxpayers will be assisted
later, a news release from the
treasury department states.
The collectors will be at Rainier
January 6 and St. Helens Janu~-
ary 7 and 8 inclusive.