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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VOLUME 24, NUMBER 52 Seal Sale Far Below Last Year Reminders to Be Sent in January to Late Contributors VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON March of Dimes Drive for Dog License 1947 to Begin January 15 Fee Raised by Oregon counties are prepared to surpass all previous years in their drives to raise funds during the 1947 March of Dimes, Dr. E. T. Hedlund, Oregon state chairman, said this week as he announced county campaign directors in 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties. The only county campaign director not yet appointed is for Baker county. Named by Dr. Hedlund to con duct the drive in Columbia county is Cecil Johnson. The campaign is scheduled to start January 15. Special fund-raising events will climax the drive, which closes on January 30, the birthday of the late President Roosevelt. This year’s drive has special significance over previous years in that severe wide-spread epi demics in 1946 depleted the Na tional Reserve Fund for us when polio epidemics exhaust local funds. “Oregon families can give spe cial thanks at Christmas time that our state was not visited during 1946 by one of these insidious epidemics. We must prepare our- Ielves, lest we be less ‘fortunate in 1947,” Dr. Hedlund said. Local county chapters retain 50 per cent of the funds raised The returns to date from the Christmas Seal letters which were sent out here some time ago at about the time when practically every family in the county re- ceived their 1946 Christmas Seals, is not up to expectations. That is the opinion of Miss Velma Ramsey, Vernonia chair- man for the Seal campaign, who released the figure of $426 as the amount of receipts from the Seal sale up to Tuesday morning of this week. A greater number of letters were sent out here this year than have been mailed at any previous time, the number being in excess of 900 Miss Ramsey said. Reminder cards will be mailed sometime during the coming month of January to those people who have not already paid for the Seals and the campaign will con- tinue until February when the final report of receipts must be turned in. Funds derived from the sale will be used in the fight to eradicate tuberculosis. Local people have benefited from two visits to Vernonia of the TB mo BOLD ROBBERY TAKES bile X-ray unit which provides WESTPORT SAFES free chest X-rays to determine CLATSKANIE—A bold robbery whether the disuse has a start. took place in Westport Wednesday These visits have been financed through the sale of Christmas night of last week when the safes Seals in previous years. from the Westport post office and from the Club of the West port Lumber company were taken. The post office safe there con tained money, bonds and other pa pers. In both safes there was per sonal property which had been The Vernonia Loggers and the stored there for safe keeping. IWA teams will meet twice in COLUMBIA HITS the next few days on the high PEAK AT S. H. ST. HELENS—The swollen Co school gym floor Coach Jake Her lumbia river, fed by streams on gert said Monday. Thé first of that river and by the Willamette the two court meet’ngs is sched river which has been at flood uled for Friday evening at 7:30 stage, reached the crest at St. and on that right the IWA also Helens Thursday morning. The has scheduled a game with Tilla Gauge registered almost 17 feet mook. above zero Thursday morning, the On Monday evening, also at 7:30,. the Loggers and the IWA highest the river has been at this will compete again and on that season of the year since 1933 when floods in the Mt. Rainier night a B game with Banks may district, both on the Lewis river also be played. and the Toutle river, were respon sible for thousands of dollars and the loss of several lives. COUNTY NEWS Loggers, IWA To Play Twice School to Start Again Monday DAMAGE BY FLOOD MINOR IN RAINIER RAINIER — Rainier suffered only minor effects from the flood Grade and high school students • that last week wreaked havoc in will return to school again Mon many portions of the Pacific day morning of next week for two Northwest. days of classroom studies before The C. T. Bross hardware de the January 1 holiday, school of livery truck and the automobile ficial said last week in announc belonging to George Reese of ing the .vacation schedule. the hardware personnel were dam The return to school before aged last Thursday morning when New Year’s day is the procedure the sidewalk in the rear of the being followed by most schools in store caved in on the parked ve the county. Students will not be hicles. * in school for January 1 but will Operations at the Van VIeet resume work again the day after. mill were curtailed by high water, and A street basements also were flooded. Insurance Man Talks The Columbia river was drop Drew Lawrence, here from Port ping rapidly here Thursday de- land for the Lions club noon spite the fact that the Willamette luncheon, told the club about in was pouring a peak flood into surance rates in Vernonia. He the Columbia. explained that the high local rates West Rainier had some water are based principally upon these in sight but this year was said to reasons: The fire equipment, the come from the hills, as the pumps type of building construction and handled successfully seepage past fire history. through dikes. annually so that any persons, re gardless of age, race, creed or color may receive the best avail- able medical care when the crip pling polio strikes. It was point ed out that the national fund is used to improve medical knowl edge through research in the field of infantile paralysis, All scien- tific advancements thus gained are, in turn, passed on for local aid in the fight against this un predictable disease. Dr. Hedlund emphasized that local county chapters also receive help, if need ed, from !the national funds in time of epidemic. Logger Income In High Bracket Highest wage group of workers in American industry continue to be mill and logging camp work ers in Western Oregon and Wash ington, reports Walter A. Durham, Jr., research director, Lumber men’s Industrial Relations Com mittee, Seattle. ' “The bureau of labor statistics of the department of labor reports that less than one-third of all manufacturing employes in the nation have received the full 18%- cent increase since V-J. day, one- fifth of the nation’s industrial workers received no increases, an other one-fifth received less than 10 cents an hour and another one- fifth from 10 to 15 cents,” Dur- ham says. “Douglas fir lumber and log ging workers have been receiving increases totaling 20 cents since last April, bringing their hourly earnings of $1.42% or more than 74 per cent above the 1941 pre war average. This wage level, highest ever reached in this in dustry, does not include overtime earnings, vacations, night shift premium pay or other ‘fringe’ is sues granted during the war,” he points out. While wages are going up, oper ators have been unable to re capture prewar manhour produc tivity, Durham asserts. Sawmill output per manhour fell off more than 11 per cent, during the war, according to a federal labor de partmer.t survey, as yet little recovery of normal production standards has been achieved ei- ther/in woods or mills. New Owners to Operate Cozy New owners will assume opera tion of the Cozy confectionary January 1, Cleve Robertson, for mer owner, said early this week. The change in ownership came several days ago with the un derstanding that the management of the business would not change until the end of this year. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have owned the Cozy for two years and nine months, purchasing the busi ness from Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Hausler, former owners. Extension Meeting Set The Vernonia home demonstra tion unit will meet at the I.O.O.F. hall January 2 at 10:45 a.m. The project subject will be winter sal ads. Ladies attending are asked to bring a sack lunch and a lady friend. Thi3 meeting will be a belated Christmas party so each person is asked to bring a gift for another person. County Court Payment Due Before March 1 to Avoid Delinquent Penalty Owners of dogs will find the license fee for .females up over what they paid last year as the result of action December 5 by the Columbia county court. The court took the action as a part of its duty under Oregon law which makes it permissible to determine and set the amount of fees to be charged for the licensing of dogs within the county. The fees this year are $1.00 for each male or spayed bitch dog and $3.00 for each female dog. The court also issued the or der that if any person fails to procure the license before the dea line, which is March 1, a penalty of the additional sum of $1.00 will be assessed. Licenses are ob tainable here at the city hall. Over 14 Million Fish Liberated Fi3h liberated during 1946 for the benefit of the sportsman in Oregon lakes and streams totalled 14,608,644, in spite of the* fact that hatchery production was han- dicaped all through the year by the scarcity of meat products used for fish food, it is announced by the Oregon State Game commis- sion. The total weight of the fish turned loose was 139,890.3 pounds. Releases included 12,158,416 rainbow trout, 468,714 cutthroat, < 463,576 eastern brook, , 628,273 steelhead, 105,986 loch leven, 248,- 440 silverside, 529,789 Chinook and 5540 chum z"lmon. The fish allocated to the two watersheds which include Colum- bia county were: Clatsop, Tilla- mook and west half of Columbia —357,479 weighing 21,360 pounds; east half of Columbia, Multnomah and east three-quarters of Clack amas—-177,437 weighing 16 6 4 pounds. Council to Urge Vet Appointment The Oregon state apprenticeship council, which is charged with the responsibility of approving all apprentice training" programs in Oregon, will recommend to the 1947 state legislature that vet erans be appointed to its council by amending the apprenticeship law. Labor Commissioner William E. Kimsey announced today. Kimsey said this recommenda tion was approved unanimously at a recent state council meeting in Salem, after Director George E. Sandy of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs urged veteran representation on the council due to the fact that the majority of job training approvals in Ore gon is for veterans drawing sub sistence under the GI bill of rights. Kimsey is chairman of the state apprenticeship council. The council will ask for an amendment to add three veteran^ to the state body—one man rep resenting management, one from labor, and one from the public at large. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1946 Tree Farm Foresters Plan Planting of 130,000 Trees One hundred and thirty thou becomes available. C. Herbert Willison is forester sand seedlings will be planted on 200 acres of the Columbia County in actual charge of the over-ail Tree Farm of Crown Zellerbach tree planting program, Actual corporation during the 1946-47 planting began December 1 on planting season, Chief Forester Crooked creek, a site located by Clarence Richen announced this Resident Forester P^ul Goodmon- week from Portland. Species son. Robert Lindsay and Merle planted will be: 10,000 Douglas Cline, planting foremen, are di firtand 30,000 Port Orford cedar. recting a crew of students from In addition, 300 acres will be the Vernonia high school in the Glen Hawkins, tree seeded by hand and 3300 acres planting. will be seeded from the air—-a farm supervisor, will be in over helicopter to be used in case one all charge. Last season’s planting covered 115 acres. With more«trees available from the Nisqually tree nursery thia year than last, the total 1946-47 plantings on the five Columbia and Willamette river tree farms will reach 650,000 seedlings, Mr. Auto wrecks killed 40 people Richen announces. In addition, in Oregon during November, it 1000 acres of .these farms will has been announced by Secretary be spot deeded with seed, capsules and pellets, and if ¡a helicopter of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr. becomes available 900 acres of This is a slight decrease in land will be seeded from the air deaths from the same month last on the Clatsop and Columbia year. It is, however, by far the county tree farms in Oregon and highest toll since summer, and the Cathlamet tree farm in Wash reflects the result of winter driv ington, ing conditions. Every November Two other innovations will be fatalities climb sharply and re tested this year. One is a seed main up until the coming of gun, which is made of hollow spring. tubing with a chamber for the “As always, most of the Novem seed and a trigger for discharging ber victims were killed in rural the seed into the ground. The crashes,” said Farrell. “For some Miller planting tool will also be reason it seems hard to convince used. This planting tool is also people that most—and I mean a hollqw tube wi|h a chamber for three wt uf four—Oregon traffic placement of the seedlings and deaths take place outside he city a trigger for releasing the seed limits of any city or town.” lings into the ground. Roots of With the holiday season in full the seedlings planted by the Miller swing, crowds, heavy traffic, and tool are wrapped in paper in weather conditions dictate utmost much the same manner as hand caution during December. Last rolling of cigarettes. In the year’s December smash-ups wiped ground the paper dissolves. out 48 Oregon lives. “Start early” is being urged as the keynote to safe winter driv ing. By starting auto trips early, the urge to hurry is put in the background, and normal caution given a chance to function. In eight Oregon counties trade and industry added a thousand or more new jobs during the first reconversion year. In addition two smaller counties practically dou bled employment. And only two —-Multnomah and Gilliam—report The Vernonia Loggers were de- ed a net loss in pay rolls a year feated by the Battle Ground Ti- after V-J day. The summary of economic gers last Friday night on the Tigers' floor by 33 to 29. The trends around the state was issued players on the starting line-up for by the bureau unemployment com Battle Ground were all over six pensation commission after tabu feet, but despite this handicap lating 13,500 employers’ complete the Loggers made them earn their reports for the third quarter of victory. Score at half-time was 1946. Later reports from repre sentative concerns in every line 22 to 18 for ¡the Tigers. and in every area not only con Lineups were : firm these figures but add to net Battle Ground employment gains, estimated at Vernonia f 9 Metchum 6’7” 5,4000 since last December. Cline 7 f Sakrisson 6'4” Renfro 3 In nearly all these counties lum 4 Storey 6’4” bering and construction were c Anderson 3 9 Lahti 6 ’ 3 ” Byers 13 g mainly responsible for the gains, 6 Smith 6’1” though food processing, service Tapp 1 g 1 Winters and trade lines all had a part. Walgomott 2 4 Emmons Frank Despite 333,800 fewer shipyard Grenia jobs in September than a year Battle Ground plays a returrt before employment in Multnomah game here Saturday night, Jan- county decreased only 10,100. With uiry 4. a pay roll drop in the metropol itan area aggregating $18 millions for the third quarter, the remain Fish Hearing Dated der of the state gained $32 mil- The Oregon State Game com- mions, making a net gain of $14 mission will hold its annual hear- millions or 8.3 per cent. ing to consider angling regula In Columbia county employment tions on Saturday,, January 11, in September, 1945 is listed at 1947, at its offices at 1634 S.W. 3246 as compared with 3565 in Alder street, Portland. Seasons, September, 1946. Commission- bag limits and other regulations covered payrolls for the thirl affecting the taking of game fish quarter of '45 and ’46 respectively will be determined for the ensu were $1,789,657 and $2,163,286 for ing year. a gain of 20.9 per cent. Wrecks Kill 40 In November Employment Up in Columbia County Loggers Lose to Battle Ground