Library-, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” Church Name Changed Due Nov. Merger Evangelical United Brethren New Name Of Denomination Co-op Manager Resigns; Control of Weeds Talked Board Selects Thomas At Meeting 6-Degree Low Recorded Wed. Four degrees lower than the previous low reading this year is the data for yesterday at the cooperative weather station main tained by Mrs. Helen Spofford. An early reading Wednesday by Mrs. Spofford was made and the thermometer at the station list ed the temperature at six above zero. The previous low of a few days ago was 10 on January 14. The maximum that day wa3 30 degrees. Warmer currents of air must have started to circulate, however, yesterday morning for by 8 o’clock the mercury had risen to 15 de grees. What was formerly the Evan gelical church is now the Evan gelical United Brethren, church Rev. Allan H. Backer, minister of the Vernonia church, said Tuesday when he announced the change. The changed name comes as a re sult of the merger of the Evan gelical church with the former United Brethren in Christ church thus making one larger denomina tion. This action by the two groups of like faith is one that many other denominations aie following. The change took place offici ally at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, at the general conference session November 17. Rev. Backer was present when the merger was made, making the trip east as a member of a singing group, the Gospel Gleemen, which gave con certs during the tour. A speaker at the conference was Bishop Oxnam of the Meth odist church and he asked that the bishops of the Evangelical United Brethren church consider a union with the Methodist church in the future. » When making the merger an nouncement, Rev. Backer also said: “We trust that the Evan gelical United Brethren church in this community will be of greater influence and help than was the former Evangelical church. We invite people in this community to come and visit our services on Sunday morning or ' A new justice of the peace for evening, or at our mid-week serv the four Vernonia precincts is ice on Wednesday evening. needed as the result of a letter Strangers are always welcome. of resignation written Saturday We hope you will be a stranger by Oscar Weed. The resignation there just once.” becomes effective as soon as an • appointment is made by the gov ernor to whom the letter was sent. The appointment will be made to fill the remainder of Mr. Weed’s term which would expire at the next general election. Part of Mr. Weed’s reason for Columbia county now has a declining to serve further is the deputy assessor in the Nehalem lack of office space, 'the present Valley as the result of a decision office being required by the new to make a more thorough check bank slated to open here soon. of the amount and value of prop Until the appointment is made erty to be placed on the tax rolls. Mr. Weed will carry on the work In recent years previous to this, at his home. much of the assessing has been The office of justice of peace done by report blanks sent out has been held by Mr. Weed inter- by the assessor’s office in St. mittantly since 1915. He com Helens to property owners. pleted his first work in that ca Named here to make a thorough pacity in 1927 and two years la check this year is Bill Horn who ter was elected sheriff, taking has already started the work. His that office in January, 1929. territory includes all of the Ne He served once more as JP for halem Valley in Columbia county two years after the death of P. from the county line southwest of Hill. Again after the resignation here to Birkenfeld. of Judge J. B. Wilkerson he took the office for the remainder of • that term and was elected for another two-year period, all of which totals 18 years of service. Weed Inspector Need Expressed; Next Meeting Set Concern over the spread of noxious weeds on farm lands of Columbia county drew an attend ance of about 95 people from all sections to meet at St. Helens Thursday and discuss a plan of action toward control of thei men- s ace. Methods of control were talked by the farmers, George A. Nelson, county agent, and J. W. Nibbier, crop specialist from the O.S.C ex tension office. Several methods U3ed by the farmers were mentioned as be ing effective such as clean cul tivation, smother crops followed by summer fallow, competitive crops, chemicals and the pastur ing of sheep, goats, hogs and cattle. The meeting was called be cause of a request after discussion of the weed problem at the com munity triple A meeting at Scap poose in December and because of the interest of other groups and individuals in the county. Two steps were taken at the meeting. One was the decision to ask that a weed inspector be appointed. The other was the ap pointment of committees from six road districts in the county and the setting of a meeting date for the committees on Tuesday, Jhnuarjt 21 at the c«Unty court house. This future meeting will begin at 10:30 with a purpose of devising specific recommendations for attacking the problem. • To Quit Job Weed Resigns Judge Office Deputy Assessor Appointed Here Credit Union Group Meet The Vernonia Credit Union will hold its annual meeting at the Union Hall, Saturday, January 18 at 8:00 p.m. Th# Credit Union is not affil iated with any special group or association, but is a non-profit cooperative organization for the benefit of the community. The public is cordially invited to attend and learn more about the purposes of the organization and get acquainted with the officers and members. Refreshments will be served fol lowing the meeting. Special Service Dated A A special service will be held in honor of the pioneer preachers of the Evangelical United Breth ren church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. Keith A. Bell of Milwaukie will be the guest speaker and the public is invited to Rev. Bell’s first speaking en gagement in Vernonia. THURSDAY^ VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 25 NUMBER 3 • Recruiter Here Every Thursday An army recruiting officer has made arrangements to be in Ver nonia every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Captain Ken neth Swenson of the army re cruiting station at Ixmgview said late last week. In announcing the planned visits of a recruiter here, Captain Swenson also point ed out that the army has many openings for disabled veterans. The regular army has over 100 different classifications open for enlistment to disabled veterans of World War II who can meet the army’s physical requirements with the exception of their combat-in curred disability. Enlisting be fore January 31 enables them to retain their discharge grade. The recruiting office at Long- vie is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. six days a week and is located in the post office building. • , Weather Stops Banker’s Visit Monday morning's somewhat in clement weather leading to haz ardous road conditions prevented the scheduled Monday noon speak ing engagement of George Laver, cashier of the Commercial Bank of Banks, before the Lions club. The club will probably hear Mr. Laver and other representa tives of that firm next Monday noon according to word received here late Tuesday. The club members will eat at the Palace cafe at noon and go to a local hall later to hear the speakers. Truck Accident Kills Man Wed. Arthur Paul Fluke, 30, husband of Mrs. Margaret (McNutt) Fluke, was accidently killed while driv ing a gravel truck at West Slope January 8. • Funeral services were held Jan uary 11 at the Pegg Mortuary in Beaverton and interment took place at Crescent Grove cemetery at that place. Immediate members of the fam ily are Mrs. Margaret Fluke and Gayion and Kathaleen, wife and children of the deceased; his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fluke of Hillsboro; brothers, James of Vernonia, Francis of Pendleton and sister, Mrs. Alice Toedtemeire of West Slope. • Examiner Scheduled A drivers license examiner is scheduled to be on duty in Ver nonia Friday, January 24 at the city hall. He will be here be tween the hour3 of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Persons wishing permits or licenses to drive are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead of the scheduled clos ing hour in order to assure com pletion of their applications that day. At the meeting of the board of directors of the West Oregon Electric Co-op Tuesday evening Frank D. Seelye tendered his res ignation as manager. Mr. Seelye requested the board to accept his resignation effective February 15 thus enabling him to carry out his program as previously ar ranged. The board of directors reviewed several applications for the posi tion of manager and selected Guy Thomas to succeed Mr. Seelye. Mr. Thomas la taking over his duties with the Cooperative on January 15 and will work with Mr. Seelye during [the next 30 days. Thi3 will give Mr. Thomas an opportunity to familarize him self with all of the problems cur rently facing the project. Mr. Thomas has had seven years’ experience in Cooperative management. He assisted in the organization of the Benton-Lin- Students, Profs Tour Tree Farm coin Cooperative at Corvallis and continued his management activ ities there until April of 1946. Mr. Thomas graduated from high school at Tillamook. This was followed with specialized courses in technical schools in Chicago and upon completion of these courses Mr. Thomas entered the electrical field which occupa tion. he has followed throughout his business activity. Mr. Seelye will introduce Mr. Thomas to the membership of the Cooperative at the annual meet ing on Saturday, January 18. • COUNTY NEWS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IN 1946 IS REPORTED CLATSKANIE — The weather bureau at Marshland, Ralph Gle- ger reporting, shows Clatskanie with 63.13 inches of rainfall dur ing the year 1946. The precipitation was 9.98 inches over normal for this community, the report shows. The temperature for this same period of time was reported a3 normal. The warmest day for Clatskanie residents during 1946 was on July 29 with a temperature of 96 de grees, while December 30 was the coldest day registered and the minimum temperature for that day was 23 degrees. Professors W. McCulloch, J. R. Dilworth and R. F. Keniston from the school of forestry at Oregon State college brought a bus load of forestry students to Vernonia Saturday, January 11 to tour the Columbia County Tree Farm, Su pervisor Glen Hawkins said Mon COUNTY SENDS day. The party from the college 2432 TO WAR numbered 30. ST. HELENS—Prior to, during The tour left the Tree Farm and since World War II, Columbia office at 10:30 for Natal to ob county has had a total of 2432 serve the thinning experiment be registrants in service. In addition ing done in Douglas fir «second to these there are about 200 non growth. From the thinning area registrants still in service. The the next stop was made in a sec latter group includes 17-year-olds ond growth area that had been and others who enlisted prior to too severely thinned for piling the time they were required to during the war. As the result of register. To date 2055 county opening up the stand too severely, men have been discharged. a large volume of “wind throws” Total number of county men occurred and this blowdown is still in the service is 342. Of being salvaged for pulpwood. ttys number 144 were inducted Another stop was made at the while the other 198 enlisted. DeRoia Lumber Co. mill which is Columbia county’s total regis operating entirely on. salvage ma tration, exclusive of the 4th regi terial taken from the Farm. stration, which was for men over In the afternoon a trip up the 45 years of age, Was 5660. “400 line” was made with a stop at the plot that was plowed and TIMONEY NAMED planted in March, 1946. This plot DEPUTY ASSESSOR RAINIER—John Timoney has is planted to Noble and Douglas fir and much interest was shown been appointed as deputy county in feeding of these young trees assessor for Columbia county. For some year3 past, people with commercial plant foods. The last stop was made at the have received blanks on which to “rock pit” in the NE'4 of sec report to the county assessors tion 24, T4N, R4W. From this office their own personal prop high point the students could see erty report. This year that has a large area of the farm and been changed, and a man will the result of not leaving ade be sent around to get the re quate seed trees. Also visible from ports. John Timoney will cover that point was the reproduction the territory in and around Rain that results from well located ier including all of Fern Hill, Hudson and Delena. seed blocks. The students were also shown COMMISSIONER SERVES the fire equipment at the Farm WITH FIFTH JUDGE headquarters in Riverview? A ST. HELENS—Swearing-in cer list of the students appears on emonies last week for County page five. Judge James Hunt were old stuff • t8 William Pringle, Sr., vet eran county commissioner from the Nehalem valley. They should have been, for in his 14 years in his present post, Pringle has served with five judges. When he came into office the Due to the fact that Columbia late “Duke” Wellington was county now has a public health judge, later succeeded by the nurse on a part-time basis, there late L. R. Rutherford. J. B. Wil will be no immunizations against kerson, now deceased, took over diphtheria or vaccinations against following Mr. Rutherford and he smallpox given in the schools this in turn was succeeded in 1940 year. The need for parents to by Ray Tarbell. Hunt is judge look after this detail themselves number five during Pringle’s was cited by Miss Ruth Peffley, term, and the Nehalem valley county health nurse, last week. man is definitely senior, both in Miss Peffley is working on a years and point of service on part-time basis now while attend the court to the other two mem ing school. She tendered her bers. resignation before beginning her present studies, but was prevailed Fire Extinguished upon to continue working part of A fire starting Tuesday at the the time in the county. The nurse has been in Vernonia Palace Cafe was extingu’shed only once thia year as compared after damaging over $200 worth with- weekly visits in former of stock in the cafe storeroom. years when on a full-time basis. Fire Chief Cleve Robinson, owner The small salary paid for the of the business, said later that work is given as the cause at day. The fire started from a difficulty in obtaining a nurse to blowtorch being used to thaw frozen water pipes. work on a steady schedule. Nurse Cites Need Of Vaccination JANUARY 16, 1947 Members Get Invite to Annual Meet Cooperative to Act on Business, Elect Directors On Tuesday evening the board of directors of the West Oregon Electric completed the program for the annual meeting of the Cooperative which will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, January 18, at the American Legion hall, Ver nonia. An invitation has been extended by Harry L. King, president, to the following out of town people to join in the annual meeting: Charles Saywell, REA administra tive officer; M. C. Parker, REA field engineer; Glenn Hittie, man ager of the lower Columbia dis trict, Bonneville power administra tion; Mr3. Louise Gronnert, home economist and Lacey Peoples, util ization specialist, both from the Bonneville power administration staff; P. S. Torvend, county agent of Washington county, and George Nelson, county agent, Columbia county. An interesting program has been planned for the day. A luncheon will be served buffet style during the noon recess. All members of the cooperative, their family and friends are urged to attend this meeting. Gifts will be received by some of the people attending and dis plays of electrical appliances will be set up to Bhow the different lines of appliances being carried by local dealers. Providing that full lines of appliances can be obtained, this display promises a lot of interest by giving people attending the meeting an oppor tunity to make comparisons on the latest electric stoves, electric wa ter heaters, refrigerators, water pumps, radios and small appli ances. Local dealers intending to pre pare displays were listed a few days ago by Mr. Seelye as: Bush Furniture, Greenwood Motors, Pete Brunsman, Hoffman Hard ware, Western Auto and Sundland Electric and Appliance. In addition to the dealers plan ning displays Saturday, 10 local stores are helping make the noon- hour luncheon, which will be served without charge, a success by donating items for the meal. Helping in that capacity are: King’s Grocery, Girod’s Food Store, Nehalem Dairy, Mill Mar ket and Lockers, Palace Cafe, Vernonia Bakery, The Pal Shop, Coty Confectionery, Nehalem Market and Safeway Stores. • Mechanic Course Response Made The response has been satis factory to a call made last week for students to enroll in a me chanics training school. The course is one that will refresh old mechanics and teach new mechan ics the latest theories of engines. The eight-week-long course, which is being offered free, would cost $140 if a charge were made. All texts pertaining to the sub ject will be furnished free in cluding the necessary paper ma terials. Local people interested are asked to write to box 247 c/o Engine Mechanics, Vernonia. Twenty students to make two classes are wanted and those writ ing in will be notified of the start of classes within 10 days. • »946 Audit Prepared I. D. Wood and four associates of I. D. Wood and company, cer tified public accountants of Port land, were here Thursday and Friday to make the 1946 audit for the Oregon-American Lumber cor poration.