Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974, February 20, 1947, Image 1

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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.*'
Summer Street
Paving Talked
By Councilmen
Hard Surface for
One Mile of Gravel
Streets Intended
Paving for city streets was the
most important topic of Monday
evening’s city council meeting
and definite action was author­
ized as a result of the discussion.
Hard-surfacing for streets not
now paved was intended last year,
but difficulty in obtaining gravel
prevented the work at that time.
At Monday's meeting the coun­
cil authorized Mayor George
Johnson to reach an agreement
with A. H. Saxton and Sons for
1250 yards of gravel. This mater­
ial will provide one mile of pav­
ing for streets not now having
a hard surface and three miles of
resurfacing on streets already
paved that are in need of repairs.
The firm engaged to supply the
gravel has been doing contract
work for the state and has a
crusher located on the Apiary
road. County equipment will do
the paving this summer under
the supervision of Cleve Mellinger
road supervisor, who will deter­
mine which of the city streets
not now paved have sufficient
base rock to warrant the work
this summer.
The council also heard com­
plaints against the method of
taxing punch boards Monday
when several of the operators ap­
peared and asked that a different
method of determining the tax be
worked out. A two per cent tax
on the gross income to be de­
rived from the board, but not
less than 25c is the rate set up
in the ordinance adopted by the
council earlier this month.
No change was made by the
council Monday, but it was sug­
gested that the method be tried
for a few weeks then brought
up for discussion again by the
operators.
A request for a small plot of
land near the city reservoir atop
Corey Hill was granted the West
Oregon Electric Cooperative for
use to establish antenna equip­
ment for a two-way radio in­
stallation which is being contem­
plated by the cooperative.
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Surplus Plasma
Available Now
Of all war surpluses no longer
needed by the military, surplus
blood plasma is one of the most
valuable. It is available without
charge to physicians and hos­
pitals in every community in the
country.
Physicians and hospitals may
request and receive this plasma
from their state departments of
health.
State departments of
health obtain the plasma from the
American Red Cross, whose sup­
ply constitutes the surplus return­
ed to it by the military.
There is no charge for surplus
plasma.
The patient may be
charged by his physician or hos­
pital for adminstration of the
plasma transfusion, but surplus
plasma itself bears a label that
states,” No Charge Shall Be Made
for Thi3 product.”
Surplus plasma has as its
source the millions of Americans
from every walk of life who gave
their blood during the wartime
program. Through the Red Cross,
blood was collected and turned
over to the army and the navy.
Most of it was processed into
plasma; some of it went overseas
as whole blood during the later
months of the war.
The Red Cross is distributing
for civilian medical use another
blood product made from sur­
pluses derived from blood donated
during the war. This product is
immune serum globulin, the best
known agent for prophylaxis and
modification of measles.
This
also is being distributed through
stale health departments.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1947
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
VOLUME 25, NUMBER 8
Radio Phone
Tests Made ‘
Two-way radio telephone com­
munication tests were made here
a few days ago by the West Ore­
gon Electric Cooperative, Mana­
ger Guy Thomas said in announc­
ing that clearance is being sought
with the Federal Communications
Commission and other regulatory
bodies and that the approval of
the REA in Washington, D. C.,
will be sought while he is there
the latter part of this month.
Tests made from a stationary
antenna placed on Corey Hill
proved better than 80 per cent ef­
fective. The equipment would be
valuable to the Cooperative in re­
ducing the cost of operation, re­
ducing the time element involved
in line outages, reduction of over­
time pay and by providing a
means of reporting disasters, for­
est fires, accidents, etc.
COUNTY NEWS
SALMON DERBY
DATES CHOSEN
ST. HELENS—March 19 to
April 30 inclusive, were the dates
set for the Salmon Derby at a
meeting of the Derby committee
of the St. Helens Rod and Gun
club Friday evening. The com­
mittee also agreed on the follow­
ing geographical limits for the
event: the Columbia River at
Columbia City, the mouth of the
Lewis River, and the Willamette
Slough to Sandtosh.
Cash prizes will be awarded for
the three largest fish: First prize
will be $50; Second, $30; third,
$20. In addition to these, there
will also be many other prizes
in merchandise, which will be sol­
icited from local business men.
SEAGULLS USE MILL DOCK
AS HEADQUARTERS
ST. HELENS—Not for a long
time have so many seagulls made
headquarters at the mill dock
but they were there last week by
the hundreds. Much waste foods
or scraps were thrown overboard
from the vessels and the gulls
were quick to detect that.
The water of the river along­
side the dock is dirty and discol­
ored and the plumage of the gulls
show this but most of them are
fat and not afraid of humans.
Later they wlill make their head­
quarters on Sand island when the
smelt run starts up the river.
March 1 Set
For Red Cross
Fund Campaign
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$60,000,000 Goal
Set to Carry on
Work in 1947-48
On March 1 the American Red
Cross through 2,500,000 to 3,000,-
000 volunteer workers will ask
the public to subscribe $60,000,000
to carry on its far-reaching pro­
gram for the next fiscal year,
1947-48.
Approximately 75 per cent of
Red Cross funds are still spent in
war-related services at home and
overseas. More than 2,900 work­
ers still serve outside of the
United States. As work in army
and navy hospitals and other in­
stallations gradually decreases
during the next few years, work
with veterans and their families
will increase.
The 1947 goal of $60,000,000
was set after a careful survey
which pared the 1947-48 budget
to the minimum consistent with
responsibilities of the orgapi-
zation.
At the present time more than
10,000 home service workers are
employed in chapters, supple­
mented by 19,000 volunteers in
this service alone.
Added to this is the work of the
Red Cross in supplying warm
clothing and milk for children
and medicines for the sick in
battlescarred areas, and, at, home
the provision of surplus blood
plasma for civilians, and the
courses in home nursing, nutri­
tion, first aid, water safety, and
accident prevention, and help in
time of disaster.
The 1947 fund campaign will
continue through March proclaim­
ed by President Truman as Red
Cross Month. Red Cros3 Sabbath
and Sunday were approved for
Saturday, February 22. and Sun­
day February 23, by leaders of
the Catholic, Jewish and Protest­
ant faiths.
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No Special Sugar
Stamp Planned
There will be no special sugar
stamps issued for canning this
year.
This reminder to housewives
has been issued by OPA sugar
VETERAN GROUPS WANT
rationing
officials
following
BLOOD TYPE LIST
changes
in
regulations
announced
CLATSKANIE—A combined com­
mittee from Post No. 2994, Vet­ recently in Washington, D.C.
The change from 5 to 10 pound
erans of Foreign Wars and Post
No. 68, American Legion is com­ stamps does not mean that con­
piling a list of persons of the sumers will have twice as much
The
community, according to blood sugar, OPA cautioned.
housewife must spread 10 pounds
types.
The purpose of this list is to cover longer periods and must
1, in case of emergency blood set aside sugar for home canning
transfusions,
it would elim­ because no special home canning
inate the expense of transporting stamp *ill be issued.
The first 10 pound stamp be­
a large number of would-be don­
ors whose type is unknown, and comes valid on April 1. The cur­
2, in the necessity of a series of rent 5-pound stamp, number 53,
transfusions, donors could be expires on March 31 instead of
lined in advance, and 3, valuable April 30 as orginally intended.
The sugar supply picture can­
time would be saved in case of
not be foretold until later ini the
emergency.
year, OPA said, but it is hoped
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to bring a new 10-pound stamp
every three months. This will
give a total of 35 pounds per
person for the year, 10 pounds
more than was issued in 1946.
Making future stamps good for
The board of the Union High 10 pounds extends the use of the
School, meeting Saturday night present ration book» an;! avoids
an expenditure of 2 million dol­
of last week, considered con­
lars for new books, OPA said.
tracts for teachers for the coming
year and also the matter of pro­
viding for an increase in salary, Rebekah* Plan Dance
A community store dance is
Ray Milh, principal, said early
scheduled for Saturday, March 1
this week.
The increase will be in line at the I.O.O.F. hall by the Mt.
with increases that are being Heart Social Club, the members
asked by teachers in many other announced this week. The affair
district« throughout the state and is different than the usual dance
will also compensate somewhat in that entertainment in addition
for the increased cost of living. to dancing will be a part of the
The increase is set at 15 per cent evening. Door gifts will also add
to the evening’s entertainment.
the principal said.
Teachers to Get
Pay Increase
Warden Warns Against Fires
That period of the year which
is most feared by foresters and
silviculturalist3 interested in re­
forestration on cut-over lands is
here Edward Schroeder, of the
Northwest Oregon forest district
warned Tuesday in pointing out
the danger of burning fern.
Between February and June
there is that condition caused by
the combination of weather con­
ditions and fuel which leads to
disastrous damage to reproducing
lands. During this interval a
large portion of the cut-over
lands in Northwest Oregon are
covered with dead bracken fern
and other small annual herba­
ceous materials which dry out
sufficiently to carry fire with but
two or three windy, clear days.
To initate any successful forestry
program in Northwest Oregon,
the fern fire problem must be
corrected.
Many people are of the opinion
that early fern fires do little
damage to forest land, and some,
in fact, think its beneficial since
the hazard is removed. This is
not true, as many of the bare
areas in Clatsop, Columbia and
Washington Counties were caused
by repeated fern fire3. The fern
fire lis usually of low heat in­
tensity but is of sufficient heat
to kill all conifer seedlings up to
at least 15 years of age. Con­
sequently, it is the fern fire Bath­
er than the lack of seed source
which has created many of the
denuded acres in the above des­
cribed areas. The hazard is not
removed by burning, as the fire
does not burn hotly enough to re­
move the heavier debris and the
dead material which will burn is
Home Freezers to
Be Meeting Topic
Myron G. Cropsey, associate
professor of agricultural engin­
eering of Oregon State college
will be here Thursday to tell
about the making of home freez­
ers, the walk-in type, wall type
and cabinet type, as well as dis­
cuss the purchasing of commer­
cial lockers.
The meeting at
which he will appear is scheduled
for the Evangelical United Breth­
ren church social hall at 1:30
p.m. today, February 20 Mrs.
Frank Morris, who is making
local arrangements for the meet­
ing, said Monday.
Mrs. Maud C. Casswell, county
home denonstration agent, has
been in charge of arranging for
Mr. Cropsey’3 appearance here.
Mr. Cropsey will be able to
help with suggestions on buying
and building home freezers and
definite types of plans will be
available. He will also bring a
model home freezer for display
and will present slides on the sub­
ject.
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not a hazard in the summer be­
cause the new growth will be
green and cover the ground com­
pletely by the first of June.
Every spring this district has
been plagued with fern fires
which have been allowed to escape
and spread over forest land. In
1943 the reports show that ap­
proximately 17,500 acres were
burned over in February. The
boundaries of the acres burned
can be observed now, as there are
no small reproduction or seedlings
on these areas. The 1946 fire
season was exceptional both in
number of firds and acres burned
over, but even though it was a
record year one-third or 14 fires
which burned oveq 650 acres or
one-half of the total acreage were
fern fires.
The State Forester’s policy is
not to interfere with a man’s
property or the use to which he
may wish to put it. If an in­
dividual owner wishes to burn his
fern, that is his own business and
he will not be criticised by the
department. It is the legal res­
ponsibility of the forest agency
to protect the lands upon which
Sign-up for Farm
Plans Due Today
Farmers in this part of the
Nehalem Valley are urged by
County Agent George Nelson to
be present today, Thursday, Feb­
ruary 20, at the Washington
grade school to sign up for part­
icipation in the 1947 agricultural
conservation program which has
been set up for Columbia County.
The meeting here is scheduled
to J>egin at 10 a.m. and end at 3
p.m. with members of the com­
munity committee and the county
office staff present to assist in
filing plans and answering quest­
ions about the program.
The county office will not be
able to send out supervisors to
contact farmers who wish to part­
icipate in this year’s program.
It will be necessary for farmers
to attend the meeting here or go
to the county office at St. Helens.
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the owner does nod desire burn­
ing, and this is the complication.
Too many such fires are set on
the landowner’s land and allowed
to spread wherever the wind
pushes it. Following along this
policy, a set of suggested con­
ditions are listed which should be
followed wherever an owner de­
sires to burn:
1. Areas to be burned should
be trailed or bounded by roads or
natural barriers so that fire can
be held on the ownership. A
fence line is not a fire trail.
2. Set the fire from the top of
the slope and burn out a trail be­
fore setting at the fgot of the
slope.
3. Fell snags along the prop­
erty line so that fire will not
blow across.
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4. Do not
set fires during
strong wind periods, as it is most
difficult to control the fire on
such days.
5. Consult your fire warden or
district forestry headquarters be­
fore burning any large areas.
Even though the fire season may
be open, the warden will cooperate
in laying out the area so that it
can be burned safely.
Regardless of the time of year,
the State Forester is responsible
for the control of the bpread of
fire. The law is so designed
that the State Forester may close
the fire season any time after the
first of February. If conditions
arise so that fern fires become a
problem, the season will be closed
so that permits will be required.
To close the season necessitates
the early hiring ¡of lookout and
warden personnel.
This raises
the cost of protection which is
reflected in taxes. In other
words, a few careless individuals
are raising the taxes on all forest
or protected lands in the district.
Even though the season is open,
an individual makes himself liable
whenever he allows a fire to es­
cape from his land. It is possible
to prosecute, and the policy of the
district will be to make every
effort to discover that individual
responsible for the starting of the
fire.
Lions Urge Pay 3-E Mill Plans
Raise, More Fish New Location
The Lions Club, at Monday’s
meeting, took action which places
the club on record as favoring
a measure to be considered soon
by the Oregon State legislature.
The measure concerns the in­
creasing of salaries and also the
force of the Oregon state police.
A discussion of
the matter
brought forth information that
considerable game poaching is
now being practiced in the valley.
The opinion expressed Monday
pointed out that the present limit­
ed state police force and the low
salaries paid prevent proper en­
forcement of the state’s laws,
not only those dealing with fish
and game regulation.
The club will also ask the state
Because he flew across the Arc­ game commission to plant both
tic Circle while in the perform­ steelhead and trout in this vicinity
ance of his duty, First Lieutenant this year. Such a planting has
Clarence H. lumping of Vernonia not been made for several years.
was awarded a certificate Feb­
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ruary 6 making him an official
member of the Society Of Blue
Noses of the 46th Reconneissance
Squadron (Very Long Range)
Photographic, Ladd Field, Fair­
banks Alaska.
Paul Hinamon, owner of the
Lieutenant Lamping serves as
a pilot and photo intelligence Modern Gas and Appliance, an­
officer of the 46th Recon Squad­ nounces a new line for the firm
ron and came to Alaska to work with the delivery here Monday of
with the B-29 photographic unit merchandise which has been plac­
ed on display. The firm is act­
in the fall of last year.
The 46th Recon Squadron has ing as agent for the Gibson trac­
been in Alaska for the past sev­ tor, a carload having been ob­
eral months, making photographs tained for this area.
The tractors have been placed
of unsurveyed terrain, weather
surveys, and developing equip­ on display in the building form­
ment and procedures for Artic erly housing the United Electric
flying and cold weather main­ and Supply company on Washing­
tenance as part of the Army air ton street. The tractor is adapted
forces cold weather testing pro­ for U3e on the small general
farm.
gram.
Lt Lamping Gets
Blue Nose Award
Tractor Agency
Opened Here
The 3-E Lumber company,
which has been operating on the
Stoney Point is placing the mill
on the Elmer Bergerson place in
Section 35, 4-5. The mill is ex­
pected to cut 75 to 100 thousand
per week.
Mr. Bergerson has a year’s sup­
ply of timber ahead at present.
The mill pond is being dug and
the placing of new machinery
will start immediately. A num­
ber of buildings and houses are
to be built at once.
The mill will probably operate
for several years in this location
on the Nehalem highway.
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Course Study to
Continue Tonight
Another class of instructions on
party entertainment is scheduled
for the Legion hall this evening,
February 20, at 7:30, Mrs. H. H.
King said this week when she
mentioned that Mrs. Maud Cass­
well, county home demonstration
agent would be here. It is poss­
ible that a representative of the
Oregon State College extension
service will also be present.
The instruction is being re­
ceived so that a recreation center
for young people of the inter­
mediate ages can be established
later. The ages include students
in the seventh and eighth grades
and the first two years of high
school.
Although the course of instruc­
tion was arranged by the legion
Auxiliary, the meetings are open
to everyone interested in that
sort of work, Mrs. King said.