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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” Columbia Tree Junior Play Presentation Farm Planting Ready for Friday Night About to End Bank Opening Marks Step Ahead Here Broadcast Seeding To Be Attempted Early Next Week Open House Draw» Almost 700 to New Institution Saturday Another and important step ahead for Vernonia and the Ne halem Valley was the open house Saturday and the opening for business Monday morning of the Vernonia Branch, Commercial Bank of Banks, an affiliate of the Commercial National Bank of Hillsboro. The opening of the bank will provide residents of Vernonia and the valley with a service that the area has not en joyed since the closing of the Bank of Vernonia. The new institution will provide every banking service for patrons the president, Earle A. Bowman, said Monday noon when speaking at the Lions club meeting. He also said that new safety deposit boxes are to be installed and that the safety envelope service will be started for those people who do not now have a safety box. With Mr. Bowman at the noon luncheon was A. H. Flicker, man ager of the Vernonia institution. Wilbur Wilson is assisting man ager and Mrs. Hazel Stacker, bookkeeper. The open house last Saturday was followed by a banquet that evening at the Masonic Temple at which employees of the Com mercial group of banks were en tertained. The Commercial group includes, in add.tion to the parent bank at Hillsboro, the Commercial Bank of Banks, the Commercial Bank of Newberg with a branch at St. Paul and the Commercial Bank of Tillamook. Over 80 em ployees and friends were served. The opening of the branch at Vernonia gives people of the Ne halem Valley the opportunity of making this a banking as well as a trading center now. • Safety Group Plans Contest The safety committee ofc the Oregon-American Lumber Corp oration is laying plans for a safety contest which will include all employees of the sawmill, the reieay of early plans this week reveals. A substantial award will be presented to some fortunate win ner each month. The safety com mittee is being assisted in con ducting the contest by the Carter and Baker Safety Service, safety engineers employed by the corp oration. Ten men comprise the member ship of the safety group and are: t, G. Weiderkehr. W. V. Lindley, H. E. Eckland, R. Aldrich, R. Holcomb, W. Linn, L. Huntley, O. George, M. A. Oakes and H. G. Dickson. Rev. Culver to Begin Meetings Rev. F. B. Culver, a former presiding Elder in the former Evangelical church, will preach each ¿evening except Saturday at the Evangelical United Brethren church beginning Sunday" morn- ig, March 23, at 11 o'clock. The series of meetings will conclude Easter Sunday. Announcement of the meetings was made by Rev. Allen H. Backer, minister of the local church. Rev. Culver was in Vernonia a number of years ago and old friends will remember him. List eners will hear good, old fashion ed gospel preaching which comes from experience of many years of Christian service to which Rev. Culver has devoted himself. " Rev. Backer also announced that mention will be made later in regard to the Good Friday communion service. An Easter program is being prepared for the Sunday school hour on that day and an invitation is extended to attend the church. • Ttie second season of tree plant ing on the Columbia County Tree Farm will end this week Super visor Glen Hawkins said Monday when he explained that the plant ing this year considerably exceed ed that of last year. Much of the work has been done on Saturdays when high school students have been employ ed for that purpose. The Tree Farms' foresters have supervised the planting, Mr. Hawkins said, and will start experimental work next week with broadcast seeding which has not been tried here be fore. ’ The broadcast work will be done with seed guns made by Harry Junken and patterned after the Wood’s seed gun. The seed will be placed in the area north of Pittsburg. Mr. Junken has also manufactured 10 seed guns with improvements for the Kathlamet operation of Crown Zellerback. • 7 Scouts Get Merit Badges Seven scouts, members of the Vernonia troop, were awarded merit badges Thursday night of last week when they, accampanied by their scoutmaster, Ed Frazee, attended the court of honor held at Forest Grove. Also present for the ceremonies was D. F. O’ Brien. The scouts and the badges they won were, Donald Renfro, life saving, wood turning and wood carving; Rex Normand, safety and public health; Jerry Oakes, wood working and stamp collec tion; Bill Shipman, electricity, physical development and per sonal health; Thor Aronsen, read ing, personal health and wood working; Billy Wells, reading, The Vernonia Red Cross fund cooking and personal health and collected up to Wednesday morn Fred Lundgren, physical develope- ing of this week was listed at that ment and pathf nding. time by Chairman Ray Justice as The scouts were taken to Forest $664.60, an increase of $164.60 Grove in cars provided by Ed over last week's total, he said. The Salomonsen, Otto Cantwell and increase was made by collections Dwight Strong. taken at the post office booth. • Beginning this week will be a canvass of workmen at the Ore gon-American mill. The com pletion of this part of the cam paign will probably close the drive here because no house-to-house Cleve Robertson, former owner canvass is intended this year as had been the case in previous of the Palace Cafe, started de livery and pick-up of freight in years. In stating that homes would Clatskanie for the Columbia not be contacted, Mr. Justice urg Truck Express, the truck line pur ed that people who have not con chased a short time ago by Frank tributed, do so by sending their Hartwick. Mr. Robertson has purchased a donations to him. It is intended that the local drive be completed truck and has already started work there on the new business. by the 28th of this month. R.C. Fund Total Listed at $664.60 Robertson Starts Freight Delivery Court Test Seen for Truck Measure TRUCKERS ORGANIZE AT MEET LAST WEEK ST. HELENS—Probability that the legality of the county court’s recent order placing restrictions on use of county roads by truck ers Will be tested in circuit court was seen last Thursday after a committee from the truck oper ator’s organization had met with the commissioners and judge and had failed to agree on a compro mise proposal. It is thought like ly that the truckers will seek a writ of review on the matter in circuit court, with an early filing expected and a formal hearing within 30 days. At a meeting Monday night of last week in the Moose hall the approximately 125 truck operat ors gathered there formed the Lower Columbia Truck Operators association, most of the truckmen present made voluntary contribu tions of $5 each to the treasury to provide a fund for any legal THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1947 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 25, NUMBER 12 action that might be necessary in regard to the recent court reg ulation. HEAVY RAINFALL RAISES RIVER FOUR FEET ST. HELENS—Heavy and con stant rains in the upper reaches of the Columbia and in the.west ern slope of the Cascade range resulted in a raise of about four feet in the Columbia river, accord ing to the gauge at the city dock. "M ARCH OF DIMES” HERE SHOWS RETURNS OF $628.20 RAINIER—1947 “March of Dimes” collections here showed a net of $628.20, according to a re port filed by Albert Dahlgren, local drive chairman. !>■ addition to the Goble community which assisted in staging the dance here. The Rainier quota on a popula tion basis was $295. SUBSTANTIAL SALARY BOOST GIVEN TEACHERS CLATSKANIE—Contracts With substantia] salary increases were offered the teachers of the Clats kanie school system at a meeting of the District No. 5 board last week. The new salary schedule as adopted provides for a range of salaries from $2356 for a teacher with two years' training and no experience to a maximum of $3750 for a teacher with five years’ training and ten years’ ex perience. The minimum in the grade school, if the contracts are accept ed, will be $2550 and the maxi mum $2700. The lowest salary in the grade school this year was $1900. In the high school, the mini mum for teachers will actually be $2900 with the maximum $3200. This year the minimum in high school was $2400. New contracts given the jani tors and the transportation man ager also called for increases. The annual Junior class play will be presented tommorow night, Friday, March 21, at the Washington grade school at 8:00 p.m. The title of the production is “The Groom Said No” and is a three-act comedy about a family and their son who has just re turned from the South Pacific. His mother, especially, wants him to marry a school-day sweetheart but he is in love with an army Kadderiy Named Representative Wallace Kadderiy, radio station KGW’s farm program director, has been selected by the U.S. department of agriculture and the state department to serve a3 the USDA’s special representative to consult with Australian and New Zealand broadcasting commissions on farm radio service “down under,” according to word receiv ed this week from Ken Gapen, USDA radio service chief in Washington, D.C. Kadderiy plans to leave from San Francisco by Pan American Airways about March 21, he said. He will be in Australia one month and in _New Zealand about two weeks, consulting with broad casters, commission officials and visiting farms and Ranches to get first-hand information on food and marketing problems. Prior to joining the staff of KGW in July, 1945, Mr. Kadderiy served for several years as Chief of Radio Service, USDA, Wash ington, D. C. • First League Try Set April 10 Vernonia will play its first league baseball game April 10, according to the schedule drawn up recently by the schools. These games are to be played Tusedays and Thursdays. The schools com peting in this league are the same as in basketball except for Sea side who are not playing in this conference. Vernonia's scheduled games are: Thurs. April 10 Scappoose, there Thurs. April 17 Open Tues. April 22 Rainier, there Thurs. April 24 St. Helens, here Tues. April 29 Clatskanie, there Thurs. May 1 Scappoose, here Tues. May 6 Open Thurs. May 8 Rainier, here Tues. May 13 St. Helens, there Thurs. May 16 Clatskanie, here Vernonia has also scheduled two practice games. The Loggers will go to Banks April 1 and Banks will play a return game here April 4. • nurse he met while in a hospital. This play promises to bring many laughs and surprises. The play cast is: Mrs. Camer on, Hulda Johnson; Mr. Cameron, Johnnie Schram; Steve Cameron, Bob Fredrickson; Virgie Cameron, Barbara Lolley; Patty Cameron, Vickie Porter; Mrs. Sorenson, Grace Potter; Lt. Shirley Ander son, Virginia Millis; Clara Curtis, Martha Wells; Willie Williams, Jay Hall; Mary Alice Callister, Jean Turner; Ed Smith, Lee Enne- berg. I The production staff is: bus iness manager, Roy Frank; ad vertising, Jean Turner, Shirley Berg; properties, Bill Walgomott, Jack Frank, Kay Miller; stage, Arthur Oveson, John Carmichael, Donavon Reynolds; Costumes, Betty Tindall, Joyce New; make up, Paul Gordon, Mrs. Jake Her gert; prompter, Shirley Berg; directors, Mrs. Olive Oliver and Mrs. Mary Aronsen. A matinee is to be given before the grade school Friday afternoon to make it easier to hear the performance in the evening with the absence of most of the graders. • Order Bale Ties Now Official Says If you need bale ties this year, place your order immediately. This advice to Columbia county farmers comes from J. G. Watts, chairman of the countyAAA com mittee. Passing along a warning from the U.S. departments of agriculture, Mr. Watts said that early ordering is essential to avoid a repitition of the bale tie shortage experience in the past two years. Some 156,200 tons of wire will be needed to bail this year’s hay crop, the USDA estimates. Man ufacturers will need to produce at a maximum rate throughout the year to meet this requirement. Orders placed with dealers now can be turned over to fabricators to indicate the demand. The chairman pointed out that normally a good part of each season’s bale tie requirements are met by carryover stocks produced in the preceding fall and winter. But the record hay crop of 1945 took all supplies produced that year, and the industry has not yet been able to “catch up.” Last year 123,757 tons were produced, but farmers’ needs were not met until late in November. There ia no carryover for the 1947 baling season, and factories must be kept busy throughout the year to meet the demand. • Mrs Jennings Is 1020 Vets Borrow Council Delegate Funds This Year Mrs. A. E Jennings, long as sociated with the Townsend move ment here, was in Portland last Sunday to attend the Townsend district council meeting at the Kendall Townsend hall. Most of the session Sunday was devoted to business reports and speeches of prominent Townsend- ites. One important move was the selection of the delegates to represent the council at the na tional convention in Washington, D. C. in June. Mrs. Jennings may go to Salem April 20 to be present for the next council meeting. • Convention Attended Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Wagner were at Seaside last week to at tend the Northwest Association of Retail Ice Cream manufactur ers at the Seaside hotel. The clos ing session was held last Wednes day evening. Elected as a new director of the association was H. L. Hatchard of Hillsboro, form erly of Vernonia. In Oregon, 1020 veterans borrowed $5,216,970.41 in GI loans to buy homes, farms and busines ses during the first two months of this year, Thomas M. Craig, veterans administration represent ative for this area, reported last week. Ix»an guarantee commitments by the VA’s regional office in Port land were made at the rate of 111 a week. A distinct upturn toward 'the end of February indicated a greater willingness among sellers to reduce prices to meet the VA’s anti-inflationary appraisals, Craig stated. Four out of five GI loans are on homes. In the past two months, 847 home loans totaling $4,621,- 145.05 gained VA commitments. Business loans amounted to 119 for $208,106.82. Private lending agencies ac tually make the GI loan, Craig explained. The VA guarantees up to half the loan but not over $4000 on real property or $2000 on non-real business property. Union Easter Service Plan Of Churches Sunrise Event to Be First for Local Congregations, Said The first event of its kind to be held in Vernonia will be at tended by the congregations of three local churches early Easter Sunday morning. The occasion will be the holding of an Easter sunrise service. The selection of the place for the service was not made at the time of the decision to hold the service out representative of the churches will meet again Friday of this week to select the site. Participating will be the cong regations of the Church of the Nazarene, the Evangelical United Brethren and the Assembly of God. • Nance Picked As Navy Star Jack Nance, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nance, was recently picked by the Navy News, pub lication for navy men in the Pacific area, on an all star basket ball team of the inter service league. The league in cluded teams on Guam and other Pacific islands near by. Jack played outstanding ball on the Com-Marianas team and went into the finals play-off in the inter service league before his team was eliminated. The Navy News, in announcing its choice of Jack, said: “He was the scorer of the team and only rarely was the opposi tion able to stop his brillant one- handed shooting. It was Nance who made the ComMar fast break click because of his speed in get ting down court after the ball changed hands.” As a result of his cage ac tivities on Guam and his outstand ing record, Jack has been award ed a scholarship to Wake Forest college in North Carolina. He will return to the states In October or November of this year and ex pects his discharge in January of next year. He has been overseas since May of last year and on Guam for the past seven months. • Fatal Accidents More Severe Almost a fourth of the live:« lost in Oregon auto accidents last year were lost in multiple-death smash-ups, it has been announced by Robert S. Farrell Jr., secretary of state. A total of 117 Oregonians were killed in wrecks which took more than one life. Safety men regard ed this as a startling increase in the severity of fatal accidents. In the past more than 90 per cent of the fatal accidents took only one life. “The greatest part of these tragedies took place on the high way outside any city or town,” Farrell said. “The record under scores the need for a highway patrol big enough to handle the job. iMultiple deaths grow direct ly out of speed.” Two-death wrecks killed 60; three-deaths, 30; and four-deaths, 8. One accident killed 5, another 6, and in the worst crash of the year 8 lives were wiped out in a single blow. This last was un- paralled in the state’s history. It was stressed that only 6 multiple-death accidents occured inside cities. • Missionary to Speak A returned missionary from Brazil is to spesk at the Assem bly of God church Sunday morn ing, March 23, at 11 o'clock. Mov ing pictures of Brazil are to b» shown the following Monday night at 7:30 pun.
