Vernonia eagle., May 29, 1947, Page 7, Image 7

NOTICE OF ANNUAL
SCHOOL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
in compliance with Sec. 111-908,
O.C.L.A., to the legal voters of
School District No. U.H.S. No. 1
Jt. of Wash, and Columbia count­
ies, State of Oregon, that the
ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETING of
said District will be held at Ver­
nonia; to begin at the hour of 2-7
o’clock p.m. on the third Monday
of Junej being the 23rd day of
Jur.e, A. D. 1947.
This meeting is called for the
purpose of electing two directors
and vote on proposition of levying
district tax and the transaction of
business usual at such meeting.
In districts of the second and
third classes the ballots shall not
be counted until one hour after the
time set for the meeting to begin.
Until the count begins, any legal
solutely prohibitive for any farm
operation that comes under a head­
ing that is greater than house and
barn lights or maybe a milking
machine.
Take chick brooding for in­
stance; any source of heat, even
the propane gases are less than
one quarter as expensive per B.T.
U. of available heat.
This country is ripe for the in­
troduction of air hay driers in the
farmer’s barns but any motor that
runs on juice that costs over one
cent per kilowatt is entirely too
expensive for consideration. At
the present ratjs a farmer could
pay for U.S. 1 alfalfa shipped in
here from eastern Oregon and be
ahead of the game compared to
the cost of barn curing here on the
spot.
On Rock Creek there is no neces­
sity to defrost a refrigerator for
straight?
How come electric current in
this Pacific Northwest, this juice
sold by REA co-op, made by the
cheapest possible method (water
power) is more than twice as ex­
pensive as that sold in California
by a stock company; some of
which is made by gas fired steam
turbines ?
As an example of fact the rates
in California start at four and
one half cents per kilowatt for the
first forty, three and one half for
the next sixty, two and one half
for the next hundred and nine mills
for all over that. To some of the
commercial users the price is one
quarter of a cent at the user’s
transformer.
Our rates are four and one half
cents for the first hundred kilo­
watts and two cents for all over
that amount. Such rates are ab-
The Forum
Editor, Vernonia Eagle,
Vernonia, Oregon
Dear Sir:
The following lines are not
written in a derogatory sense nor
with any malice but I do think
the subjects brought up are im­
portant for public discussion. May­
be I am all wet on some points.
If so, will someone please set me
voters of the district shall be en­
titled to vote upon any business
before the meeting.
Dated this 20th day of May, 1947.
ATTEST:
Mrs. Paul Gordon,
District Clerk
Oscar G. Weed,
Chairman Board of Directors
6-29, 6-12
NOTICE OF SCHOOL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the legal voters of School District No. U. H. 1, Jt., of Columbia and Washington County, State of Oregon,
that a SCHOOL MEETING of the said district will be held at Vernonia on the 23rd day of June, 1947, at 2:00 o’clock p.m., for the purpose of
discussing the budget for the fiscal school year, beginning July 1, 1947, and ending June 30, 1948, hereinafter set forth, and to vote on the
proposition
of levying
a district tax.
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Schedule I
_______________ Estimated Receipts and Available Cash Balances
General
Total all
Fund
Funds
_____
Special
Improvement
Fund
ITEM
Estimated Receipts from
$ 2,324.32
$ 2,324.32
Delinquent Taxes ..............
16,878.43
16,878.43
State School Support Fund
1,500.00
1,500.00
High School Tuition............
500.00
500.00
High School Transportation
15,000.00
15,000.00
Other Sources, Bonds..........
Estimated Total Receipts_____________ ___________________________ $36,202.75___________ $21,202.75_________________________________ *15>00000
Estimated Total Receipts and Available Cash Balance or Deficit
$36,202.75______
$15,000.00
$21,202j5_
Schedule II—General Fund___________________________ Estimated Ependitures
___
Preceding the Current School Year
Expenditures for 3 Fiscal Years Next
ITEM
I GENERAL CONTROL
Personal service:
Clerk ................ ......................................................................................
Supplies ................ .. ...................................................................................
Elections and publicity ..............• .....................................................
Legal service (Clerk’s bond, audit, etc.)........ ....................................
Other expense of general control .......................................................
Total Expense of General Control .................................. ..........
$
540.00
25.00
90.00
90.00
150.00
$
895.00
II. INSTRUCTION—Supervision
Personal service:
Principals ...............................................................................................
Supplies, principals and supervisors...................................................
Other expense of supervision .............................................................
$ 4,500.00
100.00
75.00
Total Expense of Supervision...............................................................
$ 4,675.00
III. INSTRUCTION—Teaching
Personal service:
Teachers .................................................................................................
Teachers .................
.......................................
•v Teachers ................................ ................................................................
Library supplies, repairs . ........................*.........................................
Supplies (chalk, paper, etc.).............................. ....................................
$ 3,600.00
23,950.00
100.00
25.00
1,200.00
Total Expense of Teaching ................................................................
$28.875.00
IV. OPERATION OF PLANT
Personal service:
Janitors and other employees...........................................................
Assistant ...........................................................
Janitors’ supplies ...................................................
.........................
Fuel ...................................... ......................................................................
Light and power.......................................................................................
Wafer (............................................................................................... ..
Telephone .......... ...................................... . .................................... ............
To*al Expense of Operation
... ................................
■
■
■ ■
V. M tINTENANCE AND REPAIRS
Repair and maintenance of furniture and equipment......................
Repair and maintenance of:
Buildings ...............................................................................................
$
895.00
$ 4,675.00
$28,875.00
100.00
400.00
500.00
500.00
175.00
125.00
1
480.00
25.00
90.00
90.00
130.00
$
360.00
25.00
90.00
90.00
100.00
$
815.00
$
655.00
$ 3,800.00
100.00
75.00
$ 4,000.00
100.00
75.00
$ 3,975.00
$ 4,175.00
$23,330.00
$ 3,100.00
9,690.00
6,750.00
20.00
765.00
20.00
835.00
$ 2,600.00
$ 4.400.00
$
$ 4,400.00
300*00
$24,185.00
$20,325.00
$ 2,475.00
100.00
350.00
350.00
500.00
175.00
125.00
$ 2,250.00
100.00
350.00
585.00
500.00
175.00
125.00
$ 4,075.00
$ 4,085.00
$
$
200.00
690.00
$
605.85
$ 3,775.00
$ 3,198.16
$18,065.00
$16,368.43
$ 6,357.50
$ 6,290.47
200.00
1,595.00
765.00
605.00
$
Total Expense of Maintenance and Repairs.....................................
VI. AUXILIARY AGENCIES
Health service
Personal service (nurse, etc.) ...........................................................
Supplies and other expenses ...........................................................
Transportation of pupils:
Personal service ......................................................................
Total Expense of Auxiliary Agencies
$
$
Other fixed charges
Retirement ................................................................................... ..........
Total Fixed Charges .............................................................................
VIII. CAPITAL OUTLAYS
Alteration of buildings (not repairs) .................................................
New furniture, equipment and replacements .....................................
Other capital outlays:
Library books: .............. .......................................................................
Total Capital Outlays ...........................................................................
X. EMERGENCY...........................................................................................
$ 7,120.00
$
300.00
50.00
$ 6,920.00
$ 6,537.50
$
250.00
625.00
$ 2,350.00
$
250.00
$
$
75.00
400.00
1,725.00
1,500.00
$ 2,000.00
$
6,187.50
$
500.00
300.00
50.00
6,570.00
6,570.00
$ 7,120.00
........................
VII. FIXED CHARGES
$
500.00
50.00
$ 2,000.00
100.00
2,125.00
100.00
3,459.00
485.00
$
496.26
$
625.00
$
418.10
300.00
300.00
300.00
$
775.00
$ 2,525.00
$ 2,525.00
$ 3,859.00
$
$ 1,000.00
$ 1,000.00
$ 1,000.00
$ 1,000.00
$ 1,000.00
$52,395.00
$48,144.00
$39,607.50
$36,482.50
Total Schedule II—General Fund—Total estimated expenses for
the year—sum of items I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, X
$32,536.46
Schedule V—Sperisi Improvement Fund (Serial Levy, Etc.)
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT FUND—
Assessments for betterments.....................
Total Schedule V—Special Improvement Fund
$10,000.00
. .
$10,000.00
$25,000.00
$10,000.00
$25,000.00________
Schedule VI—Summary of Estimates of Expenditures, Receipts and Available Cash Balances, and Tax levies
ESTIMATION OF TAX
Total all
LEVY
Funds
Total estimated expenditures ................................................................................... $77,395.00
DEDUCT:
Total estimated receipts and available cash balances (Schedule I)................ 36,202.75
Amount necessary to balance the budget ........................................................... 41,192.25
DEDUCT:
Deficit forwarded to next fiscal year ................................................................... 5,000.00
Balance to be raised by taxation............................................................................... 36,192.25
ADD:
Estimated amount of taxes that will not be collected during the fiscal
year for which this budget is made.. . ....................................................... 2,324.32
General fund
Special Improvement Fund
Total Schedule V
Total Schedule II
$25,000.00
$52,395.00
21,202.75
31,192.25
15,000.00
10,000.00
31,192.25
5,000.00
A
38,516.57
33,516.57
Analysis of estimated tax levies:
Amount inside 6 per cent limitation
Amount outside 6 per cent limitation
33,828.79
4,687.78
33,516.57
Dated this May 19, 1947
Signed: Mona M Gordon, District Clerk
Oscar G. Weed, Chairman, Board of Directors
the juice is off so much of the
time.
The sixty cycle feature of the
A.C. current is a colossal joke
when it comes to the operation of
any synchronous equipment such
as a clock. Our clock gains from
ten to forty five minutes every
twenty four hours. Of what earth­
ly use is a piece of equipment
such as this? There is no excuse
for this kind of service if the
mechanism at the source of supply
is right and the operator is on his
toes.
I made a voltage check over a
period of three days on our line on
Rock Creek and the voltage varia­
tion was far too much for the
efficient operation of electric
motors under rated load.
From most of the people along
the Rock Creek the following
opinion was gathered; voltage
fluctuation, all too numerous
power failures, plus the too high
cost makes any further use com­
pletely out of the picture.
What’s to do about it?
Sincerely Yours
Irving Conklin
HOLDRIDGE LAUNCHES
THIRD PARTY
From Townsend Weekly,
May 10, ’47
Taking as his slogan “Produc­
tion for use and not for profit,”
Brig. Gen. H. C. Holdridge, retired
after 30 years U. S. Army service,
told a Cleveland audience techno­
logical advance today has made
America the first nation in history
to face the problem of abundance
rather than the problem of scarcity
Holdridge is a veteran of both
wars, a graduate of and former
teacher at West Point and a leader
in several organizations of veter­
ans. His announced program is to
win veterans and civilians to rec­
ognition of the need to fight at
home to save democracy.
The biggest threat to continued
democracy in Hordridge's opinion
is the poverty which breeds
“Greed, Graft and Grab.” Scien­
tific invention and progress has de­
veloped mass production( to the
point where it has undermined the
foundation of the capitalist system
by making the maintenance of pro­
fits impossible except by an open
of camouflaged government sub­
sidies or through wholesale de­
struction by means of war. When
the supply of goods exceeds the de­
mand, the market becomes glutted
and the goods cannot be sold at a
profit anymore than can the sands
of the sea shore.
At the same time mechanical in­
ventions, chemical processes, speed
up and labor saving shop methods,
the developing of electric power
and now the discovery of atomic
energy all mean enormously in­
creased production. At the same
time they reduce the number of
consumers by throwing millions
of workers out of work and thus
strip them of buying power. The
result is recurrant periods of eco­
nomic depression, more and more
frequent, wide spread and pro­
longed. General Holdridge said
that in effect, the U. S. is today
reconverting after the war to the
depression which followed in 1929.
As a solution, Gen. Holdridge sug­
gested
the
American
people
through their governments, make
the economic welfare of their na­
tion equal to importance with their
traditional branches of govern­
ment, the legislative, the executive
and the judicial. He urged that a
fourth branch of government
called the economic be set up un­
der a national board of directors.
These directors actually would be
representatives of industry openly
and authoratatively in the halls of
government.
Through a process of elections
from below, they would be respon­
sible directly to the people.
There is enough natural wealth
and native intelligence and energy
in this country to provide every­
one with an abundance of food,
clothing, shelter,, cultural enjoy­
ment and leisure if we will reso­
lutely subordinate selfish interest
to the general welfare. Further­
more, the change over to an eco­
nomic system suited to modern
conditions can be accomplished
within the framework of the laws
and constitution of the U. S. and
without injury to anyone! As the
tool to accomplish these outlined
THURSDAY, .MAY 29, 1947 T
purposes a third party, claiming
the present democratic and repub­
lican parties are but two sides of
the same coin.
His third party, to be called the
“Peoples Party,” is -already incor­
porated at 726 11th Lt., Washing­
ton, D. C.
Submitted by
Mrs. A. E. Jennings
Vernonia,: Oregon
As a service to veterans in the
community, this newspaper will
publish a weekly column of news
briefs from the Veterans Admin­
istration. For more detailed in­
formation, veterans should con­
tact or write' to the nearest VA
Contact Office at Odd Fellows
Bldg., Portland Oregon
Deadline Near'
Amputee vetérahs eligible to re­
ceive automobiles at government
expense, who have not yet applied,
should do so immediately, urges
the veterans administration.
Eligibility must be determined
by June 30, 1947, under terms of
the present law. While this does
not mean that delivery must be
made by that date, the law re­
quires that the veteran’s applica­
tion must be processed by that
time, the VA said.
Any veteran of world war II
who during his ' service lost, or
lost the use of one or both legs
at or above 0ie ankle is entitled
to a free vehicle. Cost of the car,
including
special attachments,
must not exceed $1600.
Applications of 349 of the 560
Northwest veterans who have ap­
plied to date have been processed
to completion.
Vets Reminded
Northwest veterans are remind­
ed by the veterans administration
that seperate changes of address
must be sent in /or National Ser­
vice Life Insurance files.
Some
veterans
have
sent
changes of address notices to ex­
pedite subsistence and compensa­
tion checks, but have neglected to
notify the insurance service. As
seperate files tire maintained for
these benefits, veterans are re­
quested to seftd changes of ad­
dress to both "’offices.
Checks are ' mailed for sub­
sistence payments and compensa­
tion from the regional offices in
each state. Veterans should send
changes of address on insurance
matters to the veteratls administra­
tion, Exchange Building, Seattle
4, Washington', the VA explained.
VA Hospital Report
Veterans Administration hospit­
als in the Pacific Northwest ad­
mitted 9794 patients during 1946,
the VA announced recently.
General medical and surgical
hospitals in Portland, Vancouver,
Boise, and Fort Harrison, Mont.,
admitted 8155 .of the total. Ad­
missions to the neuropsychiatrie
hospitals at American Lake, Waah.,
and Roseburg, Ore., numbered
1023. The VA’s only tuberculosis
hospital in the Northwest at Walla
Walla admitted 616 patients.
Veterans with service-connected
illnesses are given priority on
admissions, the VA Btated. How­
ever, when beds are available, vet­
erans whose disabilities were not
incurred in military service may
be hospitalized. The VA stressed
that non-service-connected cases,
are admitted to the VA or other
government hospitals only and are
not eligible to receive treatment at
government expense in private
hospitals under contract to the
VA.
Question of the Week
Q. At what rate of interest can
I borrow on my National Service
Life Insurance?
A. If your converted policy has
been in force by premium pay­
ments for one year or longer, you
can borrow up to 94 per cent of
the cash value at an interest rate
of four per cent.
•
National Service Life Insurance
proceeds are exempt from credi­
tor’s claims against the insured or
the beneficiary. ' 1
We’ll Do Our Best . . .
2,324.32
Total estimated tax levies for ensuing fiscal year ..............................................
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
to make you proud of your car. If it
look» in need of a wash job bring it in
today.
5,000.00
• LUBRICATION
• WASHING
• REPAIRING
Approved by Budget Committee May 6, 1947
Signed: W. H. Bridgers. Secretary. Budget Committee
R. M. Aldrich, Chairman. Budget Committee
Geo. Johnson
Phone 311
5-29, 6-12
Vernonia Serv. Sta.
Vernonia, Ore.