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Library, Ü of O “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 25, NUMBER 24 Street Light Installation Work to Start City to Start Breaking of Pavement Soon The obtaining of 24 sacks of cement makes possible a start towards installation of the new Bridge street lighting system, Mayor George Johnson said Wed nesday morning. Some work has already been done by the West Oregon Electric so that the con trol circuit has been run. The first move by the city will be placing the bases for the standards and following that will be the breaking of a trench in the sidewalk for the length of the business section of Bridge. It is estimated that 100 sacks of cement will be necessary to com plete the filling in of the trench, but the receipt of part of that amount makes possible a start on the work. • Gideons to Have Charge of Service Sunday morning services at the Evangelical United Brethren church will be under the leader ship of the Gideons. A band will be here to take charge of the com plete service. The Gideons gave a New Test ament to each member of the Senior class of Vernonia high school and also to each of the 7th and 8th graders. This has been a wonderful thing, church officials believe, and they are interested to see how many of the testaments will be in the service Sunday morning. There will be no Sunday evening service. • Nehalem Park To Open Soon Nehalem Park, located about eight miles from Vernonia on the highway to Mist, is scheduled to open early next week the owners, Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Dass, said Tues day. Mr. Dass has been busy for several months building tables and installing running water for the park and also with the construc tion of a service station. The park is available for picnics to organizations and family groups at any tinie at no charge. The station will be equipped to handle ice cream, soft drinks and auto motive supplies. Help Asked to Construct Log Building at Camp Wilkerson Camp Wilkerson improvement will be aided to a considerable extent Sunday when employees of the Columbia County Tree Farm are planning to work with other county residents towards the con struction of a permanent log build ing for the use later of scouts the junior grange and other county youth organizations. Announcement of the local plan was made Monday by Glen Hawk ins, Tree Farm manager, when he said some of the equipment would be taken to the camp that day to speed up the work. The camp raising day was an nounced last week by Mrs. Jack Keudell, president of the St. Helens Girl Scout association who asked that parents and friends of the Rain Totals 1.94 Inches Already As a comparison Mrs. Spofford has listed the May report for 1946 as: maximum temperature 81 degrees, minimum 29 degrees and rainfall as 1.66 inches. Rainfall for the first 10 days of this month has already exceeded the fall for all of last month when .27 inches were reported at the cooperative weather station maintained by Mrs. Helen Spofford on Corey hill. The precipitation for the first 10 days of this month, also exceeds by considerable the fall for the first 10 days of June, 1946 when .70 inches was recorded. Other data listed at the weather station for the month of May of this yeat| gives the maximum temperature as 91 degrees on May 26 and the minimum as 32 degrees on May 3, 4 and 5. The prevailing wind direction was northwest. • Tourney Finals Slated Sunday The championship match for the Kullander spring handicap tourn ament at the Vernonia Country club is scheduled for playing on the coming Sunday as the result of matches played last Sunday and Monday. The tournament winner will be decided by the matching of Ben Brickie and Earl King, both winning their semi final play. The King-Turner match wasn’t completed Sunday because of a tie at the end of 27 holes, but the play-off between the two was de cided Monday. Ralph Roediger was defeated last Sunday by Mr. Brickie to advance him into the championship bracket. Cherry Pickers Sought te Help With County Harvest; Store Opens CHERRY PICKERS SOUGHT BY LABOR ASSISTANT ST. HELENS—As a result of recent rains there is still an abundant crop of strawberries in Columbia county and additional pickers are still needed, Robert Cody, farm labor assistant said this week. He stated that pickers would probably be required for the next two weeks as the rain gave new hope for a substantial yield from this year’s crop. N. W. ELECTRIC STAFF, SERVICE SAME WITH PPAL RAINIE R—Merger of the Northwestern Electric with its af filiate company, Pacific Power & Light, results in no changes in the Rainier operating organization and office, according to E. A. Britts, local manager. There are many details to be followed through in connection with introduction of the Pacific Power 4 Light name, he explain ed, but customer’s service and operating routine carry on their familiar pattern. Consolidation of the two sys tems became effective at mid night May 31.- CLATSKANIE-RAINIER CO-OP OPENS STORE RAINIER —The Clatskanie- Rainier Co-op, promotion of which began last August, with formal organization perfected in February last week announced that its store at the old Hi-Way Pavilion, two miles east of Clatskanie is open for business. The manager of the new con cern is Lloyd V. Johnson, for merly associated with the Valley market in Clatskanie. The Co-op will conduct a gen eral farm supply business, includ ing a wide line of merchandise used by its participating members. .MONLEY WILSON FILES FOR SCHOOL DIRECTOR ST. HELENS—Manley Wilson. Columbia county representative in the legislature for the past three terms, filed last week for school director in this district. Mr. Wilson resides in McNulty and is employed on a labor paper in Portland. The deadline for filing is seven days before the election, which would be next Monday. The elec tion will be held on June 16. Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, 4-H clubs, Junior Grange members and all other county youth organizations be present to provide the necessary volunteer labor. The Tree Farm crew will help with clearing and tree falling. A single log structure building, to be used as a mess hall and com munity room is to be built. Other people planning to assist in the work are asked to come equipped with working tools such as ham mers, saws, axes, and hatchets. The work is scheduled to start about 9 a.m. and a pienic dinner will be served at noon. The log building will become a permanent part of Camp Wilker son and will be for the use of any youth organization securing per mission of the county camp com mittee. Signs Will be posted telling where to turn from the Vernonia- St. Helens road and when to turn into the camp. • New Books Added To Library List Five new books were received this week at the Vernonia library, two of them for children and three for adults. The children can now read Little Lost Lamb by Mac Donald & Weisgard and Easy Crafts by Elsworth Jaeger. For adults, the recent additions are: Driftwood Valley by Stan well Fletcher, Who-dun-its Dull Thud by Manning Long and Puzzle for Pilgrims by Patrick Quenton. Other recent additions to the library shelves are: There was a Time, Caldwell; Side of the Angels, McLoughlin; Prey ing Mantis, Rutledge; Sassafras, Hill, Smart; Tarzan and the Ant Man, Burroughs; Wayward BuSj Stienbeck; Pavilion of Women, Buck; The Vixens, Yerby; Wake of the Red Witch, Roark; Return to Night, Renault; Peace of Mind, Liebman; Fortune’s Gift, Kerby; The Hollow, Christie; Another Women’s House, Eberhart; Bell Timson, Steen. • District 47 to Name Directors Taxpayers in school district 47 Jt. will have the opportunity to participate in the annual school meeting Monday evening of next week, June 16. At the annual affair, to be held as usual at the Washington grade school, one director for a term of three years and a director for a term of two years are to be elected as well as a director for the rural school board. Other business at the meeting will be the consideration of the budget for the 1947-48 school year and the question of increasing the tax levy over the six per cent limitation. The budget, which appears else where in this issue, shows an in crease in every department but that of maintenance and repairs\ due to increased cost and salaries. • Annual Meeting Date June 23 The union high school district annual meeting this year is sced- uled for the afternoon of June 23 to consider the district's budget for 1947-48 and to elect two directors to serve on the school board. One of the directors to be named will serve for a term of four years and the other for five years. The budget, as it appears else where in this issue, shows an in crease in nearly every department although some of the higher fig ures exceed the amounts of last year's budget by small margins. The meeting will take place from two to seven o’clock. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941 Davis Named Oil Testing Equipment at As Volunteer Mist Being Dismantled Fire Chief Burning Permit* Obtainable from Department Head The new chief for the City of Vernonia Volunteer fire depart ment is Calvin Davis. Announce ment of the appointment was made early this week Mayor Geo. Johnson who acted upon author ity granted at last week’s council meeting to make an interview with the idea of filling the va cancy. The appointment of Mr. Davis to the position also fills another need in addition to that of the department head. Residents of the city who wish to burn rubbish and who must obtain permits to do so may obtain them now. Since the resignation of the previous chief, Cieve Robertson, it has not been possible to obtain the permits. Mr. Davis may be contacted at the Bush Furniture store. Working with the new chief will be Jim McCrory who holds the assistant chief position. Local people wishing to participate in the work of the fire department are asked to Contact Mr. Davis or Mr. McCrory. The appointment made by the mayor will be acted upon officially by the council at its next meeting scheduled for Monday evening of next week. • Vacation School To Close Friday Friday night at 7:45 p.m. will be the closing program of the daily vacation bible school at the Nazarene church where a fine group of children have met each day for two weeks for Bible study, chorus singing, drills and hand work of all kinds. According to Rev. H. L. Russell the making of bird houses attracts the largest group in the manuel training department. Even the girls are working to see what kind of a house they can build. At 12 o’clock Friday, a picnic lunch will be served in the child ren’s room at the church for the children and workers. Rev. Russell invites the parents and friends to the program Fri day night to review “One day in Bible School.” A free will offering will be taken to be used for Children’s work in Vernonia. • The dismantling of equipment for the Texas company’s oil well test near Mist has started and the machinery is to be shipped to California for repairs. That is the information coming as the result of recent tests which led to the decision to abandon any further drilling in search of oil or gas at that place. The well, designated as Clark County Cancer Drive Successful Columbia county residents do nated nearly two-and-one-half times the amount they were asked to contribute to the 1947 cancer drive which ended June 1, ac cording to a report by Mrs. E. T. Steele, county chairman, last week. Whereas the county was assigned a goal of $1480, final do nations totalled $3,462.85. Chairman for the Vernonia part of the county drive was Mrs. Judd Greenman. Mrs. Steele expressed great sat isfaction with the manner in which all persons contacted responded to the campaign and was particularly grateful to the various chairmen who worked many hours in solicit ing donations. Funds collected in this annual drive are used to combat the dread disease, cancer, and Mrs. Steele said that such fine response in the drive is an in dication that people are anxious to conquer this menance by generous ly contributing funds which will aid the national research pro gram to combat it. Individual totals for each of the various communities were listed by Mrs. Steele in her report and every one of them topped their goals. Final contributions for com munities outside St. Helens are as follows: Scappoose—$269.61; Warren—$30; Rainier — $214.14 Clatskanie — $860.04; Vernonia— $457.12 Birkenfeld-Mist — $75; Deer Island—$22.08. • Mr*. Conçût Named . Mrs. E. H. Condit, the former Nettie Alley and at one time health nurse for Columbia county, has been appointed a full-time Clatsop county public health nurse accord ing to a recent announcement. Mrs. Condit resides now at Westport where she and Mr. Condit have purchased a .mint farm. and Wilson 6-1, was started De cember 18 of last year by the T and T Oil company performing the work for the Texas company under contract. The drilling was car ried out under a three-shift ar rangement with a driller and four helpers comprising the crew of each shift. Heading the drilling operations was J.. I. McDonald", superintendent. The drilling machinery will be shipped to Bakersfield and Stock- ton, California for repairs before being placed in service again by the company at another well site. Before the decision was reached to close the well, a series of tests were conducted to determine the advisability of continuing the work further. One of the tests was the perforating of casing which had been installed. That work was done by the McCullough Tool Com pany also with headquarters in California at Los Angeles and consisted of gun perforating of the casing. Results of the perforating was salt water which in turn led to the capping. This well was the second test to be made in Columbia county on land held under lease by the Texas company.. Logs Distributed Loel Roberts has been appointed local distributor for Presto Logs he anounced recently and the pro duct will be available at two Ver nonia business houses, Jake’s Union Service and the Nehalem Market. The logs are made of ground planer shavings pressed into a round shape and are manu factured by the Weyerhauser Lum ber company. • Program Planned Next Sunday, being Father’s Day, the women of the Nazarene Church will pay tribute to the Fathers. Special gifts will be given and special numbers in song will be sung at the close of the Sunday school hour. • Sermon Announced The sermon to be delivered at the first Christian church by Rev. O. Livingston Sunday, June 15, Fathers Day, is “Our Father Which Art in Heaven.” Ice Machine Is Installed The installation of a flake ice manufacturing machine by the Ne halem Diary Products company makes available to people of the Upper Nehalem valley a product which has not been manufactured here for some time. The machine was received here last Friday, F. A. Bush, owner of the dairy said early this week. The machine produces ice in two minutes after being started and will freeze at the rate of 100 pounds in one hour. Flake ice can be used in ice boxes and for all cooling purposes. It will last longer than cracked ice, the owner stated. People coming to the diary for ice are asked to bring their own containers. • Long Trips Made leaving here last Friday, George S. Epperly, 78, traveled to Bay City to be present for the annual Oyster Feed held there. The trip there and the return were made by Mr. Epperly’s motor scooter and side car. About three weeks before the trip to Bay City Mr. Epperly traveled down the Sun set highway to the coast and re turned by the way of the Wilson river highway. SMOKEY SAYS - Burned timber builds no homes PREVENT FOREST FIRES
