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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.”
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
VOLUME 25 NUMBER 27
Co-op Plans
Riverview
Substation
Right-of-way Work
Partly Completed
Up Pebble Creek
West Oregon Electric Coopera
tive is preparing for the construc
tion of its substation in Riverview
and is expecting delivery of
materials for the station by Au
gust 15, Manager Guy Thomas
said Monday. For the substation
at Riverview, the base grade has
been leveled and the pouring of
cement will be made within the
next two weeks.
Mr. Thomas also announced that
six and one-half miles of right-
of-way clearing up Pebble creek
has been completed and that flag
ging has been done for about 20
miles. That transmission line will
lead into Top Hill area and farther
into Washington county to make
possible electrical service to people
in the Cooperative territory not
now being served.
•
Painting, Repair
Work Being Done
Repair work for the high school
buildings this year is underway
now Bob Spencer, janitor, said
Tuesday morning. The repairs
this year will comprise about the
same work that is carried out
every summer, but with some
changes planned.
Redecoration of the halls and
study hall is in progress and ply
wood around the lower part of
the walls of the latter room will
be installed to cover broken plas
ter.
Also scheduled before the start
of school this fall is painting of
the bleachers in the gymnasium.
The work is being done by C. A.
Mills, Harold McEntire and Mr.
Spencer.
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Grangers Plan
Park Work Days
Two work days this month are
planned by the Natal grange for
the improvement of Big Eddy
park, the park board states in an
announcement made Wednesday.
The notice states:
"The opportunity will present
itself on July 6 and 13 to those
who wish to volunteer some labor
towards improving the Big Eddy
park on those dates.
"Everyone may participate in
this work even if they don't belong
to the grange.
Lunch will be
served if the people coming bring
it.”
Expenditures for Welfare More Work on More Oiling Brown Installs
Cut Drastically in May
Park Buildinb Of Road Is Union Officers
Scheduled
The last meeting of Columbia
county public welfare commission
for the fiscal year 1946-47 was
held Wednesday, June 25, Mrs.
Eva L. Tice, administrator reports.
Report on May expenditures was as
follows:
Old age assistance 380, $14,901.-
00; Aid to dependent children 60,
$4,442.00; Blind assistance 7, $360.-
00; General assistance 64, $4,-
816.01; total $25,528.01.
This shows a drastic reduction
in expenditures, reflecting stan
dards amended by the state public
welfr-e commission, which affect
ed alike grants in all counties. To
bring welfare programs within
available funds it was necessary to
delete all but maintenance items;
to curtail all medical expenditures,
except where the condition was an
immediate threat to life; ip, an
emergency, and to look to relatives
for maximum ability to support.
All clothing allowances were
also deleted, these items to receive
consideration in September or Oct
ober, and to be added to grants
only as indicated by the situation
of the recipient and the availability
of funds.
These programs reached their
peak in this county as follows:
Old age assistance February
1947, 421, $16,763.50; Aid ti de
pendent children March 1947, 63,
$4,741.00; Blind assistance March
Nehalem Park
Ready for Use
Nehalem Park, located about
half way between Mist and Ver
nonia, is ready for the use of
picnickers Ike Dass, owner, said
Tuesday evening and people are
invited to come there this week
end.
In addition to the park, Mr.
Dass has his Standard service
station open for business.
He
will also feature Pal Shop ice
cream.
Some grading work was neces
sary to make the park ready for
the 4th and running water has
been piped in for the use of visit
ors. Mr. Dass is planning a grand
opening later on.
•
Commission Sets
Game Hearing
The Oregon state game com
mission will hold its statutory
hearing at ten o’clock, Friday,
July 11, 1947, in regard to hunting
regulations for the current year.
The meeting will be held at the
office of the commission at 1634
S. W. Alder Street, Portland.
Seasons, bag limits and methods
of taking game birds, game an
imals, and fur-bearing animals
will be considered.
1947, 421, $16,763.50; Aid to de
February 1947, 158, $6,740.92.
All members of the commission
were present, namely, Chairman
Louis Fluhrer, Angelo Caniparoli,
Mrs. Jean Ostlund, Mrs. Leila
Bushman, and three members of
the county court- (in an ex-officio
capacity) Judge J. W. Hunt, Wil
liam Pringle and Don Parcher.
•
First License
Group Expires
The first group of licenses bear
ing numbers between 5R1 and
5R33000 expired with the ending
of the month of June to mark
the first step in renewal program
for this state. The renewal system
adopted by the state at the 1947
legislature provides for renewals
by serial number instead of the
date printed on the face of the
•permit itself.
Oregon has almost 800,000 per
mits out licensing drivers and the
method provided by the legislature
makes unecessary the sending of a
notice to each driver.
Application blanks for renewals
are not available here at the city
hall, but drivers who need the slips
can obtain them at the Vernonia
Auto company.
License representatives from the
secretary of state’s office are
stressing several points concern
ing driving permits: 1. don’t drive
out off state on an old license un
less a renewal schedule is clipped
to it; 2. don’t apply for a new Ore
gon license ahead of schedule be
cause of the delay that an applica
tion will cause to others sending
in licenses for renewal, but be
sure to apply in the month in
dicated on the schedule.
No examination for a renewal is
necessary.
•
New Minister to
Take Pulpit Sun.
Ray L. Aplett, new minister for
the First Christian church, ar
rived here Tuesday and will be in
the pulpit Sunday, July 6, to de
liver his first regular sermon, was
the announcement made Wednes
day morning.
Rev. Aplett and his family form
erly resided at Spokane. The move
here was made to fill the vacancy
arising from the resignation of
Rev. Ernest Baker, who has been
gone a month.
•
Office Opens Saturday
The Vernonia Post Office will
be open to patrons from 8 a.m.
to 12 noon Saturday, Postmaster
Emil Messing said Monday, re
gardless of the Friday and Satur
day closing planned by many
business places here.
Home for County National Guard Unit Promised
CO. K PROMISED SITE
FOR QUONSET HUT ARMORY
ST. HELENS—Captain James
MacLeod, commanding officer of
Co. K. speaking on behalf of the
unit and 17 members of the com
pany, who were present in the
council chambers, Monday evening
last week asked the city council
to provide the site, foundation and
flooring for a temporary armory.
The state has alloted the com
THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947
pany two quonset huts, which are
now available.
He stated the state will sign a
99-year lease on the property. Al
though no money would change
hands, the city has the privilege
of using the armory as a commun
ity center any night which does
not conflict with guard duties and
needs.
BRISTOW OPERATION IS
APPARENTLY SUCCESSFUL
CLATSKANIE—Jimmy Bristow
was reported to be doing nicely
after a "blue boy” operation per
formed Tuesday of last week at
John Hopkins University hospital.
The hospital reported Tuesday
evening that the operation on the
12 pear old boy was “apparently
successful.”
He will be in an oxygen tent for
48 hours which is considered the
critical period in all such opera
tions.
RIVER READINGS
SHOW SLOW FALL
ST. HELENS—During the last
few days the Columbia river has
been falling slowly but steadily
and last Wednesday afternoon the
gauge at the city dock showed a
depth of slightly less than 13 feet
above • zero. The report of river
conditions by the weather bureau
at Portland is that the river will
continue to fall slowly.
BLUEBACK RUN IS
HEAVY THIS YEAR
CLATSKANIE—The catches of
bluebacks this year are heavy
and it is reported that the fish
ermen in the Mayger, Woody is
land and Clatskanie drifts are
averaging about 500 pounds of
bluebacks a day.
Fishermen and packers are con
cerned about the heavy catches of
that variety of salmon and are
afraid that it might deplete the
run while the U.S. Fish and Wild
life Service is expending large
sums of money to rehabilitate the
fish in the Columbia river.
Daily receipts at the Astoria
canneries
total
about
15,000
pounds.
Accomplisheg
Wall« Raised Part
Way Sunday; Next
Meeting July 13
The log cabin under process of
construction at Camp Wilkerson
advanced Sunday when a group of
10 men and their families appear
ed that morning to accomplish the
raising of the walls 40 inches. The
amount of work carried out Sun
day was sufficient to make pos
sible completion of the walls with
one more day’s labor Glen Hawk
ins said Monday. That is, the
walls could be completed if a suf
ficiently large crew is on hand.
The next meeting date at the
park is scheduled for two weeks
from last Sunday, or July 13. The
county organization backing the
park building and other improve
ments asks that people interested
make a note of the future date and
plan to attend.
Some logs will be needed in
addition to those already cut be
fore the walls can be completed,
Mr. Hawkins said, and the same is
true of shakes for the roof.
•
Golf Affair Sun.
Well Attended
A good size crowd of golfers
and friends enjoyed last Sunday’s
annual Vernonia Country club
picnic and competitive events which
included a flag tournment, a driv
ing contest and a hole-in-one con
test.
First and second place winners
in the tourney were: Paul Dyer,
first and a tie between Ben
George and Earl King for second
in the men’s division. For the
women, Mrs. Harry King won first
and Mrs. Harold Howard, second.
E. P. Mullins came within four
feet, four inches of the cup in the
hole-in-one contest to get first-
place rating for the event. He
was followed by Loel Hieber with
eight feet, 11% inches and George
Turner with 10 feet, 4% inches.
The longest drive for the driv
ing contest was 252 yards and was
male by Earl King for first place.
Dave Howard drove 237 yards for
second and Loel Heiber, 198 for
third.
•
Approximately two and one-
half miles of road oiling is sched
uled for this part of the county
later in the summer County Com
missioner Wm. Pringle said Mon
day. Total oiling in the county
this year will cover between 12
and 15 miles.
To make the work possible, the
county crusher is busy now getting
out sufficient rock which is being
stockpiled near the county tool
shed. Bill Anderson is supervis
ing the crusher operation. County
oiling equipment will also be used
here to oil a portion of the street
mileage in Vernonia.
Planned outside the city limits
is the surfacing of the remainder
of the Stoney Point road to its
junction with the Mist highway
and the Rock creek road to the
bluff.
•
Injuries Result
01 Car Accident
Pete Wells suffered a broken
leg, head injuries and possibly
other injuries as the result of an
accident to the car he was driving
Monday when it left the Mist high
way. just past the St. Helens
junction and crashed into a boulder
beside the road. Wells was brought
to Vernonia in the Bush ambulance
for medical attention before being
taken to the Physicians and Sur
geons hospital in Portland Mon
day evening.
The automobile was judged to
be a complete loss as far as being
repaired for further use. Some
parts can be salvaged.
•
Hunting, Angling
Shows Big Gain
Analysis of the 1946 hunting
and angling licenses sales show an
increase of 131.33 per cent in the
number of license holders during
the last ten-year period, it is an
nounced by the Oregon state game
commission. During 1946, there
were 344,226 individuals who had
bought either a hunting or fishing
license or both, while in 1936, the
total was 148,803.
Anglers exceeded hunters in num
ber as last year there were 199,020
hunting license holders and 242,-
435 angling licenses.
Talks on Law
1WA Director of
Organization Tells
Local of Progress
George F. Brown, director of
organization for the International
Woodworkers of America, came to
Vernonia last Thursday night to
install the Local 5-37 officers who
will preside over the local for the
coming year. A large member
ship turned out and after the
installation Mr. Brown gave an
informal talk on the progress of
organization both in Canada and in
the South which by the way is
much better than expected.
He also highlighted on the effect
of the Hartley-Taft “Full employ
ment for Lawyers” bill just passed
over the president’s veto. Many
people, especially business men,
do not realize what it means to
them nor have they given it a
thought that when the pay roll of
the worker cease’s also his bus
iness to the butcher, the baker and
the candlestick maker ceases. The
time has come for the farmer, the
grocer, the butcher and others to
join hands with organized labor.
Quoting Mr. Brown on his state
ment of the Hartley-Taft bill:
“The Hartley-Taft Bill is ill ad
vised and will effect everyone in the
United States, not alone the mem
bers of organized labor.
There
should be a policy of live and let
live, now that the bill has become
law, for, if there is an attempt to
take unfair advantage of labor it
will only bring loss of production,
create confusion and turmoil to all
of industry. We will not take any
rash action, but will conduct our-
Belves in a legal and businesslike
manner.
“The people must become active
in protecting their interests in the
political field and elect to office
people who are representative of
the people and not a few selfish
interests.”
Hawkins Speaks
Rotary club members at Forest
Grove heard Glen Hawkins, Col
umbia County Tree Farm manager,
taik recently on the farm, the work
that is being accomplished and
the necessity of practicing care
with fire in forested areas. Mr.
Hawkins has given similar talks
in the past few months at several
different places in this part of
the state.
Fiscal Report Shows
Etha Morris Gets Growth of Savings
Nursing Degree
Etha Morris, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Morris, has qual
ified for a Bachelor of Science
degree in nursing at the Univer
sity of Oregon Medical School
Department of Nursing, Portland,
according to announcement releas
ed by Henrietta Doltz, director.
Miss Morris’ B.S. degree will
qualify her for specialized oppor
tunities in advanced nursing work.
She took two years of pre-nursing
college work at the Oregon State
College.
The graduation exercises held at
the Medical School in Portland on
June 19th were one of the most
colorful in the long history of the
Medical School Department of
Nursing with eighty-seven young
women receiving diplomas or cer
tificates. Girls from ten different
states and Canada came to Oregon
to receive their nursing education.
•
Next Visit Dated
A driven license examiner is
scheduled to be on duty in Ver
nonia Friday, July 11 at the city
hall between the hour» of 10 a.m.
and 4 p.m. Persons wishing licens
es or permits to drive will have
the opportunity to get them at
that time.
The ending of the fiscal year at
the Vernonia post office and the
annual report made out as the
result of the year’s end show a
gain in the amount of money on
deposit in postal savings as com
pared with the same report last
year. The figures were released
by Postmaster Emil Messing Wed
nesday morning after the reports
had been prepared by the office
staff.
On deposit in postal savings as
of June 30, 1947 was the sum of
$261,246.00, an increase over the
1945- 1946 "ear’s amount which was
$257,941.00. Postal savings notes
issued during the past year totaled
$177,062 and those cashed amount
ed to $173,757.00. The amount
on deposit has increased steadily
for the past three years.
In the money order department
of the local office, another increase
is shown last year. Value of the
orders written totaled $320,101.06
which shows in the increase when
compared with the previous amount
of $270,144.30. Fees charged for
writing the orders for the year
just ended amounted to $1,938.00
and for the ’45-’46 year, $1562.83
The one department that deter
mines a post office class is that
of the sale of stamps. Sales for
1946- ’47 totaled $13,148.04 which
is well above the $8000 amount
necessary to receive the second
class rating held here. The sale
last year is slightly less when
compared with that of the 1945-’46
period which was $13,157.62.
All other sales at the office
totaled $63,794.30, Mr. Messing
revealed and the amount is the
total of several different items
which include bonds, postal notes,
migratory bird stamps, internal
revenue stamps and special request
envelopes.
Although the stamp sales only
determine the class of office, the
money changing hands through the
local windows was $576,043.40, over
half a million dollars.