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Library, U of O A “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 25, NUMBER 33 THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1947 Timber Light, West Coast Telephone Officials Change LOWER ELECTRIC RATE Promoted LARGE CABBAGE Appointed Power Sale SCHEDULED IN SEPT. ON DISPLAY Completed Being displayed now at The Eagle Office is a head of cabbage grown by Mrs. Dennis Davis at her home on First avenue, Corey Hill. The size of the head is such as to prove that garden produce will grow prolifically here if prop erly plowed. The head weighed ten and three- quarters pounds. Over 100 Consumers Added to Co-op Rolls Tuesday Eve. The sale of the Timber Light and Power company was completed here Tuesday evening at the Aug ust meeting of West Oregon Elec tric Cooperative’s board of direc tors, Manager Guy Thomas said Wednesday morning. The sale has been pending for some time and was completed Tuesday be cause the official go-ahead had been received from rural electrifi cation administration headquarters in Washington, D. C. The change of ownership had also received the sanction of the state public utilities commission at a hearing May 5 at Timber. The 100 plus consumers who will now receive electricity from West Oregon will be billed this month at rates formerly charged by the Timber concern. The meters will be read August 14. West Oregon Electric’s rates will take effect on the next billing for electricity consumed from August 15 to Sept ember 15. practically all meter deposits held by the Timber Light and Power have been vrefunded al ready Mr. Thomas said, and the cooperative will rftart soliciting membership fees in the Timber area as soon as possible. • 4 Office Hours Changed Becoming effective last week was a change in opening hours at the West Oregon Electric office. The office is now opened for bus iness at 8:30 a.m. and, closed at 5:30 p.m. The change was made as an accomodation for people who are employed until 5 p.m. The Saturday hours *of 8 a.m. to 12 noon remains the same. • Chapel Redecorated The Bush Funeral home chapel is being redecorated this week, the work including new paper for the w%lls and painting of the wood work and ceiling. Paper Pick-up Depot Arranged Harley Barber, manager of the Forest Grove district for the West C ast Telephone Company has been promoted to a position of wider responsibility in the com pany’s general office, according to Ray Dalton, vice-president and general manager of the company. He will be general outside plant engineer for the entire area op erated by the company, and will make his headquarters in Everett, Washington. The West Coast Telephone Com pany is going throught a period of rapid expansion, complicated by the difficulty of obtaining ad equate supplies to meet the de mands for new services. Mr. Bar ber’s new duties will include the coordination of this extensive con struction program to which the company is committed, in Oregon, Washington and California. • R.C. Visits Dated A representative of the Columbia County Chapter of the American Red Cross will be in Vernonia two times a month Mrs. Naqnie B. Harrison, executive secretary of the chapter said early this week. The visits will be made on the afternoons of the first and third Fridays and the headquarters here will be the MacDonald Hotel. Save your waste paper! That is the request made here last Fri day when a depot was announced where Vernonia people may leave their old newspapers and mag azines for collection and turn over to the Shrine Hospital for Crip pled Children. Funds derived from the sale of the paper will be used to defray that hospital’s expenses. The depot for this salvage ma terial is Chapman”s Service Store from where the old papers will be picked up on the first and third Fridays of each month. • School Attended By Pool Guard Darrold Proehl, swim pool guard, left here Saturday, August 9 for the Lake O’ the Woods 38 miles from Ashland where he is enrolled in a 10-day Red Cross Aquatic school for training which will make it possible for him to give swim ming instructions here upon his return. Arrangements were made for his trip through the city council and with Paul Gordon who is acting as temporary guard during Mr. Proehl’s absence. This school is one of the six being conducted by the Red Cross in the Pacific area to give instruc tion on first aid, water safety and accident prevention. Salary Plan Benefits IP’s; Fishing Improves Donald Parcher, Columbia county commissioner who had charge of the work. Also reported was the sealing of ten blocks formerly oiled. Construction costs of $1523.75 and rock costs of $900 were re ported to the council. NEW EQUIPMENT SEEN ECONOMICAL RAINIER—New oil surfacing of six city blocks, and 2080 feet of road leading to the Roxy park area (partly in and partly out of the city) was reported to the Rainier council Monday evening by 1 ' 'LEASE FOLKS, BE EXTRA CAREFUL THIS YEAR I I. Hold your match till it’» cold—then pinch it Io make »ure. J, Crush out your cigarette, cigar, P'P« a»hei. Uie an aih trayl i. Drown your campfire, then »fir and drown again. 4. A»k about the law—and a permit—before burning yrai», bruih, fence row», or froth. Only you can PREVENT FOREST FIRES I Greatly reduced labor charges as compared with former years were noted by Mr. Parcher and atributed to better equipment now available and which cut in half the time required for a giv en area to be oiled. SALMON FISHING IS REPORTED BETTER CLATSKANIE—Salmon fishing on the Columbia river has picked up, according to reports made by authorities on Wednesday of last week. While the fishing is not yet what would be called good, the high boat was reported in with 600 pounds and the average net was estimated at 250 pounds. Fishermen are hopeful that a fair August run will be encount ered since there is a series of good tides ahead. JUSTICES GET SALARY RAISES ST. HELENS—Three Columbia county justices of the peace will benefit from a salary plan adopted by the state legislature at its last session and one of them, J. G. Naumai^of St. Helens, will be paid more than any other elec tive officer in the county. Nauman’s salary will be $275 per month—$3300 annually com pared to $3120 for the sheriff, judge, school superintendent, as- s»ssor and clerk—while N. N. Blumenstaadt of district No. 2 will get $20 per month and G. F. Puzey of district No. 3 will re ceive $100 monthly. The state law requires that the salaries of justices be fixed at not less than the average total of fees collected, reported and retained by each during the first half of 1947, plus 20 per cent. West Oregon Electric Cooper ative consumers will soon enjoy a circumstance that is highly un usual in these days of rising 32nd Fair Set August 14,15,16 Columbia county’s second fair since the end of World War II— and the thirty-second year that the event has been staged—will get underway Thursday, August 14 at the county (fairgrounds near Deer Island. The fair itself will run through Saturday night, August 16 with Sunday, August 17 being Arthur D. Scripture has been turned over to the Clatskanie appointed district manager of the Posse, which is planning a full Forest Grove district of the West day of entertainment, featuring Coast Telephone company, accord riders from Columbia county and ing to an announcement by Ray from several visiting posses. Dalton, vice-president and general The fair this year will be more manager of the company. Mr.' of a strictly county event than it Scripture will replace Harley Bar has for many seasons. “Imported” ber, whose promotion to an im attractions will be few, the prin portant position on his company’s cipal ones being the Browning general staff has also been an Bros, carnival and the trotting nounced. horses which will take part in the Arthuh Scripture, “Scrip” to full program of events planned for his many friends, started his bus tig1 arena. iness career with the Southwest Although there will be no pro ern States Telephone Company in fessional rodeo, there’ll be plenty Texas, where he became assistant of action in the arena with such commercial and sales superinten events as an amateur rodeo, calf dent with his offices in Brown catching by 4-H and F.F.A. boys, wood. In 1910 he moved to Calif and horse racing. A complete ornia and entered the services of calender of events has been sched the California Water and Tele uled for every afternoon and every phone company as credit manager at Monrovia. In 1941 he became night of the fair. • district manager of the San Fern ando district, a position he held until recently. He comes to this district from Everett, Washington where he held the position of assistant district manager. Funeral services were conducted • here Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Bush Rusow Services Conducted Sun. Backer Returns To Local Church At the conference recently held at Jennings Lodge, Rev. Allen H. Backer was returned for another year to the Vernonia Evangelical United Brethren church. A wel come is extended to Rev. Backer and his family by the members and friends of the church. Many attended the summer as sembly during last week. This included daily vacation bible school camp meeting services and the convention of the missionary society and youth fellowship. Sunday school and church ser vices will be held at their regular time next Sunday, the local church announces. • Business Sale Completed Tues. Announced here Tuesday morn ing by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bays was the sale of the Vernonia 5 and 10, the variety store they pur chased some time ago from Mr and Mrs. Merle Cline. The new owner of the store is Mrs. Florence Messing who as sumed the ownership Tuesday. Mrs. Messing will be assisted in the store by her daughter, Miss Jean McDonald. Arre»t Made Thursday City police arrested Robert Dick erson, 33, last Thursday on the charge of burglary in a dwelling in the night time. Dickerson was being held in the county jail at St. Helens under heavy bail await ing disposition of the case. Funeral home for Peter Rusow who passed away at 10 p.m. August 7. The deceased was 82 years, five months and six days of age. He had made his home in Ver nonia for the past 11 years and in Oregon for 37 years. He was born at Buckingham, Missouri. Rev. Ray L. Aplet officiated at the services and interment was at the Vernonia Memorial cem etery. Surviving the deceased are: a step-son, James Rusow; two step daughters, Mrs. Mary Smith of Newberg and Mrs. Nora Greenslit of Carlton and several children in the East. • Eagles Win From All-stars Sat. The F.O.E. softball team won again, this time against the Forest Grove American I .eg ion, in an all- star group made up of players from the two top Grove teams. This win, 4 to 2, was the first de- ■ feat for the visitors this seasen. The all-stars are slated to play in the state tournament later this season. Both teams were tied 2 up until an extra base hit by Jack Frank brought in the winning run. Five hits were recorded for the Eagles as compared with two for the Grove. • Train Tunnel Opened Today The S. P. & S. tunnel on the line between here and Buxton is scheduled for reopening this morn ing, Thursday, company officials said Wednesday when they reveal • ed the extent of the damage re sulting Monday morning of this Teacher Hired week. Miss Elaine Bristlin has been Work started Monday to shorten hired by School District 47 to the tunel and resulted in a slip teach the third grade at Washing which made necessary the tempo ton for the coming school year Superintendent Paul Gordon said rary closing until repairs could be made. Monday. prices. The circumstance is a rate reduction which is scheduled to become effective with the cooper ative’s September billing, Man ager Guy Thomas said Wednesday. The reduction is one that has been held up until the change could be ratified by the rural electrification administration and the Bonneville power administra tion. The change can be made here because of action taken Tuesday evening at the August board of directors meeting when the new schedules were examined by the board and accepted. The reduction will vary from two to 20 per cent, depending upon the KWH consumption of each user, Mr. Thomas said, and. will provide the biggest saving for the larger consumers. This lowering of rates will also tend to encourage a broader use of electricity, the manager said. By a vote of the cooperative board Tuesday, a neon sign will be ordered for the office building. • 89 Degrees Is July Heat Top Top temperature recording for the month of J.uly was 89 degrees according to the report released a few days ago by Mrs. Helen Spofford who maintains the coop erative weather station. The high point was listed for July 17. The minimum temperature reading of 40 degrees occured four times dur ing the month: July 4, 8, 21, and 22. Total precipitation was 1.08 inches with the greatest amount listed in one day being .34 of an inch on the 28th. Other data in the report was: prevailing wind direction, north west; days clear, 9, partly cloudy, 4 and cloudy, 17. There were seven days with the maximum temperature below 70 degrees and three days when the maximum was above 80 degrees. The min imum temperature was above 50 degrees on seven nights and the rest of the time ranged between 40 and 49 degrees. • Sight Mechanism Being Displayed People who wondered about the Norden bomb sight which gave American flyers an advantage dur ing the recent war can see part of the mechanisnf at the West Ore gon Electric office. Being dis played there is a unit known as the bomb sight “brain”. The mechanism which originally cost the government $6800 was purchased by West Oregon Man ager Guy Thomas from government surplus property. He plans to use many of the parts composing the “brain". • Glad Show Set For Saturday People living in the Upper Ne halem valley who grow gladioli are reminded again this week of the gladioli show scheduled for Saturday at the Vernonia Bakery. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Peterson, the owners of the bakery, request that entries be made the day before the show or on Friday so that they can be properly arranged for dis play and judging. The event is the first of its kind here and is creating favorable comment. Several merchandise prizes are being offered to the winners. Judging will be on the basis of size and color.
