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Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation. ” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1SM7 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 25, NUMBER 40 Horse Logging Flourishes on Columbia Tree Farm LOGGERS LOSE TO SAINTS 33-0 FRIDAY Lions Scoring Spree Comes in First Period Strikes Cause PRECINCT 3 4 County Fires VOTING PLACE Four lightning fires in Columbia county were the result of the elec trical storm last Saturday night, the state forestry department headquarters reported early this week. One blaze, started on Coal creek, was extinguished by the Columbia Tree Farm fire fighting equipment. The forestry crew from Pittts- burg extingished another fire on Pebble creek and two between the Beaver creek road and the Timber road. The Pittsburg crew also extinguished one just across the county line in Washington county on the Beaver creek road. Three more fires in the Scofield area were handled by a crew from Forest Grove. All fires were in snags or green trees. Numerous other strikes were found which had left no fire in their wake. CHANGE MADE Washington Grade School New Ballot Casting Place The voters of one of the Ver nonia precincts will go to a dif St. Helens was a beehive of ferent place to cast their ballot* activity Friday night, September for or against the sales tax meas 26, when the Lions had beaten the ure and the cigarette tax next Vernonia Loggers after seven week Commissioner’ Wm. Pringle, years of trying, by a resounding Sr., said late last week. The score of 33-0. With horns honk change is for precinct 3 residents ing, the outcome of the gridiron who formerly voted in a room in battle was announced as an event the building formerly housing the which hasn’t taken place too often. C. Bruce lumber office. Now, res The first half of the game saw idents of precinct 3 will go to the Joe Haebe, burly 210 pound full Washington grade school build back for the Lions, plow over three times and Don Neveau once, ing. making the score at the half time The change in voting places period 26-0 in favor of the St. was made possible earlier this Helens squad. year when the boundary of the The second half saw the Log precinct was changed so that the gers hold the Lions practically to a standstill compared to the first grade school building is now in quarter, with the Saints scoring No. 3 instead of No. 2. Part of The first nine years of ex the basement will be used as the only one time. ’ The Loggers great weak spot istence for the local Aerie, Fra polling place Mr. Pringle said. was in the line through which ternal Order of Eagles will be com The other three voting places, the Lions made most of their memorated October 10th by a which remain the same as for pre yardage. The blocking was poor dance at the Legion hall, members vious elections are: precinct 1, as was the • tackling. Jack Frank ( of the organization announced Sundland Electric building; pre did beautiful passing even when Tuesday of this week after plans cinct 2, IWA Union hall and pre rushed so fast he couldn’t spot had crystalized for the affair. cinct 4, city hall. The dance will feature Buck his receivers too well. Members of the election boards “St. Helens was good, but not Beeman and his Western Pals who for the four local divisions are: that good,” said Jake Hergert, will provide the evening’s music. No. 1—John Erickson, chai -man, Vernonia coach. “Maybe one or The orchestra is heard between Mrs. Winston Walker, Mrs. Harry two touchdowns against the Log 5 and 6 p.m. every Saturday over Junken, Mrs. Cleo Walrath and gers, but not five. The game was station KWJJ. Mrs. Charles Poetter; No. 2—Rev. one of bad breaks also. Penalties Allen H. Backer, chairman, Mrs. raised havoc with the ¡Loggers five J. M. Currie, Mrs. A. E. Tapp, times and also passes that should Mrs. John Grady and Mrs. Cecil have been caught were dropped.” Johnson; The only injury was Buffered No. 3—Mrs. J. W. Nichols, by Don Cline, who will be back in chairman, Mrs. John Titus, Glen the Seaside game. Hawkins, Robert Lindsay and One of the most significant Mrs. Wm. Chalmers and No. 4— Monday, September 29, saw the Loggers go through their toughest dates in the entire church year is J. W. Rose, chairman, Jack Nance, practice of the season with a Sunday, October 5. On that day, Mrs. M. J. Lamping, Mrs. Juanita concentration of tackling and churches of all denominations here Timmons and Mrs. George John blocking taking place. The players as well as throughout the world son. were so tired after practice that will observe World-wide Commun • they could hardly get to the ion Sunday. They will do this in remembrance of a time when 13 dressing rooms. On Friday night, October 3, at men met together in an upper 8 p.m. the Seaside Seagulls will room for communion with their come to Vernonia to challenge Lord—their last communion to the local team. Last year saw the gether. The communion at the Christian Receipt of checks for each Seagulls win over the Loggers, but this year, without the services church will also come as a part school district in Columbia county of Earl, the story should be dif of Loyalty month which the -con for its apportionment of the basic ferent. The Freshmen squads of gregation is observing during Oct school support fund was announced each school will play two quarters ober. last week by Mrs. Lois D. Kent, • while the teams are in the dress county school superintendent. AU ing rooms at halftime. First Deer Reported checks were for one-half of the • Being displayed Wednesday amount due the various districts morning by Harry Eckland was a for the current school year and 125-pound buck shot near the old the amounts were almost identical St. Helens road between the look to estimates made some time ago. out and the highway. Also report Mrs. Kent stated that all clerks ed Wednesday morning was a deer n the various districts must come shot by Bob Thompson at 9 o’clock to her office to pick up the cheeks Eight members of the 1947 near the old McDonald road up apportioned to their units. graduating class of Vernonia high Pebble creek. This animal weigh , In the Nehalem Valley, the fol school enrolled in schools of higher ed about 300 pounds. Frank Ms- lowing amounts will be received: learning Pricipal Ray Mills said Cabe now living at Seaside, also Natal—1939.56; Birkenfeld—»15,- last week when he listed the said he killed his deer about 8:30 908.04; Vernonia elementary— students and the colleges they Wednesday morning while hunt «19,904.97; Mist—»1,498.42 and are attending. ing in the Pebble creek area. Vernonia union high—»8,274.14. Five of the eight are at Oregon State College. They are Cora Du- senberry, Elna Morris, Barbara Keasey, Duke Byers and Billy Olinger. Miss Keasey is the fifth member of the Ted Keasey family SCHOOL TO GET DRIVER low as 1600 pounds. Only a few to be in attendance at that school TRAINER CONTROL CAR silversides are being taken and now. CLATSKANIE—A dual control price for the fish has been in 'Of the three other former mem driver training car for high school creased to 18c per pound. bers of the class, each picked a driving training has been assigned BIG DEER CONTEST different school. Kenneth Ander the Clatskanie high school by the PLANNED BY V. F. W. son is attending Portland Univer AAA in Washington and is en RAINIER—The Rainier V.F.W. sity. Betty Rose is at Linfield and route for delivery to the local are sponsomg a deer derby that Earl Spofford is enrolled at Mult dealer for presentation to the is open to all hunters with prizes nomah College. school, the Oregon State Motor of »75.00 each for the largest Two students of last year’s Association announced last week. Blacktail and the largest Mule graduating class also enrolled in The only cost that must be as deer brought in. colleges this year for their first sumed by the school is insurance, The contest is open to anyone terms. Going to Oregon State is operation and maintenance. having a legal deer tag and com Stella Bellingham and to Pacific FISH CATCHES plying with the hunting laws. University, Walter Buckner. HOLDING STEADY TAX NOTICES WILL • ST. HELENS—Though the fall BE MAILED SOON fishing season is well advanced ST. HELENS—Columbia coun Station Owner Changes (it opened at noon on Sept. 10) ty taxpayers are reminded that Effective yesterday, Wednesday, the take of salmon is holding up notices for both personal and real Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Dripps are better that at the same period in taxes for 1947-48 will be mailed the new owners of the Sunnyside 1946 and the daily take of the out between Oct. 20 and 31 for Service and Feed near Trehame. eight or more fishermen who payment on Nov. 15. Approx Mr. and Mrs. Roy Peasley, former stick by the commercial fishing imately 13,000 notices will be owners are now living at Brush job is close to 2000 pounds per issued, according to Mrs. W. J. Prairie, Washington where they day. On an average, though, for Sullivan, deputy in the tax depart the past few days it has dropped as ment of the sheriff’s office. have purchased a small dairy. BY MELVIN SCHWAB • Fraternal Order Marks 9th Year Old Dobbin’s comeback in the woods is in evidence all around Ver- ronia. Some horse loggers are shown here. Team pulling log is Hugh Devine's, with Devine. Jr., driving. Measuring log are Glen Harmon (left) and Gene Hanon (right), loggers, and Paul Goodmanson (center), resident tree farm forester for Crown Zellerbach. Showing the midget choker, specially made for horse logging, is Rex Normand, who logs with a big team, and who is recording secretary of local 5-37, IWA-C1U. (Photos by American Forest Products Industries, Inc.) BY HAROLD OLSON It sounds fantastic in this machine age, but the good old horse is making a strong come back in the logging industry. Co lumbia county is one of the many areas where Old Dobbin is back in the loggin r picture, 40 years after his heyday. A recent count on the Crown Zellerbach tree farm here showed no less than 14 horses at work skidding logs, and more of them likely to be brought in. In addi tion, horse loggers were operating elsewhere in the county. Out of slightly over a dozen operators now salvage-logging on the Columbia Tree Farm, eight were using horses to move the timber to landings for loadings. Some use teams, others single horses, but all testify that for skidding small logs it’s hard to beat Old Dobbin. Horse loggers on the tree farm include Glen Harman, Gene Han on, Robert L. Hodgson, Lester Mc Nair (father and son), Rex Nor mand, Sr. and Jr., Don O’Brien and Robert Wilfong (partners), Hugh Devine and Lawrence Greg ory. Working in the same area are several machine loggers too, such as Junken and Wells, Stevenson Bothers, Burndt and Hicks, and Frank Reed. They use various types of machine power—crawler tractors, wheel tractors, small donkey engines. Glen Hawkins, superintendent of the tree farm, says it is not a case of the horse replacing ma chinery, but simply that Dobbin has entered the scene to fill a new need. “We are re-logging and thin ning,’’ he explained, “and that in volves the handling of thousands of smaller logs, too light and scattered for handling with heavy machinery. For that type of job the horse is surely useful.” The tree farm is a beehive of activity as the many small oper- ators cut and skid pulp and saw logs to loading points along the roads. Only down timber and snags are harvested. This serves three main .purposes: Reducing the fire hazard for the new timber crops, helping supply wood for the mills, and creating a substan tial new payroll for Columbia county. An average total production per day is 15 truckloads. Scaling is by units of 90 cubic feet, not by board feet or cords. At the Portland office of Crown Zellerbach, Logging Manager E. P. Stamm and Chief Forester Clarence Richen look ahead to many years yet of this type of salvage logging, coupled with thinnings on an increasing scale in the sturdy young forests al ready growing on parts of the tree farm. In fact, thinning has already started, to speed timber growth and increase wood yield. First such operations were carried cut recently in the Natal area under supervision of Resident Forester Paul Goodmanson. Old Dobbin pops up again in this thinning work. Horses are said to be ideal for weaving in and out among the small trees, doing a minimum of damage to roots and bark of the growing stands. Among the several good logging horses out on the tree farm one of the more famous individuals is Dick, an average-sized, black home owned by Glen Harman. Dick is an educated fellow who follows Harman around like a dog, works without a bridle, under stands just about anything by way of instructions and can pull the logs without guidance. He can do just about anything except unhook at the landing, and loggers who have seen him work wouldn’t be too suprised to see him learn that too one of these days. They claim that Dick savvies 40-hour week, and is fond of it as he is of oats and hay. It's all colorful and fascinating to watch, out there on the tree farm, where there are about as many logging systems as there are individual operators, and all mak ing a go of it. There are other colorful small operations in the county too, using horses. One is that of John Titus and William Pringle Jr., along the Vernonia-Mist road a Churches to Observe Day few miles out of town. Titus and Pringle have revived another famous logging practice of long ago. They “bark the ride and snipe the end”, just like pioneer loggers did in the old bull-team and horse days a half century ago. Peeling the contact side and be veling the log end ease the pull for the horses. All the loggers have a double slogan: “Get the logs out” and “Keep Oregon Green.” And they are doing both. • Fire Permit Change Made Peopje who reside within the city limits of Vernonia now have a different place to call for per mits when they wish to start open fires. The change was an nounced the latter part of last week when Frank Slemmons, mem ber of the volunteer fire depart ment, said that permits are now obtainable at his home at* 642 Third street. The ■ permits were formerly is sued to local residents at the Bush Furniture store by Calvin Davis. Mr. Slemmons emphasized that permits very definitely are need ed before open fires for rubbish can be started. During the hot days a short time ago, no permits were allowed in order to do as much as possible in preventing a fire that might damage property. ' • Mill Starts Monday The Oregon-American mill will resume work again Monday morn ing following a week of vacation during which time those employees who wished to had the opportun ity to go deer hunting. • Grades Vacation Washington and Lincoln grade school students will not attend school today, Thursday, and to morrow because of the elementary teachers’ workshop scheduled at St. Helens. All grade instructors are required to attend the two- day session. Schools to Get Basic Aid Fund Eight '47 Grads In College Now About 13,000 to Get Notices of Tax; Dual Control Car Expected
