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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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