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Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering. VOLUME 25, NUMBER 41 IMPLEMENT BUSINESS OPENED HERE Crawford-Olson Firm Named New Ferguson Dealer VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, ORE. Cabbage Tops Previous Mark Evidently this was an excellent season for the growth of cabbage, judging by the numerous reports of large-sized heads. Again this week Charles Cicero tells the size of his final entry of the season. His head of cabbage, which was weighed on thQ scales at Safeway Store, registered 27% pounds, con siderably more than the last pre viously reported weight of 22% pounds listed September 18 by Harold McEntire. Other garden produce also comes in for mention this week. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Boeck, who reside on Kcasey route have raised some large or.ions. Mrs. Boeck brought two to the Eagle office last week, both weighing 2’4 pounds. One measured 17% inches in circum ference. Mr. and Mrs. Boeck have raised 50 of the onions that are just as large, she said. They also have been enjoying muskmellon3 from their garden for the past month. This is the first report received here that the mellons have been grown successfully in this locality. • Opened for business earlier this week here is a new Vernonia firm ■which will act as distributors for the Ferguson farm implements and tractors. The firm will operate under the name of the Crawford- Olson Equipment company and is located in part of the build ing, formerly used by Lee Motors, Tom Crawford, one of the parten- ers said Monday. The concern has been named distributor for the Ferguson line for both Columbia and Washing ton counties, Mr. Crawford said, and will have representatives to contact farmers in all rural areas. He is in charge of operating the firm and will not be joined by the other partners until later this year. . Crawford-Olson will occupy only the office space not now occupied by the Vernonia Cleaners. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Lee, owners of the building are planning to lease that part of the building formerly used as a repair shop to still another firm. • A shipment of Ferguson farm implements has already arrived here and plans are underway for Mrs. Emma Virtue passed away the construction of a warehouse. Tuesday evening October 7, at her Mr. Crawford at one time owned home at Treharne. Mrs. Virtue had the building now owned by Mr. been ill for several months and and Mrs. Lee, selling it to them was bed fast the last six weeks. over three years ago. She had many friends, having lived at Camp 8 for a number of • years. She leaves to mourn her loss her husband, Wm. Virtue, one daughter, Mrs. Helen Foster from Detroit, Michigan, two grand daughters and five great grand- childern of Detroit. Funeral services were held here Funeral arrangements are in Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock for charge of Miller and Tracy, Port Betty Jean Hinkley, daughter of land, with vault entombment at Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Hinkley, Riverview Abbey Thursday at 2 who passed away as the result of o’clock. an automobile accident the even • ing of October 1 near the Banks overhead crossing. The girl was born April 14, 1941 and passed away at the age of six years, five months and 17 days at the Forest Grove hospital. County Agent W. G. Nibler will The family was on the way to Vernonia from Vanport, where he be at the Pleasant Hill grange was to start work at the O-A mill. hall Friday, of next week, October The services were conducted at 17, at 8 p.m., a grange announce the Bush Funeral home with Rev. ment this week states, and will H. L. Russell officiating and the talk on sileage and show moving burial was at the Vernonia Mem- pictures at that time. The agent’s talk here is being crial cemetery. sponsored by Vernonia grange • booster members and the meeting R. C. Secretary Here is open to everyone. Pot-luck Mrs. R. W. Simeral of St. lunch will be served afterwards. • Helens was here Friday afternoon of last week in the interests of 6 Named on List the Columbia County Chapter of Six Nehalem valley people, five the American Red Cross. Mrs. Simeral was recently named ex of them from Vernonia were ecutive secretary of the county named last week to serve on the chapter. A Red Cross represen October circuit jury. The five tative is scheduled to be in Vernon from here are: Earl H. King, Mar ia on the first and third Friday ion B. Steers, Otto Bittner, J. W. * afternoons of each month and Nichols and James G. Cox, Sr. will have headquarters at the Mac T. N. Dunlap, of Mist, is also in cluded on the list. Donald Hotel. Mrs. Emma Virtue Dies Tues. Eve. Accident Causes. Girl's Death County Agent To Talk Fri, Cig, Sales Tax Draws 'No' Vote Here Tuesday People in the four Vernonia precincts hold in line with think ing elsewhere in the state when it comes to the sales tax. The vot ing here Tuesday indicated a dis like for both the sales tax and the cigarette tax as evidenced by results posted at the polling places. By the precincts the vote was: Yes No SALES TAX 15 112 Precinct. 1 146 28 Precinct 2 168 39 Precinct 3 30 102 Precinct 4 528 112 Total No Yes CIGARETTE TAX 38 89 Precinct 1 54 121 Precinct 2 50 51 Precinct 3 40 90 Precinct 4 182 533 Total The election on a proposed sales tax was the fifth held in Farming. Recreation.” Oregon and the fifth time that such a measure has been voted down by the people. The defeat means that income tax exemp tions will change as of January 1 of the coming year and become effective on income during 1947. The exemption for a single per son will be reduced from $750 to $500 and for a married couple, from $1500 to $1000. • New Teacher Hired Mrs. Olive Stevens has been hired to instruct a second grade class at the Washington grade school. Superintendent Paul A. Gordon said Wednesday morning. Mrs. Stevens fills the remaining vacancy on the teaching staff of the school he said. She began work here Monday. GRID ELEVEN PLAYS BETTER IN FRI. GAME Vernonia Squad Tallys 19-7 Win Over Seagulls By MEI.VIN SCHWAB The Vernonia Loggers, staging a brilliant comeback," defeated the Seaside eleven 19-7 Friday night October 3 at 8 p.m. on the local field before a capacity crowd of fans. The start of the game saw Sea side. win the toss of the coin and elect to receive. The kick was taken by Ellis on the 15-yard line and carried to the 35. From there the Seagulls were forced to kick on the fourth down. The Loggers were unable to do anything the first quarter with the breaks of the game with them. The Seaside Gulls received a penalty on the 17- yard line and fumbled the pigskin which was recovered by Brown of Vernonia. The best the Loggers could do in four downs was to lose the ball on the 31. The first quarter saw the Seaside team pushing the light Logger squad all over the field. The second quarter saw the Loggers come out of their slump and start a passing attack which clicked. Frank’s pass to Bass at the start of the quarter netted the Loggers their first tally with a run of 50 yards by Bass. The try for the extra point was good with Frank dropkicking the pig skin through the uprights. Once again the Gulls suffered another attack of fumbleitus, losing the ball on their own 35-yard line. Bass plunged to the 20, but the Loggers were unable to put it over from there. Seaside then kicked te the Vernonia 40. Once again the Loggers passing attack started clicking. This time a pass from Frank to Brown put the ball on Seaside’s 40 and was followed by another pass from Frank to Bass which put the ball on the 16. Bass then took the ball around right end for the second touchdown of the game. The try for the extra tally was no good with Cline drop ping a perfect pass from Frank. The end of the half saw the Log gers leading the Seagulls 13 to 0. At half time festivities, the Ver nonia Freshmen defeated the Sea side Rooks 7 to 0. Highlight of the game was when Crowston, on an intercepted pass, ran from his own 45 to paydirt for the tally. The try for point was good with Crowston again taking the honors. The whistle ending the game saw the Vernonia Frosh heading for pay dirt once again. At the start of the second half the Loggers, wasting no time, took the ball to pay territory. Schaumberg took the kickoff from his own 20 to the 43-yard line. From there the most spectacular run of the game was made with Bass going through the line from his own 43 to the 19 after dodg ing a host of tacklers. Again the passing combination of Frank to Bass scored with a beautiful pass being caught over the goal line. The try for point was no good. The latter part of the third quarter saw the Seagulls on a drive. At the end of that period the ball rested on the Logger's seven-yard line. The Seaside eleven, after fail ing to make any yardage through the line, elected to pass the ball on the four-yard line. A pass from Foss to Surwell gave the Seagulls their one and only tally. The try for point was good with Foss plowing through the center of the line. The rest of the fourth quarter saw the Gulls on a drive which was stopped on the eight yard line. At the end, the Log gers were in possession of the ball driving downfield. The Loggers looked good in this game compared to the 33-0 lacing suffered last week from the hands of St. Helens. Their blocking was better, as was the tackling. The Loggers will play the Col umbia Prep Crusaders Friday afternoon at 2:30 on the Univer- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1947 Garbage Franchise Still Open; Port Lease Talked Someone to haul garbage in the of conveyance that must be used City of Vernonia in conformity . and the charges for collecting. with the regulations of the city J. R. Lee, who has been con franchise adopted at a recent sidering the franchise since it was meeting is still wanted by the adopted, offered two counter pro c.ty council, it developed Monday posals Monday, neither of which evening when the problem again were acceptable to the council. came up for discussion. The fran Consequently the franchise is still chise, as adopted, sets forth rules open and interested parties are that also control the city dumping asked to meet at the city hall at grounds in addition to the kind the next council meeting sched uled for Monday evening, October 20. When the garbage regulation becomes effective, the city dump will be enclosed and dumping by city residents will be allowed one day a week. People residing out side the city will probably be charged for use of the disposal plot. While the council considered the Sound Movies Show October 11 Vivid full-color scenes from astronomy and natural science are featured in “The God of Crea Dr. Irwin A. Moon of Moody Bible tion,” sound motion picture to be shown at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Institute, seen above in one of his October 11, at the Christian “Sermons from Science” demon church according to the Rev. L. strations, is the producer of the sound-color film "The God of Aplet, pastor. In the opening section of “The Creation” to be shown at 7:30 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 11) at the Christ God of Creation” the audience takes a trip to the stars by means ian Church. of solar photographs taken through the giant 100-inch telescope of sity of Portland field. Mount Wilson Observatory in Team lineups were as follow: southern California, and views VERNONIA LOGGERS complex gyrations of our solar POS. PLAYER NO. system. LE Lester DeHart 22 Lapse-time photography is util RE Don Cline 29 ized to demonstrate the beauties RT John Carmichael 34 of natural science. The illusion LT Donovan Reynolds 43 of flower buds developing into LG Kay Miller 39 full-blossoms in a few seconds is RG Alvin Tapp 33 created through this time-compres C Donald Renfro 42 sing photo technique. The met Q Don Schaumberg ? ? amorphosis of a caterpillar LH Tick Bass 36 through the various stages from RH Jack Frank 28 worm to butterfly, and pollination F John Brown 38 of flowers are seen on the screen Subs: Lamping, Williams, Rob in full color. Believed to be the first of their erts, Wilcoxin, Mitchell, Snyder, Lungren, F. Reynolds, Nightwine, kind are the natural color pictures Crowston, LaFollett, Fleskes and of photosynthesis, the mysterious food-manufacturing process result Millis. ing from the action of sunlight on SEASIDE SEAGULLS green leaves. Through photomicrography the POS. PLAYER NO. LE Cheg Kleaver 21 audience peers into the microscopic RE Dick Surwell 33 world of a drop of water and ob RT Bob Mattson 22 serves the complexity of tiny or LT Leo Leard 31 ganisms, enlarged more than a LG Bill Harris 43 million times. RG Boyd Rosenbalm 42 • C Art Grafton 40 Q Don Ellis 29 LH Keith Molan 24 RH Chuck McWharter’ 28 F Don Foss 25 Subs: McCullen, Fraser, Evans, Added service for people who Bodway, Harris, Schields, Truex, are in need of legal advice will Kan, Lahr, Hopp, Maize, Perrin, be forthcoming in the future as Hackinson and Earl. the result of a change announced Referees for the game were Monday evening by jCity Attorney Kirkpatrick and Cereghino with Neal Bush. Beginning today, Gordon being headlinesman. Cecil Thursday, Glen (Bodie) Heiber, Johnson was the timekeeper. Hillsboro attorney, will maintain • office hours here on Thursday and Legal Service Change Noted Missionary to Talk Mrs. Eugena Phillips Coats, a missionary from Guatemala, will speak at the Church of the Naz arene Sunday at both the morning and evening services, Rev. H. L. Russel, pastor, said Wednesday morning. Saturday afternoons of each week. Mr Hieber and Mr. Bush will be partners in the work and the former will use the office space in the Joy Theatre building now used by Mr. Bush. The change will give local people legal service three days of each week. matter of franchises Monday, the subject of the telephone franchise was again brought up, but was tabled. Councilmen expressed the belief that phone service is still below the standard desired and that improvement must be made before that agreement with the company is signed. Also withheld at the Monday meeting was the renewal of the lease for Vernonia’s airport. The former lease was between the city and the Cody-Wiecking Aero Ser vice at Scappoose and gave the city five per cent of the gross revenue derived by the Service while using the airport. Little use of the field was made last year, hence little revenue for city coffers and as a result, the council showed little inclination to renew the paper. Mayor Johnson asked City Attorney Neal Bush to contact a flying service firm at Hillsboro respective to use of the field and report to the council at the Oc tober 20 meeting. If no other group wishes to make use of the port, it is likely that the council will renew the Cody-Wiecking lease. Little other business was trans acted during the evening except examination and acceptance of the monthly billr and the making of a decision to purchase the lota on Bridge street east of Rock creek, which are now used for gravel stockpiling. • Schroeder Names New Fire Warden Ed Schroeder, district warden in charge of the Northwest forest protective district with headquart ers at Forest Grove, Wednesday stated that Frank Sargent, who has been assistant district warden in charge of Columbia county, has been transferred into the conserva- department. Sargent has been stationed at the Pittsburg guard station for two years. The Pittsburg station will be in charge of J. J. Mickelonis who has been with Mr. Sargent for two months. The new warden is • graduate forester of Pennsylvania State. Mr. Sargent has moved to Beaverton. • Sunday Dated for 50th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Emil Minger will observe their 50th wedding an niversary Sunday, October 12 and are inviting friends from 12 to 6 p.m. that day. The event will also mark 25 years of residence in America and 19 years in Ver nonia. The Mingers have six children, 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Their children are: Charles of Vernonia; Martha Feldt of Cornelius; Clara Reich and Gertrude McNally of Portland and Emil and Ernest of Oakland, California. Mrs. Minger is 71 years of age and Mr. Minger, 78. Over 48 Men Enrolled in National Guard Unit COMPANY K INCREASED CUPID AMOUNT TO $42 ST. HELENS—Enlistments are continuing to swell the ranks, of Company K, St. Helens national guard unit, according to First Lieut. Don Baker, company com mander. Lieut. Baker said that the unit is composed of 48 men at present and that it should pass the 50 mark by this weekend. Principal need of Company K is an adequate armory and a suit able building is said to be forth coming as soon as a site for it can be found. ST. HELENS—With 14 couples applying at the county clerk’s of fice for permits to wed during the month of September, a total of $42 was realized from this source of income. The number of mar riage licenses issued was the highest for any month of 1947 ex cept June, traditional month of brides, when 17 couples made ap plication for licenses. Other sources of income at the clerk's office in September were: Recording fees, $505.55; county fees, $181; circuit judge, $88; district attorney, $50; trial $6; re porter, $15; probate court, $82.50; law library, $53.10; liquor license, $5; migratory chattel fees, $26; miscellaneous, $48.50; total $1,- 102.65. HUNTERS BRING IN DEER CLATSKANIE — Hunters are out in the forests and woods of Oregon and they were doing pret ty well right around Clatskanie, according to reports at noon last Thursday when five deer had been brought in to the meat markets. It is probable that a number had been taken directly home by the hunters.
