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Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farmings Recreation.” VOLUME 25, NUMBER 48 Chairman Urges Attention Vernonia Man Chest Drive Authors Item To Begin Here To Farm Program Vote In Magazine First of Week House-to-Hou»e Canvass Is Plan To Be Followed People living in Vernonia and the surrounding area can expect to be contacted by people who will solicit for the community chest within the next few days, Mrs. Ben Brickel said Wednesday. Mrs. Brickel is in charge of ar rangements for conducting the actual solicitation while John Elder IWA business agent, has been named as chairman of the drive. Actual work of contacting people living here is scheduled to begin early next week and will continue until everyone has had the opportunity of giving to the cause. No solicitation is to be made this year of the people working at the mill, Mrs. Brickel said. Members of several local or ganizations will participate in the work, among them being the Study club, Pythian Sisters, Mt. Heart Social club, P.E.O., Nehalem Social club and the V.F.W. Auxiliary. The last named group will have charge of Riverview and the others will divide the remaining areas. A county quota of $14,000 has been establ'shed, but no figures for this arna alone have been re leased. However, it is expected that half the funds collected will be retained for use in this com munity. Since February, 1944 up to the present, the local community chest committee has expended $399.88 for people living here. Of that amount, $329 was devoted to the payment of food orders for th» destitute and $70.88 went for miscellaneous expenses such as lights, wood, clothing, etc. • Conference Set fit University Two Vernonia high school stu dents will probably attend the an nual Oregon High School Press conference December 5 and 6, Principal Ray Mills said Tuesday. Scheduled to be present foi the two-day event are Miss Maxine Hartwick, editor of the Memolog, high school year book, and Miss Beverly Herrin, editor of the Timberline, school publication. Scheduled as speakers for the event are Robert C. Notson of the Portland Oregonian and Floyd W. Lanson of the Associated Press bureau in Portland. Members of the university school of journal ism faculty will head the round table discussions that are designed to acquaint the young journalists with the basic, designs of news paper work. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1947 VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY, ORE. at the Natal Grange, on Tuesday, December 2, at 1 p.m.; Clatskanie in the Odds Fellows hall on Wed nesday, December 3, at 1 p.m.; Rai nier in the City hall on Thursday, December 4, at 1 p.m.; Yankton- Goble in the county court house on Friday, December 5, at 10 a.m.; Warren-Scappoose in the Scap poose Fire hall on Friday, Decem ber 5, at 1:30 p.m. The agricultural adjustment act provides that the administration of the farm program on the coun ty and community level shall be in the bands of local farmer-elect ed committeemen. Committeemen and the office force will be on hand from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Clatskanie A public hearing for classifica meeting, and from 10 a.m. until tion of second growth and cut- 3:30 p.m. at the Nehalem Valley over forest lands under the forest and Rainier meetings to take re fee and yield tax will be held ports on 1947 practices. Anyone in the Columbia county courthouse who does not file his report at the at 2 p.m. on December 5, accord meeting in his community, will ing to Edward Schroeder, district have to file it at the office warden in charge of this forest in St. Helens. The people in the area. Yankton-Goble and Warren-Scap Under the law, tentative class poose communities are asked to ification lists "are prepared by the file their report at the office in state board of forestry and are St. Helens. forwarded to county officials, dis In 1948 there are going to be a trict vzardens, and the state tax ' number of changes in the ACP commission. Sixty days before program according to Mr. Watts. the date for a public hearing, These changes will be discussed which is conducted by the state at the meetings by County Agent feregtvy board, legal notices of W. G. Nibler. Recommendations such hearings are mailed to each on pasture seeding, weed control of the landowners having prop and other practices will also be erties included in the preliminary discussed with an opportunity for • list. About 18 Columbia property questions. owners are affected. Every farmer who signed a 1947 The presiding officials at the farm plan is urged to attend the hearing will receive all verbal or meeting, vote for his committee- written objections to, and sugges men, and l"arn about the 1948 tions and remonstrances for or program and practices. against the proposed classifica • tions. After the hearing the pre liminary lists are reconsidered by the State Board of Forestry and final classification lists are pre pared. District Warden Schroeder stat Oregon gasoline sales went over ed that Dean Paul M. Dunne, board member and head of the the 300 million gallon level in the school of forestry at Oregon State first nine months of the year to college and members of the county top the 1946 record for the same court and Homer Lyon, reforesta period by 13 percent, Secretary of tion director of the board bf State Earl T. Newbry has announ forestry, will conduct the hear ced. Showing steady month-by-month ing. More information on the forest gains since January, sales reached an all-time peak in August as fee and yield tax law, page 5. pumps throughout the state re • corded over 43 million gallons. September gas use eased off to 42 million gallons but led sales for September of 1946 by more than 14 per cent. Officials said taxes on sales so Ricky Bush, Oregon Journal far this year have netted the state carrier, will ride the Journal heli treasury $14 million. Consumption for the remaining copter Friday, November 28, as winner in a sales contest in which months of 1947 is expected to stay he increased his route by 25 daily at high levels with winter traffic and Sunday orders. He wrote volumes heaviest in history. Safe more orders than any boy in Col ty men said this means the danger umbia county which entitles him of a climb in traffic deaths due to ride over Portland plus a nice to bad weather accidents is in creasingly grave, underscoring the commission check. Ricky wishes to express his ap need for lower speeds and alert preciation to all those who helped driving in darkness and on slip pery road surfaces. him put the contest over. A last minute call to all farm ers of Columbia county to vote in farm program elections was issued Tuesday by J. G. Watts, chairman of the county agricultural con servation committee. Mr. Watts urged farmers to make certain that their vote will be counted in the election of com munity committeemen and del egates to the county convention where the county pommittee will be elected. The elections are sched uled as follows: Nehalem valley Forest Hearing Set for Dec. 5 Gasoline Sales Reach New Peak Paper Carrier to Ride Helicopter Article Gives Information on Dairy Goat Feed Appearing in the Dairy Goat Journal, a magazine published monthly at Columbia, Missouri, for the November issue is an article written by Irving Conklin, who resides on the old Luther place on Rock creek. The article, entitled “Know Your Feeds,” deals with feed costs which are the greatest single item in goat dairy ing. To know feeds and feeding is necessary to profitable opera tion and feed conservation. The Dairy Goat Journal is reck- ognized by goat raisers through out the world as a highly authentic publication and one that is read by more owners of goat herds than any other. Mr. Conklin, who now has a herd of 25 througbred Swiss Saanen goats, moved here from California the first of last April. He has had available for his use the technical material of the Cal ifornia Polytechnic school and also is the owner of a library of con siderable , size dealing with in formation on goats. Easter Lily Errs on Season Ever have someone say today was Wednesday when it really was Friday or ask what month of the year it is? Lots of people forget or mistake the day, but humans can’t be credited with all the errors if it may be so called. Plants also make mistakes judg ing by a report from Mrs. Bob Spencer who has an Easter lily that has three large blossoms now. • New Car Plates Out December 1 Oregon car owners may pick up 1948 license plates at the Salem and Portland offices of motor vehicle division on (and after December 1, without wait ing to receive them through the usual mail channels, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry has an nounced. Offices are located, in the Cap itol building, Salem, and at 625 NE Oregon Street, Portland. Newby stressed that plates will be issued on renewal registrations only and may not be attached to vehicles until December 15, in ac cordance with Oregon law. Temporary licenses, issued at county sheriff’s .offices, will not • be available until that date. Ap plications already in the mail will be processed as usual. Applicants for truck and bus licenses are advised to contact the Four winning posters and an public utilities commission, 460 honorable mention were the, re North Commercial Street, Salem, sults of judging by the Vernonia to learn the requirements of the library board last Wednesday new transportation act before afternoon of posters prepared by calling at motor vehicle division the 6th grades under the direction offices. Under the new law, the of Miss Reba Jo Hughes, grade standard plates for many com mercial vehicles may be received school art instructor. The posters were prepared as for the regular five-dollar fee now part of this community’s part in effect for passenger cars. 1948 plates have red numerals icipation in National Children's Book week and under the theme on an aluminum background. • of “Books for the World of Tomorrow.” First and second places for boys were ^warded to David Strong and Jerry Herrin respectively and honorable mention went to Wayne Thomas and Earl Ray who both Two Vernonia high school girls, worked on one poster. First and working as a team, placed second second places for girls went to in the women’s debate tournament Patty Wells and Marjorie Malm- held November 15 on the campus sten. of Pacific university. About 150 The posters are being displayed high school students from 10 now in downtown store windows. Oregon high schools attended this Along with the poster contest, annual fall high school speech the library received 55 books which contest. are being displayed in the win The second place winners were dows at Miller’s Department store Beverly Herrin and Martha Wells. and Bush Furniture and also at Miss Herrin also rated a third the library. The library board will place mention fo her extempor select volumes from the list to aneous speaking, while Miss Wells purchase and place on the shelves was judged second for extempor for readers. aneous and third in oratory. • The high school squad of de Board Selects Poster Winners Two Debaters Place at Meet Schoolmaster* to Meet The Columbia County School masters club is scheduled to meet next Monday at Rainier and will probably talk details for the fu ture basketball jamboree. Men teachers in county schools afe members of the organization. baters also participated in debate competition earlier this month when they and their director. Miss Helen Siner, went to Portland un iversity. No decisions were made there naming first, second and third places, but speakers were rated as excellent or otherwise. Union Store Talked by Local Thnrs. Six Member* to Investigate Details, Report Harvey Nelson, president of the Columbia River District Council, and Chester Dusten, regional director of CIO for Oregon, were visitors of IWA Local 5-37 last Thursday to set up a committee which will investigate the pos sibility of setting up a union store in this vicinity. Preliminary work has already- been done towards obtaining infor mation about the proposed store and definite details will be re ported to the union membership at a future date. Selected by the Local to act on the committee are: Rex Normand, Fred Roediger, Jewell Lloyd, J. W. Nichols, Dudley Spofford and Herman Wood. • Loggers to Play Over 20 Games The basketball schedule of the Vernonia Loggers for the coming 1947-48 hoop season was released Monday of this week by Coach Jake Hergert. The Loggers have two open dates to fill on their calender and so far are slated to play 20 games not including the Lower Columbia Jamboree slated December 19 at St. Helens. The schedule is as follows: Dec. 5—Beaverton, here Dec. 9—Beaverton, there Dec. 12—Open Dec. 16—Williamina, there Dec. 19—Jamboree at St. Helens Dec. 22—Tillamook, th»'e Dec. 29 or 30—Tillamook, here Jan. 6—Open Jan. 9—Rainier, here Jan. 13—Parkrose, here Jan. 16—Scappoose, there Jan. 20—St. Helens, here Jan. 23—Parkrose, there Jan. 27—Clatskanie, here Jan. 30—Seaside, here Feb. 3—Williamina, here Feb. 6—Rainier, there Feb. 10—Sherwood, there Feb. 13—Scappoose, here Feb. 17—St. Helens, there Feb. 20—Sherwood, here Feb. 24—Clatskanie, here Feb. 27—Seaside, there Coach Jake Hergert also stated this week that he has 33 boys now turning out for the squad and tha the cut will probably come within the next two weeks. Additional sports page 6. • Speaking Date Set Mrs. Eugenia Phillips Cooke will speak at the Nazarene church Sunday, November 30, Rev. H. L. Russell, pastor of the church, said Wednesday morning. Mrs. Cooke has spent 30 years as a mission ary in Guatamala. Five-Year Sentence Made in Circuit Court ELLIS GIVEN FIVE YEARS Pictured here are 34 of the high school Loggers who turned out for the 1947 season. 4th Row: LaFollette. Shipman Forest Reynolds. Snyder, Knightwine, Brew r and Limping; 3rd Row: Overson, manager. Jake Hergert, head coach. Renfro, Tapp. Lundgren, Rober.s, Millis, Williams. Wilcoxin. Donovan Reynolds. De Hart Beck ( rowston and Lee Pangle and Louis Graven, assistant coaches; 2nd Row: Brady, Carmichael, Frank Cline Baas, Fredrickson and Miller; 1st Row: Brady. Eby, Adams. Sauer. Middleton, Eckland, Mills, Wall and May. Absent for the photo were B own and Schaumburg. ST. HELENS—Ted H. Ellis of Vernonia was sentenced to five years in the Oregon state peniten tiary by Judge Howard K. Zim merman in circuit court laat week after he pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with intent to commit rape. Ellis was indicted by the Columbia county grand jury last month. Another Vernonia man, Robert Dickerson, was also brought be fore the court but hearing pf the case was halted by a technicality concerning the wording of the indictment and Judge Zimmerman issued an order resubmitting the matter to the grand jury. Dicker- son was charged with burglary in a dwelling in the night time. He was arrested by state police oa August 6. REWARD OFFERED ROAD RAINIER—A reward of $50 is being offered by Thomas L. Mc Bride and A. D. McAnear for in formation that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who broke into the of fices of both the Rainier high school and the Rainier grade school, ransacked the premises and attempted to crack the safes. The job is characterized as hav ing been an .amatuerish local ef fort. ST. HELENS—The legislature’s interim committee on highways last Tuesday heard with appar ently favorable interest the pre sentation of a case for improve ment of the St. Helens to Astoria road made by a committee rep resenting the newly-formed Lower Columbia Highway association. Possibility of a bond issue to pay for the highway improvement work was raised by one member of the legislative committee, who asked the representaives of Co lumbia and Clatsop counties what the reaction would be among tax payers of these two counties. Man- ley Wilson, joint representavie from the counties, who headed the Highway association delegation, said that approval might be given to such a' proposal if a strong case were made for it. NEW FERRY TO BE USED CLATSKANIE—In about two months a new steel ferry between Westport and Puget Island to transport autos and passengers across the Columbia will be placed in service. Elmer Danielson,-the owner says the new ferry will be 65 feet long and will have a capacity of more than 12 cars. The engine from the old vessel will be used. NEED CITED
