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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1947)
Library, U of 0 1 • “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” 2-Way Radio Equipment Purchase, Installation Approved for Co-op Telegraphic word received here by the West Oregon Electric Co operative a few days ago gave official okeh, awaited since Sept ember, for the purchase and in stallation of a new two-way FM radio system which the Cooper ative will use for speeding serv'ce in the case of power outages in any part of the system. Announc:- ment of the approval was made here by Cooperative Manager Guy Thomas. Installation is scheduled to begin this week end when a small build ing to house transmitting equip ment will be constructed near the city water reservoir on Corey hill. Permission for use of a small plot of land near the reservoir was granted the Cooperative by city councilmen September 8 of thi3 year. The structure to be erected will be 6’x6’x8’ and will be insulated and sealed so that no damage can result. In addition to the trans- Officer Points Out Benefits Many families of deceased vet erans, estimated sometimes as high as 50 per cent, are wholly ignorant of benefits to which they are entitled under federal and state laws, Dolph Stuart, county service officer, said this week while here on his regular Mon day afternoon visit. New emnhas-'s is being placed on the job, still to be done, con cerning social security, railroad retirement, state tax abatements and exemptions, bonuses, state ed ucational and loan benefits, home stead rights, entitlement to medals and decorations, as well as the every day run of benefits con trolled by the cessation of war on July 25, 1947. The service officer now has a supply of the regulation forms for a veteran wishing to enter the Oregon vocational school at Klamath Falls as well as some new booklets giving additional in formation on studies such as semi- professional occupations, business opportunities, trade and craft skills and agriculture enterprisea. • Auxiliary Plans Dance Dancers will have the oppor tunity of enjoying an affair this Saturday evening, Decemer 6, at which time the V. F. W. Auxiliary is sponsoring a Pearl Harbor dance at the Legion Hall, Mrs. Eva Poynter, president of the Aux iliary, said Monday. , mitting equipment to be housed there, six mobile units capable of transmitting and receiving, will be installed in trucks owned by the Cooperative and 'two in equip ment not owned by the Co-op., but by employees. Land stations, in addition to the one on Corey Hill, will be placed at Jewell and Scog gins valley. The system will op erate on a ferquency of 37.86 megacycles and the time of oper ation is unlimited, meaning that calls may be made any time of the day or night or continued for 24 hours a day. Radio contact will he possible anywhere within a 50-mile radius of Vernonia which will about cover the project’s area. Power for the system will be supplied by batteries so that the calls may be made in the event of a power outage at some point i" the Cooperative’s distribution network. When the installation is completed, much faster service in eliminating outages will be pos sible, Mr. Thomas said, and at the same time savings will be pos sible to consumers by eliminating many of the miles now traveled by mobile equipment, the reduc tion of overtime pay, and con sequent loss of revenue. The Vernonia station will op erate under the call letters of KPLG, the mobile units under KPLH, Scroggins valley under KPLL and Jewell, KPLR. • Yule Program Being Arranged Students at the Washington and Lincoln grade schools have already started work on the Xmas program to be presented this year Superintendent Paul Gordon said Tuesday. Both of the schools will participate in the event and it is likely that num bers will also be added by high school students. Heading the teachers who are directing the various parts of the program is Mrs. Maude Kobow. All teachers will assist her with the work. The program, to be presented December 23, will be in the form of a Christmas operetta entitled, “Hi-ho Holly.” • Students Make Drive Scheduled to end this week at the high school is a fund drive the students are making for the Junior Red Cross. The four clas ses are competing, each to achieve the largest turnover. R. A. George is chairman of the campaign. Sale of Seals Better This Season Than Last TAX BOOST VOTED ST. HELENS — An ordinance jokingly referred to as the Mutton bill, was passed by the council f nd signed by Mayor Leemon Mon day night, which will raise the occupational tax on all establish ments from $5 a year to $10. Tn addition $5 a year will be asses sed against the business establish ments for each employee. Lumber mills within the city limits shall pay according to the volume of production, on a flat scale basis. Mills producing less than 50,000 board feet daily will pay $50 per year and those over that amount will pay $100 yearly. GOOD SEAL SALE ST. HELENS—Returns in the 1947 Christmas seal sale have been coming in a little faster than last year. Mrs. W. W. Collis, coun ty chairman, said last week. Mrs. Collis stated that general response has been good throughout the county and urges all persons to get their returns in early. FIRST SMELT NETTED CLATSKANIE — Verl Anundi was the first this season to report the catch of the little silver smelt. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY, ORE. VOLUME 25, NUMBER 49 He got two small smelt a week ago Thursday night of last week in a drift near Wallace Island. Mr. Anundi kept the smelt to support his claim for the honor of catching the first one. Honors for the past few years have gone to some member of the Jolma families. The first smelt is usually caught by Thanksgiving time but the run does not often 'appear until more around the Christmas holiday time. The appearance of the run is unpredictable. LOGGERS MEET BEflV’TON FRI. The Loggers will play their first game of the season Friday night when they meet Beaverton here Coach Jake Hergert said Tuesday. The Logger B five will also play, beginning at 7 o’clock. This year’s first string lineup contains only three returning let termen, Tapp, Cline and Frank, who will be three year lettermen when this season ends. Williams is also assured of a berth on the team, but the fifth position is still open the . coach said Tuesday. • Postmaster Asks Early Mailing Census Is Less Than Estimated The recently completed child census, which is taken annually to determine a basis for alloting the basic school support fund, fell below the figure which school of ficials hoped for in order to have District 47, Jt., placed in a first class rating. Announcement by Superintendent Paul Gordon of the total as of November 22 when the County 4-H Club Agent Named Hiring of Fredrick H. Dahl, a native of Silverton, to fill the Packages and cards for delivery post of 4-H club agent in Colum by Christmas should be mailed bia county was announced last early, Emil Messing, Vernonia week. Dahl officially assumed his Postmaster, reminds ali residents new duties Monday and is the first person ever hired to work strictly of this area. The amount of mail that can in this capacity in the county. Prior to drawing up the county be handled in a certain length of time is limited and consequently*, budget for the current fiscal year, those who wish their Xmas articles the county court received several delivered on time for the holiday requests from 4-H leaders in vari must do their mailing well in ad ous neighboring communities ask ing that the court consider em vance. Final dates for packages to ploying an agent to work with the be airmailed for fleet post bffice, clubs in the county. As a result San Francisco, have been released of these requests, the court in cluded expense item of $1500 in by the navy? They include. For China, Japan, Philippines, the co3t sheet for that purpose. Dahl will be responsible for the Okinawa, Wake Island, Truk and maintenance of the 4-H program Peleliu, December 5. For Guam. Saipan, Kwajalein im the entire county and his main project will be to increase the and Samoa, December 10. For Hawaii, Midway and John number of active clubs and mem bers here. He was engaged in 4- ston, December 15. As for this country, out-of-state H work for eight years as a mail should be in the post office youth and exhibited several times by December 10. Local mail should at state fairs and at the Pacific not be posted later than December International Livestock Exposi tion. 15. • Mr. Messing also warned of the necessity for wrapping packages carefully with heavy cord. Parcel post packages may not exceed 70 pounds in weight or 100 inches in length and girth combined. • Seventeen high school students 17 Named on Honor Listing Month's Weather Report Given Six days of killing frost are tallied against the month of No vember on the records of the local cooperative weather station according to the month’s weather <fata issued Tuesday by Mrs. Helen Spofford, observer. In order to be rated as a killing frost, the temp erature must drop to 30 degrees or below, Mrs. Spofford said. Seven readings during November list the temperatures below 32 degrees, however, and one of the six kill ing temperatures is listed at 21 degrees on the 22nd. Maximum temperature for the month was 67. Rainfall totaled 6.46 inches for November, 1947 as compared with 10.23 inches for November a year ago when the records show that the maximum temperature was 64 and the minimum, 18. Prevailing wind directions for last month were evenly divided be tween northwest and southwest. Three days only are credited with sunshine, four are listed as partly cloudy an<f 23, cloudy. • Bid Opening Date Postponed The date for the opening of bids on construction of the 68.91 miles of new distribution line for West Oregon Electric Cooperative has been postponed to December 16 Manager Guy Thomas said Wed nesday. Date for the opening was originally set for December 9, Tuesday of next week. The postponement was made in order to allow contractors more time to figure upon which they must bid. The construction will be carried out on a labor-only basis. Material for the work will be supplied by the Cooperative. About 350 new consumers will be added to the system when the work is completed rated the placing of* their names on the honor roll for the last six-week period Principal Ray Mills said Tuesday afternoon. Of the four classes, the Sophomores led by having eight of their mem bers listed. By classes the names are: Seniors—Martha Wells and Ther esa Schmidlin; Juniors—Maxin« Hartwick, Delores Johnson, Arline Kirk and Georgianna Mills; Soph- mores—Donna Mae Barrett, Mary Ann Clark, Bill Chalmers, Lois Frank, Carolyn Lobdell, Marjorie Roland, Betty Snook and Bonny Wilcoxen and Freshmen Delores Barrett, Janet Peterson and Mar guerite Thomas. • Jamboree Talked Five men teachers from the two Vernonia districts were at Rainier Monday evening for the December meeting of the county schoolmasters club. Talked at that time was the coming basket ball jamboree scheduled for St. Helens December 19. Going from here were Ray Mills. Jake Hergert Louis Graven, Paul Gordon and Darrold Proehl. work was completed was 897 child ren. However, by law the district is allowed to add newcomers in the district until later this month so that the figure wrill go over 900, he said. Last year the total was 837. Districts having a census of 1000 pupils or more are rated as first class and require a five- man board of directors instead of three. First class districts also are exempt from submitting an nual budgets to the rural school boad. The census includes all persons from four years of age to 19 years inclusive. The count was taken under the direction of Mrs. John Grady who was assisted by Mrs. Lee Engen, Mrs. Art Nanson and Mrs. Carlin Hackney. • More Red Cross Workers* Needed More workers are needed by the American Red Cross production division in this county Pearl Beck er, productive chairman, said early this week. The new quota just received and accepted calls for bedpan covers, hot water bottle covers, lap covers, bedroom slip pers and knitted sweaters, socks and mufflers. Other articles to be completed include girl’s dres ses and caps for European relief. The new quota is composed of articles needed by hospitals. | • Robert Glassner Killed Friday Robert Willian» Glassner, 26, choker setter for the Westgate Lumber company, was killed Fri day at work in the woods several miles from Sweet Home. He was hit on the head by a falling snag, according to Coroner Glenn Hus ton of Lebanon. Glassner was bom in Kennewick, Washington February 21, 1921. He was rear ed in Vernonia and was a veteran of World War II. The family has resided at Sweet Home the past eight months. Survivors are his widow, Virginia; a daughter, Mary Ellen, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Glassner all of Sweet Home; a brother in Chicago; and two sisters, Mrs. Wilma Hayden of Portland and Mrs. Ralph Wil liams of Sweet Home. Funeral services were held at the Hower Iluston chapel Tuesday at 10 A. M. with Glenn Vernon officiating. Final rites were at 3 P. M. in Lincoln Memorial Park in Port land. Rent Price Increases • “Inflation has hit the city of Mist” writes Mrs. John R. Quirin of Mist. She states in a letter received this week that she is now paying $75 a month rent on the house which recently brought only $10. 1947 Councilmen Sell Lots, Talk Repairs Phone Franchise Discussed but Not Signed Yet Two more lots, which in the past were the property of the city of Vernonia, will belong to residents oi the city as the result of two actions Monday evening by the city council. The bids were con sidered at that time. One of them was $50 plus street assessments for the vacant lot at the corner cf South First Avenue and Cougar street and was submitted 7>y Bill Horn. The other bid offered $105 and street assessments for tke vacant lot at the comer of Third and Maple streets. The latter was made by Toivo Hill, a new comer to this vicinity. The acceptance Monday evening by the council disposes of nearly all city held real estate and places it back on the tax rolls. Brought up for discussion again and again rejected as far as sign ing is concerned, was the matter of a franchise for the West Coast Telephone company. The fran chise which has been drawn up for some time, has not been signed because the council believes there is room for improvement of service to subscribers of the company. That opinion was still apparent when the matter was discussed MonJay evening. Since the pre vious franchise expired in April, Arthur D. Scripture has been nam ed manager of the Forest Grove district to replace Harley J. Bar ber with whom the council has discussed the matter in the past. In order that the situation might be brought up to date the council will ask Mr. Scripture to be pre sent for the next meeting Decem ber 15. The only other topic for Monday that required any great amount of time was the need for repairs and standby equipment at the city water ptimping plant. The coun cil will not act definitely on that matter, but did ask that informa tion be sought pn the cost of a new pump for the plant so that the pi Operations may be made for next summer when a greater amount of pumping will be necessary. • Timber Road Bid to Be Let A road that has caused a good deal of comment to arise in past years because it has not been fiard surfaced will come up for consideration at the January meet ing of the state highway commis sion, County Commissioner Wil liam Pringle, Sr., said early this week. At that time bids for oiling the road will be let by the highway group, he said. The distance to be surfaced will be from the Bill Anderson place to Sunset junction. Fewer Forest Fires Started in 1947 Oregonians in 1947 started fewer forest fires than in any year since the organization of the Keep Oregon Green association according to figures just compiled by their Salem office. Preliminary tabulations released by the fire prevention group shows only 422 man-caused fires were started during the regular pro tection season on lands under the jurisdiction of the state board of forestry, with 47 man-instigated blazes reported for the pre-season period before May 15 when the season officially opens. In addition there were 227 man- caused fires on the lands pro tected by the U. S. Forest Service within the State. “It is gratifying to note that the number of man-caused forest fires has been reduced steadily since the formation of Keep Ore gon Green in 1940,” Dean Paul M, Dunn, state chairman of KOG said. He cited figures on decline of fires on state-protected lands in the past four years: In 1944 there were 563 man-caused blazes; there were 644 in 1945; 451 in 1946 and 422 in 1947. "In ten years from 1930 to 1939, prior to formation of KOG, Oregon had an yerage of 1300 man-caus ed fires each year on state-pro tected lands. We have cut deeply icto those heavy losses, but we expect to do even better in future years as fire prevention becomes a secondary and almost involun tary habit of our people.” Charles Ogle, executive secre tary of Keep Oregon Green, joined with Chairman Dunn in praising the general public for their “con- t;nued alertness during the dry summer months and their constant precaution against fires while in the woods.” Secretary Ogle said that much credit belongs to the Keep Oregon Green County com mittees, who year-after-year carry the brunt of the campaign in their local communities. In Columbia county,* 22 fires burning over 8 acres were report ed during the year 1947 by the Northwest Oregon Fire Protective district. Glen Hawkins acted as chairman of the county KOG com mittee this year after the com mittee was organized here July 31 by Mr. Ogle. Dean Paul Dunn was also present at that time to give the committee aid in getting its work started.
