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Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VOLUME 25, NUMBER 50 Directors of German Woman Writes of Post Office REA Named in Hardships in Her Country Plans Longer 7 Districts Sat. Hours < Election Slated at Annual Meeting Here January 14 Nominating meetings in the seven directorship districts of West Oregon Electric Cooperative were completed last week Man ager Guy Thomas said when he named the people who are can didates for election to the Cooper ative board of directors at the annual meeting in January. The open forum nominating meetings were held in compliance with the organization’s by. laws which were amended at the an nual meeting last January. The annual meeting this year is scheduled for January 17 at the Legion hall, Vernonia and exten sive plans for the yearly event have already been made by the Cooperative. In addition to the business meeting, there will be display of electric appliances and electrical equipment. Named at the nominating meet ings as director candidates from the seven districts were: District No. 1 meeting at Jewell —Lee Wooden, Jewell and E. G. Griffith, route 1, Astoria; District No. 2 meeting at Natal —Robert Bock, Warren and Noble Dunlap, Mist route; District No. 3 meeting at Heath Service Station, Riverview—Harry King, Mist route; District No. 4 meeting held at the Cooperative office—Paul Gor don, Vernonia and Cecil Johnson, Vernonia; District No. 5 meeting held at the Vernonia grange hall—Russell Peterson, Timber route, Albert Brunsman, Vernonia, and Cecil Huff, Timber route; District No. 6 meeting held at the Buxton high school—Frank Genzer, Route 1, Forest Grove; District No. ‘7 meeting held at the Scoggins '/alley school house —Fred Knox, Route 1, Gaston and Mike Jackson, Gaston. • William Virtue Buried Wed. William Virtue passed away in Portland December 6. He had been making his home with his niece, Mrs. Hounshell at St. Helens since the death of Mrs. Virtue two months ago. He had been in ill health for r number of years and was taken to a Portland hospital just o few days before his death. He leaves to mourn her loss: three nieces- Mrs. Thelma Hounshell of St. Helens. Mrs. Alma Paulson of Glenwood and Mrs. Leatha Wolff of Twin Rocks and also a brother, Matt, in Canada. The funeral was in charge of Miller and Tracy end was held Wednesday with vault entombment at Riverview Abbey. Written proof that articles of clothing are being received by German families 4n the Russian occupation zone is held by Mrs. Dennis Davis because of a letter she received a short time ago from Frau Ema Kuball of Orb. Mr. and Mrs. Davis, along with several other local families have sent needed articles for distribu tion to needy European families through CARE. Others here who have sent or are planning to send are Mr. and Mrs. Ira Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Krieger and Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Brown. The letter, which tells some of Goat Milk Group To Talk Factory The Nehalem Valley Goat Milk Froducers association will hold a meeting December 18 at 8 p.m. in the Vernonia Grange hall located three miles south of town on the Timber road. Anyone interested is urged to attend. The principal subject to be dis cussed are plans for organizing a cooperative cheese factory in this vicinity and the production of an adequate supply of goat milk to keep the plant operating. • Service Officer Reminds Vets Two matters affecting veterans GI insurance: The approaching re-instatement deadline and the forgiveness of leins on missing premiums, were called to atten- t'on by Dolph Stuart, county service officer, when he was here Monday of this week. December 31 is the final date on which lapsed national service life insurance term policies may be re-instated without a physical examination. In most cases the veteran can re-instate merely by the payment of two monthly pre premiums and the signing of a health statement. After Decem ber 31 a complete physical exam ination will be required if the in surance has lapsed more than three months. In regard to forgiveness of liens against missing term insurance premiums, it is Ipointed out in the VA technical bulletin that the VA has taken the position of for giving lost or missing premiums where the veteran has made pay ments on time for the months of July and August, 1947 and for all months thereafter. • $370.40 In Chest Mrs. Ben Brickel, who is head ing the drive for funds in the current community chest cam paign, reported late last week that $370.40 had been collected for that purpose. A house-to- house canvass and canvass of bus iness places is being made. New Nurse Hired for County; Action Filed on Warrant Case ST. HELENS—Mrs. Lois D. Kent, county school superintendent announced this week that she had received a check for $30,430 which rt presents the first half of the county school fund for elementary units. The money is to be appor tioned among the various districts. COUNTY GETS NURSE ST. HELENS—Mrs. John Grbn- dahl last week took over the posi tion of Columbia county public health nurse after being hired by the county court. Mrs. Grondahl succeeds Mrs. Frances Kennedy who left and intends to live in Montana. The new county nurse just re cently finished her public health nursing course at the University cf Oregon and will work in a full- time capacity here. BANK FILES DEMURRER ST. HELENS—The U. S. Na tional Bank last week filed a de- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1947 VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY, ORE. murer to the action brought by the Vernonia school district No. 47, in which the district seeks re turn of moneys drawn from the district’s account by means of fraudulent warrant«. The bank contends the complaint “did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against the de fendent.” FIRST SMELT SOLD CLATSKANIE—The first smelt taken from the Columbia river by local fisherman appeared on the Portland market Wednesday of last week. The catch was 10 pounds and of course the first little silver fishes brought the usual dollar a pound price to the fisherman. While the smelt fishing has not yet started in earnest yet it is reported that a number of gillnetters were preparing to start fishing soon. the difficulties of the German people, follows: Dear Unknown family Davis You cannot imagine our great joy when we received from our minister the shoes you dear ones sent. Than we found your ad dress in one of the shoes. Now we will send you our heart felt thanks through these few lines. You have no doubt heard of the great need here in Germany. We cannot buy anything. Clothing and food are very scarce. For a year we have been wearing wood en shoes. Your shoes came just as I was expecting my youngest son who is now 5 weeks old. Now walking in those wooden shoes was so hard for me. So you can see how very glad I was to get those shoes. When ever I put those shoes on I always think of you. One is glad over every piece one receives, as everything grows cld and wears out. New things one seldom ever gets. The bigger children have to work a lot and hardly have Clothes to wear. They are in so great need of trousers and jackets. Through your gift we have received some things, but so many things are needed. My baby has to be fed on rye meal as there is no food for babies. (Rye meal for nourish ment.) Here in Orb are several families that receive CARE packages from friends or relatives in America. Put we have no-one over there, so have to get along on what little we get here. That is very hard. I do not want to impose on you, but would like to ask you if it is possible that you could send us something for our little one. If not, could you send us something to eat. May the dear God bless you a thousand times for all. In closing, again accept my hearty thanks, together with kindest regards and blessings. Fr. Ema Kuball • 26 Students See Newspaper Shop The mechanical steps taken to I roduce a newspaper were de monstrated Thursday morning of last week when the Washington sclool fifth grade, instructed by Mrs. W. G. Heath, visited The Eagle Office. The class had been studying newspaper work previous tc the visit and requested in a letter written by Janis Potter that the class be permitted to make the visit. The students saw demonstra tions of how type is set, sterotyp- ing, operation of the newspaper press and commercial printing along with incidental steps taken to prepare and print a paper. Students seeing the demonstra tions were: Wayne Aldrich, Odean Blount, Larry Bernardi, Charles Cunningham, Jerry DeRoia, Myrtle B'oote, Louise Gregory, Orville Gregory, Nancy Gore, Teddy Grice Sharon Hamilton, William Higley, V?rne Hobson, Earl Kipp, George Middleton, LeRoy Newcomb, Janis Potter, Jennie Powell, May Rice, Bobby Rose, Patricia Ross, Alice Ann Snook, George Snyder, Mary Ella Tipton, Larry Taylor and Dennis Thomas. • P. - T. fl. Group Formed Monday A meeting was held last Friday evening, December 5, at the Wash ington grade school by a group of parents interested" in organizing a Parent-Teachers association in Vernonia. Temporary officers were elected and plans were made for another meeting after the holidays. The main purpose of organizing at this time is to see what can he done towards the serving of hot lunches in the school. All parents and teachers are urged to attend this next meeting. Patrons Asked to Call for Parcels • When Notified The Christmas rush, that an nual affair to which postal de partment workers do not look forward, started in earnest here Monday morning Postmaster Emil Messing said. A view of the par cels and letters being handled that day would have convinced most anyone that he wasn’t making an overstatement because the mail truck’s arrival from Scappoose at noon carried the biggest load seen for some time. Because the post office during Decembej will do one of itb biggest months of business, plans and a request were announced by Mr. Messing to help speed the service. He asked first that patrons be sure to remove parcels when they are notified of arrival. If the parcels are left at the office from day to day, there is insuf ficient space to provide for new mail when it arrives. At the same time, clerks must handle many of the parcels to find the one request ed, thereby increasing work that would otherwise be unnecessary. In past years, many patrons have left parcels with the office, failing to call for them until the last day before Christmas. Mr. Messing also said that the office windows will be open all cf Saturday afternoon for the next two Saturdays, December 13 and December 20. • Grid Banquet Talked Monday High school football squad members who may be wondering when the annual banquet will be held may take note that the af fair is scheduled to take place after the first of the year. The date, not yet definite, was talked Monday evening when the Lions club committee headed by Prin cipal Ray Mills met to plan ten tatively for the dinner. Postponement of the banquet until early in 1948 was done be cause of the holiday rush, com mitteemen said. The squad mem bers will be guests of the club on a Monday evening at a regular Lions meeting. Working as the committee in addition to the chairman are Cecil Johnson, Jack Nance and Bill Horn. • Second Meeting Set at Church Rev. Paul P. Petticord, con ference superintendent, will be at the Evangelical United Brethren ohurch Sunday morning, Decem ber 14 to preach and in the after noon of that day will conduct the second quarterly conference, Rev. Allen H. Backer said early this week. He extended an invitation to members of the congregation to be present and hear the address. Rev. Backer also announced that the Evangelical U. B. .church will fave its Christmas program Sun day evening, December 21 at 7:30. All classes of the Sunday school will have part. An offering will be taken for the Children’s home at Flat Rock, Ohio which is sup ported largely by Christmas of ferings. Bear Killed Andrew M. Parker reports that he killed a bear December 5 weighing about 200 pounds. One quarter of the carcass yielded one gallon of lard. The animal was quite old and was ready to hiber nate for the winter, Mr. Parker said. Helicopter Use to Spread Tree Seed Intended on Farm Tree seeding for denuded acres in some areas of the Columbia County Tree Farm may be ac complished more quickly and more easily if an experiment to be tried here at an early date proves satisfactory, officials of the farm Nov. Welfare Totals $23,176 Released December 4 by Mrs. Eva Tice was the November re port of expenditures by the Col umbia county Public Welfare com mission, the total for the month amounting to $23,176.18. The re port listed the following items for which the total was expended. General assistance: 16 appli cants, 74 cases maintenance of which cost $2818.78 and for which medical care amounted to $933.40. Total for general assistance was $3,752.18. Old age assistance considered 9 applicants and cared for 392 cases at a total cost of $14,782.00. Aid to dependent children amounted to $4,242.00 which was expended to care for 52 cases (149 children). Five applicants were considered. Blind assistance called for the smallest expenditure, $400, which cared for seven cases. No new applications for assistance were received during November. Mrs. Tice also released informs- t'en concerning Oregon law as it relates to public welfare work and cited a part of the law. Additional information page 5. • Toe Banzer Heads 3fl Committee Election of A A A community committeemen in the five agri cultural conservation communities during the past week resulted in the following officers being named in the Nehalem Valley for 1948 according to W. G. Nibler, sec- letary of the county committee: Chairman—Joe Banzer Vice chairman—Clyde Henderson Regular member—M. P. Mills 1st alternate—Frank Schmidlin 2nd alternate—T. J. Johnston Delegates to the county con vention elected at these meetings were as follows: Clatskanie, Wil liam Armstrong; Rainier, C. L. Wilburn; Nehalem Valley, Clyde Henderson; Yankton-Goble, Rudy Anliker; and Warren-Scappoose, Fred Mollenhour. These delegates will meet and elect the county committee for 1948. The 1948 agriculture conserva tion program has been tentatively announced. While there have been very few changes in the practices for 1948 more of the lesponsibility for the program will fall upon the community and county committeemen. Tne chief aim of the 1948 program will be to get conservation practices done that would not ordinarily be done without the conservation payment assistance. Complete information cn the 1948 program will be sent all interested farmers soon after the start of the new year. said Tuesday. This experiment the first tried will be the spread ing of seed from a helicopter that the Farm will employ from a Washington aircraft company. Experimental work with plane has been tried on the Clatsop Tree Farm where the spread of seed over a wide area was not as suc cessful as it is hoped the exper iment here will be. By using a helicopter for the work, it will ba possible to establish a base of operation close to the area to be seeded. With an airplane, the base cannot be close, hence the greater difficulty. The seeding will take place in the vicinity of the old 500 line and is to cover a thousand acres. The seed used will be half hem lock and half Port Orford cedar. Seedlings are also being planted cn the Farm by a crew of six men, the work starting several weeks ago. So far the crew has put in 40,000 and has 145,000 more to plant, all in the Crooked creek area. Doing the work are Lewis Smith, Charles Cicero, Rodney Lobdell and Walt Floeter with J. W. Nichols acting as foreman. • New Club Agent At Model Meet Fred Dahl, the new 4-H club agent for Columbia county was introduced at a meeting of the Columbia Couny 4-H Club Leaders- association Saturday morning at the fairgrounds. The introduction was made as a part of a very en joyable model meeting conducted by the Scappoose Camp Cookery club to illustrate the proper con duct of a 4-H club meeting. Committees were appointed to review 4-H club premium lists and awards for the 1948 county fair end to determine the advisability of holding a 4-H club livestock auction. It was decided that the Leader’s association would organ ize in local groups to meet fre quently for training and to ex change ideas, while the county group would hold quarterly meet ings at the fairgrounds. « The club agent’s new job is assisting the local leaders in or ganizing and managing their clubs. Dahl said, stressing the point, that the value of clubwork is greatest at the local or community level. He expressed hope that interest in new types of clubs as well as the existing ones would be increased in the future through out the county. Projects available include: forestry, gardens, farm crops, better methods, farm ac counting and numerous others. Also emphasized was the import ance of carrying each project through to completion in order that every member might get full benefit from his work. Leaders present from Vernonia were Ralph McKee, president and Mrs. Byron Kirkbride, secretary. • Pioneer Service Group Started The taking into membership of 11 Vernonia business firms was announced here late last week by representatives of the Pioneer Service Co., Inc. who said that ethers not listed as belonging to the service organization now would be contacted early next month. The Pioneer Service company, established in Oregon and Idaho since 1926, devotes its efforts to the publishing of credit rating in formation and the collection of unpaid accounts. Several business firms named in an advertisement in this issue have used the service previous to last week.
