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Library, U of O “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VOLUME 25, NUMBER 51 VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY, ORE. New PUC Law SantaClaus Franchise for To Be Topic To Pay Visit Phone Co, Of Meeting To Be Signed Truck Operators Asked to Meet at IWA Hall Tuesday The requirements of the new PUC law, effective January 1, 1948, will be explained by a rep resentative of George H. Flagg, public utilities commissioner, at a special meeting for all truck operators at 7:30 p.m., December 23, in the C. I. 0. union hall in Vernonia. ' The new law requires that transportation taxes be paid on a road mile basis and that all mileage operated in Oregon, except that on strictly private roads, is taxable. It permits payment of taxes on a flat fee basis for ve hicles whose total weight fuHy loaded does not exceed 12,000 pounds. The new act abolishes the special carrier classification under which most log and lumber haulers have operated in the past and provides that these operators reapply to the commission for authority to operate either as epmmon, contract or private car riers. They may operate as pri vate carriers only if the commod ities transported are in fact owned by them. All for hire carriers must obtain authority as common or contract carriers. The new law also provides that the Oregon gasoline tax of five cents per gallon may be credited against the PUC transportation tax for gasoline purchased and used in Oregon. In order to claim this gasoline tax credit, carriers must keep gasoline purchases in voices for periodic examination by commission auditors. • • Minister to Speak E. J. Westman, minister of the Seventh Day Adventist church, will show pictures and give a lec ture on his trip through Sweden and other European points. He left the U.S.A, in July and return ed November 1. The public is invited to the program to be held at the Seventh Day Adventist church December 20 at 8 p.m. • Operation to Stop All work on the Columbia Coun ty Tree Farm will be suspended starting December 20 until after the holidays Manager Glen Hawkins said Wednesday morning. Work will resume again after January 4. Through a message sent here by short wave radio Monday, San ta Claus announced that he would be in Vernonia this Saturday to meet the younger generation and the oldsters too. His visit this year to Vernonia will be the first for several years. Now that it possible for him to get from place to place quickly by using modern, high speed methods of travel, he will be able to be here for the one dayv ‘ His headquarters Saturday will be at the Vernonia Drug company, Santa said. He issued a special invitation to all kiddies in the Up per Nehalem Valley to come see him that day. • Help to Shingle House Asked Men who wish to donate their time towards shingling the Erick son home near Pittsburgh are asked to be there Saturday, weather permitting. Request for the help was made Tuesday morn ing when it was announced that need for the work to be done is urgent. Anyone having shingle nails they wish to contribute are asked to bring them along. • Chairman Asks Practice Reports Completed conservation prac tices should be reported by far mers to the county agriculture conservation office, says J. G. Watts,chairman of the ACP com mittee. Delay in reporting will delay payments, he said. All con servation practices under the 1947 agriculture conservation program must be completed by December 31, 1947, but farmers who have completed practices should not wait until then to report. This cooperation with the county of fice will be helping us do you a better job and will speed up pay ments, Mr. Watts said. All prac tices must be reported by Feb ruary 1, 1947. Mr. Watts explained that farm ers themselves have a respon sibility in supplying the county with the necessary evidence of practices carried out. Failure to report adds to the cost of ad ministering the program and re sults in unnecessary delay. • $500 Lost from Room The sum of $500 in cash was lost from his room at the Ver nonia hotel last week Walt Pierce said Monday when he mentioned he thought the sum, which was cached in a paper sack with some other articles, had been removed and placed in the garbage when • the room was cleaned. A thorough search has been made at the gar bage dump, but the sack contain ing the money has not been found. County Changes Procedure on Bock, Avoids Big Expense CLOCURE PLANNED ST. HELENS — Effective De cember 31 the county rock quarries in St. Helens and Scappoose will be shut down and all grades of rock, including oiling rock, will be purchased from L. Watters, it was announced last week by the coun ty court. Decision to 'dose down the quarries in this vicinity of the county was reached last week aft er considerable deliberation and negotiation with Watters. The court will pay a flat rate of $1.15 a yard at the plant for all grades of rock. This price, accord ing to Judge J. W. Hunt is identi cal to what rock has cost the coun ty over a period of the last seven years. Reason for shutting down the two quarries and contracting for rock, it was explained, is that a new crusher is required at the present time, installation of which would cost approximately $12,- 000, and additional blasting would be necessary. FIREMAN REPAIRING TOY8 ST. HELENS — The city fire station is a beehive of activity as regular firemen repair and make toys to be given ta underprivi leged children at Christmas time. Most of the toys have been donated to the firemen who do the repair ing and paint and otherwise put the toys in new condition again. This year the firemen plan to contact the Red Cross to secure the names of needy children and to take charge of the distribution They also ask for broken toys, which are repairable. Promise of Better Service Heard at Monday Meeting Although a quorum of city coun cilmen was not present Monday evening the concensus of opinion resulting from that meeting was that a franchise with the West Coast Telephone company will be signed when the council has the chance to act upon it in January of next year. Meeting with the council Monday was A. D. Scrip ture, manager of the phone com pany’s Forest Grove district, who told those councilmen present that his company would do everything possible to improve local service. The opinion expressed Monday was that long distance service had shown considerable improve ment since the council hearing August 14 when complaints were registered on both that phase of the service and the local service. The addition of more toll lines from Forest Grove to Portland and another line from Vernonia to Forest Grove has helped long dis tance calls Mr. Scripture said. In addition, the number of calls has decreased in recent weeks he said. The company will make an at tempt to better local service too, he said, while explaining that the local switch board can be changed to make possible the placing of another operator on duty if need ed to speed the handling of calls in the city and on rural lines. Those councilmen present Mon day evening indicated that they would vote to adopt the fran chise as quickly as possible after the first of the year. Two meet ings will be necessary to take care of that matter. • Unemployment Sign-ups Dated Representatives from the state unemployment compensation com mission will be at the TWA union hall at 9 a.m. on two near future dates, one of them in December and the other shortly after the first of the year, union officials announced Tuesday. The first visit of commissioners will be made Tuesday, December 30 and the second on Tuesday, January 6, 1948. Local men may sign up at the union hall at that time for their state unemployment. • Wagneis Buy Ice Cream Store Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Wagner have announced the purchase of an ice cream store located at Tigard. The store, which will be located in the Joy theatre build ing at that place will be named The Pal Shop and formal open ing is intended about January 15 of next year. To be installed for the opening will be the newest type of equip ment which will make possible a store that is modern in every respect the owners said. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner have extended an in vitation to Vernonia people to visit the new store when in Tigard after the opening. • Wreck Injure* Three Gerald Riley suffered facial and leg lacerations. Bill Hodgson a fractured leg and a Hillsboro man received cuts and a back injury as the result of an aouto accident Wednesday at the highway rail road cross at Hillsboro. The auto in which the three men were riding hit the back of a tank truck M avoid ■ collision with another ear. PUBLICATION TO BE EARLY The printing and mailing of The Eagle next week will be stepped up one day ahead of the regular schedule to make possible full distribu tion on Wednesday, December 24 instead of Thursday, which next week will be Christmas. Otherwise subscribers would not receive next week's pub lication until December 26. Correspondents and other people having news articles or other items for next week's puplication are asked to have them in The Eagle office not later than Tuesday noon. Library Adds 24 New Books Mrs. Paul Gordon, city librar ian, announced Tuesday the ad dition of 24 new books to the library shelves. Ten of the vol umes are for children and 14 for adults. New books for children are: Wells Ed. - Mother Goose; Cac- ciola - The Enchanted Book; Helen Fuller Orton - Clover Field Farm Stories; Jackson Scholz - Grid iron Challenge; Thos. C. Hinkle - Blaze Face; Stephen W. Meader - Behind the Ranges; Helen Gar rett - Rufous Redtail; Marguerite Henry - Misty of Chincoteague; Walter Farley - Son of Black Stallion; Ethel Parton - Runaway Prentice. New books for adults are: Feuchtwanger - Proud Destiny; Theo. Dreiser - The Stoic; Wm. Geo. Weekley - Ledger of Lying Dog; Irving Stone - Adversary in the House; Wm. E. Wilson - Crescent City; Marcia Davenport - East Side, West Side; Sterling North - So Dear to My Heart; Phil Strong - Jessamy John; Ben edict Thielen - Friday at Noon; Ben Ames Williams - House Di vided; Peter Bourne - Drums of Destiny; Thos. H. Duncan - Gus the Great; Jan Nescott - Border Lord; Michael Blankfort - Big Yankee, Life of Carlson of the Raiders. • Last Visit in * 1947 Is Dated People who want to obtain licenses or permit* to drive can will have the opportunity to con tact a driven license examiner for the last time this year on De cember 26, the day after Christ mas. Announcement of the visit of the examiner on that date was made this week by Earl T. Newbry, secretary of state. The examiner will be here on duty at the city hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. People planning to see him that day are asked to come well ahead of the scheduled clos ing hour in order to assure com pletion of their application with a minimum of delay. • Lions Set Up Trees on Street The small fir trees which ap peared on the business section of Bridge street last Wednesday afternoon were arranged for through efforts of the Lions club and the trees were supplied by the Columbia County Tree Farm. Men tion of decoration for the holiday season was brought up at the Lions meeting a week ago Mon day. Lions Club Secretary Bill Horn and Tree Farm Forester Paul Goodmanson secured the tree* and placed them on the street. • Fine Levied Monday A Charge of drunken*** filed last week end, brought a fine of $25 in th* city recorder's court Monday for George Peter», former city policeman. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1MT Aid Asked Here To Provide Food For Relief Ship Scheduled to sail sometime after New Years, the Northwest Christ mas ship carrying gifts of food from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska, will bring aid to some of Europe’s hungry millions. The federal government has approved the plan, in which Vernonia is participating, author izing over 10,000 tons of shipping space and is defraying the char tering costs. A definite request for aid from this community was received last Wednesday by Mayor George Johnson who that afternoon named Cleve Roberson, Bill Horn and Marvin Kamhol* to make arrange ments for Vernonia’s contribution to the shipload. — Since last Wednesday nearly every lodge, veteran and civic group has been solicited regard ing a monetary contribution to make up the assistance that will be given here. First civic organ ization to make a contribution was the Lions club which was cohtacted by the committee Monday evening and which voted $50 for that pur pose. As the money is collected it is being placed in an account set up at the Vernonia Branch, Commercial Bank of Banks which will in turn write a draft payable to the Portland committee chair man who has charge of the work. Assurance is given that the food will reavh the needy and not slip into black market channel* or be used for propaganda pur poses, as the American Council for Voluntary Relief will directly handle the distribution. No at tempt will be made here to collect food because the time when the contributions must be turned in is short and because it was decided by the local committee that fund* collected could be used to pur chase food wholesale thereby pro viding a greater amount. Government regulation* for pay ment of transportation limit* th* shipment to four countries in Europe: Germany, Austria, Italy and Greece. The council wttn first hand knowledge of where the relief is most needed, will when the ship arrives, choose the exact areas. The shipment will reach Europe during the death months of January, February and March, a period so critical that competent relief authorities es timate that between two and ten millions of people will die in Germany alone unless considerable outside help is obtained. The collection in Oregon is scheduled to end January 1 so there must be no time lost if Vernonia is to make it* contribu tion a sizeable one in participating in this worthy cause, the local committee indicated. Chui ches Prepare for Christmas Program The coming of the December 25 date commemorating the birth of Christ will be the theme of pro grams at many local churches within the next few d*ys, minis ters of th* various congregations have announced. Special programs are being arranged this year for the occasion. At the Assembly of God church, Rev. Gail McIlroy said early this week that th* Christmas event would be marked by recitations and exercises to be given by the small children and by a panto mime and one-act play by the young people. The play is entitled: “No Room in the Inn.” The pre sentation will be made next Sun day evening, December 21, at 7:30 p.m. Rev. Allan H. Backer, Evangel- ical United Brethren church min ister, announced that that con gregation will have it* Christmas program Sunday evening, Decem ber 21 at 7:30. All classes of the Sunday school will take part. An offering will be taken at that time for the Children’s home at Flat Rock, Ohio which is supported largely by Christmas offerings. The congregation of the Nax- arene church will go to th* Christ mas program -a Monday evening, December 22. The Sunday school of that faith will give the program beginning at 7:45. A Christmas Cantata, “Hi* Natal Day”, Will be presented next Monday evening at 8:15 at th* First Christian church, Rev. Aplet announced Wednesday. Soloist* are: soprano*, Mrs. E. W. Petar son and Mrs. Ramsey; alto, Mrs. Opal Peterson; bass, E. Knight and tenor L. E. Stiff. Duets will be by Mrs. E. W. Peterson and Mrs. Lester Wells, Mrs. Betty Kirtland and Mrs. E. Knight and trio, Mrs. Vera Aplet, soprano, Mrs. Maude Wells, second soprano and Mrs. Betty Kirtland, alto. The cantata is directed by Mrs. Aplet and Mrs. Oliva Wood is the pianist. The Christian church Sunday school will present a Christmas program at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, December 21. Christmas Program Date Is Tues. Evening The annual Christmas program will be held again this year with all th* grade* represented in the presentation Superintendent Paul Gordon said Tuesday. Date for the affair is Tuesday, December 23 at th* Washington grad* school auditorium. This year the program will be in th* form of an operetta en titled “Heigh-ho Holly.” Dramatie parts are being coach ed by Mr*. Dorothy Sandon and the dance* are being taught by Mias Elaine Bristlin and Miss Reba Jo Hughe*. Mr*. Maude Kobow la in charge of th* music while the other teachers are help ing with costuming. Students from both the Lincoln and Washington school* will par ticipate and about 225 • of them will have parts. Three numbers by the high school sextet will be heard during th* evening. Tak ing dramatic part* are: Loren Mills, Alic* Davis, Dennis Hah- meyer, Billy Walls, Edna Fuller, Mildred Let, Kenneth Nanson, Le roy Thomae, Pete Norris, Joan Normand and Bill Usher. Indivi dual* who will present musical numbers are: Laura Seibert, Shar on Magoff, Melvin Bailey, and Mis* Bristlin. • Children Invited To F.O.E. Party A public Christmas party for all children up to 10 year* ot age is a coming event to be spon sored by the Fraternal Order of Eagle*. The party, to which all children ar* invited, is to be held Sunday afternoon, December 21 from 2 to 6 p m. in The Eagles hall at the corner of Second street and Bridge. Entertainment and refreshments of coffee and cookie* will also be provided for grown-ups during th* afternoon. Every child pre sent will receive a bag of candy and Sant* Claus will be present in keeping with th* Yule season.
