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Library, U of O VOLUME 26, NUMBER 3 Vernonia Branch Bank Deposits Show Steady Increase Since March Deposits in the Vernonia Branch, Commercial Bank of Banks have shown a steady increase since the opening of the Institution here March 17 of last year. Since that time deposits have risen to $705,431.95 as of .December 31, Earl A. Bowman, president of Bank said Tuesday. The above figure also shows a considerable growth over the amount of funds on deposit October 6 when the third quarterly statement was is sued. At that time the Vernonia Branch had on deposit $575,564.08. The increase amounts to $129,867.- 87. Being published this week is the combined statement of the Comfercial group of banks of which Vernonia is a 'member for the quarter ending December 31, 1947. Listed in the statement are total resources amounting to New Pal Shop Owners Named Announced officially this week is the sale of the Pal Shop, owned before a recent transaction by Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Wagner who have disposed of their business to Mr. and Mrs. Carrel Easley of Longview. Tho transaction be came official Monday when the new owners took over management of the store. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner recently made arrangements whereby they will open an ice cream store at Tigard in the location at one time occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith, former Vernonia res idents who at one time owned the Cozy. The store at Tigard will be in the Joy theater building owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dow. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner have not announced when they plan to leave Vernonia. Mr. and Mrs. Easley will also carry on the wholesale ice cream trade which they also purchased from the Wag ners. x • Dimes March Held Saturday The first meeting of the Ver nonia Grange, with Herb Counts as master, was held Saturday. He was assisted by an almost entirely new staff of officers. The Grange hopes to become a more active organization in the coming year and to be a benefit to the community. A March of Dimes was held Saturday as a start. Gridmen, Guests Hear Stagg Mon. A traveling examiner of op erators and chauffeurs is scheduled to be in Vernonia Friday, January 23 and will be on duty at the city hall between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. All people wishing permits or licenses to drive cars are asked to get in touch with the examiner during the above hours. Cooperative Annual Meet Set for Sat. $21,680,608.01. As compared with the quarterly statement issued October 6, of last year, the total resources have de creased from $21,843,809.60 al though investments in U.S. govern ment bonds, municipal bonds and municipal warrants all have in creased. • Seal Sale Tops Total Last Year The weather for December pre sents an interesting fact as reveal ed by the cooperative weather station records assembled by Mrs. Helen Spofford. The warmest ddy of the month came on Christmas day, December 25, when the sta tion thermometer registered a temperature of 61 degrees. Low point for temperature in December was 23 degrees recorded on De cember 5. Rainfall for the month totaled 5.81 inches with 1.23 inches of the total falling on the 18th. Only one day was clear, eight were partly cloudy and 22 were cloudy. Prevailing wind direction was southwest. Thermometer Hits 61 Mark The sale of Christams S ;als to date for this area has reached a figure $177.55 above the amount collected last year for the same purpose Miss Velva Ramsey, local chairman, said Tuesday. Complete figures of the amount collected were not available yet Tuesday because reminder cards are to be sent to those people who have received seals, but who have not paid for them. About 375 re minders are to go out. • Co-op Meet Slated The dairy co-op will hold a meet ing in the Vernona* Grange hall, January 28. There will be mov ing pictures showing milk produc tion. Those interested should at tend. • Associations to Meet Members of the Nehalem Valley Goat Milk Producers association will meet with a group from the Oregon Dairy Goat Breeders as sociation of Portland. The meet ing will take place in Hillsboro on Saturday, January 17 at 8 p.m. in the chamber of commerce hall. Anyone interested in goats and goat milk would do well to go. • Club To Meet The Nehalem Valley Rod and gun club will meet Friday night at the High school at 8 p.m. Dr. Paul Stagg, coach at Pacific university, Forest Grove, was the guest speaker Monday evening at the annual football banquet held at the Legion hall. Talking on the theme of football as a builder of character, Dr. Stagg told the Logger grid men some of his experiences as a football coach and pointed out the import ance of the game in preparing them for the situations they would meet after leaving school. The banquet was prepared by the American Legion Auxiliary under the sponsorship of the Lions club. A motion picture followed the address of the evening. • Examiner to Come THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON SIGFRID UNANDER, Portland, 34-year-oM army veteran, will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for state treasurer in the May primary. His background includes business and government training as well as actual ex perience in the workings of state government. He was executive assistant to former Governor Charles A. Sprague. Election Slated at Business Meeting Scheduled Jan. 17 REV. AND MRS. ARTHUR OT- TESON, noted gospel singers, who will be here tonight, Thursday, at the Legion hall for the first Vernonia Youth for Christ rally. Rev. Otteson is an outstanding evangelist and is considered one of the most forceful youth preach ers of today. He has traveled in the United States and Canada in evangelistic campaigns and speak ing for Youth for Christ rallies. Mrs. Otteson is a former San Fran cisco radio soloist. • Mills Named as New Foreman The appontment of road foreman for Columbia county was made by the county court at a meeting early last week. Five of the ap pointments were hold overs from last year and three are new. In the Nehalem valley A. R. Mills was named for the Mist-Birken- feld district to replace Joseph Banzer who reached retirement age. G. C. Mellinger was again ap pointed for Vernonia. Other appointments made were: Scappoose, Lloyd Lynch, St. Hel ens, O. D. Clark; Deer Island, Fred Colvin; Goble, J. R. Parmer; Rainier, R. H. McAdams and Clats kanie, Roy Theis. • Game Men Set Tentative Rules The Oregon state game com mission at its annual hearing held in Portland January 9 tentatively formulated the angling regula tions for the 1948 season. The hearing was recessed until Fri day, January 23, when the reg ulations will come up for final consideration. A condensed sum mary of the rules Allows; TROUT SEASON May 1 to September 30 inclu sive except as otherwise provided. June 15 to October 31 in tide water areas. May 1 to October 31 above tide water in streams on the coast range emptying into the Pacific or into the Columbia below St. Helens. MINIMUM LENGTH LIMIT FOR TROUT Six inches except that in coastal water the minimum is 8 inchet. SEASONS FOR SALMON AND STEELHEAD OVER 20 INCHES May 1 to October 31 in all waters including lakes directly or indirectly tributary to the Pa cific or’ tidewater thereof south of the Columbia (exclusive of the Umpqua, Rogue and Siuslaw) and all waters direct or by indirect tributary to the Columbia or its sloughs below St. Helens. November 1 to March 1 in all coastal lakes and in all streams whose mouths empty directly into the Pacific or tidewater thereof and all streams whose mouths empty directly into the Columbia or its sloughs below St. Helens Tributaries of the foregoing are closed during this period with the exception of the following which will also be open from No vember 1 to March 1: Salmon berry, Rock creek (trib. of hfce- halem), Five rivers, Fall creek (trib. of Alsea), Three rivers, Beaver creek (trib. of Nestucca), Little Elk creek etc. SEASON FOR JACK SALMON UNDER 20 INCHES Concurrent with steelhead and salmon seasons. Polio Dime Drive Ready to Begin The 1948 March of Dimes cam paign will begin this week with the placing of dime boxes in stores, the mailing of coin cards to rural boxholders and the usual plans for dances being made by local organizations, Chairman Paul A. Gordon said Tuesday. He received the appointment as Vernonia chair man Monday for the campaign this year. The same procedure will be fol lowed this year as last in placing the boxes in business places and at the schools the chairman said. Some of the boxes last year brought a considerable sum of money and all told accounted for $225.86 ol the total. Posters pointing out the worthiness of the The annual meeting of the West Oregon Electric Cooperative will be held here Saturday of this week at the Legion hall and ex tensive plans for the annual meet ing have already been made, Man ager Guy Thomas said earlier this week. In additon to the business meeting, which is scheduled to begin at 10 o’clock that morning, display of electrical appliances and equipment are being planned by five local dealers in addition to an afternoon program. Members of the cooperative were notified the first of the month about the meeting, Mr. Thomas said, and at that time each was asked to mail to the cooperative office notice of plans to attend. Those who have signified their in tention of attending will be served Word was received here a few lunch free of charge at noon, he said. Up to Tuesday afternoon of days ago of the death of Liston Parrish, husband of Kay Parrish, this week 173 members had made former teacher in the Vernonia notifications of intention to be pre grade school for several years. sent. Mrs. Parrish will be remembered One of the principal actions to be taken at the business meeting as being very active in community and church affairs while here. She will be the election of directors to was Kay Joyce before her mar serve for the coming year. Nom riage. inations have already been made Mr. Parrish passed away Christ for the directorship at the open forum nominating meetings held mas day and the news of his death was received by Mrs. Walter early in December, but further Mathews of Mist, also a former nominations may also be made at grade teacher here. the meeting Saturday. Until a year ago Mr. Parrish The directors already named to was minister at the Christian appear on the ballot Saturday are: church in Coquille and since then District No. 1, Elsie-Jewell, Lee Christian church at Weiser, Idaho. Wooden and E. G. Griffith; He had charge of a weekly broad Mrs. Parrish, who District No. 2, Birkenfeld-Mist- cast there. Chapman, Robert Bock and Noble was recently ordained to the min Dunlap; istry, will carry on his work in the church and have charge of the District No. 3, Keasey-Riverview, weekly broadcast. Mrs. Parrish Harry L. King; has two children. • District No. 4, Vernonia, Paul A. Gordon and Cecil Johnson; Husbands Death Learned Here District No. 5, Corey Hill-Tim ber route-Timber, Russell A. Peter son and Cecil Huff; District No. 6, North Washing ton county, Frank Genzer; District No. 7, Scoggins Valley- Cherry Grove, Fred Knox and Mike Jackson. Other business to be considered at the meeting will be reports of the officers, directors and com mittees and all other business that may come before the meeting. The program in the afternoon will include the showing of motion pictures which have been arranged for. Also scheduled to attend the affair are representatives of the Bonneville power administra tion who may address the group. The electrical displays have been asked from the Western Store, Hoffman Hardware, Brunsman Hardware and Electric, Sundland Electric and Appliance and Bush Furniture. DOUGLAS McKAY, candidate for governor of Oregon in the 1948 election, is an automoble dealer at Salem. He served in the first world war as 1st Lieutenant in the famous 91st division and in world war II as Captain at Camp Murray and Camp Adair and is a past commander of Capitol Post No. 9, American Legion. Youth for Christ Rallies Begin Scheduled to open here this evening at 7:30 is the first Youth for Christ rally to be held in Ver nonia. Announcement of the open ing date and plans for later rallies was made early this week by the Vernonia Ministerial association which is headed by Rev. H. L. Russell as president and Rev. Al len H. Backer as secretary trea surer. The rallies are scheduled to take place every two weeks as long as the response is satisfactory and all of them will be held at the Legion hall. cause to which money collected 1» devoted will also be prominently displayed here. Again this year rural route boxholders will be sent coin cards which they will be asked to fill and return to the chairman. Several other means of raising funds will also be carried out. People who like to dance will have the opportunity to do so at the Legion hall January 31 and the net admission charged that evening will be turned over to the polio fund. • The American Legion Aux iliary will sponsor the dance at that time. The Mt. Heart Social club will sponsor a March of Dimes dance January 24 at the I.O.O.F. hall with the entire proceeds to be donated to the campaign. The Vernonia Grange is plan ning to raise funds for the same cause at their socials and meet ings in January and February. The January social is scheduled for the 24th. The admission received from one Vernonia Logger basketball game will again be devoted to the fund also. Expenditures for treatment of local polio cases in the past 12 months have already exceeded the amount of $725.51 collected in the 1947 drive. Two Vernonia people have received help, Mr. Gordon said. One of them is now living at Mist and the other is at pre sent being treated at Holiday Park hospital, Portland. Her complete recovery is expected as the result of the treatments made possible by the dime drive funds, even though her condition after the at tack was serious. Expenditures on the two cases have already reached $1,000, the chairman said. • Vernonia Man Enlists in Army John A. Toothaker, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clive A. Toothaker, Keasey route, was enlisted in the U. S. army on December 24 at Ft. Lewis, Washington according to M/Sgt Jack G. Bink of the Longview, Washington recruiting station. Toothaker, who is married and has a daughter, enlisted for five years and intends to stay in the service for sufficient time to re tire. He selected the European command for his first assignment. Previously he served in the U. S. navy from October 1942 until his discharge as a Pharmacists Mate 2nd Class in July, 1945. As a result of his training in the Navy he was enlisted in the army as a sergeant, Sgt Bink announced. Community Contributes $420 RAINFALL LESS CLATSKANIE — Some thought 1947 was a wetter year than usual and will be surprised to find that the precipitation during that per iod of time was 1.86 inches less than that of a normal year. The total precipitation in 1947 was 52.18 inches while the normal amount is set at 54.04. No month was without rain and August boasts the least amount with a registered 0.22 inches. Normal August rainfall is 0.8'1. FRIENDSHIP GETS $420.55 RAINIER—M. K. Tolleshaug, local chairman of the Northwest Christmas Ship drive, S. K. Fetter, mayor of RainieT and Rev. O. L. Kendall, went to Portland Monday as representatives of the Rainier Commercial club to turn over to the state committtee the money raised here in the drive. M. K. Tolleshaug turned over to Admiral Thomas L. Gatch a check for $420.55, and the local delegation was commended highly for the splendid results attained in thia community. CLERK’S FEES TOTALED ‘ ST. HELENS—The county clerk’s office reports the sum of $1093.70 taken in as fees for the month ot December. The money has been allocated to the following funds. Circuit judge $72, district attor ney $30, reporter $30, law library $36.90, liquor licenses $35, dance license $10, migratory chattels $32, county treasury $847.80. PERSONNEL REDUCED ST. HELENS—The county court, looking into the county road fund barrel the other day, saw the bot tom very clearly and immediately put into effect action to maintain skeleton road crews for the balance of the fiscal year. Thus far the crews at Goble and Clatskanie have been drastically reduced. The court announced that the payroll for December had reached approximately $7,700, which with materials used on the roads during the month brought the road ex pense to better than $10,000, more by several thousands of dollars than the present balance in the road fund would stand for the bal ance of the year. The new road set-up will put the supervisors into active Work, most of them as truck drivers, for the first time in many years. This arrangement will prob ably last until the end of the fis cal year, June 30.
