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Library, U of O “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VOLUME 26, NUMBER 5 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON Temp’ture Over 100 Now Factory for Cheese Making Drops to 16 Back Keasey Talked Mon. Transaction Small Amount of Equipment Needed Officials Say State dairy inspector, Mr. Nixon from Portland and state dairy specialist on cheese, A. B. Widby, from Salem called a meeting for those interested at the home of Clint Seibert January 26 to answer questions about the handling of goat milk in the manufacturing of goat cheese. The topic is one that has been discussed a number of times here among farmers owning herds. Most revealing item in the dis cussion was the small amount of equipment really needed. Pasteur ization and refrigeration are not required. Also a very small build ing, even 12 feet by 18 feet, plus a cave for curing, if properly con structed, will fully care for even a 200-gallon a day vat. Types of cheese, markets, sources of equipment, proper location of factory site, lighting, floor and wall construction, drainage, pack aging, isolation of bucks, storage, receiving, California and Wash ington state requirements for the cheese entering, what to expect in the future and many other points were thoroughly reviewed. A most interesting fact in re gard to the wholesomeness of cheese was brought out in that California and Washington require that all cheese entering these states be cured at least 60 days because tests have shown that all disease bacteria is completely self eliminated in this period. Thus, no pasteurization is required that would also kill the healthful lactic acid and other life-giving compon ents of raw milk. In Oregon, it behoves the con sumer fo insist upon well-cured cheese to safeguard himself against the contraction of TB or undulent fever unless he knows the cheese to have been made from pasteur ized milk. • Meetings Scheduled Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Petticord will be at the Evangelical United Brethren church from Wednesday, February 4 to Sunday, February 8. This will be the third week end meeting of Dr. Petticord at Vernonia and it is hoped that there will be a good turnout to hear him. Services will begin at 7:30 p.m. Low point on the official ther mometer reached 20 degrees on the 16th and several other dates before that Mrs. Helen Spofford, cooperative weather observer here, said Tuesday evening. Tuesday evening’s recording, however, was even lower, the gauge dropping to 16. That reading was made on the thermometer which officially re cords low temperatures for this vicinity for the department of agriculture. • Directors Name Larson to Office The board of directors of the Commercial Bank of Banks, held the first meeting of the year Jan- uarv 20 in the banking quarters of the Vernonia Branch. Among officials elected for the coming year were Gordon G. Lar son, manager of the local branch, who was named for the office of assistant vice-president and Wilbur E. Wilson, assistant manager of the local institution, who was elected assistant cashier. The meeting was followed by a steak dinner at the Hotel Mac Donald. • Collectors to Give Tax Aid People in the Nehalem valley who anticipated that they will need come tax returns may make use of the assistance that will be given h"lp in preparing their federal in here February 5 and 6. On those two days a deputy collector will be on duty at the Legion hall to as sist taxpayers with their returns. In addition to the help that will be available here, deputy collec tors will be on duty at Clatskanie January 27 and 28 at the Tourist hotel; Rainier February 17 at the c’ty hall and St. Helens February 18 to 20 inclusive at the court house. The same assistance is also available to taxpayer's at the branch office of the collector of internal revenue, Room 100 Pittock Block, S. W. Washington and Ninth avenue, Portland daily ex cept Saturdays until March 6, 1948. Aid will also be given at the Portland office from the 6th to 15th inclusive, the final day of the filing period, including Sat urdays. Chest Drive Fails to Reach Quota of $10,000 in County CHEST NETS $2500 ST. HELENS—The Community chest campaign ended . with only one-half of the quota reached. To date the drive has netted only $2100 cash in the bank. It is estimated another $400 is yet to be turned in, making a. probable total of around $2500. The quota for the city was $5000. The quota for the county was $10,000, with half assigned to St. Helens. Failure to attain the quo ta was attributed by the committee- men to the fact that the drive had a late start, and was not able to benefit from the radio and press publicity sent out during the per iod scheduled over the nation. SALMON TAKE GOOD CLATSKANIE —- Three good weeks of fishing in 1947, two of them in August and one in Sep tember, resulted in the largest Chinook salmon catch since 1942. The total year’s catch of Chi nook salmon by Washington gill- netters in the Columbia totalled 5,084,089 pounds and the catch of Oregon fishermen* from April 30 to September 30 amounted to 11,455,375. The grand total of 16,539,464 rounds, which does not include the light Oregon catch early in 1947 and after September, is near aver age for the five years prior to the operation of fishways at Bon neville. It is almost 2,000,000 pounds above the average for the years since 1942. CHURCH TO BUILD SCAPPOOSE—About 70 mem bers and friends of the Scappoose Congregational church gathered last Monday evening to hear the building committee report on plans and the drive for funds is also progressing satisfac torily. It was voted to b^gin con struction as soon as weather is favorable and all plans and spec ifications have been approved by the national board. HOSPITAL MUST WAIT ST. HELENS — St Helen's chances of getting federal aid for the construction of a hospital are slim at the present time, George Shiffer, director of hospital sur veying and liscensing for the Ore gon state board of health, told about 50 members of the Civic League last week. He said that St. Helens has a lower priority due to ita proximity to Portland and that the high cost of building hospitals coupled with limited fi nancial resources means that few hospitals can be built. The aver age cost of construction now is $10,000 per bed, plus $15,000 per bed for equipment. Candidate Incorporation Is Topic at Meeting Of Club Friday Subscriptions totaling over $1040 were pledged by Tuesday of this week towards the purchase of 157 acres and the buildings at Keasey now owned by West Oregon Elec tric. The property purchase was the main topic of a Nehalem Val ley Rod and Gun club meeting last Friday evening when sportmen of this area met to talk over the possibility of incorporating or a non-profit basis and making the purchase. The amount pledged by Tuesday was almost double the amount which had been subscribed up to the time of the meeting last Friday. Nearly all the people making pledges have been contact ed by Pete Brunsman, Ed Ling and Charles Wall. At the sportsmen’s meeting, Harry King, president of the club, explained possible arrangements that could be made and also an swered questions brought up at that time. One question, brought out by Vern Dusenberry, requested information as to why the Cooper ative bad not accepted his offer, made some time ago for the prop erty. He explained that his in tentions was to keep the area open for use of sportsmen as a place to fish. Mr. King outlined the Cooperative’s policy as one where by the sale be made only to an organzation or group with a policy of keeping the area open to the public. Preliminary steps towards form ing the corporation were taken Monday when Neal Bush, attorney, was informed of the progress made and the acceptance of the idea the Rriday before by sportsmen. • Radio Saves Life Sunday Communication by means of the -two-way radio system operated by West Oregon Electric made pos sible the saving of a Nfe last Sun day when Guy Thomas, Cooper ative manager, was able to call for assistance for a woman ser iously injured in an auto accident at 12:15 p.m. near Elderberry Inn on the Sunset highway. Mr. Thomas was on his way to Jewell at the time. The radio unit in his car made it possible for him to call Charlie Robinson here who in turn called for an ambulance to go to the accident scene and also made hospital ar rangements. • School Paper to Enter Contest The Timberline, Vernonia high school bi-weekly publication, will be entered in the annual Oregon high school press association con test for newspapers, Ray Mills, high school principal, said Tues day. Judging will begin February 16. The papers will not only be judged and scored on the basis of the score sheet of the national high school press association, but in addition an individual critique of each publication will be re turned to the school. • Contest Being Planned An attendance contest is being planned at the Christian church during the month of February. The women and girls will attempt to defeat the men and boys. In addition, all that have perfect attendance during February will receive a prize on the fifth Sun day. Everyone is invited if not attending elsewhere. VILAS L. SHEPARD, democrat, Clatskanie has announced his can- 3 i d a c y for nomination for representative, second representative district of Columbia county. Shepard has spent all his life as a resident of Oregon and has held numerous public of fices, among them being: pres ident of the Clatskanie PUD, mem ber of the board of trustees of the Northwest Public Power associa tion, Columbia county chairman of the American Red Cross, mem ber of the board of trustees of the Lower Columbia Highway as sociation and members of the Clats kanie Grange which he represen ted at the state convention in June. • Election Boards Are Appointed Appointments of the judges and clerks of election boards and the designation of polling places for elections for the period of two years were made January 14. An nouncement of the appointments was made by C. W. Wickman, county clerk. At Mist Joseph Banzer was nam ed chairman, Dorothy Jones, judge and May J. Mills, Jeanette Sund- land and Guy Bellingham 1st, 2nd and 3rd clerk respectively. Elec tors will cast their ballots at the school building. Vernonia No. 1: John Erickson, chairman; Mary E. Hearing, judge; Erma Johnson, 1st clerk; Mar garet Walrath 2nd clerk & Celeste Poetter, 3rd clerk. Erickson build ing. Vernonia No. 2: A. H. Backer, chairman; Grace Currie, judge; Bessie Tapp, 1st clerk; Melba Johnson, 2nd clerk and Macile Grady, 3rd clerk. CIO union hall building. Vernonia No. 3: Mary E. Pringle chairman; Bess W. Nichols, judge; Ethel Titus, 1st clerk; R. S. Lind say, 2nd clerk and Marvel K. Chalmers, 3rd clerk. Washington grade school. Vernonia No. 4: J. W. Rose, chairman; Laureta Lamping, judge; Hazel Bergerson, 1st clerk; Wauneta Timmons, 2nd clerk and Irma Johnson, 3rd clerk. City hall. • Second Rally Due Tonight The second Youth for Christ rally for Vernonia is scheduled to night, January 29, at 7:30 at the Legion hall a member of the Ver nonia Ministerial association said earlier this week. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kirkpatrick with their chimes will provide part of the program and Charles Freed, a student af Pacific Bible college of Portland, will speak. All young people are especially invited and adults are expected to back up thé young people. • Conference Attended Ralph Aldrich, Oregon-A merican Lumber corporation, Merle Cline, Crown Zellcrbach corporation and Milton Oakes, C. I. O., were in Salem on Thursday and Friday at tending the accident prevention conference held by the state in dustrial accident commission. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948 Blast Removes Dam at Keasey; Tax Load Drops A blast that was set off at 1:30 p.m. Monday of this week removed a good two thirds of the Keasey power dam, reduced West Oregon Electric’s tax load and insurance cost, and opened Rock creek at that point for easy ac cess of steelhead attempting to reach spawning grownds farther up the stream. The blast was one that has been talked for some time by Cooperative officials in order to reduce the tax load on that particular piece of property. Before the dam was removed, West Oregon was paying $1100 a year in taxes alone, Manager Guy Thomas said, not to mention in surance on the dam and Keasey property taken over when the Co op purchased the Oregon Gas and Electric holdings. The insurance charges amounted to a consider able figure also Mr. Thomas said. The placing and shooting of the explosive charge of 100 pounds was carried out under the super vision of Clay Warren of the Ore gon state fish commission, and Ted Howell of the ,state game commission. Soundings were taken of the water back of the dam before the explosion, the dam was examined carefully and calcula tions were made as to possible results that would be obtained from the first charge. No definite information on structural details of the dam were available previous to the blast, hence the care in West Oregon to Serve Industry A new consumer and a large one was connected with the distribu tion lines of West Oregon Electric last Wed., Manager Guy Thomas said this week When he announced that the sale of electric energy by the Cooperative would increase considerably because of the hook up. The firm making the purchase is the Northwest Aggregate com pany with a plant located near the Sunset highway tunnel between the Sunset and Buxton junctions. The firm will process a special type rock found there for use in concrete and also as a coating for processed roofing ma terials. Full scale operation is expected in about a month when 112 kilo watts per hour consumption of electrical energy is anticipated for each eight-hour shift, cooperative officials said. • Market Owner Change Made Mr. and Mrs. Al Herra, who have rented the meat market at Sam’s Food Store for the past 18 months relinquished the bus iness as of the end of last week and the market was taken over Monday by Sam Hearing, Jr., owner of the store. The market will not be rented to anyone the latter said Tuesday, but will be operated in conjunction with the store. Orville Makinster started work Monday at the store and has been placed in charge of the market. • Polio Fund Gets $33 from Social The Vernonia Grange March of Dimes social last Saturday, Jan uary 24, drew a record crowd to sing, play games, dance and enjoy music provided by Lloyd Gillham who engineered the grange's elec tric record player and an orange relay race in which the women won. The losers, the men, paid a fine. " All proceeds taken in that night amounted to $33 and will be turned over to the current polio fund campaign. placing the shot in order to avoid damage to the railroad trestle nearby. As nearly as could be deter mined, the dam was built in 1924 by the Vernonia Light and Power company to provide the first elec trical service for Vernonia and was 30 feet high and 70 feet in length. Non-reinforccd concrete was used throughout with the exception of the lip at the top. The water crest resulting after the blast traveled only about 200 yards below the dam due to the fact that most of the water was drained beforehand. • Candidate ED CONDIT, former representa tive in the legislature from Co lumbia county, has filed for the republican nomination for repre sentative from the joint Columbia and Clatsop district. He is now a resident of Clatsop county. Con- dit formerly resided near Vernonia and was superintendent of the grade schools here for several years. • Vets Urged to File for Bonds World war I veterans who have not yet filed for their terminal leave bends are urged to take care of this matter now while service personnel is still available to effect their payment. Announcement of filing was re ceived from the veterans adminis tration by Dolph Stuart, county service officer, who is here every Monday afternoon. This warning came from the army finance office in Seattle, which pointed out that more than one-third of Oregon and Wash ington veterans still had not filed claims for pay for unused leave time while <n service. Those who filed prior to August 1, 1947, should check on the status of their claims with the office where the application was mailed, if they have not received payment. . Application blanks and assis tance in completing them can be obtained from county service of ficer. • Clyde Henderson Is Candidate Announced here a few days ago was the candidacy of Clyde Hen derson, Mist who is seeking the office of county commissioner for this district. Mr. Henderson has declared under the democratic ticket for th> post which will rep resent the Nehalem Valley on the county court. He has lived in the valley for many years, is well known and is campaigning under the slogan, "Service to the Best of My Abil ity.” The commissioner post is held now by Wm. Pringle, Sr., who has acted in that capacity for the past 15 years and will retire when his present term expires.
