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Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VOLUME 26, NUMBER 7 Projects for 4-H Outlined At Fri. Meet Both Town, Rural Children Benefit From Club Work 4 A group of parents, 4-Hers and leaders of clubs met Friday even ing at the Washington grade school to see a demonstration staged by two girls from Bachelor Flat and learn something of the benefits that can be gained from 4-H club work. The meeting opened with the demonstration on the washing and care of sweaters using flake glue. The presentation was made by Kay Sholtz and Marlene Thomas. It was pointed out both to the parents and the boys and girls eligible for the work that 4-H is equally available to town and rural children although in the past experience has shown that rural people have realized the worthwhile benefits of the clubs. The city of Portland has a 4-H agent and Multnomah county has one and assistant agents. The evening was further spent by questions and discussions and was closed by a showing of slides by Glen Hawkins who is a forestry leader. A number of available projects were itemized Friday for those who might be interested in begin ning the work. They are: Forestry, boys or girls, town or country; Bachelor’s Sewing, boys, town or country; Room Improve ment, girls and boys, town or rural; Gardening, boys and girls, town or rural; Better Methods, town or rural; Knitting, boys and girls, town and rural; and Camp Cookery, boys and girls, town or rural. For the older boys in high school: Dairy records, Farm Ac counting and Soil Conservation. For older girls: Home Accounts. Then there are also: Livestock, Cooking and Sewing projects. • Forensic Squad Enters Tourney Vernonia high school’s forensic squad entered the 16th annual Linfield invitational speaking tournament last Friday and Sat urday, the 6th and 7th, and one member of the local group, Martha Wells, placed first in oratory and first in extemporaneous. Beverly Herrin also participated in the finals in after dinner speak ing. The debate team of Dudley Spof ford and Martha Wells entered the finals but didn’t place. Miss H. I. Siner is coach of the squad. • 145 Names on List Up to Tuesday afternoon of this week 145 names had been listed as subscribing to the Nehalem Valley Rod and Gun club fund which is to be used to purchase the 157 plus acres at Keasey to provide an open fishing area for sportsmen. Men making the contacts seeking the subscriptions hoped to have over 150 names by the end of this week. Dawn-Dusk Goal Set at Diive On $12,000 for Red Cross Started early this morning and being conducted for today only is the dawn to dusk finance cam paign which is dedicated to the raising of finances for the Boy Scouts. The drive started at 6:30 this morning under the chair manship of Glen Hawkins who has named team captains who in turn will lead competitive groups mak ing the solicitation. The team captains, which were appointed last week, are Cecil Johnson, Carl Davis, John Kirk, Bill Horn, Paul Goodmanson and Ray Mills. The drive today falls on the last day of Boy Scout week, Feb ruary 6 to 12, marking the 38th anniversary of scouting. • Injuries Result From Accident Janet Peterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Peterson, suffered severe facial lacerations and her brother, Jim, a fractured right leg as the result of an accident about 7 p.m. last Thursday evening on Corey hill. “The acident occured at Second and Bridge when ice resulted in a collision between the car owned by Peterson and the car driven by Bill Shipman. Shipman suffered bruises. Both machines were dam aged considerably, but no estimate of either had been made yet early this week. • Timber Lock-up, New Threat Independent lumbermen, loggers and truckers in Columbia county and adjoining counties are being warned that many of them may be forced out of business within five years. The danger lies in the program of the federal government to ’’lock up” huge blocks of public timber in “sustained yield coopera tive units’’ and give a selected few of the larger companies sole rights for 100 years. J. H. Jones of Eugene, president of the Western Forest Industries association, declared this week that such imminent timber monopoly directly affects many people. He said, “if the operators and loggers are squeezed out, the truckers, equipment dealers, bankers, store keepers will fold up too.” One “cooperative unit” already set up in Washington ties up 111,- 000 acres of federal timber for the sole use of one big operator for a century. Another unit near Eugene—the first of many proposed—will tie up another 34,000 acres of public timber. The association, voice of the smaller lumber and logging operators, this week inaugurated a vigorous campaign against such “monopolistic timber deals” with a series of mass meetings at Albany, Roseburg, Drain, Eugene and at Brownsville. Additional meetings are to be scheduled. Special campaign headquarters have been established at 195 E. Broadway, Eugene. Mrs. Ray Mills, Mrs. C. L. Anderson to Head Local Campaign Columbia county Red Cross chapter's goal for the March, 1948, fund campaign has been set at $12,000 in order to finance com munity programs as well as na tional and international Red Cross activities for the next fiscal year, Russ F. Martini, county chairman for this year’s drive, has an nounce. A total of $4800 of the chapter’s quota will be channeled to the national organization, while $7200 will be used to finance local pro grams. Heading the drive in this com munity will be Mrs. Ray Mills and Mrs. C. L. Anderson who have been named as co-chairmen. The appointment of their committees to make solicitations has not yet been announced. The Vernonia area, which includes Wilark, Pitts burg Trehame and the Oregon- American Lumber corporation, is being asked to raise $1670 of the county total. Funds going to the national Red Cross will be used to replenish funds which were greatly deplet ed during 1947 by the costliest year of Red Cross disaster opera tions since 1937, Martini said. In addition, the American Red Cross has embarked upon a national blood program which will event ually provide blood and its de rivatives, without charge, to any one who needs them, he said. The national blood program alone will cost an estimated $10,000,000 dur ing the next fiscal year. Other county districts and the amounts they are being asked to raise are; St. Helens, $31/)0; Scap poose, $1200; Clatskanie, $1920; Columbia City, $600; Goble, $540; Rainier, $1680; Warren, $800; Bachelor Flat, $130 and McNulty, $260. IWA Officials Here for Meet Al Hartung, international first vice-president of the Woodworkers of America and Harvey Nelson, president of the Columbia River district council, were here last Thursday night to pay an official business visit to IWA Local 5-37. Three members of the Local, John Elder, Rex Normand and L. E. Shedwin were in Portland Sat urday and Sunday to attend a two- day session of thq district council. Hartung is a former Vernonia res’dent. having worked for Clark and Wilson, and was active in union affairs during that time. He later served as president of the district council and as a direc tor of the CIO of Oregon before being elected to his present office. • Societies to Meet The missionary societies of the four churches, Nazarene, Christian, Assembly of God and Evangelical United Brethren, will meet jointly at the Assembly of God church Friday, February 13 at 2 p.m. to observe a world day of prayer. Audit Reveals Financial Condition of Vernonia Received here a few days ago by city officials was the audit report of the financial condition of the City of Vernonia as of June 30, 1947. The audit was conducted here a short time ago at the request of the council. The statement of the financial condition lists totals as follows: a ASSETS— Petty Cash.................... $ 15.00 Cash on hand ................. 2,730.93 Cash in Banks................ 17,917.02 Cash with county treasurer.................. 175.37 Investments ..................... 7,992.00 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON Material and supplies (crushed rock).......... 4,210.80 Accounts receivable water users ........ 1,525.76 Accounts receivable other ....................... 60.00 Contracts receivable ... 75.00 Taxes receivable .......... 17,289.26 Assessments receivable . 876.49 Fixed Assets..................... 106,339.47 Total assets........ 159,207.10 LIABILITIES— Consumers deposits ... 1,470.00 Fund balances: Invested in general fixed assets ................. 37,125.40 Reserved for gen eral receivables ........ 18,300.75 Reserved for cash with county treasurer ...... 175.37 Reserved for materials and supplies ............... 4,210.80 . Water fund-surplus other than current ... 70,739.83 Current surplus.......... 27,184.95 Total liabilities and fund balances .......... 159,207.10 The audit was made by Clair F. Young, certified public account ant, and E. M. Corrigan, staff member of the division of audits from the secretary of state’s of fice. Radio Style Mystery to Be Presented by Grade Class Over Intercom A mystery play will be heard by the Washington grade school classes Friday afternoon. There’s nothing unusual about that be cause probably every student has TOM FAIR, evangelist, was a for mer rancher in central Oregon and before his conversion was well- known as a dance band entertainer throughout the state. He will speak at the Youth for Christ rally herd this evening, February 12, at the Legion hall. Also scheduled to appear at the rally are Mr. and Mrs. Merle Wilson, gospel singers. Schmidlin Rites Set for Friday Mrs. Gus Schmidlin, late of Ver nonia, will be buried from St. Mary’s Catholic church Friday at 10 a.m. The Rosary ■will take place Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at the Bush Funeral Home. Mrs. Emma Schmidlin, wife of the late Gus Schmidlin, died early Tuesday morning, February 10, at the home of one of her daughters Mrs. Antone Smejkal of Vernonia. Mrs. Schmidlin, nie Emma Wunsch, came from Berlin, Ger many to Oregon with her father, Erdman Wunsch in 1893 and took up a homestead claim in Washing ton county a few miles south of Vernonia. The Wunschs were among the very early settlers in that section of .Washington coun ty- Mrs. Schmidlin married Gus Schmidlin, long time fire warden, on March 13, 1894. They settled on a hill adjacent to the present Beaver creek highway. Gus and the neighbors were the first to break through the highway thus connecting Vernonia with the out side towns of Verboort and Eorest Grove. , Eight children, 4 boys and 4 girls, were bom to the Schmidlins; Mrs. Emma Condit of Coolidge, Arizona; Anna Ohler, Hillsboro; Gregory of Timber; Frank of Ver nonia; Mrs. Louise Smejkal of Vernonia; Joesph of the U. S. army; and Mrs. Mary Ohler and Gustave, deceased. Mrs. Schmidlin leaves 19 grand children all bom in or near Ver nonia and four great grand children. • Sportsmen to Meet The Nehalem Valley Rod and Gun club will meet again Friday evening of this week, President Harry King said Wednesday morn ing after arrangements had been made for the meeting to convene at the high school. The session will probably be devoted prin cipally to discussion of the pro posed purchase of the property at Keasey. The meeting will be gin at 8 o’clock. • Anniversary Planned An anniversary sale, the third since the opening of his store here, is planned for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week by Pete Brunsman. In his announcement of the affair, he mentions that every man and woman will receive a gift at the store this week end. heard mystery plays numerous times over the radio, but there is something unusual about the manner in which the play is to be presented. Some details of, the Friday program were outlined Tuesday afternoon by Superintendent Paul Gordon when he told about the preparation being made for the play and the way in which the students will hear it. The play, entitled “The Case of the Reluctant Corpse,” is being prepared by Mercedes Larson’s 7th graders who will go to the school office Friday and read their lines over the intercommunication system which connects with all classrooms in the building. The intercom system was installed before school started last year and has made it possible for the office to communicate with each teacher in each room individually or with all teachers at the same time. The system is capable or sufficient volume so that programs can be broadcast from the office to all rooms so that students may listen without going to the auditorium. So far this year the intercom has been used principally for contacting teachers in the various rooms, Mr. Gordon said, but the program Friday will be a step towards fuller utilization of the system in that the mystery play will provide entertainment to the students. Those participating in the play are gaining experience in making the presentation in such a way as to imitate a radio pro gram, he said. • Car Accident Causes Death The funeral service for Mrs. Dorothy Marie Reynolds, who pas sed away last Saturday, February 7 about 3 p.m. near Sweet Home was conducted yesterday, Wednes day, at 2 p.m. at the Bush Funeral home. Mrs. Reynolds' death came as a result of a car accident. She had been living at Sweet Home for the past three years, but previous to that was a resident of Vernonia. The deceased was born October 15 1926 and died at the age of 21 years. She is survived by her husband, Chester J. Reynolds; a daughter, Cheryle Lee, age 4; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Riley Hall; a sister, Eva Jacobs of Clatskanie and a brother, Thomas Hall of Vernonia. Rev. Gail McIlroy officiated at the service and interment was at the Vernonia Memorial cemetery. Dime March Total Below Last Year Response Better From Rural Cards; Total Over $600 The March of Dimes here drop ped below in the amount of money collected this year as compared with the 1947 drive, Chairman Paul Gordon said Wednesday morning when he had completed totaling the funds received from the various sources. Over twice as many rural box holders returned the coin cards, which were mailed out early last month, as was true last year and the dime bottles placed in stores brought a larger total amount than formerly although no large amounts were collected in some cases as last year. The response from local or ganizations was also better than ever before the chairman said,* in that more of them contributed. Totals from the various sources which have contributed are: rural coin cards, $120.05; dime bottles in stores, $198.15; schools, $99.26 and organizations, $193.46. The total amounts to $610.92. It is possible, Mr. Gordon said, that the total may be increased because of one fund-raising event that is scheduled for Saturday of this week. The total so far this year is below the amount for 1947, but above 1946. In 1947, the fund totaled $725.51 and in 1946 the collection was $605.43. • V.F.W. District Playoff Set The playoff for district 4 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars for basketball was held here last night, February 12, as a step towards the state tournament scheduled for the 29th of this month. The state playoff is also scheduled for Ver nonia according to word released here Monday by the local post. Coming here last night to meet Vernonia was the Astoria team and the winner will represent this district in the state meet later. • Examiner to Come A drivers license examiner will be on duty in Vernonia Friday, February 20 at the city hall be tween the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. 'Persons wishing licenses or permits to drive are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead of the scheduled closing hour in order to assure completion of their applications with a min imum of delay. Over 1OO Contracts Handled for Service Men; Fee Increased SERVICE OFFICER REPORTS ST. HELENS—More than 100 contacts were handled by the Co lumbia county service offieer, Dolph G. Stuart, during January, according to a summary submit ted to the county court for the last month. Ten school and trainee contacts were made during that period. Other contacts made were as follows: Rehabilitation, six; jobs placed, one; hospitalization, two; out-patient, medical and dental, five; pensions applied for, five; pensions granted, one; changes and complaints, 21; cases re-open ed, two; insurance, eight; loans started, GI and state five; de pendency cases, six; death and body shipment, six; compensation reports, three; insurance claims, one; referals, 33. GIERSBACH TO SPEAK SCAPPOOSE—Dr. Walter Giers- bach, president of Pacific univer sity at Forest Grove, will be the guest speaker at Scappoose Con gregational church at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. February 15. Dr. Giers- bach will speak on the proposed merger between the Congregation al Christian and the. Evangelical Reformed church. This is a matter on which the church must vote before April 1. SALE FALLS SHORT RAINIER — The Kainier-Goble district is $197.69 short of its goal in the tuberculosis seal sale that was conducted in December but there are 332 people in these com munities that have not returned the stamps or paid for them. Last year the contribution from this territory was $1083.24. JUKE BOX TAX HIKED ST. HELENS—Persons operat ing music machines in the City of St. Helens will be required to pay an increased fee on the de vices as soon as their present li censes expire following enactment of a new ordinance by the city council. Under terms of the ordin ance, licenses for each machine in operation will be boosted from ap proximately $36 annually to about $100 annually. The $100 figure is an estimate based upon a 20-record machine and the tax will be $5 per record per year.
