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Library, U of O “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VOLUME 26, NUMBER 15 West Oregon Granted Loan Of $430,000 Here Tonight Agent Warns oi Short Hay Supply Dairy and livestock men in Co lumbia county have- good reason to be concerned about their hay supplies for 1948 according to W. G. Nibler, county agent. Reports from over the state ot Oregon show that hay supplies for the coming year are liable to be less than needed. Eastern Oregon has sold considerable of its hay reserve to California and cattle are being brought into Eastern and Southern Oregon foe feeding. Hqy meadows are being grazed and can be expected to produce less hay than normally. Hay production in the Willamette valley is expected to be consider ably below normal. All these factors combined point to the importance of livestock and dairymen arranging for hay sup plies early to be assured winter feed. Columbia county imports a good percentage of its hay from Eastern Oregon and Washington and the Willamette valley so the dairy and livestockmien who ex pect to buy hay should arrange to get it early suggests Nibler. • Prom Scheduled Sat. The annual Junior Prom is scheduled to take place Saturday evening of this week at the high school gym. The Rythm Kings orchestra of Forest Grove has been engaged to provide the music. REV. LEO M. THORNTON, trom bonist, soloist, song leader and speaker, will appear here tonight at the Legion hall for the Youth for Christ meeting scheduled to begin at 7:30. The program to night will also include other talen ted musicians. • 22 Take Course In History Twenty-two people, nearly all of them school instructors, enrol led Monday of last week for the first class on Natural Science History of Oregon. The class is being taught by Dr. Ruth Hopson of the extension department of the Oregon state system of higher ed ucation who will make the weekly trips here for each Monday class for nine weeks. Each class lasts two hours and 35 minutes and the course will also include two field trips. The instruction is the first of its kind to be given here. • Cancer Campaign Set for April Expansion of the present re search program in cancer control and cure is one of the main ob jectives of the American Cancer Society which will stage its annual campaign for funds during the month of April. The Columbia county campaign will be headed by Mrs. Mary Slaight of St. Helens. Other coun ty officers include Mrs. Elmer Steele, county commander; Ben. Coleman, a member of the advisory committee, and Dr. J. C. Barton, county medical director. The campaign has the endorse ment of Governor John Hall who pointed out that 1800 persona died of Cancer in Oregon last year. "But great strides are being made in research on methods of control and cure,” the governor stated. "These are largely sup ported through contributions to the American Cancer Society. Of your contribution, 60 per cent re mains in the state for programs of service, education and re search.” Plant Vegetables, Flowers, Berries Now, Agent Advises Gardeners Gardening for both vegetables and flowers can get under way now whenever weather permits according to the county agent’s office. Those wanting a complete home garden should plant berries now rather than wait until berries are ripening and then wish they had put some in. Everbearing straw berries can be planted now and will produce fruit this year. Rock hill variety is recommended. Main strawberries such as Mar shalls and the cane fruits such as raspberries, boysen berries, black taps, logans, and blackberries can be planted now to have a crop next year. The bulletin on "Small Fruits for the Home Garden” gives suggestions on how to plant and care for these fruits. It can be obtained by writing the county agent's office. The vegetable gardening should be started with plantings of peas. Basic School Support Fund Apportioned Councilmen Order Truck; Consider StreetPaving Vote Favors Department Addition Warrants Issued To Districts for Second Turnover Project Growth in Next 10 Years to Be Covered by Sum Received here last week by West Oregon Electric Manager Guy Thomas was notification that this cooperative has been granted an REA loan amounting to $430,000. Word of the amount of the loan was received from rural electrifi cation administration heaquar- ters in Washington, D. C. The sum will go for several purposes that co-op officials deem important for growth of the pro ject, Mr. Thomas said when he made the announcement. First and probably most important now is the construction of new lines to service consumers in territory that is not now being served. At present considerable work has been done towards starting the con struction of 70 miles more of line. Some lines now in use but in need of repairs will be rehabilitated the manager said. In addition to construction of new transmission facilities and the repair of the old, the money will also go to buy equipment, erect substations, build a warehouse and establish facilities for growth of the project for the next 10 years., • THURSDAY, ArtUL 8, 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON potatoes, cabbage, onion, and spin About April 15, carrots, ach. beets and lettuce can be addea. Many vegetable gardners have been discouraged during the past few years by insect pests. The potato flea beetle causing . the small holes in the tubers and the carrot rust causing worms in car rots have been two particular pests. Aphis, cabbage worms, onion maggot, and others have done their part to worry gardners Control suggestions for all gar den insect pests are outlined in a bulletin “Vegetable Garden In sect Pest Control” available through the county agent’s office. The flower gardner should start now with dusts or sprays to con trol diseases and insect pests of roses. Starting control as the first leaves unfold will give much better results than waiting until trouble starts. School districts in Columbia county have received the second apportionment of the basic school support fund for the school year according to an announcement by Mrs. Lois D. Kent, county school superintendent. The amounts re ceived represent the second half of the funds due each district and are almost identical to the amounts received in September, 1947. Both the high school and the grade school districts here partic ipated in the apportionment. Dis trict 47, JL, received $19,904.98 for a total of $39,809.96 and the Union High School district was sent $8,77.15 for a total of $16,- 554.30. Other districts in the Nehalem valley and the amounts they re ceived in the last turnover are: Natal — $939.56; Birkenfeld—$1,- 908.05 and Mist—$1,498.43. • A Grades Earned For School Term Cora Dusenberry of Keasey earned straight “A” grades for winter term and was placed on the list of those making top honors. Miss Dusenberry is a freshman in science at Oregon State College and carried 15 hours of college credits. Sophomores led the other classes in high grades while seniors were second. The engineering school placed the largest number of stu dents on the honor roll with business and technology following. • Registration Deadline Near Residents of the four Vernonia precincts have until April 20 to complete registration in order to vote in the primary election- in May if it is necessary for them to do so. The final day to take care of the detail is April 20 in order to cast a ballot on May 21, the pri mary date. The following persons are re quired to re-register: Those whose names have been changed by mar riage or divorce, those who have changed political parties, persons whc»e addresses have been changed since the last election and anyone who has not voted at the last two successive general elect ions. In order to be eligible to regis ter and vote, a person must be a resident of the state of Oregon for at least six months at the time of the election. It has been poin ted out that voters may register now if they have fulfilled the six,- month residence requirement by the date of the election. Youths who have not yet reached the age of 21 may register now if they will become of voting age before May 21. Local people may take care of the detail at two places here, at the city hall where Albert Childs is acting as registrar and at the IWA union hall. • Student* to Sing The Washington grade school chorus of 25 voices, the girls’ sextette, boys’ trio and two solo ists, one piano and one vocal, will be entered in the annual state music contest to be held at Oregon City Friday and Saturday, April 9 and 10. Students who will pre sent numbers are under the direc tion of Mrs. Maude Kobow, Wash ington grade school music instruc tor. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY to avail themselves of free chest X- rays will be offered people of this vicinity April 13 and 14. The mobile unit is scheduled to arrive here the 13th and set up at the Oregon-American mill for the convenience of mill employees. The unit will move to a location at the high school gym for the 14th where chest shots will be available to others. All high school stu dents will be x-rayed this year according to Principal Ray Mills. No scheduling of times when people should come is being arranged this year, but people wishing to be checked may come anytime on the 14th. Damages Sought for Loss of Dogs SUES FOR LOSS OF DOGS ST. HELENS—J. C. Moran last week filed a suit to collect dam ages from George F. Brown for the loss of two valuable dogs which, he alleges in his complaint, Brown shot and killed. One dog was a shepherd valued at $500, and the other was a Labrador, Co lumbia Undine Boy, which Moran valued at $300. Moran asks $800 actual damages and $5,000 punitive damages. The complaint was filed March 29. INSPECTION PASSED ST. HELENS — With Col. Grif fin from the inspector general’s department of the sixth army Drivers Warned About Fire Hose Fire Chief Cleve Robertson has issued a warning to motorists about driving practices at the time of file calls that will lead to arrests should violations in the future result as has been true in the past. Basis for the warn ing was the damage to fire hose which resulted when the depart ment was called to the C. S. Welty home recently. , At that time, drivers were neg ligent in crossing fire hose which, when water was turned on, broke and caused delay in extinguish ing the blaze aS well as resulted in damage to the equipment. In the future, license numbers of cars which are driven over the hose will be taken and the drivers will be subject to arrest. • Stockmen Slate Annual Meeting The Columbia County Livestock association will hold its annual meeting Friday evening, April 16, at the Washington grade school at 7:45 according to an announce ment received Monday from the association secretary, George A. Nelson. There are some important mat ters to be considered at that time according to J. C. Moran, presi dent of the group. The place of the small livestock operator in the economy of livestock produc tion will be discussed by the mem bers as well as other matters of importance to the industry. All livestock raisers and others are urged to be present for the meeting. • Senior* Make Trip Vernonia high school’s Senior class visited all state institutions at Salem Wednesday. The trip to the state capitol, an annual affair for the Seniors was made in the Bruce McDonald school bus. The student* were accompanied by Miss Elaine Hayden. at Fort Lewis, Washington serv ing as inspecting officer, guard unit, Company K, St. Helens na tional guard unit, passed federal inspection held at the John Gumm grade school auditorium. The visiting officers appeared highly pleased with the strength of the local national guard com pany and promised speedy action on procuring another larger, more adequate armory for Company K. • Bids Opened at Board Meet Tues. Canby Electric Service, Canby, presented the low bid on a labor only basis for construction of 70 miles of line in Columbia and Washington counties Tuesday morning at the Legion hall. Call for the bids was issued again recently by the West Oregon Electric board of directors after the low bid opened on December 16 was turned down by the rural electrification administration be cause the unit prices were too high. The low bid opened Tuesday was for an amount of $51,023.15 and was given first choice by board members, all of whom were pre sent for the opening. No second and third choices were made be cause the other were much too high for consideration, the next lowest being over $57,000 and the highest over $62,000. The Canby bid will be forwarded to REA in Washington, D. C. for approval or rejection as the next step in getting the work started. Should the REA give its ap proval, the contractor will be no tified to begin work as soon as possible. The contract calls for completion of work in 90 days after being started. • Trout Assured For Rock Creek At long last Rock creek -is to be stocked with trout. Though the efforts of Senator Lew Wallace, 7000 yearling cutthroat trout, ranging from six to ten inches, will be liberated in Rock creek within the next few weeks. Paul Needham, director of the fisheries, says the trucks are now working and the fish will be planted very soon. There is also under consideration the planting of fingerling trout. These will be of legal size by next year. Rock creek is an ideal trout stream but has been sadly de pleted the last year or so, but now good fishing is assured for the coming season. The thanks of th* community is due Mr. Wallace and to the Oregon Fish Commission for their cooperation. The city of Vernonia will have another truck equipped for the fighting of fire because of a vote taken Monday evening at the first April meeting of the group which spent a good part of the evening on the subject. The purchase of another truck has been a subject of consideration by the council for some time and through the state fire marshal, authorities here have learned of a slightly used truck at Albany that can be purchased for a reasonable figure. Both Mayor George Johnson ana Fire Chief Robertson have ex amined the machine and both have reported it as being entirely sat isfactory for the need here. The equipment, which the council will get, has been priced at $4,750. Only objection to expenditure of the money was raised by Coucil- man Roy Raymond who expressed the opinion that the city did not have the amount available and that he believed the present equip ment could be placed in a satisfac tory state of repair to meet any need. His objections were over ruled in a voice vote on motion to make the purchase. A token down payment will probably be made now to hold the machine and the balance of the amount needed will be budgeted at the beginning of the next fiscal year. The truck will not only provide extra fire fighting protection in the city but will be available for use outside the city limits should a rurcl fire district be formed. This year’s street paving pro gram also came up for though* and discussion. Councilmen heard a report by Road Supervisor Cleve Mellinger about the amount of gravel that will be available for paving and street repair this year. H. H. King, city marshal, waa given the task of making a survey of present unpaved streets re maining in the city and report ing back at the next meeting of the group the number now unsur faced, the amount of work needed to prepare them for paving and other repair work needed. Plans will then be worked out by City Attorney Neal Bush to form an improvement district so the vork can be financed. The council also heard a request from Guy Thomas, West Oregon Electric Manager, that the city two per cent tax on gross elec tricity sales of the Cooperative be removed. He explained that such a tax “took revenue from one hand to place it in the other,” and that the people residing in the city were part of the Cooperative. He further explained that the tax was originally levied against a profit organization, but that now the Cooperative was a non profit group and that savings to the Co-op would be reflected in lower electric rates. Mr. Thomas and Councilman Raymond will work out a new, lower street light rate to cover cost of the electricity consumed and submit the new rate to the council after it has re ceived the approval of West Ore gon’s board of directors and REA headquarters in Washington, D.C. • Examiner Scheduled A drivers license examiner erill be in Vernonia Friday, April 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the convenience of person* wishing licenses or permits to drive. He will be at the city hall and people who contact him are asked to do so well ahead of the closing hour to assure completion of their ap plications with a minimum of delay.
