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Library, U of O “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation." Annual Music Festival Contestants Win at Music Date Set for May 6. Contest Try Grade School Boys Trio Heard Over Air Saturday Eve. Two ratings of “1”, two ratings of “2”, and one of “3” were re ceived by Washington grade school contestants who entered the North west Division Music contest held at Oregon City Friday and Sat urday of last week, April 9 and 10. Students who presented the num bers are under the direction of Mrs. Maude Kobow. In addition to singing in the contest the boys’ trio appeared on a program which was broadcast and the trio has been invited to sing at a music festival at Canby on May 7. ' Ratings of “1” were received by Francis Kaspar for a piano solo and the boy’s trio of Billy Wells, Gary Hing and James Stearns. The girl's chorus received a “2” as also did the vocal solo pre sented by Sharon Magoff. The girls sextette rated a “3”. While there, the group visited McLaughlin House, a histrical place. • Business Change Announced Mon. A change in the management of Chapman’s Service Store was aa- nounced Monday of this week by Atley Chapman, owner of the busi ness. As of Tuesday, the store has been under the management of Tommy Southwell of Hillsboro who is taking over for Chapman so that the latter can begin work as an employee of the West Coast Lumbermen’s association. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman did not plan to sell their home here for the present he said Monday al though their future plans are not too definite. • - P.-T.A. to Meet Mon. The Parent-Teachers association is scheduled to meet Monday even ing at 8 p.m. at the Washington school. The executive board meet ing will be held earlier at 7 p.m. People coming are asked to bring paper sack lunches and cups. • Firemen Called The Vernonia fire department ■was called shortly after midnight Tuesday morning to extinguish a burning truck at the Glenn Pearl home. Music lovers will be able to again enjoy the annual music festival, Paul Gordon, grade school superintendent, said Wednesday morning. The festival this year is scheduled for the evening May 6 at the Washington school and will be held in keeping with the an nual music week which this year is carrying out the theme of Foster Y. C. Program for April 22 Ready A seven-member Youth for Christ team from the Multnomah School of the Bible, Portland will be at the Youth for Christ rally at the Vernonia Legion hall Thursday, April 22. Featured On the program will be the “Melody Messengers” trio which has recently appeared at the Portland Youth Rally. This trio is also heard regularly with the A Cappella Choir of the Mult nomah School of the Bible. Vaughn Nelson, student evangelist and pastor at the Meachum Com munity church, is the team’s speak er. He is noted for his timely messages built soundly upon the Holy Scriptures. Their inspiring master of cere monies, Bill Scott, has won a place in many hearts by his sincere manner and congenial personality. Much also is added to the meet ings by the stimulating song lead ing of Don Adams and accompan ist Don Deboer, whose unusual talent has insured him a place on a traveling Y.F.C. team next sum mer. This Rally will start promptly at 7:30 and is open to the public. • Ballot Measure Asks Road Levy Columbia county voters will be asked when they ballot May 21 to decide upon a proposed 3-miIl tax levy for the next four years, the fund arising from the levy to be used for more oiled roads and improved facilities for travel. The ballot measure was proposed at the last Pomona Grange meet ing held in February at Yankton and as a result Pomona members recommended the levy to the coun ty court. It was the belief at that time that more permanent road construction would be econo mical in the long run and it would cut down on the expense of main tenance. Pomona members have been in formed that almost no money is available for this purpose unless such a tax is voted. Neglected Work Resumed; Bids Due GIDEONS GIVE BIBLES RAINIER — William Zimmer man and Alfred S. May went to the Goble, Prescott, Beaver Homes, Shiloh Basin and Deer City schools on Monday and presented Gideon testaments to all the sixth and seventh graders in those schools. They gave Bibles to the teachers. Forty-three testaments were given to students and four Bibles to teachers. 1904 LICENSES ISSUED ST. HELENS — Dog licenses have been purchased for 1904 canines thus far this year, accord ing to figures in the clerk’s office. Deadline for procuring these li censes was March 1 but several applicants have been made since that time with a penalty of $1 attached to each license bought. Regular fees are $3 for females and $1 for males or spayed fe males. However, with the $1 pen alty, the licenses are now $4 and $2. CLATSKANIE TO BE DREDGED CLATSKANIE — The Clats kanie River will be dredged by the Army Engineers this year from its mouth to the mooring dock in Clatskanie according to THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 26, NUMBER 16 word received recently. This work has been neglected since the beginning of the war with the result that even fish boats found difficulty getting into town except at high tide. It is expected that the engi neers will have about 335,000 for the work. NEW AREAS ADDED CLATSKANIE — Approximately 200 more people were added to the population of Clatskanie recently when the Eastman Hill and North Clatskanie sections voted to come into the city limits. The immediate result of the an nexation will be that water rates will drop from $1.80 per month to $1.20. BIDS ON HIGHWAY DUE • RAINIER — Bids for highway construction on eleven projects in the state will be opened in Port land, April 20. The section of the Columbia River highway beginning just beyond Lindberg and ex tending 3.69 miles to a point ap proximately one half mile this side of Goble near the Trojan Powder Company site, is listed among them. It is estimated that construction will begin about 15 days after bids are let. American Music. All organizations, civic and fra ternal, have been -sent a letter asking them to provide numbers for the May 6 program which will be a presentation and not a con test. However, a contest has been ar ranged earlier that week for the evening of May 4 when a piano recital of students of music teach ers in Vernonia will be judged on a competitive basis. The best numbers from each division of the recital will be presented again at the festival program later in the week. Mrs. Maude Kobow, grade school music instructor, is in charge of arrangements for both the May 4 and May 6 events, Mr. Gordon said. He also urged that organiza tions which may not have been contacted by letter feel free to provide a number for the festival if they desire to do so. • Falling Tree Planting Completed on 326 Causes Power Acres of Tree Farm Land Outage Sat. Payment for Damage To Be Asked by West Oregon of Fallers Riley Hall was born in Floyd County, Kentucky on the 8th day of July, 1864, and died at his home near Vernonia on the 8th day of April, 1948, i.t the age of 83 years and nine months. He had made his home in Ver nonia for the pas; 23 years, com ing here from Rainier, Oregon. He is survived by his wife, Ethel, one son, Thomas Hall of Vernonia, a daughter, Eva Jacobs of Clatskanie and four children of Oklahoma. A daughter, Dorothy Reynolds, of Sweet Home pro ceeded him in death two months ago. He also leaves a host of other relatives and friends. Services for the deceased were held at the Bush Funeral home last Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. and interment was at the Ver nonia Memorial cemetery. Rev. A. F. VanSlyke officiated. • The two and one-half hour power outage here early Saturday even ing was caused by a tree which was allowed to fall into the trans mission line in the Chapman area, West Cjegn Electric Manager Guy Thomas said early this week. The outage which effected con sumers on this part of the system was not the only trouble caused Saturday by falling trees. The Jewell part of the system was also without power Saturday morning and the trouble there arose from the same cause, people allowing a tree to fall into the line. A small logging operation in the Chapman area was responsible for falling the tree that caused the truble here in the evening, Mr. Thomas said. The operators had attempted to remove the tree but left without doing so and with out informing the Cooperative of fice of the location of the tree and the damage that had been caused. As a result, the Coopera tive lost considerably money from revenues during the two and one- half hour period in addition to the expense of linemen working at time and one-half to repair the damage and the inconvenience and trouble caused consumers of the system. The Cooperative policy will be to render a statement for the cost of the damage to the party respon. sible, Mr. Thomas said, and fol low up the statement with legal action if payment is not forth coming. Mr. Thomas also pointed out that people who plan to fall trees near transmission lines should take proper precautions to be sure that no damage will result. Over three- fourths of the system outages are caused by falling trees and by people blasting near the lines, he said. • Voters Asked to Register Sat. March Maximum Hits 74 Degrees A program that dealt with urg ing people who have not done so to register before April 20 was car ried out here Saturday by the CIO political action committee when volunteer workers contacted people on the streets and a sound truck toured much of this area urging that the registration be done be fore the deadline. Here with the sound truck was James W. Lowman, who arranged for the program. The truck has been doing the same type of work throughout the state. Volunteers making contacts on the streets were Mil ton Oakes, Albert Tandy and W. V. Lindley. Registration is being handled at the city hall and at the IWA union hall. • On the 28th day of March was recorded the highest temperature reading for the month according to the cooperative weather station records kept here by Mrs. Helen Spofford, observer. However, the month also has a minimum record ing that dropped considerably be low freezing. The low point is listed for the 4th day when the thermometer dropped to 20 de grees. The maximum temperature was 74 degrees. Rainfall for the month almost reached four inches, the actual precipitation being 3.96 inches and along with that there is recorded 10 inches of snowfall. Other data for March includes: prevailing wind direction, west; days cloudy, 24; days partly cloudy, 4 and days clear 3. Hall Services Conducted Sun. Speaker Scheduled Dr. W. W. Hess, district superin tendent of the Oregon district, is scheduled to speak at the Naz- arene church on the coming Sun day. He will appear for the 11:00 a.m. service. Dr. Hess very re cently returned from Australia and will probably tell about his trip. Play Program Ready The annual 8th grade plays will be presented tomorrow evening at 8 pun. at the Washington grade school. Two plays have been prepared for the program, one of them entitled “Elmer” has been directed by Mrs. Harry San- don and the other, "Comrads Courageous” by Miss Marion Schwartz. Eighth grade students participate in the plays. • Pioneers Death Learned Here Learned here recently was in formation of the death of John B. Ray, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Ray, now deceased, who pioneered in the Nehalem valley before the turn of the century. Early residents of the valley may remember the family. Mr. Ray passed away November 12 of last year after living for the past 35 years at Clearwater, B. C., Canada. He is survived by his wife, Alice, three children, two sisters, two brothers and nieces and nephews. A nephew, Allen Ray. and a niece, Mrs. A. E. Wood, reside here. The past season’s tree planting and seeding program on Crown Zellerbach’s Columbia County Tree Farm has ended with the restock ing of 1366 acres of land, accord ing to a report made public Tues day by Resident Forester Paul Goodmanson. This season’s planting program, which was started late last fall, was carried out almost entirely in the Crooked Creek Mainline and the Kauppis Spur areas while heli copter seeding was used in the Enteprise area, all on land former ly cut over by Clark and Wilson Lumber company about eight years ago. All areas were left at that time with no seed trees to carry out natural reseeding, hence the concentrated work done there, es pecially on the more severe sites where the hot summer sun pre vented the survival of seedlings that might have started. Three methods of planting were followed, the report indicated. A total of 326 acres of seedlings, ob tained from the Nisqually nursery, were planted by hand. Another 100 acres were seeded by helicop ter in eight hours of flying time and 40 acres were stocked by experimental hand seeding using a new type of pelleted seed. The idea behind the pelleted seeding was to attempt putting out seed by a method that will assure greater chance of survival. The pellets containing the seed 400 Cedar Trees Planted Saturday Members of the newly organized 4-H Forestry club carried out their first work towards the plant ing of trees when they placed about 400 Port Orford cedars around the Washington grade school playing field last Saturday. The planting was supervised by the club’s leader, Glen Hawkins, who was aided by Paul Gordon. The club meets Saturday after noons and averages about 40 mem bers present for each meeting. Emphasis is being placed at pre sent on the identification of forest species and later this year, field trips will be conducted to continue the study. The club will also participate ia the statewide Green Guard pro gram as part of Keep Oregon Green. • Meeting Time Changed The Vernonia Federal Credit Union met last Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Anderson. It was de cided at the meeting to change the Credit Union's meeting time from the first Tuesday of each month to the first Friday to enable more officers and committee members to attend. are about the size of a BB and weigh about the same, but con tain soil, fertilizer and a fungicide in addition to the seed. This ex perimental seeding will determine whether pelleted seeds germinate better and survive better after germination. If successful, the experiment will prove that the pellets provide a more sure method of planting and will also make it possible to reseed by the faster and less expensive helicopter method. The Tree Farm’s present pro gram of seeding is being carried out with the idea of having all major areas restocked by 1950, the report indicated. • Red Cross Total Reaches $1127 Vernonia’s Red Cross campaign which was completed a short time ago, reached 67 Vk per cent of the quota which was established for this vicinity, Mrs. Ray Mills said last week. Mrs. Mills headed the campaign here. An itemized listing of the sources from which the total was obtained was made by Mrs. Mills as follows: Residential section (house-to- house canvas) $241.85; Business section, $180.50; Post office booth. $53.00; School faculty, $27.00; Wo men's fraternal and civic organiza tions $50.00; Verponia Grange. $10.00; O-A Mill employees, $218.- 75; O-A camp employees, $140.00; O-A office employees, $56.00; O-A lumber corporation, $100.00; and Crown Zellerbach, $50.00, the total coming to $1127.10. Solicitors who participated in the work were listed by Mrs. Mills as follows: Lions club committee, Mesdames Ralph Vaipianl, 3. W. Nichols, Glen Hawkins, L. F. Schroeder, D. O. Cantwell, R. D. Eby, HarSld McEntire, Herbert Taylor, John Grady, Peter Hing, Harry Culbertson, F. J. Tousley. George Johns and Joe Doyle (Camp McGregor) and the Misses Joan Lindsley, Rena Cantwell, Sally Kaspar and Edna Snyder. The booth at the post office was taken care of by Mesdames Tom Crawford, Hamp Roberson, Albert Childs, Emil Messing, Paul Gordon, F. M. Ruhl and A. J. Hughes. • Stockmen to Meet The Columbia County Livestock association will meet here tomor row night, Friday, April 16, at the Washington grade school. The meeting is scheduled to open at 7:45, according to the association secretary, George A. Nelson. The place of the small livestock opera tor in the economy of livestock production will be discussed along with other matters relative to the industry. J. C. Moran is president of the association. German Niece of Former Resident Asks Aid for Destitute Family Any assistance that might be extended by people here would be greatly appreciated by one family in Germany as was indicated in a letter received a short time ago by the Evangelical U.B. church. The letter was written February 24 of this year by Ruth Kahlisch whose address is Germany, (2ob) Osterode Harz, Schwimmbadstras- se 2. I. She mentions in the letter that she was a niece of Louis Siegert who lived on a farm near here from 1898 to 1922. Her letter reads: “To the Evangelical Church, Ver- onia, Columbia, Ore. U.S.A. Dear Sirs: My late uncle Loais Siegert lived on the farm Veronia Colum- bia approximately from 1898 till 1922. I am his niece, a daughter of his sister, and his only relative who is still alive. In 1946 to gether with my husband who is 60 years old and ill with a disease of the lungs and my daughter with her two-year old child, were ex pelled from Breslau Silesia by the Poles. Whe have lost everything and live In great distress. We come from a real protestant family and take the liberty to ask the pastor and the community to please help us as we have no one else to turn to and are without any means. Even the smallest gift would indeed be appreciated by us and wie hope that our plea is not in vain. Sincerely Yours Ruth Kahlisch”
