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Library, U of O “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation." VOLUME 26, NUMBER Tf If Bank Deposits Show Steady Gain in Year Increase Listed at $41,266.73 Since December 31, 1947 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 $746,- 713.68 as of April 12, 1948. Announcement of the increase was made Tuesday by Earl A. Bowman, president of the bank who also cited the gain made since the last quarterly statement for the Commercial group of banks of which this one is a member. Since December 31, 1947 deposits have kept in line with the in crease the local bank has ex perienced since its opening. The gain from December 31 to April 12 of this year is $41,266.73. Being published this week is the combined statement of the Commercial group of banks and therein is itemized the resources and liabilities of the group which includes in addition to the Ver nonia Branch, banks at Hillsboro, Newberg, St. Paul, Banks and Tillamook. • Library Receives Donated Books Twelve books for the Vernonia library shelves were received a few days ago Mrs. Paul Gordon, librarian said Tuesday. The vol umes were donated to the library by Mrs. Dwight Strong. Titles of the books and their authors are: Lusty Wind for Carolina, Fletcher; A World to Win, Upton Sinclair; The Marriage of Josephone, Coryn; The Great Promise, Houston; Panama Pas sage, Chidsey; Deeper the Heri tage, Edwood; River Road, Keyes; Our Own Kind, McSorely; Friends and Lovers, Macinnes; Touch Stone, Janet; Gentlemens Agree ment, Hobson and Foxes of Har row, Yerby. • Senior Play to be Put On The Senior class of the Vernon ia high school will present a 3- act comedy entiled “He Who Hes itates”, Friday evening, April 30 in the Washington grade school auditorium beginning at 8 o’clock. The actors have been busy for the past several weeks and have prepared one of the best plays ever to be given here. Members of the class have also been active selling tickets for this affair. Tfie price of the tickets are 20c, 35c and 50c. 65 Students Tour Farm Speaker Sixty-five students from Ore gon State college school of fores try were conducted on a tour of the Columbia Tree Farm last Sat- turday. The group is the class oh silviculture of Professor Dan D. Robinson of the college and was one of the largest to visit the farm since it was established here several years ago. The students were interested principally in thinning operations, reforestation and salvage work pnd these phases of the Farm activity were explained by the two Crown-Zellerbach foresters, Paul Goodmanson and Bob Lind say. • Help for Cancer Campaign Asked This year there will be no per son-to-person solicitation "for can cer funds, according to Mrs. Judd Greenman, local chairman for the campaign. However, coin jars have been placed in many of the places of business in town and it is hoped the people will contribute liberally to these. If anyone cares to make a per sonal gift to the cause, it may be sent to Mrs. Greenman. This is a most worthy cause. One out of three ,deaths in the United States is caused from cancer each year and the govern ment itself has entered its strength in the fight against this terrible killer. Funds must not only be raised to finance the all-out fight but, even more importantly, the mes sage of danger signals of cancer must get to every home in the land, so that fewer and fewer fel- *low Americans will suffer and die of this dread scourage. • Some Pledges Still Unpaid Still remaining unpaid are some of the pledges which were made recently towards financing the purchase of the Keasey property belonging to West Oregon Elec tric. The purchase of the land and buildings there is being fin anced through pledges of local sportsmen who are interested in making sure that Rock creek at Keasey remains open to public fishing. About 90 per cent of the pledges made have been paid according to Pete Brunsman and the remain ing 10 per cent are needed to complete the transaction. In corporation proceedings are also nearly completed he said. Payments of the promises may be made to Charles Wall at the mill, to R. M. Aldrich or at Bruns man Hardware and Electric. X-ray Unit Films More This Year 3240 EXAMINED ST. HELENS — A total of 3240 Columbia county residents received chest x-rays during the annual visit of the mobile unit operated by the Oregon Tubercu losis association, Mrs. Estella Harris, executive secretary of the county public health association reports. This figure represents an in crease of 48 over a year ago. CONTRACT LET RAINIER — Letting of a con tract for grading and paving of 3.69 miles of highway between Rainier and Goble was announced by the Oregon state highway com mission Tuesday of last week. The $673,458 contract went to the firm of Leonard 4 Slate of Portland. It is understood locally that the contract will require federal ap proval which is regarded as a matter of routine, and then the work will start within a period of 15 days. COUNTY HOSPITAL ASKED ST. HELENS — Circulars of petitions asking for the placing THURSDAY, APRIL 22. 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON on the November election ballot the matter of building and fin ancing a county hospital at St. Helens will be undertaken by St. Helens Civic League and probably by the county granges as the re sult of a meeting of representa tives of both with the county court last week. The group ap peared before the court in the hope that it would agree to place the proposal on the ballot, but the court said it wanted more con crete proof that voters desired such a measure. KIWANIS SEEK JR. CITIZEN CLATSKANIE — Selection of a Junior First Citizen for Clats kanie for the year 1948 is being planned by the local Kiwanis club. The young man chosen for this honor will be picked on a basis of achievement, leadership, personal character, ability and service to the community during the calender year. Sole purpose of this program is to encourage the younger citi zens to take a more active part in community affairs. IWA Local 5-37 members heard Manley J. Wilson, democrat, can didate for the senate, speak at their meeting last Thursday night, April 22. The members also heard Edward Gideon talk that same night. He is a democratic can didate for congress for the 1st district. Other speakers before the local that night were Claude Hale, secretary-treasurer of the Columbia River District Council, and James W. Lowman, state di rector of the CIO political action committee. » Cooper Named as Secretary Aid Appointment of D. W. Cooper as assistant secretary of the Co- lumb a county agriculture con servation association has been an nounced by William Armstrong, chairman of'the county AAA com mittee. As assistant secretary, Cooper will be located in the AA office at St. Helens and will assist the county committee in administering the agricultural conservation pro gram. Cooper came to Columbia county from San Francisco where he was employed by the Matson Naviga tion company where he was in charge of reconverting the S. S. Lurline to a modern passenger ship. During the war he spent seven years in the navy as engineer officer on the U. S. S. Tennessee in the South Pacific. He entered the service direct from Oregon State college which he attended for three and one-half years studying animal husbandry. A native Oregonian, Cooper was raised on farms in Lake and Douglas counties. He will make his home with his wife and young son in St. Helens. • Grade Student Enters Contest A feature of the annual state wide competitive music festival sponsored by the Oregon Music Oregon Music Teachers’ associa- tionand radio station KEX, in Portland, April 26 to May 1, will be competition for the $100 prize in boys’ unchanged voice classif ication as well as the honor of playing the part of "King David” in the Hood River music festival, August 5 to 8, under direction of Eons Sirpo. Maude Kobow, grade school music instructor, Vernonia, has announced that James Stevens, 13, Vernonia, has entered the contest. Twenty-one of the northwest’s most talented boy singers have entered the event so far. • Stanley Earl Expected Stanley Earl, secretary-treasur er of the Oregon State Industrial Union council, will be present at the ne;rt meeting, April 29, of IWA Local 5-37 to discuss unem ployment compensation with the membership. Trout Season Opening Scheduled for Saturday Ardent trout fishermen will go into action this Saturday to try their luck on the first day of the general season which opens that day for most of the state with the exception of tidewater areas where the opening is delayed un til June 15. Those who don’t ex perience luck the first day, and maybe not the second, have until September 30 before the general closing date. That’s five months. Coastal waters, however, have their season extended until Oc tober 31 in order to permit some fishing of the fall run of cut throat (harvest) trout. According to information here, it is the understanding that the entire length of Rock creek is open as well as the Nehalem above the mouth of Rock creek. The game commission, this sea son, is opening as much water as possible on the one date and still conform with a sound manage ment program. This is being done in the hope that it will spread the opening day pressure more evenly over the waters of the state. The legal length limit is again six inches except in the lower parts of the Umpqua and Rogue rivers, coastal waters and drain age basins tributary to the Pacific and waters tributary to the Co lumbia river below the north city limits of St. Helens. In these waters eight inches is the min imum length limit. Salmon season opens again in the coastal streams that were closed during March and April with the exception of the Wilson river, which will open only below highway 101, the Trask river, which opens only below highway 101 and the Nehalem river which opens only below the Mohler bridge. Stockmen Advised of Need For Hay Supply Next Winter Columbia county stockmen were edvised at the recent stockmen’s meeting here to be sure of the feed they will need for next winter and not try to carry more stock than can be fed because there will be no carryover of hay. Hay stocks have been cleared up by California stockmen. The ad vice was given by E. R. Jackman who represented the Oregon State extension service. He also told stockmen that people are now eating more meat than every before which makes a good market for meat. Stockmen, who attended over 40 strong, also heard J. W. Nibler, county agent, make recommenda tions in regard to his observations of pasture ’n this county. Discussed by the stock raisers was the economic unites of live stock raising including the im portance of the small unites as well as the larger. New officers for the county association include E. A. Wist, Scappoose, president; C. W. Sher man, Scappoose, vice-president, MoleTrapSetting To Be Shown How to set a trap to catch those pesky moles will be demon strated at the Natal Grange hall on May 1 at 1:30 p.m. according to W. G. Nibler, county agent. Mole damage is mainly caused by the dirt mounds they throw up in hay and pasture lands and by burrowing under garden and other row crops. If traps are properly set, the mole is quite easily trapped and the main difficulty experienced in catching them is in setting the trap. • Music Festival Scheduled May 6 Foster American Music, the theme for national music week will be followed out in the annual music festival to be held here May 6, next Thursday, according to Paul Gordon, grade school superintendent, who announced the time of the festival Wednes day morning: The festival, at which all organisations, civic and fraternal have been invited to participate, will start at 8 p.m. at the Washington grade school. On the afternoon of May 4 at 1 o’clock there is also scheduled a piano recital of students of music teachers in Vernonia. The students will be judged on a ec re petitive basis and the best num bers from each division of the recital will be presented again at the festival program on Thurs day. Mrs. Maude Kobow, grads school music instructor, is in charge of arrangements for both the May 4 and May 6 events and George A. Nelson, secetary- treasurer, reelected. Later this spring the stock- men will visit the Northrup Creek experiment station under arrange ments which are being worked out by Mr. Nibler and on a date that will be announced later. • Wylie Richmond Dies Here Tues, Wylie Yangy Richmond passed away at his home here about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday of this week following a long period of illness. Death came at the age of 70 years and 25 days. He was born April 2, 1878 at Lydan, Illinois. Surviving the deceased are his wife, Chrissle Richmond of Ver nonia; a son, Keith B. Richmond of Portland and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Lowery of Jalvin, Washing ton. Services will be conducted at the Bush Funeral Home Friday at 10:30 a.m. and interment will be at Lincoln Memorial cemetery, Portland. • Lunch Room Talked at Meet Discussion at greater length by P.-T.A. members of the school lunch program was heard at the last meeting of the group held early last week when the project was outlined in greater detail by Superintendent Paul Gordon. He told the group that, being a state project, the cost will be considerable to make the change required to conform with specifi cations for the program. Needed will be storage space, kitchen facilities, dishwashing equipment and tables. The P.-T.A. derived a small sum from the exchange of paper sack lunches at the meeting. Mrs. George Johnson, president of the group, welcomed several new members and also extended an invitation to all who could to attend a special study of P.-T.A. work at her home held Tuesday of this week. • Death Occurs Thursday John Henry Tooley, 89, passed away last Thursday, April 22 at 5:45 a.m at the MacDonald hotel after being ill and bedfast for the past five months. Burial was at Glendale Sunday. Arrangements were handled here by the Bush Funeral home. The hotel dining room was closed until today, open ing again this morning. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, two daughters, Lilly Msy Smith, Long Beach, California and Mrs. M. W. Wood, Klamath Falls and four sons, H. B. of Sonora, California, Henry of St. Helens and Homer and Charles of Glendale. Construction Bid Deceives BEA Approval Board’s Acceptance Of Canby Electric Figure Given OK The start of construction on 70 miles of new electric distribution line by West Oregon Electric Co operative was assured last Thurs day when approval was received here of the Canby Electric Service bid opened April 6. Announce ment of the approval was made by Guy Thomas, manager of the Co operative. The bid was opened at a special meeting of the Cooperative board of directors held at the Legion hall, but the board’s action at that time was subject to rural electri fication approval and that ap proval was received last Thurs day from Washington, D. C. The Canby bid was for $51,023.- 15 for the construction of the 70 miles on a labor only basis. Ma terials for the work have been purchased by the Cooperative and are on hand awaiting the start of work Mr. Thomas said. The contract calls for comple tion of the job within 90 days af ter being started. The 70 miles of line will add over 225 new con sumers to those now receiving electric service as members of the Cooperative and will serve res idents of areas that have waited for years for power and light facilities. • Employment Up Despite Weather Despite continued bad weather in most sections of Oregon dur ing the last two months, employ ment in 324 logging and lumber ing establishments submitting em ployer labor market reports in creased by 1,423 from mid-Jan- uary to mid-March. This rep- lesents an increase of 3.6 per cent according to an analysis of Oregon logging and lumberinng employment issued a few days ago by the Oregon state unem ployment compensation commis sion. There were 39,080 workers in these 324 firms in January and 40,503 in March. All of this in crease was concentrated in the Western fir region. The report also states that these 324 logging and lumbering establishments employed in mid March about 54 per cent of the total employment in the industry. The outlook for future opera tions during the next six months period shows a steady increase in employment anticipated. • More Planting of Fish Promised More fish for Rock creek was indicated according to a letter re ceived here a few days ago by Charles Castner who had pre viously contacted the Oregon State Game commission and Lew Wallace about the matter. The next plantings to be made will be fingerling trout, the local man has been informed. The planting of fingerlings will be in addition to plantings of yearling trout which have also Iwen assured by the game com mission for Rock creek this year. • Open Houts Dated IWA Local 5-37 has scheduled an open house, to which every body is welcomed, for the even ing of Thursday, May 6 at 8 p.m. Occasion for the event Is the showing of a motion picture put out by District Council No. 5, IWA, according to John Elder, business agent, who male the announcement Wednesday morn ing.
