Library, U of O
“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation."
VOLUME 26, NUMBER Tf
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.