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Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Candidate 37 Seniors to Get Diplomas Thirty-seven Seniors will re ceive their dip omas for gradua tion at the end of the term at Commencement exercises on the 26th day of this month. In ad dition Richard Thompson who completed his work at the middle of the year, will receive his diploma and four ex-service boys will also be honored. Those back from the service are Randolph Bass, Dale Roland, Derrel Rose and Glen Shipman. The offical list of Seniors, re leased early this week, is: Shirley Berg, Bill Biddle, Terry Brady, John Carmichael, Donald Cline, Gladys Dass, Lee Enneberg, Harold Fowler, Jack Frank; Roy Frank, R. A. George, Pat Gibson, Ronald Graham, Don Han non, Hulda Johnson, Evelyn Kreig- er, Joan Lindsley, Barbara Lolley, Sally Kaspar; Lillian Lusby, Richard McNair, Kay Miller, Virginia Millis, Joyce New, Art Ovesen, Grace Potter, Don Reynolds, Bonnie Ross; Don Schaumberg, Theresa Schmidlin, Lila Schram, Russell Stuve, Alvin Tapp, Richard Thompson, Betty Tindall, Florence Tisdale, Jean Turner, Martha Wells. • Examiner to Come A drivers license examiner will be on duty in Vernonia Friday, May 14 at the city hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Licenses or per mits to drive will be issued at that time. WARREN M. FORSYTH is a candidate for republican nomina tion ¿er sheriff of Columbia coun ty. Forsyth was appointed to the fish and game commission’s field crew in 1932 and to the state police in 1933 and assigned to Columbia county, continuing in the enforcement of fish and game laws. After five years in this work, he was transferred to motor traffic and general law enforce ment. He was with the state police, except for a brief interval during the war, until 1944 when he resigned to become chief of police at St. Helens. He has been a continuous resident of Columbia county since 1933. • Ruling Evasion Draws Sentence Failure to observe a ruling made Tuesday of last week led to a fine of $25 and an order to leave town Friday, by noon for W. B. Starkey who owned the Vernonia Taxi Service. The fine and order came from the city recorder’s court Friday morning after Starkey was arrested Thurs day for carrying a passenger even though his license to operate had been revoked. Numerous complaints had been received by city police concern ing the operation of the taxi, hence the action to revoke the license. • 1st Aid Class Started Tues. Started here Tuesday evening was a course in first aid instruc tion being sponsored by West Oregon Electric Cooperative pri marily for men employees of the Cooperative, but open to others who may wish to join the class. Announcement of the course was made Tuesday morning by Guy Thomas, manager of the Coopera tive. The instruction is being given by the state industrial accident commission and a class is held every Tuesday evening starting at 7 p.m. Five more men can be accomodated and if there are any wishing to receive the instruction they are asked to see Mr. Thomas. The course will last for eight weeks. Salmon Catch Good; Float Intended BIG CATCH NETTED CLATSKANIE — Opening day of the fish season on this section of the Columbia was reported as being good, in fact, the best in ten years, one station reported. The fish are bringing 23 cents a pound to the fishermen. According to figures available from the various stations in this area, the high man was Elmer Hurula, who docks at Wallace Fish Station and his boat carried 1.000 pounds of salmon to the station. POSTOFFICE MOVED RAINIER — The Rainier post office was moved recently from the Lindeman building in which it has been located to a placa next door, also owned by I. B. Linderman. R. C. Sheedy had the contract for moving the equip ment BANK opened ST. HELENS—Columbia coun ty's newest bank building, a 1115,- Commission Lists April Welfare Cost Need Cited as Fundamental in Deciding Cases Pre-school Children To Be Examined at Washington School As all children are required by law to have a physical examina tion before entering school, the Vernonia P.-T.A. is sponsoring a free health clinic at the Wash ington grade school Wednesday, May 19. All mothers of children who will enter school next fall are urged to bring their children be tween 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on that day. Both local doctors are donat ing their services for the day as is Mrs. Joan Grondahl, Colum bia county health nurse. This examination will be the first of its nature to be held here and is being done in compliance with a state law which became effective last year and which re quires the check-up before young sters enter the first grade. Parents who avail themselves of the opportunity to have their children examined next Wednesday will avoid the necessity of mak ing special appointments for ex aminations at a later time. • THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 26, NUMBER 20 Free Health Clinic Set For May 19 Farming, Recreation. ” 000 structure completed this week for the St. Helens branch of the United States National bank, was formally opened to the public May 10. QUEEN TO BE SOUGHT ST. HELENS—Columbia coun ty’s participation in the 1948 Miss Oregon contest, winner of which will represent the state in ths Miss America contest at Atlantic City, was assured last week when the St. Helens junior chamber of commerce decided to sponsor the event on a county-wide basis. FLOAT ENTRY PLANNED ST. HELENS — Assurance that the City of St. Helens will again be represented by a float in the Portland Rose Festival was given last week by Russell Mar tini, Ben Coleman and Fred An derson who will work out addi tional details this week. Type of float to be entered will be decided and then a permanent committee will also be named. Old age assistance was the highest figure of grants made by the Columbia county public wel fare commission for the month of April as indicated in the report released a few days ago by Mrs. Eva L. Tice, administrator for the commission. Assistance to the aged for last month totaled $14,839.00 for 380 cases. Other expenditures for the month were: aid to dependent children, $4,503.00, 58 cases; gen eral assistance, $5,595.57, 93 cases and blind assistance, $445.00, 8 cases. Thirty-seven new applica tions were received. Need is the fundamental in all programs administered by the welfare commission. Need is not an elusive thing, dependent upon personality of the recipient or guesses by the commission. It is definitely determined by accepted processes. Food needs are deter mined by applying current prices to types and quantities of food required for health. A schedule is compiled by the state commis sion indicating the cost for age groups. Such schedules are com piled for clothing and miscellan eous personal needs. Housing, light, fuel, water, etc., are included as experience dictates. The sum of the above items is the appli cant’s gross cost for decency and health. Any income whatever is deduc ted, be it old age benefits, allot ments from service men, contri butions from relatives, payments on property sold, or any other tvoe of income. Applicants have the right to appeal to the state welfare commission if they believe they have not received proper con sideration. Old age assistance was also ex plained at the meeting. Such assistance is one title of the social security act, but it should be under stood that it is not one of the insurances set up under the act and financed by employer-em ployee taxes. Old age assistance is a pro gram set up to insure sufficient income for decency and health. It is not a specified sum, but varies depending upon what is needed to support the recipient. The applicant or recipient has responsibility under the law for declaring his assets, for giving true and accurate information and for notifying the county welfare commission immediately of the receipt or possession of such pro perty or income. The commission must reinvesti gate all grants at least once a year. The reinvestigation gives the recipient an opportunity to point out changes in his circum stances and to have his budget adjusted to current living condi tions. • Library Gets More Books The following new books were added to the shelves of the Ver nonia public library last week: Parris Mitchell — Bellamann; Rogue River Feud—Grey; Devil and Destiny — DuBois and Jet Plane Mystery—Snell (teen age). The library board members met Monday evening of this week to plan attendance at the Oregon library association meeting to be held at Reed College May 22. • Class to Reunite The 1932 class reunion of the Vernonia high school will be held Saturday, May 15 at 8 o’clock in the Legion hail. A good turn out is expected this year as word has been received from many of the out-of-town classmates that they are coming. Fire Season Date Set for May 15th Beginning May 15, 1948 the nonia 11F52, or Clatskanie. Others who will issue permits closed fire season goes into effect. Permits to burn may be obtained are: Robert Stennick, Rainier at present either at the Pittsbprg (sec. 18 T7N R2W), phone 16F3 Guard station or the Wilark guard and Robert Watt, Routel, Deer station, telephone numbers Ver Island (sec. 12 T5N R2W). A nonia 11F555, or St. Helens warden at the Pisgah lookout will 11F11. Residents of the St. issue permits for the Scap Helens rural fire district will poose area. obtain their burning permits from • the St. Helens fire hall, phone 423. Within the very near future there will be five wardens in Co lumbia county from whom burn ing permits can also be obtained. In the Birkenfeld area, Warden Oregon’s vast land owing “tim Guy Bellingham, phone Birkenfeld ber barons” are very much of Garage, will issue permits. The overly vivid imaginations because Clatskanie district will be covered actual facts and figures do not by Chet Hall at the Benson look bear out the oft expressed belief out. His phone number is Ver- that timber and trees are all owned by “big business.” This statement is made by O.S.C., extension forester, Charles Ross, who points out thai wood land owners in the state number close to 45,000. He says 63 per In line with the trend of record cent of Oregon’s privately owned highs in prices and production, forest reserves are owned by 4-H clubs of Columbia county individuals with holdings of less have set an all time high for than 5,000 acres each. Farmer owners of woodlands numbers enrolled in 1948. Numbers totaling 715 are carry play important roles in the timber Ross emphasizes. In ing 854 projects in 63 clubs picture, throughcut the county with 55 western Oregon, for example, there adult leaders assisting. These is an average of close to 40 acres boys and girls, between the ages of wood for each farm. Many of 9 and 21, are carrying bn prac other small acreage timber owners tical work ranging from room im are local businessmen, city work provement to forestry in coopera ers living in the country, and tion with the extension service and various other investors. From the national standpoint, the state department of education. Each member must do his own 4,000,000 persons in the United work, supervised by a competent States own a piece of woodland adult leader, and each club holds which contains less than 500 acres. regular meetings conducted by its Together these small acreage tim ber owners control 200,000,000 own officers. The health project has the larg acres of forest. That is 60 per est enrollment, 254, followed by cent of all the privately owned clothing, 149; livestock, 130; for forest land in this country, Ross estry, 120; booking, 114; garden adds. Meanwhile, a change is taking ing, 37; knitting, 29; room im provement, 11; and woodworking, place in the minds of the small forest property owners, Ross 10. states. Prior1 to about 1940, few • farmers, for instance, saw any thing but a pasture and wood reservoir in their woodlots. They felt it did not pay to try to sell small trees, and it took two life times to grow salable timber. A The organizing of another church sweeping change in viewpoint is for people of the Upper Nehalem now taking place, Ross observes, valley is indicated by an an and present day woodland owners nouncement made late last week are seeking income from their by Rev. Cecil C. Winfrey who trees. Nowadays they are talking is holding revival meetings here knowingly of poles, sawlogs, pulp and who is working towards wood and fuel markets. Future markets for woodland creating sufficient interest in the products are bound to increase denomination. The revival meetings were with second growth timber be started last week and are con coming more valuable as.'the re tinuing to the 20th of this month sult of inroads on the stands of at 847 Third street, the minister old growth forests. The day when said. Considerable interest in the farmers can receive an annual church had been indicated al cash c; op” from their woods is not ready by the forepart />f this too far distant, Ross concludes. week. • Should interest be high enough to make the church possible, fu Transfer Business Sold ture plans will be to obtain a A transaction whereby W. A. more suitable meeting place and Davis became the owner of Ca eventually the construction of a son’s Transfer was completed last Baptist church building. week and the new owner assumed • operation of the business Thurs day. Announcement of the change was made by Dan Cason who has owned and operated the business in Vernonia for the past 25 years. Small Holdings Biggest Factor 4-H Enrollment Hits High Point Baptist Church To Organize Precinct Voting Places Noted Electors residing in the four Vernonia precincts will have to familiarize themselves with the precinct in which they reside, if they have not already done so, in order to know the place to cast their ballots in the forth coming primary election. The voting places remain the same as those of the last election and are as follows: Vernonia No. 1—Erickson build ing, earner of Bridge and Second street. Vernonia No. 2—C.I.O. Union hall. Vernonia No. 3 — Washington grade school. Vernonia No. 4—City hall. At Mist electors will go to the school building to cast their ballots. _ . u 50 Students To Graduate Thurs.,May 27 This Year’s Class Larger Than That Of Previous Year This year’s eighth grade grad uating class is larger than that of last year, number 50 students. Superintendent Paul A. Gordon said Tuesday. The class mem bers will receive their diplomas at the exercises scheduled for the evening of Thursday, May 27. The principal address that even ing will be delivered by Charles W. Robinson, Portland lawyer, on the subject, “After Tonight— What?” He comes here highly recommended as a speaker and his topic promises to be of interest to the class. In addition to the graduation exercises, there will be exhibits of art work completed during the year as well as the work of the various activity clubs. Part of the program for the graduation will be devoted to mak ing awards for the Poppy poster contest sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary and the athletic and safety lane awards. • Riley Services To Be Held Fri. John Riley was born at Gales City, Oregon on August 20, 1874 and passed away at Vernonia on May 11, at the age of 73 years 8 months and 21 days. In 1895 he was married to Rachel Virginia McCoy, who pro ceeded him in death by 26 years. To this union were bom seven children, six of whom survive: Mrs. Leora Norman of Arcata, California; Mrs. Hazel Blackwell and Mrs. Violet Blackwell of Sher idan; Robert Riley of Toledo, Washington and Frank Riley and Mrs. Faye Davis of Vernonia. Also surviving are 21 grand children and four great grand children. He also leaves his widow, Mrs. Cassie Riley, of Vernonia, whom he married in 1944, and seven stepchildren. The services will be here at the Bush Funeral home at 1 p.m. Friday and commitment will be at the Gales Creek cemetery. • Clerk-Carrier Exam Intended Applications are being accepted now at the Vernonia post office for an open examination for pro bations! appointment to the posi tion of substitute clerk-carrier, post office service, according to an announcement made by the local office a few days ago. The examination will be held locally and applications to take the test will be accepted up to May 19. Information in more detail can be obtained by interest ed parties by inquiring at the post office. Quartet to Sing THE YOUTH FOR CHRIST rally tonight, Thurs day, will feature the Kings Heralds Quartet from Pacific college, Newberg. The four men will bring "the gospel message in aong” and ar* highly rated by advance publicity releases concerning their visit here. The rally tonight will he the last for this spring according to officials of the Vernonia Minis terial association which has been sponsoring the ■nestings. The rallys may be started again later in the yenr.
