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“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.
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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.
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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had been revoked.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.