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Library, U of O k i “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming. Recreation. VOLUME 26, NUMBER 24 Pilot Dies in Plane Crash Monday Eve, Craft Falls from Take-off at Field Near Birkenfeld The crash of a light plane Mon day evening about dusk near Bir- kenfeld took the life of Earl Noble Mallory, 22, pilot, who was taking off and had climbed to an altitude of about 400 feet. The craft burned after hitting the ground. Cause of the fall could not be definitely determined. The body was not removed from the scene of the crash until Tuesday morn ing because the ambulance at Ver nonia was out on call Monday ev ening and flood conditions at Clatskanie prevented help being obtained from there. Mallory was an ex-navy pilot and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mallory of Clatskanie. • *■ Son Dies in Boat Sinking The 40-foot steel fishing boat, Sea Lion, and the bodies of two Portland men were located Sat urday morning in Willapa harbor where the craft sank mysteriously Friday night in calm water. The bodies were identified as G. D. Stanfield, skipper, and Elmer George Brown, 1615 N. Interstate, Portland, owner. Elmer Brown is the son of G. F. Brown of Pitts burg. A distress call from the vessel about 9 p. m. Friday said simply, “We are sinking.” The boat was found the next morning in 22 feet of water about 150 yards in side Willapa bar. Fishermen wer* mystified about the cause of the disaster. One theory was that the boat might have struck a floating mine. Both men were wearing life jackets when the bodies were found. X Northrup Tour Is Arranged t’ A tour of the Nehalem valley pastures and the Northrup Creek experiment station has been ar ranged jointly for Columbia and Clatsop county farmers for June 12 according to W. G. Nibler, county agent. The tour will start at 9:30 a. m. on the Leslie Gallersrud form just west of the Nehalem bridge on the Sunset highway to Seaside. Gallersrud has a sub clover pas ture established 10 years ago that has been carrying three cows per acre this spring. The Meeker Bros, farm will also be visited to look at new seedlings of sub-clover, lotus and grass, and some black berry control work with alta fes cue. At 12:30 p. m. the group will meet at the Northrup creek ex- perimental area for lunch. In the afternoon the logged off land seeding at Northrup will be visited. Folks attending the tour should bring their own lunch and eating utensils, and coffee will be furn ished. Mas* Scheduled Mass will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic church Sunday, June 13 at 9:30. Archbishop D. Howard will be here to give Confirmation. The two weeks summer school will end Saturday. • Astoria Due Sunday The Vernonia Junior Legion baseball team will meet Astoria here Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. on the grade school diamond for the second season game. Vernonia lost the first game last Sunday with Seaside, 6-2. The Seaside game was the first for several Vernonia boys. THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON Mon. Heat Phone Hearing Highest Yet Complaints Voiced Monday Monday’s temperature recording hit the highest mark here yet this year Mrs. Helen Spofford cooperative observer, said Tues day evening when she listed the three highest readings for the month. On Monday, June 7, the heat guage tallied 95 degrees. Sunday and Tuesday weren’t exactly cool either because the readings for both those days was over 90. On Sunday the cooper ative station thermometer listed 91 degress and on Tuesday, the 8th, the reading was 93 degrees. Mrs. Spofford also issued data Tuesday on weather recordings for the month of May. Maximum tem perature during that month was 84 on May 24 and the minimum was 26 on May 1. Rainfall totaled 4.81 inches of which the greatest amount fell on May 3rd. This measured an even inch. Prevailing wind direction for May was northwest. Days partly cloudy were 9, cloudy 16 and clear Last Service Conducted Sun. Rev. A. F. Van Slyke of Port land, minister who has been fil ling the pulpit at the Christian church until a resident pastor could be obtained, conducted his last service here last Sunday. G. W. Anderson will arrive this week to begin work and Mrs. Anderson will arrive at a later date. Rev. Van Slyke was presented with a farewell gift at the close of the morning service in apprec iation of his service to the Ver nonia church. • Final Rites for Mrs. Counts Read Final rites for Mrs. A. B. Counts, a pioneer resident of the Nehalem Valley since early in the century, were carried out Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Bush Funeral Home. Rev. Cecil C. Winfrey delivered the funeral sermon. Mrs. Counts passed away at her home here at the age of 71 last Friday morning at 2:30 a.m. She and her husband came to the Ne- halem Valley from Kentucky, making their home here in 1905 and living here since that time with the exception of a very few years. Mrs. Counts is survived by 11 children, all of them having grown to adulthood here. The youngest is now 28. They are: Mrs. Julia Boeck, Vernonia; Mrs. Betty Jonnson, Glendale, California; Mrs. Pearl Gordon, San Francisco; Milard Counts, Valsetz; Mrs. Arline Altman, Arcata, California; Clifford Counts, Cannon Beach; John of Eureka, California; Ar nold if Vernonia; Hawley, Rose burg and Mrs. Jean Devaney, Keasey. Internment was at the Vernonia Memorial cemetery. Trailer Camp Started Several trailer houses being used by families while here for the construction of the 70 miles of new transmission line for the West Oregon Electric, have been parked on the vacant lot across the street south of the high school. Plans have been talked for es tablishing a permanent trailor camp at that location. Free Movie Scheduled The attention of IWA Local 5- 37 members is called to another free educational motion picture which will be shown at the regu lar meeting on June 10. Members are asked to be sure to attend a/id bring their friends. The showing is scheduled for 8 p.m. Brush Growth Is Cited as Part of Line Difficulty Only a small representation telephone subscribers was on hand Monday evening to voice com plaints of the service at the hear ing conducted by the city council. Present for the meeting were Arthur Scripture, West Coast Telephone Co., manager for the Forest Grove district, and Gene Goodrich, assistant manager. Both men answered questions about the difficulties which have been ex perienced by local users and pointed out troubles of the com pany in correcting those difficul ties. Some of the complaints con cerned trouble at times of hear ing plainly on long distance calls. The need for brush cutting was pointed out as one of the reme dies for part of this trouble. No action was taken by council men concerning the franchise which was signed earlier this year between the city and the telephone company. In answer to the question of when the city park swimming pool would be installed, the council indicated that swimmers would have to wait until about July 1st. In the meantime provision must be made for a guard at the pool, no one now being definitely avail able to take the job although Mayor George Johnson indicited that there were several prospects. Mayor Johnson also informed the councilmen that the intended purchase of a fire truck from the city of Albany would not be com pleted because the truck has been sold. Two other problems also requir- ed considerable discussion Mon- day. One was the installation of a water line to property at the north end of State street where no line is now in service, New residential construction is under- way there which makes the instal- lation necessary. The painting of parking markers along Bridge street and some side streets was also suggested by the council. Lions Elect New Leaders Monday Lions club members who will head the group’s activities for the coming yeiir were named Monday evening at the Vernonia Country club where that meeting was held. President of the club will be Dr. H. E. Schlegel, who was last year’s vice-president, Other of- ficers are: immediate past presi dent, Ed Salomonsen; first vice-, president, Lyman Hawken; second vice-president, M. L. Herrin; third vice - president, Lynn Thomas; treasurer, Bill J. Hom; secretary, Wilbur E. Wilson; Lion Tamer, Sam Y. Gregory; tail twister, Guy Thomas and alternate tail twister, Gordon Larson. The club will meet at the golf course in the future because of the fire which destroyed the Mac Donald hotel last week. FLAMT'S H AD just broken through the roof Tuesda al'ie-n i, June 1, when this photo was ta’ en at t’.’e back of the Hotel MacDonald and this portion of r of collapsed shortly thereafter. The fire broke out in an upper back room, but was not discovered until i had made considerable headway. The fireman is standing on a small building I'eated near the hotel. FOREMEN and their helpers, of which there were plenty, had a hot job on their hands before they were able to bring the Hotel MacDonald fire under control early last week, that caused $18,000 damage. F lames reached the front of the building upstairs before being brought under control. Water damage caused the biggest loss to the ground floor furnishings many of which can be reclaimed. The structure and furnish ings were placed on sale this week by the owners, who have not yet announced definite future plans. (Photos by Melvin Schwab) Manning Service Conducted Sat. Goat Milk Market Topic Of Producers Meet Sun. Services were conducted at the Bush Funeral Home Saturday at 2 p.m. for Jerry Roy Manning, At the meeting of all those in terested in a stabalized market for goat milk in this area at the home of Irving Conklin on Rock creek last Sunday, C. L. Calkins, presi dent of the Oregon Dairy Goat Breeders association, told of the new plant to be established at Vancouver, Washington. There will be an expenditure of about $50,000 on the plant to get it into production of some 3,000 gallons of milk. The Brinwood Goat Dairies of Vashon, Washington will be the operators and are at this time try ing to get a year round supply of grade A goat milk to supply the plant at Vancouver. They also supply the city of Seattle with goat milk and ship by air to Alas- ka. Mr. Calkins stated that in about 60 days, or until that time when the necessary stainless steel equipment could be obtained, the • age 57, who passed away as the result of the logging train accident at Camp Olson last Thursday morning. Internment was at the Vernon ia Memorial cemetery with full military honors. The deceased was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Elkhorn Lodge, I.O.O.F., pf Baker, Ore. He serv ed in the first world war in the 80th Engineers, railway. Rev. Allen H.- Backer officiated at the service Firm Location Changed; Fees Higher INDUSTRY CHANGES MIND ST. HELENS—Decision of the Kuster Products, Inc., which for several weeks considered setting up a new plant in St. Helens, to establish the business in the San Francisco bay area was announced last week. CLEBK FEES UP St. Helens—Fees collected in the office of County Clerk C. W. Wickman during the month of May totaled $1,164.80, highest fig ure for any month this year. Larg est individual item was for re cording fees, from which $541.55 was realized. Applications for nine marriage licenses added 127 to the total. County, $165; circuit judge, $78; district attorney, $25; trial, $14; reporter, $35; probate court, $60; law library, $45; liquor license. $10; migratory chattel fees, |35- .50; miscellaneous, $128.75. Grange Plans Party - Members and friends of the Natal Grange are invited to a Good Time party scheduled Friday evening of this week at the Natal hall. Everyone is invited to the af fair for which no admission is being charged. Equipment Added Eight new parts bins have been installed at the Vernonia Auto company to make possible the ad dition of more automotive parts items. The company also re cently installed new front end aligning and wheel balancing equipment as well ss remodeling and painted part of the mechanical department. produce both canned and dehydrat ed goat milk. The plant would be plant would be' in operation to supplied by the goat dairies along the Columbia river and as far south as Grant Pass. He further stated that this was the finest op portunity ever offered to the goat owners and was well worth the ef fort to produce grade A mil». Further details can be obtained from Mr. Calkins himself at hii home address, 3039 S. E. Malcom Street. Milwaukie 2, Oregon. Vacation School Closes Friday The Daily Vacation Bibie school now being held at the Nazarene church will close this Friday. The children will enjoy a picnic lunch, at the noon hour. Each chili ia asked to bring their own ■and- wichea, the rest of the lunch to be furnished by the teachers. Friday night at 8 p.m. the children will give their closing program and display their hand work. More than 70 have enrolled and a good average attendance has been on hand each day. Rev. Rus sell cordially invites th* public to come and enjoy the program and encourage the children.
