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Library, U of O Derno “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” Hot Lunch Dining Room Construction Nears End Changes which were necessary At that election, funds were also in order to prepare for this fall’s voted to finance a new roof for hot lunch program at the Wash the Washington building. The ington grade school are about roof has now been installed, the completed, an examination of the work being done earlier this month work revealed Wednesday morn by the John W. Burns and Sons ing, and much of the cleaning, painting and varnishing of wood company of Portland. • work and floors in other parts of the building has also been com pleted already for the fall open ing. Some electrical wiring and painting of the dining room still remains, but that will probably Prisión sentences were meted be completed before the equip ment for preparing meals arrives. out to two men in connection with Charles Dübendorf, James Lati • the recent theft of about $3,000 mer, C. A. Mills and Harold Mc worth of jewelry from the W. T. Entire have been doing the paint Jacobs store at Clatskanie when ing and varnishing work this year they appeared in St. Helens before preparing the building for use Circuit Judge Howard K. Zim again with the opening of school. merman in court. Lloyd C. John Work at the Lincoln school is son, 26,' was sentenced to five practically done also Mg- Düben years in the Oregon state peni tentiary while Laverne W. Duna dorf said. Structural work at Washington gan, 21, was given a one-year has been confined to preparing term. Both men entered guilty the dining room which, when com pleas to charges of burglary not pleted and when the equipment in a dwelling. Theft of the jewelry occured is installed, will give district 47 modern facilities for serving noon some time on the night of July 12 lunches. The project was sponsor and the case was completely clear ed by the Parent-Teachers assoc ed four days later with both men iation under the leadership of Mrs. under arrest and all of the loot George Johnson and funds for recovered. Included in the stolen the installation were voted by the goods were several watches and district at an election hold last a number of diamond rings. month. Jewel Robbers Get Sentences Special Season Intended Again Several special seasons with a limited number of tags will be held this year for both deer and elk. A letter to the Oregon State game commission specifing the applicant’s name and hunting li cense number and the special season that he wishes to apply for is all that is necessary. Ap plicants are asked not to send in money until notified to do so by the game commission. If more applications are receive than the number of tags avail able, a drawing will be held. This year it will be permitted for groups of four or less to draw as a party. If the applicants wish to do this, it should be so stated in their letter. After the final tags are issued the game commission will not exchange them as to area and they will be good for the original applicant only. No refunds will be made after the tags are issued. Due to the necessity of splitting parties of hunters when drawings have had to be held for special seasons in the past, a change is being made this year by the Game Commission. Parties of not more than four persons may apply as a unit. If application is made as a group, it should be so specified and a number will be issued to the group if a drawing is necessary. • Bank Charter Asked by Croup A group of Columbia county people, interested in securing a bank for West St. Helens, have made formal application for a state bank charter at the office of the superintendent of banks in Salem. The application for the bank was asked by J. O. Fisher, Irving T. Rau, Glenn A. Leemon, Eldon Der ing, Mason Dillard and Mervin W. Simpson. Mr. Fisher is the Portland Dodge distributor, who lives near Scappoose, and Mr. Dering is owner of the famous rose farms, also at Scappoose. The others are St. Helens resi dents. The bank will be known as “Bank of St. Helens" and will be capitalized at *100,000, 1,000 shares of *100 par value. In addition to the *100,000, *25,000 additional has been subscribed, all by local and Columbia county people. THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 26, NUMBER 31 KOflC Airs Fire Weather Data A special logger’s fire weather report will be broadcast six days a week, except Sunday, from radio station KO AC at 8:45 p.m. (P.D.T.), according to Albert Wiesendanger, executive secretary of Keep Oregon Green associa tion. This new innovation in wide spread dissemination of fire wea ther information will forecast wea ther data a full day in advance so that logging operators can anticipate working conditions to insure maximum safety. The forecasts will be made up by Owen Cramer, in charge of the U. S. Weather Bureau’s fire weather unit, and will cover all of western and central Oregon. Operators will get daily infor mation through this medium on humidity, wind velocity, precipita tion and other weather elements. As near as possible weather data will be localized to specific areas. This is a cooperative project financed and sponsored by Keep Oregon Green association, radio station KOAC and the U. S. Weather Bureau, Wiesendanger pointed out. Wave length of KOAC is 550. • 14 Fire Claims Filed in 1947 The annual report of the state fire marshal released a short time ago indicates that complete in surance payment covered the loss by fire at Vernonia during the year 1947 in the amount of *1,483. There were 14 claims filed here. The report also showed that only one city in the county did not suffer a fire loss during the year. That was Clatskanie. One loss is tallied for Columbia City at *294, covered by insurance and Rainier had 11 claims with a loss of *6824 and of this amount *5045 was paid by insurance. At St. Helens there were 30 claims and the loss totaled *6705 for which the insurance paid was »6093. Hotel Work Undertaken Work is underway on the Hy- Van hotel including the installa tion of asphalt siding and re painting of the exterior wood work. Claude Sanks is installing the siding. V.F.W. Show, Park Field Dance Dated Sprinkled This Week End Building Fund to Benefit by Money Being Taken In Dated to start Thursday of this week, July 29th, is the Centennial Greater Shows which is being sponsored here by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as a means of in creasing the fund that organiza tion is setting aside to finance a future building project. The Shows come here with nine riding devices in addition to the shows and concessions. Manage ment of the firm also announces a 9 cent matinee from 12 noon to 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday for kiddies. As an extra feature for the week end the V.F.W. Auxiliary is sponsoring a dance at the Legion hall Saturday, the 31st. Doug’s Rhythm Boys will furnish music for the evening and the dance is timed to begin at 10 p.m. and continue until 2 a.m. Although originally scheduled to open to the public Thursday ac cording to all advertising that has been released, the show was set up and ready to go Tuesday evening. The Veterans, who will receive a percentage of the gate receipts, will add the money to the fund they and the V.F.W. Auxiliary are setting aside for future con struction of a modern meeting hall. Arrangements for the carni val’s appearance here were made recently with city councilmen. • Pioneers to Meet Sunday. Aug. 8 The annual meeting of pioneers in Columbia county is scheduled again this year at Hudson park for Sunday, August 8 according to an announcement made this week by John Banzer, secretary of the association. Long time residents and their friends will gather at Hudson park four miles west of Rainier for the event. A picnic dinner will be eaten 'at noon and people coming will be served coffee. Part of the day will be taken up with an election of officers and a business meet ing. Pomona to Meet The Columbia county Pomona grange will meet Saturday, August 7 at Yankton for the regular quarterly session. The meeting will convene at 11 a.m. and con tinue through the afternoon and evening, according to a notice from Pearl Becker, grange cor respondent. • Placed in operation a short time ago was the sprinkler system for the city park field which pre vious to last week had not been watered during the summer sea son. The sprinklers and pump were purchased by funds supplied prin cipally by the high school carnival held during the last school year. The system makes possible steady, thorough irrigation of the field in order to maintain the turf. The pump is a Fairbanks-Morse product whick takes water from Rock Creek. Other work at the park this summer includes the addition of some dirt to the low part of the field and the planting of new grass there. Addition of the dirt will help to a certain extent the drainage of the field during the rainy season. Subterranean clover seed was used to replace the turf covered by the new dirt. Baseball Tryouts Slated by Giants A tryout for baseball players is scheduled by the New York Giants at the Hillsboro ball park Aug ust 9, 10 and 11 was announced a few days ago by Mickey Shader, Giant scout, who said that “the tryouts may give a boy a chance to start a major league career.” No age limit is listed, leading to the impression Chat tryouts are wide open and indications are that the Hillsboro sessions will be the only tryouts to be conducted in Oregon by the Giants. Each player must furnish his own uniform, glove and shoes and pay his own expenses. If a player is signed to a Giant contract after a three-day session and sent to a farm club his expenses will be refunded. The Giants will, how ever, furnish the balls and bats used during the sessions. Regular games will be played each day and every player who attends will be given a chance to display his talents. • Second Play-off Starts Aug. 1 The second play-off of the Ver nonia Country club championship matches is scheduled to begin next Sunday, August 1, the tournament committee announced Tuesday. Op ponents names will be posted at the club house so players can arrange their matches which must be played by August 8. More Tanks Coming The first play-off was started last Sunday and must be com pleted before August 1. Work preparatory to the instal lation of two 3,000 gallon gasoline tanks is underway at the Texaco service station. Last Sunday also marked the date of the club’s annual picnic which drew an attendance of about 100 people. Midget Car Race Backed By Lions for Aug. Date What may come to be an annual affair here will be sponsored this year in the form of a Boy’s Mid get Car race, members of the Lions club decided Monday evening when the problem of a sponsor was presented to the group. Quite a number of boys in the vicinity have been spending a lot of time developing racers and have asked that a racing event be planned for them. Camps Help Young People The young people of the Chris tian church report that they have been helped and inspired by the work being done at various Chris tian camps that they have attend ed and have enjoyed the numerous recreation advantages offered. A full scholarship for being the best all-around boy at Turner Boy’s camp was awarded Jerry Herrin. Alternate scholarships were won by Patty Wells at the intermediate girls’ camp at Wi- Ne-Ma and Ralph Sawyer, senior youth, at the same place. Camp directors at Wi-Ne-Ma have asked Beverly Herrin to re turn the second week in August and act as house mother wjien the 10 through 12 year girls group has their encampment. The church expects a large representation of this age to go from Vernonia. Transportation to and from camp is being provided by mem bers of the Ninety and Nine Men’s Bible class which sponsors the groups. • Biggest Best Fair to Come With virtually all phases of the entertainment program lined up already, it appears that the 33rd annual Columbia county fair, to be staged at the Deer Island fair grounds on August 19, 20 and 21, may be the biggest and best in the history of the event. Ralph Langdon, secretary-manager of the fair board, announced last Thursday that a variety of at tractions is planned in conjunc tion with the 1948 fair. One change in plans for this year’s fair is the reduction of individual gate admission. Where as this charge was 50 cents per person last year, it will be only 50 cents per car this year with those on foot admitted free. In addition, there are some grand stand events scheduled for which there will be no admission charged. • Store Hour* Noted Opening hours for the Apparel Shop, which recently changed in ownership, are listed as 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 6 p.m. week days and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays. No Bonded Indebtedness Listed lor Columbia County In Semi-annual Reports of Officers as of June 30, 1948 Semi-annual reports which the various county officers are re quired to make at the half-way point and at the end of each year indicate that Columbia county had no bonded indebtedness as of June 30, 1948 and its only liability was *12,348.56 in warrants outstanding —subject to payment on demand. The county’s financial condition is listed in the report of Mrs. Gladys Peterson, treasurer, which reveals that Columbia had cash assets totaling *122,925.61. Of this amount *60,705.30 was in the gen eral fund, (51,503.40 in the various road funds and *10,716.91 in ■ special reserve fund for road oil ing purposes. Receipts in the treasurer's of fice, plus the balance on hand on Jan. 1, 1948, amounted to *557,- 236.25 on June 30. Total funds col lected during the six month period ending in June amounted to *989- 069.87. As usual, various school funds aided in swelling the re ceipts with *390,176.02 received from school district bonds, *159,- 824.78 from school districts, and *92,295.06 from union high schools. A total of *58,333.10 was realiz ed from the various drainage dis tricts while sales of county land brought *35,410.57. Revenue from justice of the peace fines added *8,649.90 to the total receipts with *2,605 coming from game law vio lations and *2,153 from motor ve hicle law violations. Disbursements for the period ending June 30, 1948 totaled *706,- 241.45. Of this sum, *239,517.91 went to the various school dis tricts. General fund expenditures for the period totaled *83,841.25 and general road fund expenses amounted to *55,303.52. Report of the tax department of the sheriff’s office reveals that taxes were collected from as far back as 1931 during the first six months of 1948 with taxes for that year amounting to *12.66. Collec tions for subsequent years were as follows: 1932, *26.42; 1934, *62.35; 1935, *669.41; 1938, *9.18; 1939, *7.12; 1940, *14.13; 1941, *26.06; 1942, *59.45; 1942-43, *44.09; 1943-44, *1,779.39; 1944-45, (1,864.62; 1945- 46, *3,106.49; 1946-47, *18,201.52; 1947-48, *72,817.36. The proposal was first made to Miss Beverly Herrin who asked that the Lions back the undertak ing. The vote by the Lions favoring the sponsorship of the race did not, however, set up definite rules for the construction of the cars and didn’t lay out the procedure for conducting the race. Lion President Lynn Thomas in dicated that he would name a committee to work out the ruiea and also the date for holding the event so that a definite announce ment on both points could be made next week. In the meantime, boys interested in entering the race are asked to register at The Eagle office so that an idea can be ob tained of the number interested and thereby plan definitely for conducting the race in as fair a manner as possible. The Midget Car race will be similar to a ioap box derby type of race which is conducted in many other places each year under an elaborate rule system. The local race will be run off some time during the month of August when the boys interested have had time to complete their machines and qualify for the event. Tentative plans call for con ducting the competition on the hill at the north end of State street where traffic can be rerouted to avoid and possibility of accident. It is likely that the Lions com mittee on rules will meet tonight, Thursday, to work out more def inite details. • New Line Work On Schedule Construction of the 70 miles of distribution line which will add over 200 new consumers when completed is progressing on sched ule West Oregon Manager GUy Thomas said Wednesday morning. The work has advanced now to the point where poles are being hauled to the Chapman-Spitzen- berg area for that part of the line. The construction up Pebble creek and into Washington coun ty is nearing completion and will be energized as soon as possible, he said. The work is being done by the Canby Electric Service with the line construction crew of the Cooperative working on the project. Two Attend Conference ( Going to Seattle for an REA conference earlier this month were Guy Thomas, manager of West Oregon Electric, and Paul A. Gor don, member of the board of directors. The conference was conducted by regional heads of the various REA divisions for borrowers of REA funds and was held from July 13 to 16. Some of the topics talked at the conference were “Responsibilities of the Board of Directors,” “The Boards Relation with the Finance Division," “The Board’s Relation to the Construction Program” and the Board’s Relation to the Loan Program.” The meeting was held as one of several throughout the country because of the benefits derived by boards of directors from meetings with top REA officials. • Cafe to Open Fri. Betty’s Cafe, which has been closed for two weeks, will reopen Friday morning of this week, the owner said Monday. During the time of closing extensive remodel ing and redecorating has taken place on both the interior and part of the exterior. The cafe opens at 5 p.m.