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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1948)
Library, U of O “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” Ordinance Sets Higher Slot Machine License Î /- Another ordinance was added to the list of city laws Monday even ing v.hen Vernonia councilmen met to adopt a ruling which increases considerably the amount to be charged for operating slot and pin ball machines within the city limits. The ordinance adopted is one that has been under disuc3sion for several months and the one that City Attorney Neal Bush was or dered to draw up when the council met December 6. This ruling sets the operator li cense fee at $1000 per year, al lows 30 machines to operate in the city and assesses a fee of $50 per machine ner year pavoble quarterly. Lew Floatcn's applica tion for the right to operate the machines was accepted. The city will realize a considerably greater increase in revenue from the ma chines than has been received be fore. At Monday's meeting the music machine schedule of charges was 'also changed so that the new rate is $100 f r the license and $5 per ma^h n i ner quarter as com pared with $100 a year license and $5 per machine per year. Another item of business that required considerable discussion was the plac ne of an order fcr approximately 5 000 feet of water pipe for installation on S ate street next summer. Purchase cf the pipe has been talked for s-hle time because of the bad condition of the pipe now in use and the necessity of replacing it. Councilmen decided on the pur chase of wood pipe with a wrap ping of steel and builap which is being quoted now at a price of $2.03 per foot. A water depart ment sinking fund which has been built up during the past years will offset a considerable portion of the expense of the pipe and instal lation. James McCrory, city fire chief, and two members of the depart ment were given authorization to attend the testing of the new fire truck Monday of the coming week. The tests wll be conducted by the insurance rating bureau and the truck must prove satisfactory to the bureau before it will be delivered here. • 4 Go to Conference Ralph Aldrich, Oregon American Lumber corporation, Merle Cline and Clyde May representing Crown Zellerbach and M. A. Oakes IWA Local 5-37, were at Salem Thursday and Friday to attend the ftith annual industrial safety conference conducted by the ac cident prevention division of the state industrial ac.dent commis sion. This conference broke all past attendance records and every part of the state was represented by employers, employees and la bor and management .organiza tions. 0 2 Masses Planned There will be two Masses at St. Mary’s Catholic church on Christmas morning, December 25, at 8 o'clock and 9:30. Confessions will be Friday afternoon between 4 ar.d 5 o’clock. On Sunday, De cember 26, there will be just one Mass at 9:30. Tallest Christinas Tree? Peak at Vernonia Sub Takes Place From 5:30 to 6 P. M. In an article released earlier this week Guy Thomas, manager of West Oregon Electric, urged people served by the cooperative to do everything possible to con serve the use of power from 5:30 to 6 p.m. because of the power shortage in the Pacific North west. The problem is day by day becoming more serious until there is a shortage now of over 150,000 kilowatt. This shortage will con tinue to grow worse until about the middle of February, 1949 at which time the high demand will have passed. However, it will be necessary to make a more drastic curtailment for the fail and winter of 1949. The peak demand registered a', the Vernonia sub-station occurs from 5:30 to 6 p.m. at this time of the year and from 6 to 6:30 at the Olney substation. In cooperation with all electric utilities in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, West Oregon officals are strongly urging curtailment of the use of electric energy dur ing the peak period which starts at 4:30 and continues until 6:30. Reducing the excessive load can be accomplished in a number of ways. Recommended practices which will help are: by turning off any lights that are not neces sary; turning the switch off on water heaters; eliminating all space heating that is possible; using only the necessary elements on ranges when cooking; leaving ornamental lights off until after 6:30 p.m.; by discontinuing sign lighting and excessive window lighting. Mr. Thomas emphasized that the shortage is not due to lack of capacity of the cooperative lines, but is due to the lack of power generating which is not sufficient to care for the increased load growth. Fire Damages Church Thurs. PERHAPS VERNONIA’S lighted Christmas tree can’t compete with Portland’s and L. A.'s when it comes to heighth, but it can be said that it has been a good many years since any large lighted tree has been erected in the downtown section. The tree, which was arranged for by the Lions club, has drawn considerable comment this year because of its outstanding appearance during evening hours. The lights were pur chased by the Lions, the tree was brought in by Cleve Robertson from the Columb a Tree Farm and it was erected and the lights connected by the line crew of West Oregon Electric Cooperative. Along with the tree, the Lions club Christmas season program included arrangements for visits from Santa Claus who gave away baloons to the youngsters on three consecutive week ends and a community sing under the tree last Saturday evening. (Photo By Glen Justice) 1,000 Acres Seeded Co-op Urges Curtailment Of Power Use 0 I THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 26, NUMBER 52 Fire starting from an overheated furnace hot air duct about 7:30 last Thursday evening caused dam age amounting to approximately $200 to the Evangelical United Brethren church. The blaze occured while the church was being used by the group of people practicing for the Christmas cantata to be held tonight and disrupted the practice for that evening. The damage was fully covered by insurance. The damage that could have re sulted was minimized to a great extent by the quick and efficient action of the volunteer fire de partment. Water damage was small. Steps were taken early the next day to repair the dam age so the church would be ready for the cantata this week. 0 Missionaries to Speak Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Bau-r, missionaries to Peru, will speak at the Assembly of God church Sunday morning, December 26, at 11 a.m. They have been quite successful in the missionary field and will return very soon to their station in South America. BROADCAST seeding by hand can’t begin to compare with the speed by which seed can be spread by helicopter and that speed is proving valuable on the Columbia Tree Farm as well as other farms owned by Crown Zellerbach. This helicopter owned by Central Aircraft of Yakima completed work on a thousand acres of the Columbia Farm last Tuesday, the entire job taking 2 days. The seed consisted of a mixture of cedar, hemlock, and fir and was dropped in an area south of the Camp 9 crossing on the old St. Helens road. Shown reloading Tuesday at the city airport, base of operations, are Joeseph Beatte, mechanic. Carl Brady, pilot, and Paul Goodmonson, Crown Forester. (Vernonia Eagle Photo) Crown's Gift Tree Plan Again Available Here The Crown Zellerbach corpora tion gift tree,pregram has as i‘s objective« the building of tree consciousness, the furthering of the Keep Green movement and the furthering of conservation of our natural resources. The gift tree program is playing its part in the education of young people through home planting, 4-H forestry clubs, Boy Scouts and school plantings. In these ways it is contributing to a more sound future for the Northwest’s most valuable re source. Last years gift tree program distributed more than 195,000 Port Orford cedar trees to over 3,000 people in Oregon and Washington. This year an even greater num ber will be given out. In Southwestern Oregon the Port Orford cedar tree grows naturally and attains large commercial size. Due to its deep blue-green foliage, rapidity of growth and adaptabil ity to pruning, it is an ideal tree for ornamental planting in this area. Planted 24 to 30 inches apart the tree makes a beautiful hedge in a very short time. A book of planting instructions will be included with each bundle of Chest Fund Drive Ends Completion of the Community chest drive for this vicinity was announced earlier this week by Mrs. Ben Brickel, Vernon'a chair man, after the collection of funis had been completed. She had received a check for $756 from the Oregon-American half of which was the amount contributed by O-A employees. The remaining half of the check was the matching amount con tributed by the corporation. The employees’ half will remain h»re for local use, Mrs. Brickel said. This check brings the total com munity chest fund from Vernonia to $1027, half, or $513.50, of which will be used locally. gift trees. Th:s year gift trees are two- year old Port Orford cedar raised in the Forest Industries Nursery at Nisqually, Washington; they are from 18 to 24 inches tall and are wrapped in bundles of 25 trees each. Persons desiring trees for personal planting contact Glen Hawkins or Paul Goodmonson at Vernonia or address requests to Columbia Tree Farm, Crown Zel lerbach corporation, Vernonia, Ore. 0 Cantata to Be Given Tonight The churches of Vernonia join tonight in the presentation of the cantata, ‘‘The Light of Christmas.” The cantata will be presented at 8:15 p.m. with a piano pre lude by Mrs. Lois Clark and Mrs. Louise Thomas. The cantata per sonnel includes the following: G. Wm. Anderson, director; sopranos: Mesdames Ruth Anderson, Bliss Byers, Leola Cason, Lilian Green man, Alvilda Hearing, Muriel Knight, Myrtle Ramsey, Olena Stubbs, Annia Wall and Olivia Wood and Mary Anne Clark, Laura Mae Siebert, Marguerite Thomas’, Patricia Wells and Sally Kaspar; Altos: Mesdames Beth Frank, Delia Jones, Zella Junkins, Amy Kamholz, Betty Kirtland, Alice Malmsten, Frances Russell, Ber tha Seibert and Maude Wells and Pat Bass; Tenors: G. Wm. Anderson, Allan Backer, Elam Douglass, Clinton Seibert, Elbert Stiff and Bill Wells; Basses: Marshall Crowell, El more Knight, Frank Morris, Fred Olin and Lynn Thomas. People who are unable to secure a ticket are asked to come anyway as the demand for tickets far ex ceeded the supply. The public is cordially invited with or without tickets. SEAL RETURNS SHOW DECUNE With the first three weeks of the Christmas seal sale past, returns from all over the county show a decline from last year according to Mrs. W. W. Collis, county chair man. Of the 5,365 letters sent out 2,600 have been returned. From these, the sum of $2,919.72 has been realized. In Vernonia, Mrs. Collis reporta that about 50 per cent of the 819 letters sent out have been heard from and that the average per letter return is high. Returns show that $461.00 has been sent in and compares favorably with other localities in the county. Scappooc? has the highest return per letter, showing about $1.41. Returns from other localities are as follows: Columbia City, $31.05; Clatskanie, $499.10; Deer Island, $71.30; Goble, $36.45; Mist- Birkenfeld. $74.00; Rainier, $458.72 St. Helens, $836.85; Scappoose, $295.00; Vernonia $464.00 and Warren, $153.25. Mrs. Collis asks that those who have not returned their blue enve lopes do as Joon as possible in order to avoid sending out the little ‘‘reminder cards.” New Rifle Team Met by Vernonia On Wednesday night, December 15, the rifle team of the Ver nonia Gun club visited the newly- organized Clatskanie club for a shoot. Five men from Vernonia made the trip for the match. Clats kanie had about 12 men out in cluding Oliver Mellinger and Har old Davis, both former Vernonia residents. Davis was high man on the Clatskanie team. Scores were: Clatskanie Vernonia H. Davis 164 B. George 176 Bob 158 H. Peterson 174 J. W. Nichols 170 Rand 157 T. Bowerman 170 O. Mellinger 151 B. Lamping 160 Reed 142 Totals 850 772
