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Library, U of 0 ■j, I “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” Directors for West Oregon Selected Sat. Co-cp Members Hear Talk of Bonneville Man, Year’s Reports The attendance at West Oregon Electric’s annual meeting Saturday reached 225 people who were pre sent to name directors to serve the cooperative for another year, to hear reports of the manager and officers and enjoy the day’s program of talks, motion pictures and a noon lunch served by the ladies of the Vernonia Grange. This year’s meeting drew a greater numb-r of, cooperative members than last, 106, and was considered one of the best since the cooperative was organized. The morning session was de voted to the reading of a report by the treasurer of the board of direc tors, Lee Wooden, the report of Manager Guy Thomas of the year’s accomplishments in respect to building new line and serving new consumers as well as other details and the answering of questions concerning cooperative business. At the noon Ibnch provided by ladies of the Vernonia Grange, 225 people were served, the largest since the organization began hold ing annual meetings. The balloting for directors re sulted in returning to office the same members of the board as had served the previous year. Named were: Lee Wooden for Elsie - Jewell district, Noble Dun lap for Birkenfeld-Mist-Chapman, Harry L. King for Keasey-River- view, Paul Gordon for Vernonia, Russell A. Peterson for Corey Hill Timber Route-Timber, Frank Gen- zer for North Washington county and Fred Knox for Scoggins Val ley-Cherry Grove. All but one of the directors have been serving on the board s:nce West Oregon was organized and began the dis tribution of electric energy to residents in the area it serves. Speakers during the afternoon included 0. G. Hittie, lower Co lumbia branch manager for the Bonneville po"er administration, and Fred Ha-tt who represents the management div’sion of the rural electrification administra tion. Seven of the members who re ceived the gifts which were award ed in the afternoon as door prizes were: Mrs. Ray Vincent, E. G. Griffith, J. E. Nordstrom, Mrs. Claude Ernest, J. N. Foster, Mrs. Louis Cates and Henry Epler. A display of home electrical ap pliances was arranged by Bruns man Hardware and Electric. O Library Shelves Get More Books Four new books have been added to the shelves at the Vernonia public library in the past few days. Names and authors of the volumes were released Monday by Mrs. Paul Gordon, librarian. Marionettes Are People by Edith Thane (gives charts, patterns and instruction for making the fas cinating little people); Creative Ceramics by Katherine M. Lester and Use of Native Craft Materials by Margaret E. Shanklin. All are for adults. One of the new books is for children and is entitled Gabriel Church Kitten. It is written by M. Austin. 200-lb. Cougar Killed Friday Displayed at Sam’s Food Store Monday morning was the head and hide of a 200-pound cougar which was killed last Friday on the Clatskanie mountain by Art Doreo and Max Oblack. Th’s animal was one. of five the two men have cap tured so far this season and was the largest brought in to date. It has been reported that L. A. Peterson has captured six of the animals. • Power Saving Still Urged People who are served electric power by West Oregon Electric cooperative were reminded again this week that the period of short supply is still not over and that there is a very definite need for a careful use of electricity, especially between the hours of 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. each day. The reminder was given by Guy Thomas, mana ger of the cooperative. It is indicated that the shortage of power will continue until about the middle of February at which time the high demand will pass. In cooperation with all electric utilities in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, West Oregon is very strongly urging curtailment of energy use which can be ac complished in a number of ways. Recommended practices are: turn ing off any lights that are not necessary; turning the switch off on water heaters; eliminating all space heating that is possible; us ing 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. • Travel Hindered By Ice on Roads Icf road conditions throughout this area have hindered travel to a great extent, especially in higher areas where thawing has not re moved the slick covering. County Commissioner Clyde Henderson postponed h:s drive to St. Helens Wednesday because of ice, saying that he would not attempt the trip because of the danger. • Two to Attend National Meet Two people will represent West Oregon Electric Cooperative later this month at the national REA convention in New York. The board of directors decided last Saturday that both Manager Guy Thomas and Board Member Lee Wooden of Jewell should be authorized to make the trip. The representatives will leave here the latter part of this month, probably by plane. They will go in time to arrive in New York before January 31, the first day of the convention which is to con tinue through February 3. • Fire Damages Heme The home of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Powell on the O-A flat was partially destroyed Monday morning between 10 and 11 by fire which started from the heater or flue. Most of the family’s furniture was removed and saved, but practically all clothing was lost in the blaze. Ice Breaking Required at Pond To Start O-A Mill Work Monday * Freezing temperatures of the past few week made necessary special effort in order to start operation at the Oregon-American mill Monday morning of this week, company officials said. The cold had formed almost three inches of ice on the pond and prevented moving logs into the lift so that a crew of men worked Sunday THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 27, NUMBER 3 breaking ice preparatory to the start of work the next day. Men working out of Camp Olson encountered six inches of snow at the cite of logging activity Monday. Three inches of new snow fell there Tuesday evening as compared with the light cover ing here. Grady to See Inauguration Of President Truman Invitation Extended Battery D Member» of WW 1 John Grady, a member of Bat tery D, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division in the first World War, left Portland Friday evening for Washington, D. C. as the guest of President Harry S. Truman during inaugural week. Grady, who retired as Vernonia city coun cilman early this month, is thought to be one of two members of the Battery who live in Oregon. There are approximately 100 for mer members of the field artil lery unit commanded in France in World War I by the then Captain Harry S. Truman. As many mem bers of the Battery D association as can walk, are going to Wash ington for inaugural week to par ticipate in several functions at the invitation of the president. In addition to a breakfast and guard of honor function in the parade on the day of the inaugura tion, which will be restricted to Battery D members, other events to which they have been invited are the inaugural ball, the inaug ural reception and a party at which Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder will be host. Members of the Battery living in the West joined others at Kansas City and the delegation reached Washington January 19. The return trip will be started the night of January 21. • Stock Men to Meet Jan. 25-26 Livestock men in Columbia coun ty will participate in the annual meeting of the Western Oregon Livestock association at Gearhart on January 25 and 26 according to W. G. Nibler, county extension agent. This meeting consists of rep resentatives from county livestock associations throughout western Oregon. President of the Co lumbia association is E.. E. Wist, Scappoose. The purpose of the Gearhart session is a joint meeting at which such problems as range improve ment, forage production, disease control, predatory animals, live stock theft, outlook and market will be discussed. • Word of Death Received Here Word has been received here that Homer Smith passed away January 8th at Glenwood after a heart attack. He was a former resident of Vernonia. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Juanita Holt of Seaside and Mrs. Lois Schmidlin of Glenwood; two sons, Harold Smith and Mrs. Leonard Smith both of Glenwood; three sisters and two brothers. Funeral services were held Tuesday, January 11, at Forest Grove and interment was at Hills boro. Juvenile Grange to Meet The Juvenile Grange will meet th’s Saturday evening, January 22, as there was no meeting at the regular time due to the cold wea ther. Those having articles for the program are asked to bring them. A 100 per cent attendance is asked at the meeting by Mrs. Byron Kirkbride, matron. • Sherwood Next The Vernonia Loggers will meet Sherwood at the Vernonia high school gym at 7 p.m. Friday even ing of this week for another of the Logger’s conference basketball games. B teams of the two schools will play first in the preliminary. City Cited in License Suit County Stops Heavy Truck Hauling On Roads Until Freeze Is Ended Most trucking activity has been discontinued for the present time on Columbia county roads due to the recent freezing weather which will result in road breakup when thawing. The action' by the coun ty court to restrict heavy hauling was invoked under an agreement between the county and truckmen Flying Club Being Started A flying club has just been organized at the Columbia county airport at Scappoose with the purpose in m’nd of bringing the cost of flying down to a level where everyone can afford to fly. The dues adopted by the present membership are the lowest in the history of aviation—only $25 to be a full fledged member and part owner of a club airplane with the privileges of voting on all matters and flying at the low rate of $4.50 per hour. If you care to put $50 into your membership your flying per hour will be re duced to $3.50. The plane being purchased will be completely paid for by the original membership fees collected and no encumberances need be involved. The personel of Cody Aero Service shall act in an ad visory capacity and help to keep up interest in club proceedings. Fred Zimmerman of Rainier has been elected president of the club with Paul Lasagna of Portland vice-president; Verne McCallum of St. Helens, secretary and Wal ter Johnson of Portland treasurer. New officers are to be elected as soon as the desired membership has been filled. • Production of Lumber Down Douglas fir sawmills of western Oregon and Washington failed in 1948 to equal record post-war pro duction of 1947, according to H. V. Simpson, executive vice-presi dent of the West Coast Lumber men’s association. The region’s lumber mills, which normally cut about one-third of the nation’s softwood lumber, turn ed out 8,580,731,000 board feet in 1948, Simpson said, 167 million feet short of the previous year. Production fell off badly during the last quarter as hundreds of small marginal operators closed tight and many larger mills went to shortened work week in the face of a sharp drop off in de mand and choosy buying, Simpson said. The lumber spokesman refused to forecast performance for 1949. He did say the region has suf ficient installed sawmill capacity to handle any foreseeable require ment of the home building and construction industries. • Toppers Win From Quincy The Washington grade school Toppers suceeded in tossing in enough baskets to leave the Quincy graders the small end of a 16 to 13 score when the two teams met last Friday after noon at Quincy. This was the second season game for Washing ton. Quincy was held entirely score less in the last quarter of the game. The two teams met in the prelim and Washington won 34 to 8. Clatskanie will come here Fri day afternoon of this week to give the Toppers competition for the third encounter of the grade court season and their first home game. that the order be effective during the time required for t^ roads to settle. Because of the agree ment, no definite time limit will be placed in effect. A decision to remove the re striction will be made when roads have settled and probably upon the advice of district road supervisors who will check their districts to see that the restriction is enforced. Posting of the roads which will be restricted is being done so that all truckmen will be notified of the action. • Committee Members Named All those people wishing to be come members of the Parent- Teachers association are notified this week of those who are acting as the membership committee from various sections of the community. Those wishing to join are asked to inform the committee member for their district or make known their desire to join at the regular as sociation meeting which is held the third Monday of each month. Committee members from the various districts are: Mrs. Byron Kirkbride chairman, representing Treharne, phone 8815; Mrs. Bob Cline, business section and Corey Hill; Mrs. Lewis Morgan, Rock creek bridge to O-A hill; Mrs. M. B. Steers and Mrs. John Bjggs, Stoney Point and Riverview to Pittsburgh. Those living on the Keasey road are also asked to contact Mrs. Morgan. • A Grades Held For Fall Term Cora Dusenberry of Keasey has earned straight “A” grades for the fall term at Oregon state college. Miss Dusenberry is a sophomore in business and tech nology and this is the second time she has won top scholastic honors. Fifty-six students received the straight “A” grades, and 420 made the honor roll. Honor roll students must earn a grade point of at least 3.3 or approximately half “A” and “B” grades. En gineering led other schools with 84 students on the honor list while science placed 60. The senior class had 115 members who earned top grades and the sopho mores were second with 110. • Measles Case Numbers Jump The incidence of measles in this area has been going up so that quite a number of new cases are being reported each day, medical authorities indicate. The increase in numbers of cases has also been indicated through out most of the county. Sixteen new cases were reported here Tuesday and early Wednesday morning. Attorney to File Answer For Council At the second meeting of the new Vernonia council Monday evening its' members heard Neal Bush, city attorney, explain the procedure it would be necessary to follow in answering the suit filed last week against the city of Vernonia by the Continental Bak ing company. All the coucilmen. Mayor Sam Hearing, City Record er Albert Childs and Marshal Shirley Kirtland were cited in the case which may well serve as a test of the legality, under the present charter, of charging bread companies the city occupation li cense. A similar case brought against the city of St. Helens recently was decided by Circuit Judge Howard K. Zimmerman in favor of the plaintiff the attorney explained, but he also pointed out that the St. Helens charter differed some what in wording from the Ver nonia charter. The present license fee is the same for trucks coming in from out of town as is charged the company located here. A charge of $15 per year is made. Monday evening’s meeting start ed with a request from A. D. Scrin- ture that the council again consid er the West Coast Telephone com pany franchise which was signed early last year by the previous council. Mr. Scripture is the com pany manager for the Forest Grove district. His contention was that the franchise had be»n misdated and that the yearly li cense fee of $125 plus six free telephones was an excessive charge for the right of the company to operate under the franchise. Councilmen after being advised on the matter by the city attorney, refused to make a change in the ordinance governing the operation in the city limits of the company. Telephone service, especially long distance, was also a topic'dur ing the discussion, some of the councilmen and Marshal Kirtland pointing oqt that they thought improvement was needed. Another request of the council for the use of the city compressor w»s refused when Walter Kent, water superintendent, pointed out that the compressor was in daily use at the present and couldn’t be spared for use elsewhere. The request to use the equipment was made by John E. Eilertson, engine er for Vernonia Coal Mines, In- coporated, for use on the road building project now underway by the concern. Two other actions by the council included the adopting of an ordi nance setting the bond at $15,000 for the city treasurer and ap pointing Dr. H. E. Schlegel, Jr., city health officer. • Cantata Work to Start A rehearsal for the Easter cantata will be held Sunday after noon, January 23, in the Evangel ical U. B. church at 2:30 p.m. The final date set for the cantata will be Palm Sunday, April 10. Vernonia-Seaside Net Fray Tues. One of Best Games Played Yet Tuesday evening's basketball game between the Loggers and Seaside Seagulls was judged by many spectators as one of the best to be played so far this season even though the Gulls held a one-point lead at the final gun. Score at the end was 40 to 41. The loggers were led by four points at the end of the half when the count stood 20 to 16. Both H. Crowston and Wantland held honors as high point men for Vernonia, each tallying 10 for the Loggers, while Foss for Sea side was high with 20 points. Seaside also won the preliminary between the two B teams by 29 to 22. Seaside Vernonia 6 Gurwell H. Crowston 10 f 20 Foss Williams 2 f 2 Brodway Berg 3 c 4 Kent G. Crowston 7 g 3 Molan Sword 8 g Substitutes: Vernônia — Want- land 10; Seaside—Everett 6, Herts. The loggers will play again Friday night here when Sherwood is scheduled to appear. The pre liminary will start at 7 p.m.
