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Library, U of O 'Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.’ VOLUME 27, NUMBER 52 VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON 4-H Clubs Total 70 in Couuty; More Expected Seventy 4-H clubs have been organized and are now active throughout Columbia county, ac cording to figures released this week by Harold Black, exten sion agent in charge of 4-H club work. A total of 600 boys and girls are now enrolled in 4-H c'ub work. Clothing clubs claim the larg est number of any project. There are 18 clothing clubs, as compar- Special Singing Program Enjoyed The Vernonia Community Sing was held at the Christian church December 18 with Barbara Bass as leader and Mrs. Kaspar, pianist. Since this was a special Christ mas program the audience enjoy ed singing the old familiar Christmats carols. Special num bers were sung by Sally Roe- diger, Robert Kimball, Patricia and Margaret Wells, Mrs. Alfred Jones and her sister. Mr. Russell ; iayed an instrumental solo and little Max Snook gave a delight ful reading of “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” A gift offering was taken to g.ve Christmas cheer to some ieedy families and Mrs. Bass and Mrs. Russell were appointed to e that gift baskets were sent. The next meeting of the Com munity Sing will be held at the Assembly of God Church, Jan uary 8 at 2:30 p.m. Sings are ordinarily held every other Sunday, but due to the Christmas and New Year’s holi- lays, they were held three weeks apart. This first Sing of the New Year will be under the leadership of Mrs. Irma Chance and Marshall Crowell, president, urges everyone who likes to join in congregational singing or lis ten to special numbers to attend. Sportsmen to Meet Jan. 7 1 According to an announcement made early this week by R. M. Aldrich, secretary of the Ver nonia Rod and Gun club, mem bers of the organization will hold their annual meeting at the high school Saturday, January 7 at 8 p.m. Purpose of the meeting will be to elect officers, make any neces sary changes in the by-laws of the corporation and transact any business that may come up at that time. Voters to Decide Fund Use Sat. ed to 16 cooking, 14 health, 10 dairy, six forestry, fivo knitting, one homemaking and one rabbit club. This is a much larger number of clubs than was organized at this time last year. Black stated that by getting organized earlier the clubs will have more time to complete their work. This will not only result in better quality work but will give the clubs more opportunity for outside pro jects. Other clubs will probably be organized soon. These are ex pected to swell the number of 4-H clubs and club members to the 'argest number in the history :f c;ub work in this county. Clubs now active in the Ne halem Valley include cooking clubs led by Mrs. Florence Kirk bride, Mrs. Violet Aldrich and Mrs. Virginia Walker, Mrs. Bes sie Tapp, Mrs. Alice Garner, Bir- v<*nfeld; and Mrs. Aldon Ashley, Mist. Clothing clubs are being led by Mrs. Virgil Snook, Mrs. Alice Gwin, and Mrs. Helen Spofford. Dairy clubs are under the leadership of Ralph McKee, By ron Kirkbride, Henry Anderegg, and E. T. Johnston, Birkenfeld. Robert Lindsay and Robert Mathews of Mist are each leading forestry clubs. A knitting club is also being organized. GLEN HAWKINS is shown standing beside a two-year-old hybrid poplar tree which Columbia Tree Farm officials are watching with interest because of its phenominal growth. The tree is located on the Farm cottonwood plantation on Pebble creek. The growth was 92 inches in the fjrst year from a rooted cutting. (No. 3) Two Amateurs Get Mention County Loses Top in Mint A reminder to the people interested in the business of school district 47, Jt., was given earlier this week by Glen Hawkins chairman of the board of directors, when he emphasized the importance of the special election Saturday evening, December 31. It is sched uled between the hours of 8 and 9 p.m. The December 31 date for balloting was set recent ly by the board in order for people in the district to Stores to Be Closed Mon. Most Vernonia places of busi Because of losses sustained dur Final competition to determine ness will close their doors for the winners of cash prize awards ing the flood last year, Columbia will take place at Hillsboro Jan county fell from its position as two days this week end because uary 25 for 24 amateur acts number one producer of pepper the New Year holiday falls on which were selected from 65 mint oil in the state of Oregon, Sunday. As has been customary participants who recently audi in the past, doors will be closed tioned there and of whom two it was revealed last week in an also on Monday. were from here. All the other Oregon Stat? college statistical The Oregon-American Lumber contestants originally entered in yearbook on specialty field and Corporation mill will also re the amateur program held earlier drug crops. this month were from Washing sume operation Tuesday morn Columbia county had led the ton county with the exception of ing after closing down for the state in both production and acre- Lois Schwab and Jean Turner. week end and the same procedure I age for more than 10 years, but Both local girls will compete will be followed at Camp Olson. in the finals at the program in 1948 gave up first place to scheduled late next month at the Marion county, which had 31 per Hillsboro high school auditorium. cent of the acreage. Even though cash receipts from The program of events is being sponsored by the Hillsboro junior farm marketing of peppermint chamber of commerce and judg oil in Columbia county dropped ing will be done by an applause nearly 50 per cent, the pepper Dr. Pettr Handel-Mazzetti and meter. Master of ceremonies mint crop still yielded $710,000. Arnold Alsaesser, Austrian for will be Johnny Carpenter, an A normal year, 1947, showed the receipts at $1,400,000 to give an esters, visited the Columbia Tree nouncer for KOIN. Farm recently to study me Tickets for the program Jan indication of the value of the thods being employed in this uary 25 are available at the Ver mint farming to the county. area in the logging, transporting Other figures x>n the pepper nonia telephone office. mint crop in Columbia county and milling of second growth These two European showed: Area harvested, 1947, timber. 1,000 acres; 1948, 3,220 acres and foresters are visiting timber-pro production, 1947, 200,000 pounds; ducing areas of the United States to study mechanized logging 1948, 130,000 pounds. The increase in acreage in methods and report their find January, employers who are li mint in this county in 1947-48 ings to the Austrian government. able for more than $100 of these compared to to the 1940-44 aver They will recommend specific taxes in one month are required age is about 40 per cent indicat types of machinery and equip ment to be purchased by Austria to deposit them in either a Feder ing that the industry is becoming with ECA funds. Such equip of more and more importance to al Reserve Bank or a commercial the county. ment will be used to mechanize bank authorized to receive such Most of the mint growing in Austrian forest operations. deposits for transmittal to the the county is in the Clatskanie The visiting foresters reported Federal Reserve Bank. that logging in their country is and Rainier areas. Deposits are required for taxes done with horses, oxen or even resulting from wages paid in the by hand. No machinery is now first and second months of each being used. Many of the steep quarter. Each such deposit should est slopes, in the Austrian Alps be made not later than the fif country are logged by means of teenth day of the next month, sliding the logs down the slope by but may be made earlier if de hand. sired. Taxes for the third month Funeral services for Samuel The tour included a visit to may be deposited or paid with Hyett Stowell were conducted current thinning operations going the quarterly return. at the Buxton Assembly of God on in the Natal area, thinned area The year 1950 also will mark church Tuesday following his north of Mist, a stop at Garlock the nationwide adoption of a death at Salem December 23. His and Clausner’s mill aqd a look combined form for quarterly re death came at the age of 77 at the new Crown Zellerbach road being constructed near Na porting by employers of income years, 10 months and 19 days. tax withheld and the employer Mr. Stowell was bom at Yuba. tal. Mr. Alsaesser reported that and employee F.I.C.A. taxes. The Wisconsin February 4, 1872 and prior to the end of the war, v.-hen new form. Form 941. and detailed is survived by three daughters, several bull-dozers were made instructions will be mailed to Laura Thacker, Nellie Thacker available by the U. S. Army, all employers late in March, in am and Sylvia Falconer and one son, road construction in Austrian ple time for use in making the Otto Stowell. forests was done by hand. The return for the first quarter of Interment was at the Buxton purchase of several war-surplus the year. This return, covering cemetery and the Bush Funeral bull-dozers has literally revolu wages paid in January, February home was in charge of arrange- , tionized road construction in and March, is due by April 30. I ments. ; their country. Austrians Study Timber Methods Social Security Rate Increase Effective on Wages in 1950 Hugh H. Earle, collector of in ternal revenue, reminds employ ers and employees of the Oregon district that the Federal Insur ance Contributions act provides for an increase in the tax rate under that Act to one and one- half per cent on employees and one and one-half per cent on employers, based on all taxable wages paid on and after January 1, 1950. Ever since the beginning of the social security program, of which these taxes are a part, these rates have been one per cent each on employees and employers and Collector Earle called at tention to the change in order to prevent confusion in preparing January payrolls. This change does not affect the rates of income tax withholding from wages, which are the same as they were in 1949. Employers were also reminded, however, that new regulations will be effective January 1 re garding the depositing and re porting of both the F.I.C.A. taxes and income tax withheld from wages. Starting with wages paid in THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 1349 Services Read At Buxton Tues. decide what to do with $32,129.35 in funds available for expendi ture. The amount remains after * attorney fees from an award of $42,129.35 made district 47 by the state supreme court against the U.S. National Bank. The money must be spent or committed for expenditure by June 30 of the coming year or it will go to the county for expenditure through out districts governed by the county rural school board. Should the money revert to the county, district 47 would pro bably received between five and six thousand dollars of the 32 thousand. The proposal to be voted upon Saturday will open the way for the district to make several im portant changes which are neces sary because of increasing enroll ment and out-dated equipment, all being changes that can be made without additional proper ty tax levies. Changes proposed by school authorities include the addition of two new classrooms, new light ing for all rooms and provision for playground space and equip ment which is not now available. Enrollment figure gains for the past several years indicates the need for more classroom space. Data released by Superintendent Paul Gordon on the enrollment of students since 1946 indicates a steady increase from 465 for that year to about 555 at the present time with the result that a number of teachers are instruc ting more students than specified as the maximum by the Oregon state department of education. State requirements call for not more than 30 pupils per teacher in the upper division and not more than 25 for the lower di vision which is the first three grades. From the standpoint of lights, Mr. Gordon has indicated that no rooms now meet state require ments. Complete new lighting will be necessary to bring the grade building within the law. The state has also recommended that the district provide play ground space and equipment which is not now available. The election December 31 will make it possible for residents of the district to decide whether they wish to spend the $32,000 remaining for improvements here or allow it to revert to the coun ty for the reduction of tax levys. Merit Badge Show Planned A committee to be in charge of arrangements for the coming Boy Scout merit badge show was named recently with Kent Bau- ersfeld as chairman. Announce ment of the committee was made earlier this week by Lloyd Quinn, Scoutmaster, who also released the names of the other members of the committee. Working with Mr. Bauersfeld will be Lew Choate, Bill Horn and Tom Bateman. They will be in charge of planning the show while the regular Boy Scout and Cub Scout committees will have charge ef preparing the boys for the event. The merit badge show will take place during na tional Boy Scout week early in February. Accomplishments Of Month Noted December has been a busy month for the American Legion Auxiliary. The Christmas calender of ac tivities which started early in the month included over 100 assorted gifts for the Veterans hospital bed side gift shop and a cash do nation of $28.05, also a cash gift of $60.00 to the child welfare center and $10.00 cash for the Yanks who gave. On December 17 a Christmas party was given for the Teen-age recreation center, the Auxiliary presenting them with a record player and serving refreshments. A Christmas party for Legion and Auxiliary members and their families was enjoyed on Decem ber 19. This affair was well at tended. Plans were completed for the annual New Year’s Eve carnival dance for December 31. Qualifications for Training Met All the qualifications necssary for entrance to army officer training school have been met by Albert Woolsey Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Woolsey, who, entered the army in October. Young Woolsey returned here a few days ago for the holiday sea son. / He expects to be assigned to the school as soon as he reaches his 19th birthday. In the mean time he will complete his basic training in about a month and then expects to be transferred to Camp Belvoir, Virginia to the engineer headquarters. He is stationed at Fort Ord, California and returned there Wednesday morning. Sign up at 18 Still in Effect The information reaching the recruiting service is that all boys who reach their 18th birthday must report to the nearest selec tive service board and register for the draft. There may be some changes made in the draft law at the next session of con-, gress, but the present law is still in effect and will continue to be so until changed by law. Word of the requirement was given in a reminder issued a few days ago by Cpl. Keith Cowan, recruiter who visits Vernonia regularly each month. Seal Sale Fund Exceeds $3000 The total in the Christmas seal campaign in Columbia coun ty—one of the most successful in history—soared past the $3,000 mark last week, it was reported by Mrs. Estella Harris, executive secretary of the Columbia Coun ty Tuberculosis and Health as sociation. The Thursday total, as announc ed by Mrs. Harris, was $3398. a large amount of which will be used for the 1950 program of combating and preventing tuber culosis in Columbia county.
